Towards Massive Random Access for Internet of Things
Workshop description and Objectives:
With the exponentially increasing number of Internet-of things (IoT) devices and the rise of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, simple and scalable solutions for the problem of massive random access are of paramount importance. In this setting, a very large number of users, of which only a small subset are active at any given time, wish to communicate their messages to a common receiver in an uncoordinated fashion. As a building block toward a simple and scalable solution for massive random access, we introduce collision-resolution algorithms using successive interference cancellation (SIC) based on the received signals, with no need for any coordination or codebook differentiation. We first consider two-user multiple access with the ZigZag algorithm. We prove that the original ZigZag and a modified version of it, called double-zipper ZigZag, attain the same performance as the optimal coordinated time-sharing in the high signal to noise ratio (SNR) regime, even in the presence of channel state information (CSI) errors. We then extend the results to the case of arbitrary number of users employing delay-domain processing. Specifically, we introduce delay-domain zero forcing and its regularized version, which are able to cancel and suppress the interference among users, respectively. By obtaining a post-processing system model and characterizing the accumulated noise during the decoupling process, we also derive bounds on the achievable sum-rates of the proposed algorithm for both cases of perfect and imperfect CSI.
Dr Mohammad kazemi (Amirkabir University of Technology), recipient of the 2021 Seal of Excellence from the European Commission, the 2021 Above-Threshold Award from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK), the 2017 Special Talent Award from Iran’s National Elites Foundation (INEF), and the Best Paper Award from IST 2018.
Intro to TensorFlow for Deep Learning
Workshop description and Objectives:
This course aims to introduce participants to machine learning models, the most common architectures and their use in different domains. The emphasis is placed on practical application of deep learning models and their implementation using Python and Keras; end-to-end application of deep learning, including learning workflow; hyperparameter introduction; hyperparameter configuration.
The workshop will provide an overview to applied machine learning, hyperparameters tuning , the essential preprocessing steps for machine learning problems, and introduction to different practical solutions varying from Image Classification, Text understanding, Image Segmentation, Playing Atari using Reinforcement Learning and so forth.
Dr Mehdi Habibzadeh (PhD, Computer Science (Machine Learning), Concordia University, Montréal, Québec (2015).) .