T6: Generative AI to Solve Physical Layer Communications Challenges through Learning the Signal High Order Statistics

Organizer: Andrea M. Tonello, Universiyt of Klagenfurt, Austria

Abstract: This tutorial deals with generative AI and its application to communications. It has three distinctive elements: firstly, it focuses on a timely topic, i.e., generative AI and ML models for signal analysis (learning) and synthesis (generation); secondly, it highlights the pivotal role played by the estimation of the channel input/output mutual information; thirdly, it considers several communication “problems”, and it illustrates neural solutions derived from a mathematical formulation of optimality criteria. Several experimental results are presented, including synthetic channel emulation, decoding in unknown channels, classification for radio sensing, end-to-end system design approaching capacity, and channel capacity estimation.

Organizer’s Bio:

Andrea Tonello

Andrea Tonello is professor of embedded communication systems at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He has been associate professor at the University of Udine, Italy, technical manager at Bell
Labs-Lucent Technologies, USA, and managing director of Bell Labs Italy where he was responsible for research activities on cellular technology. He was co-founder of a spin-off company, and he has a part-time associate professor post at the University of Udine, Italy. Dr. Tonello received the PhD from the University of Padova, Italy (2002). He was the recipient of several awards including: the Lucent Bell Labs Recognition of Excellence Award (1999), the RAENG (UK) Distinguished Visiting Fellowship (2010), the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer Award (2011-15), the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer Award (2018-19), the IEEE ComSoc TC-PLC Interdisciplinary and Research Award (2019), the IEEE ComSoc TC-PLC Outstanding Service Award (2019), and the Chair of Excellence from UC3M (2019-20). He also received 10 best paper awards. He was/is associate editor of IEEE TVT, IEEE TCOM, IEEE ACCESS, IET Smart Grid, Elsevier Journal of Energy and Artificial Intelligence. He was the chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on PLC (2014-18), the chair of the IEEE ComSoc TC on Smart Grid Communications 2020-23), and the director for industry outreach in the IEEE ComSoc board of governors (2020-21).