Call for Papers

ISIT 2026 Workshop on Coding for New Applications

This workshop is part of IEEE ISIT 2026 in Guangzhou, China. We seek original completed and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference.

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Important Dates

Paper submission deadline	7 April 2026 (firm)
Notification of acceptance	21 April 2026
Final manuscripts due	28 April 2026
Workshop date	3 July 2026

Scope

Since Shannon’s seminal work, coding theory has been a central pillar of information theory and has powered generations of communication systems. Looking ahead, information processing and communication is moving beyond the classical AWGN-centric paradigm and is increasingly shaped by application-driven requirements. Emerging scenarios call for advances in coding theory and coded modulation across:

Advanced waveforms (e.g., OTFS, FTN, ODDM, AFDM) requiring waveform-aware code design and decoding
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) calling for strategies that jointly ensure reliable data delivery and accurate sensing/localization
Coded computing for distributed learning, large-scale processing, and storage with straggler resilience and low latency
Multi-user access (e.g., NOMA, RSMA, massive random access) requiring new multi-user codes and joint detection/decoding
AI-native systems demanding information-theoretic and coding tools for compression, efficient/robust training, and interpretability

Topics of Interest

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Information-theoretic limits and performance analysis in emerging application environments
Coding theory for new application domains
Code constructions and decoding algorithms tailored to new waveform designs, and joint optimization of waveform and coding strategies
Coding for integrated communication, sensing, and localization, including trade-off analysis and unified design frameworks
Coded computing for distributed learning, data storage, and large-scale computation
Coding for multi-user access scenarios (e.g., NOMA, RSMA, massive random access) and adaptation of single-user codes to multi-user detection and joint decoding frameworks
Low-complexity decoding for practical implementation under latency, memory, and power constraints
Near-ML decoding for diverse short codes under application-driven constraints
Coding for energy-efficient, secure, and privacy-preserving communications
Compression and error-correcting codes for machine learning (data/representation compression; robust training/aggregation)

Invited Talks

Baoming Bai	Xidian University, China Design of GC-LDPC Codes for Integrated Satellite-and-Terrestrial Networks
Peter Trifonov	ITMO University, Russia Low complexity decoding of polar codes with large kernels

Organizing Committee

Workshop Co-Chairs

Xiao Ma (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
Richard D. Wesel (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
Linqi Song (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China)

TPC Co-Chairs

Qianfan Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China)
Huazi Zhang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China)
Shuangyang Li (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Peihong Yuan (Fudan University, China)

Steering Committee

Giuseppe Caire (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Baoming Bai (Xidian University, China)
Jinhong Yuan (The University of New South Wales, Australia)

Workshop Program

Workshop Title: Workshop on Coding for New Applications

Chairs: Xiao Ma, Richard D. Wesel, and Linqi Song

Room: TBD

09:50 – 11:10	Technical Session 1 (Invited Talks)
09:50 – 10:30	Keynote 1 (Invited Speaker: Prof. Baoming Bai) Design of GC-LDPC Codes for Integrated Satellite-and-Terrestrial Networks
10:30 – 11:10	Keynote 2 (Invited Speaker: Prof. Peter Trifonov) Low Complexity Decoding of Polar Codes with Large Kernels
11:10 – 11:30	Tea Break
11:30 – 12:50	Technical Session 2 (Oral Presentation)
11:30 – 11:45	Recursive Decoding of Block Codes for Partial Response Channels and Noise (Authors: Grigorii Trofimiuk (ITMO University, Russia))
11:45 – 12:00	Universal Maximum Likelihood (List) Decoding via Fast Vector-Matrix Multiplication (Authors: Hoang Ly Minh, Michael Schlepny and Emina Soljanin (Rutgers University, USA))
12:00 – 12:15	Error-Building Decoding of Linear Block Codes (Authors: Guoda Qiu and Liping Li (Anhui University, China); Ling Liu (Xidian University, China); Yuejun Wei (Shanghai Polytechnic University, China))
12:15 – 12:30	Area-Efficient ORBGRAND Decoders for PAM Systems (Authors: Mingxin Cui, Yuxing Chen and Zhongfeng Wang (Nanjing University, China); Wenjie Li (Chongqing Normal University, China); Yangcan Zhou (Sun Yat-sen University, China))
12:30 – 12:45	Improved T-EMS Decoding of NB-LDPC Codes (Authors: Lisha Luo, Xuan He and Xiaohu Tang (Southwest Jiaotong University, China))
12:50 – 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:20	Technical Session 3 (Oral Presentation)
14:00 – 14:15	Analog Error Correcting Codes with Constant Redundancy (Authors: Wen Tu Song and Kui Cai (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore))
14:15 – 14:30	An Enhanced Error Correction Code Transformer Based on Temporal Convolutional Network (Authors: Junjie Lai, Jinming Wen and Shancheng Zhao (Jinan University, China))
14:30 – 14:45	A Rate-Adaptive Disk-Sharing Architecture for LDPC/RAID Systems (Authors: Shangyu Wen (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Bin Zhang and Qin Huang (Beihang University, China))
14:45 – 15:00	Concatenated Code Design for Ethernet Networks with 400 Gb/s per Lane Signaling (Authors: Xuebo Wang, Congshi Zou, Shuangxing Dai, Yuefeng Wu and Xiang He (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Hao Ren (Huawei Technologies Company, China))
15:00 – 15:15	Polar-Coded Cooperation for Free Space Optical Satellite Networks (Authors: Yuping Qiu, Zhaopeng Xie and Peng Kang (Fuzhou University, China); Xiangming Cai (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China); Yi Fang (Guangdong University of Technology, China); Pingping Chen (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore; Fuzhou University, China))
15:20 – 15:40	Tea Break
15:40 – 18:00	Technical Session 4 (Oral Presentation)
15:40 – 15:55	Channel Code Design for Multi-User in Unsourced Multiple Access (Authors: Chunlin Yan and Xiaodong Xu (ZGC Institute of Ubiquitous-X Innovation and Applications, China); Sen Wang, Yifei Yuan and Hongjun He (China Mobile Research Institute, China))
15:55 – 16:10	Privacy-Preserving Computation Scheme over Gaussian Multiple-Access Channel with Feedback (Authors: XiaoYa Wang, Han Deng, Xue Yang and Bin Dai (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Haohe Yun (Kunming University of Science and Technology, China))
16:10 – 16:25	Fundamental Limits of Secure and Robust Aggregation (Authors: Yue Fan, Qifa Yan, Bin Zhu and Xiaohu Tang (Southwest Jiaotong University, China))
16:25 – 16:40	Distributed Lagrange Coded Computing with Bounded Privacy Leakage (Authors: Abolfazl Changizi, Amirreza Zaman, Ragnar Thobaben and Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden))
16:40 – 16:55	Expansion-Preserving Gradient Code (Authors: Xuan Jiang and Lele Wang (University of British Columbia, Canada))
16:55 – 17:10	Joint Power and Bit Allocation for Precoded Massive MIMO Channels (Authors: Shuyin Liu (Holmes Institute, Australia); Amin Sakzad (Monash University, Australia))
17:10 – 17:25	Efficient Diffusion-Based DeepJSCC Under Resource-Constrained Space Optical Channels (Authors: Hangfei Zhang, Ziyang Meng and Yanmei Jia (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Xinqing Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Lu Lu (Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China))

Contact

For questions, please email: qwang742@cityu.edu.hk

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