IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference
9-12 January 2021 // Virtual Conference

Detailed Program

All times listed are in Eastern Time Zone (EST)

Saturday, January 9

8:30 - 10:00

Workshop - ADS: Accessible Devices and Services - I

Workshop - RoboCom: Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics - I

10:30 - 12:00

Workshop - ADS: Accessible Devices and Services - II

Workshop - RoboCom: Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics - II

12:30 - 14:00

Workshop - RoboCom: Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics - III

14:30 - 16:00

Workshop - RoboCom: Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics - IV

Sunday, January 10

10:00 - 11:30

Session 1: 5G and Towards 6G

Session 2: Vehicular Safety and Privacy

Session 3: Application-layer Security

Session 4: Performance Analysis of Networks

Session 5: Networking Solutions for Games, Multimedia, Social Good, and P2P Apps

Work-in-Progress (I) - AI/ML

Work-in-Progress (II) - Connected Humans and Devices

13:30 - 15:00

Session 10: ML for the Physical Layer

Session 6: Energy-aware Networking

Session 7: Connected Devices and Vehicles

Session 8: Secure Protocols and Intrusion Detection

Session 9: Wireless Communications: Fundamentals and PHY

Work-in-Progress (III) - Network Protocols

Work-in-Progress (IV) - Security, Privacy and Trust

15:15 - 17:00

Posters

Monday, January 11

10:00 - 11:30

Session 11: Reinforcement Learning

Session 12: Next Generation Protocols: MAC and Above

Session 13: NFV and SDN (I)

Session 14: Secure and Reliable IoT

Session 15: Cloud & Fog/Edge Computing and Networking

Work-in-Progress (V) - Current and Emerging Standards

Work-in-Progress (VI) - IOT Applications and Low-latency Architectures

13:30 - 15:00

Session 16: ML for Network Protocols and Applications

Session 17: Mobility Management

Session 18: NFV and SDN (II)

Session 19: IOT Applications

Session 20: Wearables, Health and Low-power Networks

Work-in-Progress (VII) - Low-power Networks

Work-in-Progress (VIII) - SDN, NFV, Edge Computing

15:15 - 17:00

Demos

Tuesday, January 12

8:30 - 10:00

Workshop: SRSDN - I

Workshop: TCB6GN - I

10:30 - 12:00

Workshop: SRSDN - II

Workshop: TCB6GN - II

12:30 - 14:00

Workshop: STP-CPS - I

Workshop: TCB6GN - III

14:30 - 16:00

Workshop: STP-CPS - II

Workshop: TCB6GN - IV


Saturday, January 9

Saturday, January 9 8:30 - 10:00

Workshop - ADS: Accessible Devices and Services - I

Chair: Silvia Mirri (University of Bologna, Italy)

Wearable Air-writing Recognition System employing Dynamic Time Warping
Yuqi Luo and Jiang Liu (Waseda University, Japan); Shigeru Shimamoto (Waseda University & Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Japan)

LSTM based brain-machine interface tool for text generation through eyes blinking detection
AndrÈs F Reyes, Edgar C Camacho and Armando Mateus (Universidad Santo Tom·s, Colombia); Juan M Calderon (Universidad Santo Tomas, USA)

WCAG4All, a tool for making web accessibility rules accessible
Ombretta Gaggi and Veronica Pederiva (University of Padua, Italy)

Interaction design for seniors: an educational experience
Fabio Pittarello (Universit‡ Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy)

Workshop - RoboCom: Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics - I

Chairs: Zhangyu Guan (University at Buffalo, USA), Gokhan Secinti (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

Toward Autonomous, Software-Defined Networks of Wireless Drones
Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)

Saturday, January 9 10:30 - 12:00

Workshop - ADS: Accessible Devices and Services - II

Chair: Mike Paciello (WebABLE)

Making accessibility accessible: strategy and tools
Vincenzo Rubano and Fabio Vitali (Universit‡ di Bologna, Italy)

Socially Assistive Robotics combined with Artificial Intelligence for ADHD
Giuliana Vitiello (University of Salerno, Italy); Marianna Di Gregorio and Monica Sebillo (Universit‡ di Salerno, Italy); Genoveffa Tortora, Federica Amato and Clara Monaco (University of Salerno, Italy)

On using conversational interfaces to improve the accessibility of a university campus
Marco Furini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Silvia Mirri (University of Bologna, Italy); Manuela Montangero (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Margherita Pecorelli (University of Bologna, Italy); Catia Prandi (University of Bologna - ITI/LARSyS, Italy)

Irregular Metronomes as Assistive Devices to Promote Healthy Gait Patterns
Aaron Likens (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA); Spyridon Mastorakis (University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA); Andreas Skiadopoulos (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA); Jenny Kent (Northwestern University, USA); Md Washik Al Azad (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA); Nicholas Stergiou (University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA)

Modelling Educational Resources to Support Accessibility Requirements
Antonella Carbonaro (University of Bologna, Italy)

Workshop - RoboCom: Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics - II

Chairs: Zhangyu Guan (University at Buffalo, USA), Gokhan Secinti (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

Data Analytics and Machine – Learning with L1-norm Principal Components
Dimitris A. Pados (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

Saturday, January 9 12:30 - 14:00

Workshop - RoboCom: Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics - III

Chairs: Zhangyu Guan (University at Buffalo, USA), Nicola Roberto Zema (Paris-Saclay University, France)

An Intelligent 3D Placement Methodology for Drone Networks
«a?lar Karahan (Istanbul Technical University & Turkish Aerospace, Turkey); Berk Canberk (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

A Distributed Anticipatory Life-Enhancing Recovery Approach for Unmanned Aerial Vehicular Networks
Nouman Bashir (UniversitÈ Sorbonne Paris Nord & Institute Galilee, France); Saadi Boudjit (University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France); Mohand Yazid Saidi (University of Paris 13, France)

Range-based Collision Prediction for Dynamic Motion
Aarti Singh (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Neal Patwari (Washington Unoversity in St. Louis, USA)

Saturday, January 9 14:30 - 16:00

Workshop - RoboCom: Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics - IV

Chairs: Zhangyu Guan (University at Buffalo, USA), Nicola Roberto Zema (Paris-Saclay University, France)

UMBRELLA Collaborative Robotics Testbed and IoT Platform
Tim D Farnham (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Simon Jones (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Adnan Aijaz and Yichao Jin (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ioannis Mavromatis (Toshiba Europe Limited, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Usman Raza (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Anthony Portelli (Toshiba Europe Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Aleksandar Stanoev (Toshiba Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mahesh Sooriyabandara (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Lightweight Audio Source Localization for Swarm Robots
Amjad Majid, Casper van der Horst, Tomas van Rietbergen, David Zwart and Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Assembling a Swarm Navigation System: Communication, Localization, Sensing and Control
Siwei Zhang, Robert Pˆhlmann, Emanuel Staudinger and Armin Dammann (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)

Sunday, January 10

Sunday, January 10 10:00 - 11:30

Session 1: 5G and Towards 6G

Blockchain-based Roaming and Offload Service Platform for Local 5G Operators
Nisita Weerasinghe and Tharaka Mawanane Hewa (University of Oulu, Finland); Maheshi Buddhinee Dissanayake (Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka & King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mika E Ylianttila (University of Oulu, Finland); Madhusanka Liyanage (University College Dublin, Ireland & University of Oulu, Finland)

Feedback Control for Adaptive Function Placement in Uncertain Traffic Changes on an Advanced 5G System
Yu Tsukamoto, Haruhisa Hirayama, Seungil Moon, Shinobu Nanba and Hiroyuki Shinbo (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan)

Learning Based CSI Feedback Prediction for 5G NR
Sripada Kadambar (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Anirudh Reddy Godala (Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore, India); Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva (Samsung Electronics, India); Vaishal Tijoriwala (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India)

Performance Evaluations of Channel Estimation using Deep-learning based Super-resolution
Daiki Maruyama, Kenji Kanai and Jiro Katto (Waseda University, Japan)

Session 2: Vehicular Safety and Privacy

Multi-layer QoS Analysis of IEEE 802.11bd Based VANET for Safety Applications
Xiaomin Ma, Shengli Ding, Chloe Busse and Ivan Esley (Oral Roberts University, USA)

Securing Tire Pressure Monitoring System for Vehicular Privacy
Mark Vaszary (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA); Andreas G Slovacek (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, US, USA); Yanyan Zhuang (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA); Sang-Yoon Chang (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA)

An Adversarial Attack Defending System for Securing In-Vehicle Networks
Yi Li, Jing Lin and Kaiqi Xiong (University of South Florida, USA)

Implementation and Assessment of IEEE 802.11bd for Improved Road Safety
Badreddine Yacine Yacheur (Ecole Nationale SupÈrieure d'Informatique ESI (ex. INI) & CNRS-LaBRI UMR 5800, University Bordeaux, Bordeaux-INP, France); Toufik Ahmed and Mohamed Mosbah (CNRS-LaBRI UMR 5800, University Bordeaux, Bordeaux-INP, France)

Session 3: Application-layer Security

Authenticating Facebook Users Based on Widget Interaction Behavior
Simon Khan, Cooper Fraser, Daqing Hou, Mahesh Banavar and Stephanie Schuckers (Clarkson University, USA)

Light-Weight DDoS Mitigation at Network Edge with Limited Resources
Ryo Yaegashi (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan); Daisuke Hisano (Osaka University, Japan); Yu Nakayama (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)

Mitigating Data Poisoning Attacks On a Federated Learning-Edge Computing Network
Ronald Doku (Employed, USA); Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)

Probability Distribution Model to Analyze the Trade-off between Scalability and Security of Sharding-Based Blockchain Networks
Kamalani Aiyar (Charles Sturt University, Australia); Malka N. Halgamuge (The University of Melbourne, Australia); Azeem Mohammad (Charles Sturt University, Australia)

Session 4: Performance Analysis of Networks

Performance Analysis of Massive MIMO Assisted Semi-Grant-Free Random Access
Jie Ding (Deakin University, Australia); Mingjie Feng (University of Arizona, USA); Mahyar Nemati and Jinho Choi (Deakin University, Australia)

Performance Analysis of Multi-Antenna CR System with Beamforming Under Various Traffic Scenarios
Arifa Ahmed (National Institute of Technology Silchar, India); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Ganesh Prasad (NIT Silchar, India); Krishana Lal Baishnab (National Institute of Technology Silchar, India)

qMDP: DASH Adaptation using Queueing Theory within a Markov Decision Process
Kevin Gatimu (Oregon State University & Pure Integration, USA); Ben Lee (Oregon State University, USA)

Performance Analysis of Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems with Massive Connectivity
Mangqing Guo and M. Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University, USA)

Session 5: Networking Solutions for Games, Multimedia, Social Good, and P2P Apps

Analysing Dunbar Circles in Facebook Groups
Barbara Guidi, Andrea Michienzi, Laura Ricci and Vincenzo Ambriola (University of Pisa, Italy)

Automatic and Smart Content Transformation of Video Lectures
Marco Furini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Mobility and Community Detection Based on Topics of Interest
Iran Ribeiro (Universidade Federal do EspÌrito Santo, Brazil); Lucas Castanheira (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil); Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); VinÌcius Fernandes Mota (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil)

Online Classification of RTC Traffic
Gianluca Perna, Dena Markudova, Martino Trevisan, Paolo Garza, Michela Meo and Maurizio M. Munafo' (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Giovanna Carofiglio (Cisco Systems, France)

Work-in-Progress (I) - AI/ML

A Reinforcement Learning Approach to ARQ Feedback-based Multiple Access for Cognitive Radio Networks
Sara Attalla (AUC & Alexandria, Egypt); Karim G. Seddik (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Amr El-Sherif (Nile University, Egypt); Tamer ElBatt (The American University in Cairo (AUC) & Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt)

Applying Q-learning approach to CSMA Scheme to dynamically tune the contention probability
Floriano De Rango, Nicola Cordeschi and Francisco Ritacco (University of Calabria, Italy)

Deep-Reinforcement Learning for Fair Distributed Dynamic Spectrum Access in Wireless Networks
Siavash Barqi Janiar and Vahid Pourahmadi (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)

Complex Autoencoder Approach to Constant Envelope Waveform Coding
Paul E Gorday, Nurgun Erdol and Hanqi Zhuang (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

Label Leakage from Gradients in Distributed Machine Learning
Aidmar Wainakh and Till M¸flig (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Tim Grube (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany); Max M¸hlh‰user (TU-Darmstadt, Germany)

Machine-Learning directed Article Detection on the Web using DOM and text-based features
Shobhit Mathur, Pritam Nikam and Harshita Patidar (Samsung R&D Bangalore, India); Rohan Gaikwad (Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute Mumbai, India); Preeti Nayak (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India)

Work-in-Progress (II) - Connected Humans and Devices

Distributed Optimal Scheduling in UAV Swarm Network
Wei Sun (Ohio State University, USA)

Energy and Service-priority aware Trajectory Design for UAV-BSs using Double Q-Learning
Sayed Amir Hoseini (University of New South Wales, Australia); Ayub Bokani and Jahan Hassan (Central Queensland University, Australia); Shavbo Salehi (Urmia University, Iran); Salil S Kanhere (UNSW Sydney, Australia)

Mobility-aware Computation Offloading for Swarm Robotics using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Xiucheng Wang (Xidian University, China); Hongzhi Guo (Norfolk State University, USA)

Unraveling Edge-based in-vehicle infotainment using the Smart Highway testbed
Nina Slamnik-Krijestorac (University of Antwerp, IDLab-imec, Belgium); Johann M. Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen & imec, Belgium)

Data Persistence in Decentralized Social Applications: the IPFS approach
Barbara Guidi, Andrea Michienzi and Laura Ricci (University of Pisa, Italy)

Decentralized Governance for Digital Platforms - Architecture Proposal for the Mobility Market to enhance Data Privacy and Market Diversity
Ilko Hoffmann (Reutlingen University, Germany); Nils Jensen (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Anamaria Cristescu (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, Germany)

Sunday, January 10 13:30 - 15:00

Session 10: ML for the Physical Layer

Continual Learning-Based Channel Estimation for 5G Millimeter-Wave Systems
Swaraj Kumar (Samsung R&D Institute, India); Satya Kumar Vankayala (Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore, India); Biswapratap Singh Sahoo (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Seungil Yoon (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))

RiftNet: Radio Frequency Classification for Large Populations
Josh Robinson and Scott Kuzdeba (BAE Systems, USA)

Wireless Channel Quality Prediction using Sparse Gaussian Conditional Random Fields
Raushan Raj (SUNY Binghamton, USA); Adita Kulkarni (SUNY Brockport, USA); Anand Seetharam and Arti Ramesh (SUNY Binghamton, USA)

A Novel High-Accuracy Low-Execution Time Machine Learning-Driven Approach to Automatic Modulation Classification
Pejman Ghasemzadeh, Michael Hempel and Hamid Sharif (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Session 6: Energy-aware Networking

Wake-up Radio-enabled Intermittently-powered Devices for Mesh Networking: A Power Analysis
Edward Longman, Oktay Cetinkaya, Mohammed El-Hajjar and Geoff V Merrett (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

MagBB: Wireless Charging for Batteryless Sensors using Magnetic Blind Beamforming
Albert Aninagyei Ofori and Hongzhi Guo (Norfolk State University, USA)

Energy Efficient and Performance Optimized Measurements for 5G and Beyond
Vinay Kumar Shrivastava, Avijit Manna and Kalyan Dhulipudi (Samsung Electronics, India)

Real-Time and Energy-Efficient Inference at GPU-Based Network Edge using PON
Yukito Onodera (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan); Yoshiaki Inoue and Daisuke Hisano (Osaka University, Japan); Yu Nakayama (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)

Session 7: Connected Devices and Vehicles

A Seamless and Efficient Transition Algorithm For Aerial Drone Multicasting
Wanqing Tu (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)

A Vehicular Crowd-sensing Incentive Mechanism for Temporal Coverage
Harish Chintakunta, Janar Kahr and Luis G Jaimes (Florida Polytechnic University, USA)

3D-Trajectory Design for Outage Minimization in UAV-Assisted 5G Communication System
Nishant Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Satyam Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India)

A Routing Protocol toward Reliable Mobile Communication in Wi-SUN FAN
Robby Wayong, Ryota Okumura, Keiichi Mizutani and Hiroshi Harada (Kyoto University, Japan)

Session 8: Secure Protocols and Intrusion Detection

Resource Efficient Boosting Method for IoT Security Monitoring
Idris Zakariyya (Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Securing home Wi-Fi with WPA3 personal
Erik Lamers and Raoul Dijksman (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Arjan J van der Vegt and Mayur Sarode (Liberty Global, The Netherlands); Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Self-Organizing Map assisted Deep Autoencoding Gaussian Mixture Model for Intrusion Detection
Yang Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Nami Ashizawa (Osaka University, Japan); Seanglidet Yean and Chai Kiat Yeo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Naoto Yanai (Osaka University, Japan)

The Cost of Path Information: Routing in Anonymous Communication
Tim Grube (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany); Jˆrg Daubert (Philipps-Universit‰t Marburg, Germany); Max Muehlhaeuser (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany); Rolf Egert (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

Session 9: Wireless Communications: Fundamentals and PHY

Data-Driven Phase Noise Mitigation in OFDM Systems
Naoki Akaba, Yi-Han Chiang and Hai Lin (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)

Impact Analysis of Receiver Sensitivity and Censored Data to NLoS Channel Models in Millimeter Wave Frequency Bands
Sangkyu Baek (Samsung Research, Korea (South)); Daegyun Kim (Samsung, Korea (South))

Logistic Regression for LDPC Decoding Failure Prediction
Taehyun Kim (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Joo Sung Park (SAMSUNG Electronics, USA)

Wideband Index Modulation with Circularly-Shifted Chirps
Safi Shams Muhtasimul Hoque (University of South Carolina, USA); Chao-Yu Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan); Alphan ?ahin (University of South Carolina, USA)

Work-in-Progress (III) - Network Protocols

Open-Source MQTT Evaluation
Melvin Omit Bender (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Erkin Kirdan (Technische Universit‰t M¸nchen, Germany); Marc-Oliver Pahl (IMT Atlantique, France & Technical University of Munich, Germany); Georg Carle (Technische Universit‰t M¸nchen, Germany)

Reducing End-to-End Delays in WebRTC using the FSE-NG Algorithm for SCReAM Congestion Control
Julius Flohr and Erwin P Rathgeb (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Measurements Comparing TCP Cubic and TCP BBR over a Satellite Network
Saahil Claypool (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Jae Chung (Viasat, USA); Mark Claypool (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

TurboLoRa: enhancing LoRaWAN data rate via device synchronization
Moez Altayeb (ICTP, Italy); Marco Zennaro (ICTP - The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy); Ermanno Pietrosemoli (International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) & Fundacion EsLaRed, Italy); Pietro Manzoni (Universitat PolitËcnica de ValËncia, Spain)

The LoRa Modulation Over Rapidly-Varying Channels: Are the Higher Spreading Factors Necessarily More Robust?
Harishwar Reddy Bapathu (National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India); Siddhartha S. Borkotoky (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)

Feedback-based Access Schemes in CR Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Ehab El-Guindy and Karim G. Seddik (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Amr El-Sherif (Nile University, Egypt); Tamer ElBatt (The American University in Cairo (AUC) & Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt)

Work-in-Progress (IV) - Security, Privacy and Trust

Innovative TLS 1.3 Identity Module for Trusted IoT Device
Pascal Urien (TÈlÈcom Paris, France)

Interference resilience of Thread: A practical performance evaluation
Andreas Ingo Grohmann and David Nophut (Technische Universit‰t Dresden, Germany); Marek Sobe and Adrian Bretschneider (TU Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universit‰t Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)

ConSec: Video Conferencing System Security Threat Modeling and Analysis
Raiful Hasan and Ragib Hasan (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)

Power Allocation and Relay Placement for Secrecy Outage Minimization over DF Relayed System
Ravikant Saini (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Kotha Venugopalachary (Shiv Nadar University, India)

Internet of Things (IoT) Security Metrics and Automation for Security Evaluation
Thomas E Setzler III (Recent College of Charleston Graduate, USA); Xenia Mountrouidou (Network To Code, USA)

Error Factor Analysis of DNN-based Fingerprinting Localization through Virtual Space
Takuto Jikyo (Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Kobe University, Japan); Tomio Kamada, Chikara Ohta, Takaharu Yaguchi, Kenji Oyama and Takenao Ohkawa (Kobe University, Japan); Ryo Nishide (Shiga University, Japan)

Sunday, January 10 15:15 - 17:00

Posters

Tracking unspecified detected targets by propagating instantly created Self-organizing Maps
Nakazato Hikotoshi (NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan); Seisuke Arai (NTT, Japan); Masahiro Miyasaka (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan)

Toward Bias Analysis Using Tweets and Natural Language Processing
Christopher M Flowers, Earl Tankard Jr., Jiang (Leo) Li and Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)

UPub: Enabling Mobility Management for Publish/Subscribe Systems in the Edge
Nivia Quental (INESC-ID, Portugal)

Prioritized Periodical Communication with Timing Reservation Multiple Access for Autonomous Distributed Mobile Sensor Networks
Shoma Nishibori (Nagoya University, Japan); Yukihiro Tadokoro (Toyota Central R&d Labs., Inc., Japan); Tutomu Murase (Nagoya University, Japan)

Dynamic Dual Quantization-Domain Self-Corrected LDPC Decoder
Taehyun Kim (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Joo Sung Park (SAMSUNG Electronics, USA)

Securing E-Health Networks by applying Network Slicing and Blockchain Techniques
Joao Paulo Brito GonÁalves (University of Antwerpen, Belgium); Henrique Cesar Carvalho de Resende (University of Antwerp, Belgium); Esteban Municio (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Rodolfo S Villaca (Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil); Johann M. Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen & imec, Belgium)

Smart Disaster Management using Software-Defined Unmanned Aerial Systems
Abu S Asaduzzaman and Abhignan Telakapalli (Wichita State University, USA); Fadi Sibai (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia)

Performance Analysis of Softwarized Local Mobile Networks
Yushan Siriwardhana and Pawani Porambage (University of Oulu, Finland); Madhusanka Liyanage (University College Dublin, Ireland & University of Oulu, Finland); Mika E Ylianttila (University of Oulu, Finland)

An Initial Study of Dynamic-Duplex Cellular System on 5G NR Downlink in High SHF Band
Yuya Arakawa, Kazuki Nishikori and Keiichi Mizutani (Kyoto University, Japan); Takeshi Matsumura (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) & Kyoto University, Japan); Hiroshi Harada (Kyoto University, Japan)

Study on Accuracy for Self-Organizing Localization with multiplexed topology
Chihiro Kawata (Kansai University, Japan); Takamasa Kitanouma (Organization for Research and Development of Innovative Science and Technology, Kansai University, Japan); Yasuhisa Takizawa (Kansai University, Japan)

Impact of Distance on Outage Probability in IRS-NOMA for Beyond 5G Networks
Pragya Swami and Vimal Bhatia (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)

A Hybrid NOMA-PLNC Wireless Relay Scheme
Samikkannu Rajkumar (Sri Lanka Technological Campus, Sri Lanka); Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody (Tomsk Polytechnic University & Sri Lanka Technological Campus (SLTC), Russia); Zheng Chang (University of Jyv‰skyl‰, Finland)

DQN-based Coverage Maximization for Mobile Video Camera Networks
Seungho Lee (KAIST, Korea (South)); Dongman Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Soon Joo Hyun (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, USA)

Regression-based Data Reduction Algorithm for Smart Grids
Bashar Chreim (UniversitÈ de Franche-ComtÈ, France); Jad Nassar (HEI - YncrÈa HdF, France); Carol Habib (Junia, France)

Anomaly Detection in Smart Environments using AI over Fog and Cloud Computing
Diego Moreira (State University of Cear·, Brazil); Humberto Marques (Cear· State University, Brazil); Wanderson Costa (Instituto Federal do PiauÌ (IFPI), Brazil); Joaquim Celestino J˙nior (State University of Cear·, Brazil); Rafael L. Gomes (State University of Cear· (UECE) & University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil); Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil)

A Comprehensive Data Sampling Analysis Applied to the Classification of Rare IoT Network Intrusion Types
Suchet J Sapre, Khondkar Islam and Pouyan Ahmadi (George Mason University, USA)

Smart Parking with Learning-aided User Activity Sensing Based on Edge Computing
Soyeon Kim, Soochang Park and Sang-Hoon Lee (Chungbuk National University, Korea (South)); Taehun Yang (Chungnam National University, Korea (South))

Benchmarking Live Migration Performance under Stressed Conditions
Roberto Torre and Robert-Steve Schmoll (Technische Universit‰t Dresden, Germany); Florian Kemser (Tu Dresden, Germany); Hani Salah (TU Dresden, Germany); Ievgenii Anatolijovuch Tsokalo (Technische Universit‰t Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universit‰t Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)

A Supervised Learning Approach for Reducing Latency during Context Switchover in 5G MEC
Sridharan Natarajan (Samsung Research Institute Bangalore & IIITB, India); Santhosh Mohan ( & Samsung Research Institute ( SRIB ) Bengaluru, India)

Deep Reinforcement Learning and Optimization Based Green Mobile Edge Computing
Yang Yang (Syracuse University, USA); Yulin Hu (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); M. Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University, USA)

The Role of Ground-to-Air Handovers in B5G UAV-Aided Mobile Networks
Silvia Mignardi, Pablo M Pulcinella and Roberto Verdone (University of Bologna, Italy)

Handover Optimization for VANET in 5G Networks
Ahmed Aboud (National Engineering School of Sfax & Hatem Bettahar IResCoMath Research Unit, Tunisia); Haifa Touati (Faculty of Sciences of Gabes & Hatem Bettahar IResCoMath Research Unit, Tunisia); Brahim Hnich (Faculty of Sciences of Monastir & CES-Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia)

Lightweight Data Compression for Low Energy Consumption in Industrial Internet of Things
Marcus da Silva (State University of Cear· (UECE), Brazil); Alexandre Rocha (Instituto Federal do Cear· (IFCE), Brazil); Rafael L. Gomes (State University of Cear· (UECE) & University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil); Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil)

Experimental Analysis of Communication Relaying Delay in Low-Energy Ad-hoc Networks
Taichi Miya (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Kohta Ohshima (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan); Yoshiaki Kitaguchi and Katsunori Yamaoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

A Channel Selection Algorithm Using Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Devices in Massive IoT System
Honami Furukawa and Aohan Li (Tokyo University of Science, Japan); Yozo Shoji and Yoshito Watanabe (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Song-Ju Kim (Keio University, Japan); Koya Sato (Tokyo University of Science, Japan); Yiannis Andreopoulos (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mikio Hasegawa (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)

Prototyping evaluation of CYPHONIC: Overlay network technology for Cyber-Physical communication
Shuhei Isomura, Taiki Yoshikawa, Hijiri Komura, Shota Kubota, Chihiro Nishiwaki and Katsuhiro Naito (Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan)

Cyber-Physical Individual Monitoring in Indoor Internet-of-Things Systems with Edge Intelligence
Changseong Kim (ChungBuk National University(CBNU), Korea (South)); Soyeon Kim, Sang-Hoon Lee and Soochang Park (Chungbuk National University, Korea (South)); Taehun Yang (Chungnam National University, Korea (South))

Chain RTS/CTS Scheme for Aerial Multihop Communications
Talip Tolga Sar? and Gokhan Secinti (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

A Novel Link Adaptation Technique for LTE based Machine Type Communication
Ramesh Chandran (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India); Amarpreet Singh Sethi (Samsung Research Institute Bangalore, India)

Reducing FEC-Complexity in Cross-Layer Predictable Data Communication
Pablo Gil Pereira (Saarland University, Germany); Thorsten Herfet (Saarland University & Intel Visual Computing Institute, Germany)

Efficient Random Access Protocol for Multi SIM Multi Standby Devices in 5G and B5G Networks
Sathia Chandrane Sundararaju (Samsung Semiconductor India R&D Center, India); Mohanraja Balasubramaniam (Samsung Electronics, India); Debabrata Das (International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, India)

QoE-aware Video Streaming in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
Adita Kulkarni (SUNY Brockport, USA); Anand Seetharam (SUNY Binghamton, USA)

Multi-Type Malware Detection in A Real-World Network Using Raw Network Traffic
Yuwei Sun, Hideya Ochiai and Hiroshi Esaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Detecting Spoofing Attacks in Zigbee using Device Fingerprinting
Talakala Grace Hanusha (Samsung R&D Institute Banglore, India); Jyotsna Bapat (International Institute of Information Technology, India)

Federated Learning with Differential Privacy for resilient Vehicular Cyber Physical Systems
Felix O Olowononi (Howard University & Data Science and Cybersecurity Center, USA); Danda B. Rawat and Chunmei Liu (Howard University, USA)

SDN-based Predictive Alarm Manager for Security Attacks Detection at the IoT Gateways
Pankaj Thorat (Samsung R&D Institute India, Bengaluru, India); Niraj Dubey (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India); Kunal Khetan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Rajesh Challa (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India)

QoSP: A Priority-Based Queueing Mechanism in Software-Defined Networking Environments
Mohamed Rahouti and Kaiqi Xiong (University of South Florida, USA); Yufeng Xin (University of North Carolina, USA); Nasir Ghani (University of South Florida, USA)

Artificial Intelligence Assisted Wireless Resource Allocation for Wireless Network Virtualization
Naveen Naik Sapavath and Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)

Chaos-Based Interleave Division Multiple Access Scheme with Physical Layer Security
Mamoru Okumura, Tomoki Kaga and Eiji Okamoto (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan); Tetsuya Yamamoto (Panasonic Corporation, Japan)

Relay Selection with Wireless Energy Transfer in mmWave Networks
Ahmed Ammar (Ohio Northern University, USA); Matthew Valenti and Daryl Reynolds (West Virginia University, USA)

Monday, January 11

Monday, January 11 10:00 - 11:30

Session 11: Reinforcement Learning

Deep Reinforcement Learning-based CIO and Energy Control for LTE Mobility Load Balancing
Ghada Hussain Alsuhli (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Hassan A Ismail and Kareem A Alansary (The American University in Cairo, Egypt); Mahmoud Rumman (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Mostafa Mohamed (The American University in Cairo, Egypt); Karim G. Seddik (American University in Cairo, Egypt)

Deep Reinforcement Learning-based User Association in Sub6GHz/mmWave Integrated Networks
Thi Ha Ly Dinh and Megumi Kaneko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Keisuke Wakao (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan); Kenichi Kawamura (NTT Corporation, Japan); Takatsune Moriyama (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan); Hirantha Abeysekera (NTT Corporation, Japan); Yasushi Takatori (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan)

Learn to improve: A novel deep reinforcement learning approach for beyond 5G network slicing
Anouar Rkhami (Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France); Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul (University of Rennes 1, France); Abdelkader Outtagarts (Nokia Bell Labs France, France)

A Reinforcement Learning QoI/QoS-Aware Approach in Acoustic Sensor Networks
Haitham Afifi, Arunselvan Ramaswamy and Holger Karl (Paderborn University, Germany)

Session 12: Next Generation Protocols: MAC and Above

AI-Driven Partial Topology Discovery Algorithm for Broadband Networks
K¸bra Duran (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Bahtiyar Karanlik (Sekom Yazilim AS, Turkey); Berk Canberk (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering and LSTM-based Load Prediction for Dynamic Spectrum Allocation
Lei Liu, Hamed Mosavat-Jahromi and Lin Cai (University of Victoria, Canada); David Kidston (Communications Research Centre, Canada)

Latency-Aware Fair Scheduling for Spatial Reuse in WLANs: A Lyapunov Optimization Approach
Shunnosuke Kotera, Bo Yin and Koji Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan); Takayuki Nishio (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Masahiro Morikura (Kyoto University, Japan); Hirantha Abeysekera (NTT Corporation, Japan)

QoE-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Video Communication over Software-Defined Radio
Mohammad Nazmus Sadat, Erwin Vargas-Alfonso, Rui Dai, Ziqian Huang, Yiling Fu and Sunmeng Lin (University of Cincinnati, USA)

Session 13: NFV and SDN (I)

Cyber Deception for Wireless Network Virtualization using Stackelberg Game Theory
Abdulhamid A. Adebayo (IBM Research, USA); Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)

Optimized Scalable SFC Traffic Steering Scheme for Cloud Native based Applications
Adel Bouridah (University of Constantine 2 - Abdelhamid Mehri - Algeria, France); Ilhem Fajjari (Orange labs, France); Nadjib Aitsaadi (UVSQ Paris-Saclay & DAVIS Lab, France); Hacene Belhadef (University of Constantine2, Algeria)

Towards a Network Queuing Assessment for Elasticity Management of Virtualized Services
Alexandre Heideker (Federal University of ABC, Brazil); Carlos Kamienski (Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil)

KBP: Kernel Enhancements for Low Latency Networking without Application Customization in Virtual Server
Kei Fujimoto (NTT Corporation, Japan); Kenichi Matsui (NTT West Corporation, Japan); Masayuki Akutsu (NTT Corporatioin, Japan)

Session 14: Secure and Reliable IoT

A Performance Analysis of the Security Communication in CoAP and MQTT
Zakaria Laaroussi (Ericsson, Finland); Oscar Novo (Ericsson & Aalto University, Finland)

DLWIoT: Deep Learning-based Watermarking for Authorized IoT Onboarding
Spyridon Mastorakis (University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA); Xin Zhong (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA); Pei-Chi Huang (University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA); Reza Tourani (Saint Louis University, USA)

Privacy Preserving Misbehavior Detection in IoV using Federated Machine Learning
Aashma Uprety, Danda B. Rawat and Jiang Li (Howard University, USA)

Edge-Detect: Edge-centric Network Intrusion Detection using Deep Neural Network
Praneet Singh (Indian Institute of Science & IISc, India); Jishnu Jaykumar P. and Akhil Pankaj (Indian Institute of Science, India); Reshmi Mitra (Southeast Missouri State University, USA)

Session 15: Cloud & Fog/Edge Computing and Networking

Computational and Location Aware Middleware to enable Edge Computing in Mobile Devices
Sweta Jaiswal, Jamsheed Manja Ppallan and Karthikeyan Arunachalam (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Shiva Souhith Gantha (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore Pvt. Ltd., India)

Joint Computation Offloading and Sampling Interval Optimization for Accuracy-Guaranteed Surveillance
Takayuki Nishio (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Yoshiaki Inoue (Osaka University, Japan); Yu Nakayama (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan); Marie Katsurai (Doshisha University, Japan)

Learning Flow Scheduling
Asif Hasnain and Holger Karl (Paderborn University, Germany)

On the Deployability of Augmented Reality Using Embedded Edge Devices
Ayoub Ben Ameur and Andrea Araldo (Telecom SudParis, France); Francesco Bronzino (UniversitÈ Savoie Mont Blanc, France)

Work-in-Progress (V) - Current and Emerging Standards

On Enhancing Throughput Performance of Wi-Fi Networks: Combining Coordinated AP and mmWave Bands
Neelakantan Nurani Krishnan, Ivan Seskar and Narayan Mandayam (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA)

On the Benefits of Multi-hop Communication for Indoor 60 GHz Wireless Networks
Chanaka Samarathunga (University of Kansas, USA); Mohamed Abouelseoud and Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony Corporation, USA); Morteza Hashemi (University of Kansas, USA)

ORCHESTRA 2.0: Enhancing a multi-access solution to address 5G challenges
Joao F. N. Pinheiro (University of Antwerpen & IMEC, Belgium); Esteban Municio (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Christiaan Leysen (University of Antwerp & IMEC, Belgium); Johann M. Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen & imec, Belgium)

Coverage in Networks with Hybrid Terahertz, Millimeter Wave, and Microwave Transmissions
Xueyuan Wang and M. Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University, USA)

Enabling cross-border tele-operated transport in the 5G Era: The 5G Blueprint approach
Johann M. Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen & imec, Belgium); Seilendria A. Hadiwardoyo (University of Antwerp & IMEC, Belgium); Vasilis Maglogiannis (Ghent University - imec & IDLab Research Group, Belgium); Dries Naudts (Ghent University & Imec, Belgium); Ingrid Moerman (Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Peter Hellinckx (University of Antwerp, Belgium); Sofie Verbrugge (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium); Simon Delaere (iMinds-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium); Wim Vandenberghe (Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat, The Netherlands); Eric Kenis (Ministerie van Mobiliteit en Openbare Werken, Belgium); Maria Chiara Campodonico (Martel Innovate, Switzerland); Rakshith Kusumakar (V-TRON, The Netherlands); Job Meines (KPN, The Netherlands); Joost Vandenbossche (Be-Mobile, Belgium)

Radio Protection Area Estimation Methods for Spectrum Sharing-based 5G System
Shingo Tomida, Keiichi Mizutani and Hiroshi Harada (Kyoto University, Japan)

Work-in-Progress (VI) - IOT Applications and Low-latency Architectures

Optimal Server Selection Scheme with Optimistic Synchronization for Delay Sensitive Services
Akio Kawabata (NTT, Japan); Bijoy Chand Chatterjee (South Asian University, India); Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)

UNISON: a Novel System for Ultra-Low Latency Audio Streaming Over the Internet
Christian Werner and Robert Kraneis (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany)

Anticipatory Networking: Negative Latency for Ubiquitous Computing
Patrick Seeling (Central Michigan University, USA); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universit‰t Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)

An IoT-based platform for supply chain monitoring
Alexandros Fragkiadakis (Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece)

Automatic Music Playlist Generation based on Music-Programming of FM Radios
Marco Furini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Monday, January 11 13:30 - 15:00

Session 16: ML for Network Protocols and Applications

Network Scan Failure and Delay Estimation of IoT Wireless Equipment using Scenario Detection Technique
Babatunde Ojetunde and Kenta Suzuki (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Japan); Kazuto Yano and Yoshinori Suzuki (ATR, Japan)

Adaptive Motif-based Topology Control in Mobile Software Defined Wireless Sensor Networks
Satyaki Roy (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA); Ronojoy Dutta (Deep Run High School, Glen Allen, Virginia, USA); Nirnay Ghosh (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology - Shibpur (IIESTS), India); Preetam Ghosh (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)

Boosting Belief Propagation for LDPC Codes with Deep Convolutional Neural Network Predictors
Xiwen Chen and Huayu Li (Northern Arizona University, USA); Junsuo Qu (Xi'an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Abolfazl Razi (Northern Arizona University, USA)

Unsupervised ML Based Detection of Malicious Web Sessions with Automated Feature Selection: Design and Real-World Validation
Shadi Sadeghpour, Natalija Vlajic and Pooria Madani (York University, Canada); Dusan Stevanovic (48 Mortimer Crescent, Canada)

Session 17: Mobility Management

An Efficient Group-Based Mobility Management Mechanism for Cellular M2M Networks
Zaw Htike and Azril Haniz (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Takeshi Matsumura (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) & Kyoto University, Japan); Fumihide Kojima (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

User Cooperative Mobility for the High Throughput of Target Flows in Multiple Ad-Hoc Networks
Kousuke Okumura and Tutomu Murase (Nagoya University, Japan)

Closed Loop Paging Optimization for Efficient Mobility Management
Sivanandham S (Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore, India); Rajesh Challa (Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore, India)

Session 18: NFV and SDN (II)

Efficient Parameter Aggregation in Federated Learning with Hybrid Convergecast
Yangyang Tao (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Junxiu Zhou (Northern Kentucky University, USA); Shucheng Yu (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)

ANFIS based classification model for network device migration towards SoDIP6 networks
Babu R Dawadi (Tribhuvan University, Nepal & Universitat PolitËcnica De ValËncia, Spain); Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA); Shashidhar Joshi (Tribhuvan University, Nepal); Pietro Manzoni (Universitat PolitËcnica de ValËncia, Spain)

Addressing the Heterogeneity of A Wide Area Network for DNNs
Hideaki Oguni and Kazuyuki Shudo (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Session 19: IOT Applications

MODRON: A Scalable and Interoperable Web of Things Platform for Structural Health Monitoring
Cristiano Aguzzi, Lorenzo Gigli, Luca Sciullo and Angelo Trotta (University of Bologna, Italy); Federica Zonzini (University of Bologna & ARCES-Advanced Research Center of Electronic Systems, Italy); Luca De Marchi, Marco Di Felice, Alessandro Marzani and Tullio Salmon Cinotti (University of Bologna, Italy)

Executable Test Case Generation from Specifications Written in Natural Language and Test Execution Environment
Yusuke Aoyama (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan); Takeru Kuroiwa (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan); Noriyuki Kushiro (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

Indoor Localization by Kalman Filter based Combining of UWB-Positioning and PDR
Gang Toe Lee, Seung Beom Seo and Wha Sook Jeon (Seoul National University, Korea (South))

Intermittently-connected IoT devices: Experiments with an NDN-DTN architecture
Christos-Alexandros Sarros, Vassilis Demiroglou and Vassilis Tsaoussidis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)

Session 20: Wearables, Health and Low-power Networks

InSight: A Bluetooth Beacon-based Ad-hoc Emergency Alert System for Smart Cities
Raiful Hasan and Ragib Hasan (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA); Tanveer Islam (Jacksonville State University, USA)

Skin-Health Monitoring system using a Wireless Body Area Network
Suman Kumar and Kazi Siddiqui (Troy University, USA); Mukesh Kumar (Independent Researcher, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Near-Realtime Face Mask Wearing Recognition Based on Deep Learning
Hong Lin (Macao Polytechnic Institute, China); Rita Tse and Su-Kit Tang (Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao); Chen Yanbing (Macao Polytechnic Institute, China); Wei Ke (Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao); Giovanni Pau (University of Bologna / UCLA, France)

Associating the Randomized Bluetooth MAC Addresses of a Device
LoÔc Jouans (…cole Normale SupÈrieur de Lyon & Inria Saclay, France); Aline Carneiro Viana (INRIA, France); Nadjib Achir (INRIA TRiBE, France); Anne Fladenmuller (UPMC Sorbonne UniversitÈs, France)

Work-in-Progress (VII) - Low-power Networks

Wireless Power Transmission Scheme Employing Phase Control for WSN
Genta Ishii, Megumi Saito, Zhenni Pan and Jiang Liu (Waseda University, Japan); Shigeru Shimamoto (Waseda University & Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Japan)

A Cluster based Sensor-Selection Scheme for Energy-Efficient Agriculture Sensor Networks
Surender Redhu (University of Agder & WiSENET Centre, Norway); Amrendra P Singh (Intel, India); Rajesh M Hegde (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Baltasar Beferull-Lozano (University of Agder, Norway)

Experimental Demonstration for Indoor Localization Based on AoA of Bluetooth 5.1 Using Software Defined Radio
Fabricio Toasa and Luis Tello-Oquendo (Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo, Ecuador); Carlos Ramiro PeÒafiel-Ojeda (Universitat PolitËcnica de ValËncia & Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo, Spain); Giovanny Cuzco (Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo, Ecuador)

Optimal New Node Insertion for Strong Minimum Energy Topology in IoT Networks
Ganesh Prasad (NIT Silchar, India); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Rabul Laskar (Assistant Proffesor, India)

How Users Behave on WPT-motivated MANET: Qualitative Analysis of Users Cooperation
Yoshihiro Taniguchi, Takumi Miyoshi and Taku Yamazaki (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan); Takuya Asaka (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)

A Novel Power Efficient CP Block Selection Procedure for Delay-Tolerant Services to Handle CP Outages in 5G and Beyond
Naveen Kumar (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Karthikeyan Subramaniam (Samsung Research India, India); Karthikeyan Narayanan (Samsung Research Institute Bangalore, India)

Work-in-Progress (VIII) - SDN, NFV, Edge Computing

IoT-centric Service Function Chaining Orchestration and its Performance Validation
Hibiki Sekine, Kenji Kanai and Jiro Katto (Waseda University, Japan); Hidehiro Kanemitsu (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan); Hidenori Nakazato (Waseda University, Japan)

QoS Driven Task Offloading and Resource Allocation at Edge Servers in RAN Slicing
Saibharath S (BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India); Sudeepta Mishra (Indian Institute of Technology - Ropar, Punjab, India); Chittaranjan Hota (Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India)

Towards 6G Networks: Ensemble Deep Learning Empowered VNF Deployment for IoT Services
Mahzabeen Emu and Salimur Choudhury (Lakehead University, Canada)

Optimal Task Allocation for Mobile Edge Learning with Global Training Time Constraints
Umair Yaqub Mohammad (Florida International University, USA); Sameh Sorour (Queen's University, Canada); Mohamed S Hefeida (West Virginia University, USA)

Facilitating Integration of IoT Ecosystems via Universal Cloud Interface
Taesoo Jun, Minkyong Kim, Jeesun Kim, Deokjin Kim, KwangHyuk Kim and Dayeon Kang (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))

Monday, January 11 15:15 - 17:00

Demos

A New IoT Trust Model Based on TLS-SE and TLS-IM Secure Elements: a Blockchain Use Case
Pascal Urien (TÈlÈcom Paris, France)

Leveraging Periodicity to Improve Quality of Service in Mobile Software Defined Wireless Sensor Networks
Satyaki Roy (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA); Ronojoy Dutta (Deep Run High School, Glen Allen, Virginia, USA); Nirnay Ghosh (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology - Shibpur (IIESTS), India); Preetam Ghosh (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)

Catch Me If You Can: Demonstration of Publicly Remote Controlled Robots
Andreas Ingo Grohmann (Technische Universit‰t Dresden, Germany); Alexander Kropp (TU Dresden, Germany); Christopher Lehmann and Ievgenii Anatolijovuch Tsokalo (Technische Universit‰t Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universit‰t Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)

Reliable Control for Robotics - Hardware Resilience Powered by Software
Alexander Kropp (TU Dresden, Germany); Mario Schwalbe (SIListra Systems GmbH, Germany); Ievgenii Anatolijovuch Tsokalo (Technische Universit‰t Dresden, Germany); Martin S¸flkraut (SIListra Systems GmbH, Germany); Robert-Steve Schmoll (Technische Universit‰t Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universit‰t Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)

Machine Learning detection for SMiShing frauds
Mounira Msahli (TELECOM ParisTech, France); Badr Eddine Boukari and Akshaya Ravi (Telecom Paris, France)

UPub Demo: Enabling Mobility Management for Publish/Subscribe Systems in the Edge
Nivia Quental (INESC-ID, Portugal)

StreetBit: A Bluetooth Beacon-based Personal Safety Application for Distracted Pedestrians
Raiful Hasan, Mohammad Aminul Hoque, Md Yasser Karim, Russel Griffin, David Schwebel and Ragib Hasan (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)

Measuring Performance of MQTT v5.0 Brokers with MQTTLoader
Ryohei Banno, Koki Ohsawa, Yusuke Kitagawa, Takumu Takada and Toshinori Yoshizawa (Kogakuin University, Japan)

Tuesday, January 12

Tuesday, January 12 8:30 - 10:00

Workshop: SRSDN - I

Chairs: Tseng Hsueh-Wen (National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan), Wen-Kang Jia (Fujian Normal University, China)

Controller Placement Solution using Petri-net based Modelling
Wael Hosny Fouad Aly (American University of the Middle East, Kuwait)

Realizing Internet of Things with Network Slicing: Opportunities and Challenges
Shalitha Wijethilaka (University College Dublin, Ireland); Madhusanka Liyanage (University College Dublin, Ireland & University of Oulu, Finland)

Inter-Datacenter Multicast with Store-and-Forward in Software-Defined Optical Networks
Xiao Lin and Jiangnan Zou (Fuzhou University, China); Shengnan Yue (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Weiqiang Sun (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Weisheng Hu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Fractional-N SVRF Forwarding Algorithm for Low Port-Density Packet Forwarding Engines
Zhu Jin, Xiang Wu, Wen-Kang Jia and Xiaoning Shi (Fujian Normal University, China)

Workshop: TCB6GN - I

Tuesday, January 12 10:30 - 12:00

Workshop: SRSDN - II

Chairs: Tseng Hsueh-Wen (National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan), Wen-Kang Jia (Fujian Normal University, China)

Aggregating Multiple Small-Data Frames using Arithmetic Encoding in P4 Switches
Xiang Wu, Zhu Jin, Wen-Kang Jia and Xiaoning Shi (Fujian Normal University, China)

Exploring the Optimal Intercept Access Point Placement Problem in Software-Defined Networks
Liang Chen and Ruisi Wu (Fujian Nomal University, China); Wen-Kang Jia (Fujian Normal University, China)

On the Lawful Intercept Access Point Placement Problem in Hybrid Software-Defined Networks
Xiaosa Xu, Xiang Wu and Wen-Kang Jia (Fujian Normal University, China)

Workshop: TCB6GN - II

Tuesday, January 12 12:30 - 14:00

Workshop: STP-CPS - I

Chairs: Uttam Ghosh (Vanderbilt University, USA), Deepak K Tosh (University of Texas, El Paso, USA)

Workshop: TCB6GN - III

Tuesday, January 12 14:30 - 16:00

Workshop: STP-CPS - II

Chairs: Uttam Ghosh (Vanderbilt University, USA), Deepak K Tosh (University of Texas, El Paso, USA)

AI Secured SD-WAN Architecture as a Latency Critical IoT Enabler for 5G and Beyond Communications
Rameez Asif (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kinan Ghanem (University of Strathclyde & Power Networks Demonstration Centre, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Transfer Learning with Radio Frequency Signals
Scott Kuzdeba, Josh Robinson and Joseph Carmack (BAE Systems, USA)

A Blockchain-based Energy Trading Scheme for the Electric Vehicles
Mohamed Baza (Tennessee Technological University, USA); Ramy Amer (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Amar A Rasheed (Georgia Southern University, USA); Gautam Srivastava (Brandon University & China Medical University, Canada); Mohamed M E A Mahmoud (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Waleed Alasmary (Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia)

A Survey on Amazon Alexa Attack Surfaces
Yanyan Li, Sara Kim and Eric Sy (California State University San Marcos, USA)

Workshop: TCB6GN - IV