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	Thursday, 12 December 2019
8:45 ‑ 9:30 am	CISS9: Security & Privacy II	AHSN7: Learning I CISS7: Cloud Security I CISS8: Detection and Prevention CT6: Coding Theory and Practice GCSN4: Energy Efficiency in 5G, DCNs and HetNets MWN6: Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks MWN7: Power Control and Energy Efficiency NGNI7: MEC SAC IOT7: Routing, Resource Management and Access Control in IoT SPC7: Signal detection and estimation WC11: UAV Communications II WC12: Massive MIMO III WC13: Millimeter Wave II WC14: Machine Learning II
9:30 am‑9:45 am
9:45 am‑10:30 am	CSSMA6: Interactive Session-22 papers
10:30 am‑11:00 am
11:00 am‑11:45 am
11:45 am‑12:30 pm
12:30 pm‑2:00 pm
2:00 pm‑2:45 pm	SAC CCNS6: SAC CCNS Interactive Session	CISS10: Physical Layer Security II CT7: Multiple Access and Interference Management MWN8: UAV and UAV-Assited Networks MWN9: Internet of Things NGNI8: ICN NGNI9: NFV II SAC IOT8: LPWAN Technology II SAC IOT9: Localization and Tracking II WC15: Channel Modeling WC16: Machine Type Communications I WC17: Millimeter Wave III WC18: Stochastic Geometry WC19: Performance Analysis I WC20: Performance Analysis II
2:45 pm‑3:30 pm	MPS1: Merged Poster Session1-22 papers: EH-11, BD-11
3:30 pm‑4:00 pm
4:00 pm‑4:45 pm	MPS2: Merged Poster Session2-23 papers: GCSN-16, ONS-6, SPC-1	AHSN8: Learning II CISS11: Cloud Security II CISS12: Trust and Blockchain CT8: Distributed Processing and Caching MWN10: Vehicular Communication Networks MWN11: Edge Computing and Fog Computing MWN12: Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing NGNI10: NetAI NGNI11: UAV-Assisted Networking SPC8: Massive MIMO III SPC9: Spatial Modulation and MIMO WC21: UAV Communications III WC22: Machine Learning III WC23: Machine Type Communications II
4:45 pm‑5:00 pm
5:00 pm‑5:45 pm	MPS3: Merged Poster Session3-22 papers: AHSN-5, CRAEN-10, SN-2, SSC-5

Tuesday, December 10

Tuesday, December 10 11:00 - 12:30

AHSN1: Security and Privacy

AHSN1-5 papers

Room: King's 1

Chair: Xuanli Wu (Communication Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

Optimizing Location Quality in Privacy Preserving Crowdsensing: Yuhui Zhang, Ming Li and Dejun Yang (Colorado School of Mines, USA); Jian Tang (Syracuse University, USA); Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA)
Patients-controlled Secure and Privacy-preserving EHRs Sharing Scheme based on Consortium Blockchain: Shunrong Jiang (Jiangsu University, P.R. China); Haiqin Wu (University of Jiangsu, P.R. China); Liangmin Wang (Jiangsu University, P.R. China)
Secure Edge Caching for Layered Multimedia Contents in Heterogeneous Networks: Qichao Xu and Zhou Su (Shanghai University, P.R. China); Ying Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Kuan Zhang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
DENSE: Dynamic Edge Node Selection for Safety-as-a-Service in IoT: Chandana Roy (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Jhareswar Maiti (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA)
MmWave-MIMO Based 5G Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks in the Finite Blocklength Regime: Xi Zhang and Jingqing Wang (Texas A&M University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

CISS1: Networks Security I

CISS1-5 papers

Room: King's 2

Chair: Feng Lin (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

A Lightweight and Privacy-Preserving Authentication Protocol for Mobile Edge Computing: Kuljeet Kaur and Sahil Garg (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Georges Kaddoum (ETS Engineering School, University of Québec, Canada); Mohsen Guizani (University of Idaho, USA); Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody (National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia)
WiPIN: Operation-free Passive Person Identification Using Wi-Fi Signals: Fei Wang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China & Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Jinsong Han (Zhejiang University & Institute of Cyber Security Research, P.R. China); Feng Lin and Kui Ren (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
Covert Millimeter-Wave Communication via a Dual-Beam Transmitter: Mohammad Vahid Jamali and Hessam Mahdavifar (University of Michigan, USA)
Irregular Quadrature Amplitude Modulation for Adaptive Physical-Layer Security: Hunter Searle (Brigham Young University, USA); Marco A. C. Gomes and Joao P. Vilela (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Willie K Harrison (Brigham Young University, USA)
Robust Truth Discovery Against Data Poisoning in Mobile Crowdsensing: Zonghao Huang (Oklahoma State University, USA); Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA); Yanmin Gong (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

CQRM1: QoS, Modeling, and Peformance of 5G Networks

CQRM1-5 papers

Room: Kona 1

Chair: Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC, Japan)

The Impact of Traffic Information Age on Congestion Mitigation: Mehmet Dedeoglu (Arizona State University, USA); Te-Chuan Chiu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Junshan Zhang (Arizona State University, USA)
Self Organizing Feature Map for Fake Task Attack Modelling in Mobile Crowdsensing: Yueqian Zhang (University of Ottawa, Canada); Murat Simsek (University of Ottawa & Istanbul Technical University, Canada); Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)
End-to-End QoS Optimization for V2X Service Localization: Emmanouil Pateromichelakis (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Chan Zhou (Huawei European Research Center, Germany); Prajwal Keshavamurthy (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH & Universität Kassel, Germany); Konstantinos Samdanis (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)
Performance Analysis of Vehicular Optical Camera Communications: Roadmap to uRLLC: Amirul Islam, Leila Musavian and Nikolaos Thomos (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Performance Analysis using Physical Layer Abstraction Modeling for 5G and Beyond Waveforms: Waqar Anwar, Atul Kumar, Gerhard P. Fettweis and Norman Franchi (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

CRAEN1: Deep Reinforcement Learning

CRAEN1-5 papers

Room: King's 3
Chair: Juleds M. Moualeau (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Connected Vehicles: Dohyun Kwon (Chung-Ang University, Korea); Joongheon Kim (Korea University, Korea)
A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning based Spectrum Allocation Framework for D2D Communications: Zheng Li, Caili Guo and Yidi Xuan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning based User Association for Dense mmWave Networks: Mohamed Sana (CEA LETI Grenoble & University of Grenoble Alpes, France); Antonio De Domenico (CEA-LETI Minatec, France); Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Channel Selection and Power Control in D2D Networks: Junjie Tan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Lin Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), P.R. China); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Deep Reinforcement Learning based Traffic- and Channel-aware OFDMA Resource Allocation: Ravikumar Balakrishnan (Intel Corporation, USA); Kunal Sankhe (Northeastern University, USA); V S Somayazulu (Intel Labs, USA); Rath Vannithamby (Intel, USA); Jerry Sydir (Intel Labs, USA)

CSSMA1: Vehicular Communications

CSSMA1-5 papers

Room: Queen's 4

Chair: Marwane Ayaida (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)

Push vs. Pull Participant Recruitment System for Personalized Vehicular Crowdsensing: Tzu-Yang Yu, Xiru Zhu and Muthucumaru Maheswaran (McGill University, Canada)
Stochastic Optimization for Pricing-aware Multimedia Services in 5G Vehicular Networks: Tengfei Cao, Changqiao Xu, Zhongbai Jiang and Han Xiao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Lujie Zhong (Capital Normal University, P.R. China); Luigi Alfredo Grieco (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
Tree-based Intelligent Intrusion Detection System in Internet of Vehicles: Li Yang (Western University, Canada); Abdallah Moubayed (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Ismail Hamieh (National Research Council - Government of Canada & University of Windsor, Canada); Abdallah Shami (Western University, Canada)
Smart and Connected Scooter for People with Mobility Challenges: Kaikai Liu (San Jose State University, USA)
RFID-based Driving Fatigue Detection: Chao Yang (Auburn University, USA); Xuyu Wang (California State University, Sacramento, USA); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)

CT1: Low Latency Communications

CT1-5 papers

Room: Queen's 5

Age of Information Scaling in Large Networks with Hierarchical Cooperation: Baturalp Buyukates (University of Maryland, USA); Alkan Soysal (Bahcesehir University, Turkey); Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
Adaptive Coding for Information Freshness in a Two-user Broadcast Erasure Channel: Songtao Feng and Jing Yang (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
On the Age of Information of Short-Packet Communications with Packet Management: Rui Wang (University of Sydney, Australia); Yifan Gu (The University of Sydney, Australia); He Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Yonghui Li and Branka Vucetic (University of Sydney, Australia)
On Timely Channel Coding with Hybrid ARQ: Ahmed Arafa (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Karim A. Banawan (Alexandria University, Egypt); Karim G Seddik (American University in Cairo, Egypt); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
The Influence of CSI in Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications with IR-HARQ: Apostolos Avranas (HUAWEI France, France); Marios Kountouris (EURECOM, France); Philippe Ciblat (Telecom ParisTech & Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France)

GCSN1: Green Communication Systems

GCSN1-5 papers

Room: Queen's 6

Chair: Meng Li (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China)

Robust Beamforming Design for SWIPT-Enabled Hierarchical Cognitive Radio Networks: Meng-Jie Wang and Fan-Shuo Tseng (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Chun-Tao Lin (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan)
Joint Optimization of Control Law and Power Consumption for Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks: Zhuwei Wang, Yuehui Guo, Yu Gao, Chao Fang, Meng Li and Enchang Sun (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China)
Quasi-coherent demodulation of ambient FM signal backscatter: Santosh V Nagaraj, Nikhil Namala and Mahasweta Sarkar (San Diego State University, USA)
Robust Energy-Efficient Beamforming in MISO Networks With Dynamic Energy Consumption Model: Yang Lu and Ke Xiong (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Lan Zhang (University of Florida, USA); Pingyi Fan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Joint Precoding and Power Control in Small-Cell Networks With Proportional-Rate MISO-BC Backhaul: Yanjie Dong (The University of British Columbia & ECE, Canada); Md. Jahangir Hossain (Universtiy of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada); Julian Cheng and Victor C.M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada)

NGNI1: Mobile Networks

NGNI1-5 papers

Room: Kohala 1

Chair: Wei Wang (San Diego State University, USA)

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Opportunistic Networks: Salih Safa Bacanli and Damla Turgut (University of Central Florida, USA)
A Smart-Decision System for Realtime Mobile AR Applications: Siqi Huang, Linda Jiang Xie and Tao Han (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Efficient Steering Mechanism for Mobile Network-enabled UAVs: Hamed Hellaoui (Aalto University, Finland); Ali Chelli (University of Agder, Norway); Miloud Bagaa (Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering, Finland); Tarik Taleb (Aalto University, Finland)
Quality Aware Aerial-to-Ground 5G Cells through Open-Source Software: Francesco D'Alterio (Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy); Ludovico Ferranti (Northeastern University, USA & Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Leonardo Bonati (Northeastern University, USA); Francesca Cuomo (University of Rome Sapienza, Italy); Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)
On the Information Freshness and Tail Latency Trade-off in Mobile Networks: Abubakr O. Al-Abbasi and Ali Elghariani (Purdue University, USA); Anis Elgabli (University of Oulu, Finland); Vaneet Aggarwal (Purdue University, USA)

ONS1: Optical Network Optimization

ONS1-5 papers

Room: Kohala 2

Chair: Reza Nejabati (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Multi-Layer Network Optimization Efficiently Exploiting Real-Time Performance Monitoring: Daniela Moniz (Infinera & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Joao Pedro (Infinera Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); João Pires (Instituto de Telecomunicações & Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
Achieving Energy Efficiency and Performance with Auxiliary Graph Model in Elastic Optical Networks: Lucas Costa and André C Drummond (University of Brasilia, Brazil)
Optimization of Optical Aggregation Network for 5G uRLLC Service: Federico Tonini (Università di Bologna, Italy); Elisabetta Amato and Carla Raffaelli (University of Bologna, Italy)
P-cycle Design for Translucent Elastic Optical Networks: Rujia Zou (George Washington University & School of Engineering & Applied Science, USA); Suresh Subramaniam (George Washington University, USA); Hiroshi Hasegawa (Nagoya University, Japan); Masahiko Jinno (Kagawa University, Japan)
Increasing Capacity of the Clos Structure for Optical Switching Networks: Toru Mano and Takeru Inoue (NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan); Kimihiro Mizutani (Kindai University, Japan); Osamu Akashi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

SAC BD1: Big Data, Security, and Privacy

SAC BD1-5 papers

Room: Kona 2

Chair: Xiaoyan Zhu (Xidian University, P.R. China)

Multi-Keyword Search Guaranteeing Forward and Backward Privacy over Large-Scale Cloud Data: Li Gong, Hongwei Li and Guowen Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Xizhao Luo (Soochow University, P.R. China); Mi Wen (Shanghai University of Electric Power, P.R. China)
Targeted Poisoning Attacks on Social Recommender Systems: Rui Hu (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Yuanxiong Guo (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA); Yanmin Gong (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
DeepDDoS: Online DDoS Attack Detection: Zhenping Shi (Shanghai Jiao Tong University & SEIEE, P.R. China); Jie Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Chentao Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University & Virginia Commonwealth University, P.R. China)
PEFL: A Privacy-Enhanced Federated Learning Scheme for Big Data Analytics: Jiale Zhang and Bing Chen (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Hai Deng (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China)
Collaborative Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis with Differential Privacy: Danni Yuan and Xiaoyan Zhu (Xidian University, P.R. China); Mingkui Wei (Sam Houston State University, USA); Jianfeng Ma (Xidian University, P.R. China)

SAC CCNS1: Coded Data Storage

SAC CCNS1-5 papers

Room: Kona 3

Chair: Ahmed Hareedy (Duke University, USA)

Non-Stationary Polar Codes for Resistive Memories: Marwen Zorgui (University of California, Irvine, USA); Mohammed E. Fouda (University of California–Irvine, USA); Zhiying Wang (UC Irvine, USA); Ahmed M. Eltawil and Fadi J Kurdahi (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Babel Storage: Uncoordinated Content Delivery from Multiple Coded Storage Systems: Joachim Neu (Stanford University, USA); Muriel Médard (MIT, USA)
Hierarchical Coding to Enable Scalability and Flexibility in Heterogeneous Cloud Storage: Siyi Yang (UCLA, USA); Ahmed Hareedy and Robert Calderbank (Duke University, USA); Lara Dolecek (UCLA, USA)
Burst Erasure Correction by 2D LDPC Codes: Hiroshi Kamabe and Shan Lu (Gifu University, Japan)
Lossless Compression of Time Series Data with Generalized Deduplication: Rasmus Vestergaard, Qi Zhang and Daniel E. Lucani (Aarhus University, Denmark)

SAC EH1: Wireless sensors and WBANs

SAC EH1-5 papers

Room: Waikoloa 2

Chair: Andrea Sciarrone (University of Genoa, Italy)

2TM-MAC: A Two-Tier Multi-channel Interference Mitigation MAC Protocol for Coexisting WBANs: Xiaoming Yuan, Jiaxin Han and Jun Pan (Northeastern University, P.R. China); Kuan Zhang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Changle Li (Xidian University, P.R. China); Qiang Ye (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Real-Time Power Control of Wireless Chargers in Battery-Free Body Area Networks: Yinan Zhu, Xian-zhong Tian and Kaikai Chi (Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China); Chenyiming Wen (Zhejiang University Of Technology, P.R. China); Yi-hua Zhu (Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China)
Wearable eHealth System for Physical Rehabilitation: Ankle Plantar-Dorsi-Flexion Monitoring: Maria de Fatima Domingues (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Cátia Tavares (Department of Physics & I3N, University of Aveiro); Vasco Rosa (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Luis Pereira (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Nelia Alberto, Paulo André, Paulo Antunes and Ayman Radwan (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Physical Activity Sensing via Stand-Alone WiFi Device: Wenda Li (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Robert J Piechocki (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Karl Woodbridge (University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kevin Chetty (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Towards IoT-based eHealth Services: a Smart Prototype System for Home Rehabilitation: Igor Bisio, Chiara Garibotto, Fabio Lavagetto and Andrea Sciarrone (University of Genoa, Italy)

Tuesday, December 10 11:00 - 11:45

SAC IOT1: Interactive Session-22 papers

SAC IOT_interactive session-22 papers

Room: Grand Promenade
Chair: Sudhir Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India)

Energy Efficient UAV Placement for Multiple Users in IoT Networks: Ankur Pandey, Deepali Kushwaha and Sudhir Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India)
Towards a centralized route management solution for autonomous vehicles: Jorge Luis Zambrano-Martinez (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Carlos T. Calafate (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); David Soler (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Juan-Carlos Cano (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
On the Pedestrian Flow Analysis Through Passive WiFi Sensing: Baoqi Huang and Xiangyu Li (Inner Mongolia University, P.R. China); Guoqiang Mao (The University of Technology Sydney Data 61, Australia); Bing Jia (Inner Mongolia University, P.R. China); Wuyungerile Li (School of Computer Science, P.R. China)
Dynamic VNF Chains Placement for Mobile IoT Applications: Gao Zheng, Anthony Tsiopoulos and Vasilis Friderikos (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Multi-UAV Data Collection Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks: Safwan Alfattani (University of Ottawa, Canada & King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia); Wael Jaafar and Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada); Abbas Yongacoglu (University of Ottawa, Canada)
An Ensemble Model for Short-Term Traffic Prediction in Smart City Transportation System: Ge Zheng, Wei Koong Chai and Vasilios Katos (Bournemouth University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Markov Model Approach for Managing Switched Antenna Diversity: Sakil Chowdhury (University of Mississippi & University of Vermont, USA); Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon & LIA/CERI, France)
Data Freshness Based AUV Path Planning for UWSN in the Internet of Underwater Things: Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan (Kyungpook National University, Korea); Yalew Zelalem Jembre (Keimyung University, Korea); Syed Hassan Ahmed (Georgia Southern University, USA); Junho Seo and Dongkyun Kim (Kyungpook National University, Korea)
Preservation in Smart Libraries: an Experiment involving IoT and Indoor Environmental Sensing: Silvia Mirri (University of Bologna, Italy); Lorenzo Monti (Università di Bologna, Italy); Catia Prandi (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute & University of Bologna, Italy); Paola Salomoni (University of Bologna, Italy)
A Multi-Grouped LS-SVM Method for Short-term Urban Traffic Flow Prediction: Fei Liu, Zhengsheng Huang, Yang Lu and Xuegang Hu (Hefei University of Technology, P.R. China); Lei Shi (HeFei University of Technology, P.R. China); Zhenchun Wei (Hefei University of Technology, P.R. China)
Improving temperature control in smart buildings based in IoT network slicing technique: Roberto Casado-Vara, Fernando de la Prieta and Javier Prieto (University of Salamanca, Spain); Juan Corchado (Universidad de Salamaca, Spain)
PTC: Pick-Test-Choose to Place Containerized Micro-services in IoT: Shubha Brata Nath (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Subhrendu Chattopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Raja Karmakar (Techno India College of Technology, India); Sourav Kanti Addya (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Soumya Ghosh (IIT Kharagpur, India)
VANET-based Smart Navigation for Vehicle Crowds: FIFA World Cup 2022 Case Study: Ahmed Elbery and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada); Nizar Zorba (Qatar University, Qatar); Hesham Rakha (Virginia Tech, USA)
Clock Synchronization Using Linear Programming, Multicasts, and Temperature Compensation: Henning Puttnies, Eike Schweissguth and Dirk Timmermann (University of Rostock, Germany); Joerg Schacht (Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany)
Differentially Private Tree-Based Contextual Online Learning for Service Big Data Selection in IoT: Weiguang Zhao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan Hubei China, P.R. China); Mingxuan Chen, Difan Mu and Pan Zhou (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Kehao Wang (WHUT, P.R. China)
Energy Efficient Software Update Mechanism for Networked IoT Devices: Ngoc Hai Bui (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, University of Quebec, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (University of Quebec, Canada); Chuan Pham (Synchromedia Laboratory, Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Université du Québec, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)
Recurrent Neural Networks for Online Travel Mode Detection: Elton Soares (IBM Research, Brazil); Carlos Alberto Vieira Campos (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Hojjat Salehinejad and Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)
Novel Technique for Gait Analysis Using Two Waist Mounted Gyroscopes: Ahmed Nasr (Old Dominion University, USA); Tamer Nadeem (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Neighborhood Discovery Approach in WSN for Star Topology Using a Switched Beam Antenna: Guéréguin Der Sylvestre Sidibé and Michel Misson (Université de Clermont Auvergne, France); Marie Françoise Servajean (LIMOS, France); Raphaël Bidaud (Université de Clermont Auvergne, France); Nadir Hakem (Université du Québec en Abitibi Témiscamingue & LRTCS Research Laboratory Télébec in Underground Communications, Canada)
Destination Driven Computation Offloading in Internet of Things: Yunkai Wei, Jie Zhang, Ning Yang and Supeng Leng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Assessing the Integrity of Traffic Data Through Short Term State Prediction: Doaa Eldowa (Queens University, Canada); Khalid Elgazzar (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada); Taysseer Sharaf (University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA); Sumit Shah (CGI, Canada)
Quality Estimation Framework for Encrypted Traffic (Q2ET): Lamine Amour (Paris Est Creteil University, France); Van Tong (University of Paris Est Creteil, France); Sami Souihi (University Paris Est UPEC, France); Hai Anh Tran (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Abdelhamid Mellouk (UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France)

Tuesday, December 10 11:00 - 12:30

SPC1: Signal Processing for NOMA

SPC1-5 papers

Room: Kohala 3

Chair: Ranjan K. Mallik (Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, India)

Downlink Asynchronous Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Systems with Imperfect Channel Information: Xun Zou (University of California Irvine, USA); Mehdi Ganji and Hamid Jafarkhani (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Joint User Identification, Channel Estimation, and Signal Detection for Grant-Free NOMA: Shuchao Jiang (Fudan University, P.R. China); Xiaojun Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Xin Wang and Chongbin Xu (Fudan University, P.R. China)
Optimal Task Partition and Power allocation for Mobile Edge Computing with NOMA: Fang Fang (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yanqing Xu (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chao Shen (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Mugen Peng (Beijing University of posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China); George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Securing Massive MIMO-NOMA Networks with ZF Beamforming and Artificial Noise: Nam-Phong Nguyen, Ming Zeng and Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Max-Min Secrecy Rate for NOMA-Based UAV-Assisted Communications with Protected Zone: Zhisheng Yin and Min Jia (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Wei Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China); Nan Cheng, Feng Lyu and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)

WC1: Massive MIMO I

WC1-5 papers

Room: Kohala 4

Chair: Rui Wang (Southern University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks enabled Fingerprint Localization for Massive MIMO-OFDM System: Xiaoyu Sun (Southeast University, P.R. China); Chi Wu (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory， Southeast University & Southeast University, P.R. China); Xiqi Gao (Southeast University, P.R. China); Geoffrey Li (Georgia Tech, USA)
Beam-Selection-Based Statistical Beamforming for FDD Massive MIMO: Exploiting Spatial Reciprocity: Hang Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Xiaojun Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Spatial Channel Covariance Estimation for Hybrid mmWave Multi-User MIMO Systems: Jiadong Yu, Xiaolan Liu and Haoran Qi (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wei Zhang (The University of New South Wales, Australia); Yue Gao (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Machine Learning-Assisted Beam Alignment for mmWave Systems: Yuqiang Heng (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Learning-based Rate Adaptation for Uplink Massive MIMO with A Cooperative Data-Assisted Detector: Zezhong Zhang, Yang Li and Rui Wang (Southern University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Yifan Chen (University of Waikato & University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, New Zealand); Kaibin Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Tuesday, December 10 11:45 - 12:30

WC2: NOMA-Interactive Session

WC2_interactive session-22 papers

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Performance of Covariance-Aided CSI Acquisition with Non-Orthogonal Pilots in Massive MIMO: Alexis Decurninge (Huawei Technologies, France); Luis G. Ordóñez (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., France); Maxime Guillaud (Huawei Technologies, Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, France)
A NOMA-based Quantum Key Distribution System over Poisson Atmospheric Channels: Xiaojun Yu, Xiaolin Zhou and Chongbin Xu (Fudan University, P.R. China); Lingda Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Dailing Shen and Haitao Zhou (Fudan University, P.R. China)
On the Performance of Massive MIMO-NOMA Networks with Dual-Polarized Antenna Array: Arthur Sousa de Sena (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland); Daniel Benevides da Costa (Federal University of Ceara (UFC) & Area: Telecommunications, Brazil); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Pedro Henrique Juliano Nardelli (Lappeenranta University of Technology & University of Oulu, Finland)
A Block-based Non-orthogonal Multicarrier Scheme: Mehdi Ganji (University of California, Irvine, USA); Xun Zou (University of California Irvine, USA); Hamid Jafarkhani (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Distributed Fair Channel Access in NOMA Random Access Systems: Miao Qu and Jie Liu (Hanyang University, Korea); Jun-Bae Seo (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Canada); Hu Jin (Hanyang University, Korea)
Secrecy Fairness Aware NOMA for Untrusted Users: Sapna Thapar (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Ravikant Saini (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India)
Learning Based and Adaptive CE Approach for Power Allocation in Massive MIMO-NOMA: Daidong Ying and Feng Ye (University of Dayton, USA)
Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in Air-to-Everything (A2X) Networks: Tianwei Hou (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xin Sun and Zhengyu Song (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Yue Chen (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Low-Complexity Design of Massive Device Detection via Riemannian Pursuit: Xiaodan Shao, Xiaoming Chen and Rundong Jia (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
Diversity Analysis of HARQ-CC-Aided NOMA: Zheng Shi and Chenmeng Zhang (Jinan University, P.R. China); Yaru Fu (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Hong Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Guanghua Yang (Jinan University, P.R. China); Shaodan Ma (University of Macau, P.R. China)
Multi-Objective Optimization for Energy- and Spectral-Efficiency Tradeoff in IBFD Communication: Ata Khalili, Sheyda Zarandi and Mehdi Rasti (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Subchannel Assignment and Power Allocation for NOMA in Spatial Modulation Systems: Ji Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Yuanwei Liu and Zhijin Qin (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhao Chen (Columbia University, USA); Yingzhuang Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
Joint Optimization of Task Assignment and Power Allocation for NOMA-aided MEC Systems: Kaidi Wang (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Fang Fang (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Using Physical Layer Network Coding to Improve NOMA System Throughput with Energy Harvesting Users: Somayeh Khosroazad, Sonia Naderi and Ali Abedi (University of Maine, USA)
Active Pilot Contamination Attack Detection in Sub-6 GHz Massive MIMO NOMA Systems: Diluka A Loku Galappaththige (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA); Gayan Amarasuriya (Southern Illinois University, USA)
Multiple Relay-Aided Massive MIMO NOMA: Yikai Li (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA); Gayan Amarasuriya (Southern Illinois University, USA)
Effective-Throughput Maximization for Multicarrier NOMA in Short-Packet Communications: Jie Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Lin Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), P.R. China); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Shaodan Ma (University of Macau, P.R. China)
Outage Probability Analysis for Two-antennas MISO-NOMA Downlink with Statistical CSI: Shenhong Li and Mahsa Derakhshani (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chung Shue Chen (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Sangarapillai Lambotharan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Precoder Design for Two-User Uplink MIMO-NOMA with Simultaneous Triangularization: Aravindh Krishnamoorthy (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Resource Allocation for NOMA MEC Offloading: Jianyue Zhu (Southeast University, P.R. China); Jiaheng Wang (National Mobile Communications Research Lab, Southeast University, P.R. China); Yongming Huang (Southeast University, P.R. China); Fang Fang (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Keivan Navaie (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Joint User Pairing and Power Control for C-NOMA with Full-Duplex Device-to-Device Relaying: Phuc Dinh (Concordia University, Canada); Mohamed Amine Arfaoui (Concordia University & Texas A&M University at Qatar, Canada); Sanaa Sharafeddine (Lebanese American University, Lebanon); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Ali Ghrayeb (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar)
Task Offloading in NOMA-Based Fog Computing Networks: A Deep Q-Learning Approach: Kunlun Wang, Yong Zhou and Yang Yang (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China); Xiaojun Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Xiliang Luo (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)

Tuesday, December 10 2:00 - 3:30

AHSN2: Internet of Things

AHSN2-5 papers

Room: Queen's 6

Chair: Udo Schilcher (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)

iLoc: A Low-Cost Low-Power Outdoor Localization System for Internet of Things: Kang Hu, Yuhao Chen, Shibo He, Zhiguo Shi and Jiming Chen (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Zhen Tao (Alibaba Group, P.R. China)
Joint minimization of Transmission energy and Computation Energy for MEC-aware NOMA NB-IoT Networks: Liping Qian, Zhengying Zhu and Ningning Yu (Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China); Yuan Wu (University of Macau, Macao)
Reduced-Dimension Design of MIMO AirComp for Data Aggregation in Clustered IoT Networks: Dingzhu Wen (University of Hongkong, P.R. China); Guangxu Zhu (The University of Hong Kong, P.R. China); Kaibin Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Cooperative Relaying in LoRa Sensor Networks: Siddhartha Borkotoky (Lakeside Labs GmbH, Austria); Udo Schilcher and Christian Bettstetter (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Towards Optimal Synchronization Scheduling in Internet of (Heterogeneous) Things: Baofeng Zhou and Mehmet Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

CISS2: IoT Security

CISS2-5 papers

Room: Kohala 1
Chair: Yan Zhaoteng (School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Hidden Terminal Emulation: An Attack in Dense IoT Networks in the Shared Spectrum Operation: Moinul Hossain and Linda Jiang Xie (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Remote Fingerprinting on Internet-wide Printers Based on Neural Network: Yan Zhaoteng (School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Shichao Lv (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); YueYang Zhang (UCAS-IIE, P.R. China); Hongsong Zhu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Limin Sun (Institute of Information Engineering, China Academy of Science, Beijing, P.R. China)
Continuous Authentication for the Internet of Things Using Channel State Information: Boyao Yu (Xidian University, P.R. China); Chao Yang (Xidian University & Michigan State University, P.R. China); Jianfeng Ma (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Robust Blockchain for IoT Security: Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon & LIA/CERI, France); Sara Benouar (French University in Egypt, Egypt)
An efficient Privacy Preserving Computation of Multiset Intersection Cardinality: Harmanjeet Kaur and Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

CRAEN2: Dynamic Spectrum Access

CRAEN2-5 papers

Room: Kohala 2

Chair: Rodolfo Oliveira (Nova University of Lisbon, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Interference Analysis for Secondary Coexistence in Licensed Networks: Luis Irio (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal); Rodolfo Oliveira (Nova University of Lisbon, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Daniel Benevides da Costa (Federal University of Ceara (UFC) & Area: Telecommunications, Brazil)
Change Detection Based Segmentation and Modeling of LTE Spectrum Tenancy: Rui Zou (North Carolina State University, USA); Wenye Wang (NC State University, USA)
Blockchain-enabled Dynamic Spectrum Access: Cooperative Spectrum Sensing, Access and Mining: Yiyang Pei (Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore); Shisheng Hu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Feng Zhong (UESTC, Singapore); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Imbalanced Learning for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks: Lusi Li, He Jiang and Haibo He (University of Rhode Island, USA)
Gaussian Process Reinforcement Learning for Fast Opportunistic Spectrum Access: Zun Yan and Peng Cheng (The University of Sydney, Australia); Zhuo Chen (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia); Yonghui Li and Branka Vucetic (University of Sydney, Australia)

CSSMA2: Virtual Reality and Machine Learning

CSSMA2-5 papers

Room: Kohala 3

Chair: Anwar Haque (Western Ontario, Canada)

DNN-based Overhead Reduction for High-Quality Soft Delivery: Takuya Fujihashi (Osaka University & Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan); Toshiaki Koike-Akino (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Takashi Watanabe (Osaka University, Japan); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)
Head and Body Motion Prediction to Enable Mobile VR Experiences with Low Latency: Xueshi Hou (University of California, San Diego, USA); Jianzhong Zhang (Samsung, USA); Madhukar Budagavi (Samsung Research America, USA); Sujit Dey (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Edge-Assisted Learning for Real-time UAV Imagery via Predictive Offloading: Zhuosheng Zhang (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Laurent Njilla (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Shucheng Yu (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Jiawei Yuan (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA)
Optimal Transmission of Multi-Quality Tiled 360 VR Video by Exploiting Multicast Opportunities: Kaixuan Long and Chencheng Ye (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Ying Cui (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Zhi Liu (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Bandwidth Constrained Holographic Telepresence with 3D Model Reconstruction: Yu-Xian Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Chih-Hang Wang and De-Nian Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

CT2: Machine Learning for Communications

CT2-5 papers

Room: Kohala 4

Chair: Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Reinforcement Learning for Nested Polar Code Construction: Lingchen Huang (Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd, P.R. China); Huazi Zhang and Rong Li (Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., P.R. China); Yiqun Ge (Huawei Technologies Canada Inc., Canada); Jun Wang (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, P.R. China)
Deep Learning for Selecting Precoder Ranks: Hao Zhou and Michael Honig (Northwestern University, USA)
Deep Neural Network-Based Algorithm Approximation via Multivariate Polynomial Regression: Chunmiao Liu, Bowen Shi, Chenglin Li and Junni Zou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Yingqi Chen (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Hongkai Xiong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Deep Learning-Based Encoder for One-Bit Quantization: Eren Balevi (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Machine Learning meets Stochastic Geometry: Determinantal Subset Selection for Wireless Networks: Chiranjib Saha and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)

GCSN2: Green IoT and Cloud Networks

GCSN2-5 papers

Room: Kona 1

Chair: Mingqiang Zhang (Shandong University, P.R. China)

Long-Term Contract Design for Traffic Off-Loading in Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks: Min Wang (School of Network Education, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Biling Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Jung-Lang Yu (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Joint Optimization of Networking and Computing Resources for Green M2M Communications Based on DRL: Meng Li and Le Yang (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Wenjun Wu, Zhuwei Wang and Yanhua Zhang (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China)
Optimized Wake-up Scheme with Bounded Delay for Energy-Efficient MTC: Soheil Rostami (Huawei Technologies, Finland); Sandra Lagen (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Mario Costa (Huawei Technologies Oy (Finland) Co., Ltd., Finland); Paolo Dini (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University, Finland)
Compressive Sensing and Autoencoder Based Compressed Data Aggregation for Green IoT Networks: Mingqiang Zhang, Haixia Zhang, Dongfeng Yuan and Minggao Zhang (Shandong University, P.R. China)
A Reinforcement Learning Approach for D2D-Assisted Cache-Enabled HetNets: Jie Tang and Hengbin Tang (South China University of Technology, P.R. China); Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Kanapathippillai Cumanan (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shunqing Zhang and Yong Jin Zhou (Shanghai University, P.R. China)

MWN1: D2D Communications

MWN1-5 papers

Room: Kona 2

Chair: Ramon Aguero (University of Cantabria, Spain)

On Upper Bounds for D2D Group Size: David Griffith (NIST, USA); Aziza Ben Mosbah (NIST & Télécom SudParis, USA)
Preventing Malware Propagation in D2D Offloading Networks with Strategic Mobile Users: Letian Zhang (University of Miami, USA); Linqi Song (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Jie Xu (University of Miami, USA)
A Joint Scheduling Scheme for Relay-Involved D2D Communications in Cellular Systems: Ruofei Ma, Yujiao Zhu, Gongliang Liu and Bo Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Siyue Sun (Shanghai Engineering Center for Micro-satellites, P.R. China); Weixiao Meng (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)
Greedy Algorithm for Selecting D2D Mobile Relays under Cost Constraints: Rita Ibrahim (CentraleSupelec & Orange Labs, France); Mohamad Assaad (CentraleSupelec, France); Berna Sayrac (Orange Labs, France)
Incentive Mechanism and Relay Selection for D2D Relaying in Cellular Networks: Pavel Mach and Zdenek Becvar (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (EURECOM, France)

NGNI2: Smart Cities Support

NGNI2-5 papers

Room: Kona 3

Chair: Rohit Singh (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Dependence Control for Reliability Optimization in Vehicular Networks: Tengchan Zeng (Virginia Tech, USA); Omid Semiari (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)
Predicting the temperature dynamics of scaled model and real-world IoT-enabled smart homes: Jason Ling (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Sharare Zehtabian, Salih Safa Bacanli, Ladislau Bölöni and Damla Turgut (University of Central Florida, USA)
Multipath-assisted Indoor Localization: Turning Multipath Signal from Enemy to Friend: Ze Li, Zengshan Tian, Zhongchun Wang and Ya Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
CrowdSwitch: Crowdsensing Based Switch Between Multiple Cellular Operators in Subways: Zucheng Wu, Linghe Kong and Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Muhammad Khurram Khan (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
TWPalo: Through-the-wall passive localization of moving human with Wi-Fi: Jiacheng Wang, Zengshan Tian, Xiaolong Yang and Mu Zhou (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

ONS2: Optical Wireless Communication

ONS2-5 papers

Room: Waikoloa 2

Chair: Marco Ruffini (CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Dynamic FOV Tracking Receiver for Dense Optical Networks: Iman Abdalla (Boston University, USA); Michael Rahaim (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA); Thomas DC Little (Boston University & NSF Smart Lighting ERC, USA)
Radio over 50 km Fiber and Joint 80 m FSO/Wireless Links Using Photonic Frequency Doubling for 5G: Jan Bohata (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Jan Spacil (CTU in Prague, Czech Republic); Dong-Nhat Nguyen and Stanislav Zvanovec (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Luis Vallejo (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Beatriz Ortega (ITEAM Research Institute, Spain)
Time-Dispersion and Signal Attenuation Analysis of Underwater Optical Wireless Communication Links: Rubén Boluda-Ruiz (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar); Pedro Rico-Pinazo (University of Málaga, Spain); Beatriz Castillo-Vazquez and Antonio Garcia-Zambrana (University of Malaga, Spain); Khalid A. Qaraqe (Texas A&M University at Qatar, USA)
Optimal WDM Power Allocation via Deep Learning for Radio on Free Space Optics Systems: Zhan Gao (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Mark Eisen (Intel Corporation, USA); Alejandro Ribeiro (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
On Optically Pre-amplified FSO-MISO Non-identical Links with Correlation: Experiment and Analysis: Richa Priyadarshani (IIT delhi, India); Manav Bhatnagar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Jan Bohata and Stanislav Zvanovec (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Zabih Ghassemlooy (Northumbria University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

SAC MBMSC1: Molecular Communication Theory and Modeling

SAC MBMSC1-5 papers

Room: King's 1

Chair: Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada)

Calcium Signaling in Mobile Molecular Communication Networks: Peng He (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Tadashi Nakano (Osaka University, Japan); Dapeng Wu, Boran Yang, Hanyong Liu and Xiaojuan Han (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Linear Noise Approximation of Intensity-Driven Signal Transduction Channels: Gregory Hessler (Case Western Reserve University, USA); Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada); Peter J Thomas (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
Space Shift Keying for Molecular Communication: Theory and Experiment: Yu Huang and Miaowen Wen (South China University of Technology, P.R. China); Lie-Liang Yang (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chan-Byoung Chae (Yonsei University, Korea); Xuan Chen and Yuankun Tang (South China University of Technology, P.R. China)
Non-coherent Signal Detection Technique for Mobile Molecular Communication at High Data Rates: Chunfu Luo, Xia Wu and Lin Lin (Tongji University, P.R. China); Chao Wang (Tongji University, P.R. China & University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Fuqiang Liu (Tongji University, P.R. China)

SAC SGC1: Electric Vehicle Networks

SAC SGC1-5 papers

Room: King's 2

Chair: John Heron (Durham University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Smart Electric Vehicle Charging with Ideal and Practical Communications in Smart Grids: John Heron and Hongjian Sun (Durham University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Compensation of Charging Station Overload via On-road Mobile Energy Storage Scheduling: Nan Chen and Mushu Li (University of Waterloo, Canada); Miao Wang (Miami University, USA); Jinghuan Ma (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Reinforcement Learning for Smart Charging of Electric Buses in Smart Grid: Wenzhuo Chen, Peng Zhuang and Hao Liang (University of Alberta, Canada)
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Enabling Dynamic Pricing Policy for Charging Station Operators: Ye Han, Xuefei Zhang, Jian Zhang and Qimei Cui (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Shuo Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Energy Demand Prediction with Federated Learning for Electric Vehicle Networks: Yuris Mulya Saputra (University of Technology Sydney, Australia & Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia); Hoang Thai Dinh (University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia); Diep N. Nguyen and Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Markus Dominik Mueck (Intel Deutschland GmbH, Germany); Srikathyayani Srikanteswara (Intel, USA)

SAC SN1: Machine learning in SN

SAC SN1-5 papers

Room: King's 3

Chair: Jing Deng (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)

MemNetAR: Memory Network with Adversative Relation for Target-level Sentiment Classification: Yiwei Gao, Jianwei Niu, Xuefeng Liu and Kaili Mao (Beihang University, P.R. China); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Tweet beyond the Cage: A Hybrid Solution for the Privacy Dilemma in Online Social Networks: Aidmar Wainakh (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Tim Grube (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany); Jörg Daubert (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany); Carsten Porth (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Max Mühlhäuser (TU-Darmstadt, Germany)
Sentiment Analysis Using Naive Bayes Approach with Weighted Reviews - a case study: Brandon Joyce (UNC Greensboro, USA); Jing Deng (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)
EPPS: Efficient Privacy-Preserving Scheme in Distributed Deep Learning: Yiran Li, Hongwei Li, Guowen Xu and Sen Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
A Budget Feasible Mechanism for k-Topic Influence Maximization in Social Networks: Yuhui Zhang, Ming Li and Dejun Yang (Colorado School of Mines, USA); Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA)

SAC SSC1: Satellite Systems

SAC SSC1-5 papers

Room: Queen's 4

Chair: Ulrich Speidel (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Deploying Dynamic On-Board Signal Processing Schemes for Multibeam Satellite Systems: Vahid Joroughi (GomSpace, Luxembourg); Mirza Golam Kibria and Eva Lagunas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Joel Grotz (SES, Luxembourg); Sina Maleki (Ericsson, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Precoded Cluster Hopping in Multi-Beam High Throughput Satellite Systems: Mirza Golam Kibria, Eva Lagunas, Nicola Maturo, Danilo Spano and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Geographical NOMA-Beamforming in Multi-Beam Satellite-Based Internet of Things: Yazhou Zhu (UniBw, Germany); Thomas Delamotte and Andreas Knopp (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)
ZF-Based Beamforming for Wireless Powered Cognitive Satellite-Terrestrial Networks: Zhi Lin (Army Engineering University of PLA, P.R. China); Min Lin (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Tomaso De Cola (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Benoit Champagne (McGill University, Canada); Lee Swindlehurst (University of California at Irvine, USA)
Carrier Aggregation in Multi-Beam High Throughput Satellite Systems: Mirza Golam Kibria, Eva Lagunas, Nicola Maturo, Danilo Spano, Hayder Al-Hraishawi and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

SAC TI1: Tactile Internet

SAC TI1-5 papers

Room: Queen's 5

Riding the Waves: Decoding Asynchronous Multi-User MISO via Time-Variant Zero-Forcing: Robin Klose (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Germany)
Controlling Status Updates in a Wireless System with Heterogeneous Traffic and AoI Constraints: George J. Stamatakis (ICS-FORTH, Greece); Nikolaos Pappas (Linköping University, Sweden); Apostolos Traganitis (University of Crete & ICS-FORTH, Greece)
Mission Availability for Wireless URLLC: Tom Hößler (TU Dresden & Barkhausen Institut, Germany); Philipp Schulz (Barkhausen Institut, Germany); Meryem Simsek (International Computer Science Institute, USA); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
D2D Transmission Scheme in URLLC Enabled Real-Time Wireless Control Systems for Tactile Internet: Bo Chang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), P.R. China); Guodong Zhao (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhi Chen, Ping Li and Liying Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Remote Robot Control with Human-in-the-Loop Over Long Distances using Digital Twins: Ievgenii Anatolijovuch Tsokalo, David Kuss and Ievgen Kharabet (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany); Martin Reisslein (Arizona State University, USA)

Tuesday, December 10 2:00 - 2:45

SPC2: Signal processing for wireless networks

SPC2_interactive session-23 papers

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Chih-Peng Li (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)

An Efficient Scheme for Path Planning in Internet of Drones: Aditya Goyal and Nikhil Kumar (BITS Pilani, India); Amit Dua (Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, India); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody (National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia)
Traffic Measurement Optimization Based on Reinforcement Learning in Large-Scale IP Backbone Networks: Huizhi Wang and Laisen Nie (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Zhaolong Ning (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA); Runze Shang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
Optimal Pilots for Maximal Capacity of Secret Key Generation: Qiping Zhu and Yingbo Hua (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Node Selection Based on Equal-REB Contour for Wireless Network Localization Under Desired Accuracy: Yaping Zhu (Southeast University, P.R. China); Feng Yan and Weiwei Xia (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, P.R. China); Song Xing (California State University, USA); Yueyue Zhang (Southeast University, P.R. China); Lianfeng Shen (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, P.R. China)
Designing OCDM-based Multi-user Transmissions: Muhammad Shahmeer Omar and Xiaoli Ma (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Distributed Trajectory Design for Cooperative Internet of UAVs Using Deep Reinforcement Learning: Jingzhi Hu (Peking Univerisity, P.R. China); Hongliang Zhang (University of Houston, USA); Kaigui Bian and Lingyang Song (Peking University, P.R. China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Improving Simulation of Lognormal Sum Distributions With Hyperspace Replication: Gan Luan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Norman C Beaulieu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications BUPT, P.R. China)
LACSLE: Lightweight and Adaptive Compressed Sensing Based on Deep Learning for Edge Devices: Masatoshi Sekine and Satoshi Ikada (Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Japan)
Signal Design for AF Relay Systems using Superposition Coding and Finite-Alphabet Inputs: Bohai Li (The University of Sydney, Australia); He Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Zheng Dong (Shandong University, P.R. China); Yonghui Li and Branka Vucetic (University of Sydney, Australia)
Optimal Power Encoding of OFDM Signals in All-Digital Transmitters: Omer Tanovic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Rui Ma (Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, USA); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); Alexandre Megretski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Wireless Power Transfer Scheduling: Comparative Study of TDMA and SDMA under Harvesters Nonlinearity: Ali Bayat and Sonia Aissa (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada)
Two-Tier Ensemble Model for Demand Side Prediction in Smart Grid Environment: Taranveer Singh and Alakh Singh Sethi (TIET Patiala, India); Harpreet Singh (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India); Prashant Singh Rana (Thapar University Patiala Punjab, India); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA)
Ambient RF Energy Harvesting with Non-Linearities in Large-Scale Networks: Constantinos Psomas and Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Enhancing the Physical Layer Security of Dual-functional Radar-Communication Systems: Nanchi Su, Fan Liu and Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Deep Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Anomaly Detection: Chen Zhong, M. Cenk Gursoy and Senem Velipasalar (Syracuse University, USA)
Low-Bit Quantization Methods for Modulated Wideband Converter Compressed Sensing: Lap Luat Nguyen (University of Brest, France); Duy H. N. Nguyen (San Diego State University, USA); Anthony Fiche (University of Brest, France); Thang Huynh (University of California San Diego, USA); Roland Gautier (University of Brest, France)
Adaptive Multi-sensing in EH-WSN for Smart Environment: Vini Gupta and Swades De (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
Compressed Sensing of Wireless Signals for Image Tensor Reconstruction: Scott Fowler, Gabriel George Baravdish and George Baravdish (Linköping University, Sweden)
Minimum-Energy and Error-Rate for URLLC Networks Over Nakagami-m Channels: A Finite-Blocklength Analysis: Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA); Qixuan Zhu (Texas A&M University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Policy Sampling and Interpolation for Wireless Networks: A Graph Signal Processing Approach: Libin Liu and Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA)
Semi-Blind Joint Multi-CFO and Multi-Channel Estimation for GFDMA with Arbitrary Carrier Assignment: Yujie Liu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xu Zhu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China); Eng Gee Lim (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, P.R. China); Yufei Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China); Yi Huang (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Joint Estimation for Channel and I/Q Imbalance in Massive MIMO Via Two-timescale Optimization: Li Jia and Yinglei Teng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); An Liu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Vincent Lau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Random Access Performance for Three Coverage Enhancement Groups in NB-IoT Networks: Yan Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yansha Deng (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Maged Elkashlan (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Arumugam Nallanathan (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 10 2:45 - 3:30

WC3: Massive MIMO II-Interactive Session

WC3_interactive session-23 papers

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Dr. Rana Abbas (University of Sydney, Australia)

Channel Extrapolation in FDD Massive MIMO: Theoretical Analysis and Numerical Validation: François Rottenberg (University of Southern California, USA); Rui Wang (Samsung Research America, USA); Jianzhong Zhang (Samsung, USA); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)
Degrees of Freedom of Ray-Based Models for mm-Wave Wideband MIMO-OFDM: Matthieu Roy (Bcom & INSA Rennes, France); Stéphane Paquelet (B-com, France); Matthieu Crussière (IETR - Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Rennes (IETR) & INSA - National Institute of Applied Sciences, France)
3D Wideband mmWave Localization for 5G Massive MIMO Systems: Zhipeng Lin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China & University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Tiejun Lv (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); J. Andrew Zhang and Ren Ping Liu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Robust Learning-Based ML Detection for Massive MIMO Systems with One-Bit Quantized Signals: Jinseok Choi, Yunseong Cho and Brian L Evans (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Alan Gatherer (Futurewei Technologies, USA)
Random Pilot and Data Access for Massive MIMO Spatially Correlated Rayleigh Fading Channels: Junyuan Gao, Yongpeng Wu and Fan Wei (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Towards Higher Spectral Efficiency: Rate-2 Full-Diversity Complex Space-Time Block Codes: Anu Jagannath (ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, USA); Jithin Jagannath (Northeastern University & ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, USA); Andrew L Drozd (The Project FibonacciTM Foundation, Inc. & c/o ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, USA)
Cell-Edge-Aware Antenna Selection and Power Allocation in Massive MIMO Systems: Zaid Abdullah (University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Charalampos C. Tsimenidis (Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mahmoud Alageli (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Martin Johnston (Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Gaojie Chen and Jonathon Chambers (University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Early Acceptance Matching Game for User Association in 5G Cellular HetNets: Alireza Alizadeh and Mai Vu (Tufts University, USA)
5G Downlink Multi-Beam Signal Design for LOS Positioning: Anastasios Kakkavas (Munich Research Center, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH & Technische Universität München, Germany); Gonzalo Seco-Granados (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mario H. Castañeda and Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher (Munich Research Center, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Josef A. Nossek (TU Munich, Germany & Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil)
Performance of One-Bit Massive MIMO With Oversampling Under Adjacent Channel Interference: Ali Bulut Üçüncü (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Emil Björnson (Linköping University, Sweden); Hakan Johansson (University of Linkoping, Sweden); Ali Özgür Yılmaz (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
IQ Imbalance Aware Receiver for Uplink Massive MIMO-OFDM with Adjustable Phase Shift Pilots: Yan Chen, Li You, An-An Lu and Xiqi Gao (Southeast University, P.R. China); Xiang-Gen Xia (University of Delaware, USA)
Challenges in LoS Terahertz MIMO: Suresh Singh, Ha Tran and Thanh Le (Portland State University, USA)
Novel IQ imbalance estimation for wideband MIMO OFDM systems with CFO: Magnus Sandell (Toshiba TRL, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Evgeny Tsimbalo (Telecommunications Research Laboratory of Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Seifallah Jardak (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Daisuke Uchida (Toshiba Corporation, Japan); Koji Akita (Toshiba Corp, Japan); Daiki Yoda, Tamio Kawaguchi and Makoto Sano (Toshiba Corporation, Japan)
Online Downlink MIMO Wireless Network Virtualization in Fading Environments: Juncheng Wang (University of Toronto, Canada); Min Dong (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada); Gary Boudreau (Ericsson, Canada)
A 5G 24-30 GHz 2×32 Element Dual-Polarized Dual-Beam Phased Array Base-Station for 2x2 MIMO Systems: Hyunchul Chung, Qian Ma and Yusheng Yin (University of California San Diego, USA); Tumay Kanar and Samet Zihir (Integrated Device Technology, USA); Gabriel Rebeiz (UCSD, USA)
Enhanced Vector Perturbation Precoding based on Adaptive Query Points: Shanxiang Lyu (Jinan University, P.R. China); Zheng Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China); Bingo Wing-Kuen Ling (Guangzhou, P.R. China); Jinming Wen (Jinan University, P.R. China)
Bi-directional Training for FDD Systems: Hao Zhou and Michael Honig (Northwestern University, USA); Jialing Liu and Weimin Xiao (Huawei, USA)
Generalized Differential OFDM Index Modulation: Jiwook Choi and Namyoon Lee (POSTECH, Korea)
Spatial Data Focusing using Time and IQ Resources for Wireless Geocasting: Guylian Molineaux (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium); Sidney Jonathan Golstein (Sorbonne Université & Université Libre de Bruxelles, France); Michael Odhiambo (Sorbonne Université, France); François Horlin (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium); Philippe De Doncker (ULB, Belgium); Julien Sarrazin (Sorbonne Université, France)
Analysis of Worst-Case Interference in Underlay Radar-Massive MIMO Spectrum Sharing Scenarios: Raghunandan M Rao and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA); Vuk Marojevic (Mississippi State University, USA); Jeffrey Reed (Virginia Tech, USA)
MAP Joint Frequency and Channel Estimation for MIMO Systems with Spatial Correlation: Mingda Zhou (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Zhe Feng (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA); Xinming Huang (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Youjian Liu (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)

Tuesday, December 10 4:00 - 5:45

AHSN3: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles II

AHSN3-6 papers

Room: Kona 1

Chair: Dongfeng Fang (California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, USA)

UAV Assisted Spectrum Sharing Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications: Zheng Chu, Wanming Hao and Pei Xiao (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jia Shi (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Collaborative Computation Offloading at UAV-Enhanced Edge: Jingyu Xiong (Xidian University, P.R. China); Hongzhi Guo (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Jiajia Liu (Xidian University, P.R. China); Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan); Yanning Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
UAV Deployment Strategy for Range-based Space-Air Integrated Localization Network: Yue Zhao and Zan Li (Xidian University, P.R. China); Nan Cheng (University of Waterloo, Canada); Ran Zhang (Miami University, USA); Benjian Hao (Xidian University, P.R. China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Mobility Prediction Based Virtual Routing for Ad Hoc UAV Network: Menglei Jiang, Qixun Zhang and Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Wei Li (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Effective UAV and Ground Sensor Authentication: Xuening Xu, Chenglong Fu and Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Paul Ratazzi (Air Force Research Laboratory & SUNY Polytechnic Institute, USA)
UAV for Energy-Efficient IoT Communications: Matching game Approach: Safae Lhazmir (ENSIAS, Rabat IT Center, Mohammed University of Rabat, Morocco); Omar Ait oualhaj and Abdellatif Kobbane (ENSIAS, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco); Jalel Ben-Othman (CentraleSupélec & University of Paris 13, France)

CISS3: Physical Layer Security I

CISS3-6 papers

Room: Kona 2

Chair: Soorya Gopalakrishnan (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Robust Wireless Fingerprinting via Complex-Valued Neural Networks: Soorya Gopalakrishnan, Metehan Cekic and Upamanyu Madhow (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Secure Hybrid Beamforming with Low-Resolution Phase Shifters in mmWave MIMO Systems: Xiaowen Tian, Zihuan Wang, Hongyu Li and Ming Li (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Zhi Sun (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Power Allocation for UAV Swarm-Enabled Secure Networks Using Large-Scale CSI: Xuanxuan Wang and Wei Feng (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yunfei Chen (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ning Ge (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Minimization of Secrecy Outage Probability with Single-Antenna Uncoordinated Cooperative Jamming: Darui Hu, Pengcheng Mu, Weile Zhang and Qinye Yin (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Zongze Li (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Physical Layer Security of OFDM Communication Using Artificial Pilot Noise: Jinli Wu, Ronghui Hou and Xixiang Lv (Xidian University, P.R. China); King-Shan Lui (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Hui Li (Xidian University, P.R. China); Bo Sun (ZTE Cooperation, Xi’an, P.R. China)
Hybrid Entanglement Swapping for Satellite-based Quantum Communications: Hung X T Do and Robert Malaney (University of New South Wales, Australia); Jonathan E Green (Northrop Grumman, USA)

CQRM2: 5G Mobile Networks

CQRM2-6 papers

Room: King's 1

Chair: Konstantinos Fysarakis (Sphynx Technology Solutions AG, Switzerland)

Joint Drone Association and Content Placement in Cache-Enabled Internet of Drones: Jingjing Yao and Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
URLLC in Large-Scale Wireless Networks With Time and Frequency Diversities: Meifang Wu, Yi Zhong and Gang Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Changyang She (University of Sydney, Australia); Xiaohu Ge (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, P.R. China); Han-Chieh Chao (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan)
5G Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication for Factory Automation at Millimetre Wave Bands: Osama Al-Saadeh (Ericsson, Sweden); Kimmo Hiltunen (Ericsson Research, Oy L M Ericsson Ab, Finland); Kittipong Kittichokechai and Alexey Shapin (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Majid Gerami (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Henrik Asplund (Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB, Sweden); Y.-P. Eric Wang (Ericsson Research, USA); Gustav Wikström (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Joachim Sachs (Ericsson Research & Ericsson AB, Sweden)
Converged Analog Fiber Wireless Point-to-Multipoint architecture for eCPRI 5G fronthaul networks: Georgios Kalfas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Mauro Agus and Annachiara Pagano (Telecom Italia, Italy); Luiz Anet Neto (Orange Labs, France); Agapi Mesodiakaki (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece); Christos Vagionas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); John S Vardakas (IQUADRAT Informatica S. L. Barcelona, Spain); Eftychia Datsika (IQUADRAT Informatica S. L., Spain); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain); Nikos Pleros (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Two Time-Scale Resource Allocation in Hybrid Energy Powering 5G Wireless System: Yanhua He and Liangrui Tang (North China Electric Power University, P.R. China); Zhenyu Zhou (North China Electric Power University & Waseda University, P.R. China); Shahid Mumtaz and Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicac¸oes and University of South Wales, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Multi-cell MIMO Transceiver design for Mission-Critical Communication: Deepa Jagyasi (Telecom Paris-Tech, France & International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India); Marceau Coupechoux (Telecom ParisTech, France); Alaa Daher (Telecom ParisTech & ETELM, France)

CRAEN3: Performance Analysis and Optimization

CRAEN3-6 papers

Room: Kona 3

Chair: Daniel Benevides da Costa (Federal University of Ceara (UFC) & Area: Telecommunications, Brazil)

Model-free based Automated Trajectory Optimization for UAVs Toward Data Transmission: Jingjing Cui (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yansha Deng (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Arumugam Nallanathan (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Learning-Aided Realtime Performance Optimisation of Cognitive UAV-Assisted Disaster Communication: Trung Q. Duong (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Long D. Nguyen (Duy Tan University & Dong Nai University, Vietnam); Hoang D. Tuan (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia); Lajos Hanzo (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Federated Deep Learning for Immersive Virtual Reality over Wireless Networks: Mingzhe Chen (Princeton University, USA); Omid Semiari (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Xuanlin Liu and Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Performance Analysis of Multihop Cognitive WPCNs with Imperfect CSI: Nguyen Toan Van (Hongik University, Korea); Tri-Nhu Do (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao (Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Vietnam); Daniel Benevides da Costa (Federal University of Ceara (UFC) & Area: Telecommunications, Brazil); Beongku An (Hongik University, Korea)
Outage Performance of Full-Duplex Overlay CR-NOMA Networks with SWIPT: Quang Nhat Le and Nam-Phong Nguyen (Memorial University, Canada); Animesh Yadav (Syracuse University, USA); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada)
An OFDM Sensing Algorithm in Full-Duplex Systems with Self-Interference and Carrier Frequency Offset: Qingqing Cheng, Zhenguo Shi, Diep N. Nguyen and Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

CSSMA3: SDN and NFV

CSSMA3-6 papers

Room: Waikoloa 2

Chair: Abd-Elhamid M. Taha (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)

M-CRP: Novel Multicast SDN based Routing Scheme in CamCube Server-only Datacenter: Roua Touihri (Devoteam, France); Safwan Alwan (University Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), France); Abdulhalim Dandoush (ESME Sudria, France); Nadjib Aitsaadi (ESIEE Paris & Laboratory of Computer Science Gaspard-Monge - LIGM / CNRS (UMR 8049), France); Cyril Veillon (Devoteam R&D, France)
On the Design of a Flexible Architecture for Virtualized Network Function Platforms: Vinícius Fülber Garcia (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil); Leonardo Marcuzzo (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil); Alexandre Huff (Federal Technological University of Paraná, Brazil); Lucas Bondan (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil); Jéferson Nobre (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil); Carlos Raniery Paula Dos Santos (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil); Lisandro Z Granville (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Elias P. Duarte, Jr. (Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil)
Machine Learning for Performance-Aware Virtual Network Function Placement: Dimitrios M Manias (Western University, Canada); Manar Jammal (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Hassan Hawilo (University Of Western Ontario, Canada); Abdallah Shami (Western University, Canada); Parisa Heidari, Adel Larabi and Richard Brunner (Edge Gravity by Ericsson, Canada)
Toward a UTM-based Service Orchestration for UAVs in MEC-NFV Environment: Oussama Bekkouche, Miloud Bagaa and Tarik Taleb (Aalto University, Finland)
Dynamic Controller Placement in Software Defined Drone Networks: Mohannad Alharthi (Queen's University, Canada); Abd-Elhamid M. Taha (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
Is Mininet the right solution for an SDN testbed?: Olivier Flauzac (Université de Reims, France); Erick Mauricio Gallegos Robledo (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France); Florent Nolot (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne & CReSTIC, France)

Tuesday, December 10 4:00 - 4:45

CT3: Communication Theory and Networking

CT3_interactive session-22 papers

Room: Grand Promenade

Decoding Flash Memory with Progressive Reads and Independent vs. Joint Encoding of Bits in a Cell: Nathan S Wong (Physical Optics Corporation, USA); Haobo Wang, Ethan Liang, Sudarsan Vasista Srinivasan Ranganathan and Richard Wesel (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Secure Downlink Transmission to Full-Duplex User Against Randomly Located Eavesdroppers: Ishmam Zabir and Ahmed Maksud (University of California Riverside, USA); Brian Sadler (Army Research Laboratory, USA); Yingbo Hua (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Short Blocklength Priority-Based Coding for Unequal Error Protection in the AWGN Channel: Mohammad Karimzadeh and Mai Vu (Tufts University, USA)
Towards k-connectivity in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks under Pairwise Key Predistribution: Mansi Sood (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Osman Yağan (Carnegie Mellon University & CyLab, USA)
An Optimal Iterative Placement Algorithm for PIR from Heterogeneous Storage-Constrained Databases: Nicholas Woolsey, Rong-Rong Chen and Mingyue Ji (University of Utah, USA)
An Efficient Algorithm for Fully Distributed Sequential Change Detection with Bandwidth Constraints: Che-Fu Chu, Pin-Jui WU and Yu-Chih Huang (National Taipei University, Taiwan)
Linear Codes for Broadcasting with Noisy Side-information and Different Error Thresholds: Chinmayananda Arunachala (Indian Institute of Science, India); Vimal Gangwar (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); B. Sundar Rajan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Statistical and Machine Learning-based Decision Techniques for Physical Layer Authentication: Linda Senigagliesi, Marco Baldi and Ennio Gambi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
The Impact of Beamforming on Energy Correlation in mm-Wave Wirelessly Powered Networks: Na Deng (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Martin Haenggi (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Linear Network Coded Computation in Mobile Edge Computing: Long Shi and Kui Cai (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Zhen Mei (Singapore University of Technology & Design, Singapore)
Online Age-minimal Sampling Policy for RF-powered IoT Networks: Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA); Nikolaos Pappas (Linköping University, Sweden)
Optimal Power Allocation for DAS-OFDM under Joint Total and Individual Power Constraints: Bing Luo (University of Melbourne, Australia); Phee Lep Yeoh (University of Sydney, Australia); Brian Krongold (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Joint Block Length and Pilot Length Optimization for URLLC in the Finite Block Length Regime: Jie Cao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China); Xu Zhu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China); Yufei Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China); Yujie Liu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Fu-Chun Zheng (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China & University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Multiuser MISO Broadcast Channels with Imperfect CSI: Discrete Signaling without SIC: Min Qiu (University of New South Wales, Australia); Yu-Chih Huang (National Taipei University, Taiwan); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Outage Analysis of Multi-Connectivity over Correlated Rayleigh Fading: Yuhou Chen (Ericsson, P.R. China); Albrecht Wolf (Airrays GmbH, Germany); Meik Dörpinghaus (TU Dresden, Germany); José Cândido Silveira Santos Filho (University of Campinas - Unicamp, Brazil); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
A Transdimensional Poisson Model for Vehicular Networks: Jeya Pradha Jeyaraj and Martin Haenggi (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Finite-Blocklength Performance of Relay-Networks Over Nakagami-m Channels: Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA); Qixuan Zhu (Texas A&M University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
The Synergy of Edge and Central Cloud Computing with Wireless MIMO Backhaul: Xiaoyan Hu, Lifeng Wang and Kai-Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Meixia Tao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Yangyang Zhang (Kuang-Chi Institute of Advanced Technology, P.R. China); Zhongbin Zheng (East Institute of CATR of MIIT, P.R. China)
Fundamentals of Drone Cellular Network Analysis under Random Waypoint Mobility Model: Morteza Banagar and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
Age of Information Minimization for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach: Shiyang Leng (The Pennsylvania State University, USA); Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Optimal Joint Antenna Selection and Power Adaptation for Underlay Spectrum Sharing: Rimalapudi Sarvendranath (IISc, India); Neelesh B. Mehta (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Design of Irregular LDPC Codes without Markers for Insertion/Deletion Channels: Ryo Shibata, Gou Hosoya and Hiroyuki Yashima (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)

Tuesday, December 10 4:00 - 5:45

SAC ANS1: Access Networks/Systems & Power Line Communications

SAC ANS1-6 papers

Room: King's 2

Chair: Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan)

A Metamaterial-Inspired Small Rectenna for RF Energy Harvesting Based on A 3-Way Power Combiner: Abdel-Ghafour Abraray, Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq, Shahid Mumtaz and Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Otman El Mrabet and Abdelkirm Farkhsi (Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco); Jean-marie Floch (IETR-INSA Rennes, France); Pengbo Si (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China)
An Efficient Method To Monitor Downlink Traffic For 4G and 5G Networks: Tae Won Ban (Gyeongsang National University, Korea); Alankrita Bhatt and Young-Han Kim (UCSD, USA)
On Noise Correlation in Interference Alignment for MIMO Power Line Communications: Md. Jahidur Rahman (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.); Lutz Lampe (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Autonomous Model Update Scheme for Deep Learning based Network Traffic Classifiers: Jielun Zhang, Fuhao Li, Hongyu Wu and Feng Ye (University of Dayton, USA)
QoS-based Performance Analysis of mmWave UAV-assisted 5G Hybrid Heterogeneous Network: Muhammad Asim Jan (National University of Science and Tecchnology, Pakistan); Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Haejoon Jung (Incheon National University, Korea)
Prototyping Directional UAV-based Wireless Access and Backhaul Systems: Mikhail Gerasimenko, Jiri Pokorny, Jiri Hosek, Jakub Sirjov and Tibor Schneider (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Sergey Andreev (Tampere University, Finland)

SAC BD2: Big Data Processing

SAC BD2-6 papers

Room: King's 3

Chair: Qun Jin (Waseda University, Japan)

Deep Reinforcement Learning based Indoor Air Quality Sensing by Cooperative Mobile Robots: Tuochao Chen, Zhiwen Hu, Kaigui Bian, Lingyang Song and Xiaoliang Xiong (Peking University, P.R. China)
Adversarial Learning of Transitive Semantic Features for Cross-Domain Recommendation: Zhetao Li and Pengpeng Qiao (Xiangtan University, P.R. China); Yuanxing Zhang (School of EECS, Peking University, P.R. China); Kaigui Bian (Peking University, P.R. China)
Classification of TCM pulse diagnoses based on pulse and periodic features from personal health data: Kiichi Tago, Haidong Wang and Qun Jin (Waseda University, Japan)
Chasing Total Solar Eclipses on Twitter: Big Social Data Analytics in Once-in-a-lifetime Events: Yunhe Feng (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA); Zheng Lu (University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA); Zhonghua Zheng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Peng Sun (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Wenjun Zhou (University of Tennessee, USA); Ran Huang (Indiana University Bloomington, USA); Qing Cao (University of Tennessee, USA)
Dynamic Tuple Scheduling with Prediction for Data Stream Processing Systems: Xi Huang, Ziyu Shao and Yang Yang (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)
Robust Coreset Construction for Distributed Machine Learning: Hanlin Lu and Ming-Ju Li (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Ting He (Penn State University, USA); Shiqiang Wang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA); Vijaykrishnan Narayanan (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Kevin S Chan (US Army Research Laboratory, USA)

SAC CCNS2: Machine Learning for Networks

SAC CCNS2-6 papers

Room: Queen's 4

Chair: Zhiying Wang (UC Irvine, USA)

Two-Tier Resource Allocation in Dynamic Network Slicing Paradigm with Deep Reinforcement Learning: Guo Yang and Qi Liu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Xiangwei Zhou (Louisiana State University, USA); Yuwen Qian (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Wen Wu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
Neural Task Scheduling with Reinforcement Learning for Fog Computing Systems: Simeng Bian, Xi Huang, Ziyu Shao and Yang Yang (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)
Engineering a QoS Provider Mechanism for Edge Computing with Deep Reinforcement Learning: Francisco Carpio (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Admela Jukan (Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany); Roman Sosa (ATOS Research and Innovation, Spain); Anna Juan (Atos, Spain)
iABR: an Intelligent Joint Adaptive Bitrate Selection and Communication Resource Allocation in F-RAN: Shuai Li, Qi Wang, ShiMing Sun and Jienan Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
DeaPS: Deep Learning-Based User-Level Proactive Security Auditing for Clouds: Minjie Ou (School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Liming Wang and Hao Xun (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
A Learning-based Expected Best Offloading Strategy in Wireless Edge Networks: YiChen Wu (National TsingHua University, Taiwan); Dinh Quang Thinh (Trusting Social, Vietnam); Yaru Fu (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Che Lin (National Tsing Hua University & Institute of Communication Engineering, Taiwan); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

SAC EH2: Machine Learning for E-health

SAC EH2-6 papers

Room: Queen's 5

Chair: Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)

DNN-Assisted Sensor for Energy-Efficient ECG Monitoring: Tao-Yi Lee, Marco Levorato and Nikil Dutt (University of California, Irvine, USA)
A Congestive Heart Failure Detection System via Multi-input Deep Learning Networks: Shan-Hsuan Huang and Bei-Lin Chuang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Yen-Hung Lin and Chi-Sheng Hung (National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan); Hsi-Pin Ma (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
A Practical Cross-Domain ECG Biometric Identification Method: Huan Sun, Yuchun Guo, Bin Chen and Yishuai Chen (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
CNN-based Respiration Rate Estimation in Indoor Environments via MIMO FMCW Radar: Kohei Yamamoto (Keio University, Japan); Kentaroh Toyoda (A*STAR, SIMTech and Keio University, Japan); Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)
FMCW Radar-based Anomaly Detection in Toilet by Supervised Machine Learning Classifier: Wataru Takabatake and Kohei Yamamoto (Keio University, Japan); Kentaroh Toyoda (A*STAR, SIMTech and Keio University, Japan); Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan); Yohei Shibata (SoftBank Corp., Japan); Atsushi Nagate (Softbank Mobile Corp., Japan)
GraphConvLSTM: Spatiotemporal Learning for Activity Recognition with Wearable Sensors: Jindong Han, Yuan He, Juan Liu, Qian qian Zhang and Xiao jun Jing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

SAC IOT2: Blockchain in IoT

SAC IOT2-6 papers

Room: Queen's 6

Chair: Jian Zhen (IoTEdge Foundation, USA)

Capability-Based Access Control for the Internet of Things: An Ethereum Blockchain-Based Scheme: Yuta Nakamura, Yuanyu Zhang, Masahiro Sasabe and Shoji Kasahara (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
AI-enabled Blockchain: An Outlier-aware Consensus Protocol for Blockchain-based IoT Networks: Mehrdad Salimitari, Mohsen Joneidi and Mainak Chatterjee (University of Central Florida, USA)
Using Ethereum Blockchain for Distributed Attribute-Based Access Control in the Internet of Things: Mirei Yutaka, Yuanyu Zhang, Masahiro Sasabe and Shoji Kasahara (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Performance Evaluation of Big Data Processing at the Edge for IoT-Blockchain Applications: Zi Ee Lee, Raphael Chua and Sye Loong Keoh (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yoshihiro Ohba (Kioxia Corporation, Japan)
A Novel Two-Layer Decentralized Ledger Architecture for Internet Of Things: Jian Zhen (IOTEDGE FOUNDATION)
Multi-batch Scheduling for Improving Performance of Hyperledger Fabric based IoT Applications: Hyojung Lee, Changsuk Yoon, Sangji Bae, Sangwon Lee, Kyusang Lee, Sangjun Kang, Kiwoon Sung and Seungjai Min (Samsung SDS, Korea)

SAC MBMSC2: Applications of Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks

SAC MBMSC2-6 papers

Room: Kohala 1

Chair: Chan-Byoung Chae (Yonsei University, Korea)

Characterizing communication Properties of Mechanosensitive Signals: Hamdan Awan (York University, Canada); Raviraj Adve (University of Toronto, Canada); Nigel Wallbridge and Carrol Plummer (Vivent SaRL, Switzerland); Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada)
Mutual Information and Noise Distributions of Molecular Signals using Laser Induced Fluorescence: Mahmoud Abbaszadeh (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Weiqiu Li (Tongji University, Shanghai, P.R. China); Lin Lin (Tongji University, P.R. China); Iain White (School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Petr Denissenko (University of Warwick & Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Peter Thomas (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Weisi Guo (University of Warwick & Alan Turing Institute, Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Channel Model for Spiking Neural Networks by Down-Scaling Impulse Radio MIMO Model: Yasunao Katayama (IBM Research - Tokyo, Japan)
Expected Density of Cooperative Bacteria in a 2D Quorum Sensing Based Molecular Communication System: Yuting Fang (Australian National University, Australia); Adam Noel (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada); Nan Yang (The Australian National University, Australia)
Modeling and Reducing Idling Energy Consumption in Energy Harvesting Terahertz Nanonetworks: Filip Lemic (University of Antwerpen - imec, Belgium); Johann M. Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen & IMEC, Belgium); Jeroen Famaey (University of Antwerp & Imec, Belgium)
Exploring the Impact of Ligand Residence Time on Molecular Communication System Performance: Uche Kennedy Okonkwo (University of Pretoria, South Africa); Athanasios V. Vasilakos (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden); Reza Malekian and Bodhaswar TJ Maharaj (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

SAC SGC2: Smart Grid Security

SAC SGC2-6 papers

Room: Kohala 2

Chair: Jun Yan (Concordia University, Canada)

A Replay Attack-Resistant 0-RTT Key Management Scheme for Low-Bandwidth Smart Grid Communications: Mumin Cebe and Kemal Akkaya (Florida International University, USA)
Towards a Customized Resiliency Framework for Smart Grid: Yaser Al Mtawa (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Anwar Haque (Western Ontario, Canada); Hanan Lutfiyya (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Who's Scanning Our Smart Grid? Empirical Study on Honeypot Data: Daisuke Mashima, Yuan Li and Binbin Chen (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore)
Vulnerability Assessment of Social-Smart Grids: An Algorithmic Approach: Lan Nguyen, Johnathan Smith and My T. Thai (University of Florida, USA)
FDI Attacks Against Real-Time DLMP in CPS-Based Smart Distribution Systems: Peng Zhuang and Hao Liang (University of Alberta, Canada)
Finding the Worse Case: Undetectable False Data Injection with Minimized Knowledge and Resource: Moshfeka Rahman and Jun Yan (Concordia University, Canada)

SAC SSC2: Satellite Networking

SAC SSC2-6 papers

Room: Kohala 4

Chair: Alaa Sabbagh (Lamar University, USA)

Inter-plane satellite matching in dense LEO constellations: Beatriz Soret, Israel Leyva-Mayorga and Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Pricing Mechanism Design for Data Offloading in Ultra-dense LEO-based Satellite-terrestrial Networks: Ruoqi Deng (Peking University, P.R. China); Boya Di (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lingyang Song (Peking University, P.R. China)
Rethinking TCP and UDP on shared satellite links: Ulrich Speidel (University of Auckland, New Zealand); Lei Qian (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Network Slicing Optimization for Integrated 5G-Satellite Networks: Tomaso De Cola (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Igor Bisio, Fabio Lavagetto and Giacomo Verardo (University of Genoa, Italy)
Virtualizing Nanosatellites in SDN/NFV enabled Ground Segments to Enhance Service Orchestration: Giuseppe Araniti (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Giacomo Genovese (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria & CNIT, Italy); Antonio Iera, Antonella Molinaro and Sara Pizzi (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy)
5G NR Communication over GEO or LEO satellite systems: 3GPP RAN Higher Layer Standardization aspects: Helka-Liina Määttänen (Ericsson, Finland); Björn Hofström, Sebastian Euler and Jonas Sedin (Ericsson, Sweden); Xingqin Lin (Ericsson Research, USA); Olof Liberg and Gino Masini (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Martin Israelsson (Ericsson, Sweden)

SAC-SN2: Theoretical aspects of SN

SAC SN2-6 papers

Room: Kohala 3

Chair: Yuanzhu Chen (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)

Learning Multiple Temporal Relational Network Embeddings via Graph Convolutional Network: Kecheng Xiao and Pengyu Zhao (Peking University, P.R. China); Yuanxing Zhang (School of EECS, Peking University, P.R. China); Yanzhou Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Kaigui Bian and Wei Yan (Peking University, P.R. China)
Two-level Index for Truss Community Query in Large-Scale Graphs: Zheng Lu (University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA); Yunhe Feng (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA); Qing Cao (University of Tennessee, USA)
Crowdsourcing with Heterogeneous Workers in Social Networks: Chao Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Haoran Yu (Northwestern University, USA); Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Randall A Berry (Northwestern University, USA)
Maximizing Influence on Social Networks with Conjugate Learning Automata: Chong Di, Fangqi Li, Kaiyue Qi and Shenghong Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
The Time Element of Temporal Networks: Ali Farrokhtala and Yuanzhu Chen (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada); Ting Hu (Memorial University, Canada)
Optimizing Social-Topic Engagement on Social Network and Knowledge Graph: Ya-Wen Teng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Yishuo Shi (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, P.R. China); Jui-Yi Tsai and Hong-Han Shuai (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Chih-Hua Tai (National Taipei University, Taiwan); De-Nian Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Tuesday, December 10 5:00 - 5:45

MWN2: Interactive Session 1

MWN2_interactive session-22 papers

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Guosen Yue (FutureWei Technologies, Inc. USA)

A Real-Time Solution for Underlay Coexistence with Channel Uncertainty: Shaoran Li, Yan Huang, Chengzhang Li, Thomas Hou and Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech, USA); Brian Jalaian (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Stephen Russell (United States Army Research Laboratory, USA); Benjamin MacCall (CCDC Army Research Laboratory, USA)
GRAB: Joint Adaptive Grouping and Beamforming for Multi-group Multicast with Massive MIMO: Tuyen X Tran (Rutgers University, USA); Guosen Yue (FutureWei Technologies, Inc., USA)
Backhaul-aware Uplink Communications in Full-Duplex DBS-aided HetNets: Liang Zhang and Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Improve Downlink Rates of FDD Massive MIMO Systems by Exploiting CSI Feedback Waiting Phase: Zhihao Tao, Tianyu Wang and Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
Traffic characterization of the MAC-PHY split in 5G networks: Alberto Martínez Alba, Jorge Humberto Gómez Velásquez and Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Priority based Buffer Management Technique for Opportunistic Networks: Sanjay Kumar Dhurandher (NSIT, University of Delhi, India); Jagdeep Singh (University of Delhi, India); Isaac Woungang (Ryerson University, Canada); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Reduced Multiuser-Interference for Vehicular VLC using SDMA and Matrix Headlights: Claas Tebruegge (HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA & Paderborn University, Germany); Agon Memedi and Falko Dressler (Paderborn University, Germany)
The impact of NR Scheduling Timings on End-to-End Delay for Uplink Traffic: Natale Patriciello, Sandra Lagen, Lorenza Giupponi and Biljana Bojovic (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)
Meta Distribution for Downlink NOMA in Cellular Networks with 3GPP-inspired User Ranking: Praful Deolal Mankar and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
Enhancement of Motion Feedback Latency for Wireless Virtual Reality in IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Dang Tai Tan, Sanghyun Kim and Ji-Hoon Yun (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea)
Coordinated spectrum sharing framework for beyond 5G cellular networks: Jeongho Jeon, Russell Ford, Vishnu V Ratnam and Joonyoung Cho (Samsung Research America, USA); Charlie Zhang (Samsung Telecommunications America, USA)
Context-Aware Information Lapse for Timely Status Updates in Remote Control Systems: Xi Zheng, Sheng Zhou and Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
MiFi: Device-free Wheat Mildew Detection Using Off-the-shelf WiFi Devices: Pengming Hu and Weidong Yang (Henan University of Technology, P.R. China); Xuyu Wang (California State University, Sacramento, USA); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)
An effective routing with delay minimization for multi-hop wireless mesh network: Yuan Chai and Xiao-Jun Zeng (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Reliability and Local Delay in Wireless Networks: Does Bandwidth Partitioning Help?: Sanket Sanjay Kalamkar (INRIA Paris, France)
An adaptive activation scheduling strategy for a border surveillance network: Mohamed Lamine Laouira (USTHB, Algeria); Abdelkrim Abdelli (USTHB University- Algiers, Algeria); Jalel Ben-Othman (CentraleSupélec & University of Paris 13, France); Hyunbum Kim (University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA)
Connectivity Analysis for mmWave V2V Networks: Exploring Critical Distance and Beam Misalignment: Mumin Ozpolat and Osama Alluhaibi (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Erik Kampert (WMG, University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Matthew D Higgins (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Downlink Coverage Analysis of An Aerial User in Vertical Heterogeneous Networks: Nesrine Cherif (University of Ottawa, Canada); Mohamed Alzenad and Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada); Abbas Yongacoglu (University of Ottawa, Canada)
LTE is Vulnerable: Implementing Identity Spoofing and Denial-of-Service Attacks in LTE Networks: Teng Fei and Wenye Wang (NC State University, USA)
UDP++: Cross-layer Optimizable Transport Protocol for Managed Wireless Networks: Jens Heuschkel (TK / TU Darmstadt & TU Darmstadt - TK, Germany); Erik Fleckstein and Michael Ofenloch (TK / TU Darmstadt, Germany); Max Mühlhäuser (TU-Darmstadt, Germany)
Cooperative Vision-based Localization Networks with Communication Constraints: Fengzhuo Zhang, Kai Gu and Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Discrete Monotonic Optimization based Sensor Selection for TDOA Localization: Yue Zhao, Jia Shi, Zan Li, Benjian Hao and Xuan Xue (Xidian University, P.R. China); JiangBo Si (Xi'dian, P.R. China)

Wednesday, December 11

Wednesday, December 11 8:45 - 10:30

AHSN4: Vehicular Networks

AHSN4-6 papers

Room: Kona 1

Chair: Wei Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

Online Worker Selection Towards High Quality Map Collection for Autonomous Driving: Xiaofeng Cao and Yan Li (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Jiarong Han (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Peng Yang (University of Waterloo, Canada); Deke Guo (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Feng Lyu and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Analysis of the Uplink Local Delay in an MEC-based VANET: Yuying Wu and Jun Zheng (Southeast University, P.R. China)
A Vehicle-Assisted Data Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Enabled Vehicular Networks: Jiaqi Huang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Yi Qian (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA)
Towards Understanding of Bus Mobility for Intelligent Vehicular Networks using Real-World Data: Clayson Celes and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada); Antonio A.F. Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Edge Caching and Content Delivery with Minimized Delay for both High-Speed Train and Local Users: Meilin Gao and Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University & State Key Lab of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, P.R. China); Yong Niu (State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Wen Wu, Peng Yang, Feng Lyu and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Evaluating the Power of a DTN Link: Ricardo Lent (University of Houston, USA)

CISS4: Networks Security II

CISS4-6 papers

Room: Kona 2

Chair: Trung V. Phan (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany)

TSLS: Time Sensitive, Lightweight and Secure Access Control for Information Centric Networking: Qiudong Xia, Peixuan He, Kaiping Xue and Jiangping Han (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); David Wei (Fordham University, USA); Hao Yue (San Francisco State University, USA); Jin Qin (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Android Malware Detection Scheme Based on Level of SSL Server Certificate: Hiroya Kato, Shuichiro Haruta and Iwao Sasase (Keio University, Japan)
Q-MIND: Defeating Stealthy DoS Attacks in SDN with a Machine-learning based Defense Framework: Trung V. Phan and T M Rayhan Gias (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany); Syed Tasnimul Islam (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany); Huong Thu Truong and Nguyen Huu Thanh (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Thomas Bauschert (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
Protecting Privacy-Sensitive Locations in Trajectories with Correlated Positions: Bo Liu (La Trobe University, Australia); Tianqing Zhu and Wanlei Zhou (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Kun Wang (University of California, P.R. China); Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Ming Ding (Data 61, Australia)
3D Trajectory Optimization for Secure UAV Communication with CoMP Reception: Jianping Yao and Canhui Zhong (Guangdong University of Technology, P.R. China); Zhihan Liu (Data Information Department, P.R. China); Jie Xu (Guangdong University of Technology, P.R. China)
A Novel Multi-Path Anonymous Randomized Key Distribution Scheme for Geo Distributed Networks: Ashish Nanda and Priyadarsi Nanda (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA); Xiangjian He (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia); Deepak Puthal (Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

CQRM3: SDN and Network Virtualization

CQRM3-6 papers

Room: Queen's 5

Chair: Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)

HOMMO: A Hierarchical Flow Management Framework for Multi-Objective Data Center Networks: Kai Lei, Junlin Huang and Yu Li (Peking University, P.R. China); Fan Zhang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong); Hengky Susanto (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Bo Bai (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong); Gong Zhang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Jin Liu (Peng Cheng Laboraroty, P.R. China)
Delay Estimation in Fogs based on Software-Defined Networking: Daniela Casas-Velasco and William Villota-Jacome (University of Campinas, Brazil); Nelson L. S. da Fonseca (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Oscar Mauricio Caicedo Rendon (University of Cauca, Colombia)
Quantifying the Gain of Dynamic Network Slicing under Stringent Constraints: Alessandro Lieto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Ilaria Malanchini (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Anwar Walid (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Antonio Capone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Closed-Form Expression For The Resources Dimensioning of Softwarized Network Services: Jonathan Prados-Garzon and Tarik Taleb (Aalto University, Finland); Oussama El Marai (Aalto University, Espoo, Finland); Miloud Bagaa (Aalto University, Finland)
Ensuring High QoE for DASH-based Clients using Deterministic Network Calculus in SDN Networks: Oussama El Marai (Aalto University, Espoo, Finland); Jonathan Prados-Garzon, Miloud Bagaa and Tarik Taleb (Aalto University, Finland)
Participating-Domain Segmentation Based Server Selection Scheme in Successive Participation Scenario: Akio Kawabata (NTT, Japan); Bijoy Chand Chatterjee (South Asian University, India); Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)

CRAEN4: Deep Reinforcement Learning

CRAEN4-6 papers

Room: Kona 3

Chair: Omid Semiari (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA)

Performance Optimization of Federated Learning over Wireless Networks: Mingzhe Chen (Princeton University, USA); Zhaohui Yang (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA); Shuguang Cui (University of California, Davis, USA)
Mobility-Aware Centralized Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Resource Allocation in HetNets: Jie Liu, Xiaoming Tao and Jianhua Lu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Significant Sampling for Shortest Path Routing: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Solution: Arman Rezaee (MIT, USA); Yulin Shao and Soung Chang Liew (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Vincent Chan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
DeepAuto: A Hierarchical Deep Learning Framework for Real-Time prediction in Cellular Networks: Abhijeet Bhorkar (At&t, USA); Ke Zhang (AT&T Labs, USA); Jin Wang (AT&T, USA)
Intelligent User Association for Symbiotic Radio Networks using Deep Reinforcement Learning: Qianqian Zhang and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Reinforcement-Learning-Based Optimization for Content Delivery Policy in Cache-Enabled HetNets: Zhaojun Nan, Yunjian Jia, Zhengchuan Chen and Liang Liang (Chongqing University, P.R. China)

CSSMA4: Video Streaming

CSSMA4-6 papers

Room: Waikoloa 2

Chair: Carl James Debono (University of Malta, Malta)

Similarity-guided Multimedia Recommendation in Heterogeneous Information Network: Jun Tao, Xiaoyan Li, Jinghao Li, Qian Fang, Zuyan Wang and Fei Tong (Southeast University, P.R. China)
Delay-Aware Adaptive Wireless Video Streaming in Edge Computing Assisted Ultra-Dense Networks: Liang Li and Ronghui Hou (Xidian University, P.R. China); Ruoguang Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Hui Li (Xidian University, P.R. China); Miao Pan and Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
A Real-time 4K HEVC Multi-Channel Encoding System with Content-Aware Bitrate Control: Daisuke Kobayashi (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan); Ken Nakamura (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, NTT Corporatoin, Japan); Tatsuya Osawa, Yuya Omori, Takayuki Onishi and Hiroe Iwasaki (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan)
Transcoding Resources Forecasting and Reservation for Crowdsourced Live Streaming: Fatima Haouari, Emna Baccour, Aiman Erbad and Amr Mohamed (Qatar University, Qatar); Mohsen Guizani (University of Idaho, USA)
Fastconv: Fast Learning based Adaptive BitRate Algorithm for Video Streaming: Linghui Meng, Fangyu Zhang, Lei Bo, Hancheng Lu, Jin Qin and Jiangping Han (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Toward Practical Anticipatory Video Delivery for the Internet-of-Vehicles: Hatem Abouzeid (Ericsson Canada, Canada); Ramy Atawia and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada); Aboelmagd Noureldin (Royal Military College of Canada & School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada)

Wednesday, December 11 8:45 - 9:30

MWN3: Interactive Session 2

MWN3_interactive session-22 papers

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Feng Yan (Southeast University, China)

Adaptive Content Placement in Edge Networks Based on Hybrid User Preference Learning: Lei Zhao (University of Victoria, Canada); Xiaolong Lan (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Lin Cai and Jianping Pan (University of Victoria, Canada)
Distributed Multi-Hop Traffic Engineering via Stochastic Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning: Pinyarash Pinyoanuntapong and Minwoo Lee (UNC Charlotte, USA); Pu Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
An Efficient Freeway Driving Assistance Protocol in Vehicular Network: Maram Bani Younes (University of Ottawa & Philadelphia University, Jordan); Azzedine Boukerche and Rodolfo W. L. Coutinho (University of Ottawa, Canada)
A Neuromorphic Architecture for Disruption Tolerant Networks: Ricardo Lent (University of Houston, USA)
Design of Contract-Based Sponsorship Scheme in Stackelberg Game for Sponsored Content Market: Zehui Xiong, Jun Zhao and Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Ping Wang (York University, Canada); Yang Zhang (Wuhan University of Technology, P.R. China)
Incentivize to Build: A Crowdsourcing Framework for Federated Learning: Shashi R Pandey (Kyung Hee University, Korea); Nguyen H. Tran (The University of Sydney, Australia); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Yan Kyaw Tun (Kyung Hee University, Korea); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Choong Seon Hong (Kyung Hee University, Korea)
Delay-Aware Incentive Mechanism for Crowdsourcing with Vehicles in Smart Cities: Xianhao Chen (University of Florida); Lan Zhang (University of Florida, USA); Bin Lin (Dalian Maritime University, P.R. China); Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, USA)
Deep Learning based Speed Profiling for Mobile Users in 5G Cellular Networks: Illyyne Saffar (Nokia Bell Labs & Rennes 1 University, France); Marie Line Alberi Morel (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Kamal Singh (Telecom Saint Etienne / University Jean Monnet, France); César Viho (IRISA / INRIA Rennes & University of Rennes I, France)
Anonymizing communication in VANETs by applying I2P mechanisms: Tayeb Diab (UHA, France); Marc Gilg and Frédéric Drouhin (University of Haute-Alsace, France); Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace, France)
Fast Steerable Wireless Backhaul Reconfiguration: Ricardo Santos (Karlstad University, Sweden); Nina Skorin-Kapov (Centro Universitario de Defensa, CUD San Javier, Spain); Hakim Ghazzai (Stevens Institute of Technology & Stevens, USA); Andreas J. Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Data-Centric Scheduling for Minimizing Queue Length in Wireless Machine-to-Machine Networks: Hung-Yun Hsieh and Chih-Yen Su (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Proof-of-Concept of a SDN Based mmWave V2X Network for Safe Automated Driving: Zongdian Li, Tao Yu, Ryuichi Fukatsu and Gia Khanh Tran (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Kei Sakaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology & Fraunhofer HHI, Japan)
Energy-Saving Predictive Video Streaming with Deep Reinforcement Learning: Dong Liu (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jianyu Zhao and Chenyang Yang (Beihang University, P.R. China)
Adaptive Video Streaming in Software-defined Mobile Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach: Jia Luo (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunication, P.R. China); Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Qianbin Chen (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunication, P.R. China); Tang Lun (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Key Lab of Mobile Communication Technology, P.R. China); Zhicai Zhang (Shanxi University, Canada)
Maximizing Hit Ratio in Finite-Buffer Caching with Request Delay Information: An MDP Approach: Haiming Hui and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Computation Offloading in C-RAN: A Sequence Computation Model: Kun Guo, Min Sheng and Lijun He (Xidian University, P.R. China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Zhiliang Qiu (State key lab of ISN, P.R. China)
Deadline Scheduling in Energy Harvesting Networks: Competitive and Learning Algorithms: Zoubeir Mlika (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Elmahdi Driouch (Université de Moncton, Canada); Wessam Ajib (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Minimum Separation Clustering Algorithm with High Separation Degree in Ultra-dense Network: Yutong Xiao (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Xuanli Wu (Communication Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Wei Wu and Shuai Han (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)
On Dynamic Mapping and Scheduling of Service Function Chains in SDN/NFV-Enabled Networks: Junling Li, Weisen Shi, Peng Yang and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
A Dynamic Functional Split in 5G Radio Access Networks: Alberto Martínez Alba and Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Application of Flexible Numerology to Blockage Mitigation in 5G-mmWave Networks: Fadhil Firyaguna (Trinity College Dublin & CONNECT Centre, Ireland); Jacek Kibiłda and Nicola Marchetti (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Proactive Replication Scheme for Resilient Content Delivery in Software Defined Networks: Bala Krishna Maddali (USICT, Guru Gobind Singh Indrasprastha University, New Delhi, India); Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace, France)

Wednesday, December 11 8:45 - 10:30

NGNI3: Cloud Networking

NGNI3-6 papers

Room: King's 1

Chair: Alessio Botta (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)

Slice-Aware Capacity Expansion Strategies in Multi-Tenant Networks: Özgür Umut Akgül (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Ilaria Malanchini (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Antonio Capone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Low-complexity Flow Scheduling for Commodity Switches in Data Center Networks: German Sviridov, Andrea Bianco and Paolo Giaccone (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
A Deterministic Switch with Perfect Resource Utilization and Guaranteed QoS: Yang Huang (Zhejiang University & None, P.R. China); Bing Hu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Yan Wang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Qi Su (Huawei Technologies, P.R. China)
Understanding Multi-Path Routing Algorithms in Datacenter Networks: Zhenzao Wen, Linghe Kong and Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Muhammad Khurram Khan (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Minimizing Last-Minute Inter-Datacenter Backup with Risk-Awareness: Shrayan Das (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Kirtan Panda (NIT SILCHAR, India); Debarati Sen (Indian Instutute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Wasim Arif (National Institute Of Technology Silchar, India)
Characterizing Cloud-to-user Latency as perceived by AWS and Azure Users spread over the Globe: Fabio Palumbo, Giuseppe Aceto and Alessio Botta (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy); Domenico Ciuonzo (University of Naples Federico II, IT, Italy); Valerio Persico and Antonio Pescapé (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)

ONS3: Intelligent Optical Networks

ONS3-6 papers

Room: King's 2

Chair: George N. Rouskas (North Carolina State University, USA)

Distributed Online Resource Allocation using Congestion Game for 5G Virtual Network Services: Yu Bi, Monchai Bunyakitanon, Navdeep Uniyal, Anderson Bravalheri, Abubakar Muqaddas, Reza Nejabati and Dimitra Simeonidou (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Routing and Restoration in IP/MPLS over Optical Networks by means of Ant Colony Optimization: Kelvin Santos Amorim and Gustavo Sousa Pavani (Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Brazil)
On Detecting and Preventing Jamming Attacks with Machine Learning in Optical Networks: Mounir Bensalem (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Sandeep Kumar Singh (German Aerospace Center (DLR) & TU Braunschweig, Germany); Admela Jukan (Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany)
Centralized and Distributed Machine Learning-Based QoT Estimation for Sliceable Optical Networks: Tania Panayiotou (University of Cyprus & KIOS Research Center, Cyprus); Giannis Savva (KIOS CoE & University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Ioannis Tomkos (Athens Information Technology, Greece); Georgios Ellinas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Energy-Efficient BaseBand Processing via vBBU Migration in Virtualized Cloud-Fog RAN: Rodrigo Tinini (University of São Paulo, Brazil); Daniel M. Batista (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil); Gustavo Bittencourt Figueiredo (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy); Biswanath Mukherjee (University of California, Davis, USA)
Slice-Aware Service Restoration with Recovery Trucks for Optical Metro-Access Networks: Sifat Ferdousi (University of California, Davis, USA); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy); Sugang Xu (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Yoshinari Awaji (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan); Biswanath Mukherjee (University of California, Davis, USA)

SAC BD3: Big Data Networking

SAC BD3-6 papers

Room: Queen's 6

Chair: Ruidong Li (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

Big Data Prediction in Location-Aware Wireless Caching: A Machine Learning Approach: Yunzhe Qi (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhong Yang, Zhijin Qin, Yuanwei Liu and Yue Chen (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
DSIC: Deep Learning based Self-Interference Cancellation for In-Band Full Duplex Wireless: Hanqing Guo and Shaoen Wu (Ball State University, USA); Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth & College of Engineering, USA); Mahmoud Daneshmand (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Towards Big data processing in IoT: network management for online edge data processing: Shuo Wan, Jiaxun Lu and Pingyi Fan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Khaled Letaief (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Optimizing k-Collector Routing for Big Data Collection in Road Networks: Bay-Yuan Hsu (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Chih-Ya Shen and Guang-Siang Lee (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Yun-Jui Hsu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Chen-Hsu Yang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Chen-Wei Lu (National Tsing Hua, Taiwan); Ming-Yi Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Keng-Pei Lin (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
Machine Learning for Power Allocation of a D2D Network: Xian Liu (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA); Junxiu Zhou (Northern Kentucky University, USA); Changcheng Huang (Carleton University, Canada)
DIBN: A Decentralized Information-Centric Blockchain Network: Ruidong Li and Hitoshi Asaeda (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

SAC CCNS3: Task Offloading

SAC CCNS3-6 papers

Room: Kohala 1

Chair: Xiliang Luo (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)

Efficient Task Offloading with Dependency Guarantees in Ultra-Dense Edge Networks: Yunpeng Han, Zhiwei Zhao, Jiwei Mo and Chang Shu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
On the Optimality of Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Environments: Christos Anagnostopoulos, Dimitrios P Pezaros and Ibrahim Ahmed Alghamdi (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Task Offloading Strategy and Pricing Scheme in Fog-Enabled Networks: Fuqian Yang and Penghao Cai (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China); Hua Qian (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Xiliang Luo (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)
Learn to Offload in Mobile Edge Computing: Ting Liu and Zhaowei Zhu (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China); Junrong Gu (Nokia Bell Labs, P.R. China); Xiliang Luo (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)
Deep Neural Network Task Partitioning and Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing: Mingjin Gao (The Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Wenqi Cui and Di Gao (the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, P.R. China); Rujing Shen (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Jun Li (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Yiqing Zhou (Chinese Academy of Science, P.R. China)
Dynamic Task Offloading in Multi-Agent Mobile Edge Computing Networks: Javad Heydari, Viswanath Ganapathy and Mohak Shah (LG Electronics USA, USA)

SAC IOT3: Security and Privacy in IoT

SAC IOT3-6 papers

Room: Kohala 2

Chair: Kuljeet Kaur (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

A Key Management Protocol for Secure Device-to-Device Communication in the Internet of Things: Mohamed Ali Kandi (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France); Hicham Lakhlef (Heudiasyc, University of Technology of Compiègne, France); Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah (Universite de Technologie - Compiegne, France); Yacine Challal (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Algeria)
LiSA: A Lightweight and Secure Authentication Mechanism for Smart Metering Infrastructure: Sahil Garg and Kuljeet Kaur (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Georges Kaddoum (ETS Engineering School, University of Québec, Canada); Francois Gagnon (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada); Syed Hassan Ahmed (Georgia Southern University, USA); Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody (National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia)
Securing IoT Delay-Sensitive Communications with Opportunistic Parallel Transmission Capability: Monette Khadr (University at Albany, SUNY, USA); Haythem Bany Salameh (Yarmouk University, Jordan); Moussa Ayyash (Univ, USA); Sufyan Almajali (Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan); Hany Elgala (University at Albany, SUNY & NSF Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications ERC, USA)
MISA: Minimalist Implementation of oneM2M Security Architecture for Constrained IoT Devices: Bilal Imran (University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan); Bilal Afzal (University of Engineering and Technology Lahore & National Centre for Cyber Security, Air University Islamabad, Pakistan); Ali Hammad Akbar (Ajou University, Korea); Ahsan Muhammad (University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan); Ghalib Asadullah Shah (University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan)
PIDIoT: Probabilistic Intrusion Detection for the Internet-Of-Things: Maximilian A Zinkus (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Foaad Khosmood (Cal Poly, USA); Bruce DeBruhl (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA)
ORIOT: A Source Location Privacy System for Resource Constrained IoT Devices: Clemens Lachner (Technical University of Vienna, Austria); Thomas Rausch (Technical Unversity of Vienna, Austria); Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

SAC SSC3: Satellite Communications

SAC SSC3-6 papers

Room: Kohala 4

Chair: Jules M. Moualeu (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

A two-channel constrained power inversion algorithm for the Beidou Navigation Satellite System: Yiheng Jin, Hao Zhang, Tingting Lu and Hua Yang (Ocean University of China, P.R. China); T. Aaron Gulliver (University of Victoria, Canada)
Joint Scheduling and Precoding for Frame-Based Multigroup Multicasting in Satellite Communications: Ashok Bandi (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
A Throughput Model of TCP-FSO/ADFR for Free-Space Optical Satellite Communications: Yohei Hasegawa, Toshiharu Ito, Yoshimasa Ono and Manabu Arikawa (NEC Corporation, Japan)
Detecting Orbital Angular Momentum of Light in Satellite-to-Ground Quantum Communications: Ziqing Wang and Robert Malaney (University of New South Wales, Australia); Jonathan E Green (Northrop Grumman, USA)
Total degradation of a DVB-S2 satellite system with analog transparent optical feeder link: Alexis Alfredo Dowhuszko (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Alberto Mengali and Pantelis-Daniel Arapoglou (European Space Agency, The Netherlands); Ana Pérez-Neira (CTTC, Spain)
Energy-Efficient Collaborative Data Downloading by Using Inter-Satellite Offloading: Manqing Zhang and Wuyang Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

SAC-SN3: Social aspects of VANETs and applications

SAC SN3-6 papers

Room: Kohala 3

Chair: Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)

Multi-Access Edge Computing-Assisted D2D Streaming for Proximity-Based Social Networking: Shun-Ren Yang (NTHU, Taiwan); Chang-Jung Shih (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Phone Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Influence Propagation with Multiple Stages over Random Multiplex Networks: Yong Zhuang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Osman Yağan (Carnegie Mellon University & CyLab, USA)
Data Offloading for Mobile Crowdsensing in Opportunistic Social Networks: Wei Gong (University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Xiaoyao Huang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Canada); Guanglun Huang (The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Baoxian Zhang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Cheng Li (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Optimal Proactive Caching in VANETs for Social Networking: Sherin Abdelhamid (Queen's University & Ain Shams University, Canada); Sara A. Elsayed and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
Risk-aware Social Cloud Computing based on Serverless Computing Model: Pavlos Athanasios Apostolopoulos (The University of New Mexico, USA); Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Autonomous Vehicle Dispatching for Person Evacuation: Xin Liu, Yangming Zhao and Chunming Qiao (University at Buffalo, USA)

SPC3: Massive MIMO I

SPC3-6 papers

Room: King's 3

Chair: Chenhao Qi (Southeast University, P.R. China)

Simultaneous Multiuser Beam Training using Adaptive Hierarchical Codebook for mmWave Massive MIMO: Kangjian Chen and Chenhao Qi (Southeast University, P.R. China); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada); Geoffrey Li (Georgia Tech, USA)
MM-Based Solution for Partially Connected Hybrid Transceivers with Large Scale Antenna Arrays: Aakash Arora (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Christos G. Tsinos (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
High-Resolution Hierarchical Beam Alignment with Segmented Beams: Junho Lee (Samsung, Korea); Hui Won Je and Inhyoung Kim (Samsung Electronics, Korea); Min Goo Kim (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Korea)
Generalized Bussgang LMMSE Channel Estimator for One-Bit Massive MIMO Systems: Qian Wan, Jun Fang and Zhi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Hongbin Li (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
A Two-Step Neural Network Based Beamforming in MIMO Without Reference Signal: Yuyan Zhao and Yanan Liu (Western University, Canada); Gary Boudreau and Akram Bin Sediq (Ericsson, Canada); Hatem Abouzeid (Ericsson Canada, Canada); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada)
Super-Resolution Spatial Channel Covariance Estimation for Hybrid Precoding in MmWave Massive MIMO: Yu Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China); Yue Wang and Zhi Tian (George Mason University, USA); Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Gong Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China)

WC4: Wireless Information and Power Transfer

WC4-6 papers

Room: Queen's 4

Chair: Saman Atapattu (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Energy Beamforming for Wireless Information and Power Transfer in Backscatter Multiuser Networks: Wenyuan Ma, Wei Wang and Tao Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
Robust Convergence of Energy and Computation for B5G Cellular Internet of Things: Qiao Qi (ZheJiang University, P.R. China); Xiaoming Chen (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Lei Lei (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China); Caijun Zhong and Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
On Energy Harvesting of Hybrid TDMA-NOMA Systems: Haitham Al-Obiedollah, Kanapathippillai Cumanan and Alister G. Burr (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jie Tang (South China University of Technology, P.R. China); Yogachandran Rahulamathavan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada)
Optimal Frequency-Selective Energy Beamforming with Joint Total and Individual Power Constraints: Bing Luo (University of Melbourne, Australia); Phee Lep Yeoh (University of Sydney, Australia); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Brian Krongold (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Resource Allocation in Dynamic DF Relay for SWIPT Network with Circuit Power Consumption: Bhathiya Pilanawithana (University of Sri Jayewardenepura & Faculty of Engineering, Australia); Saman Atapattu and Jamie S Evans (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Performance Analysis of the Unary Coding aided SWIPT in a Single-User Z-channel: Jie Hu and Mengyuan Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Liangyuan Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

Wednesday, December 11 9:45 - 10:30

NGNI4: Hot Topics in Networking-Interactive Session

NGNI4_interactive session-22 papers

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy)

LightVO: Lightweight Inertial-Assisted Monocular Visual Odometry with Dense Neural Networks: Zibin Guo, Mingkun Yang and Ninghao Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Zhuoling Xiao (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yan Bo (Fellow, P.R. China); Shuisheng Lin and Liang Zhou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
A Bandwidth-Efficient INT System for Tracking the Rules Matched by the Packets of a Flow: Shie-Yuan Wang, Yo-Ru Chen, Jun-Yi Li, Hsien-Wen Hu, Jia-An Tsai and Yi-Bing Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Self-adaptive Probabilistic Sampling for Elephant Flows Detection: Jun Tao, Yizheng Li, Zhaoyue Wang, Pengkun Xu and Cong Su (Southeast University, P.R. China)
Address Protection-as-a-Service An inter-AS Framework for IP Spoofing Resilience: Yihao Jia, Ying Liu and Gang Ren (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Parameter Modeling for Small-Scale Mobility in Indoor THz Communication: Rohit Singh and Doug Sicker (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Distributed Resource Allocation Schemes for Out-of-Coverage D2D Communications: Jian Wang (NIST, USA); Richard Rouil (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Fernando J. Cintrón (NIST, USA)
Cooperative Edge Caching in Fog Radio Access Networks: A Pigeon Inspired Optimization Approach: Chengyu Xia and Yanxiang Jiang (Southeast University, P.R. China); Mugen Peng (Beijing University of posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China); Fu-Chun Zheng (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China & University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Xiaohu You (National Mobile communication Research Lab., Southeast University, P.R. China)
Intelligent Active Queue Management Using Explicit Congestion Notification: Cesar A. Gomez, Xianbin Wang and Abdallah Shami (Western University, Canada)
Utility and A*-based Algorithm for network slice placement and chaining: Fred Aklamanu (Telecom SudParis & Nokia Bell Labs, France); Sabine Randriamasy (NOKIA Bell Labs, France); Eric Renault (Institut Mines-Telecom -- Telecom SudParis & Samovar UMR CNRS 5157, France)
Incremental Path-Selection and Scheduling for Time-Sensitive Networks: Abdullah A Alnajim, Seyedmohammad Salehi and Chien-Chung Shen (University of Delaware, USA)
Dynamic RF Allocation for Improved Service Provisioning in Wireless Virtualization Enabled Networks: Ashish Adhikari and Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)
BlockDNS: Enhancing Domain Name Ownership and Data Authenticity with Blockchain: Shoushou Ren (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Bingyang Liu (Huawei, P.R. China); Fei Yang (Beijing Huawei Digital Technologies Co., Ltd., Singapore); XinPeng Wei (Huawei Technologies, P.R. China); Xue Yang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Chuang Wang (Huawei Corporation, P.R. China)
A Novel Cloudlet-Dwell-Time Estimation Method for Assisting Vehicular Edge Computing Applications: Peng Sun, Azzedine Boukerche and Rodolfo W. L. Coutinho (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Power Back-Off Based Non-Orthogonal Random Access Scheme for Massive MTC Networks: Zihuan Yang and Yichen Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Zhangnan Wang (Xi`an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Dongyang Xu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Cloud database encryption technology based on combinatorial encryption: Meng Chen, Xiao Fu and Bin Luo (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (University of Idaho, USA)
Dynamic Mapping and Quality of Service Driven Re-Embedding in Virtualization Environment: Haotong Cao, Shengchen Wu, Qin Wang and Longxiang Yang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Deep Reinforcement Learning Application for Network Latency Management in Software Defined Networks: El Hocine Bouzidi (NOKIA Bell Labs, France); Abdelkader Outtagart (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Rami Langar (University Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
A Robust Network Traffic Modeling Approach to Software Defined Networking: Liuwei Huo (Northeastern University, P.R. China); Dingde Jiang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Houbing Song (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA)
SDN Security: Information Disclosure and Flow Table Overflow attacks: Aditya Patwardhan, Deepthi Jayarama, Nitish Limaye, Shivaji Vidhale, Zarna Parekh and Khaled Harfoush (North Carolina State University, USA)
Scalable and Balanced Policy Enforcement Through Hybrid SDN-Label Switching: Olufemi Odegbile, Shigang Chen and Youlin Zhang (University of Florida, USA)
A Mobile Cloud Computing Testbed based on Lightweight Virtualization: Renan A Barbosa and Paulo A. L. Rego (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
Spatial-Aware Approximate Big Data Stream Processing: Isam Mashhour Al Jawarneh (University of Bologna & CIRI ICT, Italy); Paolo Bellavista, Luca Foschini and Rebecca Montanari (University of Bologna, Italy)

Wednesday, December 11 2:00 - 3:30

AHSN5: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles I

AHSN5-5 papers

Room: Kohala 1

Chair: Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, P.R. China)

Interference Avoidance in UAV-Assisted Networks: Joint 3D Trajectory Design and Power Allocation: Ali Rahmati, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour and Yavuz Yapıcı (North Carolina State University, USA); Xiaofan He (Wuhan University, P.R. China); Ismail Güvenç (North Carolina State University, USA); Huaiyu Dai (NC State University, USA); Arupjyoti (Arup) Bhuyan (INL, USA)
A Cooperative Drone Assisted Mobile Access Network for Disaster Emergency Communications: Di Wu (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Xiang Sun (University of New Mexico, USA); Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Trajectory Planning for Multi-UAV Assisted Wireless Networks in Post-Disaster Scenario: Yu Lin, Tianyu Wang and Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
Trajectory Design of Laser-Powered Multi-Drone Enabled Data Collection System for Smart Cities: Yao Du (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Kezhi Wang (Northumbria University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Guopeng Zhang (China University of Mining and Technology, P.R. China)
Energy Minimization for Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks with UAV: Cheng Zhan and Renjie Huang (Southwest University, P.R. China)

Wednesday, December 11 2:00 - 2:45

AHSN6: Interactive Session-22 papers

AHSN6_interactive session-22 papers

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Feng Ye (University of Dayton, USA)

Effects of Resource Pool Size on Performance of Mode-2 LTE Device-to-Device Discovery: Collin D Brady and Sumit Roy (University of Washington, USA)
Localizing Backscatters by a Single Robot With Zero Start-up Cost: Shengkai Zhang, Wei Wang and Sheyang Tang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Shi Jin (Southeast University, P.R. China); Tao Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
Large Range Soil Moisture Sensing for Inhomogeneous Environment using Magnetic Induction networks: Zhangyu Li (University at Buffalo, USA); Zhi Sun (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Tarunraj Singh and Erasmus Oware (University at Buffalo, USA)
Sensing Aware Opportunistic Transmissions for Situation Monitoring in Industrial Network Systems: Ling Lyu (Dalian Maritime University, P.R. China); Cailian Chen, Shanying Zhu, Xiaojing Wen and Xinping Guan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
AdaptaBLE: Data Rate and Transmission Power Adaptation for Bluetooth Low Energy: Eunjeong Park, Myung-Sup Lee and Saewoong Bahk (Seoul National University, Korea)
Distributed DNN Based User Association and Resource Optimization in mmWave Networks: Haisen Zhang, Haijun Zhang and Wei Huangfu (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China); Liu Wei (China Mobile Group Design Institute Co., P.R. China); Jiangbo Dong (China Mobile Group Design Institute Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Keping Long (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China); Arumugam Nallanathan (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Malicious Link Detection in Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks: Yuan Liang, Yunhao Liu, Jian Ren and Tongtong Li (Michigan State University, USA)
On Influencing Factors in Human Activity Recognition using Wireless Networks: Haochen Hu, Zhi Sun and Lu Su (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Age of Information in Multiple Sensing: Alireza Javani (University of California Irvine, USA); Marwen Zorgui (University of California, Irvine, USA); Zhiying Wang (UC Irvine, USA)
User Equipment Localization and Victim Estimation with Next-Generation PSC in Emergency Response: Jiahui Yu and Feng Ye (University of Dayton, USA)
AP-Assisted Online Task Assignment for Mobile Crowdsensing: Shuo Peng (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Wei Gong (University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Baoxian Zhang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Cheng Li (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Grant-free Massive Machine-Type Communications With Backward Activity Detection: Han Xiao, Bo Ai and Wei Chen (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Scaling Law Based D2D Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks in the Finite Blocklength Regime: Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA); Qixuan Zhu (Texas A&M University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Neyman-Pearson Criterion Based Optimal Hierarchical Caching Over D2D Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks: Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA); Qixuan Zhu (Texas A&M University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
NOMA-Based Statistical QoS Provisioning for Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks With Finite Blocklength: Xi Zhang and Jingqing Wang (Texas A&M University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Loss-Aware Efficient Energy Balancing in Mobile Opportunistic Networks: Aashish Dhungana and Eyuphan Bulut (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Joint Optimization of System and User oriented Task Assignment in Mobile Crowdsensing: Fatih Yucel and Eyuphan Bulut (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Passive Underwater Event and Object Detection Based on Time Difference of Arrival: Zijun Gong and Cheng Li (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada); Fan Jiang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Queue-Aware Variable-Length Coding for Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications: Xiaoyu Zhao and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Crowdsensing-based prompt emergency discovery: a sequential detection approach: Rawan Fayez El Khatib (Queen's University, Canada); Nizar Zorba (Qatar University, Qatar); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
A Novel Data Collector Path Optimization Method for Lifetime Prolonging in Wireless Sensor Networks: Qiyue Wu, Peng Sun and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
A new AODV based forecasting link breakage indicator for VANETs: Soumia Bourebia (UHA, France); Benoit Hilt (University of Haute Alsace, France); Frédéric Drouhin (University of Haute-Alsace, France); Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace, France)

Wednesday, December 11 2:00 - 3:30

CISS5: AI Aided Security

CISS5-5 papers

Room: Kohala 2

Chair: Liang Xiao (Xiamen University, P.R. China)

Time-related Network Intrusion Detection Model: A Deep Learning Method: Yun Lin, Jie Wang and Ya Tu (Harbin Engineering University, P.R. China); Lei Chen (Georgia Southern University, USA); Zheng Dou (Harbin Engineering University, P.R. China)
A Multi-view Deep Learning Model For Encrypted Website Service Classification: Kaiqi Liang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Gaopeng Gou (Institute of Information Engineering，Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Cuicui Kang and Chang Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Min Yang (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yu Guo (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
Exploring Anonymous User Review: Linkability Analysis with Machine Learning: Cheng Huang and Jianbing Ni (University of Waterloo, Canada); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Privacy Aware Recommendation: Reinforcement Learning Based User Profile Perturbation: Yilin Xiao, Liang Xiao and Hailu Zhang (Xiamen University, P.R. China); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Machine Learning Assisted PHYSEC Attacks and SLP Countermeasures for Multiantenna Downlink Systems: Abderrahmane Mayouche, Danilo Spano, Christos G. Tsinos and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

CQRM4: Fog/Edge and Cloud Computing

CQRM4-5 papers

Room: King's 3

Chair: Ryoichi Shinkuma (Kyoto University, Japan)

Edge Computing for Offload-Aware Energy Conservation using M2M Recommendation Mechanisms: Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis (University of Nicosia & University of Nicosia Research Foundation, Cyprus); George Mastorakis (Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece); Jordi Mongay Batalla (Warsaw University of Technology & National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); John Sahalos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR, Thessaloniki, Greece & University of Nicosia, CY, Nicosia, Cyprus)
Cloud Computing Centers Modeling and Performance Analysis: Reem Alshahrani and Hassan Peyravi (Kent State University, USA)
Pricing Based MEC Resource Allocation for 5G Heterogeneous Network Access: Virgilios Passas (University of Thessaly, Greece); Nikos Makris (University of Thessaly & CERTH, Greece); Vasileios Miliotis and Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly, Greece)
The Audit4Cloud Platform for Auditing the Networking Performance of Public Clouds: Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy); Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna & CIRI ICT, Italy); Luca Foschini and Michele Solimando (University of Bologna, Italy)
The Impact of Human Mobility on Edge Data Center Deployment in Urban Environments: Piergiorgio Vitello and Andrea Capponi (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Claudio Fiandrino (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Guido Cantelmo (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Dzmitry Kliazovich (ExaMotive, Luxembourg)

CT4: Iterative Decoding and Processing

CT4-5 papers

Room: Kohala 3

Efficient LDLC Decoder Design from the Lattice Viewpoint: Xuebo Wang (HKUST, Hong Kong); Wai Ho Mow (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & HKUST, Hong Kong)
Efficient Search and Elimination of Harmful Objects for the Optimization of QC-SC-LDPC Codes: Massimo Battaglioni, Franco Chiaraluce and Marco Baldi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); David G. M. Mitchell (New Mexico State University, USA)
Finite alphabet iterative decoding of LDPC codes with coarsely quantized neural networks: Xin Xiao, Bane Vasic and Ravi Tandon (University of Arizona, USA); Shu Lin (University of California, Davis, USA)
On Mutual Information-Maximizing Quantized Belief Propagation Decoding of LDPC Codes: Xuan He and Kui Cai (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Zhen Mei (Singapore University of Technology & Design, Singapore)
Symbol Message Passing Decoding of Nonbinary Low-Density Parity-Check Codes: Francisco Lázaro (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Alexandre Graell i Amat (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Gianluigi Liva and Balazs Matuz (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)

MWN4: Admission Control and Network Handover

MWN4-5 papers

Room: Kohala 4

Chair: Ruidong Li (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

Service Admission Control for 5G Mobile Networks with RAN and Core Slicing: Kiana Noroozi, Mohammad Karimzadeh Farshbafan and Vahid Shah-Mansouri (University of Tehran, Iran)
Secrecy Preserving in Stochastic Resource Orchestration for Multi-Tenancy Network Slicing: Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Zhifeng Zhao (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Tao Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland LTD, Finland); Honggang Zhang (Zhejiang University & Université Européenne de Bretagne (UEB) and Supelec, P.R. China); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)
MACH: Movement Aware CoMP Handover in Heterogeneous Ultra-Dense Networks: Wen Sun (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Lu Wang and Jiajia Liu (Xidian University, P.R. China); Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan); Yanning Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
Optimal Handover Policy for mmWave Cellular Networks: A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach: Li Sun, Jing Hou and Tao Shu (Auburn University, USA)
A Dual-Connection based Handover Scheme for Ultra-Dense Millimeter-Wave Cellular Networks: Seongjoon Kang, Siyoung Choi, Goodsol Lee and Saewoong Bahk (Seoul National University, Korea)

NGNI5: NFV

NGNI5-5 papers

Room: Kona 1

Chair: Haotong Cao (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

GSDM: Graph-based Scaling Detection Model in Network Function Virtualization: Lishan Li, Ying Liu, Jianping Wu and Gang Ren (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Provable Algorithm for Virtualised Network Function Chain Placement in Dynamic Environment: Yanghao Xie, Sheng Wang and Yueyue Dai (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Online VNF Chaining and Scheduling with Prediction: Optimality and Trade-offs: Xi Huang, Simeng Bian and Xin Gao (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China); Weijie Wu (Independent Researcher, USA); Ziyu Shao and Yang Yang (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)
Bubble: Lightweight Core Sharing in NFV: Haiping Wang and Zhilong Zheng (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Chen Sun (Alibaba Group & Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jun Bi (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Buffet: Enabling Multi-Tenant Network Functions: Heng Yu and Junxian Shen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Chen Sun (Alibaba Group & Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Zhilong Zheng and Jilong Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

SAC CCNS4: Resource and Power Allocation

SAC CCNS4-5 papers

Room: Queen's 4

Chair: Yongjune Kim (Western Digital Research, USA)

On the Optimal Refresh Power Allocation for Energy-Efficient Memories: Yongjune Kim (Western Digital Research, USA); Won Ho Choi (WDC, USA); Yuval Cassuto (Technion, Israel); Cyril Guyot (Western Digital Research, USA)
Comparison of Nash bargaining and myopic equilibrium for resources allocation in cloud computing: Gianluca Fighera, Giovanni Perin and Leonardo Badia (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
QoS-Aware Fog Computing Resource Allocation using Feasibility-Finding Benders Decomposition: Thai T. Vu (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia); Diep N. Nguyen (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Hoang Thai Dinh (University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia); Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Balanced clustering and joint resources allocation in cooperative fog computing system: Huaqing Cheng (Southeast University, P.R. China); Weiwei Xia, Feng Yan and Lianfeng Shen (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, P.R. China)
Virtual Resource Allocation for Mobile Edge Computing: A Hypergraph Matching Approach: Long Zhang (HEBEU, P.R. China); Hongliang Zhang (University of Houston, USA); Lisu Yu (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Haitao Xu (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China); Lingyang Song (Peking University, P.R. China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)

SAC IOT4: LPWAN Technology I

SAC IOT4-5 papers

Room: Queen's 5

Chair: Pietro Manzoni (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

LoRa-MAB: Toward an Intelligent Resources Allocation Approach for LoRaWAN Networks: Duc-Tuyen Ta (LRI, Université Paris Saclay, France & University of Engineering and Technology, VNU-HN, Vietnam); Kinda Khawam (Université de Versailles, France); Samer Lahoud (ESIB, Saint-Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon); Cedric Adjih (INRIA, France); Steven Martin (Paris-Sud University, France)
Deep Learning for Synchronization and Channel Estimation in NB-IoT Random Access Channel: Mads Helge Jespersen (Aalborg University & Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Denmark); Milutin Pajovic and Toshiaki Koike-Akino (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Ye Wang (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)
Experimental Characterization of LoRaWAN Link Quality: Takwa Attia (Université Grenoble alpes, France); Martin Heusse (Grenoble Informatics Laboratory & Grenoble INP, France); Bernard Tourancheau (LIG CNRS UMR 5217 & Grenoble Alps University, France); Andrzej Duda (Grenoble Institute of Technology, France)
Optimal SF allocation in LoRaWAN considering physical capture and imperfect orthogonality: Christelle Caillouet (Université Côte d'Azur & CNRS, Inria, I3S, France); Martin Heusse (Grenoble Informatics Laboratory & Grenoble INP, France); Franck Rousseau (Université Grenoble Alpes & Grenoble INP, France)
On the Feasibility of Battery-Less LoRaWAN Communications using Energy Harvesting: Carmen Delgado (University of Antwerpen - Imec, Belgium); José M Sanz (Kintech Engineering, Spain); Jeroen Famaey (University of Antwerp & Imec, Belgium)

SAC IOT5: Localization and Tracking I

SAC IOT5-5 papers

Room: Waikoloa 2
Chair: Sami Souihi (University Paris Est UPEC, France)

ZeeFi: Zero-effort Floor Identification with Deep Learning for Indoor Localization: Fuqiang Gu (The University of Melbourne, Australia); Jörg Blankenbach (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Kourosh Khoshelham (The University of Melbourne, Australia); Jan Grottke (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)
Dual-band Wi-Fi based Indoor Localization via Stacked Denosing Autoencoder: Hao Zhang, Kai Liu, Qing xia Shang, Liang Feng, Chao Chen and Zhou Wu (Chongqing University, P.R. China); Songtao Guo (Southwest University, P.R. China)
Visual Analysis of Deep Neural Networks for Device-Free Wireless Localization: Shing-Jiuan Liu and Ronald Y. Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Feng-Tsun Chien (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Dividing-and-Kriging Method for Wireless RSS Fingerprint Based Indoor Localization: Yue Li (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Yoshiaki Nishikawa and Takahiro Nobukiyo (NEC Corporation, Japan)
SoftSense: Collaborative Surface-based Object Sensing and Tracking Using Networked Coils: Kai Li, Ufuk Muncuk, M. Yousof Naderi and Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA)

SAC SGC3: Smart Energy Management

SAC SGC3-5 papers

Room: Queen's 6

Chair: Yaser Al Mtawa (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

A Multi-Agent System Toward the Green Edge Computing with Microgrid: Md. Shirajum Munir, Sarder Fakhrul Abedin and Do Hyeon Kim (Kyung Hee University, Korea); Nguyen H. Tran (The University of Sydney, Australia); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Choong Seon Hong (Kyung Hee University, Korea)
Cost Minimization for Geo-Distributed Data Centers with Renewable Resources and Energy Storages: Shun Zhang, Zhirong Shen and Guanglin Zhang (Donghua University, P.R. China)
Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading in DC Packetized Power Microgrids Using Iterative Auction: Haobo Zhang (Peking University, P.R. China); Hongliang Zhang (University of Houston, USA); Lingyang Song (Peking University, P.R. China); Yonghui Li (University of Sydney, Australia); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
On Connectivity of Interdependent Networks: Arunabha Sen (ASU, USA); Kaustav Basu (Arizona State University, USA)
A ROOT Approach for Stochastic Energy Management in Electric Bus Transit Center with PV and ESS: Yuan Liu and Hao Liang (University of Alberta, Canada)

SPC4: Massive MIMO II

SPC4-5 papers

Room: King's 1

Chair: Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Weighted Sum-Rate Maximization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced Wireless Networks: Huayan Guo, Ying-Chang Liang and Jie Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Pilot-Free Channel Change Detection for mmWave Massive MIMO System: Yue Wu, Yuchen Jiao, Feifei Gao and Yuantao Gu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
AMP Aided Generalized Turbo Detection of OFDM-IM in Massive MIMO Systems with Low-Resolution ADCs: Xingyu Yuan and Jianping Zheng (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Delay-Phase Precoding for THz Massive MIMO with Beam Split: Jingbo Tan and Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Mobile Millimeter Wave Channel Tracking: A Bayesian Beamforming Framework Against DOA Uncertainty: Yan Yang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Shuping Dang (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Miaowen Wen (South China University of Technology, P.R. China); Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Mohsen Guizani (University of Idaho, USA)

SPC5: Interference mitigation

SPC5-5 papers

Room: Kona 2

Chair: Christian Lameiro (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Sweden)

An IoT Scheduling and Interference Mitigation Scheme in TSCH using Latin Rectangles: Chérifa Boucetta (University Paris Descartes & LIPADE, France); Boubakr Nour (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Hassine Moungla (University of Paris Descartes & Instiut Mines Telecom, France); Lahlou Laaziz (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada)
Interference Mitigation under Degrees-of-Freedom Sensing Uncertainties in Opportunistic Transmission: Jordi Borras and Gregori Vazquez (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
Distributed Pilot Design for Massive Connectivity in Cellular Networks: Xihan Chen and An Liu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Wei Yu, Hei Victor Cheng and Kaiming Shen (University of Toronto, Canada); Minjian Zhao (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
Benefits of improper signaling for overlay cognitive radio: Christian Lameiro (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Sweden); Ignacio Santamaria (University of Cantabria, Spain); Peter J. Schreier (Universitaet Paderborn, Germany)
Self-Interference Cancellation and Data Detection for Full-Duplex Communications: Meng He and Chuan Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

WC5: Intelligent Reflecting Surface

WC5-5 papers

Room: King's 2

Chair: Shuowen Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

IRS-Enhanced OFDM: Power Allocation and Passive Array Optimization: Yifei Yang (National University of Singapore & Halliburton Far East Pte Ltd, Singapore); Shuowen Zhang and Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Enabling Secure Wireless Communications via Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces: Xianghao Yu (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Dongfang Xu (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Over-the-Air Computation via Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces: Tao Jiang and Yuanming Shi (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)
Deep Learning for Large Intelligent Surfaces in Millimeter Wave and Massive MIMO Systems: Abdelrahman Taha, Muhammad Alrabeiah and Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University, USA)
Ultra-Reliable Millimeter-Wave Communications using an Artificial Intelligence-Powered Reflector: Mehdi Naderi soorki (Virgina Tech, Iran); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)

WC6: Mobile Edge Computing

WC6-5 papers

Room: Kona 3

Chair: Shan Zhang (Beihang University, P.R. China)

Semi-Dynamic Computing Resource Allocation in MEC-enabled Radio Access Networks: Qian Sun (ICT/CAS, P.R. China); Lin Tian (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yiqing Zhou (Chinese Academy of Science, P.R. China); Zongshuai Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yan Peng (ICT/CAS, P.R. China); Yuanyuan Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Jinglin Shi (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yingjiao Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Long Long (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy, P.R. China)
Mean Field Evolutionary Dynamics in Ultra Dense Mobile Edge Computing Systems: Hao Gao (University of Houston, USA); Wuchen Li (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Reginald A. Banez and Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Integrated Task Caching, Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation for Mobile Edge Computing: Zhixiong Chen, Zhengchuan Chen and Yunjian Jia (Chongqing University, P.R. China)
Age of Information and Delay Tradeoff with Freshness-Aware Mobile Edge Cache Update: Shan Zhang, Liudi Wang and Hongbin Luo (Beihang University, P.R. China); Xiao Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Sheng Zhou (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Joint Task Assignment and Resource Allocation in the Heterogeneous Mobile Edge Computing Networks: Pengfei Wang and Zijie Zheng (Peking University, P.R. China); Boya Di (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lingyang Song (Peking University, P.R. China)

Wednesday, December 11 2:45 - 3:30

CISS6: Security & Privacy I

CISS6_interactive session-21 papers

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Li Sun (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)

Multi-party Secure Collaborative Filtering for Recommendation generation: Harmanjeet Kaur and Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA)
Proactive Eavesdropping Scheme for Wireless Surveillance Systems: A Rotated-Jamming Aided Approach: Hongbin Xu and Li Sun (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
An Intelligent Route Mutation Mechanism against Mixed Attack based on Security Awareness: Tao Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, P.R. China); Xiaohui Kuang (Institute of System and Engineering, Academy of Military Science, Beijing, P.R. China); Zan Zhou, Hongquan Gao and Changqiao Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Security Analysis of Cooperative Jamming in Internet of Things with Multiple Eavesdroppers: Xin Fan and Yan Huo (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
False-Locality Attack Detection Using CNN in Named Data Networking: Yujie Zeng, Guowei WU and Rui Wang (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA); Kuei-Fang Hsiao (Ming Chuan University, Taiwan)
Secrecy Performance Analysis for AN-Aided Linear ZFBF in MU-MIMO Systems with Limited Feedback: Lu Cao (Beihang University, P.R. China); Zhiyao Tang (BUAA, P.R. China); Liang Sun (Beihang University, P.R. China); Zhenni Pan (Waseda University, Japan); Shigeru Shimamoto (Waseda University & Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Japan); Yong Feng (Kunming University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
WatchOut: A Practical Secure Pedestrian Warning System based on Smartphones: Runmin Ou (Wuhan University, P.R. China); Fang Peng (Shenzhen People's Hospital, P.R. China); Taige Zhang, Jiawei Li and Jincao Xu (Wuhan University, P.R. China); Yanjiao Chen (School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, P.R. China); Xiaoyan Yin (Northwest University, P.R. China)
Secure Beamforming Design for MISO SWIPT Systems: An Indirectly Optimized Approach: Yao Yu, Siyu Wang, Shumei Liu and Lei Guo (Northeastern University, P.R. China); Zhaolong Ning (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Shimin Gong (Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA)
P4PCN: Privacy-Preserving Path Probing for Payment Channel Networks: Ruozhou Yu (North Carolina State University, USA); Yinxin Wan, Vishnu Teja Kilari and Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA); Jian Tang (Syracuse University, USA); Dejun Yang (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
Optimizing Secrecy Performance of Trusted RF Relay Against External Eavesdropping: Kotha Venugopalachary (Shiv Nadar University, India); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Ravikant Saini (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India); Vijaykumar Chakka (Shiv Nadar University, India)
Evolutionary Anti-jamming Game in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access System: Yue Bi (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Yue Wu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Cunqing Hua (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Futai Zou (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
New Secure Approach to Backup Cryptocurrency Wallets: Hossein Rezaeighaleh and Cliff Zou (University of Central Florida, USA)
Defending Against ROP Attacks with Nearly Zero Overhead: Peng Qin, Cheng Tan and Lei Zhao (Wuhan University, P.R. China); Yueqiang Cheng (Baidu X-lab, P.R. China)
Dummy-based Location Anonymization for Controlling Observable User Preferences: Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan)
Integration of Matched Filtering within the RF-DNA Fingerprinting Process: Aaron Wilson (University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA); Donald R Reising (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA); Thomas Loveless (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, USA)
Symmetric Key Generation from Imperfect Shared PHY-Layer Secrecy: Chen Shen (The George Washington Universiry, USA); Siyuan Feng (The George Washington University, USA); Gokhan Sahin (Miami University, USA); Hyeong-Ah T. Choi (The George Washington University, USA)
NOMA Based Coordinated Direct and Relay Transmission: Secure Design and Performance Analysis: Xinyue Pei (The South China University of Technology, P.R. China); Miaowen Wen (South China University of Technology, P.R. China); Kyeong Jin Kim (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Beixiong Zheng and Hua Yu (South China University of Technology, P.R. China)
AClog: Attack Chain Construction Based on Log Correlation: Teng Li, Jianfeng Ma, Qingqi Pei and Yulong Shen (Xidian University, P.R. China); Chi Lin (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Siqi Ma (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA)
Side-Channel Leakage Amount Estimation Based on Communication Theory: Wei Yang (Nanjing University of Science & Technology, P.R. China); Hailong Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
Differentially Private Functional Mechanism for Generative Adversarial Networks: Xinyue Zhang and Jiahao Ding (University of Houston, USA); Sai Mounika Errapotu (University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Xiaoxia Huang (Sun Yat-Sen University, P.R. China); Pan Li (Case Western Reserve University, USA); Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA)
Optimal Filter Assignment Policy Against Transit-link Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack: Rajorshi Biswas and Jie Wu (Temple University, USA); Wei Chang (Saint Joseph's University, USA); Pouya Ostovari (San Jose State University, USA)

Wednesday, December 11 4:00 - 5:45

CQRM5: Machine Learning for Networks and Systems

CQRM5-6 papers

Room: Kohala 4

Chair: Kohei Shiomoto (Tokyo City University, Japan)

Modeling of Utility Function for Real-time Prediction of Spatial Information: Keiichiro Sato, Ryoichi Shinkuma, Takehiro Sato and Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan); Takanori Iwai, Takeo Onishi, Takahiro Nobukiyo, Dai Kanetomo and Kozo Satoda (NEC Corporation, Japan)
Anomaly Detection Models Based on Context-aware Sequential Long Short-Term Memory Learning: Lu Xu and Zhongzhi Luan (Beihang University, P.R. China); Carol J Fung (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); Da Ye and Depei Qian (Beihang University, P.R. China)
A Machine Learning based 3D Propagation Model for Intelligent Future Cellular Networks: Usama Masood, Hasan Farooq and Ali Imran (University of Oklahoma, USA)
On the Feasibility of Coordinates-Based Resource Allocation Through Machine Learning: Sahar Imtiaz (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Georgios P. Koudouridis (Huawei Technologies R&D Center Sweden, Sweden); James Gross (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Reinforcement Learning-based Joint Power and Resource Allocation for URLLC in 5G: Medhat Elsayed and Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)
FAIR-AREA: A Fast AI-based Joint Optimization of Rate Adaptation and Resource Allocation for DASH: Tongyu Song, Wenyu Hu, Wenshuai Xu, Jing Ren, Sheng Wang and Shizhong Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

CRAEN5: Performance Analysis and Optimization

CRAEN5-6 papers

Room: King's 1

Chair: Sergey Andreev (Tampere University, Finland)

Handover Mitigation in Dense HetNets via Bandit Arm Elimination: Yao Zhao and Xiliang Luo (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)
Coexistence Management Algorithms for Cognitive Radio Diversity Networks using 802.19.1 Standard: Manish Wadhwa and Komalpreet Kaur (Salem State University, USA)
A Bandit Learning Approach to Energy-Efficient Femto-Caching under Uncertainty: Setareh Maghsudi (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Mihaela van der Schaar (UCLA, USA)
Throughput Enhancement of Full-Duplex CSMA Networks via Adversarial Multi-Player Multi-Armed Bandit: Jingwen Tong and Liqun Fu (Xiamen University, P.R. China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Relaying in Urban 5G+ Millimeter-Wave Cellular Deployments: Vitaly Petrov and Dmitri Moltchanov (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Sergey Andreev (Tampere University, Finland); Robert Heath (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Edge-to-Edge Cooperative Artificial Intelligence in Smart Cities with On-Demand Learning Offloading: Li Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Jun Wu and Jianhua Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Haris Gacanin (Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

CSSMA5: Communication Security

CSSMA5-6 papers

Room: King's 2

Chair: Hacene Fouchal (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)

A Blockchain-Based IoT Networks-on-Demand Protocol for Responsive Smart City Applications: Mohamed Al-kalbani and Bechir Hamdaoui (Oregon State University, USA); Nizar Zorba (Qatar University, Qatar); Ammar Rayes (Cisco / San Jose State University, USA)
A Novel Chaos-based Physical Layer Security Transmission Scheme for Internet of Things: Jingwei Liu, Ailian Ren and Rong Sun (Xidian University, P.R. China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (University of Idaho, USA)
A Design of Firewall Based on Feedback of Intrusion Detection System in cloud environment: Ma Xiaoyu, Xiao Fu and Bin Luo (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (University of Idaho, USA)
Smart Stock Exchange Market: A Secure Predictive Decentralised Model: Gaurang Bansal (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India); Vikas Hasija (Bits Pilani, India); Vinay Chamola (BITS-Pilani, India); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India); Mohsen Guizani (University of Idaho, USA)
Co-IoT - A Collaborative DDoS mitigation scheme in IoT environment based on blockchain using SDN: Zakaria Abou El Houda (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Abdelhakim Hafid (University of Montreal, Canada); Lyes Khoukhi (University of Technology of Troyes, France)

CT5: Information Theory and Capacity

CT5-6 papers

Room: King's 3

Finite-Precision Implementation of Arithmetic Coding Based Distribution Matchers: Marcin Pikus (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf & Institute for Communications Engineering, TU Munich, Germany); Wen Xu (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH & - European Research Center (ERC), Germany); Gerhard Kramer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Spectral Efficiency in Large Intelligent Surfaces: Asymptotic Analysis Under Pilot Contamination: Minchae Jung and Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Gyuyeol Kong (Yonsei university, Korea)
Robust Waterfilling for Approximately Gaussian Inputs: Wei Cao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Alex Dytso and Michael Fauß (Princeton University, USA); Gang Feng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Generalized Deduplication: Bounds, Convergence, and Asymptotic Properties: Rasmus Vestergaard, Qi Zhang and Daniel E. Lucani (Aarhus University, Denmark)
On the Capacity of Block Fading Optical Wireless Channels: Longguang Li (Telecom ParisTech, France); Stefan M. Moser (ETH Zurich, Switzerland & National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan); Ligong Wang (ETIS & CNRS, France); Michele A Wigger (Telecom ParisTech, France)
GDoF of Interference Channel with Limited Cooperation under Finite Precision CSIT: Junge Wang (University of California, Irvine & Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing, USA); Syed Ali Jafar (University of California Irvine, USA); Bofeng Yuan (Samsung Semiconductor, USA); Lexiang Huang (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

GCSN3: Green Design in Transportation and Edge/Fog Networks

GCSN3-6 papers

Room: Queen's 4

Chair: Li Xiaowei (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China)

LTE based CBTC Train Ground Communication Systems: Performance Tests and Reliability Evaluation: Shuo Wang (Beijin Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Li Zhu, Zhang Lin, Kun Xu and Xuan Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Chongyang Liu (Hebei Province NO. 1 High School of Xingtai, P.R. China)
An Edge Cache-based Content Delivery Scheme in Green Wireless Networks: Chao Fang, Xinyan Wen, Ziyi Ling, Sheng Xu, Changtong Liu, Zhuwei Wang and Enchang Sun (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China)
An Energy-Efficient UAV Recharging and Reshuffling Strategy for Seamless Coverage: Li Xiaowei (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China); Haipeng Yao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Jingjing Wang and Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)
Joint Optimization of Energy Consumption and Time Delay in Energy-Constrained Fog Computing Networks: Minjie Xu and Wei Wang (Nantong University, P.R. China); Miao Zhang and Kanapathippillai Cumanan (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Guo-An Zhang (Electronic and Information School, Nantong University, Jiang-Su province, P.R. China); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Closed-Form Beamforming Aided Joint Optimization for Spectrum- and Energy-efficient UAV-BS Networks: Ke Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China); Xu Zhu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China); Yufei Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China); Fu-Chun Zheng (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China & University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Network Energy Efficient Mobile Edge Computing with Reliability Guarantees: Mattia Merluzzi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Nicola di Pietro (CEA LETI, France); Paolo Di Lorenzo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France); Sergio Barbarossa (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

MWN5: MAC and Resource Allocation

MWN5-6 papers

Room: Queen's 5

Chair: Baoxian Zhang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

CRUI: Collision Reduction and Utilization Improvement in OFDMA-based 802.11ax Networks: Jungjun Kim, Hyunjoong Lee and Saewoong Bahk (Seoul National University, Korea)
Success Prioritized Binary Exponential Backoff Algorithm for Non-persistent CSMA: Daisuke Umehara (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Throughput Optimization in Grant-Free NOMA with Deep Reinforcement Learning: Rui Huang and Vincent W.S. Wong (University of British Columbia, Canada); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Partial NOMA-Based Resource Allocation for Fairness in LTE-U System: Hongli He, Hangguan Shan and Aiping Huang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Qiang Ye and Weihua Zhuang (University of Waterloo, Canada)
A QoS-Guaranteed Component Carrier Selection Algorithm for LTE-U and WiFi Coexistence Networks: Liangyu Chu, Jun Zheng and Jie Xiao (Southeast University, P.R. China)
On Sum-Rate Maximization in CR-Assisted Heterogeneous LTE-LAA Networks: Yi-Feng Huang and Hsiao-Hwa Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

NGNI6: 5G

NGNI6-6 papers

Room: Queen's 6

Chair: Khaled Harfoush (North Carolina State University, USA)

Towards studying Service Function Chain Migration Patterns in 5G Networks and beyond: Rami Akrem Addad (Aalto University, Finland); Diego Leonel Cadette Dutra (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Miloud Bagaa and Tarik Taleb (Aalto University, Finland); Hannu Flinck (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland)
Slice Scheduling with QoS-Guarantee towards 5G: Robert Schmidt and Chia-Yu Chang (EURECOM, France); Navid Nikaein (Eurecom, France)
Ultra-Low-Latency Distributed Deep Neural Network over Hierarchical Mobile Networks: Jen-I Chang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Jian-Jhih Kuo (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Chi-Han Lin, Wen-Tsuen Chen and Jang-Ping Sheu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Machine Learning based Resource Orchestration for 5G Network Slices: Nazih Salhab (UPEM, University of Paris-Est, Marne-la-Vallée, France & Lebanese University, DSST, Lebanon); Rana Rahim-Amoud (Lebanese University, Lebanon); Rami Langar (University Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée, France); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)
A Certificateless Authentication Protocol for D2D Group Communications in 5G Cellular Networks: Zhengyi Shang (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Maode Ma (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Xiaohong Li (Tianjin University, P.R. China)
Real-time Dynamic Network Slicing for the 5G Radio Access Network: Massimiliano Maule (Iquadrat Informatica S. L. & Universidad Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis (Iquadrat Informatica S. L., Spain); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); John S Vardakas (IQUADRAT Informatica S. L. Barcelona, Spain); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)

ONS4: VLC Networks

ONS4-6 papers

Room: Kohala 1

Chair: Mohan Gurusamy (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Mobile VLC Networks with Random Receiver Orientation: Yavuz Yapıcı and Ismail Güvenç (North Carolina State University, USA)
NOMA for MIMO Visible Light Communications: A Spatial Domain Perspective: Chen Chen (Chongqing University, P.R. China); Yanbing Yang (Sichuan University, P.R. China); Xiong Deng (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Pengfei Du and Helin Yang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Zhengchuan Chen (Chongqing University, P.R. China); Wen-De Zhong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Joint Design of User Scheduling and Precoding for Interference Management in Cell-free VLC Network: Jiaxuan Chen and Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Physical Layer Security in Multiuser VLC Systems with a Randomly Located Eavesdropper: Sunghwan Cho (The University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Gaojie Chen (University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Justin P Coon (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Efficient Flicker-Free FEC Codes using Knuth's Balancing Algorithm for VLC: Elie Ngomseu Mambou and Thibaud Tonnellier (McGill University, Canada); Seyyed Ali Hashemi (Stanford University, USA); Warren Gross (McGill University, Canada)
Novel Index Modulation Aided Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Visible Light Communication: Tengjiao Wang, Fang Yang and Jian Song (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

SAC CCNS5: Computation and Data Offloading

SAC CCNS5-6 papers

Room: Kona 1
Chair: Bin Li (University of Rhode Island, USA)

Energy-Efficient Mobile-Edge Computation Offloading over Multiple Fading Blocks: Rongfei Fan (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Fudong Li (University of Alberta, Canada); Song Jin (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Gongpu Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Hai Jiang (University of Alberta, Canada); Shaohua Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)
A Microservice Store for Efficient Edge Offloading: Julien Gedeon and Martin Wagner (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Jens Heuschkel (TK / TU Darmstadt & TU Darmstadt - TK, Germany); Lin Wang (VU Amsterdam & TU Darmstadt, The Netherlands); Max Mühlhäuser (TU-Darmstadt, Germany)
Optimal Offloading for Dynamic Compute-Intensive Applications in Wireless Networks: Bin Li (University of Rhode Island, USA)
Computation Offloading Decision Bounds in SWIPT-based Fog Networks: Arash Bozorgchenani, Daniele Tarchi and Giovanni Emanuele Corazza (University of Bologna, Italy)
Joint Beamforming and Computation Offloading for Multi-user Mobile-Edge Computing: Changfeng Ding, Jun-Bo Wang and Ming Cheng (Southeast University, P.R. China); Chuanwen Chang (The 28th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, P.R. China); Jin-Yuan Wang and Min Lin (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Joint Data Offloading and Resource Allocation for Multi-Cloud Heterogeneous Mobile Edge Computing Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Yutong Zhang (Peking University, P.R. China); Boya Di (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zijie Zheng, Jinlong Lin and Lingyang Song (Peking University, P.R. China)

SAC IOT6: Fog/Edge Computing in IoT

SAC IOT6-6 papers

Room: Kona 2
Chair: Ramon Sanchez-Iborra (University of Murcia, Spain)

MEC-assisted End-to-end 5G-Slicing for IoT: Ramon Sanchez-Iborra (University of Murcia, Spain); Jose Santa (Technical University of Cartagena, Spain); Stefan Covaci (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Jesus Sanchez-Gomez, Jorge Gallego-Madrid and Antonio Fernando Skarmeta Gomez (University of Murcia, Spain)
An Efficient Distributed Deep Learning Framework for Fog-based IoT system: Yijia Chang, Xi Huang, Ziyu Shao and Yang Yang (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Computation Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing: Wenhan Zhan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Chunbo Luo (University of Exeter & University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jin Wang and Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hancong Duan (University of Electronic and Science Technology of China, P.R. China)
Delay-oriented Task Scheduling and Bandwidth Allocation in Fog Computing Networks: Zixuan Fei, Ying Wang, Ruijin Sun and Yuanfei Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Edge-based Microservices Architecture for Internet of Things: Mobility Analysis Case Study: Teemu Leppänen (University of Oulu & Center for Ubiquitous Computing, Finland); Claudio Savaglio (University of Calabria, Italy); Lauri Lovén, Tommi Järvenpää, Rouhollah Ehsani and Ella Peltonen (University of Oulu, Finland); Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria, Italy); Jukka Riekki (University of Oulu, Finland)
Backscatter-Aided Hybrid Data Offloading for Wireless Powered Edge Sensor Networks: Yuze Zou and Jing Xu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Shimin Gong (Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China); Yuanxiong Guo (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Wenqing Cheng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

SPC6: Signal processing for mmW and THz communications

SPC6-6 papers

Room: Kohala 2

Chair: Antti Tölli (University of Oulu, Finland)

Phase Noise Model Selection for Sub-THz Communications: Simon Bicaïs and Jean-Baptiste Doré (CEA, France)
Programmable Wireless Channel for Multi-user MIMO Transmission using Meta-surface: Yihong Liu, Lei Zhang and Bowen Yang (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Weisi Guo (University of Warwick & Alan Turing Institute, Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Muhammad Ali Imran (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Constant Envelope Multi-mode OAM Communication System With UCA Antennas: Rui Chen, Hong Zhou and Jiandong Li (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Coverage Analysis for MmWave-enabled V2X Networks via Stochastic Geometry: Wenqiang Yi, Yuanwei Liu and Arumugam Nallanathan (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Rate and Reliability Trade-off for mmWave Communication via Multi-point Connectivity: Dileep Kumar (University of Oulu, Finland); Jarkko Kaleva (Solmu Technologies, Finland); Antti Tölli (University of Oulu, Finland)
Reception of Misaligned Multi-mode OAM Signals: Rui Chen, Wenxuan Long and Jiandong Li (Xidian University, P.R. China)

Wednesday, December 11 4:00 - 4:45

WC10: Resource Management-Interactive Session

WC10_interactive session-22 papers

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Janik Frenzel (Intel Corporation, Germany)

Indoor Localization with Spatial and Temporal Representations of Signal Sequences: Tao He and Qun Niu (Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China); Suining He (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Ning Liu (Sun Yat-Sen University, P.R. China)
Limited-Feedback Parity-Based Hybrid ARQ Using Spatially-Coupled LDPC Codes: Janik Frenzel (Intel Corporation, Germany); Stefan Müller-Weinfurtner (Intel, Germany); Johannes Huber (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Ralf R. Müller (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Virtual Cell Clustering with Optimal Resource Allocation to Maximize Cellular System Capacity: Michal Yemini and Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)
Distributed Cyclic Delay Diversity for Cooperative Infrastructure-to-Vehicle Systems: Kyeong Jin Kim (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Jianlin Guo (Mitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratories, USA); Jinchuan Tang (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)
Sum-Rate Maximization of Uplink Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) Communication: Zhaohui Yang (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mingzhe Chen (Princeton University, USA); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Wei Xu (Southeast University, P.R. China); Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei (Kings college London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Analysis of 3D Deafness Effects in Highly Directional mmWave Communications: Olga Chukhno and Nadezhda Chukhno (Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russia); Olga Galinina (Tampere University, Finland); Yuliya Gaidamaka (RUDN University, Russia); Sergey Andreev (Tampere University, Finland); Konstantin Samouylov (Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russia)
Second-best Beam-Alignment via Bayesian Multi-Armed Bandits: Muddassar Hussain and Nicolò Michelusi (Purdue University, USA)
Distributed Asynchronous CDD-Based Cooperative Systems with a Passive Eavesdropper: Kyeong Jin Kim (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Hongwu Liu (Shandong Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Miaowen Wen (South China University of Technology, P.R. China); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Low-Complexity Coherent Iterative Receiver for SCMA-Based LEO Satellite Communications: Jiayi Zhang and Qingli He (Xidian University, P.R. China); Zhongyang Yu (Xidian University & State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks, P.R. China); Baoming Bai and Min Zhu (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Service Offloading in Terrestrial-Satellite Systems: User Preference and Network Utility: Jie Gao (University of Waterloo, Canada); Lian Zhao (Ryerson University, Canada); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Sensor Intelligence Based Beam Tracking for 5G mmWave Systems: A Practical Approach: Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva and Shubham Khunteta (Samsung Electronics, India); Chaeman Lim, Youngpo Lee and Jinwoo Kim (Samsung Electronics, Korea); Yunas Rashid (Samsung Electronics, India)
Limited-Feedback Distributed Relay Selection for Random Spatial Wireless Networks: Hazer Inaltekin (Macquarie University, Australia); Saman Atapattu and Jamie S Evans (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Subcarrier Scheduling for Joint Data Transfer and Key Generation Schemes in Multicarrier System: Miroslav Mitev (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Arsenia Chorti (ETIS / ENSEA UCP CNRS & University Paris Seine, France); Martin J Reed (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Service Function Chain Planning with Resource Balancing in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks: Guangchao Wang, Sheng Zhou and Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Shan Zhang (Beihang University, P.R. China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Beam Squint Exploitation for Linear Phased Arrays in a mmWave Multi-Carrier System: Ignas Laurinavicius, Jiangzhou Wang and Huiling Zhu (University of Kent, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yijin Pan (Southeast University, P.R. China & University of Kent, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A New Construction of Zero Correlation Zone Complementary Sequence Sets with Bounded PAPR: Chao-Yu Chen and Shing-Wei Wu (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
MDP-Based Scheduling Design for Mobile-Edge Computing Systems with Random User Arrival: Shanfeng Huang (Southern University of Science and Technology, P.R. China & The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Bojie Lv and Rui Wang (Southern University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
Selective OFDM Transmission for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer: Raquel Buckley and Robert Heath (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Hybrid Precoding and Combining for Full-Duplex Millimeter Wave Communication: Joan Palacios (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Javier Rodríguez-Fernández and Nuria González-Prelcic (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Capacity based analysis of a wideband SIMO system in the presence of mutual coupling: Sandy Saab, Amine Mezghani and Robert Heath (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Optimizing Resource Allocation for 5G Services with Diverse Quality-of-Service Requirements: Changyang She and Rui Dong (University of Sydney, Australia); Wibowo Hardjawana (The University of Sydney, Australia); Yonghui Li (University of Sydney, Australia); Branka Vucetic (The University of Sydney, Australia)
AnalogMUSIC: A Concurrent Beam Training Scheme for Multiple Users in mmWave Systems: Bangzhao Zhai, Wenda Tang and Aimin Tang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Mingzeng Dai (Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd, P.R. China); Xudong Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

Wednesday, December 11 4:00 - 5:45

WC7: UAV Communications I

WC7-6 papers

Room: Kohala 3

Chair: Changsheng You (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Path Design for Cellular-Connected UAV with Reinforcement Learning: Yong Zeng (Southeast University, P.R. China); Xiaoli Xu (The University of Sydney, Australia)
3D Trajectory Design for UAV-Enabled Data Harvesting in Probabilistic LoS Channel: Changsheng You (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Xiaoming Peng (Institute for InfoComm Research, Singapore); Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Machine Learning Aided Trajectory Design and Power Control of Multi-UAV: Xiao Liu, Yuanwei Liu and Yue Chen (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Luhan Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, P.R. China)
Trajectory Optimization for Rotary-Wing UAVs in Wireless Networks with Random Requests: Matthew Bliss and Nicolò Michelusi (Purdue University, USA)
Energy Efficient UAV-Enabled Multicast Systems: Joint Grouping and Trajectory Optimization: Chang Deng and Wenjun Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Chia-Han Lee (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Hui Gao, Wenbo Xu and Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Joint Resource Allocation and Trajectory Optimization for UAV-Aided Relay Networks: Qiyu Hu, Yunlong Cai, An Liu and Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

WC8: Millimeter Wave I

WC8-6 papers

Room: Kona 3

Chair: Somayeh Khosroazad (University of Maine, USA)

Hybrid Precoding for Multi-Group Multicasting in mmWave Systems: Luis F. Abanto-Leon (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Germany); Gek Hong (Allyson) Sim (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Constrained Multibeam Optimization for Joint Communication and Radio Sensing: Yuyue Luo (University of Technology Sydney, Australia & University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); J. Andrew Zhang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Wei Ni (CSIRO, Australia); Jin Pan (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Xiaojing Huang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Fast Off-grid Channel Estimation for mmWave Cellular Systems: A Flexible Convex Relaxation Method: Kaihui Liu (School of Software Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Liangtian Wan (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China)
Sensing by Leveraging Millimeter Wave Communication Networks: Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, USA)
Communications via Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave Radar in Millimeter Wave Band: Yawen Fan and Jingchao Bao (The University of Tennessee, USA); Mustafa S. Aljumaily and Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, USA)
Grip-Aware Analog mmWave Beam Codebook Adaptation for 5G Mobile Handsets: Ahmad AlAmmouri (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Jianhua Mo (Samsung, USA); Boon Loong Ng (Samsung Research America, USA); Jianzhong Zhang (Samsung, USA); Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

WC9: Machine Learning I

WC9-6 papers

Room: Waikoloa 2

Chair: Aftab Khan (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

A Novel Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Online Antenna Tuning: Eren Balevi (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Deep Reinforcement Learning MAC for Backscatter Communication Relying on Wi-Fi Architecture: Xuelin Cao and Zuxun Song (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Bo Yang (Prairie View A&M University, USA); Xunsheng Du (University of Houston, USA); Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&M University, USA); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
On the Cover Problem for Coded Caching in Wireless Networks via Deep Neural Network: Zhengming Zhang, Yaru Zheng, Chunguo Li, Yongming Huang and Luxi Yang (Southeast University, P.R. China)
DNN-based Simultaneous Screen-to-Camera and Screen-to-Eye Communications: Takuya Fujihashi (Osaka University & Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan); Toshiaki Koike-Akino (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Takashi Watanabe (Osaka University, Japan); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)
Graph Attention Spatial-Temporal Network for Deep Learning Based Mobile Traffic Prediction: Kaiwen He, Yufen Huang, Xu Chen and Zhi Zhou (Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China); Shuai Yu (Sun Yat-Sen University, P.R. China)
Power Control in Energy Harvesting Multiple Access System with Reinforcement Learning: Man Chu and Xuewen Liao (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Hang Li (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, P.R. China); Shuguang Cui (University of California, Davis, USA)

Wednesday, December 11 5:00 - 5:45

CQRM6: Hot Topics in Communication QoS, Reliability, and Modeling

CQRM6_interactive session-22 papers

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Georgios Kalfas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Virtual CDN Providers: Profit Maximization through Collaboration: Thanasis G. Papaioannou (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece); Kostas Katsalis (HUAWEI, Germany); Vasilis Sourlas (ICCS-NTUA, Greece); Angelos Amditis (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece)
Optimal Parameters of Nonstatistical Sensor Data Aggregation Minimizing Latency in IoT Gateway: Hideaki Yoshino, Kenko Ota and Takefumi Hiraguri (Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan)
An Analytical Model of Trilateration Localization Error: Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam (COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus & Lancaster University, Pakistan); Qiang Ni (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mianxiong Dong (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)
Disaster Management and Information Transmission Decision-making in Public Safety Systems: Georgios Fragkos and Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
P4BFT: Hardware-Accelerated Byzantine-Resilient Network Control Plane: Ermin Sakic (Siemens AG, Germany); Nemanja Deric, Endri Goshi and Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Design of an Enhanced Bearer Buffer for Latency Minimization in the Mobile RAN: Rajeev Kumar (New York University, USA); Andrea Francini (Nokia Bell Laboratories, USA); Shivendra Panwar (New York University & Tandon School of Engineering, USA); Sameerkumar Sharma (Nokia Bell Labs, USA)
Multipath Routing, Spectrum and Core Allocation in Protected SDM Elastic Optical Networks: Helder May Nunes da Silva Oliveira (University of Campinas, Brazil); Nelson L. S. da Fonseca (State University of Campinas, Brazil)
Secure Semantic Interoperability for IoT Applications with Linked Data: George Hatzivasilis (FORTH-ICS, Greece); Othonas Soultatos (FORTH-ICS, Greece & City University London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Eftychia Lakka and Sotiris Ioannidis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece); Darco Anicic (Siemens, USA); Arne Bröring (Siemens AG, Germany); Konstantinos Fysarakis and George Spanoudakis (Sphynx Technology Solutions AG, Switzerland); Mirko Falchetto (STMicroelectronics, Italy); Łukasz Ciechomski (BlueSoft Sp. z o. o., Poland)
rQUIC: Integrating FEC with QUIC for Robust Wireless Communications: Pablo Garrido (IK4-IKERLAN, Spain); Maria Isabel Sanchez Bueno (Independent, Norway); Simone Ferlin (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Ramon Aguero (University of Cantabria, Spain); Ozgu Alay (Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway)
Multi-tier and multi-band heterogeneous wireless networks with black hole attacks: Anastasia Tsiota, Dionysis Xenakis, Nikos Passas and Lazaros Merakos (University of Athens, Greece)
Towards Secure Network Coding Enabled Mobile Small Cells: Vipindev Adat (University of Patras, Greece); Tafseer Akhtar (Wireless Communications Laboratory, University of Patras, Greece); Ilias Politis (Univerisity of Patras & Hellenic Open University, Greece); Christos Tselios (University of Patras & Citrix Inc., Greece); Stavros Kotsopoulos (Wireless Telecommunications Laboratory, Greece)
Optimal retransmission policies for ultra-reliable low latency communications with delayed feedback: Richard Combes (Supelec, France); Salah Eddine Elayoubi (CentraleSupélec, France); Thomas Varela Santana (Nokia, France)
Towards IoT Orchestrations with Security, Privacy, Dependability and Interoperability Guarantees: Konstantinos Fysarakis (Sphynx Technology Solutions AG, Switzerland); Manos Papoutsakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece); Nikolaos E. Petroulakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece); George Spanoudakis (Sphynx Technology Solutions AG, Switzerland)
FALCON: An Accurate Real-time Monitor for Client-based Mobile Network Data Analytics: Robert Falkenberg and Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University, Germany)
Online Popularity Prediction of Video Segments Towards More Efficient Content Delivery Networks: Zhiyi Tan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Wen Hu (iQIYI Co,. Ltd., P.R. China); Ya Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Hao Ding (iQIYI Co,. Ltd., P.R. China)
Transmission Design for Energy-Efficient Vehicular Networks with Multiple Delay-limited Applications: Danyan Lan (Tongji University, P.R. China); Chao Wang (Tongji University, P.R. China & University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ping Wang and Fuqiang Liu (Tongji University, P.R. China); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Physical Layer Security in Vehicular Communication Networks in the Presence of Interference: Abubakar Umar Makarfi, Rupak Kharel and Khaled M. Rabie (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Omprakash Kaiwartya (Nottingham Trent University, Sweden); Galymzhan Nauryzbayev (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
Optimal Pricing for Serverless Computing: Kunal Mahajan (Columbia University, USA); Daniel R Figueiredo (UFRJ, Brazil); Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University, USA)
Sensory Data-driven Modeling of Adversaries in Mobile Crowdsensing Platforms: Kyle Quintal and Ertugrul Kara (University of Ottawa, Canada); Murat Simsek (University of Ottawa & Istanbul Technical University, Canada); Burak Kantarci and Herna Viktor (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Analyzing Adversarial Attacks Against Deep Learning for Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks: Olakunle Fola Ibitoye (Carleton University, Canada); Omair Shafiq (Carleton, Canada); Ashraf Matrawy (Carleton University, Canada)
Profiling IoT-based Botnet Traffic using DNS: Owen P Dwyer, Angelos K. Marnerides and Vasileios Giotsas (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Troy Mursch (Bad Packets LLC, USA)
Experimental Comparison of Energy Consumption and Proximity Accuracy of BLE Beacons: Andrew Mackey and Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada)

Thursday, December 12

Thursday, December 12 8:45 - 10:30

AHSN7: Learning I

AHSN7-6 papers

Room: King's 3

Chair: Lin Ma (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

User Association and Power Allocation Based on Q-Learning in Ultra Dense Heterogeneous Networks: Dong Li (University of Science & Technology Beijing, P.R. China); Haijun Zhang, Keping Long and Wei Huangfu (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China); Jiangbo Dong (China Mobile Group Design Institute Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Arumugam Nallanathan (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
QoE-Aware Power Control for UAV-aided Media Transmission with Reinforcement Learning: Yuzhen Ding, Donghua Jiang, Jinhao Huang, Liang Xiao, Sicong Liu and Yuliang Tang (Xiamen University, P.R. China); Huaiyu Dai (NC State University, USA)
Dynamic Channel Allocation for Multi-UAVs: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach: Xianglong Zhou (Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, P.R. China); Yun Lin and Ya Tu (Harbin Engineering University, P.R. China); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA); Zheng Dou (Harbin Engineering University, P.R. China)
Trajectory Design for Overlay UAV-to-Device Communications by Deep Reinforcement Learning: Fanyi Wu (Peking University, P.R. China); Hongliang Zhang (University of Houston, USA); Jianjun Wu and Lingyang Song (Peking University, P.R. China)
Massive Autonomous UAV Path Planning: A Neural Network Based Mean-Field Game Theoretic Approach: Hamid Shiri and Jihong Park (University of Oulu, Finland); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)
Reinforcement Learning Based QoS-Provisioning Over Energy-Harvesting 5G Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks: Xi Zhang and Jingqing Wang (Texas A&M University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

CISS7: Cloud Security I

CISS7-6 papers

Room: Queen's 4
Chair: Jun Du (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)

Secure Cryptography Infrastructures in the Cloud: Dawei Chu, Kaijie Zhu, Quanwei Cai and Jingqiang Lin (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Fengjun Li (University of Kansas, USA); Le Guan (University of Georgia, P.R. China); Lingchen Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
cSFC: Building Credible Service Function Chain on the Cloud: Shengsheng Yao, Mingwei Xu, Qi Li, Jiahao Cao and Qiyang Song (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
A Secure and Efficient Medical Data Sharing Protocol for Cloud-Assisted WBAN: Jingwei Liu, Qian Zhong and Rong Sun (Xidian University, P.R. China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (University of Idaho, USA)
Stackelberg Differential Game Based Resource Sharing in Hierarchical Fog-Cloud Computing: Jun Du and Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China); Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon & LIA/CERI, France); Song Guo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Yong Ren (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China)
BSA: Enhancing Attribute-Based Encryption in Cloud Computing with Decentralized Specification: Peiyao Li (State Key Laboratory of Information Security, IIE, Chinese Academy of Sciences & School of Cyber Security，University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Heyang Cao (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Mingsheng Wang (Institute of Information Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
A Secure Cloud Approach for Intelligent Transport Systems: Geoffrey Wilhelm and Marwane Ayaida (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France); Hacene Fouchal (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)

CISS8: Detection and Prevention

CISS8-6 papers

Room: Kona 2
Chair: Lin Yao (Dalian University of Technology, China)

LSTM-based Detection for Timing Attacks in Named Data Network: Lin Yao and Binyao Jiang (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Jing Deng (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA)
Anomaly Detection Based on Spatio-Temporal and Sparse Features of Network Traffic in VANETs: Laisen Nie and Huizhi Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Shimin Gong (Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China); Zhaolong Ning (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA); Kuei-Fang Hsiao (Ming Chuan University, Taiwan)
Towards Optimal Cyber Defense Remediation in Energy Delivery Systems: Kamrul Hasan, Sachin Shetty and Sharif Ullah (Old Dominion University, USA); Amin Hassanzadeh (Accenture Technology Labs, USA); Ethan Hadar (Accenture Technology Labs, Israel)
PGSM-DPI: Precisely Guided Signature Matching of Deep Packet Inspection for Traffic Analysis: Haonan Yan, Hui Li, MingChi Xiao, Rui Dai, Xianchun Zheng and Xingwen Zhao (Xidian University, P.R. China); Fenghua Li (State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, P.R. China)
Towards Robust Ensemble Defense Against Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Models: Nag Mani and Melody Moh (San Jose State University, USA); Teng-Sheng Moh (San José State University, USA)
An Experimental Study Towards Attacker Identification in Automotive Networks: Jing Ning and Jiajia Liu (Xidian University, P.R. China)

Thursday, December 12 8:45 - 9:30

CISS9: Security & Privacy II

CISS9_interactive session-22 papers

Room: Grand Promenade
Chair: Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA)

Think That Attackers Think: Using First-order Theory of Mind in Intrusion Response System: Qiumei Cheng (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Chunming Wu (Zhejiang University & Zhejiang Lab); Bin Hu and Dezhang Kong (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Boyang Zhou (Zhejiang Lab, P.R. China)
Targeted Malicious Email Detection using Hypervisor-based Dynamic Analysis and Ensemble Learning: Jian Zhang (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, P.R. China); Wenzhen Li and Liangyi Gong (Tianjin University of Technology, P.R. China); Zhaojun Gu (Civil Aviation University of China, P.R. China); Wu Jeffrey (PC Security Labs, P.R. China)
No Way to Evade: Detecting Multi-Path Routing Attacks for NIDS: Likun Liu, Jiantao Shi, Hongli Zhang and Xiangzhan Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)
Artificial Noise Aided Hybrid Precoding Design for Secure mmWave MIMO System: Wenrong Chen, Zhi Chen, Boyu Ning and Jun Fang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
An Efficient Query Scheme for Privacy-Preserving Lightweight Bitcoin Client with Intel SGX: Yukun Niu, Chi Zhang, Lingbo Wei and Yankai Xie (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Zhang Xia (WHUT, P.R. China); Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, USA)
Machine Learning Classification on Traffic of Secondary Encryption: Meng Shen (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Jinpeng Zhang (Beijing Institute of Tchnology, P.R. China); Siqi Chen, Yiting Liu and Liehuang Zhu (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China)
Improved P2P Botnet Community Detection: Combining Modularity and Strong Community: Harshvardhan P Joshi and Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State University, USA)
Efficient Password Guessing based on a Password Segmentation Approach: Gelei Deng (A*STAR, Singapore); Xingjie Yu (Scientist, Singapore); Huaqun Guo (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore)
On the Viable Area of Wireless Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) Blockchain Networks: Oluwakayode Onireti, Lei Zhang and Muhammad Ali Imran (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Participant Recruitment for Coverage-Aware Mobile Crowdsensing with Location Differential Privacy: Liang Li and Ronghui Hou (Xidian University, P.R. China); Xinyue Zhang (University of Houston, USA); Hao Yue (San Francisco State University, USA); Hui Li (Xidian University, P.R. China); Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA)
Secrecy Throughput Maximization for Massive MIMO Wireless Powered Communication Networks: Roohollah Rezaei (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Xin Kang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Yong Liang Guan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Mohammad Reza Pakravan (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Pontus: A Linguistics-based DGA Detection System: Huilin Zhang (National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China, P.R. China); Dingkui Yan (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yipeng Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Zang Tianning (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Xiaolin XU (CNCERT/CC, P.R. China); Yuwei Zeng (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Institute of Information Engineering, P.R. China)
Reliable Broadcast in Networks with Trusted Nodes: Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada); Moayad Aloqaily (Gnowit Inc., Canada); Lewis Tseng, Yingjian Wu and Haochen Pan (Boston College, USA)
Secure Routing in IoT: Evaluation of RPL's Secure Mode under Attacks: Ahmed Raoof (Carleton University & Engineering Faculty, Canada); Ashraf Matrawy and Chung-Horng Lung (Carleton University, Canada)
Behavioral Cyber Deception: A Game and Prospect Theoretic Approach: Satyaki Nan and Swastik Brahma (Tennessee State University, USA); Charles A Kamhoua (US Army Research Laboratory & Network Science Division, USA); Nandi Leslie (CCDC Army Research Laboratory & Raytheon, USA)
Privacy Preserving Fog-enabled Dynamic Data Aggregation in Mobile Phone Sensing: Xiaobo Li, Lei Zhou and Anmin Fu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Mang Su and Wei Yang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
Privacy-Preserving Compressive Sensing for Traffic Estimation: Jiayin Li and Wenzhong Guo (Fuzhou University, P.R. China); Zhuo Ma (Xidian University, P.R. China); Xianjia Meng (Northwest University, P.R. China); Yang Yang and Ximeng Liu (Fuzhou University, P.R. China)
Cryptanalysis of RSA Large Decryption Exponent Using Lattice Basis Reduction: Majid Mumtaz (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Ping Luo (Tsinghua University, USA)
A Long Short-Term Memory Enabled Framework for DDoS Detection: Xiaoyu Liang and Taieb Znati (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Exploiting CSI-MIMO for Accurate and Efficient Device Identification: Laxima Niure Kandel, Shucheng Yu and Zhuosheng Zhang (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Generative Adversarial Networks for Distributed Intrusion Detection in the Internet of Things: Aidin Ferdowsi and Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA)
Modeling Stepping Stone Attacks with Constraints in Cyber Infrastructure: Marco A Gamarra, Sachin Shetty and Oscar Gonzalez (Old Dominion University, USA); David Nicol (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA); Laurent Njilla (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)

Thursday, December 12 8:45 - 10:30

CT6: Coding Theory and Practice

CT6-6 papers

Room: Queen's 5

The Penalty in Scaling Exponent for Polar Codes is Analytically Approximated by the Golden Ratio: Ori Shental (Bell Labs, USA)
Total Variation Distance and Improved Random Coding Union Bounds: Nick A Letzepis (Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia)
Segmentation-Discarding Ordered-Statistic Decoding for Linear Block Codes: Chentao Yue (The University of Sydney, Australia); Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam, Yonghui Li and Branka Vucetic (University of Sydney, Australia)
Quasi-Orthogonal Sparse Superposition Codes: Alberto G. Perotti and Branislav M. Popovic (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden)
A List-Decoding Approach to Low-Complexity Soft Maximum-Likelihood Decoding of Cyclic Codes: Hengjie Yang and Ethan Liang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Hanwen Yao (University of California, San Diego, USA); Alexander Vardy (University of California San Diego, USA); Dariush Divsalar (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA); Richard Wesel (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
List-Decoded Tail-Biting Convolutional Codes with Distance-Spectrum Optimal CRCs for 5G: Ethan Liang and Hengjie Yang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Dariush Divsalar (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA); Richard Wesel (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

GCSN4: Energy Efficiency in 5G, DCNs and HetNets

GCSN4-6 papers

Room: Queen's 6

Chair: Yifei Wei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Traffic Consolidation for Green Optical DCNs: Suresh Singh (Portland State University, USA); Qing Yi (Intel Corp., USA)
Joint Power Control and User Association Strategy in Green HetNets Using Deep Q-Network with LSTM: Xiaowei Liu, Yifei Wei, Bo Gu and Mei Song (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xiaojun Wang (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Traffic Offloading and Power Allocation for Green HetNets Using Reinforcement Learning Method: Bo Gu, Yifei Wei, Xiaowei Liu and Mei Song (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
A Joint Balancing Flow Table and Reducing Delay Scheme for Mice-flows in Data Center Networks: Qiongxiao Fu, Enchang Sun, Qianwen Wang, Zhuwei Wang and Yanhua Zhang (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China)
Energy-efficient Flow Routing and Scheduling in Hybrid Data Center Networks: Mingmeng Luo, Jiandong Li, Jianpeng Ma, Hongyan Li and Min Sheng (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Energy Efficient 5G NR Street-Macro Deployment in a Dense Urban Scenario: Pål Frenger (Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB, Sweden); Ke Wang Helmersson (Ericsson Research, Sweden)

MWN6: Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks

MWN6-6 papers

Room: Kohala 1

Chair: Xuanli Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

Joint Resource Allocation in NOMA Systems with Imperfect SIC: Lele Chen and Bin Cao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)
A Two-Stage Resource Allocation for SCMA-Based C-V2X Networks: Wei Wu, Tong Xue, Qie Wang and Shuai Han (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Xuanli Wu (Communication Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)
Resource Allocation for Mobile Blockchain: A Hierarchical Combinatorial Auction Approach: Kun Zhu and Shan Li (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China); Yuanyuan Xu (Hohai University, P.R. China); Ran Wang and Yanchao Zhao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China)
Learning-based Resource Optimization in Ultra Reliable Low Latency HetNets: Mohammad Yousefvand (Winlab, Rutgers University, USA); Kenza Hamidouche (Rutgers University, USA); Narayan Mandayam (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA)
Dynamic slicing of RAN resources for heterogeneous coexisting 5G services: Sihem Bakri (EURECOM France, France); Pantelis A. Frangoudis (EURECOM, France); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France)
Joint Bandwidth, Caching, and Computing Resource Allocation for Mobile VR Delivery in F-RANs: Tian Dang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Mugen Peng (Beijing University of posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yaqiong Liu and Chenxi Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

MWN7: Power Control and Energy Efficiency

MWN7-6 papers

Room: Kona 3

Chair: Jingxian Wu (University of Arkansas, USA)

Optimal Power Control for Over-the-Air Computation: Xiaowen Cao (Guangdong University of Technology, P.R. China); Guangxu Zhu (The University of Hong Kong, P.R. China); Jie Xu (Guangdong University of Technology, P.R. China); Kaibin Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Power Allocation for Multi-Beam Max-Min Fairness in Millimeter-Wave Beamspace MIMO-NOMA: Ruicheng Jiao and Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Wei Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China); Feng Lyu, Nan Cheng and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Power-Consumption Outage Challenge in Next-Generation Cellular Networks: Jing Yang and Yi Zhong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Xiaohu Ge (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, P.R. China); Han-Chieh Chao (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan)
Optimum Energy Efficiency and Area Spectral Efficiency Tradeoff in User-Centric Ultra-Dense Networks: Dali Hu (Nanyang Normal University, P.R. China); Jingxian Wu (University of Arkansas, USA)
Energy Efficiency Analysis of JT-CoMP Scheme in Macro/Femto Cellular Networks: Yanqiao Hou (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, France); Lynda Zitoune (ESIEE-Paris, France); Véronique Vèque (University of Paris-Sud 11, France)
Balancing Energy Efficiency and Hit Ratio in Social-Aware Caching: A Cross Layer Approach: Yan Fang and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Lixin Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)

NGNI7: MEC

NGNI7-6 papers

Room: Kohala 2

Chair: Nazih Salhab (UPEM, University of Paris-Est, Marne-la-Vallée, France & Lebanese University, DSST, Lebanon)

Edge eXchange: eNB with Wireless Backhaul Communication among Carriers: Kengo Sasaki and Satoshi Makido (Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., Japan); Akihiro Nakao (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
A Learning Approach to Edge Caching with Dynamic Content Library in Wireless Networks: Xinruo Zhang, Gan Zheng and Sangarapillai Lambotharan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohammad Reza Nakhai (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
An Efficient Service Function Chain Placement Algorithm in a MEC-NFV Environment: Meng Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Bo Cheng (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China); Wendi Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Junliang Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Taiwan)
An Auction Scheme for Computing Resource Allocation in D2D-assisted Mobile Edge Computing: Ruidong Zhang, Wenxiao Shi, Jiadong Zhang and Wei Liu (Jilin University, P.R. China)
Fine-grained Resource Management for Edge Computing Satellite Networks: Feng Wang, Dingde Jiang, Sheng Qi and Chen Qiao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Houbing Song (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA)
Enabling Computation Offloading for Autonomous and Assisted Driving in 5G Networks: Estefania Coronado (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy); Gabriel Cebrián-Márquez (University of Oviedo, Spain); Roberto Riggio (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

SAC IOT7: Routing, Resource Management and Access Control in IoT

SAC IOT7-6 papers

Room: Kona 1
Chair: Juan-Carlos Cano (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)

Using Local Expiration Timers to Reduce Buffer Utilisation When Using Epidemic Diffusion: Enrique Hernández-Orallo (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Carlos Borrego (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain); Carlos T. Calafate (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Juan-Carlos Cano (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Optimized Scheduling for Time-Critical Industrial IoT: Keoma Brun-Laguna (INRIA, France); Pascale Minet and Yasuyuki Tanaka (Inria, France)
Low-overhead Multi-antenna-enabled Random Access for Machine-type Communications with Low Mobility: Yihan Zou, Kwang Taik Kim, Xiaojun Lin and Mung Chiang (Purdue University, USA); Zhi Ding (University of California at Davis, USA); Risto Wichman (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland); Jyri Hämäläinen (Aalto University, Finland)
A Novel Grouping Mechanism for Performance Enhancement of Sub-1 GHz Wireless Networks: Xiaoying Lei (Yangzhou University, P.R. China); Seung Hyong Rhee (Kwangwoon University, Korea)
GraphiteRouting: Name-based Hierarchical Routing for Internet-of-Things in Enterprise Environments: Qian Zhou and Fan Ye (Stony Brook University, USA)
EdgeBox: Confidential Ad-hoc Personalization of Nearby IoT Applications: Christian Meurisch and Bekir Bayrak (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Max Muehlhaeuser (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)

SPC7: Signal detection and estimation

SPC7-6 papers

Room: Kohala 3

Chair: Sofiene Affes (INRS-EMT, Canada)

EM-Based ML Estimation of Fast Time-Varying Multipath Channels for SIMO OFDM Systems: Souheib Ben Amor and Sofiene Affes (INRS-EMT, Canada); Faouzi Bellili (University of Toronto, Canada)
Detection of a Signal in Colored Noise: A Random Matrix Theory Based Analysis: Lahiru Dulanjana Chamain Hewa Gamage (University of California, Davis, USA); Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka); Saman Atapattu (University of Melbourne, Australia); Chintha Tellambura (University of Alberta, Canada)
On Training Sequence Optimization for Leaked MIMO OFDM Channels: Amr Elnakeeb and Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA)
Adaptive Demodulation in Class A Impulse Noise Channels: Kristoffer Hägglund and Erik Axell (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden)
Low Complexity Expectation Propagation Detection for SCMA Using Approximate Computing: Jie Xiao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Jianhao Hu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), P.R. China); Kainning Han (UESTC, P.R. China)
A New Widely Linear Equalizer based on Expectation Propagation for Faster-Than-Nyquist: Titouan Petitpied (Thales group & IMS Laboratory, France); Romain Tajan (Bordeaux INP & IMS Laboratory, France); Guillaume Ferré (University of Bordeaux, France); Pascal Chevalier (CNAM, France); Sylvain Traverso (Thales Communications, France)

WC11: UAV Communications II

WC11-6 papers

Room: King's 1

Chair: Shuowen Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Radio Map Based Path Planning for Cellular-Connected UAV: Shuowen Zhang and Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Joint Uplink and Downlink 3D Optimization of An UAV Swarm for Wireless-Powered NB-IoT: Han-Ting Ye and Xin Kang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Jingon Joung (Chung-Ang University, Korea); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
UAV Placement and Bandwidth Allocation for UAV Based Wireless Networks: Nguyen Minh Dat (INRS-EMT & University of Quebec, Canada); Tai Manh Ho (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada); Long Bao Le (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Andre Girard (INRS-EMT and GERAD, Canada)
Cooperative Jamming for Secure UAV Communications with Partial Eavesdropper Information: Yupeng Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Rongqing Zhang (Tongji University, P.R. China); Jianhua Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Shijian Gao and Liuqing Yang (Colorado State University, USA)
Coverage Area Performance for Multiple Interfering UAVs: Aziz Khuwaja (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Gan Zheng (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wei Feng (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yunfei Chen (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Task and Bandwidth Allocation for UAV-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing with Trajectory Design: Xiaoyan Hu and Kai-Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhongbin Zheng (East Institute of CATR of MIIT, P.R. China)

WC12: Massive MIMO III

WC12-6 papers

Room: King's 2

Chair: Changyang She (University of Sydney, Australia)

Random Sequential Adsorption-based Pilot Assignment for Distributed Massive MIMO Systems: Priyabrata Parida and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
Channel Estimation in FDD Massive MIMO Systems Based on Block-Structured Dictionary Learning: Yu-Di Huang and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Noncoherent MIMO Codes Construction using Autoencoders: Mohamed A ElMossallamy, Zhu Han and Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA); Riku Jäntti (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland); Karim G Seddik (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Geoffrey Ye Li (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Angle-based Channel Estimation with Arbitrary Arrays: Yue Wang (George Mason University, USA); Yu Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China); Zhi Tian (George Mason University, USA); Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Gong Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China)
Multi-Pair Two-way Full-Duplex Massive MIMO Relaying with Non-Ideal Hardware: Sauradeep Dey and Ekant Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India); Rohit Budhiraja (IIT Kanpur, India)
Multi-Tenant Base Stations: Algorithms and a Prototype: Yuhong Liu (University of Sydney, Australia); Wibowo Hardjawana (The University of Sydney, Australia); Branka Vucetic (University of Sydney, Australia)

WC13: Millimeter Wave II

WC13-6 papers

Room: Kohala 4

Chair: Wendong Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Directional Wideband Channel Measurements at 28 GHz in an Industrial Environment: Mathis Schmieder (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Fabian Undi (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Michael Peter (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Ephraim Koenig and Wilhelm Keusgen (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany)
Early-Late Protocol for Coordinated Beam Scheduling in MmWave Cellular Networks: Ziyuan Sha and Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Sheng Chen and Lajos Hanzo (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Dual Frequency Bands Shadowing Correlation Model in A Micro-cellular Environment: Daoud Burghal (University of Southern California, USA); Sinh Nguyen and Katsuyuki Haneda (Aalto University, Finland); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)
On Load Balancing in Millimeter Wave HetNets with Integrated Access and Backhaul: Chiranjib Saha and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
Deep Neural Network Symbol Detection for Millimeter Wave Communications: Yun Liao and Nariman Farsad (Stanford University, USA); Nir Shlezinger and Yonina Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)
UCA-Based Sub-Connected Hybrid Precoding for MmWave Multi-User Systems: Wendong Liu and Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

WC14: Machine Learning II

WC14-6 papers

Room: Waikoloa 2

Chair: Changsheng You (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Unsupervised Deep Learning for Ultra-reliable and Low-latency Communications: Chengjian Sun and Chenyang Yang (Beihang University, P.R. China)
Rate Maximization with Reinforcement Learning for Time-Varying Energy Harvesting Broadcast Channels: Heasung Kim (Seoul National University & Communications and Machine Learning Lab, Korea); Wonjae Shin (Pusan National University, Korea); Heecheol Yang, Nayoung Lee and Jungwoo Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
An Energy-Efficient Content Pushing Policy with Opportunistic Transmissions over Wireless Links: Zhiyuan Lin (Tsinghua U, P.R. China); Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Content Caching Policy for 5G Network Based on Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic Method: Zhuoyang Shi, Lixin Li, Yang Xu and Xu Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Deep Learning Assisted User Identification in Massive Machine-Type Communications: Bryan Liu, Zhiqiang Wei and Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Milutin Pajovic (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA)
Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Localization with Commercial MMWave WiFi - Part I: RSS and Beam Indices: Milutin Pajovic, Pu Wang and Toshiaki Koike-Akino (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Haijian Sun (Utah State University, USA); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)

Thursday, December 12 9:45 - 10:30

CSSMA6: Interactive Session-22 papers

CSSMA6_interactive session-22 papers

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Abdellatif Kobbane (ENSIAS, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco)

Exploiting Caching and Prediction to Promote User Experience for a Real-time Wireless VR Service: Shulai Zhang, Meixia Tao and Zhiyong Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Optimizing Latency Sensitive Applications for Amazon's Public Cloud Platform: János Czentye and Istvan Pelle (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); András Kern and Balázs Gerő (Ericsson, Hungary); Laszlo Toka and Balázs Sonkoly (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Performance evaluation of the QoS aware Web service composition with communities of consumers: Lynda Mokdad (Université de Paris 12 & Laboratoire LACL, France); Jean-Michel Fourneau (University of Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines, France); Abdelkrim Abdelli (USTHB University- Algiers, Algeria)
A Soft Logical Interface PMIPv6-based Handover Mechanism in VANETs: Livinus Tuyisenge and Marwane Ayaida (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France); Samir Tohme (Universite de Versailles UVSQ, France); Lissan Afilal (CReSTIC, France)
Coexistence of ICN and IP Networks: An NFV as a Service Approach: Boubakr Nour, Fan Li and Hakima Khelifi (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Hassine Moungla (University of Paris Descartes & Instiut Mines Telecom, France); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France)
Personalized Travel Itineraries with Multi-access Edge Computing Touristic Services: Felipe Fonseca (UFG, Brazil); Lefteris Mamatas (University of Macedonia, Greece); Aline Carneiro Viana (INRIA, France); Sand Correa (Universidade Federal de Goias (UFG), Brazil); Kleber V Cardoso (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil)
A QoS-aware Cache Replacement Policy for Vehicular Named Data Networks: Hakima Khelifi, SenLin Luo and Boubakr Nour (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Hassine Moungla (University of Paris Descartes & Instiut Mines Telecom, France)
Delay-bounded Virtual Emotion Recognition using IoT Barriers in Advanced Smart Environment: Hyunbum Kim (University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA); Jalel Ben-Othman (CentraleSupélec & University of Paris 13, France); Lynda Mokdad (Université de Paris 12 & Laboratoire LACL, France); Garrett Neilson (University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA); Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy)
Resource allocation and event synchronisation approach based on Max-Plus Algebra for cloud computing: Liliane Sleiman (Université d'Haute Alsace, France); Sara Kassan (University of Haute Alsace & UHA, France); Jaafar Gaber (UTBM, France); Lassabe Frédéric (Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France); Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace, France)
Graph-Partition Based Fast Channel Assignment in Cellular Networks: Houssem Eddine Hadji and Malika Babes (Badji Mokhtar University, Algeria); Fen Zhou (Institut Supérieur d'Electronique de Paris (ISEP) & University of Avignon, France); Abderrezak Rachedi (University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
A Genetic-Algorithm Based Method For Storage Location Assignment In Mobile Rack Warehouse: Dongwen Zhang and Yaqi Si (Hebei University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Zhihong Tian, Lihua Yin and Jing Qiu (Guangzhou University, P.R. China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA)
A Resources Representation For Resource Allocation In Fog Computing Networks: Amine Abouaomar (ENSIAS, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco & Université de Sherbrooke, Canada); Soumaya Cherkaoui (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada); Abdellatif Kobbane (ENSIAS, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco); Abderrahmane Oussama Dambri (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)
UAV-based Ubiquitous Network Access: A Game Theoretic Analysis: Hamid Garmani, Driss Ait Omar and Baslam Mohamed (University of Sultan Moulay Slimane, Morocco); Mohamed El Kamili (Higher School of Technology, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco)
QoE-Sensitive Economic Pricing Model for Wireless Multimedia Communications Using Stackelberg Game: Krishna Murthy Kattiyan Ramamoorthy and Wei Wang (San Diego State University, USA)
Smart Service-Oriented Clustering for Dynamic Slice Configuration: Tarik Taleb and Djamel Bensalem (Aalto University, Finland); Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi (Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)
An Efficient Data Scheduling Scheme for Cloud-based Big Data Framework for Smart City: Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia); Nargis Khan (Ryerson University, Canada); Mohamed El Attar (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia); Kassem Saleh (Kuwait University, Kuwait); Amjad Abujamous (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Mc-Track: A Cloud based data oriented vehicular tracking system with adaptive security: Abdellah Kaci (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Technologie, Algeria); Abderrezak Rachedi (University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
Transparent and Dynamic Deployment of Lightweight Transport Protocols: El-Fadel Bonfoh (LAAS-CNRS of France, France); Djolo Cédric Tape (LAAS-CNRS, France); Samir Medjiah (LAAS-CNRS & Université Paul Sabatier, France); Christophe Chassot (LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse & INSA Toulouse, France)
Offline QoS Association scheme based on Clients priorities and demands in WLAN networks: Mohamed Amine Kafi (CentraleSupelec, L2S ( Laboratory of Systems and Signals), France); Alexandre Mouradian (Université Sud Paris, France); Véronique Vèque (University of Paris-Sud 11, France)
On Demonstrating the Gain of SFC Placement with VNF Sharing at the Edge: Amir Mohamad and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
Deep Learning-Based Real-time Object Detection in Inland Navigation: Wided Hammedi (University of Burgundy, France); Metzli Ramirez-Martinez (Université de Bourgogne, France); Mohamed-Ayoub Messous (University of Burgundy & DRIVE Lab, France); Sidi-Mohammed Senouci (University of Bourgogne - ISAT Nevers, France); Philippe Brunet (Université de Bourgogne, France)
Power Dispatching in Cloud Data Centers Using Smart Microgrids: A Game Theory Approach: Mohammed Anis Benblidia (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Bouziane Brik (University of Troyes, France); Moez Esseghir (Technology University of Troyes & Charles Delaunay Institute, France); Leila Boulahia (University of Technology of Troyes, France)

Thursday, December 12 2:00 - 3:30

CISS10: Physical Layer Security II

CISS10-5 papers

Room: Kohala 1

Chair: Xixiang Lv (Xidian University, P.R. China)

A Robust Algorithm for Sniffing BLE Long-Lived Connections in Real-time: Sopan Sarkar and Jianqing Liu (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA); Emil Jovanov (The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)
Performance Analysis of Secure GPSM Systems for Physical Layer Security: Yashan Pang, Lei Xia, Yue Xiao and You Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Wei Xiang (James Cook University, Australia)
Jamming Power Control for Secure Communication via Untrusted Relay with Imperfect Channel Estimation: Junseob Lee (ChungBuk National University, Korea); Kisong Lee (Chungbuk National University, Korea)
Distance-Adaptive Absorption-Peak Hopping (DA-APH) Modulation for Terahertz Covert Communications: Weijun Gao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Yi Chen (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Zhi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Man-in-the-Middle and Denial of Service Attacks in Wireless Secret Key Generation: Miroslav Mitev (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Arsenia Chorti (ETIS / ENSEA UCP CNRS & University Paris Seine, France); E. Veronica Belmega (ETIS / ENSEA - UCP - CNRS, France); Martin J Reed (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

CT7: Multiple Access and Interference Management

CT7-5 papers

Room: Kohala 2

Chair: Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Inter-Cell Interference Coordination in Millimeter-Wave Cellular Networks: Haichao Wei (Dalian Maritime University, P.R. China); Na Deng (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Martin Haenggi (University of Notre Dame, USA)
A Novel Spectral-Efficient Resource Allocation Approach for NOMA-Based Full-Duplex Systems: Hieu V. Nguyen (Soongsil University, Korea); Van-Dinh Nguyen (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada); Diep N. Nguyen and Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Oh-Soon Shin (Soongsil University, Korea)
Locally Adaptive Scheduling Policy for Optimizing Information Freshness in Wireless Networks: Howard Yang (SUTD, Singapore); Ahmed Arafa (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Irregular Repetition ALOHA with Packet Length Diversity: Talha Akyıldız and Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey)
A Joint Graph Based Coding Scheme for the Unsourced Random Access Gaussian Channel: Asit Pradhan (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University); Vamsi Amalladinne, Avinash Vem, Krishna Narayanan and Jean-Francois Chamberland (Texas A&M University, USA)

MWN8: UAV and UAV-Assited Networks

MWN8-5 papers

Room: Kohala 3

Chair: Igor Bisio (University of Genoa, Italy)

Dynamic Channel Selection in UAVs through Constellations in the Sky: Guillem Reus Muns, Mithun Diddi, Hanumant Singh and Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Channel and Power Allocation in UAV-enabled IoT Systems: Yang Cao (UESTC, P.R. China); Lin Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), P.R. China); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Trajectory Optimization and Resource Allocation for Multi-user OFDMA UAV Relay Networks: Shuhao Zeng (Peking University, P.R. China); Hongliang Zhang (University of Houston, USA); Lingyang Song (Peking University, P.R. China)
UAV-Assisted Data Dissemination with Proactive Caching and File Sharing in V2X Networks: Rui Lu (Peking University, P.R. China); Rongqing Zhang (Tongji University, P.R. China); Xiang Cheng (Peking University, P.R. China); Liuqing Yang (Colorado State University, USA)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Minimizing Age-of-Information in UAV-assisted Networks: Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid, Aidin Ferdowsi, Harpreet S Dhillon and Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA)

MWN9: Internet of Things

MWN9-5 papers

Room: Kohala 4

Chair: Moussa Ayyash (Chicago State University, USA)

SDN-Capable IoT Last-Miles: Design Challenges: Keshav Sood (Deakin University, Melbourne Australia, Australia); Shiva Raj Pokhrel (Deakin University & Nepal Telecom, Australia); Kallol Krishna Karmakar (University of Newcastle, Australia); Vijay Vardharajan (The University of Newcastle, Australia); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Fair Scheduling in IEEE 802.11ah Networks for Internet of Things Applications: Lella Rajya Lakshmi and Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Route Planning and Data Dissemination For Urban Scenarios Using Internet of Things: Awais Marwat (Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan); Anand Paul (Kyungpook National University & Hanyang University, Korea); Marco Anisetti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Gwanggil Jeon (Incheon National University, Korea); Sadia Din (Kyungpook National University, Korea); Muhammad Imran (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Hierarchical Chain based Transmission Protocol for Massive IoTs Network with Energy Harvesting: Xuehan Chen (Central South University, P.R. China); Yong Liu (South China Normal University, P.R. China); Mengqi Han (IIT, USA); Zhigang Chen (Central South University, P.R. China); Lin X. Cai and Yu Cheng (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA); Bin Lin (Dalian Maritime University, P.R. China)
Delay-aware IoT Task Scheduling in Space-air-ground Integrated Network: Conghao Zhou and Wen Wu (University of Waterloo, Canada); Hongli He (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Peng Yang, Feng Lyu, Nan Cheng and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)

NGNI8: ICN

NGNI8-5 papers

Room: Kona 1

Chair: Ran Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Multi-agent Cooperative Alternating Q-learning Caching in D2D-enabled Cellular Networks: Xinyuan Fang and Tiankui Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhimin Zeng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Preference-Aware Caching and Cooperative Coded Multicasting Design for Wireless Backhaul Networks: Aimin Tang, Yao Liu and Xudong Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
ICN-PEP: ICN Performance Enhancing Proxy for the Efficient Global Content Distribution: Kazuaki Ueda and Atsushi Tagami (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan)
Service-Aware Optimal Caching Placement for Named Data Networking: Ran Zhang, Jiang Liu, Renchao Xie and Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)
On Maximizing the Value of Cache Contents in ICN: Faria Khandaker and Wenjie Li (Queen's University, Canada); Sharief Oteafy (DePaul University, USA); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)

NGNI9: NFV II

NGNI9-5 papers

Room: Kona 2

Chair: Estefania Coronado (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

Novel Approaches for VNF Requirement Prediction Using DNN and LSTM: Zakia Zaman (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Sabidur Rahman (University of California, Davis, USA); Mahmuda Naznin (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) & 4MLab@ULL.net, University of Louisiana, Bangladesh)
LTE as a Service: leveraging NFV for realising dynamic 5G network slicing: Luis Sanabria-Russo (CTTC, Spain); Ludovico Righi (University of Trento, Italy); David Pubill and Jordi Serra (CTTC, Spain); Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento, Italy); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)
On Application-aware and On-demand Service Composition in Heterogenous NFV Environments: Lu Dong, Kai Han, Lipei Liang, Bin Niu, Sicheng Zhao and Zuqing Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Resilient VNF Placement for Service Chain Embedding in Diversified 5G Network Slices: Purnima Murali Mohan and Mohan Gurusamy (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
DeepPR: Incremental Recovery for Interdependent VNFs with Deep Reinforcement Learning: Genya Ishigaki (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Siddartha Devic (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Riti Gour (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Jason P. Jue (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Thursday, December 12 2:00 - 2:45

SAC CCNS6: SAC CCNS Interactive Session

SAC CCNS6_interactive session-22 papers

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Yongjune Kim (Western Digital Research, USA)

Heterogeneous Coded Computation across Heterogeneous Workers: Yuxuan Sun (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Junlin Zhao (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sheng Zhou (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
SecReS: A Secure and Reliable Storage Scheme for Cloud with Client-side Data Deduplication: Tariqul Islam, Hassan Mistareehi and D. Manivannan (University of Kentucky, USA)
Secure Coded Cooperative Computation at the Heterogeneous Edge against Byzantine Attacks: Yasaman Keshtkarjahromi (Seagate Technology, Storage Research Group, USA); Rawad Bitar (Rutgers University, USA); Venkateswara Dasari (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Salim El Rouayheb (Rutgers University, USA); Hulya Seferoglu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Secure Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing Systems: Hui Yang, Jun-Bo Wang and Ming Cheng (Southeast University, P.R. China); Chuanwen Chang (The 28th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, P.R. China); Jin-Yuan Wang and Min Lin (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Ming Chen (Southeast University, P.R. China)
ARM: An Accelerator for Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing: Tongyu Song, Wenshuai Xu, Wenyu Hu, Jing Ren, Sheng Wang and Shizhong Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
A Multi-Objective Service Placement and Load Distribution in Edge Computing: Adyson Magalhães Maia (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of la Rochelle, France); Dario Vieira (EFREI, France); Miguel Franklin de Castro (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
An Efficient Accountable Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Public Information Sharing in Fog Computing: Imine Youcef (University de Technologie de Compiègne, France); Ahmed Lounis (University de Technology de Compiègne, France); Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah (Universite de Technologie - Compiegne, France)
Privacy-Aware Edge Computing Based on Adaptive DNN Partitioning: Chengshuai Shi (University of Vriginia, USA); Lixing Chen (University of Miami, USA); Cong Shen (University of Virginia, USA); Linqi Song (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Jie Xu (University of Miami, USA)
Computing Maximum and Minimum with Privacy Preservation and Flexible Access Control: Wenxiu Ding (Xidian University, P.R. China); Zheng Yan (Xidian University & Aalto University, P.R. China); Xinren Qian (Xidian University, P.R. China); Robert Deng (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Multi-source Feedback Based Light-weight Trust Mechanism for Edge Computing: Zhipeng Gao and Xia Chenxi (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Qian Wang (BUPT, P.R. China); Huang Junmeng, Yang Yang and Lanlan Rui (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
A SDN-assisted Energy Saving Scheme for Cooperative Edge Computing Networks: Alagan Anpalagan and Ali Alnoman (Ryerson University, Canada)
Power Efficient User Cooperative Computation to Maximize Completed Tasks in MEC Networks: Yijin Pan (Southeast University, P.R. China & University of Kent, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Cunhua Pan (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kezhi Wang (Northumbria University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Huiling Zhu and Jiangzhou Wang (University of Kent, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
JOCAR: A Jointly Optimal Caching and Routing Framework for Cooperative Edge Caching Networks: Yuris Mulya Saputra (University of Technology Sydney, Australia & Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia); Hoang Thai Dinh (University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia); Diep N. Nguyen and Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
GTTC:A Low-Expenditure IoT Multi-Task Coordinated Distributed Computing Framework with Fog Computing: Han Xiao, Changqiao Xu and Tengfei Cao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Lujie Zhong (Capital Normal University, P.R. China); Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Weaver: A Novel Configuration Designer for IT/NW Services in Heterogeneous Environments: Takayuki Kuroda (NEC Corporation, Japan); Takuya Kuwahara (System Platform Research Laboratories, NEC, Japan); Takashi Maruyama and Kozo Satoda (NEC Corporation, Japan); Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC, Japan); Katsushi Matsuda and Takao Osaki (NEC Corporation, Japan)
Performance Analysis of an Edge Computing System for Real Time Computations and Mobile Users: Romano Fantacci and Benedetta Picano (University of Florence, Italy)
Optimal Design of Wireless-Powered Hierarchical Fog-Cloud Computing Networks: Jingxian Liu and Ke Xiong (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Pingyi Fan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
RLS-VNE: Repeatable Large-Scale Virtual Network Embedding over Substrate Nodes: Desheng Wang and Weizhe Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Hui He (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)
Event Detection on Unreliable Distributed Storage Network: Wei Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Zimu Yuan (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Shuhui Yang (Purdue University Northwest, USA)
Network-Aware Container Scheduling in Multi-Tenant Data Center: Leonardo Rosa Rodrigues (Graduate Program in Applied Computing - Santa Catarina State University, Brazil); Marcelo Pasin (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland); Omir Correa Alves Jr. and Charles Christian Miers (Santa Catarina State University, Brazil); Mauricio Pillon (Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina & UDESC, Brazil); Pascal Felber (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland); Guilherme Koslovski (Santa Catarina State University, Brazil)
Flat-Rate Pricing for Green Edge Computing With Latency Guarantee: A Stackelberg Game Approach: Zhan-Lun Chang and Hung-Yu Wei (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
MLFV: Network-aware Orchestration for Placing Chains of Virtualized Machine Learning Functions: Renan Souza, Celio Trois and Rogério Turchetti (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil); Magnos Martinello (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil); João Henrique Corrêa and Diego Mafioletti (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil); Luis Carlos Erpen De Bona (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil); Joao Carlos D Lima and Alencar Machado (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil)

Thursday, December 12 2:00 - 3:30

SAC IOT8: LPWAN Technology II

SAC IOT8-5 papers

Room: Kona 3

Chair: Pietro Manzoni (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

Introducing Scalability in LoRa-Based Networks Through Multi-Hop Communication Setups: Muhammad Omer Farooq (Carleton University, Canada)
A Novel Approach for Performance Analysis of IoT Enabled Uplink Network with Matérn Cluster Process: Syeda Puspita Mouri (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Mahdi Ben Ghorbel (University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada); Md. Jahangir Hossain (Universtiy of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada)
Collision-Tolerant Narrowband Communication using Non-Orthogonal Modulation and Multiple Access: Chin-Wei Hsu (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA); Hun Seok Kim (University of Michigan, USA)
Uplink Performance Analysis for Grant-Free Narrowband IoT with Widely Linear Receiver: Ronghua Gui (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Naveen Mysore Balasubramanya (IIT Dharwad, India); Gautham Prasad (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Lutz Lampe (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Resource Allocation for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) Enabled LPWA Networks: Kaihan Li, Fatma Benkhelifa and Julie McCann (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

SAC IOT9: Localization and Tracking II

SAC IOT9-5 papers

Room: Waikoloa 2
Chair: R Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology)

AZUPT: Adaptive Zero Velocity Update Based on Neural Networks for Pedestrian Tracking: Xinguo Yu, Ben Liu and Xinyue Lan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Zhuoling Xiao (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shuisheng Lin (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Yan Bo (Fellow, P.R. China); Liang Zhou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Indoor Position Recognition and Interference Classification with A Nested LSTM Network: Yonghao Zhao, Wai-Choong Wong, Hari Krishna Garg, Tianyi Feng, Zhixiang Zhang and Lin Tang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
An Enhanced Particle Filter Algorithm with Map Information for Indoor Positioning System: Xiaoqian Du, Xuewen Liao, Zhenzhen Gao and Ye Fan (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Artificial Intelligence and Location Verification in Vehicular Networks: Ullah Ihsan, Ziqing Wang, Robert Malaney and Andrew Dempster (University of New South Wales, Australia); Shihao Yan (Macquarie University, Australia)
Estimating Crowd Distribution using Smart Bulbs: Renuka Prasad Manjappa (Signify, The Netherlands); Vijay S Rao (Cognizant Technology Solutions & Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); R Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Alexander Sinitsyn (Philips Research, The Netherlands)

WC15: Channel Modeling

WC15-5 papers

Room: King's 1

Chair: Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

On the Utility of the Inverse Gamma Distribution in Modeling Composite Fading Channels: Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa (University of Malaga, Spain); Francisco Javier Lopez-Martinez (Universidad de Malaga, Spain)
Time-Varying Channel Modeling for Low-Terahertz Urban Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications: Yi Chen (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Indoor Wireless Channel Properties at Millimeter Wave and Sub-Terahertz Frequencies: Yunchou Xing (NYU WIRELESS, USA); Ojas Kanhere, Shihao Ju and Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA)
A Millimeter-Wave Channel Simulator NYUSIM with Spatial Consistency and Human Blockage: Shihao Ju and Ojas Kanhere (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA); Yunchou Xing (NYU WIRELESS, USA); Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA)
Indoor and Outdoor Penetration Loss Measurements at 73 and 81 GHz: Mahfuza Khatun (BSU, USA); Changyu Guo (Boise State University, USA); David W Matolak (University of South Carolina, USA); Hani Mehrpouyan (Boise State University, USA)

WC16: Machine Type Communications I

WC16-5 papers

Room: King's 2
Chair: Lingjia Lia (Virginia Tech, USA)

Real-Time Wireless Networked Control Systems with Coding-Free Data Transmission: Wanchun Liu (The University of Sydney, Australia); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark); Yonghui Li and Branka Vucetic (University of Sydney, Australia)
Performance of Caching-Based D2D Video Distribution with Measured Popularity Distributions: Ming-Chun Lee (University of Southern California, USA); Mingyue Ji (University of Utah, USA); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA); Nishanth Sastry (King's College London & Kings College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Optimal Power Allocation for Secure Transmission With Both Internal and External Eavesdroppers: Zihao Cheng (Xidian University, P.R. China); JiangBo Si (Xi'dian, P.R. China); Zan Li and Jia Shi (Xidian University, P.R. China)
To Sense or to Control: Wireless Networked Control Using a Half-Duplex Controller for IIoT: Kang Huang and Wanchun Liu (The University of Sydney, Australia); Yonghui Li and Branka Vucetic (University of Sydney, Australia)
Accurate LoRa Performance evaluation using Marcum function: Jules Courjault (Univ Rennes1 IRISA, France); Baptiste Vrigneau (Univ Rennes IRISA & Granit team, France); Matthieu Gautier and Olivier Berder (Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France)

WC17: Millimeter Wave III

WC17-5 papers

Room: King's 3
Chair: Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, USA)

Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Localization with Commercial MMWave WiFi - Part II: Spatial Beam SNRs: Pu Wang, Milutin Pajovic and Toshiaki Koike-Akino (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Haijian Sun (Utah State University, USA); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)
Channel Estimation in mmWave Hybrid MIMO System via Off-Grid Dirichlet Kernels: Chethan Kumar Anjinappa, You Zhou, Yavuz Yapıcı, Dror Baron and Ismail Güvenç (North Carolina State University, USA)
Intelligent Beam Training for Millimeter-Wave Communications via Deep Reinforcement Learning: Jianjun Zhang and Yongming Huang (Southeast University, P.R. China); Jiaheng Wang (National Mobile Communications Research Lab, Southeast University, P.R. China); Xiaohu You (National Mobile communication Research Lab., Southeast University, P.R. China)
Millimeter-Wave Multi-Point Vehicular Positioning for Autonomous Driving: Zezhong Zhang (Southern University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Seung-Woo Ko (Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Korea); Rui Wang (Southern University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Kaibin Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Map-Assisted Millimeter Wave Localization for Accurate Position Location: Ojas Kanhere and Shihao Ju (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA); Yunchou Xing (NYU WIRELESS, USA); Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA)

WC18: Stochastic Geometry

WC18-5 papers

Room: Queen's 4
Chair: Tatsuaki Kimura (Osaka University, Japan)

Analysis and Optimization of Random Cache in Multi-Antenna HetNets with Interference Nulling: Kangda Zhi, Guangji Chen, Ling Qiu and Xiaowen Liang (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Chenhao Ren (University of California, USA)
Stochastic Geometric Analysis of Cellular-Relay V2V Communications: Tatsuaki Kimura (Osaka University, Japan)
Meta Distribution Analysis of the Downlink SIR for the Typical Cell in a Poisson Cellular Network: Praful Deolal Mankar and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA); Martin Haenggi (University of Notre Dame, USA)
3GPP-inspired Stochastic Geometry-based Mobility Model for a Drone Cellular Network: Morteza Banagar and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
Grant-Free Uplink Transmission in Self-Powered IoT Networks: Mohammad Gharbieh (University of Victoria, Canada); Hesham ElSawy (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia); Hong-Chuan Yang (University of Victoria, Canada); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)

WC19: Performance Analysis I

WC19-5 papers

Room: Queen's 5

Chair: Daniel Benevides da Costa (Federal University of Ceara (UFC) & Area: Telecommunications, Brazil)

Low-PAPR Multi-channel OOK Waveform for IEEE 802.11ba Wake-up Radio: Alphan Şahin (University of South Carolina, USA); Xiaofei Wang (InterDigital Communications, USA); Hanqing Lou (Interdigital, USA); Rui Yang (InterDigital, Inc., USA)
Mode Hopping With OAM-Based Index Modulation: Liping Liang and Wenchi Cheng (Xidian University, P.R. China); Wei Zhang (The University of New South Wales, Australia); Hailin Zhang (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Primary Channel Duty Cycle Estimation Under Imperfect Spectrum Sensing Based on Mean Channel Periods: Ogeen Toma and Miguel López-Benítez (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dhaval Karshanbhai Patel (School of Engineering and Applied Science-Ahmedabad University, India); Kenta Umebayashi (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
Performance of Polar Coded MIMO Systems with Matched-Filter Detector and Interference Cancellation: Yuto Hama and Hideki Ochiai (Yokohama National University, Japan)
The α-κ-μ Shadowed Fading Distribution: Statistical Characterization and Applications: Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa (University of Malaga, Spain); Jules M. Moualeu (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa); Daniel Benevides da Costa (Federal University of Ceara (UFC) & Area: Telecommunications, Brazil); Francisco Javier Lopez-Martinez (Universidad de Malaga, Spain)

WC20: Performance Analysis II

WC20-5 papers

Room: Queen's 6

Chair: Yao Ma (NIST, USA)

Wireless backhaul: intrinsic bottleneck of ultra-dense networks?: Yaqian Zhang, Junyu Liu, Min Sheng, Ziwen Xie and Jiandong Li (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Poisson Line Cox Process: Asymptotic Characterization and Performance Analysis of Vehicular Networks: Vishnu Vardhan Chetlur (Virgina Tech, USA); Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
Analysis of Generalized CCA Errors and Mitigation in LTE-LAA Spectrum Sharing System: Yao Ma (NIST, USA); Jason Coder (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
A Mathematical Justification for Exponentially Distributed NLOS Bias: Christopher E O'Lone, Harpreet S Dhillon and Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA)
Minimum Per-Element Power of Phased Array for Gbps Mobile Access in mmWaves: Jinfeng Du (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Dmitry Chizhik (Nokia US, USA); Reinaldo Valenzuela (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)

Thursday, December 12 2:45 - 3:30

MPS1: Merged Poster Session1-22 papers: EH-11, BD-11

Merged poster session1-22 papers: EH-11, BD-11

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Xiaoyan Wang (Ibaraki University, Japan)

An Efficient Massive Log Discriminative Algorithm for Anomaly Detection in Cloud: Jian Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Jie Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Chentao Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University & Virginia Commonwealth University, P.R. China)
RL4HIN: Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Information Networks: Chunfeng Liu (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Ying Liu (TianJin University, P.R. China); Mei Yu (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Ruiguo Yu (School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, P.R. China); Xuewei Li and Mankun Zhao (TianJin University, P.R. China); Tianyi Xu (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Hongwei Liu (Tianjin Foreign Studies University, P.R. China); Linying Xu and Jian Yu (Tianjin University, P.R. China)
Making Big Data Intelligent Storable at the Edge: Storage Resource Intelligent Orchestration: Fuli Qiao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Mianxiong Dong and Kaoru Ota (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan); Siyi Liao, Jun Wu and Jianhua Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Secure Encrypted Data Deduplication for Cloud Storage against Compromised Key Servers: Yuan Zhang and ChunXiang Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Nan Cheng and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
SSL-STR: Semi-Supervised Learning for Sparse Trust Recommendation: Zhengdi Hu and Guangquan Xu (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Xi Zheng (Macquarie University & School of Engineering, Australia); Jiang Liu (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA)
WiFi-based Real-time Breathing and Heart Rate Monitoring during Sleep: Yu Gu and Xiang Zhang (Hefei University of Technology, P.R. China); Zhi Liu (Shizuoka University, Japan); Fuji Ren (The University of Tokushima, Japan)
Topology-Aware Job Scheduling for Machine Learning Cluster: Peng Li (The University of Aizu, Japan); Huibin Feng (Minjiang University, P.R. China); Jingyuan Lu and Enting Guo (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xiaoyan Wang (Ibaraki University, Japan); Song Guo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Kun Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
TIRR: A Code Reviewer Recommendation Algorithm with Topic Model and Reviewer Influence: Zhifang Liao and Zexuan Wu (Central South University, P.R. China); Jinsong Wu (Universidad de Chile, Chile); Yan Zhang (Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Junyi Liu (University of Central South, P.R. China); Jun Long (Central South University, P.R. China)
Communication-Efficient Decentralized Machine Learning Framework for 5G and beyond: Anis Elgabli (University of Oulu, Finland); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Vaneet Aggarwal (Purdue University, USA)
ScheD2: Scheduling Deep Learning Training via Deep Reinforcement Learning: Yunteng Luan, Xukun Chen, Hanyu Zhao, Zhi Yang and Yafei Dai (Peking University, P.R. China)
Word2Cluster: a New Multi-label Text Clustering Algorithm with an Adaptive Clusters Number: Kaili Mao, Jianwei Niu and Xuefeng Liu (Beihang University, P.R. China); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Longbo Zhao (China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, P.R. China)
Optimal Location for Fall Detection Edge Inferencing: Mahasweta Sarkar and Christopher Paolini (San Diego State University, USA); Davit Soselia (San Diego State University & Tbilisi State University, Georgia); Harsimran Baweja (San Diego State University, USA)
A Medical Video Coding Scheme with Preserved Diagnostic Quality: Daniel Bonanno and Carl J. Debono (University of Malta, Malta)
Towards Automatic Classification of Common Therapy Errors for Diabetes Therapy Support: Jens Heuschkel (TK / TU Darmstadt & TU Darmstadt - TK, Germany); Sebastian Kauschke (TK / TU Darmstadt, Germany); Max Mühlhäuser (TU-Darmstadt, Germany)
A Method for Identifying eHealth Applications using Side-Channel Information: Andressa Vergütz (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil); Iago Medeiros (Federal University of Pará, Brazil); Denis Lima Rosário (Federal University of Para, Brazil); Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para & UCLA & UFPA & UCLA, Brazil); Aldri Santos and Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil)
Oral Therapeutic Tool for Speech and Feeding Therapies: Anh Nguyen (Marshall Unviersity, USA); Greg Weed and Husnu S Narman (Marshall University, USA)
Role-based Hierarchical Medical Data Encryption for Implantable Medical Devices: Taha Belkhouja (University of Idaho, USA); Sameh Sorour (Queen's University, Canada); Mohamed S Hefeida (University of Idaho, USA)
From Whole To Parts: Medical Imaging Semantic Segmentation With Very Imbalanced Data: Jiankun Wang and Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)
Design of Gesture Recognition System Based on Multi-channel Myoelectricity Correlation: Di Wu, Huiyong Li, Xuefeng Liu and Jianwei Niu (Beihang University, P.R. China)
Streaming DICOM Real-Time Video and Metadata Flows Outside The Operating Room: Saad El Jaouhari, Guillaume Pasquier and Amélie Serrand (Bcom, France); Bernard Gibaud (UMR 1099, LTSI, France); Patrick Hardy (Harmonic, France); Emmanuel Cordonnier (Bcom, France)
A Study of Optical Tag Detection using Rolling Shutter Based Visible Light Communications: Albert Wang, Zijin Pan and Gang Chen (University of California, USA); Tian Lang (University of California, Riverside, USA); Zening Li (University of California, USA)
Controlling Contact Network Topology to Prevent Measles Outbreaks: Ilai Bistritz (Stanford University, USA); Dor Kahana (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Nicholas Bambos (Stanford University, USA); Irad Ben-Gal (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); Dan Yamin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Thursday, December 12 4:00 - 5:45

AHSN8: Learning II

AHSN8-6 papers

Room: King's 1

Chair: Yuan Zhou (Tianjin University, P.R. China)

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Topology Optimization for Self-Organized Wireless Sensor Networks: Xiangyue Meng (The University of Melbourne, Australia); Hazer Inaltekin (Macquarie University, Australia); Brian Krongold (University of Melbourne, Australia)
SCEH: Smart Customized E-health Framework for Countryside Using Edge AI and Body Sensor Networks: Chuanhua Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Mianxiong Dong and Kaoru Ota (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan); Jianhua Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Wu Yang (Harbin Engineering University, P.R. China); Jun Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
QLFR: A Q-Learning-Based Localization-Free Routing Protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks: Yuan Zhou and Tao Cao (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Wei Xiang (James Cook University, Australia)
Taxonomy-based Intelligent Malware Detection Framework: Qublai Khan Ali Mirza (University of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Fatima Hussain (Royal Bank of Canada, Canada); Irfan Awan (University of Bradford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Muhammad Younas (Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Salah Sharieh (Royal Bank of Canada, Canada)
An RSS Pathloss Considered Distance Metric Learning for Fingerprinting Indoor Localization: Yongliang Zhang, Lin Ma and Yubin Xu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Yongliang Sun (Nanjing Tech University, P.R. China)
Tailgating Risk-Aware Beacon Rate Adaptation for Distributed Congestion Control in VANETs: Foad Hajiaghajani (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Chunming Qiao (University at Buffalo, USA)

CISS11: Cloud Security II

CISS11-6 papers

Room: King's 2
Chair: Meng Shen (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

User Behavior Classification in Encrypted Cloud Camera Traffic: Jibao Wang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Zigang Cao (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences & School of Cyber Security，University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Cuicui Kang and Gang Xiong (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
Hierarchical Neural Networks for Detecting Anomalous Traffic Flows: Seung-Jin Ryu (National Security Research Institute); Wooyoung Go (National Security Research Institute, Korea); Daewoo Lee (RTst Co., Korea); Han-Jun Yoon (National Security Research Institute, Korea)
Privacy-Preserving Graph Encryption for Approximate Constrained Shortest Distance Queries: Meng Shen, Siqi Chen and Liehuang Zhu (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Renyi Xiao (National Natural Science Foundation of China, P.R. China); Ke Xu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA)
Implementing Security-Enhanced PHR System in the Cloud using FAME: Zuobin Ying and Wenjie Jiang (Anhui University, P.R. China); Ximeng Liu (Fuzhou University, P.R. China); Shengmin Xu (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Dynamic Allocation for Resource Protection in Decentralized Cloud Storage: Enrico Bacis (University of Bergamo, Italy); Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Sara Foresti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Stefano Paraboschi and Marco Rosa (University of Bergamo, Italy); Pierangela Samarati (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Cloud based Secure Service Providing for IoTs using Blockchain: Nadeem Javaid (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan); Mubariz Rehman (Comsats University Islamabad, Pakistan); Muhammad Awais (COMSATS, Pakistan); Muhammad Imran (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)

CISS12: Trust and Blockchain

CISS12-6 papers

Room: King's 3

Chair: Zhuo Ma (Xidian University, P.R. China)

An Efficient and Privacy-preserving Energy Trading Scheme based on Blockchain: Xin Lu, Zhitao Guan and Xiao Zhou (North China Electric Power University, P.R. China); Longfei Wu (Fayetteville State University, USA); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (University of Idaho, USA)
Cross-organizational Access Control for EHRs: Trustworthy, Flexible, Transparent: Zhuo Ma and Meng Zhao (Xidian University, P.R. China); Ximeng Liu (Fuzhou University, P.R. China); Chong Shen (Hainan University, P.R. China); Jianfeng Ma (Xidian University, P.R. China)
A Blockchain-based Hierarchical Reputation Management Scheme in Vehicular Network: WenBin Dong, Yang Li, Ronghui Hou, Xixiang Lv and Hui Li (Xidian University, P.R. China); Bo Sun (ZTE Cooperation, Xi’an, P.R. China)
Secure Event Logging using a Blockchain of Heterogeneous Computing Resources: Konstandinos Koumidis, Panayiotis Kolios, Georgios Ellinas and Christos Panayiotou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Achieving Dynamic Communication Path for Anti-tracking Network: Changbo Tian (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yongzheng Zhang and Yupeng Tuo (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Tao Yin (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Ruihai Ge (Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, P.R. China)
A Blockchain Model for Fair Data Sharing in Deregulated Smart Grids: Nadeem Javaid (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan); Omaji Samuel (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan); Muhammad Awais (COMSATS, Pakistan); Zeeshan Ahmed (Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan); Muhammad Imran (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Mohsen Guizani (University of Idaho, USA)

CT8: Distributed Processing and Caching

CT8-6 papers

Room: Queen's 4

Chair: Dirk Wübben (University of Bremen, Germany)

Heterogeneous Coded Distributed Computing: Joint Design of File Allocation and Function Assignment: Fan Xu and Meixia Tao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
A Novel Approach to Distributed Quantization via Multivariate Information Bottleneck Method: Shayan Hassanpour, Dirk Wübben and Armin Dekorsy (University of Bremen, Germany)
Coded Distributed Tracking: Albin Severinson (University of Bergen & Simula UiB, Norway); Eirik Rosnes (Simula UiB, Norway); Alexandre Graell i Amat (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Low Subpacketization Coded Caching via Projective Geometry for Broadcast and D2D Networks: Hari Hara Suthan Chittoor (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India); Prasad Krishnan (IIIT Hyderabad, India)
Subpacketization-Rate Trade-off in Multi-Antenna Coded Caching: MohammadJavad Salehi and Antti Tölli (University of Oulu, Finland); Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran); Jarkko Kaleva (Solmu Technologies, Finland)
Interplay of Cache Sizes and File Popularity in Coded Caching: Yuhang Yao and Jinbei Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China)

Thursday, December 12 4:00 - 4:45

MPS2: Merged Poster Session2-23 papers: GCSN-16, ONS-6, SPC-1

Merged poster session2-23 papers: GCSN-16, ONS-6, SPC-1

Room: Grand Promenade
Chair: Dr. Pooya Nabavi (University of Central Florida, USA)

VirtualStack: Green High Performance Network Protocol Processing Leveraging FPGAs: Jens Heuschkel (TK / TU Darmstadt & TU Darmstadt - TK, Germany); Philipp Thomasberger (TK / TU Darmstadt, Germany); Julien Gedeon (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Max Mühlhäuser (TU-Darmstadt, Germany)
General Multicarrier Modulation Hardware Accelerator for the Internet of Things: Robert Wittig and Stefan Damjancevic (TU Dresden, Germany); Emil Matus (Dresden University of Technology, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
How is Energy Consumed in Smartphone Deep Learning Apps? Executing Locally vs. Remotely: Haoxin Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); BaekGyu Kim (Toyota Motor North America, Inc., USA); Linda Jiang Xie (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Spectral Efficiency Maximization for Multiuser MISO-NOMA Downlink Systems with SWIPT: Nguyen Toan Van (Hongik University, Korea); Van-Dinh Nguyen (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Tri-Nhu Do (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Daniel Benevides da Costa (Federal University of Ceara (UFC) & Area: Telecommunications, Brazil); Beongku An (Hongik University, Korea)
Optimal Control Strategy Design with Minimum Energy Consumption for Connected Vehicle Systems: Zhuwei Wang, Yuehui Guo, Meng Li, Chao Fang, Yang Sun and Yanhua Zhang (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China)
Energy Efficient Bit Allocation and Hybrid Combining for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems: Aryan Kaushik (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Christos G. Tsinos (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Evangelos Vlachos and John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Subchannel Assignment and Power Optimization for Energy-Efficient NOMA Heterogeneous Network: Xiaoshen Chu (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China); Haijun Zhang and Wei Huangfu (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China); Liu Wei (China Mobile Group Design Institute Co., P.R. China); Yebing Ren and Jiangbo Dong (China Mobile Group Design Institute Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Keping Long (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China)
Efficient Hierarchical Multiple Access for Ambient Backscatter Wireless Networks: Lanhua Li (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academay of Sciences, P.R. China); Xiaoxia Huang (Sun Yat-Sen University, P.R. China); Xuming Fang (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, USA)
Green Communication and Computation Offloading in Ultra-dense Networks: Feixiang Li (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China); Haipeng Yao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Jun Du and Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)
Non-coherent Signal Detection and Bit Error Rate for an Ambient Backscatter Link under Fast Fading: Jaya Kartheek Devineni and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
Backscatter-assisted Hybrid Relaying Strategy for Wireless Powered IoT Communications: Yutong Xie (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, P.R. China); Zhengzhuo Xu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Shimin Gong (Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China); Jing Xu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Hoang Thai Dinh (University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Machine Learning-Assisted Detection for BPSK-modulated Ambient Backscatter Communication Systems: Xiyu Wang, Ruifeng Duan and Huseyin Yigitler (Aalto University, Finland); Estifanos Yohannes Menta (Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering, Finland); Riku Jäntti (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland)
Age-Based Utility Maximization for Wireless Powered Networks: A Stackelberg Game Approach: Haina Zheng, Ke Xiong and Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Pingyi Fan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
ReNEW: A Practical Module For Reliable Routing in Networks of Energy-harvesting Wireless Sensors: Vijay S Rao (Cognizant Technology Solutions & Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); R Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Chayan Sarkar (TCS Research & Innovation, India); Ignas Niemegeers (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
A Comprehensive View of Wireless Link Energy Efficiency: Earl McCune (RF Communications Consulting & Eridan Communications, USA)
Delay-Energy Efficient Computation Offloading and Resources Allocation in Heterogeneous Network: Zhe Hao, Sun Yanhua, Qing Li and Yanhua Zhang (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China)
Stereo Ranging Method Using LED Transmitters for Visible Light Communication: Masayuki Kinoshita and Koji Kamakura (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan); Takaya Yamazato, Hiraku Okada and Toshiaki Fujii (Nagoya University, Japan); Shintaro Arai (Okayama University of Science, Japan); Tomohiro Yendo (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Free Space Optical Communications: Marzieh Najafi (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Robert Schober (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Nonlinear Distortions Induced by Coherent Combinations in Microwave Photonic Links: Farzad Mokhtari-Koushyar (Laboratory of Informatics, Networks and Communications (LINC) & University of Texas at Austin, USA); Monireh Moayedi Pour Fard (GenXComm Inc., USA); McKay Bradford (GenXComm Inc, USA); Thien-An Nguyen (GenXComm Inc., USA); Rajesh K Mishra (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Sriram Vishwanath (University of Texas Austin, USA)
Layered Asymmetry-Constructed Clipped Optical OFDM for IM/DD Systems: Ruowen Bai and Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)
Performance Analysis of Air-to-Water Optical Wireless Communication Using SPADs: Pooya Nabavi and Murat Yuksel (University of Central Florida, USA)
Optical Filter Bank for Multi-Color Visible Light Communications: Pengfei Ge, Xintong Ling, Jiaheng Wang and Xiao Liang (Southeast University, P.R. China); Rong Zhang (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chunming Zhao (Southeast University, P.R. China)
HRIDaaY: Ballistocardiogram-based Heart Rate Monitoring Using Fog Computing: Sudeep Tanwar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India); Jayneel Vora (University of California, Davis, USA); Sudhanshu Tyagi (Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Deemed University, Patiala, India); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Thursday, December 12 4:00 - 5:45

MWN10: Vehicular Communication Networks

MWN10-6 papers

Room: Queen's 5

Chair: Keivan Navaie (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Efficient Rate Adaptation for 802.11af TVWS Vehicular Access via Deep Learning: Wenchao Xu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Chao Ma (Wuhan University, P.R. China); Song Guo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
Resource Allocation in Vehicular Communications using Graph and Deep Reinforcement Learning: Sohan Gyawali (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Yi Qian (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA)
Joint Resource Optimization for Adaptive Multimedia Services in MEC-based Vehicular Networks: Penglin Dai (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Kai Liu (Chongqing University, P.R. China); Xiao Wu and Huanlai Xing (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Jing Xu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Victor Lee (City University of Hong Kong, P.R. China)
Elastic and Inelastic Content Distribution based on Clonal Selection in VANETs: Chen Chen and Jinna Hu (Xidian University, P.R. China); Tie Qiu (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, USA); Qingqi Pei (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Dynamic Service Migration in Vehicular Networks: Yan Peng (ICT/CAS, P.R. China); Ling Liu (Institute of Compting Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yiqing Zhou (Chinese Academy of Science, P.R. China); Jinglin Shi and Jintao Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
A Queueing Analysis of the Opportunistic Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication: Wenchao Xu and Song Guo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Shiheng Ma and Mingli Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

MWN11: Edge Computing and Fog Computing

MWN11-6 papers

Room: Queen's 6

Chair: Jun Cai (Concordia University, Canada)

Benefits of MEC in 5G Cellular Networks from Telecom Operator's View Points: Jin Nakazato, Makoto Nakamura, Tao Yu and Gia Khanh Tran (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Kei Sakaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology & Fraunhofer HHI, Japan)
Online Incentive Mechanism Design for Collaborative Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing: Gang Li and Jun Cai (Concordia University, Canada); Jing Ma (Xian Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Geometric Programming for Lifetime Maximization in Mobile Edge Computing Networks: Sabyasachi Gupta (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA); Jacob Chakareski (University of Alabama, USA)
A Queueing Game Approach for Fog Computing with Strategic Computing Speed Control: Changyan Yi (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China); Jun Cai (Concordia University, Canada)
Dynamic Cache Placement, Node Association, and Power Allocation in Fog Aided Networks: Ruoguang Li and Li Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yanmin Gong (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Mei Song (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Miao Pan and Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Computation Offloading Game for Multi-Task Multi-Helper Fog Networks: Zening Liu (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China); Xiumei Yang (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Kunlun Wang, Yang Yang and Ziyu Shao (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)

MWN12: Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing

MWN12-6 papers

Room: Kohala 1

Chair: Yi-Han Chiang (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Multi-Access Edge Computation Offloading Using Massive MIMO: Rafia Malik and Mai Vu (Tufts University, USA)
Delay-efficient Offloading for NOMA-MEC with Asynchronous Uploading Completion Awareness: Yanpeng Dai, Min Sheng and Junyu Liu (Xidian University, P.R. China); Nan Cheng and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Energy Efficiency for MEC Offloading with NOMA through Coalitional Games: Michalis Eliodorou (University of Cyprus & MTN Cyprus, Cyprus); Constantinos Psomas and Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Socratis Socratous (MTN Cyprus, Cyprus)
A Reverse Auction Model for Efficient Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computation Offloading: Ummy Habiba Habiba (University of Manitoba, Canada); Setareh Maghsudi (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Learning-based Offloading of Tasks with Diverse Delay Sensitivities for Mobile Edge Computing: Tianyu Zhang and Yi-Han Chiang (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Cristian Borcea (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
A Joint Handoff and Offloading Decision Algorithm for Mobile Edge Computing (MEC): Wahida Nasrin (Cisco System, Inc., USA); Linda Jiang Xie (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)

NGNI10: NetAI

NGNI10-6 papers

Room: Kohala 2

Chair: Kesheng Wu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)

A Reinforcement Learning Based Network Scheduler For Deadline-Driven Data Transfers: Dipak Ghosal (University of California, Davis, USA); Sambit K Shukla (University of California Davis, USA); Alex Sim (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA); Aditya Thakur (University of California, Davis, USA); Kesheng Wu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Reliability Aware NFV-Based Service Provisioning: Seyed Hamed Rahmani Khezri, Puria Azadi Moghadam, Mohammad Karimzadeh Farshbafan and Vahid Shah-Mansouri (University of Tehran, Iran); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Hamed Kebriaei (University of Tehran, Iran)
Reinforcement Learning-aided Distributed User-to-Access Points Association in Interfering Networks: Thi Ha Ly Dinh and Megumi Kaneko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Keisuke Wakao (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan); Hirantha Abeysekera (NTT Corporation, Japan); Yasushi Takatori (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan)
Content Popularity Prediction via Deep Learning in Cache-enabled Fog Radio Access Networks: Haojie Feng and Yanxiang Jiang (Southeast University, P.R. China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Fu-Chun Zheng (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China & University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xiaohu You (National Mobile communication Research Lab., Southeast University, P.R. China)
GAN-based Deep Distributional Reinforcement Learning for Resource Management in Network Slicing: Yuxiu Hua, Rongpeng Li and Zhifeng Zhao (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Honggang Zhang (Zhejiang University & Université Européenne de Bretagne (UEB) and Supelec, P.R. China); Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)
Smart Grid Energy Management Using RNN-LSTM: A Deep Learning-based Approach: Devinder Kaur (Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, India); Rahul Kumar (LPU Jalandhar, India); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India); Mohsen Guizani (University of Idaho, USA)

NGNI11: UAV-Assisted Networking

NGNI11-6 papers

Room: Kohala 3

Chair: Shilpa Talwar (Intel, USA)

Trajectory Design for UAV Assisted Wireless Networks: Yao Tang, Man Hon Cheung and Tat M. Lok (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Route-Aware Handover Enhancement for Drones in Cellular Network: Jingwen Bai, Shu-ping Yeh and Feng Xue (Intel Corporation, USA); Shilpa Talwar (Intel, USA)
Gated Recurrent Units Learning for Optimal Deployment of Visible Light Communications Enabled UAVs: Yining Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Mingzhe Chen (Princeton University, USA); Zhaohui Yang (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xue Hao and Tao Luo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA)
Neighbor Discovery in a Free-Space-Optical UAV Network: Mahmudur R Khan (The University of Alabama, USA); Jacob Chakareski (University of Alabama, USA)
Reflections in the Sky: Millimeter Wave Communication with UAV-Carried Intelligent Reflectors: Qianqian Zhang and Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)
Mobility-aware Probabilistic Caching in UAV-assisted Wireless D2D Networks: Yu-Jia Chen, Kai-Min Liao and Meng-Lin Ku (National Central University, Taiwan); Fung Po Tso (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

SPC8: Massive MIMO III

SPC8-6 papers

Room: Kohala 4

Chair: Ian P Roberts (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Variational Bayesian Symbol Detection for Massive MIMO with Symbol-Dependent Impairments: Pu Wang and Toshiaki Koike-Akino (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); Milutin Pajovic and Kyeong Jin Kim (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA)
Gridless Angular Domain Channel Estimation for mmWave Massive MIMO System with One-Bit Quantization via Approximate: Liangyuan Xu and Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Cheng Qian (University of Virginia, USA)
Low-complexity Beam-domain Channel Estimation with Long-term Statistics for Large MIMO Detection: Takumi Takahashi (Osaka University, Japan); Antti Tölli (University of Oulu, Finland); Shinsuke Ibi (Doshisha University, Japan); Seiichi Sampei (Osaka University, Japan)
Energy Efficient Precoding for Massive MIMO Downlink Transmission With Statistical CSI: Jiayuan Xiong and Li You (Southeast University, P.R. China); Xinping Yi (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jue Wang (Nantong University, P.R. China); Wenjin Wang and Xiqi Gao (Southeast University, P.R. China)
Beamforming Cancellation Design for Millimeter-Wave Full-Duplex: Ian P Roberts (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Sriram Vishwanath (University of Texas Austin, USA)
An Efficient Digital Backend for Wideband Single-Carrier mmWave Massive MIMO: Mohammed Abdelghany, Upamanyu Madhow and Mark J W Rodwell (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

SPC9: Spatial Modulation and MIMO

SPC9-6 papers

Room: Kona 1

Chair: Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)

Spatial Modulation for Ambient Backscatter Communications: Modeling and Analysis: Zhiang Niu, Wei Wang and Tao Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
Online Power Allocation for Sum Rate Maximization in TDD Massive MIMO Systems: Mingyu Li, Tianyu Wang and Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
Cooperative Detection for Ambient Backscatter Assisted Generalized Spatial Modulation: Zhe Ma and Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jing Jiang (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Randomized Sketching Based Beamforming for Massive MIMO: Hayoung Choi, Tao Jiang, Weijing Li and Yuanming Shi (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)
Dual-Ascent Inspired Iterative Transmit Precoding Approaches for Multiple Access Spatial Modulation: Yuwen Cao and Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)
Reinforcement-Learning-Aided Detector for Time-Varying MIMO Systems with One-Bit ADCs: Yo-Seb Jeon (Princeton University, Korea); Namyoon Lee (POSTECH, Korea); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

WC21: UAV Communications III

WC21-6 papers

Room: Kona 2

Chair: Weidong Mei (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Cooperative Downlink Interference Transmission and Cancellation for Cellular-Connected UAV: Weidong Mei and Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Random Network Coding Enabled Routing in Swarm Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks: Hao Song and Lingjia Liu (Virginia Tech, USA); Scott M Pudlewski (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Elizabeth Serena Bentley (AFRL, USA)
Data-Driven 3D Placement of UAV Base Stations for Arbitrarily Distributed Crowds: Chuan-Chi Lai and Li-Chun Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
UAV-aided Backscatter Networks: Joint UAV Trajectory and Protocol Design: Meng Hua (Southeast University, P.R. China); Lee Swindlehurst (University of California at Irvine, USA); Chunguo Li and Luxi Yang (Southeast University, P.R. China)
Interference-Aware Trajectory Design for Ground-Aerial Uplink NOMA Cellular Networks: Xidong Mu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Li Guo, Chao Dong and Jiaru Lin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Cell Coverage of UAV Millimeter Wave Communication Network Subject to Wind: Jingchao Bao (The University of Tennessee, USA); Dengfeng Sun (Purdue, USA); Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, USA)

WC22: Machine Learning III

WC22-6 papers

Room: Kona 3

Chair: Aftab Khan (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Online Learning Framework for V2V Link Quality Prediction: Ramya Panthangi Manjunath and Mate Boban (Huawei German Research Center, Germany); Chan Zhou (Huawei European Research Center, Germany); Slawomir Stanczak (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute & Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: AI-driven Calibration of Localisation Technologies: Aftab Khan (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tim D Farnham (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Roget Kou (University of Bristol & Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Usman Raza (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Thajanee Premalal (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Aleksandar Stanoev and William H Thompson (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Enabling Simulation-Based Optimization Through Machine Learning: A Case Study on Antenna Design: Paolo Testolina and Mattia Lecci (University of Padova, Italy); Mattia Rebato (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy); Alberto Testolin (University of Padova, Italy); Jonathan Gambini and Roberto Flamini (Huawei Technologies, Italy); Christian Mazzucco (Huawei Technologies, European Research Center, Italy); Michele Zorzi (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
Learning-based mmWave V2I Environment Augmentation through Tunable Reflectors: Lan Zhang, Xianhao Chen and Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, USA); Xiaoxia Huang (Sun Yat-Sen University, P.R. China); Xuming Fang (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
NDR: Noise and Dimensionality Reduction of CSI for Indoor Positioning using Deep Learning: Abdallah Sobehy (Telecom Sudparis, France); Eric Renault (Institut Mines-Telecom -- Telecom SudParis & Samovar UMR CNRS 5157, France); Paul Muhlethaler (INRIA, France)
Deep Learning Based Preamble Detection and TOA Estimation: Haoran Sun (University of Minnesota, USA); Aliye Ozge Kaya, Harish Viswanathan and Mike Macdonald (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Mingyi Hong (University of Minnesota & University of Minnesota, USA)

WC23: Machine Type Communications II

WC23-6 papers

Room: Waikoloa 2
Chair: Xiangyun Zhou (The Australian National University, Australia)

Decode-and-Forward Relaying using a Backscatter Device: Power Allocation and BER Analysis: Xiaolun Jia and Xiangyun Zhou (The Australian National University, Australia)
On the Multi-Activation Oriented Design of D2D-Aided Caching Networks: Yang Cai and Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)
Relay Selection Strategy (RSS) Design for In-Vehicle Storage (IVS) System: Binbin Hu (Peking University, P.R. China); Rongqing Zhang (Tongji University, P.R. China); Luoyang Fang (Colorado State University, USA); Xiang Cheng (Peking University, P.R. China); Liuqing Yang (Colorado State University, USA)
Secure Transmissions of D2D Underlay Cellular Networks with Poisson Cluster Process: Jiawei Lyu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Tong-Xing Zheng (Xi'an Jiaotong Unviersity, P.R. China); Ke-Wen Huang (Xi'an JiaoTong University, P.R. China); Yuehua Feng (Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, Xi'an, P.R. China); Hui-Ming Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Maximizing System Throughput in D2D Networks using Alternative DC Programming: Hao-Hsuan Chang, Lingjia Liu and Hao Song (Virginia Tech, USA); Alex Pidwerbetsky and Allan Berlinsky (LGS Innovations, USA); Jonathan Ashdown (United States Air Force, USA); Kurt Turck (United States Air Force Research Labs, USA); Yang Yi (Virginia Tech, USA)
Spatial Spectrum Sensing-Based D2D Communications in User-Centric Deployed HetNets: Bodong Shang and Lingjia Liu (Virginia Tech, USA); Hao Chen (Samsung Research America, USA); Jianzhong Zhang (Samsung, USA); Scott M Pudlewski (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Elizabeth Serena Bentley (AFRL, USA); Jonathan Ashdown (United States Air Force, USA)

Thursday, December 12 5:00 - 5:45

MPS3: Merged Poster Session3-22 papers: AHSN-5, CRAEN-10, SN-2, SSC-5

Merged poster session3-22 papers: AHSN-5, CRAEN-10, SN-2, SSC-5

Room: Grand Promenade

Chair: Nizar Zorba (Qatar University, Qatar)

Controlling UAV for Maximizing the Number of Receiver Vehicles in Intelligent Transportation Systems: Takuto Mitsuhashi, Yuichi Kawamoto and Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)
Statistical Analysis of Wireless Traffic: An Adversarial Approach to Drone Surveillance: Igor Bisio, Chiara Garibotto and Fabio Lavagetto (University of Genoa, Italy); Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine, USA); Andrea Sciarrone (University of Genoa, Italy)
Enhanced Irregular Repetition Slotted ALOHA with Degree Distribution Adjustment in Satellite Network: Haoge Jia and Zuyao Ni (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China); Linling Kuang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Song Guo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Jianhua Lu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Leveraging Probabilistic Contacts in Contact Graph Routing: Felix Walter and Marius Feldmann (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Exploiting Satellite Broadcast despite HTTPS: Nikos Fotiou (Mobile Multimedia Lab, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece); Vasilios A. Siris and George C. Polyzos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece); Mario Marchese (University of Genoa, Italy); Franco R. Davoli (University of Genoa & National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy); Luca Boero (Rulex Inc., Italy)
Defense against PUE Attacks in DSA Networks using GAN based Learning: Debashri Roy (University of Central Florida, USA); Tathagata Mukherjee (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA); Mainak Chatterjee (University of Central Florida, USA); Eduardo L Pasiliao, Jr (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
Efficient channel hopping for blind rendezvous in multi-radio cognitive radio networks: Xuesong Jonathan Tan and Yongjun Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Wireless Power Transfer and Data Communication Cognitive Radio through Two-coil Inductive Channel: Safa Zouaoui (Uniersité de Sousse, Tunisia); Malek Souilem (Instituto de Telecommunicaçoes, Portugal); Wael Dghais (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Ayman Radwan (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Sami Barmada and Mauro Tucci (University of Pisa, Italy)
On Timing Skews of Multicoset Samplers in Compressive Spectrum Sensing for Millimeter-Wave: Haoran Qi and Yue Gao (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Blind Modulation Classification under Non-Gaussian Noise via Radio Frequency Analytics: Jitong Ma (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Shih-Chun Lin and Chen Peng (North Carolina State University, USA); Tianshuang Qiu (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China)
Defend Jamming Attacks: How to Make Enemies Become Friends: Hoang Thai Dinh (University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia); Mohammad Abu Alsheikh (University of Canberra, Australia); Shimin Gong (Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Low-Latency Neural Decoders for Linear and Non-Linear Block Codes: Cheuk Ting Leung (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat (National University Singapore, Singapore); Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Joint Adaptation of Rate and Beamwidth for Large-Scale Antenna Systems: Hanyu Zhu (Shanghaitech University, P.R. China); Xiaoyu Zhang (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China); Hua Qian (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Xiliang Luo (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)
MastDP: Matching Based Double Auction Mechanism for Spectrum Trading with Differential Privacy: Feng Hu and Bing Chen (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China); Jingyi Wang (San Francisco State University, USA); Ming Li (University of Texas at Arlington, USA); Pan Li (Case Western Reserve University, USA); Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA)
User Traffic Prediction for Proactive Resource Management: Learning-Powered Approaches: Amin Azari (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Panagiotis Papapetrou (Stockholm University, Sweden); Stojan Denic (Huawei, Sweden); Gunnar Peters (Huawei Technologies, Sweden)
On ledger inconsistency time in Bitcoin's blockchain delivery network: Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada); Xiaolin Chang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Exploiting Dynamic Platform Protection Technique for Increasing Service MTTF: Runkai Yang and Xiaolin Chang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada); Zhi Chen and Bo Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
CrowdDelegate: An MCS-based Approach for Improving Retail Labor Cost-Efficiency: Sherif B. Azmy and Nizar Zorba (Qatar University, Qatar); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
An Associated Behavior Sequence Based User Authentication Approach in M2M Mobile Terminals: Congcong Shi (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Miao Du and Weidong Lu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Sanglu Lu (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
Power Adaptation for Distributed Detection in Energy Harvesting WSNs with Finite-Capacity Battery: Ghazaleh Ardeshiri, Hassan Yazdani and Azadeh Vosoughi (University of Central Florida, USA)
Optimal QoS-Driven Power Allocation for Energy Harvesting Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks Using FBC: Xi Zhang and Jingqing Wang (Texas A&M University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Joint Power Allocation for Energy Harvesting to Maximize Throughput in Classified WBAN: Shuang Li and Fengye Hu (Jilin University, P.R. China); Zhi Mao (Jilin University, Jilin, P.R. China); He Liu (Jilin University, P.R. China); Zhuang Ling (JiLin University, P.R. China)