IEEE Global Communications Conference
4–8 December 2022 // Rio de Janeiro, Brazil // Hybrid: In-Person and Virtual Conference
Accelerating the Digital Transformation through Smart Communications

Symposia (Virtual): Wednesday, 7 Dec 2022

*All times are BRT (GMT-3)

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 8:00 - 9:30

GCSN 7: RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION

Carbon-Neutralized Task Scheduling for Green Computing Networks
Chien-Sheng Yang, Chien-Chun Huang-Fu and I-Kang Fu (MediaTek Inc., Taiwan)
 
Robust Virtual Network Allocation under Uncertainty of Traffic Demands and Renewable Energy Power
Kengo Urata (NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan); Shigeaki Harada (NTT, Japan); Ryota Nakamura (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation & Network Technology Laboratories, Japan)
 
Prospect Theory-inspired Automated P2P Energy Trading with Q-learning-based Dynamic Pricing
Ashutosh Timilsina and Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA)
 
A Multi-Strategy Multi-Objective Hierarchical Approach for Energy Management in 5G Networks
Saivenkata Krishna Gowtam Peesapati (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB & KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Magnus Olsson and Sören Andersson (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden)

CISS-07: PRIVACY-PRESERVING TECHNIQUES I

An Incentive-Based Differential Privacy-Preserving Truth Discovery over Streaming Data
Yaxuan Huang, Feng Liu, Jingcheng Zhao, Shaoxian Yuan and Kaiping Xue (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Xianchao Zhang (Jiaxing University, China)
 
Privacy-Preserving Outsourced Task Scheduling in Mobile Crowdsourcing
Yunguo Guan (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Pulei Xiong (National Research Council Canada, Canada); Songnian Zhang and Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
 
Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Fusion Based Multi-Biometric Recognition
Linlin Li, Hui Zhu, Yandong Zheng and Fengwei Wang (Xidian University, China); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Hui Li (Xidian University, China)
 
Efficiency-Improved Privacy-Preserving Weighted Similarity Query over Outsourced eHealthcare Data
Yandong Zheng (Xidian University, China); Rongxing Lu and Songnian Zhang (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Hui Zhu and Fengwei Wang (Xidian University, China)
 
Personalized Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning: Optimized Trade-off Between Utility and Privacy
Jinhao Zhou and Zhou Su (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Jianbing Ni (Queen's University, Canada); Yuntao Wang, Yanghe Pan and Rui Xing (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)

CISS-16: AI AIDED SECURITY III

Deep Learning-based Multi-PLC Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems
Do?analp Ergenç (University Hamburg, Germany); Philip Gawehn (University of Hamburg, Germany); Mathias Fischer (University Hamburg, Germany)
 
A New Implementation of Federated Learning for Privacy and Security Enhancement
Xiang Ma (Utah State University, USA); Haijian Sun (University of Georgia, USA); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA); Yi Qian (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA)
 
A Reinforcement Learning-based Sequence Generation Algorithm for Password Guessing
Zheng Chen and Xuliang Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
 
DFSNet: Deep Fractional Scattering Network for LoRa Fingerprinting
Tiantian Zhang, Pinyi Ren and Dongyang Xu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Zhanyi Ren (Shaanxi, Xi'an, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
 
Leveraging Byte-Level Features for LSTM-based Anomaly Detection in Controller Area Networks
Lixue Liang, Xiaojie Lin, Baihe Ma, Xu Wang, Ying He and Ren Ping Liu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Wei Ni (CSIRO, Australia)

CQRM-07: QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE FOR NETWORK AND SERVICES II

Heuristic Optimization of Bandwidth Reservation Cost for Vehicular Applications
Abdullah A. Al-khatib (Landshut University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Muneeb Ul Hassan (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia); Klaus Mößner (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
 
SvTI: SFC-driven Queue Injection in Virtual Time-sensitive Network via Augmented Topology
Yajing Zhang, Qimin Xu and Cailian Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Mingyan Li (Chongqing University, China); Xinping Guan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
 
Machine Learning Network Tomography with partial topology knowledge and dynamic routing
Ippokratis Sartzetakis (National Technical University of Athens-NTUA, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems-ICCS & Institute of Communication and Computer Systems - ICCS, Greece); Emmanouel Varvarigos (National Technical University of Athens & Computer Technology Institute, Greece)
 
Optimization of Assisted Search Over Server-Mediated Peer-to-peer Networks
Zifan He and Leonard Kleinrock (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
 
Towards Network Dynamics: Adaptive Buffer Management with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Jing Zhu, Dan Wang and Shuxin Qin (Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Hongxin Gui (Shandong Future Network Research Institute, China); Gaofeng Tao (Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Liang Ou (China Telecom Research Institute, China); Fang Li (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China)

CRAEN-07: UAV AND VEHICULAR NETWORKS

Federated Learning Based Demand Reshaping for Electric Vehicle Charging
Mehmet Dedeoglu, Sen Lin and Zhaofeng Zhang (Arizona State University, USA); Junshan (Joshua) Zhang (University of California Davis, USA)
 
UAV-Assisted Networks With Underlaid Ambient Backscattering: Modeling and Outage Analysis
Xu Jiang (Dalian University of Technology, China); Min Sheng (Xidian University, China); Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, China); Junyu Liu (Xidian University, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)
 
Learning-Based Cooperative Aerial and Ground Vehicle Routing for Emergency Communications
Yuchao Zhu (Najing University, China); Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, China)
 
Sparse Big Data for Vehicular Network Traffic Flow Estimation: A Machine Learning Approach
Jianzhe Xue and Tianqi Zhang (Nanjing University, China); Wen Wu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)

CT-03: INFORMATION FRESHNESS

On the Value of Retransmissions for Age of Information in Random Access Networks without Feedback
Andrea Munari (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
 
Latency and Peak Age of Information in Multipath Coded Communications
Federico Chiariotti (Aalborg University, Denmark); Beatriz Soret (Department of Communications Engineering, Universidad de Málaga, Spain); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
 
Information Freshness in A Dual Monitoring System
Dapeng Deng and Zhengchuan Chen (Chongqing University, China); Howard Yang (ZJU-UIUC Institute & University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), China); Nikolaos Pappas (Linköping University, Sweden); Limei Hu (Chongqing University, China); Min Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jia Yunjian (Chongqing University, China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
 
Semantic Source Coding for Two Users with Heterogeneous Goals
Pouya Agheli (EURECOM, France); Nikolaos Pappas (Linköping University, Sweden); Marios Kountouris (EURECOM, France)
 
Predictive Rate Selection for Ultra-Reliable Communication using Statistical Radio Maps
Tobias Kallehauge, Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa, Anders E. Kalør, Christophe Biscio and Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)

IOTSN-07: IOTSN COMMUNICATIONS II

Electromagnetic Radiation Safety on Far-field Wireless Power Transfer in IoT
Fuyong Ma and Xilong Liu (Yunnan University, China); Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
 
Multi-Gigabit Millimeter-Wave Industrial Communication: A Solution for Industry 4.0 and Beyond
Abdul Jabbar (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Muhammad Ali Jamshed (James Watt School of Engineering University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ UK, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mahmoud Ahmed Shawky, Qammer H Abbasi, Muhammad Ali Imran and Masood Ur-Rehman (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
 
DI-Gesture: Domain-Independent and Real-Time Gesture Recognition with Millimeter-Wave Signals
Yadong Li, Dongheng Zhang and Jinbo Chen (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Jinwei Wan (China Nanhu Academy of Electronics and Information Technology, China); Dong Zhang, Yang Hu, Qibin Sun and Yan Chen (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
 
AI-Enabled Jammer Deception Using Decoy Packets
Stephan Frisbie (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
 
Joint Sensing and Communications for Deep Reinforcement Learning based Beam Management in 6G
Yujie Yao and Hao Zhou (University of Ottawa, Canada); Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa & Ericsson, Canada)

IOTSN-16: EDGE COMPUTING I

A Novel SDN-enabled Edge Computing Load Balancing Scheme for IoT Video Analytics
Pouria Pourrashidi Shahrbabaki, Rodolfo W. L. Coutinho and Yousef R. Shayan (Concordia University, Canada)
 
Multi-Criteria Modeled Live Service Migration for Heterogeneous Edge Computing
Ayman Radwan (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Hao Ran Chi (Instituto de Telecomunicações and Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Daniel Corujo (University of Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); José Quevedo, Rui Silva and David Santos (Instituto de Telecomunicações & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Rui L Aguiar (University of Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Osama Abboud (Huawei Technologies Dusseldorf GmbH, Germany); Artur Hecker (Huawei, Germany)
 
Deadline-constrained Multi-resource Task Mapping and Allocation for Edge-Cloud Systems
Chuanchao Gao, Aryaman Shaan and Arvind Easwaran (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
 
A Deep Reinforcement Learning Scheme for SCMA-Based Edge Computing in IoT Networks
Pengtao Liu (National University of Defense Technology, China); Jing Lei (National University of Denfense Technology, China); Wei Liu (National University of Defense Technology, China)
 
On-line Interpolation-based Data Management for Time-Series Data toward Edge Computing
Hiroki Oikawa, Hangli Ge and Noboru Koshizuka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

MWN-02: AI AND APPLICATIONS II

Field of View Aware Proactive Caching for Mobile Augmented Reality Applications
Zhaohui Huang (Kings College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Vasilis Friderikos (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
 
Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Quantized Federated Learning Performance Optimization
Nuocheng Yang and Sihua Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Christopher G. Brinton (Purdue University & Zoomi Inc., USA); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Shuguang Cui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China)
 
Energy Harvesting Aware Client Selection for Over-the-Air Federated Learning
Caijuan Chen (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan); Yi-Han Chiang and Hai Lin (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan); John Chi Shing Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
 
Client Selection and Bandwidth Allocation for Federated Learning: An Online Optimization Perspective
Yun Ji (Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China); Zhoubin Kou (1Graduate School in Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China); Xiaoxiong Zhong (Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China); Hangfan Li (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China); Fan Yang and Zhang Sheng (Tsinghua University, China)
 
Object-Based Resolution Selection for Efficient Edge-Assisted Multi-Task Video Analytics
Chengzhi Wang, Peng Yang and Jie Lin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Wen Wu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada)

MWN-11: SPACE, AIR, AND ELSEWHERE

Analysis and Optimization of Hybrid Caching in mmWave Networks with BS Cooperation
Le Yang (Southeast University, China); Fu-Chun Zheng (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China & University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shi Jin (Southeast University, China)
 
Triple-hop Mixed RF-FSO-FSO Analysis Over Double Shadowed kappa-mu and Málaga-M Turbulence
Neji Mensi and Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)
 
Joint Computation Offloading, UAV Trajectory, User Scheduling, and Resource Allocation in SAGIN
Nguyen Minh Dat (INRS-EMT & University of Quebec, Canada); Long Bao Le (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Andre Girard (INRS-EMT and GERAD, Canada)
 
Performance Evaluation of BATMAN-adv Protocol on Convergecast Communication in UAV Networks
Shijie Liu, Chao Dong, Xiaojun Zhu and Ji'ao Tang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Lei Zhang (NUAA, China)
 
Uplink Payload Power Control in Cell-Free Communication and Radar Networks
Adham Sakhnini (Imec, Belgium); Andre Bourdoux (IMEC, Belgium); Mamoun Guenach (Imec, Leuven, Belgium); Hichem Sahli (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium); Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium)
 
Age-Aware Task Scheduling Scheme in Hybrid GEO-LEO Satellite Networks
Dongqing Li (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Shaohua Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Jian Jiao (Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

NGNI-05: EDGE COMPUTING

Dynamic Control of Data-Intensive Services over Edge Computing Networks
Yang Cai (University of Southern California, USA); Jaime Llorca (New York University, USA); Antonia Tulino (Bell Laboratories, USA & Università degli studi di Napoli, Italy); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)
 
Probabilistic Edge Multicast Routing for the XRP Network
Vytautas Tumas and Sean Rivera (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Damien Magoni (University of Bordeaux, France); Radu State (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
 
A DQN-based Joint Spectrum and Computing Resource Allocation Algorithm for MEC Networks
Li Yu, Jun Zheng, Yuying Wu and Feifan Zhou (Southeast University, China); Feng Yan (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China)
 
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dependency-aware Microservice Deployment in Edge Computing
Chenyang Wang and Bosen Jia (Tianjin University, China); Hao Yu (Oulu University, Finland); Xiuhua Li (Chongqing University, China); Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland)
 
QoS-based Task Replication for Alleviating Uncertainty in Edge Computing
Ibrahim M. Amer (Queen's University, Canada); Sharief Oteafy (DePaul University, USA); Sara A. Elsayed and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)

SAC-BF-1: FRONTHAUL/BACKHAUL NETWORKS 1

TDD frame design for interference handling in mobile IAB networks
Victor Farias Monteiro (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Francisco Rafael Marques Lima (Wireless Telecom Research Group (GTEL), Brazil); Darlan C. Moreira (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Diego Aguiar Sousa (Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará & Wireless Telecommunications Research Group, Brazil); Tarcisio F. Maciel (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Behrooz Makki and Ritesh Shreevastav (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Hans Hannu (Ericsson AB, Sweden)
 
A new approach for an end to end communication system using Variational Auto-encoder (VAE)
Mohamad Alawad (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mutasem Hamdan (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chuan Heng Foh and Atta Ul Quddus (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
 
Rate Splitting Multiple Access for Cognitive Radio GEO-LEO Co-Existing Satellite Networks
Wali Ullah Khan (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Zain Ali (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Eva Lagunas, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
 
Adaptive Learning-Based Secure and Energy-Aware Resource Management for Multi-Mode Low-Carbon PIoT
Haijun Liao, Zehan Jia and Zhao Wang (North China Electric Power University, China); Zhenyu Zhou (North China Electric Power University & Waseda University, China); Xiaoyan Wang (Ibaraki University, Japan); Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)
 
Resource Management for Heterogeneous Aerial Networks with Backhaul Constraints
Daosen Zhai (Northwestren Polytechnical University, China); Qiqi Shi (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Haotong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Sahil Garg (Resilient Machine Learning Institute (ReMI), Canada); Xi Chen (Huawei Canada, Canada); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

SAC-CLOUD-07: TASK OFFLOADING

An Energy-efficient Computing Offloading Framework for Blockchain-enabled Video Streaming Systems
Shijing Yuan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jie Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Yuxuan Zhu and Chentao Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Yue Ding (Shanghai jiao tong University, China)
 
Attention Cooperative Task Offloading and Service Caching in Edge Computing
Yao Zhixiu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yun Li (ChongQing University of Posts and Telecommunications of China, China); Shichao Xia and Guangfu Wu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
 
Fused-Layer-based DNN Model Parallelism and Partial Computation Offloading
Mingze Li (China Three Gorges University, China); Ning Wang (Rowan University, USA); Huan Zhou (China Three Gorges University, China); Yubin Duan and Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)
 
Efficient and Trusted Task Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing Networks
Xiangshen Chen, Hongzhi Guo and Jiajia Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
 
UCL: Unit Competition of Layers for Streaming Tasks in Heterogeneous Networks
Jing Yu (ShanghaiTech University & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Liantao Wu (Shanghaitech University, China); Guoliang Gao (Huanke Road No. 199 & ShanghaiTech University, China); Chenyu Gong (Shanghaitech University & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

SAC-MLC-07: ML FOR DETECTION, MODULATION, WAVEFORM DESIGN - I

Deep Learning based OFDM Modulation Classification without Symbol-level Synchronization
Byungjun Kim (UCSD, USA); Venkatesh Sathyanarayanan and Michael Bianco (University of California San Diego, USA); Christoph F Mecklenbräuker (TU Wien, Austria); Dinesh Bharadia (UCSD, USA); Peter Gerstoft (University of California, San Diego, USA)
 
Learning Perturbations for Soft-Output Linear MIMO Demappers
Daniel E Worrall (Qualcomm NL, The Netherlands); Markus Peschl (Qualcomm AI Research, The Netherlands); Arash Behboodi (Qualcomm, NL, The Netherlands); Roberto Bondesan (Qualcomm AI Research, The Netherlands)
 
Environment-robust Signal Detection for OTFS Systems Using Deep Learning
Qingqing Cheng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Zhenguo Shi (Macquarie University, Australia); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Mingyu Zhou (Baicells Technologies, China)
 
Knowledge Graph Based Waveform Recommendation: A New Communication Waveform Design Paradigm
Wei Huang, Jun Wang, Qihang Peng and Wei Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

SAC-QC-01: QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS

A Three-Mode Erasure Code for Continuous Variable Quantum Communications
Eduardo Villasenor and Robert Malaney (University of New South Wales, Australia)
 
Frame Synchronization for Quantum Key Distribution Systems
Sara Mantey and Mariana Ramos (Instituto de Telecomunicações and University of Aveiro, Portugal); Nuno Alexandre Silva (Instituto de Telecomunicações & University of Aveiro, Portugal); Armando Nolasco Pinto (Instituto de Telecomunicações Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Nelson Muga (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
 
New Quantum Burst-Error Correcting Codes from Interleaving Technique
Cibele Cristina Trinca (State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil); Clarice Albuquerque (Universidade Federal do Cariri, Brazil); Reginaldo Palazzo Júnior (FEEC - Unicamp, Brazil); Carmelo J. Interlando (San Diego State University, USA); Antonio Aparecido de Andrade (São Paulo State University at São José do Rio Preto, Brazil); Ricardo Watanabe (Univrsity of Campinas, Brazil)

SAC-RIS-07: MMWAVE, SUBTHZ AND THZ COMMUNICATIONS

Outage Analysis of Holographic Surface Assisted Downlink TeraHertz NOMA
Athanasios Chrysologou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Alexandros-Apostolos A Boulogeorgos (University of Piraeus, Greece); Nestor Chatzidiamantis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)
 
Study on the Interference of a Communication System based on a Meta-surface in mmWave
Carola Rizza (Inria, France); Valeria Loscrí (Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France)
 
Optimizing the Deployment of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in MmWave Vehicular Systems
Xiaowen Tian and Nuria González-Prelcic (North Carolina State University, USA); Robert Heath (North Carolina State University & The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
 
RIS-Aided Angular-Based Hybrid Beamforming Design in mmWave Massive MIMO Systems
Ibrahim Yildirim (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Asil Koc (McGill University, Canada); Ertugrul Basar (Koc University, Turkey); Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)
 
Liquid State Machine-Empowered Reflection Tracking in RIS-Aided THz Communications
Hosein Zarini (Amirkabir University, Iran); Narges Gholipoor (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran); Mohammad Robat mili (Pasargad Institute for Advanced Innovative Solutions (PIAIS), Iran); Mehdi Rasti (University of Oulu, Finland); Hina Tabassum (York University, Canada); Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada)

SAC-SGC-01: POWER SYSTEM STATE ESTIMATION, LOAD FORECASTING AND CONTROL

DearFSAC: A DRL-based Robust Design for Power Demand Forecasting in Federated Smart Grid
Chenghao Huang, Weilong Chen, Xiaoyi Wang, Feng Hong, Shunji Yang and Yuxi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Shengrong Bu (Brock University, Canada); Changkun Jiang (Shenzhen University, China); Yingjie Zhou (Sichuan University, China); Yanru Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
 
Attentive Knowledge Transfer for Short-term Load Forecasting
Di Wu (Samsung Electronics, Canada); Michael Jenkin (York University, Canada); Yi Tian Xu (Samsung AI Center, Canada); Xue Liu (McGill University, Canada); Gregory Dudek (Samsung Electronics, Canada)
 
EleGNN: Electrical-Model-Guided Graph Neural Networks for Power Distribution System State Estimation
Hui Lin and Yan (Lindsay) Sun (University of Rhode Island, USA)
 
Peak Demand Optimization of Commercial Buildings based on Energy Storage Systems
Zezhang Yang (SUNY-Binghamton University, USA); Jake Rabinowitz (COI Energy, USA); Jian Li (Binghamton University, USA)
 
Unsupervised Deep Learning for AC Optimal Power Flow via Lagrangian Duality
Kejun Chen and Shourya Bose (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Yu Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

SAC-SSC-07: SATELLITE COMPUTING

Toward Failure-Aware Energy-Efficient Service Provisioning in Vehicular Fog Computing
Chaogang Tang (College of Computer Science and Technology, CUMT, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China); Chunsheng Zhu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Huaming Wu (Tianjin University, China); Lei Ning (Shenzhen Technology University, China); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Senac Fac of Ceará, Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
 
Fast-Pipe: Efficient Multi-Channel Data Mapping on Edge FPGAs for Satellite Remote Sensing
Chaoran Shu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Boyu Qi (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China); Yan-fei Sun (Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Kun Wang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

SPC-07: INTELLIGENT SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES #2

Maximum Focal Inter-Class Angular Loss With Norm Constraint for Automatic Modulation Classification
Sicheng Zhang and Jiangzhi Fu (Harbin Engineering University, China); Zherui Zhang (Harbin Engineering University & None, China); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA); Yun Lin (Harbin Engineering University, China)
 
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Secure Standalone Intelligent Reflecting Surface Operation
Yasaman Omid (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yansha Deng (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); A Nallanathan (QMUL, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
 
LPCSE: Neural Speech Enhancement Through Linear Predictive Coding
Yang Liu (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Na Tang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Xiaoli Chu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yang Yang (ShanghaiTech University, China); Jun Wang (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
 
TSI-Aided Real-Time Monitoring of Brownian Motions: A Rate-Latency-Distortion Perspective
Siyuan Yu and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
 
An Incremental Decoding Scheme for Optimal Real-Time Control of Markovian Systems
Junjie Wu and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)

WC-07: LOCALIZATION

Environment-Aware Wireless Localization Enabled by Channel Knowledge Map
Yang Long (Southeast University & National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, China); Yong Zeng, Xiaoli Xu and Yongming Huang (Southeast University, China)
 
Integrated Segmentation and Subspace Clustering for RSS-Based Localization under Blind Calibration
Zheng Xing and Junting Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Yadan Tang (Shenzhen Eachitech Technology co., ltd, China)
 
Wand: Remote Control System based on Ultra-wideband Localization using Smartphone
Junyoung Choi, Mingyu Lee, Taewoo Kim and Haeyoung Jun (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))
 
Quantifying the Impact of Localization Error on Indoor Channel Prediction Using REMs
Friedrich Burmeister, Zhongju Li and Nick Schwarzenberg (Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany); Andreas Trabl (Technische Universitat Dresden & Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop, Germany); Richard Jacob (TU Dresden, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) Localization Coverage Analysis of THz Communication Systems with a 3D Array Pinjun Zheng (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Tarig Ballal (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia); Hui Chen and Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, USA)

WC-16: CHANNEL ESTIMATION

Hybrid Far- and Near-Field Channel Estimation for THz Ultra-Massive MIMO via Fixed Point Networks
Wentao Yu, Yifei Shen, Hengtao He, Xianghao Yu, Jun Zhang and Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
 
Intelligent Near-Field Channel Estimation for Terahertz Ultra-Massive MIMO Systems
Anho Lee, Hyungyu Ju, Seungnyun Kim and Byonghyo Shim (Seoul National University, Korea (South))
 
Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided mmWave Communications
Seungnyun Kim and Byonghyo Shim (Seoul National University, Korea (South))
 
Channel Estimation for HF Skywave Massive MIMO-OFDM with Triple-Beam Based Channel Model
Ding Shi, Linfeng Song, Wenqi Zhou and Xiqi Gao (Southeast University, China); Cheng-Xiang Wang (Southeast University, China & Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Geoffrey Ye Li (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
 
Two-Timescale Joint UL/DL Dictionary Learning and Channel Estimation in Massive MIMO Systems
Yangliu Zhao and Yinglei Teng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); An Liu (Zhejiang University, China); Vincent Lau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

WC-25: MMWAVE COMMUNICATIONS

Effects of Beam Misalignment on Heterogeneous Cellular Networks with Mm-Wave Small Cells
Muhammad Saad Zia, Douglas Blough and Mary Ann Weitnauer (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
 
Designing a Broadband MIMO Antenna for Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems
Sarosh Ahmad (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain & Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Pakistan); Wael Jaafar (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)
 
Slanting mmWave Subarrays in the Hybrid Architecture to Compensate for Directional Antenna Elements
Edith Ghunney and Mary Ann Weitnauer (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
 
Angular Distance-Based Performance Analysis of mmWave Cellular Networks
Charalampos Armeniakos and Athanasios G. Kanatas (University of Piraeus, Greece)
 
Performance Analysis for mm-Wave ISAC Systems with Mutual Benefit
Yinghong Guo, Chengliang Yin, Ouxin Lu, Manlin Wang and Bin Xia (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 10:00 - 12:15

KEYNOTE SESSION


WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 14:00 - 15:30

GCSN 8: GREEN COMPUTING

Framed Projective Cone Scheduling: Latency vs. Context-Switching Tradeoff in Data Centers
Emi Zeger, Ariana J Mann and Nicholas Bambos (Stanford University, USA)
 
Double Perturbation-Based Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning against Inference Attack
Yongqi Jiang, Yanhang Shi and Siguang Chen (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
 
Power Minimizing MEC Offloading with QoS Constraints over RIS-Empowered Communications
Mattia Merluzzi (CEA-Leti, France); Francesca Costanzo (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy); Konstantinos D. Katsanos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens, Greece); Paolo Di Lorenzo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
 
Dynamic Fog Intelligence with Flow Control for Green Internet of Things
Ruelia Saha and Nurzaman Ahmed (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India)

CISS-08: APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY

PPsky: Privacy-Preserving Skyline Queries with Secret Sharing in eHealthcare
Songnian Zhang (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Suprio Ray (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada); Rongxing Lu and Yunguo Guan (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
 
zkMLaaS: a Verifiable Scheme for Machine Learning as a Service
Chenyu Huang and Jianzong Wang (Ping An Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., China); Huangxun Chen (Huawei, Hong Kong); Shijing Si, Zhangcheng Huang and Jing Xiao (Ping An Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., China)
 
Fast Chaotic Image Encryption with Simultaneous Permutation and Diffusion for IoT Applications
João Inácio Moreira Bezerra, Gustavo Machado, Rafael Soares, Alexandre Molter and Vinícius Camargo (Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil)
 
Secure and Distributed Access Control for Dynamic Pervasive Edge Computing Services
Lingshuang Liu and Cheng Huang (University of Waterloo, Canada); Dan Zhu (Xidian University, China); Dongxiao Liu (University of Waterloo, Canada); Jianbing Ni (Queen's University, Canada); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
 
Service Migration Authentication Protocol for MEC
Pasika S Ranaweera (University College Dublin, Ireland & University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka); Awaneesh Kumar Yadav (Indian Institute of Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India); Madhusanka Liyanage (University College Dublin, Ireland & University of Oulu, Finland); Anca Delia Jurcut (University College Dublin, Ireland)

CISS-17: PHYSICAL LAYER AND MOBILE SECURITY

Relaxation-phase-based Robust Directional Modulation with Angle Estimation Error
Jinzhe Xu (Northwestern Polytecnical University, China); Qian Xu, Xin Yang, Ling Wang and Wenbin Sun (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
 
Impact of Frequency Offset on Artificial Noise Suppression in SIMO Physical Layer Security Systems
Yu Mao, Hongzhi Zhao, Changqing Song and Shihai Shao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
 
Key Generation with Ambient Audio
Bo-Rong Chen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Hsin-Tien Chiang, Heng-Cheng Kuo and Yu Tsao (Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Yih-Chun Hu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
 
Covert Communication in Uplink NOMA Systems Against a Two-Phase Detector
Zhengxiang Duan, Xin Yang, Qian Xu and Ling Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
 
TPT: A Scalable Traffic Path Tracking Scheme Using Improved Viterbi Algorithm in Satellite Internet
Wei Guo, Jin Xu, Yukui Pei and Liuguo Yin (Tsinghua University, China)

CQRM-08: NETWORK MEASUREMENT AND MONITORING TECHNIQUES I

In-Vehicle Network Delay Tomography
Amani Ibraheem (University of Sussex, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia); Zhengguo Sheng and George Parisis (University of Sussex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Daxin Tian (Beihang University, China)
 
Shapley Explainer-an Interpretation Method for GNNs used in SDN
Chuanhuang Li, Jiali Lou, Shiyuan Liu and Zebin Chen (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China); Xiaoyong Yuan (Michigan Technological University, USA)
 
Interference Correlation Caused by Spatio-Temporal Correlation of Traffic
Lisha Zou, Yi Zhong, Fei Gong and Tao Han (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
 
Exact and Scalable Network Reliability Evaluation for Probabilistic Correlated Failures
Ryoma Onaka (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Kengo Nakamura (NTT Corporation & Kyoto University, Japan); Takeru Inoue (NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan); Masaaki Nishino and Norihito Yasuda (NTT Comunication Science Laboratories, Japan); Shinsaku Sakaue (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
 
Throughput Analytics of Cloud Networks
Derek Phanekham (Southern Methodist University, USA); Mike Truty (Google LLC, USA & Southern Methodist University, USA); Suku Nair (Southern Methodist University, USA); Nageswara Rao (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

CSM-01: UAV AND VEHICULAR EDGE NETWORKING

QoE Maximization for Multi-Antenna UAV-Enabled Video Streaming
Jingrui Liao, Cheng Zhan, Yang Yang and Bin Zeng (Southwest University, China)
 
Trajectory and Power Design to Balance UAV Communication Capacity and Unintentional Interference
Kehao Wang (WHUT, China); Yongguang Lu and Pei Liu (Wuhan University of Technology, China); Xiaobai Li (Air Force Early Warning Academy, China); Guangyu Li (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Hyundong Shin (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South))
 
On Efficient UAV Charging Trajectory for Large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks
Rongrong Zhang, Yingying Qiao, Hui Li and Mengyu Li (Capital Normal University, China)
 
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Vehicular Edge Computing
Mohammed Laroui (Université de Paris, France); Hassine Moungla (Université de Paris & Instiut Mines Telecom, France); Hossam Afifi (Télécom SudParis, Institut Telecom & Paris Saclay, France); Mohamed Y. Selim and Ahmed E. Kamal (Iowa State University, USA)
 
Community-Oriented Resource Allocation at the Extreme Edge
Abdalla A. Moustafa, Sara A. Elsayed and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)

CT-04: COMMUNICATIONS AND SENSING

On Delay-Doppler Plane Orthogonal Pulse
Hai Lin (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
 
Joint Sensing and Communications in Finite Block-Length Regime
Flavio Zabini and Enrico Paolini (University of Bologna, Italy); Wen Xu (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH & European Research Center (ERC), Germany); Andrea Giorgetti (University of Bologna, Italy)
 
Flowing the Information from Shannon to Fisher: Towards the Fundamental Tradeoff in ISAC
Yifeng Xiong (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Fan Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Yuanhao Cui (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China); Weijie Yuan (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Tony Xiao Han (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China)
 
Cognitive Waveform Design for Dual-functional MIMO Radar-Communication Systems
Zongyao Zhao (Tsinghua University, China); Xinke Tang (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Yuhan Dong (Tsinghua University, China)
 
Trilateration-Based Device-Free Sensing: Two Base Stations and One Passive IRS Are Sufficient
Qipeng Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Liang Liu and Shuowen Zhang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China); Francis C.M. Lau (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

IOTSN-08: SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS FOR IOTSN

Real-time Optimal Multibeam and Power Allocation in 5G Satellite-Terrestrial IoT Networks
Trung Q. Duong (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Long D. Nguyen (Dong Nai University, Vietnam); Tinh T. Bui (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam); Khanh D. Pham (Air Force Research Laboratory/Space Vehicles Directorate & University of New Mexico/Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, USA)
 
Collaborative Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in Satellite Edge Computing
Ruisong Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Weichen Zhu (Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, China); Gongliang Liu and Ruofei Ma (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Di Zhang (Zhengzhou University, China); Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Soumaya Cherkaoui (Polytechnique Montreal)
 
Sensor Deployment and Link Analysis in Satellite IoT Systems for Wildfire Detection
How-Hang Liu, Ronald Y. Chang and Yi-Ying Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); I-Kang Fu (MediaTek Inc., Taiwan); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
 
Geo-Spatio-Temporal Information Based 3D Cooperative Positioning in LOS/NLOS Mixed Environments
Yue Cao, Shaoshi Yang and Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
 
NLoS Detection for Enhanced 5G mmWave-based Positioning for Vehicular IoT Applications
Qamar Bader and Sharief Saleh (Queen's University & NavINST Research Lab, Royal Military College, Canada); Mohamed Elhabiby (Micro Engineering Technology Incorporated, Canada); Aboelmagd Noureldin (NavINST Research Lab, Royal Military College & Queen's University, Canada)

IOTSN-17: EDGE COMPUTING II

Towards Resource-aware DNN Partitioning for Edge Devices with Heterogeneous Resources
Muhammad Zawish and Lizy Abraham (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland); Kapal Dev (Munster Technological University & IEEE, Ireland); Steven Davy (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)
 
An IoT Traffic Modeling Framework and its Application to Autonomous Edge Scaling
Dana Haj Hussein and Mohamed Ibnkahla (Carleton University, Canada)
 
Container Scheduling in Hybrid Cloud-Edge Collaborative System
Jincheng Luo and Bing Tang (Hunan University of Science and Technology, China); Jiaming Zhang (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
 
Heuristic-Based Proactive Service Migration Induced by Dynamic Computation Load in Edge Computing
Amr M. Zaki and Sara A. Elsayed (Queen's University, Canada); Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
 
Multitiered Worker-Oriented Resource Allocation at the Extreme Edge
Marah De'bas (Queens University, Canada); Sara A. Elsayed and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)

MWN-03: CLOUD AND EDGE NETWORKS

Real-time Data Acquisition and Processing under Mobile Edge Computing-assisted UAV System
Yao Zeng and Jianhua Tang (South China University of Technology, China)
 
Optimal Job Scheduling and Bandwidth Augmentation in Hybrid Data Center Networks
Binquan Guo (Xidian University, China); Zhou Zhang and Ye Yan (Tianjin Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center (TAIIC), China); Hongyan Li (Xidian University, China)
 
Parallel Computing at the Extreme Edge: Spatiotemporal Analysis
Mahmoud Abdelhadi, Sameh Sorour and Sara A. Elsayed (Queen's University, Canada); Hesham ElSawy (Queens University, Saudi Arabia); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
 
Joint Grouping and Offloading in NOMA-Assisted Multi-MEC IoVT Systems
Xinyu Yang, Hancheng Lu, Fengqian Guo, Yazheng Wang, Chani Kong and Qiaojia Lu (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
 
Age-of-Information-Aware Digital Twin Assisted Resource Management for Distributed Energy Scheduling
Yiling Shu, Zhao Wang and Haijun Liao (North China Electric Power University, China); Zhenyu Zhou (North China Electric Power University & Waseda University, China); Nidal Naser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia); Muhammad Imran (King Saud University)
 
Exploiting Deep Reinforcement Learning for Edge Caching in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
Yu Zhang, Shuaifei Chen and Jiayi Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

MWN-12: VEHICULAR NETWORKS I

Modeling of Correlated Blockage in Highway Vehicular Networks
Chang-Sik Choi (Hongik University, Korea (South)); Francois Baccelli (INRIA, France)
 
Environment-Aware Reinforcement Learning Based VANET Communications Against Jamming and Interference
Zhiping Lin, Xiaohao Yan and Liang Xiao (Xiamen University, China); Shi Yan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuliang Tang (Xiamen University, China); Jun Liu (Beihang University & Smart Ocean Technology Co., Ltd, China)
 
On Distributed Repetition Allocation for IEEE 802.11bd under Time-varying Channel Load Conditions
Richard Jacob and Lingjie Ji (TU Dresden, Germany); Nick Schwarzenberg, Friedrich Burmeister and Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
 
A V2V Empowered Consensus Framework for Cooperative Autonomous Driving
Jiayu Cao and Supeng Leng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Lei Zhang and Muhammad Ali Imran (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Haoye Chai (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
 
Digital Twin-Driven Computing Resource Management for Vehicular Networks
Mushu Li (University of Waterloo, Canada); Jie Gao (Carleton University, Canada); Conghao Zhou, Sherman Shen and Weihua Zhuang (University of Waterloo, Canada)

NGNI-06: SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING

vNetRadar: Lightweight and Network-Wide Traffic Measurement in Virtual Networks
Tie Ma, Jin Zhang, Long Luo, Hongfang Yu, Gang Sun and Sun Jian (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
 
Scale-friendly In-network Coordination
Stefanos Sagkriotis and Dimitrios P Pezaros (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
 
Revenue-Oriented Service Offloading through Fog-Cloud Collaboration in SD-WAN
Yi Zhang and Changqiao Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland)
 
A Blockchain-based SDN East/West Interface
Hai Nam Nguyen (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Sami Souihi (University Paris Est UPEC, France); Hai Anh Tran (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Scott Fowler (Linköping University, Sweden)
 
High-Speed Packet Classification: A Case for Approximate Sorting
Aditya Narasimhan, Sridhar Radhakrishnan and Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, USA); C Subramanian (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, HBNI, India)

SAC-BF-2: FRONTHAUL/BACKHAUL NETWORKS 2

Exploiting NOMA for Radio Resource Efficient Traffic Steering Use-case in O-RAN
Muhammad Waseem Akhtar, Aamir Mahmood and Sarder Fakhrul Abedin (Mid Sweden University, Sweden); Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Mikael Gidlund (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
 
Metric Learning-based Few-Shot Malicious Node Detection for IoT Backhaul/Fronthaul Networks
Ke Zhou, Xi Lin and Jun Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Ali Kashif Bashir (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jianhua Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Muhammad Imran (Federation University, Australia)

SAC-CLOUD-08: VEHICULAR EDGE COMPUTING

Satisfaction Optimization in Failure-Aware Vehicular Edge Computing
Chaogang Tang (College of Computer Science and Technology, CUMT, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China); Huaming Wu (Tianjin University, China); Chunsheng Zhu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
 
Design of fog computing infrastructures with rotary-wing UAVs
Rodrigo Augusto Cardoso da Silva (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil); Nelson L. S. da Fonseca (State University of Campinas, Brazil)
 
Data Synchronization for Vehicular Digital Twin Network
Xiaoqing Yang, Jinkai Zheng, Tom H. Luan and Rui Li (Xidian University, China); Zhou Su (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Mianxiong Dong (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)
 
A Shapley Value-based Strategy for Resource Allocation in Vehicular Clouds
Aguimar Ribeiro, Jr. (University of São Paulo, Brazil); Geraldo Rocha Filho (University of Brasilia, Brazil); Daniel Guidoni (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil); Robson E. De Grande (Brock University, Canada); Sandra Sampaio (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Rodolfo Meneguette (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
 
Computation Offloading for Latency Reduction in Regionalized Hierarchical Vehicular Fog Network
Yanbing Yang and Wenchi Cheng (Xidian University, China); Jiangzhou Wang (University of Kent, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

SAC-QC-02: SPECIAL TOPICS ON QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY

Radio Propagation Analysis Using Quantum Annealing
Tetsuro Imai (Tokyo Denki University, Japan); Wataru Yamada, Minoru Inomata and Nobuaki Kuno (NTT, Japan)
 
The Design and Implementation of a Hybrid Classical-Quantum Annealing Polar Decoder
Srikar Kasi (Princeton University, USA); John Kaewell (InterDigital, USA); Kyle Jamieson (Princeton University, USA)
 
Quantum Discrimination of Noisy Photon-Subtracted Squeezed States
Andrea Giani (University of Ferrara, Italy); Moe Z. Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Andrea Conti (DE and CNIT, University of Ferrara, Italy)
 
Quantum Social Computing Approaches for Influence Maximization
Thang N. Dinh (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); An Nguyen and Nguyen Thi Uyen (Vinh University, Vietnam); Nguy?n Long Giang (Vi?n Công ngh? thông tin, VAST, Vietnam)

SAC-RIS-08: MULTICAST AND MACHINE LEARNING

Performance Optimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Multicast MIMO Networks
Songling Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Danpu Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Kai-Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
 
On the Achievable Rate of IRS-Assisted Multigroup Multicast Systems
Muhammad Farooq and Vaibhav Kumar (University College Dublin, Ireland); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland); LeNam Tran (University College Dublin, Ireland)
 
Modeling Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-aided Directional Communications for Multicast Services
Olga Chukhno (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy & Tampere University, Finland); Nadezhda Chukhno (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy & Universitat Jaume I, Spain); Sara Pizzi and Antonella Molinaro (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Antonio Iera (University of Calabria, Italy); Giuseppe Araniti (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy)
 
Deep Reinforcement Learning Empowered Smart Control of Intelligent Reflecting Surface
Wei Wang (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Wei Zhang (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
 
Distributed RIS-Assisted FD Systems with Discrete Phase Shifts: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Alice Faisal, Ibrahim Al-Nahhal and Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada); Telex M. N. Ngatched (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)

SAC-SGC-02: COMPUTATION AND COMMUNICATION FOR SMART GRID APPLICATIONS

A Contract-Based Computing-Charging Protocol for Electric Vehicles with Vehicular Fog Computing
Zhiwei Wei, Bing Li and Rongqing Zhang (Tongji University, China); Xiang Cheng (Peking University, China)
 
SD-RAN based Approach for Smart Grid Critical Traffic Routing and Scheduling in 5G Mobile Networks
Mohand Ouamer Nait Belaid (EDF R&D & University of Gustave Eiffel, France); Vincent Audebert (EDf R&D, France); Boris Deneuville (EDF R&D, France); Rami Langar (Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal and University Gustave Eiffel, Canada)
 
Orthogonal Chirp-Division Multiplexing-Based Hybrid Power Line/Wireless System
Mateus Filomeno, Túlio F. Moreira and Yan F Coutinho (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil); Ândrei Camponogara (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil); Marcello Campos (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Moises Vidal Ribeiro (Federal University of Juiz de Fora & INERGE - INCT de Energia Elétrica, Brazil)

SAC-SSC-08: LOW-EARTH ORBIT SATELLITE 3

Accuracy-Versus-Energy Evaluation In Drone-Based Video Processing For Object Detection
Igor Bisio, Halar Haleem, Chiara Garibotto, Fabio Lavagetto and Andrea Sciarrone (University of Genoa, Italy)
 
Innovative Flying Strategy based on Drone Energy Profile: an Application for Traffic Monitoring
Igor Bisio, Halar Haleem, Chiara Garibotto, Fabio Lavagetto and Andrea Sciarrone (University of Genoa, Italy)
 
Impact of Multipath Signals on Terrestrial Fixed Service Interference in Aeronautical SATCOM
Stephan P. Winter and Andreas Knopp (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)
 
Deep Q Networks with Centralized Learning over LEO Satellite Networks in a 6G Cloud Environment
Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues and Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)
 
Coherent Communications for Free Space Optical Low-Earth Orbit Downlinks
Balazs Matuz, Ayman Zahr and Alexander Sauter (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)

SPC-08: SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR SINGLE-CARRIER AND MULTICARRIER SYSTEMS

Maximum a-Posteriori Equalizer for Sparse Walsh Hadamard Modulation
Roberto Bomfin (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Marwa Chafii (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Ahmad Nimr and Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
 
Interference in Orthogonal Stockwell Division Multiplexing: CP Length Violation and STO
Túlio F. Moreira (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil); Ândrei Camponogara (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil); Yan F Coutinho and Mateus Filomeno (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil); Moises Vidal Ribeiro (Federal University of Juiz de Fora & INERGE - INCT de Energia Elétrica, Brazil)
 
An Efficient Channel Estimation Scheme for Short Frame OTFS Using Impulse-Train Pilots
Haojian Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Jianing Li and Tingting Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Xu Zhu (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China & University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
 
A Wideband Capacity Maximization Approach for CSI Feedback in Frequency Selective Channels
Federico Penna (Samsung US R&D Center, USA); Hyukjoon Kwon (Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., USA); Dongwoon Bai (Samsung US R&D Center, USA); Jung Hyun Bae (Samsung Semiconductors Inc., USA); Jaein Kim (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Junho Lee (Samsung, Korea (South)); Hui Won Je (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))
 
Delay-Doppler Domain Estimation of Doubly-Selective Channels in Single-Carrier Systems
Cheng Shen (UNSW, Australia); Jinhong Yuan and Yixuan Xie (University of New South Wales, Australia); Hai Lin (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)

WC-08: EDGE COMPUTING

C-V2X based Offloading Strategy in Multi-Tier Vehicular Edge Computing System
Weiyang Feng and Siyu Lin (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada); Gongpu Wang and Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Lin Cai (University of Victoria, Canada)
 
Two-Timescale Mobility Management for Multi-Cell Mobile Edge Computing
Zezu Liang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Yuan Liu (South China University of Technology, China); Tat M. Lok (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Kaibin Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
 
A Knowledge Graph-based Cooperative Caching Scheme in MEC-enabled Heterogeneous Networks
Yalu Bai and Dan Wang (Xidian University, China); Bin Song (State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, China)
 
Energy-Efficient and Reliable Cooperative Edge Inference via Adaptive Partial Offloading
Labriji Ibtissam (Renault Software Labs, France); Mattia Merluzzi (CEA-Leti, France); Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France)
 
Optimization of Image Transmission in Semantic Communication Networks
Wenjing Zhang and Yining Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Tao Luo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

WC-17: UAV & AERIAL NETWORKS

Redundant Clustered Scheme Based on Weighted Cluster Head Selection for Damaged S-UAV
Grace Khayat (University of Nicosia & Mobile Systems Laboratory, Cyprus); 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, Poland); Evangelos Pallis (Technological Educational Insitute of Crete, Greece)
 
Trajectory Optimization of Cellular-Connected UAV for Information Collection and Transmission
Xianzhen Guo, Shuowen Zhang and Liang Liu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
 
Wobbling and Impairments-Aware Channel Model and its Implications on High-Frequency UAV Links Morteza Banagar and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
GRU-Aided Intra-Cluster Topology Mapping for Aeronautical Ad-Hoc Networks Tu?çe Bilen and Berk Canberk (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
 
Resource Allocation and UAVs Placement in Cell-free Wireless Networks
Aya Ahmed (University of Quebec at Monteal, Canada); Cirine Chaieb (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Wessam Ajib (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada); Halima Elbiaze (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada)

WC-26: WIRELESS NETWORKS I

An NWDAF Approach to 5G Core Network Signaling Traffic: Analysis and Characterization
Dimitrios M Manias, Ali Chouman and Abdallah Shami (Western University, Canada)
 
Equilibrium-driven Dynamic Pricing for Shared Access C-RAN
Jingbo Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jiacheng Chen and Chaofan He (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, China)
 
Robust Capacity of Wireless Networks Under Cascading Failures
Wei Li, Junyu Liu, Min Sheng and Jiandong Li (Xidian University, China)
 
A DRQN-based Initial Contention Window Optimization Algorithm for NR-U and WiFi Coexistence Networks
Shurui Jiang and Jun Zheng (Southeast University, China)
 
Conformal Metasurfaces for Recovering Dynamic Blockage in Vehicular Systems
Marouan Mizmizi (Politecnico di Milano & None, Italy); Dario Tagliaferri and Misagh Khosronejad (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Laura Resteghini (Huawei Technologies, European Research Center, Italy); Gian Guido Gentili, Lorenza Draghi and Umberto Spagnolini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 16:00 - 17:30

GCSN 9: EMERGING NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES

Low-Complexity Energy Detection for Spatial Modulation
Elio Faddoul (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Ghassan M. Kraidy (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
 
Pre-Scaling and Codebook Design for Joint Radar and Communication Based on Index Modulation
Shengyang Chen (Huawei Research and Development Center, Suzhou, China); Aryan Kaushik (University of Sussex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
 
Interference-Cancellation Transceiver Design for Long-Range Multistatic Backscatter Communications
Jun Liu, Zhiyi Luo, Gang Yang and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
 
Energy-aware Scheduling of Virtualized Base Stations in O-RAN with Online Learning
Michail Kalntis and George Iosifidis (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
 
Power-Aware Traffic Engineering for Data Center Networks via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Minglan Gao, Tian Pan and Enge Song (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mengqi Yang (China); Tao Huang and Yunjie Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

CISS-09: IOT SECURITY

Impersonation Attack Detection in IoT Networks
Dinh Duc Nha Nguyen (Deakin University, Australia); Keshav Sood (Deakin University, Melbourne Australia, Australia); Yong Xiang and Longxiang Gao (Deakin University, Australia); Lianhua Chi (La Trobe University, Australia)
 
IoT Device Identification Based on Network Traffic Characteristics
Md Mainuddin and Zhenhai Duan (Florida State University, USA); Yingfei Dong (University of Hawaii, USA); Shaeke Salman and Tania Taami (Florida State University, USA)
 
Secure and Efficient Traffic Obfuscation for Smart Home
Gaofeng He (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xiancai Xiao (Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Renhong Chen, Haiting Zhu and Zhaowei Zhang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Bingfeng Xu (Nanjing Forestry University, China)
 
IoTminer: Semantic Information Extraction in the Packet Payloads
Yaxin Zhang, Min Huang and Qiang Li (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Limin Sun (Institute of Information Engineering, China Academy of Science, Beijing, China)
 
Exploiting Playback Device's Effect on Multi-channel Audio to Secure Voice Assistants
Munmun Talukder and Linda Jiang Xie (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)

CISS-18: ATTACKS AND TOOLS

Side-Channel VoIP Profiling Attack against Customer Service Automated Phone System
Roy Laurens (University of Central Florida, USA & Dinamika University, Indonesia); Edo D Christianto, Bruce Caulkins and Cliff Zou (University of Central Florida, USA)
 
Optimal Cybersecurity Investments Using SIS Model: Weakly Connected Networks
Van Sy Mai (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Richard J La (University of Maryland, USA); Abdella Battou (NIST, USA)
 
MMOS: Multi-Staged Mutation Operator Scheduling for Deep Learning Library Testing
Junqiang Li, Senyi Li, Jiawei Wu, Long Luo, Yang Bai and Hongfang Yu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

CQRM-09: NETWORK MEASUREMENT AND MONITORING TECHNIQUES II

A Simplified Machine Learning Approach to Classifying Individual Websites
Tina L Burns (Rutgers University, USA); Ivan Seskar (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA); Jorge Ortiz (The State University of New Jersey, USA); Richard Martin and Chuxu Song (Rutgers University, USA)
 
Segmented Learning for Class-of-Service Network Traffic Classification
Yoga Suhas Kuruba Manjunath and Sihao Zhao (Ryerson University, Canada); Hatem Abou-Zeid (University of Calgary, Canada); Akram Bin Sediq (Ericsson, Canada); Ramy Atawia (Queen's University, Canada); Xiao-Ping (Steven) Zhang (Ryerson University, Canada)
 
Leveraging Web browsing performance data for Network monitoring: A data-driven approach
Imane Taibi (Université de Rennes 1, France); Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul (University of Rennes 1, France); Chadi Barakat (Inria, Université Côte d'Azur, France)
 
What Causes Delay Asymmetry: A Large-scale One-way Delay Measurement and Empirical Study
Yaozhong Liu, Jiahai Yang, Zhiliang Wang, Long Pan, Lin He, Jinlei Lin, Guanglei Song and Chenglong Li (Tsinghua University, China)

CSM-02: VIRTUAL REALITY AND VIDEO STREAMING

Service Chaining Graph: Latency- and Energy-aware Mobile VR Deployment over MEC Infrastructures
Alisson Medeiros, Antonio Di Maio and Torsten Ingo Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland); Augusto J. Venancio Neto (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro, Portugal)
 
Short-Term Trajectory Prediction for Full-Immersive Multiuser VR with Redirected Walking
Filip Lemic (University of Antwerpen - imec, Belgium); Jakob Struye (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Jeroen Famaey (University of Antwerp & Imec, Belgium)
 
Relay-based network architectures for Collaborative Virtual Reality Applications
Fadia Hasnaoui and Lamia Zohra Mihoubi (ESI, Algeria); Maria Pateraki (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Miloud Bagaa (Aalto University, Finland)
 
Multi-verse Optimizer for Multiple Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Aided Indoor Wireless Network
Yuyin Ma, Kaoru Ota and Mianxiong Dong (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)
 
QoE-oriented Adaptive Video Streaming with Edge-Client Collaborative Super-Resolution
Xilai Liu, Zhihui Ke, Xiaobo Zhou, Tie Qiu and Keqiu Li (Tianjin University, China)

CT-05: DETECTION AND ESTIMATION

A Multi-Sample Discrete-Phase BCJR Algorithm for Phase Noise Channels
Barbara Ripani (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Andrea Modenini (ESA, The Netherlands); Guido Montorsi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
 
On the Bayesian Cramér-Rao Bound for Phase Noise Estimation Based on 1-bit Quantized Samples
Stephan Zeitz (TU Dresden, Germany); Florian Gast (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Meik Dörpinghaus (TU Dresden, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
 
MMSE Signal Detection for MIMO Systems based on Ordinary Differential Equation
Ayano Nakai-Kasai and Tadashi Wadayama (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
 
Soft-input, soft-output joint detection and GRAND
Hadi Sarieddeen and Muriel Médard (MIT, USA); Ken R. Duffy (Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University, Ireland)
 
Virtual Wiretap Channel Based on Wireless Two-way Interferometry
Nobuyasu Shiga and Satoshi Yasuda (National Institute of Informations and Communications Technology, Japan); Kouki Yonaga (National Institute of Information and Communications and Technology, Japan); Kenichi Takizawa and Maki Yoshida (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

IOTSN-09: IOTSN LOCALIZATION

JUNO: Jump-Start Reinforcement Learning-based Node Selection for UWB Indoor Localization
Zohreh HajiAkhondi-Meybodi (Concordia University, Canada); Ming Hou (Defence R&D Canada, Canada); Arash Mohammadi (Concordia University, Canada)
 
Single-Antenna Sensor Localization with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Zi Ye and Faryal Junaid (Luleå Tekniska Universitet, Sweden); Rickard Nilsson and Jaap van de Beek (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)
 
3DLoc: A Non-Line-of-Sight 3D Indoor Localization System in Wireless Sensor Networks
Kaikai Liu, Zengshan Tian, Ze Li and Xiaoyu Wan (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
 
Energy-Harvesting Based Jammer Localization: A Battery-Free Approach in Wireless Sensor Networks
Ahmed Mohamed Hussain (Qatar University, Qatar); Pietro Tedeschi (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Gabriele Oligeri (HBKU - CSE - ICT Division, Qatar); Amr Mohamed (Qatar University, Qatar); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)
 
Low-Complexity Source Localization Based on Quaternion Analysis in Smart Ocean
Yi Lou (Harbin Institute of Technology Weihai, China); Xinghao Qu (Harbin Engineering University, China); Ruoyu Zhang (Ministerial Key Laboratory of JGMT, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Yunjiang Zhao (Yichang Testing Technique Research Institute, China); Qiao Gang (Harbin Engerneering University, China)

IOTSN-18: PROTOCOLS, ARCHITECTURES AND APPLICATIONS FOR IOT I

AI-Enabled Health 4.0: An IoT-Based COVID-19 Diagnosis Use-Case
Xiaoyu-Shorey Song (Carleton University, Canada); Wei-Claire Pan, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, Ali Abbas and Safa Otoum (University of Ottawa, Canada)
 
ConSerN: QoS-Aware programmable multitier architecture for dynamic IoT networks
Aurélien Chambon (Université Gustave Eiffel & uGetWin, France); Abderrezak Rachedi (University Gustave Eiffel, France); Abderrahim Sahli (Univ Gustave Eiffel, CNRS, ESIEE Paris, France); Ahmed Mebarki (Université Gustave Eiffel & Laboratory Modeling Multi Scale Simulation // Institute of Technology, France)
 
Novel Task Allocation Method for Emergency Events under Delay-Cost Tradeoff
Mohamed Rafat Aboualola (New Salata, Zone 40 & Qatar University, Qatar); Khalid Abualsaud, Tamer Khattab and Nizar Zorba (Qatar University, Qatar)
 
Automatic Network Slicing for Multi-Mode Internet of Underwater Things (MM-IoUT)
Osama M Bushnaq and Igor V. Zhilin (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Giulia De Masi (Technology Innovation Institute, Italy); Enrico Natalizio (University of Lorraine/Loria & Technology Innovation Institute, France); Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
 
Resource Allocation in Vehicle-Aided MIoT: How to Enhance Energy Efficiency in Packet Uploading?
Guanqiao Qu, Chenguang He, Qian Chen and Weixiao Meng (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

MWN-04: IOT NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS

Delegated Proof of Stake Consensus with Mobile Voters and Multiple Entry PBFT Voting
Jelena Miši? and Vojislav B. Miši? (Ryerson University, Canada); Xiaolin Chang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
 
Defending Against DDOS Attacks on IoT Network Throughput: A Trust-Stackelberg Game Model
Chunyang Qi and Jie Huang (Southeast University, China); Cheng Huang (University of Waterloo, Canada); Huaqing Wu (University of Calgary, Canada); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
 
Light-Weight Congestion Control in Constrained IoT Networks
Lotfi Mhamdi and Hussam Abdul Khalek (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
 
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Data Freshness-oriented Scheduling in Industrial IoT
Jiaping Li and Jianhua Tang (South China University of Technology, China); Zilong Liu (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
 
Multi-protocol Aware Federated Matching for Architecture Design in Heterogeneous IoT
Haitham Hany Esmat Abdelhafez, H. H Esmat, Xiaohao Xia and Beatriz Lorenzo (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Linke Guo (Clemson University, USA)

MWN-13: VEHICULAR NETWORKS II

Hierarchical DRL for Self-supplied Monitoring and Communication Integrated System in HSR
Zhuang Ling, Fengye Hu and Tanda Liu (Jilin University, China); Zhi Mao (Jilin University, Jilin, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
 
Cost-effective Vehicular Data Offloading in ISTNs: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Shen Wu, Nan Cheng, Zhisheng Yin and Jingchao He (Xidian University, China); Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, China)
 
Vehicle-assisted Data Delivery based on Trajectory Prediction
Roniel Soares de Sousa (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada); Antonio Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
 
Dynamic Many-to-Many Task Offloading in Vehicular Fog Computing: A Multi-Agent DRL Approach
Zhiwei Wei, Bing Li and Rongqing Zhang (Tongji University, China); Xiang Cheng (Peking University, China); Liuqing Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
 
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Energy-Efficiency Edge Association in Internet of Vehicles
Yiyu Tao, Yan Lin and Yijin Zhang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Feng Shu (Hainan University, China); Jun Li (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
 
Age Outage Analysis in Remote Real-time Tracking Control Systems
Ying Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Shaohua Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Jian Jiao (Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

NGNI-07: TRAFFIC MEASUREMENT

How Accurate is Selective INT for Traffic Trace Reconstruction and How to Adjust it Adaptively?
Zichen Xu and Zuqing Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
 
Traffic Workload Envelope for Network Performance Guarantees with Multiplexing Gain
Massieh Kordi Boroujeny, Brian L Mark and Yariv Ephraim (George Mason University, USA)
 
An Accurate & Efficient Approach for Traffic Classification Inside Programmable Data Plane
Muhammad Saqib (Computer Science & University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada); Zakaria Ait Hmitti (UQAM, Canada); Halima Elbiaze (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada)
 
HashCuckoo: Predicting Elephant Flows using Meta-Heuristics in Programmable Data Planes
Marcus Vinicius B Silva (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil); Lisandro Z Granville (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
 
DWT in P4: Periodicity Detection in the Data Plane
Briggette Olenka Román Huaytalla, Arthur Jacobs and Marcus Vinicius B Silva (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Fabricio Carvalho (Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil); Ronaldo A. Ferreira (UFMS, Brazil); Walter Willinger (NIKSUN, USA); Lisandro Z Granville (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

SAC-CLOUD-09: ORCHESTRATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION

Edge Intelligence for Synchronized Human-Robotic Arm Interactions over Unreliable Wireless Channels
Xiaolong Wang, Yuchen Feng, Xinjie Gu, Yuzhu Long and Mithun Mukherjee (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China); Kaneez Fizza (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia); Qi Zhang (Aarhus University, Denmark); Mian Guo (Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, China)
 
Detection of Service Provider Hardware Over-commitment in Container Orchestration Environments
Pedro Horchulhack (PUCPR, Brazil); Eduardo Viegas and Altair O. Santin (Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR), Brazil)
 
Multi-criteria Service Function Chaining Orchestration for Multi-user Virtual Reality Services
Hugo Leonardo Melo dos Santos (Federal University of Pará, Brazil & University of Bern, Switzerland); Denis Lima Rosário (Federal University of Para, Brazil); Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para & UCLA & UFPA & UCLA, Brazil); Torsten Ingo Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland)

SAC-MLC-09: METHODS AND ALGORITHMS FOR ML - I

Modeling and Optimizing Resource-Constrained Instance-Based Transfer Learning
Mohammad Askarizadeh (ETS University of Quebec, Canada); Mostafa Hussien (ETS & Samsung AI Center, Canada); Alireza Morsali (McGill University, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada)
 
Social-Aware Edge Intelligence: A Constrained Graphical Bandit Approach
Simeng Bian, Shangshang Wang, Yinxu Tang and Ziyu Shao (ShanghaiTech University, China)
 
Wireless Network Simulation to Create Machine Learning Benchmark Data
Marc Katzef and Andrew C Cullen (University of Melbourne, Australia); Tansu Alpcan (The University of Melbourne, Australia); Christopher Leckie (University of Melbourne, Australia); Justin Kopacz (Northrop Grumman Corporation, USA)
 
An explainer for Temporal Graph Neural Networks
Wenchong He, Minh N Vu, Zhe Jiang and My T. Thai (University of Florida, USA)
 
A Self-Attention Network for Deep JSCCM: The Design and FPGA Implementation
Shohei Fujimaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Yoshiaki Inoue and Daisuke Hisano (Osaka University, Japan); Kazuki Maruta (Tokyo University of Science, Japan); Yu Nakayama (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan); Yuko Hara-Azumi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

SAC-RIS-09: SECURE COMMUNICATIONS AND EDGE COMPUTING

Blue Communications for Edge Computing: the Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Opportunity
Fatima Ezzahra Airod (CEA-LETI, France); Mattia Merluzzi (CEA-Leti, France); Antonio Clemente (CEA-LETI Minatec, France); Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France)
 
Circularly Optimizing Secrecy Rate in RIS-Aided Multiuser Secure Communications
Chia-Chuan Hsu (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan); Kuang-Hao (Stanley) Liu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
 
A Joint Space-Frequency Anti-jamming Scheme Based on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface
Wenyu Jiang, Zhangbo Ren, Kaizhi Huang and Jie Yang (Information Engineering University, China); Yajun Chen (National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological R&D Center, China); Xiaoli Sun (PLA Strategic Support Force Information Engineering University, China)

SAC-SN-02: SOCIAL NETWORKS ANALYSIS

CrossCas: A Novel Cross-Platform Approach for Predicting Cascades in OSNs with Hidden Markov Model
Jinwei Liu (Florida A&M University, USA); Xiaonan Zhang (Florida State University, USA); Richard Alo A. Alo (Florida A&M University, USA); Xiuzhen Huang (Arkansas State University, USA); Long Cheng (North China Electric Power University, China); Feng Deng (Beijing Information Science & Technology University, China)
 
A Theoretical Framework for Information Search using Online Social Networks
Rohit Negi and Mustafa Yilmaz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
 
I Can Still Observe You: Flow-level Behavior Fingerprinting for Online Social Network
Yebo Feng (University of Oregon, USA); Jianzhen Luo (Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, China); Chengyan Ma and Teng Li (Xidian University, China); Liang Hui (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China)
 
Social Robot Detection Using RoBERTa Classifier and Random Forest Regressor with Similarity Analysis
Yeyang Chen, Mondher Bouazizi and Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)

SAC-SSC-09: SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS - 3

A Novel LFM Waveform for Terahertz-Band Joint Radar and Communications over Inter-Satellite Links
Gizem Sümen (Istanbul Technical University & Informatics and Information Security Research Center (BILGEM), Turkey); Gunes Karabulut Kurt (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada); Ali Gorcin (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey)
 
GEO Payload Power Minimization: Joint Precoding and Beam Hopping Design
Ha Nguyen Vu (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Nguyen Ti Ti (University of Quebec, Canada); Eva Lagunas, Juan Duncan and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

SPC-09: LOCALIZATION, POSITIONING AND TRACKING TECHNIQUES

Tri-AoA: Robust AoA Estimation of Mobile RFID Tags With COTS Devices
Zihao Wang, Runhao Li and Rongzihan Song (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Benaya Christo (Schaeffler (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore); Lei Sun (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Zhiping Lin (NTU, Singapore)
 
Bi-Static Sensing for Near-Field RIS Localization
Reza Ghazalian (Aalto University, Finland); Kamran Keykhosravi, Hui Chen and Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Riku Jäntti (Aalto University, Finland)
 
Doppler Exploitation in Bistatic mmWave Radio SLAM
Yu Ge (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Ossi Kaltiokallio (Tampere University, Finland); Hui Chen and Fan Jiang (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Jukka Talvitie and Mikko Valkama (Tampere University, Finland); Lennart Svensson (Chalmers University, Sweden); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
 
Doppler-Enabled Single-Antenna Localization and Mapping Without Synchronization
Hui Chen, Fan Jiang, Yu Ge, Hyowon Kim and Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
 
Recurrent LSTM-Based UAV Trajectory Prediction With ADS-B Information
Yifan Zhang, Ziye Jia, Chao Dong and Yuntian Liu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Lei Zhang (NUAA, China); Qihui Wu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

WC-09: MACHINE LEARING/DEEP LEARNING

Graph Convolutional Network Empowered Indoor Localization Method via Aggregating MIMO CSI
Hao Gu and Jun Yang (Southeast University, China); Guan Gui and Zhengran He (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Haris Ga?anin (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
 
Online Learning Based NLOS Ranging Error Mitigation in 5G Positioning
Jiankun Zhang and Hao Wang (Huawei Technologies, China)
 
Importance-Aware Message Exchange and Prediction for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Xiufeng Huang and Sheng Zhou (Tsinghua University, China)
 
Uplink-Downlink Joint Antenna Optimization in Cellular Systems with Sample-Efficient Learning
Ezgi Tekgul (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Thomas Novlan and Salam Akoum (AT&T Labs, USA); Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
 
HIENet: A Hardware Impairment Estimation Network for OFDM Systems
Siqi Liu, Tianyu Wang and Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, China)

WC-18: WIRELESS RECEIVERS & ANTENNAS

A Miniaturized 8x8 Dual-layer EBG Slotted Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna Array for mMIMO
Yuanzhe Gong (McGill University, Canada); Robert Morawski (McGill, Canada); Hak Hyun Lee and Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)
 
Superdirective Arrays with Finite-Length Dipoles: Modeling and New Perspectives
Konstantinos Dovelos, Stylianos D. Assimonis, Hien Ngo and Michail Matthaiou (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
 
Experimental Demonstration of Nanoscale Digital Receiver with Carbon Nanotube
Keita Funayama (Toyota Central Research and Development Labs. Inc., Japan); Hiroya Tanaka (Toyota Central R&D Labs. Inc., Japan); Jun Hirotani (Nagoya University, Japan); Keiichi Shimaoka (Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories Inc., Japan); Yutaka Ohno (Nagoya University, Japan); Yukihiro Tadokoro (Toyota Central R&d Labs., Inc., Japan)
 
Multitask Antenna Array for 5G NR handsets
Tiago Brandão (Inatel, Brazil); Hugo R. D. Filgueiras (Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações - Inatel, Brazil); Arismar Cerqueira S. Jr. (INATEL, Brazil)
 
Frequency Diverse Array Spatial Data Focusing for High Precision Range-angle-based Geocasting
Guylian Molineaux (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium); François Horlin (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium); Philippe De Doncker (ULB, Belgium); Julien Sarrazin (Sorbonne Université, France)

WC-27: WIRELESS NETWORKS II

Content-Aware Routing based on Cached Content Prediction in Satellite Networks
Jin Tang and Jian Li (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Lan Zhang (Michigan Technological University, USA); Kaiping Xue, Qibin Sun and Jun Lu (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
 
Analyzing Age Performance of Hybrid-ARQ: A Unified Explicit Result
Aimin Li (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Shaohua Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Yajing Deng (Harbin Institute of Technology(Shenzhen), China); Jian Jiao (Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
 
Hierarchical Deep Q-Learning Based Handover in Wireless Networks with Dual Connectivity
Pedro E Iturria Rivera and Medhat Elsayed (University of Ottawa, Canada); Majid Bavand (Queen's University, Canada); Raimundas Gaigalas (Ericsson, Sweden); Steve Furr (Ericsson, Canada); Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa & Ericsson, Canada)
 
Adaptive Finite Blocklength for Low Access Delay in 6G Wireless Networks
Yixin Zhang and Wenchi Cheng (Xidian University, China); Wei Zhang (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
 
Sum Capacity Maximization in Multi-Hop Mobile Networks with Flying Base Stations
Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Omid Esrafilian (EURECOM, France); Zdenek Becvar (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); David Gesbert (Eurecom Institute, France)

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