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	Thursday, 10 December
11:00 am ‑ 12:30 pm	AHSN8: Learning I CISS10: Physical Layer Security II CISS9: Security & Privacy II CQRM7: IoT CQRM8: Monitoring, Reliability and Security CSSMA6: Services and Applications CT8: Communication Theory and Networking II MWN10: Vehicular Communication Networks MWN11: Performance Evaluation and LTE Networks NGNI7: IoT NGNI8: NFV SAC CCNS4: Resource and Power Allocation SAC IoTSCC8: Green and Sustainable IoT II SAC IoTSCC9: IoT Applications and Services I SAC MLC9: ML for Networks SAC SSC4: Services SPC7: Signal Processing for mmWave & THz Communications WC20: Localization I WC21: Localization II WC22: Machine Learning III
12:30 ‑ 12:45 pm
12:45 ‑ 2:00 pm
2:00 ‑ 3:30 pm	AHSN9: Learning II CISS11: Detection and Prevention II CISS12: Trust and Blockchain CQRM9: QoS/QoE Management for Multimedia Services CT10: Information Theory and Capacity II CT9: Distributed Processing and Caching GCSN3: Energy Efficient UAV and Vehicular Networks MWN12: MAC and Resource management II NGNI9: NetAI SAC BD5: Data Driven Security and Privacy SAC CCNS5: Computation and Data Offloading SAC EH3: Services and Applications SAC IoTSCC10: Optimisation of IoT Networks SAC MLC10: Signal Detection SAC SSC5: Integrated Satellite and Terrestrial Communications SPC8: Signal Processing for Massive MIMO WC23: Resource Management I WC24: Precoding & Beamforming WC25: Intelligent Reflecting Surface IV	CQRM10: Content Distribution, Caching and Blockchain
3:30 ‑ 3:45 pm		CQRM10: Content Distribution, Caching and Blockchain
3:45 ‑ 4:00 pm
4:00 ‑ 5:30 pm	AHSN10: Energy Conservation in AHSN CISS13: Cybersecurity & Cryptography CISS14: Blockchain and Datasets CQRM11: Vehicular Communications CQRM12: Scheduling and Resource Allocation CT11: Coding Theory and Practice II MWN13: Cloud and Fog Networks MWN14: WiFi and WLAN Networks SAC MLC11: Coding and Modulation SPC9: Channel Estimation and Reconstruction WC26: Intelligent Reflecting Surface V WC28: Edge Computing I WC29: Heterogeneous Wireless Networks	GCSN4: Green Intelligent Reflective Surface Aided Communications NGNI10: Network management and control SAC BD6: Data Driven Communications and Networking SAC CCNS6: Mobile Edge Computing SAC EH4: Communications and Networking SAC IoTSCC11: IoT Applications and Services II WC27: Resource Management II
5:30 ‑ 5:45 pm

Thursday, December 10

Thursday, December 10 11:00 - 12:30

AHSN8: Learning I

AHSN8-5 papers

Customized Transmission Schemes based on Marine Data Collection Characteristics: Jinfeng Dou (Ocean University of China, China); Lijuan Wang and Lei Chu (Ocean University of China & College of Information Science and Engineering, China); Changrui Qu and Zhongwen Guo (Ocean University of China, China); Jiabao Cao (Nokia Corporation, China)
Age-optimal Transmission Policy for Markov Source with Differential Encoding: Ying Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Shaohua Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Jian Jiao (Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen, China); Ye Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Spatio-temporal Spectrum Load Prediction using Convolutional Neural Network and Bayesian Estimation: Xiangyu Ren, Hamed Mosavat-Jahromi and Lin Cai (University of Victoria, Canada); David Kidston (Communications Research Centre, Canada)
Self Organizing Feature Map-Integrated Knowledge-Based Deep Network Against Fake Crowdsensing Tasks: Murat Simsek (University of Ottawa & Istanbul Technical University, Canada); Burak Kantarci and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Continuous Time Markov Chain Traffic Model for Urban Environments: Oumaima El Joubari (University of Paris Saclay, France); Jalel Ben Othman (CentraleSupélec & University of Sorbonne Paris Nord, France); Véronique Vèque (University of Paris-Sud 11, France)

CISS10: Physical Layer Security II

CISS10-5 papers

Robust Secure Beamforming for Multi-Receiver Multi-Eavesdropper MIMO SWIPT Systems: Yao Yu and Shumei Liu (Northeastern University, China); Weina Yuan (East China University of Science and Technology, China); Phee Lep Yeoh, Branka Vucetic and Yonghui Li (University of Sydney, Australia)
Physical-Layer Security for Cognitive Radio Networks over Cascaded Rayleigh Fading Channels: Deemah Tashman and Walaa Hamouda (Concordia University, Canada)
Nearest APs-Based Downlink Pilot Transmission for High Secrecy Rates in Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Salah Elhoushy and Walaa Hamouda (Concordia University, Canada)
Secure Multiple-Mode OFDM With Index Modulation: Yuankun Tang and Miaowen Wen (South China University of Technology, China); Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Daniel Benevides da Costa (Federal University of Ceara (UFC) & Area: Telecommunications, Brazil); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)
PLS for Wireless Interference Networks in the Short Blocklength Regime with Strong Wiretap Channels: Zhichao Sheng (Shanghai University, China); Hoang D. Tuan (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia); Ali A Nasir (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

CISS9: Security & Privacy II

CISS9-5 papers

Data-driven Privacy With Domain Regularization: Chong Xiao Wang and Wee Peng Tay (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Flexible and Privacy-preserving Framework for Decentralized Collaborative Learning: Zhuoran Ma, Jianfeng Ma and Yinbin Miao (Xidian University, China); Ximeng Liu (Fuzhou University, China); Wei Zheng and Xiang Li (Xidian University, China)
Privacy-preserving Intelligent Traffic Light Control with DQN: Zuobin Ying and Shuanglong Cao (Anhui University, China); Shengmin Xu (Singapore Management University, Singapore); Ximeng Liu (Fuzhou University, China); Maode Ma (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Power Allocation and Outage Analysis for Secure MISO Networks With an Unknown Eavesdropper: Jia Shaobo (Zhengzhou University, China); Di Zhang (Zhengzhou Univerisity, China); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Achieving Privacy-Preserving Vehicle Selection for Effective Content Dissemination in Smart Cities: Yunguo Guan, Rongxing Lu and Yandong Zheng (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Jun Shao and Guiyi Wei (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China)

CQRM7: IoT

CQRM7-5 papers

Chair: Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Energy-Aware and URLLC-Aware Task Offloading for Internet of Health Things: Zhao Wang, Zehan Jia and Haijun Liao (North China Electric Power University, China); Zhenyu Zhou (North China Electric Power University & Waseda University, China); Xiongwen Zhao (North China Electric Power University, China); Lei Zhang (Shandong, Jinan, China); Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Optimizing Energy in WiFi Direct Based Multi-hop D2D Networks: Muhammad Usman and Marwa Qaraqe (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Muhammad Rizwan Asghar (The University of Auckland, New Zealand); Imran Shafique Ansari (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento, Italy)
Smart Spectrum Switching in Wireless Body Area Networks: Chinmay S Mahabal (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA); Hua Fang (University of Massachusetts Medical School & Dartmouth, USA); Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth & College of Engineering, USA)
Residential Appliance-Level Load Forecasting with Deep Learning: Mina Razghandi and Damla Turgut (University of Central Florida, USA)
Delay-Reliability Model of Industrial WSN for Networked Control Systems: Samuele Zoppi and Sharada Prasad Shantharam (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)

CQRM8: Monitoring, Reliability and Security

CQRM8-5 papers

Age of Information in Multi-hop Networks with Priorities: Olga Vikhrova (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Federico Chiariotti and Beatriz Soret (Aalborg University, Denmark); Giuseppe Araniti and Antonella Molinaro (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Learning-Based Network Boolean Tomography for Identifying Congested Links with Correlations: Shengli Pan (China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) & University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Peng Li (The University of Aizu, Japan); Deze Zeng (China University of Geosciences, China); Zhiyong Zhang (China Electronic Technology Cyber Security Co., Ltd & Cyberspace Security Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, China); Song Guo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
AoI-based Finite Horizon Scheduling for Heterogeneous Networked Control Systems: Onur Ayan, Halit Murat Gürsu and Sandra Hirche (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Vulnerability Analysis for Network Connectivity: A Prioritizing Critical Area Approach: Shumei Liu and Yao Yu (Northeastern University, China); Lei Guo (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Phee Lep Yeoh, Branka Vucetic and Yonghui Li (University of Sydney, Australia)
HIRE: Hidden Inter-packet Red-shift Effect: Francesco Ciaccia (Technical University of Catalunya (UPC) & Clevernet, Spain); Ivan Romero (Clevernet, Spain); René Serral-Gracià (Technical University of Catalunya (UPC) & Networking and Information Technology Lab NetIT Lab, Spain); Mario Nemirovsky (ICREA Researcher at CNS - BSC & Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)

CSSMA6: Services and Applications

CSSMA6-5 papers

Chair: Lijun Dong (Futurewei Technologies, USA)

Implicit Feedback-based Group Recommender System for Internet of Thing Applications: Zhiwei Guo (Chongqing Technology and Business University, China); Keping Yu (Waseda University, Japan); Tan Guo (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ali Kashif Bashir (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Muhammad Imran (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)
Wireless energy supply scheduling strategy in a combined border surveillance architecture: Mohamed Lamine Laouira (USTHB, Algeria); Abdelkrim Abdelli (USTHB University- Algiers, Algeria); Jalel Ben Othman (CentraleSupélec & University of Sorbonne Paris Nord, France)
Group-Delay Aware Task Offloading with Service Replication for Scalable Mobile Edge Computing: Shimaa Abdellatif Mohamed, Sameh Sorour and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
Packet Level In-Time Guarantee: Algorithm and Theorems: Lijun Dong and Richard Li (Futurewei Technologies, USA)
A Game-based Network Slicing and Resource Scheduling for Compute First Networking: Zitong Wang and Deze Zeng (China University of Geosciences, China); Lin Gu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Song Guo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

CT8: Communication Theory and Networking II

CT8-5 papers

Reduced Feedback, User Scheduling, and Mode Selection in Asymmetric Full-Duplex Systems: Rama Kiran and Neelesh B. Mehta (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Power Splitting based Precoding for the MIMO-BC with Multicast and Confidential Messages: Yue Qi and Mojtaba Vaezi (Villanova University, USA)
Outage Analysis of Myopic Multi-hop Relaying: A Markov Chain Approach: Andreas Nicolaides, Constantinos Psomas and Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Extremal Network Theory and Robust GDoF Gain of Multi-Cell Cooperation over Multi-Cell TIN: Hamdi Joudeh (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Multi-antenna Non-coherent Detection of Ambient Backscatter under Time-Selective Fading: Jaya Kartheek Devineni and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)

MWN10: Vehicular Communication Networks

MWN10-5 papers

NC-MAC: Network Coding-based Distributed MAC Protocol for Reliable Beacon Broadcasting in V2X: Hamed Mosavat-Jahromi, Yue Li and Lin Cai (University of Victoria, Canada); Lei Lu (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China)
Modeling and Minimizing Latency in Three-tier V2X Networks: Phi Le Nguyen (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Ren-Hung Hwang (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan); Minh-Khiem Pham (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Kien Nguyen (Chiba University, Japan); Ying-Dar Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Performance Analysis of Uplink mmWave Communications in C-V2X Networks: Hao-Wen Liu (Xi'an JiaoTong University, China); Tong-Xing Zheng (Xi'an Jiaotong Unviersity, China); Yating Wen, Chen Feng and Hui-Ming Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
A Secured Geo-routing Protocol for VANET with an Enhanced Junction Selection Mechanism: Farzana Shabnam (BRAC University, Bangladesh); Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia)
Topology Poisoning Attacks and Countermeasures in SDN-enabled Vehicular Networks: Jiadai Wang and Yawen Tan (Xidian University, China); Jiajia Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

MWN11: Performance Evaluation and LTE Networks

MWN11-5 papers

Real World Performance of LTE Downlink in a Static Dense Urban Scenario - An Open Dataset: Vaclav Raida, Philipp Svoboda and Markus Rupp (TU Wien, Austria)
On the Stability of RSRP and Variability of Other KPIs in LTE Downlink - An Open Dataset: Vaclav Raida and Philipp Svoboda (TU Wien, Austria); Martin Koglbauer (A1 Telekom Austria); Markus Rupp (TU Wien, Austria)
Network Latency Estimation with Graph-Laplacian Regularization Tensor Completion: Yaying Hu, Lei Deng, Haifeng Zheng, Xinxin Feng and Youjia Chen (Fuzhou University, China)
Automatic Check-In Service at Businesses Enabled with Private Mobile Networks: Ping Du and Aerman Tuerxun (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Anan Sawabe and Takanori Iwai (NEC Corporation, Japan); Akihiro Nakao (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
The Best of Both Worlds: Hybrid Data-Driven and Model-Based Vehicular Network Simulation: Benjamin Sliwa, Manuel Patchou and Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University, Germany)

NGNI7: IoT

NGNI7-5 papers

Generative Adversarial Network and Auto Encoder based Anomaly Detection in Distributed IoT Networks: Zixu Tian (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Kushan Sudheera Kalupahana Liyanage (National University of Singapore & Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Mohan Gurusamy (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
A Hierarchical Hybrid Intrusion Detection Approach in IoT Scenarios: Giampaolo Bovenzi (University of Napoli Federico II); Giuseppe Aceto (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)
Stochastic Modeling of Opportunistic Routing in Multi-Modal Internet of Underwater Things: Rodolfo W. L. Coutinho (Concordia University, Canada); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
An overview on IoUT and the performance of WiFi low-cost nodes for IoUT Applications: Laura Garcia (Universitat politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Jose M. Jimenez (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain); Lorena Parra (Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Jaime Lloret (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace, France)
GPS Spoofing Detector with Adaptive Trustable Residence Area for Cellular based-UAVs: Yongchao Dang and Chafika Benzaid (Aalto University, Finland); Yulong Shen (Xidian University, China); Tarik Taleb (Aalto University, Finland)

NGNI8: NFV

NGNI8-5 papers

QoS and Resource aware Security Orchestration System: Miloud Bagaa and Tarik Taleb (Aalto University, Finland); Jorge Bernal Bernabe and Antonio Fernando Skarmeta Gomez (University of Murcia, Spain)
Fair VNF Provisioning in NFV Clusters via Node Labeling: Tzu-Wen Chang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Tung-Wei Kuo (National Chengchi University, Taiwan); Ming-Jer Tsai (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Migration Aware Virtual Network Function Placing and Routing in Uncertain Environment: Yanghao Xie, Sheng Wang, Binbin Wang and Long Luo (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Towards Cross-Domain Service Function Chain Orchestration: Nassima Toumi (Eurecom, France); Olivier Bernier and Djamal-Eddine Meddour (Orange Labs, France); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France)
Safe Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Virtual Network Allocation: Akito Suzuki (NTT Corporation, Japan); Shigeaki Harada (NTT, Japan)

SAC CCNS4: Resource and Power Allocation

SAC CCNS4-5 papers

Chair: Alexey A. Frolov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology & IITP RAS, Russia)

Resource Allocation for Multi-user Mobile-edge Computing Systems with Delay Constraints: Yiqin Deng (University of Florida, USA); Zhigang Chen (Central South University, China); Xianhao Chen (University of Florida, USA)
Energy-Efficient Mobile Edge Computing System Based on Full-Duplex Energy Harvesting Relay Network: Chao Chen, Xi Li, Hong Ji and Heli Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Joint Power and Deployment Optimization for Multi-UAV Remote Edge Computing: Xiaofan He (Wuhan University, China); Richeng Jin (North Carolina State University, USA); Huaiyu Dai (NC State University, USA)
Compressive Sensing based Multi-class Privacy-preserving Cloud Computing: Gajraj Kuldeep and Qi Zhang (Aarhus University, Denmark)
PLB: Adaptive Partial Congestion-aware Load Balancing for Datacenter Networks: Kefei Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & FNL, China); Jiao Zhang, Dehui Wei, Kai6 Zhang and Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

SAC IoTSCC8: Green and Sustainable IoT II

SAC IoTSCC8-5 papers

Chair: Christian Esposito (University of Salerno, India)

Experimental Validation of IEEE802.11ah Propagation Models in Heterogeneous Smarty City Environments: Tobia De Koninck (Internet Technology and Data Science Lab (IDLab), University of Antwerpen - imec, Belgium); Serena Santi (University of Antwerp, imec, IDLab, Belgium); Jeroen Famaey (University of Antwerp & Imec, Belgium); Filip Lemic (University of Antwerpen - imec, Belgium)
A Supplemental Zero-Energy Downlink Air-Interface Enabling 40-Year Battery Life in IoT Devices: Tanbir Haque (InterDigital Inc, USA); Hussain Elkotby (InterDigital Communications Inc., USA); Patrick Cabrol (InterDigital Communications, LLC, USA); Ravikumar Pragada and Douglas Castor (InterDigital, USA)
Experimental Evaluation on IEEE 802.15.4 Compatible Backscatter: Yohei Konishi, Takayuki Ueda and Kazuhiro Kizaki (Osaka University, Japan); Takuya Fujihashi (Osaka University & Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan); Shunsuke Saruwatari and Takashi Watanabe (Osaka University, Japan)
In-phase and Quadrature Chirp Spread Spectrum for IoT Communications: Ivo Bizon Franco de Almeida (Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems - Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Marwa Chafii (ENSEA, France); Ahmad Nimr (Dresden University of Technology, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
On the Energy Consumption and Ranging Accuracy of Ultra-Wideband Physical Interfaces: Laura Flueratoru (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania & Tampere University, Finland); Silvan Wehrli (3db Access, Switzerland); Michele Magno (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Dragos S Niculescu (Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti, Romania)

SAC IoTSCC9: IoT Applications and Services I

SAC IoTSCC9-5 papers

An Edge-powered Approach to Assisted Driving: Francesco Malandrino (CNR-IEIIT, Italy); Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Gian Michele Dell'Aera (Mobile Communication, Italy)
Monitoring Live Parking Availability by Vision-based Vehicular Crowdsensing: Takamasa Higuchi (Toyota Motor North America R&D, USA); Kentaro Oguchi (Toyota Motor North America R&D, InfoTech Labs, USA)
Image Download and Rate Allocation of Internet-of-Things Analytics at Gateways in Smart Cities: Yu-Jung Wang, Vijay Dubey and Cheng-Hsin Hsu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Memory-aware Online Compression of CAN Bus Data for Future Vehicular Systems: Niloofar Yazdani, Lars Nielsen and Daniel E. Lucani (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Reproducibility of Survey Results: A New Method to Quantify Similarity of Human Subject Pools: Atieh R. Khamesi, Riccardo Musmeci and Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA); D. A. Baker (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

SAC MLC9: ML for Networks

SAC MLC9-5 papers

Trajectory Design for UAV-Assisted Emergency Communications: A Transfer Learning Approach: Xinruo Zhang (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Gan Zheng and Sangarapillai Lambotharan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Distributed Online Handover Decisions for Energy Efficiency in Dense HetNets: Yujae Song (Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technolog (KIOST), Korea (South)); Sung Hoon Lim (Hallym-gil 1 & Hallym University, Korea (South)); Sang-Woon Jeon (Hanyang University, Korea (South))
METRE: Measurement Task Recommendation for Energy-Efficient Handover in Dense Networks: Huiyang Wang, Yi Zhao, Xiaohui Yang and Chanjuan Wei (Samsung, China)
MAC Protocol for Multi-channel Heterogeneous Networks Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning: Xiaowen Ye (Xiamen University, China); Yiding Yu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Liqun Fu (Xiamen University, China)
Optimal Beam Association in mmWave Vehicular Networks with Parallel Reinforcement Learning: Nguyen Van Huynh and Diep N. Nguyen (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Hoang Thai Dinh (University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia); Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

SAC SSC4: Services

SAC SSC4-5 papers

Multi-Constraint Virtual Network Embedding Algorithm For Satellite Networks: Dan Yang, Jiang Liu, Ran Zhang and Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Block-RAS: A P2P Resource Allocation Scheme in 6G Environment with Public Blockchains: Arpit Nirajkumar Shukla and Rajesh Gupta (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India); Sudeep Tanwar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Images to Signals, Signals to Highlights: Sai Siddartha Maram (Thapar University, India); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Sudeep Tanwar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India); Arjav Jain (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India)
Atmospheric effects on satellite-to-ground quantum key distribution using coherent states: Eduardo Villasenor and Robert Malaney (University of New South Wales, Australia); Kerry Mudge (Defence Science Technology Organisation, Australia); Kenneth Grant (Defence Science & Technology Group, Australia)
Vehicular Multi-slice Optimization in 5G: Dynamic Preference Policy using Reinforcement Learning: Chaofeng Zhang (Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan); Mianxiong Dong and Kaoru Ota (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)

SPC7: Signal Processing for mmWave & THz Communications

SPC7-5 papers

Latency-aware Reliable mmWave Communication via Multi-point Connectivity: Dileep Kumar, Satya Krishna Joshi and Antti Tölli (University of Oulu, Finland)
Beam Training with Limited Feedback for Multiuser mmWave Massive MIMO: Zhaohui Li and Chenhao Qi (Southeast University, China)
Wideband Beam Tracking Based on Beam Zooming for THz Massive MIMO: Jingbo Tan and Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, China)
Dynamic-subarray with Quantized- and Fixed-phase Shifters for Terahertz Hybrid Beamforming: Longfei Yan and Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Nan Yang (The Australian National University, Australia); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Self-Interference-Resistant IEEE 802.11ad-Based Joint Communication and Automotive Long Range Radar: Aimin Tang and Xudong Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

WC20: Localization I

WC20-5 papers

Accurate Distance Estimation for RSS Localization With Statistical Path Loss Exponent Model: K N R Surya Vara Prasad and Jiaming Cheng (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Vijay Bhargava (University of British Columbia, Canada)
DNN-based Localization from Channel Estimates: Feature Design and Experimental Results: Paul Ferrand (Huawei Technologies France, France); Alexis Decurninge and Maxime Guillaud (Huawei Technologies, France)
Super-Resolution Based Fingerprint Augment for Indoor WiFi Localization: Xianmin Wang, Zhikun Chen, Sihai Zhang and Jinkang Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Geo-Indistinguishablility for Crowdsourced-Based Radio Environment Map Construction: Shahira Amin (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Liang Li (Xidian University, China); 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)
Coherent Chirp Generation by Narrowband Transceiver Chips for ToF Indoor Localization: Daniel Neunteufel (TU Wien, Austria); Stefan Grebien (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Stefan Hechenberger (TU Wien, Austria); Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Holger Arthaber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

WC21: Localization II

WC21-5 papers

Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Localization with Commercial MMWave WiFi: NLOS Propagation: Pu Wang and Toshiaki Koike-Akino (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)
Multi-Fingerprint for Wireless Localization in Time-Varying Indoor Environment: Lu Yu, Yiu-Wing Leung, Xiaowen Chu and Joseph Kee-Yin Ng (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
WiFi-Based Channel Impulse Response Estimation and Localization via Multi-Band Splicing: Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Benedikt Groß (FU Berlin, Germany); Stelios Stefanatos (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA); Gerhard Wunder (Freie Universität Berlin & Heisenberg Communications and Information Theory Group, Germany); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Millimeter Wave Position Location using Multipath Differentiation for 3GPP using Field Measurements: Ojas Kanhere and Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA)
Hybrid RSS/CSI Fingerprint Aided Indoor Localization: A Deep Learning based Approach: Chengyi Zhou, Junyu Liu, Min Sheng and Jiandong Li (Xidian University, China)

WC22: Machine Learning III

WC22-5 papers

Trust in 5G Open RANs through Machine Learning: RF Fingerprinting on the POWDER PAWR Platform: Guillem Reus-Muns (Northeastern University, USA); Dheryta Jaisinghani (University of Northern Iowa, USA); Kunal Sankhe and Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA)
A Reinforcement Learning Aided Decoupled RAN Slicing Framework for Cellular V2X: Kai Yu, Haibo Zhou, Bo Qian and Zhixuan Tang (Nanjing University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
SREC: Proactive Self-Remedy of Energy-Constrained UAV-Based Networks via Deep Reinforcement Learning: Ran Zhang and Miao Wang (Miami University, USA); Lin X. Cai (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Accelerating Partitioned Edge Learning via Joint Parameter-and-Bandwidth Allocation: Dingzhu Wen (University of Hongkong, China); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Kaibin Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Learning Constellation Map with Deep CNN for Accurate Modulation Recognition: Van-Sang Doan and Thien Huynh-The (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea (South)); Cam-Hao Hua (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South)); Quoc-Viet Pham (Pusan National University, Korea (South)); Dong Seong Kim (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea (South))

Thursday, December 10 2:00 - 3:30

AHSN9: Learning II

AHSN9-5 papers

Design of Energy Modulation Massive SIMO Transceivers via Machine Learning: Muhang Lan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jianhao Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Han Zhang (University of California, Davis, USA); Chuan Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)
Exploiting Local and Cloud Sensor Fusion in Intermittently Connected Sensor Networks: Michal Yemini (Stanford University, USA); Stephanie Gil (MIT, USA); Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)
MEP-PSO Algorithm-Based Coverage Optimization in Directional Sensor Networks: Luqiao Wang, Changle Li, Hui Wang, Yao Zhang and Zhao Liu (Xidian University, China)
Geometric Analysis-Based Cluster Head Selection for Sectorized Wireless Powered Sensor Networks: Hyun-Ho Choi (Hankyong National University, Korea (South)); Jung Ryun Lee (Chung-Ang University, Korea (South))
A Deep Reinforcement learning based Approach for Channel Aggregation in IEEE 802.11ax: Mengqi Han (IIT, USA); Ziru Chen and Lin X. Cai (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA); Tom H. Luan (Xidian University, China); Fen Hou (University of Macau, Macao)

CISS11: Detection and Prevention II

CISS11-5 papers

A Practical Black-Box Attack Against Autonomous Speech Recognition Model: Wenshu Fan, Hongwei Li, Wenbo Jiang and Guowen Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
A Bilingual Multi-type Spam Detection Model Based on M-BERT: Jie Cao and Chengzhe Lai (Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
RGB-based Android Malware Detection and Classification Using Convolutional Neural Network: Asim Darwaish (University of Paris, France); Farid Nait-Abdesselam (University of Missouri Kansas City, USA)
A Method Aware of Concept Drift for Online Botnet Detection: Bruno Henrique Schwengber, Andressa Vergütz and Nelson Gonçalves Prates, Jr. (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil); Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil)
Botnet Detection Using Recurrent Variational Autoencoder: Jeeyung Kim and Alex Sim (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA); Jinoh Kim (Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA); Kesheng Wu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)

CISS12: Trust and Blockchain

CISS12-5 papers

Secure and Privacy-preserving Energy Trading Scheme based on Blockchain: Shunrong Jiang, Xiaoyan Zhang and Jinpeng Li (China University of Mining and Technology, China); Hao Yue (San Francisco State University, USA); Yong Zhou (CUMT, China)
Blockchain-Based Programmable Fog Architecture for Future Internet of Things Applications: Sharmistha Nayak and Nurzaman Ahmed (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
A Trust Management System for Multi-Agent System in Smart Grids Using Blockchain Technology: Omaji Samuel (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan); Nadeem Javaid (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan); Adia Khalid (CIIT, Islamabad, Pakistan); Muhammad Imran (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Protecting Access Privacy in Ethereum Using Differentially Private Information Retrieval: Xudong Li (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, USA); Farooq Ahmed, Lingbo Wei and Chi Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Integrating Cellphone-based Hardware Wallet with Visional Certificate Verification System: Lo-Yao Yeh (National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan); Wan Hsin Hsu and Jiun-Long Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Chih-Ya Shen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Chi Wu-Lee (Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan)

Thursday, December 10 2:00 - 3:45

CQRM10: Content Distribution, Caching and Blockchain

CQRM10-6 papers

Mobility-Aware Content Caching and User Association for Ultra-Dense Mobile Edge Computing Networks: Hui Li, Chuan Sun, Xiuhua Li, Qingyu Xiong and Wen Junhao (Chongqing University, China); Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); Victor C.M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Energy-Efficient Content Pushing based on Rate and Power Adaptation with Delay Constraints: Zhiyuan Lin (Tsinghua U, China); Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
Impact of Node Churn in the Bitcoin Network with Compact Blocks: Saeideh Motlagh, Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada)
IEEE 802.11ax based Medium Access Design for Wireless IoT-Blockchain Networks: Arezou Abyaneh and Nizar Zorba (Qatar University, Qatar); Bechir Hamdaoui (Oregon State University, USA)
A Privacy-Preserving Medical Data Sharing Scheme Based on Consortium Blockchain: Jingwei Liu, Tianyu Liang and Rong Sun (Xidian University, China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)
OptiCam: Optimal Camera Selection for Provisioning Camera-Network-as-a-Service: Ningombam Anandshree, Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Arijit Roy (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India)

Thursday, December 10 2:00 - 3:30

CQRM9: QoS/QoE Management for Multimedia Services

CQRM9-5 papers

Reinforcement Learning-based Admission Control in Delay-sensitive Service Systems: Majid Raeis (University of Toronto, Canada); Ali Tizghadam (TELUS & University of Toronto, Canada); Alberto Leon-Garcia (University of Toronto, Canada)
NIMA (Network Impact Modeling and Analysis): A QoS Perspective: Tarandeep Randhawa (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Anwar Haque (Western Ontario, Canada)
QoS-aware Reinforcement Learning for Multimedia Traffic Scheduling in Home Area Networks: Aroua Sabrine (University of la Rochelle & ENSI, France); Giacomo Quadrio (University of Padova, Italy); Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of la Rochelle, France); Ombretta Gaggi and Claudio E. Palazzi (University of Padua, Italy)
Web Usage Prediction and Recommendation Based on Web Session Graph Embedded Analysis: Shuning Huang, Kaoru Ota and Mianxiong Dong (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)
Click-based tests of QoS mechanisms for flow-based router: Jerzy Domżał, Edyta Biernacka, Jakub Dudek, Piotr Jurkiewicz and Miroslaw Kantor (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Lukasz Romanski (Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie, Poland); Krzysztof Wajda and Robert Wójcik (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)

CT10: Information Theory and Capacity II

CT10-5 papers

Semantic Private Information Retrieval: Effects of Heterogeneous Message Sizes and Popularities: Sajani Vithana (University of Maryland, USA); Karim A. Banawan (Alexandria University, Egypt); Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
Strong Secrecy for Relay Wiretap Channels with Polar Codes and Double-Chaining: Manos Marios Athanasakos (National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Optimal Closed-Form Designs for Directional Modulation with Practical Hardware Limitations: Zhongxiang Wei (University College London & School of EE and CS, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Christos Masouros, Fan Liu and Tongyang Xu (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Communicating over the Torn-Paper Channel: Ilan Shomorony (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Alireza Vahid (University of Colorado Denver, USA)
Diagonal Multi-Antenna Coded Caching for Reduced Subpacketization: MohammadJavad Salehi and Antti Tölli (University of Oulu, Finland)

CT9: Distributed Processing and Caching

CT9-5 papers

Cache-Aided Modulation for Heterogeneous Coded Caching over a Gaussian Broadcast Channel: Mozhgan Bayat and Kai Wan (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Mingyue Ji (University of Utah, USA); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Throughput-Outage Analysis of Cache-Aided Wireless Multi-Hop D2D Networks: Ming-Chun Lee (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Mingyue Ji (University of Utah, USA); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)
Cellular Network Caching Based on Multipoint Multicast Transmissions: Mohsen Amidzade, Hanan Al-Tous and Olav Tirkkonen (Aalto University, Finland); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
User Preference Aware Lossy Data Compression for Edge Caching: Yawei Lu and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Coded Caching with Distinct Number of User Requests: Kai Huang, Xiaohong Cai, Jinbei Zhang and Zhiyong Luo (Sun Yat-sen University, China)

GCSN3: Energy Efficient UAV and Vehicular Networks

GCSN3-5 papers

Energy-Efficient Video Streaming in UAV-Enabled Wireless Networks: A Safe-DQN Approach: Qian Zhang and Jiansong Miao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhicai Zhang (Shanxi University, China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Fang Fu (Shanxi University, China); Tuan Wu (BUPT, China)
Mobile Crowdsensing Coverage Degree-Probability Enhancement based on Urban Vehicles: Ting Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Chaowei Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Schoole of Electronics Engineering, China); Xiga Gaimu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Weidong Wang (Beijing Unversity of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Energy-Efficient Beamforming and Power Control for Uplink NOMA in mmWave UAV Networks: Ali Rahmati (North Carolina State University, USA); Seyyedali Hosseinalipour (Purdue University, USA); Yavuz Yapıcı and Ismail Güvenç (North Carolina State University, USA); Huaiyu Dai (NC State University, USA); Arupjyoti (Arup) Bhuyan (INL, USA)
Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for UAV-Enabled Information and Power Transfer with NOMA: Saif Najmeddin (Concordia University, Canada); Sonia Aissa (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Sofiene Tahar (Concordia University, Canada)
Energy-Efficient Communications in Solar-Powered Unmanned Aerial Systems: Shuming Seng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Guang Yang (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); Xi Li and Hong Ji (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Changqing Luo (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)

MWN12: MAC and Resource management II

MWN12-5 papers

Full Duplex Multiuser MIMO MAC Protocol (FD-MUMAC): Yazeed M Alkhrijah, Joseph D. Camp and Dinesh Rajan (Southern Methodist University, USA)
Optimal Scheduling and Power Control for In-Band Full-Duplex Communication in WLANs: Caihong Kai, Zhang Xiangru, Xinyue Hu and Wei Huang (Hefei University of Technology, China)
Connection Density Enhancement of Backscatter Communication Systems with Relaying: Ahmed Elhamy Mostafa (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Vincent W.S. Wong (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Simultaneous Multi-Channel Downlink Operation in Next-Generation WLANs: Sharan Naribole, Srinivas Kandala, Wook Bong Lee and Ashok Ranganath (Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., USA)
Stochastic Geometry-Based Modeling and Analysis of Beam Management in 5G: Sanket Sanjay Kalamkar (INRIA Paris, France); Fuad M Abinader, Jr (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Francois Baccelli (UT Austin & The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Andrea S Marcano and Luis Guilherme Uzeda Garcia (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

NGNI9: NetAI

NGNI9-5 papers

Progressive Slicing for Application Identification in Application-Specific Network Slicing: Takamitsu Iwai and Akihiro Nakao (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Seiðr: Dataplane Assisted Flow Classification Using ML: Kyle A Simpson (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Richard Cziva (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA); Dimitrios P Pezaros (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Cache Management in Information-Centric Networks using Convolutional Neural Network: Kelvin H. T. Chiu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Jun Zhang (Telecom Paris, France); Brahim Bensaou (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
WideScan: Exploiting Out-of-Band Distortion for Device Classification Using Deep Learning: Abdurrahman Elmaghbub, Bechir Hamdaoui and Arun Natarajan (Oregon State University, USA)
Distributional Reinforcement Learning for mmWave Communications with Intelligent Reflectors on a UAV: Qianqian Zhang and Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)

SAC BD5: Data Driven Security and Privacy

SAC BD5-5 papers

Privacy Aware Contact Tracing by Exploiting Social Networks in Viral Disease Outbreaks: Akram Hussain and Yuan Luo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Scalable and Updatable Attribute-based Privacy Protection Scheme for Big Data Publishing: Mingyue Zhang, Junlong Zhou and Gongxuan Zhang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Longxia Huang (Jiangsu University, China); Tian Wang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
A secure task-offloading framework for cooperative fog computing environment: Rishu Roshan (IIIT G, India); Rakesh Matam (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India); Mithun Mukherjee (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China); Jaime Lloret (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Somanath Tripathy (IIT Patna, India)
Security-Aware Resource Sharing in Software Defined Air-Ground Integrated Networks: A Game Approach: Yuntao Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Zhou Su (Shanghai University, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada); Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon & LIA/CERI, France); Ruidong Li (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan); Ying Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Disaster Protection in Inter-DataCenter Networks leveraging Cooperative Storage: Yuanhao Liu (Xidian University, China); Fen Zhou (IMT Lille Douai, Institut Mines-Télécom, University of Lille, France); Cao Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China & University of Avignon, France); Zuqing Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Tao Shang (Xidian University, China); Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno (Université d'Avignon, France & Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)

SAC CCNS5: Computation and Data Offloading

SAC CCNS5-5 papers

Efficient Resources Allocation and Computation Offloading Model for AP-based Edge Cloud: Zhong Wang, Guangtao Xue, Shiyou Qian and Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Energy-Aware Cooperative Offloading Framework for Inter-dependent and Delay-sensitive Tasks: Mahshid Mehrabi and Shiwei Shen (Technical University of Dresden, Germany); Vincent Latzko (TU Dresden, Germany); Yuanfei Wang (Technical University of Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)
Optimal-Delay-Guaranteed Energy Efficient Cooperative Offloading in VEC Networks: Yao Zhu (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Tianyu Yang (Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Yulin Hu, Wanting Gao and Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Private Edge Computing for Linear Inference Based on Secret Sharing: Reent Schlegel (Simula UiB, Norway); Siddhartha Kumar (Simula UiB AS, Norway); Eirik Rosnes (Simula UiB, Norway); Alexandre Graell i Amat (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Signal Phase and Timing by a Vehicular Cloud: Seyhan Ucar (Toyota Motor North America R&D, InfoTech Labs, USA); Takamasa Higuchi (Toyota Motor North America R&D, USA); Onur Altintas (Toyota Motor North America R&D, InfoTech Labs, USA)

SAC EH3: Services and Applications

SAC EH3-5 papers

IoT-based Contact Tracing Systems for Infectious Diseases: Architecture and Analysis: Peng Hu (National Research Council of Canada, Canada)
Estimating Indoor Human Speed via Radio Signals: Hongyu Deng, Dongheng Zhang, Yang Hu and Yan Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
COVID-19 Vulnerability Map Construction via Location Privacy Preserving Mobile Crowdsourcing: Rui Chen (University of Houston, USA); Liang Li (Xidian University, China); Jeffrey Jiarui Chen (St. Mark's School of Texas, USA); Ronghui Hou (Xidian University, China); Yanmin Gong (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Yuanxiong Guo (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA)
eHealth Solution for Cancer Patients Rehabilitation enabled by Optical Fiber Sensors: Maria de Fatima Domingues (Instituto de Telecomunicações & University of Aveiro, Portugal); Mariana Silva and Ana Nepomuceno (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Nelia Alberto, Paulo Antunes, Ayman Radwan and Paulo André (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Video Monitoring System using Facial Recognition: A Facenet-based Approach: Augusto F. S. Moura (Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Ceará, Brazil); Silas Santiago Lopes Pereira (Federal Institute of Ceará, Brazil); Mário W. L. Moreira (Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Ceará, Brazil); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

SAC IoTSCC10: Optimisation of IoT Networks

SAC IoTSCC10-5 papers

Adaptive Extraction-Based Independent Component Analysis for Time-Sensitive Applications: Huanzhuo Wu, Yunbin Shen and Jiajing Zhang (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Hani Salah (TU Dresden, Germany); Ievgenii Anatolijovuch Tsokalo (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)
Transmit Power Minimization for Secure Short-packet Transmission in a Mission-Critical IoT Scenario: Hong Ren and Cunhua Pan (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))
A Data-assisted Algorithm for Truly Grant-free Transmissions of Future mMTC: Yihua Ma (ZTE Corporation & State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia, China); Zhifeng Yuan, Yuzhou Hu, Weimin Li and Zhigang Li (ZTE Corporation, China)
Graph-Based Random Sampling for Massive Access in IoT Networks: Shiyu Zhai, Guobing Li and Zefeng Qi (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Guomei Zhang (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)
Short Frame Structure Optimization for Industrial IoT with Heterogeneous Traffic and Shared Pilot: Jie Cao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Xu Zhu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Yufei Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Yujie Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Fu-Chun Zheng (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China & University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

SAC MLC10: Signal Detection

SAC MLC10-5 papers

Deep Transfer Learning-Assisted Signal Detection for Ambient Backscatter Communications: Chang Liu (University of New South Wales, Australia); Xuemeng Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China); Zhiqiang Wei, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng and Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Generalized Likelihood-Ratio Enabled Machine Learning for UE Detection over Grant-free SCMA: Ang Yang Lin and Po-Ning Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Shin-Lin Shieh (National Taipei University, Taiwan); Yu-Chih Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
MIMO Detector Selection for Multiple High-Order Modulations with Unified Neural Network: Shailesh Chaudhari and Hyukjoon Kwon (Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., USA); Kee-Bong Song (Samsung Semiconductor Inc., USA)
Deep Learning-aided Successive Interference Cancellation for MIMO-NOMA: Mohamed A Aref (University of New Mexico, USA); Sudharman K Jayaweera (University of New Mexico & Bluecom Systems, USA)
Deep Unfolding-Aided Gaussian Belief Propagation for Correlated Large MIMO Detection: Daichi Shirase (Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan); Takumi Takahashi (Osaka University, Japan); Shinsuke Ibi (Doshisha University, Japan); Kazushi Muraoka and Naoto Ishii (NEC Corporation, Japan); Seiichi Sampei (Osaka University, Japan)

SAC SSC5: Integrated Satellite and Terrestrial Communications

SAC SSC5-4 papers

Optimal Throughput Allocation in Air-to-Ground Networks: Sandra Hofmann (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Dominic A. Schupke (Airbus, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)
Throughput and Capacity Evaluation of 5G New Radio Non-Terrestrial Networks with LEO Satellites: Jonas Sedin (Ericsson, Sweden); Luca Feltrin (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Xingqin Lin (Ericsson Research, USA)
Integrating LEO Satellite and UAV Relaying via Reinforcement Learning for Non-Terrestrial Networks: Ju-Hyung Lee (Korea University, Korea (South)); Jihong Park (Deakin University, Australia); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Young-Chai Ko (Korea University, Korea (South))
Sparse Satellite Constellation Design for LoRa-based Direct-to-Satellite Internet of Things: Juan Fraire (CONICET, National University of Córdoba, Argentina); Santiago Henn (Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), Argentina); Fabio Dovis, Roberto Garello and Giorgio Taricco (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

SPC8: Signal Processing for Massive MIMO

SPC8-5 papers

Chair: Parthajit Mohapatra (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India)

Hybrid data and model driven algorithms for angular power spectrum estimation: Renato L. G. Cavalcante (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Slawomir Stanczak (Technische Universität Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany)
Massive Unsourced Random Access for Massive MIMO Correlated Channels: Xinyu Xie, Yongpeng Wu, Junyuan Gao and Wenjun Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Sub-Connected Hybrid Precoding Architectures in Massive MIMO Systems: Wuyang Zheng, Asil Koc and Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)
Optimally Supporting IoT with Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Hangsong Yan (NYU WIRELESS and New York University, USA); Alexei Ashikhmin (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Hong Yang (Bell Labs, USA)
Multi-Domain Conversions of High Dimensional Channel Characteristics for Massive MIMO-OFDM: Guosen Yue (FutureWei Technologies, Inc., USA); Xiao-Feng Qi (Futurewei Technologies, Inc., USA)

WC23: Resource Management I

WC23-5 papers

Age-of-Information-based Scheduling in Multiuser Uplinks with Stochastic Arrivals: A POMDP Approach: Aoyu Gong (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Tong Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong & Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong); He Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Yijin Zhang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
Joint Sociality and Load Balance for Proactive Caching in Wireless Networks: Chenxi Zhao, Junyu Liu, Min Sheng, Yanpeng Dai and Jiandong Li (Xidian University, China)
Joint User Grouping and Beamwidth Optimization for Satellite Multicast with Phased Array Antennas: Bingkun Liu (Tsinghua University, China); Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Linling Kuang and Jianhua Lu (Tsinghua University, China)
Exploiting Correlation Between Wideband and Differential CQIs for Adaptation and Feedback: Vineeth Kumar (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India); Neelesh B. Mehta (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Energy and Spectrum Efficient User Association for Backhaul Load Balancing in Small Cell Networks: Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi and Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)

WC24: Precoding & Beamforming

WC24-5 papers

Downlink OFDMA with DFT-Precoding for Tera-Hertz Communications: Seunghyun Lee, Hanjin Kim and Yosub Park (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Hyojin Lee (Samsung Research, Korea (South)); Juho Lee (Samsung Electronics. Co., Ltd, Korea (South))
Secure Beamforming Designs in MISO Visible Light Communication Networks with SLIPT: Xiaodong Liu and Zezong Chen (Wuhan University, China); Yuhao Wang (Nanchang University, China); Fuhui Zhou (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Shuai Ma (China University of Mining and Technology, China); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA)
Joint Passive Beamforming and Information Transfer for RIS-Empowered Wireless Communications: Shaoe Lin (South China University of Technology, China); Beixiong Zheng (National University of Singapore, Singapore); George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens, Greece); Miaowen Wen (South China University of Technology, China); Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France); Fang-Jiong Chen (South China University of Technology, China)
Pseudo-Inverse vs Generalized Inverse for C-RAN Downlink Precoding: Mohammad mahdi Mojahedian (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Reza Mosayebi (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain); Angel Lozano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain)
Throughput Maximization via Joint Optimization of Fronthaul and Access Links in C-RANs: Javane Rostampoor and Raviraj Adve (University of Toronto, Canada)

WC25: Intelligent Reflecting Surface IV

WC25-5 papers

IRS-Aided Wireless Communication with Imperfect CSI: Is Amplitude Control Helpful or Not?: Ming-Min Zhao (Zhejiang University, China); Qingqing Wu (University of Macau, China); Minjian Zhao (Zhejiang University, China); Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Joint Beamforming and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Design for Two-Way Relay Networks: Jun Wang, Ying-Chang Liang and Xiaojun Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Xinguo Wang (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Codebook-based Phase Adjustment for IRS-aided Communication Via Time-Coding Modulation: Yajun Cheng and Wei Peng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Active Intelligent Reflecting Surface for SIMO Communications: Ruizhe Long and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Yiyang Pei (Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Joint User Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Federated Learning over Wireless Networks: Benshun Yin, Zhiyong Chen and Meixia Tao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:30

AHSN10: Energy Conservation in AHSN

AHSN10-5 papers

Impact of Limited Hop Count on Connectivity of Millimeter Wave Networks: Mohamed Ibrahim and Walaa Hamouda (Concordia University, Canada)
Impact of Evolutionary Community Detection Algorithms for Edge Selection Strategies: Paolo Barsocchi (ISTI-CNR, Italy); Dimitri Belli (University of Pisa, Italy); Stefano Chessa (Universita' di Pisa, Italy); Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy); Michele Girolami (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Distributed and Accurate Packet Reception Rate Estimation under Cross-Technology Interference: Wei Liu (Chongqing University of Technology, China); Yu Xia and Ming Xu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Jian Xie (Chongqing University of Technology, China); Rong Luo (Tsinghua University, China); Daqing Huang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Improving LoRa Scalability by a Recursive Reuse of Demodulators: Alexandre Guitton (Clermont University, France); Megumi Kaneko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Interference Modeling and Mutual Information Maximization Over 6G THz Wireless Ad-Hoc Nano-Networks: Xi Zhang and Jingqing Wang (Texas A&M University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

CISS13: Cybersecurity & Cryptography

CISS13-5 papers

Optimal Cybersecurity Investments for SIS Model: Van Sy Mai (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Richard J La (University of Maryland, USA); Abdella Battou (NIST, USA)
Cryptanalysis of FNV-Based DNS Cookies: Amir Klein, Haya Shulman and Michael Waidner (Fraunhofer SIT, Germany)
Software diversity for cyber deception: Aliou Badra Sarr (African Institutefor for Mathematical Science & US Army Research Laboratory, Senegal); Ahmed H. Anwar Hemida (US Army Research Lab, USA); Nandi Leslie (CCDC Army Research Laboratory & Raytheon, USA); Charles A Kamhoua (US Army Research Laboratory & Network Science Division, USA); Jaime C Acosta (US Army Research Laboratory, USA)
Towards Efficient Secure Aggregation for Model Update in Federated Learning: Danye Wu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA); Zhiwei Xu (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yujun Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Enhancing Fidelity of Quantum Cryptography using Maximally Entangled Qubits: Saiful Islam Salim (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Adnan Quaium (American International University-Bangladesh, Bangladesh); Sriram Chellappan (University of South Florida, USA); A. B. M. Alim Al Islam (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh)

CISS14: Blockchain and Datasets

CISS14-4 papers

ArMor: A Data Analytics Scheme to identify malicious behaviors on Blockchain-based Smart Grid System: Aparna Kumari, Mohil Patel and Arpit Nirajkumar Shukla (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India); Sudeep Tanwar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
A Blockchain-based Medical Data Marketplace with Trustless Fair Exchange and Access Control: Ahmad Alsharif (University of Central Arkansas, USA & Benha University, Egypt); Mahmoud Nabil (North Carolina A & T, USA)
Synthesizing Datasets with Security Threats for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks: Fabio Goncalves, Bruno Ribeiro, Oscar Silvio Marques de Almeida Gama and João Santos (University of Minho, Portugal); Antonio D. Costa (Universidade do Minho & Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal); Bruno Dias (Universidade do Minho, Portugal); Maria João M. R. da C. Nicolau (Universidade do Minho & Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal); Joaquim H Macedo (University of Minho, Portugal); Alexandre Santos (University of Minho & Centro Algoritmi, Portugal)
ECEM - Generating Adversarial Logs under Black-box Setting in Web Security: Yixiao Fei (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Lei Wang (Shanghai JiaoTong, China); Ruan He (Tencent, China); Jia-Liang Lu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

CQRM11: Vehicular Communications

CQRM11-5 papers

Computational Resource Sharing in a Vehicular Cloud Network via Deep Reinforcement Learning: Xu Shilin and Caili Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA); Yi Qian (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA)
NR V2X Communications at Millimeter Waves: An End-to-End Performance Evaluation: Tommaso Zugno, Matteo Drago and Marco Giordani (University of Padova, Italy); Michele Polese (Northeastern University, USA); Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy)
4G LTE Network Data Collection and Analysis along Public Transportation Routes: Habiba Elsherbiny and Ahmad M. Nagib (Queen's University, Canada); Hatem Abou-zeid (Ericsson, Canada); Hazem Abbas (Ain Shams University, Egypt); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada); Aboelmagd Noureldin (Royal Military College of Canada & School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada); Akram Bin Sediq and Gary Boudreau (Ericsson, Canada)
Predictive Resource Allocation for Automotive Applications using Interference Calculus: Daniel Fabian Külzer (BMW Group Research and Technology, Germany); Slawomir Stanczak (Technische Universität Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Renato L. G. Cavalcante (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Mladen Botsov (BMW Group, Germany)
Column Generation Based Algorithm for Service Chaining Relaxing Visit Order and Routing Constraints: Takehiro Sato, Atsushi Kikuchi, Ryoichi Shinkuma and Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)

CQRM12: Scheduling and Resource Allocation

CQRM12-5 papers

System Analysis of State-Aware Resource Allocation for Closed-Loop Control Systems: Lucas Scheuvens (TU Dresden, Germany); Philipp Schulz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Tom Hößler (TU Dresden & Barkhausen Institut, Germany); Norman Franchi (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Andre N Barreto (Barkhausen Institut gGmbH, Germany & Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
State-Aware Resource Allocation for Wireless Closed-Loop Control based on Multi-Connectivity: Lucas Scheuvens (TU Dresden, Germany); Philipp Schulz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Tom Hößler (TU Dresden & Barkhausen Institut, Germany); Norman Franchi (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Andre N Barreto (Barkhausen Institut gGmbH, Germany & Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Multiple Backup Resource Allocation with Workload-Dependent Failure Probability: Mengfei Zhu, Fujun He and Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)
Contract-Theoretic Resource Control in Wireless Powered Communication Public Safety Systems: Nathan Patrizi, Georgios Fragkos and Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Efficient Radio Resource Management with Coalition Games using NOMA in Small Cell Networks: Tafseer Akhtar (Wireless Communications Laboratory, University of Patras, Greece); Panagiotis Georgakopoulos and Christos Mavrokefalidis (University of Patras, Greece); Artur Pereira (Greensphere Unipessoal LDA, Portugal); Vipindev Adat (University of Patras, Greece & University of Vigo, Spain); Christos Tselios (University of Patras & Citrix Inc., Greece); Ilias Politis (Univerisity of Patras & Hellenic Open University, Greece)

CT11: Coding Theory and Practice II

CT11-5 papers

MCMC Decoding of LDPC Codes with BP Preprocessing: Jiun-Ting Huang (University of California, San Diego, USA); Young-Han Kim (UCSD, USA)
A Reconstruction-Computation-Quantization (RCQ) Approach to Node Operations in LDPC Decoding: Linfang Wang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Maximilian Stark (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany); Richard Wesel (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Gerhard Bauch (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
Spatial Coupling in Turbo Equalization: Mgeni Makambi Mashauri and Michael Lentmaier (Lund University, Sweden)
A coding approach to localization using landmarks: Juan C. Rebanal and Yahya H. Ezzeldin (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Christina Fragouli and Paulo Tabuada (UCLA, USA)
Stochastic Analysis of Coded Multicasting for Shared Caches Networks: Adeel Malik (Eurecom, France); Berksan Serbetci, Emanuele Parrinello and Petros Elia (EURECOM, France)

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:45

GCSN4: Green Intelligent Reflective Surface Aided Communications

GCSN4-6 papers

Energy Efficiency Optimization in IRS-Enhanced mmWave Systems with Lens Antenna Array: Yazheng Wang, Hancheng Lu and Dan Zhao (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Huan Sun (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China)
Max-Min Fairness in IRS-Aided MISO Broadcast Channel via Joint Transmit and Reflective Beamforming: Caihong Kai, Wenqi Ding and Wei Huang (Hefei University of Technology, China)
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Empowered Symbiotic Radio over Broadcasting Signals: Xinyue Xu, Ying-Chang Liang and Gang Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Lian Zhao (Ryerson University, Canada)
Cooperative Beamforming for Large Intelligent Surface Assisted Symbiotic Radios: Hu Zhou, Ying-Chang Liang and Xin Kang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Resource allocation in IRSs aided MISO-NOMA networks: A Machine Learning Approach: Xinyu Gao, Yuanwei Liu, Xiao Liu and Zhijin Qin (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Backscatter Communications: Xiaolun Jia (The Australian National University, Australia); Jun Zhao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Xiangyun Zhou (The Australian National University, Australia); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:30

MWN13: Cloud and Fog Networks

MWN13-5 papers

A Task Offloading Scheme for WAVE Vehicular Clouds and 5G Mobile Edge Computing: Alisson Souza, Paulo A. L. Rego and Paulo Gonçalves Rocha (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Tiago Carneiro Pessoa (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, Brazil); José Neuman de Souza (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
DCOA: Double-Check Offloading Algorithm to Road-Side Unit and Vehicular Micro-Cloud in 5G Networks: Qiu Bo-Jun, Cheng-Ying Hsieh and Jyh-Cheng Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Falko Dressler (TU Berlin, Germany)
Cloud Storage Forensics BaiduNetDisk WeiYun and 115yun on a Wireless Network: Yuzhe Chen, Xiao Fu and Bin Luo (Nanjing University, China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)
Kube5G: A Cloud-Native 5G Service Platform: Osama Arouk and Navid Nikaein (Eurecom, France)
Transaction Throughput Maximization under Delay and Energy Constraints in Fog-IoT Networks: Forough Shirin Abkenar, Md Zahangir Alam and Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia)

MWN14: WiFi and WLAN Networks

MWN14-5 papers

E-model: An analytical tool for fast adaptation of IEEE 802.11ah RAW grouping strategies: Victor Baños-Gonzalez (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) & Barcelona Super Computing Center, Spain); Elena Lopez-Aguilera (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Eduard Garcia-Villegas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Modeling and Security Analysis of IEEE 802.1AS Using Hierarchical Colored Petri Nets: Siyu Tang and Xiaoya Hu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Lian Zhao (Ryerson University, Canada)
The Effect of Multiple Access Categories on the MAC Layer Performance of IEEE 802.11p: Geeth P. Wijesiri (University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka); Jussi P Haapola (Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Tharaka Samarasinghe (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)
Ranging Estimation Error in WiFi Devices Running IEEE 802.11mc: Israel Martin-Escalona (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Enrica Zola (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya & UPC BarcelonaTECH, Spain)
A Novel IoT-Aware WLAN Environment Identification for Efficient Internet-Wide Port Scan: Shikhar Verma (Graduate School of Information Science, Tohoku University, Japan); Yuichi Kawamoto and Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:45

NGNI10: Network management and control

NGNI10-6 papers

SSMP: Server Selection for Multipath TCP in CDN Environments: Jiayu Yang, Jiangping Han, Yitao Xing, Yuan Zhang, Wenjia Wei and Kaiping Xue (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
On Latency For Non-Scheduled Traffic in TSN: Neil Diaz and Natarajan Gautam (Texas A&M University, USA)
INT-filter: Mitigating Data Collection Overhead for High-Resolution In-band Network Telemetry: Enge Song, Tian Pan and Chenhao Jia (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wendi Cao (Peking University, China); Jiao Zhang, Tao Huang and Yunjie Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
MmWave MIMO-OFDM with Index Modulation: A Pareto-Optimal Trade-off on Spectral-Energy Efficiency: Yan Yang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Shuping Dang (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Miaowen Wen (South China University of Technology, China); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)
Multi-RAT Multicast 360° Video Delivery: Pavlos Basaras (Trinity College, Ireland); Stepan Kucera (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Ltd., Ireland); Holger Claussen (Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland); George Iosifidis (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Forensic Model for DDoS Attack: Yun Luo, Xiao Fu and Bin Luo (Nanjing University, China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)

SAC BD6: Data Driven Communications and Networking

SAC BD6-6 papers

NOMA/User-Centric Based Cell-Free Massive MIMO Over 6G Big-Data Mobile Wireless Networks: Xi Zhang and Qixuan Zhu (Texas A&M University, USA)
A Stackelberg Game Approach to Resource Allocation for IRS-aided Communications: Yulan Gao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Chao Yong (The National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Communications, China); Zehui Xiong and Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Yue Xiao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jun Zhao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Joint Resource Allocation Optimization Over EH Based 6G THz-Band Big-Data-Driven Nano-Networks: Xi Zhang and Jingqing Wang (Texas A&M University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Deep Reinforcement Learning based Access Control for Disaster Response Networks: Hang Zhou, Xiaoyan Wang and Masahiro Umehira (Ibaraki University, Japan); Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Mobility Data-Driven Wireless Network Virtualization for Mobile Cyber Physical System: Vijay Chaudhary and Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)
Towards Network Coding and Request Pipelining Enabled NDN for Big Data Transmission: Xiaoyan Hu, Xiaoyi Song and Zheng Shaoqi (Southeast University, China); Ruidong Li (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan); Guang Cheng and Jian Gong (Southeast University, China)

SAC CCNS6: Mobile Edge Computing

SAC CCNS6-6 papers

Latency Prediction for Delay-sensitive V2X Applications in Mobile Cloud/Edge Computing Systems: Wenhan Zhang, Mingjie Feng and Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA); Haris Volos (DENSO International America, Inc., USA)
Task Offloading and Dispatching for MEC with Selfish Mobile Devices and Access Points: Lu Fang and Tong Liu (Shanghai University, China); Yanmin Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Yuanyuan Yang (Stony Brook University, USA)
Value-driven Cache Replacement Strategy in Mobile Edge Computing: Hua Wei, Hong Luo and Yan Sun (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA)
CIDER: A Low Overhead Approach to Privacy Aware Client-side Deduplication: Rasmus Vestergaard, Qi Zhang and Daniel E. Lucani (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Joint Resource Allocation and Trajectory Design for UAV-assisted Mobile Edge Computing Systems: Jiequ Ji, Kun Zhu, Changyan Yi and Ran Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Efficient Confidentiality for Network Coded Distributed Storage: Niklas Förster, Juan A. Cabrera, Elke Franz and Stefan Pfennig (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)

SAC EH4: Communications and Networking

SAC EH4-6 papers

Negative Correlation Between Virus-Related Content Popularity and Epidemic Spread: Xianyang Zhang, Di Han and Zhanyuan Xie (Tsinghua University, China); Xin Guo and Haiming Wang (Lenovo Research, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
Delay-sensitive and Priority-aware Task Offloading for Edge Computing-assisted Healthcare Services: Mithun Mukherjee (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China); Vikas Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna & Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, India); Dipendu Maity (Indian Institute of Information Technology, IIIT Guwahati, India); Rakesh Matam (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India); Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis (University of Nicosia & University of Nicosia Research Foundation, Cyprus); Qi Zhang (Aarhus University, Denmark); George Mastorakis (Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece)
A Splitting-Detection Joint-Decision Receiver for Ultrasonic Intra-Body Communications: Qianqian Wang and Quansheng Guan (South China University of Technology, China); Julian Cheng (University of British Columbia, Canada); Fei Ji (South China University of Technology, China)
Multi-Access Edge Computing and Blockchain-based Secure Telehealth System Connected with 5G and IoT: Tharaka Mawanane Hewa (University of Oulu, Finland); An Braeken (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium); Mika E Ylianttila (University of Oulu, Finland); Madhusanka Liyanage (University College Dublin, Ireland & University of Oulu, Finland)
Health-Flow: Criticality-Aware Flow Control for SDN-Based Healthcare IoT: Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Ruelia Saha and Nurzaman Ahmed (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
Blockchain and Edge Computing for Decentralized EMRs Sharing in Federated Healthcare: Dinh Nguyen and Pubudu Pathirana (Deakin University, Australia); Ming Ding (Data 61, Australia); Aruna Seneviratne (University of New South Wales, Australia)

SAC IoTSCC11: IoT Applications and Services II

SAC IoTSCC11-6 papers

A Fast Item Identification and Counting in Ultra-dense Beacon Networks: Pai Chet Ng and James She (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada); Rong Ran (Ajou University, Korea (South))
Time-to-Provision Evaluation of IoT Devices Using Automated Zero-Touch Provisioning: Ivan Boškov (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia); Halil Yetgin (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia & Bitlis Eren University, Turkey); Matevž Vučnik (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia); Carolina Fortuna (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia); Mihael Mohorcic (Jozef Stefan Institute & Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Slovenia)
From One to Many FemtoClouds: Hend Gedawy (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Ali Elgazar (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar); Khaled A. Harras (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Occupant Behavior Prediction and Real-Time Correction-based Smart Building Energy Optimization: Nour Haidar (University of La Rochelle, France); Nouredine Tamani (L3i, La Rochelle University, France); Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of la Rochelle, France); Alain Bouju (University of La Rochelle, France)
LOST: A Location Estimator Scheme for PM2.5 Pollution Sources in Sparse Sensors Network: Faisal Ghaffar (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); George Kibirige (Academia Sinica & National Chengchi University, Taiwan); Chih-Ya Shen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Meng Chang Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
A Fibre Embroidered Chipless RFID Tag on Cotton Fabrics for Wearable Applications: Muhammad Usman Ali Khan (University of Wollongong, Australia & The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan); Raad Raad and Javad Foroughi (University of Wollongong, Australia)

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:30

SAC MLC11: Coding and Modulation

SAC MLC11-5 papers

Combining Deep Learning and Linear Processing for Modulation Classification and Symbol Decoding: Samer Hanna (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Chris Dick (Xilinx Inc., USA); Danijela Cabric (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
Deep Learning versus High-order Recurrent Neural Network based Decoding for Convolutional Codes: Werner G. Teich, Ruiqi Liu and Vasileios Belagiannis (Ulm University, Germany)
Construction of Polar Codes with Reinforcement Learning: Yun Liao, Seyyed Ali Hashemi, John Cioffi and Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)
A Variational Autoencoder-Based Secure Transceiver Design Using Deep Learning: Chia-Hung Lin (National Chiao Tung University, USA); Chao-Chin Wu, Kuan-Fu Chen and Ta-Sung Lee (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Joint Learning of Probabilistic and Geometric Shaping for Coded Modulation Systems: Fayçal Ait Aoudia and Jakob Hoydis (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

SPC9: Channel Estimation and Reconstruction

SPC9-5 papers

Deep Learning Aided Channel Estimation for Massive MIMO with Pilot Contamination: Hiroki Hirose and Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan); Guan Gui (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided mmWave MIMO Systems: Jiguang He and Markus Leinonen (University of Oulu, Finland); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland)
Sparse Channel Reconstruction with Nonconvex Regularizer via DC Programming for Massive MIMO Systems: Pengxia Wu, Hui Ma and Julian Cheng (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Bilinear Gaussian Belief Propagation for Large MIMO Channel and Data Estimation: Kenta Ito and Takumi Takahashi (Osaka University, Japan); Shinsuke Ibi (Doshisha University, Japan); Seiichi Sampei (Osaka University, Japan)
MSBL-based Simultaneous Sparse Channel Estimation in SC Wideband mmWave Hybrid MIMO Systems: Suraj Srivastava and Aditya K Jagannatham (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)

WC26: Intelligent Reflecting Surface V

WC26-5 papers

Joint Base Station-IRS-User Association in Multi-IRS-Aided Wireless Network: Weidong Mei and Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Learning to Beamform for Intelligent Reflecting Surface with Implicit Channel Estimate: Tao Jiang, Hei Victor Cheng and Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
Intelligent Reflective Surface Aided Multi-Way Communications: Yikai Li (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA); Dhanushka Kudathanthirige and Gayan Amarasuriya (Southern Illinois University, USA)
On the Complexity Requirements of a Panel-Based Large Intelligent Surface: Andreia Pereira (Instituto de Telecomunicações - University of Coimbra, Portugal); Fredrik Rusek (Lund University, Sweden); Marco A. C. Gomes (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Rui Dinis (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, University Nova de Lisboa & FCT-UNL, Portugal)
Anchor-Assisted Intelligent Reflecting Surface Channel Estimation for Multiuser Communications: Xinrong Guan (Army Engineering University of PLA & Postdoctoral Station, Shenzhen Electric Appliance Company, China); Qingqing Wu (University of Macau, China); Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:45

WC27: Resource Management II

WC27-6 papers

Joint Uplink-Downlink Resource Allocation for OFDMA-URLLC MEC Systems: Walid Ghanem (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Vahid Jamali (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-N¨urnberg, Germany); Qiuyu Zhang (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Germany); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Power-Efficient Resource Allocation for Multiuser MISO Systems via Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces: Xianghao Yu (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Dongfang Xu (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Multi-Armed Bandit Load Balancing User Association in 5G Cellular HetNets: Alireza Alizadeh and Mai Vu (Tufts University, USA)
Joint Management of Communicating and Computing Resources in Sliced 5G Networks: Qian Sun (ICT/CAS, China); Lin Tian and Jinglin Shi (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yiqing Zhou (Chinese Academy of Science, China); Ling Liu (Institute of Compting Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yuanyuan Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Fengli Wang (Beijing Zhongke Chuangjia Human Resources Consulting Co. LTD, China)
Resource Allocation for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Cooperative Communications: Yulan Gao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Chao Yong (The National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Communications, China); Zehui Xiong and Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Yue Xiao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jun Zhao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Data Driven Optimization of Inter-Frequency Mobility Parameters for Emerging Multi-band Networks: Muhammad Umar Bin Farooq and Marvin Manalastas (University of Oklahoma, USA); Waseem Raza (The University of Oklahoma USA, USA); Aneeqa Ijaz and Syed Muhammad Asad Zaidi (University of Oklahoma, USA); Adnan Abu-Dayya (QMIC, Qatar); Ali Imran (University of Oklahoma, USA)

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:30

WC28: Edge Computing I

WC28-5 papers

Dynamic Computation Offloading in Multi-Server MEC Systems: An Online Learning Approach: Kun Guo and Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
On the performance of SWIPT MEC systems in the Presence of Spatially Correlated Shadowing: Ayse Ipek Akin and Ivan Stupia (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Hamed Mirghasemi (Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Service Migration 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)
Dynamic Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation for Multi-user Mobile Edge Computing: Samrat Nath and Jingxian Wu (University of Arkansas, USA)
Optimizing AI Service Placement and Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge Intelligence Systems: Zehong Lin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Suzhi Bi (Shenzhen University, China); Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

WC29: Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

WC29-5 papers

Exploring the Benefits of Memory-Limited Fulcrum Recoding for Heterogeneous Nodes: Vu Nguyen (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany & Vietnam - Korea University of Information and Communication Technology, Vietnam); Juan A. Cabrera, Sreekrishna Pandi and Giang T. Nguyen (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)
UnRest: Underwater Reliable Acoustic Communication for Multimedia Streaming: Firoj Gazi (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Nurzaman Ahmed (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Anandarup Mukherjee (University of Cambridge & Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India)
On the Interference Immunity of Visible Light Communication (VLC): Antonio Costanzo (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France); Valeria Loscrí (Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France); Virginie Deniau and Jean Rioult (Université Gustave Eiffel, France)
Computation-Aided Adaptive Codebook Design for Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO: Yuhan Sun and Chenhao Qi (Southeast University, China); Geoffrey Ye Li (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Optimization of Multi-UAV-BS Aided Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Networks: Lipeng Zhu (Beihang University, China); Jun Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology & Beihang University, China); Zhenyu Xiao (Beihang University, China); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Symposia: Thursday

Thursday, December 10

Thursday, December 10 11:00 - 12:30

AHSN8: Learning I

CISS10: Physical Layer Security II

CISS9: Security & Privacy II

CQRM7: IoT

CQRM8: Monitoring, Reliability and Security

CSSMA6: Services and Applications

CT8: Communication Theory and Networking II

MWN10: Vehicular Communication Networks

MWN11: Performance Evaluation and LTE Networks

NGNI7: IoT

NGNI8: NFV

SAC CCNS4: Resource and Power Allocation

SAC IoTSCC8: Green and Sustainable IoT II

SAC IoTSCC9: IoT Applications and Services I

SAC MLC9: ML for Networks

SAC SSC4: Services

SPC7: Signal Processing for mmWave & THz Communications

WC20: Localization I

WC21: Localization II

WC22: Machine Learning III

Thursday, December 10 2:00 - 3:30

AHSN9: Learning II

CISS11: Detection and Prevention II

CISS12: Trust and Blockchain

Thursday, December 10 2:00 - 3:45

CQRM10: Content Distribution, Caching and Blockchain

Thursday, December 10 2:00 - 3:30

CQRM9: QoS/QoE Management for Multimedia Services

CT10: Information Theory and Capacity II

CT9: Distributed Processing and Caching

GCSN3: Energy Efficient UAV and Vehicular Networks

MWN12: MAC and Resource management II

NGNI9: NetAI

SAC BD5: Data Driven Security and Privacy

SAC CCNS5: Computation and Data Offloading

SAC EH3: Services and Applications

SAC IoTSCC10: Optimisation of IoT Networks

SAC MLC10: Signal Detection

SAC SSC5: Integrated Satellite and Terrestrial Communications

SPC8: Signal Processing for Massive MIMO

WC23: Resource Management I

WC24: Precoding & Beamforming

WC25: Intelligent Reflecting Surface IV

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:30

AHSN10: Energy Conservation in AHSN

CISS13: Cybersecurity & Cryptography

CISS14: Blockchain and Datasets

CQRM11: Vehicular Communications

CQRM12: Scheduling and Resource Allocation

CT11: Coding Theory and Practice II

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:45

GCSN4: Green Intelligent Reflective Surface Aided Communications

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:30

MWN13: Cloud and Fog Networks

MWN14: WiFi and WLAN Networks

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:45

NGNI10: Network management and control

SAC BD6: Data Driven Communications and Networking

SAC CCNS6: Mobile Edge Computing

SAC EH4: Communications and Networking

SAC IoTSCC11: IoT Applications and Services II

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:30

SAC MLC11: Coding and Modulation

SPC9: Channel Estimation and Reconstruction

WC26: Intelligent Reflecting Surface V

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:45

WC27: Resource Management II

Thursday, December 10 4:00 - 5:30

WC28: Edge Computing I

WC29: Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Patrons