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  Tuesday, 8 December
11:00 am ‑ 12:30 pm AHSN1: Security and Privacy
CISS1: Networks Security I
CSSMA1: Communications and Mobility
CT1: Low Latency Communications
MWN1: Resource Management for URLLC Traffic
MWN2: Edge Computing and Fog Computing
NGNI1: Mobile Edge Computing
ONS1: Optical Wireless Communications
SAC BD1: Big Data Processing
SAC CCNS1: Coded Data Storage
SAC IoTSCC1: Green and Sustainable IoT I
SAC MLC1: Precoding and Beamforming I
SAC MLC2: Over-the-Air Computation and Distributed Learning
SAC TI1: Tactile Internet
SPC1: Signal Processing for OFDM and VLC
WC1: Massive MIMO I
WC2: NOMA I
WC3: Intelligent Reflecting Surface I
CQRM1: Performance Evaluation
CRAEN1: Deep Reinforcement Learning I
12:30 ‑ 12:45 pm  
12:45 ‑ 2:00 pm    
2:00 ‑ 3:30 pm AHSN2: Internet of Things
CISS2: IoT Security I
CQRM2: 5G Mobile Networks I
CRAEN2: Dynamic Spectrum Access
CSSMA2: Networking and Learning
CT2: Machine Learning for Communications
MWN3: Beamforming and MIMO Communications
MWN4: Machine Learning in Wireless Networks
NGNI2: QoS/QoE
ONS2: Visible Light Communications
SAC CCNS2: Machine Learning for Networks
SAC IoTSCC2: Security and Privacy in IoT I
SAC MBMSC1: Molecular Communications: Theory and Modeling
SAC MLC3: Source Coding and Pruning
SAC SGCPLC1: Electric Vehicle Networks
SPC2: Signal Processing for Emerging Systems
WC4: Massive MIMO II
WC5: Intelligent Reflecting Surface II
WC6: UAV Communications I
WC7: NOMA II
 
3:30 ‑ 3:45 pm    
3:45 ‑ 4:00 pm    
4:00 ‑ 5:30 pm AHSN3: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles I
CISS3: Physical Layer Security I
CQRM3: SDN and Network Virtualization
CRAEN3: Performance Analysis and Optimization I
CT3: Communication Theory and Networking I
NGNI3: Edge/Fog Computing
SAC ANS1: 5G and Future Wireless Systems
SAC BD2: Data Driven Intelligent Transportation
SAC MBMSC2: Molecular Communications: Design and Applications
SAC MLC4: Precoding and Beamforming II
SAC MLC5: Resource Allocation
SAC SGCPLC2: Smart Grid Security
SPC3: Signal Processing for MIMO
WC10: Machine Learning I
WC8: Intelligent Reflecting Surface III
CSSMA3: Vehicular Communications
GCSN1: Green Communication Networks
MWN5: Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces
SAC CCNS3: Task Offloading
SAC IoTSCC3: Security and Privacy in IoT II
WC9: Millimeter Wave I
5:30 ‑ 5:45 pm  

Tuesday, December 8

Tuesday, December 8 11:00 - 12:30

AHSN1: Security and Privacy

AHSN1-5 papers
Differential Privacy and Prediction Uncertainty of Gossip Protocols in General Networks
Yufan Huang and Richeng Jin (North Carolina State University, USA); Huaiyu Dai (NC State University, USA)
Region-Aware Bagging and Deep Learning-Based Fake Task Detection in Mobile CrowdSensing
Zhiyan Chen (University of Ottawa, Canada); Murat Simsek (University of Ottawa & Istanbul Technical University, Canada); Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)
F-RouND: Fog-based Rogue Nodes Detection in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks
Anirudh Paranjothi (University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA); Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, USA); Mohammad S Khan (East Tennessee State University, USA)
Safe Driving Protocol at Special Stop Sign Intersections (D-SSS)
Maram Bani Younes (University of Ottawa & Philadelphia University, Jordan); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Blockchain-Supported Federated Learning for Trustworthy Vehicular Networks
Safa Otoum, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi and Hussein T. Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)

CISS1: Networks Security I

CISS1-5 papers
Enhancing Path Reliability against Sybil Attack by Improved Multi-Path-Trees in SDN
Peilei Xue and Zhongyuan Jiang (Xidian University, China)
Time-series Measurement of Parked Domain Names
Takayuki Tomatsuri (Waseda University, Japan); Daiki Chiba and Mitsuaki Akiyama (NTT, Japan); Masato Uchida (Waseda University, Japan)
Toward an approach for securing IMS signaling and media planes
Kanoune Yahia (Laboratoire LCSI Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique (ESI), Algeria); Chafia Yahiaoui (High National School of Computer Science ESI & Oued Smar, Alger, Algeria); Abderrezak Rachedi (Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard Monge (LIGM UMR8049), France)
Collaborative Anomaly Detection in Distributed SDN
Lei Zhou (School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Jiangang Shu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Divide and conquer-based attack against RPL routing protocol
Mohammed Amine Boudouaia and Abdelhafid Abouaissa (University of Haute Alsace, France); Ayoub Benayache (University of Batna 2, Algeria); Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace, France)

Tuesday, December 8 11:00 - 12:45

CQRM1: Performance Evaluation

CQRM1-6 papers
Chair: Ayman Radwan (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Exploiting Wireless Links Diversity in Software Defined IEEE 802.11 Enterprise WLANs
Md Fahad Monir (Independent University, Bangladesh); Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento, Italy)
Model-based Performance Evaluation of a Moving Target Defense System
Zhi Chen and Xiaolin Chang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada); Yang Yang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Zhen Han (Beijing jiaotong University, China)
Locality-Preserving Spatial Partitioning for Geo Big Data Analytics in Main Memory Frameworks
Isam Mashhour Al Jawarneh and Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy); Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna & CIRI ICT, Italy); Luca Foschini and Rebecca Montanari (University of Bologna, Italy)
Coverage Recovery Analysis for UAV Base Station Networks
Qiangfeng Zhu and Jun Zheng (Southeast University, China)
FSC: Two-Scale AI-Driven Fair Sensitivity Control for 802.11ax Networks
Elif Ak and Berk Canberk (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Energy-Efficient and QoS-Improved D2D Small Cell Deployment for Smart Grid
Hao Ran Chi (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Maria de Fatima Domingues (Instituto de Telecomunicações & University of Aveiro, Portugal); Ahmed Refaey (Manhattan College, USA & Western University, Canada); Ayman Radwan (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

CRAEN1: Deep Reinforcement Learning I

CRAEN1-6 papers
Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Non-Cooperative Power Control in Heterogeneous Networks
Lin Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Power Allocation Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning in HetNets with Varying User Activity
Yao Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hongtao Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Key Lab of Universal Wireless Communications, Ministry of Education, China)
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Relay Selection in Delay-Constrained Secure Buffer-Aided CRNs
Chong Huang and Gaojie Chen (University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yu Gong (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Peng Xu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Trajectory Design in Wireless UAV Networks
Ye Hu (Virginia tech, USA); Mingzhe Chen (Princeton University, USA); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA); Shuguang Cui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China)
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Enhanced Device-to-Device Communications
Zelin Ji and Zhijin Qin (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Resource Allocation based on Graph Neural Networks in Vehicular Communications
Ziyan He (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Liang Wang (Shaanxi Normal University, China); Hao Ye and Geoffrey Li (Georgia Tech, USA); Fred Juang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Tuesday, December 8 11:00 - 12:30

CSSMA1: Communications and Mobility

CSSMA1-5 papers
Chair: Tianyu Wang (Nanjing University, China)
Understanding Human Mobility for CrowdSensing Strategies with the ParticipAct Data Set
Stefano Chessa (Universita' di Pisa, Italy); Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy); Michele Girolami (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Coordinated Container Migration and Base Station Handover in Mobile Edge Computing
Mao Van Ngo (Singapore University of Technology and Design & Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore); Tony T. Luo (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Hieu T. Hoang and Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Sensing-Transmission Tradeoff for Multimedia Transmission in Cognitive Radio Networks
Xiang Sheng and Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, China)
Efficient Backscatter with Ambient WiFi for Live Streaming
Qiwei Wang (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Jihong Yu (Beijing Institute of Technology/ Simon Fraser University, China); Can Xiong (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Jia Zhao and Si Chen (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Rongrong Zhang (Capital Normal University, China); Wei Gong (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Age of Information Based Effective Capacity Over QoS-Driven Multimedia Mobile Wireless Networks
Xi Zhang and Qixuan Zhu (Texas A&M University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

CT1: Low Latency Communications

CT1-5 papers
A Value of Information Framework for Latent Variable Models
Zijing Wang, Mihai-Alin Badiu and Justin P Coon (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Capacity of Erasure Broadcast Channels with Single-User Delayed CSI and Common Messages
Shih-Chun Lin (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan); Alireza Vahid (University of Colorado Denver, USA); I-Hsiang Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Age of Information in Random Access Networks: A Spatiotemporal Study
Howard Yang (SUTD, Singapore); Ahmed Arafa (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Age-Oriented Opportunistic Relaying in Cooperative Status Update Systems with Stochastic Arrivals
Bohai Li (The University of Sydney, Australia); He Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Yong Zhou (ShanghaiTech University, China); Yonghui Li (University of Sydney, Australia)
Delay-Efficient and Reliable Data Relaying in Ultra Dense Networks using Rateless Codes
Luyao Shang, Morteza Hashemi, Taejoon Kim and Erik S. Perrins (University of Kansas, USA)

MWN1: Resource Management for URLLC Traffic

MWN1-5 papers
Channel Access Enhancements in unlicensed spectrum for NR URLLC transmissions
Trung-Kien Le (EURECOM, France); Umer Salim (TCL, France); Florian Kaltenberger (Eurecom, France)
Minimizing the Queue-Length-Bound Violation Probability for URLLC: A Cross Layer Approach
Shaoling Hu and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
Optimal Configured Grant Selection Method for NR Rel-16 Uplink URLLC
Anusha Gunturu (Samsung Electronics, India); Vaishal Tijoriwala (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India); Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva (Samsung Electronics, India)
Optimal Functional Split for Processing Sharing based CoMP for Mixed eMBB and uRLLC Traffic
Yung-Ting Huang (National Chaio Tung University, Taiwan); Chun-Hao Fang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Li Hsiang Shen and Kai-Ten Feng (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Optimal preemptive retransmission strategy for URLLC in unlicensed spectrum
Ayat Zaki-Hindi (Télécom SudParis & Orange Labs, France); Salah Eddine Elayoubi (CentraleSupélec, France); Tijani Chahed (Telecom SudParis, France)

MWN2: Edge Computing and Fog Computing

MWN2-5 papers
A Task Allocation Framework for Large-Scale Mobile Edge Computing
Xinghan Wang (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China); Xiaoxiong Zhong (Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China); Yanbin Zheng (Guangzhou University, China); Xiaoke Ma (Xidian University, China); Tingting Yang (Dongguan University of Technology, China); Genglin Zhang (Dalian Chinacreative, China)
A Sharing-Economy Inspired Pricing Mechanism for Multi-Access Edge Computing
Marie Siew (SUTD, Singapore); Desmond Cai (Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore); Lingxiang Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Mobile Edge Computing Network Control: Tradeoff Between Delay and Cost
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)
Efficient Mobile Computation Offloading with Hard Task Deadlines and Concurrent Local Execution
Peyvand Teymoori, Terence D. Todd, Dongmei Zhao and George Karakostas (McMaster University, Canada)
Energy-Efficient Link Selection for Decentralized Learning via Smart Devices with Edge Computing
Cheng-Wei Ching (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Chung-Kai Yang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Yu-Chun Liu, Chia-Wei Hsu, Jian-Jhih Kuo, Hung-Sheng Huang and Jen-Feng Lee (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)

NGNI1: Mobile Edge Computing

NGNI1-5 papers
FAST: Flexible and Low-latency State Transfer in Mobile Edge Computing
Tung Doan (Technische Universität Dresden & Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, Germany); Chenglin Ding and Giang T. Nguyen (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Dongho You (Technische Universität Dresden & The Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)
Joint Task and Resource Allocation for Mobile Edge Learning
Amr Abutuleb, Sameh Sorour and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
Bayesian Online Learning for MEC Object Recognition Systems
Apostolos Galanopoulos and Jose A. Ayala-Romero (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); George Iosifidis (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Douglas Leith (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Model Partition Defense against GAN Attacks on Collaborative Learning via Mobile Edge Computing
Cheng-Wei Ching, Tzu-Cheng Lin, Kung-Hao Chang, Chih-Chiung Yao and Jian-Jhih Kuo (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
Evaluation of Forwarding Strategies for NDN-based Multi-Access Edge Computing
Adrian Zapletal (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Kazuaki Ueda and Atsushi Tagami (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan)

ONS1: Optical Wireless Communications

ONS1-5 papers
Chair: Abdelmoula Bekkali (TOYO Electric Corporation, Japan)
Flexible LED Index Modulation for MIMO Optical Wireless Communications
Anil Yesilkaya and Ardimas Andi Purwita (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Erdal Panayirci (Kadir Has University, Turkey); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA); Harald Haas (The University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Resource Allocation via Graph Neural Networks in Free Space Optical Fronthaul Networks
Zhan Gao (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Mark Eisen (Intel Corporation, USA); Alejandro Ribeiro (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Experimental Evaluation of an Indoor Long Distance High Speed Imaging MIMO System
Akifumi Iwasa (Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan); Chedlia Ben Naila (Nagoya University, Japan); Kentaro Kobayashi (Meijo University, Japan); Hiraku Okada and Masaaki Katayama (Nagoya University, Japan)
Towards 100 Mb/s Optical Wireless Communications Using a Silicon Photovoltaic Receiver
Sovan Das (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); John Fakidis (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Adrian Sparks (The University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Enrique Poves and Stefan Videv (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Harald Haas (The University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Uniform Spatial Channel Model for Underwater Wireless Optical Communication Links
Shi Zhang, Kai Zhang and Yuhan Dong (Tsinghua University, China)

SAC BD1: Big Data Processing

SAC BD1-5 papers
A Novel Collaborative Filtering Framework Based on Variational Self-Attention GAN
Weifeng Sun and Shumiao Yu (Dalian University of Technology, China); Jin Yang (JD.com America Technologies Corporation, USA); Boxiang Dong (Montclair State University, USA)
Continual Information Cascade Learning
Fan Zhou, Xin Jing, Xovee Xu and Ting Zhong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University, USA); Jin Wu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Oversampling Algorithm based on Reinforcement Learning in Imbalanced Problems
Ying Zhou (PengCheng Lab, China); Jiangang Shu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Xiaoxiong Zhong (Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China); Xingsen Huang, Chenguang Luo and Jianwen Ai (Peng Cheng Lab, China)
MobileSR: Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Super-resolution
Lulu Zhang, Huiyong Li, Jianwei Niu, Xuefeng Liu and Jiyan Wu (Beihang University, China)
Piper: A Unified Machine Learning Pipeline for Internet-scale Traffic Analysis
Bo Hu (NTT & The University of Tokyo, Japan); Kazunori Kamiya (NTT Secure Platform Laboratories, Japan); Kenji Takahashi (NTT Ltd., USA); Akihiro Nakao (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

SAC CCNS1: Coded Data Storage

SAC CCNS1-5 papers
Chair: Lara Dolecek (UCLA, USA)
On the Optimal Minimum Distance of Fractional Repetition Codes
Bing Zhu (Central South University, China); Kenneth Shum (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Hong Kong); Weiping Wang and Jianxin Wang (Central South University, China)
Generalized Expanded-Blaum-Roth Codes and Their Efficient Encoding/Decoding
You Wu (Guangdong University of Technology, China); Hanxu Hou and Yunghsiang Sam Han (Dongguan University of Technology, China); Patrick Pak-Ching Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Guojun Han (Guangdong University of Technology, China)
Approximated EM Algorithms for Estimation of Unknown Coded Discrete Memoryless Channels
Naoaki Kokubun, Daiki Watanabe and Hironori Uchikawa (Kioxia Corporation, Japan); Paul H. Siegel (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Write and Read Channel Models for 1S1R Crossbar Resistive Memory with High Line Resistance
Zehui Chen (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Lara Dolecek (UCLA, USA)
Coding for Resistive Random-Access Memory Channels
Guanghui Song and Kui Cai (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Xingwei Zhong (Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore); Jiang Yu (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Jun Cheng (Doshisha University, Japan)

SAC IoTSCC1: Green and Sustainable IoT I

SAC IoTSCC1-5 papers
Environmental Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks using Structured Matrix Completion
Jingfei He (Hebei University of Technology, China); Yatong Zhou (Hebei University of Thechnology, China); Guiling Sun (Nankai University, China)
A Joint SLNR-MMSE-based Adaptive Secure Transmission Technique for Broadband IoT Systems
Yasuhiro Takano (Kobe University, Japan); Hsuan-Jung Su (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Efficient Authentication of Drones to mmWave Wireless Mesh Networks in Post-Disaster Scenarios
Mai A. Abdel-Malek (FIU, USA); Kemal Akkaya (Florida International University, USA); Nico Saputro (Florida International University, USA & Parahyangan Catholic University, Indonesia); Ahmed S. Ibrahim (Florida International University, USA)
BER Analysis of a NOMA Enhanced Backscatter Communication System
Ahsan W Nazar (National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan); Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Haejoon Jung (Incheon National University, Korea (South))
Empirical Study and Enhancement of Association and Long Sleep in 802.11 IoT Systems
Vikram Ramanna, Simon Liu and Behnam Dezfouli (Santa Clara University, USA)

SAC MLC1: Precoding and Beamforming I

SAC MLC1-5 papers
HPNet: A Compressed Neural Network for Robust Hybrid Precoding in Multi-User Massive MIMO Systems
Mingyang Chai (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Suhua Tang (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Ming Zhao and Wuyang Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Deep Unfolded Multicast Beamforming
Satoshi Takabe and Tadashi Wadayama (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Unsupervised ResNet-Inspired Beamforming Design Using Deep Unfolding Technique
Chia-Hung Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yen-Ting Lee (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Wei-Ho Chung (National Tsing Hua University & Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Shih-Chun Lin (North Carolina State University, USA); Ta-Sung Lee (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Advanced Learning Architectures and Spatial Statistics for Beam Selection with Multipath
Carles Antón-Haro (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Xavier Mestre (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)
Learning-Based Massive Beamforming
Siyuan Lu, Shengjie Zhao and Qingjiang Shi (Tongji University, China)

SAC MLC2: Over-the-Air Computation and Distributed Learning

SAC MLC2-5 papers
Chair: David Gesbert (Eurecom Institute, France)
Deep Over-the-Air Computation
Hao Ye and Geoffrey Li (Georgia Tech, USA); Fred Juang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Over-the-Air Statistical Estimation
Chuan-Zheng Lee, Leighton Barnes and Ayfer Özgür (Stanford University, USA)
COTAF: Convergent Over-the-Air Federated Learning
Tomer Sery (Ben Gurion University, Israel); Nir Shlezinger (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Kobi Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Federated Learning with Communication Delay in Edge Networks
Frank Po-Chen Lin (Purdue University, USA); Christopher G. Brinton (Purdue University & Zoomi Inc., USA); Nicolò Michelusi (Purdue University, USA)
Secure Federated Learning in 5G Mobile Networks
Martin Isaksson (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Karl Norrman (Ericsson, Sweden)

SAC TI1: Tactile Internet

SAC TI1-5 papers
The IEEE P1918.1 Reference Architecture Framework for the Tactile Internet and a Case Study
Adnan Aijaz (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zaher Dawy (American University of Beirut, Lebanon); Nikolaos Pappas (Linköping University, Sweden); Meryem Simsek (VMWare & International Computer Science Institute, USA); Sharief Oteafy (DePaul University, USA); Oliver Holland (Advanced Wireless Technology Group, Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Towards Ultra-Low-Latency mmWave Wi-Fi for Multi-User Interactive Virtual Reality
Jakob Struye (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Filip Lemic (University of Antwerpen - imec, Belgium); Jeroen Famaey (University of Antwerp & Imec, Belgium)
Feedback Prediction for Proactive HARQ in the Context of Industrial Internet of Things
Barış Göktepe (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Tatiana Rykova, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Schierl and Cornelius Hellge (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany)
Binary Indicated Numbers with Bit-Level Integrated Scalability Support (BINBLISS)
Patrick Seeling (Central Michigan University, USA); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)
On the Quality-of-Learning for Haptic Teleoperation-based Skill Transfer over the Tactile Internet
Basak Gulecyuz, Xiao Xu and Andreas Noll (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Eckehard Steinbach (Technische Universität München, Germany)

SPC1: Signal Processing for OFDM and VLC

SPC1-5 papers
Matching Theory-Based Joint Access Point Assignment and Power Allocation in Hybrid RF/VLC HetNet
Sylvester Aboagye (Memorial University, Canada); Telex M. N. Ngatched (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada); Ahmed Mohamed Ali Ibrahim (Carleton University, Canada)
Pilot Optimization for OFDM-based OTFS Systems over Doubly Selective Channels
Lei Zhao, Guo Wenbin and Yueliang Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); J. Yang (Beijing Univerisity of Posts and Telcomunications, China); Wenbo Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Blind Timing Synchronization for DCO-OFDM VLC Systems
Jianguo Yang and Yufei Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Xu Zhu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Da Sun (Harbin Institute of Technology,ShenZhen, China); Tong Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Fu-Chun Zheng (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China & University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Optimal Preamble Design for Short Packet Circularly Pulse-Shaped OFDM Transmissions
Yenming Huang (National Taiwan University & Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, Taiwan); Polin Huang and Borching Su (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Frequency Domain Multi-user Detection for Single Carrier Modulation with Cyclic Prefix
Brent Kenney (University of Utah, USA); Arslan J. Majid and Hussein Moradi (Idaho National Laboratory, USA); Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny (University of Utah, USA)

WC1: Massive MIMO I

WC1-5 papers
Chair: Shuaiqi Shen (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
FDD Massive MIMO Uplink and Downlink Channel Reciprocity Properties: Full or Partial Reciprocity?
Zhimeng Zhong (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); LI Fan (Shanghai Huawei Technologies CO., Ltd, China); Shibin Ge (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd./, China)
Deep CNN-Based Spherical-Wave Channel Estimation for Terahertz Ultra-Massive MIMO Systems
Yuhang Chen and Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Iterative Power Allocation and Access Point Scheduling in Uplink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
Mamoun Guenach and Ali Gorji (Imec, Leuven, Belgium); Andre Bourdoux (IMEC, Belgium)
Multiple Access for Massive MIMO-OTFS Networks over Angle-Delay-Doppler Domain
Muye Li and Shun Zhang (Xidian University, China); Pingzhi Fan (Southwest Jiaotong Universityiversity, China); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada)
Massive MIMO: A Measurement-Based Analysis of MR Power Distribution
Andrea P Guevara, Sibren De Bast and Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium)

WC2: NOMA I

WC2-5 papers
Utilizing Cooperative Jamming to Secure Cognitive Radio NOMA Networks
Zheng Zhang, Jian Chen and Lu Lv (Xidian University, China); Qiang Ye (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Spherical Code Superposition NOMA and Its User Pairing Strategy
Jun Zou (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Kenneth Shum (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Hong Kong); Chi Wan Sung (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Joint Resource Allocation and Trajectory Optimization with QoS in NOMA UAV Networks
Yabo Li (University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China); Haijun Zhang and Keping Long (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China); Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)
Power Control for NOMA HAP-UAV Integrated Aerial Access Networks
Guobin Zhang (Dongguan University of Technology, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Hang Xin (Dongguan University of Technology, China)
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted NOMA Over Fading Channels
Yiyu Guo, Zhijin Qin and Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

WC3: Intelligent Reflecting Surface I

WC3-5 papers
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted MISO Downlink: Channel Estimation and Asymptotic Analysis
Bayan Al-Nahhas (University of British Columbia, Canada); Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem (University of British Columbia & King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Canada); Anas Chaaban (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Stochastic Beamforming for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Over-the-Air Computation
Wenzhi Fang and Min Fu (ShanghaiTech University & Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Kunlun Wang, Yuanming Shi and Yong Zhou (ShanghaiTech University, China)
Neural Combinatorial Optimization for Throughput Maximization in IRS-Aided Systems
Rui Huang and Vincent W.S. Wong (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Robust Transmission Design for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Secure Communications
Sheng Hong (Nanchang University, China & Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Cunhua Pan and Hong Ren (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kezhi Wang (Northumbria University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); A Nallanathan (QMUL, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Haimeng Li (Nanchang University, China)
Sum-Rate Maximization for Multiuser MISO Downlink Systems with Self-sustainable IRS
Shaokang Hu, Zhiqiang Wei, Yuanxin Cai, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng and Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Tuesday, December 8 2:00 - 3:30

AHSN2: Internet of Things

AHSN2-5 papers
Multiple entry point PBFT for IoT systems
Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada); Xiaolin Chang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Haytham Qushtom (Ryerson University, Canada)
Application of Graph Theory in IoT for Optimization of Connected Healthcare System
Faisal Zaman (University of Ottawa, Canada); Moayad Aloqaily (Gnowit Inc., Canada); Farag Sallabi (United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates); Khaled Shuaib (UAE University, United Arab Emirates); Jalel Ben Othman (CentraleSupélec & University of Sorbonne Paris Nord, France)
Meeting Stringent QoS Requirements in IIoT-based Scenarios
Juan Luis Herrera (University of Extremadura, Spain); Paolo Bellavista and Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy); Jaime Galán-Jiménez, Javier Berrocal and Juan Manuel Murillo Rodriguez (University of Extremadura, Spain)
Band Assignment in Ultra-Narrowband (UNB) Systems for Massive IoT Access
Enes Krijestorac (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Ghaith Hattab (Apple Inc. & University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark); Danijela Cabric (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
Study of the Impact of Sinkhole Attack in IoT Using Shewhart Control Charts
Fakhr-eddine Hachemi (UABT Tlemcen, Algeria); Mohammed Mana (University of Tlemcen, Canada); Amar Bensaber Boucif (University of Quebec, Trois Rivieres, Canada)

CISS2: IoT Security I

CISS2-5 papers
On Runtime Software Security of TrustZone-M based IoT Devices
Lan Luo (University of Central Florida, USA); Yue Zhang (Jinan University, China); Cliff Zou (University of Central Florida, USA); Xinhui Shao and Zhen Ling (Southeast University, China); Xinwen Fu (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
Detecting Selective Forwarding using Sentinels in Clustered IoT Networks
Rohini Poolat Parameswarath, Eugene Cheng and Venkata Abhishek Nalam (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Teng Joon Lim (University of Sydney, Australia); Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
LoS/NLoS Detection based Authentication for IoT Systems
Jongyeon Park, Hongchan Kim and Saewoong Bahk (Seoul National University, Korea (South))
Cluster-based certificate revocation in industrial loT networks using Signaling game
Chaimaa Boudagdigue (ENSIAS, Rabat IT Center, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco & University of Avignon, France); Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon & LIA/CERI, France); Abdellatif Kobbane (ENSIAS, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco)
SAC-FIIoT: Secure Access Control Scheme for Fog-Based Industrial Internet of Things
Mohammad Wazid (Graphic Era Deemed to be University, India); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA); Ashok Kumar Das (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India); P Vijayakumar (Anna University Chennai, India)

CQRM2: 5G Mobile Networks I

CQRM2-5 papers
On the Ruin of Age of Information in Augmented Reality over Wireless Terahertz (THz) Networks
Christina Chaccour (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA)
Joint User Association and Resource Allocation in CoMP-Enabled Heterogeneous CRAN
Mohamed Labana and Walaa Hamouda (Concordia University, Canada)
UAV mission optimization in 5G: on reducing MEC service relocation
Samir Si-Mohammed (EURECOM & Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, France); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France); Maha Bouaziz (EURECOM, France); Yacine Challal (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Algeria); Amar Balla (Computer Science, Algeria)
Explainability Methods for Identifying Root-Cause of SLA Violation Prediction in 5G Network
Ahmad Terra (Ericsson AB & KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Rafia Inam (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Sandhya Baskaran (Ericsson, India); Pedro dos Santos Batista (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Ian Burdick (Ericsson Inc., USA); Elena Fersman (Ericsson AB, Sweden)
Recurrent Neural Network Assisted Transmitter Selection for Secrecy in Cognitive Radio Network
Shalini Tripathi (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India); Chinmoy Kundu (University College Dublin, Ireland); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada); Ankur Bansal (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India); Mark F. Flanagan (University College Dublin, Ireland)

CRAEN2: Dynamic Spectrum Access

CRAEN2-5 papers
A Pricing-based Joint Scheduling of Pushing and On-demand Transmission Over Shared Spectrum
Haiming Hui and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
Cross Validation Based Adaptive Compressed Spectrum Sensing without Testing Set
Jian Yang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Zihang Song and Yue Gao (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xuemai Gu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Efficient Online Learning for Cognitive Radar-Cellular Coexistence via Contextual Thompson Sampling
Charles E Thornton and Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA); Anthony Martone (US Army Research Laboratory, USA)
Matchmaking of Volunteers and Channels for Dynamic Spectrum Access Enforcement
Debarun Das, Taieb Znati, Martin B.H. Weiss, Marcela Gomez, Pedro Bustamante and J Stephanie Rose (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
A Game-Theoretic Approach to Achieving Bilateral Privacy-Utility Tradeoff in Spectrum Sharing
Mengmeng Liu, Xiangwei Zhou and Mingxuan Sun (Louisiana State University, USA)

CSSMA2: Networking and Learning

CSSMA2-5 papers
Chair: Gang Feng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Fingerprinting-based Indoor and Outdoor Localization with LoRa and Deep Learning
Jait Purohit and Xuyu Wang (California State University, Sacramento, USA); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA); Xiaoyan Sun (California State University, Sacramento, USA); Chao Yang (Auburn University, USA)
4G LTE Network Throughput Modelling and Prediction
Habiba Elsherbiny (Queen's University, Canada); Hazem Abbas (Ain Shams University, Egypt); Hatem Abou-zeid (Ericsson, Canada); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada); Aboelmagd Noureldin (Royal Military College of Canada & School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada)
Service Chain Rerouting for NFV Load Balancing
Lingnan Gao and George N. Rouskas (North Carolina State University, USA)
GCN-TD: A Learning-based Approach for Service Function Chain Deployment on the Fly
Pan Pan and Qilin Fan (Chongqing University, China); Sen Wang (Chongqing University & School of Big Data & Software Engineering, China); Xiuhua Li (Chongqing University, China); Jian Li (Binghamton University-SUNY, USA); Wenxiang Shi (Chongqing University, China)
Proactive Network Slice Reconfiguration by Exploiting Prediction Interval and Robust Optimization
Fengsheng Wei, Gang Feng, Yao Sun, Yatong Wang and Shuang Qin (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

CT2: Machine Learning for Communications

CT2-4 papers
Age-Based Coded Computation for Bias Reduction in Distributed Learning
Mehmet Emre Ozfatura (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Baturalp Buyukates (University of Maryland, USA); Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
Anomaly Detection via Controlled Sensing and Deep Active Inference
Geethu Joseph, Chen Zhong, M. Cenk Gursoy, Senem Velipasalar and Pramod Varshney (Syracuse University, USA)
Power-Efficient Formation of UAV Swarm: Just Like Flying Birds?
Honggu Kang (Korea Advanced Institude of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea (South)); Jingon Joung (Chung-Ang University, Korea (South)); Joonhyuk Kang (KAIST, Korea (South))
Compressed-Coding and Analog Spatial-Coupling using AMP based Decoding
Shansuo Liang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong); Chulong Liang (ZTE Corporation, China); Junjie Ma (Harvard University, USA); Li Ping (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

MWN3: Beamforming and MIMO Communications

MWN3-5 papers
Joint Beamforming and Power Allocation in Millimeter-Wave High-Speed Railway Systems
Jianpeng Xu and Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Liangyu Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, China)
Rethinking Maximum Flow Problem and Beamforming Design through Brain-inspired Geometric Lens
Ahmed S. Ibrahim (Florida International University, USA)
Deep Learning-based Beamforming and Blockage Prediction for Sub-6GHz/mmWave Mobile Networks
Fabian Göttsch (Technical University Berlin, Germany); Megumi Kaneko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Performance Analysis of Arbitrary Correlated Multiantenna Receiver for Mobile Cognitive User
Dhaval Karshanbhai Patel (School of Engineering and Applied Science-Ahmedabad University, India); Brijesh Soni (School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University, India); Yong Liang Guan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Yoong Choon Chang (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia); Joanne Mun Yee Lim (School of Engineering, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia)
Multi-Laser Based Cooperative Scanning for AUV Acquisition Over UWOC Networks
Fan Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA); Shi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

MWN4: Machine Learning in Wireless Networks

MWN4-5 papers
Correlated Participation Decision Making for Federated Edge Learning
Qin Hu (IUPUI, USA); Feng Li (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA); Xukai Zou (Indiana University, USA); Yinhao Xiao (Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, China)
Trading Data For Learning: Incentive Mechanism For On-Device Federated Learning
Rui Hu and Yanmin Gong (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Differentially Private AirComp Federated Learning with Power Adaptation Harnessing Receiver Noise
Yusuke Koda, Koji Yamamoto, Takayuki Nishio and Masahiro Morikura (Kyoto University, Japan)
MobiFi: Fast Deep-Learning Based Localization Using Mobile WiFi
Zhipeng Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Jihong Yu (Beijing Institute of Technology/ Simon Fraser University, China); Zheng Yang and Wei Gong (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
AI-Assisted RLF Avoidance for Smart EN-DC Activation
Syed Muhammad Asad Zaidi and Marvin Manalastas (University of Oklahoma, USA); Adnan Abu-Dayya (QMIC, Qatar); Ali Imran (University of Oklahoma, USA)

NGNI2: QoS/QoE

NGNI2-5 papers
Delay-Optimal Edge Cache Replacement with Non-Markovian Content Fetching
Nannan Zhang and Wei Wang (Zhejiang University, China); Pan Zhou (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Aiping Huang (Zhejiang University, China)
Enhancing E2E Transport With Packet Trimming
Abdulazaz Albalawi (UC Santa Cruz, USA); Hamed Yousefi (Futurewei Technologies, USA); Cedric Westphal (Huawei Innovation Center, USA); Kiran Makhijani (Futurewei Technologies, USA); J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (PARC, USA)
Heuristic Optimization Algorithms for QoS Management in UAV Assisted Cellular Networks
Chérifa Boucetta (Université de Riems Champagne-Ardenne & Crestic, France); Dridi Aicha (Telecom SudParis, France); Hossam Afifi (Télécom SudParis, Institut Telecom & Paris Saclay, France); Ahmed E. Kamal (Iowa State University, USA); Hassine Moungla (University of Paris Descartes & Instiut Mines Telecom, France)
Coalition Game-based Approach for Improving the QoE of DASH-based Streaming in Multi-servers Scheme
Oussama El Marai (Aalto University, Espoo, Finland); Miloud Bagaa and Tarik Taleb (Aalto University, Finland)
Improving Scalability of Delay Bound with Stochastic Network Calculus
Yue Han (College of Information and Communication, National University of Defense Technology, China); Mingwu Yao (Xidian University, China); Yang Yang and Yongjian Luo (College of Information and Communication, National University of Defense Technology, China); Liu XueFang (Xidian University, China)

ONS2: Visible Light Communications

ONS2-5 papers
Chair: Yeonho Chung (Pukyong National University, Korea (South))
Enhancing Security in VLC Systems Through Beamforming
Sunghwan Cho (University of Oxford & Republic of Korea Army, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Gaojie Chen (University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Justin P Coon (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Novel Visible Light Communication Assisted Perspective-Four-Line Algorithm for Indoor Localization
Lin Bai, Yang Yang, Chunyan Feng and Caili Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jia Bowen (China Electronics Standardization Institute, China)
Hybrid Dimming Scheme based on Transmit Antenna Selection and Precoding for MU MC VLC System
Yujie Yang, Yang Yang, Congcong Wang, Caili Guo and Hailun Xia (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Visible light communication-based positioning for indoor environments using supervised learning
Mehmet Ilter (Aalto University, Finland); Alexis Alfredo Dowhuszko (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Kiran Vangapattu and Jyri Hämäläinen (Aalto University, Finland); Risto Wichman (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland)
Novel Multiuser Indoor Ultraviolet Communications
Sudhanshu Arya (Pukyong National University, Korea (South) & National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India); Yeonho Chung (Pukyong National University, Korea (South))

SAC CCNS2: Machine Learning for Networks

SAC CCNS2-5 papers
A Robust Hierarchical Learning Approach for dynamic MEC Networks
Yi-Chen Wu (National TsingHua University, Taiwan); Che Lin (National Taiwan University & Institute of Communication Engineering, Taiwan); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Delay Minimization for Edge Computing with Dynamic Server Computing Capacity: A Learning Approach
Burak Yılmaz, Andrea Ortiz and Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Distributed Computing with Heterogeneous Servers
Jiasheng Xu and Luoyi Fu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Distributed Multi-agent Cooperative Resource Sharing Algorithm in Fog Networks
Yunjun Zheng, Weiwei Xia, Long Jiang, Feng Yan and Lianfeng Shen (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China)
Journey to MARS: Interplanetary Coding for relieving CDNs
Sandra Zimmermann, Justus Rischke and Juan A. Cabrera (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)

SAC IoTSCC2: Security and Privacy in IoT I

SAC IoTSCC2-5 papers
Chair: Vassil Dimitrov (University of Calgary, Canada)
Preventing Denial of Service Attacks in IoT Networks through Verifiable Delay Functions
Vidal Attias (École Normale Supérieure & ENS, France); Luigi Vigneri (IOTA Foundation, Malta); Vassil Dimitrov (University of Calgary, Canada)
Characterizing IOTA Tangle with Empirical Data
Fengyang Guo (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Xun Xiao (Munich Research Center & Huawei, Germany); Artur Hecker (Huawei, Germany); Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Data Pricing for Blockchain-based Car Sharing: A Stackelberg Game Approach
Chengzhen Xu, Kun Zhu, Changyan Yi and Ran Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
A Defense Mechanism for Timing-based Side-Channel Attacks on IoT Traffic
Nelson Gonçalves Prates, Jr. and Andressa Vergütz (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil); Ricardo Macedo (Federal University of Santa Maria & Campus Frederico Westphalen, Brazil); Aldri Santos and Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil)
An Effective In-Vehicle CAN Bus Intrusion Detection System Using CNN Deep Learning Approach
Md Delwar Hossain (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Hiroyuki Inoue (Hiroshima City University, Japan); Hideya Ochiai (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Doudou Fall and Youki Kadobayashi (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

SAC MBMSC1: Molecular Communications: Theory and Modeling

SAC MBMSC1-4 papers
Chair: Nan Yang (The Australian National University, Australia)
Communication, Migration and Energy in Bio-nanomachine Functionality Differentiation
Tadashi Nakano (Osaka University, Japan); Tatsuya Suda (University Netgroup Inc., USA)
A Data-driven Approach to Optimize Bounds on the Capacity of the Molecular Channel
Francesca Ratti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Gabriele Scalia (Politecnico di MIlano, Italy); Barbara Pernici and Maurizio Magarini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Molecular Communication over a Non-linear Reaction-Diffusion Medium: A Tractable Model
Hamidreza Abin, Amin Gohari and Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Signal Transmission Through Human Body Via Engineered Nervous System
Yu Li and Lin Lin (Tongji University, China); Weisi Guo (Cranfield University & Alan Turing Institute, University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hao Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

SAC MLC3: Source Coding and Pruning

SAC MLC3-5 papers
Deep CSI Compression and Coordinated Precoding for Multicell Downlink Systems
An-An Lee, Yung-Shun Wang and Yao-Win Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
State Aggregation for Multiagent Communication over Rate-Limited Channels
Arsham Mostaani, Thang X. Vu and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Deep Learning based Semantic Communications: An Initial Investigation
Huiqiang Xie and Zhijin Qin (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Geoffrey Li (Georgia Tech, USA); Fred Juang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
A Framework for Neural Network Pruning Using Gibbs Distributions
Alex Labach and Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)
Efficient Deep Structure Learning for Resource-Limited IoT Devices
Shibo Shen and Rongpeng Li (Zhejiang University, China); Zhifeng Zhao (Zhejiang Lab, China); Qing Liu and Jing Liang (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., China); Honggang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)

SAC SGCPLC1: Electric Vehicle Networks

SAC SGCPLC1-4 papers
Edge Intelligence Empowered UAVs for Automated Wind Farm Monitoring in Smart Grids
Hwei-Ming Chung (University of Oslo, Norway); Sabita Maharjan (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway); Yan Zhang and Frank Eliassen (University of Oslo, Norway); Tingting Yuan (Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany)
Common Agency-Based Economic Model for Energy Contract in Electric Vehicle Networks
Yuris Mulya Saputra (University of Technology Sydney, Australia & Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia); Diep N. Nguyen (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Hoang Thai Dinh (University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia); Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Markus Dominik Mueck (Intel Deutschland GmbH, Germany)
Robust Symbol-Synchronization for OFDM Smart-Grid Wireless Neighborhood Area Networks With SαS Noise
Fan Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA)
On the suitability of RCM-LDGM codes for sending high data rates over impulsive noise channels
Imanol Granada (University of Navarra & Tecnun, Spain); Xabier Insausti (Tecnun University of Navarra, Spain)

SPC2: Signal Processing for Emerging Systems

SPC2-5 papers
Service Caching and Computation Resource Allocation for Large-Scale Edge Computing-Enabled Networks
Mingun Kim and Hewon Cho (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea (South)); Ying Cui (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Jemin Lee (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea (South))
Radar Imaging Based on IEEE 802.11ad Waveform
Geonho Han (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Junil Choi (KAIST, Korea (South))
Robust Nonlinear Interference Cancellation with Time Alignment Error in Full-Duplex Systems
Yimin He (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Hongzhi Zhao (UESTC, China); Wenbo Guo and Youxi Tang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Low-Complexity Iterative Soft-output Demodulation for Hierarchical Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
Daniel Kekrt and Zdenek Becvar (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Computation-Aided Data Transmission for Remote Reconstruction of Trajectories of Dynamical Systems
Siyuan Yu, Yawei Lu and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)

WC4: Massive MIMO II

WC4-5 papers
Unified Iterative Receiver Design in Uplink Grant-free Massive MIMO SCMA Systems
Yining Li and Wenjin Wang (Southeast University, China); Xiaohang Song (Technical University of Dresden, Germany); Xiqi Gao (Southeast University, China); Lei Wang (Huawei Technologies, Inc., China); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Channel Aging and Pilot Contamination
Jiakang Zheng and Jiayi Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Emil Björnson (Linköping University, Sweden); Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University & State Key Lab of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, China)
A 3-D Wideband Cooperative Massive MIMO GBSM for High-Speed Railway Communication Systems
Yi Yang, Tao Zhou and Cheng Tao (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
CSI Feedback Compression with Limited Downlink Pilots for 5G FDD-NR Massive MIMO Systems
Luis Suárez and Evgeniy Dombrovsky (Huawei Moscow Research Center, Russia); Vladimir Lyashev (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Russia); Alexander Sherstobitov (Huawei Moscow Research Center, Russia)
2D Antenna Array Structures for Hybrid Massive-MIMO Precoding
Mobeen Mahmood, Asil Koc and Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)

WC5: Intelligent Reflecting Surface II

WC5-5 papers
Energy Efficiency Analysis of Intelligent Reflecting Surface System with Hardware Impairments
Yiming Liu, Erwu Liu and Rui Wang (Tongji University, China)
Robust Beamforming Optimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Cognitive Radio Networks
Lei Zhang (Jiangsu University of Technology, China); Cunhua Pan (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yu Wang (Jiangsu University of Technology, China); Hong Ren (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kezhi Wang (Northumbria University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Arumugam Nallanathan (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Anti-Jamming Communications Based on Reinforcement Learning
Helin Yang, Zehui Xiong, Jun Zhao and Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Qingqing Wu (University of Macau, China); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy); Stefano Secci (Cnam, France)
Outage Analysis for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Vehicular Communication Networks
Jue Wang (Southeast University, China); Wence Zhang and Xu Bao (Jiangsu University, China); Tiecheng Song (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China); Cunhua Pan (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Study of Intelligent Reflective Surface Assisted Communications with One-bit Phase Adjustments
Tianxiong Wang (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Gaojie Chen (University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Justin P Coon and Mihai-Alin Badiu (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

WC6: UAV Communications I

WC6-5 papers
Sum-Rate Maximization for IRS-Assisted UAV OFDMA Communication Systems
Zhiqiang Wei and Yuanxin Cai (University of New South Wales, Australia); Zhuo Sun (The Australian National University, Australia); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng and Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Spectrum Sharing Strategies for UAV-to-UAV Cellular Communications
M. Mahdi Azari (CTTC, Spain); Giovanni Geraci (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez (Huawei Technologies, France); Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Hybrid-Mode Multiple Access for UAV-BS Assisted Communications with UL-DL Rate Balancing
Haiyong Zeng (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); Zhongxiang Wei (University College London & School of EE and CS, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yong Hao (Harbin Institute of Technology,Shenzhen, China)
UAV-based Multi-cell HAPS Communication: System Design and Performance Evaluation
Frank Hsieh (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Fanny Jardel (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Eugene Visotsky (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Frederick W Vook (Nokia, USA); Amitava Ghosh (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Bob Picha (Nokia, USA)
Impact of Base Station Antenna Tilt Angle on UAV Communications
Seongjun Kim (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea (South)); Minsu Kim (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), Korea (South)); Jong Yeol Ryu (Gyeongsang National University, Korea (South)); Jemin Lee (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea (South))

WC7: NOMA II

WC7-5 papers
Ergodic Capacity Analysis of Alamouti-Coded Cooperative Communication in Downlink NOMA
Muhammad Waseem Akhtar (National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan); Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Haejoon Jung (Incheon National University, Korea (South))
Joint Tier Slicing and Power Control for a Novel Multicast System based on NOMA and D2D-Relay
Zhenyu Wang (ShanghaiTech University & Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Tianheng Xu and Ting Zhou (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Honglin Hu (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, China)
Joint Transmission in QoE-Driven Backhaul-Aware MC-NOMA Cognitive Radio Network
Hosein Zarini (Amirkabir University, Iran); Ata Khalili (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Hina Tabassum (York University, Canada); Mehdi Rasti (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)
Machine Learning-Based Generalized User Grouping in NOMA
Weichao Chen, Shengjie Zhao and Rongqing Zhang (Tongji University, China); Yi Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Liuqing Yang (Colorado State University, USA)
Downlink NOMA for Coexistence of Aerial and Terrestrial Users: Stochastic Geometry Analysis
Wee Kiat New (University Technology Malayia, Malaysia); Chee Yen Leow (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia); Keivan Navaie (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yanshi Sun (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 8 4:00 - 5:30

AHSN3: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles I

AHSN3-5 papers
A UAV-enabled Dynamic Multi-Target Tracking and Sensing Framework
Nathan Patrizi, Georgios Fragkos, Kendric Ortiz, Meeko Oishi and Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA)
UAV-Assisted Ground Signal Map Construction based on 3-D Spatial Correlation
Chaoquan Tao, Kun Zhu, Bing Chen and Yanchao Zhao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
AUV-Aided Hierarchical Information Acquisition System for Underwater Sensor Networks
Chuan Qin (Tsinghua University, China); Jun Du, Jingjing Wang and Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Ruiyang Duan (Tsinghua University, China); Yong Ren (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
Cooperative path planning of a UAV swarm to meet temporal-spatial user demands
Kai Wang and Xiao Zhang (South-Central University for Nationalities, China); Lingjie Duan (Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore)
Trajectory Optimization for UAV-to-Device Underlaid Cellular Networks by Mean-Field-Type Control
Hongliang Zhang (Princeton University, USA); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

CISS3: Physical Layer Security I

CISS3-5 papers
Establishing Secrecy Region for Directional Modulation Scheme with Random Frequency Diverse Array
Shengping Lv, Jinsong Hu, Youjia Chen and Zhimeng Xu (Fuzhou University, China); Zhizhang (David) Chen (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Cooperative Jamming Power Allocation With Frequency Offset in Physical Layer Security
Wenbo Guo (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Hongzhi Zhao (UESTC, China); Linsong Du, Shihai Shao and Youxi Tang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Receiver Artificial Noise Aided Terahertz Secure Communications with Eavesdropper in Close Proximity
Weijun Gao and Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Zhi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Impact of Imperfect Time Synchronization on Cooperative Jamming Assisted Slow FH Systems
Changqing Song (UESTC, Chengdu, Sichuan, China); Wenbo Guo, Hongzhi Zhao and Youxi Tang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Physical Layer Secrecy and Transmission Resiliency of Device-to-Device Communications
Mehdi Letafati and Ali Kuhestani (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Mohammad Reza Ahmadi Beshkani (Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Iran)

CQRM3: SDN and Network Virtualization

CQRM3-5 papers
Chair: Abd-Elhamid M. Taha (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Utilizing Network Function Virtualization for Drone-based Networks
Mohannad Alharthi (Queen's University, Canada); Abd-Elhamid M. Taha (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
Joint PRB and Power Allocation for Slicing eMBB and URLLC Services in 5G C-RAN
Mehdi Setayesh, Shahab Bahrami and Vincent W.S. Wong (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Dynamic Resource Aware VNF Placement with Deep Reinforcement Learning for 5G Networks
Anestis Dalgkitsis (Iquadrat & Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis (Iquadrat Informatica S. L., Spain); Angelos Antonopoulos (Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia (CTTC), Spain); Georgios Kormentzas (University of the Aegean, Greece); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)
Performance Analysis of SDN and NFV enabled Mobile Cloud Computing
Joseph Billingsley, Wang Miao, Ke Li and Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nektarios Georgalas (British Telecom, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Dynamic partitioning of radio resources based on 5G RAN Slicing
Massimiliano Maule (Iquadrat Informatica S. L. & Universidad Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis (Iquadrat Informatica S. L., Spain); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); John S Vardakas (IQUADRAT Informatica S. L. Barcelona, Spain); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)

CRAEN3: Performance Analysis and Optimization I

CRAEN3-4 papers
Age of Information-Aware Resource Management in UAV-Assisted Mobile-Edge Computing Systems
Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Tao Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland LTD, Finland); Zhi Liu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Cross-Technology Interference Mitigation Using Fully Convolutional Denoising Autoencoders
Chi-Lun Lin and Kate Ching-Ju Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Chi-Chang Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Yu Tsao (Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Utility Optimization for Resource Allocation in Edge Network Slicing Using DRL
Zhaoying Wang and Yifei Wei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Chain-Net: Learning Deep Model for Modulation Classification Under Synthetic Channel Impairment
Thien Huynh-The and Van-Sang Doan (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))

Tuesday, December 8 4:00 - 5:45

CSSMA3: Vehicular Communications

CSSMA3-6 papers
Value Decomposition based Multi-Task Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning in Vehicular Networks
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)
Deploying Fused Sharable Video Interaction Channels in Mobile Cloud
Xuanyu Wang, Haipeng Du, Weizhan Zhang and Qinghua Zheng (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Repeatedly Energy-Efficient and Fair Service Coverage: UAV Slicing
Peng Yang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Xing Xi (Beihang University, China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Jingxuan Chen and Xianbin Cao (Beihang University, China); Dapeng Oliver Wu (University of Florida, USA)
A Novel Internet-of-Vehicles Assisted Collaborative Low-visible Pedestrian Detection Approach
Peng Sun (Duke Kunshan University, Canada); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
An Intelligent Coordinator Design for Network Slicing in Service-Oriented Vehicular Networks
Yaping Cui (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hao Zheng (CQUPT, China); Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth & College of Engineering, USA); Dapeng Wu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
A C-ITS communications based on BLE messages
Kevin Thomas (URCA, France); Hacene Fouchal (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France); Stephane Cormier (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne & CRESTIC - SIC Group, France); Francis Rousseaux (Ircam, France)

Tuesday, December 8 4:00 - 5:30

CT3: Communication Theory and Networking I

CT3-5 papers
Communication-Channel Optimized Impurity Partition
Thuan Nguyen (OSU, USA); Thinh Nguyen (Oregon State, USA)
Generalized Distributed Information Bottleneck for Fronthaul Rate Reduction at the Cloud-RANs Uplink
Shayan Hassanpour, Dirk Wübben and Armin Dekorsy (University of Bremen, Germany)
Progressive Channel Estimation and Passive Beamforming for RIS-Assisted OFDM Systems
Shaoe Lin (South China University of Technology, China); Beixiong Zheng (National University of Singapore, Singapore); George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens, Greece); Miaowen Wen and Fang-Jiong Chen (South China University of Technology, China)
On the Age of Information in Internet of Things Systems with Correlated Devices
Bo Zhou and Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA)
Bivariate Hermitian Polynomial Coding for Efficient Distributed Matrix Multiplication
Burak Hasırcıoğlu (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó (CTTC, Spain); Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 8 4:00 - 5:45

GCSN1: Green Communication Networks

GCSN1-6 papers
ESTS: Energy Stimulated Time Synchronization for Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks
Yu Luo (Missisipi State University, USA); Lina Pu (University of Alabama, USA)
Freshness-aware Energy Saving in Cellular Systems with Cooperative Information Updates
Yi-Han Chiang and Hai Lin (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan); Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Dynamic Task Caching and Computation Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing
Zhixiong Chen (Chongqing University, China); Zhaokun Zhou (University of Chongqing, China)
Traffic Skewness-aware Performance Analysis of Dual-powered Green Cellular Networks
Ashutosh Balakrishnan and Swades De (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Li-Chun Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Energy Trading and Time Scheduling for Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous Low-Power IoT Networks
Ngoc-Tan Nguyen (VNU-University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam); Diep N. Nguyen (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Hoang Thai Dinh (University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia); Nguyen Van Huynh (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Hoang-Nam Nguyen (VNU-University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam); Quoc Tuan Nguyen (Viet Nam National University, Ha Noi, Vietnam); Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Energy Efficient Joint Pushing and On-demand Transmission over Shared Spectrum
Changkun Li and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)

MWN5: Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces

MWN5-6 papers
Resource Allocation for Wireless Communications with Distributed Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Zhaohui Yang (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mingzhe Chen (Princeton University, USA); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Wei Xu (Southeast University, China); Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA); Shuguang Cui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China)
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted D2D Networks: Power and Discrete Phase Shift Design
Yali Chen (State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, China); Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University & State Key Lab of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, China); Hongliang Zhang (Princeton University, USA); Yong Niu (State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Lingyang Song (Peking University, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Intelligent Reflecting Surface for Secure Wireless Communications
Helin Yang, Yang Zhao, Zehui Xiong, Jun Zhao, Dusit Niyato and Kwok-Yan Lam (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Qingqing Wu (University of Macau, China)
Joint Passive Beamforming and User Association Optimization for IRS-assisted mmWave Systems
Dan Zhao, Hancheng Lu and Yazheng Wang (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Huan Sun (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China)
Outage Performance of Downlink IRS-Assisted NOMA Systems
Yanyu Cheng and Kwok Hung Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kah Chan Teh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
A Novel Channel Model for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-assisted Wireless Networks
JiaQi Xu (Queen Mary University of London, UK); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 8 4:00 - 5:30

NGNI3: Edge/Fog Computing

NGNI3-5 papers
An ICN-based Approach for Service Caching in Edge/Fog Environments
Hamza Ben-Ammar (La Rochelle Université, L3i, France); Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of la Rochelle, France)
User Preference Learning-Aided Collaborative Edge Caching for Small Cell Networks
Md Ferdous Pervej (North Carolina State University, USA); Tan Thanh Le (Old Dominion University, USA); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA)
Deep Reinforcement Learning based Dynamic Edge/Fog Network Slicing
Haitham Hany Esmat Abdelhafez, H. H. Esmat (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Beatriz Lorenzo (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Enhancing resource availability in vehicular fog computing through smart inter-domain handover
Vitor B Souza (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil); Moises Pereira (Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Brazil); Levi Lelis (Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil); Xavier Masip-Bruin (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) & Advanced Network Architectures Lab (CRAAX), Spain)
Hierarchical Cooperative Caching in Fog Radio Access Networks: A Brain Storm Optimization Approach
Xuan Chen, Yanxiang Jiang and Baotian Fan (Southeast University, China); Fu-Chun Zheng (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China & University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Xiaohu You (National Mobile communication Research Lab., Southeast University, China)

SAC ANS1: 5G and Future Wireless Systems

SAC ANS1-5 papers
A Hybrid NOMA/OMA Scheme for MTC in Ultra-Dense Networks
Mohammed Elbayoumi, Walaa Hamouda and Amr Youssef (Concordia University, Canada)
HybridCache: AI-Assisted Cloud-RAN Caching with Reduced In-Network Content Redundancy
Chittibabu Tirupathi and Bechir Hamdaoui (Oregon State University, USA); Ammar Rayes (Cisco / San Jose State University, USA)
5G NR-U: Homogeneous Coexistence Analysis
Siraj Muhammad (University of Oklahoma, USA); Hazem Refai (Oklahoma University, USA); Mohamad Omar Al Kalaa (US Food and Drug Administration, USA)
The Low-Cost Flexible Relay Implementation for Fixed Wireless Access and Backhaul Applications
Zhou Du and Kimmo Aronkytö (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland)
Backhaul Reliability Analysis on Cluster-Based Transmit Diversity Schemes in Private Networks
Kyeong Jin Kim (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Hongwu Liu (Shandong Jiaotong University, China); Phee Lep Yeoh (University of Sydney, Australia); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

SAC BD2: Data Driven Intelligent Transportation

SAC BD2-5 papers
On Vehicle Fault Diagnosis: A Low Complexity Onboard Method
Yimin Zhou and Lina Zhu (Xidian University, China); Jianjia Yi (Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, China); Tom H. Luan and Changle Li (Xidian University, China)
QoE-driven Task Offloading with Deep Reinforcement Learning in Edge intelligent IoV
Xiaoming He and Haodong Lu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yingchi Mao (Hohai University, China); Kun Wang (University of California, China)
Big Data Scenarios Simulator for Deep Learning Algorithm Evaluation for Autonomous Vehicle
Dickson Ang and Chee Kiat Seow (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Karthikk Subramanian (Panasonic R&D Singapore, Singapore); Sugiri Pranata (Panasonic Singapore Laboratories Pte Ltd, Singapore)
Root Cause Identification for Road Network Congestion Using the Gradient Boosting Decision Trees
Yue Chen, Changle Li, Wenwei Yue and Hehe Zhang (Xidian University, China); Guoqiang Mao (The University of Technology Sydney Data 61, Australia)
An Enhanced Motif Graph Clustering-Based Deep Learning Approach for Traffic Forecasting
Chenhan Zhang, Shuyu Zhang and James Yu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Tuesday, December 8 4:00 - 5:45

SAC CCNS3: Task Offloading

SAC CCNS3-6 papers
Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Mobile Edge Computing in Ultra-Dense Network
Zhipeng Cheng and Minghui Min (Xiamen University, China); Zhibin Gao (Xiamen University Xiamen, China); Lianfen Huang (XiaMen University, China)
Joint Computation Offloading and Variable-width Channel Access Optimization in UAV Swarms
Kailing Yao (PLA Army Engineering University, China); Jin Chen (PLA University of Sci. and Tech., China); Yuli Zhang (PLA University of Science and Technology, China); Li Cui (Army Engineering University of PLA, China); Yang Yang (PLA University of Science and Technology, China); Yuhua Xu (College of Communications Engineering, PLA University of Science and Technology, China)
Energy-efficient Incremental Offloading of Neural Network Computations in Mobile Edge Computing
Guangfeng Guo and Junxing Zhang (Inner Mongolia University, China)
Intelligent-driven Adapting Defense Against the Client-side DNS Cache Poisoning in the Cloud
Tengchao Ma, Changqiao Xu and Zan Zhou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xiaohui Kuang (Institute of System and Engineering, Academy of Military Science, Beijing, China); Lujie Zhong (Capital Normal University, China); Luigi Alfredo Grieco (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
A Long-Short-Term Fusion Approach For Video Cache
Rui-Xiao Zhang, Tianchi Huang and Lifeng Sun (Tsinghua University, China)
Secrecy and Accessibility in Distributed Storage
Lukas Holzbaur (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Stanislav Kruglik (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia); Alexey A. Frolov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology & IITP RAS, Russia); Antonia Wachter-Zeh (Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany)

SAC IoTSCC3: Security and Privacy in IoT II

SAC IoTSCC3-6 papers
Chair: Junaid Qadir (Information Technology University (ITU), Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan)
GPIO PUF For IoT Devices
Girish Vaidya, Prabhakar Venkata T. and Laveena Manjunath (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Privacy-Friendly Decentralized Data Aggregation For Mobile Crowdsensing
Xudong Wang, Chenhao Ying and Yuan Luo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Detecting Anomalous IoT Traffic Flow with Locality Sensitive Hashes
Batyr Charyyev (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Mehmet Hadi Gunes (Stevens Institute of Technology & University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
A Time-aware Similarity-based Trust Computational Model for Social Internet of Things
Subhash Sagar (Macquarie University, Australia); Adnan Mahmood (Macquarie University, Australia & TSSG, Science Foundation Ireland - CONNECT, Ireland); Jitander Kumar (University of Malaga, Spain); Quan Z. Sheng (Macquarie University, Australia)
Particle Swarm Optimized Federated Learning For Industrial IoT and Smart City Services
Basheer Qolomany (University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA); Kashif Ahmad (HBKU, Qatar); Ala Al-Fuqaha (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Junaid Qadir (Information Technology University (ITU), Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan)
DistPrivacy: Privacy-Aware Distributed Deep Neural Networks in IoT surveillance systems
Emna Baccour and Aiman Erbad (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Amr Mohamed (Qatar University, Qatar); Mounir Hamdi (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)

Tuesday, December 8 4:00 - 5:30

SAC MBMSC2: Molecular Communications: Design and Applications

SAC MBMSC2-4 papers
Chair: Yuting Fang (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Growing Bio-nanomachine Networks: Application to Malignant Tumor Evolution and Progression
Tadashi Nakano and Yutaka Okaie (Osaka University, Japan); Nikolaos Dietis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Andreani Odysseos (EPOS - IASIS, Cyprus)
Parameter Estimation in a Noisy 1D Environment via Two Absorbing Receivers
Xinyu Huang (Australian National University, Australia); Yuting Fang (University of Melbourne, Australia); Adam Noel (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nan Yang (The Australian National University, Australia)
Higher Order Derivatives: Improved Pre-Processing and Receivers for Molecular Communications
Mustafa C Gursoy and Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA)
Polar Coding with Chemical Reaction Networks for Molecular Communications
Toshiki Matsumine (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark); Toshiaki Koike-Akino (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Ye Wang (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)

SAC MLC4: Precoding and Beamforming II

SAC MLC4-5 papers
A DNN-based Multi-Objective Precoding for Gaussian MIMO Networks
Xinliang Zhang and Mojtaba Vaezi (Villanova University, USA)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robust Beamforming in IRS-assisted Wireless Communications
Jiaye Lin (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Yuze Zou (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Xiaoru Dong and Shimin Gong (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Hoang Thai Dinh (University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
SWAN: Swarm-Based Low-Complexity Scheme for PAPR Reduction
Luis F. Abanto-Leon (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Gek Hong (Allyson) Sim (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Germany); Amnart Boonkajay (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Fumiyuki Adachi (Tohoku University, Japan)
Residual Neural Networks for Digital Predistortion
Yibo Wu (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Ulf Gustavsson (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Alexandre Graell i Amat and Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Benchmarking End-to-end Learning of MIMO Physical-Layer Communication
Jinxiang Song (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Christian Häger (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden & Duke University, USA); Jochen Schröder (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Timothy J O'Shea (Virginia Tech & DeepSig Inc, USA); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

SAC MLC5: Resource Allocation

SAC MLC5-5 papers
Event-Driven Source Traffic Prediction in Machine-Type Communications Using LSTM Networks
Thulitha Theekshana Senevirathna, Bathiya Sampath Bandara Thennakoon, Tharindu Sankalpa and Chatura Seneviratne (University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka); Samad Ali and Nandana Rajatheva (University of Oulu, Finland)
A Reinforcement Learning Framework for QoS-Driven Radio Resource Scheduler
Jitender Singh Shekhawat and Rishabh Agrawal (Samsung R&D Institute, India); Konchady Gautam Shenoy (Indian Institute of Science (IISC), India); Rajath Shashidhara (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
FAST-RAM: A Fast AI-assistant Solution for Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in MEC
Tongyu Song, Wenyu Hu, Xuebin Tan, Jing Ren, Sheng Wang and Shizhong Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
A Novel User Selection Massive MIMO Scheduling Algorithm via Real Time DDPG
Xiaojun Guo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Ziyi Li (Intel Corporation Beijing, China); Pengyu Liu, Rudan Yan, Yingying Han, Xiaojun Hei and Guohui Zhong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Resource Allocation of URLLC and eMBB Mixed Traffic in 5G Networks: A Deep Learning Approach
Mohammed Younis Abdelsadek (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada); Yasser Gadallah (The American University in Cairo, Egypt); Mohamed Hossam Ahmed (Memorial University, Canada)

SAC SGCPLC2: Smart Grid Security

SAC SGCPLC2-5 papers
Smart Meter Data Compression using Generalized Deduplication
Marcell Fehér and Niloofar Yazdani (Aarhus University, Denmark); Morten Tranberg Hansen and Flemming Enevold Vester (Kamstrup A/S, Denmark); Daniel E. Lucani (Aarhus University, Denmark)
ISM band Integrated Distributed Antenna Systems for Industry 4.0: A Techno-Economic Analysis
Koushik A. Manjunatha and Vivek Agarwal (Idaho National Laboratory, USA)
Peer Effect-based Demand Response in Smart Grid: A Game Theoretical Approach
Ang Ji, Ran Wang and Kun Zhu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Zehui Xiong and Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Autonomous and Privacy-preserving Energy Trading Based on Redactable Blockchain in Smart Grid
Wenti Yang and Zhitao Guan (North China Electric Power University, China); Longfei Wu (Fayetteville State University, USA); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Zefang Lv (North China Electric Power University, China); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)
Real Time Stream Mining based Attack Detection in Distribution Level PMUs for Smart Grids
Prithwiraj Roy (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Shameek Bhattacharjee (Western Michigan University, USA); Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

SPC3: Signal Processing for MIMO

SPC3-5 papers
Chair: Sudarshan Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
Full-Duplex MIMO Systems with Hardware Limitations and Imperfect Channel Estimation
Hiroki Iimori and Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany); Koji Ishibashi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Full-Duplex AF MIMO Relaying: Impairments Aware Design and Performance Analysis
Omid Taghizadeh (TU Berlin, Germany); Slawomir Stanczak (Technische Universität Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Hiroki Iimori and Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)
Iterative Receiver with a Lattice-Reduction-Aided MIMO Detector for IEEE 802.11ax
Yao-Pin Wang, Chi-Chih Wen and Chen-Chien Kao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Chung-Jung Huang and Der-Zheng Liu (Realtek, Taiwan); Chia-Hsiang Yang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Energy-Efficient Hybrid Symbol-Level Precoding via Phase Shifter Selection in mmWave MU-MIMO Systems
Alireza Haqiqatnejad (University of Luxembourg & Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), Luxembourg); Farbod Kayhan (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Joint Approximate Covariance Diagonalization with Applications in MIMO Virtual Beam Design
Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Saeid Haghighatshoar and Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

WC10: Machine Learning I

WC10-5 papers
DeepIoT: Deep Learning Based Symbol Detection for Spatially Undersampled Internet of Things
Zhe Ma (Tsinghua University, China); Mengnan Jian (ZTE Corporation, China); Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Communication-Efficient Federated Learning in UAV-enabled IoV: A Joint Auction-Coalition Approach
Jer Shyuan Ng (Nanyang Technological University & Alibaba-NTU Joint Research Institute, Singapore); Wei Yang Bryan Lim (Nanyang Technological University & Alibaba Group, Singapore); Hong-Ning Dai (Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao); Zehui Xiong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Jianqiang Huang (Alibaba Group, Singapore); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Xian-Sheng Hua (Alibaba Group, Singapore); Cyril Leung (UBC-NTU LILY, Singapore); Chunyan Miao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Distributed Q-Learning-Assisted Grant-Free NORA for Massive Machine-Type Communications
Zhenjiang Shi (Xidian University, China); Wei Gao (China Electric Power Research Institute, China); Jiajia Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan); Yanning Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Deep Neural Network-Based Symbol Detection for Highly Dynamic Channels
Xuantao Lyu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Wei Feng and Ning Ge (Tsinghua University, China)
Auction-Driven Multiuser Beamforming with Deep Learning
Ali Bayat and Sonia Aissa (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada)

WC8: Intelligent Reflecting Surface III

WC8-5 papers
Enabling Magnetic Beamforming in MIMO Wireless Power Transfer Using Reconfigurable Metasurface
Zhangyu Li (University at Buffalo, USA); Zhi Sun (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Full-Duplex Destination-Aided Jamming Scheme for SWIPT-Enabled Relay Networks
Haowei Wu (Chongqing University, China); Liubin Wang and Rui Ma (Chongqing University & Center of Communication and Tracking Telemetry Command, China); Jinglan Ou and Zhengchuan Chen (Chongqing University, China)
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Constant-Envelope Wireless Power Transfer
Huiyuan Yang, Xiaojun Yuan, Jun Fang and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Max-min Fairness-based IRS-aided SWIPT
Dhanushka Kudathanthirige, Dulaj H Gunasinghe and Gayan Amarasuriya (Southern Illinois University, USA)
On the Performance of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Cell-Free Massive MIMO Uplink
Manijeh Bashar (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kanapathippillai Cumanan and Alister G. Burr (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Pei Xiao (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marco Di Renzo (CentraleSupelec-University, France)

Tuesday, December 8 4:00 - 5:45

WC9: Millimeter Wave I

WC9-6 papers
Common amplitude-weighted analog beamforming in multiuser millimeter wave communication systems
Wendi Wang, Huarui Yin, Xiaohui Chen and Weidong Wang (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Joint Analog Beamforming and Jamming Optimization for Covert Millimeter Wave Communications
Chao Wang and Zan Li (Xidian University, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Power Allocation for Millimeter-Wave Railway Systems with Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
Jianpeng Xu, Bo Ai and Yannan Sun (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Yali Chen (State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, China)
Quasi-Deterministic Channel Model for mmWaves: Mathematical Formalization and Validation
Mattia Lecci (University of Padova, Italy); Michele Polese (Northeastern University, USA); David Lai, Jian Wang, Camillo Gentile and Nada Golmie (NIST, USA); Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy)
Sparse Array of Sub-surface Aided Anti-blockage mmWave Communication Systems
Weicong Chen, Xi Yang, Shi Jin and Pingping Xu (Southeast University, China)
Channel Estimation for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems
Tian Lin (Fudan University, China); Xianghao Yu (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Yu Zhu (Fudan University, China); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

 

 

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