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	Wednesday, 9 December
11:00 am ‑ 12:30 pm	AHSN4: Vehicular Networks CISS4: Networks Security II CISS5: AI Aided Security CSSMA4: Video Streaming CT4: Iterative Decoding and Processing MWN6: Resource Allocation and Machine Learning in Wireless Networks NGNI4: Named Data Networking ONS3: Optical Transmission Systems SAC BD3: Data Driven Distributed Fog and Edge Computing SAC IoTSCC4: LPWAN Technology SAC IoTSCC5: Localization and Tracking SAC MLC6: Channel Estimation I SAC SN1: Theoretical Aspects of SN SAC SSC1: Satellite Systems SPC4: Localization and Identification WC11: Coding & Caching WC12: Performance Analysis I WC13: Millimeter Wave II	CQRM4: Fog/Edge and Cloud Computing CRAEN4: Deep Reinforcement Learning II
12:30 ‑ 12:45 pm
12:45 ‑ 2:00 pm
2:00 ‑ 3:30 pm	AHSN5: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles II CISS6: Security & Privacy I CQRM5: Machine Learning for Networks and Systems CT5: Information Theory and Capacity I CT6: Multiple Access and Interference Management GCSN2: Green Communication Systems MWN7: Resource Allocation and Scheduling MWN8: UAV and UAV-Assited Networks NGNI5: Vehicle Networking SAC ANS2: Topics in Access Systems SAC BD4: Big Data Applications SAC EH1: Wireless Sensors and WBANs SAC IoTSCC6: Fog/Edge Computing in IoT SAC MLC7: Channel Estimation II SAC SN2: Social Aspects of VANETs and Applications SAC SSC2: Satellite Networking SPC5: Machine Learning for Emerging Systems WC14: Machine Learning II WC15: Channel Modeling I WC16: Machine Type Communications I
3:30 ‑ 3:45 pm
3:45 ‑ 4:00 pm
4:00 ‑ 5:30 pm	AHSN6: SDN and Resource Management AHSN7: Localization & Tracking CISS7: Cloud Security and Performance CISS8: Detection and Prevention I CQRM6: 5G Mobile Networks II CRAEN5: Performance Analysis and Optimization II CSSMA5: Communication Security CT7: Coding Theory and Practice I MWN9: MAC and Resource management I SAC MLC8: Applications of Reinforcement Learning SAC SSC3: Satellite Communications WC17: Equalization & Estimation I WC18: Random Access I WC19: Performance Analysis II	NGNI6: SDN ONS4: Optical Network Optimisation SAC EH2: Machine Learning for E-health SAC IoTSCC7: Routing, Resource Management and Access Control in IoT SPC6: Signal Processing for Intelligent Surface Systems
5:30 ‑ 5:45 pm

Wednesday, December 9

Wednesday, December 9 11:00 - 12:30

AHSN4: Vehicular Networks

AHSN4-5 papers

A Novel Resource Allocation scheme for NOMA-V2X-Femtocell with Channel Aggregation: Jeehyeong Kim (Kennesaw State University, USA); Junggab Son (Keennesaw State University, USA); William Stone (Kennesaw State University, USA); Hyunbum Kim (Incheon National University, Korea (South)); Jaewon Noh and Sunghyun Cho (Hanyang University, Korea (South))
Distributed Long-Horizon Vehicle Scheduling for Traffic Intersection with Delayed Information: Feihong Yang and Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University, China)
Altitude Optimization for DF Relaying Trajectory of UAV in Cooperative FANET: Anirudh Agarwal (The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia)
V2X Enabled Non-signalized Intersections Management: A Function Approximation Approach: Yunting Xu, Haibo Zhou, Bo Qian, Hanlin Wu and Ting Ma (Nanjing University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Multi-Dimensional Contract-Matching for Federated Learning in UAV-Enabled Internet of Vehicles: Wei Yang Bryan Lim (Nanyang Technological University & Alibaba Group, Singapore); Jianqiang Huang (Alibaba Group, Singapore); Zehui Xiong, Jiawen Kang and Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Xian-Sheng Hua (Alibaba Group, Singapore); Cyril Leung (UBC-NTU LILY, Singapore); Chunyan Miao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

CISS4: Networks Security II

CISS4-5 papers

Blocking Email Bombs with EmailGlass: Markus Schneider, Haya Shulman and Michael Waidner (Fraunhofer SIT, Germany)
Preventing DRDoS Attacks in 5G Networks: a New Source IP Address Validation Approach: Xu Chen, Wei Feng, Yinglun Ma and Ning Ge (Tsinghua University, China); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada)
A Privacy-Preserving Location-Aware and Traffic Order-Based Route Collection Scheme in VANETs: Chuan Zhang, Liehuang Zhu, Chang Xu and Kashif Sharif (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Integrating Mission-Centric Impact Assessment to Operational Resiliency in Cyber-Physical Systems: Md Ariful Haque (Old Dominion University & Virginia Modeling Analysis and Simulation Center, USA); Sachin Shetty (Old Dominion University, USA); Charles A Kamhoua (US Army Research Laboratory & Network Science Division, USA); Kimberly Gold (Naval Surface Warfare Center, USA)
A machine learning approach for detecting CNAME cloaking-based tracking on the Web: Ha Dao (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Japan); Kensuke Fukuda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

CISS5: AI Aided Security

CISS5-5 papers

Learning Based Energy Efficient Radar Power Control Against Deceptive Jamming: Kexin Liu, Xiaozhen Lu and Liang Xiao (Xiamen University, China); Li Xu (Fujian Normal University, China)
A Preprocessing Methodology by Using Additional Steganography on CNN-based Steganalysis: Hiroya Kato, Kyohei Osuge, Shuichiro Haruta and Iwao Sasase (Keio University, Japan)
Real-Time Encrypted Traffic Classification via Lightweight Neural Networks: Jin Cheng, Runkang He and Yuepeng E (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, China); Yulei Wu (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Junling You (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, China); Tong Li (Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, China)
Certified Robustness of Graph Classification against Topology Attack with Randomized Smoothing: Zhidong Gao (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Rui Hu and Yanmin Gong (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
PST: a More Practical Adversarial Learning-based Defense Against Website Fingerprinting: Minghao Jiang (Institute of Information Engineering, CAS & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yong Wang (CNCERT/CC, China); Gaopeng Gou (Institute of Information Engineering，Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Wei Cai and Gang Xiong (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Junzheng Shi (Institute of Information Engineering，Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Wednesday, December 9 11:00 - 12:45

CQRM4: Fog/Edge and Cloud Computing

CQRM4-6 papers

ETSI Multi-Access Edge Computing for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming in Information Centric Networks: Marsa Rayani and Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada); Halima Elbiaze (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada)
An Efficient and Reliable Multi-Cloud Provider Monitoring Solution: Andrea Sabbioni, Armir Bujari and Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy); Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna & CIRI ICT, Italy)
Latency Comparison of Cloud Datacenters and Edge Servers: Batyr Charyyev (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Engin Arslan (University of Nevada, Reno, USA); Mehmet Hadi Gunes (Stevens Institute of Technology & University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
Reliability-based Formation of Cloud Federations Using Game Theory: A B M Bodrul Alam (Queen's University, Canada); Talal Halabi (The University of Winnipeg, Canada); Anwar Haque (Western Ontario, Canada); Mohammad Zulkernine (Queen's University, Canada)
An Analytical Study of Low Energy Monitoring Networks for Large-Scale Data Centers: Mehdi Jafarizadeh and Rong Zheng (McMaster University, Canada)
Proactive Autoscaling for Cloud-native Applications using Machine Learning: Toufik Ahmed (CNRS-LaBRI UMR 5800, University Bordeaux, Bordeaux-INP, France); Nicolas Marie-Magdelaine (CNRS-LaBRI UMR 5800, University Bordeaux, Bordeaux-INP & Lectra France, France)

CRAEN4: Deep Reinforcement Learning II

CRAEN4-6 papers

Adaptive Batchsize Selection and Gradient Compression for Wireless Federated Learning: Shengli Liu and Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, China); Rui Yin (Zhejiang University City, China & KwaZulu-Natal University, South Africa); Jiantao Yuan and Fengzhong Qu (Zhejiang University, China)
Caching Placement and Resource Allocation for AR Application in UAV NOMA Networks: Ziduan Wang and Tiankui Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wenjun Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
AoI Minimization for UAV-to-Device Underlay Communication by Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning: Fanyi Wu (Peking University, China); Hongliang Zhang (Princeton University, USA); Jianjun Wu and Lingyang Song (Peking University, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for IoT Networks: Age of Information and Energy Cost Tradeoff: Xiongwei Wu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Xiuhua Li (Chongqing University, China); Jun Li (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Pc Ching (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Instantaneous Load-Based User Association in Multi-Hop IAB Networks using Reinforcement Learning: Malcolm Sande and Bodhaswar TJ Maharaj (University of Pretoria, South Africa); Mduduzi C. Hlophe (University Of Pretoria, South Africa)
Partially Observable Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cognitive Resource Management: Ning Yang (USTB, China); Haijun Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China); Randall A Berry (Northwestern University, USA)

Wednesday, December 9 11:00 - 12:30

CSSMA4: Video Streaming

CSSMA4-5 papers

Chair: JaeSeung Song (Sejong University, Korea (South))

STC: Enabling 16K VR streaming on mobile platforms with FoV tracking: Chengyuan Zheng, Jinyu Yin, Yu Guan, Xinggong Zhang and Zongming Guo (Peking University, China)
DAVS: Dynamic-Chunk Quality Aware Adaptive Video Streaming using Apprenticeship Learning: Weihe Li, Jiawei Huang and Shiqi Wang (Central South University, China); Sen Liu (Fudan University, China); Jianxin Wang (Central South University, China)
NANCY: Neural Adaptive Network Coding methodologY for video distribution over wireless networks: Paresh Saxena, Mandan Naresh, Manik Gupta and Anirudh Achanta (BITS Pilani, India); Sastri Kota (Consultant, USA); Smrati Gupta (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
Optimal Streaming of 360 VR Videos with Perfect, Imperfect and Unknown FoV Viewing Probabilities: Lingzhi Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Ying Cui (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Chengjun Guo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Zhi Liu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Towards synchronous multimodality stream analytics: a lightweight real-time communication approach: You Luo and Andy Sun (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Feng Wang (University of Mississippi, USA); Ryan Shea and Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

CT4: Iterative Decoding and Processing

CT4-5 papers

Simplified Decoding of Polar Codes by Identifying Reed-Muller Constituent Codes: Nadim Ghaddar (University of California San Diego, USA); Hamid Saber and Hsien-Ping Lin (Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., USA); Jung Hyun Bae (Samsung Semiconductors Inc., USA); Jungwon Lee (Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., USA)
Keep the bursts and ditch the interleavers: Wei An (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Muriel Médard (MIT, USA); Ken R. Duffy (Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University, Ireland)
NDA Timing Estimation with 1-bit Quantization and Oversampling at the Receiver: Martin Schlüter (Dresden University of Technology, Germany); Meik Dörpinghaus (TU Dresden, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
MAC Aware Quantization for Distributed Gradient Descent: Wei-Ting Chang and Ravi Tandon (University of Arizona, USA)
Optimal CRC Design and Serial List Viterbi Decoding for Multi-Input Convolutional Codes: Mohammad Karimzadeh and Mai Vu (Tufts University, USA)

MWN6: Resource Allocation and Machine Learning in Wireless Networks

MWN6-5 papers

DeepSlicing: Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisted Resource Allocation for Network Slicing: Qiang Liu (The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Tao Han (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada); Ye Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China)
Artificial Intelligence Assisted Collaborative Edge Caching in 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 Node Pairing Scheme in Edge-chain for IoT Applications: Yang Gao, Wenjun Wu and Junyu Dong (Beijing University of Technology, China); YuFeng Yin (Beijing University Technology, China); Pengbo Si (Beijing University of Technology, China)
Learning-based Load Balancing Handover in Mobile Millimeter Wave Networks: Sara Khosravi and Hossein Shokri Ghadikolaei (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Marina Petrova (KTH Royal Institute of Technolgy, Sweden)
Efficient Handover Algorithm in 5G Networks using Deep Learning: Zhi-Hong Huang, Yi-Lin Hsu, Pu Kang Chang and Ming-Jer Tsai (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

NGNI4: Named Data Networking

NGNI4-5 papers

Edge Computing Aided Congestion Control using Neuro-Dynamic Programming in NDN: Jin Qin, Yitao Xing, Wenjia Wei and Kaiping Xue (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Optimal Proactive Caching Placement for Named Data Networking with Interest Aggregation: Ran Zhang, Jiang Liu, Tao Huang and Renchao Xie (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Yunjie Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Hop-by-Hop Congestion Measurement and Practical Active Queue Management in NDN: Yuhang Ye, Brian Lee and Yuansong Qiao (Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland)
A Demand and Responsiveness-based Caching Strategy for Network Coding Enabled NDN: Xiaoyan Hu, Jun Yin 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)
A Mobility-Predict-Based Forwarding Strategy in Vehicular Named Data Networks: Junxia Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China); Jiangtao Luo (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jie Zhou (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China); Yongyi Ran (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

ONS3: Optical Transmission Systems

ONS3-5 papers

Chair: Jiajia Chen (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Fast SD-Hamming Decoding in FPGA for High-Speed Concatenated FEC for Optical Communication: Can Zhang, Soren Forchhammer, Jakob Dahl Andersen, Tayyab Mehmood, Metodi Yankov and Knud Larsen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Autonomous Raman Amplifiers in Software-Defined Optical Transport Networks: Giacomo Borraccini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Stefano Straullu (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy); Alessio Ferrari (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Stefano Piciaccia (Cisco Photonics Italy srl, Italy); Gabriele Maria Galimberti and Alberto Tanzi (Cisco Photonics, Italy); Vittorio Curri (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Low Margin QoT-Aware RMLSA with Circuit Invigoration in Elastic Optical Networks: Lucas Costa (University of Brasilia, Brazil); Ítalo Brasileiro (Federal University of Piaui, Brazil); André C Drummond (University of Brasilia, Brazil)
Modeling perturbation of scattering coefficients by using dominating noise subspace: Terence H. Chan and Wenqi Zhang (University of South Australia, Australia); Sander Wahls (TU Delft, The Netherlands); Alan P.T. Lau (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Shahraam Afshar (University of South Australia, Australia)
Networking Performance of Power Optimized C+L+S Multiband Transmission: Bruno Correia, Rasoul Sadeghi and Emanuele Virgillito (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Antonio Napoli (Infinera, Germany); Nelson Costa (Infinera, Portugal); Joao Pedro (Infinera Unipessoal Lda & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Vittorio Curri (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

SAC BD3: Data Driven Distributed Fog and Edge Computing

SAC BD3-5 papers

ClusterGrad: Adaptive Gradient Compression by Clustering in Federated Learning: Laizhong Cui and Xiaoxin Su (Shenzhen University, China); Yipeng Zhou (Macquarie University, Australia); Lei Zhang (Shenzhen University, China)
Communication-Efficient Federated Learning for Anomaly Detection in Industrial Internet of Things: Yi Liu (China); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India); Zehui Xiong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Wei Yang Bryan Lim (Nanyang Technological University & Alibaba Group, Singapore); Jiawen Kang and Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Unsupervised Federated Learning for Unbalanced Data: Mykola Servetnyk (Foxconn Advanced Communication Academy & National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Carrson C. Fung (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Probabilistic Skyline Query Processing over Uncertain Data Streams in Edge Computing Environments: Chuan-Chi Lai (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yan-Lin Chen and Chuan-Ming Liu (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan); Li-Chun Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Bring Intelligence among Edges: A Blockchain-Assisted Edge Intelligence Approach: Chao Qiu (School of Computing Science and Technology, College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University); Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); Haipeng Yao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zehui Xiong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Victor C.M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada)

SAC IoTSCC4: LPWAN Technology

SAC IoTSCC4-5 papers

Experimental Evaluation of Empirical NB-IoT Propagation Modelling in a Deep-Indoor Scenario: Jakob Thrane and Krzysztof Mateusz Malarski (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark); Henrik Christiansen (TDC, Denmark); Sarah Ruepp (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Spatiotemporal Modelling of Multi-Gateway LoRa Networks with Imperfect SF Orthogonality: Yathreb Bouazizi, Fatma Benkhelifa and Julie McCann (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Spreading Factor Allocation for LoRa Nodes Progressively Joining a Multi-Gateway Adaptive Network: Moises Nunez Ochoa (CEA-LETI Minatec Campus, France); Mickael Maman (CEA-Leti Minatec Campus, France); Andrzej Duda (Grenoble Institute of Technology, France)
A Novel Approach to Enhance the Robustness of LoRa-Like PHY Layer to Synchronization Errors: Mohamed Amine Ben Temim (IMS Laboratory - University Bordeaux, France); Guillaume Ferré (University of Bordeaux, France); Romain Tajan (Bordeaux INP & IMS Laboratory, France)
Bayesian-based channel quality estimation method for LoRaWAN with unpredictable interference: Daichi Kominami (Osaka University, Japan); Yohei Hasegawa and Kousuke Nogami (NEC Corporation, Japan); Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC, Japan); Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan)

SAC IoTSCC5: Localization and Tracking

SAC IoTSCC5-5 papers

Gaussian Models for CSI Fingerprinting in Practical Indoor Environment Identification: Josyl Mariela Rocamora and Ivan Wang-Hei Ho (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Man-wai Mak (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Intersection Crossing with Connected Autonomous Vehicles under Location Uncertainty: Christian Vitale (KIOS CoE, Cyprus); Panayiotis Kolios and Georgios Ellinas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Energy-Efficient Multi-UAV Data Collection for IoT Networks with Time Deadlines: Oussama Ghdiri (Esprit School of Engineering, Tunisia); Wael Jaafar (Carleton University, Canada); Safwan Alfattani (University of Ottawa, Canada & King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia); Jihene Ben Abderrazak (Assistant at ESPRIT, Tunisia); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)
A Novel CFAR Algorithm for Multi-target Detection with FMCW Radar: Zhihui Cao, Junjie Li, Chunyi Song, Zhiwei Xu and Xiaoping Wang (Zhejiang University, China)
Semi-Supervised Learning with GANs for Device-Free Fingerprinting Indoor Localization: Kevin M. Chen and Ronald Y. Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

SAC MLC6: Channel Estimation I

SAC MLC6-5 papers

Learning-Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Hybrid Underlay-Interweave Secondary Networks: Nada Abdel Khalek and Walaa Hamouda (Concordia University, Canada)
Towards Environment-independent Human Activity Recognition using Deep Learning and Enhanced CSI: Zhenguo Shi and J. Andrew Zhang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Richard Yi Da Xu (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia); Qingqing Cheng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Andre Pearce (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
User Identification and Channel Estimation by DNN-Based Decoder on Multiple-Access Channel: Lantian Wei, Shan Lu and Hiroshi Kamabe (Gifu University, Japan); Jun Cheng (Doshisha University, Japan)
Deep Learning-based Signal Strength Prediction Using Geographical Images and Expert Knowledge: Jakob Thrane (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark); Benjamin Sliwa and Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University, Germany); Henrik Christiansen (TDC, Denmark)
Channel-Gain Cartography via Mixture of Experts: Luis M. Lopez-Ramos, Yves Teganya and Baltasar Beferull-Lozano (University of Agder, Norway); Seung-Jun Kim (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)

SAC SN1: Theoretical Aspects of SN

SAC SN1-5 papers

Chair: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA)

Making Transaction Propagation More Efficient: Deferred Transaction Relay in Bitcoin: Vojislav B. Mišić and Jelena Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada); Xiaolin Chang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Hyperbolic User Identity Linkage across Social Networks: Feiyang Wang, Li Sun and Zhongbao Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Interpretable Dictionary Learning using Information Theory: Li Wan (University of Melbourne, Australia); Tansu Alpcan (The University of Melbourne, Australia); Margreta Kuijper (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Meta-Learned User Preference for Topic Participation Prediction: Fan Zhou, Xiuxiu Qi, Xovee Xu, Wang Jiahao and Ting Zhong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University, USA)
Crowdfunding with Cognitive Limitations: Qi Shao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Man Hon Cheung (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

SAC SSC1: Satellite Systems

SAC SSC1-5 papers

Cooperative Resource Allocation in Integrated Terrestrial/Non-Terrestrial 5G and Beyond Networks: Federica Rinaldi, Sara Pizzi and Antonella Molinaro (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Antonio Iera (University of Calabria, Italy); Giuseppe Araniti (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy)
Figo: Mobility-Aware In-Flight Service Assignment and Reconfiguration with Deep Q-Learning: Amir Varasteh (Technische Universität München, Germany); Henrique Soares Frutuoso (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Mu He and Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany); Carmen Mas-Machuca (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Ultra-Dense LEO Satellite Constellation Design for Global Coverage in Terrestrial-Satellite Networks: Ruoqi Deng (Peking University, China); Boya Di (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Peking University, China); Hongliang Zhang (Princeton University, USA); Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)
Location-Based Timing Advance Estimation for 5G Integrated LEO Satellite Communications: Tingting Chen and Wenjin Wang (Southeast University, China); Rui Ding (China Academy of Space Technology, China); Gonzalo Seco-Granados (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain); Li You and Xiqi Gao (Southeast University, China)
NB-IoT over Non-Terrestrial Networks: Link Budget Analysis: Matteo Conti and Alessandro Guidotti (University of Bologna, Italy); Carla Amatetti (Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy); Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli (University of Bologna, Italy)

SPC4: Localization and Identification

SPC4-5 papers

Joint Visual and Wireless Signal Feature based Approach for High-Precision Indoor Localization: Yu Wang, Guangbing Zhou, Chenlu Xiang, Shunqing Zhang and Shugong Xu (Shanghai University, China)
Cooperative Positioning in Vehicular Networks using Angle of Arrival Estimation through mmWave: Mustafa Ammous and Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)
Exploiting Diffuse Multipath in 5G SLAM: Yu Ge (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Hyowon Kim (Hanyang University, Korea (South)); Fuxi Wen (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Lennart Svensson (Chalmers University, Sweden); Sunwoo Kim (Hanyang University, Korea (South)); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Parametric Message-passing for Joint Localization and Synchronization in Cooperative Networks: Weijie Yuan, Jinhong Yuan and Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Common Randomness Generation and Identification over Gaussian Channels: Rami Ezzine and Wafa Labidi (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany); Christian Deppe (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

WC11: Coding & Caching

WC11-5 papers

Optimal Communication-Computing-Caching for Maximizing Revenue in UAV-Aided Mobile Edge Computing: Shuya Zheng and Zhiyuan Ren (Xidian University, China); Xiangwang Hou (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Hailin Zhang (Xidian University, China)
The Interplay between Index Coding, Caching, and Beamforming for Fog Radio Access Networks: Salwa Mostafa and Chi Wan Sung (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Terence H. Chan (University of South Australia, Australia); Guangping Xu (Tianjin University of Technology, China)
An Efficient Network Coding Scheme for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: ZongZheng Wang and Ping Dong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Tao Zheng and Hongke Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)
Joint Service Scheduling and Content Caching Over Unreliable Channels: Tao Nie (Harbin Institute of Technology(Shenzhen), China); Jingjing Luo (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen); Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Fu-Chun Zheng (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China & University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Li Yu (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China)
Low-Complexity Coded Transmission Without CSI for Full-Duplex Relay Networks: Chao Chen and Zheng Meng (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China); Seung Jun Baek (Korea University, Korea (South)); Xiaohan Yu and Chuanhuang Li (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China); Rui Yin (Zhejiang University City College)

WC12: Performance Analysis I

WC12-5 papers

Age of Aggregated Information: Timely Status Update with Over-the-Air Computation: Jie Li and Yong Zhou (ShanghaiTech University, China); He Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Yuanming Shi (ShanghaiTech University, China)
Online Policy Learning for Opportunistic Mobile Computation Offloading: Siqi Mu and Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Dongmei Zhao (McMaster University, Canada)
Low-Complexity Weighted Sum-Rate Maximization of MIMO MAC with Finite-Alphabet Inputs: Pei Yang and Hongwen Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Degrees of Freedom of Multi-Mode-Multi-Spatial (MOMS) in Line-of-Sight Channels: Rui Ni (Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, China); Yi Lv (HUAWEI 2012 Labs, China); Qian Zhu and Guangjian Wang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Gaoning He (Huawei Technologies, China); Mérouane Debbah (Huawei, France)
Efficient Bandwidth Allocation for URLLC in Frequency-Selective Fading Channels: Yajuan Wu, Deli Qiao and Haifeng Qian (East China Normal University, China)

WC13: Millimeter Wave II

WC13-5 papers

Does Blockage Correlation Matter in the Performance of mmWave Cellular Networks?: Saurabh Kumar Gupta (IIT Kanpur, India); Abhishek K Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
Three-Dimensional Modeling of Millimeter-Wave MIMO Channels for UAV-Based Communications: Zhangfeng Ma, Bo Ai, Ruisi He, Zhangdui Zhong, Mi Yang, Jun Hong Wang, Li Pei, Yu Jian Li and Jing Li (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Enhanced Beam Alignment for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems: A Kolmogorov Model: Qiyou Duan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Taejoon Kim (University of Kansas, USA); Hadi Ghauch (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Eric Wong (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Unlicensed Spectrum Sharing with WiGig in Millimeter-wave Cellular Networks in 6G Era: Pengfei Wang (Peking University, China); Boya Di (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Peking University, China); Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)
Real-time Millimeter Wave Omnidirectional Channel Sounder Using Phased Array Antennas: Aditya Chopra (AT&T Labs, USA); Andrew Thornburg (AT&T, USA); Ojas Kanhere (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA); Abbas Termos (University of Notre Dame, USA); Saeed S. Ghassemzadeh (AT&T Labs, USA); Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA)

Wednesday, December 9 2:00 - 3:30

AHSN5: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles II

AHSN5-5 papers

Wireless Sensing for Ground Engaging Tools: Mohamed Adel Ibrahim, Galal Hassan and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada); Khaled Obaia (Oil and Energy, Canada)
Multi-Agent Coordinated Interception of Multiple Rogue Drones: Panayiota Valianti (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Savvas Papaioannou (KIOS CoE, Cyprus); Panayiotis Kolios and Georgios Ellinas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Collisionless Fast Pattern Formation Mechanism for Dynamic Number of UAVs: Gunasekaran Raja and Saran V S (Anna University, India); Sudha Anbalagan (SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India); Ali Kashif Bashir (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Muhammad Imran (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Energy-Efficient UAV Deployment and IoT Device Association in Fixed-Wing Multi-UAV Networks: Jen-Hao Chiu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Yung Ching Kuo (National TsingHua University, Taiwan); Jang-Ping Sheu and Yao-Win Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Cooperative Sensing and Task Offloading for Autonomous Platoons: Hao Du, Supeng Leng and Ke Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Longyu Zhou (School of Information & Communications Engineering, UESTC, China)

CISS6: Security & Privacy I

CISS6-5 papers

Efficient Privacy-Preserving Similarity Range Query based on Pre-computed Distances in eHealthcare: Yandong Zheng and Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Energy Concealment based Compressive Sensing Encryption for Perfect Secrecy for IoT: Gajraj Kuldeep and Qi Zhang (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Privacy-Preserving Traffic Flow Estimation for Road Networks: Elmahdi Bentafat, Muhammad Mazhar Ullah Rathore and Spiridon Bakiras (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
A Framework to Preserve User Privacy for Machine Learning as a Service: Ben Niu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Likun Zhang and Yahong Chen (Institute of Information Engineering, CAS & School of Cyber Security, UCAS, China); Ang Li (Duke University, USA); Wei Du (University Of Arkansas, USA); Jin Cao (Xidian University, China); Fenghua Li (Institute of Information Engineering, CAS & School of Cyber Security, UCAS, China)
Privacy Preserving Facial Recognition Against Model Inversion Attacks: Pavana Prakash and Jiahao Ding (University of Houston, USA); Hongning Li (Xidian University, China); Sai Mounika Errapotu (University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Qingqi Pei (Xidian University, China); Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA)

CQRM5: Machine Learning for Networks and Systems

CQRM5-5 papers

Chair: Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Slice Reconfiguration Based on Demand Prediction with Dueling Deep Reinforcement Learning: Wanqing Guan and Haijun Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China); Victor C.M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Radio Resource and Beam Management in 5G mmWave Using Clustering and Deep Reinforcement Learning: Medhat Elsayed and Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Multi-agent Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning Based In-network Load Balance: Tianle Mai and Haipeng Yao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zehui Xiong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Song Guo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Continuous Multi-objective Zero-touch Network Slicing via Twin Delayed DDPG and OpenAI Gym: Farhad Rezazadeh (UPC & CTTC, Spain); Hatim Chergui (CTTC, Spain); Luis Alonso (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTECH & Telecommunications and Aerospatial Engineering School of Castelldefels, Spain); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)
Preamble Transmission Prediction for mMTC Bursty Traffic: A Machine Learning based Approach: Aasmund Søraa (Developer, Norway); Thilina Weerasinghe (University of Agder, Norway); Indika Anuradha Mendis Balapuwaduge (University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka); Frank Y. Li (University of Agder, Norway)

CT5: Information Theory and Capacity I

CT5-4 papers

Super-Resolution Block-Sparse Channel Estimation Over Uplink M-MIMO 5G Mobile Wireless Networks: Jianqiao Chen and Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA)
Optimal 3D-UAV Trajectory and Resource Allocation of DL UAV-GE Links with Directional Antennas: Carles Diaz Vilor and Hamid Jafarkhani (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Analysis of Tree-Algorithms with Multi-Packet Reception: Čedomir Stefanović (Aalborg University & University of Novi Sad, Denmark); Halit Murat Gürsu and Yash Deshpande (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Distributed Computation: Privacy, Straggler Mitigation, and Security Against Colluding Workers: Kanishak Vaidya (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India); B. Sundar Rajan (Indian Institute of Science, India)

CT6: Multiple Access and Interference Management

CT6-5 papers

Downlink Analysis for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Aided NOMA Networks: Chao Zhang, Wenqiang Yi, Yuanwei Liu, Zhijin Qin and Kok Keong Chai (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Average Age of Information of Irregular Repetition Slotted ALOHA: Andrea Munari (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Alexey A. Frolov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology & IITP RAS, Russia)
Decentralized SGD with Over-the-Air Computation: Mehmet Emre Ozfatura (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Stefano Rini (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Backhauling Many Devices: Relay Schemes for Massive Random Access Networks: Dennis Ogbe, David Love and Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, USA)
A Secure Hybrid Duplex Relay System with Joint Optimization of Finite Blocklength and Power: Jiahe Zhao (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)); Xin Wan (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)

GCSN2: Green Communication Systems

GCSN2-5 papers

Characterizing Power Consumption of Dual-Frequency GNSS of Smartphone: Bikram Karki and Myounggyu Won (University of Memphis, USA)
Asymptotic Analysis and Power Control Optimization for Wirelessly Powered Cell-free IoT: Xinhua Wang (Qingdao University, China); Alexei Ashikhmin (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Xiaodong Wang (Columbia University, USA)
SCMA Spectral Efficiency and Energy Efficiency with QoS: Samira Jaber and Wen Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Kunlun Wang (ShanghaiTech University, China); Qingqing Wu (University of Macau, China)
Reinforcement Learning for Minimizing Age of Information under Realistic Physical Dynamics: Sihua Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mingzhe Chen (Princeton University, USA); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Shuguang Cui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
A Novel Index Modulation for Dimming in LiFi Systems: Trang Nguyen (The University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohamed Sufyan Islim (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Harald Haas (The University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

MWN7: Resource Allocation and Scheduling

MWN7-5 papers

Resource Allocation in 5G with NOMA-Based Mixed Numerology Systems: Ru Jun Wang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Chih-Hang Wang, Guang-Siang Lee and De-Nian Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Wen-Tsuen Chen and Jang-Ping Sheu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Semi-Persistent Scheduling for 5G Downlink Based on Short-Term Traffic Prediction: Qing He and György Dán (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Georgios P. Koudouridis (Huawei Technologies R&D Center Sweden, Sweden)
A User-Centric Frequency Reuse in Non-full Interference Cellular Networks: Mohammadreza Mardani and Philippe Mary (Univ Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, IETR, France); Jean-Yves Baudais (IETR & CNRS, France)
Joint Task Assignment and Trajectory Optimization for a Mobile Robot Swarm by Mean-Field Game: Yuhan Kang (University of Houston, USA); Siting Liu (University of California, USA); Wonjun Lee (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Hongliang Zhang (Princeton University, USA); Wuchen Li (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Minimizing NOMA Resource Usage for Cellular IoT Networks through Distributed Source Coding: Hung-Yun Hsieh, En Yu Lin and Shao Chun Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

MWN8: UAV and UAV-Assited Networks

MWN8-5 papers

Energy-efficient Velocity Control for Massive Rotary-Wing UAVs: A Mean Field Game Approach: Hao Gao (University of Houston, USA); Wonjun Lee and Wuchen Li (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Stanley Osher (University of California, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
On the Optimal 3D Placement of a UAV Base Station for Maximal Coverage of UAV Users: Nesrine Cherif (University of Ottawa, Canada); Wael Jaafar and Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada); Abbas Yongacoglu (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Energy-Efficient Cyclical Trajectory Design for UAV-Aided Maritime Data Collection in Wind: Yifan Zhang, Jiangbin Lyu and Liqun Fu (Xiamen University, China)
Learning for Path Planning and Coverage Mapping in UAV-Assisted Emergency Communications: Juaren Steiger, Ning Lu and Sameh Sorour (Queen's University, Canada)
Federated Learning for Cellular-connected UAVs: Radio Mapping and Path Planning: Behzad Khamidehi and Elvino Silveira Sousa (University of Toronto, Canada)

NGNI5: Vehicle Networking

NGNI5-5 papers

Cell Zooming for Green Mobile Networks with Vehicle-Mounted Radio Units: Yu Nakayama (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan); Kazuki Maruta (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
In-Vehicle Computing-based BSM Reuse Model: Khireddine Benaissa (University of MEDEA & ESI, Algeria); Salim Bitam (University of Biskra & LESIA Laboratory, Algeria); Abdelhamid Mellouk (UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France)
Hybrid Vehicular and Cloud Distributed Computing: A Case for Cooperative Perception: Enes Krijestorac (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Agon Memedi (Paderborn University, Germany); Takamasa Higuchi (Toyota Motor North America R&D, USA); Seyhan Ucar and Onur Altintas (Toyota Motor North America R&D, InfoTech Labs, USA); Danijela Cabric (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
Communication and Computation Offloading for 5G V2X: Modeling and Optimization: Ren-Hung Hwang (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan); Md. Muktadirul Islam, Md. Asif Tanvir and Md Shohrab Hossain (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Ying-Dar Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Adversarial Learning-based Bias Mitigation for Fatigue Driving Detection in Fair-Intelligent IoV: Mingzhe Han and Jun Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Ali Kashif Bashir (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wu Yang (Harbin Engineering University, China); Muhammad Imran (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)

SAC ANS2: Topics in Access Systems

SAC ANS2-5 papers

On Virtual Id Assignment in Networks for High Resilience Routing: A Theoretical Framework: Gyan Ranjan (Symantec Corporation, USA); Tu N. Nguyen (Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA); Hesham Mekky and Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota, USA)
High Frequency Impedance Matching for Twisted Pair Cables: Tobias Schaich, Karthik Subramaniam and Eloy de Lera Acedo (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Anas Al Rawi (British Telecom (BT), United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Novel Approach to Channel Profiling Using the Frequency Selectiveness of WiFi CSI Samples: Aryan Sharma (University of New South Wales, Australia); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Tanveer A Zia (Charles Sturt University, Australia); Aruna Seneviratne (University of New South Wales, Australia)
On the Latency of IEEE 802.11ax WLANs with Parameterized Spatial Reuse: Eloise de Carvalho Rodrigues (Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez (Huawei Technologies, France); Lorenzo Galati Giordano (Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland); Giovanni Geraci (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Prototyping of Open Source NB-IoT Network: ChiehChun Chen, Ray-Guang Cheng and Chung-Yin Ho (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan); Matthieu Kanj (B-com, France); Bruno Mongazon-Cazavet (Nokia Bell Labs France, France); Navid Nikaein (Eurecom, France)

SAC BD4: Big Data Applications

SAC BD4-5 papers

Adversity-based Social Circles Inference via Context-Aware Mobility: Qiang Gao and Fan Zhou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University, USA); Fengli Zhang and Xucheng Luo (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
CgNet:Predicting Urban Congregations from Spatio-Temporal Data Using Deep Neural Networks: Tianran Chen, Yongzheng Zhang, Yupeng Tuo and Weiguang Wang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Low-Complexity Dimensionality Reduction for Big Data Analytics in the Smart Grid: Morteza Mohajeri (University of Tehran, Iran); Abolfazl Ghassemi and T. Aaron Gulliver (University of Victoria, Canada)
A Video Popularity Prediction Scheme with Attention-Based LSTM and Feature Embedding: Longwei Yang (Tsinghua University, China); Xin Guo and Haiming Wang (Lenovo Research, China); Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
Regression PCA for Moving Objects Separation: Huyunting Huang, Xiang Liu, Tonglin Zhang and Baijian Yang (Purdue University, USA)

SAC EH1: Wireless Sensors and WBANs

SAC EH1-5 papers

Wearable Magnetic Field Based 3D-Orientation and -Position Acquisition: Puian Tadayon (University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund, Germany); Gerhard Staude (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany); Thomas Felderhoff (Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany); Andreas Knopp (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)
Detection of Fall-Related Body Postures from WBAN Signals: Robert Heyn and Armin Wittneben (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
A Novel Gaussian in Denoising Medical Images with Different Wavelets for Internet of Things Devices: Tamara Al-Shayea (University of Nicosia, Cyprus); Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis (University of Nicosia & University of Nicosia Research Foundation, Cyprus); Jordi Mongay Batalla (Warsaw University of Technology & National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland); George Mastorakis (Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece); Evangelos Pallis (Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece); Mithun Mukherjee (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China)
Activity-Aware Data Rate Tuning in Wireless Body Area Networks: Arijit Roy (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Sanku Kumar Roy (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Bhaskar Tejaswi, Deep Banerjee and Harshita Narnoli (Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India)
Deep Learning-based Adaptive Beamforming for mmWave Wireless Body Area Network: Hieu Ngo (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA); Hua Fang (University of Massachusetts Medical School & Dartmouth, USA); Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth & College of Engineering, USA)

SAC IoTSCC6: Fog/Edge Computing in IoT

SAC IoTSCC6-5 papers

Chair: Hung Xuan Nguyen (University of Adelaide, Australia)

Energy Minimization for Mobile Edge Computing Networks with Time-Sensitive Constraints: Jun-jie Yu, Han Wang, Mingxiong Zhao, Wen-tao Li, Hui-Qi Bao, Li Yin and Mi Wu (Yunnan University, China)
Physical Layer Security for Edge Caching in 6G Networks: Sheng Li, Wen Sun and Haibin Zhang (Xidian University, China); Yan Zhang (University of Oslo, Norway)
Optimization of IoT Service Deployment In Multi-Layered Cloud-Fog Environment: Do Van Dang (University of Engineering and Technology, VNUH, Vietnam); Hoang Xuan Tung (VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam); Mai Tran (VNU-UET, Vietnam); Kim Khoa Nguyen (University of Quebec, Canada)
RALaaS: Resource-Aware Learning-as-a-Service in Edge-Cloud Collaborative Smart Connected Communities: Chao Sang, Jun Wu and Jianhua Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Ali Kashif Bashir (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Fucai Luo (State Grid Fujian Electric Power Company, China); Rupak Kharel (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Optimal Task Allocation for Time-Varying Edge Computing Systems with Split DNNs: Davide Callegaro, Yoshitomo Matsubara and Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine, USA)

SAC MLC7: Channel Estimation II

SAC MLC7-5 papers

Bundle-based Channel Estimation for 5G NR with Supervised Learning: Hyukjoon Kwon (Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., USA)
Doppler Spread Estimation for 5G NR with Supervised Learning: Yacong Ding and Hyukjoon Kwon (Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., USA)
LOS Delay Estimation using Super Resolution Deep Neural Networks for Precise Positioning: Srinivas Yerramalli (Qualcomm Inc, USA); Taesang Yoo (Qualcomm Inc., USA); Lorenzo Ferrari (Qualcomm Inc, USA)
Triplet-Based Wireless Channel Charting: Paul Ferrand (Huawei Technologies France, France); Alexis Decurninge (Huawei Technologies, France); Luis G. Ordóñez (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., France); Maxime Guillaud (Huawei Technologies, France)
Deep Learning for Geometrically-Consistent Angular Spread Function Estimation in Massive MIMO: Yi Song, Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Saeid Haghighatshoar and Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

SAC SN2: Social Aspects of VANETs and Applications

SAC SN2-5 papers

Towards Green Crowdsourced Social Delivery Networks: A Feasibility Study: Kevin Choi (University of California, Irvine, USA); Luca Bedogni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Social-based Cooperation of Vehicles for Data Dissemination of Critical Urban Events: Alisson Yury and Everaldo Andrade (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil); Michele Nogueira and Aldri Santos (Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil); Fernando Menezes Matos (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil)
Sybil Detection as Graph Filtering: Satoshi Furutani, Toshiki Shibahara, Kunio Hato and Mitsuaki Akiyama (NTT, Japan); Masaki Aida (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
Information Disclosure Game on Sharing Platforms: Ningning Ding (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Zhixuan Fang (Tsinghua University, China); Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Unsupervised User Identity Linkage via Graph Neural Networks: Fan Zhou, Zijing Wen and Ting Zhong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University, USA); Xovee Xu and Leyuan Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

SAC SSC2: Satellite Networking

SAC SSC2-5 papers

Online Intra-domain Segment Routing for Software-defined CubeSat Networks: Ahan Kak and Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Evaluation of Cognitive Routing for the Interplanetary Internet: Ricardo Lent (University of Houston, USA)
Achieving Ordered Data Block Delivery in CCSDS-DTN Space Networks: a Case Study: Tomaso De Cola (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
Load-Aware Satellite Handover Strategy Based on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Shuxin He, Tianyu Wang and Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, China)
Angle Partition-Based TDMA for VDES Satellite Multiuser Downlink Communications: Beixiong Zheng (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Kai Yen (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Xiaoming Peng (Institute for InfoComm Research, Singapore); Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

SPC5: Machine Learning for Emerging Systems

SPC5-5 papers

Incremental Data-Driven Topology Learning for Time-Varying Graph Signals: Zefeng Qi, Guobing Li and Shiyu Zhai (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Guomei Zhang (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)
One-Bit Over-the-Air Aggregation for Communication-Efficient Federated Edge Learning: Guangxu Zhu (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China); Yuqing Du (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kaibin Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Iterative Learning Control for Pre-distortion Design in Wideband Direct-Conversion Transmitters: Abdelwahab Fawzy (National University of Singapore & Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore); Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Teng Joon Lim (University of Sydney, Australia); Yong-xin Guo (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Peng Hui Tan (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Deep Reinforcement learning for RIS-Aided Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Downlink Networks: Zhong Yang, Yuanwei Liu and Yue Chen (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Joey Tianyi Zhou (the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore)
Anomaly Detection and Sampling Cost Control via Hierarchical GANs: Chen Zhong, M. Cenk Gursoy and Senem Velipasalar (Syracuse University, USA)

WC14: Machine Learning II

WC14-5 papers

Evaluating and Improving Adversarial Attacks on DNN-Based Modulation Recognition: Haojun Zhao and Yun Lin (Harbin Engineering University, China); Song Gao (Yunnan University, China); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Resource Management for DNN Inference in IIoT: Weiting Zhang and Dong Yang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Haixia Peng and Wen Wu (University of Waterloo, Canada); Wei Quan and Hongke Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Delay-aware Cellular Traffic Scheduling with Deep Reinforcement Learning: Ticao Zhang (Auburn University, USA); Shuyi Shen (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA); Gee-Kung Chang (3682 GATEHURST CT. & GEORGIA TECH, USA)
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based 3D UAV Trajectory Design and Frequency Band Allocation: Ruijin Ding and Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Cluster based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Caching with Social Connection Awareness: Ruqiu Ma, Lianming Xu, Li Wang, Bingxin Tian and Aiguo Fei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

WC15: Channel Modeling I

WC15-5 papers

3-D Statistical Indoor Channel Model for Millimeter-Wave and Sub-Terahertz Bands: Shihao Ju (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA); Yunchou Xing (NYU WIRELESS, USA); Ojas Kanhere and Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA)
Directional Delay Spread and Interference Quotient Analysis in sub-7GHz Wi-Fi bands: Jorge Gomez-Ponce (University of Southern California, USA & Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador); Daoud Burghal, Naveed Ahmed Abbasi, Arjun Hariharan, Gopal Jakhetia, Praveen Changalal and Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)
A Wideband Sliding Correlator based Channel Sounder in 65 nm CMOS: An Evaluation Board Design: Dipankar Shakya (New York University, USA); Ting Wu (NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, USA); Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA)
Simulation-Aided Measurement-Based Channel Modeling for Propagation at 28 GHz in a Coniferous Forest: Yaguang Zhang (Purdue University, USA); John Tan and Bryan Dorbert (CSLabs, LLC., USA); Christopher R. Anderson (United States Naval Academy, USA); James Krogmeier (Purdue University, USA)
Decentralized Incentive Mechanism for Cooperative Content Dissemination in Vehicular Networks: Jinna Hu and Chen Chen (Xidian University, China); Lin Cai (University of Victoria, Canada); Lei Liu and Qingqi Pei (Xidian University, China)

WC16: Machine Type Communications I

WC16-5 papers

Optimal Network Coding Policy for Joint Cellular and Intermittently Connected D2D Networking: Juwendo Denis and Hulya Seferoglu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Two-Timescale Optimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided D2D Underlay Communication: Chang Cai, Huiyuan Yang, Xiaojun Yuan and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Linear MMSE Precoder Combiner Designs for Decentralized Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks: Kunwar Pritiraj Rajput (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur & Kanpur, India); Yogesh Verma (Intel Technologies India Pvt. Lmt., India); Naveen K. D. Venkategowda (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Aditya K Jagannatham (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Pramod Varshney (Syracuse University, USA)
Cross-Layer Analysis for Symbiotic Internet of Things Over CSMA/CN Networks: Huyang Peng, Shiying Han and Zihao Xiang (Nankai University, China); Yiyang Pei (Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
UniTag: Enabling Multi-frequency Backscatter: Qianru Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Xinyu Tong (Tianjin University, China); Hao Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong Unversity, China); Xiaohua Tian (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Wednesday, December 9 4:00 - 5:30

AHSN6: SDN and Resource Management

AHSN6-4 papers

Cross-layer Band Selection and Routing Design for Diverse Band-aware DSA Networks: Pratheek Upadhyaya (Virginia Tech, USA); Vijay K. Shah (Virginia Tech & Wireless@VT Lab, USA); Jeffrey Reed (Virginia Tech, USA)
A 1/2-Approximation Algorithm for Target Coverage Problem in Mobile Air Quality Monitoring Systems: Viet-Dung Nguyen, Phi Le Nguyen, Trung Hieu Nguyen and Phan Thuan Do (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam)
Distributionally Robust Chance-Constrained Optimization for Communication and Offloading in WBANs: Zhuang Ling and Fengye Hu (Jilin University, China); Yu Zhang and Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Resource Allocation for Wireless Federated Edge Learning based on Data Importance: Yinghui He (Zhejiang University, China); Jinke Ren (Zhejiang University, China & Northwestern University, USA); Guan-ding Yu and Jiantao Yuan (Zhejiang University, China)

AHSN7: Localization & Tracking

AHSN7-5 papers

An Electric Vehicle Charging Reservation Approach Based on Blockchain: Sheng Cao and Sixuan Dang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar); Xiaosong Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Xiaoming Huang (China Electronics Technology Cyber Security Co., Ltd, China)
RCTC: Rateless Cross-technology Communication: Fu Yu, Xiaolong Zheng, Liang Liu and Huadong Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Trajectory User Linking in C-ITS Data Analysis: Juliet C Moso (Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Kenya); Stephane Cormier (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne & CRESTIC - SIC Group, France); Hacene Fouchal (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France); Cyril de Runz (Université de Tours, France); John Wandeto (Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, France)
Fingerprint Localization Method for Leader-follower Satellite Cluster based on Dynamic Radio Map: Lin Ma and Pengfei Huang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Han Fei and Zhaolong Wang (Shanghai Aerospace Control Technology Institute, China)
Time-Series Prediction for Sensing in Smart Greenhouses: Asmaa Ali (Queen's University School of Computing, Canada); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)

CISS7: Cloud Security and Performance

CISS7-5 papers

What Can Ail Thee: New and Old Security Vulnerabilities of Wireless Datacenters: Sayed Ashraf Mamun, Amlan Ganguly, Panos P. Markopoulos, Andres Kwasinski and Minseok Kwon (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
FHPT: Fine-Grained EHR Sharing in E-Healthcare Cloud with Hidden Policy and Traceability: Zuobin Ying and Yuanping Si (Anhui University, China); Jianfeng Ma (Xidian University, China); Ximeng Liu (Fuzhou University, China); Shengmin Xu (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Privacy-preserving Computation over Encrypted Vectors: Rui Hu and Wenxiu Ding (Xidian University, China); Zheng Yan (Xidian University & Aalto University, China)
Stealthy DGoS Attack under Passive and Active Measurements: Cho-Chun Chiu (The Pennsylvania State University, USA); Ting He (Penn State University, USA)
Directional Modulation for Secure RFID in Health Systems: Gehad Essam, Heba Shehata, Tamer Khattab, Khalid Abualsaud and Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)

CISS8: Detection and Prevention I

CISS8-5 papers

Incremental Database Based on Distributed Ledger Technology for IDSs: Liang Junwei and Maode Ma (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Deep Dynamic Clustering of Spam Reviewers using Behavior-Anomaly-based Graph Embedding: Agnideven Palanisamy Sundar (IUPUI, USA); Feng Li (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA); Xukai Zou (Indiana University, USA); Tianchong Gao (Southeast University, China)
Griffin: An Ensemble of AutoEncoders for Anomaly Traffic Detection in SDN: Liyan Yang and Yubo Song (Southeast University, China); Shang Gao and Bin Xiao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Hu Aiqun (Southeast University, China)
A Novel Criterion of Reconstruction-based Anomaly Detection for Sparse-binary Data: Heng Qiao, Daniela Oliveira and Dapeng Oliver Wu (University of Florida, USA)
Enhancing Robustness of Malware Detection using Synthetically-adversarial Samples: Wee Ling Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Tram Truong-Huu (Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore)

CQRM6: 5G Mobile Networks II

CQRM6-5 papers

Scheduling Policy and Power Allocation for Federated Learning in NOMA Based MEC: Xiang Ma (Utah State University, USA); Haijian Sun (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA)
A Random Linear Network Coded HARQ Solution for Lossy and High-Jitter Wireless Networks: Roberto Torre, Clara Costa Sala and Sreekrishna Pandi (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Hani Salah (TU Dresden, Germany); Giang T. Nguyen (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)
Uplink Reference Signal Based Handover with Mobile Relay Node Assisted User Clustering: Muhammad Tayyab (Huawei Technologies Helsinki & Huawei Technologies, Finland); Georgios P. Koudouridis (Huawei Technologies R&D Center Sweden, Sweden); Xavier Gelabert (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden); Riku Jäntti (Aalto University, Finland)
Mobility Prediction at Points of Interest Using Many-to-one Recurrent Neural Network: Meng-Shiun Cheng, Jang-Ping Sheu and Nguyen Van Cuong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Yung Ching Kuo (National TsingHua University, Taiwan)
AI-based Satellite Ground Communication System with Intelligent Antenna Pointing: Wenjing Xiao and Rui Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Jeungeun Song (UBC, Canada); Di Wu (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Long Hu and Min Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

CRAEN5: Performance Analysis and Optimization II

CRAEN5-5 papers

AirID: Injecting a Custom RF Fingerprint for Enhanced UAV Identification using Deep Learning: Subhramoy Mohanti, Nasim Soltani and Kunal Sankhe (Northeastern University, USA); Dheryta Jaisinghani (University of Northern Iowa, USA); Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy); Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA)
Self-Learning Bayesian Generative Models for Jammer Detection in Cognitive-UAV-Radios: Ali Krayani (University of Genova, Italy & Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohamad Baydoun (University of Genoa, Italy); Lucio Marcenaro (Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy); Atm Shafiul Alam (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Carlo S Regazzoni (University of Genoa, Italy)
Generalized User Grouping in NOMA Based on Overlapping Coalition Formation Game: 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)
Waveform Classification in Radar-Communications Coexistence Scenarios: Gyuyeol Kong (Aalto University, Finland); Minchae Jung (Soonchunhyang University, Korea (South)); Visa Koivunen (Aalto University, Finland)
(\tau,\epsilon)-Greedy Reinforcement Learning for Anti-jamming Wireless Communications: Yuan-Gen Wang (Guangzhou University, China)

CSSMA5: Communication Security

CSSMA5-5 papers

A Selfish Attack on Chainweb Blockchain: Suyang Wang, Bo Yin, Shuai Zhang, Yu Cheng and Lin X. Cai (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA); Xianghui Cao (Southeast University, China)
Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Non-Interactive Truth Discovery for Mobile Crowdsensing: Chuan Zhang, Liehuang Zhu and Chang Xu (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Jianbing Ni (Queen's University, Canada); Cheng Huang and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Secure Fog-assisted Sharing for Multimedia Health Records in the Cloud: Jingwei Liu, Yuyuan Li and Rong Sun (Xidian University, China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)
Efficient and Privacy-preserving Outsourced Image Retrieval in Public Clouds: Fuyuan Song and Zheng Qin (Hunan University, China); Jixin Zhang (Hubei University of Technology, China); Dongxiao Liu (University of Waterloo, Canada); Jinwen Liang (Hunan University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
BBB: A Lightweight Approach to Evaluate Private Blockchains in Clouds: Xuheng Duan, Haochen Pan, Yingjian Wu and Lewis Tseng (Boston College, USA); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada); Moayad Aloqaily (Gnowit Inc., Canada)

CT7: Coding Theory and Practice I

CT7-5 papers

On the Design of Generalized LDPC Codes with Component BCJR Decoding: Yanfang Liu (New Mexico State University, USA); Pablo M. Olmos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute, Spain); David G. M. Mitchell (New Mexico State University, USA)
Topological Coded Distributed Computing: Kai Wan (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Mingyue Ji (University of Utah, USA); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Generalized SCL-Flip Decoding of Polar Codes: Yi-Han Pan (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Chung-Hsuan Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yeong-Luh Ueng (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Joint Source Channel Anytime Coding: Li Deng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Yixin Wang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Xiaoxi Yu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Noor-A-Rahim Md. (University College Cork, Ireland); Yong Liang Guan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Zhiping Shi (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
On Approximation, Bounding & Exact Calculation of Block Error Probability for Random Codes: Ralf R. Müller (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

MWN9: MAC and Resource management I

MWN9-5 papers

Energy-aware Multi-RAT Multicast 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)
Dynamics of the flexible functional split selection in 5G networks: Alberto Martínez Alba (Technische Universität München, Germany); Shakthivelu Janardhanan (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Content Caching and Allocation in Spatially Correlated Small Cells: Komal S Khan (University of Sydney, Australia); Noman Haider (Victoria University Sydney Campus, Australia); Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia)
Cluster-based Group Paging Scheme with Preamble Reuse for mMTC in 5G Networks: Jiajie Huang, Wen Zhan and Xinghua Sun (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Pei Liu (Wuhan University of Technology, China); DeJin Kong (Wuhan Textile University, China)
Distributed Formation Algorithm Based on Integrated Localization and Control: Kai Ma and Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University, China)

Wednesday, December 9 4:00 - 5:45

NGNI6: SDN

NGNI6-6 papers

Isolation Guarantees with Flow Table Overflow in Software-Defined Networks: Tzu-Wen Chang, Zhi-Hong Huang and You-Jia Chang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Jian-Jhih Kuo (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Ming-Jer Tsai (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
An Efficient Dynamic Rule Placement for Distributed Firewall in SDN: Yu-Wei Chang (National Taiwan University & Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, Taiwan); Tsungnan Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Performance Implications of Problem Decomposition Approaches for SDN Pipelines: William Brockelsby (Duke University & North Carolina State University, USA); Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State University, USA)
SRA: Switch Resource Aggregation for Application Offloading in Programmable Networks: Hongyan Liu (Zhejiang Lab, Zhejiang University, and Fuzhou University); Xiang Chen (Peking University, Pengcheng Lab, and Fuzhou University, China); Qun Huang (Peking University, China); Haifeng Zhou (Zhejiang Lab, and Zhejiang University); Dong Zhang (Fuzhou University, China); Chunming Wu (Zhejiang Lab, and Zhejiang University)
BPP over P4: Exploring Frontiers and Limits in Programmable Packet Processing: Jérôme François (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France); Alexander Clemm (Futurewei Technologies, USA); Vivien Maintenant and Sébastien Tabor (University of Lorraine, France)
AutAvailChain: Automatic and Secure Data Availability through Blockchain: Gustavo F Camilo and Gabriel Rebello (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Lucas Airam de Souza (UFRJ, Brazil); Otto Carlos M. B. Duarte (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

ONS4: Optical Network Optimisation

ONS4-6 papers

Chair: Zuqing Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

Service Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Big Data Transfer in Elastic Optical Networks: Mehdi Tarhani (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Sanjib Sarkar and Mehdi Shadaram (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Fair Resource Allocation in Optical Networks under Tidal Traffic: Tania Panayiotou (University of Cyprus & KIOS Research Center, Cyprus); Georgios Ellinas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
On the Parallel Reconfiguration of Virtual Networks in Hybrid Optical/Electrical Datacenter Networks: Sicheng Zhao, Xiaoqin Pan and Zuqing Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
A Scalable Solution to Network Design Problems: Decomposition with Exhaustive Routing Search: Mahmoud Fayez (Ain Shams University, Egypt); Iyad Katib (King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia); George N. Rouskas (North Carolina State University, USA); Tarek Gharib and Heba Khaled Ahmed (Ain Shams University, Egypt); Hossam Faheem (Ain-Shams University, Egypt)
Virtual Network Mapping vs Embedding with Link Protection in Filterless Optical Networks: Omran Ayoub, Leila Askari, Andrea Bovio and Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy)
A Built-in Hash Permutation Assisted Cross-layer Secure Transport in FlexE over WDM Networks: Pengfei Zhu, Jiabin Cui and Ji Yuefeng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

SAC EH2: Machine Learning for E-health

SAC EH2-6 papers

Adversarial Attacks to Machine Learning-Based Smart Healthcare Systems: AKM Iqtidar Newaz, Nur Imtiazul Haque, Amit Kumar Kumar Sikder and Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman (Florida International University, USA); Selcuk Uluagac (Florida International University & Electrical and Computer Engineering, USA)
Wi-Fi-CSI-based Fall Detection by Spectrogram Analysis with CNN: Takashi Nakamura, Mondher Bouazizi, Kohei Yamamoto and Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)
Liver Tumor Segmentation and Radio Frequency Ablation Treatment Design Based on CT Image: Lin Ma and Dongxue Su (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Danyang Qin (Heilongjiang University, China)
Low cost localisation in residential environments using high resolution CIR information: Mohammud Junaid Bocus, Jonas Paulavičius, Ryan McConville, Raul Santos-Rodriguez and Robert J Piechocki (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Bluetooth App-based Self-estimated Infection Model for Airborne-based Epidemic Diseases: Udayanga Jayasundara, Xingya Liu and Zhe Luo (Lamar University, USA)
Optimal Navigation Control Design for Biomedical Untethered Microrobot with Network-induced Delays: Zhuwei Wang, Qiqing Chang, Xiaojie Huang, Chao Fang, Ruizhe Yang and Enchang Sun (Beijing University of Technology, China)

SAC IoTSCC7: Routing, Resource Management and Access Control in IoT

SAC IoTSCC7-6 papers

Routing and Packet Scheduling in LoRaWANs-EPC Integration Network: Cheng Cheng Zhang (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (University of Quebec, Canada); Chuan Pham (Universite du Quebec, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)
Dynamic Network Slice Assignment in Software-Defined IoT Networks: Niloy Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India)
ACB scheme based on reinforcement learning in M2M communication: Dong Zhang (BUPT, China); Liu Jianlong and Wenan Zhou (Beijing University of Post and Telecom, Beijing, China)
On High-Density Resource-Restricted Pulse-Based IoT Networks: Ferdinand Peper (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Kenji Leibnitz and Konstantinos Theofilis (NICT, Japan); Mikio Hasegawa (Tokyo University of Science, Japan); Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka University, Japan); Chiemi Tanaka (Tokyo University of Science, Japan); Jun-nosuke Teramae (Osaka University, Japan); Shinya Sekizawa (NICT, Japan); Aohan Li (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
Periodic Subflow-based Proactive Flow Installation Mechanism in SDN-based IoT: Yun-Zhan Cai, Shao Ku Tien, Yu-Ting Wang and Meng-Hsun Tsai (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Precise Localization of a UAV with Single Vision Camera and Deep Learning: Hyeong Tae Kim and Hwangnam Kim (Korea University, Korea (South))

Wednesday, December 9 4:00 - 5:30

SAC MLC8: Applications of Reinforcement Learning

SAC MLC8-5 papers

Remote Reinforcement Learning over a Noisy Channel: Joan Pujol Roig (Imperial College of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
UAV Path Planning for Wireless Data Harvesting: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach: Harald Bayerlein (EURECOM, France); Mirco Theile and Marco Caccamo (Technical University of Munich, Germany); David Gesbert (Eurecom Institute, France)
Wireless Control of Autonomous Guided Vehicle Using Reinforcement Learning: Pedro Maia de Sant Ana and Nikolaj Marchenko (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany); Petar Popovski and Beatriz Soret (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Decoding Polar Codes with Reinforcement Learning: Nghia Trung Doan (McGill University, Canada); Seyyed Ali Hashemi (Stanford University, USA); Warren Gross (McGill University, Canada)
Adaptive CQI and RI Estimation for 5G NR: A Shallow Reinforcement Learning Approach: Abdulrahman Baknina (Samsung Semiconductor Inc., USA); Hyukjoon Kwon (Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., USA)

SAC SSC3: Satellite Communications

SAC SSC3-5 papers

Theoretical and Simulation-based Analysis of Terrestrial Interference to LEO Satellite Uplinks: Anastasia Yastrebova (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Ilari Angervuori (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland); Niloofar Okati (Tampere University, Finland); Mikko Vehkapera (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Marko Höyhtyä (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Finland); Risto Wichman (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland); Taneli Riihonen (Tampere University, Finland)
Cooperative Spectrum Sharing in a Co-existing LEO-GEO Satellite System: Pengwenlong Gu, Rui Li and Cunqing Hua (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Uplink Transmission in Mixed RF/FSO Satellite-aerial-Terrestrial Networks: Qingquan Huang (Army Engineering University of PLA & The 63rd Research Institute, China); Min Lin (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wei-Ping Zhu (Concordia University, Canada); Julian Cheng (University of British Columbia, Canada); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
Deep Learning Detection for superimposed control signal in LEO-MIMO: Ryo Okema (Nagoya University, Japan); Daisuke Goto (NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan); Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya University, Japan); Fumihiro Yamashita (NTT Corporation, Japan); Hiroki Shibayama (NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan)
Blind Symbol Rate and Frequency Offset Estimation for PCMA Signals via Cyclic Correlations: Andreas Feder (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany); Wayan Wicke (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Martin Hirschbeck (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Wolfgang Gerstacker (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany)

Wednesday, December 9 4:00 - 5:45

SPC6: Signal Processing for Intelligent Surface Systems

SPC6-6 papers

Location Information Aided Multiple Intelligent Reflecting Surface Systems: Xiaoling Hu (Zhejiang University, China); Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Caijun Zhong (Zhejiang University, China); Yu Zhang (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Xiaoming Chen and Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)
Channel Feedback for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Wireless Communications: Decai Shen and Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, China)
Outage Constrained Transmission Design for IRS-aided Communications with Imperfect Cascaded Channels: Gui Zhou, 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))
Energy Efficiency and Spectral Efficiency Tradeoff in RIS-Aided Multiuser MIMO Uplink Systems: Jiayuan Xiong and Li You (Southeast University, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Chau Yuen (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Wenjin Wang and Xiqi Gao (Southeast University, China)
An Angle Domain Design Framework for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Systems: Xiaoling Hu (Zhejiang University, China); Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Caijun Zhong and Xiaoming Chen (Zhejiang University, China); Yu Zhang (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)
Capacity Enhancement for Irregular Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Wireless Communications: Ruochen Su, Linglong Dai and Jingbo Tan (Tsinghua University, China); Mo Hao (Tsinghua SEM Advanced ICT Lab, China); Richard MacKenzie (BT Technology, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Wednesday, December 9 4:00 - 5:30

WC17: Equalization & Estimation I

WC17-5 papers

Joint Phase Noise Estimation and Decoding in OFDM-IM: Qiaolin Shi, Nan Wu and Hua Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Diep N. Nguyen and Xiaojing Huang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Mobility Modes for Pulse-Shaped OTFS with Linear Equalizer: Andreas Pfadler (Volkswagen AG, Germany); Peter Jung (TU-Berlin, Communications and Information Theory Group & Fraunhofer HHI - Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Slawomir Stanczak (Technische Universität Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany)
Blind SINR Estimation Based on Graph Sparsity: Kun Yan (Guilin University of Electrical Technology, China); Hsiao-Chun Wu (Louisiana State University, USA); Xuemei Huang (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China)
Doppler Estimation and Correction for JANUS Underwater Communications: Concetta Baldone, Giovanni Ettore Galioto, Daniele Croce and Ilenia Tinnirello (University of Palermo, Italy); Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
Minimizing Delay Violation Probability in URLLC over Fading Channels: A Cross-Layer Approach: Yalei Wang and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)

WC18: Random Access I

WC18-5 papers

Energy-efficiency of Massive Random Access with Individual Codebook: Junyuan Gao, Yongpeng Wu and Wenjun Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Compressed Multiple Random Access with Energy Modulation: 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); Wei Zhang (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
Covariance-Based Cooperative Activity Detection for Massive Grant-Free Random Access: Xiaodan Shao and Xiaoming Chen (Zhejiang University, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Caijun Zhong and Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)
Non-Orthogonal Modulation for Short Packets in Massive Machine Type Communications: Chin-Wei Hsu (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA); Hun Seok Kim (University of Michigan, USA)
AoI Minimization for Grant-Free Massive Access with Short Packets using Mean-Field Games: Hongliang Zhang (Princeton University, USA); Yuhan Kang and Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

WC19: Performance Analysis II

WC19-5 papers

Performance Analysis of 4×4 TDD-SVD-MIMO System in Suburban Field Trial: Fumito Ito (Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Japan); Fumiki Uzawa (Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) & Science and Technology Research Laboratories, Japan); Takahiro Sato (Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Japan); Takayuki Nakagawa (Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan); Naohiko Iai (Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Japan)
Performance Analysis for Multi-Antenna Small Cell Networks with Clustered Dynamic TDD: Hongguang Sun (Northwest A&F University, China); Howard Yang (SUTD, Singapore); Xijun Wang (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Chao Xu (Northwest A&F University, China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Error Bound Analysis towards Fingerprint-based Positioning System Involving Grid Size Information: Qiaolin Pu and Joseph Kee-Yin Ng (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Performance Analysis of Distributed Intelligent Reflective Surface Aided Communications: Diluka A Loku Galappaththige (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA); Dhanushka Kudathanthirige and Gayan Amarasuriya (Southern Illinois University, USA)
Performance of Coded MIMO Spatial Modulation with Scaling Matched-Filter Detector: Yuto Hama and Hideki Ochiai (Yokohama National University, Japan)

Symposia: Wednesday

Wednesday, December 9

Wednesday, December 9 11:00 - 12:30

AHSN4: Vehicular Networks

CISS4: Networks Security II

CISS5: AI Aided Security

Wednesday, December 9 11:00 - 12:45

CQRM4: Fog/Edge and Cloud Computing

CRAEN4: Deep Reinforcement Learning II

Wednesday, December 9 11:00 - 12:30

CSSMA4: Video Streaming

CT4: Iterative Decoding and Processing

MWN6: Resource Allocation and Machine Learning in Wireless Networks

NGNI4: Named Data Networking

ONS3: Optical Transmission Systems

SAC BD3: Data Driven Distributed Fog and Edge Computing

SAC IoTSCC4: LPWAN Technology

SAC IoTSCC5: Localization and Tracking

SAC MLC6: Channel Estimation I

SAC SN1: Theoretical Aspects of SN

SAC SSC1: Satellite Systems

SPC4: Localization and Identification

WC11: Coding & Caching

WC12: Performance Analysis I

WC13: Millimeter Wave II

Wednesday, December 9 2:00 - 3:30

AHSN5: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles II

CISS6: Security & Privacy I

CQRM5: Machine Learning for Networks and Systems

CT5: Information Theory and Capacity I

CT6: Multiple Access and Interference Management

GCSN2: Green Communication Systems

MWN7: Resource Allocation and Scheduling

MWN8: UAV and UAV-Assited Networks

NGNI5: Vehicle Networking

SAC ANS2: Topics in Access Systems

SAC BD4: Big Data Applications

SAC EH1: Wireless Sensors and WBANs

SAC IoTSCC6: Fog/Edge Computing in IoT

SAC MLC7: Channel Estimation II

SAC SN2: Social Aspects of VANETs and Applications

SAC SSC2: Satellite Networking

SPC5: Machine Learning for Emerging Systems

WC14: Machine Learning II

WC15: Channel Modeling I

WC16: Machine Type Communications I

Wednesday, December 9 4:00 - 5:30

AHSN6: SDN and Resource Management

AHSN7: Localization & Tracking

CISS7: Cloud Security and Performance

CISS8: Detection and Prevention I

CQRM6: 5G Mobile Networks II

CRAEN5: Performance Analysis and Optimization II

CSSMA5: Communication Security

CT7: Coding Theory and Practice I

MWN9: MAC and Resource management I

Wednesday, December 9 4:00 - 5:45

NGNI6: SDN

ONS4: Optical Network Optimisation

SAC EH2: Machine Learning for E-health

SAC IoTSCC7: Routing, Resource Management and Access Control in IoT

Wednesday, December 9 4:00 - 5:30

SAC MLC8: Applications of Reinforcement Learning

SAC SSC3: Satellite Communications

Wednesday, December 9 4:00 - 5:45

SPC6: Signal Processing for Intelligent Surface Systems

Wednesday, December 9 4:00 - 5:30

WC17: Equalization & Estimation I

WC18: Random Access I

WC19: Performance Analysis II

Patrons