Technical Program

Paper Presentation

Session 1A: Distributed Processing (DURATION: 1H 30’ – 22 MIN/PAPER INCLUDING QUESTIONS)

1. Slimmable Encoders for Flexible Split DNNs in Bandwidth and Resource Constrained IoT Systems, Juliano Siloto Assine (University of California, Irvine, USA); José Cândido Silveira Santos Filho (University of Campinas - Unicamp, Brazil); Eduardo Valle (State University of Campinas & RECOD Lab, Brazil);Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine, USA)
2. EFFECT-DNN: Energy-efficient Edge Framework for Real-time DNN Inference, Xiaojie Zhang (City University of New York, USA); Motahare Mounesan (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA); Saptarshi Debroy (City University of New York & Hunter Colege, USA)
3. Online Domain Adaptive Classification for Mobile-to-Edge Computing, Forough Shirin Abkenar (University of California Irvine, USA); Leonardo Badia (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy); Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine, USA)
4. Information Flow Graph for Distributed Caching without Newcomers over a Broadcast Medium, Sandra Zimmermann (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Paul Schwenteck (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Willi Meißner (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Christian Leonard Vielhaus (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Juan A. Cabrera (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany); Martin Reisslein (Arizona State University, USA)

Session 1B: Activity & Localization (DURATION: 1H 30’ – 22 MIN/PAPER INCLUDING QUESTIONS)

1. SiMWiSense: Simultaneous Multi-Subject Activity Classification Through Wi-Fi Signals, Khandaker Foysal Haque (Northeastern University, USA); Milin Zhang (Northeastern University, USA); Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University, USA)
2. ARLCL: Anchor-free Ranging-Likelihood-based Cooperative Localization, Dimitris Xenakis (Uni Bern, Switzerland); Antonio Di Maio (University of Bern, Switzerland); Torsten Ingo Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland)
3. A Picture is Worth 1,000 Millimeters: Combining Vision and Wi-Fi to Improve Localization, Shazal Irshad (University of Colorado Boulder, USA); Eric Rozner (University of Colorado Boulder, USA); Bo Chen (Cisco Meraki, USA); Apurv Bhartia (Cisco Meraki, USA)
4. PoseFly: On-site Pose Parsing of Swarming Drones via 4-in-1 Optical Camera Communication, Xiao Zhang (Michigan State University, USA); Griffin Klevering (Michigan State University, USA); Li Xiao (Michigan State University, USA)

Session 2A: QoE & QoS (DURATION: 1H 30’ – 22 MIN/PAPER INCLUDING QUESTIONS)

1. Equalizing Access to Latency-Critical Services Based on In-Network Computing, Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Paolo Castagno (University of Turin, Italy); Matteo Sereno (University of Torino, Italy); Marco G Ajmone Marsan (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)
2. TWIST: Thin-Waist Wireless Testbed for Measuring Interfering Traffic Stream Throughputs, Yannis Thomas (Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece); Stavros Toumpis (Research Center - Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
3. Deep Reinforcement Learning with Importance Weighted A3C for QoE enhancement in Video Delivery Services, Mandan Naresh (BITS Pilani, India); Paresh Saxena (BITS Pilani, India); Manik Gupta (BITS Pilani, India)
4. Handling Demand Heterogeneity in UAV-aided Content Caching in Communication-challenged Environments, Amit Kumar Bhuyan (Michigan State University, USA); Hrishikesh Dutta (Michigan State University, USA); Subir Biswas (Michigan State University, USA)

Session 2B: mm-wave (DURATION: 1H 30’ – 22 MIN/PAPER INCLUDING QUESTIONS)

1. mmSight: Towards Robust Millimeter-Wave Imaging on Handheld Devices, Jacqueline M Schellberg (University of South Carolina, USA); Hem Regmi (University of South Carolina, USA); Sanjib Sur (University of South Carolina, USA)
2. Gesture Recognition with mmWave Wi-Fi Access Points: Lessons Learned, Nabeel Nisar Bhat (University of Antwerp, Belgium & Imec, Belgium); Rafael Berkvens (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Jeroen Famaey (University of Antwerp & Imec, Belgium)
3. D3PicoNet: Enabling Fast and Accurate Indoor D-Band Millimeter-Wave Picocell Deployment, Hem Regmi (University of South Carolina, USA); Sanjib Sur (University of South Carolina, USA)

Posters and Demos:

1. POSTER: Activity Graph Learning for Attack Detection in IoT Networks, Mohamed-Lamine Messai (Univ Lyon, Univ Lyon 2, UR ERIC); Hamida Seba (Univ Lyon, Univ Lyon 2, UR ERIC)
2. POSTER: Wi-Fi Indoor Positioning Based on Sparse Autoencoder and Deep Belief Network, Xuerong Cui (College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China University of Petroleum); Jinyang Lou (College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China University of Petroleum); Juan Li (College of Computer Science and Technology China University of Petroleum); Bin Jiang (College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China University of Petroleum); Shibao Li (College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China University of Petroleum); Jianhang Liu (College of Computer Science and Technology China University of Petroleum)
3. POSTER: A low-complexity model for IRS-aided beyond 5G wireless networks, Gyana Ranjan Mati; Susmita Das; Annapurna Pradhan (dept. of Electrical Engineering National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India)
4. POSTER: Privacy-Preserving Joint Communication and Sensing, Oscar Martins (CISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal); João P. Vilela (University of Porto, Portugal); Marco Gomes (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
5. POSTER: Technical feasibility of Visible Light Communication systems for low bitrate Smart Cities and the Industry 4.0 applications, Veronique Georlette (University of Mons, Belgium)
6. DEMO: Integrated On-site Localization and Optical Camera Communication for Drones, Xiao Zhang; Griffin Klevering; Kanishka Wijewardena; Li Xiao (Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University)
7. DEMO: Universal Soft-Detection Decoder with Ultra-Low Energy Consumption Using ORBGRAND, Arslan Riaz (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University); Zeynep Ece Kizilates (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University); Alperen Yasar (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University); Furkan Ercan (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University); Wei An (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT); Kevin Galligan (Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University), Muriel Medard (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT); Ken R. Duffy (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University), and Rabia Tugce Yazicigil (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University)
8. DEMO: Enhancing Network Performance based on 5G Network Function and Slice Load Analysis, Rui Ferreira (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal and University of Beira Interior, Covilha); Joao Fonseca (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal and University of Aveiro and Instituto de Telecomunicacoes); Joao Silva (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal); Mayuri Tendulkar (Capgemini Engineering, Bengaluru, India); Paulo Duarte (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal); Marco Araujo (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal); Raul Barbosa (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal and University of Aveiro and Instituto de Telecomunicacoes); Bruno Mendes (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal and University of Aveiro and Instituto de Telecomunicacoes); Adriano Goes (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal)
9. DEMO: Object detection under 5G-edge mobility, Marco Araujo (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal); Joao Silva (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal); Pedro M. Santos (CISTER Research Center, ISEP); Himanshu Singh (Capgemini Engineering, Gurugram, India); Deepak Gunjal (Capgemini Engineering, Gurugram, India); Joao Fonseca (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal and University of Aveiro and Instituto de Telecomunicacoes); Paulo Duarte (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal); Bruno Mendes (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal and University of Aveiro and Instituto de Telecomunicacoes); Raul Barbosa (Capgemini Engineering, Porto, Portugal and University of Aveiro and Instituto de Telecomunicacoes); Peter Steenkiste (Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University); Saeid Sabamoniri (CISTER Research Center, ISEP); Luis Lam (CISTER Research Center, ISEP); Joao Pereira (CISTER Research Center, ISEP); Harrison Kurunathan (CISTER Research Center, ISEP)
10. DEMO: Disaggregated Mobile Core for Edge City Services, Pedro Valente (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes and DETI, University of Aveiro); Jose Oliveira (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes and DETI, University of Aveiro); Duarte Raposo (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes); Pedro Rito (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes); Susana Sargento (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes and DETI, University of Aveiro)
11. DEMO: Remote Robot Control with Haptic Feedback over the Munich 5G Research Hub Testbed, Serkut Ayvasık (Chair of Communication Networks, Technical University of Munich); Edwin Babaians (Chair of Media Technology, Technical University of Munich); Arled Papa (Chair of Communication Networks, Technical University of Munich); Yash Deshpande (Chair of Communication Networks, Technical University of Munich); Alba Jano (Chair of Communication Networks, Technical University of Munich); Wolfgang Kellerer (Chair of Communication Networks, Technical University of Munich); and Eckehard Steinbach (Chair of Media Technology, Technical University of Munich)
12. DEMO: The Future of Dog Walking - Four-Legged Robots and Augmented Reality, Jannek Steinke (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden); Justus Rischke (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden); Peter Sossalla (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden); Johannes Hofer (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden); Christian L. Vielhaus (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden); Nico vom Hofe (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden); and Frank H. P. Fitzek (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden, Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), 6G-life)
13. DEMO: [SeBaSi] system-level Integrated Access and Backhaul simulator for self-backhauling, Amir Ashtari Gargari (Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova); Matteo Pagin (Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova); Andrea Ortiz (Communications Engineering Lab, TU Darmstadt); Nairy Moghadas Gholian (Wireless Communications and Sensing Lab (WISE), TU Darmstadt); Michele Polese (Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, Northeastern University); Michele Zorzi (Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova)
14. DEMO: Robotics meets Augmented Reality: Real-Time Mapping with Boston Dynamics Spot and Microsoft HoloLens 2, Nico vom Hofe (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden); Peter Sossalla (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden); Johannes Hofer (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden); Christian L. Vielhaus (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden); Justus Rischke (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden); Jannek Steinke (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden); and Frank H. P. Fitzek (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden, Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), 6G-life)
15. DEMO: TactSR: Utilizing SRv6 to Optimize the Routing Behavior for Tactical Networks, Eryk Schiller (Communication Systems Group CSG, Department of Informatics IfI, University of Zurich); Chao Feng (Communication Systems Group CSG, Department of Informatics IfI, University of Zurich); Rafael Hengen Ribeiro (Communication Systems Group CSG, Department of Informatics IfI, University of Zurich); Francesco Marino (RUAG Schweiz AG); Martin Buck (RUAG Schweiz AG); Burkhard Stiller (Communication Systems Group CSG, Department of Informatics IfI, University of Zurich)

WIPs: (DURATION: 1H 30’ – 18 MIN/PAPER INCLUDING QUESTIONS)

1. WIP: Performance Evaluation of Angle-based Handover in LEO-based NTN, Jina Yu (Ajou University, Korea (South)); Tae-Yoon Kim (Ajou University, Korea (South)); Jae-Hyun Kim (Ajou University, South Korea, Korea (South))
2. WIP: Two Packet Collision Model Parameter Sets, Thomas Hänel (Osnabrück University, Germany); Clemens Hoppenau (Osnabrück University, Germany); Jannis Mast (Osnabrück University, Germany); Nils Aschenbruck (Osnabrück University, Germany)
3. WIP: Multi-connectivity user associations in mmWave networks: a distributed multi-agent deep reinforcement learning method, Shanwei Gao (Wenzhou University, China); Zhenzhou Tang (Wenzhou University, China)
4. WIP: Optimizing Solar-powered BLE Beacons for Wildlife Monitoring, Josef Miller (San Diego State University, USA); Mauro Garcia (San Diego State University, USA); Baris Aksanli (San Diego State University, USA)
5. WIP: Federated Learning for Routing in Swarm Based Distributed Multi-Hop Networks, Martha E Cash (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Joseph Murphy (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Alexander M. Wyglinski (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Session 3A: Edge Computing (DURATION: 1H 30’ – 22 MIN/PAPER INCLUDING QUESTIONS)

1. AoI-Optimal Data Collection, Offloading, and Migration in Mobile Edge Networks, Jialiang Feng (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Jie Gong (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
2. Disaggregated Mobile Core for Edge City Services, Pedro Valente (Instituto de Telecomunicações & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Duarte Raposo (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Pedro Rito (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Susana Sargento (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
3. Admission Control with Latency Considerations for 5G Mobile Edge Computing, Ye Zhang (Inner Mongolia University, China); Wuyungerile Li (Inner Mongolia University, China); Winston K.G. Seah (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
4. fuzzyForward: A Novel Multi-hop Data Forwarding Scheme Using Fuzzy Decision for Edge VANETs, Yinglong Li (Zhejiang University of Technolgy, China); Dan Meng (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Xinchen Xu (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Tieming Chen (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Yanjun Li (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Ting Wang (Zhejiang University of Technology, China)

Session 3B: Wireless (DURATION: 1H 30’ – 22 MIN/PAPER INCLUDING QUESTIONS)

1. LASA: Location-Aware Scheduling Algorithm in Industrial IoT Networks with Mobile Nodes, Marco Pettorali (University of Pisa - Dip. Ingegneria Informazione, Italy); Francesca Righetti (University of Pisa, Italy); Carlo Vallati (University of Pisa, Italy); Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Giuseppe Anastasi (University of Pisa, Italy)
2. Context-Aware Heterogeneous Task Scheduling for Multi-Layered Systems, Sharon Ladron de Guevara Contreras (University of California, Irvine, USA); Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine, USA)
3. On the Impact of Coding Depth in Sliding Window Random Linear Network Coding Schemes, Foteini Karetsi (University of Ioannina, Greece); Christos Liaskos (University of Ioannina, Greece & Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); Sotiris Ioannidis (Technical University of Crete, Greece); Evangelos Papapetrou (University of Ioannina, Greece)
4. Cost-Efficient Mobility Management in 5G, Anna Prado (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Fidan Mehmeti (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)

Session 4A: WiFi & Unlicensed (DURATION: 1H 30’ – 22 MIN/PAPER INCLUDING QUESTIONS)

1. Evaluating Wifibroadcast for Long-Distance UAV-to-Ground Data Transmission, Jannis Mast (Osnabrück University, Germany); Thomas Hänel (Osnabrück University, Germany); Nikolas Wintering (Osnabrück University, Germany); Nils Aschenbruck (Osnabrück University, Germany)
2. A Wi-Fi Energy Model for Scalable Simulation, Clément Courageux-Sudan (Inria, France); Anne-Cécile Orgerie (CNRS & IRISA, France); Martin Quinson (ENS de Rennes, France)
3. FTMRate: Collision-Immune Distance-based Data Rate Selection for IEEE 802.11 Networks, Wojciech Ciężobka (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Maksymilian Wojnar (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Katarzyna Kosek-Szott (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Szymon Szott (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Krzysztof Rusek (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
4. An Empirical Study of Interference Features in Licensed and Unlicensed Bands for Intelligent Spectrum Management, Zhuoran Su (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Kaveh Pahlavan (WPI, USA); Bashima Islam (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Session 4B: Applications (DURATION: 1H 30’ – 22 MIN/PAPER INCLUDING QUESTIONS)

1. LNMesh: Who Said You need Internet to send Bitcoin? Offline Lightning Network Payments using Community Wireless Mesh Networks, Ahmet Kurt (Florida International University, USA); Abdulhadi Sahin (Florida International University, USA); Ricardo Harrilal-Parchment (Florida International University, USA); Kemal Akkaya (Florida International University, USA)
2. Real-Time Electric Vehicle Intelligent Charging Scheduling Strategy in Real Traffic Scenarios, Yue Yang (Heilongjiang University, China); Gang Pan (Heilongjiang University, China); Jinghua Zhu (Heilongjiang University, China)
3. HeadSense: Visual Search Monitoring and Distracted Behavior Detection for Bicycle Riders, Zengyi Han (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Xuefu Dong (The Universiy of Tokyo, Japan); Yuuki Nishiyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Kaoru Sezaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
4. PEPPER: Precise Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing with Cheap, BLE/UWB Capable Tokens, Francois-Xavier Molina (STMicroelectronics, France); Vincent Roca (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France); Roudy Dagher (Inria, France); Emmanuel Baccelli (INRIA, France); Nathalie Mitton (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France); Antoine Boutet (Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI, France); Mathieu Cunche (INSA-Lyon / INRIA, France)