Symposia: Friday, 10 December

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Madrid time	Friday, 10 December
09:00 am ‑ 10:30 am	Beamforming 2 Deep Learning I Intelligent Reflective Surfaces 2 Network Slicing, MEC, and NFV (1) Social Network Analysis II CISS11: Application Security CISS6: Physical Layer Security 1 CSSMA3: Vehicular and 5G Communications CSSMA8: Forensics and Tracking CT7: Feedback and Decision Making in Communication Systems IoTSN 10: Technical Papers IoTSN 9: Technical Papers MWN8: UAV, UAV-Assisted Networks NGNI-4: Named Data Networking ONS4: Optical Network Optimisation I RO: Resource optimization SAC SSC5: Near-Earth Satellite Communications SAC-BD-S5: Big Data and Edge SAC-FDC-2: Full Duplex Systems and Optimization SPC11: Signal Processing for Multiple Access
10:30 am ‑ 11:00 am
11:00 am ‑ 12:30 pm	Cell-free communications Machine Learning for 5G and Beyond Network Slicing, MEC, and NFV (2) Resource Allocation Social Internet of Things CISS13: Software Security CISS5: IoT Security 2 CSSMA4: Video Streaming CT8: Counter Fading Communication Theory GCSN5: Green Mobile Edge Networks GlobecomAerialCom-S5: Globecom 2021 Aerial Communications Session 5 IoTSN 11: Technical Papers IoTSN 12: Technical Papers MWN9: Resource Allocation and Channel Management NGNI-12: AI for networking NGNI-2: QoS/QoE RA: Resource allocation SAC SGC2: Smart Grid Security SAC-BD-S6: Big Data and Privacy SPC7: Signal Processing for mmWave & THz Communications
12:30 ‑ 2:00 pm
2:00 pm ‑ 3:30 pm	Coding for Storage and Computing Internet of Things (IoT) Intrusion and Anomaly Detection THz communications UAV Communications CISS3: AI aided Security 3 CT9: Coding (I) GCSN3: Energy Efficient UAV and Vehicular Networks IoTSN 13: Technical Papers IoTSN 14: Technical Papers MWN13: Efficient Wireless Systems MWN14: Cellular Systems and Emerging Technologies MWN16: Delay Tolerant Networks, Underwater and Multimedia Networks NGNI-1: Mobile Edge Computing NGNI-9: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) - 2 ONS5: Optical Network Optimisation II SAC MBMSC2: Molecular Communications: Design and Applications SAC SSC6: Satellite Networking SAC-BD-S7: Big Data Applications (2) SPC5: Semantic Communications TM III: Traffic management III
3:30 pm ‑ 5:30 pm

Friday, December 10

Friday, December 10 9:00 - 10:30

Beamforming 2

MmWave MIMO Hybrid Precoding Design Using Phase Shifters and Switches: Qiang Liu and Chenhao Qi (Southeast University, China); Xianghao Yu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Geoffrey Ye Li (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Hybrid Analog-Digital Beamforming in Cooperative mmWave MIMO Systems: Pengfei Ni, Rang Liu, Ming Li and Qian Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Low-complexity Multicast Beamforming for Multi-stream Multi-group Communications: Hamidreza Bakhshzad Mahmoodi, Bikshapathi Gouda, MohammadJavad Salehi and Antti Tölli (University of Oulu, Finland)
Millimeter Wave Analog Beamforming Codebooks Robust to Self-Interference: Ian P Roberts (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Hardik Jain (The University of Texas at Austin & GenXComm Inc., USA); Sriram Vishwanath (University of Texas Austin, USA); Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Analog Eigen-Beamforming for mmWave Systems: Performance under practical constraints: Corentin Fonteneau (Orange Labs, France); Matthieu Crussière (Univ Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, IETR, France); Bruno Jahan (France Telecom, France)

Deep Learning I

Densely-Accumulated Convolutional Network for Accurate LPI Radar Waveform Recognition: Thien Huynh-The (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea (South)); Quoc-Viet Pham (Pusan National University, Korea (South)); Toan-Van Nguyen (Utah State University, USA); Sang Van Doan (Vietnam Naval Academy, Vietnam & ICT CRC, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea (South)); Nhan Thanh Nguyen (University of Oulu, Finland); Daniel Benevides da Costa (National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech), Taiwan); Dong Seong Kim (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea (South))
MCformer: A transformer based deep neural network for automatic modulation classification: Shahab Hamidi-Rad (Interdigital Communication, USA); Swayambhoo Jain (Microsoft, USA)
Short-Packet Communications in Multi-Hop WPINs: Performance Analysis and Deep Learning Design: Toan-Van Nguyen (Utah State University, USA); Van-Dinh Nguyen (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Daniel Benevides da Costa (National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech), Taiwan); Beongku An (Hongik University, Korea (South))
Adversarial Learning for Hiding Wireless Signals: Hesham Mohammed (University at Albany, SUNY, USA); Xue Wei (University At Albany SUNY, USA); Dola Saha (University at Albany, SUNY, USA)

Intelligent Reflective Surfaces 2

Simultaneously Transmitting And Reflecting RIS Aided NOMA With Randomly Deployed Users: Chao Zhang and Wenqiang Yi (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kaifeng Han (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France)
Intelligently Wireless Batteryless RF-Powered Reconfigurable Surface: Iosif Vardakis, Georgios Kotridis, Spyridon Peppas, Konstantinos Skyvalakis, Georgios Vougioukas and Aggelos Bletsas (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Sum-rate Maximization for RIS-assisted Radar and Communication Coexistence System: Eyad Shtaiwi (University of Houston, USA); Hongliang Zhang (Princeton University, USA); Ahmed Abdelhadi and Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Joint Transmit Power and Reflection Beamforming Design for IRS-Aided Covert Communications: Xiaobo Zhou (School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, China); Shihao Yan (The University of New South Wales, Australia); Qingqing Wu (University of Macau, China); Feng Shu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Network Slicing, MEC, and NFV (1)

Complex Network Analysis for Ultra-Large-Scale MEC Small-Cell Based Peer-Offloading: Hao Ran Chi (Instituto de Telecomunicações and Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Maria de Fatima Domingues (Instituto de Telecomunicações & University of Aveiro, Portugal); Ayman Radwan (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Online Resource Allocation for SDN-Based Mobile Edge Computing: Reinforcement Approaches: Huatong Jiang, Yanjun Li and Meihui Gao (Zhejiang University of Technology, China)
QoS-Aware Mapping and Scheduling for Virtual Network Functions in Industrial 5G-TSN Network: Yajing Zhang, Qimin Xu, Mingyan Li, Cailian Chen and Xinping Guan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Minimizing the Latency of Embedding Dependence-Aware SFCs into MEC Network via Graph Theory: Shuya Zheng, Zhiyuan Ren, Wenchi Cheng and Hailin Zhang (Xidian University, China)
Service Deployment Model with Virtual Network Function Resizing: Keigo Akahoshi, Fujun He and Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)

Social Network Analysis II

IGCN: Infected Graph Convolutional Network based Source Identification: Qiang Guo and Chong Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Haisong Zhang (Tencent AI Lab, China); Luoyi Fu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
MHCNC: A Novel Framework for Multi-Source Heterogeneous Cross-Network Node Classification: Hongwei Yang, Hui He, Weizhe Zhang and Tao Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Empirical Analysis of Aging Effects on Preferential Attachment with a Massive Twitter Dataset: Kuldip Singh Atwal (University of Central Florida, USA); John Murphy (Northern Illinois University, USA); Ivan Garibay (University of Central Florida, USA)
Pri-PGD: Forging privacy-preserving graph towards spectral-based graph neural network: Yong Zeng (Xidian University, China); Yixin Li (University of XiDian, China); JiaLe Liu (School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, China); Jianfeng Ma and Zhihong Liu (Xidian University, China)

CISS11: Application Security

Accurate and Fast Detection of DDoS Attacks in High-Speed Network with Asymmetric Routing: Hua Wu, Tingzheng Chen, Ziling Shao, Guang Cheng and Xiaoyan Hu (Southeast University, China)
Slider: Towards Precise, Robust and Updatable Sketch-based DDoS Flooding Attack Detection: Xin Cheng, Zhiliang Wang and Shize Zhang (Tsinghua University, China); Jia Li (National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team, China); Jiahai Yang (Tsinghua University, China); Xinran Liu (National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team, China)
Stand-in Backdoor: A Stealthy and Powerful Backdoor Attack: Shuang Li, Hongwei Li and Hanxiao Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
DOLPHIN: Phonics based Detection of DGA Domain Names: Dan Zhao (Xi'an Jiaotong University & Xi'an University of Finance and Economics, China); Hao Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Xiuwen Sun (Anhui University, China); Yazhe Tang (Xi'an JiaoTong University, China)
Measuring Adoption of DNS Security Mechanisms with Cross-Sectional Approach: Masanori Yajima (Waseda University, Japan); Daiki Chiba (NTT Security (Japan) KK, Japan); Yoshiro Yoneya (JPRS, Japan); Tatsuya Mori (Waseda University, Japan)

CISS6: Physical Layer Security 1

Joint Transmit Precoding and Reflect Beamforming for IRS-Assisted MIMO-OFDM Secure Communications: Weiheng Jiang and Bolin Chen (Chongqing University, China); Sahil Garg (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Jiangtian Nie (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Jun Zhao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Hybrid Beamforming Design for Covert Multicast mmWave Massive MIMO Communications: Wei Ci and Chenhao Qi (Southeast University, China); Geoffrey Ye Li (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)
On the Secrecy Rate under Statistical QoS Provisioning for RIS-assisted MISO Wiretap Channel: Vaibhav Kumar and Mark F. Flanagan (University College Dublin, Ireland); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Le-Nam Tran (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Anti-Jamming in Cell Free mMIMO systems: Nguyen Ti Ti and Kim Khoa Nguyen (University of Quebec, Canada)
Secrecy of Massive MIMO Systems Under Antenna Failure: Mohammad Assiri and Mario E. Magaña (Oregon State University, USA)

CSSMA3: Vehicular and 5G Communications

CSSMA3-6 papers

Adaptive Vehicle Platooning With Joint Network-Traffic Approach: Chinmay S Mahabal (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA); Hua Fang (University of Massachusetts Medical School & Dartmouth, USA); Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth & College of Engineering, USA); Qing Yang (University of North Texas, USA)
A Personalized Learning Scheme for Internet of Vehicles Caching: Soufiane Oualil (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco); Rachid Oucheikh (Jönköping University, Sweden); Mohamed El Kamili (Higher School of Technology, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco); Ismail Berrada (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco)
Video Service-Oriented Vehicular Collaboration: A Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization Approach: Zhidu Li (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xue Jiang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications & School of Communication and Information Engineering, China); Dapeng Wu (CQUPT, China); Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth & College of Engineering, USA); Tong Tang and Ruyan Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Frame-Level Integrated Transmission for Extended Reality over 5G and Beyond: Erkai Chen, Shengyue Dou, ShaoBo Wang and Youlong Cao (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Shuri Liao (Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., China)

CSSMA8: Forensics and Tracking

A Common but Flexible Method for IoT DeviceForensics: Zhouzhou Li, Waleed Amer, Grey Ruessler, Mario Garcia and Xiaoming Liu (Southeast Missouri State University, USA)
Understanding Digital Forensic Characteristics of Smart Speaker Ecosystems: Xuanyu Liu, Ang Li, Xiao Fu and Bin Luo (Nanjing University, China); Xiaojiang Du (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)
Meta-Pose: Environment-adaptive Human Skeleton Tracking with RFID: Chao Yang and Lingxiao Wang (Auburn University, USA); Xuyu Wang (California State University, Sacramento, USA); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)
MOTrack: Real-time Configuration Adaptation for Video Analytics through Movement Tracking: Fubao Wu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA); Lixin Gao (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA); Tian Zhou (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Xi Wang (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Photonic sensors for non-invasive home monitoring of elders: Ana Nepomuceno (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Paulo Antunes (Aveiro University and I3N & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Nelia Alberto (Instituto de Telecomunicações and University of Aveiro, Portugal); Paulo S André (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Hao Ran Chi (Instituto de Telecomunicações and Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Ayman Radwan (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Maria de Fatima Domingues (Instituto de Telecomunicações & University of Aveiro, Portugal)

CT7: Feedback and Decision Making in Communication Systems

Harnessing Random Receiver Cache in Erasure Interference Channels with Feedback: Alireza Vahid (University of Colorado Denver, USA)
Instantaneous Feedback-based Opportunistic Symbol Length Adaptation for Reliable Communication: Chin-Wei Hsu (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA); Achilleas Anastasopoulos and Hun Seok Kim (University of Michigan, USA)
Improving Energy-Efficiency Using Successively Reordered Transmissions and Feedback: Sayantan Adhikary (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); Neelesh B. Mehta (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Decentralized Decision-Making for Multi-Agent Networks: the State-Dependent Case: Joni Shaska and Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA)

IoTSN 10: Technical Papers

Enabling Mobile Edge Computing for Battery-less Intermittent IoT Devices: Yu-Tai Lin and Yu-Cheng Hsiao (Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Chih-Yu Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Optimal Deployment of Fog Nodes, Microservices and SDN Controllers in Time-Strict IoT Scenarios: Juan Luis Herrera and Jaime Galán-Jiménez (University of Extremadura, Spain); Paolo Bellavista and Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy); José García-Alonso, Juan Manuel Murillo Rodriguez and Javier Berrocal (University of Extremadura, Spain)
PWPAE: An Ensemble Framework for Concept Drift Adaptation in IoT Data Streams: Li Yang, Dimitrios M Manias and Abdallah Shami (Western University, Canada)
PFCC: Predictive Fast Consensus Convergence for Mobile Blockchain over 5G Slicing-enabled IoT: Yuan Shi, Gaolei Li and Jun Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Xin Xu (No. 1 Middle School of Xiangtan County, Hunan, China); Jianhua Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Exploring Tradeoffs between Energy Consumption and Network Performance in Cellular-IoT: a Survey: Nicholas D Accurso, Nicholas Mastronarde and Filippo Malandra (University at Buffalo, USA)

IoTSN 9: Technical Papers

A Reliable Real-Time Slow DoS Detection Framework for Resource-Constrained IoT Networks: Andy Reed, Laurence Dooley and Soraya Kouadri (The Open University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
STEPS - Score Table based Evaluation and Parameters Surfing approach of LoRaWAN: Mi Chen (Univ Paris Est Creteil, LACL, France); Lynda Mokdad (Université de Paris 12 & Laboratoire LACL, France); Jalel Ben Othman (Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, CentraleSupélec & Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France); Jean-Michel Fourneau (Univ de Versailles, Lab. DAVID, France)
Direct Analytics of Generalized Deduplication Compressed IoT Data: Aaron Hurst, Qi Zhang, Daniel E. Lucani and Ira Assent (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Thermal Profiling by WiFi Sensing in IoT Networks: Junye Li (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Aryan Sharma (University of New South Wales, Australia); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Aruna Seneviratne (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Congestion-Aware Routing in Dynamic IoT Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach: Hossam Farag (Aalborg University, Sweden); Čedomir Stefanović (Aalborg University, Denmark)

MWN8: UAV, UAV-Assisted Networks

MWN8-5 papers

Joint Path Planning of Truck and Drones for Mobile Crowdsensing: Model and Algorithm: Zijia Wang and Baoxian Zhang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Cheng Li (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
A Joint Strategy Design for CUAV-based Traffic Offloading via Deep Reinforcement Learning: Xuanheng Li, Sike Cheng, Nan Zhao and Nianmin Yao (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Energy Efficiency Optimization for D2D communications in UAV-assisted Networks with SWIPT: Zhijie Su, Jie Tang, Wanmei Feng, Zhen Chen and Yuli Fu (South China University of Technology, China); Kai-Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Capacity Optimization for Downlink Multiuser MISO UAV Mobile Communication: Yikun Zou (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Gang Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology School of Electronics and Information Engineering, China); Jinlong Wang, Ruofei Zhou and Tong Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Drone-Aided Network Coding for Secure Wireless Communications: A Reinforcement Learning Approach: Hongyan Li, Shi Yu, Xiaozhen Lu and Liang Xiao (Xiamen University, China); Li-Chun Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

NGNI-4: Named Data Networking

5 papers

Towards Problem of First Miss under Mobile Edge Caching: Yanpeng Luo and Chao Song (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University & State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, China); Zhaofu Chen (Huawei, China); Nianbo Liu and Ming Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)
When QUIC's Connection Migration Meets Middleboxes A case study on mobile Wi-Fi hotspot: Yihui Yan and Zhice Yang (ShanghaiTech University, China)
A GNN-based Approach to Optimize Cache Hit Ratio in NDN Networks: Jiacheng Hou (University of Ottawa, Canada); Huanzhang Xia (University of Toronto, Canada); Haoye Lu and Amiya Nayak (University of Ottawa, Canada)
QKDN meets ICN: Efficient Secure In-Network Data Acquisition: Kazuhisa Matsuzono (National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT), Japan); Takaya Miyazawa and Hitoshi Asaeda (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)
Blue Data Computation Maximization in 6G Space-Air-Sea Non-Terrestrial Networks: Sheikh Salman Hassan and Yan Kyaw Tun (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South)); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Choong Seon Hong (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South))

ONS4: Optical Network Optimisation I

ONS4-6 papers

Strategies for Dedicated Path Protection in Filterless Optical Networks: Memedhe Ibrahimi and Omran Ayoub (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Fabio Albanese (Politecnico di MIlano, Italy); Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy)
Edge-cloud Collaborative Heterogeneous Task Scheduling in Multilayer Elastic Optical Networks: Zeyuan Yang and Rentao Gu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zuqing Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Ji Yuefeng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for PON Slicing with Performance-Guaranteed Online Convex Optimization: Genya Ishigaki (The University of Texas at Dallas); Siddartha Devic (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Riti Gour (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Jason P. Jue (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
A Reinforcement Learning-Based Admission Control Strategy for Elastic Network Slices: Zhouxiang Wu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Genya Ishigaki (San José State University, USA); Riti Gour (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Jason P. Jue (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Design of Survivable Metro-Aggregation Networks based on Digital Subcarrier Routing: Mohammad Mohammad Hosseini (Aston University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Joao Pedro (Infinera Unipessoal Lda & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Antonio Napoli (Infinera, Germany); Nelson Costa (Infinera, Portugal); Jaroslaw Prilepsky (Aston University & Aston Institute of Photonic Tehcnologies, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sergei K. Turitsyn (Aston University & Photonics Research Group, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

RO: Resource optimization

TTL-Based Cache Utility Maximization Using Deep Reinforcement Learning: Chunglae Cho and Seungjae Shin (ETRI, Korea (South)); Hongseok Jeon (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea (South)); Seunghyun Yoon (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute(ETRI), Korea (South))
Deep Reinforcement Learning for cell ON-Off energy saving on Wireless Networks: Joan Pujol Roig and Shangbin Wu (Samsung R&D Institute UK, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yue Wang (Samsung Electronics, USA); Minsuk Choi (Samsung Research, Seoul R&D Campus, Korea (South)); Intaik Park (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))
BEAR: Reinforcement Learning for Throughput Aware Borrowing in Energy Harvesting Systems: Anubhav Sachan (National Institute of Technology Silchar, India); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Ganesh Prasad (NIT Silchar, India)
Improved UCB-based Energy-Efficient Channel Selection in Hybrid-Band Wireless Communication: Sherief Hashima (Postdoctoral & RIKEN-AIP Japan, Japan); Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA); Zubair Md Fadlullah (Lakehead University, Canada); Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed (Aswan University, Egypt); Kohei Hatano (Kyushu University & RIKEN AIP, Japan)
Learning Assisted Identification of Scenarios Where Network Optimization Algorithms Under-Perform: Dmitriy Rivkin, David Meger, Di Wu and Xi Chen (Samsung Electronics, Canada); Xue Liu (McGill University, Canada); Gregory Dudek (Samsung Electronics, Canada)

SAC SSC5: Near-Earth Satellite Communications

SAC SSC5-5 papers

Multi-layer LEO Satellite Constellation Design for Seamless Global Coverage: Pengfei Wang, Boya Di and Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)
5G Massive Machine Type Communication Performance in Non-Terrestrial Networks with LEO Satellites: Jonas Sedin and Smriti Gopinath (Ericsson, Sweden); Xingqin Lin (Ericsson Research, USA); Olof Liberg (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Talha Ahmed Khan (Ericsson Research, USA); Emre A. Yavuz (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Sebastian Euler (Ericsson, Sweden)
Downlink Analysis of LEO Multi-Beam Satellite Communication in Shadowed Rician Channels: Eunsun Kim, Ian P Roberts, Peter A Iannucci and Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Uplink Transmission Probability Functions for LoRa-Based Direct-to-Satellite IoT: A Case Study: Kai Vogelgesang (Saarland University, Germany); Juan Fraire (CONICET, National University of Córdoba, Argentina); Holger Hermanns (Saarland University, Germany)
Twin-Resolution Phase Shifters Based Massive MIMO Hybrid Precoding for LEO SATCOM with Nonlinear PAs: Xiaoyu Qiang, Li You and Ke-Xin Li (Southeast University, China); Christos G. Tsinos (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Wenjin Wang and Xiqi Gao (Southeast University, China); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

SAC-BD-S5: Big Data and Edge

A Novel Cross-domain Access Control Protocol in Mobile Edge Computing: Quanwen He (FuJian Normal University & College of Mathematics and Informatics, China); Lin Hui (Fujian Normal University, China); Jia Hu (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xiaoding Wang (Fujian Normal University, China)
An Incentive Mechanism for Big Data Trading in End-Edge-Cloud Hierarchical Federated Learning: Yunfeng Zhao, Zhicheng Liu, Chao Qiu and Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Victor C.M. Leung (Shenzhen University, China & The University of British Columbia, Canada)
ICE: Intelligent Caching at the Edge: Ting Wang, Jiawei Mao and Mingsong Chen (East China Normal University, China); Gang Liu (Nokia Bell Labs Shanghai, China); Jieming Di (Microsoft Corporation, USA); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
TPA based content popularity prediction for caching and routing in edge-cloud cooperative network: Bo Yi and Fuliang Li (Northeastern University, China); Yuchao Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xingwei Wang (Northeastern University, China)
Distributed Service Migration in Satellite Mobile Edge Computing: Zhen Li (Tsinghua University, China); Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Jianhua Lu (Tsinghua University, China)

SAC-FDC-2: Full Duplex Systems and Optimization

Non-Coherent Fast-Forward Relays for Full-Duplex Jamming Attack: Vivek Chaudhary (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India); J Harshan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
Robust Power and Position Optimization for the Full-Duplex Receiver in Covert Communication: Rui Xu, Lei Guan, Yue Zhao, Zan Li and Danyang Wang (Xidian University, China)
Analysis of Statistical CSI-based Optimized Phase-Shift IRS-aided FD mMIMO System: Nitish Vikas Deshpande (North Carolina State University, USA); Sauradeep Dey and Dheeraj Naidu Amudala (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India); Ekant Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India); Rohit Budhiraja (IIT Kanpur, India)
Energy-Efficient Beamforming Design for User-Centric Full-Duplex Wireless Backhaul Networks: Danyang Yu, Yi Liu and Hailin Zhang (Xidian University, China)

SPC11: Signal Processing for Multiple Access

Power Optimization for Secure mmWave-NOMA Network with Hybrid SU-CU Grouping: Yang Cao (Dalian University of Technology, China); Shuai Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Minglu Jin and Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, China); Yunfei Chen (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada)
Hierarchical Information Accessibility in Downlink MIMO Systems: Kanguk Lee (Kyungpook National University, Korea (South)); Jinseok Choi (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Dong Ku Kim (Yonsei University, Korea (South)); Jeonghun Park (Kyungpook National University, Korea (South))
Low-Latency Driven Performance Analysis for Single-Cluster NOMA Networks: Zhengyu Song (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Wenjuan Yu (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lixia Xiao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Leila Musavian (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Qiang Ni (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xin Sun (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Enabling Ubiquitous Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access and Pervasive Federated Learning via STAR-RIS: Wanli Ni (Beijng University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Zhaohui Yang (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hui Tian (Beijng University of posts and telecommunications, China)

Friday, December 10 11:00 - 12:30

Cell-free communications

Performance Analysis of IRS-Assisted Cell-Free Communication: Diluka A Loku Galappaththige (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA); Dhanushka P Kudathanthirige (Cornell College, USA); Gayan Amarasuriya (Southern Illinois University, USA)
Towards Reliable Communications in Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Cell-Free MIMO Systems: Rui Huang and Vincent W.S. Wong (University of British Columbia, Canada)
RIS and Cell-Free Massive MIMO: A Marriage For Harsh Propagation Environments: Trinh Van Chien (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Hien Ngo (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Deep Learning-Based Power Control for Uplink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems: Yongshun Zhang, Jiayi Zhang and Yu Jin (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale/CNIT, Italy); Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Machine Learning for 5G and Beyond

Self-optimized network: When Machine Learning Meets Optimization: Abdelhakim Nacef (University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Algeria); Miloud Bagaa (Aalto University, Finland); Youcef Aklouf (University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene - USTHB, Algeria); Abdellah Kaci (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Technologie, Algeria); Diego Leonel Cadette Dutra (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France)
CNN-Based Signal Detector for IM-OFDMA: Ozgur Alaca (Texas A&M University, USA); Saud Althunibat (Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Jordan); Serhan Yarkan (Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey); Scott Miller (Texas A&M University, USA); Khalid A. Qaraqe (Texas A&M University at Qatar, USA)
Reinforcement Learning for Hybrid Energy LoRa Wireless Networks: Rami Hamdi (AFG University of Aberdeen, Qatar); Emna Baccour, Aiman Erbad, Marwa Qaraqe and Mounir Hamdi (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
Federated Learning based Audio Semantic Communication over Wireless Networks: Haonan Tong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhaohui Yang (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sihua Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ye Hu (Virginia tech, USA); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Service Function Chain Reconfiguration in 5G Core Networks Using Deep Learning: Mehdi Setayesh and Vincent W.S. Wong (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Network Slicing, MEC, and NFV (2)

Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient-Based Edge Caching: An Inherent Performance Tradeoff: Meng Lei, Qiang Li and Rong Wu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Ashish Pandharipande (Philips Research, The Netherlands); Xiaohu Ge (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China)
Offloading Optimization with Delay Constraint in the 3-tier Federated Cloud, Edge, and Fog Systems: Ren-Hung Hwang (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan); Yuan-Cheng Lai (Information Management, NTUST, Taiwan); Ying-Dar Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-assisted Edge Computing to Minimize Delay in Task Offloading: Mithun Mukherjee (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China); Vikas Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna & Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, India); Suman Kumar (IGNTU Amarkatnak, India); Jaime Lloret (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Qi Zhang (Aarhus University, Denmark); Mian Guo (Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, China)
On the Efficiency of Service and Data Handoff Protocols in Edge Computing Systems: Domenico Scotece (University of Bologna, Italy); Claudio Fiandrino (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy)
A Fast and Scalable Resource Allocation Scheme for End-to-End Network Slices: Panagiotis I. Nikolaidis and John S. Baras (University of Maryland, USA)

Resource Allocation

Reinforcement learning for Admission Control in 5G Wireless Networks: Youri Raaijmakers (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Silvio Mandelli (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Mark Doll (Nokia Bell Labs & Nokia, Germany)
Learning Proximal Operator Methods for Massive Connectivity in IoT Networks: Yinan Zou, Yong Zhou and Yuanming Shi (ShanghaiTech University, China); Xu Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
Mean-Field Approximation based Scheduling for Broadcast Channels with Massive Receivers: Changkun Li and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China); Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Resource Allocation for Age of Information Minimization in An OFDM Status Update System: Shuyang Fang, Zhengchuan Chen, Zhong Tian and Yunjian Jia (Chongqing University, China); Min Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Minimizing AoI in Resource-Constrained Multi-Source Relaying Systems with Stochastic Arrivals: Abolfazl Zakeri (University of Oulu & Center for Wireless Communications, Finland); Mohammad Moltafet and Markus Leinonen (University of Oulu, Finland); Marian Codreanu (Linkoping University, Sweden)

Social Internet of Things

Efficient Online Decentralized Learning Framework for Social Internet of Things: Cheng-Wei Ching (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Hung-Sheng Huang, Chun-An Yang and Jian-Jhih Kuo (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Ren-Hung Hwang (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan)
A Multi-tiered Social IoT Architecture for Scalable and Trusted Service Provisioning: Giancarlo Sciddurlo, Ingrid Huso, Domenico Striccoli, Giuseppe Piro and Gennaro Boggia (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
Explainable Health State Prediction for Social IoTs through Multi-Channel Attention: Yu-Li Chan and Hong-Han Shuai (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
LOAN: Latency-Aware Task Offloading in Association-Free Social Fog-IoV Networks: Minu Tiwari (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Ilora Maity (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India)

CISS13: Software Security

Robust Detection of Evolving Mobile Malware: Shirish Singh (Columbia University, USA)
Friend or Foe: Discerning Benign vs Malicious Software and Malware Family: Aaron Walker and Tapadhir Das (University of Nevada, Reno, USA); Raj Mani Shukla (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shamik Sengupta (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
Mal-LSGAN: An Effective Adversarial Malware Example Generation Model: Jianhua Wang and Jianan Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada); Yixiang Wang and Xiaolin Chang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Adversarial Text-Based CAPTCHA Generation Method Utilizing Spatial Smoothing: Yuichiro Matsuura, Hiroya Kato and Iwao Sasase (Keio University, Japan)
HyperKRP: A Kernel Runtime Security Architecture with A Tiny Hypervisor on Commodity Hardware: Kunli Lin and Bibo Tu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

CISS5: IoT Security 2

Secrecy Rate Maximization with Gridded UAV Swarm Jamming for passive Eavesdropping: Christantus O Nnamani, Muhammad R. A. Khandaker and Mathini Sellathurai (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Improper Gaussian Signaling Based Covert Wireless Communication in IoT Networks: Danyang Wang and Qifan Fu (Xidian University, China); JiangBo Si (Xi'dian, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada); Zan Li (Xidian University, China)
VehicleCIDS: An Efficient Vehicle Intrusion Detection System Based on Clock Behavior: Yilin Zhao (School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, China); Yijie Xun (Xidian University, China); Jiajia Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Deep Learning Based Device Classification Method for Safeguarding Internet of Things: Yantian Luo, Xu Chen, Ning Ge and Jianhua Lu (Tsinghua University, China)

CSSMA4: Video Streaming

CSSMA4-5 papers

Cybersickness-aware Tile-based Adaptive 360° Video Streaming: Chiao-Wen Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Chih-Hang Wang and De-Nian Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Quality Optimization of Live Streaming Services over HTTP with Reinforcement Learning: Farzad Tashtarian (Institute of Information Technology, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria); Reyhane Falanji (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Alireza Erfanian (Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Alpen-Adria-Universit ̈at Klagenfurt, Austria); Peyman Mashhadi (Halmstad University, Sweden); Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria); Hermann Hellwagner (Klagenfurt University, Austria); Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
EC-360: Speeding Up 360◦ Video Streaming Using Tile-based Online Erasure Coding: Jianxin Shi, Lingjun Pu, Tian Zhang and Jingdong Xu (Nankai University, China)

CT8: Counter Fading Communication Theory

LDL-precoded FTN Signaling with Power Allocation in The Block Fading Channel: Yuan Li, Jianquan Wang, Sa Xiao and Gang Wu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); WanBin Tang (University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, China)
Capacity Optimization using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A Large System Approach: Aris L. Moustakas and George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens, Greece); Mérouane Debbah (Huawei, France)
Robust Design of Secure IRS-aided MISO Broadcasting for SWIPT and Spectrum Sharing: Konstantinos Ntougias and Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
How is Time Frequency Space Modulation Related to Short Time Fourier Signaling?: Akbar Sayeed (USA)

GCSN5: Green Mobile Edge Networks

GCSN5-6 papers

Caching Assisted Correlated Task Offloading for IoT Devices in Mobile Edge Computing: Chaogang Tang (College of Computer Science and Technology, CUMT, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China); Chunsheng Zhu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Huaming Wu (Tianjin University, China); ChunYan Liu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Senac Fac of Ceará, Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
MEC and Blockchain-Enabled Energy-Efficient Internet of Vehicles with A3C Approach: Xinyu Ye and Meng Li (Beijing University of Technology, China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Pengbo Si, Zhuwei Wang and Yanhua Zhang (Beijing University of Technology, China)
FedGreen: Federated Learning with Fine-Grained Gradient Compression for Green Mobile Edge Computing: Peichun Li and Xumin Huang (Guangdong University of Technology, China); Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA); Rong Yu (Guangdong University of Technology, China)
Distributed Resource Management for Licensed and Unlicensed Integrated Mobile Edge Computing: Xiao Lu (Zhejiang University, China); Rui Yin (Zhejiang University City Colle, China & KwaZulu-Natal University, South Africa); Chao Chen (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China); Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Dynamic Task Offloading in MEC-Enabled IoT Networks: A Hybrid DDPG-D3QN Approach: Han Hu and Dingguo Wu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Fuhui Zhou (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Shi Jin (Southeast University, China); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA)
Contrastive Learning based Intelligent Skin Lesion Diagnosis in Edge Computing Networks: Yanhang Shi, Congying Duan and Siguang Chen (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

GlobecomAerialCom-S5: Globecom 2021 Aerial Communications Session 5

Joint Placement and Beamforming Design in Multi-UAV-IRS Assisted Multiuser Communication: Linghui Ge, Hua Zhang and Jun-Bo Wang (Southeast University, China)
Collision-Aware UAV Trajectories for Data Collection via Reinforcement Learning: Xueyuan Wang and M. Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University, USA); Tugba Erpek (Virginia Tech, USA); Yalin E Sagduyu (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA)
Federated Learning for UAV Swarms Under Class Imbalance and Power Consumption Constraints: Ilyes Mrad and Lutfi Samara (Qatar University, Qatar); Alaa Awad Abdellatif (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Abubakr Al-Abbasi (Qualcomm Inc, USA); Ridha Hamila (Qatar University, Qatar); Aiman Erbad (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
Joint Distributed Beamforming and Backscatter Cooperation for UAV-Assisted WPSNs: Zhi Mao (Jilin University, Jilin, China); Fengye Hu (Jilin University, China); Qihao Li, Wen Wu and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Joint Power and Trajectory Optimization for IRS-aided Master-Auxiliary-UAV-powered IoT Networks: Jingren Xu, Xin Kang, Ronghaixiang Zhang and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Stable Online Offloading and Trajectory Control for UAV-enabled MEC with EH Devices: Zheyuan Yang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Suzhi Bi (Shenzhen University, China); Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

IoTSN 11: Technical Papers

In-Network Processing Acoustic Data for Anomaly Detection in Smart Factory: Huanzhuo Wu and Yunbin Shen (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Xun Xiao (Munich Research Center & Huawei, Germany); Artur Hecker (Huawei, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)
IoT-ID: Robust IoT Device Identification Based on Feature Drift Adaptation: Qi Chen (Cyber Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China); Yubo Song (Southeast University, China); Brendan Jennings and Fan Zhang (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland); Bin Xiao and Shang Gao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Open Set Mixed-Reality Human Activity Recognition: Zi xuan Zhang, Lei Chu, Songpengcheng Xia and Ling Pei (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
An Internet-of-Vehicles Powered Defensive Driving Warning Approach for Traffic Safety: Mozhgan Nasr Azadani and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Joint Optimization of UAVs 3-D Placement and Power Allocation in Emergency Communications: Xuewei Wu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Li Wang, Lianming Xu, Zhenyu Liu and Aiguo Fei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

IoTSN 12: Technical Papers

Advanced Secure DNS Name Autoconfiguration with Authentication for Enterprise IoT Network: Tae Hyun Kim, Douglas Reeves and Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State University, USA)
Meta-material Sensors based Internet of Things for 6G Communications: Jingzhi Hu (Peking Univerisity, China); Hongliang Zhang (Princeton University, USA); Boya Di, Kaigui Bian and Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)
Performance Limit of Two-Agent Scheduling with Kinematic Constraints: Feihong Yang and Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University, China)
SRRM: Ranking-based Route Mutation Scheme for Software-Defined WSNs: Manaf Bin-Yahya and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)

MWN9: Resource Allocation and Channel Management

MWN9-5 papers

Distributed DRL-based Resource Allocation for Multicast D2D Communications: Pei-Yu Gong (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan); Chih-Hang Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Jang-Ping Sheu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); De-Nian Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Volatility-Aware Channel Sensing with Commodity 802.11 Hardware: Paulo Fernando Aragao Alves, Jr. and Reinhard Gotzhein (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany); Lucas Sonntag Hagen (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Dynamic switch between load based and frame based channel access mechanisms in unlicensed spectrum: Trung-Kien Le (EURECOM, France); Florian Kaltenberger (Eurecom, France); Umer Salim (France)
How Often Do We Need to Estimate Wireless Channels in Massive MIMO with Channel Aging?: Zhihao Tao and Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, China)
OMP-Based Channel Estimation without Prior Information for Underwater Acoustic OFDM Systems: Donghong Ouyang, Yuzhou Li and Zhizhan Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Chengcai Wang (China Academy of Electronics and Information Technology, China); Yunlong Huang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

NGNI-12: AI for networking

5 papers

CCAS: A Collective Communication Accelerating Switch Architecture for Distributed ML Training: Tao Jiang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Zhan Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, China); Guojun Yuan (Institute of Computing Technology & Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Guangming Tan (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Changliang Wu, Fan Yang and Xiaoxiao Ma (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Packet Routing with Graph Attention Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning: Xuan Mai, Quanzhi Fu and Yi Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)
NerualMon: Graph Neural Network for Flow Measurement Allocation: Yang Wang, Xiong Wang and Zhuobin Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Ci He and Yasheng Zhang (CETC Network Communication Research Institute); Shizhong Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Proactive 3C Resource Allocation for Wireless Virtual Reality Using Deep Reinforcement Learning: Weixi Chen and Qingyang Song (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Peng Lin (Northeastern University, China); Lei Guo (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia)
Deep Recurrent Learning versus Q-Learning for Energy Management Systems in Next Generation Network: Dridi Aicha (Telecom SudParis, France); Chérifa Boucetta (Université de Riems Champagne-Ardenne & Crestic, France); Hassine Moungla (University of Paris Descartes & Instiut Mines Telecom, France); Hossam Afifi (Télécom SudParis, Institut Telecom & Paris Saclay, France)

NGNI-2: QoS/QoE

5 papers

Bandwidth Allocation with Slice Quality Fairness in Network Slicing under Variable Link Capacity: Takamitsu Iwai and Akihiro Nakao (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
A Machine Learning Approach for Rate Prediction in Multicast File-stream Distribution Networks: Yujia Mu, Yuanlong Tan, Malathi Veeraraghavan and Cong Shen (University of Virginia, USA)
In-Network Processing for Low-Latency Industrial Anomaly Detection in Softwarized Networks: Huanzhuo Wu and Jia He (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Máté Tömösközi (Technische Universität Dresden & Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Germany); Zuo Xiang (Technische Universität Dresden & The Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)
Towards SDN-based Deterministic Networking: Deterministic E2E Delay Case: Aiman Nait abbou and Tarik Taleb (Aalto University, Finland); JaeSeung Song (Sejong University, Korea (South))
Deterministic Service Function Chaining over Beyond 5G Edge Fabric: Hao Yu and Tarik Taleb (Aalto University, Finland); Jiawei Zhang (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommnication, China)

RA: Resource allocation

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Resource Allocation Using Buffer State Information: Eike Manuel Bansbach (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany); Victor Eliachevitch (Fraunhofer Society, Germany); Laurent Schmalen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)
Client Selection with Bandwidth Allocation in Federated Learning: Junqian Kuang, Miao Yang and Hongbin Zhu (ShanghaiTech University, China); Hua Qian (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning based Dynamic RAN Slicing for 5G V2X: Umuralp Kaytaz (TU Berlin, GT-ARC gGmbH, Germany); Fikret Sivrikaya (GT-ARC gGmbH & Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Sahin Albayrak (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Radar Aided mmWave Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Link Configuration Using Deep Learning: Yun Chen (North Carolina State University); Andrew Graff (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Nuria González-Prelcic (North Carolina State University, USA); Takayuki Shimizu (Toyota Motor North America, Inc., USA)
Fundamental limits of over-the-air optimization: Are analog schemes optimal?: Shubham K Jha (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India); Prathamesh Mayekar (IISc, India); Himanshu Tyagi (Indian Institute of Science, India)

SAC SGC2: Smart Grid Security

SAC SGC2-3 papers

Honeypot-Enabled Optimal Defense Strategy Selection for Smart Grids: Beibei Li and Yaxin Shi (Sichuan University, China); Qinglei Kong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Chao Zhai (Lumo Road 388, Wuhan & China University of Geosciences, China); Yuankai Ouyang (Sichuan University, China)
A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach for Blockchain-based Electricity Trading System: Yifan Cao, Xiaoxu Ren, Chao Qiu and Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); Haipeng Yao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)
More Power to Save Lives: Distributed Power Scheduling in Smart Microgrid for Disaster Management: Sha Zhu, Kaoru Ota and Mianxiong Dong (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)

SAC-BD-S6: Big Data and Privacy

Spatio-temporal Similarity based Privacy-preserving Worker Selection in Mobile Crowdsensing: Xichen Zhang and Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Suprio Ray (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada); Jun Shao (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China); Ali A. Ghorbani (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
PPDTSA: Privacy-preserving Deep Transformation Self-attention Framework For Object Detection: Bo Ma (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand); Jinsong Wu (Universidad de Chile, Chile); Edmund Lai (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand); Shuolin Hu (Iowa State University, USA)
Fog-Based Conditional Privacy-Preserving Data Batch Verification in Smart Grid: Jingwei Liu (Xidian University, China); Mengjiao Zhao and Jiajia Bao (Xidian University & Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Secure Computing, China); Rong Sun (Xidian University, China); Xiaojiang Du (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)
A Privacy-Preserving Incentive Mechanism for Federated Cloud-Edge Learning: Tianyu Liu and Boya Di (Peking University, China); Shupeng Wang (Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, China); Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)
AirMixML: Over-the-Air Data Mixup for Inherently Privacy-Preserving Edge Machine Learning: Yusuke Koda (Oulu University, Finland); Jihong Park (Deakin University, Australia); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Praneeth Vepakomma and Ramesh Raskar (MIT, USA)

SPC7: Signal Processing for mmWave & THz Communications

SPC7-5 papers

Adaptive Channel Estimation Based on Model-Driven Deep Learning for Wideband mmWave Systems: Weijie Jin (Southeast University, China); Hengtao He (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Chao-Kai Wen (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Shi Jin (Southeast University, China); Geoffrey Ye Li (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Dynamic-subarray with Fixed-true-time-delay Architecture for Terahertz Wideband Hybrid Beamforming: Longfei Yan and Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Tao Yang (Nokia Shanghai Bell, China); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Full-Duplex mmWave Communications With Robust Hybrid Beamforming: Zhen Luo, Xin Zhang, Lanfeng Gou and Hongqing Liu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Learning-Aided Beam Management for mmWave High-Speed Railway Networks: Yuqi Zhang and Shengheng Liu (Southeast University, China); Zhaohua Lu (ZTE Corporation, China); Fan Meng (Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Yongming Huang (Southeast University, China)

Friday, December 10 2:00 - 3:30

Coding for Storage and Computing

Coding on Dual-Parameter Barrier Channels beyond Worst-Case Correction: Yuval Ben-Hur (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Yuval Cassuto (Technion, Israel)
Variable Coded Batch Matrix Multiplication: Lev Tauz (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Lara Dolecek (UCLA, USA)
Fault-Tolerant Computation Meets Network Coding: Optimal Scheduling in Parallel Computing: Congduan Li (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Chee Wei Tan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Jingting Li (City University of Hong Kong, China); Siya Chen (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Coded Distributed Computation with Limited Resources: Shu-Jie Cao, Lihui Yi, Haoning Chen and Youlong Wu (ShanghaiTech University, China)
Communication-Efficient Coded Distributed Multi-Task Learning: Hua Tang, Haoyang Hu, Kai Yuan and Youlong Wu (ShanghaiTech University, China)

Internet of Things (IoT)

Federated Deep Actor-Critic-Based Task Offloading in Air-Ground Electricity IoT: Sunxuan Zhang and Haijun Liao (North China Electric Power University, China); Zhenyu Zhou (North China Electric Power University & Waseda University, China); Yang Wang and Hui Zhang (China Electric Power Research Institute, China); Xiaoyan Wang (Ibaraki University, Japan); Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)
An Optimal Allocation Scheme of Database and Application for Delay Sensitive IoT Services: Akio Kawabata and Takuya Tojo (NTT, Japan); Bijoy Chand Chatterjee (South Asian University, India); Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)
Profiling IoT Botnet Activity in the Wild: Hatem Aied Almazarqi and Angelos K. Marnerides (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Troy Mursch and Mathew Woodyard (Bad Packets LLC, USA); Dimitrios P Pezaros (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
An RL-based Joint Diversity and Power Control Optimization for Reliable Factory Automation: Milad Ganjalizadeh (KTH-Ericsson, Sweden); Abdulrahman Alabbasi (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Amin Azari (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Hossein Shokri Ghadikolaei (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Marina Petrova (KTH Royal Institute of Technolgy, Sweden)
Coping with smartly malicious leaders: PBFT with arbitration for blockchain-based IoT applications: Vojislav B. Mišić and Jelena Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada); Xiaolin Chang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Intrusion and Anomaly Detection

A Distributed Online Learning Approach to Detect Anomalies for Virtualized Network Slicing: Weili Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Qianbin Chen (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China); Tong Liu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Chongqing Vocational Institute of Engineering, China); Xiaoqiang He (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Tang Lun (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Key Lab of Mobile Communication Technology, China)
Improving Intrusion Detection Confidence Through a Moving Target Defense Strategy: Roger dos Santos (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, PUC-PR, Brazil); Eduardo Viegas and Altair O. Santin (Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR), Brazil)
All Predict Wisest Decides: A Novel Ensemble Method to Detect Intrusive Traffic in IoT Networks: Zhiyan Chen (University of Ottawa, Canada); Murat Simsek (University of Ottawa & Istanbul Technical University, Canada); Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada); Petar Djukic (Ciena, Canada)
Ear in the Sky: Terrestrial Mobile Jamming to Prevent Aerial Eavesdropping: Qubeijian Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Yalin Liu (Macau University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Hong-Ning Dai (Lingnan University, Hong Kong); Muhammad Imran (Federation University, Australia); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Towards Addressing the Spatial Sparsity of MDT Reports to Enable Zero Touch Network Automation: Joel Shodamola, Haneya N Qureshi, Usama Masood and Ali Imran (University of Oklahoma, USA)

THz communications

Mobility and Blockage-induced Beam Misalignment and Throughput Analysis for THz Networks: Wenrong Chen, Lingxiang Li and Zhi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Howard Yang (ZJU-UIUC Institute & University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
DFT-Spread Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulation Design for Terahertz Communications: Yongzhi Wu and Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Tao Yang (Nokia Shanghai Bell, China)
Resource Management for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted THz-MIMO Network: Linlin Ren (USTB, China); Haijun Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China); Yongxu Zhu (South Bank University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Keping Long (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)
Hybrid mmWave-THz Networks with User-Centric Clustering: Khaled Humadi (Concordia University, Canada); Imene Trigui (University of Toronto, Canada); Wei-Ping Zhu (Concordia University, Canada); Wessam Ajib (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Intelligent Surface Optimization in Terahertz under Two Manifestations of Molecular Re-radiation: Anish Pradhan, Jaya Kartheek Devineni and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)

UAV Communications

RNN-Based Twin Channel Predictors for CSI Acquisition in UAV-Assisted 5G+ Networks: Muhammad Karam Shehzad and Luca Rose (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Mohamad Assaad (CentraleSupelec, France)
Statistical Mechanics Analysis of Flocking UAV Networks with Limited Communications: Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, USA)
Multipath Fading Channel Modeling with Aerial Intelligent Reflecting Surface: Zhangfeng Ma, Bo Ai, Ruisi He and Changzhu Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Ning Wang (Zhengzhou University, China); Mi Yang and Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Wei Fan (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Fundamentals of 3D Two-Hop Cellular Networks Analysis with Wireless Backhauled UAVs: Morteza Banagar and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)

CISS3: AI aided Security 3

Deep Learning for Hardware-Impaired Wireless Secret Key Generation with Man-in-the-Middle Attacks: Mehdi Letafati, Hamid Behroozi and Babak Hossein Khalaj (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
MIRAI Botnet Attack Detection with Auto-Associative Dense Random Neural Network: Mert Nakip (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland); Erol Gelenbe (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland & University of Cote d'Azur, France)
A Reminiscent Intrusion Detection Model Based on Deep Autoencoders and Transfer Learning: Roger dos Santos (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, PUC-PR, Brazil); Eduardo Viegas and Altair O. Santin (Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR), Brazil)
Exploiting Ensemble Learning for Edge-assisted Anomaly Detection Scheme in e-healthcare System: Wei Yao (Northeastern University, China); Kuan Zhang and Chong Yu (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Hai Zhao (Northestern University, China)

CT9: Coding (I)

Refined Density Evolution Analysis of LDPC Codes for Successive Interference Cancellation: Satoshi Takabe (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Tadashi Wadayama (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan); Masahito Hayashi (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
Algebraic Design of a Class of Rate 1/3 Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes: R. Michael Tanner (University of California, Santa Cruz & University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
IGRAND: decode any product code: Kevin Galligan (Maynooth University, Ireland); Amit Solomon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Arslan Riaz (Boston University, USA); Muriel Médard (MIT, USA); Rabia T Yazicigil (Boston University, USA); Ken R. Duffy (Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University, Ireland)
A Novel Iterative Soft-Decision Decoding Algorithm for RS-SPC Product Codes: Mingyang Zhu and Ming Jiang (Southeast University, China); Chunming Zhao (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China)

GCSN3: Energy Efficient UAV and Vehicular Networks

GCSN3-5 papers

Position Optimization and Resource Management for UAV-Assisted Wireless Sensor Networks: Daosen Zhai (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Chen Wang (NWPU, China); Huakui Sun (WeiFang University of Science & Technology, China); Haotong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China); Feng Tian (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ruonan Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Energy-aware Control Of UAV-based Wireless Service Provisioning: Tai M. Ho (École de Technologie Supérieure ÉTS, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (University of Quebec, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)
Joint UAV Location and Resource Allocation for Air-Ground Integrated Federated Learning: Yuqian Jing (Nanjing University Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, China); Yuben Qu, Chao Dong and Yun Shen (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Zhenhua Wei (Xi' an Research Institute of High Technology, China); Shangguang Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Joint Vehicle Association and Power Allocation for Energy Efficient Connected Automated Vehicles: Qixun Zhang, Lu Yan and Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ke Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Yan Zhang (University of Oslo, Norway)
Cooperative Task Offloading in UAV Swarm-based Edge Computing: Yutao Wang, Hongzhi Guo and Jiajia Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

IoTSN 13: Technical Papers

Reliable Target Positioning in Complicated Environments Using Multiple Radar Observations: Bo Gao (Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, China); Mu Jia and Tingting Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Short Packet Communications with Random Arrivals: An Effective Bandwidth Approach: Lintao Li and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China); Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Visible Forensic Investigation for Android Applications by Using Attack Scenario Reconstruction: Shiwen Song, Xuanyu Liu, Xiao Fu and Bin Luo (Nanjing University, China); Xiaojiang Du (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)
Impacts of Soil and Antenna Characteristics on LoRa in Internet of Underground Things: Baofeng Zhou, Sai Suman and Mehmet Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Adversarial Attacks to Solar Power Forecast: Ningkai Tang, Shiwen Mao and Mark Nelms (Auburn University, USA)

IoTSN 14: Technical Papers

Maximum Receiver Harvesting Area of Backscatter Signals from Ambient Low-Frequency Mobile Networks: Ritayan Biswas and Joonas Säe (Tampere University, Finland); Jukka Lempiäinen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Cooperative Dynamic Coverage Control in Wireless Camera Sensor Networks with Anisotropic Perception: Qier An, Jian Wang, Yu Wang and Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University, China)
OTFS-superimposed PRACH-aided Localization for UAV Safety Applications: Francesco Linsalata (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Antonio Albanese (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH & Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Germany); Vincenzo Sciancalepore (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany); Francesca Roveda and Maurizio Magarini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Xavier Costa-Perez (ICREA and i2cat & NEC Laboratories Europe, Spain)
An Analysis of Amazon Echo's Network Behavior: Jan Janak (Columbia University, USA); Teresa Tseng ( & Barnard College, USA); Aliza Isaacs (Barnard College, USA); Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)
Data Freshness Optimization in Relaying Network Operating with Finite Blocklength Codes: Xiaopeng Yuan and Yao Zhu (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Hao Jiang (Wuhan University, China); Yulin Hu and Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

MWN13: Efficient Wireless Systems

MWN13-5 papers

Communication-Efficient Split Learning Based on Analog Communication and Over the Air Aggregation: Mounssif Krouka, Anis Elgabli and Chaouki Ben Issaid (University of Oulu, Finland); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)
One for All: Traffic Prediction at Heterogeneous 5G Edge with Data-Efficient Transfer Learning: Xi Chen (Samsung Electronics, Canada); Ju Wang (Samsung Electronics Canada, Canada); Hang Li (McGill University, Canada); Yi Tian Xu (Samsung AI Center, Canada); Di Wu (Samsung Electronics, Canada); Xue Liu (McGill University, Canada); Gregory Dudek (Samsung Electronics, Canada); Taeseop Lee and Intaik Park (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))
An Efficient Outlier Detection and Classification Clustering-Based Approach for WSN: Mustafa Al Samara, Ismail Bennis, Abdelhafid Abouaissa and Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace, France)
Autonomous Braking Algorithm for Rear-End Collision via Communication-Efficient Federated Learning: Sha Liu, Yuchuan Fu, Changle Li, Pincan Zhao and Fan Li (Xidian University, China)
Load-Balanced Routing for Hybrid Fiber/Wireless Backhaul Networks: Yan Yan (Georgia Institute of Techonolgy, USA); Qiang Hu (Amazon.com, USA); Douglas Blough (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

MWN14: Cellular Systems and Emerging Technologies

MWN14-5 papers

Benchmarking Framework for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Ammar Rafique (Information Technology University of the Punjab, Pakistan); Naveed Ul Hassan (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan); Ijaz Haider Naqvi (LUMS School of Science and Engineering (SSE) & LUMS SSE, Pakistan); Muhammad Qasim Mehmood (Information Technology University of the Punjab, Pakistan); Muhammad Zubair (Information Technology University of the Punjab, Pakistan & Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
On Evaluating Delegated Digital Signing of Broadcasting Messages in 5G: Hui Gao and Yiming Zhang (Tsinghua University, China); Tao Wan (Carleton University, Canada); Zhang Jia and Haixin Duan (Tsinghua University, China)
Signaling Overhead-Constrained Throughput Optimization for 5G Packet-Based Random Access with mMTC: Yiwen Liang (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Wen Zhan, Xinghua Sun, Kai Xie and Xiang Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
Driver Distraction Impact on Road Safety: A Data-driven Simulation Approach: Amany A. Kandeel and Ahmed Elbery (Queen's University, Canada); Hazem Abbas (Ain Shams University, Egypt); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
A Collaborative Statistical Actor-Critic Learning Approach for 6G Network Slicing Control: Farhad Rezazadeh (UPC & CTTC, Spain); Hatim Chergui (CTTC, Spain); Luis Blanco (Centre Tecnològic de les Telecommunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Luis Alonso (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya & School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering of Castelldefels, Spain); Christos Verikoukis (UoP & UB, Spain)
Wireless Indoor Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Ziang Yang, Haobo Zhang and Boya Di (Peking University, China); Hongliang Zhang (Princeton University, USA); Kaigui Bian and Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)

MWN16: Delay Tolerant Networks, Underwater and Multimedia Networks

Graph-Based Edge-User Collaborative Caching with Social Attributes: Dapeng Wu (CQUPT, China); Jifang Li, Peng He, Yaping Cui and Ruyan Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Achieving Ultra High Freshness in Real-Time Monitoring and Decision Making with Incremental Decoding: Shaoling Hu, Junjie Wu and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China); Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland, USA)
Placing Information Boxes to Reduce Power Consumption in Disaster Communications Using DTN: Makoto Misumi and Toshihiko Nishimura (Fukuoka University, Japan); Noriaki Kamiyama (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Adaptive F-FFT Demodulation for ICI Mitigation in Differential Underwater Acoustic OFDM Systems: Jihui Qiu, Yuzhou Li, Yunlong Huang, Yimeng Wang and Lingyu Gu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Study on Characteristics of Metric-aware Multipath Algorithms in Real Heterogeneous Networks: Xiaoya Zhang and Ping Dong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Xiaojiang Du (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Yuyang Zhang and Hongke Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)

NGNI-1: Mobile Edge Computing

4 papers

Reinforcement based Communication Topology Construction for Decentralized Learning with Non-IID Data: Yi-Cheng Lin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Jian-Jhih Kuo (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Wen-Tsuen Chen and Jang-Ping Sheu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Cost-Efficient Shuffling and Regrouping Based Defense for Federated Learning: Shu-Meng Huang (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Yu-Wen Chen (New York City College of Technology (CUNY), USA); Jian-Jhih Kuo (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
User-Oriented Task Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing in Ultra-Dense Networks: Sige Liu (The University of Sydney, Australia); Peng Cheng (La Trobe University & The University of Sydney, Australia); Zhuo Chen (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia); Wei Xiang (La Trobe University, Australia); Branka Vucetic and Yonghui Li (University of Sydney, Australia)
Dynamic Service Migration with Partially Observable Information in Mobile Edge Computing: Xiaoqian Li and Yakun Zhou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Yao Sun (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Siyu Chen, Jienan Chen and Gang Feng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
ML-driven scaling of 5G Cloud-Native RANs: Akrit Mudvari, Nikos Makris and Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA)

NGNI-9: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) - 2

5 papers

Enforcing Resource Allocation and VNF Embedding in RAN Slicing: Kashyab J Ambarani, Shivansh Sharma and Shravan Komarabattini (Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA); My T. Thai (University of Florida, USA); Tu N. Nguyen (Kennesaw State University, USA)
A multidimensional coloured packing approach for Network Slicing with dedicated protection: Hicham Lesfari (Université Côte d'Azur, France); Frederic Giroire (CNRS, France); Giuseppe Di Lena (Inria, France); Chidung Lac (Orange, France)
Proposal and Investigation of an ETSI NFV Architecture supporting AI-based Resource Prediction: Vincenzo Eramo (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Tiziana Catena (University of Roma Sapienza, Italy)
Non-parametric Decision-Making by Bayesian Attractor Model for Dynamic Slice Selection: Tatsuya Otoshi, Shin'ichi Arakawa and Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan); Takeo Hosomi (NEC Corporation, Japan)
KRS: Kubernetes Resource Scheduler for resilient NFV networks: Mohamed Rahali (Rennes 1 & IRT BCOM, France); Cao-Thanh Phan (BCOM, France); Gerardo Rubino (INRIA, France)

ONS5: Optical Network Optimisation II

Delay-aware Wireless Resource Allocation and User Association in LiFi-WiFi Heterogeneous Networks: Hansini Vijayaraghavan (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Optimal QoS-Aware Allocation of Virtual Network Resources to Mixed Mobile-Optical Network Slices: Mohammad hossein Keshavarz (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Mohammad Hadi (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden & Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Maryam Lashgari (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mohammad Reza Pakravan (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Paolo Monti (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Parameterized Exhaustive Routing with First Fit for RSA Problem Variants: George N. Rouskas and Chaitanya Bandikatla (North Carolina State University, USA)
Latency-aware VNF Protection for Network Function Virtualization in Elastic Optical Networks: Chengzong Peng (Georgia State University, USA); Danyang Zheng (Soochow University, USA); Xiaojun Cao (Georgia State University, USA)

SAC MBMSC2: Molecular Communications: Design and Applications

SAC MBMSC2-4 papers

Chair: Maximilian Schäfer (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany)

Scaled Conjugate Gradient Algorithm for Neural Network Detector in Mobile Molecular Communication: Amit Kumar Shrivastava (International Institute of Information Technology, Naya Raipur, India); Debanjan Das and Rajarshi Mahapatra (IIIT Naya Raipur, India); Neeraj Varshney (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
Distance and Velocity Prediction by Extended Kalman Filter in Mobile Molecular Communication: Dongliang Jing and Yongzhao Li (Xidian University, China); Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada)
Leader-Follower Dynamics for Diffusion-based Molecular Communication: Jorge Torres Gomez (TU Berlin, Germany); Wayan Wicke (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Karel Toledo (Federico Santa María Technical University, Chile); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Falko Dressler (TU Berlin, Germany)
A Synchronization Protocol for Multi-User Cell Signaling-Based Molecular Communication: Ligia Francielle Borges (Federal University of Paraná - UFPR, Brazil); Michael Taynnan Barros (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

SAC SSC6: Satellite Networking

SAC SSC6-5 papers

Controller Placement in SDN-enabled 5G Satellite-Terrestrial Networks: Nariman Torkzaban and John S. Baras (University of Maryland, USA)
Age-Critical Pilot Allocation Random Access Protocol for Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks: Tao Yang (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Jian Jiao (Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen, China); Shaohua Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Analysis of Pointing Loss Effects in Deep Space Optical Links: Lorenzo Valentini, Alberto Faedi, Enrico Paolini and Marco Chiani (University of Bologna, Italy)
Improving goodput on shared satellite links with coded tunnels: Ulrich Speidel (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

SAC-BD-S7: Big Data Applications (2)

Multi-object tracking for road surveillance without using features of image data: Naoki Kishi (Kyoto University, Japan); Ryoichi Shinkuma (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan); Masamichi Oka, Takehiro Sato and Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)
Kernel-Based Structural-Temporal Cascade Learning for Popularity Prediction: Ce Li, Fan Zhou and Xucheng Luo (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University, USA)
Sharding for Blockchain based Mobile Edge Computing System: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach: Shijing Yuan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jie Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Jinghao Liang and Yuxuan Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Xiang Yu (Shanghai jiao tong University, China); Jianping Chen (Suzhou University of Science and Technology, China); Chentao Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Data-Driven Quickest Change Detection for Securing Federated Learning for Internet-of-Vehicles: Bimal Ghimire (Graduate Research Assistant, Howard University, Washington DC, USA); Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA); Abdul Rahman (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
Multi-dimensional indexes for point and range queries on outsourced encrypted data: Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Dario Facchinetti (University of Bergamo, Italy); Sara Foresti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Gianluca Oldani (Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy); Stefano Paraboschi (University of Bergamo, Italy); Matthew Rossi (Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy); Pierangela Samarati (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Improvement on a Traffic Data Generator for Networking AI Algorithm Development: Khalil Alsulami, Jielun Zhang and Feng Ye (University of Dayton, USA)

SPC5: Semantic Communications

SPC5-5 papers

Brain-Inspired Image Quality Assessment Method based on Electroencephalography Feature Learning: Shuzhan Hu, Yiping Duan and Xiaoming Tao (Tsinghua University, China); Geoffrey Ye Li (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jianhua Lu (Tsinghua University, China)
Deformable Geometry based Semantic Reconstruction from Scene Graphs: Zhiming Wang and Yuxiao Li (Tsinghua University, China); Danlan Huang (Tsinghua University, Haidian Distric, China); Yantian Luo, Ning Ge and Jianhua Lu (Tsinghua University, China)
Performance Optimization for Semantic Communications: An Attention-based Learning Approach: Yining Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mingzhe Chen (Princeton University, USA); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Tao Luo (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)
Deep Learning-Based Image Semantic Coding for Semantic Communications: Danlan Huang (Tsinghua University, Haidian Distric, China); Xiaoming Tao, Feifei Gao and Jianhua Lu (Tsinghua University, China)
A Novel Deep Learning Architecture for Wireless Image Transmission: Sixian Wang, Jincheng Dai, Shengshi Yao and Kai Niu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ping Zhang (WTI-BUPT, China)

TM III: Traffic management III

Adaptive Multi-Receptive Field Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Forecasting: Xing Wang, Juan Zhao and Lin Zhu (China Mobile Research Institute, China); Xu Zhou and Zhao Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Junlan Feng and Chao Deng (China Mobile Research Institute, China); Yong Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Spider: Deep Learning-driven Sparse Mobile Traffic Measurement Collection and Reconstruction: Yini Fang and Alec F Diallo (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chaoyun Zhang (Tencent, China); Paul Patras (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Load Balancing for Communication Networks via Data-Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning: Di Wu (Samsung Electronics, Canada); Jikun Kang (McGill, Canada); Yi Tian Xu (Samsung AI Center, Canada); Hang Li (McGill University, Canada); Jimmy Li, Xi Chen and Dmitriy Rivkin (Samsung Electronics, Canada); Michael Jenkin (York University, Canada); Taeseop Lee and Intaik Park (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Xue Liu (McGill University, Canada); Gregory Dudek (Samsung Electronics, Canada)
On Meeting a Maximum Delay Constraint: Hossein Shafieirad and Raviraj Adve (University of Toronto, Canada)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for QoS-Aware Package Caching in Serverless Edge Computing: Hongseok Jeon (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea (South)); Seungjae Shin and Chunglae Cho (ETRI, Korea (South)); Seunghyun Yoon (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute(ETRI), Korea (South))

Symposia: Friday, 10 December

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Friday, December 10

Friday, December 10 9:00 - 10:30

Beamforming 2

Deep Learning I

Intelligent Reflective Surfaces 2

Network Slicing, MEC, and NFV (1)

Social Network Analysis II

CISS11: Application Security

CISS6: Physical Layer Security 1

CSSMA3: Vehicular and 5G Communications

CSSMA8: Forensics and Tracking

CT7: Feedback and Decision Making in Communication Systems

IoTSN 10: Technical Papers

IoTSN 9: Technical Papers

MWN8: UAV, UAV-Assisted Networks

NGNI-4: Named Data Networking

ONS4: Optical Network Optimisation I

RO: Resource optimization

SAC SSC5: Near-Earth Satellite Communications

SAC-BD-S5: Big Data and Edge

SAC-FDC-2: Full Duplex Systems and Optimization

SPC11: Signal Processing for Multiple Access

Friday, December 10 11:00 - 12:30

Cell-free communications

Machine Learning for 5G and Beyond

Network Slicing, MEC, and NFV (2)

Resource Allocation

Social Internet of Things

CISS13: Software Security

CISS5: IoT Security 2

CSSMA4: Video Streaming

CT8: Counter Fading Communication Theory

GCSN5: Green Mobile Edge Networks

GlobecomAerialCom-S5: Globecom 2021 Aerial Communications Session 5

IoTSN 11: Technical Papers

IoTSN 12: Technical Papers

MWN9: Resource Allocation and Channel Management

NGNI-12: AI for networking

NGNI-2: QoS/QoE

RA: Resource allocation

SAC SGC2: Smart Grid Security

SAC-BD-S6: Big Data and Privacy

SPC7: Signal Processing for mmWave & THz Communications

Friday, December 10 2:00 - 3:30

Coding for Storage and Computing

Internet of Things (IoT)

Intrusion and Anomaly Detection

THz communications

UAV Communications

CISS3: AI aided Security 3

CT9: Coding (I)

GCSN3: Energy Efficient UAV and Vehicular Networks

IoTSN 13: Technical Papers

IoTSN 14: Technical Papers

MWN13: Efficient Wireless Systems

MWN14: Cellular Systems and Emerging Technologies

MWN16: Delay Tolerant Networks, Underwater and Multimedia Networks

NGNI-1: Mobile Edge Computing

NGNI-9: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) - 2

ONS5: Optical Network Optimisation II

SAC MBMSC2: Molecular Communications: Design and Applications

SAC SSC6: Satellite Networking

SAC-BD-S7: Big Data Applications (2)

SPC5: Semantic Communications

TM III: Traffic management III

Patrons