IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking
7–10 September 2021 // Hybrid: In-Person and Virtual Conference

Full Program

Tuesday, September 7
09:00 – 09:20 T1: Tutorial 1: Task-oriented Communication for Edge AI: From “How to Communicate” to “What to Communicate”
09:20 – 09:30
09:30 – 09:40 WS5: 5G experimentation facilities, vertical trials and cross-testbed service orchestration
09:40 – 10:00 YP: Young Professionals Session
10:00 – 10:20 WS4: Large scale 5G Trials in support of high-performance vertical industries
10:20 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:15
12:15 – 12:20
12:20 – 12:25
12:25 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:50
13:50 – 14:00 WS3: Secure, Connected and Resilient Smart Cities SS3: AI-Enabled Distributed Network Slicing: Architectures and Algorithms

WS1: Intelligent operations, security, and acceleration for edge computing
14:00 – 14:30 T2: Tutorial 2: Towards Global Connectivity Using Aerial ad Space Networks
14:30 – 4:50
14:50 – 16:00 SS2: AI Assisted Technologies for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM)
16:00 – 16:15
16:15 – 17:15 SS1: 5G Solutions for Verticals and European Citizens

WS2: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A Technology Enabler to catalyze 6G
17:15 – 17:25
17:25 – 18:00

 

Wednesday, September 8 Thursday, September 9 Friday, September 10
09:00 – 09:20 W: Welcome Session K3: Keynote 3: Rebuilding the Theoretical Foundations of Communications and Computing T3: Tutorial 3: Safe Drone Operations supported by cellular networks SS5: End-to-end slicing and data-driven automation of next generation cellular networks with mobile edge clouds (SEMANTIC)
09:20 – 09:30 K1: Keynote 1: Gigabit Connectivity: European Recovery & Resilience Plans for Very High Speed Networks
09:30 – 09:40 DS1: Demo Session I
09:40 – 10:00 K4: Keynote 4: 6G Self-Synthesizing Networks for an Immersive World
10:00 – 10:20 P1: Panel 1: Quantum Computing and Communications: Opportunities and Challenges
10:20 – 11:00 K5:: Keynote 5: Societal challenges, business opportunities and technology enablers behind 6G visions
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:15 S1: SDN/NFV I
S2: Security and Privacy I		 S7: 5G and Beyond
S8: Security and Privacy II		 DS2: Demo Session II
12:15 – 12:20
12:20 – 12:25
12:25 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:50
13:50 – 14:00 K2: Keynote 2: Towards 6G: The European Pathway P2: Computing at the edge: opportunities, challenges, and evolution SS6: Towards Machine-Learning Based Secure and Efficient 5G and Beyond Disaggregated Networks
14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 4:50 S3: Network Applications and Management
S4: SDN/NFV II
14:50 – 16:00 S10: Optical Communications and Networks
S9: IoT and Vehicular Networks		 SS4: Securing Future Networks
16:00 – 16:15
16:15 – 17:15 S5: AI/ML In Networking
S6: MIMO		 S11: Energy-Aware Networking
S12: Information Theory and Performance Evaluation
17:15 – 17:25
17:25 – 18:00

Tuesday, September 7

Tuesday, September 7 9:00 – 12:15

T1: Tutorial 1: Task-oriented Communication for Edge AI: From “How to Communicate” to “What to Communicate”

Room: Virtual 1

Tuesday, September 7 9:30 – 12:15

WS5: 5G experimentation facilities, vertical trials and cross-testbed service orchestration

Room: Virtual 1

Chairs: Konstantinos Apostolakis (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece), George Margetis (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Greece)
5G experimentation environment for third party media services: the 5GMediaHUB project
Apostolos Siokis (Iquadrat Informatica, Spain); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); George Margetis (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Greece); Constantine Stephanidis (FORTH, Greece); Loizos Christofi (eBOS Technologies, Cyprus); Kostis Tzanettis (5Appart AE New Technologies Computer and Telecommunications, Greece); Håkon Lønsethagen (Telenor, Norway); Ioannis Markopoulos (FORTHNET, Greece); Luis Sanabria-Russo and Hatim Chergui (CTTC, Spain); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)
The 5G-EPICENTRE Approach for Decreasing Attack Surface on Cross-Testbeds Cloud-native 5G Scenarios
Joao Henriques, Andre S. Gomes, Luis Cordeiro and Luis Rosa (OneSource, Portugal); Konstantinos Apostolakis (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); George Margetis (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Greece); Constantine Stephanidis (FORTH, Greece); Maria Anastasi and Christos Skoufis (EBOS Technologies Ltd, Cyprus); Apostolos Siokis (Iquadrat Informatica, Spain); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece)
5GMediaHub – Immersive 360 VR Use Case
Francisco Ibañez (Brainstorm, Spain); Javier Montesa (Brainstorm Multimedia, Spain)
Unification architecture of cross-site 5G testbed resources for PPDR verticals
Dimitrios Arampatzis (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Greece); Konstantinos Apostolakis (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); George Margetis (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Greece); Constantine Stephanidis (FORTH, Greece); Eneko Atxutegi and Marta Amor (Nemergent Solutions SL, Spain); Nicola di Pietro (Athonet, Italy); Joao Henriques and Luis Cordeiro (OneSource, Portugal); Jorge Carapinha (Altice Labs, Portugal); Hamzeh Khalili and Asad Rehman (Centre Tecnol`ogic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain)
Multi-agency and multi-deployment mission critical communications in 5G-EPICENTRE project
Marta Amor and Eneko Atxutegi (Nemergent Solutions SL, Spain)
IoT for Improving First Responders’ Situational Awareness and Safety on Federated 5G Testbeds
Joao Henriques, Andre S. Gomes and Luis Cordeiro (OneSource, Portugal)

Tuesday, September 7 9:40 – 12:25

YP: Young Professionals Session

Room: Virtual 3

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University, Greece)

Tuesday, September 7 10:00 – 12:20

WS4: Large scale 5G Trials in support of high-performance vertical industries

Room: Virtual 2

Chairs: Christina (Tanya) Politi (University of Peloponnese, Greece), Christos Tranoris (University of Patras, Greece)
5G-VICTORI: Large scale field trials of rail, energy and media services over 5G-infrastructures
Anna Tzanakaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
A 360º real-time video service distribution over the 5GENESIS Berlin Platform
Marc Emmelmann (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany); Jesús Gutiérrez (IHP – Leibniz-Institut für Innovative Mikroelektronik, Germany); Ozgu Alay (University of Oslo & Simula Metropolitan, Norway); Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University, Sweden); Fabian Eichhorn and Oliver Keil (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany); Arun Prakash (Fraunhofer FOKUS & Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Nebojsa Maletic (IHP – Leibniz-Institut für Innovative Mikroelektronik, Germany); Marcus Ehrig (IHP, Germany); Giuseppe Caso (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Cise Midoglu (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway); Carsten Griwodz (Universitetet i Oslo & SimulaMet, Norway); Jonas Karlsson (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Handover Management across Heterogeneous Wireless Technologies in High-Speed Railways
Paris Flegkas (University of Thessaly, Greece)
From Power Utilities to Smart Factories: a 5G Use Case
Eleftherios Mylonas (IPTO S.A., Greece); Nikolaos Tzanis (University of Patras, Greece)
5G-COMPLETE: A multi-layer aggregation 5G Framework for Vertical and Network Operator Use Cases
Ioanna Mesogiti and Elina Theodoropoulou (COSMOTE Mobile Telecommunications S.A., Greece)

Tuesday, September 7 13:50 – 16:00

SS3: AI-Enabled Distributed Network Slicing: Architectures and Algorithms

Room: Virtual 1

Chairs: Hatim Chergui (CTTC, Spain), Luis Sanabria-Russo (CTTC, Spain), Anna Tzanakaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Zhao Xu (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany)
Controlled Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimized Slice Placement
José Jurandir Alves Esteves (Orange Labs & Sorbonne Université, France); Amina Boubendir and Fabrice M. Guillemin (Orange Labs, France); Pierre Sens (Université de Paris 6, France)
Machine Learning for Network Slicing in Future Mobile Networks: Design and Implementation
Luis A Garrido (Iquadrat Informatica S. L., Spain); Anestis Dalgkitsis (Iquadrat & Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)
MonB5G: AI/ML-Capable Distributed Orchestration and Management Framework for Network Slices
Slawomir Kuklinski (Orange Polska & Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Robert Kołakowski (Warsaw University of Technology & Orange Polska, Poland); Lechosław Tomaszewski (Orange Polska, Poland); Luis Sanabria-Russo (CTTC, Spain); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain); Cao-Thanh Phan (BCOM, France); Lanfranco Zanzi (NEC Laboratories Europe & Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany); Francesco Devoti (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France); Christos Tselios (University of Patras & Citrix Inc., Greece); George Tsolis (Citrix Systems Inc., Greece); Hatim Chergui (CTTC, Spain)
Neural network architectures for network slicing with dynamic offloading rules
Ondrej Smid, Theodoros Giannakas and Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (EURECOM, France)
An SDN Based Testbed for Dynamic Network Slicing in Satellite-Terrestrial Networks
Jesus Fabian Mendoza Montoya (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Mario Minardi (University of Luxembourg, Germany); Symeon Chatzinotas, Lei Lei and Thang X. Vu (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
A Cloud-Native Monitoring System Enabling Scalable and Distributed Management of 5G Network Slices
Luis Sanabria-Russo (CTTC, Spain); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)
A Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Distributed Network Slicing Orchestration
Farhad Rezazadeh (UPC & CTTC, Spain); Francesco Devoti (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany); Lanfranco Zanzi (NEC Laboratories Europe & Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany); Hatim Chergui (CTTC, Spain); Xavier Costa-Perez (ICREA and i2cat & NEC Laboratories Europe, Spain)

WS1: Intelligent operations, security, and acceleration for edge computing

Room: Virtual 2

Chairs: Panagiotis Kokkinos (National Technical University of Athens & University of Peloponnese, Greece), Andrea Sgambelluri (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, Italy), Anna Tzanakaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Hardware acceleration for Processing Function Virtualization
Federico Civerchia (SmaRTy Italia SRL, Italy); Andrea Sgambelluri (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, Italy); Francesco Paolucci (CNIT, Italy); Luca Maggiani (SmaRTy Italia SRL, Italy); Piero Castoldi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy); Filippo Cugini (CNIT, Italy)
SERRANO Hardware System Simulator in HPC and in Edge and Cloud Environments
Dmitry Khabi (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) University of Stuttgart, Germany)
SERRANO: Transparent Application Deployment in a Secure, Accelerated and Cognitive Cloud Continuum
Aristotelis Kretsis (NTUA, Greece); Sofia Tsekeridou (Intrasoft International S.A., Greece); Panagiotis Kokkinos (National Technical University of Athens & University of Peloponnese, Greece); Polyzois Soumplis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Juan Jose Vegas Olmos (NVIDIA, Denmark); Marcell Fehér (Aarhus University & Chocolate Cloud ApS, Denmark); Márton Sipos (Chocolate Cloud ApS, Denmark); Daniel E. Lucani (Aarhus University, Denmark); Dmitry Khabi (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany); Dimosthenis Masouros and Kostas Siozios (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Paraskevas Bourgos (Intrasoft International SA, Greece); Ferad Zyulkyarov (Inbestme Europe Agencia de Valores S.A., Spain); Efstathios Karanastasis (Innovation Acts Limited, Greece); Efthymios Chondrogiannis and Vassiliki Andronikou (Innovation Acts Limited, Cyprus); Aitor Gomez (Ideko S. Coop, Spain); Silviu Panica (West University of Timisoara, Romania); Gabriel Iuhasz (Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara, Greece); Anastassios Nanos (Nubificus LTD, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Charalampos Chalios (Nubificus Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Emmanouel Varvarigos (National Technical University of Athens & Computer Technology Institute, Greece)
Securitization of cloud, edge and IoT communications through hardware accelerations/offloadings
Boris Pismenny, Juan Jose Vegas Olmos, Yoray Zack and Liran Liss (NVIDIA); Afra Dömeke, Catalina Stan, Carlos Rubio Garcia and Idelfonso Tafur Monroy (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Panagiotis Kokkinos, Aristotelis Kretsis and Emmanouel Varvarigos (NTUA)
Improving the flexibility of 5G heterogeneous networks by slicing
Catalina Stan, Afra Dömeke, Carlos Rubio Garcia and Idelfonso Tafur Monroy (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Juan Jose Vegas Olmos (NVIDIA, Denmark)
User Association and Behavioral Characterization during Task Offloading at the Edge
Firdose Saeik and John Violos (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada); Aris Leivadeas (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Marios Avgeris (National Technical University of Athens & ICCS, Greece); Dimitrios Spatharakis (National Technical University of Athens(NTUA), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems(ICCS), Greece); Dimitrios Dechouniotis (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) & Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece)
Towards sharing one FPGA SoC for both low-level PHY and high-level AI/ML computing at the edge
Ioannis Stratakos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Elissaios Alexios Papatheofanous (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Dimitrios Danopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece); George Lentaris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Dionysios I. Reisis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Dimitrios Soudris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Tuesday, September 7 13:50 – 14:50

WS3: Secure, Connected and Resilient Smart Cities

Room: Virtual 3

Chairs: Aris M Bonanos (Exus SA, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Silvia Fichera (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy), Anna Tzanakaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Vision and Crowdsensing Technology for an Optimal Response in Security: Project results
Juan A. Álvarez-García and Jose Salazar-González (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain); Oscar Deniz (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain); Jesus Ruiz Santaquiteria-Alegre (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Public safety in smart cities under the edge computing concept
Evangelos Maltezos (Institute of Communication & Computer Systems, Greece); Lazaros Karagiannidis (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece); Aris Dadoukis and Konstantinos Petousakis (Institute of Communication & Computer Systems, Greece); Fay Misichroni (ICCS, Greece); Eleftherios Ouzounoglou, Lefteris Gounaridis and Dimitrios Gounaridis (Institute of Communication & Computer Systems, Greece); Christos Kouloumentas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Angelos Amditis (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece)
A Framework to Support Social Distancing Management based on 5G and Accelerated Edge Cloud
Luca Valcarenghi, Alessandro Pacini, Justine Cris B Borromeo, Silvia Fichera, Maria Gagliardi and Denise Amram (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy); Vincenzo Lionetti (Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Italy)

Tuesday, September 7 14:00 – 17:15

T2: Tutorial 2: Towards Global Connectivity Using Aerial ad Space Networks

Room: Virtual 1

Tuesday, September 7 14:50 – 18:00

SS2: AI Assisted Technologies for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM)

Room: Virtual 3

Chairs: Mahtab Alam (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), Maria Efthymiopoulou (Iquadrat Informatica S. L., Greece), Vasilis Sourlas (ICCS-NTUA, Greece), Anna Tzanakaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Natalia V. Vesselinova (CTTC, Spain)
Implementation and Latency Assessment of a Prototype for C-ITS Collective Perception
Francesca Pacella, Edoardo Bonetto, Guido Alejandro Gavilanes Castillo, Daniele Brevi and Riccardo Scopigno (Fondazione LINKS, Italy)
Multi-Domain Architecture for CAM Service Delivery Across Borders
Maria Efthymiopoulou (IQUADRAT INFORMATICA S.L.); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); Natalia V. Vesselinova (CTTC, Spain); Muhammad Mahtab Alam (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia); Luis Sanabria-Russo (CTTC, Spain); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)
The ICT4CART reference architecture and its different views
Michael Buchholz and Jan Strohbeck (University of Ulm, Germany); Gottfried Allmer (ASFINAG, Austria); Rodrigo H. Ordonez-Hurtado and Anton Dekusar (IBM Research, Ireland); Markus Wimmer (Nokia Germany, Germany); Birger Hätty (Nokia, Germany); Matthieu Gay (Airbus CyberSecurity, France); Christophe Ponchel (Airbus Defence & Space CyberSecurity, France); Vasilis Sourlas (ICCS-NTUA, Greece); Angelos Amditis (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece)
5G for CCAM: See-through for supporting automated overtaking
Johan Scholliers (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Tao Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland LTD, Finland); Mikko Uitto and Andrea Gentili (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Finland)
Performance Evaluation of 5G-NR Positioning Accuracy Using Time Difference of Arrival Method
Ivo Müürsepp (Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia); Marika Kulmar and Muhammad Mahtab Alam (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia); Tao Chen (VTT, Finland); Seppo Horsmanheimo (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Finland); Johan Scholliers (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Osama Elgarhy (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
5G-Routes Project: Connected Maintenance Use-Case
Muhammad Mahtab Alam (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia); Priit Roosipuu (Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia)
Reinforcement Learning-based Misbehaviour Detection in V2X Scenarios
Roshan Sedar (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Charalampos Kalalas (CTTC, Spain); Francisco Vázquez-Gallego (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Jesus Alonso-Zarate (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)
Slice Negotiator and Service Continuity in X-Border Environment
George Agapiou (WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS, Greece); Panagiotis Demestichas (University of Piraeus, Greece); Konstantinos Trichias (WINGS ICT Solutions, Greece); Polina Dimiropoulou (WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS, Greece); Kostas Tsagkaris (WINGS ICT Solutions, Greece)

Tuesday, September 7 16:15 – 18:00

SS1: 5G Solutions for Verticals and European Citizens

Room: Virtual 2

Chairs: Andrea Di Giglio (Telecom Italia, Italy), Sarang Kahvazadeh (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain), Håkon Lønsethagen (Telenor, Norway), David Pubill (CTTC, Spain), Anna Tzanakaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Performance Evaluation and Comparison between SA and NSA 5G Networks in Indoor Environment
Ramy Amer (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Sofiane Zemouri (IIX, IBM, Ireland); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)
5G Vertical Application Enablers Implementation Challenges and Perspectives
Dimitrios Fragkos and Georgios Makropoulos (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); Panteleimon Sarantos (National Centre of Scientific Research, Greece); Harilaos Koumaras (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); Anastasios-Stavros Charismiadis (National And Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Dimitris Tsolkas (Fogus Innovations and Services, Greece)
Slicing enabled 5G experimentation platform for Robotics vertical industry
Suvidha Sudhakar Mhatre (Iquadrat Informatica, Spain); Renxi Qiu (Bedfordshire Uinversity, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)
Measuring 5G KPIs for the Media Vertical
Panagiotis Papaioannou, Dimitris Giannopoulos, Christos Tranoris and Spyros Denazis (University of Patras, Greece); Baruch Altman and Ran Rahav (LiveU, Israel); Ioannis Markopoulos (FORTHNET, Greece)
Business Value and Social Acceptance for the Validation of 5G Technology
Luigi Briguglio (CyberEthics Lab., Italy); Per Nesse (Telenor Research and Innovation, Norway); Andrea Di Giglio (Telecom Italia, Italy); Ioannis Markopoulos (FORTHNET, Greece); Carmela Occhipinti (CyberEthics Lab., Italy); Patrick Durkin (Inlecom, Belgium)
Α KPI Visualization System for Use Case validation of the 5G network
Kostis Tzanettis (5Appart AE New Technologies Computer and Telecommunications, Greece)

WS2: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A Technology Enabler to catalyze 6G

Room: Virtual 1

Chairs: Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece), Anna Tzanakaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Performance Evaluation of Downlink IRS-Assisted Multi-Cell Massive MIMO System
Ziad Qais Abdulkareem Al Abbasi (Middle Technical University & Baquba Technical Institute, Iraq); Mustafa Khamis (Middle Technical University, Iraq); Khaled M. Rabie (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: From Electromagnetics to Communications
Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France)
Present and Future of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Empowered Communications
Ertugrul Basar (Koc University, Turkey)
A hardware and software stack for software-defined intelligent metasurfaces
Christos Liaskos (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece)
The impact of electromagnetic noise in RIS-aided communications
Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy)
When Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Meet Terahertz Communications
Nan Yang (The Australian National University, Australia)

Wednesday, September 8

Wednesday, September 8 9:00 – 9:20

W: Welcome Session

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)

Chair: Stefano Bregni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Wednesday, September 8 9:20 – 10:00

K1: Keynote 1: Gigabit Connectivity: European Recovery & Resilience Plans for Very High Speed Networks

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)

Chair: Hikmet Sari (NJUPT & Sequans, France)

Wednesday, September 8 10:00 – 11:00

P1: Panel 1: Quantum Computing and Communications: Opportunities and Challenges

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)

Chair: Antonio Manzalini (Telecom Italia, Italy)

Wednesday, September 8 11:15 – 12:25

S1: SDN/NFV I

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)

Chair: Stefano Bregni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Emulation of HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming over SDN
Eirini Liotou, Konstantina Chatzieleftheriou and Gerasimos Christodoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Nikos Passas and Lazaros Merakos (University of Athens, Greece)
Performance Evaluation of Overlay Networking for delay-sensitive services in SD-WAN
Sebastian Troia, Marco Mazzara, Ligia Maria Moreira Zorello and Guido Maier (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
An automated CI/CD process for testing and deployment of Network Applications over 5G infrastructure
Kostis Trantzas, Christos Tranoris and Spyros Denazis (University of Patras, Greece); Rafael Direito and Diogo Gomes (Universidade de Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Jorge Gallego-Madrid (University of Murcia & Odin Solutions, Spain); Ana Hermosilla (Odin Solutions, Murcia, Spain); Antonio F. Skarmeta (Odin Solutions S. L, Spain)
Towards Low-latent & Load-balanced VNF Placement with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Xenofon Vasilakos, Monchai Bunyakitanon, Reza Nejabati and Dimitra Simeonidou (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

S2: Security and Privacy I

Alkioni Room (hybrid)
Robust Cyber-threat and Vulnerability Information Analyzer for Dynamic Risk Assessment
Adeel A Malik (University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Deepak K Tosh (University of Texas, El Paso, USA)
PRIVATT – A Closer Look at People’s Data Privacy Attitudes in Times of COVID-19
Ramona Trestian (Middlesex University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Guodong Xie, Pintu Lohar and Edoardo Celeste (Dublin City University, Ireland); Malika Bendechache (Dublin City University & Irish Institute of Digital Business, Ireland); Rob Brennan (Dublin City University & ADAPT Centre, Ireland); Irina Tal (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Risk-Based User Authentication for Mobile Passenger ID Devices for Land and Sea Border Control
Maria Papaioannou (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Georgios Mantas (Instituto de Telecomunicações – Pólo de Aveiro, Portugal); Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
A Hyperledger Fabric-based Blockchain Architecture to Secure IoT-based Health Monitoring Systems
Filippos Pelekoudas Oikonomou (Instituto de Telecomunicaçoes Aveiro & University of Greenwich, Portugal); José Ribeiro (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Georgios Mantas (Instituto de Telecomunicações – Pólo de Aveiro, Portugal); Joaquim Bastos and Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Wednesday, September 8 13:50 – 14:30

K2: Keynote 2: Towards 6G: The European Pathway

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)

Chair: Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of la Rochelle, France)

Wednesday, September 8 14:30 – 16:00

S3: Network Applications and Management

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University, Greece)
QoE-Driven Cache Placement for Adaptive Video Streaming: Minding the Viewport
Othmane Belmoukadam (Côte d’Azur University & INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France); Chadi Barakat (Inria, Université Côte d’Azur, France)
Evaluating DASH QoE with MPTCP Under Different MPTCP Buffer Sizes and Path Latencies
Sunit Kumar Nandi (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati & National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh, India); Pranav Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati & Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar, India); Sukumar Nandi (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
Comparison of Graph-based and Hypergraph-based Models for Wireless Network Coexistence
Tawachi Nyasulu and David Crawford (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Comparison of Emerging Video Compression Schemes for Efficient Transmission of 4K and 8K HDR Video
Mahsa T Pourazad (TELUS Communications Company, Canada); Ke-Jun Sung and Hechen Hu (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Song Wang (UBC, Canada); Hamid Reza Tohidypour, Yixiao Wang and Panos Nasiopoulos (University of British Columbia, Canada); Victor C.M. Leung (Shenzhen University, China & The University of British Columbia, Canada)

S4: SDN/NFV II

Alkioni Room (hybrid)

Chair: Fotis Foukalas (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Enabling Industrial Network Slicing Orchestration: A Collaborative Edge Robotics Use Case
Ioannis Dimolitsas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Marios Avgeris (National Technical University of Athens & ICCS, Greece); Dimitrios Spatharakis (National Technical University of Athens(NTUA), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems(ICCS), Greece); Dimitrios Dechouniotis (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) & Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece); Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Cost-Efficient 5G Non-Public Network Roll-Out: The Affordable5G Approach
Lambros Sarakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Panagiotis Trakadas (University of Athens, Greece); Josep Martrat (Atos, Spain); Simon Prior (Accelleran NV, Belgium); Oscar Trullols-Cruces (NearbyComputing, Spain); Estefania Coronado (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain); Marco Centenaro (Athonet, Italy); George Kontopoulos (Eight Bells Ltd, Greece); Eneko Atxutegi (Nemergent Solutions SL, Spain); Panagiotis Gkonis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Sergio González (Atos, Spain); Angelos Antonopoulos (NearbyComputing, Spain); Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain); Pedro Merino (University of Malaga, Spain)
Impact of CPU and Memory Resource Allocation in a Multi-Feature VNF Deployment
Sandra Nguemmegne Tumchou (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada); Aris Leivadeas (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Matthias Falkner (Cisco, Germany); Nikolai Pitaev (Cisco Systems, Germany)
QoE-centric implementation of SDN platform for Open-Flow-based network path selection
Eirini Liotou and Athanasia Alexiou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Nikos Passas and Lazaros Merakos (University of Athens, Greece)
A holistic approach for 5G Network Slice Monitoring
Dimitris Giannopoulos, Panagiotis Papaioannou, Lydia K. Ntzogani, Christos Tranoris and Spyros Denazis (University of Patras, Greece)

Wednesday, September 8 16:15 – 18:00

S5: AI/ML In Networking

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)

Chair: Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
A Distributed ML Framework for Service Deployment in the 5G-based Automotive Vertical
Vasilis Sourlas (ICCS-NTUA, Greece); Amr Rizk (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Konstantinos V. Katsaros and Panagiotis Pantazopoulos (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece); Georgios Drainakis (Iroon Polytechniou Str. 9 & Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece); Angelos Amditis (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece)
AI Empowered Resource Management for Future Wireless Networks
Yifei Shen, Jun Zhang, Shenghui Song and Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
A Perfect Match: Deep Learning Towards Enhanced Data Trustworthiness in Crowd-Sensing Systems
Sam Afzal-Houshmand (Technical University of Denmark (DTU) & None, Denmark); Sajad Homayoun (Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark); Thanassis Giannetsos (Ubitech Ltd., Greece)
Joint Energy-efficient and Throughput-sufficient Transmissions in 5G Cells with Deep Q-Learning
Sotirios Spantideas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Anastasios E. Giannopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece & National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Nikolaos Capsalis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Alexandros Kalafatelis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Christos Capsalis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Panagiotis Trakadas (University of Athens, Greece)
An Overview of Enabling Federated Learning over Wireless Networks
Fotis Foukalas (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Athanasios Tziouvaras (University of Thessaly, Greece); Theodoros Tsiftsis (Jinan University, China)
Asynchronous Federated Learning-based ECG Analysis for Arrhythmia Detection
Sadman Sakib (Lakehead University, Canada); Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA); Zubair Md Fadlullah (Lakehead University, Canada); Khalid Abualsaud, Elias Yaacoub and Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)

S6: MIMO

Alkioni Room (hybrid)

Chair: Vasilis Friderikos (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Novel Detectors for mmWave Massive MU-MIMO-GFDM Systems
James Wang (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan); Fang-Biau Ueng (National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan); Bo-Xun Huang (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
Random Beamforming in mmWave Large-Scale MIMO-NOMA Based on Sparse Transmission
Mohammad Reza Ghavidel Aghdam and Behzad Mozaffari Tazehkand (University of Tabriz, Iran); Reza Abdolee (CSU Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, USA)
Energy-Efficient Hybrid Precoding Schemes for RIS-Assisted Millimeter-wave Massive MIMO
Nura Daghari (University of Tripoli, Libya); Taissir Y. Elganimi (University of Tripoli Libya, Libya); Khaled M. Rabie (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Towards 6G MIMO Systems, with Massively-Parallel Non-Linear Processing
Juan C De Luna Ducoing, Chathura Jayawardena, Marcin Filo and Konstantinos Nikitopoulos (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Priority-Resource-Limited JT-CoMP Scheme for Small Dense Networks
Aymen Askri (Telecom Paristech, France); Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman (TELECOM ParisTech, France)
The LDPC Challenge in Software-Based 5G New Radio Physical Layer Processing
Elissaios Alexios Papatheofanous (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dionysios I. Reisis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Konstantinos Nikitopoulos (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Thursday, September 9

Thursday, September 9 9:00 – 9:40

K3: Keynote 3: Rebuilding the Theoretical Foundations of Communications and Computing

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)

Chair: Stefano Bregni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Thursday, September 9 9:40 – 10:20

K4: Keynote 4: 6G Self-Synthesizing Networks for an Immersive World

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)

Chair: Stefano Bregni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Thursday, September 9 10:20 – 11:00

K5: Keynote 5: Societal challenges, business opportunities and technology enablers behind 6G visions

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)

Chair: Stefano Bregni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Thursday, September 9 11:15 – 12:25

S7: 5G and Beyond

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)

Chair: Nizam Kuxdorf-Alkirata (University of Wuppertal, Germany)
SACCESS: Towards A Software Acceleration Framework for 5G Radio Access Networks
Marcin Filo, Yong Xia and Konstantinos Nikitopoulos (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Development of a Data-Driven Mobile 5G Testbed: Platform for Experimental Research
Ying Wang (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Adam Gorski (Virginia Tech & Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation, USA); Aloizio Pereira Da Silva (Virginia Tech, USA & Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, USA)
Field Trial of UAV flight with Communication and Control through 5G cellular network
Georgios Makropoulos, Harilaos Koumaras, Stavros Kolometsos, Anastasios Gogos and Thanos Sarlas (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); Tanel Järvet (CAFA Tech Ltd, Estonia); Gokul Srinivasan (Robots Expert, Finland); Fotini Setaki (COSMOTE Mobile Telecommunications S.A. Greece, Greece)
Airborne Urban Microcells with Grasping End Effectors: A Game Changer for 6G Networks?
Vasilis Friderikos (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

S8: Security and Privacy II

Alkioni Room (hybrid)
Flexible Physical-Layer Security for 5G Wireless Devices
Dimitrios Efstathiou (International Hellenic University, Greece)
A Lightweight Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Secure Fog-to-Fog Collaboration
Ismaila Kamil and Sunday Ogundoyin (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
Efficient Kronecker-based Sparse One-Time Sensing Matrix For Compressive Sensing Cryptosystem
Parichehreh Firoozi, Sreeraman Rajan and Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada)
IDLP Mechanism for NC-enabled Mobile Small Cells based on Broadcast Nature of Wireless Communication
Reza Parsamehr (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal & Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Vipindev Adat (University of Patras, Greece & University of Vigo, Spain); Georgios Mantas (Instituto de Telecomunicações – Pólo de Aveiro, Portugal); Ilias Politis (Univerisity of Piraeus & University of Patras, Greece); Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); José Martínez-Ortega (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

Thursday, September 9 13:50 – 14:50

P2: Computing at the edge: opportunities, challenges, and evolution

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)

Chair: Marie-Jose Montpetit (Concordia University, Canada)

Thursday, September 9 14:50 – 16:00

S10: Optical Communications and Networks

Alkioni Room (hybrid)

Chair: Xenofon Vasilakos (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Experimental Demonstration of Visible Light Communication based Downhole Telemetry System
Ozgur Alaca (Texas A&M University, Qatar); Sezer Can Tokgoz (Texas A&M University, USA); Albertus Retnanto (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar); Scott Miller (Texas A&M University, USA); Khalid A. Qaraqe (Texas A&M University at Qatar, USA)
Mitigation of the high PAPR in Optical OFDM systems using Symbol Position Permutation
Roland Niwareeba (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
An efficient adaptive thresholding scheme for signal decoding in NLOS VLC systems
Marina E. Plissiti, Christoforos Papaioannou, Yiorgos Sfikas, Georgios Papatheodorou, Simon-Ilias Poulis, Aristides Efthymiou and Yiorgos Tsiatouhas (University of Ioannina, Greece)
New Core and Spectrum Balancing Algorithms for Space Division Multiplexed Elastic Optical Networks
Jurandir Cavalcante Lacerda, Jr (Instituto Federal do Piauí (IFPI) & Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI), Brazil); Adolfo Cartaxo (Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal); André Soares (Federal University of Piaui, Brazil)

S9: IoT and Vehicular Networks

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)

Chair: Jordi Casademont (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Benchmarking the Cooperative Awareness Service at Application Layer with IEEE 802.11p and LTE-PC5
Charmae Franchesca Mendoza (Technische Universität Wien, Austria); Leandro Lopez (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Jordi Casademont (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Daniel Camps-Mur (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)
Performance Analysis of Multi-hop Communication based on 5G Sidelink for Cooperative UAV Swarms
Debashisha Mishra (Université de Lorraine, France); Angelo Trotta and Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy); Enrico Natalizio (University of Lorraine/Loria & Technology Innovation Institute, France)
SDR-based Speed Measurement with Continuous-Wave Doppler Radar
Alexander Vargas, Robin Álvarez, Pablo Lupera and Felipe Grijalva (Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador)
A study on the impact of service time distributions in a Vehicular Ad Hoc Network
Irene Lidia Keramidi (University of Peloponnese, Greece); Panagiotis Kardaras (National Kapodistriakon University of Athens (NKUoA), Greece); Ioannis Moscholios (University of Peloponnese, Greece); Panagiotis Sarigiannidis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece); Michael D. Logothetis (University of Patras, Greece)

Thursday, September 9 16:15 – 17:25

S11: Energy-Aware Networking

Room: Ballroom 1 (hybrid)
A Device-free Indoor Localization System Based on Supervised Learning and Bluetooth Low Energy
Nizam Kuxdorf-Alkirata, Gerrit Maus and Dieter Brückmann (University of Wuppertal, Germany)
A Parallel Link Mapping for Virtual Network Embedding with Joint Load-Balancing and Energy-Saving
Mario Minardi, Shree Krishna Sharma, Symeon Chatzinotas and Thang X. Vu (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Signal Space Diversity in a DF Cooperative System with an Energy Harvesting Relay
Ahmed Ammar (Ohio Northern University, USA); M. Ajmal Khan (Bowling Green State University, USA)
Energy-Efficient Secure Coordinated Beamforming in Multi-Pair MISO Networks with CDI
Han Li, Ke Xiong and Yang Lu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Yu Zhang (State Grid Energy Research Institute, China); Pingyi Fan (Tsinghua University, China)

S12: Information Theory and Performance Evaluation

Alkioni Room (hybrid)

Chair: Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of la Rochelle, France)
MIM-CS: Message Importance Measure for Compressed Sensing
Yuchen Shi, Pingyi Fan and Zheqi Zhu (Tsinghua University, China); Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
A frequency-domain algorithm for satellite on-board time synchronisation
Damien Castelain (Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe, France)
Performance of an Underwater Communication System in a Sea Trial Done in the Canadian Arctic
Michel Barbeau (Carleton University, Canada); Stephane Blouin (DRDC, Canada); Ahmad Traboulsi (Carleton University, Canada)
Confidence Interval of Peak-Based Distance Estimation in Diffusive Molecular Communication
Gianpaolo Alesiani, Maurizio Magarini and Stefano Bregni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Friday, September 10

Friday, September 10 9:00 – 16:00

SS5: End-to-end slicing and data-driven automation of next generation cellular networks with mobile edge clouds (SEMANTIC)

Room: Virtual 1

Chairs: Abdo Gaber (Physical Layer and System Design, Germany), Walter Nitzold (National Instruments, Germany), Tommy Svensson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Anna Tzanakaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Dionysis Xenakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Building Datasets for Predicting VNF Interference
Madhura Adeppady, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini and Paolo Giaccone (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Zero Touch Enabled Management and Orchestration of The Next Generation E2E Networks & Services
S. Roy (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya & Centre Tecnològic Telecomunicacions Catalunya, Spain)
MEC Service Integration in Open RAN Based on AI/ML
Vaishnavi Kasuluru (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya & Centre Tecnològic Telecomunicacions Catalunya, Spain)
AI-enabled techniques for enhanced video service provisioning in mobile data networks
Yevhenii Osadchuk (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Dionysios Xenakis (National And Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
End-to-end network slicing and orchestration
Suvidha Sudhakar Mhatre (Iquadrat Informatica, Spain)
A reinforcement learning approach for end-to-end slicing in beyond 5G networks
Pavlos Doanis, Theodoros Giannakas and Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (EURECOM, France)
Identification of Network KPIs to Improve Network performance using Machine Learning Techniques
Qurat Ulain, Vestergaard Christian, Arne Morten Kastel, Enver Asad and Bjorling Axel (Telenor, Sweden); Colella Riccardo (Telenor, Sweden & Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Rius I Riu Jaume (Telenor & Lund Technical University, Sweden)
Deep Learning-based Channel Estimation for Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces aided MIMO Systems
Mehdi Sattari and Tommy Svensson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Towards Application-aware Efficient and Agile Non-orthogonal Multiple Access Techniques
Azadeh Tabeshnezhad and Tommy Svensson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
O-RAN meets AI
Sudharshan Paindi Jayakumar (Nokia Bell Labs, France)
Towards SEMANTIC massive connectivity in 5G networks using MEC and blockchain technologies
Diana Zhussip (Fogus Innovations and Services P. C., Greece); Dionysis Xenakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Resource allocation in beyond 5G Virtualized Networks with Distributed Deep Neural Networks
Ali Ehsanian, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos and Theodoros Giannakas (EURECOM, France)

Friday, September 10 9:00 – 12:15

T3: Tutorial 3: Safe Drone Operations supported by cellular networks

Alkioni Room (hybrid)

Friday, September 10 9:30 – 11:00

DS1: Demo Session I

Room: Virtual 2

Chairs: Harilaos Koumaras (NCSR Demokritos, Greece), Lena Wosinska (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Functioning prototype of IoT and composite indicators for smart port environmental monitoring
Ignacio Lacalle (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Rafael Vaño (Universitat Politècnica De València, Spain); Carlos E Palau (Universitat Politecnica Valencia, Spain); Teodora Milosevic (MEDRI, Spain); Stjepan Pilicic and Matija Siroka (MEDRI, Croatia); Eirini Tserga (THPA, Greece)
An open source 5G experimentation testbed
Panos Matzakos (EURECOM, France); Harilaos Koumaras (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); Dimitris Tsolkas (Fogus Innovations and Services, Greece); Maria Christopoulou and George K Xilouris (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); Florian Kaltenberger (Eurecom, France)
Industrial Robotics Experimentation over Federated Next Generation Internet Testbeds
Dimitrios Spatharakis (National Technical University of Athens(NTUA), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems(ICCS), Greece); Marios Avgeris (National Technical University of Athens & ICCS, Greece); Grigorios Kakkavas (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) & National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Konstantinos Papadakis-Vlachopapadopoulos and Ioannis Dimolitsas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Dimitrios Dechouniotis (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) & Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece); Vasileios A Karyotis (Ionian University & NETMODE Lab, NTUA, Greece); Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Demo Proposal: Tele-Operated Support over 4G/5G Mobile Communications
Grigorios Kakkavas (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) & National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Maria Diamanti (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece); Matthias Gabriel and Charbel Lahoud (Technical University Chemnitz, Germany); Sri Venkata Naga Phanindra Akula (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany); Vasileios A Karyotis (Ionian University & NETMODE Lab, NTUA, Greece); Klaus Mößner (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany); Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Providing Real-Time, High-Quality User and Machine Generated Content over a 5G Network
Dimitris Giannopoulos, Panagiotis Papaioannou, Christos Tranoris and Spyros Denazis (University of Patras, Greece); Baruch Altman and Ran Rahav (LiveU, Israel); Udi Margolin (Nokia, Israel)

Friday, September 10 11:15 – 12:30

DS2: Demo Session II

Room: Virtual 1

Chairs: Harilaos Koumaras (NCSR Demokritos, Greece), Lena Wosinska (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Service-driven management of Vertical Services in heterogeneous network slices
Francesca Moscatelli, Giada Landi and Nicola Ciulli (Nextworks, Italy); Anna Tzanakaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Simon Prior (Accelleran NV, Belgium)
MESON: Optimized Cross-Slice Communication for Pervasive Virtual CDN Services
Margarita Bitzi, Maria-Evgenia Xezonaki and Vasileios Theodorou (Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece); Ioannis Dimolitsas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Dimitrios Dechouniotis (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) & Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece); Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Georgios Papathanail, Ioakeim Fotoglou, Angelos Pentelas and Panagiotis Papadimitriou (University of Macedonia, Greece)
Threat detection and mitigation with MonB5G components in the aLTEr scenario
Cao-Thanh Phan (BCOM, France); Mohamed Rahali (Rennes 1 & IRT BCOM, France); Cédric Morin (Bcom, France)
Satellite edge computing for 5G rural applications
Dimitris Lioprasitis, Athanasios Priovolos and Georgios Gardikis (Space Hellas S.A., Greece); Spiros Pantazis and Socrates Costicoglou (Space Hellas SA, Greece); Andreas Perentos (Avanti HYLAS 2 Cyprus LTD, Cyprus); Eleftheria Hadjioannou (Avanti Hylas 2 Cyprus Ltd, Cyprus); Michael Georgiades (Primetel & PLC, Cyprus); Alexander Phinikarides (Primetel PLC, Cyprus); Alejandro Fornés-Leal (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Regel Usach (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Carlos E Palau (Universitat Politecnica Valencia, Spain); Manuel Esteve (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
Unified e2e Smart Home/Building Solution for Energy Management, Home Comfort and Security
George Lyberopoulos and Ioanna Mesogiti (COSMOTE Mobile Telecommunications S.A., Greece); Fotini Setaki (COSMOTE Mobile Telecommunications S.A. Greece, Greece); Konstantinos G. Filis (Cosmote Mobile Communications SA, Greece); Elina Theodoropoulou (COSMOTE Mobile Telecommunications S.A., Greece); Donatos Stavropoulos (DRIDNET, Greece); Panagiotis Tzimotoudis (GRIDNET, Greece)

Friday, September 10 13:50 – 16:00

SS6: Towards Machine-Learning Based Secure and Efficient 5G and Beyond Disaggregated Networks

Electra Room (hybrid)

Chairs: Miquel Payaró (CTTC, Spain), John S Vardakas (IQUADRAT Informatica S. L. Barcelona, Spain)
Pilot Contamination Attack Detection in 5G Massive MIMO Systems Using GAN
Fatemeh Banaeizadeh and Michel Barbeau (Carleton University, Canada); Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Institut Mines-Telecom, France); Evangelos Kranakis and Tao Wan (Carleton University, Canada)
Precoding Optimization for Cell-free mMIMO in 5G and Beyond Networks: A Machine Learning Approach
Adam Girycki, Md Arifur Rahman and Adam Flizikowski (IS-Wireless, Poland)
P4 programmability for open networking in disaggregated networks
Idan Barnea (NVIDIA, Israel); Juan Jose Vegas Olmos (NVIDIA, Denmark); Matty Kadosh (NVIDIA, Israel)
Avoiding normalization uncertainties in deep learning architectures for end-to-end communication
Simon Bos, Evgenii Vinogradov and Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Towards Machine-Learning-Based 5G and Beyond Intelligent Networks: The MARSAL Project Vision
Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); Miquel Payaró (CTTC, Spain); John S Vardakas (IQUADRAT Informatica S. L. Barcelona, Spain); Sofie Pollin and Evgenii Vinogradov (KU Leuven, Belgium); Emmanouel Varvarigos (National Technical University of Athens & Computer Technology Institute, Greece); Panagiotis Kokkinos (National Technical University of Athens & University of Peloponnese, Greece); Roberto Gonzalez (NEC Laboratories Europe & NEC Iberica, Germany); Juan Jose Vegas Olmos (NVIDIA, Denmark); Ioannis Chochliouros (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. (OTE), Greece); Philippe Chanclou (Orange Labs, France); Pierangela Samarati (Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Adam Flizikowski and Md Arifur Rahman (IS-Wireless, Poland); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)

Friday, September 10 14:50 – 16:15

SS4: Securing Future Networks

Alkioni Room (hybrid)

Chairs: Nikolaos Drosos (Space Hellas S.A., Greece), Sofoklis Efremidis (Maggioli SpA, Greece), Valerio Frascolla (Intel Deutschland Gmbh, Germany), Georgios Gardikis (Space Hellas S.A., Greece), Michail Alexandros Kourtis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece), Diego Lopez (Telefonica I+D, Spain), Evangelos K. Markakis (Hellenic Mediteranean University, Greece), Anna Tzanakaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Practical Autonomous Cyberhealth for resilient Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Evangelos Mantas and Dimitris Papadopoulos (Infili Technologies, Greece); Carolina Fernandez (i2CAT Foundation, Spain); Nil Ortiz (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain); Maxime Compastie (i2CAT Foundation, Spain); Antonio López Martínez and Manuel Gil Pérez (University of Murcia, Spain); Michail Alexandros Kourtis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); George Xylouris (Orion Innovations PC, Greece); Izidor Mlakar (SferaIT & University of Maribor, Slovenia); Stylianos Tsarsitalidis and Dimitrios Klonidis (UBITECH, Greece); Ignazio Pedone and Daniele Canavese (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Gregorio Martinez Perez (University of Murcia, Spain); Davide Sanvito (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany); Vangelis Logothetis (Incites Consulting, Luxembourg); Diego Lopez (Telefonica I+D, Spain); Antonio Pastor (Telefonica I+D & Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Antonio Lioy (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Ludovic Jacquin (Hewlett Packard Labs & Hewlett Packard Enterprise, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Roberto Bifulco (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany); Angeliki Kapodistria, Athanasios Priovolos and Georgios Gardikis (Space Hellas S.A., Greece); Ioannis Neokosmidis and Theodoros Rokkas (Incites Consulting, Luxembourg); Nikolaos Papadakis and Dimitris Paraschos (Hellenic Army Academy, Greece); Primoz Jeran (SferaIT, Slovenia); George Athanasiou (DBC Europe, Belgium); Antonios Litke (Infili Information Intelligence Ltd, Greece)
IoT Botnet Detection on Flow Data using Autoencoders
Orestis Kompougias, Dimitris Papadopoulos and Evangelos Mantas (Infili Technologies, Greece); Nikolaos Papadakis (Hellenic Army Academy, Greece); Antonios Litke (Infili Information Intelligence Ltd, Greece); Michail Alexandros Kourtis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); George Xylouris (Orion Innovations PC, Greece)
Towards Efficient Control-Flow Attestation with Software-Assisted Multi-level Execution Tracing
Dimitrios Papamartzivanos (Ubitech Ltd., Greece); Sofia Anna Menesidou (Ubitech Ltd, Greece); Panagiotis Gouvas (Ubitech, Greece); Thanassis Giannetsos (Ubitech Ltd., Greece)
Using Anomaly Detection Techniques for Securing 5G Infrastructure and Applications
Athanasios Priovolos, Dimitris Lioprasitis and Georgios Gardikis (Space Hellas S.A., Greece); Socrates Costicoglou (Space Hellas SA, Greece)
Controlled and Secure Sharing of Classified Threat Intelligence between Multiple Entities
Ricardo Fernandes (ESTG, Politécnico do Porto & INESC TEC, Portugal); Pedro Pinto (Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo & INESC TEC, Portugal); Antonio Pinto (Politechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal & INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal)