Session 1: SDN/NFV I
Date/Time: Wednesday, Sept. 8th, from 11:15 AM to 12:25 PM Athens time (UTC+3)
Chair: Stefano Bregni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
1) 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)
2) 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)
3) 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)
4) 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))
Session 2: Security and Privacy I
Date/Time: Wednesday, Sept. 8th, from 11:15 AM to 12:25 PM Athens time (UTC+3)
Chair: Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
1) 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)
2) 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)
3) 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)
4) 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)
Session 3: Network Applications and Management
Date/Time: Wednesday, Sept. 8th, from 02:30 PM to 04:00 PM Athens time (UTC+3)
1) 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)
2) 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)
3) Comparison of Graph-based and Hypergraph-based Models for Wireless Network Coexistence
Tawachi Nyasulu and David Crawford (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
4) 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)
Session 4: SDN/NFV II
Date/Time: Wednesday, Sept. 8th, from 02:30 PM to 04:00 PM Athens time (UTC+3)
1) 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)
2) 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)
3) 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)
4) 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)
5) A holistic approach for 5G Network Slice Monitoring
Dimitris Giannopoulos, Panagiotis Papaioannou, Lydia K. Ntzogani, Christos Tranoris and Spyros Denazis (University of Patras, Greece)
Session 5: AI/ML In Networking
Date/Time: Wednesday, Sept. 8th, from 04:15 PM to 06:00 PM Athens time (UTC+3)
1) 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)
2) AI Empowered Resource Management for Future Wireless Networks
Yifei Shen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Jun Zhang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Shenghui Song and Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
3) 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)
4) 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)
5) 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)
6) 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)
Session 6: MIMO
Date/Time: Wednesday, Sept. 8th, from 04:15 PM to 06:00 PM Athens time (UTC+3)
1) 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)
2) 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)
3) 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))
4) 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))
5) Priority-Resource-Limited JT-CoMP Scheme for Small Dense Networks
Aymen Askri (Telecom Paristech, France); Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman (TELECOM ParisTech, France)
6) 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))
Session 7: 5G and Beyond
Date/Time: Thursday, Sept. 9th, from 011:15 AM to 12:25 PM Athens time (UTC+3)
1) 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))
2) 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)
3) 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)
4) Airborne Urban Microcells with Grasping End Effectors: A Game Changer for 6G Networks?
Vasilis Friderikos (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Session 8: Security and Privacy II
Date/Time: Thursday, Sept. 9th, from 11:15 AM to 12:25 PM Athens time (UTC+3)
1) Flexible Physical-Layer Security for 5G Wireless Devices
Dimitrios Efstathiou (International Hellenic University, Greece)
2) A Lightweight Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Secure Fog-to-Fog Collaboration
Ismaila Kamil and Sunday Ogundoyin (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
3) Efficient Kronecker-based Sparse One-Time Sensing Matrix For Compressive Sensing Cryptosystem
Parichehreh Firoozi, Sreeraman Rajan and Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada)
4) 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)
Session 10: Optical Communications and Networks
Date/Time: Thursday, Sept. 9th, from 02:50 PM to 04:00 PM Athens time (UTC+3)
1) 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)
2) Mitigation of the high PAPR in Optical OFDM systems using Symbol Position Permutation
Roland Niwareeba (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
3) 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)
4) 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)
Session 9: IoT and Vehicular Networks
Date/Time: Thursday, Sept. 9th, from 02:50 PM to 04:00 PM Athens time (UTC+3)
1) 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)
2) 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, France)
3) SDR-based Speed Measurement with Continuous-Wave Doppler Radar
Alexander Vargas, Robin Álvarez, Pablo Lupera and Felipe Grijalva (Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador)
4) 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)
Session 11: Energy-Aware Networking
Date/Time: Thursday, Sept. 9th, from 04:15 PM to 05:25 PM Athens time (UTC+3)
1) 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)
2) 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)
3) 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)
4) 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)
Session 12: Information Theory and Performance Evaluation
Date/Time: Thursday, Sept. 9th, from 04:15 PM to 05:25 PM Athens time (UTC+3)
1) 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)
2) A frequency-domain algorithm for satellite on-board time synchronisation
Damien Castelain (Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe, France)
3) 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)
4) Confidence Interval of Peak-Based Distance Estimation in Diffusive Molecular Communication
Gianpaolo Alesiani, Maurizio Magarini and Stefano Bregni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)