The IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom 2021) will feature 5 workshops that will be held September 7th, in conjunction with the main conference.
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Virtual Workshops:
10:00 – 12:20 – Workshop 4 – Large scale 5G Trials in Support of High-performance Vertical Industries
Chairs: Christina (Tanya) Politi (University of Peloponnese, Greece), Christos Tranoris (University of Patras, Greece)
1) 5G-VICTORI: Large scale field trials of rail, energy and media services over 5G-infrastructures
Anna Tzanakaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
2) A 360º real-time video service distribution over the 5GENESIS Berlin Platform
Jesús Gutiérrez (IHP – Leibniz-Institut für Innovative Mikroelektronik, Germany)
3) Handover Management across Heterogeneous Wireless Technologies in High-Speed Railways
Paris Flegkas (University of Thessaly, Greece)
4) From Power Utilities to Smart Factories: a 5G Use Case
Eleftherios Mylonas (IPTO S.A., Greece); Nikolaos Tzanis (University of Patras, Greece)
5) 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)
09:30 – 12:15 – Workshop 5 – 5G Experimentation Facilities, Vertical Trials and Cross-testbed Service Orchestration
Chairs: Konstantinos Apostolakis (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece), George Margetis (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Greece)
1) 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)
2) 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)
3) 5GMediaHub – Immersive 360 VR Use Case
Francisco Ibañez (Brainstorm, Spain); Javier Montesa (Brainstorm Multimedia, Spain)
3) 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)
4) Multi-agency and multi-deployment mission critical communications in 5G-EPICENTRE project
Marta Amor and Eneko Atxutegi (Nemergent Solutions SL, Spain)
5) IoT for Improving First Responders’ Situational Awareness and Safety on Federated 5G Testbeds
Joao Henriques, Andre S. Gomes and Luis Cordeiro (OneSource, Portugal)
13:50 – 16:00 – Workshop 1 – Intelligent Operations, Security, and Acceleration for Edge Computing
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)
1) 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)
2) SERRANO Hardware System Simulator in HPC and in Edge and Cloud Environments
Dmitry Khabi (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) University of Stuttgart, Germany)
3) 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)
4) 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)
5) 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)
6) 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)
7) 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)
16:15 – 18:00 – Workshop 2 – Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A Technology Enabler to Catalyze 6G
Chairs: Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece), Anna Tzanakaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
1) 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))
2) Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: From Electromagnetics to Communications
Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France)
3) Present and Future of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Empowered Communications
Ertugrul Basar (Koc University, Turkey)
4) A hardware and software stack for software-defined intelligent metasurfaces
Christos Liaskos (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece)
5) The impact of electromagnetic noise in RIS-aided communications
Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy)
6) When Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Meet Terahertz Communications
Nan Yang (The Australian National University, Australia)
Hybrid Workshop:
13:50 – 14:50 – Workshop 3 – Secure, Connected and Resilient Smart Cities
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)
1) 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)
2) 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)
3) 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)