IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference
11-14 January 2019 // Las Vegas // USA

Technical Sessions

Saturday, 12 January

10:00 - 12:00

SS: Special-Sessions (I): Physical Layer Advances

Track 10: EMERGING TOPICS IN CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING (1)
Room: LAUGHLIN2

Chair: Wei Wang (San Diego State University, USA)

On the Application of Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering for Cache-Assisted D2D Networks
Komal S Khan, Yi Yin and Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia)
A Generalized Best-Response Smart Media Pricing Economic Model for Wireless Multimedia Communications
Shuan He and Wei Wang (San Diego State University, USA)
A Fuzzy Logic Based Electric Vehicle Scheduling in Smart Charging Network
Jinsol Park, Yujin Sim, Gangminh Lee and Dong-Ho Cho (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)

 

Track 3:  WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: MAC AND CROSS-LAYER DESIGN (1)
Room: RENO

Chair: Megumi Kaneko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Efficient Protocol for Performance Enhancement of B4G and 5G Networks for MultiSIM Deployment
Tushar Vrind (Samsung, India); Lalit Pathak (Samsung Electronics, India); Diwakar Sharma (Samsung Semiconductor India Research, India); Debabrata Das (International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, India)
D-VoWiFi - A Guaranteed Bit Rate Scheduling for VoWiFi in non Dedicated Channel
Harikrishnan Natarajan and Suneelkumar Diggi (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Madhan Raj Kanagarathinam (Samsung R&D Institute India Bangalore, India); Sandesh Srivastava (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Chhaya Bharti (Samsung R&D Institute, India Bangalore, India)
Energy-Efficient User Association and Beamforming for 5G Fog Radio Access Networks
Thi Ha Ly Dinh and Megumi Kaneko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Lila Boukhatem (Paris-Sud&LRI/CNRS, France)
Optimized Resource Allocation and RRH Attachment in Experimental SDN based Cloud-RAN
Ilhem Fajjari (Orange labs, France); Nadjib Aitsaadi (ESIEE Paris & Laboratory of Computer Science Gaspard-Monge - LIGM / CNRS (UMR 8049), France); Saoussane Amanou (Orange labs, France)
AUV Path Planning for Fair Data Freshness in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan and Yalew Zelalem Jembre (Kyungpook National University, Korea); Syed Hassan Ahmed (Georgia Southern University, USA); Dongkyun Kim (Kyungpook National University, Korea)

 

Track 4:  WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: FUNDAMENTALS AND PHY (1)
Room: VIRGINIA CITY 2

Adaptive-bit Quantized Massive MIMO Systems with MMSE-based Variational Approximate Message Passing
Hong-Yunn Chen (National Taiwan University Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia (GINM), Taiwan); Cheng-Fu Chou (NTU, Taiwan); Leana Golubchik (University of Southern California, USA)
Energy-Efficient MISO Wireless Powered Communications
Hunwoo Lim (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Korea); Taewon Hwang (Yonsei University, Korea)
Outdoor Experiments on 5G Radio Access Using BS and UE Beamforming in 28-GHz Frequency Band
Daisuke Kurita (NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan); Hideshi Murai (Ericsson Japan, Japan); Kiichi Tateishi, Daisuke Kitayama, Atsushi Harada and Yoshihisa Kishiyama (NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan); Arne Simonsson and Peter Ökvist (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Shoji Itoh (Ericsson Japan, Japan); Jong-kae Fwu, Xiangyang Zhuang and Kenneth Stewart (Intel Corporation, USA)
A Novel Receiver technique to enable NOMA without user selection
Vaishnavi Jootu Sethuram (Samsung Research Institute India, India)
Machine Learning with partially labeled Data for Indoor Outdoor Detection
Illyyne Saffar (Nokia Bell Labs & Rennes 1 University, France); Marie Line Alberi Morel (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Kamal Deep Singh (Telecom Saint Etienne / University Jean Monnet, France); César Viho (IRISA / INRIA Rennes & University of Rennes I, France)

 

Track 5: MOBILE AND COOPERATIVE NETWORKS (1)
Room: LAUGHLIN3

Chair: Kiho Lim (University of South Dakota, USA)

Flare-DNS Resolver (FDR) for optimizing DNS lookup overhead in mobile devices
Jamsheed Manja Ppallan, Karthikeyan Arunachalam, Sweta Jaiswal and Dronamraju Siva Sabareesh (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Sungki Seo (Samsung Electronics, Korea); Madhan Raj Kanagarathinam (Samsung R&D Institute India Bangalore, India)
Asymmetric Hidden Node Problem Aware Routing Metric for Wireless Mesh Networks
Keisuke Maesako (Kobe University & Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Japan); Yumi Takaki and Tomio Kamada (Kobe University, Japan); Chikara Ohta (Kobe University & Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Japan)
Smart Backlog Management to Fight Bufferbloat in 3GPP Protocol Stacks
Pasquale Imputato (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Natale Patriciello (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Stefano Avallone (University of Naples, Italy); Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)
Blockage-Aware Power Allocation and Relay Selection in Millimeter-Wave Small Cell Network
Sakhawar Zubair and Sobia Jangsher (Institute of Space Technology, Pakistan); Yijie Mao and Victor O. K. Li (University of Hong Kong, P.R. China)

 

Track 6: IOT ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES (1)
Room: LAUGHLIN1

Chair: Syed Hassan Ahmed (Georgia Southern University, USA)

Symbol Denoising in High Order M-QAM using Residual learning of Deep CNN
Saud Khan (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea); Komal S Khan (University of Sydney, Australia); Soo Young Shin (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea)
Battery Optimal Configuration of Transmission Settings in LoRa Moving Nodes
Ashirwad Gupta and Makoto Fujinami (NEC Corporation, Japan)
Improving Workload of Long-Distance Remote Construction Through a WLAN and the Internet
Tatsuya Yoshimoto, Hiroshi Yoshida, Takaharu Innami and Kazunori Ohashi (NEC Corporation, Japan); Hiroshi Furuya and Naoki Mori (Obayashi Corporation, Japan)
A Voice Based One Step Solution for Bulk IoT Device Onboarding
Vinay Kumar (Samsung R&D Institute India- Bangalore, India); Sujay Mohan (Samsung R&D Institute India, Bengaluru, India); Rakesh Kumar (Purdue University, USA)
Daily Activity Recognition based on Markov Logic Network for Elderly Monitoring
Yoshiki Honda, Hirozumi Yamaguchi and Teruo Higashino (Osaka University, Japan)

 

WIP: Work-in-Progress (1)
Room: CARSON CITY 1

Chair: Pascal Urien (Télécom ParisTech, France)

Designing Attacks Against Automotive Control Area Network Bus and Electronic Control Units
Pascal Urien (Télécom ParisTech, France)
Functional Algebraic aTomic Evaluators in Packet Routing
James Mathewson (University of California, Santa Cruz & Akamai Technologies, USA); JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz & Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
An Interest Control Method in SVC-based Adaptive Streaming over Named Data Networking
Taku Ogasawara and Masaki Bandai (Sophia University, Japan)
ViDi: Virtual Director of Video Lectures
Marco Furini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Viewer-Tailored Advertising for Video on Demand Platforms
Roberta De Michele and Marco Furini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

 

WIP: Work-in-Progress (4)
Room: CARSON CITY 2

Chair: Patrick Seeling (Central Michigan University, USA)

Immersive Image QoE in Mobile Consumer Virtual Reality Settings
Jeffrey Thompson, Anil Karembai and Patrick Seeling (Central Michigan University, USA)
Trajectory-Aware Edge Node Clustering in Vehicular Edge Clouds
Jaewook Lee, Haneul Ko and Sangheon Pack (Korea University, Korea)
Energy Efficient Ad Hoc Networking Devices for Off-the-Grid Public Safety Networks
Jithin Jagannath (Northeastern University & ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, USA); Anu Jagannath (ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, USA); Sean Furman (Andro Computational Solutions, LLC, USA); Andrew L Drozd (The Project FibonacciTM Foundation, Inc. & c/o ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, USA)
Forward Caching Hints to Reduce WASTE
Matthew Bailey and Patrick Seeling (Central Michigan University, USA)
Advanced GTS Scheduling in IEEE 802.15.4 Networks for Industrial Applications
Thuy N Dinh (The Arctic University of Norway, Norway); Phuong Hoai Ha (University of Tromso, Norway)
Data Validation and Correction for Resiliency in Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems
Yasmeen Mussard-Afcari, Danda B. Rawat and Moses Garuba (Howard University, USA)

 


 

Saturday, 12 January

13:00 - 14:30

Track 10: EMERGING TOPICS IN CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING (2)
Room: LAUGHLIN2

Chair: Soon Joo Hyun (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)

A Segregated Architecture for a Trust-based Network of Internet of Things
Davide Ferraris (University of Malaga, Spain); Joshua Daniel (British Telecom, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Carmen Fernandez-Gago and Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain)
Fast Spectral Assessment for Handover Decisions in 5G Networks
Kostas Chounos (University of Thessaly, Greece); Stratos Keranidis (University of Thessaly and CERTH, Greece); Apostolos Apostolaras (University of Thessaly & The Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, CERTH, Greece); Thanasis Korakis (New York University, USA)
Pull-based Bloom Filter-based Routing for Information-Centric Networks
Ali Marandi and Torsten Ingo Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland); Kavé Salamatian (LISTIC PolyTech, Université de Savoie Chambery Annecy, France); Nikolaos Thomos (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

 

Track 3: WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: MAC AND CROSS-LAYER DESIGN (2)
Room: RENO

Chair: Peiliang Dong (Philips Lighting (China) Investment Co. Ltd. & Signify Holding, P.R. China)

On the Employment of Machine Learning Techniques for Troubleshooting WiFi Networks
Ilias Syrigos, Nikos Sakellariou, Stratos Keranidis and Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Analysis of a crowd-computing search algorithm in mesh networks
Peiliang Dong, Zhizhong Zhang and Jun Yao (Research China, Signify N.V.)
Analysis and Experimental Verification of F-RIT Protocol for Wireless Smart Utility Network
Ryota Okumura, Keiichi Mizutani and Hiroshi Harada (Kyoto University, Japan)

 

Track 4: WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: FUNDAMENTALS AND PHY (2)
Room: VIRGINIA CITY 2

Chair: Bang Chul Jung (Chungnam National University, Korea)

Spatial Fading in Backscatter Channels: Theory and Models
Mohammad Alhassoun (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Gregory Durgin (Georgia Tech, USA)
Content Popularity Estimation in Edge-Caching Networks from Bayesian Inference Perspective
Sajad Mehrizi (University of Luxembourg); Anestis Tsakmalis and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
A UAV-Aided Data Collection for Wireless Powered Sensor Network over Rician Fading Channels
Tianji Shen and Hideki Ochiai (Yokohama National University, Japan)

 

Track 5: MOBILE AND COOPERATIVE NETWORKS (2)
Room: LAUGHLIN3

Chair: Abolfazl Razi (Northern Arizona University, USA)

Computation-Bandwidth Trading for Mobile Edge Computing
Sabyasachi Gupta (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA); Angel Lozano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain)
Distributed Cooperative Spectrum Sharing in UAV Networks Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Alireza Shamsoshoara (Northern Arizona University, USA); Mehrdad Khaledi (Suffolk University, USA); Fatemeh Afghah and Abolfazl Razi (Northern Arizona University, USA); Jonathan Ashdown (United States Air Force, USA)
Signal Space Diversity based Cognitive Two-Way Relay Network with Underlay Spectrum Sharing
M. Ajmal Khan, Heath J. LeBlanc and Firas Hassan (Ohio Northern University, USA)
LIDAR: Lidar Information based Dynamic V2V Authentication for Roadside Infrastructure-less Vehicular Networks
Kiho Lim and Kastuv Tuladhar (University of South Dakota, USA)

 

Track 6: IOT ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES (2)
Room: LAUGHLIN1

Chair: Syed Hassan Ahmed (Georgia Southern University, USA)

A Low Complexity Relaxation for Minimizing Bandwidth Use in IoT Storage Without Newcomers
Xiaobo Zhao and Daniel E. Lucani (Aarhus University, Denmark); Xiaohong Shen and Haiyan Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
WoT Store: Enabling Things and Applications Discovery for the W3C Web of Things
Luca Sciullo, Cristiano Aguzzi, Marco Di Felice and Tullio Salmon Cinotti (University of Bologna, Italy)
Energy Efficient Caching in Cooperative Small Cell Network
Benish Sharfeen Khan and Sobia Jangsher (Institute of Space Technology, Pakistan); Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

 

WIP: Work-in-Progress (2)
Room: CARSON CITY 1

Chair: Shinji Sugawara (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)

Tracking Social Interaction via Time Varying Path Loss Estimation from Wireless Transmissions
Quang Huynh, Ruslan Dautov and Gill R Tsouri (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Why File Delivery Order Change is Not Necessary at an Intermediate Node
Takeshi Akaoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Shinji Sugawara (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan); Katsunori Yamaoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
An Advanced Coordination Protocol for Safer and more Efficient Lane Change for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Jack Hodgkiss and Soufiene Djahel (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul (University of Rennes 1, France)
Geo-Fencing in Wireless LANs with Camera for Location-Based Access Control
Go Yamanaka, Takayuki Nishio and Masahiro Morikura (Kyoto University, Japan); Yuichi Maki (NTT Corporation & NTT Service Evolution Laboratories, Japan); Shin-ichiro Eitoku (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan); Takuya Indo (NTT Corporation, Japan); Koji Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan)

 

WIP: Work-in-Progress (5)
Room: CARSON CITY 2

Chair: Noriaki Kamiyama (Fukuoka University, Japan)

Optimally Designing Virtualized CDN Maximizing Profit of Content Providers
Noriaki Kamiyama and Yutaro Hosokawa (Fukuoka University, Japan)
Service Function Chaining: a lightweight container-based management and orchestration plane
Armir Bujari, Claudio E. Palazzi, Davide Polonio and Marco Zanella (University of Padua, Italy)
Cloud and Edge Processing by Precoder Design for Secrecy Rate Maximization
Seungmin Yoo, Jeongwan Koh and Donggu Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea); Joonhyuk Kang (KAIST, Korea)
On the Performance Benefits of Partly Wireless CRAN
Sanghyuk Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology & KAIST, Korea); Donggu Kim and Jeongwan Koh (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea); Joon-Hyuk Kang (KAIST, Korea)

 


 

Saturday, 12 January

15:00 - 16:30

Track 10: EMERGING TOPICS IN CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING (3)
Room: LAUGHLIN2

Chair: Chunchao Lane (Eastern New Mexico University, USA)

Efficient Interest Satisfaction in Content Centric Wireless Sensor Networks
Ghada Jaber (University of Toulouse, France); Rahim Kacimi (IRIT/UPS, University of Toulouse, France); Thierry Gayraud (LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, France)
CAA: CLAT Aware Affinity Scheduler for Next Generation Mobile Networks
Chhaya Bharti (Samsung R&D Institute, India Bangalore, India); Madhan Raj Kanagarathinam (Samsung R&D Institute India Bangalore, India); Sandesh Srivastava (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Milim Lee, JaeKwang Han and Wangkeun Oh (Samsung Electronics, Korea)
Discovering Messengers with Erasure Coding for Communication in Wireless Ad hoc Networks
Chunchao Lane and Chang Liu (Eastern New Mexico University, USA); Ying Li (Colby College, USA)

 

Track 2: CLOUD & FOG COMPUTING AND NETWORKING
Room: LAUGHLIN3

Chair: Andreas Pamboris (University of Central Lancashire & JARVIC LTD, Cyprus)

FogFS: A Fog File System For Hyper-Responsive Mobile Applications
Andreas Pamboris (University of Central Lancashire & JARVIC LTD, Cyprus); Panayiotis Andreou (University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus); Irene Polycarpou (UCLan Cyprus, Cyprus); George Samaras (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Fog Based Framework for IoT Service Provisioning
Bruno Donassolo (Orange Labs, France); Ilhem Fajjari (Orange labs, France); Arnaud R. Legrand (CNRS - University of Grenoble, France); Panayotis Mertikopoulos (French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) & Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France)
PUBLISH: A Distributed Service Advertising Scheme for Vehicular Cloud Networks
Bouziane Brik (University of Laghouat, Algeria); Junaid Ahmed Khan (University of Memphis, USA); Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of la Rochelle, France); Nasreddine Lagraa (Amar Thelidji University, Laghouat & LIM Laboratory, Algeria)
Kerman: A Hybrid Lightweight Tracking Algorithm to Enable Smart Surveillance as an Edge Service
Seyed Nikouei and Yu Chen (Binghamton University, USA); Sejun Song (University of Missouri Kansas City, USA); Timothy Faughnan (Binghamton University, USA)

 

Track 3: WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: MAC AND CROSS-LAYER DESIGN (3)
Room: RENO

Chair: Arjun Nanjundappa (Samsung R&D India, Bangalore, India)

AB-TDMA: Enabling Concurrent Data Collection and Data Dissemination with Adaptive Beacon
Hao He and Yongrui Chen (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Weidong Yi (University of Chinese Achedemy Sciences, P.R. China)
MAC Protocol Design of Frequency Domain Contention Using OFDM Subcarriers
Dong-Gu Lee, Jin-Ki Kim and Jun-Woo Cho (Ajou University, Korea); Jae-Hyun Kim (Ajou University, South Korea, Korea)
A Novel Machine Learning Based MAC Scheduler Algorithm using ARIMA
Avinash Chilmulwar and Vaibhav Sinha (Samsung R&D Bangalore, India)

 

Track 6: IOT ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES (3)
Room: LAUGHLIN1

Chair: Muhammad Rehan Usman (Superior University, Pakistan)

Security, Privacy and Safety Risk Assessment for Virtual Reality Learning Environment Applications
Aniket Gulhane (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA); Akhil Vyas (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Reshmi Mitra (University of Missouri Columbia, USA & Indian Institute of Technology Vadodara, India); Roland Oruche (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA); Gabriela Hoefer (Samford University, USA); Samaikya Valluripally and Prasad Calyam (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA); Khaza Anuarul Hoque (University of Missouri, USA)
UAV Reconnaissance using Bio-Inspired Algorithms: Joint PSO and Penguin Search Optimization Algorithm (PeSOA) Attributes
Muhammad Rehan Usman (Superior University, Pakistan); Muhammad Arslan Usman (Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KIT), Korea); Muhammad Azfar Yaqub (Kyungpook National University, Korea); Soo Young Shin (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea)
Segmentation and Abstraction of an IoT Enabled Distributed Sensor Network
Yuanhang Shao, Suman Kumar and Takahiro Kawakami (Troy University, USA)

 

Track 7: SECURITY, PRIVACY AND CONTENT PROTECTION
Room: VIRGINIA CITY 2

Chair: Qian Feng (Baidu Xlab, USA)

Learning Binary Representation for Automatic Patch Detection
Qian Feng (Baidu Xlab USA); Rundong Zhou (Baidu Xlab, USA); Yanhui Zhao and Jia Ma (Samsung Research America, USA); Yifei Wang (Samsung Research America); Na Yu (Colorado School of Mines, USA); Xudong Jin, Jian Wang, Ahmed Azab and Peng Ning (Samsung Research America, USA)
2D2N: A Dynamic Degenerative Neural Network for Classification of Images of Live Network Data
Kieran Flanagan (Athlone Institute of Technology & The NPD Group, Ireland); Enda Fallon and Paul Jacob (Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland); Abir Awad (Bournemouth University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Paul Connolly (The NPD Group, Inc, Ireland)
Fast constant time implementations of ZUC-256 on x86 CPUs
Nir Drucker (The University of Haifa, Israel & Amazon Web Services, USA); Shay Gueron (University of Haifa, Israel)
A Cascade-structured Meta-Specialists Approach for Neural Network-based Intrusion Detection
Maxime Labonne (CEA LIST & University of Paris-Saclay, France); Alexis Olivereau (CEA, LIST, France); Baptiste Polvé (CEA LIST, France); Djamal Zeghlache (Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis & UMR 5157 CNRS - Samovar, France)

 

WIP: Work-in-Progress (3)
Room: CARSON CITY 1

Chair: Frank den Hartog (University of New South Wales & DoVes Research, Australia)

Developing a Low Cost, Portable Jammer Detection and Localization Device for First Responders
Anu Jagannath (ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, USA); Jithin Jagannath (Northeastern University & ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, USA); Brendan Sheaffer (ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, USA); Andrew L Drozd (The Project FibonacciTM Foundation, Inc. & c/o ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, USA)
Throughput Analytical Modeling of IEEE 802.11ah Wireless Networks
Stephanie M Soares (University of Brasilia, Brazil); Marcelo M Carvalho (University of Brasília, Brazil)
Toward secure trading of unlicensed spectrum in cyber-physical systems
Frank den Hartog (University of New South Wales & DoVes Research, Australia); Faycal Bouhafs and Qi Shi (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Detecting Location Spoofing using ADAS sensors in VANETs
Kiho Lim and Kastuv Tuladhar (University of South Dakota, USA); Hyunbum Kim (University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA)

 

WIP: Work-in-Progress (6)
Room: CARSON CITY 2

Chair: Daisuke Kotani (Kyoto University, Japan)

An Architecture of a Network Controller for QoS Management in Home Networks with Lots of IoT Devices and Services
Daisuke Kotani (Kyoto University, Japan)
On Improving the Performance of Software-Defined Networking through Middlebox Policies
Jose Luis Garcia Gomez and Ting-Chia Chang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Cheng-Fu Chou (NTU, Taiwan); Leana Golubchik (University of Southern California, USA)
Offloading System Based on Estimated Response Time in Multi-tier Environment
Ryotaro Tani, Yuki Kobayashi and Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University, Japan)
A Bee Colony-based Algorithm for Micro-cache Placement Close to End Users in Fog-based Content Delivery Networks
Razieh Abbasi ghalehtaki (Concordia, Canada); Somayeh Kianpisheh and Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada)

 


Sunday, 13 January

10:00 - 12:00

Track 1: NETWORKING SOLUTIONS FOR GAMES, MULTIMEDIA, SOCIAL GOOD, AND P2P APPLICATIONS (1)
Room: RENO

Chair: Marco Furini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Automated Generation of User-Tailored and Time-Sensitive Music Playlists
Marco Furini, Jessica Martini and Manuela Montangero (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Location corroboration using passive observations of IEEE 802.11 Access Points
Paul Couderc (INRIA, France); Yoann Maurel (University Rennes 1 & IRISA, France)
Minimal Startup Delay in HAS with Staggered Segments
Pablo Gil Pereira (Saarland University, Germany); Thorsten Herfet (Saarland University & Intel Visual Computing Institute, Germany)
Video sessions KPIs clustering framework in CDNs
Sepideh Malektaji (Concordia University, Canada); Diala Naboulsi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada); Alexander Polyantsev (Ericsson, Canada); Ali El Essaili (Ericsson, Germany); Cyril Iskander and Richard Brunner (Ericsson, Canada)

 

Track 11: SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING/NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION
Room: LAUGHLIN1

Chair: Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada)

Cost-Efficient Server Provisioning for Deadline-Constrained VNFs Chains: A Parallel VNF Processing Approach
Somayeh Kianpisheh and Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada)
Towards Accurate and Scalable Performance Prediction for Automated Service Design in NFV
Florian Beye (NEC Corporation, Japan); Yusuke Shinohara and Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC, Japan)
Comparison of Routing Algorithms with Static and Dynamic Link Cost in SDN
Erdal Akin and Turgay Korkmaz (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
The SDN Control Plane Challenge for Minimum Control traffic: Distributed or Centralized?
Kostas Choumas (University of Thessaly, Greece); Dimitris Giatsios (University of Thessaly & CERTH, Greece); Paris Flegkas (University of Thessaly, Greece); Thanasis Korakis (New York University, USA)

 

Track 3: WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: MAC AND CROSS-LAYER DESIGN (4)
Room: CARSON CITY 1

Chair: Takayuki Nishio (Kyoto University, Japan)

Analysis of Inversely Proportional Carrier Sense Threshold and Transmission Power Setting Based on Received Power for IEEE 802.11ax
Motoki Iwata, Koji Yamamoto, Bo Yin, Takayuki Nishio and Masahiro Morikura (Kyoto University, Japan); Hirantha Abeysekera (NTT Corporation, Japan)
Robust Device-to-Device 5G Cellular Communication in the Post-Disaster Scenario
Deepak G c (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alexandros Ladas and Christos Politis (Kingston University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Multi-Level Channel Valuations and Coalitional Subgames in Spatial Spectrum Reuse
Feixiang Zhang, Xiangwei Zhou and Mingxuan Sun (Louisiana State University, USA)
Channel Access Control for Collisions Caused by Hidden Nodes and Phase Synchronization among Periodic Data Flows
Huy Nguyen, Yosuke Tanigawa and Hideki Tode (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)

 

Track 8: MOBILE AND WEARABLE DEVICES, SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS (1)
Room: LAUGHLIN3

Chair: Nicholas Ross (University of San Francisco, USA)

Enhanced Service Recommender and Ranking System Using Browsing Patterns of Users
Sureshkumar Gudla (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Joy Bose (Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore, India); Koushik Reddy Sane (Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore, India)
Topic Modeling to Extract Information from Neutraceutical Product Reviews
Deena John, Ernest Kim, Kunal Kotian, Ker Yu Ong and Tyler White (University of San Francisco, USA); Luba Gloukhova (Stanford University, USA); Diane Myung-kyung Woodbridge and Nicholas Ross (University of San Francisco, USA)
Watch360: A Device to Enable and Detect Tilt, Translation and Rotation of a Watch Bezel
Kapil Kumar (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Arindam Mondal (Samsung R&D Institute India Bangalore, India); Gaurav Gupta (Samsung R&D Institute, India)
Managing Mobile Relays for Secure E2E Connectivity of Low-Power IoT Devices
Pawani Porambage, Ahsan Manzoor and Madhusanka Liyanage (University of Oulu, Finland); Andrei Gurtov (Linköping University, Sweden); Mika E Ylianttila (University of Oulu & Centre for Wireless Communications, Finland)

 

WIP: Work-in-Progress (7)
Room: LAUGHLIN2

Chair: Lina Altoaimy (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)

Enhanced Distance-Based Gossip Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
Heba A. Kurdi (King Saud University & College of Computer and Information Sciences, Saudi Arabia); Lina Altoaimy, Arwa Alromih, Amirah Alomari and Entisar Alrogi (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Syed Hassan Ahmed (Georgia Southern University, USA)
Power Allocation with a Wireless Multi-cast Aware Routing for Virtual Network Embedding
Haitham Afifi and Holger Karl (Paderborn University, Germany)
Throughput Analysis for Full Duplex Wireless Local Area Networks with Hidden Nodes
Kosuke Sanada and Kazuo Mori (Mie University, Japan)
Interference Management for Millimeter-wave Mesh Backhaul Networks
Makoto Nakamura and Gia Khanh Tran (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Kei Sakaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology & Fraunhofer HHI, Japan)
Improving of Fairness by Dynamic Sensitivity Control and Transmission Power Control with Access Point Cooperation in Dense WLAN
Koki Iwai (Keio University, Japan); Takanobu Ohnuma (Graduate School of Science and Technology & Keio University, Japan); Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University, Japan); Yusuke Tanaka (R&D Platform, Sony Corporation, Japan)

 

WIP: Work-in-Progress (9)
Room: VIRGINIA CITY 2

Chair: M. Ajmal Khan (Ohio Northern University, USA)

Secrecy Enhancement of Dual-Hop Cooperative Relay System Using Signal Space Diversity
M. Ajmal Khan (Ohio Northern University, USA)
Investigation on Distributed Optimization of User Association and Inter-Cell Interference Coordination Based on Proportional Fair Criteria
Nobuhiko Miki and Yusaku Kanehira (Kagawa University, Japan)
Service-Sharing Approach using a Mutual Exclusion Algorithm for Smart Cashier Systems
Heba A. Kurdi and Ghada AL-Hudhud (King Saud University & College of Computer and Information Sciences, Saudi Arabia); Muneerah Al-Dawod, Wafa Al-Shaikh and Lina Altoaimy (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Token-Based Lightweight Authentication to Secure IoT Networks
Maissa Dammak (Burgundy University & Doctorante, France); Merad Boudia Omar Rafik (University of Tlemcen, Algeria); Mohamed-Ayoub Messous (University of Burgundy & DRIVE Lab, France); Sidi-Mohammed Senouci (University of Bourgogne - ISAT Nevers, France); Christophe Gransart (University Lille Nord de France, France)
Analyzing Latency and Dropping in Today's Internet of Multimedia Things
Maha Alaslani and Basem Shihada (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
Subcarrier-Index Modulation for Reed Solomon Encoded OFDM-Based Visible Light Communication
Nima Taherkhani (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Kamran Kiasaleh (Universsity of Texas at Dallas & IEEE, USA)

 


 

Sunday, 13 January

15:00 - 17:00

Track 1: NETWORKING SOLUTIONS FOR GAMES, MULTIMEDIA, SOCIAL GOOD, AND P2P APPLICATIONS (2)
Room: RENO

Chair: Ming-Hung Chen (IBM Research, USA)

Towards VR/AR Multimedia Content Multicast over Wireless LAN
Ming-Hung Chen (IBM Research, USA); Kai-Wen Hu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); IHsin Chung (IBM T.J Watson Research Center, USA); Cheng-Fu Chou (NTU, Taiwan)
LOCOMOBIS: a low-cost acoustic-based sensing system to monitor and classify mosquitoes
Catia Prandi (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute & University of Bologna, Italy); Jardim Nunes (University of Madeira, Portugal); Miguel Ribeiro (Madeira-ITI, University of Madeira, Portugal); Dinarte Vasconcelos (M-ITI, Portugal); Alex Rogers (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Industry 4.0 and Video Monitoring: a Multi-dimensional Approach Based on MPEG-DASH
Vittorio Ghini (Università di Bologna, Italy); Matteo Casadei, Francesco Dal Borgo and Nicolò Vincenzi (Bucci Automations S.p.A., Italy); Catia Prandi (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute & University of Bologna, Italy); Silvia Mirri (University of Bologna, Italy)
Joint High Level QP and Low Level Power Control in NOMA/OMA Downlink Wireless Multimedia Communications
Shuan He and Wei Wang (San Diego State University, USA); Kazem Sohraby (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA)

 

Track 6: IOT ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES (4)
Room: CARSON CITY 1

Chair: Young-Chai Ko (Korea University, Korea)

MR-Edge: a MapReduce-based Protocol for IoT Edge Computing with Resource Constraints

Qian Wang (Software Research Institute, Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland); Brian Lee, Niall Murray and Yuansong Qiao (Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland)

Performance Evaluation of Multi-hop Network Configuration for Wi-SUN FAN Systems
Thidarut Junjalearnvong, Ryota Okumura, Keiichi Mizutani and Hiroshi Harada (Kyoto University, Japan)
Experimental Evaluation of the Poissoness of Real Sensor Data Traffic in the Internet of Things
Chitradeep Majumdar and Miguel López-Benítez (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shabbir N Merchant (IIT Bombay, India)
A Lightweight Trust-Based Security Architecture for RPL in Mobile IoT Networks
Preetha Thulasiraman (Naval Postgraduate School, USA); Yizhong Wang (Defence Science and Technology Agency, Singapore)
Lameness Detection as a Service: Application of Machine Learning to an Internet of Cattle
John Byabazaire (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland); Cristian Olariu (IBM Ireland Limited & Innovation Exchange, Ireland); Mohit Taneja (Waterford Institute of Technology & Telecommunications Software and Systems Group, Ireland); Alan Davy (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)

 

Track 8: MOBILE AND WEARABLE DEVICES, SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS (2)
Room: LAUGHLIN3

Chair: Junsu Kim (Korea Polytechnic University, Korea)

Practical Indoor Localization via Smartphone Sensor Data Fusion Techniques: A Performance Study
Stefano Traini, Luca Sciullo, Angelo Trotta and Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy)
Pose Tracking using Wearables with Inertial Sensor Array
Arindam Mondal (Samsung R&D Institute India Bangalore); Prash Goel (Samsung R&D Institute India Bangalore, India); Gaurav Gupta (Samsung R&D Institute, India)
An Energy Efficient Smartphone Sensors' Data Fusion for High Rate Position Sampling Demands
Esbalew Alemneh (University of Bourgogne - ISAT Nevers & Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computing, France); Sidi-Mohammed Senouci (University of Bourgogne - ISAT Nevers, France); Philippe Brunet (ISAT, Université de Bourgogne, France)
Incremental Spatial Clustering for Spatial Big Crowd Data in Evolving Disaster Scenario
Yilang Wu (University of Aizu, Japan); Amitangshu Pal (Temple University, USA); Junbo Wang (University of AIZU, Japan); Krishna Kant (Temple University, USA)

 

Track 9 VEHICULAR COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS IN WATER, LAND, AND SKY
Room: LAUGHLIN1

Chair: Antoine O. Berthet (CentraleSupélec, France)

Impact of Network Performance on GLOSA
Mahdi Sharara (Saint Joseph University, Lebanese University); Marc Ibrahim (Saint Joseph University & Saint Joseph University - ESIB, Lebanon); Gerard Chalhoub (Clermont University, France)
Characterizing Full-Duplex V2V Broadcast Performance through Stochastic Geometry
Alexandre Mouradian (Université Sud Paris, France); Claudia Campolo and Antonella Molinaro (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Antoine O. Berthet (CentraleSupélec, France); Véronique Vèque (University of Paris-Sud 11, France)
Evaluating UAV-to-Car Communications Performance: From Testbed to Simulation Experiments
Seilendria Ardityarama Hadiwardoyo (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Carlos T. Calafate (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Juan-Carlos Cano (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Enrique Hernández-Orallo and Pietro Manzoni (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
Efficient 3D Placement of Access Points in an Aerial Wireless Network
Ismail Uluturk, Ismail Uysal and Kwang-Cheng Chen (University of South Florida, USA)

 

WIP: Work-in-Progress (10)
Room: VIRGINIA CITY 2

Chair: Rana Asif Rehman (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan)

DC4LED: A Hierarchical VDTN Routing for Data Collection in Smart Cities
Ngurah Indra Er (Institute Mines Telecom / IMT-Atlantique, France & Udayana University, Indonesia); Kamal Deep Singh (Telecom Saint Etienne / University Jean Monnet, France); Jean-Marie Bonnin (Institut Mines Telecom / IMT Atlantique & IRISA - Inria, France)
Distance-Based Scheme for Broadcast Storm Mitigation in Named Software Defined Vehicular Networks (NSDVN)
Ahmed Arslan and Rana Asif Rehman (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan)
Efficiently allocating distributed caching resources in future smart networks
Hamza Ben-Ammar (Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France); Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul (University of Rennes 1, France); Soraya Ait Chellouche (IRISA Lab - University of Rennes 1, France)
A Routing Protocol for SDN-based Multi-hop D2D Communications
Mahrokh Abdollahi (University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia); Mehran Abolhasan and Negin Shariati (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Justin Lipman (University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia); Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia); Wei Ni (CSIRO, Australia)
Sharing Social Networks Using a Novel Differentially Private Graph Model
Tianchong Gao and Feng Li (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)

 

WIP: Work-in-Progress (8)
Room: LAUGHLIN2

Chair: Cong Pu (Marshall University, USA)

Energy Depletion Attack Against Routing Protocol in the Internet of Things
Cong Pu (Marshall University, USA)
Proof of Sincerity: A New Lightweight Consensus Approach for Mobile Blockchains
Miraz Uz Zaman, Tong Shen and Manki Min (Louisiana Tech University, USA)
User Friendly Tab Management in Web Browsers
Dipin Kollencheri Puthenveettil (Samsung R&D Institiute India - Bangalore, India); Joy Bose (Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore, India); Sanjoy Pal (SAMSUNG R&D INDIA, Bangalore & SAMSUNG R&D INDIA, Bangalore, India)
Machine Learning at your Fingertips
Dylan Simmons (Saint Louis University, USA); Milesh Shah (University of Missouri Columbia, USA); Jonathan Rogers (Truman State University, USA); Yi Shang (University of Missouri, USA)
Phase Estimation Method Using Multiple Frames in Image-Sensor-Based Visible Light Communication
Shohei Maruyama and Tomohiro Yendo (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan); Yoshifumi Shiraki (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan); Takashi G Sato (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Takehiro Moriya (NTT, Japan)

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