Program

Program Overview

Sunday 18:30-19:30 Welcome Cocktail

	Mon, January 30	Tue, January 31	Wed, February 1
08:00 - 08:30	Arrival and registration		Arrival and registration
08:30 - 08:45	Welcome	Arrival and registration	Panel Session
08:45 - 09:45	Keynote - Carla Chiasserini	Keynote - Deniz Gündüz	Panel Session
09:45 - 10:15	COFFEE BREAK	COFFEE BREAK	COFFEE BREAK
10:15 - 11:45	SESSION 1	SESSION 4	SESSION 6
11:45 - 16:30	FREE TIME	FREE TIME	Closing address
16:30 - 17:00	COFFEE BREAK	COFFEE BREAK
17:00 - 18:15	SESSION 2	SESSION 5
18:25 - 19:30	SESSION 3
19:30 - 22:00		SOCIAL DINNER

Detailed Program

Sunday, January 29

18:30 - 19:30 Welcome Cocktail

Monday, January 30

08:00 - 08:30 Arrival and registration

08:30 - 08:45 Welcome

08:45 - 09:45 Keynote - Carla Chiasserini

Distributed Learning: Recipes for High Performance and Sustainability

09:45 - 10:15 COFFEE BREAK

10:15 - 11:45 SESSION 1

Chair: Marios Lestas, Frederick University, Cyprus

10:15 - 10:40

Energy-Efficient Bootstrapping in Multi-Hop Harvesting-Based Networks

Naomi Stricker, Jasmine Hora, Andres Gomez, Lothar Thiele

10:40 - 11:00

Vehicles or Pedestrians: On the gNB Placement in Ultradense Urban Areas

Gabriele Gemmi, Michele Segata, Leonardo Maccari

11:00 - 11:25

6G Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks with Sub-Terahertz Links

Amir Ashtari Gargari, Matteo Pagin, Michele Polese, Michele Zorzi

11:25 - 11:45

Evaluating the Impact of Anchors Deployment for an AoA-Based Indoor Localization System

Fabio Mavilia, Paolo Barsocchi, Francesco Furfari, Michele Girolami

11:45 - 16:30 FREE TIME

16:30 - 17:00 COFFEE BREAK

17:00 - 18:15 SESSION 2

Chair: Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Sweden

17:00 - 17:25

Wi-Fi Throughput Estimation for Vehicle-To-Network Communication in Heterogeneous Wireless Environments

Daniel F. R. Teixeira, Rui Meireles, Ana C Aguiar

17:25 - 17:50

Enabling Cooperative Autonomous Driving Through mmWave and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Michele Segata, Marios Lestas, Paolo Casari, Taqwa Saeed, Dimitrios Tyrovolas, George K. Karagiannidis, Christos Liaskos

17:50 - 18:15

Vehicle-To-Infrastructure Communication for Real-Time Object Detection in Autonomous Driving

Faisal Hawlader, François Robinet, Raphael Frank

18:15 - 18:25 SHORT BREAK

18:25 - 19:35 SESSION 3

Chair: Ana Aguiar, University of Porto, Portugal

18:25 - 18:45

Visible Light or Infrared? Modulating LiFi for Dual Operation in the Visible and Infrared Spectra

Dayrene Frometa Fonseca, Muhammad Sarmad Mir, Borja Genoves Guzman, Domenico Giustiniano

18:45 - 19:10

Sensitivity Analysis of Ambient Backscattering Communications in Heavily Loaded Cellular Networks

Ritayan Biswas, Jukka Lempiainen

19:10 - 19:35

Evaluation of Open-Source Mobile Network Software Stacks: A Guide to Low-Cost Deployment of 5G Testbeds

Maurine Chepkoech, Ngonidzashe Mombeshora, Bessie Malila, Joyce Mwangama

Tuesday, January 31

08:30 - 08:45 Arrival and registration

08:45 - 09:45 Keynote - Deniz Gündüz

On-Demand Intelligence at the Wireless Edge

09:45 - 10:15 COFFEE BREAK

10:15 - 11:30 SESSION 4

Chair: Serge Fdida, Sorbonne University, France

10:15 - 10:40

Interplay Between Priority Queues and Controlled Delay in Programmable Data Planes

Tung Doan, Tobias Scheinert, Osel Lhamo, Juan A. Cabrera, Frank H.P. Fitzek, Giang T. Nguyen

10:40 - 11:05

5G Configured Grant Scheduling for 5G-TSN Integration for the Support of Industry 4.0

Ana Larrañaga Zumeta, Maria del Carmen Lucas-Estañ, Imanol Martinez, Javier Gozalvez

11:05 - 11:30

ASAP: Adaptive and Scalable Microservice Provisioning for Edge-IoT Networks

Amit Samanta, Flavio Esposito, Tri Gia Nguyen

11:30 - 16:30 FREE TIME

16:30 - 17:00 COFFEE BREAK

17:00 - 18:30 SESSION 5

Chair: Leonardo Maccari, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

17:00 - 17:20

Towards Hybrid Electronic-Mechanical Beamforming for IEEE 802.11ad

Anatolij Zubow, Agon Memedi, Falko Dressler

17:20 - 17:45

Stop & Route: Periodic Data Offloading in UAV Networks

Novella Bartolini, Andrea Coletta, Flavio Giorgi, Gaia Maselli, Matteo Prata, Domenicomichele Silvestri

17:45 - 18:05

Using CTI Data to Understand Real World Cyberattacks

Mauro Allegretta, Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Gonzalez, Pelayo Vallina, Marco Gramaglia

18:05 - 18:30

On Mitigating DIS Attacks in IoT Networks

Ghada Saleh Aljufair, Mohammed Mahyoub, Abdulaziz S. Almazyad

Wednesday, February 1

08:00 - 08:30 Arrival and registration

08:30 - 10:00 Panel Session
Toward NextG/6G Networking: Observations, Requirements, Challenges, and Opportunities
Moderator: Falko Dressler
Invited speakers:

Serge Fdida, Sorbonne University, France

Norman Franchi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Frank Fitzek, TU Dresden, Germany

Michele Polese, Northeastern University, USA

Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain, Northeastern University, USA

10:00 - 10:30 COFFEE BREAK

10:30 - 12:10 SESSION 6

Chair: Gaia Maselli, University of Rome "Sapienza", Italy

10:30 - 10:50

Pitfalls in Measuring Ultra Low Power Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks

Sven Pullwitt, Lars C Wolf

10:50 - 11:10

Internet of Things for Hydrology: Potential and Challenges

Andrea Zanella, Sergio Zubelzu, Mehdi Bennis, Martina Capuzzo, Paolo Tarolli

11:10 - 11:30

ML-based Network Pruning for Routing Data Overhead Reduction in Wireless Sensor Networks

Davide Andreoletti, Cristina E.M. Rottondi, Fatima Ezzeddine, Omran Ayoub, Silvia Giordano

11:30 - 12:10

Radio-In-The-Loop Simulation Modeling for Energy-Efficient and Cognitive IoT in Smart Cities: A Cross-Layer Optimization Case Study

Sebastian Boehm, Hartmut Koenig

12:10 - 12:30 Closing address