IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks
17-19 September 2018 – Barcelona, Spain

Conference Program

Monday 17 September 2018

09:00 – 09:30

Conference Opening

 

09:30 – 10:30

Keynote 1: Slicing and Orchestration in Service-Oriented 5G Networks

Speaker: Navid Nikaein (Eurecom, France)

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

 

11:00 – 12:30

Heterogeneous Networks (Room 1)

  • Improving the Spectral Efficiency in Dense Heterogeneous Networks Using D2D-Assisted eICIC, Mohamed A Elshatshat (University of Crete & Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece); Stefanos Papadakis (FORTH-ICS, Greece); Vangelis Angelakis (Linköping University, Sweden)
  • Bringing LTE to Unlicensed Spectrum: Technical Solutions and Deployment Considerations, Bolin Chen (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zheng Chen, Nikolaos Pappas and Di Yuan (Linköping University, Sweden); Jie Zhang (University of Sheffield, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
  • Indoor Multiple-User MIMO Channel Measurement and Characterization, Jiliang Zhang (Lanzhou University, P.R. China); Yang Wang and Liqin Ding (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Xiaoli Chu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jie Zhang (University of Sheffield, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
  • A System for Optimizing Small-Cell Deployment in 2-Tier HetNets, Dorathy Abonyi and Jonathan Michael Rigelsford (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
  • Managing Interference in D2D Networks via Clustering and Topological Awareness, Salam Doumiati and Hassan A. Artail (American University of Beirut, Lebanon); Mohamad Assaad (CentraleSupelec, France)
  • Guaranteed Bit Rate Traffic Prioritisation and Isolation in Multi-tenant Radio Access Networks, Irene Vilà Muñoz, Oriol Sallent, Anna Umbert, Jordi Pérez-Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain)

PHY and Communication Protocols (Room 2)

  • Understanding the Impact of Line-of-Sight in the Ergodic Spectral Efficiency of Cellular Networks, Celia Garcia Corrales, Francisco J. Martin-Vega, Francisco Javier Lopez-Martinez, Francisco J. Cañete, Jose Francisco Paris (University of Málaga, Spain)
  • 5G New Radio Numerologies and their Impact on the End-To-End Latency, Natale Patriciello, Sandra Lagen, Lorenza Giupponi and Biljana Bojovic (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)
  • Antenna Selection Symbol-Level Precoding for Low Complexity Large-Scale Antenna Array Systems, Stavros Domouchtsidis, Christos G. Tsinos, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
  • Binary Reed-Solomon Coding Based Distributed Storage Scheme in Information-Centric Fog Networks, Ye Shu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Mianxiong Dong and Kaoru Ota (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan); Jun Wu and Siyi Liao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
  • BitSurfing: Wireless Communications with Outsourced Symbol Generation, Ageliki Tsioliaridou, Christos Liaskos and Sotiris Ioannidis (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece)
  • Regulating the Block Loss Ratio of the Licklider Transmission Protocol, Ricardo Lent (University of Houston, USA)

 

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch break

 

13:30 – 15:00

Data Analytics (Room 1)

  • Toward Intelligent Detection Modelling for Adversarial Samples in Convolutional Neural Networks, Zhuobiao Qiao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Mianxiong Dong and Kaoru Ota (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan); Jun Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning based Smart Mitigation of DDoS Flooding in Software-Defined Networks, Yandong Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Mianxiong Dong and Kaoru Ota (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan); Jianhua Li and Jun Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
  • In-memory Spatial-Aware Framework for Processing Proximity-Alike Queries in Big Spatial Data, Isam Mashhour Al Jawarneh (University of Bologna & CIRI ICT, Italy); Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy); Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna & CIRI ICT, Italy); Luca Foschini, Rebecca Montanari and Andrea Zanotti (University of Bologna, Italy)
  • Catching free-riders: in-network adblock detection with machine learning techniques, Daniele Moro and Filippo Benati (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Michele Mangili (ErnieApp Ltd, Ireland); Antonio Capone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  • A Smart Unstaffed Retail Shop Based on Artificial Intelligence and IoT, Lizheng Liu and Bo Zhou (Fudan University, P.R. China); Zhuo Zou (Fudan University & KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Shih-Ching Yeh and Lirong Zheng (Fudan University, P.R. China)

Optical-Wireless Technologies (Room 2)

  • Fiber-Wireless Fronthaul/Backhaul Network Architectures for 5G, George Lyberopoulos, Elina Theodoropoulou and Ioanna Mesogiti (COSMOTE Mobile Telecommunications S.A., Greece); Konstantinos G. Filis (Cosmote Mobile Communications SA, Greece); Athina Ropodi, Konstantinos Tsagkaris and Panagiotis Demestichas (Incelligent, Greece); Nikos Pleros (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); George Kalfas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Technical University of Catalonia, Greece); Christos Vagionas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
  • Optical and wireless network convergence in 5G systems – an experimental approach, Paulo Marques (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Valerio Frascolla (Intel Deutschland Gmbh, Germany); Carlos Filipe Moreira e Silva (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Emanuel Sena and Raphael Braga (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil); Joao F. N. Pinheiro (Federal University of Ceara, Brazil); Carlos A. Astudillo and Tiago Andrade (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Eduardo S. Gama (Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil); Luiz F. Bittencourt (University of Campinas, Brazil); Leandro Aparecido Villas (UNICAMP, Brazil); Edmundo Madeira and Nelson L. S. da Fonseca (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Cristiano Bonato Both (Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Brazil); Gabriel Lando (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Felippe Queiroz (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil); Matias Schimuneck (University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Juliano Araujo Wickboldt (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Ana Trevisan (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Rafael de Jesus Martins (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Alexandre do Carmo (Instituto Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil); Raquel F Vassallo and Rodolfo Picoreti (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil); Roberta Gomes (UFES, Brazil); Cristina Dominicini (Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil); Víctor García (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil); Rafael Silva Guimaraes (Federal Institute of Espirito Santo – Campus Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Brazil); Rodolfo S Villaca (Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil); Magnos Martinello (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil); Moises R. N. Ribeiro (Federal Universty of Espirito Santo, Brazil); Daniel Fernandes Macedo, Vinicius F. Silva and Julio Cesar Guimaraes (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil); Carlos Colman Meixner, Reza Nejabati and Dimitra Simeonidou (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yi Zhang (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Frank Slyne (Connect Research Centre – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Pedro Alvarez (CTVR, Trinity College, Ireland); Diarmuid Collins (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Marco Ruffini (CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Luiz DaSilva (Trinity College & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Johann M. Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen – imec & IDLab Research Group – imec, Belgium)
  • Analysing Interface Bonding in 5G WLANs, Michael Dilmore (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
  • The Fronthaul Infrastructure of 5G Mobile Networks, Simon Rommel, Thiago R Raddo and Idelfonso Tafur Monroy (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
  • Medium-transparent Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for 5G Fiber Wireless Dense Fronthaul Networks, Agapi Mesodiakaki (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece); Pavlos Maniotis and Christos Vagionas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Marios Gatzianas (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); Eftychia Datsika (IQUADRAT Informatica S. L., Spain); Elli Kartsakli (IQUADRAT, Spain); John S Vardakas (IQUADRAT Informatica S. L. Barcelona, Spain); George Kalfas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Technical University of Catalonia, Greece)
  • Network Services SLAs over 5G Infrastructure Converging Disaggregated Network and Compute Resources, Ioanna Mesogiti, George Lyberopoulos and Elina Theodoropoulou (COSMOTE Mobile Telecommunications S.A., Greece); Konstantinos G. Filis (Cosmote Mobile Communications SA, Greece); Anna Tzanakaki (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Rafael Canto Palancar (Telefonica, Spain); Nicolás Serrano (Telefónica I+D, Spain); Daniel Camps (i2CAT, Spain); Jesús Gutiérrez (IHP, Germany)

 

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

 

15:30 – 17:00

Smart IoT and M2M (Room 1)

  • Scalable and Flexible IoT data analytics: when Machine Learning meets SDN and Virtualization, Jordi Serra (CTTC, Spain); Luis Sanabria-Russo (CTTC – Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain); David Pubill (CTTC, Spain); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)
  • The Interoperability of Things, George Hatzivasilis and Ioannis Askoxylakis (FORTH-ICS, Greece); George Alexandris (Bournemouth University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Darco Anicic (Siemens, USA); Arne Bröring and Vivek Kulkarni (Siemens AG, Germany); Konstantinos Fysarakis and George Spanoudakis (Sphynx Technology Solutions AG, Switzerland)
  • Towards a Security, Privacy, Dependability, Interoperability Framework for the Internet of Things, Othonas Soultatos and George Spanoudakis (City University London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Konstantinos Fysarakis (Sphynx Technology Solutions AG, Switzerland); Ioannis Askoxylakis (FORTH-ICS, Greece); George Alexandris (Bournemouth University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Andreas Miaoudakis (FORTH-ICS, Greece); Nikolaos E. Petroulakis (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece)
  • Key challenges for developing a Socially Assistive Robotic (SAR) solution for the health sector, Keven Kearney and Federica Saccà (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA, Italy); Domenico Presenza and Philip Wright (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Italy)
  • Comparison of M2M traffic models against real world data sets, Marco Sansoni, Giuseppe Ravagnani, Daniel Zucchetto, Chiara Pielli and Andrea Zanella (University of Padova, Italy); Kashif Mahmood (Telenor, Norway)
  • Harvesting artificial light indoors to power perpetually a Wireless Sensor Network node, David Pubill and Jordi Serra (CTTC, Spain); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)

 

Tutorial-1 (Room 2)

Title: Wireless resource and infrastructure sharing challenges in future wireless architectures

Speaker: Dr. Iordanis Koutsopoulos, Associate Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business

 

 

Tuesday 18 September 2018

09:00 – 10:30

User-centric Networking (Room 1)

  • Software Defined Selective Traffic Offloading (SDSTO), Mukhald Salih, John Cosmas and Nawar Jawad (Brunel University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
  • Assessing QoE-driven management policies for VoIP and Video Streaming service provisioning , Daniele Ciambrone (WEST Aquila, Italy); Stefano Tennina (WEST Aquila & University of L’Aquila, Italy); Mattia Boschi (WEST Aquila srl, Italy); Dimitris Tsolkas (University of Athens, Greece); Luigi Pomante (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy)
  • Multi-Agent RL based User-Centric Spectrum Allocation Scheme in D2D enabled Hetnets, Kamran Zia and Nauman Javed (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Muhammad Nadeem Sial (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sohail Ahmed (Air University, Pakistan); Farrukh Pervez (National University of Sciences and Technology Islamabad, Pakistan)
  • 5G Performance Testing of Mobile Chatbot Applications, Vaios Koumaras, Andreas Foteas, Angeliki Papaioannou, Marianna Kapari and Christos Sakkas (INFOLYSiS P. C., Greece); Harilaos Koumaras (NCSR Demokritos, Greece)
  • 5GENESIS: The Genesis of a flexible 5G Facility, Harilaos Koumaras (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); Dimitris Tsolkas (Fogus Innovations & Services, Greece); Georgios Gardikis (Space Hellas S.A., Greece); Pedro Merino (University of Malaga, Spain); Valerio Frascolla (Intel Deutschland Gmbh, Germany); Dionysia Triantafyllopoulou (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marc Emmelmann (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany); Vaios Koumaras (INFOLYSiS P. C., Greece); Maria Garcia Osma (Telefonica, Spain); Daniele Munaretto (Athonet, Italy); Eneko Atxutegi (Nemergent Solutions SL, Spain); Jara Suárez de Puga (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Ozgu Alay (Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway); Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University, Sweden); Anne-Marie C. Bosneag (Ericsson Ireland Research Centre, Ireland)
  • TRIANGLE: a Platform to Validate 5G KPIs in End to End scenarios, Almudena Diaz Zayas (University of Malaga, Spain); Andrea F. Cattoni (Keysight Technologies, Denmark); Carlos Cárdenas Angelat, Oscar Castañeda and Janie Baños Polglase (DEKRA, Spain); Pedro Merino (University of Malaga, Spain); Michael Dieudonné (Keysight Technologies, Belgium)

MEC/Caching (Room 2)

  • Phileas: A Simulation-based Approach for the Evaluation of Value-based Fog Services, Filippo Poltronieri and Cesare Stefanelli (University of Ferrara, Italy); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA); Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy)
  • Optimized Cloudlet management in Edge Computing environment, Efthymios Oikonomou and Angelos Rouskas (University of Piraeus, Greece)
  • Supporting the Development of Next-generation Fog Services, Carlo Giannelli, Filippo Poltronieri, Cesare Stefanelli and Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy)
  • Comparing Web Cache Implementations for Fast Updates Based on LRU, LFU and Score Based Strategies, Gerhard Hasslinger (Deutsche Telekom, Germany); Konstantinos Ntougias (Athens Information Technology, Greece); Frank Hasslinger (TUDa, Germany); Oliver Hohlfeld (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
  • The Deterministic Network Calculus Analysis: Reliability Insights and Performance Improvements, Alexander Scheffler (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany); Markus Fögen (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany); Steffen Bondorf (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)
  • DRIVE: Discovery seRvice for fully-Integrated 5G enVironmEnt in the IoT, Paolo Bellavista, Luca Foschini and Domenico Scotece (University of Bologna, Italy); Kyriaki Karypidou (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece); Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki and Bournemouth University, Greece)

 

10:30 – 11:30

Coffee break + Demo Session

  • Demonstrating Hammer, a realistic network traffic simulator, Christos Tselios, Ioannis Prevezanos, Andreas Angelou, Constantinos Solomonides, Vassilis Tsogkas, George Tsolis (Citrix Systems Inc, Greece)
  • Iquadrat Informatica IoT platform Demo, Kostas Ramantas, John Vardakas, Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis (Iquadrat Informatica, Spain).
  • Worst-Case Performance Analysis with the Disco Deterministic Network Calculator, Alexander Scheffler, Steffen Bondorf, Jens B. Schmitt (Distributed Computer Systems (DISCO) Lab, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)
  • Elderly Care Leveraging Pervasive Computing, Luis Sanabria-Russo, David Pubill, Jordi Serra and Christos Verikoukis (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain)
  • SONEX – An SDN-controlled Network Box, Dimitris Tsolkas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Dimitris Dimopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Athanasios Sioulas (ADAPTERA P.C., Greece); Giorgos Kalpaktsoglou, (ADAPTERA P.C., Greece); Nikos Passas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

 

11:30 – 12:30

Keynote 2: The New QUIC Protocol and Its Impact on the Future of Cellular Networks

Speaker: Reuven Cohen (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)

 

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch break

 

13:30 – 15:00

IoT and Data-driven circular economy (Room 1)

  • Blockchains as Enablers for Auditing Cooperative Circular Economy Networks, George Alexandris (Bournemouth University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sofia Alexaki (Ecole des Ponts Business School, France); Vasilios Katos (Bournemouth University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); George Hatzivasilis (FORTH-ICS, Greece)
  • Blockchain-based Electronic Patient Records for Regulated Circular Healthcare Jurisdictions, Sofia Alexaki (Ecole des Ponts Business School, France); George Alexandris and Vasilios Katos (Bournemouth University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nikolaos E. Petroulakis (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece)
  • Towards a Circular Economy via Intelligent Metamaterials, Christos Liaskos, Ageliki Tsioliaridou and Sotiris Ioannidis (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece)
  • Empowering Human-Computer Interaction in Securing Smartphone Sensing, Zachary Rauen and Fazel Anjomshoa (Clarkson University, USA); Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)
  • Energy-aware Placement For IoT-Service Function Chain, Riad Kouah (USTHB, Algeria & LaBRI Lab, France); Abdelhamid Alleg (CNRS-LaBRI UMR 5800, University Bordeaux, Bordeaux-INP, France); Abir Laraba (Université Toulouse III, France); Toufik Ahmed (CNRS-LaBRI UMR 5800, University Bordeaux, Bordeaux-INP, France)
  • Connecting NS-3 with Cooja, Afonso Oliveira (Inesc-ID/Instituto Superior Técnico/Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal); Teresa Vazão (Inesc-ID/Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)

5G and beyond networks I (Room 2)

  • On the Efficiency Evaluation of a Novel Scheme Based on Daubechies Wavelet for Watermarking in 5G, Tamara Alshayeh and Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis (University of Nicosia, Cyprus); Jordi Mongay Batalla (Warsaw University of Technology & National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland); George Mastorakis, Evangelos K. Markakis and Evangelos Pallis (Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece)
  • On the performance of SIP-based next generation emergency services, Eleftherios Sigioltzakis and Ilias Politis (Athens Metropolitan College, Greece)
  • Uncertainty management for wearable IoT wristband sensors using Laplacian-based Matrix Completion, Stavros Nousias (University of Patras, Greece); Christos Tselios (University of Patras & Citrix Inc., Greece); Dimitris Bitzas, Aris S. Lalos and Konstantinos Moustakas (University of Patras, Greece); Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
  • Edge Caching Architecture for Media Delivery over P2P Networks, Yannis Nikoloudakis (University of the Aegean); Harry Skianis (University of the Aegean, Greece); Ilias Politis (Univerisity of Patras & Hellenic Open University, Greece); Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis (University of Nicosia, Cyprus); Evangelos K. Markakis, George Alexiou, Stavroula Bourazani, George Mastorakis and Evangelos Pallis (Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece)
  • Considering CoMP for efficient cooperation among heterogeneous small cells in 5G networks, Panagiotis Georgakopoulos (University of Patras, Greece); Ilias Politis (Univerisity of Patras & Hellenic Open University, Greece); Stavros Kotsopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)
  • High Quality Mobile XR: Requirements and Feasibility, Christer Qvarfordt, Henrik Lundqvist and Georgios P. Koudouridis (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden)

 

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

 

15:30 – 17:00

Smart Grid (Room 1)

  • Why Use RF Energy Harvesting in Smart Grids, Fernando Moreno Cruz (Infineon Technologies AG & University of Granada, Germany); Antonio Escobar (Infineon Technologies AG, Germany)
  • Frequency Estimation for Grid-connected Converters under Time-varying Harmonics and Inter-harmonics, Eder B Kapisch (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil); Jorge Duarte (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Carlos Duque (UFJF, Brazil); Gabriel Tibola (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
  • PV cell characteristic extraction to verify power transfer efficiency in indoor harvesting system, Luca Perilli, Matteo Pizzotti, Luca Perugini and Eleonora Franchi (University of Bologna, Italy); Roberto Canegallo (ST Microelectronics, Italy)
  • Plug and Play DC-DC Converters for Smart DC Nanogrids with Advanced Control Ancillary Services, Guangyuan Liu, Paolo Mattavelli, Aram Khodamoradi, Tommaso Caldognetto and Paolo Magnone (University of Padova, Italy)
  • A CMOS RF-Powered Tag with Sensing and Localization Capabilities, Cinzia Tamburini and Matteo Pizzotti (University of Bologna, Italy); Federico Alimenti and Marco Virili (University of Perugia, Italy); Michele Dini and Marco Crescentini (University of Bologna, Italy); Paolo Mezzanotte and Luca Roselli (University of Perugia, Italy); Marco Tartagni and Aldo Romani (University of Bologna, Italy)

Network Architectures and Protocols (Room 2)

  • A New Joint Scheduling Scheme for GBR and non-GBR Services in 5G RAN, Salvatore Riolo and Daniela Panno (University of Catania, Italy)
  • Coaxial Networks for 5G Fronthaul, Diogo Acatauassu (UFPA, Brazil); Marx Miranda de Freitas (Federal University of Pará & Electromagnetism Laboratory Applied (LEA), Brazil); Joao Weyl Costa (Universidade Federal do Pará – UFPA, Brazil); Eduardo Medeiros (Lund University, Sweden); Igor Almeida and André Mendes Cavalcante (Ericsson, Brazil)
  • End-to-End Simulation of Integrated Access and Backhaul at mmWaves, Michele Polese and Marco Giordani (University of Padova, Italy); Arnab Roy and Sanjay Goyal (InterDigital Communications, USA); Douglas Castor (InterDigital, USA); Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy)
  • An Efficient Mode Selection for improving Resource Utilization in Sidelink V2X Cellular Networks, Haider Albonda and Jordi Pérez-Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain)
  • Automatic Roaming Consortium Discovery and Routing for Large-Scale Wireless LAN Roaming Systems, Kazunari Irie and Hideaki Goto (Tohoku University, Japan)
  • A QoE monitoring solution for LTE-Advanced Pro networks, Elisavet Grigoriou (University of Cagliari, Italy); Theocharis Saoulidis (Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece); Luigi Atzori and Virginia Pilloni (University of Cagliari, Italy); Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki and Bournemouth University, Greece)

 

 

Wednesday 19 September 2018

 

09:00 – 10:30

5G and beyond networks II (Room 1)

  • 5GC+: an Experimental Proof of a Programmable Mobile Core for 5G, Umberto Fattore (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany); Fabio Giust (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany); Marco Liebsch (NEC Europe Ltd, Germany)
  • Application and Network VNF migration in a MEC-enabled 5G Architecture, Ioannis Sarrigiannis (Iquadrat Informatica S. L., Spain); Elli Kartsakli (IQUADRAT, Spain); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); Angelos Antonopoulos (Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia (CTTC), Spain); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC & UB, Spain)
  • On the Performance of Covariance Shaping in Massive MIMO Systems, Placido Mursia (Eurecom, France); Italo Atzeni (EURECOM, France); David Gesbert (Eurecom Institute, France); Laura Cottatellucci (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
  • NB-IoT: A Candidate Technology for Massive IoT in the 5G Era, Subin Narayanan (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Dimitris Tsolkas, Nikos Passas and Lazaros Merakos (University of Athens, Greece)
  • Dynamic Programming Based Content Placement Strategy for 5G and Beyond Cellular Networks, Tadege Ayenew (National and Kapodistirian University of Athens & University of Athens, Greece); Dionysis Xenakis, Nikos Passas and Lazaros Merakos (University of Athens, Greece)
  • Monitoring and Analytics for the Optimisation of Cloud Enabled Small Cells, Jordi Pérez-Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Vincenzo Riccobene (Intel, Ireland); Florian Schmidt (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany); Oriol Sallent (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Elisa Jimeno (ATOS, Spain); Javier Fernandez Hidalgo (I2CAT, Spain); Adam Flizikowski (IS-Wireless, Spain); Ioannis Giannoulakis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); Emmanouil Kafetzakis (Orion Innovations P. C., Greece)

5GSTEPFWD Session I (Room 2)

Talks to be announced

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

 

11:00 – 12:30

5G and beyond networks III (Room 1)

  • Improving network efficiency for delivery of encrypted adaptive bitrate video: a reinforcement learning approach, Pedro Batista (Ericsson AB, Sweden)
  • Iterative Interference Cancellation in FBMC-QAM Systems, Sumaila Mahama (University of York, United Kingdom)
  • Massive MIMO with 3D beamforming in mmWave band, Shammi Farhana Islam (University of York, United Kingdom)
  • Spatial, temporal and application based clustering of cells, Armin Okić (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  • Coalition Game for User Association with NOMA and Zero-Forcing, Michalis Eliodorou (MTN Cyprus Ltd., Cyprus)
  • Overview of 5G networks synergies with big data analytics and cloud Computing, George Datseris (Nessos SA, Greece)
  • Spectral Efficiency of Randomly Distributed Antenna Array Systems, Roya Gholamipoor (EURECOM, France)
  • Joint network slicing and mobile edge computing, Bin Xiang (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  • Sliced-RAN: A new framework for the future Radio Access Networks, Behnam Ojaghi Kahjogh (Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Spain)
  • Recurrent Neural Networks structure for Caching on 5G Networks, Santiago Sánchez Correa (Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Spain)

5GSTEPFWD Session II (Room 2)

Talks to be announced

 

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch break

 

13:30 – 15:00

Tutorial-2 Part I (Room 1)

Title: A Primer on 5G Network Slicing: Concepts, Algorithms and Practice

Speaker: Dr. Pablo Serrano, Assistant Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

 

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

 

15:30 – 17:00

Tutorial-2 Part II (Room 1)

Title: A Primer on 5G Network Slicing: Concepts, Algorithms and Practice

Speaker: Dr. Pablo Serrano, Assistant Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid