Program

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Sunday, 16^th September 2018

17:00 – 19:00  Registration Open

 

Monday, 17^th September 2018

08:00 – 17:00 Registration Open

 

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Opening Ceremony

 

09:30- 10:30 Keynote Talk

Room: Icaria

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

 Speaker: Prof. Navid Nikaein (Eurecom, France)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

 

11:00-12:30 Technical Sessions

S1: Heterogeneous Networks
Room: Icaria
Session Chair: Prof. Xiaoli Chu

• 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)

S2: PHY and Communication Protocols
Room: Chardonnay
Session Chair: Dr. Jordi Serra

• 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 Technical Sessions

S3: Data Analytics
Room: Icaria
Session Chair: Dr. Luca Foschini

• 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)

S4: Optical-Wireless Technologies
Room: Chardonnay
Session Chair: Dr. George Kalfas

• 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 Technical Sessions

S5: Smart IoT & M2M
Room: Icaria
Session Chair: Dr. Luis Sanabria-Russo

• 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)

15.30-17:30 Tutorial I

Room: Chardonnay

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

 Speakers: Dr. Iordanis Koutsopoulos, Associate Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business
Dr. Merkouris Karaliopoulos, Senior Researcher Athens University of Economics and Business

17th September 2018 at 20.30  SOCIAL EVENT

Restaurant 1881 by Sagardi

MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF CATALONIA-Palau de Mar-Plaça Pau Vila, 3 (4th floor)

Tuesday, 18^th September 2018

8:30 – 17:00 Registration Open

 

09:00-10:30 Technical Sessions

S6: User-Centric Networking
Room: Icaria
Session Chair: Dr. Harilaos Koumaras

• 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)

S7: MEC/Caching
Room: Chardonnay
Session Chair: Dr. Ilias Politis

• 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

Session Chair: Dr. George Koudouridis

• 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 Talk

Room: Icaria

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

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

12:30-13:30 Lunch Break

 

13:30-15:00 Technical Sessions

S8: IoT and Data-driven circular economy
Room: Icaria
Session Chair: Dr. Christos Liaskos

• 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)

S9: 5G and Beyond Netrworks I
Room: Chardonnay
Session Chair: Mr. Christos Tselios

• 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 Technical Sessions

S10: Smart Grid
Room: Icaria
Session Chair: Mr. Fernando Moreno Cruz

• 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)

S11: Network Architectures and protocols
Room: Chardonnay
Session Chair: Dr. Angelos Antonopoulos

• 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^th September 2018

8:30 – 14:00 Registration Open

 

09:00-10:30 Technical Sessions

S12: 5G and Beyond Networks II
Room: Icaria
Session Chair: Prof. Lazaros Merakos

• 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)

S13: 5GSTEPFWD Session I
Room: Chardonnay
Session Chair: Prof. Amalia Miliou

• Analog Radio-over-Fiber Fronthaul over a UDWDM Network Concept, Dimitrios Konstantinou (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands)
• Devices for UDWDM PON Applications, Kebede Atra (III-V Lab, France)
• Optical Network Architecture Design for Service Provision in Urban Areas With Existing fiber infrastructure, Eugenio Ruggeri (AUTH, Greece)
• Simplified Signal Processing for High-Speed PON, Lei Xue (Chalmers University of Technology (CTH), Sweeden)
• Joint XHaul Network Resources Allocation, Massimiliano Maule (Iquadrat Informatica S.L, Spain)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

 

11:00-12:30 Technical Sessions

S13: 5G and Beyond Networks III
Room: Icaria
Session Chair: Dr. Nikos Passas

• 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)

S14: 5GSTEPFWD Session II
Room: Chardonnay
Session Chair: Dr. Elli Kartsakli

• Resource Scheduling in Converged Optical-Wireless Networks, Mohammadreza Mosahebfard (Iquadrat Informatica S.L, Spain)
• Challenges on the Capacity of Next Generation of Optical Networks, Hossein Esmaeili (CTTC, Spain)
• Visible Light Communication in 5G Networks, Asmaa Ibrahim (CTTC, Spain)
• Performance Enhancement by Using Resource Allocation and Dynamic Slicing in The Networks, Maryam Lashgari (Chalmers University of Technology (CTH), Sweeden)

12:30-13:30 Lunch Break

 

13:30-15:00 Tutorial II – Part I

Room: Icaria

 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 II – Part II

Room: Icaria 

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

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