IEEE Global Communications Conference
4–8 December 2023 // Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Day 1

GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference Program (Day 1)

Kuala Lumpur time

Tuesday, December 5

8:30 ‑ 9:15 am

IS 1: Interactive Subsession CT_I1

IS 1: Interactive Subsession MWN_I1

IS 1: Interactive Subsession SAC/BD_I1

IS 1: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I1

IS 1: Interactive Subsession SAC/SN_I1

CISS 1: Emerging Security Issues

CISS 2: AI-aided Security I

CQRM 1: Beyond 5G/6G Radio Communications

CRAEN 1: Spectrum Sharing

CSM 1: Video Streaming

GCSN 1: Green Federated Learning

IoTSN 1: Smart Positioning

IoTSN 2: Federated Learning for IoT Networks I

MWN 1: Advances in 5G/6G Networks I

NGNI 1: AI and Learning Approaches in Networking

SAC/AC 1: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for UAVs

SAC/CC 1: Migration and Scheduling in Edge Computing

SAC/EH 1: Wearables, IoT, and Medical Sensors for eHealth Applications

SAC/ISC 1: MIMO/Massive MIMO in ISAC

SAC/MB 1: Molecular and Biological Communications

SAC/MLC 1: Distributed Machine Learning over Wireless I

SAC/RIS 1: Resource Allocation Techniques for RIS-aided Networks

SPC 1: Interference Management Techniques in Communications Systems

WC 1: NOMA I

WC 2: Channel Modelling and Propagation I

9:15 ‑ 10:00 am

IS 2: Interactive Subsession CQRM_I2

IS 2: Interactive Subsession MWN_I2

IS 2: Interactive Subsession SAC/BD_I2

IS 2: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I2

IS 2: Interactive Subsession SAC/SSC_I2

10:00 am ‑ 2:00 pm

 

 

2:00 ‑ 2:45 pm

IS 3: Interactive Subsession CT_I3

IS 3: Interactive Subsession NGNI_I3

IS 3: Interactive Subsession ONS_I3

IS 3: Interactive Subsession SAC/AC_I3

IS 3: Interactive Subsession SAC/MB_I3

IS 3: Interactive Subsession SAC/SN_I3

CISS 3: Security in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

CISS 4: Blockchain Security I

CQRM 2: Edge-Cloud Computing I

CRAEN 2: Security for Cognitive Radios

CSM 2: Immersive Video Streaming

GCSN 2: Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks

IoTSN 3: Smart Roads

MWN 2: Advances in 5G/6G Networks II

MWN 3: Applications of Federated Learning I

NGNI 2: AI Algorithms and Optimization Techniques

SAC/BD 1: Blockchain-enabled Big Data Systems

SAC/ISC 2: Precoding and Transceiver Design in ISAC

SAC/MLC 2: Distributed Machine Learning over Wireless II

SAC/QC 1: Quantum Communications

SAC/RIS 2: Advanced Transmission Techniques in RIS-aided Networks

SAC/SSC 1: Satellite and Space Communications I

SAC/TC 1: Terahertz Channel

SPC 2: Signal Processing for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning

WC 3: Channel Modeling and Propagation II

WC 4: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) Enabled Communications I

2:45 ‑ 3:30 pm

IS 4: Interactive Subsession CT_I4

IS 4: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I4

IS 4: Interactive Subsession NGNI_I4

IS 4: Interactive Subsession SAC/AC_I4

IS 4: Interactive Subsession SAC/CC_I4

IS 4: Interactive Subsession SAC/SGC_I4

3:30 ‑ 4:00 pm

 

 

4:00 ‑ 4:45 pm

IS 5: Interactive Subsession CRAEN_I5

IS 5: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I5

IS 5: Interactive Subsession SAC/BF_I5

IS 5: Interactive Subsession SAC/EH_I5

IS 5: Interactive Subsession SAC/RIS_I5

CISS 5: Attack Prediction, Detection, Response, and Prevention I

CISS 6: Physical Layer Security I

CQRM 3: Edge-Cloud Computing II

CSM 3: Network Security and Privacy Protection I

CT 1: Coding Theory I

GCSN 3: Green UAV Networks

IoTSN 4: Federated Learning for IoT Networks II

MWN 4: Applications of Federated Learning II

MWN 5: Semantic Communications

NGNI 3: Network Optimization and Performance

ONS 1: Optical Network Design and Recovery

SAC/AC 2: Cyber Security in UAV Communications

SAC/CC 2: Security and Privacy in Edge-Cloud Computing and Storage Systems

SAC/MLC 3: Machine Learning for Semantic Communications I

SAC/SGC 1: Smart Grid Communications

SAC/SN 1: Mobile Social Networks

SAC/SSC 2: Low Earth Orbit Satellites Networks

SPC 3: Signal Processing for Millimeter and THz Communication Systems

WC 5: NOMA II

WC 6: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) Enabled Communications II

4:45 ‑ 5:30 pm

IS 6: Interactive Subsession CRAEN_I6

IS 6: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I6

IS 6: Interactive Subsession SAC/ISC_I6

IS 6: Interactive Subsession SAC/RIS_I6

IS 6: Interactive Subsession WC_I6

 


Tuesday, December 5


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
CISS 1: Emerging Security Issues

Room 301

Chair: Yuhong Wang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Eclipse Query over Encrypted Data
Weiyu Song, Yonggang Zhang and Lili Sun (Jilin University, China); Yandong Zheng (Xidian University, China); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

QoS Aware Transmit Beamforming for Secure Backscattering in Symbiotic Radio Systems
Mingcheng Nie (University of New South Wales, Australia); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Azzam Al-Nahari (Ibb, Sweden); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Riku Jäntti (Aalto University, Finland)

Machine Learning-based Robust Physical Layer Authentication Using Angle of Arrival Estimation
Thuy Minh Pham (Barkhausen Institut, Germany); Linda Senigagliesi and Marco Baldi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); Gerhard Fettweis (Barkhausen Institut, Germany); Arsenia Chorti (ETIS UMR 8051, CY University, ENSEA, CNRS & ETIS, France)

ERQ: An Efficient Range Query Scheme under Local Differential Privacy
Ellen Z. Zhang (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Yunguo Guan (Eastern Michigan University, USA); Rongxing Lu and Harry Zhang (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

Host-based Flow Table Size Inference in Multi-hop SDN
Tian Xie and Sanchal Thakkar (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Ting He (Penn State University, USA); Novella Bartolini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Patrick McDaniel (University of Wisconsin, USA)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
CISS 2: AI-aided Security I

Room 306

Chair: Van-Linh Nguyen (National Chung Cheng University & College of Engineering, Taiwan)

Enhancing 5G Security: Slice Isolation via Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Optimal Graph Features
Amir Javadpour (University of Oulu, Finland); Forough Ja'fari (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland); Chafika Benzaid (University of Oulu, Finland & University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediane (USTHB), Algeria)

Towards Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for HMM Training
Yandong Zheng and Hui Zhu (Xidian University, China); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Songnian Zhang (Xidian University, China); Yunguo Guan (Eastern Michigan University, USA); Fengwei Wang (Xidian University, China)

Conditional Matching GAN Guided Reconstruction Attack in Machine Unlearning
Kaiyue Zhang and Weiqi Wang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Zipei Fan and Xuan Song (University of Tokyo, Japan); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Practical and Privacy-Preserving Density-Based Clustering via Shuffling
Yingzhe Wang, Hongwei Li, Hanxiao Chen, Xilin Zhang and Meng Hao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Advancing Federated Learning in 6G: A Trusted Architecture with Graph-based Analysis
Wenxuan Ye (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Chendi Qian (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Xueli An (Huawei Technologies, Germany); Xueqiang Yan (Huawei Technologies, China); Georg Carle (Technische Universität München, Germany)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
CQRM 1: Beyond 5G/6G Radio Communications

Room 305

Chair: Riccardo Venanzi (University of Bologna, Italy & University of Ferrara, Italy)

An Experimental Platform of a Beyond-5G Network with Machine Learning Integration
Luis A Garrido (Iquadrat Informatica S. L., Spain); Anestis Dalgkitsis (Iquadrat & Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Golshan Famitafreshi (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain); Apostolos Siokis (Iquadrat Informatica, Spain); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); Christos Verikoukis (University of Patras, Greece)

A Digital Twin Framework for Dynamic Monitoring of Hardware Impairment in RIS-aided Networks
Atiquzzaman Mondal (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Sudip Biswas (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, India)

Swarm Learning IRS in 6G-Metaverse: Secure Configurable Resources Trading for Reliable XR Communications
Qianqian Pan (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Jun Wu (Waseda University, Japan); Xinping Guan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); M. Jamal Deen (McMaster University, Canada)

Strengthening Open Radio Access Networks: Advancing Safeguards through ZTA and Deep Learning
Hajar Moudoud (Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada); Wissal Hamhoum (École Polytechnique Montreal, Canada); Soumaya Cherkaoui (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Enabled Physical-Layer Network Coding for Higher Order M-QAM Signals
Ehsan Atefat Doost (Instituto de Telecomunicações & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Firooz B. Saghezchi (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Pablo Fondo-Ferreiro (Universidade de Vigo, Spain); Felipe Gil-Castiñeira (University of Vigo, Spain); Maria Papaioannou (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); John S Vardakas (Iquadrat Informatica, Spain); Jinwara Surattanagul (University of South Wales, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
CRAEN 1: Spectrum Sharing

Room 401

Chair: Xuelin Cao (Xidian University, China)

Opportunistic Transmission for Heterogeneous Cognitive Cellular Networks
Xiran Zhang (School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Wenbin Sun, Xin Yang, Qian Xu and Ling Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

Adaptive-Blind Block SOMP for Compressive Spectrum Sensing
Boyang Chen, Liyang Lu, Yuhan Dong and Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

Scale Law of Spectrum Sharing Networks Based on Blockchain
Shuyue Ai, Yuna Jiang and Qiang Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Xiaohu Ge (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China); Aduwati Sali (UPM, Malaysia)

Optimizing Waveform Power Allocation in Cognitive DFRC Systems: An Individual User AoI Preference-Based Approach
Zhuofei Li (Jilin University, Finland & University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Fengye Hu and Qihao Li (Jilin University, China); Zheng Chang and Timo Hämäläinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

RIS Design for Symbiotic Radio: A Mutualistic Spectrum Sharing Perspective
Hu Zhou and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
CSM 1: Video Streaming

Room 302

Chair: Alassane Samba (Orange Innovation, France)

Adaptive Processing for Video Streaming with Energy Constraint: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Method
Hongze Liu, Haotian Fu, Shijing Yuan, Chentao Wu and Yuan Luo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jie Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

QoE-driven Joint Decision-Making for Multipath Adaptive Video Streaming
Jinwei Zhao and Jianping Pan (University of Victoria, Canada)

FBMS: Friendliness Balancing based Multipath Scheduling for Differential Video Streaming
Ziheng Xu, Wei Quan and Mingyuan Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China); Xue Zhang, Liu Kang and Deyun Gao (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Queue-Learning-based QoE Optimization for Super-Resolution-assisted Adaptive Video Streaming
Wenshu Huang, Yongyi Ran, Jie Rao and Jiangtao Luo (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Shuangwu Chen (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

The Advertising in Online Video Platform: A Game Theory Analysis
Pingshan Liu, Zhangjing Cai and Qi Liang (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China); Sizheng Fan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
GCSN 1: Green Federated Learning

Room 406

Chair: Jun Du (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)

MG²FL: Multi-Granularity Grouping-Based Federated Learning in Green Edge Computing Systems
Ziming Dai, Yunfeng Zhao, Chao Qiu and Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)

Enhanced Federated Reinforcement Learning for Mobility-Aware Node Selection and Model Compression
Xiaoyan Huang, Bingxu Hu, Fan Wu and Ke Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Chen Sun (Sony China Research Laboratory Beijing, China); Tao Cui (Sony China Limited, China); Yan Zhang (University of Oslo, Norway)

Energy Efficient Collaborative Federated Learning Design: A Graph Neural Network based Approach
Nuocheng Yang and Sihua Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Christopher G. Brinton (Purdue University, USA); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Energy-Efficient Dynamic Device Scheduling for Over-the-Air Federated Learning in UAV Swarms
Bingqing Jiang (Tsinghua University, China); Jun Du (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Guowei Yang (Tsinghua University, China); Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Chen-Feng Liu (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Yu Tian (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates)

Efficient Communication-Computation Tradeoff for Split Computing: A Multi-Tier Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Yang Cao (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Shao-Yu Lien (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Cheng-Hao Yeh (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
IoTSN 1: Smart Positioning

Room 304

Chair: Yan-Ann Chen (Yuan Ze University, Taiwan)

Deep Fingerprint Metric Learning for KNN-based Indoor Localization
Fuqiang Gu (Chongqing University, China); Liang Shi and Hang Guo (Nanchang University, China); Jianga Shang (China University of Geosciences, China)

Trustworthiness Score for UWB Indoor Localization
Philipp Peterseil, Bernhard Etzlinger, Roya Khanzadeh and Andreas Springer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

Integrated 5G mmWave Positioning in Deep Urban Environments: Advantages and Challenges
Sharief Saleh (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Qamar Bader (Queen's University & Navigation and Instrumentation Research Lab, Canada); Malek Karaim (Queen's University, Canada); Mohamed Elhabiby (Micro Engineering Technology Incorporated, Canada); Aboelmagd Noureldin (Royal Military College of Canada & School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada)

An Efficient Ultra-Wideband Infrastructure Planning for Indoor Positioning Systems using DL-TDOA
Hyunseob Oh, Seungbeom Seo and Jinwook Seo (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))

On Deep Learning-Based Indoor Positioning and Uncertainty Estimation
Szu-Wei Chen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Ting-Hui Chiang (Advanced Technology Laboratory, Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories, Taoyuan, Taiwan); Yu-Chee Tseng (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yan-Ann Chen (Yuan Ze University, Taiwan)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
IoTSN 2: Federated Learning for IoT Networks I

Room 408

Chair: Siyuan Zhou (Hohai University, China)

On Differential Privacy for Wireless Federated Learning with Non-coherent Aggregation
Mohamed Seif Eldin Mohamed (Princeton University, USA); Alphan Şahin (University of South Carolina, USA); H. Vincent Poor and Andrea Goldsmith (Princeton University, USA)

Cooperative partial task-offloading for heterogeneous industrial robotic MEC system using spectral and energy-efficient federated learning
Mohsen Pourghasemian and Haris Gacanin (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Erma Perenda (RWTH Aachen, Germany)

A Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach to Graph Discovery in D2D-Enabled Federated Learning
Satyavrat R Wagle, Anindya Bijoy Das, David Love and Christopher G. Brinton (Purdue University, USA)

Information-Exchangeable Hierarchical Clustering for Federated Learning With Non-IID Data
Chen-Han Shih (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Jian-Jhih Kuo (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Jang-Ping Sheu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Federated Deep Learning for Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks
Othmane Belarbi, Theodoros Spyridopoulos and Eirini Anthi (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ioannis Mavromatis (Digital Catapult, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Pietro Carnelli (Toshiba Research Europe, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Aftab Khan (Toshiba Europe Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain))


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 9:15
IS 1: Interactive Subsession CT_I1

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Hong Xing (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China & The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Supporting Passive Users in mmWave Networks
Mine Gokce Dogan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Martina Cardone (University of Minnesota, USA); Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA)

Online Virtual Network Function Scheduling Towards Deterministic Latency
Zhenran Kuai and Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, China)

Optimal Fairness Scheduling for Coded Caching in Multi-AP Wireless Local Area Networks
Kagan Akcay (TU Berlin, Germany); MohammadJavad Salehi (University of Oulu, Finland); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

Deadline-Constrained Opportunistic Spectrum Access With Spectrum Handoff
Zhaolong Xue (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Aoyu Gong (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland); Yuan-Hsun Lo (National Pingtung University, Taiwan); Sirui Tian and Yijin Zhang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)

Convergence Analysis of Over-the-Air FL with Compression and Power Control via Clipping
Haifeng Wen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Guangzhou, China); Hong Xing (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China & The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Osvaldo Simeone (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 9:15
IS 1: Interactive Subsession MWN_I1

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Chongwen Huang (Zhejiang University, China)

Towards Accurate Categorization of Network IP Traffic Using Deep Packet Inspection and Machine Learning
Waqar Ali Aziz (University of Cyprus, Cyprus & CYENS Center of Excellence, Cyprus); Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Adnan Iqbal (Namal Institute Mianwali, Pakistan); Anwer Al-Dulaimi (Veltris, Canada); Saba Al-Rubaye (Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Investigating Compressive Sensing Applications through Real Infrastructures Inertial Signals Analysis
Igor Bisio, Chiara Garibotto, Fabio Lavagetto, Andrea Sciarrone and Matteo Zerbino (University of Genoa, Italy)

Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits for Non-Stationary Wireless Network Selection
Lluís Martínez (Universitat Politècnica De Catalunya, Spain); Josep Vidal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Margarita Cabrera-Bean (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech (UPC), Spain)

Using Early Exits for Fast Inference in Automatic Modulation Classification
Elsayed Mohammed, Omar Mashaal and Hatem Abou-Zeid (University of Calgary, Canada)

Queueing Analysis of Incentive-based Extreme Edge Service Systems
Sherif B. Azmy (Queen's University, Canada); Nizar Zorba (Qatar University, Qatar); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 9:15
IS 1: Interactive Subsession SAC/BD_I1

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Isaac Woungang (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

Edge-Assisted Framework for Malaria Parasite Detection on Cell Images using Federated Learning
Mainak Adhikari (Indian Institute of Information Technology Lucknow); Amrita Rajput and Shikhar Saxena (Indian Institute of Information Technology Lucknow, India)

IMG2InChI: Extracting Molecular Big Data from Chemical Images using Transformer Models
Zhenyu Wu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhenyuan Zhang (Boston University, China); Zhiyang Ding (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Senac Fac of Ceará, Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Mammogram Tumor Segmentation With Preserved Local Resolution: An Explainable AI System
Aya Farrag (Lakehead University, Canada); Gad M Gad and Zubair Md Fadlullah (Western University, Canada); Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA)

Improved Clustering Using Nice Initialization
Huyunting Huang, Ziyang Tang, Tonglin Zhang and Baijian Yang (Purdue University, USA)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 9:15
IS 1: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I1

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Yan Liu (Tongji University, China)

Neural Sum Rate Maximization with Deep Unrolling
Siya Chen (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Chee Wei Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Caching for Edge Inference at Scale: A Mean Field Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
Yanqing Lu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Meng Zhang (Zhejiang University, China); Ming Tang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)

Joint Sensing and Computation Decision for Age of Information-Sensitive Wireless Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Sinwoong Yun and Dongsun Kim (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea (South)); Chanwon Park (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Jemin Lee (Yonsei University, Korea (South))

Incentive Mechanism Design for Distributed Ensemble Learning
Chao Huang (University of California, Davis, USA); Pengchao Han (Guangdong University of Technology, China); Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)

Few-shot Learning for New Environment Adaptation
Ouya Wang (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shenlong Zhou (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Geoffrey Ye Li (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 9:15
IS 1: Interactive Subsession SAC/SN_I1

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA)

Modelling and Analyzing Social Interactions in COVID-19 with Dynamic Graphs
Zhenyu Wu and Yu Zhang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jialiang Sun (NJUPT, China); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Senac Fac of Ceará, Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Self-Supervised Rumor Detection with Augmented Variational Graphs
Leyuan Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); JunYi Chen (School of Information and Software Engineering & University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Liu Yu and Fan Zhou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
MWN 1: Advances in 5G/6G Networks I

Room 410

Chair: Naveen Kolar Purushothama (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India)

QoS-Aware Service Prediction and Orchestration in Cloud-Network Integrated Beyond 5G
Mohammad Farhoudi, Masoud Shokrnezhad and Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland)

Improving QoS of 5G Video Streaming Through Network Exposure Function
Koki Horita (The University of Tokyo); Norihiro Fukumoto and Akihiro Nakao (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Spectrum Sharing in 5G NR-U as Network Utility Maximization with Clique Constraints
Naveen Kolar Purushothama (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India)

Soft-ACK based Outer Loop Link Adaptation for Latency-constrained 5G Video Conferencing
Mufan Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jie Chen and Gang Wu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Lei Ji (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China); Hao Wang (Huawei Technologies, China)

Can 5G NR Sidelink communications support wireless augmented reality?
Ashutosh Srivastava (New York University, USA); Qing Zhao and Yi Lu (Meta Platforms Inc., USA); Ping Wang (Meta, USA); Qi Qu, Zhu Ji and Yee Sin Chan (Meta Platforms Inc., USA); Shivendra Panwar (New York University & Tandon School of Engineering, USA)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
NGNI 1: AI and Learning Approaches in Networking

Room 303

An Optimized GNN-based Caching Scheme for SDN-based Information-Centric Networks
Jiacheng Hou, Tianhao Tao, Haoye Lu and Amiya Nayak (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Integrated Sensing and Communication: NOMA vs Cooperative NOMA
Ali Mahdi Amhaz, Mohamed Elhattab and Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Sanaa Sharafeddine (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Server and Route Selection Optimization for Knowledge-defined Distributed Network Based on Gambling Theory and LSTM Neural Networks
Son Cong Duong and Tuan Tran-Le Nguyen (Faculty of Information Technology, Hanoi University of Civil Engineering, Vietnam); Thang Nam Hoang (Hanoi University of Civil Engineering & SoICT, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Van Tong, Hai Anh Tran and Giang Nguyen Linh (School of Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Abdelhamid Mellouk (UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France); Truong X Tran (School of Science, Engineering, and Technology, Penn State University, USA)

Overcoming Resource Bottlenecks in Vehicular Federated Learning: A Cluster-Based and QoS-Aware Approach
Sawsan AbdulRahman (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates); Ouns Bouachir (Zayed University & ENAC, United Arab Emirates); Safa Otoum (University of Ottawa, Canada); Azzam Mourad (Lebanese American University, Lebanon)

Cluster-based Efficient Wireless Charging for Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks
Miaohang Su and Xilong Liu (Yunnan University, China)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
SAC/AC 1: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for UAVs

Room 307

Chair: Xiong Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Joint Optimization for RIS-Aided Hybrid FSO SAGINs with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Kefeng Guo (School of Space Information, Space Engineering University, China); Min Wu (Space Engineering University, China); Xingwang Li (Henan Polytechnic University, China); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal); Charalampos C. Tsimenidis (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Solution for Minimizing the Alterable Urgency of Information in UAV-Enabled IIoT System
Xiong Li, Qimei Cui, Daren Feng, Zhenzhen Gong and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

On the Study of Joint Naive Bayes and Multi-Layer Perception for Detecting GPS Jamming in UAS
Hassan El Alami, Neji Mensi and Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)

A Game-Theoretic Federated Learning Approach for Ship Detection from Aerial Images
Delphin Raj Kesari Mary (Chungang University, Korea (South)); Supriya Y, Nancy Victor and Thippa Reddy Gadekallu (Vellore Institute of Technology, India); Jeongyeup Paek (Chung-Ang University, Korea (South))

Optimized Traffic Routing Scheme for Autonomous Vehicles in V2X using Federated Learning
Nishu Bansal and Shilpi Mittal (Chandigarh University, India); Rasmeet S Bali (Chandigarh University, Mohali, India); Anandita Tanwar (JMIT Radaur, India); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
SAC/CC 1: Migration and Scheduling in Edge Computing

Room 407

Chair: Rami Langar (Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal, Canada & University Gustave Eiffel, France)

Cost-Effective Migration-Assisted User Reallocation in Edge Computing
Jiahao Zhu, Fu Xiao, Lu Zhao, Jian Zhou, Hui Cai and Xin He (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

UMS: Live Migration of Containerized Services across Autonomous Computing Systems
Thanawat Chanikaphon (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Mohsen Amini Salehi (University of Louisiana Lafayette, USA)

Towards Efficient Workflow Scheduling over Yarn Cluster using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Jianguo Xue and Ting Wang (East China Normal University, China); Puyu Cai (Michigan State University, USA)

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for the Placement of Scalable Microservices in the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
Adyson Magalhães Maia and Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (La Rochelle University, France)

Dynamic function allocation in edge serverless computing networks
Shuo Li (University Paris Saclay & Nokia Bell Labs, France); Ejder Baştuğ and Catello Di Martino (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Marco Di Renzo (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
SAC/EH 1: Wearables, IoT, and Medical Sensors for eHealth Applications

Room 308

Chair: Chiara Garibotto (University of Genoa, Italy)

Feet Pressure Prediction from Lower Limbs IMU Sensors for Wearable Systems in Remote Monitoring Architectures
Igor Bisio, Chiara Garibotto, Fabio Lavagetto and Muhammad Shahid (University of Genoa, Italy)

Soft Voting for Anomaly Detection in Internet of Medical Things
Osman Salem (University of Paris Cité, France); Ahmed Mehaoua (Universite Paris Cite, France); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)

StressAlly: A Smartphone-based Stress Companion Recommender System for Students
Anshita Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Nidhi Pathak (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)

RISP-SDN: Reputation Aware IoMT Service Provisioning Using SDN in Edge/Fog-Based Systems
Kumarjit Ray (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Nabajyoti Medhi (Tezpur University, India); Rajdeep Ghosh (Calcutta University, India); Pritindra Das and Vicky Kumar Deka (Tezpur University, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India)

Real-time Human Activity Recognition using Dimensionality Reduction in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
Adnan Yazici (Nazarbayev Univ, Kazakhstan & Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan); Enver Ever (Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus, Turkey); Serik Almakhan (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
SAC/ISC 1: MIMO/Massive MIMO in ISAC

Room 402

Chair: Haocheng Hua (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China)

A Compressive Sensing Approach for MIMO-OFDM-Based Integrated Sensing and Communication
Zihan Lin, Zhaoyang Zhang, Xin Tong and Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China)

Hybrid Beamforming Design With Overlapped Subarrays for Massive MIMO-ISAC Systems
Guangyi Chen, Ruoyu Zhang and Hong Ren (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Weijie Yuan (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Chen Miao and Wen Wu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)

Near-Field 3D Localization via MIMO Radar: Cram\'er-Rao Bound and Estimator Design
Haocheng Hua and Jie Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China)

Low-Complexity Transmit Beamforming Design for Massive MIMO-ISAC Systems
Bin Liao (Shenzhen University, China); Hien Ngo and Michail Matthaiou (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Peter J Smith (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

Beamforming Design in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems
Weihao Mao, Yang Lu, Jingxian Liu, Bo Ai and Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
SAC/MB 1: Molecular and Biological Communications

Room 309

Chair: Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada)

Thermodynamic Energy Cost and Bit Error Rate of Imperfect Transmitters in Molecular Communication
Dongliang Jing (Northwest A&F University, China); Lin Lin (Tongji University, China); Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada)

Reinforcement Learning-based Receiver for Molecular Communication with Mobility
Lisa Y. Debus (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Pit Hofmann (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Jorge Torres Gomez (TU Berlin, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany); Falko Dressler (TU Berlin, Germany)

Molecular Communication Systems in Tubes with Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows
Li Huang and Fuqiang Liu (Tongji University, China); Hao Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Lin Lin (Tongji University, China)

Analog Network Coding in Molecular Communications: A Practical Implementation
Pit Hofmann, Juan A. Cabrera and Riccardo Bassoli (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)

A Metric to Quantify Subjective Information in Biological Gradient Sensing
Tyler Barker (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Peter J Thomas (Case Western Reserve University, USA); Massimiliano Pierobon (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
SAC/MLC 1: Distributed Machine Learning over Wireless I
Room 403

Chair: Le Liang (Southeast University, China)

Efficient Communications for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Wireless Networks
Zefang Lv, Yousong Du, Yifan Chen and Liang Xiao (Xiamen University, China); Shuai Han (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Xiangyang Ji (Tsinghua University, China)

UC-FL: A User Cooperation Framework for Wireless Federated Learning
Yuwei Wang, Li Sun and Qinghe Du (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)

AFL: Attention-based Byzantine-robust Federated Learning with Vector Filter
Hao Chen, Xixiang Lv and Wei Zheng (Xidian University, China)

A Channel Aggregation based Dynamic Pruning Method in Federated Learning
Zhuo Chen and Xiaoxiang Tan (Chongqing University of Technology, China); Zhiyuan Zhou (Chongqing CAERI Robot Technology, China); Yang Zhou (Auburn University, USA)

MIMO Beamforming and Signal Modulation Design for Federated Learning Optimization
Nuocheng Yang and Sihua Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Cong Shen (University of Virginia, USA); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Christopher G. Brinton (Purdue University, USA)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00
SAC/RIS 1: Resource Allocation Techniques for RIS-aided Networks

Room 310

Chair: Bile Peng (TU Braunschweig, Germany)

Green Beamforming Design for IRS-Aided Systems Under Phase Shift-Related Power Consumption
Qiucen Wu, Tian Lin and Yu Zhu (Fudan University, China)

On Optimizing RIS-aided SWIPT-IoTs with Power Splitting-based Non-Linear Energy Harvesting
Neha Sharma and Sumit Gautam (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India); Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Joint Beamforming for STAR-RIS in Near-Field Communications
Haochen Li (Southeast University, China); Yuanwei Liu, Xidong Mu and Yue Chen (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhiwen Pan (Southeast University, China)

Fast Iterative Configuration of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in mmWave Systems
Anna Guglielmi and Stefano Tomasin (University of Padova, Italy)

Energy-Efficient Design in STAR-RIS Assisted Communication System with Antenna Selection
Guangyang Zhang, Yang Lu, Bo Ai and Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)


Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

SPC 1: Interference Management Techniques in Communications Systems

Room 404

Chair: Hai Lin (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)

Rate-Fairness Balancing With DRL in Cell-Free Massive MIMO-NOMA Networks

Mingliang Pang, Chaowei Wang, Wenyuan Wang and Danhao Deng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Fan Jiang (Xi'an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Guangjie Han (Hohai University, China); Zhi Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Weidong Wang (Beijing Unversity of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Near-Field Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Communications

Jiakuo Zuo (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xidong Mu and Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Achieving Unconstrained Signal Design for ISAC: Non-Coherent Processing and Beamforming Scheme

Lutian Shen, Jie Tang, Ruoyan Ma, Junyuan Fan and Xiuyin Zhang (South China University of Technology, China)

Cell-Free Massive MIMO and SWIPT: Access Point Operation Mode Selection and Power Control

Mohammadali Mohammadi (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Le-Nam Tran (University College Dublin, Ireland); Zahra Mobini, Hien Ngo and Michail Matthaiou (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Robust Beamforming for IRS Aided MIMO Full Duplex Systems

Chandan Kumar Sheemar, Jorge Querol and Sourabh Solanki (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Sumit Kumar (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

WC 1: NOMA I

Room 405

Chair: Yongpeng Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

NOMA-based Improper Signaling for MIMO STAR-RIS-assisted Broadcast Channels with Hardware Impairments

Mohammad Soleymani (Universität Paderborn, Germany); Ignacio Santamaria (University of Cantabria, Spain); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)

Joint Device Identification, Channel Estimation, and Signal Detection for LEO Satellite-Enabled Random Access

Boxiao Shen, Yongpeng Wu and Wenjun Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Joint Uplink and Downlink NOMA for UAV Relaying Network with Multi-pair Users

Xu Guo (Peking University, China); Bing Li (Tongji University, China); Jianjun Wu (Peking University, China); Rongqing Zhang (Tongji University, China); Xiang Cheng (Peking University, China)

Finite-Field Coding for Unsourced Multiple Access

Xinyi Sui, Zhongwei Si and Jincheng Dai (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Superposition Transmission of Common Alarm Information in MIMO GF-NOMA

Weihan Xue and Jianping Zheng (Xidian University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

WC 2: Channel Modelling and Propagation I

Room 409

Chair: Lipeng Zhu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Performance Analysis for Movable Antenna Aided Wireless Communications

Lipeng Zhu, Wenyan Ma and Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Beam Depth Analysis for Large Rectangular Arrays

Alva Kosasih (KTH Royal Institute, Sweden); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

A Novel Ultra-Massive MIMO Beam Domain Channel Model for 6G Maritime Communications

Yi Zheng and Yue Yang (Southeast University, China); Cheng-Xiang Wang (Southeast University, China & Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Jie Huang (Southeast University, China); Rui Feng (Purple Mountain Laboratories & Southeast University, China)

Unified Probability Distributions of Composite Fading for Radio Frequency and Optical Wireless Channels

Chin Choy Chai (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada); Xiao-Ping Zhang (Ryerson University, Canada)

Influence of the Self-Interference Channel Model on the Performance of a Full-Duplex MIMO System

Xuan Chen (TDF, France); Vincent Savaux (B-COM, France); Matthieu Crussière (Univ Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, IETR, France); Patrick Savelli (B-com, France); Koffi-Clement Yao (Université de Bretgane Occidentale, France)

Tuesday, December 5 9:15 - 10:00

IS 2: Interactive Subsession CQRM_I2

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Ryo Nakamura (Fukuoka University, Japan)

Price of Stability in Quality-Aware Federated Learning

Yizhou Yan and Xinyu Tang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Chao Huang (University of California, Davis, USA); Ming Tang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)

Statistical AoI, Delay, and Error-Rate Bounded QoS Provisioning for Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks

Jingqing Wang and Wenchi Cheng (Xidian University, China); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

Multiobjective UAV path planning: connectivity quality and energy consumption

Florian Delavernhe (Univerrsity Bourgogne Franche Compté, France); Mohammed Salhi (Université Technologie de Compiègne, France)

Secrecy Rate Maximization based on User Clustering in Hybrid-NOMA Assisted HetNets for B5G/6G

Umar Ghafoor (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Adil Siddiqui (Military College of Signals, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Humayun Zubair Khan (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mudassar Ali (University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan)

Tuesday, December 5 9:15 - 10:00

IS 2: Interactive Subsession MWN_I2

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Hamada Rizk (Osaka University, Japan)

Intelligent Urban Expressway Managing Architecture Using LoRaWAN and Edge Computing

Mi Chen (Univ Paris Est Creteil, LACL, France); Jalel Ben Othman (CentraleSupélec & University of Sorbonne Paris Nord, France); Lynda Mokdad (Université de Paris 12 & Laboratoire LACL, France)

A 3D Modeling Method for Scattering on Rough Surfaces at the Terahertz Band

Ben Chen, Ke Guan, Danping He, Pengxiang Xie and Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Jianwu Dou (ZTE Corporation, China); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal); Wael M. Bazzi (American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

IRDM: A generative diffusion model for indoor radio map interpolation

Kehai Qiu (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Stefanos Sotirios Bakirtzis (Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd & University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hui Song (Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kan Lin (Ranplan Wireless Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ian James Wassell (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jie Zhang (University of Sheffield, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Indoor Localization System for Seamless Tracking Across Buildings and Network Configurations

Hamada Rizk (Osaka University, Japan); Ahmed Sakr, Ali Ghazal, Mohamed Hemdan, Omar Shaheen and Hossam Sharara (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan); Moustafa Youssef (American University in Cairo)

Near-Field Wideband Beamfocusing Optimization: A Heuristic Two-Stage Approach

Zhaolin Wang, Xidong Mu, Yixuan Zou and Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 9:15 - 10:00

IS 2: Interactive Subsession SAC/BD_I2

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Rajesh Gupta (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India)

Accessible Distributed Hydrological Surveillance and Computing System with Integrated End-Edge-Cloud Architecture

Guorun Yao, Chen Chen and Cong Li (Xidian University, China); Ci He (Science and Technology on Communication Networks Laboratory, China); Shi Bai (Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Hydrology and Water Resources Center, China); Ying Ju and Qingqi Pei (Xidian University, China)

Beam Training and Codebook Design for RIS Assisted UAV Communications in Emergency Rescue

Sihui Shang and Dongyang Xu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Keping Yu (Hosei University, Japan); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal)

A Host Kernel-Based Approach for Tracing and Analyzing vCPUs in Virtual Machines

Ravjot Singh (IIT Roorkee, India); Naman Jain (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India); Prakhar Gupta (IIT Roorkee, India); Neetesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India); Pravendra Singh (IIT Roorkee, India)

Tuesday, December 5 9:15 - 10:00

IS 2: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I2

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Zhe Wang (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Beam Tracking: A Channel Charting and Neighborhood Search Based Method

Jiawei Zhang, Fan Wu, Yihang Yang and Jienan Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Universal Auto-encoder Framework for MIMO CSI Feedback

Jinhyun So (Samsung Semiconductor Inc, USA); Hyukjoon Kwon (Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., USA)

The Wyner Variational Autoencoder for Unsupervised Multi-Layer Wireless Fingerprinting

Teng-Hui Huang and Thilini Dahanayaka (University of Sydney, Australia); Kanchana Thilakarathna and Philip Leong (The University of Sydney, Australia); Hesham El Gamal (University of Sydney, Australia)

Deep Learning-Enhanced Physical Layer Authentication for Mobile Devices

Yijia Guo (The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Junqing Zhang (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yao-Win Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

RADIANCE: Radio-Frequency Adversarial Deep-learning Inference for Automated Network Coverage Estimation

Sopan Sarkar, Mohammad Hossein Manshaei and Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 9:15 - 10:00

IS 2: Interactive Subsession SAC/SSC_I2

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Reliable Communications for Hypersonic Vehicles: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

Jingchen Xu, Yifan Chen, Zhiping Lin, Yousong Du, Helin Yang and Liang Xiao (Xiamen University, China)

Orbit-Grid-Based Dynamic Routing for Software Defined Mega-Constellation Network

Mingqian Wang, Linhui Wei, Yumei Wang and Yu Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Harnessing Speech Recognition for Enhanced Signal Processing of Satellite Communications

Matthew Phelps (United States Space System Command, USA); Zachary Gazak, Ryan Swindle and Justin Fletcher (United States Space Systems Command, USA); Andrew Vandenberg (United States Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

CISS 3: Security in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Room 301

Chair: Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia)

Secrecy Throughput Optimization for DFRC System in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Network

Yu Yao (Hainan University, China); Anqi Deng and Xuan Li (East China Jiaotong University, China); Xu Cheng (Sun Yatsen University, China); Feng Shu (Hainan University, China); Jiangzhou Wang (University of Kent, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

An LP-based Online Dispatching Method with Privacy-preserving in Online Ride-hailing

Xinyu Chen, Evan Yifan Xu, Jun Tao and Rujie Chen (Southeast University, China)

ZKP-based Lightweight Authentication protocol during handovers in Vehicular Networks

Indukuri Mani Varma (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee & NA, India); Neetesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)

EAKM: Efficient Conditional Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme with On-Chain Key Management in VANETs

Shunrong Jiang and Guohuai Sang (China University of Mining and Technology, China); Xuedan Jia (Jiangsu University, China); Fengjiao Li and Haotian Chi (Shanxi University, China)

Achieve Edge-based Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Aggregation Query in Smart Transportation Systems

Yunguo Guan (Eastern Michigan University, USA); Ellen Z. Zhang (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Pulei Xiong (National Research Council Canada, Canada); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

CISS 4: Blockchain Security I

Room 306

Chair: Wenye Wang (NC State University, USA)

A Blockchain Consensus Protocol based on Fuzzy Signatures

Paolo Santini (Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy); Giulia Rafaiani (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); Massimo Battaglioni (Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy); Franco Chiaraluce and Marco Baldi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)

BlockFed: A High-Performance and Trustworthy Blockchain-Based Federated Learning Framework

Rui Ning (Old Dominion University, USA); CG Wang (IDCC, USA); Xu Li (InterDigital, USA); Robert Gazda (InterDigital, LLC, USA); Hongyi Wu (The University of Arizona, USA)

On the Profitability of Selfish Mining Attack under the Checkpoint Mechanism

Yu Zhou and Shang Gao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Weiwei Qiu (Hangzhou Qulian Technology, China); Kai Lei (Peking University, China); Bin Xiao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Fine-grained Data Rights Governance in Blockchain-based Cloud-edge Communications

Weilin Gan, Mingyang Zhao, Hongchen Guo and Chuan Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Jianan Hong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Liehuang Zhu (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

Symbiotic PBFT Consensus: Cognitive Backscatter Communications-enabled Wireless PBFT Consensus

Haoxiang Luo, Qianqian Zhang, Hongfang Yu, Gang Sun and Shizhong Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

CQRM 2: Edge-Cloud Computing I

Room 305

Chair: Agapi Mesodiakaki (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) & Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation, Thessaloniki, Greece)

Optimal Task Offloading Policy in Edge Computing Systems with Firm Deadlines

Khai N Doan, Wesley Araujo, Evangelos Kranakis and Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada); Yannis Viniotis (North Carolina State University, USA)

Learning-based Privacy-preserving Computation Offloading in Multi-Access Edge Computing

Feiran You (University of Sydney, Australia); Xin Yuan (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia); Wei Ni (CSIRO, Australia); Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia)

DRL-TAL: Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Traffic-Aware Load Balancing in Data Center Networks

Guoyong Jiang, Wenting Wei, Kun Wang and Chengding Pang (Xidian University, China); Yong Liu (Hangzhou Normal University, China)

Reinforcement-Learning-Based Task Offloading in Edge Computing Systems with Firm Deadlines

Khai N Doan, Wesley Araujo, Evangelos Kranakis and Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada); Yannis Viniotis (North Carolina State University, USA)

Joint placement, routing and dimensioning at the network edge for energy minimization

Maxime Elkael (Telecom Sudparis, France); Andrea Araldo (Institut Polytechnique de Paris & Télécom SudParis, France); Salvatore D'Oro (Northeastern University, USA); Hind Castel-Taleb (Samovar UMR 5157, Telecom SudParis, Université Paris Saclay, France); Massinissa Ait aba (DAVIDSON Consulting, Paris, France); Badii Jouaber (SAMOVAR & Telecom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

CRAEN 2: Security for Cognitive Radios

Room 401

Chair: Ziye Jia (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

Transferable Attacks on Deep Learning Based Modulation Recognition in Cognitive Radio

Zhenju Zhang and Mingqian Liu (Xidian University, China); Yunfei Chen (University of Durham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, China)

Routing Recovery for UAV Networks with Deliberate Attacks: A Reinforcement Learning based Approach

Sijie He, Ziye Jia, Chao Dong, Wei Wang and Yilu Cao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Yang Yang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Qihui Wu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

Label-free Deep Learning Driven Secure Access Selection in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks

Zhaowei Wang, Zhisheng Yin, Xiucheng Wang and Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China); Yuan Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Tom H. Luan (Xidian University, China)

A Lightweight Few-Shot Attack Detection Scheme for Industrial Cognitive Radio Networks

Wang Xinkai, Beibei Li and Dai Wanying (Sichuan University, China); Rongkuan Ma (Information Engineering University, China); Hanyuan Huang (Sichuan University, China)

Utilizing Autoencoder to Improve the Robustness of Intrusion Detection Systems against Adversarial Attacks

Patricia Kibenge-MacLeod, Qiang Ye and Fangda Cui (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

CSM 2: Immersive Video Streaming

Room 302

Chair: Yuanlong Cao (Jiangxi Normal University, China)

Leveraging Graph Theory for Efficient Cache Policy Design in 360° Video Streaming

Ahmed Saadallah (University of Burgundy, France); Philippe Brunet (Université de Bourgogne, France); Inès El Korbi (University of Burgundy, Tunisia); Sidi-Mohammed Senouci (University of Bourgogne - ISAT Nevers, France); Soumaya Cherkaoui (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)

Deadline Aware Two-Timescale Resource Allocation for VR Video Streaming

Qingxuan Feng, Peng Yang and Zhixuan Huang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Jiayin Chen (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada)

Economic Routing for Immersive Media in Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Network

Linhui Wei, Mingqian Wang, Yu Liu and Yumei Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

VR Service Delay Guarantee with Interest Prediction: A Joint Caching, Computing and Communication Optimization Approach

Baojie Fu, Zhidu Li and Tong Tang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Dapeng Wu (CQUPT, China); Ruyan Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Spatial Perceptual Quality Aware Adaptive Volumetric Video Streaming

Xi Wang, Wei Liu, Huitong Liu and Peng Yang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

GCSN 2: Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks

Room 406

Chair: Liping Qian (Zhejiang University of Technology, China)

Learning-Driven Transmission Latency Minimization in EH-relay assisted IoT Networks

Qianru Wang, Liping Qian, Mingqing Li and Wei Jiang (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Yuan Wu (University of Macau, Macao); Xiaoniu Yang (Science and Technology on Communication Information Security Control Laboratory, China)

Performance Analysis of IRS-Assisted and Wireless Power Transfer Enabled ISAC systems

Bingxin Zhang (UESTC, China); Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kezhi Wang (Brunel University London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Information-Energy Capacity Region for SWIPT Systems with Semantic Communication

Nizar Khalfet, Constantinos Psomas and Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Energy Consumption in RES-aware 5G Networks

Adam Samorzewski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Margot Deruyck (Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium); Adrian Kliks (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)

Time Allocation for RIS-Aided Wireless Power Communication Networks in Disaster Sceneio

Yuhang Song and Dongyang Xu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Bin Li (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China); Shaohua Wan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

IoTSN 3: Smart Roads

Room 304

Chair: Marco Giordani (University of Padova, Italy)

Capacity Analysis of Dedicated Lanes in Mixed Traffic with Human-driven and Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Shuang Tang, Wenwei Yue and Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China); Peibo Duan (Northeastern University, China); Di Zhou and Changle Li (Xidian University, China)

Implicit Sensing in Traffic Optimization: Advanced Deep Reinforcement Learning Techniques

Emanuel Figetakis (University of Guelph, USA); Yahuza Bello (University of Guelph, Canada); Ahmed Refaey (University of Guelph, Canada & Western University, Canada); Lei Lei and Medhat Moussa (University of Guelph, Canada)

Collision-Aware Clustering for enhanced Cooperative Perception in V2V Systems

Bassel Chawky and Ahmed Elbery (Queen's University, Canada); Mohamed S Hefeida (West Virginia University, USA); Aboelmagd Noureldin (Queen's University, Canada)

Edge-Assisted Lightweight Region-of-Interest Extraction and Transmission for Vehicle Perception

Yan Cheng and Peng Yang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada); Jiawei Hou (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Geomagnetic Sensor based Abnormal Parking Detection in Smart Roads

Runsen He, Guoqiang Mao, Yilong Hui and Qingwei Cheng (Xidian University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 2:45

IS 3: Interactive Subsession CT_I3

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Lu Lv (Xidian University, China)

Block Allocation of Systematic Coded Distributed Computing in Heterogeneous Straggling Networks

Yu Wang and Shushi Gu (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Zhikai Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen & Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Wei Xiang (La Trobe University, Australia)

Achieving Covert Communication With A Probabilistic Friendly Jammer

Xun Chen and Fujun Gao (Hainan University, China); Min Qiu (University of New South Wales, Australia); Jia Zhang (Shandong Normal University, China); Shihao Yan (Edith Cowan University, Australia); Feng Shu (Hainan University, China)

Impact of Hardware Impairments on Covert Cooperative Backscatter Communications

Huan Li and Yinghui Ye (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Lu Lv (Xidian University, China); Guangyue Lu (Xi'an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

On-the-Fly Communication-and-Computing for Distributed Tensor Decomposition

Xu Chen (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden); Kaibin Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Goal-Oriented Scheduling and Control Co-Design in Wireless Networked Control Systems

Jie Cao (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore); Ernest Kurniawan, Amnart Boonkajay and Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 2:45

IS 3: Interactive Subsession NGNI_I3

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Performance Evaluation of Fog-to-Cloud Computing Schemes for IoMT Systems Using Queuing Models

Vu Khanh-Quy, Sr. (Hung Yen University of Technology and Education, Vietnam); Chehri Abdellah (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada); Quy Nguyen Minh and Dang Van Anh (Hung Yen University of Technology and Education, Vietnam); Dinh C. Nguyen (The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)

Joint Task Scheduling and Intelligence Optimization in CPN-enabled Connected Intelligence Systems

Gaochang Xie and Renchao Xie (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Qinqin Tang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, China); Shuang Wu and Wenzheng Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zongping Li (Traffic Control Technology Co., Ltd.); Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

RIS-Assisted Ad Hoc Edge for Optimal User Distribution in Service-Intensive Scenarios

Chenxuan Hou and Chenyang Wang (Tianjin University, China); Kai Dong (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland)

Seamless Service Handover in UAV-based Mobile Edge Computing

Zilong Ye (California State University, Los Angeles, USA); Philip N. Ji (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA); Ting Wang (NEC Laboratories America, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 2:45

IS 3: Interactive Subsession ONS_I3

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Efficient Fiber-Inspection Method for Optical-Circuit Datacenter Networks

Kazuya Anazawa, Takeru Inoue and Toru Mano (NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan); Wataru Ishida (NTT Software Innovation Center, Japan); Kazuaki Obana (NTT, Japan); Hideki Nishizawa (NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan)

Performance Analysis of Crosstalk-Aware Sparse Core-Switching Optical Networks

Ítalo Brasileiro and André C Drummond (University of Brasilia, Brazil); Admela Jukan (Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany)

Agnostic Prediction of Multiple Types of Time-Varying Traffic in Optical Networks

Aleksandra Knapinska (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland); Piotr Lechowicz (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Salvatore Spadaro (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Krzysztof Walkowiak (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 2:45

IS 3: Interactive Subsession SAC/AC_I3

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

An Efficient Beam Scanning Scheme in Large-Scale FANETs with Directional Antennas

Siyu Gao, Huan Su and Jing Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Jiahao He (Institute of Space Integrated Ground Network, China); Ming Zhao (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

Multi-Armed Bandit Learning for Content Provisioning in Network of UAVs

Amit Kumar Bhuyan, Hrishikesh Dutta and Subir Biswas (Michigan State University, USA)

On Infrastructure Design for Large UAV Networks

Tayyaba. S and Sundaram Vanka (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 2:45

IS 3: Interactive Subsession SAC/MB_I3

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Lin Lin (Tongji University, China)

An Experimental Platform for Neural Communication Based on Bullfrog Sciatic Nerve

Huiyu Luo, Ying Qin, Lei Jiang, Junfang Zhang and Ling Zhu (Tongji University, China); Guangyi Liu (China Mobile Research Institute, China); Lin Lin (Tongji University, China)

Novel Nano-Machine Architecture for Machine Learning in the IoBNT

Stefan Angerbauer and Tobias Pankratz (Johannes Kepler University, Austria); Franz Enzenhofer and Werner Haselmayr (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

Microparticle-based Controlled Drug Delivery Systems: From Experiments to Statistical Analysis and Design

Sebastian Lotter, Tom Bellmann, Sophie Marx, Mara Wesinger and Lukas Brand (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Maximilian Schäfer (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany); Dagmar Fischer (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 2:45

IS 3: Interactive Subsession SAC/SN_I3

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Marc Jayson J Baucas (University of Guelph, Canada)

Investigating Feasibility of Stress Detection from Social Media Content through Wearables

Kalliopi Tsiampa (University of Thessaly, Greece); Lili Zhu and Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada); Vassilis Plagianakos (University Of Thessaly, Greece)

Modeling Viral Information Spreading via Directed Acyclic Graph Diffusion

Chinthaka Pathum Dinesh Herath Gedara (Simon Fraser University & York University, Canada); Gene Cheung (York University, Canada); Fei Chen (Fuzhou University, China); Yuejiang Li and H. Vicky Zhao (Tsinghua University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

MWN 2: Advances in 5G/6G Networks II

Room 408

Chair: Angelos Stavrou (Virginia Tech & Kryptowire, USA)

Demystifying 5G Traffic Patterns with an Indoor RAN Measurement Campaign

Tolga O Atalay and Alireza Famili (Virginia Tech, USA); Dragoslav Stojadinovic (Kryptowire LLC, USA); Angelos Stavrou (Virginia Tech & Kryptowire, USA)

Triple-Frequency Carrier Phase Positioning with Optimized Ambiguity Resolution in 5G New Radio Networks

Shaoshuai Fan and Yichen Ji (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hui Tian (Beijng University of posts and telecommunications, China)

Resource Allocation with Multi-Connectivity in 5G Heterogeneous Networks

Chi-Mao Chen and Jang-Ping Sheu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Yung Ching Kuo (National TsingHua University, Taiwan)

Combining Network Data Analytics Function and Machine Learning for abnormal traffic detection in Beyond 5G

Abdelkader Mekrache and Karim Boutiba (EURECOM, France); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France)

A novel sustainable bandwidth allocation strategy for multiple service migration in 5G/6G edge computing

Arshin Rezazadeh (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Hanan Lutfiyya (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

MWN 3: Applications of Federated Learning I

Room 410

Chairs: Howard Yang (Zhejiang University, China & University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA), Yunlong Lu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

LEARN: Selecting Samples Without Training Verification for Communication-Efficient Vertical Federated Learning

Tong Liu and Feng Lyu (Central South University, China); Jun Ma (Hunan Energy Big Data Intelligence Limited, China); Yongheng Deng (Tsinghua University, China); Jiayin Chen (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Qilong Tan (Hunan Energy Big Data Intelligence Limited, China); Yaoxue Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)

GNN-based Neighbor Selection and Resource Allocation for Decentralized Federated Learning

Chuiyang Meng (University of British Columbia, Canada); Ming Tang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Mehdi Setayesh and Vincent W.S. Wong (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Latent Semantic Diffusion-based Channel Adaptive De-Noising SemCom for Future 6G Systems

Bingxuan Xu, Rui Meng and Yue Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, China); Chen Dong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hao Sun (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Towards Stable Federated Fog Formation using Federated Learning and Evolutionary Game Theory

Zyad Yasser (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Ahmad Hammoud (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada); Azzam Mourad (Lebanese American University, Lebanon); Hadi Otrok (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Concordia University, Canada); Zbigniew Dziong (École de technologie supérieure, University of Quebec, Canada); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)

PAFL: Parameter-Authentication Federated Learning for Internet of Vehicles

Li Zejun (Beijing JiaoTong University, China); Hao Wu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Yueyue Dai (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Yunlong Lu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

NGNI 2: AI Algorithms and Optimization Techniques

Room 303

Chair: Hai Anh Tran (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam)

P4-based In-Network RL inference for Efficient Flow-Level Bandwidth Allocation

Arslan Qadeer and Myung Lee (City College of New York, CUNY, USA); Daiki Nobayashi (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

DRL-based Federated Uncertainty-guided Semi-Supervised Learning for Network Traffic Selection and Threshold Determination in ZSM

Abdullatif Albaseer (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Mohamed M. Abdallah (Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar)

Information-Centric Networking Cache Memory Allocation: A Network Economics Approach

Aisha B Rahman (University of New Mexico, USA); Panagiotis Charatsaris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) - National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Enhancing Edge Multipath Data Security Offloading Efficiency via Sequential Reinforcement Learning

Wenxuan Qiao, Yuyang Zhang and Ping Dong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Xiaojiang Du (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Chengxiao Yu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Hongke Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)

Multi Service-Oriented Routing Mechanism for Heterogeneous Multi-Domain Software-Defined Networking

Tuan Tran-Le Nguyen (Hanoi University of Civil Engineering & SoICT, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Ngo Viet Hoang (SOICT, Hanoi University of Science and Technology & Vinbigdata Institute, Vietnam); Trung Pham (Hanoi University of Civil Engineering & SOICT, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Thang Nam Hoang (Hanoi University of Civil Engineering & SoICT, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Van Tong, Hai Anh Tran and Giang Nguyen Linh (SoICT, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Abdelhamid Mellouk (UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France); Truong X Tran (Penn State University, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/BD 1: Blockchain-enabled Big Data Systems

Room 307

Chair: Priyadarsi Nanda (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

BcIIS: Blockchain-based Intelligent Identification Scheme of Massive IoT Devices

Yi Sun (Beijing University of Posts and Communications, China); Tong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ali Kashif Bashir (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jie Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Marwan Omar (Illinois Institute of Technology & IIT, USA)

Deep Q-Network Dueling-Based Opportunistic Data Transmission in Blockchain-Enabled M2M Communication

Jagdeep Singh (University of Delhi & Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Punjab, India - Govt. of India, India); Sanjay Kumar Dhurandher (Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, India); Isaac Woungang (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

A Secure Blockchain-Based Authentication Control Framework for Cyber-Physical-Social System (CPSS) Big Data

Brij B. Gupta (Asia University, Taiwan); Akshat Gaurav (Ronin Institute, USA); John Chui Kwok Tai (Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU), Hong Kong); Varsha Arya (Insights2Techinfo, Taiwan); Jinsong Wu (Universidad de Chile, Chile); Elhadj Benkhelifa (Staffordshire University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

TVUB: Thermal Vision-based UAV and Blockchain-aided Poaching Prevention System

Sudha Anbalagan (Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai, India); Wajdi Alhakami (Taif University, Saudi Arabia); Abhishek Manoharan (Anna University, India); Sai Ganesh Senthivel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Anushka Nehra (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India); Hosam Alhakami (Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia); Gunasekaran Raja (Anna University, India)

V2V Communications Using Blockchain-Enabled 6G Technology and Federated Learning

Tahir H. Ahmed, Jun Jiat Tiang and Azwan Mahmud (Centre of Wireless Technology, Multimedia University, Malaysia); Dinh-Thuan Do (School of Engineering, University of Mount Union, USA); Truong X Tran (School of Science, Engineering, and Technology, Penn State University, USA); Shahid Mumtaz (Silesian University of Technology and Nottingham Trent University, Poland)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/ISC 2: Precoding and Transceiver Design in ISAC

Room 402

Chair: Yuchen Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Transmit Precoding for MIMO Radar and MU-MIMO Communication with ISAC

Changfeng Ding (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Cheng Zeng, Na Su and Jun-Bo Wang (Southeast University, China); Min Lin (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Optimal Linear Precoder Design for MIMO-OFDM Integrated Sensing and Communications Based on Bayesian Cramér-Rao Bound

Xinyang Li (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Vlad Costin Andrei (Technische Unversität München, Germany); Ullrich J Mönich (Technische Universität München, Germany); Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany)

Robust Transceiver Design for ISAC With Imperfect CSI

Yuchen Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Wanli Ni (Beijng University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); WanBin Tang (University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, China); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Exploiting Interference in Joint Radar-Communication Transmission

Jianjun Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Fan Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yongming Huang (Southeast University, China)

Variational Message Passing Receiver Design for Integrated Sensing and Massive Connectivity

Qiaozhi Wang (Fudan University, China); Xiaojun Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zhengxing Wang, Xin Wang and Chongbin Xu (Fudan University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/MLC 2: Distributed Machine Learning over Wireless II

Room 403

Chair: Dongzhu Liu (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Cooperative Interference Estimation using LSTM-based Federated Learning for In-X Subnetworks

Pramesh Gautam (Max-Von-Laue-Straße 5 & University of Bremen, Germany)

Asynchronous Federated Learning via Over-the-air Computation

Zijian Zheng (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yansha Deng (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xiaonan Liu (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); A Nallanathan (QMUL, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Semi-Asynchronous Federated Edge Learning for Over-the-air Computation

Zhoubin Kou (Tsinghua University, China); Yun Ji and Xiaoxiong Zhong (Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China); Zhang Sheng (Tsinghua University, China)

Networked Federated Learning-based Intelligent Vehicular Traffic Management in IoV Scenarios

Abdullah Abbasi, Swapnil Shinde and Daniele Tarchi (University of Bologna, Italy)

Federated Linear Bandit Learning via Over-the-air Computation

Jiali Wang (East China Normal University, China); Yuning Jiang (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Xin Liu (ShanghaiTech University, China); Ting Wang (East China Normal University, China); Yuanming Shi (ShanghaiTech University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/QC 1: Quantum Communications

Room 309

Chair: Robert Malaney (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Authentication Through Error Estimation in QKD

Ludovic Noirie and Rémi Varloot (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

Matching Game for Optimized Association in Quantum Communication Networks

Mahdi Chehimi (Virginia Tech, USA); Bernd Simon (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France)

Extending Shor's Quantum Error Correction Circuits Using Quantum Adders

Shadman Shahriar (Brac University, Bangladesh); A. B. M. Alim Al Islam (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh)

Using small dimensional quantum error correction codes for high-performance quantum communication

Dawei Jiao (Aalto University, Finland); Alexei Ashikhmin (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Mahdi Bayanifar and Olav Tirkkonen (Aalto University, Finland)

Quaternary-Binary Message-Passing Decoder for Quantum LDPC Codes

Dimitris Chytas and Nithin Raveendran (University of Arizona, USA); Asit Kumar Pradhan (The University of Arizona, USA); Bane Vasic (University of Arizona, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/RIS 2: Advanced Transmission Techniques in RIS-aided Networks

Room 310

Chair: Bile Peng (TU Braunschweig, Germany)

Improper Gaussian Signaling for STAR-RIS assisted Multiuser MISO Interference Channels

Junjie Fang and Chao Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Qingqing Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Ang Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)

Multiple RIS-Assisted Cooperative NOMA with User Selection

Mostafa Samy and Hayder Al-Hraishawi (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Steven Kisseleff (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Germany); Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Low-Complexity Downlink Transmission With NOMA for IRS-Aided Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Network

Xiaoyu Liu, Min Lin, Huaibo Guo, Miaomiao Tan and Jian Ouyang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Space-Time Phase Coupling in STMM-based Wireless Communications

Marouan Mizmizi and Dario Tagliaferri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marco Di Renzo (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France); Umberto Spagnolini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Robust Beamforming Design for STAR-RIS-aided NOMA System under Short-packet Communication

Mayur Vitthalrao Katwe (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Rasika Sanjay Deshpande (National Sun Yat Sen University, Taiwan); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Cunhua Pan (Southeast University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/SSC 1: Satellite and Space Communications I

Room 407

Chairs: Xiaoyan Wang (Ibaraki University, Japan), Gaofeng Pan (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

RIS-Aided Multi-Beam Cooperative Transmission for Satellite-Terrestrial Communication

Kai Feng (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, China); Ting Zhou (Shanghai University, China); Tianheng Xu (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Honglin Hu (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, China); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

Uplink Sum Throughput Analysis and Maximization for Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Cell-Free Massive MIMO

Trinh Van Chien (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Ha An Le (Seoul National University, Korea (South)); Hien Ngo (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

On the Performance of NOMA Assisted Semi-Grant-Free Transmission in Satellite Systems

Huaicong Kong, Miaomiao Tan, Yan Guo, Min Lin and Lve Han (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Space MIMO: Direct Unmodified Handheld to Multi-Satellite Communication

Yasaman Omid, Zohre Mashayekh Bakhsh, Farbod Kayhan, Yi Ma and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Dynamic Symbol-Level Power and Modulation Pre-Adaptation for LEO Inter-Orbital Inter-Satellite Communication in THz Band

Junyi Lyu, Yong Liang Guan and Xiao Bei Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Erry Gunawan (Singapore)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/TC 1: Terahertz Channel

Room 308

Chairs: Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Aimin Tang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Characterizing Sub-THz MIMO Channels in Practice: a Novel Channel Sounder with Absolute Time Reference

Duschia M Bodet, Phuc Dinh and Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern University, USA); Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Northeastern University, USA); Josep M Jornet (Northeastern University & Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, USA)

Double-Directional Channel Characterization of an Indoor Corridor Scenario at 300 GHz

Anirban Ghosh (SRM University Amaravati, India); Riku Takahashi and Minseok Kim (Niigata University, Japan)

Measurement-Based Modeling of Short Range Terahertz Channels and Their Capacity Analysis

Erhan Karakoca and Hasan Nayir (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Gunes Karabulut Kurt (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada); Ali Gorcin (Istanbul Techical University, Turkey)

Channel Measurements at 140 and 220 GHz in an Outdoor Street Canyon Environment

Wenfei Yang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Ziming Yu (Huawei Technologies CO., LTD, China); Yi Chen (Huawei Technologies CO. LTD., China); Mate Boban and Tommaso Zugno (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Jian Li (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China)

Channel Measurements and Large-scale Fading Characterization for Indoor THz Communications

Xinrui Chen, Xi Liao and Yang Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ziming Yu (Huawei Technologies CO., LTD, China); Guangjian Wang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Yi Chen (Huawei Technologies CO. LTD., China); Jie Zhang (University of Sheffield, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SPC 2: Signal Processing for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning

Room 404

Chair: Yixuan Zou (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

DiscoCSINet: Dissymmetric Convolution Neural Network for CSI Feedback in FDD Massive MIMO System

Yang Yang and Yutong Xin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zejian Lu (China Academic of Electronics and Information Technology, China); Yong Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (South)); Kun Zhou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jemin Lee (Yonsei University, Korea (South))

Communication-Constrained Distributed Learning: TSI-Aided Asynchronous Optimization With Stale Gradient

Siyuan Yu and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

Joint Communication Resource Allocation and Velocity Optimization in Advanced Air Mobility via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Ruixuan Han (University of Louisville, USA); Summer Li (DuPont Manual High School, USA); Eric Knoblock and Michael Gasper (NASA & Glenn Research Center, USA); Hongxiang Li (University of Louisville, USA); Rafael Apaza (NASA & Glenn Research Center, USA)

Sparsity-Based Channel Estimation Exploiting Deep Unrolling for Downlink Massive MIMO

An Chen and Wenbo Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Liyang Lu (Tsinghua University, China); Yue Wang (Georgia State University, USA)

Computer Vision-Aided Proactive Mobility Management for 6G Terahertz Communications

Yongjun Ahn, Jinhong Kim, Sunwoo Kim and Byonghyo Shim (Seoul National University, Korea (South))

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

WC 3: Channel Modeling and Propagation II

Room 405

Chair: Jia Yan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China)

Trajectory Planning for UAV-based Data Collection to Enhance Permittivity Calibration in Ray-tracing

YuanHao Jiang, Shidong Zhou and Xiaofeng Zhong (Tsinghua University, China)

Near-Field Spatial Correlation for Multi-path XL-Array Communications with Partial Visibility

Zhenjun Dong, Xinrui Li, Yong Zeng and Shi Jin (Southeast University, China); Tao Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Full-duplex OFDM Amplify-and-Forward Relay Scheme through Equalizing the Residual Self-Interference as IIR Channel

Pu Yang, Qingyue Qu, Han Wang, Yangyang Zhang, Xichang Zhang and Yi Liu (Xidian University, China)

Frequency Diverse Array Spatial Data Focusing: Free Space and Multipath Experimental Validation

Guylian Molineaux and François Horlin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium); Muriel Darces (Sorbonne Universite, France); Philippe De Doncker (ULB, Belgium); Julien Sarrazin (Sorbonne Université, France)

Radio DIP - Completing Radio Maps using Deep Image Prior

Akash S Doshi and June Namgoong (Qualcomm Technologies Inc., USA); Taesang Yoo (Qualcomm Inc., USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

WC 4: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) Enabled Communications I

Room 409

Chair: Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA)

A Hybrid Scheme for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How Many Elements Should be Estimated?

Andreas Nicolaides and Constantinos Psomas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Sheng Yang (CentraleSupelec, France); Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Twin-Timescale Beamforming for IRS-Assisted Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO-OFDM Systems

Peilan Wang, Zhuoran Wu and Jun Fang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Hongbin Li (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)

Channel Analysis and End-to-End Design for Double RIS-Aided Communication Systems with Spatial Correlation and Finite Scatterers

Ha An Le (Seoul National University, Korea (South)); Trinh Van Chien (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Nguyen Van Duc (HUST, Vietnam); Wan Choi (Seoul National University, Korea (South))

Low-Complexity Fingerprint Construction for RIS Codebook Design in Millimeter Wave Systems

Yili Deng and Baojia Luo (Tsinghua University, China); Miaomiao Dong (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., China); Zhongyi Huang (Tsinghua University, China); Xiang Chen (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong); Wei Han (Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, Hong Kong)

Hierarchical Transmission of Low Bit Rate Local Data Using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Hao Huang, Shuangfei Guo and Guan Gui (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hikmet Sari (NJUPT & Sequans, France)

Tuesday, December 5 2:45 - 3:30

IS 4: Interactive Subsession CT_I4

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Xidong Mu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Performance Analysis of Free-Space Information Sharing in Full-Duplex Semantic Communications

Hongyang Du, Jiacheng Wang and Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Jiawen Kang (Guangdong University of Technology, Singapore); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea (South)); Boon Hee Soong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

A Superposition Code Approach for Digital Semantic Communications over Broadcast Channels

Yufei Bo (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Shuo Shao and Meixia Tao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

STARS for Spectral Efficiency in Wideband Terahertz Communications

Zhaolin Wang and Xidong Mu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jiaqi Xu (University of California, Irvine, USA); Yixuan Zou and Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

The CRB-Rate Trade-off for JCAS: A Low-complexity Beamforming Design

Srivardhan Sarma Sivadevuni (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany); Kevin Weinberger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany); Aydin Sezgin (RUB, Germany)

Joint Beam Scheduling and Power Allocation for SWIPT in Mixed Near- and Far-Field Channels

Yunpu Zhang (China); Changsheng You, Weijie Yuan and Fan Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Tuesday, December 5 2:45 - 3:30

IS 4: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I4

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Sharief Saleh (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Preamble Parallelization Based Random Access with Colliding Preamble Reuse for Industrial IoT

Ziming Guo (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Xu Zhu (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China & University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jie Cao (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore); Yufei Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)

Anomaly detection-aided active learning

Georgii Nigmatulin (Samsung R&D Institute Russia, Russia); Konstantin Pavlov (Samsung Research Russia, Russia); Алексей Зайцев (Skoltech, IITP, Russia)

Mitigating Pilot Contamination and Enabling IoT Scalability in Massive MIMO Systems

Muhammad Kamran Saeed, Ahmed E. Kamal and Ashfaq Khokhar (Iowa State University, USA)

Multi-Type Water Contaminant Identification Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Machine Learning at Network Edge

Akhil J Samavedam and Harsha S Samavedam (Westlake High School, USA); Jianyu Wang (University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:45 - 3:30

IS 4: Interactive Subsession NGNI_I4

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

VNFO-DCSC: A Novel Secure End-to-End NFV Marketplace Using Dynamic Composite Smart Contracts

Mouhamad Almakhour (University of Paris Est-creteil, France); Layth Sliman (EFREI- Paris, France); Abed Ellatif Samhat (Lebanese University, Lebanon); Boussad Ait Salem (Efrei Reasearch Lab - Panthéon - Assas University, France & Efrei Paris, France); Abdelhamid Mellouk (UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France)

A Comparative Analysis of Deep Reinforcement Learning-based xApps in O-RAN

Maria Tsampazi, Salvatore D'Oro, Michele Polese and Leonardo Bonati (Northeastern University, USA); Gwenael Poitau (Dell Technologies, Canada); Michael Healy (Dell Technologies & Dell Technologies, Inc., USA); Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)

Unsupervised Feature Engineering Approach to Predict DDoS Attacks

Anderson Bergamini de Neira (Federal University of Parana, Brazil); Ligia F. Borges (Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG, Brazil); Alex Medeiros Araujo (Federal University of Parana, Brazil); Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Tuesday, December 5 2:45 - 3:30

IS 4: Interactive Subsession SAC/AC_I4

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Sundaram Vanka (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)

Probabilistic Roadmaps for Aerial Relay Path Planning

Viet Q. Pham and Daniel Romero (University of Agder, Norway)

Scalable Robust Beamforming for Multi-Layer Refracting RIS-Assisted HAP-SWIPT Networks

Yifu Sun, Kang An, Zhi Lin and Yonggang Zhu (National University of Defense Technology, China); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Secrecy Performance Analysis of RIS-Aided Hybrid RF/FSO Networks

Menghan Wu, Dawei Wang and Lingtong Min (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Yixin He (Jiaxing University, China); Chen Gao (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Li Zhen (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Keping Yu (Hosei University, Japan)

Tuesday, December 5 2:45 - 3:30

IS 4: Interactive Subsession SAC/CC_I4

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Local or Edge/Cloud Processing for Data Freshness

Andrea Munari and Tomaso De Cola (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Leonardo Badia (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)

Soft Actor-Critic Learning-Based Joint Computing, Pushing, and Caching Framework in MEC Networks

Xiangyu Gao (University of Washington, USA); Yaping Sun (Pengcheng Laboratory, China); Hao Chen (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, China); Shuguang Cui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & CUHKSZ-FNii, China)

Salango: A Simplified Load Balancing Scheme for Edge Nodes in Mobile Edge Caching Networks

Jun Yin (Nanjing Univerisity of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Meiqi Zhan (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ming Zhu (University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA); Zhaowei Zhang and Lei Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuwang Yang (Nanjing Univerisity of Science and Technology, China)

Leveraging Imbalance and Ensemble Learning Methods for Improved Load Prediction in Cloud Computing Systems

Mustafa Daraghmeh and Anjali Agarwal (Concordia University, Canada); Yaser Jararweh (Jordan University of Science and Technology, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:45 - 3:30

IS 4: Interactive Subsession SAC/SGC_I4

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

QMIX-based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Electric Vehicle-Facilitated Peak Shaving

Li Wang, Sixuan Liu, Pengfei Wang, Lianming Xu, Luyang Hou and Aiguo Fei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

CISS 5: Attack Prediction, Detection, Response, and Prevention I

Room 301

Chair: Ting He (Penn State University, USA)

ANTI: An Adaptive Network Traffic Indexing Algorithm for High-speed Networks

Jiale Chen, Xingshu Chen, Liangguo Chen, Xiao Lan and Yonggang Luo (Sichuan University, China)

Network topology inference by exploring underlying traffic behaviors

Jian Ye, Gaolei Fei, Wenkai Qi, Yunpeng Zhou and Guangmin Hu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Aigis: Full-Coverage And Low-Overhead Mitigating Against Amplified Reflection DDoS Attacks

Tingxin Sun (Fuzhou University, China); Jiayi Cai (FuZhou University & Quan Cheng Laboratory, China); Kaiwei Guo (Fuzhou University, China); Dong Zhang (Fuzhou University & Quan Cheng Laboratory, China); Xiang Chen (Zhejiang University, China); Chunming Wu (College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China)

In-network Collaborative Link Flooding Attack Defense with Adaptive Anomaly Analysis

Yikun Li, Ying Liu, Weiting Zhang, Ping Dong and Wei Quan (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Decentralized Sparse Matrix Multiplication Under Byzantine Attacks

Sara Ghasvarianjahromi (New Jersey Institute of Technonlgy, USA); Yauhen Yakimenka and Joerg Kliewer (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

CISS 6: Physical Layer Security I

Room 306

Chair: Massimo Battaglioni (Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy)

Modeling and Analysis of Information Leakage under Multiple Adversaries

Lichen Fu (North Carolina State University, USA); Wenye Wang (NC State University, USA)

Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication Aided by IRS-UAV

Xianglin Yu, Jinlei Xu and Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, China); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Multi-Frequency Band Physical-Layer Authentication in Indoor Environment

Seungnam Han and Haewon Lee (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Jinho Choi (Deakin University, Australia); Euiseok Hwang (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South))

Soft detection physical layer insecurity

Ken R. Duffy (Northeastern University, USA); Muriel Médard (MIT, USA)

Joint and Simultaneous Optimization of Artificial Noise-aided Precoding for Secure Communications

Eunsung Choi (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Mintaek Oh (KAIST, Korea (South)); Jinseok Choi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Jeonghun Park (Yonsei University, Korea (South)); Namyoon Lee (Korea University, Korea (South)); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

CQRM 3: Edge-Cloud Computing II

Room 305

Chair: Hidenori Nakazato (Waseda University, Japan)

Edge Computing For Metaverse: Incentive Mechanism versus Semantic Communication

Nguyen Cong Luong, Sang Huu Nguyen and Anh Do Duy Nguyen (Phenikaa University, Vietnam); Shaohan Feng (Zhejiang Gongshang University Hangzhou, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea (South))

Assessing the Efficacy of Reinforcement Learning in Enhancing Quality of Service in SD-WANs

Luca Borgianni (University of Pisa, Italy); Sebastian Troia (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Davide Adami (CNIT Pisa Research Unit, University of Pisa, Italy); Guido Maier (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Stefano Giordano (University of Pisa, Italy)

A Reinforcement Learning-based DAG Tasks Scheduling in Edge-Cloud Collaboration Systems

Xifei Song and Lei Liu (Xidian University, China); Junqi Fu (China); Xueyao Zhang, Jie Feng and Qingqi Pei (Xidian University, China)

Scaling Serverless Functions in Edge Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

Mounir Bensalem and Erkan Ipek (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Admela Jukan (Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany)

Joint Optimization of Sensing and Communication for Digital Twin Edge Networks

Yi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zheng Chang and Timo Hämäläinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

CSM 3: Network Security and Privacy Protection I

Room 302

Chair: Anass Sebbar (International University of Rabat, Morocco)

Privacy-preserving Feature Selection based on Mutual Information

Ningning Wu, Hongwei Li, Hanxiao Chen, Xilin Zhang and Yingzhe Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Real-time Anomaly Detection in SDN Architecture using Integrated SIEM and Machine Learning for Enhancing Network Security

Anass Sebbar and Othmane Cherqi (International University of Rabat, Morocco); Khalid Chougdali (Ibn Tofail University, National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA), Kenitra, Morocco); Mohammed Boulmalf (International University of Rabat, Morocco)

Surviving False Data Injection Attacks: An Effective Recovery Scheme for Resilient CPS

Khalil Guibene and Nadhir Messai (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France); Marwane Ayaida (Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, France & Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)

Shared DNN Model Ownership Verification in Cross-Silo Federated Learning: A GAN-Based Watermark Approach

Miao Yan (Xi'an Jiaotong University & None, China); Zhou Su, Yuntao Wang, Xiandong Ran and Yiliang Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Tom H. Luan (Xidian University, China)

Contract-based Incentive Mechanism for Blockchain-enabled Federated Learning in Vehicle Edge Computing

Runchen Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zheng Chang (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Zhiwei Zhao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

CT 1: Coding Theory I

Room 402

Chair: Mohammad Rowshan (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Upgrade error detection to prediction with GRAND

Kevin Galligan (Maynooth University, Ireland); Peihong Yuan and Muriel Médard (MIT, USA); Ken R. Duffy (Northeastern University, USA)

Extended Binary Chirps Codebooks for Non-Coherent Communications

Mahdi Bayanifar and Elias Heikkila (Aalto University, Finland); Robert Calderbank (Duke University, USA); Olav Tirkkonen (Aalto University, Finland)

Multilevel Code Designs for mmWave Networks

Mine Gokce Dogan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Martina Cardone (University of Minnesota, USA); Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA)

Improved Convolutional Precoder for PAC Codes

Xinyi Gu, Mohammad Rowshan and Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)

A Practical Concatenated Coding Scheme for Noisy Shuffling Channels with Coset-based Indexing

Javad Haghighat (TED University, Turkey); Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

GCSN 3: Green UAV Networks

Room 406

Chair: Jie Gong (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

Energy and Latency-Aware Resource Management for UAV-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing Against Jamming

Ziling Shao, Helin Yang, Liang Xiao and Wei Su (Xiamen University, China); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Joint Deployment and Trajectory Planning of Multiple UAVs for Emergency Communications

Yuchao Zhu (Najing University, China); Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, China)

Energy-aware Routing Protocol for UAV Electronic Warfare using Graph Attention and Fuzzy Reward

Zihao Zhou and Jie Tang (South China University of Technology, China); Wanmei Feng (South China Agricultural University, China); Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

DRL-based UAV Trajectory Planning for AoS and Energy Consumption Minimization Assisted by AoI

Liu Yunchao and Jie Gong (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

Energy and Computational Efficient Precoding for LEO Satellite Communications

Shiyu Wu (The National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China); Yafei Wang, Gangle Sun, Li You and Wenjin Wang (Southeast University, China); Rui Ding (China Academy of Space Technology, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

IoTSN 4: Federated Learning for IoT Networks II

Room 304

Chair: Filip Maksimovic (Inria, France)

Frequency Modulation Aggregation for Federated Learning

Marc Martinez-Gost (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya & Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Ana Pérez-Neira (CTTC, Spain); Miguel Angel Lagunas (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia, Spain)

Latency-Aware Data Allocation Optimization for LEO Satellite IoT Networks with Federated Learning

Pengxiang Qin and Dongyang Xu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Keping Yu (Hosei University, Japan); Anwer Al-Dulaimi (Veltris, Canada); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal)

Multimodal Multiple Federated Feature Construction Method for IoT Environments

Afsaneh Mahanipour (University o Kentucky, USA); Hana Khamfroush (University of Kentucky, USA)

Efficient Adaptive Federated Learning in Resource-Constrained IoT Environments

Zunming Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & State Key Lab. of Networking and Switching Technology, China); Hongyan Cui, Qiuji Luan and YU XI (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Federated Learning with Client Availability Budgets

Yunkai Bao, Steve Drew and Xin Wang (University of Calgary, Canada); Jiayu Zhou (Michigan State University, USA); Xiaoguang Niu (Wuhan University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 4:45

IS 5: Interactive Subsession CRAEN_I5

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Zhuang Ling (Jilin University, China)

Covert Communication Based on Non-ideal Detection of Overt Channels

Xinyu Zhao, Danyang Wang and Zan Li (Xidian University, China); Lei Qian (Northwest Air Traffic Management Bureau CAAC, China); Chenxi Li (Xidian University, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada)

Discovering Complex Correlations among Multiple IoT Devices in Smart Environments

Andrew F D'Angelo (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Chenglong Fu (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Xiaojiang Du (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Paul Ratazzi (Air Force Research Laboratory & SUNY Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Blockage-aware Radio Map Construction via Exploiting the Diffraction and Obstruction Structure

Wangqian Chen and Junting Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)

UAV Trajectory Planning with Interference Awareness for Time-Constrained Data Collection

Kai Liu and Jun Zheng (Southeast University, China)

Deep Reinforcement Learning for On-demand Intelligent Routing in Deterministic Networks

Ying Liu, Jianhui Yin, Weiting Zhang and Shanghan Xie (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 4:45

IS 5: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I5

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Mohamed S Hefeida (West Virginia University, USA)

DeTrAP: A Novel AI/ML V2X 5G NR Adaptive Physical Layer Configuration

Lam Thanh-Son Nguyen (Paris Saclay University & Sorbonne University, France); Sondes Kallel (University of Paris Saclay, France); Nadjib Aitsaadi (UVSQ Paris-Saclay & DAVIDLab, France)

Controlling the Vehicular Traffic around Tunnels and Bridges Road Architectures using VANETs

Maram Bani Younes (University of Ottawa & Philadelphia University, Jordan); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)

OrthZig: Concurrent Transmissions Based on Waveform Orthogonality in ZigBee

Qiwen Wang, Zhe Wang, Linghe Kong and Yutong Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Ying Shao (Shanghai Technical Institute of Electronics Information, China); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal)

Performance of IEEE 802.11bd Channel Bonding with Fallback

Farzaneh Abdolahi, Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 4:45

IS 5: Interactive Subsession SAC/BF_I5

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Mona Jaber (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Joint Routing and Energy Optimization for Integrated Access and Backhaul networks with Open RAN

Gabriele Gemmi (University of Venice, Italy & Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Maxime Elkael (Telecom Sudparis, France); Michele Polese (Northeastern University, USA); Leonardo Maccari (University of Venice, Italy); Hind Castel-Taleb (Samovar UMR 5157, Telecom SudParis, Université Paris Saclay, France); Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)

eCPRI Supports In 5G O-RAN Fronthaul With FlexEthernet

Dahina Koulougli (École de Technologie Supérieure ÉTS, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)

Hierarchical Channel Assignment for Multihop IAB Networks with Multi-Connectivity

Shin-Ru Hung, Jang-Ping Sheu and Yao-Win Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Machine Learning Classification of Hermite Gaussian Beams for 5G and Beyond Free-Space Optical Backhaul Links

Chehri Abdellah (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada); Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Assiut University, Egypt); Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir (University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 4:45

IS 5: Interactive Subsession SAC/EH_I5

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Nabajyoti Medhi (Tezpur University, India)

Depression Detection via User Behavior and Tweets

Nianyi Ji, Mondher Bouazizi and Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)

Ensuring Confidentiality of Healthcare Data using Fragmentation in Cloud Computing

Andreas Andreou (University of Nicosia Research Foundation, Cyprus); Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis (University of Nicosia & University of Nicosia Research Foundation, Cyprus); Mithun Mukherjee (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China); Jordi Mongay Batalla (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Evangelos K. Markakis (Hellenic Mediteranean University, Greece); George Mastorakis (Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece)

A Novel Approach for Activity, Fall and Gait Detection Using Multiple 2D LiDARs

Mondher Bouazizi (Keio University, Japan); Kevin Feghoul (University of Lille, France); Alejandro Lorite Mora and Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)

STM-UNet: An Efficient U-shaped Architecture Based on Swin Transformer and Multiscale MLP for Medical Image Segmentation

Lei Shi (Inner Mongolia University & Baotou Medical College, China); Tianyu Gao, Zheng Zhang and Junxing Zhang (Inner Mongolia University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 4:45

IS 5: Interactive Subsession SAC/RIS_I5

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

A Leakage-based Method for Mitigation of Faulty Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Nairy Moghadas Gholian (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany); Marco Rossanese and Placido Mursia (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany); Andres Garcia-Saavedra (NEC Labs Europe, Germany); Arash Asadi (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Vincenzo Sciancalepore (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany); Xavier Costa-Perez (ICREA and i2cat & NEC Laboratories Europe, Spain)

Robust Scheduling for IRS-assisted Mm-wave Train-ground Communications

Chen Chen and Yong Niu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Ning Wang (Zhengzhou University, China); Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Variable Beamwidth Near Field Codebook Design for Communications Aided by A Large Scale RIS

Xiaowen Tian, Nuria González-Prelcic and Robert Heath (North Carolina State University, USA)

Performance Evaluation for Subarray-based Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Wireless Communication Systems

Xinyi Yang, Weicong Chen, Xiao Li and Shi Jin (Southeast University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

MWN 4: Applications of Federated Learning II

Room 408

Chair: Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)

Moreau Envelopes-based Personalized Asynchronous Federated Learning: Improving Practicality in Network Edge Intelligence

Anwar Asad (Lakehead University, Canada); Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA); Zubair Md Fadlullah (Western University, Canada); Mohamed I Ibrahem (Augusta University, USA); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)

Federated Optimal Framework with Low-bitwidth Quantization for Distribution System

Ping Feng, Jiahong Ning, Tingting Yang, Jiabao Kang, JiaLe Wang and Yicheng Li (Dalian Maritime University, China)

Autonomous MEC Selection in Federated Next-Gen Networks via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Emanuel Figetakis (University of Guelph, USA); Ahmed Refaey (University of Guelph, Canada & Western University, Canada)

Joint Knowledge Distillation and Local Differential Privacy for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Systems

Gad M Gad and Zubair Md Fadlullah (Western University, Canada); Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA); Mohamed I Ibrahem (Augusta University, USA); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)

Convergence Analysis and Latency Minimization for Retransmission-Based Semi-Federated Learning

Jingheng Zheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wanli Ni (Beijng University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hui Tian (Beijng University of posts and telecommunications, China); Wenchao Jiang and Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

MWN 5: Semantic Communications

Room 410

Chair: Yang Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Resource allocation for semantic communication under physical-layer security

Yang Li, Xinyu Zhou and Jun Zhao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Zero-shot Multi-level Feature Transmission Policy Powered by Semantic Knowledge Base

Yaping Sun (Pengcheng Laboratory, China); Hao Chen (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, China); Ping Zhang (WTI-BUPT, China); Shuguang Cui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & CUHKSZ-FNii, China)

Digital Twin and DRL-Driven Semantic Dissemination for 6G Autonomous Driving Service

Yihang Tao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jun Wu (Waseda University, Japan); Xi Lin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal); Soumaya Cherkaoui (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)

Knowledge-Driven Resource Allocation for Efficient Task Offloading in Connected Autonomous Vehicles

Yao Wen, Ruijin Sun and Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China); Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, China); Wei Quan (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Yilong Hui, Yuchuan Fu and Changle Li (Xidian University, China)

Prompt-based Transceiver Cooperation for Semantic Communications with Domain-Incremental Background Knowledge

Lan Zhang and Madhureeta Das (Michigan Technological University, USA); Yao Sun (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Xiaoyong Yuan (Michigan Technological University, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

NGNI 3: Network Optimization and Performance

Room 303

Cost Optimization in Security-Aware Service Function Chain Deployment with Diverse Vendors

Danyang Zheng and Xiaorong Liu (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Wenyi Tang (Sichuan University, China); Honghui Xu and Xiaojun Cao (Georgia State University, USA)

Making Xcast a Reality and Operate at the 100 Gbps Line Rate in P4 Hardware Switches

Shie-Yuan Wang and Ruei-Syun Lai (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

Hierarchical Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning with an Attention-based Graph Matching Approach for Multi-Domain VNF-FG Embedding

Lotfi Slim (United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Fetia Bannour (ENSIIE & SAMOVAR, France)

Cascaded Look Up Table Distillation of P4 Deep Neural Network Switches

Lorenzo De Marinis (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy); Emilio Paolini (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna & CNR, Italy); Rana Abu Bakar (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy); Filippo Cugini and Francesco Paolucci (CNIT, Italy)

Top AS Router Geolocation in Databases: Performance and Techniques

Nan Jiang, Jessie Hui Wang, Jilong Wang and Peiran Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

ONS 1: Optical Network Design and Recovery

Room 310

Chair: Dao Thanh Hai (RMIT University, Vietnam)

First-Fit: A Universal Algorithm for Spectrum Assignment

George N. Rouskas (North Carolina State University, USA)

PRODIGY: A Progressive Upgrade Approach For Elastic Optical Networks

Shrinivas Petale (George Washington University, USA); Shih-Chun Lin (North Carolina State University, USA); Motoharu Matsuura (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Hiroshi Hasegawa (Nagoya University, Japan); Suresh Subramaniam (George Washington University, USA)

Efficient Routing Method for Reducing Significant Outages in Optical Networks

Katsuaki Higashimori and Takafumi Tanaka (NTT, Japan); Takeru Inoue (NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan)

Finding SRLG-Disjoint Primary and Backup Route Pairs using k-SPF algorithm in Optical Networks

Hiroshi Matsuura (NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan); Kohjun Koshiji (NTT Network Service System Laboratories, Japan); Hanami Yokoi, Tatsuya Matsukawa and Takayuki Fujii (NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan)

Progressive Quantum Key Distribution Network Recovery after Massive Failures

Mengyao Li, Qiaolun Zhang, Alberto Gatto, Stefano Bregni and Zongshuai Yang (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/AC 2: Cyber Security in UAV Communications

Room 401

Federated Learning-based Jamming Detection for Tactical Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks

Aida Meftah (École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Canada); Georges Kaddoum (ETS Engineering School, University of Québec, Canada); Tri Nhu Do (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada); Chamseddine Talhi (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada)

Multiclass Classification Approaches for Intrusion Detection in IoT-driven Aerial Computing Environment

Saksham Mittal (Graphic Era Hill University Dehradun Uttarakhand, India); Amit Kumar Mishra (Graphic Era Hill University Dehradun Uttarakhand INDIA, India & Graphic Era Deemed to Be University Dehradun Uttarakhand, INDIA, India); Mohammad Wazid (Graphic Era Deemed to be University, India); Devesh Singh (Graphic Era University, India); Ashok Kumar Das (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India); Sachin Shetty (Old Dominion University, USA)

Privacy-preserving Mutual Authentication Protocol for Drone Delivery Services

Rohini Poolat Parameswarath and Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Secure Transmission via Precoding for Satellite-Terrestrial Downlink NOMA Networks

Mengyan Huang, Feng-Kui Gong and Guo Li (Xidian University, China); Thippa Reddy Gadekallu and Nancy Victor (Vellore Institute of Technology, India)

Machine Learning-Based DDoS Mitigation Framework for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Environment using Software-Defined Networks (SDN)

Brij B. Gupta (Asia University, Taiwan); Akshat Gaurav (Ronin Institute, USA); Varsha Arya (Insights2Techinfo, Taiwan); John Chui Kwok Tai (Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU), Hong Kong)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/CC 2: Security and Privacy in Edge-Cloud Computing and Storage Systems

Room 307

Chair: Te-Chuan Chiu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Privacy-Preserving Edge Computing from Pairing-Based Inner Product Functional Encryption

Utsav Banerjee (Indian Institute of Science, India)

SES2: A Secure and Efficient Symmetric Searchable Encryption Scheme for Structured Data

Yanwei Gong and Xiaolin Chang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada); Yingying Yao and Liwei Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Zip to Zip-it: Compression to Achieve Local Differential Privacy

Francesco Taurone, Daniel E. Lucani and Qi Zhang (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Byzantine-robust Federated Learning

Shijie Luan (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Xiang Lu (Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, China); Zhuangzhuang Zhang (Wuhan University, China); Guangsheng Chang (Institute of Information Engineering, China); Yunchuan Guo (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Secure Fractional Repetition Codes for Distributed Storage Systems

Zhihang Deng and Bing Zhu (Central South University, China); Kenneth W. Shum (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Hong Kong); Weiping Wang (Central South University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/MLC 3: Machine Learning for Semantic Communications I

Room 403

Chair: Jihong Park (Deakin University, Australia)

Task-oriented and Semantics-aware Communications for Augmented Reality

Zhe Wang and Yansha Deng (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Semantic Channel Equalizer: Modelling Language Mismatch in Multi-User Semantic Communications

Mohamed Sana (CEA LETI Grenoble, France); Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France)

A Scalable Multi-Device Semantic Communication System for Multi-Task Execution

Mingze Gong, Shuoyao Wang and Suzhi Bi (Shenzhen University, China)

Joint Semantic-Native Communication and Inference via Minimal Simplicial Structures

Qiyang Zhao and Hang Zou (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France); Ebtesam Almazrouei (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Faouzi Bader (Technology Innovation Institut -TII, United Arab Emirates)

Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding for Wireless Image Transmission with Entropy-Aware Adaptive Rate Control

Weixuan Chen, Yuhao Chen, Qianqian Yang and Chongwen Huang (Zhejiang University, China); Qian Wang (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/SGC 1: Smart Grid Communications

Room 309

Chair: Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Community-based Load Balancing and Prosumers Incentivization in Smart Grid Systems

Nicholas Kemp, Md Sadman Siraj and Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) - National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Machine Learning based Time Synchronization Attack Detection for Synchrophasors

Asif Iqbal (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Muhammad Naveed Aman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

ANDORRA - A Novel loss-aware energy traDing framewOk foR Residential communities: Application to smart grids

Bashar Chreim (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Moez Esseghir (Technology University of Troyes & Charles Delaunay Institute, France); Leila Boulahia (University of Technology of Troyes, France)

Cost-Effective Server Placement and Network Slice Provisioning for Virtual Power Plants

Vignesh Sridharan (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR Singapore); Ernest Kurniawan, Sumei Sun and Amnart Boonkajay (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Misbehaviour Detection for Smart Grids using a Privacy-centric and Computationally Efficient Federated Learning Approach

Muhammad Akbar Husnoo (Deakin University & Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CSRI), Australia); Adnan Anwar, Nasser Hosseinzadeh and Robin Doss (Deakin University, Australia); Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/SN 1: Mobile Social Networks

Room 308

Chair: Halima Elbiaze (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada)

Joint Vehicular Social Semantic Extraction, Transmission and Cache for High QoE Digital Twin

Xintian Ren (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jun Wu (Waseda University, Japan); Qianqian Pan (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal)

Opti-Safe: Optimal Supply and Demand For Providing Safety Services in SIoV Environment

Chandana Roy (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Pushp Paritosh (Sri Ramaswamy Memorial Institute of Science and Technology, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Preetam Kumar (IIT Patna, India)

Social-Inspired Multicast Feature Selections With Mobile Edge Computing

Ru-Jun Wang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Chih-Hang Wang, De-Nian Yang and Guang-Siang Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Wen-Tsuen Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Spectrum Management in V2X with Social Roles

Po-Yen Chen (National Central University, Taiwan); Yu-Heng Zheng (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan); Ibrahim Abdullah Althamary (National Central University, Taiwan); Jann-Long Chern (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan); Chih-Wei Huang (National Central University, Taiwan)

GAIA: A Dynamic Crowdmapping Framework based on Hedonic Coalition Formation Games

Adedamola Adesokan, Md Sadman Siraj, Arianna Santamaria Penafiel and Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) - National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/SSC 2: Low Earth Orbit Satellites Networks

Room 407

Chairs: Robert Malaney (University of New South Wales, Australia), Chiara Garibotto (University of Genoa, Italy)

A Novel Scheduling Scheme for Earth Observation in LEO Satellite Systems

Ting Xiong and Ran Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Changqing Luo (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); Jiang Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Efficient Routing Algorithm for Large-Scale Query Requests in LEO Satellite Networks

Jiajia Li, Yannan Wang, Ying Zhao, Guohui Ding and Liang Zhao (Shenyang Aerospace University, China)

LEO Clock Synchronization with Entangled Light

Ronakraj Ketan Gosalia and Robert Malaney (University of New South Wales, Australia); Ryan Aguinaldo (Northrop Grumman Corporation, USA); Jonathan E Green (USA); Peter G Brereton (NASA, USA)

Reinforcement Learning based Intelligent Routing for Software Defined LEO Satellite Networks

Liying Fu, Wenting Wei and Xueyu Lu (Xidian University, China); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Xiangwang Hou (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Lei Liu and Chen Chen (Xidian University, China)

LEO Satellite Constellation Design for Seamless Global Coverage with QoS Guarantee

Ruyan Wang, Xianyi Ye, Peng He and Yaping Cui (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Dapeng Wu (CQUPT, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SPC 3: Signal Processing for Millimeter and THz Communication Systems

Room 404

Chairs: Shih-Chun Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Jean-Christophe Sibel (Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe & Wireless Communication Systems, France)

Joint Active User Detection and Channel Estimation for Massive Grant-Free Access via Difference of Convex Programming

Kai-hui Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Analytical Beam Training for RIS-Assisted Wideband Terahertz Communication

Yuhao Chen, Jingbo Tan and Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, China)

Far-Field Training With Estimation for Cross-Field Beam Alignment in Terahertz UM-MIMO Systems

Yuhang Chen (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Hao Liu (Nokia Shanghai Bell, China); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Compressive Near/Far-Field Channel Estimation for MmWave/THz Systems With Extremely Large Antenna Arrays

Hongwei Wang, Jun Fang and Jilin Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Optimized Pilot Distribution to Track the Phase Noise in DFT-s-OFDM for Sub-THz Systems

Jean-Christophe Sibel (Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe & Wireless Communication Systems, France); Vincent Corlay (Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe, France); Adel Bechihi (Mitsubishi Electric R and D Centre Europe, France)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

WC 5: NOMA II

Room 405

Chair: Zehong Lin (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Connection Throughput Maximization for Grant-Based NOMA Massive IoT with Graph Matching

Shashwat Mishra and Lou Salaun (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Jean-Marie Gorce (INSA-Lyon & CITI, Inria, France); Chung Shue Chen (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

Joint Design of Transmission and Reception Exploiting Channel Correlation in Grant-free Access

Hao Wang (Tsinghua Univ, China); Xiujun Zhang and Shidong Zhou (Tsinghua University, China)

Ergodic Rate Analysis of RIS-Assisted BAC-NOMA Systems under Nakagami-m Fading

Sarah Basharat and Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Haejoon Jung (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South)); Kapal Dev (Munster Technological University & IEEE, Ireland); Aamir Mahmood and Mikael Gidlund (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)

On Optimizing Transmit Power, Channel-Quantization Rate, and User Pairing for Power-Domain MIMO-NOMA Downlinks

Kritsada Mamat (King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand); Wiroonsak Santipach (Kasetsart University, Thailand)

On Pilot-Free Slotted ALOHA for Massive Access

Xu Li and Tao Yang (Beihang University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

WC 6: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) Enabled Communications II

Room 409

Chair: Wei Jiang (German Research Center for Artifitial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany)

Weighted Sum Power Maximization for STAR-RIS Assisted SWIPT Systems

Yixuan Li and Ji Wang (Central China Normal University, China); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wenwu Xie (HNIST, China); Jun Wang (CICT Mobile Communication Technology Co., Ltd., China)

Distributed CSMA/CA MAC Protocol for RIS-Assisted Networks

Zhou Zhang (Tianjin Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center (TAIIC), China); Saman Atapattu (RMIT University, Australia); Yizhu Wang (Tianjin Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center (TAIIC), China); Marco Di Renzo (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France)

Dynamic Sub-array Based Modeling for Large-Scale RIS-assisted mmWave UAV Channels

Baiping Xiong (Southeast University, China); Zaichen Zhang (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China); Jiangzhou Wang (University of Kent, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

A Simple Multiple-Access Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Systems

Wei Jiang (German Research Center for Artifitial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany); Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

Robust Design of RIS-aided Full-Duplex RSMA System for V2X communication: A DRL Approach

Pala Sonia (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Mayur Vitthalrao Katwe (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Theodoros Tsiftsis (University of Thessaly, Greece); Chih-Peng Li (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)

Tuesday, December 5 4:45 - 5:30

IS 6: Interactive Subsession CRAEN_I6

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Hongyang Du (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Vision-based Semantic Communications for Metaverse Services: A Contest Theoretic Approach

Guangyuan Liu, Hongyang Du and Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Jiawen Kang (Guangdong University of Technology, Singapore); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Boon Hee Soong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Elastic Spectrum Sensing for Satellite-Terrestrial Communication under Highly Dynamic Channels

Yinjun Xu and Tianheng Xu (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Ting Zhou (Shanghai University, China); Haijun Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China); Honglin Hu (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, China)

MADRL-Enhanced Secure RAN Slicing in 5G and Beyond Multi-Cell Uplink Communication Systems

Yuanyuan Sun (Xidian University, China); Zhenjiang Shi, Jiadai Wang and Jiajia Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

Robust Federated Learning with Parameter Classification and Weighted Aggregation against Noisy Labels

Qun Li, Congying Duan and Siguang Chen (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:45 - 5:30

IS 6: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I6

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Mohamed S Hefeida (West Virginia University, USA)

Frequency-Domain LOS Identification Compliant with Normalized CSI Values

Yusei Yasuba, Koji Yamamoto and Hiroki Shimomura (Kyoto University, Japan); Keisuke Tamai (Kyoto Univrtsity, Japan); Noriyasu Kato, Shunji Taki and Takuya Negishi (Allied Telesis K. K., Japan)

Probabilistic Model Checking for unconfirmed transmission in LoRaWAN on the MAC layer

Mi Chen (Univ Paris Est Creteil, LACL, France); Lynda Mokdad (Université de Paris 12 & Laboratoire LACL, France); Jalel Ben Othman (CentraleSupélec & University of Sorbonne Paris Nord, France); Jean-Michel Fourneau (Univ de Versailles, Lab. DAVID, France)

Fog-based Smart Contract Platform for Wearable IoT-enabled Telemedicine

Marc Jayson J Baucas and Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada)

RSSF: Towards Real-Time Decoding of LoRa Packets without Prior Knowledge of their Spreading Factor

Pei Tian (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Carlo Alberto Boano and Markus Schuss (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Jianming Wei (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:45 - 5:30

IS 6: Interactive Subsession SAC/ISC_I6

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Chair: Wangjun Jiang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

AMTL-Loc: Efficient WiFi Indoor Localization with Reduced Fingerprint Collection

Zaipeng Xie, Wenhao Fang, Bingzhe Yu, Yang Ding and Yanling Pan (Hohai University, China); WenZhan Song (University of Georgia, USA)

SLAM for Multiple Extended Targets using 5G Signal

Wangjun Jiang, Zhiqing Wei and Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

A Multi-symbol Compressive Sensing Model for OTFS based ISAC System

Qianli Wang and Pingzhi Fan (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)

Optimizing the Sum Rate and SER of Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems

Shiyun Liu, Jinfeng Zhang and Yejun He (Shenzhen University, China)

Dual-functional Internet of Meta-material Things Networks: Integrated Sensing and Communication

Zhiquan Xu, Xu Liu, Hongliang Zhang and Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:45 - 5:30

IS 6: Interactive Subsession SAC/RIS_I6

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Single-Carrier Frequency-Domain Equalization

Qiang Li (Jinan University, China); Miaowen Wen (South China University of Technology, China); Yu Huang (Guangzhou University, China); Jinming Wen (Jinan University, China); Jun Li (Guangzhou University, China); Ertugrul Basar (Koc University, Turkey)

Near Field Sidelink Positioning through A Single Active RIS

Pinjun Zheng (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Hui Chen and Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, USA)

Performance Analysis of Hybrid Relay-Connected Multi-RIS System for Coverage Extension

Caslav Stefanovic and Ana Garcia Armada (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Tuesday, December 5 4:45 - 5:30

IS 6: Interactive Subsession WC_I6

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3

Multidimensional Eigenwave Multiplexing Modulation for Non-Stationary Channels

Zhibin Zou and Aveek Dutta (University at Albany, SUNY, USA)

Blind Cyclic Prefix-based CFO Estimation in MIMO-OFDM Systems

Nariman Torkzaban (University of Maryland, USA); Mohammad Ali Khojastepour (NEC Laboratories America, USA); John S. Baras (University of Maryland, USA)

Capacity Achieving by Diagonal Permutation for MU-MIMO channels

Zhibin Zou and Aveek Dutta (University at Albany, SUNY, USA)

Radio Unit Configuration for Dynamic Time Division Duplex in Distributed MIMO Systems

Hiroki Iimori (Ericsson Research, Japan); Jörg Huschke (Ericsson, Germany); Joao Vieira (Ericsson, Sweden)

A Sparse-Coded Multiplexing Approach for MIMO Over-the-Air Federated Learning

Chenxi Zhong and Xiaojun Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

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