Wednesday, June 30, 2021

09:45 – 10:00   Opening Session

10:00 – 11:00   Keynote #1: 6G and the Next Horizon
Speaker: Merouane Debbah (Huawei, France)
Chair: Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul (University of Rennes 1, France)

11:00 – 11:30  Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:50  Short papers session #1: Wireless Resource Allocation
Chaired by: Somayeh Mohammady (TUD, Dublin)

• A Priority and Guarantee-based Resource Allocation with Reuse Mechanism in LTE-V Mode 3
  Mariem Allouch (VEDECOM & University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines UVSQ, France); Sondes Kallel (University of Paris Saclay, France); Ahmed Soua (VEDECOM, France); Samir Tohme (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines UVSQ, France
• Evaluations of SIC by Power Difference in IM-NOMA
  Yuta Tsuzuki (Waseda University, Japan); Shigeru Shimamoto (Waseda University & Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Japan); Zhenni Pan (Waseda University, Japan)
  
• Comparison of Piece-Wise and full CFR for OFDM (LTE, 5G beyond), WCDMA, and DVB-S2X signals
  Somayeh Mohammady (Technological University Dublin, Ireland); Ronan Farrell (Maynooth University, Ireland); John Dooley (National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland); Pooria Varahram (Benetel Limited, Ireland)
  
• Stateless Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Systems: the Case of Spectrum Allocation in Dynamic Channel Bonding WLANs
  Sergio Barrachina-Muñoz (Centre Tecnològic Telecomunicacions Catalunya, Spain); Alessandro Chiumento (University of Twente, The Netherlands & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Boris Bellalta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
  

12:50 – 14:00  Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:15  Technical Session #1: Wireless and Mobile Communications I
Chaired by: Celimuge Wu (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

• Demystifying the Performance of Bluetooth Mesh: Experimental Evaluation and Optimization
  Adnan Aijaz (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Aleksandar Stanoev (Toshiba Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dominic London and Victor Marot (Toshiba Europe Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain))
  
• Towards a Realistic Maximum Flow Model in Hybrid Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
  Martin Backhaus and Michael Rossberg (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany); Guenter Schaefer (Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany)
  
• Hypergraph-Based Model for Coexistence Management of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
  Tawachi Nyasulu and David Crawford (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
  

15:15 – 15:45  Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:00  Technical Session #2: AI for Wireless and Mobile Networks
Chaired by: Floriano De Rango (Universita della Calabria, Italy)

• LAPSE: A Machine Learning Message Forwarding Approach based on Node Centrality Estimation in Sparse Dynamic Networks
  Carlos Borrego (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain); Enrique Hernández-Orallo and Pietro Manzoni (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Anna Maria Vegni (Roma Tre University, Italy)
  
• Information Distribution in Multi-Robot Systems: Adapting to Varying Communication Conditions
  Michał Barciś and Hermann Hellwagner (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
  
• Cognitive IoT enabled by Layered Architecture and Neural Networks in a Smart Home Environment
  Abdon Serianni, Floriano De Rango and Pierfrancesco Raimondo (University of Calabria, Italy)
  

Thursday, July 01, 2021

10:00 – 11:00   Keynote #2: Blockchain for Cyberphysical Systems
Speaker: Raja Jurdak (QUT, Australia)
Chair: Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of La Rochelle, France)

11:00 – 11:30  Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:50  Short papers session #2: IoT & Sensors Networks
Chaired by: Khaled Boussetta (University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France)

• A Privacy-Preserving Authentication Model Based on Anonymous Certificates in IoT
  Khaled Hamouid (UB2, Algeria); Mawloud Omar (ESIEE Paris, LIGM, University of Gustave Eiffel, France); Kamel Adi (University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada)
  
• Target Counting Using Binary Sensors Based on Disjoint Connected Subgraphs
  Shino Shiraki and Shigeo Shioda (Chiba University, Japan)
  
• On the Use of Carrier Sense Mechanisms in Low-Power Wide Area Networks
  Abderrahman Ben Khalifa and Razvan Stanica (INSA Lyon, France); Herve Rivano (Inria & Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA Lyon, CITI, France)
  
• Distance Estimation for BLE-based Contact Tracing – A Measurement Study
  Bernhard Etzlinger, Barbara Nußbaummüller, Philipp Peterseil and Karin Anna Hummel (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
  

12:50 – 14:00  Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:15  Technical Session #3: Privacy & Connected Vehicles
Chaired by: Nadjib Achir (Université Paris 13, France)

• Modelling activation of congestion control for estimating channel load in vehicular networks
  Aashik Chandramohan and Geert Heijenk (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• A Clustering-based radio resource allocation scheme for C-V2X
  Khabaz Sehla (Sorbonne, France); Thi Mai Trang Nguyen (Sorbonne Université & LIP6, France); Guy Pujolle (Sorbonne University, France); Pedro B. Velloso (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), France & LIP6, Sorbonne Université, France)
• Privacy-preserving Identity Broadcast for Contact Tracing Applications
  Vladimir Dyo and Jahangir Ali (University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

   

15:15 – 15:45  Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:00  Technical Session #4: Wireless and Mobile Communications II
Chaired by: Anna Maria Vegni (Roma Tre University, Italy)

• Evaluation of Channel Capacity of a 3D Curvilinear Metasurface in the THz band
  Anna Maria Vegni (Roma Tre University, Italy); Valeria Loscrí (Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France)
  
• Phase Control Scheme to Reduce Ionospheric Fading for Long Distance HF Communication
  Kazutoshi Yoshii, Megumi Saito, Zhenni Pan and Jiang Liu (Waseda University, Japan); Shigeru Shimamoto (Waseda University & Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Japan)
  
• Cascaded Scheduling Scheme for Massive Multi-Connectivity
  Marie-Theres Suer (TU Braunschweig & Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany); Christoph Thein and Hugues Tchouankem (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany); Lars C Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
  

Friday, July 02, 2021

10:00 – 11:00  Keynote #3: Energy Efficient Fog, Cloud and IoT Networks
Speaker: Jaafar Elmirghani (University of Leeds, UK)
Chair: Soufiene Djahel (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

11:00 – 11:30  Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:50  Short papers session #3: Routing and Security
Chaired by: Nadjib Achir (Université Paris 13, France)

• A Trajectory Inference-based Technique for Energy Efficient Store-and-Forward Technology
  Antônio Rodrigo Delepiane De Vit (UFSM – Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil); César Marcon (PUCRS – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Raul Ceretta Nunes (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil); Sidnei Silveira (UFSM – Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil); Ricardo Macedo (Federal University of Santa Maria & Campus Frederico Westphalen, Brazil)
  
• Market Equity for Car-sharing Applications using Homomorphic Encryption and Opportunistic Networking
  Miguel Carpio and Sergi Robles (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain); Adrian Sanchez (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain); Carlos Borrego (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
• Secrecy in Congestion-Aware Broadcast Channels
  Antonia Arvanitaki, Nikolaos Pappas and Niklas Carlsson (Linköping University, Sweden); Parthajit Mohapatra (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India)
• A New Metric for Routing Optimization in Mobile Networks Based on The Entropy Concept
  Peppino Fazio (DSMN Ca’ Foscari Venezia); Mauro Tropea (Università della Calabria, Italy)
  

12:50 – 13:15  Closing & Awards