Program for 2018 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) [MILCOM 2018]

Program for 2018 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)

Time	Denver	Miami	New Orleans	New York	Saddlebrook	St. Louis	Washington	Session
Monday, October 29
08:00-12:00								Geolocation enhanced mobile communication networks, Systematic Exploration of Critical Software for Catastrophic Cyber-Physical Malware
09:40-12:00	BDML2: Robust Machine Learning	CSTC2: Network Protocol Security	CSTC1: Network Security Technology	SYS1: Reliable Communication	NPP1: Multipoint Communication	WSP1: Wireless Channel Measurements and Modeling	BDML1: Machine Learning for PHY Layer (I)
13:00-17:00								Navigating Through the Maze of Digital Communication Options in the 21st Century, Towards a Data-Centric Battlefield: Applications of Named Data Networks in Tactical Networks
14:00-17:00		WSP3: Modulation and Coding	CSTC3: Cyber Attack and Countermeasure I	SYS2: RF Systems and Technologies	NPP2: Routing, Topology Management, and Localization	WSP2: LPI, LPD, and Secure Communications	BDML1: Machine Learning for PHY Layer (II)
15:45-17:00		WSP3: Modulation and Coding	CSTC3: Cyber Attack and Countermeasure I	SYS2: RF Systems and Technologies	NPP2: Routing, Topology Management, and Localization	WSP2: LPI, LPD, and Secure Communications	BDML3: Machine Learning for Network Analysis
Tuesday, October 30
08:00-12:00								Intelligent Learning Algorithms and their Applications to Communications and Networking, LTE and 5G protocol security procedures and vulnerability analyses using software radio testbeds
09:40-12:00			CSTC4: Cyber Operation	SYS3: Use of Commercial Technology	NPP3: Support for Delay-Sensitive Applications	WSP4: MIMO	BDML4: Adversarial Machine Learning for Tactical Networks (I)
13:00-17:00								Cyber Resiliency Engineering in Practice: Challenges and Lessons-Learned, Software Defined Networking for Military Networks
14:00-17:00			CSTC5: Machine Learning and Block Chain Technologies for Security	SYS4: NATO Special Session	NPP4: Named Data Networking	WSP5: Filterbank Multcarrier Techniques	BDML4: Adversarial Machine Learning for Tactical Networks (II)
15:45-17:00				SYS4: NATO Special Session	NPP4: Named Data Networking	WSP5: Filterbank Multcarrier Techniques	BDML5: Machine Learning for Social Networks
Wednesday, October 31
08:00-12:00								How to Synchronize Carrier and Timing Loops in Digital Modems
09:40-12:00		WSP6: Spectrum Sensing	CSTC6: Data Security Research	SYS5: Satcom	NPP5: Performance Enhancement and Analysis for Tactical Communications	WSP7: Signal Processing for Communications (A)	BDML6: Internet of Battledfield Things (IoBT)(I)
13:00-17:00								Resilient and Scalable Interactive Learning
14:00-17:00		CSTC7: Cyber Attack and Countermeasure II	CSTC8: Information Security	SYS6: Algorithms and Implementations	NPP6: Software Defined Networking	WSP8: Signal Processing for Communications (B)	BDML6: Internet of Battledfield Things (IoBT)(II)
15:45-17:00		CSTC7: Cyber Attack and Countermeasure II	CSTC8: Information Security	SYS6: Algorithms and Implementations			BDML7: Emerging Topics in Machine Learning for Tactical Networks

Monday, October 29

Monday, October 29 8:00 - 12:00

Geolocation enhanced mobile communication networks

Geolocation enhanced mobile communication networks: Pavel Loskot and Salman Alshehri (Swansea University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Michael Hirsch (ISEA TEK LLC, USA)

Systematic Exploration of Critical Software for Catastrophic Cyber-Physical Malware

Systematic Exploration of Critical Software for Catastrophic Cyber-Physical Malware: Suraj Kothari (Iowa state University, USA); Benjamin Holland (Iowa State University, USA)

Monday, October 29 9:40 - 12:00

BDML1: Machine Learning for PHY Layer (I)

Long Short-term Memory for Radio Frequency Spectral Prediction and Its Real-time FPGA Implementation: Siddhartha Siddhartha (The University of Sydney, Australia); Yee Hui Lee (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia); Duncan Moss and Julian Faraone (The University of Sydney, Australia); Perry Blackmore and Daniel Salmond (Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia); David Boland and Philip Leong (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Band Assignment in Dual Band Systems: A Learning-based Approach: Daoud Burghal (University of Southern California, USA); Rui Wang (Samsung Research America, USA); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)
Reinforcement Learning for Quality of Experience Optimization in Tactical Networks: Gerome Bovet (Armasuisse, Switzerland); Kevin S Chan (US CCDC Army Research Laboratory, USA)
15-min session break
Hierarchical Modulation Classification Using Deep Learning: Garrett M Vanhoy (Perspecta Labs, USA); Noah Thurston, Andrew Burger, Jacob Breckenridge and Tamal Bose (University of Arizona, USA)
Clustering Learned CNN Features from Raw I/Q Data for Emitter Identification: Lauren J Wong (Virginia Tech Hume Center, USA); William C Headley (Virginia Tech & Hume Center, USA); Seth Andrews (Virgina Tech, USA); Ryan M Gerdes (Virginia Tech, USA); Alan J Michaels (Virginia Tech & Hume Center for National Security and Technology, USA)

Monday, October 29 9:40 - 10:55

BDML2: Robust Machine Learning

Unsupervised Estimation of Domain Applicability of Models: Nirmit Desai and Raghu Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA); Heesung Kwon (Army Research Laboratory, USA); Ian Taylor (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Provisioning Robust and Interpretable AI/ML-based Service Bundles: Alun Preece (Crime and Security Research Institute, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Daniel Harborne (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ramya Raghavendra (IBM Research, USA); Richard Tomsett (IBM UK, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dave Braines (IBM UK Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Models for Predicting Community-Specific Interest in News Articles: Benjamin Horne (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA); Will Dron (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA); Sibel Adali (RPI, USA)

Monday, October 29 9:40 - 12:00

CSTC1: Network Security Technology

Resolving Access Conflicts: An Auction-based Incentive Approach: Liang Fang (School of CyberSpace Security, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Lihua Yin (Cyberspace Institute of Advanced Technology, Guangzhou University, China); Yunchuan Guo (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Zhen Wang (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China); Fenghua Li (State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, China)
Fast and Accurate Typosquatting Domains Evaluation with Siamese Networks: Jing Ya and Tingwen Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Quangang Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Pin Lv, Jinqiao Shi and Li Guo (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
P4Guard: Designing P4 Based Firewall: Rakesh Datta (San Jose State University, USA); Sean Choi (Stanford University, USA); Anurag Chowdhary (San Jose Stat University, USA); Younghee Park (San Jose State University, USA)
15-min session break
A Framework for Characterizing the Evolution of Cyber Attacker-Victim Relation Graphs: Richard Garcia-Lebron (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Kristin Schweitzer and Raymond Bateman (United States Army Research Laboratory South - Cyber, USA); Shouhuai Xu (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Characterizing the Effectiveness of Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems: Eric Ficke (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Kristin Schweitzer and Raymond Bateman (United States Army Research Laboratory South - Cyber, USA); Shouhuai Xu (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

CSTC2: Network Protocol Security

Secure Neighbor Discovery Using Symmetric Link Management in Tactical Sensor Networks: Kelvin Chew (Marine Corps Combat Development Command, USA); Preetha Thulasiraman (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
Efficient Interconnectivity Among Networks Under Security Constraint: Pankaz Das (Marquette University, USA); Rezoan A. Shuvro (University of New Mexico, USA); Mahshid Rahnamay-Naeini and Nasir Ghani (University of South Florida, USA); Majeed M Hayat (University of New Mexico, USA)
Multiple Accounts Detection on Facebook Using Semi-Supervised Learning on Graphs: Xiaoyun Wang, Chun-Ming Lai and Yu-Cheng Lin (University of California, Davis, USA); Cho-Jui Hsieh (UC Davis, USA); Shyhtsun Felix Wu (University of California, Davis, USA); Hasan Cam (Army Research Laboratory, USA)
15-min session break
Attack and Defense of Dynamic Analysis-Based, Adversarial Neural Malware Detection Models: Jack W. Stokes (Microsoft Research, USA); De Wang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA); Mady Marinescu (Microsoft, USA); Marc Marino and Brian Bussone (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
On Defensive Cyber Deception: A Case Study Using SDN: Cho-Yu Jason Chiang (Applied Communication Sciences, USA)

Monday, October 29 9:40 - 11:20

NPP1: Multipoint Communication

ECHO: Efficient Zero-Control Network-wide Broadcast for Mobile Multi-hop Wireless Networks: Ram Ramanathan, Christophe Servaes and Warren Ramanathan (GOTENNA, USA)
Impact of Header Compression on Tactical Networks: David Kidston and Philip Hugg (Communications Research Centre, Canada)
Fountain-Coded Multicast in Tactical Packet Radio Networks: Throughput Improvements Provided by Relay Nodes: Siddhartha Borkotoky (Lakeside Labs GmbH, Austria); Michael Pursley (Clemson University, USA)
Experimental Evaluation of Group Communications Protocols for Tactical Data Dissemination: Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA); Roberto Fronteddu (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Eelco Cramer (TNO, The Netherlands); Maggie Breedy (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Kelvin Marcus (Army Research Laboratory, USA); Ronald in 't Velt (TNO, The Netherlands); Jan Nilsson (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden); Mattia Mantovani (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Lorenzo Campioni and Filippo Poltronieri (University of Ferrara, Italy); Giacomo Benincasa and Blake Ordway (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Markus Peuhkuri (Aalto University, Finland); Mathias Rautenberg (Rohde & Schwarz GmbH @ Co. KG, Germany)

Monday, October 29 9:40 - 12:00

SYS1: Reliable Communication

Tactical Communication Link Under Joint Jamming and Interception by Same-Frequency Simultaneous Transmit and Receive Radio: Taneli Riihonen (Tampere University, Finland); Dani Korpi (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland); Matias Turunen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Tatu Peltola (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland); Joni Saikanmäki and Mikko Valkama (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Risto Wichman (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland)
Analysis of Spectrum Allocation to Support Mobile Ad-hoc Networks in Contested Environments: Paul J Nicholas (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory & George Mason University, USA); Karla Hoffman (George Mason University, USA)
Performance Metrics for Cognitive Electronic Warfare - Electronic Support Measures: Scott Kuzdeba and Andrew Radlbeck (BAE Systems, USA); Matthew Anderson (UBMC, USA)
15-min session break
Routing, Network Coding and TCP Support for Wideband HF Communications: Tugba Erpek (Virginia Tech, USA); Yalin E Sagduyu (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Yi Shi and Maice Costa (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA); Kemal Davaslioglu (Intelligent Automation, Inc, USA); Hao Han (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Daniel Fayette (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Eric Johnson (NMSU, USA); Elizabeth Serena Bentley (AFRL, USA); Clif Banner (Intelligent Visioneering LLC & Former USAF Life Cycle Management Center Aerial Networks Division, USA)
Utilization of Inter-Block Interference in MIMO-OFDM Communication Systems: Jason Pennington (Northrop Grumman, USA); Richard K. Martin (Air Force Institute of Technology, USA)

WSP1: Wireless Channel Measurements and Modeling

Modeling of Highly Non-Stationary Low Altitude Aircraft-to-Aircraft Channels: Michael Walter, Dmitriy Shutin and Armin Dammann (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); David W Matolak (University of South Carolina, USA)
Antenna Radiation Pattern Compressive Sensing: Michael Don (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Gonzalo Arce (University of Delaware, USA)
The Impact of Correlated Blocking on Millimeter-Wave Personal Networks: Enass Hriba and Matthew Valenti (West Virginia University, USA)
15-min session break
Frequency Correlation Modelling for Tactical VHF Channels in Mountainous Terrain: Jeff Pugh (Defence Research and Development Canada, Canada); Mohamad Alkadamani (Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada); Colin Brown (CRC, Canada); Vivianne Jodalen (FFI Norway, Norway)
Joint Characterization of mm-Wave and cm-Wave Device-to-Device MIMO Channels: Seun Sangodoyin (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Usman Tahir Virk (Aalto University, Finland); Daoud Burghal (University of Southern California, USA); Katsuyuki Haneda (Aalto University, Finland); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)

Monday, October 29 13:00 - 17:00

Navigating Through the Maze of Digital Communication Options in the 21st Century

Navigating Through the Maze of Digital Communication Options in the 21st Century: Bernard Sklar (Communications Engineering Services, USA)

Towards a Data-Centric Battlefield: Applications of Named Data Networks in Tactical Networks

Towards a Data-Centric Battlefield: Applications of Named Data Networks in Tactical Networks: Tamer Refaei (The MITRE Corporation, USA); Alexander Afanasyev (Florida International University, USA); Lixia Zhang (University of California at Los Angeles, USA); Lan Wang (University of Memphis, USA)

Monday, October 29 14:00 - 15:15

BDML1: Machine Learning for PHY Layer (II)

How Secure are Multicarrier Communication Systems Against Signal Exploitation Attacks?: Alireza Nooraiepour (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA); Kenza Hamidouche (Princeton University, USA); Waheed U. Bajwa (Rutgers University-New Brunswick, USA); Narayan Mandayam (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Spectrum Access in Wireless Networks: Yue Xu and Jianyuan Yu (Virginia Tech, USA); William C Headley (Virginia Tech & Hume Center, USA); Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA)
Deepmod: An Over-the-Air Trainable Machine Modem for Resilient PHY Layer Communications: Adam Anderson (Tennessee Technological University, USA); Steven Young (Oak Ridge National Lab, USA); Thomas Karnowski and Jason M Vann (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

Monday, October 29 14:00 - 17:00

CSTC3: Cyber Attack and Countermeasure I

TDDEHT: Threat Detection Using Distributed Ensembles of Hoeffding Trees on Streaming Cyber Datasets: Asmah Muallem (Tennessee State University, USA); Sachin Shetty (Old Dominion University, USA); Liang Hong (Tennessee State University, USA); Jan Wei Pan (Roadstar. AI., USA)
Prediction and Detection of Malicious Insiders' Motivation Based on Sentiment Profile on Webpages and Emails: Jianguo Jiang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Jiuming Chen (University of California, Davis, USA); Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Kunying Liu (Institute of Information Engineering，Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Chao Liu (Institude of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Min Yu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)
A Platform Service for Remote Integrity Measurement and Attestation: Aaron Pendergrass, Sarah Helble and John Clemens (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA); Peter Loscocco (National Security Agency, USA)
30-min session break
Capacity of Deliberate Side-Channels Created by Software Activities: Baki B Yilmaz, Milos Prvulovic and Alenka Zajic (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Towards Practical Protection of Data Access Pattern to Cloud Storage: Qiumao Ma and Wensheng Zhang (Iowa State University, USA)
Privacy Preserving Fine-Grained Data Distribution Aggregation for Smart Grid AMI Networks: Enahoro Oriero (Tennessee Technological University, USA); Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman (Florida International University, USA)

Monday, October 29 14:00 - 16:35

NPP2: Routing, Topology Management, and Localization

Loop-Free Integrated Forwarding and Routing with Gradients: JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz & Palo Alto Research Center, USA); James Mathewson (University of California, Santa Cruz & Akamai Technologies, USA); Ram Ramanathan (GOTENNA, USA); Bishal Thapa (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA)
ASAP: Preventing Starvation in Backpressure Forwarding: Laura Poplawski Ma (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA); Samuel C. Nelson (BBN Technologies, USA); Gregory Lauer and Stephen Zabele (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA)
A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Adaptive Redundancy for Routing in Tactical Networks: Matthew Johnston (Google, Inc., USA); Claudiu Danilov and Kevin Larson (Boeing Research & Technology, USA)
30-min session break
Topology Algorithm Enhancements for Aerial High Capacity Directional Networks: Joy Wang (MIT Lincoln Lab, USA); Patricia Deutsch (MIT LL, USA); Scott Moore (OPNET Technologies, Inc, USA); Bow-Nan Cheng (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
Through-the-Body Localization of Implanted Biochip in Wearable Nano-Biosensing Networks: Haochen Hu and Zhi Sun (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Josep M Jornet (Northeastern University, USA)

Monday, October 29 14:00 - 17:00

Monday, October 29 15:45 - 17:00

BDML3: Machine Learning for Network Analysis

Multi-Robot Enhanced MANET Intelligent Routing at Uncertain and Vulnerable Tactical Edge: Ming Feng (University of Nevada, Reno, USA); Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&M University, USA); Hao Xu (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
Cooperative Ad Hoc Node Localization with Ground-Level Suburban Measurements via Machine Learning Techniques: Andreas Polydoros and Ioannis Dagres (University of Athens, Greece); Cenk Kose (Trellisware Technologies, Inc., USA)
Generating Realistic Data for Network Analytics: Jon Aho, Alexander Witt, Carter Casey, Nirav Trivedi and Venkatesh Ramaswamy (The MITRE Corporation, USA)

Tuesday, October 30

Tuesday, October 30 8:00 - 12:00

Intelligent Learning Algorithms and their Applications to Communications and Networking

Intelligent Learning Algorithms and their Applications to Communications and Networking: Jack L. Burbank (US Army CERDEC & Sabre Systems, USA); Julia Andrusenko (The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA)

LTE and 5G protocol security procedures and vulnerability analyses using software radio testbeds

LTE and 5G protocol security procedures and vulnerability analyses using software radio testbeds: Vuk Marojevic (Mississippi State University, USA); Jeffrey Reed (Virginia Tech, USA); Roger Piqueras Jover (Bloomberg Lp - Security Research Lab, USA)

Tuesday, October 30 9:40 - 11:20

BDML4: Adversarial Machine Learning for Tactical Networks (I)

Spectrum Data Poisoning with Adversarial Deep Learning: Yi Shi (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA); Tugba Erpek (Virginia Tech, USA); Yalin E Sagduyu (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Jason Hongjun Li (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA)
Network Traffic Obfuscation: An Adversarial Machine Learning Approach: Gunjan Verma (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Ertugrul Necdet Ciftcioglu (Qualcomm, USA); Ryan M Sheatsley (The Pennsylvania State University, USA); Kevin S Chan (US CCDC Army Research Laboratory, USA); Lisa Scott (US Army Research Laboratory, USA)
Towards the Development of Robust Deep Neural Networks in Adversarial Settings: Todd Huster, Cho-Yu Jason Chiang and Ritu Chadha (Vencore Labs, USA); Ananthram Swami (Army Research Lab., USA)
Enablers of Adversarial Attacks in Machine Learning: Rauf Izmailov and Shridatt Sugrim (Perspecta Labs, USA); Ritu Chadha (Vencore Labs, USA); Patrick McDaniel (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Ananthram Swami (Army Research Lab., USA)

Tuesday, October 30 9:40 - 12:00

CSTC4: Cyber Operation

On Detecting Manifestation of Adversary Characteristics: Sridhar Venkatesan, Shridatt Sugrim and Rauf Izmailov (Perspecta Labs, USA); Cho-Yu Jason Chiang and Ritu Chadha (Applied Communication Sciences, USA); Bharat Doshi (US Army CERDEC, USA); Blaine Hoffman (US Army Research Lab, USA); Allison Newcomb (US Army Research Laboratory & US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Norbou Buchler (Army Reserach Laboratory, USA)
Assessment Methodology for Collateral Damage and Military (Dis)Advantage in Cyber Operations: Clara Maathuis (Delft University of Technology, TNO and Netherlands Defense Academy, The Netherlands); Wolter Pieters (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Jan van den Berg (Delft University of Technology / Policy and Management, The Netherlands)
Wargaming a Closed National Network:What are You Willing to Sacrifice?: Heikki Lantto (National Defence University, Finland); Bernt M. Åkesson (Finnish Defence Research Agency, Finland); Juha Kukkola (National Defence University, Finland); Juha-Pekka Nikkarila and Mari Ristolainen (Finnish Defence Research Agency, Finland)
15-min session break
Measuring Relative Accuracy of Malware Detectors in the Absence of Ground Truth: John Charlton (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Pang Du (Virginia Tech, USA); Jin-Hee Cho (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Shouhuai Xu (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Fooling a Neural Network in Military Environments: Random Untargeted Adversarial Example: Hyun Kwon (KAIST, Korea (South)); Yongchul Kim (Korea Military Academy, Korea (South)); Hyunsoo Yoon (KAIST, Korea (South)); Daeseon Choi (Kongju University, Korea (South))

Tuesday, October 30 9:40 - 11:20

NPP3: Support for Delay-Sensitive Applications

Age of Information for Queues in Tandem: Clement Kam, Joseph Molnar and Sastry Kompella (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
On the Design of Resource Allocation Algorithms for Low-Latency Video Analytics: Victor Valls (Yale University, USA); Heesung Kwon (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Tom La Porta (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Sebastian Stein (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA)
Latency-Aware Forwarding for IRON: Latency Support for Back-Pressure Forwarding: Christophe J. Merlin, Laura Poplawski Ma, Gregory Lauer and Stephen Zabele (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA)
Hierarchical-Caching Based Statistical QoS Provisioning over 5G Multimedia Big-Data Mobile Wireless Networks: Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA); Qixuan Zhu (Texas A&M University, USA)

Tuesday, October 30 9:40 - 12:00

SYS3: Use of Commercial Technology

Autonomous, Cooperative UAV Operations Using COTS Consumer Drones and Custom Ground Control Station: Espen Skjervold (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway); Øistein T Hoelsæter (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway)
Emulation of Large-Scale LTE Networks in NS-3 and CORE: A Distributed Approach: Ayman Sabbah (Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED)- Government of Canada, Canada); Abdallah Jarwan, Ismael Al-Shiab and Mohamed Ibnkahla (Carleton University, Canada); Maoyu Wang (Communications Research Centre, Canada)
Adaptive Link Optimization for 802.11 UAV Uplink Using a Reconfigurable Antenna: Stephen Wolfe, Simon Begashaw, Yuqiao Liu and Kapil Dandekar (Drexel University, USA)
15-min session break
LTE Uplink Interference Mitigation Features: Dong-Jye Shyy (MITRE, USA); Matt Steele and Cameron Patterson (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
Enhancing Service Availability of LTE-in-a-Box Systems Using 3GPP-Compliant Strategies: Venkatesh Ramaswamy and Jeffery Correia (The MITRE Corporation, USA)

WSP4: MIMO

Capacity Analysis and Bit Allocation Design for Variable-Resolution ADCs in Massive MIMO: Fnu I. Zakir Ahmed (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Hamid Sadjadpour (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Shahram Yousefi (Queen's University, Canada)
Performance Analysis for MIMO HF Communications with Dominant Galactic Noise: Hung-Yi Lo and Jim Lehnert (Purdue University, USA); Phuong Tran (Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam)
Dimension-optimized Two-stage Precoder Design for Massive MIMO Systems with Limited Feedback: Jinho Kang (KAIST, Korea (South)); Jung Hoon Lee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea (South)); Wan Choi (KAIST, Korea (South))
15-min session break
A Noise-Masking Physical Layer Security Technique for MIMO Communications Systems: Robert Sellin and Frank Kragh (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
A Coded MIMO Spatial Multiplexing Approach with Low-Complexity Matched-Filter Detector and CRC-Assisted Interference Cancellation: Kentaro Masukawa and Hideki Ochiai (Yokohama National University, Japan)

Tuesday, October 30 13:00 - 17:00

Cyber Resiliency Engineering in Practice: Challenges and Lessons-Learned

Cyber Resiliency Engineering in Practice: Challenges and Lessons-Learned: Richard Graubart (MITRE Corporation, USA); Deborah Bodeau and Rosalie McQuaid (The MITRE Corporation, USA)

Software Defined Networking for Military Networks

Software Defined Networking for Military Networks: William Kasch (IEEE, USA)

Tuesday, October 30 14:00 - 15:15

BDML4: Adversarial Machine Learning for Tactical Networks (II)

Detecting Adversarial Examples Using Data Manifolds: Susmit Jha (SRI International, USA); Uyeong Jang (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA); Somesh Jha (University of Wisconsin, USA); Brian Jalaian (US Army Research Laboratory, USA)
On the Defense Against Adversarial Examples Beyond the Visible Spectrum: Anthony Ortiz and Olac Fuentes (University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Dalton Rosario (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Christopher Kiekintveld (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
Adversarial Examples Against the Deep Learning Based Network Intrusion Detection Systems: Kaichen Yang (University of Florida, China); Jianqing Liu (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA); Chi Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, USA)

Tuesday, October 30 14:00 - 17:00

CSTC5: Machine Learning and Block Chain Technologies for Security

Machine Learning Based DDos Detection Through NetFlow Analysis: Jiangpan Hou (Institute of Information Engineering，Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Peipei Fu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Zigang Cao (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences & School of Cyber Security，University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Anlin Xu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Robust Neural Malware Detection Models for Emulation Sequence Learning: Rakshit Agrawal (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Jack W. Stokes (Microsoft Research, USA); Mady Marinescu (Microsoft, USA); Karthik Selvaraj (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
DeepGFL: Deep Feature Learning via Graph for Attack Detection on Flow-based Network Traffic: Yepeng Yao (Chinese Academy of Science & Institute of Information Engineering, China); Su Li ya (School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Science, China); Zhigang Lu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
30-min session break
SOTA: Secure Over-the-Air Programming of IoT Devices: Halim B Yesilyurt and Hidayet Aksu (Florida International University, USA); Selcuk Uluagac (Florida International University & Electrical and Computer Engineering, USA); Raheem Beyah (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Blockchain-Empowered Secure Internet-of-Battlefield Things (IoBT) Architecture: Deepak K Tosh (University of Texas, El Paso, USA); Sachin Shetty and Peter Foytik (Old Dominion University, USA); Laurent Njilla (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Charles A Kamhoua (US Army Research Laboratory & Network Science Division, USA)
Secure Communications Using Blockchain Technology: Peter Menegay (SynaptiCAD); Jason Salyers and Griffin College (SynaptiCAD, USA)

NPP4: Named Data Networking

A Brief Introduction to Named Data Networking: Alexander Afanasyev (Florida International University, USA); Jeff Burke (UCLA, USA); Tamer Refaei (The MITRE Corporation, USA); Lan Wang (University of Memphis, USA); Beichuan Zhang (University of Arizona, USA); Lixia Zhang (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
A Brief Introduction to NDN Dataset Synchronization (NDN Sync): Tianxiang Li (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Wentao Shang (UCLA, USA); Alexander Afanasyev (Florida International University, USA); Lan Wang (University of Memphis, USA); Lixia Zhang (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Publish/Subscribe Versus a Content-Based Approach for Information Dissemination: Frank T. Johnsen, Lars Landmark, Mariann Hauge, Erlend Larsen and Øivind Kure (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway)
30-min session break
NAC: Automating Access Control via Named Data: Zhiyi Zhang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Yingdi Yu (Facebook, USA); Sanjeev Kaushik Ramani and Alexander Afanasyev (Florida International University, USA); Lixia Zhang (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Enabling a Data-Centric Battlefield Through Information Access Gateways: Tamer Refaei (The MITRE Corporation, USA); Alexander Afanasyev (Florida International University, USA)
NDN Impact on Tactical Application Development: Jeff Burke (UCLA, USA); Alexander Afanasyev (Florida International University, USA); Tamer Refaei (The MITRE Corporation, USA); Lixia Zhang (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)

SYS4: NATO Special Session

Tactical Router Interoperability: Concepts and Experiments: Arjen Holtzer, Ronald in 't Velt and Floris Drijver (TNO, The Netherlands); Henning Rogge (Fraunhofer Inst. for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE, Germany); Jonathan Kirchhoff and Christoph Barz (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany); Niels van Adrichem (TNO - The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Research, The Netherlands); Mariann Hauge (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway)
Secure Multi-domain Information Sharing in Tactical Networks: Filippo Poltronieri and Lorenzo Campioni (University of Ferrara, Italy); Rita Lenzi and Alessandro Morelli (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA); Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy)
Enabling XEP-0258 Security Labels in XMPP: Juha Järvinen (Aalto University, Finland); Aleksi Marttinen (Aalto University & School of Electrical Engineering, Finland); Risto Järvinen (Aalto University, Finland); Per Carlen (Peldakon & Contractor Swedish Defence Materiel Administration, Sweden); Marko Luoma (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Markus Peuhkuri and Jukka M J Manner (Aalto University, Finland)
30-min session break
Does NATO Need a Blockchain: Konrad Wrona (NATO Communications and Information Agency, The Netherlands & Military University of Technology, Poland); Michał Jarosz (Military University of Technology, Poland)
Functional Analysis of Cyberspace Operations: Alberto Domingo (NATO Allied Command Transformation, USA); Manisha Parmar (NATO CIS Agency, The Netherlands)
DCIS CUBE: Defining Architecture Building Blocks for Next Generation Deployable IT Systems: Marc van Selm (NATO C3 Agency, The Netherlands); Hermann Wietgrefe (NATO C&I Agency, The Netherlands); Joel Varanda (NCI Agency, The Netherlands); Detlef Janezic (NCI Agency, Belgium)

WSP5: Filterbank Multcarrier Techniques

Time Synchronization Sequence with Weighted Conjugate Symmetry Property for FBMC-OQAM Systems: Liming Li and Yang Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Liqin Ding (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)
RAKE Receiver for HF Filter Bank Multicarrier Spread Spectrum Systems: Stephen Andrew Laraway (University of Utah, USA); Hussein Moradi (Idaho National Laboratory, USA); Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny (University of Utah, USA)
Efficient Multirate Filter Bank Structure with Full Spectral Utilization for Multicarrier Communications: Ravi Kadlimatti (State University of New York at Oswego, USA); Adly T. Fam (University at Buffalo, USA)
30-min session break
Filter Bank Multi-Carrier Spread Spectrum with Biorthogonal Signaling for High Speed Data Transmission Through HF Skywave Channels: David Haab (University of Utah & Idaho National Laboratory, USA); Hussein Moradi (Idaho National Laboratory, USA); Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny (University of Utah, USA)
PAPR Analysis for Dual-Polarization FBMC: Hosseinali Jamal and David W Matolak (University of South Carolina, USA)
Experimental Comparison of FB-MC-SS and DS-SS in HF Channels: Stephen Andrew Laraway (University of Utah, USA); Jose A Loera and Hussein Moradi (Idaho National Laboratory, USA); Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny (University of Utah, USA)

Tuesday, October 30 15:45 - 17:00

BDML5: Machine Learning for Social Networks

Separating Terrorist-Like Topological Signatures Embedded in Benign Networks: Kshiteesh Hegde (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA); Malik Magdon-Ismail (RPI, USA)
Exploiting Knowledge Across Distinct Domains: Learning Event Details from Network Logs: Muchen Wu (University of California, Davis, USA); Charu Aggarwal (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA); Zhou Yu (University of California, Davis, USA); Ananthram Swami (Army Research Lab., USA); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)
Uncertainty-Based Opinion Inference on Network Data Using Graph Convolutional Neural Networks: Xujiang Zhao (University at Albany, SUNY, USA); Feng Chen (University of Albany, USA); Jin-Hee Cho (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)

Wednesday, October 31

Wednesday, October 31 8:00 - 12:00

How to Synchronize Carrier and Timing Loops in Digital Modems

How to Synchronize Carrier and Timing Loops in Digital Modems: Frederic J Harris (University of California San Diego, USA)

Wednesday, October 31 9:40 - 12:00

BDML6: Internet of Battledfield Things (IoBT)(I)

The Internet of Battlefield Things: The Next Generation of Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I) Decision-Making: Stephen Russell (United States Army Research Laboratory, USA); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA)
On Tracking Realistic Targets in a Megacity with Contested Domain Access: Jongdeog Lee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA); Hang Qiu and Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California, USA); Kelvin Marcus and Reginald Hobbs (Army Research Laboratory, USA); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA); Will Dron (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA)
Investigating LoRa for the Internet of Battlefield Things: A Cyber Perspective: Torkjel Søndrol (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway); Brian Jalaian (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA)
15-min session break
Enabling Efficient and Interoperable Control of IoBT Devices in a Multi-Force Environment: Filippo Poltronieri (University of Ferrara, Italy); Laurel Sadler (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Giacomo Benincasa (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Timothy Gregory (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); John M. Harrell (Oakwood Controls, Glen Rock, PA, USA); Somiya Metu (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Christine Moulton (US Army RDECOM CERDEC, Ft Belvoir, VA, USA)
Radio Frequency IoT Sensors in Military Operations in a Smart City: Aaron E Cohen (US Naval Research Laboratory, USA); Gina Jiang and David Heide (Naval Research Laboratory, USA); Vincenzo Pellegrini (IDS - Ingegneria dei Sistemi SpA, Italy); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA)

CSTC6: Data Security Research

Runtime State Verification on Resource-Constrained Platforms: John Clemens (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA); Raj Pal (Department of Defense, USA); Branden Sherrell (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA)
Sharing Susceptible Passwords as Cyber Threat Intelligence Feed: Iman Vakilinia (University of North Florida, USA); Sui Cheung and Shamik Sengupta (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
Secure Proxy-Reencryption-based Inter-network Key Exchange: Lloyd Greenwald (LGS Innovations, USA); Kurt Rohloff (New Jersey Institute of Technology & NJIT, USA); David Stott (MIT Lincoln Labs, USA)
15-min session break
An Empirical Upper Bound on Secrecy Capacity of Multipath Fading Channels: Sima Azizi (Southern Illinois University, USA); Arash Komaee (Southern Illinois University & Southern Illinois University, USA)
Secrecy Performance of a Relaying System over Non-identical Fading Channels: Xian Liu (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)

NPP5: Performance Enhancement and Analysis for Tactical Communications

Distributed Coherent Group Communications: Yi Shi (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA); Satya Prakash Ponnaluri and Yalin E Sagduyu (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Eric Van Doorn (Intelligent Automation Inc, USA)
Inter-Network Interference in Synchronized Cooperative Broadcast Systems: Ulf Sterner, Sara Linder, Jan Nilsson and Karina Fors (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden)
Socio-spatial Resource Management in Wireless Powered Public Safety Networks: Dimitrios Sikeridis, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou and Michael Devetsikiotis (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
15-min session break
The Effects of a UAV on a Terrestrial MANET: Erlend Larsen, Lars Landmark and Øivind Kure (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway)
Emulating Wireless Networks with High Fidelity RF Interference Modeling: Thomas D Schucker (Episys Science, inc, USA); Tamal Bose (University of Arizona, USA); Bo Ryu (EpiSci, USA)

SYS5: Satcom

Spatial Modulation for Improved Eavesdropping Resistance in Multi-Beam Satellite Downlinks: Stephan P. Winter, Matthias Schraml, Marcus T Knopp and Andreas Knopp (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)
Synchronous Waveform Clock Synchronization Without a System Controller: George Vachula (Raytheon SAS Retiree, USA); Mu-Cheng Wang (Raytheon SAS, USA); Mario Damico (Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, USA); Gurpartap Takhar (Raytheon Company, USA); Steven Howard (Raytheon SAS, USA)
Passive Channel Orthogonality Measurement Technique for MIMO SATCOM: Balachander Ramamurthy (Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia); Robert T. Schwarz (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany); William G Cowley (University of South Australia, Australia); Gerald Bolding (Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia); Andreas Knopp (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)
15-min session break
Resilient Satellite Communications with Autonomous Multi-Modem Adapter: Rajeev Gopal (Hughes Network Systems, LLC, USA)
Satellite Downlink Jamming Propagation Measurements at Ku-Band: Christian A Hofmann and Andreas Knopp (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)

Wednesday, October 31 9:40 - 10:55

WSP6: Spectrum Sensing

Latency Analysis for Matched Filter Based Detection of Weak Signals: Richard M Gutierrez, Arindam Dutta and Daniel W. Bliss (Arizona State University, USA)
Dealing with Partial Observations in Dynamic Spectrum Access: Deep Recurrent Q-Networks: Yue Xu, Jianyuan Yu and Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA)
Applying Periodic Retraining to Survival Analysis-Based Dynamic Spectrum Access Algorithms: Michael Lipski (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Ram M Narayanan (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Wednesday, October 31 9:40 - 12:00

WSP7: Signal Processing for Communications (A)

On the Performance of Single-Channel Source Separation of Two Co-Frequency PSK Signals with Carrier Frequency Offsets: Xiao Bei Liu, Yong Liang Guan and Soo Ngee Koh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Kok Ann Donny Teo (NTU, Singapore); Zilong Liu (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Doubly-Selective Channel Estimation for Continuous Phase Modulation: Romain Chayot and Nathalie Thomas (University of Toulouse, France); Charly Poulliat (INP - ENSEEIHT Toulouse, France); Marie-Laure Boucheret (University of Toulouse IRIT Enseeiht, France); Nicolas Van Wambeke (Thales Alenia Space, France); Guy Lesthievent (CNES, France)
A Multi-branch Linear Amplification with Nonlinear Components Technique: João Guerreiro (Instituto de Telecomunicações & UAL, Portugal); Rui Dinis (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, University Nova de Lisboa & FCT-UNL, Portugal); Paulo Montezuma (FCT-UNL, Portugal); João Oliveira (FCT-UNL & Uninova, Portugal); Mario Silva (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
15-min session break
RF Photonic Equalization Using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering: Elliott Grafer, George Miles, Alex Cramer, Anthony Klee and Charles Middleton (Harris Corp, USA); Richard DeSalvo (Harris Corporation, USA)
Frequency Estimation for Burst Communication Based on Irregular Repetition of Data Symbols: Alptekin Yilmaz (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Mustafa Kesal (ASELSAN, Inc., Turkey); Furuzan Atay Onat (ASELSAN Inc., Turkey)

Wednesday, October 31 13:00 - 17:00

Resilient and Scalable Interactive Learning

Resilient and Scalable Interactive Learning: Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA); Yanning Shen (University of California, Irvine, USA); Tianyi Chen (University of Minnesota, USA)

Wednesday, October 31 14:00 - 15:15

BDML6: Internet of Battledfield Things (IoBT)(II)

IoT Devices Fingerprinting Using Deep Learning: Hossein Jafari (Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc., USA); Oluwaseyi Omotere and Damilola Adesina (Prairie View A&M University, USA); Hsiang-Huang Wu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&M University, USA)
Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure for Internet-of-Things: Jongho Won, Ankush Singla and Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA); Greg Bollella (VMWare, USA)
Executing Analytics and Fusion Workloads on Transient Computing Resources in Tactical Environments: Ahmed Ali-Eldin (UMass, Amherst, USA); Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA); Heesung Kwon (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Benjamin M Marlin (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA); Mani B. Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)

Wednesday, October 31 14:00 - 17:00

CSTC7: Cyber Attack and Countermeasure II

Multi-Stage Attack Detection Using Contextual Information: Francisco Javier Aparicio Navarro (De Montfort University & Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kostas Kyriakopoulos, Ibrahim Ghafir and Sangarapillai Lambotharan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jonathon Chambers (Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
OS Independent and Hardware-Assisted Insider Threat Detection and Prevention Framework: Enes Erdin, Hidayet Aksu and Selcuk Uluagac (Florida International University, USA); Michael Vai (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Kemal Akkaya (Florida International University, USA)
Automatic Construction of Attack Graphs in Cyber Physical Systems Using Temporal Logic: Mark Moulin, Emeka Eyisi, Devu Shila and Qinqing Zhang (United Technologies Research Center, USA)
30-min session break
PatchSweetner: Exploit Detection Through the Automatic Transformation of Security Patches: Adriaan Larmuseau (United Technologies Research Center, China); Devu Shila (United Technologies Research Center, USA)
Utilizing NFV for Effective Moving Target Defense Against Link Flooding Reconnaissance Attacks: Abdullah Aydeger (Florida International University, USA); Nico Saputro (Florida International University, USA & Parahyangan Catholic University, Indonesia); Kemal Akkaya (Florida International University, USA)
Latte: Large-Scale Lateral Movement Detection: Qingyun Liu (Facebook & Research Scientist, USA); Jack W. Stokes (Microsoft Research, USA); Rob Mead (Microsoft Corporation, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tim Burrell, Ian Hellen and John Lambert (Microsoft Corporation, USA); Andrey Marochko and Weidong Cui (Microsoft Research, USA)

CSTC8: Information Security

Attribute Based Encryption for Information Sharing on Tactical Mobile Networks: Jim Luo (Naval Research Lab, USA); Qiuxiang Dong and Dijiang Huang (Arizona State University, USA); Myong Kang (Naval Research Lab, USA)
Customization Modes for the Harris MK-3 Authenticated Encryption Algorithm: Peter Bajorski and Alan Kaminsky (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Michael T. Kurdziel (L3Harris Corporation & Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Marcin Lukowiak and Stanisław Radziszowski (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Dronecrypt - An Efficient Cryptographic Framework for Small Aerial Drones: Muslum Ozgur Ozmen and Attila Altay Yavuz (University of South Florida, USA)
30-min session break
Achieving Perfect Secrecy with One Bit Keys: Mohsen Karimzadeh Kiskani (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Hamid Sadjadpour (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Array-Based Statistical Analysis of the MK-3 Authenticated Encryption Scheme: Peter Bajorski and Alan Kaminsky (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Michael T. Kurdziel (L3Harris Corporation & Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Marcin Lukowiak and Stanisław Radziszowski (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
A New Lightweight Two-Party Key Agreement Protocol Defined on Underdetermined Systems of Polynomial Equations for Probable Security: Jun Liu (University of North Dakota, USA)

Wednesday, October 31 14:00 - 15:40

NPP6: Software Defined Networking

OpenSDC: A Novel, Generic Datapath for Software Defined Coalitions: Qiao Xiang (Yale University, USA); Franck Le (IBM T. J. Watson, USA); Yeon-sup Lim (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA); Vinod Mishra (ARL, USA); Christopher Williams (DSTL, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Y. Richard Yang (Yale University, USA); Hongwei Zhang (Iowa State University, USA)
Control Plane Performance in Tactical Software Defined Networks: Joakim Flathagen and Ole Ingar Bentstuen (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway)
An Environment for Tactical SDN Experimentation: Kelvin Marcus (Army Research Laboratory, USA); Kevin S Chan (US CCDC Army Research Laboratory, USA); Rommie Hardy (Army Research Lab, USA); Paul Yu (Army Research Laboratory, USA)
Software Defined Multi-Path TCP Solution for Mobile Wireless Tactical Networks: Qi Zhao (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Pengyuan Du (Facebook, USA); Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, USA); Adam Brown (Boeing Research & Technology, USA); Jae H Kim (Boeing Research & Technology & The Boeing Company, USA)

Wednesday, October 31 14:00 - 16:35

SYS6: Algorithms and Implementations

CHIL: Common-modem Hardware Integrated Library: Ryan Murphy, Benjamin Barnett and Landon Wagner (Rockwell Collins, USA); Jeffrey Wildman, Leonid Veytser and David P Wiggins (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Anthony Buscemi (SPAWAR Atlantic & University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Timothy Arganbright and Stephen Clark (Rockwell Collins, USA); Bow-Nan Cheng (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
Enhancing the Common-modem Hardware Integrated Library (CHIL) Framework: Jeffrey Wildman, Thomas Capuano, David P Wiggins, Leonid Veytser, Omar Salama, Robert Spaanenburg, Jason Hillger and Bow-Nan Cheng (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
Towards Rapid Waveform Design and Deployment via Modular Signal Processing Frameworks: Jeffrey Wildman (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Scott Moore (OPNET Technologies, Inc, USA); Leonid Veytser, Thomas Capuano, Jonathan Shapiro, Jason Hillger and Bow-Nan Cheng (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
30-min session break
Image Classification on the Edge for Fast Multi-Camera Object Tracking: Nicholas Nordlund (Yale University, USA); Heesung Kwon (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Geeth Ranmal de Mel (IBM Research, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA)
State Estimation for Tactical Networks: Challenges and Approaches: Roberto Fronteddu, Alessandro Morelli, Mattia Mantovani and Blake Ordway (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Lorenzo Campioni (University of Ferrara, Italy); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA); Kelvin Marcus (Army Research Laboratory, USA)

Wednesday, October 31 14:00 - 15:40

WSP8: Signal Processing for Communications (B)

On Cooperative Broadcast in MANETs with Imperfect Clock Synchronization: Serdar Şahin (Thales Communications & Security & ENSEEIHT, University of Toulouse, France); Antonio M. Cipriano (Thales Communications and Security, France); Charly Poulliat (INP - ENSEEIHT Toulouse, France); Marie-Laure Boucheret (University of Toulouse IRIT Enseeiht, France)
How to Introduce a Narrowband IoT Solution to an Existing Wireless Communications System: Cagri Goken (Bilkent University & ASELSAN, Turkey); Güven Yenihayat (ASELSAN Inc., Turkey); Tolga Numanoglu (ASELSAN INC., Turkey)
Power Optimization for Energy Efficient Wireless Communications Using Hybrid-ARQ: Yi Li (Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc, USA); Wenhao Xiong (Intelligent Fusion Technology, USA); Nichole Sullivan (Intelligent Fusion Technology. Inc, USA); Genshe Chen (Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc, USA); Biao Chen (Syracuse University, USA); Gregory Hadynski (AFRL, USA); Clif Banner (Intelligent Visioneering LLC & Former USAF Life Cycle Management Center Aerial Networks Division, USA); Xin Tian (Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc, USA); Yiran Xu (Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc., USA)
Normalized Matched Filter for Blind Interference Suppression: Taylor Sibbett (University of Utah, USA); Hussein Moradi (Idaho National Laboratory, USA); Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny (University of Utah, USA)

Wednesday, October 31 15:45 - 17:00

BDML7: Emerging Topics in Machine Learning for Tactical Networks

Multi-Domain Integration and Correlation Engine: Will Dron, Andrew Hunter, Ali Sydney and Siddharth Pal (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA); John Hancock (ArtisTech, Inc., USA); Lisa Scott (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA); Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA); Sibel Adali (RPI, USA); Benjamin Horne (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Learning Service Semantics for Self-organization in Distributed Environments: Concepts and Research Directions: Graham Bent (IBM UK, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Geeth Ranmal de Mel (IBM Research, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Raghu Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA); Tom La Porta (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Gavin Pearson (Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tien Pham (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Sebastian Stein (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA); Ian Taylor (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Learning Ordinal Information Under Bipartite Stochastic Block Models: Xiao Xu and Qing Zhao (Cornell University, USA); Ananthram Swami (Army Research Lab., USA)

Program for 2018 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)

Monday, October 29

Tuesday, October 30

Wednesday, October 31

Monday, October 29

Monday, October 29 8:00 - 12:00

Geolocation enhanced mobile communication networks

Systematic Exploration of Critical Software for Catastrophic Cyber-Physical Malware

Monday, October 29 9:40 - 12:00

BDML1: Machine Learning for PHY Layer (I)

Monday, October 29 9:40 - 10:55

BDML2: Robust Machine Learning

Monday, October 29 9:40 - 12:00

CSTC1: Network Security Technology

CSTC2: Network Protocol Security

Monday, October 29 9:40 - 11:20

NPP1: Multipoint Communication

Monday, October 29 9:40 - 12:00

SYS1: Reliable Communication

WSP1: Wireless Channel Measurements and Modeling

Monday, October 29 13:00 - 17:00

Navigating Through the Maze of Digital Communication Options in the 21st Century

Towards a Data-Centric Battlefield: Applications of Named Data Networks in Tactical Networks

Monday, October 29 14:00 - 15:15

BDML1: Machine Learning for PHY Layer (II)

Monday, October 29 14:00 - 17:00

CSTC3: Cyber Attack and Countermeasure I

Monday, October 29 14:00 - 16:35

NPP2: Routing, Topology Management, and Localization

Monday, October 29 14:00 - 17:00

SYS2: RF Systems and Technologies

WSP2: LPI, LPD, and Secure Communications

WSP3: Modulation and Coding

Monday, October 29 15:45 - 17:00

BDML3: Machine Learning for Network Analysis

Tuesday, October 30

Tuesday, October 30 8:00 - 12:00

Intelligent Learning Algorithms and their Applications to Communications and Networking

LTE and 5G protocol security procedures and vulnerability analyses using software radio testbeds

Tuesday, October 30 9:40 - 11:20

BDML4: Adversarial Machine Learning for Tactical Networks (I)

Tuesday, October 30 9:40 - 12:00

CSTC4: Cyber Operation

Tuesday, October 30 9:40 - 11:20

NPP3: Support for Delay-Sensitive Applications

Tuesday, October 30 9:40 - 12:00

SYS3: Use of Commercial Technology

WSP4: MIMO

Tuesday, October 30 13:00 - 17:00

Cyber Resiliency Engineering in Practice: Challenges and Lessons-Learned

Software Defined Networking for Military Networks

Tuesday, October 30 14:00 - 15:15

BDML4: Adversarial Machine Learning for Tactical Networks (II)

Tuesday, October 30 14:00 - 17:00

CSTC5: Machine Learning and Block Chain Technologies for Security

NPP4: Named Data Networking

SYS4: NATO Special Session

WSP5: Filterbank Multcarrier Techniques

Tuesday, October 30 15:45 - 17:00

BDML5: Machine Learning for Social Networks

Wednesday, October 31

Wednesday, October 31 8:00 - 12:00

How to Synchronize Carrier and Timing Loops in Digital Modems

Wednesday, October 31 9:40 - 12:00

BDML6: Internet of Battledfield Things (IoBT)(I)

CSTC6: Data Security Research

NPP5: Performance Enhancement and Analysis for Tactical Communications

SYS5: Satcom

Wednesday, October 31 9:40 - 10:55

WSP6: Spectrum Sensing

Wednesday, October 31 9:40 - 12:00

WSP7: Signal Processing for Communications (A)

Wednesday, October 31 13:00 - 17:00

Resilient and Scalable Interactive Learning

Wednesday, October 31 14:00 - 15:15

BDML6: Internet of Battledfield Things (IoBT)(II)

Wednesday, October 31 14:00 - 17:00

CSTC7: Cyber Attack and Countermeasure II

CSTC8: Information Security

Wednesday, October 31 14:00 - 15:40