Program for MILCOM 2019 - 2019 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)
Tuesday, November 12
Tuesday, November 12 9:00 - 12:00
TUT-1: Hidden Outlier Interference and Its Mitigation
- Hidden Outlier Interference and Its Mitigation
Alexei V. Nikitin (Nonlinear LLC, USA); Ruslan L. Davidchack (University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
TUT-2: Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking Impacts to Military Networks
- Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking Impacts to Military Networks
William Kasch (IEEE, USA)
Tuesday, November 12 9:40 - 12:00
WSP-1: Modulation and Coding
- A Practical Method for BEP Estimation of Convolutional Coding in Impulse Noise Environments
Patrik Eliardsson, Erik Axell and Arwid Komulainen (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden); Kia Wiklundh (Qamcom Research and Technology, Sweden); Sara Örn Tengstrand (Sacnia CV AB, Sweden)
- Robust MIMO Communications Against Antenna Blockage and Interference
Yang Liu and Biao Chen (Syracuse University, USA); Janek Mroczek (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); John Malowicki (Air Force Research Lab & USA, USA); Richard Michalak (AFRL, USA)
- Space-Time Coded ARTM CPM for Aeronautical Telemetry
Chad Josephson (Brigham Young University, USA); Erik S. Perrins (University of Kansas, USA); Michael Rice (Brigham Young University, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Frequency-Selective High-Order Phase Shift Keying
Michael Fletcher (GIRD Systems, Inc., USA); Alan J Michaels (Virginia Tech & Hume Center for National Security and Technology, USA)
- Automatic Multi-cluster Frequency Correlation Modelling for Tactical VHF Channels in Mountainous Terrain
Mohamad Alkadamani (Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada); Colin Brown and Pierre Bouchard (CRC, Canada); Jeff Pugh (Defence Research and Development Canada, Canada)
Tuesday, November 12 9:40 - 11:35
NPP-1: Transport Protocols I
- Performance Evaluation of Transport Protocols in Tactical Network Environments
Alessandro Morelli and Roberto Fronteddu (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA); Michel O Provosty, iii (University of Florida & Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA)
- Understanding the Effects of TCP Tunneling on Approaching High Performance HAIPE-Encrypted Satellite Communication Systems
Qi Zhao (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Xin Tian and Genshe Chen (Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc, USA); Russell Harkanson (University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA); Yoohwan Kim (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA); Khanh D. Pham (Air Force Research Laboratory/Space Vehicles Directorate & University of New Mexico/Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, USA)
- Experimental Evaluation of Named Data Networking (NDN) in Tactical Environments
Lorenzo Campioni (IHMC, USA); Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy); Bastiaan Wissingh (TNO, The Netherlands); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA); Mariann Hauge and Lars Landmark (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway)
- Coffee Break
- Joint Flocking and Deconfliction in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms
Srijita Mukherjee and Kameswara Rao Namuduri (University of North Texas, USA)
Tuesday, November 12 9:40 - 12:00
CSTC-1: Information Security
- AI and Game Theory Based Autonomous UAV Swarm for Cybersecurity
M. Umit Uyar (City College of The City University of New York, USA); Janusz Kusyk (New York City College of Technology, USA); Kelvin Ma (City College of New York, USA); Joseph Plishka (I2WD, US Army RDECOM CERDEC, USA); Giorgio Bertoli (Chief, USA); Jeffrey Boksiner (US Army CCDC C5ISR Center, USA)
- Game-Theoretic Planning to Counter DDoS in NEMESIS
Eric van den Berg and Seth Robertson (Perspecta Labs, USA)
- Efficient and Robust Physical Layer Key Generation
Tianyi Peng, Wenhan Dai and Moe Z. Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Exploring the Application of Homomorphic Encryption to a Cross Domain Solution
Cody Tinker, Kevin Millar 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)
- On the Application of Key-Based Physical Layer Security in 5G Heterogeneous Networks
Anil Kumar Yerrapragada (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Patrick Ormond and Brian T Kelley (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
SYS-1: SATCOM - I
- Flexible Modem Interface Demonstration for Military Terminals
Kevin Zhang (Supinf Technologies, LLC, USA); Joe Vanderpoorten (Space and Missile Systems Center & USAF, USA); Gary Thompson (Space and Missile Systems Center, USAF & Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate, USA); David Brunnenmeyer (US Air Force & LinQuest Corp, SE&I, USA); Rajeev Gopal (Hughes Network Systems, LLC, USA); David Meadows (Knight Sky LLC, USA); Mark Dale (RT Logic, USA)
- On A Method to Evaluate Satellite Link Performance to Optimize Power
Lino A Gonzalez (1719 Melrose Ave, USA & JANUS Research Group, USA); Jerry Rippon (AASKI Technology, USA)
- Phase Noise, SATCOM and MIL-STD-188-165B
Lino A Gonzalez (1719 Melrose Ave, USA & JANUS Research Group, USA); Jerry Rippon (AASKI Technology, USA); John Besse (ACSYes INC, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Multi-User MIMO Satellite Communications with Secrecy Constraints
Matthias Schraml, Andreas Knopp and Kai-Uwe Storek (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)
- Outage Probability and Performance of Moderate-Length Codes Under Partial-Band Noise Jamming (PBNJ)
Lan K Nguyen (LinQuest Corporation, USA); Richard B. Wells (University of Idaho, USA); Duy H. N. Nguyen (San Diego State University, USA); Nghi H Tran (University of Akron, USA)
BDML-1: ML Applications
- Anomaly Detection with Graph Convolutional Networks for Insider Threat and Fraud Detection
Jianguo Jiang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Jiuming Chen and Tianbo Gu (University of California, Davis, USA); Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Chao Liu (Institude of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Min Yu and Weiqing Huang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)
- A Cognitive ML Agent for Airborne Networking
Dell Kronewitter, Sumner Lee and Kenneth Oliphant (Fuse Integration, USA)
- RSS-Based Q-Learning for Indoor UAV Navigation
Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury, Fatih Erden and Ismail Güvenç (North Carolina State University, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Aircraft Location Prediction Using Deep Learning
Damilola Adesina, Olutobi Adagunodo, Xishuang Dong and Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&M University, USA)
- Communications Aware Adversarial Residual Networks for over the Air Evasion Attacks
Bryse Flowers (University of California, San Diego, USA); R. Michael Buehrer and William C Headley (Virginia Tech, USA)
Tuesday, November 12 14:00 - 17:00
WSP-2: Signal Processing for Communication
- Satellite Digital Channelizer with Predistorted High-Power Amplifier
Madhuprana Goswami and Vidhi Rana (Wichita State University, USA); Hyuck Kwon (1845 N. Fairmount Ave, USA & Wichita State University, USA); Khanh D. Pham (Air Force Research Laboratory/Space Vehicles Directorate & University of New Mexico/Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, USA); James Lyke (Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, USA)
- Complementary Intermittently Nonlinear Filtering for Mitigation of Hidden Outlier Interference
Alexei V. Nikitin (Nonlinear LLC, USA); Ruslan L. Davidchack (University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
- Chirp Spread Spectrum Signaling for Future Air-Ground Communications
Nozhan Hosseini and David W Matolak (University of South Carolina, USA)
- Coffee Break
- FHSS Signal Separation Using Constrained Clustering
Parker D White, William C Headley and R. Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA)
- A Stacked Predictor and Dynamic Thresholding Algorithm for Anomaly Detection in Spacecraft
Tianyu Li (Purdue University, USA); Sundip Desai (Lockheed Martin Space, USA); Mary Comer (Purdue University, USA); James L. Mathieson (Advanced Technology Center Lockheed Martin Space, USA); Edward Delp (Purdue University & School of ECE, USA); Richard H. Foster (Lockheed Martin Space, USA); Moses Chan (Lockheed Martin, USA)
- The Potential Gains of Macrodiversity in mmWave Cellular Networks with Correlated Blocking
Enass Hriba and Matthew Valenti (West Virginia University, USA)
CSTC-3: Cyber Defense
- The NNBC Anti-DDoS Firewall
Gregory L Frazier, Jacob A McGill, Ruffy Zarookian, Benjamin Floyd and Patrick McNeely (Apogee Research, USA); Seth Robertson (Perspecta Labs, USA)
- An Online System Dependency Graph Anomaly Detection Based on Extended Weisfeiler-Lehman Kernel
Yongming Ben (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yanni Han, Ning Cai, Wei An and Zhen Xu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
- Hardening Containers for Cross-Domain Applications
Jason Dahlstrom and Jim Brock (Web Sensing LLC, USA); Mekedem Tenaw and Matthew Shaver (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Stephen Taylor (Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Runtime Detection of Userspace Implants
Aaron Pendergrass (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA); Nathan Hull (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA); John Clemens and Sarah Helble (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA); Mark Thober and Kathleen McGill (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA); Machon Gregory and Peter Loscocco (National Security Agency, USA)
- Analyzing Root Causes of Intrusion Detection False-Negatives: Methodology and Case Study
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 Colorado Colorado Springs, USA)
- Automating Distributed Firewalls: A Case for Software Defined Tactical Networks
Brent E Logan (Naval Postgraduate School & DoD, USA); Geoffrey G Xie (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
Tuesday, November 12 14:00 - 16:35
CSTC-2: Machine Learning for Cyber Security - Session One
- Detection of Encrypted Malicious Network Traffic Using Machine Learning
Michael De Lucia (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Chase Cotton (University of Delaware, USA)
- Synthetic Intrusion Alert Generation Through Generative Adversarial Networks
Christopher R Sweet, Stephen Moskal and Shanchieh Jay Yang (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
- A Case Study on Using Deep Learning for Network Intrusion Detection
Gabriel C Fernandez (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Shouhuai Xu (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Neural Malware Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Yu Wang (Microsoft Corporation, USA); Jack W. Stokes (Microsoft Research, USA); Mady Marinescu (Microsoft, USA)
- Detection of Prevalent Malware Families with Deep Learning
Jack W. Stokes (Microsoft Research, USA); Christian Seifert (Microsoft Corporation, USA); Jerry Li (Snap, USA); Nizar Hejazi (Uber Corporation, USA)
- When Autonomous Intelligent Goodware Will Fight Autonomous Intelligent Malware: A Possible Future of Cyber Defense
Paul Theron (Thales & Aerospace Cyber Resilience (Cyb'Air) Research Chair, France); Alexander Kott (United States Army Research Laboratory, USA)
Tuesday, November 12 14:00 - 17:00
SYS-2: System Design Considerations
- Framework for Interoperable Command and Control of Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations
Yuriy Posherstnik (DISA Defense Spectrum Organization, USA); Edward J Rocksvold (Defense Information Systems Agency, USA); William F Lussier (Defense Spectrum Organization & SAIC, USA); Michael R. Makowski (Peraton Corp, USA)
- Improving the Performance of Tactical Waveform Software Using Free and Open-Source Tools
Michael F Johnson (Naval Information Warfare Center - Atlantic, USA); Steven Boyd (Scientific Research Corporation & Spawar Systems Center Atlantic, USA); Brent Merle (Scientific Research Corporation, USA)
- Information Autonomy: Self-Adaptive Information Management for Edge-Assisted Autonomous UAV Systems
Davide Callegaro (University of California, Irvine, USA); Sabur Baidya (University of Louisville, USA); Gowri Ramachandran (Queensland University of Technology, Australia); Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA); Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Efficiently Composing Validated Systems Integration Gateways for Dynamic, Diverse Data
Colleen T Rock (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA); Nathaniel Soule (BBN Technologies, USA); Benjamin Toll and Emily Do (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA); James Milligan (US Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Matthew Paulini (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
- Effects from Mutual Coupling on Communication Link Reliability
Sofia Bergström and Tore Lindgren (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden)
- Adding an on off Keying (OOK) Communications Signal to a Free Space Optical Beacon Pointing Focal Plane Array System
Ryan Shoup (MIT/LL, USA)
BDML-2: ML for Signal Classification
- Developing RFML Intuition: An Automatic Modulation Classification Architecture Case Study
William Clark IV, Vanessa Arndorfer, Brook Tamir, Daniel Kim, Cristian Vives and Hunter Morris (Virginia Tech, USA); Lauren J Wong (Intel AI Lab, USA); William C Headley (Virginia Tech, USA)
- Distributed Automatic Modulation Classification with Compressed Data
Lauren J Wong (Intel AI Lab, USA); Parker D White, Michael Fowler and William C Headley (Virginia Tech, USA)
- Data Augmentation for Blind Signal Classification
Peng Wang and Manuel Vindiola (Army Research Laboratory, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Practical Radio Frequency Learning for Future Wireless Communication Systems
Damilola Adesina (Prairie View A&M University, USA); Joshua Bassey (CREDIT Center, PVAMU, USA); Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&M University, USA)
- Multiple Machine Learning Algorithms Comparison for Modulation Type Classification for Efficient Cognitive Radio
Inna Valieva, Mats Björkman and Johan Åkerberg (Malardalen University, Sweden); Mikael Ekström (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
- IoT: Smart City Parking Solutions with Metric-Chisini-Jensen-Shannon Divergence Based Kernels
Piyush K Sharma (Army Research Laboratory, USA); Adrienne Raglin (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), USA)
TUT-3: Positioning, Navigation, and Timing for Information Superiority: From Foundation to Operation
- Positioning, Navigation, and Timing for Information Superiority: From Foundation to Operation
Moe Z. Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Andrea Conti (DE and CNIT, University of Ferrara, Italy)
TUT-4: Towards Data-Centric Battlefields: Named Data Networking Services for Tactical Networks
- Towards Data-Centric Battlefields: Named Data Networking Services for Tactical Networks
Alexander Afanasyev (Florida International University, USA); Tamer Refaei (The MITRE Corporation, USA); Lixia Zhang (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Wednesday, November 13
Wednesday, November 13 9:00 - 12:00
TUT-5: Real-time Aspects of Mobile Communication Networks
- Real-time Aspects of Mobile Communication Networks
Pavel Loskot (ZJU-UIUC Institute, China); Salman Alshehri (Swansea University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Michael Hirsch (ISEA TEK LLC, USA)
TUT-6: 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)
Wednesday, November 13 9:40 - 12:00
WSP-3: Tracking and Acquisition
- Adaptive Kalman Tracking for Indoor Visible Light Positioning
Yusuf Said Eroglu, Fatih Erden and Ismail Güvenç (North Carolina State University, USA)
- Data Association for Tracking Extended Targets
Florian Meyer (University of California San Diego, USA); Moe Z. Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- Event-Triggered Synchronization for Mobile Distributed Transmit Beamforming
Dmitry Kramarev, Ishtiaq Ahmad, Kelvin J Layton, Marc Lavenant, Hidayat Soetiyono and Gottfried Lechner (University of South Australia, Australia); Hajime Suzuki (CSIRO, Australia); Ian Grivell and Stephen Leak (Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia)
- Coffee Break
- An Acquisition Technique for LTE over Satellite
Xiangdong Liu (Lockheed Martin Space, USA); Dilip S Gokhale (Lockheed Martin IS&GS, USA)
- HopSAC: Frequency Hopping Parameter Estimation Based on Random Sample Consensus for Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Brandon F Lo (SkySafe, Inc., USA); Scott Torborg (Skysafe Inc., USA); Chun Kin Au Yeung (Skysafe Inc, USA)
Wednesday, November 13 9:40 - 10:55
NPP-2: Software Defined Networking
- An Effective Load Balanced Controller Placement Approach in Software-Defined WANs
Ning Cai and Yanni Han (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yongming Ben (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Wei An and Zhen Xu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
- Dandelion: A Novel, High-Level Programming System for Software Defined Coalitions with Local State Sharing
Xin Wang (Yale University, USA); Qiao Xiang (Xiamen University, USA); Jeremy Tucker (Defence Science and Technology Laboratories, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Vinod Mishra (ARL, USA); Y. Richard Yang (Yale University, USA)
- An Integrated Software-Defined Battlefield Network Testbed for Tactical Scenario Emulation
Qi Zhao (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Adam Brown (Boeing Research & Technology, USA); Jae H Kim (Boeing Research & Technology & The Boeing Company, USA); Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Wednesday, November 13 9:40 - 12:00
CSTC-4: Network Security Technologies
- Optimal Timing of Moving Target Defense: A Stackelberg Game Model
Henger Li and Zizhan Zheng (Tulane University, USA)
- VulnerVAN: A Vulnerable Network Generation Tool
Sridhar Venkatesan (Peraton Labs, USA)
- A System for Analyzing Diversified Software Binaries
David Reyes (University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Jaime C Acosta (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA); Adriana Escobar De La Torre (University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Salamah Salamah (UTEP, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Towards Optimal Cyber Defense Remediation in Cyber Physical Systems by Balancing Operational Resilience and Strategic Risk
Kamrul Hasan (Tennessee State University, USA); Sachin Shetty (Old Dominion University, USA); Amin Hassanzadeh (Accenture Technology Labs, USA); Sharif Ullah (Old Dominion University, USA)
- Denial of Service Detection & Mitigation Scheme Using Responsive Autonomic Virtual Networks (RAvN)
Allen Starke (University of Florida, USA); Zixiang Nie (University of South Florida, USA); Morgan Hodges (University of Florida, USA); Corey E Baker (University of Kentucky, USA); Janise McNair (University of Florida, USA)
SYS-3: SATCOM - II
- A MBSE Approach to Satellite Clock Time and Frequency Adjustment in Highly Elliptical Orbit
Elliot J Weiss, Linh-Thao Chung and Lan K Nguyen (LinQuest Corporation, USA)
- Wideband Automated Planning Tool (WAPT) Prototype Development
Richard L Gobbi (LinQuest Corporation, USA); Jonathon Hay, Nathan Tanner, Larry Lipke and Scot Miller (LinQuest, USA); John Kirk (Army, USA)
- An Open Standard for Ka-band Interoperable Satellite Antennas
Eric Cross (Viasat, USA)
- Coffee Break
- SATCOM Digital IF Stream Rate Considerations for Earth Segment Transport
Armando J Vigil (Systek & PEO-EIS / PM DCATS, USA); Dahesh A Khalil (Product Manager, Wideband Enterprise Satellite Systems (PdM WESS), USA)
- An Algorithmic Approach to Highly Resilient Satcom
Lan K Nguyen (LinQuest Corporation, USA); Joseph Tringe (Air Force, USA); Clay Bosler (LinQuest, USA); David Brunnenmeyer (US Air Force & LinQuest Corp, SE&I, USA)
Wednesday, November 13 11:10 - 12:00
NPP-3: Network Analysis
- Data Collection and Analysis Framework for Mobile Ad Hoc Network Research
Scott Arbiv (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Rahul Amin (MIT Lincoln Laboratories, USA); Thomas Goff (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Dow Street (Linquest, USA); Igor Pedan (AIRXOS Inc. & GE Aviation, USA); Larry Bressler (MIT LL, USA); Terrence Gibbons (MIT-LL, USA); Bow-Nan Cheng and Chayil Timmerman (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
- Identifying Bottleneck Nodes Using Packet Delay Statistics
Joshua Marker, John M. Shea and Tan Wong (University of Florida, USA); Eric Graves (6245 Deep Earth Ln & ARL, USA); Paul Yu (Army Research Laboratory, USA)
Wednesday, November 13 14:00 - 17:00
WSP-4: Secure Communication
- Physical Layer Firewall Design Using Co-Channel Underlay-Based Watermark Authentication
Michael Fletcher (GIRD Systems, Inc., USA); Alan J Michaels (Virginia Tech & Hume Center for National Security and Technology, USA)
- Deep Learning for an Anti-Jamming CPM Receiver
Yifeng Qiu (Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada); Colin Brown (CRC, Canada); Li Li (DRDC, Canada)
- Cooperative UAV Jammer for Enhancing Physical Layer Security: Robust Design for Jamming Power and Trajectory
Yujung Roh (KAIST, Korea (South)); Seungjae Jung (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea (South)); Joonhyuk Kang (KAIST, Korea (South))
- Coffee Break
- Secure Transmission via Lens Antenna Array in Millimeter Wave MISO Systems
Hyojin Lee (KAIST, Korea (South)); Wanjik Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Joonhyuk Kang (KAIST, Korea (South))
- Achievable Information-Theoretic Secrecy in the Presence of a Radar
Bo Guan (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Dennis Goeckel (University of Massachusetts, USA)
- Assessing Anti-Jamming Performance of Directional Wireless Links
Feng Ouyang (Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab, USA); Oscar Somerlock (JHU APL, USA); Arnab Das (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA); David Bengtson (JHU/APL, USA)
NPP-4: Routing
- Stochastic Packet Forwarding Algorithm in Flying Ad Hoc Networks
Cong Pu (Oklahoma State University, USA)
- QFloor: Queue Delay Reduction in Dynamic Backpressure Networks
Laura Poplawski Ma, Stephen Zabele, Christophe J. Merlin, Gregory Lauer and Stephen Dabideen (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA)
- G3M: A Heuristic for Low-Latency Multicast Back-Pressure Forwarding
Stephen Dabideen, Stephen Zabele, Gregory Lauer, Christophe J. Merlin and Laura Poplawski Ma (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Modeling Resource Limited Cooperative Broadcasting Using Hard Core Poisson Process
Wenjun Huang, Xu Li, Hancheng Ma and Yanan Liang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
- Improving Tactical Voice Communications Using Cooperative Broadcast over a Narrowband Channel
Arwid Komulainen, Jimmi Grönkvist and Ulf Sterner (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden); Ulrika Uppman (Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden)
- VINE: Zero-Control-Packet Routing for Ultra-Low-Capacity Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Ayush Dusia (VMware Inc. & University of Delaware, USA); Ram Ramanathan, Warren Ramanathan and Christophe Servaes (GOTENNA, USA); Adarshpal Sethi (University of Delaware, USA)
Wednesday, November 13 14:00 - 16:35
CSTC-5: Machine Learning for Cyber Security - Session Two
- ScriptNet: Neural Static Analysis for Malicious JavaScript Detection
Jack W. Stokes (Microsoft Research, USA); Rakshit Agrawal (Camio, USA); Geoff McDonald (Microsoft Corporation, Canada); Matthew Hausknecht (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Insights into Malware Detection via Behavioral Frequency Analysis Using Machine Learning
Aaron Walker and Shamik Sengupta (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
- An Intelligent System for Preventing SSL Stripping-based Session Hijacking Attacks
Mainuddin Ahmad Jonas, Risul Islam and Md Shohrab Hossain (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Husnu S Narman (Marshall University, USA); Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Domain Flux-based DGA Botnet Detection Using Feedforward Neural Network
Protick Bhowmick, Md. Ishtiaq Ashiq and Md Shohrab Hossain (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Husnu S Narman (Marshall University, USA)
- Rumor Detection on Time-Series of Tweets via Deep Learning
Chandra Mouli Madhav Kotteti, Xishuang Dong and Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&M University, USA)
Wednesday, November 13 14:00 - 16:10
SYS-4: Tactical Networking and Spectrum Operations - I
- Tiered Unassisted Neighbor Discovery in Directional Networks
Matthew Sherman, Joseph Stepien and Matthew Rasa (BAE Systems, USA); Nicholas Sherman (Olin College of Engineering, USA)
- AWS-3 Interference Mitigation: Improving Spectrum Sharing with LTE & 5G Uplink Spectrum Control
Yuriy Posherstnik (DISA Defense Spectrum Organization, USA); Howard McDonald (DISA & DSO, USA); Mike E DiFrancisco (Virginia Tech Applied Research Corp. & Virginia Tech, USA); Anthony Rennier (Foundry, Inc., USA); Jeffery Correia, Venkatesh Ramaswamy, Cameron Patterson and Darcy Swain Walsh (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
- Portable Programmable Layer 3 QoS for Tactical MANETs: A P4/PSA-Based Architectural Approach
Alexander Poylisher (Peraton Labs, USA); Yitzchak M. Gottlieb (Perspecta Labs, USA); Latha Kant (Perspecta Labs - Formerly Bellcore, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Combined Interference and Communications Strategy as a Defense Mechanism in Cognitive Radio Military Networks
Marcelo José Camilo (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil); Ronaldo M Salles (Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil); David Moura (CTEx & INTRIG - Information & Networking Technologies Research & Innovation Group, Brazil)
Wednesday, November 13 14:00 - 15:15
BDML-3: ML for RF Fingerprinting
- Securing IoT RF Fingerprinting Systems with Generative Adversarial Networks
Kevin Merchant (Two Six Labs, LLC, USA); Bryan Nousain (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
- Enhanced RF Fingerprinting for IoT Devices with Recurrent Neural Networks
Kevin Merchant (Two Six Labs, LLC, USA); Bryan Nousain (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
- Impairment Shift Keying: Covert Signaling by Deep Learning of Controlled Radio Imperfections
Kunal Sankhe, Francesco Restuccia, Salvatore D'Oro, Tong Jian, Zifeng Wang, Amani Al-Shawabka, Jennifer Dy, Tommaso Melodia, Stratis Ioannidis and Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA)
Wednesday, November 13 14:00 - 17:00
TUT-7: RF Situational Awareness, Decision Making, Performance Optimization and Networking in Transponded SATCOM Systems
- RF Situational Awareness, Decision Making, Performance Optimization and Networking in Transponded SATCOM Systems
Khanh D. Pham (Air Force Research Laboratory/Space Vehicles Directorate & University of New Mexico/Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, USA); Dan Shen (Intelligent Fusion Technology, USA); Xin Tian (Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc, USA)
TUT-8: Adversarial Radio Frequency Machine Learning (RFML) Using PyTorch
- Adversarial Radio Frequency Machine Learning (RFML) Using PyTorch
Bryse Flowers (University of California, San Diego, USA); William C Headley (Virginia Tech, USA)
Wednesday, November 13 15:45 - 17:00
BDML-4: ML for Communications
- Intelligent Decentralized Dynamic Power Allocation in MANET at Tactical Edge Based on Mean-Field Game Theory
Zejian Zhou (University of Nevada, Reno, USA); Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&M University, USA); Hao Xu (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
- QoS and Jamming-Aware Wireless Networking Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Nof Abu Zainab (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA); Tugba Erpek (Virginia Tech, USA); Kemal Davaslioglu (University Technical Services & Maryland Advanced Development Laboratories, University Research Foundation, USA); Yalin E Sagduyu (Virginia Tech, USA); Yi Shi (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA); Sharon Mackey (CERDEC Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate, USA); Mitesh Patel (CERDEC - S&TCD, USA); Frank Panettieri (US Army C5ISR Center, Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate, USA); Muhammad Qureshi (PEO C3T, USA); Volkan Isler (University of Minnesota, USA); Aylin Yener (The Ohio State University, USA)
- An Empirical Analysis of Plugin-Based Tor Traffic over SSH Tunnel
Zhong Guan (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & School of Cyber Security, China); Gaopeng Gou (Institute of Information Engineering，Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yangyang Guan and Bingxu Wang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Thursday, November 14
Thursday, November 14 9:00 - 12:00
TUT-9: The Business and Technology of Quantum Computing, Quantum Algorithms for the Warfighter
- The Business and Technology of Quantum Computing, Quantum Algorithms for the Warfighter
Steven Silverman (UCLA Howard Samueli School of Engineering, USA); Daniel Campbell (Booz ALlen Hamilton, USA); Gideon Bass, Casey Tomlin and JD Dulny (Booz Allen Hamilton, USA)
TUT-10: Deep Learning for RF Signal Classification and Fingerprinting
- Deep Learning for RF Signal Classification and Fingerprinting
Kaushik Chowdhury, Stratis Ioannidis and Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)
Thursday, November 14 9:40 - 11:35
WSP-5: Wireless Networks
- Optimizing Drone Deployment for Cellular Communication Coverage During Crowded Events
Chérifa Boucetta (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne & Crestic, France); Aicha Dridi (Telecom Sud Paris, France); Hassine Moungla (Université de Paris & Instiut Mines Telecom, France); Hossam Afifi (Télécom SudParis, Institut Telecom & Paris Saclay, France); Ahmed E. Kamal (Iowa State University, USA)
- SSB and DSB Enabled Hybrid Waveforms for the Space-Ground Link System
Dan Shen (Intelligent Fusion Technology, USA); Khanh D. Pham (Air Force Research Laboratory/Space Vehicles Directorate & University of New Mexico/Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, USA); Genshe Chen (Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc, USA)
- A Multi-waveform Radio Receiver, an Example of Machine Learning Enabled Radio Architecture and Design
Wade Leonard, Alex Saunders, Michael Calabro and Katherine Olsen (Booz Allen Hamilton, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Very High Throughput Internet of Things Networks with K Access Points and K Devices
Anil Kumar Yerrapragada (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Brian T Kelley (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
NPP-5: Wireless I
- Reinforcement Learning-Enabled Reliable Wireless Sensor Networks in Dynamic Underground Environments
Hongzhi Guo and Bincy Ben (Norfolk State University, USA)
- Optimal Power Control with Channel Uncertainty in Ad Hoc Networks
Shaoran Li, Thomas Hou and Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech, USA); Brian Jalaian (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Stephen Russell (United States Army Research Laboratory, USA); Benjamin MacCall (CCDC Army Research Laboratory, USA)
- Massive MIMO for Tactical Ad-hoc Networks in RF Contested Environments
Asanka Kekirigoda and Kin-Ping Hui (Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia); Qingqing Cheng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Zhipeng Lin (NanJing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); J. Andrew Zhang, Diep N. Nguyen and Xiaojing Huang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
- Coffee Break
- Autonomic Clustering in Temporal Network Graphs
Joseph P. Macker and Jeffery W Weston (Naval Research Laboratory, USA); David J Claypool (NRL, USA)
Thursday, November 14 9:40 - 12:00
CSTC-6: IoT Security
- IoTSpot: Identifying the IoT Devices Using Their Anonymous Network Traffic Data
Liangdong Deng and Yuzhou Feng (Florida International University, USA); Dong Chen (Colorado School of Mines, USA); Naphtali Rishe (Florida International University, USA)
- Real-Time and Embedded Deep Learning on FPGA for RF Signal Classification
Sohraab Soltani (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Yalin E Sagduyu (Virginia Tech, USA); Raqibul Hasan (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Kemal Davaslioglu (University Technical Services & Maryland Advanced Development Laboratories, University Research Foundation, USA); Hongmei Deng (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA); Tugba Erpek (Virginia Tech, USA)
- A Gini Index-Based Countermeasure Against Sybil Attack in the Internet of Things
Bryan Groves (Marshall University, USA); Cong Pu (Oklahoma State University, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Scalable Blockchain Implementation for Edge-based Internet of Things Platform
Abel O Gomez Rivera (Sandia National Laboratories & University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Deepak K Tosh (University of Texas, El Paso, USA); Laurent Njilla (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
- Privacy-preserving Crowd-sensing for Dynamic Spectrum Access
Erald Troja (St. John's University, USA); Joshua M Gitter (Iona College, USA)
Thursday, November 14 9:40 - 11:35
SYS-5: Tactical Networking and Spectrum Operations - II
- Managing Video Streaming in Tactical Networks
Roberto Fronteddu (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Daniel Reyes Duran (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA); Adrien M Moucheboeuf (Florida Institute For Human and Machine Cognition, USA); 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)
- High Fidelity LTE Waveform Modeling for Commercial-DoD Spectrum Sharing: Characteristics and Methods
Yuriy Posherstnik (DISA Defense Spectrum Organization, USA); Howard McDonald (DISA & DSO, USA); Darcy Swain Walsh, Jeffery Correia, Venkatesh Ramaswamy and Cameron Patterson (The MITRE Corporation, USA); Anthony Rennier (Foundry, Inc., USA); Mike E DiFrancisco (Virginia Tech Applied Research Corp. & Virginia Tech, USA)
- Experiments with a Queuing Mechanism over Ever-Changing Datarates in a VHF Network
Roberto Rigolin F. Lopes (Thales, Germany); Pooja Hanavadi Balaraju (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Adrian Toribio Silva (Technical University of Madrid, Spain); Paulo Henrique Rettore and Peter Sevenich (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany)
- Coffee Break
- Spectrum Sharing Test and Demonstration Program: Key Findings and Implications
Yuriy Posherstnik (DISA Defense Spectrum Organization, USA); Anthony Rennier (Foundry, Inc., USA); Howard McDonald (DISA & DSO, USA); Kalle Kontson (John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA); Mike E DiFrancisco (Virginia Tech Applied Research Corp. & Virginia Tech, USA); Jerry Hampton (JHU/APL, USA); Jeffery Correia (The MITRE Corporation, USA); Steven D. Jones (The Johns Hopkins University, USA)
BDML-5: Interpretable & Adversarial Machine Learning (Invited)
- On Reliability of Interpretability Mechanisms
Supriyo Chakraborty (IBM, USA)
- Adversaries on Large-Scale Networks: Detection and Defense
Vassilis N. Ioannidis and Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Multi-Domain Effects and the Internet of Battlefield Things
Stephen Russell (United States Army Research Laboratory, USA); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA)
Thursday, November 14 14:00 - 15:15
NPP-6: Wireless II
- P4-based Hybrid Error Control Booster Providing New Design Tradeoffs in Wireless Network
Anthony J McAuley and Yitzchak M. Gottlieb (Perspecta Labs, USA); Latha Kant (Perspecta Labs - Formerly Bellcore, USA); John Lee (PerspectaLabs, USA); Alexander Poylisher (Peraton Labs, USA)
- Mitigation of Civilian-to-Military Interference in DSRC for Urban Operations
Seungmo Kim and Tsigigenet Dessalgn (Georgia Southern University, USA)
- CH-MAC: A Cluster-based, Hybrid TDMA MAC Protocol over Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
Hoyong Choi (KAIST, Korea (South)); Jihwan Bang (Search Solutions, Inc., Korea (South)); Namjo Ahn and Jinhwan Jung (KAIST, Korea (South)); Jungwook Choi and SooBum Park (LIG Nex1 co., ltd., Korea (South)); Yung Yi (KAIST, Korea (South))
Thursday, November 14 14:00 - 16:35
CSTC-7: Cyber Attack & Counter Measures
- Dynamic Generation of Empirical Cyberattack Models with Engineered Alert Features
Ahmet Okutan, Fu-Yuan Cheng, Shao-Hsuan Su and Shanchieh Jay Yang (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
- Detecting Cellphone Camera Status at Distance by Exploiting Electromagnetic Emanations
Baki B Yilmaz, Elvan Ugurlu, Milos Prvulovic and Alenka Zajic (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
- Model-Guided Infection Prediction and Active Defense Using Context- Specific Cybersecurity Observations
Hasan Cam (Army Research Laboratory, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Warder: Online Insider Threat Detection System Using Multi-Feature Modeling and Graph-Based Correlation
Jianguo Jiang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Jiuming Chen and Tianbo Gu (University of California, Davis, USA); Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Chao Liu (Institude of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Min Yu and Weiqing Huang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)
- Are We There Yet Monitoring the Technical Deployment of the National Segments of the Internet
Veikko Siukonen and Mari Ristolainen (Finnish Defence Research Agency, Finland); Juha Kukkola (National Defence University, Finland); Juha-Pekka Nikkarila (Finnish Defence Research Agency, Finland)
NATO: Special Session on NATO Interoperability and Information Sharing
- On the Use of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) in Support of Developing the Commander's Understanding of the Adversary
Manisha Parmar (NATO CIS Agency, The Netherlands); Alberto Domingo (NATO Allied Command Transformation, USA)
- Coalition C3 Information Exchange Using Binary Symbolic Vectors
Graham Bent (IBM UK, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chris Simpkin and Ian Taylor (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alun Preece (Crime and Security Research Institute, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Richard Tomsett (IBM UK, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Raghu Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA); Olwen Worthington (Dstl, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
- Leveraging and Fusing Civil and Military Sensors to Support Disaster Relief Operations in Smart Environments
Konrad Wrona (NATO Communications and Information Agency, The Netherlands & Military University of Technology, Poland); Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA); Michał Marks (Research and Academic Computer Network, Poland)
- Coffee Break
- Enabling Interoperability for ROS-based Robotic Devices for Smart City HADR Operations
Manas Pradhan and Sushma Devaramani (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany)
- Towards Mature Federated Cyber Incident Management and Information Sharing Capabilities in NATO and in NATO Nations
Sarah Brown (NATO Communications and Information Agency, The Netherlands); Tamsin Moye (NCI Agency, The Netherlands); Rob Hubertse (NL Ministry of Defence Cyber Security Center, The Netherlands); Cezar Glavan (National Cyberint Center Romania, The Netherlands)
Thursday, November 14 14:00 - 17:00
BDML-6: Special Session on IoBT
- MARGOT: Dynamic IoT Resource Discovery for HADR Environments
Lorenzo Campioni (IHMC, USA); Rita Lenzi (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Filippo Poltronieri (University of Ferrara, Italy); Manas Pradhan (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany); Mauro Tortonesi and Cesare Stefanelli (University of Ferrara, Italy); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA)
- A Dynamic Transport Overlay System for Mission-Oriented Dispersed Computing over IoBT
Adrian Conway (BAE Systems, USA); Michael Wang (BAE Systems, Inc., USA); Emir Ljuca and David Lebling (BAE Systems, USA)
- The Case for Robust Adaptation: Autonomic Resource Management is a Vulnerability
Joseph Noor (University of Califorinia, Los Angeles, USA); Ahmed Ali-Eldin (UMass, Amherst, USA); Luis A Garcia (University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, USA); Chirag Rao (US Army Research Laboratory & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Venkat Dasari (Secure Mission Solutions, Inc, USA); Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA); Brian Jalaian (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA); Mani B. Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
- Coffee Break
- Human EMF Exposure in Wearable Networks for Internet of Battlefield Things
Imtiaz Nasim (Florida International University, USA); Seungmo Kim (Georgia Southern University, USA)
- Application of Trust Assessment Techniques to IoBT Systems
Ioannis Agadakos, Gabriela F. Ciocarlie, Bogdan Copos and Michael Emmi (SRI International, USA); Jemin George (Army Research Laboratory, USA); Nandi Leslie (CCDC Army Research Laboratory & Raytheon, USA); James Michaelis (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), USA)
- Evaluating Usability of Permissioned Blockchain for Internet-of-Battlefield Things Security
Erick D Buenrostro (The University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Abel O Gomez Rivera (Sandia National Laboratories & University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Deepak K Tosh (University of Texas, El Paso, USA); Jaime C Acosta (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA); Laurent Njilla (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
TUT-11: Getting to Understand Software Model Checking - An Essential Technology for Cybersecurity
- Getting to Understand Software Model Checking - An Essential Technology for Cybersecurity
Suraj Kothari (Iowa state University, USA)
TUT-12: 5G Demystified: Architecture and Technologies
- 5G Demystified: Architecture and Technologies
Jack L. Burbank (US Army CERDEC & Sabre Systems, USA)
Thursday, November 14 15:45 - 17:00
NPP-7: Transport Protocols II
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