IEEE CAMAD 2016: Program

Toronto time	Sunday, October 23		Monday, October 24		Tuesday, October 25
8:00 ‑ 8:30					S3: Special Session 3
8:30 ‑ 8:45	Opening and Welcome		K2: Keynote 2 - Machine-to-Machine Communications in Smart Cities
8:45 ‑ 9:30		K1: Keynote 1 -Enabling Technologies for Smart City Platforms
9:30 ‑ 9:40
9:40 ‑ 9:45
9:45 ‑ 10:00					T - 2: Tutorial 2 - On System-Level Analysis & Design of Cellular Networks: The Magic of Stochastic Geometry (from modeling to experimental validation)
10:00 ‑ 10:45	RS - 2: Regular Session 2	RS - 1: Regular Session 1	RS - 6: Regular Session 6	RS - 5: Regular Session 5
10:45 ‑ 11:00
11:00 ‑ 11:20					S2: Special Session 2
11:20 ‑ 11:40
11:40 ‑ 12:00
12:00 ‑ 12:30			Demo: Demo Session
12:30 ‑ 14:00	T - 1: Tutorial 1 - Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensors for Smart Cities	RS - 3: Regular Session 3		RS - 7: Regular Session 7 T - 3: Tutorial 3 - Advancing into Big Sensed Data Evolution and Challenges
14:00 ‑ 14:10		RS - 3: Regular Session 3
14:10 ‑ 14:30
14:30 ‑ 15:50		RS - 4: Regular Session 4		S1: Special Session 1
15:50 ‑ 16:00
16:00 ‑ 16:10
16:10 ‑ 18:00
18:00 ‑ 18:30	SOC1: Social Program - Welcome Reception
18:30 ‑ 20:30	SOC1: Social Program - Welcome Reception		SOC2: Gala Dinner
20:30 ‑ 21:30			SOC2: Gala Dinner

Sunday, October 23

Sunday, October 23 8:30 - 8:45

Opening and Welcome

IEEE CAMAD 2016 General and TPC Co-Chairs

Room: Tecumseh Auditorium w/Courtyard Lounge

Chair: Jelena Mišić (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

Sunday, October 23 8:45 - 9:45

K1: Keynote 1 -Enabling Technologies for Smart City Platforms

Alberto Leon-Garcia (University of Toronto)

Room: Tecumseh Auditorium w/Courtyard Lounge

Chair: Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Sunday, October 23 10:00 - 11:40

RS - 1: Regular Session 1

Design Modeling and Analysis of Wireless

Room: Tecumseh Auditorium w/Courtyard Lounge

Chair: Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada)

10:00 Variable Step-Size Strategy for Distributed Parameter Estimation of Compressible Systems in WSNs: Muhammad Omer Bin Saeed (Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Azzedine Zerguine (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Muhammad S. Sohail (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Saad Rehman (NUST COLLEGE OF EME, Pakistan); Waleed Ejaz (Lakehead University, Canada); Alagan Anpalagan (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
10:20 On the Performance of Vehicular Communications with a Measurement-Based Radio Propagation Model: Saeed Bastani (Ericsson, Sweden); Daniel Tomás (UPC, Spain); Mehmet Karaca (Lund University, Sweden)
10:40 Procedure-Based Development Platform for Communication Protocol Stack Software: Taeil Eom, Woo-Yong Lee, Do-Young Lee and Jong-Han Kim (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea (South)); Woonhaing Hur (SOC Development & Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))
11:00 Q-Learning Enhanced Gradient Based Routing for Balancing Energy Consumption in WSNs: Bazyli Debowski, Petros Spachos and Shawki Areibi (University of Guelph, Canada)
11:20 Efficient Algorithm Selection for Packet Classification using Machine Learning: Mohammed Elmahgiubi (University of Guelph); Omar F. Ahmed (Advanced Micro Devices & AMD, Canada); Shawki Areibi and Gary Grewal (University of Guelph, Canada)

RS - 2: Regular Session 2

Design Modeling and Analysis of Wireless

Room: Tecumseh Auditorium w/Courtyard Lounge

Chair: Jelena Mišić (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

10:00 On the Upper Bound for the Time to Rendezvous in Multi-hop Cognitive Radio Networks: Vitalio Alfonso Reguera (Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba); Erik Ortiz Guerra (Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas, Cuba); Carlos Manuel García Algora (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium & Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas, Cuba); Ann Nowé and Kris Steenhaut (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
10:20 Latency-Aware Segmentation and Trust System Placement in Smart Grid SCADA Networks: Md Mahmud Hasan and Hussein T. Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)
10:40 On the Performance of a Dual-hop Network with a Mobile Relay in a Nakagami Fading Environment: Constantine Mukasa (Northeastern University, USA); Valentine Aalo (Florida Atlantic University, USA); George Efthymoglou (University of Piraeus, Greece)
11:00 Coverage Probability of the Downlink in HetNets Considering User Clustering and Dependence: Chao Li, Abbas Yongacoglu and Claude D'Amours (University of Ottawa, Canada)
11:20 Least Square Optimization of Pilot Sequence Length for Massive MIMO Systems: Noha Hassan and Kaamran Raahemifar (Ryerson University, Canada); Xavier N Fernando (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada & Ryerson University, Canada)

Sunday, October 23 12:30 - 14:10

RS - 3: Regular Session 3

Cloud Computing and Networks

Room: Tecumseh Auditorium w/Courtyard Lounge

Chair: Berk Canberk (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

12:30 An Efficient Method for Mobile Big Data Transfer Over HetNet in Emerging 5G Systems: Richa Siddavaatam and Isaac Woungang (Ryerson University, Canada); Glaucio Carvalho (Brock University, Canada); Alagan Anpalagan (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
12:50 Dynamic Traffic Steering of Multi-Tenant Virtualized Network Functions in SDN enabled Data Centers: Aris Leivadeas (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Matthias Falkner (Cisco, Germany); Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada); George Kesidis (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
13:10 Performance Analysis of Virtualized Network Functions on Virtualized Systems Architectures: Matthias Falkner (Cisco, Germany); Aris Leivadeas (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada); George Kesidis (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
13:30 A Novel SDN Controller for Traffic Recovery and Load Balancing in Data Centers: Davide Adami (CNIT Pisa Research Unit, University of Pisa, Italy); Stefano Giordano, Michele Pagano and Giuseppe Portaluri (University of Pisa, Italy)
13:50 Bayesian Workload Scheduling in Multimedia Cloud Networks: Lilatul Ferdouse (Ryerson University, Canada); Mushu Li (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada); Ling Guan (Ryerson University, Canada); Alagan Anpalagan (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

Sunday, October 23 12:30 - 14:00

T - 1: Tutorial 1 - Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensors for Smart Cities

Xavier Fernando, (Ryerson University)

Room: Thomas Lounge

Sunday, October 23 14:30 - 16:10

RS - 4: Regular Session 4

Green Wireless Communication

Room: Tecumseh Auditorium w/Courtyard Lounge

Chair: Christos Verikoukis (University of Patras, Greece)

14:30 Optimal Charging Framework for Electric Vehicles on the Wireless Charging Highway: Cuiyu Kong (North Carolina State University, USA); Michael Devetsikiotis (University of New Mexico, USA)
14:50 Tuning of LTE/LTE-A DRX parameters: Hawar Ramazanali (Halmstad University & Saab Training & Simulation, Sweden); Alexey Vinel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Sunday, October 23 18:00 - 20:30

SOC1: Social Program - Welcome Reception

Room: OAK Oakham Lounge

Monday, October 24

Monday, October 24 8:30 - 9:30

K2: Keynote 2 - Machine-to-Machine Communications in Smart Cities

Hussein T. Mouftah (University of Ottawa)

Room: Tecumseh Auditorium w/Courtyard Lounge

Chair: Jelena Mišić (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

Monday, October 24 10:00 - 11:40

RS - 5: Regular Session 5

Room: Tecumseh Auditorium w/Courtyard Lounge

10:00 Impact of Orientation and Wire Placement on Received Signal Strengths: Nicholas M. Boers and Derek Mak (MacEwan University, Canada)
10:20 Detection of M-ary OFDM Systems with CPM Mapper over Multipath Channels: Emammer Shafter (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
10:40 On SC-FDMA Resource Allocation with Power Control: Ghafour Ahani (Komar University of Science and Technology, Iraq); Di Yuan (Uppsala University, Sweden); Wei Ding (Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain))
11:00 Joint Uplink-Downlink Carrier Aggregation Scheme in LTE-A: Nizar Zorba (Qatar University, Qatar); Christos Verikoukis (University of Patras, Greece)
11:20 Dynamic Power Adjustment and Resource Allocation Framework for LTE Networks: Gokhan Secinti (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Muge ErelOzcevik (Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey); Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA); Berk Canberk (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Monday, October 24 10:00 - 11:20

RS - 6: Regular Session 6

Internet of Things

Room: Thomas Lounge

10:00 On the Classification of Mobile Broadband Applications: I-Ching Hsieh (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Li-Ping Tung (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Bao-Shuh Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
10:20 Using Mobile Environment Sensors for Wellness Monitoring: Madison McCarthy and Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada)
10:40 Network Coding in Internet of Things: Farzad Amirjavid (University of Toronto, Canada); Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada); Liang Song (OMESH Networks Inc., Canada); Konstantinos Plataniotis (University of Toronto, Canada)

Monday, October 24 12:00 - 16:00

Demo: Demo Session

Room: Tecumseh Auditorium w/Courtyard Lounge

12:00 Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Network with Energy Conscious Opportunistic Routing: Madison McCarthy and Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada)
12:48 A Mobile Platform for Sociability-based Continuous Identification: Fazel Anjomshoa (Clarkson University, USA); Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada); Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa & Ericsson, Canada); Stephanie Schuckers (Clarkson University, USA)
13:36 Monitoring Colluding Behavior in MANETs using Game Theory: Laurent Njilla (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Harold Ouete and Dean Doungwa (University of Douala, Cameroon)
14:24 overload-states downlink resource scheduling and its challenges towards 5G networks: Nasim Ferdosian (Curtin University, Australia); Mohamed Othman (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia); Borhanuddin M Ali (Faculty of Engineering & Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia); Kweh Yeah Lun (Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia)
15:12 3D Simulation Software Platform For 5G Channel Modeling and Analysis: Florian Letourneux (Siradel, Canada); Yves Lostanlen (University of Toronto, Canada); Yoann Corre (SIRADEL, France)

Monday, October 24 12:30 - 14:00

RS - 7: Regular Session 7

Room: Thomas Lounge

12:30 On QoE-awareness through Virtualized Probes in 5G Networks: Christos Tselios (University of Patras & ISI, Greece); George Tsolis (Citrix Systems Inc.)
12:52 Simulation Tools for the Design of Mesh Backhaul and Small-cell Networks in Millimeter-wave Band: Yoann Corre (SIRADEL, France); Laurent Maviel (SIRADEL); Yves Lostanlen (University of Toronto, Canada)
13:15 A Study on Energy Used to Deliver H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC Video Content: Mohammadhassan Safavi (Lund University, Sweden); Saeed Bastani (Ericsson, Sweden); Zhi Zhang (Lund University, Sweden); Martti Forsell (VTT, Finland); Olli Mämmelä (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Bjorn Landfeldt (Lund University, Sweden)
13:37 Priority based VM2M communications over LTE: Nargis Khan (Ryerson University, Canada); Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

T - 3: Tutorial 3 - Advancing into Big Sensed Data Evolution and Challenges

Hossam Hassanein and Sharief Oteafy (Queen's University)

Monday, October 24 14:30 - 15:50

S1: Special Session 1

Wireless Technologies for Smart Cities

Room: Thomas Lounge

Chair: Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada)

14:30 Side cooperative secret key generation in peer-to-peer systems: Shuangshaung Zhu (University of Shanghai for Science and Techonolgy, China); Ya Liu (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China); Liang Song (OMESH Networks Inc., Canada)
14:50 Cloud-based Smart Waste Management for Smart Cities: Mohammad Aazam (University of Nottingham Malaysia, Malaysia); Marc St-Hilaire, Chung-Horng Lung and Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada)
15:10 Wireless Infrastructure Deployment Model for Sudden-Onset Disasters through real-time monitoring: Eyal Berliner (Ariel University, Israel); Boaz Benmoshe (Ariel University Center, Israel); Yuval Hadas (Bar Ilan University, Israel); Amit Dvir (Ariel University, Israel)
15:30 Power Management Modelling of a Photovoltaic System for a Wireless Sensor Network: Ahmed H. Shaltout, Petros Spachos and Stefano Gregori (University of Guelph, Canada)

Monday, October 24 18:30 - 21:30

SOC2: Gala Dinner

Room: RSC SCC 115/Tecumseh Auditorium

Tuesday, October 25

Tuesday, October 25 8:00 - 9:40

S3: Special Session 3

Innovative Architectures, Wireless Technologies and Tools for High Capacity and Sustainable 5G Ultra‐Dense Cellular Networks

Room: Thomas Lounge

Chair: Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France)

8:00 A Novel 2D Non-Stationary Wideband Massive MIMO Channel Model: Carlos F Lopez (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Cheng-Xiang Wang (Southeast University, China & Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Rui Feng (Purple Mountain Laboratories & Southeast University, China)
8:20 Assessing the Performance of a 60-GHz Dense Small-Cell Network Deployment from Ray-Based Simulations: Yoann Corre, Romain Charbonnier and Mohammed Zahid Aslam (SIRADEL, France); Yves Lostanlen (University of Toronto, Canada)
8:40 Analysis of Downlink and Uplink Decoupling in Dense Cellular Networks: Alexis Aravanis (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya); Olga Muñoz-Medina (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain); Antonio Pascual-Iserte and Josep Vidal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
9:00 On the Performance of Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Short-Term Power Constraints: Giovanni Interdonato (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy & CNIT, Italy); Hien Ngo (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden); Pål Frenger (Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB, Sweden)
9:20 Multi-Cell Massive MIMO Performance with Double Scattering Channels: Trinh Van Chien (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)

Tuesday, October 25 9:45 - 10:45

T - 2: Tutorial 2 - On System-Level Analysis & Design of Cellular Networks: The Magic of Stochastic Geometry (from modeling to experimental validation)

Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France)

Room: Thomas Lounge

Chair: Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France)

Tuesday, October 25 11:00 - 12:00

S2: Special Session 2

Evolving Technologies for Smart Cities

Room: Thomas Lounge

Chair: Waleed Ejaz (Lakehead University, Canada)

11:00 LED Beam Steering for Visible Light Li-Fi Communications: Christopher Mekhiel (Ryerson University, Canada); Xavier N Fernando (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada & Ryerson University, Canada)
11:20 Smart Street Lighting over Narrowband PLC in a Smart City: The Triangulum Case Study: Augustine Ikpehai and Bamidele Adebisi (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Rupak Kharel (University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
11:40 Collision Resolution MAC Algorithm for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: Muhammed Nur Avcil, Mesut Gurle and Mujdat Soyturk (Marmara University, Turkey)