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Sunday, November 17
08:20-08:30 VSOPVirtual Session Opening Remarks
08:30-09:30 SV1AVirtual Session V1A
SV1BVirtual Session V1B
09:30-10:30 SV2AVirtual Session V2A
SV2BVirtual Session V2B
20:30-21:45 SV3AVirtual Session V3A
SV3BVirtual Session V3B

Friday, November 22
12:00-13:00 1571035170Registration
13:00-13:15 1571035171Opening remarks
13:15-14:30 1571035172Keynote 1
14:30-14:45 1571035173Snack Break
14:45-16:15 S1ASession 1A
S1BSession 1B
16:15-17:45 S2ASession 2A
S2BSession 2B
19:00-20:30 1571035177Reception and Poster Session

Saturday, November 23
09:00-10:15 1571035178Keynote 2
10:15-10:30 1571035179Snack Break
10:30-12:00 S3ASession 3A
S3BSession 3B
12:00-13:45 1571035181Lunch
13:45-15:15 S4ASession 4A
S4BSession 4B
15:15-15:30 1571035183Snack Break
15:30-17:30 S5ASession 5A
S5BSession 5B
17:45-18:45 1571035176N2Women Panel Session

Sunday, November 17

Sunday, November 17 8:20 - 8:30

VSOP: Virtual Session Opening Remarks

Sunday, November 17 8:30 - 9:30

SV1A: Virtual Session V1A

Network 1
Chair: Akshita MaradapuVeraVenkata Sai (Towson University, USA)
CART: Concurrent Asynchronous Ratchet Tree for Group Messaging
Xinyue Xu, Baosheng Wang, Qianqian Xing and Xiaofeng Wang (National University of Defense Technology, China)
PIB Sketch: Accurately Tracking Persistent and Infrequent Flows with Bursty Characteristic
Xuetao Liu (Central South University, China); Jing Shao (China); Sitan Li, Yilin Zhao and Jiawei Huang (Central South University, China)
Correlation Analysis for Exploring Large-Scale Latency Variability in WANs
Zhou Ying, Mingzhen Wu and Fei Song (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
AST-Trans: Detecting Web Tracking using Transformer-based Deep Learning with Abstract Syntax Tree
Yong Yuan, Ziling Wei, Lin Liu and Shuhui Chen (National University of Defense Technology, China); Jinshu Su (National University of Defence Technology, China)

SV1B: Virtual Session V1B

AI
Chair: Xinliang Wei (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
A Dexterous Hybrid Attention Transformer for MRI super-resolution of brain tumors
Mingxuan Li (Qilu University of Technology ( Shandong Academy of Sciences ), China); Yingchun Cui (Heilongjiang University, China); Jinbao Li (Shandong Artificial Intelligence Institute, Qilu University of Technology, China)
CAUDA: Cloud-Assisted Active Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for On-Device Learning
Zefu Wang, Zhenzhe Zheng and Fan Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
DP-Prune: Global Optimal Strategy for Retraining-Free Pruning of Transformer Models
Guangzhen Yao, Long Zhang, Sandong Zhu and Miao Qi (Northeast Normal University, China)
Large Language Model guided State Selection Approach for Fuzzing Network Protocol
Bo Yu and Qihong Song (National University of Defense Technology, China); Chengnuo Cai (School of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China)
Short Paper

Sunday, November 17 9:30 - 10:30

SV2A: Virtual Session V2A

Network 2
Chair: Chenyu Wang (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Spreading Computations for Loop-Free Multipath Routing in Computer Networks
J J Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California, USA & University of Toronto, Canada); Morteza Moghaddassian and Charles Hsieh (University of Toronto, Canada)
TYLE: Tile-based Dynamic Quality Enhancement for 360-degree Video Streaming
Sonali Keshava Murthy Naik, Mea Wang and Diwakar Krishnamurthy (University of Calgary, Canada)
P2Sketch: Finding Persistent Items in Data Streams Based on Periodic Arrival
Jiawei Huang and Qi Liang (Central South University, China); Jing Shao (China); Qile Wang, Yilin Zhao, Hui Li, Sitan Li and Shu Lin (Central South University, China)
Stochastic Network Calculus Based Quality of Service Guarantee for Multi-class Traffic
Yunlan Wang, Qing Wang and Zhao TianHai (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

SV2B: Virtual Session V2B

Security
Chair: Zuobin Xiong (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
StreamDP: Continual Observation of Real-world Data Streams with Differential Privacy
Shuailou Li (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yu Wen, Zhaoyang Wang, Wenbo Wang, Lisong Zhang and Dan Meng (Institute of Information Engineering, China)
Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection Based on AST-Augmented Heterogeneous Graphs
Haikuo Li and Gang Xiong (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Chengshang Hou (Schools of of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Gaopeng Gou (Institute of Information Engineering，Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Ziqian Chen (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Zhen Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
FingerMamba: Mamba-based Efficient Multi-tab Website Fingerprinting
Lin Liu, Ziling Wei, Shuhui Chen and Zixuan Dong (National University of Defense Technology, China); Jinshu Su (National University of Defence Technology, China)
RecoSelector: Cost-Sensitive Feature Selection for Network Intrusion Detection in Resource-Constrained Internet of Things
Ziqian Chen (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Wei Xia (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Gang Xiong (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Zhen Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Gaopeng Gou (Institute of Information Engineering，Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Sunday, November 17 20:30 - 21:45

SV3A: Virtual Session V3A

Network 3
Chair: Honghui Xu (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Failed Yet Stored: A First Look at DNS Negative Caching
Meng Zeng (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yujia Zhu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Baiyang Li (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yuedong Zhang (CNCERT, China); Qingyun Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Binxing Fang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
P4-FILB: Stateless Load Balancing Mechanism in Firewall and IPv6 Environment with P4
Haizhang Zhu (Institute of Information Engineering, China); Zhongyi Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Zhou Zhou (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Chengwei Peng (National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team, China); Hongfei Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Shu Li and Rong Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Qingyun Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
ZBanner: Fast Stateless Scanning Capable of Obtaining Responses over TCP
Chiyu Chen, Yuliang Lu, Guozheng Yang, Yi Xie and Shasha Guo (National University of Defense Technology, China)
Locating the Root Cause of Large-scale BGP Anomaly with Routing Dependence
Zhao Shiqi (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Learning-Empowered Resource Allocation in UxNB-Enabled Sliced HetECNs
Wei Xingchen (Academy of Military Sciences, China); Peng Laixian (Institute of Communication Engineering, China); Renhui Xu (Nanjing Institute of Communication Engineering, China); Wang Hai (Institute of Communication Engineering, China)

SV3B: Virtual Session V3B

System and AI
Chair: A B M Mohaimenur Rahman (Towson University, USA)
Adaptive Cache Optimization Integrating Spatiotemporal Analysis and Sliding Modules
Xinxuan Hang (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Quan Zheng (University of Science and Technology of China & Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, China); Wenjing Jing, Qisheng Su and Feng Yang (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Xiaobin Tan (University of Science and Technology of China & Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, China)
DASIV: Directional Acoustic Sensing based Intelligent Vehicle Interaction System
Dinghua Zhao (Shanghaijiaotong University, China); Juntao Zhou, Dian Ding and Yu Lu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Yijie Li (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Hang Yang, Yi-Chao Chen and Guangtao Xue (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
RESD: High-Performance RDMA-enabled Control Plane for NVMe Shared-Disk Cluster
Chenming Chang, Jiawei Li, Yucheng Kang, Yupeng Chen and Yi Zhang (China Telecom eSurfing Cloud, China)
SndGLM-SA: A Social Network Debate Text Generation Model Based on Sentiment Analysis
Tao Tian (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Short Paper
SARP: Service-aware Routing Protocol in Task-Oriented FANET
Tao Yang, Wang Yang, Yanbo Wang, Lihuan Hui and Jianwei Yao (Central South University, China)

Friday, November 22

Friday, November 22 12:00 - 13:00

Registration

Friday, November 22 13:00 - 13:15

Opening remarks

Friday, November 22 13:15 - 14:30

Keynote 1

1st Keynote - Kemal Akkaya
Chair: Gürkan Solmaz (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany)

Friday, November 22 14:30 - 14:45

Snack Break

Friday, November 22 14:45 - 16:15

S1A: Session 1A

Networking 1
Chair: Chase Q. Wu (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA & Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Combining Dynamic Deterministic Latency Bounds and Networked Control Systems
Robin Laidig, Jona Herrmann, David Augustat, Frank Dürr and Kurt Rothermel (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Optimized Deliverer Selection in Blockchain-Based P2P Content Delivery Network
Zhenchao Yan and Songlin He (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Chase Q. Wu (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA & Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA); Aiqin Hou (Northwest University, China)
Algorithms for the Generalized Network Construction Problem
Fei Li (George Mason University, USA)

S1B: Session 1B

System
Chair: Ye Xia (University of Florida, USA)
Statistical and Shapelet Analysis of HPC Application Performance Using Time-Series Heartbeat Data
Mohammad Al-Tahat (New Mexico State University, USA); Strahinja Trecakov (New Mexico State University, USA & New Mexico Consortium, USA); Jonathan Cook (New Mexico State University, USA)
Dynamic Task Offloading in Connected Vehicles: Leveraging a Graph Neural Networks Approach for Multi-hop Search
Asad W Malik and Samee U. Khan (Mississippi State University, USA)
Fat-B+Tree: Fast B+tree Indexing with In-Network Memory
Yikai Zhao, Yuanpeng Li, Zicang Xu, Tong Yang and Kaicheng Yang (Peking University, China); Li Chen (Huawei, Hong Kong); Xin Yao and Gong Zhang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China)

Friday, November 22 16:15 - 17:45

S2A: Session 2A

AI 1
Chair: Fei Li (George Mason University, USA)
HEJet: A Framework for Efficient Machine Learning Inference with Homomorphic Encryption
David Monschein and Oliver P. Waldhorst (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Revolutionizing Wireless Modeling and Simulation with Network-Oriented LLMs
Jiewen Liu, Zhiyuan Peng, Dongkuan Xu and Yuchen Liu (North Carolina State University, USA)
Computation Caching in Mobile Convolutional Neural Network Inference
James M Mariani and Li Xiao (Michigan State University, USA)
A Multimodal Method for Semi-Biometric Information Based User Identification Approach In AR And VR Application
Han Li (John Hopkins University, USA); Ke Lyu, Owen Dossett and Xianglong Feng (Miami University, USA)

S2B: Session 2B

Security 1
Differentially Private Selection using Smooth Sensitivity
Akito Yamamoto and Tetsuo Shibuya (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Curse to Blessing: Leveraging Model Inversion Attacks to Detect Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning
Zhaowen Chen, Mingze Zhang, Caleb Mostyn, Honglu Jiang and Xianglong Feng (Miami University, USA)
Cluster-BPI: Efficient Fine-Grain Blind Power Identification for Defending against Hardware Thermal Trojans in Multicore SoCs
Mohamed R. Elshamy (New Mexico State University, USA); Mehdi Elahi (North Carolina A&T University, USA); Ahmad Patooghy (North Carolina A& T University, USA); Abdel-Hameed A Badawy (Florida International University, USA)
Overlooked Backdoors: Investigating 6to4 Tunnel Nodes and Their Exploitation in the Wild
Jiaxing Guo, Lin He and Ying Liu (Tsinghua University, China)

Friday, November 22 19:00 - 20:30

Reception and Poster Session

Chair: Zhuojun Duan (James Madison University, USA)
A Review on Quantum Machine Learning in Different Computer Vision Fields
Md Majedul Islam and Jing (Selena) He (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Analyzing Ground-lightning Dataset Using the Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN)
Zhuojun Duan, James Agresto, Mace Bentley, Tobias Gerken and Dudley Bonsal (James Madison University, USA)
Analysis of Intermediate Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and QoS in a High Definition Voice Call Conference in Mobile Networks
Jussif Junior Abularach Arnez, Lucas B. C. Tribuzy, Fabricio De Souza Oliveira and Isaac Barros Gomes (Sidia Institute of Science and Technology, Brazil); Jéssica Da Silva Gomes (UEA, Brazil); Caio Pedrosa Galvao (Brazil)
Optimization of Heterogeneous Coded Distributed Computing with Nonuniform Input File Sizes
Jiasheng Liang (Binghamton University, USA); Siyu Zhang and Yong Deng (Lakehead University, Canada)
Bad Neighbors? On the Impact of IEEE 802.11p and Cellular 5G on Vehicular Neighbor Sets
Simon Welzel and Florian Klingler (University of Bamberg, Germany)
FlexMRS: Multi-Objective Optimization for Diverse Application Requirements in MPTCP Scheduling
Zekun Zhang and Zhong Lujie (Capital Normal University, China); Xiang Ji (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China)
Policy Enforcement for IoT: Complexities and Emerging Solutions
Shuo Zhang, Luoyao Hao and Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)
Wital: A Whitelist-Based IoT Firewall for Mitigating Device Exploitation
Heeyun Kim, Wei Xiong Toh, Luoyao Hao and Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)

Saturday, November 23

Saturday, November 23 9:00 - 10:15

Keynote 2

2nd Keynote - Zhi Tian
Chair: Yue Wang (Georgia State University, USA)

Saturday, November 23 10:15 - 10:30

Snack Break

Saturday, November 23 10:30 - 12:00

S3A: Session 3A

Networking 2
Chair: Wenjia Li (New York Institute of Technology, USA)
Integrating Post-Quantum TLS into the Control Plane of 5G Networks
Yacoub Hanna (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA); Diana S Pineda Andrade (Florida International University, USA); Maryna Veksler, Manish Paudel and Kemal Akkaya (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); Mila Anastasova and Reza Azarderakhsh (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Adaptive Mitigation of Blackhole Attacks in Blockchain-Enhanced Software Defined Networks
Mehmed K Uludag (University of Michigan, USA); Murat Karakus (Ankara University, Turkey); Evrim Guler (Bartin University, Turkey); Suleyman Uludag (The University of Michigan - Flint, USA)
Lightweight Secure Communication Scheme Based on PUF for In-vehicle Controller Area Networks
Haoran Jiang and Yehua Wei (Hunan Normal University, China); Wenjia Li (New York Institute of Technology, USA); Jiangwei Li (Hunan Normal University, USA)
DecMEN: Scalable Measurement and Impairment Framework for Network Characterization in 5G(+)
Niladri Mondal and Mario Niggemeyer (TU Ilmenau, Germany); Simon Welzel and Florian Klingler (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Short Paper

S3B: Session 3B

Computing
Chair: Kuai Xu (Arizona State University, USA)
Optimal Sequencing for a Class of Task Offloading Problems in Edge-Cloud Computing
Ye Xia (University of Florida, USA)
An Extension of Pathfinding Algorithms for Randomly Determined Speeds
Visvam K. Rajesh (Hunterdon Central Regional High School, USA); Chase Q. Wu (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA & Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Less is More: Exploring Sampled Twitter Data Steams for Pandemic Surveillance and Monitoring
Kuai Xu, Feng Wang and Mitchell Hoikka (Arizona State University, USA)
Short Paper
LSAFE: a Lightweight Static Analysis Framework for binary Executables
Xiao Yue and Guangzhi Qu (Oakland University, USA)

Saturday, November 23 12:00 - 13:45

Lunch

Saturday, November 23 13:45 - 15:15

S4A: Session 4A

AI 2
Chair: Bobin Deng (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Activation Sparsity Opportunities for Compressing General Large Language Models
Nobel Dhar, Bobin Deng, Md Romyull Islam, Kazi Fahim Ahmad Nasif, Liang Zhao and Kun Suo (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Characterizing and Understanding the Performance of Small Language Models on Edge Devices
Md Romyull Islam, Nobel Dhar, Bobin Deng, Tu N. Nguyen, Jing (Selena) He and Kun Suo (Kennesaw State University, USA)
HANNA: Harvesting-Aware Neural Network Architecture Search for Batteryless Intermittent Devices
Rohit Sahu, Vishal Deep and Henry Duwe (Iowa State University, USA)
The Robustness of Spiking Neural Networks in Communication and its Application towards Network Efficiency in Federated Learning
Manh V Nguyen, Liang Zhao and Bobin Deng (Kennesaw State University, USA); William M Severa (Sandia National Laboratories, USA); Honghui Xu and Shaoen Wu (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Short Paper

S4B: Session 4B

Security 2
Chair: Xiaojian Wang (University of Colorado Denver, USA)
The Seeker's Dilemma: Realistic Formulation and Benchmarking for Hardware Trojan Detection
Amin Sarihi (MIPS, USA & New Mexico State University, USA); Ahmad Patooghy (North Carolina A& T University, USA); Abdel-Hameed A Badawy (Florida International University, USA); Peter A Jamieson (Miami University, USA)
Content Security Policy Deployment Issues Related to Third-party Scripts among Builder-generated Websites and Other Websites
Mengxia Ren and Chuan Yue (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
Enhanced Outsourced and Secure Inference for Tall Sparse Decision Trees
Andrew Quijano (New York University & Amazon, USA); Spyros T. Halkidis (University of Macedonia, Greece); Kevin Gallagher (NOVA LINCS, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Portugal); Nikolaos Samaras (University of Macedonia, Greece); Kemal Akkaya (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Cryptocurrency Price Forecasting Using XGBoost Regressor and Technical Indicators
Abdelatif Hafid (Université de Montréal, Canada); Maad M A Ebrahim (Ericsson, Canada); Mohamed Rahouti (Fordham University, USA); Diogo Oliveira (University of West Florida, USA)

Saturday, November 23 15:15 - 15:30

Snack Break

Saturday, November 23 15:30 - 17:30

S5A: Session 5A

Application
Chair: Abdullah Aydeger (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)
Precision Tracking in Geofencing Systems using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Alireza Famili, Shihua Sun and Tolga O Atalay (Virginia Tech, USA); Angelos Stavrou (Virginia Tech & Kryptowire, USA)
Experimental Analysis of LoRaWAN for Optimizing Water Quality Monitoring with Reinforcement Learning-Driven Scheduling
Jui Mhatre, Minh Hung Nguyen, Ahyoung Lee and Hoseon Lee (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Towards A Computational Model for Learning Affective Empathy Responses
Mark Allison (The University of Michigan-Flint, USA)

S5B: Session 5B

Workshop
Chair: Fang-Jing Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Dynamic Traffic Load Rebalancing for Hardware-accelerated 6G UPF Resilient Architecture
DongJin Lee (SK Telecom, Korea (South)); Seongsu Park (Rexordium Co., Ltd., Korea (South)); BumJun Lee (Newgens, Korea (South))
An Analytical Study on the Evolution and Impact of Chatbots in Tourism Over the Past Decade
Lamya Benaddi and Charaf Ouaddi (GL-ISI Team, FST Errachida, UMI-Meknes, Morocco); Jakimi Abdeslam (GLISI Teams, Morocco & Moulay Ismail University, Morocco); Saadane Rachid (EHTP, Canada & SIRC LaGeS EHTP, Morocco); Brahim Ouchao (FST of Errachidia, Morocco); Mohamed Rahouti (Fordham University, USA); Abdelatif Hafid (Université de Montréal, Canada); Diogo Oliveira (University of West Florida, USA)
Formulating a Comprehensive Cybersecurity Framework for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles
Anice K Thompson (Troy University, USA); Dev D Patel and Mustafa Ilhan Akbaş (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA)
Formal Modeling of Road Network-Based Autonomous Vehicle Validation Scenarios With Intersections and Pedestrians
Ilke Kutlu (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Quentin Goss (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA); Tahir Cetin Akinci (University of California Riverside, USA); Mustafa Ilhan Akbaş (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA)
Digital-Twin Architecture of a Spiking Neuron using Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors
Shelby Williams and Prosen Kirtonia (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Kasem Khalil (University of Mississippi, USA); Magdy Bayoumi (University of Louisiana Lafayette, USA)

Saturday, November 23 17:45 - 18:45

N2Women Panel Session

Chair: Xiaojian Wang (University of Colorado Denver, USA)