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Casablanca time Monday, April 15 Tuesday, April 16 Wednesday, April 17 Thursday, April 18
9:00 ‑ 10:30 TUTO-1: ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR CROWD SENSING AND MANAGEMENT
TUTO-2: Softwarization Concepts and Practice in 5G Communication Systems: SDN, NFV, ICN
TUTO-3: Artificial Intelligent Agent Design for Wireless Systems Optimization
TUTO-4: Wireless Transmission of Big and Small Data: A Unifying Data-Oriented Approach
EMR-1: Radio1
EMR-2: WLAN
MAC-1: Scheduling
NET-1: Spectrum Sharing
NET-2: Mobile Edge/Cloud
NET-3: URLLC & QoE
PHY-1: Wireless Energy Transfer
PHY-2: Simultaneous Wireless information and Power Transfer
PHY-3: Millimeter-wave communications I
PHY-4: Millimeter-wave communications II
SE-1: WICE/N2Women/YP
EMR-7: WSN1
EMR-8: VEC-UAV2
MAC-4: WLAN
NET-10: Interference Mitigation
NET-11: Multiple Access Enabled Networks
NET-9: Link and Physical Layer Security
PHY-11: Coding I
PHY-12: NOMA I
PHY-13: NOMA II
PHY-14: Relaying and Full Duplex
SE-2: Brainstorming on 6G
EMR-13: Radio-ARC
EMR-14: CLOUD-SDN1
MAC-6: Access I
NET-21: mmWave Communications
NET-22: Security in 5G Networks
NET-23: 5G Access Selection & Mobility
PHY-21: Performance Analysis
PHY-22: Antennas
PHY-23: Vehicular Communications
PHY-24: OFDM
10:30 ‑ 10:45      
10:45 ‑ 11:30 KEY-1: NEW WORLD VISTAS FROM PAST TO FUTURE BEYOND 5G KEY-3: FUTURE X FOR NEW VALUE CREATION BY 5G KEY-5: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE RANDOMNESS
11:30 ‑ 12:15 KEY-2: BEYOND SUCCESSFUL 5G KEY-4: FACEBOOK CONNECTIVITY AND THE RURAL CHALLENGE KEY-6: DIFFUSION OF INFORMATION AND INFERENCE OVER GRAPHS
12:15 ‑ 14:00        
14:00 ‑ 15:30 TUTO-10: Towards Autonomic Management of 5G Network Infrastructures
TUTO-5: Communication Networks Design: Model-Based, Data-Driven, or Both?
TUTO-6: Evolution of Converged Optical-Wireless Networks Towards 5G Fronthaul Network Architectures
TUTO-7: Ambient Backscatter Communication: State-of-the-Art and Beyond
TUTO-8: Integrated Aerial/Terrestrial 6G Networks for Ubiquitous 3D Super-Connectivity for 2030s
TUTO-9: 5G-and-beyond V2X technologies and enablers
EMR-3: Radio2
EMR-4: SEC
MAC-2: Cellular
NET-4: Internet of Things
NET-5: Optical-based Networking
NET-6: Quality of Service
PHY-5: UAVs
PHY-6: IoT
PHY-7: Massive MIMO I
PNL-1: 5G TEST-BEDS FOR DEPLOYMENT OF 5G NETWORKS & INNOVATIVE USE CASES.
PNL-2: 5G FOR BUSINESSES - HOW TO TURN 5G TECHNOLOGIES INTO NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
Demo-1: Demo session
EMR-10: VEC-UAV3
EMR-9: WSN2
MAC-5: Resource Allocation and Management
NET-12: Low-power and Sensor Networks
NET-13: Resource Management and Optimization
NET-14: Resource Scheduling
NET-15: Authentication and Privacy
PHY-15: Caching
PHY-16: VLC
PHY-17: D2D
PNL-5: MATURING E2E NETWORK AND CLOUD SLICING: WHERE ARE THE FRONTIERS?
EMR-15: ICN
EMR-16: CLOUD-SDN2
MAC-7: Access II
NET-24: Mobile Edge Offloading
NET-25: Cloud-enabled Vehicular Networks
NET-26: Vehicular to Everything
NET-27: Full-Duplex D2D
PHY-25: Coding II
PHY-26: MIMO
PHY-27: Signal Processing for Communications I
PNL-7: 5G ENABLED SMART INDUSTRIES
15:30 ‑ 15:45      
15:45 ‑ 17:15 EMR-5: Radio3
EMR-6: VEC-UAV1
MAC-3: Learning
NET-7: ML driven RANs
NET-8: Cellular Networks
PHY-10: Machine Learning for Communications
PHY-8: Massive MIMO II
PHY-9: Transmission I
PNL-3: REALIZING THE WIRELESS FUTURE FOR ALL
PNL-4: DRONE NETWORKING: TECHNICAL CHALLENGES AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
EMR-11: EDGE/FOG
EMR-12: Video/Grid
NET-16: PHY/Link Layer Optimization
NET-17: UAV Networks
NET-18: Routing and Multi-casting
NET-19: ML assisted Network Applications
NET-20: Network Softwarization and Slicing
PHY-18: Beyond
PHY-19: HetNets
PHY-20: Networks
PNL-6: PAVING THE WAY TOWARDS 6G
EMR-17: SAT-GEO
EMR-18: Social
NET-28: Sensor Networks
NET-29: RRM and Routings in D2D
NET-30: Ultra Dense Networks
NET-31: Cognitive Radio Networks
NET-32: Localization Services
PHY-28: Signal Processing for Communications II
PHY-29: Signal Processing for Communications III
PHY-30: Transmission II
PNL-8: Toward Millimeter-wave V2X for Automated Driving in 5G and Beyond

Monday, April 15

TUTO-1: ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR CROWD SENSING AND MANAGEMENT

TUTO-2: Softwarization Concepts and Practice in 5G Communication Systems: SDN, NFV, ICN

TUTO-3: Artificial Intelligent Agent Design for Wireless Systems Optimization

TUTO-4: Wireless Transmission of Big and Small Data: A Unifying Data-Oriented Approach

TUTO-10: Towards Autonomic Management of 5G Network Infrastructures

TUTO-5: Communication Networks Design: Model-Based, Data-Driven, or Both?

TUTO-6: Evolution of Converged Optical-Wireless Networks Towards 5G Fronthaul Network Architectures

TUTO-7: Ambient Backscatter Communication: State-of-the-Art and Beyond

TUTO-8: Integrated Aerial/Terrestrial 6G Networks for Ubiquitous 3D Super-Connectivity for 2030s

TUTO-9: 5G-and-beyond V2X technologies and enablers

Tuesday, April 16

EMR-1: Radio1

Optimal Resource Allocation in URLLC for Real-Time Wireless Control Systems
Bo Chang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Philip Guodong G. Zhao (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lei Zhang (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Evaluation of Factors Affecting Inverse Beacon Fingerprinting Using Route Prediction Algorithm
Mathangi Sridharan, John Bigham and Paul Michael Campbell (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Eliane L Bodanese (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Energy Efficiency Fairness Beamforming Designs for MISO NOMA Systems
Haitham Al-Obiedollah and Kanapathippillai Cumanan (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alister G. Burr (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhiguo Ding (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada)
Optimal Dynamic Spectrum Access Scheme for Utilizing White Space in LTE Systems
Anirudha Sahoo, Timothy Hall and Charles Hagwood (NIST, USA)
Outage Performance of NOMA-based UAV-Assisted Communication with Imperfect SIC
Aitong Han and Tiejun Lv (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xuewei Zhang (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
A Feasibility Study of LTE-V2X Semi-Persistent Scheduling for String Stable CACC
Arturo A. González (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Norman Franchi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

EMR-2: WLAN

On-line Client Association Scheme Based on Reinforcement Learning for WLAN Networks
Mohamed Amine Kafi (CentraleSupelec, L2S ( Laboratory of Systems and Signals), France); Alexandre Mouradian (Université Sud Paris, France); Véronique Vèque (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
WiRoI: Spatial Region of Interest Human Sensing with Commodity WiFi
Lingchao Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xiang Ming Wen (Beijing University of posts and telecommunications, China); Zhaoming Lu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xinbin Shen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zijun Han (Peking University, China)
Performance Insights on IEEE 802.11a/g Compliant Software-based In-Band Full Duplex Relay Systems
Muhammad Sohaib Amjad and Falko Dressler (TU Berlin, Germany)
Guaranteed Bit Rate Slicing in WiFi Networks
Matias Richart (Universidad de la República, Uruguay); Javier Baliosian (University of the Republic, Uruguay); Joan Serrat (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Juan-Luis Gorricho (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Ramon Aguero (University of Cantabria, Spain)
Novel Data Preprocessing Algorithm for WSN Lifetime Maximization in Water Pipeline Monitoring System
Maroua Abdelhafidh (ENIS, Tunisia & Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Mohamed Fourati (Institut supérieur d'informatique et multimédia de sfax, Tunisia); Lamia Chaari Fourati (Institut Supérieur d'Informatique et de Multimédia de Sfax, Tunisia); Adel Ben Ben Mnaouer (University of Prince Mugrin, Saudi Arabia); Mokhtar Zid (GCT, Tunisia)
IEEE 802.11ah SDR implementation and range evaluation
Stefan Tschimben (University of Colorado Boulder, USA); Kevin K Gifford (University of Colorado, BioServe Space Technologies, USA); Roland Brown (Professional Research Assistant, USA)

MAC-1: Scheduling

Uplink Scheduling In Multi-Cell OFDMA Networks With and Without Coordination
Yiğit Özcan (Ericsson, Canada); Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo, Canada); Fabrice M. Guillemin (Orange Labs, France)
Algorithm for CSG aware scheduling in LTE systems
Ramesh Chandran (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India)
Adaptive Proportional Fairness Scheduling for SWIPT-Enabled Multicell Downlink Networks
Yongjae Kim (KIOST, Korea (South)); Bang Chul Jung (Ajou University, Korea (South)); Inkyu Bang (Hanbat National University, Korea (South)); Youngnam Han (KAIST, Korea (South))
SRS Limited User Grouping Scheduling Algorithm for Downlink Massive MIMO Systems
Qi Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yongyu Chang (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Tianyi Zeng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China)
Deterministic Transmittable Time-based Asynchronous Scheduler for Fronthaul Networks
Shiyan Zhang (Beijing University Of Posts And Telecommunications, China); Gong Xiangyang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications P.R. China, China); Puye Wang (Beijing University Of Posts And Telecommunications, P.R. China); Long Wang (Beijing University Of Posts And Telecommunications, China); Wang Tongtong (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, China); Xirong Que and Ye Tian (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
LaDiS: a Low-Latency Distributed Scheduler for Time-Slotted Channel Hopping Networks
Hajar Hajian (Isfahan University of Technology, Iran); Majid Nabi (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Mahboubeh Fakouri and Farzad Veisi (Isfahan University of Technology, Iran)

NET-1: Spectrum Sharing

Spectrum Sharing for Unlicensed 5G Networks
Fisseha Mekuria (Malmo University, Sweden & Technology & Society, Sweden); Luzango Mfupe (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa)
Feasibility of deploying wireless Internet of Things in the unlicensed European 865-868 MHz band
Mads Lauridsen (Nokia, Denmark); Frank Frederiksen (Nokia & Networks, Denmark); Ignacio Rodriguez (University of Oviedo, Spain)
NextGen-MHS: A Novel Architecture for Tethering of Aggregated Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrums
Vijay Mishra (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Venkata Sunil Kumar (Samsung R&D India - Bangalore, India); Bhagwan Dass Swami (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Madhan Raj Kanagarathinam (Samsung R&D Institute India Bangalore, India); Pankaj Thorat (IBM Research, India); Debabrata Das (International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, India)
Data-Driven Service Provisioning over Shared Spectrums with Statistical QoS Guarantee
Xuanheng Li (Dalian University of Technology, China); Haichuan Ding (University of Michigan, USA); Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA); Jie Wang (Dalian Maritime University, China); Haixia Zhang (Shandong University, China); Yuguang Fang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Performance Evaluation of Switched Beam Antenna with Different Configurations at 28 GHz
Muhammad Usman Sheikh, Kalle Ruttik and Riku Jäntti (Aalto University, Finland)
Detection of Rogue RF Transmitters using Generative Adversarial Nets
Debashri Roy (The University of Texas Arlington, USA); Tathagata Mukherjee (Intelligent Robotics Inc., USA); Mainak Chatterjee (University of Central Florida, USA); Eduardo L Pasiliao, Jr (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)

NET-2: Mobile Edge/Cloud

Resource Request Dispatch in Standalone and Federated MEC Systems: A Matching Game Approach
Ming-Yi Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Li-Hsing Yen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Hojjat Baghban (Chang Gung University, Taiwan)
A Performance Modeling Approach for Mobile Cloud System
Han Xu, Liang Luo, Xiwei Qiu and Yanping Xiang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Energy-Efficient Collaborative Task Offloading in D2D-assisted Mobile Edge Computing Networks
Jizhe Zhou (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China); Xing Zhang (BUPT, China); Wenbo Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yan Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Optimization of Mobile MEC Offloading with Energy Harvesting and Dynamic Voltage Scaling
Yuandong Zhuang (Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Xi Li, Hong Ji and Heli Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Joint Optimization of Offloading and Resource Allocation Scheme for Mobile Edge Computing
Boutheina Dab (Orange Labs France, France); Nadjib Aitsaadi (UVSQ Paris-Saclay & DAVIDLab, France); Rami Langar (Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal, Canada & University Gustave Eiffel, France)
Distributed Algorithm for Energy Efficient Joint Cloud and Edge Computing with Splittable Tasks
Tobias Mahn (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Hussein Al-Shatri (Intel Corporation, Austria); Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

NET-3: URLLC & QoE

URLLC Packet Management for Packetized Predictive Control
Qi Wang and Sha Xie (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Philip Guodong G. Zhao (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lei Zhang (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Reliability and Latency Aware Code-Partitioning Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing
Jianhui Liu and Qi Zhang (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Proactive Video Chunks Caching and Processing for Latency and Cost Minimization in Edge Networks
Emna Baccour (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Aiman Erbad and Amr Mohamed (Qatar University, Qatar); Kashif Bilal (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)
QoE-aware Cross-Layer Adaptation for Delay-Constrained Video Transmission over Wireless Channels
Swades De (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Chaynika Taneja (Defence Research Development Organization, Ministry of Defence, India); Subhankar Chatterjee (Techno Main Salt Lake, India)
Analysis of QoE for Adaptive Video Streaming over Wireless Networks with User Abandonment Behavior
Rachid El-Azouzi (University of Avignon, France); Krishna Acharya (BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, India); Sudheer Poojary (University of Avignon, France); Albert Sunny (Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India); Majed Haddad (University of Avignon, France); Eitan Altman (INRIA, France); Dimitrios Tsilimantos (Paris Research Center, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., France); Stefan Valentin (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Enhanced Voice Services Based VoLTE Rate Adaptation Mechanism To Improve Quality Of Experience
Abhijeet Prasad (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA); Sarandeep Bhatia (Qualcomm Technologies, INC, USA); Long Duan (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA); Fahed Zawaideh (Qualcomm Technologies, INC, USA); Chen Chen (Qualcomm Technologies, INC, China); Junli Wu (Qualcomm Incorporated, China); Mukesh Mittal (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA); Shyamal Ramachandran (Qualcomm Technologies, INC, USA)

PHY-1: Wireless Energy Transfer

Link Budget Validation for Backscatter-Radio System in Sub-1GHz
Behnam Badihi, Aleksi Liljemark, Muhammad Usman Sheikh, Jari Lietzen and Riku Jäntti (Aalto University, Finland)
Opportunistic Ambient Backscatter Communication in RF-Powered Cognitive Radio Networks
Rajalekshmi Kishore (The National Institute of Engineering, India); Sanjeev Gurugopinath (MMRFIC Technology Private Limited, India); Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Tampere University, Finland); Sami Muhaidat (Carleton University, Canada); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
On Outage in Energy Transfer Using Massive Antenna Arrays With Orthogonal and Shared Pilot Signaling
Mohan Kumar Sarangi and Salil Kashyap (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
Opportunistic Wireless Energy Transfer in Point-to-Point Links
Amanthi Ratnayake Thudugalage (University of Melbourne, Australia); Saman Atapattu (RMIT University, Australia); Jamie S Evans (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Capacity Enhancement for Energy-Harvesting Cognitive Radio Networks: A NOMA-Enabled Joint Design
Xiaopeng Liang (Hainan University, China); Wenjun Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA); Qian Deng (Hainan University, China); Jiaru Lin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Minimizing Age of Information for an Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio
Shiyang Leng (Samsung Research America, USA); Aylin Yener (The Ohio State University, USA)

PHY-2: Simultaneous Wireless information and Power Transfer

Enabling SWIPT via OFDM-DC
Majid Nasiri Khormuji and Branislav M. Popovic (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden); Alberto G. Perotti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Design of Communication Systems for Wireless-Powered Communications with Multiple Frequency Bands
Ryuhei Takahashi and Koji Ishibashi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
SWIPT-based Real-Time Mobile Computing Systems: A Stochastic Geometry Perspective
Ayse Ipek Akin, Nafiseh Janatian and Ivan Stupia (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Pricing Perspective for SWIPT in OFDM-based Multi-User Wireless Cooperative Systems
Sumit Gautam (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India); Eva Lagunas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Satyanarayana Vuppala (United Technologies Research Center, Ireland); Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Average Transmission Success Probability Bound for SWIPT Relay Networks
Bhathiya Pilanawithana (University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka); Saman Atapattu (RMIT University, Australia); Jamie S Evans (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Collaborative Relay Beamforming with Direct Links in Wireless Powered Communications
Xi Luo (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Jing Xu and Yuze Zou (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Shimin Gong (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

PHY-3: Millimeter-wave communications I

Frame-theoretic Precoding and Beamforming Design for Robust mmWave Channel Estimation
Andrei Stoica (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany); Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu (Constructor University, Germany)
Beam Broadening for 5G Millimeter Wave Systems
Ahmed Elshafiy (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Ashwin Sampath (Mixcomm-Inc, USA)
Hybrid Precoding for Wideband Multi-user MIMO Millimeter Wave System
Qianrui Li (Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe, France)
Efficient Hybrid Beamforming for Relay Assisted Millimeter-Wave Multi-User Massive MIMO
Nuan Song (Nokia Bell Labs China, China); Tao Yang (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (China), China); Huan Sun (Bell Labs China, China)
System Performance of Indoor Office Millimeter Wave Communications
Ahmed Elshafiy (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Ashwin Sampath (Mixcomm-Inc, USA)

PHY-4: Millimeter-wave communications II

Joint Millimeter Wave and Microwave Wave Resource Allocation Design for Dual-Mode Base Stations
Biqian Feng (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Zhijun Liao (Jiangxi Electric Power Company, China); Yongpeng Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Juening Jin (Hisilicon, Huawei, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Xiang-Gen Xia (University of Delaware, USA); Xinbao Gong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Minhang, China)
Impact of Hardware Impairments and Channel Aging Millimeter-Wave Heterogeneous Networks
Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Millimeter Wave Compressive Path Tracking with Carrier Frequency Offset
Xi Yang (Southeast University, China); Wan-Ting Shih (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Chao-Kai Wen (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Xiao Li and Shi Jin (Southeast University, China)
Low Complexity Sparse Channel Estimation for Wideband mmWave Systems: Multi-Stage Approach
Mojtaba Jahandideh (University of Oulu, Finland); Mohammad Moltafet (University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), USA & University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Marian Codreanu (Linkoping University, Sweden); Matti Latva-aho (University of Oulu, Finland)
Sampling Free TDOA Localization in Millimeter Wave Networks
Shree Prasad Maruthi (BITS Pilani, India); Trilochan Panigrahi (National Institute of Technology, Goa, India); Mahbub Hassan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Ming Ding (Data 61, Australia)
IP Aided OMP Based Channel Estimation for Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Communication
You You (Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Li Zhang and Miaomiao Liu (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

SE-1: WICE/N2Women/YP

Empowering Young Professionals and Women in Communications and Networking

KEY-1: NEW WORLD VISTAS FROM PAST TO FUTURE BEYOND 5G

KEY-2: BEYOND SUCCESSFUL 5G

EMR-3: Radio2

Collision Resolution Protocol via Soft Decision Stochastic Retransmission
José Carlos Marinello (Federal University of Technology - Parana, Brazil); Taufik Abrão (State University of Londrina, Brazil)
Physical Resource Management Based on Complex Network Theory in 5G Network Slice Trading
Yidi Shen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xiangming Wen (BUPT, China); Luhan Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wanqing Guan (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China); Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, China)
A 3-D Self-Calibration Method for Multiple Base Stations in Large Complex Indoor Environment
Xiaoxuan Wang (Zhejiang University, China); Peng Sun (Hunan University, China); Zhi Wang (Zhejiang University & State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, China)
Dynamic Spectrum Access via Smart Contracts on Blockchain
Thirasara Ariyarathna, Prabodha Harankahadeniya, Saarrah Isthikar and Nethmi Pathirana (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka); Herath Mudiyanselage Nelanga Dilum Bandara (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia & University of New South Wales, Australia); Arjuna Madanayake (Florida International University, USA)
Interference Between 5G Indoor Micro Operators Utilizing Beamforming and Dynamic TDD in 26 GHz Band
Kimmo Hiltunen (Ericsson Research, Oy L M Ericsson Ab, Finland); Marja Matinmikko-Blue (University of Oulu, Centre for Wireless Communications, Finland); Matti Latva-aho (University of Oulu, Finland)
A Robust and Energy Efficient NOMA-Enabled Hybrid VLC/RF Wireless Network
Ahmed Al Hammadi (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Sami Muhaidat (Carleton University, Canada); Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Tampere University, Finland); Mahmoud Al-Qutayri (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)

EMR-4: SEC

Distributed SIP DDoS Defense with P4
Aldo Febro (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hannan Xiao (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Joseph Spring (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Method of HTTP Malicious Traffic Detection on Mobile Networks
Jia Li (Institute of Information Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences & School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Xiaochun Yun (CNCERT/CC, China); Mao Tian and Jiang Xie (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Shuhao Li (Zhongguancun Laboratory, China); Yongzheng Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yu Zhou (CNCERT/CC, China)
Security Considerations in 5G Networks: A Slice-Aware Trust Zone Approach
Dimitrios Schoinianakis (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Ruben Trapero Burgos (Atos, Spain); Diomidis S. Michalopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Beatriz Gallego-Nicasio Crespo (ATOS, Spain)
CaTch: A Confidence Range Tolerant Misbehavior Detection Approach
Joseph Kamel (IRT SystemX & Télécom ParisTech, France); Arnaud Kaiser (Institut de Recherche Technologique SystemX, France); Ines Ben Jemaa (IRT-SystemX, France); Pierpaolo Cincilla (SystemX, France); Pascal Urien (Télécom Paris, France)
A Blockchain based Secure IoT Solution for the Dam Surveillance
Soumaya Bel Hadj Youssef (LIFO, INSA Centre Val de Loire, Université d'Orléans, Bourges, France); Slim Rekhis (University of Carthage & Communication Networks and Security Research Lab., Tunisia); Noureddine Boudriga (Communication Networks and Security Research Lab., University of Carthage, Tunisia)
Artificial Intelligence for Diabetes Mellitus Type II: Forecasting and Anomaly Detection
Kareem Arab (Carleton University, Canada); Zied Bouida (Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait); Mohamed Ibnkahla (Carleton University, Canada)

MAC-2: Cellular

A Novel Retransmission Scheme for HARQ Enhancement in NOMA Based LTE systems
Ramesh Chandran (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India)
Goodput-Aware Traffic Splitting Scheme with Non-ideal Backhaul for 5G-LTE Multi-Connectivity
Bufang Zhang (Beijng University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Kangjie Zhang (ZTE Corporation, China); Jingxuan Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China); Hao Guan, Yuantao Zhang, Yanji Zhang, Naizheng Zheng and Yong Teng (Nokia Bell Labs, China)
On the Suitability of LTE Air Interface for Reliable Low-Latency Applications
Guillermo Pocovi (Nokia Bell Labs, Denmark); Ilaria Thibault (Vodafone Group R&D, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Troels E. Kolding and Mads Lauridsen (Nokia, Denmark); Rame Canolli, Nick Edwards and David R Lister (Vodafone Group R&D, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Throughput Analysis of LTE and WiFi Heterogeneous Dense Small Cell Networks
Yi-Hung Kao (Virginia Tech, USA); Hsin-Li Chiu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Sau-Hsuan Wu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Hsi-Lu Chao (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Chai-Hien Gan (ITRI, Taiwan)
Multiple UAVs Enabled Data Offloading for Cellular Hotspots
Qingheng Song (Huaihua University, China); Fu-Chun Zheng (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Southeast University, China); Shi Jin (Southeast University, China)
A Cross-Layer CQI Feedback Reduction Technique for MVD Transmission in Crowd Event Scenarios
Mario Cordina and Carl J. Debono (University of Malta, Malta)

NET-4: Internet of Things

Lightweight Dynamic Key-Dependent and Flexible Cipher Scheme for IoT Devices
Hassan Noura (AUB, Lebanon & Institut Fento-ST, France); Ali Chehab (American University of Beirut, Lebanon); Raphaël Couturier (University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France)
Begonia: An Efficient and Secure Content Dissemination Scheme for Smart Cities
Muhammad Naveed (The University of New South Wales, Australia); Hui Wu (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Dynamic Sensor Renting in RF-powered Crowdsensing Service Market with Blockchain
Shaohan Feng (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Wenbo Wang (Kunming University of Science and Technology, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea (South)); Ping Wang (York University, Canada)
LPA-SDP: A Lightweight Privacy-Aware Service Discovery Protocol for IoT Environments
Mohamed Seliem (University College Cork, Ireland); Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada & Khalid, Canada)
On Peak Age of Information in Data Preprocessing enabled IoT Networks
Chao Xu (Northwest A&F University, China); Howard Yang (Zhejiang University, China & University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA); Xijun Wang (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
An Efficient Multi-Group Key Management Protocol for Heterogeneous IoT Devices
Mohamed Ali Kandi (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France); Hicham Lakhlef (Univ Bordeaux, France); Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah (Universite de Technologie - Compiegne, France); Yacine Challal (University of Doha for Science and Technology, Qatar)

NET-5: Optical-based Networking

SectOR: Sector-Based Opportunistic Routing Protocol for Underwater Optical Wireless Networks
Abdulkadir Celik (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nasir Saeed (United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates); Basem Shihada (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, USA); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
Investigation of Outage Probability and AP Placement for Mobile Users in Indoor VLC System Design
Iman Abdalla (MathWorks, USA); Michael Rahaim (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA); Thomas DC Little (Boston University, USA)
QoS-aware Power Allocation and Relay Placement in Green Cooperative FSO Communications
Ganesh Prasad (NIT Silchar, India); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Kamel Tourki (Ericsson, France); Ashraf Hossain (National Institute of Technology Silchar, India); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France)
Random Receiver Orientation Effect on Channel Gain in LiFi Systems
Mohammad Dehghani Soltani (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhihong Zeng (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Iman Tavakkolnia and Harald Haas (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Access Point Selection Scheme for LiFi Cellular Networks using Angle Diversity Receivers
Zhihong Zeng (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohammad Dehghani Soltani (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xiping Wu (Southeast University, China); Harald Haas (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Judgment-based Cascaded SLM Algorithm for PAPR Suppression of Radar Communication Integrated System
Hong Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Communication & Communication Academy, China); Weixia Zou (BUPT, China)

NET-6: Quality of Service

Redundant TCP Connector (RTC) for Improving the Performance of Mobile Devices
Dronamraju Siva Sabareesh (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Giri Chintakuntla (Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore, India); Sweta Jaiswal and Jamsheed Manja Ppallan (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Karthikeyan Arunachalam (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates & Secure System Research Center, United Arab Emirates); Yulei Wu (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Improving Performance of QUIC in WiFi
Jawad Manzoor (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Ramin Sadre (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Idilio Drago (University of Turin, Italy)
Towards Multi-Domain Congestion Control in Next-Generation Networks
Zsolt Krämer and Sándor Molnár (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Attila Mihály (Ericsson Research, Hungary); Szilveszter Nádas (Ericsson Research, USA)
Adaptive-BBR: Fine-Grained Congestion Control with Improved Fairness and Low Latency
Ming Yang, Peng Yang, Chaozhun Wen and Qiong Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Jingjing Luo (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Li Yu (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China)
A Novel Game Theoretic Approach for Forming Coalitions Between IMS Cloud Providers
Hani Nemati (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada); May El Barachi (University of Wollongong Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Nadjia Kara (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Fatna Belqasmi (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates)
LTE-WIFI Offloading With Realistic Attributes
Ferial Hantera (Vodafone, Egypt); Fadel Digham (National Telecom Regulatory Authority, Egypt); Hazim Tawfik (Cairo University, Egypt)

PHY-5: UAVs

Towards Efficient Control of Mobile Network-Enabled UAVs
Hamed Hellaoui (Nokia & Aalto University, Finland); Ali Chelli (University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway); Miloud Bagaa (UQTR University, Canada); Tarik Taleb (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany); Matthias Pätzold (University of Agder, Norway)
Lifetime Maximization for Uplink Transmission in UAV-Enabled Wireless Networks
Kuo-Ming Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Tsung-Hui Chang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Ta-Sung Lee (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
A New Shadowed Double-Scattering Model with Application to UAV-to-Ground Communications
Petros S. Bithas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Viktor Nikolaidis and Athanasios G. Kanatas (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for UAV-Enabled Wireless Powered Communications
Saif Najmeddin (Concordia University, Canada); Ali Bayat and Sonia Aissa (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Sofiene Tahar (Concordia University, Canada)
Genetic Algorithm based UAV Trajectory Design in Wireless Power Transfer Systems
Tianyu Yang (HUAWEI, Germany); Yulin Hu (Wuhan University, China & RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Xiaopeng Yuan and Rudolf Mathar (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for Secure UAV Communication Systems
Yuanxin Cai (Beijing Information Science and Technology University, China); Zhiqiang Wei (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Ruide Li (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng and Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)

PHY-6: IoT

Optimized Channel-Aware Scheduling for Heterogeneous Internet of Things
Yousef Rafique (Carleton University, Canada); Zied Bouida (Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait); Mohamed Ibnkahla (Carleton University, Canada)
On Time-of-Arrival Estimation in NB-IoT Systems
Sha Hu (Huawei Lund Research Center, Sweden); Xuhong Li (Lund University, Sweden); Fredrik Rusek (Sony Europe B.V., Sweden)
Channel Measurement and Characterization for Industrial Internet of Things
Kun Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Liu Liu (Bejing Jiaotong University, China); Cheng Tao and Ze Yuan (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Jianhua Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Measurement based Characterization of Electromagnetic Noise for Industrial Internet of Things
Ze Yuan (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Liu Liu (Bejing Jiaotong University, China); Cheng Tao and Kun Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Jianhua Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
A Novel Rate and Channel Control Scheme Based on Data Extraction Rate for LoRa Networks
Qihao Zhou, Jinyu Xing and Lu Hou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Rongtao Xu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Kan Zheng (Ningbo University, China)
Modified Gold Sequence for Positioning Enhancement in NB-IoT
Guoda Tian and Hatem OdetAlla (Lund University, Sweden); Basuki Endah Priyanto (Sony Mobile Communications AB, Sweden); Sha Hu (Huawei Lund Research Center, Sweden); Fredrik Tufvesson (Lund University, Sweden)

PHY-7: Massive MIMO I

Low Complex Channel Estimation for Massive MIMO Systems
Anding Wang (Zhejiang Gongshang University & University of Kansas, China); Rui Yin (Hangzhou City University, China); Caijun Zhong and Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, China); Qi Feng (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China)
Robust Hybrid Analog/Digital Beamforming for Uplink Massive-MIMO with Imperfect CSI
Alireza Morsali and Benoit Champagne (McGill University, Canada)
Path Selection Based Feedback Reduction for FDD Massive MIMO Systems
Seungnyun Kim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Jun Won Choi and Byonghyo Shim (Seoul National University, Korea (South))
Attention Model for Massive MIMO CSI Compression Feedback and Recovery
Qiuyu Cai, Chao Dong and Kai Niu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Latency in the Uplink of massive MIMO CRAN with Packetized Fronthaul: Modeling and Analysis
Jay Kant Chaudhary (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Jobin Francis (Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India); André Noll Barreto (Nokia, France); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Channel Correlation Based Identification of LOS and NLOS in 3D Massive MIMO Systems
Junyao Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yongyu Chang (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Tianyi Zeng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China); Yi Xiong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

PNL-1: 5G TEST-BEDS FOR DEPLOYMENT OF 5G NETWORKS & INNOVATIVE USE CASES.

PNL-2: 5G FOR BUSINESSES - HOW TO TURN 5G TECHNOLOGIES INTO NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

EMR-5: Radio3

A High-Level Parameter Selection Framework for Irregular LTE-Based Mission Critical Networks
Ayman Sabbah (Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED)- Government of Canada, Canada); Abdallah Jarwan (Carleton University, Canada); Larry Bonin (Department of National Defence, Canada); Mohamed Ibnkahla (Carleton University, Canada)
A Scalable Performance-Complexity Trade-off for Full Duplex Beamforming
Mahmoud Tukur Kabir (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Muhammad R. A. Khandaker (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Max-Min Power Optimization in Multigroup Multicast Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Yao Zhang (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China); Haotong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Longxiang Yang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Analytical Modeling of White Space Utilization for a Dynamic Spectrum Access System
Charles Hagwood, Anirudha Sahoo and Timothy Hall (NIST, USA)
Joint Power and Beamwidth Optimization for Full Duplex Millimeter Wave Indoor Wireless Systems
Akhtar Saeed (Kadir Has University, Turkey); Ozgur Gurbuz (Sabanci University, Turkey)
Enabling Underwater Acoustic Cooperative MIMO Systems by Metamaterial-Enhanced Magnetic Induction
Soham Desai (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Vaishnendr Sudev (State University of New York, Buffalo, USA); Xin Tan (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Pu Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Zhi Sun (Tsinghua University, China)

EMR-6: VEC-UAV1

Joint Optimization of UAV Trajectory and Radio Resource Allocation for Drive-Thru Vehicular Networks
Moataz Shoukry (Concordia University, Canada); Mohaned Chraiti (Sabanci University, Turkey); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Ali Ghrayeb (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar)
A Novel Travel-Delay Aware Short-Term Vehicular Traffic Flow Prediction Scheme for VANET
Yanjie Tao (University of Ottawa, Canada); Peng Sun (Duke Kunshan University, China); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
CETVSP: Cost Efficient Trust-Based Vehicle Selection for Platoon
Gurbakshish Toor (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Maode Ma (Qatar University, Qatar)
Efficient Electric Vehicles Assignment for Platoon-based Charging
Peng Liu (Hangzhou Dianzi University & Temple University, China); Chaoyu Wang and Tingting Fu (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China); Zhitao Guan (North China Electric Power University, China)
Edge Cloud Resource-aware Flight Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Oussama Bekkouche (Aalto University, Finland); Tarik Taleb (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany); Miloud Bagaa (UQTR University, Canada); Konstantinos Samdanis (Lenovo, Germany)

MAC-3: Learning

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Time Scheduling in RF-Powered Backscatter Cognitive Radio Networks
Tran The Anh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Nguyen Cong Luong (Phenikaa University, Vietnam); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea (South))
Cross Layer Routing in Cognitive Radio Networks using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Snehal Chitnavis and Andres Kwasinski (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning for URLLC Traffic in Wireless Networks
Nesrine Ben Khalifa (Centrale Supélec, France); Mohamad Assaad (CentraleSupelec, France); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France)
A Distributed Mechanism for Joint 3D Placement and User Association in UAV-assisted Networks
Hajar El Hammouti (KAUST, KSA); Mustapha Benjillali (INPT, Morocco); Basem Shihada (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Dynamic Multichannel Access in HetNets
Shaoyang Wang and Tiejun Lv (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Adaptive Scheduling for Asymmetric Beamforming Training in IEEE 802.11ay-based Environments
Yena Kim (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); SuKyoung Lee (Yonsei University, Korea (South)); Tanguy Ropitault (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)

NET-7: ML driven RANs

Use of Machine Learning for energy efficiency in present and future mobile networks
David Sesto-Castilla (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Eduard Garcia-Villegas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); George Lyberopoulos and Elina Theodoropoulou (COSMOTE Mobile Telecommunications S.A., Greece)
An Unsupervised Learning Approach for Performance and Configuration Optimization of 4G Networks
Rui Santos (University of Lisbon, Portugal); Marco Sousa (Celfinet and Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Pedro Vieira (Instituto de Telecomunicações / ISEL, Portugal); Maria Paula Queluz (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal); António J. Rodrigues (IT / Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
Effectiveness of Data Augmentation in Cellular-based Localization Using Deep Learning
Hamada Rizk (Osaka University, Japan); Ahmed Shokry and Moustafa Youssef (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
A Distributed Q-Learning Approach for Adaptive Sleep Modes in 5G Networks
Julien Ali El Amine (American University of the Middle East, Kuwait); Mauricio Iturralde (CESI LINEACT UR7527, France); Hussein Al Haj Hassan (American University of Science and Technology, France); Loutfi Nuaymi (IMT Atlantique, France)
Efficient MIMO Detection with Imperfect Channel Knowledge - A Deep Learning Approach
Qian Chen, Shunqing Zhang, Shugong Xu and Shan Cao (Shanghai University, China)
Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network to Recognize LTE Uplink Interference
Xin Zhang (Huawei Technologies USA, Inc., USA); Jie Ren (Huawei Technologies, China); Yan Xin (Samsung Research America, USA)

NET-8: Cellular Networks

Application-Aware Resource Allocation based on Channel Information for Cellular Networks
Haya Shajaiah (Virginia Tech & The George Washington University, USA); Michael O Ghorbanzadeh (National Telecommunications and Information Administration, USA); Ahmed Abdelhadi (University of North Dakota, USA); Charles Clancy (MITRE, USA)
Analyzing Different Mobile Applications in Time and Space: a City-Wide Scenario
Armin Okic and Alessandro E. C. Redondi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Francesco Foglia and Luisa Venturini (Vodafone, Italy); Iacopo Galimberti (BIP, Italy)
Dynamic DASH Aware Scheduling in Cellular Networks
Rachid El-Azouzi (University of Avignon, France); Albert Sunny (Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India); Liang Zhao (Fudan University, China); Eitan Altman (INRIA, France); Dimitrios Tsilimantos (Paris Research Center, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., France); Francesco De Pellegrini (University of Avignon, France); Stefan Valentin (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Signaling Overhead and Power Consumption during Handover in LTE
Muhammad Tayyab (Nokia, Finland); Georgios P. Koudouridis (Ericsson & Dept. of Physics, Aristotle Univerity ot Thessaloniki (AUTH), Sweden); Xavier Gelabert (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden); Riku Jäntti (Aalto University, Finland)
Dynamic Access Point Selection and Resource Allocation in Multi-Technology Wireless Network
Iaad Ben Dhia, Mustapha Bouhtou and Taoufik En-Najjary (Orange Labs, France); Samer Lahoud (Dalhousie University, Canada); Xavier Lagrange (IMT Atlantique & IRISA, France)

PHY-10: Machine Learning for Communications

Ensemble Deep Learning Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing with Semi-soft Stacking Fusion Center
Hang Liu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Xu Zhu (Ericsson Research & Ericsson Japan, Japan); Takeo Fujii (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Machine-Learning Based Relay Selection in AF Cooperative Networks
Ala Gouissem (University of Doha for Science and Technology, Qatar); Lutfi Samara (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Munich Research Center & Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Ridha Hamila (Qatar University, Qatar); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Lazhar Ben-Brahim and Adel Gastli (Qatar University, Qatar)
A Learning and RSRP-Based Interference Topology Management Scheme for Ultra-Dense Networks
Yuande Tan, Hui Gao, Jincan Xin, Ruohan Cao and Yueming Lu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Offloading Decision Optimization in Mobile Edge Computing
Hao Zhang, Wenjun Wu, Chaoyi Wang, Meng Li and Ruizhe Yang (Beijing University of Technology, China)
Dynamic Optimization for Secure MIMO Beamforming using Large-scale Reinforcement Learning
Xinran Zhang (Central Conservatory of Music, China); Sun Songlin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Determinantal thinning of point processes with network learning applications
Bartlomiej Błaszczyszyn (Inria / ENS, France); Paul Keeler (University of Melbourne, Australia)

PHY-8: Massive MIMO II

Can Massive MIMO Support Uplink Intensive Applications?
Hong Yang (Bell Labs, USA); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Kaczmarz Precoding and Detection for Massive MIMO Systems
Victor Croisfelt (Aalborg University, Denmark); José Carlos Marinello (Federal University of Technology - Parana, Brazil); Taufik Abrão (State University of Londrina, Brazil)
Angular-based Massive-MIMO User Clustering and Precoding
Ahmed Masmoudi and Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)
On Approximate Matrix Inversion Methods for Massive MIMO Detectors
Mahmoud Ahmed Albreem (University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland)
Few-Bit CSI Acquisition for Centralized Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Spatial Correlation
Dick Maryopi (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Alister G. Burr (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Optimal Transmit Antenna Selection Algorithm in Massive MIMOME Channels
Chongjun Ouyang (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & University College Dublin, Ireland); Zeliang Ou, Lu Zhang and Hongwen Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

PHY-9: Transmission I

Signal Design for Frequency-Domain Enhanced Spatial Modulation
Serdar Sezginer (Sequans, France); Hikmet Sari (NJUPT, France); Meijun Wei (Sequans, France); Guan Gui (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Capacity Analysis and Structured Sparse Detection of Generalized Media-based Modulation
Bharath Shamasundar (Bell Laboratories, Nokia, India); A. Chockalingam (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Single Carrier with Index Modulation for Low Power Terabit Systems
Majed Saad (Nokia, France); Faouzi Bader (Technology Innovation Institut -TII, United Arab Emirates); Jacques Palicot (CentraleSupélec/IETR, France); Ali Chamas Al Ghouwayel (EFREI Paris, France); Hussein Hijazi (Lebanese International University (LIU), Lebanon)
Tailoring Index-Modulation for uplink IoT and M2M Networks
Julio César Manco (PUCP, France); Marwa Chafii (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Faouzi Bader (Technology Innovation Institut -TII, United Arab Emirates)
A Novel Chaotic Time Hopping TH-NRDCSK System for Anti-jamming Communications
Jungmin Kim (University of GIST, Korea (South)); Binh Nguyen and Hyoyong Jung (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Jong Hwan Lee (Agency for Defense Development, Korea (South)); Kiseon Kim (GIST - Gwangju, Reoublic of Korea, Korea (South))
Achievable rates using PAM time-limited pulses over band-limited channels: From Nyquist to FTN
Youssef Jaffal (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Ibrahim Abou-Faycal (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

PNL-3: REALIZING THE WIRELESS FUTURE FOR ALL

PNL-4: DRONE NETWORKING: TECHNICAL CHALLENGES AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Wednesday, April 17

EMR-7: WSN1

GNU Radio Implementation of MALIN: "Multi-Arm bandits Learning for Internet-of-things Networks"
Lilian Besson (CentraleSupélec, IETR & Inria Lille/ CRIStAL, France); Rémi Bonnefoi (Edison Ways, France); Christophe Moy (Universite de Rennes 1 & IETR, France)
A Novel Overlay Mesh with Bluetooth Low Energy Network
Pai Chet Ng (Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore); James She (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Unified communication and control framework to improve building response in earthquakes
Hamza Soury and Besma Smida (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); Lauren Linderman (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA); Milos Zefran (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Model-Driven Framework to Speed up Design and Exploitation of Sensor Networks
Abdenour Kifouche (EMP, Algeria); Redha Hamouche (ESIEE Paris, Université Gustave Eiffel, France); Remy Kocik (ESIEE Paris, France); Abderrezak Rachedi (University Gustave Eiffel, France); Geneviève Baudoin (ESYCOM - ESIEE, France)
A high-accuracy phase-based ranging solution with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
Pouria Zand (IMEC, The Netherlands); Jac Romme (IMEC / Holst Centre, The Netherlands); Jochem Govers (Holst Centre / IMEC-NL, The Netherlands); Frank Pasveer (Imec, Belgium); Guido Dolmans (Holst Centre / IMEC-NL, The Netherlands)
Design and Prototyping of Neural Network Compression For Non-Orthogonal IoT Signals
Tongyang Xu and Izzat Darwazeh (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

EMR-8: VEC-UAV2

A Memetic Algorithm for Finding the Two-fold Time-dependent Most Beautiful Driving Routes
Chao Chen, Hongyu Huang, Chaocan Xiang and Liping Gao (Chongqing University, China)
Mobility Support for Cellular Connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Performance and Analysis
Sebastian Euler (Ericsson, Sweden); Helka-Liina Määttänen (Ericsson, Finland); Xingqin Lin (NVIDIA, USA); Zhenhua Zou and Mattias Bergström (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Jonas Sedin (Ericsson, Sweden)
Drone mapping through multi-agent reinforcement learning
Riccardo Zanol and Federico Chiariotti (University of Padova, Italy); Andrea Zanella (University of Padova, Italy & CNIT, Italy)
RSSI-based Outdoor Localization with Single Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Seyma Yucer (Durham University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Furkan Tektas, Mesih Veysi Kilinc, Ilyas Kandemir, Hasari Celebi, Yusuf Sinan Akgul and Yakup Genc (Gebze Technical University, Turkey)
Detecting Malicious Driving with Machine Learning
Abdulaziz Almehmadi (University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia); Khalil El-Khatib and Kevin Yardy (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Towards Real-Time Traffic Monitoring using Airborne LiDAR
Rafael Akio Alves Watanabe (University of Idaho, USA); Sameh Sorour (Queen's University, Canada); Mohamed S Hefeida (West Virginia University, USA); Ahmed Abdel-Rahim (University of Idaho, USA)

MAC-4: WLAN

Eliminating the Use of IEEE 802.11 Acknowledgements; A Network Coding Approach
Ioannis Selinis (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Konstantinos Katsaros (Digital Catapult, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Seiamak Vahid and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Enhanced Minimal Scheduling Function for IEEE 802.15.4e TSCH Networks
Taieb Hamza (Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Georges Kaddoum (ETS Engineering School, University of Québec, Canada)
Rateless802.11: Architecture Design and Performance Optimization
Tao Huang (Nanjing University, China); Bin Tang (Hohai University, China); Baoliu Ye and Sanglu Lu (Nanjing University, China)
Cooperative control of 802.11ax access parameters in high density wireless LAN systems
Kenichi Kawamura, Akiyoshi Inoki and Shota Nakayama (NTT Corporation, Japan); Keisuke Wakao (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan); Yasushi Takatori (Nanzan University, Japan & NTT Corporation, Japan)
GPLM: An 802.11ac-Capable Low-MAC Architecture for FPGA-based SDR Systems
Boyan Ding, Jun Liu, Haoyang Wu and Tao Wang (Peking University, China)
High Throughput Resource Unit Assignment Scheme for OFDMA-based WLAN
Mingqing Wu, Jiabin Wang and Yi-hua Zhu (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Jintong Hong (Hangzhou Foreign Language School, China)

NET-10: Interference Mitigation

Optimizing Multi-antenna Communication in Cluster-based Wireless Networks
Hoda Ayatollahi, Cristiano Tapparello and Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester, USA)
Censor-Based Multi-Antenna Cooperative Spectrum Sensing over Erroneous Feedback Channels
Meiling Li (Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China); Omar Alhussein (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Tampere University, Finland); Sami Muhaidat (Carleton University, Canada); Paul Yoo (Birkbeck, University of London & University of Sydney, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jie Liang (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Anhong Wang (Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China)
Multiple antenna receiver under impulsive S\(\alpha\)S noise
Nícolas de Araújo Moreira (Federal University of Ceara, Brazil); Laurent Clavier (Institut Mines-Telecom, IMT Nord Europe, France)
Quantifying Interference in WiLD Networks using Topography Data and Realistic Antenna Patterns
Michael Rademacher (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany); Mathias Kretschmer (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany); Karl Jonas (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences & Fraunhofer Gesellschaft FKIE, Germany)
Maximal Packing with Interference Constraints
Rakshith Jagannath (Nanyang Technological University, India); Radha Krishna Ganti (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Neelesh Shankar Upadhye (IIT Madras, India)
NLOS identification and mitigation based on CIR with particle filter
Zhuoqi Zeng and Rubing Bai (Bosch (China) Investment Ltd., China); Lei Wang (TongJi University, Shanghai, China); Steven Liu (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

NET-11: Multiple Access Enabled Networks

A Fast Algorithm for Resource Allocation in Downlink Multicarrier NOMA
Estela Carmona-Cejudo (i2CAT Foundation, Spain); Huiling Zhu and Jiangzhou Wang (University of Kent, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Osama Alluhaibi (University of Kirkuk, Iraq)
Time Asynchronous NOMA for Downlink Transmission
Mehdi Ganji and Hamid Jafarkhani (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Energy-efficient Resource Allocation and Channel Assignment for NOMA-based Mobile Edge Computing
Lina Liu (Northwestern University, USA); Bo Sun (University of Ottawa, Canada); Xiaoqi Tan (University of Alberta, Canada); Yu Sing Xiao and Danny H.K. Tsang (HKUST, Hong Kong)
Self-Organizing Networking in NOMA-Enabled Heterogeneous Networks
Mutlu Koca (Bogazici University, Turkey); Nur Tuncel (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Outage Performance of Relay Sparse Code Multiple Access Networks
Yibo Zhang (Beijing Information Science and Technology University, China); Xiaoxiang Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Dongyu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications, Ministry of Education, China); Yanwen Lan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yufang Zhang (Xi'an Technological University, China)

NET-9: Link and Physical Layer Security

An Eavesdropping and Jamming Dilemma when the Adversary might be Subjective
Andrey Garnaev (Rutgers University, USA); Wade Trappe (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA)
Optimal Jammer Placement in the Real Plane to Partition a Wireless Network
Jixin Feng (Google Inc., USA); Warren Dixon, Tan Wong and John M Shea (University of Florida, USA)
RF-DNA Fingerprint Classification of OFDM Signals Using a Rayleigh Fading Channel Model
Mohamed K Fadul (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA); Donald R Reising (The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA); Thomas Loveless (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, USA); Abdul Ofoli (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA)
Secure and Efficient Fast Initial Link Setup Scheme Design
Lyuye Zhang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Maode Ma (Qatar University, Qatar)
An Area Description Framework for physical layer authentication
Na Li and Han Geng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Shida Xia (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China); Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Multi-Operator Spectrum Sharing for Energy Efficient Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
Marco Dolfi (University of Florence & CNIT, Italy); Sara Jayousi (PIN University of Florence, Italy); Simone Morosi (University of Florence, Italy & CNIT - Research Unit of Florence University, Italy); Federica Paganelli (University of Pisa, Italy); Yacine Sakhri (University of Florence, Italy)

PHY-11: Coding I

Construction and Decoding of Product Codes with Non-Systematic Polar Codes
Valerio Bioglio (Università Degli Studi di Torino, Italy); Carlo Condo (Infinera, Canada); Ingmar Land (Infinera, France)
Fast Decoding of Multi-Kernel Polar Codes
Adam Cavatassi, Thibaud Tonnellier and Warren Gross (McGill University, Canada)
Algorithm and Architecture for Path Metric Aided Bit-Flipping Decoding of Polar Codes
Yu Wang and Lirui Chen (National University of Defense Technology, China); Qinglin Wang, Yang Zhang and Zuocheng Xing (National University of Defence Technology, China)
Multi-Bit-Flipping Decoding of Polar Codes Based on Medium-Level Bit-Channels Sets
Zhijun Zhang, Kai Niu and Chao Dong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Arithmetic Coding Based Multi-Composition Codes for Bit-Level Distribution Matching
Marcin Pikus (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf & Institute for Communications Engineering, TU Munich, Germany); Wen Xu (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH & - European Research Center (ERC), Germany)
Inner Code Optimization for High Rate Faster-than-Nyquist
Hui Che (Ruijie Networks Co., Ltd, China); Zhanji Wu (BUPT, China); Weimin Kang (North University of China, China)

PHY-12: NOMA I

Interference Alignment Beamforming and Power Allocation for Cognitive MIMO-NOMA Downlink Networks
Yu Sing Xiao and Danny H.K. Tsang (HKUST, Hong Kong)
Jamming-Immune Receiver Design for MIMO-NOMA Systems Using Optimal Manifold Filtering
Dongyang Xu, Pinyi Ren and Qiang Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Hongliang He (China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China)
D2D Group Association and Channel Assignment in Uplink Multi-Cell NOMA Networks
Mohammed W. Baidas (Kuwait University, Kuwait); Mohammed S. Bahbahani (Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Kuwait); Emad Alsusa (Manchester University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhiguo Ding (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
An Outage Probability Analysis of Full-Duplex NOMA in UAV Communications
Zheng Hui Ernest Tan (Nanyang Technological University & Airbus Singapore, Singapore); A S Madhukumar and Sirigina Rajendra Prasad (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Anoop Kumar Krishna (Airbus, Singapore)
Outage Performance of NOMA at Road Intersections Using Stochastic Geometry
Baha Eddine Youcef Belmekki (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Abdelkrim Hamza (USTHB, Algeria); Benoit Escrig (Université de Toulouse & IRIT, France)
Cooperative NOMA via Bilayer Factor Graphs
Bing Dong, Shaoguo Wen and Zhongwei Si (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

PHY-13: NOMA II

Joint Relay Selection and Global Energy-Efficient Power Allocation in NOMA Networks
Mohammed W. Baidas (Kuwait University, Kuwait); Emad Alsusa (Manchester University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
On the Sum-Rate Capacity and Spectral Efficiency Gains of Massively Concurrent NOMA Systems
Takanori Hara (Tohoku University, Japan); Andrei Stoica (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany); Koji Ishibashi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu (Constructor University, Germany)
Joint Relay Selection and Energy-Efficient Power Allocation in Downlink Multi-Cell NOMA Networks
Mohammed W. Baidas, Zainab Bahbahani, Nancy El-Sharkawi and Halah Shehada (Kuwait University, Kuwait); Emad Alsusa (Manchester University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Sum Rate Fairness Trade-off-based Resource Allocation Technique for MISO NOMA Systems
Haitham Al-Obiedollah and Kanapathippillai Cumanan (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alister G. Burr (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhiguo Ding (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada)
Minimum Distance Optimization on Signature Code for Uplink Non-orthogonal Multiple Access
Chih-Kang Wang, I Hsuan Liao and Jen-Ming Wu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Shih-Hao Fang and Jen-Yuan Hsu (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan)
Optimal Feedback Allocation for Zeroforcing Beamforming Transmission in Downlink NOMA
Kritsada Mamat (King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand); Wiroonsak Santipach (Kasetsart University, Thailand)

PHY-14: Relaying and Full Duplex

Outage Performance Analysis of Cooperative PDMA with the Full-Duplex Relay
Jiajia Mei (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jie Zeng (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Xin Su (Tsinghua University, China); Shihai Shao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Transmission Strategies in Imperfect Bi-directional Full-Duplex MIMO Systems
Hiroki Iimori (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu (Constructor University, Germany); Koji Ishibashi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens & University of Illinois Chicago, Greece)
SEE of Full-Duplex Multi-carrier Bidirectional Wiretap Channels with Multiple Eavesdroppers
Tianyu Yang (HUAWEI, Germany); Omid Taghizadeh (Lenovo, Germany); Rudolf Mathar (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Treating Self-Interference as Source: An ICA Assisted Full-Duplex Relay System
Hanjun Duan, Yufei Jiang and Xu Zhu (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Zhongxiang Wei (Tongji University & School of Electronics and Information Engineering, China); Yujie Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)
Joint ML Time and Frequency Synchronization for Distributed MIMO-Relay Beamforming
Souheib Ben Amor (INRS-EMT, Canada & Nokia, Finland); Sofiene Affes (INRS, Canada); Faouzi Bellili (University of Manitoba, Canada); Usa Vilaipornsawai (Huawei Technologies Canada, Co. Ltd, Canada); Liqing Zhang and Peiying Zhu (Huawei Technologies, Canada)
Efficient Transmission in Multi-user Relay Networks with Node Clustering and Network Coding
Xun Li, Chao Wang, Ping Wang and Fuqiang Liu (Tongji University, China)

SE-2: Brainstorming on 6G

KEY-3: FUTURE X FOR NEW VALUE CREATION BY 5G

KEY-4: FACEBOOK CONNECTIVITY AND THE RURAL CHALLENGE

Demo-1: Demo session

A Rapid Prototyping for Wireless Virtual Network Embedding using MARVELO
Haitham Afifi (Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany); Holger Karl (Hasso Plattner Institute & University of Potsdam, Germany); Sebastian Eikenberg, Arnold Mueller, Lars Gansel, Alexander Makejkin, Kai Hannemann and Rafael Schellenberg (Paderborn University, Germany)
Experimenting with Cloud and Network Orchestration for Multi-Access Edge Computing
Polychronis Valsamas (University of Macedonia, Greece); Sotiris Skaperas (University of Macedonia & ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Greece); George Violettas (SYSGO GmbH, Germany & University of Macedonia, Greece); Tryfon Theodorou, Sophia Petridou, Dimitrios Vardalis, Antonios Tsioukas and Lefteris Mamatas (University of Macedonia, Greece)
Real-Time Wireless Control of Networked Mobile Platforms for Industrial Applications
Adnan Aijaz (Toshiba Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Aleksandar Stanoev (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mahesh Sooriyabandara (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Autonomous D2D Communication using Software Defined Radios
Puneet Sharma (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany); Zubair Shaik (AiVader, Germany); Andreas Mitschele-Thiel (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)
Asset Tracking with Smart Contracts
Pekka Karhula and Vesa Pentikainen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Visa Vallivaara (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland ltd, Finland); Niko Lehto and Janne Aikio (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)

EMR-10: VEC-UAV3

Benchmarking Machine-Learning-Based Object Detection on a UAV and Mobile Platform
Ignacio Martinez-Alpiste (University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera (ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain); Jose Maria Alcaraz Calero (University of the West of Scotland & School of Engineering and Computing, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Christos Grecos (Central Washington University, USA); Qi Wang (University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Differential Private Mechanism to Protect Trajectory Privacy in Mobile Crowd-Sensing
Hongyu Huang, Xin Niu, Chao Chen and Chunqiang Hu (Chongqing University, China)
An Adaptable Four-Dimensional Destination Predictor For Smart Vehicles
Amal Elnahas (TheBritish University in Egypt, Egypt); Nardine Basta (Macquarie University, Australia); Hans Peter Großmann (Ulm University, Germany); Amr Elmougy (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Slim Abdennadher (GUC, Egypt)
Performance Analysis of V2V Links in Highway Scenarios with Weibull-Lognormal Composite Fading
Yang Wang, Fuqiang Liu and Ping Wang (Tongji University, China)
Full-Duplex D2D Communications in Vehicular Networks
Vahid Towhidlou and Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

EMR-9: WSN2

Optimal Interference Management, Power Control and Routing in Multihop D2D Cellular Systems
Ahmed Mohamed Ali Ibrahim (Ericsson, Canada); Telex Magloire N Ngatched (McMaster University, Canada); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada)
A Practical Approach to Placing Coastal Sensors for Spectrum Sharing in the 3.5 GHz Band
Thao Nguyen (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Anirudha Sahoo and Timothy Hall (NIST, USA)
Blockchain based trust management mechanism for IoT
Asma Lahbib (Telecom SudParis, France); Khalifa Toumi (Telecom Sudparis, France); Anis Laouiti (TELECOM SudParis, France); Alexandre Laube (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France); Steven Martin (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
An Empirical Study of the Performance of IEEE 802.15.4e TSCH for Wireless Body Area Networks
Farzad Veisi (Isfahan University of Technology, Iran); Majid Nabi (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Hossein Saidi (Isfahan University of Technology, Iran)
OPTIVE: Optimal Configuration of Virtual Sensor in Mobile Sensor-cloud
Arijit Roy (Indian Institute Technology Patna & SensorDrops Networks Pvt. Ltd., India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Lakshya Lakshya (Samsung R&D Institute India-Bangalore, India)
User Existence-aware BLE Beacon Firmware for Extended Battery Lifetime
Kang Eun Jeon (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & SungKyunKwan University, Korea (South)); James She (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

MAC-5: Resource Allocation and Management

Power Consumption-Oriented Resource Allocation Strategy for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication
Yuncong Xie, Pinyi Ren and Yichen Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Jiuchao Li (China Academy of Space Technology, China)
ADMM-based Subcarrier Allocation and Power Control for Uplink OFDMA Channels
Zijian Wang and Yuting Mou (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Power and Beam Optimization for Uplink Millimeter-Wave Hotspot Communication Systems
Rafail Ismayilov, Bernd Holfeld and Renato L. G. Cavalcante (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Megumi Kaneko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Joint Communication and Computation Resource Allocation for Cloud-Edge Collaborative System
Jinke Ren (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and FNii-Shenzhen, China); Yinghui He (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, China); Geoffrey Ye Li (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Cross-layer framework and optimization for efficient use of the energy budget of IoT Nodes
Gilles Callebaut (KU Leuven, Belgium); Geoffrey Ottoy (KU Leuven & Technology Campus Ghent, Belgium); Liesbet Van der Perre (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Traffic-aware Advanced Sleep Modes management in 5G networks
Fatma Ezzahra Salem (Orange, France); Tijani Chahed (Telecom SudParis, France); Zwi Altman and Azeddine Gati (Orange Labs, France)

NET-12: Low-power and Sensor Networks

Energy-Efficient Power Control with Max-Min Fairness for Energy Harvesting Ad Hoc Networks
Jinming Hu, Wei Heng, Li Xiang, Jing Wu, Ke Wang and Gang Wang (Southeast University, China)
Energy-Efficient Data Collection by Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Networks
Tzung-Shi Chen and Wei-Qing Du (National University of Tainan, Taiwan); Jen-Jee Chen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Bounds on Path Exposure in Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
Abdulsalam Basabaa and Ehab S. Elmallah (University of Alberta, Canada)
On Timely Sweep Coverage with Multiple Mobile Nodes
Di Zhang, Dong Zhao and Huadong Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Wake-up Radio Ranges: A Performance Study
Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University & The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, USA); Federico Ceccarelli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Nithila Raman (Northeastern University, USA); Abhimanyu V Sheshashayee (Northeastern University & The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, USA)
FL-Trickle: New Enhancement of Trickle Algorithm for Low Power and Lossy Networks
Hanane Lamaazi (CIT, UAE University, United Arab Emirates); Nabil Benamar (Moulay Ismail University, Morocco & Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco); Nassima EL Kahili (University Ibn Tofail, National School of Applied Sciences, Morocco); Tarik Taleb (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

NET-13: Resource Management and Optimization

Optimal Resource Allocation Policy for Multi-Rate Opportunistic Forwarding
Fabian Hohmann (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Andrea Ortiz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Probability Complementary Transmission Scheme for Uplink OFDMA-based Random Access in 802.11ax WLAN
Jiabin Wang and Mingqing Wu (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Qinghua Chen (Wenzhou Polytechnic & Wenzhou Key Laboratory for Intelligent Networking, China); Yuan Zheng and Yi-hua Zhu (Zhejiang University of Technology, China)
Power control and bandwidth allocation based on multi-service for uplink in LWA system
Sidong Li, Yafeng Wang and Xinran Ba (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Proportional Fair Scheduling in a Multicarrier Bidirectional Relaying Network
Maryam Mohseni (McMaster University, Canada)
Sub-Function Allocation for Computation over Wide-Band MAC
Fangzhou Wu (Huawei Technologies, China); Li Chen (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Guo Wei (University of Sci. & Tech. of China, China)
Energy Efficiency Optimization through RRHs ON/OFF Switching Technique in C-RAN
Mostafa AlEmam (Cairo University, Egypt); Amr El-Sherif (Egypt University of Informatics, Egypt & Alexandria University, Egypt); Tamer ElBatt (The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt)

NET-14: Resource Scheduling

Revenue Maximization in D2D Content Relaying
Jagadeesha R Bhat (Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India); Yeh-Cheng Chang and Jang-Ping Sheu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Realtime Scheduling and Power Allocation Using Deep Neural Networks
Shenghe Xu, Pei Liu and Ran Wang (New York University, USA); Shivendra Panwar (New York University & Tandon School of Engineering, USA)
Optimal Centralized Dynamic-TDD Scheduling Scheme for a General Network of Half-Duplex Nodes
Mohsen Mohammadkhani Razlighi (Monash University, Australia); Nikola Zlatanov (Innopolis University, Russia); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Backhaul-aware Scheduling Technique for LTE-WLAN Aggregation
Mahmoud Elmesalawy (Helwan University, Egypt); Ahmed Abdulshakoor Mohammed (Queen's University, Canada); Gamal Khalaf (Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University, Egypt); Moawad Dessouky (Menoufia University, Egypt)
Randomized Caching in Cooperative UAV-Enabled Fog-RAN
Mohammad G. Khoshkholgh (Carleton University, Canada); Keivan Navaie (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Victor C.M. Leung (SMBU, China & The University of British Columbia, Canada); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada); Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan, USA)
Gateway Selection for Downlink Communication in LoRaWAN
Samira Abboud (ESEO, France & LAU, Lebanon); Nancy El Rachkidy (Universite Clermont Auvergne, France); Alexandre Guitton (Université Clermont Auvergne, France); Haidar Safa (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

NET-15: Authentication and Privacy

Novel Smart Home Authentication Protocol
Sarra Naoui (ENSI University of Manouba, Tunisia); Mohamed Elhdhili (University of Manouba, Tunisia); Leila Azouz Saidane (ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia)
Extending Authentication Mechanism to Cooperate with Accountable Address Assignment
Boyang Wu, Hewu Li and Qian Wu (Tsinghua University, China)
Wireless User Authentication Based on KLT and Gaussian Mixture Model
Xiaoying Qiu (Beijing Information Science & Technology University, China); Ting Jiang (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Sheng Wu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Haipeng Yao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon, France)
Quantum-Resistance Authentication and Data Transmission Scheme for NB-IoT in 3GPP 5G Networks
Pu Yu and Jin Cao (Xidian University, China); Maode Ma (Qatar University, Qatar); Hui Li (Xidian University, China); Ben Niu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Fenghua Li (State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, China)
Implementation and Evaluation of ISDSR in Emulation Environments
Shinnosuke Shimizu (Osaka University, Japan); Hideharu Kojima (Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan); Naoto Yanai and Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya (Osaka University, Japan)
Sieve: Lightweight Robust Regression on Private Sensory Data
Shan Chang, Hang Chen and Chao Li (Donghua University, China); Hongzi Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Lu Ting (Donghua University, China)

PHY-15: Caching

Caching or No Caching in Dense HetNets
Mohammad G. Khoshkholgh (Carleton University, Canada); Keivan Navaie (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan, USA); Victor C.M. Leung (SMBU, China & The University of British Columbia, Canada); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)
Impact of Temporally Correlated Nakagami-m Interferers in D2D Cache-Aided Networks
Abdulmoneam Ali (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Laila H. Afify (Nile University, Cairo, Egypt); Amr El-Sherif (Egypt University of Informatics, Egypt & Alexandria University, Egypt); Tamer ElBatt (The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt)
Linear Precoding Design for Cache-aided Full-duplex Networks
Thang X. Vu (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Trinh Anh Vu (Vietnam National University, Vietnam); Lei Lei (Xi‘an Jiaotong University, China); Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
A Feature-Based Bayesian Method for Content Popularity Prediction in Edge-Caching Networks
Sajad Mehrizi (Khaje Nasir Toosi, Iran); Anestis Tsakmalis, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Achievable Degrees of Freedom of Cache-Aided Wireless Cellular Networks
Youlong Cao (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Meixia Tao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Coded Caching and Spatial Multiplexing Gains in MIMO Interference Networks
Antonious Girgis (Nile University, Egypt); Ozgur Ercetin (Sabanci University, Turkey); Mohammed Nafie (Cairo University & Nile University, Egypt); Tamer ElBatt (The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt)

PHY-16: VLC

Visible Light Indoor Positioning in a Noise-aware Environment
Antonio Costanzo (Université Gustave Eiffel, France); Valeria Loscrí (Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France)
Effect of Misalignment Error on Secrecy Outage Capacity of FSO Communication Links
Rubén Boluda-Ruiz (University of Málaga, Spain); Khalid A. Qaraqe (Hamad Bin Khalifa University & College of Science and Engineering, Qatar)
Compact Optimal Pilot Design for Channel Estimation in MIMO VLC Systems
Ashok D. R. and A. Chockalingam (Indian Institute of Science, India)
A Learning Approach for Robust Carrier Recovery in Heavily Noisy Visible Light Communication
Antonio Costanzo (Université Gustave Eiffel, France); Valeria Loscrí (Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France)
Fast Decoder for Overloaded Uniquely Decodable Synchronous Optical CDMA
Michel Kulhandjian (Rice University, USA & University of Ottawa, Canada); Hovannes K. Kulhandjian (California State University, Fresno, USA); Claude D'Amours (University of Ottawa, Canada); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada); Gurgen Khachatrian (American University of Armenia, Armenia)
A Novel Opto-Electronic Architecture for Large Multi-Band and Multi-Beam Phased Arrays
Stefano Galli (Peraton Labs, USA); Garrett Schneider, Shouyuan Shi and Janusz Murakowski (University of Delaware, USA); Xiao-Feng Qi (University of Delaware & Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc., USA); Munawar Kermalli (Huawei Technologies, USA); Dennis W. Prather (University of Delaware, USA & Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc., USA)

PHY-17: D2D

The Influence of Canyon Shadowing on Device-to-Device Connectivity in Urban Scenario
Quentin Le Gall (Orange Labs Networks, France); Bartlomiej Błaszczyszyn (Inria-Ens, France); Elie Cali (Orange, France); Taoufik En-Najjary (Orange Labs, France)
On the Physical Layer Security of Underlay Multihop Device-to-Device Relaying
Majid H Khoshafa and Telex Magloire N Ngatched (McMaster University, Canada); Mohamed Hossam Ahmed (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Energy-Efficient D2D Communication under Downlink HetNets
Amal Algedir (University of Oklahoma, USA); Hazem Refai (Oklahoma University, USA)
Mobility-Aware Joint Resource Allocation and Power Allocation for D2D Communication
Xiaoxu Yuan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hui Tian (Beijng University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Bo Fan (Beijing University of Technology, China)
Asymptotic Loss in Privacy due to Dependency in Gaussian Traces
Nazanin Takbiri (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Ramin Soltani (Samsung Semiconductor Inc., USA); Dennis Goeckel (University of Massachusetts, USA); Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Hossein Pishro-Nik (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)

PNL-5: MATURING E2E NETWORK AND CLOUD SLICING: WHERE ARE THE FRONTIERS?

EMR-11: EDGE/FOG

MEGEE: Mobile Edge computer Geared v2x for E-Mobility Ecosystem
Yue Cao (Wuhan University, China); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Xu Zhang (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); William Liu (Unitec, New Zealand); Linyu Peng (Waseda University, Japan); Muhammad Khalid (Northumbria University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
EdgeHealth: An Energy-Efficient Edge-based Remote mHealth Monitoring System
Ahmed Emam (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Alaa Awad Abdellatif (INESC TEC, Portugal); Amr Mohamed (Qatar University, Qatar); Khaled A. Harras (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Dynamic Computation Offloading in Mobile-Edge-Cloud Computing Systems
Jude Joseph (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Jeongho Kwak (Korea University, Korea (South)); George Iosifidis (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Micro-Operator driven Local 5G Network Architecture for Industrial Internet
Yushan Siriwardhana (University of Oulu, Finland); Pawani Porambage (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Madhusanka Liyanage (University College Dublin, Ireland); Jaspreet Singh Walia (Aalto University, Finland); Marja Matinmikko-Blue (University of Oulu, Centre for Wireless Communications, Finland); Mika E Ylianttila (University of Oulu, Finland)
Android-based Implementation of a Fog Computing and Networking Environment
Daniele Tarchi (University of Florence, Italy); Stefano Grandi and Walter Cerroni (University of Bologna, Italy)
Degree-based Balanced Clustering for Large-Scale Software Defined Networks
Talha Ibn Aziz and Shadman Protik (Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh); Md Sakhawat Hossen (Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh); Salimur Choudhury (Queen's University, Canada); Muhammad Mahbub Alam (Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh)

EMR-12: Video/Grid

A Volunteer Dilemma Framework for Mobile Live Streaming
Khadija Bouraqia (University Hassan II & Ensem, Morocco); Essaid Sabir (TELUQ University, Canada & University of Quebec, Canada); Halima Elbiaze (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Mohamed Sadik (ENSEM / UH2C & ENSA Berrechid / UHP, Morocco)
LAPAS: Latency-Aware Playback-Adaptive Streaming
Guanghui Zhang (Shandong University, China); Jack Y. B. Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
A Dynamic Map-based Framework for Real-Time Mapping of Vehicles and their Surroundings
Mariem Maiouak (Aalto University - School of Electrical Engineering, Finland); Tarik Taleb (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
An Improved Key Graph based Key Management Scheme for Smart Grid AMI systems
Mourad Benmalek (Al Yamamah University, Saudi Arabia); Yacine Challal (University of Doha for Science and Technology, Qatar); Abdelouahid Derhab (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Aurum: A blockchain based decentralized video streaming platform
Sailesh Sathish and Anish Patankar (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Harshit Khanna (Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore, India)
Design Optimization of a MIMO Receiver for Diffusion-based Molecular Communication
Abderrahmane Oussama Dambri (University of Ottawa, Canada); Amine Abouaomar (Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco); Soumaya Cherkaoui (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)

NET-16: PHY/Link Layer Optimization

Selection of the Threshold for First-Order Cyclostationarity Test
Huseyin Cukur and Ahmet Serbes (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey)
Distributed Power Allocation Algorithm for General Authorised Access in Spectrum Access System
Ying He, Beeshanga Abewardana Jayawickrama and Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Throughput Improvement in Network Coding Wireless Multihop Communication
Hiroaki Higaki and Yusuke Aoi (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
Minimizing Energy and Latency in FD MEC Through Multi-objective Optimization
Mahmoud Tukur Kabir (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Muhammad R. A. Khandaker (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
On the Maximization of Secrecy Energy Efficiency in Full-Duplex Bidirectional System With SWIPT
Meng Li (OPPO, China); Na Li, Huici Wu and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

NET-17: UAV Networks

Connectivity-Aware UAV Path Planning with Aerial Coverage Maps
Hongyu Yang, Jun Zhang, Shenghui Song and Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Fog-Based Visual Gesture Control and External Stabilization for micro-UAVs
Anandarup Mukherjee (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Nilanjan Daw (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Debapriya Paul (IEM Kolkata, India)
An Adaptive UAV Network for Increased User Coverage and Spectral Efficiency
Hasini Abeywickrama, Ying He, Eryk Dutkiewicz and Beeshanga Abewardana Jayawickrama (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Edge-Prior Placement Algorithm for UAV-Mounted Base Stations
Juan Qin and Zhiqing Wei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Chen Qiu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Mobile Small Cells for Adaptive RAN Densification: Preliminary Throughput Results
Foroogh Mohammadnia (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Christian Vitale (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Marco Fiore (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Vincenzo Mancuso (University of Palermo, Italy & IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Marco G Ajmone Marsan (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)
Caching to the Sky: Performance Analysis of Cache-Assisted CoMP for Cellular-Connected UAVs
Ramy Amer (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Hesham ElSawy (School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada); M. Majid Butt (Nokia, USA); Nicola Marchetti (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

NET-18: Routing and Multi-casting

Enabling Efficient Device to Device Multicast Communication by Clustering and Resource Sharing
Shi-Zhe Jian and Ting-Chao Hou (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
Queuing Theoretic Models for Multicasting Under Fading
Mahadesh Panju (Indian Institute of Science, India); Ramkumar Raghu (Defence Research and Development Organization, India & Indian Institute of Science, India); Vaneet Aggarwal (Purdue University, USA); Vinod Sharma (Indian Institute of Science, India); Ramachandran Rajesh (DRDO, India)
Auction Based Resource Allocation and Pricing for Heterogeneous User Demands in eMBMS
Sadaf Ul Zuhra (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Prasanna Chaporkar and Abhay Karandikar (IIT Bombay, India)
A Probability-Based Approach for Solving Shortest Path Problems in Gaussian Networks
Ahmed Youssef (American University of the Middle East, Kuwait); Pierre Abi Char (American University of the Middle East & AUM, Kuwait)
Implementation of Network Coding with Recoding for Unequal-sized and Header Compressed Traffic
Maroua Taghouti (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Máté Tömösközi (Technische Universität Dresden & Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Germany); Malte Höweler (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Daniel E. Lucani (Aarhus University, Denmark); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany); Ammar Bouallegue (National School of Engineers of Tunis, Tunisia); Péter Ekler (BME, Hungary)
SWSP: Socially-Weighted Shortest Path Routing for Practical Internet of Things Applications
Mostafa elTager and Yasser Gadallah (The American University in Cairo, Egypt)

NET-19: ML assisted Network Applications

IoT Device Fingerprinting: Machine Learning based Encrypted Traffic Analysis
Nizar Msadek (University of Luxembourg & SnT, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg); Ridha Soua (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Thomas Engel (University of Luxemburg, Luxembourg)
Rogue Drone Detection: A Machine Learning Approach
Henrik Rydén (Ericsson, Sweden); Sakib Bin Redhwan (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Xingqin Lin (NVIDIA, USA)
Managing Fog Networks using Reinforcement Learning Based Load Balancing Algorithm
Jungyeon Baek and Georges Kaddoum (ETS Engineering School, University of Québec, Canada); Sahil Garg (Resilient Machine Learning Institute (ReMI), Canada); Kuljeet Kaur (Ecole Technologie Superieure, Canada); Vivianne Gravel (B-CITI Inc., Canada)
A Deep Learning Based Resource Allocation Scheme in Vehicular Communication Systems
Mimi Chen (Shanghai University, China); Jiajun Chen (ZTE Corporation, China); Xiaojing Chen, Shunqing Zhang and Shugong Xu (Shanghai University, China)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Edge Caching in Future Mobile Networks
Ding Li and Yiwen Han (Tianjin University, China); Chenyang Wang (Shenzhen University, China); Gaotao Shi and Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); Xiuhua Li (Chongqing University, China); Victor C.M. Leung (SMBU, China & The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Edge-assisted Adaptive Video Streaming with Deep Learning in Mobile Edge Networks
Zheng Chang, Xiang Zhou, Zhi Wang and Hanyang Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xing Zhang (BUPT, China)

NET-20: Network Softwarization and Slicing

Effective isolation in dynamic network slicing
Xu Yang (Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao); Yue Liu and Ieok Cheng Wong (Macao Polytechnic University, Macao); Yapeng Wang and Laurie Cuthbert (Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao)
A practical approach to slicing Wi-Fi RANs in future 5G networks
Joan Josep Aleixendri, August Betzler and Daniel Camps-Mur (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)
Radio Resource Management in context of Network Slicing: What is Missing in Existing Mechanisms?
Behnam Khodapanah (TU Dresden, Germany); Ahmad Awada (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Ingo Viering (Nomor Research GmbH, Germany); Jobin Francis (Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India); Meryem Simsek (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Building SDN Agent for Wireless Local Area Networks
Li Li, Mark Beach, Reza Nejabati and Dimitra Simeonidou (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Slice-aware 5G Dynamic Small Cells
Ömer Bulakci (Nokia Standards, Germany); Emmanouil Pateromichelakis (Lenovo, Germany)
Dual Connectivity Support in 5G Networks: An SDN based approach
Pradnya Taksande (IIT Bombay, India); Pranav Kumar Jha (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Abhay Karandikar (IIT Bombay, India)

PHY-18: Beyond

A cooperative localization-aided tracking algorithm for THz wireless systems
Giorgos Stratidakis (University of Piraeus, Greece); Alexandros-Apostolos A Boulogeorgos (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece); Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Channel Capacity Analysis of Diffusive DNA based Molecular Communication
Yao Sun and Masaki Ito (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Kaoru Sezaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Experimental Evaluation of a Near-Field Magnetic Induction Based Communication System
Rajpreet Kaur Gulati Walia (Temple University, USA); Amitangshu Pal (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Krishna Kant (Temple University, USA)
Impact of Wavelength on the Path-loss of Turbid Underwater Communication Systems
Abla Kammoun (Kaust, Saudi Arabia); Zhou Jiusi (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Boon S. Ooi (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
Magneto-Inductive Powering and Uplink of In-Body Microsensors: Feasibility and High-Density Effects
Gregor Dumphart, Bertold Ian Bitachon and Armin Wittneben (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Study on Path Identification at 40 GHz Band in NLOS Urban Street Cell Environment
Koshiro Kitao (NTT DOCOMO, INC, Japan); Tetsuro Imai (NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan); Minoru Inomata (NTT, Japan); Yukihiko Okumura and Takehiro Nakamura (NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan); Kiyoshi Yanagisawa (Rohde & Schwarz Japan, Japan); Taro Eichler (Rohde & Schwarz, Germany); Wilhelm Keusgen (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

PHY-19: HetNets

A Novel JT-CoMP Scheme in 5G Fractal Small Cell Networks
Jiaqi Chen (National University of Defense Technology, China); Xiaohu Ge (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China); Yi Zhong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Yonghui Li (University of Sydney, Australia)
Capacity Analysis and Optimization for Energy Efficient Heterogeneous Networks
Can Altay and Mutlu Koca (Bogazici University, Turkey)
DoF of Sectored Cellular Networks with C-RAN
Samet Gelincik (INSA Rennes, France); Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman (TELECOM ParisTech, France)
On the Downlink Performance of Decoupled HetNets with Data-Aided Channel Estimation
Wen Liu and Shi Jin (Southeast University, China); Xiaohu You (National Mobile communication Research Lab., Southeast University, China)
Partially Overlapped Channel Detection in Heterogeneous Cognitive Networks
Jiayue Li (Arizona State University, USA); Tracy Yingying Cheng and Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Dijiang Huang (Arizona State University, USA)
A Hybrid Interference Alignment Scheme in Two-tiered MIMO Heterogeneous Network
Cai Qin (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Chaowei Wang and Du Pan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Weidong Wang (Beijing Unversity of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yinghai Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

PHY-20: Networks

On PHY Abstraction Modeling for IEEE 802.11ax based Multi-Connectivity Networks
Waqar Anwar (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Sourav Dev and Kedar Kulkarni (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Norman Franchi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Integrated SC/OFDM Receiver Design for Efficient Phase Noise Mitigation in IEEE 802.11ad
Jungmin Yoon, Jinwook Kim, Lee Jung Yong and Seong-Cheol Kim (Seoul National University, Korea (South))
A WiFi SIC Receiver in the presence of LTE-LAA for Indoor Deployment
Sumit Kumar (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg); Florian Kaltenberger (Eurecom, France); Alejandro Ramirez (Siemens AG, Germany); Bernhard Kloiber (Siemens AG, Foundational Technologies, Germany)
Covert Communications in Packet Collision Channels
Dennis Goeckel (University of Massachusetts, USA); Azadeh Sheikholeslami (Boston College, USA); Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary, Canada)
Distributed Capacity of A Multiple Access Channel
Yanru Tang (Samsung, USA); Faeze Heydaryan and Jie Luo (Colorado State University, USA)
The Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff of Lognormal Channels as a Function of the dB Spread
Ahmed Wagdy Shaban (Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada & University of Waterloo, Canada); Oussama Damen (University of Waterloo, Canada)

PNL-6: PAVING THE WAY TOWARDS 6G

Thursday, April 18

EMR-13: Radio-ARC

Compression and Recovery Scheme for Cell-free Cloud Radio Access Network
Ming Zhao (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alister G. Burr (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
QoS-driven Path Selection for MPTCP: A Scalable SDN-assisted Approach
Kai Gao, Changqiao Xu, Jiuren Qin and Shujie Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Lujie Zhong (Capital Normal University, China); Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Implementation of Network Slicing for the 5G Small Cells Integration
Faiza Bouchmal (UPV, Spain); Jose F Monserrat (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Javier Vicente (UOC, Spain); Oscar Carrasco (Casa Systems, Spain)
No Plan Survives Contact with the Enemy: On Gains of Coded Multipath over MPTCP in Dynamic Settings
Frank Gabriel and Justus Rischke (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany); Maciej Muehleisen and Thorsten Lohmar (Ericsson GmbH, Germany)
Ultra-reliable low latency services: 5G architecture and operational alternatives with cost analysis
Wolfgang Kiess (University of Applied Sciences Koblenz, Germany); Ekkehard Lang (Nokia, Germany); Klaus Hoffmann (Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG, Germany); Hans-Jochen Morper (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); József Varga (Nokia, Hungary)
Blockchain-based Content Delivery Networks: Content Transparency Meets User Privacy
Thang X. Vu, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

EMR-14: CLOUD-SDN1

Vlan-based Traffic Steering for Hierarchical Service Function Chaining
Hajar Hantouti (Moulay Ismail University, Morocco); Nabil Benamar (Moulay Ismail University, Morocco & Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco); Tarik Taleb (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
A Combined Decision for Secure Cloud Computing Based on Machine Learning and Past Information
Zina Chkirbene, Aiman Erbad and Ridha Hamila (Qatar University, Qatar)
Service-Aware Virtual Network Function placement in Software Defined Networks
Elin S Boysen (University of Oslo & SINTEF Digital, Norway); Joakim Flathagen (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway); Josef Noll (University of Oslo, Norway)
Mitigating DoS Attacks against SDN Controller Using Information Hiding
Osamah Ibrahiem and Li-Chun Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
A Fuzzy Logic-based Mechanism for An Efficient Cloud Resource Planning
Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi (Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Tarik Taleb (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany); Miloud Bagaa (UQTR University, Canada); Jonathan Prados-Garzon (University of Granada, Spain)
Performance Analysis of SDP For Secure Internal Enterprises
Palash Kumar (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Abdallah Moubayed (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Ahmed Refaey Hussein (University of Guelph, Canada); Juanita Koilpillai (Waverley Labs, USA); Abdallah Shami (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)

MAC-6: Access I

Analysis on user activity in compressed sensing based random access
Hyowoon Seo (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (South)); Wan Choi (Seoul National University, Korea (South))
On Performance Evaluation of Random Access Enhancements for 5G uRLLC
Jayashree Thota (Toshiba Research Limited, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Adnan Aijaz (Toshiba Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Backscatter-Aided Relay Communications in Wireless Powered Hybrid Radio Networks
Wenfan Chen (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Wei Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Shimin Gong and Chengming Li (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Kun Zhu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
A TDMA-like Access Scheme with Splitting Request and Transmission for Vehicular Networks
Shenglong Peng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Xuan He (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Junyi Du (CETC 10th Research Institute, China); Yong Liang Guan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Liang Zhou (UESTC, China)
Strategy-Proof Spectrum Allocation among Multiple Operators
Indu Yadav (TCS, India); Ankur A. Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Abhay Karandikar (IIT Bombay, India)
PoliFi: Airtime Policy Enforcement for WiFi
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen (Red Hat, Denmark); Per Hurtig (Karlstad University, Sweden); Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University, Sweden & University of Malaga, Spain)

NET-21: mmWave Communications

Joint Hybrid Beamforming and Offloading for mmWave Mobile Edge Computing Systems
Cunzhuo Zhao (Pengcheng Laboratory, China); Yunlong Cai and Minjian Zhao (Zhejiang University, China); Qingjiang Shi (Tongji University, China)
A Robust Inter Beam Handover Scheme for 5G mmWave Mobile Communication System in HSR Scenario
Wenjing Ren and Jin Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Dongru Li (vivo Communications Research Institute, vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., China); Qimei Cui and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Impact of Overlapped AoAs on the Multi-user Hybrid D-A Beamforming for mm-Wave Systems
Osama Alluhaibi (University of Kirkuk, Iraq); Junyuan Wang (Tongji University, China); Huiling Zhu (University of Kent, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
TCP throughput characteristics over 5G millimeter-wave network in an indoor train station
Mayuko Okano (WASEDA University, Japan); Yohei Hasegawa, Kenji Kanai, Bo Wei and Jiro Katto (Waseda University, Japan)
Joint Beamforming and Location Optimization for Cooperative Content-Aware UAVs
Phuc Dinh (Concordia University, Canada); Tri Nguyen (ETS, Canada); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Wessam Ajib (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)

NET-22: Security in 5G Networks

The Fifth Generation (5G) Trust Model
Stan Wong (GSM Association, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Securing Fog-to-Things Environment Using Intrusion Detection System Based On Ensemble Learning
Poulmanogo Illy (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Georges Kaddoum (ETS Engineering School, University of Québec, Canada); Christian Miranda Moreira (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Kuljeet Kaur (Ecole Technologie Superieure, Canada); Sahil Garg (Resilient Machine Learning Institute (ReMI), Canada)
Modeling and evaluation of a new IoT security system for mitigating DoS attacks to the MQTT broker
Floriano De Rango, Giuseppe Potrino and Amilcare Francesco Santamaria (University of Calabria, Italy)
Blockchain-based Firmware Update Scheme Tailored for Autonomous Vehicles
Mohamed Baza (College of Charleston, USA); Mahmoud Nabil (North Carolina A, USA); Noureddine Lasla (Hamda Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar); Kemal Fidan (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA); Mohamed M E A Mahmoud (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Mohamed M Abdallah (Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar)
Global Orchestration of Cooperative Defense against DDoS Attacks for MEC
Xinrui Tan (State Key Laboratory of Information Security & Institute of Information Engineering, China); Hongjia Li, Liming Wang and Zhen Xu (State Key Laboratory of Information Security & Institute of Information Engineering, P.R. China)
An Efficient and Secure Variant of RC4 Stream Cipher Scheme for Emerging Networks
Hassan Noura (AUB, Lebanon & Institut Fento-ST, France); Ali Chehab (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

NET-23: 5G Access Selection & Mobility

Low-Overhead Handover-Skipping Technique for 5G Networks
Cristo Suarez-Rodriguez and Ying He (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Beeshanga Abewardana Jayawickrama (Ericsson); Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
An Efficient Handover Authentication Mechanism for 5G Wireless Network
Kaihong Han (Tianjin University, China); Maode Ma (Qatar University, Qatar); Xiaohong Li, Zhiyong Feng and Jianye Hao (Tianjin University, China)
LTE as a Road Toward 5G: QoS Analysis in Mobility Scenario Using The Monroe Platform
Ali Parichehreh (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Reza Moosavi (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Pradeepa Ramachandra (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Stefan Alfredsson (Karlstad University, Sweden); Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University, Sweden & University of Malaga, Spain)
Dribble: a learn-based timer scheme selector for mobility management in IoT
Bruno Pereira dos Santos (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil); Paulo Henrique Rettore (Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Brazil); Luiz F. M. Vieira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil); Antonio Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Achieving Zero ms Handover Interruption in New Radio with Higher Throughput Using D2D Communication
Sunil Kumar (Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore, India); Naveen Kumar (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Karthikeyan Subramaniam (Samsung Research India, India)
Hierarchical and Distributed Software-Defined Network to Reduce Control Load
Tetsuro Ueda (KDDI Research, Japan); Akira Idoue (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan); Eiji Utsunomiya (Japan)

PHY-21: Performance Analysis

Analytical Performance Evaluation of Beamforming Under Transceivers Hardware Imperfections
Alexandros-Apostolos A Boulogeorgos (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece); Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Secrecy Analysis of a TAS/MRC Scheme in alpha-mu Fading Channels
Jules Moualeu (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa); Daniel Benevides da Costa (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia); F. Javier Lopez-Martinez (University of Granada, Spain); Walaa Hamouda (Concordia University Montreal, Canada & Walaa Hamouda, Canada); Telex Magloire N Ngatched (McMaster University, Canada); Ugo Dias (University of Brasilia, Brazil)
Performance Analysis of MU-MIMO Systems with Threshold-based Feedback and Spatial Heterogeneity
Wei-Hsiang Wang (University of Maryland, USA); Hsuan-Jung Su (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Yasuhiro Takano (Chitose Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Effective Rate over F Composite Fading Channels
Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Tampere University, Finland); Seong Ki Yoo (BT, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sami Muhaidat (Carleton University, Canada); Simon Cotton (Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); F. Javier Lopez-Martinez (University of Granada, Spain); Juan Manuel Romero-Jerez (University of Malaga, Spain); George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Rate Performance Analysis of User-Centric C-RAN with Orthogonal Multiple Access
Zhiyang Liu, Yingxin Zhao and Hong Wu (Nankai University, China)
Sigmoid Approximation to the Gaussian Q-function and its Applications to Spectrum Sensing Analysis
Miguel López-Benítez (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dhaval Karshanbhai Patel (Ahmedabad University, India)

PHY-22: Antennas

Some thoughts on the design of printed log-periodic antennas for long range communication modules
Gian Luigi Gragnani and Claudio Montecucco (University of Genoa, Italy)
Directivity Optimization in Omnidirectional Volumetric Antenna Arrays
Bruno Felipe Costa (UEL - Londrina State University, Brazil); Taufik Abrão (State University of Londrina, Brazil)
Reconfigurable passive relaying array for coverage enhancement
Juan Bucheli (Qualcomm, France); Mohamed Kamoun (Huawei France, France); Alain Sibille (Telecom Paris, France)
Antenna Array Geometries for Directional Wireless Networks
James C Martin, Robert Brodersen and John Wawrzynek (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
On the performance of ESPAR for spatial multiplexing in reception
Juan Bucheli (Qualcomm, France); Mohamed Kamoun (Huawei France, France); Alain Sibille (Telecom Paris, France)
Hybrid Beamforming for dual-polarized antenna
Dien Hoa Truong (Université Côte d'Azur, France); Luc Deneire (University Côte d'Azur & CNRS - I3S, France); Fabien Ferrero (Université Cote d'Azur, CNRS, LEAT & CREMANT, France)

PHY-23: Vehicular Communications

Parsimonious Channel Models for Millimeter Wave Railway Communications
Erich Zöchmann (Brno University of Technology & Kapsch TrafficCom, Austria); Jiri Blumenstein and Roman Marsalek (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Markus Rupp (TU Wien, Austria); Ke Guan (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
UAV-Based FSO Communications for High Speed Train Backhauling
Haitham Khallaf (McMaster University, Canada); Murat Uysal (NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
An In-Vehicle Keyword Spotting System with Multi-Source Fusion for Vehicle Applications
Yue Tan (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Kan Zheng (Ningbo University, China); Lei Lei (University of Guelph, Canada)
Using Learning Methods for V2V Path Loss Prediction
Ramya Panthangi Manjunath (Huawei German Research Center, Germany); Mate Boban (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Chan Zhou (Huawei European Research Center, Germany); Slawomir Stanczak (Technische Universität Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany)
Power Efficient Communication Interface Selection in Cellular Vehicle to Everything Networks
Merve Saimler and Sinem Coleri (Koc University, Turkey)
Throughput Maximization of Low-Latency Communication with imperfect CSI in Finite Blocklength Regime
Yao Zhu (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Yulin Hu (Wuhan University, China & RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Zheng Chang (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

PHY-24: OFDM

PA-Efficiency-Aware Hybrid PAPR Reduction for F-OFDM Systems with ICA Based Blind Equalization
Han Lin (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Xu Zhu and Yufei Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Yujie Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Yuan Zhuang (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)
Enhanced Clipping and Filtering With WFRFT for PAPR Reduction in OFDM Systems
Xiaolu Wang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Lin Mei (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Zhenduo Wang (Harbin Engineering University, China); Xuejun Sha (Communication Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
OFDM Systems Design Using Harmonic Wavelets
Kelvin Anoh (University of Chichester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Augustine Ikpehai (Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Bamidele Adebisi (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Khaled M Rabie (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia); Wasiu O. Popoola (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Haris Gacanin (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Superimposed Chaos Sequence On IQ Baseband Signals for OFDM-Based Cognitive Radio Channel Estimation
Rodrigo Calderón-Rico (Universidad de Guadalajara & Invivo Corporation / Philips, USA); Roberto Carrasco (University of Guadalajara, Mexico)
Low-Complexity Transceiver for GFDM systems with Partially Allocated Subcarriers
Ahmad Nimr (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Marwa Chafii (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Iterative Interference Cancellation in FBMC-QAM Systems
Sumaila Mahama (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yahya Jasim Harbi (University of Kerbala & University of Kufa, Iraq); Alister G. Burr and David Grace (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

KEY-5: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE RANDOMNESS

KEY-6: DIFFUSION OF INFORMATION AND INFERENCE OVER GRAPHS

EMR-15: ICN

PP-NDNoT: On preserving privacy in IoT-based E-health systems over NDN
Rihab Boussada (ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia); Balkis Hamdane (Sup'Com, Tunisia); Mohamed Elhdhili (University of Manouba, Tunisia); Leila Azouz Saidane (ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia)
LQCC: A Link Quality-based Congestion Control Scheme in Named Data Networks
Hakima Khelifi (University of Badji Mokhtar Annaba, Algeria); SenLin Luo (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Boubakr Nour (Ericsson Research, Canada); Hassine Moungla (Université Paris Cité, France & Instiut Polytechnique de Paris, France)
A Cache Privacy Protection Strategy Based on Content Privacy and User Security Classification in CCN
Jie Liang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & School of Cyber Security, China); Yinlong Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences & School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Learned Bloom-Filter for an Efficient Name Lookup in Information-Centric Networking
Qianyu Wang, Qingtao Wu, Mingchuan Zhang, Ruijuan Zheng and Junlong Zhu (Henan University of Science and Technology, China)
Towards Information-centric Collaborative QoE Management using SDN
Arslan Ahmad (Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alessandro Floris and Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy)
IPv6-Based Smart Grid Communication Over 6LoWPAN
Jason Van Kerkhoven, Nathaniel Charlebois, Alex Robertson, Brydon Gibson and Arslan Ahmed (Carleton University, Canada); Zied Bouida (Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait); Mohamed Ibnkahla (Carleton University, Canada)

EMR-16: CLOUD-SDN2

EasyOrchestrator: An End-user Oriented Network Service Creation Platform with Verification Mechanism
Yi Yue (China Unicom Research Institute, China); Bo Cheng (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China)
EFastLane: Toward Bandwidth-Efficient Flow Setup in Software-Defined Networking
Jianfeng Xu (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Liming Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Zhen Xu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Implementation of C-RAN Architecture with CU/DU Split on a Flexible SDR Testbed
Boren Guo (OPPO, China); Hang Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Chunli Ye, Yihao Sun and Yaxin Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yannan Yuan (China Mobile, China); Xin Zhang and Hongwen Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Fall Detection Based on the Instantaneous Doppler Frequency: A Machine Learning Approach
Ali Chelli (University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway); Matthias Pätzold (University of Agder, Norway)
IIoT-MEC: A Novel Mobile Edge Computing Framework for 5G-enabled IIoT
Xiangwang Hou (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Zhiyuan Ren (Xidian University, China); Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chen Chen and Hailin Zhang (Xidian University, China); Yao Xiao (Xidain University, China)
Virtualized Local Core Network Functions Placement in Mobile Networks
Jad Oueis and Razvan Stanica (INSA Lyon, France); Fabrice Valois (INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI, France)

MAC-7: Access II

QoS-aware NOMA with Sequence Block Compressed Sensing Multiuser Detection
Mehmood Alam (Aarhus University, Denmark & National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Qi Zhang (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Secure and Energy-Efficient Beamforming for MIMO Two-way Untrusted Relay Systems
Shuangrui Zhao (Xidian University, China); Jia Liu (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Yulong Shen (Xidian University, China); Xiaohong Jiang (Future University-Hakodate, Japan); Norio Shiratori (Tohoku University, Japan)
Packet-Size Based Overlapping User Grouping in MU-MIMO Systems
Yi Xiong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yongyu Chang (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Mengshi Hu and Junyao Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Energy Efficiency of Generalized Spatial Modulation Aided Massive MIMO Systems
Shuang Zheng and Xiaohu Ge (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China); Yonghui Li (University of Sydney, Australia); Jing Yang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Jinglin Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Lin Tian (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Multi-level Price-Based Power Allocation with User Number Limit for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
Nande Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xianling Wang (Xiamen University of Technology, China); Xin Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Optimal Power and Resource Allocation for Transmit Power Minimization in OFDMA-based NOMA Networks
Pierre Bélis (CentraleSupelec, France); Rémi Bonnefoi (Edison Ways, France); Haifa Farès (Centrale Supélec, France); Yves Louet (CentraleSupelec, France)

NET-24: Mobile Edge Offloading

Delay Minimization Offloading for Interdependent Tasks in Energy-Aware Cooperative MEC Networks
Yao Zhu (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Yulin Hu (Wuhan University, China & RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Mobile-Edge Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Yanwen Lan and Xiaoxiang Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Dongyu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications, Ministry of Education, China); Yibo Zhang (Beijing Information Science and Technology University, China); Wei Wang (China Mobile Research Institute, China)
Task offloading and resources allocation based on fairness in edge computing
Kaile Xiao, Zhipeng Gao, Congcong Yao, Qian Wang, Zijia Mo and Yang Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Joint optimization on computation offloading and resource allocation in mobile edge computing
Kaiyuan Zhang (Xi'an Jiao Tong University, China); Xiaolin Gui (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Dewang Ren (Xi'an Jiaotong University & School of Electronics & Information Engineering and Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Computer Network, China)
Joint Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation for Min-Max Fairness in MEC Systems
Xihan Chen, Yunlong Cai, Minjian Zhao and Ming-Min Zhao (Zhejiang University, China)
Revenue-Maximized Offloading Decision and Fine-Grained Resource Allocation in Edge Network
Wanli Ni (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hui Tian (Beijng University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Shaoshuai Fan and Baoling Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

NET-25: Cloud-enabled Vehicular Networks

Cloud-Enabled Radio Resource Management for Co-Operative Driving Vehicular Networks
Prajwal Keshavamurthy (Nokia, Germany); Emmanouil Pateromichelakis (Lenovo, Germany); Dirk Dahlhaus (University of Kassel, Germany); Chan Zhou (Huawei European Research Center, Germany)
A Fog Computing Paradigm for Efficient Information Services in VANET
Ke Xiao and Kai Liu (Chongqing University, China); Junhua Wang (Chongqing Universtiy, China); Yanning Yang (Chongqing Universty, China); Liang Feng (Chongqing University, China); Jingjing Cao (Wuhan University of Technology, China); Victor Lee (City University of Hong Kong, China)
MEC Support for 5G-V2X Use Cases through Docker Containers
Claudia Campolo (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Antonio Iera (University of Calabria, Italy); Antonella Molinaro and Giuseppe Ruggeri (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy)
Delay-Optimal Temporal-Spatial Computation Offloading Schemes for Vehicular Edge Computing Systems
Dian Tang, Xuefei Zhang and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Cooperative Transmission and Probabilistic Caching for Clustered D2D Networks
Ramy Amer (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Hesham ElSawy (School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada); Jacek Kibilda (Virginia Tech, USA); M. Majid Butt (Nokia, USA); Nicola Marchetti (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Mobility-aware Task Offloading and Migration Schemes in SCNs with Mobile Edge Computing
Zhaolin Liu and Xiaoxiang Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Dongyu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications, Ministry of Education, China)

NET-26: Vehicular to Everything

Towards Integrating Public Transit Bus Systems into Urban and Intelligent Vehicular Networks
Felipe Modesto and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
TVDR: A Novel Traffic Volume Aware Data Routing Protocol for Vehicular Networks
Peng Sun (Duke Kunshan University, China); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Vehicular Visible Light Communications with SPAD Receivers
Mehdi Karbalayghareh (Purdue University, USA); Farshad Miramirkhani (Isik University, Turkey); Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Murat Uysal (NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Augmenting Car Surrounding Information by Inter-Vehicle Data Fusion
Tsu-Kuang Lee (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Yu-Chiao Kuo (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Shih-Hsuan Huang (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Guan-Sheng Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Chih-Yu Lin (National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan); Yu-Chee Tseng (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Multi-objective Optimization for Network Resource Management in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks
Penglin Dai (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Kai Liu (Chongqing University, China); Xiao Wu and Huanlai Xing (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Victor Lee (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Multi-segment cooperative transmission of scalable video streaming over vehicular networks
Olfa Ben Rhaiem (NBU, Canada); Lamia Chaari Fourati (Institut Supérieur d'Informatique et de Multimédia de Sfax, Tunisia); Wessam Ajib (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)

NET-27: Full-Duplex D2D

Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for Full-Duplex Relay-Assisted D2D Communications
Ke Wang, Wei Heng, Li Xiang, Jing Wu, Jinming Hu and Gang Wang (Southeast University, China)
GALEN: A Geometric Framework for Global Optimal Power Allocation in a Full Duplex D2D Network
Hussein Chour (Capgemini Engineering, France); Faouzi Bader (Technology Innovation Institut -TII, United Arab Emirates); Youssef Nasser (Greenerwave, France); Oussama Bazzi (Lebanese University, Lebanon)
Analytical Framework for Joint Mode Selection and Power Allocation for Full Duplex D2D Network
Hussein Chour (Capgemini Engineering, France); Oussama Bazzi (Lebanese University, Lebanon); Faouzi Bader (Technology Innovation Institut -TII, United Arab Emirates); Youssef Nasser (Greenerwave, France)
Quasi-Decentralized Resource Allocation for Full-duplex D2D Connections Without the Complete CSI
Chamara N Devanarayana (University of Manitoba); Attahiru Alfa (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Interference Minimization for Device-to-Device Communications: A Combinatorial Approach
Peash Ranjan Saha (University of New Brunswick Saint John, Canada); Salimur Choudhury (Queen's University, Canada); Daya Gaur (University of Lethbridge, Canada)
Joint Network Admission Control, Mode Selection and Power Allocation in EH enabled D2D Communication
Asfand Yar Awan (Beihang University Beijing China, China); Muhammad Nadeem Sial (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mudassar Ali (University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan); Muhammad Naeem (COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus, Pakistan & Ryerson University, Canada); Farhan Qamar (University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan)

PHY-25: Coding II

Optimal Instantly Decodable Network Codes for Multi-Sender Scenarios
Niranjana Ambadi (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, USA)
A non-linear channel code for covert communications
Meritxell Lamarca (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); David Matas (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain)
Delay Optimal Coding for Secure Transmission over a Burst Erasure Wiretap Channel
Anna Frank (Technische Universität München, Germany); Harout Aydinyan (TUM, Germany); Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany)
Finite Blocklength Analysis for Coded Modulation with Applications to Link Adaptation
Eva Song (Futurewei Technologies, USA); Guosen Yue (FutureWei Technologies, Inc., USA)
Optimizing Adaptive Coding and Modulation for Satellite Network with ML-based CSI Prediction
Xinmu Wang, Hewu Li and Qian Wu (Tsinghua University, China)
Achievability Bounds for T-Fold Irregular Repetition Slotted ALOHA Scheme in the Gaussian MAC
Anton Glebov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia); Nikolay Matveev (State University of Aerospace Instrumentation Saint-Petersburg, Russia); Kirill Andreev and Alexey A. Frolov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia); Andrey Turlikov (Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, Russia)

PHY-26: MIMO

Successive Column-wise Matrix Inversion Update for Large Scale Massive MIMO Reciprocity Calibration
Messaoud Ahmed Ouameur (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada); Daniel Massicotte (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada)
Minimum BER Transceiver Design for SC-FDE Based MIMO DF Relay Systems
Peiran Wu (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Sonia Aissa (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Minghua Xia (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
CRC-Aided Soft-Output Detection for Uplink Multi-User MIMO Systems with One-Bit ADCs
Sae Han Song (KARI, Korea (South)); Seung-Chan Lim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Girim Kwon (University of Seoul, Korea (South)); Hyuncheol Park (KAIST, Korea (South))
Rate Splitting Based Robust Cooperative Transmission in Energy Cooperation-Enabled MC MISO System
Xin Su (China Mobile Research Institute, China); Lihua Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ping Zhang (WTI-BUPT, China)
Joint Modulus Zero-Forcing MIMO Detector
Sha Hu (Huawei Lund Research Center, Sweden); Erik Leitinger (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
On the Finite Constellation Sum Rates for ZF and CI Precoding
Abdelhamid Salem (University of Benghazi, Libya); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

PHY-27: Signal Processing for Communications I

Design and Performance of SEFDM Signals with Power Allocation
Izzat Darwazeh and Hedaia Ghannam (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
New Bernoulli and Gaussian sensing Matrices for Cluster Structured Sparse Signals
Hamid Nouasria (National Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, Morocco); Mohamed Et-tolba (National Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, Rabat, Morocco)
On Optimization of Mixed-Radix FFT: A Signal Processing Approach
Ahmed Elshafiy and Mohammed Abdelghany (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Mohamed Farag (Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt); Omar Nasr and Hossam A. H. Fahmy (Cairo University, Egypt)
On the Investigation of Wireless Signal Identification Using Spectral Correlation Function and SVMs
Kürşat Tekbıyık (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Özkan Akbunar (Tübitak Bilgem, Turkey); Ali Rıza Ekti (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA); Gunes Karabulut Kurt (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada); Ali Gorcin (Istanbul Techical University, Turkey)
Offset Tolerant Demodulator for Frequency/Phase Modulation in Time-Varying Channel
Siavash Safapourhajari and Andre Kokkeler (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Design of Spiral Constellations for Phase Noise Channels
Alessandro Ugolini and Amina Piemontese (University of Parma, Italy); Thomas Eriksson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Changhao Du (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

PNL-7: 5G ENABLED SMART INDUSTRIES

EMR-17: SAT-GEO

Robust Precoding Techniques for Multibeam Mobile Satellite Systems
Vahid Joroughi (GomSpace, Luxembourg); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Sina Maleki (Ericsson, Luxembourg); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Joel Grotz (SES, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Power and Flow Assignment for 5G Integrated Terrestrial-Satellite Backhaul Networks
Eva Lagunas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Lei Lei (Xi‘an Jiaotong University, China); Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Satellite backhaul for macro-cells, as an alternative to optical fibre, to close the digital divide
Marco Araujo (Portucalense University, Portugal); Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University / KTH, Sweden); João Confraria (Portuguese Catholic University, Portugal)
Wireless Compose - Communication and positioning network in ISS and Antarctic Greenhouse
Claudia Philpot, Martin Drobczyk, Christian Strowik and Catherin Düvel (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
A Stochastic Geometry Based Approach to Tractable 5G RNPO with a New H-LOS Model
Yassine Hmamouche (IMT Atlantique, France); Mustapha Benjillali (INPT, Morocco); Samir Saoudi (IMT Atlantique, France)
Spectral-Energy Efficiency Tradeoff in Cognitive Satellite-Vehicular Networks Towards Beyond 5G
Yuhan Ruan, Rui Zhang and Yongzhao Li (Xidian University, China); Cheng-Xiang Wang (Southeast University, China & Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Hailin Zhang (Xidian University, China)

EMR-18: Social

Pedestrian Detection for Autonomous Driving within Cooperative Communication System
Amal Hbaieb (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France); Jihene Rezgui (College Maisonneuve, Canada); Lamia Chaari Fourti (Sfax University, Tunisia)
On Integrating Space Syntax Metrics with Social-aware Opportunistic Forwarding
Soumaia A. Al Ayyat (The American University in Cairo, Egypt); Sherif Aly (American University in cairo, Egypt); Khaled A. Harras (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Towards a distributed ABE based approach to protect privacy on online social networks
Yahiatene Youcef (University M'hamed Bougara Boumerdes, Algeria); Djamel Eddine Menacer (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Algeria); Mohamed Amine Riahla (University Mhamed Bougara Boumerdes, Algeria); Abderrezak Rachedi (University Gustave Eiffel, France); Thouraya Bouabana-Tebibel (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Algeria)
Creating Spatio-temporal Spectrum Maps from Sparse Crowdsensed Data
Md Shaifur Rahman and Himanshu Gupta (Stony Brook University, USA); Ayon Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Samir R. Das (Stony Brook University, USA)
Indoor Localization Accuracy of Major Smartphone Location Apps
Nader Moayeri (NIST, USA); Chang Li (Hughes Network Systems, USA); Lu Shi (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
Optimal Transport for Mobile Crowd Sensing Participants
Sherif B. Azmy (Queen's University, Canada); Nizar Zorba (Qatar University, Qatar); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)

NET-28: Sensor Networks

CluFlow: Cluster-based Flow Management in Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks
Qingzhi Liu (Wageningen University, The Netherlands); Tanir Ozcelebi (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Long Cheng (North China Electric Power University, China); Fernando A. Kuipers (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Johan J. Lukkien (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Spatiotemporal Smoothness-based Graph Learning Method for Sensor Networks
Yueliang Liu, Lishan Yang, Guo Wenbin, Tao Peng and Wenbo Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Nonuniform Node Distribution using Adaptive Poisson Disk for Wireless Sensor Networks
Xiang Ying and Ru Wang (School of Computer Software, Tianjin University, China); Mei Yu (Tianjin University, China); Ruiguo Yu (School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, China); Wenkai Shi (School of Computer Software, Tianjin University, China); Jianrong Wang (Tianjin University, China)
Efficient Data Gathering for Decentralized Diversity Combining in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Muhammad Nabeel (Huawei, Germany); Vishal Kumar Singh (Paderborn University, Germany); Falko Dressler (TU Berlin, Germany)
DATUM: Dynamic Topology Control for Underwater Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
Anudipa Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Ayan Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India)
An Energy-balanced Data Collection Framework with Wireless Charging for Rechargeable Sensor Networks
Fang Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, China); Hang Lu and Cuiping Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuanan Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, China)

NET-29: RRM and Routings in D2D

A Scalable Joint Routing and OFDMA Resource Allocation in LTE-D2D Networks
Safwan Alwan (University Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), France); Ilhem Fajjari (Orange Innovation, France); Nadjib Aitsaadi (UVSQ Paris-Saclay & DAVIDLab, France)
Geographic Routing with Cooperation for Reliable Paths in Device-to-Device Networks
Mohamed Hegazy (Nile University & National Telecom Regulatory Authority, Egypt); Amr El-Sherif (Egypt University of Informatics, Egypt & Alexandria University, Egypt); Tamer ElBatt (The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt)
Deadline-Aware UE Service Scheduling In Mobile-Relay-Augmented Cellular Networks
Maurice J. Khabbaz (American University of Beirut, Lebanon & Concordia University, Canada); Hassan A. Artail (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Optimal Power Allocation for Multiple D2D Users in HetNets with Channel Estimation Error
Engy Aly Maher and Ahmed E. El-Mahdy (German University in Cairo, Egypt)
Joint resource allocation and power control based on Bee Life Algorithm for D2D Communication
Mohamed Kamel Benbraika and Salim Bitam (University of Biskra, Algeria); Abdelhamid Mellouk (UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France)
Performance Evaluation of Inband D2D Communications on Underlay Mode for 5G Wireless Networks
Jair Sebastian-Villa (CINVESTAV, Mexico); Domingo Lara-Rodriguez (Cinvestav, Mexico)

NET-30: Ultra Dense Networks

Decoupled Uplink-Downlink User Association in Ultra-Dense Networks: A Contract-Theoretic Approach
Chen Dai (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Kun Zhu and Ran Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Yuanyuan Xu (Hohai University, China)
Efficient Matching for Almost Blank Subframes Allocation in Ultra Dense Networks
Giulio Bartoli (University of Siena, Italy); Romano Fantacci, Dania Marabissi and Benedetta Picano (University of Florence, Italy)
Self-Tuning Spectral Clustering for Adaptive Tracking Areas Design in 5G Ultra-Dense Networks
Brahim Aamer (INPT, Morocco); Hatim Chergui (i2CAT Foundation, Spain); Nouamane Chergui (Huawei Technologies, Morocco); Kamel Tourki (Ericsson, France); Mustapha Benjillali (INPT, Morocco); Christos Verikoukis (University of Patras, Greece); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France)
An Energy-efficient Task Offloading Solution for MEC-based IoT in Ultra-dense Networks
Elie El Haber (Concordia University, Canada); Tri Nguyen (ETS, Canada); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Wessam Ajib (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Small Cells Clustering and Resource Allocation in Dense Network with Mobile Edge Computing
Peng Sun, Heli Zhang, Hong Ji and Xi Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Convolution Neural Network Based Dynamic Pico Cell Operation for Multi-tier Heterogeneous Networks
Hao Sun and Tiejun Lv (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xuewei Zhang (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ziyu Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

NET-31: Cognitive Radio Networks

An Ecological Model for User Population Dynamics in Cognitive Radio Networks
Tom Walingo (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Block spectrum sensing based on prior information in cognitive radio networks
Liyang Lu and Wenbo Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yupeng Cui (Samsung Research China-Beijing, China); Mingyu Dai and Jie Long (Beijing Institute of Control and Electronic Technology, China)
Enhanced Online Q-Learning Scheme for Energy Efficient Power Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks
Ismail AlQerm (George Mason University, USA); Basem Shihada (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
Transmission Rate Optimization in Cooperative Location-aware Cognitive Radio Networks
Xinglong Xu (ZJU, China); Liyan Li, Yunlong Cai, Xihan Chen and Minjian Zhao (Zhejiang University, China)
An Intelligent UAV Deployment Scheme for Load Balance in Small Cell Networks Using Machine Learning
Junshi Hu and Heli Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yiming Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunicaitons, China); Xi Li and Hong Ji (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Spectral Reuse Maximization Using Multi-Level Interference Mapping in Small Cell Networks
Aysha Ebrahim (University of Bahrain, Bahrain); Emad Alsusa (Manchester University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

NET-32: Localization Services

Crowd Management Services in Hajj: A Mean-Field Game Theory Approach
Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia); Ahmed El Ouadrhiri (Rockford University, USA); Mohamed El Kamili (Higher School of Technology, Hassan II University, Morocco); Asmaa Ali (Queen's University School of Computing, Canada); Muhammad T Anan (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Crescendo: An Infrastructure-free Ubiquitous Cellular Network-based Localization System
Rizanne Elbakly (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt); Moustafa Youssef (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
Environment Aware Localization with BLE Fingerprinting for the Next Generation PEPS system
HanJun Bae and Lynn Choi (Korea University, Korea (South))
Improvement of ReliefF Algorithm for Feature Weighting Fingerprint-Based Localization
Chenchen Fan (Lenovo Research, China); Xiaofeng Zhong (Tsinghua University, China); Jie Wei (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Reliable Real-time Localization And Tracking of Interferers Using Cooperative Spectrum Sensing
Kedar Kulkarni (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Norman Franchi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Accuracy and Precision-Aware IoT Device Selection in Mobile Edge Networks
Cheng-Han Yang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Chih-Hang Wang (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); De-Nian Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Wen-Tsuen Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

PHY-28: Signal Processing for Communications II

Multi-Objective Genetic Programming based Automatic Modulation Classification
Rui Dai (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yicheng Gao (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sai Huang, Fan Ning and Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Robust and Simple Log-Likelihood Approximation for Receiver Design
Yasser Mestrah (Interdigital Europe, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Anne Savard (IMT Nord Europe, France); Alban Goupil (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France); Guillaume Gelle (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne & CReSTIC, France); Laurent Clavier (Institut Mines-Telecom, IMT Nord Europe, France)
Accurate Noise Floor Calibration based on Modified Expectation Maximisation of Gaussian Mixture
Miguel López-Benítez (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Janne Lehtomäki (University of Oulu, Finland); Kenta Umebayashi (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan); Dhaval Karshanbhai Patel (Ahmedabad University, India)
Weak Chirp Signal Detection and Estimation Utilizing Duffing Oscillator Based on LE Method
Dawei Chen, Shuo Shi and Xuemai Gu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Evaluation of the Spatial Consistency Feature in the 3GPP Geometry-Based Stochastic Channel Model
Martin Kurras and Sida Dai (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Stephan Jaeckel (Stephan Jaeckel Consulting, Germany); Lars Thiele (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany)
Comparison of Lattice-Reduction-Aided Vector Perturbation and Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding
Mamoun Guenach (Imec, Leuven & Ghent university, Belgium)

PHY-29: Signal Processing for Communications III

Using Time-limited Pulses in a combined PAM-OMM system over Band-limited Channels
Youssef Jaffal (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Ibrahim Abou-Faycal (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Coprime Array with Monopole and Patch Antenna Elements
Mohammed A. Yafeai and Abdulmalik H. Almazrua (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Saleh Ahmed Alawsh (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia & Center for Communication and Systems Sensing, Saudi Arabia); Ahmad I. Oweis and Ali H Muqaibel (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Mohammad S Sharawi (University of Washington, USA)
An Efficient Training Scheme to Acquire Massive CSI in Analog Function Computation Networks
Fan Ang and Li Chen (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Rate Splitting Approach Under PSK signaling Using Constructive Interference Precoding Technique
Abdelhamid Salem (University of Benghazi, Libya); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Non-Orthogonal Multiuser Transmission through Constellation Rearrangement
Shaoguo Wen, Bing Dong and Zhongwei Si (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Impact of Population on the Mutual Information of Action Potential Driven Communication in Plants
Hamdan Awan (Munster Technological University, Ireland); Raviraj Adve (University of Toronto, Canada); Nigel Wallbridge and Carrol Plummer (Vivent SaRL, Switzerland); Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada)

PHY-30: Transmission II

5G NR Physical Downlink Control Channel: Design, Performance and Enhancements
Volker Braun (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Karol Schober and Esa Tiirola (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland)
Spatial Compression for Fronthaul-Constrained Uplink Receiver in 5G Systems
Ting Wang (Intel, China)
Decentralized Robust Beamforming and Power Splitting for Multi-Relay Assisted SWIPT Systems
Guixian Xu (Aalborg University, Denmark); Weiqiang Tan (Guangzhou University, China); Elisabeth de Carvalho (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication for Consensus Control in Multi-Agent Systems
Anam Tahir (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany); Hussein Al-Shatri (Intel Corporation, Austria); Kilian Kiekenap and Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Radio over fiber for cellular networks: system identification and pre-distortion strategies
Mohamed Kamoun (Huawei France, France); Ramin Khayatzadeh (Huawei, France); Zhipeng Zhao (Huawei Technologies, FRC, France); Ganghua Yang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Harvey Bao (Huawei Technologies, FRC, France)
Path Loss Exponent Prediction for Outdoor Millimeter Wave Channels through Deep Learning
Lee Jung Yong, Min young Kang and Seong-Cheol Kim (Seoul National University, Korea (South))

PNL-8: Toward Millimeter-wave V2X for Automated Driving in 5G and Beyond