IEEE WF-IoT 2026: Program

Dubai time	Monday, October 26		Tuesday, October 27		Wednesday, October 28
8:00 ‑ 10:30	Virtual / Video Presentations
10:30 ‑ 11:00			Poster Session: Poster Session I
11:00 ‑ 13:30
13:30 ‑ 14:00		DevCirSen&IoT: Devices, Circuits, Sensors, and Hardware Technologies for IoT IoT Systems: IoT Systems, Architectures, and Emerging Communication Technologies
14:00 ‑ 15:00			SAIoT-S1: Signal Processing, AI, and Data Analytics for Intelligent IoT SRTIS I: Secure, Reliable, and Trustworthy IoT Systems I		SS - Trustworthy and Intelligent Edge of Things (TIEoT): SS - Trustworthy and Intelligent Edge of Things (TIEoT) for Secure and Reliable Applications SS -IoT-Enabled Stroke Rehabilitation: IoT-Enabled Stroke Rehabilitation: From Acute Bedside Monitoring to Intelligent Gait Recovery SS SubSea IoT: SS - Advancing Intelligent Sensing, Connectivity, and Automation for a Transparent Ocean
15:00 ‑ 15:30
15:30 ‑ 16:00		IoT for Health: IoT for Smart Healthcare and Biomedical Systems IoTEPSI: IoT for Energy, Power, and Smart Infrastructure	Demos: Demos
16:00 ‑ 16:30			Demos: Demos	SAIoT-S2: Signal Processing, AI, and Data Analytics for Intelligent IoT (II) SRTIS II: Secure, Reliable, and Trustworthy IoT Systems II	SS WICE: SS WICE: Women in Communications, Computing & Engineering for Connected, Resilient, and Inclusive Innovation Ecosystems WS AICON 2026: WS AI-Native IoT Communications and Networking (AICON 2026) WS IoM 2026: WS Connected and Trustworthy Intelligence for Smart Environments: The Internet of Mirrors (IoM) and Beyond (IoM 2026)	WS RISE-IoT 2026: WS Resilient IoT and Autonomous Systems for Industrial Verticals (RISE-IoT 2026)
16:30 ‑ 17:00
17:00 ‑ 17:30
17:30 ‑ 20:00

Monday, October 26

Monday, October 26 8:00 - 20:00

Virtual / Video Presentations

Room: Virtual Access

Chair: Maria de Fatima Domingues (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Class-Aware Deep Learning for Multi-Class Anomaly Detection in Industrial IoTs: Reem Alkhateeb and Manimaran Govindarasu (Iowa State University, USA)
IoT Fault Detection Based on Embedded Tiny ML and Transfer Learning: An Experimental Prototype: Rômulo Prestes (UFPA, Brazil); Yuri Santo (Federal University of Pará, Brazil); Glauco Estácio Gonçalves (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil); Adonis Leal (New Mexico Tech, USA); André Riker (Federal University of Para (Brazil) & Arizona State University (USA), Brazil)
D3T-WAFL: Dummy-Driven Data-Free Thresholding for Backdoor Detection in Wireless Ad Hoc Federated Learning: Kento Oba (Tokyo University, Japan); Hiroshi Esaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Hideya Ochiai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
State-Centric AIoT: Device-Level State Representation for Edge-Intelligent Systems: Dagbegnon Wilfrid Hounkponou, James Nartey, Hanseok Ko and Minhee Jun (Catholic University of America, USA)
Auction-Driven Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for IoT Resource Allocation: Ebelechukwu Nwafor (Villanova University, USA); Habeeb Olufowobi (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Navigating the Dual-Blind Spot: A Communication Aware Edge-Cloud Navigation Architecture for Outdoor IoT Robots: Mingfei Zhang (China Mobile Internet of Things Company Limited); Chunyang Liu, Shaojie Xue, Xiangmin Gong and Xiaolei Li (China Mobile Internet of Things Company Limited, China); Fuji Ren (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
PULSE-V2X: Policy-Aware Storage and Lifecycle Orchestration for Encrypted V2X Data Using Data Passports: Sara Benouar (University of the Bundeswehr Neubiberg, Munich,, Germany); Gunnar Teege (University of the Bundeswehr Neubiberg, Munich, Germany)
Task-Driven Priority-Aware Offloading and Resource Allocation Scheme in 6G Vehicular IoT: Mubshra Zulfiqar (Wuhan University of Technology, China); Basit Qureshi (Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia); Muhammad Ayzed Mirza (Qilu Institute of Technology, China)
Direct-Action Mapping: Redefining VLA Architectures for Resource Constrained Cognitive Robotics: Taheemuddin Ahmed (SUNY New Paltz, USA); Wafi Danesh (State University of New York at New Paltz, USA)
Background Difference Based Lighting Pattern Augmentation for Logic-Free Building Automation: Seiya Watanabe and Kohki Hashimoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Hideya Ochiai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Telemetry-Aided Beam Prediction for Real-World UAV mmWave Communications: Saifullah Tumrani (King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Ali A Nasir (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia)
Spatio-Temporal Fusion for UAV-Based Fire Locationing in Sparse Wildfire Monitoring: Tristan Mullins and Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State University, USA)
Securing the Internet of Drones with Lightweight Certificate-Less Authentication: Kerry Anne Farrea and Zubair Baig (Deakin University, Australia); Farid Binbeshr (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Waleed Shinwari (KFUPM, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia)
Efficient Quantum-Secure Authentication Protocol for Industrial Internet of Things: Rohini Poolat Parameswarath and Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Link-Level Spatio-Temporal Travel Time Prediction for Multi-Modal Commute Trip Estimation: Mubarak Shikalgar and Sukhjit Singh Sehra (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada); Jiho Yeo (Gachon University, Korea (South)); Jaiteg Singh (Chitkara University, India); Emad Mohammed (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
PAB-FedIDS: Privacy-Budget-Aware Federated Intrusion Detection for IoT Networks: Ankit Chouhan, Nashid Shahriar and JingTao Yao (University of Regina, Canada)
Benchmarking Classical and Lightweight Neural MIMO-OFDM Channel Estimators for Teleoperation: Hassan Shabir, Sarder Fakhrul Abedin and Nishat Mowla (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden); Anders Lindgren (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden & Luleå University of Technology, Sweden); Mikael Gidlund (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Payload-Aware MAML-PPO for Adaptive Computational Resource Allocation in Regenerative O-RAN-Based LEO Satellite Networks: Faruku Dodwa (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt); Hossam Kasem (Department of Computer Science Engineering, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST)); Osamu Muta (Kyushu University, Japan); Maha Elsabrouty (Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology, Egypt)
A Semi-Synchronous Fast Learning Protocol for Wireless Ad-Hoc Federated Learning in Dynamic Ubiquitous Environments: Kosei Takahashi, Hiroshi Esaki and Hideya Ochiai (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Contrastive Learning Based Logic-Free Building Automation: A Distributed Approach: Xingyi Luo and Hideya Ochiai (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
A Lightweight Model Parameter Exchange Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Federated Learning: Tatsumi Yamazaki (University of Tokyo, Japan); Hiroshi Esaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Hideya Ochiai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Multimodal Logic-Free Building Automation: Reproducing Occupant Control with Cameras, Microphones, and Environmental Sensors: Koshiro Fujikawa and Hideya Ochiai (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
WAFL-LADS: Mitigating Straggler Effect in Heterogeneous Wireless Ad Hoc Federated Learning via Adaptive Data Sizing: Natsuki Zenko (University of Tokyo, Japan); Hiroshi Esaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Hideya Ochiai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
LiDAR Point Cloud Generation for Tomato Plant Segmentation and Phenotyping in Digital Twin Greenhouses: Samy Mounir and Najmeddine Dhieb (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia); Hakim Ghazzai and Ahmed M. Eltawil (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Gianluca Setti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
AgrIntent: An IoT-Semantic Router and Digital Twin Framework for Intent-Based Smart Agriculture: Nourhene Aloui (École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Canada); Marwa Tageldien (École de Technologie Supérieure, Egypt); Bassant Selim (ETS Montreal, Canada); Lokman Sboui (École de Technologie Supérieure & ÉTS, Canada)
AirDAP: Hardware-Free Wireless Debug Port Access for IoT Devices: Tom Van Eyck, Sam Michiels and Danny Hughes (DistriNet, KU Leuven, Belgium)
IoT-Enabled Drift-Bounded Worker Tracking via Magnetic Induction Fixes and Foot-Mounted IMU in GNSS-Denied Environments: Mudra Chavda (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Devender Nath Maurya and Shahid Malik (IIT Delhi, India)
Vision-Language Reasoning and Open-Vocabulary Detection for Autonomous UAV Navigation in Dynamic Indoor Environments: Ahmed Taibeche (King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Hakim Ghazzai (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Brahim Brahmi (King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Gianluca Setti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Ahmed M. Eltawil (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Synthetic Data Generation and Edge Intelligence for Real-Time Crowd Monitoring: Abdelrahman Fatouh (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Hakim Ghazzai (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Gianluca Setti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Ahmed M. Eltawil (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Wind-Aware Safe Navigation for UAV Platforms via Adaptive Barrier Filtering: Salem Fradi (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Hakim Ghazzai (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Najmeddine Dhieb (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia); Ahmed M. Eltawil (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
A Lightweight Passive Intrusion Detection Framework for IIoT/OT Environments Using Statistical Traffic Features and LSTM: Mhamad Bakro (University of L'Aquila, Italy); Andrea Marotta (University of L'Aquila, Italy & NexTrainE SRL, Italy); Walter Tiberti (University of L'Aquila, Italy); Ottorino Odoardi and Ivano Salvatore (S.el.me.c. SRL, Chieti, Italy); Piergiuseppe Di Marco (University of L'Aquila, Italy)
OpenINode: A Fully Integrated, Open-Source, and Solar-Powered IoT Node for Precision Agriculture: Israel Rodrigues Soares, Pedro Luiz Henriques Benedetti, Israel Mendonca, Thanda Shwe and Masayoshi Aritsugi (Kumamoto University, Japan)
FATIM: A Real-Time Intrusion Detection Framework for VANET Security Poster: Fatim Sbai (University of West London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Waqar Asif (University of Lancashire, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nagham Saeed (UWL, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & IEEE UK & Ireland Section Vice Chair, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Lightweight Bi-LSTM-Based Misbehaviour Classification Approach for VANET IDS Under Class Imbalance: Fatim Sbai and Isreal Ufumaka (University of West London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Waqar Asif (University of Lancashire, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nagham Saeed (UWL, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & IEEE UK & Ireland Section Vice Chair, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Zero-Shot Attack-Family Generalization with 1-Bit LLM Routers at the IoT Edge: Muntaser Syed and Marius C Silaghi (Florida Institute of Technology, USA); Amal El Ahmad (UAE University, United Arab Emirates)
Compliance Algebra for IoT Energy Data Governance: Detecting Silent Failures in Smart Meter Pipelines: Muntaser Syed and Marius C Silaghi (Florida Institute of Technology, USA); Amal El Ahmad (UAE University, United Arab Emirates)
Predictive RTO for CoAP Using Lightweight Support Vector Regression in Internet of Things: Tobias Hansson and Praveen Kumar Donta (Stockholm University, Sweden)
IMU-JEPA: Comparing Latent Prediction and Signal Reconstruction for Self-Supervised Wearable Sensor Representation Learning: Muntaser Syed and Marius C Silaghi (Florida Institute of Technology, USA); Akram Alghanmi (University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
Multi-Window CHSH Monitoring for Robust Entanglement Verification: Abebu Ademe Bayleyegn (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Yared Zena (Institute for Emerging Electronic Technologies, IFW Dresden, Germany); Muhammad Idham Habibie (TU Dresden, Germany); Riccardo Bassoli (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)
CBOR-LD-Ex: Compact Linked Data with Reasoning Metadata for Constrained IoT Networks: Muntaser Syed and Marius C Silaghi (Florida Institute of Technology, USA); Akram Alghanmi (University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
Joint Optimization of Beamforming and Phase Shifts for UAV-RIS-Assisted Integrated Sensing and Communication System: Min Li, Mingjie Chen, Yining Wang and Yunshuang Tang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Vision-Based Sensing of Urban Environment Using Hardware-Software Co-Design at Scale: Akshit Gupta (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands & TUDelft, The Netherlands)
Reliability-Controlled Selective Inference for Internet of Underwater Things Asset Monitoring: Ayodeji Ologunmeta and Yafan Zhao (The Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Somasundar Kannan (Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nazila Fough (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Lightweight Upper Ocean Profiler for Autonomous Ocean Sensing: Bavly Aziz (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA); Francois Bouchard (Umass Dartmouth, USA); Charles Montes (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA); Patrick Pasteris (Umass Dartmouth, USA); Amit Tandon (Umass Darmouth, USA); Ruolin Zhou (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA)
Dynamic Structural-Textural Routing for Internet of Underwater Things Monitoring: Ayodeji Ologunmeta and Yafan Zhao (The Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Somasundar Kannan (Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nazila Fough (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Fourier Neural Operator Based Speed and Distance Identification of an Underwater Moving Object from Flow Responses: Dasheng Zhang (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA); Anamika Menon, Hamed Samandari and Banafsheh Seyedaghazadeh (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA); Ruolin Zhou (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA)
When Should Human-State Signals Influence IoT Adaptation?: Abd-Elhamid M Taha (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Physics-Informed Neural Channel Emulation for Underwater Semantic Communications: Raghunandan Kalibhat and Nazila Fough (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Position Prediction in IoT-Enabled Aerial Platforms: An LSTM-Based Approach Using Synthetic AirSim Data: Mohammad Alja'afreh (Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan); Mithila Zaman Panthy (RMC, Canada); Sindhu Sindhu (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany); Ranwa Al Mallah and Ali Karime (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada)
AI-Driven Kubernetes Security: A Review of Methods, Frameworks, and Emerging Directions: Ahmad Kanbour and Chamitha De Alwis (University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Paul Sant (University of Law, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Muhammad Habib Urrehman (University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Edge-Assisted Wireless Voice Assistant for Industrial Workers Using LE Audio: Jorg Wieme, Stijn Kindt and Joran Wielandts (Ghent University, Belgium); Nilesh Madhu (Universiteit Gent - imec, Belgium); Jeroen Hoebeke (Ghent University - imec, Belgium)
FedRainSAGE: Style-Aware Gated Knowledge Exchange for Federated Rainy-Weather Semantic Segmentation: Jiapeng Gan, Yinhuang Mao, Yang Yang, Jingyue Li and XinYuan Kang (Tianjin Normal University, China); Chenyang Wang (Shenzhen University, China); Jia Guo and Weijia Feng (Tianjin Normal University, China)
LiFi-Assisted Hybrid PNT for GNSS-Resilient UAV Navigation: Om Patel (Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, India); Narendra Vishwakarma (Pandit Deendayal Energy University Gandhinagar, India); Dil Nashin Anwar (Nav Wireless Technologies, India); Hardik Soni (Nav wireless technologies, India)

Monday, October 26 13:30 - 15:00

DevCirSen&IoT: Devices, Circuits, Sensors, and Hardware Technologies for IoT

DevCirSen&IoT

Room: Video access

IoT Systems: IoT Systems, Architectures, and Emerging Communication Technologies

IoT Systems

Room: L2

Chair: Reza Khoshkangini (Malmö University, Sweden)

LIMA: LoRaWAN IoT Mesh Augmentation: Ram Ramanathan (NLytica LLC & Scientific Advisor, GoTenna Inc., USA); Dmitrii Dugaev (SimCradle Labs, USA); Liang Tan and Warren Ramanathan (USA)
An Architecture for Remote Hardware Access and Unified Device Integration in Wireless IoT Testbeds: Fabian Sowieja, Jubin Sebastian E, Robin Thomas, Lea Stauner and Dominik Welte (IICT GmbH, Germany); Axel Sikora (University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Germany)
Towards Intelligent and Trustworthy IoT Systems: Learnings from Industrial Case Studies: Paul Davidsson, Romina Spalazzese, Reza Khoshkangini, Reza Malekian, Carl Magnus Olsson and Jan Persson (Malmö University, Sweden)
RoboConnect: Integrating Robots in Smart Homes Using Smart Home Platforms: Abhimanyu Gulia, Mauro Dragone and Mathini Sellathurai (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Resource Allocation for Sum-Rate Maximization in Multi-Rate NOMA Networks: Zainab Ghazi Khader (Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, United Arab Emirates); Emad Alsusa (Manchester University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Arafat Al-Dweik (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)

Monday, October 26 15:30 - 17:00

IoT for Health: IoT for Smart Healthcare and Biomedical Systems

IoT for Health

Room: L1

Chair: Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

AIoT Medical Companion for Advanced Defibrillation and Triage: Iulian-Nicolae Petriia, Vasile Dobrin, Alexandru Țapu and Miruna-Elena Cristea (Politehnica Bucharest, Romania); Ioana M Marcu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania); Ioan Coman (Politehnica Bucharest, Romania); El Mehdi Amhoud (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco); Ana Maria Dragulinescu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania)
IoT-Enabled Myoelectric Control of a Prosthetic Hand Using a GRU-NEAT Embedded AI Framework: Fatima Alsheikh, Wateen Saleh, Dina Al Ezzeddin, Janna Abduljawad, Mohammad Awad and Rabah Alabdi (Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates)
IoT Node for Occupancy and Air-Quality Indoor Monitoring Using RTOS and TinyML on a 1-MB Programmable Logic Controller: Esrat Khan and Ibrahim M Elfadel (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
Wearable-Derived Heart Rate Variability as a Digital Biomarker of Inflammation in Psoriatic Arthritis: Georgios Apostolidis, Eleni Vasileiou, Ioanna Katsigianni, Maria Mytilinaiou and Theodoros Dimitroulas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Batoul Hojeij and Jolanda Luime (Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands); Ilja Tchetverikov (Stichting Cicero, The Netherlands); Laura Coates (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Vasileios Charisis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

IoTEPSI: IoT for Energy, Power, and Smart Infrastructure

IoTEPSI

Room: L2

Chairs: Muhammad Umair Khan (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates), Marco Martalò (University of Cagliari, Italy)

Transformer-Based Normal-Behavior Modeling for Cyber-Physical Attack Detection in Smart Building IoT: Murad Almadani, Shadi Atalla, Yassine Himeur, Hamzah Ali Alkhazaleh and Amjad Gawanmeh (University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Wathiq Mansoor (Universithy OF Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Abbes Amira (University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)
Lightweight and Tamper-Evident: A Decentralized Certification Pipeline for the Internet of Energy: Giovanni Nurcis, Andrea Coni, Giovanni Pettorru, Virginia Pilloni and Marco Martalò (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Dynamic Electric Vehicle Routing with an Edge-Aware Graph Attention Actor-Critic Framework: Rahul Roy and Pranay Saha (Indian Iinstitute of Technology (Indian school of mines) Dhanbad, India)
Digital Twin-Enabled Sense-Decide-Act Framework for Occupancy-Aware Energy Management in Campus Buildings: Mohamed Medhat Tawfik Abdelraheem (Rochester Institute of Technology of Dubai, USA); Garima Singh, Joyce Keeriath, Abigail Da Costa, Farheen Haniyah, Ahmed Mostafa and Sai Batreddi (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

Tuesday, October 27

Tuesday, October 27 10:30 - 11:00

Poster Session: Poster Session I

Room: Spine Area

Chairs: Rateb Katmah (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates), Doua Kosaji (Khalifa University of Science and Technology Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates)

Active Inference for Adaptive Traffic Signal Control in Noisy Nonstationary IoT Environments: Dénes Toth, George Ambroladze, Edwin Sundberg, Ali Beikmohammadi and Alfreds Lapkovskis (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Characterizing Low-Precision 1D CNN Inference for Acoustic IoT on a Custom-MAC RISC-V Core: Ahmed Ehab Elshafie, Abdelrahman Feteha and Omar Naqaweh (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates); Mohamed Hassan (McMaster University, Canada); Ihab Amer (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)
Validation-Driven LLM-Orchestrated Time-Series Pipelines for Forecasting and Anomaly Detection in City Sensing Data: Mahsun Altin, Altan Cakir and Behcet Ugur Toreyin (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Index-Free Dynamic Edge Retrieval with Energy-Tail-Aware Partial Scans: Mohammad Arif Rasyidi and Omar Alhussein (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
CellFiberSens: IoT-Enabled Optical Fiber Sensing for Cell Growth Monitoring: Dalya Y Ahmad (Khalifa University of Science and Technology & Healthcare Engineering Innovation Group, United Arab Emirates); Eiman Aldosari, Meera Almansoori, Shahad Alsaeedi and Nupur Kohli (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates); Maria de Fatima Domingues (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
AI-Driven IoT Smart Irrigation System for Precision Agriculture and Resource Optimization: Shamma Alameri, Yamna Alameri, Latifa Alameri, Shaikha Alhassani, Shaikha Al Ahbabi, Shaikha Alkaabi and Noura Al Nuaimi (HCT, United Arab Emirates)
ISAC-EpiNet: 6G Integrated Sensing and Communication for Adaptive Epidemic Forecasting: Alaa A. R. Alsaeedy and Edwin K. P. Chong (Colorado State University, USA)
XMETER4IoT: Automated Protocol Evaluation Framework for Real-World IoT Systems: Jorrit J. Olthuis (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Dominik Roy George (COSIC, KU Leuven, Belgium); Savio Sciancalepore (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/E), The Netherlands); Nicola Zannone (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Middleware-Free Architecture for Low-Cost Remote Labs: Devansh Kantesaria, Aditya R Shankar and Akshit Gureja (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India); Sachin Chaudhari (International Institute of Information Technology, India)
Unified Runtime Control of Robotic Simulations, Their Assets, and Devices via the Web of Things: Roman Binkert and Yifan Zhang (Technische Universität München, Germany); Kirill Dorofeev and Sebastian Kaebisch (Siemens AG, Germany); Sebastian Steinhorst (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
SINR-Aware Base Station Deployment in Wide Area IoT Sensor Networks: Sachin Kadam (MNNIT Allahabad, India)
Deployment-Aware Low-Cost mmWave-PIR Edge Sensor Node for Robust Workplace Occupancy Sensing: Yining An (University College London, University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
MAPeR^2: Multi-Turn Memory-Augmented Agentic-AI Paradigm for Personalized Residential Energy Recommendations: Kareem Jaradat (Algoma University, Canada); Muhamed Alarbi (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Anwar Haque (Western Ontario, Canada); Hanan Lutfiyya (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)

Tuesday, October 27 14:00 - 15:30

SAIoT-S1: Signal Processing, AI, and Data Analytics for Intelligent IoT

SAIoT-1

Room: L1

Chair: Francesca Marcello (University of Cagliari, Italy)

A Semantic AI Interaction Layer for Large-Scale Environmental IoT Sensing Platforms: Hadi Saleh, Vsevolod Alexandrovich Ovchinnikov and Daria Bashminova (HSE University, Russia); Hadi Aldbs (Aleppo University, United Arab Emirates); Dmitry Pantiukhin (HSE University, Russia)
Edge-Aware FireTransformer for Horizon-Based Early Wildfire Warning in IoT Sensor Networks: Chiara Matta, Daniel D Giusto and Matteo Anedda (University of Cagliari, Italy)
A Unified Benchmarking Framework for Compressive Sensing Architectures in Smart IoT Infrastructures: Chiara Garibotto and Matteo Zerbino (University of Genoa, Italy)
Sit, Walk, Run: Evaluating Infrared PPG Reconstruction Across Physical Activity Levels: Moath Sabri Al Qaderi (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Ali Aldalou and Yousof Elkhayyat (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Maria de Fatima Domingues (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Occupancy Estimation Using CSI-Based Virtual MIMO on ESP32 Devices: Mariuccia Murgia, Francesca Marcello and Virginia Pilloni (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Deep Learning for Image-Based Water Level Estimation Across Multiple Water Bodies: Sampada Khadse (International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad, India); Ponnapureddy Srujan Reddy (International Institute of Information Technology, India); Anjali Upare (International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad, India); Sachin Chaudhari (International Institute of Information Technology, India)

SRTIS I: Secure, Reliable, and Trustworthy IoT Systems I

SRTIS I

Room: L2

Chair: Saifeldin Farid (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

NS-3 Simulation and Implementation Analysis of EHKEA Against EDHOC: Quantifying the Performance Gap in 5G Healthcare IoT Authentication: Younes-Amine Loutfi (University of Sherbrooke, Canada & Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications, Morocco); Luis Diez (University of Cantabria, Spain); Marc Frappier and Pierre-Martin Tardif (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada); Brahim El Bhiri (Harmony Technologie, Morocco); Mohammed Raiss El Fenni (INPT, Morocco)
97% Accuracy and Sub-Millisecond Latency in 150 KB: SHAP-Guided Feature Budgeting for Edge-IIoT Intrusion Detection: Mohammed Alshehhi (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates)
On the Feasibility and Byzantine Resilience of WiFi HaLow Fingerprinting-Based IoT Positioning: Giovanni Pettorru, Marta Curridori, Marco Martalò and Virginia Pilloni (University of Cagliari, Italy)
SAIF: A Secure AI Framework for Protecting Agentic IoT Systems: Saifeldin Farid (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates); Naser Bin Tamim and Mehzif Munseer (Research Assistant, United Arab Emirates); Omar Arif (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

Tuesday, October 27 15:30 - 16:30

Demos: Demos

Room: Spine Area

Chairs: Rateb Katmah (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates), Doua Kosaji (Khalifa University of Science and Technology Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates)

An AI-Driven Smart Parking System with Vision, Allocation, and Mechanical Slot Resizing: Rita El Khoury (St. Joseph University Beirut, Lebanon); Antonios Abdelnour, Noha Naimeh, Rachelle Serhan, Elie Chemali and Albert Sleiman (St. Joseph University, Lebanon); Juliana El Rayess (Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon & Paris-Saclay University, France); Kinda Khawam (Paris Saclay University, France)
Demonstration of Remote Access and Protocol-Agnostic Device Integration in a Heterogeneous Wireless IoT Experimentation Platform: Fabian Sowieja, Jubin Sebastian E, Robin Thomas, Lea Stauner and Dominik Welte (IICT GmbH, Germany)
Real-Time Human Activity Recognition Using 60 GHz mmWave Radar: Ubaid Ahmad (EBTIC, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Kin Fai Poon (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Sami Muhaidat (Kahlifa University, United Arab Emirates)

Tuesday, October 27 16:00 - 17:00

SAIoT-S2: Signal Processing, AI, and Data Analytics for Intelligent IoT (II)

SAIoT-2

Room: L1

Chair: Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

PAN-AQI: A Panoramic Dataset and Framework for Urban Air Quality Estimation: Ansh Shah (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India); Om Rajendra Kathalkar (Ericsson Research, India & IIIT Hyderabad, India); Sachin Chaudhari (International Institute of Information Technology, India); Anoop M Namboodiri (IIIT Hyderabad, India)
Joint Tilt and Non-Rigid Motion Correction for Reliable IoMT-Oriented Optoacoustic Mesoscopy: Vasiliki Maria Karagiannidi, Eleftheria Panagiotidou, Stelios Hadjidimitriou and Vasileios Charisis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Ravikumar Vaghela (Clinic for Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Germany); Panhang Liu (Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Germany); Vasilis Ntziachristos (Technical University Munich & Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany); Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Edge-Deployment Analysis of NeRV: Latency, Cold-Start, and Energy Bottlenecks in Neural Video Representations: Nourhan Ibrahim, Mohamed Aaqib Muhammadu Akeel, Amr Abdelghany, Shayma Awad, Muhammad Hannan Akhtar and Ihab Amer (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

SRTIS II: Secure, Reliable, and Trustworthy IoT Systems II

SRTIS II

Room: L2

Chair: Bhabendu Kumar Mohanta (United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates)

Calibrated CSI-Interval-Aware DDQN for Secure Relay Selection in Vehicular IoT Networks: Esraa M Ghourab (Khalifa University & Cyber Security Lab, VTMENA, USA); Omar Alhussein (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); De Mi (Birmingham City University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Blockchain-Enabled Edge Computing Framework for Secure and Trustworthy IoT Environments: Bhabendu Kumar Mohanta, Ali Ismail Awad and Ghada S. Afifi (United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates); Bassem Mahmoud Mokhtar (United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates & Alexandria University, Egypt)
When Time Meets Space: Entropy Integration and Dynamic Threshold for Adaptive DDoS Detection in SDN: Zhaoyang Zhang and Shen Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ahmad Taha (Vanderbilt University, USA); Elias Bou-Harb (Louisiana State University, USA); Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Fast or Stealthy, Not Both: The QoS Cost of Evading Residential-Proxy Detection: K. Shashi Prabh (Ahmedabad University, India)

Wednesday, October 28

Wednesday, October 28 14:00 - 15:30

SS - Trustworthy and Intelligent Edge of Things (TIEoT): SS - Trustworthy and Intelligent Edge of Things (TIEoT) for Secure and Reliable Applications

SS - Trustworthy and Intelligent Edge of Things (TIEoT)

Room: L1

Chairs: Muhammad Umair Khan (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates), Pasindu Manisha Kuruppuarachchi (MTU, Ireland)

Cross-Domain Finite State Machine Obfuscation for Secure Industry 4.0: Esrat Khan (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Shahzad Muzaffar (The Netherlands); Ibrahim M Elfadel (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
Reinforcement Learning-Based Resource-Efficient Device Association in Fixed Hybrid QKD-CRKG Networks: Haoxiang Yang (Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, United Arab Emirates); Peng-Yong Kong (Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore); Yuhang Shen and Muhammad Shahzad Arif (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France); Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Tampere University, Finland)
Interpretable Trust Analyser for Secure IoT Ecosystems: Pasindu Manisha Kuruppuarachchi (MTU, Ireland); Alan McGibney (Nimbus Research Centre, Ireland); Bernd Ludwig Wenning (Munster Technological University, Ireland)

SS -IoT-Enabled Stroke Rehabilitation: IoT-Enabled Stroke Rehabilitation: From Acute Bedside Monitoring to Intelligent Gait Recovery

SS -IoT-Enabled Stroke Rehabilitation

Room: MPH

Chair: Kinda Khalaf (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)

Wearable EEG-EMG Sensing for IoT-Enabled Analysis of Gender- and BMI-Related Neuromechanical Patterns During Walking: Rateb Katmah (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Sona MI Alyounis (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates); Abdul Aziz Vaqar Ahmed Hulleck (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Herbert F Jelinek (Khalifa University of Science and Technology & Healthcare Engineering Innovation Group, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Kinda Khalaf (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
Toward IoT-Enabled Wearable Gait Sensing for BMI-Based Walking Speed Classification Using Deep Learning: Rateb Katmah (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Doua Kosaji (Khalifa University of Science and Technology Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates); Abdul Aziz Vaqar Ahmed Hulleck and Kinda Khalaf (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Herbert F Jelinek (Khalifa University of Science and Technology & Healthcare Engineering Innovation Group, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
Multimodal Foundation Models and IoT Ecosystems for Personalized, Intelligent Gait Recovery in Stroke Rehabilitation: Bridging Acute Monitoring to Long-Term Home-Based Outcomes: Mubassir Javad Mujeeb (Lincoln University College, Malaysia & JAVAD AI, India); Munawar Savad mujeeb (University of Calicut, India & JAVAD AI, India); Muhammed Basith and Salif Bin Sakeer (Lincoln University College, Malaysia)
Honest, Bluffer, Liar, and Deceiver: Evaluating Brain Signals in Multi-Class Deception: Moath Sabri Al Qaderi (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Wahaj Ahmed, Ali Aldalou and Rateb Katmah (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)

SS SubSea IoT: SS - Advancing Intelligent Sensing, Connectivity, and Automation for a Transparent Ocean

SS for SubSea IoT

Room: Video access

Wednesday, October 28 16:00 - 17:00

SS WICE: SS WICE: Women in Communications, Computing & Engineering for Connected, Resilient, and Inclusive Innovation Ecosystems

SS WICE

Room: KIC

Chair: Maria de Fatima Domingues (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

A Novel Matrix Multiplication Dataflow for Large Language Model Inference: He Ren, Alharis and Hani Saleh (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
Multikey Privacy-Preserving Random Forest Inference Using Encrypted Tree Traversal: FPGA Design and Implementation: Chenxi Yan, Raaida Noor Mahbub, Mena Abdelmoneim, Sultan Alhosani, Esrat Khan and Ibrahim M Elfadel (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
Natural Language to Neural Accelerators: LLM-Guided ISA and RTL Co-Design: Aishah Ali Alqaydi, Arwa Khalid Abdulwahab Ahmad Alfili, Nawari Saeed Ahmed Jumah Alhmoudi, Raviha Khan and Alharis (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)

WS AICON 2026: WS AI-Native IoT Communications and Networking (AICON 2026)

AICON 2026

Room: MPH

Chair: Fajr Naveed (University of Oulu, Finland)

Federated and Distributed Learning for IoT Grain Quality Classification: Fajr Naveed, Dinesh Kumar Sahh and Lauri Lovén (University of Oulu, Finland); Rani Kumari (Hanken school of Economics, Helsinki, Finland); Walid Nouicer (University of Oulu, Finland)
Logic-Guided Adaptive Deception for Resilient IoT Communications Against Intelligent Reactive Jamming: Muhammad Shahzad Arif and Yuhang Shen (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Tampere University, Finland)

WS IoM 2026: WS Connected and Trustworthy Intelligence for Smart Environments: The Internet of Mirrors (IoM) and Beyond (IoM 2026)

WS IoM 2026

Room: L1

Chair: Rabeb Mizouni (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)

WI-VENT: A Wi-Fi RSSI Sensing Approach for Device-Free Occupancy Detection and Adaptive Ventilation Control: Hussein Hassan HassanKassem, Khaled Ajam, Mariam Zaiter and Gaby H Abou Haidar (American University of Science and Technology, Lebanon); Chafic Saidé (Lebanese University, Lebanon); Houssein Taleb (Saint Joseph University, Lebanon)
Distributed Intelligence for Internet of Mirrors Using Federated Learning: Scalability and Communication Under Heterogeneous Deployments: Wedad S Alharbi, Mohammad Al-Quraan, Ahmad Taha, Qammer Abbasi and Muhammad Ali Imran (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lina Mohjazi (Glasgow University, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & School of Engineering, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Wednesday, October 28 16:00 - 17:30

WS RISE-IoT 2026: WS Resilient IoT and Autonomous Systems for Industrial Verticals (RISE-IoT 2026)

WS RISE-IoT 2026

Room: L2

Chairs: Ana Maria Dragulinescu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania), Ioana M Marcu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania), Ionuț Pirnog (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania)

ML-Assisted RF Characterization and Optimization Framework: Experimental Validation with a 1 GHz Colpitts Oscillator: Dragos Sucitu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania); Alexandru Mihai Antonescu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); El Mehdi Amhoud (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco); Ana Maria Dragulinescu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania)
Procedural Framework and Signaling Flows in LTE Systems: Marius-George Gheorghe (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania); Ioana Enescu and Alexandru Martian (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)
6G NTN Coverage Simulator for IoT: Matei Stoicea (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania); Razvan-Florentin Trifan and Alexandru Martian (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)
4G/5G Urban Radio Coverage Optimization: Bucharest Case Study: Cristian Furculescu, Marius-George Gheorghe, Teodora-Cristina Stoian, Ionuț Pirnog and Ioana M Marcu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania)
On RIS-Assisted Mixed RF-FSO SWIPT Networks over Fisher-Snedecor F Fading: Rupender Singh (None, India); Zhiguo Ding (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Tampere University, Finland)