Workshops

Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC) - Workshop

AOC - Accepted Papers

Keynote Title: "Opportunistic Offloading on the Edge"
Keynote speaker: Dr. Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, EURECOM, France

Session 1 Chair (Modeling): Dr. Matteo Mordacchini
Session 2 Chair (Opportunistic Computation): Dr. Matteo Mordacchini
Session 3 Chair (Information Processing): Dr. Matteo Mordacchini

IoT-SoS - Workshop

IoT-SoS - Accepted Papers

Keynote Title: "Sonar Inside Your Body: Toward Implantable Sensor Networks"

Keynote speaker: Dr. Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)

Session 1 Chair (IoT Applications): Dr. Nilanjan Banerjee
Session 2 Chair (Wireless Systems): Dr. Mary R. Schurgot

Video Everywhere (VidEv) - Workshop

VidEv - Accepted Papers

Keynote Title: "Video everywhere will require dense networking"
Keynote speaker: Dr. Thomas DC Little (Boston University, USA)

Session 1 Chair: Yousof Naderi
Session 2 Chair: Yousof Naderi

COgnitive Radio Applications and aLgorithms (CORAL) - Workshop

CORAL - Accepted Papers

Keynote speaker: Alexander M. Wyglinski (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Session 1 Chair (Sensing I): Dr. Yue (Frank) Gao
Session 2 Chair (Sensing II): Dr. Antonio G. Marques
Session 3 Chair (Spectrum Access): Dr. Luca Bedogni

Smart Vehicles (SmartVehicles) - Workshop

SmartVehicles - Accepted Papers

Keynote Title: "Beyond Position: Scaling Challenges in Future Vehicular Networks”

Keynote speaker: Dr. Marco Gruteser (Rutgers University, USA)

Session 1 Chair (Communications & Data Dissemination): Dr. Jerome Harri
Session 2 Chair (Traffic Estimation): Dr. Raffaele Bruno
Session 3 Chair (ITS Applications): Dr. Salil Kanhere

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1. Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC)

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Chairs: 

Lorenzo Valerio and Matteo Mordacchini 
Website: http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2015/

Program

1. "Inferring Content-Centric Traffic for Opportunistic Networking from Geo-location Social Networks"

Pavlos Sermpezis and Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (EURECOM, France)

2. "Inter-Session Network Coding in Delay Tolerant Mobile Social Networks: an Empirical Study"

Neetya Shrestha and Lucile Sassatelli (I3S - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis/CNRS UMR 7271, France)

3. "Characterizing Opportunistic Communication with Churn for Crowd-counting"

Ljubica Pajevic (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Gunnar Karlsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

4. "The design of a generalised approach to the programming of systems of systems"

Geoff Coulson, Gordon Blair, Yehia Elkhatib and Andreas U. Mauthe (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)

5. "Computational Ferrying:Challenges in Deploying a Mobile High Performance Computer"

Alireza Monfared, Mostafa Ammar and Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); David Doria and David Bruno (United States Army Research Laboratory, USA)

6. "A Markov chain model for drop ratio on one-packet buffers DTNs"

Victor Ramiro (University of Toulouse & ISAE, France); Dinh Khanh Dang (University of Toulouse - ISAE, France); Gwilherm Baudic (ISAE - Université de Toulouse, France); Tanguy Perennou and Emmanuel Lochin (University of Toulouse - ISAE, France)

7. "Socially-Aware Content Retrieval using Random Walks in Disruption Tolerant Networks"

Tuan Le and Haik Kalantarian (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)



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2. Internet of Things- Smart Objects and Services (IoT-SoS)

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Chairs:

Nilanjan Banerjee and Salvatore Di Stefano
Website: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~nilanb/iot-sos-2015

Program

1. A Rational Mechanism for Coordinating Crowdsourced Resources for Geo-temporal Request Satisfaction

Christine Bassem and Azer Bestavros (Boston University, USA)

2. An IEEE 802.11ah Programmable Modem

Raul Casas, Vakis Papaparaskeva and Xuehong Mao (Cadence Design Systems, USA); Rishi Kumar and Piyush Kaul (Cadence Design Systems, India); Samer Hijazi (Cadence Design Systems, USA)

3. Performance Analysis of IoT-Enabling IEEE 802.11ah Technology and its RAW Mechanism with Non-Cross Slot Boundary Holding Schemes

Muhammad Qutab-ud-din and Ali Hazmi (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Behnam Badihi, Anna Larmo and Johan Torsner (Ericsson Research, Finland); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

4. Cost-efficient universal Approach for Remote Meter Reading Using Web Services and Computer Vision

Henning Puttnies, Vlado Altmann, Frank Golatowski and Dirk Timmermann (University of Rostock, Germany)

5. PhyNetLab: Architecture Design of Ultra-Low Power Wireless Sensor Network Testbed

Aswin Karthik Ramachandran Venkatapathy, Moritz Roidl, Jan Emmerich and Andreas Riesner (TU Dortmund University, Germany); Michael ten Hompel (TU Dortmund, University of Technology & Fraunhofer-Institut Materialflow and Logistics, Germany)

6. Experiments with Security and Privacy in IoT Networks

Mary R Schurgot and David Shinberg (LGS Innovations, USA); Lloyd Greenwald (LGS Innovations / Bell Labs, USA)

7. Highly Scalable Fair Contention Resolution Scheme Based on Idle Time

Byung-Jae Kwak (Electronics and Telecommuncations Research Institute, Korea); Junhyuk Kim (KAIST, Korea); Nah-Oak Song (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea); Kyounghye Kim and June-Koo Kevin Rhee (KAIST, Korea); Kapseok Chang (ETRI, Korea); Moon-Sik Lee (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute & Stanford University, Korea)



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3. Video Everywhere (VidEv)

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Chairs:

Polychronis Koutsakis, Michael Paterakis and Terence Todd
Website: http://www.videv2015.tuc.gr/

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1. HEVC Decoder Optimization in Low Power Configurable Architecture for Wireless Devices

Vasileios Magoulianitis (University of Thessaly, Greece); Ioannis Katsavounidis (Universiity of Thessaly, Greece)

2. LiTMaS: Live road Traffic Maps for Smartphones

S. M. Iftekharul Alam, Sonia Fahmy and Yung-Hsiang Lu (Purdue University, USA)

3. An Adaptation Mechanism for Robust OTT Video Transmission

Fakher Oueslati and Jean-Charles Grégoire (University of Quebec, INRS, Canada)

4. Streaming 4K/UHD Video to the Rest of Us: Can Bandwidth Sharing Help?

Isabel Montes (University of the Philippines - Diliman, Philippines); Jaymari Chua, Joseph Michelangelo Cruz, Augusto Remillano, II, Joseph Darwin Young and Roel Ocampo (University of the Philippines, Philippines); Cedric Angelo Festin (Networks and Distributed Systems Lab, Philippines)

5. Multi-Source Mobile Video Streaming with Proactive Caching and D2D Communication

Vasilios A. Siris and Dimitrios Dimopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)



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4. COgnitive Radio Applications and aLgorithms (CORAL)

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Chairs:

Marco Di Felice, Frank Gao and Luca Bedogni
Website: http://www.cs.unibo.it/coral2015/coral2015.html

Program

1. Rendezvous in cognitive radio ad-hoc networks with asymmetric channel view

Akbar Hossain and Nurul I Sarkar (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)

2. Fusion Based Spectrum Decision Framework for Cognitive Radio Users

Ahmad Naeem Akhtar (National University of Science and Technology(NUST), College of Telecommunication Engineering, Islamabad, Pakistan)

3. Unified Approach for Performance Analysis of Cognitive Radio Spectrum Sensing over Correlated Multipath Fading Channels

Salam Al-Juboori and Xavier N Fernando (Ryerson University, Canada)

4. A Multi-Channel Spectrum Sensing Scheme with Filter Bank Realization for LTE Signals

Trung Thanh Nguyen (Faculty of Engineering, The University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Hanwen Cao (Huawei European Research Center, Germany); Theo Kreul (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Thomas Kaiser (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

5. Feasibility Study on Application of Impulse-UWB for Control Channel in Cognitive Radio Networks

Michael Doering, Anatolij Zubow and Adam Wolisz (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

6. Underlay Multi-Hop Cognitive Networks with Orthogonal Access

Antonio G. Marques (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain); Sergio Molinero (King Juan Carlos University, Spain); Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA)

7. A Weighted Diversity Combining Technique for Cyclostationarity Detection Based Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks

Daiki Cho and Shusuke Narieda (National Institute of Technology, Akashi College, Japan)

8. Spectrum Sensing based on Maximum Eigenvalue Approximation in Cognitive Radio Networks

Adeel Ahmed (University of Bradford, United Kingdom)

9. An Experimental Study on the Statistical Properties of Radio Environment Noise

Alexandros Palaios, Hauke Dose, Janne Riihijärvi and Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

10. Sub-Nyquist Rate Wideband Spectrum Sensing over TV white space for M2M Communications

Yuan Ma, Yue Gao and Clive Parini (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)



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5. Smart Vehicles (SmartVehicles)

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Chairs:

Raffaele Bruno, Salil Kanhere and John B. Kenney
Website: http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2015

Program

1. Performance Evaluation of a Mixed Vehicular Network with CAM-DCC and LIMERIC Vehicles

Bin Cheng and Ali Rostami (Rutgers University, WINLAB, USA); Marco Gruteser (WINLAB / Rutgers University, USA); John Kenney and Gaurav Bansal (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA); Katrin Sjoberg (Volvo, Sweden)

2. Opportunistic Calibration of Smartphone Orientation in a Vehicle

Bahador Khaleghi (Intelligent Mechatronic Systems (IMS), Canada); Akrem Saad El-ghazal and Allaa R. Hilal (University of Waterloo, Canada); Jason Toonstra and Ben Miners (Intelligent Mechatronic Systems (IMS), Canada); Otman Basir (University of Waterloo, Canada)

3. V2X Data Dissemination Delay for Vehicular Traffic Density Estimations

Sosina Gashaw and Jérôme Härri (EURECOM, France)

4. Min-Max Fair Car-Parking Slot Assignment

Elisabetta Alfonsetti (KTH, USA); Pradeep Chathuranga Weeraddana (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden); Carlo Fischione (KTH, Sweden)

5. Taxi-Cab Cloud Architecture to Offload Data Traffic from Cellular Networks

Kenneth U Ezirim (Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA); Shweta Jain (York College CUNY & Graduate Center of CUNY, USA)

6. Throughput Analysis of IEEE 802.11p-based Multi-Hop V2I Communications

Ribal Atallah (Concordia University, Canada); Maurice J. Khabbaz (Notre-Dame University, Lebanon); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada)

7. A Fail Safe Broadcast Protocol for Collaborative Intelligent Vehicles

Yitian Gu, Shou-pon Lin and Nick Maxemchuk (Columbia University, USA)

Sponsors

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