Wireless Days 2018 Program

WD'18
Tuesday April 3, 2018 Wednesday April 4, 2018 Thursday April 5, 2018
8:45 Welcome Coffee
9:15 Opening Ceremony
9:30 Keynote 1 :Towards Provisioning Vehicle-Based Information Services
Hossam Hassanein (Queen’s University, Canada)
Keynote 2 : Robust Networks for Cyber Agricultural Systems
Nils Aschenbruck (University of Osnabrück, Institute of Computer Science, Germany)
Keynote 3 : Collimated light propagation: The next frontier in underwater wireless communication
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
10:30 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break
11:00 TS 1: Ad hoc, Sensor, Mesh & Vehicular Networks TS 3: Wireless Communications TS 5: Ad hoc, Sensor, Mesh & Vehicular Networks
12:40 Lunch Break  Lunch Break  Lunch Break 
14:00 SS 1 SS 2 SS 3
15:40 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break
16:00 TS 2: Cloud & SDN TS 4: Internet of Things TS 6: Wireless Communications
 
18:00 Best Paper Awards & Closing Ceremony
20:00
Conference Dinner

Tuesday April 3, 2018

09:15—09:30 Opening Session-WD2018
09:30—10:30 Keynote 1 : Towards Provisioning Vehicle-Based Information Services
Hossam Hassanein (Queen’s University, Canada)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:40 Technical Session 1: Ad hoc, Sensor, Mesh & Vehicular Networks 1

UFAP: Ultra-Fast Handoff Authentication Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks
Naif Alamri (University of Colorado & Taibah University, USA); Edward Chow (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA); Amer Aljaedi (UCCS, USA); Abdelhamid Elgzil (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA)

A Hybrid Reactive and Position-based Approach to Packet Routing in 3D Topology Networks
Daniele Ronzani (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy); Armir Bujari and Claudio E. Palazzi (University of Padua, Italy)

Applications, Requirements, and Design Guidelines for Multi-tiered Vehicular Network Architecture
Zeeshan Hameed Mir (Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT), United Arab Emirates); Fethi Filali (QMIC, Qatar)

GeoMIP: A Novel Mobility Management Solution for Internet and VANET Communication using Geographic Partition in Mobile IP
Thiwiza Bellache (UVSQ, France); Sondes Kallel (LI-PaRAD, France); Oyunchimeg Shagdar (VEDECOM, France); Samir Tohme (University of Versailles, France)
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:40 Short Session 1

Assisted Routing Algorithm for D2D Communication in 5G Wireless Networks
Alex Bastos (Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei & Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil); Cristiano M. Silva (Universidade Federal de São João Del-Rei, Brazil); Diogenes da Silva Junior (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

A Low Wind-Load Lightweight Foldable/Deployable Multi-Beam Base Station Antenna For the Whole LTE Spectrum
Mohamed Sanad (Cairo University, Egypt); Noha Hassan (Cairo, Egypt)

Common SDN control channel for seamless handover in 802.11
Rastislav Bencel (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia); Kristián Košťál, Ivan Kotuliak and Michal Ries (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia)

Real-time Stress Evaluation using Wireless Body Sensor Networks
Maroun Koussaifi (Université of Bourgogne Franche Comté, France); Carol Habib (University of Franche- Comté, France); Abdallah Makhoul (University of Franche-Comté & FEMTO-ST, France)
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00 Technical Session 2 : Cloud & SDN

A Dynamic Transmission Strategy Based on Network Slicing for Cloud Radio Access Networks
Mahdi Ezzaouia (IMT Atlantique & University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia); Cedric Gueguen (University of Rennes 1, France); Melhem El Helou (Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon); Mahmoud Ammar (University Tunis El Manar, Tunisia); Xavier Lagrange (IMT Atlantique & IRISA, Université Bretagne Loire, France); Ammar Bouallegue (National School of Engineers of Tunis, Tunisia)

Early Classification of Residential Networks Traffic using C5.0 Machine Learning Algorithm
Zied Aouini (University of La Rochelle & Orange Labs, France); Abdesselem Kortebi (Orange Labs, France); Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of la Rochelle, France); Iyad Lahsen Cherif (Paris Sud, France)

A Comparative Evaluation of the Performance of Popular SDN Controllers
Lusani Mamushiane and Sabelo Dlamini (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa); Albert A. Lysko (Council for Industrial and Scientific Research & CSIR Meraka Institute, South Africa)

Realization of Handover Management in SDNized 3GPP Architecture with Protocol Independent Forwarding
Xuan-Thuy Dang (Technical University of Berlin & GT-ARC gGmbH, Germany); Manzoor Ahmed Khan (TU Berlin, Germany); Sebastian Peters (TU Berlin & DAI Labor, Germany); Tobias Dörsch (Technical University of Berlin & GT-ARC gGmbH, Germany)

An adaptive network slicing for LTE Radio Access Networks
Pedro Rezende (Institute of Computing - University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil); Edmundo Madeira (State University of Campinas, Brazil)


Wednesday April 4, 2018

09:30—10:30 Keynote 2: Robust Networks for Cyber Agricultural Systems
Nils Aschenbruck (University of Osnabrück, Institute of Computer Science, Germany)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:40 Technical Session 3: Wireless Communications 1

In-Band Omnidirectional Initial Access via Alamouti Scheme in Millimeter-Wave Cellular Networks
Thayane Rodrigues Viana and Marcelo M Carvalho (University of Brasília, Brazil)

Cooperative D2D Communications in the Uplink of Cellular Networks with Time and Power Division
Doaa Kiwan and Amr El-Sherif (Nile University, Egypt); Tamer ElBatt (Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University & WINC, Nile University, Egypt)

Experimental Evaluation of Shore to Unmanned Surface Vehicle Wi-Fi Communications
André Coelho, Mário Lopes and Bruno Ferreira (INESC TEC and Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal); Rui Campos (INESC TEC and Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal); Manuel Pereira Ricardo (Universidade do Porto & INESC Porto, Portugal)

DCT-Based Compression Scheme for OFDM Baseband Signals
Maria Nilma S Fonseca (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil); Leonardo Ramalho (UFPA, Brazil); Aldebaro Klautau (Universidade Federal do Para, Brazil); Chenguang Lu (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Stefan Höst (Lund University, Sweden); Miguel Berg (Ericsson AB, Sweden)
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:40 Short Session 2

A Round-Robin MAC Approach for Limiting Deafness in Mobile Ad Hoc Network Beamforming Environments
Vincenzo Inzillo (Università Della Calabria, Italy); Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy); Alfonso Ariza Quintana (University of Malaga, Spain); Amilcare Francesco Santamaria (University of Calabria, Italy)

B-αWSP Selection Algorithm: a Load Balancing Convergecast for WSNs
Nassima Bouadem (University of BEJAIA, Algeria); Rahim Kacimi (IRIT/UPS, University of Toulouse, France); Abdelkamel Tari (Bejaia University, Algeria)

Uplink Performance Optimization of Ultra Dense Wi-Fi Networks using AP-managed TPC
M. Shahwaiz Afaqui (Maynooth University, Ireland); Stephen Brown (National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland); Ronan Farrell (Maynooth University, Ireland)

An Artificial Neural Network Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Wireless Mesh Networks
Akmal Yaqini and Freshta Popalyar (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00 Technical Session 4: Internet of Things

LOST: Localized Blacklisting Aware Scheduling Algorithm for IEEE 802.15.4-TSCH Networks
Dimitrios Zorbas (University of Piraeus, Greece); Vasileios Kotsiou (University of Strasbourg, Greece); Fabrice Théoleyre (CNRS, France); Georgios Z. Papadopoulos (IMT Atlantique, France); Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Robust CSMA for Long-Range LoRa Transmissions with Image Sensing Devices
CongDuc Pham (University of Pau, France)

Overview of IEEE802.15.4g OFDM and its Applicability to Smart Building Applications
Jonathan Munoz (Inria-Paris, EVA team, France); Emmanuel Riou (Gridbee Communications, France); Xavier Vilajosana (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain); Paul Muhlethaler (INRIA, France); Thomas Watteyne (Inria, France)

IoB-DTN: a lightweight DTN protocol for mobile IoT Applications to smart bike sharing systems
Yosra Zguira (University of Lyon 1, France); Herve Rivano (Inria & Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA Lyon, CITI, France); Aref Meddeb (National School of Engineering, University of Sousse, Tunisia)

A Fuzzy Logic Approach for Improving the Tracking Accuracy in Indoor Localisation Applications
Imane Horiya Brahmi (University College Dublin, Ireland); Giovanni Abbruzzo and Michael Walsh (Tyndall National Institute, Ireland); Hichem Sedjelmaci (IRT System X, France); Brendan O'Flynn (Tyndall National Institude, Ireland)

BLINK: Making the Case for Bluetooth Open Source Stack
Ahmed Salem (Old Dominion University, USA); Tamer Nadeem (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
20:00 Conference Dinner


Thursday April 5, 2018

09:30—10:30 Keynote 3: Collimated light propagation: The next frontier in underwater wireless communication
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:40 Technical Session 5: Ad hoc, Sensor, Mesh & Vehicular Networks 2

CRITIC: A Cognitive Radio Inspired Road Traffic Congestion Reduction Solution
Soufiene Djahel (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Adam Jones (Manchester Metropolitan University, France); Yassine Hadjadj- Aoul (University of Rennes 1, France); Ashfaq Khokhar (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

Analytical study of incremental approach for information dissemination in wireless networks
Andrey Belogaev (IITP RAS & MIPT, Russia); Evgeny Khorov, Artem Krasilov and Andrey Lyakhov (IITP RAS, Russia)

A Machine Learning Approach to TCP State Monitoring from Passive Measurements
Desta Haileselassie Hagos (University of Oslo & Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Norway); Paal E. Engelstad (Oslo and Akershus University College, University of Oslo/UNIK and FFI, Norway); Anis Yazidi (Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway); Øivind Kure (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway)

Friendly-Drop: a social-based buffer management algorithm for Opportunistic Networks
Camilo Souza and Edjair S. Mota (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil); Pietro Manzoni (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Juan-Carlos Cano (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Carlos T. Calafate (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Enrique Hernández-Orallo (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Jorge Herrera-Tapia (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:40 Short Session 3

Linear WSN Lifetime Maximization for Pipeline Monitoring using Hybrid K-means ACO Clustering Algorithm
Maroua Abdelhafidh (ENIS, Tunisia); Mohamed Fourati and Lamia Chaari Fourati (Institut supérieur d'informatique et multimédia de sfax, Tunisia); Adel Ben Mnaouer (Canadian University Dubai & Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, United Arab Emirates); Mokhtar Zid (GCT, Tunisia)

A Security Solution for V2V Communication within VANETs
Hamssa Hasrouny (University of Telecom SudParis, Lebanon); Abed Ellatif Samhat and Carole Bassil (Lebanese University, Lebanon); Anis Laouiti (TELECOM SudParis, France)

Sybil Attack Prevention through Identity Symmetric scheme in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
Mohamed Khalil (Nile University, Egypt); Marianne Azer (National Telecommunication Institute + Nile University, Egypt)

Investigations on Recent Power-aware Opportunistic protocols in WSN
Lamia Chaari (University of Computer Science and Multimedia of Sfax & Laboratory of Technologies for Smart Systems at Digital Research Center of Sfax (CRNS), Tunisia); Sarah El-Kaffel (Laboratory of Technology for Smart Systems (LT2S), Tunisia); Adel Ben Mnaouer (Canadian University Dubai & Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, United Arab Emirates); Farid Touati (Qatar University, Qatar)
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00 Technical Session 6: Wireless Communications

M-ary Beam Angle Shift Keying Modulation for MIMO Channels
Javad Hoseyni and Jacek Ilow (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Optimal Max-SINR Scheduling in Full-Duplex OFDMA Cellular Networks with Dynamic Arrivals
Hassan Fawaz (Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon); Samer Lahoud (ESIB, Saint-Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon); Melhem El Helou (Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon); Marc Ibrahim (Saint Joseph University & Saint Joseph University - ESIB, Lebanon)

Increasing Data Rates in Relay-Assisted Wireless Multicast Networks with Single Antenna Receivers
Rashed Alsakarnah, Fadhel Alhumaidi and Jacek Ilow (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Radio Resource Calendaring in Cloud-based Radio Access Networks
Jocelyne Elias, (Paris Descartes University & Sorbonne Paris Cité, France); Fabio Martignon (Université Paris-Sud, France); Mira Morcos (France, France); Lin Chen (The University of Paris-Sud, France); Tijani Chahed (Telecom SudParis, France)
18:00 Best Paper Awards & Closing Ceremony