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Days: Nov. 22 - Nov. 23 - Nov. 24

 

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Wednesday, November 22

8:30 - 9:30
Registration

9:30 - 10:00
Opening & Welcome

10:00 - 11:00
Keynote Session I

Session chair: Toktam Mahmoodi, King's College London, UK

Internet of Skills - Time to Disrupt Cellular

Keynote Speaker: Mischa Dohler, King's College London, United Kingdom

11:00 - 12:40
Technical Session 1: "Cloud and Media Stream"

Session chair: Toktam Mahmoodi, King's College London, UK

 

• Improving QoE Prediction in Mobile Video through Machine Learning
  Pedro Casas (Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Austria); Sarah Wassermann (Université de Liège, Belgium)
  
  
• Design of A Layer-based Video Streaming System over Software-Defined Networks
  Reza Shokri Kalan (Ege University- Turkey, Turkey); Cihat Cetinkaya and Muge Sayit (Ege University, Turkey)
  
  
• Media Streams Allocation and Load Patterns for a WebRTC Cloud Architecture
  Vamis Xhagjika (TokBox Inc., Spain); Òscar Divorra (TokBox Inc. a Telefonica Company, Spain); Leandro Navarro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Vladimir Vlassov (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
  
  
• Distributed Processing in Vehicular Cloud Networks
  Amal Alahmadi, Ahmed Lawey, and Jaafar Elmirghani (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
  
  

12:40 - 14:00
Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:00
Keynote Session II

Session chair: Stefano Secci, Sorbonne UPMC, France.

Hidden Structures in Mobile Network Traffic

Keynote Speaker: Marco Fiore, National Research Council of Italy

15:00 - 16:15

Technical Session 2: "Routing, Traffic Engineering and Quality of Service"

Session chair: Antonio Cianfrani, University of Rome I - La Sapienza, Italy.

 

• How does imposing free roaming in EU impact users and ISPs' relations?
  Patrick Maillé (IMT Atlantique, France); Bruno Tuffin (Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, France).
  
  
• On Packet Loss Modeling: an Empirical Assessment
  Alfonso Iacovazzi and Daniel Frassinelli (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Yuval Elovici (Ben Gurion University, Israel).
  
  
• Power Allocation Optimization as the Multiple Knapsack Problem with Assignment Restrictions
  Naoyuki Morimoto (Mie University, Japan)
  
  

16:15 - 16:45
Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:25
Technical Session 3: "Network architectures and protocols"

Session chair: Marinos Charalambides, University College London, UK.

 

• Proactive Admission Control and Dynamic Resource Management in SDN-based Virtualized Networks
  Sara Shakeri (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Saeedeh Parsaeefard (Iran Telecommunications Research Center, Iran); Mahsa Derakhshani (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
  
  
• Intelligent network management mechanisms as a step towards 5G
  Anne-Marie C. Bosneag (Ericsson Ireland Research Centre, Ireland); MingXue Wang (Ericsson, Ireland)
  
  
• A New Method For Encoding MPLS Segment Routing TE Paths
  Guedrez Rabah (Télécom Bretagne & Orange Labs, France); Olivier D. Dugeon (Orange Labs & France Telecom, France); Geraldine Texier (IRISA/IMT Atlantique & BCOM, France); Samer Lahoud (ESIB, Saint-Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon)
  
  
• On the move with TCP in current and future mobile networks
  Eneko Atxutegi (University of the Basque Country, Spain); Karl-Johan Grinnemo (Karlstad University, Sweden); Andoni Izurza (University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain); Åke Arvidsson (Kristianstad University, Sweden); Fidel Liberal (University of the Basque Country, Spain); Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University, Sweden)
  
  

18:30 - 21:00 Welcome Reception 8th floor terrace of King's College Bush House

Thursday, November 23

9:00 - 10:00
Keynote Session III

Session chair: Stefano Secci, UPMC Sorbonne.

Stable Networks of the Future

Keynote Speaker: Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

 

10:00 - 11:30 Tutorial I

Session chair: Daphne Tuncer, University College London, UK.

Networked-Flying Platforms: Paving the Way Towards 5G and Beyond Access and Backhaul Wireless Networks

Tutorial Speaker: Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Univ. of the West of Scotland, UK

11:30 - 11:50
Coffee Break

11:50 - 13:05
Technical Session 4: "4G, 5G and beyond"

Session chair: Anne-Marie C. Bosneag, Ericsson Ireland Research Centre, Ireland.

• Prediction of Active UE Number with Bayesian Neural Networks for Self-Organizing LTE Networks
  Omer Narmanlioglu (P. I. Works & Ozyegin University, Turkey); Engin Zeydan (Türk Telekom Labs, Turkey); Melih Kandemir (Heidelberg University, Germany); Tarik Yakup Kranda (P. I. Works & Istanbul University, Turkey)
  BEST PAPER AWARD
  
  
• Future Scenarios and Value Network Configurations for Industrial 5G
  Singh Walia and Heikki Hämmäinen (Aalto University, Finland); Hannu Flinck (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland).
  
  
• Evolution of Home Energy Management and Smart Metering Communications towards 5G
  Mehdi Zeinali (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Chadi Khirallah and Neeraj Gupta (NEC, United Kingdom)
  
  

13:05 - 14:30
Lunch Break

14:30 - 17:00
Panel

Will IP support the networks of the future or do we need something better or different?

Panel Speakers:

• Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Leeds, UK.

• Arto Karila, Aaalto University, Finland.

• Joseph Noll, University of Oslo, Norway.

• Kevin Smith, Vodafone, UK.

• William Webb, University of Cambridge, UK.

• Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation, UK (moderator).
• Nigel Jefferies, Huawei, WWRF Chairman, UK (moderator).

 

 

19:00 Gala Dinner Wonderful stroll on a ferry travelling along the Thames from embankment pier to Greenwich and back, passing through major London landmarks such as Tower bridge and Tower of London.

 

Friday, November 24

9:00 - 10:40
Technical Session 5: "Network Security"

Session chair: Alfonso Iacovazzi, Singapore Univ. of Technology and Design, Singapore.

 

• A Policy-Based Identity Management Schema for Managing Accesses in Clouds
  Faraz Fatemi Moghaddam (GWDG - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany); Philipp Wieder (TU Dortmund University, Germany); Ramin Yahyapour (GWDG - University Göttingen, Germany)
  
  
• A Multi-Layered Access Policy Engine for Reliable Cloud Computing
  Faraz Fatemi Moghaddam (GWDG - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany); Philipp Wieder (TU Dortmund University, Germany); Ramin Yahyapour (GWDG - University Göttingen, Germany)
  
  
• Autonomous and Distributed Internet Security (AIS) Infrastructure for Safe Internet
  Hiroyuki Kimiyama, Naoki Yonezaki, Tsutsumi Tomoaki, Kaori Sano, Hirofumi Yamaki, Yoichiro Ueno, Ryoichi Sasaki, and Hiroshi Kobayashi (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
  
  
• EnCIRCLE: Encryption-based Access Control for Information-Centric Connected Vehicles
  Dennis Grewe (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany); Pavithra Rao Kasargod Pattanshetty (Porsche Engineering, Germany); Sebastian Schildt (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Marco Wagner (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany); Dominik Schoop (Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Hannes Frey (Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
  
  

10:40 - 11:10
Coffee Break

11:10 - 12:40
Tutorial II

Session chair: Stefano Secci, Sorbonne UPMC, France

Virtualization in 5G Systems

Tutorial Speaker: Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy

12:40 - 14:00
Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30
Demo & Poster Session

Session chair: Maria Lema, King's College London, UK.

• Control and Management of a Connected Car Using YANG/RESTCONF and Cloud Computing
  Ricard Vilalta (CTTC/CERCA, Spain); Selva Via (CTTC, Spain); Fermin Mira Perez (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain); Luis Sanabria (CTTC/CERCA, Spain); Ricardo Martinez, Ramon Casellas and Raul Muñoz (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain); Jesus Alonso-Zarate (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya - CTTC, Spain)
  
  
• Demonstrating State-based Security Protection Mechanisms in Software Defined Networks
  Thianantha Arumugam and Sandra Scott-Hayward (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)
  BEST POSTER/DEMO PAPER AWARD
  
  
• Deploying ICN islands in a Sea of IP - the Role of Interconnection and Business Models
  Pieter Nooren, Niels van Adrichem, and Lucia D'Acunto (TNO, The Netherlands)
  
  
• In-Network Data Aggregation in ICN
  Bastiaan Wissingh, Lucia D'Acunto, and Konstantinos Trichias (TNO, The Netherlands)
  
  
• CUSUM-based and Entropy-based Network Anomaly Detection: an Experimental Comparison
  Christian Callegari (RaSS National Laboratory - CNIT and University of Pisa, Italy); Stefano Giordano, Michele Pagano and Fabrizio Berizzi (University of Pisa, Italy)
  
  
• Standardization for Evaluating Software-Defined Networking Controllers
  Emerson Remigio Silva, Patricia Takako Endo, and Edison Queiroz Albuquerque (Universidade de Pernambuco)
  
  
• Effects of Port Congestion in the Gate Control List Scheduling of Time Sensitive Networks
  Angelos Mimidis Kentis (DTU, Denmark); Michael S. Berger, and Jose Soler (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
  
  
• QoS Guarantee over Hybrid SDN/non-SDN Networks
  Ola Salman, Imad H. Elhajj, Ali Chehab, and Ayman Kayssi (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
  
  
• A Performance Comparison Platform of Mobile Network Operators
  Ibrahim Onuralp Yigit (Türk Telekom Labs, Turkey); Gokhan Ayhan, Engin Zeydan, Feyzullah Kalyoncu, and Çağrı Etemoğlu (Türk Telekom Labs, Turkey)
  
  
• Real-life C-RAN deployment considerations
  Line M. P. Hansen, Sarah Ruepp, and Henrik Christiansen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
  
  
• Service Orchestration leveraging software networks and DevOps in 5G
  George K .Xilouris, Stavros Kolometsos, and Michail Alexandros Kourtis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); Felipe Vicens (ATOS, Spain); Christos Xilouris (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); Dario Valocchi (University College London, United Kingdom); Alberto Rocha (Altice Labs, Portugal); Luis Conceição (Ubiwhere, Portugal); Javier Fernandez Hidalgo (I2CAT, Greece); Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain); Adel Zaalouk (NECLAB, Greece); Thomas Soenen (Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Josep Martrat (Atos, Spain)
  
  
• A Simplified Path Loss Model for Investigating Diffraction and Specular Reflection Impact on Millimetre Wave Propagation
  Rasha Al-Dabbagh (Brunel University London, United Kingdom); Nadia Al-Aboody (Brunel University, United Kingdom); Hamed Saffa Al-Raweshidy (University of Brunel, United Kingdom)
  
  
• Empirical Performance Evaluation of FSO Availability under Different Weather Conditions
  Nilupulee Anuradha Gunathilake and Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir (University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom)
  
  

15:30 - 17:10
Technical Session 6: "Physical Layer"

Session chair: Maria Lema, King's College London, UK.

• Quantum Encrypted Signals on Multiuser Optical Fiber Networks: Simulation Analysis of Next Generation Services and Technologies
  Rameez Asif (Edinburgh Napier University & The Cyber Academy, United Kingdom)
  
  
• Square Deviation Based Symbol-Level Selection for Virtual Full-Duplex Relaying Networks
  Jiancao Hou and Sandeep Narayanan Kadan Veedu (King's College London, United Kingdom); Na Yi and Yi Ma (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei (King's College London, United Kingdom)
  
  
• A New Channel Selection Algorithm for the Weightless-N Frequency Hopping with Lower Collision Probability
  Riyadh Abbas (University of Northampton & Wasit University, United Kingdom); Ali Al-Sherbaz (The University of Northampton & School of Science and Technology, United Kingdom); Abdeldjalil Bennecer (The University of Northampton, United Kingdom); Phil Picton (University of Northampton, United Kingdom)
  
  
• Performance Analysis of Inband FD-D2D Communications with Imperfect SI cancellation for Wireless Video Distribution
  Mansour Naslcheraghi and Seyed Ali Ghorashi (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran); Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei (King's College London, United Kingdom)
  
  

17:10 - 17:30
Best Paper Awards Announcement and Closing

 

 

 

 

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