IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks
6–8 November 2023 // Edinburgh, Scotland // Edinburgh Napier University

Technical Program

Program – Detailed

November 6th (River Suite)

8:30 – 9:30 – Opening Talks

10:00 – 11:00 – Keynote (Prof. Özgür Barış Akan)

11:00 – 12:00 – Session 1 (Quality of Service)

Session Chair: Kubra Duran (kubra.duran@napier.ac.uk)

  • 5GMediaHUB QoS/QoE Monitoring Engine (Apostolos Siokis; Stefania Stamou; Kostas Ramantas; Ryan McCloskey; Martin Tolan; George Margetis; Christos Verikoukis)

  • Towards Data Analytics Based PIM Detection in Wireless Networks. (Eren Deniz; Gokcan Cantali; Ozcan Ozay; Onur Yildirim; Gürkan Gür; Fatih Alagoz)

  • Blockchain-Empowered Immutable and Reliable Delivery Service (BIRDS) Using UAV Networks. (Sana Hafeez; Habib Ullah Manzoor; Lina Mohjazi; Ahmed Zoha; Muhammad Ali Imran; Yao Sun)

13:00 – 14:45 - Women in Smart Communications (Moderator: Dr. Lina Mohjazi)

Invited Speakers and Panelists

  • Dr. Louise Crocke

  • Dr. Oluwatayo Yetunde Kolawole

  • Dr. Nour Aburaed

15:15 – 17:00 - SS: 2nd Workshop on Distributed and Intelligent Edge Computing for 6G Communications

Session Chair: TBD by SS Chairs

  • An Evolutionary Edge Computing Architecture for the Beyond 5G Era. (Elli Kartsakli; Jordi Pérez-Romero; Nikolaos Bartzoudis; Oriol Sallent; Oluwatayo Kolawole; Xin Tao; Swarup Kumar Mohalik; Tomasz Mach; Sige Liu; Yansha Deng; Gianluca Mandó; Angelos Antonopoulos; Valerio Frascolla; Gokhan Kalem; Semiha Koşu; Fred Buining, Ir.; Eduardo Quiñones)

  • Blockchain-enabled Clustered and Scalable Federated Learning (BCS-FL) Framework in UAV Networks. (Sana Hafeez; Lina Mohjazi; Muhammad Ali Imran; Yao Sun)

November 6th (Room 2/116)

11:00 – 12:00 – Session 6 (Traffic Management)

Session Chair: Yagmur Yigit (yagmur.yigit@napier.ac.uk)

  • Power Delay Profile Based Ranging via Approximate EM-ReVAMP. (Fangqing Xiao; Zilu Zhao; Dirk Slock)

  • Scalable MU-MIMO User Scheduling for Next-Generation Wireless Networks. (Juan C De Luna Ducoing; Konstantinos Nikitopoulos)

  • Dynamic Packet Content Construction and Processing for End-to-End Streaming in 6G. (Stuart Clayman; Emre Karakış; Mustafa Tuker; Elif Ak; Berk Canberk; Muge Sayit)

13:00 – 14:45 - SS: Deploying Applications in the 6G Era: The Dawn of Highly-secure, Trustworthy, Scalable and Adaptable ecosystems (I)

Session Chair: TBD by SS Chairs

  • Intelligent Node Deployment in Smart Spaces to Optimize Sensor Signal and Data Acquisition. (Andreas Andreou; Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis; Jordi Mongay Batalla; Evangelos K. Markakis)

  • TRUSTEE's Framework for DPIAs: Safeguarding Personal Data in the Digital Era. (Athanasios Vasileios Grammatopoulos; Ioannis Stylianou; Katarzyna Barud; Clara Saillant; Ilias Politis)

  • Architectural Insights into TRUSTEE's Authentication Manager: Leveraging SSI and eIDAS. (Athanasios Vasileios Grammatopoulos; Ioannis Stylianou; Eneko Gómez Ramos; Ivan Gutierrez-Aguero; Cristina Regueiro; Ilias Politis)

  • 6GENABLERS: A Holistic Approach to Establish Pervasive Trust in 6G Networks. (Muhammad Asad; Adriana Fernández-Fernández; Hatim Chergui; Mario Montagud; Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui; Sergi Fernández; Maxime Compastie)

15:15 – 17:00 - SS: Deploying Applications in the 6G Era: The Dawn of Highly-secure, Trustworthy, Scalable and Adaptable ecosystems (II)

Session Chair: TBD by SS Chairs

  • OPSEC VS Leaked Credentials: Password Re-use in Large-Scale Data Leaks. (Gabor Uzonyi; Nikolaos Pitropakis; Sean McKeown; Ilias Politis)

  • Providing Security Assurance & Hardening for Open Source Software/Hardware: The SecOPERA approach. (Apostolos Fournaris; Christos Tselios; Evangelos Haleplidis; Athanasopoulos Elias; Antreas Dionysiou; Dimitris Mitropoulos; Panos Louridas; Georgios Christou; Manos Athanatos; George Hatzivasilis; Konstantinos Georgopoulos; Costas Kalogeros; Christos Kotselidis; Simon Vogl; Francois Hamon; Sotiris Ioannidis)

November 7th (River Suite)

8:30 – 9:30 – Session 2 (Networking and Information management)

Session Chair: Alessandro Calvio (alessandro.calvio@unibo.it

  • Impact of Transmission Delays Over Age of Information Under Finite Horizon Scheduling (Alberto Zancanaro; Andrea Munari; Giulia Cisotto; Leonardo Badia)

  • Analysis of Age of Information in Slotted ALOHA Networks With Different Strategic Backoff Schemes . (Alessandro Buratto; Leonardo Badia)

  • Efficient Generation of Approximate Region-based Geo-maps from Big Geotagged Data. (Isam Mashhour Al Jawarneh; Luca Foschini; Antonio Corradi)

10:00 – 11:00 – Keynote (Prof. Harald Haas)

11:00 – 12:00 – Session 3 (Digital Twins)

Session Chair: Elif Ak (akeli@itu.edu.tr)

  • Optimal Location Assignment for Data-Driven Warehouse Towards Digital Supply Chain Twin (Muge ErelOzcevik; Yusuf Ozcevik; Elif Bozkaya; Tuğçe Bilen)

  • How to synchronize Digital Twins? A Communication Performance Analysis (Lal Verda Cakir; Sarah Al-Shareeda; Sema Oktug; Mehmet Ozdem; Matthew Broadbent; Berk Canberk)

  • A Simulation-based Decision Support System for Urban Traffic Management (Alessandro Calvio; Anish Jindal; Armir Bujari; Gagangeet Singh Aujla; Luca Foschini)

13:00 – 14:45 – SS: Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructures (CCI'23) (I)

Session Chair: TBD by SS Chairs

  • Enhancing Mac OS Malware Detection through Machine Learning and Mach-O File Analysis (Andrew Thaeler; Yagmur Yigit; Leandros A. Maglaras; Bill Buchanan; Naghmeh Moradpoor; Gordon Russell)

  • Identity Management through a global Discovery System based on Decentralized Identities (Konstantinos Lampropoulos; Nikos Kyriakoulis; Giorgos Georgakakos; Spyros Denazis)

  • Scalable Multi-domain Trust Infrastructures for Segmented Networks (Sam Grierson; William J Buchanan; Craig J Thomson; Baraq Ghaleb; Leandros A. Maglaras; Chris Eckle)

  • Detecting and Mitigating MitM Attack on IoT Devices Using SDN (Neder Karmous; Mohamed Ould-Elhassen Aoueileyine; Lamia Romdhani; Neji Youssef)

15:15 – 17:00 – SS: Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructures (CCI'23) (II)

Session Chair: TBD by SS Chairs

  • PermutEx: Feature-Extraction-Based Permutation - A New Diffusion Scheme for Image Encryption Algorit (Muhammad Shahbaz Khan; Jawad Ahmad; Ahmed Y Al-Dubai; Zakwan Jaroucheh; Nikolaos Pitropakis; William J Buchanan)

  • Double Public Key Signing Function Oracle Attack on EdDSA Software Implementations (Sam Grierson; Konstantinos Chalkias; William J Buchanan; Leandros A. Maglaras)

  • PASSION: Permissioned Access Control for Segmented Devices and Identity for IoT Networks (Hisham Ali; Jawad Ahmad; Mwrwan Abdelrazig Abubakar; William J Buchanan; Zakwan Jaroucheh)

November 7th (Room 2/116)

8:30 – 9:30 – Session 7 (Energy Efficiency)

Session Chair: Yagmur Yigit (yagmur.yigit@napier.ac.uk)

  • Energy-Efficient QoS-Aware Application and Network Configuration for Next-Gen IoT. (Juan Luis Herrera; Jaime Galán-Jiménez; Javier Berrocal; Paolo Bellavista; Luca Foschini)

  • Genetic Algorithm for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks. (Darius Guiao; Petros Spachos)

  • Energy Efficiency and Localization Based on Gaussian and Markovian Mobility for Salp Swarm Algorithm. (Maher Jabberi; Bechir Ben Gouissem; Adel M. Alimi; Imed Romdhani).

11:00 – 12:00 – Session 8 (Content delivery)

Session Chair: Alessandro Calvio (alessandro.calvio@unibo.it)

  • Learning-Based Latency-Constrained Fronthaul Compression Optimization in C-RAN (Axel Grönland; Bleron Klaiqi; Xavier Gelabert)

  • Source-Coded Multicast for Efficient Content Delivery (Tomas Lestayo; Manuel Fernández Veiga)

  • A Novel Self-Optimization Algorithm for 5G HetNets Using Automatic Weight Function and TOPSIS (Emre Gures; Ibraheem Shayea; Ibrahim Yazici; Sawsan Ali Saad; Ayman A. El-Saleh)

13:00 – 14:45 – Session 9 (UAVs)

Session Chair: Lal Verda Cakir (lal.cakir@napier.ac.uk)

  • Semantics-Empowered UAV-assisted Wireless Communication System for Wildfire Detection. (Chathuranga Basnayaka; Dushantha Nalin K. Nalin.K. Jayakody; Marko Beko)

  • Theoretical Limits of SoOP TDOA Localization of Unmanned Systems with Imperfect Synchronization. (Khaled Walid Elgammal; Berke Can Turan; Oğuz Bedir; Hasari Celebi; Marwa Qaraqe; Mehmet Kemal Ozdemir)

  • Utilizing LoRa for Control Link in Software-defined Aerial Networks: Analysis and Implementation. (Zeynep Betul Arslanbenzer; Busra Bayram; Talip Tolga Sarı; Gokhan Secinti)

15:15 – 17:00 - SS: Edge Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence of Things (Edge AI & AIoT)

Session Chair: TBD by SS Chairs

  • A Differential Privacy Approach for Privacy-Preserving Multi-Modal Stress Detection (Moudy Alshareef; Mona Jaber; Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem)

  • A Carbon Tracking Model for Federated Learning: Impact of Quantization and Sparsification (Luca Barbieri; Stefano Savazzi; Sanaz Kianoush; Monica Nicoli; Luigi Serio)

  • Machine Learning Based Resource Utilization Prediction in the Computing Continuum (Christian Bauer; Narges Mehran; Radu Prodan; Dragi Kimovski)

  • Edge AI Inference in Heterogeneous Constrained Computing: Feasibility and Opportunities (Roberto Morabito; Mallik Tatipamula; Sasu Tarkoma; Mung Chiang)

November 8th (River Suite)

8:30 – 9:30 – Session 4 (Internet of Things)

Session Chair: Lal Verda Çakır (lal.cakir@napier.ac.uk)

  • VMD Integrated FMCW Radar System for Non-Invasive Pediatric Vital Sign Estimation. (Fahad Ayaz; Basim Alhumaily; Sajjad Hussain; Muhammad Ali Imran; Ahmed Zoha)

  • A distributed user-oriented IoT-based Air Pollution Monitoring. (José Jorge Figueroa Figueroa; Hao Shen; Hamed Ahmadi; Berk Canberk)

  • Context-Aware Analysis of Patient Monitoring in Internet of Things Systems. (Yassmine Ben Dhiab; Mohamed Ould-Elhassen Aoueileyine; Manel Abdelkader; Lamia Romdhani; Ridha Bouallegue)

10:00 – 11:00 – Keynote (Dr. Carol Marsh)

11:00 – 12:00 – Session 5 (Wireless Networks)

Session Chair: : Lal Verda Çakır (lal.cakir@napier.ac.uk)

  • Service Modeling and Delay Analysis of Packet Delivery over a Wireless Link. (Yan Zhang; Yuming Jiang; Songwei Fu)

  • Characterizing Wireless Link Throughput with eBPF and Hardware Timestamps. (Simon Sundberg; Johan Garcia; Anna Brunstrom)

  • A DigiLogue Receiver Design for Tbps Wireless Transmissions over Flat-Fading Channels. (Mahmoud Mojarrad Kiasaraei; Rahim Tafazolli; Konstantinos Nikitopoulos)

13:00 – 14:45 – Industrial Panel (Moderators: Ahmad Taha, Mahmoud Shawky)
(5G-Enabled Cyber Physical Systems (CPSS) for Sustainability and Net Zero Carbon (5G-CPS-NZ))

Invited Speakers and Panelists

  • Dr. David Owens

  • Dr. David Crawford

November 8th (Room 2/116)

08:30 – 09:30 – Session 10 (Security)

Session Chair: Elif Ak (akeli@itu.edu.tr )

  • Enhancing QoE Assessment in FWA: Leveraging Network KPIs and User Feedback Analysis. (Hakan Gokcesu; Ozgur Ercetin; Gokhan Kalem)

  • Assessment of Adversarial Attacks on Traffic Sign Detection for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. (Aaditya Suri; Binod Vaidya; Hussein T. Moumah)

  • Quantum-Resistant TLS 1.3: A Hybrid Solution Combining Classical, Quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography. (Carlos Rubio Garcia; Abraham Cano Aguilera; Juan José Vegas Olmos; Idelfonso Tafur Monroy; Simon Rommel)

  • Secure Multi-Point Coordinated Beamforming using Deep Learning in 5G and Beyond Networks. (Utku Ozmat; Mehmet Akif Yazici; Mehmet F Demirkol)

  • Securing Southbound Interface in SDNs: Utilizing Support Vector Machines for OpenFlow Packet Classification. (Ali Gökhan Avran; Elif Ak; Kübra Duran; Gökhan Yurdakul; Gokhan Secinti)

11:00 – 12:00 – Session 11 (Security and Safety)

Session Chair: Kubra Duran (kubra.duran@napier.ac.uk)

  • A Comparative Study of VANET Routing Protocols for Safety Applications. (Kevin Coyle; Craig J Thomson; Isam Wadhaj; Baraq Ghaleb

  • Emerging Challenges and Solutions in RPL Protocol: Research Review. (Joshua Teddy Ibibo, Mr)

  • Joint Computation and Communication Resource Allocation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle NOMA Systems. (Tan Do-Duy; Dang Van Huynh; Emiliano Garcia-Palacios; Tuan-Vu Cao; Vishal Sharma; Trung Q. Duong)

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