This page shows the MedComNet 2022 program, including program at a glance and detailed program. All the times in the program refer to Eastern European Summer Time (EEST, GMT+3). To know when the event takes place in your timezone, simply click on the time (service courtesy of worldtimebuddy.com).
Important information for authors: Authors should prepare a 15 min. presentation (both short and long papers) and will have 3-5 additional minutes for answering questions.
Program at a glance
June 1, 2022
- 8:00-9:00 – R1: Registration
- 9:00-9:30 – W1: Welcome from the General Chairs
- 9:30-10:30 – K1: Keynote: mm-Wave Joint Communication and Sensing and Location-based Network Control
Speaker: Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks) - 10:30-11:00 – B1: Coffee break
- 11:00-12:15 – S1: 5G and beyond networks and technlogies
Chairs: Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain) - 12:15-13:30 – L1: Lunch
- 13:30-14:45 – S2: IoT fundamentals and applications
Chairs: Sergio Palazzo (University of Catania, Italy) - 14:45-15:15 – B2: Coffee break
- 15:15-16:30 – S3: Network security and privacy
Chairs: Leonardo Badia (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy) - 16:30-18:00 – P1: Panel: New IP or not New IP: perspectives on Internet evolution
Organizer and chair: Stefano Salsano (Roma Tor Vergata/CNIT)
Panelists: Richard Li (Futurewei, USA), Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley), Hesham El Bakoury (Consultant), Dirk Steinberg (Lapishills Consulting), Adrian Farrel (Old Dog Consulting) - 18:30-19:30 – W2: Welcome Cocktail
June 2, 2022
- 9:30-10:30 – K2: Keynote: Privacy: is my data still mine?
Speaker: Silvia Giordano (SUPSI) - 10:30-11:00 – B3: Coffee break
- 11:00-12:15 – S4: Network analysis and Machine Learning
Chairs: Marco Ajmone (Former Faculty Politecnico di Torino, Italy) - 12:15-13:00 – L2: Lunch
- 13:30-14:45 – S5: Network security and privacy
Chairs: Georgios Ellinas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) - 14:45-15:15 – B4: Coffee break
- 15:15-16:30 – S6: 5G and beyond networks and technologies
Chairs: Panayiotis Kolios (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) - 16:30-17:45 – S7: IoT fundamentals and applications
Chairs: Christian Vitale (KIOS CoE, Cyprus) - 20:00-22:00 – E1: Social event and award announcement
June 3, 2022
- 9:00-11:00 – S8: Special session: Wireless and Mobile Networks and Services Research in MENAT
Chairs: Tamer ElBatt (The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt) - 11:00-11:15 – B5: Coffee break
- 11:15-12:30 – K3: Keynote: Emergence and evolution of hierarchical structure in complex systems (including protocol stacks)
Speaker: Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Tech) - 12:30-13:00 – C1: Closing session
- 13:00-14:15 – L3: Lunch
Detailed program
S1: 5G and beyond networks and technlogies
Chairs: Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)- Blockage-Peeking Game of Mobile Strategic Nodes in Millimeter Wave Communications
Leonardo Badia, Andrea Bedin - An Open Framework to Model Diffraction by Dynamic Blockers in Millimeter Wave Simulations
Paolo Testolina, Mattia Lecci, Alessandro Traspadini, Michele Zorzi - Physical Layer-Aware RMSCA with Bit Loading in Space-Division Multiplexing Elastic Optical Networks
Sadananda Behera, Giannis Savva, Konstantinos Manousakis, Georgios Ellinas - Deep Learning-Based Indoor Localization Using Adjacent Received Signal Strength and Domain Knowledge
Guangyi Zhang, Zhanwei Hou, Yonghui Li, Branka Vucetic
S2: IoT fundamentals and applications
Chairs: Sergio Palazzo (University of Catania, Italy)- Low-Power IoT Environmental Monitoring and Smart Agriculture for Unconnected Rural Areas
Alessandro Andreadis, Giovanni Giambene, Riccardo Zambon - Joint Speed and Bandwidth Optimized Strategy of UAV-Assisted Data Collection in Post-Disaster Areas
Yue Fu, Demin Li, Qinghua Tang, Shuang Zhou - Discounted Age of Information for Networks of Constrained Devices
Leonardo Badia, Andrea Munari - Modeling Value of Information in Remote Sensing from Correlated Sources
Alberto Zancanaro, Giulia Cisotto, Leonardo Badia
S3: Network security and privacy
Chairs: Leonardo Badia (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)- Fuzzy-Logic Based IDS for Detecting Jamming Attacks in Wireless Mesh IoT Networks
Michael Savva, Iacovos Ioannou, Vasos Vassiliou - On the Implementation of Location Obfuscation in Openwifi and Its Performance
Lorenzo Ghiro, Marco Cominelli, Francesco Gringoli, Renato Lo Cigno - LASII: Lightweight Authentication Scheme Using IOTA in IoT Platforms
Mohammed Ibrahim El-hajj - System for Operational Technology Attack Detection in Industrial IoT
Christia Charilaou, Christiana Ioannou, Vasos Vassiliou
S4: Network analysis and Machine Learning
Chairs: Marco Ajmone (Former Faculty Politecnico di Torino, Italy)- Delay Analysis of a Multi-Hop Strict Priority Scheduler
Jeremy Van den Eynde, Chris Blondia - Cleaning Matters! Preprocessing-Enhanced Anomaly Detection and Classification in Mobile Networks
Juan Marcos Ramirez, Pablo Rojo, Fernando Díez Muñoz, Vincenzo Mancuso, Antonio Fernández Anta - Representing Uncertainty in Deep QoT Models
Hafsa Maryam, Tania Panayiotou, Georgios Ellinas
S5: Network security and privacy
Chairs: Georgios Ellinas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)- Distributed and Privacy-Preserving Data Dissemination at the Network Edge via Attribute-Based Searchable Encryption
Ingrid Huso, Giuseppe Piro, Gennaro Boggia - Control over Blockchain for Data-Driven Fault Tolerant Control in Industry 4.0
Abdullah Bin Masood, Ammar Hasan, Vasos Vassiliou, Marios Lestas - Transaction Confirmation in Proof-Of-Work Blockchains: Auctions, Delays and Droppings
Simonetta Balsamo, Ivan Malakhov, Andrea Marin, Isi Mitrani
S6: 5G and beyond networks and technologies
Chairs: Panayiotis Kolios (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)- End-To-End Simulation of 5G Networks Assisted by IRS and AF Relays
Matteo Pagin, Marco Giordani, Amir Ashtari Gargari, Alberto Rech, Federico Moretto, Stefano Tomasin, Jonathan Gambini, Michele Zorzi - Energy-Efficient Design for RIS-Assisted UAV Communications in Beyond-5G Networks
Anay Ajit Deshpande, Cristian Jesús Vaca-Rubio, Salman Mohebi, Dariush Salami, Elisabeth de Carvalho, Petar Popovski, Stephan Sigg, Michele Zorzi, Andrea Zanella - A Realistic Cyclist Model for SUMO Based on the SimRa Dataset
Ahmet-Serdar Karakaya, Konstantin Köhler, Julian Heinovski, Falko Dressler, David Bermbach - Techno-Economic Analysis of Providers’ Profit Using Ultra-Density in 5G Networks
Christos J Bouras, Aikaterini Florou, Anastasia Kollia
S7: IoT fundamentals and applications
Chairs: Christian Vitale (KIOS CoE, Cyprus)- BLENDER – Bluetooth Low Energy Discovery and Fingerprinting in IoT
Massimo Perri, Francesca Cuomo, Pierluigi Locatelli - Graph-Based Gateway Placement for Better Performance in LoRaWAN Deployments
Frank Loh, Noah Mehling, Stefan Geissler, Tobias Hoßfeld - Reinforcement Learning for Resource Planning in Drone-Based Softwarized Networks
Laura Galluccio, Christian Grasso, Guido Maier, Raoul Raftopoulos, Marco Savi, Giovanni Schembra, Sebastian Troia
S8: Special session: Wireless and Mobile Networks and Services Research in MENAT
Chairs: Tamer ElBatt (The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt)- On the Performance Analysis of Fluid Antenna Systems
Malek Khammassi, Abla Kammoun, Mohamed-Slim Alouini - AI Based Machine-To-Machine Communications in 6G
Sinem Coleri - Device-Independent Quantum Fingerprinting for Large Scale Localization
Ahmed Shokry, Moustafa Youssef - Grant-Free Power Allocation for Ultra-Dense IoT: A Mean Field Perspective
Sami Abdelaaziz Nadif, Essaid Sabir, Halima Elbiaze, Abdelkrim Haqiq - On Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication Between Energy Harvesting Transmitter and Receiver with OS Decoder
Mohit Sharma, Faouzi Bader, Mérouane Debbah