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)
  1. Blockage-Peeking Game of Mobile Strategic Nodes in Millimeter Wave Communications
    Leonardo Badia, Andrea Bedin
  2. An Open Framework to Model Diffraction by Dynamic Blockers in Millimeter Wave Simulations
    Paolo Testolina, Mattia Lecci, Alessandro Traspadini, Michele Zorzi
  3. Physical Layer-Aware RMSCA with Bit Loading in Space-Division Multiplexing Elastic Optical Networks
    Sadananda Behera, Giannis Savva, Konstantinos Manousakis, Georgios Ellinas
  4. 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)
  1. Low-Power IoT Environmental Monitoring and Smart Agriculture for Unconnected Rural Areas
    Alessandro Andreadis, Giovanni Giambene, Riccardo Zambon
  2. Joint Speed and Bandwidth Optimized Strategy of UAV-Assisted Data Collection in Post-Disaster Areas
    Yue Fu, Demin Li, Qinghua Tang, Shuang Zhou
  3. Discounted Age of Information for Networks of Constrained Devices
    Leonardo Badia, Andrea Munari
  4. 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)
  1. Fuzzy-Logic Based IDS for Detecting Jamming Attacks in Wireless Mesh IoT Networks
    Michael Savva, Iacovos Ioannou, Vasos Vassiliou
  2. On the Implementation of Location Obfuscation in Openwifi and Its Performance
    Lorenzo Ghiro, Marco Cominelli, Francesco Gringoli, Renato Lo Cigno
  3. LASII: Lightweight Authentication Scheme Using IOTA in IoT Platforms
    Mohammed Ibrahim El-hajj
  4. 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)
  1. Delay Analysis of a Multi-Hop Strict Priority Scheduler
    Jeremy Van den Eynde, Chris Blondia
  2. Cleaning Matters! Preprocessing-Enhanced Anomaly Detection and Classification in Mobile Networks
    Juan Marcos Ramirez, Pablo Rojo, Fernando Díez Muñoz, Vincenzo Mancuso, Antonio Fernández Anta
  3. Representing Uncertainty in Deep QoT Models
    Hafsa Maryam, Tania Panayiotou, Georgios Ellinas
S5: Network security and privacy
Chairs: Georgios Ellinas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
  1. Distributed and Privacy-Preserving Data Dissemination at the Network Edge via Attribute-Based Searchable Encryption
    Ingrid Huso, Giuseppe Piro, Gennaro Boggia
  2. Control over Blockchain for Data-Driven Fault Tolerant Control in Industry 4.0
    Abdullah Bin Masood, Ammar Hasan, Vasos Vassiliou, Marios Lestas
  3. 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)
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. A Realistic Cyclist Model for SUMO Based on the SimRa Dataset
    Ahmet-Serdar Karakaya, Konstantin Köhler, Julian Heinovski, Falko Dressler, David Bermbach
  4. 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)
  1. BLENDER – Bluetooth Low Energy Discovery and Fingerprinting in IoT
    Massimo Perri, Francesca Cuomo, Pierluigi Locatelli
  2. Graph-Based Gateway Placement for Better Performance in LoRaWAN Deployments
    Frank Loh, Noah Mehling, Stefan Geissler, Tobias Hoßfeld
  3. 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)
  1. On the Performance Analysis of Fluid Antenna Systems
    Malek Khammassi, Abla Kammoun, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
  2. AI Based Machine-To-Machine Communications in 6G
    Sinem Coleri
  3. Device-Independent Quantum Fingerprinting for Large Scale Localization
    Ahmed Shokry, Moustafa Youssef
  4. Grant-Free Power Allocation for Ultra-Dense IoT: A Mean Field Perspective
    Sami Abdelaaziz Nadif, Essaid Sabir, Halima Elbiaze, Abdelkrim Haqiq
  5. On Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication Between Energy Harvesting Transmitter and Receiver with OS Decoder
    Mohit Sharma, Faouzi Bader, Mérouane Debbah