IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking
20–23 September 2022 // Virtual Conference

Program

IEEE SECON 2022 Schedule at a Glance

(all times are CEST / UTC+2)

Time 20-Sep 21-Sep 22-Sep 23-Sep
11:30-12:00  Opening remarks
12:00-13:15 Session 1

Radio Fingerprinting

Session 5

Sensing -1

 Demo1 Workshop 1

12:00 – 15:00

13:30-14:45 Session 2A

Vehicular applications

Session 2B

RFID

Session 6A

Security-1

Session 6B

Mobile Edge Computing-1

Demo 2 Workshop 2

14:00 – 17:40

15:00-16:00 Keynote 1

Luca Mottola

Keynote 2

Mo Li

Workshop 3

15:00 – 18:00

16:15-17:30 Session 3A

mmWave

Session 3B

Mobile Video

Session 7A

Network models and planning

Session 7B

Vision-aided sensing

Session 9A

Caching

Session 9B

Emerging technologies

17:45-19:00 Session 4A

Hardware

Session 4B

Federated Learning

Session 8A

Wireless

Session 8B

Sensing-2

Session 10A

Mobile Edge Computing-2

Session 10B

Security-2

19:00-19:30 Awards and Closing Session

 

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

 

Keynote-1 ( Sept 20 15:00-16:00)

Luca Mottola – Politecnico di Milano, Italy and RI.SE Sweden

Embedded Software for Air and Space Robots

Keynote-2 ( Sept 21 15:00-16:00)

Mo Li – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Our deployment and measurement experience with LoRa

 

Session 1: Radio Fingerprinting (12:00-13:15)

Session chair:  Xiaolong Zheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

  • TeRFF: Temperature-aware Radio Frequency Fingerprinting for Smartphones

Xiaolin Gu, Wenjia Wu, Naixuan Guo, Wei He, Aibo Song, Ming Yang, Zhen Ling and Luo Junzhou (Southeast University, China)

  • X-Disco: Cross-Technology Neighbor Discovery

Shuai Wang (George Mason University, USA); Jianlin Guo (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); Pu Wang (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Kieran Parsons and Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); Yukimasa Nagai (Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan); Takenori Sumi (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan); Parth Pathak (George Mason University, USA)

  • ChopTags: An Accurate and Low-cost Interface to Identify User/Item Interactions

Haofan Cai (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Ge Wang (Xi‘an Jiaotong University, China); Josue Leyva and Ian Pham (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Jinsong Han (Zhejiang University & School of Cyber Science and Technology, China); Shigang Chen (University of Florida, USA); Chen Qian (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)

Session 2A: Vehicular Applications (13:30-14:45)

Session chair: Sabur Baidya (University of Louisville)

  • Distributed Decision Making for V2V Charge Sharing in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Punyasha Chatterjee (Jadavpur University, India); Pratham Majumder (CMR Institute of Technology, India); Arpita Debnath (The Calcutta Technical School, India); Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

  • Game Theoretic Analysis of Urban E-Taxi Systems: Equilibria and Efficiency

Yukun Yuan (SUNY-Stony Brook University, USA); Yue Zhao (Stony Brook University, USA); Lin Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Shan Lin (Stony Brook University, USA)

  • DETROIT: Data Collection, Translation and Sharing for Rapid Vehicular App Development

Mert D Pesé (University of Michigan, USA); Dongyao Chen (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA); C. Andrés Campos, Alice Ying, Troy Stacer and Kang Shin (University of Michigan, USA)

Session 2B: RFID (13:30-14:45)

Session chair:  Meng Jin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

  • Frequency- and Orientation-related Phase Fingerprints for RFID Tag Authentication (Best paper candidate)

Kai Zhang and Jiuwu Zhang (Tianjin University, China); Xin Xie (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Xinyu Tong, Xiulong Liu and Keqiu Li (Tianjin University, China)

  • RFPass: Towards Environment-Independent Gait-based User Authentication Leveraging RFID

Yunzhong Chen (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Jiadi Yu, Linghe Kong, Yanmin Zhu and Feilong Tang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

  • ReaderPrint: A Universal Method for RFID Readers Authentication Based on Impedance Mismatch

Yinan Zhu (Tsinghua University, China); Chunhui Duan (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Xuan Ding and Zheng Yang (Tsinghua University, China)

Session 3A: mmWave (16:15-17:30)

Session chair: Krishna Kant (Temple University)

  • Comparative Evaluation of Millimeter-Wave Beamsteering Algorithms Using Outdoor Phased Antenna Array Measurements

Aleksandar Ichkov (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Simon Häger (TU Dortmund University, Germany); Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany & Aalto University, Finland); Ljiljana Simić (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

  • mmWave on a Farm: Channel Modeling for Wireless Agricultural Networks at Broadband Millimeter-Wave Frequency

Shuai Nie, Mohammad M. R. Lunar, Geng Bai, Yufeng Ge and Santosh Pitla (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Can Emre Koksal (The Ohio State University, USA); Mehmet Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

  • Your Breath Doesn’t Lie: Multi-user Authentication by Sensing Respiration using mmWave Radar

Yao Wang (Xidian University, China); Tao Gu (Macquarie University, Australia); Tom H. Luan (Xidian University, China); Yong Yu (Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Session 3B: Mobile Video (16:15-17:30)

Session chair: Yusuf Sarwar (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

  • DeepFake Videos Detection via Spatiotemporal Inconsistency Learning and Interactive Fusion

Xiangling Ding (Hunan University of Science and Technology, China); Zhu Wenjie and Dengyong Zhang (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China)

  • Real-time DNN Model Partitioning for QoE Enhancement in Mobile Vision Applications (Best paper candidate)

Jeong-A Lim and Yeongjin Kim (Inha University, Korea (South))

  • Focus! Provisioning Attention-aware Detection for Real-time On-device Video Analytics

Yuting Yan, Yibo Jin, Sheng Zhang, Fangwen Cheng, Zhuzhong Qian and Sanglu Lu (Nanjing University, China)

Session 4A: Hardware (17:45-19:25)

Session chair: Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky)

  • Wakeup Receiver Using Passive Amplification by Means of a Switched SAW Resonator

Georg Meller (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Michael Methfessel (IHP microelectronics, Germany); Bastian Lindner (TU Dresden, Germany); Jens Wagner (Technische Universität Dresden & Chair for Circuit Design and Network Theory, Germany); Frank Ellinger (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Rolf Kraemer (IHP Microelectronics, Germany)

  • Universal Timestamping with Ambient Sensing

Adeel Nasrullah, Momin Ahmad Khan and Fatima Anwar (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

  • Stitching Weight-Shared Deep Neural Networks for Efficient Multitask Inference on GPU

Zeyu Wang (Tsinghua University, China); Xiaoxi He (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Zimu Zhou (Singapore Management University, Singapore); Xu Wang, Qiang Ma and Xin Miao (Tsinghua University, China); Zhuo Liu (Remarkable Universal Network Company, China); Lothar Thiele (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland); Zheng Yang (Tsinghua University, China)

  • ChopTags: An Accurate and Low-cost Interface to Identify User/Item Interactions (NEW!))

Haofan Cai (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Ge Wang (Xi‘an Jiaotong University, China); Josue Leyva and Ian Pham (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Jinsong Han (Zhejiang University & School of Cyber Science and Technology, China); Shigang Chen (University of Florida, USA); Chen Qian (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)

Session 4B: Federated Learning (17:45-19:25)

Session chair: Damla Turgut (University of Central Florida)

  • Energy-efficient Federated Learning via Stabilization-aware On-device Update Scaling

Suwei Xu, Yibo Jin, Zhuzhong Qian and Sheng Zhang (Nanjing University, China); Ming Zhao, Zhenjie Lin, Qiang Lin and Liming Wang (China Southern Power Grid Shenzhen Digital Power Grid Research Institute, China)

  • HPFL-CN: Communication-Efficient Hierarchical Personalized Federated Edge Learning via Complex Network Feature Clustering

Zijian Li (Jilin University, China); Zihan Chen (Singapore University of Technology and Design & National University of Singapore, Singapore); Xiaohui Wei, Shang Gao and Chenghao Ren (Jilin University, China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

  • Skunk – A Blockchain and Zero Trust Security Enabled Federated Learning Platform for 5G/6G Network Slicing

Eranga Bandara, Sachin Shetty and Ravi Mukkamala (Old Dominion University, USA); Abdul Rahman (Virginia Polytechnic University, USA); Xueping Liang (University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA); Wee-Keong Ng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

  • Assisting Backdoor Federated Learning with Whole Population Knowledge Alignment in Mobile Edge Computing

Tian Liu, Xueyang Hu and Tao Shu (Auburn University, USA)

Session 5: Sensing-1 (12:00-13:15)

Session chair: Zhichao Cao (Michigan State University)

  • WiVelo: Fine-grained Walking Velocity Estimation for Wi-Fi Passive Tracking

Chenning Li, Li Liu, Zhichao Cao and Mi Zhang (Michigan State University, USA)

  • WiCAM: Imperceptible Adversarial Attack on Deep Learning based Wi-Fi Sensing

Leiyang Xu, Xiaolong Zheng, Xiangyuan Li, Yucheng Zhang, Liang Liu and Huadong Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

  • WiImg: Pushing the Limit of WiFi Sensing with Low Transmission Rates (Best Paper Award)

 Kun Yang and Xiaolong Zheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jie Xiong (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Liang Liu and Huadong Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Session 6A: Security-1 (13:30-14:45)

Session chair: Habib M. Ammari (Texas A&M University-Kingsville)

  • FedMix: A Sybil Attack Detection System Considering Cross-layer Information Fusion and Privacy Protection

Ruwu Wang and Jing Zheng (Dalian University of Technology, China)

  • VOGUE: Secure User Voice Authentication on Wearable Devices using Gyroscope

Shan Chang and Xinggang Hu (Donghua University, China); Hongzi Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Wei Liu (Anhui University of Finance and Economics, China); Lei Yang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)

  • WiLCA: Accelerating Contactless Authentication with Limited Data

Chi Lin and Chuanying Ji (Dalian University of Technology, China); Fenglong Ma (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Lei Wang, Wei Zhong and Guowei WU (Dalian University of Technology, China)

Session 6B: Mobile Edge Computing-1(13:30-14:45)

Session chair: Jose Mairton Barros da Silva Jr. (Princeton University)

  • Exploiting the Computational Path Diversity with In-network Computing for MEC

Xiaolin Guo, Fang Dong, Dian Shen, Zhaowu Huang, Zhenyang Ni, Yulong Jiang and Daheng Yin (Southeast University, China)

  • A Hybrid Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Dynamic Task Offloading in NOMA-MEC System

Ce Shang, Yan Sun and Hong Luo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

  • Task Scheduling Algorithm Based on Computing-Aware in Mobile Ad Hoc Cloud

Qi Zhang and Yang Zhang (Soochow University, China); Shukui Zhang (School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, China); Hao Long (Soochow University, China)

Session 7A: Network Models and Planning (16:15-17:30)

Session chair: Quan Chen (Guangdong University of Technology)

  • Blocking Island Paradigm Enhanced Intelligent Coordinated Virtual Network Embedding Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

Ting Wang, Peng Yang and Zhihao Wang (East China Normal University, China); Haibin Cai (Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, China)

  • VoronoiBoost: Data-driven Probabilistic Spatial Mapping of Mobile Network Metadata

Orlando E. Martínez-Durive (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Theo Couturieux (ENSEEIHT, France); Cezary Ziemlicki (Orange labs, France); Marco Fiore (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)

  • Placing Wireless Chargers with Multiple Antennas

Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University & State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, China); Yue Zhao (Nanjing University, China); Weijun Wang (Nanjing University & University of Goettingen, China); Rong Gu (Nanjing University, China); Yuben Qu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Chi Lin (Dalian University of Technology, China); Lijie Xu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wanchun Dou (Nanjing University, China)

Session 7B: Vision-Aided Sensing (16:15-17:30)

Session chair: Ashwin Ashok (Georgia State University)

  • ViTag: Online WiFi Fine Time Measurements Aided Vision-Motion Identity Association in Multi-person Environments

Bryan Bo Cao (Stony Brook University, USA); Abrar Alali (Old Dominion University, USA & Saudi Electronic University, Saudi Arabia); Hansi Liu (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA); Nicholas Meegan (Rutgers University, USA); Marco Gruteser (WINLAB / Rutgers University, USA); Kristin Dana (Rutgers University, USA); Ashwin Ashok (Georgia State University, USA); Shubham Jain (Stony Brook University, USA)

  • VisBLE: Vision-Enhanced BLE Device Tracking

Wenchao Jiang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Feng Li (Southeast University, China); Luoyu Mei (Southeast University & City University of Hong Kong, China); Ruofeng Liu (University of Minnesota, USA); Shuai Wang (Southeast University, China)

  • Pedestrian Liveness Detection Based on mmWave Radar and Camera Fusion

Hao Li (Southeast University, China); Ruofeng Liu (University of Minnesota, USA); Shuai Wang (Southeast University, China); Wenchao Jiang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Chris Xiaoxuan Lu (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Session 8A: Wireless (17:45-19:25)

Session chair: Yehan Ma (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

  • Quick and Reliable Physical-layer Data Aggregation in LoRa through Multi-Packet Reception

Zhirong Tang, Lizhao You and Liqun Fu (Xiamen University, China); Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University & State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, China)

  • Divide and Code: Efficient and Real-time Data Recovery from Corrupted LoRa Frames

Niloofar Yazdani (TWTG, The Netherlands); Nikos Kouvelas (IMEC, The Netherlands); Daniel E. Lucani (Aarhus University, Denmark); R. R. Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

  • Online Bayesian Learning for Rate Adaptation in Non-stationary Wireless Channels

Xiaoying Lei (Yangzhou University, China)

  • VLC Physical Layer Security through RIS-aided Jamming Receiver for 6G Wireless Networks

Simone Soderi (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy); Alessandro Brighente (University of Padova, Italy); Federico Turrin (University of Padua, Italy); Mauro Conti (University of Padova, Italy)

Session 8B: Sensing-2 (17:45-19:25)

Session chair: Daniele Croce (University of Palermo)

  • Facilitating Radar-Based Gesture Recognition With Self-Supervised Learning

Zhiyao Sheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Huatao Xu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Qian Zhang and Dong Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

  • How Manufacturers Can Easily Improve Working Range of Passive RFIDs

Ju Wang (Northwest University, China); Liqiong Chang (Northwest University); Omid Abari (University of Waterloo, Canada); Srinivasan Keshav (University of Cambridge & Universit of Waterloo)

  • Low Cost Light Source Identification in Real World Settings

Tushar K Routh, Nurani Saoda, Md Fazlay Rabbi Masum Billah and Brad Campbell (University of Virginia, USA)

  • EarGest: Hand Gesture Recognition with Earables

Khaled Alkiek (Alexandria University, Egypt); Khaled A. Harras (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Moustafa Youssef (Alexandria University, Egypt)

Session 9A: Caching (16:15-17:30)

Session chair: Viviana Arrigoni (Sapienza University of Rome)

  • Distributed Caching Control Strategy in Mobile Edge Computing: A Mean Field Game Approach

Hao Feng (Southwest University, China); Songtao Guo, Chao Chen and Xianlong Jiao (Chongqing University, China)

  • Co-Cache: Inertial-Driven Infrastructure-less Collaborative Approximate Caching

James M Mariani, Yongqi Han and Li Xiao (Michigan State University, USA)

  • Incentivizing Online Edge Caching via Auction-Based Subsidization

Youmei Song (Beihang University, China); Lei Jiao (University of Oregon, USA); Renyu Yang (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tianyu Wo (Beihang University, China); Jie Xu (Leeds University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Session 9B: Emerging Technologies (16:15-17:30)

Session chair: Zhiwei Zhao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

  • DARPA: Deployment of UAVs for Polygonal Sizable Object Surveillance

Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University & State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, China); Xuzhen Lin and Jiaqi Zheng (Nanjing University, China); Yuben Qu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Weijun Wang (Nanjing University & University of Goettingen, China); Shuyu Shi (University of Nanjing, China); Chi Lin (Dalian University of Technology, China); Wanchun Dou (Nanjing University, China)

  • Joint Passive Beamforming and Elevation Angle-Dependent Trajectory Design for RIS-aided UAV-enabled Wireless Sensor Networks

Mingqian Shao, Yifan Liu, Bin Duo, Jin Ning, Junsong Luo, Xing Zhu and Mingzhe Liu (Chengdu University of Technology, China); Zhengqiang Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

  • LiFOD: Lighting Extra Data via Fine-grained OWC Dimming

Xiao Zhang, James M Mariani, Li Xiao and Matt Mutka (Michigan State University, USA)

Session 10A: Mobile Edge Computing-2 (17:45-19:00)

Session chair: Jun ZHAO (Nanyang Technological University)

  • On-Demand or On-Premises: Online Mitigation of DDoS Attacks via Cloud-Edge Coordination

Yi Zhong (Wuhan University, China); Lei Jiao (University of Oregon, USA); Ruiting Zhou (Wuhan University, China); Liujing Song (Computer Network Information Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

  • MASCOT: Mobility-Aware Service Function Chain Routing in Mobile Edge Computing

Xingpeng Fan, Gongming Zhao, Huaqing Tu and Hongli Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, China); He Huang (Soochow University, China)

  • CoopEdge: Cost-effective Server Deployment for Cooperative Multi-Access Edge Computing

Rong Cong, Zhiwei Zhao and Linyuanqi Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Session 10B: Security-2 (17:45-19:00)

Session chair: Helei Cui (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

  • MAGDEFENDER: Detecting Eavesdropping on Mobile Devices using the Built-in Magnetometer

 Hao Pan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Feitong Tan (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Wenhao Li, Yi-Chao Chen, Lanqing Yang and Guangtao Xue (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Xiaoyu Ji (Zhejiang University, China)

  • ScreenInformer: Whispering Secret Information via an LCD Screen

Xieyang Sun and Wei Xi (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China); Zhiping Jiang (Xidian University, China); Zuhao Chen and Han Hao (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)

  • Identifying the BLE Misconfigurations of IoT Devices through Companion Mobile Apps

Jianqi Du (Shandong University, China); Fenghao Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Chennan Zhang, Zidong Zhang, Xiaoyin Liu, Pengcheng Ren, Wenrui Diao and Shanqing Guo (Shandong University, China); Kehuan Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

 

Demo 1: (12:00-13:20)

Session chair: Nicolas Tsiftes (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden)

  • Nearby Distracted Driving Detection

Seyhan Ucar (Toyota Motor North America R&D, InfoTech Labs, USA); Ryan Mercer and Eamonn Keogh                (University of California, Riverside, USA)

  • Demo: Tagging Vision with Smartphone Identities by Vision2Phone Translation (Best Demo Award)

Bryan Bo Cao (Stony Brook University, USA); Abrar Alali (Old Dominion University, USA & Saudi Electronic University, Saudi Arabia); Hansi Liu (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA); Nicholas Meegan (Rutgers University, USA); Marco Gruteser (WINLAB / Rutgers University, USA); Kristin Dana (Rutgers University, USA); Ashwin Ashok (Georgia State University, USA); Shubham Jain (Stony Brook University, USA)

  • ChopTags: An Accurate and Low-cost Interface to Identify User/Item Interactions

Haofan Cai (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Ge Wang (Xi‘an Jiaotong University, China); Josue Leyva and Ian Pham (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Jinsong Han (Zhejiang University & School of Cyber Science and Technology, China); Shigang Chen (University of Florida, USA); Chen Qian (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)

  • Room Occupancy Detection using WiFi CSI

Cristian Turetta, Florenc Demrozi and Graziano Pravadelli (University of Verona, Italy); Alejandro Masrur and Philipp Kindt (TU Chemnitz, Germany)

Demo 2: (14:00-15:20)

Session chair: Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine)

  • ZSM-based Orchestration for Inter-Administrative Domain Cross-Border Vehicular Scenarios

Jorge Baranda and Luca Vettori (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain); Bahador Bakhshi (Centre Tecnològic Telecomunicacions Catalunya (CTTC) & Amirkabir University of Technology, Spain); Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)

  • Exploiting Forecasting for Automatic Network Service Operations in Digital Twin Applications

Andrea Sgambelluri (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, Italy); Jorge Baranda (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain); Milan Groshev (Universidad Carlos III, Spain); Konstantin Tomakh and Denys Kucherenko (Mirantis, Ukraine); Emilio Paolini (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy); Lanfranco Zanzi (NEC Laboratories Europe & Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany); Josep Xavier Salvat (NEC Labs Europe, Germany); Corrado Puligheddu (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Francesco Malandrino (CNR-IEIIT, Italy); Oleksii Kolodiazhnyi (Mirantis, Ukraine); Carlos J. Bernardos and Antonio de la Oliva (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Xi Li (NEC, Germany); Luca Valcarenghi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)

  • Supporting First Responders with Flexible LoRaWAN Communications

Alessandra Dino (University of Palermo, Italy); Domenico Garlisi (UNIPA University of Palermo & CNIT Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications, Italy); Fabrizio Giuliano and Daniele Croce (University of Palermo, Italy)

  • Edge-assisted Collaborative Digital Twin for Safety-Critical Robotics in Industrial IoT

Sumit Das, Mohammad Helal Uddin and Sabur Baidya (University of Louisville, USA)


 

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

All Workshops on September 23, 2022, times in CEST, UTC+2

Workshop 1: Distributed, Private, and Robust Machine Learning over Networks (12:00-15:00)

Workshop Keynote I (12:00-13:00): Blockchain-based Distributed Machine Learning, Dr. Jiawen Kang, NTU, Singapore

Workshop Keynote II (13:00-14:00): Machine Learning in Multi-Object Tracking Systems, Dr. Gaoang Wang, ZJU-UIUC Institute, China

Technical session (14:00-15:00):

  • Analog Over-The-Air Federated Learning With Real-World Data
    Zihan Chen (Singapore University of Technology and Design & National University of Singapore, Singapore); Zeshen Li (Zhejiang University, China); Jingyi Xu (SUTD, Singapore)
  •  Decentralized Federated Learning Under Communication Delays
    Na Lee, Hangguan Shan and Meiyan Song (Zhejiang University, China); Yong Zhou (ShanghaiTech University, China); Zhongyuan Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xinyu Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)
  •  Accelerating Federated Learning on Non-IID Data Against Stragglers
    Yupeng Zhang (China); Lingjie Duan (Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore); Ngai-Man Cheung (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

 

Workshop 2: ECOFEC: Workshop on the Economics of Fog, Edge and Cloud Computing (Invited Talks) (14:00-17:40)

Opening Session (14:00-14:05)

Workshop Keynote (14:05-14:50): Prof. Jianwei Huang (CUHK-Shenzhen) Incentive Mechanism Design for Crowd Systems

Invited Talks: Session I (14:50-16:00):

  • Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Systems
    Ming Tang, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
  • Age-dependent Differential Privacy
    Meng Zhang, Zhejiang University

Invited Talks: Session II (16:00-17:40):

  • Game-theoretic Analysis of Privacy Preservation in Location-Based Services
    Shu Hong, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
  •  MoDEMS: Optimizing Edge Computing Migrations for User Mobility
    Taejin Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Enhancing Robustness for Interdependent Network Systems with Dynamic Coupling Strategy
    I-Cheng Lin Carnegie Mellon University
  • A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Collaborative Mobile Edge Computing
    Jiaqi Wu Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

 

Workshop 3: Reconfigurable Holographic and Intelligent Surfaces for Green 6G Sensing, Communication and Networking (15:00-18:00)

Welcome and Introduction (15:00 – 15:02)

Workshop Keynote I (15:02 – 15:16): Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

Technical session I (15:22 – 16:16)

Session chairs: Aryan Kaushik (University of Sussex, UK); Wonjae Shin (Ajou University, South Korea), Nan Yang (Australian National University, Australia)

  • On the Beamforming for Multi-Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Aided MISO Systems
    Yaseer Naguib Ahmed (Cairo University, Egypt)
  • Optimal Resource Allocation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Dynamic Wireless Network via Online Reinforcement Learning
    Yuzhu Zhang (University of Nevada, Reno, USA),  Hao Xu ((University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
  • Energy Efficient Maximization of User Association Employing IRS in MmWave Multi-Tier 6G Networks
    Mobasshir Mahbub (Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, and New York University (NYU), Abu Dhabi, UAE); Raed Shubair (New York University (NYU), Abu Dhabi, UAE)

Networking Break (16:16 – 16:44)

Workshop Keynote II (16:44 – 17:04): Prof. Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University, France)

Workshop Keynote III (17:04 – 17:24): Prof. George Alexandropoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

 

Technical session II (17:24 – 18:00):

Session chairs: Aryan Kaushik, Jijie (Lina) Mao (ShanghaiTech University, China),  Vasanthan Raghavan (Qualcomm, USA)

  • Aerial-RIS for MU-MISO: Joint Base Station beamforming and RIS Phase Shifter Optimization
    Aly Sabri Abdalla (Mississippi State University, USA); Vuk Marojevic (Mississippi State University, USA)
  • Passive Beamforming Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces with Aged Channel State Information
    Yaseer Naguib Ahmed (Cairo University, Egypt)