Tehnical Program




November 21, 2017


7:30 - : Registration Opens

8:30 - 8:45: Opening and Welcome Address

8:45 - 10:15: Security and Privacy

    Mitigating Selective Jamming Attacks in SM Data Collection using MTD
    Ramazan Algin (Florida International University, USA); Huseyin Ozgur Tan (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Kemal Akkaya (Florida International University, USA)

    Proactive Certificate Distribution for PKI in VANET
    Joshua Harrington and Khalil El-Khatib (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada); Jesse Lacroix (UOIT, Canada); Felipe Lobo (Federal University of Roraima, Brazil); Horacio Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil)

    An Efficient Source Anonymity Technique based on Exponential Distribution against a Global Adversary Model using Fake Injections
    Anas Bushnag, Abdelshakour A. Abuzneid and Ausif Mahmood (University of Bridgeport, USA)

10:15 - 10:45: Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:15: Modeling and Analysis of Wireless Networks

    An Empirical Characterization Of Internet Round-Trip Times
    Daniel Alves and Katia Obraczka (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

    A Reusable Component-based Model for WSN Storage Simulation
    Marcos Aurelio Carrero (Federal University of Parana, Brazil); Martin A. Musicante (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil); Aldri Santos (Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil); Carmem Hara (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil)

    Analysis of Underwater Target Detection Probability by Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
    Peng Sun and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)

12:15 - 13:45: Lunch Break

13:45 - 15:15: Wireless Sensor Networks

    Reactive Routing Protocol for Event Reporting in Mobile-Sink Wireless Sensor Networks
    Catalina Aranzazu Suescun and Mihaela Cardei (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

    Heuristic and Meta-Heuristic Approaches for Energy-Efficient Coverage-Preserving Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Antonina Tretyakova (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Russia); Franciszek Seredynski (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland); Frédéric Guinand (Normandy University in Le Havre (France) & Laboratory LITIS, France)

    System Level Evaluation and Validation of the ns-3 LTE Modulein 3GPP Reference Scenarios
    Andrei Marinescu and Irene Macaluso (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Luiz DaSilva (Trinity College & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

15:15 - 15:45: Coffee Break

15:45 - 17:15: QoS and Performance

    Mobile Matrix: A Multihop Address allocation and Any-To-Any Routing in Mobile 6LoWPAN
    Bruno P. Santos (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Olga Goussevskaia (UFMG, Brazil); Luiz F. M. Vieira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil); Marcos A. M. Vieira and Antonio A.F. Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

    Location-based Mechanism for Positioning of a Mobile Relay
    Filip Lemic (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Arash Behboodi (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Vlado Handziski and Anatolij Zubow (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Rudolf Mathar (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Adam Wolisz (TUB, Germany)

    Mining Historical Data towards Interference Management in Wireless SDNs
    Maryam Karimi, Prashant Krishnamurthy, James Joshi and David Tipper (University of Pittsburgh, USA)




November 22, 2017


7:30 - : Registration Opens

8:30 - 9:30: Keynote Talk

    VC Research - What is Missing?
    Speaker: Prof. Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA)

9:30 - 10:00: Coffee Break

10:00 - 12:00: Data Analytics of Wireless Networks

    Spatio-Temporal Compressive Sensing Technique for Data Gathering and Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Mohamed-Ali Moussa (Universite Paris-Est, France); Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of la Rochelle, France)

    Network Coding for 5G Network and D2D Communication
    Luiz F. M. Vieira and Marcos A. M. Vieira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)

    Distributed Coordinate-free Boundary Nodes Identification in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Linna Wei and Yuanxia Shen (Anhui University of Technology, P.R. China)

    Priority Aware Interference Mitigation Techniques For Coexistence Of Wireless Technologies In Smart Utility Networks
    Badrun Nahar (Institute of Information and Communication Technology, BUET, Bangladesh); Mohammad S Alam (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology & IICT, Bangladesh); Shamim Ara Shawkat (University of Tennessee, USA); Mohammad Asadul Hoque (East Tennessee State University, USA)

12:00 - 14:00: Lunch Break

14:00 - 17:00: Discussion

    Data Collection in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks: Research Challenges and Potential Approaches
    Chair: Rodolfo W. L. Coutinho (UFMG, Brazil)

17:00 - 17:15: Closing Remarks