Technical program

Important Notes

The conference will be held online using ZOOM. You can join each of the rooms/sessions using the ID and password. Both will be provided via email during the first week on November. To access the session you need to install ZOOM client that can be downloaded for free and without any registration from the website https://zoom.us/download

  • Sessions Time is based on Central European Time Zone (CET) [GMT+1]
  • Keynotes are 1 hour including discussions - Each paper will have 25 minutes presentation and 5 minutes Q and A
  • Participants are asked to switch off microphones during sessions and switch on only when asking (session chairs have rights to switch off MC remotely).

Monday, November 16

10:15 - 10:30

Opening and Welcome Address

10:30 - 12:00

Session 1: Radio Communication

What can Machine Learning do for Radio Spectrum Management?
Ebtesam Almazrouei (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Gabriele Gianini (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy & EBTIC, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates); Nawaf Almoosa and Ernesto Damiani (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
A robust optimization approach for designing FTTx networks integrating Free Space Optics under weather uncertainty
Fabio D'Andreagiovanni (CNRS, Sorbonne University - UTC, France); Hicham Lakhlef (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France); Antonella Nardin (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy)
Evaluation of SAC-OCDMA System Performance in Terms of BER and Q-Factor Using FBGs and M-Sequence Code
Sokaina Boukricha and Kamal Ghoumid (ENSAO, Mohammed Premier University, Morocco); El Miloud Ar-Reyouchi (Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco & UNE, Spain); Elmar Yusifli (Franche-Comte University, France); Reda Yahiaoui (Franche Comte University & Nanomedicine Lab, Imaging and Therapeutics, France); Omar Elmazria (Université de Lorraine-CNRS, France)

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch Break

13:00 - 14:30

Session 2: Network Security

Data Redundancy Management in Connected Environments
Elio Mansour (Univ Pau & Pays Adour, France); Faysal Chahzad (University of Pau, France); Joe Tekli (Lebanese American University (LAU) & UPPA Laboratory, University of Pau & Adour Countries, Lebanon); Richard Chbeir (LIUPPA - University Pau & Pays Adour, France)
A Memory-efficient Group Key Managment for Communicating Things
Hicham Lakhlef (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France); Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah (Universite de Technologie - Compiegne, France); Fabio D'Andreagiovanni (CNRS, Sorbonne University - UTC, France)
Novelty-based Intrusion Detection of Sensor Attacks on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Jason P Whelan, Thanigajan Sangarapillai and Omar N Minawi (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Abdulaziz Almehmadi (University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia); Khalil El-Khatib (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

14:30 - 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 - 17:00

Session 3: Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Adversarial Patches-based Attacks on Automated Vehicle Make and Model Recognition Systems
Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui, Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Hybrid Inspector-Inspectee-Agent Games in Mobile Cloud Computing
Gabriele Gianini (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy & EBTIC, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates); Francesco Viola (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Lena-Cota Guido (Universita degli Studi di Mi, France); Jianyi Lin (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates & PHuSe Lab, University of Milan, Italy)
An Energy Efficient Architecture of self-sustainable WSN based on Energy Harvesting and Wireless Charging with consideration of deployment cost
Khaled Abid (University of Technology of Compiegne, France); Ghada Jaber (Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France); Hicham Lakhlef (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France); Ahmed Lounis (University de Technology de Compiègne, France); Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah Universite de Technologie - Compiegne, France)
A Performance Evaluation of Time-Series Mobility Prediction for Connected Vehicular Networks
Noura Aljeri and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Tuesday, November 17

9:15 - 10:15

Session 4: IoT Systems

Deep Learning for Resource-Limited Devices
Mohammed Amine Merzoug (University of Batna 2, Algeria); Ahmed Mostefaoui (Université de Franche Comté, France); Mohammed H. Kechout and Sebti Tamraoui (Higher National School of Computer Science, Algeria)
A Vertex-centric Markov Chain Algorithm for Network Clustering based on b-Coloring
Jianyi Lin (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates & PHuSe Lab, University of Milan, Italy); Corrado Mio (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

10:15 - 11:15

Keynote Speech

Challenges Towards the Next Generation of Mobile Communications
Prof. Arturo Azcorra

11:15 - 12:30

Lunch Break

12:30 - 14:00

Session 5: QoE/QoS

Multi-User Competitive Energy-Aware and QoE-Aware Video Streaming on Mobile Devices
Kristina Wheatman, Fidan Mehmeti, Mark Mahon, Thomas La Porta and Guohong Cao (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
A supervised Machine Learning approach for DASH video QoE prediction in 5G networks
Raza Ul Mustafa (University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil); Simone Ferlin (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Christian Esteve Rothenberg (University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil); Darijo Raca and Jason J Quinlan (University College Cork, Ireland)
SMC: Alternative Smart Media Compression Techniques for Edge Storage Offloading
Ali Elgazar (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar); Khaled A. Harras (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Mohammad Aazam (University of Nottingham Malaysia, Malaysia)

14:00 - 14:30

Coffee Break

14:30 - 16:00

Session 6: Emergency systems and Anomaly detection

A Realistic Model for Rescue Operations after an Earthquake
Tiziana Calamoneri (University of Rome "Sapienza", Italy); Federico Corò (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Network Anomaly Detection Using LSTM Based Autoencoder
Mahmoud Elsayed (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Model-oriented methodology for developping a social-based healthcare system
Moustafa Fayad, Ahmed Mostefaoui, Samir Chouali, Salima Benbernou

16:00 - 16:15

Closing Remarks