Time

Event

09:15 – 09:30

Opening Session

09:30 – 10:30

Keynote #1: NFV and Telecom Cloudification: Current State and New Technology Trends
Speaker: Joan Triay (DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany)
Session Chair: Xiaoming Fu (University of Göttingen, Germany)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 13:00

FPS #1: Control Plane and Network Evaluation
Session Chair: Joan Triay (DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany)

RPL-based Control Plane Connectivity: An Evaluation
Hendrik Mahrt and Martina Zitterbart (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Increasing Resilience of SD-WAN by Distributing the Control Plane
Friedrich Altheide, Simon Buttgereit, Michael Rossberg and Guenter Schaefer (Technical University Ilmenau, Germany)

SQCC: Stable Queue Congestion Control
Jian Tang and Tingting Xu (Nanjing University, China), Wang Liming, Zhenjie Lin, Ming Zhao (China Southern Power Grid Digital Platform Technology Company, China), Xiaoliang Wang, Cam-Tu Nguyen, Chen Tian, Zhuzhong Qian and Wenzhong Li (Nanjing University, China)

Physical-layer-aware Network Simulator for Future Optical Functionalities
Venkata Virajit Garbhapu and Cedric Ware (LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France), Mounia Lourdiane (TELECOM SudParis, France)

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 – 15:00

Tutorial: Federated Learning × Security in Network Management (Part 1)
Speakers: Yann Busnel (IMT Nord Europe, France) & Leo Lavaur (IMT Atlantique, France)
Session Chair: Barbara Martini (Universitas Mercatorum, Italy)

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 – 17:30

Tutorial: Federated Learning × Security in Network Management (Part 2)
Speakers: Yann Busnel (IMT Nord Europe, France) & Leo Lavaur (IMT Atlantique, France)
Session Chair: Barbara Martini (Universitas Mercatorum, Italy)

18:00

Welcome Reception

Time

Event

09:00 – 10:30

SPS #1: Performance Analysis and Security
Session Chair: Xiaoliang Wang (Nanjing University, China)

Security Policy Architecture for 5G Networks
Wassim M. L. Koribeche (University of Brest & IRT B-COM, France), David Espes (University of Brest & LabSTICC, France), Cédric Morin (IRT B-COM, France)

SAFFIRRE: Selective Aggregate Filtering Through Filter Rule Refinement
Hauke Heseding, Felix Bachmann, Philipp Sebastian Bien and Martina Zitterbart (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Hybrid Approach to Detect Position Forgery Attacks in Connected Vehicles
Muhammad Anwar Shahid and Arunita Jaekel (University of Windsor, Canada)

On the Performance of Screening Invalid Jobs Using the Policy Gradient Method in Deadline-aware Data Transfer Scheduling
Tatsuya Sagisaka and Kohei Shiomoto (Tokyo City University, Japan), Takashi Kurimoto (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Illegal Broadcasting: A Way for Protecting Revenue
Reza Shokri Kalan and Emre Karsli (Digiturk, Turkey)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 13:00

FPS #2: AI for Networking and Communications
Session Chair: Kohei Shiomoto (Tokyo City University, Japan)

Predictive Flow Load Profiling for Intelligent Network Routing Decisions
Christoph Hardegen (Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany)

Using Deep Reinforcement Learning for mmWave Real-Time Scheduling
Barak Gahtan, Reuven Cohen and Alex M. Bronstein (Technion, Israel), Gil Kedar (Ceragon, Israel)

Handover Forecasting in Cellular Networks: A Spatio-temporal Graph Neural Network Approach
Gwladys Ornella Djuikom Foka (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada), Razvan Stanica (INSA Lyon, France), Diala Naboulsi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

On Practicality of Kernel Packet Processing Empowered by Lightweight Neural Network and Decision Tree
Takanori Hara (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), Masahiro Sasabe (Kansai University, Japan)

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 – 15:00

Keynote #2: Disaggregating the Access Network – What is achieved, what lies ahead?
Speaker: Burak Gorkemli (Argela, Turkey)
Session Chair: Müge Sayit (Ege University, Turkey)

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00

SPS #2: 5G and Novel Applications
Session Chair: Paolo Medagliani (Huawei Technologies, France)

A Network Architecture for Scalable End-to-End Management of Reusable AI-based Applications
Flavio Brito & Josue Cisneros (Ericsson, Sweden), Neiva Linder (Ericsson Research, Sweden), Roberto Riggio (UNIVPM, Italy), Estefania Coronado (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha & Fundació i2CAT, Spain), Javier Palomares Jr. (Fundació i2CAT, Spain), Jovanka Adzic (Telecom Italia S.p.A., Italy), Javier Renart (ATOS, Spain), Anders Lindgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden), Miguel Rosa (Aerotools, Spain), Per Odling (Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Shared Network Function Placement for Cloud Native 5G Core Networks
Ömer Zekvan Yılmaz (Ulak Communications Inc. & Boğaziçi University, Turkey), Fatih Alagoz (Bogazici University, Turkey)

Handling 5G Blockage Issue through a MPTCP Proxy Approach
Reza Poorzare and Oliver P. Waldhorst (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany)

A Sampling and Communication Framework for Synchronization in Metaverse
Latif U. Khan and Mohsen Guizani (Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates), Bassem Ouni (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates), Ala Al-Fuqaha (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)

By Your Command: Extracting the User Actions that Create Network Flows in Android
Shuwen Liu, Joseph P. Petitti, Yunsen Lei, Yu Liu and Craig A. Shue (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

19:00

Conference Dinner

Time

Event

09:30 – 10:30

Demo/Poster Session

FLAGS Simulation Framework for Federated Learning Algorithms
Ahnaf Lodhi, Toghrul Shamsizade, Omar Mohammad Al Asaad, Baris Akgun and Oznur Ozkasap (Koç University, Turkey)

Network-Driven Service Programming Controller using SRv6: A Demonstration
Julian Klaiber, Severin Dellsperger and Laurent Metzger (Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)

A Distributed Congestion Mitigation Mechanism Based on Neighboring Nodes Traffic Steering
Lirong Bai (China Mobile Communications, China), Liang Zhang (Beijing Huawei Digital Technologies, China), Geng Zhang (China Mobile Communications, China) and Lin Zhang (China Mobile Communications, China), Paolo Medagliani and Sebastien Martin (Huawei Technologies, France)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 13:00

FPS #3: UAVs, Localization and Attack Detection
Session Chair: Massimo Tonatore (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Flight mission-based service orchestration in UAVs
Joaquim Ramos (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Miguel Luis (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa & Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal), Susana Sargento (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)

An Adaptive and Reliable Forward Error Correction Mechanism for Real-time Video Delivery from UAVs
Batoul Sarvi, Cormac J. Sreenan and Ahmed H. Zahran (University College Cork, Ireland)

XAI Empowered Dual Band Wi-Fi Based Indoor Localization via Ensemble Learning
Arzu Gorgulu Kakisim and Zeynep Turgut (Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey), Tulin Atmaca (Telecom Sudparis, France)

eMinD: Efficient and Micro-Flow Independent Detection of Distributed Network Attacks
Samuel Kopmann and Martina Zitterbart (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 – 15:00

Keynote #3: End-to-end Learning or Parameter Refinement?
Complementary perspectives for the application of Machine Learning in Network Design
Speakers: Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Session Chair: Prosper Chemouil (Cnam, France)

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 – 16:45

Panel: How do we get from the current networks to the 5G vision?
Moderator: Stuart Clayman (University College London, UK)

Panel Members:
Burak Gorkemli (Argela, Turkey)
Barbara Martini (Universitas Mercatorum, Italy)
Susana Sargento (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
Massimo Tonatore (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

16:45

Best Paper Award and Closing Session