SPS 1: Reliable and Secure Networks

Chaired by:

• Network Assurance in Intent Based Data Center Networking: A Domain Shift Approach
  Steve Lévesque (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Xiaoang Zheng (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada); John Violos (Harokopio University of Athens, Greece); Aris Leivadeas (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

• Lightweight and Energy-Efficient Anomaly Detection for Green IoT Networks
  Amani Ibraheem (King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia)

• Extracting Attack Testflows from Unstructured Cyber Threat Reports using Contextual Analysis
  Faissal Ahmadou and Sepehr Ghaffarzadegan (Concordia University, Canada); Boubakr Nour (Ericsson Research, Canada); Makan Pourzandi (Ericsson, Canada); Mourad Debbabi and Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada)

Keynote 2: Will 6G Deliver True Convergence and Multi-Functionality? Bridging the Gaps to Build the Future

Speaker: Venki Ramaswamy, Chief Technologist for NextG MITRE Labs, USA

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SPS 2: Fog, Edge and Cloud Computing

Chaired by:

• Scaling Millions to Billions: CaieFinder’s Journey from Monolith to Microservices to Serverless
  Ridwan Arefin Islam (McGill University, Canada); Salekul Islam (North South University, Bangladesh); Md. Tarek Hasan (United International University, Bangladesh); Md Saddam Hossain Mukta (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland)

• Reliable Task Offloading in MEC through Transmission Diversity and Jamming-Aware Scheduling
  Ghazal Asemian (University of Ottawa, Canada); Mohammadreza Amini (University of Ottawa, Canada & Carleton University, Canada); Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)

• SLA-Centric Automated Algorithm Selection Framework for Cloud Environments
  Siana Rizwan, Tasnim Ahmed and Salimur Choudhury (Queen’s University, Canada)

Lunch Break / Demo Session

Chaired by:

• CROSS-FLUX: A Semi-Virtualized 5G-V2X Cross-Border Platform for Scalable Security Testing
  Abdelwahab Boualouache (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg); Vinicius Fonseca e Silva (Université Gustave Eiffel, France); Qiang Tang (LIST, Luxembourg); Enric Pardo (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sylvain Cherrier and Badre Bousalem (Université Gustave Eiffel, France); Sébastien Faye (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg); Rami Langar (Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal, Canada & University Gustave Eiffel, France)

• Adaptive 6G Networks-in-Network Management for Industrial Applications
  Daniel Lindenschmitt (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany); Paul Seehofer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Marius Schmitz and Jan Mertes (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany); Roland Bless (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany); Martina Zitterbart (KIT, Germany); Jan C. Aurich (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany); Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

• INOUT LIVE: Resilient Machine Learning for Production Industries – Exploring Data Quality vs. Prediction Trade-offs
  Marco Reisacher and Andreas Blenk (SIEMENS AG, Germany); Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin, Germany)

• Demonstration of Dynamic Service-Chain Deployment in a Multi-Layer FANET Edge-Computing Architecture
  Gianluca Davoli (University of Bologna, Italy); Christian Grasso and Andrea Caruso (University of Catania, Italy); Walter Cerroni (University of Bologna, Italy); Antonella Di Stefano (Catania University, Italy); Laura Galluccio, Alessandro Genovese and Massimo Gollo (University of Catania, Italy); Giovanni Morana (University of Catania); Giovanni Schembra and Orazio Tomarchio (University of Catania, Italy)

• Demonstration of Viewport-Aware Hybrid Broadcast-Unicast Streaming for Volumetric Video
  Casper Haems, Matthias De Fré and Tim Wauters (Ghent University – Imec, Belgium); Filip De Turck (Ghent University – imec, Belgium)

FPS 4: Edge-Cloud Optimization

Chaired by:

• Fast and Adaptive Task Management in MEC: A Deep Learning Approach Using Pointer Networks
  Arild Yonkeu (University of Ottawa, Canada); Mohammadreza Amini (University of Ottawa, Canada & Carleton University, Canada); Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)

• Meeting Deadlines in Motion: Deep RL for Real-Time Task Offloading in Vehicular Edge Networks
  Mahsa Paknejad and Parisa Fard Moshiri (University of Ottawa, Canada); Murat Simsek (Suny Canton, USA); Burak Kantarci and Hussein T. Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)

• An Efficient Scheduling Algorithm for Virtual Task Duplication in Multi-access Edge Computing
  Ibrahim Sorkhoh (Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait); Muthucumaru Maheswaran (McGill University, Canada); Emmanuel Thepie Fapi (Ericsson, Canada); Zhongwen Zhu (Ericsson Canada, Canada)

FPS 5: 5G/6G and Optical Networks

Chaired by:

• A Software Architecture for Seamless Simulated to Real Testbed Transition for O-RAN AI 
  Juan Luis Herrera (University of Extremadura, Spain, and TU Wien, Austria); Neco Villegas (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain); Luis Diez (University of Cantabria, Spain); Domenico Scotece and Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy); Ramon Aguero (University of Cantabria, Spain)

• Comparative Analysis of Path-Level, and Fragmentation-as-a-Picture Methods for Blocking Prediction in Elastic Optical Networks 
  Jaspreet Singh (Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada); Hakim Mellah (Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada & Concordia University, Canada); Scott Kohlert (Ciena, Canada); Brunilde Sansò (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)

• Enhancing Spatiotemporal Networks with xLSTM: A Scalar LSTM Approach for Cellular Traffic Forecasting
  Khalid Ali and Zineddine Bettouche (Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany); Andreas Kassler (Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), Sweden & Karlstad University, Sweden); Andreas Fischer (Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany)

Gala Diner