Technical Session 1 – Oct 13, 14:00—16:00 Eastern
Session chair: Elmahdi Driouch
| Paper title | Author(s) |
| Towards Future 6G from the Hardware Components Perspective – A Focus on the Hardware-Software Divide, its Limiting Factors and the Envisioned Benefits in Going Beyond it | Jacopo Iannacci (Fondazione Bruno Kessler – FBK, Italy) |
| Clustering-based Adaptive Beam Footprint Design for 5G Urban Macro-Cell | Puneeth Jubba Honnaiah (University of Luxembourg & SnT, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, Luxembourg); Eva Lagunas, Nicola Maturo and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) |
| Data-driven and model-driven deep learning detection for RIS-aided Spatial Modulation | Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France); Jiang Liu (CNRS, France) |
| Design of AoI-Aware 5G Uplink Scheduler Using Reinforcement Learning | Chien-Cheng Wu, Petar Popovski, Zheng-Hua Tan and Čedomir Stefanović (Aalborg University, Denmark) |
| A Taxonomy of 5G Stakeholders | Donna Schaeffer and Sheryl Drake (Marymount University, USA); Patrick Olson (National University, USA) |
| Dynamic Sectorization in Multi-Panel Massive MIMO Systems | André Antunovic (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Ebrahim Amiri (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Christian Biefel (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Gerhard Steinbock and Jocelyn Y. K. Aulin (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden); Frauke Liers (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Wolfgang Gerstacker (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany) |
| Joint Beam Alignment and Power Allocation for Multi-User NOMA-mmWave Systems | Wissal Attaoui (Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco); Halima Elbiaze (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Essaid Sabir (Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco) |
| Throughput Maximization & Power Optimization Analysis in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access System | Mohammad Gaballa and Maysam F Abbod (Brunel University London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ahmed Jameel (Ahlia University, Bahrain); Nirvana Khaled (Other, Kuwait) |
Technical Session 2 – Oct 13, 16:30—18:30 Eastern
Session chair: Cyrille Chavet
| Paper | Author(s) |
| A Journey Towards a Converged 5G Architecture & Beyond | Vivek Agarwal (Cisco Systems Inc., USA); Rajaneesh Sudhakar Shetty (Cisco Systems Inc., India); Chandra Sharma, Anil Jangam and Rajiv Asati (Cisco Systems, USA) |
| NVIDIA Aerial GPU Hosted AI-on-5G | Anupa Kelkar (NIVIDIA, USA); Chris Dick (NVIDIA, USA) |
| Multi-Dimensional Modulation for Data Rate Maximization in Non-Orthogonal Spatial-Time-Frequency Domains | Thakshanth Uthayakumar, Jie Mei and Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada) |
| MEC & mimik, one plus one equals eleven | Michel Burger (, USA & Mimik, USA); Fay Arjomandi ( & Mimik, USA); Siavash Alamouti (Mimik, Canada) |
| All-Analog Structures for AF Relaying in mmWave Massive MIMO Systems | Soumya Khare, Alireza Morsali and Benoit Champagne (McGill University, Canada) |
| Multi-Connectivity using NR-DC for High Throughput and Ultra-reliable Low Latency Communication in 5G Networks | Prabodh K Mishra, Snigdhaswin Kar, Vikas Bollapragada Subrahmanya and Kuang-Ching Wang (Clemson University, USA) |
| Utilizing Ground Nodes with Multi-Hop Capabilities to Extend the Range of UAV-BSs | Nadir Adam, Cristiano Tapparello and Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester, USA); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada) |
Technical Session 3 – Oct 14, 11:00—13:00 Eastern
Session chair: Alireza Ghasempour
| Paper | Author(s) |
| Machine Learning-based Prediction of PMI Report for DL-Precoding in 5G-NR System | Javed Akhtar (Radisys India Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru, India); Krunal Saija (Radisys India Pvt Ltd, India); Narayanan Ravi (Radisys India Private Limited, India); Shekar Nethi (Radisys Pvt. Ltd., India); Saptarshi Chaudhuri (Radisys India Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru, India) |
| Quantum Evolutionary Algorithm for Scheduling Resources in Virtualized 5G RAN Environment | M Saravanan (Ericsson Research India & Ericsson Global India Private Limited, India) |
| Efficient Protocol to Optimize New Radio Frequency Scanning in 5G Network | Nishant Nishant, Kailash Kumar Jha, Avneesh Tiwari, Alok Kumar Jangid, Aman Agarwal and Nitesh Pushpak Shah (Samsung R&D Institute India, India); Debabrata Das (International Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore, India) |
| User Equipment Based Efficient Protocol to Maximize Throughput in Multi-RAT | Kailash Kumar Jha, Nishant Nishant, Sidhant Jain, Abhishek Kaswan and Alok Kumar Jangid (Samsung R&D Institute India, India); Debabrata Das (International Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore, India) |
| Intelligent Strategies for Overload Detection & Handling for 5G Network | Rajaneesh Sudhakar Shetty (Cisco Systems Inc., India); Anil Jangam (Cisco Systems, USA); Ananya Simlai (VMware Inc, India) |
| Layered Architecture and Virtualization for 5G Slicing | Suresh C Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Pimmy Gandotra (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Brejesh Lall (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Huzur Saran (Indian Institute of Technology, India); Krishan Sabnani (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi,India) |
| Synthesis of the Cloud Technologies and Telco NFV Transformation – A Perspective! | Abhishek Kumar (Verizon, India); Hans Raj Nahata (Verizon Communications & New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) |
| Prediction of HF Spectral Occupancy over Eastern Mediterranean Region Using Machine Learning | Md Mesbah Uddin and Ahmad Saadat Shadman (Military Institute of Science and Technology, Bangladesh); Md Golam Mostafa (Military Institute of Science and Technology) |
Technical Session 4 – Oct 14, 14:00—16:00 Eastern
Session chair: Messaoud Ahmed Ouameur
| Paper | Author(s) |
| A Taxonomy of Machine Learning Methodologies Used Against Physical Unclonable Functions | Sean Donnelly (Dublin City University, Ireland); Liam Meany (Dublin City University & Glasnevin Dublin 9, Ireland) |
| Extended RISC-V hardware architecture for future digital communication systems | Mael Tourres (Université de Bretagne Sud, France); Bertrand Le Gal (University of Bordeaux, France); Philippe Coussy (Uniuversite de Bretagne-Sud / Lab-STICC, France); Cyrille Chavet (Université de Bretagne Sud & Lab-STICC, France); Jeremie Crenne (University of Bordeaux, France) |
| Energy Efficient Exponentially Weighted Algorithm – Based Resource Allocation in LoRa Networks | Yalda Sani (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada); Messaoud Ahmed Ouameur (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada); Daniel Massicotte (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada); Tristan Martin (Altus-Tech, Canada) |
| Long Short-Term Memory for Indoor Localization Using WI-FI Received Signal Strength and Channel State Information | Lotfi Bencharif (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada); Messaoud Ahmed Ouameur (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada); Daniel Massicotte (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada) |
| An ICI-Aware Scheduler for NB-IoT Devices in Co-existence with 5G NR | Shahida Jabeen (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Anwar Haque (Western Ontario, Canada) |
| 5G-IoT Architecture for Next Generation Smart Systems | Snigdhaswin Kar, Prabodh K Mishra and Kuang-Ching Wang (Clemson University, USA) |
| Arduino IoT based Cardiac Health Monitor | Sunanda Roy, Kyle Hanks, Shamili Mownika Tetali, Kyle Loyd Guthrie and Erton S. Boci (George Mason University, USA) |
| Personnel Tracking with Cross Modality Learning for 5G Smart Warehouse Application | Yang Zhao and Guangliang Zhao (GE Global Research, USA); Prabhu Janakaraj (GE Research, USA); Lynn DeRose, Aussie Schnore and SM S Hasan (GE Global Research, USA) |
Technical Session 5 – Oct 15, 11:00—13:00 Eastern
Session chair: Mostafa Golam
| Paper | Author(s) |
| Rural Macrocell Path Loss Measurements for 5G Fixed Wireless Access at 26 GHz | Norshahida Saba (Aalto University & SnT Lab, Finland); Lauri Mela, Muhammad Usman Sheikh and Kalle Ruttik (Aalto University, Finland); Jari Salo (Elisa Oyj, Finland); Riku Jäntti (Aalto University, Finland) |
| Performance evaluation of a 5G device in a non public network | Gustavo Cainelli (Institut Fur Automation Und Kommunikation, Germany); Mitula Donga (Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation (IFF), Germany); Lutz Rauchhaupt (Institut für Automation und Kommunikation e. V., Germany); Lisa Underberg (Ifak, Germany) |
| Utilizing Beamsteering at Millimeter Waves for Indoor Object and Room Geometry Detection | Ekaterina Sedunova (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany); Nebojsa Maletic (IHP – Leibniz-Institut für Innovative Mikroelektronik, Germany); Lara Wimmer (IHP Leibniz Institut fur Innovative Mikroelektronik, Germany); Darko Cvetkovski (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany); Eckhard Grass (IHP & Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany); Berthold Lankl (University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany) |
| A Novel and Compact Wideband Doherty Power Amplifier Architecture for 5G Cellular Infrastructure | Dushayant Kumar Sharma and Ravi Bura (Wipro Limited, India) |
| Offloading autonomous vehicle machine learning algorithms to the 5G edge: A proof of concept implementation | Victor Boutin (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada); Alexis Hannart (McGill University, Canada); Brunilde Sansò (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada); Abderrahim Essaidi (Axionable, Canada) |
| Simulating Large-Scale 5G Networks | Hakim Mellah (GERAD and École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada); Victor Boutin (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada); Constant Wette Tchouati (Ericsson, Canada); Brunilde Sansò (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada) |
| Deployable Networks for Public Safety in 5G and Beyond: A Coverage and Interference Study | Zhiqiang Qi (Ericsson, China); Adrián Lahuerta-Lavieja, Jingya Li and Keerthi Kumar Nagalapur (Ericsson, Sweden) |
| Improving the DENM Reliability over 5G-V2X Sidelink through Repetitions and Diversity Combining | Francesco Romeo (CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France); Claudia Campolo (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Antoine O. Berthet (CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France); Antonella Molinaro (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy) |
Technical Session 6 – Oct 15, 14:00—15:00 Eastern
Session chair: Webert Montlouis
| Paper | Author(s) |
| Performance Study of Large Scale Network Slice Deployment in a 5G Core Testbed | Shwetha Vittal (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Aditya Chilukuri (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India); Sourav Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Hyderabad), India); Akshitha Shinde and Antony Franklin A (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India) |
| Method to Handle BWP Inactivity Timer to Reduce Latency and to Improve Throughput in 5G Devices | Goutham Ponnamreddy (Samsung Semiconductor India Research & Development Center, India); Satya Ganesh Nutan Dev C (Samsung Semiconductor India Research & International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India); Pratibha Jiniwal (Peer, India) |
| Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Field Measurements in a Commercial 5G Network | Chrysanthi Chountala (European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Italy); Jean-Marc Chareau (European Commission-Joint Research Centre, Italy); Pravir K Chawdhry (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy) |
| Observations from using a portable LIDAR scanner to capture RF propagation modelling environments | Justin Worsey, Simon Armour, Ian Hindmarch and David Bull (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) |
| Machine Learning-Enabled Data Rate Prediction for 5G NSA Vehicle-to-Cloud Communications | Benjamin Sliwa, Hendrik Schippers and Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University, Germany) |
| Network Planning and Coverage Optimization for Mobile Campus Networks | Anton Krause (TU Dresden, Germany); Waqar Anwar, Ana Belen Martinez, Dirk Stachorra and Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Norman Franchi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) |
| Investigating Integrated Access and Backhaul on the Aether 5G Testbed | Jack Brassil (Princeton University, USA) |
| On the Feasibility of Cellular-Connected Drones in Existing 4G/5G Networks: Field Trials | Samira Homayouni (Technical Coordinator R&D- Hutchison Drei Austria, Austria); Mario Paier, Christian Benischek, Gerhard Pernjak, Markus Leinwather, Matthias Reichelt and Christoph Fuchsjäger (Hutchison Drei Austria, Austria) |
Technical Session 7 – Oct 15, 14:00—15:00 Eastern
Session chair: Hamid Mcheik
| Paper | Author(s) |
| Scheduling Latency of Midhaul-based Commodity Hardware C-RAN | Nicolas Malm and Olav Tirkkonen (Aalto University, Finland) |
| Precoding-Aided Bandwidth Optimization for High Throughput Satellite Systems | Tedros Salih Abdu, Lei Lei, Steven Kisseleff, Eva Lagunas, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) |
| Analysis of Optimal Altitude for UAV Cellular Communication in Presence of Blockage | Arzhang Shahbazi (University of Paris Saclay & CNRS, France); Marco Di Renzo (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France) |
| Analysis and Modeling of Downlink Traffic in Cloud-Rendering Architectures for Augmented Reality | Philipp Schulz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Andreas Traßl (Technische Universität Dresden & Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop, Germany); Nick Schwarzenberg and Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) |
| Decomposition and Propagation of Intents for Network Slice Design | Nour Gritli and Ferhat Khendek (Concordia University, Canada); Maria Toeroe (Ericsson, Canada) |
| Joint Service Function Chain Embedding and Routing in Cloud-based NFV: A Deep Q-Learning Based Approach | Thinh Duy Tran (École de Technologie Supérieure ÉTS, Canada); Brigitte Jaumard (Concordia University, Canada); Huy Quang Duong (Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (University of Quebec, Canada) |
| Taking into Account the Management Constraints in Network Slice Design | Nour Gritli and Ferhat Khendek (Concordia University, Canada); Maria Toeroe (Ericsson, Canada) |
Technical Session 8 – Oct 15, 14:00—16:00 Eastern
Session chair: Elbiaze Halima
| Paper | Author(s) |
| Channel-Aware Satisfactory Learning for Robust QoS Self-Provisioning in 5G and Beyond | Saad Abouzahir (University Hassan II, Morocco); Essaid Sabir (Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco); Halima Elbiaze (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Mohamed Sadik (ENSEM / UH2C, Morocco) |
| Human Activity Recognition and People Count for a SMART Public Transportation | Roya Alizadeh (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada); Yvon Savaria (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada); Chahe Nerguizian (Ecole Polytechnique, Canada) |
| Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Coalition Formation for Energy Trading in Smart Grid | Mohammad Sadeghi and Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada) |
| Transport Security Considerations for the Open-RAN Fronthaul | Daniel Dik (Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark); Michael S. Berger (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) |
| Energy-Efficient and Delay-Guaranteed Joint Resource Allocation and DU Selection in O-RAN | Turgay Pamuklu, Shahram Mollahasani and Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada) |
| Learning-based Localization of Mobile Users for Throughput Maximization in UAV Networks | Arzhang Shahbazi (University of Paris Saclay & CNRS, France); Marco Di Renzo (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France) |