The Technical Program is the following:
Technical sessions
Wednesday 20
- Session 1: Smart Grid Applications, Chair: Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA)
- “A Hybrid Energy Harvesting Framework for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks Based Smart Grid Application”, Huseyin Ugur Yildiz, Vehbi Cagri Gungor, Bulent Tavli
- “Load Balancing and Performance Optimization in wM-Bus Smart Meter Networks”, Andrea Pimpinella, Alessandro E. C. Redondi, Matteo Cesana
- Session 2: Novel base station concepts, Chair: Christoph Sommer (Paderborn University, Germany)
- “Self-Organizing Flying Drones with Massive MIMO Networking”, Zhangyu Guan, Nan Cen, Tommaso Melodia, Scott Pudlewski
- “Adaptive densification of mobile networks: exploring correlations in vehicular and telecom traffic”, Foroogh Mohammadnia, Marco Fiore, Marco Ajmone Marsan
- “Joint Path and Radio Resource Management for UAVs Supporting Mobile Radio Networks”, Silvia Mignardi, Roberto Verdone
- Keynote, Chair: Andrea Tanella (University of Padova, Italy)
Thursday 21
- Session 3: Channels, Chair: Luigi Paura (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
- “Performance Study of LTE and mmWave in Vehicle-to-Network Communications”, Marco Giordani, Andrea Zanella, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Michele Zorzi
- “Empirical Analysis and Modeling of Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) Advertisement Channels”, Ali Nikoukar, Mansour Abboud, Borna Samadi, Mesut Günes, Behnam Dezfouli
- “Pairing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth MAC Addresses Through Passive Packet Capture”, Edoardo Longo, Alessandro E. C. Redondi, Matteo Cesana
- Session 4: Access techniques, Chair: Roberto Petroccia (NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, Italy)
- “Towards Traffic-oriented Spreading Factor allocations in LoRaWAN systems”, Francesca Cuomo, Julio Cesar Carrasquel Gamez, Antonio Maurizio, Laura Scipione, Manuel Campo, Alberto Caponi, Giuseppe Bianchi, Giampaolo Rossini, Patrizio Pisani
- “Dynamic Access Class Barring Parameter Tuning in LTE-A Networks with Massive M2M Traffic”, Luis Tello-Oquendo, José-Ramón Vidal, Vicent Pla, Luis Guijarro
- “Initial Access Frameworks for 3GPP NR at mmWave Frequencies”, Marco Giordani, Michele Polese, Arnab Roy, Douglas Castor, Michele Zorzi
- Panel + Invited Talk, Chair: Guy Pujolle (UPMC – Paris 6, France)
Friday 22
- Session 5: Networks, Chair: Alessandro E. C. Redondi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
- “Border Effects on Connectivity for Randomly Oriented Directional Antenna Networks”, Amitabha Bagchi, Federico Corò, Cristina M. Pinotti, Vlady Ravelomanana
- “Confirmed Traffic in LoRaWAN: Pitfalls and Countermeasures”, Martina Capuzzo, Davide Magrin, Andrea Zanella
- “A Hybrid Routing Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks”, Roberto Petroccia, João Alves
- Session 6: Service provision, Chair: Zhangyu Guan (Northeastern University, USA)
- “Just-In-Time Proactive Caching for DASH Video Streaming”, Rita Coutinho, Federico Chiariotti, Daniel Zucchetto, Andrea Zanella
- “SDN-Based Architecture for Providing Reliable Internet of Things Connectivity in 5G Systems”, Luis Tello-Oquendo, Ian F. Akyildiz, Shih-Chun Lin, Vicent Pla
- “Enhanced 5G V2X Services using Sidelink Device-to-Device Communications”, Nestor Bonjorn, Fotis Foukalas, Paul Pop