Workshops

Workshops at Glance

Sunday Full-Day, 21 May 2017, 09:00 – 17:30

WS01 - The 3rd Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC) [Website] [Program]
Room: 242A
Organizers:

  • Mauro Biagi <m.biagi@ieee.org>, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy
  • Zabih Ghassemlooy, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
  • Anna Maria Vegni, Roma Tre University, Italy.

WS02 - IEEE Workshop on Emerging Energy Harvesting Solutions for 5G Networks (5G-NRG) [Website] [Program]
Room: 242B
Organizers:
  • Marco Maso <marco.maso@huawei.com>, Huawei France Research Center, France
  • Ioannis Krikidis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  • Aissa Ikhlef, Durham University, UK
  • Kamel Tourki, Huawei France Research Center, France
  • Axel Müller, Huawei France Research Center, France

WS03 - The 10th International Workshop on Evolutional Technologies & Ecosystems for 5G and Beyond (WDN-5G ICC2017) [Website] [Program]
Room: 243
Organizers:
  • Gia Khanh Tran <khanhtg@mobile.ee.titech.ac.jp>
  • Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Center for Atomic Energy (CEA) Grenoble, France
  • Thomas Haustein, Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Berlin, Germany
  • Kei Sakaguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and Fraunhofer HHI, Germany

WS04 - International Workshop on the Main Trends in 5G Networks (MT5Gnet) [Website] [Program]
Room: 252A
Organizers:
  • Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu, Finland
  • Afef Feki <afef.feki@huawei.com> France Research Center, Huawei Technologies
  • Rath Vannithamby, Intel Labs, Intel Corporation, USA
  • Jie Lie, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • Berna Sayrac, Orange Labs, France
  • Mustapha Amara, France Research Center, Huawei Technologies

WS05 - International Workshop on Application of Green Techniques to Emerging Communication and Computing Paradigms (GCC) [Website] [Program]
Room: 252B
Organizers:
  • Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Noel Crespi, Institut Mines-Telecom, France;
  • Paolo Monti, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Martin Jacobsson <martin.jacobsson@it.uu.se>, Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Kandeepan Sithamparanathan, RMIT, Australia;
  • Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy

WS06 - Convergent Internet of Things On the Synergy of IoT Systems [Website] [Program]
Room: 253
Organizers:
  • Maurizio Dècina, Politecnico di MilanoMilan, Italy
    Sharief Oteafy, <oteafy@cs.queensu.ca>, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
    Mervat AbuElkheir, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Sunday Morning, 21 May 2017, 09:00 – 12:30

WS07 - IEEE ICC2017 Workshop on Flexible Networks (FlexNets) [Website] [Program]
Room: 212/213
Organizers:
  • Cem Ersoy, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
  • Halim Yanıkömeroğlu, Carleton University, Canada
  • İlker Demirkol, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Yunus Dönmez, NETAŞ, Turkey
  • Ertan Onur <ertanon@gmail.com>, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Sunday Afternoon, 21 May 2017, 14:00 – 17:30

WS08 - 3rd International Workshop on Advanced PHY and MAC Technology for Super Dense Wireless Networks (CROWD-NET) [Website] [Program]
Room: 212/213
Organizers:
  • Yi Ma, University of Surrey, UK
  • Damien Castelain, Mitsubishi MERCE, France
  • Na Yi <n.yi@surrey.ac.uk>, University of Surrey, UK

Thursday Full-Day, 25 May 2017, 09:00 – 17:30

WT01 - 5GArch 2017: 4th International Workshop on 5G Architecture [Website] [Program]
Room: 242A
Organizers:
  • Peter Rost, <peter.rost@ieee.org> Nokia Networks, Germany
  • Albert Banchs, IMDEA Networks Spain
  • Alexandros Kaloxylos, Huawei, Germany
  • Matthew C. Valenti, West-Virginia University, USA

WT02 - 3rd International Workshop on 5G RAN Design [Website] [Program]
Room: 242B
Organizers:
  • Patrick Marsch <patrick.marsch@nsn.com>, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany
  • Olav Queseth, Ericsson, Sweden
  • Frank Schaich, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany
  • Gerhard Wunder, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany
  • Miurel Tercero, Ericsson, Sweden
  • Krystian Safjan, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany
  • Xavier Costa Perez, NEC Labs Europe, Germany
  • Fabio Cavaliere, Ericsson, Sweden
  • Michael Färber, Intel, Germany
  • Miquel Payaró, CTTC, Spain

WT03 - 5th IEEE ICC Workshop on Advances in Network Localization and Navigation (ANLN) [Website] [Program]
Rooms: 243
Organizers:
  • Klaus Witrisal <witrisal@tugraz.at>, Graz Univ. of Technology, Graz, Austria
  • Yuan Shen, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • Stefania Bartoletti, Univ. of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Moe Z. Win, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

WT04 - 5thIEEE International Workshop on Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms (SCPA 2017) [Website] [Program]
Room: 252A
Organizers:
  • Jaime Lloret Mauri <jlloret@dcom.upv.es>, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
  • Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

WT06 - Workshop on Integrating Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grid (ICT4SG) [Website] [Program]
Room: 252B
Organizers:
  • John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Carles Anton Haro, CTTC Barcelona, Spain
  • Wei Yu Chiu <chiuweiyu@gmail.com>, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
  • Hongjian Sun, University of Durham, UK
  • Javier Matamoros, CTTC Barcelona, Spain
  • Jinsong Wu, Universidad de Chile
  • Bill Lichtensteiger, Landis & Gyr
  • Stephen Wang, Toshiba TREL
  • Kiyoshi Nakagama, NEC.

WT07 - Workshop on Full-Duplex Communications for Future Wireless Networks [Website] [Program]
Room: 253
Organizers:
  • Hirley Alves <halves@ee.oulu.fi>, University of Oulu, Finland
  • Taneli Riihonen, Aalto University, Finland
  • Himal A. Suraweera, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Thursday Morning, 25 May 2017, 09:00 – 12:30

WT05 - 1st International Workshop on Satellite Communications - Challenges and Integration in the 5G ecosystem [Website] [Program]
Room: 212/213
Organizers:
  • Oriol Sallent, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Constantinos Papadias, Athens Information Technology, Greece
  • George Agapiou <gagapiou@oteresearch.gr>, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization, Greece
  • Ana Isabel Perez Neira, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain

WT09 - Channel Coding for 5G and Future Networks [Website] [Program]
Room: 231/232
Organizers:
  • Ingmar Land <ingmar.land@huawei.com>, Huawei Technologies, Paris, France
  • Emanuele Viterbo, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Emmanuel Boutillon, Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient, France
  • Jean-Claude Belfiore, Huawei Technologies, Paris, France
  • David Declercq, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France

Thursday Afternoon, 25 May 2017, 14:00 – 17:30

WT08 - Workshop on 5G Ultra Dense Networks [Website] [Program]
Room: 212/213
Organizers:
  • Victor C.M. Leung <dr.haijun.zhang@ieee.org>, The University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Lin Chen, University of Paris‐Sud, France
  • Haijun Zhang, The University of British Columbia, Canada

WT10 - Advanced Caching in Wireless Networks [Website] [Program]
Room: 231M/232M
Organizers:
  • Georgios Paschos, Huawei Technologies, Paris, France
  • Mari Kobayashi, Supelec, Paris, France
  • Petros Elia <elia@eurecom.fr>, Eurecom, France

Detailed Program

WS01 - The 3rd Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC)

Time Room 242A

Sunday, May 21
09:00 am-10:30 am WS01-S1: Modulation Design
11:00 am-12:30 pm WS01-S2: Localization and Estimation
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WS01-S3: Detection and Information
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WS01-S4: VLC Access and Networking

Sunday, May 21, 09:00 - 10:30

WS01-S1: Modulation Design

Room: 242A
Chair: Mauro Biagi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Variable m-CAP for Bandlimited Visible Light Communications
Petr Chvojka (Czech Technical University in Prague & Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Republic); Stanislav Zvanovec (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Khald Werfli (Northumbria University, United Kingdom); Paul Anthony Haigh (University College London, United Kingdom); Zabih Ghassemlooy (Northumbria University, United Kingdom)
Demonstration of the Superiority of a Novel Multi-Modulus Circular (1,5,10) Constellation in Visible Light Communication
Jiaqi Zhao, Shangyu Liang, Fumin Wang, Zhixin Wang and Nan Chi (Fudan University, P.R. China)
A Spatial Dimming Scheme Based on Transmit Antenna Selection for Multiuser MISO VLC Systems
Zhen Feng, Caili Guo, Yang Yang and Chunyan Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Constellation Design for Cascaded MPSK-CSK Systems
Alain Richard Ndjiongue and Hendrik C Ferreira (University of Johannesburg, South Africa); Telex M. N. Ngatched (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Asymmetrical And Direct Current Biased Optical OFDM for Visible Light Communication With Dimming Control
Namei Yin, Caili Guo and Yang Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Pengfei Luo (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, P.R. China); Chunyan Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Sunday, May 21, 11:00 - 12:30

WS01-S2: Localization and Estimation

Room: 242A
Chair: Anna Maria Vegni (Universita Roma 3, Italy)
Indoor Visible Light Localization Algorithm Based on Received Signal Strength Ratio with Multi-Directional LED Array
Lixuan Wang and Caili Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Pengfei Luo and Qiang Li (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, P.R. China)
Modeling and Parameter Estimation of Vehicle Vibration Inducing Transmitter Displacement in ITS Image Sensor Communication
Masayuki Kinosita, Takaya Yamazato, Hiraku Okada and Toshiaki Fujii (Nagoya University, Japan); Shintaro Arai (Okayama University of Science, Japan); Tomohiro Yendo (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan); Koji Kamakura (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)
Visible Light Indoor Positioning through Colored LEDs
Stefano Pergoloni (La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy); Zeinab Mohamadi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Anna Maria Vegni (Universita Roma 3, Italy); Zabih Ghassemlooy (Northumbria University, United Kingdom); Mauro Biagi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Synchronization of Carrierless Amplitude and Phase Modulation in Visible Light Communication
Kabiru Oluwaseun Akande and Wasiu O. Popoola (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Sparse Bayesian RVM Regression Based Channel Estimation for IM/DD OFDM-VLC Systems with Reduced Training Overhead
Chen Chen, Wen-De Zhong and Lifan Zhao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Sunday, May 21, 14:00 - 15:30

WS01-S3: Detection and Information

Room: 242A
Chair: Zabih Ghassemlooy (Northumbria University, United Kingdom)
A Quartic Mixture Distribution and Its Application to ML Decoder Based Analysis of FSO Systems
Ankur Bansal (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India); Prabhat Kumar Sharma (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India); Manav Bhatnagar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
Mutual Information of a 3x3 RGB MIMO VLC Scheme based on Amplitude Shift Keying
Stefano Pergoloni (La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy); Thai-Chien Bui and Mauro Biagi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Spatial-Mode Multiplexing with Zero-Forcing Beamforming in Free Space Optical Communications
Shenjie Huang (the Uinviersity of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
PAPR reduction of 2.0Gbit/s DFT-S OFDM modulated visible light communication system based on interleaved sub-banding technique
Meng Shi, Fumin Wang, Mengjie Zhang, Zhixin Wang and Nan Chi (Fudan University, P.R. China)
Beam Spread and Wander of Gaussian Beam through Anisotropic Non-Kolmogorov Atmospheric Turbulence for Optical Wireless Communication
Zhan Gao, Jiankun Zhang and Anhong Dang (Peking University, P.R. China)

Sunday, May 21, 16:00 - 17:30

WS01-S4: VLC Access and Networking

Room: 242A
Chair: Mauro Biagi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Design of a Cognitive VLC Network with Illumination and Handover Requirements
Marwan Hammouda and Jürgen Peissig (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany); Anna Maria Vegni (Universita Roma 3, Italy)
CSMA/CA-based Uplink MAC Protocol Design and Analysis for Hybrid VLC/Wifi Networks
Vuong Mai (The University of Aizu & Division of Computer Engineering, Japan); Truong Cong Thang and Anh T. Pham (The University of Aizu, Japan)
Hard Switching in Hybrid FSO/RF Link: Investigating Data Rate and Link Availability
Mojtaba Mansour Abadi and Zabih Ghassemlooy (Northumbria University, United Kingdom); Stanislav Zvanovec (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Manav Bhatnagar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Yongle Wu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Multi-Cell VLC: Multi-User Downlink Capacity with Coordinated Precoding
Thanh Pham (University of Aizu & Computer Communications Lab., Japan); Hoa Le Minh (Northumbria University, United Kingdom); Anh T. Pham (The University of Aizu, Japan)
Secrecy Analysis in Visible Light Communication Systems with Randomly Located Eavesdroppers
Sunghwan Cho (The University of Oxford, United Kingdom); Gaojie Chen and Justin P Coon (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Mixed RF/FSO Communication System with 2×2 DF Relay Over Generalized Fading Channels
Neha Singhal (Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University, India); Ankur Bansal (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India); Ashwani Kumar (Indra Gandhi Delhi Technical University, India)

WS02 - IEEE Workshop on Emerging Energy Harvesting Solutions for 5G Networks (5G-NRG)

Time Room 242B

Sunday, May 21
09:00 am-10:30 am WS02-S1: Keynote 1 and Paper Session
11:00 am-12:30 pm WS02-S2: Keynote 2 and Paper Session
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WS02-S3: Paper Session and Demo
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WS02-S4: Keynote 3 and Paper Session

Sunday, May 21, 09:00 - 10:30

WS02-S1: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

Room: 242B
Chair: Marco Maso (Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Huawei France Research Center, France)

Session starts with a 45 min keynote by Prof. Vincent Lau (HKUST)

Wireless-Powered Cooperative Multi-Relay Networks with Relay Selection
Qiang Li and Shangjie Feng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Ashish Pandharipande (Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands); Qiang Ni (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Jing Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
Decode-and-Forward Two-Path Successive Relaying with Wireless Energy Harvesting
Chao Zhai and Lina Zheng (Shandong University, P.R. China); Peng Lan (Shandong Agricultural University, P.R. China); He Chen (University of Sydney, Australia); Hongji Xu (Shandong University, P.R. China)
Utility Maximization Models for Two-Hop Energy Relaying in Practical RF Harvesting Networks
Deepak Mishra and Swades De (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

Sunday, May 21, 11:00 - 12:30

WS02-S2: Keynote 2 and Paper Session

Room: 242B
Chair: Marco Maso (Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Huawei France Research Center, France)

Session starts with a 45 min keynote by Prof. Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland)

Energy Harvesting in Delay-Aware Cognitive Shared Access Networks
Zheng Chen and Nikolaos Pappas (Linköping University, Sweden); Marios Kountouris (Huawei Technologies, France)
Optimization of Base Stations Density for Hybrid Energy Based 3-D Wireless Networks
Aymen Omri and Mazen Omar Hasna (Qatar University, Qatar)
Simultaneous Information and Power Transfer under a Non-Linear RF Energy Harvesting Model
Xiaowei Xu, Ayca Ozcelikkale, Tomas McKelvey and Mats Viberg (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Sunday, May 21, 14:00 - 15:30

WS02-S3: Paper Session and Demo

Room: 242B
Chair: Axel Müller (Huawei Technologies, France)

Session concludes with a 45 min demonstration (RF Energy Powered Charging Station for Smartphones), by Prof. Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University).

Wireless Information and Energy Transfer under Temperature Constraints
Omur Ozel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA); Pulkit Grover (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Towards self-control of service rate for battery management in energy harvesting devices
Elvina Gindullina (University of Padova, Italy); Leonardo Badia (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
Simultaneously Charging Multiple Sensor Nodes in Multi-Antenna Wireless-Powered Sensor Networks
Kae Won Choi (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Phisca Rosyady, Lorenz Ginting and Arif Aziz (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea); Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea)

Sunday, May 21, 16:00 - 17:30

WS02-S4: Keynote 3 and Paper Session

Room: 242B
Chair: Axel Müller (Huawei Technologies, France)

Session starts with a 45 min keynote by Prof. Arumugam Nallanathan (King's College London)

Joint Optimization of Cognitive RF Energy Harvesting and Channel Access using Markovian Multi-Armed Bandit Problem
Fahira Sangare and Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Optimal Deployment for Roadside Wireless Charger with Bounded Detouring Cost
Xunpeng Rao (PLA University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Panlong Yang (Institute of Communication Engineering, PLAUST, P.R. China); Yubo Yan, Gang Liu, Maotian Zhang and Wanru Xu (PLA University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

WS03 - The 10th International Workshop on Evolutional Technologies & Ecosystems for 5G and Beyond (WDN-5G ICC2017)

Time Room 243

Sunday, May 21
09:00 am-10:30 am WS03-S1: Opening, Keynote 1, and Paper Session (Propagation & Signal Processing)
11:00 am-12:30 pm WS03-S2: Fronthaul & Backhaul
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WS03-S3: Keynote 2 and Paper Session (MEC & Networking)
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WS03-S4: Paper Session (Control Channel) and Panel Discussion

Sunday, May 21, 09:00 - 10:30

WS03-S1: Opening, Keynote 1, and Paper Session (Propagation & Signal Processing)

Room: 243
Chair: Gia Khanh Tran (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Millimeter Wave MIMO Channel Estimation Based on Adaptive Compressed Sensing
Shu Sun (NYU WIRELESS & New York University, USA); Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA)
Using Predictor Antennas for the Prediction of Small-scale Fading Provides an Order-of-Magnitude Improvement of Prediction Horizons
Joachim Björsell and Mikael Sternad (Uppsala University, Sweden); Michael Grieger (Airrays GmbH, Germany)
Noise Variance Estimation for 5G Wireless Networks under Pilot Contamination
Jorge Iscar (Florida International University, USA); Nadisanka Rupasinghe and Ismail Güvenç (North Carolina State University, USA); Sener Dikmese (Tampere University of Technology, Finland & North Carolina State University, USA)

Sunday, May 21, 11:00 - 12:30

WS03-S2: Fronthaul & Backhaul

Room: 243
Chair: Sergio Barbarossa (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Traffic Adaptive Formation of mmWave Meshed Backhaul Networks
Hiroaki Ogawa and Gia Khanh Tran (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Kei Sakaguchi (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Thomas Haustein (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany)
Empirical Investigation of IEEE 802.11ad Network
Kien Nguyen, Mirza Golam Kibria, Kentaro Ishizu and Fumihide Kojima (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Resource Allocation for Self-Backhauled Networks with Half-duplex Small Cells
Richa Gupta (Nokia Siemens Networks, India); Suresh Kalyanasundaram (Nokia Networks, India)
Low Frequency Assist for mmWave Backhaul - The case for SDN resiliency mechanisms
Jonathan Vestin and Andreas J. Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Performance Improvement for OFDM-RoF Transported 60 GHz System using Spatial Diversity and Multiplexing
Usman Habib, Anthony Aighobahi, Manish Nair and Huiling Zhu (University of Kent, United Kingdom); Terry Quinlan and Stuart D Walker (University of Essex, United Kingdom); Nathan J Gomes (University of Kent, United Kingdom)

Sunday, May 21, 14:00 - 15:30

WS03-S3: Keynote 2 and Paper Session (MEC & Networking)

Room: 243
Chair: Kei Sakaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology & Fraunhofer HHI, Japan)
Enabling effective mobile edge computing using millimeter wave links
Sergio Barbarossa, Elena Ceci and Mattia Merluzzi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France)
Power Efficient RACH mechanism for Dense IoT Deployment
Samar Shailendra (Tata Consultancy Services, India); Aniruddh K (TCS Research & Innovation, India); Bighnaraj Panigrahi, Hemant Kumar Rath and Anantha Simha (Tata Consultancy Services, India)
Throughput Analysis of Cooperative Multi-Hop Underlay CRNs with Incremental Relaying
Hari Krishna Boddapati (IIT Delhi, India); Shankar Prakriya (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Manav Bhatnagar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

Sunday, May 21, 16:00 - 17:30

WS03-S4: Paper Session (Control Channel) and Panel Discussion

Room: 243
Chair: Kei Sakaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology & Fraunhofer HHI, Japan)

Panel discussion is about "Evolutional Technologies & Ecosystems for 5G and Beyond".
A Control method for autonomous mobility management systems toward 5G mobile networks
Daichi Kominami (Osaka University, Japan); Takanori Iwai (NEC Corporation, Japan); Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC, Japan); Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan)
Control Channel Enhancements for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications
Hamidreza Shariatmadari (Aalto University, Finland); Zexian Li (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland); Sassan Iraji (Aalto University, Finland); Mikko Uusitalo (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland); Riku Jäntti (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland)

WS04 - International Workshop on the Main Trends in 5G Networks (MT5Gnet)

Time Room 252A

Sunday, May 21
09:00 am-10:30 am WS04-S1: Paper Session (Operators & 5G Networks) and Keynote: Eric Hardouin
11:00 am-12:30 pm WS04-S2: Paper Session (MIMO Channel for 5G Networks) and Keynote: Merouane Debbah
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WS04-S3: Paper Session (Modulation Trends in 5G Networks) and Keynote: Geng Wu
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WS04-S4: Reshaping Networks for 5G

Sunday, May 21, 09:00 - 10:30

WS04-S1: Paper Session (Operators & 5G Networks) and Keynote: Eric Hardouin

Room: 252A
Chair: Afef Feki (France Research Center, Huawei Technologies, France)
Fairness in Future Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) LTE Networks: What Happens When Operators Have Different Channel Access Priorities?
Abdel-karim Ajami (American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon); Hassan A. Artail (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Inter-Operator Infrastructure Sharing: Trade-offs and Market
Tachporn Sanguanpuak (University of Oulu, Finland); Sudarshan Guruacharya and Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada); Matti Latva-aho (UoOulu, Finland)
Delay Minimization in Dynamic and Scalable Multi-operator Wireless Backhauling
Dídac Surís and Josep Vidal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Adrian Agustin (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain)

Sunday, May 21, 11:00 - 12:30

WS04-S2: Paper Session (MIMO Channel for 5G Networks) and Keynote: Merouane Debbah

Room: 252A
Chair: Jie Li (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
An Enhanced Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding Scheme for High-order MU-MIMO Transmissions in 5G Networks
Xin Wang and Xiaolin Hou (DOCOMO Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd, P.R. China); Huiling Jiang and Lan Chen (DOCOMO Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd., P.R. China)
Enhanced Time-shifted Pilot based Channel Estimation in Massive MIMO Systems with Finite Number of Antennas
Liang Wu and Zaichen Zhang (Southeast University, P.R. China); Jian Dang (Southeast University & National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, P.R. China); Huaping Liu (Oregon State University, USA)
Indoor Office Wideband Penetration Loss Measurements at 73 GHz
Jacqueline Ryan, George R MacCartney, Jr. and Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA)

Sunday, May 21, 14:00 - 15:30

WS04-S3: Paper Session (Modulation Trends in 5G Networks) and Keynote: Geng Wu

Room: 252A
Chair: Rath Vannithamby (Intel, USA)
5G Wireless and Wired Convergence in a Passive Optical Network using UF-OFDM and GFDM
Colm Browning (DCU, Ireland); Arman Farhang (CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Arsalan Saljoghei (Dublin City University & RINCE Institute, Ireland); Nicola Marchetti (CTVR Trinity College, Ireland); Vidak Vujicic (Dublin City University, Ireland); Linda Doyle (Trinity Collage Dublin, Ireland); Liam Barry (Dublin City University, Ireland)
WOLA processing: a useful tool for windowed waveforms in 5G with relaxed synchronicity
Yahia Medjahdi (Cnam, France); Rafik Zayani (Innov'COM, Sup'Com, Tunisia); Hmaied Shaiek (CNAM, France); Daniel Roviras (Cnam, France)
On Energy Efficiency Optimization in Downlink MIMO-NOMA
Pan Wu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Jie Zeng and Xin Su (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Hui Gao and Tiejun Lv (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Sunday, May 21, 16:00 - 17:30

WS04-S4: Reshaping Networks for 5G

Room: 252A
Chair: Hmaied Shaiek (CNAM, France)
Consistent-Estimated Eigenvalues Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Dense Cognitive Small Cell Network
Meng Zhao, Caili Guo, Chunyan Feng and Shuo Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
A Two-level Auction for C-RAN Resource Allocation
Mira Morcos (France, France); Tijani Chahed (Telecom SudParis, France); Lin Chen (The University of Paris-Sud, France); Jocelyne Elias (Paris Descartes University & Sorbonne Paris Cité, France); Fabio Martignon (Université Paris-Sud, France)
On the Performance of Directional Communications in Ultra-Dense Networks
Arvind Merwaday (Intel); Rath Vannithamby (Intel, USA); Mohammad Mamunur Rashid, Yi Zhang and Clark Chen (Intel Corporation, USA); Xiaoyun WU (Intel Communication Technology Lab (Beijing), P.R. China)
Novel Concept of D2D Mobility Modeling utilizing Biological Cell Jamming/Unjamming Paradigm
Subharthi Banerjee, Michael Hempel and Hamid Sharif (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Ultra-Reliable PPDR Broadcast using Licensed Simultaneously Shared Access Networks
Vinay Gupta (VIT University, India); Aditya Pradeep (IIT Madras, India); Krishna M (Vellore Institute of Technology, India); Muthulakshmi C (PSG College of Technology, India); Kaushik C, C R Venkatesh and K Giridhar (IIT Madras, India)

WS05 - International Workshop on Application of Green Techniques to Emerging Communication and Computing Paradigms (GCC)

Time Room 252B

Sunday, May 21
09:00 am-10:30 am WS05-S1: Keyniote 1 and Paper Session (Green Applications and More)
11:00 am-12:30 pm WS05-S2: Green 5G and PHY
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WS05-S3: Keynote 2 and Paper Session (Green Networking and Transport)
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WS05-S4: Green Scheduling

Sunday, May 21, 09:00 - 10:30

WS05-S1: Keyniote 1 and Paper Session (Green Applications and More)

Room: 252B
Chair: Cicek Cavdar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Uplink Adaptive Multimedia Delivery (UAMD) scheme for video sensor network
Bao Trinh and Liam Murphy (University College Dublin, Ireland); Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland)
SleepyCAM: Power Management Mechanism for Wireless Video-Surveillance Cameras
Tenager Mekonnen, Erkki Harjula and Timo Koskela (University of Oulu, Finland); Mika E Ylianttila (University of Oulu & Centre for Wireless Communications, Finland)
traffic offloading based energy saving market for cellular operators
M. M. Aftab Hossain (KTH University, Sweden); Cicek Cavdar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Riku Jäntti (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland)

Sunday, May 21, 11:00 - 12:30

WS05-S2: Green 5G and PHY

Room: 252B
Chair: Martin Jacobsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Uppsala University, Sweden)
The Radio Waves Display: an Intuitive Way to Show Green Techniques for 5G to the General Public
Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy (Orange-France Telecom, France); Nadine Malhouroux (France Telecom Research & Development, France); Jean Rioult (IFSTTAR, France); Yvan Kokar (IETR-INSA Rennes, France); Jean-Christophe Prévotet (INSA, France); Alain Le Cornec and Azeddine Gati (Orange Labs, France); Thierry Sarrebourse (Orange-France Telecom, France); Patrice Pajusco (TELECOM Bretagne, France); Maryline Hélard (INSA Rennes & IETR Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, France)
Secure SWIPT in MISO Downlink System with Energy Efficiency Constraint
Xixi Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Hui Tian (Beijng university of posts and telecommunications, P.R. China); Cheng Qin and Huang Zhaolong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Energy Efficiency and Spectral-Efficiency Tradeoff in Downlink NOMA Systems
Qian Liu, Fangqing Tan, Tiejun Lv and Hui Gao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Polar Modulation Based Reduction of Communications Energy Consumption
Earl McCune (RF Communications Consulting & Eridan Communications, USA)

Sunday, May 21, 14:00 - 15:30

WS05-S3: Keynote 2 and Paper Session (Green Networking and Transport)

Room: 252B
A Programmable Energy Efficient 40 Gb/s Switch Using Frequency Scaling and OpenFlow
Pengcheng Liu and Ali Ghiasian (Dublin City University); Xiaojun Wang and Martin Collier (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Green Control of Network Nodes with TCAM-ALG
Mariusz Zal and Filip Idzikowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Robust Header Compression Version 2 Power Consumption on Android Devices via Tunnelling
Máté Tömösközi (Technische Universität Dresden & Acticom GmbH, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Germany); Patrick Seeling (Central Michigan University, USA); Péter Ekler (BME, Hungary); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)

Sunday, May 21, 16:00 - 17:30

WS05-S4: Green Scheduling

Room: 252B
Chair: Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis, France)
Optimized LTE Data Transmission Procedures for IoT: Device Side Energy Consumption Analysis
Pilar Andres-Maldonado, Pablo Ameigeiras, Jonathan Prados, Juan J. Ramos-Muñoz and Juan M. Lopez-Soler (University of Granada, Spain)
Energy Efficient Scheduling for Loss Tolerant IoT Applications with Uninformed Transmitter
M. Majid Butt (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Eduard Jorswieck (TU Dresden, Germany); Nicola Marchetti (CTVR Trinity College, Ireland)
Fuzzy Logic Game-Theoretic Approach for Energy Efficient Operation in HetNets
Karthik Vasudeva (Florida International University, USA); Sener Dikmese (Tampere University of Technology, Finland & North Carolina State University, USA); Ismail Güvenç (North Carolina State University, USA); Abolfazl Mehbodniya (Tohoku University, Japan); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Fumiyuki Adachi (Tohoku University, Japan)
Energy Utilization Concerned Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Powered Communication Networks
Wei Fang and Mithun Mukherjee (Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Petrochemical Equipment Fault Diagnosis, P.R. China); Lei Shu (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, P.R. China); Zhangbing Zhou (Institute Telecom, France); Gerhard P Hancke (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Wireless Sensor with Data and Energy Packets
Yasin M Kadioglu and Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)

WS06 - Convergent Internet of Things On the Synergy of IoT Systems

Time Room 253

Sunday, May 21
09:00 am-10:30 am WS06-S1: Keynote
11:00 am-12:30 pm WS06-S2: C-IoT Architectures
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WS06-S3: Panel Discussion: On the convergence of IoT across Verticals
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WS06-S4: C-IoT Protocols

Sunday, May 21, 09:00 - 10:30

WS06-S1: Keynote

Room: 253
Chair: Sharief M.A. Oteafy (Queen's University, Canada)

Keynote talk by Prof. Shiwen Mao, followed by a Q&A session, and one paper presentation

Title: On contact-free vital sign measurement in healthcare Internet of Things

Speaker: Dr. Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, Auburn AL, USA

Mobile Caching-enabled Small-cells for Delay-tolerant e-Health Apps
Ayman Radwan (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Maria de Fatima Domingues (Instituto de Telecomunicações & University of Aveiro, Portugal); Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Sunday, May 21, 11:00 - 12:30

WS06-S2: C-IoT Architectures

Room: 253
Chair: Sharief M.A. Oteafy (Queen's University, Canada)
A Secure ICN-IoT Architecture
Sabrina Sicari and Alessandra Rizzardi (University of Insubria, Italy); Luigi Alfredo Grieco (Politecnico di Bari, Italy); Alberto Coen-Porisini (University of Insubria, Italy)
ICN-based Open, Distributed Data Market Place for Connected Vehicles: Challenges and Research Directions
Dennis Grewe and Marco Wagner (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany); Hannes Frey (Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
A Networking Scheme for an Internet of Things Integration Platform
Anderson Augusto Simiscuka and Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland)
 
 
The 3GPP NB-IoT system architecture for the Internet of Things
Almudena Diaz Zayas and Pedro Merino (University of Malaga, Spain)
Efficient Tree based Code Dissemination and Search Protocol for Small Subset of Sensors
Hiromu Asahina and Iwao Sasase (Keio University, Japan); Hisao Yamamoto (Tokyo City University, Japan)

Sunday, May 21, 14:00 - 15:30

WS06-S3: Panel Discussion: On the convergence of IoT across Verticals

Room: 253
Chair: Mervat Abu-Elkheir (Mansoura University, Egypt)
Panelists: Dr. Hossam Hassanein - Queen's University, Canada Dr. Filipo Sharevski - DePaul University, USA Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios - ATEITHE, Greece Dr. Ayman Radwan - Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal Dr. Abd-Elhamid Taha - AlFaisal University, Saudi Arabia

Sunday, May 21, 16:00 - 17:30

WS06-S4: C-IoT Protocols

Room: 253
Chair: Mervat Abu-Elkheir (Mansoura University, Egypt)
An Energy Efficient Centralized Scheduling Scheme in TSCH networks
Mike Ojo, Stefano Giordano and Giuseppe Portaluri (University of Pisa, Italy); Davide Adami (CNIT Pisa Research Unit, University of Pisa, Italy); Michele Pagano (University of Pisa, Italy)
Modelling and Optimisation of Packet Transmission Scheduling in M2M Communications
Carlos Pereira (Instituto de Telecomunicações & University of Porto, Portugal); Ana C Aguiar (University of Porto & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Graph-based Optimal Revenue Packet Scheduling in Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication
Yanyan Lu (Beijingy University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Qimei Cui and Yanzhao Hou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhenguo Gao (Harbin Engineering University, P.R. China); Yuhao Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
 
 
Adaptive Load Balanced Routing in Heterogeneous IoT Networks
Vijeth J Kotagi (IIT Madras, India); Fateh Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Siva Ram Murthy Chebiyyam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
A New Enhanced RPL Based Routing for Internet of Things
Baraq Ghaleb, Ahmed Y Al-Dubai, Isam Wadhaj and Elias Ekonomou (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom)

WS07 - IEEE ICC2017 Workshop on Flexible Networks (FlexNets)

Time Room 212/213

Sunday, May 21
09:00 am-10:30 am WS07-S1: Keynote and Technical Session
11:00 am-12:30 pm WS07-S2: Technical Session and Closing Talk

Sunday, May 21, 09:00 - 10:30

WS07-S1: Keynote and Technical Session

Room: 212/213
Chair: Ertan Onur (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
WS07-S1.1 Backhaul-aware Robust 3D Drone Placement in 5G+ Wireless Networks
Elham Kalantari (University of Ottawa, Canada); Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir (University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada); Abbas Yongacoglu (University of Ottawa, Canada)
WS07-S1.2 Joint Optimization of Path Selection and Link Scheduling for Millimeter Wave Transport Networks
Diego Huerfano (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Colombia); Ilker Demirkol (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Peter J Legg (Blu Wireless Technology, United Kingdom)
WS07-S1.3 Joint Optimization of Power Consumption and Load Balancing in Wireless Dynamic Network Architecture
Inosha Sugathapala (University of Oulu & Centre for Wireless Communication, Finland); Savo Glisic and Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland); Le-Nam Tran (Maynooth University, Ireland)
WS07-S1.4 Flexible dynamic Coordinated Scheduling in Virtual-RAN deployments
Niccolò Iardella, Giovanni Nardini, Giovanni Stea, Antonio Virdis, Antonio Frangioni and Laura Galli (University of Pisa, Italy); Dario Sabella (Intel, Germany); Francesco Mauro (Telecom Italia, Italy); Gian Michele Dell'Aera (Mobile Communication, Italy); Marco Caretti (Telecom Italia, Italy)
WS07-S1.5 Optimized Asymmetric Cooperation for Downlink Cloud Radio Access Network under per-Base Station Data Transfer Constraint
Fehmi Emre Kadan (Middle East Technical University, ASELSAN); Ali Özgür Yılmaz (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

Sunday, May 21, 11:00 - 12:30

WS07-S2: Technical Session and Closing Talk

Room: 212/213
Chair: Mehmet Yunus Dönmez (NETAS Telekomunikasyon A. S., Turkey)
Evolution of Bio-Socially Inspired Strategies in Support of Dynamic Spectrum Access
Mohammad Abu Shattal and Ala Al-Fuqaha (Western Michigan University, USA); Bilal Khan and Kirk Dombrowski (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Anna Wisniewska (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA)
Flexible Duplex in FDD Spectrum
Krishna Balachandran, Joseph Kang and Mehmet Kemal Karakayali (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Kiran M Rege (Nokia Bell Laboratories, USA)
Performance Evaluation of Single-Tier and Two-Tier Cloudlet Assisted Applications
Çağatay Sönmez (Bogazici University, Turkey); Atay Ozgovde (Galatasaray University, Turkey); Cem Ersoy (Bogazici University, Turkey)
vIoT: A First Step Towards a Shared, Multi-tenant IoT Infrastructure Architecture
Muneeb Ahmad (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Jalal Alowibdi (University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia); Muhammad Usman Ilyas (National University of Sciences and Technology & School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), Pakistan)
Delay Optimization of Computation Offloading in Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks
Mengyuan Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Hao Jin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Wireless Signal Processing and Network Laboratory, P.R. China); Chenglin Zhao and Dong Liang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

WS08 - 3rd International Workshop on Advanced PHY and MAC Technology for Super Dense Wireless Networks (CROWD-NET)

Time Room 212/213

Sunday, May 21
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WS08-S1: Introduction and Technical Session 1
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WS08-S2: Technical Session 2, Keynote, Panel Discussion

Sunday, May 21

Sunday, May 21, 14:00 - 15:30

WS08-S1: Introduction and Technical Session 1

Room: 212/213
Chairs: Yi Ma (University of Surrey, United Kingdom), Na Yi (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
3D Channel Propagation in Indoor Scenario with Tx Rooftop & Wall at 3.5 & 6 GHz
Yawei Yu, Jianhua Zhang and Xinzhuang Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yu Zhang (QUALCOMM, P.R. China)
Performance Impact of Antenna Height in Ultra-Dense Cellular Networks
Marcin Filo, Chuan Heng Foh, Seiamak Vahid and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
Highly Adaptive and Scalable Random Access Based on Idle-Time
Junhyuk Kim (KAIST, Korea); Nah-Oak Song (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea); Byung-Jae Kwak (QUI Inc.); Kyounghye Kim and June-Koo Kevin Rhee (KAIST, Korea)
Network Coding Scheme Behavior in a Vehicle-to-Vehicle Safety Message Dissemination
Imen Achour (University of Carthage, Tunisia); Tarek Bejaoui (University of Paris-Sud 11, France); Anthony Busson (Ecole Normale Supérieure & Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme, France); Sami Tabbane (Sup Telecom, Tunisia)
Using Secret Spreading Codes to Enhance Physical Layer Security in Wireless Communication
Qinghua Wang (Kristianstad University SWEDEN, Sweden)

Sunday, May 21, 16:00 - 17:30

WS08-S2: Technical Session 2, Keynote, Panel Discussion

Room: 212/213
Chairs: Yi Ma (University of Surrey, United Kingdom), Na Yi (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
Compute-and-Forward in Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Great Performance with Low Backhaul Load
Qinhui Huang and Alister G. Burr (University of York, United Kingdom)
MaMISO IBC Beamforming Design with Combined Channel Estimate and Covariance CSIT: a Large System Analysis
Wassim Tabikh and Dirk Slock (EURECOM, France); Yi Yuan-Wu (Orange Labs, France)
Deadline-Aware Wireless Sensor Network Routing The JLAT Metric
Halit Murat Gürsu (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)

WT01 - 5GArch 2017: 4th International Workshop on 5G Architecture

Time Room 242A

Thursday, May 25
09:00 am-10:30 am WT01-S1: Enabling Technologies
11:00 am-12:30 pm WT01-S2: RAN, Core and Transport
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WT01-S3: Virtualization and Related Techniques
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WT01-S4: Network Slicing and Panel Discussion

Thursday, May 25

Thursday, May 25, 09:00 - 10:30

WT01-S1: Enabling Technologies

Room: 242A
Chair: Matthew Valenti (West Virginia University, USA)
  • Wei Yu, "Network Architecture for Massive Connectivity "
  • David Estevez, "Terminal-centric aspects of network architecture"
  • Luiz da Silva, "Shared Networks: Performance Impacts and Resource Efficiencies among Mobile Operators"

Thursday, May 25, 11:00 - 12:30

WT01-S2: RAN, Core and Transport

Room: 242A
Chair: Marco Gramaglia (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
  • Cinzia Sartori, "From vision to reality - the evolution of 5G RAN architecture"
  • Artur Hecker, "5G Core Network Architecture: From the Slicing Evolution to the Support System Revolution"
  • Johannes Lessmann, "Challenges for the 5G Transport"

Thursday, May 25, 14:00 - 15:30

WT01-S3: Virtualization and Related Techniques

Room: 242A
Chair: David M Gutierrez-Estevez (Samsung Electronics, United Kingdom)
SONATA: Service Programming and Orchestration for Virtualized Software Networks
Sevil Dräxler (Paderborn University, Germany); Holger Karl (University of Paderborn, Germany); Manuel Peuster and Hadi Razzaghi Kouchaksaraei (Paderborn University, Germany); Michael Bredel and Johannes Lessmann (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany); Thomas Soenen (UGent - iMinds, Belgium); Wouter Tavernier (Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium); Sharon Mendel-Brin (Nokia & Nokia, Israel); George K Xilouris (NCSR Demokritos, Greece)
Analytical Modeling for Virtualized Network Functions
Jonathan Prados, Pablo Ameigeiras, Juan J. Ramos-Muñoz, Pilar Andres-Maldonado and Juan M. Lopez-Soler (University of Granada, Spain)
Design Aspects for 5G Architectures: The SESAME and COHERENT approach
Alexandros Kostopoulos (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. (OTE), Greece); Fang-Chun Kuo (Travelping, Germany); Roberto Riggio (FBK CREATE-NET, Italy); Navid Nikaein (Eurecom, France); Tao Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland LTD, Finland); Rebecca Steinert (RISE SICS AB, Sweden); Dorin Panaitopol (Thales Communications & Security (TCS), France); Giannis Chochliouros (OTE, Greece); Leonardo Goratti (FBK Create-Net, Italy); Ioannis Giannoulakis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); Jordi Pérez-Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain)
Optimal Functional Split Selection and Scheduling Policies in 5G Radio Access Networks
Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

Thursday, May 25, 16:00 - 17:30

WT01-S4: Network Slicing and Panel Discussion

Room: 242A
Chair: Peter Rost (Nokia Networks, Germany)

Panel discussion on future 5G architectures

Network Slicing with Flexible Mobility and QoS/QoE Support for 5G Networks
Faqir Zarrar Yousaf (NEC Laboratories, Europe, Germany); Marco Gramaglia (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Vasilis Friderikos (King's College London, United Kingdom); Borislava Gajic (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Dirk V Hugo (Telekom Innovation Laboratories & Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany); Bessem Sayadi (Nokia Bell-Labs, France); Vincenzo Sciancalepore (NEC Europe Ltd., Germany); Marcos Rates Crippa (Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
NESMO: Network Slicing Management and Orchestration Framework
Alisa Devlic, Ali Hamidian, Deng Liang, Mats Eriksson, Antonio Consoli and Jonas Lundstedt (Huawei Technologies, Sweden)

WT02 - 3rd International Workshop on 5G RAN Design

Time Room 242B

Thursday, May 25
09:00 am-10:30 am WT02-S1: Workshop Opening and Paper Session (Radio Resource Management)
11:00 am-12:30 pm WT02-S2: Keynote and Paper Session (Cloud RAN)
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WT02-S3: Keynote and Paper Session (Novel 5G Techniques)
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WT02-S4: Paper Session (Multi Antenna Aspects) and Panel Discussion

Thursday, May 25, 09:00 - 10:30

WT02-S1: Workshop Opening and Paper Session (Radio Resource Management)

Room: 242B
Chair: Olav Queseth (Ericsson Research, Sweden)
New Resource Allocation Techniques for Base Station Power Reduction in Orthogonal and Non-Orthogonal Multiplexing Systems
Joumana Farah and Elie Sfeir (Lebanese University, Faculty of Engineering, Lebanon); Charbel Abdel Nour and Catherine Douillard (IMT Atlantique, France)
Dynamic Uplink/Downlink Resource Management in Flexible Duplex-Enabled Wireless Networks
Qi Liao (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)
Design of Low-Latency Uplink MAC Scheduling for Massive MIMO-OFDM Systems
Min Huang (Intel Labs China, P.R. China); Fang Yuan (Intel labs, P.R. China); Hong Cheng (Intel Corporation, P.R. China); Xu Zhang (Intel Labs China, P.R. China)
Interference Aware Inter-Cell Rank Coordination for 5G Wide Area Networks
Nurul H. Mahmood (Aalborg University, Denmark); Klaus Pedersen (Nokia - Bell Labs, Denmark); Preben Mogensen (Nokia Siemens Networks, Aalborg, Denmark)

Thursday, May 25, 11:00 - 12:30

WT02-S2: Keynote and Paper Session (Cloud RAN)

Room: 242B
Chair: Gerhard Wunder (FU Berlin, Heisenberg Communications and Information Theory Group, Germany)

Keynote: Mobile telecommunications ecosystem evolution with 5G

Statistical Multiplexing of Computations in C-RAN with Tradeoffs in Latency and Energy
Anders Kalør, Mauricio Agurto, Nuno K Pratas, Jimmy J Nielsen and Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Novel Resource and Energy Management for 5G Integrated Backhaul/Fronthaul (5G-Crosshaul)
Xi Li (NEC, Germany); Raihana Ferdous (FBK CREATE-NET, Italy); Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini and Claudio E. Casetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); F Moscatelli and Giada Landi (Nextworks, Italy); Ramon Casellas (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain); Kei Sakaguchi (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Shahzoob Bilal Chundrigar (ITRI, Taiwan); Ricard Vilalta (CTTC/CERCA, Spain); Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Andres Garcia-Saavedra (NEC Labs Europe, Germany); Xavier Costa-Perez (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany); Leonardo Goratti (FBK CREATE-NET, Italy); Domenico Siracusa (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
FRFT-SCFDMA Scheme for Uplink in 5G Radio Access Networks
Vinay Kumar Trivedi and Preetam Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India)
Dynamic Energy Savings in Cloud-RAN: An Experimental Assessment and Implementation
Christian Bluemm (CONNECT at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Yi Zhang (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Pedro Alvarez (CTVR, Trinity College, Ireland); Marco Ruffini (CTVR, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Luiz DaSilva (Trinity College & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Thursday, May 25, 14:00 - 15:30

WT02-S3: Keynote and Paper Session (Novel 5G Techniques)

Room: 242B
Chair: Miltiades C. Filippou (Intel Germany GmbH, Germany)

Keynote: 5G needs and requirements - A view from the car industry

An Enhanced LMMSE Channel Estimation under High Speed Railway Scenarios
Qing Tang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Hang Long (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China); Haojun Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yuli Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunicaitons, P.R. China)
MAC Layer Enhancements for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications in Cellular Networks
Guillermo Pocovi (Aalborg University, Denmark); Beatriz Soret (Nokia Bell Labs, Denmark); Klaus Pedersen (Nokia - Bell Labs, Denmark); Preben Mogensen (Nokia Siemens Networks, Aalborg, Denmark)
Context-aware Cluster Based Device-to-Device Communication to Serve Machine Type Communications
Ji Lianghai (Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany); Man Liu and Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Numerical Analysis for Joint PHY and MAC Perspective of Compressive Sensing Multi-User Detection with Coded Random Access
Yalei Ji, Carsten Bockelmann and Armin Dekorsy (University of Bremen, Germany)

Thursday, May 25, 16:00 - 17:30

WT02-S4: Paper Session (Multi Antenna Aspects) and Panel Discussion

Room: 242B
Chair: Gerhard Wunder (FU Berlin, Heisenberg Communications and Information Theory Group, Germany)
Energy-Efficient Coordinated Multi-Cell Multigroup Multicast Beamforming with Antenna Selection
Oskari Tervo (University of Oulu, Finland); Le-Nam Tran (Maynooth University, Ireland); Harri Pennanen (University of Oulu, Finland); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Antenna-Beam Spatial Transformation in C-RAN with Large Antenna Arrays
Zhiyuan Jiang, Sheng Zhou and Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
MIMO-OFDM for Small Cell Backhaul in the Presence of Synchronization Errors and Phase Noise
Xiaoming Chen and Andreas Wolfgang (Qamcom Research & Technology AB, Sweden); Ali Zaidi (Ericsson Research, Sweden)
MAC Rate Region of Low Resolution ADC Digital and Hybrid Beamforming Massive MIMO UL
Kilian Roth (Technische Universität München, Germany); Josef A. Nossek (TU Munich, Germany & Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil)

WT03 - 5th IEEE ICC Workshop on Advances in Network Localization and Navigation (ANLN)

Time Room 243

Thursday, May 25
09:00 am-10:30 am WT03-S1: Keynote1: José M. F. Moura and Paper Session (Signal Processing for Localization and Navigation)
11:00 am-12:30 pm WT03-S2: Fundamental Limits and Parameter Estimation Techniques
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WT03-S3: Keynote 2: Christos Laoudias and Interactive Session (Methods and Algorithms for Data fusion and Cooperative Localization)
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WT03-S4: Testbeds and Experimentation

Thursday, May 25, 09:00 - 10:30

WT03-S1: Keynote1: José M. F. Moura and Paper Session (Signal Processing for Localization and Navigation)

Room: 243
Chair: Moe Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
A Novel Message Passing Algorithm for Online Bayesian Filtering: Turbo Filtering
Giorgio M. Vitetta, Emilio Sirignano and Francesco Montorsi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Factor Graph Based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using Multipath Channel Information
Erik Leitinger (Lund University & Graz University of Technology, Austria); Florian Meyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Fredrik Tufvesson (Lund University, Sweden); Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Mitigating Unbalanced GDoP Effects in Range-Based Vehicular Cooperative Localization
Minh Gia Hoang (CEA-Leti Minatec & EURECOM, France); Benoit Denis (CEA-Leti Minatec, France); Jérôme Härri and Dirk Slock (EURECOM, France)

Thursday, May 25, 11:00 - 12:30

WT03-S2: Fundamental Limits and Parameter Estimation Techniques

Room: 243
Chair: Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
On the Trade-off Between Positioning and Data Rate for mm-Wave Communication
Giuseppe Destino (University of Oulu, Finland); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Towards Counting via Passive Radar using OFDM Waveforms
Stefania Bartoletti (ENDIF University of Ferrara, Italy); Andrea Conti (ENDIF University of Ferrara, WiLAB University of Bologna, Italy); Moe Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
On the Impact of Beamforming Strategy on mm-Wave Localization Performance Limits
Anna Guerra (University of Bologna, Italy); Francesco Guidi (CEA LETI, France); Davide Dardari (University of Bologna, Italy)
Impact of Frequency-Hopping NB-IoT Positioning in 4G and Future 5G Networks
José A. del Peral-Rosado (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain); José A. López-Salcedo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain); Gonzalo Seco-Granados (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Towards a Characterization of Localization Performance in Networks with Random Geometries
Christopher E O'Lone (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA)
Understanding the Efficiency of Cooperation in Location-aware Wireless Networks
Yifeng Xiong and Jingming Kuang (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Yuan Feng (Science Research Institute of China North Industries Group Corporation, P.R. China); Hua Wang (Modern Comm. Lab, P.R. China); Nan Wu (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

Thursday, May 25, 14:00 - 15:30

WT03-S3: Keynote 2: Christos Laoudias and Interactive Session (Methods and Algorithms for Data fusion and Cooperative Localization)

Room: 243
Chair: Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Probabilistic Multipath Mitigation in RSSI-based Direction-of-Arrival Estimation
Thorsten Nowak (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg); Markus Hartmann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Hans-Martin Tröger and Lucila Patino-Studencki (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Jörn Thielecke (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Direct Position Determination of Multiple Targets via Reduced-dimension Beamspace
Zihang Cheng (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yunlong Wang (National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological Research Center, P.R. China); Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Weighted Online Calibration for Odometry of Mobile Robots
Grigori Goronzy (Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Horst Hellbrueck (Lübeck University of Applied Sciences & CoSA Research Group, Germany)
Experimental Results of a Combined TDOA/TOF Technique for UWB Based Localization Systems
Rami Mazraani (AED Engineering, Germany); Daniel Knobloch (BMW, Germany); Leonardo Govoni and Manuel Saez (AED Engineering, Germany)
Near-Far Field Multipath Spatial-Temporal Localisation
Evangelos Venieris and Athanassios Manikas (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Cholesky MDS: A Fast and Efficient Heterogeneous Localization Algorithm
Alireza Ghods, Giuseppe Abreu and Stefano Severi (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)
Location Privacy Protection in Asynchronous Localization Networks by Resource Allocation Approaches
Xiaojing Li, Tingting Zhang and Dan Ma (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School, P.R. China); Bin Cao (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)
Direct Multi-Array and Multi-Tone Positioning
Niels Hadaschik (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany); Benjamin Sackenreuter (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany); Marc Faßbinder (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany)

Thursday, May 25, 16:00 - 17:30

WT03-S4: Testbeds and Experimentation

Room: 243
Chair: Stefania Bartoletti (ENDIF University of Ferrara, Italy)
ORION: Orientation Estimation Using Commodity Wi-Fi
Mohamed Naoufal Mahfoudi (Université Cote d'Azur Inria Sophia Antipolis, France); Thierry Turletti (INRIA & Université Côte d'Azur, France); Thierry Parmentelat (INRIA & INRIA, France); Fabien Ferrero (University Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, LEAT & CREMANT, France); Leonardo Lizzi (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, LEAT, France); Robert Staraj (Universite Cote d'Azur, CNRS, LEAT, France); Walid Dabbous (INRIA, France)
Using DecaWave UWB Transceivers for High-accuracy Multipath-assisted Indoor Positioning
Josef Kulmer and Stefan Hinteregger (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Bernhard Grosswindhager (Technical University Graz, Austria); Michael Rath (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Mustafa Bakr (Technical University Graz, Austria); Erik Leitinger (Lund University & Graz University of Technology, Austria); Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Distributed Software Defined Radio Testbed for Real-time Emitter Localization and Tracking
Johannes Schmitz, Felix Bartsch, Manuel Hernández and Rudolf Mathar (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Tracking of frequency selectivity for device-free detection of multiple targets
Sanaz Kianoush (National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy); Stefano Savazzi (National Research Council of Italy (CNR) & Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Vittorio Rampa (IEIIT - CNR - Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Italy)
Synchronization of Wireless Sensor Networks Utilizing Broadcast Signal Time Stamps
Hans-Martin Tröger and Florian Schmittner (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Thorsten Nowak (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg); Joerg Robert (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Albert Heuberger (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Indoor Positioning based on Ranging Offset Model and Learning
Shenghong Li and Mark Hedley (CSIRO, Australia); Iain B. Collings (Macquarie University, Australia); David Humphrey (CSIRO, Australia)

WT04 - 5thIEEE International Workshop on Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms (SCPA 2017)

Time Room 252A

Thursday, May 25
09:00 am-10:30 am WT04-S1: Network Protocols and Algorithms
11:00 am-12:30 pm WT04-S2: IoT and D2D
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WT04-S3: Radio
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WT04-S4: Smart Systems and Security Issues

Thursday, May 25, 09:00 - 10:30

WT04-S1: Network Protocols and Algorithms

Room: 252A
Chair: Miran Taha (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
A Novel Approach for Shared Resource Allocation with Wireless Network Virtualization
Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)
Including Artificial Intelligence in a Routing Protocol Using Software Defined Networks
Sandra Sendra (Universidad de Granada, Spain); Abert Rego (Universidad Politécncia de Valencia, Spain); Jaime Lloret (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Jose M. Jimenez (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain); Oscar Romero (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Density-Based Threshold Algorithm in Vehicular ad-hoc Networks
Weijia Li, Xin Zhang, Zhongyi Shen, Meng Zhang and Dacheng Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
DMTCP: Deadline Aware Multipath TCP
Chengyuan Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, P.R. China); Jiao Zhang, Tao Huang and Yunjie Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Low-Degree-Preferential Random Walk for Information Search
Shigeo Shioda (Chiba University, Japan)
Sleep Scheduling for Critical Nodes in Group-based Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks
Di Wang (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, P.R. China); Mithun Mukherjee (Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Petrochemical Equipment Fault Diagnosis, P.R. China); Lei Shu (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, P.R. China); Yu Chen (Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, P.R. China); Gerhard Hancke (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Thursday, May 25, 11:00 - 12:30

WT04-S2: IoT and D2D

Room: 252A
Chair: Sandra Sendra (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Internet of Things (IoT) Design Considerations for Developer and Manufacturers
Bilal Javed and Waseem Iqbal (National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan); Haider Abbas (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan)
An Intelligent handover process algorithm in 5G networks: The use case of mobile cameras for environmental surveillance
Miran Taha and Lorena Parra (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Laura Garcia and Jaime Lloret (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
QoE-Driven Distributed Media Services in D2D Communications Underlaying Cellular Networks
Mingkai Chen, Lei Wang and Jianxin Chen (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Social-aware Distributed Joint Mode Selection and Link Allocation for Mobile D2D Communications
Dan Wu (Institute of Communications Engineering, PLAUST, P.R. China); Liang Zhou (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yueming Cai (Institute of Communications Engineering, PLAUST, P.R. China)
Rate-Distortion Classification for Self-Tuning IoT Networks
Davide Zordan, Michele Rossi and Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy)
Efficient Low Cost Supervisory System for Internet of Things Enabled Smart Home
Md Kamal (Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Sazia Parvin (University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia); Kashif Saleem (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Hussam Al-Hamadi (Khalifa University & Information Security Research Center, United Arab Emirates (UAE)); Amjad Gawanmeh (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates (UAE))

Thursday, May 25, 14:00 - 15:30

WT04-S3: Radio

Room: 252A
Chairs: Jaime Lloret (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) and Bala Krishna Maddali (USICT, Guru Gobind Singh Indrasprastha University, New Delhi, India)
Admission Control for Multi-tenant Radio Access Networks
Jordi Pérez-Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Oriol Sallent, Ramon Ferrús and Ramon Agustí (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
A Secure and Reliable Coding Scheme over Wireless Links in Cyber-Physical Systems
Zechen Zhang, Wei Peng and Song Liu (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)
An Adaptive Resource Allocation Technique with Admission Control for Cognitive Wi-Fi Networks
Samoda L Okanda Gamage, Jamil Y Khan and Duy T Ngo (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Ratio Adjustable Channel Hopping Enhancement for Heterogeneous Cognitive Radio Networks
Chih-Min Chao and Chia-Tsun Chen (National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan)
In-node Cognitive Power Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
Michele Chincoli and Antonio Liotta (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Interference Efficiency: A New Concept to Analyze the Performance of Cognitive Radio Networks
Mohammad Robat Mili (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Leila Musavian (University of Essex, United Kingdom)
Distributed Precedence Queuing for Efficient Spectrum Management in Cognitive Radio Networks
Bala Krishna Maddali (USICT, Guru Gobind Singh Indrasprastha University, New Delhi, India)

Thursday, May 25, 16:00 - 17:30

WT04-S4: Smart Systems and Security Issues

Room: 252A
Chair: Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Improved Performance of TC-OFDM-PLNC for PLCs Using Exact Derived Impulsive Noise PDFs
Ghanim Al-Rubaye, Charalampos C. Tsimenidis and Martin Johnston (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
An Encryption Aware Physical Layer Security System
Ozge Cepheli (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Guido Dartmann (University of Applied Sciences Trier, Germany); Gunes Karabulut Kurt (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Gerd H. Ascheid (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Lightweight Security Protocol for Health Monitoring in Ambient Assisted Living Environment
Hussam Al-Hamadi (Khalifa University & Information Security Research Center, United Arab Emirates (UAE)); Amjad Gawanmeh (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates (UAE)); Mahmoud Al-Qutayri (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates (UAE))
Social Location Privacy Protection Method in Vehicular Social Networks
Bidi Ying (University of Ottawa & Zhejiang Gongshang University, P.R. China); Amiya Nayak (SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada)
Modeling of a LTE and WIMAX Mobile Networks SINR-based Heterogeneous System - The Case of the Virtual University of Senegal
Papa Ba (University of Dakar, Senegal); Samuel Ouya (ESP, Senegal); Sidi Farssi (University of Dakar, Senegal); Amadou Maiga (University of Saint-Louis, Senegal); Abdourahmane Raimy (Department of Mathematics-Informatics, Senegal); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
R&D Projects Selection in Telecommunications Under Uncertainty and Resource Restrictions using Scheduling
Guilherme Marcondes (National Institute of Telecommunications - Inatel, Brazil); Rafael Leme (Federal University at Itajubá, Brazil)

WT05 - 1st International Workshop on Satellite Communications - Challenges and Integration in the 5G ecosystem

Time Room 212/213

Thursday, May 25
09:00 am-10:30 am WT05-S1: Keynote: Simon Watts and Paper Session (Satellite Communications and Technologies for Satcom / 5G Co-existence)
11:00 am-12:30 pm WT05-S2: Networking for 5G / Satcom Services and Integration in the 5G Ecosystem

Thursday, May 25, 09:00 - 10:30

WT05-S1: Keynote: Simon Watts and Paper Session (Satellite Communications and Technologies for Satcom / 5G Co-existence)

Room: 212/213
Chair: Constantinos B. Papadias (Athens Information Technology, Greece)
Channel model simulator for multi-antenna terrestrial links
Dimitrios Ntaikos, Bobby Gizas, George K. Papageorgiou and Constantinos B. Papadias (Athens Information Technology, Greece)
Beamforming with Superposition Coding in Multiple Antenna Satellite Communications
Xiaoyan Shi, John Thompson and Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Rong Ke Liu (Beihang University, P.R. China)
Variable Rate Multicarrier Schemes over Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial System
Akash Agarwal and Preetam Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India)
Carrier Allocation for Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Backhaul Networks
Eva Lagunas (University of Luxemburg - SnT, Luxembourg); Sina Maleki, Lei Lei, Christos G. Tsinos and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Thursday, May 25, 11:00 - 12:30

WT05-S2: Networking for 5G / Satcom Services and Integration in the 5G Ecosystem

Room: 212/213
Chair: Oriol Sallent (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Joint Flow Control and Link Scheduling in Hybrid Terrestrial-Satellite Wireless Backhauling Network
Musbah Shaat and Ana Pérez-Neira (CTTC, Spain)
Satellite-enabled LTE systems in LEO Constellations
Alessandro Guidotti and Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli (University of Bologna, Italy); Màrius Caus and Joan Bas (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Giulio Colavolpe (University of Parma, Italy); Tommaso Foggi (CNIT Research Unit, Italy); Stefano Cioni (European Space Agency & ESTEC, The Netherlands); Andrea Modenini (ESA, The Netherlands); Daniele Tarchi (University of Bologna, Italy)
Satellite Gateway Diversity in SDN/NFV-enabled satellite ground segment systems
Toufik Ahmed (CNRS-LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux-INP, France); Ramon Ferrús (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Riccardo Fedrizzi (FBK CREATE-NET, Italy); Oriol Sallent (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Nicolas Kuhn, Emmanuel Dubois and Patrick Gelard (CNES, France)
Towards SDN/NFV-enabled satellite ground segment systems: End-to-End Traffic Engineering Use Case
Ramon Ferrús and Oriol Sallent (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Toufik Ahmed (CNRS-LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux-INP, France); Riccardo Fedrizzi (FBK CREATE-NET, Italy)
Towards SDN/NFV-enabled satellite ground segment systems: Bandwidth on Demand Use Case
Toufik Ahmed (CNRS-LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux-INP, France); Ramon Ferrús (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Riccardo Fedrizzi (FBK CREATE-NET, Italy); Oriol Sallent (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

WT06 - Workshop on Integrating Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grid (ICT4SG)

Time Room 252B

Thursday, May 25
09:00 am-10:30 am WT06-S1: Plenary Talk: Petar Popovski and Paper Session (Communications for the Smart Grid)
11:00 am-12:30 pm WT06-S2: Plenary Talk: Andrea Tonello and Paper Session (Power Systems for the Smart Grid)
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WT06-S3: Data Analytics for the Smart Grid
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WT06-S4: Interactive Demo and Poster session and Final Discussion on Future Research Challenges

Thursday, May 25, 09:00 - 10:30

WT06-S1: Plenary Talk: Petar Popovski and Paper Session (Communications for the Smart Grid)

Room: 252B
Chair: Javier Matamoros (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain)
 
WT06-S1.1 Reliability Analysis of the Random Access Channel of LTE with Access Class Barring for Smart Grid Monitoring Traffic
Charalampos Kalalas (CTTC, Spain); Jesus Alonso-Zarate (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya - CTTC, Spain)
WT06-S1.2 Cooperative Slotted ALOHA for Massive M2M Random Access Using Directional Antennas
Aleksandar Mastilovic and Dejan Vukobratović (University of Novi Sad, Serbia); Dusan Jakovetic and Dragana Bajovic (BioSense Center, University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
WT06-S1.3 D2D Communications in LoRaWAN Low Power Wide Area Network: From Idea to Empirical Validation
Konstantin Mikhaylov and Juha Petäjäjärvi (University of Oulu, Finland); Jussi P Haapola (Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Ari T. Pouttu (Centre for Wireless Communications University of Oulu, Finland)

Thursday, May 25, 11:00 - 12:30

WT06-S2: Plenary Talk: Andrea Tonello and Paper Session (Power Systems for the Smart Grid)

Room: 252B
Chair: John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
An ADMM-based Regularized State Estimation Scheme for the Distribution Grid
Achilleas Tsitsimelis and Javier Matamoros (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain); Carles Antón-Haro (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)
ADMM-based Coordinated Decentralized Voltage Control Meets Practical Communication Systems
Jiangjiao Xu and Hongjian Sun (Durham University, United Kingdom)
Anti-Jamming Strategy for Distributed Microgrid Control based on Power Talk Communication
Pietro Danzi and Marko Angjelichinoski (Aalborg University, Denmark); Čedomir Stefanović (Aalborg University & University of Novi Sad, Denmark); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Thursday, May 25, 14:00 - 15:30

WT06-S3: Data Analytics for the Smart Grid

Room: 252B
Chair: Dejan Vukobratović (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
Incorporating User Utility in a Smart Microgrid with Distributed Generation and Elastic Demand
Ben Brooks (DNV GL, United Kingdom); Jing Jiang and Hongjian Sun (Durham University, United Kingdom)
Agent-based Model for Spot and Balancing Electricity Markets
Florian Kühnlenz (University of Oulu, Finland); Pedro Henrique Juliano Nardelli (University of Oulu & State University of Campinas, Finland)
Privacy-Preserving Quantization Learning for Distributed Binary Decision with Applications to Smart Meters
Maggie Mhanna (CNRS-CentraleSupelec-Université Paris Sud & Laboratoire de Signaux et Systèmes, France); Pierre Duhamel (Lss Supelec & CNRS, France); Pablo Piantanida (CentraleSupélec-CNRS-Université Paris-Sud, France)
Secure Data Collection in Smart Grid with Untrustworthy SWIPT Relay using Game Theory
Saptarshi Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Manav Bhatnagar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi (IIT Delhi, India)
Optimal Utilization of Storage Systems under Real-time Pricing
Amrit Singh Bedi (IIT Kanpur, India); Md. Waseem Ahmad and Ketan Rajawat (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Sandeep A (IIT Kanpur, India)

Thursday, May 25, 16:00 - 17:30

WT06-S4: Interactive Demo and Poster session and Final Discussion on Future Research Challenges

Room: 252B
Chair: Dejan Vukobratović (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
Admission and Scheduling Mechanism for Electric Vehicle Charging with Renewable Energy
Yuchang Wang (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

WT07 - Workshop on Full-Duplex Communications for Future Wireless Networks

Time Room 253

Thursday, May 25
09:00 am-10:30 am WT07-S1: Keynote 1: Yang-seok Choi and Paper Session (Full-Duplex MIMO)
11:00 am-12:30 pm WT07-S2: Full-Duplex Communications: Performance and Applications
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WT07-S3: Keynote 2: Harish Krishnaswamy and Paper Session (Full Duplex Communications)
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WT07-S4: PHY security and Full-Duplex Communications

Thursday, May 25, 09:00 - 10:30

WT07-S1: Keynote 1: Yang-seok Choi and Paper Session (Full-Duplex MIMO)

Room: 253
Chair: Hirley Alves (University of Oulu, Finland)
Full-Duplex versus Half-Duplex Large Scale Antenna System
Arman Shojaeifard and Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom); Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France); Gan Zheng (Loughborough University & University of Luxembourg, United Kingdom); Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom); Jie Tang (South China University of Technology, P.R. China)
Feasibility of Self-backhauling in Full-duplex Radio Access Systems under QoS Constraints
Dani Korpi (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Taneli Riihonen (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

Thursday, May 25, 11:00 - 12:30

WT07-S2: Full-Duplex Communications: Performance and Applications

Room: 253
Chair: Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Adaptive Mode Selection in Cognitive Buffer-Aided Full-Duplex Relay Networks with Imperfect Self-Interference Cancellation for Power and Delay Limited Cases
Mostafa Darabi (University of Tehran, Iran); Nima Namvar (North Carolina A&T State University, USA); Behrouz Maham (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Mérouane Debbah (Huawei, France)
A Cognitive Radio System with Adaptive Decoding and Full-Duplex Relaying at the Secondary Receiver
Marwa Chami, Mylene Pischella and Didier Le Ruyet (CNAM, France)
Improper Signaling in Two-Path Relay Channels
Mohamed Gaafar (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Osama Amin (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia); Rafael F. Schaefer (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
Full-Duplex Communications to Improve Platooning Control in Multi-Channel VANETs
Claudia Campolo and Antonella Molinaro (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Antoine O. Berthet (CentraleSupélec, France)
Suboptimal Radio Resource Management for Full-Duplex enabled Small Cells
Hassan Malik, Mir Ghoraishi and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)

Thursday, May 25, 14:00 - 15:30

WT07-S3: Keynote 2: Harish Krishnaswamy and Paper Session (Full Duplex Communications)

Room: 253
Chair: Melissa Duarte (Huawei Technologies France, France)
Compensation of ADC-induced Distortion in Broadband Full-Duplex Transceivers
Christian Schmidt (Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Eléctrica - CONICET - Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina); Gustavo J. González (CONICET & Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina); Fernando Gregorio and Juan E. Cousseau (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina); Taneli Riihonen and Risto Wichman (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland)
Measurement of Self-Interference Channels for Full-Duplex Relay in an Urban Scenario
Kun Wang and Ruonan Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Zhimeng Zhong (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Xiaomei Zhang (Huawei, P.R. China); Xiaoyan Pang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)

Thursday, May 25, 16:00 - 17:30

WT07-S4: PHY security and Full-Duplex Communications

Room: 253
Chairs: Taneli Riihonen (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland), Hirley Alves (University of Oulu, Finland)
On the Secrecy Degrees of Freedom with Full-Duplex Communication
Nurul H. Mahmood and Preben Mogensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Joint Power and Beam Optimization in a Multi-Carrier MIMO Wiretap Channel with Full-Duplex Jammer
Omid Taghizadeh (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Tianyu Yang (Institute for Theoretical Information Technology, RWTH Aachen, Germany); Rudolf Mathar (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Joint Transmitter- and Receiver-based Friendly Jamming in a MIMO Wiretap Interference Network
Peyman Siyari and Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA); Diep N. Nguyen (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Security Enhancement of Wireless Networks with Wireless-Powered Full-Duplex Relay and Friendly Jammer Nodes
Zahra Mobini (University of Shahrekord, Iran); Mohammadali Mohammadi (Shahrekord University, Iran); Chintha Tellambura (University of Alberta, Canada)

WT08 - Workshop on 5G Ultra Dense Networks

Time Room 212/213

Thursday, May 25
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WT08-S1: Keynote 1: Chih-Lin I, and Paper Session (Network Design and Optimization)
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WT08-S2: Resource Management and Device-to-Device in UDN

Thursday, May 25, 14:00 - 15:30

WT08-S1: Keynote 1: Chih-Lin I, and Paper Session (Network Design and Optimization)

Room: 212/213
Chair: Haijun Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China)
"Load Analysis and Sleep Mode Optimization for Energy-Efficient 5G Small Cell Networks
Haluk Celebi (Columbia University, USA); Ismail Güvenç (North Carolina State University, USA)
Impact of User Mobility on Transmit Power Control in Ultra Dense Networks
Weiqi Sun and Ying-lei Teng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Virtual Layer Technology for Ultra-Dense Networks
Jianchi Zhu (China Telecom, P.R. China); Da Wang (China Telecom Technology Innovation Center, P.R. China); Bei Yang (Technology Innovation Center of China Telecom, P.R. China); Xiaoming She (China Telecom Technology Innovation Center, P.R. China); Peng Chen (Technology Innovation Center, China Telecom Co. Ltd., P.R. China); Fengyi Yang (Technology Innovation Center, China Telecom Corp. Ltd, P.R. China); Qi Bi (China Telecom (Beijing Research Institute), P.R. China)

Thursday, May 25, 16:00 - 17:30

WT08-S2: Resource Management and Device-to-Device in UDN

Room: 212/213
Chair: Haijun Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China)
Multi-cell Device-to-Device Communication Benefits in the Presence of Densification
Marios Poulakis (University of Piraeus Greece, Greece); Antonis G Gotsis (University of Piraeus & Feron Technologies P. C., Greece); Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Mode Selection and Resource Allocation in Uplink Device-to-Device Enabled Cloud Radio Access Networks
Zhen Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yaohua Sun (Beijing University of posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Mugen Peng (Beijing University of posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Power Control for Multiple Interfering D2D Communications Underlaying Cellular Networks: An Approximate Interior Point Approach
Haichao Wang and Jinlong Wang (PLA University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Guoru Ding (Southeast University, P.R. China); Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Le Wang (PLA University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
Backhaul-Aware Optimal Access Selection for Traffic Offloading in Small-Cell Networks
Haohan Chai, Liping Qian and Yuan Wu (Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China); Haibo Zhou (University of Waterloo, Canada); Weidang Lu (Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China); Jianchao Zheng (Institute of Communications Engineering, PLA University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Changsheng Yu (Nokia Solutions and Networks System Technology, P.R. China)
A Two-Stage Allocation Scheme for Delay-Sensitive Services in Dense Vehicular Networks
Haojun Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Long Zhao (BUPT, P.R. China); Lei Lei (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Kan Zheng (Beijing University of Posts&Telecommunications, P.R. China)
A Multi-User Access Scheme for Throughput Enhancement in UDN with NOMA
Yiming Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunicaitons, P.R. China); Xi Li, Hong Ji and Heli Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

WT09 - Channel Coding for 5G and Future Networks

Time Room 231/232

Thursday, May 25
09:00 am-10:30 am WT09-S1: Keynote 1: Rüdiger Urbanke and Technical Session
11:00 am-12:30 pm WT09-S2: Technical Session and Closing Podium Discussion

Thursday, May 25, 09:00 - 10:30

WT09-S1: Keynote 1: Rüdiger Urbanke and Technical Session

Room: 231/232
Chair: Ingmar Land (Huawei Technologies, French Research Centre, France)
Adaptive Polar Coding with High Order Modulation for Block Fading Channels
Shuiyin Liu, Yi Hong and Emanuele Viterbo (Monash University, Australia)
Multi-Kernel Construction of Polar Codes
Frederic Gabry (Huawei Technologies, France Research Center, France); Valerio Bioglio (France Research Center, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Italy); Ingmar Land (Huawei Technologies, French Research Centre, France); Jean-Claude Belfiore (Telecom Paristech & Huawei Technologies, France)
On Puncturing Strategies for Polar Codes
Ludovic Chandesris (CEA-Leti/Minatec & ETIS, ENSEA/UCP/CNRS, France); Valentin Savin (CEA LETI, France); David Declercq (ETIS ENSEA/univ. of Cergy-Pontoise/CNRS, France)

Thursday, May 25, 11:00 - 12:30

WT09-S2: Technical Session and Closing Podium Discussion

Room: 231/232
Chair: Jean-Claude Belfiore (Telecom Paristech & Huawei Technologies, France)
Low-Complexity Concatenated Polar Codes with Excellent Scaling Behavior
Sung Whan Yoon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea); Jaekyun Moon (KAIST, Korea)
Trellis Coded Modulation for Informed Receivers
Xuepeng Xiao, Yi Hong, Emanuele Viterbo and Anindya Gupta (Monash University, Australia)
High Throughput FPGA Implementation for Regular Non-Surjective Finite Alphabet Iterative Decoders
Thien Truong Nguyen-Ly (CEA-LETI, France); Valentin Savin (CEA LETI, France); Xavier Popon (CEA-LETI, France); David Declercq (ETIS ENSEA/univ. of Cergy-Pontoise/CNRS, France)
Enhanced decoding for high-rate LTE Turbo-Codes with short block lengths
Stefan Weithoffer and Norbert Wehn (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

WT10 - Advanced Caching in Wireless Networks

Time Room 231M/232M

Thursday, May 25
02:00 pm-03:30 pm WT10-S1: Keynote 1: Giuseppe Caire and Paper Session (Coded Caching Fundamentals)
04:00 pm-05:30 pm WT10-S2: Keynote 2: Michael Heindlmaier and Paper Session (Advanced Caching Techniques)

Thursday, May 25

Thursday, May 25, 14:00 - 15:30

WT10-S1: Keynote 1: Giuseppe Caire and Paper Session (Coded Caching Fundamentals)

Room: 231/232
Chair: Mari Kobayashi (Supelec, France)
On Storage Allocation in Cache-Enabled Interference Channels with Mixed CSIT
Mohammad Ali Tahmasbi Nejad (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran); Babak Hossein Khalaj (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Novel Delivery Schemes for Decentralized Coded Caching in the Finite File Size Regime
Kai Wan (L2S - CNRS - Supelec - Univ Paris-Sud, France); Daniela Tuninetti (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); Pablo Piantanida (CentraleSupélec-CNRS-Université Paris-Sud, France)
Audience Retention Rate Aware Coded Video Caching
Qianqian Yang, Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri and Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)

Thursday, May 25, 16:00 - 17:30

WT10-S2: Keynote 2: Michael Heindlmaier and Paper Session (Advanced Caching Techniques)

Room: 231/232
Chair: Georgios S. Paschos (Huawei Technologies, France)
Viability of Wi-Fi Caches in an Era of HTTPS Prevalence
Christian Moldovan (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Valentin Burger (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Florian Metzger, Sebastian Surminski and Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
A Caching-based Incentive Mechanism for Cooperative Data Offloading
Qi Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Gui Lin (ShangHai JiaoTong University, P.R. China); Feng Tian and Fei Sun (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Successful Transmission Probability Analysis for Cache-Enabled Users in Mobile Networks
Ying-lei Teng, Qi Zhang, Liu Mengting and Mei Song (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)