April 1, 2016

Program

Program-at-a-Glance

Technical Program

Social Events

Wednesday, March 29

08:30 Registration – room B002

09:00 Opening Session room B002

  • Prof. João Falcão e Cunha, Dean of Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto
  • Prof. Manuel Ricardo and Dr. Rui Campos, Conference Chairs

09:30 Keynote 1 – Prof. Edward Knightly room B002

  • Scaling Wi-Fi for Next Generation Applications

Emerging Networks – room B002

Chair: Prof. Juan Carlos Cano, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

  • 11:00 Cooperation in Neighbor Discovery [Full Paper]
    Niels Karowski (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Andreas Willig (University of Canterbury, New Zealand); Adam Wolisz (TUB, Germany)
  • 11:30 Cooperative Communication Protocols With Energy Harvesting Relays [Full Paper]
    Zeina Mheich (Telecom Bretagne, France); Valentin Savin (CEA LETI, France)
  • 12:00 We don’t need no generation – a practical approach to sliding window RLNC [Full Paper]
    Simon Wunderlich (TU Dresden, Germany); Frank Gabriel (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Sreekrishna Pandi (TU Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden; ComNets – Communication Networks Group, Germany)
  • 12:30 Optimal UAV Relay Positions in Multi-Rate Networks [Full Paper]
    Erlend Larsen and Lars Landmark (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway); Øivind Kure (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway)

Wireless Communications I – room Sala de Atos

Chair: Prof. Ana Aguiar, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

  • 14:00 5G Massive MIMO with Digital Beamforming and Two-Stage Channel Estimation for Low SHF Band [Full Paper]
    Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Suyama, Tatsuki Okuyama, Jun Mashino and Yukihiko Okumura (NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan)
  • 14:30 A Simplified Widely Linear Iterative Equalizer for SC-FDE Systems [Full Paper]
    Bruno Chang (Federal University of Technology – Paraná, Brazil); Hermes I Del Monego, Anelise Munaretto and Mauro Fonseca (UTFPR, Brazil); Richard Demo Souza (Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil)
  • 15:00 Joint Channel Sensing and Power Control Scheme for Cognitive Radio Wireless Sensor Networks [Short Paper]
    Ziqiang Feng and Ian James Wassell (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Wireless Networks and Protocols I – room B032

Chair: Prof. Paul Muhlethaler, INRIA, France

  • 14:00 Software Defined Networking to Support IP Address Mobility in Future LTE Network [Full Paper]
    Morteza Karimzadeh (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Luca Valtulina (SpeakUp, The Netherlands); Hans van den Berg and Aiko Pras (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Marco Liebsch (NEC Europe Ltd, Germany); Tarik Taleb (Aalto University, Finland)
  • 14:30 Architecture for Achieving Multiple Diversity Gain for Latency Critical Applications [Short Paper]
    Matthias Lai (NewTec GmbH System-Entwicklung und Beratung; University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Germany); Thomas M. Wendt, Urban B Himmelsbach and Matthias Waßmer (University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Germany)
  • 14:45 Colour-Based Forwarding Scheme with Variable-Range Transmission Power in AODV [Short Paper]
    Atif A. Alghamdi (Heriot Watt University – Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Peter King (Heriot Watt University at Edinburgh UK, United Kingdom); Nawaf Mirza (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom)

 

Thursday, March 30

09:30 Keynote 2 – Prof. Falko Dresslerroom B032

  • The Tactile Internet and Its Impact on Cooperative Autonomous Driving

Sensor and Mesh Networks – room B032

Chair: Prof. Thierry Gayraud, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, LAAS-CNRS, France

  • 11:00 Node Ranking in Wireless Sensor Networks with Linear Topology [Full Paper]
    Rodrigue Domga Komguem (Université de Yaoundé I, Cameroon; Université de Lyon – INSA Lyon, France); Razvan Stanica (INSA Lyon, France); Maurice Tchuente (University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon); Fabrice Valois (Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI, France)
  • 11:30 Stub Wireless Multi-hop Networks using Self-configurable Wi-Fi Basic Service Set Cascading [Full Paper]
    Pedro Júlio and Filipe Ribeiro (INESC TEC, Portugal); Jaime Dias (INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal); Jorge Mamede (Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto / INESC Porto, Portugal); Rui Campos (INESC TEC and Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal)
  • 12:00 A Traffic-aware Solution for Green Wireless Video Sensor Networks [Full Paper]
    Filipe Sousa (Fraunhofer Portugal, Portugal); João Dias (Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal); Filipe Ribeiro (INESC TEC, Portugal); Rui Campos (INESC TEC and Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal); Manuel Pereira Ricardo (Universidade do Porto; INESC Porto, Portugal)
  • 12:30 Give Me a Hint: An ID-Free Small Data Transmission Protocol for Dense IoT Devices [Full Paper]
    Yi Ren, Ren-Jie Wu and Teng-Wei Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)

Poster Session (14:00)

  • A Named Data Approach for DTN Routing
    Yaoxing Li and Yuhong Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Lars C Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Anders Lindgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
  • Data-Driven Faulty Node Detection Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
    Muhammad Royyan, Joong-Hyuk Cha, Jae Min Lee and Dong Seong Kim (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea)
  • Energy efficiency in sleep mode for 5G femtocells
    Christos J Bouras (University of Patras CTI;P-Diophantus; University of Patras, Greece); Georgios Diles (Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept., University of Patras, Greece)
  • Evaluation of Inter-vehicle Connectivity in Three-dimensional Cases
    Lisa Kristiana (University of Zürich, Switzerland); Corinna Schmitt (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich; ETH Zürich, TIK, Switzerland)
  • Data Freshness Aware Content-Centric Networking in WSNs
    Ghada Jaber (University of Toulouse, France); Rahim Kacimi (IRIT/UPS, University of Toulouse, France); Thierry Gayraud (LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, France)
  • On the Prediction of Electric Vehicles Energy Demand by using Vehicular Networks
    Vicente Torres-Sanz, Julio A. Sanguesa, Piedad Garrido and Francisco J. Martinez (University of Zaragoza, Spain); Carlos T. Calafate (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Johann M. Marquez-Barja (Trinity College Dublin; CONNECT Centre for Future Networks, Ireland)
  • Performance Evaluation of Receiver Directed Transmission Protocol with a Single transceiver in MANET
    Nawaf Mirza and Mohamed Abdelshafy (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom); Peter King (Heriot Watt University at Edinburgh UK, United Kingdom)
  • Rapid Prototyping of Cooperative Caching in a VANET: A Case Study
    Stephen Glass, Imad Mahgoub and Monika Rathod (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
  • Secure Decentralized IoT Infrastructure
    Vasco Santos (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); João Paulo Barraca (University of Aveiro, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Diogo Gomes (Universidade de Aveiro, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
  • Self-Similarity of Data Traffic in a Delay Tolerant Network
    Somreeta Pramanik and Raja Datta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Puspal Chatterjee (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India)
  • Wireless Sensor Network Clustering for UAV-based Data Gathering
    Celia Tazibt (Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria); Mustapha Bekhti (Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France); Tounsia Djamah (University M.Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou, Tizi- Ouzou, Algeria); Nadjib Achir (University of Paris 13; L2TI – University of Paris 13, France); Khaled Boussetta (University of Paris 13, France)

Wireless Communications II – room Sala de Atos

Chair: Prof. André-Luc Beylot, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, France

  • 14:30 Exploiting Reciprocal Channel Estimations for Jamming to Secure Wireless Communications [Full Paper]
    Gustavo Anjos (Universidade de Aveiro; Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Daniel Castanheira and Adão Silva (Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)/University of Aveiro, Portugal); Atílio Gameiro (Instituto de Telecomunicações / Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
  • 15:00 Cyclostationary-Based Cooperative Compressed Wideband Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks [Full Paper]
    Osama Elnahas Helaly (EJUST, Egypt); Maha Elsabrouty (Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology, Egypt)
  • 15:30 D2D Discovery Approach based on Spreading Technique for Public Safety [Short Paper]
    Fatma Louati (ESPRIT, Tunisia); Linda Ben Rached (Esprit, Tunisia); Meriem Chekir (ESPRIT School of Engineering, Tunisia); Hichem Besbes (Ecole Superieure de Communications de Tunis, Sup’Com, University of Carthage, TUNISIA, Tunisia)
  • 15:45 2.4 GHz Single Anchor Node Indoor Localization System with Angle of Arrival Fingerprinting [Short Paper]
    Stijn Wielandt (KU Leuven, Belgium); Manish Vikash Shah, Nazeer Akram Athaullah, Uzair Mubarak Sayyad, Ravi Bhushan Yadav and Rahul Mahesh Dharamdasani (University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany); Lieven De Strycker (KU Leuven, Belgium); Michael Kuhn (University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany)

Wireless Models and simulation I – room B032

Chair: Prof. Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

  • 14:30 ARMA based Popularity Prediction for Caching in Content Delivery Networks [Full Paper]
    Nesrine Ben Hassine (INRIA, France); Ruben Milocco (GCAyS / UNCOMA, Argentina); Pascale Minet (INRIA, France)
  • 15:00 A Greedy Approach for Resource Allocation in Virtual Sensor Networks [Full Paper]
    Sonda Bousnina (Politecnico di Milano; DEIB, Italy); Matteo Cesana (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Jorge Ortín (Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza, Spain); Carmen Delgado, José Ramón Gállego and Maria Canales (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
  • 15:30 Game Theory Based Secure Wireless Powered D2D Communications with Cooperative Jamming [Short Paper]
    Zheng Chu (Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom); Huan X Nguyen, Tuan Anh Le and Mehmet Karamanoglu (Middlesex University, United Kingdom); Duc To (Cobham Wireless, United Kingdom); Enver Ever (Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus, Turkey); Fadi M. Al-Turjman (Middle East Technical University, NCC, Turkey); Adnan Yazici (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
  • 15:45 Payload-Size and Deadline-Aware Scheduling for Time-critical Cyber Physical Systems [Short Paper]
    Marcus Haferkamp, Benjamin Sliwa and Christoph Ide (TU Dortmund University, Germany); Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University; Communication Networks Institute, Germany)

Wireless Communications III – room Sala de Atos

Chair: Prof. Bruno Chang, Federal University of Technology – Paraná, Brasil

  • 16:30 Weighted Rank Constrained Rank Minimization Interference Alignment for 3-Tier Downlink Heterogeneous Networks [Full Paper]
    Ahmed Benaya (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt); Maha Elsabrouty (Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology, Egypt)
  • 17:00 Interference of Simulated IEEE 802.11 Links with Directional Antennas [Full Paper]
    Michael Rademacher (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Karl Jonas (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences; Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)
  • 17:30 Performance Evaluation of Antennas for Underwater Applications [Short Paper]
    Oluyomi Aboderin (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto; INESC TEC, Portugal); Luis Pessoa (University of Porto; INESC TEC, Portugal); Henrique M Salgado (University of Porto; INESC Porto, Portugal)

Wireless Models and simulation II – room B032

Chair: Prof. Edmundo Monteiro, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

  • 16:30 Simulation of Partial Replication in Distributed Transactional Memory [Full Paper]
    Diogo Lima (LaSIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa; Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Portugal); Hugo Miranda (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal); Francois Taiani (University of Renne 1, United Kingdom)
  • 17:00 Content Distribution Emulation for Vehicular Networks [Short Paper]
    Gonçalo Pessoa and Ricardo Dias (Instituto de Telecomunicações-IT, Aveiro, Portugal); Tiago Condeixa and João Azevedo (Veniam, Portugal); Lucas Guardalben (University of Aveiro; Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Susana Sargento (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
  • 17:15 Opportunistic Service Composition in Pervasive Networks [Short Paper]
    Fadhlallah Baklouti (University of south Brittany (UBS), France); Nicolas Le Sommer (IRISA, Université de Bretagne Sud, France); Yves Mahéo (IRISA, Université Bretagne Sud, France)
  • 17:30 Spectrum Sharing Auction Platform for Short-term Licensed Shared Access [Short Paper]
    Shun-Cheng Zhan, Shi-Chung Chang and Chun-Ting Chou (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Zsehong Tsai (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

 

Friday, March 31

09:30 Keynote 3 – Prof. Christian Wietfield room B032

  • Wireless Networking for Cyber Physical Systems – Providing Reliable Connectivity in Challenging Environments

Vehicular Networks – room B032

Chair: Prof. Nadjib Achir, Université Paris 13, France

  • 11:00 Multihoming for Uplink Communications in Vehicular Networks [Full Paper]
    Francisco Castro (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); André Martins and Nelson Capela (Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro, Portugal); Susana Sargento (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
  • 11:30 Performance Study of CAM over IEEE 802.11p for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control [Full Paper]
    Oyunchimeg Shagdar (VEDECOM, France); Fawzi Nashashibi (INRIA, France); Samir Tohme (Universite de Versailles UVSQ, France)
  • 12:00 Estimating Rainfall Intensity by Using Vehicles as Sensors [Full Paper]
    Carlos T. Calafate (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Karin Cicenia (Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain); Oscar Alvear (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain; Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador); Juan-Carlos Cano (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Pietro Manzoni (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
  • 12:30 DTN-based Vehicular Cloud for Post-disaster Information Sharing [Full Paper]
    Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Tsutomu Yoshinaga (University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Poster Session (14:00)

  • A Named Data Approach for DTN Routing
    Yaoxing Li and Yuhong Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Lars C Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Anders Lindgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
  • Data-Driven Faulty Node Detection Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
    Muhammad Royyan, Joong-Hyuk Cha, Jae Min Lee and Dong Seong Kim (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea)
  • Energy efficiency in sleep mode for 5G femtocells
    Christos J Bouras (University of Patras CTI;P-Diophantus; University of Patras, Greece); Georgios Diles (Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept., University of Patras, Greece)
  • Evaluation of Inter-vehicle Connectivity in Three-dimensional Cases
    Lisa Kristiana (University of Zürich, Switzerland); Corinna Schmitt (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich; ETH Zürich, TIK, Switzerland)
  • Freshness Aware Content-Centric Networking for Multi-user WSNs
    Ghada Jaber (University of Toulouse, France); Rahim Kacimi (IRIT/UPS, University of Toulouse, France); Thierry Gayraud (LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, France)
  • On the Prediction of Electric Vehicles Energy Demand by using Vehicular Networks
    Vicente Torres-Sanz, Julio A. Sanguesa, Piedad Garrido and Francisco J. Martinez (University of Zaragoza, Spain); Carlos T. Calafate (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Johann M. Marquez-Barja (Trinity College Dublin; CONNECT Centre for Future Networks, Ireland)
  • Performance Evaluation of Receiver Directed Transmission Protocol with a Single transceiver in MANET
    Nawaf Mirza and Mohamed Abdelshafy (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom); Peter King (Heriot Watt University at Edinburgh UK, United Kingdom)
  • Rapid Prototyping of Cooperative Caching in a VANET: A Case Study
    Stephen Glass, Imad Mahgoub and Monika Rathod (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
  • Secure Decentralized IoT Infrastructure
    Vasco Santos (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); João Paulo Barraca (University of Aveiro, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Diogo Gomes (Universidade de Aveiro, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
  • Self-Similarity of Data Traffic in a Delay Tolerant Network
    Somreeta Pramanik and Raja Datta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Puspal Chatterjee (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India)
  • Wireless Sensor Network Clustering for UAV-based Data Gathering
    Celia Tazibt (Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria); Mustapha Bekhti (Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France); Tounsia Djamah (University M.Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou, Tizi- Ouzou, Algeria); Nadjib Achir (University of Paris 13; L2TI – University of Paris 13, France); Khaled Boussetta (University of Paris 13, France)

Wireless Communications IV – room Sala de Atos

Chair: Dr. Luís Pessoa, INESC TEC and Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

  • 14:30 Cooperative Multi-Relay Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Downlink Transmission in 5G Communication Systems [Full Paper]
    Ahmad Gendia (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST); Valeo, Egypt); Maha Elsabrouty (Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology, Egypt); Ahmed Emran (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt)
  • 15:00 User Selection and Power Allocation for Guaranteed SIC Detection in Downlink Beamforming Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access [Full Paper]
    Abdelsalam Sayed ahmed (Ejust, Egypt); Maha Elsabrouty (Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology, Egypt)
  • 15:30 Wireless Internet Service Providing for 5G with Hybrid TV Broadcast and Visible Light Communications [Short Paper]
    Burhan Gulbahar (Ozyegin University, Turkey); Sezgin Şencan (Vestel Electronics Co.; Ozyegin University, Turkey)
  • 15:45 A Solution on Deafness Problem of WiGig Networks Based on IEEE 802.11ad [Short Paper]
    Parisa Mashinchi-Ghabel (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Hossein Ajorloo (Computer Science Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences IPM, Iran); Mohammad Taghi Manzuri (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)

Wireless Networks and Protocols II – room B032

Chair: Prof. Carlos T. Calafate, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

  • 14:30 Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 EDCF scheme for broadcast traffic: Application for VANETs [Invited Paper]
    Younes Bouchaala (INRIA), Paul Muhlethaler (INRIA), Nadjib Achir (University of Paris 13)
  • 15:00 On the Impact of HARQ on the Throughput and Energy Efficiency Using Cross-Layer Analysis [Full Paper]
    Mariano Eduardo Burich, Richard Demo Souza and Glauber Brante (Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil); Oluwakayode Onireti and Muhammad Ali Imran (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
  • 15:30 Experimentation with MANETs of Smartphones [Short Paper]
    Eduardo Soares (Faculty of Science, University of Porto; Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Pedro Brandão (University of Porto, Portugal); Rui Prior (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade do Porto, Portugal); Ana C Aguiar (University of Porto; Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
  • 15:45 TEEM: Trust-based Energy-Efficient Distributed Monitoring for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks [Short Paper]
    Andrea Lupia (University of Calabria, Italy); Chaker abdelaziz Kerrache (Université Amar Thelidji de Laghouat, Algeria); Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy); Carlos T. Calafate (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Juan-Carlos Cano (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Pietro Manzoni (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

Closing Session – room B032

16:30 Closing Session – room B032

  • Prof. Manuel Ricardo and Dr. Rui Campos, Conference Chairs