Held in Thessaloniki, May 16-18, ICT 2016 introduced 154 scientific papers (peer reviewed) written by 502 authors representing 43 countries and 123 Institutions and enterprises. The technical program comprised 30 technical sessions (6 special sessions among them) accompanied by 2 workshops and 4 demos. 3 keynote speeches and 4 tutorials by top academics and professionals completed this flagship conference. |
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Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Professor
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST),
Saudi Arabia
Robert Schober
Professor
Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU),
Germany
Always bustling with life, Thessaloniki, a modern metropolis bearing the marks of its stormy history and its cosmopolitan character, known for its hospitality and cuisine, is hosting the International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT) in early summer 2016.
The theme “Expansion to Small” aims to draw research community’s attention to the enormous anticipated expansion of communication systems through small architectures and devices. Small cells, short wavelengths, small sensors, small scale communications going down to molecular level are expected to boost next generation communications leading to Big Data networking, massive Internet of Things and green, energy efficient applications.
World-class researchers are expected to join ICT 2016 and share their ideas and progress on solving the above and other future challenges of Telecommunications in a rich conference program including Plenary Talks, Tutorials, Workshops as well as Regular and Special Sessions.
For any information regarding ICT2016 contact info@ict-2016.org
Makedonia Palace is a 5 star hotel located in Thessaloniki, Greece, and is regarded as one of Greece's most famous and prestigious hotels. The hotel is located on Megalou Alexandrou Avenue, by Thessaloniki's eastern urban waterfront.
Makedonia Palace was built during the 1970s and has 284 rooms and suites. Since then it remains a modern landmark for Thessaloniki's waterfront and has full front views to the Thermaic Gulf. It is located a short distance from the city centre, the White Tower of Thessaloniki and the Thessaloniki International Exhibition Centre, where the International Trade Fair is held every year. Makedonia Palace is about 15 km away from Macedonia International Airport.
Makedonia Palace is a major venue for both domestic and international congresses and conferences. Its infrastructure and experience is a guarantee for success in terms of hosting and technically supporting ICT2016.
Hamid Aghvami
King's College London, UK
Farokh Marvasti
Sharif Univ. of Technology, Iran
Alhabib Abbas, University College London, United Kingdom
Mehran Abolhasan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Taufik Abrão, State University of Londrina, Brazil
Koichi Adachi, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
Davide Adami, CNIT Pisa Research Unit, University of Pisa, Italy
Ferran Adelantado, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
George Agapiou, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization, Greece
Javier Aguiar, University of Valladolid, Spain
Rui Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Ejaz Ahmed, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Syed Hassan Ahmed, Kyungpook National University, Korea
Ozgur Akan, Koc University, Turkey
Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Ahmed Al-Dubai, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Anwer Al-Dulaimi, University of Toronto, Canada
Rakan Aldmour, Anglia Univ, United Kingdom
Nancy Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece
Jesus Alonso-Zarate, Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya - CTTC, Spain
Pierluigi Vito Amadori, University College of London, United Kingdom
Dimitris Amanatiadis, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
Russell Anam, University College London, United Kingdom
Sergey Andreev, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Vangelis Angelakis, Linköping University, Sweden
Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Khoirul Anwar, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Giuseppe Araniti, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Antonios Argyriou, University of Thessaly, Greece
Yannis Askoxylakis, FORTH-ICS, Greece
Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada
Vladimir Atanasovski, Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy
Ender Ayanoglu, University of California, Irvine, USA
Faouzi Bader, CentraleSupélec, France
Luca Barletta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ertugrul Basar, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Tuncer Baykas, Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey
Boris Bellalta, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
Elhadj Benkhelifa, IEEE, United Kingdom
Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom
Manav Bhatnagar, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Aggelos Bletsas, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Gennaro Boggia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Eleonora Borgia, IIT-CNR, Italy
Fernando Boronat, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Vasile Bota, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
Joseph Jean Boutros, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar
Chiara Buratti, University of Bologna, Italy
Carlos Calafate, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Christian Callegari, CNIT & University of Pisa, Italy
Berk Canberk, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Nuno Carvalho, University of Aveiro/IT Aveiro, Portugal
Luca Caviglione, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Sammy Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Symeon Chatzinotas, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Shanzhi Chen, China Academy of Telecommunication Technology, P.R. China
Zesheng Chen, IPFW, USA
Chrysostomos Chrysostomou, Frederick University, Cyprus
Bruno Cornelis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy
Roberto Corvaja, University of Padova, Italy
Kanapathippillai Cumanan, University of York, United Kingdom
Tasos Dagiuklas, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Xuewu Dai, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Grzegorz Danilewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Luca De Nardis, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Spyros Denazis, University of Patras, Greece
Rui Dinis, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal
Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Mark Doll, Bell Labs, Germany
Catherine Douillard, Institut Mines Telecom - Telecom Bretagne, France
Charalampos Doukas, CREATE-NET, Italy
Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece
Qiang Duan, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Salman Durrani, The Australian National University, Australia
Dimitrios Efstathiou, Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia, Serres, Greece
George Efthymoglou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Mounim El Yacoubi, Telecom SudParis, France
Melike Erol-Kantarci, Clarkson University, USA
Hamada Esmaiel, Aswan University, Egypt
Gerhard Fettweis, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Markus Fidler, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Chuan Heng Foh, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy
Pantelis Frangoudis, INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique, France
Huirong Fu, Oakland University, USA
Ivan Ganchev, University of Limerick, Ireland
Yue Gao, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Ana Garcia Armada, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, University College London, United Kingdom
Hari Krishna Garg, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Damianos Gavalas, University of the Aegean, Greece
Costas Georghiades, Texas A&M University, USA
Nasir Ghani, University of South Florida, USA
John Gialelis, University of Patras, Greece
Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy
Andrés Alayon Glazunov, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
David Grace, University of York, United Kingdom
Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy
Brij Gupta, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India
M. Cenk Gursoy, Syracuse University, USA
Harald Haas, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Majed Haddad, University of Avignon, France
Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, University of Athens, Greece
Bernhard Haemmerli, Hochschule Luzern, Switzerland
Maryline Hélard, INSA Rennes, France
Liang Hong, Tennessee State University, USA
Yi Hong, Monash University, Australia
Tobias Hoßfeld, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Fen Hou, University of Macau, Macao
Han Hu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Marc Ibrahim, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon
Christos Ilioudis, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ali Imran, University of Oklahoma, USA
Muhammad Imran, KSU, Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Melina Ioannidou, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Moath Jarrah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tao Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China
Hao Jin, InterDigital Communications, LLC, USA
Athanasios Kakarountas, Technological Educational Institute of Ionian Islands, Greece
Alexandros Kaloxylos, Huawei ERC, Germany
Athanasios Kanatas, University of Piraeus, Greece
Sithamparanathan Kandeepan, RMIT University, Australia
Arvind Kandhalu, Texas Instruments, USA
Gunes Karabulut Kurt, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Eirini Karapistoli, University of Macedonia, Greece
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
George Karystinos, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Konstantinos Katsaros, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Rodney Kennedy, The Australian National University, Australia
Jamil Khan, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Michel Kieffer, L2S - CNRS - SUPELEC - UniversityParis-Sud, France
Dong Min Kim, Aalborg University, Denmark
Alexander Kist, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Alexandros Koliousis, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Kimon Kontovasilis, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Georgios Kormentzas, University of the Aegean, Greece
Harilaos Koumaras, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Marios Kountouris, Huawei Technologies, France
Andrey Krendzel, Huawei Technologies, Finland
Witold Krzymień, University of Alberta / TRLabs, Canada
Adlen Ksentini, Eurecom, France
Massimiliano Laddomada, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA
Thomas Lagkas, The University of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College, Greece
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Ingmar Land, Huawei Technologies, French Research Centre, France
Anders Landström, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Rami Langar, UPMC - University of Paris 6, France
Ka Lung Law, Communication Systems Group, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Lei Lei, Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China
Helen Leligou, TEI of Chalkida, Greece
Chee Yen (Bruce) Leow, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada
Ang Li, University College London, United Kingdom
Xinrong Li, University of North Texas, USA
Ben Liang, University of Toronto, Canada
Christos Liaskos, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece
Phone Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Xiaodong Lin, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Athanasios Lioumpas, Cyta Hellas, Greece
Anyi Liu, Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA
Weilong Liu, Shandong Economics University, P.R. China
William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Angelos Liveris, Microwave Networks Inc, USA
Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Spiros Louvros, Technical University of Messology, Greece
Asimakis Lykourgiotis, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Maode Ma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Zheng Ma, Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China
Leandros Maglaras, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Toktam Mahmoodi, King's College London, United Kingdom
Yuxin Mao, Zhejiang Gongshang University, P.R. China
Ioannis Marmorkos, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
Angelos Marnerides, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Carmen Mas Machuca, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Barbara Masini, CNR - IEIIT, Italy
George Mastorakis, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece
Constandinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Rashid Mehmood, King AbdulAziz University, Saudi Arabia
George Michailidis, University of Michigan, USA
Angelos Michalas, Technological Education Institute of Western Macedonia, Greece
Albena Mihovska, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark
Daniele Miorandi, U-Hopper, Italy
Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France
Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Reza Monir Vaghefi, Virginia Tech, USA
Paolo Monti, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Ioannis Moscholios, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Youssef Nasser, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Petr Novotny, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Hideki Ochiai, Yokohama National University, Japan
George Oikonomou, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Rodolfo Oliveira, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal
Sharief Oteafy, Queen's University, Canada
Berna Özbek, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
Michele Pagano, University of Pisa, Italy
Niklas Palaghias, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Maria Rita Palattella, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Athanasios Panagopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Christos Panayiotou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Grammati Pantziou, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece
Dimitri Papadimitriou, Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium
Georgios Papadopoulos, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Ioannis Papaefstathiou, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Nikolaos Papandreou, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland
Alexandros Papanikolaou, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Greece
Evangelos Papapetrou, University of Ioannina, Greece
Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Michael Paraskevas, Technological Educational Institution of Western Greece, Greece
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Islamic University in Madinah, Saudi Arabia
Charalampos Patrikakis, Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, Greece
Kostas Peppas, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Antonio Pescapé, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Giuseppe Piro, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Nikos Pleros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Christos Politis, Kingston University, United Kingdom
Ilias Politis, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Petar Popovski, Aalborg University, Denmark
Athul Prasad, Mobile Radio Research Lab, Nokia Bell Labs, Finland
Neeli Prasad, Center for TeleInFrastructure (CTIF), USA
Ioannis Psaras, University College London, United Kingdom
Guy Pujolle, University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France
Tony Q. S. Quek, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Jalaluddin Qureshi, Namal College, Pakistan
Konstantinos Rantos, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Greece
Vijay S Rao, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Mubashir Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, France
Martin Reisslein, Arizona State University, USA
Francesco Renna, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Taneli Riihonen, Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland
Joel Rodrigues, Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Jonathan Rodriguez, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Hany S. Hussein, Aswan University, Egypt
Ioakeim Samaras, Industrial Systems Institute, Greece
Susana Sargento, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Rafael Schaefer, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Malte Schellmann, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany
Robert Schober, University of British Columbia, Canada
Martin Schubert, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Munich Office, Germany
Stefano Secci, University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France
Andrei Sechelea, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, University of Bourgogne - ISAT Nevers, France
António Serrador, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Angeliki Sgora, University of Piraeus, Greece
Yuan Shen, Tsinghua University, P.R. China
Lea Skorin-Kapov, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia
Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA
YeQiong Song, LORIA - University of Lorraine - France, France
Tolga Soyata, University of Rochester, USA
Petros Spachos, University of Guelph, Canada
George Spanoudakis, City University London, United Kingdom
Stavros Stavrou, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Biljana Stojkoska, University "Ss Cyril and Methodius", the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Janusz Stokłosa, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Lo’ai A. Tawalbeh, Um al Qura University, Saudi Arabia
Chintha Tellambura, University of Alberta, Canada
Fabrice Theoleyre, CNRS - University of Strasbourg, France
John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Elias Tragos, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece
Vasilios Triantafyllou, Technical University of Messology, Greece
Theodoros Tsiftsis, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Angeliki Tsioliaridou, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece
Anna Tzanakaki, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Murat Uysal, Ozyegin University, Turkey
Sina Vafi, Charles Darwin University, Australia
Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Fabrice Valois, Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI, France
Jaap van de Beek, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Adrien van den Bossche, IRIT, Université Fédérale de Toulouse, France
Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
John Vardakas, IQUADRAT Informatica S. L. Barcelona, Spain
Emmanouel Varvarigos, University of Patras & Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Bane Vasić, University of Arizona, USA
Costas Vassilakis, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Fernando Velez, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Fabio Verdicchio, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Dimitrios Vergados, University of Patras, Greece
Xavier Vilajosana, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Alexey Vinel, Halmstad University, Sweden
Haris Volos, DENSO International America, USA
Nikolaos Voros, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Greece
Demosthenes Vouyioukas, University of the Aegean - Research Unit, Greece
Li-Chun Wang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Xin Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA
Fiona Williams, Ericsson, Germany
Dalei Wu, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA
Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada
Shaoen Wu, Ball State University, USA
Yik-Chung Wu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dirk Wübben, University of Bremen, Germany
Ming Xiao, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Kun Yang, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Nan Yang, Australian National University, Australia
Kamya Yekeh Yazdandoost, University of Oulu, Japan
Konstantinos Yiannopoulos, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Traianos Yioultsis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia
Ji Yuefeng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China
Chau Yuen, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Theodore Zahariadis, TEI of Chalkida, Greece
Syed Ali Raza Zaidi, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA
Hans-Juergen Zepernick, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, P.R. China
Liang Zhou, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China
Zuqing Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China
Nizar Zorba, Qatar University, Qatar
Dimitrios Zorbas, Univ of La Rochelle, France
Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor, University of Koya, Iraq
Mischa Dohler
King's College London, UK
George Karagiannidis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
General Chairs email address: GeneralChairs@ict-2016.org
Periklis Chatzimisios
Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
Athanasios Iossifides
Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
Shiwen Mao
Auburn University, USA
Kan Zheng
Beijing University of Posts & Telecom., China
Vasilis Friderikos
King's College London, UK
Gennaro Boggia
Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Toktam Mahmoodi
King's College London, UK
Ioannis Askoxylakis
FORTH-ICS, Greece
Xavier Costa
NEC Europe, Germany
Constandinos Mavromoustakis
University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Mahasweta Sarkar
San Diego State University, USA
Stefano Giordano
University of Pisa, Italy
Simone Redana
Nokia Networks, Germany
Rasmus Nielsen
Cisco Systems, USA
Petar Popovski
Aalborg, Denmark
Gunes Karabulut Kurt
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Dimitris Vergados
University of Piraeus, Greece
Honggang Zhang
Zhejiang University, China
(Asia)
Burak Kantarci
Clarkson University, USA
(America)
Marco Di Renzo
CNRS/Supelec, France
(Europe)
Shui Yu
Deakin University, Australia
(Oceania)
Vijay Rao
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
(Europe)
Hanna Bogucka
Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Christos Douligeris
University of Piraeus, Greece
Periklis Chatzimisios
Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
Athanasios Iossifides
Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
Athanasios Iossifides
Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dimitrios Efstathiou
TEI of Central Macedonia, Greece
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers reporting original research of theoretical or applied nature for presentation at the conference and publication in the ICT 2016 Proceedings. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. The manuscripts must be prepared in English, following IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings (available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) with a maximum length of five (5) printed pages without incurring additional page charges (maximum 2 additional pages are allowed with over length page charge of 100€ for each page if accepted). Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted. Please note that every accepted paper must be accompanied by at least one FULL registration and must be presented in the conference. Accepted, registered and presented papers will be published in the ICT 2016 conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
All papers for the ICT 2016 Main Track should be submitted via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=77359. Only pdf files are accepted.
Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Important Dates for Regular Papers:
ICT 2016 invites proposals for half or full day Workshops affiliated with the main conference. For a Workshop proposal to be considered for acceptance, the proposed topic needs to be an emerging area in the conference topics, which is not yet covered in the regular sessions. The topic should be timely and significantly important to the technical audience. The proposals will be judged by the ability to introduce the area to large telecommunications community, further develop the area, and help establishing a larger research community beyond the area. Accepted, registered and presented papers will be published in the ICT 2016 conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
If interested, please submit a (up to 4 pages) proposal, no later than January 15, 2016 (extended), via email with the subject line “ICT 2016 Workshop Proposal” to the Workshop Chairs Dr. Xavier Costa (xavier.costa@neclab.eu), Dr. Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis (mavromoustakis.c@unic.ac.cy) and Dr. Mahasweta Sarkar (msarkar2@mail.sdsu.edu).
Each Workshop proposal must include the following:
Important Dates for Workshop Proposals:
The Organizing Committee invites proposals for Special Sessions to be held in ICT 2016. A Special Session requires 8-10 submissions that meet IEEE standards in terms of scientific rigour, out of which 4-5 are selected after peer-review. Accepted, registered and presented papers will be published in the ICT 2016 conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
If interested, please submit a one-page proposal, no later than January 15, 2016 (extended), via email with the subject line “ICT 2016 Special Session Proposal” to all the Special Session Chairs Dr. Gennaro Boggia (g.boggia@poliba.it), Dr. Toktam Mahmoodi (toktam.mahmoodi@kcl.ac.uk) and Dr. Ioannis G. Askoxylakis (asko@ics.forth.gr).
Each Special Session proposal must include the following:
Important Dates for Special Session Proposals:
ICT 2016 solicits proposals for half-day Tutorials from leading researchers. Tutorials should provide clear and focused teaching material covering new and emerging topics within the scope of telecommunications.
If interested, please submit a (up to 4 pages) proposal, no later than February 15, 2016, via email with the subject line “ICT 2016 Tutorial Proposal” to the Tutorial Chairs Prof. Petar Popovski (petarp@es.aau.dk), Prof. Gunes Karabulut Kurt (gkurt@itu.edu.tr) and Dr. Dimitris Vergados (vergados@unipi.gr).
Each Tutorial proposal should describe concisely the content, importance and timeliness of the tutorial. It should contain the following sections:
Important Dates for Tutorial Proposals:
ICT 2016 solicits proposals for Demos from researchers to showcase their latest prototypes/systems with media, models, or live demonstrations. The proposal should describe the technology that the authors have developed, the relevance to the conference topics, and technical details that highlight the novelty of the prototype. For demonstrations, the proposals should also describe what conference participants will be able to see or do during the demonstration.
If interested, please submit a two (2) pages paper written in English following the standard IEEE 2-column format, no later than February 15, 2016, via email to Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios (peris@it.teithe.gr) and Dr. Athanassios Iossifides (aiosifidis@el.teithe.gr) with the subject line “ICT 2016 Demo Proposal”.
Important Dates for Demo proposals:
Organizer
Liljana Gavrilovska, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, FYROM
Abstract
The Radio Environmental Awareness (REA) is emerging as a cornerstone of future 5G networks comprising heterogeneous access technologies needing self-x optimization procedures. Radio Environmental Maps (REMs) provide in-depth radio environmental knowledge and are major contributors in the REA value chain. They represent a synergy between spectrum-sensing and database approaches and can incorporate different radio environmental information such as propagation models, channel states, existence and locations of wireless transceivers and spatial-temporal spectrum utilization. The prerequisites of obtaining reliable and useful radio environmental knowledge are reliable and often real-time capable techniques for signal and interference detection, transmitter localization, propagation model estimation etc.
Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track
via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=78307.
All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Organizers
Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Nicola Blefari Melazzi, Università degli Studi di Roma – "Tor Vergata", Italy
Changqiao Xu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Maria Rita Palattella, University of Luxemburg, Luxembourg
Abstract
Information Centric Networking (ICN) is a design methodology for the Future Internet that enable: native support to multicast and mobile communications; simplification of content dissemination services; content oriented security; and name driven networking primitives. Many ICN architectures are available nowadays, each one adopting different name space - routing strategy combinations. Their adoption in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is being actively investigated. Therefore, the objectives of this Special Session are to: stimulate the scientific debate on the effectiveness of ICN architectures in VANETs and ITSs and draw new research directions in this specific research domain.
Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track
via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=78318.
All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Organizers
Christos Masouros, University College London, UK
Ioannis Krikidis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Gan Zheng, Loughborough University, UK
Abstract
This special session will discuss innovative approaches that consider interference as a useful resource for developing energy efficient and secure wireless communications, contrary to the traditional approaches to avoid and cancel interference. These include exploiting constructive interference as a source of useful signal power, the use of radio frequency radiation for energy harvesting as a source of green energy, and using interference as an effective means to jam potential eavesdroppers. This special session aims to bring together researchers to identify opportunities, discuss technical challenges and recent results related to interference exploitation to improve efficiency and security in wireless communications.
Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track
via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=78319.
All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Organizers
Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed, Osaka University, Japan
Ali Ismail Awad, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly growing with an aim of that anything at any time in anywhere can be accessible through the Internet. IoT combines a wide range of technologies like wireless communications, hardware and software design methodologies, security approaches and user privacy protection techniques. This special session aims to bring together academics, professionals and practitioners to discuss the key issues related to IoT design, security, and applications. It also serves as a forum for exploring methodologies, technologies, and tools for addressing IoT-related issues. The special session emphasizes the discovery of several IoT solutions that improve the people lifestyle.
Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track
via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=78477.
All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Organizers
Nikos Deligiannis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel – iMinds, Belgium
Ryoichi Shinkuma, Kyoto University, Japan
Yiannis Andreopoulos, University College London, UK
Abstract
The exponential growth in data generation and network traffic created by Internet-of-Things deployments requires new architectures for large-scale data sensing, communication, storage, manipulation, processing and analysis. Big data analysis offers the possibility of increased efficiency by valorizing valuable insights: patterns, tendencies, models, thus generating the need for extreme computing capabilities. Cloud computing has become the de facto model for on-demand access to large-scale computing networks, comprising servers, storage, services and applications, providing high computing power, high performance, accessibility as well as availability at reduced costs of service.
Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track
via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=78666.
All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Organizers
Giuseppe Piro, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Martin Schubert, Huawei’s European Research Center in Munich, Germany
Abstract
The mobile Internet is experiencing a fast growth, and it is projected to bring a 1000-fold increment of overall mobile data traffic by 2020. This development is driven by an increasing demand for pervasive video and broadcast-like services, broadband access capabilities everywhere, seamless connectivity with a high user speed, machine-to-machine applications, and real-time and ultra-reliable communications. This trend is prompting worldwide research to conceive new technological solutions for the upcoming 5th generation (5G) cellular network. Against this background, the special session aims at collecting a number of high-level scientific contributions coming from the industry and academia, which propose interesting and promising solutions and methodologies for the design of the new 5G air interface.
Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track
via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=78668.
All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Organizers
Ming Xiao, KTH, Sweden
Zheng Ma, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Abstract
For the fast development of smart terminals and applications, the demands on the next generation mobile (namely, 5G, the 5th generation) are expected to be very large in near future. The technique development focusing on the 5G has drawn a lot of research attention. It is expected that compared to the 4G mobile, the 5G systems should have 1000 times higher aggregated mobile data volume per area, 10 to 100 times higher typical user data rate and number of connected devices, and 10 times longer battery life for low power devices and reduced end-to-end latency. Meanwhile, three key efficiency indicators are also proposed as: 5-15x spectrum efficiency, 100+x energy efficiency, and 100+x cost efficiency. To achieve these technique objectives of the 5G systems, novel access technique is one of the most essential one. There are a lot of research topics recently in this area. This session seeks to bring together recent developments on the access techniques for the 5G.
Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track
via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=78910.
All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Organizers
Philip Davis, Bournemouth University, UK
David Newell, Bournemouth University, UK
Abstract
The growth of the IoT, mobile and ubiquitous computing and software defined networking technology has enabled the sensing, management and control of a wide range of physical devices and information gathering through computers. Business models are being redefined to take on board the new paradigm of IoT. To maximize the social and economic benefit of the technology, issues of interoperability, mashing up data, developing open platforms and standardization across technology layers have to be addressed. This Special Session is seeking original papers on all topics related to the development, implementation, control, adaption and ethics of the IoT and the challenges to society which this now represents.
Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track
via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=78911.
All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Organizers
Shaoen Wu, Ball State University, USA
Anyi Liu, Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA
Qing Yang, Montana State University, USA
Abstract
A growing number of physical objects being connected to the Internet at an unprecedented rate promote the significant interest from academia, industry, and standard organization. Realized by the latest development in RFID, smart sensors, communication technologies, and Internet, the smart and connected community (S&CC) systems are expected to bridge diverse technologies to enable new applications by connecting physical objects together in supporting deep learning, knowledge discovery, and decision making. Despite recent technical advances and research efforts, S&CC communication and its security issues still remain open and challenging. Emerging technologies, innovations, and applications need to grow proportionally to match the demands of the market and people. Smart devices and objects are needed to fit the requirements in terms of efficiency, performance, power-saving, interoperability, availability, security, and privacy. In addition, new protocols are required for communication compatibility between heterogeneous smart things (RFID tags, smart sensors, vehicles, smart cards, phones, appliances, embedded systems, etc.).
Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track
via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=79007.
All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Organizers
Antoine Gallais, University of Strasbourg, France
Fabrice Theoleyre, University of Strasbourg, France
Thomas Watteyne, Inria-Paris, France
Abstract
More than one decade ago has emerged the Internet of Things (IoT), which enabled new applications in our everyday life. We have now a large variety of radio technologies to connect more and more smart objects. After providing best-effort connectivity, now it is the time to integrate stringent constraints and performance guarantees (e.g. data rates, delays, energy efficiency) to constitute the industrial IoT (IIoT) with a wide variety of applications, including Smart Factory, Factory of the Future, Industry 4.0, Smart Building, Smart Cities, Healthcare and Eldercare, Smart Agriculture. This special session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of industrial low power wireless networks.
Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track
via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=79103.
All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Organizers
Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK
Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Abstract
Cloud providers have become unable to meet the ever increasing demand for resources and customers’ requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, solutions including inter-cloud, Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FME) have been introduced as a trusted and dependable solution which puts the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, and facilitates the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. Inter-cloud is expected to fix the fact that there is no single cloud that has the infinite physical resources needed to deal with the growing number of things that are being connected to the cloud. The purpose of FMEC, on the other hand, is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices.
Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track
via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=79194.
All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Organizers
Charalampos Patrikakis, Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, Greece
George Loukas, Greenwich University, UK
Theodoros Semertzidis, ITI, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
Abstract
Through the latest advancements in electronics, computing and networking, it is obvious that the evolution of cyber and physical systems are converging into a future that goes beyond the Internet of Things: A Cyber-Physical ecosystem where humans, devices and software agents will not only connect, but also collaborate towards the improvement of Quality of Life. In this context, this session investigates issues related to the introduction, use and integration of sensing technologies under a common collaborating framework between humans and machines.
Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track
via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=79183.
All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
5G Cell-Less Architectures (5G-CeLArch)
Organizing Committee
Workshop Chairs
Konstantinos Samdanis, NEC Europe
Marco Di Renzo, CNRS/Supelec
Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus
Technical Program Committee
Athul Prasad, Nokia
Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki
David Grace, University of York
Anass Benjebbour, NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
Constantinos B. Papadias, Athens Information Technology
Toktam Mahmoodi, King’s College London
Nikos Passas, University of Athens
Tinku Rasheed, CretNet
Daniel Cams-Mur, i2CAT
Adlen Ksentini, IRISA Lab
George Agapiou, Hellenic Telecom. Organization
Marco Di Girolamo, Hewlett Packard
Ignacio Berberana, Telefonica
David López-Pérez, Bell Labs Nokia
JaeSeung Song, Sejong University
Vincenzo Sciancalepore, NEC Europe
Scope
The vision of future 5G networks encompasses a heterogeneous communication landscape in which existing Radio Access Technologies (RATs), such as 3G, 4G, WiFi, etc., will be integrated with evolving wireless technologies and systems, software-design network architectures and cloud-enabled services. The technical requirements set for 5G systems are breath-taking, including the support of up to 1000 times higher data volumes, end-user data rates up to 10 Gb/s, very low service-level latency below 5ms, ubiquitous communicating things and mass connectivity supporting 300,000 devices within a single cell, ultra-high reliability and reduced energy consumption. The ambition towards 5G systems is to provide a customized, advanced user-centric value at an affordable price, in an effort to strengthen key societal needs in domains such as transportation, health, environment, retail, sports, entertainment, etc.
The emerging 5G ecosystem is expected to be comprised by an ultra-dense, heterogeneous deployment of multiple RATs with a wide range of backhauling options (e.g. microwave, E-band, optical, etc.), owned and shared by multiple stakeholders and tenants and supporting highly diverse applications and services, from Over-The-Top (OTT) applications, to proximity services and Machine Type Communications (MTC). A user-centric approach will be adopted, leading to the emerging disruptive cell-less architecture that goes beyond the traditional single-cell user association, enabling the joint consideration of all network resources (spanning across different cells, networks and/or operators) as a common resource pool. Innovative service-oriented network architectures supporting edge-cloud technology will open the road for enhanced user Quality of Experience (QoE), social applications and proximity services. Finally, network virtualization and Software Defined Networking (SDN) will play a key role in supporting multi-tenancy and enabling the optimization and management of the network operation.
Call for Papers
The workshop will address keynotes, panels and peer reviewed papers on 5G cell-less architectures, with the goal to report the latest advancements in the field. Network virtualization, 5G architectures and distributed cloud architectures must be central to all topics that include, but not limited to the following:
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=78913. All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
5G Technology for Future Intelligent Transport System (ITS)
Organizing Committee
Workshop Chairs
Lei Lei, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Wei Xiang, James Cook University, Australia
Hang Long, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China
Scope
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) have been developed rapidly all over the world. All the information in vehicles/high-speed trains, roads and the surrounding environments is collected and communicated among vehicles/ high-speed trains and humans. Moreover, huge amount of data is stored, computed and processed in the common platform, by which the system can effectively reduce the road accidents, improve the traffic management, and enable people to enjoy mobile Internet application services.
On the way to implement ITS in our real life, many challenges have to be conquered. First of all, it is essential to provide efficient, reliable and in time communications to all vehicles/trains and their embedded sensors. Thanks to the emerging new technologies in the fifth generation (5G) mobile communication networks, feasible solutions, e.g., new signal processing schemes, cloud computing, network virtualization, and so on, can be provided to meet various requirements of ITS services. Empowered with the advanced 5G communications capabilities, it is expected that future ITS can well support the functions of sensing, networking, computing and controlling. Thus, it can greatly improve the efficiencies in transportation infrastructures while reducing the traffic congestions, emergencies and accident. Moreover, the processing and storage technologies of big data in future ITS become very important with the massive number of vehicles/trains connected by 5G networks. All these issues are being studied in academics, industries, and standardization organizations.
Call for Papers
The workshop aims to provide a forum for authors to present early research results on 5G technology for future ITS that advance the state of the art and practice in 5G and ITS, including theoretical principles, tools, applications, systems infrastructure, and testbeds. Topics of interest include (but not limited to) the following:
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=78916. All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Optimization of Systems and Protocols for Heterogeneous High Performance Networking in- and beyond the 5G Era (Open 5G)
Workshop website: http://omikron.eit.lth.se/open5g
Organizing Committee
Workshop Chairs
Nikolaos Pappas, Linköping University, Sweden
Saeed Bastani, Lund University, Sweden
Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
Vangelis Angelakis, Linköping University, Sweden
Matteo Cesana, Politecnico Di Milano, Italy
Ilaria Malanchini, Bell Labs Nokia, Germany
Poster/Demo Chair
Elias Z. Tragos, FORTH, Greece
Scope
Internet traffic is continuously growing exponentially. Meanwhile, the explosive growth of the number of connected devices, backed by applications in the growing Internet of Things, places Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications in the spotlight. Future networks are therefore now called to support applications with requirements ranging from guaranteed delivery of low throughput and low latency flows (M2M) to ones with very high throughput with low delay (4K live streaming). However, the current state of the art shows that scalable solutions are not really feasible. New areas need to be explored and new techniques further developed.
Taking into account the impact of prediction on the users’ demand and availability of network resources could be one direction. By predicting and adapting to upcoming events at various time scales, an anticipatory-enabled network dramatically improves the operation quality and efficiency in comparison to the existing systems. On the other hand, wireless caching and distributed resource management have become core research aspects for the upcoming 5G technologies, with potential for significant benefits. Additionally, due to the massive access of the medium in the 5G era and in the IoT scenarios, more flexible and distributed protocols have to be deployed, focusing on short packets at very high rates. In such protocols the nodes should be auto-configurable without centralized operations.
Call for Papers
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers focusing on resource management and optimization within the context of anticipatory networking for the 5G and beyond, for large scale networks. The technical topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=78914. All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Advances on Network Virtualization for 5G Systems (NetVis' 2016)
Organizing Committee
Workshop Chairs
Adrian Kliks, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Tao Chen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Navid Nikaein, Eurecom, France
Kostas Pentikousis, EICT, Germany
Scope
5G networks will provide solutions to support a dynamic range of services from different industries, e.g. mobile, energy, automobile, health and manufactory industry. Due to the nature of different industries, the requirements defined by key performance indicators, like peak data rate, average user data rate, latency, energy consumption, service deployment time, are totally different. It is very complex to manage different services in 5G networks. To release to potential of 5G networks to the full support of vertical sectors, advanced technologies like software defined network (SDN), network virtualization, network function virtualization, network slicing and sharing need to be well addressed so as to reshape the network architecture and provide flexible enough network management for 5G networks. It is the purpose of the workshop to disseminate most recent results on these topics.
Moreover, the commoditization of key processing components coupled with virtualization of infrastructure functions will lead to a radical change in the economics of mobile networks. The latter will help network providers (e.g., MNO, MVNO) move from proprietary hardware and software platforms towards open and flexible cellular systems based on general-purpose cloud infrastructures. In this context, 5G systems will see a paradigm shift in three planes: the data-plane, control-plane, and management-plane, in support of higher performance, efficient signalling, flexible and intelligent control and coordination in heterogeneous networks.
Call for Papers
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21703&track=78915. All presented papers will be published in ICT 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Trends and challenges of Cyber Physical Systems: Design, Architectures and Applications
[Full day workshop with a combination of invited talks and demonstrators from both industry and academia, jointly supported by RADIO, ARGO, and RAMCIP EU H2020 funded projects]
Organizing Committee
Workshop Chairs
Nikolaos Voros, Technological Institute of Western Greece, Greece
Christos Antonopoulos, Technological Institute of Western Greece, Greece
Scope
The term Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) is used to describe software-intensive embedded systems that are connected to services available around the world through global networks such as the Internet, as parts of devices, buildings, vehicles, routers, production plants, logistics and management processes etc. that use sensors and actuators to gather multimodal physical data and to directly affect physical processes. This includes the real-time connectivity to digital networks (wireless, wired, local, global) using globally available data and services. Such systems can be found in all smart mobility domains like automotive, avionics, and railway. Moreover Cyber Physical Systems will be the basis for smart mobility comprising the characteristics inter-modality, efficiency, safety, mixed criticality and the like. CPS effectively comprise a multidisciplinary research domain attracting active interest from heterogeneous areas including embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, VLSI and computer architecture.
The purpose of this workshop is to evaluate strategies for future CPS system architecture design, design tools and methods and applications. Furthermore, it will provide the opportunity for researchers coming from different technological, research and business background to discuss, exchange opinions and views on critical yet diverse challenges paving the way from advancements in areas such as: wireless sensor communication protocols, low energy communication techniques, low power miniaturized embedded systems, hardware accelerators, audio/image/video signal processing, processing units architectures, end-to-end communication infrastructure, smart home communication protocols, services and adequate application scenarios.
Participants [last updated Feb 5 2016]
Keynote speech
"Adaptivity at Run-Time: Handling Hydra’s Heads"
Michael Huebner, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany
Presenters
Vaggelis Mariatos, Dialog Semiconductors, Greece
Georgios Keramidas, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Greece
Christos Antonopoulos, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Greece
Sofia Meacham, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Nicholas Tyrrell, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Dianna Gohringer, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany
Dimitrios Tzovaras, Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
Ingatios Fotiou, TOBEA, Greece
Demonstrators [last updated Feb 5 2016]
TRUTLEBOT 2: The robotic home assistant
[Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Greece]
RAMCIP project: Computer vision and robot navigation
[Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece]
Car simulator for designing CPS automotive systems
[Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany]
Call for Participation
Interested researchers and practitioners from academia and industry are welcome to join the Workshop. For further information contact the Workshop Co-Chair Nikolaos Voros at voros@teiwest.gr
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Important dates
Final manuscript submission deadline: April 10, 2016 — the whole procedure described herein (5 steps) must be finalized by this date.
Final manuscript submission
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Important dates
Gala registration (additional persons)
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One-page printable Program at a Glance
Monday, May 16, 2016
Time | Alexandros I | Alexandros II | Amfitrion I | Amfitrion II | Erato | Kalliopi |
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08:15 - 08:30 | OP: Opening Ceremony | |||||
08:30 - 09:30 | K01: Keynote - Addressing Spectrum Scarcity Through Optical Wireless Communications (Slim Alouini) |
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09:30 - 10:00 | CB1: Coffee Break | |||||
10:00 - 12:30 | S01: Small Cells and Heterogeneous Networks | S02: Cognitive Networks and Systems | S03: Device-to-Device Communications | S04: QoS and QoE in Next-Generation Networks | S05: Routing and Scheduling | |
12:30 - 14:00 | LB1: Lunch Break | |||||
14:00 - 16:00 | T1 - Part 1: Introduction to the IETF 6TiSCH Stack with OpenWSN & OpenMote | T2 - Part 1: Challenges and Solutions for Networking in the Millimeter-Wave Band | T3 - Part 1: Simultaneous Energy and Information Transmission | T4 - Part 1: The ICN Challenge: Background, Open Issues and Research Directions | ||
16:00 - 16:30 | CB2: Coffee Break | |||||
16:30 - 18:00 | T1 - Part 2: Introduction to the IETF 6TiSCH Stack with OpenWSN & OpenMote | T2 - Part 2: Challenges and Solutions for Networking in the Millimeter-Wave Band | T3 - Part 2: Simultaneous Energy and Information Transmission | T4 - Part 2: The ICN Challenge: Background, Open Issues and Research Directions |
Welcome Reception (21:00 - 23:00, Makedonia Palace, sea-view)
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Time | Alexandros I | Alexandros II | Amfitrion I | Amfitrion II | Erato | Kalliopi |
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08:30 - 09:30 | K02: Keynote - The Journey to 2025 (Mike Short) |
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09:30 - 10:00 | CB3: Coffee Break | |||||
10:00 - 12:30 | S06: Cooperative (Relay) Communications | S07: Applications and Services | S08: Software-Defined Networking & Network Virtualization Function | S09: Cloud and IoT Enabling Services | S10: Performance over Fading Channels | |
12:30 - 14:00 | LB2: Lunch Break | |||||
14:00 - 16:00 | S11: Modulation and Detection | S12: Security I | S13: Special Session - Recent advances in REM-facilitated Technologies for Future 5G Networks | S14: Special Session - Big Data Analytics Driven by Internet-of-Things Technologies: Big Things Have Small Beginnings | W1 - Part 1: Workshop - Advances on Network Virtualization for 5G Systems (NetViS'2016) | |
16:00 - 16:30 | CB4: Coffee Break | |||||
16:30 - 18:30 | S15: Mobile and Cellular Networks I | S16: Signal Processing and Source Coding | S17: Special Session - Exploiting Interference Towards Energy Efficient and Secure Wireless Communications | S18: Vehicular and Transportation Systems (90 min) | W1 - Part 2: Workshop - Advances on Network Virtualization for 5G Systems (NetViS'2016) | |
18:00 - 18:45 | D1: Demo - Hypriot Cluster Lab: An ARM-Powered Cloud Solution Utilizing Docker |
Conference Gala (20:30 - 23:30)
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Time | Alexandros I | Alexandros II | Amfitrion I | Amfitrion II | Erato | Kalliopi |
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09:00 - 10:00 | K03: Keynote - Molecular Communication for Future Nanonetworks (Robert Schober) |
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10:00 - 10:30 | CB5: Coffee Break | |||||
10:30 - 12:30 | S19: Green and Wireless Powered Communication Systems | S20: Security II | S21: Massive MIMO | S22: Mobile and Cellular Networks II | W2 - Part 1 : Workshop - Trends and Challenges of Cyber Physical Systems: Design, Architectures and Applications | |
12:30 - 13:30 | LB3: Lunch Break | |||||
13:30 - 15:30 | S23: OFDM and More | S24: Access Systems and Networks | S25: Optical Communications and Systems | S26: Multi-Antenna and Beamforming Systems | W2 - Part 2: Workshop - Trends and Challenges of Cyber Physical Systems: Design, Architectures and Applications | |
15:30 - 15:50 | CB6: Coffee Break | |||||
15:50 - 17:30 | S27: Special Session - IoT Emerging Technologies: Design and Security | S28: Special Session - Inter-Cloud, Fog and Mobile Edge Computing | S29: Special Session - Industrial Internet of Things: Constraints, Guarantees and Resiliency | S30: Coding and Coded Modulation | ||
18:00 - 18:45 | CL: Closing Session |
Session chairs: ICT 2016 Chairs
Welcome messages and greetings by:
Coffee Break (09:30 - 10:00, Room: Alexandros I)
Technical Sessions (10:00 - 12:30)
Session Chair: Theofilos Chrysikos (University of Patras, Greece)
User Association to Small Cells in the Presence of Nakagami-m Fading and Co-Channel Interference
George Efthymoglou(University of Piraeus, Greece); Constantine Mukasa and Valentine Aalo (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Capacity Model for Network Density Scheduling in Small Cell Networks
Georgios P. Koudouridis (Huawei Technologies Sweden R&D Center & Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) and Pablo Soldati (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden)
Global Optimization of Weighted Sumrate for Downlink Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
Obinna Oguejiofor and Li Zhang (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Dynamic On/Off Control of Wireless Small Cells with Heterogeneous Backhauls
Xiangxiang Xu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Xiujun Zhang, Limin Xiao and Shidong Zhou (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Delay and Stability Analysis of Caching in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
Fatemeh Rezaei and Babak Hossein Khalaj (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Ming Xiao (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
A College Admissions Game for Content Caching in Heterogeneous Delay Tolerant Networks
Omar Ait oualhaj (ENSIAS, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco); Essaid Sabir (ENSEM/UH2C, Morocco); Abdellatif Kobbane (ENSIAS, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco); Jalel Ben-Othman (University of Paris 13, France); Mohammed El Koutbi (ENSIAS, Morocco)
Session Chair: Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)
LTCC Passive Components for Matching Circuits of Cognitive Radio Antennas
Christos Oikonomopoulos-Zachos and Matthias Arnold (IMST GmbH, Germany)
Dynamic Threshold Hard Decision Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Using Two-Stage Censoring
Hossam Farag (Aswan University, Egypt); Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed (Osaka University, Japan)
Time Allocation Mechanism with QoS Constraints in a Spectrum Leasing Environment
Anargyros J. Roumeliotis, Stavroula Vassaki and Athanasios D. Panagopoulos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
On Precoding Diversity in Cognitive Networks
Abdullah Yaqot and Peter A. Hoeher (University of Kiel, Germany)
Partial Discharge Detection Using Low Cost RTL-SDR Model for Wideband Spectrum Sensing
Hamd Mohamed, Pavlos Lazaridis, David Upton, Umar Khan, Bahghtar Saeed, Adel Jaber, Yong Zhang and Peter Mather (University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom); Maria Vieira (Federal University of Campina Grande & CEEI, Brazil); Kenneth Barlee (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Dale Atkinson (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom); Albena Mihovska (Aalborg Universitet, Denmark); Liljana Gavrilovska (Ss Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia); Ian A Glover (University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom)
On Spectrum and Infrastructure Sharing in Multi-Operator Cellular Networks
Shanshan Wang (CNRS, France); Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France); Konstantinos Samdanis and Xavier Costa Pérez (NEC Europe Ltd, Germany)
Session Chair: Samir M. Perlaza (INRIA, France)
IoT-D2D Task Allocation: an Award-Driven Game Theory Approach
Emad Abd-Elrahman (Telecom SudParis (ex. INT), France); Hossam Afifi (Institut Telecom & Paris South, France); Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy); Makhlouf Hadji (IRT System X, France); Virginia Pilloni (University of Cagliari, Italy)
A Novel Multi-hop Secure LTE-D2D Communication Protocol for IoT Scenarios
Gary Steri (European Commission JRC, Italy); Gianmarco Baldini (Joint Research Centre - European Commission, Italy); Igor Fovino (Joint Research Centre - European Commission, European Union); Ricardo Neisse (European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy); Leonardo Goratti (Create-net, Italy)
Heterogeneous Statistical QoS-Driven Power Control for D2D Communications Underlaying Cellular Networks
Xiang Mi, Limin Xiao, Ming Zhao, Xibin Xu and Shidong Zhou (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jing Wang (EE. Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
On the Capacity Optimization of D2D Underlying Cellular Communications
Alaa Kachouh, Youssef Nasser and Hassan A. Artail (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Blind Repetitions for Cellular-IoT: Performance Analysis of Combination Mechanisms
Louis-Adrien Dufrene (INSA de Rennes, France); Ming Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University & Beijing Key Lab of Transportation Data Analysis and Mining, P.R. China); Matthieu Crussière (IETR - Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Rennes (IETR) & INSA - National Institute of Applied Sciences, France); Jean-François Hélard (IETR, France); Jean Schwoerer (France Telecom & Orange Labs, Japan)
Towards Ultra-Reliable M2M Communication: Scheduling Policies in Fading Channels
Bakhtiyar Farayev (Koç University, Turkey); Sinem Coleri Ergen (Koc University & University of California Berkeley, Turkey)
Session Chair: Xavier Vilajosana (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)
Software-Defined Inter-Networking: Enabling Coordinated QoS Control Across the Internet
George Petropoulos (Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece); Fragkiskos Sardis (King's College London, United Kingdom); Spiros Spirou (Intracom Telecom, Greece); Toktam Mahmoodi (King's College London, United Kingdom)
MeFoRE: QoE based Resource Estimation at Fog to Enhance QoS in IoT
Mohammad Aazam, Marc St-Hilaire, Chung-Horng Lung and Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada)
A Roadmap on QoE Metrics and Models
Eirini Liotou, Dimitris Tsolkas and Nikos Passas (University of Athens, Greece)
Statistical Evaluation for Quality of Experience Prediction based on Quality of Service Parameters
Aroussi Sana (University of Saad Dahlab - Blida 1 & Higher National School of Computer Science (ESI), Algeria); Abdelhamid Mellouk (UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France)
User QoE Assessment on Mobile Devices for Natural and Non-natural Multimedia Clips
Arghir-Nicolae Moldovan and Cristina Muntean (National College of Ireland, Ireland)
QoS-Aware Transmission Management for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
Dan Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, P.R. China); Yan Sun (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom); Yuanyuan Yao and Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Session Chair: Ioannis Psaras (University College London, United Kingdom)
A Practical Multi-Plane Routing-based Traffic Engineering Scheme in Evolutionary Convergent All-IP Access Networks
Mohammad Farhoudi, Benyamin Abrishamchi, Andrej Mihailovic and Hamid Aghvami (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Equilibrium Routing: from Theory to Practice
Duy Nguyen (UPMC, France); Stefano Secci (University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France)
Synchronization Protocol for Dynamic Environment: Design and Prototype Experiments
Bizagwira Honoré (Université Blaise Pascal & France, France); Joël Toussaint (LIMOS - CNRS, France); Michel J. Misson (Clermont Université / LIMOS CNRS, France)
Load-aware Channel Selection for 802.11 WLANs with Limited Measurement
Mehmet Karaca and Bjorn Landfeldt (Lund University, Sweden)
Hyperbolic Traffic Load Centrality for Large-Scale Complex Communications Networks
Eleni G Stai and Konstantinos Sotiropoulos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Vasileios A Karyotis (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) & National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
N3: Addressing and Routing in 3D Nanonetworks
Angeliki Tsioliaridou (Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece); Christos Liaskos (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece); Lefteris Pachis and Sotiris Ioannidis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece); Andreas Pitsillides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Lunch Break (12:30 - 14:00, Room: Alexandros I)
Tutorials - Part I (14:00 - 16:00)
Instructors
Thomas Watteyne, INRIA, Paris, France
Xavier Vilajosana, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain
Pere Tuset-Peiro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain
Tengfei Chang, INRIA, Paris, France
Instructors
Joerg Widmer, Institute IMDEA Networks, Madrid, Spain
Carlo Fischione, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Instructors
Selma Belhadj Amor, Laboratoire CITI (Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA de Lyon), Lyon, France
Samir M. Perlaza, Laboratoire CITI (Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA de Lyon), Lyon, France
Instructor
Ioannis Psaras, University College London, UK
Coffee Break (16:00 - 16:30, Room: Alexandros I)
Tutorials - Part 2 (16:30 - 18:00)
Instructors
Thomas Watteyne, INRIA, Paris, France
Xavier Vilajosana, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain
Pere Tuset-Peiro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain
Tengfei Chang, INRIA, Paris, France
Instructors
Joerg Widmer, Institute IMDEA Networks, Madrid, Spain
Carlo Fischione, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Instructors
Selma Belhadj Amor, Laboratoire CITI (Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA de Lyon), Lyon, France
Samir M. Perlaza, Laboratoire CITI (Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA de Lyon), Lyon, France
Instructor
Ioannis Psaras, University College London, UK
Welcome Reception (21:00 - 23:00, Makedonia Palace 9th floor - sea view)
Coffee Break (09:30 - 10:00, Room: Alexandros I)
Technical Sessions (10:00 - 12:30)
Session Chair: Anders Landström (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)
Adaptive Relay Selection Method for Asynchronous Amplify and Forward Cooperative Communications
Yasin Çelik (Aksaray University, Turkey); Niyazi Odabasioglu (Istanbul University, Turkey); Murat Uysal (Ozyegin University, Turkey)
A Delay-Aware Hybrid Relay Selection Policy
Dimitrios Poulimeneas (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Themistoklis Charalambous (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Nikolaos Nomikos (University of the Aegean, Greece); Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Demosthenes Vouyioukas (University of the Aegean - Research Unit & University Hill - Administrative Building, Greece); Mikael Johansson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Evaluation of SNR Estimation Errors on Amplify-and-Forward Relaying Performance
Rui Shi (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yunfei Chen (University of Warwick, United Kingdom); Min Long (Changsha University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Wei Feng, Ning Ge and Jianhua Lu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Outage Performance of Opportunistic AF OFDM Relaying over Rician Fading Channel
Sudhan Majhi (Indian Institute of Technology, India); Piyush Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India); Youssef Nasser (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Optimal Relay Selection Strategies in Heterogeneous Cooperative Relaying Networks
Yinshan Liu and Xiaofeng Zhong (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jing Wang (EE. Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
On the Energy Efficiency in Multi-user Multi-relay Coded Network
Nan Qi (Northwestern Polytechnical University & KTH Royal Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Ming Xiao (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Theodoros Tsiftsis (Nazarbayev University & Technological Educational Institute of Central Greece, Kazakhstan); Phuong L. Cao and Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Lixin Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
Session Chair: Ioakeim Samaras (Industrial Systems Institute, Greece)
Twitter Data Clustering and Visualization
Andrei Sechelea, Tien Do Huu, Evangelos Zimos and Nikos Deligiannis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Video Conference Based on Enterprise Desktop Grid
Roman Sorokin (ALE International & Telecom ParisTech, France); Jean-Louis Rougier (TELECOM ParisTech / LTCI, France)
Pushing the Role of Information in ICN
Simona Colucci and Marina Mongiello (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
Modeling of Managed Resources in a Location Aware Smart Building
Yun Wang (NC State University, USA); Megan Becvarik and Michael Devetsikiotis (North Carolina State University, USA)
Pricing of wireless sensor data on a centralized bundling platform
Luis Guijarro (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Maurizio Naldi (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Vicent Pla (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Jose Ramon Vidal Catala (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Design of an Energy Decision Framework for an Autonomous RES-enabled Smart-Grid Network
Chrysovalantou Ziogou (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); Simira Papadopoulou (Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece); Spyros Voutetakis (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)
Session Chair: Harilaos Koumaras (NCSR Demokritos, Greece)
In-service Video Quality Assessment based on SDN/NFV techniques
Harilaos Koumaras, Michail Alexandros Kourtis, Christos Sakkas, George K Xilouris and Stavros Kolometsos (NCSR Demokritos, Greece)
A Centralized Framework for Smart Access Point Selection based on the Fittingness Factor
Alessandro Raschellà, Faycal Bouhafs, Mirghiasaldin Seyedebrahimi, Michael Mackay and Qi Shi (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom)
DPDK Open vSwitch Performance Validation with Mirroring Feature
Sivasothy Shanmugalingam (BCOM, France); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France); Philippe Bertin (Orange Labs & Bcom, France)
NO Stack: A Software-defined Framework for 5G Mobile Network
Jie Zeng (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Liping Rong (Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Xin Su (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
User-centric traffic optimization in residential software defined networks
Taimur Bakhshi and Bogdan Ghita (Plymouth University, United Kingdom)
OMAC: Optimal Migration Algorithm for virtual CDN
Hatem Ibn-khedher (Telecom SudParis, France); Emad Abd-Elrahman (Telecom SudParis (ex. INT), France); Hossam Afifi (Institut Telecom & Paris South, France)
Session Chair: Yiannis Andreopoulos (University College London, United Kingdom)
HomeCloud: An Edge Cloud Framework and Testbed for New Application Delivery
Jianli Pan (University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA); Lin Ma (Huawei America Research Center, USA); Ravishankar Ravindran (Huawei & Huawei, USA); Peyman TalebiFard (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Towards Mobile Cloud Security Performance: A Cross-Border Approach
Theodoros Mavroeidakos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Dimitrios Kallergis, Dimitrios D. Vergados and Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Performance Analysis in Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks with Non-Uniform Device-to-Device Deployment
Munzali Ahmed Abana (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Mugen Peng (Beijing University of posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhongyuan Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Dynamic Virtualized Network Function Allocation in a Multi-Cloud Environment
Aris Leivadeas (Carleton University, Canada); Matthias Falkner (Cisco, Germany); Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada); George Kesidis (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Adaptive Sequential Offloading Game for Multi-Cell Mobile Edge Computing
Maofei Deng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Hui Tian (Beijng university of posts and telecommunications, P.R. China); Xinchen Lyu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Toward Pattern and Preference-Aware POI Recommendation for Location-Based Social Networks
Liang Zhu, Changqiao Xu and Jianfeng Guan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Hongke Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Session Chair: Vasilis Friderikos (King's College London, Uninted Kingdom)
Diversity Interleaving Techniques in Binary and Chaos-Based CDMA Systems with Wide-Band Channels
Stevan Mirko Berber (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
SER of M−QAM Decode-and-Forward Multi-Relay Systems under Generalized Fading Conditions
Mulugeta K Fikadu (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Tampere University of Technology & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Finland); Sami Muhaidat (Khalifa University, UAE); Qimei Cui (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Outage Probability under I/Q Imbalance and Cascaded Fading Effects
Alexandros-Apostolos A Boulogeorgos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Tampere University of Technology & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Finland); Bassant Selim and Sami Muhaidat (Khalifa University, UAE); George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Performance of High Rate 802.15.4 UWB PHY over Multipath Fading Channels
Athanasios Vasileiadis (Lund University, Sweden); Athanasios C. Iossifides (Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Outage and average BER Analysis of multiband OFDM UWB System with MRC/EGC Receiver in Log-normal Fading Channels
Sai Krishna Kondoju and Venkata Mani Vakamulla (National Institute of Technology Warangal, India)
Lunch Break (12:30 - 14:00, Room: Alexandros I)
Technical Sessions (14:00 - 16:00)
Session Chair: Demosthenes Vouyioukas (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Error Analysis of Differentially Modulated Cooperative Systems Under Generalized Fading
Sara Al Maeeni (Khalifa University, UAE); Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Tampere University of Technology & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Finland); Sami Muhaidat (Khalifa University, UAE); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
OFDM-IM vs FQAM: A Comparative Analysis
Stavros Domouchtsidis, Georgia D. Ntouni, Vasileios M. Kapinas and George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
GLRT-optimal blind MSK detection with log-linear complexity
Yannis Fountzoulas, Dimitris Chachlakis, George N. Karystinos and Aggelos Bletsas (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Outage Probability Analysis of Cooperative Spatial Modulation Systems
Gökhan Altın, Umit Aygölü, Ertugrul Basar and Mehmet E. Çelebi (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
A Blind Signal Detection Scheme for Co-Channel Interference Cooperative Systems
Han Xi, Zhang Yan, Munzali Ahmed Abana and Peng Mugen (Beijing University of Posts and telecommunications, P.R.China, P.R. China)
Session Chair: Dimitrios D. Vergados (University of Piraeus / Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission, Greece)
Model for sharing the information of cyber security situation awareness between organizations
Tero Kokkonen, Jari Hautamäki and Jarmo Siltanen (JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland); Timo Hämäläinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Reducing the impact of targeted attacks in interdependent telecommunication networks
Diego F. Rueda and Eusebi Calle (University of Girona, Spain); Ferney Maldonado-Lopez (Universidad de los Andes & Universidad de Girona, Colombia); Yezid E. Donoso (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Increasing web service availability by detecting application-layer DDoS attacks in encrypted traffic
Mikhail Zolotukhin and Timo Hämäläinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Tero Kokkonen (JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland); Jarmo Siltanen (University of Applied Sciences, Finland)
Correcting Rotational Errors in Three Stage QKD
Abhishek Parakh (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA); Jacob vanBrandwijk (University of Nebraska at Omaha & Mutual of Omaha, USA)
A Multi-Level Approach to Resilience of Critical Infrastructures and Services
Antonios Gouglidis (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Syed Noor ul Hassan Shirazi (Lancaster University & InfoLab21, United Kingdom); Steven Simpson (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Paul Smith (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria); David Hutchison (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
Session Chair: Liljana Gavrilovska (Ss Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
REM: Revisiting a Cognitive Tool for Virtualized 5G Networks
Adrian Kliks (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Leonardo Goratti (Create-net, Italy); Tao Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland LTD, Finland)
Exploring Radio Environment Map Architectures for Spectrum Sharing in the Radar Bands
Francisco Paisana (Trinity College, Ireland); Zaheer Khan and Janne Lehtomäki (University of Oulu, Finland); Luiz DaSilva (Trinity College & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Risto Vuohtoniemi (University of Oulu, Finland)
Transmitter Localization for 5G mmWave REMs by Stochastic Generalized Triangulation
Anders Landström and Jaap van de Beek (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)
Radio Resource Management based on Radio Environmental Maps: Case of Smart-WiFi
Valentin Rakovic and Daniel Denkovski (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia); Vladimir Atanasovski (Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia); Liljana Gavrilovska (Ss Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
Range and Coexistence Analysis of Long Range Unlicensed Communication
Brecht Reynders, Sofie Pollin and Wannes Meert (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Session Chair: Nikos Deligiannis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Energy Harvesting for the Internet-of-Things: Measurements and Probability Models
George Smart, John Stewart Atkinson, John Mitchell, Miguel Rodrigues and Yiannis Andreopoulos (University College London, United Kingdom)
Multichannel Cross-Layer Routing for Sensor Networks
Noradila Nordin and Richard G Clegg (University College London, United Kingdom); Miguel Rio (UCL, United Kingdom)
Internet-of-Things Data Aggregation Using Compressed Sensing with Side Information
Evangelos Zimos (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium); Joao Mota and Miguel Rodrigues (University College London, United Kingdom); Nikos Deligiannis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Proposal for "Individual specialized life management service" to support super aging society and "Life management platform"
Hideyuki Shimizu, Hisashi Sakamoto, Tohru Miyazaki and Masayoshi Kai (NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd., Japan)
Session 1
Session Chair: Pawel Kryszkiewicz (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Opening
Pawel Kryszkiewicz (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Building Softwarized Mobile Infrastructures with ForCES
Evangelos Haleplidis (University of Patras, Greece); Damascene Joachimpillai (Verizon, USA); Jamal Hadi Salim (Mojatatu Networks, Canada); Kostas Pentikousis (EICT, Germany); Spyros Denazis and Odysseas Koufopavlou (University of Patras, Greece)
Scenarios for 5G Networks: The COHERENT Approach
Alexandros Kostopoulos (OTE, Greece); George Agapiou (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization, Greece); Fang-Chun Kuo (NEC Europe, Germany); Kostas Pentikousis (EICT, Germany); Antonio M. Cipriano (Thales Communications and Security, France); Dorin Panaitopol (Thales Communications & Security (TCS), France); Dimitri Marandin (mimoOn GmbH, Germany); Karol Kowalik (INEA, Poland); Konstantinos Alexandris and Chia-Yu Chang (EURECOM, France); Navid Nikaein (Eurecom, France); Mariana Goldhamer (4GC, Israel); Adrian Kliks (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Rebecca Steinert (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden); Aarne O Mämmelä (VTT, Finland); Tao Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland LTD, Finland)
Enabling Programmability in LTE Networks to Support the Concept of RAN Sharing (invited talk)
Kostas Katsalis (Eurecom, France)
Coffee Break (16:00 - 16:30, Room: Alexandros I)
Technical Sessions (16:30 - 18:30)
Session Chair: Ioannis Marmorkos (Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece)
User-Plane Multi-Connectivity Aspects in 5G
Diomidis S. Michalopoulos (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Ingo Viering (Nomor Research GmbH, Germany); Lei Du (Nokia Siemens Networks, P.R. China)
User-centric Scheduled Ultra-Dense Radio Access Networks
Georgios P. Koudouridis (Huawei Technologies Sweden R&D Center & Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Pablo Soldati (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden); Henrik Lundqvist (Huawei Technologies, Sweden); Christer Qvarfordt (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden)
The Effect of Group Mobility on the Efficacy of Routing in Next Generation Mobile Networks
Thomas Lagkas (The University of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College, Greece); Argyro Lamproudi (Chalmers University of Technology, Greece); Panagiotis Sarigiannidis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece)
Pilot Allocation Trade-off for Low Latency and High Reliability Transmission
Mohamed Ibrahim (Huawei Technologies, Germany); Wen Xu (Huawei & Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH - European Research Center (ERC), Germany)
Application of Opposition-Based Learning Concepts in Reducing the Power Consumption in Wireless Access Networks
Sotirios Goudos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Margot Deruyck (Ghent University / IBBT, Belgium); David Plets (Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium); Luc Martens (Ghent University, Belgium); Wout Joseph (Ghent University/iMinds, Belgium)
Flow-Level Performance Analysis of Random Wireless Network using Stochastic Petri Nets
Huijian Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Lei Lei (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Kan Zheng (Beijing University of Posts&Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Session Chair: Traianos Yioultsis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Achievability of the rate-distortion function in binary uniform source coding with side information
Andrei Sechelea and Adrian Munteanu (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium); Aleksandra Pižurica (Ghent University, Belgium); Nikos Deligiannis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Greedy Local-set Based Sampling and Reconstruction for Band-limited Graph Signals
Yang Lishan (Beijing University of Post and Telecommnications, P.R. China); Guo Wenbin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Entropy based Image Segmentation with Wavelet Compression for Energy Efficient LTE Systems
Anshu Mittal (IIT Bombay, India); Chinmoy Kundu (Memorial University, Canada); Ranjan Bose (Indian Institute of Technology, India); R K Shevgaonkar (IIT Mumbai, India)
Clustering Based Downsampling and Reconstruction for Band-limited Graph Signal
Yang Lishan (Beijing University of Post and Telecommnications, P.R. China); Guo Wenbin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
A Novel Quality-Aware 3D Video Adaptive Scheme
Yi Han and Liam Murphy (University College Dublin, Ireland); Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Session Chair: Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom)
Confidential and Energy-Efficient multiple-antenna Communications with Artificial Noise
Alessio Zappone, Pin-Hsun Lin and Eduard Jorswieck (TU Dresden, Germany)
Artificial Noise Design For Secure Multi-Relay Networks Over Generalized Fading Channels
Ying Liu (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); George C. Alexandropoulos (France Research Center, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., France); Liang Li (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Marius Pesavento (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Merckstr. 25, Germany)
Robust Low-Complexity Arbitrary User- and Symbol-Level Multi-Cell Precoding with Single-Fed Load-Controlled Parasitic Antenna Arrays
Konstantinos Ntougias, Dimitrios Ntaikos and Constantinos B. Papadias (Athens Information Technology, Greece)
Symbol-level precoding in MISO broadcast channels for SWIPT systems
Stelios Timotheou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Gan Zheng (Loughborough University & University of Luxembourg, United Kingdom); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom); Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Fundamental Limits of Simultaneous Energy and Information Transmission
Selma Belhadj Amor (Inria, France); Samir M. Perlaza (INRIA, France)
Session Chair: Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
V2I Applications in Highways: How RSU dimensioning can improve service delivery
Georgios Charalampopoulos (Hellenic Open University, Greece); Tasos Dagiuklas (Hellenic Open University & University of Patras, Greece); Theofilos Chrysikos (University of Patras, Greece)
Using Web Services-based Wireless Sensor Networks for Estimating the Free Size of Parking Places
Ioakeim Samaras (Industrial Systems Institute, Intracom-Telecom, Greece); John Gialelis (University of Patras & Industrial Systems Insitute, Greece); Stavros Koubias (University of Patras, Greece)
Stochastic Modeling of Device-to-Device Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Lei Lei (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
A Novel Direction-based Clustering Algorithm for VANETs
Irina Tal, Phelim Kelly and Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Session Chair: Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Presenters
Marcel Großmann, Andreas Eiermann, Mathias Renner, Otto-Friedrich University, Bamberg, Germany
Abstract
Following the establishment of virtualization approaches, cloud services within data center environments have become easily manageable. Modern infrastructures use virtual machines as a platform for service delivery, requiring powerful servers. Conjointly, the uprising of the Internet of Things implies new challenges to provide applications that can successfully manage data and communicate with a large number of connected devices. The standards of entry have resulted in extreme difficulties for small enterprises and educational institutions trying to provide their own virtualized services. The Hypriot Cluster Lab (HCL) - made publicly available on Github1 - offers cloud functionality while running on ARM processors, thereby minimizing costs. Due to the fact that such processors offer less computational power, services are packaged into lightweight containers built using the Docker framework, which avoid the overhead associated with virtual machines.
Session 2
Session Chair: Pawel Kryszkiewicz (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Virtualized Sub-GHz Transmission Paired with Mobile Access for the Tactile Internet
Oliver Holland, Stan Wong and Vasilis Friderikos (King's College London, United Kingdom); Zhijin Qin and Yue Gao (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
Virtualization of a Heterogeneous Wireless Network – PHY Layer Perspective (invited talk)
Pawel Kryszkiewicz, Adrian Kliks (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Panel Discussion on Network Visualization
All workshop participants
Closing
Pawel Kryszkiewicz (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Conference Gala (20:30-23:30, Porto Palace hotel)
Coffee Break (10:00 - 10:30, Room: Alexandros I)
Technical Sessions (10:30 - 12:30)
Session Chair: Suzhi Bi (Shenzhen University, P.R. China)
5G Mobile Challenges: A Feasibility Study on Achieving Carbon Neutrality
Luis Carlos BS Goncalves (ISCTE-IUL/Instituto de Telecomunicações & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Pedro Sebastião (ISCTE, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Américo Correia (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Nuno Souto (ISCTE/Instituto de Telecomunicações & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Proportional Fair Scheduling in Wireless Powered Communication Networks
Hristina Chingoska and Ivana Nikoloska (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia); Zoran Hadzi-Velkov (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia); Nikola Zlatanov (Monash University, Australia)
Simultaneous Transmission of Information and RF Energy in Multicarrier Systems
Sumit Gautam (International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad, India); P Ubaidulla (International Institute of Information Technology, India)
User Cooperation for Enhanced Throughput Fairness in Wireless Powered Communication Networks
Mingquan Zhong, Suzhi Bi and Xiaohui Lin (Shenzhen University, P.R. China)
Session Chair: Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Secret Key Generation Using Entropy-Constrained-Like Quantization Scheme
Xuanxuan Wang (Institute of Information Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Lars Thiele (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Thomas Haustein (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany); Yongming Wang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
WSN Operability During Persistent Attack Execution
Eliana Stavrou (UCLan Cyprus, Cyprus); Andreas Pitsillides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Polar-Code-Based Security on the BSC-Modeled HARQ in Fading
Yannis Fountzoulas, Angela Kosta and George N. Karystinos (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Epidemic Model for Malware Targeting Telephony Networks
Iosif Androulidakis (University of Ioannina, Slovenia); Sergio Huerta (University of Deusto, Spain); Vasileios Vlachos (Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Greece); Igor Santos (DeustoTech, University of Deusto, Spain)
MISO TAS Wiretap Channels with Jamming and Noise at the Eavesdropper
Yosbel Ortega (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Nuwan S. Ferdinand (University of Oulu, Finland); Daniel Benevides da Costa (Federal University of Ceara (UFC) & Area: Telecommunications, Brazil); Ugo Dias and Rafael Timoteo de Sousa Junior (University of Brasilia, Brazil)
Session Chair: Matthias Korb (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Massive MIMO with Multi-Antenna Users: When are Additional User Antennas Beneficial?
Xueru Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Emil Björnson (Linköping University, Sweden); Shidong Zhou (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jing Wang (EE. Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Adaptive Split Bregman for Sparse and Low Rank Massive MIMO Channel Estimation
Ahmed Nasser Ahmed (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) & Suez Canal University, Egypt); Maha Elsabrouty (Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology, Egypt)
Evaluating Realistic Performance Gains of Massive Multi-User MIMO System in Urban City Deployments
Siming Zhang, Angela Doufexi and Andrew Nix (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
An Enhanced Whitening Rotation Semi-Blind Channel Estimation for Massive MIMO-OFDM
Hayder Al-Salihi and Mohammad Reza Nakhai (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Dealing With Large Overhead in FDD massive MIMO Systems: A One-Bit Feedback Scheme
Yingjie Zhang, Wei Feng and Ning Ge (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Session Chair: Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
On the Dependence Between Base Stations Deployment and Traffic Spatial Distribution in Cellular Networks
Meng Li, Zhifeng Zhao and Yifan Zhou (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Honggang Zhang (Zhejiang University & Université Européenne de Bretagne (UEB) and Supelec, P.R. China)
Analysis of Vertical and Horizontal Sectorization in Suburban Environment using 3D Ray Tracing
Muhammad Usman Sheikh and Jukka Lempiäinen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Simple Semi-Analytical Expression for the Max-SIR Outage Probability in Cellular Networks
Maher Arar, Elham Kalantari and Abbas Yongacoglu (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Migration to 28 GHz Frequency with Higher order Sectorization in Urban Macro Cellular Environment
Muhammad Usman Sheikh and Jukka Lempiäinen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Received Signal Strength Based Localization in Sectorized Cellular Networks
Saliha Büyükçorak (Istanbul Technical University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Faculty, Turkey); Gunes Karabulut Kurt (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Abbas Yongacoglu (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Session 1: Opening
Moderator: Nikolaos Voros (Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Greece)
Welcome Address
Adaptivity at Run-Time: Handling Hydra’s Heads (Keynote Speech)
Michael Huebner (Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany)
Session 2: Design of Cyber Physical Systems
Moderator: Christos Antonopoulos (Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Greece)
WCET Aware Parallelization of Model Based CPS Applications for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems: The ARGO Project Approach
Georgios Keramidas (Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece)
Robots in Assisted Living Environments – Unobtrusive, Efficient, Reliable and Modular Solutions for Independent Ageing: The RADIO Project Approach
Fynn Schwiegelshohn (Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany)
Lunch Break (12:30 - 13:30, Room: Alexandros I)
Tecnical Sessions (13:30 - 15:30)
Session Chair: Diomidis S. Michalopoulos (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)
Modeling Interference Between OFDM/OQAM and CP-OFDM: Limitations of the PSD-Based Model
Quentin Bodinier (CentraleSupélec/IETR, France); Faouzi Bader (CentraleSupélec, France); Jacques Palicot (CentraleSupélec/IETR, France)
OQAM implementation of GFDM
Shravan Kumar Bandari and Venkata Mani Vakamulla (National Institute of Technology Warangal, India); Anastasios Drosopoulos (TEI of Western Greece, Greece)
Low-Complexity Approximations for LMMSE Channel Estimation in OFDM/OQAM
Vincent Savaux (B-COM, France); Yves Louet (CentraleSupelec, France); Faouzi Bader (CentraleSupélec, France)
Wavelet-OFDM vs. OFDM: Performance Comparison
Marwa Chafii (CentraleSupélec & IETR, France); Yahya Jasim Harbi and Alister G. Burr (University of York, United Kingdom)
CMA-Based Blind Equalization and Phase Recovery in OFDM/OQAM Systems
Vincent Savaux (B-COM, France); Faouzi Bader (CentraleSupélec, France); Jacques Palicot (CentraleSupélec/IETR, France)
Session Chair: Adel Ben Mnaouer (Canadian University of Dubai, UAE)
Adaptive Probabilistic Flooding for Nanonetworks Employing Molecular Communication
Taqwa Saeed and Marios Lestas (Frederick University, Cyprus); Andreas Pitsillides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Packet Reordering Response for MPTCP under Wireless Heterogeneous Environment
Amani Alheid (University of Bristol & Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) - Kuwait, United Kingdom); Angela Doufexi and Dritan Kaleshi (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
LUPMAC: A cross-layer MAC technique to improve the age of information over dense WLANs
Antonio Franco (Lunds Tekniska Högskola, Sweden); Emma Fitzgerald and Bjorn Landfeldt (Lund University, Sweden); Nikolaos Pappas and Vangelis Angelakis (Linköping University, Sweden)
Comparison of Spatial Aloha and CSMA using Simple Stochastic Geometry Models for 1D and 2D Networks
Nadjib Achir (INRIA EVA, France); Younes Bouchaala (Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University & Institut VEDECOM, France); Paul Muhlethaler and Oyunchimeg Shagdar (INRIA, France)
Session Chair: Ioannis Marmorkos (Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Pulse Shape Pre-distortion for Improving the Power Efficiency of SOA-based IR-UWB over Fiber Systems
Haidar Taki (Faculty of Sciences I, Lebanese University, Lebanon); Stéphane Azou (CNRS/Lab-STICC & Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB), France); Ali Hamie (Arts Sciences & Technology University in Lebanon (AUL), Lebanon); Ali Al Housseini (Lebanese University-Liban, Lebanon); Ali Alaeddine (Lebanese University - Hadath - Lebanon, Lebanon); Ammar Sharaiha (ENIB, France)
Channel Modeling and Performance Evaluation of FSO Communication Systems in Fog
Maged Abdullah Esmail and Habib Fathallah (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
Design Criterion of Space-Time Codes for SDM Optical Fiber Systems
El Mehdi Amhoud (TELECOM PARISTECH, France); Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman (TELECOM ParisTech, France); Yves Jaouën (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Optimized Constellation Design for P-LDPC Coded Multi-Color Visible Light Communications
Chengjun Tang (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, P.R. China); Ming Jiang and Hong Shen (Southeast University, P.R. China); Chunming Zhao (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, P.R. China)
Improving Carrier Ethernet Recovery Time Using a Fast Reroute Mechanism
Marcelo Santos (Instutut Nacional de la Recherche Scientifique INRS, Canada); Jean-Charles Grégoire (University of Quebec, INRS, Canada)
Session Chair: Dimitrios Efstathiou (Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia, Greece)
Semi-Exhaustive Reduced-complexity Recursive Block Decoding for MIMO Systems
Mohamed Achraf Khsiba (Telecom ParisTech, France); Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman (TELECOM ParisTech, France)
Superimposed Training based Estimation of Sparse MIMO Channels for Emerging Wireless Networks
Babar Mansoor and Junaid Nawaz Syed (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan); Bilal Amin (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan); Shree Krishna Sharma (University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg); Mohammad N Patwary (Staffordshire University, Stafford, United Kingdom)
Towards Efficient Design of Fixed-point Iterative Receiver for Coded MIMO-OFDM Systems
Rida El Chall (INSA de Rennes & IETR, France); Fabienne Nouvel (INSA IETR RENNES, France); Maryline Hélard (INSA Rennes & IETR Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, France); Ming Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University & Beijing Key Lab of Transportation Data Analysis and Mining, P.R. China); Yvan Kokar (IETR-INSA Rennes, France)
Source Precoder Design for Non-Regenerative MIMO Relay Networks with Antenna Selection
Lina Bariah (KUSTAR, UAE); Sami Muhaidat and Arafat Al-Dweik (Khalifa University, UAE)
Session 2: Design of Cyber Physical Systems (cont.)
Moderator: Georgios Keramidas (Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Greece)
Service Robot Applications to Support MCI Patients at Home: The RAMCIP Project Approach
Dimitrios Tzovaras and Dimitrios Giakoumis (Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)
Ambient Assisted Living Lab: A Full House Environment Integrating Heterogeneous CPS Technologies
Christos Antonopoulos (Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece)
Session 3: CPS Demonstrators
Moderator: Christos Antonopoulos (Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Greece)
WCET Aware Parallelization of Model Based CPS Applications for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems: The ARGO Project Approach
Georgios Keramidas (Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece)
Demonstrator 1: TRUTLEBOT 2 – The Robotic Home Assistant of RADIO Project
[Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece]
Demonstrator 2: RAMCIP Project: Computer Vision and Robot Navigation
[Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas / Information Technologies Institute, Greece]
Demonstrator 3: Reconfigurable Hardware in Robotics Applications: A Hardware Software Codesign Approach
[Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany]
Session 4: Closing Session
Moderator: Nikolaos Voros (Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Greece)
Coffee Break (15:30 - 15:50, Room: Alexandros I)
Technical Sessions (15:50 - 17:30)
Session Chairs: Ali Ismail Awad, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden and Hany S. Hussein (Aswan University, Egypt)
Informed Consent in Internet of Things: The Case Study of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems
Ricardo Neisse (European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy); Gianmarco Baldini (Joint Research Centre - European Commission, Italy); Gary Steri (European Commission JRC, Italy); Vincent Mahieu (Joint Research Centre, European Union)
Smartphones as M2M Gateways in Smart Cities IoT Applications
Carlos Pereira (Instituto de Telecomunicações & University of Porto, Portugal); Joao G. P. Rodrigues and António Pinto (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Pedro Rocha, Fernando Santiago and Jorge Sousa (PT Inovação e Sistemas, Portugal); Ana C Aguiar (Instituto de Telecomunicações & University of Porto, Portugal)
Affine Linear Transformation based Sphere Decoder for 1-bit ADC MIMO-Constant Envelope Modulation
Doaa Abdelhameed and Hany S. Hussein (Aswan University, Egypt); Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed (Osaka University, Japan)
Flow-based Features for a Robust Intrusion Detection System Targeting Mobile Traffic
Mohammed Faisal Elrawy (MUST University, Egypt & IPA, Asir, KSA, Egypt); Ali Ismail Awad (Luleå University of Technology & Al Azhar University, Sweden); Hesham Hamed (ElMinia University, Egypt)
Session Chair: Yaser Jararweh (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan)
Consumption Considered Optimal Scheme for Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing
Li Tianze, Wu Muqing and Min Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Extending NS3 To Simulate Visible Light Communication at Network-Level
Adel Aldalbahi (New Jersey Institute Of Technology, USA); Michael Rahaim (Boston University & NSF Smart Lighting ERC, USA); Abdallah A Khreishah (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Moussa Ayyash (CSU, USA); Ryan Ackerman, James Basuino and Walter Berreta (New Jersey Institute Of Technology, USA); Thomas DC Little (Boston University & NSF Smart Lighting ERC, USA)
The Future of Mobile Cloud Computing: Integrating Cloudlets and Mobile Edge Computing
Yaser Jararweh and Ahmad S Doulat (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan); Omar AlQudah (JUST, Jordan); Ejaz Ahmed (University of Malaya, Malaysia); Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan); Elhadj Benkhelifa (United Kingdom)
Cooperative models in Cloud and Mobile Cloud Computing
Khadija Bahuireth and Lo’ai A. Tawalbeh (Um al Qura University, Saudi Arabia)
Session Chair: Adrien van den Bossche (IRIT, Université Fédérale de Toulouse, France)
ICN Based Distributed IoT Resource Discovery and Routing
Lijun Dong, Ravi Ravindran and Guoqiang Wang (Huawei, USA)
Random Unslotted Time-Frequency ALOHA: Theory and Application to IoT UNB Networks
Claire Goursaud (INSA-Lyon, France); Yuqi Mo (CITI of INSA-Lyon & SIGFOX, France)
OpenWiNo: An Open Hardware and Software Framework for Fast-Prototyping in the IoT
Adrien van den Bossche (IRIT, Université Fédérale de Toulouse, France); Rejane Dalce (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse UMR 5505 - CNRS, France); Thierry Val (University of TOULOUSE - UT2J - CNRS - IRIT - IRT team, France)
PEAM: A Polymorphic, Energy-Aware MAC Protocol for WBAN
Ons Bouachir (Canadian University Dubai, UAE); Adel Ben Mnaouer (Canadian University of Dubai & School of Engineering, Applied Sciences and Technology, UAE); Farid Touati (Qatar University, Qatar)
Session Chair: Shree Krishna Sharma (University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg)
Non-Binary LDPC Codes over Finite Division Near Rings
Matthias Korb (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Andrew Blanksby (Broadcom Corporation, USA)
Joint Signal Alignment and Physical Network Coding for Heterogeneous Networks
Syed Saqlain Ali (University of Aveiro & Instituto de Telecommuicacoes, Portugal); Daniel Castanheira and Adão Silva (Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)/University of Aveiro, Portugal); Atilio Gameiro (Telecommunications Institute/Aveiro University, Portugal)
On Signal Space Diversity for Non Binary Coded Modulation schemes
Ahmed Abdmouleh (University of South Brittany, France); Emmanuel Boutillon and Laura Conde-Canencia (Université de Bretagne Sud, France); Charbel Abdel Nour (Institut Telecom - Telecom Bretagne, France); Catherine Douillard (Institut Mines Telecom - Telecom Bretagne, France)
Random linear network coding for streams with unequally sized packets: Overhead reduction without zero-padded schemes
Maroua Taghouti (Tunisia Polytechnic School, University of Carthage, Tunisia); Daniel E. Lucani and Morten V. Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Ammar Bouallegue (National School of Engineers of Tunis, Tunisia)
Session Chairs: ICT 2016 Chairs
Best Paper Awards
Presented by Christos Douligeris (University of Pireaus, Greece), ICT2016 Awards Co-chair.
Closing Ceremony
Greetings and short speeches by Periklis Chatzimisios and Athanasios Iossifides (ALexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece), TPC and Local Committee Co-chairs.
All four tutorials took place in parallel, on May 16, 2016, 14:00.
Instructors
Thomas Watteyne, INRIA, Paris, France
Xavier Vilajosana, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain
Pere Tuset-Peiro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain
Abstract
This tutorial aims at acquainting its audience with ongoing standardization activities around the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT), and provide hands-on experience through the OpenWSN and OpenMote ecosystems. OpenWSN was founded in 2010 and together with the OpenMote platform, which was launched in 2014, it has become the de-facto open-source implementation of IEEE802.15.4e-2012 Time Synchronized Channel Hopping (TSCH). TSCH is the standard at the heart of the IIoT, which enables ultra high reliability and low-power operation. This tutorial is tailored to the level of practicing engineers and advanced researchers who are interested in IIoT, as well as hands-on experience.
Duration: 3 hours.
Outline
Important Dates
Instructors' bios
Thomas Watteyne (http://www.thomaswatteyne.com/, @thomaswatteyne) is an insatiable enthusiast of low-power wireless mesh technologies. He is a researcher at Inria in Paris, in the new EVA research team, where he designs, models and builds networking solutions based on a variety of Internet-of-Things (IoT) standards. He is Senior Networking Design Engineer at Linear Technology, in the Dust Networks product group, the undisputed leader in supplying low power wireless mesh networks for demanding industrial process automation applications. Since 2013, he co-chairs the IETF 6TiSCH working group, which standardizes how to use IEEE802.15.4e TSCH in IPv6-enabled mesh networks, and recently joined the IETF Internet-of-Things Directorate. Prior to that, Thomas was a postdoctoral research lead in Prof. Kristofer Pister’s team at the University of California, Berkeley. He founded and co-leads Berkeley’s OpenWSN project, an open-source initiative to promote the use of fully standards-based protocol stacks for the IoT. Between 2005 and 2008, he was a research engineer at France Telecom, Orange Labs. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (2008), an MSc in Networking (2005) and an MEng in Telecommunications (2005) from INSA Lyon, France. He is Senior member of IEEE. He is fluent in 4 languages.
Xavier Vilajosana ( http://www.xvilajosana.org/) is principal investigator at the WINE research group at UOC and professor at the Computer Science, Telecommunications and Multimedia department. In addition Xavier is co-founder of Worldsensing and OpenMote Technologies, 2 prominent startups developing cutting edge IoT related technology. Until March 2016 Xavier has been senior researcher at the HP R&D Labs. From January 2012 to January 2014, Xavier was visiting Professor at the University of California Berkeley holding a prestigious Fulbright fellowship. In 2008, he was visiting researcher of France Telecom R&D Labs, Paris. Xavier has been one of the main promoters of low power wireless technologies, co-leading the OpenWSN.org initiative at UC Berkeley, and promoting the use of low power wireless standards for the emerging Industrial Internet paradigm. He also contributed to the industrialization and introduction of Low Power Wide Area Networks to urban scenarios through Worldsensing. Xavier is author of different Internet Drafts and RFCs, as part of his standardization activities for low power industrial networks. Xavier is contributing actively at the IETF 6TiSCH, 6Lo and ROLL Working Groups. Xavier holds more than 20 patents, more than 30 high impact journal publications and have contributed with several demos, tutorials and courses in the field of low power wireless networks. Finally Xavier is IEEE Senior Member and founding member and vocal of the IEEE Sensors Council in Spain.
Pere Tuset-Peiro ( http://www.peretuset.net/, @peretuset) is assistant professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), where he teaches courses on embedded systems, computer networks and operating systems. He is also co-founder of OpenMote Technologies, a start-up company that provides open source hardware for the Internet of Things. Pere received the BSc and MSc in Telecommunications Engineering degrees from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2007 and 2011 respectively, and the PhD in Network and Information Technologies from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in 2015. From January 2012 to February 2014 he was researcher at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). While being at UOC, he was visiting researcher at Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) from February 2013 to May 2013, and visiting researcher at the University of California Berkeley (UCB) from July 2013 to October 2013. From April 2014 to March 2016 he was software engineer at the HP R&D Labs. Currently, Pere holds five international patents and more than ten high impact publications. Recently, he has received the best demo runner-up award at INFOCOM 2014 for demonstrating LPDQ (Low Power Distributed Queueing), a new MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol for active RFID systems.
Instructors
Joerg Widmer , Institute IMDEA Networks, Madrid, Spain
Carlo Fischione , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract
The tutorial will highlight the most prominent technical challenges of and possible approaches for networking in the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) band. Communication at such high frequencies brings unique challenges, primarily due the high signal attenuation, which can only be overcome by the use of highly directional antennas. This results in much less interference compared to omni-directional communication at lower frequencies, allowing for a high degree of spatial reuse and potentially simpler Medium Access Control Protocols (MAC) and interference management mechanisms. However, high directionality may cause deafness due to beam misalignments, whereas channels may appear and disappear over short time intervals and cause sudden communication blockages, in particular for mobile devices. This in turn requires a radical rethinking of wireless network design. The tutorial specifically focuses on networking aspects of the MAC layer and above.
Duration: 3 hours and 30 min.
Outline
Important Dates
Instructors' bios
Joerg Widmer is Research Professor at Institute IMDEA Networks in Madrid, Spain. He received his M.S. and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Mannheim, Germany in 2000 and 2003, respectively. His research focuses primarily on wireless networks, ranging from extremely high frequency millimeter-wave communication and MAC layer design to mobile network architectures. From 2005 to 2010, he was manager of the Ubiquitous Networking Research Group at DOCOMO Euro-Labs in Munich, Germany, leading several projects in the area of mobile and cellular networks. Before, he worked as post-doctoral researcher at EPFL, Switzerland on ultra-wide band communication and network coding. He was a visiting researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA, USA and University College London, UK. Joerg Widmer was awarded an ERC consolidator grant as well as a Spanish Ramon y Cajal grant. He is senior member of IEEE and ACM.
Carlo Fischione is a tenured Associate Professor in KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Information Engineering (3/3 years) in May 2005 and the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering (Laurea, Summa cum Laude, 5/5 years) in April 2001 both from University of L’Aquila, Italy. He has held research positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (2015, Visiting Professor); Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2015, Associate); University of California at Berkeley, CA (2004-2005, Visiting Scholar, and 2007-2008, Research Associate. His research interests include optimization with applications to wireless sensor networks, networked control systems, wireless networks, security and privacy. He received or co-received a number of awards, including the best paper award from the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2007). He is co-founder and CTO of the sensor networks company MIND (ancient and modern musical instruments networked). He is member of IEEE.
Instructors
Selma Belhadj Amor , Laboratoire CITI (Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA de Lyon), Lyon, France
Samir M. Perlaza , Laboratoire CITI (Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA de Lyon), Lyon, France
Abstract
This tutorial aims to familiarize the attendees with the new communication paradigm of simultaneous energy and information transmission (SEIT) in wireless networks. The tutorial is divided into four parts. In the first part, the relevance of SEIT is highlighted as a powerful technique to ensure a more efficient energy utilization in future “green” communication systems, e.g, 5G networks, small cells, Wi-Fi networks, sensor networks and ad hoc networks. In the second part, particular attention is paid to existing techniques for implementing SEIT in point-to-point wireless communications. In particular, power allocation and beamforming techniques are reviewed. At the same time, strong emphasis is put on the fundamental limits of this technology using basic notions from information theory. In the third part, multi-user scenarios are studied and the key aspects of the energy-information trade-off are studied in both centralized networks, e.g, cellular networks and decentralized networks, e.g., sensor networks and ad hoc networks. In the latter, basic notions of game theory are studied to model the stable operating points of these networks. In the final part, practical aspects are tackled putting an emphasis on the main future challenges of SEIT in the context of 5G. For instance, front-end architectures allowing both energy harvesting and information decoding are studied. At the same time, aspects regarding in-band and out-band energy transmission as well as co-located and non-co-located receivers and energy harvesters are discussed.
Duration: 3 hours and 30 min.
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Instructors' bios
Selma Belhadj Amor is an INRIA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Laboratoire CITI (Joint Lab between Universit´e de Lyon, INRIA, and INSA de Lyon), Lyon, France. She received the B.Sc. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering in 2009 and 2011, respectively, from Grenoble-INP Ensimag, Grenoble, France. She also received the M.Sc. degree in mathematics and computer science in 2011 jointly from Grenoble-INP Ensimag and Universit´e Joseph Fourier (UJF), Grenoble, France. She received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2015 from T´el´ecom ParisTech, Paris, France.
Samir M. Perlaza is an INRIA Research Scientist at Laboratoire CITI (Joint Lab between Universite de Lyon, INRIA and INSA de Lyon), Lyon, France. He is also a visiting research collaborator at the School of Applied Science at Princeton University (NJ, USA). He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Ecole Nationale Sup´erieure des Telecommunications (Telecom ParisTech), Paris, France, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. Previously, from 2008 to 2011, he was a Research Engineer at France Telecom - Orange Labs (Paris, France). He has held long-term academic appointments at the Alcatel-Lucent Chair in Flexible Radio at Sup´elec (Gif-sur-Yvette, France); at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) and at the University of Houston (Houston, TX). His research interests lie in the overlap of signal processing, information theory, game theory and wireless communications. Dr. Perlaza has been distinguished by the European Commission with an Alban Fellowship in 2006 and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship in 2015. He was also one of the recipients of the the Best Student Paper Award at Crowncom in 2009.
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Ioannis Psaras , University College London, UK
Abstract
Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has been the topic of endless discussions in the research community in the past few years, for two main reasons: i) due to the huge advantages that such a networking paradigm would bring, and ii) due to the difficulty of implementing such a radical change on top of the current Internet. Information-Centric Networks work on the basis of content, rather than end-hosts. In the vast majority of Internet transfers, users are not actually interested in the host-to-host communication per se, but instead in the actual content/data/information that the host in question holds. Therefore, instead of searching for the host that holds the content of interest, ICN focuses on the search and resolution of the content itself, irrespectively of where the content is, who is the host of the content, or how can the content-host be reached. The evolution steps from the client-server model to the ICN proposal included IP Multicast, Web-caching, Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), Peer-to-Peer computing, but were also influenced from the wireless and mobile world, i.e., Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), Opportunistic networks and Delay-/Disruption-Tolerant Networks (DTNs). In this tutorial, we will start off with a short summary on the evolution of content-based networking through the years, which is necessary in order to understand the foundations of the ICN pyramid; then we will dive into the details of specific research challenges in ICN. These challenges span from network layer naming and addressing to in-network caching and resource management and further to application-layer issues. The open issues in this area far outweigh the solved ones and hence, our discussion and presentation will focus on the related tradeoffs and research directions for future ICN investigations.
Duration: 3 hours and 30 min.
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Ioannis Psaras is Senior Researcher and an EPSRC Fellow with the Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of University College London. He has participated in several EU FP7, H2020 and EPSRC projects focusing on future Internet architectures with a special focus on resource allocation and management. His broad research interests include Congestion and Flow Control, Transport-layer Protocols, Delay-/Disruption-Tolerant Networks (DTNs), User-Provided and User-Centric Networks and Information-Centric Networks. He is active in the ICNRG group of the IRTF and has co-authored one of the first Internet Drafts on “Research Challenges of ICN”. Together with his team, he has received two Best Paper Awards at IFIP Networking 2012 and 2015, both in the area of Information-Centric Networks. He has recently received more than £1M from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to pursue a 5-year Early Career Fellowship on the interplay between Information-Centric Networks and Software-Defined Networks. Further information can be found at: http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~uceeips/.
The following papers have been awarded the best paper awards (in random order):
Hyperbolic Traffic Load Centrality for Large-Scale Complex Communications Networks
Eleni G Stai and Konstantinos Sotiropoulos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Vasileios A Karyotis (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) & National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
IoT-D2D Task Allocation: an Award-Driven Game Theory Approach
Emad Abd-Elrahman (Telecom SudParis (ex. INT), France); Hossam Afifi (Institut Telecom & Paris South, France); Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy); Makhlouf Hadji (IRT System X, France); Virginia Pilloni (University of Cagliari, Italy)
N3: Addressing and Routing in 3D Nanonetworks
Angeliki Tsioliaridou (Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece); Christos Liaskos (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece); Lefteris Pachis and Sotiris Ioannidis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece); Andreas Pitsillides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
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Location
Megalou Alexandrou 2,
GR-54640, Thessaloniki,
Greece
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Single, sea view: 110€
Single, city view: 100€
Double, sea view: 120€
Double, city view: 110€
Location
Vasilissis Olgas 65,
GR-54642, Thessaloniki,
Greece
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Single room: 49€
Double room: 59€
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Vasilissis Olgas 44,
GR-54641, Thessaloniki,
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Single room: 50€
Double room: 70€