14:30 – 16:00
A1- Performance Analysis of IoT Networks
Session Chair: Dr. Esko Dijk (Signify Research, The Netherlands)
1570630974- Reconfiguration of LoRa Networks Parameters using Fuzzy C-Means Clustering,
Aghiles Djoudi (ESIEE School Paris, France); Rafik Zitouni (ECE Paris, France); Nawel Zangar (ESIEE PARIS, France); Laurent George (ESIEE Paris, France)
1570628687- When Directory Design Meets Data Explosion: Rethinking Query Performance for IoT,
Luoyao Hao and Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)
1570630240- Time Synchronization in IoT Mesh Networks,
Tibor Beke (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Esko Dijk (Signify Research, The Netherlands); Tanir Ozcelebi and Richard Verhoeven (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
1570629029- NB-IoT Testbed for Industrial Internet of Things,
Stephen O Ugwuanyi, James Irvine and Jidapa Hansawangkit (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
1570631193- Towards IoT Slicing for Centralized WLANs in Enterprise Networks,
Foroutan Fami (Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Chuan Pham (Synchromedia Laboratory, Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Université du Québec, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (University of Quebec, Canada)
1570632367- Internet-of-Things (IoT) Shortest Path Algorithms and Communication Case Studies for Maintaining Connectivity in Harsh Environements
Ghassan Fadlallah, Hamid Mcheick and Djamal Rebaine (University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Canada)
A2- Cybersecurity
Session Chair: Dr. Mingwei Gong (Mount Royal University, Canada)
1570619406- Piracy on the Internet: Publisher-side Analysis on File Hosting Services,
Marcus Chan (University of Auckland, New Zealand); Mingwei Gong (Mount Royal University, Canada); Ranesh Kumar Naha (University of Tasmania, Australia); Aniket Mahanti (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
1570618546- The evolution from Traditional to Intelligent Web Security: Systematic Literature Review,
Carlos José Martinez Santander (Escuela Politecnica Nacional & Universidad Católica de Cuenca, Ecuador); Hugo Moreno (Escuela Superior Politecnica de Chimborazo, Ecuador); Myriam Beatriz Hernandez Alvarez (Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador)
1570619340- AI and machine learning: A mixed blessing for cybersecurity,
Faouzi Kamoun (ESPRIT, Tunisia); Farkhund Iqbal (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates); Mohamed Esseghir (ESPRIT, Tunisia); Thar Baker (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
1570631168- An Optimization Approach to Graph Partitioning for Detecting Persistent Attacks in Enterprise Networks,
Hazem M. Soliman (Rank Software Inc., Canada)
1570643507- Smartwatch Dynamics: A Novel Modality and Solution to Attacks on Cyber-behavioral Biometrics for Continuous Verification?,
Khandaker Rahman (Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, USA); Noor Alam, Jarin Musarrat and Anusha Madarapu (Saginaw Valley State University, USA); Md Hossain (Southern Connecticut State University, USA)
1570618532- Dashboard Visualization Techniques in Information Security,
P. Yermalovich (Université Laval & Revenu Québec, Canada)
A3- Applications of AI/ML in computing and Networking I
Session Chair: Dr. Serguei A. Mokhov (Concordia University, Canada)
1570631318- Multiple UAV based Spatio-Temporal Task Assignment using Fast Elitist Multi Objective Evolutionary Approaches,
Kabo Pule (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
1570623024- A platform for Sharing Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Autonomous Driving An overview of Enhanced LAOP,
Jihene Rezgui, Clément Bisaillon and Léonard Oest O’Leary (College Maisonneuve, Canada)
1570622999- OpenISS as a Near-Realtime Composable Broadcast Service for Performing Arts and Beyond,
Serguei A. Mokhov, Jashanjot Singh, Haotao Lai, Konstantinos Psimoulis and Joey Paquet (Concordia University, Canada)
1570653633- Mathematical Modeling and Prediction of Neural Network Training based on RC Circuits,
Bhaskar Ghosh and Indira Dutta (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Albert Carlson (Camqed Labs, USA); Michael W Totaro (University of Louisiana at Lafayette & Ray P. Authement College of Sciences, USA)
1570631255- Bivariate Beta Regression Models and Its Medical Applications,
Pantea Koochemeshkian, Narges Manouchehri and Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada)
A4- Antenna Systems, Propagation and RF Design
Session Chair: Dr. Mohsen Khalily (University of Surrey, UK)
1570644329- Triple Cassegrain Parabolic Stacked Antenna for Radio Frequency System Consolidation,
Clive Sugama and V. Chandrasekar (Colorado State University, USA)
1570619372- The SCREAM Concept for the Next-Generation Very Large Array Central Signal Processor,
Omar Yeste Ojeda, Stephen Wunduke, Nolan Denman and Jacob Wegman (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)
1570631178- Reconfigurable Dielectric Resonator Antenna Using an Inverted U-shaped Slot,
Mohammad Abediankasgari (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohsen Khalily (University of Surrey & 5G Innovation Centre, Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shadi Danesh (Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Iran); Pei Xiao and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
1570631221- Diffuse Scattering and Specular Reflection from Facets of Arbitrary Size and Roughness using the Computer Graphics GGX Model,
Jean-Frederic Wagen (University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Fribourg, Switzerland)
A5- Network Function Virtualization
Session Chair: Dr. Mehmet Demirci (Gazi University, Turkey)
1570619260- Analytics Automation for Service Orchestration,
Kristen Young and Ravi Potluri (Verizon, USA)
1570631232- Towards the Development of Service Cost Modeling: An ISP Perspective,
Yasmeen Ali (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Anwar Haque (Western Ontario, Canada); Bassel Bitar (Bell Canada, Canada)
1570623031- Failure Scenarios for SIP/RTP services in ContainerOrchestration Clusters,
Samridhi Samridhi (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Ramiro Liscano (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada); Akramul Azim (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Abdul Zainul Abedin (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada)
1570622444- A Fair VNF Assignment Algorithm for Network Functions Virtualization,
KaranbirSingh Ghai (Lakehead University, Canada); Abdulsalam Yassine (unknown); Salimur Choudhury (Lakehead University, Canada)
1570631235- Cost and Availability-Aware VNF Selection and Placement for Network Services in NFV,
Yanal Alahmad, Anjali Agarwal and Tariq Daradkeh (Concordia University, Canada)
1570630920- On the Use of Graph Neural Networks for Virtual Network Embedding,
Anouar Rkhami (Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France); Tran Anh Quang Pham (Huawei Technologies, France); Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul (University of Rennes 1, France); Abdelkader Outtagarts (Nokia Bell Labs France, France); Gerardo Rubino (INRIA, France)
A6 – MLNGSN Workshop
Session Chair: Dr. Mohamed Lahby (Hassan II University, Morocco)
1570639432- Using Machine Learning to Locate Gateways in the Wireless Backhaul of 5G Ultra-Dense Networks,
Aizaz U Chaudhry, Mital Raithatha, Roshdy H Hafez and John Chinneck (Carleton University, Canada)
1570639438- An IoT Based Smart Farming System Using Machine Learning,
Amine Dahane, Rabaie Benameur, Bouabdellah Kechar and Abou Elhassan Benyamina (Research Laboratory in Industrial Computing and Networks (RIIR), Algeria)
1570656354- Polymorphic Adversarial DDoS attack on IDS using GAN,
Ravi Chauhan and Shahram Shah Heydari (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Day 2- Wedesday, October 21, 2020
8:15 – 9:45
B1- Applications of AI/ML in computing and Networking II
Session Chair: Dr. Hamid Mcheick (University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Canada)
1570622707- Probabilistic Features on Simplex Manifold in Predictive Data Modelling,
Md. Hafizur Rahman and Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada)
1570623001- Enabling Real-time Gesture Recognition Data Delivery over ROS and OpenISS,
Jashanjot Singh, Serguei A. Mokhov and Joey Paquet (Concordia University, Canada)
1570650438- DeepFlow: Towards Network-Wide Ingress Traffic Prediction Using Machine Learning At Large Scale,
Katerina Katsarou (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Sebastian Fischer (Technische Universität Berlin / Germany & Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany); Oliver Holschke (Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany)
1570631058- Review of Techniques in Faceted Search Applications,
Mohammed Najah Mahdi (University Tenaga National & Malaysia, Malaysia); Abdul Rahim Ahmad and Roslan Ismail (Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia); Mohammed Subhi (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia)
1570619360- Recognition of human interactions in feature films based on infinite mixture of EDCM,
Fatma Najar, Nuha Zamzami and Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada)
1570640118- Building a Fintech Ecosystem: Design and Development of a Fintech API Gateway,
Ersin Unsal, Bilgehan Oztekin and Murat Cavus (Fibabanka A.Ş., Turkey); Suat Ozdemir (Gazi University, Turkey)
B2- Advances in Communications and Energy Harvesting
Session Chair: Dr. Alain Richard Ndjiongue (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
1570619301- Energy-Efficient Power Allocation for Non-Orthogonal Multicast and Unicast Transmission of Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems,
Fangqing Tan, Peiran Wu and Minghua Xia (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
1570653440- Fault Tolerance of Multi-Channel Radio Network with Dynamic Spectrum Access Strategy in Air Traffic Management Systems,
Igor Kabashkin (Transport and Telecommunication Institute, Latvia)
1570609418- LED-based Energy Harvesting Systems for Modern Mobile Terminals,
Alain Richard Ndjiongue (University of Johannesburg, South Africa); Telex M. N. Ngatched (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
1570646196- Performance Analysis of Cooperative Bidirectional Relay in Cognitive Radio Network with Energy Harvesting,
Ke Yan and Xie Xian-Zhong (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
1570619426- Performance of Mixed Channel Cell-Free Systems,
Rafael M. Duarte (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil); Danilo Almeida (UFCG, Brazil); Marcelo S. Alencar (Federal University of Campina Grande & Institute for Advanced Studies in Communications, Brazil); Fabricio Braga Soares de Carvalho (Federal University of Paraiba – UFPB, Brazil); Wamberto Queiroz (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil); Waslon Lopes (Universidade Federal da Paraíba & IECOM – Institute for Advanced Studies in Communications, Brazil)
B3- Edge, Cloud and Social Computing and Networking I
Session Chair: Dr. Adel Benmnaouer (Canadian University Dubai, UAE)
1570619365- Caching Structures for Distributed Data Management in P2P-based Social Networks,
Newton W. Masinde and Moritz Kanzler (Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany); Kalman Graffi (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)
1570644610- Automating GDPR Compliance Verification for Cloud-hosted Services,
Masoud Barati, George Theodorakopoulos and Omer Rana (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
1570653397- A Non-Cooperative transportation game to optimize resource allocation in edge-cloud environment,
Njakarison Menja Randriamasinoro (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada & Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique d'Antsiranana, Madagascar); Kim Khoa Nguyen (University of Quebec, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)
1570653743- A Framework for Automated Monitoring and Orchestration of Cloud-Native applications,
Rasel Chowdhury and Chamseddine Talhi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Azzam Mourad (Lebanese American University, Lebanon); Hakima Ould-Slimane (ETS, Canada)
1570629996- Opening the Network Edge for Programmability of Mission Critical Session Control,
Ivaylo Atanasov, Evelina Pencheva, Denitsa Velkova and Vencislav Trifonov (Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria)
1570659008- Transparent Provable Data Possession Scheme for Cloud Storage,
Shinobu Ogiso and Masami Mohri (Gifu University, Japan); Yoshiaki Shiraishi (Kobe University, Japan)
1570623002- Toward Scalable Demand-Driven JSON-to-Forensic Lucid Encoder in GIPSY,
Peyman Derafshkavian, Serguei A. Mokhov and Joey Paquet (Concordia University, Canada)
B4- Trust, Privacy and Security I
Session Chair: Dr. Abdelkader Ouda (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
1570619374- Two Factor Hash Verification (TFHV): A Novel Paradigm for Remote Authentication,
Muath Obaidat (City University of New York, USA)
1570619428- Privacy-aware Authentication Scheme for Electric Vehicle In-motion Wireless Charging,
Khaled Hamouid (UQO, Canada); Kamel Adi (University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada)
1570619443- Human Trait Analysis via Machine Learning Techniques for User Authentication,
Iman Abu Sulayman (Taif University, Saudi Arabia & Western University, Canada); Abdelkader Ouda (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
1570630517- Improving Accuracy of Differentially Private Kronecker Social Networks via Graph Clustering,
Arinjita Paul (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Mitali Bafna (Harvard University, USA); C Pandu Rangan (IIT Madras, India)
1570619429- Continuous Authentication Using Creative Writing,
Md Hossain and Carl Haberfeld (Southern Connecticut State University, USA); Kate Yuan (Dartmouth College, USA); Jundong Chen (Dickinson State University, USA); Khandaker Rahman (Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, USA); Ishtiaque Hussain (Penn State Abington, USA)
1570631320- Towards A Secure and Efficient Location-based Secret Sharing Protocol,
Alexey Gorodetskiy, Andrey Serebryakov and Alma Oracevic (Innopolis University, Russia); Rasheed Hussain (Innopolis University & Networks and Blockchain Lab, Russia); Syed Muhammad Ahsan Raza Kazmi (Innopolis University, Russia)
B5- Advances in Engineering for Smart Cities & Applications I
Session Chair: Dr. Amna Eleyan (MMU, United Kingdom)
1570622725- Smart Wireless network for data collection using mobile Sink embedded on drone based on a modified RPL-version,
Sèmèvo Arnaud R. M. Ahouandjinou (Institut de Formation et de Recherche en Informatique (IFRI), Benin) ; Emmanuel Nataf (Lorraine University & Lirima, France) ; Aldric Monnou and Firmin Yelouassi (Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Benin)
1570623447- Seizure Prediction with a Single iEEG Electrode Using Non-linear techniques,
Tahar Haddad (UQO, Canada); Naim Ben-Hamida (Ciena, Canada); Sadok Aouini (Ciena Corporation, Canada); Jihene Rezgui (College Maisonneuve, Canada)
1570641375 - IoT-based Home Automation Using Android Application
Amna Eleyan (MMU, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Joshua Fallon (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
1570619400- A Realistic and Efficient Real-time Plant Environment Simulator,
Jeongwon Seo (University of Auckland, New Zealand); Mingwei Gong (Mount Royal University, Canada); Ranesh Kumar Naha (University of Tasmania, Australia); Aniket Mahanti (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
1570622701- Incentive-based Peer-to-Peer Distributed Energy Trading in Smart Grid Systems,
JemaSharin Pankiraj, Yassine Abdulsalam and Salimur Choudhury (Lakehead University, Canada)
1570652995- Leveraging Deep Learning for Inattentive Driving Behavior with In-Vehicle Cameras,
Shanhong Liu (University of Guelph & School of Engineering, Canada); Radu Muresan (University of Guelph, Canada); Arafat Al-Dweik (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
1570622731- Achieving Immortality in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks Using Local Learning,
Osama Aloqaily and Paola Flocchini (University of Ottawa, Canada); Nicola Santoro (Carleton University, Canada)
B6- Antenna Systems and Applications
Session Chair: Dr. Mohsen Khalily (University of Surrey, UK)
1570617726- Submarine Antenna Performance with Novel Shaped Sandwich-Wall Radome,
Hafiz Usman Tahseen, Yang Lixia and Saad Uddin (Jiangsu University, China)
1570631302- Millimeter Wave Phased Array Antenna Synthesis Using a Machine Learning Technique for Different 5G Applications,
Shadi Danesh (Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Iran); Ali Araghi (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohsen Khalily (University of Surrey & 5G Innovation Centre, Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Pei Xiao and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
1570634164- Analysis of Triple Band Rejected Compact Planar Octagon shape Monopole Antenna for UWB Applications,
Gurdeep Singh (Thapar Insitute of Engineering & Technology & Thapar Insitute of Engineering & Technology Patiala, India)
1570645980- Miniturized Spiral UWB Transparent Wearable Flexible Antenna for Breast Cancer Detection,
Tale Saeidi (Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia); Sarmad Mahmood (Lecturer, Al-Kitab University College, Iraq); Asnor Juraiza Ishak (Universiti Putra Malaysia & Faculty of Engineering, Malaysia); Sameer Alani (Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Iraq); Idris bin Ismail (Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia); Shahid Ali (Petronas University Malaysia, Malaysia); Adam Alhawari (Najran University, Saudi Arabia)
1570621561- Automation System for Six-minute Walk Test Using RFID Technology,
Lucas R A Duarte, Gabriel Messias Mamede Costa, Sr Gabriel and Marcielly dos Reis Macedo (Centro Universitário Santo Agostinho, Brazil); Vinicius Magno Uchoa Lima Oliveira (Centro Universitário Santo Agostinho & Hospital Universitário do Piauí - EBSERH, Brazil)
B7- Advances and QoS Provisioning in Cellular Networks
Session Chair: Dr. Mohamed Lahby (Hassan II University, Morocco)
1570646199- Congestion Mitigation using Non-Cooperative Game Theory in LTE Base Stations,
Aviroop Ghosh (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia); Karina Mabell Gomez and Sithamparanathan Kandeepan (RMIT University, Australia)
1570631241- Analysis of Blockage Impact on Handover Rate for User Mobility in 5G mm-Wave Cellular Network,
Abdanaser Okaf and Dongyu Qiu (Concordia University, Canada)
1570619147- Exponentially Distributed Random Access in LTE-A networks,
Rashid Ali (Sejong University, Korea (South)); Nain Zulqar and Sung Won Kim (Yeungnam University, Korea (South)); Hyung Seok Kim (Sejong University, Korea (South))
1570618839- On Evaluating Independent Set Heuristics for Wireless Backhaul Network Capacity of 5G Ultra-Dense Networks,
Aizaz U Chaudhry, Namitha Jacob, Dils George and Roshdy H Hafez (Carleton University, Canada)
1570627393- Proactive and Dynamic Slice Allocation in Sliced 5G Core Networks,
Danish Sattar and Ashraf Matrawy (Carleton University, Canada)
1570649863- Joint Impact of BS Height and Downtilt on Downlink Data Rate in mmWave Networks with 3D Large-Scale Antenna Arrays,
Mengxin Zhou (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wuling Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Jiliang Zhang (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xiaoli Chu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
B8- Quality of Service Provisioning for Mobile Networks
Session Chair: Dr. Waheb Abduljabbar Shaif Abdullah (Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Malaysia)
1570619045- A Different Perspective in Routing for VANETs,
Yuri Cotrado Sehgelmeble (Universität zu Lübeck, Germany)
1570622786- Resource efficient allocation of fog nodes for faster vehicular OTA updates,
Md Al Maruf (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Anil Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Canada); Akramul Azim (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Nitin Auluck (Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India)
1570633516- Full Duplex of V2V Cooperative Relaying over Cascaded Nakagami-$m$ Fading Channels,
Khaled Eshteiwi (University of ETS, Canada); Bassant Selim (École de Téchnologie Supérieure, Canada); Georges Kaddoum (ETS Engineering School, University of Québec, Canada)
1570631435- MPLS-Based Micro-mobility Architecture for 5G Vehicular Visible Light Communication Networks,
Sameera Siddiqui and Dimitrios Makrakis (University of Ottawa, Canada)
1570614108- Comparative Performance Analysis of MBQA-OLSRv2 and MBMA-OLSRv2 Routing Protocols in MANETs,
Waheb Abduljabbar Shaif Abdullah (Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technology, Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Malaysia)
1570622781- Resource Pre-allocation for Cooperative Sensing to Achieve End-to-end Delay Fairness in CRNs,
Yean-Fu Wen (National Taipei University, Taiwan)
B9- Satellite communications and Networking I
Session Chair: Dr. Nawel Zangar (ESIEE PARIS, France)
1570619392- A New Approach for Analyzing the Cycle Structure of a Class of LFSRs,
Zhelin Yu and Lidong Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
1570631390- Improved OFDM Waveform for Radio Link in Non-terrestrial Network,
Yang Li, Xinjie Gu, Lilin Dan, Ranran He, Xing Mao and Yue Xiao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
1570633008- Terrestrial-Satellite Secure Communication with Non-confidential User Assistance and Hybrid-Power,
Yilun Liu, Yiheng Gui, Shuai Yuan, Jixuan Liu and Lidong Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
1570633788- Cognitive CQI/5QI Based Scheme for Software Defined 5G Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Network: Slicing for Ultra Reliability And Video Congestion Offloading,
Saloua Hendaoui (High School of Communication of Tunis (SUPCOM) & Multimedia Mobile Radio Networks Research Unit-Tunis, Tunisia); Azza Mannai (Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Tunis & University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia); Nawel Zangar (ESIEE PARIS, France)
1570646570- On Application of MUSIC Algorithm to Doppler Estimation for Aeronautical Satellite OFDM,
Houssein Boud (Western University, Canada)
10:00 – 11:00
Keynote 4
"Service Orchestration & Enactment Across Cloud & Edge Resources"
Dr. Omer Rana (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
Session Chair: Dr. Abdelhakim Hafid (University of Montreal, Canada)