Program Schedule

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Detailed Program

Full papers: 20 min presentation+ 5min Q&A

Short papers: 10 min presentation+ 5min Q&A

Workshop:  15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A.

Day 1 (January 6th)

ASCENT/DistLLM Workshop: 9:00am-10:30 - Advances in Systems and Computation at the Edge and HPC Networks (Room 1)

1. Scene-Aware Low-Light Image Enhancement Using a Multi-scale Image Restoration Network Using Diverse Optimizers for Vision-Based Intelligent Transportation Systems
Hrusikesh Nishank, Siddhant Kumar, Adarsh Singh Jadon, Chittaranjan Swain, Vivek Tiwari, and Deepak Kumar Dewangan (IIITM, India)

2. Efficient Video Object Classification Using Class Prior Adaptation Under Continuous Class-Balance Changes
Yanlong Ouyang (The University of Osaka, Japan), Shin Mizutani, and Yasue Kishino (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)

3. Addressing Aspect Challenges with Multi-Task Learning
Adarsh Singh Jadon, Vivek Tiwari, Chittaranjan Swain, and Deepak Kumar Dewangan (ABV-IIITM, India)

4. Transformer-Based Resource and Stage-Aware Scheduling for Model-Parallel LLM Inference (From DistLLM Workshop).
Rami Naeem, Tengis Buyantogtokh, Hamada Rizk, Tatsuya Amano (The University of Osaka, Japan), and Hirozumi Yamaguchi (The University of Osaka/RIKEN, Japan)

Industrial Workshop: 9:15am-10:30 - Real-World Applications and Deployments in Distributed Computing and Networking (Room 2)

1. Invited Talk: An Intent-Driven Security Management System for Cloud-Based Security Services
Jaehoon Paul Jeong (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)

2. Towards Automated River Water Level Monitoring using Visual IoT Cameras
Francis Tiausas, Yuki Murakami, Yuuichi Teranishi, Hidehisa Nagano, Kazutaka Kikuta, Ken Murata (NICT, Japan), and Kazuki Kobayashi (Shinshu University, Japan)

Joint Keynote: 11:00am-12:00 - Kaoru Ohta (Tohoku University / Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)
Chair: Takuya Yoshihiro (Wakayama University, Japan)

MUSICAL2026: 1:30pm-3:30: - 5th International Workshop on Mobile Ubiquitous Systems, Infrastructures, Communications and AppLications (Room 1)

1. A Gentle Wakeup Call
Umesh Biswas and Maxwell Young (Mississippi State University, USA)

2. A Multi-Gateway Scheduling Approach for LoRaWAN that Accounts for Coexistence with Legacy Devices
Hinata Oshima and Takuya Yoshihiro (Wakayama University, Japan)

3. Hierarchical Subgroup Routing for Scalable and Low-Latency Satellite Formation Flying
Keita Takeda, Wataru Sasaki, Shuhei Kosaka, Keiichi Yasumoto, Tomokazu Matsui, Hirohiko Suwa (NAIST, Japan), Daisuke Wakao, Sumio Morioka, and Takahiro Inagawa (Interstellar Technologies Inc., Japan)

4. Tactile Paving Detection and Classification Method Based on Cyclist-Participatory Road Image Sensing
Yuto Matsuda and Yuki Matsuda (Okayama University, Japan)

5. Local Precipitation Forecasting Using Observation Feedback from IoT Rain Gauge
Kei Morita and Ren Ohmura (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)

6. Desk Work Activity Recognition using Multiple Vibration Sensors and Machine Learning
Nanami Inoue (Osaka Metropolitan University College of Technology, Japan), Takamasa Kikuchi, Kouki Shibata, Makoto Yoshida (NAIST, Japan), Tomokazu Matsui, Hirohiko Suwa, and Keiichi Yasumoto (NAIST, RIKEN AIP, Japan)

IW-NDSC: 1:30pm-3:30 - International Workshop on Networked and Distributed Technologies for Smart Cities (Room 2)

1. Spatio-Temporal Kriging for High-Resolution Urban Microclimate Estimation with Fixed and Mobile Sensors
Wataru Kunimi, Shinji Takada, Yuki Ito (Tohoku University, Japan), Luis Guillen (University of San Francisco Xavier, USA), Toru Abe, and Takuo Suganuma (Tohoku University, Japan)

2. Validation of Virtual Human Motion Sensors in a Digital Twin Environment Using LLM-based Activity Generation
Atsuya Ikeno, Tomokazu Matsui, Hirohiko Suwa, and Keiichi Yasumoto (NAIST, Japan)

3. Beyond the Handshake: Eliminating Fallback Latency from QUIC-to-TCP Transitions
Lalan Kumar Ram, Debanjan Saha, Sandip Chakraborty, and Arobinda Gupta (IIT Kharagpur, India)

4. Optimization-Driven Navigation for Behavior Change in Tourism
Honami Koyama (NAIST, Japan), Keiichi Yasumoto, and Hirohiko Suwa (NAIST/RIKEN AIP, Japan)

5. A Questionnaire-Only Counterfactual Machine Learning Approach to Assess the Spatial Impact of Green Mobility Vehicles in Urban Parks: A Wakayama Castle Case Study
Rami Naeem, Srikant Manas, Tatsuya Amano, and Hirozumi Yamaguchi (The University of Osaka, Japan)

6. Challenges for Federated Crowd Management in Smart Cities
Daniela Nicklas, Leonie Ackermann, Debasree Das (Universitaet Bamberg, Germany), Tatsuya Amano, Hamada Rizk, and Hirozumi Yamaguchi (The University of Osaka, Japan)

Day 2 (January 7th)

Opening Ceremony: 9:00 - 9:30am (Nogaku Hall (1F))

Keynote 1: 9:30-10:30am - Robert Tarjan (Nogaku Hall (1F))
Session chair: Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA)

Session 1: 11:00am-12:30 - Graph and Replication (Nogaku Hall (1F))
Session chair: Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University, Canada)

Full: On Competitiveness of Dynamic Replication for Distributed Data Access
Tianyu Zuo, Xueyan Tang, Bu Sung Lee, Jianfei Cai (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Full: Optimal Maximal Independent Set Computation by Robots in Unoriented Grid and Torus
Himani, Supantha Pandit (Dhirubhai Ambani University, India)

Full: Sparser Shuffles Suffice
Diksha Gupta (University of Virginia, USA), Jared Saia (University of New Mexico, USA), Maxwell Young (Mississippi State University, USA)

Short: RESCUE: Routing under Evolving Stochastic Congestion and Uncertain Spread in Wildfire Emergencies
Sowjanya Tammali, Arindam Khanda, Anurag Satpathy, S. M. Shovan, Sajal K. Das (Missouri S&T, USA)

Session 2: 2:00-3:00pm - Intelligent and Adaptive Networked Systems (Nogaku Hall (1F))
Session Chair: Viviana Arrigoni (University of Rome, Italy) 

Short: Impact of Congestion Control Algorithms on the QoE Performance of Video Streaming over QUIC
Lalan Kumar Ram, Arobinda Gupta, Sandip Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur, India)

Short: Multi-COPS: Multicast Cooperative Scheduling for XR in Dense RANs
Alessandro Taraborelli, Stefano Rinaldi, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Stefania Colonnese (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Short: Impact of Multi-MNO Interoperability on Edge-Assisted Collective Perception
Takamasa Higuchi (Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan)

Short: PURE: A Predictive Path based UAV-IoT Network for Response oriented Energy-efficient Border Monitoring
Abhishek Pandey, Priyanka Soni, Sourav Kanti Addya (NIT Karnataka, India)

Doctoral Symposium: 3:00-4:30pm (Room 2)

Towards Verification of Spiking Neural Networks for Next-Generation AI Systems
Sruti Goswami, Ansuman Banerjee and Swarup K. Mohalik

A Self-Stabilizing Algorithm for the Maximal Pentagon Partition Problem
Tota Yamada, Yonghwan Kim and Yoshiaki Katayama

Partial Gathering of Semi-Synchronous Mobile Agents in Dynamic Rings
Masahiro Shibata and Atsushi Ote

A Transformer-based Approach for Attribute-Aware Route Optimization Guided by ILP Solutions
Riku Nakao, Akihito Hiromori, Hamada Rizk and Hirozumi Yamaguchi

Socially-Aware Robot Navigation Using Large Language Models: System and Evaluation
Xuqing Liu, Tatsuya Amano, Hamada Rizk and Hirozumi Yamaguchi

High-Reliability Network-Distributed MoE-LLM System
Haruki Yonekura and Hirozumi Yamaguchi

Toward Semantically Aligned and Energy-Efficient On-Device Contextual Inference in Real-World Environments
Minhyoung An, Wataru Sasaki, Hirohiko Suwa and Keiichi Yasumoto

Day 3 (January 8th)

Keynote 2: 9:30-10:30am - Seth Gilbert  (Nogaku Hall (1F))
Session chair: Vincent Gramoli (University of Sydney, Australia)

Session 3: 11:00am-12:30 - Privacy, Security, and Trust in Emerging Networks  (Nogaku Hall (1F))
Session chair: Sandip Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur, India)

Full: Enhancing Privacy in Tor: Message Mixing and Adaptive Padding with Opt-In Features
Anne Kunstmann, Gabriel Bolonkowski, August See (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Full: FedMeet: Personalized Federated Multi-Sensor Fusion for Privacy-Preserving Human Activity Recognition
Ananya Mondal, Mohit Kumar, Suchetana Chakraborty (IIT Jodhpur, India)

Full: DATAMUt: Deterministic Algorithms for Time-Delay Attack Detection in Multi-Hop UAV Networks
Keiwan Soltani (Missouri S&T, USA), Federico Corò (University of Padova, Italy), Punyasha Chatterjee (Jadavpur University, India), Sajal K. Das (Missouri S&T, USA)

Short: Near Real Time Detection of APT Attack in Industrial IoT Environment
Bidya Sahu (NIST University, India), Suman Chowdhury (AcSIR, India), Rajesh P. Barnwal (CSIR-CMERI, India)

Session 4: 2:00-3:30pm - Transactions and Consistency  (Nogaku Hall (1F))
Session chair: Idit Keidar (Technion, Israel)

Full: A Single-Order Mixed-Consistency Replication Scheme
Maciej Kokociński, Tadeusz Kobus, Paweł T. Wojciechowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)

Full: AASC: Activity-Adjusted Stake Consensus for Scalable IoT Blockchains
Susmita Mondal, Adarsh Raj Shrivastava, Jatin Lohar, Suchetana Chakraborty (IIT Jodhpur, India)

Full: Grassroots Platforms with Atomic Transactions: Social Networks, Cryptocurrencies, and Democratic Federations
Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Short: Dito: Distributed Transactional Objects
Lukas Epple, Simon König, Christian Becker (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

Panel Discussion: 4:00 - 5:30pm - Role of AI and IoT in Precision Agriculture and Food Security  (Nogaku Hall (1F))

Townhall Meeting: 5:30 - 6:30pm  (Nogaku Hall (1F))

Banquet: 7:00 - 9:00pm (JW Marriott Nara)

Day 4 (January 9th)

Excursion: 8:40 - 10:30am

Session 5: 11:00am - 12:30 - Robots and Decentralisation  (Nogaku Hall (1F))
Session chair: Xavier Defago (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan)

Full: Efficient Dispersion of Mobile robots in Torus Networks
Himani (Dhirubhai Ambani University, India), Barun Gorain (IIT Bhilai, India), Supantha Pandit (Dhirubhai Ambani University, India)

Full: Linear Search for Capturing a Moving Target by Two Robots in the F2F Model
Khaled Jawhar, Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University, Canada)

Full: Job Scheduling in Serverless Systems: Cost and Response Time Tradeoffs
Grady Thompson, Mohammad Shahrad, Sathish Gopalakrishnan (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Short: SCRamble: Adaptive Decentralized Overlay Construction for Blockchain Networks
Evangelos Kolyvas, Alexandros Antonov, Spyros Voulgaris (Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece)

Session 6:  2:00 - 2:30pm - Safety-Critical Networked and Distributed Systems  (Nogaku Hall (1F))
Session chair: Keiichi Yasumoto (NAIST, Japan)

Short: A Precise and Closed-Form Solution for Edge-Ranking
Prajjwal Nijhara (IIT Jodhpur, India), Jainan Tandel (IIT Bombay, India), Rohit Prajapati, Dip Sankar Banerjee (IIT Jodhpur, India)

Short: PCIAFL: Personalized and Class Imbalance-Aware Federated Learning for Driver Behavior Classification
Osho Osho (IIT Jodhpur, India), Shubh Garg (Thapar Institute, India), Suchetana Chakraborty (IIT Jodhpur, India), Sajal K. Das (Missouri S&T, USA)

Closing Ceremony: 2:30 -  3:00pm (Nogaku Hall (1F))