08:30 – 10:00 Keynote Speech by Prof. Archan Misra, Singapore Management University

Collaborative Machine Intelligence: Promoting Energy-Efficient IoT Sensing &Edge Analytics

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10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

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10:30 – 12:00 Session 1: Intelligent Transportation Systems

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Session Chair: Prof. Zygmunt Haas

System Level Analysis for ITS-G5 and LTE-V2X Performance Comparison

Pierre Roux (CEA LIST, France); Stefania Sesia (Renault Software Labs, France); Valérian Mannoni (CEA, France); Eric Perraud (Software Labs, France)

Recognizing Driver Talking Direction in Running Vehicles with a Smartphone

Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University & State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, P.R. China); Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University, USA); Zeshui Li, Wei Wang and Fengmin Zhang (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Chao Dong (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China)

Optimizing In-motion Wireless Charging Service Efficiency for EVs: A Game Theoretic Approach

Li Yan and Haiying Shen (University of Virginia, USA)

Challenges of Designing Computer Vision-based Pedestrian Detector for Supporting Autonomous Driving

Peng Sun and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)

10:30 – 12:00 Session 2: Crowdsensing, Crowdsourcing

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Session Chair: Prof. Pramod Varshney

On Decision Making In Human-Machine Networks

Baocheng Geng and Pramod Varshney (Syracuse University, USA)

Sitara: Spectrum Measurement Goes Mobile Through Crowd-sourcing

Phillip Smith (United States, USA); Anh Luong (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Shamik Sarkar, Harsimran Singh, Neal Patwari and Sneha Kumar Kasera (University of Utah, USA); Kurt Derr and Samuel Ramirez (Idaho National Laboratory, USA)

Incentive Mechanisms for Spatio-temporal Tasks in Mobile Crowdsensing

Jia Xu and Chengcheng Guan (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University & State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, P.R. China); Dejun Yang (Colorado School of Mines, USA); Lijie Xu and Jianyi Kai (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Cost-Efficient Worker Trajectory Planning Optimization in Spatial Crowdsourcing Platforms

Ning Wang (Rowan University, USA); Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

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13:30 – 15:00 Session 3: RFID, Sensors, Sensing

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Session Chair: Prof. Habib M. Ammari

Achieving Sensing k-Coverage Using Hexagonal Tiling: Are We Done Yet?

Habib M. Ammari (Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA)

Towards Accurate Bit Error Simulation in Wireless Sensor Networks including Environmental Influences

Sven Pullwitt (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Robert Hartung (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Ulf Kulau (DSI Aerospace Technology, Germany); Lars C Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)

A BLE-based multi-gateway network infrastructure with handover support for mobile BLE peripherals

Mathias Baert (Ghent University, Belgium); Pieterjan Camerlynck (Televic Healthcare NV, Belgium); Pieter Crombez (Televic Health Care NV, Belgium); Jeroen Hoebeke (Ghent University - imec, Belgium)

Multiple Resolution Bit Tracking Protocol for Continuous RFID Tag Identification

Weiping Zhu and Mingzhe Li (Wuhan University, P.R. China); Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong); Zongjian He (University of Auckland, New Zealand); Rong Xie (Wuhan University, P.R. China)

13:30 – 15:00 Session 4: Privacy & Security

Presidio

Session Chair: Prof. Chenxi Qiu

SHAD: Privacy-friendly Shared Activity Detection and Data Sharing

Feng Han, Lan Zhang, Xuanke You, Guangjing Wang and Xiang-Yang Li (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

A Privacy-Preserving Order Dispatch Scheme for Ride-Hailing Services

Yubin Duan (Temple University, USA); Guoju Gao and Mingjun Xiao (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)

FDTLS: Supporting DTLS-based Combined Storage and Communication Security for IoT Devices

EunSeong Boo (Ajou University, Korea); Shahid Raza (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden); Joel Höglund (SICS, Sweden); JeongGil Ko (Yonsei University, Korea)

Falcon - A Flexible Architecture For Accelerating Cryptography

Kevin N Kiningham (Stanford University, USA); Philip Levis (Stanford, USA); Mark Anderson, Maurice Shih and Mark Horowitz (Stanford University, USA); Dan Boneh (Stanford, USA)

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

Vista del Mar Pore Cochere & Presidio Foyer

15:30 – 17:00 Posters & Demos

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Dynamic Timer Based on Expected Link Duration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Beom-Su Kim (GNU, Korea); Daniel Majengo (CNU, Korea); Ki-Il Kim (Chungnam National University, Korea); Bongsoo Roh (Agency for Defense Development, Korea); Jae-Hyun Ham (ADD, Korea)

Implementation of AODV-UU on Linux 4.15 Kernel

Sang-Woo Jung (CNU, Korea); Beom-Su Kim (GNU, Korea); Ki-Il Kim (Chungnam National University, Korea); Bongsoo Roh (Agency for Defense Development, Korea); Jae-Hyun Ham (ADD, Korea)

Offloading Tasks to Vehicular Virtual Edge Servers

Takamasa Higuchi (Toyota Motor North America R&D, USA); Seyhan Ucar and Onur Altintas (Toyota Motor North America R&D, InfoTech Labs, USA)

Lane Change Advisory by Vehicular Micro Clouds

Seyhan Ucar (Toyota Motor North America R&D, InfoTech Labs, USA); Takamasa Higuchi (Toyota Motor North America R&D, USA); Onur Altintas (Toyota Motor North America R&D, InfoTech Labs, USA)

A Geo-Obfuscation Approach to Protect Worker Location Privacy in Spatial Crowdsourcing Systems

Ce Pang, Chenxi Qiu and Ning Wang (Rowan University, USA)

Drone Noise Reduction using Deep Convolutional Autoencoder for UAV Acoustic Sensor Networks

Chanjun Chun (Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, Korea); Kwang Myung Jeon (IntFlow Co., Ltd., Korea); Taewoon Kim (Hallym University, Korea); Wooyeol Choi (Chosun University, Korea)

RFID authentication algorithm for IoT

Ali S Rachini (Lebanese University, France)

Implementation of Low-latency Message Delivery for Serverless based Workflow

Seunghyun Hwang, Heeseock Choi and Heonchang Yu (Korea University, Korea)

Demo:Towards the Development of a Differentially Private Lightweight and Scalable Blockchain for IoT

Abdur Rahman Bin Shahid and Niki Pissinou (Florida International University, USA); Laurent Njilla (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Edwin Aguilar and Eric Perez (Florida International University, USA)

An Experimental Study of Cellular Data Offloading in Urban and University Scenarios

Jeffrey Wang and Ning Wang (Rowan University, USA)

Performance Evaluation of Sensors Lightweight Security Mechanism

Arie Haenel (Telecom SudParis, France); Yoram Haddad (Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel); Zonghua Zhang (IMT Lille Douai, Institut Mines-Télécom, France)

Software-based Implementation of Dual Connectivity for LTE

Carlos Pupiales (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Walter Nitzold and Clemens Felber (National Instruments, Germany); Ilker Demirkol (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Cost-effective Crowdsensing: Spectrum Monitoring with Sitara

Phillip Smith (United States, USA); Anh Luong (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Shamik Sarkar, Harsimran Singh, Neal Patwari and Sneha Kumar Kasera (University of Utah, USA); Kurt Derr and Samuel Ramirez (Idaho National Laboratory, USA)

SCoRe: Scheduling Commands and Responses for Multihop Low-power Wireless Network

Mingyu Park and Jeongyeup Paek (Chung-Ang University, Korea)

Topology Update Algorithm for Wireless Networks

Klement Streit (Bundeswehr University Munich & Research Institute CODE, Germany); Raphael Labaca Castro (University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany); Nils Rodday (Universität der Bundeswehr München & University of Twente, Germany); Gabi Dreo Rodosek (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany)

08:30 – 10:00 Keynote Speech by Prof. P. R. Kumar, Texas A&M University

Dynamic Watermarking for Security of Cyber-Physical Systems

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10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

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10:30 – 12:00 Session 5: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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Session Chair: Dr. Mudhakar Srivatsa

Securing ADS-B with Multi-point Distance-bounding for UAV Collision Avoidance

Zachary Languell and Qijun Gu (Texas State University, USA)

Enabling the Mobile IoT: Wake-up Unmanned Aerial Systems for Long-lived Data Collection

Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA); Georgia Koutsandria (University of Rome, "La Sapienza", Italy); Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)

AirBeam: Experimental Demonstration of Distributed Beamforming by a Swarm of UAVs

Subhramoy Mohanti, Carlos Bocanegra and Jason Meyer (Northeastern University, USA); Gokhan Secinti (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Mithun Diddi, Hanumant Singh and Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA)

Evaluating LTE Coverage and Quality from an Unmanned Aircraft System

Michael Nekrasov (University of California Santa Barbara, USA); Vivek Adarsh, Udit Paul and Esther Showalter (UC Santa Barbara, USA); Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Morgan Vigil-Hayes (Northern Arizona University, USA); Elizabeth Belding (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

10:30 – 12:00 Session 6: Channel Access

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Session Chair: Prof. J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

KALOHA: ike i ke ALOHA

JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz & Palo Alto Research Center, USA)

Improving Carrier-Sense Multiple Access Using Cues of Channel Utilization

JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz & Palo Alto Research Center, USA)

Cross-Technology Clear Channel Assessment for Low-Power Wide Area Networks

Charalampos Orfanidis (KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Uppsala University, Sweden); Laura Marie Feeney (Uppsala University, Sweden); Martin Jacobsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Uppsala University, Sweden); Per Gunningberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)

AWARE: Adaptive Wi-Fi Power Save Operation Coexisting with LTE-U

Hwijae Kwon (TmaxSoft, Korea); Seongwon Kim (SK Telecom, Korea); Youngwook Son and Changmok Yang (Seoul National University, Korea); Seongho Byeon (Samsung, Korea); Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

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13:30 – 15:00 Session 7: Internet of Things

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Session Chair: Prof. Stefano Basagni

GaaS: Adaptive Cross-Platform Gateway for IoT Applications

Mohamed Abdelaal, Mochamad Dandy, Marwan Abdelgawad, Frank Dürr and Kurt Rothermel (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

rIoT: Enabling Seamless Context-Aware Automation in the Internet of Things

Jie Hua, Chenguang Liu and Tomasz Kalbarczyk (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Catherine Wright and Gruia-Catalin Roman (University of New Mexico, USA); Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

ForeSee: A Cross-layer Vulnerability Detection Framework for the Internet of Things

Zheng Fang, Hao Fu and Tianbo Gu (University of California, Davis, USA); Zhiyun Qian (University of California, Riverside, USA); Trent Jaeger (PSU, USA); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)

Congestion-Tolerant Framework for IoT Applications

Zygmunt J. Haas and Zijing Tian (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

13:30 – 15:00 Session 8: Deep Learning

Presidio

Session Chair: Prof. Qijun Gu

Towards Wireless Environment Cognizance by Incremental Learning

Aniqua Baset (University of Utah, USA); Christopher Becker (Idaho National Laboratory & University of Utah, USA); Kurt Derr and Samuel Ramirez (Idaho National Laboratory, USA); Sneha Kumar Kasera and Aditya Bhaskara (University of Utah, USA)

Evaluating and Boosting Reinforcement Learning for Intra-domain Routing

Qian Xu and Yifan Zhang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Kui Wu (University of Victoria, Canada); Jianping Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Kejie Lu (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico)

Deep Neural Network Ensembles against Deception: Ensemble Diversity, Accuracy and Robustness

Ling Liu, Wenqi Wei and Ka-Ho Chow (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Margaret Loper (Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA); Emre Gursoy, Stacey Truex and Yanzhao Wu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Using Graphical Models as Explanations in Deep Neural Networks

Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA); Franck Le (IBM T. J. Watson, USA); Krishna Reddy and Kaushik Roy (Purdue University, USA)

08:30 – 10:00 Keynote Speech by Prof. Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California

Living at the Edge: Designing Accurate and Efficient Visual Sensing Systems

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10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

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10:30 – 12:00 Session 9: Edge, Proxies, Relays

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Session Chair: Prof. Myounggyu Won

Privacy-Preserving MEC-Enabled Contextual Online Learning via SDN for Service Selection in IoT

Difan Mu and Pan Zhou (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Qinghua Li (University of Arkansas, USA); Ruixuan Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Jie Xu (University of Miami, USA)

Energy-Latency-aware Task Offloading and Approximate Computing at the Mobile Edge

Ayman Younis, Tuyen X Tran and Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA)

QoS Provisioning in 60 GHz Communications by Physical and Transport Layer Coordination

Matteo Drago and Michele Polese (University of Padova, Italy); Stepan Kucera (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Ltd., Ireland); Dmitry Kozlov and Vitalii Kirillov (Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland); Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy)

EV-CAST: Interference and Energy-Aware Video Multicast Exploiting Collaborative Relays

Yeonchul Shin (Samsung Electronics, Korea); Jaewon Hur and Gyujin Lee (Seoul National University, Korea); Jonghoe Koo (Samsung Electronics, Korea); Junyoung Choi (Seoul National University, Korea); Sung-Ju Lee (KAIST, Korea); Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)

10:30 – 12:00 Session 10: Opportunistic, Disruptive, and Challenging Networks

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Session Chair: Prof. Tilman Wolf

Bio-DRN: Robust and Energy-efficient Bio-inspired Disaster Response Networks

Vijay K. Shah (Virginia Tech, USA); Satyaki Roy (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA); Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

Mobile Energy Balancing in Heterogeneous Opportunistic Networks

Aashish Dhungana and Eyuphan Bulut (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)

Identifying User Communities Using Deep Learning and Its Application to Opportunistic Networking

Danielle Lopes Ferreira (UCSC, USA); Cláudio Souza (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Katia Obraczka (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Carlos Alberto Vieira Campos (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Age of Information for Wireless Energy Harvesting Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Networks

Shiyang Leng (The Pennsylvania State University, USA); Xiaoyong Ni (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

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13:30 – 15:00 Session 11: Systems & Applications

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Session Chair: Prof. Ning Wang

Storage on the Edge: Evaluating Cloud Backed Edge Storage in Cyber-physical Systems

Sanjeev Sondur and Krishna Kant (Temple University, USA); Slobodan Vucetic (Vucetic, USA)

DeepHeart: Accurate Heart Rate Estimation from PPG Signals based on Deep Learning

Xiangmao Chang and Gangkai Li (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China); Linlin Tu (Michigan State University, USA); Guoliang Xing (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Tian Hao (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)

UW-SVC: Scalable Video Coding Transmission for In-network Underwater Imagery Analysis

Mehdi Rahmati and Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA)

QBT: Queue-size based Busy Tones for Protecting Multihop Low-power Networks

Jinwoo Ock (Seoul National University, Korea); Jeongyeup Paek (Chung-Ang University, Korea); Saewoong Bahk (Seoul National University, Korea)

13:30 – 15:00 Session 12: Algorithms and Theory

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Session Chair: Prof. Marcelo Carvalho

Multicast Scheduling Algorithms for Battery-Free Wireless Sensor Networks

Bingkun Yao (Harbin Institude of Technology, P.R. China); Hong Gao (University of Harbin Institute Technology, P.R. China); Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

Facility Location Strategy for Minimizing Cost in Edge-Based Mobile Crowdsensing

En Wang, Dongming Luan and Yongjian Yang (Jilin University, P.R. China); Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)

Liam: An Architectural Framework for Decentralized IoT Networks

Piet De Vaere (ETH Zürich, Switzerland); Adrian Perrig (ETH Zurich Switzerland & Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Distributed Dataset Synchronization in Disruptive Networks

Tianxiang Li and Zhaoning Kong (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Spyridon Mastorakis (University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA); Lixia Zhang (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee-Break

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15:30 – 17:00 Session 13: Localization and Prediction

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Session Chair: Prof. Krishna Kant, Temple University

RadioLoc: Learning Vehicle Locations with FM Signal in All-Terrain Environments

Xi Chen (Samsung Electronics, Canada); Qiao Xiang (Yale University, USA); Linghe Kong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Xue Liu (McGill University, Canada)

Device-Free Acoustic Motion Tracking over Targets with Large Sizes

Yuqi Li, Ruirong Chen, Xingzhe Song and Wei Gao (University of Pittsburgh, USA); Wei Chen and Erick Forno (Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, USA)

Solar-TK: A Data-driven Toolkit for Solar PV Performance Modeling and Forecasting

Noman Bashir (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Dong Chen (Florida International University, USA); David Irwin and Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)

15:30 – 17:00 Session 14: Monitoring and Detection

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Session Chair: Prof. Dario Pompili

Securing IoT Protocol Implementations Through Hardware Monitoring

Arman Pouraghily (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA); Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts, USA)

DeepWiTraffic: Low Cost WiFi-Based Traffic Monitoring System Using Deep Learning

Myounggyu Won (University of Memphis, USA); Sayan Sahu (South Dakota State University, USA); Kyung-Joon Park (DGIST, Korea)

LAD: Learning Access Control Polices and Detecting Access Anomalies in Smart Environments

Tomasz Kalbarczyk, Chenguang Liu, Jie Hua and Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

AMAZE: Recognizing Speakers with Amazon's Echo Dot Device

Tiffany Kalin (Colorado School of Mines), Kerri Stone (LGS Labs), and Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines)