Tuesday November 8, 2022

Keynote Title: Demystifying 5G Electromagnetic Pollution with Traffic-based Measurements

Keynote Speaker: Luca Chiaraviglio,University of Roma - Tor Vergata, Italy

Biography: Luca Chiaraviglio (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication and electronics engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is currently an Associate Professor with the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy. He has co-authored more than 150 articles published in international journals, books, and conferences. His current research topics cover 5G networks, optimization applied to telecommunication networks, electromagnetic fields, and health risks assessment of 5G communications. He received the Best Paper Award at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)-Spring 2020, IEEE VTC-Spring 2016 and Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet, and Networks (ICIN) 2018, all of them appearing as the first author. Some of his papers are listed as the Best Readings on Green Communications by the IEEE. Moreover, he has been recognized as an Author in the Top 1% Most Highly Cited Papers in the Information and Communication Technology field worldwide and top 2% world scientists according to the 2021 update of the science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators.

Abstract: We live in an era in which the signal coverage from mobile networks, and from 5G in particular, is ubiquitous, especially in living and working environments. However, part of the population and different advocacy groups believe that the exposure from 5G networks, often called "electromagnetic pollution", is excessive. The goal of this talk is to demystify, with scientific arguments, the supposed excessive "pollution" argument associated by the layman with 5G networks.

To this aim, the talk will shed light on a powerful tool borrowed from the networking community - the generation of Internet traffic that is injected in the measurement location - and its implications on the exposure assessment from commercial 5G networks.

Wednesday November 9, 2022

Keynote Title: Semantic and goal-oriented communications

Keynote Speaker: Sergio Barbarossa, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Biography: Sergio Barbarossa is a Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome and a Senior Research Fellow of Sapienza School for Advanced Studies (SSAS). He is an IEEE Fellow and a EURASIP Fellow. He received the IEEE Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society in the years 2000, 2014, and 2020, and the Technical Achievements Award from the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) society in 2010. He served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2013-2014. He has been the scientific coordinator of several European projects. His main current research interests include topological signal processing and learning, semantic and goal-oriented communications, 6G networks and distributed edge machine learning.

Abstract: The goal of this talk is to illustrate the potentials of a paradigm shift from the conventional Shannon-based approach to semantic and goal-oriented communications. The first part of the talk is devoted to the design of a goal-oriented communication network based on the information bottleneck (IB) principle, as a principled way to identify and transmit only the relevant information with respect to the goal of communication. The IB principle is then exploited to derive a communication architecture building on deep neural networks used as joint source and channel encoder. We will start from a static scenario and then we will move to a dynamic setting to show how to allocate network resources in the edge cloud, in order to strike an optimal trade-off between energy consumption, service delay and decision accuracy. The second part of the talk is devoted to knowledge representation mechanisms, with special focus on strategies based on graphs or higher order networks, such as as simplicial or cell complexes. This part is instrumental to derive a learning architecture denoted as topological deep learning.

Wednesday November 9, 2022

Tutorial Title: Data dissemination in UAV networks : use case oriented bio-inspired routing schemes.

Tutorial Speaker: Saadi Boudjit, University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France

Biography: Saadi Boudjit is Associate Professor at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord since 2007. He is the initiator of ACM MobileHealth workshop, which aims at providing a forum for the interaction of multiple areas related to pervasive wireless healthcare systems. He also acted and still acts as TPC member of several IFIP, ACM and IEEE conferences and workshops (HealthCom, MobileHealth, ICC, Globecom, CAMAD, WCNC, WONS, Wireless Days, GIIS etc.). His research interests include wireless networks, protocols and architecture design in mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, vehicular ad hoc networks, and protocols and architecture design for eHealth systems.

Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or aerial drones have a very encouraging future owing to the flexibility of their use in plenty of applications and the provision of less costly solutions in comparison to fixed infrastructure networks. Realizing a collaborating end-to-end solution for a dynamic UAV network is a very challenging task. In this talk, I will present some efficient use case oriented bio-inspired data dissemination schemes for UAV networks. These schemes take advantage of well-known ad hoc routing protocols for route computation and swarm intelligence techniques for route maintenance.

Thursday November 10, 2022

Keynote Title: Frauds in the cryptocurrency ecosystem

Keynote Speaker: Alessandro Mei, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Biography: Alessandro Mei received the laurea degree in computer science summa cum laude from the University of Pisa, Italy, 1994, and the phd in mathematics at the University of Trento, Italy, 1999. He was a research scholar at the Department of EE-Systems of the University of Southern California during 1998 and part of 1999. Afterwards, he joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he is now a full professor. Alessandro Mei has been Head of Department, 2015-2021, and the Chair of the Board of the Directors of Sapienza University, 2018-2021. His main research interests include distributed and networked systems, blockchain technology, and computer system security and privacy. He was presented with the Google Faculty Research Award 2013, the IEEE INFOCOM 2013 and IEEE SECON 2013 best demo awards, the Marie Curie Fellowship 2010-2012, the Best Paper Award of IEEE IPDPS 2002, the EE-Systems Outstanding Research Paper Award of the University of Southern California for 2000, and the Outstanding Paper Award of IEEE/ACM HiPC 1998. He is a past associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers (2005-2009), and the general chair of IEEE IPDPS 2009, Rome, Italy. During a.y. 2010-11 he was on leave at the CSE Department, University of California at San Diego, USA.

Abstract: The cryptocurrency market is loosely regulated. Even if policymakers are making some progress, building a safer environment for cryptocurrency investors is a complex task, and it needs time. Meanwhile, blockchain-related technologies evolve fast, and with the birth of the DeFi investors begin to move from centralized exchanges (CEX) like Bi-nance or FTX to decentralized exchanges (DEX). While regulating the standard cryptocurrencies market is not easy, ruling the on-chain trading platform is harder. In this talk, we will see what are the major security challenges for investors in the cryptocurrency environment, what are the main frauds, and what we can do to build a safer eco-system.