Technical Program

Session Chair: Yue Chen

10:50 A spectrum sharing proposal based on LSA/ASA for the Brazilian Regulatory Framework: Carlos Rodriguez Ron (PUC/Rio, Brazil); Marta Almeida (PUC/Rio); Luiz A R da Silva Mello (PUC/RIO & Inmetro, Brazil)
11:10 Optimal Scheduling in Cognitive Wireless Sensor Networks with Multiple Spectrum Access Opportunities: Haitham Abu-Ghazaleh (Tarleton State University, USA); Attahiru Alfa (University of Manitoba, Canada)
11:30 A hardware Implementation for Efficient Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Networks: Yahia Shabara (Qatar University, Egypt); Amr Mohamed and Abdulla K Al-Ali (Qatar University, Qatar)
11:50 An Outlook on the Unlicensed Operation Aspects of NR: Eliane Semaan (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Junaid Ansari (Ericsson Research, Germany); Gen Li (Ericsson Research); Erika Tejedor (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Henning Wiemann (Ericsson Research, Germany)

EMG2: Localization I

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Session Chair: Claudia Philpot

10:50 Adaptive Localization in Dynamic Indoor Environments by Transfer Kernel Learning: Han Zou (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Yuxun Zhou (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Hao Jiang (Fuzhou University, P.R. China); Baoqi Huang (Inner Mongolia University, P.R. China); Lihua Xie (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Costas Spanos (UC Berkeley, USA)
11:10 An optimized space partitioning technique to support two-layer WiFi fingerprinting: Rui Zhou, Shuai Lu, Jiesong Chen and Zhiqiang Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
11:30 Fine-grained Location Extraction and Prediction with Little Known Data: Tong Guan (The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Wen Dong and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA); Chunming Qiao (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
11:50 A wireless communication and positioning experiment for the ISS based on IR-UWB: Martin Drobczyk, Christian Strowik and Claudia Philpot (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)

MAC1: D2D Multiple Access

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Session Chair: Mustafa ElNainay

10:50 A Coalitional Graph Game for Device-to-Device Data Dissemination with Power Budget Constraints: Yiming Zhao and Wei Song (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
11:10 Fairness and safety capacity oriented resource allocation scheme for D2D communications: Wenson Chang and Yu-Chieh Lin (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan); Yinman Lee (National Chi Nan University, Taiwan); Szu-Lin Su (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
11:30 Statistical QoS-Driven Power Adaptation in Q-OFDMA-Based Full-Duplex D2D 5G Mobile Wireless Networks: Jingqing Wang (Texas A&M University, USA); Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, ECE Department, USA)
11:50 Interference-aware D2D-Multicast Session Provisioning in LTE-A Networks: Ajay Bhardwaj and Samar Agnihotri (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India)

MAC2: Resource Allocation

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Session Chair: Nada Golmie

10:50 Game Theory Based Resource Allocation in Multi-Cell Massive MIMO OFDMA Networks: Lucas Dias Hiera Sampaio (Federal Technological University of Paraná, Brazil); Taufik Abrão (State University of Londrina, Brazil); Fabio Renan Durand (UTFPR, Brazil)
11:10 RFID anticollision in dense mobile environments: Abdoul Aziz Mbacke (Inria Lille Nord - Europe, France); Nathalie Mitton (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France); Herve Rivano (Inria & Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA Lyon, CITI, France)
11:30 Resource Allocation for Efficient Bandwidth Provisioning in Virtualized Wireless Networks: Thinh Duy Tran and Long Bao Le (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada)
11:50 Fast Power Allocation for OFDMA-SDMA with Minimum Rate Constraints: Diego Perea (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and GERAD & GERAD Research Center, Canada); Andre Girard (INRS-EMT and GERAD, Canada); Jean-François Frigon (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and GERAD, Canada)

NET1: Mesh Networks

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Chair: Raphael Naves (University of Toulouse, France)

10:50 FAME: A Flow Aggregation MEtric for shortest path routing algorithms in multi-hop wireless networks: Alexandre Laube (Université Paris Sud, France); Steven Martin (Paris-Sud University, France); Dominique Quadri (LRI, France); Khaldoun Al Agha (University of Paris XI, France); Guy Pujolle (University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 & DNAC, France)
11:10 Relay Node Position Optimization in Complex Environment: Hongchun Li, Chen Ao and Yi Xu (Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co., Ltd, P.R. China); Jun Tian (Fujitsu R&D Center Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Koichiro Yamashita (Fujitsu Laboratories LTD., Japan)
11:30 Network Traffic Prediction Based on Deep Belief Network in Wireless Mesh Backbone Networks: Laisen Nie (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Dingde Jiang (Northeastern University, P.R. China); Shui Yu (Deakin University, Australia); Houbing Song (West Virginia University & West Virginia Center of Excellence for Cyber-Physical Systems, USA)
11:50 Network Coding Schemes For Multi-Layer Video Streaming On Multi-Hop Wireless Networks: Hana Baccouch (Télécom ParisTech, France); Paul-Louis Ageneau (Telecom ParisTech, France); Nicolas Tizon (Institut TELECOM, France); Nadia Boukhatem (Telecom ParisTech, France)

NET2: Cognitive Radio Networks

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Chair: Philippe Leroux (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Canada)

10:50 Angle-Domain Spectrum Holes Analysis with Directional Antenna in Cognitive Radio Network: Yadong Zhao, Zhiqing Wei, Yunfeng Liu, Qixun Zhang and Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
11:10 Proactive Cross-channel Gain Estimation for Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks: Lin Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Ming Xiao (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Gang Wu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Guodong Zhao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), P.R. China); Shaoqian Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
11:30 Statistical QoS-Driven Cooperative Power Allocation Game Over Wireless Cognitive Radio Networks: Jingqing Wang (Texas A&M University, USA); Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, ECE Department, USA)
11:50 Increased Spectrum Utilisation In A Cognitive Radio Network: An M/M/1-PS Queue Approach: Hilary Tsimba and Bodhaswar TJ Maharaj (University of Pretoria, South Africa); Attahiru Alfa (University of Manitoba, Canada)

NET3: Sensing

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Session Chair: Miguel López-Benítez

10:50 Low-Complexity Soft-Bit Diversity Combining for Ultra-Low Power Wildlife Monitoring: Muhammad Nabeel (Paderborn University, Germany); Bastian Bloessl and Falko Dressler (University of Paderborn, Germany)
11:10 A Truthful Double Auction Mechanism for Crowdsensing Systems with Max-Min Fairness: Yu-e Sun (Soochow University, P.R. China); Yu Xin (Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing Information, P.R. China); He Huang and Wenjian Yang (Soochow University, P.R. China)
11:30 Compressive Sensing-based Adaptive Top-k Query Over Compression Domain in Wireless Sensor Networks: Yao-Tung Tsou and Yu-Shun Chen (Feng Chia University, Taiwan)
11:50 Energy-efficient Transmission Based on Compressive Sensing in WSN: Hao Yang, Keming Tang and Hua Xu (Yancheng Teachers University, P.R. China); Xiwei Wang (Northeastern Illinois University, USA)

NET4: IoT Networks

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Session Chair: Farouk Mezghani

10:50 Missing Tag Identification in Blocker-enabled RFID Systems: Xia Wang (Nanjing University & Zaozhuang University, P.R. China); Jia Liu, Yanyan Wang, Feng Zhu and Li-jun Chen (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
11:10 Hint: An Efficient Protocol for Uploading Small-Size IoT Data: Tsung Yen Chan and Yi Ren (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Jyh-Cheng Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
11:30 Interference Impact on Coverage and Capacity for Low Power Wide Area IoT Networks: Benny Vejlgaard and Mads Lauridsen (Aalborg University, Denmark); István Z. Kovács (Nokia Bell Labs & Aalborg, Denmark); Huan Cong Nguyen (Aalborg University & Faculty of Engineering and Science, Denmark); Preben Mogensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Mads Sørensen (Telenor, Denmark)
11:50 Adaptive Clustering for Internet of Battery-less Things: Qianao Ju and Ying Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

PHY1: Massive MIMO I

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Session Chair: Michael Honig

10:50 Estimation of channel correlation for massive MIMO signal transmission: Hyoung-Keon Kim, Yong-suk Byun and Yong-Hwan Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
11:10 Compressive Channel Estimation Exploiting Block Sparsity in Multi-User Massive MIMO Systems: Wenbo Xu, Tao Shen, Yun Tian, Yifan Wang and Jiaru Lin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
11:30 Sparse Channel Estimation for Massive MIMO with 1-bit Feedback per Dimension: Zhiyi Zhou, Xu Chen, Dongning Guo and Michael Honig (Northwestern University, USA)
11:50 A Low-complexity Iterative GAMP-based Detection for Massive MIMO with Low-resolution ADCs: Youzhi Xiong, Ning Wei and Zhongpei Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

PHY2: Propagation and Channel Modeling I

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Session Chair: Matthias Pätzold

10:50 An Automatic Clustering Algorithm For Multipath Components Based On Kernel-Power-Density: Ruisi He (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Qing-yong Li Li (Beijing Jiaotong University, Spain); Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University & State Key Lab of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, P.R. China); Yang Geng (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Andreas Molisch and Vinod Kristem (University of Southern California, USA); Zhangdui Zhong and Jian Yu (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
11:10 On the Consistency of Non-Stationary Multipath Fading Channels: Matthias Pätzold (University of Agder, Norway); Carlos A. Gutiérrez (Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico); Neji Youssef (Ecole superieure des communications de Tunis, Tunisia)
11:30 Generalized Asymptotic Measures for Wireless Fading Channels with a Logarithmic Singularity: Bitan Banerjee and Chintha Tellambura (University of Alberta, Canada)
11:50 A Unified Fading Model Using Generalized Gamma Convolutions: Adithya Rajan, Cihan Tepedelenlioglu and Ruochen Zeng (Arizona State University, USA)

PHY3: Cooperative/ Relay Networks I

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Session Chair: Chuan Huang

10:50 Throughput maximization for decode-and-forward relay channels with non-ideal circuit power: Hengjing Liang, Chuan Huang, Zhi Chen and Shaoqian Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
11:10 A Unified Framework for the Analysis of Path Selection Based DF Cooperation in Wireless Systems: Neeraj Varshney and Aditya K Jagannatham (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
11:30 Performance analysis of RF-FSO multi-hop networks: Behrooz Makki and Tommy Svensson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Maite Brandt-Pearce (University of Virginia, USA); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
11:50 Cooperative Diversity Using Optimal Relay Power Control for Different Fading Channels: Abdurrahman Alfitouri (Manchester University, United Kingdom); Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

PHY4: Security I

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Session Chair: Theodoros Tsiligkaridis

10:50 Performance Bounds on the Security of Transform-based Analog Encryption: Theodoros Tsiligkaridis (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
11:10 Analyzing Directional Modulation Techniques as Block Encryption Ciphers for Physical Layer Security: Abrar Ahmad and Muhammad Amin (Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan); Muddassar Farooq (National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan)
11:30 Insider-Attacks on Physical-Layer Group Secret-Key Generation in Wireless Networks: J Harshan (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore); Sang-Yoon Chang (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA); Yih-Chun Hu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
11:50 Secret Key Generation Using One-Bit Quantized Channel State Information: Saygın Bakşi, John Snoap and Dimitrie C. Popescu (Old Dominion University, USA)

PHY5: C-RAN I

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Session Chair: Aydin Sezgin

10:50 Robust C-RAN Precoder Design for Wireless Fronthaul with Imperfect Channel State Information: Dong Wang, Ying Wang, Ruijin Sun and Xiangyang Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
11:10 Robust Optimization for Energy Efficiency in Multicast Downlink C-RAN: Jinghong Tan and Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Qi He (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
11:30 On Achievability for Downlink Cloud Radio Access Networks with Base Station Cooperation: Chien-Yi Wang (Télécom ParisTech, France); Michele A Wigger (Telecom ParisTech, France); Abdellatif Zaidi (Université Paris-Est Marne La Vallée, France)
11:50 Cost-Aware Fronthaul Rate Allocation to Maximize Benefit of Multi-User Reception in C-RAN: Dora Boviz (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Chung Shue Chen (Bell Labs, Nokia, France); Sheng Yang (CentraleSupelec, France)

PHY6: Caching I

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Session Chair: Michele A Wigger

10:50 Secure Joint Cache-Channel Coding over Erasure Broadcast Channels: Sarah Kamel (Telecom ParisTech, France); Mireille Sarkiss (CEA LIST, France); Michele A Wigger (Telecom ParisTech, France)
11:10 Caching and Coded Multicasting in Slow Fading Environment: Mingyue Ji and Rong-Rong Chen (University of Utah, USA)
11:30 Cache-enabled Base Station Cooperation forHeterogeneous Cellular Network with Dependence: Sufeng Kuang and Nan Liu (Southeast University, P.R. China)
11:50 Centralized Coded Caching with Heterogeneous Cache Sizes: Abdelrahman Ibrahim (Penn State University, USA); Ahmed A Zewail and Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Monday, March 20, 14:40 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

EMG3: Content Delivery and Caching

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Session Chair: Hang Li

14:40 Towards new Information Centric Networking strategy based on Software Defined Networking: Anwar Kalghoum (ENSI University, Tunisia); Sonia Mettali Gammar (Cristal lab -ENSI Tunisia, Tunisia)
15:00 Ameliorate Half-duplex Relaying via Cooperative Caching for Content Accessing: Chang Yang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Hongjia Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
15:20 A Genetic Algorithm-based Approach for Content Delivery in Femtocaching-Assisted Networks: Michael Azmy, Karim ElAzzouni and Ahmed Abuemeira (Alexandria University, Egypt); Mustafa ElNainay (Alexandria University & Virginia Tech, Egypt)
15:40 Resource Trading for a Small-Cell Caching System: A Contract-Theory Based Approach: Tingting Liu (Nanjing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Jun Li and Feng Shu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)

EMG4: Channel and PHY

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Session Chair: Lingjia Liu

14:40 Analysis of Localization Using Multipath Characteristics as Location Fingerprint: Yuan Gao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Chang Yongyu (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China); Bin Su (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Jiantao Xue (Huawei Technologies, P.R. China); Li Anjian (Wireless Research Department of Huawei Technologies, P.R. China)
15:00 Performance Analysis of Dual-hop DF Satellite Relaying over $\kappa$-$\mu$ Shadowed Fading Channels: Jiayi Zhang and Xu Li (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Imran Shafique Ansari (Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ), Qatar); Ying Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Khalid A. Qaraqe (Texas A&M University at Qatar, USA)
15:20 Spatial Modulation for Improved Performance of Next-Generation WLAN: Ahmed G Helmy (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Shahrnaz Azizi (Intel, USA); Thomas Kenney (Intel Corporation, USA); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
15:40 Waveform Design For Joint Radar-Communication With Nonideal Power Amplifier And Outband Interference: Yu Zhang, Qingyu Li, Ling Huang, Keren Dai and Jian Song (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

MAC3: Heterogeneous Networks I

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Session Chair: Jelena Mišić

14:40 Queue-Aware Small Cell Activation for Energy Efficiency in Two-tier Heterogeneous Networks: Fancheng Kong (University of Technology, Sydney & Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Australia); Xinghua Sun (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Victor C.M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada); Y. Jay Guo (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia); Qi Zhu and Hongbo Zhu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
15:00 A Joint Scheduling and Resource Allocation Scheme for Millimeter Wave Heterogeneous Networks: Yilin Li and Jian Luo (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Wen Xu (Huawei & Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH - European Research Center (ERC), Germany); Nikola Vucic and Emmanouil Pateromichelakis (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
15:20 Joint Bandwidth & Power Allocation for EE Optimization in Heterogeneous LTE/WiFi Multi-Home Networks: Fan Yang (Texas A&M University, USA); Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, ECE Department, USA)
15:40 Massive Access for Machine-Type Communications in Backhaul-Constrained Heterogeneous Networks: Yannan Ruan, Wei Wang and Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

MAC4: Internet of Things

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Session Chair: Vojislav B. Mišić

14:40 On Optimal Relay Nodes Position and Selection for Multi-path Data Streaming: James Nguyen (US Army CERDEC, USA); Yalong Wu, Weichao Gao, Wei Yu and Chao Lu (Towson University, USA); Daniel Ku (CERDC & Space and Trerrestrial Communications Directorate, USA)
15:00 Spatial and Temporal Aggregation for Small and Massive Transmissions in LTE-M Networks: Po-Yen Chang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Jia-Ming Liang (Chang Gung University, Taiwan); Jen-Jee Chen (National University of Tainan, Taiwan); Kun-Ru Wu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)
15:20 FH-SCMA: Frequency-hopping based Sparse Code Multiple Access for Next Generation Internet of Things: Zhicheng Bai, Bo Li and Mao Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Zhongjiang Yan (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, P.R. China); Xiaoya Zuo and Yongping Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
15:40 A slotted Aloha message concentration protocol for wireless sensor networks: Steven Weber (Drexel University, USA)

MAC5: LTE Multiple Access

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Session Chair: Min Huang

14:40 A Dual Priority Component Carrier Selection Algorithm in LTE-Advanced Systems: Shiqing Sun (Peking University, P.R. China); Siduo Shen (Shanghai Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, P.R. China); Yusun Fu (Shanghai Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd); Yuping Zhao (Peking University, P.R. China)
15:00 Uplink Performance of Enhanced Licensed assisted Access (eLAA) in Unlicensed Spectrum: Reem Karaki (Ericsson Research, Germany); Jung-Fu (Thomas) Cheng (Ericsson Research, USA); Evanny Obregon (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Amitav Mukherjee (Ericsson Research, USA); Du Ho Kang (Ericsson, Sweden); Sorour Falahati (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Havish Koorapaty (Ericsson Research, USA); Oskar Drugge (Ericsson, Sweden)
15:20 Energy-Efficient Dynamic Point Selection for Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RAN): Ching-Kuo Hsu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Jia-Ming Liang (Chang Gung University, Taiwan); Kun-Ru Wu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Jen-Jee Chen (National University of Tainan, Taiwan); Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)
15:40 Envisioning Spectrum Management InVirtualised C-RAN: Imad Samman (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Matteo Artuso and Henrik Christiansen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark); Angela Doufexi and Mark Beach (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

NET5: Sensor Networks I

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Session Chair: Shibo He

14:40 The Effect of Popularity Rule on Capacity and Delay in Multi-Sink WSNs: Hajar Barani (New Mexico State University, USA); Yousef Jaradat (Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Jordan); Hong Huang (New Mexico State University, USA); Zhicheng Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Satyajayant Misra (New Mexico State University, USA)
15:00 Multimodal Data Fusion in Sensor Networks via Copula Processes: Pengfei Zhang (Oxford University, United Kingdom); JingTing Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Ido Nevat (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Gareth Peters (University College London London, United Kingdom)
15:20 Reliable and Secure End-to-End Data Aggregation Using Secret Sharing in WSNs: Wael Y. Alghamdi and Hui Wu (University of New South Wales, Australia); Salil S Kanhere (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
15:40 A Trust Management based Framework for Fault-tolerant Barrier Coverage in Sensor Networks: Shibo He (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Yuanchao Shu (Microsoft Research, P.R. China); Xianbin Cui (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Chunjuan Wei (Shanghai University of Electric Power, P.R. China); Jiming Chen and Zhiguo Shi (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

NET6: Coding for Networks

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Session Chair: Umberto Spagnolini

14:40 Robust Coded Cooperation Based on Multi-Dimensional Spatially Coupled Repeat-Accumulate Codes: Ryosuke Tanaka and Koji Ishibashi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
15:00 How to Tune Sparse Network Coding over Wireless Links: Pablo Garrido (University of Cantabria, Spain); Daniel E. Lucani (Aalborg University, Denmark); Ramón Agüero (University of Cantabria, Spain)
15:20 An Efficient Lightweight Stream Cipher Algorithm for Wireless Networks: Soumyadev Maity (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India); Koushik Sinha (Southern Illinois University, USA); Bhabani Sinha (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
15:40 Diffusion Kalman Filter Algorithm for Adaptive Network with Quantized Information Exchange: Shujie Yang, Changqiao Xu and Jianfeng Guan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

NET7: Network Analytics and Machine Learning

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Session Chair: Jesús Arnau

14:40 Edge Big Data-Enabled Low-Cost Indoor Localization Based on Bayesian Analysis of RSS: Shuo Liu and Pengbo Si (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China); Minghui Xu (Beijing Normal University, P.R. China); Yu He and Yanhua Zhang (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China)
15:00 Twitter as a Source for Spatial Traffic Information in Big Data-Enabled Self-Organizing Networks: Henrik Klessig (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Henning Kuntzschmann and Lucas Scheuvens (TU Dresden, Germany); Philipp Schulz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Bjoern Almeroth (RadioOpt GmbH, Germany); Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
15:20 NLOS Identification and Mitigation for Geolocation Using Least-squares Support Vector Machines: Benny Chitambira and Simon Armour (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Stephen Wales (Roke Manor Research, United Kingdom); Mark Beach (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
15:40 IEEE 802.11 Network Anomaly Detection and Attack Classification: A Deep Learning Approach: Vrizlynn L. L. Thing (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

NET8: Coverage in Cellular Networks

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Session Chair: Mehrnaz Afshang

14:40 Energy Management in Cellular HetNets Assisted by Solar Powered Drone Small Cells: Ahmad Alsharoa (Iowa State University, USA); Hakim Ghazzai (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center & QMIC, Qatar); Abdullah Kadri (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar); Ahmed E. Kamal (Iowa State University, USA)
15:00 A New Clustered HetNet Model to Accurately Characterize User-Centric Small Cell Deployments: Mehrnaz Afshang (Virigina Tech, USA); Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
15:20 Exact Characterization of Spatio-temporal Joint Coverage Probability in Cellular Networks: Shankar Krishnan and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
15:40 Matching-Based Cell Selection for Proportional Fair Throughput Boosting via Dual-Connectivity: Qiaoni Han, Bo Yang, Cailian Chen and Xinping Guan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

PHY10: Cognitive Radio I

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Session Chair: Umberto Spagnolini

14:40 Impact of Improper Gaussian Signaling on the Achievable Rate of Overlay Cognitive Radio: Osama Amin, Walid Abediseid and Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
15:00 On Outage Probability of Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks Over κ-µ Shadowed Fading: Mahathi Poreddy, Thi My Chinh Chu and Hans-Juergen Zepernick (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
15:20 PECAS: A Low-Cost Prototype for the Estimation of Channel Activity Statistics in Cognitive Radio: Miguel López-Benítez (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi (The Unviersity of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Kenta Umebayashi (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan); Janne Lehtomäki (University of Oulu, Finland)
15:40 Service Time Analysis for Secondary Packet Transmission with Adaptive Modulation: Wenjing Wang (University of Victoria, Canada); Muneer Usman (Google Inc., USA); Hong-Chuan Yang (University of Victoria, Canada); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)

PHY11: Equalization, Detection and Signal Processing I

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Session Chair: Chuan Huang

14:40 Rigorous Analysis on the Sensitivity of Cyclostationary Detection: Yonghong Zeng (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
15:00 Turbo Frequency Domain Equalization and Detection for Multicarrier Faster-Than-Nyquist Signaling: Siming Peng (PLA University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); AiJun Liu (Nanjing Institute of Communications Engineering, P.R. China); Hua Fang, Ke Wang and Xiaohu Liang (PLA University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
15:20 A Novel Practical CP Based Mismatched MMSE Equalization: Eren Balevi and Ali Özgür Yılmaz (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
15:40 Novel Fractional Spur Relocation in All Digital Phase Locked Loops: Basak Can, Balvinder S. Bisla, Anthony Tsangaropoulos and Satwik Patnaik (Intel Corporation, USA)

PHY7: Massive MIMO II

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Session Chair: Tommy Svensson

14:40 Performance Analysis of RCI Precoding with Pilot Contamination in Finite Massive MIMO System: Shijuan Wu (Beijing, P.R. China); Xiaofeng Tao, Na Li and Jin Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
15:00 A Novel Pilot Assignment Approach for Pilot Decontaminating in Massive MIMO Systems: Pengbiao Wang and Chenglin Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yongjun Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Communications, P.R. China); Yang Zhang (China University of Petroleum (UPC) & Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Gordon Stüber (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
15:20 Layered Gibbs Sampling Algorithm For Near-Optimal Detection in Large-MIMO Systems: Manish Mandloi and Vimal Bhatia (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
15:40 A Noncoherent Differential Transmission Scheme for Multiuser Massive MIMO Systems: Jing Feng and Hui Gao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Taotao Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Tiejun Lv (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Weibin Guo (Shenzhen Institute of Radio Testing and Technology, P.R. China)

PHY8: Security II

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Session Chair: Zafer Vatansever

14:40 Physical Layer Security with Untrusted Relays in Wireless Cooperative Networks: Guiyang Luo (Being University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Jinglin Li, Zhihan Liu and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); FangChun Yang (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China)
15:00 Outage Constrained Secrecy Rate Maximization for Relay Networks Against Unknown Eavesdroppers: Qian Xu, Pinyi Ren, Qinghe Du, Li Sun and Yichen Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
15:20 Physical Layer Security Improvement by Constellation Selection and Artificial Interference: Datong Xu, Pinyi Ren, Qinghe Du, Li Sun and Yichen Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
15:40 Precoded Spatial Modulation for the Wiretap Channel with Relay Selection and Cooperative Jamming: Zied Bouida (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar); Athanasios Stavridis (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Ali Ghrayeb (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar); Harald Haas (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Mazen Omar Hasna (Qatar University, Qatar)

PHY9: 5G Physical Layer I

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Session Chair: Aliye Ozge Kaya

14:40 Uplink PHY Design with Shortened TTI for Latency Reduction: Jingya Li (Ericsson, Sweden); Henrik Sahlin (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Gustav Wikström (Ericsson AB, Sweden)
15:00 A Novel Waveform for Massive Machine-Type Communications in 5G: Yang Fan (Fujitsu R&D Center, P.R. China); Wang Xin (Fujitsu Research and Development Center, Beijing, P.R. China)
15:20 Low Complexity Receiver for Uplink SCMA System via Expectation Propagation: Xiangming Meng (Huawei Technologies, Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Yiqun Wu and Yan Chen (Huawei, P.R. China); Meng Cheng (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, P.R. China)
15:40 Ultra-broadband, Hybrid High-Low Band Wireless Access: Aliye Ozge Kaya (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Doru Calin (Nokia, USA); Harish Viswanathan (Nokia Bell Labs)

Monday, March 20, 16:20 - 17:40 (America/Los_Angeles)

EMG5: Cellular Networks

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Session Chair: Yan Sun

16:20 An Approach to 5G Wireless Network Virtualization: Architecture and Trial Environment: Jianyuan Feng, Qixun Zhang and Guangzhe Dong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); PengFei Cao (BeiJing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
16:40 Improving Power Consumption for Cellular-Based Machine-Type Communication Systems: Bilal Rabah Al-Doori and Xian Liu (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)
17:00 Millimeter Wave System Performance Characterization for 5G Data Access: Shirish Nagaraj (Intel, USA); Lea Castel (Intel, Denmark); Tommaso Balercia (Intel Corporation, Denmark); Bishwarup Mondal (Intel, USA); Jong-kae Fwu (Intel Corporation, USA)
17:20 LWIP and Wi-Fi Boost Flow Control: David López-Pérez (Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland); Jonathan Ling (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Bong Ho Kim (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Subramanian Vasudevan (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Satish Kanugovi (Nokia, India); Ming Ding (Data 61, Australia)

EMG6: Advances in Sensor Networks

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Session Chair: Cong Shen

16:20 A Cyber-Physical Design for Indoor Temperature Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks: Cong Shen (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Shengbo Chen (Qualcomm R&D, USA)
16:40 In-network On-demand Query-based Sensing System for Wireless Sensor Networks: Noura Al-Hoqani (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
17:00 On Lifetime Maximisation of Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks with Multi-Layer Realisation: Muhammad Kamran Naeem (Staffordshire University, United Kingdom); Mohammad N Patwary (Staffordshire University, Stafford, United Kingdom)
17:20 Indoor Corner Detection and Matching from Crowdsourced Movement Trajectories: Yuchen Sun and Bang Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), P.R. China)

MAC6: Vehicular Wireless Networks

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Session Chair: David M Gutierrez-Estevez

16:20 User Differentiation Scheme for Slot Allocation in Vehicular Networks: Yiwei Mao and Lianfeng Shen (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, P.R. China)
16:40 TDMA-aware Routing Protocol for Multi-hop Communications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: Mohamed Hadded (Telecom SudParis, France); Paul Muhlethaler (INRIA, France); Anis Laouiti (TELECOM SudParis, France); Leila Azouz Saidane (ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia)
17:00 Peer-to-Peer Protocol for Allocated Resources in Vehicular Cloud based on V2V Communication: Rodolfo Meneguette (Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo, Brazil); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
17:20 Delay Efficient Disconnected RSU Placement Algorithm for VANET Safety Applications: Ali Jalooli and Min Song (Michigan Technological University, USA); Xiaohua Xu (Kennesaw State University, USA)

MAC7: WiFi

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Session Chair: Rui Zhou

16:20 A Simple Full-Duplex MAC Protocol Exploiting Asymmetric Traffic Loads in WiFi Systems: Murad Murad and Ahmed M. Eltawil (University of California, Irvine, USA)
16:40 Throughput-Enhanced Backoff Mechanism (TEBM) for High-Density IEEE 802.11 Networks: David Tung Chong Wong and Qian Chen (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Francois Chin (Institue for InfoComm Research, Singapore)
17:00 Generous Throughput Oriented Channel Assignment for Infra-structured WiFi Networks: Hadi Kasasbeh, Feng Wang and Lei Cao (The University of Mississippi, USA); Ramanarayanan Viswanathan (University of Mississippi, USA)
17:20 An On-Line Radio Access Technology Selection Algorithm in an LTE-WiFi Network: Arghyadip Roy, Prasanna Chaporkar and Abhay Karandikar (IIT Bombay, India)

MAC8: Channel Access

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Session Chair: Máximo Morales-Céspedes

16:20 Channel Access based on Frequency-domain Contention in TV White Space: Zhong Tian (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jun Wang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China); Zhecheng An and Jian Song (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
16:40 Energy Efficiency Optimization of Channel Access Probabilities in IEEE 802.15.6 UWB WBANs: Yang Liu (University of South Florida, USA); Kemal Davaslioglu (University of South Florida & University of California, Irvine, USA); Richard D. Gitlin (University of South Florida, USA)
17:00 Lexicographic Relay Selection and Channel Allocation for Multichannel Cooperative Multicast: Yitu Wang and Wei Wang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Lin Chen (The University of Paris-Sud, France); Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
17:20 Channel Access Balancing for Multiband Wireless LAN by Using Alternative Primary Channel: Kazuto Yano (ATR, Japan); Naoto Egashira (ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, Japan); Satoshi Tsukamoto (ATR, Japan); Julian L Webber (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan); Tomoaki Kumagai (ATR, Japan)

NET10: Mobile Edge Computing

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Session Chair: Yuyi Mao

16:20 Adaptive Computation Scaling and Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing: Thinh Quang Dinh, Jianhua Tang, Quang Duy La and Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
16:40 Dynamic Resource Allocation in Ad-Hoc Mobile Cloud Computing: Weiwei Chen (Hunan University, P.R. China); Chin Tau Lea (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Kenli Li (Hunan University, P.R. China)
17:00 RainCloud - Cloudlet Selection for Effective Cyber Foraging: Chilukuri Shanti (GVP College of Engineering(A), India); Sourabh Bollapragada (Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA); Sainath Kommineni (Aveva Solutions India, India); Kalyana Chakravarthy C (MVGR College of Engineering, Vizianagaram, India)
17:20 Joint Task Offloading Scheduling and Transmit Power Allocation for Mobile-Edge Computing Systems: Yuyi Mao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Jun Zhang and Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

NET11: Video Distribution

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Session Chair: Hui Gao

16:20 Stalling Assessment for Wireless Online Video Streams via ISP Traffic Monitoring: Hui Tang and Liang Chen (Shenzhen University, P.R. China); Yue Wang (Central University of Finance and Economics, P.R. China); Na Wang (Shenzhen University, P.R. China); Xia Li (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, P.R. China)
16:40 Multicast Beamforming for Scalable Videos in Cache-Enabled Heterogeneous Networks: Xuewei Zhang, Hui Gao and Tiejun Lv (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
17:00 SCAST: Wireless Video Multicast Scheme Based on Segmentation and SoftCast: Li Yuanyuan and Zhenxin Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Yu Liu and Yumei Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
17:20 Analytical Modeling of Losses in FDP protocol of HbbTV based Push-VOD services over DVB Networks: Ferdaouss Mattoussi (IETR INSA, France); Gheorghe Zaharia (IETR-INSA de Rennes, France); Matthieu Crussière (IETR - Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Rennes (IETR) & INSA - National Institute of Applied Sciences, France); Jean-François Hélard (IETR, France)

NET12: Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

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Session Chair: Hang Li

16:20 Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks using Social Tie Strengths and Mobility Plans: Riten Gupta (UtopiaCompression Corporation, USA); Niyant Krishnamurthi (UtopiaCompression Corp., USA); Uen-Tao Wang (Sandia National Laboratories, USA); Tejaswi Tamminedi (UtopiaCompression Corporation, USA); Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
16:40 Theoretical Analysis of secrecy transmission capacity in wireless ad hoc network: Kan Yu (Shandong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Jiguo Yu (Qufu Normal University, P.R. China); Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington Univ, USA); Tianyi Song (GWU, USA)
17:00 Formal Specification and Analysis of a Cross-Layer Overlay P2P Construction Protocol over MANETs: Youcef Hammal (Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria); Manel Seddiki (USTHB, Algeria); Benchaïba Mahfoud (Université des Sciences & Technologie Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Algeria); Abdelkrim Abdelli (USTHB University- Algiers, Algeria)
17:20 Adaptive Rerouting to Avoid Local Congestion in MANETs: Kiyotaka Kaji and Takuya Yoshihiro (Wakayama University, Japan)

NET9: Sensor Networks II

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Session Chair: Shibo He

16:20 Adaptive Path Planning of UAVs for Delivering Delay-Sensitive Information to Ad-hoc Nodes: JinYi Yoon, YeonJin Jin, Narangerelt Batsoyol and HyungJune Lee (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
16:40 A Wireless Sensor Network Recharging Strategy by Balancing Lifespan of Sensor Nodes: Junyi Xu (Hefei University of Technology, P.R. China); Xiaohui Yuan (University of North Texas, USA); Zhenchun Wei, Jianghong Han, Lei Shi and Zengwei Lyu (Hefei University of Technology, P.R. China)
17:00 Spatial Skeleton-enhanced Location Tracking for Indoor Localization: Chun-Jie Chiu and Kai-Ten Feng (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Po-Hsuan Tseng (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan)
17:20 Online Fault-Tolerant Dynamic Event Region Detection in Sensor Networks via Trust Model: Jiejie Wang and Bin Liu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

PHY12: Channel Estimation

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Session Chair: Yingsong Li

16:20 Sparse Channel Estimation Using Correntropy Induced Metric Criterion Based SM-NLMS Algorithm: Yanyan Wang and Yingsong Li (Harbin Engineering University, P.R. China); Felix Albu (Valahia University of Targoviste, Romania); Rui Yang (Huazhong Agricultural University, P.R. China)
16:40 Cooperative DF Cognitive Radio Networks with Spatial Modulation with Channel Estimation Errors: Ali Afana (Lakehead University, Canada); Telex M. N. Ngatched (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada); Salama Said Ikki (Lakehead University & Electrical Engineering Department, Canada)
17:00 Joint Channel Estimation and Detection of High Rate CCK Signaling in Underwater Communications: Lianyou Jing, Han Wang and Chengbing He (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Zhi Ding (University of California at Davis, USA)
17:20 Soft Decision Directed Dual-layer Channel Estimation for Time-Varying MIMO Channels: Xuehong Mao (Cadence, USA); Seyyedkazem Hashemizadehkolowri, Rong-Rong Chen and Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny (University of Utah, USA)

PHY13: Spectrum Sensing

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Session Chair: Berksan Serbetci

16:20 On low-complexity spectrum sensing: Analytical approach based spatial scanning: Kaïs Bouallegue (IEMN-DOAE UVHC, France); Iyad Dayoub (University Lille Nord de France IEMN-DOAE CNRS UMR 8520 UVHC, France & Concordia University, Canada); Mohamed Gharbi (Iemn/Doae Umr Cnrs, France)
16:40 An Adaptive Wavelet-based Scale Space Filtering Algorithm for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio: Henry Ohize (University of Cape Town, Cape Town. & Federal University of Technology, Minna, South Africa); Mqhele E. Dlodlo (University of Cape Town, South Africa); Adeiza J Onumanyi (Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria); Habeeb Bello-Salau (Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria)
17:00 Dynamic Distribution-Free Spectrum Sensing: Yasser M.H. Abdelhamed (Univiresity of Calgary, Canada); Mohamed Ammar Al Masri and Abu B Sesay (University of Calgary, Canada)
17:20 A Computing Budget Allocation Approach to Multiband Spectrum Sensing: Joseph M Bruno, Brian Mark, Yariv Ephraim and Chun-Hung Chen (George Mason University, USA)

PHY14: C-RAN II

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Session Chair: Michele A Wigger

16:20 Control-Data Separation across Edge and Cloud for Uplink Communications in C-RAN: Jinkyu Kang (Harvard University, Korea); Osvaldo Simeone (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Joonhyuk Kang (KAIST, Korea); Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
16:40 Robust Group Sparse Beamforming for Dense C-RANs with Probabilistic SINR Constraints: Ying-lei Teng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Wanxin Zhao (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, P.R. China)
17:00 On the Transport Capability of LAN Cables in All-Analog MIMO-RoC Fronthaul: Syed Hassan Raza Naqvi, Andrea Matera, Lorenzo Combi and Umberto Spagnolini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
17:20 Resource Cost Balancing With Caching in C-RAN: Alaa Alameer Ahmad (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany); Aydin Sezgin (RUB & Digital Communication Systems, Germany)

PHY15: Waveforms I

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Session Chair: Maurice Bellanger

16:20 Asynchronous Multi-User Uplink Transmissions for 5G with UFMC Waveform: Hyunwoo Cho (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Yan Yan (Georgia Institute of Techonolgy, USA); Gk Chang and Xiaoli Ma (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
16:40 Fast Algorithms for FBMC and GFDM in Dynamic Spectrum Access: Yonghong Zeng (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China & Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Meng Wah Chia (ST Electronics & Info-Comm Systems, Singapore); The Hanh Pham (Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore)
17:00 A New Construction of Golay Complementary Sets of Non-Power-of-Two Length Based on Boolean Functions: Chao-Yu Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
17:20 Enhanced Inter-Sub-band Interference Suppression for Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier Transmission: Hong Wang and Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Yu Zhang (Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China); Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

PHY16: Channel Coding

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Session Chair: Peter Trifonov

16:20 Early Termination of Turbo Decoding by Identification of Undecodable Blocks: Mohammed AlMahamdy and Jeffrey Dill (Ohio University, USA)
16:40 Modified Cryptographic Turbo Code for Sensitive Information: Vidya Sawant (NMIMS University & MPSTME, India); Archana Bhise (Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management & Engineering, India)
17:00 Improved Fountain Codes for BI-AWGN Channels: Amrit Kharel and Lei Cao (The University of Mississippi, USA)
17:20 Relay Node Selection and Power Allocation for Distributed Self-Concatenated Convolutional Codes: Haji Muhammad Furqan Ahmed Madni (Istanbul Medipol University & School of Engineering and Natural Science Electrical, Electronics and Cyber Systems, Turkey); Muhammad Fasih Uddin Butt (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan); Nida Zamir (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan); Soon Xin Ng (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)

Tuesday, March 21

Tuesday, March 21, 10:50 - 12:10 (America/Los_Angeles)

EMG7: Spectrum II

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Session Chair: Amitav Mukherjee

10:50 HARQ Feedback in Unlicensed Spectrum LTE: Design and Performance Evaluation: Amitav Mukherjee (Ericsson Research, USA); Fredrik Lindqvist (Ericsson Research & Ericsson AB, Sweden); Jung-Fu (Thomas) Cheng (Ericsson Research, USA)
11:10 Enabling Spectrum Sharing between LTE and RADAR Systems in S-band: Venkatesh Ramaswamy and Jeffery Correia (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
11:30 Interference Measurements in the European 868 MHz ISM Band with Focus on LoRa and SigFox: Mads Lauridsen and Benny Vejlgaard (Aalborg University, Denmark); István Z. Kovács (Nokia Bell Labs & Aalborg, Denmark); Huan Cong Nguyen (Aalborg University & Faculty of Engineering and Science, Denmark); Preben Mogensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
11:50 Throughput Analysis of LTE-Licensed-Assisted Access Networks with Imperfect Spectrum Sensing: Zhuoran Fu, Wenjun Xu, Zhiyong Feng, Lin Xue Hong and Jiaru Lin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

EMG8: Localization II

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Session Chair: Hang Li

10:50 Visible Light Positioning With Diffusing Lamps Using an Extended Kalman Filter: Zafer Vatansever and Maite Brandt-Pearce (University of Virginia, USA)
11:10 Automatic Hybrid Access Point Deployment for Wireless Localization Systems: Yun-Ting Hung and Kai-Ten Feng (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Po-Hsuan Tseng (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan)
11:30 Localization of WiFi Devices Using Probe Requests Captured at Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Virgilio Acuna (Florida International University, USA); Abhaykumar Kumbhar (Florida International University & Motorola Solutions, Inc, USA); Edwin Vattapparamban and Farid Rajabli (Florida International University, USA); Ismail Güvenç (North Carolina State University, USA)
11:50 Indoor Radio Map Construction based on Crowdsourced Fingerprint Splitting and Fitting: Yanzhen Ye and Bang Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), P.R. China)

MAC10 : Cooperative MAC

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Session Chair: Mustafa ElNainay

10:50 On the performance of the DNPS-based Relay Networks Under Attack by Masquerader: Wenson Chang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
11:10 A Cooperative Scheme for the Coexistence of the LTE and WiFi systems: Kareem M Metwaly (Alexandria University, Egypt); Karim G Seddik (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Mustafa ElNainay (Alexandria University & Virginia Tech, Egypt)
11:30 AJRC-MAC: An ALOHA-based Joint Reservation and Cooperation MAC for Dense Wireless Networks: Yongping Zhang, Bo Li and Mao Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Zhongjiang Yan (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, P.R. China); Xiaoya Zuo and Qiao Qu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
11:50 ERA Cooperative sensing with Differentiated Sensing Period and Retreat Scheme in Cognitive Radio: Wenson Chang and HaoYi Tai (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan); Yinman Lee (National Chi Nan University, Taiwan); Szu-Lin Su (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

MAC11: Energy Efficient MAC

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Session Chair: Xiwei Wang

10:50 Beacon Scheduling in Receiver-initiated MAC Protocols for Low-delay and Energy-efficient WSNs: Akihiro Fujimoto, Yukari Masui, Takuya Yoshihiro and Fumitaka Uchio (Wakayama University, Japan)
11:10 Joint Optimization of Energy Efficiency and Scheduling Strategies for Side-link Relay System: Vinay Kumar Shrivastava, Piyush Makhija and Rohan Raj (Samsung Semiconductor India R&D, India)
11:30 Energy Efficient Base Station on/off with User Association under C/U Split: Haimeng Wu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, P.R. China); Yan Sun and Aini Li (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
11:50 Energy and Spectrum Efficient Resource Allocation in Two-Tier Networks: A Multiobjective Approach: Meysam Masoudi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Hamid Reza Zaefarani and Abbas Mohammadi (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Cicek Cavdar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

MAC9: Random Access

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Session Chair: Lili Wei

10:50 Impact of Request Aggregation on Machine Type Connection Establishment in LTE-Advanced: Mikhail Vilgelm (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technical University of Munich)
11:10 DARA: A Delay-aware Random Access for Slot Assignment in Long-distance Wireless Networks: Xi Chen, Chuanhe Huang and Shaojie Wen (Wuhan University, P.R. China); Zongpeng Li (Wuhan University & University of Calgary, P.R. China)
11:30 Exhaustive, Iterative and Hybrid Initial Access Techniques in mmWave Communications: Lili Wei, Clara (Qian) Li and Geng Wu (Intel Corporation, USA)
11:50 Explicit power ramping during random access in LTE/LTE-A: Jelena Mišić, Vojislav B. Mišić and M Zulfiker Ali (Ryerson University, Canada)

NET13: Sensor Network Algorithms

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Session Chair: Afraa Attiah

10:50 A Game Theoretic Approach for Energy-Efficient Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks: Afraa Attiah, Cliff Zou and Mainak Chatterjee (University of Central Florida, USA)
11:10 Exact Algorithms for Maximizing Lifetime of WSNs using Integer Linear Programming: Xinshu Ma, Xiaojun Zhu and Bing Chen (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China)
11:30 An Improved Distributed Energy Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Heterogeneous WSNs: Benyin Xie (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Chaowei Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Schoole of Electronics Engineering, P.R. China); Di Liu and Wang Weidong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
11:50 Analysis of Energy Efficient Clustering Schemes with Isolated Node Issue in Aerial Wireless Sensors: Kwan-Wu Su and Jenq-Shiou Leu (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)

NET14: C-RAN Networks

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Session Chair: Hui Gao

10:50 Green Cloud Computing for Multi Cell Networks: Meysam Masoudi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Behzad Khamidehi (University of Toronto, Canada); Cicek Cavdar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
11:10 Energy Efficient Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks: Xiangyu He and Anqi He (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Yue Chen and Kok Keong Chai (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom); Tiankui Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
11:30 Cluster Formation with Data-Assisted Channel Estimation in Cloud-Radio Access Networks: Yourong Ban, Mingfeng Xu, Zhongyuan Zhao and Yong Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhiguo Ding (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
11:50 Layered hierarchical caching for SVC-based HTTP adaptive streaming over C-RAN: Zhilong Zhang, Yaxiong Yuan and Danpu Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

NET15: Handover in Cellular Networks

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Session Chair: Edward Grinshpun

10:50 Handover Modeling for Indoor Li-Fi Cellular Networks: The Effects of Receiver Mobility and Rotation: Mohammad Dehghani Soltani (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Hossein Kazemi (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Harald Haas (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
11:10 CoMP Handover Probability Analysis with Different Handover Schemes in Ultra-Dense Networks: Liu Mengting, Ying-lei Teng and Mei Song (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
11:30 On the Handover Security Key Update and Residence Management in LTE Networks: Quoc-Tuan Vien, Tuan Anh Le and Xin-She Yang (Middlesex University, United Kingdom); Trung Q. Duong (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)
11:50 Dynamic User Association in Enterprise Small Cell Networks with Hybrid Access: Xiaoxiao Wang and Cong Shen (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

PHY17: Massive MIMO III

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Session Chair: David Gutierrez Estevez

10:50 Cognitive Massive MIMO Relay Networks: Gayan Amarasuriya (Southern Illinois University, USA); Yikai Li (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA)
11:10 Relay Selection for Cognitive Massive MIMO Two-Way Relay Networks: Shashindra Silva, Masoud Ardakani and Chintha Tellambura (University of Alberta, Canada)
11:30 Interference-Aware Flexible TDD Design for Massive MIMO 5G Systems: David M Gutierrez-Estevez (Samsung Electronics, United Kingdom)
11:50 New Stochastic Geometry-based Analysis of Uplink Massive MIMO in Asymptotic Antenna Regime: Priyabrata Parida (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)

PHY18: Applications of Compressed Sensing

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Session Chair: Imad Barhumi

11:10 CS-PSO Algorithm for Off-Grid Narrow-Band Interference Mitigation in OFDM Systems: Hanan Al-Tous and Imad Barhumi (United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates (UAE)); Abdulrahman Kalbat (UAE Uinversity, United Arab Emirates (UAE)); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
11:30 Correlation Based Adaptive Compressed Sensing for Millimeter Wave Channel Estimation: Jianyi Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology); Zaixue Wei, Xin Zhang, Nanxi Li and Lin Sang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
11:50 Pilot Signal Design for Compressive Sensing Based Random Access in Machine-Type Communications: Nam Yul Yu, KyungJun Lee and Jinho Choi (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea)

PHY19: Security III

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Session Chair: Tamer Khattab

10:50 SOQR: Secure Optimal QoS Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Yang Xu (Xidian University, P.R. China); Jia Liu (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Xiaohong Jiang (Future University-Hakodate, Japan); Osamu Takahashi (Future University Hakodate, Japan); Norio Shiratori (Tohoku University, Japan)
11:10 The effect of Transmitter's Eavesdropper CSI on the Secure Degrees of Freedom of the MIMO MAC: Mohamed ِAmir Khalil (Qatar University, Canada); Tamer Khattab (Qatar University, Qatar)
11:30 On the Secure Degrees of Freedom of the K user MIMO MAC with statistical CSI: Mohamed ِAmir Khalil (Qatar University, Canada); Tamer Khattab (Qatar University, Qatar)
11:50 Physical Layer Security Enhancement in Multiuser Mixed RF/FSO Relay Networks under RF Interference: Ahmed Hassan Abd El-Malek (Pharos University in Alexandria, Egypt); Anas M. Salhab (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Salam A. Zummo (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)

PHY20: Cognitive Radio II

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Session Chair: Osvaldo Simeone

10:50 Achievability of the Sum-Capacity of Cognitive Networks under Different Channel Gain Conditions: Rana D Hegazy (Cairo University, Egypt); Ashraf Badawi (Zewail City for Science and Technology, Egypt)
11:10 On Residual Energy Maximization in Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio Network: Avik Banerjee and Santi Prasad Maity (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India); Subhabrata Roy (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, India)
11:30 Primary Channel Gain Estimation for Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks: Lin Zhang and Wenli Zhou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Guodong Zhao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), P.R. China); Gang Wu and Zhi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
11:50 Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Based Cognitive Anti-jamming: Mohamed Attia Aref, Sudharman Jayaweera and Stephen Machuzak (University of New Mexico, USA)

PHY21: Full Duplex

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Session Chair: Ozgur Gurbuz

10:50 On Capacity of Full-Duplex Cognitive Cooperative Radio Networks with Optimal Power Allocation: Thi My Chinh Chu and Hans-Juergen Zepernick (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
11:10 Full-Duplex Heterogeneous Networks: Ergodic Rate Analysis with Realistic Interference Modeling: Heng-Ming Hu, Chun-Hung Liu and Kai-Chieh Chang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
11:30 Self-Interference Distribution over Full-Duplex Multi-User MIMO Channels: Arman Shojaeifard and Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom); Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France); Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom); Jie Tang (South China University of Technology, P.R. China)
11:50 Optimal Resource Allocation for Full-Duplex Wireless Video Transmissions under Delay Constraints: Chuang Ye, M. Cenk Gursoy and Senem Velipasalar (Syracuse University, USA)

PHY22: Energy Harvesting / SWIPT

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Session Chair: Subhrakanti Dey

10:50 Joint Transceiver Design for Full-Duplex Cloud Radio Access Networks with SWIPT: Ming-Min Zhao (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Qingjiang Shi (Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, P.R. China); Mingyi Hong (Iowa State University, USA); Yunlong Cai and Minjian Zhao (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
11:10 Near Optimal Power Splitting Protocol for Energy Harvesting based Two Way Multiple Relay Systems: Ahmad Alsharoa (Iowa State University, USA); Hakim Ghazzai (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center & QMIC, Qatar); Ahmed E. Kamal (Iowa State University, USA); Abdullah Kadri (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar)
11:30 Downlink Beamforming Design with Simultaneous Energy and Secure Information Transmission: Ramadan Elsabae (Loughborough University, United Kingdom); Bokamoso Basutli (Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Botswana); Yu Gong and Sangarapillai Lambotharan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
11:50 Modeling and Analysis of Ambient RF Energy Harvesting in Networks with Secrecy Guard Zones: Mustafa A Kishk and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)

Tuesday, March 21, 14:40 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

EMG10: HetNets and Small Cells

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Session Chair: Kok Keong Chai

14:40 Energy Efficient Sleep Strategy for Decoupled Uplink/Downlink Access in HetNets: Lan Zhang, Gang Feng, Shuang Qin, Wei Jiang and Yao Sun (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
15:00 Energy Efficiency Analysis for Outdoor Wireless Small Cell Backhaul: Bessie Malila, Olabisi Emmanuel Falowo and Neco Ventura (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
15:20 Study of Mobility in Cache-enabled Wireless Heterogeneous Networks: Bitan Banerjee and Chintha Tellambura (University of Alberta, Canada)
15:40 Joint User Association and Energy Aware Routing for Green Small Cell mmWave Backhaul Networks: Enrica Zola (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain); Andreas J. Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden); Wooseong Kim (Gachon University, Korea)

EMG9: Applications I

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Session Chair: Jason D. Bonior

14:40 An In-Vivo Communication System for Monitoring Medication Adherence: Aditya Dua, William Weeks, Alberto Berstein, Robert Azevedo, Ronny Li and Andy Ward (Proteus Digital Health, USA)
15:00 Calorie Map: An Activity Intensity Monitoring System based on Wireless Signals: Ting-Hui Chiang, Yi-Ta Chuang and Chia-Liang Ke (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Ling-Jyh Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)
15:20 Multimodal deep learning approach for joint EEG-EMG data compression and classification: Ahmed Ben Saïd, Amr Mohamed and Tarek M. Elfouly (Qatar University, Qatar); Khaled A. Harras (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Z. Jane Wang (University of British Columbia, Canada)
15:40 Implementation of a Wireless Time Distribution Testbed Protected with Quantum Key Distribution: Jason D Bonior, Phil Evans, Greg Sheets, John Jones Jr and Toby Flynn (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA); Lori Ross O'Neil, William Hutton, Richard Pratt and Thomas E. Carroll (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)

MAC12: Wireless Networking I

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Session Chair: Wei Yu

14:40 A High Spectral Efficiency Hybrid ARQ Protocol with Low Latency: Hairuo Zhuang (Samsung US R&D Center, USA)
15:00 Admission Control based on WRR in WiMAXNetworks: Jalel Ben-Othman (University of Paris 13, France); Jean-Michel Fourneau (University of Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines, France); Lynda Mokdad (Université de Paris 12 & Laboratoire LACL, France); Abdelkrim Abdelli (USTHB University- Algiers, Algeria)
15:20 A Distributed User Association Algorithm for State Dependent Wireless Networks: S. Ramakrishnan (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Venkatesh Ramaiyan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Naveen Kolar Purushothama (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)
15:40 Low Latency Relay Processing Scheme for WLAN Systems Employing Multiband Simultaneous Transmission: Naoto Egashira (ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, Japan); Kazuto Yano and Satoshi Tsukamoto (ATR, Japan); Julian L Webber (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan); Tomoaki Kumagai (ATR, Japan)

MAC13: Cognitive Radio

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Session Chair: Lei Cao

14:40 Optimizing Secondary User Performance Under Delay Constraint For Primary User: Mohamed Salman (University of Colorado Boulder, USA); Lijun Chen (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
15:00 A wideband spectrum data segment compression algorithm in cognitive radio networks: Yujie Li (Xiamen University, P.R. China); Zhibin Gao (Xiamen University Xiamen, P.R. China); Lianfen Huang (XiaMen University, P.R. China); Zhoujin Tang (China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp, P.R. China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA)
15:20 Cognitive Networking with Dynamic Traffic Classification and QoS Constraints: Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine, USA)
15:40 Distributed Resource Allocation for Cognitive HetNets with Cross-tier Interference Constraint: Yongjun Xu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yuan Hu (Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Qianbin Chen (Chongqing University of Post and Communications, P.R. China); Rong Chai and Guoquan Li (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

MAC14: Wireless Sensor Networks

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Session Chair: Halit Murat Gürsu

14:40 A Distributed Unselfish Spectrum Assignment for Smart Microgrid Cognitive Wireless Sensor Networks: Aroua Sabrine (University of la Rochelle & ENSI, France); Inès El Korbi (University of Manouba, Tunisia); Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of la Rochelle, France); Leila Azzouz Saidane (Lab CRISTAL- ENSI, University Manouba, Tunisia)
15:00 MAC Layer Assisted Localization in Wireless Environments with Multiple Sensors and Emitters: Paul Garver, Edward Coyle and Randal Abler (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
15:20 Throughput and energy efficiency of MAC Protocols for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks: Xiaoli Zhou and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
15:40 Gains of Deadline based Discarding (DbD) over Lossy Wireless Sensor Networks: Halit Murat Gürsu (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)

NET16: LTE Networks

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Session Chair: Tommy Svensson

14:40 Efficient Grouping and Resource Allocation for Multicast Transmission in LTE: Sadaf ul Zuhra, Prasanna Chaporkar and Abhay Karandikar (IIT Bombay, India)
15:00 LTE Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service Provisioning Based on Robust Header Compression: Chen Jiang and Wenhao Wu (University of California, Davis, USA); Zhi Ding (University of California at Davis, USA)
15:20 A Novel RAT Virtualization System with Network-Initiated RAT Selection between LTE and WLAN: Dai Kimura (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan); Yoshiharu Tajima (Fujitsu Laboratories LTD., Japan); Yun Wen and Hiroaki Senoo (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan)
15:40 A Dynamic Hybrid Counting Procedure for eMBMS of 3GPP: Yuehong Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)

NET17: Sensor Network Protocols

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Session Chair: Sang-Ha Kim

14:40 Delay minimization by adaptive framing policy in cognitive sensor networks: Abolfazl Razi and Ali Valehi (Northern Arizona University, USA); Elizabeth Serena Bentley (AFRL, USA)
15:00 LBRR: Load Balanced Ring Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks with Sink Mobility: Sonam Maurya (PDPM-Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, India); Vinayak Gupta (PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, India); Vinod Kumar Jain (PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur, India)
15:20 Multipath Management Scheme for Supporting Sink Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks: Cheonyong Kim, Yongbin Yim, Taehun Yang, Sangdae Kim and Sang-Ha Kim (Chungnam National University, Korea)
15:40 Low-Cost Multipath Routing Protocol by Adapting Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks: Sangdae Kim, Hyunchong Cho, Taehun Yang, Cheonyong Kim and Sang-Ha Kim (Chungnam National University, Korea)

NET18: D2D Networking I

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Session Chair: Haijian Sun

14:40 Content Synchronization with Feedback in Smart City Device-to-Device Communication: Xiao Chen (Texas State University, USA); Wenzhong Li (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
15:00 Joint Access Selection and Resource Allocation in Cache-enabled HCNs with D2D communications: Zhiyuan Tan and Xi Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Lei Chen and Hong Ji (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Victor C.M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada)
15:20 Dynamic Social-Aware Peer Selection Scheme for Cooperative Device-to-Device Communications: Yue Meng (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China); Quang Duy La and Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Yong Ren (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China)
15:40 Channel-Aware Device-to-Device Pairing for Collaborative Content Distribution: Jianguo Xie and Wei Song (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

PHY23: Massive MIMO IV

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Session Chair: Maxime Guillaud

14:40 Can the use of reconfigurable antennas overcome the CSI bottleneck for FDD Massive MIMO?: Máximo Morales-Céspedes (Université Catholique de Louvain, Spain); Jorge Plata-Chaves (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium); Ana Garcia Armada (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Marc Moonen (KU Leuven, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
15:00 Unlocking Massive MIMO Downlink Capacity in City-Wide 5G Deployments: Siming Zhang (China Mobile Research Institute & Green Communications Research Center, P.R. China); Angela Doufexi and Andrew Nix (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
15:20 Coherence time of wireless channels with large antenna arrays: Mainak Chowdhury (Stanford University, USA); Junyoung Nam (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)
15:40 DoA Estimation and Performance Analysis for Multi-Cell Multi-User 3D mmWave Massive-MIMO OFDM System: Rubayet Shafin (University of Kansas & Information and Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC), University of Kansas, USA); Lingjia Liu (University of Kansas, USA)

PHY24: Security IV

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Session Chair: Li Guo

14:40 Ergodic Secrecy Rate of Randomly Deployed Cellular Networks Enhanced by Artificial Noise: Hui Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), P.R. China); Xiaofeng Tao and Na Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
15:00 On the Secrecy Rate of Artificial Noise Assisted MIMOME Channels with Full-duplex Receiver: Sangseok Yun and Junguk Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea); Sanghun Im and Jeongseok Ha (KAIST, Korea)
15:20 Downlink Secure Transmission with Base Station Cooperation Using Artificial Noise: Xidong Mu, Li Guo and Chao Dong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
15:40 Increasing the Security of Wireless Communication Through Relaying and Interference Generation: Luca Rose (Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Huawei France Research Center, France); Elizabeth Quaglia (Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom); Stefan Valentin (Huawei Technologies, France)

PHY25: Network / Index Coding

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Session Chair: Emanuele Viterbo

14:40 High Reliability Downlink Transmission with Superposition Modulated Side Information: Afshin Haghighat (InterDigital Communications, Canada); Sanjeewa P. Herath (InterDigital Communications, Inc., Canada)
15:00 Optimal Linear Error Correcting Index Codes for Some Index Coding Problems: Nujoom Karat and B. Sundar Rajan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
15:20 Optimal Linear Error-Correcting Index Codes for Single-Prior Index-Coding with Side Information: Simon Samuel and B. Sundar Rajan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
15:40 Optimized Instantly Decodable Network Coding Protocols with Unequal Error Protection: Niranjana Ambadi, Gudavalli Praveen Kumar and B. Sundar Rajan (Indian Institute of Science, India)

PHY26: Miilimeter Wave

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Session Chair: Aliye Ozge Kaya

14:40 Coordinated Beamforming Training for mmWave and Sub-THz Communications with Antenna Subarrays: Cen Lin (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Geoffrey Li (Georgia Tech, USA)
15:00 Impact of Humans on the Design and Performance of Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks in Stadiums: Mandar N. Kulkarni (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Aliye Ozge Kaya (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Doru Calin (Nokia, USA); Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
15:20 Measurement Results for Millimeter Wave pure LOS MIMO Channels: Tim Hälsig (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany); Darko Cvetkovski (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany); Eckhard Grass (IHP & Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany); Berthold Lankl (University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany)
15:40 Convolutional Modeling and Antenna De-embedding for Wideband Spatial mmWave Channel Measurement: Xiaofeng Lu (Huawei Technology Company, P.R. China); Ruonan Zhang, Yuliang Zhou, Jiawei Liu, Xin Jin and Qi Guo (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Chang Cao (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China)

PHY27: Equalization, Detection and Signal Processing II

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Session Chair: J. Harshan

14:40 Integer-Forcing Linear Receivers: A Design Criterion for Full-Diversity STBCs: J Harshan (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore); Amin Sakzad and Emanuele Viterbo (Monash University, Australia)
15:00 Uplink Multiuser Massive MIMO Systems with One-Bit ADCs: A Coding-Theoretic Viewpoint: SongNam Hong (Ajou University, Korea); Namyoon Lee (POSTECH, Korea); Seonho Kim (Ajou University, Korea)
15:20 A Novel Method for Specific Emitter Identification Based on Singular Spectrum Analysis: Degang Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yiwei Li (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yanyun Xu and Jianlin Hu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
15:40 A Novel Symbol-Based Near ML Detection Scheme with Unequal Error Protection for MIMO Systems: Yi-Fan Wang and Ju-Hong Lee (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

PHY28: LTE Physical Layer

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Session Chair: Henrik Sahlin

14:40 Time-of-arrival estimation in Block-IFDMA systems for LTE in unlicensed spectrum: Henrik Sahlin and Çağatay Çapar (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Amitav Mukherjee (Ericsson Research, USA)
15:00 LTE Primary User Modeling Using a Hybrid ARIMA/NARX Neural Network Model in CR: Rania T. Fleifel (Zewail City of Science and Technology & Cairo University Faculty of Engineering, Egypt); Samy S. Soliman (Cairo University, Egypt); Ashraf Badawi (Zewail City for Science and Technology, Egypt); Walaa Hamouda (Concordia University, Canada)
15:20 Software-Defined LTE Evolution Testbed Enabling Rapid Prototyping and Controlled Experimentation: Vuk Marojevic and Deven Chheda (Virginia Tech, USA); Raghunandan M Rao (Virginia Tech); Randall Nealy, Jung-Min (Jerry) Park and Jeffrey Reed (Virginia Tech, USA)
15:40 Dynamic Channel Model and Performance Analysis for LTE-Hi: Yuhui Li and Yueliang Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xiang Zhang (China Academy of Telecommunication Research of MIIT, P.R. China); Qingyi Quan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Tuesday, March 21, 16:20 - 17:40 (America/Los_Angeles)

EMG11: Applications II

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Session Chair: Elza Erkip

16:20 A New SDN-Based Architecture and Authentication Method for Taiwan High Speed Rail: Yi-Hao Lin, Ping-Fan Ho and Jyh-Cheng Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Jen-Shun Yang and Hsien-Wen Chang (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan); Chia-Che Hsu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
16:40 Profit Maximization Auction and Data Management in Big Data Markets: Yutao Jiao, Ping Wang, Dusit Niyato, Mohammad Abu Alsheikh and Shaohan Feng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
17:00 Particle-based Window Rotation and Scaling Scheme for Real-time Hand Recognition and Tracking: Bo-You Chen, Chun-Jie Chiu and Kai-Ten Feng (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
17:20 A Reliable Hybrid Wireless Network Architecture for Smart Grid Neighbourhood Area Networks: Huamiao Hu, Angela Doufexi, Simon Armour and Dritan Kaleshi (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

EMG12: Advances in Full Duplex

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Session Chair: Jesús Arnau

16:20 Impact of Time and Frequency Misalignments in OFDM based In-band Full-duplex Systems: Daesik Hong, Haesoon Lee and Jaeyoung Choi (Yonsei University, Korea); Dongkyu Kim (LG Electronics Co. Ltd., Korea)
16:40 Linear Digital Cancellation with Reduced Computational Complexity for Full-Duplex Radios: Muhammad Sohaib Amjad and Ozgur Gurbuz (Sabanci University, Turkey)
17:00 Frequency-Domain Hammerstein Self-Interference Canceller for In-Band Full-Duplex OFDM Systems: Kazuki Komatsu, Yuichi Miyaji and Hideyuki Uehara (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
17:20 Timely CSI Acquisition Exploiting Full Duplex: Jesús Arnau (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. & Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, France Research Center, France); Marios Kountouris (Huawei Technologies, France)

MAC15: 5G MAC I

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Session Chair: Qi Zhang

16:20 Performance Study of SCMA Codebook Design: Mehmood Alam and Qi Zhang (Aarhus University, Denmark)
16:40 Markov Channel-based Performance Analysis for Millimeter Wave Mobile Networks: Russell Ford and Sundeep Rangan (New York University, USA); Evangelos Mellios, Di Kong and Andrew Nix (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
17:00 Joint Beam and Subband Resource Allocation with QoS Requirement for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems: Li Hsiang Shen and Kai-Ten Feng (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
17:20 On the feasibility of MAC and PHY split in Cloud RAN: Ghizlane Mountaser, Maria Lema, Toktam Mahmoodi and Mischa Dohler (King's College London, United Kingdom)

MAC16: Scheduling

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Session Chair: Ke Wang

16:20 High-Throughput and Fair Scheduling for Access Point Cooperation in Dense Wireless Networks: Mengyao Ge and Douglas Blough (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
16:40 QoS-Guaranteed Channel-Aware Scheduling & Resource Grouping under Non-full Buffer Traffic for LTE-A: Yahsuan Cheng, Wun-Ci Su, Kai-Ten Feng and Li-Chun Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
17:00 Adapting Downlink Power in Fronthaul-Constrained Hierarchical Software-Defined RANs: Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Zheng Chang (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA); Honggang Zhang (Zhejiang University & Université Européenne de Bretagne (UEB) and Supelec, P.R. China); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)
17:20 Real-time Partitioned Scheduling in Cloud-RAN with Hard Deadline Constraint: Ke Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yi Cen (Minzu University of China, P.R. China)

MAC17: Network Performance I

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Session Chair: Yuchen Sun

16:20 Outage Probability Study in a NOMA Relay System: Haijian Sun, Qun Wang and Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA); Yi Qian (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA)
16:40 A Dynamic Channel Allocation Protocol for Medical Environment Under Multiple Base Stations: Bruno Cremonezi (DCC - UFJF, Brazil); Alex Borges Vieira (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil); Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil & Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA); José Augusto Miranda Nacif (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil)
17:00 REFIACC Scheme Evaluation using Analytical Modelling: Mohamed Amine Kafi (Centre de Recherche sur Information Scientifique et Technique, Algeria); Jalel Ben-Othman (University of Paris 13, France); Lynda Mokdad (Université de Paris 12 & Laboratoire LACL, France); Jean-Michel Fourneau (University of Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines, France); Badache Nadjib (USTHB, Algeria)
17:20 RSS-based Grouping Strategy for Avoiding Hidden Terminals with GS-DCF MAC Protocol: Mohammad Ghasemiahmadi, Yue Li and Lin Cai (University of Victoria, Canada)

NET19: D2D Networking II

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Session Chair: S. Ramakrishnan

16:20 Dynamic Resource Allocation with Qos Guarantees for Clustered M2M Communications: Yali Wu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Ningbo Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Science and Technology on Information Transmission and Dissemination in Communication Networks Lab, P.R. China); Guixia Kang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
16:40 Bipartite Graph Based Proportional Fair Resource Allocation for D2D Communication: Indranil Mondal (Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd., India); Anushree Neogi (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Prasanna Chaporkar and Abhay Karandikar (IIT Bombay, India)
17:00 D2D underlaid cellular networks with user clusters: Load balancing and downlink rate analysis: Chiranjib Saha (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
17:20 A User Selection Algorithm for D2D Multicast Communication Underlaying Cellular Systems: Koichiro Kitagawa, Hiroaki Homma, Yasuhiro Suegara and Yoji Kishi (KDDI Research Inc., Japan)

NET20: Vehicular Networks

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Session Chair: Sang-Ha Kim

16:20 Support Vector Machine (SVM) Based Sybil Attack Detection in Vehicular Networks: Pengwenlong Gu (TELECOM ParisTech, France); Rida Khatoun (Telecom ParisTech, France); Youcef Begriche (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France); Ahmed Serhrouchni (ENST, France)
16:40 Transmission Performance Evaluation and Optimal Selection of Relay Vehicles in VANETs: Rong Chai, Yuanzheng Qin and Shangxin Peng (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Qianbin Chen (Chongqing University of Post and Communications, P.R. China)
17:00 Content Aided Clustering and Cluster Head Selection Algorithms in Vehicular Networks: Kai Zhang, Jingjing Wang and Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Yong Ren (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China)
17:20 Stable Clustering for Ad-Hoc Vehicle Networking: Giorgia V Rossi (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Kin K. Leung (Imperial College, United Kingdom); Zhong Fan (Toshiba Research Europe, United Kingdom); Woon Hau Chin (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, United Kingdom)

Tuesday, March 21, 16:20 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

NET21: Topology, Routing and Clustering

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Session Chair: Thomas Shake

16:20 Evaluating Seed Selection for Information Diffusion in Mobile Social Networks: Farouk Mezghani (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France); Manel Mezghani (Université de Toulouse, IRIT, UPS, France); Ahmad Kaouk (University of Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, France); André-Luc Beylot (University of Toulouse, France); Florence Sèdes (IRIT Université Paul Sabatier, France)
16:40 Topology Design for Directional Range Extension Networks with Antenna Blockage: Thomas Shake (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
17:00 Local Construction of Bounded-Degree Network Topologies Using Only Neighborhood Information: Erdem Koyuncu and Hamid Jafarkhani (University of California, Irvine, USA)
17:20 Optimal Request Clustering for Link Reliability Guarantee in Wireless Networked Control: Yu Chen and Hongwei Zhang (Wayne State University, USA)
17:40 A Routing Metric for Lossy Multipath Networks: Charline Jacquemin and Hicham Khalife (Thales Communications & Security, France); Raphael Naves (University of Toulouse, France)

Tuesday, March 21, 16:20 - 17:40 (America/Los_Angeles)

PHY29: Propagation and Channel Modeling II

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Session Chair: Carlos A. Gutiérrez

16:20 Empirical Model Based on New Filtering Algorithm for High-Speed-Train Channels: Yueliang Liu and Yuhui Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xiang Zhang (China Academy of Telecommunication Research of MIIT, P.R. China); Wenbo Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
16:40 Propagation Measurements at 5.8 GHz for Railroad Intelligent Transportation Systems: Christopher R. Anderson (United States Naval Academy, USA); Carl B. Dietrich (Virginia Tech & Wireless @ Virginia Tech, USA); Christopher Rowe (Virginia Tech, USA); Thomas Tedesso (United States Naval Academy, USA)
17:00 A 3D Geometry-based Stochastic Channel Model for UAV-MIMO Channels: Linzhou Zeng and Xiang Cheng (Peking University, P.R. China); Chengxiang Wang (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom); Xuefeng Yin (Tongji University, P.R. China)
17:20 A Non-WSSUS Mobile-to-Mobile Channel Model Assuming Velocity Variations of the Mobile Stations: Carlos A. Gutiérrez (Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico); Matthias Pätzold (University of Agder, Norway); Wiem Dahech (Ecole Superieure des Communications de Tunis, Sup'com, Tunisia); Neji Youssef (Ecole superieure des communications de Tunis, Tunisia)

PHY30: Waveforms II

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Session Chair: Hans-Juergen Zepernick

16:20 A Joint Waveform and Precoding Design for Non-orthogonal Multicarrier Signals: Tongyang Xu and Izzat Darwazeh (University College London, United Kingdom)
16:40 Spectral Analysis of Predistorted Non-Linear Amplified Multicarrier Signals: Ali Cheaito and Mohamed Saad farah (INSA de Rennes, France); Matthieu Crussière (IETR - Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Rennes (IETR) & INSA - National Institute of Applied Sciences, France); Jean-François Hélard (IETR, France); Yves Louët (SUPELEC-Rennes Campus, France)
17:00 An Improved Recovery Algorithm Based on ISD for Multiband Signals: HuiYang Peng, Mengyue Liu, Lei Chen and Yu Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
17:20 Integrated Synchronization Scheme for WLAN Systems Employing Multiband Simultaneous Transmission: Naoto Egashira (ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, Japan); Kazuto Yano and Satoshi Tsukamoto (ATR, Japan); Julian L Webber (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan); Masayuki Sutoh (Mobile Techno Corporation, Japan); Yasuharu Amezawa (Mobile Techno Corp, Japan); Tomoaki Kumagai (ATR, Japan)

PHY31: D2D

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Session Chair: Cihan Tepedelenlioglu

16:20 Multiple Device-to-Device Users Overlaying Cellular Networks: Ruochen Zeng and Cihan Tepedelenlioglu (Arizona State University, USA)
16:40 Impact of shadowing in D2D communication: Sudharsan Parthasarathy and Radha Krishna Ganti (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
17:00 Cooperative Transmission in Cognitive and Energy Harvesting-based D2D Networks: Yuanyuan Yao and Sai Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Norman C Beaulieu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications BUPT, P.R. China); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
17:20 Coverage Analysis of D2D Relay-Assisted Millimeter-Wave Cellular Networks: Shuanshuan Wu (University at Buffalo, USA); Rachad Atat (University of Kansas & Information and Telecommunication Technology Center, USA); Nicholas Mastronarde (University at Buffalo, USA); Lingjia Liu (University of Kansas, USA)

PHY32: SWIPT

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Session Chair: Chengshan Xiao

16:20 QoS-Driven Resource Allocation for SWIPT with Finite-Alphabet Inputs: Tewodros Zewde and M. Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University, USA)
16:40 SWIPT for Max-Min Fair Multi-Group Multicast Beamforming Through Power Splitting: Özlem Tuğfe Demir and T. Engin Tuncer (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
17:00 Multi-Destination Cognitive Radio Relay Network with SWIPT and Multiple Primary Receivers: Ahmed Abdullah Al-habob (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia & Taiz University, Yemen); Anas M. Salhab (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Salam A. Zummo (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
17:20 Precoder Design for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer with Finite-Alphabet Inputs: Xiaodong Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Weiliang Zeng (Qualcomm Research, USA); Chengshan Xiao (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

PHY33: IoT/SON

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Session Chair: Yue Chen

16:20 NB-WiFi: IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth Low Energy combined for Efficient Support of IoT: Leif R Wilhelmsson and Miguel Lopez (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Dennis Sundman (Ericsson, Sweden)
16:40 On the Performance of Narrow-Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT): Yihenew Beyene (Aalto University, Finland); Riku Jäntti (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland); Kalle Ruttik and Sassan Iraji (Aalto University, Finland)
17:00 Joint ICIC and Mobility Management Optimization in Self-Organizing Networks: Nur Tuncel (Boğaziçi University, Turkey); Mutlu Koca (Bogazici University, Turkey)
17:20 ON/OFF Reporting Mechanism for Robust Cooperative Sensing in Cognitive IoT Networks: Sunghwan Bae and Hongseok Kim (Sogang University, Korea)

PHY34: Energy Efficiency

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Session Chair: Marco Miozzo

16:20 Optimizing Data Transmission Power for ARQ Energy Efficiency under Imperfect CSI: Ali Zarei Ghanavati and Daniel Lee (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
16:40 Energy-Efficient Power and LNA Control for Wireless Multi-Channel Communication: Pengkai Zhao and Supratik Bhattacharjee (Qualcomm, USA); Jong Hyeon Park (Qualcomm Inc., USA); Subrahmanya Parvathanathan (Qualcomm, USA); Brian Banister (QUALCOMM, USA); Sim Narasimha (Qualcomm)
17:00 Modeling and Analysis of Energy Consumption forMIMO Systems: Farhad E. Mahmood (University of Kansas & Lecturer at University of Mosul, USA); Erik S. Perrins and Lingjia Liu (University of Kansas, USA)

Wednesday, March 22

Wednesday, March 22, 10:50 - 12:10 (America/Los_Angeles)

EMG13: Networking I

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Session Chair: Hang Li

10:50 WIST: Wi-SUN FAN Protocol Emulation Testbed: Douglas Comer, Rajas Karandikar, Adib Rastegarnia, Fatemeh Rouzbeh and Panchapakesan C. Sruthi (Purdue University, USA)
11:10 The Mobile Network Capability Exposure Friendly to the Mobile Internet Applications: Yifan Yu (Intel Labs China, P.R. China)
11:30 Performance Analysis of D2D Underlaid Massive MIMO Cellular Networks with Power Control: Anqi He (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Lifeng Wang (University College London, United Kingdom); Yue Chen (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom); Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom); Maged Elkashlan (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)
11:50 Towards Ubiquitous E-health: Modeling of SmartBAN Hybrid MAC under Periodic and Emergency Traffic: Lihua Ruan (The University of Melbourne, Australia); Maluge Pubuduni Imali Dias (NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory, Australia); Elaine Wong (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

EMG14: Vehicular Communication

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Session Chair: Qilian Yu

10:50 Adaptive Beaconing for Collision Avoidance and Tracking Accuracy in Vehicular Networks: Long Sun, Aiping Huang and Hangguan Shan (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Lin Cai (University of Victoria, Canada)
11:10 A Cloud-based Stream Processing Platform for Traffic Monitoring using Large-scale Probe Vehicle Data: Yiyang Pei (Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore); Xiaoyang Li, Liang Yu, Guangxia Li and Hai Heng Ng (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Jerry Kah Eng Hoe (Institute for Infocomm Reserch, Singapore); Chee Wei Ang and Wee Siong Ng (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Kenji Takao, Hirokazu Shibata and Koichiro Okada (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd, Japan)
11:30 Communication Infrastructure for Dynamic Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles: Allon Echols (Utah State Univserity, USA); Sarbajit Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India); Zeljko Pantic (Utah State University, USA); Madi Mickelsen (Utah State Univserity, USA)

MAC18: Wireless Networking II

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Session Chair: Hairuo Zhuang

10:50 AP Selection Algorithm with Adaptive CCAT for Dense Wireless Networks: Yena Kim (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Mun-Suk Kim and SuKyoung Lee (Yonsei University, Korea); David Griffith and Nada Golmie (NIST, USA)
11:10 Joint Wireless Charging and Hybrid Power based Resource Allocation for LTE-A Wireless Network: Shen-Fong Hung, Pei-Rong Li and Kai-Ten Feng (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yu-Tse Lin (National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
11:30 An Enhanced MAC Backoff Algorithm for Heavy User Loaded WLANs: Hang Qi (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & BUPT, P.R. China); Zhiqun Hu and Xiangming Wen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, P.R. China)
11:50 A Study on Multiple Access Schemes for Wireless Control over the IEEE 802.15.4 Beacon-enabled Mode: Yushi Uematsu, Kentaro Kobayashi, Hiraku Okada and Masaaki Katayama (Nagoya University, Japan)

MAC19: Heterogeneous Networks II

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Session Chair: Samar Agnihotri

10:50 Polarization and Power Optimization for Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Heterogeneous Cellular Network: Shuo Chen, Zhimin Zeng and Caili Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
11:10 Optimizing Context-Aware Resource and Network Assignment in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Mohamad Zalghout (INSA de Rennes & Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication of Rennes (IETR), France); Samih Abdul-Nabi (Lebanese International University, Lebanon); Ayman Khalil (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes - IETR & INSA, France); Maryline Hélard (INSA Rennes & IETR Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, France); Matthieu Crussière (IETR - Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Rennes (IETR) & INSA - National Institute of Applied Sciences, France)
11:30 On the Benefits and Implementation Costs of Multi-Cell Selection in Heterogeneous Networks: Ararat Shaverdian and Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo, Canada)
11:50 Network Association With Dynamic Pricing Over D2D-Enabled Heterogeneous Networks: Alaa Awad Abdellatif and Amr Mohamed (Qatar University, Qatar); Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Tarek M. Elfouly (Qatar University, Qatar)

NET22: Software Defined Networks II

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Session Chair: Sheng Zhou

10:50 A Novel Mobile Edge Computing-based Architecture for Future Cellular Vehicular Networks: Liang Li (Xidian University, P.R. China)
11:10 IP Stream-oriented Management Mechanism in 802.11 Wireless Network based on Extending SDN: Hui Yang, Hewu Li and Qian Wu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
11:30 A Practical Data Forwarding Path Selecting Method for Software-Defined 5G Networking: Dongxu Wang and Qiang Liu (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Tiejun Wu (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Huikang Yi (National University of Defense Techology, P.R. China); Han Han and Wentao Zhao (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)
11:50 Transmission Time Estimator for Social and Cloud Applications in Smartphones: Amit Panghal (Samsung Research India, Bangalore, India); Kannan Govindan (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology SAIT India, India); Karthikeyan Subramaniam (Samsung Research India, India)

NET23: Millimeter Wave Networks

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Session Chair: Gayan Amarasuriya

10:50 Downlink SINR Coverage and Rate Analysis with Dual Slope Pathloss Model in mmWave Networks: PraveenKumar Korrai (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Debarati Sen (Indian Instutute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
11:10 Location-based Initial Access and Beam Adaptation for Millimeter Wave Systems: Eunhye Park (KAIST, Korea); Yonghoon Choi (Chonnam National University, Korea); Youngnam Han (KAIST, Korea)
11:30 Millimeter Wave Communications over Relay Networks: Hatem Abbas and Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
11:50 Integrated Access Backhaul in Millimeter Wave Networks: Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Qualcomm, USA); Sundar Subramanian (Qualcomm & Qualcomm, USA); Ashwin Sampath (Qualcomm, USA)

NET24: WiFi Networking I

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Session Chair: Miguel López-Benítez

10:50 Very-High-Density (VHD) MAC Protocol for IEEE 802.11 WiFi Networks: David Tung Chong Wong and Qian Chen (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Francois Chin (Institue for InfoComm Research, Singapore)
11:10 Joint Optimisation of Load Balancing and Handover for Hybrid LiFi and WiFi Networks: Xiping Wu (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Harald Haas (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
11:30 P2P Group formation enhancement for opportunistic networks with Wi-Fi Direct: Wael Cherif (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC), Qatar University, Qatar); Muhammad Asif Khan (Qatar University, Qatar); Fethi Filali (QMIC, Qatar); Sanaa Sharafeddine (Lebanese American University, Lebanon); Zaher Dawy (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
11:50 Adaptive Rate Control and Frame Length Adjustment for IEEE 802.11n Wireless Networks: Mingwu Yao, Jilong Liu and Yueyan Qian (Xidian University, P.R. China); Zhiliang Qiu (State key lab of ISN, P.R. China); Kyung Sup Kwak (Inha University, Korea)

NET25: Congestion Control

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Session Chair: Scott M Pudlewski

10:50 Enhanced Split TCP with End-to-End Protocol Semantics over Wireless Networks: Bong Ho Kim (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Doru Calin (Nokia, USA); Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
11:10 Radio-Aware TCP Optimization in Mobile Network: Xipeng Zhu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Ruiming Zheng (Qualcomm & Qualcomm Research China, P.R. China); Dacheng Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Huichun Liu (Qualcomm, P.R. China); Jilei Hou (QUALCOMM, P.R. China)
11:30 Bandwidth Scheduling for Multipath TCP Based Concurrent Multipath Transfer: Wei Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xiaoxiang Wang (BUPT, P.R. China); Dongyu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications, Ministry of Education, P.R. China)
11:50 WIP: Waveform Independent Congestion Control Protocol: Scott M Pudlewski (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)

PHY35: 5G Physical Layer II

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Session Chair: Satya Prakash Ponnaluri

10:50 Hybrid-ARQ Protocol Design with Optimal Time and Power Allocation: Kaiying Sun (State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, USA); Weifeng Su (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); John Matyjas and Michael Medley (AFRL Rome/NY, USA)
11:10 On Optimal Geographical Caching in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks: Berksan Serbetci and Jasper Goseling (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
11:30 Caching in Base Station with Recommendation via Q-Learning: Kaiyang Guo, Chenyang Yang and Tingting Liu (Beihang University, P.R. China)
11:50 Towards the Performance Limit of Data-Aided Channel Estimation for 5G: Yoojin Choi and Dongwoon Bai (Samsung US R&D Center, USA); Sungsoo Kim (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Korea); Jungwon Lee (Samsung US R&D Center, USA)

PHY36: Beamforming

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Session Chair: Erdem Koyuncu

10:50 Low Complexity Hybrid Beamforming Based on Orthogonal Constraint and Phase Extraction: Wenjuan Pu, Xiaohui Li, Yingchao Lin and Ruiyang Yuan (Xidian University, P.R. China)
11:10 Low Complex Hybrid Beamforming for Uplink Multiuser MmWave MIMO Systems: Yazhou Zhu (Bell Labs China, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Tao Yang (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (China), P.R. China)
11:30 Beam Forming from Randomly Spaced Elements in a Linear Array: Nicholas Misiunas (University of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA); Jenny Au (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA); Chrisna Nguon (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA); Kavitha Chandra (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA); Charles Thompson (Umass Lowell, USA)
11:50 On the Robustness of Coordinated Beamforming to Uncoordinated Interference and CSI Uncertainty: George C. Alexandropoulos and Paul Ferrand (Huawei Technologies France, France); Constantinos B. Papadias (Athens Information Technology, Greece)

PHY37: Caching II

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Session Chair: Tingting Liu

10:50 Cloud-Aided Edge Caching with Wireless Multicast Fronthauling in Fog Radio Access Networks: Jeongwan Koh (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea); Osvaldo Simeone (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Ravi Tandon (University of Arizona, USA); Joonhyuk Kang (KAIST, Korea)
11:10 Caching Policy Optimization for Video on Demand: Hao Wang, Shengqian Han and Chenyang Yang (Beihang University, P.R. China)
11:30 A Contract-Based Incentive Mechanism for Data Caching in Ultra-Dense Small-Cells Networks: Shunfeng Chu and Jun Li (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Tingting Liu (Nanjing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Feng Shu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
11:50 Coded Caching and Storage Planning in Heterogeneous Networks: Thang Xuan Vu and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

PHY38: Signal Detection and Multiple Access

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Session Chair: Emilio Calvanese Strinati

10:50 The Application of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in 5G Physical-Layer Multi-Region Geocast: Yi Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong Unviersity, P.R. China & Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France); Tong-Xing Zheng (Xi'an Jiaotong Unviersity, P.R. China); Qian Yang, Hui-Ming Wang, Bo Wang and Zongze Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
11:10 Asynchronous uplink access with FBMC-PAM for future wireless systems: Maurice Bellanger (CNAM, France); Davide Mattera (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Mario Tanda (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
11:30 Power Allocation for Energy Efficiency Maximization in Downlink CoMP Systems With NOMA: Zhengxuan Liu and Guixia Kang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Lei Lei (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Ningbo Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Science and Technology on Information Transmission and Dissemination in Communication Networks Lab, P.R. China); Shuang Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
11:50 A Low-Complexity Detection Algorithm for Uplink NOMA System Based on Gaussian Approximation: Zihan Tang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jun Wang (Tsinghua University, Puerto Rico); Jintao Wang and Jian Song (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

PHY39: Signal Detection and Classification

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Session Chair: Lakshmi Narasimhan Theagarajan

10:50 Modulation Recognition for Incomplete signals through Dictionary Learning: Guangcheng Lu, Kezhong Zhang, Sai Huang, Yifan Zhang and Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
11:10 Automatic Modulation Classification Based Multiple Cumulants and Quasi-Newton Method for MIMO System: Yani Nie (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Xu Shen (BUPT, P.R. China); Sai Huang, Yifan Zhang and Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
11:30 An MCMC Approach to Multisensor Linear Modulation Classification: Onur Ozdemir (Draper Laboratory, USA); Lakshmi Narasimhan Theagarajan (Syracuse University, USA); Mohit Agarwal (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Thakshila Wimalajeewa and Pramod Varshney (Syracuse University, USA)
11:50 Machine Learning based Signal Classification using Statistical and Multiscale Entropy Features: Arnau Mata Llenas, Janne Riihijärvi and Marina Petrova (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

PHY40: Positioning

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Session Chair: Po-Hsuan Tseng

10:50 Super-resolution-aided Positioning Fingerprinting based on Channel Impulse Response Measurement: Yi-Jie Lin and Po-Hsuan Tseng (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan); Yao-Chia Chan (University of California, Irvine, Taiwan); Guan-Sian Wu (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan)
11:10 A Simple Angle of Arrival Estimation System: Ahmed Badawy (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Tamer Khattab (Qatar University, Qatar); Daniele Trinchero (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Tarek M. Elfouly and Amr Mohamed (Qatar University, Qatar)
11:30 Differential multidimensional scaling for self-localization of TDOA sensor networks: Johannes Schmitz (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Sivan Toledo (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); Roberto Carlos Hincapie (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia); Saeed Shojaee, Vimal Radhakrishnan and Rudolf Mathar (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
11:50 Sensitivity Analysis of Localization Using Discrete Astronomical Radio Sources: Ali Gaber Mohamed Ali (Virginia Tech, USA); R. Henry Tillman (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab); Michael Buehrer and Steven Ellingson (Virginia Tech, USA)

Wednesday, March 22, 14:40 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

EMG15: Networking II

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Session Chair: Angel Lozano

14:40 Efficient Elephant Flow Detection and Scheduling through Correlation-Based Classification: Lu Li and Feilong Tang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Yanqin Yang (East China Normal University, P.R. China)
15:00 Convex Hull Inspired Distributed Controller Placement for Assisting D2D Transfers in LTE-A Networks: Naveen Kumar and Siba Narayan Swain (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Siva Ram Murthy Chebiyyam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
15:20 Integrating Variability Management in Data Center Networks: Zina Chkirbene, Sebti Foufou and Ridha Hamila (Qatar University, Qatar)
15:40 Heterogeneous Software-Defined Networks: Implementation of a Hybrid Radio-Optical Wireless Network: Muhammad Saad Saud (University Of Oulu, Finland); Helal Chowdhury (Telecommunication laboratory, university of oulu, Finland); Marcos D Katz (University of Oulu, Finland)

MAC20: 5G MAC II

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Session Chair: Mikhail Vilgelm

14:40 Distributed MAC Scheduling Scheme for C-RAN with Non-Ideal Fronthaul in 5G Networks: Min Huang and Xu Zhang (Intel Labs China, P.R. China)
15:00 A Novel Random Access Scheme Based on Successive Interference Cancellation for 5G Networks: Yanan Liang, Xu Li, Jiayi Zhang and Ying Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
15:20 Heterogeneous QoS-Driven Resource Allocation Over MIMO-OFDMA Based 5G CR Networks: Jingqing Wang (Texas A&M University, USA); Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, ECE Department, USA)
15:40 Pre-scheduled Resources for Retransmissions in Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications: Renato Barbosa Abreu, Preben Mogensen and Klaus Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

MAC21: Cellular Systems

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Session Chair: Mingwu Yao

14:40 Distributed Power Control for D2D Communications Underlaying Cellular Network Using Stackelberg Game: Guodong Zhang (Southeast University); Jinming Hu, Wei Heng, Li Xiang and Wang Gang (Southeast University, P.R. China)
15:00 Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in Cellular Network with Ambient RF Energy Harvesting: Yisheng Zhao (Fuzhou University, P.R. China); Victor C.M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada); Xinghua Sun (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhonghui Chen (Fuzhou University, P.R. China); Hong Ji (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
15:20 Uplink/Downlink Matching Based Resource Allocation for Full-Duplex OFDMA Wireless Cellular Networks: Tam Tran (INRS, Canada); Vu Nguyen Ha and Long Bao Le (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Andre Girard (INRS-EMT and GERAD, Canada)
15:40 Optimal Base Station Density in Cellular Networks with Self-similar Traffic Characteristics: Congshan Fan, Tiankui Zhang and Zhimin Zeng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yue Chen (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)

NET26: Millimeter Wave and MIMO Networks

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Session Chair: Ana Garcia Armada

14:40 Pseudo Lateration: Millimeter-Wave Localization Using a Single RF Chain: Joe Chen (Rice University, USA); Daniel Steinmetzer and Jiska Classen (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Edward W. Knightly (Rice University, USA); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt, Germany)
15:00 User Association in 5G mmWave Networks: Sanjay Goyal (InterDigital Communications, USA); Marco Mezzavilla (NYU Poly, USA); Sundeep Rangan (New York University, USA); Shivendra Panwar (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA); Michele Zorzi (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
15:20 Hybrid Beamformers Design for MIMO Relay Networks in Millimeter Wave: Hatem Abbas and Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
15:40 Adaptive Pilot Allocation Algorithm for Pilot Contamination Mitigation in TDD Massive MIMO Systems: Makram Alkhaled (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom); Emad Alsusa (Manchester University, United Kingdom); Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

NET27: WiFi Networking II

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Session Chair: Halit Murat Gürsu

14:40 Fine-Grained Radio Resource Management to Control Interference in Dense Wi-Fi Networks: Mirghiasaldin Seyedebrahimi (Birmingham City University, United Kingdom); Faycal Bouhafs, Alessandro Raschellà, Michael Mackay and Qi Shi (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom)
15:00 Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11n System Coexistence in the Automotive Domain: Alaa Mourad (BMW AG & University of Kiel, Germany); Peter A. Hoeher (University of Kiel, Germany); Siraj Muhammad (University of Oklahoma, USA); Mohamad Omar Al Kalaa (University of Oklahoma); Hazem Refai (Oklahoma University, USA)
15:20 Using Empirically Validated Simulations to Control 802.11 Access Point Density: Tanguy Kerdoncuff (Institut Mines Telecom / Telecom Bretagne, France); Alberto P Blanc (Telecom Bretagne, France); Nicolas Montavont (Institut Mines Telecom / Telecom Bretagne, France)
15:40 Collision-free Channel Assignment is Possible in IEEE802.11-based Wireless Mesh Networks: Takuya Yoshihiro and Takahiro Noi (Wakayama University, Japan)

NET28: Spectrum Management

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Session Chair: Miguel López-Benítez

14:40 Matching-Theory-based Spectrum Utilization in Cognitive NOMA-OFDM Systems: Xue Li, Wenjun Xu, Zhiyong Feng, Lin Xue Hong and Jiaru Lin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
15:00 Hybrid Channel Assembling and Power Allocation for Multichannel Spectrum Sharing Wireless Networks: Chabalala S. Chabalala (University of the Witwatersrand); Fambirai Takawira (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
15:20 Power Efficient Downlink Resource Allocation for Hybrid RF/VLC Wireless Networks: Mai Kafafy and Yasmine Fahmy (Cairo University, Egypt); Mohamed M. Abdallah (Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar); Mohamed Khairy (Elec. and Comm. Dept., Faculty of Eng., Cairo Univ, Egypt)
15:40 Globally-Aware Allocation of Limited Bandwidth in Multipath Routing based on Queueing Performance: Junxiao He and Oliver Yang (University of Ottawa, Canada)

NET29: Scheduling in Wireless Networks

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Session Chair: Xiping Wu

14:40 Novel User Scheduling Algorithms for Carrier Aggregation System in Heterogeneous Network: Tiejun Lv, Chenchen Liu and Hui Gao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
15:00 Optimal Satellite Scheduling with Critical Node Analysis: Zeqi Zhang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China); Song Guo (The University of Aizu, Japan); Zuyao Ni (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yong Ren (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China)
15:20 Sink-Based Centralized Transmission Scheduling by Using Asymmetric Communication and Wake-up Radio: Masanari Iwata, Suhua Tang and Sadao Obana (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
15:40 PF scheduling in Hybrid Full Duplex System: Upper Bound and Simple Algorithms: Jin-Taek Lim and Jimin Bae (KAIST, Korea); Yonghoon Choi (Chonnam National University, Korea); Youngnam Han (KAIST, Korea)

NET30: Performance Evaluation

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Session Chair: Gayan Amarasuriya

14:40 Experimental evaluation and analysis of F-RIT low power MAC protocol complied with IEEE 802.15.4e: Ryota Okumura (Kyoto University, Japan); Jun Fujiwara (Kyoto University); Keiichi Mizutani and Hiroshi Harada (Kyoto University, Japan)
15:00 Evaluation of Multi-hop Packet Prioritization for Decentralized Congestion Control in VANETs: Sebastian Kuehlmorgen (Technical University of Dresden, Germany); Andreas Festag (Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI & NEC Europe, Germany); Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
15:20 Impact of Hardware Impairments on TWRN and OWRN AF Relaying Systems with Imperfect Channel Estimates: Anoop Kumar Mishra and Sindhu C M Gowda (National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India); Poonam Singh (National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela, India)
15:40 A Comparison of Control-channel Schemes in OSA Networks using a Configurable Testbed: Jae-Kark Choi (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Camillo Gentile (NIST, USA)

PHY41: Source / Channel Coding

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Session Chair: Maxime Guillaud

14:40 Cube-Split: Structured Quantizers on the Grassmannian of Lines: Alexis Decurninge (Huawei Technologies, France); Maxime Guillaud (Huawei Technologies, Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, France)
15:00 On Real-Time Status Updates over Symbol Erasure Channels: Parimal Parag (Indian Institute of Science, India); Austin Taghavi and Jean-Francois Chamberland (Texas A&M University, USA)
15:20 Differential Encoding for Real-Time Status Updates: Sanidhay Bhambay (Indian Institute of Science, India); Sudheer Poojary (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); Parimal Parag (Indian Institute of Science, India)
15:40 A Study on Variable Length Channel Coding for State Feedback in Wireless Control Systems: Yosuke Miwa, Kentaro Kobayashi, Hiraku Okada and Masaaki Katayama (Nagoya University, Japan)

PHY42: Equalization, Detection and Signal Processing III

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Session Chair: K. Giridhar

14:40 On Improving the BLER for ML Receivers in Block Faded Channels through Random Phase Rotation: Sriram P and Vignesh Kumar (IIT Madras, India); Arun Ayyar (Sante Fe Research Pvt Ltd); K Giridhar (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)
15:00 Identifying the Full-Diversity Solution of MIMO Detection: A Fine-Grained Approach: Yuan Qi (Beijing University of Posts & Telcommunications, P.R. China); Rongrong Qian (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Chunjing Hu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), P.R. China)
15:20 Blind Identification of MIMO-SFBC Signals Over Frequency-Selective Channels: Mingjun Gao and Yongzhao Li (Xidian University, P.R. China); Tao Li (Xidian University & State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, P.R. China); Xiaofeng Lu and Hailin Zhang (Xidian University, P.R. China)
15:40 Blind Carrier and Sampling Frequency Offsets Estimation in OFDM system: Li Xiang, Jinming Hu, Wei Heng, Yu Fenyan and Wang Gang (Southeast University, P.R. China)

PHY43: Visible Light Communication

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Session Chair: Mythri Hunukumbure

14:40 Visible Light Communications Using Spatial Summing PAM with LED Array: Jingbo Du, Wei Xu and Hua Zhang (Southeast University, P.R. China); Chunming Zhao (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, P.R. China)
15:00 Reconciling Approaches to SNR Analysis in Optical Wireless Communications: Michael Rahaim and Thomas DC Little (Boston University & NSF Smart Lighting ERC, USA)
15:20 Discrete Input Signaling for MISO Visible Light Communication Channels: Mohamed Arfaoui (Texas A&M University at Qatar & King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Qatar); Zouheir Rezki (University of Idaho, USA); Ali Ghrayeb (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
15:40 Asymptotic Performance Analysis of Multiuser Diversity in Free Space Optical Communication Systems: Yazan H. Al-Badarneh, Costas N Georghiades and Carlos Mejia (Texas A&M University, USA)

PHY44: Interference Management

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Session Chair: Georg Böcherer

14:40 Iterative MIMO Subspace Detection based on Parallel Interference Cancellation: Xiaojie Wang and Stephan ten Brink (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
15:00 Distributed Interference Cancellation: Satya Prakash Ponnaluri (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Babak Azimi-Sadjadi (Intelligent Automation Inc, USA); Yalin E Sagduyu (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Wayne G. Phoel (DARPA, USA)
15:20 Tracking of a Frequency-Hopping Interferer in an OFDM System: Nikolaus Kleber and J. Nicholas Laneman (University of Notre Dame, USA)
15:40 Optimal DoF and Closed-Form IA Design for K-User MIMO-OFDM Systems: Weihua Liu (Institution of Information Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Weihua Zhou, Ying Wang, Xingwei Li and Yongming Wang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)

PHY45: MIMO

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Session Chair: Israfil Bahceci

14:40 Downlink Multi-user MIMO Transmission for Reconfigurable Antenna Systems: Israfil Bahceci, Mehedi Hasan and Bedri Cetiner (Utah State University, USA)
15:00 Combined User Selection and MIMO Weight Calculation for AP Cooperation in Dense Wireless Networks: Mengyao Ge, John R Barry and Douglas Blough (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
15:20 Optimal Rank-constrained Transmission for MIMO under Per-group Power Constraints: Silpa Sanal Nair and Ragini Chaluvadi (IIT MADRAS, India); Srikrishna Bhashyam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
15:40 Optimal Multi-antenna Transmission with Per-group and Joint Power Constraints: Ragini Chaluvadi and Silpa Sanal Nair (IIT MADRAS, India); Srikrishna Bhashyam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

PHY46: Modulation

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Session Chair: Hamid Jafarkhani

14:40 Space-time index modulation: Swaroop Jacob (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); Lakshmi Narasimhan Theagarajan (Syracuse University, USA); A. Chockalingam (Indian Institute of Science, India)
15:00 Simple Calculation of Thresholds for Adaptive Modulation in Middleton Class A Noise: Hyungkook Oh and Haewoon Nam (Hanyang University, Korea)
15:20 Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulation: Ronny Hadani (University of Texas-Austin, USA); Shlomo Rakib, Michail Tsatsanis and Anton Monk (Cohere Technologies, Inc., USA); Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA); Robert Calderbank (Duke University, USA)
15:40 Transmission Time Analysis for Adaptive Modulation System over Block Fading Channels: Wenjing Wang and Hong-Chuan Yang (University of Victoria, Canada)

Wednesday, March 22, 16:20 - 17:40 (America/Los_Angeles)

EMG16: Cloud, Data and Virtualization

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Session Chair: Kun Zhu

16:20 Ensuring High-Quality Data Collection for Mobile Crowd Sensing: Hui Gao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Chi Harold Liu (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Ye Tian, Teng Xi and Wendong Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
16:40 EstiTO: An Efficient Task Offloading Approach based on Node Capability Estimation in a Cloudlet: Wei-Tsung Su and Chao-Yi Kao (Aletheia University, Taiwan)
17:00 Wireless Virtualization as a Hierarchical Combinatorial Auction: an Illustrative Example: Kun Zhu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China); Zijing Cheng (Beijing Institute of Satellite Information Engineering, P.R. China); Bing Chen and Ran Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China)

MAC22: Multiple Access

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Session Chair: Theodoros Tsiligkaridis

16:20 Performance Modeling and Analysis of AF Relaying with Hidden Nodes: Abdurrahman Alfitouri (Manchester University, United Kingdom); Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
16:40 Hybrid Multiple Access System Based on Non Orthogonality and Sparse Code: Nam I Kim and Dong-Ho Cho (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
17:00 Fairness Oriented MAC Protocol for The Next Generation WLAN: Feiyu Chen, Bo Li and Mao Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Zhongjiang Yan (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, P.R. China); Xiaoya Zuo (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
17:20 Selection and Dimensioning of slice-based RAN Controller for adaptive Radio Resource Management: Emmanouil Pateromichelakis (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Chenghui Peng (Huawei Technologies co., P.R. China)

MAC23: Power Control

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Session Chair: Hairuo Zhuang

16:20 Power Control and Scheduling under Hard Deadline Constraints for On-Off Fading Channels: Ahmed Ewaisha and Cihan Tepedelenlioglu (Arizona State University, USA)
16:40 Joint User Association, Power Control and Scheduling in Multi-Cell 5G Networks: Bilal Maaz (University of Versailles, France); Kinda Khawam (Université de Versailles, France); Samer Lahoud (ESIB, Saint-Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon); Jad Nasreddine (Rafik Hariri University, Lebanon); Samir Tohme (University of Versailles, France)
17:00 Uplink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access with Fractional Power Control: Zekun Zhang and Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA)
17:20 MU-FuPlex: a Multiuser Full-duplex MAC Protocol for the Next Generation Wireless Networks: Qiao Qu, Bo Li and Mao Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Zhongjiang Yan (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, P.R. China); Xiaoya Zuo (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)

MAC24: Network Performance II

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Session Chair: Quoc-Tuan Vien

16:20 A Low-latency Secure Data Outsourcing Scheme for Cloud-WSN: Jing Li and Zhitao Guan (North China Electric Power University, P.R. China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA); Zijian Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Zhenyu Zhou (North China Electric Power University & Waseda University, P.R. China)
16:46 A New Allocation Algorithm for Pilot Contamination Mitigation in TDD Massive MIMO Systems: Makram Alkhaled (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom); Emad Alsusa (Manchester University, United Kingdom); Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
17:13 Enhanced Binary Search Time-Efficient mmWave Beamforming Algorithm for NLOS Environments: Yavuz Yaman and Predrag Spasojević (Rutgers University, USA)

NET31: Software Defined Networks I

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Session Chair: Xiping Wu

16:20 Throughput Guaranteed Handoff for SDN-based WLAN in Distinctive Signal Coverage: Jian He (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Guangxing Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Zhenyu Li and Gaogang Xie (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
16:40 Musubi: Improving Loss Resilience by Exploiting Multi-Radio Diversity for SDN-based WLAN: Jian He (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Guangxing Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Anfu Zhou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Gaogang Xie (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
17:00 On Stochastic Controller Placement in Software-defined Wireless Networks: Mohammad J. Abdel-Rahman (Virginia Tech, USA); EmadelDin A. Mazied (Alexandria University, EGYPT & Sohag University, Egypt); Allen B. MacKenzie and Scott F Midkiff (Virginia Tech, USA); Mohamed Rizk (Alexandria University, Egypt); Mustafa ElNainay (Alexandria University & Virginia Tech, Egypt)
17:20 Small Cell Wireless Backhaul Reconfiguration using Software-Defined Networking: Ricardo Santos and Andreas J. Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden)

NET32: Power Management

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Session Chair: Feng-Tsun Chien

16:20 Mobile Energy Sharing through Power Buddies: Eyuphan Bulut (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); Boleslaw K Szymanski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
16:40 Optimal Beamforming and Duration/Power Allocation for Cooperative PB-enabled WPCN: Xinxin Shi and Wenjun Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Chia-Han Lee (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Zhiyong Feng and Jiaru Lin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
17:00 Performance analysis of Adaptive Power Technique for Cooperative Diversity Communications: Abdurrahman Alfitouri (Manchester University, United Kingdom); Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
17:20 Performance Analysis of Optimal Relay Power Control In MIMO System: Abdurrahman Alfitouri (Manchester University, United Kingdom); Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

NET33: Mobility

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Session Chair: Cong Shen

16:20 Double-NAT Based Mobility Management forFuture LTE Networks: Morteza Karimzadeh (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Luca Valtulina (SpeakUp, The Netherlands); Aiko Pras, Hans van den Berg and Ricardo de O. Schmidt (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Marco Liebsch (NEC Europe Ltd, Germany); Tarik Taleb (Aalto University, Finland)
16:40 Impact of Mobility on the Reliability Performance of 5G Multi-Connectivity Architectures: David Oehmann (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Ahmad Awada (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Ingo Viering (Nomor Research GmbH, Germany); Meryem Simsek (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
17:00 A Learning Approach to Frequent Handover Mitigations in 3GPP Mobility Protocols: Cong Shen (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Mihaela van der Schaar (UCLA, USA)
17:20 On Medium and Long Term Channel Conditions Prediction for Mobile Devices: Xiaoli Wang (Princeton University, USA); Edward Grinshpun (Nokia, USA); David Faucher (Bell Labs, USA); Sameer Sharma (Alcatel-Lucent, USA)

NET34: Network Management

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Session Chair: Wilfried Yoro

16:20 Energy-efficiency-aware Upgrade of Network Capacity: Wilfried Yoro, Mamdouh El Tabach, Taoufik En-Najjary and Azeddine Gati (Orange Labs, France); Tijani Chahed (Telecom SudParis, France)
16:40 Load-Adaptive Base-Station Management for Energy Reduction including Operation-Cost and Turn-on-Cost: Jiashang Liu (The Ohio State University, USA); Yang Yang (Qualcomm Corporate Research and Development, USA); Prasun Sinha (Ohio State University, USA); Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University, USA)
17:00 Dynamic Allocation of Backhaul Resources for Distributed Interference Subtraction: Philippe Leroux (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Canada); Aaron Callard (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.)
17:20 User Behavior Aware Cell Association in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks: Yao Sun, Gang Feng, Shuang Qin, Sanshan Sun and Lan Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

PHY47: Channel Measurement and Modeling

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Session Chair: Bengt-Erik Olsson

16:20 Angular Resolved Site Characterization of Non-Line-of-Sight Wireless Links: Bengt-Erik Olsson (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Christina Larsson (Ericsson Research & Ericsson AB, Sweden); Jonas Hansryd (Ericsson AB, Sweden)
16:40 Interference-Free Pilots Insertion for MIMO-GFDM Channel Estimation: Shahab Ehsanfar (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Maximilian Matthé (Technical University Dresden, Germany); Dan Zhang and Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
17:00 Dual-Polarized Channel Measurement and Modeling in Urban Macro- and Small-Cells at 2 GHz: Florian Letourneux (Siradel, Canada); Thierry Tenoux, Laurent Maviel, Julien Stephan and Yoann Corre (SIRADEL, France); Yves Lostanlen (SIRADEL & University of Toronto, Canada); Iyad Al Falujah (Huawei, USA); Keith Butterworth (Huawei Technologies, USA); Mark Newbury (Huawei, USA); Matthijs Visser (Huawei Technologies, USA)
17:20 Thinning of Concentric Circular Antenna Arrays Using Improved Discrete Cuckoo Search Algorithm: Geng Sun, Yanheng Liu and Zhaoyu Chen (Jilin University, P.R. China); Ying Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Aimin Wang and Shuang Liang (Jilin University, P.R. China)

PHY48: Bio/Nano Networks

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Session Chair: Chan-Byoung Chae

16:20 Channel Switching in Molecular Communication Networks Through Calcium Signaling: Peng He (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Tadashi Nakano (Osaka University, Japan); Yuming Mao (SCIE, P.R. China); Qiang Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom)
16:46 Effective Enzyme Deployment for Degradation of Interference Molecules in Molecular Communication: Yae Jee Cho (School of Integrated Technology, Yonsei Institute of Convergence Technology, Yonsei University, Korea); Huseyin Birkan Yilmaz (Yonsei University, Yonsei Institute of Convergence Technology, Korea); Weisi Guo (University of Warwick, United Kingdom); Chan-Byoung Chae (Yonsei University, Korea)
17:13 On-chip Wireless Optical Channel Modeling for Massive Multi-core Computing Architectures: Mona Nafari (University at Buffalo); Liang Feng and Josep M Jornet (University at Buffalo, USA)

PHY49: Coverage

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Session Chair: Ayca Ozcelikkale

16:20 The Place Coverage (TPC)- Three-stage User Association and Rate Maximization for 5G SD-RAN Systems: Shashindra Silva (University of Alberta, Canada); Homa Eghbali (University of British Columbia, Canada); Masoud Ardakani and Chintha Tellambura (University of Alberta, Canada)
16:40 Impact of Model Uncertainties on the Accuracy of Spatial Interpolation Based Coverage Estimation: Nikos Perpinias, Janne Riihijärvi and Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
17:00 Millimeter Wave LOS Coverage Enhancements with Coordinated High-Rise Access Points: Yinan Qi (Samsung R&D Institute UK, United Kingdom); Mythri Hunukumbure (Samsung Electronics, United Kingdom); Yue Wang (Samsung Electronics R&D Institute UK, United Kingdom)
17:20 k-coverage probability in a finite wireless network: Mehrnaz Afshang (Virigina Tech, USA); Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)

PHY50: Cooperative/ Relay Networks II

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Session Chair: Maxime Guillaud

16:20 Achievable rate analysis of two-way full duplex relay with joint relay and antenna selection: Jie Hu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Fang Liu and Yuanan Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, P.R. China)
16:40 Achievable DoF for 2-user MIMO Relay Interference Channels with Outdated Channel State Information: Haobo Liang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Roger Cheng (HKUST, Hong Kong)
17:00 Exploiting Asynchronous Signaling for Multiuser Cooperative Networks with Analog Network Coding: Xuehua Zhang, Mehdi Ganji and Hamid Jafarkhani (University of California, Irvine, USA)
17:20 Multi-Antenna Down-link Cooperative Systems over Composite Multipath/Shadowing Channels: Eylem Erdogan and Ali Afana (Lakehead University, Canada); Salama Said Ikki (Lakehead University & Electrical Engineering Department, Canada)