Technical Program

Time	SIGMA HALL 1	SIGMA HALL 3
Thursday, January 5
11:30 am-01:00 pm	T1-1: Vehicular Networking	T2-1: Mobile and Cyber Physical Systems
02:00 pm-03:30 pm		T1-2: Internet of Things
04:00 pm-05:30 pm		T2-2: Network Security
Friday, January 6
10:30 am-01:00 pm	T1-3: Physical Layer Communication	T2-3: Network Protocols and Applications
03:30 pm-05:00 pm	T1-4: Cloud and Data Centers	T2-4: Data, Networks and Learning
Saturday, January 7
11:00 am-01:00 pm	T1-5: Cellular networks	T2-5: Virtualization and Network Functions
02:00 pm-03:30 pm	T1-6: Energy Efficiency and Resource Provisioning	T2-6: IoT and Sensor Networks
04:00 pm-05:00 pm	T1-7: Local and Metropolitan Area Networks	T2-7: Performance Analysis

Thursday, January 5, 11:30 - 13:00

T1-1: Vehicular Networking

Session Chair: Ravi Kokku (IBM Research, United States)

Room: SIGMA HALL 1

(Invited Talk) Integrating GLONASS with GPS for drone orientation tracking: Romit Roy Choudhury (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA);
mm-Wave on Wheels: Practical 60 GHz Vehicular Communication Without Beam Training: Adrian Loch (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Arash Asadi (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Gek Hong Sim (TU-Darmstadt, Germany); Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt, Germany)
A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Optimize Downloads Over Mobile Networks: Jayashree Mohan and Angad Vittal (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India); Chandra Sekaran (National Instittute of Technology Karnataka, India); Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA)
Satellite-Based AIS Receiver for Dense Maritime Zones: Sriram Jayasimha, Jyothendar Paladugula and Aditya Varma Gadiraju (Signion Systems, India); Manoj Kumar Medam (Signion Systems)

T2-1: Mobile and Cyber Physical Systems

Session Chair: Rajesh Sundaresan (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Room: SIGMA HALL 3

On Minimal Tests of Sensor Veracity for Dynamic Watermarking-Based Defense of Cyber-Physical Systems: Bharadwaj Satchidanandan and P R Kumar (Texas A&M University, USA)
Request Patterns and Caching for VoD Services with Recommendation Systems: Samarth Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Sharayu Moharir (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
Use of ECDF-based Features and Ensemble of Classifiers to Accurately Detect Mobility Activities of People using Accelerometers: Megha Vij (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIITD), India); Viswanath Gunturi and Vinayak Naik (IIIT Delhi, India)
(Invited Talk) Approximate Computing: A New Paradigm for Designing Energy-Efficient Systems: Vijay Raghunathan (Purdue University, USA)

Thursday, January 5, 14:00 - 15:30

T1-2: Internet of Things

Session Chair: Vijay Raghunathan (Purdue University, United States)

Room: SIGMA HALL 3

(Invited Talk) Transforming the Network Architecture for the Digital Era: Srikanth Narasimhan (CISCO, India)
Predicting gender from footfalls using a seismic sensor: Sahil Anchal and Bodhibrata Mukhopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Subrat Kar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
CARE: An IoT based system for Passenger Service and Comfort in Railways: Nitu Gangwar (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India); Tushar Semwal (Indian Institution of Technology Guwahati, India); Shivashankar B. Nair (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
uPnP-WAN: Experiences with LoRa and its Deployment in DR Congo: Gowri Sankar Ramachandran (iMinds-DistriNet, KU Leuven, Belgium); Fan Yang (KU Leuven, Belgium); Piers Lawrence (iMinds-DistriNet, Belgium); Sam Michiels (KU Leuven, Belgium); Wouter I Joosen (University of Leuven, Belgium); Danny Hughes (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

Thursday, January 5, 16:00 - 17:30

T2-2: Network Security

Session Chair: Ramachandran Ramjee (Microsoft Research, India)

Room: SIGMA HALL 3

(Invited Talk) Your Privacy is in Your Hand: Interactive Visual Privacy Control with Tags and Gestures: Pan Hui (HKUST, Hong Kong)
On the Verification of Conjunctive Keyword Search Results using Authenticated Crawlers: Ritu Sharma (DA-IICT, India); Manik Lal Das (DAIICT, India)
Using Traffic Analysis for Simultaneous Detection of BitTorrent and Streaming Video Traffic: Yan Shi and Subir Biswas (Michigan State University, USA)
Spying on Android Users Through Targeted Ads: Eeva Terkki, Ashwin Rao and Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Friday, January 6, 10:30 - 13:00

T1-3: Physical Layer Communication

Session Chair: Balajee Vamanan (University of Illinois at Chicago, United States)

Room: SIGMA HALL 1

(Invited Talk) Activity Signatures in Smart IoT Environments: Ravi Kokku (IBM Research, USA)
Energy-Based Bayesian Spectrum Sensing Over $\alpha{-}\kappa{-}\mu$ Fading Channels: Sanjeev Gurugopinath (PES University, India); Shobitha Shivakumar (PES Institute of Technology, India)
Multi-Bid Spectrum Auctions in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks with Spatial Reuse: Nirat Saini (Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India); Mainak Chatterjee (University of Central Florida, USA)
Performance Analysis of Wireless OCDMA Multi-User System Based on New 2-D Code in Presence of Atmospheric Turbulence and Various Weather Conditions: Ajay Yadav (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Subrat Kar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); V K Jain (IIT Delhi, India)
End to End Performance Analysis of M2M Cooperative Communication over Cascaded α-µ Channels: Anirban Bhowal and Rakhesh Singh Kshetrimayum (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
Ambiguity-Region Analysis for Double Threshold Energy Detection in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing: Dhritiman Das (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India); Siddharth Deshmukh (National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela, India)

T2-3: Network Protocols and Applications

Session Chair: Aditya Gopalan (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Room: SIGMA HALL 3

Content Replication in Large Distributed Caches: Sharayu Moharir (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay); Nikhil Karamchandani (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Auto-Tuning Active Queue Management: Joe Novak and Sneha Kumar Kasera (University of Utah, USA)
Opp-Relay: Managing Directionality and Mobility Issues of Millimeter-Wave via D2D Communication: Gek Hong Sim (TU-Darmstadt, Germany); Arash Asadi (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Adrian Loch (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt, Germany); Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)
Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Velocity Estimation in HetNets Based on Handoff Count: Ravi Tiwari (NIT Rourkela, India); Siddharth Deshmukh (National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela, India)
Profiting from Attacks on Real-Time Price Communications in Smart Grids: Paul Wood and Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University, USA); Alefiya Hussain (USC/ISI, USA)
Topology based Path Computation for Provisioning in Transport Networks: Madanagopal Ramachandran (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India); Krishna M. Sivalingam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
(Invited Talk) Edge Computing In The Extreme For Sustainability: Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Friday, January 6, 15:30 - 17:00

T1-4: Cloud and Data Centers

Session Chair: Sharayu Moharir (IIT Bombay, India)

Room: SIGMA HALL 1

(Invited Talk) Navigation assistance for Visually Impaired Persons in Indoor Environment: Prasun Sinha (Ohio State University, USA)
ATHENA: Reliable Multicast for Group Communication in SDN-based Data Centers: Kshiteej S. Mahajan (UW-Madison, India); Dhruv Sharma (University of California, San Diego, USA); Vijay Mann (Instart Logic, India)
Multi-Criteria Based Federation Selection in Cloud: Benay Ray, Asif Middya and Sarbani Roy (Jadavpur University, India); Sunirmal Khatua (University of Calcutta, India)
SDN-based Dynamic Flow Scheduling in Optical Data Centers: Sharmila Tranquebar Girisankar, Tram Truong-Huu and Mohan Gurusamy (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

T2-4: Data, Networks and Learning

Session Chair: Subir Biswas (Michigan State University, United States)

Room: SIGMA HALL 3

Learning based Gain-aware Content Dissemination in Delay Tolerant Networks: Faezeh Hajiaghajani and Subir Biswas (Michigan State University, USA)
Restless Bandits That Hide their Hand and Recommendation Systems: Rahul Meshram (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Aditya Gopalan (Indian Institute of Science, India); D. Manjunath (IIT Bombay, India)
Convolutional Regression Framework for Health Behavior Prediction: Srinka Basu (University of Kalyani, India); Saikat Roy and Ujjwal Maulik (Jadavpur University, India)
(Invited Talk) Unleashing the Potential of Data-Driven Networking: Vyas Sekar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Saturday, January 7, 11:00 - 13:00

T1-5: Cellular networks

Session Chair: Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, United States)

Room: SIGMA HALL 1

(Invited Talk) SpectraMap: Efficiently Constructing a Spatio-Temporal RF Spectrum Occupancy Map: Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research, USA)
Buffer Aware Three Level Scheduler for Video Streaming over LTE: Satish Kumar, Dheeraj Goswami and Arnab Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India); Arijit Sur (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
Why is 700 MHz band a Good Proposition for Provisioning pan-India 4G LTE Services? A Comparative Techno-economic Evaluation Study: Ashutosh Jha (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India); Debashis Saha (Indian Institute of Management (IIM)- Calcutta, India)
Performance Comparison of Dual Connectivity with CoMP in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks: Yoghitha Ramamoorthi and Abhinav Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
Predictive Analytics for Non-stationary V2I Channel: Aveek Dutta (University at Albany, SUNY, USA); Mohanad AL-Ibadi (University of Kansas, USA)

T2-5: Virtualization and Network Functions

Session Chair: Vyas Sekar (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)

Room: SIGMA HALL 3

Hydra: Leveraging Functional Slicing for Efficient Distributed SDN Controllers: Yiyang Chang (Purdue University, USA); Ashkan Rezaei and Balajee Vamanan (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); Jahangir Hasan (Google, USA); Sanjay Rao (Purdue University, USA); T. N. Vijaykumar (Purdue, USA)
Network Function Placement on Virtualized Cellular Cores: David Dietrich (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany); Chrysa Papagianni (Institute for Systems Research & University of Maryland, USA); Panagiotis Papadimitriou (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany); John Baras (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
An Efficient DHT-based Elastic SDN Controller: Pratyusha Guduri (Cavium Networks, India); Anupama Potluri (University of Hyderabad, India)
Analyzing behavior of DDoS attacks to identify DDoS detecton features in SDN: Neelam Dayal and Shashank Srivastava (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India)
(Invited Talk) Affordable Sensing based Healthcare: Arpan Pal (TCS Innovation Labs, India)

Saturday, January 7, 14:00 - 15:30

T1-6: Energy Efficiency and Resource Provisioning

Session Chair: Krishna M. Sivalingam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

Room: SIGMA HALL 1

(Invited Talk) A GIS- and Measurement-aided Framework for Placement of Relays in a Heterogeneous Propagation Environment: Benefits and Challenges: Rajesh Sundaresan (IISc Bangalore, India)
Power Efficient Resource Allocation Algorithms for Provisioning in SDH Networks: Madanagopal Ramachandran (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India); Krishna M. Sivalingam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
Multi-channel Allocation to Coexisting Networks in TV White Spaces: Akanksha Patel and Sundar Vishwanathan (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Bhaskaran Raman (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)
Designing an Energy Efficient WBAN Routing Protocol: Moumita Roy and Chandreyee Chowdhury (Jadavpur University, India); Nauman Aslam (Northumbria University, United Kingdom)

T2-6: IoT and Sensor Networks

Session Chair: Arpan Pal (Tata Consultancy Services, India)

Room: SIGMA HALL 3

Dynamic Transmission Power Control in Wireless Sensor Networks Using P-I-D Feedback Control Technique: Priyesh Papinisseri (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Subrat Kar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
Efficient Device-to-device Association and Data Aggregation in Industrial IoT Systems: Shilpa Rao (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati); Rajeev Shorey (TCS Innovation Lab, India)
SecPMS: An Efficient and Secure Communication Protocol for Continuous Patient Monitoring System Using Body Sensors: Tanmoy Maitra and Sarbani Roy (Jadavpur University, India)
(Invited Talk) Interference Power Bound Analysis of a Network of Wireless Robots: Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA)

Saturday, January 7, 16:00 - 17:00

T1-7: Local and Metropolitan Area Networks

Session Chair: Panagiotis Papadimitriou (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)

Room: SIGMA HALL 1

Sequential Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks: Optimal Selection of Secondary Users and their Spectral Measurements: Laxminarayana Pillutla (Dhirubhai Ambani-Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India); Bhuvan Joshi (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), India)
Simulation of P2P Overlays over MANETs: Impediments and Proposed Solution: Shabir Ali, Anurag Sewak and Mayank Pandey (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India); Neeraj Tyagi (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India)
A Supervised Approach Towards Network Control System Modelling: Prnay Jain, Shubham Varma and Ankit Ankit (IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India); Hari Prabhat Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, INDIA, India); Tanima Dutta (IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India)

T2-7: Performance Analysis

Session Chair: Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft, United States)

Room: SIGMA HALL 3

Performance Analysis of Dual-Hop DF Relaying Systems in the Combined Presence of CEE and RFI: Anoop Kumar Mishra, Debmalya Mallick and Mareesh Issar (National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India); Poonam Singh (National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela, India)
Cooperative Energy Detection using Dempster-Shafer Theory under Noise Uncertainties: Prakash Gohain (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India); Sachin Chaudhari (International Institute of Information Technology, India)
Stability and delay analysis of delay tolerant networks with random message arrivals: Sarath Yasodharan (Indian Institute of Science, India); Vineeth Bala Sukumaran (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India); Chandramani Singh (Indian Institute of Science, India)