Technical Program

Time	GBR	GBR
Wednesday, January 8
11:45 am-01:15 pm	T1-1: Network Applications	T2-1: Machine Learning for Networks
04:00 pm-05:30 pm		T2-2: Pervasive Sensing and Socio-Technical Networks
Thursday, January 9
11:00 am-01:00 pm	T1-3: 5G Communication	T2-3: Cyber Physical Systems
4:00 pm-05:00 pm	T1-4: Network and System Security	T2-4: Networked Systems
Friday, January 10
11:30 am-01:00 pm	T1-5: Network Core	T2-5: Internet of Anythings
02:00 pm-03:30 pm	T1-6: Algorithms for Networking Systems	T2-6: Emerging Network Applications
04:00 pm-05:00 pm	T1-7: Physical Layer Communication	T2-7: Network Resource Management

Presentation Duration

Invited talk: 25mins
Regular papers: 18mins

Wednesday, January 8, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

T1-1: Network Applications

Session Chair: Nabanita Das; ISI Kolkata

Room: GBR

(Invited Talk) Title: A Distributed V2V-based Virtual Traffic Light System (11:45 am – 12:15 pm): Marco Rapelli, Claudio E. Casetti, and Marcello Sgarbi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
PHY-Based Key Agreement Scheme Using Audio Networking: Dania Qara Bala (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Bhaskaran Raman (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)
DA-TV: Dynamic Adaptive Television Broadcast for Mobile users: Monalisa Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology, India); Anubhav Choudhary (IIT Kharagpur, India); Chetna Singhal (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
PanOpticon: A Comprehensive Benchmarking Tool for Serverless Applications: Nikhila Somu (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay); Nilanjan Daw (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Umesh Bellur (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Purushottam Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)

T2-1: Machine Learning for Networks

Session Chair: Venkatesh Tamarapalli; IIT Guwahati

Room: GBR 2

Deep Learning based Prediction Model for Adaptive Video Streaming: Anirban Lekharu (IIT Guwahati, India); K Mouli and Arijit Sur (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Arnab Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India)
A Distributed Learning Simulation Platform for Edge Hierarchies: Alka Bhushan, Aniket Shirke, Govind Lahoti and Umesh Bellur (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Secrets in Source Code: Reducing False Positives Using Machine Learning: Aakanksha Saha, Sneha Kumar Kasera, Vivek Srikumar and Tamara Denning (University of Utah, USA)
(Invited Talk) Unsupervised Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis in Mobile Networks (12:30 – 1:00 pm): Cheolmin Kim (Northwestern University, USA); Veena B. Mendiratta (NOKIA Bell Labs, USA); Marina Thottan (Bell Labs, USA)

Wednesday, January 8, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

T2-2: Pervasive Sensing and Socio-Technical Networks

Session Chair: Amit Kumar Saha; Cisco

Room: GBR 2

(Invited Talk) A Cross-Domain Machine Learning Framework for Scalable Human Activity and Behavior Recognition (4:00 – 4:30 pm): Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Semi-supervised Subject Recognition through Pseudo Label Generation in Ubiquitous Sensor Data: Sourish Dhekane, Krishnam Vajra and Dip Sankar Banerjee (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India)
Practical Server-side Indoor Localization: Tackling Cardinality & Outlier Challenges: Anuradha Ravi and Archan Misra (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Finding summaries to obtain event phrases from streaming Microblogs using Word Co-occurrence Network: Muskan Garg (UIET, India); Mukesh Kumar (Panjab University, India)

Thursday, January 9, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

T1-3: 5G Communication

Session Chair: Dola Saha; SUNY Albany

Room: GBR

(Invited Talk) 5G WIFi - Overview of New Features and Research Prospects (11:00 – 11:30 am): Sumit Roy, University of Washington, USA
Low PAPR DMRS sequence Design for 5G-NR Uplink: Sibgath Khan and Koteswara rao Gudimitla (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); SaiDhiraj Amuru and Kiran Kuchi (IIT Hyderabad, India)
Resource Allocation with Admission Control for GBR and Delay QoS in 5G Network Slices: Tulja Vamshi Kiran Buyakar and Harsh Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma (IIT Hyderabad, India); Antony Franklin A (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
End-to-End Delay Jitter in LTE Uplink: Simple Models, Empirical Validation & Applications: Megha Sahu (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India); Arzad Kherani (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai, India)
Scalable and Fair Resource Sharing Among 5G D2D Users and Legacy 4G Users: A Game Theoretic Approach: Sreetama Mukherjee (Jadavpur University, India); Sasthi C. Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Removing the PDCCH Bottleneck and Enhancing the Capacity of 4G Massive MIMO Systems: Pavan Reddy M. (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Harish Kumar D (IITH, India); SaiDhiraj Amuru and Kiran Kuchi (IIT Hyderabad, India)

T2-3: Cyber Physical Systems

Session Chair: Archan Misra; Singapore Management University

Room: GBR 2

CORNET: A Co-Simulation Middleware for Robot Networks: Srikrishna Acharya (Robert Bosch Center for Cyberphysical Systems, India); Bharadwaj Amrutur, Yogesh Simmhan, Aditya Gopalan, Parimal Parag and Himanshu Tyagi (Indian Institute of Science, India)
PSO-based Rendezvous Point Selection for Delay Efficient Trajectory Formation for Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Networks: Anjula Mehto (Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India); Shashikala Tapaswi and K K Pattanaik (Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India)
Improving Access to Network Resources in IoT Networks: Kaumudi Singh (Indian Institute of Science, India); T Venkata Prabhakar (IISc, India); Joy Kuri (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Behavior Analysis through Routine Cluster Discovery in Ubiquitous Sensor Data: Shivam Tiwari, Manan Sharma, Suchetana Chakraborty and Dip Sankar Banerjee (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India)
(Invited Talk) Machine Learning in the Wild: The Case of User-Centered Learning in Cyber Physical Systems (12:30 – 1:00 pm): Atieh R. Khamesi, Eura Shin and Simone Silvestri, (University of Kentucky, USA)

Thursday, January 9, 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM

T1-4: Network and System Security

Session Chair: Mainack Mondal; IIT Kharagpur

Room: GBR

(Invited Talk) ProxiCar: Proximity-based Secure Digital Key Solution for Cars (4:00 – 4:30 pm): Girish Revadigar (Huawei Research, Singapore); Chitra Javali (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore); Sanjay Jha, University of NSW, Australia
Rand-OFDM: A secured Wireless Signal: Hesham Mohammed (University At Albany SUNY, USA); Dola Saha (University at Albany, SUNY, USA)
PriVC: Privacy Preserving Verifiable Computation: Hardik Gajera (DA-IICT, India); Manik Lal Das (DAIICT, India)

T2-4: Networked Systems

Session Chair: Subhasish Dhal; IIIT Guwhati

Room: GBR 2

Opinion Control Competition in a Social Network: Mohak Goyal (Qualcomm India Private Limited, India); D. Manjunath (IIT Bombay, India)
"Please come back later": Benefiting from deferrals in service systems: Anmol Kagrecha and Jayakrishnan Nair (IIT Bombay, India)
(Invited Talk) Context-Aware Design of Cyber-Physical Human Systems (CPHS) (4:30 – 5:00 pm): Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Qun Liu, Edward Collier, Yimin Zhu, Ravindra Gudishala and Chanachok Chokwitthaya (Louisiana State University, USA); Robert DiBiano (Ailectric, USA); Alimire Nabijiang and Sanaz Saeidi (Louisiana State University, USA); Subhajit Sidhanta (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India); Arnab Ganguly (Louisiana State University, USA)

Friday, January 10, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

T1-5: Network Core

Session Chair: Alok Ranjan; Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Room: GBR

(Invited Talk) Design and analysis of fast IP address-lookup schemes based on cooperation among routers (11:30 am – 12:00 pm): Ganesh Chennimalai Sankaran (IIT Madras, India); Krishna M. Sivalingam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
SBL-Based Interference Cancellation And Data Recovery For Uplink C-RAN: Anupama Rajoriya and Vidushi Katiyar (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India); Rohit Budhiraja (IIT Kanpur, India)
Study and Mitigation of Platform Related UWB Ranging Errors: Nour Smaoui, Kyungki Kim and Omprakash Gnawali (University of Houston, USA)
Effects of Sensing & Control Errors on Quality of Adaptation in Networked Systems: Kaliappa Ravindran (City University of New York, USA); Arun Adiththan (General Motors, USA)

T2-5: Internet of Anythings

Session Chair: Prasant Misra; TCS Research and Innovation, Bangalore, India

Room: GBR 2

BH-MAC: An efficient Hybrid MAC Protocol for Vehicular Communication: Saurabh Kumar (Chungbuk National University, South Korea); HyungWon Kim (Chungbuk National University & College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, South Korea)
ROSE: Random Opportunistic and Selective Exploration for Cooperative Edge Swarm of UAVs: Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Anandarup Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Aniq Ur Rahman (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India); Narendra Singh Raghuwanshi (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
Charge Scheduling in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks Using Mobile Charging Vehicles: Rohit Kumar and Joy Chandra Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)
(Invited Talk) A journey in applying blockchain for cyberphysical systems (12:30 – 1:00 pm): Volkan Dedeoglu (CSIRO, Australia); Ali Dorri (Queensland University of Technology); Raja Jurdak (Queensland University of Technology & University of Queensland, Australia); Regio Michelin (University of New South Wales, Australia); Roben Castagna Lunardi (PUCRS & IFRS, Brazil); Salil S Kanhere (UNSW Sydney, Australia); Avelino Zorzo (PUCRS, Brazil)

Friday, January 10, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

T1-6: Algorithms for Networking Systems

Session Chair: Dip Sankar Banerjee; IIIT Guwahati

Room: GBR

(Invited Talk) From Spanning Trees to Meshed Trees (2:00 – 2:30 pm): Hrishikesh B Acharya and John Hamilton (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Nirmala Shenoy (Rochester Institute of Technology & Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
ARoM: An Adaptive Resource Optimization Model for Mobile IoT Edge: Ramesh Guntha (Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India); Sethuraman N Rao (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India); Maneesha Ramesh (Amrita University, India); Maik Benndorf and Thomas Haenselmann (University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Germany)
On Some Universally Good Fractional Repetition Codes: Shreyansh Prajapati, Sourav Deb and Manish Kumar Gupta (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India)
The Watermark-Securable Subspace of a Linear System Containing a Single Malicious Actuator: Bharadwaj Satchidanandan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); P R Kumar (Texas A&M University, USA)

T2-6: Emerging Network Applications

Session Chair: Neminath Hubbali; IIT Indore

Room: GBR 2

An Interoperable ECC based Authentication and Key agreement Scheme for IoT Environment: Asit Sahoo (NIT, Rourkela, India); Shreeya Swagatika Sahoo (Nit, Rourkela, India); Sampa Sahoo (National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India); Bibhudatta Sahoo and Ashok Turuk (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India)
VRMap: A Cost and Time aware Remapping of Virtual Data Centres over a Geo-distributed Infrastructure: Anurag Satpathy (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India); Manmath Narayan Sahoo, Lipsa Chhotray, Banshidhar Majhi and Ashutosh Mishra (National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India); Sambit Bakshi (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India)
BER Performance of Full-duplex Two-way Relay System With User Mobility: Tanvi Kaple (VNIT Nagpur, India); Prasanna Raut and Prabhat Kumar Sharma (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India)
(Invited Talk) Simplifying Online Education with Advanced Computer Vision and Language Understanding (3:00 – 3:30 pm): Vishnu Navda Microsoft Research, India

Friday, January 10, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

T1-7: Physical Layer Communication

Session Chair: Ranjan K. Mallik, IIT Delhi

Room: GBR

Energy Efficient Multi-Pair Massive MIMO Two-Way AF Relaying: A Deep Learning Approach: Venkatesh Tentu, Dheeraj Naidu Amudala, Anupama Rajoriya and Ekant Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India); Rohit Budhiraja (IIT Kanpur, India)
Copula-Based Cooperative Sensing of OFDM Signals in Cognitive Radios: Akhil Singh (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India); Sai Praneeth Chokkarapu (International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad, India); Sachin Chaudhari (International Institute of Information Technology, India); Pramod Varshney (Syracuse University, USA)
Cache-Aided Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Over Fading Channels in Downlink Cellular Networks: Shreshta Mohan, Shreya Morgansgate, Priyadarshini Basker and Sanjeev Gurugopinath (PES University, India); Sami Muhaidat (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
A Decoupling Property in Low-Resolution MIMO-OFDM Systems and its Applications: Narayan Prasad (Futurewei Technologies Inc., USA); Xiao-Feng Qi (Futurewei Technologies, Inc., USA)

T2-7: Network Resource Management

Session Chair: Chetna Singhal; IIT Kharagpur

Room: GBR 2

Relay Selection in Millimeter Wave D2D Communications Through Obstacle Learning: Subhojit Sarkar and Sasthi C. Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Joint Control and Shared Channel Scheduling for Downlink in 3GPP Narrowband-IoT: Pavan Reddy M. and Abhinav Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Kiran Kuchi (IIT Hyderabad, India)
Optimal Downlink Scheduling and Power Allocation with Reconfiguration Delay: Gowri Muraleedharan (IIITDM Kancheepuram, India); Vineeth Bala Sukumaran (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India); Premkumar K. (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Kancheepuram, India)
CONETSI: On Demand Distributed Network State Information Collection using Opportunistic Exploration for Resource Constrained Networks: Srijith S Nair (Ohio State University, USA); Aadreesh Sahu (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, USA); Srikanth Mantravadi, Anand Svr and Malati Hegde (Indian Institute of Science, India)