Technical Program

Time	GBR	GBR
Wednesday, January 6
10.30 am - 1.00 pm	T1-1: Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies	T2-1: WiFi
04:00 pm - 05:30 pm		T2-2: Vehicular Networks & Intelligent Transportation
Thursday, January 7
11:15 am - 01:00 pm	T1-3: Security	T2-3: Social Networks
04:00 pm - 06:00 pm	T1-5: Mobile communications & 5G	T2-5: Cloud and edge computing*
Friday, January 8
11:30 am - 01:00 pm	T1-6: Physical Layer Wireless	T2-6: Mobile Robots and Drone
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm	T1-7: IoT and Bluetooth	T2-7: Resource Allocation and Scheduling

Presentation Duration

Invited talk: 25 mins + 5 mins Q & A
Regular papers: 18 mins + 3 mins Q & A

Wednesday, January 6, 10.30am - 1.00pm

T1-1: Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies

Session Chair: Sushmita Ruj, CSIRO’s Data61

TensorFlip: A Fast Fully-Decentralized Computational Lottery for Cryptocurrency Networks: Aditya Ahuja (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
Sketches for Blockchains: Ori Rottenstreich (Technion, Israel)
Blockchain Enabled Data Trading with User Consent: Prabal Banerjee (Indian Statistical Institute, India); Amudhan Muthaiah (Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, India); Sushmita Ruj (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India)
Demand-aware Channel Topologies for Off-chain Payments: Julia Khamis (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Ori Rottenstreich (Technion, Israel)
Design and Validation of BlockEval, A Blockchain Simulator: Deepak Kumar Gouda (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India); Shashwat Jolly (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Kalpesh Kapoor (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
The Meshwork Ledger, its Consensus and Reward Mechanisms: Mayank Raikwar (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Danilo Gligoroski (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Optimizing Merkle Proof Size for Blockchain Transactions: Avi Mizrahi (Technion, Israel); Noam Koren (Technion, Israel); Ori Rottenstreich (Technion, Israel)

T2-1: WiFi

Session Chair: Mukulika Maity, IIIT Delhi

(Invited Talk) Coexistence of LTE-Unlicensed and WiFi: A Reinforcement Learning Framework: K P Naveen, IIT Tirupati, India
Utility-Driven Traffic Engineering via Joint Routing and Rate Control for 802: Gi Tae Kim (Applied Communication Sciences, USA); John Lee (PerspectaLabs, USA); Latha Kant (Perspecta Labs - Formerly Bellcore, USA); Alexander Poylisher (Perspecta Labs, USA)
Decision Problems for Joint Transmission in Multi-AP Coordination Framework of IEEE 802: Ayushneel Titus (IIT Bhilai, India); Rajat Bansal (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India); Thazhathe Veetil Sreejith (IIT Bhillai, India); Arzad Kherani (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai, India); Nadeem Akhtar (Arista Networks, India)
Wi-Fi Coverage in Indian Homes: Amritha R (IIT Madras, India); Divya B (IIT MADRAS, India); Venkatesh Ramaiyan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
Hybrid-ARQ protocol for Next Generation Wi-Fi Systems: Romil Vikram Sonigra (IIT MADRAS, India); Shishir G (Qualcomm, India); Nambirajan Seshadri (UCSD, India); David Koilpillai (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
Evaluation of Theoretical Interference Estimation Metrics for Dense Wi-Fi Networks: Srikant Manas Kala (Osaka University, Japan); Vanlin Sathya (University of Chicago, USA); Winston K.G. Seah (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand); Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan); Teruo Higashino (Osaka University, Japan)

Wednesday, January 6, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

T2-2: Vehicular Networks & Intelligent Transportation

Session Chair: Basabdatta Palit, IIEST Shibpur

A Budgeted Maximum Coverage based mmWave Enabled 5G RSUs Placement in Urban Vehicular Networks* (can also go to Session 3): Moyukh Laha (IIT Kharagpur, India); Raja Datta (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
Towards Realistic DTN Simulations for Public Transport Systems: José Irigon de Irigon (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Felix Cornelius (TU-Dresden, Germany)
Scalable Coordinated Intelligent Traffic Light Controller for Heterogeneous Traffic Scenarios Using UPPAAL STRATEGO: Thamilselvam B (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram (IIT Hyderabad, India); Panduranga Rao Marella (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
Mitigating Adversities in Urban IoT-setup: A Sensor Assisted Approach: Chandra Shekhar (IIT, Bhubaneswar, India); Sudipta Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India); Mun Choon Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Thursday, January 7, 11:15 AM - 1:00 PM

T1-3: Security

Session Chair: Vinay Ribeiro, IIT Bombay

(Invited Talk) Humans Learning from Machines: Data Science Meets Network Management: Winston Seah, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
LEADER: Low Overhead Rank Attack Detection for Securing RPL based IoT: Somnath Karmakar (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, India); Jayasree Sengupta (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, India); Sipra DasBit (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
Improving ML Detection of IoT Botnets using Comprehensive Data and Feature Sets: Misha Mehra (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Jay N. Paranjape (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Vinay J. Ribeiro (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
An Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme for Secure Communication in Smart Grid: Barnana Baruah (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India); Subhasish Dhal (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India)

T2-3: Social Networks

Session Chair: Sharayu Moharir, IIT Bombay

(Invited Talk) Opinion dynamics in discrete-time networks with trust-mistrust interactions: Pooja Vyavahare, IIT Tirupati, India
Securely Computing Clustering Coefficient for Outsourced Dynamic Encrypted Graph Data: Laltu Sardar (Indian Statistical Institute, India); Gaurav Bansal (Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, India); Sushmita Ruj (CSIRO Data61, Australia); Kouichi Sakurai (Kyushu University, Japan)
Influencing Opinions of Heterogeneous Populations over Finite Time Horizons: Arunabh Saxena (IIM Ahmedabad, India); Bhumesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Anmol Gupta (IIT Bombay, India); Neeraja Sahasrabudhe (IISER Mohali, India); Sharayu Moharir (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
A Distributed Algorithm for Overlapped Community Detection in Large-Scale Networks: Dibakar Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Partha Sarathi Mandal (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

Thursday, January 7, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

T1-5: Mobile Communications & 5G

Session Chair: Ayon Chakraborty, IIT Madras

(Invited Talk) Roaming Dynamics in the Cellular Ecosystem: Andra Lutu, Telefonica Barcelona, Spain
Dynamic Power Management for 5G Small Cell Base Station: Yuta Suzuki (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Ryuichi Sakamoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Hiroshi Nakamura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
UNBLOCK: Low Complexity Transient Blockage Recovery for Mobile mm-Wave Devices: Venkata Siva Santosh Ganji (Texas A&M University, USA); Tzu-Hsiang Lin (Texas A&M University, USA); Francisco A Espinal (Texas A&M University, USA); P R Kumar (Texas A&M University, USA)
DC-DLLR: A MAC Layer Approach for Reliable and Blockage Tolerant mmWave Indoor Networks: Arijit Bhattacharjee (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Ratnajit Bhattacharjee (IIT Guwahati, India); Sanjay Kumar Bose (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
(Invited Talk) Untethering 5G Networks for Ubiquitous Connectivity: Karthik Sundaresan, NEC Labs, USA

Thursday, January 7, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

T2-5: Cloud and Edge Computing*

Session Chair: Aruna Balasubramanian, Stony Brook University

(Invited Talk) Online Partial Service Hosting at the Edge: Sharayu Moharir, IIT Bombay, India
Connectionless Edge-Cache Servers for Reducing Cellular Bandwidth Usage in Vehicular Networks: Rui Wang (Michigan State University, USA); Jayanthi Rao (Ford Motor Company & ASEE-NSF, USA); Ce Zhou (Michigan State University, USA); Subir Biswas (Michigan State University, USA)
(Invited Talk) Tackling Fundamental Tradeoffs in Geo-Distributed Services: Harsha Madhyastha, University of Michigan, USA

Friday, January 8, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

T1-6: Physical Layer Wireless

Session Chair: P Maheswaran, NIT Tiruchirappalli

(Invited Talk) ScatterMIMO: Breaking the curse of MIMO throughput scalability with Smart Surfaces: Dinesh Bharadia, University of California, San Diego, USA
Impact of pilot lengths of PSAM on Polar code performance in Ricean fading for realistic industrial channels: Yasantha Chamara Samarawickrama (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland); Victor Cionca (Cork Institute of Technology & Nimbus Centre, Ireland)
Channel Reconstruction in Intelligent Surface aided Communications: Narayan Prasad (Futurewei Technologies, USA); Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury (North Carolina State University, USA); Xiao-Feng Qi (Futurewei Technologies, Inc., USA)

T2-6: Mobile Robots and Drone

Session Chair: Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney

(Invited Talk) Drone Teams for Improving Situational Awareness: Damith Ranasinghe, University of Adelaide, Australia
Fort Formation by an Automaton: Kartikey Kant (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Debasish Pattanayak (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India); Partha Sarathi Mandal (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
Drone classification from RF fingerprints using deep residual nets: Sanjoy Basak (Royal Military Academy, Belgium); Sreeraj Rajendran (KU Leuven, Belgium); Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium); Bart Scheers (Royal Military Academy, Belgium)

Friday, January 8, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

T1-7: IoT and Bluetooth

Session Chair: Prasant Misra, TCS India

Real-Time Task Scheduling in Fog-Cloud Computing Framework for IoT Applications: A Fuzzy Logic-based Approach: Hala Sadek Ali (National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India); Rashmi Ranjan Rout (National Institute of Technology Warangal, India); Priyanka Parimi (National Institute of Technology Warangal, India); Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
PBCR: Parameter-based Backoff Counter Regulation in IEEE 802.15.6 CSMA/CA: Kamal Das (National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya, India); Soumen Moulik (National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya, India)
Transmit Power Minimization in Bidirectional Tag-to-Device Communications for IoT: Shivam Gujral (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India); Siddhartha Sarma (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India); Supriyo Banerjee (Decision Point Pvt. Ltd.)
Making IPv6-over-BLE Energy-friendlier: An Adaptive Algorithm for Diverse Traffic: Subhanshu Sahu (Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, India); Siddhartha Sarma (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India)

T2-7: Resource Allocation and Scheduling

Session Chair: Pooja Vyavahare, IIT Tirupati

Dynamic Multi-Modulation Allocation Scheme for Elastic Optical Networks: Lucas Costa (University of Brasilia, Brazil); André C Drummond (University of Brasilia, Brazil)
Design of Joint Relay Placement and Scheduling Algorithms for Time-Slotted Networks with Half-Duplex Constraints: Harshavardhana T Gowda (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, India); Pragya Shah (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, India); Vineeth Bala Sukumaran (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India)
Towards Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Network Protocol Synthesis: Hrishikesh Dutta (Michigan State University, USA); Subir Biswas (Michigan State University, USA)
RADDPG: Resource Allocation in Cognitive Radio with Deep Reinforcement Learning: Nikita Mishra (Manipal University Jaipur, India); Sumit Srivastava (Manipal University Jaipur, India); Shivendra Sharan (NIIT University, India)