Technical Program

(All times are mentioned in IST time zone.)

Presentation Duration

Invited talk: 30 mins including Q&A
Regular papers: 20 mins including Q&A

Thursday, 5 January 2023 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

T1-1: Network Management

(Invited Talk) Whodunnit? A case-study of an investigation to find a multi-core scalability bottleneck: Varsha Apte (IIT Bombay, India)
LiteEx: A Lightweight Feature Extraction Tool for Captured Network Traces: Mayank Swarnkar (Indian Institute of Technology BHU), Rakesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology BHU), Raja Baidyo (Indian Institute of Technology BHU)
Impact Analysis of Tunnel Probing Protocol on SD-WAN's Mainstream Traffic: Pavan Iddalagi (IIIT-Bangalore, India), Amrita Mishra (International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India)
CSMA/CA-based MAC Protocol for Aerial Audio Networking: Dania Qara Bala (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India), Bhaskaran Raman (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)

Thursday, 5 January 2023 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

T2-1: Cloud Technologies

Session Chair: Rinku Shah

[Experience] Multicloud Deployment of AI Workflows Using FaaS and Storage Services: Manju Ramesh (TCS Research, India), Dheeraj Chahal (TCS, India), Rekha Singhal (TCS, India)
Megha: Decentralized Federated Scheduling for Data Center Workloads: Meghana Thiyyakat (PES University, India), Subramaniam Kalambur (PES University, India), Dinkar Sitaram (Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India, India)
(Invited Talk) A Push-Pull Train for Safety of Autonomous Vehicle Software: Suhrid Wadekar ( Goodwin Procter LLC, Boston, USA)
A Cost Effective Reliability Aware Scheduler for Task Graphs in Multi-Cloud System: Suman Banerjee (IIT Kharagpur, India), Atharva Tekawade (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India)

Thursday, 5 January 2023 | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

T2-2: Security

Session Chair: Sachin Lodha, TCS

(Invited Talk) Challenges and Opportunities in Enabling Secure 5G Positioning: Mridula Singh (CISPA, Germany)
Security Management in Content Distribution Networks: a delay-variance reduction approach for content mirror site placement: Kaliappa Ravindran (City University of New York, USA), Chin-Tser Huang (University of South Carolina, USA)
Defending Root DNS Servers Against DDoS Using Layered Defenses: A s m Rizvi (University of Southern California & Information Sciences Institute, USA), Jelena Mirkovic (University of Southern California, USA), John Heidemann (University of Southern California, USA), Wesley Hardaker (University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, USA), Robert Story (University of Southern California & Information Sciences Institute, USA)
Clarity: Analysing Security in Web Applications: Neetesh Saxena (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Connor Potter (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Soumyadev Maity (Iiit Allahabad, India)

Friday, 6 January 2023 | 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM

T1-2: IoT

Session Chair: Mythili Vutukuru, IIT, Bombay

(Invited Talk) Trust and Reputation Management for Blockchain-enabled IoT: Salil Kanhere (UNSW, Sydney, Australia)
Occupancy counting in dense and sparse settings with a low-cost thermal camera: Soumya Ranjan Sahoo (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India), Haroon Rashid Lone (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India)
mmAssist: Passive Monitoring of Driver's Attentiveness Using mmWave Sensors: Argha Sen (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India), Anirban Das (IIT Kharagpur, India), Prasenjit Karmakar (IIT KHARAGPUR, India), Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)

Friday, 6 January 2023 | 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM

T2-3: Wireless Architectures and Protocols

Session Chair: Amit Saha, CISCO, India

SENTINEL: Self Protecting 5G Core Control Plane from DDoS Attacks for High Availability Service: Aditya Chilukuri (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India), Shwetha Vittal (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India), Antony Franklin A (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
ReFleX: Enabling Full Duplex Relay Cluster: Avishek Banerjee (The Ohio State University, USA), Lu Chen (The Ohio State University, USA), Kannan Srinivasan (The Ohio State University, USA)
(Invited Talk) Hybrid Full Duplex MAC protocol: Dinesh Rajan (Southern Methodist University, USA)

Friday, 6 January 2023 | 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

T1-3: Cloud Applications

Session Chair: Salil Kanhere

(Invited Talk): Gerald Karam (Nokia Bell Labs, USA)
Experience: Implementation of Edge-Cloud for Autonomous Navigation Applications: Yuvraj Chowdary Makkena (IITH & TiHAN, India), Rajashekhar Reddy Tella (Indian Institute Technology Dharwad, India), Nisarg Dipenbhai Parekh (India), Prem Kumar Saraf (IIT Hyderabad, India), Annu Sahu (IIT HYDERABAD, India), Hershita Shukla (IIT Hyderabad & Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India), Akhila Matathammal (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India), Sarat Chandra Sai Danda (IIT HYDERABAD, India), Praveen Chandrahas Achyuthuni (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India), Dr. Akshay Kumar Jadhav (IIT Hyderabad, India), Praveen Tammana (IIT Hyderabad, India), Koteswararao Kondepu (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India), Rajalakshmi P (IIT Hyderabad, India)
Multitask Scheduling of Computer Vision Workloads on Edge Graphical Processing Units: Arani Bhattacharya (IIIT-Delhi, India), Paritosh Shukla (IIIT-Delhi, India) Ansuman Banerjee (Indian Statistical Institute, India), Saumya Jaipuria (Indian Statistical Institute, India) Nanjangud Narendra (Ericsson Research, India), Dhruv Sekhar Garg (Vellore Institute of Technology, India)
Trust-based Misinformation Containment in Directed Online Social Networks: Arnab Kumar Ghoshal (Asutosh College, Kolkata, India), Nabanita Das (Indian Statistical Institute, India), Soham Das (Microsoft, USA), Subhankar Dhar (San Jose State University, USA)

Friday, 6 January 2023 | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

T2-4: Learning (1)

Session Chair: Rohit Verma, Intel Labs, India

Dual-Stream CNN-BiLSTM Model with Attention Layer for Automatic Modulation Classification: Ashok Parmar (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat, India), Divya K (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat, India), Ankit Chouhan (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India), Kamal Manharlal Captain (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India)
IndoorRSSINet - Deep learning based 2D RSSI map prediction for indoor environments with application to wireless localization: Nibin Raj (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, India), Vineeth Bala Sukumaran (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India)
Causality-Aware Channel State Information Encoding: Serene Banerjee (Ericsson Research, India), Athanasios Karapantelakis (Principal Researcher, Sweden), Lackis Eleftheriadis (Senior Specialist Sustainable AI Ops, Sweden), Hamed Farhadi (Ericsson Research, Sweden), Vandita Singh (Ericsson Research, Sweden), Karthik Rm (Ericsson Research, India)
(Invited Talk): Baek-Young Choi (University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA)

Saturday, 7 January 2023 | 09:30 AM – 11:30 AM

T1-4: Sustainability & Energy Efficiency

Session Chair: Serene Banerjee, Ericsson Research, India

(Invited Talk) Design for sustainability – an imperative for future mobile networks: Satish K. (Nokia Bell Labs, Bangalore, India)
Efficient Memory Optimized Aggregated Bit Vector (EMOABV) Algorithm with Dynamic ABV Intersection Result Cache: Lakshmi Sowjanya Dokku (Samsung Research Institute, India), Uday Trivedi (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India), Jyotsna Sangamesh (Samsung R & D India Bangalore, India)
Fast Proactive Re-Route with Detours on Joint Paths in Named-Data Networks for Communications of Smart Electric Power Transmission Grids: Boyang Zhou (Zhejiang Lab, China), Zhen Zhu (Zhejiang Lab, China), Yinghui Nie (Zhejiang Lab, China), Xiang Chen (Zhejiang University, China), Bingjing Yan (Zhejiang University, China), Qiang Yang (Zhejiang University & College of Electrical Engineering, China), Chunming Wu (College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China)
iCharge: An IoT-Assisted Framework for Efficient Charging of the Electric-Vehicles: Jagnyashini Debadarshini (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India), Megha Vardhan Rejeti (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India), Sudipta Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India), Chandrashekhar Narayan Bhende (Iit Bhubaneswar, India)
Lessons Learnt From the Implementation of the IEEE 802.15.4e-TSCH MAC: Deeksha P Rao (Indian Institute of Science, India), Ipsita Sanyal (University of Manchester, India), Sachin Sm (IISc, India), T Venkata Prabhakar (IISc, India), Rakshana Gunasekaran (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Saturday, 7 January 2023 | 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

T2-5: Physical layer Technologies

Session Chair: Ranjan Mallik, IIT Delhi

A Wideband Array Antenna with Elliptical Slots on Substrate Integrated Waveguide Technology: Somayeh Komeylian (Ryerson University, Canada), Christopher Paolini (San Diego State University, USA), Mahasweta Sarkar (San Diego State University & Center for Neurotechnology, USA)
A Stable Link Allocation Algorithm for 5G Millimeterwave Networks: Subhojit Sarkar (Indian Statistical Institute, India), Subhankar Ghosal (Auriss Technologies Pvt. Ltd.), Subhadip Bandyopadhyay (GAIA, Ericsson, India), Sasthi C. Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
A High Bandwidth 4 x 1 Antenna Array of Circular Patches with Two Sectors: Somayeh Komeylian (Ryerson University, Canada), Christopher Paolini (San Diego State University, USA), Mahasweta Sarkar (San Diego State University & Center for Neurotechnology, USA)
Frequency Division Duplex Based Cooperative VFD: Outage Analysis and Relay Power Allocation: Justin Jose (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India), Parvez Shaik (Texas A & M University at QATAR, Qatar & Texas A & M University, Qatar), Shubham Bisen (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India), Vinat Goyal (Indian Institute of Information Technology Pune, India), Vimal Bhatia (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)

Saturday, 7 January 2023 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

T1-5: Learning (2)

(Invited Talk): Debdoot Mukherjee (Meesho, India)
Bayesian Regression for Interpretable Network Dimensioning: Shrihari Vasudevan (Ericsson, India), Sleeba Puthenpurakel (GAIA, Ericsson, India), Marcial Gutierrez (Ericsson, Sweden), M.J. Prasath (Ericsson, India)
Weak Supervision and Transformed-based Sentiment Analysis on Multi-lingual Data: Shubhangi Rastogi (Bennett University Times Group, India)
FedNSE: Optimal Node Selection for Federated Learning with Non-IID Data: Sourav Bansal (IIT Delhi, India), Manav Bansal (IIT Delhi, India), Rohit Verma (Intel Labs, India), Rajeev Shorey (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi & UQIDAR, India), Huzur Saran (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
Multi-Agent Packet Routing (MAPR): Co-Operative Packet Routing Algorithm with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Aniket Modi (IIT Delhi, India), Rishi Shah (IIT Delhi, India), Krishnanshu Jain (IIT Delhi, India), Rohit Verma (Intel Labs, India), Rajeev Shorey (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi & UQIDAR, India), Huzur Saran (Indian Institute of Technology, India)

Saturday, 7 January 2023 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

T2-6: Privacy & Blockchain

Session Chair: Ovia Seshadri, CoinDCX

Towards adoption of secure communication protocol in Software Defined Networks: Gayatri Priyadarsini Kancherla (Indian Intitute of Technology Gandhinagar, India), Sameer G Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India)
Thwarting Piracy: Anti-debugging Using GPU-assisted Self-healing Codes: Adhokshaj Mishra (Uptycs India Pvt. Ltd., India), Manjesh K Hanawal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Data Protection in Permissioned Blockchains using Privilege Separation: Arun Joseph (Indian Institute of Science, India), Nikita Yadav (Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, India), Vinod Ganapathy (Indian Institute of Science, India), Dushyant Behl (IBM Research, India), Praveen Jayachandran (IBM India, India)
(Invited Talk): Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Louisiana State University (LSU), USA)