Program

IEEE SECON 2019: Detailed Schedule

10 June 2019

Workshops  

IEEE STP-CPS ~ 9:00-12:30 ISEC 140

IAUV 2019 ~ 9:00-12:30 ISEC 142

MLCN-IoT ~ 14:00-17:30 ISEC 140

CyberEdge ~ 14:00-17:30 ISEC 142

Tutorial ~ 13:40-18:00 ISEC 138

Presenters: Kobus Van der Merwe and Gary Wong (University of Utah, USA)

Mobile and wireless research using the PAWR POWDER-RENEW platform 

The software-defined sea change that has relentlessly redefined the way we think about wired network infrastructures has reached mobile and wireless networks and is fundamentally changing the industry and the research associated with it. This sea change presents tremendous opportunity for research in mobile and wireless networking; never before has there been this “perfect storm” of need/demand for advancing mobile and wireless technologies, applications and services, combined with unprecedented access to enabling technologies through software defined architectures and technologies and open source initiatives. At the same time the same perfect storm presents significant challenges to those seeking to make research contributions in this domain: Industry-driven initiatives, even when “open”, are by design driven by organizations with significant resources, making it difficult to make contributions without being “overrun” by these industry efforts. Further, open source stacks in this domain are sophisticated and quite complex with many possible options and configurations, making it difficult to establish baseline functionality on which to start meaningful research. Finally, while the sea change promises access to the necessary enabling technologies, putting those together in a meaningful manner (e.g., hardware, software, access to spectrum, realistic scenarios etc.), is a daunting task.

This tutorial will introduce attendees to the PAWR POWDER-RENEW platform which provides researchers access to the technologies associated with the software-defined sea change in mobile and wireless research and solve many of the challenges in using/exploiting them. Attendees will be introduced to the capabilities of the PAWR POWDER-RENEW platform through hands-on exploration of selected research topics.

Requirements for tutorial attendees:

• This will be a hands-on session where attendees will perform “scripted exploration” of the POWDER platform. Attendees will be required to access POWDER, using their own laptops, through ssh and/or web browser sessions (Chrome works best)
• Before the workshop please request a POWDER account here; please do this well in advance of the workshop so that account creation won’t hold up the session.
• When creating an account, be sure to load an ssh public-key file as part of your request. Alternatively, you can upload an ssh public key after your account is approved and you are logged into the portal
• Here is a useful tutorial on ssh keys

N2women Event ~ 17:30-19:00 ISEC 142

Opening Reception ~ 19:30-21:30 East Village Building 17th floor

11 June 2019

Opening Remarks ~ 9:00-9:30 ISEC Auditorium 

Keynote 1: Thyaga Nandagopal, NSF. ~ 9:30-10:30 ISEC Auditorium

5G and 6G for Dummies: Hype and Reality 

The fifth generation of cellular wireless standards (colloquially known as 5G) have been in the limelight for the last 3 years, with early deployments happening right now. The wireless communications industry has published a standards roadmap showing most 5G features will be delivered within the next two iterations of standards. Therefore, researchers are now looking ahead to what is now touted as 6G – pointing to novel communication paradigms such as Terahertz and Quantum communications. This talk will attempt to serve as a primer for what has happened thus far, and outline what is likely to come up next, as seen from the vantage point of a science funding agency. The talk will also cover ongoing efforts to invest in the forward-looking research topics that appear promising to the wireless research community.

Best Paper Award Plenary Session. In memoriam: Mario Gerla. ~ 11:00-12:30 ISEC Auditorium

Session Chair: Ngwe Thawdar, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

1. PEC: Synthetic Aperture RFID Localization with Aperture Position Error Compensation – Run Zhao, Dong Wang, Qian Zhang, Haonan Chen, Huatao Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
2. Learning-based Blockage Prediction for Robust Links in Dynamic Millimeter Wave Networks – Masoud Zarifneshat, Li Xiao, Jiliang Tang (Michigan State University, USA)
3. Grid Software Defined Radio Network Testbed for Hybrid Measurement and Emulation – Kapil Dandekar, Simon Begashaw, Marko Jacovic, Alex Lackpour, Ilhaan Rasheed, Xaime Rivas Rey, Cem Sahin (Drexel University, USA); Sharif Shaher (Echo Ridge, USA); Geoffrey Mainland (Drexel University, USA)
4. X-Burst: Enabling Multi-Platform Cross-Technology Communication between Constrained IoT Devices – Rainer Hofmann, Carlo Alberto Boano, Kay Römer (Graz University of Technology, Austria) – BEST PAPER AWARD

Session 1

 Session A1: Activity Recognition  ~ 13:40-15:40 ISEC 140 

 Session Chair: Adnan Shahid, Gent University  – imec, Belgium 

1. Commercial Wi-Fi Based Fall Detection with Environment Influence Mitigation – Lei Zhang, Zhirui Wang, Liu Yang (Tianjin University, P.R. China)
2. Pushing the Limit of CSI-based Activity Recognition: An Enhanced Approach via Packet Reconstruction – Youjing Lu, Fan Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Shaojie Tang (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Linghe Kong, Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
3. G-Fall: Device-free and Training-free Fall Detection with Geophones – Yandao Huang, Wenqiang Chen, Hongjie Chen, Lu Wang, Kaishun Wu (Shenzhen University, P.R. China)
4. ReActor: Real-time and Accurate Contactless Gesture Recognition with RFID – Shigeng Zhang, Chengwei Yang, Xiaoyan Kui, Jianxin Wang (Central South University, P.R. China); Xuan Liu (Hunan University, P.R. China); Song Guo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
5. Occupancy Analytics in Retail Stores Using Wireless Signals – Saandeep Depatla and Yasamin Mostofi (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Session B1: Concurrent and cooperative communication ~ 13:40-15:40 ISEC 142 

Session Chair: Sabit Ekin, Oklahoma State University, USA

1. AdaComm: Tracing Channel Dynamics for Reliable Cross-Technology Communication – Weiguo Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Xiaolong Zheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yuan He, Xiuzhen Guo (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
2. Playing with Fire: Exploring Concurrent Transmissions in Ultra-wideband Radios – Davide Vecchia, Pablo Corbalan, Timofei Istomin, Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy)
3. Machine Learning based Dynamic Cooperative Transmission Framework for IoUT Networks – Ahmad El-Banna (Benha University, Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Egypt & Shenzhen University, P.R. China); Ahmed Zaky (Benha University, Egypt); Basem M. ElHalawany (Benha University & Shoubra Faculty of Engineering, Egypt); Joshua Huang, Kaishun Wu (Shenzhen University, P.R. China)
4. MatchMaker: An Inter-operator Network Sharing Framework in Unlicensed Bands – Mohammed Hirzallah (University of Arizona, USA); Yong Xiao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA)
5. DuoRelay: Parallel Interference Nulling using Full-duplex Relaying – Ananya Mahanti, Wei-Han Chen and Prasun Sinha (Ohio State University, USA)

Session 2

Session A2: Localization and tracking ~ 16:00-18:00 ISEC 140 

Session Chair: Ravishankar Chamarajnagar, VMWare, USA

1. SparseTag: High-Precision Backscatter Indoor Localization with Sparse RFID Tag Arrays – Chao Yang (Auburn University, USA); Xuyu Wang (California State University, Sacramento, USA); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)
2. Triangular Antenna Layout Facilitates Deployability of CSI Indoor Localization Systems – Xinyu Tong,  Hao Li, Xiaohua Tian, Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
3. iTracker: Towards Sustained Self-Tracking in Dynamic Feature Environment with Smartphones – Boyuan Sun, Qiang Ma, Zhichao Cao, Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
4. Trans-Sense: Real Time Transportation Schedule Estimation Using Smart Phones – Ali Abdelaziz (Egypt-Japan University for Science and Technology & Aswan University, Egypt); Amin Shoukry (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt); Walid Gomaa (Egypt Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt); Moustafa Youssef (Alexandria University, Egypt)
5. WiZoom: Accurate Multipath Profiling using Commodity WiFi Devices with Limited Bandwidth – Hua Xue, Jiadi Yu, Yanmin Zhu, Li Lu, Shiyou Qian, Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

Session B2: Spectrum ~ 16:00-18:00 ISEC 142

Session Chair: Francesco Restuccia, Northeastern University, USA

1.  TF²AN: A Temporal-Frequency Fusion Attention Network for Spectrum Energy Level Prediction – Kehan Li, Zebo Liu, Shibo He, Jiming Chen (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
2. Online Data Quality Learning for Quality-Aware Crowdsensing – Xiangyu Zhang, Xiaowen Gong (Auburn University, USA)
3. Nearly-Optimal Resource Allocation for Coexisting Industrial Wireless Networks with Line Topologies – Jialin Zhang (ShenYang Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Wei Liang (Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Bo Yang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Meng Zheng, Huaguang Shi (Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Seung Ho Hong (Hanyang University, Korea)
4. Joint Beamforming-Power-Bandwidth Allocation in Terahertz NOMA Networks – Xiaofei Zhang, Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Xudong Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University & Teranovi Technologies, Inc., P.R. China)
5. Strategic Network Infrastructure Sharing through Backup Reservation in a Competitive Environment – Jing Hou, Li Sun and Tao Shu (Auburn University, USA); Yong Xiao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA)

Posters/Demos ~ 18:00-19:00 ISEC Atrium

1. Ultralow Power Wireless-Fire-Alarm-System using a VO2-Based Metal-Insulator-Transition Device – Jimin Son (University of Science and Technology & Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea); Sungwoo Jo and Sun-kyu Jung (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea); Hyun-Tak Kim (University of Science and Technology & Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea)
2. Service Station Positioning for Mobile Charger in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks – Yinan Zhu (Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China)
3. Implementing a Real-Time Image Captioning Service for Scene Identification Using Embedded System – He-Yen Hsieh (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Jenq-Shiou Leu and Sheng-An Huang (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
4. Underwater Datalogger for Accurate Position and Location Estmation and Tracking – Xiyuan Zhu (LU, USA); Wurong Shih and Yahong Rosa Zheng (Lehigh University, USA)
5. A New Paradigm for Non-contact Vitals Monitoring using Visible Light Sensing – Hisham Abuella and Sabit Ekin (Oklahoma State University, USA)
6. MOSFET-based Ultra-low-power Realization of Analog Joint Source-Channel Coding for IoTs – Vidyasagar Sadhu, Mehdi Rahmati and Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA)
7. Early Classification Approach for Multivariate Time Series using Sensors of Different Sampling Rate – Ashish Gupta (IIT(BHU), India); Hari Prabhat Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, INDIA, India); Tanima Dutta (IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India)
8. An Adaptive Power level Allocation Model in LoRa for Internet of Things – Preti Kumari (IIT(BHU), India); Hari Prabhat Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, INDIA, India); Tanima Dutta (IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India)
9. Long-Range Short-Burst Mobile Mesh Networking: Architecture and Evaluation – Ram Ramanathan, Christophe Servaes and Warren Ramanathan (GOTENNA, USA); Ayush Dusia and Adarshpal Sethi (University of Delaware, USA)
10. Reducing Network Measurements without Loss of Resolution via Neural Networks – Michele Berno (University of Padova, Italy); Flavio Esposito (Saint Louis University, USA); Michele Rossi (University of Padova, Italy)

IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals Event ~ 18:00-19:00 

12 June 2019

Keynote 2: Edward Knightly, Rice University. ~ 9:00-10:00 ISEC Auditorium

Off-Grid Sensing Missions with Networked UAVs

Today, UAVs are equipped with a host of sensors that aid in navigation, including gyroscopes, lidar, and GPS. UAVs can be further equipped with sensors that can aid in realizing missions such as search and rescue or finding and tracking a mobile target. Such sensors include software defined radios, environmental and gas sensors, and video cameras. In this talk, I will describe how the fusion of advanced capabilities in sensing, communication, and machine learning will enable networks of UAVs to accomplish previously impossible tasks. I will describe the state of the art and research challenges while drawing on recent experiences from experimental systems.

Panel ~ 10:30-12:30 ISEC Auditorium

Smart Mobility: Which Opportunities for the SECON Community

Moderator: Giacomo Morabito (University of Catania, Italy)

Panelists:

• Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy)
• Emilio Frazzoli (MIT and nuTonomy, USA)
• Josep Miquel Jornet (University at Buffalo, USA)
• Paolo Santi (MIT, USA and CNR, Italy)
• Marco Gruteser (Rutgers University, USA)

Session 3

Session A3: Wearable/Cyber-Physical systems ~ 13:40-15:40 ISEC 140

Session Chair: Dario Pompili, Rutgers University, USA

1. MType: A Magnetic Field-based Typing System on the Hand for Around-Device Interaction – Yufeng Deng, Dong Wang, Qian Zhang, Run Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
2. Quality of Control Assessment for Tactile Cyber-Physical Systems – Kurian Polachan (Indian Institute of Science, India); T Venkata Prabhakar (IISc, India); Chandramani Singh (Indian Institute of Science, India); Deepak Panchapakesan (Indian Institute of Science, USA)
3. DeepLap: A Deep Learning based Non-Specific Low Back Pain Symptomatic Muscles Recognition System – Nian Wang, Zhe Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Jing Xiao (Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, P.R. China); Li Cui (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
4. Speech Based Human Authentication on Smartphones – Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University & State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, P.R. China); Wei Wang (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University, USA); Kang Ling, Jiajun Sun (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
5. FaceInput: A Hand-Free and Secure Text Entry System through Facial Vibration – Maoning Guan, Wenqiang Chen, Yandao Huang, Rukhsana Ruby, Kaishun Wu (Shenzhen University, P.R. China)

Session B3: Security & Privacy ~ 13:40-15:40 ISEC 142

Session Chair: Xiaowen Gong, Auburn University, USA

1. Privacy-Preserving Sketching for Online Social Network Data Publication – Tianchong Gao; Feng Li (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)
2. Towards Fast and Reliable WiFi Authentication by Utilizing Visible Light Diversity – Zhiwei Zhao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yaoyao Pang (UESTC, P.R. China); Weifeng Gao (University of Electronic Science and Technology, P.R. China); Jiamei Lv (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
3. ActiveTracker: Uncovering the Trajectory of App Activities over Encrypted Internet Traffic Streams – Ding Li; Wenzhong Li; Xiaoliang Wang (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Cam-Tu Nguyen (Nanjing University, Vietnam); Sanglu Lu (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
4. Integrity Threat Identification for Distributed IoT in Precision Agriculture – Ravishankar Chamarajnagar (VMWare, USA); Ashwin Ashok (Georgia State University, USA)
5. Wide-Area GPS Time Monitoring Against Spoofing Using Belief Propagation – Sriramya Bhamidipati (UIUC, USA); Kyeong Jin Kim (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Hongbo Sun, Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)

Session 4

Session A4: Energy efficient systems ~ 16:00-18:00 ISEC 140

Session Chair: Mehdi Rahmati, Rutgers University, USA

1. Pharos: A Rapid Neighbor Discovery Algorithm for Power-Restricted Wireless Sensor Networks – Yuchen Zhu, Bo Yang, Min Liu, Zhongcheng Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
2. When Wireless Charging Meets Fresnel Zones: Even Obstacles Can Enhance Charging Efficiency – Chi Lin, Feng Gao (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University & State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, P.R. China); Lei Wang; Guowei WU
   (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China)
3. Parallel Feedback Communications for Magnetic MIMO Wireless Power Transfer System – Wenxiong Hua, Xiang Cui, Hao Zhou, Panlong Yang, Xiang-Yang Li (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
4. No Entry: Anti-Noise Energy Detector for Chirp-Based Acoustic Communication – Chulyoung Kwak (Seoul National University, Korea); Seongwon Kim (SK Telecom, Korea); Soonwon Ka (Soundlly, Inc., Korea); Jihwan Lee, Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)
5. NB-IoT Network Monitoring and Diagnosing – Zhenxian Hu, Guangtao Xue, Yi-Chao Chen, Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

Session B4: Multimedia analytics and applications ~ 16:00-18:00 ISEC 142

Session Chair: Francesco Restuccia, Northeastern University, USA

1. FoVR: Attention-based VR Streaming through Bandwidth-limited Wireless Networks – Songzhou Yang, Yuan He (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Xiaolong Zheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
2. Towards Scalable Video Analytics at the Edge – Theodore Stone, Nathaniel Stone (University of South Carolina, USA); Puneet Jain (Google, USA); Yurong Jiang (HP Labs, USA); Kyu-Han Kim (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA); Srihari Nelakuditi (University of South Carolina, USA)
3. Truthful Quality-Aware Data Crowdsensing for Machine Learning – Yuxi Zhao, Xiaowen Gong (Auburn University, USA)
4. Workload-Aware Task Placement in Edge-Assisted Human Re-identification – Anil Acharya, Yantian Hou (Boise State University, USA); Ying Mao (Fordham University, USA);  Min Xian (University of Idaho, USA); Jiawei Yuan (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA)
5. Enabling Secure Voice Input on Augmented Reality Headsets using Internal Body Voice – Jiacheng Shang, Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)

Conference banquet ~ 18:30-21:30 Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse (200 Dartmouth St, Boston, MA 02116)

13 June 2019

Keynote 3: Mazin Gilbert, AT&T. ~ 9:00-10:00 ISEC Auditorium

The 5G Network-AI

Session 5

Session A5: Networked robotics ~ 10:30-12:30 ISEC 140

Session Chair: Xuyu Wong, California State University, Sacramento, USA

1. Maximizing Energy Efficiency of Period-Area Coverage with UAVs for Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks – Chi Lin, Chunyang Guo (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Wan Du (University of California, Merced, USA); Jing Deng (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA); Lei Wang, Guowei WU (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China)
2. VISIT: Placement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Anisotropic Monitoring Tasks – Weijun Wang (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Haipeng Dai (Nanjing University & State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, P.R. China); Chao Dong (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China); Fu Xiao (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xiao Cheng (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
3. Decentralized Task Allocation in Lossy Networks: A Simulation Study – Nicholas Mastronarde (University at Buffalo, USA); Karthik Dantu (University of Buffalo, USA); Matthew Rantanen (University at Buffalo, USA); Jeffrey Hudack (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
4. FusionEye: Perception Sharing for Connected Vehicles and its Bandwidth-Accuracy Trade-offs – Hansi Liu (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA); Pengfei Ren (General Motors, USA); Shubham Jain (Old Dominion University, USA); Mohannad Murad (General Motors, USA); Marco Gruteser (WINLAB / Rutgers University, USA); Fan Bai (General Motors, USA)
5. ECO-UW IoT: Eco-friendly Reliable and Persistent Data Transmission in Underwater Internet of Things – Mehdi Rahmati, Vidyasagar Sadhu, Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA)

Session B5: Edge/Fog computing ~ 10:30-12:30 ISEC 142

Session Chair: Emad H. Aboelela, Northeastern University, USA

1. Dependency-Aware and Latency-Optimal Computation Offloading for Multi-User Edge Computing Networks – Chang Shu, Zhiwei Zhao, Yunpeng Han (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
2. COSTA: Cost-aware Service Caching and Task Offloading Assignment in Mobile-Edge Computing – Tuyen X Tran (AT&T Labs – Research, USA); Kevin S Chan (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA)
3. InDP: In-Network Data Processing for Wireless Sensor Networks – Ebram Kamal William, Mun Choon Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
4. Driving in the Fog: Latency Measurement, Modeling, and Optimization of LTE-based Fog Computing for Smart Vehicles – Yong Xiao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Haris Volos, Takashi Bando (DENSO International America, Inc., USA); Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA)
5. Network Function Deployment with Balanced Server and Link Resources in Tree Topologies – Yang Chen, Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)