Technical Program
Sunday, November 6
Sunday, November 6, 17:00 - 19:00
Welcome Reception and Early Registration in Diamond Ballroom Foyer Area
Monday, November 7
Monday, November 7, 08:15 - 08:45
Registration
Monday, November 7, 08:45 - 09:00
SenseApp: Welcome and Opening Remark
WNM: Welcome and Opening Remark
CloudNA: Welcome and Opening Remark
Monday, November 7, 09:00 - 10:30
SenseApp Session 1
- The Swarm as a Service: Virtualization of Motion
- Using Edge Analytics to Improve Data Collection in Precision Dairy Farming
- MoleNet: A New Sensor Node for Underground Monitoring
- Challenges in Developing and Deploying a PIR Sensor-Based Intrusion Classification System for an Outdoor Environment
WNM Session 1
- On the Analysis of Internet Paths with DisNETPerf, a Distributed Paths Performance Analyzer
- Packet-Pair Dispersion Signatures in Multihop Networks
- Efficient Network Topology Measurement Based on Ingress to Subnet Reachability
Monday, November 7, 09:00 - 10:00
CloudNA Keynote: Cloud Native Application Development
ABSTRACT. In the past decade, while enterprises across the world were busy adopting technology to support their business, startups such as Uber, Airbnb, Nest were disrupting traditional industries. Ever wondered how startups with limited resources could challenge traditional enterprises in their own business? The answer is taking a Software-first approach where business models are defined by software and not supported by software. This talk will discuss the emerging trends in software development that are collectively called as Cloud Native Computing Approach which allows companies to turn ideas to reality in days or weeks rather than months.
BIO. Vijay Rajagopal is an advisory consultant at Pivotal helping Enterprises to transform their software development culture and to help them adopt a silicon valley mindset. He helps customers adopt a Cloud Native approach for software development and thereby become a software-first business. Vijay started his career as a Technical Consultant with Oracle in 2003 and worked with Oracle for 10 years on various large scale implementations of ERP, CRM, SOA and Big Data technologies for a number of large enterprises in EMEA. He then spent couple of years in Software AG specializing in SOA, BPM and Big Data technologies and finally joined Pivotal to focus on modern software development.
Monday, November 7, 10:00 - 10:30
CloudNA Session 1: Cloud Security
- Towards Vulnerability Assessment as a Service in OpenStack Clouds
Monday, November 7, 10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Monday, November 7, 11:00 - 12:00
SenseApp Keynote: Coordinate Systems for Complex Large-scale Sensor Networks
Abstract: Large networks of inexpensive devices such as sensors, actuators and smart RFIDs deployed over complex 2D and 3D physical spaces will be an integral part of the emerging Internet of Things. Networking operations such as self-organization, localization and routing depend on some coordinate system. While geographic coordinates fit well with our intuitions into physical spaces, their use is not feasible in harsh environments and in complex deployments. Virtual coordinate systems are able to better capture the network topology and thus provide a more natural network representation. Yet their theoretical foundations are not well developed and relating them to physical network characteristics is difficult. Derivatives of virtual coordinates, such as topology coordinates and directional virtual coordinates, mimic geographic coordinates but without the need for distance measurements. Using the theory of low-rank matrix completion, now it is possible to extract topology preserving maps even with partial virtual coordinate information or random pairwise distances. We propose a coordinate based paradigm that facilitates seamless integration of geographic and virtual coordinate information. The approach functions even with incomplete information, thus facilitating evolving systems whose performance improve over time as new information becomes available. A self-learning algorithm is presented for individual nodes to achieve network awareness, which we argue is a key step toward developing massive evolving intelligent sensor networks mimicking natural systems that get better and smarter over time.
Bio: Anura Jayasumana is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University, where he also holds a joint appointment in Computer Science. He is the Associate Director of Information Sciences & Technology Center at Colorado State. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. His research interests span high-speed networking to wireless sensor networking, and anomaly detection to DDoS defense. He has served extensively as a consultant to industry ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. He received the B.Sc. degree from the University of Morata, Sri Lanka and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Michigan State University. Prof. Jayasumana has supervised 20+ Ph.D. and 50+ M.S. students, holds two patents, and is the co-author of ~300 refereed papers.
Monday, November 7, 11:00 - 12:30
WNM Session 2
- Stability and Consistency of the LISP Pull Routing Architecture
- Performance Evaluation of Mobile Broadband Cellular Networks in Pakistan
- Operating System Classification Performance of TCP/IP Protocol Headers
CloudNA Session 2: Job Scheduling
- Modeling and Analysis of Virtualized Multi-Service Cloud Data Centers with Automatic Server Consolidation and Prescribed Service Level Agreements
- Efficient Task Scheduling Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization in Cloud Computing
- A Multi-Objective Optimization Model for Data-Intensive Workflow Scheduling in Data Grids
Monday, November 7, 12:00 - 12:30
SenseApp Session 2
- Microsecond-Accuracy Time Synchronization Using the IEEE 802.15.4 TSCH Protocol
Monday, November 7, 12:30 - 13:30
Lunch break
Monday, November 7, 13:30 - 14:30
WNM Keynote: YouTube Popularity Dynamics and Third-party Authentication
Abstract: This talk will present some of our measurement-based work on video popularity dynamics and third-party authentication. Video dissemination through sites such as YouTube can have widespread impacts on opinions, thoughts, and cultures. However, not all videos will reach the same popularity and have the same impact. In this talk, we first present some of our work on modeling video popularity dynamics and assess, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the impacts of various content-agnostic factors on video popularity. Second, we present an analysis of the third-party authentication landscape, including a comparison with the third-party content delivery landscape, a longitudinal study of current trends, as well as an evaluation of cross-site information leakages and privacy risks associated with these increasingly used services. If time permits, we may also discuss current personalization trends, and briefly introduce our novel design and implementation of an interactive branched video player solution that allows users to select their own paths through a branched multi-path video, while ensuring seamless playback even when the users defer their branch path choices to the last possible moment.
Bio: Niklas Carlsson is an Associate Professor at Linköping University, Sweden. He received his M.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from Umeå University, Sweden, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has previously worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and as a Research Associate at the University of Calgary, Canada. His research interests are in the areas of design, modeling, characterization, and performance evaluation of distributed systems and networks. He actively serves on international program committees and publishes research papers in leading conferences. Current community involvement includes organizing ACM GreenMetrics (since 2009), being TCP co-chair of IEEE MASCOTS 2015, being an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, being the current chair of IEEE STC on Sustainable Computing, and the acting secretary-treasurer of ACM SIGMETRICS.
Monday, November 7, 13:30 - 15:00
CloudNA Session 3: Cloud Networking
- An Efficient VNE Algorithm Via Preferentially Mapping Important Nodes
- An On-Site Elastic Autonomous Service Network with Efficient Task Assignment
- A Cloud-oriented Algorithm for Virtual Network Embedding Over Multi-Domain
Monday, November 7, 14:30 - 15:00
WNM Session 3
- Improved Calculation of AS Resilience Against IP Prefix Hijacking
Monday, November 7, 15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
Monday, November 7, 15:30 - 16:30
CloudNA Session 4: Big Data and MCC
- Sensitivity-based Anonymization of Big Data
- Bumpster: A Mobile Cloud Computing System for Speed Breakers and Ditches
Monday, November 7, 16:00 - 17:30
N2Women Meeting
Monday, November 7, 18:00 - 21:30
Dhow River Cruise and Dinner
Tuesday, November 8
Tuesday, November 8, 08:30 - 09:00
Registration
Tuesday, November 8, 09:00 - 09:30
Opening and Welcome
Tuesday, November 8, 09:30 - 10:30
Keynote 1: Intelligent Adaptive Management in Local Wireless Networking
Abstract: Wireless technologies play a constantly increasing role also in the local connectivity. They differ from their wired counterparts by far not only in less reliable (and variable) medium and, thus, MAC protocols. Due to limitations in frequency availability, the need for coexistence of different networks (both different technologies and different instances of the same technology managed autonomously by different owners) becomes more and more recognized. The talk will address the questions of adaptive management in such networks.
Bio: Adam Wolisz received the Diploma degree in 1972, the Ph.D. degree in 1976, and the Habil. degree in 1983, all from the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland. He worked several years with the Department of Complex Automation Systems (later Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences) in Gliwice, Poland and GMD Fokus in Berlin leading activities in computer networks and distributed system design and evaluation.
He joined Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, in 1993, where he is currently a Chaired Professor in Telecommunication Networks and an Executive Director of the Institute for Telecommunication Systems. He is also an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA. His current research interests include architectures and protocols of communication networks, wireless/mobile networking, and sensor networks.
Tuesday, November 8, 10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Tuesday, November 8, 11:00 - 12:30
1: Plenary session: Best Paper Candidates
- Confidentiality and Authenticity for Distributed Version Control Systems — A Mercurial Extension
- Even Lower Latency, Even Better Fairness:Logistic Growth Congestion Control in Datacenters
- A Measurement Study on the Distribution Disparity of BGP Instabilities
Tuesday, November 8, 12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
Tuesday, November 8, 13:30 - 15:30
2A: Security and Privacy
- Third-party Tracking on the Web: A Swedish Perspective
- On Assisted Packet Filter Conflicts Resolution: An Iterative Relaxed Approach
- The Small, the Fast and the Lazy (SFL): A General Approach for Fast and Flexible Packet Classification
- Convex Hull Watchdog: Mitigation of Malicious Nodes in Tree-based P2P Monitoring Systems
- The Early Bird Gets the Botnet: A Markov Chain Based Early Warning System for Botnet Attacks
2B: Link-layer Technologies
- An Efficient MAC Layer Packet Fragmentation Scheme with Priority Queuing for Real-Time Video Streaming
- Improving the Fairness of Alternative Backoff with ECN (ABE)
- Dynamic Link Adaptation in IEEE 802.11ac: A Distributed Learning Based Approach
- On an Efficient Random Access Scheme for Capillary Machine Type Communication
- A System Level Solution for DSA Systems: From Low-Cost Sensing to Spectrum Database
2C: Multimedia and Real-time Communication
- Scalable and Cost Efficient Algorithms for Virtual CDN Migration
- The Impact of Active Queue Management on DASH-based Content Delivery
- 100 Gbit/s End-to-End Communication: Designing Scalable Protocols with Soft Real-Time Stream Processing
- MP-ALM: Exploring Reliable Multipath Multicast Streaming with Multipath TCP
- TransFetch: A Viewing Behavior Driven Video Distribution Framework in Public Transport
Tuesday, November 8, 15:30 - 17:30
Demonstrations with Coffee
- Panopticon: Supervising Network Testbed Resources
- Demo: Seamless Transitions Between Filter Schemes for Location-based Mobile Applications
- Exploring Transitions in Mobile Network Monitoring in Highly Dynamic Environments
- Advances in the CLOUDY Community Network Cloud Distribution
- Mobile NDN-Based Dynamic Adaptive Streaming Over HTTP
- Demonstration of Performance Gains Using Information-Aware Content Delivery Mechanisms
- VirtualStack: SDN-controlled Transparent Protocol Transitions At the Edge
- Demo: Design and Evaluation of MoleNet for Wireless Underground Sensor Networks
- Endpoint-transparent Multipath Transport with Software-defined Networks
- Automated Capture and Animated Playback of TCP Behaviour During DASH-based Content Delivery
- Reverse Traceroute with DisNETPerf, a Distributed Internet Paths Performance Analyzer
- Who Goes There? A PIR-Sensor-Based Intrusion Classification System for an Outdoor Environment
- A TLS Interception Proxy with Real-Time Libpcap Export
- Probr Demonstration - Visualizing Passive WiFi Data
Poster Session 1 with Tea
First half of the short paper poster presentations. (Presenting 22 on Tuesday and 38 on Wednesday.)
- Towards Path Quality Metrics for Overlay Networks
- Setting Up a High-Speed TCP Benchmarking Environment—Lessons Learned
- Latency and Lifetime-Aware Clustering and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
- A-LMST: An Adaptive LMST Local Topology Control Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- Experimental Performance Study of Multipath TCP Over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
- Graph Partitioning in Parallelization of Large Scale Networks
- A Time and Energy Efficient Protocol for Locating Coverage Holes in WSNs
- Organization-level Control of Excessive Internet Downloads
- Hardware Modules for Packet Interarrival Time Monitoring for Software Defined Measurements
- Using Probabilistic Multipath Routing to Improve Route Stability in MANETs
- Improved Energy-Aware Routing Algorithm in Software-Defined Networks
- Carving Software-Defined Networks for Scientific Applications with SPATEN
- An Efficiency Pipeline Processing Approach for OpenFlow Switch
- Joint Resource Reservation and Flow Scheduling for Ultra-low Latency Transmission
- Performance Model for 4G/5G Networks Taking Into Account Intra- And Inter-Cell Mobility of Users
- Opportunistic Geographic Forwarding in Wireless Sensor Networks for Critical Rare Events
- Bandwidth-aware Service Placement in Community Network Clouds
- On Periodic Scheduling of Bandwidth Reservations with Deadline Constraint for Big Data Transfer
- A Resources Sharing Architecture for Heterogeneous Wireless Cellular Networks
- Experiments with ODYSSE: Opportunistic Duty cYcle Based Routing for wirelesS Sensor nEtworks
- An Approach to Improve the Cooperation Between Heterogeneous SDN Overlays
- Silence Coding for RFID Tag Anti-collision
Tuesday, November 8, 19:00 - 22:00
Conference Banquet
Wednesday, November 9
Wednesday, November 9, 08:00 - 08:30
Registration
Wednesday, November 9, 08:30 - 10:30
3A: Adhoc, Overlay and Social Networks
- Inferring Future Links in Large Scale Networks
- Meta-heuristic Solution for Dynamic Association Control in Virtualized Multi-rate WLANs
- Distributed Cluster-Topology Maintenance for Mobile Collaborative Applications
- Revisiting the So-called Constructive Interference in Concurrent Transmission
- Topology Preserving Map to Physical Map - A Thin-Plate Spline Based Transform
3B: SDN and Data Centers
- User-Centric Network Provisioning in Software Defined Data Center Environment
- Throughput Maximization in Software-Defined Networks with Consolidated Middleboxes
- Endpoint-transparent Multipath Transport with Software-defined Networks
- Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation for Virtual Network Embedding in Optical Data Center Networks
- Are Today's SDN Controllers Ready for Primetime?
3C: Mobility and Location-dependent Services
- Tri-MCL: Synergistic Localization for Mobile Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks
- Maximum Likelihood Topology Maps for Wireless Sensor Networks Using an Automated Robot
- Seamless Transitions Between Filter Schemes for Location-based Mobile Applications
- The Improvement of Positioning Accuracy by the Advanced Gaussian Process Method
- Context Aware Multi Rate Control in Densely Deployed IEEE802.11 WLAN for Avoiding Performance Anomaly
Wednesday, November 9, 10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Wednesday, November 9, 11:00 - 12:00
Keynote 2: 30 years of Internet Security and the winner is ...
Abstract: Thirty years ago, Brian Reid published an article in the Software Engineering journal entitled "Lessons from the Unix Break-ins at Stanford" [1]. Two years later, we experienced the first major outbreak of the Internet with the so-called Morris worm that was using vulnerabilities that had been publicly reported but not fixed. These were the early days. Such errors were understandable. But have things really changed? In this talk, we will look at some of the past issues that we had to deal with, the lessons learned and, more importantly, the still ongoing plagues that we deal with on a daily basis. The talk will also look at emerging technologies from a security point of view. Are they going to help us, with respect to security issues, or at the contrary are they going to make things worse?
Bio: Since September 2014, Marc Dacier, Ph.D., is leading the growing Cybersecurity Group at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI/HBKU). Dr. Dacier holds a PhD from the INPT, France, obtained in 1994 after 3 years at LAAS-CNRS. After one year as a security consultant in Paris, France, he joined IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland to create the Global Security Analysis Laboratory. In 2002, he left IBM to become a professor at Eurecom, France. In 2008, he left Eurecom to join Symantec to build its European Research Labs and manage all the ongoing collaborative research projects, worldwide. He spent 2 years in the USA while in that role. An internationally recognized expert in cybersecurity, Dr. Dacier has served on more than 60 program committees of all major security and dependability conferences and as a member of the editorial board of several technical journals.
[1] Reid, B. (1986, October). Lessons from the UNIX Break-ins at Stanford. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 11(5), 29-35.
Wednesday, November 9, 12:00 - 12:30
Invitation to LCN 2017
Wednesday, November 9, 12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
Wednesday, November 9, 13:30 - 15:30
4A: IoT and Sensor Networks
- Breach Path Reliability for Directional Sensor Networks
- Error-Bounded Air Quality Mapping Using Wireless Sensor Networks
- Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks: What Blocks the Breakthrough?
- Adaptive Data-centric Clustering with Sensor Networks for Energy Efficient IoT Applications
- Concurrent Transmissions for Communication Protocols in the Internet of Things
4B: Cloud Computing and Information-centric Networking
- Controlling Network Latency in Mixed Hadoop Clusters: Do We Need Active Queue Management?
- Improving the QoE in Personal Clouds with Cross-Swarm Bundling
- Inferring and Controlling Congestion in CCN Via the Pending Interest Table Occupancy
- Multipath Bandwidth Guarantees for Multi-Tenant Cloud Networking
- Man-In-the-Middle Anycast (MIMA): CDN User-server Assignment Becomes Flexible
4C: Security, Privacy and Localization
- OP^4: An OPPortunistic Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Crowdsensing Applications
- Probr - A Generic and Passive WiFi Tracking System
- Of Strategies and Structures: Motif-based Fingerprinting Analysis of Online Reputation Networks
- I Am Alice, I Was in Wonderland: Secure Location Proof Generation and Verification Protocol
- Enabling a Mobility Prediction-aware Follow-Me Cloud
Wednesday, November 9, 15:30 - 17:00
Poster Session 2 with Coffee
Second half of the short paper poster presentations. (Presenting 22 on Tuesday and 38 on Wednesday.)
- Adaptive Transmission Scheme for TCP in Wireless Multi-hop Network
- Hybrid Approach for Mobile Couriers Election in Smart-cities
- QRMNO: Dynamic Resource Reallocation with Minimal Network Overhead in QoS-aware Software Defined Cloud Data Centers
- Spatio-Temporal Coordination of Mobile Robot Swarms
- On the Design and Implementation of a Security Architecture for End to End Services in Software Defined Networks
- Securing ARP in Software Defined Networks
- Certificate Revocation Guard (CRG): An Efficient Mechanism for Checking Certificate Revocation
- How Can I Trust an X.509 Certificate? an Analysis of the Existing Trust Approaches
- Recharge-As-Reward Mechanism to Incentivize Cooperative Nodes in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- Reliable, High-Throughput Transmissions with Systematic Random Code
- Improving Network Monitoring Through Aggregation of HTTP/1.1 Dialogs in IPFIX
- Rapid Deployment Indoor Localization Without Prior Human Participation
- Key Factors in Industrial Control System Security
- Identifying User Actions From HTTP(S) Traffic
- Efficient Learning of Communication Profiles From IP Flow Records
- Authentication and Trust in Service-Centric Networking
- Toward Coexistence of Different Congestion Control Mechanisms
- Incremental Switch Deployment for Hybrid Software-Defined Networks
- Reducing and Balancing Flow Table Entries in Software-Defined Networks
- Monitoring Multi-hop Multi-channel Wireless Networks: Online Sniffer Channel Assignment Under Data Capturing Uncertainty
- Fragmentation-based Multipath Routing for Attack Resilience in Software Defined Networks
- Self-adaptive End-point Mutation Technique Based on Adversary Strategy Awareness
- Instantaneous Proxy-Based Key Update for CP-ABE
- High-Speed Network Traffic Analysis: Detecting VoIP Calls in Secure Big Data Streaming
- TAS-IoT: Trust-based Adaptive Security in the IoT
- Air-interface Slice Based Dynamic Resource Reservation for Ultra-low Latency IoT Transmissions
- Anonymization Techniques for Preserving Data Quality in Participatory Sensing
- Model-based Survivability Analysis of a Virtualized System
- Resource Allocation for Delay Sensitive Applications in Mobile Cloud Computing
- Toward Smart Moving Target Defense for Linux Container Resiliency
- Addressing Network Interoperability in Hybrid IEEE 802.11s/LTE Smart Grid Communications
- Mitigating Crossfire Attacks Using SDN-based Moving Target Defense
- PSCAN: A Port Scanning Network Covert Channel
- ANOTEL: Cellular Networks with Location Privacy
- Wavelet-Based Analysis of Interference in WSNs
- CodePLC: A Network Coding MAC Protocol for Power Line Communication
- Distributing Distributed Revision Control Systems
- User Demand Aware Soft-Association Control in Ultra-Dense Small Cell Networks
Wednesday, November 9, 17:00 - 18:30
5A: Vehicular Networks
- Performance Evaluation of Concurrent IEEE 802.11 Systems in the Automotive Domain
- Optimal Gateway Placement and Reliable Internet Access in Urban Environments
- Towards Real-Time and Temporal Information Services in Vehicular Networks Via Multi-Objective Optimization
- B.A.T.M.A.N. Handover Extension for Routing Nodes in Infrastructure WMNs
5B: Performance Evaluation
- Achieving Stable iBGP with Only One Add-Path
- BAH: A Bitmap Index Compression Algorithm for Fast Data Retrieval
- A Comparison of TCP Congestion Control Algorithms in 10G Networks
5C: Network Coding
- Adding a Network Coding Extension to CoAP for Large Resource Transfer
- Best of Both Worlds: Prioritizing Network Coding Without Increased Space Complexity
- Rate-adaptive Link Quality Estimation for Coded Packet Networks
Thursday, November 10
Thursday, November 10, 08:15 - 08:45
Registration
Thursday, November 10, 08:45 - 09:00
ON-MOVE: Welcome and Opening Remark
P2MNET: Welcome and Opening Remark
Thursday, November 10, 09:00 - 10:30
ON-MOVE Session 1
- Bridging Between Quality of Experience and Quality of Service Through TCP Flag Ratios
- Energy Harvesting Wearables Can Tell Which Train Route You Have Taken
- Optimizing Last Mile Delivery Using Public Transport with Multi-Agent Based Control
- Nested Rollout Policy Adaptation for Optimizing Vehicle Selection in Complex VRPs
Thursday, November 10, 09:00 - 10:00
P2MNET Keynote: Big Sensed Data in the Internet of Things
Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is opening new horizons in systems intelligence, where physical objects (embedded with sensory, identification and networking capabilities) can interact with other objects through the global infrastructure of wireless/wired Internet. These systems can be monitored and controlled by filtering and processing collected data. Such intelligent design will naturally result is efficient and cost effective systems. Several architectures are being built to implement IoT from two different perspectives. The rise of ad hoc sensors, and new manifestations of sensing systems within the Internet of Things resulted in a tide of sensed data that is potentially drowning our communication resources. In this talk I overview the evolution of sensing systems as they contributed to Big Data, and outline the rising challenges in both communicating and understanding this data. I argue that a solution lies not in sensing systems alone, but in the expedited funneling and processing of data as we attempt to prune the unnecessary, and make sense of the valuable. The quest for energy efficiency that dominated Sensor Networks for so long, is now matched with a more pressing demand for ubiquity and real-time latency.
Bio: Hossam Hassanein is a leading authority in the areas of broadband, wireless and mobile networks architecture, protocols, control and performance evaluation. His record spans more than 500 publications in journals, conferences and book chapters, in addition to numerous keynotes and plenary talks in flagship venues. Dr. Hassanein has received several recognitions and best papers awards at top international conferences. He is also the founder and director of the Telecommunications Research Lab (TRL) at Queen's University School of Computing, with extensive international academic and industrial collaborations. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and is a former chair of the IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (TC AHSN). Dr. Hassanein is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker (Distinguished Lecturer 2008-2010).
Thursday, November 10, 09:15 - 09:30
NSWMD: Welcome and Opening Remark
Thursday, November 10, 09:30 - 10:30
NSWMD Session 1
- A Wearable Device for Continuous Cardiorespiratory System Monitoring
- Empirical Studies of ECG Multiple Fiducial-points Based Binary Sequence Generation (MFBSG) Algorithm in E-Health Sensor Platform
Thursday, November 10, 10:00 - 10:30
P2MNET Session 1: Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
- Joint Rate and Queue Based Routing for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
Thursday, November 10, 10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
Thursday, November 10, 11:00 - 12:00
ON-MOVE Keynote: Optimizing HTTP-Based Adaptive Streaming in Vehicular Environment using Markov Decision Process
Abstract: Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) is the fundamental mechanics supporting web browsing on the Internet. An HTTP server stores large volumes of contents and delivers specific pieces to the clients when requested. There is a recent move to use HTTP for video streaming as well, which promises seamless integration of video delivery to existing HTTP-based server platforms. This is achieved by segmenting the video into many small chunks and storing these chunks as separate files on the server. For adaptive streaming, the server stores different quality versions of the same chunk in different files to allow real-time quality adaptation of the video due to network bandwidth variation experienced by a client. For each chunk of the video, which quality version to download, therefore, becomes a major decision-making challenge for the streaming client, especially in vehicular environment with significant uncertainty in mobile bandwidth. In this talk, we demonstrate that for such decision making, Markov decision process (MDP) is superior to previously proposed non-MDP solutions. Using publicly available video and bandwidth datasets, we show that MDP achieves up to 15x reduction in playback deadline miss compared to a well-known non-MDP solution when the MDP has the prior knowledge of the bandwidth model. We also consider a model-free MDP implementation that uses Q-learning to gradually learn the optimal decisions by continuously observing the outcome of its decision making. We find that MDP with Q-learning significantly outperforms MDP that uses bandwidth models.
Bio: Dr. Salil Kanhere received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. His current research interests include pervasive computing, crowdsourcing, embedded sensor networks, mobile networking, privacy and security. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed articles and delivered over 15 tutorials and keynote talks on these research topics. He is a contributing research staff at National ICT Australia and a faculty associate at Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. Salil regularly serves on the organising committee of a number of IEEE and ACM international conferences. He currently serves as the Area Editor for Pervasive and Mobile Computing and Computer Communications. Salil is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the ACM. He is a recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2014.
NSWMD Session 2
- Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.6 MAC in Monitoring of a Cardiac Patient
- Simulation Framework for a Security Protocol for Wireless Body Sensor Networks
Thursday, November 10, 11:00 - 12:30
P2MNET Session 2: Wireless and Mobile Networks
- Decentralized Time-Based Target Searching Algorithm Using Sensor Network Topology Maps
- Testbed and Simulation-based Evaluation of Privacy-preserving Algorithms for Smart Grid AMI Networks
- An Enhancement of Multipath TCP Performance in Lossy Wireless Networks
Thursday, November 10, 12:00 - 12:30
ON-MOVE Session 2
- Optimizing Broadcasting Scheme for VANETs Using Genetic Algorithm