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Schedule at a Glance
Note: The technical program refers to the GMT-5 hours time zone.
| Start | End | November 18 | November 19 | November 20 | |
| 8:00 | 9:00 | Registration | Registration | Registration | |
| 9:00 | 9:30 | Opening Ceremony |
Keynote 3
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Keynote 5
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| 9:30 | 10:00 |
Keynote 1
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| 10:00 | 10:30 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:30 | 11:00 |
Tutorial 1
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Technical Session 4 –
Technical Session 5 – Technical Session 6 – Technical Session 7 – |
Technical Session 12 –
Technical Session 13 – Technical Session 14 – Technical Session 15 – |
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| 11:00 | 11:30 | ||||
| 11:30 | 12:00 | ||||
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| 12:30 | 14:00 | Networking Break | Networking Break | Networking Break | |
| 14:00 | 14:30 |
Keynote 2
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Keynote 4
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Keynote 6
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| 14:30 | 15:00 | ||||
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30 | 16:00 |
Tutorial 2
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– Technical session 1
(VLC Special Track) – – Technical session 2 – – Technical session 3 – |
Technical Session 8 –
Technical Session 9 – Technical Session 10 – Technical Session 11 – |
Technical Session 16 – Technical Session 17 – Technical Session 18 – |
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| 16:30 | 17:00 | ||||
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Hackathon presentations | |||
| 17:30 | 18:00 |
YP Panel
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| 18:00 | 19:00 | Closing Ceremony | |||
Keynote Schedule
| Keynote | Date | Time UTC-5 | Speaker | Session Chair |
| 1 | November 18th | 09:30 – 10:30 | Mohamed-Slim Alouini | Marco To De Leon |
| 2 | November 18th | 14:00 – 15:00 | Zuqing Zhu | Carlos A. Gutierrez |
| 3 | November 19th | 09:00 – 10:00 | Christos Verikoukis | Marco To De Leon |
| 4 | November 19th | 14:00 – 15:00 | Winston Seah | Carlos A. Gutierrez |
| 5 | November 20th | 09:00 – 10:00 | Mohsen Guizani | Marco To De Leon |
| 6 | November 20th | 14:00 – 15:00 | Colin Perkins / Robin Marx | Carlos A. Gutierrez |
Tutorials Schedule
| Tutorial | Date | Time UTC-5 | Speakers | Session Chair |
| 1 | November 18th | 10:30 – 12:30 | Laura Galluccio, Anna Vizziello, and Pietro Savazzi | Carlos A. Gutierrez |
| 2 | November 18th | 15:30 – 17:30 | Sastri L. Kota and Paresh Saxena | Marco To De Leon |
Note: The technical program refers to the GMT-5 hours time zone.
November 18
| Technical Sessions | ||
| Start | End | Technical Session 1: Optical and Visible Light Communications
Session Chair: Cesar Arzudia, University of Chile |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | On the Performance of Visible Light Communications in Underground Mines |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Noise reduction in a high power VLC signal with an hysteresis band control loop for M-FSK modulation |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Evaluation of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Diffuse Visible Light Communications Link |
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Space-time-Color Coding using QLED Color Shift Keying (CSK) Modulation for Visible Light Communications (VLC) |
| Start | End | Technical Session 2: Artificial Intelligence for Communications and Networks
Session Chair: Lisandro Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Maximizing the Transmission Rate in Optical Systems using Swarm Intelligence |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Antenna Array Synthesis Through Particle Swarm Optimization for V2V Communications in Urban Intersections |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | A Low-Complexity Multi-Survivor Dynamic Programming for Constrained Discrete Optimization |
| Start | End | Technical Session 3: Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
Session Chair: Carlos Gutierrez, Universidad Autónoma de San Luís de Potosí |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Effect of Antenna Orientation in Fall Detection Systems Based on WiFi Signals |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Deep Learning for Resource Allocation of a Marine Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Design of a DuC-based MAC Protocol ConsideringInformation Associated to the Battery |
November 19
| Technical Sessions | ||
| Start | End | Technical Session 4: Communications Theory and Systems
Session Chair: Andrés Navarro, Universidad ICESI |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | On the Design of a Substrate Integrated Waveguide Rotman Lens for Ku-Band Applications |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | SimRIS Channel Simulator for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Empowered Communication Systems |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Multidimensional Media-Based Modulation |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | On the Design of a Substrate Integrated Waveguide Butler Matrix for K-Band Applications |
| Start | End | Technical Session 5: Internet of Things
Session Chair: Marco Antonio To De Leon, Universidad Galileo, Guatemala |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Cybersecurity as Information Retrieval Dimension for Cloud-based Edge-powered IoT Search |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | A Fuzzy Intrusion Detection System for Identifying Cyber-Attacks on IoT Networks |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Improving DDoS Detection in IoT Networks Through Analysis of Network Traffic Characteristics |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Detecting FDI Attack on Dense IoT Network with Distributed Filtering Collaboration and Consensus |
| Start | End | Technical Session 6: Mobile and Wireless Networks
Session Chair: Carlos Gutierrez, Universidad Autónoma de San Luís de Potosí |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Outdoor-to-Indoor Propagation at sub-6 GHz band: Measurements and Analysis in Multi-Storey Environment |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Performance evaluation for 5G FWA in Quasi Static mmWave Channels: OFDM vs SC-QAM |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | IEEE 802.11be: Doppler Effects on the Performance of Chase Combining HARQ Protocol |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Performance Evaluation of PTP Synchronization Networks for 5G Front/Mid-Haul Transport |
| Start | End | Technical Session 7: Signal Processing for Communications
Session Chair: Nelson Fonseca, University of Campinas |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Recursive method for the equivalent baseband channel for hybrid beamforming in massive MU-MIMO mmWave systems |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | A Double-Stage Phase Hit Mitigation Scheme In Microwave Backhaul Links |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | A Spectral Efficiency Enhancement for ChirpSpread Spectrum Downlink Communications |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Aircraft Signal Detection in Heavy Co-Channel Interference Environment |
| Start | End | Technical Session 8: Machine Learning for Communications and Networks
Session Chair: Oscar Caicedo, Universidad del Cauca |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Classifying and Understanding Tor Traffic UsingTree-based Models |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Straggler Remission for Federated Learning via Decentralized Redundant Cayley Tree |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Power Delay Profile Filtering Technique Using Artificial Neural Networks |
| 17:00 | 17:30 | DQN-AF: Deep Q-Network based Adaptive Forwarding Strategy for Named Data Networking |
| Start | End | Technical Session 9: Optical and Visible Light Communications
Session Chair: Cesar Azurdia, University of Chile |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Design and Experimentation of a Low-cost Receiver for Visible Light Communications |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | On a Clustering Partitioning approach for Wireless Visible Light Communication Networks |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | M-QAM modulation technique effect for an OFDM-RoF/XGS-PON converged network |
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Performance Evaluation of Ethernet Passive Optical Networks with Multi-ONU Customers |
| Start | End | Technical Session 10: Edge Computing and Internet of Things
Session Chair: Marco Antonio To De Leon, Universidad Galileo, Guatemala |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Optimizing uploading time and energy consumption in IoT 5G networks |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Resource Allocation Technique for Edge Computing using Grey Wolf Optimization Algorithm |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | A Downlink Non Orthogonal Multiple Access for Chirp Spread Spectrum Communications |
| Start | End | Technical Session 11: Multimedia and Location-based Services
Session Chair: Carlos Raniery Paula dos Santos, Federal University of Santa Maria |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Parameter Selection for a Video Communication System based on HEVC and Channel Coding |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Find My Car: Simple RSS-based UWB Localization Algorithms for Single and Multiple Transmitters |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Indoor Positioning System Prototype using Low Cost Technology |
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Proposal of Community Alarm Systems over Digital Terrestrial Television based on ISDB-T Standard: A Case Study of Ecuador |
November 20
| Technical Sessions | ||
| Start | End | Technical Session 12: Network Security
Session Chair: Marco Antonio To De Leon, Universidad Galileo, Guatemala |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Secure Data Integrity in VANETs based on CS-DC Scheme |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Multimetric Online Intrusion Detection in Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Review: Deep Learning Methods for Cybersecurity and Intrusion Detection Systems |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Physical Layer Security in Underlay Cognitive Radio Networks Over \alpha-\mu Fading Channels |
| Start | End | Technical Session 13: Network Programmability
Session Chair: Oscar Caicedo, Universidad del Cauca |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Patcher: Towards Fault-Tolerant Probing Planning for In-band Network Telemetry |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Enabling Partial Offload of Virtualized Network Functions into the Programmable Data Plane |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | On the Network Slicing for Enterprise Services with Hybrid SDN |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | A Hybrid Container-Based SDN Emulation Tool |
| Start | End | Technical Session 14: Artificial Intelligence for Communications and Networks
Session Chair: Carmelo Bastos-Filho, Universidad de Pernambuco |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | DFT and ANN based channel estimation techniques combined to 3-tap equalization for a proposed FBMC scattered pilot frame model |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | QoS-Aware Power Management with Convolutional Neural Network |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Genetic Algorithm in Resource Allocation of RAN Slicing with QoS Isolation and Fairness |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Channel Profile Independent Usage of Convolutional Neural Networks for Receiver Chain Optimization |
| Start | End | Technical Session 15: Wireless Communications
Session Chair: Daniel Jaramillo, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Performance of Blind Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Under Impulsive Noise |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Two-Way Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks with Nonlinear RF-Energy Harvester |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | A BER Analysis of NOMA on Rician Fading Channel |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Accuracy Analysis of the Geometrical Approximation of MIMO Channels Using Ray-Tracing |
| Start | End | Technical Session 16: Internet of Things
Session Chair: Jefferson Almeida, Presbiterian Mackenzie University |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Creating a more efficient Internet of Things through predictive analysis of resources |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | GROWN: Local Data Compression in Real-Time To Support Energy Efficiency in WBAN |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | A decision support framework to enhance user experiences in resource constrained devices |
| Start | End | Technical Session 17: Mobile and Wireless Networks
Session Chair: Nelson Fonseca, University of Campinas |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Performance Evaluation of a Millimeter Wave MIMO Hybrid Beamforming System |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Channel Measurement and Modeling for Path Loss Prediction in Vegetated Environment for IEEE 802.11ah Network |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Performance Analysis of a Nanocolumn-RTD VCO for Emerging THz Wireless Applications |
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Experimental Evaluation of Capture Effect in an IEEE 802.15.4 WSN based on Unslotted-CSMA/CA |
| Start | End | Technical Session 18: Communication QoS/QoE
Session Chair: Carlos Gutierrez, Universidad Autónoma de San Luís de Potosí |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Optimization of computer networks design integrating dependability and business aspects |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | On-Demand Placement and Scheduling of Virtual Network Functions with Software Requirements |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | MSE Analysis of Bi-scale LMS Used for Narrowband Interference Cancellation |