Program - IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking

Program of IEEE Standards Thessaloniki Summit 2021 and IEEE CSCN 2021

December 15-17, 2021

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SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

Time in (EET)	WEDNESDAY 15	THURSDAY 16	FRIDAY 17
16:00-16:05	Opening of IEEE Standards Summit 2021	Opening of IEEE CSCN 2021	Tutorial 1 / Tutorial 2
16:05-17:00	Keynote Speech 1	Keynote Speech 4	Tutorial 1 / Tutorial 2
17:00-17:45	Keynote Speech 2	S1 / S2	Keynote Speech 6
17:45-18:00	*Break*	*Break*	*Break*
18:00-19:15	Panel 1	Panel 3	Panel 4
19:15-20:00	Keynote Speech 3	Keynote Speech 5	Keynote Speech 7
20:00-20:30	*Break*	*Break*	*Break*
20:30-22:00	Panel 2	S3 / S4	Panel 5
22:00-23:00	Short Technical Talks	S5 / S6	S7 / S8
23:00-23:15	Closing Session	Closing Session	Closing Session

FULL PROGRAM

Wednesday, December 15

Wednesday, December 15, 16:00 – 16:05

O1: Opening of IEEE Standards Thessaloniki Summit 2021

Rooms: Day 1 (Zoom Room 1), Standards Summit (Zoom Room)

Chairs: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA), Edward G Tiedemann, Jr (Qualcomm Technologies Inc. & Qualcomm Incorporated, USA)

Wednesday, December 15, 16:05 – 17:00

K1: Keynote Speech – James Matthews, President , IEEE Standards Association

Room: Standards Summit (Zoom Room)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

Wednesday, December 15, 17:00 – 17:45

K2: Keynote Speech – Mazen Chymatelli, President, MulteFire Alliance

Simplify Your Path to 5G Private Networks

Room: Standards Summit (Zoom Room)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

Wednesday, December 15, 17:45 – 18:00

Break

Wednesday, December 15, 18:00 – 19:15

P1: Panel – Towards a full Verticals integration in 5G-Advanced and 6G systems and Standards

Room: Standards Summit (Zoom Room)

Moderator: Riccardo Trivisonno (Huawei Technologies, Germany)

Wednesday, December 15, 19:15 – 20:00

K3: Keynote Speech – David Boswarthick, Director of New Technologies (NET), ETSI

3GPP Status of 5G Standards, ETSI Activity on Research and Standards for Beyond 5G

Room: Standards Summit (Zoom Room)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

Wednesday, December 15, 20:00 – 20:30

Break

Wednesday, December 15, 20:30 – 22:00

P2: Panel – Current IEEE 802.11 Standards Activities

Room: Standards Summit (Zoom Room)

Moderator: Jon Rosdahl (Qualcomm, USA)

Wednesday, December 15, 22:00 – 23:00

ST1: Short Talks – Standardization Activities by 5GPP Research Projects

Room: Standards Summit (Zoom Room)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

Wednesday, December 15, 23:00 – 23:15

Open discussion and Closing Session

Room: Standards Summit (Zoom Room)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

Thursday, December 16

Thursday, December 16, 16:00 – 16:05

O2: Opening of IEEE CSCN 2021

Day 1 (Zoom Room 1)

Thursday, December 16, 16:05 – 17:00

K4: Keynote Speech – Bilel Jamousi, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

International Standards to enable 5G networks and digital transformation

Day 1 (Zoom Room 1)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

Thursday, December 16, 17:00 – 17:45

S1: Resource Allocation and Management

Day 1 (Zoom Room 1)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

Reverse Spectrum Allocation for Spectrum Sharing between TN and NTN: HaoWei Lee (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Kader Medles (MediaTek Inc., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Vector Jie (MediaTek Inc., Shanghai, China); Debby Lin (MediaTek Inc., Taiwan); Xc Zhu (MediaTek, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); I-Kang Fu (MediaTek Inc., Taiwan); Hung-Yu Wei (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

pp. 32-37
Global MEC supporting automotive services: from multi-operator live trials to standardization: Dario Sabella (Intel, Germany); Purvi Thakkar (Intel Corporation, USA); Leonardo Gomes Baltar (Intel Deutschland GmbH, Germany); Andrea Laganà, Roberto Querio, Maurizio De Paola and Mauro Castagno (Telecom Italia, Italy); Maria Praveen (Harman, India); Saumil Kapadia (Harman International, India); Navin Chandra Rao Katta (Harman, USA); Jyoti B Sharma (Verizon, USA); Sushanta Das (Stellantis, USA); Marina Giordanino (Stellantis); Youssef Abdelilah (American Tower, USA); Shamik Mishra, Himanshu Singh and Nilanjan Samajdar (Capgemini, India); Alexander Harmand (Telefonica, Spain); Maria Cuevas (BT Group Chief Technology Office, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Philip Eardley (BT Group, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Michael Elkabas and Mohamed Eldakroury (Telus, USA); Fabrizio Arneodo (5T – Telematic Technologies for Transport and Traffic in Turin, Italy); Riccardo Lesca (5T S. R. L. – Tecnologie Telematiche Trasporti Traffico Torino, Italy)

pp. 126-132
Angle Diversity Trasmitter For High Speed Data Center Uplink Communications: Abrar S. Alhazmi, Taisir El-Gorashi, Sanaa Hamid Mohamed, Jaafar Elmirghani and Osama Zwaid Alsulami (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

pp. 109-114

S2: 5G Verticals, Services and Applications

Day 1 (Zoom Room 2)

Chair: Dimitrios J. Vergados (University of Western Macedonia & School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Omnidirectional MediA Format (OMAF): Toolbox for Virtual Reality Services: Sachin Deshpande (Sharp Laboratories of America, USA); Miska Hannuksela (Nokia Research Center, Finland)

pp. 38-43
Worst-M CQI Reporting and MCS Selection for Indoor Factory Scenario: Chun-Tai Liu and JenYi Pan (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)

pp. 28-31
Network Slicing Strategies for Smart Industry Applications: Thisuri Umagiliya (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka); Shalitha Wijethilaka (University College Dublin, Ireland); Chamitha De Alwis (University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka); Pawani Porambage (University of Oulu, Finland); Madhusanka Liyanage (University College Dublin, Ireland & University of Oulu, Finland)

pp. 182-187

Thursday, December 16, 17:45 – 18:00

Break

Thursday, December 16, 18:00 – 19:15

P3: Panel – Advances in Standardization for IoT

Day 1 (Zoom Room 1)

Chair: Aggeliki Sgora (Ionian University, Greece)

Thursday, December 16, 19:15 – 20:00

K5: Keynote Speech – Dorothy Stanley, Hewlett Packard, USA

IEEE 802.11 standards: Wi-Fi 6 and beyond

Day 1 (Zoom Room 1)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

Thursday, December 16, 20:00 – 20:30

Break

Thursday, December 16, 20:30 – 22:00

S3: Internet of Things

Day 1 (Zoom Room 1)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

A Pure HTTP/3 Alternative to MQTT-over-QUIC in Resource-Constrained IoT: Darius Saif and Ashraf Matrawy (Carleton University, Canada)

pp. 105-108
ECTS: Enhanced Centralized TSCH Scheduling with Packet Aggregation for Industrial IoT: Costas Michaelides (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Toni Adame (UPF, Spain); Boris Bellalta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

pp. 133-138
Mobile IoT Networks: Standards, Use Cases and Requirements: Nikos Dimitriou and Kimon Kontovasilis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece)

pp. 169-174
Assessment of the Efficiency of 5G Network Exposure for the Industrial Internet of Things: Géza Szabó (Ericsson Research, Hungary); Gergely Seres (Ericsson, Sweden); Mark Laszlo Mikecz and Monika Hortobagyi (Ericsson, Hungary); Sandor Rácz (Ericsson Research, Hungary); József Pető (Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Ericsson, Hungary); Tibor Cinkler (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

pp. 1-7
Managing Self-Interference Cancellation and IoT Connectivity in Full-Duplex Massive MIMO Networks: Radwa Sultan (Manhattan College, USA); Ahmed Shamseldeen (CommScope, USA)

pp. 163-168
Autonomous Balancing Sleep Mode for Wireless BMS in Electric Vehicles: Fabian Antonio Rincon Vija (IMT Atlantique & Renault Group, France); Samuel Cregut (Renault Group, France); Georgios Z. Papadopoulos (IMT Atlantique, France); Nicolas Montavont (Institut Mines Telecom / IMT Atlantique, France)

pp. 50-56

S4: 5G and Beyond Communications (#1)

Day 1 (Zoom Room 2)

Parabolic Reflector-Based Mode Multiplexing Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Backhaul Links: Peyman Neshaastegaran (Huawei Technologies Co. LTD. & Carleton University, Canada); Wenyao Zhai (Huawei Technologies Canada Research Center, Canada); Ming Jian (Huawei Technologies Co. LTD., Canada)

pp. 57-62
Time Reversal Precoding at SubTHz Frequencies: Experimental Results on Spatiotemporal Focusing: Ali Mokh (ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institut Langevin, France); Julien de Rosny (CNRS, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, France); George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens, Greece); Ramin Khayatzadeh (Huawei, France); Abdelwaheb Ourir (Institut Langevin ESPCI Paris CNRS, France); Mohamed Kamoun (Huawei France, France); Arnaud Tourin (Laboratoire Ondes et Acoustique (LOA), France); Mathias Fink (Institut Langevin, ESPCI Paris, France)

pp. 87-91
Leveraging User Equipment for Radio Access Network Augmentation: Jordi Pérez-Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Oriol Sallent (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

pp. 115-119
Performance Evaluation of Integrated Access and Backhaul in 5G Networks: Philippe Fabian (B-com, France); Georgios Z. Papadopoulos (IMT Atlantique, France); Patrick Savelli (B-com, France); Bernard A. Cousin (University of Rennes 1 & IRISA Research Laboratory, France)

pp. 139-144
Analyses of NSTR Multi-link Operation in the Presence of Legacy Devices in an IEEE 802.11be Network: Nikolay Korolev (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology & Huawei Moscow Research Center, Russia); Ilya Levitsky and Evgeny Khorov (IITP RAS, Russia)

pp. 200-204
Enabling Bi-directional Haptic Control in Next Generation Communication Systems: Research, Standards, and Vision: Chathura Sarathchandra and Sebastian Robitzsch (InterDigital Europe, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mona Ghassemian (Interdigital, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ulises Olvera-Hernandez (InterDigital Communications, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

pp. 81-86

Thursday, December 16, 22:00 – 23:00

S5: URLLC and Automotive

Day 1 (Zoom Room 1)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

Wireless TSN with Multi-Radio Wi-Fi: Juan Fang (Intel Labs & Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA); Susruth Sudhakaran, Dave A Cavalcanti, Carlos Cordeiro and Cheng Chen (Intel Corporation, USA)

pp. 75-80
MCS Adaptation within the Cellular V2X Sidelink: Andres Burbano-Abril (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico); Brian McCarthy (University College Cork, Ireland); Miguel Lopez-Guerrero (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico); Victor Rangel (National University of Mexico, Mexico); Aisling O’Driscoll (University College Cork, Ireland)

pp. 21-27
Shape-Based Telemetry Approach for Distracted Driving Behavior Detection: Ryan Mercer (University of California, Riverside, USA); Seyhan Ucar (Toyota Motor North America R&D, InfoTech Labs, USA); Eamonn Keogh (University of California, Riverside, USA)

pp. 44-49
V2X Misbehavior and Collective Perception Service: Considerations for Standardization: Raashid Ansari, Jean-Philippe Monteuuis, Jonathan Petit and Cong Chen (Qualcomm, USA)

pp. 69-74

S6: 5G Softwarization and Network Slicing

Day 1 (Zoom Room 2)

Chair: Aggeliki Sgora (Ionian University, Greece)

Latent Space Transformers for Generalizing Deep Networks: Hamed Farkhari (ISCTE & PDM&FC, Portugal); Joseanne Cristina Ocroch Viana (Lisbon University Institute, Portugal); Nidhi (Aarhus University, Denmark); Luís Miguel Campos (PDM&FC, Portugal); Pedro Sebastião (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal); Albena Mihovska and Purnima Lala Mehta (Aarhus University, Denmark); Luis Bernardo (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia – Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

pp. 151-156
A Survey on AI based Network Slicing Standards: Evangelos Thomatos (Ionian University, Greece); Aggeliki Sgora (Ionian University, Greece); Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece) and University of New Mexico (USA))

pp. 157-162
Overview of Network Slicing: Business and Standards Perspective for Beyond 5G Networks: Bahram Khan (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal & Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal); Nidhi, Albena Mihovska and Ramjee Prasad (Aarhus University, Denmark); Fernando J. Velez (University of Beira Interior & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

pp. 188-193
Orchestrating Intelligent Network Operations in Programmable Networks: Seppo Hätönen and Ibbad Hafeez (University of Helsinki, Finland); Julien Mineraud (Moprim, Finland); Ashwin Rao and Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki, Finland)

pp. 92-98

Thursday, December 16, 23:00 – 23:15

Open discussion and Closing Session

Day 1 (Zoom Room 1)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

Friday, December 17

Friday, December 17, 16:00 – 17:00

T1: Tutorial 1 – Tuncer Baykas, IEEE Standards Coordinator in Region 8

Training on Research Exploitation and Presentation at IEEE standardization meetings

Day 2 (Zoom Room 1)

T2: Tutorial 2 – Evgeny Khorov, Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences

A very brief introduction to Wi-Fi 7

Day 2 (Zoom Room 2)

Friday, December 17, 17:00 – 17:45

K6: Keynote Speech – Andreas Mueller, Bosch GmbH, Germany

On the way to Industrial 5G – Are we all set?

Day 2 (Zoom Room 1)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

Friday, December 17, 17:45 – 18:00

Break

Friday, December 17, 18:00 – 19:15

P4: Standards for Vertical Industries

Day 2 (Zoom Room 1)

Chair: Adam Drobot (OpenTechWorks, Inc, USA)

Friday, December 17 19:15 – 20:00

K7: Keynote Speech – Wanshi Chen, Qualcomm, USA

5G NR in 3GPP RAN: Current Status and Future Perspectives

Day 2 (Zoom Room 1)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

Friday, December 17, 20:00 – 20:30

Break

Friday, December 17, 20:30 – 22:00

P5: Panel – Standardization for UAVs and Drones

Day 2 (Zoom Room 1)

Chair: Kameswara Rao Namuduri (University of North Texas, USA)

Friday, December 17, 22:00 – 23:00

S7: 5G and Beyond Communications (#2)

Day 2 (Zoom Room 1)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)

TLS Performance Evaluation in the Control Plane of a 5G Core Network Slice: Alireza Hosseini, Danish Sattar and Ashraf Matrawy (Carleton University, Canada)

pp. 145-150
Link-Layer Software-Defined Addressing using Block Address Registration and Claiming (BARC): Roger B. Marks (EthAirNet Associates, USA)

pp. 15-20
SIC Aided K-Repetition for Mission-Critical MTC in Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Jie Ding and Jinho Choi (Deakin University, Australia)

pp. 8-14
Synthetic Wireless Signal Generation for Neural Network Algorithms: Tina L Burns and Richard Martin (Rutgers University, USA); Dragoslav Stojadinovic (Kryptowire LLC, USA); Ryan Davis (Rutgers University, USA); Ivan Seskar (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA); Jorge Ortiz (The State University of New Jersey, USA); Miguel Camelo (University of Antwerp – imec, Belgium)

pp. 194-199

S8: Access Network and Edge/Fog Computing for 5G

Day 2 (Zoom Room 2)

Chair: Dimitris Ampeliotis (Ionian University & University of Patras, Greece)

Time-Energy-Constrained Closed-Loop FBL Communication for Dependable MEC: Bin Han (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany); Yao Zhu and Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

pp. 120-125
Optimized Passive Optical Networks with Cascaded-AWGRs for Data Centers: Mohammed Alharthi and Sanaa Hamid Mohamed (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Barzan Yosuf (University of Leeds & Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Taisir El-Gorashi and Jaafar Elmirghani (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

pp. 175-181
Generating synthetic 5G infrastructures with Infra5ynth: Victor Cionca (Cork Institute of Technology & Nimbus Centre, Ireland); Hemanth Pannem, Akshatha Sathyanarayan, Archit Baweja, Ki Suh Lee and Sacheth Hegde (VMware Inc, USA); Donna O’Shea (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland)

pp. 63-68
Energy Efficient Resource Allocation in Federated Fog Computing Networks: Abdullah M Alqahtani (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Barzan Yosuf (University of Leeds & Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sanaa Hamid Mohamed, Taisir El-Gorashi and Jaafar Elmirghani (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

pp. 99-104

Friday, December 17, 23:00 – 23:15

Open discussion and Closing Session

Day 2 (Zoom Room 1)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University (Greece), Greece & University of New Mexico (USA), USA)