Technical Program

Thursday, October 27

8:45 - 9:00

Welcome Message

9:00 - 10:00

Keynote Speech

Managing the Edge: Challenges, Open Issues, and Case Studies
Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

10:00 - 11:00

MSWM 9: Channel Access and Optimization in Wireless Networks 2

A Frequency-based Intelligent Slicing in LoRaWAN with Admission Control Aspects.
Ghina Dandachi (Inria, France); Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul (University of Rennes 1, France)
Interference Aware Heuristics to Optimize Power Beacons for Battery-less WSNs.
Akash Kumar (IIIT Allahabad, India); Jagpreet Singh (Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India)

11:00 - 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 - 12:45

MSWM 10: Privacy and Positioning

Characterizing Wi-Fi Probing Behavior for Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing.
Pegah Torkamandi, Ljubica Pajevic Kärkkäinen and Jörg Ott (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Anonymized Counting of Nonstationary Wi-Fi Devices When Monitoring Crowds
Valeriu-Daniel Stanciu and Maarten van Steen (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Ciprian Dobre (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Andreas Peter (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Comparison of User Presence Information from Mobile Phone and Sensor Data
Solohaja Rabenjamina, Razvan Stanica and Oana Iova (Inria & Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA Lyon, CITI, France); Herve Rivano (Inria & Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA Lyon, CITI, France)

12:45 - 13:15

Lunch break

13:15 - 15:15

Vehicular Networks

Implementation of a Decentralized Traffic Congestion Avoidance Mechanism for VANETs
Aishik Sanyal (Dalhousie University, Canada); Adetokunbo Makanju (New York Institute of Technology, Canada); Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Ultra-Reliable Computation Offloading for Aerial-Ground Cooperative Vehicular Networks with Joint Mobility Optimization and Transmission Scheduling
Shiyi Liu, Jianshan Zhou, Xu Han, Daxin Tian, Victor C. M. Leung.
Demo: A Combined Multipath Connectivity and Flight Simulation Framework
Aygün Baltaci (Airbus & Technical University of Munich, Germany); Fabien Geyer and Markus Klügel (Airbus, Germany); Dominic A. Schupke (Airbus Defence and Space GmbH & Airbus Central Research and Technology, Germany)

Friday, October 28

09:00 - 10:30

Wireless Communication

Enabling Edge Computing over LoRaWAN: A Device-Gateway Coordination Protocol
Ivan Fardin and Stefano Milani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Francesca Cuomo (University of Rome Sapienza, Italy); Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
How Accurate is LoRa Positioning in Realistic Conditions?
Anna Strzoda (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics & IITiS PAS, Poland); Rafał Marjasz (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, PAS, Poland); Krzysztof Grochla (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of PAS, Poland)
Variability of BLE advertisement packets received signal strength and delivery probability in the presence of interferences
Anna Strzoda (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics & IITiS PAS, Poland); Krzysztof Grochla (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of PAS, Poland); Konrad Połys (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, PAS, Poland)

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:15

Aerial Networks

Analyzing the UAVs Traffic Flow to Enhance the Drone’s Anonymization on the Internet of Drones
Alisson R. Svaigen†∗ Azzedine Boukerche† Linnyer B. Ruiz‡ Antonio A. F. Loureiro∗
End-to-end Multipath Optimization for Reliable Aerial Connectivity
Aygün Baltaci (Airbus & Technical University of Munich, Germany); Fabien Geyer (Airbus, Germany); Jörg Ott (Technische Universität München, Germany); Dominic A. Schupke (Airbus Defence and Space GmbH & Airbus Central Research and Technology, Germany)
"Performance Evaluation of Edge Computing Models for Internet of Things"
Ehtasham Saeed and Rodolfo Coutinho

12:15 - 12:30

Closing remarks