Session A1:        Advances in Communications and Networking

1571189888    On Low-Complexity DFT-Spread Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

Mojtaba Mahdavi (Ericsson, Sweden)

1571137881    QUIC Traffic Identification in Kernel Space    

Kokthay Poeng (University of Namur, Belgium); Laurent Schumacher (UNamur, Belgium); Sereysethy Touch (University of Namur, Belgium)

1571156440    An Investigation on Packet Sampling between Kernel and User Space for NIDSL

Luca Giacometti, Dario Crippa, Sebastiano Miano and Giacomo Verticale (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

1571167392    Threshold Design for Undersampled Autocorrelation-Based OFDM Spectrum Sensing

Farwa Ahmed and Pat Chambers (South East Technological University, Ireland); Mathini Sellathurai (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Paul Oleary (South East Technological University, Waterford, Ireland); Darren Kavangh (South East Technological University, Ireland)

1571154085    Two-Way Relay Full duplex Layered Generalized Spatial Modulation with Physical-layer Network Coding

K s Shafrin and Neelakandan R (IIT Goa, India)

Session A2:    AI-powered Smart Solutions and Apps

1571135422    AI-based Plant Disease Detection: Development and Deployment of YOLO Models for Agricultural Innovation    

Jihene Rezgui (College Maisonneuve, Canada); Ly Wilson (College Masionneuve, Canada)

1571149757    Towards Sustainable Food Systems: Multi-Channel Capsule Neural Network for Fruit Freshness and Spoilage Timeline Analysis    

Andronicus Ayobami Akinyelu (University of the Free State, South Africa); Esther O. Esho (The Australian New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (ANZSEE), Australia)

1571153331    ML-FSO: Enhancing UAV-Based Optical Communication Networks for Disaster Resilience    

Jinan Charafeddine, Dr. Jinan (Engineering School Léonard de Vinci - ESILV, France); Wafaa Mohammed Ridha Shakir (Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Iraq); Maher Rebai (Devinci Higher Education, France); Zeinab Mhanna (Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci, France)

1571150132    AI-Driven E-Health System for Remote Heart Patient Monitoring      

Nouri Omheni (University of Sfax, Tunisia); Arwa Amaira (ENETCOM, Tunisia); Faouzi Zarai (Sfax University, Tunisia)

1571132354    AI-Driven Detection of Potato Leaf Diseases and Yield Optimization

Jihene Rezgui, Ilian Djorf, Lina Nour Slama and Noah Favreau (College Maisonneuve, Canada); Anh-Thi Giang (college Masionneuve, Canada)

Session A3:    Satellite Communication Systems     

1571148248    Dynamic Resource Management in LEO Satellite Systems with Priority-Driven Genetic Algorithm and Local Optima Escape 

Li Chengjie (Southwest Minzu University, China); Yi Zheng (University of Southwest Minzu, China); Lidong Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

1571167138    Security-Aware DVB-S2X VL-SNR Simulator with Resource Allocation  

Buse Canbaz (Bogazici University & ROKETSAN, Turkey), Fatih Alagoz (Bogazici University, Turkey)

1571167401    Navigating the LEO Network: A Routing Optimisation Approach         

Alice de Guibert (Grenoble INP, France); Mohammad Imran Syed (ISAE-SUPAERO, France); Oana Hotescu (ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, France & ISAE-SUPAERO, France); Jerome Lacan (ISAE-Supaero and University of Toulouse, France)

1571157533    An ML-driven PLA Scheme for Inter-Satellites Communication

Nora Abdelsalam (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Waqas Aman (HBKU, Qatar); Marwa Qaraqe and Saif Al-Kuwari (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Aiman Erbad (Qatar University, Qatar)

1571162008    AI-Driven Routing in Mega-LEO Constellations: An Enhanced Q-Learning Strategy for Dynamic Topology Adaptation

Gaosai Liu (Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); XingLong Jiang (Innovation Academy for Microsatellites, China); Hongming Hu (Guangzhou Haige Communications Group Incorporated Company, China); Siyue Sun (Shanghai Engineering Center for Micro-satellites, China); Guang Liang (Shanghai Engineering Center of Microsate, China); Haiying HU (Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites, China); Chunxin Mu (Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of Chinese Academy of Science, China)

1571164308    Probabilistic Link Weighting via Feature Fusion for Routing in LEO Satellite Networks

Yu Guo (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Lidong Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Session A4:    Antenna Systems and Communications          

1571149765    Flexible Transparent Antenna for Sub-6 GHz 5G Applications

Fadhel Alhamli and Rida Gadhafi (University of Dubai, UAE); Jayakrishnan Purushothama (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yassine Himeur (University of Dubai, UAE); Wathiq Mansoor (Universithy OF Dubai, uae)

1571138270    RF Sensing via Ground Reflections - an Experimental Evaluation        

Jannis Mast, Thomas Hänel and Nils Aschenbruck (Osnabrück University, Germany)

1571128645    Cooperative Jamming based on Replica Burst Signals against Early Warning Radar with SLB and SLC

Byungkoo Park and Jung Hoon Lee (Agency for Defense Development, Korea (South)); Jinwoo Han (Radar & EW Technology Center & Agency for Defense Development, Korea (South)); Jeil Jo (Agency for Defense Development & Chungnam National University, Korea (South))

1571149275    A novel Compact 5G Multiband Millimeter-Wave Microstrip Patch Antenna Using a U-Cut SRR          

Mohammed el amine Mahlia (LCPTS Laboratory, USTHB University, Algeria); Slimane Mekaoui (University of Technology and Sciences Houari Boumediene, Algeria); Mohamed Lamine Tounsi (PEDCL Laboratory. USTHB University, Algeria)

1571164880    Co-channel Interference Effects of RIS-Assisted Networks in Overlapping Coverage Areas     

Ahmet F Coskun and Samed Keşir (Turkcell, Turkey); Emre Arslan (Koc University, Turkey); Batuhan Kaplan (Turkcell, Turkey)

Session A5:    Communication Networks and Protocols I     

1571156154    Two-Phase Method for Optimal Mobile Sensor Path Planning To Monitor Coverage Holes in Wireless Sensor Networks        

Maher Rebai (Devinci Higher Education, France); Jinan Charafeddine, Dr. Jinan (Engineering School Léonard de Vinci - ESILV, France); Hani Hamdan (CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France)

1571156177    VibroMote: Wi-Fi-based Mesh Communication for Railway Bridge Inspection and Monitoring

Navya Sneha Chatharajupalli, Randolf Rotta, Reinhardt Karnapke and Jörg Nolte (Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany)

1571157893    Stacked MBN: Stacked Multi-Branch Network for Human Pose Estimation   

Pin-Chuan Liu (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan); Kuan-Hsien Liu (National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan); Tsung-Jung Liu (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)

1571157993    Trusted vs. Untrusted 5G Non-3GPP Access: A Comparative Study on Performance and Security       

Domenico Verde (University of Rome Tor Vergata - Dip. Ing. Informatica & RomARS, Italy); Michele Luglio and Cesare Roseti (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Francesco Zampognaro (University of Rome "Link Campus", Italy)

1571167209    Exploiting the synergies of WLAN and cellular networks within the Wi-FIP project

Drissa Houatra (Orange Labs, France); Isabelle Siaud (Orange Labs, Reseach and Development, Access Networks, France); Maissa Boujelben, Jean-Philippe Javaudin and Aya Shehata (Orange, France); Roxana Ojeda (COMSIS Company, France); Youssef Nasser (Greenerwave, France); Yann Roche (Citypassenger.com, France); Lynda Zitoune (L2S Paris Saclay University, France); Mohamed Bellouch (CentraleSupelec, France); Véronique Vèque (Université Paris-Saclay, France); Badii Jouaber (SAMOVAR & Telecom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France); Fetia Bannour (ENSIIE & SAMOVAR, France); Rania Sahraoui (Télécom SudParis, France)

Session A6V: AI/ML for Networking and Communications

1571157952    Shaping the Future: Innovations and Emerging Trends in Cloud-WSN Integration

Sheeja Rani S and Raafat Aburukba (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

1571166864    DREAMS: Decentralized Resource Allocation and Service Management across the Compute Continuum Using Service Affinity      

Hai Dinh-Tuan, Tien Hung Nguyen and Sanjeet Raj Pandey (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

1571160881    Model Density Group Framework for Next Generation Wireless Networks   

Hojin Kim (Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, Germany)

1571171652    Synthetic Data for Network Optimization Deployment

Sara Kassan (Orange Researcher, France & Orange, France); Jaafar Gaber (UTBM, France)

1571118326    Deployment Of key Determinants of Industry 5.0 To Enhance the Production Sector

Ndala Mulongo (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

14:00 - 15:00

Keynote Speaker 2: Dr. Cesare Roseti (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) 

Title:  "NTN Softwarization and Virtualization o for the integration in 5G " 

Session Chair: Dr. Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul (Universiity of Rennes, France)

Room: 

15:30 - 17:00

Industrial Forum

1571138180    AI-based Virtual Reality Rehabilitation: A Transformative Approach to Stroke Recovery        

Alexandre Delaux, Alix Gouret, Julien Carponcy, Hazar Zilelioglu and Dennis Wobrock (Capgemini Engineering, France); Florian Waszak and Sylvie Chokron (Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center (INCC), France); Solène Le Bars (Capgemini Engineering, France)

Session A7:    Communication Networks and Protocols III   

1571165626    A Formal Model for Path Set Attribute Calculation in Network Systems         

Giovanni Fiaschi (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Carlo Vitucci (Ericsson, Sweden); Thomas Westerbäck (Mälardalen University, Sweden); Daniel Sundmark (MDU, Sweden); Thomas Nolte (MRTC, Sweden)

1571167252    Strategic Bandwidth Pricing and Allocation in a 5G/6G Network Slicing Stackelberg Game    

Orland-Médy Saizonou (INRIA, France); Patrick Maillé (IMT Atlantique, France); Bruno Tuffin (Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, France)

1571162962    Decentralized Learning-Based Network Slicing: A Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for 6G and Beyond

Yousif Al Ridhawi (Kuwait Technical College, Kuwait)

1571157977    Enabling Burst Transmission and ACK-based Channel Estimation in QUIC

Domenico Verde (University of Rome Tor Vergata - Dip. Ing. Informatica & RomARS, Italy); Michele Luglio and Cesare Roseti (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Francesco Zampognaro (University of Rome "Link Campus", Italy)

1571162951    Analysis and Comparison of Network Architecture Options for Camera-Based AOI Systems 

Matthias Baier (University of Applied Sciences Munich, Germany); Dirk Henrici (Munich University of Applied Sciences HM, Germany)

Session A8V: AI/ML for Healthcare and Apps          

1571157847    AI-Assisted Detection of Brain Tumors in X-ray Images

Manel Hentati (University of Sfax, Tunisia); Hentati Raida (University of Sfax, National School of Engineers of Sfax- Tunisia, Tunisia)

1571144595    Peanut Allergy Classification using MLP of varying depth       

Roger Achkar (Antonine University, Lebanon)

1571166562    A Quantum-Classical Approach Multi modal Cardiac Health Prediction

Mahmudul Hasan, Sachin Shetty and Peter Foytik (Old Dominion University, USA); Mahbubul Arefin Noman (National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), Bangladesh)

1571156199    Evaluating Bagging Ensembles with DenseNet201 and Swin Transformer for Breast Cancer Detection: A Comparative Study on Ultrasound and Mammography Images       

Ali Idri (Mohammed V University, Morocco & Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco); Asma Zizaan (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco)

1571166549    Handwritten Patterns in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Hybrid Learning for Efficient Prediction   

Rim Walha (REGIM-Lab, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia); Rawia Baccouch (ISIMS, University of Sfax, Tunisia); Fadoua Drira (REGIM, University of Sfax, National School of Engineers, Tunisia)

1571190149    Multimodal Clinical Prediction Framework for Health Outcomes of Patients with Cerebral Palsy: A Machine Learning Approach 

Alim Saidkhodjaev (University of Maryland, USA); Mukul Gupta (University of Maryland, College Park, USA); Nestor Tiglao (University of Maryland, USA); Ted DellaVecchia (Symbotix, USA); Greg Miller (Health Tech Alley, Inc., USA)

Session A9V: Trust, Privacy and Security I 

1571158027    Secure LoRa-IoT Data Transmission via Ethereum Smart Contracts: A Blockchain-Integrated Architecture 

Mounira Tarhouni (University of Gabes, Tunisia); Faten Ben Aicha (University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia)

1571167431    Enhancing Vector-Based Feature Representation for Malicious Network Traffic Detection    

Yassine Belkhouche and Seojin Park (Missouri State University, USA)

1571137580    A Systematic Review and Taxonomy for Privacy Breach Classification: Trends, Gaps, and Future Directions     

Clint Fuchs and John D. Hastings (Dakota State University, USA)

1571139266    Privacy Protection Framework for Data Analytics in Management and Orchestration

Leyli Karaçay and Ferhat Karakoç (Ericsson Research, Turkey); Ramin Fuladi (Ericsson, Sweden & Boğaziçi, Turkey)

1571149967    Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning with Differential Privacy and Adaptive Knowledge Distillation for Dynamic Non-IID Data      

Weibang Li (Southwest Minzu University, China); Ling Li and Lidong Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

1571174277    COPS: Collaborative Observability and Privacy-preserving Security in ICS

Wassila Lalouani and Reham Eltomy (Towson University, USA); Mohamed Baza (College of Charleston, USA)

Session A10V:   Advances in Computing and Data Sciences    

1571121928    A Quantum Approach to Real-Time Classification of Environmental Data

Washington Velasquez (Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador); Manuel Alvarez-Alvarado (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador); Anibal Calle-Zuniga (ESPOL, Ecuador)

1571149177    Method and System Including Replication Agent Instances for Maintenance of Metadata in the Multidatabase System Connecting Homogeneous Remotely Located Distributed Databases

Mohammad Ghulam Ali (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)

1571158006    Benchmarking Motif Discovery Algorithms   

Yudeep Rajbhandari (USA); Sakshi Shrestha (East Tennessee State University, USA); Rokin Maharjan (USA); Shehenaz Shaik (East Tennessee State University, USA)

1571157779    Application methodology of High Performance Computing Acceleration for Artificial Intelligence Computation

Hyun MI Jung (KISTI, Korea (South)); Cheol-Joo Chae (Korea National University of Agriculture and Fisheries, Korea (South))

1571138374    Efficient and Robust Multivariate Time Series Classification with Hyperdimensional Computing       

Aaron Tartz and Baris Aksanli (San Diego State University, USA)

1571149760    Enhancing performance of VGG-16 for Classifying Dementia Through Synthesized Augmentation using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network  

Rajalakshmi Shenbaga Moorthy and Nandakumar Venkatesan (Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, India); Sathish Kumar Kamaraj (L&T Technology Services, France)

Session A11V:   Smart Solutions and Technological Advances

1571137279    In the Development of a 18 DoFs Under-actuated Prosthetic Hand Activated with one Actuator        

Manuel Martínez Martínez (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico); Jorge Alvarez (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico); Jose M. Nieto-Jalil (ITESM, Mexico & Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)

1571149947    Smart Implants: Biocompatible Implant Pulse Generator (IPG) Materials for IoT-Enhanced Medical Devices

Auns Khaled (ENIT, Tunisia); Dorsaf Omri (University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia); Taoufik Aguili (Laboratoire des Systèmes de Communications, Tunisia)

1571166523    Immersive Ethics: AI-Driven Feedback and Virtual Reality Enhance ABET-Aligned Decision-Making in Mechatronic Engineering Undergraduates    

Roberto Gomez Tobias (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico); Jorge Alvarez (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)

1571167414    Modeling the Hydration Process of Cement in Different Curing Conditions using AI

Flavien Donfack (USA); Otily Toutsop (Morgan State University & CREAM LAB, USA); Tsion M Yimer (Morgan State University, USA)

1571118324    Application of Augmented Reality in The South African Car Engine Manufacturing Industry 

Ndala Mulongo (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

1571166567    Automatic X-Ray Film Handler Alignment Control Using Position Based Visual Servoing and Computational Intelligence  

Jayson Rogelio (Department of Science and Technology, Philippines & Metals Industry Research and Development Center, Philippines)

Session A12V:   Advances in Communications and Networking II        

1571158016    Optimizing Service Allocation in Vehicular Cloud Networks: A User-Preference-Based Approach using NSGA-II Farhoud

Jafari Kaleibar (York University, Canada); Marc St-Hilaire and Masoud Barati (Carleton University, Canada)

1571137817    DUDe-Assisted Uplink Optimization in Dense IoT-Driven 5G Environments

Charalampos Chatzigeorgiou (University of Patras, Greece); Christos J Bouras (University of Patras - ELKE, Greece); Vasileios Kokkinos (University of Patras, Greece); Apostolos Gkamas (University of Ioannina, Greece); Philippos Pouyioutas (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)

1571169874    Multi-Base Station Coordination for Semi-Persistent Scheduling in Industrial 5G Wireless Time-Sensitive Networks   

Javier Villares, Youssef El Kaisi Rahmoun and Olga Muñoz-Medina (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)

1571167341    Comparative Analysis of Experimental Methodology in RF-Based Drone Detection and Classification Datasets         

Xingrong Wang (UC San Diego, USA); Minh Khoi Tran (Cal Poly Pomona, USA); Rehan Alam (UC Riverside, USA); Sriman Komaragiri, Alisha Mehta, Carlos Vargas, Nathan Lee and Mohammad Iftekhar Husain (Cal Poly Pomona, USA)

1571139048    Comparing Synthetic and Authentic Network Traffic: A Case Study   

Jonas V Bistene (Instituto Militar de Engenharia - IME, Brazil); Clayton Escouper das Chagas and Anderson Fernandes P dos Santos (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil); Ronaldo M Salles (Polytechnic of Porto (ETSG/IPP), Portugal & Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil)

Day 2 – Tuesday, October 28, 2025

09:00 – 10:00

Keynote Speaker 3: Dr. Andrea Vena (European Space Agency, France) 

Title:  "ESA's Role in Achieving a Sustainable Future: how Space accelerates Climate Action"

Session Chair: Dr. Michele Luglio (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) 

Room: 

10:30 – 12:00

RTCSP Workshop       

1571159040    The Influence of Prediction Interval on Regression Model Accuracy in Energy Forecasting     

Elie Fares (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates); Achraf Ghorbel and Nourchène Elleuch Ben Ayed (HCT, United Arab Emirates); Majed Bouchahma (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates); Sana Ben Hammouda (University of Sousse, Tunisia); Mohamed Sahbi Benlamine (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates)

1571198540    Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Using Unsupervised Machine Learning         

Zakea Il agure (HCT, United Arab Emirates); Shawulu Hunira Nggada (Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates)

1571161362    An Autonomic System for Physical Fitness and Gym Equipment Management

Jam Mogavero (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Christopher Rouff (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA & Johns Hopkins University, USA); Ali Tekeoglu (Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, USA & Leidos Innovations Center, USA)

1571167505    Adaptive Client Selection For MRI Reconstruction in Federated Learning

Samira El Kassar (Arab Open University, Lebanon); Nader Bakir (Beirut Arab University, Lebanon); Khouloud Samrouth (Lebanese University, Lebanon); Maya Dawood (Lebanese University and Lille1 University, Lebanon); Rida El Chall (USJ, France)

Session B1:     Communication Networks and Protocols II    

1571167560    An Enhanced Exploration GRASP-Based Algorithm for Virtual Network Embedding

Amine Rguez (Rennes 1 University, France & EXFO Solutions, France); Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul (University of Rennes, France); Gerardo Rubino (INRIA, France)

1571158023    Deep Reinforcement Learning-Driven Quality of Service and Energy-Aware Adaptive Scheduling Framework for Vehicular Edge Computing    

Leila Ismail (Intelligent Distributed Computing and Systems (INDUCE) Lab, UAE); Abdul Wahid (Intelligent Distributed Computing and Systems (INDUCE) Lab, UAE University, UAE)

1571146138    Enhancing Energy Efficient Task Caching and Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing

Fabiano Lorusso (Université Côte d'Azur, France); Frederic Giroire (CNRS, France); Joanna Moulierac (University Côte d'Azur, France); Guillaume Urvoy-Keller (Université Côte d'Azur, France)

1571138331    Design and Implementation of an xApp-based System for Jamming and Interference Mitigation      

Aurora Paz-Pérez, Julio Suarez Gomez and Francisco Javier Valera Sánchez (Gradiant, Spain); J. Joaquín Escudero-Garzás (Centro Tecnolóxico de Telecomunicacións de Galicia - Gradiant, Spain)

1571163090    Hybrid Deep Convolution Network for Fast and Accurate Power Consumption Forecasting  

Hiren Mewada and Lingala Syam Sundar (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia)

1571159312    Multicast and Broadcast Services over 5G Non-3GPP Access

Domenico Verde (University of Rome Tor Vergata - Dip. Ing. Informatica & RomARS, Italy); Michele Luglio and Cesare Roseti (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Francesco Zampognaro (University of Rome "Link Campus", Italy)

Session B2:     AI/ML Techniques for Trust, Privacy and Security      

1571161093    Towards Quantum-Enhanced Intrusion Detection in Industrial Control Systems: A Proof-of-Concept Using Variational Quantum Classifiers

Selma Dilek and Alperen Cakin (Hacettepe University, Turkey); Alma Oracevic (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571148324    Multi-Scenario Simulation of Machine Learning Based Vision Attacks in CARLA          

Lanai Huang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Winston Ellis and Sana Belguith (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571158015    Enhancing Cyber-Physical Systems Security with Digital Twins, Blockchain, and Anomaly Detection

Mostafa Shehata (Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt); Yasmine N. Saleh (Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt); Ayman A. Abdel-Hamid (Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, Egypt)

1571172148    The Key to Deobfuscation is Pattern of Life, not Overcoming Encryption        

Taylor P Henderson (George Mason University, USA); Eric Osterweil (George Mason University, Germany); Pavan Dinesh and Robert Simon (George Mason University, USA)

1571150002    Comparative Analysis of IP Scanning Tools: Selection Criteria and Applications Used for Vulnerability Detection      

Doru Balan (Stefan Cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania); Alexandra Ligia Balan (Ștefan Cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania); Alin Potorac (University of Suceava, Romania); Edy Timofte (Stefan Cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania); Ionuț Croitoru (Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania)

1571158632    Secure Watermarking Using Adaptive QIM with Local Coefficient Magnitudes in the Frequency Domain with PUF-Based Encryption 

Nayeem Hasan (Northern Arizona University, USA & Doctoral, USA); Saiful Islam (TED University, Turkey); Tahmina Begum (Northern Arizona University, USA)

Session B3:     AI/ML for Data Analytics        

1571178919    Example-Based Data Retrieval Using Pattern Analysis Methods         

Alexey Myachin (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia & Institute of Control Science of Russian Academy of Science, Russia)

1571156840    Selective LLM Unlearning via SAE-based Token Importance Score     

So Yeon Kim, Jung Hun Lim, Dong Woo Lee, Seong Hyun Min, In Jae Kim, Ma Il Jo, Ji Young Shin and Won Gyum Kim (AIDEEP, Korea (South))

1571135583    NGT: A Retrieval-Augmented Language System for Telecoms Documentation Processing      

Nuhu Bello (ISEP, France); Ayoub Bousselmi (Orange Labs, France)

1571167398    Adversarial Robustness of Traffic Classification under Resource Constraints: Input Structure Matters 

Adel Chehade (University of Genova, Italy); Edoardo Ragusa, Paolo Gastaldo and Rodolfo Zunino (University of Genoa, Italy)

1571138969    HPC/AI Benchmarking in the Post-Moore Era: Evaluating Frameworks, Algorithms, Tools and Cross-Architecture Challenges         

Aliaa Youssif (AAST, Egypt); Ahmed Abd EL-Hameed Ahmed, Ah (Egypt)

1571157776    A Study on the Improvement of Athena++ Solvers for HPC-AI Applications

Cheol-Joo Chae and Hyunjo Lee (Korea National University of Agriculture and Fisheries, Korea (South)); Hyun MI Jung (KISTI, Korea (South))

Session B4:     Advances in AI/ML Techniques and Apps       

1571198476    AI-Powered Tutoring for Active Reading: A Pedagogical and Ethical Approach 

Jihene Rezgui (College Maisonneuve, Canada); Héloïse Masse (Collge Maisonneuve, Canada); Ilian Djorf (College Maisonneuve, Canada); Félix Jobin (Collège de Maisonneuve, Canada); Cimon Chapdelaine (Phonia, Canada)

1571166840    A Systematic Framework for Generative AI-Powered Curriculum Development: Integrating Industry Requirements with Agile Learning     

Jordan Scott (University of Colorado Colorado Springs & Code Talkers Engineering, USA); Gedare Bloom (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA); George Bailey (Purdue University, USA)

1571150055    A Blockchain-based Architecture For Secure ECG Monitoring Using Constrained IoT

Devices Manel Boujelben (National School of Electronics and Telecommunications of Sfax, Tunisia); Manel Hentati (University of Sfax, Tunisia); Ghorbel Oussama (Unuversity of Sfax, Tunisia & Jouf University, Saudi Arabia)

1571158010    Comparative Machine Learning for Federal Funds Rate Prediction with Sentiment and Leadership Features        

Nathaniel Lancaster, Ahmad Al Doulat and Shehenaz Shaik (East Tennessee State University, USA)

1571165624    From Raw to Refined: A Data Preprocessing Pipeline for Robust PM2.5 Prediction

Noor Qusay AlShaikhli (Al-Nahrain University, Iraq); Hakan Koyuncu (Altinbas University, Turkey)

1571136604    Identity management for frameworks managing northbound APIs of future networks

Emma O'Brien and Breno da Costa Paulo (Vicomtech, Spain); Angel Martin (Fundación Vicomtech, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Spain); Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain); Sergio Giménez-Antón (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)

14:00 - 15:00

Keynote Speaker 4: Dr. Umit Karabiyik (George Mason University, USA) 

Title:  “Cyber Forensics at Scale: Investigating Cyber-Physical Environments in the Age of Smart Everything” 

Session Chair: Dr. Thabet Kacem (University of the District of Columbia, USA)

Room: 

15:15 - 17:15

Tutorial (online)

Presented by: Dr. Abdullah Aydeger (FIT, USA) & Dr. Engin Zeydan (CTTC, Spain)

Title: "Preparing 6G for the Quantum Era: Challenges and Architectural Insights" 

Session B5V:  Smart Cities and Apps  

1571138903    Novel Convolutional Algorithm for Building Shadow Minimization in Smart City Urban Planning       

Chaima Ben Fraj, Bf (University of Carthage, Tunisia & Artificial Intelligence Data Engineering Applications Laboratory, Tunisia); Dorsaf Omri (University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia); Habib Fathallah (Faulty of Sciences of Bizerte, Carthage University, unknown)

1571157266    District-to-Zone-to-City To Building-to-Neighborhood-to-Cities: Big Data Driven Architectures Enabling a Five-Category Centric Framework for Smart, Sustainable, Scalable and Reliable IoT City Services   

Amir Sinaeepourfard (IEEE Member, Norway); Shehenaz Shaik (East Tennessee State University, USA); Niusha Mesgaribarzi (USN, Norway)

1571158029    A Hybrid Time-Varying PSO-ACO Algorithm for Dynamic TSP for Driver Guidance Applications

Wiam Elleuch (National School of Engineers in Sfax, Ireland & Amazon Web Services, Ireland); Ali Wali (University of Sfax, Tunisia)

1571164741    Indoor Navigation Assistance System for People with visual impairments     

Pedro Farinango and Caril Martinez (Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador); Rebeca Estrada (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Espol, Guayaquil, Ecuador)

1571118367    The Essence of Artificial Intelligence in the Manufacturing Companies

Ndala Mulongo (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

1571166970    T-RoboCon: Optimizing a hardware-constrained Robot's Perception and Planning through Load Balancing using Containerization and Transfer Learning         

Swarnabha Roy, Reece Dobson, Jack Campbell and Stavros Kalafatis (Texas A&M University, USA)

Session B6V:  Advances in machine Learning and Smart Solutions  

1571140782    Machine Learning Model Sharing Mechanism using the FIWARE Platform for Creating a Collaborative Data Network  

Washington Velasquez (Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador); Mishell Yagual-Mendoza and Herman Pineda-Rubio (ESPOL, Ecuador); Andres Munoz-Arcentales (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain & Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador); Ignacio Marin-Garcia (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador)

1571138947    Towards Estimating the Carbon Footprint of Video Streaming 

Guillaume Urvoy-Keller (Université Côte d'Azur, France); Joanna Moulierac (University Côte d'Azur, France); Zhejiayu Ma (Easybroadcast, France); Marco Dinuzi (Université Côte d'Azur, France)

1571166942    Analysis of Energy Use for A Higher Education Institution's Data Center         

Michael Abbondandolo and Stefan Robila (Montclair State University, USA)

1571190081    Automated Detection of Writing Phases: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Validation of the Hayes & Flower Cognitive Writing Model    

Jaelyn Hui and Mukul Gupta (University of Maryland, College Park, USA); Nestor Tiglao (University of Maryland, USA); Joseph Thibault (Cursive Technology, Inc., USA)

1571166997    Quantum Machine Learning: A Comparative Study of Variational Quantum Classifier with Classical Classifier Algorithms

Madona Alhalabi and Hafiz Asif (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman); Hesham Alhalabi (Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy)

Session B7V:  Next-Gen Networks and Intelligent Optimisation      

1571148721    Distance-Based Loop-Free Routing with Positive and Negative Link Weights

J J Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of Toronto, Canada & University of California at Santa Cruz, USA); Morteza Moghaddassian and Charles Hsieh (University of Toronto, Canada)

1571163239    SLAQ: An SLA-Driven 6G O-RAN QoS Framework Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Noe Yungaicela-Naula, Vishal Sharma and Sandra Scott-Hayward (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

1571166892    A Game-Theoretic Approach to Distributed Resource Allocation in Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks      

Ayham Alyosef (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece & Genova University, Italy); Nikos Passas (University of Athens, Greece); Roberto Valentini (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

1571167204    AUV-Assisted Underwater 6G: Environmental Modeling and Multi-Stage Optimization

Mustafa Yavuz Engin (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Mehmet Ozdem (Turk Telekom, Turkey); Tuğçe Bilen (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

1571172363    Master-Slave Control configuration for adjustable speed drives         

Naveen Garg (Cameron LNG, USA)

1571157255    Prototyping an M-Plane Software for Zero-Touch O-RAN Provisioning

Claudio Ferreira Dias (CPqD, Brazil); Fuad M Abinader, Jr (CPQD, Brazil); Eduardo Mobilon (CPQD Telecom R&D Center, Brazil)

Session B8V:  Advances in Communications and Networking I          

1571169356    Anti-jamming Strategy of Guaranteed Communication Reliability with Several Receivers      

Andrey Garnaev (Rutgers University, USA); Wade Trappe (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA)

1571149995    Uniquely Decodable Signature Sequences Over the Noisy Adder Channel     

Sahar Allahkaram (Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal); Francisco A. Monteiro (Instituto de Telecomunicações & ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)

1571167194    Design of Compact Hexagonal Patch Antenna for 5G Communication Systems Using The Corrugation Technique     

Abderraoufe Zerrouk (LCDEP Lab, FEE, USTHB, Algeria); Mohamed Lamine Tounsi (PEDCL Laboratory. USTHB University, Algeria); Tan-Phu Vuong, Sr. (Grenoble INP, France); Mustapha C.E. Yagoub (University of Ottawa, Canada)

1571165418    Modeling and Simulation of UAV-Based IoT Links under Fading and Shadowing Conditions  

Zahraa H. Mohamed (Engineering Technical College-Najaf, Iraq); Wafaa Mohammed Ridha Shakir (Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Iraq); Zeinab Mhanna (Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci, France); Maher Rebai (Devinci Higher Education, France)

1571149867    Secure Pinching Antennas-Aided Wireless Communication System  

Elmehdi Illi and Marwa Qaraqe (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)

1571157690    Optimized Usage of Multi-User Diversity to Enhance Spectral Efficiency in (5G) Wireless Networks 

Guillaume Terrier (IRISA, France); Cedric Gueguen (University of Rennes 1, France); Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul (University of Rennes, France)

Session B9V:  Next-Gen AI for Smart Environments

1571139117    Fine-Tuned Large Language Models for Logical Translation: Reducing Hallucinations with Lang2Logic  

Mahfuza Farooque, Muyu Pan and Dheeraj Kodakandla (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

1571161276    Real-Time Hyper-Heuristic Control for Decentralized Edge Logistics: A Reinforcement Learning Approach       

Samir Haddad (University of Balamand, Lebanon); Kassem Danach, Sr (Al Maaref University, Lebanon & Chairperson, Lebanon); Chadi Kallab (Lebanese American University, Lebanon); Jinane Sayah (University of Balamand, Lebanon); Joseph Merhej (Facultyof Sciences II, Lebanon); Imad Jawhar (Al Maaref University, Lebanon)

1571162782    A Self-Adaptive Architecture for Predictive and Reinforcement-Based Optimization in Smart Environments  

Darlan Noetzold (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), Brazil); Valderi Reis Quietinho Leithardt (ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal & ISTAR - Centro de Investigação, Portugal); Juan Francisco De Paz (University of Salamanca, Spain); Jorge Luis Victória Barbosa (University of Vale Do Rio Dos Sinos & EMBRAPII Competence Center for Digital Agriculture, Brazil)

1571167423    Federated Forest for Network Anomaly Detection    

Flavien Donfack (USA); Otily Toutsop (Morgan State University & CREAM LAB, USA); Tsion M Yimer (Morgan State University, USA)

1571139159    Deciphering Model Decisions in Android Malware Detection with Explainable AI

Moinul Islam Sayed and Amreen Anbar (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Sajal Saha (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada); Anwar Haque (Western Ontario, Canada)

1571144318    Edge-Enhanced Attention Mechanism for Dynamic UAV Formation Fault Detection

Abdulhakeem Abdulazeez (Universite Paris-Saclay, France); Nicola Roberto Zema (Paris-Saclay University, France); Tara Ali Yahiya (Universite Paris Saclay, France); Steven Martin (Université Paris-Saclay, France)

Session B10V:   Trust, Privacy and Security II 

1571185637    Are Action Cameras the New Witness? A Forensic Examination of GoPro HERO13 and Quik App Data on Android and iOS   

Umit Karabiyik (George Mason University, USA); Yujin Lee (Purdue University, USA)

1571167251    Integrating Auxiliary Knowledge into Machine Learning to Improve the Detection of Cyberattacks   

Shahrear Iqbal (National Research Council, Canada); Sourena Khanzadeh (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada); Euclides Neto and Scott C. Buffett (National Research Council Canada, Canada); Madeena Sultana (Defence Research and Development Canada, Canada); Adrian A Taylor (Defence R&D Canada, Canada)

1571149261    Quantum Federated Learning for Adaptive Intrusion Detection Systems in Software-Defined Networks           

Yousef Alfezea and Ameer Mohammed (Kuwait University, Kuwait)

1571166932    Defenses in Cybersecurity through Threat Intelligence Approaches  

Amanda Moctezuma and Stefan Robila (Montclair State University, USA)

1571167258    CloudAPT: A Provenance-Based Dataset for Evaluating APT Countermeasures in Cloud Environments

Md Ariful Haque and Euclides Neto (National Research Council Canada, Canada); Thosmas Pasquier (University of British Columbia, Canada); Shahrear Iqbal (National Research Council, Canada)

1571174121    Power-Line Physical-Layer Key Generation based on Quantizing the Phase Response

Werner Henkel and Ehsan Olyaei Torshizi (Constructor University Bremen, Germany)