Technical Program I: Applications
09:00– 10:20 Technical Program I - Applications
Session time

Monday, Sep 23, 09:00-10:20 A.M. ESTLocation

Conference Room 235

Talk time per paper

19 minutes (Long), 9 minutes (Short, Work-in-Progress)

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Paper details

Conscious GPS: A System to Aid the Visually Impaired toNavigate Public Transportation
1

Josiah-David Sykes (New York Institute of Technology, USA); Randy St. Fleur(New York Institute of Technology, USA); Daler Norkulov (New York Institute ofTechnology, USA); Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong (New York Institute of Technology,USA); Reza K. Amineh (New York Institute of Technology, USA)1570556130

Short-Term Traffic Speed Prediction on the Target Road Using
Linear Interpolation with Missing Data
2

Junyi Ye (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Xiaoyuan Liang (New Jersey
Institute of Technology, USA); Guiling Wang (New Jersey Institute ofTechnology, USA)1570583656

Intelligent optical computation for online optical signal
processing
3

Yahui Wang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Xuan Liu (New Jersey
Institute of Technology, USA)1570584647

Simultaneous Synchronization and Detection in Loosely
Synchronized Tiny Packet Networks
4

Zongwen Tang (Rutgers University, USA); Predrag Spasojević (RutgersUniversity, USA); Chryssalenia Koumpouzi (Rutgers University, USA); Fikadu
Dagefu (US Army Research Laboratory, USA)1570556527

A First Step Towards Production-Ready Network Function
Storage: Benchmarking with NFSB
5Haochen Pan (Boston College, USA); Yingjian Wu (Boston College, USA); Lewis
Tseng (Boston College, USA); Muntasir Raihan Rahman (Nokia Bell Labs, USA);
Nakjung Choi (Nokia & Bell Labs, USA)1570570282

Technical Program II: Resource Allocation
Session time

Monday, Sep 23, 3:40-5:00 P.M. ESTLocation

Conference Room 235

Talk time per paper

19 minutes (Long), 9 minutes (Short, Work-in-Progress)

Chaired byPaper

Paper details

Acceleration of Multipath TCP by Letting
ACKs Take the Shortest Path
1

Jiangnan Cheng (Cornell University, USA); Kevin Tang(Cornell University, USA); Jaehyun Hwang (CornellUniversity, USA)1570551860

Multiple Access Schemes for Indirect DiffusedFree-Space Optical Networks
2

Nicolò Macaluso (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Roberto
Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA);
Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

1570560988

Multiple-Rate Channel Codes in\texttt{GF}(p^{n^{2}})3R. S. Raja Durai (Jaypee University of Information
Technology, India)

1570570162

Branch-Awareness in Service Function Graph
Embedding4

Maryam Jalalitabar (Boston College, USA); Yang Wang (LaSalle University, USA); Xiaojun Cao (Georgia StateUniversity, USA)1570569880

Towards An Explanatory Model for Network
Traffic
5

Jorge L Gonzalez (Florida Atlantic University & NREIP,USA); Joshua Clymer (Naval Postgraduate School, USA);
Chad A Bollmann (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)1570579525

Technical Program III: Wireless Networks
Session timeTue, Sep 24 09:00– 10:20 A.M. EST

Location

Conference Room 235

Talk time per paper

19 minutes (Long), 9 minutes (Short, Work-in-Progress)

Chaired byPaper

Paper details

Varying the Beamwidth of Hybrid Beamforming
for mmWave Communications
1Yavuz Yaman (Rutgers University, USA); PredragSpasojević (Rutgers University, USA)1570570439

NOMA Power Allocation for Minimizing
System Outage under Rayleigh Fading Channel
2Ömer Faruk Gemici (TÜBİTAK BİLGEM & İstanbul TeknikÜniversitesi, Turkey); Ibrahim Hokelek (TUBITAKBILGEM, Turkey); Hakan A. Çırpan (Istanbul TechnicalUniversity, Turkey)

1570566683

Discovering Shadowing Effects Over Effective
Spectrum Availability Inside Smart Buildings for
Cognitive Short Range Systems Operation
3Washington Medina (Escuela Superior Politécnica delLitoral, Ecuador); Francisco Novillo (Escuela Superior
Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador); Eduardo Chancay (EscuelaSuperior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Ecuador); Juan
Romero-Arguello (University of California Davis, USA)1570570511

4

Innovative Approach to achieve Tri-Band
Capabilities by Parabolic Antenna Stacking
Clive Sugama (Colorado State University, USA)1570547481

Technical Program IV: Security and Automation
Session timeTue, Sep 24 3:40-5:00 P.M. ESTLocation

Conference Room 235

Talk time per paper

19 minutes (Long), 9 minutes (Short, Work-in-Progress)

Chaired byTBA

Paper

Paper details

Comprehensive Overview of Selfish Mining andDouble Spending Attack Countermeasures
1Kervins Nicolas (Manhattan College, USA); Yi Wang
(Manhattan College, USA); George C Giakos (ManhattanCollege, USA)1570570311

Game Theory and Biology Inspired Flight
Control for Autonomous UAVs Operating inContested Environments

2

M. Umit Uyar (City College of The City University of New
York, USA); Janusz Kusyk (New York City College ofTechnology, USA); Kelvin Ma (City College of New York,USA); Kevin Budhu (City College of New York, CUNY,USA); Eltan Samoylov (City Colelge of The City Universityof New York, USA); Joseph Plishka (I2WD, US ArmyRDECOM CERDEC, USA); Giorgio Bertoli (Chief, USA);
Jeffrey Boksiner (US Army CCDC C5ISR Center, USA);
Dilip Guha (CERDEC, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD,USA)

1570551348

A Capacity-Aware Distributed Denial-of-Service
Attack in Low-Power and Lossy Networks
3Rajorshi Biswas (Temple University, USA); Jie Wu (TempleUniversity, USA); Xiuqi Li (Temple University, USA)1570571377

Tactical Network Automation with NetZTP andOne Shot
4William Brockelsby (Duke University & North Carolina
State University, USA); Sean Dilda (Duke University, USA)1570568543