19th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac'21)
Alicante, Spain -- November 22nd - 26th, 2021

Technical Program

Important Notes

The conference will be held online using ZOOM. You can join each of the rooms/sessions using the ID and password. Both will be provided via email during the first week on November. To access the session you need to install ZOOM client that can be downloaded for free and without any registration from the website https://zoom.us/download

  • Sessions Time is based on Central European Time Zone (CET) [GMT+1]
  • Keynotes are 1 hour including discussions - Each paper will have 25 minutes presentation and 5 minutes Q and A
  • Participants are asked to switch off microphones during sessions and switch on only when asking (session chairs have rights to switch off MC remotely).

Monday, November 22

10:15 - 10:30

Welcome Addressing

10:30 - 12:00

Session 1: 5G Networks

Minimizing Rate Variability with Effective Resource Utilization in 5G Networks
Fidan Mehmeti (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Thomas La Porta (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
A mechanism for improving the spectral efficiency in mu-MIMO for 5G and beyond networks
Eirini Barri (University of Patras, Greece); Christos J Bouras (University of Patras, Greece); Vasileios Kokkinos (University of Patras, Greece); Aspasia Koukouvela (University of Patras, Greece)
A Multi-Slice Multi-Operator Dynamic Weighted Fair Queuing RAN Scheduling in a Game Theoretic Framework
Joe Saad (University of Versailles & Orange Labs, France); Kinda Khawam (Université de Versailles, France)Mohamad Yassin and Salvatore Costanzo (Orange Labs, France)

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 - 14:30

Session 2: Mobility Management and Prediction

An Innovative Neuro-Genetic Algorithm and Geometric Loss Function for Mobility Prediction
Stylianos Tsanakas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Aroosa Hameed (École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Canada); John Violos (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada); Aris Leivadeas (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)
Generating synthetic datasets for mobile wireless networks with SUMO
Afonso Oliveira and Teresa Vazão (INESC-ID/Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
Hierarchical Models for Detecting Mobility Clusters during COVID-19
Necati A Ayan (Binghamton University, USA); Arti Ramesh and Anand Seetharam (SUNY Binghamton, USA); Antonio A Rocha (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)

14:30 - 15:00

Coffee break

15:00 - 17:45

Session 3: Mobile Applications

MOTIVE - tiMe-OpTimized contextual Information flow on unmanned VEhicles
Kostis Gerakos (Dilution, Greece); Kakia Panagidi, Charalampos Andreou and Dimitris Zampouras (Dilution, Greece)
Forecasting Citywide Crowd Flows with Unbalanced Human Mobility Distributions
Aissa Hadj Mohamed and Julio Cesar dos Reis (University of Campinas, Brazil); Leandro Aparecido Villas (UNICAMP, Brazil)
Towards the design of Smart Vehicular Traffic Flow Prediction
Jiahao Wang and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada);
Approximating Expected Job Completion Time in Dynamic Vehicular Clouds
Puya Ghazizadeh (St. John's University, USA); Aida Ghazizadeh, Ravi Mukkamala and Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA)

Tuesday, November 23

9:45 - 10:00

Welcome Message

10:00 - 11:00

Keynote Speech 1

Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networking: from Single- to Multi-Component Pareto Optimizaiton
Prof. Lajos Hanzo University of Southampton, UK

11:00 - 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 - 12:45

Session 4: Security, Identification and Privacy

Wideband, Real-time Spectro-Temporal RF Identification
Hai N. Nguyen, Marinos Vomvas, Triet Vo-Huu, and Guevara Noubir (Northeastern University, USA)
Credential Provisioning and Device Configuration with EAP
Sebastien Boire (Aalto University, France); Tolgahan Akgün (F-Secure Corp., Finland); Philip Ginzboorg (Aalto University, Finland); Pekka Laitinen and Sandeep Tamrakar (Huawei, Finland); Tuomas Aura (Aalto University, Finland)
Desynchronization and MitM Attacks Against Neighbor Awareness Networking Using OpenNAN
Lars Almon, Arno Krause and Oliver Fietze (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)

12:45 - 13:30

Lunch break

13:30 - 15:30

Session 5: Cloud Computing and Content Delivery

An evolution of Proxy Mobile IPv6 to the cloud
Akos Leiter (Nokia Bell Labs, Hungary); Laszlo Bokor (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Nandor Galambosi (Nokia Bell labs, Hungary)
FLIP: A Framework for Leveraging eBPF to Augment WiFi Access Points and Investigate Network Performance
Jaykumar Sheth, Vikram Ramanna and Behnam Dezfouli (Santa Clara University, USA)
Social Groups Based Content Caching in Wireless Networks
Nimrah Mustafa and Imdadullah Khan (Lahore University, Pakistan); Muhammad Asad Khan (Hazara University, Pakistan); Zartash Afzal Uzmi (LUMS University, Pakistan)

15:30 - 15:45

Coffee break

15:45 - 17:45

Session 6: Modeling and Performance Evaluation

Modelling Downlink Aggregation in Paced WLANs
Francesco Gringoli (CNIT/University of Brescia, Italy); Douglas Leith (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Improving delivery ratio in LoRa network
Rafał Marjasz and Konrad Połys (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, PAS, Poland); Anna Strzoda (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics & IITiS PAS, Poland); Krzysztof Grochla (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of PAS, Poland)
Extending Battery Life for Wi-Fi-Based IoT Devices: Modeling, Strategies, and Algorithm
Shyam Krishnan Venkateswaran and Ching-Lun Tai (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Yoav Ben-Yehezkel and Yaron Alpert (Texas Instruments, Israel); Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Simulation and channel assignment by Simulated Annealing of a wireless mesh network using Dynamic Spectrum Access
Natasha Zlobinsky (University of Cape Town, South Africa); David L Johnson (University of Cape Town, South Africa); Amit Kumar Mishra (University of Cape Town, South Africa); Albert A. Lysko (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

17:45 - 18:00

Closing remarks