23rd International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac'26)
Paris, France - October 26th - 30th, 2026

Program

Important Notes

- Keynotes are 1 hour including discussions
- Each Regular paper will have 30 minutes presentation including Q and A
- Each Short paper (in red) will have 20 minutes presentation including Q and A

Monday, October 26

8:15 - 8:30 Welcome & Opening Remark

8:30 - 10:00 Session 1: Mobility Management

Predicting the Next Category and Region of a Visit: A Check-in-Level Multi-Task Study on Mobility Data
Vitor Hugo De Oliveira Silva, Germano dos Santos and Fabrício Aguiar Silva (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil)
Bidirectional TSCH for swarms of mobile robots in GNSS-denied environments
Edouard de Langlais (Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes, France); Lenny Barazzuoli (Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes, Université de Toulouse, France); Nicola Accettura (CNRS, France)
WISE-MAS: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Cultural Mobility Routing in Urban Environments
Carla Beatriz Ferreira and Selene Melo Andrade (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil); Antonio Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:30 Session 2: 5G/6G Deployment

MU-MIMO with Type-II Codebook Precoding and User Grouping in ns-3 5G-LENA
Amirhassan Babazadeh Darabi (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Marina Petrova (RWTH Aachen University, Germany & KTH Royal Institute of Technolgy, Sweden); Ljiljana Simić (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Prototyping a free5GC-based Testbed with 3GPP 5G NR and Non-3GPP WiFi Global Connectivity
Markus Haukås and Muaz Al-Karrad (University of Agder, Norway); Geir Jevne (Jon Lilletunsvei 9 & Universitetet i Agder, Norway); Frank Y. Li (University of Agder, Norway)
ORION: An Outcome-Driven LLM Advisor for RL-Based Multi-Domain 6G Slice Placement
Mahmoud S. Mayaleh (Telecom SudParis Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France); Fetia Bannour (ENSIIE & SAMOVAR, France); Nour El Houda Yellas (Samovar, Telecom SudParis Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France)
Supply Chain Security Assessment of Container Images in Automated 5G/6G Deployments
David Company Estall and Maxime Compastie (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:00 Session 3

Photo Gallery as a Service for Mobile Applications with Efficient Image Compression and Adaptive AI-Based NSFW Moderation
Matheus Nascimento Peixoto (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil); Fabrício Aguiar Silva (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil); Jader Duque Figueredo and Matheus Silva Palhares (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil); Thais R. M. Braga Silva (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil)
Multi-Phase Candidate Selection for Failure-Aware and Energy-Efficient SDN Networks
Kevin Edgado Saavedra Delgado (Universita della Calabria, Italy); Mauro Tropea, Mattia Giovanni Spina and Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy)

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:30 Session 4: UAV Anomaly Detection and Adversarial Attacks

UAV-GUARD: Efficient UAV Anomaly Detection via Normality-Guided Channel Selection and Statistical Temporal Descriptors
Ahmed Jlidi (University of Kuwait, Kuwait & Kuwait University, Kuwait); Noura Aljeri (Kuwait University, Kuwait & University of Ottawa, Canada)
AP positioning strategies for deploying a UAV-enabled network: Modeling and simulation
Guido Betcher-Sbrolla (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Eduard Garcia-Villegas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Elena Lopez-Aguilera (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain)
Scalable Multi-Floor Wi-Fi Localization via Active and Transfer Learning
Mohamed Ahmed (Sheridan College, Canada); Joseph Chun-Chung Cheung (Canada); Tarek El Salti (Sheridan College, Canada); Mahmoud Elboghdady (Centre for Applied AI, Sheridan College, Canada); Ahmed Ibrahim (Sheridan College, Canada)
Robust Detection of Malicious Network Traffic Under Adversarial Attacks
Mohammed Amine Merzoug and Selma Rihani (University of Batna 2, Algeria); Ahmed Mostefaoui (Université de Franche Comté, France)

Tuesday, October 27

8:15 - 9:00 Session 5: Federated Learning

iHFL: intelligent Hierarchical Federated Learning Orchestration
Mattia Giovanni Spina (University of Calabria, Italy); Gabriele Tassone (Spintel Srl, Italy); Gianluigi Greco and Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy)
Realization and Performance Evaluation of Join Process in User-Centric Cell-Free Networks
Yevhenii Shudrenko and Anna Maria Dewi Prajitno (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany); Koojana Kuladinithi (Hamburg University of Technology & Institute of Communication Networks, Germany); Andreas Timm-Giel (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)

9:00 - 10:15 Keynote Speech: Non-Coherent MIMO communications: from massive to cell-free, Prof. Ana García Armada, Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

10:15 - 10:40 Coffee Break

10:40 - 12:00 SPP1: MSWiM/Mobiwac Poster Session

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 - 15:20 Session 6: WiFi and WLAN Management

On the Observability of Urban Wi-Fi Landscapes Through Passive Vehicular Sensing
Giuliano Prestes Fittipaldi (Sorbonne Université, France & LIP6, France); Anne Fladenmuller (LIP6/Sorbonne Université, France); Rodrigo S. Couto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Luis Henrique M K Costa (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Marcelo Dias de Amorim (CNRS and Sorbonne Université, France); Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Extending Mininet-WiFi with Coordination-Aware MLO for Dense Multi-AP IEEE 802.11be WLANs
Rania Sahraoui (Télécom SudParis, France); Fetia Bannour (ENSIIE & SAMOVAR, France); Badii Jouaber (SAMOVAR & Telecom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France); Djamal Zeghlache (Samovar, Telecom SudParis & Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France)
Energy-Aware Spread Deployment of Drone Swarms under a Battery Budget
Tahiry Razafindralambo (University of la Reunion, Reunion); Pierre-Ugo Tournoux (Université de la Réunion, Reunion); Fanilo Harivelo (University of la Reunion, France)
From Social Media Signals to Aerial Response: A Secure Drone Framework for Rapid Violent Crime Monitoring
Suhail Nassar (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Jeffrey Wong (University of Toronto, Canada); Khalil El-Khatib (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
Mobility Conditioned RL for Handover and Energy Efficient Dual Carrier Allocation in 5G Urban Macro Networks
Chrysostomos Athanasios Katsigiannis, Konstantinos Tsachrelias and Vasileios Kokkinos (University of Patras, Greece); Apostolos Gkamas (University of Ioannina, Greece); Christos J Bouras (University of Patras - ELKE, Greece); Philippos Pouyioutas (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)

15:20 - 15:40 Coffee Break

15:40 - 17:30 SD1: MSWiM/MobiWac Session Simulators Design & Tools

17:30 - 17:35 Closing Remarks