Technical Program

Program at a glance:

Full papers were allocated 25 minutes (including Q&A).

Short papers or WiPs were allocated 15 minutes (including Q&A).

The BANQUET will be at the Restaurant La Capriata, in walking distance from the conference venue.

Session 1: Radio Channel: Measurement, Modeling & Reconfiguration

3 Full

9:00AM-10:15AM, June 17

Title	Authors with Affiliation and Country
Fast-Reconfiguring Liquid-Crystal RIS for Pervasive Wireless Networks	Luis F. Abanto-Leon (Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany); Robin Neuder (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany); Waqar Ahmned (Microchip Technology Inc., Germany); Alejandro Jiménez-Sáez (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Vahid Jamali (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany); Arash Asadi (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
A Novel Framework for Fair Resource Allocation in RIS-enabled Networks	Alexandros Ioannis Papadopoulos (University of Ioannina, Greece & Information Technologies Institute, Greece); Antonios Lalas (Centre for Research and Technology - Hellas (CERTH), Greece); Konstantinos Votis (Information Technologies Institute, Centre For Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA); Christos Liaskos (University of Ioannina, Greece & Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)
Car Penetration Loss assessment and modeling: a novel model based on an extensive experimental campaign in the FR1 Band	Simona Valbonesi (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy); Claudia Carciofi (Via Indipendenza 24, Italy); Marina Lotti and Andrea Garzia (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy)

Session 2: Sensor Fusion for Positioning and Beam Management

2 Full, 1 WiP

12:00PM-1:05PM, June 17

Title	Authors with Affiliation and Country
LiDAR-Aided Agile Beam Management in Millimeter-Wave Urban Micro-Cell Networks	Enrico Tosi (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Marina Petrova (RWTH Aachen University, Germany & KTH Royal Institute of Technolgy, Sweden); Ljiljana Simić (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
CAViAR: Quality-Aware Vision-and-Radio Fusion for Relative Range Estimation among Collaborative Autonomous Agents	Gaurav Shinde and Anuradha Ravi (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Jared Lewis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); André Harrison (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA); Henry Gardiner (University of Maryland, College Park, USA); Mohammad Saeid Anwar and Shadman Sakib (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Jade Freeman (Army Research Lab, USA); Nirmalya Roy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
WIP: Environment-Aware Indoor LoRaWAN Ranging Using Path Loss Model Inversion and Adaptive RSSI Filtering	Kristof Van Laerhoven (University of Siegen, Germany); Nahshon Mokua Obiri (University of Siegen & Ubiquitous Computing Group, Germany)

Session 3: Wireless Networks in Practice: 5G, V2X and Experiments

3 Full

2:15PM-3:30PM, June 17

Title	Authors with Affiliation and Country
Unlocking Vehicular Communications: Scaling V2X Traffic on 5G SA	Antonin Le Floch (IRIT, France); Rahim Kacimi (IRIT - Université de Toulouse, France)
Experimental Validation of Adaptive Rate Control for Decentralized Sensing Applications	Farah Hemeida and Vincenzo Auricchio (Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Lars Wischhof (Munich University of Applied Sciences & Hochschule Muenchen, Germany)
Traffic Steering and Service Placement for Metaverse Social Applications in 5G Backhaul Network	Eleonora Borgia and Raffaele Bruno (IIT-CNR, Italy)

Session 4: Edge Intelligence for Streaming Data and Video Analytics

3 Full

3:45PM-5:00PM, June 17

Title	Authors with Affiliation and Country
ForeSight: Context-Aware Load Balancing for Distributed Edge Video Analytics	Jingxiang Gao and Hend K. Gedawy (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar); Khaled A. Harras (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Multi-TAB: Multi-View Inference at the Edge with Resource-Aware Split Computing	Tanzil Bin Hassan (Northeastern University, USA); Kevin S Chan (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA); Fikadu Dagefu (Army Research Laboratory, USA); Jonathan Ashdown (United States Air Force, USA); Flavio Esposito (Saint Louis University, USA); Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University, USA)
CoST: An Efficient and Error-Bounded Compression Algorithm for Streaming Trajectories	Zihang Xu and QinQin Zhou (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Zheng Li and RuiYuan Li (Chongqing University, China); HuaJun He (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Yu Zheng (JD Intelligent Cities Research, China)

Session 5: Learning-Based Network Orchestration for 6G

2 Full, 1 WiP

9:30AM-10:15AM, June 18

Title	Authors with Affiliation and Country
GreenFLag: A Green Agentic Approach for Energy-Efficient Federated Learning	Theodora Panagea, Nikolaos Koursioumpas and Lina Magoula (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Ramin Khalili (Huawei Technologies, Germany)
WIP: Large Language Models for Network Automation: A Hierarchical Retrieval-Augmented Approach	Yasmine Ouni (University of Carthage, Tunisia); Kamal Singh (Université Jean Monnet, France); Antoine Gourru (Jean Monnet University, France); Farouk Mhamdi (University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia)

Session 6: Intelligent UAV Swarm Coordination

2 Full, 1 WiP

12:00PM-1:05PM, June 18

Title	Authors with Affiliation and Country
Distilling LLM Reasoning into Lightweight Neural Policies for Multi-Agent UAV Coordination	Suramya Pokharel and Eyuphan Bulut (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Say the Mission, Execute the Swarm: Agent-Enhanced LLM Reasoning in the Web-of-Drones	Andrea Iannoli, Lorenzo Gigli, Luca Sciullo, Angelo Trotta and Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy)
WIP: Ad-Hoc Network Serverless Scheduling in an Industrial Case Study: Drone Swarms in Disaster-struck Urban Environments	Francesco Bernardi (Leonardo S.p.A., Italy); Saverio Giallorenzo (Università di Bologna/Inria, Italy); Roberto Morelli, Alberto Remus, Alessandro Santopaolo and Fabrizio Schiano (Leonardo S.p.A., Italy); Angelo Trotta and Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, Italy)

Session 7: On-Device AI: Split Inference and Workload Scheduling

3 Full

2:15PM-3:30PM, June 18

Title	Authors with Affiliation and Country
COHORT: Hybrid RL for Collaborative Large DNN Inference on Multi-Robot Systems Under Real-Time Constraints	Mohammad Saeid Anwar and Anuradha Ravi (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Indrajeet Ghosh (University of Virginia, USA); Gaurav Shinde (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Carl Busart (Army Research Lab, USA); Nirmalya Roy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
Split CNN Inference on Networked Microcontrollers	Junyu Lu, Shashwath Suresh, Hao Liu, Qi Hong and Qing Wang (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
CLEAR: Scheduling of Multi-model Mobile Workloads on Chiplet Edge Platforms	Chetna Singhal (Inria, France); Matteo Mendula (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Italy); Francesco Malandrino (CNR-Ieiit, Italy); Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine, USA); Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino & CNIT, IEIIT-CNR, Italy)

Session 8: Energy-Constrained IoT: Sensing and Connectivity

3 Full

3:45PM-5:00PM, June 18

Title	Authors with Affiliation and Country
Joint LoRa and LR-FHSS Resource Allocation Optimization in Direct-to-Satellite IoT Networkss	Diego Maldonado (Inria INSA Lyon, France); Megumi Kaneko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Juan A. Fraire (Inria/INSA Lyon & CONICET, National University of Córdoba, Argentina); Alexandre Guitton (Université Clermont Auvergne, France); Oana Iova (INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI, France); Herve Rivano (Inria & Université de Lyon, INRIA, INSA Lyon, CITI, France)
MAQS: Model-Augmented Q-Learning Scheduler for Energy-Harvesting IoT Devices	Brendan J. Mackenzie, Max Sebrechts, Koustabh Dolui, Sam Michiels and Danny Hughes (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Soil Moisture Sensing through Phase Measurements in Analog Backscatter Systems	Vincenzo Gentile (University of Palermo, Italy); Domenico Giustiniano and Dayrene Frometa (IMDEA Networks, Spain)

Session 9: Resource Orchestration in Edge-Cloud Infrastructures

3 Full

9:00AM-10:15AM, June 19

Title	Authors with Affiliation and Country
A Fault-Tolerant Service Placement Approach with Near Real-time Service Recovery for Edge-Cloud Continuum	Mohammadsadeq Garshasbi Herabad and Javid Taheri (Karlstad University, Sweden); Calin Curescu (Ericsson, Sweden)
HeDeEFV: Heterogeneity-Aware Delay-Constrained Energy Efficient VNF Placement	Federico Casu, Carlo Vallati and Antonio Virdis (University of Pisa, Italy)
A Centralized Framework for Fair and Efficient Computing-Aware Traffic Steering in Edge-Cloud Environments	Francesco Taverna, Laura Lemmi and Carlo Puliafito (University of Pisa, Italy); Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa & University of Florence, Italy); Antonio Virdis (University of Pisa, Italy)

10.30 - 11.30 : PANEL SESSION

Wireless Multimedia Networks in the Age of AI and Metaverse: From Autonomous Networks to Immersive Experiences. Artificial Intelligence, edge computing, 6G, metaverse and immersive multimedia applications are reshaping the future of wireless communication systems and Multimedia. This panel will openly discuss how researchers from networking, multimedia, AI, and systems communities would consider the most relevant opportunities, challenges, and open research questions that will define the next generation of wireless multimedia networks.

Session 10: Mobile Traffic Analysis, Protocols and Datasets

3 Full

12:00PM-1:15PM, June 19

Title	Authors with Affiliation and Country
SigBooster: Enabling Low-latency and Flexible RAN-CN Signaling with Semantic-Aware Parsing	Shiyi Liu (CNIC, CAS, China & UCAS, China); Yanbiao Li (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Xin Wang (Stony Brook University, USA); Kaifei Peng (CNIC, CAS & UCAS, China); Xinyi Zhang (CNIC & Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Chenhui Yu (CNIC, CAS & UCAS, China); Zhuoran Ma (Hunan University & Computer Network Information Center, China); Gaogang Xie (CNIC Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
EtherMark: A novel architecture for mobile-traffic dataset creation with perfect labeling	Giovanni Pimpinella (University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy); Angelo Spognardi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Columnar Packet Traces for Scalable Encrypted-Internet Measurement	Pablo Rojo (Nokia, Spain); Juan Marcos Ramirez (IMDEA Networks, Spain); Vincenzo Mancuso (University of Palermo, Italy & IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Antonio Fernández Anta (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain & IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)

Session 11: AI for Sustainable, Secure and Resilient Networks

3 Full

2:25PM-3:40PM, June 19

Title	Authors with Affiliation and Country
Can Energy Communities Help in Greening Radio Access Networks? An Analytical Study	Adityo Anggraito (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy); Diletta Olliaro (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Matteo Sereno (University of Torino, Italy); Marco G Ajmone Marsan (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Andrea Marin (Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy)
Fine-Tuned LLMs for Flow-Based Intrusion Detection in Smart Agriculture via Semantic Augmentation	Jinkwon Lee, Younjun Seong and Hayoung Oh (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (South))
GUARD: GNN-Guided Adaptive Routing with DRL in Hybrid FSO/RF SAGIN (Pre-recorded Video Presentation)	Peijun Hou, Yue Zhang and Nan Cen (Saint Louis University, USA)