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Honolulu time	Monday, February 16	Tuesday, February 17	Wednesday, February 18	Thursday, February 19
8:20 ‑ 8:30	Opening Remarks
8:30 ‑ 9:30	Keynote I: Prof. Wei Zhao: From Classical Computing to Quantum Computing	Keynote II: Prof. H. Vincent Poor: Resource Constrained Learning over Wireless Networks	Keynote III: Dr. Jessica Bian: Greening the Cloud: Sustainable Energy for Data-Driven Futures	Keynote IV: Prof. Homer Chen: Light Field Technology for AI/AR Glasses
9:30 ‑ 10:00	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
10:00 ‑ 12:00	Distinguished Lecture-1 Invited Talks-1 CNS-1 CNS-2 CNS-3	Invited Talks-4 Invited Papers-1 AI-1 AMCN-1 CIS-1	Invited Talks-6 Invited Talks-7 ECB-1 MCC NAPE-1	Invited Talks-8 Invited Talks-9 NGNI NGMN OGN/SCDM
12:00 ‑ 13:30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13:30 ‑ 15:30	Distinguished Lecture-2 Invited Talks-2 CNS-4 CNS-5 CNS-6	Plenary Forum-1	Plenary Forum-2	Plenary Talks
15:30 ‑ 16:00	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
16:00 ‑ 18:00	Invited Forums-1 Invited Talks-3 CNS-7 CNS-8 CNS-9	Invited Talks-5 Invited Papers-2 AI-2 AMCN-2 CIS-2	Invited Forums-2 Invited Papers-3 ECB-2 MWN NAPE-2	Invited Papers-4 Invited Papers-5 WASN NGMN/NGNI SCDM/SPC
18:00 ‑ 19:00
19:00 ‑ 21:00		Welcome Reception	Banquet & Award Ceremony

Monday, February 16

Monday, February 16 8:20 - 8:30

Opening Remarks

Room: Lahaina 1

Monday, February 16 8:30 - 9:30

Keynote I: Prof. Wei Zhao: From Classical Computing to Quantum Computing

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Michael Wu

Monday, February 16 9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

Monday, February 16 10:00 - 12:00

Distinguished Lecture-1

Speakers: Shiwen Mao and Liuqing Yang

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Michael Wu

CSECS: Covert Symbol Embedding via Chirp Signals for Integrated Sensing and Communication: Bernard Amoah, Jian Zhang, Shiwen Mao, Senthilkumar Periaswamy and Justin Patton
Cognitive Security for AI-Native IIoT: An LLM-Centric Adaptive Defense Framework: Jingxin Mao, Zhiwei Wei, Bing Li, Rongqing Zhang, Xiaoya Hu and Liuqing Yang

Invited Talks-1

Speakers: Zhu Han, Kaoru Ota, Elisa Bertino, Guan Gui

Room: Lahaina 2

Chair: Kaoru Ota

Mission Explainable: From Feature Attribution to Mitigation in 5G Anomaly Detection: Federica Uccello, Imtiaz Karim, Kazi Samin Mubasshir, Elisa Bertino and Simin Nadjm-Tehrani
Robust HAR with CSI Tokens: Single-Direction Prompt Guidance on a Frozen LLM: Fucheng Miao, Osamu Takyu, Lin Shan, Ou Zhao, Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Guan Gui and Fumiyuki Adachi

CNS-1

Room: Lahaina 3

Chair: Errin Fulp

Personalized Remote Piano Education via an AI-Empowered Teacher-Student Framework: Melody Han and Geoffrey Ye Li
Development and Implementation of CCSDS TM/TC Packets Wrapped within CSP Format on the OBC: Nugroho Widi Widi Jatmiko, Bina Pratomo, Hidayat Gunawan, Dedi Irawadi and Supriyono Yono
Optimizing Container Caching in Serverless Edge Computing with Scalable Reinforcement Learning: Manikanta Sanjay Veera, Faiz Sameer Ahmed and Genya Ishigaki
Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Cell DTX/DRX Configuration for Network Energy Saving: Wei Mao, Lili Wei, Omid Semiari, Shu-ping Yeh and Hosein Nikopour
Toward Fully Automated Smart Factory Using Ultrashort-Pulsed Laser Processing: Ren Goto, Hiromu Ishimura and Masaki Yamaguchi
Intrusion Detection System based on Quantum Generative Adversarial Network and Blockchain-based Federated Learning: Christian Esposito and Franco Cirillo

CNS-2

Room: Lahaina 4

Chair: Kesheng Wu

A Proof of Concept AI Chatbot System for Structured Nursing Preceptorship Feedback: Ania Aibin and Michal Aibin
A Distributed Policy Gradient Algorithm for Optimal SFC Deployment in NFV-Enabled STINs: Jing Wang, Khanh D. Pham, Xin Tian and Genshe Chen
Performance evaluation of ML and GNN algorithms in attack detection in various IoT environments: Hongwei Li and Danai Chasaki
Lightweight Boolean Heartbreak Signaling with SDT and Adaptive Gain Factors for 5G AI-Driven NWDAF Layers: Sreenivas Chandran and Revathi Venkataraman
Coordinated Multi-Domain Deception: A Stackelberg Game Approach: Md Abu Sayed, Asif Rahman, Ahmed H. Anwar Hemida, Christopher Kiekintveld and Charles A Kamhoua

CNS-3

Room: Maui Suite 1

Chair: Stavros Kalafatis

Comprehensive Analysis of Large Language Models on CNN-based Deepfake Detection: Toey Lui, Quang Duy Tran and Younghee Park
User Account Compromise and Insider Threat Detection for Medical Image Information Systems: Joe Childress and Manki Min
A Test-bed Evaluation of DAS, Wi-Fi, Neutral Host and Outdoor Macro: Vanlin Sathya, Lyutianyang Zhang and Mehmet Yavuz
Indoor DAS using CBRS N48 Signals for Private Network Coverage: Vanlin Sathya, Lyutianyang Zhang and Mehmet Yavuz
An Experimental Study of Vulnerabilities in the Zigbee Protocol for IoT Systems: Aidan Weingrad and Proyash Podder
Towards Moving Target Defense (MTD)-Enabled Communication Protocols for Smart Grids: A DNP3 Use Case: Raveendra Babu Ponnuru, Rajarshi Mukherjee, Mohamed Azab and Thidapat Chantem
Calibrated Transfer Learning for Multi-Class Medical Image Classification: Yu Hlaing Win and JingTao Yao

Monday, February 16 12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

Not provided by conference

Monday, February 16 13:30 - 15:30

Distinguished Lecture-2

Speakers: Hamid Sharif and Dirk Slock

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Michael Wu

Invited Talks-2

Speakers: Zhu Li, Min Chen, Hitoshi Asaeda, Jianquan Liu

Room: Lahaina 2

Chair: Zhu Li

SoftMax-NeRF Attribute Compression with Vector-Quantized Color Tables for Point Clouds: Zhu Li and Ning Xu
Fine Granular Scalable Gaussian Splatting Coding for Real-Time Immersive Education: Jiaqi Zou, Lingyu Shi, Xu Shuzheng, Jintao Wang, Geert Van der Auwera and Zhu Li
Empowering ICN as an Emerging Network Component for Frontier Applications: Hitoshi Asaeda

CNS-4

Room: Lahaina 3

Chair: Jing Wang

The Mobile Paradox: How Interface Friction Can Improve 2FA Security: Mohammed Jubur
Federated Learning for DDoS Attack Detection: Enhancing Security with Misclassification Penalties: Aymen Ben Said, JingTao Yao and Nashid Shahriar
A Cost-Effective Intelligent Edge-Based Driver Monitoring System for Real-Time Detection of Unsafe Driving Behaviors: Fyaz N Rahman, Joaquin O. Ntoo, Mostafa M. Selim and Ahmed A Ahmed
Challenges in RL based Attack Detection in SDN: Aparna Ganesan and Kamil Sarac
FedAdapt-CAD: A Federated Learning Framework for Anomaly Detection with Client-Aware Aggregation and Dynamic Model Adaptation: Muhammad Azaz Farooq, Paolo Bellavista, Armir Bujari, Alessio Mora, Jamal Nasir and Hafiza Rohma Ahmed
Integrated Communication and Computing in Time-Varying mmWave Channels: Joan Çollaku, Kuranage Roche Rayan N Ranasinghe, Niclas Führling, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu and Takumi Takahashi
Survey on Security and Safety in Humanoid Robotics: Mingxiao Wei, Yubin Ma, Mingyang Qin, Haohong Wang and Jian Ren

CNS-5

Room: Lahaina 4

Chair: Younghee Park

Performance Metrics for Scheduling Algorithms in Deadline-Constrained Data Transfer: Takashi Kurimoto and Kohei Shiomoto
Beyond Computation: A Fragmentation-Aware Performance Analysis of Cryptographic Schemes for Real-Time C-V2X Cooperative Perception: Mason Minear, Mike Haggart and Junaid Ahmed Khan
Adaptive Reciprocal Differential Encoding Quantization for the Physical Layer Key Generation: Abdullah Dakhlallah Alshamdayn and Manki Min
Reinforcement Learning-Based Multi-Domain Network Slice Composition with Topology Aggregation: Congzhou Li, Genya Ishigaki, Zhouxiang Wu, Divya Khanure, Riti Gour and Jason P. Jue
Assessing the Cyber Risk of Autonomous System Networks using Dynamic Bayesian Models: Elliot Chmil, Jacob Fulp and Errin Fulp
Performance Improvement of Hyperledger Iroha under Network Latency Conditions: Akiho Sakamoto and Masato Oguchi

CNS-6

Room: Maui Suite 1

Chair: Hyuck M Kwon

Uncertainty-Guided Bandwidth-Adaptive Model Compression for Industrial Pore Detection: Prosenjit Roy, Kijoon Lee, Mohsen Taheri Andani and Noushin Ghaffari
Efficient Computation of Whittle Index for Partially Observable Restless Bandits: Qizhen Jia and Keqin Liu
Memory-Based Malware Detection under Limited Data Conditions: A Comparative Evaluation of TabPFN and Ensemble Models: Valentin Leroy, Shuvalaxmi Dass and Sharif Ullah
Autonomous Pallet Counting for Mixed Storage Configurations in Low-Light Warehouses: Yonglan Qi, Chenyang Wang, Chenru Wu, Xinchang Tong and Michal Aibin
Evaluating Energy Efficiency of Clustering Algorithms for VM Task Allocation in Cloud: Dishan Patel, Karishma Karamali Vadsaria, Himanshu Sharma and Michal Aibin
NextG Polar Code Design: Walter L Roensch, Jr and Hyuck M Kwon
Binary Programming for Constellation-Aware Resource Allocation in Multiuser Networks: Yanwu Ding and Yirong Tu

Monday, February 16 15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Monday, February 16 16:00 - 18:00

Invited Forums-1

Panelists: Kazunori Mukasa, Masahiro Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Tsuda, Naoaki Yamanaka

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Naoaki Yamanaka

Invited Talks-3

Speakers: Jianping Pan, Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Akihiko K. Sugiyama, Michele Zorzi

Room: Lahaina 2

Chair: Tomoaki Ohtsuki

Task-Aligned Evaluation of Compressed Semantics for Diffusion-Based Image Reconstruction: Mondher Bouazizi, Yue Yin and Tomoaki Ohtsuki
Experimental Evaluation of a UAV-Mounted LEO Satellite Backhaul for Emergency Connectivity: Mattia Figaro, Francesco Rossato, Alexander Bonora, Marco Giordani, Giovanni Schembra and Michele Zorzi

CNS-7

Room: Lahaina 3

Chair: Efat Fathalla

Layer Communication Framework (LCF) For Real-Time, AI-Driven System Communications: Razvan Cristian Voicu, Muhammad Hassan Tanveer and Yusun Chang
5G MIMO Reinforcement Learning: Comparative analysis of multi-agent Uplink and Downlink Transmission with Adaptive Modulation Control: Kanwalinderjit Kaur and Priyanshu Ashish Luhar
Container Data Item: An Abstract Datatype for Efficient Container-based Edge Computing: Md Rezwanur Rahman, Shirin Ebadi, Adarsh Srinivasan, Varsha Natarajan, Tarun Annapareddy, Eric Keller and Shivakant Mishra
Evaluating LEO Satellite Internet in Aeronautical Mobility: a Study of Starlink from Hawaii to Japan: Luca Borgianni, Davide Adami and Stefano Giordano
Formal Privacy Guarantee in Predictive Autoscaling by Differentially Private Federated Training: Alan Chuang, Melody Moh and Teng-Sheng Moh
Field Validation of a Low-Cost IoT-Based System for Real-Time Monitoring of Hydrologic and Physical Behavior of Slope: Robi S Mozumder, Rahul Debnath, Fyaz N Rahman, Ahmed A Ahmed and Md Jobair Bin Alam

CNS-8

Room: Lahaina 4

Chair: Peng Jiang

A Brief Survey of Data Streaming Technologies: Ezra Kissel and Jason Zurawski
Automatic Modulation Classification for OFDM Signals based on Deep Learning in Spectrum Sensing: Nahal Maleki, Todd Williams, Ulugbek Jainakov, Jason Jugar and Gilberth Caamano
A Co-Designed KubeEdge-SDN Multi-Agent Framework for Secure and Predictable IIoT Manufacturing: Petro Mushidi Tshakwanda, Henok Berhanu Tsegaye, Ashok Karukutla, Raddad Almaayn, Harsh Kumar and Michael Devetsikiotis
Integrated Strategies for Bottleneck Mitigation in SDN: A Comprehensive Analysis of Caching, Queuing, and Network Coding: Souryendu Das, Jacob Adamson, Aaron Lee, Vedant Vaideswar and Stavros Kalafatis
Early Review of the BitChat Protocol: Edoardo S. Biagioni
Exploring Deep Learning For Semiconductor Device BSIM4 Modeling: Leo Chenwei Shao

CNS-9

Room: Maui Suite 1

Chair: Antonio A. de A. Rocha

Interpretable Models for Workflow Differentiation in High-Performance Scientific Networks: Anna Giannakou, Syed Asif Raza Shah, Wenji Wu, Bruce Mah, Phil DeMar, Oliver Gutsche and Chin Guok
Adaptive Drone-Assisted IoT Communications: An RL Framework for Optimal Base-Station Placement and Traffic Load Balancing: Abee Alazzwi, Michael Devetsikiotis, Petro Mushidi Tshakwanda, Henok Berhanu Tsegaye and Harsh Kumar
Intelligent Detection and Analysis of Sophisticated Cyber Threats Using Real-World Network Traffic: Juli Dutta, Jeffrey D Berg and Qingzhong Liu
A Comprehensive Study on the Effectiveness of Machine Learning Models to Mitigate the Impact of Cyberbullying: Shweta Singh, Freidoon Barez and Riti Gour
Network Environment-Aware Drone Path Planning in Last-Mile Medical Supply Delivery: Aneesh Calyam, Chandra Bhamidipati and Sharan Srinivas
Augmented Reality and Digital Twins in Engineering Education: Technological Enhancements and Applications: Behnam Ghalamchi and Dylan Featherson

Tuesday, February 17

Tuesday, February 17 8:30 - 9:30

Keynote II: Prof. H. Vincent Poor: Resource Constrained Learning over Wireless Networks

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Jian Ren

Tuesday, February 17 9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

Tuesday, February 17 10:00 - 12:00

Invited Talks-4

Speakers: Falko Dressler, Matthew Valenti, Jian Ren, Qiang Ye

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Qiang Ye

Ns3Sionna: Realistic Wireless Network Simulation with Ray Tracing in ns-3: Anatolij Zubow, Sascha Rösler and Falko Dressler
Channel Effects Limit Adversarial Success under Perfect Channel Knowledge: Jaxon R Hancock, Alice Yu, Tongtong Li and Jian Ren
Machine Learning Classification Boundaries and Robustness for Adversarial Attacks: Jian Ren, Jaxon R Hancock and Tongtong Li
Utilizing Machine Learning to Detect Tor Traffic: A Realistic Dataset and A Comprehensive Analysis: Md Rafiqul Islam Sadik, Qiang Ye and Suchith Sridhar Khajjayam

Invited Papers-1

Room: Lahaina 2

Chair: Riti Gour

Visual Question Answering Using Gated Bidirectional Cross-Attention: Poulami Das Ghosh and Min Chen
Energy-Efficient Drowsiness Detection with Spiking Neural Networks: Satya Sairam Varma Manthena and Peng Kang
User-Preference-Aligned Automatic Question Generation: Nicholas X. Wang and Aggelos K Katsaggelos
AI-enabled Cybersecurity in the Internet of Things: David Wu, Vijay Anand, Amelia Estwick and Honghui Xu
Resilient Distributed Antenna System via Dynamic Cell-Restructuring: Sijie Xia, Suguru Kameda, Qiang Chen and Fumiyuki Adachi

AI-1

Room: Lahaina 3

Chair: Liuwan Zhu

Time-series Forecasting for Network Utilization in Large-Scale Scientific Workflows: Veronica Yakubovich, Ivy Sim, Phillip Kim, Nick Monozon, Jinny Chung, Alex Sim and Kesheng Wu
Proximal Policy Optimization for Coordination of Distributed Agents in a Cooperative Jamming Scenario: Robert T Lattus and John M Shea
E3-Guarded Generation: Provably Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Language Models: Gang Wang and Mark Nixon
Hybrid Quantum-Classical Convolutional Neural Network for Robust RF Sensing: Yujie Sun, Xuyu Wang and Shiwen Mao

AMCN-1

Room: Lahaina 4

Chair: Efat Fathalla

Joint Partitioning and Placement of Foundation Models for Real-Time Edge AI: Aladin Djuhera, Fernando Koch and Alecio Binotto
FPGA-based High-speed Reservoir Computing for MIMO Channel Prediction: Chunxiao Lin, Ummay Sumaya Khan, Lingjia Liu and Yang Yi
Structured Lightweight Speech Summarization with On-Device LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Refinement: Xu Gu, Qun Wang, William Pan, Xuhui Chen, Hao Yue and Rose Qingyang Hu
Beyond the Teacher-Student Paradigm: The Role of Network Structure in Knowledge Distillation: Nasif Fahmid Prangon and Jie Wu
GAMPALv2.5: Enhancing Large-scale Scanning Attack Inference in General-purpose Internet Traffic Anomaly Detection Mechanism: Keisuke Tachibana, Takao Kondo and Hiroyuki Minami

CIS-1

Room: Maui Suite 1

Chair: Mushu Li

Wormholes in Space: Unveiling Wormhole Attack in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks: Xiaojian Wang, Ruozhou Yu and Dejun Yang
Machine Learning Method for C&C Server Detection Based on Bot Behavior in an ISP Network: Masataka Nakahara, Kosuke Murakami and Ayumu Kubota
PrivLoRA: Enhancing Privacy in LoRA-Based Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models for Federated Learning: Bayan Taha Alzahrani and Dejun Yang
Cybersecurity Game for Online Games: Strategic Cheat Pricing with Network Effects: Thanh Nguyen and Jing Hou

Tuesday, February 17 12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

Not provided by conference

Tuesday, February 17 13:30 - 15:30

Plenary Forum-1

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Jian Ren

Tuesday, February 17 15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Tuesday, February 17 16:00 - 18:00

Invited Talks-5

Speakers: Li-Chun Wang, Danijela Cabric, Song Ci, Masayuki Ariyoshi

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Danijela Cabric

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Assisted Resilient Communications: Challenges and Opportunities: Haoran Peng and Li-Chun Wang

Invited Papers-2

Room: Lahaina 2

Chairs: Mushu Li, Suyang Wang

cCCM-Based Quantification of Directed Brain Information Transfer for Early Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment: Boxin Sun, Jinxian Deng, Ming Gu, Voyko Kavcic, Jian Ren, Bruno Giordani and Tongtong Li
A Collusion Attack on Stable Signature and a Defense using Domain-based Signature Assignment: Spandana Korabandi, Alimu Alibotaiken, Suyang Wang and Yu Cheng
Mobility-Aware Sensing Data Orchestration for Communication-Efficient Cooperative Perception: Pengjun Hou, Yida Ding, Mushu Li and Yu Cheng
Current Practices in BAS Security Management: Xinwen Fu, Ziyue Vivian Tang, Annabelle Cheng and Qun Zhou Sun

AI-2

Room: Lahaina 3

Chair: Shuvalaxmi Dass

Multi-Feature-Fusion Framework for Robust Learner Engagement Recognition in Virtual Environments: Eman Almotairi and Danda B. Rawat
Privacy-Preserving Post Deployment Model Calibration with Fully Homomorphic Encryption: Shadman Mahmood Khan Pathan, Qianlong Wang, Jonathan Takeshita, Sakan Binte Imran and Sachin Shetty
Quantum-Enhanced Federated Learning via QAOA Feature and Gate Selection with Skew-Symmetric Lipschitz Dynamics: Mahmudul Hasan, Sharif Ullah and Sachin Shetty
Hybrid GNN-Transformer Framework for Kidney Transplant Survival Prediction: Nazanin Rahmati and Jingjing Yao
CNN-Based game agent for Chrome Dino Game Revisited: Ashok Gaire, Yangyang Tao and Junxiu Zhou

AMCN-2

Room: Lahaina 4

Chair: Jun Huang

ReGAIN: Retrieval-Grounded AI Framework for Network Traffic Analysis: Shaghayegh Shajarian, Kennedy Marsh, James O Benson, Sajad Khorsandroo and Mahmoud Abdelsalam
MAGE-ID: A Multimodal Generative Framework for Intrusion Detection Systems: Mahdi Arab Loodaricheh, Mohammad Hossein Manshaei and Anita Raja
QoS-Aware State-Augmented Learnable Framework for 5G NR-U/Wi-Fi Coexistence: Impact of Parameter Selection and Enhanced Collision Resolution: Mohammad Reza Fasihi and Brian L Mark
ImpactNet: A Robust Two-Stage Disaster Damage Mapping Model For Cross-Domain Satellite Imagery: Nishat Ara Nipa, Sachin Shetty and Mohammed-Hamza Chao

CIS-2

Room: Maui Suite 1

Chair: Kamrul Hasan

GECKO: Securing Digital Assets Through(out) the Physical World: Cyrill Krähenbühl, Nico Hauser, Christelle Gloor, Juan Angel García-Pardo and Adrian Perrig
Secure Lightweight Authentication Scheme for IoT-Enabled Smart Farming: Raveendra Babu Ponnuru, Mohamed Azab and Denis Gracanin
SD-CGAN: Conditional Sinkhorn Divergence GAN for DDoS Anomaly Detection in IoT Networks: Henry Onyeka, Emmanuel J Samson, Liang Hong, Tariqul Islam, Imtiaz Ahmed and Kamrul Hasan
Privacy-Preserving Federated Vision Transformer Learning Leveraging Lightweight Homomorphic Encryption in Medical AI: Al Amin, Kamrul Hasan, Liang Hong and Sharif Ullah
Backdoor injection and detection in LGMB models: Antonio A. de A. Rocha and Rômulo C. A. da Silva

Tuesday, February 17 19:00 - 21:00

Welcome Reception

Room: Monarchy 5-7

Wednesday, February 18

Wednesday, February 18 8:30 - 9:30

Keynote III: Dr. Jessica Bian: Greening the Cloud: Sustainable Energy for Data-Driven Futures

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Haohong Wang

Wednesday, February 18 9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

Wednesday, February 18 10:00 - 12:00

Invited Talks-6

Speakers: Tara Javidi, Lingjia Liu, Jie Wang, and Fumiyuki Adachi

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Fumiyuki Adachi

Invited Talks-7

Speakers: Eiji Oki, Kazuhiko Sumi, Manos M. Tentzeris, Miki Yamamoto

Room: Lahaina 2

Chair: Eiji Oki

Towards Secure and Flexible Optical Networks: A Tutorial on Quantum-Classical Coexistence: Bijoy Chand Chatterjee and Eiji Oki
Deepfake Technologies: Generation, Detection and Emerging Challenges: Kazuhiko Sumi

ECB-1

Room: Lahaina 3

Chair: Henok Berhanu Tsegaye

BSAF-Based Binary Offloading for Edge AI: Energy-Efficient Deep Learning and Spatial Computing in Mixed Reality: Mahin Khan Mahadi, Daniel Mawunyo Doe, Xiangfang Li, Zhu Han and Lijun Qian
A Space-Efficient Shredding-Based Method for Secure Data Deletion in Multi-Cloud Environments: Ali Khowilid Alqarni and Zongming Fei
LLM-Enhanced Contract Design for Edge AIGC Service Provisioning in Teleoperation: Zijun Zhan, Yaxian Dong, Daniel Mawunyo Doe, Yuqing Hu, Shuai Li, Shaohua Cao and Zhu Han
Predicting Dataset Popularity for Improved Distributed Content Caching in Scientific Workflows: Malavikha Sudarshan, Alex Sim and Kesheng Wu
Temporal Learning for Edge AI: Hyperdimensional Computing with Legendre Delay Networks: Md Rubel Sarkar, Ramashish Gaurav, Govind Sunil Kumar, Shirazush Salekin Chowdhury and Yang (Cindy) Yi

MCC

Room: Lahaina 4

Chair: Kesheng Wu

Can we remove the ground? Obstacle-aware point cloud compression for remote object detection: Penxi Zeng, Alberto Presta, Atishna Samantaray, Jonah Reinis, Dinesh Bharadia, Hang Qiu and Pamela Cosman
A ViT-LSTM-Based Compensation Framework for Robust Speaker Verification under Emotional and Mask-Muffled Conditions: Ziqing Yang and Houwei Cao
Machine Learning-Based No-Reference QoE Estimation for Scalable Real-time Video Streaming: Yuki Kendo, Ryunosuke Sato, Satoshi Ohzahata and Ryo Yamamoto
Dynamic Spiking YOLO for Object Detection in Autonomous Vehicles: Dong-Gyun Kim, Jeong-Yun Heo and Jae-Han Lim

NAPE-1

Room: Maui Suite 1

Chair: Mina Samizadeh

PSketch: A Priority-Aware Sketch Architecture for Real-Time Flow Monitoring via eBPF: Yuanjun Dai, Xiangren Wang and Qingzhe Guo
Fast and Effective Bandwidth Estimation Using TCP Slow Start: Maryam Ataei Kachooei, Jae Chung, Feng Li, Benjamin Peters and Mark Claypool
BBRv3 Startup Behavior: Analysis and Fairness Enhancements: Imtiaz Mahmud, Kesheng Wu, Alex Sim, Anirban Mandal and Ewa Deelman
Using SEARCH to Improve TCP Slow Start on Wireless Local Area Networks: Maryam Ataei Kachooei, Amber K Cronin, Jose Manuel Perez Jimenez, Katy Stuparu, Connor Tam, Jae Chung, Feng Li, Benjamin Peters and Mark Claypool
SmartAlaska: Can Smart Cities Deliver During Earthquakes?: Mihir Patel, Byungkwan Jung, Suman Kumar and Chase Q. Wu

Wednesday, February 18 12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

Not provided by conference

Wednesday, February 18 13:30 - 15:30

Plenary Forum-2

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Haohong Wang

Wednesday, February 18 15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Wednesday, February 18 16:00 - 18:00

Invited Forums-2

Panelists: Hakima Chaouchi, Falko Dressler, JongWon Kim, Thomas Magedanz, Joyce Mwangama, Takehiro Nakamura, Ari Pouttu, Ivan Seskar, Sameh Yamany

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Thomas Magedanz

Invited Papers-3

Room: Lahaina 2

Chair: Peng Kang

Deep Restoration of Archival Videos: Developments, Challenges, and Opportunities: Shiv Gehlot, Sri Harsha Musunuri, Sutanu Bera, Aupendu Kar and Guan-Ming Su
Progressive Image Restoration via Text-Conditioned Video Generation: Peng Kang, Xijun Wang and Yu Yuan
RAN-IDS: Adaptive Continual Learning for Intrusion Detection in Open RAN: Nadia Niknami and Jie Wu
Rethinking Time-Series Forecasting as Binary Event Prediction with Spiking Neural Networks: Peng Kang, Hivanshu Tyagi and Md Tariqul Islam

ECB-2

Room: Lahaina 3

Chair: Edoardo S. Biagioni

Meeting SLO with Privacy: Partial Homomorphic Encryption Inference and Anomaly Gating for Predictive Autoscaling in Cloud Environments: Alan Chuang, Melody Moh and Teng-Sheng Moh
Low-Latency Streaming for Immersive Remote Interaction with a Spherical Display: Den Tabata, Kobori Taiga, Keisuke Sugiura, Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Ryouhei Tsugami, Toshihito Fujiwara, Tatsuya Fukui and Satoshi Narikawa
Learning to Defend: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Stackelberg Security Game in Mobile Edge Computing: Zihao Ding, Jun Huang and Junjian Qi
DeepSet-Enhanced Edge Reinforcement Learning for UAV Autonomous Landing and Takeoff at Portable Vertiports: Zhirun Li, Tiying Gao and Chengyi Qu
Toward Post-Quantum Safe Blockchains: Comparison of Consensus Families: Mehrab Hosain, Matthew Ogbe and Manki Min

MWN

Room: Lahaina 4

Chair: Mohamed Azab

ML-Based Downlink Throughput Prediction and Feature Importance Analysis in a Realistic LTE Testbed Using COTS Smartphone: Mahfuzur Rahman, Nishith Tripathi, Yang (Cindy) Yi, Jeffrey Reed and Lingjia Liu
Evaluation of Location-aided Coordinated Beamforming by Active Inference in Realistic City Scenario: Shota Yamada, Tatsuya Otoshi and Masayuki Murata
Joint Client Selection and UAV Placement in UAV-Aided Federated Learning: Seyed Soroush Tabadkani Avval and Jingjing Yao
QG Synthetic Time Series Generation: An Adapted Quantile Graph Method: Antonio A. de A. Rocha, Iasmyn Silva and Rodrigo Chimelli Silva

NAPE-2

Room: Maui Suite 1

Chair: Xiaochan Xue

Information-Centric Networks: A Convex Joint Cache Allocation and Router Assignment: Parisa Eslami, Pejman Ghasemzadeh and Shahriar Shahabuddin
Priority-based RDMA Transmission Control Method for Low-CPU CPS Data Collection under Mixed-Deadline Requirements: Ryouhei Tsugami, Tatsuya Fukui and Satoshi Narikawa
Sponge-based Lightweight Hash Function: Abdullah Dakhlallah Alshamdayn and Manki Min
Survivable Entanglement Path Routing Design Model under Node Failures in Quantum Networks: Eiji Oki, Masaki Maeda and Ryuta Shiraki
Validating TCP Behavior in DISTRI: A Comparison of Simulated and Real-World Network Performance for Distributed Computing: Imtiaz Mahmud, Kesheng Wu, Alex Sim, Anirban Mandal and Ewa Deelman

Wednesday, February 18 19:00 - 21:00

Banquet & Award Ceremony

Room: Lahaina Ballroom

Thursday, February 19

Thursday, February 19 8:30 - 9:30

Keynote IV: Prof. Homer Chen: Light Field Technology for AI/AR Glasses

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Haohong Wang

Thursday, February 19 9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

Thursday, February 19 10:00 - 12:00

Invited Talks-8

Speakers: Lee Swindlehurst, Hua Fang, Xianbin Wang, Shucheng Yu

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Xianbin Wang

Long-Term Behavioral Evaluation for Trusted Collaborator Selection via Bidirectional Mamba: Botao Zhu and Xianbin Wang
Waveform Design for ISAC: Trends and Future Directions: Xiaochan Xue, Shucheng Yu, Saurabh Parkar and Jiarui Li

Invited Talks-9

Speakers: Marwan Krunz, Guan-Ming Su

Room: Lahaina 2

Chair: Guan-Ming Su

Transformer-based DNN for Identification of RFI Sources in Astronomical Observations: Arush S. Sharma and Marwan Krunz
TV-GS: Triplane Video-based Dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting Representation for 2D Video Coding: Birendra Kathariya, Dae Yeol Lee, Tsung-Wei Huang, Fangjun Pu, Guan-Ming Su, Peng Yin and Sean T McCarthy
Semantic Aware Physics-Based Object Interaction In 3D Gaussian Splatting: Pooja Guhan, Dae Yeol Lee and Guan-Ming Su
Language-Guided Video Rendering in 3D Gaussian Splatting using Sparse Spatial-Semantic Attributes: Kiran Kumar Lekkala, Tsung-Wei Huang and Guan-Ming Su
Learning Audio Attributes in 3D Gaussian Splatting: Tsung-Wei Huang and Guan-Ming Su

NGNI

Room: Lahaina 3

Chair: Peng Jiang

AI-Driven Personalized Remote Education using Adaptive Semantic Communication: Zijun Zhan, Shaohua Cao, Lu Gao and Zhu Han
Self-Diagnosing and Healing System for Reliable Hybrid P2P-based Blockchain Against Abnormal Node Failure: Ho-se Moon, Seunggyu Ji, Hyunmin Noh and Hwangjun Song
Policy-Driven SD-WAN for Hybrid Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial 6G Connectivity: Luca Borgianni, Eleonora Bellini, Alessio Giorgetti, Davide Adami and Stefano Giordano
A Data-Driven Framework for Shared Bottleneck Detection across SD-WAN Overlays: Alessio Botta, Roberto Canonico, Annalisa Navarro, Lorenzo Pitacoro, Giovanni Stanco, Giorgio Ventre and Stefania Zinno
DI3: Decentralized Intelligent Internet Infrastructure Integrating AI and Blockchain Technologies: Gang Wang and Mark Nixon

NGMN

Room: Lahaina 4

Chair: Michael Wu

Joint Channel Estimation and Beamforming for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided MIMO Systems: Sparsity-Based Approach: Sung Hyuck Hong and Junil Choi
NextG Base Station Placement and Failure Mitigation: Shikhar Bhattarai, Asim Mahat, Dn Pokhrel and Hyuck M Kwon
Distributed Cooperative Downlink for NextG Mobile Networks: Yibin Liang, Usama Saeed, Yang (Cindy) Yi and Lingjia Liu
Power-Aware IMI Cancellation for OAM Multiplexing under Beam Axis Misalignment: Jihan Arsya Hidayat, Ryosuke Hoshi, Yasunori Yagi, Doohwan Lee and Fumiaki Maehara
SA-OOSC: A Multimodal LLM-Distilled Semantic Communication Framework for Enhanced Coding Efficiency with Scenario Understanding: Feifan Zhang, Yuyang Du, Yifan Xiang, Xiaoyan Liu and Soung Chang Liew

OGN/SCDM

Room: Maui Suite 1

Chairs: Kesheng Wu, Feng Yu

Partition Algorithm for Liquid Crystal Display-based Angle-of-Arrival Estimation of Single LED: Ryunosuke Fukuda, Koji Kamakura, Masayuki Kinoshita and Takaya Yamazato
Maximising Network Capacity with Service Provisioning in QKD-Integrated Optical Networks: Yuhang Liu, Xiaosong Yu and Yongli Zhao
Modeling and Analysis of Proactive and Reactive Defragmentation Approaches in Spectrally-Spatially Elastic Optical Networks: Imran Ahmed, Bijoy Chand Chatterjee and Eiji Oki
DeRA: Defragmentation-Aware Resource Allocation with Counter-Propagation in Spectrally-Spatially Elastic Optical Networks: Roshan Kumar Rai, Imran Ahmed, Eiji Oki and Bijoy Chand Chatterjee
Group Emotion Recognition using Multimodal Transformers with Hierarchical Aggregation: Laetitia Mouafo and Houwei Cao

Thursday, February 19 12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

Not provided by conference

Thursday, February 19 13:30 - 15:30

Plenary Talks

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Michael Wu

Thursday, February 19 15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Thursday, February 19 16:00 - 18:00

Invited Papers-4

Room: Lahaina 1

Chair: Honggang Wang

Hierarchical Graph Representation for Multi-Chain Blockchain Routing: Tirth Joshi and Honggang Wang
Evaluating Vulnerabilities of Connected Vehicles Under Cyber Attacks by Attack-Defense Tree: Muhammad Baqer Mollah, Honggang Wang and Hua Fang
Discrete Beamforming Optimization for RISs with a Limited Phase Range and Amplitude Attenuation: Dogan Kutay Pekcan, Liao Hongyi and Ender Ayanoglu
A Brief on 6G networks Resilience and service availability metric. Revisiting Standard ITU network availability and number of 9s in the context of emerging software cloud networks-3CN: Hakima Chaouchi and Bilal Ghani

Invited Papers-5

Room: Lahaina 2

WASN

Room: Lahaina 3

Chair: Bang Q Tran

SMDS-based Rigid Body Localization: Niclas Führling, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, David González G and Osvaldo Gonsa
Implementation of UAV Swarm Flight Exploration based on Mobile Sensing Clusters Using Swarm Intelligence: Shoma Nishigami, Eiji Nii, Naoki Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Yomo and Yasuhisa Takizawa
Collision-Responsive Micro-Scheduling for 802.11: Broadcast NAKs and Contender-Count Scaled Backoff: Haoyu Wang, Daniel Kaseya, Bang Q Tran, Peng Jiang, Bo Sheng and Xiaoqian Zhang
Feasibility Study of Zero Excess Node MAC (ZEN-MAC) for Ultra-Low-Power Communications: Tatsuhiro Kawaguchi and Koji Ishibashi
An Object-Track-Driven Distributed System for Real-Time Airspace Monitoring: Oluwafemi Ajeigbe, Chenyan Zhu and Sandip Roy

NGMN/NGNI

Room: Lahaina 4

Chair: Xiaoqian Zhang

Spatially Consistent Air-to-Ground Channel Modeling and Simulation via 3D Shadow Projections: Evgenii Vinogradov, Aymen Fakhreddine, Abdul Saboor, Sergi Abadal and Sofie Pollin
Joint Optimal Beamforming and Discrete Phase Shift Design in STAR-RIS with Quantum Optimization: Vu P Pham, Dang Van Huynh, Berk Canberk, Simon Cotton and Trung Q. Duong
Online Learning-based Adaptive Beam Switching for 6G Networks: Enhancing Efficiency and Resilience: Seyed bagher Hashemi Natanzi, Zhicong Zhu and Bo Tang
Federated Learning for Vehicular Networks Based on DDMC Modulation: Ganggui Wang, Celimuge Wu, Satoshi Ohzahata and Ryo Yamamoto
Q-MiNT: Quantum Multicast via hybrid Multipartite eNTanglement: Suman Kumar, Ved Dharkar, Awinash Kumar and Reshmi Mitra

SCDM/SPC

Room: Maui Suite 1

Chair: Michael Wu

Digital Twin-Driven Trust-Aware Strategy Modeling in Asymmetric Multi-Agent Social Games: David Li
Dynamic Norm Evolution in Social Media: A Cognitive-Evolutionary Framework for Modeling Emergent Behavioral Patterns: David Li
Interference Alleviation for Asynchronous Multigateway Multibeam Precoding: Huda Ali, Qing Su, Wenguan Zhang, Zihao Wang, Mohammed A M Ali and Rui Chen
Adaptive Precoding with DBSCAN Grouping for Efficient Massive MIMO Beamforming: Kanwalinderjit Kaur, Elias Farmer and Priyanshu Ashish Luhar
Rich Detail Range (RDR): Redefining Perceptual Picture Quality in the Era of AI Displays: Haohong Wang