The 39th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium
NJIT Campus Center, 150 Bleeker St, University Heights, Newark, NJ
September 24-25, 2018

 

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Since 1978, the IEEE Sarnoff Symposium has been bringing together telecom and communications experts from industry, universities, and governments. The Sarnoff Symposium continues to grow as a premier forum in the northeastern United States for researchers, engineers, and business executives, drawing an attendance from all over the world. Besides technical sessions, the Symposium will include keynotes, invited talks, expert panels, tutorials, demo/exhibits and posters presentations.

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Venue: International Congress Center Dresden

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Author Instructions

The following are instructions for all who have an accepted paper to the Sarnoff Symposium 2018:

1) One or more of the paper’s authors should register for Sarnoff ’18 at the full registration price by August 24th. The registration instructions will soon be available here, and will also be emailed to authors of accepted papers.

2) Please prepare the final version of your accepted paper using the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings (https://www.ieee.org/.../templates.html). The final manuscript should not exceed 6 pages inclusive of figures and references.

3) After preparing your finalized paper draft it should be checked for compliance with IEEE Xplore using the IEEE PDF Xpress web site (https://www.pdf-express.org/). You will need to enter the Conference ID for Sarnoff, which is 41749XP, as part of this process.

4) After ensuring your document conforms to IEEE standards, it must be uploaded through the EDAS paper submission site. After logging in to EDAS, select the “My Papers” tab. Locate your Sarnoff submission’s row. There should also be a column titled “Upload.” Please submit your final manuscript using the icon at this location.

5) Lastly, an IEEE copyright form must be submitted for each accepted paper. This can be accomplished using the “Record Copyright” link in EDAS.

Agenda

 
        
        TECHNICAL PROGRAM 


                MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

                08:00-09:00 Registration and Networking

                09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks and Welcome Messages

                09:15-09:45 Keynote Presentation
                            Building a Large Scale Network around Automation!
                            Dr. Gulrukh Ahanger
                            Vice President, Comcast

                09:45-10:05 360 degree on-demand video streaming
                            Dr. Yao Wang
                            Professor, New York University USA

                10:05-10:25 Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research: Helping Define a New Edge 
                            Computing Paradigm
                            Mr. Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain
                            Technical Program Director, Northeastern University.           

                10:25- 10:40 Coffee Break

                10:40-11:00 Towards Network Systems that Improve with Experience
                            Dr. Mohammad Alizadeh
                            Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

                11:00-11:20 Towards Automated Network Management: Learning Optimal  Network Policies
                            Dr. Carlee Joe-Wong
                            Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

                11:20-11:40 Building Smart Memories and Responsive Edge Services with Derecho
                            Dr. Ken Birman
                            Professor, Cornell University

                11:40-12:00 Business-to-Consumer Communications in the era of AI
                            Dr. Venkatesh Krishnaswamy
                            CEO, Koopid Inc
                    
                12:00-13:00 Lunch Break

                13:00-13:30 Keynote Presentation
                            Network Automation - the Next Big Innovation
                            Dr. Marina Thottan
                            Group Lab Leader, Nokia Bell Labs

                13.30-13:50 Reinventing Businesses with AI
                            Dr. Ruchir Puri
                            CTO & Chief Architect, IBM Watson

                13:50-14:10 Edge Computing in Emerging 5G Networks
                            Mr. Robert Gazda
                            Senior Director Future Wireless, InterDigital

                14:10-14:30 Role of Deep Data Analytics in Network Engineering
                            Mr. Michael Raj
                            Director, Business Intelligence, Verizon

                14:30-15:30 Technical Session 1: Machine Learning and Deep Learning

                o The Tail Distribution of the Sum of Kappa Random Variables with Unequal Weight 
                    and Correlation
                o Shannon-Entropy-Based Artificial Intelligence Applied To Identify Social Anomalies 
                    in Large Latin American Cities
                o Evacuating Routes in Indoor-Fire Scenarios with Selection of Safe Exits on Known 
                    and Unknown Buildings using Machine Learning
                o Visible Light Communication Using Deep Learning Techniques
                    
                15:30-15:45   Coffee Break

                15:45-17:00 Technical Session 2: Security and Privacy

                o Scalable Computing in a Blockchain
                o Immutability measure for different blockchain structures
                o Security Aware Spatial Modulation (SA-SM)
                o A Sliding Window Based Monitoring Scheme to Detect and Prevent DDoS Attack in 
                    Data Center Networks in a Dynamic Traffic Environment
                o Modern Network Security Practices: Using Rainbow Tables to Solve Organizational Issues
                    

                15:45-17:00 Panel Session A: Machine Learning for Networks and Cloud: Challenges 
                            and Opportunities (Moderator: Dr. Anwar Walid, Nokia Bell Labs)
                            Dr. Ruchir Puri  (IBM)
                            Dr. Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT)
                            Dr. Siddhartha Sen (Microsoft Research, NYC)
                            Mr. Michael Raj (Verizon)
                            Dr. Carlee Joe-Wong (Carnegie Mellon University)
                            Dr. Junchen Jiang (University of Chicago)

                17:00-18:00 Technical Session 3: Communication QoS, Reliability & Modeling

                o Understanding User Perceived Video Quality using Multipath TCP over Wireless Network
                o Age of Information Upon Decisions
                o Network Optimization for Differentiated QoS Traffic in an SDN Environment for 
                    PoP-Data Center Traffic
                o Efficient Deployment of UAVs for Maximum Wireless Coverage using Genetic Algorithm
                    

                    
                TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
                    

                08:00-09:00 Registration and Networking

                09:00-09:30 Keynote Presentation
                            Arbitrum: Scalable, Private Smart Contracts
                            Dr. Edward W. Felten
                            Professor, Princeton University

                09:30-09:50 Edge Clouds and Akraino
                            Dr. Oliver Spatscheck
                            Assistant Vice President, AT&T Labs

                09:50-10:10 Learning and large-scale data analytics for resilience of energy 
                            infrastructure at edge 
                            Dr. Chuanyi Ji
                            Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

                10:10-10:30 Live Video Analytics ñ the ìkiller appî for edge computing!
                            Dr. Ganesh Ananthanarayanan
                            Research Engineer, Microsoft Research
                    
                10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
                    
                10:45-11:05 Multi-beam aspects of 5G standard
                            Dr. Nazmul Islam
                            Senior Research Engineer, Qualcomm

                11:05-11:25 Hybrid scheduling in heterogeneous half- and full-duplex wireless networks
                            Dr. Gil Zussman
                            Associate Professor, Columbia University

                11:25-11:45 mmWave Deployment Challenges, a Carrierís Perspective
                            Mr. Mark T. Watts
                            Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Verizon

                11:45-12:05 A Cloud Native Approach to Network Slicing
                            Mr. Sameer Sharma
                            Head, Autonomic Networks & Mobile Services Research, Nokia Bell Labs

                12:05-13:05 Lunch Break

                13:05-13:35 Keynote Presentation
                            5G and Edge Cloud evolution drive Industrial Innovation
                            Ms. Sree Koratala
                            Vice-President, Head of NFVi & Orchestration, Ericsson North America

                13:35-13:55 Towards Intelligence on the Edge: Restructuring Computing to Enable 
                            the Next Generation of the IoT
                            Dr. Maria Gorlatova
                            Associate Director, Princeton EDGE Lab

                13:55-14:15 A Race to the Edge
                            Dr. Padmanabhan S Pillai
                            Senior Research Engineer, Intel Labs

                14:15-14:35 SkyLiTE: End-to-End Design of Low-altitude UAV Networks for Providing 
                            LTE Connectivity
                            Dr. Ayon Chakraborty
                            Researcher, NEC Laboratories

                14:35-15:20 Technical Session 4: Optical Networks and Systems

                o A New Approach to the Routing and Spectrum Problem in Spectrum-Sliced Elastic 
                    Optical Networks
                o Delayed Wavelength Switching and Allocation in Optical Networks
                o Co-Scheduling Scientific Workflows in Elastic Optical Networks

                15:20-15:35 Coffee Break
                    
                15:35-16:35 Technical Session 5: Resource Allocation and Wireless Applications

                o An Autonomous Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Walker for Indoor Navigation
                o Implementation of a Cost Effective Gas Pipeline Monitoring System for Water Ingress 
                    Detection
                o iNaaS: Indoors Navigation as a Service on the Cloud and Smartphone Application
                o Placing Multiple Drone Base Stations in Hotspots
                    
                16:35-17:50 Technical Session 6: Wireless Communications

                o A Pre-Coding Technique to Mitigate PAPR in MIMO-OFDM Systems
                o Performance Analysis for HF Communication with Dominant Noise Source
                o Frequency Assignment for JALN HCB
                o Utilizing Spectral Level Crossings: An Example Signal-to-Noise Ratio Estimator
                o OpenFlow Experimenter Labels for Encoding Adaptive Network Functions

                16:35-17:50 Panel Session B: 5G Network Slicing - Opportunities and Challenges
                                                (Moderator: Deepak Kataria, IEEE PCJS)
                                                Dr. Cagatay Buyukkoc (AT&T)
                                                Mr. Hans Raj Nahata (Verizon)
                                                Dr. Dragan Samardzija (Nokia)
                                                Mr. Suresh Narayanan (Ericsson)
                                                Mr. Virgil Vladescu (Fujitsu Network Communications)
                                                
                            
                17:50-18:00 Closing Remarks

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Steering Committee

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Technical Program Committee

Mr. S. K. Agrawal, Delhi Technological University (DTU) Formerly Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) Dr. Walid Ahmed, Broadcom Inc. Prof. Nabi Sertac Artan, New York Institute of Technology Dr. Gautam Bhanage, Cisco Systems Mr. Sivakumar Ganapathy, Cisco Systems Inc Dr. Ibrahim Hokelek, TUBITAK BILGEM Dr. Philip Ji, NEC Laboratories America, Inc. Dr. Elias Kpodzo, L-3 Communications TE Dr. Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology Dr. Ziping Liu, Southeast Missouri State University Prof. M. Umit Uyar, City College of The City University of New York Dr. Jonathan Voris, New York Institute of Technology, USA Dr. Yang Wang, La Salle University Dr. Scott Yam, Queen's University Dr. Yifan Zhang, SUNY Binghamton

 

Reviewers

Mr. Akeem Adebomehin, University of Essex Dr. Izzat Alsmadi, University of Texas A&M San Antonio Dr. Ashraf Badawi, Zewail City for Science and Technology Dr. Nilanjan Banerjee, IBM Research Dr. Ana Barbancho, Universidad de Málaga Dr. Isabel Barbancho, Universidad de Malaga Dr. Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University Dr. Aresh Dadlani, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) Dr. Venkateswara Dasari, US Army Research Laboratory Dr. Jitender Deogun, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Dr. Safiullah Faizullah, Hewlett-Packard Dr. Mariusz A Fecko, Vencore Labs, USA Mr. Hassan El GHAZI, INPT Mr. Ömer Faruk Gemici, TÜBİTAK BİLGEM & İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey Mrs. Maryam Jalalitabar, Georgia State University, USA Mr. Harshvardhan Joshi, North Carolina State University Dr. Marc Koerner, ICSI Dr. Janusz Kusyk, New York City College of Technology, USA Mr. Chaoyang Li, Georgia State University, USA Dr. Guoqi Luo, Stevens Institute of Technology, Bloomberg Prof. Rashid Mehmood, King AbdulAziz University Mr. Khalid Mohammadani, Isra University Mr. Wasiu Oduola, Prairie View A & M University Mr. Oluwaseyi Omotere, Prairie View A&M University Dr. Loreto Pescosolido, CNR - Italian National Research Council, Italy Prof. Euripides Petrakis, Technical University of Crete (TUC) Dr. Sridhar Raghavan, Entreprenuer Ms. Fatima Salahdine, University of North Dakota Mr. Ali Shahini, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Shashank Shanbhag, Salesforce, Inc. Dr. Koushik Sinha, Southern Illinois University Prof. Iickho Song, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Mr. Xiang Sun, New Jersey Institute of Technology Mr. Robinson Udechukwu, North Carolina State University Dr. Dimitrios Vergados, National Technical University of Athens Dr. Christos Verikoukis, CTTC & UB, Spain Prof. Ning Weng, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Dr. Nikhil Yadav, St. John's University Mr. Bin Yang, Beihang University, P.R. China Dr. Zhutian Yang, Harbin Institute of Technology Mr. Demir Yavas, Istanbul Technical University Dr. Juzi Zhao, San Jose State University

 

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Registration

 

The registration instructions will soon be available here. Authors of accepted papers: please remember, at least one author must register at full author rate (even if the author is a student, or otherwise normally eligible for reduced registration rate.

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