IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking
24–28 May 2021 // Virtual Conference

Full Program

Monday, May 24

15:00 – 16:30

SS-SCSV-I: Special Session – Security Constrains and Spectrum Vulnerabilities at the Beginning of 5G Era

Chairs: Simona Halunga (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania), Ireneusz Kubiak (Military Communication Institute, Poland)

DNS Records Secure Provisioning Mechanism for Virtual Machines automatic management in high density data centers
Constantin Viorel Marian (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

PrEmISES – optimizing the Semantically-Enabled data used by small and medium enterprises
Ramona Popa and Constantin Viorel Marian (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Nicolae Goga (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

Conceptualization of an Intelligent HL7 Application based on Questionnaire Generation and Editing
Răzvan Sfat (Romanian Parliament Chamber of Deputies, Romania); Iuliana Marin (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Nicolae Goga (University of Groningen, The Netherlands); Ramona Popa, Ion Cristian Darla and Constantin Viorel Marian (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

G-Cloud Briefcase – Electronic Archive for Academic Certificates and General Certificates of Education Documents Using Public Private Hyperspace for E-Government Library Services Based on NOSQL Databases
Mircea C Stana (Polytechnic University of Bucharest – Inginerie cu Predare in Limbi Straine & Autoritatea Pentru Digitalizarea Romaniei, Romania); Nicolae Goga (University of Groningen, The Netherlands); Constantin Viorel Marian and Ramona Popa (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Catalina Vulpe (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania); Cristian Taslitchi (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

15:00 – 17:00

TUT1: TUTORIAL-1: Malware Analysis and Detection

Ashu Sharma and Hemant Rathore

17:00 – 18:40

SS-SCSV-II: Special Session – Security Constrains and Spectrum Vulnerabilities at the Beginning of 5G Era II

Chairs: Simona Halunga (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania), Ireneusz Kubiak (Military Communication Institute, Poland)

Evaluation of electromagnetic field exposure in the vicinity of mobile phone base stations
Marius Nicusor Nedelcu (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Orange Romania, Technology Departament, Romania); Teodor Petrescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Victor Nitu (Orange Romania, Romania)

Radio frequency sensitivity of an RFID communication system
Eugen Stancu, Simona Halunga, Alexandru Badea, Cristian Capota and Madalina Berceanu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

Aspects regarding the customized analysis of emission security risks for certain types of compromising signals
Mircea Popescu (The Special Telecommunications Service & The National Institute for Research and Development in Electrical Engineering ICPE-CA, Romania); Razvan Bartusica (The Special Telecommunications Service, Romania)

Security Aspects and Vulnerabilities in Authentication Process WiFi Calling – RF measurements – Theoretical and Practical Aspects
Cristian Capota, Simona Halunga, Octavian Fratu, Eugen Stancu and Madalin Popescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

Vulnerabilities of UMTS-LTE Authentication Process – Theoretical and Practical Aspects during RF Measurements
Cristian Capota, Simona Halunga, Eugen Stancu and Madalin Popescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

18:40 – 20:00

WELCOME RECEPTION

 

Tuesday, May 25

14:30 – 15:00

Opening and Plenary Session Platinum Patron Speech

Chairs: Octavian Fratu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania), Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)

15:00 – 16:00

Keynote I: Digital Transformation: leveraging on current network infrastructures and setting requirements for future ones

Prof. Roberto Saracco University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Chair: Octavian Fratu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

16:00 – 17:30

5GBI: 5G and Beyond I

Chair: Alexandru Vulpe (University Politehnica of Bucharest & BEIA Consult International SRL, Romania)

Resource Allocation for Vehicle Platooning in 5G NR-V2X via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Liu Cao and Hao Yin (University of Washington, USA)

NLOS Links Detection Algorithm for Improved 5G NR Indoor Positioning
Sergey Sosnin (Intel Corporation, Russia); Artyom Lomayev (Intel Corp., Russia); Alexey Khoryaev (Intel Corporation, Russia)

Evaluating the Performance of Over-the-Air Time Synchronization for 5G and TSN Integration
Haochuan Shi (Toshiba Europe Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Adnan Aijaz (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nan Jiang (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. & Telecommunications Research Lab, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

An Efficient and Secure Handover Mechanism for SDN-Enabled 5G HetNet
Shaikhum Monira, Upama Kabir and Mosarrat Jahan (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh); Uchswas Paul (University of Information Technology and Sciences, Bangladesh)

SEC: Security

Authentication Protocol for Enhanced Security of the Automatic Identification System
Robert Litts, Dimitrie C. Popescu and Otilia Popescu (Old Dominion University, USA)

Security Solution for Clouds Based on Software Defined Networking
Alina Dartu (Keysight Technologies, Romania); Naina Patrascu (University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania); Tudor Cornea (Keysight Technologies Romania, Romania); Serban Obreja (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Alexandru Brumaru (SC Invite Systems SRL, Romania); Marina Ciurezu (University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania)

Using Counterfactual Regret Minimization and Monte Carlo Tree Search for Cybersecurity Threats
Paul Cotae and Nii Emil Alexander Reindorf (University of the District of Columbia, USA)

Implementation of a Click Based IDS on SDN-NFV Architecture and Performance Evaluation
Md Fahad Monir (Independent University, Bangladesh); Ryhan Uddin (Grameen CyberNet Ltd., Bangladesh); Dan Pan (Telenor Sverige AB, Sweden)

A Case Study in Anticipating Insider Vulnerabilities Using Psychological Profiling
Sergiu Eftimie (Military Technical Academy, Romania); Vlad Cotenescu (Technical Military Academy, Romania); Radu Moinescu and Ciprian Racuciu (Military Technical Academy, Romania); Dragos Constantin Glavan (Military Technical Academy & Central University Emergency Military Hospital, Romania)

18:00 – 19:30

IoT and Sensors Networks

Chair: Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy)

Fog Computing and D2D networks Integration
Mustafa Khaleel Hamadani (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Iraq); Eugen Borcoci (University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (CCSRST), Romania)

Federated learning through model gossiping in wireless sensor networks
Joannes Sam Mertens (University of Catania & CNIT-National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, Italy); Laura Galluccio and Giacomo Morabito (University of Catania, Italy)

Adaptive MAC Protocols for IoT Edge Computing Architectures with Event-Triggered Traffic
Vasileios Asteriou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Georgios Papadimitriou (Aristotle University, Greece); Petros Nicopolitidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Convolutional Neural Networks for audio classification on ultra low power IoT devices
Alessandro Andreadis, Giovanni Giambene and Riccardo Zambon (University of Siena, Italy)

AUV Trajectory Optimization for an Optical Underwater Sensor Network in the Presence of Ocean Currents
Khadijeh Ali Mahmoodi and Murat Uysal (Ozyegin University, Turkey)

5GBII: 5G and Beyond Communications II

Impact of Imperfect Channel Estimation on 5G-NR
Ayşegül İlay Tunalı, Tunali (İstanbul Technical University & Aselsan, Turkey); Hakan A. Çırpan (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)Generalized Schematic Successive Cancellation Decoding for Polar Codes
Karim El-Abbasy (Ain Shams University, Egypt); Ramy Taki ElDin (Toyota Technological Institute & Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt); Salwa El-Ramly (Ain Shams University, Egypt); Bassant Abdelhamid (Faculty of Engineering Ain Shams University, Egypt)

An Efficient Beam Search Algorithm for mmWave Massive MIMO
Neeta Jha (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India); Saptarshi Chaudhuri and Jyotsna Bapat (International Institute of Information Technology, India); Debabrata Das (International Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore, India)

Adversarial Machine Learning Security Problems for 6G: mmWave Beam Prediction Use-Case
Evren Catak (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Ferhat Ozgur Catak (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway); Arild Moldsvor (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Wednesday, May 26

15:00 – 16:00

Keynote II: Adapting PBFT for use with blockchain-enabled IoT systemsDetails

Prof. Jelena Mišić, Department of Computer Science at Ryerson University, Canada
Chair: Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)

 

16:00 – 17:30

VLC: Visible Light Communications

Chair: Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy)

Analysis and Optimization of the Network Throughput in IEEE 802.15.13 based Visible Light Communication Networks
Yusuf Bülbül (Özyeğin Üniversity & Hyperion Technologies, Turkey); Mohammed Elamassie (Özyeğin Üniversitesi, Turkey); Tuncer Baykas (Kadir Has University); Murat Uysal (Ozyegin University, Turkey)

Comparative Performance Evaluation of VLC, LTE and WLAN Technologies in Indoor Environments
Arooba Zeshan (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey); Mehdi Karbalayghareh (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Farshad Miramirkhani (Isik University, Turkey); Murat Uysal (Ozyegin University, Turkey); Tuncer Baykas (Kadir Has University)

Position Estimation in Visible Light Systems in the Presence of Malicious LED Transmitters
Furkan Kokdogan and Sinan Gezici (Bilkent University, Turkey)

WRA: Wireless Radio Access

Modeling and Analysis for HARQ-Aided NOMA Scheme Using Markov-Based Approach
Raed Taleb Al-Zubi and Khalid A. Darabkh (The University of Jordan, Jordan); Yazid M Khattabi (University of Jordan, Jordan); Mohannad T. Abu Issa (The University of Jordan, Jordan)

BER Performance Comparison of AF and DF Assisted Relay Selection Schemes in Cooperative NOMA Systems
İnci Umakoğlu (Dumlupınar University, Turkey); Mustafa Namdar and Arif Basgumus (Dumlupinar University, Turkey); Ferdi Kara (Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey); Hakan Kaya (Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)

Error Performance of Uplink SIMO-NOMA with Joint Maximum-Likelihood and Adaptive M-PSK
Hichem Semira (Electronics and New Technologies Laboratory & Larbi Ben M’hidi University, Algeria); Ferdi Kara (Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey)

Mixer Imbalance Correction in Wireless OFDM Systems
Chris M Hall and Ivan B. Djordjevic (University of Arizona, USA)

18:00 – 19:30

MAC: Mac Layer Protocols / Design

Effect of Downlink Energy Transfer Scheduling on SDMA and TDMA Uplink Transmission
Ibrahim Pehlivan (UIUC, USA); Sinem Coleri (Koc University, Turkey)

MiSTA: Threshold-ALOHA with Mini Slots
Mutlu Ahmetoglu (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Orhan Tahir Yavascan and Elif Uysal (METU, Turkey)

Anchor Placement in TOA based Wireless Localization Networks via Convex Relaxation
Cuneyd Ozturk and Sinan Gezici (Bilkent University, Turkey)

PHY-I: Physical Layer Communications-I

Chair: Ferdi Kara (Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey)

Statistical Analysis of the Low-Bit Quantizer’s Output in Presence of Multipath Fading Effects
Aleksey S. Gvozdarev and Yury Bryukhanov (P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Russia)

Uniquely Decodable Ternary Codes via Augmented Sylvester-Hadamard Matrices
Michel Kulhandjian (University of Ottawa & Carleton University, Canada); Hovannes K. Kulhandjian (California State University, Fresno, USA); Claude D’Amours (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Geometric Constellation Shaping Using Initialized Autoencoders
Amir Omidi and Ming Zeng (Université Laval, Canada); Jiachuan Lin (Huawei, Canada); Leslie Rusch (Université Laval, Canada)

A Technique for Passive Ionosphere Sounding based on Machine Learning Algorithms
Mircea Stanic (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania); Radu Mitran (Stratec Biomedical, Romania)

Thursday, May 27

15:00 – 16:00

Keynote III: Next-generation wireless: Connecting the world with Taara Wireless Optical Communications (WOC)

Baris I. Erkmen, Wireless Optical Communications Lead, X (formerly Google[x])

Chair: Mehmet Ulema (Manhattan College, USA)

16:00 – 17:30

ML: Machine Learning in Communications

A Hybrid Machine Learning based Phishing Website Detection Technique through Dimensionality Reduction
Nusrath Tabassum, Farhin Faiza Neha and Md Shohrab Hossain (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Husnu S Narman (Marshall University, USA)

On Delay Sensitivity Clusters of Microgrid Data Aggregation Under LTE-A Links
Halil Deniz (University of Ottawa, Canada); Murat Simsek (University of Ottawa & Istanbul Technical University, Canada); Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Performance of Deep Learning Methods in DF Based Cooperative Communication Systems
Bilgehan Akdemir, Muhammet Ali Karabulut and Haci Ilhan (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey)

PHY-II: Physical Layer Communications-II

Chair: Huseyin Ugur Yildiz (TED University, Turkey)

Modulation Diversity in a Two-Way Cooperative System with an Energy Harvesting Relay
M. Ajmal Khan and Ahmed Ammar (Ohio Northern University, USA)

A practical controlled NLMS algorithm for network echo cancellation
Cristian Anghel, Cristian Stanciu and Constantin Paleologu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

Passive Side-Channel Interference Estimation for WiFi Networks
Aysun Gurur Onalan (Lifemote Networks, Turkey); Mehmet Hakan Kurtoglu (Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Eren Soyak (Lifemote Networks, Turkey)

Channel Reconstruction Based Multiuser Precoding with Limited Feedback
Mert Ozates and Mohammad Kazemi (Bilkent University, Turkey); Cagri Goken (Bilkent University & ASELSAN, Turkey); Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey)

SS-SCSV-III: Special Session – Security Constrains and Spectrum Vulnerabilities at the Beginning of 5G Era III

Chairs: Simona Halunga (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania), Eduard Popovici (University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania)

A Primitive Cipher with Machine Learning
Xian Liu (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)

Communication Secrecy in Offshore Wind Farms
Xian Liu (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)

Development of an Android application for user exposure assessment to electromagnetic fields emitted by an IEEE 802.11ax client
Andreea Buda (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Annamaria Sârbu (Land Forces Academy Nicolae Bălcescu Sibiu, Romania)

Circuit with directional coupler properties, in microstrip technology, for 2.4GHz ISM band applications
Laura Giban (BLD. DACIA, BL. S2, SC. B & Orange Romania, Romania); Eduard Popovici (University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania)

18:00 – 19:30

CLC: Cloud-Enabled Communications

Chair: Murat Simsek (University of Ottawa & Istanbul Technical University, Canada)

Exploiting a Virtual Load Balancer on SDN-NFV Framework

Md Fahad Monir (Independent University, Bangladesh); Dan Pan (Telenor Sverige AB, Sweden)

Impact of Critical Node Failures on Lifetime of UWSNs with Incomplete Secure Connectivity
Burak Emre Ün (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey); Huseyin Ugur Yildiz (TED University, Turkey); Bulent Tavli (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey)

Effect of Wind on the Connectivity and Safety of Large Scale UAV Swarms
Biruk E Tegicho (North Carolina A&T State University, USA); Tsinuel Geleta (Western University, Canada); Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale, Abdullah Eroglu and William Edmonson (North Carolina A&T State University, USA); Girma Bitsuamlak (Western University, Canada)

Estimating Capture Probabilities for Complex Topologies in 2D Molecular Communication via Diffusion Channel using Artificial Neural Networks
Halil Umut Özdemir and Halil İbrahim Orhan (Boğaziçi University, Turkey); Meriç Turan, Baris Buyuktas and H. Birkan Yilmaz (Bogazici University, Turkey)

Use Case of a Management and Orchestration for Network Functions Virtualization in a VoIP Testbed
Benjamin Koné and Ahmed Dooguy Kora (Ecole Supérieure Multinationale de Télécommunications, Senegal); Robert Botez, Iustin-Alexandru Ivanciu and Virgil Dobrota (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

SS-5GETV-I: Special Session – 5G ecosystem: use cases, testing and validation I

Chairs: Florin Alexa (Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania), Razvan Craciunescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Future Networks Lab, Romania)

Advanced 5G Architectures for Future NetApps and Verticals

Cristian Patachia – Sultanoiu (Orange Romania SA & Technical University Gheorghe Asachi of Iasi, Romania); Ion Bogdan (Techn. University. of Iassy, Faculty of Electronics & Telecommunications, Romania); George Suciu (Politehnica University of Bucharest & BEIA Consult International SRL, Romania); Alexandru Vulpe (University Politehnica of Bucharest & BEIA Consult International SRL, Romania); Oana Badita and Bogdan Rusti (Orange Romania, Romania)

Testing Scenarios for off-the-shelf 5G devices

Razvan Craciunescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Future Networks Lab, Romania); Cristian Patachia – Sultanoiu (Orange Romania SA & Technical University Gheorghe Asachi of Iasi, Romania); Octavian Fratu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Ion Bogdan (Techn. University. of Iassy, Faculty of Electronics & Telecommunications, Romania)

Predictive Model for Software Vulnerability Management in Telecommunication Infrastructures

Andrei Avadanei and Lucian Nitescu (Bit Sentinel, Romania); Ioan Constantin (Orange Romania, Romania); Cristian Patachia – Sultanoiu (Orange Romania SA & Technical University Gheorghe Asachi of Iasi, Romania)

Study of millimeter waves in 5G

Ana Maria Nedelcu and Alexandru Martian (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Eduard Popovici (University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania)

Radio-frequency transport platform for video cameras

Eduard-Marian Badula (Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania); Octavian Fratu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

WIP: Work in Progress and Demo Papers

Experimental analysis of PCPB-2: Comprehensive Energy-Efficient Approach to Distributed Workload Processing in Communication Networks

Larysa S. Globa and Nataliia Gvozdetska (National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI”, Ukraine)

An Experimental Study on the Influence of Human Movement in Indoor Radio Channel at 28GHz

Mohamed Benzaghta, Remziye Busra Coruk and Bengisu Yalcinkaya (Atilim University, Turkey); Ali Kara (Gazi University, Turkey)

Joint Channel Estimation and Passive Beamforming for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Multi-user Massive MIMO System

Yicheng Xu (Southeast University, China); Hongyun Chu (Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Pingping Xu (Southeast University, China)

Service Selection using Ethereum

Hemant Srivastava (Banaras Hindu University, India); Ravi Yadav and Gaurav Baranwal (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India)

Implementation and Evaluation of Age-Aware Downlink Scheduling Policies

Tahir Kerem Oğuz (Middle East Technical University & ASELSAN, Turkey); Elif Uysal (METU, Turkey); Tolga Girici (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey)

Friday, May 28

15:00 – 16:30

SS-5GETV-II: Special Session – 5G ecosystem: use cases, testing and validation II

Chairs: Florin Alexa (Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania), Razvan Craciunescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Future Networks Lab, Romania)

A Quality of Service Scenario Awareness for Use-Cases of Open Source Management and Control System Hub in Edge Computing

Andra Ciobanu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Eugen Borcoci (University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (CCSRST), Romania); Marius Constantin Vochin (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

RF Based UAV Detection and Defense Systems: Survey and a Novel Solution

Alexandru Martian and Florin Lucian Chiper (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Razvan Craciunescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Future Networks Lab, Romania); Calin Vladeanu, Octavian Fratu and Ion Marghescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

Machine Learning based Software-Defined Networking Traffic Classification System

Alexandru Vulpe (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Beam Innovation SRL); Girla Ionut (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Razvan Craciunescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Future Networks Lab, Romania); Madalina Berceanu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

Detecting indicators of compromise in web applications using access logs

Ionut Cosmin Cernica and Nirvana Popescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Razvan Craciunescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Future Networks Lab, Romania)

15:00 – 17:00

TUT2: Tutorial 2: What Will Wi-Fi 7 Be?

Lorenzo Galati-Giordano, Giovanni Geraci, and Boris Bellalta
Chair: Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)

17:00 – 19:00

TUT3: Tutorial 3: Challenges and Solutions for Flight Duration Enhancement in UAV Wireless Networks

Mustafa A. Kishk and Mohamed-Slim Alouini

19:00 – 20:00

CLOSING REMARKS AND AWARDS CEREMONY

Chairs: Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy), Octavian Fratu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania), Simona Halunga (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania), Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)