Day 2 – Technical Sessions

Technical Session 1 (TS01): 5G/6G Wireless Networks, Streaming and SD-WAN

Time: 09:00 – 10:40; Room: Verdi; Session chair: TBC

1. Comparative Evaluation of Wi-Fi 6 and Private 5G for Uplink Video Transmission in Industrial Settings, Jefferson Maxmiliano Oliveira das Merces (IFPB – Federal Institute of Paraíba, Brazil), José Silvestre da Silva Galvão (Instituto Federal da Paraiba, Brazil), Marcelo Portela Sousa (IFPB, Brazil), Waslon T. A. Lopes (Universidade Federal da Paraíba & IECOM – Institute for Advanced Studies in Communications, Brazil), Moacy P. SIlva (IFPB, Brazil), Ruan Gomes (IFPB, Brazil).
2. A Time Series Forecasting Approach to Throughput-Aware Adaptive Bitrate Streaming in 4G/5G Networks, Ahmed Elmeligy (McGill University, Canada), Tarnim Nos (American University of Sharja, United Arab Emirates), Mohamed S. Hassan (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates), Taha Landolsi (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates), Mahmoud H. Ismail (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates).
3. Scalability and Resilience Challenges in SDWN: Investigating OpenFlow in Dynamic Scenarios, Md Ashik Rezwan (University of Bonn, Germany), Edgar S. Oliveira (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil), Philipp Zissner (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany), Sean Kloth (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany), Clayson Celes (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil), Peter Sevenich (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany), Bruno Pereira dos Santos (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil), Rodolfo Meneguette (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Paulo Henrique Rettore (Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Brazil).
4. Deployment-Aware Lightweight Machine Learning for Security Monitoring in Slice-Enabled 5G and 6G Networks, Rhayane da Silva Monteiro (Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil), Leonardo Sampaio Rocha (State University of Ceara, Brazil), Miguel Franklin de Castro (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil), Dario Vieira (EFREI, France).
5. Addressing the Opaque Autonomy Paradox: A Sovereignty-Aware Framework for Intelligent and Secure SD-WAN, Igor D B Caldeira (Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil), Ricardo Choren (Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil), Ronaldo M Salles (Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal & Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil).
6. Traffic Steering in SD-WAN: A Recurrent Autoregressive DRL Approach for Tail Latency Mitigation, Ali Belgacem (University Cote D’Azur, France), Kamal Singh (Université Jean Monnet, France), Ahmad Al Sheikh (QoS Design, France), Tran Anh Quang Pham (Huawei Paris Research Center, France), Alain Pegatoquet (LEAT, University Cote d’Azur, France).

Technical Session 2 (TS02): Cloud, Edge and Serverless Resource Management

Time: 09:00 – 10:40; Room: Rossini; Session chair: TBC

1. Scale: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Container Scheduling in Serverless Edge Computing, Chen Chen (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Zihan Jia (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Andrea Sabbioni (University of Bologna, Italy), Reza Farahani (TU Wien, Austria), Lei Jiao (University of Oregon, USA).
2. From Local to Global: A Multi-Agent Pareto Q-Learning to Microservice Provisioning, João Vitor Bruniera Labres (Telecommunications Research and Development Center (CPQD), Brazil), Deborah Victória Lima Moreira (Telecommunications Research and Development Center (CPQD), Brazil), Layane Menezes Azevedo (Telecommunications Research and Development Center (CPQD), Brazil), Nicolas Flores Feijó (Federal University of Pampa, Brazil), Paulo Silas Severo de Souza (Federal University of Pampa, Brazil).
3. Curriculum-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Consolidated Container Placement, Alex F R Trajano (Instituto Atlântico, Brazil), Crislane Costa (Instituto Atlântico, Brazil), Vicente Ferreira (Instituto Atlântico, Brazil), Vitor Estevam (Instituto Atlântico, Brazil), Matheus Paixão (State University of Ceara (UECE), Brazil), Paulo A. L. Rego (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil).
4. An Adaptive Hybrid Survivability Framework for NFV-Enabled Fog Networks, Corey Thomas Glodek (DePaul University, USA), Nazli Siasi (DePaul University, USA).
5. Carbon-Aware Multi-Tier Quality Adaptation in LLM Routing on Heterogeneous Data Centres, Kouider Chadli (University of Galway, Ireland), Goetz Botterweck (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Takfarinas Saber (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland).
6. A QoS-Aware Architecture for Serverless Function Execution in the Cloud Continuum, Fabio Antonello Ciraci (University of Bologna, Italy), Armir Bujari (University of Bologna, Italy), Chen Chen (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna & CIRI ICT, Italy), Andrea Sabbioni (University of Bologna, Italy).

Technical Session 3 (TS03): Edge Intelligence and Lightweight On-Device AI

Time: 09:00 – 10:40; Room: Michelangelo; Session chair: TBC

1. A TinyMoE Approach for Embedded Mixture-of-Experts in Driver Support Systems, Thommas Kevin Sales Flores (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil), João Carlos N Bittencourt (University of Porto, Portugal & Federal University of Recôncavo Da Bahia, Brazil), Thiago C. Jesus (State University of Feira de Santana, Brazil & University of Porto, Portugal), Ivanovitch Silva (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil), Daniel G. Costa (University of Porto, Portugal).

2. Graph-Aware Resilient Orchestration Policy for AI Services in Dynamic 6G Edge Computing, Xinchen Cai (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China), Peng Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China), Honglin Fang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China), Xinxiu Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China), Long Qu (Ningbo University, China), Li Wenjing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China), Yang Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China), Dingshi Liao (China-ASEAN Information Harbor, China).
3. LWHM-AI: An Adaptive Lightweight Multimodal Framework for Energy-Efficient on-Board Inference in Satellite Edge Networks, Sadman Sakib (Queen’s University, Canada), Salimur Choudhury (Queen’s University, Canada).
4. Continuous Model Adaptation in UAV-Edge Systems via Uncertainty-Guided Active Learning, Leonardo F. da Costa (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil), José Gilvan Rodrigues Maia (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil), Francisco Airton Silva (Universidade Federal do Piauí, Brazil), Paulo A. L. Rego (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil).
5. EdgeVP-Former: A Lightweight Transformer for Viewport Prediction in MEC-Based 360° Video Streaming, Meer Muhammad Khan (UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil), Luiz F. Bittencourt (University of Campinas, Brazil), Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira (State University of Campinas, Brazil).
6. ELIC-Lite: Compressing Neural Image Codecs for TinyML Edge Deployment via Joint Knowledge Distillation and Quantization-Aware Training, Bouchaar Dounia (Abd Elhafid Boussouf, Algeria), Bouchemal Nardjes (University of Mila, Algeria), Naila Bouchemal (ECE Paris, France), Sondes Kallel (University of Paris Saclay, France).

Technical Session 4 (TS04): Network Measurement, Traffic Classification and Observability

Time: 14:00 – 15:40; Room: Verdi; Session chair: TBC

1. Optimizing Vantage Point Selection by Estimating AS-Level Observability, Yuxin Mao (Beihang University, China), Hongbin Luo (Beihang University, China), Zhiyuan Wang (Beihang University, China), Shan Zhang (Beihang University, China).

2. POCC: Learning Robust Congestion Control via Pessimistic Offline Reinforcement Learning, Zihan Jia (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Chen Chen (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Lin Guan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)).

3. High-Speed in-Kernel Network Periodicity Detection: A Discrete Wavelet Transform Implementation via eXpress Data Path, Nicolas Kolling Ribas (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil), Marco Aurelio Spohn (Federal University of Fronteira Sul, Brazil), Lisandro Z Granville (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).

4. A Novel Online Traffic Classification Framework for Real-Time Live Video Streaming, Haonan Wang (University of JiNan, China), Lizhi Peng (University of Jinan, China), Liang Jiao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Chenyu Zhang (University of Jinan, China), Rui Li (National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Coordination Center, China).

5. Process Energy Consumption Instrumentation in Linux Systems: An Approach Based on eBPF and RAPL, Pedro Martins dos Santos (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Andre Bortoli (UFRGS, Brazil), Laura Soares (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil), Jéferson Nobre (UFRGS, Brazil).

6. A Comparative Study of Residual-Based Anomaly Detection Techniques for UPS Current Monitoring in Data Centers, Leonardo A. Marques (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil & EFREI, France), Christiano Rodrigues (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil & Engineering School of Information and Digital Technologies (EFREI), France), Paulo Eugênio da Costa Filho (UFRN, Brazil), Marcio Kreutz (UFRN, Brazil), Eduardo Cunha Nogueira (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil), Augusto Venâncio Neto (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte (UFRN), Brazil & IT Aveiro, Portugal), Dario Vieira (EFREI, France).

Technical Session 5 (TS05): IoT, LPWAN and Energy-Aware Cyber-Physical Systems

Time: 14:00 – 15:40; Room: Rossini; Session chair: TBC

1. Towards Non-Invasive Sensing of Fruit Freshness Using RF Signals, Jannis Mast (Osnabrück University, Germany), Thomas Hänel (Osnabrück University, Germany), Nils Aschenbruck (Osnabrück University, Germany).

2. Learning-Based Adaptive Transmission Control in Hybrid CoAP-MQTT IoT Systems, Ali Ahammad (University of Algarve, Portugal), Noélia Correia (University of Algarve, Portugal).

3. IoT Aided Congestion Avoidance in Emergency Evacuation, Erol Gelenbe (Institute of Theoretial and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland & King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Yuting Ma (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics & Wuhan University of Technology, Poland).

4. Lightweight Solar Power Forecasting Models for Resource-Constrained Energy-Harvesting IoT Device, Melisa Kuzman (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain), Soledad Escolar (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), María Paula Cervellini (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina), Stefano Chessa (Universita’ di Pisa, Italy), Antonio Mario Caruso (University of Salento, Italy), Jesús Barba (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain).

5. LoRa-Based Decision Support for Rapid Victim Localization in Avalanche Scenarios, Annalisa Maggini (Italian Research Council, Italy), Alexander Kocian (University of Pisa, Italy), Stefano Chessa (Universita’ di Pisa, Italy), Michele Girolami (Italian Research Council, Italy).

6. ADR-EAC: An Energy-Aware Reinforcement Learning-Based Algorithm for LoRa Adaptive Data Rate in Noisy Scenarios, Diogo Soares (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil), Gilmara Santos (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil), Ronaldo Martins (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil), Paulo Victor Fernandes de Melo (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil), Pedro de Souza (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil), Edjair S. Mota (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil).

Technical Session 6 (TS06): Smart Sensing, Digital Twins and IoT Applications

Time: 14:00 – 15:40; Room: Michelangelo; Session chair: TBC

1. Statistical Verification of Medium-Access Parameterization for Power-Grid Edge Ad Hoc Sensor Networks, Haitian Wang (University of Western Australia, Australia), Xinyu Wang (The University of Western Australia, Australia), Zichen Geng (The University of Western Australia, Australia), Xian Zhang (The University of Western Australia, Australia), Yiren Wang (The University of Western Australia, Australia), Yihao Ding (The University of Western Australia, Australia).

2. Tracking Trackers: ML-Based Personal Tracker Detection in Crowded IoT Environments, Katharina O. E. Müller (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Stefan R. Saxer (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Daria Schumm (University of Zürich, Switzerland), Bruno Rodrigues (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland), Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich, Switzerland).

3. Low-Cost Semi-Automatic Design of Tactile IoT for Accessible Education, Camilla Poggianti (University of Pisa, Italy), Danilo Brizi (University of Pisa, Italy), Susanna Pelagatti (University of Pisa, Italy), Stefano Chessa (Universita’ di Pisa, Italy).

4. Transformer Models for Person-Independent Household Activities Recognition Using Wi-Fi CSI, Allan Costa Nascimento dos Santos (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), Pamella Soares de Sousa (Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brazil), Iandra Galdino (UFF, Brazil), Taiane Ramos (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), Célio Vinicius Neves de Albuquerque (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), Raphael Guerra (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), Cledson O de Sousa (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), Natalia Fernandes (Universidade Federal Fluminense & Midiacom, Brazil), Debora Muchaluat-Saade (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), Gheorghita Ghinea (Brunel University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)).

5. Smart Campus Digital Twins: Goal-Directed Markov Mobility with Power-Law Distributions, Luís Carlos Casanova Afonso (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), João Rafael Almeida (University of Aveiro, Portugal), José Luís Oliveira (University of Aveiro, Portugal).

6. Microservice-Based Digital Models for Industry 4.0: A Real-World Case Study, Alessio Benenati (University of Bologna, Italy), Idio Guarino (University of Bologna, Italy), Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy), Andrea Mazzolani (IPREL – SACMI, Italy), Alberto Schiassi (IPREL – SACMI, Italy).

Technical Session 7 (TS07): Resource-Efficient AI Acceleration and Large-Model Systems

Time: 16:10 – 18:00; Room: Verdi; Session chair: TBC

1. TQA-PIM: Long-Context LLMs Acceleration with Adaptive-Threshold Selection and Partial Quantization on PIM, Huinan Tian (Fudan University, China).

2. AMX-ANN: Accelerating ANNS with AMX-CPU Coherent Heterogeneous Computation, Shijing Liu (National University of Defense Technology, China), Yibo Tang (National University of Defense Technology, China), Lizhou Wu (National University of Defense Technology, China), Zhixing Lu (National University of Defense Technology, China), Yanjing Wang (National University of Defense Technology, China), Yang Ou (National University of Defense Technology, China).

3. Knowledge-Guided LLMs for Aging Assessment and Interpretation of Lithium-Ion Batteries from Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Francesco La Rosa (University of Messina, Italy), Pierluigi Dell’Acqua (University of Messina, Italy), Lorenzo Carnevale (University of Messina, Italy), Massimo Villari (University of Messina, Italy).

4. System-Level Analysis of Optical Circuit Switching Networks to Train Large Language Models, Arno Troch (University of Antwerp, Belgium & IMEC, Belgium), Abubakr Nada (IMEC, Belgium), Michael Peeters (IMEC & UA, Belgium), Jeroen Famaey (University of Antwerp – imec, Belgium).

5. PUMA: Client Resource-Aware Adaptive Pruning with Heterogeneous Sub-Model Aggregation, Rafael Veiga (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil), John Lucas Rodrigues Portilho de Sousa (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil), Bernardo Barreto (University of Aveiro, Portugal), Lucas de Lima Bastos (Federal University of South and Southeast of Para, Brazil), Denis Lima Rosário (Federal University of Para, Brazil), Susana Sargento (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para & UCLA & UFPA & UCLA, Brazil).

6. FedQ-Sparse: Communication-Efficient Quantum Federated Learning via Model Pruning Under Noise, Rómulo Bustincio (UNICAMP, Brazil), Ricardo Javier Hancco Ancori (Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequipa, Peru), Edgar Condori Pozo (Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequipa, Peru), Allan M de Souza (University of Campinas, Brazil), Luiz F. Bittencourt (University of Campinas, Brazil).

Technical Session 8 (TS08): Network Intrusion, Anomaly Detection and Threat Monitoring

Time: 16:10 – 18:00; Room: Rossini; Session chair: TBC

1. Adaptive Feature Selection with Self-Tuning Subset Size for Intrusion Detection, Vagner E Quincozes (Federal Fluminense University, Brazil), Silvio E Quincozes (Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil), Célio Vinicius Neves de Albuquerque (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), Diego Passos (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal), Daniel Mosse (University of Pittsburgh, USA).

2. An Adaptive Edge-Federated IDS Architecture for Semi-Supervised Threat Mitigation in Non-IID IoT/IIoT Networks, Luis Miguel García-Sáez (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), Sergio Ruiz-Villafranca (Technical University of Madrid, Spain), José Roldán-Gómez (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Javier Carrillo-Mondéjar (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Jose Luis Martinez (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain).

3. Space State and Real-Time Traffic Analysis Method for DDoS Attack Prediction, Thiago F. Alves do Carmo (UFMG, Brazil), Ligia F. Borges (Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG, Brazil), Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil).

4. Time Series Embeddings of Network Flows for Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection, Fernando Nakayama (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Felipe Araujo Melo (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), Gabriel Machado Violante (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil).

5. Parameter Sensitivity of AADRNN-Based Attack Detection, Mohammed Nasereddin (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Erol Gelenbe (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland & University of Cote d’Azur, France).

6. An Open-Set Approach for Zero-Day Attack Detection Based on IoT Network Traffic Analysis, Uelinton Q Brezolin (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil), Fernando Nakayama (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil).

Technical Session 9 (TS09): Identity, Access Control and Authentication

Time: 16:10 – 18:00; Room: Michelangelo; Session chair: TBC

1. Orchestrating Multi-Issuer Credentials in Self-Sovereign Identity: An Implementation with Proof of Ownership, Calogero Turco (University of Pisa, Italy), Andrea De Salve (National Research Council (CNR), Italy), Paolo Mori (IIT, CNR, Italy), Laura Emilia Maria Ricci (University of Pisa, Italy).

2. DTDL+ReBAC: Integrating Access Control into Digital Twin Modeling, Franklin J Ventura Quico (Universidade Federal Fluminense & Mídiacom Laboratory, Brazil), Flávia Coimbra Delicato (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil), Debora Muchaluat-Saade (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil).

3. New Multimodal Biometric Authentication Method Based on EEG and PPG with Deep Metric Learning, Caio Menezes (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil), Eduardo Torres Tristão, Sr (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Kristtopher Kayo Coelho (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil), Lucas Freitas (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil), Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Alex Borges Vieira (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil), Edelberto Franco Silva (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil), José Augusto M. Nacif (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil).

4. Feasibility Analysis of Post-Quantum Cryptography in GNSS Authentication, Vasileios Andrianopoulos (University of Piraeus, Greece), Dimitrios Zorbas (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan), Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou (University of Piraeus, Greece), Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece).

5. Zero Trust Based Access Control Supported by Multimodal Biometric Authentication, Lucas Freitas (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil), Eduardo Torres Tristão, Sr (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Edelberto Franco Silva (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil), José Augusto M. Nacif (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil), Kristtopher Kayo Coelho (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil), Caio Menezes (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil), Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Alex Borges Vieira (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil).

6. Automated Onboarding in Open RAN: A Decentralized Identity Architecture via SMO, Elder Bruno Evaristo Correa (Federal University of Pará, Brazil & Telecommunications Research and Development Center, Brazil), Jeffson Celeiro Sousa (Universidade Federal Do Pará & CPQD, Brazil), Vagner de Brito Nascimento (Federal University of Para – UFPA & Research Group on Computer Networks and Multimedia Communication – GERCOM, Brazil).

Day 3 – Technical Sessions

Technical Session 10 (TS10): Data Science, Recommendations and Knowledge Graphs

Time: 09:00 – 10:40; Room: Verdi; Session chair: TBC

1. Decoding Market Emotion from Blockchain Activity: A Data-Driven Sentiment Classifier, Arthur G. Bubolz (Federal University of Rio Grande – FURG, Brazil), Abreu Quevedo (Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil), Giancarlo Lucca (Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil), Rafael Berri (Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil), Eduardo N Borges (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil), Bruno L. Dalmazo (Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil).

2. Live Streaming E-Commerce Recommendation Based on Repeat Consumption and Multi-Behavior Exploration, Li Yu (Renmin University of China, China), Wen Deng (Renmin University of China, China), Minghao Yu (Renmin University of China, China), Yonggang Liu (Renmin University of China, China), Ningrui Ou (Renmin University of China, China).

3. Adaptively Integrating the Style and Theme for Live Streaming Channel Recommendations, Li Yu (Renmin University of China, China), Shuyang Sheng (Renmin University of China, China), Xiaoyu Huang (Renmin University of China, China), Yonggang Liu (Renmin University of China, China).

4. Performance-Efficiency Trade-Offs in Human Preference Prediction: A Comparative Study of Traditional Machine Learning and Large Language Models, Yike Zhang (USA), Zuodong Xiang (USA), Hailu Xu (California State University, USA).

5. Typed-Centrality Grounding for Agentic GraphRAG: A Symbolic Approach for Agentic Reasoning, Rosario Napoli (University of Messina, Italy & UCBM Roma, Italy), Antonio Celesti (University of Messina, Italy), Massimo Villari (University of Messina, Italy), Maria Fazio (University of Messina, Italy).

6. High-Performance Distributed Entity Matching Using Adaptive Blocking, Luis Thiago Henrique (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil), Demetrio G Mestre (Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil), Tiago Brasileiro Araújo (Instituto Federal da Paraiba, Brazil), Carlos Pires (Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil), Thiago Nóbrega (Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil), Dimas Nascimento (Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil).

Technical Session 11 (TS11): Trustworthy AI, Vision Models and Human-Centered Applications

Time: 09:00 – 10:40; Room: Rossini; Session chair: TBC

1. PWC-Diff: Pixel-Weighted Conditional Diffusion for Low-Light Image Enhancement, Hossam Elkordi (Alexandria University, Egypt), Hicham G Elmongui (Alexandria University, Egypt), Marwan Torki (Alexandria University, Egypt).

2. Exploring Generalizable Deepfake Detection via Knowledge-Guided Content Debiasing, Yiwen Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Min Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Jianguo Jiang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Boquan Li (Harbin Engineering University, China).

3. Trustworthy AI for Traceable High-Risk Decisions via the Deterministic Reasoning Framework, Antonio José Horta, Neto (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil), Ronaldo M Salles (Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal & Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil), Ronaldo Goldschmidt (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil), Anderson Fernandes P dos Santos (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil).

4. Adaptive Multi-Agent Meta-Learning Framework for Explainable Multimodal ASD Diagnosis, Evandro Carvalho de Andrade (Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brazil), Joaquim Celestino Júnior (State University of Ceará, Brazil), Arthur Magalhães da Silva (State University of Ceara, Brazil), Thiago Guilherme Bezerra De Aguiar (UECE, Brazil), Gustavo Leon Moura Pinho (UNIFOR, Brazil).

5. Neutralizing Implicit Biases in LLM-Assisted Hiring via a Deterministic Reasoning Framework, Antonio José Horta, Neto (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil), Ronaldo M Salles (Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal & Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil), Ronaldo Goldschmidt (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil), Anderson Fernandes P dos Santos (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil).

6. Edge-Driven Vision Language Models for Context-Aware Warning in Smart Cities, Marcos Mendes (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Duarte Raposo (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Pedro Rito (University of Aveiro, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Susana Sargento (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal).

Technical Session 12 (TS12): Security Verification, Blockchain and Secure Applications

Time: 09:00 – 10:40; Room: Michelangelo; Session chair: TBC

1. Enhanced Path Verification Mechanism with Open-Source Solutions, Mattin Antartiko Elorza Forcada (Telefonica Innovación Digital, Spain), Javier Velázquez Martínez (Telefonica Innovacion Digital, Spain), Antonio Pastor (Telefonica Innovación Digital, Spain).

2. Benchmarking of a Permissioned Blockchain Marketplace for Telecom Infrastructure Sharing, Jeffson Celeiro Sousa (Universidade Federal Do Pará & CPQD, Brazil), Mauricio Pinto (CPQD, Brazil), Vinicius Duarte (CPQD, Brazil), Alan Veloso (Brazilian National Research and Education Network (RNP), Brazil), Elder Bruno Evaristo Correa (CPQD, Brazil), Antonio Jorge Gomes Abelem (Federal University of Pará – UFPA, Brazil).

3. A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Malicious Activity Verification in Legacy Systems, Nuno Teixeira Gomes (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), João Rafael Almeida (University of Aveiro, Portugal), José Luís Oliveira (University of Aveiro, Portugal).

4. Risc0Flow: A Toolkit for Automatic Orchestration in RISC-0 Applications, Domenico Tortola (Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche – Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Italy), Gabriele Cristofaro (University of Pisa, Italy), Andrea De Salve (National Research Council (CNR), Italy), Paolo Mori (IIT, CNR, Italy), Laura Emilia Maria Ricci (University of Pisa, Italy).

5. An Adaptive Client-Side Tool for Detecting XSS Attacks, Isabela Maíra Mendite Alves (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, Brazil), Julia Abbud Fernandez E Souza (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, Brazil), Dalbert Matos Mascarenhas (CEFET/RJ – Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, Brazil), Igor Monteiro Moraes (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil).

Technical Session 13 (TS13): SDN, Programmable Networking and Intent-Based Control

Time: 14:00 – 15:40; Room: Verdi; Session chair: TBC

1. SD-HDMN: A Novel Software-Defined Architecture for High-Dynamic Mobile Communication Networks, Tai Liu (Shandong University, China), Guoyan Zhang (Shandong University, China).

2. Ephemeral Bootstrap Channel: Enabling Zero-State Bootstrapping in Named Data Networking, You Wu (Beijing Institute of Technology, China), Tian Song (Beijing Institute of Technology, China), Qianyu Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China), Yating Yang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China).

3. AURORA: An Adaptive Load Balancing Mechanism via Data Plane Prediction at Line Rate, Zhongyi Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Haizhang Zhu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Chenkan Wang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Yijun Zhao (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Zhou Zhou (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Hongfei Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Rong Yang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Qingyun Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).

4. An SRH Compression Scheme Based on the Louvain Algorithm, Yu Zhang (North China University of Technology, China), Dongchao Ma (North China University of Technology, China), Tingyu Peng (North China University of Technology, China), Li Ma (North China University of Technology, China).

5. Constraint-Driven Intent-Based Networking for Interdomain Decision Support, Arthur Camargo (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Lisandro Z Granville (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Leandro Márcio Bertholdo (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Renan Paredes Barreto (Universidade Federal de Rio Grande, Brazil).

6. An in-Switch Adaptive Flow-Type-Aware Traffic Engineering Mechanism for Programmable DCNs, Ting-Ting Yang (Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, National Defense University, Taiwan), Hsueh-Wen Tseng (National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan), Hung-Ping Lin (National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan).

Technical Session 14 (TS14): Network Slicing, Open RAN and Resource Orchestration

Time: 14:00 – 15:40; Room: Rossini; Session chair: TBC

1. CQTA-Driven Joint Routing and Slot Scheduling in Time-Sensitive Networking via Improved Particle Swarm Optimization, Xiaolong Wang (Qilu University of Technology, China), Wei Zhang (Qilu University of Technology(Shandong Academy of Sciences), China), Hao Hao (Shandong Academy of Sciences & National Supercomputing Center in Jinan, China), Huiling Shi (Shandong Computer Science Center, China).

2. RL-Based Multi-RAT Dual Connectivity Control for Consistent User-Satisfied Multiservices Connectivity, Lucas Medeiros (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil), Tarciana Guerra (UFRN, Brazil), Daniel R. de Luna (Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil), Antonio Campos (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil & Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil), Fuad M Abinader, Jr (CPQD, Brazil), Denis Lima Rosário (Federal University of Para, Brazil), Augusto Venâncio Neto (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte (UFRN), Brazil & IT Aveiro, Portugal), Vicente Sousa (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte & Group for Researching and Fast Prototyping Solutions for Communication (GPPCOM), Brazil).

3. Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Network Slicing Orchestration with Replica Control in a Multi-Access Edge Computing Environment, Matheus Moraes de Brito (Universidade Federal Do Pará, Brazil), David Galhego de Nazaré (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil), Hugo Leonardo Melo dos Santos (State University of Pará, Brazil), Vicente Sousa (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte & Group for Researching and Fast Prototyping Solutions for Communication (GPPCOM), Brazil), Augusto Venâncio Neto (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte (UFRN), Brazil & IT Aveiro, Portugal), Dario Vieira (EFREI, France), Denis Lima Rosário (Federal University of Para, Brazil), Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para & UCLA & UFPA & UCLA, Brazil).

4. A Hybrid LSTM-Based Approach to Mitigate Ping-Pong Handovers in Open RAN, Lucas Freitas (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil), Edelberto Franco Silva (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil), Alex Borges Vieira (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil), Alvaro A. Machado de Medeiros (UFJF, Brazil).

5. Leveraging 5G Testbeds for 6G Resource Management: Trade-Offs of Inter-Slice Mobility, Tiago Barros (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Rui Silva (Instituto de Telecomunicações & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), David Santos (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Augusto Venâncio Neto (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte (UFRN), Brazil & IT Aveiro, Portugal), Daniel Corujo (University of Aveiro, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Rui L Aguiar (University of Aveiro, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal).

6. Slice-Aware AI-Orchestrated Fluid Antenna Systems for Autonomous Beyond-Next Networks, Asmaa Kharouaa (ENSAO, Mohammed I University, Morocco), El Miloud Ar-Reyouchi (UNED, Spain & SNRT Company, Morocco), Omar Elmazria (Université de Lorraine, France & CNRS, France), Ayoub Hadj Sadek (ENSAO, Mohammed I University, Morocco), Kamal Ghoumid (ENSAO, Mohammed Premier University, Morocco).

Technical Session 15 (TS15): Wireless Signal Processing, MIMO, RIS and Channel Modeling

Time: 14:00 – 15:40; Room: Michelangelo; Session chair: TBC

1. An Efficient Hierarchically Parallel GPU-Accelerated Framework in Large-Scale MIMO Detection, Qinglin Xun (Sun Yat-sen University, China & Pengcheng Laboratory, China), Xueting Xu (Pengcheng Laborator, China), Fan Jiang (Pengcheng Laboratory, China), Ke Luo (Pengcheng Laboratory, China), Jingpu Duan (Pengcheng Laboratory, China), Weichao Li (Pengcheng Laboratory, China), Jinbei Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University, China), Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China).

2. Robust Channel Prediction in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems via Fisher-Regularized Variational Information Bottleneck, Yuyang Cheng (East China Normal University, China), Jielin Zhu (ShanghaiTech University, China), Ting Wang (East China Normal University, China), Youlong Wu (ShanghaiTech University, China), Yuanming Shi (ShanghaiTech University, China).

3. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided-Localization in a GNSS-Denied Environment, Joseph Horobetz (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada), Mostafa Hefnawi (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada), Aboelmagd Noureldin (Royal Military College of Canada & School of Computing, Queen’s University, Canada).

4. Flexible Precoding Design for MU-MISO Systems Enabled by Flexible Intelligent Metasurfaces, Yaxian Wang (Manchester Metropolitan Joint Institute, Hubei University, China), Songjie Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China), Jiancheng An (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Juhong Peng (Hubei University, China).

5. Closed-Form Rician K-Factor for Sub-THz Penetration Channels with Surface Roughness, Qiang Wu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Weiqing Huang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).

6. Enhanced EDF-Based Single/Multi-Carrier Signal Classification Based on Phase Offset Compensation, SungHyun Cho (Hanyang University, Korea (South)), Hanseung Cho (Hanyang University, Korea (South)), Dongweon Yoon (Hanyang University, Korea (South)).

Technical Session 16 (TS16): Satellite, UAV, Aeronautical and Underwater Communications

Time: 16:10 – 18:00; Room: Verdi; Session chair: TBC

1. Wireless Communication for Aeronautical Systems Powered by Novel Decision-Making Algorithm, Stefan Subasu (Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Al-Rubaye Saba (Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Antonios Tsourdos (Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Paul Newton (Thales UK, United Kingdom (Great Britain)).

2. DTO-DRL: A Dynamic Task Offloading Method for Mobile Edge Servers in Satellite 6G Using Deep Reinforcement Learning, Maolin Xiong (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Ruoting Xiong (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & China University of Geoscience, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Yi Ren (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Wei Ren (China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China), Xu Zhang (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Raheel Hassan Syed (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Xianghan Zheng (Fuzhou University, China).

3. Post-Disaster UAV-Assisted Digital Twin Synchronization via Spatiotemporal Feature Fusion, Shitao Shen (Sichuan Normal University, China), Tang Liu (Sichuan Normal University, China).

4. A Secure MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks Based on Dempster-Shafer Evidence Theory, Pengcheng Li (Hainan University, China), Xiangdang Huang (Hainan University, China), Wenjie Li (Hainan University, China), Qiuling Yang (Hainan University, China), Rongxin Zhu (Hainan University, China & Univiersity of Ottawa, Canada).

5. UAV-Facilitated 3D Signal Mapping via Temporal-Spatial Features and Neural Networks, Fin Mead (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Yi Ren (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Ruoting Xiong (UEA, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Fang-Jing Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Taoyang Wu (UEA, United Kingdom (Great Britain)).

6. PSTAR: Predictive State Transition and Adaptive Routing for Energy-Efficient LEO Satellite Networks, Liu Yuze (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Gaogang Xie (CNIC Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Yanbiao Li (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).

Technical Session 17 (TS17): Vehicular Edge, V2X and Multi-RAT Mobility

Time: 16:10 – 18:00; Room: Rossini; Session chair: TBC

1. An Adaptive Architecture for Vehicular Offloading with Connectivity Prediction by Machine Learning, Paulo Henrique Rocha (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil), Alisson Barbosa de Souza (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil), Francisco Airton Silva (Universidade Federal do Piauí, Brazil), Paulo A. L. Rego (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil), Nazim Agoulmine (Universite of Evry Val dEssonne, France), Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria, Italy), Jose N de Souza (UFC, Brazil).

2. Virtual Edge Networks for Adaptive Multi-RAT Traffic Steering in Vehicular Communications, Mubashir Murshed (Brock University, Canada), Glaucio Carvalho (Brock University, Canada), Robson E. De Grande (Brock University, Canada).

3. Feature-Level Cooperative Hierarchical Offloading for Dependency-Aware Vehicular Edge Computing, Tan Deng (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China), Liang Liu (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China), Xingyu Du (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China), Mingfeng Huang (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China), Xiaoyong Tang (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China), Ronghui Cao (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China).

4. Robust Dispatch Order Reception for Fleets of Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles Using IRS-Assisted V2X Communications, Eiman A Elghanam (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates), Mohamed S. Hassan (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates), Ahmed Osman (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates).

5. Share Offloading and Resource Allocation for Overlapping Tasks in Vehicular Networks, Dun Cao (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China), Chi Peng (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China), Bo Peng (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China), Yuan Su (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China), Jin Wang (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China).

6. Service-Differentiated RL for Multi-RAT Traffic Steering in 5G NSA Vehicular Networks, Mason De Fazio (Brock University, Canada), Mubashir Murshed (Brock University, Canada), Robson E. De Grande (Brock University, Canada).

Technical Session 18 (TS18): Intelligent Transportation, Automotive Perception and Mobility Planning

Time: 16:10 – 18:00; Room: Michelangelo; Session chair: TBC

1. Collision Risk Assessment for UAVs in Controlled Airspaces Applying AHP-TOPSIS, Placido Rogerio Pinheiro (University of Fortaleza, Brazil), Paulo Barros Monteiro (University of Fortaleza, Brazil), Raimir Holanda Filho (University of Fortaleza, Brazil), Pedro Gabriel Caliope Dantas Pinheiro (University of Fortaleza, Brazil), Tiago Paik Monteiro (University of Fortaleza, Brazil).

2. SENSYNC: Software-Based Multimodal Temporal Synchronization for Automotive Perception, Alexsandro Ferreira Coelho (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil), Abel Silva-Filho (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil), Alef Gabryel Lorenço Costa (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – UFPE, Brazil), Divanilson R. Campelo (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil), Lucas Alves Barbosa (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – UFPE, Brazil).

3. A Computational and Communication Overhead Analysis of Secure ETSI Cooperative Services, Emanuely Poncio do Amaral (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil), José Luis Conradi Hoffmann (Federal University of Santa Catarina & Software/Hardware Integration Lab, Brazil), Leonardo Passig Horstmann (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), Antônio Augusto Fröhlich (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil).

4. Unsupervised Relative Positioning via Adjacency-Aware Graphs and Confidence-Gated Temporal Dynamics, Kaiqing Zhang (Xiamen University, China).

5. Conflict Resolution in Train Timetabling Using Alternative Graphs and Deep Q-Networks, Shruthi Devaraj (University of Bonn, Germany), Luis Henrique Cantelli Reis (UFMG, Brazil), Philipp Zissner (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany), Sean Kloth (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany), Clayson Celes (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil), Peter Sevenich (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany), Bruno Pereira dos Santos (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil), Daniel Fernandes Macedo (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), Jose Nogueira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), Paulo Henrique Rettore (Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Brazil).

6. AIMS: Adaptive and Intelligent Management of Slicing for Next-Generation ITS Networks, Tiago do Vale Saraiva (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Carlos Alberto Vieira Campos (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

Day 4 – Technical Sessions

Technical Session 19 (TS19): Federated Learning, Edge Drift and Client Selection

Time: 09:00 – 10:40; Room: Rossini; Session chair: TBC

1. An Adaptive Hybrid Privacy Optimization Framework for Heterogeneous Federated Learning, Li-Ting Liu (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan), Shih-Hsuan Yang (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan).

2. Robust Federated Learning for Smart Agriculture: Mitigating Adversarial Data Poisoning Attacks, Paulo Caminha (UFABC, Brazil), Joahannes B. D. da Costa (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil), Helder May Nunes da Silva Oliveira (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil).

3. ProtoGraph: A Spatio-Temporal Graph-Enhanced Hierarchical Federated Learning Framework for 6G IoV, Chenxi Li (Jilin University of Finance and Economics, China), Ying Liu (Jilin University of Finance and Economics, China).

4. Group-Wise Asynchronous Federated Learning for Client Clustering Based on Mutual Information, Fangbo Li (Heilongjiang University, China), Nan Wang (Heilongjiang University, China), Yingli Zhong (Heilongjiang University, China).

5. FedAlert: Communication-Efficient Edge Drift Detection via Gradient-Space Signatures, John Lucas Rodrigues Portilho de Sousa (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil), Eduardo Ribeiro (Federal University of Pará, Brazil), Lucas de Lima Bastos (Federal University of South and Southeast of Para, Brazil), Iago Medeiros (Federal University of Pará, Brazil), Denis Lima Rosário (Federal University of Para, Brazil), Susana Sargento (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para & UCLA & UFPA & UCLA, Brazil).

6. FedMOCS: A Server-Side Multi-Objective Client Selection Method for Resource-Efficient and Robust Federated Learning at the Edge, Denisangelo de Moura Rabelo (State University of Ceará (UECE), Brazil), Joaquim Celestino Júnior (State University of Ceará, Brazil).

Technical Session 20 (TS20): Cyber Defense, Malware Analysis and Adversarial Attacks

Time: 09:00 – 10:40; Room: Rafaelo; Session chair: TBC

1. The “Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing” Attack: Denial-Of-Service via Reputation Poisoning, Anderson A Frasão (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil), Raphael Kaviak Machnicki (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil), Tiago Heinrich (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany), Vinicius Fulber-Garcia (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil).

2. VIGIL: Detecting Advanced Persistent Threats Under the Enemy Within Scenario, Zhan Liu (National University of Defense Technology, China), Zhenhao Luo (National University of Defense Technology, China), Hongyi Chen (National University of Defense Technology, China), Yang Wang (Nanjing FiberHome Starrysky Communication Development Co., Ltd., China), Ziling Wei (National University of Defense Technology, China).

3. From LLM Policy Knowledge to Robust Cyber Defense Agents, Muhammad Omer Farooq (Carleton University, Canada), Thomas Kunz (Carleton University, Canada).

4. Heterogeneous Graph Contrastive Learning for Stealth VPN Node Detection, Jiangyi Yin (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Xudong Yao (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Zhao Li (CAS, China), Chenxu Wang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China & Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Zhuojun Jiang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Qingyun Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).

5. Machine Learning for Network Attacks Classification and Statistical Evaluation of Adversarial Learning Methodologies for Synthetic Data Generation, Iakovos-Christos Zarkadis (Greece), Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece).

6. Quality Analytics for Android Malware Datasets, Noureldin Youssef (University of Louisville, USA), Adel S Elmaghraby (University of Louisville, USA), Nour Elbarawy (University of Louisville, USA), Sharon A Kerrick (University of Louisville, USA).

Technical Session 21 (TS21): Cryptography, Privacy and Secure Communication

Time: 09:00 – 10:40; Room: Michelangelo; Session chair: TBC

1. Hardware-Software Co-Design for FHE-Based Labeled PSI in Privacy-Preserving Genomic Screening, Chuanxin Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Chi Chen (Institute of Information Engineering & CAS, China).

2. Robust Covert Communication via Adaptive Closed-Loop Diffusion Steganography, Po-Yen Lu (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan), Shih-Hsuan Yang (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan).

3. Securing 5G User Plane Using Post-Quantum DTLS Protocol, Ximing Zhang (University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China), Pushpendu Kar (University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China), Chiew Foong Kwong (University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China), David Chieng (University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China), Theodoros A. Tsiftsis (University of Thessaly, Greece), Alejandro Guerra-Manzanares (University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China).

4. Toward Post-Quantum Matrix Protocol: A Hybrid Wrapper and Empirical Cost Analysis, Marcos Ortiz (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil), Vinícius Lagrota (Research and Development Center for Communication Security, Brazil), José Gilvan Rodrigues Maia (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil), Rodrigo Pereira Pacheco (Research and Development Center for Communication Security, Brazil), Paulo A. L. Rego (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil), José Macêdo (UFC, Brazil).

5. Combining Quaternary Logic Operations with MixColumns for Audio Encryption, Hongjian Wang (Donghua University, China), Yuxin Dai (Donghua University, China), Kuiyan Li (Donghua University, China).

6. Cryptographic Obfuscation Using Homomorphic Encryption in Gps-Based Systems, Armando Ruggeri (University of Messina, Italy), Antonio Celesti (University of Messina, Italy), Maria Fazio (University of Messina, Italy), Massimo Villari (University of Messina, Italy).

Technical Session 22 (TS22): Systems Security, Trusted Execution and Operating Systems

Time: 14:00 – 15:40; Room: Rossini; Session chair: TBC

1. Run Builds, Not Risks: Isolation in CI/CD Workflows, Sofia Vaz (University of Aveiro, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Vitor A Cunha (University of Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Rui L Aguiar (University of Aveiro, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal).

2. SCPTEE: Smart Contracts Parallelism in TrustZone-Enabled Environment, Yu Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China), Hu Xia (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China), Jianbin Gao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China), Qi Xia (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China).

3. Silent Kernel: Efficient Trap Processing Through Decoupling Handler Routines from User Programs, Ruibo Wang (National University of Defense Technology, China), Wanfu Xiong (NUDT, China), Wenzhe Zhang (National University of Defense Technology, China), Di Ma (National University of Defense Technology, China), Sen He (National University of Defense Technology, China), Zhenwei Wu (National University of Defense Technology, China), JiaXin Li (National University of Defense Technology, China).

4. Workload-Aware, Traceable CPU Recommendation for HPC Through Compiled NL-to-SQL, Nessrine Aloulou (University of Sfax, Tunisia), Aymen Ben Jdidia (ENIS, Tunisia), Mouna Baklouti (Computer Science Department,ENIS CES Lab, University of Sfax, ENIS), Saber Feki (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)).

5. AMP-TSC: Automated Discovery of x86 Instruction Security Vulnerabilities That Bypass KASLR, Shuan Li (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Guang Wang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Zhu Ziyuan (Information Engineering of Chinese Academy of Science, China), Dan Meng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).

6. PHMM: A Feedback-Driven Tiered Memory Manager for Operating Systems, Renhao Zhang (Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, China & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Chen Zheng (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China & Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, China).

Technical Session 23 (TS23): Distributed Systems, Programmability and Scheduling

Time: 14:00 – 15:40; Room: Rafaelo; Session chair: TBC

1. Software Design Patterns for Latency Measurements with eBPF in SDN Environments, Pedro Lucas Moraes de Sousa Rosa (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Bruno L. Dalmazo (Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil), Leticia S. Machado (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Jéferson Nobre (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).

2. Set Transformer-Based Group Decision Making for Intelligent Scheduling in Computing Power Network, Ranran Wei (Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Han Rui (Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).

3. CPCF: Cross-Partition Cooperative Fetch for Improving L1 to L2 Bandwidth Utilization in GPUs, Bingchao Li (Civil Aviation University of China, China), Yuchen Zhu (Civil Aviation University of China, China), Xiaohui Li (Civil Aviation University of China, China), Jizeng Wei (Tianjin University, China).

4. SwarmSync: Delta-CRDT State Synchronization over Push-Gossip for UAV Swarms in Flying Ad-Hoc Networks, Beatriz Cardoso De Oliveira (Brazil), Heitor Tanoue de Mello (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Sarita Mazzini Bruschi (University of Sao Paulo / ICMC, Brazil).

5. Packet-Loss-Aware Elastic Slice Resource Scheduling with Guaranteed Bandwidth for 5G Open RAN Networks, Carlos Lima (UFRN, Brazil), Ricardo Q. de F. H. Silva (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil), Daniel R. de Luna (Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil), Matheus F. de S. Dória (UFRN, Brazil), Antonio Campos (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil & Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil), Fuad M Abinader, Jr (CPQD, Brazil), Augusto Venâncio Neto (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte (UFRN), Brazil & IT Aveiro, Portugal), Denis Lima Rosário (Federal University of Para, Brazil), Vicente Sousa (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte & Group for Researching and Fast Prototyping Solutions for Communication (GPPCOM), Brazil).

Technical Session 24 (TS24): Applied AI for Risk, Forecasting and Localization

Time: 14:00 – 15:40; Room: Michelangelo; Session chair: TBC

1. Asynchronous Probability Ensembling for Federated Disaster Detection, Emanuel Teixeira Martins (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil), Rodrigo Moreira (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil), Larissa F. Rodrigues Moreira (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil & Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil), Rodolfo S Villaca (Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil), Augusto Venâncio Neto (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte (UFRN), Brazil & IT Aveiro, Portugal), Flavio de Oliveira Silva (University of Minho, Portugal & Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil).

2. Indoor Visible Light Positioning System Based on MLP Fingerprint Database Expansion, Jianhui Xiong (College of Photonicand Electronic Engineering, Fujian Normal University, China), Yixin Zheng (Concord University College, Fujian Normal University, China), Shiwu Xu (Concord University College, Fujian Normal University, China), Wen-Kang Jia (College of Photonicand Electronic Engineering, Fujian Normal University, China).

3. Bank Fraud Detection Under Extreme Rarity: An Experimental Study with Phased Preprocessing and Split Learning, Adelmo Gomes Correa Junior (Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brazil), Joaquim Celestino Júnior (State University of Ceará, Brazil), Hitalo J. B. Nascimento (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil).

4. Autonomous Spatiotemporal Graph Learning with Dynamic Adjacency and Temporal Smoothing for Edge-Based Networks Traffic Forecasting, Pan Ruifeng (City University of Macau, Macao & Nanchang Vocational University, China), Chun Wang (City University of Macau, Macao), Nan Zhao (Hubei University of Technology, China), Zhigang Ma (Nanchang University, China).

5. Mitigating NLOS Effects in UWSN Localization: An Efficient Mechanism Combining EM and IGWO, Rongxin Zhu (Hainan University, China & Univiersity of Ottawa, Canada), Zhichao Tang (Hainan University, China), Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada), Qiuling Yang (Hainan University, China).