Technical Sessions

DAY 1 (October 6)

Session 1A: AI/ML based Smart Design 1 (9:55 - 11:05)

Session Chair: Hongzhi Guo (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA)
Room: 475

Edge-Assisted Generative AI-Driven Video Communication using Topological Data Analysis
Rohit Bhusal and Hongzhi Guo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Ian Fuat Akyildiz (Editor in Chief for ITU-Journal for FET, International Telecom Union & Truva Inc., USA)

DrinkMR: Unobtrusive Drinking Monitoring Using Off-The-Shelf Smart Glasses
Ruxin Wang (Southern Methodist University, USA); Gabrielle Gonzalez (Health Sciences Center, Louisiana State University, USA); Wen Liu and Chen Wang (Southern Methodist University, USA); Tung-Sung Tseng (Health Sciences Center, Louisiana State University, USA)

Real-Time Drone Flight Height Decision for 3D Building Reconstruction with NeRF
Shenghao Jia, Chaoyue Niu and Fan Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

CollectiveFL: Edge-to-Edge Collective Intelligence Transfer in Federated Continual Learning
JinYi Yoon (Virginia Tech, USA); HyungJune Lee (Ewha Womans University, Korea (South))

Session 1B: Algorithm and Theory (9:55 - 11:05)

Session Chair: Habib M. Ammari (Texas A&M International University, USA)
Room: C35

Multimodal Remote Inference
Keyuan Zhang (Virginia Tech, USA); Yin Sun (Auburn University, USA); Bo Ji (Virginia Tech, USA)

Effective Delayed Patching for Transient Malware Control on Networks
Minh Phu Vuong and Chul-Ho Lee (Texas State University, USA); Do Young Eun (North Carolina State University, USA)

Adaptive Waveform Shaping for SINR-Optimal Interference Avoidance in OFDM Systems
Hatef Nouri (Florida Atlantic University & Center for Connected Autonomy and AI (CA-AI), USA); George Sklivanitis and Dimitris A. Pados (Florida Atlantic University, USA); Elizabeth Serena Bentley (AFRL, USA)

RESCUER: QoS-Aware Service Rescheduling in Serverless Crowdsourced Edge Cloud Clusters
Shihao Shen (Tianjin University, China); Cheng Zhang (Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, China); Chao Qiu and Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); Wenyu Wang (Shanghai Zhuichu Networking Technologies Co., Ltd., China)

Session 2A: Security and Privacy 1 (11:20 – 12:30)

Session Chair: Tingcong Jiang (Rutgers University, USA)
Room: 475

ViKey: Secure Door Access Control Using Passive Visible Light Tags
Jaskirat Sudan and Fatima Qasem (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA); Hasky E Fynn (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana); Fatima Mohammed and Ashwin Sarvadey (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA); Tian Xie (Utah State University, USA); Ang Li (The University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA); Xiao Zhang (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)

Prospect Theoretic Hypothesis Testing-based Cyber Deception
Abhinav Kumar and Swastik Brahma (University of Cincinnati, USA); Baocheng Geng (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA); Charles A Kamhoua (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory & Network Science Division, USA)

An Interpretable Multi-Modal Transformer-Based Intrusion Detection System Utilizing Log and PCAP
Nadia Niknami and Vahid Mahzoon (Temple University, USA); Rajorshi Biswas (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Slobodan Vucetic (Vucetic, USA); Jie Wu (China Telecom Cloud Computing Research Institute, USA & Temple University, USA)

Non-Invasive User Profiling through Label Inference in FL-based Network Traffic Classification
Huiwen Zhang and Feng Ye (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Session 2B: Systems and Applications 1 (11:20 - 12:30)

Session Chair: Shashank Mishra (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Room: C35

PCG: Enhancing Object Distance Estimation via Patch-to-Center Geometry
Zhiyuan Guan, Zhiqiang Wang and Jiahui Hou (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Zhentan Feng (NIO, China)

Characterizing and Understanding Energy Footprint and Efficiency of Small Language Model on Edges
Md Romyull Islam, Bobin Deng, Nobel Dhar, Tu N. Nguyen, Jing (Selena) He, Yong Shi and Kun Suo (Kennesaw State University, USA)

Efficient Zero-Cost Neural Architecture Search for Personalized AI Systems in Cloud-Edge Networks
Kai Huang, Yingchi Mao, Benteng Zhang, Yihan Chen and Yuchu Chen (Hohai University, China); Jie Wu (China Telecom Cloud Computing Research Institute, USA & Temple University, USA)

Argus-ear: Unconstrained-Vocabulary Sound Eavesdropping via μm-level mmWave Sensing
Jiyang Chen and Jianwei Liu (Zhejiang University, China); Jinsong Han (Zhejiang University & School of Cyber Science and Technology, China)

Session 3A: Invited paper: AI/ML Modeling and Applications (2:00 - 3:10)

Session Chair: Xuyu Wang (Florida International University, USA)
Room: 475

Safe and Reliable Deep Reinforcement Learning for Covert Routing
Amirhossein Roknilamouki (Ohio State University, USA); Fikadu Dagefu (Army Research Laboratory, USA); Eylem Ekici (The Ohio State University, USA); Brian Kim (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA); Justin Kong (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Terrence J. Moore (Army Research Laboratory, USA); Yin Sun (Auburn University, USA); Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University, USA)

RFID-Based Vital Sign Monitoring Under Motion Using Physics-Informed Generative Models
Ningning Wang, Yiting Wang and Tianya Zhao (Florida International University, USA); Yuwei Dai and Harrison Bai (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA); Karthik Suresh (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Zhicheng Jiao (Brown University Health, USA); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA); Xuyu Wang (Florida International University, USA)

Deep Bidirectional LSTM-Based Sensor Fusion for 3D Localization in Dynamic Environments
Tehmina Bibi (TU Berlin, Germany); Anselm Köhler and Jan-Thomas Fischer (Austrian Research Centre for Forests, Austria); Falko Dressler (TU Berlin, Germany)

Session 3B: Protocols and Emerging Technologies 1 (2:00- 3:10)

Session Chair: Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA)
Room: C35

Service Route Optimization for Autonomous Vehicles in Edge-Assisted Cellular Infrastructure
Sangwoo Cho and Yeongjin Kim (Inha University, Korea (South))

SkyDecoy: Drone-Assisted Decoy Strategies for Preserving Location Privacy in Sky-of-Privacy-Things
Anisa Bente Newaz, Sunho Lim and Sthephany Rojas Sabogal (Texas Tech University, USA); Jinseok Chae and Jangho Lee (Incheon National University, Korea (South))

Efficient HVAC Control using Machine Learning and Adaptive Differential Evolution
Jainam J. Dhruva and Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA)

SFMAC: Bleeps that enable high-density LoRaWANs
Maria Teresa Blanco Abad (Cognizant, The Netherlands); Vijay Rao (The Netherlands); Nikos Kouvelas (IMEC, The Netherlands); R Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Kumaralingam Ramamoorthy (Cognizant, The Netherlands); Sujay Narayana (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

Session 4A: System and Applications 2 (3:30 - 4:40)

Session Chair: Md Sazedur Rahman (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
Room: 475

PreFall: Early Detection of Consecutive Fall Events with Commercial Wi-Fi Devices
Zhiwei Zheng, Junfeng Zhu, Shigeng Zhang and Yalong Xiao (Central South University, China)

Detecting Untargeted Attacks and Mitigating Unreliable Updates in Federated Learning for Underground
Md Sazedur Rahman (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Mohamed Elmahallawy (Washington State University, USA); Sanjay Madria and Samuel Frimpong (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

PlaCoB: Collaborative Beamforming for Long Range Platoon-to-Platoon Communication
Griffin Klevering and Kanishka P Wijewardena (Michigan State University, USA); Xiao Zhang (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA); Joshua Siegel and Li Xiao (Michigan State University, USA)

Robust Uplink Ranging in 5G Networks: An Integrated O-RAN Approach
Viola Bernazzoli, Pietro Morri, Eugenio Moro, Mattia Brambilla, Ilario Filippini and Monica Nicoli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Session 4B: AI/ML based Smart Design 2 (3:30 - 4:40)

Session Chair: Vaji Farhadi (Bucknell University, USA)
Room: C35

An Efficient and Explainable KAN Framework for Wireless Radiation Field Prediction
Jingzhou Shen and Xuyu Wang (Florida International University, USA)

Cooperative Deep Q-Learning for Strategic Backup Scheduling in Smart Grid Recovery
Vaji Farhadi and James Giffen (Bucknell University, USA)

Vision-Language Modeling for Scene Understanding and Reasoning of Vehicle-to-X Interactions
Hao Wang and Suining He (School of Computing, University of Connecticut, CT, USA)

Distributed Context-Aware Resource Allocation for Dynamic Sensor Fusion in Edge Inference
Yashuo Wu (University of California Irvine, USA); Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino & CNIT, IEIIT-CNR, Italy); Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Poster & Demo Session (16:45-17:45)

Session Chair: Mushu Li (Lehigh University, USA)
Location: Lobby

SmartMail: A Real-Time Intelligent Mail Management System with Multimodal Learning
Jia-Ming Liang (National University of Tainan (NUTN), Taiwan); Shashank Mishra (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Kun-Lin Liu (National University of Tainan, Taiwan)

Smart_Safe: AI-Driven Safety System for Indoor Industrial Environments Using Wearable and Auto-ID
Pavel Stasa, Filip Benes, Jiri Svub, Veroslav Holusa, Miroslava Obrusnikova, Jan Dulovec and Lukas Hollesch (VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic); Jakub Unucka (Gaben, Czech Republic); Jongtae Rhee and Jin-Woo Jung (Dongguk University, Korea (South))

Integrated Air Filtration System with Adaptive Regeneration for Public Transport and Industrial Appl
Pavel Stasa, Filip Benes, Jiri Svub, Veroslav Holusa and Miroslava Obrusnikova (VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic); Jakub Unucka (Gaben, Czech Republic); Yong-Shin Kang (Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology, Korea (South)); Sang Do Noh (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (South))

Poster: Meter-Range Passive NFC for Battery-free Internet of Things
Dickson Akuoko Sarpong and Hongzhi Guo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Demo: A Passive Optical Tagging Approach for Secure and Revocable Entry Systems
Hasky E Fynn (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana); Jaskirat Sudan, Fatima Qasem, Fatima Mohammed and Xiao Zhang (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)

Optimization of Warehouse Management Using Drones, Artificial Intelligence and RFID
Pavel Stasa, Filip Benes, Jiri Svub, Veroslav Holusa, Miroslava Obrusnikova, Jan Dulovec and Lukas Hollesch (VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic); Jakub Unucka (Gaben, Czech Republic); Jongtae Rhee and Jin-Woo Jung (Dongguk University, Korea (South))

SDR Testbed for Mobile Distributed MIMO
Yibin Liang, Usama Saeed and Ramin Safavinejad (Virginia Tech, USA); Nima Mohammadi (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Lingjia Liu (Virginia Tech, USA)

PAVE: Privacy-Preserving Aggregated Verification For Multi-Enterprises Blockchain
Xiaoxue Zhang (University of Nevada, Reno, USA); Sammy Tesfai (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Minmei Wang (University of Connecticut, USA); Haofan Cai (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)

DAY 2 (October 7)

Session 5A: AI/ML based Smart Design 3 (9:55 - 11:05)

Session Chair: Eduardo Baena (Northeastern University, USA)
Room: C35

Location- and Modality-aware Heterogeneous Data Fusion for Cooperative Perception
Tingcong Jiang, Chuanneng Sun and Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA)

DFed-LaMA: Differentially Private Federated Learning via Adaptive Layer-Wise Model Aggregation
Tengfei Wang, Teng Liu and Xin Wang (Qilu University of Technology, China); Heng Zhang (Jiangsu Ocean University, China); Ming Yang (Qilu University of Technology, China); Xiaoming Wu (Shandong University of Science and Technology & Shandong Computer Science Center, China)

Energy-Efficient Split Learning for Resource-Constrained Environments: A Smart Farming Solution
Keiwan Soltani (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Vishesh K Tanwar (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA & Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India); Ashish Gupta (Birla Institute of Technology & Science, United Arab Emirates); Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

Learning Low-Dimensional Representation for O-RAN Testing via Transformer-ESN
Jiongyu Dai and Raymond Zhao (Virginia Tech, USA); Farhad Rezazadeh (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC), Spain); Lizhong Zheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA & MIT, USA); Haining Wang and Lingjia Liu (Virginia Tech, USA)

Session 5B: Security and Privacy 2 (9:55 - 11:05)

Session Chair: Sang-Yoon Chang (University of Colorado Springs, United States)
Room: C25

Base Station Certificate and Authentication for 5G Radio Control Security
Sourav Purification and Simeon J Wuthier (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, United States); Jinoh Kim (East Texas A&M University, USA); Ikkyun Kim (ETRI, Korea (South)); Sang-Yoon Chang (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, United States)

FL-SNNs: Benchmarking the Byzantine-Robustness of Uniquely-Shaped Surrogate Gradients
Manh V Nguyen, Liang Zhao, Bobin Deng and Shaoen Wu (Kennesaw State University, USA)

Converting Your Bluetooth Headphones into Active Sensing Authenticator: a Bond-Conduction Solution
Jingwei Zhang (Southern Methodist University, USA); Ruxin Wang (USA, USA); Chen Wang (Southern Methodist University, USA)

Data-Free Backdoor Attacks on Self-Supervised Human Activity Recognition Models
Tianya Zhao and Xuyu Wang (Florida International University, USA)

Session 6A: Invited Paper: Next-Generation Wireless Networking (11:20 - 12:30)

Session Chair: Mushu Li (Lehigh University, USA)
Room: C35

XAI4C: An XAI-powered Conflict Detection Framework in O-RAN
Nancy Varshney, Federico Mungari and Corrado Puligheddu (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Ahmed Badawy (Qatar University, Qatar); Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino & CNIT, IEIIT-CNR, Italy)

On Network-Efficient Multimodal Multi-Vantage Foundation Models for Distributed Sensing
Tianchen Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA); Yizhuo Chen, Hongjue Zhao, You Lyu, Jinyang Li and Tomoyoshi Kimura (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Yigong Hu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA); Denizhan Kara (UIUC, USA); Maggie Wigness and Jeffrey Twigg (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA & University of Illinois, USA)

Federated Learning for Edge WiFi Sensing: Improving Few-Shot Learning Across Various Classifications
Jianchao Song, Usman Musa, Yixin Chen, Papa Pene, Yifan Guo and Wei Yu (Towson University, USA)

Session 6B: System and Applications 3 (11:20 - 12:30)

Session Chair: Ruxin Wang (The University of Texas at San Antonio)
Room: C25

Root Cause Analysis of Cellular Network Throughput Degradations under Vehicular Mobility
Eduardo Baena and Zihan Xu (Northeastern University, USA); Moinak Ghoshal (Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA); Imran Khan and Phuc Dinh (Northeastern University, USA); Z. Jonny Kong and Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University, USA); Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Northeastern University, USA)

Energy-Aware Multi-Modal Vision Transformer (ViT) based C-V2X Cooperative Perception in CAVs
Synnove Svendsen (Western Washington University, USA); Brandon Ramriez (Western Washington University, USA); Jonah Duncan (Westen Washington University, USA); Tran Minh Khoi Le and Junaid Ahmed Khan (Western Washington University, USA)

DailyLLM: Context-Aware Activity Log Generation Using Multi-Modal Sensors and LLMs
Ye Tian (University of California San Diego, USA); Xiaoyuan Ren and Zihao Wang (University of California, San Diego, USA); Onat Gungor and Xiaofan Yu (University of California San Diego, USA); Tajana Rosing (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Enabling Joint Sensing and Communication via STBC Assisted NOMA in ISAC Systems
Anindya Bal (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA & University of Hawaii, USA); Haofan Cai and Hanqing Guo (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA); Yao Zheng (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA); Xiaoxue Zhang (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)

Session 7A: AI/ML based Smart Design 4 (3:30 - 4:40)

Session Chair: Songjun Huang (Rutgers University, USA)
Room: C35

RIFLES: Resource-effIcient Federated LEarning via Scheduling
Sara Alosaime (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia); Arshad Jhumka (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Large Vision-Language Model-Assisted Information-Rich Semantic Segmentation
Haiqiao Liu, Songjun Huang, Chuanneng Sun, Dario Pompili and Jie Gong (Rutgers University, USA)

Privacy-Preserving Crowd Size Estimation Using Wi-Fi and Machine Learning
Pegah Torkamandi (Technische Universität München, Germany); Navid Hasanzadeh (University of Toronto, Canada); Jörg Ott (Technische Universität München, Germany); Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)

VIOSem: Visual-Inertial Odometry via Semantic Communication-enhanced Modulation Design
Kanishka P Wijewardena and Griffin Klevering (Michigan State University, USA); Xiao Zhang (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA); Li Xiao (Michigan State University, USA)

Session 7B: System and Applications 4 (3:30 - 4:40)

Session Chair: Wen Liu (Southern Methodist University, USA)
Room: C25

Parecon: Enhancing Mobile AI Vision Apps through DNN Partition and Resolution Control
Junsoo Park and Yeongjin Kim (Inha University, Korea (South))

RTASP: Real-Time Actuator and Sensor Platform
Yinze Li and Brendan J. Mackenzie (KU Leuven, Belgium); Stefan Lommaert (Datashift NV, Belgium); Tom Van Eyck and Zhaoyi Liu (KU Leuven, Belgium); David Newton and Friedrich Wolf-Monheim (Ford Motor Company, Germany); Sam Michiels and Danny Hughes (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Reliable Multi-view 3D Reconstruction for 'Just-in-time' Edge Environments
Md Nurul Absur (Graduate Center, CUNY, USA); Abhinav Kumar and Swastik Brahma (University of Cincinnati, USA); Saptarshi Debroy (City University of New York, USA & Hunter College, USA)

Distributed Participant Selection in Networks of Heterogeneous Drones for Federated Learning
Chenyang Wang, Qi Han and Andrew Bernklau (Colorado School of Mines, USA)

Fingerprint Authentication Using Vibration-boosted Refreshing Touchscreen
Wen Liu, Zeyu Deng and Chen Wang (Southern Methodist University, USA)

Session 8A: Protocols and Emerging Technologies 2 (3:30 - 4:40)

Session Chair: Huayue Gu (North Carolina State University, USA)
Room: 704

2-Pipe: Simultaneous Downlink Transmissions with the Same Spreading Factor in LoRa Networks
Raghav Rathi, Yilin Wang and Zhenghao Zhang (Florida State University, USA)

LACE: Loss-Aware Constellation Design for Global-Scale Entanglement Distribution
Huayue Gu (North Carolina State University, USA); Runzhe Mo and Quntao Zhuang (University of Southern California, USA); Ruozhou Yu (North Carolina State University, USA)

Fast Consensus with Retries and Priority Upgrade
Elham Amini (Ryerson University, Canada); Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

A Dual-Layer Blockchain Sharding Scheme
Sima Naderi Mighan, Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

RansomNet: Ransomware Classification Using Sub-Graph Mining of Function Call Graphs
Garvit Agarwal (Purdue University, USA); Yucheng Xie (Yeshiva University, USA); Yousef Mohammed Y Alomayri and Feng Li (Purdue University, USA)

DAY 3 (October 8)

REUNS Workshop(08:30am - 15:00pm)

8:30am – 8:45am Opening (Room C35), Feng Li

8:45am – 10:15am REUNS 1 (Room C35), Shuhui Yang
  • - Open, Adaptive, Object Detection for Edge Systems with a Vision-Language TinyLLM
    Elias Zheng (University of Arizona, USA); Jacob Chunn, Darrin M Hanna and Huirong Fu (Oakland University, USA)
  • - Robust Deepfake Detection via Synthetic Domain Alignment
    Bolong X Huang (Stanford University, USA); Ian A Yee (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
  • - PA-JJAMA: An LLM Based Intrusion Detection System for Controller Area Networks
    Joshua Quintano, Yao Qiang and Huirong Fu (Oakland University, USA)
  • - Enhancing Addiction Research Through Advanced Wearable Sensing and LLM-Powered Data Analysis
    Abhinna Das (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA & University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Oladayo Oyedeji (Columbia College Missouri, USA); Reyva Babtista (University of Missouri, USA); Justin Ebby Varghese (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA); Timothy Trull and Yi Shang (University of Missouri, USA)
  • - Securing Distributed IoT Systems: Blockchain-Based Protocol with Integrated Intrusion Response
    Shahad Altamimi (Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan); Qasem Abu Al-Haija (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan); Abdullah AlShuaibi (King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia)

10:15am – 10:30am Break (Lobby)

10:30am – 12:00pm REUNS 2 (Room C35), Feng Li
  • - Inter-Zone Trust and Secure Data Sharing in Mission-Critical Internet of Underwater Things
    Isaac L Van Meter (University of Alabama, USA & Fairmont State University, USA); Xiaoyan Hong (University of Alabama, USA)
  • - Bit-Flipping Attack Exploration and Countermeasure in 5G Network
    Joon Kim (University of California-Berkeley, USA); Chengwei Duan (The University of Florida, USA); Sandip Ray (University of Florida, USA)
  • - Adversarial Attacks and Defenses for Panoptic Perception Models in Autonomous Driving
    Devin Meyer, Ze Hao He, Yunge Li, Huirong Fu and Lanyu Xu (Oakland University, USA)
  • - Exposing Privacy Vulnerabilities in mmWave Sensing via Membership Inference Attacks
    Haylie C Rayl (Purdue University, USA); Lucas Lippeatt (Northwestern University, USA); Stephen Chien (Cornell University, USA); Tao Li, Amit Singha and Feng Li (Purdue University, USA)
  • - MalFusion: A Hybrid Approach to Ransomware Detection
    Christopher Xu and Emma M Matsuda (Purdue University, USA); Wilondja Jacob (Old Dominion University, USA); Garvit Agarwal and Feng Li (Purdue University, USA)

12:00pm – 13:30pm Lunch (2nd Floor Cafe)

13:30pm – 15:00pm REUNS 3 (Room C35), Garvit Agarwal
  • - Q-Learning-Based Sensor Selection for k-Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Roberto Esquivel and Habib M Ammari (Texas A&M International University, USA)
  • - Automotive Security Virtual Exploration Platform for Wheel Speed Sensor Attacks
    Kyra N Vo (Smith College, USA); Bhagawat Baanav Yedla Ravi, Mustafa Mohammad Shaky and Sandip Ray (University of Florida, USA)
  • - K-Coverage in Three-Dimensional Wireless Sensor Networks Using a Game Theoretical Approach
    Jorge Rodriguez and Habib M Ammari (Texas A&M International University, USA)
  • - AIoT for Autism: Analyzing Motor Behaviors in Virtual Environments Using Visual Data
    Adam M Deinhardt (Brookdale Community College, USA); Devin W Bowler (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Marcelo M Carvalho (Texas State University, USA); Ting Liu (Texas A&M University-San Antonio, USA); Damian Valles (Texas State University, USA)
  • - Simulation-Based Smart Home Architecture for Autism Support Using CSI-Based Movement Detection
    Devin W Bowler (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Adam M Deinhardt (Brookdale Community College, USA); Marcelo M Carvalho (Texas State University, USA); Ting Liu (Texas A&M University-San Antonio, USA); Damian Valles (Texas State University, USA)

EIVN Workshop (13:30 - 15:00 pm)

Presider: Fei Zuo (University of Central Oklahoma, USA)
Room: C20

Invited Talk: Secure and Usable Authentication for Cyber Physical Systems
Chuxiong Wu (Southern Illinois University, USA)

Paper Presentations:
  • - An Empirical Study on the Multi-Stage Nature of APT Attacks in Cloud Computing
    Fei Zuo and Junghwan Rhee (University of Central Oklahoma, USA); Shuaibing Lu (Beijing University of Technology, China); Yuqi Song and Xin Zhang (University of Southern Maine, USA)
  • - An Efficient CNN with Adaptive Loss for Binocular Depth Estimation
    Deiby Wu Lee, Xin Zhang and Yuqi Song (University of Southern Maine, USA)
  • - A Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Multi-Interval HVAC Control
    Le Yu, Xing Su and Jiayue Zhang (Beijing University of Technology, China)
  • - A Review of Vision-Based Depth Estimation: Current Methods and Future Directions
    Xin Zhang, Yuqi Song and Deiby Wu Lee (University of Southern Maine, USA)
  • - Privacy-Preserving Centralized Authentication for Smart Vehicular Environment
    Busra Cayoren and Enver Ozdemir (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

RAIN4C + UAV-IoT Workshop(13:30 - 15:00 pm)

Room: 170

13:30pm – 14:00pm

Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Igor Kadota (Northwestern University, USA)
WiSwarm at the Edge: Wireless Networking for Collaborative Teams of UAVs

14:00pm – 15:00pm

Paper Session (Chair: Angelo Trotta)
  • - (RAIN4C) Lightweight Group Handover for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
    Oylum Gerenli (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Gunes Karabulut Kurt (Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada); Enver Ozdemir (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
  • - (UAV-IoT) IoT-Enabled Control Room for Coordinated UAV Fleet Management
    Manuel Delucchi (University of Genoa, Italy); Gianni Vercelli (University of Genoa – DIBRIS, Italy); Subhransu Sourav Priyadarshan (University of Genoa, Italy)
  • - (UAV-IoT) Urban Roads and Aerial Autonomy: Are Drones Safe Above Busy Roads?
    Papiya Das (University of Florence, Italy); Francesco Betti Sorbelli (University of Perugia, Italy); Punyasha Chatterjee (Jadavpur University, India); Cristina M. Pinotti (University of Perugia, Italy)
  • - (UAV-IoT) A Priority-Based Spectrum Allocation Method for Centralized UAV Networks
    Jacob H. Zawadzki; Mohammed A. Jasim (University of Washington Tacoma, USA)
  • - (UAV-IoT) Mobility-Aware Orchestration for UAV-Enabled IoT Networks in Emergency Scenarios
    Alexandre Heideker (University of Bologna, Italy & Federal University of the ABC, Brazil); Giovanni Interdonato (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy & CNIT, Italy); Sara Pizzi; Antonella Molinaro (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Angelo Trotta (University of Bologna, Italy)

DTPI-NGWS Workshop (09:00 am - 12:00 pm)

Venue: Conviser Law Center (Chicago‑Kent College of Law) - Illinois Institute of Technology
Address: onviser Law Center, 565 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60661
Room: 580

Program Schedule

9:00-9:10 – Opening Remarks (Workshop Co-chairs)
9:10-9:50 – Keynote Speech 1 (Prof. Lin X. Cai, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
(Session Chair: Prof. Mushu Li)
9:50-10:10 – Technical Session 1 (Technical Paper Presentations)
(Session Chair: Prof. Mushu Li)

Paper presentation 1:
Authors: Tongzhou Yang (Jilin University, China), Fengye Hu (Jilin University, China), Qihao Li (Jilin University, China), Chao Liang (Jilin University, China), Zhuang Ling (Jilin University, China)
Title: A Device-Cooperative-based Scheme for Federated Learning with Unreliable Communications in IIoT

10:10-10:30 – Coffee Break
10:30-11:10 – Keynote Speech 2 (Prof. Sharief Oteafy, DePaul University, USA)
(Session Chair: Prof. Qiang John Ye)
11:10-11:50 – Technical Session 2 (Technical Paper Presentations)
(Session Chair: Prof. Mushu Li)

Paper presentation 2:
Authors: Ifrah Andleeb (University of Windsor, Canada), Arsalan Hameed (University of Windsor, Canada), Katsuya Suto (Hokkaido University, Japan), Mitra Mirhassani (University of Windsor, Canada), Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada)
Title: Mitigating Adversarial Attacks in Object Detection using Multi-Modal Fusion in Autonomous Vehicles

Paper presentation 3:
Authors: Yixuan Yang (Case Western Reserve University, USA), Yutong Pan (Peking University, China), Junhe Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunicaitions, China), Wanli Ni (Tsinghua University, China)
Title: Task Offloading for Collaborative Inference of LLM Agents at the Network Edge

11:50-12:00 – Closing Remarks (Workshop Co-chairs)

DTPI-NGWS Workshop General Co-chairs:
Vojislav Mišić, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Tom H. Luan, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Qiang (John) Ye, University of Calgary, Canada

DLS Workshop (08:30 am - 11:15 am)

Venue: Conviser Law Center (Chicago‑Kent College of Law) - Illinois Institute of Technology
Address: onviser Law Center, 565 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60661
Room: 345

08:30am – 08:45am | Opening (Room 345)
Chair: Luyao Bai

08:45am – 10:15am | DLS 1 (Room 345)
Chair: Luyao Bai

Paper presentations:
  • - Exploring Safer Image Sharing: A Vision-Language Approach to Privacy Risk Detection and Protection
    Bang Q Tran (Assumption University Worcester, Massachusetts, USA & University of Massachusetts Boston, USA); Xiaoqian Zhang (University of Nebraska Omaha, USA); Haoyu Wang (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA); Peng Jiang (University of Nebraska Omaha, USA)
  • - When LLMs Copy to Think: Uncovering Copy-Guided Attacks in Reasoning LLMs
    Yue Li and Xiao Li (Nanjing University, China); Hao Wu (National Key Lab for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China); Yue Zhang (Shandong University, China); Fengyuan Xu (Nanjing University, China); Xiuzhen Cheng (Shandong University, China); Sheng Zhong (Nanjing University, China)
  • - Can Large Language Models Be Trusted Paper Reviewers? A Feasibility Study
    Chuanlei Li (Shandong University, China); Hu Xu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Minghui Xu, Kun Li, Yue Zhang and Xiuzhen Cheng (Shandong University, China)
  • - We Urgently Need Privilege Management in MCP: A Measurement of API Usage in MCP Ecosystems
    Zhihao Li (Shandong University of Science and Technology, China); Kun Li, Boyang Ma, Minghui Xu, Yue Zhang and Xiuzhen Cheng (Shandong University, China)
10:15am – 10:30am | Break
Location: Lobby

10:30am – 11:15am | DLS 2 (Room 345)
Chair: Luyao Bai

Paper presentations:
  • - FlipBoost: Strengthening Backdoors in LoRA-Tuned Language Models via Bit-Level Injection
    Haoyang Peng (Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, China); Minghui Xu (Shandong University, China); Yinhao Xiao (Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, China)
  • - SCCA: A Multi-Agent Code Security Analysis Framework for AI-Assisted Code Generation
    Rui Jiao (XDU, China); Yue Zhang (Shandong University); Jinku Li (Xidian University, China); Boyang Ma (Shandong University, China)

SLICE-ESPTA Workshop (08:45 am - 12:00 pm)

Venue: Conviser Law Center (Chicago‑Kent College of Law) - Illinois Institute of Technology
Address: onviser Law Center, 565 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60661
Room: 475

08:45am – 08:50am | Opening Remarks (Room 475)
Chair: Sreejith Vidhyadharan

08:50am – 10:15am | SLICE 1 (Room 475)
Chair: Sreejith Vidhyadharan

Paper presentations:
  • - A Smart and BarrierAware Navigation System for Wheelchair Routing
    ASM Mobarak Hossain (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Md Nadim Mahmud and Ethan Han (Miami University, USA) Neil Advani (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Bibodh Baral (Miami University, USA) Md Osman Gani (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Vaskar Raychoudhury (Miami University, USA)
  • - Microgrid Testbed for Cybersecurity Studies: A Platform for Testing Attacks and Resilience
    Yanwei Wu (University of Wisconsin - Platteville, USA) Joseph J Mikkelson (University of Wisconsin Platteville, USA) Dominic G De La Cerda and Xiaoguang Ma (University of Wisconsin-Platteville, USA)
  • - Ephemeral Social Networks: Capturing Proximity Social Networking at InPerson Events
    Alvin Chin (Discovery Partners Institute & University of Illinois Chicago, USA) Billy Huang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Justin Chan (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) Joshua Garcia (University of Illinois Chicago, USA) Philip Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Kevin Leicht (Discovery Partners Institute, USA)
  • - Edge-Enabled Acoustic Sensing for Real-Time UAV Detection and Localization in C-UAS Applications
    Jacob S Hagberg (University of North Dakota, USA) Paul Snyder (USA) Michael Ullrich, Prasad Pothana and Sreejith Vidhyadharan (University of North Dakota, USA)
  • - A Secure D2D 5G-AKA Protocol with Anonymity Resistance and Perfect Forward Secrecy
    Shivam Patel and Ravi Kumar (IIT Roorkee, India) Awaneesh Kumar Yadav (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi), India) Manoj Misra (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
10:15am – 10:30am | Refreshments
Location: Lobby

10:30am – 12:00pm | SLICE 2 + ESPTA (Room 475)
Chair: Sreejith Vidhyadharan

Paper presentations:
  • - (ESPTA) Quantum-Enhanced Clustering for Intrusion detection system in IoT devices
    Kowshick Srinivasan, Aakanksha Trivedi and Shuhui Yang (Purdue University Northwest, USA)
  • - (ESPTA) Quantized Blockchain-Based Federated Learning for Secure and Efficient Training
    Hung-Chin Jang and Yu-You Liu (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
  • - (ESPTA) Artificial Noise Aided NOMA-MISO System Based on Combinatorial Design
    Yu Xiao, Chi Zhou and Guillermo E Atkin (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
  • - (SLICE) A Three-Level Feature Selection Framework for Android Malware Detection
    Abdul Kadir and Sateesh Kumar Peddoju (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
  • - (SLICE) DroidSwarmAI: Android Malware Detection using GCN and Bio-Inspired Feature Selection
    Amogh Babu KA and Sateesh Kumar Peddoju (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
11:55am – 12:00pm | Closing Remarks (Room 475)
Chair: Sreejith Vidhyadharan