Conference Programme
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Updated: 04 May, 2017
Wednesday3 May |
Thursday4 May |
Friday5 May |
| Registration | Registration | Registration |
| Keynote speeches (2) | Keynote Speech | Sessions |
| Sessions | Sessions | Workshop |
| Welcome Reception | Tutorials | Tutorials |
| Tour & Conference Dinner |
Wednesday, 3 May
Time |
Room: Panorama |
Room: Megaron B |
| Registration / Support Desk Hours (08:00 - 12:30 & 13:30 - 17:00) | ||
| 08:25 - 08:30 | Conference General Chairs Welcome | |
| 08:30 - 09:30 |
Keynote 1
![]() Room: Panorama Mohamed-Slim Alouini - Paving the way towards 5G Wireless Communication Networks |
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| 09:30 - 10:30 |
Keynote 2
![]() Room: Panorama Latif Ladid - Future Internet (IPv6-based IoT, CC, SDN-NFV and 5G) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Machine-to-Machine Communications | Coding and Signal Processing |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | MIMO Communications | Quality of Experience and Multimedia Applications |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Cognitive Networks | Molecular and Future Communications |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Welcome Reception | |
Wednesday Sessions
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Machine-to-Machine Communications
Panorama - 11:00 - 12:30
- Caching in Large-Scale Cellular Networks with D2D Assistance
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Eleni Demarchou, Constantinos Psomas and Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- D2D Cooperative Communications for Disaster Management
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Zheng Chu (Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom); Huan X Nguyen, Tuan Anh Le and Mehmet Karamanoglu (Middlesex University, United Kingdom); Duc To (Cobham Wireless, United Kingdom); Enver Ever (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Fadi M. Al-Turjman (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Adnan Yazici (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
- Full-Duplex Device-to-Device Collaboration for Low-Latency Wireless Video Distribution
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Mansour Naslcheraghi and Seyed Ali Ghorashi (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran); Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei (Kings college London, United Kingdom)
- Fair Decentralized Data-Rate Congestion Control for V2V Communications
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Chetan Belagal Math (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Hong Li (NXP Semiconductors, The Netherlands); Sonia De Groot (Eindheven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Ignas Niemegeers (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Coding and Signal Processing
Megaron B - 11:00 - 12:30
- BER Comparison Between Convolutional, Turbo, LDPC, and Polar Codes
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Bashar Tahir, Stefan Schwarz and Markus Rupp (TU Wien, Austria)
- New Construction and Performance Analysis of Polar Codes over AWGN Channels
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Bashar Tahir and Markus Rupp (TU Wien, Austria)
- Signal Coding and Interference Cancellation of Spectrally Efficient FDM Systems for 5G Cellular Networks
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Hedaia Ghannam and Izzat Darwazeh (University College London, United Kingdom)
- Sequential Decoding for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer
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Eleni Goudeli, Constantinos Psomas and Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
MIMO Communications
Panorama - 14:00 - 15:30
- Uplink Massive MIMO Systems Under Statistical-Queueing Constraints
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Ismail Hburi (Brunel University, West London, European Union); Hamed Saffa Al-Raweshidy (University of Brunel, United Kingdom)
- Pseudo Downlink Channel Scheme for Eavesdroppers to Work Against Two-way Training DCE in Non-reciprocal MIMO Channel
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Keke Hu, Ying Wang, Wang Zhongfang, Shunliang Zhang and Yongming Wang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
- Two-Stage Opportunistic Interference Alignment for Downlink MU-MIMO Cellular Systems
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Ahmed Benaya (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt); Maha Elsabrouty (Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology, Egypt)
- Channel Prediction for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems in 3D Propagation Environments
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Ramoni O. Adeogun (University of Cape Town, South Africa & National Space Research and Development Agency, Nigeria); Paul D Teal and Pawel A. Dmochowski (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Quality of Experience and Multimedia Applications
Megaron B - 14:00 - 15:30
- SmartFace: Efficient Face Detection on Smartphones for Wireless On-demand Emergency Networks
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Patrick Lampe and Lars Baumgärtner (University of Marburg, Germany); Ralf Steinmetz (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Bernd Freisleben (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
- WiFiMon App Measuring Wi-Fi Performance as Experienced by End-Users
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Kurt Baumann (SWITCH, Switzerland); Christos J Bouras (University of Patras CTI&P-Diophantus & University of Patras, Greece); Vasileios Kokkinos (University of Patras & Greek Research and Technology Network S.A., Greece); Nikolaos Papachristos (University of Patras, Greece); Kostas Stamos, Mr (University of Patras and CTI & Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece)
- Adaptive 3D-HEVC Video Streaming over Congested Networks Through Layer Prioritization
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Basak Oztas (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Mahsa T Pourazad (TELUS Communications Company, Canada); Panos Nasiopoulos and Victor C.M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- Mobility Context Awareness to Improve Quality of Experience in Traffic Dense Cellular Networks
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Nandish Kuruvatti, Julian Saavedra Molano and Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
- On the Detection of Images Containing Child-Pornographic Material
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Emilios Yiallourou, Rafaella Demetriou and Andreas Lanitis (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
Cognitive Networks
Panorama - 16:00 - 17:30
- New Binary Single Side Band CPM
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Haifa Farès (Centrale Supélec, France); Christian Glattli (CEA Saclay, SPEC, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France); Yves Louët (SUPELEC-Rennes Campus, France); Christophe Moy (Centrale Supélec, France); Jacques Palicot (CentraleSupélec/IETR, France); Preden Roulleau (CEA Saclay, SPEC, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France)
- Maximizing Achievable Rate of Cognitive Radio Networks Through Efficient Spectrum Sensing and Multi-level Power Allocation
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Shabnam Khomejani (Kings College London, United Kingdom); Huan X Nguyen (Middlesex University, United Kingdom); Arumugam Nallanathan and Hamid Aghvami (King's College London, United Kingdom)
- A Cost Efficient and Flexible Cyclostationary Feature Detector Based on Sliding Discrete Fourier Transform for Cognitive Spectrum Sensing
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Bin Han and Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
- Performance Analysis of FeICIC and Adaptive Spectrum Allocation in Heterogeneous Networks
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Xuefang Nie and Yang Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Jiliang Zhang (Lanzhou University, P.R. China); Liqin Ding (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)
Molecular and Future Communications
Megaron B - 16:00 - 17:30
- Message Dissemination Dynamics in Biological Communication Systems: A Reaction-Diffusion Approach
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Konstantinos Kantelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Georgios Papadimitriou and Petros Nicopolitidis (Aristotle University, Greece); Ioannis Vlahavas, Olga Tsave and Athanasios Salifoglou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
- On the Optimal Timing of Detection in Molecular Communication Systems
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Georgia D. Ntouni, Vasileios M. Kapinas and George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
- Practical Random Linear Coding for MultiPath TCP: MPC-TCP
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Paul-Louis Ageneau and Nadia Boukhatem (Telecom ParisTech, France); Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
- Load Balancing by Dynamic BBU-RRH Mapping in a Self-Optimised Cloud Radio Access Network
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Muhammad Khan (Brunel University, United Kingdom); Firas Sabir (Brunel University London, United Kingdom); Hamed Saffa Al-Raweshidy (University of Brunel, United Kingdom)
Thursday, 4 May
Time |
Room: Panorama |
Room: Megaron B |
| Registration / Support Desk Hours (08:30 - 12:30 & 13:30 - 17:00) | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Keynote 3
![]() Room: Panorama Neophytos Papadopoulos - A single digital market for Europe: The vision and the case for the electronic communications market in Cyprus |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Session Security in Mobile Networks | Next Gen Mobile Communications and Beamforming |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Pervasive and Cloud Computing | OFDM Systems |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Tutorial Biological Computing: Building Chips with Living Organisms |
Tutorial From Wireless Power Transfer to Wireless Powered Communications |
| 18:00 | Tour and Conference Dinner (Meet at St Raphael lobby) |
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Thursday Sessions
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Session Security in Mobile Networks
Panorama -10:30 - 12:00
- Security Requirements Modelling for Virtualized 5G Small Cell Networks
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Vassilios G. Vassilakis (University of York, United Kingdom); Haris Mouratidis and Emmanouil Panaousis (University of Brighton, United Kingdom); Ioannis Moscholios (University of Peloponnese, Greece); Michael D. Logothetis (University of Patras, Greece)
- Security Trust Zone in 5G Networks
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Bin Han (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany); Stan Wong (King's College London, United Kingdom); Christian Mannweiler (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Mischa Dohler (King's College London, United Kingdom); Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
- An Intrusion Detection System for Wireless Sensor Networks
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Christiana Ioannou, Vasos Vassiliou and Charalambos Sergiou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- Intrusion Recovery in NLOS WSNs with a Varying Network Density
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Eliana Stavrou (University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus); Stavros Stavrou (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Next Gen Mobile Communications and Beamforming
Megaron B -10:30 - 12:00
- System Level 5G Evaluation of MIMO-GFDM in an LTE-A Platform
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Ghaith Al-Juboori, Angela Doufexi and Andrew Nix (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
- Performance Analysis of Two-Tier Multiantenna 5G Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with Dual Band Transmission
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Ramoni O. Adeogun (University of Cape Town, South Africa & National Space Research and Development Agency, Nigeria); Olabisi Emmanuel Falowo (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
- Full-Duplex Spatial Modulation Systems Under Imperfect Channel State Information
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Asil Koc, Ibrahim Altunbas and Ertugrul Basar (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
- Capacity-Based User Selection Algorithm for Downlink Beamforming Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access System
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Abdelsalam Sayed ahmed (Ejust, Egypt); Maha Elsabrouty (Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology, Egypt)
Pervasive and Cloud Computing
Panorama -13:30 - 15:00
- A Web of Things Based Eco-System for Urban Computing - Towards Smarter Cities
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Andreas Kamilaris (Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology & Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain); Andreas Pitsillides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Muhammad Intizar Ali (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland)
- OmniBox: Efficient Cloud Storage by Evaluating Dropbox and Box
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Huu Dinh, Alexander Dworkin, Christopher O'Neill, Scott Savage, Jimmy Leak, Mohammad Aazam and Marc St-Hilaire (Carleton University, Canada)
- RACE: Relinquishment-Aware Cloud Economics Model
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Sarabjeet Singh, Mohammad Aazam and Marc St-Hilaire (Carleton University, Canada)
- Choice of Suitable Identity and Access Management Standards for Mobile Computing and Communication
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Nitin Naik and Paul Jenkins (Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom); David Newell (Bournemouth University, United Kingdom)
OFDM Systems
Megaron B -13:30 - 15:00
- Blind Recognition of OFDM Signals Based on Cyclostationary Signal Analysis
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Kürşat Tekbiyik, Gunes Karabulut Kurt and Halim Bahadir Tugrel (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Cem Ayyildiz (Turkcell Technology Research and Development Laboratory, Turkey)
- Approximate BER for OFDM Systems Impaired by a Gain Mismatch of a TI-ADC Realization
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Vo-Trung-Dung Huynh, Nele Noels and Heidi Steendam (Ghent University, Belgium)
- Power Allocation for Minimizing Energy Consumption of OFDMA Downlink with Cell DTx
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Rémi Bonnefoi (CentraleSupélec & IETR, France); Christophe Moy (CentraleSupélec/IETR, France); Haifa Farès (Centrale Supélec, France); Jacques Palicot (CentraleSupélec/IETR, France)
- Impact of the Doppler Effect on the Capacity of Massive MIMO Uplink Systems: OFDM Versus FBMC/OQAM
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Alexis Bazin (INSA Rennes & Orange Labs, France); Bruno Jahan (France Telecom, France); Maryline Hélard (INSA Rennes & IETR Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, France)
Friday, 5 May
Time |
Room: Panorama |
Room: Megaron B |
| Registration / Support Desk Hours (08:30 - 12:30 & 13:30 - 17:00) | ||
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Positioning and Relaying | Energy-aware Communication Systems |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Optical Communications | Mobile Communications |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Workshop Room: Panorama International Workshop on 5G Networks for Public Safety and Disaster Management (IWNPD 2017) |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Tutorial Flexible Radio Access Beyond 5G: A Future Projection |
Tutorial Wireless Coded Caching: A Paradigm Shift in Communications |
Friday Sessions
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Positioning and Relaying
Panorama - 09:00 - 10:30
- RSS Based Localization by Using Lognormal Mixture Shadowing Model
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Saliha Büyükçorak (Istanbul Technical University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Faculty, Turkey); Gunes Karabulut Kurt (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Abbas Yongacoglu (University of Ottawa, Canada)
- Quality of Fingerprint Radiomaps for Positioning Systems
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Loizos Kanaris and Akis Kokkinis (Sigint Solutions Ltd, Cyprus); Antonio Liotta (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Stavros Stavrou (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- Multi-hop Relays for High Frequency Next Generation Wireless Systems
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Alexander Sayenko (Samsung Electronics, Finland); Mikhail Zolotukhin and Timo Hämäläinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
- Unified Outage Performance Analysis of Two-Way/One-Way Full-Duplex/Half-Duplex Fixed-Gain AF Relay Systems
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Asil Koc and İbrahim Altunbaş (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Burhaneddin Yaman (University of Minnesota, USA)
Energy-aware Communication Systems
Megaron B - 09:00 - 10:30
- WiFi Throughput and Power Consumption Tradeoffs in Smartphones
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Petros Spachos and Stefano Gregori (University of Guelph, Canada)
- Dynamic User-Centric Clustering Algorithm Based on Energy Efficiency in Cloud-RAN
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Ruxuan Jiao, Xiangming Wen and Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, P.R. China); Yawen Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Hua Shao (Beijing Bniversity of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Wenpeng Jing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
- Per-packet Based Energy Aware Segment Routing Approach for Data Center Networks with SDN
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Karanjot Singh Ghuman (University of Ottawa, Canada); Amiya Nayak (SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada)
- Load-Aware Power Efficiency Maximization in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
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Mohamad Zalghout (INSA de Rennes & Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication of Rennes (IETR), France); JeanFrançois Hélard (IETR, France); Ayman Khalil (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes IETR & INSA, France); Samih AbdulNabi (Lebanese International University, Lebanon); Matthieu Crussière (IETR Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Rennes (IETR) & INSA National Institute of Applied Sciences, France)
Optical Communications
Panorama - 11:00 - 12:30
- Priority Scheduling Algorithms for QoS Support in WDM PON-Based Mobile Backhaul Networks
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Chrysovalanto Christodoulou and Georgios Ellinas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- Extended Receive Antenna Shift Keying
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Ali Mokh (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes, France); Maryline Hélard (INSA Rennes & IETR Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, France); Matthieu Crussière (IETR Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Rennes (IETR) & INSA National Institute of Applied Sciences, France)
- Technologies and Architectures for Broadband Digital Divide Elimination
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Spyros Polykalas (TEI of Ionian Islands, Greece); Kyriakos Vlachos (University of Patras, Greece); Georgios Ellinas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Mobile Communications
Megaron B - 11:00 - 12:30
- Downlink Coverage Probability with Spatially Non-uniform User Distribution Around Social Attractors
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Chao Li, Abbas Yongacoglu and Claude D'Amours (University of Ottawa, Canada)
- Ultra Long Range LTE Ocean Coverage Solution
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Hyoungwon Seo and Junho Jeong (Korea Telecom, Korea)
- Jointly Optimal Downlink/Uplink Design for Wireless Powered Networks
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Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Koralia N. Pappi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece); George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
- A Novel Reliable Routing Scheme for Tactile-oriented Internet Traffic
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Mohammad Farhoudi (King's College London, United Kingdom); Panagiotis Palantas (King's College London, Greece); Benyamin Abrishamchi, Andrej Mihailovic and Hamid Aghvami (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Workshop: IWNPD 2017
Panorama - 14:00-15:30
- Keynote: Disaster Resilient Telematics in Public Safety Networks
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Dr Panayiotis Kolios (KIOS Research Centre, University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
- On Context-Aware Proxy in Mobile Cloud Computing for Emergency Services
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Manfred Sneps-Sneppe (Ventspils UniversityCollege & VIRAC, Latvia); Dmitry Namiot (Moscow State University, Russia)
- D2D Multi-hop Relaying Services Towards Disaster Communication System
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Kamran Ali; Huan Nguyen; Purav Shah; Quoc-Tuan Vien (Middlesex University, London, UK); Enver Ever (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
- A SWIPT-based Device-to-Device Cooperative Network
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Rafay Iqbal Ansari (Frederick University & SEECS, National University of Sciences and Technology, Cyprus); Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Chrysostomos Chrysostomou (Frederick University, Cyprus)


