The workshop will take place on November 18th, 2024, conference room Congressional. The proceedings are available on the ACM Digital Library.
8:30 AM - 8:35 AM

Opening Remarks and House-keeping
Salvatore D'Oro, Aloizio da Silva
8:35 AM - 9:05 AM

Keynote by Bozidar Radunovic, Microsoft Research

Title: How to build a large, programmable 5G testbed

Speaker and Keynote info
9:05 AM - 10:25 AM

Session 1: Sensing, Localization and Sharing
Session chair: Salvatore D'Oro, Northeastern University
SPEAR: Software-defined Python-Enhanced RFSoC for Wideband Radio Applications
Wei Cheng (Duke University), Zhihui Gao (Duke University), Tingjun Chen (Duke University)
 
Data Driven Environmental Awareness Using Wireless Signals for Efficient Spectrum Sharing
Hossein Nasiri (University of Notre Dame), Seda Tusha (University of Notre Dame), Muhammad Iqbal Rochman (University of Notre Dame), Monisha Ghosh (University of Notre Dame)
 
Cloud-Based Federation Framework and Prototype for Open, Scalable, and Shared Access to NextG and IoT Testbeds
Maxwell McManus (University at Buffalo), Tenzin Rinchen (University at Buffalo), Annoy Dey (University at Buffalo), Sumanth Thota (University at Buffalo), Josh (Zhaoxi) Zhang (University at Buffalo), Jiangqi Hu (Eastern New Mexico University), Xi (Leo) Wang (University of Florida), Mingyue Ji (University of Florida), Nicholas Mastronarde (University at Buffalo), Elizabeth S. Bentley (Air Force Research Laboratory), Michael Medley (SUNY Polytechnic Institute), Zhangyu Guan (University at Buffalo)
 
Non-public 5G-NR Unlicensed: Design, Implementation and Evaluation
Filipe Peixoto (Instituto de Telecomunicações/Univ. Porto), Adriano Goes (Capgemini Engineering), Ana Aguiar (Instituto de Telecomunicações/Univ. Porto)
 
Experimental Validation of a 3GPP Compliant 5G-based Positioning System
Sarik Dhungel (George Mason University), Gaurav Duggal (Virginia Tech), Dara Ron (George Mason University), Nishith Tripathi (Virginia Tech), R. Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech), Jeffrey H. Reed (Virginia Tech), Vijay K Shah (George Mason University)
 
10:25 AM - 11:00 AM

Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 12:04 PM

Session 2: Open RAN Networks
Session chair: Aloizio da Silva, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
AI-Driven Network Intrusion Detection and Resource Allocation in Real-World O-RAN 5G Networks
Theodoros Tsourdinis (University of Thessaly & Sorbonne Université), Nikos Makris (University of Thessaly & CERTH), Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly & CERTH), Serge Fdida (Sorbonne Université)
 
Performance Analysis of Outdoor Open RAN Deployments in Long-Haul 5G Networks using the OpenRAN@Brasil Testbed
Weskley Mauricio (CPQD), Francisco Hugo Costa Neto (CPQD), Maykon Silva (CPQD), Rodrigo Kenji Yaly Aoki (CPQD), Eduardo Ebeling de Almeida (CPQD), Eduardo Melão (CPQD), Sérgio Barros (CPQD), Daniel Lazkani Feferman (CPQD), Fuad M. Abinader Jr. (CPQD)
 
Twinning Commercial Network Traces on Experimental Open RAN Platforms
Leonardo Bonati (Northeastern University), Ravis Shirkhani (Northeastern University), Claudio Fiandrino (IMDEA Networks), Stefano Maxenti (Northeastern University), Salvatore D'Oro (Northeastern University), Michele Polese (Northeastern University), Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University)
 
xDevSM: Streamlining xApp Development With a Flexible Framework for O-RAN E2 Service Models
Angelo Feraudo (University of Bologna), Stefano Maxenti (Northeastern University), Andrea Lacava (Northeastern University, Sapienza University of Rome), Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna), Michele Polese (Northeastern University), Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University)
   
12:04 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Demo Session
   
3:00 PM - 4:04 PM

Session 3: Wi-Fi and LoRa
Session chair: Ion Turcanu, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Experimenting with Adaptive Bitrate Algorithms for Virtual Reality Streaming over Wi-Fi
Ferran Maura (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Miguel Casasnovas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Boris Bellalta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
 
Open-source Resource Control API for real IEEE 802.11 Networks
Sankalp Prakash Pawar (Hochschule Nordhausen), Prashiddha Dhoj Thapa (Fraunhofer HHI), Jonas Jelonek (Hochschule Nordhausen), Arne Kappen (Fraunhofer HHI), Nick Hainke (Hochschule Nordhausen), Thomas Huehn (Hochschule Nordhausen), Julius Schulz-Zander (Fraunhofer HHI), Henrike Wissing (Fraunhofer HHI), Felix Fietkau (OpenWrt), Martin Le (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
 
WiSenseHub: Architecture to deploy a building-scale WiFi-sensing system
Pratyaksh Mundra (Vellore Institute of Technology), Zhengyu Huang (University of California, San Diego), William Hunter (University of California San Diego), Aditya Arun (UCSD), Dharmi Khadela (University at Buffalo), Prachi Sinha (University at Buffalo), Dinesh Bharadia (UCSD), Roshan Ayyalasomayajula (University at Buffalo)
 
Beyond Sensing: A High-Performance Software-Defined LoRa Gateway
Vincenz Mechler (TU Darmstadt), Matthias Hollick (TU Darmstadt, Germany), Bastian Bloessl (TU Darmstadt)
 
4:04 PM - 4:30 PM

Coffee Break
4:30 PM - 5:34 PM

Session 4: mmWave, Beamforming and Synchronization
Session chair: Zhangyu Guan, University of Buffalo
m3MIMO: An 8×8 mmWave Multi-User MIMO Testbed for Wireless Research
Khandaker Foysal Haque (Northeastern University), Francesca Meneghello (University of Padova), K M Rumman (Northeastern University), Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University)
 
Zero-Shot Accurate mmWave Antenna Array Calibration in the Wild
Oveys Delafrooz Noroozi (University of California, Santa Barbara), Heyu Guo (Princeton University), Ruiyi Shen (Princeton University), Zijian Shao (Princeton University), Haoze Chen (Princeton University), Kaushik Sengupta (Princeton University), Yasaman Ghasempour (Princeton University), Upamanyu Madhow (University of California, Santa Barbara)
 
AraSync: Precision Time Synchronization in Rural Wireless Living Lab
Md Nadim (Iowa State University), Taimoor Ul Islam (Iowa State University), Salil Reddy (Ohio State University), Tianyi Zhang (Iowa State University), Zhibo Meng (Iowa State University), Reshal Afzal (Iowa State University), Sarath Babu (Iowa State University), Arsalan Ahmad (Iowa State University), Daji Qiao (Iowa State University), Anish Arora (Ohio State University), Hongwei Zhang (Iowa State University)
 
A Multi-Band mm-Wave Experimental Platform Towards Environment-Aware Beam Management in the Beyond-5G Era
Aron Schott (RWTH Aachen University), Aleksandar Ichkov (RWTH Aachen University), Berk Acikgöz (RWTH Aachen University), Niklas Beckmann (RWTH Aachen University), Lennart Reiher (RWTH Aachen University), Ljiljana Simić (RWTH Aachen University)