WORKSHOP PROGRAM

The workshop will take place on October 30th 2026, co-located with ACM MobiCom 2026 in Austin, Texas, USA.

8:30–8:40 Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:40–9:40 Special 20th Anniversary Keynote
Mahesh K. Marina (University of Edinburgh)
30 min talk + 5 min Q&A
9:40–10:30 Panel: 20 Years of Wireless Experimentation
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:15
🏆 Test-of-Time Talk (2016 Winner)
srsLTE: An Open-Source Platform for LTE Evolution and Experimentation
Ismael Gomez-Miguelez, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Paul D. Sutton, Pablo Serrano, Cristina Cano, Douglas J. Leith
11:15–12:15 Session 1: Open RAN and AI-RAN Systems
12:00–12:15 Demo Lightning Pitches / Transition to Lunch
12:15–1:30 Lunch
12:30–1:30 Demo Session (concurrent with lunch)
1:30–2:30 Session 2: Wireless Network Measurement and Analytics
2:30–3:30 Session 3: Wireless PHY Prototyping, CSI, and Localization
3:30–4:00 Coffee Break
4:00–5:00 Session 4: Experimental 5G Platforms and Emerging Services
5:00–5:10 Closing Remarks / Awards

Session 1: Open RAN and AI-RAN Systems (11:15–12:15)


A Framework for Experimental Dense vRAN Deployments
Romain Beurdouche, Raymond Knopp (EURECOM)

SlotScope: Slot-Aligned Multi-Layer Observability for CPU-Resident AI-RAN Workload Assessment
Ali K. Abbas, Azuka Chiejina, Vijay K. Shah (North Carolina State University)

Bringing dApps to OCUDU: An E3 Controller for Real-Time Open RAN Intelligence
Angelo Feraudo, Ravis Shirkhani, Stefano Maxenti, Andrea Lacava, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University)

Performance Characterization of dApps in Open Radio Access Networks
Conrado Boeira, Eduardo Baena, Andrea Lacava, Tommaso Melodia, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Northeastern University); Israat Haque (Dalhousie University)

Demo Session (12:30–1:30, concurrent with lunch)


Demo: A Dense vRAN Deployment to Challenge Computing
Romain Beurdouche, Raymond Knopp (EURECOM)

Demo: A Flexible, Declarative Framework for Deploying and Reproducing 6G Experiments
Ziyad Mabrouk, Damien Saucez, Mohammadbagher Tavassoli Kejani (Inria); Tariro Mukute (University of Cape Town)

Demo: Enabling Interoperability of dApps over Heterogeneous Radio Access Networks
Andrea Lacava, Angelo Feraudo, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University)

Demo: cuSat as the DVB-S2X Backhaul of a 5G RAN
Maxime Elkael, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University)

Demo: Beam-O-RAN: A Closed-Loop 5G O-RAN Testbed for mmWave Beam Management
Andrew Nguyen, Hung Xuan Ngo, Ish Kumar Jain (RPI); Derek Ladd, Narendran Srinivasan, Srinivas Shakkottai (Texas A&M University); Arun Paidimarri, Alberto Valdes-Garcia (IBM Research)

Session 2: Wireless Network Measurement and Analytics (1:30–2:30)


App-Based Performance Characterization of Cellular and Wi-Fi Networks in Dense Stadium Deployments
Hardani Ismu Nabil (Sebelas Maret University); Muhammad I. Rochman, S.M. Haider Ali Shuvo, Joshua Roy Palathinkal, Monisha Ghosh (University of Notre Dame)

Three Phones, Nine Afternoons: An Experience Report on Multi-Operator 5G Walk-Testing in Manhattan
Wonyul Choi (Academy for Mathematics, Science & Engineering); Ahan Kak (Nokia Bell Labs)

Private 5G vs. Wi-Fi in the Enterprise: A Measurement Study of Tunability and QoE
Moinak Ghoshal, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Northeastern University); Shivang Aggarwal, Mohamed Ibrahim, Puneet Sharma (HPE Labs); K. K. Ramakrishnan (University of California, Riverside)

MINT: Modeling GenAI Impact on Network Traffic
Andrew Nguyen, Samson Kempiak, Koushik Kar, Ish Kumar Jain (RPI); Agrim Gupta (Samsung Research America)

Session 3: Wireless PHY Prototyping, CSI, and Localization (2:30–3:30)


BE-CSI: Unlocking 320 MHz CSI on Commodity Wi-Fi 7 Devices
Stefano Fontana, Francesco Gringoli (University of Brescia & CNIT); Jakob Link, Matthias Hollick (TU Darmstadt); Francesca Meneghello, Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University)

BRISC: A Dataset of Channel Measurements at 5 GHz With a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface
Mattia Piana, Anna Valeria Guglielmi, Stefano Tomasin (University of Padova); Giovanni Angelo Alghisi, Giovanni Perin, Francesco Gringoli (University of Brescia & CNIT)

BCMSDR: Breaking the Cost Barrier of High-Rate SDRs Using Commercial Wi-Fi Hardware
Jakob Link, Matthias Hollick (TU Darmstadt); Stefano Fontana, Denis Festa, Francesco Gringoli (University of Brescia & CNIT)

Enabling Passive Localization with a Single Moving Receiver through Periodic 5G Reference Signals
Marco Tricco, Samuele Zanini, Giuseppe Bianchi, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Stefania Bartoletti (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

Session 4: Experimental 5G Platforms and Emerging Services (4:00–5:00)


Opening the Black Box: Zero-Touch Conformance and Security Testing of Commercial O-RUs
Linqi Xiao, Abhishek Bhattacharyya, Moojan Kamalzadeh, Venkateswarlu Gudepu, Larry J. Horner, Andrea Fumagalli (University of Texas at Dallas)

cuSat: An Open GPU-Based DVB-S2X Feeder Link for Cellular-Satellite Convergence
Maxime Elkael, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University)

Scripting Traffic, Aligning Power: A 5G Testbed Integrating gNB Activity and Commercial UE Power
Haochen Wang, Aaron Tartz, Adel Heidari, Agrim Gupta, Dinesh Bharadia (UC San Diego); Kotturi Sai Prasanth, Radha Krishna Ganti (IIT Madras)

5G Multicast-Broadcast On Air: An Open SDR Testbed and Experimental Characterization of MBS
Rajendra Paudyal, Al Nahian Bin Emran, Rajendra Upadhyay, Duminda Wijesekera (George Mason University); Arupjyoti Bhuyan (Idaho National Laboratories)