Program

  Monday, December 4 (Room: Orchid Main Ballroom 4306)
14:00 ‑ 14:30 Keynote Speech - Machine to Machine Communications: From Massive Access to URLLC
14:30 ‑ 15:30 Session 1 - Efficient protocols for LPWA communications
15:30 ‑ 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 ‑ 16:45 Panel - Latest advances of Low Power Wide Area networking technologies towards IoT
16:45 ‑ 17:30 Session 2 - Performance analysis of LPWA technologies
17:30 ‑ 17:35 Closing Session


Monday, December 4 (Room: Orchid Main Ballroom 4306)

14:00 - 14:30

Keynote speech - Machine to Machine Communications: From Massive Access to URLLC

Prof. Yonghui Li (The University of Sydney, Australia)

Chair: Kan Zheng (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China)


14:30 - 15:30

Session 1 - Efficient protocols for LPWA communications

Chair: Kan Zheng (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Throughput Maximization Scheduling Algorithm in TSCH Networks with Deadline Constraints
Mike Ojo, Stefano Giordano and Giuseppe Portaluri (University of Pisa, Italy), Davide Adami (CNIT Pisa Research Unit, University of Pisa, Italy)

Design and Implementation of Smart Irrigation System Based on LoRa
Wenju Zhao, Shengwei Lin and Jiwen Han (BUPT, P.R. China), Rongtao Xu (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China), Lu Hou (BUPT, P.R. China)

Enabling Heterogeneous mMTC by Energy-efficient and Connectivity-aware Clustering and Routing
Zhehan Li, Jun Chen, Rui Ni, Si Chen, Xu Li and Qiyang Zhao (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., P.R. China)

LTE-M Evolution Towards 5G Massive MTC
Rapeepat Ratasuk and Nitin Mangalvedhe (Nokia Bell Labs, USA), David Bhatoolaul (Nokia Bell Labs, United Kingdom), Amitava Ghosh (Nokia, USA)
 
 

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break


16:00 - 16:45

Panel - Latest advances of Low Power Wide Area networking technologies towards IoT

Panelists:
  • Usman Raza (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK)
  • Stefano Giordano (University of Pisa, Italy)
  • Evgeny Khorov (NRU HSE and IITP RAS, Russia)
  • Andrea Zanella (University of Padova, Italy)

Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece)


16:45 - 17:30

Session 2 - Performance analysis of LPWA technologies

Chair: Stefano Giordano (University of Pisa, Italy)
A Multi-technology Opportunistic Platform for Environmental Data Gathering on Smart Cities
Rodrigo Almeida (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal), Rúben Oliveira (Instituto de Telecomunicações - Aveiro & University of Aveiro, Portugal), Daniela Sousa, Miguel Luís and Carlos Senna (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Susana Sargento (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
 
Navigability in Social Networks of Objects: the Importance of Friendship Type and Nodes' Distance
Claudio Marche and Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy), Antonio Iera and Leonardo Militano (Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy), Michele Nitti (University of Cagliari, Italy)
 
A Study on Packet Repetition Format for Advertising-Based IoT Data Transmission System
Yoshito Watanabe and Yozo Shoji (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

17:30 - 17:35

Closing Session

Kan Zheng (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China) and Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece)