MedHocNet2016

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The 15th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop

IFIP’s Calendar of Events

June 20-21, 2016
Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain

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Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Extended versions of selected papers will be reviewed for possible publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems

In the recent years the Internet evolution has undergone a remarkable and unstoppable change of trend, rooted on three main pillars, new technologies (cloud computing, SDN , NFV, etc), broad connectivity (3G/4G, VANET, etc.), and the wide deployment of smart edge devices (smart phones, sensors, wearables, etc.), all setting the main concept for the Internet of Things (IoT), also encompassing scenarios such as smart cities, ITS (intelligent transportation systems), smart homes or e-health.

MED-HOC-NET 2016 extends its focus far beyond traditional networking concepts, highlighting new networking concepts related to the mentioned three main pillars developed for the future generation of network and cloud computing technologies. Med-hoc-net 2016 is willing to accommodate contributions on smart mobile scenarios, focusing on highly relevant developments but also preliminary ideas and concepts on the ICT area, aiming at facilitating the development of new technologies and services with a high societal impact.

Following recent successful conferences in Sicily (2006), Corfu (2007), Palma de Mallorca (2008), Haifa (2009), Juan-les-pins (2010), Favignana Island (2011), Cyprus (2012), Corsica (2013), Slovenia (2014) and Algarve (2015), Med-Hoc-Net 2016 will take place in the city of Vilanova i la Geltrú, located 30 km south from Barcelona right in front of the Mediterranean.

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Topics of Interest

Papers are solicited in a variety of topics related to IoT, ad hoc, wireless and sensor networks, green technologies, social networks, network protocols and algorithms, including but not limited to: 

• -Cloud and fog computing 
• -Internet of Things
• -Smart cities 
• -Sensor network applications and protocols
• -Vehicular networks
• -Security and privacy
• -Participatory and urban sensing
• -Underwater wireless networks
• -Heterogeneous networks
• -Green networking
• -Cooperative schemes
• -Network localization
• -Networking virtualization
• -Services based, and enabled by Ad Hoc networks 
• -Routing algorithms and protocols
• -MAC protocols, scheduling, power control, and resource allocation
• -Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks
• -Middleware for Ad Hoc networks
• -Application driven architectures and protocols
• -Cognitive radio networks
• -Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks
• -Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes
• -Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, etc.)
• -Self organization and network reconfiguration
• -Resource and service discovery
• -Security and privacy
• -Delay tolerant networks
• -Exploitation of social and mobility patterns for opportunistic networking
• -Mobile social networks

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Extended versions of selected papers will be reviewed for possible publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems.

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Monday, June 20

08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-9:15	Opening
09:15-10:15	Keynote Speaker Chair: Xavi Masip (UPC, Spain) Speaker: Ana Juan Ferrer (AD Cloud Lab in Atos Research and Innovation, Barcelona, Spain) Title: Swarm computing, realisation of Computing Continuum
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-13:00	Technical Session 1: Wireless Networks I Chair: Mario Gerla (University of California, USA) Hybrid Spectrum Access for mmWave Networks (Invited paper) Mattia Rebato; Marco Mezzavilla; Federico Boccardi; Sundeep Rangan; Michele Zorzi QoS Based Aggregation in High Speed IEEE802.11 Wireless Networks Seyed Vahid Azhari; Ozgur Gurbuz; Ozgur Ercetin Distributed Clustering Algorithm in Dense Group-Based Ad Hoc Networks Raphael Massin; Christophe J. Le Martret; Philippe Ciblat A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Resolving Transmit-Ambiguities in the Localization of WSN Stephan Schlupkothen, Bastian Prasse; Gerd H. Ascheid Exploiting State Information to Support QoS in Software-Defined WSNs Paolo Di Dio; Salvatore Faraci; Laura Galluccio; Sebastiano Milardo; Giacomo Morabito; Sergio Palazzo; Patrizia Livreri
13:00-15:00	Lunch
15:00-16:45	Technical Session 2: Cloud Networks and Data Management Chair: Roger Immich (University of Coimbra, Portugal) CNSMO: A Network Services Manager/Orchestrator Tool for Cloud Federated Environments (Invited paper) José I Aznar; Eduard Escalona; Isart Canyameres; Oscar Moya; Albert Viñés Participation Cost Estimation: Private Versus Non-Private Study Joshua Joy; Sayali Rajwade; Mario Gerla Estimating Smart City Sensors Data Generation Current and Future Data in the City of Barcelona Amir Sinaeepourfard; Jordi Garcia; Xavier Masip-Bruin; Eva Marín-Tordera; Jordi Cirera; Glòria Grau; Francesc Casaus Fog-to-cloud Computing (F2C): The Key Technology Enabler for Dependable E-health Services Deployment Xavier Masip-Bruin; Eva Marín-Tordera; Albert Alonso; Jordi Garcia.
16:45-17:00	Coffee Break
17:00-18:30	Technical Session 3:  Multimedia and Centric Networks    Chair: Stephan Schlupkothen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Popularity-based Partial Caching for Information Centric Networks Noor Abani; Golnaz Farhadi; Akira Ito; Mario Gerla Towards a QoE-driven Mechanism for Improved H.265 Video Delivery Marilia Curado, Roger Immich; Eduardo Cerqueira Trends in Human-Centric Multimedia Networking Scenarios Denis Lima Rosário; Marcos Seruffo; Eduardo Cerqueira; Cristiano Bonato Both; Torsten Ingo Braun; Mario Gerla.
20:00	Social Event Steering Committee  “Convivial” Talks

Tuesday, June 21

09:00-9:45	Keynote Speaker Chair: Xavi Masip (UPC) Speaker: Román Nuez (CONSULTING SERVICES Ltd, Spain) Title: Connected and autonomous car, how cloud and software are challenging traditional car definition?
09:45-10:15	Coffee Break
10:15-12:30	Technical Session 4: Security and Privacy in an Interconnected World Organized by:  David Rebollo (UPC), Jordi Forné (UPC) Co-Utility for Digital Content Protection and Digital Forgetting Josep Domingo-Ferrer; David Megias Jimenez Searchable Encryption for Geo-Referenced Data Jordi Ribes-González; Oriol Farràs Anomalous Change Detection in Time-evolving OSNs Naeimeh Laleh; Barbara Carminati; Elena Ferrari On Web User Tracking: How Third-Party Http Requests Track Users’ Browsing Patterns for Personalised Advertising Silvia Puglisi; David Rebollo-Monedero; Jordi Forne WiFi Direct: Lessons Learned Andrés Marín López; Florina Almenares; Patricia Arias; Daniel Díaz-Sánchez
12:30-15:00	Lunch
15:00-16:30	Technical Session 5:  Wireless Networks II Chair: Eva Marín Tordera (UPC, Spain) Multi-connectivity and Carrier Aggregation in 5G Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks (Invited paper) Marco Giordani; Marco Mezzavilla; Sundeep Rangan; Michele Zorzi Social-Distance Based Anycast Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks Tuan Le; Mario Gerla The Access Delay of Aloha with Exponential Back-off Strategies Luca Barletta; Flaminio Borgonovo; Ilario Filippini
16:30	Closing

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Dra. Ana Juan Ferrer

AD Cloud Lab in Atos Research and Innovation

Title: Swarm computing, realization of Computing Continuum

Clearly not all the clouds are the same and each cloud provides different capabilities or attributes such as the computing capacity, the end to end latency provided, security and privacy which define the systems that can be hosted. We foresee Swarm Computing as a unified digital infrastructure running multiple cloud platforms in cooperation to run systems and connect entities based on their profile.
Evolution of multi-cloud towards Swarm relies directly on current cloud and edge adoption status. Many of today’s cloud capabilities need to be further developed to allow their full exploitation and to overcome current security, trust and legal compliance issues which act as barriers for a wider uptake. Another obstacle for wider adoption of the Swarm Stack is the prevalence of proprietary solutions and lack of standards that drive into a potential vendor lock-in situation for early adopters.

Biography: Ana Juan Ferrer is Head of Lab of AD Cloud Lab in Atos Research and Innovation, group which focuses its research on Cloud and Edge Computing technologies, distributed systems and service engineering. Currently, she is coordinating the ASCETIC project that investigates methods and tools to support eco-efficient software development and execution in Cloud environments. Previously, she coordinated OPTIMIS project, investigating platforms and architectures for scalable and trustful hybrid Cloud services platforms. Other projects she contributes/has contributed to include: AGILE, MCloudDaaS, STRATEGIC, Helix Nebula, SLALOM, NUBA, NEXOF-RA, BEinGRID and Crosswork. Ana currently acts as Cluster leader for the E2 Software & Services, Cloud Computing Unit “Inter-cloud Challenges, Expectations and Issues” cluster, which agglutinates collaboration of thirteen related projects.  Ana also participates in the Atos Scientific Community, a network of some 100 members whose aim is to guide company strategy at the highest level in relation to innovation. In this forum, Ana leads the working group on Cloud Computing continuum, aiming to identify and materialize opportunities for Atos in advanced cloud models such as Fog Computing and multi-cloud hybrid models.

Mr. Roman Nuez

NUEZ-BALDOMA CONSULTING SERVICES Ltd.
Calipso Design Studio

Title: Connected and autonomous car, how cloud  and software are challenging traditional car definition

While transportation system might have a “limited” need for communication systems, the level of technology and its cost is making possible the introduction of wide connectivity systems into them. From the automotive point of view, how this new features are integrated into current vehicle architectures is a challenge. As well as how the car manufacturers need to deal now also with cloud services, remote diagnostics and many other own services. There are many challenges which the traditional car maker community is facing and overcoming. Once infrastructure is there, new services will be able to be introduced. Just see what Google, Apple and Uber are doing, just heading to a new transport revolution. No doubt, it is happening in front of us.

Biography: Born in Barcelona almost 40 years ago, Mr. Nuez studied a Telecommunication Bachelor Degree and started to work in automotive, where he has been developing his career for more than 17 years. He has been working for main automotive electronics suppliers and also car manufacturers, always on the Electrical Departments. His experience in suppliers has always been around software and has been witness on how the progress in technology has been put into cars. When referring to car manufacturers, understanding the importance of the system engineering evolution at present.

In the last 8 years he has been concerned about technology illiteracy so started to learn how to bring Arduino and programming languages to all levels of society. he learned about Agile and how it could be brought into manufacturing. Finally, Mr. Nuez kickstarted his own company dealing with rapid low cost prototyping, mass users personalized production and teaching all sort of techy stuff. These are Timiprint for 3D printing and Funlab for techy education. Oddly enough, Arduino has turned to be a very good DIY IoT platform, where we can understand a connected car as an IoT artifact. All passions coming together!

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Papers Due: January 31, 2016  February 18, 2016  February 28 (Firm deadline!)

Notification of Acceptance: Apr 15, 2016

Camera-Ready Version due: April 29, 2016

Conference Dates: June 20-21, 2016

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Location

The conference venue is located at the Neápolis building. Neápolis is a startups incubator also hosting the CRAAX lab. It serves as an innovation agency for technology, design, and entrepreneurship.

For detailed information on how to arrive from Barcelona’s main airport (El Prat) to Vilanova i la Geltrú and Neápolis click here.

Accommodation

Hotel Ceferino	http://www.hotelceferino.com/en/
Hotel Cesar	http://www.hotelcesar.net/
Hotel Ribes Roges	http://www.hotelribesroges.com/
Hotel Ricard	http://www.ricardhotel.es/
Hotel Solvi	http://solvihotel.com/
Hostal Gatell	http://www.gatellhotel.com/en/home
Hostal La Treva	http://latrevahostal.com/

About Vilanova

The city: Vilanova i la Geltrú is the capital of El Garraf, a region which lies half-way between the main metropolitan areas of Barcelona (40 kms to the North), and Tarragona (45 kms to the South), and covers a total area of 33.5 km2. Its population is 61,427 inhabitants according to the official census in 2005. Its rich history dates back many centuries; in 1274 it was awarded the Carta Pobla (City Charter) by King Jaume I. As a city, it has polarized the attention of a great area even beyond its own boundaries, and has always boasted a dynamic economy, originally based on its agriculture and wine shipping commerce (in the 18th and 19th centuries), and later on, its textile industry. In recent years industry has diversified, with the presence of large metal, chemical and textile factories (since the first half of the 20th century). The city still maintains a certain amount of agricultural commerce and one of the most important fishing fleets in Catalonia. There has also been an important development in the sector of tourism and leisure facilities.

Leisure: Vilanova i la Geltrú has a complex for water sports within the port, beaches, seafront promenade, and golf course. There are a wide number of cultural activities, including nationally important museums such as The Victor Balaguer (romantic Catalanonian art), the Railway Museum, as well as an annual programme of theatre, music and cinema, music festivals such as the FIMPT (International Popular and Traditional Music Festival). Vilanova i la Geltrú has one of the most intense calendars of traditional celebrations in Catalonia, especially Els Tres Tombs, Carnival and Festa Major. In a city with such a tradition of agriculture and fishing, its cooking, based on fresh produce, is very important and widely acknowledged. Please, find more information in:

http://www.vilanovaturisme.cat/en/

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Conference Banquet

On Monday 20^th 21:00h, all MedHocNet’16 attendance is invited to participate in the Conference Banquet to be held in the restaurant Xiringuito Miramar (http://www.xiringuitomiramar.com) located at the beautiful Sant Gervasi beach in Vilanova.

Before the dinner, at 20:30h, all attendants will be invited to enjoy a performance of castellers (human towers) by the “Falcons de Vilanova” (http://www.falconsdevilanova.cat/ , in catalan). The castellers are human towers with a long-standing tradition in Catalunya. The castellers’ objective is to succeed on both building and dismantling a human tower’s structure. On November 16, 2010, castellers were declared by UNESCO to be among the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

The Restaurant Xiringuito Miramar is located at the end of the Passeig Marítim, which is quite close to some of the hotels recommended by the conference.

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• 2015, June 17-18. Vilamoura, Algarve (Portugal)
• 2014, June 2-4. Piran (Slovenia)
• 2013, June 24-26. Ajaccio, Corsica (France)
• 2012, June 19-22. Ayia Napa (Cyprus)
• 2011, June 12-15. Favignana Island, Sicily (Italy)
• 2010, June 23-25. Juan-les-pins, Paris (France)
• 2009, June 29-30. Haifa (Israel)
• 2008, June 23-27. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
• 2007, June 12-15. Ionian Academy, Corfu (Greece)
• 2006, June 14-17. Lipari, Sicily (Italy)

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Conference General Chairs

• Xavi Masip, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Admela Jukan, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Technical Program Chairs

• Eva Marí­n Tordera, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris-Est Créteil, France
• Jiafeng Zhu, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. USA

Publication Chair

• Jordi Garcia Almiñana, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Publicity Chairs

• Eduardo Cerqueira, UFPA, Brazil

Steering Committee

• Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Khaldoun Al Agha, Paris-Sud University, France
• Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
• Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, Tunisia
• Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA
• Guy Pujolle, UPMC – Paris 6, France

Technical Program Committee

• Ramón Agüero, University of Cantabria, Spain
• Ozgur Akan, Kan Universiyu, Turkey
• Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan
• Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy
• Amotz Bar-Noy, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
• Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris 13, France
• André-Luc Beylot, University of Toulouse, France
• Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy
• Steven Borbash, US Government, USA
• Khaled Boussetta, University of Paris 13, France
• Pedro Brandão, University of Porto, Portugal
• Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
• Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy
• Berk Canberk, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
• Eduardo Casilari, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
• Ling-Jyh Chen, Sinica, Taiwan
• Reuven Cohen, Technion, Israel
• Noelia Correia, University of Algarve, Portugal
• Luis Henrique Costa, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Francesca Cuomo, University of Rome Sapienza, Italy
• Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Lorenzo Donatiello, Università di Bologna, Italy
• Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece
• Falko Dressler, University of Paderborn, Germany
• Andrzej Duda, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
• Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
• Ivan Ganchev, University of Limerick, Ireland / University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Bulgaria
• Jordi Garcia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
• Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
• Rossitza Goleva, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
• Isabelle Guérin Lassous, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 – LIP, France
• Carmen Guerrero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
• David Gutiérrez-Estévez, Huawei Technologies, USA
• Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg / IPv6 Forum, Luxemburg
• Jaime Lloret, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
• Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
• Abdelhamid Mammeri, University of Ottawa, Canad
• Pietro Manzoni, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
• Eva Marín-Tordera, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Xavier Masip-Bruin, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Abdelhamid Mellouk, University Paris-Est, France
• Tommaso Melodia, Northeastern University, USA
• Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy
• Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Adriano Moreira, University of Minho, Portugal
• Ani Nahapetian, California State University, Northridge, USA
• Leandro Navarro, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Axel Neumann Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA
• David Palma, OneSource, Portugal
• Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
• Antonio Pescapé, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
• Christian Quadri, University of Milano, Italy
• Javier Ramos, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• Manuel Ricardo, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy
• Alexandre Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
• Susana Sargento, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
• Björn Scheuermann, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
• Winston Seah, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, University of Bourgogne – ISAT Nevers, France
• Kris Steenhaut, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
• Stefan Weber, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Adam Wolisz, TUB, Germany
• Jozef Wozniak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland