Technical Program

Update: Slides for the keynote speakers and panelists are posted below.

Program Summary

08:55–09:00 Workshop Opening
09:00–10:30 S1: User Association and Mobility
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 S2: Public Safety and Resource Allocation
12:30‑-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–15:30 S3: Scheduling
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–17:30 Panel Discussion

 

09:00–10:30 S1: User Association and Mobility
Session Chair: Ismail Guvenc, Assistant Professor, Florida International University
09:00–09:36 Keynote-1: Vincent Lau, Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Talk Title: Delay-Aware D2D Networking (slides)
09:36–09:54 Smart Mobility Management for D2D Communications in 5G Networks
Osman N. C. Yilmaz (Nokia, Finland); Zexian Li (Nokia, Finland); Kimmo Valkealahti (Nokia Research Center, Finland); Mikko A Uusitalo (Nokia Research Center, Finland); Martti Moisio (Nokia Research Center, Finland); Petteri Lunden (Nokia Research Center, Finland); Carl Wijting (Nokia & Nokia Research Center, Finland)
09:54–10:12 Exploring Social Networks for Optimized User Association in Wireless Small Cell Networks with Device-to-Device Communications
Muhammad Ikram Ashraf (Centre for Wireless Communications, Finland); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Walid Saad (University of Miami, USA); Marcos Katz (University of Oulu, Finland)
10:12–10:30 UE Grouping and Mode Selection for D2D Communications Underlaying a Multicellular Wireless System
Jose Mairton B. da Silva, Jr. (Federal University of Ceara & Wireless Telecom Research Group, Brazil); Tarcisio F. Maciel (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Rodrigo Lopes Batista (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Carlos Filipe Moreira e Silva (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Francisco R. P. Cavalcanti (Federal University of Ceará & GTEL – Wireless Telecom Research Group, Brazil)

10:30–11:00         Coffee Break

11:00–12:30 S2: Public Safety and Resource Allocation
Session Chair: Murat Yuksel, Associate Professor, University of Nevada – Reno
11:00–11:36 Keynote-2: Huseyin Arslan, Professor, Istanbul Medipol University
Talk Title: Communications when most Needed: Wireless in Emergency and Disaster Situations (slides)
11:36–11:54 On the Use of Device-to-Device Communications for QoS and Data Rate Enhancement in LTE Public Safety Networks
Elias Yaacoub (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC), Qatar)
11:54–12:12 GA based Optimal Resource Allocation and User Matching in Device to Device underlaying Network
Chengcheng Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, P.R. China); Jiang Han (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Waheed Ur Rehman (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
12:12–12:30 Bandwidth Price Optimization for D2D Communication Underlaying Cellular Networks
Behrouz Maham (University of Tehran, Iran); Hamed Kebriaei (University of Tehran, Iran); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

12:30–14:00         Lunch Break

14:00–15:30 S3: Scheduling
Session Chair: Hasari Celebi, Assistant Professor, GYTE
14:00–14:36 Keynote-3: Petar Popovski, Professor, Aalborg University
Talk Title: What is in it for D2D in 5G wireless and Support of Underlay Low-Rate M2M links (slides-pdf, slides-animated)
14:36–14:54 Distributed Iterative Scheduling for D2D Communications
Seung-Hoon Park (Samsung, Korea); Hyunseok Ryu (Samsung Electronics, Korea); Chiwoo Lim (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea)
14:54–15:12 What happens with a proportional fair cellular scheduling when D2D communications underlay a cellular network?
Rodrigo Lopes Batista (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Carlos Filipe Moreira e Silva (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Jose Mairton B. da Silva, Jr. (Federal University of Ceara & Wireless Telecom Research Group, Brazil); Tarcisio F. Maciel (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Francisco R. P. Cavalcanti (Federal University of Ceará & GTEL – Wireless Telecom Research Group, Brazil)
15:12–15:30 Performance comparison of resource allocation schemes for D2D communications
Hyunseok Ryu (Samsung Electronics, Korea); Seung-Hoon Park (Samsung, Korea)

15:30–16:00         Coffee Break

16:00–17:30 Panel Discussion
Panel Title: Research and Standardization Challenges for D2D and Public Safety CommunicationsPanel Chair:

  • Satoshi Nagata, NTT DOCOMO

Panelists:

  • Saurabh Tavildar, Qualcomm Research
  • Mythri Hunukumbure, Fujitsu Labs
  • Vincent Lau, Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Huseyin Arslan, Associate Professor, University of South Florida
  • Petar Popovski, Professor, Aalborg University
16:00 – 16:10 Presentation by Satoshi Nagata, NTT DOCOMO (slides)
16:10 – 16:20 Presentation by Saurabh Tavildar, Qualcomm Research (slides)
16:20 – 16:30 Presentation by Mythri Hunukumbure, Fujitsu Labs (slides)
16:30 – 17:30 Question and Answer Session with the Panelists and the Audience