Workshops

IEEE WoWMoM 2024 will host seven workshops for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and more focused way than at the conference, as well as stimulating discussions of state-of-the-art, emerging, visionary, and perhaps controversial topics. Accepted WoWMoM 2024 workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM.

SCHEDULE

Papers due by	March 1, 2024 March 8, 2024
Paper selections due by	March 31, 2024
Camera Ready by	April 14, 2024

WORKSHOPS

CCNI

Workshop on Cybersecurity of Critical National Infrastructures

Organizers: Leandros Maglaras (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)
Leandros Tassiulas (University of Yale, USA)

Critical National Infrastructures (CNIs) are vital assets for public safety, economic welfare, and the national security of countries. Vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures have increased with the widespread use of information technologies. As CNIs are becoming more vulnerable to cyberattacks, their protection becomes a significant issue for any organization as well as nation. The risks to continued operations from failing to upgrade aging infrastructure or not meeting mandated regulatory regimes are considered higher given the demonstrable impact of such circumstances. Due to the rapid increase of sophisticated cyber threats targeting critical infrastructures with significant destructive effects, the cyber security of CNIs has become an agenda item for academics, practitioners, and policy makers. A holistic view which covers technical, policy, human, and behavioral aspects is essential to handle cyber security effectively. Moreover, the ability to attribute crimes to criminals is a vital element of avoiding impunity in cyberspace. In this workshop, both research and practical aspects of cyber security considerations in critical infrastructures are of interest. Aligned with the interdisciplinary nature of cyber security, authors from academia, government, and industry are welcome to contribute.

M6CEN

MetaVerse-6G Convergence: Enabling Future Networking

Organizers: neeraj.kumar@thapar.edu;
bbgupta@asia.edu.tw;
sachin.sharma2@sbi.co.in

The workshop on "Metaverse-6G Convergence: Enabling Future Networking" (M6CEN 2024) is designed to engage and attract a diverse spectrum of researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders invested in the intersection of the Metaverse and 6G technologies within the context of future networking. The workshop aims to bring together experts from academia, industry professionals, and technology enthusiasts actively involved in the fields of wireless communication, networking, virtual reality, augmented reality, and immersive technologies. Additionally, it seeks to appeal to researchers and professionals with interests in multimedia communications, Internet of Things (IoT), and those exploring the potential impact of emerging technologies on the future internet landscape. Furthermore, the workshop endeavors to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among professionals exploring the transformative potential of the Metaverse, as well as those invested in the development and deployment of 6G technologies. It targets individuals and communities with a keen interest in exploring the technical intricacies, challenges, and opportunities arising from the convergence of these domains, encouraging a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas and perspectives.

NTN-6G

Non-Terrestrial Networks in 6G Wireless (4th)

Organizers: Sara Pizzi (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy)
Helka-Liina Maattanen (Ericsson Research, Finland)
Giuseppe Araniti (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy)

Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) is growing in importance owing to its capability to deliver the novel unmanned and autonomous applications of next-to-come sixth-generation (6G) networks anywhere and anytime and also provide coverage in areas that are unreachable by any conventional Terrestrial Network (TN). Spaceborne (i.e., GEO, MEO, and LEO satellites) or airborne (i.e., Unmanned Aircraft Systems or UASs and High Altitude Platforms or HAPs) vehicles constituting the NTN may act either as a relay node or as a base station and can be leveraged to complement TNs. Compared to terrestrial wireless networks, NTNs have many distinctive features, such as specific channel models, highly dynamic network topologies, and weakly connected communication links. As a consequence, solutions tailored to terrestrial networks cannot be directly applied to NTNs. Hence, new techniques suitable for NTNs need to be developed. Furthermore, various satellite systems on different orbits remain isolated ‘islands’, and they are also disconnected from the ground networks. Therefore, integrating all existing networks in air, space, and on ground into a unified system will be essential for 6G. The purpose of the NTN-6G Workshop is to provide a platform for the discussion of the major research challenges, latest developments and recent advances in Non-Terrestrial Networks in 6G Wireless Networks.

SC2

Smart Computing for Smart Cities

Organizers: Anish Jindal (Durham University, UK)
Angelos K. Marnerides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada)
Amit Dvir (Ariel University, Israel)

Smart computing has a big role to play in the development of the smart cities. The advanced networking paradigms such as programmable and virtual networks, growth in communication technologies like 5G, and use of advanced computing infrastructure such as fog/edge/cloud computing can all contribute in the applications related to smart cities. With the penetration of Internet of things (IoT) devices in smart city applications, smart computing has become all the more relevant in terms of managing and processing the data. The applications in smart cities can be computing-intensive, network-intensive, disk-intensive, data-intensive etc. which requires different solution sets in order to effectively solve the issues pertaining to these applications. The computing and communication aspects in smart computing are of great relevance in the wider domain of smart cities which consists of smart metering, smart homes, smart building, smart industries, connected vehicles, and tackles various problems ranging from data reporting to providing smart services. Hence, the aim of this fifth workshop of its successful series, is to bring together researchers working in the broad area of smart cities using smart computing. The focus of the workshop will be on theoratical and experimental components of communication, networking and system-oriented techniques that tackle challenges in smart cities using smart computing. Therefore, in this workshop, the researchers working on emerging problems on different sectors of the smart cities can share their latest results, gather new problems from communication, networking and data analytics perspectives.

SEPAR

Security and Privacy of AR, VR, and XR: Challenges and Opportunities

Organizers: Giang Nguyen (Centre for Tactile Internet, CeTI, TU Dresden)
Stefanie Roos (University of Kaiserslautern)
Thorsten Strufe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Extended realities (XR), including Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), are emerging technologies with a wide range of potential applications, including networking, gaming, healthcare, and education. However, as with any new technology, AR/VR also introduces new security and privacy challenges. AR and VR devices collect a wide range of personal data about users, including their physical movements, eye movements, and voice recordings. This data can be used to track users' activities, identify them, or even infer private attributes like health conditions or private preferences. Furthermore, XR applications integrate multiple modalities, such as audio, video, and haptic data streams, enlarging security and privacy exposure. Since XR applications mainly rely on wireless communication, defending them against overhearing, data breaches, and malicious actions is substantially challenging.

SLICO

Smart Living and Communications for the Next Generations Networks - SLICO 2024

Organizers: Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para, Brasil)
Bruno Sousa (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Zhongliang Zhao (Beihang University, China)
Noe Godinho (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

SLICO 2nd workshop aims to be a forum for researchers and engineers from academia and industry to present and discuss novel ideas, solutions and results aiming to support the requirements of emerging and challenging applications on future generation network architectures. Software Defined Networks (SDN) along with Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies have established the base for network programmability within a flexible model for control and data plane management. While such paradigms foster innovation in next generation networks (5G and beyond, 6G,) their adoption requires security and trust mechanisms to assure that network functions deployed as Virtual Network Functions (VNF), Container Network Function (CNF), Physical Network Function (PNF) or other model are trustful and reliable in face of different security threats (e.g. Denial of Service, Man in the Middle, etc). Smart living environments including smart cities, rural scenarios, home/personal environments benefit from SDN, NFV technologies, in particular when aligned with edge computing and artificial intelligence approaches. Network functions assure functionalities close to the user, but require robust security mechanisms to enhance trust in services that are deployed with several and chained network functions and according to service providers' policies. Service/network Function Chaining (SFC) requires trustful service/network functions that can be deployed in different administrative domains (cloud providers such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, among others), and interconnect with edge infrastructures managed by network/service providers. With more flexible user mobility, how to explore the mobility pattern to understand their characteristics is essential to guarantee network performance in future mobile scenarios.

WoLoLo

Wireless Outdoor, Long Range and Low-Power Networks (2nd)

Organizers: Ulf Kulau (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
Andreas Reinhardt (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
(Kai Li, CISTER Research Centre, Portugal)

Low-power and long-range communication networks (including LoRa, MIoTy, NB-IoT for sensor networks and the Internet of Things) have recently attracted increasing research interest and efforts. Despite the rapid development, there are still many challenges and unsolved problems in this area with respect to large-scale real-world applications. Especially in applications that cover large areas, are located in remote and hard-to-reach places, or in hazardous areas, reliable communication without existing infrastructure is the immense advantage of Low-power and long-range technologies. At the same time, this is also the challenge, because the sensors and networks must be self-sufficient, reliable and available over a long period of time. In addition to the various requirements for wireless communication, the low-power aspects in particular therefore also play a major role, because without sufficient energy efficiency, the practical use of such networks is not expedient. Based on hardware architectures and novel platforms, large-scale networks can be established using robust and efficient transmission technologies such as LoRa, MIoTy or NB-IoT. For this, protocols and network management are indispensable, which always consider the aspects of reliability, transmission range and energy efficiency. These methods also have in common that greater robustness and longer transmission distances are achieved at the expense of bandwidth. In this context, on-sensor data processing for bandwidth reduction is an important key to future low-power and long-range network architectures, while overlying network management and integration into existing IoT structures must also be considered. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry to address the challenges and opportunities in the design, development, implementation and deployment of wireless low power and long range sensors and networks on every layer.

FURTHER INFO

You are welcome to ask questions or send comments to the Workshops Co-Chairs:

Carlo Vallati (University of Pisa, Italy)
Qi Han (Colorado School of Mines, USA)

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