Cybersecurity of Critical National Infrastructures 2024 - CCNI 2024

09:00 am - 9:15 am Welcome by the chairs

09:15 am - 10:10 am Fireside Chat "Protecting Future Critical Infrastructures: What are the Threats of Emerging Technologies on CI", Sanjay Jha; Surya Nepal

10:10 am - 10:30 am CCNI Session 1 (Chair: Helge Janicke)

WIP: Performance Metrics of PUF-Based Authentication Protocols for Smart Grid: A Review, Taylah J Griffiths; Mohiuddin Ahmed; Shihao Yan

10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break

11.00 am - 12:30 am CCNI Session 2 (Chair: Helge Janicke)

Paper 1: An Enhanced Threat Intelligence Driven Hybrid Model for Information Security Risk Management, Habib EL Amin; Abed Ellatif Samhat; Maroun Chamoun; Lina Oueidat; Antoine Feghali

Paper 2: Survey and Experimentation to Compare IoT Device Model Identification Methods, Norihiro Okui; Masataka Nakahara; Ayumu Kubota

Paper 3: Preserving Data Integrity and Detecting Toxic Recordings in Machine Learning Using Blockchain, Bechir Alaya; Tarek Moulahi; Salim El khediri; Suliman Aladhadh

Paper 4: Enhancing Cybersecurity Training Efficacy: A Comprehensive Analysis of Gamified Learning, Behavioral Strategies and Digital Twins, Yagmur Yigit; Kitty Kitty Kioskli; Laura May Bishop; Nestoras Chouliaras; Leandros A. Maglaras; Helge Janicke

12.30 am -1:30 pm Lunch Break

Smart Computing for Smart Cities - SC2 2024

09:00 am - 09:05 am: Welcome by the session chair/organizers

09:05 am - 10:30 am Session 1: SC2 Session 1

Paper 1: Efficient Binary Task Offloading Optimization in Large-Scale IoT Networks via UAV-Enhanced Mobile Edge Computing, Xiangdong Yang; Huaiwen He; Hong Shen; Aiguo Chen; Hui Tian

Paper 2: Unveiling Behavioral Transparency of Protocols Communicated by IoT Networked Assets, Savindu Wannigama; Arunan Sivanathan; Ayyoob Hamza; Hassan Habibi Gharakheili

Paper 3: Is Edge Computing Always Suitable for Image Analysis? An Experimental Analysis, Francesca Righetti and Carlo Vallati; Nirmalya Roy; Giuseppe Anastasi

10:20 am - 10:30 am Informal interaction of speakers and the audience

10:30 am - 11:00 am: Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Session 2: NTN 6G session and SC2 session 2

(Joint session with also paper submitted to NTN-6G - 4th workshop on Non-Terrestrial Networks in 6G Wireless)

Paper 1: Performance Analysis of a Cognitive Radio Assisted Cooperative NOMA UAV System, Thi My Chinh Chu; Hans-Juergen Zepernick

Paper 2: Minimizing Age of Information: Adaptive Spectrum Sharing in Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency eVTOL Communications, Ishan Aryendu; Sudhanshu Arya; Ying Wang

Paper 3: Advancing Federated Learning: Optimizing Model Accuracy Through Privacy-Conscious Data Sharing, Rihab Saidi; Tarek Moulahi; Suliman Aladhadh; Salah Zidi

12:15 pm -12:20 pm: Closing Remarks

12:20 pm - 12:30 pm: Informal interaction of speakers and the audience

12:30 pm Close of Workshop and Lunch

Security and Privacy of AR, VR, and XR: Challenges and Opportunities - SEPAR 2024

2:00 pm - 2:10 pm Welcome note (Thorsten Strufe and Giang Nguyen)

2:10 pm - 3:00 Session 1: Privacy Challenges in Extended Realities (Chair: Thorsten Strufe)

Paper 1: Effect of Duration and Delay on the Identifiability of VR Motion, Mark R Miller; Vivek C Nair; Eugy Han and Cyan DeVeaux; Christian Rack; Rui Wang; Brandon Huang; Marc Erich Latoschik; James F. O'Brien; Jeremy N Bailenson

Paper 2: Threats of Extended Reality (XR) Applications to Teaching and Learning: Instructors' Perspectives (short paper), Aidrina Sofiadin

3:00 pm - 3:45 Networking and Coffee Break

3:45 pm - 5:30 Session 2: Opportunities for Privacy in XR (Chair: Giang Nguyen)

Paper 1: Protecting Privacy: A Gateway to Freedom of Opinion and Expression in Virtual Reality, Hinako Sugiyama; Curtis Ferrarini; Eric Lau

Paper 2: Effect of Data Degradation on Motion Re-Identification (short paper), Vivek C Nair; Mark R Miller; Rui Wang; Brandon Huang; Christian Rack and Marc Erich Latoschik; James F. O'Brien

Paper 3: Towards Privacy-Preserving Mixed Reality: Legal and Technical Implications, Juliane Katherine Mendelsohn; Stephan Werner; Tobias Schwandt and Philipp Richter; Thomas Köllmer; Wolfgang Broll

Paper 4: Comparing Identification Accuracy Across Varying Classification Set Sizes with Multiclass AUC, Mark R Miller

5:25:00 pm - 5:30 Wrap-up

MetaVerse-6G Convergence: Enabling Future Networking - M6CEN 2024

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm: Opening Remarks and Introduction

2:15 pm - 2:45 pm: Keynote Speech by Prof. Brij B. Gupta (Asia University, Taiwan)

2:45 pm - 3:05 pm Paper 1: A hybrid NFV/In-Network Computing MANO Architecture for provisioning Holographic Applications in the Metaverse, Farzaneh Ghasemi Javid; Mouhamad Dieye; Felipe Estrada-Solano;, Roch H. Glitho; Halima Elbiaze; and Wessam Ajib

3:05 pm - 3:25 pm Paper 2: First Steps Towards Game and Activity Inference on Encrypted VR Datastreams, Yushan Yang; Simon Hanisch; Mingyu Ma; Stefanie Roos; Thorsten Strufe; Giang T. Nguyen

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Coffee Break

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Paper 3: Securing the Metaverse: Traffic Application Classification and Anomaly Detection, Vishal Murgai; Ventata Rama Raju Lolabhattu; Roxy Stimpson; Eishita Tripathi; Shiva Chickala

4:20 pm - 4:50 pm: Keynote Speech by Prof. Hojjat Baghban (Chang Gung University, Taiwan)

4:50 pm - 5:10 pm Paper 4: LSTM-GRU Based Efficient Intrusion Detection in 6G-Enabled Metaverse Environments, Brij B. Gupta; Akshat Gaurav;, Varsha Arya; Kwok Tai Chui

5:10 pm - 5:30 pm Paper 5: Enhanced Virtual Try-On in the Metaverse Leveraging Unet Model for Improved Cloth Detection, Akshat Gaurav; Varsha Arya; Kwok Tai Chui; Brij B. Gupta

5:30 pm - 5:50 pm Paper 6: Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Resource Allocation Method in Future Wireless Networks with Blockchain Assisted MEC Network, Prakhar Consul; Ishan Budhiraja; Deepak Garg; Sachin Sharma; Ammar Muthanna

5:50 pm - 6:00 pm: Discussion/Q&A