Program Schedule

Program Schedule

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Program Schedule

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Detailed Program (Times are in Indian Standard Time (IST))

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Day Time Session
Day 1
(January 4, 2025)
09:00 - 11:00 Workshops
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Workshops
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Joint Keynotes for all workshops Dilip Krishnaswamy, Kiran Kuchi
15:30 - 16:30 Workshops / Tutorial
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00 Workshops / Tutorial
Day 2
(January 5, 2025)
08:30 - 09:00 Opening Ceremony
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote 1: Allan Borodin
10:00 - 11:00 Session 1: Distributed Algorithms
Session Chair: Subhash Bhagat, IIT Jodhpur
Distributed Computation of Skyline Probability over Uncertain Preferences
Easwar Kilari and Sriram Kailasam (NIT Warangal, India)
Distributed Small Cuts using Semigroups
John Augustine (IIT Madras, India) and Mohit Daga (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Fast Deterministic Massively Parallel Ruling Sets Algorithms
Hongyan Ji (The University of Iowa, USA), Kishore Kothapalli (IIIT Hyderabad, India),
Sriram Pemmaraju (The University of Iowa, USA) and Ajitanshu Singh (IIIT Hyderabad, India)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Session 2: Systems Optimization
Session Chair: Kaushik Mondal, IIT Ropar
PDPTW-DB: MILP-Based Offline Route Planning for PDPTW with Driver Breaks
Agrima Khanna, Fangqi Liu, Samir Gupta, Sophie Pavia,
Ayan Mukhopadhyay and Abhishek Dubey (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Advanced Method for Flow Frequency Estimation and Top-k Heavy Hitters Detection in
SDN Leveraging Programmable Switch

Ali Nadim Alhaj, Wilson Naik Bhukya and Rajendra Prasad Lal (University of Hyderabad, India)
User-based I/O Profiling for Leadership Scale HPC Workloads
Ahmad Hossein Yazdani (Virginia Tech, USA),
Arnab K. Paul (BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus, India),
Ahmad Maroof Karimi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA),
Feiyi Wang and Ali Butt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
12:30 - 13:00 PhD Symposium, Poster Lightning Talks
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 Session 3: Quantum, 5G, and Time-Sensitive Technologies
Session Chair: Tanvir Kaur, IIT Ropar
Mixing Entanglement Swapping and Hop-by-Hop Transmission On Heterogeneous Quantum Networks
Anoop Kumar Pandey, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma and M V P Rao (IIT Hyderabad, India)
A Cognitive Resource Aware Orchestration of Network Services for 5G and beyond
Shameem Raj Nadaf, Sai Bhavadeesh Yarlagadda, Hemant Kumar Rath and
Garima Mishra (Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, India)
Multi-Stream TSN Gate Control Scheduling in the Presence of Clock Synchronization
Aviroop Ghosh (Carleton University, Canada),
Saleh Yousefi (Urmia University, Iran)
and Thomas Kunz (Carleton University, Canada)
15:00 - 16:00 Poster, Demo, PhD Symposium / Tutorial #2
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 Poster, Demo, PhD Symposium / Tutorial #2 / SC-OC Meeting
18:00 - 20:30 Welcome Reception
Day 3
(January 6, 2025)
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote 2: Idit Keidar
10:00 - 11:00 Session 4: Security and Blockchain
Session Chair: Mohit Daga, KTH Sweden
Perfectly Secure Message Transmission Tolerating Omission Faults – Possibility, Feasibility and Optimality
Ravi Kishore (Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India)
Enhancing Security in Smart Contract Wallets : An OTP Based2-Factor Authentication Approach
Kalash Kalash (NIT Surathkal, India),
Bishakh Chandra Ghosh (Pinggy Technology Private Limited, India)
and Sourav Kanti Addya (NIT Surathkal, India)
Fair and Representative Jury Selection for Decentralized Justice
Bhargavi Sriram and John Augustine (IIT Madras, India) (short paper)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Session 5: Mobile Agents and Dynamic Graphs
Session Chair: Sriram Pemmaraju, University of Iowa
Dispersion on Dynamic Graphs
Ashish Saxena and Kaushik Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India)
Dispersion on Time Varying Graphs
Ashish Saxena, Tanvir Kaur and Kaushik Mondal (IIT Ropar, India)
(short paper)
Computational Power of Mobile Robots: Discrete Version
Avisek Sharma (Jadavpur University, India), Pritam Goswami (Sister Nivedita University, India)
and Buddhadeb Sau (Jadavpur University, India)
Rectangle Enclosed Triangular Grid Exploration with Myopic Luminous Robots
Raja Das (Jadavpur University, India),
Pritam Goswami (Sister Nivedita University, India),
Brati Mondal (Jadavpur University, India)
and Buddhadeb Sau (Jadavpur University, India) (short paper)
Exploration of Infinite Triangular Grid by Myopic Robots without Chirality
Raja Das and Buddhadeb Sau (Jadavpur University, India) (short paper)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Session 6: Best Paper Candidates
Session Chair: Anisur Rahaman Molla, ISI Kolkata
Faster Set Cover in the MPC Model
Hongyan Ji (The University of Iowa, USA),
Shreyas Pai (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India),
Sriram Pemmaraju (The University of Iowa, USA)
and Joshua Sobel (The University of Iowa, USA)
Black Hole Search in Dynamic Graphs
Tanvir Kaur (IIT Ropar, India),
Ashish Saxena (IIT Ropar, India),
Partha Sarathi Mandal (IIT Guwahati, India) and
Kaushik Mondal (IIT Ropar, India)
Renting Servers for Multi-Parameter Jobs in the Cloud
Yaqiao Li (Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, China),
Mahtab Masoori (Concordia University, Canada),
Lata Narayanan (Concordia University, Canada) and
Denis Pankratov (Concordia University, Canada)
SMEVCA: Stable Matching-based EV Charging Assignment in Subscription-Based Models
Arindam Khanda, Anurag Satpathy, Anusha Vangala and Sajal K. Das
(Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Panel Discussion
17:00 - 18:00 Town Hall
18:30 - 21:30 Banquet and Award Ceremony
Day 4
(January 7, 2025)
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote 3: Ness B Shroff
10:00 - 11:00 Session 7: Energy Issues in Networks / Workshop
Session Chair: Sinchan Sengupta, University of Nantes
LitE: Load Balanced Virtual Data Center Embedding for Energy Efficiency in Data Centers
Preetham N, Sourav Kanti Addya, Keerthan Kumar T G and Saumya Hegde (NIT Karnataka, India)
Jamming-Resilient Channel Hopping for WirelessHART Networks
Elisabeth Permatasari (Iowa State University, USA),
Abusayeed Saifullah (Wayne State University, USA) and
Haibo Zhang (University of Otago, New Zealand)
On-demand Multi-Node Partial Charging Scheme using Multiple Wireless Charging Vehicles in WRSN
Rohit Kumar and Joy Chandra Mukherjee (IIT Bhubaneswar, India)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:45 Session 8: Attacks & Anomalies / Workshop
Session Chair: Manish Kumar, IIT Madras
Transformer-based GAN-augmented Defender for Adversarial USB Keystroke Injection Attacks
Anil Kumar Chillara, Paresh Saxena and Rajib Ranjan Maiti (BITS, India)
Federated Learning-enabled Network Incident Anomaly Detection Optimization for Drone Swarms
Kevin Kostage (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA),
Rohan Adepu (University of Colorado Boulder, USA),
Jenaya Monroe (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA),
Trevontae Haughton (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA),
Juan Mogollon (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA),
Saketh Poduvu (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA),
Reshmi Mitra (Southeast Missouri State University, USA),
Chengyi Qu (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA),
Kannappan Palaniappan (University of Missouri, USA) and
Prasad Calyam (University of Missouri, USA)
Byzantine-Tolerant Privacy-Preserving Atomic Register
Vincent Kowalski, Achour Mostéfaoui, Matthieu Perrin and Sinchan Sengupta (Nantes Universite, France)
Construction of a Byzantine Linearizable SWMR Atomic Register from SWSR Atomic Registers
Ajay Kshemkalyani (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA),
Manaswini Piduguralla (IIT Hyderabad, India),
Sathya Peri (IIT Hyderabad, India) and
Anshuman Misra (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) (short paper)
12:45 - 13:50 Lunch Break
13:50 - 15:00 Session 9: Dispersion and Exploration / Workshops
Session Chair: Achour Mostéfaoui, LS2N, Université de Nantes
Deterministic Collision-Free Exploration of Unknown Anonymous Graphss
Subhash Bhagat (IIT Jodhpur, India) and Andrzej Pelc (Universit du Qubec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada)
Optimal Fault-Tolerant Dispersion on Oriented Grids
Rik Banerjee (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India),
Manish Kumar (IIT Madras, India) and
Anisur Rahaman Molla (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India) (short paper)
Collision-free Exploration by Mobile Agents Using Pebbles
Sajal Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA),
Amit Kumar Dhar (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India),
Barun Gorain (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India)
and Madhuri Mahawar (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India)
Time Optimal Distance-k-Dispersion on Dynamic Ring
Brati Mondal (Jadavpur University, India), Pritam Goswami (Sister Nivedita University, India)
and Buddhadeb Sau (Jadavpur University, India) (short paper)
15:00 - 16:00 Tutorial #3 / Workshops
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 Tutorial #3 / Workshops