HP 1: Wearables & IoMT Systems Room 01

• TORUS-53: A Wearable Infrastructure for Longitudinal Residential Movement Monitoring — Shuhao Dong, Emma L. Tonkin, Ian Craddock and George Oikonomou (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
• A Runtime-Reconfigurable Wireless Body Area Network Using Textile-Based IoT Devices — Melike Beşparmak, Omur Fatmanur Erzurumluoglu, Kadir Ozlem, Asli Tuncay Atalay, Ozgur Atalay and Gökhan Ince (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
• Design and Preliminary Deployment of a Frugal Smartwatch Monitoring Platform for Dementia Care — Mohamed Charfeddine (IRISA - IMT Atlantique, France); Juliette Reerink (Hospitalité Saint Thomas de Villeneuve, France); Lucile Maugendre (Université Rennes 2, France); Jean-Marie Bonnin (Institut Mines Telecom / IMT Atlantique & IRISA - Inria, France)

ST1: AI-enabled cybersecurity, adversarial attacks & explainability Room 02

• Semantic Cybersecurity: Ontology-Driven Attack Path Reasoning and Graph-Based Threat Intelligence — Mohammed Ibrahim El-hajj (Arab Open University - Lebanon (AOU), Lebanon)
• A Benchmark Study of Adversarial Attacks and Defenses in Telecom Retrieval Systems — Gonçalo Dinis Carvalho Lopes Ferreira (Instituto Politecnico do Porto, Portugal); Eva Maia (ISEP Gecad & ISEP, Portugal); Isabel Praça (School of Engineering (ISEP) / Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP) & Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Research Center (GECAD), Portugal)
• XAI-IDS: An Explainable Intrusion Detection System for IoT/IIoT Networks Using SHAP and LLM — Zohra Chair (Fsg, University of Gabes, Tunisia); Issam Jabri (Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Gabès, Tunisia); Sonia Ben brahim (University of Carthage, Tunisia); Lajnef Hanen (Sup Com, Tunisia)
• Latency-Aware Security Integration for Operational Technology Networks via Edge Computing: A Comparative Evaluation of TLS-Secured MQTT and Modbus — Javier Otero-Mosquera (University of Vigo, Spain); Pablo Fondo-Ferreiro, Cristina López-Bravo and Pedro Tubío Figueira (Universidade de Vigo, Spain); Miguel Díaz-Cacho (University of Vigo, Spain)

ST5: Edge/continuum AI for sensing, monitoring & control Room 03

• A CNN-BiLSTM Framework for Seizure Detection from Original and level-crossing sampled EEG Signals — Raoua Chouikh and Asma Maalej (SUP'COM, Tunisia); Manel Ben-Romdhane (Sup'Com, Tunisia)
• Adaptive Metric Selection for Monitoring Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum Systems Using Reinforcement Learning — Ahmad Atwi (Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, France); Abdelkader Lahmadi (University of Lorraine, France)

ST9: Non-terrestrial and opportunistic wireless/distributed networks Room 04

• Topology-Aware Analysis of Context Synchronization in Opportunistic VANETs — Ergys Puka (Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Norway); Peter Herrmann and Besmir Tola (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
• Listening from Afar: Remote CPU Instruction Detection via 6G THz-ISAC Vibrometry: A Simulation Approach — Oswa M. Amro (Al-Balqa Applied University, Al-Salt, Jorda, Jordan); Khalid A. Darabkh (The University of Jordan, Jordan); Ashraf Dabbas and Laith Baniata (Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan)
• A Distributed Computing Framework for Satellite Swarms — Ezra Fielding (CNES, France); Clement Demazure (Toulouse INP IRIT, France); Guthemberg Silvestre (ENAC, France); Felipe Alves Suana (CNES, France); Philippe Queinnec (Toulouse INP IRIT, France)

IEEE ComSoc Inovation Panel: Human-Centric Trustworthy AI for Secure 6G Systems Room: Salon Mistral

Abstract

6G networks are poised to be AI-native and the integration of AI into the fabric of 6G networks is expected to enable highly autonomous, intelligent, and adaptive communication systems. At the same time, it also introduces new challenges related to security, privacy, transparency, accountability, safety, and human oversight, in short, trustworthiness. This panel will explore how human-centric and trustworthy AI principles can be embedded into the design, deployment, and operation and adoption of secure 6G networks. The aim is to ensure that increasing network intelligence does not come at the expense of human values, safety, security, and/or control. The discussion will address key questions around the context of the 6G networks, role of humans, AI-driven automation, robustness, business, responsibility of AI, regulations and governance, and challenges.

HP 2: Trustworthy & Explainable AI in Health Room 01

• Trustworthy Digital Health Twins through Explainable AI and Ethical Governance — Mohammed Ibrahim El-hajj (Arab Open University - Lebanon (AOU), Lebanon)
• Disentangling Algorithmic Approximation from Clinical Validity in AI Emergency Triage — Edouard Lansiaux (CHU de Lille, France); Hayfa Zgaya-Biau (Université Lille, CNRS, Centrale, CRIStAL, France); Mehdi Ammi (Université Paris 8, France)
• An Explainable Hybrid GraphRAG Framework for Diabetes Risk Stratification — Kandolo Herman (Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam); Rabbi Kimbangi Menakuntima, Ridore Wenchel, Heritier Hamba Mawandu and Frederic Habonimana (International School, Vietnam National University, Vietnam); Alain M. Kuyunsa (Université de Kinshasa, Congo (Democratic Republic, Zaire)); Grevi Nkwimi (Hanyang University, ERICA Campus, Korea (South))
• A Hybrid Tsallis-Polarization Impurity Measure for Decision Trees — Edouard Lansiaux (CHU de Lille, France); Idriss Jairi (Montpellier University, France); Hayfa Zgaya-Biau (Université Lille, CNRS, Centrale, CRIStAL, France)

ST10: Data-driven wireless/network performance analysis Room 04

• Transfer Learning for Spatial-Frequency MIMO Channel Estimation — Prerna Chaudhary (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Manav Bhatnagar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
• Empirical Evaluation of TCP Variants & an Amendment to Veno on a Controlled AWGN-Impaired WiFi Link — Luke Friggieri Cordina, Etienne-Victor Depasquale and Owen Casha (University of Malta, Malta)
• Exploiting Channel Knowledge Mapping for Path Loss Prediction in Aerial Networks — Najmeh Alibabaie (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI) CNR, Italy); Antonello Calabrò (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy); Pietro Cassarà (National Research Council (CNR) at Pisa, Italy); Alberto Gotta (Isti-Cnr, Italy & CNIT, Italy); Eda Marchetti (CNR, Italy); Arcangela Rago (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
• Z-ROCKET: A Lightweight Method for Whole-Time-Series Anomaly Detection Using Random Convolutional Kernels — Matthias Rüb, Ahmed Hassan Mohamed Farrag and Christoph Lipps (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany); Hans D. Schotten (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany)

ST2: Robust and privacy-preserving distributed/federated AI Room 02

• Robust Decentralized Federated Learning with Partial Weight Sharing Against Weight Poisoning Attacks — Reem Nabha (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France & Université Libanaise, Lebanon); Abed Ellatif Samhat (Lebanese University, Lebanon); Anis Laouiti (TELECOM SudParis, France)
• Beyond Single-Modality Evaluation: Measuring Robustness Variability of Federated Learning Defenses in Wireless Edge Systems — Sofiane Aissani (LIST3N Laboratory, University of Technology of Troyes, France); Leila Boulahia (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Yanis Boussoum and Engku Ahmad BinEngku Aziz (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France)
• Adversarial Robustness of Anomaly Detectors in Industrial Digital Twins: A White-box Attack Study — Maya Melissa Mellaz (Université de Lorraine, France); Lemia Louail (Université de Lorraine & CRAN, France); Moufida Maimour (Lorraine University, France); Daoudi Meroua (Laboratoire LITAN, École supérieure en Sciences et Technologies de l'Informatique et du Numérique, Algeria); Eric Rondeau (CRAN, France); Karl Andersson (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)
• On the Interaction of Aggregation Strategies, Privacy Budgets, and Data Heterogeneity in Differentially Private Federated Learning — Ivana Dasovic (TU Wien, Austria); Anastasia Pustozerova (SBA Research, Austria); Rudolf Mayer (SBA Research & Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

ST6: Wireless physical-layer optimization: beamforming, RIS & NOMA Room 03

• A Novel Physical Layer Design for Addressing the Trade-off between Security and Energy Efficiency — Jules Burgat (CEA, France); Jean-Baptiste Doré (CEA-Leti, France); Joumana Farah (INSA Rennes, France); Matthieu Crussière (Univ Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, IETR, France)
• Receive Beamforming Design for Coexisting Wireless Control and Communication Networks — Mounir Dabouz and Mohamad Assaad (CentraleSupelec, France); Marco Di Renzo (L2S-CNRS, CentraleSupélec, UPSaclay (FR), France); Touraj Soleymani (University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
• Spiking Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient RIS Phase Configuration — Guillaume Marthe (INSA Lyon & Inria Lyon, France); Claire Goursaud (INSA-Lyon, France)
• VFD-NOMA with Improper Gaussian Signaling Under Imperfect SIC and Inter-Relay Interference — Twinkle Bhavsar (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India); Abhishek Jindal (Dhirubhai Ambani University (Formerly DAIICT), India)

GenXNet'26: The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Generative and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for Networking (GenXNet) Room 04

• Improving Network Traffic Classification Using Metadata — Shahar Katz (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Tal Shapira (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Reco AI, Israel); Yaniv Harel (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Yuval Shavitt (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
• Explanation Trust Score for Reliable LLM Incident Reporting in IoMT — Komal Ghafoor (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy); Anca Delia Jurcut (University College Dublin, Ireland); Devis Bianchini (University of Brescia, Italy); Furqan Rustam (University College Dublin, Ireland)
• Cost and Confidence Tiered Explainable and Generative Triage for SOC/ CSIRT Operations over Network Telemetry Alerts/Events — Mohammad Makchudul Alam, Md Redowan Zaman Anik and Sabrein Bodour (BGD e-GOV CIRT, Bangladesh); Anca Delia Jurcut (University College Dublin, Ireland)
• Explaining Temporal Resilience-State Inference of Wireless Industrial Communication Systems — Shashank Jhansale Anil Kumar (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Ahmad Ashraf Zargar (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Lars C Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)

HP 3: Security, Privacy & Federated Learning Room 01

• Encryption Vulnerability Graph for Assessing IT System Compliance with Kerckhoffs' Principle in Hea — Inara Opmane (University of Latvia & UL, Latvia); Kristaps Kulis (TET, Latvia); Rihards Balodis (University of Latvia, Latvia)
• 10PH-DVFL: A Communication-Efficient Vertical Federated Learning for Precision Health (10P-Health) — Mahmoud Abuaysheh, Georgi Chaltikyan, Dmitry Etin, Rousl Al-Sardy, Grigor Chakmishyan and Eugenia Lvova (Technische Hochschule Deggendorf, European Campus Rottal-Inn, Germany)
• Zero-Knowledge Federated Learning with Lattice-Based Hybrid Encryption for Quantum-Resilient Medical — Edouard Lansiaux (CHU de Lille, France)
• BDD-based Analysis of Classifier Availability under Feature Uncertainty — Elena Zaitseva and Vitaly G. Levashenko (University of Zilina, Slovakia); Nicolae Brînzei (Université de Lorraine, France); Miriam Fandakova (University of Žilina, Slovakia)

ST3: Intelligent UAV perception, planning & safety Room 02

• TEUCS: Transformer Encoder-based UAV Path Planning for Cattle Search Problem — Najoua Benalaya (Telecom SudParis, France); Ichrak Amdouni (ENSI Manouba, Tunisia & University of Manouba, Tunisia); Cedric Adjih (INRIA, France); Anis Laouiti (TELECOM SudParis, France); Leila Azzouz Saidane (Lab CRISTAL- ENSI, University Manouba, Tunisia)
• Distributed Benchmarking of Vision-Language Models under Semantic Adversarial Attacks in UAV Emergency Scenarios — Amina Ben Taher (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France); Samiha Ayed (IMT Atlantique, France); Lamia Chaari Fourti (Sfax University, Tunisia); Sofiane Aissani (LIST3N Laboratory, University of Technology of Troyes, France)
• UE Status as a Query in End-to-End Vision-Aided Beam Prediction for Mobile Millimeter-Wave Links — Rui Geng, Daichi Kominami and Hideyuki Shimonishi (The University of Osaka, Japan); Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan)
• Spatial Situational Awareness for Safe UAVs in XAI-enhanced 6G Networks — Giovanni Grieco (Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Italy); Arcangela Rago, Gennaro Boggia and Luigi Alfredo Grieco (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)

ST7: LPWAN, embedded IoT & constrained wireless communications Room 03

• The Impact of CSMA on LoRaWAN Communication Efficiency: A Diffusion Approximation Model — Tadeusz Czachorski (IITiS-PAN, Gliwice, Poland); Krzysztof Grochla (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of PAS, Poland); Piotr Pecka (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Poland); Anna Strzoda (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics & IITiS PAS, Poland); Jean Michel Fourneau (University of Versailles St Quentin & Université Paris-Saclay, France); Lynda Mokdad (Université de Paris 12, France); Monika Nycz (Silesian University of Technology, Poland); Tomasz Nycz (Politechnika Slaska, Centrum Komputerowe, Poland)
• Using multiple Spreading Factors simultaneously in LoRa 2.4 GHz: some solutions — Augustin Bonnel (Université Grenoble Alpes, France); Martin Heusse (Grenoble Informatics Laboratory & Grenoble INP, France); Jose-Ernesto Gomez-Balderas (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
• An Empirical Study of ML-Based Rolling-Shutter OCC Decoding on MCU-Class Receiver Platforms — Hongbo Liu (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Juan F. Gutiérrez (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Negar Halakou (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Andres Gomez (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
• Efficient Intrusion Detection for IoT Networks Using Machine Learning Models on ESP32 Microcontroller — Henrik Steen and Godspower Ogaga Uti (Østfold University of Applied Sciences, Norway); Nga Dinh (Østfold University College, Norway)

AIMEH - WS: AI for Mobile & Wireless Health: Advancing Explainability in the Future of Healthcare Room 04

• GAN-Augmented Swin Transformer for Breast Cancer Detection in a Three-Tier IoMT Framework — Bo Li and Aniket Mahanti (University of Auckland, New Zealand); Kalpadrum Passi (Laurentian University, Canada); Ranesh Naha (Queensland University of Technology, Australia); Arunkumar Arulappan (Vellore Institute of Technology, India)
• Task-Oriented Semantic Communication for Digital Pathology over Wireless Channels — Domenico Benfenati, Giovanni Maria De Filippis and Antonio M. Rinaldi (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Cristiano Russo (UNINA, Italy); Cristian Tommasino (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
• Investigating the Effect of ECG Recording Duration on HRV Reliability and Stress Classification — Ahmed Hassan Mohamed Aly (University of Pisa, Italy); Vittorio Meini and Lucia Billeci (National Research Council of Italy, Italy)
• Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence-Driven Internet of Medical Things Networking — Giovanni Stanco (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy); Stefania Zinno (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Alessio Botta (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy); Giorgio Ventre (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)

HP 4: Models, Data & Digital Health Applications Room 01

• Towards Health Data Autonomy: Bridging Consumer Wearable Data& Clinical Data for Holistic Healthcare — Yildiz Dilara Parry and Giovanni Briganti (University of Mons, Belgium)
• A Large World Model for Person Overcrowding in Indoor Spaces to Prevent Airborne Diseases — Evangelos Spyrou (University of Ioannina, Greece & Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); Vassilios Kappatos (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); Chrysostomos Stylios (PLATANI, Greece & Industrial Systems Institute, Athena RC, Greece)

ST4: 5G/6G network platforms, slicing & air-interface evolution Room 02

• Implementing vRANs on an Arm and GPU system — Romain Beurdouche (EURECOM, France); Raymond Knopp (Institut Eurecom, France)
• Predictive AI-Native Digital Twin for QoS-Security Orchestration in Multi-Cell 6G Networks Using Cell-Aware DRL — Naima Mchiri (Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia & LIMTIC Laboratory, Tunisia); Rachid Zagrouba (University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia); Ezzeddine Zagrouba (Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia); Jean-Marie Bonnin (Institut Mines Telecom / IMT Atlantique & IRISA - Inria, France)
• Developing a Magma-based Private 5G SA Network Supporting COTS UE with Global Connectivity — Andreas Follevaag Malde and Klaidas Bajoras (University of Agder (UiA), Norway); Frank Y. Li (University of Agder, Norway)
• Performance Evaluation of Preamble-free Packet Transmissions in DECT NR+ — Mattes Waßmann (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany); Maxim Penner (RFmondial GmbH, Germany); Alexander Poets and Stephan Preihs (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany); Jürgen Peissig (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)

ST8: Wireless sensor networks: localization, deployment, routing & SHM Room 03

• Localization of Directional Transmitters Using a Variance-Based Metric in Wireless Sensor Networks — António José Brito (ISCTE-IUl & Telecommunications Institute, Portugal); Pedro Sebastião (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal); Fernando J. Velez (University of Beira Interior, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Jon M. Peha (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• GAPSO: A Hybrid Metaheuristic Approach for the Optimized Deployment of Buried Nodes within a Wireless Underground Sensor Network — Aimee Diane Ingabire (AIMS, Cameroon); Damien Wohwe Sambo (IMT Nord Europe, France & University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon); Danielle Blanche Kapsa (AIMS, Cameroon)
• FEM-Guided Placement and AEAR Routing for Heritage Arch SHM: The Great Mosque of Sfax — Wael Doghri (CRNS, Tunisia & ESPRIT School of Engineering, Tunisia); Ahlem Saddoud (Centre de Recherche en Numérique de Sfax, Tunisia); Lamia Chaari Fourati (Institut Supérieur d'Informatique et de Multimédia de Sfax, Tunisia)
• Reliability-Aware SDR Beamforming for Underground Environments: A Laboratory Study — Marta Sieradzka (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Adam Michalak and Piotr Woźniak (Science Club Spektrum, Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Bartosz Berezowski (Poznan University of technology, Poland); Krzysztof Cichoń (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)

Women's Network Panel: Wireless Networks for Agentic AI Systems Room: Salon Mistral

S1: 5G/6G Network Architecture (RAN/Core/MEC) Room 01

• One Edge to Serve Both: A System Model for Joint 6G User Plane and Service Function Allocation — Toni Dimitrovski (TNO, The Netherlands & University of Twente, The Netherlands); Nassima Toumi and Maria Raftopoulou (TNO, The Netherlands); Suzan Bayhan and Geert Heijenk (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Joint U-Plane and C-Plane Evaluation of Distributed UPF Deployment: Trade-offs and Practical Guidelines for 5G and Beyond MEC — Takumi Ishihara (Keio University, Japan); Tomoaki Kanaya, Noriaki Yamada and Takashi Nakamura (SoftBank Corp, Japan); Keiichi Shima (SoftBank, Japan); Keisuke Uehara (Keio University, Japan)
• Mobility-Aware Edge Rebinding in 5G Networks using SR4MEC — Louis Royer (IRIT, University of Toulouse, France); Emmanuel Lavinal (Université de Toulouse, France & IRIT, France); Emmanuel Chaput (Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France)
• QoS Provisioning for MEC Application Slices in Beyond 5G Networks — Irene Vilà (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Oriol Sallent (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Jordi Pérez-Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain)

S2: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces & Smart Antenna Systems Room 02

• Pinching Antenna System-Assisted Hybrid AirComp-NOMA Uplink: Joint Precoding and Antenna Placement Optimization — Saeid Pakravan (University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Canada); Imene Trigui (University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Canada); Wessam Ajib (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada); Wei-Ping Zhu (Concordia University, Canada)
• Low-Complexity RIS-Aided MISO-LoRa for IIoT via Equivalent Channel Estimation and Codebook Optimization — Ali Kotti (University of Tunis Elmanar, Tunisia)
• Joint Placement, Phase Shift, and Resource Allocation for Multi-AIRS-Assisted OFDMA Networks — Ahmad Kasaeyan (Concordia University, Canada); Nguyen Minh Dat (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada); Wei-Ping Zhu (Concordia University, Canada); Wessam Ajib (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)

S3: Network & IoT Security I - Authentication, Key Generation & Security Analytics Room 03

• Secure Attestation of ESP32-S3 IoT Devices Based on Intrinsic SRAM PUFs Using Machine Learning and Multi-Objective Optimization — Florent Houetchekpo (University of Passau, Germany); Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos (Universität Passau, Germany)
• Continuous Behavioral Authentication via Multi-Expert BERT Log Analysis for Secure Data Sharing — Stergios Lantzos (University of Thessaly, Greece); Ilias Syrigos (University of Thessaly, Greece & CERTH, Greece); Apostolos Apostolaras (University of Thessaly & The Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, CERTH, Greece); Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly, Greece)
• Keep Private Networks Private II: Wideband Secret Key Generation on a Real 5G NR Testbed — Sachinkumar B Mallikarjun (RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany); Christoph Lipps (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany); Marvin Reski (RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany); Sneha Bhattacharjee (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany); Andreas Weinand (RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany); Hans D. Schotten (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany)
• BiLCNet: BiLSTM-Conformer Network for Encrypted Traffic Classification with 5G SA Physical Channel Records — Ke Ma (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China & Telecom Paris, France); Jialiang Lu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Philippe Martins (Telecom Paris & LINCS, France)

Coffee Break

OP: WiMob 2026 Opening Ceremony Room: Salon Mistral

Keynote 1: Beyond Connectivity: Explainable and Robust AI for 6G Control Systems Room: Salon Mistral

Speaker: Dr. Sinem Coleri, IEEE Fellow,
Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Koc University

Abstract. Future wireless networks are undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift, from enabling communication among humans to enabling real-time control of complex physical systems. While 5G enabled large-scale machine-type communications and data collection, 6G aims to transform this data into actionable intelligence for applications such as UAV swarms, collaborative robots, and cooperative autonomous vehicles. In this context, communication systems must evolve beyond throughput and latency metrics to support goal-oriented, semantics-aware, and ultra-reliable control loops, where rare failures can be catastrophic. This keynote presents a unified perspective on explainable and robust AI as a key enabler of control-centric 6G networks. First, we integrate extreme value theory with generative AI to model and predict rare but critical events for ultra-reliable communications. This approach moves beyond average-case analysis and provides a principled framework for reliability guarantees in next-generation networks. Second, we develop optimization-theoretic AI frameworks for robust and safe radio resource management in wireless networked control systems. By leveraging structure-aware and safety-constrained learning methods, these approaches bridge the gap between data-driven intelligence and control-theoretic guarantees. Third, we demonstrate the role of explainable AI in achieving robustness, interpretability, and trust in safety-critical scenarios. Overall, we argue that combining generative modeling, optimization, extreme value theory and explainable AI will be instrumental in moving beyond connectivity toward intelligent, reliable, and controllable 6G systems.

Biography. Sinem Coleri is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. She is also the founding director of Wireless Networks Laboratory (WNL) and director of Ford Otosan Automotive Technologies Laboratory. Sinem Coleri received the BS degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University in 2000, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from University of California Berkeley in 2002 and 2005. She worked as a research scientist in Wireless Sensor Networks Berkeley Lab under sponsorship of Pirelli and Telecom Italia from 2006 to 2009. Since September 2009, she has been a faculty member in the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. Her research interests are in 6G wireless communications and networking, AI-based wireless networks, machine-to-machine communications, wireless networked control systems and vehicular networks. Dr. Coleri has more than 150 publications with citations over 13000 (Google scholar profile). She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Science Award in 2024; N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications in 2022; TUBITAK Incentive Award and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award in 2020; Outstanding Achievement Award by Higher Education Council in 2018; and Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist (TUBA-GEBIP) Award in 2015. Dr. Coleri currently holds the position of Editor-in-Chief at the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. Dr. Coleri is an IEEE Fellow and AAIA Fellow.

Lunch

S4: Energy-Efficient Wireless Systems Room 01

• Channel-Chart-Driven Antenna Activation for Energy-Efficient Cell-Free Massive MIMO — Yara Kafa (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes, France); Luc Le Magoarou (INSA Rennes, IETR, France); Joumana Farah (INSA Rennes, France); Matthieu Crussière (Univ Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, IETR, France)
• Open Distributed Unit (O-DU) Dynamic Core and DVFS Optimisation for Energy--Latency Trade-offs — Godlove Suila Kuaban (Institute of Theoretical & Applied Informatics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland); Tadeusz Czachorski (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland); Piotr Czekalski, Onyeka J. Nwobodo and Jeremiah O. Abimbola (Silesian University of Technology, Poland); Tulin Atmaca (IMT/Telecom SudParis, France)
• Constrained Discrete Bayesian Optimization for Base Station Sleep Mode in Cellular Networks — Ryad Madi (CentraleSupelec, Université Paris Saclay, France); Salah Eddine Elayoubi (CentraleSupélec, France); Michel Kieffer (CentraleSupelec, France)
• On the Impact of Recent 5G/6G BS Power Models on Energy Efficiency Studies — Julien Ali El Amine (American University of the Middle East, Kuwait); Augusta Castelli (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Ibtissem Oueslati and Loutfi Nuaymi (IMT Atlantique, France); Anne-Cécile Orgerie (CNRS & IRISA, France); Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Lunch

S5: Localization, Positioning & Radio Environment Mapping Room 02

• OWL: Enabling Orientation-Diverse Wireless Localization Research — Michael Sedlak, Jesus Pestana and Carlo Alberto Boano (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
• Learned Elevation Models as a Lightweight Alternative to LiDAR for Radio Environment Map Estimation — Ljupcho Milosheski (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia); Fedja Močnik (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia); Mihael Mohorcic (Jozef Stefan Institute & Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Slovenia); Carolina Fortuna (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
• Embedding Propagation Models into Neural Networks for Physics-Informed Localization — Saud Ahmad Khan (Institut Supérieur D'électronique de Paris (ISEP), France & Sorbonne University, France); Wafa Njima (Institut Superieur d Electronique de Paris, France); Iness Ahriz (CNAM, France); Lina Mroueh (Institut Supérieur d'Electronique de Paris, France)
• DAG-TransLoc: Domain-Generalized Indoor Localization with Variable Anchor Configurations — Dhriti M Goenka, Abhishek Jindal and Manish Kumar (Dhirubhai Ambani University (Formerly DAIICT), India)

Lunch

S6: Satellite, Optical & Quantum Communications Room 03

• An Empirical Study on Free Space Optical Backhaul — Leonard Nolting (Technische Universität München, Germany); Thomas Nolting (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Kevin Jiokeng (Ecole Polytechnique & LIX, France); Juan Antonio Cordero (École Polytechnique, France)
• A Bi-objective Model to Quantify the Load-Latency Trade-off in LEO Constellation Routing — Alice De Guibert (ISAE Supaero, France); Oana Hotescu (ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, France & ISAE-SUPAERO, France); Emmanuel Lochin (ENAC, France & Université de Toulouse, France); Alain Hait (ISAE-SUPAERO, Universite de Toulouse, France)
• Parameter-Based Channel Estimation for OFDM CV-QKD Systems With CRLB Benchmarking and Secret Key Rate Analysis — Mohammed Kamel AbuFoul and Salama Said Ikki (Lakehead University, Canada)
• PPO-Based Quantum-Aware Resource Optimization for Decoy-State BB84 in FSO Wireless Networks — Prerna Chaudhary (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Nikita Kumari and Manav Bhatnagar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

Coffee Break

S8: Network Optimization & Programmability Room 02

• Goal-Oriented Resource Allocation for 6G Radio Access Networks with Spatial Reuse — Maria Cecilia Fernandez Montefiore (Universidad de Granada, Spain); Federico Mason and Federico Chiariotti (University of Padova, Italy); F. Javier Lopez-Martinez (University of Granada, Spain); Andrea Zanella (University of Padova, Italy & CNIT, Italy)
• CLA-Score: A Criticality Loss Age Packet Selection Policy for Heterogeneous Traffic in IEEE 802.15.4e TSCH Networks — Mo Ringbe Saynbe (INRIA, France); Carol Habib (Inria, France); Nathalie Mitton (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France)
• A Comprehensive Comparative Study of Metaheuristic Algorithms for the Controller Placement Problem in SDN-IoT Networks — Rami Mohaisen and Mohammad Muhaisen (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan); Omar Fayez (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Ayat M. Alrjoob (German-Jordanian University, Jordan); Mamoun F. Al-Mistarihi (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan); Khalid A. Darabkh (The University of Jordan, Jordan)
• Towards a Hybrid Management Protocol Stack in Programmable Wireless Networks — Thomas Le Tarnec (IMT Atlantique, France); Georgios Z. Papadopoulos (IMT Atlantique & IRISA Laboratory & IRISA Laboratory, France); Guillaume Le Gall (University of Rennes, IRISA, France); Julien Montavont (ICube Laboratory (CNRS) - University of Strasbourg, France); Thomas Noel (ICube, University of Strasbourg, France)

S9: Channel Estimation & Coding Room 03

• AI-Driven Geometry-Aware Zero-Pilot Downlink Channel Prediction for Large Frequency Gaps in 5G — Jui Mhatre and Ahyoung Lee (Kennesaw State University, USA)
• Robust Huber-IRLS Channel Estimation for VLC Under Signal-Dependent and Impulsive Noise — Asma Bouhlel (Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia); Salama Said Ikki (Lakehead University, Canada)
• Neural-Residual LMMSE Estimation for Measured V-VLC Channels Under Composite Optical Noise — Asma Bouhlel (Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia); Salama Said Ikki (Lakehead University, Canada)
• Design SNR Optimization of Polar Codes for Successive Cancellation List Decoding — Hidetake Matsui and Hideki Ochiai (The University of Osaka, Japan)

Conference Banquet

Registration

S10: Vehicular, Tactical & Mobility Networking Room 01

• CreV: A Lightweight Challenge-Response Exchange Protocol and Frame Design for Secure V2V Communications — Hossam Omar (College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait); Hazem Elkanawati, Mazen Moataz and Abdelrhman Yasser (Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport); Youssef Hany (Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt); Rania Hussein (University of Washington, USA)
• Road Safety Applications vs. Network Constraints: Feasibility Limits of IEEE 802.11p — Bertrand Ducourthial (Université de Technologie de Compiègne & CNRS Heudiasyc UMR7253, France); Anthony Busson (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 & LIP, France)
• RIMA-HO: Radio Interface Management Approach for Handover Optimization in Heterogeneous C-ITS Environments — Rima Boughariou and Hend Marouane (University of Sfax, Tunisia); Mohamed Mosbah (CNRS-LaBRI UMR 5800, University Bordeaux, Bordeaux-INP, France); Hassene Mnif (University Sfax, Tunisia); Amel Meddeb-Makhlouf (NTS'COM Lab Unit, Enet'Com, University of Sfax, Tunisia)
• Evaluation of a LoRa-based mesh networking protocol for tactical communications — Lionel Touseau (IRISA & Université Bretagne Sud, France); Corentin Ligier, Valentin Demade and Basile De Fautereau-Vassel (Saint-Cyr Coetquidan Military Academy, France); Zeineb Nsiri and Mourad Messadi (Académie Militaire, Fondouk Jedid, Tunisia)

S11: Federated Learning I - Systems & Applications Room 02

• Multidimensional Contract Design for In-Network Aggregation in Hierarchical Federated Learning — Rania Hidoussi, Gael S. Mubibya and Elmahdi Driouch (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
• Incentivizing Efficient Zeroth-Order Federated Fine-Tuning of Generative AI in Satellite-UAV Cooperative Networks — Haoqing Jiang and Qichao Xu (Shanghai University, China); Zhou Su (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Marie Siew (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Yihao Qi (Shanghai University, China); Zehui Xiong (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
• A Temporal Stability Metric for Clustering-Aware Federated Learning in UAV-Assisted Vehicular Networks — Chérifa Boucetta (Université Gustave Eiffel & LIGM, France); Oumaya Baala (UTBM, CNRS, Institut Femto-st, France)
• Federated Learning with AMR-Assisted Few-Shot Calibration for Cross-Facility BLE Indoor Localization — Azin Moradbeikie (University of Trieste, Italy); David Beserra (École Pour l'Informatique et Les Techniques Avancées, France)

S12: AI-Driven Optimization & Energy Management Room 03

• Decentralized node selection approach for load-balanced data collection in photovoltaic monitoring systems — Tatiana Aljamous and Carol Habib (Inria, France); Jad Nassar (Antonine University & TICKET Lab, Lebanon); Joseph Al Asmar (Université Antonine, Lebanon); Nathalie Mitton (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France)
• Cross-Attention Adaptive Fusion for Multi-Step Photovoltaic Power Forecasting from Real Multi-Site Measurements — Waseem Ullah (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates); Muhammad Saeed (Islamia college Peshawar, Pakistan); Mohsen Guizani (Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates)
• Trajectory-Agnostic Charging Scheduling in 6G Mobile WRSNs Using Adaptive Charger Movement for Sensor Tracking — Ravendra Ratan Singh Jandail (South Asian University, Delhi, India); Shachi Sharma (South Asian University, India)
• Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Synchronization in 5G Network Digital Twins — Abdessamed Seddiki (Université de Lorraine, France); Lemia Louail (Université de Lorraine & CRAN, France); Moufida Maimour (Lorraine University, France); Eric Rondeau (CRAN, France)

Coffee Break

Free session

Keynote 2: 5G/6G Wireless Research Center Europe Director Room: Salon Mistral

Speaker: Dr. Amira Alloum, PhD, MSc.
Director of Engineering, Qualcomm France

Abstract. This keynote explores how 6G is being developed as a transformative, AI-native wireless platform to power the next generation of digital and virtual experiences. Discover how 6G is designed to harness advancements in multi-modal AI, extended reality (XR), edge computing, digital twins, and sensing technologies to unlock new use cases. Qualcomm's advanced research will enable immersive, intent and context-based experiences that were previously unimaginable at scale.

Biography. Amira Alloum, PhD, is Director of Engineering at Qualcomm France, where she leads the European 5G/6G Wireless Research Center. In this role, she drives advanced research in wireless communications, in close collaboration with leading academic institutions and major industrial partners across Europe. The center plays a strategic role in national and European innovation ecosystems, with strong involvement in flagship European 6G research programs. Amira has also led Qualcomm's 5G/6G Innovation Platform project in Lannion, a program funded under the France 2030 initiative, which aims to position France at the forefront of next generation mobile networks and to accelerate the industrial adoption of 5G and future 6G technologies. In parallel, she oversees Qualcomm's collaboration programs with universities and startups across the EMEA region, while continuing to contribute to academia through postgraduate supervision and lecturing on error correcting code applications for wireless systems. With over two decades of R&D experience spanning network operators, equipment vendors, and semiconductor companies, Amira has made significant contributions to 3GPP 5G standardization, LTE and DVB technologies, as well as to research in post quantum security and advanced receiver architectures for wireless and optical communications. Beyond her research and industrial activities, Amira is a member of the Scientific Council of the ARCEP Future Networks Committee and has contributed extensively to the IEEE through sustained leadership service, including chairing roles in several technical and organizational committees. She holds a PhD in Information Theory from Institut Mines Télécom / Télécom Paris and has an extensive publication and student supervision record in collaboration with leading international universities.

Lunch

S13: UAV Systems & Aerial Networking Room 01

• A Reactive Cross-Layer QoS Adaptation Framework for SDN-Enabled DDS Communications in IoD — Mohamed Ali Zormati (Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), France); Ghada Jaber (Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France); Hicham Lakhlef (Univ Bordeaux, France)
• Modeling and Predicting LTE-Induced Learnability Cliffs in RL-Controlled UAV Swarms — Stephen Odero, Dwight Makaroff and Derek Eager (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
• Network Congestion-aware Path Planning for Indoor Multi-UAV Systems — Zarrar Haider (Brookfield Villages, Ireland & UCC, Ireland); Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N Brown (University College Cork, Ireland)
• UAV-Enabled Outdoor OTA Validation Platform for 28 GHz Phased-Array Beamforming Antennas — Ayona Chakraborty (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy); Lapo Miccinesi, Luca Bigazzi, Andrea Cioncolini and Agnese Mazzinghi (University of Florence, Italy); Angelo Freni (Università degli studi Firenze, Italy); Simone Morosi (University of Florence, Italy & CNIT - Research Unit of Florence University, Italy)

Lunch

S14: Wireless Sensing, ISAC & Human Activity Recognition Room 02

• RobWDM: Hardware-Accelerated CNN Meeting Wavenumber-Domain Method for Robust Near-Field Sensing — Anouar Nechi, Mohammadreza Fouji, Rainer Buchty and Mladen Berekovic (Universität zu Lübeck, Germany)
• XAI2CSI: Interpreting CSI with eXplainable AI for Human Activity Recognition — Idio Guarino (University of Bologna, Italy); Alfredo Nascita (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy); Domenico Ciuonzo (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Damiano Carra (University of Verona, Italy); Antonio Pescapé (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
• Geometry over Depth: Multi-Node WiFi CSI Fusion for Robust Human Activity Recognition — Mojtaba Mansouri Nejad (Persian Gulf University, Iran); Azin Moradbeikie (University of Trieste, Italy); David Beserra (École Pour l'Informatique et Les Techniques Avancées, France); Ahmad Keshavarz (Persian Gulf University, Iran); Hojat Ghaimatgr (Computational Neuroscience Laboratory, ICT Research Institute, Iran)
• Feedback Control via Integrated Sensing and Communication: Uncertainty Optimisation — Touraj Soleymani (University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohamad Assaad (CentraleSupelec, France); John S. Baras (University of Maryland, USA)

Coffee Break

S16: WiFi Networks & Integrated Sensing Room 02

• The Role of MLO in Achieving Deterministic Wi-Fi — Roger Sanchez-Vital (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Eduard Garcia-Villegas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
• Hybrid Coordinated Beamforming for WiFi 8 with Reconfigurable Antennas: A Measurement-Driven Study — Anna Guglielmi and Stefano Tomasin (University of Padova, Italy)
• L25MCP: Flexible Multi-connectivity in WiFi Networks — David Niederprüm, Christian Dietrich and Lars C Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
• Status Updating via Integrated Sensing and Communication: Freshness Optimisation — Touraj Soleymani (University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohamad Assaad (CentraleSupelec, France); John S. Baras (University of Maryland, USA)

Closing Remarks