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WiMob-SPPDT'2026: 2026 WiMob Short Papers, Posters and Demos - Program

Wednesday, October 14

Wednesday, October 14 10:00 - 11:30

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

Room: Salon Mistral
Chair: Rasheed Hussain (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Wednesday, October 14 17:30 - 19:00

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

Room: Salon Mistral
Chairs: Francesca Meneghello (Northeastern University, USA), Arcangela Rago (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), Stefania Zinno (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)

Thursday, October 15

Thursday, October 15 11:00 - 11:30

OP: WiMob 2026 Opening Ceremony

Room: Salon Mistral
Chairs: Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon, France), Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR, Italy), Rasheed Hussain (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Samuel Pierre (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)

Thursday, October 15 11:30 - 12:30

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

Room: Salon Mistral
Chair: Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon, France)

Friday, October 16

Friday, October 16 11:30 - 12:30

Keynote 2: Empowering Next-Generation User Experiences and Services at Scale with 6G

Room: Salon Mistral
Chair: Samuel Pierre (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)

Friday, October 16 14:00 - 15:30

SPD1: Distributed Learning and Security

Room 03
Chair: Léo Lavaur (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Demo: Tracing a DSM-5 Depression Assessment from Score to Formula on Edge Hardware
Tibor Haller and Bruno Rodrigues (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Lightweight Multi-Scale CNN Embeddings for Edge-Aware Malware Detection from API-Call Sequences
Giuseppe Bonomo (University of Palermo, Italy); Marco Siino and Giacomo Morabito (University of Catania, Italy)
A data-centric security architecture for challenged networks
Etienne Lemonnier (Université de Bretagne Sud, France); Lionel Touseau (IRISA & Université Bretagne Sud, France); Jamal El Hachem (IRISA, France); Jeremy Buisson (Ecole de l'Air et de l'Espace, France); Nicolas Belloir (IRISA / CREC St-Cyr, France); Jean-François Wiorek (Thales Group, France)
PRISM: RL-Based Rate Control for Low Latency and High Data Rate in Mobile Edge Networks
Hamid Hassani and Staji Wilson (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Kishor Chandra Joshi (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Sonia Heemstra de Groot (Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands); Ignas Niemegeers and George Exarchakos (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
FL-Broadcast: Efficient Decentralized Learning on Wireless Networks
Yann Busnel (Institut Mines-Télécom, IRISA, France); Léo Lavaur (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Herve Rivano (INSA Lyon, France)

Friday, October 16 16:00 - 17:30

SPD2: Advanced Wireless Networks and Communication Systems

Room 03
Chair: Marica Amadeo (University of Messina, Italy)
Challenging computer architectures with an intensive vRAN deployment
Romain Beurdouche (EURECOM, France); Raymond Knopp (Institut Eurecom, France)
5G and Beyond: Analytical Comparison of Real NG-RAN Implementations
Michael Amista' (Apeiroon, Italy); Claudio E. Palazzi and Lorenzo Perinello (University of Padua, Italy); Gianluca Verin (Apeiroon, Italy)
Improving IoT Content Distribution with In-network Redundancy-Aware Semantic Caching
Marica Amadeo (University of Messina, Italy); Giuseppe Ruggeri and Antonella Molinaro (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Salvatore Serrano (University of Messina, Italy)
Communication-Oriented Evaluation of Swarm Configurations for Lunar Radio Astronomy
Rui Geng (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Mark Bentum (Eindhoven University of Technology & ASTRON, The Netherlands); George Exarchakos (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Performance Comparison between Monolithic gNB and DU-CU Split Deployments in 5G Networks
Michael Amista' (Apeiroon, Italy); Claudio E. Palazzi and Lorenzo Perinello (University of Padua, Italy); Gianluca Verin (Apeiroon, Italy)

Technical Program Committee

Marica Amadeo University of Messina Italy
Sadoon Azizi University of Kurdistan Iran
Abderrahim Benslimane University of Avignon France
Claudia Campolo University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria Italy
Federico Chiariotti University of Padova Italy
Olga Chukhno University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria & CNIT Italy
Vincenzo De Angelis University of Calabria Italy
Raouane Dehimi University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria Italy
Agbotiname Lucky Imoize University of Lagos & Ruhr University, Bochum Nigeria
Sara Lazzaro University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria Italy
Carlos M. Lentisco Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Spain
Francesco Linsalata Politechnic of Milan Italy
Valeria Loscrí Inria Lille-Nord Europe France
Gaia Maselli Sapienza University of Rome Italy
Muhammad Sajjadur Rahim Rajshahi University Bangladesh
Hamza Rashid University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria Italy
Giuseppe Ruggeri University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria Italy
Christian Salim Inria France
Omar Serghini University of Messina Italy
Salvatore Serrano University of Messina Italy
Muhammad Noman Sohail Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria Italy
Shi-Sheng Sun National Chengchi University Taiwan
Ronghua Xu Michigan Technological University USA