The workshop will take place on Friday, April 1st 2022. All times are in Central Time (CT).
   

MORNING

 
   
9:00 - 9:15am    

Introductory Remarks and Salutation

   
9:15 - 10:00am    

Keynote I


The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Successful Deployment of a Mobile and Wireless Research Testbed
Dr. Jacobus (Kobus) Van der Merwe (University of Utah)
   

Session I: PAWR Platforms
Session chair: Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University)


10:00 - 10:20am     Programmable and Open-Access Millimeter-Wave Radios in the PAWR COSMOS Testbed
Tingjun Chen (Duke University),
Prasanthi Maddala (Rutgers University),
Panagiotis Skrimponis (New York University),
Jakub Kolodziejski (Rutgers University),
Xiaoxiong Gu, Arun Paidimarri (IBM Research),
Sundeep Rangan (New York University),
Gil Zussman (Columbia University),
Ivan Seskar (Rutgers University)

 
10:20 - 10:40am     ARA: A Wireless Living Lab Vision for Smart and Connected Rural Communities
Hongwei Zhang, Yong Guan, Ahmed Kamal, Daji Qiao, Mai Zheng (Iowa State University),
Anish Arora (Ohio State University),
Ozdal Boyraz (University of California, Irvine),
Brian Cox, Thomas Daniels, Matthew Darr, Doug Jacobson, Ashfaq Khokhar, Sang Kim, James Koltes (Iowa State University),
Jia Liu (Ohio State University),
Michael Luby (ICSI and BitRipple, Inc.),
Larysa Nadolny, Joshua Peschel, Patrick Schnable, Anuj Sharma, Arun Somani, Lie Tang (Iowa State University)

 
10:40 - 11:00am     NexRAN: Closed-loop RAN Slicing in POWDER - A Top-to-bottom Open-source Open-RAN Use Case
David Johnson, Dustin Maas, Kobus Van der Merwe (University of Utah)
   
11:00 - 11:15am

Break

   

Session II: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Session chair: Ismail Guvenc (North Carolina State University)


11:15 - 11:35am     What is A Wireless UAV? A Design Blueprint for 6G Flying Wireless Nodes
John Buczek, Lorenzo Bertizzolo, Stefano Basagni, Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University)
 
11:35 - 11:55am     Experimental Study of Outdoor UAV Localization and Tracking using Passive RF Sensing
Udita Bhattacherjee, Ender Ozturk, Ozgur Ozdemir, Ismail Guvenc, Mihail L. Sichitiu, Huaiyu Dai (North Carolina State University)
 
11:55am - 12:15pm     Handover Experiments with UAVs: Software Radio Tools and Experimental Research Platform
Keith Powell, Andrew Yingst, Talha Faizur Rahman, Vuk Marojevic (Mississippi State University)
   
12:15 - 1:15pm

Lunch Break

   

AFTERNOON

 
1:15 - 2:00pm    

Keynote II


From Massive MIMO to Quantum Computing: A Decade of Discovery by Prototyping
Dr. Lin Zhong (Yale University)
   

Session III: Wi-Fi, Cellular and mmWave Communications
Session chair: Lorenzo Bertizzolo (Northeastern University)


2:00 - 2:20pm     AX-CSI: Enabling CSI Extraction on Commercial 802.11ax Wi-Fi Platforms
Francesco Gringoli, Marco Cominelli (University of Brescia),
Alejandro Blanco (IMDEA Networks, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid),
Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks)

 
2:20 - 2:40pm     Multipath TCP in Smartphones Equipped with Millimeter Wave Radios
Imran Khan, Moinak Ghoshal, Shivang Aggarwal, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Northeastern University),
Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks)

 
2:40 - 3:00pm     A Comparison Study of Cellular Deployments in Chicago and Miami Using Apps on Smartphones
Muhammad Iqbal Rochman, Vanlin Sathya (University of Chicago),
Norlen Nunez, Damian Fernandez (Florida International University),
Monisha Ghosh (University of Chicago),
Ahmed S. Ibrahim (Florida International University),
William Payne (University of Chicago)

   
3:00 - 3:15pm    

Break

   

Session IV: Spectrum and IoT
Session chair: Marco Cominelli (University of Brescia)


3:15 - 3:35pm     An Experimental Evaluation of MQTT Authentication and Authorization in IoT
Michael Michaelides (University of Edinburgh),
Cigdem Sengul (Brunel University),
Paul Patras (University of Edinburgh)

 
3:35 - 3:55pm     A Spectrum Consumption Model-based Framework for DSA Experimentation on the COSMOS Testbed
Dragoslav Stojadinovic, Prasad Netalkar (Rutgers University),
Carlos E. Caicedo Bastidas (Syracuse University),
Igor Kadota, Gil Zussman (Columbia University),
Ivan Seskar, Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University)

 
3:55 - 4:15pm     OneLNK: One Link to Rule Them All: Web-based Wireless Experimentation for Multi-vendor Remotely Accessible Indoor/Outdoor Testbeds
Mohammad M. R. Lunar, Jianxin Sun (University of Nebraska-Lincoln),
John Wensowitch (Southern Methodist University),
Michael Fay (University of Nebraska-Lincoln),
Halit Bugra Tulay (Ohio State University),
Sai Suman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln),
Brian Qiu (Rutgers University),
Deepak Nadig, Garhan Attebury, Hongfeng Yu (University of Nebraska-Lincoln),
Joseph Camp (Southern Methodist University),
Can Emre Koksal (Ohio State University),
Dario Pompili (Rutgers University),
Byrav Ramamurthy (University of Nebraska-Lincoln),
Morteza Hashemi (University of Kansas),
Eylem Ekici (Ohio State University),
Mehmet C. Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

   
4:15 - 4:30pm    

Concluding Remarks