Monday, November 11, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Registration Hours
  • Room: Granby Lobby
Tracks:

    Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM

    Registration Hours
    • Room: Granby Lobby
    Tracks:

      Tuesday, November 12, 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

      Conference Opening & Breakfast Keynote: Senior Leader Perspectives - Air Force
      • Room: Main Ballroom
      Speaker(s)
      Keynote (confirmed)
      Gen James M. "Mike" Holmes, USAF
      Commander
      Air Combat Command
      Speaker (confirmed)
      LtGen Robert M. Shea, USMC (Ret.)
      Permanent Director
      AFCEA International Board of Directors
      Tracks:

        Tuesday, November 12, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

        Tutorial: Hidden Outlier Interference and Its Mitigation
        • Room: Granby D
        Approved for 3 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+ In addition to ever-present thermal noise, various communication and sensor systems can be affected by interfering signals that originate from a multitude of other natural and technogenic (man-made) phenomena. Such interfering signals often have intrinsic "outlier" temporal and/or amplitude structures, which are different from the Gaussian structure of the thermal noise. The presence of different types of such outlier noise is widely acknowledged in multiple applications, under various general and application-specific names, most commonly as impulsive, transient, burst, or crackling noise. For example, outlier electromagnetic interference (EMI) is inherent in digital electronics and communication... ...read more...
        Speaker(s)
        Speaker (confirmed)
        Ruslan L. Davidchack, Ph.D.
        Professor of Mathematical Modelling and Computation, Department of Mathematics
        University of Leicester
        Speaker (confirmed)
        Alexei V. Nikitin, Ph.D.
        Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer
        Nonlinear LLC
        Tracks:
          Tutorial: Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking Impacts to Military Networks
          • Room: Fraim
          Approved for 3 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+ The military relies heavily on networking technology for tactical edge battlefield communications, big data analytics, and cyber warfare operations. Military communications programs of record are tasked with leveraging commercial-off-the-shelf equipment that provides state-of-the-art networking capabilities for the warfighter. Traditionally, networking protocols and feature sets have been driven primarily by vendors who control a vast share of the network equipment market. In this model, network control software is highly proprietary and tightly coupled to specific hardware platforms. Consequently, flexibility in deploying novel networking protocols and features is limited by the vendor product lifecycle. Network function... ...read more...
          Speaker(s)
          Speaker (confirmed)
          William Kasch
          Wireless R&D Group Director
          Textron Corporation
          Tracks:

            Tuesday, November 12, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

            Technical Panel: AI and the Future of Military Communications
            • Room: Granby AB
            The rise of advanced machine learning capabilities is revolutionizing organizational tools, processes, and performance models. For military communicators, the large-scale adoption of these technologies will not only impact capabilities for how each Service provides C4IM services but also the demands upon these services for subscribers. Policy decisions on data standardization, platform consistency, and infrastructure planning are urgently needed. This panel will explore this topic given perspectives from Army Futures Command, Academia, and Industry....
            Speaker(s)
            Moderator (confirmed)
            MAJ Ryan Kenny, USA
            PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
            School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), U.S. Army
            Panelist (confirmed)
            Lujo Bauer, Ph.D.
            Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
            Carnegie Mellon University
            Panelist (confirmed)
            Alex Davis, Ph.D.
            Associate Professor
            Carnegie Mellon University
            Panelist (confirmed)
            LTC Tyrone Lewis, USA, Ph.D.
            Lead, Network Systems Engineer for AFC AI Task Force
            U.S. Army Futures Command
            Panelist (confirmed)
            Derek Strausbaugh
            Solutions Specialist
            Microsoft-DoD
            Panelist (confirmed)
            Christopher A. White, Ph.D.
            Lead, Algorithms, Analytics, Augmented Intelligence and Devices (AAAID) Research Lab
            Bell Labs
            Tracks:
              Technical Panel: Cyber Resilience in Cyber Physical Systems
              • Room: Fusion
              Approved for 2 CompTIA CEs: A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, CySA+, CASP+, PenTest+; and 2 GIAC CPEs Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) such as vehicles, military platforms, and the power grid existed before cyber came along. Cyber has brought tremendous performance gains, operational flexibility, reduced operational cost, and faster technology refresh. However, it has brought new threats from cyber attacks and coordinated cyber and physical attacks. Consequences of cyber attacks in such systems could have devastating impacts on human lives as well as the mission and the time between attack and consequences could be very short. Architecture, design, and operations of such systems... ...read more...
              Speaker(s)
              Moderator (confirmed)
              Bharat Doshi, Ph.D.
              Senior Consutant for Cyber Operations
              Office of Naval Research (ONR)
              Panelist (confirmed)
              Greg Briskin
              Associate Director
              Intelligent Automation Institute
              Panelist (confirmed)
              K. Eric Harper
              Senior Principal Scientist
              ABB
              Panelist (confirmed)
              Joe Maurio
              Senior Professional Staff
              Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
              Panelist (confirmed)
              Lok Yan, Ph.D.
              Program Manager, Information Sciences Directorate
              Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
              Panelist (confirmed)
              Christine Zhang, Ph.D.
              President
              Kenja Labs, LLC
              Tracks:

                Tuesday, November 12, 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

                Exhibit Hours
                • Room: Third and Fourth Level, Ballroom Foyers
                Tracks:

                  Tuesday, November 12, 9:40 AM - 11:35 AM

                  Technical Paper Session: NPP-1: Transport Protocols I
                  • Room: Momentum 2&3
                  Chair: Rahul Amin (MIT Lincoln Laboratories, USA) Performance Evaluation of Transport Protocols in Tactical Network Environments Alessandro Morelli and Roberto Fronteddu (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA); Michel O Provosty, iii (University of Florida & Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA) Understanding the Effects of TCP Tunneling on Approaching High Performance HAIPE-Encrypted Satellite Communication Systems Qi Zhao (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Xin Tian and Genshe Chen (Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc, USA); Russell Harkanson (University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA); Yoohwan Kim (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA); Khanh D. Pham (Air Force Research Laboratory & Space Vehicles Directorate, USA) Experimental Evaluation... ...read more...
                  Tracks:

                    Tuesday, November 12, 9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

                    Technical Paper Session: BDML-1: ML Applications
                    • Room: Imagination
                    Chair: Hao Xu (University of Nevada, Reno, USA) Anomaly Detection with Graph Convolutional Networks for Insider Threat and Fraud Detection Jianguo Jiang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Jiuming Chen and Tianbo Gu (University of California, Davis, USA); Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Chao Liu (Institude of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Min Yu and Weiqing Huang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA) A Cognitive ML Agent for Airborne Networking Dell Kronewitter, Sumner Lee and Kenneth Oliphant (Fuse Integration, USA) RSS-Based Q-Learning for Indoor UAV Navigation Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury, Fatih Erden and Ismail Güvenç (North Carolina State University, USA) Break Aircraft Location Prediction Using Deep Learning Damilola Adesina, Olutobi... ...read more...
                    Tracks:
                      Technical Paper Session: CSTC-1: Information Security
                      • Room: Energy 1
                      Chair: Richard Booton (Harris Corporation, USA) AI and Game Theory Based Autonomous UAV Swarm for Cybersecurity M. Umit Uyar (City College of The City University of New York, USA); Janusz Kusyk (New York City College of Technology, USA); Kelvin Ma (City College of New York, USA); Joseph Plishka (I2WD, US Army RDECOM CERDEC, USA); Giorgio Bertoli (Chief, USA); Jeffrey Boksiner (US Army CCDC C5ISR Center, USA) Game-Theoretic Planning to Counter DDoS in NEMESIS Eric van den Berg and Seth Robertson (Perspecta Labs, USA) Efficient and Robust Physical Layer Key Generation Tianyi Peng, Wenhan Dai and Moe Z. Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Break Exploring the Application of Homomorphic Encryption to a Cross Domain Solution Cody Tinker, Kevin Millar and Alan Kaminsky (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Michael T. Kurdziel (L3Harris Corporation &... ...read more...
                      Tracks:
                        Technical Paper Session: SYS-1: SATCOM - I
                        • Room: Energy 2
                        Chair: Richard S Wexler (The Mitre Corporation, USA) Flexible Modem Interface Demonstration for Military Terminals Kevin Zhang (Supinf Technologies, LLC, USA); Joe Vanderpoorten (Space and Missile Systems Center & USAF, USA); Gary Thompson (Space and Missile Systems Center, USAF & Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate, USA); David Brunnenmeyer (US Air Force & LinQuest Corp, SE&I, USA); Rajeev Gopal (Hughes Network Systems, LLC, USA); David Meadows (Knight Sky LLC, USA); Mark Dale (RT Logic, USA) On A Method to Evaluate Satellite Link Performance to Optimize Power Lino A Gonzalez (USA & AASKI Technology, USA); Jerry Rippon (AASKI Technology, USA) Phase Noise, SATCOM and MIL-STD-188-165B DRAFT Lino A Gonzalez (USA & AASKI Technology, USA); Jerry Rippon (AASKI Technology, USA); John Besse (ACSYes INC, USA) Break Multi-User MIMO Satellite Communications with Secrecy... ...read more...
                        Tracks:
                          Technical Paper Session: WSP-1: Modulation and Coding
                          • Room: Momentum 1
                          Chair: Dmitry Kramarev (University of South Australia, Australia) A Practical Method for BEP Estimation of Convolutional Coding in Impulse Noise Environments Patrik Eliardsson, Erik Axell and Arwid Komulainen (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden); Kia Wiklundh (Qamcom Research and Technology, Sweden); Sara Örn Tengstrand (Sacnia CV AB, Sweden) Robust MIMO Communications Against Antenna Blockage and Interference Yang Liu and Biao Chen (Syracuse University, USA); Janek Mroczek (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); John Malowicki (Air Force Research Lab & USA, USA); Richard Michalak (AFRL, USA) Space-Time Coded ARTM CPM for Aeronautical Telemetry Chad Josephson (Brigham Young University, USA); Erik S. Perrins (University of Kansas, USA); Michael Rice (Brigham Young University, USA) Break Frequency-Selective High-Order Phase Shift Keying Michael Fletcher (GIRD Systems, Inc., USA); Alan J Michaels (Virginia Tech & Hume Center for National Security and Technology,... ...read more...
                          Tracks:

                            Tuesday, November 12, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

                            Restricted Keynote Session
                            • Room: Main FG
                            Speaker(s)
                            Keynote (confirmed)
                            Michael Zatman, Ph.D.
                            Assistant Director, Fully Networked Command, Control and Communications Technology (FNC3)
                            Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E))
                            Tracks:

                              Tuesday, November 12, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

                              Networking Coffee Break
                              • Room: Main and Granby Ballroom Foyers

                                Tuesday, November 12, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

                                Plenary Panel: Key Air Power Operational & Technical Issues
                                • Room: Granby E
                                Speaker(s)
                                Moderator (confirmed)
                                Maj Gen Kevin Huyck, USAF
                                Director of Air and Space Operations
                                Air Combat Command
                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                Maj Gen Patrick Doherty, USAF
                                Director of Plans, Programs and Requirements
                                Air Combat Command
                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                Brig Gen Gregory J. Gagnon, USAF
                                Director of Intelligence
                                Air Combat Command
                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                Maj Gen Tom D. Miller, USAF
                                Director of Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection
                                Air Combat Command
                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                Brig Gen Chad Raduege, USAF
                                Director of Cyberspace and Information Dominance
                                Air Combat Command
                                Tracks:

                                  Tuesday, November 12, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

                                  Luncheon Keynote: Senior Leader Perspectives - Navy
                                  • Room: Main Ballroom
                                  Speaker(s)
                                  Keynote (confirmed)
                                  VADM Andrew L. "Woody" Lewis, USN
                                  Commander, U.S. Second Fleet
                                  Commander, Joint Forces Command Norfolk
                                  Tracks:

                                    Tuesday, November 12, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

                                    Networking Dessert Break
                                    • Room: Main and Granby Ballroom Foyers

                                      Tuesday, November 12, 2:00 PM - 4:35 PM

                                      Technical Paper Session: CSTC-2: Machine Learning for Cyber Security - Session One
                                      • Room: Energy 1
                                      Chair: Bassam S Farroha (US DoD, USA) Detection of Encrypted Malicious Network Traffic Using Machine Learning Michael De Lucia (Army Research Lab (ARL), USA); Chase Cotton (University of Delaware, USA) Synthetic Intrusion Alert Generation Through Generative Adversarial Networks Christopher R Sweet, Stephen Moskal and Shanchieh Jay Yang (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) A Case Study on Using Deep Learning for Network Intrusion Detection Gabriel C Fernandez and Shouhuai Xu (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) Break Neural Malware Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning Yu Wang (Microsoft Corporation, USA); Jack W. Stokes (Microsoft Research, USA); Mady Marinescu (Microsoft, USA) Detection of Prevalent Malware Families with Deep Learning Jack W. Stokes (Microsoft Research, USA); Christian Seifert (Microsoft Corporation, USA); Jerry Li (Snap, USA); Nizar Hejazi (Uber Corporation, USA) When Autonomous Intelligent Goodware Will Fight Autonomous... ...read more...
                                      Tracks:

                                        Tuesday, November 12, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

                                        Technical Paper Session: BDML-2: ML for Signal Classification
                                        • Room: Imagination
                                        Chair: Brian Rivera (US Army Research Laboratory, USA) Developing RFML Intuition: An Automatic Modulation Classification Architecture Case Study William Clark, IV, Vanessa Arndorfer, Brook Tamir, Daniel Kim, Cristian Vives and Hunter Morris (Virginia Tech, USA); Lauren J Wong (Virginia Tech Hume Center, USA); William C Headley (Virginia Tech & Hume Center, USA) Distributed Automatic Modulation Classification with Compressed Data Lauren J Wong (Virginia Tech Hume Center, USA); Parker D White and Michael Fowler (Virginia Tech, USA); William C Headley (Virginia Tech & Hume Center, USA) Data Augmentation for Blind Signal Classification Peng Wang and Manuel Vindiola (Army Research Laboratory, USA) Break Practical Radio Frequency Learning for Future Wireless Communication Systems Damilola Adesina (Prairie View A&M University, USA); Joshua Bassey (CREDIT Center, PVAMU, USA); Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&M University, USA) Multiple Machine Learning Algorithms Comparison for... ...read more...
                                        Tracks:
                                          Technical Paper Session: CSTC-3: Cyber Defense
                                          • Room: Momentum 2&3
                                          Chair: Qingyun Liu (Facebook & Research Scientist, USA) The NNBC Anti-DDoS Firewall Gregory L Frazier, Jacob A McGill, Ruffy Zarookian, Benjamin Floyd and Patrick McNeely (Apogee Research, USA); Seth Robertson (Perspecta Labs, USA) An Online System Dependency Graph Anomaly Detection Based on Extended Weisfeiler-Lehman Kernel Yongming Ben (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yanni Han, Ning Cai, Wei An and Zhen Xu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China) Hardening Containers for Cross-Domain Applications Jason Dahlstrom and Jim Brock (Web Sensing LLC, USA); Mekedem Tenaw and Matthew Shaver (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Stephen Taylor (Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, USA) Break Runtime Detection of Userspace Implants Aaron Pendergrass (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA); Nathan Hull (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA); John Clemens and Sarah Helble (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics... ...read more...
                                          Tracks:
                                            Technical Paper Session: SYS-2: System Design Considerations
                                            • Room: Energy 2
                                            Chair: Matthew Sherman (BAE Systems, USA) Framework for Interoperable Command and Control of Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Yuriy Posherstnik (DISA Defense Spectrum Organization, USA); Edward J Rocksvold (Defense Information Systems Agency, USA); William F Lussier (Defense Spectrum Organization & SAIC, USA); Michael R. Makowski (Peraton Corp, USA) Improving the Performance of Tactical Waveform Software Using Free and Open-Source Tools Michael F Johnson (Naval Information Warfare Center - Atlantic, USA); Steven Boyd (Scientific Research Corporation & Spawar Systems Center Atlantic, USA); Brent Merle (Scientific Research Corporation, USA) Information Autonomy: Self-Adaptive Information Management for Edge-Assisted Autonomous UAV Systems Davide Callegaro (University of California, Irvine, USA); Sabur Hassan Baidya (University of California, San Diego, USA); Gowri Ramachandran and Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA); Marco Levorato (University of California,... ...read more...
                                            Tracks:
                                              Technical Paper Session: WSP-2: Signal Processing for Communication
                                              • Room: Momentum 1
                                              Chair: Fatih Erden (North Carolina State University, USA) Satellite Digital Channelizer with Predistorted High-Power Amplifier Madhuprana Goswami, Vidhi Rana and Hyuck Kwon (Wichita State University, USA); Khanh D. Pham (Air Force Research Laboratory & Space Vehicles Directorate, USA); James Lyke (Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, USA) Complementary Intermittently Nonlinear Filtering for Mitigation of Hidden Outlier Interference Alexei V. Nikitin (Nonlinear LLC, USA); Ruslan L. Davidchack (University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) Chirp Spread Spectrum Signaling for Future Air-Ground Communications Nozhan Hosseini and David W Matolak (University of South Carolina, USA) Coffee Break FHSS Signal Separation Using Constrained Clustering Parker D White (Virginia Tech, USA); William C Headley (Virginia Tech & Hume Center, USA); Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA) A Stacked Predictor and Dynamic Thresholding Algorithm... ...read more...
                                              Tracks:
                                                Tutorial: Positioning, Navigation and Timing for Information Superiority: From Foundation to Operation
                                                • Room: Granby D
                                                Approved for 3 CompTIA CEUs: Network+ The availability of real-time, high-accuracy positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) is essential for situational awareness and information superiority. Current and future military applications, which rely on PNT include narrow-beam communications, multi-target tracking, autonomous fleet, and sensor networks. For example, PNT enables warfighters to operate amidst GPS-denied and GPS-spoofing situations commonly encountered in contested battlespaces. The coming years will see the implementation of PNT in challenging environments with sub-meter accuracy and minimal infrastructure requirements as the 5G ecosystem evolves. Topics covered will include fundamental bounds, cooperative algorithms, operation strategies, and network experimentation to provide researchers and practitioners... ...read more...
                                                Speaker(s)
                                                Speaker (confirmed)
                                                Andrea Conti, Ph.D.
                                                Department of Engineering (DE) and CNIT
                                                University of Ferrara
                                                Speaker (confirmed)
                                                Moe Win, Ph.D.
                                                Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
                                                MIT Institute for Data, Systems and Society
                                                Tracks:
                                                  Tutorial: Towards Data-Centric Battlefields: Named Data Networking Services for Tactical Networks
                                                  • Room: Fraim
                                                  Approved for 3 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network; 3 GIAC CPEs Named Data Networks (NDN) has emerged in recent years as a realization of data-centric networking. In a data-centric network model, the focus of the network and its core services is on fetching named data by the end consumers. NDN uses semantically meaningful application names to name data and secure data directly, enabling NDN to natively support data and origin integrity, in-network opportunistic caching, delay/disruption tolerance, and multicast/multipath forwarding with built-in path optimizations. These features have been shown to provide scores of improvements to network resilience in the face of network disruptions,... ...read more...
                                                  Speaker(s)
                                                  Speaker (confirmed)
                                                  Alexander Afanasyev, Ph.D.
                                                  Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences
                                                  Florida International University
                                                  Speaker (confirmed)
                                                  Tamer Refaei, Ph.D.
                                                  Principal Information Security Scientist
                                                  The MITRE Corporation
                                                  Speaker (confirmed)
                                                  Lixia Zhang, Ph.D.
                                                  Professor, Computer Science Department
                                                  University of California Los Angeles
                                                  Tracks:

                                                    Tuesday, November 12, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

                                                    Plenary Panel: Key Maritime Operational & Technical Issues
                                                    • Room: Granby E
                                                    Speaker(s)
                                                    Moderator (confirmed)
                                                    RADM John F. "Oscar" Meier, USN
                                                    Commander
                                                    Navy Warfare Development Command
                                                    Panelist (confirmed)
                                                    Kenneth W. Bible
                                                    Deputy Director, C4/Deputy CIO
                                                    HQ USMC
                                                    Panelist (confirmed)
                                                    CAPT Ansel LeRoy Hills, USN
                                                    C2F N8 and Developmental Group Lead
                                                    United Nations
                                                    Panelist (confirmed)
                                                    Rear Adm. Steve Waddell, RCN
                                                    Vice Commander
                                                    U.S. Second Fleet
                                                    Tracks:

                                                      Tuesday, November 12, 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

                                                      Restricted Technical Panel: AI: Enabling Future Military Communications
                                                      • Room: Main H
                                                      Speaker(s)
                                                      Moderator (confirmed)
                                                      William "Bill" Conley, Ph.D.
                                                      Chief Technology Officer
                                                      Mercury Systems
                                                      Panelist (confirmed)
                                                      Vasu Chakravarthy, Ph.D.
                                                      Senior Electronics Engineer
                                                      Air Force Research Laboratory
                                                      Panelist (confirmed)
                                                      Karen Haigh, Ph.D.
                                                      Panelist (confirmed)
                                                      Shubha Kadambe, Ph.D.
                                                      Senior Engineering Fellow at the System Engineering, Integration and Test Center
                                                      Raytheon SAS
                                                      Panelist (confirmed)
                                                      LTC Tyrone Lewis, USA, Ph.D.
                                                      Lead, Network Systems Engineer for AFC AI Task Force
                                                      U.S. Army Futures Command
                                                      Tracks:
                                                        Restricted Technical Panel: DARPA Program Managers Communications and Networking Research
                                                        • Room: Main FG
                                                        Speaker(s)
                                                        Moderator (confirmed)
                                                        Paul Kolodzy, Ph.D.
                                                        former Program Manager, Communications, EW, Spectrum, Access, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
                                                        Founder, Kolodzy Consulting
                                                        Panelist (confirmed)
                                                        LtCol Jimmy "Rev" Jones, USAF
                                                        Program Manager, Strategic Technology Office (STO)
                                                        Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
                                                        Panelist (confirmed)
                                                        Aaron Kofford
                                                        Program Manager, Strategic Technology Office (STO)
                                                        Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
                                                        Panelist (confirmed)
                                                        Tom Rondeau, Ph.D.
                                                        Program Manager, Microsystems Technology Office (MTO)
                                                        Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
                                                        Panelist (confirmed)
                                                        Paul Zablocky, Ph.D.
                                                        Program Manager, Strategic Technology Office (STO)
                                                        Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
                                                        Tracks:
                                                          Technical Panel: Emulation-Based Experimentation for Tactical Edge Network Protocols and Systems
                                                          • Room: Fusion
                                                          Approved for 2 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+, Security+ Experimentation and analysis are important steps in the overall research and development process for network, middleware, and services development for military networks. Such experiments need to be conducted using realistic communications environments and scenarios. Field experimentation with hardware in the loop tends to be expensive and inaccessible to many researchers. While simulation-based experiments are a popular alternative, they are limited in terms of the radio models they offer, the scenarios available, and the inability to use actual systems. Emulation-based experimentation provides a good compromise, allowing systems and software components in the loop while... ...read more...
                                                          Speaker(s)
                                                          Moderator (confirmed)
                                                          Niranjan Suri, Ph.D.
                                                          Associate for Research – Information Sciences Division
                                                          US Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
                                                          Panelist (confirmed)
                                                          Ritu Chadha, Ph.D.
                                                          Senior Research Director, Cyber and Wireless Analytics
                                                          Perspecta Labs
                                                          Panelist (confirmed)
                                                          Claudiu Danilov, Ph.D.
                                                          Associate Technical Fellow
                                                          The Boeing Company
                                                          Panelist (confirmed)
                                                          Steven Galgano
                                                          Chief Architect and Technologist
                                                          AdjacentLink, LLC
                                                          Panelist (confirmed)
                                                          Jan Nilsson, Ph.D.
                                                          Deputy Research Director
                                                          Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
                                                          Panelist (confirmed)
                                                          Mauro Tortonesi, Ph.D.
                                                          Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
                                                          University of Ferrara
                                                          Tracks:
                                                            Technical Panel: Quantum Information Science (QIS)
                                                            • Room: Granby AB
                                                            The panel will discuss what research is going on in the QIS field. It will highlight the very high levels of overseas funding in the area and cover the economic benefits for the country, who can patent the breakthroughs. Government, Academia and Industry will all be represented on the panel of this game changing technology....
                                                            Speaker(s)
                                                            Moderator (confirmed)
                                                            Tommy Gardner, Ph.D.
                                                            Chief Technology Officer, HP Federal
                                                            Public Chief Technology Officer of the Year for 2021
                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                            Hon. Jay M. Cohen, Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.)
                                                            Principal
                                                            The Chertoff Group
                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                            Duncan Earl, Ph.D.
                                                            Founder
                                                            Qubitekk
                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                            James Gable
                                                            President
                                                            Bra-Ket Science
                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                            Jason Turner
                                                            President
                                                            Quantum Entanglement Institute
                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                            John Wharton
                                                            former Commander
                                                            Army Research Labs
                                                            Tracks:

                                                              Tuesday, November 12, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

                                                              Women in MILCOM Networking Session
                                                              • Room: Granby E
                                                              Please join us for the inaugural Women in MILCOM Networking Social, organized by the MILCOM Conference Board. You will get the chance to meet other women engineers and technologists from government, industries and academia. Several distinguished women technology leaders will share their experiences in military communications, and lessons learned in their career advancement. The event is open to all MILCOM participants and will start at 4:00 p.m. with informal networking social activities, followed by speakers' remarks from 4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. All are welcome - both men and women are encouraged to attend....
                                                              Speaker(s)
                                                              Speaker (confirmed)
                                                              Julia Andrusenko
                                                              Chief Engineer of the Tactical Wireless Systems Group
                                                              Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
                                                              Speaker (confirmed)
                                                              Ritu Chadha, Ph.D.
                                                              Senior Research Director, Cyber and Wireless Analytics
                                                              Perspecta Labs
                                                              Speaker (confirmed)
                                                              Julia Deng, Ph.D.
                                                              Senior Director
                                                              Intelligent Automation Inc.
                                                              Speaker (confirmed)
                                                              Karen Haigh, Ph.D.

                                                                Tuesday, November 12, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

                                                                Grand Opening Reception

                                                                    Wednesday, November 13, 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

                                                                    Registration Hours
                                                                    • Room: Granby Lobby
                                                                    Tracks:

                                                                      Wednesday, November 13, 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

                                                                      Morning Keynote: Senior Leader Perspectives - Marine Corps
                                                                      • Room: Main Ballroom
                                                                      Speaker(s)
                                                                      Keynote (confirmed)
                                                                      LtGen Robert F. Hedelund, USMC
                                                                      Commander
                                                                      U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command
                                                                      Tracks:

                                                                        Wednesday, November 13, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

                                                                        Tutorial: Intelligent Learning Algorithms and Their Applications to Communications and Networking
                                                                        • Room: Fraim
                                                                        Approved for 3 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+ This tutorial aims to provide attendees with practical knowledge of advanced intelligent learning algorithms and how they can be applied to communications and networking problems. The tutorial will first provide attendees with an introduction to intelligent algorithms as well as a crash course on some of the theory behind intelligent algorithms. The tutorial will then provide an overview of many of the key types of learning algorithms, including machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, bio-inspired algorithms, deep learning, and then discuss the emerging field of multi-agent learning algorithms. The tutorial will then go on to... ...read more...
                                                                        Speaker(s)
                                                                        Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                        Julia Andrusenko
                                                                        Chief Engineer of the Tactical Wireless Systems Group
                                                                        Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
                                                                        Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                        Jack L. Burbank
                                                                        Senior Wireless Network Engineer
                                                                        Sabre Systems
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                                                                          Tutorial: Real-Time Aspects of Mobile Communication Networks
                                                                          • Room: Granby D
                                                                          Approved for 3 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+ Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) represent key communication infrastructure within tactical networks. The basic requirement for MANETs is to provide a minimum level of connectivity under a wide range of operating conditions. The connectivity must be sustained despite unpredictable and adverse radio propagation conditions, unexpected environmental and technical events including jamming, equipment failures, network overload and varying QoS demands. In addition, the connectivity must support coordinated activities of many distributed sub-systems to enable increasingly autonomous operations, and timely and appropriate responses to events and changes in the environment. For these reasons, information not delivered in... ...read more...
                                                                          Speaker(s)
                                                                          Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                          Salman M. Al-Shehri
                                                                          Swansea University
                                                                          Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                          Michael Hirsch, Ph.D.
                                                                          President & Chief Technologist
                                                                          ISEA TEK LLC
                                                                          Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                          Pavel Loskot, Ph.D.
                                                                          Senior Lecturer in Information and System Engineering
                                                                          Swansea University
                                                                          Tracks:

                                                                            Wednesday, November 13, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

                                                                            Restricted Technical Panel: Free Space Optical Communications for DoD Applications
                                                                            • Room: Main H
                                                                            Free space optical communication can allow high bandwidth, low probability of intercept/detect communication that is not subject to frequency allocation. Balanced against these advantages are requirements for accurate pointing, line of sight, and availability restrictions due to weather. The panel will discuss these advantages and disadvantages, in the context of military applications, and how new technology and approaches affect use cases....
                                                                            Speaker(s)
                                                                            Moderator (confirmed)
                                                                            William S. Rabinovich, Ph.D.
                                                                            Head, Photonic Materials and Devices Section, Optical Science Division
                                                                            US Naval Research Laboratory
                                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                            James Lyke, Ph.D.
                                                                            Space Vehicles Directorate
                                                                            US Air Force Research Laboratory
                                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                            Joseph "Joe" Macker
                                                                            US Naval Research Laboratory
                                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                            Paul Pellegrino, Ph.D.
                                                                            US Army Research Laboratory
                                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                            Linda M. Thomas, Ph.D.
                                                                            Research Engineer
                                                                            U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
                                                                            Tracks:
                                                                              Technical Panel: Enterprise Enabled SATCOM Resiliency
                                                                              • Room: Granby AB
                                                                              Approved for 2 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+, Cloud+ color:red;background:white">In the era of network centric warfare, highly resilient communications capacity is required in an environment of increasing space and cyber threats. MILSATCOM system resiliency is enabled by technology, system architecture improvements, and enhanced operations. Convergence of mission needs and these rapidly evolving capabilities and threats stresses our current operations constructs and demands revolutionary approaches to address the challenge.  Combatant commanders will soon need to know what the probability of success is for all aspects of a given mission or campaign.  Current efforts to move DoD satcom into the 3 and 5G age may provide... ...read more...
                                                                              Speaker(s)
                                                                              Moderator (confirmed)
                                                                              Lt Col Joseph Tringe, USAF
                                                                              Portfolio Architect Office, Space and Missile Systems Center
                                                                              US Air Force
                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                              Clayton D. Bosler
                                                                              Senior Manager
                                                                              LinQuest Corporation
                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                              Kurt A. Fiscko, Ph.D.
                                                                              Technical Director, Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence
                                                                              US Naval Information Warfare Systems Command - Atlantic
                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                              John Kirk
                                                                              Chief, Wideband Plans
                                                                              United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command
                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                              Gigel C. Marinescu
                                                                              Chief, Satellite Communications, Cyberspace Operations and Warfighter Communications Directorate
                                                                              US Air Force
                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                              Joseph E. Vanderpoorten
                                                                              Chief, SATCOM Advanced Concepts, Portfolio Architect Office, Space and Missile Systems Center
                                                                              US Air Force
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                                                                                Technical Panel: Supply Chain Risk Management: Identifying the Threats to Cyber Security
                                                                                • Room: Fusion
                                                                                Approved for 2 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+, Cloud+, Linux+; 2 CertNexus CFR CECs; 2 GIAC CPEs  This panel will include the Co-Chairs of the DHS Supply Chain Cyber Risk Management Task Force Working Group on Threats.  It will focus on the different categories of threats, the vulnerabilities and risk as well as policy options of dealing with them in the IT and Communications sectors....
                                                                                Speaker(s)
                                                                                Moderator (confirmed)
                                                                                Tommy Gardner, Ph.D.
                                                                                Chief Technology Officer, HP Federal
                                                                                Public Chief Technology Officer of the Year for 2021
                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                George Duchak, Ph.D. PE
                                                                                Director Information Operations, J6; Chief Information Officer
                                                                                Defense Logistics Agency
                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                Daniel Kroese
                                                                                Associate Director, National Risk Management Center
                                                                                Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), DHS
                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                Angela Smith
                                                                                Sr. Advisor for Cybersecurity, Risk and Resilience
                                                                                General Services Administration
                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                Andras Szakal
                                                                                Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
                                                                                IBM U.S. Federal
                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                Brig Gen Greg Touhill, USAF (Ret.)
                                                                                President
                                                                                Appgate Federal
                                                                                Tracks:

                                                                                  Wednesday, November 13, 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM

                                                                                  Exhibit Hours
                                                                                  • Room: Third and Fourth Level, Ballroom Foyers
                                                                                  Tracks:

                                                                                    Wednesday, November 13, 9:40 AM - 10:55 AM

                                                                                    Technical Paper Session: NPP-2: Software Defined Networking
                                                                                    • Room: Momentum 2&3
                                                                                    Chair: Carrie Spiker (Boeing Research & Technology, USA) An Effective Load Balanced Controller Placement Approach in Software-Defined WANs Ning Cai and Yanni Han (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yongming Ben (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Wei An and Zhen Xu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China) Dandelion: A Novel, High-Level Programming System for Software Defined Coalitions with Local State Sharing Xin Wang and Qiao Xiang (Yale University, USA); Jeremy Tucker (Defence Science and Technology Laboratories, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Vinod Mishra (ARL, USA); Y. Richard Yang (Yale University, USA) An Integrated Software-Defined Battlefield Network Testbed for Tactical Scenario Emulation Qi Zhao (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Adam Brown (Boeing Research & Technology, USA); Jae H Kim (Boeing Research... ...read more...
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                                                                                      Wednesday, November 13, 9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

                                                                                      Restricted Paper Session: Networking
                                                                                      • Room: Main F
                                                                                      1) Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning/Deep Learning-based Warfighter Cybersecurity Architecture Framework: Radhika Roy (U.S. Army) 2) Some Concepts for a Scalable Multifunction Mission System Architecture: Brian Dong & Vuppuladhadium Subramanyam (Northrop Grumman) 3) IP and Ethernet Traffic Flow Security: Donald Fedyk, Christian Hopps, Louis Berger (LabN Consulting LLC), Linden Mercer (MEC LLC), & Basil Decina (Naval Research Laboratory) 4) Smart Warfighter Infrastructure: Steven Lee, Hunter Moore, Terrence Clark (Rotunda Solutions, N. Fredrik Salvesen, Jon Lieberman (Disruptiv Technologies), Allen Razdow (True Engineering Technology), James Archer, & Willie McIntosh (General Dynamics) 5) A Review of Adversarial Attacks in the Context of Battlefield Information Systems: Arnold Tunick &... ...read more...
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                                                                                        Restricted Paper Session: Waveform and Signal Processing I
                                                                                        • Room: Main G
                                                                                        1) The DAWSIS Waveform: Juan Deaton & Brian Banister (Comtech EF Data Corporation) 2) Physical and IP Layer Strategies for Combating Dynamic Interference: Juan Deaton & John Youssef (Comtech EF Data Corporation) 3) Co-Development Methodology of Signal Processing Algorithm and Hardware Implementation for the HALO JCTD SoC FPGA: Alexei Lomankin, Kenneth Teitelbaum, Ameya Agaskar, Michael Wentz, Stephen Leung, Kevin Galeaz, Timothy Steele, Navid Yazdani, & Paul Monticciolo (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) 4) SIMO Technologies for Legacy SISO Radio Systems: Janek Mroczek, William Lipe, Peter Ricci, & Howard Beyer (Air Force Research Laboratory/RITE) 5) Applications of Waveform Virtualization on High-Performance Computing (HPC) Platforms using High-Level Coding... ...read more...
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                                                                                          Technical Paper Session: CSTC-4: Network Security Technologies
                                                                                          • Room: Energy 1
                                                                                          Chair: George F Elmasry (Rockwell Collins, USA) Optimal Timing of Moving Target Defense: A Stackelberg Game Model Henger Li and Zizhan Zheng (Tulane University, USA) VulnerVAN: A Vulnerable Network Generation Tool Sridhar Venkatesan (Perspecta Labs, USA) A System for Analyzing Diversified Software Binaries David Reyes (University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Jaime C Acosta (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Adriana Escobar De La Torre (University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Salamah Salamah (UTEP, USA) Break Towards Optimal Cyber Defense Remediation in Cyber Physical Systems by Balancing Operational Resilience and Strategic Risk Kamrul Hasan and Sachin Shetty (Old Dominion University, USA); Amin Hassanzadeh (Accenture Technology Labs, USA); Sharif Ullah (Old Dominion University, USA) Denial of Service Detection & Mitigation Scheme Using Responsive Autonomic Virtual Networks (RAvN) Allen Starke (University... ...read more...
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                                                                                            Technical Paper Session: SYS-3: SATCOM - II
                                                                                            • Room: Energy 2
                                                                                            Chair: Jennifer Byford (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA) A MBSE Approach to Satellite Clock Time and Frequency Adjustment in Highly Elliptical Orbit Elliot J Weiss, Linh-Thao Chung and Lan K Nguyen (LinQuest Corporation, USA) Wideband Automated Planning Tool (WAPT) Prototype Development Richard L Gobbi (LinQuest Corp., USA); Jonathon Hay, Nathan Tanner, Larry Lipke and Scot Miller (LinQuest, USA); John Kirk (Army, USA) An Open Standard for Ka-band Interoperable Satellite Antennas Eric Cross (Viasat, USA) Break SATCOM Digital IF Stream Rate Considerations for Earth Segment Transport Armando J Vigil (Systek & PEO-EIS / PM DCATS, USA); Dahesh Khalil (Product Lead Wideband Enterprise SATCOM Systems(PL WESS), USA) An Algorithmic Approach to Highly Resilient Satcom Lan K Nguyen (LinQuest Corporation, USA); Joseph Tringe (Air Force, USA); Clay Bosler (LinQuest, USA); David Brunnenmeyer (US Air Force & LinQuest Corp, SE&I,... ...read more...
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                                                                                              Technical Paper Session: WSP-3: Tracking and Acquisition
                                                                                              • Room: Momentum 1
                                                                                              Chair: Feng Ouyang (Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab, USA) Adaptive Kalman Tracking for Indoor Visible Light Positioning Yusuf Said Eroglu, Fatih Erden and Ismail Güvenç (North Carolina State University, USA) Data Association for Tracking Extended Targets Florian Meyer and Moe Z. Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Event-Triggered Synchronization for Mobile Distributed Transmit Beamforming Dmitry Kramarev, Ishtiaq Ahmad, Kelvin J Layton, Marc Lavenant, Hidayat Soetiyono and Gottfried Lechner (University of South Australia, Australia); Hajime Suzuki (CSIRO, Australia); Ian Grivell and Stephen Leak (Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia) Break An Acquisition Technique for LTE over Satellite Xiangdong Liu (Lockheed Martin Space, USA); Dilip S Gokhale (Lockheed Martin IS&GS, USA) HopSAC: Frequency Hopping Parameter Estimation Based on Random Sample Consensus for Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems Brandon F Lo (SkySafe, Inc., USA); Scott Torborg (Skysafe Inc., USA); Chun Kin... ...read more...
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                                                                                                Wednesday, November 13, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

                                                                                                Networking Coffee Break
                                                                                                • Room: Main and Granby Ballroom Foyers

                                                                                                  Wednesday, November 13, 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

                                                                                                  Plenary Panel: Key Ground Operational & Technical Issues
                                                                                                  • Room: Granby E
                                                                                                  Speaker(s)
                                                                                                  Moderator (confirmed)
                                                                                                  LTG Eric J. Wesley, USA
                                                                                                  Deputy Commanding General, Army Futures Command and
                                                                                                  Director, Futures and Concepts Center
                                                                                                  Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                  Col Kenyon (Ken) M. Gill, III, USMC (Ret.)
                                                                                                  Deputy Marine Forces Command, G-6 Informations Systems Officer
                                                                                                  US Marine Corps
                                                                                                  Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                  BG Peter L. Jones, USA (Ret.)
                                                                                                  Chief Operating Officer, National Infantry Museum Foundation
                                                                                                  and former U.S. Army Infantry School Commandant and 56th Chief of Infantry
                                                                                                  Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                  Brig Gen "Kumo" J. Kumashiro, USAF
                                                                                                  Cross-Functional Team Lead
                                                                                                  AF Multi-Domain Command and Control AF Warfighting Integration Capability
                                                                                                  Tracks:

                                                                                                    Wednesday, November 13, 11:10 AM - 12:00 PM

                                                                                                    Technical Paper Session: NPP-3: Network Analysis
                                                                                                    • Room: Momentum 2&3
                                                                                                    Chair: Alessandro Morelli (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA) Data Collection and Analysis Framework for Mobile Ad Hoc Network Research Scott Arbiv (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Rahul Amin (MIT Lincoln Laboratories, USA); Thomas Goff (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Dow Street (Linquest, USA); Igor Pedan (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Larry Bressler (MIT LL, USA); Terrence Gibbons (MIT-LL, USA); Bow-Nan Cheng and Chayil Timmerman (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA) Identifying Bottleneck Nodes Using Packet Delay Statistics Joshua Marker, John M. Shea and Tan Wong (University of Florida, USA); Eric Graves (Army Research Lab, USA); Paul Yu (Army Research Laboratory, USA) ...
                                                                                                    Tracks:

                                                                                                      Wednesday, November 13, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

                                                                                                      Luncheon Keynote: Senior Leader Perspectives - Army
                                                                                                      • Room: Main Ballroom
                                                                                                      Speaker(s)
                                                                                                      Keynote (confirmed)
                                                                                                      GEN Paul E. Funk II, USA
                                                                                                      Commanding General
                                                                                                      United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)
                                                                                                      Tracks:

                                                                                                        Wednesday, November 13, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

                                                                                                        Networking Dessert Break
                                                                                                        • Room: Main and Granby Ballroom Foyers

                                                                                                          Wednesday, November 13, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

                                                                                                          Technical Paper Session: BDML-3: ML for RF Fingerprinting
                                                                                                          • Room: Imagination
                                                                                                          Chair: Yalin E Sagduyu (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA) Securing IoT RF Fingerprinting Systems with Generative Adversarial Networks Kevin Merchant (US Naval Research Laboratory, USA); Bryan Nousain (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Enhanced RF Fingerprinting for IoT Devices with Recurrent Neural Networks Kevin Merchant (US Naval Research Laboratory, USA); Bryan Nousain (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Impairment Shift Keying: Covert Signaling by Deep Learning of Controlled Radio Imperfections Kunal Sankhe, Francesco Restuccia, Salvatore D'Oro, Tong Jian, Zifeng Wang, Amani Al-Shawabka, Jennifer Dy, Tommaso Melodia, Stratis Ioannidis and Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA) ...
                                                                                                          Tracks:

                                                                                                            Wednesday, November 13, 2:00 PM - 4:10 PM

                                                                                                            Technical Paper Session: SYS-4: Tactical Networking and Spectrum Operations - I
                                                                                                            • Room: Energy 2
                                                                                                            Chair: Shubha Kadambe (Raytheon & SAS, USA) Tiered Unassisted Neighbor Discovery in Directional Networks Matthew Sherman, Joseph Stepien and Matthew Rasa (BAE Systems, USA); Nicholas Sherman (Olin College of Engineering, USA) AWS-3 Interference Mitigation: Improving Spectrum Sharing with LTE & 5G Uplink Spectrum Control Yuriy Posherstnik (DISA Defense Spectrum Organization, USA); Howard McDonald (DISA & DSO, USA); Mike E DiFrancisco (Virginia Tech Applied Research Corp. & Virginia Tech, USA); Anthony Rennier (Foundry, Inc., USA); Jeffery Correia, Venkatesh Ramaswamy, Cameron Patterson and Darcy Swain Walsh (The MITRE Corporation, USA) Portable Programmable Layer 3 QoS for Tactical MANETs: A P4/PSA-Based Architectural Approach Alexander Poylisher and Yitzchak M. Gottlieb (Perspecta Labs, USA); Latha Kant (Perspecta Labs - Formerly Bellcore, USA) Break Combined Interference and Communications Strategy as a Defense Mechanism in Cognitive Radio Military Networks Marcelo... ...read more...
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                                                                                                              Wednesday, November 13, 2:00 PM - 4:35 PM

                                                                                                              Technical Paper Session: CSTC-5: Machine Learning for Cyber Security - Session Two
                                                                                                              • Room: Energy 1
                                                                                                              Chair: Jack W. Stokes (Microsoft Research, USA) ScriptNet: Neural Static Analysis for Malicious JavaScript Detection Jack W. Stokes (Microsoft Research, USA); Rakshit Agrawal (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Geoff McDonald (Microsoft Corporation, Canada); Matthew Hausknecht (Microsoft Research, USA) Insights into Malware Detection via Behavioral Frequency Analysis Using Machine Learning Aaron Walker and Shamik Sengupta (University of Nevada, Reno, USA) An Intelligent System for Preventing SSL Stripping-based Session Hijacking Attacks Mainuddin Ahmad Jonas, Risul Islam and Md Shohrab Hossain (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Husnu S Narman (Marshall University, USA); Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, USA) Break Domain Flux-based DGA Botnet Detection Using Feedforward Neural Network Protick Bhowmick, Md. Ishtiaq Ashiq and Md Shohrab Hossain (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Husnu S Narman (Marshall University, USA) Rumor Detection on Time-Series... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                Wednesday, November 13, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

                                                                                                                Restricted Paper Session: The Defense Optical Channel Program (DOCP)
                                                                                                                • Room: Main F
                                                                                                                1) Combined Data Communication and Tracking for Free Space Optical LEO Satellite Communication: Mike Ferraro, William Rabinovich, Rita Mahon, James Murphy (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), & William Clark (Optogration Inc) 2) Multi-level Digital Waveform Characterization for Free Space Optical Communications with LEO Satellites: Mike Ferraro, William Rabinovich, James Murphy, Rita Maxon, James Dexter (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), & Wade Freeman (Smart Logic Inc) 3) Free Space Optical (FSO) Communications and Networking with Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites: William Rabinovich, Joseph Macker, Jeffrey Weston, Linda Thomas (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), Sean O'Brien (Army Research Laboratory), & Thomas Farrell (Air Force Research Laboratory) 4) 1.55... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                  Restricted Paper Session: Waveform and Signal Processing II
                                                                                                                  • Room: Main G
                                                                                                                  1) Geolocation of a Massive MIMO Receiver with Machine Learning: Feasibility Study: Feng Ouyang (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory) 2) Geosynchronous Satellite-Based Geolocation with an Advanced Antenna Architecture: Vijitha Weerackody & Mark Mendlovitz (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory) 3) Optimal Reference Element Selection to Reduce Null Width for Power-Inversion Planar Arrays: Bindu Chandna, Kevin Burke, & Ying Chieh Chuang (MITRE) 4) Targeted SINR Values for Enhanced Interference Cancellation Performance: Frederick Block, Michael Dowling, Samantha Ho (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), & Thomas Royster (LinQuest) 5) Adaptive Mitigation of Interference in SATCOM Systems Employing MF-TDMA Waveforms: Thomas Royster (LinQuest) & Michael Tracey (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) 6)... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                    Technical Paper Session: NPP-4: Routing
                                                                                                                    • Room: Momentum 2&3
                                                                                                                    Chair: Shankararaman Ramakrishnan (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA) Stochastic Packet Forwarding Algorithm in Flying Ad Hoc Networks Cong Pu (Marshall University, USA) QFloor: Queue Delay Reduction in Dynamic Backpressure Networks Laura Poplawski Ma, Stephen Zabele, Christophe J. Merlin, Gregory Lauer and Stephen Dabideen (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA) G3M: A Heuristic for Low-Latency Multicast Back-Pressure Forwarding Stephen Dabideen, Stephen Zabele, Gregory Lauer, Christophe J. Merlin and Laura Poplawski Ma (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA) Break Modeling Resource Limited Cooperative Broadcasting Using Hard Core Poisson Process Wenjun Huang, Xu Li, Hancheng Ma and Yanan Liang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Improving Tactical Voice Communications Using Cooperative Broadcast over a Narrowband Channel Arwid Komulainen, Jimmi Grönkvist and Ulf Sterner (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden); Ulrika Uppman (Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden) VINE: Zero-Control-Packet Routing for Ultra-Low-Capacity Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Ayush... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                      Technical Paper Session: WSP-4: Secure Communication
                                                                                                                      • Room: Momentum 1
                                                                                                                      Chair: Xiangdong Liu (Lockheed Martin Space, USA) Physical Layer Firewall Design Using Co-Channel Underlay-Based Watermark Authentication Michael Fletcher (GIRD Systems, Inc., USA); Alan J Michaels (Virginia Tech & Hume Center for National Security and Technology, USA) Deep Learning for an Anti-Jamming CPM Receiver Li Li (Communication Research Centre of Canada, Canada); Yifeng Qiu (Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada); Colin Brown (CRC, Canada) Cooperative UAV Jammer for Enhancing Physical Layer Security: Robust Design for Jamming Power and Trajectory Yujung Roh (KAIST, Korea); Seungjae Jung (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea); Joonhyuk Kang (KAIST, Korea) Break Secure Transmission via Lens Antenna Array in Millimeter Wave MISO Systems Hyojin Lee (KAIST, Korea); Wanjik Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea); Joonhyuk Kang (KAIST, Korea) Achievable Information-Theoretic... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                        Tutorial: Adversarial Radio Frequency Machine Learning (RFML) Using PyTorch
                                                                                                                        • Room: Fraim
                                                                                                                        Approved for 3 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+ The concept of deep learning has revitalized machine learning research in recent years. In particular, researchers have demonstrated the use of deep learning for a multitude of tasks in wireless communications, such as signal classification, waveform creation, and cognitive radio, colloquially coined Radio Frequency Machine Learning (RFML) by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Traditionally, these deep learning solutions are developed using static datasets or require the interfacing of a digital signal processing framework, such as GNU Radio or LiquidDSP, with a machine learning framework, such as Keras or PyTorch. Given these facts,... ...read more...
                                                                                                                        Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                        Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                        Bryse Flowers
                                                                                                                        University of California San Diego
                                                                                                                        Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                        William "Chris" Headley, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                        Research Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Electronic Systems Lab
                                                                                                                        Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology
                                                                                                                        Tracks:
                                                                                                                          Tutorial: RF Situational Awareness, Decision Making, Performance Optimization and Networking in Transponded SATCOM Systems
                                                                                                                          • Room: Granby D
                                                                                                                          Approved for 3 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+ This tutorial presents the basics of transponded satellite communication (SATCOM) system operations including Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) decision making, Radio Frequency (RF) situational awareness, transponder performance optimization with pre-distortion, as well as networking related problems. The material assumes a basic understanding of communications and of basic engineering. The course will cover basics of transponded SATCOM systems and important aspects of its operations including link budgets, SATCOM waveforms, protected SATCOM waveforms with frequency hopping (FH), quality measure of transponded SATCOM links, traditional RF situational awareness and advanced RF situational awareness with information fusion, DRA problem... ...read more...
                                                                                                                          Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                          Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                          Khanh Pham, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                          Senior Aerospace Engineer
                                                                                                                          Air Force Research Laboratory-Space Vehicles Directorate
                                                                                                                          Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                          Dan Shen, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                          Chief Scientist
                                                                                                                          Intelligent Fusion Technology
                                                                                                                          Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                          Xin Tian, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                          Network and Communication Research Director
                                                                                                                          Intelligent Fusion Technology
                                                                                                                          Tracks:

                                                                                                                            Wednesday, November 13, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

                                                                                                                            Plenary Panel: Joint and Coalition Operational and Technical Issues
                                                                                                                            • Room: Granby E
                                                                                                                            Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                            Moderator (confirmed)
                                                                                                                            RADM William E. Chase III, USN
                                                                                                                            Deputy Commander
                                                                                                                            Joint Force Headquarters - Department of Defense Information Network (JFHQ-DODIN)
                                                                                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                            MG David T. Isaacson, USA
                                                                                                                            Director, Networks, Services and Strategy
                                                                                                                            Army CIO/G6
                                                                                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                            Brig Gen "Kumo" J. Kumashiro, USAF
                                                                                                                            Cross-Functional Team Lead
                                                                                                                            AF Multi-Domain Command and Control AF Warfighting Integration Capability
                                                                                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                            Col Cécile Marly, French Armament Corps
                                                                                                                            Acting Branch Head, Federated Interoperability
                                                                                                                            Supreme Allied Commander Transformation
                                                                                                                            Tracks:

                                                                                                                              Wednesday, November 13, 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

                                                                                                                              Technical Panel: 5G Opportunities and Challenges
                                                                                                                              • Room: Granby AB
                                                                                                                              Approved for 2 CompTIA CEUs: A+ 5G represents a promising new chapter in the evolution of wireless communications. Industry continues to make enormous investments into next-generation 5G technologies, hoping to deliver unprecedented wireless capabilities. The military domain appears eager to adopt advanced 5G technologies.  5G indeed presents a unique opportunity to provide enhanced networking capabilities to the military and enable a wide range of future applications and use cases. 5G promises extremely high data rates, very low latency, as well as greatly improved network scalability, reliability, and security. Furthermore, 5G offers a wide range of new feature sets and architectural enhancements... ...read more...
                                                                                                                              Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                              Moderator (confirmed)
                                                                                                                              Jack L. Burbank
                                                                                                                              Senior Wireless Network Engineer
                                                                                                                              Sabre Systems
                                                                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                              David Debrecht
                                                                                                                              Chief Technology Officer, US Majors Customer Business Team
                                                                                                                              Nokia
                                                                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                              Ashutosh Dutta, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                              Co-Chair, IEEE Future Networks Initiative
                                                                                                                              Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
                                                                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                              Anthony "Tony" Triolo, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                              Chief Scientist / Senior Manager
                                                                                                                              Perspecta Labs
                                                                                                                              Tracks:
                                                                                                                                Technical Panel: Tactical Edge AI: Ruggedized Situational Awareness for New-Era Intelligence Demands
                                                                                                                                • Room: Fusion
                                                                                                                                Approved for 2 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Cloud+; 2 CertNexus CFR CECs The military deploys countless IoT devices globally, creating a serious burden in managing and exploiting vast quantities of data. With sensors mounted everywhere from satellites to jet engines to airmen’s flight suits, the Air Force alone collects more than 22 terabytes of data daily, according to Defense Department officials. Meeting the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance needs of today’s operational and tactical missions means processing this growing volume of data closer to the sensors—at the edge.    The difference between falling behind and enhancing the decisive edge depends on the ability to quickly disseminate... ...read more...
                                                                                                                                Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                                Moderator (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                Amber Corrin
                                                                                                                                Director of Content
                                                                                                                                Sage Communications
                                                                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                Mark Barnell
                                                                                                                                Principal Computer Scientist
                                                                                                                                Air Force Research Laboratory
                                                                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                Yemaya Bordain, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                Internet of Things Group Public Sector Sales
                                                                                                                                Intel
                                                                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                Jim Shaw
                                                                                                                                Executive Vice President of Engineering
                                                                                                                                Crystal Group
                                                                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                John Shotwell
                                                                                                                                Technical Management Division Chief and Chief Engineer
                                                                                                                                US Army Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T)
                                                                                                                                Tracks:

                                                                                                                                  Wednesday, November 13, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

                                                                                                                                  Technical Paper Session: BDML-4: ML for Communications
                                                                                                                                  • Room: Imagination
                                                                                                                                  Chair: Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&M University, USA) Intelligent Decentralized Dynamic Power Allocation in MANET at Tactical Edge Based on Mean-Field Game Theory Zejian Zhou (University of Nevada, Reno, USA); Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&M University, USA); Hao Xu (University of Nevada, Reno, USA) QoS and Jamming-Aware Wireless Networking Using Deep Reinforcement Learning Nof Abu Zainab (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA); Tugba Erpek (Virginia Tech, USA); Kemal Davaslioglu (Intelligent Automation, Inc, USA); Yalin E Sagduyu (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Yi Shi (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA); Sharon Mackey (CERDEC Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate, USA); Mitesh Patel (CERDEC - S&TCD, USA); Frank Panettieri (US Army C5ISR Center, Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate, USA); Muhammad Qureshi (PEO C3T, USA); Volkan Isler (University of Minnesota, USA); Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA) An Empirical Analysis... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                                    Thursday, November 14, 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

                                                                                                                                    Registration Hours
                                                                                                                                    • Room: Granby Lobby
                                                                                                                                    Tracks:

                                                                                                                                      Thursday, November 14, 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

                                                                                                                                      Plenary Breakfast Panel: Industry Executive Perspectives on Communications in a Go Fast Environment
                                                                                                                                      • Room: Main Ballroom
                                                                                                                                      Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                                      Moderator (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                      S. Scott Gustafson
                                                                                                                                      Vice President - Mission Success
                                                                                                                                      Lockheed Martin Space Systems
                                                                                                                                      Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                      Michael Cacheiro
                                                                                                                                      Vice President, Protected Communications
                                                                                                                                      Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
                                                                                                                                      Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                      Cyrus Dhalla
                                                                                                                                      VP, Communication Systems
                                                                                                                                      Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
                                                                                                                                      Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                      Mark A. Hutchins, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                      Senior Director, Protected Communication System
                                                                                                                                      Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems
                                                                                                                                      Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                      Todd M. Nygren
                                                                                                                                      Corporate Chief Engineer and General Manager
                                                                                                                                      The Aerospace Corporation
                                                                                                                                      Tracks:

                                                                                                                                        Thursday, November 14, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

                                                                                                                                        Tutorial: Deep Learning for RF Signal Classification and Fingerprinting
                                                                                                                                        • Room: Fraim
                                                                                                                                        Approved for 3 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+ Due to the unprecedented scale of connected devices today, designing scalable, accurate, energy-efficient and tamper-proof authentication mechanisms has now become more important than ever. Moreover, with reconfigurable radios, there is a rich diversity of protocols and standards, modulation schemes, and other dynamic transmitter-side settings that cannot be decided ahead of deployment. Drawing from hands-on experiences as a performer in the DARPA Radio Frequency Machine Learning Systems (RFMLS) program, this tutorial presents practical methodologies of extracting "RF fingerprints", i.e., unique signatures embedded in the transmitted signals arising from unchangeable and device-specific hardware characteristics. Using pre-developed... ...read more...
                                                                                                                                        Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                                        Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                        Kaushik Chowdhury, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                        Associate Professor and Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
                                                                                                                                        Northeastern University
                                                                                                                                        Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                        Stratis Ioannidis, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                        Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
                                                                                                                                        Northeastern University
                                                                                                                                        Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                        Tommaso Melodia, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                        William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor
                                                                                                                                        Northeastern University
                                                                                                                                        Tracks:
                                                                                                                                          Tutorial: The Business and Technology of Quantum Computing, Quantum Algorithms for the Warfighter
                                                                                                                                          • Room: Granby D
                                                                                                                                          Approved for 3 CompTIA CEUs: A+ Quantum computing is a new model of computing, one that uses quantum mechanical effects to improve computational speed and power. Strong theoretical proofs show that, when certain engineering challenges are overcome, quantum devices can do amazing things. Quantum devices should be able to model chemical and molecular physics in ways that are impossible today, create proven guarantees of secure encryption, and crack current, RSA-based, encryption. Many other advances in the fields of cryptography, artificial intelligence, and optimization are also possible. However, current devices are still significantly limited. Today, we have so-called "NISQ" (Noisy, Intermediate-Scale Quantum) devices.... ...read more...
                                                                                                                                          Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                                          Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                          Gideon Bass, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                          Lead Data Scientist
                                                                                                                                          Booz Allen Hamilton
                                                                                                                                          Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                          Daniel Campbell, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                          Postdoctoral Associate, Research Laboratory of Electronics
                                                                                                                                          MIT
                                                                                                                                          Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                          JD Dulny, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                          Chief Scientist
                                                                                                                                          Booz Allen Hamilton
                                                                                                                                          Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                          Steven Silverman, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                          Systems Architect - Engineer
                                                                                                                                          General Atomics
                                                                                                                                          Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                          Casey Tomlin, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                          Lead Scientist
                                                                                                                                          Booz Allen Hamilton
                                                                                                                                          Tracks:

                                                                                                                                            Thursday, November 14, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

                                                                                                                                            Restricted Technical Panel: The Software-Defined Future of Air Force Communications and Networking
                                                                                                                                            • Room: Main H
                                                                                                                                            The "software-defined everything" paradigm shift challenges the status quo on how we view information technology (IT) infrastructure and information services provided therein.  This includes not just software-defined radio and networking, but also software-defined compute, storage, security, and data centers. Further, hardware advances dovetailing computing and apertures further fuels the digital revolution by enabling multi-function and multi-mission capabilities from a single aperture and/or distributed across many apertures. With the ability to execute multiple waveforms across multiple spectral bands, software-defined radios have not only opened the door to affordable, resilient communications with spectrum maneuverability, but also at the same time enabling networked electromagnetic spectrum operations from cyber to radar to electronic warfare. This... ...read more...
                                                                                                                                            Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                                            Moderator (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                            John D. Matyjas, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                            Chief Scientist, HQ ACC/ST
                                                                                                                                            US Air Force Air Combat Command
                                                                                                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                            Michael Gudaitis
                                                                                                                                            Air Force Research Laboratory, Principal Engineer
                                                                                                                                            Airborne Data Link Systems
                                                                                                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                            James Lyke, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                            Space Vehicles Directorate
                                                                                                                                            US Air Force Research Laboratory
                                                                                                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                            Scott Pudlewski, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                            Information Directorate
                                                                                                                                            US Air Force Research Laboratory
                                                                                                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                            Donna Cowell Senft, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                            Chief Scientist, Air Force Global Strike Command
                                                                                                                                            US Air Force
                                                                                                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                            Joseph E. Vanderpoorten
                                                                                                                                            Chief, SATCOM Advanced Concepts, Portfolio Architect Office, Space and Missile Systems Center
                                                                                                                                            US Air Force
                                                                                                                                            Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                            Col William E. Young, Jr.,USAF, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                            Special Advisor to the US Air Force Warfare Center Commander
                                                                                                                                            US Air Force
                                                                                                                                            Tracks:
                                                                                                                                              Technical Panel: Data-Centric Security – A New Approach to Protecting, Sharing and Controlling NATO Data Assets
                                                                                                                                              • Room: Granby AB
                                                                                                                                              Approved for 2 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, CySA+, CASP+, PenTest+; 2 CertNexus CFR CECs and 2 GIAC CPEs Recently, the Allied Command Transformation (ACT) has proposed a Vision and Strategy for adoption of a Data Centric Security (DCS) approach within the Alliance Federation. Data Centric Security has three main tenets where data is the key focus: Control, Protect and Share. As the Alliance Federation transitions to new CIS paradigms and faces increasingly changeable and dynamic operational conditions, understanding where data is located, how it flows, controlling its usage, identifying what risks it is exposed to and who is permitted to... ...read more...
                                                                                                                                              Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                                              Moderator (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                              Konrad Wrona, Dr.-Ing.
                                                                                                                                              Principal Scientist
                                                                                                                                              NATO Communications and Information Agency
                                                                                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                              Alan Borland
                                                                                                                                              Boldon James, UK
                                                                                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                              Patricia Lee
                                                                                                                                              ICAM Systems Engineer
                                                                                                                                              Office of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer (DoD CIO)
                                                                                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                              LtCol Abigail Parkinson
                                                                                                                                              NATO Allied Command Transformation
                                                                                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                              Hemma Prafullchandra
                                                                                                                                              Chief Technology Officer
                                                                                                                                              Microsoft 365 Security+ Compliance
                                                                                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                              Ryan Schultz
                                                                                                                                              NATO Data Management Capability Team Chair
                                                                                                                                              Data and Service Division, JS J6
                                                                                                                                              Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                              Gerry Talbert
                                                                                                                                              Principal Advisor Information Assurance and Security (IAS)|C4S Group
                                                                                                                                              Cyber and Information Systems Division, DSTL, UK
                                                                                                                                              Tracks:
                                                                                                                                                Technical Panel: Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in a Tactical Environment
                                                                                                                                                • Room: Fusion
                                                                                                                                                The objective of the Spectrum Aware Tactical Radio (SATR) Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) program is to maximize the use/reuse of limited spectrum, allow for spectrum sharing, seamlessly migrate wireless networks to better spectrum, and reduce operator workload. Environmental spectrum sensing, propagation modeling, spectrum management tools, and over-the-air control mechanisms are being implemented and integrated as software upgrades to the existing Army Program of Record (PoR) products for rapid transition to the user.     In Phase 1, the SATR DSA program implemented and demonstrated core functionality such as organic spectrum sensing in the waveform, seamless frequency change with no packet loss, DSA policy... ...read more...
                                                                                                                                                Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                                                Moderator (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                Joseph Snively
                                                                                                                                                SATR DSA Deputy PM and Tech Lead
                                                                                                                                                Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic
                                                                                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                George Elmasry
                                                                                                                                                Systems Engineer
                                                                                                                                                Collins Aerospace
                                                                                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                James "Jody" Neel, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                                Technical Director of Federal Business
                                                                                                                                                Federated Wireless
                                                                                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                George Palafox
                                                                                                                                                Co-lead, SAR&DP Dynamic Spectrum Access Rule Development and Validation Program, Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) CEMA Wargaming Effort, and ITN Spectrum Supportability Risk Assessment
                                                                                                                                                Army C5ISR
                                                                                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                Yuriy Posherstnik
                                                                                                                                                Lead, Strategic Initiatives Regulatory and Strategic Initiatives Branch Strategic Planning Division
                                                                                                                                                DISA DSO
                                                                                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                Greg Ross
                                                                                                                                                Engineer
                                                                                                                                                Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic
                                                                                                                                                Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                James Stevens, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                                Fellow
                                                                                                                                                Collins Aerospace
                                                                                                                                                Tracks:

                                                                                                                                                  Thursday, November 14, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

                                                                                                                                                  Exhibit Hours
                                                                                                                                                    Tracks:

                                                                                                                                                      Thursday, November 14, 9:40 AM - 10:55 AM

                                                                                                                                                      Technical Paper Session: BDML-5: Invited Presentations
                                                                                                                                                      • Room: Imagination
                                                                                                                                                      Chairs: Kevin S Chan (US Army Research Laboratory, USA), Ananthram Swami (Army Research Lab, USA) On Reliability of Interpretability Mechanisms Supriyo Chakraborty (IBM, USA) Adversaries on Large-Scale Networks: Detection and Defense Vassilis N. Ioannidis and Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA) Multi-Domain Effects and the Internet of Battlefield Things Stephen M. Russell ...
                                                                                                                                                      Tracks:

                                                                                                                                                        Thursday, November 14, 9:40 AM - 11:35 AM

                                                                                                                                                        Technical Paper Session: NPP-5: Wireless I
                                                                                                                                                        • Room: Momentum 2&3
                                                                                                                                                        Chair: Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy) Reinforcement Learning-Enabled Reliable Wireless Sensor Networks in Dynamic Underground Environments Hongzhi Guo and Bincy Ben (Norfolk State University, USA) Optimal Power Control with Channel Uncertainty in Ad Hoc Networks Shaoran Li, Thomas Hou and Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech, USA); Brian Jalaian (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Stephen Russell (United States Army Research Laboratory, USA); Benjamin MacCall (CCDC Army Research Laboratory, USA) Massive MIMO for Tactical Ad-hoc Networks in RF Contested Environments Asanka Kekirigoda and Kin-Ping Hui (Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia); Qingqing Cheng (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Zhipeng Lin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China & University of Technology Sydney, Australia); J. Andrew Zhang, Diep N. Nguyen and Xiaojing Huang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Break Autonomic Clustering in Temporal Network Graphs Joseph... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                                                          Technical Paper Session: WSP-5: Wireless Networks
                                                                                                                                                          • Room: Momentum 1
                                                                                                                                                          Chair: Brian Jalaian (US Army Research Laboratory, USA) Optimizing Drone Deployment for Cellular Communication Coverage During Crowded Events Chérifa Boucetta (University Paris Descartes & LIPADE, France); Aicha Dridi (Telecom Sud Paris, France); Hassine Moungla (University of Paris Descartes & Instiut Mines Telecom, France); Hossam Afifi (Télécom SudParis, Institut Telecom & Paris Saclay, France); Ahmed E. Kamal (Iowa State University, USA) SSB and DSB Enabled Hybrid Waveforms for the Space-Ground Link System Dan Shen (Intelligent Fusion Technology, USA); Khanh D. Pham (Air Force Research Laboratory & Space Vehicles Directorate, USA); Genshe Chen (Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc, USA) A Multi-waveform Radio Receiver, an Example of Machine Learning Enabled Radio Architecture and Design Wade Leonard, Alex Saunders, Michael Calabro and Katherine Olsen (Booz Allen Hamilton, USA) Break Very High Throughput... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                                                            Thursday, November 14, 9:40 AM - 12:00 PM

                                                                                                                                                            Technical Paper Session: CSTC-6: IoT Security
                                                                                                                                                            • Room: Energy 1
                                                                                                                                                            Chair: Hasan Cam (Army Research Laboratory, USA) IoTSpot: Identifying the IoT Devices Using Their Anonymous Network Traffic Data Liangdong Deng, Yuzhou Feng, Dong Chen and Naphtali Rishe (Florida International University, USA) Real-Time and Embedded Deep Learning on FPGA for RF Signal Classification Sohraab Soltani, Yalin E Sagduyu and Raqibul Hasan (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Kemal Davaslioglu (Intelligent Automation, Inc, USA); Hongmei Deng (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA); Tugba Erpek (Virginia Tech, USA) A Gini Index-Based Countermeasure Against Sybil Attack in the Internet of Things Bryan Groves and Cong Pu (Marshall University, USA) Break Scalable Blockchain Implementation for Edge-based Internet of Things Platform Abel O Gomez Rivera (University of Texas at El Paso, USA); Deepak K Tosh (University of Texas, El Paso, USA); Laurent Njilla (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA) Privacy-preserving Crowd-sensing for Dynamic Spectrum... ...read more...
                                                                                                                                                            Tracks:
                                                                                                                                                              Technical Paper Session: SYS-5: Tactical Networking and Spectrum Operations - II
                                                                                                                                                              • Room: Energy 2
                                                                                                                                                              Chair: Tugba Erpek (Virginia Tech, USA) Managing Video Streaming in Tactical Networks Roberto Fronteddu (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Daniel Reyes Duran (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA); Adrien M Moucheboeuf (Florida Institute For Human and Machine Cognition, USA); Rita Lenzi and Alessandro Morelli (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA) High Fidelity LTE Waveform Modeling for Commercial-DoD Spectrum Sharing: Characteristics and Methods Yuriy Posherstnik (DISA Defense Spectrum Organization, USA); Howard McDonald (DISA & DSO, USA); Darcy Swain Walsh, Jeffery Correia, Venkatesh Ramaswamy and Cameron Patterson (The MITRE Corporation, USA); Anthony Rennier (Foundry, Inc., USA); Mike E DiFrancisco (Virginia Tech Applied Research Corp. & Virginia Tech,... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                                                                Thursday, November 14, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

                                                                                                                                                                Networking Coffee Break
                                                                                                                                                                • Room: Main and Granby Ballroom Foyers

                                                                                                                                                                  Thursday, November 14, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

                                                                                                                                                                  Plenary Panel: Homeland and Critical Infrastructure Security for Multi-Domain
                                                                                                                                                                  • Room: Granby E
                                                                                                                                                                  Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                                                                  Moderator (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                                  Robert "Bob" J. Butler
                                                                                                                                                                  Managing Director
                                                                                                                                                                  Cyber Strategies LLC
                                                                                                                                                                  Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                                  William A. Burket, Jr.
                                                                                                                                                                  Director of Maritime Incident Response Team and Emergency Operations
                                                                                                                                                                  Port of Virginia
                                                                                                                                                                  Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                                  CAPT Kevin M. Carroll, USCG
                                                                                                                                                                  Commander
                                                                                                                                                                  Sector Hampton Roads
                                                                                                                                                                  Panelist (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                                  COL Jeffrey M. Erickson, USA
                                                                                                                                                                  Chief of Staff
                                                                                                                                                                  Army Cyber Institute
                                                                                                                                                                  Tracks:

                                                                                                                                                                    Thursday, November 14, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

                                                                                                                                                                    Luncheon Keynote: Senior Leader Perspectives - Research & Closing Remarks
                                                                                                                                                                    • Room: Main Ballroom
                                                                                                                                                                    Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                                                                    Keynote (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                                    Timothy "Tim" Grayson, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                                                    Director, Strategic Technology Office (STO)
                                                                                                                                                                    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
                                                                                                                                                                    Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                                    Vincent W.S. Chan, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                                                    Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor of EECS, MIT
                                                                                                                                                                    President Elect, IEEE Communications Society
                                                                                                                                                                    Tracks:

                                                                                                                                                                      Thursday, November 14, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

                                                                                                                                                                      Technical Paper Session: NPP-6: Wireless II
                                                                                                                                                                      • Room: Momentum 2&3
                                                                                                                                                                      Chair: Claudiu Danilov (Boeing Research & Technology, USA) P4-based Hybrid Error Control Booster Providing New Design Tradeoffs in Wireless Network Anthony J McAuley and Yitzchak M. Gottlieb (Perspecta Labs, USA); Latha Kant (Perspecta Labs - Formerly Bellcore, USA); John Lee (Applied Communication Sciences, USA); Alexander Poylisher (Perspecta Labs, USA) Mitigation of Civilian-to-Military Interference in DSRC for Urban Operations Seungmo Kim and Tsigigenet Dessalgn (Georgia Southern University, USA) CH-MAC: A Cluster-based, Hybrid TDMA MAC Protocol over Wireless Ad-hoc Networks Hoyong Choi (KAIST, Korea); Jihwan Bang (Search Solutions, Inc., Korea); Namjo Ahn and Jinhwan Jung (KAIST, Korea); Jungwook Choi and SooBum Park (LIG Nex1 co., ltd., Korea); Yung Yi (KAIST, Korea) ...
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                                                                                                                                                                        Thursday, November 14, 2:00 PM - 4:35 PM

                                                                                                                                                                        Technical Paper Session: CSTC-7: Cyber Attack & Counter Measures
                                                                                                                                                                        • Room: Energy 1
                                                                                                                                                                        Chair: Ignacio Aguilar Sanchez (European Space Agency & IEEE Member, The Netherlands) Dynamic Generation of Empirical Cyberattack Models with Engineered Alert Features Ahmet Okutan, Fu-Yuan Cheng, Shao-Hsuan Su and Shanchieh Jay Yang (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) Detecting Cellphone Camera Status at Distance by Exploiting Electromagnetic Emanations Baki B Yilmaz, Elvan Ugurlu, Milos Prvulovic and Alenka Zajic (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Model-Guided Infection Prediction and Active Defense Using Context- Specific Cybersecurity Observations Hasan Cam (Army Research Laboratory, USA) Break Warder: Online Insider Threat Detection System Using Multi-Feature Modeling and Graph-Based Correlation Jianguo Jiang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Jiuming Chen and Tianbo Gu (University of California, Davis, USA); Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Chao Liu (Institude of Information... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                                                                          Technical Paper Session: NATO: Special Session on NATO Interoperability and Information Sharing
                                                                                                                                                                          • Room: Energy 2
                                                                                                                                                                          On the Use of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) in Support of Developing the Commander's Understanding of the Adversary Manisha Parmar (NATO CIS Agency, The Netherlands); Alberto Domingo (NATO Allied Command Transformation, USA) Coalition C3 Information Exchange Using Binary Symbolic Vectors Graham Bent (IBM UK, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chris Simpkin and Ian Taylor (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alun Preece (Crime and Security Research Institute, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Richard Tomsett (IBM UK, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Raghu Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA); Olwen Worthington (Dstl, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) Leveraging and Fusing Civil and Military Sensors to Support Disaster Relief Operations in Smart Environments Konrad Wrona (NATO Communications and Information Agency, The Netherlands & Military University of... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                                                                            Thursday, November 14, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

                                                                                                                                                                            Technical Paper Session: BDML-6: Special Session on IoBT
                                                                                                                                                                            • Room: Imagination
                                                                                                                                                                            Chair: Stephen Russell (United States Army Research Laboratory, USA) MARGOT: Dynamic IoT Resource Discovery for HADR Environments Lorenzo Campioni (University of Ferrara, Italy); Rita Lenzi (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA); Filippo Poltronieri (University of Ferrara, Italy); Manas Pradhan (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany); Mauro Tortonesi and Cesare Stefanelli (University of Ferrara, Italy); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA) A Dynamic Transport Overlay System for Mission-Oriented Dispersed Computing over IoBT Adrian Conway (BAE Systems, USA); Michael Wang (BAE Systems, Inc., USA); Emir Ljuca and David Lebling (BAE Systems, USA) The Case for Robust Adaptation: Autonomic Resource Management is a Vulnerability Joseph Noor (University of Califorinia, Los Angeles, USA); Ahmed Ali-Eldin (UMass, Amherst, USA); Luis A Garcia (University of California, Los... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                                                                              Tutorial: 5G Demystified: Architecture and Technologies
                                                                                                                                                                              • Room: Fraim
                                                                                                                                                                              Approved for 3 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+ This tutorial aims to provide attendees a solid understanding of the emerging Fifth-Generation (5G) wireless communications architecture. The tutorial will discuss the various technologies that will compromise the overall 5G network architecture and how these technologies are either complimentary or competitive in nature. This tutorial will provide attendees with a strong familiarity of 1) the emerging 5G cellular standards as defined in 3GPP Release 15 and 16, and 2) key IEEE 802.11 technologies that are emerging to support 5G usage cases.  Rather than simply regurgitating material directly from standards documents, this tutorial will present material... ...read more...
                                                                                                                                                                              Speaker(s)
                                                                                                                                                                              Speaker (confirmed)
                                                                                                                                                                              Jack L. Burbank
                                                                                                                                                                              Senior Wireless Network Engineer
                                                                                                                                                                              Sabre Systems
                                                                                                                                                                              Tracks:
                                                                                                                                                                                Tutorial: Getting to Understand Software Model Checking - An Essential Technology for Cybersecurity
                                                                                                                                                                                • Room: Granby D
                                                                                                                                                                                Approved for 3 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+; 3 CertNexus CFR CECs; 3 GIAC CPEs Fundamentally, the safety and cyber security problems stem from the complexities inherent in the software at the heart of cyber-physical systems. The objective of the tutorial is to expose the attendees to software model checking as a state-of-the-art technology for verifying critical software.  Software model checking is the algorithmic analysis of programs to prove properties of their executions. It traces its roots to logic and theorem proving, both to provide the conceptual framework in which to formalize the fundamental questions and to provide algorithmic procedures for the analysis... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                                                                                Suraj "Suresh" Kothari, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                                                                Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
                                                                                                                                                                                Iowa State University
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                                                                                                                                                                                  Thursday, November 14, 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                  Technical Panel: Building an Agile Co-Innovation Framework for Addressing NATO’s Emerging Technological Challenges
                                                                                                                                                                                  • Room: Fusion
                                                                                                                                                                                  There is a need for a mechanism and toolset to enable innovation-focused collaboration among NATO, NATO nations, academia and industry and provide an incubation capability to help close an existing gap in the Idea-to-Operational Use process.  The objective would be to reduce a noticeable duplication of efforts within NATO and NATO nations caused by limited coordination of similar efforts (e.g. exploration of AI technologies) - and to increase reuse of resulting products. An Innovation Framework that would harmonize innovation activities and products, addressing the major steps that span across the end-to-end process of Idea-to-Operational Use. The objective of the panel is... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                                                                                  Konrad Wrona, Dr.-Ing.
                                                                                                                                                                                  Principal Scientist
                                                                                                                                                                                  NATO Communications and Information Agency
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                                                                                                                                                                                  Alex Kott, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                                                                  Chief Scientist
                                                                                                                                                                                  US Army Research Laboratory
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                                                                                                                                                                                  Peter Lenk, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                                                                  Chief Scientist
                                                                                                                                                                                  NATO Communications and Information Agency
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                                                                                                                                                                                  Milica Pejanović-Djurišić, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                                                                  Professor, Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Montenegro at UN
                                                                                                                                                                                  United Nations
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                                                                                                                                                                                  Katy Person
                                                                                                                                                                                  Program Manager
                                                                                                                                                                                  MIT Innovation Initiative – Mission Innovation Lab
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                                                                                                                                                                                  Krzysztof Skurzak
                                                                                                                                                                                  Innovation Branch, NATO Allied Command Transformation
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                                                                                                                                                                                    Technical Panel: Managing the Electromagnetic Battle
                                                                                                                                                                                    • Room: Granby AB
                                                                                                                                                                                    Approved for 2 CompTIA CEUs: A+, Network+, Security+ The Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) is a maneuver space that is an integral part of all domains and many argue it is a warfighting domain itself.  Observations of our near peers and their investments and operations indicate it will be a highly contested maneuver space.  Competing and winning in this maneuver space will be contingent on our ability to conduct dynamic spectrum operations which in turn depends on our ability to command and control and to manage the maneuver of spectrum dependent systems (SDSs) in the EMS.  Currently, there is a Joint effort to... ...read more...
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                                                                                                                                                                                    John Stine, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                                                                    Department Head
                                                                                                                                                                                    The MITRE Corporation
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                                                                                                                                                                                    Lt Col Jesse "Judge" Bourque, USAF (Ret.)
                                                                                                                                                                                    Consulting Analyst, U.S. Department of Defense
                                                                                                                                                                                    Director, Expression Networks LLC
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                                                                                                                                                                                    William "Bill" Conley, Ph.D.
                                                                                                                                                                                    Chief Technology Officer
                                                                                                                                                                                    Mercury Systems
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                                                                                                                                                                                    Daniel McNamara
                                                                                                                                                                                    Program Analyst in EMS Requirements
                                                                                                                                                                                    Joint Electromagnetic Warfare Center
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                                                                                                                                                                                      Thursday, November 14, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

                                                                                                                                                                                      Technical Paper Session: NPP-7: Transport Protocols II
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Room: Momentum 2&3
                                                                                                                                                                                      Chair: Joseph P. Macker (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Pub/Sub-Sum: Content-summarization-based Pub/Sub Protocol on Information-centric Networks Jongdeog Lee and Suk Min Hwang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Kelvin Marcus (Army Research Laboratory, USA); Kevin S Chan (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA) An Evaluation of Consensus Latency in Partitioning Networks Jason A Tran, Gowri Ramachandran and Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA); Claudiu Danilov (Boeing Research & Technology, USA) ...
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