Program

Please find below the final ConTEL 2023 program-at-a glance, along with a detailed program across all sessions.

The Registration desk will be open half an hour before the start of the daily program of the conference.

Authors can also view the program and access the participants’ proceedings in EDAS.

The conference program takes place in the Main lecture room (HS-i2), and the CEEPUS workshop and the PhD Forum will take place in the Seminar room (HF01092).

Program at-a-glance

You can download the program-at-a-glance as PDF here (updated: July 7, 2023).

Schedule of presentations

Time Tuesday, July 11 Wednesday, July 12 Thursday, July 13
8:30 – 9:00 Registration
8:30-9:00		 Registration
8:30-9:00		 Registration
8:30-9:00
9:00 ‑ 9:30

Opening session and Keynote talk by Mariusz Glabowsky
9:00-10:30

 Networks and Protocols
9:00-10:40		 CEEPUS Workshop 3
9:00-10:40		 General track 1
9:00-10:20		 PhD Forum (presentations)
9:00-10:20
 
9:30 ‑ 10:20
10:20 ‑ 10:30 Coffee break
10:20-10:50
10:30 ‑ 10:40 Coffee break
10:30-11:00
10:40 ‑ 10:50 Coffee break
10:40-11:10
10:50 ‑ 11:00 General track 2
10:50-12:10		 PhD Forum (poster session)
10:50-12:10
11:00 ‑ 11:10 Optical Communications
11:00-12:40
 		 CEEPUS Workshop 1
11:10 ‑ 12:10 Keynote talk by Michael Bergman
11:10-12:10
12:10 ‑ 12:30 Lunch break
12:10-13:10		 Closing Session
12:10-12:40
12:30 ‑ 12:40  
12:40 ‑ 13:10 Lunch break
12:40-13:40
 

Excursion to Zotter and Buschenschank 13:00-20:00 (bus leaves at 13:00)

— please sign up at the Registration desk as soon as possible —

Awards ceremony
13:10 ‑ 13:40 Invited talk by Galia Marinova
13:10-13:40
13:40 ‑ 14:10 Invited talk by Slavisa Aleksic
13:40-14:10		 New Educational Paradigms in Telecomunications
13:40-15:20
14:10 ‑ 14:40 Coffee break
14:10-14:40
14:40 ‑ 15:20

Information & Communication Technologies 1

14:40-16:00

(Coffee break between Part 1 and Part 2)

 CEEPUS Workshop 2
14:40-17:20
15:20 ‑ 15:50

Coffee break
15:20-15:50
15:50 ‑ 16:00 RF Technologies
15:50-17:10		 CEEPUS Workshop 4
15:50-17:10
16:00 ‑ 17:10 Information & Communication Technologies 2
16:00-17:20
17:10 ‑ 17:20    

All accepted papers in respective sessions are listed below.

For more information on Keynote and Invited talks and speakers, please use the menu on the webpage.

List of accepted papers is also available as PDF here.

Tuesday, July 11

Opening session

Opening address
Prof. Erich Leitgeb, Honorary Chair

Welcome address
Prof. Harald Kainz, Rector of Graz University of Technology

Introduction to the conference program
Prof. Wilfried Gappmair, General Chair

Keynote talk by Mariusz Glabowsky

Optical Communications

Experimental Evaluation of LED-based Wearable Transmitter for Optical Camera Communications Systems
Eleni Niarchou (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain); Vicente Matus (IDeTIC-ULPGC, Spain); Rafael Perez-Jimenez (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain); Jose Rabadan (IDeTIC-ULPGC, Spain); Victor Guerra (Pi-lighting, Italy)
A Scalable Infrastructure for Continuous State of Polarisation Monitoring for Revealing Security and Vulnerability Impacts in Optical Networks
Thomas Dreibholz (Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering, Norway); Steinar Bjørnstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Jameel Ali (Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering, Norway)
Visible Light Technologies for the Industrial Internet of Things
Ziad Salem (Joanneum Research, Austria); Christian Krutzler (Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria); Christian Fragner and Andreas P. Weiss (Joanneum Research, Austria)
Visual Light Sensing for IoT Sensor Networks: A Use Case for Monitoring Rotating Shaft Conditions in Industrial Applications
Christian Fragner (Joanneum Research, Austria); Christian Krutzler (Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria); Andreas P. Weiss (Joanneum Research, Austria); Erich Leitgeb (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Smartphone Beam Profile in a Screen-to-Camera-based Optical Communication System
Vaigai Nayaki Yokar, Hoa Le Minh, Zabih Ghassemlooy and Othman Isam Younus (Northumbria University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Luis Nero Alves (DETI, Universidade of Aveiro, Instituto de Telecomunicações & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Wai Lok Woo (Northumbria University & Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Turky Almutairi (Northumbria University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Invited talk by Slavisa Aleksic

Information & Communication Technologies 1

Using Web Server Logs to Identify and Comprehend Anomalous User Activity
Lenka Benova (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia); Ladislav Hudec (Faculty of Informatics and Information Technology, Slovak Technical University, Slovakia)
Energy Optimization of a Base Station using Q-learning Algorithm
Anisha Aggarwal and Dharmaraja Selvamuthu (IIT Delhi, India)
Tackling Trust and Scalability of the Blockchain-based Shared Manufacturing concept
Jay Bojič Burgos (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia); Matevž Pustišek (University of Ljubljana & Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Slovenia)
Squeezing the Most Out of Congestion Window for Self-Clocked Rate Adaptation Algorithm in a 5G Environment
Haider Dhia Zubaydi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Ahmed Samir Jagmagji (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary & College of Engineering, Iraq); Sándor Molnár (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Information & Communication Technologies 2

Secure Data Aggregation in Cultural Heritage Monitoring: NMEC Case Study
Raghda Samir, Salsabeel Adel and Irene Fahim (Nile University, Egypt); Tawfik Ismail (Cairo University & Nile University, Egypt)
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing approach in C-V2X
L P. F, Jr. (University of Tongji & School of Electronics and Information Engineering, China); Xin-Lin Huang (Tongji University, China)
Navigating the Cyber Frontier: Youth Capabilities to Confront Dis/Misinformation with Digital Literacy and Digital Security
Amia Luthfia and Fitrie Handayani (Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia); Frederik Gasa (BINUS University, Jakarta, Indonesia); Sari Ramadanty (Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia); Abdul Rauf Ridzuan (Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia)
Detecting Anomalies in Firewall Logs using Artificially Generated Attacks
Adrian Komadina (University of Zagreb, Croatia); Ivan Kovačević (University of Zagreb & Innovation Centre Nikola Tesla, Croatia); Bruno Štengl and Stjepan Gros (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Wednesday, July 12

Networks and Protocols

Integrated Trust-Clustering and Dijkstra Routing Algorithms for Energy-Efficient WSNs
Salsabeel Adel, Raghda Samir and Irene Fahim (Nile University, Egypt); Tawfik Ismail (Cairo University & Nile University, Egypt)
Evaluating Secure Variants of the MQTT protocol on Resource-Constraint Devices for Precision Agriculture
Mislav Has, Mario Kusek and Ivana Podnar Zarko (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Analytical Modeling of the Influence of Connection Handoff on Blocking Probabilities in 5G Mobile Networks
Maciej Sobieraj and Mariusz Glabowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Investigating the effect of Region of Interest coding on the QoE of FPV drone piloting under adverse network conditions
Lovro Boban (University of Zagreb, Croatia); Lorenzo Catania and Dario Allegra (University of Catania, Italy); Mirko Suznjevic (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia)
Evaluation of Inter-dataset Generalisability of Autoencoders for Network Intrusion Detection
Ivan Sičić (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia); Nikola Petrović (University of Zagreb, Croatia); Karlo Slovenec and Miljenko Mikuc (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia)

Keynote talk by Michael Bergman

Invited talk by Galia Marinova

New Educational Paradigms in Telecommunications

A Practical Teaching Tool for Optical Camera Communications
Vicente Matus (IDeTIC-ULPGC, Spain); Shivani Rajendra Teli (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic); Carmen Lidia Aguiar and Jose Rabadan (IDeTIC-ULPGC, Spain); Stanislav Zvanovec (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Rafael Perez-Jimenez (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
A Unified Course Module on 5G and Fixed 5G Networks
Dimitrios Uzunidis (University of West Attica, Greece); Gerasimos Pagiatakis (School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Greece); Ioannis Moscholios (University of Peloponnese, Greece); Michael D. Logothetis (University of Patras, Greece)
Inclusion of Green-themed Serious Games based on Emerging Technologies into Non-green-themed Higher Education Courses
Iva Zekić (University of Zagreb, Croatia); Jurica Babic (University of Zagreb & Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia); Ivana Gace (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia)
MCDA Approaches for Automatic Tool Selection in a Cloud-based Online-CADCOM Platform
Vassil Guliashki (Institute of Information Technologies – BAS, Bulgaria); Galia Marinova (Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria); Ognyan Chikov (Technical University-Sofia, Bulgaria)
IoT Approach for Improving the Energy Efficiency in the Durres Port Authority Buildings
Vassil Guliashki (Institute of Information Technologies – BAS, Bulgaria); Galia Marinova (Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria); Manjola Zeneli (Academic & Assistant Lecturer, Albania)

RF Technologies

In-Flight Logic Analysis on OPS-SAT
Maximilian Henkel and Andreas Hörmer (Graz University of Technology, Austria); David Evans (ESA/ESOC, Germany); Manuela Wenger (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Unconstrained Quantum Genetic Algorithm for Massive MIMO System
Abdulbasit M. A. Sabaawi and Mohammed Almasaoodi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Hungary); Sara El gaily (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Sándor Imre (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary)
Approach to QoS Prediction Leveraging Impact of Beaulieu-Xie Fading and κ-µ Co-Channel Interference on SC Diversity Receiver Outage Probability
Dragana Krstić (University of Niš, Serbia); Suad Suljovic (Academy of Technical Professional Studies Belgradе, Serbia); Dejan N Milic (University of Niš & Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Serbia); Nenad Petrovic (University of Nis, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Serbia)
Leveraging Wake-Up Radios in UAV-Aided LoRa Networks: Some Preliminary Results on a Random-Access Scheme
Shashank Panga (IIT Bhubaneswar, India); Siddhartha S. Borkotoky (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)

Thursday, July 13

General track 1

Remote monitoring system based on cross-hole GPR and deep learning
Pongrac Blaz and Dušan Gleich (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
Determining Resource Utilization in Cloud Systems: An Analytical Algorithm for IaaS Architecture
Michal Weissenberg, Slawomir Hanczewski and Maciej Stasiak (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Smart Home Notifications in Croatian Language: A Transformer-Based Approach
Renato Soic (University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia); Magdalena Simunec (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Assessment of Varied User Representations and XR Environments in Consumer-Grade XR Telemeetings
Mirta Moslavac, Lea Brzica, Lucija Drozd, Neda Kusurin, Sara Vlahovic and Lea Skorin-Kapov (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia)

PhD Forum (presentations)

Semi-Supervised Approach of Predicting Aqueous Solubility using Few-Shot Learning
Domagoj Begušić (University of Zagreb, Croatia); Damir Pintar (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia)
System for Generating and Detecting Quasi-Continuous THz Waves Based on Photoconductive Antennas and a single laser diode
Pongrac Blaz and Andrej Sarjas (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
Scalability, Trust and Functionality: The Key Factors of Blockchain in Shared Manufacturing
Jay Bojič Burgos (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia); Matevž Pustišek (University of Ljubljana & Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Slovenia)
Liquid Crystal based Reconfigurable Antennas for Indoor-Localization Applications
Gerzon Gomez-Bravo and Reinhard Teschl (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Wolfgang Bosch (Graz University of Technology & Institute of Microwave and Photonic Engineering, Austria)
Advancing Automotive Monitoring Systems and Wireless Connectivity in Harsh Environments
Daniel Kraus (Pro2Future GmbH & Graz University of Technology, Austria); Erich Leitgeb (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
A Ka-band 8W GaN MMIC DPA with On-Chip Phase Tuning Featuring a Novel Doherty Combiner
Jose Romero Lopera, Michael Gadringer and Erich Leitgeb (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Modulation Techniques for Visible Light Communication Communicating Wristband Application
Saman Zahiri-Rad (Institute of Microwave and Photonic Engineering, Technical University Graz); Erich Leitgeb (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

General track 2

10G flow aggregation using commodity hardware
Karlo Slovenec (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia); Lovre Gusar (University of Zagreb, Croatia); Ivan Sičić and Miljenko Mikuc (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia)
A Non-Interfering Radio Communication System for the SKA Astronomy Project
Riaan Wolhuter (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa); Jason Fynn (SA Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa)
Distributed Location-Aware IoT Device Control Based on Indoor Positioning
Ivan Čilić (University of Zagreb Faculty of EE and Computing, Croatia); Dora Kreković, Ivana Podnar Zarko and Mario Kusek (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
A novel dynamic service function chaining to enable Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication in NFV
Mohammad Mohammadi Erbati (Deutsche Telekom Technik GmbH, Germany); Gregor Schiele (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

PhD Forum (poster session)

(session continues, see the list of presentations above)

Closing Session

Awards ceremony combined with the social event on Thursday.