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Connecting physical and virtual worlds
ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference
Online, 6-10 December 2021
(Updated on 10 December 2021)

Contact: kaleidoscope@itu.int

Day 1  – Monday, 6 December 2021 (Time zone - UTC+1)

10:30-11:00	Join session to test connection
11:00-11:20	Opening plenary Master of Ceremony: Alessia Magliarditi, Kaleidoscope Coordinator, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU Welcome remarks: Chaesub Lee, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU Welcome remarks: Mario Maniewicz, Director, Radiocommunication Bureau, ITU
11:20-12:20	Keynote session 6G Technologies for mobile connected intelligence [Presentation] Geng Wu, Intel Fellow, Intel Corporation, USA Sustainability and spectrum management in the 6G era [Presentation] Marja Matinmikko-Blue, Director of Sustainability and Regulation, 6G Flagship, University of Oulu, Finland Session chair: Martin Adolph, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
12:20-12:40	Coffee break
12:40-13:50	Session 1 – Enabling future wireless communication systems Session chair: Christoph Dosch, ITU-R Study Group 6 Vice-Chairman; ARD, Germany S1.1 Proposal for a user-centric RAN architecture towards beyond 5G [Presentation] Kosuke Yamazaki, Takeo Ohseki, Yoshiaki Amano, Hiroyuki Shinbo, Takahide Murakami and Yoji Kishi (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan) S1.2 Towards a robust new radio compatible with XR* [Presentation] Yuzhou Hu, Jiajun Xu, Xiaoying Ma, Mengzhu Chen, Hong Tang and Jun Xu (State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia Technology, ZTE Corporation, China) S1.3 A design of NB-IoT random access preamble receiver for large frequency offset [Presentation] Chenchen Zhang (State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia Technology, ZTE Corporation, China); Nan Zhang, Wei Cao and Kaibo Tian (ZTE Corporation, China); Zhen Yang (State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia Technology, ZTE Corporation, China) S1.4 Optimal pilot sequence design for machine learning based channel estimation in FDD massive MIMO systems* [Presentation] Hayder AL-Salihi, Mohammed Al-Gharbawi (Iraqi Communications & Media Commission, Iraq); Fatin Said (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
13:50-14:30	Video Demonstration Track – Part I Enabling cyber defence in Africa through standardization [Abstract; Video] Mwende Njiraini (DiploFoundation, Kenya), Racky Seye (Ministry of Digital Economy and Telecommunications of Senegal, Senegal) Securing critical infrastructures by discovering hidden vulnerabilities [Abstract; Video] Talha Siddiqui (aDolus Technology Inc., Canada) Moderator: Duncan Sparrell, CISSP, CSSLP, CCSK, Senior Member IEEE; sFractal Consulting, USA

Day 2 – Tuesday, 7 December 2021 (Time zone - UTC+1)

10:30-11:00	Join session to test connection
11:00-11:30	Invited paper Deviceless: A serverless approach for the Internet of Things [Presentation] Zakaria Benomar, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino and Antonio Puliafito (University of Messina, Italy and CINI: National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics, Italy) Session chair: Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Kaleidoscope Technical Programme Committee Chair
11:30-12:30	Session 2 – Networking requirements and solutions for IoT and industrial applications Session chair: Eva Ibarrola, University of the Basque Country, Spain S2.1 Optimizing packet transmission for ledger-based points transfer system in LPWAN: Solutions, evaluation and standardization [Presentation] Xin Qi, Keping Yu and Toshio Sato (Waseda University, Japan); Kouichi Shibata (Skeed Co., Ltd., Japan); Eric Brigham, Takanori Tokutake, Rikiya Eguchi, Yusuke Maruyama, Zheng Wen, Kazuhiko Tamesue, Yutaka Katsuyama, Kazue Sako and Takuro Sato (Waseda University, Japan) S2.2 Enhancing the system model for home interior design using augmented reality [Presentation] Dhananjay Kumar and Panchalingam Srinidhy (Anna University, India); Ved P. Kafle (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) S2.3 Future industrial networks: Requirements, challenges, research and standardization needs [Presentation] Marco Carugi (Huawei Technologies, European Research Center, France) and Zhe Lou (Huawei Technologies, European Research Center, Germany)
12:30-12:50	Coffee break
12:50-14:20	Special invited session on Digital empowering Cultural Heritage… and vice-versa Panellists: Computational Museology: Experimental Interfaces to Cultural (Big) Data Sarah Kenderdine, Professor of Digital Museology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Non-Fungible Token (NFT) and Digital Twins Olivia Menaguale, Chair of IEEE IoT for Tourism and Cultural Heritage Creating Digital Twins for Cultural Heritage - View from the Lab! Martin Schurig, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research, Darmstadt, Germany Enabling the Metaverse in the Smart Cities as a potential tool for Cultural Heritage Applications Victor M. Larios, Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Research Centre in Systems & Information Management (CISGI) at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico Community engagement: creating digital culture standards for connecting experts and the public Hong (Norman) Chen, Professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, and Rapporteur of ITU-T Q23/16 (Digital culture-related systems and services) Digital empowering Cultural Heritage and vice versa, creating the standards Panel discussion with all panellists Session Chair and moderator: Olivia Menaguale, Chair of IEEE IoT for Tourism and Cultural Heritage

Day 3 – Wednesday, 8 December 2021 (Time zone - UTC+1)

10:30-11:00	Join session to test connection
11:00-11:30	Invited paper Quantum key distribution networks for trusted 5G and beyond: An ITU-T standardization perspective [Presentation] Taesang Choi, Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea (Rep. of); Hyungsoo Kim, KT, Korea (Rep. of); Jeongyun Kim, Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea (Rep. of); Chun Seok Yoon, KT, Korea (Rep. of); Gyu Myoung Lee, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (Rep. of) Session chair: Reinhard Scholl, Deputy Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
11:30-12:30	Session 3 – Contributions to security Session chair: Gyu Myoung Lee, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom S3.1 Strengthen the security of cyberspace with device-independent quantum randomness [Presentation] Ming-Han Li (CAS Quantum Network Co., Ltd., China); Qiang Zhang (Jinan Institute of Quantum Technology, China) S3.2 Abnormal activity recognition using deep learning in streaming video for indoor application [Presentation] Dhananjay Kumar and Srinivasan Ramapriya Sailaja (Anna University, India) S3.3 Research on security and privacy for IoT-domotics [Presentation] Jinxue Cheng and Xiaoming Lu (China Mobile (Hang Zhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd, China); Qin Qiu (China Mobile Communications Group Co. Ltd, China); Qing Lu (China Mobile (Hang Zhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd, China)
12:30-12:45	Ariella Vidach, Choreographer and Dancer, Italy/Switzerland Claudio Prati, Performance Director and Videomaker, Italy/Switzerland
12:45-12:50	Coffee break
12:50-13:30	Session 4 – Policies and ontology for security management Session chair: Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Kaleidoscope Technical Programme Committee Chair S4.1 Collaborative 5G multiaccess computing security: Threats, protection requirements and scenarios* [Presentation] Gang Zhao, Feng Zhang, Le Yu, Hongyang Zhang, Qin Qiu and Sijia Xu (China Mobile, China) S4.2 Security vulnerability expressions: A technology for empowering novice practitioners around the world with security maturity capabilities* [Presentation] Jacques Francoeur (Security Inclusion Now, USA)
13:30-14:10	Video Demonstration Track – Part II The CAVIAR framework: Simulation of 5G/B5G systems in virtual worlds [Abstract; Video] Felipe Bastos, Daniel Suzuki, Ailton Oliveira, João Borges, Cleverson Veloso Nahum, Ingrid Nascimento, Ilan Corrêa (Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Brazil), Pedro Batista (Ericsson Research, Sweden), Aldebaro Klautau (Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Brazil) Green tethered UAVs for EMF-aware cellular networks [Abstract; Video] Zhengying Lou (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Elzanaty (University of Surrey, UK), Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia) Moderator: Thomas Basikolo, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU

Day 4 – Thursday, 9 December 2021 (Time zone - UTC+1)

10:30-11:00	Join session to test connection
11:00-12:00	Session 5 – Augmented reality and machine learning for future spatial applications and services Session chair: Ved P. Kafle, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan S5.1 Building a distributed XR immersive environment for data visualization* [Presentation] Fernando Beltrán and Jing Geng (University of Auckland, New Zealand) S5.2 Assessment of spatial intervention of public spaces by locative augmented reality games players [Presentation] Fadzidah Abdullah and Mohd Faredzuan Mohd Noor (International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia); Mohd Raziff Abdul Razak (British Malaysian Institute, University Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) S5.3 Identification of deadliest mosquitoes using wing beats sound classification on tiny embedded system using machine learning and edge impulse platform [Presentation] Kirankumar Trivedi and Harsh Shroff (Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Ahmedabad, India)
12:00-12:30	Keynote session Exploring the essence of communication to reach the heart [Presentation] Takeshi Yamada, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Session chair: Mitsuji Matsumoto, Waseda University Emeritus Professor, Japan
12:30-12:50	Coffee break
12:50-13:50	Session 6 – Machine learning for next generation wireless network Session chair: Vishnu Ram OV, Independent Consultant and co-organizer of the ITU AI/ML in 5G Challenge S6.1 Wireless channel scenario recognition based on neural networks [Presentation] Xiaojing Xu, Ruimei Li, Hua Rui, Wei Lin and Xiangfeng Liu (State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia Technology, ZTE Corporation, China); Wei Cao (ZTE Corporation, China) S6.2 A review of network slicing in 5G and beyond: Intelligent approaches and challenges* [Presentation] Ghazal Rahmanian, Hadi Shahriar Shahhoseini and Amir Hossein Jafari Pozveh (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran) S6.3 Reinforcement learning for scheduling and MIMO beam selection using CAVIAR simulations* [Presentation] João Paulo Tavares Borges, Ailton Pinto de Oliveira, Felipe Henrique Bastos e Bastos, Daniel Takashi Né do Nascimento Suzuki and Emerson Santos de Oliveira, Jr. (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil); Lucas Matni Bezerra (Universidade Estácio de Sá, Brazil); Cleverson Veloso Nahum (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil); Pedro dos Santos Batista (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Aldebaro Barreto da Rocha Klautau, Jr. (Universidade Federal do Para, Brazil)
13:50-14:20	Invited speaker from ITU Kaleidoscope 2021 partner Virtual Switzerland Accelerating world’s transition to medical VR training: Computational medical XR [Presentation] George Papagiannakis, University of Crete, FORTH, ORamaVR, Greece Session chair: Laetitia Bochud, Director, Virtual Switzerland

Day 5 – Friday, 10 December 2021 (Time zone - UTC+1)

10:30-11:00	Join session to test connection
11:00-11:30	Keynote session The adoption gap: Ethics, citizenship, institutional factors and standards for smart cities [Presentation] Rob Kitchin, Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI), Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland Session chair: Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
11:30-12:20	Wrap-up session Summary of the thirteenth ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference (panel with Session Chairs) [Presentation] Session chair: Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Kaleidoscope Technical Programme Committee Chair
12:20-12:35	Judith Guez, Artist and researcher, France
12:35-12:40	Coffee break
12:40-14:10	Special invited session on the future of art, culture and technology in 20 years or more: A fusion or a conflict? And for whom? Panellists: The digital culture: How to form the next generation? Clara Hermann, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany Digital imaginaries and institution making Nora O’Murchú, Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany, and University of Limerick, Ireland Sonic interaction design: The next generation of multi-sensory experience [Presentation] Stefania Serafin, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark Moderator: Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick, Ireland and Lero Confirm
14:10-14:40	Closing plenary Best paper awards, young author recognition and best video demonstration ceremony Chaesub Lee, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Kaleidoscope Technical Programme Committee Chair Alessia Magliarditi, Kaleidoscope Coordinator, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU [Presentation]
An * denotes papers nominated for best paper award.