Conference Schedule — April 2026

Registration
Technical sessions
Tutorial / Special / Workshop
Lunch & Coffee break
Keynote
Time Wednesday 22 April Thursday 23 April Friday 24 April
08h30 – 09h00 Registration Registration Registration
09h00 – 09h30 Opening
09h30 – 11h00
Session 1 — Satellite Networks & Non-Terrestrial Systems
  1. MEC-Enabled Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks: A Focused Overview
  2. Towards Standardized Routing for LEO Satellite Networks: A Comparative Study
  3. OrbitServe: Joint Energy and Latency Optimization for On-Orbit Vision-Language Model Inference
  4. Network Coding Assisted In-Network Caching Implementation for Multi-Hop IoT Networks
Session 3 — AI/ML for Network Security & Cyber Defense
  1. Network Temperature-Driven Equilibrium Optimization for Enhanced Intrusion Detection
  2. Early Detection and Active Defense Method for Ransomware in Smart Grids
  3. An Empirical Evaluation of Lightweight Transformer Models for Joint Entity-Relation Extraction in Cybersecurity
  4. Quantum Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in 5G and Beyond Mobile Networks
Tutorial
11h00 – 11h30 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break
11h30 – 12h30
Prof. Dirk Kutscher
AI-Native Networks
Prof. Zhibo Pang
When Embodied AI Meets the Cloud Fog Automation: Challenges and Opportunities
Prof. Cheng Li
Underwater Acoustic Communications and Networking for the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT)
12h30 – 13h30 Lunch Lunch Lunch
13h30 – 15h00
Special Session — Future Global Space Information Infrastructure and Networking
Chair: Prof. Kanglian Zhao
  1. Deep Space Integrated Networks: Roadmap and Key Technologies — Suzhi Cao
  2. Towards Integrated Space Computing Networks: Challenges and Opportunities — Changgang Zheng
  3. Space-ground integrated multi-protocol quantum networks — Dr. Yuan Cao
  4. Safety Oriented Resource Optimization for Low Altitude Intelligent Network — Ziye Jia
Panel
Reshaping the World: The Role of Networks in the AI Era
Workshop
  1. 13:30–14:00 — Kube-SFC: Scalable and Resilient Cloud-Native Service Function Chaining with Hardware Acceleration
  2. 14:00–14:30 — PrivSpeech: A Declarative Framework for Privacy-Preserving Speech Analytics
14h30 – 16h00
Session 4 — Edge Intelligence, Model Optimization & Network Automation
  1. Facility-Location-based Model Partitioning for Efficient Inference in Edge Intelligence
  2. Deployment-Oriented Model Optimization for Real-Time 3D Hand Reconstruction in 5G Edge AI Virtual Try-On
  3. Network Configuration Intent Parsing Equipped with a DeBERTa-Based Joint Model
  4. KPI2KVI: A Multi Agent Workflow for Calculating Key Value Indicators from Service Descriptions
Session 5 — UAVs, Smart Grids, IoT Path Validation & Data Streaming
  1. On the Optimization of Multi-UAV Task Offloading in Vehicular Networks
  2. Trust-Driven Adaptive Sampling for Grid-Based IoT Path Validation
  3. Reconstructing Occluded Power Lines from LiDAR Data: Current State, Methods, and Future Research
  4. JUMP: Joint Preloading and Multi-Path Transmission for Short Video Streaming
Coffee break
(15h00 – 15h30)
15h30 – 17h30
Session 2 — 5G/6G Industrial IoT & Edge Connectivity
  1. Online Uplink Scheduling for Multi-User LEO Satellite IoT Networks
  2. 5G RedCap Devices Driving the Evolution of Cellular IoT: A Review
  3. Guest talk – AI/ML-Based IDS as a 5G Core Network Function for 3GPP Cellular IoT Traffic
Social Event
Closing
20h00 – 22h00
Banquet Dinner