Wednesday, December 13 Thursday, December 14 Friday, December 15
8:30 ‑ 9:00 am   Keynote Lecture 1  
9:00 ‑ 9:10 am Conference Opening Wireless Communications - 1
9:10 ‑ 9:30 am Communication Theory
9:30 ‑ 9:50 am  
9:50 ‑ 10:30 am Network and data security
10:30 ‑ 10:45 am    
10:45 ‑ 11:00 am      
11:00 ‑ 11:10 am Signal Processing for Multimedia - 1   Implementations and algorithms
11:10 am ‑ 12:30 pm Signal Processing for Multimedia - 2
12:30 ‑ 12:40 pm    
12:40 ‑ 1:30 pm      
1:30 ‑ 2:15 pm Signal Processing for Communications - 1 Keynote Lecture 2 Wireless Networks
2:15 ‑ 2:30 pm  
2:30 ‑ 3:00 pm Poster Session 1
3:00 ‑ 3:30 pm    
3:30 ‑ 3:45 pm Signal Processing and Communication Theory   Wireless Communications - 2
3:45 ‑ 4:45 pm Poster Session 2
4:45 ‑ 5:00 pm  

Wednesday, December 13

Wednesday, December 13, 09:00 - 09:10

Conference Opening

Wednesday, December 13, 09:10 - 10:30

Communication Theory

New MU-MIMO Random Access Employing THP with Correlation Based User Scheduling
Tomoyuki Baba and Satoshi Denno (Okayama University, Japan)
A closed-form of Cooperative Detection Probability using EGC-Based Soft Decision under Suzuki Fading
Thai-Mai Dinh and Quoc Tuan Nguyen (Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam); Kumbesan Sandy Sandrasegaran (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
An Efficient Puncturing Method for the Short and Long Length Polar Codes
Mohammad Hanif and Sina Vafi (Charles Darwin University, Australia)
Antenna Array based Framework with Multipath Mitigation for Signal Emitter Detection and Localization
Joao Paulo Abreu Maranhao and Joao Paulo Carvalho Lustosa da Costa (University of Brasília, Brazil); Rafael Timoteo de Sousa Junior (University of Brasilia, Brazil); Adoniran Judson Braga (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil); Giovanni Del Galdo (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS & Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany)

Wednesday, December 13, 11:00 - 12:30

Signal Processing for Multimedia - 1

Real Time Speech Emotion Recognition Using RGB Image Classification and Transfer Learning
Melissa Stolar and Margaret Lech (RMIT University, Australia); Robert Bolia and Michael Skinner (Defense Science and Technology Group, Australia)
Towards Autonomous Machine Reasoning: Multi-Stage Classification System with Intermediate Learning
Melissa Stolar and Margaret Lech (RMIT University, Australia); Robert Bolia and Michael Skinner (Defense Science and Technology Group, Australia)
On a New Nonlinear Image Filtering Technique
Desheng Zhang (Schlumberger Technology Corporation, USA); Michael Zhang and Donald Kouri (University of Houston, USA)
Speaker Verification with Multi-Run ICA Based Speech Enhancement
Ahmed Kamil Hasan Al-Ali, David B Dean, Bouchra Senadji, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh and Vinod Chandran (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

Wednesday, December 13, 13:30 - 15:00

Signal Processing for Communications - 1

On the Choice of Kernel for Signal Interpolation on the Sphere Using Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces
Usama Elahi and Zubair Khalid (Australian National University, Australia); Rodney Andrew Kennedy (The Australian National University, Australia)
Fast Extrapolation of Band-limited Signals on the 2-Sphere
Zubair Khalid (Australian National University, Australia); Rodney Andrew Kennedy (The Australian National University, Australia)
Fidelity-Preserving Coefficient Truncation Method for Wavelet-based Compressors for Biomedical IoT Applications
Jose Santos, Dongming Peng, Michael Hempel and Hamid Sharif (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
An Open Source C++ Implementation of Multi-Threaded Gaussian Mixture Models, k-Means and Expectation Maximisation
Conrad Sanderson (Data61, Australia); Ryan Curtin (Symantec, USA)

Wednesday, December 13, 15:30 - 17:00

Signal Processing and Communication Theory

A Fractional Fourier Domain Approach for Multiple Target Localization Using the Time-of-Arrival
Pei Hua Leong (Australian National University, Australia); Tharaka Anuradha Lamahewa (Defence Science & Technology Group, Australia); Thushara D. Abhayapala (Australian National University, Australia)
Dual Window Selective Median Switching Filter
Desheng Zhang (Schlumberger Technology Corporation, USA); Michael Zhang and Donald Kouri (University of Houston, USA)
Concatenated Finite Geometry and Finite Field LDPC Codes
Mona Nasseri (University of California, Davis); Xin Xiao (University of Arizona, USA); Shaoliang Zhang (NEC Labs America, USA); Ting Wang (NEC Laboratories America, USA); Shu Lin (UC Davis, USA)
Receiver Cooperative MIMO-OFDM Capacity with Quantization Error and Spatial Correlation
Daisuke Umehara and Rieko Saiki (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Frequency Offset Tolerant Demodulation for Low Data Rate and Narrowband Wireless Sensor Node
Siavash Safapourhajari and Andre Kokkeler (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Thursday, December 14

Thursday, December 14, 08:30 - 09:30

Keynote Lecture 1

Australian Space 2.0

Thursday, December 14, 09:50 - 10:45

Network and data security

Multi-Homed Device Detection Using Clock Skew
Bryan Martin, Murali Tummala and John C. McEachen (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
Enhancing Integrity of Modbus TCP Through Covert Channels
James Taylor, Jr. (National Strategic Research Institute & University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA); Hamid Sharif (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Secrecy Outage Probability and Jamming Coverage of UAV-enabled Friendly Jammer
Yi Zhou (The University of Sydney, Australia); Phee Lep Yeoh, He Chen and Yonghui Li (University of Sydney, Australia); Wibowo Hardjawana (The University of Sydney, Australia); Branka Vucetic (University of Sydney, Australia)

Thursday, December 14, 11:10 - 12:40

Signal Processing for Multimedia - 2

Automatic Detection of TV Commercial Blocks: A New Approach Based on Digital On-Screen Graphics Classification
Alexandre Gomes and Maria Paula Queluz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, Portugal); Fernando Pereira (Instituto Superior Técnico - Instituto de Telecomunicações & Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Fast Gradient Distance Based Image Registration
Ruben Gonzalez and Luke Lincoln (Griffith University, Australia)
Wavelet decomposition-based stereoscopic 3-D video watermarking - a comparative study
Omar Al Boridi (RMIT University & RMIT, Australia); Hong Ren Wu (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia); Ron van Schyndel (RMIT University, Australia)
Experimental Validation for Spectrum Cartography using Adaptive Multi-Kernels
Henning Idsøe (Norway & University of Agder, Norway); Mohammed Hamid (University of Agder, Norway); Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi (University of Agder & University of Agder, Norway); Thomas Jordbru (Norway & University of Agder, Norway); Baltasar Beferull-Lozano (University of Agder, Norway)

Thursday, December 14, 13:30 - 14:15

Keynote Lecture 2

Low-power high-speed signal processing: From iterative algorithm to analog electronic circuits

Thursday, December 14, 14:30 - 15:30

Poster Session 1

SAR Video Generation of MIMO Video SAR with Beat Frequency Division FMCW
Seok Kim (Yonsei University, Korea)
A novel indoor ranging method using weighted altofrequent RSSI measurements
Jing Wang (Kyungpook National University, Korea); Hwang Jun Gyu (Kyungbook National University, Korea); JoonGoo Park (Kyungpook National University, Korea)
When are Erasure Correcting Block Codes Better than Convolutional Codes in a Multi-hop Network?
Jonas Hansen and Jan Østergaard (Aalborg University, Denmark); Johnny Kudahl and John Madsen (Bang & Olufsen A/S, Denmark)
Time-Delay Estimation via Procrustes Estimation and Khatri-Rao Factorization for GNSS Multipath Mitigation
Daniel Valle de Lima, Joao Paulo Carvalho Lustosa da Costa and Joao Paulo Abreu Maranhao (University of Brasília, Brazil); Rafael Timoteo de Sousa Junior (University of Brasilia, Brazil)
Modelling dynamic body motion using IMUs positioned on the torso
Alanna Vial, David Stirling, Montse Ros, Peter J Vial and Matthew Field (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Analysis of fade dynamics due to Clear-Air Propagation Mechanisms from Ka Band beacon satellite measurements
Juan Antonio Romo (University of the Basque Country, Spain); Jorge Mezquita (ETSI Bilbao, Spain); Ignacio Anitzine (University of Basque Country, Spain); Asier Fernandez Gonzalez (ETSII Bilbao, Spain)
On the Connection Between Matrix Notch Filter and Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Sinusoidal Parameters
Palakkal Vishnu (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); C S Ramalingam (IITM, India)
Analysis of Stability and Delay in Random-Access Network Modeled by Poisson Point Process with Queueing Theory
Jin-Hyun Ahn (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea); Tae-Kyung Sung (Chungnam National University, Korea); JoonGoo Park (Kyungpook National University, Korea); Kwang-Eog Lee (Agency for Defense Development, Korea); Joonhyuk Kang (KAIST, Korea)
Comparative performance of Equalizers for Linear Constellation Precoded Coherent Optical OFDM
Olutayo O. Oyerinde (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Cyclic Prefixed versus Zero-Padded-Coherent Optical OFDM Systems' based MMSE Equalization
Olutayo O. Oyerinde (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Cyclostationary Spectrum Sensing based Fisher Analyzer under Stochastic Geometric Network model
Shaoka Sun, Xiao jun Jing, Hai Huang and Jincai Du (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Cooperative Recovery of Coverage Holes in WSNs via Disjoint Spanning Trees
Ali Rafiei and Mehran Abolhasan (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Daniel R Franklin (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia); Farzad Safaei (ICT Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Australia); Stephen Smith (Macquarie University, Australia); Wei Ni (CSIRO, Australia)

Thursday, December 14, 15:45 - 16:45

Poster Session 2

A Low Profile High Gain CPW-fed Slot Antenna with a Cavity Backed Reflector for CubeSats
Faisel EM Tubbal (University of Wollongong, Australia & The Libyan Center for Remote Sensing and Space Science, Libya); Raad Raad and Kwan-Wu Chin (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Performance Evaluation of Spread Spectrum-based Multiple Access Combined with 5G Filter-based Multi-carrier Waveforms
Irvin Van Bolo (University of the Philippines Diliman & Anritsu, Philippines); Tristan Paul Espera and Ramon Vicente Marquez (University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines); Charleston Dale M Ambatali (University of the Philippines, Philippines); Neil Irwin Bernardo (University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines)
Ultrasound imaging using Modal Domain Frequency Smoothed MVDR Beamforming
Huiyuan Sun, Mengzhuo Lu and Thushara D. Abhayapala (Australian National University, Australia)
Implementation of a Two Stage Fully-Blind Self-Adapted Spectrum Sensing Algorithm
Thomas Jordbru (Norway & University of Agder, Norway); Mohammed Hamid (University of Agder, Norway); Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi (University of Agder & University of Agder, Norway); Henning Idsøe (Norway & University of Agder, Norway); Baltasar Beferull-Lozano (University of Agder, Norway)
Multi-channel Speech Enhancement in Driving Environment
Jin Weiyun and Jie Wei (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Xiaofeng Zhong (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Receiver Cooperative MIMO-OFDM with Higher-frequency Radio Forwarding
Daisuke Umehara, Shuhei Ueno and Ryota Akagi (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
A Novel Comb Filter Based Rake-like Receiver for Code-Reference UWB Transmission
Thanawat Thiasiriphet (University of Ulm, Germany); Werner G. Teich (Ulm University, Germany); Juergen Lindner (Uni Ulm, Germany)
Uplink Control Channel for 5G New RAT
Lihui Wang (DOCOMO Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd, P.R. China); Yuki Matsumura and Kazuki Takeda (NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan); Xiaolin Hou (DOCOMO Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd, P.R. China); Satoshi Nagata (NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan)
User Mobility Modeling Based on Mobile Traffic Data collected in Real Cellular Networks
Zhenbang Zhao, Peng Zhang, Haozhou Huang and Xing Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Printed Yagi-Uda Antenna Array on CubeSat
Sining Liu and Raad Raad (University of Wollongong, Australia); Faisel EM Tubbal (University of Wollongong, Australia & The Libyan Center for Remote Sensing and Space Science, Libya)
Local Clock-based Timestamp Synchronization for Multihop Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Longjiang Li, Jianjun Yang and Yuming Mao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

Friday, December 15

Friday, December 15, 09:00 - 10:30

Wireless Communications - 1

Outage Probability of a Hybrid AF-DF Protocol for Two-Way Underlay Cognitive Cooperative Radio Networks
Thi My Chinh Chu and Hans-Juergen Zepernick (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
A Reconfigurable Wideband Streaming Channeliser for RF Sensing Applications: A Multiple GPU-Based Implementation
Simon Faulkner (DST Group, Australia); Stephen Elton (Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia); Tharaka Anuradha Lamahewa (Defence Science & Technology Group, Australia); David Roberts (Defence Science and Technology, Australia)
5G New RAT Uplink Control Channel for Small Payloads
Yuki Matsumura and Kazuki Takeda (NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan); Lihui Wang (DOCOMO Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd, P.R. China); Satoshi Nagata (NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan)
Backhaul, QoS, and Channel-aware Load Balancing Optimization in SDN-based LTE Networks
Furqan Hameed Khan (The University of Queensland, Australia); Marius Portmann (University of Queensland, Australia)
Investigation on Joint Optimization for User Association and Inter-Cell Interference Coordination Based on Proportional Fair Criteria
Nobuhiko Miki, Yusaku Kanehira and Hiroaki Tokoshima (Kagawa University, Japan)

Friday, December 15, 11:00 - 12:30

Implementations and algorithms

Descriptive Statistical Analysis of Subjective Experiments in Mobile Imaging
Hans-Juergen Zepernick and Thi My Chinh Chu (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Infrastructure-free indoor pedestrian tracking based on foot mounted UWB/IMU sensor fusion
Zhuoqi Zeng (Bosch (China) Investment Ltd., P.R. China); Steven Liu (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany); Wei Wang (Bosch (China) Investment Ltd., P.R. China); Lei Wang (TongJi University, Shanghai, P.R. China)
A Compact Tri band Microstrip Slotted Antenna with Defected Ground for Wireless Applications
Maryam Rasool and Novera Tahir (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Bilal Ijaz (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan); Khurram S Alimgeer (COMSATS Institute of information Technology, Pakistan); Muhammad Saeed Khan (University of Padova, Italy)
Tracker for Sleepy Drivers at the Wheel
Sheeraz Memon (MUET Jamshoro, Pakistan); Mehak Memon and Sania Bhatti (Mehran UET, Jamshoro, Pakistan); Tariq Jamil Saifullah Khanzada (Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan); Ali Memon (Mehran UET, Pakistan)
Algebraic Break of a Chaos-Based Random Number Generator
Salih Ergun (TUBITAK BILGEM - Informatics and Information Security Research Center, Turkey)

Friday, December 15, 13:30 - 15:00

Wireless Networks

EE-CAN: Energy Efficient Clustering in Aerial Networks
Sathyanarayanan Chandrasekharan and Sithamparanathan Kandeepan (RMIT University, Australia); Rob Evans (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Capture Effect on Downlink Throughput of a CSMA Based WLAN
Md. Forkan Uddin (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh)
Coexistence of SRD CSMA-based systems with DC-based systems and LTE
Rita Bandeira and Ivo Sousa (Instituto de Telecomunicações/IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal); Maria Paula Queluz (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal); António J. Rodrigues (IT / Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
Multi-Link Cache Data Retrieval for Delivery Phase in Ultra Dense Small Cell Networks
Komal Khan (The University of Sydney, Australia); Saud Khan (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan); Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia)

Friday, December 15, 15:30 - 17:00

Wireless Communications - 2

A Mathematical Model of Access Control to Allocate Downlink Bandwidth in High-Density Wireless LAN
Yuto Katayama, Daisuke Umehara and Wakasugi Koichiro (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Finite-Blocklength Linear Superposition Coding for the Gaussian MAC with Quantized Feedback
Stefan Farthofer and Gerald Matz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Passive Detection of BPSK Radar Signals with Unknown Parameters using Multi-Sensor Arrays
Peter Q. C. Ly and Songsri Sirianunpiboon (Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia); Stephen Elton (Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia)
Outage Probability and Secrecy Capacity of a Non-orthogonal Multiple Access System
Thi My Chinh Chu and Hans-Juergen Zepernick (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)