IEEE Military Communications Conference
30 October – 3 November 2023 // Boston, MA, USA
Communications Supporting Military Operations in a Contested Environment

Program

0845

Welcome & Overview of Workshop

0900

Keynote Talk:  

Keynote Speaker: Matthew Caesar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Talk Title: Digital Twins for Military IoT Systems

1000

Break

1030

Paper Session #1: Resiliency & Experimentation

20 mins

Detecting Unknown Attacks in IoT Environments: An Open Set Classifier for Enhanced Network Intrusion Detection. Yasir Ali Farrukh and Syed Wali (Texas A&M University, USA); Irfan A Khan (Texas A&M University USA, USA); Nathaniel D. Bastian (United States Military Academy, USA)

20 mins

Failure-Resilient ML Inference at the Edge Through Graceful Service Degradation. Walid A. Hanafy and Li Wu (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA); Suhas Diggavi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)

20 mins

Challenges and Opportunities in Neuro-Symbolic Composition of Foundation Models. Susmit Jha (SRI International, USA); Anirban Roy (SRI, USA); Adam Cobb (SRI International, USA); Alexander Berenbeim and Nathaniel D. Bastian (United States Military Academy, USA)

20 mins

IoBT-MAX: A Multimodal Analytics eXperimentation Testbed for IoBT Research. Benjamin M Marlin (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Niranjan Suri (US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) & Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA); Shiwei Fang (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Mani B. Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles & Amazon, USA); Colin Samplawski (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Ziqi Wang (University of California Los Angeles, USA); Maggie Wigness (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA)

20 mins

Discussion

1210

Lunch Break

1330

Panel: “Challenges in Defense IoTs”

Panel Moderator: Maggie Wigness, US Army Research Labs

Panelists:
Matthew Caesar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Hesham Fouad, US Naval Research Labs
Shane Shaneman, Carnegie Mellon University
Minlan Yu, Harvard University

1500

Break

1530

Paper Session #2: Efficiency & Performance Analysis

20 mins

Impact of Delays and Computation Placement on Sense-Act Application Performance in IoT. Pragya Sharma (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Mani B. Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles & Amazon, USA)

20 mins

Unlocking Efficiency: Understanding End-to-End Performance in Distributed Analytics Pipelines. Abel Souza and Nathan Ng (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA); Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA); Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)

20 mins

Feature Compression for Multimodal Multi-Object Tracking. Xinlin Li, Osama Hanna and Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA); Suhas Diggavi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Gunjan Verma (ARL, USA); Joydeep Bhattacharyya (Army Research Laboratory, USA)

20 mins

Discussion

16:50

Closing Workshop Remarks

1700

Workshop Adjourns

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