Monday, 19th August
07:30—11:00 Registration
Opening Session in Conference Room 1
08:30—09:00
1) Conference Opening, Javier Gozalvez, VTS Executive Board
2) Welcome message, Conference General Chair Sunil Maharaj
3) Welcome message, TPC Chairs, Reza Malekian and Daniel E. Lucani
09:00—09:45
Keynote Speaker: Jae Hong Lee , Seoul National University, South Korea
Title: Cognitive Radio for Wireless Communications: Concepts and Applications”
09:45—10:30
Keynote Speaker: Sumit Roy, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Title: 5G & Spectrum Sharing
10:30—11:00 Coffee Break in Reception Area
Monday, 19th August
Session 1A in Conference Room 1
Chair: Dr. Olutayo O. Oyerinde
11:00—11:15
Mitigating Interference in the Resource Optimisation for Heterogeneous Cognitive Radio Networks
Babatunde Awoyemi, Sunil Maharaj, University of Pretoria
11:15—11:30
Performance Analysis of Dual 5 GHz WiFi and UHF TV White Space Network Links
Magdeline Lamola, David L. Johnson, Richard Maliwatu, Melissa Densmore, University of Cape Town; Albert A. Lysko, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
11:30—11:45
Comparison of the Modelled Maximum Wireless Link Distance for TVWS and Wi-Fi within South African Regulatory Constraints: Which Technology Wins and In Which Scenarios?
Albert A. Lysko, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and North-West University; Chris Burger, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; Ellie Hagopian, El Viento (Pty) Ltd
11:45—12:00
Behaviour of Lognormally-Distributed Differential Functions of Rain Drop Profiles over Radio Links
Akintunde Alonge, University of Johannesburg
12:00—12:15
Comparative study of Overloaded and Underloaded NOMA schemes with two Multiuser Detectors
Olutayo O. Oyerinde, University of the Witwatersrand
12:30—13:30 Lunch in Dining Hall
Monday, 19th August
Session 1B in Research Commons
Chair: Dr. Trudi H. Joubert
11:00—11:15
Fog Computing Architecture for 5G-Compliant IoT Applications in Underserved Communities
Nosipho Khumalo, Olutayo Oyerinde, University of the Witwatersrand; Luzango Mfupe, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
11:15—11:30
A Survey on Information and Communications Technology Infrastructure for Smart Grids
Daisy Nkele Molokomme, Chabalala Chabalala, University of Johannesburg; Pitshou Bokoro, University of Johannesburg
11:30—11:45
Human Activity Recognition Using LSTM-RNN Deep Neural Network Architecture
Schalk Wilhelm Pienaar, Reza Malekian, University of Pretoria
11:45—12:00
IoT in Agriculture: Enhanced throughput in South African farming applications
Elizabeth Botha, Reza Malekian, Owoicho E. Ijiga, University of Pretoria
12:00—12:15
Human Activity Recognition Using Visual Object Detection
Schalk Wilhelm Pienaar, Reza Malekian, University of Pretoria and Malmo University
12:30—13:30 Lunch in Dining Hall
Monday, 19th August
Session 2A in Conference Room 1
Chair: Dr. Néstor J. Hernández
13:30—13:45
QoE-Driven Resource Allocation for SUs with Heterogeneous Traffic using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Mduduzi Comfort Hlophe, Sunil Maharaj, University of Pretoria
13:45—14:00
Demonstrating the Advantages of Wideband Piezocomposite Transducers with a High-Resolution Multi-receiver Synthetic Aperture Sonar Demonstrator
Josiah Jideani, Kiri Nicolaides, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
14:00—14:15
Improving Error Probability Performance of Digital Communication Systems with Compact Nyquist Pulses
Uche A. K. Chude-Okonkwo, Sunil Maharaj, Reza Malekian, University of Pretoria
14:15—14:30
Performance Analysis of Cooperative NOMA with Partial Relay Selection under Outdated Channel Estimate
Kehinde Odeyemi, University of Ibadan; Pius A. Owolawi, Tshwane University of Technology
14:30—14:45
A Generalized Marcum Q-function for Fading Conditions
Kahesh Dhuness, CSIR, South Africa; Josiah Jideani, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; C. Bhikha, CSIR
15:00—15:15 Coffee Break in Reception Area
Monday, 19th August
Session 2B in Research Commons
Chair: Prof. Jae Hong Lee
13:30—13:45
Efficient Resource Allocation in Water Quality Sensor Networks
Segun Olatinwo, University of Pretoria; Dr. T.-H. Joubert, University of Pretoria, South Africa
13:45—14:00
Revolving Codes: High Performance and Low Overhead Network Coding
Niloofar Yazdani, University of Aarhus; Daniel Enrique Lucani Rotter, Aarhus University
14:00—14:15
Wireless SMART Product Tracking using Radio Frequency Identification
Naeem Jardine, Gareth Gericke, Central University of Technology; Rangith Baby Kuriakose, Central University of Technology; Herman Vermaak, Central University of Technology
14:15—14:30
A Quantitative Assessment of Hybrid SDN as an Enabler for African Software Defined-NRENs
Themba Shozi, Sabelo Dlamini, CSIR; Pragasen Mudali, Matthew O. Adigun, University of Zululand
14:30—14:45
A Preliminary Model for Estimating the Economic Impact of Broadband Connectivity in African High School Education Based on Large TVWS Trials
Albert A. Lysko, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and North-West University; Jean-Paul Van Belle, Adheesh Budree, University of Cape Town
15:00—15:15 Coffee Break in Reception Area
Monday, 19th August
Session 3A in Conference Room 1
Chair: Dr. Filip Paluncic
15:15—15:30
Improved Iterative Convergence Rate for Soft-Decision Bit-Level Reed-Solomon Decoders Using Information Set Decoding
Yuval Genga, University of the Witwatersrand; Olutayo O. Oyerinde, University of the Witwatersrand; Jaco Versfeld, Stellenbosch University
15:30—15:45
A Unified Error Analysis of Uncoded Space-Time Labeling Diversity with Three Transmit Antennas in Rician Fading Channels
Dauda Ayanda, Hongjun Xu, University of KwaZulu-Natal
15:45—16:00
Ellipsoidal Fuzzy Analysis of Path Attenuation in a Multi-Urban Environment
Oluwagbemiga Omotayo Shoewu, Lagos State University; Lateef Adesola Akinyemi, University of Cape Town; Lawrence Oborkhale, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture
16:00—16:15
Review of Interference Mitigation Techniques for White Space Networks
Elesa Ntuli, Chunling Du, Tshwane University of Technology; Fisseha Mekuria, Council for Scientific & Industrial Research
Monday, 19th August
Session 3B in Research Commons
Chair: Dr. Akintunde Alonge
15:15—15:30
Influence of Sub-processes Timescale Differences on Molecular Communication Systems Performance
Uche A. K. Chude-Okonkwo, Sunil Maharaj, Reza Malekian, University of Pretoria
15:30—15:45
Multi-Paradigm Computing Architecture for Power Efficient Intent Based Networks
Ayodele Periola, Akintunde Alonge, Kingsley Ogudo, University of Johannesburg
15:45—16:00
Poor Data Throughput Root Cause Analysis in Mobile Networks Using Deep Neural Network
Maluambanzila Minerve Mampaka, Mbuyu Sumbwanyambe, University of South Africa
16:00—16:15
Overview of 9 Open-Source Resource Orchestrating ETSI MANO Compliant Implementations: A Brief Survey
Lusani Mamushiane, Albert A. Lysko, Zaaid Du Toit, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR); Joyce Mwangama, Tariro Mukute, University of Cape Town
16:30—17:30 TPC Chair meeting for Best Paper Awards in Research Commons
Monday, 19th August
Gala Dinner and Award Ceremony
18:00—21:00
Venue: Future Africa Campus
Program
18:00—18:20 Welcome drinks
18:20—18:40 Welcome and Sentech CEO address
18:40—19:00 Celebrating IEEE VTS, South Africa Section
(with special cake)
19:00—20:00 Dinner
20:00—20:15 Best Paper Awards
20:15—20:30 Certificates
Entertainment by UP Jazz Quartet
Tuesday, 20th August
07:30—11:00 Registration
Keynote Speakers in Conference Room 1
08:45—09:45
Keynote Speaker:
Javier Gozalvez from Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche (UMH), Spain
Title: V2X Networks for Connected and Automated Vehicles
09:45—10:30
Keynote Speaker:
Tommie Chambers, Siemens, South Africa
Title: Implementing Industry 4.0
10:30—11:00 Coffee Break in Reception Area
11:00—13:00 Forum in Conference Room 1
5G Industry Technology/Business Forum
Facilitated by Dumisa Ngwenya, SENTECH Ltd.
13:00—13:45 Lunch in Dining Hall
Tuesday 20th August
13:45—15:45 Technical Workshop in Conference 1
Spectrum Sensing and Sharing for 5G Cognitive Radio Networks
Presenter: Sumit Roy, Integrated Systems Professor, Fundamentals of Networking Lab,
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
15:45—16:00—Closing Session: Conference 1