25th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking

4th - 7th January 2024, Chennai, India

ICDCN 2024 Detailed Schedule

All times are in Indian Standard Time (IST)

Day 1 (January 4, 2024)

Day 1 (January 4, 2024)
08:00 to 09:00 Conference Registration
09:00 to 11:00 Tutorial 1 - Post Quantum Internet
Speaker: Shlomi Dolev
Venue: CS15		 -
11:00 to 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 to 13:00 Tutorial 2 - Distributed Machine Learning
Speaker: Bapi Chatterjee
Venue: CS15		 Workshop MLBSS24
Venue: SSB233
13:00 to 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:50 Workshop (Invited Talk) NWDCN24 , MLBSS24
Speaker: Dr Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou
Venue: CS15		 Workshop Edge AI-DSN24
Venue: SSB134
14:00 to 16:15 Workshop NWDCN24
Venue: CS15		 Workshop Edge AI-DSN24
Venue: SSB134
16:15 to 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 to 18:30 - Workshop Edge AI-DSN24
Venue: SSB134



Day 2 (January 5, 2024)
08:00 to 08:30 Conference Registration
08:30 to 09:00 Inauguration: Conference Organizing Committee
Venue: CS15
09:00 to 10:00 Keynote 1: Leslie Valiant, Harvard University
Venue: CS15
Session Chair: B. Ravindran
Talk title: Reasoning on Uncertain Learned Data
10:00 to 10:50 Session 1 (Smart Data Management)
Venue: CS15
Session Chair: Anisur Rahaman Molla

  1. Tero: Offloading CDN Traffic to Massively Distributed Devices
    Juan Vanerio (University of Vienna), Lily Hügerich (TU Berlin), Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin, University of Vienna)
  2. Application and Energy-Aware Data Aggregation using Vector Synchronization in Distributed Battery-less IoT Networks (Invited)
    Chetna Singhal (IIT Kharagpur), Subhrajit Barick (IIT Kharagpur), Rishabh Sonkar (IIT Kharagpur)
10:50 to 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 to 13:00 Session 2 (Blockchains and Byzantine Consensus)
Venue: SSB134
Session Chair: Ashish Choudhury

  1. Self-stabilizing Byzantine Multivalued Consensus
    Romaric Duvignau (Chalmers University of Technology), Michel Raynal (IRISA), Elad Michael Schiller (Chalmers University of Technology)
  2. Sublinear Message Bounds of Authenticated Implicit Byzantine Agreement
    Manish Kumar (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Anisur Rahaman Molla (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
  3. SmartGrid-NG: Blockchain Protocol for Secure Transaction Processing in Next Generation Smart Grid
    Lokendra Vishwakarma (Indian Institute Technology, Jodhpur), Debasis Das (Indian Institute Technology, Jodhpur), Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA), Christian Becker (Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany)
  4. Performance evaluation of Private and Public Blockchains for multi-cloud service federation
    Adam Zahir (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Milan Groshev (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Kiril Antevski (AXo solutions), Carlos J.Bernardos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Constantine Ayimba (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Antonio de la Oliva (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
13:00 to 14:00 Lunch + Poster/Demo
Venue: SSB GF Corridor
14:00 to 15:00 Keynote 2: Samir Das, Stony Brook University
Venue: CS15
Session Chair: Ayon Chakraborty
Talk title: Passive Backscattering RF Tag Networks - Fundamentals and Applications
15:00 to 16:15 Session 3 (Mobile Robots and Swarms)
Venue: SSB134
Session Chair: William Moses Jr

  1. Space and Move-optimal Arbitrary Pattern Formation on a Rectangular Grid by Robot Swarms
    Avisek Sharma (Jadavpur University), Satakshi Ghosh (Jadavpur University)
  2. Collision-Free Linear Time Mutual Visibility for Asynchronous Fat Robots
    Subhash Bhagat (Indian Institute Technology, Jodhpur), Rajarshi Ray (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science), Paulomi Dey (St.Thomas' College of Engineering and technology)
  3. Arbitrary Pattern Formation on a Continuous Circle by Oblivious Robot Swarm
    Brati Mondal (Jadavpur University), Pritam Goswami (Jadavpur University), Avisek Sharma (Jadavpur University), Buddhadeb Sau (Jadavpur University)
16:15 to 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 to 18:15 Doctoral Symposium
Venue: SSB134
18:15 to 19:00 Town Hall Metting
Venue: SSB134
19:00 to 19:45 Steering Committee Meeting
Venue: SSB233
19:45 to 21:30 Welcome Reception Dinner
Venue: Campus Cafe Terrace



Day 3 (January 6, 2024)
08:00 to 08:45 Conference Registration
08:45 to 10:00 Session 4 (Nominees for Best Paper Award)
Venue: SSB134
Session Chair: Bapi Chaterjee

  1. Defending Hash Tables from Subterfuge with Depth Charge
    Trisha Chakraborty (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University), Jared Saia (Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico), Maxwell Young (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University)
  2. A Further Study on Weak Byzantine Gathering of Mobile Agents
    Kaushik Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India), Ashish Saxena (Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India)
  3. Halting the Solana Blockchain with Minimal Stake
    Jakub Sliwinski (ETH Zurich), Quentin Kniep (ETH Zurich), Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich), Fabian Schaich (ETH Zurich)
10:00 to 11:00 Keynote 3: Vinod Vaikuntanathan, MIT
Venue: CS15
Session Chair: Sukumar Ghosh
Talk title: Theoretical Foundations of Real-World Cryptography
11:00 to 11:40 Coffee Break
11:40 to 12:30 Session 5 (Nominees for Best Paper Award)
Venue: SSB134
Session Chair: Samir Das

  1. Correctness of Flow Migration
    Radhika Sukapuram (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati), Ranjan Patowary (Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar), Gautam Barua (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati)
  2. Renting Servers in the Cloud: Parameterized Analysis of FirstFit
    Mahtab Masoori (Concordia University), Lata Narayanan (Concordia University), Denis Pankratov (Concordia University)
12:30 to 13:00 Mentoring and Photo Session
Venue: SSB GF Corridor
13:00 to 14:00 Lunch + Poster/Demo
Venue: SSB GF Corridor
14:00 to 15:15 Session 6 (Mobile Agents and Fog Computing)
Venue: SSB134
Session Chair: Iqra Altaf Gillani

  1. Maximal Independent Set via Mobile Agents
    Debasish Pattanayak (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Canada), Subhash Bhagat (Indian Institute Technology, Jodhpur), Sruti Gan Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University), Anisur Rahaman Molla (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
  2. Distributed Uniform Partitioning of a Region using Opaque ASYNC Luminous Mobile Robots
    Subhajit Pramanick (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati), Saswata Jana (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati), Adri Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati), Partha Sarathi Mandal (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
  3. SMT-as-a-Service for Fog-Supported Cyber-Physical Systems
    Stefan Holzer (Distributed Systems Group, TU Wien), Pantelis Frangoudis (Distributed Systems Group, TU Wien), Christos Tsigkanos (University of Bern), Schahram Dustdar (Distributed Systems Group, TU Wien)
15:15 to 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 to 16:45 Keynote 4: Prof. Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University
Venue: CS15
Session Chair: Roy Friedman
Talk title: One-Way Functions Candidates Based on Information Theoretical Secure Primitives
17:30 to 22:00 Conference Banquet Dinner + Keynote
Venue: Westin Velachery (View in Maps)
Room - Evolve (First Floor)
Note: Banquet Dinner Tickets Required.

Keynote 5: Leemon Baird, Swirlds Labs
Venue: Westin Velachery
Room - Evolve (First Floor)
Session Chair: John Augustine
Talk title: Hashgraph Consensus



Day 4 (January 7, 2024)
08:00 to 09:00 Conference Registration
09:00 to 10:15 Session 7 (Distributed Algorithms and Computing)
Venue: CS15
Session Chair: Sathya Peri

  1. Parallel Algorithms for Equilevel Predicates
    Vijay Garg (The University of Texas at Austin), Robert Streit (The University of Texas at Austin)
  2. Replay Clocks
    Ishaan Lagwankar (Michigan State University), Sandeep Kulkarni (Michigan State University)
  3. ASAP: Asynchronous Split Inference for Accelerated DNN Execution
    Waleed Mubark (University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO, USA), Jagannath Guptha Kasula (University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO, USA), Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin (University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO, USA)
10:15 to 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 to 12:00 Session 8 (Secure Computing and Communications )
Venue: CS15
Session Chair: Sumathi Sivasubramaniam

  1. Mitigating IoT Botnet DDoS Attacks through MUD and eBPF based Traffic Filtering
    Angelo Feraudo (University of Bologna), Diana Andreea Popescu (University of Cambridge), Poonam Yadav (University of York), Richard Mortier (University of Cambridge), Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna)
  2. LightKey: Lightweight and Secure Key Agreement Protocol for Effective Communication in Internet of Vehicles
    Harsha Vasudev (Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, Italy), Shariq Mohamad (Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology, India), Sanjeev Dwivedi (VIT AP, India), Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy and TU Delft and University of Washington, Seattle)
  3. A Network Segmentation Architecture for Flow Aggregation and DDoS Mitigation in SDN Using RAPID Flow Rules
    Himanshu (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India), Kaushik Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India), Payali Das (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India), Swades De (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
10:45 to 13:00 Workshop SoCIeTY 24
Venue: SSB233 		Workshop SDN-CPS24
Venue: SSB134
13:00 to 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 to 16:00 Workshop SoCIeTY 24
Venue: SSB233 		Workshop SDN-CPS24
Venue: SSB134 		Tutorial 3 - Efficient and Resilient Edge Computing: Algorithms, Techniques and Research Opportunities
Speaker: Balaji Palanisamy
Venue: CS15
16:00 to 16:30 Coffee Break