WF-PST 2024 Technical Papers
WF-PST 2024 Best Paper Awards
1st Place: 1570967551: Towards System Level Simulations of Public Safety Applications over 5G NR Sidelink — Samantha Gamboa (NIST & Prometheus Computing LLC, USA); Thomas R Henderson (University of Washington, USA); Wesley Garey, Chunmei Liu and Richard Rouil (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
2nd Place:
1) 1570981092 [Deep learning-based road object detection and classification for collision avoidance in autonomous driving — Teena Sharma (Malviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India); Chehri Abdellah (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada); Issouf Fofana (University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Spain); Benoit Debaque (Thales Communications and Security SAS, Canada); Nicolas Duclos (Thales Communications and Security, Canada); Siddhartha Khare (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, I]
2) 1570976185 [Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Highway Traffic Flow Prediction at Toll Stations — Tasos Papagiannis, George Ioannou and Georgios Alexandridis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Kalliopi Tzivanaki (Olympia Odos S.A., Greece); Petros Alexandridis (Extrabit LP, Greece); Fabrice Bretton (Olympia Odos S.A., Greece); Andreas Stafylopatis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)]
WF-PST Technical Papers Program
Tuesday, May 14, 10:30 – 12:00
TS1: TS1 Public Safety in Communication and Networking – I
- Chair: Moussa Ayyash (Chicago State University, USA)
Towards System Level Simulations of Public Safety Applications over 5G NR Sidelink
Samantha Gamboa (NIST & Prometheus Computing LLC, USA); Thomas R Henderson (University of Washington, USA); Wesley Garey, Chunmei Liu and Richard Rouil (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
Jamming Attacks on FSO Networks: Challenges, Opportunities, and a Public Safety Use-Case
Priyanka Singh (IIIT Delhi, India); Haythem Bany Salameh (Yarmouk University, Jordan); Vivek A Bohara (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), India); Anand Srivastava (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India); Moussa Ayyash (Chicago State University, USA)
P-TimeSync: A Precise Time Synchronization Simulation with Network Propagation Delays
Wei Dai and Rui Zhang (Purdue University Northwest, USA); Jinwei Liu (Florida A&M University, USA) Connecting First Responders via a 5G Access-Agnostic Network Shukri G Abdallah, Feng Xie and Ing-Wher Chen (MITRE Corp., USA); Venkatesh Ramaswamy (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
Wednesday, May 15, 10:30 – 12:00
TS2: TS2 Artificial Intelligence for Public Safety – I
- Chair: Chehri Abdellah (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada)
AIM: Using AI to Improve Residential Racial and Economic Segregation for Mortality Analysis
Jinwei Liu (Florida A&M University, USA); Rui Gong (Mercer University, USA)
Sustainable Flood Risk Identification and Assessment Using Artificial Intelligence: A Literature Review and Case Scenario
Imran Ahmed (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Misbah Ahmad (Univerity of West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Hartpury University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chehri Abdellah (Royal Military College of Canada,Canada); Gwanggil Jeon (Incheon National University, Korea (South))
Federated cloud-native service placement in latency-sensitive and resource-constrained scenarios
Fatemeh Tabatabaei (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain); Josep Mangues-Bafalluy and Manuel Requena-Esteso (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Hamzeh Khalili (Centre Tecnol`ogic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain); Sarang Kahvazadeh (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Apostolos Siokis (Iquadrat Informatica, Spain); Almudena Diaz Zayas (University of Malaga, Spain); Jorge Márquez-Ortega (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)
Leveraging Public Safety and Enhancing Crack detection in Concrete Bridges using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Hajar Zoubir (Hassania School of Public Works, Morocco); Mustapha Rguig (EHTP Casablanca, Morocco); Mohamed El Aroussi (LETI-EHTP & Mohammed V University, Morocco); Saadane Rachid (EHTP, Canada); Chehri Abdellah (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada)
TS3: TS3 Security, Privacy, and Trust in Public Safety – I
- Chair: Syed Shahid Ali Afser (IBM India, India)
Change Address Detection in Bitcoin using Hierarchical Clustering
Fatma Najjar (ÉTS, Canada); Kaiwen Zhang and Mikaeil Mayeli Feridani (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Oumayma Dekhil (École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Canada); Rodrigue Naha Tonga (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)
A Systems Approach to CSI
Ziv Grimberg (Israel National Cyber Directorate, Israel); Yaniv Mordecai (Tel Aviv University, USA & Amazon, USA)
Classification of Indicator of Compromise for physics-based attacks
Vincent Tan (HTX, Singapore)
Proposed Components for the Information Architecture of a Critical Infrastructure Coordination Centre
Cristiano Passerini (Italy)
TS4: TS4 Edge Computing, Cloud Computing, and IoT for Public Safety
- Chair: Wael Jaafar (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)
Situation Awareness-based Evacuation Assistance System
Arezoo Sarkheyli-Hägele (Malmö universitet, Sweden); Johan Holmberg (Internet of Things and People Research Center, Sweden); Georg Hägele (Husqvarna Group, Sweden)
A Novel Dual FedAux-based Harvested Energy Prediction for Road Safety Systems
Papa Sidy Mactar Traoré (Université Alioune Diop de Bambey, Senegal); Wael Jaafar (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Fatoumata Baldé (Université Alioune Diop de Bambey, Senegal)
Emergency Alert Communication System for Elderly People
Santhiya Shanmugam, Sandeep R, Veerakkannan K and Ramaiah Subasri (Kongu Engineering College, India)
Public Safety Campus Networks: Towards a Reference Architecture for Post-Disaster Edge-Computing and Crisis-Communication
Eridy Lukau (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany); Jochen Schiller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany); Ulrich Meissen (HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)
Wednesday, May 15, 1:00 – 2:30
TS5: TS5 Security, Privacy, and Trust in Public Safety – I
- Chair: Eman Hammad (University of Toronto, Canada & Texas A&M University, USA)
Security Analysis of Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs): Challenges, Issues, Defenses, and Open Problems
N.M. Istiak Chowdhury and Ragib Hasan (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
How Trustworthy are Over-The-Air (OTA) Updates for Autonomous Vehicles (AV) to Ensure Public Safety?: A Threat Model-based Security Analysis
N.M.Istiak Chowdhury and Ragib Hasan (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
Secure Information Discovery Between Public Security Authorities Using a New Pseudonymization Approach
Ulrich Kriegel (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany); Ulrich Meissen (HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany); Hannes Restel and Eridy Lukau (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)
Verifiable Credentials in US Government Disaster Relief
Justin F Brunelle, Erika Darling, Andrew Nohle, Patrick OLeary and Jaylen J Thomas (The MITRE Corporation, USA); Sanith Wijesinghe (MITRE, USA); Mike Sarasti (Lab22c, USA)
TS6: TS6 Artificial Intelligence for Public Safety II
- Chair: M. Abdullah Canbaz (University at Albany, USA)
ActionPoint: An App to Combat Cyberbullying by Strengthening Parent-Teen Relationships
Maddie Juarez (Loyola University Chicago, USA); Natali Barragan and Deborah Hall (Arizona State University, USA); George K. Thiruvathukal (Loyola University, Chicago, USA); Yasin Silva (Loyola University Chicago, USA)
AI-Powered Crisis Response: Streamlining Emergency Management with LLMs
Hakan Otal and M. Abdullah Canbaz (University at Albany, USA)
Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Highway Traffic Flow Prediction at Toll Stations
Tasos Papagiannis, George Ioannou and Georgios Alexandridis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Kalliopi Tzivanaki (Olympia Odos S.A., Greece); Petros Alexandridis (Extrabit LP, Greece); Fabrice Bretton (Olympia Odos S.A., Greece); Andreas Stafylopatis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Smart Communities, Smart Responders – Artificial Intelligence for Internet of Things Competition: A Case Study in Organizing a Public Safety Innovation Challenge
Harikrishnan Raghukumar (Texas A&M University, USA); Mojdeh Mahdavi (US Ignite, USA); Alyssa Cassity, Nicole Hatch and Hernan Santos Barrera (Texas A M University, USA); Lizzette Arias (US Ignite, USA); Clint Arnett and Michael Avolio (Texas A M Engineering Extension Service, USA); Nick Duffield (Texas A&M Institute of Data Science); Michael Fox (Texas A&M University, USA); Ray Ivie (Texas A M Engineering Extension Service, USA); Alison Kahn (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Derek Ladd (Texas A M University, USA); Stephanie Layman (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Hieu Le (Texas A and M University, USA); Nick Maynard (US Ignite/PAWR Project Office, USA); Patrick Newman, Anjuli Renold and Valerie Vetrone (Texas A M University, USA); Jian Tao and Walter Magnussen (Texas A&M University, USA)
TS7: TS7 Public Safety in Transportation I
- Chair: Mehmet Ulema (Manhattan College, USA)
Human-Factor focused Application of STPA to Remotely driven Vehicles
Ole Hans (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany); Krystian Radlak (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Jürgen Adamy (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Deep learning-based road object detection and classification for collision avoidance in autonomous driving
Teena Sharma (Malviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India); Chehri Abdellah (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada); Issouf Fofana (University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Spain); Benoit Debaque (Thales Communications and Security SAS, Canada); Nicolas Duclos (Thales Communications and Security, Canada); Siddhartha Khare (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
Smart port: an upshot of the maritime sector’s digital transformation
Merouane Azzab and Houda Mahboub (Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco); Jakimi Abdeslam (University Mohamed V, Morocco); Saadane Rachid (EHTP, Canada); Chehri Abdellah (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada)
Distributed Acoustic Sensor System for Vehicle Occupancy Detection
Ruikang Zhong, Chia-Yen Chiang and Mona Jaber (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Wednesday, May 15, 3:00 – 4:00
TS10: TS10 Public Safety in Transportation II
- Chair: Mona Jaber (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Leveraging Connected Vehicle Telematics for High-Speed Signalized Intersection Safety: A Quantitative Analysis of Hard-Braking Events and Crash Occurrences
Xi Wei (Iowa State University, USA); Skylar Knickerbocker (Iowa State University of Science and Technology); Neal Hawkins and Zachary Hans (Iowa State University of Science and Technology, USA); Anuj Sharma (Iowa State University, USA)
Navigating Change: Enhancing Transportation Resilience in the Face of Climate Change- A Moroccan Case Study
El Maachi Soukaina (SIRC-LaGeS EHTP, Morocco); Jakimi Abdeslam (University Mohamed V, Morocco); Saadane Rachid (EHTP, Canada); Chehri Abdellah (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada)
A LoRa-powered Secure Vehicular Communication System: Internet of Vehicles (IoV)
Tanu Sharma (Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai University India, India); Rohin Daruwala (Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
Drones Optimization for Public Transportation Safety: Enhancing Surveillance and Efficiency in Smart Cities
Fatima Azzahraa Amarcha (LPHE-MS, University of Mohammed V Morocco, Morocco); Jakimi Abdeslam (University Mohamed V, Morocco); Chehri Abdellah (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada); Saadane Rachid (EHTP, Canada); Rachid Ahl Laamara (Mohamed 5 University, Rabat, Morocco); Mohsine Bouya (Internationale University of Rabat, Morocco)
Automated Transformer Bund Wall Drainage System to Mitigate Climate Change Risks
Mohamed Fayaz Khan, Preneesa Govender and Andrew G Swanson (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa)
TS8: TS8 Security, Privacy and Trust in Public Safety II
- Chair: Kathy Grise (IEEE, USA)
Building Occupancy Estimation Using Multilayer Perceptron
Sanish Rai (Longwood University, USA)
RAGLog: Log Anomaly Detection using Retrieval Augmented Generation
Jonathan Pan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Towards an Automated Cybersecurity Risk Assessment of Next Generation Emergency Communication Networks – NG911
Eman Hammad (University of Toronto, Canada & Texas A&M University, USA)
Decentralized Drug Transaction Tracking: A Novel Hybrid Blockchain-IPFS Platform
Mouhamadou Mouctar Gueye (Université Alioune Diop de Bambey, Senegal); Wael Jaafar (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Fatoumata Baldé (Université Alioune Diop de Bambey, Senegal)
TS9: TS9 Recent Results in Public Safety
- Chair: Kamesh Namuduri (University of North Texas, USA)
Creating a shared public safety radio data
Snehashis Chakraborty (Texas A&M Institute of Data Science); Hernan Santos Barrera (Texas A M University, USA); Nick Duffield (Texas A&M Institute of Data Science); Michael Fox and Walter Magnussen (Texas A&M University, USA); Patrick Newman and Anjuli Renold (Texas A M University, USA); Jian Tao (Texas A&M University, USA); Valerie Vetrone (Texas A M University, USA)
Automated pill dispenser to improve medication compliance, efficiency, and accuracy
Anisha Vaish (Tesla STEM High School, USA)
Blueprinting Critical Infrastructure Coordination Centre
Cristiano Passerini (Italy); Djibrilla Amadou Kountche (AKKODIS Research, France)
Audio Simulation for Sound Source Localization in Virtual Environment
Yi Di Yuan and Swee Liang Wong (Home Team Science and Technology Agency, Singapore)
Simulation Study on ODMRP for Police Ad hoc Networks
Na Qin and Yantao Liu (Jiaying University, China)