ITC34 Conference

ITC 33: Networked Systems and Services

Sep. 14 – 16, 2022, Shenzhen, China (Virtual Conference)

General Chairs

Z.-Q. Tom Luo (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)
Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China)

TPC Chairs

Minghua Chen (City Univ. of Hong Kong, China)
Longbo Huang (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Weina Wang (Carnegie Mellon Univ., US)

Homepage: https://itc34.itc-conference.org/

ITC 34 Program in a Nutshel

Three keynote were given by:
- Keynote 1: Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University) - “Recent Breakthroughs in Stochastic Scheduling Theory”
- Keynote 2: Jim Dai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Cornell) - “WWTA Load-Balancing for Parallel-Server Systems with Heterogeneous Servers”
18 invited talks
- Kuangching Wang (Clemson University, US): “Pushing the limits of at-scale future Internet experiments with FABRIC”
- I-Hong Hou (Texas A&M University, US): “A Theory of Second-Order Wireless Network Optimization and Its Application on AoI”
- Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan (Ohio State University, US): “Peer-to-Peer Network Design for Blockchains”
- Yin Sun (Auburn University, US): “How Does Data Freshness Affect Real-time Supervised Learning?”
- Beatriz Lorenzo (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US): “Federated Architecture Design and Resource Sharing Policies for Multi-protocol Internet of Things”
- Miao Pan (University of Houston, US): “To Talk or to Work: Efficient Federated Learning over Mobile Devices”
- Jihong Yu (Beijing Institute of Technology, China): “Wireless Access in Ambient Power-Enabled IoT: Stability and Freshness”
- Fangxin Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHKSZ), China): “Adaptive Streaming for Real-time Video Analytics”
- Dapeng Wu (City University of Hong Kong, China): “Knowledge Centric Networking: Challenges and Opportunities”
- Kohei Shiomoto (Tokyo City University, Japan): “Toward Multi-modal Spatio-Temporal Traffic Prediction”
- Li Xia (Sun Yat-Sen University, China): “A c/μ-Rule for Job Assignment in Heterogeneous Group-Server Queues”
- Moshe Zukerman (City University of Hong Kong, China): “Designing submarine cable network for a connected world: Bridging the gap between theory and practice”
- Yumin Jiang (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway): “Network Calculus: A Theory for Ultra Reliable Low Latency Guarantees”
- Shoji Kasahara (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan): “A matrix-analytic approach to mining process of Bitcoin blockchain: How is the transaction-confirmation time affected by transaction arrival process?”
- Danilo Giordano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy): “Enlightening the Darknets: Augmenting Darknet Visibility with Active Probes”
- Haiming Jin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China): “Distributed Multi-Agent Decision Making for Vehicular Crowd Sensing Systems”
- Qiulin Lin (City University of Hong Kong, China): “Competitive Online Optimization with Inventory Constraints and its Application in IoT Communication and Cloud Resource Provisioning”
- Xin Liu (ShanghaiTech University, China): “Large-System Insensitivity of Zero-Waiting Load Balancing Algorithms”
Two technical sessions
- 10 regular papers
- 3 short papers
One panel Title: “AI Native Networking” Organization and moderator: Dario Rossi (Huawei, France) Five panelists:
- Erol Gelenbel (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
- Albert Cabellos (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
- Diego Perino (Telefonica Research, Spain)
- Georg Carle (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
- Laurent Ciavaglia (Rakuten, France)
One tutorial Title: “Age of Information in Wireless Networks: Concepts, Algorithms and Applications” Presenters:
- Sheng Zhou (Tsinghua University, China)
- Shan Zhang (Beihang University, China)
- Xiaoqi Qin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
- Zhiyuan Jiang (Shanghai University, China)
** One workshop** Title: “Joint Workshop of Smart Industrial Networking and Satellite Based IoT” Two plenary talks:
- Stan Wong (Ubiquitous Space): “NGMN Sustainable Trust”
- Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany): “Industrial Communications – the Way-Forward from 5G to 6G” Six technical papers
The technical program is available at https://itc34.itc-conference.org/program

ITC 34 Facts

Number of keynotes: 2
Number of invited talks: 18
Number of panels: 1
Number of tutorials: 1
Number of workshops: 1
Number of papers (main conference only): 10 full papers / 3 short papers
Number of workshop papers: 6
Number of workshop plenary talks: 2

Welcome Message from ITC 34 General Chairs

On behalf of the Executive Committee, it is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the 34th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC’34), Shenzhen, China, on September 14-16, 2022. As the first international conference in networking science and practice, ITC was founded in 1955 by enthusiastic scientists and engineers willing to deploy networks in a holistic way. During the past 67 years, it has served as a forum for all theoretical fundamentals and engineering practices for large-scale deployment and operation of communication and information networks. Following the successful 19th ITC’2005 in Beijing and 25th ITC’2013 in Shanghai, the 34th ITC’2022 comes back to China again in another most innovative city of Shenzhen under the theme of “Teletraffic Engineering for Smart Networking”. Despite the COVID-19 spread, you are warmly welcome to “see” the miracle city of Shenzhen and the appealing ICT industry there led by Huawei, ZTE, Tencent, Dajiang, etc.

The ITC’34 is jointly organized by the Chinese University of Hong Kong at Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ) and Tsinghua University (THU) under the supports from Chinese Institute of Communications (CIC) and International Advisory Council (IAC) of ITC. The technical program consists of two keynote speeches, 18 invited speeches, 13 technical papers, one panel session, one tutorial session, one joint workshop with two plenary speeches and 7 workshop papers, disseminating the latest research and development results in the areas of teletraffic and networking science. By taking this opportunity, we would like to express our sincere thanks and appreciations to all the authors, technical committee members, and anonymous reviewers, in particular to all the committee chairs. The conference would never be possible without your great and exceptional contributions.

We strongly believe you will find the technical program of ITC’34 very stimulating and inspiring, and cordially invite all of you to join us and interact with the distinguished speakers and panelists. Once again, welcome to ITC’34 and enjoy the conference.

Z.-Q. Tom Luo and Zhisheng Niu

General Chairs

ITC 34, 2022