Program at a Glance – GIIS2026

Program at a Glance

Venue: Holiday Inn Nanjing Qinhuai South, No.21, Mozhou East Road, Jiangning District, Nanjing, P. R. China

Conference Schedule — April 2026

Registration

Technical sessions

Tutorial / Special / Workshop

Lunch & Coffee break

Keynote

Time	Wednesday 22 April	Thursday 23 April	Friday 24 April
08h30 – 09h00	Registration	Registration	Registration
09h00 – 09h30	Opening	Registration	Registration
09h30 – 10h00	Session 1 — Satellite Networks & Non-Terrestrial Systems Session 1 Satellite Networks & Non-Terrestrial Systems MEC-Enabled Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks: A Focused Overview Towards Standardized Routing for LEO Satellite Networks: A Comparative Study OrbitServe: Joint Energy and Latency Optimization for On-Orbit Vision-Language Model Inference Network Coding Assisted In-Network Caching Implementation for Multi-Hop IoT Networks	Session 3 — AI/ML for Network Security & Cyber Defense Session 3 AI/ML for Network Security & Cyber Defense Network Temperature-Driven Equilibrium Optimization for Enhanced Intrusion Detection Early Detection and Active Defense Method for Ransomware in Smart Grids An Empirical Evaluation of Lightweight Transformer Models for Joint Entity-Relation Extraction in Cybersecurity Quantum Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in 5G and Beyond Mobile Networks	Tutorial
10h00 – 10h30
10h30 – 11h00
11h00 – 11h30	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
11h30 – 12h00	Keynote — Prof. Dirk Kutscher Keynote · Wednesday 22 April Prof. Dirk Kutscher AI-Native Networks	Keynote — Prof. Zhibo Pang Keynote · Thursday 23 April Prof. Zhibo Pang When Embodied AI Meets the Cloud Fog Automation: Challenges and Opportunities	Keynote — Prof. Cheng Li Keynote · Friday 24 April Prof. Cheng Li Underwater Acoustic Communications and Networking for the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT)
12h00 – 12h30
12h30 – 13h30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13h30 – 14h00	Special Session Special Session Future Global Space Information Infrastructure and Networking Chair: Prof. Kanglian Zhao Deep Space Integrated Networks: Roadmap and Key Technologies — Suzhi Cao Towards Integrated Space Computing Networks: Challenges and Opportunities — Changgang Zheng Space-ground integrated multi-protocol quantum networks — Dr. Yuan Cao Safety Oriented Resource Optimization for Low Altitude Intelligent Network — Ziye Jia	Panel	Workshop Workshop 13:30–14:00 — Kube-SFC: Scalable and Resilient Cloud-Native Service Function Chaining with Hardware Acceleration 14:00–14:30 — PrivSpeech: A Declarative Framework for Privacy-Preserving Speech Analytics
14h00 – 14h30		Panel
14h30 – 15h00		Session 4 — Edge Intelligence, Model Optimization & Network Automation Session 4 Edge Intelligence, Model Optimization & Network Automation Facility-Location-based Model Partitioning for Efficient Inference in Edge Intelligence Deployment-Oriented Model Optimization for Real-Time 3D Hand Reconstruction in 5G Edge AI Virtual Try-On Network Configuration Intent Parsing Equipped with a DeBERTa-Based Joint Model KPI2KVI: A Multi Agent Workflow for Calculating Key Value Indicators from Service Descriptions	Session 5 — UAVs, Smart Grids, IoT Path Validation & Data Streaming Session 5 UAVs, Smart Grids, IoT Path Validation & Data Streaming On the Optimization of Multi-UAV Task Offloading in Vehicular Networks Trust-Driven Adaptive Sampling for Grid-Based IoT Path Validation Reconstructing Occluded Power Lines from LiDAR Data: Current State, Methods, and Future Research JUMP: Joint Preloading and Multi-Path Transmission for Short Video Streaming
15h00 – 15h30	Coffee break
15h30 – 16h00	Session 2 — 5G/6G Industrial IoT & Edge Connectivity Session 2 5G/6G Industrial IoT & Edge Connectivity Online Uplink Scheduling for Multi-User LEO Satellite IoT Networks 5G RedCap Devices Driving the Evolution of Cellular IoT: A Review Guest talk – AI/ML-Based IDS as a 5G Core Network Function for 3GPP Cellular IoT Traffic
16h00 – 16h30		Social Event	Closing
16h30 – 17h00
17h00 – 17h30
20h00 – 22h00		Banquet dinner

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