DS-RT 2026 - Program

Technical Program

DS-RT 2026 · September 16–18, 2026 · Padua, Italy

Day 1 — Wednesday, September 16, 2026

08:30

Registration

09:00 - 09:15

Conference Opening

09:15 - 10:15

Keynote 1

Resource Allocation and Application Scheduling across the Cloud–Fog–Mist Continuum: The Role of Modeling and Simulation: Prof. Helen Karatza · Details

10:15 - 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 - 12:15

Session 1 - PDES & Simulation Engines

Model-Driven Engineering for Reversible Parallel Discrete Event Simulation: Simone Bauco (Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy); Alessandro Pellegrini (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Space-Time Memory Via Transparent Linear-to-Linear Address Redirection: Danilo Damico, Andrea Mazzucchi and Francesco Quaglia (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Sys-SL: a Framework for Distributed Simulation of Systems Specified in SysML v2: Paolo Bocciarelli (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Andrea D'Ambrogio (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Software Transactional Memory as a Conservative Synchronization Substrate for Parallel Discrete-Event Simulation: Jason Liu (Florida International University, USA); Nandakishore Santhi (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

12:15 - 13:45

Lunch (at Canteen of University of Padua)

13:45 - 15:15

Session 2 - Real-Time, Fault-Tolerant & Resilient Systems

Evaluating SDN Controller Failover with Direct Replication and Shared Data Store Architectures: Anthonny Flores, Mauro Tropea, Mattia Giovanni Spina and Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy)
A Thin Edge-Thick Core Architecture for Deterministic SIP Communications over Overlay VPN Networks: Mitigating NAT Traversal and Local I/O Bottlenecks: Antonio Francesco Gentile (ICAR-CNR, Italy); Davide Macrì (ICAR-CNR, Italy); Emilio Greco (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
Simulating and Detecting Progressive Motor Thrust Degradation in Autonomous VTOL Missions: Noura Aljeri (Kuwait University, Kuwait & University of Ottawa, Canada); Ahmed Jlidi (Kuwait University, Kuwait); Azzedine Bourkerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)

15:15 - 15:45

Coffee break

15:45 - 17:15

Session 3 - Traffic & Mobility Simulation

V2V Information Policies for Adaptive Itinerary Optimisation in Large-Scale Traffic Simulation: Iván Monzón-Catalán (Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Spain); Diego Marzá (Universitat Jaume I, Spain); Vicente R. Tomás and Luis A. Garcia (University Jaume I, Spain)
Parallelization of a Destination-Bush-based Stochastic Static Traffic Assignment Algorithm: Tomas Potuzak (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic); Frantisek Kolovsky (RoadTwin s.r.o., Czech Republic)
SUMO-Based Evaluation of Edge-AI for Intelligent Traffic Control and Emergency Vehicle Preemption: Ashen Kavindra Senanayake Mudiyanselage, Richa Mishra and Alexandre Dos Santos Roque (Halmstad University, Sweden); Edison Pignaton de Freitas (Halmstad University, Sweden)
A Multiplayer Architecture for Coupling Bicycle and Car Simulators in Mixed Reality: Esra Demircioglu and Nedim Kovacevic (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Rainer Stark (TU Berlin, Germany)

17:30 - 18:30

Welcome Reception

Day 2 — Thursday, September 17, 2026

09:00 - 10:00

Keynote 2

Toward Semantic Digital Twin Networks: From Digital Representations to Collective Intelligence: Dr. Marica Amadeo · Details

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00

Session 4 - Digital Twins & Intelligent IoT/CPS

Kubernetes-Based Real-Time LoRaWAN Emulation Toward Network Digital Twins: Alessandro Aimi, Michele Brigadoi, Andrea Sabbioni and Armir Bujari (University of Bologna, Italy)
TWIN-IDS: Twin-driven IDS Placement for Cost-aware Detection: Vincenzo Sammartino, Fabrizio Baiardi and Salvatore Ruggieri (Università di Pisa, Italy)
Bridging Live Data & Simulation: Architectural Patterns for Digital Twins: Riccardo Morandi, Marco Picone and Nicola Bicocchi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Prasad Talasila and Peter Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
ACDT: A Distributed Agentic Cognitive Digital Twin Architecture: Alfredo Garro and Alessandro Sorrenti (University of Calabria, Italy)

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch (at Canteen of University of Padua)

13:30 - 15:00

Session 5 - Vision, Detection & Crowd Analysis

Toward Robust Real-Time Honey Bee Detection in Challenging Hive Scenes with a Hybrid Framework: Sebora Memolla (EuroMov Digital Health in Motion, France & École IMT Mines d'Alès, France); Baptiste Magnier (EuroMov Digital Health in Motion, France & IMT, France); Patrice Guyot (EuroMov Digital Health in Motion & IMT Mines d'Alès, France); Stefan Janaqi (EuroMov Digital Health in Motion, IMT Mines d’Alès, France)
Closing the Loop in Scene Reconstruction: Automated Evaluation and Guided Data Collection: Joakim Lindén (Malardalen University, Sweden); Ludwig Karlsson (Saab, Sweden); Håkan Forsberg and Masoud Daneshtalab (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
A Preliminary Study on Crowd Behavior Analysis Based on Zenithal Images: Carlos J Gallego Aranguren and Gonzalo de Miguel Vela (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Ana M. Bernardos (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
A Cooperative Crowd-Based Protocol for Privacy Preservation in Location-Based Services: Francesco Apollonio and Andrea Melis (University of Bologna, Italy); Luca Bedogni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Lorenzo Rinieri (Università di Bologna, Italy); Gabriele D'Angelo and Stefano Ferretti (University of Bologna, Italy)

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 - 17:00

Session 6 - Networking & 6G/Communication Simulation

CoSiFra: a Generic Middleware-Based Interface for Mobile Communication Simulation: Touhid Hossain Pritom, Burkhard Hensel and Christoph Sommer (TU Dresden, Germany)
SANDRAN: A Modular System-Level Simulator for Real-Time Evaluation of 6G Radio Access Networks: Alex Piccioni (University of L'Aquila, Italy); Koteswararao Kondepu (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India); Andrea Marotta (University of L'Aquila, Italy & NexTrainE SRL, Italy)
AutoRL-Edge: Optimizing DRL-Based Scaling for Cloud-Native 6G Networks via Digital Twins: Mateo Van Geyt (University of Antwerp, Belgium); Paola Soto (IMEC, Belgium & University of Antwerp, Belgium); Johann Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen & IMEC, Belgium)

18:30 - 20:00

Guided Tour

20:00

Conference Banquet (at “Osteria Antico Brolo”)

Day 3 — Friday, September 18, 2026

09:00 - 10:00

Tutorial

From Automation to Orchestration: The New Frontiers of Network Softwarization: Dr. Gianluca Davoli · Details

10:00 - 10:45

Session 7 - Next-Generation Networking and Computing Continuum for Large-Scale Digital Twins

SimFidelity: A Distributed Simulation Framework for Fidelity-Aware Synchronization Scheduling in Large-Scale Digital Twin Systems (online): Yogesh Rethinapandian (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); Arun Karthik Sundararajan (Qualcomm, USA); Kaushik Kumar (University of Arizona, USA); Smrithi Prakash (Optum, India)
Enabling Federation of Network Digital Twins through an NGSI-LD Compliant Architecture: Francesco Mazzei (Italy); Emanuele Gaspare Biondino, Pasquale Pace and Antonio Iera (University of Calabria, Italy)

10:45 - 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 - 12:15

Session 8 - Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation for Sustainable and Resilient Systems

INTERLINK-DT: A Tri-Domain Digital Twin Framework for Urban Intelligence Through Environmental, Energy, and Mobility Data Fusion: Waqas Amin (Southwest University of Science and Technology, China); Muhammad Faiz Fareed (University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan); Abdullah Aman Khan (UESTC, China); Sidra Shafiq (UESTC, China); Alireza Soleimani, Pasquale Vizza and Anna Pinnarelli (University of Calabria, Italy)
An IoT-Enabled Early Warning Platform for Urban Flood-Risk Monitoring and Mitigation: The IN-FLOOD Case Study: Stefania Anna Palermo (University of Calabria, Italy); Mauro Tropea (Spintel srl, Italy); Michele Turco and Patrizia Piro (University of Calabria, Italy); Floriano De Rango (Spintel, Italy)
Zero Trust Framework for Resilient MQTT-based IoT Systems: Graziano Rizzo, Gianluca Aloi and Anthonny Flores (University of Calabria, Italy)

12:15 - 13:15

Session 9 - Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Drones and UAVs in emergent applications

Special Session on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Drones and UAVs in emergent applications

A Time-Varying Diffeomorphic Approach for Drone Fleet Coordination in Structural Monitoring: Luigi D'Alfonso (University of Calabria, UNICAL, Italy); Giuseppe Fedele (University of Calabria, Italy)
An Energy-Aware Framework for Drone Charging Management in FANETs: Mauro Tropea (University of Calabria, Italy); Federico Chieffa (Italy); Edison Pignaton de Freitas (Halmstad University, Sweden); Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy)
PACE-FANET: Simulation-Based Evaluation of Energy, Communication and Coverage Trade-offs in Obstacle-Constrained UAV Swarms: Francesco Gaetano Termine, Giuseppe Lorenzo Di Prima, Giuseppe Sutera and Mario Collotta (Kore University of Enna, Italy)

13:15 - 13:30

Closing Remarks

Poster Papers

Poster papers will be presented during the coffee breaks.

Performance Assessment of Security Credential Management Systems in Real-Time V2X Networks: Ahmad Mashhadawi, Xhevat Januzi and Gentrit Ibishi (School of Information Technology (ITE) - Halmstad University, Sweden); Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Wagner Ourique de Morais and Alexandre Dos Santos Roque (Halmstad University, Sweden)
Optimisation and Parallelisation of an Urban Pollution Simulation Framework: Nicolás García Niebla, María J Morón Fernández, Antonio Navas Orozco, Luis M Trinidad Salvador, Fernando Diaz del Rio, Juan Alberto Gallardo Gómez and Jose Luis Guisado (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Optimizing OMNeT++ Network Simulations with the Open-Source Optimization Framework Simopticon: Burkhard Hensel, Touhid Hossain Pritom and Christoph Sommer (TU Dresden, Germany)