Wednesday 28 June 2006, 10am-12am

 

Session Title:                 MAC

Session Chair:                Mischa Dohler, France Telecom R&D, France

Session Room:              LC 102

Modeling the Effect of BEB for a Hidden Terminal Topology from a New Perspective [invited]

Athanasia Tsertou (University of Edinburgh, UK); David I. Laurenson,
(University of Edinburgh, UK)

Analysis of Co-existence between IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.16 Systems

Nicholas Thomas (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK); Michael Willis (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK); Ken Craig (CCLRC, UK)

On-Demand Connection-Oriented Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Ad-Hoc Network

Peng-Jung Wu (National Sun-Yat Sen University of Taiwan, TW); Chung-Nan Lee (University of Yat-sen, TW)

Novel Sensor MAC Protocol Applied to Cayley and Manhattan

Eric Noel (AT&T Laboratories Research, US); Wendy Tang (SUNY Stony Brook, US)

Link Cost and Reliability of Frame Preamble MAC Protocols

Abdelmalik Bachir (France Telecom & IMAG, France); Ludovic Samper (France Telecom & Verimag, France); Dominique Barthel (France Telecom, FR); Martin Heusse (LSR-IMAG, FR);  Andrzej Duda (LSR-IMAG, FR)

1-hopMAC: An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Avoiding 1-hop Neighborhood Knowledge

Thomas Watteyne (France Telecom & INSA Lyon, France); Abdelmalik Bachir (France Telecom, France); Mischa Dohler (France Telecom, France); Dominique Barthel (France Telecom, France); Isabelle Augé-Blum (INSA Lyon, France)

 

Session Title:                 CLUSTERING

Session Chair:                Chaorong Peng, Florida Institute of Technology, USA

Session Room:              LC 400

Sensor Networks with Decentralized Binary Detection: Clustering and Lifetime

Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, IT); Marco Martalò (University of Parma, IT)

Scalable Coverage Maintenance for Dense Wireless Sensor Networks

Jun Lu (University of California, Irvine, US); Jinsu Wang (University of California, Irvine, US); Tatsuya Suda (University of California, Irvine, US)

Clustering and Wireless Sensor Networks: A Paradigm Shift?

Thomas Watteyne (France Telecom & INSA Lyon, France); Isabelle Augé-Blum (INSA Lyon, France)

Dynamic Local Clustering for Hierarchical Ad Hoc Networks

Satu Elisa Schaeffer (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Stefano Marinoni (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Mikko Särelä (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Pekka Nikander (Ericsson Research Nomadiclab, FI)

A Distributed Min-Max Tree Algorithm for Scalable Maximum-Lifetime Multicast in Resource-limited Wireless Ad Hoc Networks  [invited]

Song Guo (University of British Columbia, Canada); Victor Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Ubiquitous Zone (u-Zone) based Community Networking Technologies

Yun Won Chung (Soongsil University, KR); Namhi Kang (Soongsil University, KR); Younghan Kim (Soongsil University, KR)


 

Thursday 29 June 2006, 10am-12am

 

Session Title:                 RF, PHY & XL ALGORITHMS

Session Chair:                Mischa Dohler, France Telecom R&D, France

Session Room:              LC 102

Waveform Design and Diversity in Radar Sensor Networks: Theoretical Analysis and Application to Automatic Target Recognition

Qilian Liang (University of Texas at Arlington, US)

Distributed timing synchronization for sensor networks with coupled discrete-time oscillators

Osvaldo Simeone (Politecnico di Milano, IT)

The Energy-per-Useful-Bit Metric for Evaluating and Optimizing Sensor Network Physical Layers

Josephine Ammer (University of Washington, US); Jan Rabaey (UC Berkeley, US)

Multichannel Feedback in OFDM Ad Hoc Networks

Taiwen Tang (The University of Texas, Austin, US); Ketan Mandke (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Chan-Byoung Chae (The University of Texas, Austin, US); Robert Heath (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Scott Nettles (University of Texas at Austin, US)

Eavesdropping Minimization via Transmission Power Control in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks

Jung-Chun Kao (Carnegie Mellon University, US)

Elements of PHY/MAC Cross-Layer Optimisation for CSMA-based Ad Hoc Networks

Mischa Dohler (France Telecom, FR); Athanasios Gkelias (King's College London, UK); A. Hamid Aghvami (King's College London, UK)

 

Session Title:                 NETWORK

Session Chair:                Christian Tchepnda, France Telecom R&D, France

Session Room:              LC 400

A Communication-Theoretic Approach to Ad Hoc Wireless Networking [invited]

Ozan K. Tonguz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy)

Emulation Architecture Implementation and Design

Alessandra Giovanardi (University of Ferrara, IT); Gianluca Mazzini (University of Ferrara, IT)

A Low Cost and Flexible Network Testbed

Federico Fergnani (University of Ferrara, IT); Gianluca Mazzini (University of Ferrara, IT)

A Biologically Inspired Architecture for Self-Managing Sensor Networks

Pruet Boonma (University of Massachusetts, Boston, US); Paskorn Champrasert (University of Massachusetts, US); Junichi Suzuki (University of Massachusetts, Boston, US)

An Internet SIP Gateway for Ad-hoc Networks

Jukka Manner (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Kimmo Raatikainen (University of Helsinki, FI); Simone Leggio (Open Source Software Operations, Nokia Multimedia, FI)

Bandwidth Consumption for Providing Fair Internet Access in Wireless Mesh Networks

Thomas Scherer (University of Luxembourg, LU); Thomas Engel (University of Luxemburg, LU)


 

Friday 30 June 2006, 10am-12am

 

Session Title:                 MODELING

Session Chair:                Aik Chindapol, Siemens Corporate Research, USA

Session Room:              LC 102

Modeling End-to-end Distance for Given Number of Hops in Wireless Sensor Networks

Liang Zhao (University of Texas at Arlington, US); Qilian Liang (University of Texas at Arlington, US)

Mathematical Analysis of Tree-Based Topologies for Multi-Sink Wireless Sensor Networks

John Orriss (Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK); Roberto Verdone (University of Bologna, IT)

A Statistical Model for the Evaluation of the Distribution of the Received power in ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks

Alberto Zanella (CSITE-CNR, DEIS, University of Bologna, IT); Enrica Salbaroli (University of Bologna, IT)

Minimal Transmission Power vs. Signal Strength as Distance Estimation for Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks [invited]

Jan Blumenthal (University of Rostock, DE); Frank Reichenbach (University of Rostock, DE); Dirk Timmermann (University of Rostock, DE)

Energy Efficiency Analysis of Cooperative Relay Sensor Network [invited]

Lichuan Liu (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US); Zhigang Wang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)

Cooperation in Bandwidth-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks [invited]

Tony Q.S. Quek (MIT, USA); Moe Z. Win (MIT, USA); Davide Dardari (University of Bologna at Cesena, Italy) 

 

Session Title:                 ROUTING

Session Chair:                Jukka Manner, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Session Room:              LC 400

Capacity Evaluation Framework and Validation of Self-Organized Routing Schemes

Herve Rivano (CNRS - INRIA - UNSA, FR); Fabrice Theoleyre (INSA Lyon - INRIA Rhone Alpes, FR); Fabrice Valois (INSA Lyon, FR)

Resilient IPv6 Multicast Address Allocation in Ad Hoc Networks

Janne Lindqvist (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Antti Ylä-Jääski (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Jukka Manner (Helsinki University of Technology, FI)

Energy Efficiency in OLSR Protocol

Chiara Taddia (University of Ferrara, IT); Alessandra Giovanardi (University of Ferrara, IT); Gianluca Mazzini (University of Ferrara, IT)

Study on an Enhanced Link-Stability based Routing Scheme for Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Wen-fong Wang (National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, TW); Po-Hun Shih (Nat'l Yunlin University of Science & Tech., TW)

Mobility Metrics for Adaptive Routing

Liang Qin (Carleton University, CA); Thomas Kunz (Carleton University, CA)

Dynamic Hybrid Multi Routing Protocol For Ad Hoc Wireless Network

Chaorong Peng (Florida Institute of Technology, US); Chang Wen Chen (Florida Institute of Technology, US)

 


 

Friday 30 June 2006, 1pm-3pm

 

Session Title:                 DATA PROCESSING

Session Chair:               Qilian Liang, University of Texas at Arlington, US

Session Room:              LC 102

Joint Network-Channel Coding for the Multiple-Access Relay Channel

Christoph Hausl (Munich University of Technology TUM, DE); Philippe Dupraz (Munich University of Technology, DE)

Efficient Data Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks for Civil Infrastructure Health Monitoring

Shengpu Liu (Lehigh University, US); Liang Cheng (Lehigh University, US)

A scalable Information dissemination Scheme for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Yingjie Li (Troy University, US)

Query Processing Optimization Through Sample Size and Monitoring Coverage Controlling in Wireless Sensor Networks

Qingchun Ren (Univ of Texas at Arlington, US); Qilian Liang (University of Texas at Arlington, US)

On the Importance of Modeling the Environment when Analyzing Sensor Networks

Ludovic Samper (France Télécom R&D/ Verimag, FR); Florence Maraninchi (Verimag, FR); Laurent Mounier (Verimag, FR); Erwan Jahier (Verimag/CNRS, FR); Pascal Raymond (Verimag/CNRS, FR)

Code Dissemination in Sensor Networks with MDeluge

Xiao Zheng (UNBC, CA); Behcet Sarikaya (University of Northern British Columbia, CA)

 

Session Title:                 SERVICES & APPLICATIONS

Session Chair:               Simone Leggio, Nokia Multimedia, Finland

Session Room:              LC 400

On the Modular Composition of Scalable Application-Layer Multicast Services for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Peter Baumung (University of Karlsruhe, DE)

Hybrid Wireless Networks: Applications, Architectures and New Perspectives

Christian Tchepnda (France Telecom R&D, FR); Hasnaa Moustafa (France Telecom R&D, FR); Houda Labiod (ENST, FR)

A P2P approach to Streaming Multimedia Contents in a E-learning Oriented Platform

Andrea Odorizzi (University of Ferrara, IT); Gianluca Mazzini (University of Ferrara, IT)

BENCHManet: An Evaluation Framework for Service Discovery Protocols in MANET

Mohamed Abou El Saoud (Carleton University, CA); Samy Mahmoud (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, CA); Thomas Kunz (Carleton University, CA)

Cognitive Adaptive Radio Teams

Richard Lau (Telcordia Technologies, US)

   

 


 

Friday 30 June 2006, 3.30pm-5.30pm

 

Session Title:                 Invited Session on MAC & NETWORKING

Session Chair:                Thanasis Korakis, Polytechnic University, USA

Session Room:              LC 102

Effect of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols on TCP Performance within MANETs [invited]

Alaa Seddik-Ghaleb (Institut
d’Informatique d’Entreprise, France); Yacine Ghamri-Doudane(Institut
d’Informatique d’Entreprise, France); Sidi-Mohammed Senouci (France Telecom, France)

Cooperative Routing [invited]

Cristina Comaniciu (Stevens Institute of Technology, US)

Queuing Delay and Achievable Throughput in Random Access Wireless Ad Hoc Networks [invited]

Nabhendra Bisnik (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Alhussein Abouzeid (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US)

Efficient Scheduling of Multi-User Multi-Antenna Systems [invited]

Phil Whiting (Bell Labs Lucent Technologies, US)

Throughput benefits of network coding [invited]

Emina Soljanin (Bell Labs Lucent Technologies, US)

 

 

Not attending:

 

A Zone based energy efficient protocol for information collection in wireless sensor network

Siddhartha Satapathy (Tezpur University, IN); Rakesh Tripathi (Tezpur University, IN); Nitul Dutta (Tezpur University, IN)

Towards Efficient Temperature Temperature Monitoring and Controlling in Large Grain Depot

Bin Xu (Zhejiang Gongshang University, CN)

A New Solution Based on Monte Carlo to Wireless Sensor Network Density Control Problem

Jia Yufu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CN)

Adaptive Multiuser Interference Cancellation for DS-UWB

Jiao Shengcai (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN)

Rate Control to Reduce Bioeffects in Wireless Biomedical Sensor Networks

Hl Ren (CUHK, HK)

LLM: Low Latency MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network

Atanu Roy Chowdhury (IIT-Guwahati, IN); Sumeet Parmar (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, IN); Sukumar Nandi (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, IN)

Topology Discovering Mechanism for Power Saving in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks

Arwa Zabian (Irbid National University, JO)

Application of Video Sensor Networks in ITS

Kai Zhou (Tongji University, CN)

Clustering Ad Hoc Networks: Schemes and Classifications

Dali Wei (University of Cape Town, ZA); Anthony Chan (University of Cape Town, ZA)

Performance Analysis of Multipath Data Transmission in Multihop Ad Hoc Networks

Li Zhao (Washington State University, US); Jose Delgado (Washington State University, US)

A MAC Protocol Equipped by a Novel Transmission Scheduling Algorithm for Wireless LANs

Kaveh Ghaboosi (Sharif University of Technology, IR); Babak Hossein Khalaj (Sharif University of Technology, IR)

Power Efficient and Low Latency MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks

Atanu Roy Chowdhury (IIT-Guwahati, IN); Sumeet Parmar (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, IN); Sukumar Nandi (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, IN)

Data-Sink Based Energy-Efficient Algorithm for Ad Hoc Sensor Networks

Dali Wei (University of Cape Town, ZA); Anthony Chan (University of Cape Town, ZA)

RF-Based Location System using cooperative calibration

Ricardo Reghelin (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, BR); Antonio Augusto Fröhlich (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, BR)

A Comprehensive Comparison of Routing Protocols for Large-Scale Wireless MANETs

Ioannis Broustis; Gentian Jakllari; Thomas Repantis; Mart Molle

Doughnut Effect in Wireless Sensor Network and its Solution

Kumar Padmanabh (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India., IN); Rajarshi Roy (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, IN)

A Probabilistic Energy-Efficient Routing (PEER) Scheme for Ad-hoc Sensor Networks

Kai Chen (University of Science and Technology of China, CN); Yang Qin (University of Science and Technology of China, CN); Fan Jiang (University of Science and Technology of China, CN); Zongyao Tang (University of Science & Technology of China, CN)

Performance Evaluation of Secure On Demand Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Junaid Arshad (IIUI, PK)