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Sunday 18th September 2005
Time Event
16:00 - 18:00 Registration

Monday 19th September 2005
Time Event
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:30 Opening Session
09:30 - 10:00 Keynote Speech
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Panel Session
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break (Not provided by the conference)
14:00 - 15:15 Session A:
Ad Hoc I
(Atlas 4 Room )
Session Chair:
Mona Ghassemian
Session K:
Advanced Protocols and Techniques
(Atlas 2 Room)
Session Chair:
Fethi Filali
  A. 1 C200508
Congestion State Monitoring using Distributed Policy as a Reactive Approach to Load Redistribution in Ad Hoc Networks
Susan Rea, Olivia Brickley, and
Dirk Pesch
Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
K. 1 C200502
RCL : A new Method for Cross–Layer Network Modelling and Simulation
Mahamadou Issoufou Tiado,
Riadh Dhaou,and
André-Luc Beylot
ENSEEIHT –IRIT Lab, France
  A. 2 C200522
SIP-Based Multimedia Services Provision in Ad Hoc Networks
Y. Rebahi, D. Sisalem, and
U. Depirianto
Fraunhofer Institut Fokus, Berlin,
Germany
K. 2 C200506
Policy-based Initial RAT Selection algorithms in Heterogeneous Networks
Jordi Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, and R. Agustí
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
  A. 3 C200527
Performance Analysis of a Distributed Queuing MAC Protocol for Ad-Hoc Networks with Different Mobility Conditions
Jesús Alonso*, Christos Verikoukis* and Luis Alonso**
* Centre Tecnològic de
Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
** University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
K. 3 C200512
Advanced Scheduling and Link Adaptation Techniques for Block Acknowledgement
V. Scarpa, G. Convertino, S. Oliva, C. Parata
STMicroelectronics S.r.l.,
University of Lecce, Italy
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00 Session A:
Ad Hoc I
(Atlas 4 Room)
Session Chair:
Mona Ghassemian
Session K:
Advanced Protocols and Techniques
(Atlas 2 Room)
Session Chair:
Fethi Filali
  A. 4 C200529
On Monitoring Malicious Packet Dropping in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Y. Rebahi, V. E. Mujica-V, C. Simons, and D. Sisalem
Fraunhofer Institut Fokus, Berlin,
Germany
K. 4 C200515
Protocol Decomposition: the first step towards network layer reconfiguration
Konstantinos Boukis*,
Nikos Georganopoulos**,
and Hamid Aghvami*
* King’s College London, University of London, UK
** Toshiba Research Europe, Bristol, UK
  A. 5 C200535
Performance Comparison of the Neuron Routing Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
V.E MujicaV, Y. Rebahi, D. Sisalem, and R. PopescuZeletin
Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute, Berlin, Germany
K. 5 C200518
MQoS NSLP: a mobility profile management based approach for advance resource reservation in a mobile environment
Badr Benmammar and F. Krief
Domaine Uiversitaire, France
  A. 6 C200542
A Multi-hop Ad Hoc Network Routing Algorithm Based on Performance Maximization
Ruay-Shiung Chang, and
Chun-Fu Lin
National Dong Hwa University,
Hualien, Taiwan
K. 6 C200538
A Proactive Resource Management in 3G Networks
A. Lakas, F. Sallabi, M. Boulmalf, K. Shuaib, and H. Elsayed
UAE University, UAE
17:00 End of Day One
18:00 - 21:30 Welcome Party

Tuesday 20th September 2005
Time Event
09:00 - 10:15 Session B:
Ad Hoc II
(Atlas 2 Room)
Session Chair:
Susan Rea
Session J:
Testbeds, Architectures and Systems
(Tichka Room)
Session Chair:
Tiago Camilo
  B. 1 C200549
Evaluating and Improving TCP Performance against Contention Losses in Multihop Ad Hoc Networks
Ehsan Hamadani, and
Veselin Rakocevic
City University, London, UK
J. 1 C200519
Surrey's Next Generation Wireless Network Testbed
M.Georgiades, N.Akhtar, M.Ghader, Z.Li, S.Gultchev, and R.Tafazolli
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
  B. 2 C200553
Rate-based End-to-end Flow Control for Multi-hop Wireless Networks
Yong Shyang Liaw, Arek Dadej,
and Aruna Jayasuriya
University of South Australia,
Australia
J. 2 C200528
Design of APRS Network using Low Cost Nanosatellite
Adnane ADDAIM,
Abdelhak KHERRAS,
El Bachir ZANTOU, and Abdelhafid ER-RADI
University of Mohammed V-Agdal, Morocco
  B. 3 C200555
Toward Service Differentiation Based on a Semi-Stateless Approach for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
L. Khoukhi, and S. Cherkaoui
University of Sherbrooke, Canada
J. 3 C200536
A global Video-on-Demand Architecture Based on a Novel Constellation Composed of Quasi-Geostationary Satellites
Tarik Taleb, Abbas Jamalipour,
Nei Kato, and Yoshiaki Nemoto
Tohoku University, Japan
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00 Session B:
Ad Hoc II
(Atlas 2 Room)
Session Chair:
Susan Rea
Session L:
Advanced Communication and Technologies
(Tichka Room)
Session Chair:
Jonathan Raines
  B. 4 C200557
A Queuing Model of Multi-hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network with Hidden Nodes
Mustafa Ozdemir and
A. Bruce McDonald
Northeastern University,
Boston, USA
L. 1 C200521
A new SSM approach for mobile environments
T. Camilo, J. Sá Silva, F. Gaudêncio and F. Boavida
University of Coimbra, PORTUGAL
  B. 5 C200559
Performance Evaluation of an Interference-Aware Access Scheme for Point-to-Point Services in the ADHOC MAC Protocol
J.R. Gállego*, M. Canales*,
A. Hernández-Solana*, L. Campelli**, M. Cesana**, and A. Valdovinos
* Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
** Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
L. 2 C200540
Reconfigurable Viterbi Decoder for Mobile Platform
Rizwan Rasheed and
Aawatif MENOUNI HAYAR,
Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France
  B. 6 C200561
On Mobility Metrics Applied for Ad hoc Network Protocol Evaluation
Mona Ghassemian,
Mostafa Mostafavi, Vasilis Friderikos, and A. Hamid Aghvami
King’s College London,
University of London, UK
L. 3 C200543
A Framework for Protocol Reconfiguration
E. Patouni, N. Alonistioti
and P. Magdalinos
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
      L. 4 C200504
Bandwidth Enhancement of the Quarter-Wave Rectangular Patch Antenna Operating in the Band "S"
A.Latif , A.Oulad-Said,
and A. Ait Ouahman
Faculty of the Science Semlalia, Laboratory of electronics and Instrumentation,
Marrakech, Morocco.
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break (Not provided by the conference)
14:00 - 15:15 Session F:
CDMA
(Atlas 2 Room)
Session Chair:
Hamza Dahmouni
Session E:
Local Area Networks
(Tichka Room)
Session Chair:
Josep Polo
  F. 1 C200505
Multicell S-ALOHA DS-CDMA networks with Fast Power Control Error under Frequency-selective Nakagami Fading
Loren Carrasco
and Guillem Femenias
Universitat de les Illes Balears,
SPAIN
E. 1 C200532
SNR Estimation Algorithms in AWGN for HiperLAN/2 Transceiver
Doukas Athanasios,
and Kalivas Grigorios
University of Patras, Greece
  F. 2 C200510
WCDMA performance improvements adopting a partially adaptive approach with respect to fixed beamforming
Francesco Parizzi*, Sergio Cioci*, Andrea Giorgi* and Rizziero Gorla*
* Selenia Mobile S.p.A., Genova, Italy
** ST Microelectronics, Milano, Italy
E. 2 C200548
Load Balancing for QoS Enhancement in IEEE802.11e WLANs Using Cell Breathing Techniques
Olivia Brickley, Susan Rea,
and Dr. Dirk Pesch
Cork Institute of Technology,
Cork, Ireland
  F. 3 C200516
An Integrated System for QoS Provisioning in 3G WCDMA Cellular Networks
T. Rachidi, M. Sebbane, A. Y. Elbatji, and H. Bouzekri
Alakhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
E. 3 C200551
Tool for automatic design and Optimisation of Large Scale WLAN
Alan Mc Gibney, and Martin Klepal
Cork Institute of Technology,
Cork, Ireland
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00 Session F:
CDMA
(Atlas 2 Room)
Session Chair:
Hamza Dahmouni
Session E:
Local Area Networks
(Tichka Room)
Session Chair:
Josep Polo
  F. 4 C200558
A Cross-Layer Framework for Efficient Packet Scheduling in Wireless CDMA Networks
Saied M. Abd El-atty, Dimitrios N. Skoutas, and Angelos N. Rouskas
University of the Aegean, Greece
E. 4 C200564
Link-Layer Fragmentation and Retransmission Impact on TCP Performance in 802.11-based Networks
Fethi Filali
Institut Eurcom, France
  F. 5 C200568
Capacity improvement of WCDMA cellular system through different relaying strategies
Hamed Nourizadeh,
and Rahim Tafazolli
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
E. 5 C200520
Multiuser Rate Adaptive Resource allocation for OFDM Downlink transmission
Khalid El Baamrani*, Abdellah Ait Ouahman*, and Said Allaki**
* University Caddi Ayyad of Marrakech, Morocco
** National Institute of Posts
and Telecommunications, Rabat, Morocco
  F. 6 C200550
Another Approach for Partial Parallel Interference Cancellation
M.Moussaoui*, M.Zaizouni**
and J.M. Rouvaen*
University of Valenciennes, France
Alcatel Business Systems, France
E. 6 C200552
Interference Avoidance Dynamic Adaptive OFDM using a Reconfigurable Radio Platform
Keith E. Nolan, Linda Doyle,
Philip Mackenzie
and Donal O'Mahony
Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin, Rep. of Ireland.
17:00 End of Day Two
20:00 - 23:30 Dinner Banquet

Wedensday 21st September 2005
Time Event
09:00 - 10:15 Session H:
2G, 3G and Beyond
(Atlas 2 Room)
Session Chair:
Ali Ghorashi
Session I:
Service and Applications
(Tichka Room)
Session Chair:
Elaheh Homayounvala
  H. 1 C200523
Analytical Model for Performance Evaluation of GPRS/EDGE Multi-Service Networks
H. Dahmouni*, D. Rossé*, B. Morin*, and S. Vaton**
* France Telecom R&D, France
** ENST Bretagne, France
I. 1 C200517
An easy way to develop mobile and wireless applications
J. Polo and J. Delgado
Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona, Spain
  H. 2 C200513
Space-Frequency Transmit Diversity in Multiband-OFDM Systems
S. A. Ghorashi, F. Said,
and A. H. Aghvami
King's College London,
University of London, UK
I. 2 C200524
Positioning Simulator for Location-based Service
Anusuriya Devaraju*
and Simon Beddus**
* Kolej Universiti Teknikal
Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia.
** British Telecommunications, UK
  H. 3 C200530
Code-aided ML frame synchronization in a downlink MC-CDMA
M. Guenach, H. Wymeersch,
H. Steendam, and M. Moeneclaey
Information Processing Ghent
University, Belgium
I. 3 C200531
Service*: Distributed Service Advertisement for Multi-Service, Multi-Hop MANET Environments
A. Nedos, K. Singh, and S. Clarke
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00 Session H:
2G, 3G and Beyond
(Atlas 2 Room)
Session Chair:
Ali Ghorashi
Session I:
Service and Applications
(Room Tichka)
Session Chair:
Elaheh Homayounvala
  H. 4 C200547
Topology Discovering Algorithm for Mobile Wireless Networks
Arwa Zabian and Maurizio Bonuccelli
University of Pisa, Italy
I. 4 C200545
A Platform-Independent Adaptive Video Streaming Client for Mobile Devices
Andre Stephan Baumgart,
Hartwig Knapp, Martin Schader,
and Sebastian Mill
University of Mannheim,
Mannheim, Germany
  H. 5 C200569
System Interoperability Solution – Frequency Agile and Protocol Independent Systems
Oleg Panfilov, Tony Turgeon,
and Ron Hickling
TechnoConcepts, Inc., USA
I. 5 C200554
Modeling Mobile Object for Transportation Information System and Mobile GIS
Adil El Bouziri , Azedine Boulmakoul, Hicham Mouncif,
and Mohamed Chala
Mohammedia Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FSTM),
Mohammedia, Morocco.
  H. 6 C200503
Palma: A P2P based Architecture for Location Management
Kaouthar Sethom*, Hossam Afifi*, and Guy Pujolle**
Institut Nationale de
Télécommunications, Evry, France
LIP6 , University of Paris6,
Paris, France
I. 6 C200556
MoviForms: XForms for mobile phones
Carlos Fernandez, Juan P. Pece, Daniel I. Iglesia
Universidad de A Coru~na,
Coru~na, Spain
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break (Not provided by the conference)
14:00 - 15:15 Session C:
Ad Hoc III
(Atlas 2 Room)
Session Chair:
Soumaya Cherkaoui
Session G:
Estimation, Detection, Coding and Channel Modelling
(Tichka Room)
Session Chair:
Loren Carrasco
  C. 1 C200563
On the Capacity of Multi-hop Wireless Networks Enabling Dynamic Spectrum Management
Daniel Ugarte
and A. Bruce McDonald
Northeastern University,
Boston, USA
G. 1 C200507
Performance Evaluation of Channel Estimation Techniques for beyond 3G Systems
Paulo Marques* **, Y. Yuan-Wu*** and A. Gameiro*
* Universidade de Aveiro,
Aveiro, Portugal
** Instituto Politécnico de Castelo
Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
*** France Telecom R&D / RESA / MNA, France
  C. 2 C200501
Enhancing ns-2 simulator for high mobility ad hoc networks in Car-to-Car communication context
Nicolas Eude, Bertrand Ducourthial and Mohamed Shawky
Universit´e de Technologie de Compi`egne, France
G. 2 C200514
Seeking the Time-Frequency Location of Pilot Symbol based on The Channel Variability Parameters
F. Bader* and Raul Gonzalez**
* Centre Tecnològic de
Telecomunicacions de Catalunya,
Barcelona- Spain
** Universitat Politécnica de
Catalunya (UPC)-ETSETB,
Barcelona, Spain
  C. 3 C200509
On the Impact of Radio Propagation Models on MANET Simulation Results
Illya Stepanov, Daniel Herrscher, Kurt Rothermel
Universität Stuttgart,
Stuttgart, Germany
G. 3 C200526
Discrete Channel Models Comparison for Transmission over Frequency Nonselective Rayleigh Channels
G. A. B. Marcondes
and J. M. C. Brito
Telecommunications National
Institute, Brazil
      G. 4 C200560
Direct Sequence Ultra Wideband Receiver with Iterative Channel Estimation and Detection
Le Thanh Son*, Kazi M. Ahmed**,
J.A.Cooper*, G. Brodin*,
and D.M.A Walsh*
* University of Leeds, UK
** Asian Institute of Technology,
Thailand
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00 Session D:
Sensor Networks and Techniques
(Atlas 2 Room)
Session Chair:
Araw Zabian
 
  D. 1 C200511
Piezoelectric Generator for Powering Remote Sensing Networks
Moncef Benjamin. Tayahi
and Bruce Johnson
University of Nevada, Reno, USA
   
  D. 2 C200525
Personal Context Extractor with Multiple Sensors on a Cell Phone
Toshiki Iso, Norihiro Kawasaki and Shoji Kurakake
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. Japan
   
  D. 3 C200533
A Non-Uniform Key Distribution Architecture for Data Acquisition in Wireless Sensor Networks
Anindo Mukherjee, Anurag Gupta, Abhishek Jain, and Dharma P. Agrawal
University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, USA
   
17:00 End of MWCN 2005
Centre for Telecommunications Research, King's College London, University London 2005.