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    1 December 2008

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Monday 1 December 2008

8:00-9:30
Keynote
12:10-13:40
Awards Luncheon
19:00-21:30
Welcome Reception




Design & Developers Forum


10:00 – 12:00

DD01M1: In Building Wireless
Presenters: 
Leo Holzenthal Jr. (University of New Orleans, USA)
Ahmed Himny (Andrew Wireless Solutions, LLC, USA)
Ali Nemati (Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, USA)

The distribution of wireless telephony and data signals within buildings and structures has become a large industry in the wireless industry. This session will begin with a presentation of the signals and spectrum that is desired, and the technologies used to build these systems. As an example of a project, a very scale, neutral host type, fiber optic based distributed antenna system was conceived to provide wireless telephone and radio signals to subscriber units within the confines of a large international airport.

DD02M1: Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies (WCET)
Presenter:  Celia Desmond (World Class Telecommunications, Canada)

The WCET Certification Program has been designed to address the worldwide wireless industry's growing and ever-evolving need for qualified communications professionals who can demonstrate practical problem-solving skills in real-world situations. The certification program and related topics are covered.


13:50 – 15:30

DD03M2: Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE) I
Presenters:  Tim Weil and James Marousek (Booz Allen Hamilton, USA)

The Department of Transportation Vehicular Infrastructure Integration (DOT VII) program, paving the way for the Intelligent Transportation Systems of tomorrow, envisions a future in which intelligent vehicles routinely communicate with each other and the transportation infrastructure in real time.

DD04M2: Next Generation Service Oriented Networks
Presenter:  John Wittgreffe (BT Group PLC, UK)
IT resources and other telco capabilities are exposed for direct access by application designers and developers during D&D, and by users at runtime. Resources can be configured to adapt and continually optimize to make sure that the Quality of Experience for end user applications is kept high.


16:00 – 18:00

DD05M3: Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE) II
Presenters:  Dimitri Khijniak (Technocom, USA)
Tao Zhang (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA)

Wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) technology comes into sight as a state-of-the-art solution to contemporary inter-vehicle communications, which is anticipated to be widely applied in the near future to radically improve the transportation environment in the aspects of safety, intelligent management and data exchange services.

DD06M3: Emergency Services for IP Networks
Presenters:  Richard Barnes (BBN Technologies, USA)
Michael Loushine (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA)

The focus is on Citizen-to-Authority Communications. Users increasingly rely on multimedia communications that take place on next generation networks based on the Internet Protocol (IP). This reliance means that the average user will one day reach for this multimedia communication system to place what could be the most important communication of their life: an emergency services call.


TECHNICAL PRORGAM

AH - Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium
CQ - Communications Quality of Service, Reliability, & Performance Modeling Symposium
CT - Communication Theory Symposium
CS - Communications Software and Services Symposium
NS - Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium
NG - Next Generation Networks, Protocols, and Services Symposium
ON - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium
SP - Signal Processing for Communications Symposium
WC - Wireless Communications Symposium
WN - Wireless Networking Symposium
SA - Other Selected Areas in Communications
SS - Special Session History 

10:00 – 12:00

Location: Grand Salon 4
AH01M1: Localization in WSN       
Chair: Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland – Baltimore County, USA

AH01M1-1: A Localized Self-healing Algorithm for Networks of Moveable Sensor Nodes
Mohamed Younis, Sookyoung Lee, Sheetal Gupta, Kevin Fisher
(University of Maryland – Baltimore County, USA)                                                      
                                                                                     
AH01M1-2: Robust Distributed Sensor Network Localization Based on Analysis of Flip Ambiguities
Anushiya Kannan, Guoqiang Mao (University of Sydney, Australia)
Baris Fidan (National ICT Australia, Canberra, Australia)
                                                                                                                    
AH01M1-3: Sensor Network Localization via Nondifferentiable Optimization      
Qingjiang Shi, Chen He (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)                                                                                                                           
AH01M1-4: Adaptive Source Localization by a Mobile Robot Using Signal Power Gradient in Sensor Networks  
Yi Sun, Jizhong Xiao, Xiaohai Li, Flavio Cabrera-Mora
(City University of New York, USA)                                                     
                                                                                           
AH01M1-5: Localization Error Evaluation in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks  
Shaoqiang Dong, Prathima Agrawal (Auburn University, USA)
Krishna Sivalingam (University of Maryland – Baltimore County, USA)                                                                       

AH01M1-6: A Novel Fading-Tolerant High-Accuracy Localization Algorithm Using Distributed Space-Time Block Codes     
Xingkai Bao, Tiffany Jing Li (Lehigh University, USA)
Sushanta Das (Philips Research, USA) 

Location: Grand Salon 7
AH02M1: Underwater WSN & Applications  
Chair: Cheng Li, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada       

AH02M1-1: An Improved Communications Model for Underwater Sensor Networks  
Peter King, Ramachandran Venkatesan, Cheng Li
(Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)                                                                                               

AH02M1-2: Energy Optimized Path Unaware Layered Routing Protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks
Sarath Gopi, Kannan Govindan, Uday Desai, S. n. Merchant
(IIT Bombay, India)                                                                            
                                                                       
AH02M1-3: Assigning Sensors to Competing Missions    
Hosam Rowaihy (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Matthew Johnson (City University of New York, USA)
Amotz Bar-Noy (Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)
Theodore Brown (City University of New York, USA)
Tom La Porta (Penn State University, USA)                                                                                          

AH02M1-4: ARQ with Implicit and Explicit ACKs in Wireless Sensor Networks  
Zvi Rosberg, Ren Liu (CSIRO, Australia)
Alex Dong, Tuan Le Dinh, Sanjay Jha
(University of New South Wales, Australia)                                                                                

AH02M1-5: Mobile Solution for Three-tier Biofeedback Data Acquisition and Processing
Orlando Pereira (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Paulo Neves (Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal)
Joel Rodrigues (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
                                                                                                                       
AH02M1-6: A Load-Balanced Guiding Navigation Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks
Wen-Tsuen Chen, Cheng-Han Wu (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan)
Chi-Fu Huang (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)
Po-Yu Chen (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan)

Location: Grand Salon 10 
AH03M1: Routing Protocols in WSN  
Chair: Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University, Japan

AH03M1-1: Load-Balanced Routing Scheme for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks  
Fatma Bouabdallah, Nizar Bouabdallah (INRIA, Rennes, France)
Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)                                              
                                                                                                   
AH03M1-2: Designing an Application-Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Mohammad Abdul Azim, M. Rubaiyat Kibria, Abbas Jamalipour
(University of Sydney, Australia)                                                          

AH03M1-3: Ellipse Routing: A Geographic Routing Protocol for Mobile Sensor Networks with uncertain positions   
Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon, France)
Clément Saad (Université Montpellier 2 - LIRMM, MONTPELLIER, France)                                  

AH03M1-4: Oriented Void Avoidance Scheme for Real-Time Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks  
Mohamed Aissani, Abdelhamid Mellouk (University Paris XII, France)                                                                                                                           
AH03M1-5: Routing in Three Dimensional Wireless Sensor Networks  
Tarek El Salti, Nidal Nasser (University of Guelph, Canada)                                                                                                                          
AH03M1-6: Fuzzy Algorithms for Maximum Lifetime Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mahmood Minhas, Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Victor Leung
(University of British Columbia, Canada)           

Location: Grand Salon 3
CQ01M1: QoS in Emerging Wireless Networks
Chair: Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

CQ01M1-1: VoIP Traffic Scheduling in WiMAX Networks  
Ehsan Haghani, Nirwan Ansari 
(New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)         
                                                                                                      
CQ01M1-2: Bandwidth and Delay Guaranteed Call Admission Control Scheme for QOS Provisioning in IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX  
Suresh Kalikivayi, Iti Misra (Jadavpur University, India)                                                                                                                            
CQ01M1-3: Cross-Layer Error Control Optimization in WiMAX      
Dzmitry Kliazovich (University of Trento, Italy)
Tommaso Beniero (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Sergio Dalsass (University of Trento, Italy)
Federico Serrelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Simone Redana (Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany)
Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento, Trento, Italy)
                                                                                                                          
CQ01M1-4: Backhaul as a Bottleneck in IEEE 802.16e Networks
Jani Lakkakorpi, Alexander Sayenko (Nokia, Finland)                                                                                                                           
CQ01M1-5: Practical Design of IEEE 802.16e Networks: A Mathematical Model and Algorithms
Fernando Gordejuela-Sanchez, Jie Zhang
(University of Bedfordshire, UK)                                                                                                                               

CQ01M1-6: Multimedia Capacity Analysis of the IEEE 802.11e Contention-based Infrastructure Basic Service Set
Inanc Inan, Feyza Keceli, Ender Ayanoglu (University of California at Irvine, USA)               

Location: Grand Salon 9
CS01M1: Multimedia Application and Services  
Chair: Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal

CS01M1-1: Competition for Migrating Customers: A Game-theoretic Analysis in a Regulated Regime      
Patrick Maillé (Telecom Bretagne, Cesson-Sevigne, France)
Maurizio Naldi (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy)
Bruno Tuffin (INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France)                                                                                                                           
CS01M1-2: Feedback Statistics on Anonymous Service Usage 
Nils Richter, Joao Girao (NEC Europe Ltd., Germany)
Daniele Abbadessa (NEC Network Laboratories, DE)                                                                                                   

CS01M1-3: Identity Management for IMS-based IPTV   
Florian Winkler, Mischa Schmidt (NEC Europe Ltd., Germany)
Sebastian Felis (NEC Network Labs, Germany)
Oleg Neuwirt, Nils Richter, Joao da Silva (NEC Europe Ltd., DE)
Daniele Abbadessa (NEC Network Labs, Germany)
                  
CS01M1-4: Simple Strong Authentication for Internet Applications Using Mobile Phones      
Ivar Jørstad (Ubisafe AS, Norway)
Do Van Thanh (Telenor R&D / Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Tore Jønvik, Boning Feng (Oslo University College, Norway)
van Thuan Do (Linus AS, Norway)          
                                                                                                                       
CS01M1-5: A Method of Bridging and Processing Media Stream on Network      
Satoshi Kondoh, Takaaki Moriya, Musashino-shi, Hiroyuki Ohnishi, Miki Hirano
(Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan)       

Location: Grand Salon 21 
CT01M1: Uplink and Downlink Communication    
Chair: Syed Jafar, University of California at Irvine, USA

CT01M1-1; Uplink Throughput Scaling in Dense Wireless Networks with Limited Collaboration
Feng Xue (Intel Research, USA)
Jun Shi (Qualcomm Corp R&D, USA)

CT01M1-2: Optimal Diversity Multiplexing Tradeoff of Constrained Asymmetric MIMO Systems
Hsiao-feng Lu (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan)                                                                                                                          
CT01M1-3: Multiuser Transmit Beamforming via Regularized Channel Inversion: A Large System Analysis    
Van Nguyen (DSTO, Australia)
Jamie Evans (University of Melbourne, Australia)                                                                                                                        
CT01M1-4: On the Capacity of One-sided Two user Gaussian Fading Broadcast Channels
Amin Jafarian, Sriram Vishwanath (University of Texas at Austin, USA)                                                                                                                      
CT01M1-5: A General Rate Duality of the MIMO Multiple Access Channel and the MIMO Broadcast Channel     
Raphael Hunger, Michael Joham (Technische Universität München, Germany)                                                 

CT01M1-6: On the Convexity of the MSE Region of Single-Antenna Users
Raphael Hunger, Michael Joham (Technische Universität München, Germany)  

Location: Grand Salon 19 
NG01M1: Peer-to-Peer Networking      
Chair: Marco Mellia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

NG01M1-1: Evaluating P2PSIP under Attack: An Emulative Study
Jan Seedorf, Martin Stiemerling, Saverio Niccolini (NEC Europe Ltd., Germany)                                                                                 

NG01M1-2: Modeling Peer-to-Peer Networks from the Impact of Nodes' Characters on the System Performance    
Yadong Gong, XiaoLa Lin (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)                                                                                                                           
NG01M1-3: A Low Cost and Reliable Anonymity Scheme in P2P Reputation Systems with Trusted Third Parties       
Liming Hao, Songnian Lu, Junhua Tang, Aixin Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

NG01M1-4: Foresighted Resource Reciprocation Strategies in P2P Networks
Hyunggon Park, Mihaela van der Schaar (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)                                                                                                                            
NG01M1-5: Incentive Mechanism Considering Variety of User Cost in P2P Content Sharing     
Kenichiro Sato, Ryo Hashimoto, Makoto Yoshino, Ryoichi Shinkuma, Tatsuro Takahashi
(Kyoto University, Japan)                                                                                                                             
                  
NG01M1-6: Tod-cache: Peer-to-Peer Traffic Management and Optimization using Combined Caching and Redirection
Ke Xu (Tsinghua University, China)
Jiangchuan Liu, Haiyang Wang (Simon Fraser University, USA)                                                                  

Location: Grand Salon 13 
NS01M1: Key Management 
Chair: Kai Zheng, IBM China Research Lab, China

NS01M1-1: An Efficient Group Key Management for Secure Routing in Ad Hoc Networks
Natalia Fernandes, Otto Duarte (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)                                                                                                                           
NS01M1-2: An Efficient Conference Key Updating Scheme with the Knowledge of Group Dynamics  
Xiaozhuo Gu (National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological R&D Center, China)
Jianzu Yang, Xiangjie Ma (Information Engineering University, China)                                                                                                                         
NS01M1-3: A Secure Key Management Scheme for Wireless and Mobile Ad hoc Networks using Frequency-based Approach: Proof and Correctness     
Azzedine Boukerche, Yonglin Ren (University of Ottawa, Canada)                                        

NS01M1-4: Three-party Quantum Authenticated Key Distribution with Partially Trusted Third Party  
Yoshito Kanamori, Bogdan Hoanca (University of Alaska, USA)
Seong-Moo Yoo (University of Alabama, USA)                                                                                                                            
NS01M1-5: Certificate Assignment Strategies for a PKI-based Security Architecture in a Vehicular Network    
Bhargav Bellur (GM Research, India)                                                                                                                            

NS01M1-6: Secret Key Generation and Agreement in UWB Communication Channels   
Masoud Ghoreishi Madiseh, Michael McGuire, Stephen Neville, Lin Cai, Michael Horie (University of Victoria, Canada)    

Location: Grand Salon 16 
SA01M1: Emerging Access Network Technologies
Chair: Marco Chiani, University of Bologna, Italy

SA01M1-1: Hybrid Wireless-Optical Broadband Access Network (WOBAN): Capacity Enhancement for Wireless Access     
Abu Ahmed Reaz, Vishwanath Ramamurthi, Suman Sarkar, Dipak Ghosal, Biswanath Mukherjee (University of California at Davis, USA)                                                                                                                      

SA01M1-2: Dealing with Loud Neighbors: The Benefits and Tradeoffs of Adaptive Femtocell Access     
David Choi, Pooya Monajemi, Shinjae Kang, John Villasenor (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) 

SA01M1-3: Attributes Definitions and Measurement Methods for MADM based Sink Selection Controls in Satellite Sensor Networks  
Igor Bisio, Mario Marchese (University of Genoa, Italy)                                                                                                                       
SA01M1-4: Active Remote Node with Layer Two Forwarding for Improving Performance of EPON
Chien Aun Chan (University of Melbourne, Australia)                                                                                                                        
SA01M1-5: Throughput and Delay of DSL Dynamic Spectrum Management with Dynamic Arrivals     
Paschalis Tsiaflakis (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Yung Yi (Princeton University, Princeton, USA)
Mung Chiang (Princeton University, Princeton, USA)
Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
                                                                                                               
SA01M1-6: Impact of Crosstalk Estimation on the Dynamic Spectrum Management Performance
Maria Neiva Lindqvist (Universidade Federal do Pará, Stockholm, Brazil)
Fredrik Lindqvist, Boris Dortschy (Ericcson AB, Sweden)
Evaldo Pelaes, Aldebaro Klautau (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil)

Location: Grand Salon 22 
SP01M1: MIMO 1    
Chair: Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Keio University, Japan

SP01M1-1: Robust Semi-Blind Estimation for Beamforming Based MIMO Wireless Communication  
Chandra Murthy (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
Aditya Jagannatham, Bhaskar Rao (University of California at San Diego, USA)  

SP01M1-2: Robust Transceiver Design for Multiuser MIMO Downlink    
P. Ubaidulla, A. Chockalingam (Indian Institute of Science, India)   
                                                                                                       
SP01M1-3: A Lattice Precoding for Flat-Fading MIMO Channels Based on Eigenvalue Decomposition   
Jin He, Masoud Salehi (Northeastern University, USA)        
                                                                                                                    
SP01M1-4: An Improved Tomlinson-Harashima Precoder Reducing Transmission Power        
Jiwon Kang, Chungyong Lee (Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea)
Hyungwoo Ku (LG Electronics, Korea)
Dongseung Kwon (ETRI, Korea)                                                                                                                          

SP01M1-5: Limited Feedback Beamforming Codebook Design for Dual-Polarized MIMO Channels    
Taejoon Kim (Purdue University, USA)
Bruno Clerckx (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea)                          
David Love (Purdue University, USA)
Sungjin Kim (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea)

SP01M1-6: Game Theoretic Solutions for Precoding Strategies over the Interference Channel      
Jie Gao, Sergiy Vorobyov, Hai Jiang (University of Alberta, Canada)                                                     
                                                                                           
Monday, 1 December 2008
10:00 – 12:00
Location: Grand Salon 24 
SP02M1: OFDM 1    
Chair: Hai Lin, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

SP02M1-1: Hybrid Domain Compensation for Analog Impairments in OFDM Systems    
Hai Lin, Katsumi Yamashita (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
Xu Zhu (University of Liverpool, UK)                                                                                                                   

SP02M1-2: Selective Vector Perturbation Precoding and Peak to Average Power Ratio Reduction for OFDM Systems    
Lin Yang, Emad Alsusa (Manchester University, UK)

SP02M1-3: A Robust Timing Recovery Algorithm for OFDM Systems    
Seok Jung Kim, Daesik Hong (Yonsei University, Korea)                                                                                                                             
SP02M1-4: Performance and Design of an Impulse Noise Detector for OFDM Systems with Reed-Solomon Erasure-Decoding   
Amitkumar Mahadevan, Julien Pons, Patrick Duvaut (Conexant, USA)                                                                                                                            
SP02M1-5: Numerical Performance Evaluation of OFDM Systems affected by Transmitter Nonlinearities, Phase Noise and Channel Estimation Errors
Steffen Bittner, Marco Krondorf, Gerhard Fettweis
(Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
                                                                                                                                
SP02M1-6: Adaptive Modulation for OFDM-based Multiple Description Progressive Image Transmission    
Sheu Sheu Tan (University of California at San Diego, USA)                                                                      

Monday, 1 December 2008 
10:00 – 12:00
Location: Grand Ballroom A     
WC01M1: MIMO Beamforming
Chair: Weidang Xiang, University of Michigan, USA

WC01M1-1: Differential Rotation Feedback MIMO System for Temporally Correlated Channels
Taejoon Kim, David Love (Purdue University, USA)
Bruno Clerckx, Sungjin Kim (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea)                                                                                                                             
WC01M1-2: Mutual Coupling Effects in MIMO MRC Systems with Limited Feedback
Yuhan Dong, Brian Hughes, Gianluca Lazzi (North Carolina State University, USA)                                                                                                                            
WC01M1-3: Quantizer Design for Codebook-Based Beamforming in Temporally-Correlated Channels   
Pengcheng Zhu, Lan Tang, Wang Yan, Xiaohu You (Southeast University, China)                                                                                                                           
WC01M1-4: On the Performance of Adaptive Limited Feedback Beamforming in Distributed MIMO Systems
Erlin Zeng (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)

WC01M1-5: A Stochastic Algorithm for Beamforming using ESPAR Antennas
Vlasis Barousis, Athanasios Kanatas (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Antonis Kalis, Constantinos Papadias (Athens Information Technology, Greece)                                                                                                                          
WC01M1-6: Performance Analysis of MIMO MRC in 3D Mobile-to-Mobile Double-Correlated Channels  
Jian Qi, Sonia Aissa (University of Quebec, INRS-EMT, Canada)                                                                                                                    
Monday, 1 December 2008 
10:00 – 12:00
Location: Grand Salon 18 
WC02M1: Space-Time Codes      
Chair: Hideki Ochiai, Yokohama National University, Japan

WC02M1-1: Rateless Codes for MIMO Channels   
Maryam Shanechi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Uri Erez (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Gregory Wornell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
                                                                                                                                
WC02M1-2: Full Rate L2-Orthogonal Space-Time CPM for Three Antennas  
Matthias Hesse (CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France)
Jerome Lebrun (I3S- CNRS, France)
Luc Deneire (University of Nice, France)                                                                                                                     

WC02M1-3: State-Selection in a Space-Time-State Block Coded MIMO Communication System Using Reconfigurable PIXEL Antennas  
Fatemeh Fazel, Alfred Grau, Hamid Jafarkhani, Franco De Flaviis (University of California at Irvine, USA)      

WC02M1-4: The Golden Code is Fast Decodable 
Mohanned Sinnokrot, John Barry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)                                                                                                                            

WC02M1-5: Near-Capacity Three-Stage Downlink Iteratively Decoded Generalized Layered Space-Time Coding with Low Complexity
Lingkun Kong, Soon Xin Ng, Lajos Hanzo (University of Southampton, UK)                                             

WC02M1-6: Optimum Space-Time Block Codes over Time-Selective Channels   
Jun He, Pooi-Yuen Kam (National University of Singapore, Singapore)                                                   

Monday, 1 December 2008 
10:00 – 12:00
Location: Grand Salon 15 
WC03M1: Estimation in Cooperative Systems 
Chair: Hsiao-Chun Wu, Louisiana State University, USA

WC03M1-1: Self-Interference Aided Channel Estimation in Two-Way Relaying Systems    
Jian Zhao, Marc Kuhn, Armin Wittneben (ETH, China)
Gerhard Bauch (DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany)  
                                                                                                                            
WC03M1-2: Cooperative OFDM Channel Estimation with Frequency Offsets     
Zhongshan Zhang, Wei Zhang, Chintha Tellambura
(University of Alberta, Canada)                                                                                                                          

WC03M1-3: On Channel Estimation for Amplify-and-Forward Two-Way Relay Networks  
Feifei Gao, Rui Zhang, Ying-Chang Liang
(Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)                                                                                                                      

WC03M1-4: Optimal Training Sequence Design for Bi-Directional Relay Networks  
The-Hanh Pham (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Ying-Chang Liang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Nallanathan Arumugam (King's College London, UK)                                                                                                                       
WC03M1-5: Precoding Assisted Blind CFO Estimation in Cooperative SFBC-OFDM channels with Transmitter/Receiver IQ Imbalances
Amarnadh Kolla, Prabhat Upadhyay, Shankar Prakriya (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
                                                                                                
WC03M1-6: On Channel Estimation and Capacity for Amplify and Forward Relay Networks
Alireza Behbahani, Ahmed Eltawil (University of California at Irvine, USA)                                                                                                                        
Monday, 1 December 2008 
10:00 – 12:00
Location: Grand Salon 12 
WC04M1: Resource Allocation
Chair: Ozgur Oyman, Intel Corporation, USA

WC04M1-1: Spatial Resource Reuse in the Multi-hop Cellular Networks: Difficulties and Benefits
Jeongho Jeon, Kyuho Son, Song Chong (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)       

WC04M1-2: Bandwidth Constraints in Wireless Sensor-based Decentralized Estimation Schemes for Gaussian Channels
Javier Matamoros, Carles Anton-Haro (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia Spain)                                                                                                                            
WC04M1-3: Link Adaptation with Retransmissions for Partial Channel State Information
Stephan Pfletschinger, Monica Navarro (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia Spain)                                                                                                                           
WC04M1-4: An Auction Approach to Resource Allocation in Uplink Multi-Cell OFDMA Systems
Narayan Prasad (NEC Labs America, USA)

WC04M1-5: A Graph-based Approach to Multi-Cell OFDMA Downlink Resource Allocation  
Yu-Jung (Ronald) Chang (University of Southern California, USA)
Jinyun Zhang, Zhifeng Tao (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)
C.-C. Jay Kuo (University of Southern California, USA)
                                                                                                                                
WC04M1-6: A Low-signalling Scheme for distributed Resource Allocation in Multi-cellular OFDMA Systems
Pablo Soldati, Mikael Johansson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)                                                                                                                 
Monday, 1 December 2008 
10:00 – 12:00
Location: Grand Ballroom B     
WN01M1: Cognitive Radio Networks
Chair: Dongmei Zhao, McMaster University, Canada

WN01M1-1: Cognitive Radio: How to Maximally Utilize Spectrum Opportunities in Sequential Sensing     
Hai Jiang (University of Alberta, Canada)
Lifeng Lai (Princeton University, USA) 
Rongfei Fan (University of Alberta, Canada)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA) 
                                                                                                           
MN01M1-2: Orthogonal Wavelet Based Dynamic Pulse Shaping for Cognitive Ultra-Wideband Communications
Cheng Li (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Xuanli Wu, Xuejun Sha, Naitong Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)                                         
                                                                                                         
WN01M1-3: Probabilistic Path Selection in Opportunistic Cognitive Radio Networks  
Hicham Khalife (Universte Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
Satyajeet Ahuja (University of Arizona, USA)          
Naceur Malouch (Univeristy of Paris 6, France)
Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA)                                                                                                                 

WN01M1-4: Dynamic Control Channel Assignment in Cognitive Radio Networks using Swarm Intelligence
Christian Doerr, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas Sicker (University of Colorado, USA)                                                                                                                            
WN01M1-5: QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks with Cognitive Radios       
Roberto Hincapie (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia)
Jian Tang (Montana State University, Bozeman, USA)
Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, Tempe, USA)
Roberto Bustamante (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)                                                                                                                        
WN01M1-6: QoS-Aware Channel Selection in Cognitive Radio Networks: A Game-Theoretic Approach  
Hai Ngoc Pham (University of Oslo, Norway)                                                                                                                   

Monday, 1 December 2008 
10:00 – 12:00
Location: Grand Salon 6
WN02M1: Modeling and Optimization of Wireless Networks
Chair: Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

WN02M1-1: Performance Metric Sensitivity Computation for Optimization and Trade-off Analysis in Wireless Networks  
John S. Baras, Vahid Tabatabaee, George Papageorgiou, Nicolas Rentz
(University of Maryland at College Park, USA)
                                                                                                                                
WN02M1-2: Two-fold Pricing to Guarantee Individual Profits and Maximum Social Welfare in Wireless Access Networks  
Amir Hamed Mohsenian Rad, Vincent Wong, Victor Leung
(University of British Columbia, Canada)                                                         
                                                                                        
WN02M1-3: Power Efficient Throughput Maximization in Multi-hop Wireless Networks  
Deepti Chafekar, Anil Vullikanti, Madhav Marathe (Virginia Tech, USA)
Srinivasan Parthasarathy (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)                                                                                                                       
WN02M1-4: Tradeoff Between CPAN Size and the Number of Working Channels   
Jelena Misic, Vojislav Misic (University of Manitoba, Canada)                                                                                        

WN02M1-5: Binary Consensus Over Fading Channels: A Best Affine Estimation Approach
Mehrzad Malmirchegini, Yasamin Mostofi, Yongxiang Ruan, (University of New Mexico, USA)

WN02M1-6: Bandwidth Differentiation and Throughput Maximization in IEEE 802.11e WLAN
Yun Li (University of Posts and Telecommunications of China, China)                         

Poster Sessions

Monday, 1 December 2008
10:00 – 12:00
Location: Expo Poster Area 1
NG10PM1: Networked Services  
Chair: Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada

NG10PM1-1: User Behavior Modeling and Traffic Analysis of IMS Presence Servers     
Zhen-zhen Cao (Institute of Information Science, China)
Caixia Chi (Lucent Technologies, China)
Ruibing Hao (Bell Labs Research China, Lucent Technologies, China)                                                                                                                           
NG10PM1-2: Real-time P2P Traffic Identification     
Jun Li (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)                                                                                                                     
NG10PM1-3: A Memory-optimized Bloom Filter using An Additional Hashing Function    
Mahmood Ahmadi, Stephan Wong (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)                                                                                                                      
NG10PM1-4: H-SIP: Hybrid SIP Network
Franco Callegati, Aldo Campi, Walter Cerroni (Universita' di Bologna, Italy)                                                                                                                    
NG10PM1-5: Improving Bit Torrent Traffic Performance by Exploiting Geographic Locality     
Tian Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)                                                                                                                           
Monday, 1 December 2008
10:00 – 12:00
Location: Expo Poster Area 2
NG11PM1: Future Networks
Chair: Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada

NG11PM1-1: Partially Reliable-Concurrent Multipath Transfer (PR-CMT) for Multihomed Networks
Chung-Ming Huang, Ming-Sian Lin (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)                                                                                                                          
NG11PM1-2: Gossip-based Delay-Sensitive N-to-N Information Dissemination Protocol     
Vincent Luk, Albert Wong, Robin Wentao Ouyang, Chin Tau Lea
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)                                                                                                                        
NG11PM1-3: MIMO-based Enhancement to the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function
Abduladhim Ashtaiwi, Hossam Hassanein (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)                                                                                                               
NG11PM1-4: A Broadcasting Scheme for Infrastructure to Vehicle Communications
Biplab Sikdar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)                                                                                                                    
NG11PM1-5: Relay Node Placement in Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks  
Farid Farahmand (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
Isabella Cerutti (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
Jason Jue (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

NG11PM1-6: Terabit Ethernet: A Time-Space Carrier Sense Multiple Access Method      
Joseph Hui, David Daniel (Arizona State University, USA)                                                                                     

Monday, 1 December 2008
10:00 – 12:00
Location: Expo Poster Area 3                                                              
NG12PM1: Network Performance 
Chair: Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada

NG12PM1-1: Using the ECN Nonce to detect Spurious Loss Events in TCP   
Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck, USA)

NG12PM1-2: Performance Study of the NSIS QoS-NSLP Protocol  
Mayutan Arumaithurai (Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany)
Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Hannes Tschofenig (Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland)                                                                                                                           
NG12PM1-3: An Ethernet Access Architecture for Highly Available IPTV
Wei-Kuo Liao (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)                                                                                                                          
NG12PM1-4: Delay-Dependent Stability Analysis for Large-Scale Multiple-Bottleneck Systems using Singular Perturbation Approach  
Lijun Wang, Sherman Shen, Xinzhi Liu (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Hiroaki Mukaidani (Hiroshima University, Japan)                                                                                                                             
NG12PM1-5: Autonomous Network Management Using Cooperative Learning for Network-Wide Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Networks
Minsoo Lee, Xiaohui Ye, Dan Marconett, Rao Vemuri, Samuel Johnson, Ben Yoo
(University of California at Davis, USA)                                                                                           
                                                   
NG12PM1-6: TTL based Packet Marking for IP Traceback 
Vamsi Paruchuri (University of Central Arkansas, USA)
Arjan Durresi (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)
Sriram Chellappan (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)



13:50 – 15:30

Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 4
AH04M2: Modeling of WSN I  
Chair: Lynda Mokdad, Université de Paris Dauphine, France

                                                                                                                               
AH04M2-1: Lifetime Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks  
Helen Legakis, Mustafa Mehmet Ali, Jerry Hayes (Concordia University, USA)
                                                                                                                                
AH04M2-2: A Wireless Array Based Cooperative Sensing Model in Sensor Networks  
Wei Li, Yousif Kamil, Athanassios Manikas (Imperial College London, UK)             
                                                                                                                          
AH04M2-3: Distributed Regression in Sensor Networks with a Reduced-order Kernel Model 
Paul Honeine, Mehdi Essoloh, Cedric Richard, Hichem Snoussi
(University of Technology of Troyes, France)                                                       
                                                                                           
AH04M2-4: Optimizing Video Transmission over Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks  
Ilias Politis, Michail Tsagkaropoulos (University of Patras, Greece)
Stavros Kotsopoulos (Wireless Telecommunications Laboratory, Greece)                                        
                                                                                                         
AH04M2-5: An Energy Efficient Hybrid Medium Access Control Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks with Quality of Service Guarantees      
Bashir Yahya, Jalel Ben-othman (University of Versailles, France)                                                       

Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 7
AH05M2: Sensor Network Security   
Chair: Nei Kato, Tohoku University, Japan

AH05M2-1: A New Security Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks  
Junqi Zhang (Macquarie University, Australia)
                                                                                                                                
AH05M2-2: Weaving a Proper Net to Catch Large Objects     
Yang Xiao, Alina Olteanu (University of Alabama, US)
Kui Wu (University of Victoria, Canada)
Xiaojiang Du (North Dakota State University, USA)                
                                                                                                                       
AH05M2-3: A Combinatorial Approach for Key-Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks  
Hosein Shafiei (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)
Ahmad Khonsari (University of Tehran, Iran)
Mohamed Ould-Khaoua (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)
Arash Mehdizadeh (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)

AH05M2-4: Epidemic Propagation in Overlaid Wireless Networks  
Evsen Yanmaz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) 
                                                                                                                            
AH05M2-5: Pairing-based Secure Timing Synchronization for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman, Nidal Nasser (University of Guelph, Canada)                                           

Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 10 
AH06M2: Modeling of WMN   
Chari: Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada    
      

AH06M2-1: Bilateral Shapley Value based Cooperative Gateway Selection in Congested Wireless Mesh Networks
Farshad Javadi, M. Rubaiyat Kibria, Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia)
                                                                                                                                
AH06M2-2: Channel Modeling of Wireless Networks in Tunnels     
Zhi Sun, Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
                                                                                                                                
AH06M2-3:  Optimal Capacity Allocation in Wireless Mesh Networks  
Vishwanath Ramamurthi, Abu Ahmed Reaz, Biswanath Mukherjee
(University of California at Davis, USA)                                                                                                                        

AH06M2-4: On Proportional Fair Scheduling in Multi-Antenna Wireless Mesh Networks--Theoretical Analysis    
Erwu Liu (Imperial College, UK)                
                                                                                                                       
AH06M2-5: Alternating Cooperative Transmission for Energy-Efficient Broadcasting    
Aravind Kailas, Mary Ingram (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 3     
CQ02M2: Wireless Network Modeling 
Chair: Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy        

CQ02M2-1: Distributed Spectrum Allocation of Delay-sensitive Users over Multi-user Multi-carrier Networks  
Wen-Chi Tu, Mihaela van der Schaar (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)                
                                                                                                                       
CQ02M2-2: Cross-Layer Optimization of Adaptive Modulation and Coding Preserving Packet Average Delay Time   
Abouzar Ghavami Pakdehi, Farid Ashtiani (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
                                                                                                                                
CQ02M2-3: Throughput Modeling and Analysis of IEEE 802.11 DCF with Selfish Node     
Chunfeng Liu, Yantai Shu (Tianjin University, China)
Oliver Yang (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Yang (Tianjin University, China)
                                                                                                                                
CQ02M2-4: Analyzing the Reliability of Group Transmission in Wireless Sensor Network
Hao Wen, Hongkun Yang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
Yao Yue (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)     
                                                                                                                            
CQ02M2-5: Toward Understanding of Metastability in Cellular Networks: Emergence and Implications for Performance.   
Daniel Genin, Vladimir Marbukh (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)

Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 18 
CT02M2: Interference Management   
Chair: Ivana Maric, Stanford University, USA

CT02M2-1: Capacity of Symmetric K-User Gaussian Very Strong Interference Channels   
Sriram Sridharan, Amin Jafarian, Sriram Vishwanath
(University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Syed Jafar (University of California at Irvine, US)                                                                                                              
                                                                               
CT02M2-2: On Sum-Rate Capacity of Parallel Gaussian Symmetric Interference Channels
Xiaohu Shang, Biao Chen (Syracuse University, USA)
Gerhard Kramer (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA)

CT02M2-3: Degrees of Freedom for the 4 user SIMO Interference Channel     
Tiangao Gou, Syed Jafar (University of California Irvine, USA)              
                                                                                                                                                                                        
CT02M2-4: Outage Minimization and Fair Rate Allocation in Gaussian Interference Channels
Narayan Prasad (NEC Labs America, USA)                               
                                                                                                                                                                
CT02M2-5: Optimal Power Control over Fading Cognitive Radio Channel by Exploiting Primary User CSI
Rui Zhang (Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 19
NG02M2: Routing    
Chair: Edmunto Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal

NG02M2-1: An AS border judgment method based on IP path information
Wei Zhenhan (PLA University of Science and Technology, China)        
                                                                                                                          
NG02M2-2: Traffic-aware Inter-Domain Routing for Improved Internet Routing Stability     
Peng Chen, Woon Cho, Zhenhai Duan, Xin Yuan (Florida State University, USA)         
                                                                                                                          
NG02M2-3: Survivability-Enhancing Routing Scheme for Multi-Domain Networks  
Xiaohua Li, Sarah Ruepp, Lars Dittmann, Anna Manolova 
(Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
                                                                                                                                
NG02M2-4: A Run-Time Solution to Inter-Domain Policy Disputes    
Huaming Guo (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)               
                                                                                                                       
NG02M2-5: Architecture and Performance of a Practical IP Fast Reroute Implementation  
Ole Kristoffer Apeland (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)
Tarik Cicic (University of Oslo, Norway)

Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 13   
NS02M2: Cryptography  
Chair: Neeli Prasad, Center for TeleInFrastructure, Dermark

NS02M2-1: A Lightweight Block Cipher Based on a Multiple Recursive Generator 
Alina Olteanu, Yang Xiao (University of Alabama, USA)
Fei Hu (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Bo Sun (Lamar University, USA)                           
                                                                                                                 
NS02M2-2: Involutional Block Cipher for Limited Resources
Anna Grocholewska-Czurylo, Krzysztof Chmiel, Janusz Stoklosa
(Poznan University of Technology, Poland)                                                           
                                                                                        
NS02M2-3: Small Logarithmic S-Boxes for Small Ciphers   
Xian Liu (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)                        
                                                                                                                     
NS02M2-4: Multi-receiver Identity-Based Encryption in Multiple PKG Environment     
Liuquan Qin, Zhenfu Cao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
                                                                                                                            
NS02M2-5: Chaotic progressive access control for JPEG2000 images repositories      
Mohamed Hamdi, Noureddine Boudriga (University of Carthage, Tunisia)       

Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location:   Grand Ballroom B     
SA02M2: Emerging Wireless Transmission Technologies
Chair: Robert Schober, University of British Columbia, Canada

SA02M2-1: MIMO UWB Systems based on Linear Precoded OFDM for Home Gigabit Applications     
Antoine Stephan (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, France)
Jean Francois Helard (INSA Rennes, France)
Bernard Uguen (Université Rennes I, France)            
                                                                                                                          
SA02M2-2: An Emerging Concatenated Multitone Air Interface for High Speed Access and Home Wireless Networks  
Andrea Tonello, Marco Bellin (University of Udine, Italy)              
                                                                                                                           
SA02M2-3: Two-layer Phase Coding Interference Cancellation Enhancement of Uplink Broadband Wireless Access System      
Thanh Son Le (University Graduate Center, Norway)                  
                                                                                                                       
SA02M2-4: Performance Analysis of Free-Space Optical Systems in Gamma-Gamma Fading
Ehsan Bayaki, Robert Schober (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Ranjan Mallik (Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, India)            
                                                                                                                          
SA02M2-5: Compressive Sensing Receiver for Free-Space Optical Communication Through the Atmosphere     
Mohamed Mohamed, Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Hamilton, CA)                  
                                                                                                                     
Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 9
SA03M2: Satellite Systems and Architectures
Chair: Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy

SA03M2-1: Architecture for Real-Time Stream Error Handling in Converged DVB-SH/Cellular Network    
Bessem Sayadi, Yann Leprovost, Marie Line Alberi Morel, Sylvaine Kerboeuf
(Alcatel-Lucent, France)                                                                                                                       

SA03M2-2: Adaptive Erasure Coding Schemes for Interplanetary Networks with Incomplete Channel Side Information
Tomaso De Cola (German Aerospace Center, Geramny)
Mario Marchese (DIST- University of Genoa, Italy)                                                                                                                       
SA03M2-3: Multi-Hop Synchronization at the Application Layer of Wireless and Satellite Networks  
Alvaro Marco, Roberto Casas, V. Coarasa (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Jose-Luis Sevillano (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Jorge Falco (University of Zaragoza, Spain
Mohammad S. Obaidat (Monmouth University, USA)

SA03M2-4: A Comparison Framework for MSSs 
Paolo Chini, Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena, Italy)
Sastri Kota (Harris Corporation, USA)                                                                                                                            

SA03M2-5: Satellite System Design Examples for Maximum MIMO Spectral Efficiency in LOS Channels  
Andreas Knopp, Robert Schwarz (Bundeswehr for Information Technology, Germany)
Dirk Ogermann (Munich University of the Bundeswehr, Germany)
Christian Hofmann (University of the German Bundeswehr, Germany)       
           
Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 22 
SP03M2: Sensor Networks
Chair: Sriram Vishwanath, University of Texas at Austin, USA

SP03M2-1: Power Allocation in Wireless Relay Networks: A Geometric Programming-Based Approach  
Khoa Phan (University of Alberta, Canada)
Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)    
Sergiy Vorobyov, Chintha Tellambura (University of Alberta, Canada)                          

SP03M2-2: Robustness Analysis of Source Localization Using Gaussianity Measure    
Kun Yan, Hsiao-Chun Wu, Sitharama Iyengar (Louisiana State University, USA)
                                                                                                                                
SP03M2-3: Decision Fusion over Noncoherent Fading Multiaccess Channels   
Feng Li, Jamie Evans (University of Melbourne, Australia)
                                                                                                                                
SP03M2-4: Sufficient-Statistics Based Multiple Access over Wireless Fading Channels   
Gokhan Mergen (Qualcomm, USA)
Birsen Sirkeci (San Jose State University, USA)
Michael Gastpar (University of California at Berkeley, USA)         
                                                                                                                          
Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 24 
SP04M2: OFDM 2    
Chair: Shengli Fu, University of North Texas, USA

SP04M2-1: A Second Order Statistics based Algorithm for Blind Recognition of OFDM Based Systems    
Abdelaziz Bouzegzi, Pierre Jallon (Commissariat à l'energie atomique, France)
Philippe Ciblat (ENST, France)                    
                                                                                                                       
SP04M2-2: Antenna Array Calibration Using Frequency Selection in OFDMA/TDD Systems
Yoshitaka Hara, Yasuhiro Yano, Hiroshi Kubo (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)
                                                                                                                                
SP04M2-3: An Efficient Near Blind Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation Scheme for MIMO-OFDM Systems
Sameer S. M (Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, India)
                                                                                                                                
SP04M2-4: Digital Baseband Compensation for Mobile SFBC-OFDM Systems with Receiver I/Q Imbalance  
Balachander Narasimhan, Dandan Wang, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Hlaing Minn
(University of Texas at Dallas, USA)                                                                    
                                                                          
SP04M2-5: Multiuser Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation for OFDMA Uplink with Generalized Carrier Assignment Scheme
Huiming Wang, Qinye Yin, Le Ding, Ke Deng (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)             

Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 21 
WC05M2: Fundamental Limits in MIMO Communications  
Chair: Athanasios Kanatas, University of Piraeus, Greece

WC05M2-1: Sum Capacity of Opportunistic Scheduling for Multiuser MIMO Systems with Linear Receivers 
Raymond Louie (University of Sydney, Australia)
Matthew McKay (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Iain Collings (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)                 
                                                                                                                       
WC05M2-2: On the Ergodic Capacity of Frequency Selective MIMO Systems equipped with MMSE Receivers: An Asymptotic Approach  
Cedric Artigue (Freescale Semiconductor, France)
Philippe Loubaton (Université de Marne La Vallée, France)
Belkacem Mouhouche (Freescale Semiconductor, France)
                                                                                                                                
WC05M2-3: Optimal Front-End Design for MIMO Receivers 
Carlo Domizioli, Brian Hughes, Kevin Gard, Gianluca Lazzi
(North Carolina State University, USA)                                                                                                                                   

WC05M2-4: A Decomposition Approach to MIMO Interference Relay Networks
Mohammad Ali Torabi, Jean-François Frigon
(École polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

WC05M2-5: Outage Capacity Analysis of Downlink OFDMA Resource Allocation with Multiple Transmit Antennae and Limited Feedback  
Jouko Leinonen (University of Oulu, Finland)
Jyri Hämäläinen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland)

Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Ballroom A     
WC06M2: Applications of Cooperative Communications  
Chair: Shankar Prakriya, IITD, India

WC06M2-1: AOA Cooperative Position Localization      
Jun Xu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)               
                                                                                                                       
WC06M2-2: Compressed Wideband Sensing in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks  
Zhi Tian (Michigan Technological University, USA) 
                                                                                                                             
WC06M2-3: On Cellular Capacity with Base Station Cooperation      
Li Ping, Wang Peng (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Hao Wang, Xiaokang Lin (Tsinghua University, China)                                         

WC06M2-4: On Relay Nodes Deployment for Distributed Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Karim Seddik, K. J. Ray Liu (University of Maryland, USA)                
                                                                                                                       
WC06M2-5: Performance Analysis for a Fully Decentralized Transmit Power Allocation Scheme for Relay-Assisted Cognitive-Radio Systems 
Jan Mietzner, Lutz Lampe, Robert Schober (University of British Columbia, Canada)                   
                                                                                                                       
Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 15 
WC07M2: Network Coding     
Chair: John Shea, University of Florida, USA

WC07M2-1: Joint Network Coding and Superposition Coding for Multi-user Information Exchange in Wireless Relaying Networks  
Chun-Hung Liu (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
                                                                                                                                
WC07M2-2: Physical Layer Network Coding Schemes over Finite and Infinite Fields
Zhang Shengli, Soung Chang Liew, Lu Lu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
                                                   
WC07M2-3:  Denoising Maps and Constellations for Wireless Network Coding in Two-Way Relaying Systems
Toshiaki Koike-Akino (Harvard University, USA)
Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Vahid Tarokh (Harvard University, USA)
                                                                                                                            
WC07M2-4: An Efficient Hybrid ARQ System Using Multilevel Coded Modulation with Reduced Constellation Size   
Takashi Tamagawa, Hideki Ochiai (Yokohama National University, Japan)
                                                                                                                                
WC07M2-5: Adaptive Hybrid ARQ in Gaussian and Turbo Coded Systems    
Guosen Yue (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA)         
                                                                                                                          
Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 12 
WC08M2: Diversity  
Chair: Neelesh Mehta, Indian Institute of Science, India

WC08M2-1: Achieving High Frequency Diversity with Subcarrier Allocation in OFDMA Systems
Bo Bai, Wei Chen, Zhigang Cao (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
Khaled Letaief (Hong Kong Univeristy Science & Technology, Hong Kong)                     
                                                                                                                    
WC08M2-2: Diversity Technique Employing Digitized Radio over Fiber Technology for Wide-Area Ubiquitous Network    
Shigeru Kuwano (NTT Corporation, Japan)              
                                                                                                                          
WC08M2-3: Diversity and Coding Gains of Threshold-Based Generalized Selection Combining
Yao Ma (Iowa State University, USA)
Xiaodai Dong, Hong-Chuan Yang (University of Victoria, Canada)                                                                       
                                                                          
WC08M2-4: Diversity Order Analysis of Bit-Interleaved Coded DPSK with Cyclic Delay Diversity
Koji Ishibashi (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Koji Ishii (Kagawa University, Japan)
Hideki Ochiai (Yokohama National University, Japan)                             
                                                                                                                 
WC08M2-5: Spatial PAPR Reduction Based Beamforming Scheme for EIRP Constrained Systems
Cheran Vithanage, Yue Wang, Justin Coon (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK)                                     

Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Ballroom B     
WN03M2: Modeling and Analysis of WLANs
Chair: Hai Jiang, University of Alberta, Canada

WN03M2-1: Side Effects of Ambient Noise Immunity Techniques on Outdoor IEEE 802.11 Deployments    
Luca Scalia, Ilenia Tinnirello (University of Palermo, Italy)
Domenico Giustiniano (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
                                                                                                                                
WN03M2-2: An Analytical Model of the TXOP Scheme with Heterogeneous Classes of Stations
Geyong Min, Jia Hu, Mike Woodward (University of Bradford, UK)           
                                                                                                                          
WN03M2-3: Delay Analysis for Wireless Local Area Networks with Multipacket Reception under Finite Load  
Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang, Soung Chang Liew, Da Rui Chen
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)                                        

WN03M2-4: Analysis of CSMA/CA Systems under Carrier Sensing Error: Throughput, Delay and Sensitivity 
Jo Woon Chong, Youngchul Sung, Dan Keun Sung
(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)                                        
                                                                                                            
WN03M2-5: Closed-loop Modeling of the Frame Collision Probability under the IEEE 802.11b DCF    
Jun Liu (University of North Dakota, USA)                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                   
Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Grand Salon 6
WN04M2: Security Issues in Wireless Networks
Chair: Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada

WN04M2-1: Towards Secure Link Quality Measurement in Multihop Wireless Networks  
Kai Zeng, Shucheng Yu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Kui Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)                
Wenjing Lou (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)                                                                                                           

WN04M2-2: Distributed Key Management with Protection Against RSU Compromise in Group Signature Based VANETs    
Yong Hao, Yu Cheng, Kui Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)                
                                                                                                                       
WN04M2-3: Trust-Based Fast Authentication for Mobile IPv6 Networks  
Jiao Zhang (Chinese Academy of Science, China)
                                                                                                                                
WN04M2-4: Self-propagate Mal-packets in Wireless Sensor Networks: Dynamics and Defense Implications
Bo Sun, Dibesh Shrestha (Lamar University, USA)
Guanhua Yan (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
Yang Xiao (University of Alabama, USA) 
                                                                                                                            
WN04M2-5: Jamming ACK Attack to Wireless Networks and a Mitigation Approach
Zhiguo Zhang, Jingqi Wu, Jing Deng, Meikang Qiu (University of New Orleans, USA)                       

Poster Sessions

Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Expo Poster Area 1
SP13PM2: Advanced Topics in Signal Processing 1
Chair: Nallanathan Arumugam, King's College London, UK

SP13PM2-1: Second-order Cyclostationarity of Cyclically Prefixed Single Carrier Linear Digital Modulations with Applications to Signal Recognition      
Octavia Dobre, Qiyun Zhang (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Sreeraman Rajan, Robert Inkol (DRDC-Ottawa, Canada)    
                                                                                                                            
SP13PM2-2: Digital-PLL Assisted Frequency Estimation with Improved Error Variance
Kandeepan Sithamparanathan (Australian National University, Australia)  
                                                                                                                             
SP13PM2-3: A Fast Least-Squares Solution-Seeker Algorithm for Vector-Perturbation      
Ulises Pineda, Emad Alsusa, Christos Masouros (University of Manchester, UK)                   
                                                                                                                       
SP13PM2-4: Enhancement of the Iterative Spectrum Balancing Algorithm for Power Allocation in DSL Systems   
Ali Kalakech, Jerome Louveaux (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Luc Vandendorpe (University of Louvain, Belgium)                                                                                                                          
SP13PM2-5: A Simple Method to Enhance the Detection of Second Order Cyclostationarity  
Miao Shi, Yeheskel Bar-Ness (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Wei Su (US Army RDECOM CERDEC, USA)            
                                                                                                                       
SP13PM2-6: Distributed Base Station Cooperation via Block-Diagonalization and Dual-Decomposition  
Yosia Hadisusanto, Lars Thiele, Volker Jungnickel
(Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany)

Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Expo Poster Area 2
ON07PM2: Optical Networking    
Chair: Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University, USA          

ON07PM2-1: Lightpath-protecting p-Cycle Selection for Protected Working Lightpath Envelope
Rong He, Kee Chaing Chua, Mohan Gurusamy
(National University of Singapore, Singapore)                                                                                                                      

ON07PM2-2: An Enhanced Mathematical Model for Performance Evaluation of Optical Burst Switched Networks  
Mohamed Morsy, Mohammad Sowailem, Hossam Shalaby
(University of Alexandria, Egypt)
                                                                                                                             
ON07PM2-3: Efficient Power-Aware Network Provisioning for All-Optical Multicasting in WDM Mesh Networks  
Ashraf Hamad (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
Ahmed Kamal (Iowa State University, USA)                                                                                                                            
ON07PM2-4: An Exact ILP Formulation for Optimal Wavelength Converter Usage and Placement in WDM Networks  
Phuong Nga Tran (Hamburg-Harburg University of Technology, Germany)  
                                                                                                                             
ON07PM2-5: A High-Performance Optical Access and Control System for Packet-Switched WDM Metro Ring Networks 
Maria C. Yuang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Steven Lee (ITRI, Taiwan)
I-Fen Chao (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Lin Yu-Min (ICRL/ITRI, Taiwan)
Bird Lo, Po L. Tien (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Ching-Yun Chien (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan)
Jyehong Chen (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
Chia-Chien Wei (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
                                                                 
ON07PM2-6: Performance Study of OBS Networks using Traffic Engineering in the Wavelength Domain and Delayed Ingress Burst Scheduling
João Pedro (Nokia Siemens Networks, Portugal)                                                                                                                         
Monday, 1 December 2008
13:50 – 15:30
Location: Expo Poster Area 3
ON08PM2: Optical Networks and Subsystems  
Chair: Georgios Ellinas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

ON08PM2-1: Complementary Approaches to Accurately Evaluate the Performance in Optically Pre-Amplified DPSK Receivers with Direct Detection   
Luís Cancela, João Pires (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)   

ON08PM2-2: Hitless Switching Scheme for Protected PON System      
Hiromi Ueda, Toshinori Tsuboi, Hiroyuki Kasai (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)                         

ON08PM2-3: Strictly Nonblocking f-cast Photonic Switching Networks under General Crosstalk Constraints
Thanh-Nhan Nguyen, Hung Ngo, Yang Wang
(State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
                                                                                                                    
ON08PM2-4: Optical or Electrical Interconnects: Quantitative Comparison from Parallel Computing Performance View 
Rentao Gu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
                                                                                                                                
ON08PM2-5: Dynamic Path Reconfiguration among Hybrid FSO/RF Nodes
Swapna Gurumani, Hassan Moradi (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Hazem Refai (Oklahoma University, USA)
Peter LoPresti (Tulsa University, USA) 
Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, USA)
  
ON08PM2-6: Countering Atmospheric Turbulence in Free Space Optical Links using Wavelet Based Signal Processing
Pedireddi Latsa Babu, Balaji Srinivasan (Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, India)

 


16:00 – 18:00

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Salon 4
AH07M3: Modeling of WSN II         
Chair: Ahmed Kamal from Iowa State University, US

AH07M3-1: Distortion Analysis for Real-Time Reconstruction of Correlated Data Field in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks  
Xiaobo Zhang, Heping Wang, Ashfaq Khokhar (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)         
                                                                                                                          
AH07M3-2: Optimal Target Detection with Localized Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks  
Tai-Lin Chin (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
Yuhen Hu (University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA)                                 

AH07M3-3: Modeling Mobility-Assisted Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks  
Hisham Almasaeid, Ahmed Kamal (Iowa State University, USA) 
                                                                                                                            
AH07M3-4: DPRMM: A Novel Coverage-Invariant Mobility Model for Wireless Sensor Networks
Souheil Ben Ayed, Mohamed Hamdi, Noureddine Boudriga
(Carthage University, Tunisia)                                                       
                                                                                           
AH07M3-5: Optimal Rate Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks with Guaranteed Lifetime
Weqiang Xu, Jiming Chen (Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, China)
Yan Zhang (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)
Yang Xiao (University of Alabama, USA)         
Youxian Sun (Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, China)
                                                                                                                 
AH07M3-6: Performance Analysis for Optimal Hybrid Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks  
Jun Zheng (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Hanlin Deng (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, China)
Baoxian Zhang (Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)                                         

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Salon 7
AH08M3: Energy Based & Cross-Layer Protocols in MANET       
Chair: Jalel Ben-othman, Université de Versailles, France

AH08M3-1: Energy-aware Dynamic Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Ye Tian, Min Sheng, Jiandong Li, Yan Zhang, Junliang Yao, Di Tang
(Xidian University, China)
                                                                                                                            
AH08M3-2: Stability of Multiple Receiving Nodes Slotted ALOHA for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Jahangir Sarker, Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)                                                                                                                          
AH08M3-3: Network Coding in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs with an Enhanced Channel Access Scheme     
Antonios Argyriou (Philips Research, USA)         
                                                                                                                          
AH08M3-4: Longest Edge Routing on the Spatial Aloha Graph
Steven Weber (Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA)
Nihar Jindal (University of Minnesota, USA)
Radha Krishna Ganti, Martin Haenggi (University of Notre Dame, USA) 
                                        
AH08M3-5: Spatially Limited Contention for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks  
Fikret Sivrikaya, Albayrak Sahin (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Bulent Yener (RPI, USA)                                                                                           
                         
AH08M3-6: Estimation of the Useful Channel Occupation in 802.11g Ad-Hoc Networks  
Yassine Chetoui, Jalel Ben-othman (Université de Versailles, France)                                         

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Salon 10 
AH09M3: Clustering and Cross-Layer Protocols in WSN  
Chair: Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA

AH09M3-1: A Cross-Layer Solution for Ultrawideband Based Wireless Video Sensor Networks
Luca Campelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)   
Luigi Fratta, Matteo Cesana (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)     
                                                                                                                          
AH09M3-2: Using Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks: An Energy-Efficient and Flexible Approach  
Chung-Horng Lung, Chenjuan Zhou (Carleton University, Canada)                   
                                                                                                                       
AH09M3-3: Optimal Cluster Number Determination for Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks Wenfeng Li (Southeast University, China)
                                                                                                                                
AH09M3-4: Cross-Layer Optimization for Energy-Timeliness Tradeoff in TDMA Based Sensor Networks  
Jun Luo, Lingge Jiang, Chen He (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)        
                                                                                                                       
AH09M3-5: Asymptotic Performance of Distributed Detection in Clustered Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks  
Qingjiang Tian (Qualcomm Inc, USA)
Vibhav Kapnadak (Purdue University, USA)
Edward Coyle (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)                        
                                                                                                                     
AH09M3-6: Congestion Avoidance and Fairness in Wireless Sensor Networks  
Mohammad Ahmad, Damla Turgut (University of Central Florida, USA)                

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Salon 3
CQ03M3: QoS in Ad-Hoc and Cellular Networks
Chair: Harry Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece    
  
CQ03M3-1: On the Broadcast Packet Reception Rates in One-Dimensional MANETs    
Xiaomin Ma (Oral Roberts University, USA)
Xianbo Chen, Hazem Refai (Oklahoma University, USA)                                                                                          
                                                        
CQ03M3-2: Call Dropping and Blocking Probability of the Integrated Cellular Ad Hoc Relaying System      
Kevin (Nan) Hu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)                                      
                                                                                                      
CQ03M3-3: Outage-Based Rate Maximization in CDMA Wireless Networks
Massimiliano D'Angelo (University of L'Aquila, Italy)
Carlo Fischione (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Matteo Butussi (University of Padova, Italy)           
Alessandro Pinto, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
(University of California at Berkeley, USA)

CQ03M3-4: Node-Based Rate Constraints for QoS Flows in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks  
Junmei Qu, Lianfang Zhang, Yantai Shu (Tianjin University, China)                                         

CQ03M3-5: Enhancing QoS Provision by Priority Scheduling with Interference Drop Scheme in Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks  
Chang-Yi Luo, Nobuyoshi Komuro, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Hiroyuki Kasai, Hiromi Ueda, Toshinori Tsuboi (Tokyo University of Technology, Hachiouji, Japan)              
                                                                                                                          
CQ03M3-6: Adjustable Transmission Power in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Smart Antennas
Fei Huang, Victor Li, Ka-Cheong Leung (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)              

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Salon 12 
CS02M3: Network Management, Context Awareness and Service Creation  
Chair: Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

CS02M3-1: A Real Time Adaptive Scheduling Scheme for Multi-service Flows in WiMAX Networks  
Sahar Ghazal (University of Versailles, France)
Lynda Mokdad (Université de Paris Dauphine, France)
Jalel Ben-othman (University of Versailles, France)
                                                                                                                                
CS02M3-2: Evaluation of a Rule-Based Approach for Context-Aware Services   
Patricia Dockhorn Costa (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil)               
                                                                                                                       
CS02M3-3: Design and Implementation of Multi-Platform Infrastructure of Extensible Network Functions  
Ryota Kawashima (Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Japan)                                           

CS02M3-4: A Scalable Resource Management Mechanism with Feedback Control for Network Systems    
Satoshi Imai (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan)                                                                                                                        
CS02M3-5: A Model Driven Approach to Generate Service Creation Environments   
Achilleas Achilleos, Kun Yang (University of Essex, UK)
Nektarios Georgalas (British Telecom Group, UK)       
                                                                                                                          
CS02M3-6: Network Cache System with the Autonomic Recovery Mechanism for Wide-area SAN
Takahiro Miyamoto, Michiaki Hayashi, Hideaki Tanaka
(KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan)                     

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Salon 22 
CT03M3: Multiterminal Systems
Chair: Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland, USA

CT03M3-1: Two-hop Secure Communication Using an Untrusted Relay: A Case for Cooperative Jamming    
He Xiang, Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 
                                                                                                                                                                                           
CT03M3-2: An Outer Bound to the Rate Equivocation Region of Broadcast Channels with Two Confidential Messages 
Jin Xu, Biao Chen (Syracuse University, USA)         
                                                                                                      
CT03M3-3: A New Upper Bound for a Binary Additive Noisy Multiple Access Channel with Feedback  
Ravi Tandon, Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)         
                                                                                                                          
CT03M3-4: Generalized Capacity and Source-Channel Coding for Packet Erasure Channels
Yifan Liang, Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)
Michelle Effros (California Institute of Technology, USA)                                                                                             

CT03M3-5:MU-MIMO with Channel Statistics-based Codebooks in Spatially Correlated Channels
Bruno Clerckx, Gil Kim, Sungjin Kim
(Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea)                                  
                                                                                                               
CT03M3-6: Asymptotic Ergodic Capacity Region and Rate Optimization of a Multiple Access OFDM MIMO Channel with Separately-Correlated Rician Fading    
Erwin Riegler (FTW, Austria)
Giorgio Taricco (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Salon 19 
NG03M3: Internet Architecture  
Chair: Stefan Schmid, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany
  
NG03M3-1: Stateless Mapping and Multiplexing of IPv4 Addresses in Migration to IPv6 Internet
Yuncheng Zhu, Maoke Chen, Hong Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)                                                                                                                           
NG03M3-2: Multi-level Distributed Name Resolution System based on Flat Identifiers  
Luis Loyola (DoCoMo Euro Labs, Germany)
Paulo Mendes (INESC Porto, Portugal)
Monica Abelleira, Francisco Romero (Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo, Spain)
                                                                                                                            
NG03M3-3: A Framework for Network State Management in the Next-Generation Internet Architecture     
Xin Huang, Sivakumar Ganapathy, Tilman Wolf
(University of Massachusetts, USA)                        
                                                                                                                     
NG03M3-4: MILSA: A Mobility and Multihoming Supporting Identifier Locator Split Architecture for Naming in the Next Generation Internet      
Jianli Pan, Subharthi Paul, Raj Jain (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Mic Bowman (Intel Corporation, USA)

NG03M3-5: AI-RON-E: Prophecy of One-Hop Source Routers     
Soon Hin Khor, Akihiro Nakao (University of Tokyo, Japan)  
                                                                                                                            
NG03M3-6: Evaluating the Performance on ID/Loc Mapping    
Hong Zhang, Maoke Chen, Yuncheng Zhu (Tsinghua University, China)        

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Salon 13   
NS03M3: Authentication I   
Chair: Kejie Lu, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

NS03M3-1: Filtering spam by using Factors Hyperbolic Tree  
Hailong Hou, Yan Chen, Raheem Beyah, Yanqing Zhang
(Georgia State University, USA)
                                                                                                                                
NS03M3-2: Clock Skew Based Node Identification in Wireless Sensor Networks  
Ding-Jie Huang (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)                       
                                                                                                                     
NS03M3-3: BBA: An Efficient Batch Bundle Authentication Scheme for Delay Tolerant Networks
Haojin Zhu, Xiaodong Lin, Rongxing Lu, Sherman Shen, Pin-Han Ho
(University of Waterloo, Canada)                                                                              
                                                                    
NS03M3-4: Security Analysis and Authentication Improvement for IEEE 802.11i Specification
Xinyu Xing, Darcy Benoit (Acadia University, Canada)    
                                                                                                                            
NS03M3-5: An Efficient Trust-based Reputation Protocol for Wireless and Mobile Ad hoc Networks: Proof and Correctness     
Azzedine Boukerche, Yonglin Ren (University of Ottawa, Canada)    
                                                                                                                            
NS03M3-6: A Lightweight Certificate-based Source Authentication Protocol for Group Communications in Hybrid Wireless/Satellite Networks
Ayan Roy-Chowdhury, John S. Baras (University of Maryland at College Park, USA)                        

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Salon 16   
SA04M3: Power Line Communications  
Chair: Francisco Cañete, Universidad de Malaga, ES

SA04M3-1: Time-Varying Channel Emulator for Indoor Power Line Communications
Francisco Cañete, Luis Díez, José Antonio Cortés Arrabal, Juan Sánchez-Martínez
(Universidad de Málaga, Spain)
Luis Torres (DS2 (Design of Systems on Silicon), Spain)
                                                                                                         
SA04M3-2: Precoded Spatial Multiplexing MIMO for Inhome Power Line Communications
Daniel Schneider (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Lothar Stadelmeier (Sony Deutschland GmbH, Germany)         
Dietmar Schill (Sony Deutschland GmbH, Germany)         

SA04M3-3: Multiuser OFDMA Resource Allocation Algorithms for In-Home Power-Line Communications
Hao Zou, Sumanth Jagannathan, John Cioffi (Stanford University, USA)         
                                                              
SA04M3-4: Stopping Rules for Duo-binary Turbo Codes and Application to HomePlug AV
Lorenzo Guerrieri (Dora Spa, STMicroelectronics Group, Italy)
Daniele Veronesi (MGTech SRL, Italy)
Paola Bisaglia (Dora Spa, STMicroelectronics Group, Italy)
                                                                                                                                
SA04M3-5: Optimization of Turbo Decoding Performance in the Presence of Impulsive Noise using Soft Limitation at the Receiver Side   
Gaetan Ndo, Pierre Siohan, Marie-Helene Hamon, Jeremy Horard
(France Telecom, France)
                                                                                                                                
SA04M3-6: Emission Characteristics and Interference Constraint of Overhead Medium-Voltage Broadband Power Line (BPL) Systems
Song Liu, Larry Greenstein (Rutgers University, USA)

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Ballroom A     
Title: MIMO 2  
Chair: Tiffany Jing Li, Lehigh University, USA                                      
                                                                                                      
SP05M3-2: Iterative Receiver for Distributed Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) Flat-Fading Channels   
The-Hanh Pham (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Nallanathan Arumugam (King's College London, UK)
Ying-Chang Liang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)                                                                                                                      
SP05M3-3: Adaptive SSFE Near-ML MIMO Detector with Dynamic Search Range and 80-103Mbps Flexible Implementation  
Min Li (IMEC, Belgium)

SP05M3-4: A Multi-Core Sphere Decoder VLSI Architecture for MIMO Communications
Chia-Hsiang Yang, Dejan Markovic (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)                        
                                                                                                                     
SP05M3-5: Multiuser MIMO E-SDM Systems: Performance Evaluation and Improvement in Time-Varying Fading Environments
Huu Phu Bui, Toshihiko Nishimura, Takeo Ohgane, Yasutaka Ogawa
(Hokkaido University, Japan)              
                                                                                                                  
SP05M3-6: Estimation of MIMO Channel Capacity from Phase-Noise Impaired Measurements
Troels Pedersen, Xuefeng Yin, Bernard Fleury (Aalborg University, Denmark)                 
                                                                                                                       
Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location:  Grand Salon 24
SP06M3: Equalization & Interference Mitigation       
Chair: Jinho Choi, Swansea University, UK

SP06M3-1: Time-Varying FIR Equalization for MIMO Transmission over Doubly Selective Channels   
Imad Barhumi (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)
Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)                                        

SP06M3-2: ISI-free Cochannel Interference Whitening for Bandlimited Fading Channels
Amirmasoud Rabiei, Norman Beaulieu (University of Alberta, Canada)                                        

SP06M3-3: Optimal Channel Shortening Equalization for MIMO ISI Channels   
Raman Venkataramani, Sundararajan Sankaranarayanan (Seagate Technology, USA)         
                                                                                                                          
SP06M3-4: Analysis of A Novel Blind Decision-Feedback Interference Cancellation Framework
Shu Wang (LGE Mobile Research, USA)
                                                                                                                                
SP06M3-5: H-ARQ based Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access with Successive Interference Cancellation
Jinho Choi (University of Wales Swansea, UK)                                                                           

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Salon 21 
WC09M3: MIMO Broadcast Channels
Chair: David Love, Purdue University, USA

WC09M3-1: Correlated Fading in Broadcast MIMO Channels: Curse or Blessing?
Bruno Clerckx, Gil Kim, Sungjin Kim
(Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea)                                                                                                                     
WC09M3-2: Channel Quantization and Feedback Optimization in Multiuser MIMO-OFDM Downlink Systems    
Matteo Trivellato, Stefano Tomasin, Nevio Benvenuto (University of Padova, Italy)   
                                                                                                                            
WC09M3-3: Multi-User Multi-Input Multi-Output (MU-MIMO) Downlink Beamforming Systems with Limited Feedback  
Jayakrishnan Mundarath, Jayesh Kotecha (Freescale Semiconductors, USA)                    
                                                                                                                       
WC09M3-4: Performance of Multi-user MIMO Precoding with Limited Feedback over Measured Channels
Florian Kaltenberger (Institut Eurecom, France)
Marios Kountouris (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
David Gesbert (Eurecom, France)
Raymond Knopp (Institut Eurecom, France)                                               
                                                                                     
WC09M3-5: User Selection for Multiple-Antenna Broadcast Channel with Zero-Forcing Beamforming    
Saeed Kaviani, Witold Krzymien (University of Alberta / TRLabs, Canada)                          
                                                                                                               
WC09M3-6: Low Complexity Scheduling for Downlink Multiuser MIMO Systems in Correlated Channels   
Shengqian Han, Chenyang Yang (Beihang University, China)                                         

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Salon 18 
WC10M3: Distributed Space-Time Coding     
Chair: Neelesh Mehta, Indian Institute of Science, India

WC10M3-1: A Distributed Space-Frequency Coding for Cooperative Communication Systems with Multiple Carrier Frequency Offsets     
Huiming Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Xiang-Gen Xia (University of Delaware, USA)
Qinye Yin (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
                                                                                                                            
WC10M3-2: Distributed Double-Differential Orthogonal Space-Time Coding for Cooperative Networks  
Manav Bhatnagar, Are Hjørungnes (University of Oslo, Norway)                                 
                                                                                                         
WC10M3-3: Perturbation-based Distributed Beamforming for Wireless Relay Networks  
Peter Fertl (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Ari Hottinen (Nokia Research Center, Finland)
Gerald Matz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)                                                                                                                        
WC10M3-4: High-Throughput Non-Orthogonal Interleaved Random Space-Time Coding for Multi-Source Cooperation      
Rong Zhang, Lajos Hanzo (University of Southampton, UK)            
                                                                                                                          
WC10M3-5: A Novel Distributed Space-Time Trellis Code for Asynchronous Cooperative Communications under Frequency-Selective Channels   
Zhimeng Zhong, Shihua Zhu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Nallanathan Arumugam (King's College London, UK)                                     

WC10M3-6: Differential Distributed Space-Frequency Coding for Broadband Non-Regenerative Wireless Relaying Systems    
Jing Xu, Zhimeng Zhong (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)                                         

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location:  Grand Salon 15
WC11M3: Cross-Layer Performance Analysis  
Chair: Maode Ma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

WC11M3-1: Capture effects in opportunistic slotted ALOHA over Rayleigh fading channels
Xiaoyu Hu, Yu-Dong Yao (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) 
                                                                                                                            
WC11M3-2: Convergence of Power Control in a Random Channel Environment     
Joy Kuri (Indian Institute of Science, India)                                                     
                                                                                              
WC11M3-3: Analytical Framework for Performance Evaluation of Hybrid ARQ Schemes   
Jun Xu, Harish Ramchandran, Je-Hong Jong (Hughes Network System, USA)          
                                                                                                                          
WC11M3-4: Delay-energy Tradeoffs in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Partial Channel State Information
Matthew Brand, Andreas Molisch (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, USA)
                                                                                                                                
WC11M3-5: Opportunity Detection for OFDMA Systems with Timing Misalignment     
Mustafa Sahin, Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, USA)
Ismail Guvenc, Moo Ryong Jeong (DoCoMo Communications Lab, USA)                                     

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Ballroom B     
WC12M3: Ultra-Wideband Communication Systems    
Chair: Davide Dardari, University of Bologna, Italy

WC12M3-1: Multiple-Access Performance of Transmitted Reference UWB Communications with M-ary PPM
Keith Townsend, Liping Li (NC State University, USA)
Robert Ulman (Army Research Office, USA)    

WC12M3-2: Transmitted Reference Ultra-Wideband Communications with M-ary PPM   
Keith Townsend, Liping Li (NC State University, USA)
Robert Ulman (Army Research Office, USA)            
                                                                                                                          
WC12M3-3: A Multi-Band Timing Estimation and Compensation Scheme for Ultra-Wideband Communications
Debarati Sen (Indian Institute of Technology, India)                
                                                                                                                       
WC12M3-4: A Novel Chip-Level Algorithm for UWB Timing      
Tiejun Lv (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)                       
                                                                                                                 
WC12M3-5: Optimal Error Rate Performance of Binary TH-UWB Receivers in Multiuser Interference     
Iraj Hosseini, Norman Beaulieu (University of Alberta, Canada)                                
                                                                                                               
WC12M3-6: Passive Ultrawide Bandwidth RFID
Davide Dardari (University of Bologna, Italy)                            

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Salon 9
WN05M3: Wireless MAC   
Chair: Douglas Sicker, University of Colorado, USA

WN05M3-1: A Distributed Directional-to-Directional MAC Protocol for Asynchronous Ad Hoc Networks  
Emad Shihab, Lin Cai, Jianping Pan (University of Victoria, Canada)    
                                                                                                                            
WN05M3-2: A Distributed Multi-User MIMO MAC Protocol for Wireless Local Area Networks  
Lin Cai (University of Waterloo, Canada) Hangguan Shan (University of Fudan, China)           
Weihua Zhuang, Sherman Shen, Jon Mark (University of Waterloo, Canada)Zong Xin Wang (University of Fudan, China) 

WN05M3-3: Throughput Analysis of Wireless Relay Slotted ALOHA Systems with Network Coding       
Daisuke Umehara, Tomoya Hirano, Satoshi Denno, Masahiro Morikura
(Kyoto University, Japan)       
                                                                                                                            
WN05M3-4: Delay Analysis of Aloha Network    
Soung Chang Liew, Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang, Da Rui Chen
(Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

WN05M3-5: Cross-layer Cooperative Triple Busy Tone Multiple Access for Wireless Networks
Hangguan Shan, Zong Xin Wang (Fudan University, China)
Ping Wang, Weihua Zhuang (University of Waterloo, Canada)                                        

WN05M3-6: Cooperative MAC for Rate Adaptive Randomized Distributed Space-time Coding
Pei Liu, Yuanpeng Liu, Thanasis Korakis (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, USA)
Anna Scaglione (Cornell University, USA)         
Elza Erkip, Shivendra Panwar (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, USA)                

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Grand Salon 6
WN06M3: Modeling and Performance Analysis
Chair: Vincent Wong, University of British Columbia, Canada

WN06M3-1: Performance Analysis and Evaluation of H.264 Video Streaming over Multi-hop Wireless Networks  
Deer Li, Jianping Pan (University of Victoria, Canada)                      
                                                                                                                    
WN06M3-2: Characterizing the Impact of Partially Overlapped Channel on the Performance of Wireless Networks  
Zhenhua Feng (Virginia Polytechnic and State University, USA)                
                                                                                                                       
WN06M3-3: Performance Analysis in CDMA-based Cognitive Wireless Networks with Spectrum Underlay   
Bin Wang, Dongmei Zhao (McMaster University, Canada)                          
                                                                                   
WN06M3-4: An Aggregation Technique for Network Traffic Described by MMBP Models   
Ming Yu (Florida State University, USA) 
                                                                                                                            
WN06M3-5: On the Impact of Uplink Interference Coordination When using Multiple Antennas at the Base Station       
Gabor Fodor, Chrysostomos Koutsimanis (Ericsson Research, Sweden)          
                                                                                                                          
WN06M3-6: Performance Analysis of the Guard Channel Scheme with Self-Similar Call Arrivals in Wireless Mobile Networks  
Xiaolong Jin, Geyong Min (University of Bradford, UK) 

Poster Sessions

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Expo Poster Area 1
NS11PM3: Computer and Communications Security  I
Chair: Noureddine Boudriga, University of Carthage, Tunisia

NS11PM3-1: A Generalized, Mathematical Approach for Exploiting Stack Overflow Vulnerabilities On 2n-bit Architectures
Miguel Hernandez (US Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, USA)                                                                                                                            
NS11PM3-2: A Grid Trust Model Based On MADM Theory
Yiyu Yu, Junhua Tang, Liming Hao, Sisi Dai, Yue Wu
(Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
                                                                                                                            
NS11PM3-3: Classification of Network Traffic via Packet-Level Hidden Markov Models      
Antonio Pescape' (University of Naples, Italy)
Alberto Dainotti (University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy)
Pierluigi Salvo Rossi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Walter de Donato (University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy)          

NS11PM3-4: Inferring Speech Activity from Encrypted Skype Traffic   
Yu-Chun Chang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Kuan-Ta Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)                   
Chen-Chi Wu, Chin-Laung Lei (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

NS11PM3-5: CRESTBOT: A New Family of Resilient Botnets     
Duc Ha, Hung Ngo, Madhusudhanan Chandrasekaran
(State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)                                                                                                                     

NS11PM3   Collaborated Camouflaging Mobility for Mobile Privacy  
Lei Tang, Susan Vrbsky, Xiaoyan Hong (University of Alabama, USA)                               

Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00   
Location: Expo Poster Area 2      
NS12PM3: Computer and Communications Security II
Chair: Yi Qian, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

NS12PM3-1: Secure Context Switch for Private Computing on Public Platforms   
Thomas Morris, Suku Nair (Southern Methodist University, USA) 
                                                                                                   
NS12PM3-2: Adaptive Spread-transform Dither Modulation for Color Image Watermarking
Li Hong Ma, Dong Yu (South China University of Technology, China)
Hanqing Lu (The Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)               
                                                                                                                       
NS12PM3-3: Sub-Botnet Coordination Using Tokens in a Switched Network    
Brandon Shirley, Chad Mano (Utah State University, USA) 
                                                                                                                            
NS12PM3-4: Support Vector Machines and Random Forests Modeling for Spam Senders Behavior Analysis    
Yuchun Tang, Sven Krasser, Yuanchen He (Secure Computing, USA)
Weilai Yang (GaTech, USA)
Dmitri Alperovitch (Secure Computing, USA)

NS12PM3-5: Substantiating Security Threats Using Group Outlier Detection Techniques      
Elankayer Sithirasenan (Griffith University, Southport, Austria)     
                                                                                                                            
NS12PM3-6: Using Spectral Fingerprints to Improve Wireless Network Security    
William Suski, Michael Temple, Michael Mendenhall, Robert Mills
(Air Force Institute of Technology, USA)              
                                                           
Monday, 1 December 2008
16:00 – 18:00
Location: Expo Poster Area 3
WC37PM3: Special Topics in Communications
Chair: Shankar Prakriya, IITD, India

WC37PM3  -1: Calibration of SDR Circuit Imperfections
Björn Debaillie, Peter Van Wesemael, Jan Craninckx (IMEC, Belgium)                                     
                                                                                                           
WC37PM3-2: A New Symmetric Transceiver Architecture for Pulsed Short-Range Communication
Joni Jantunen (Nokia Research Center, Finland)
Michael Pelissier (CEA-Leti/Minatec, France)
Antti Lappetelainen (Nokia Research Center, Finland)
Bertrand Gomez, Julien Keignart (CEA-Leti/Minatec, France)
Jarmo Arponen, Aarno Parssinen (Nokia Research Center, Finland)
                                                                                                                             
WC37PM3-3: An Energy-Saving QoS-Based Resource Allocation for Multiuser TDMA Systems with Causal CSI
Jia Chen, Kai Kit Wong (University College London, UK)     
                                                                                                                             
WC37PM3-4: A Pilot Design Technique for Single-Carrier Transmission over Fast Fading Relay Channels   
Gi-Hong Im (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)              
                                                                                                                          
WC37PM3-5: Multiple Access Outerbounds and the Inseparability of Parallel Interference Channels   
Viveck Cadambe, Syed Jafar (University of California at Irvine, USA)              
                                                                                                                          
WC37PM3-6: Jamming Games in Fast-Fading Wireless Channels   
Shuangqing Wei (Louisiana State University, USA)         



World Telecommunications Congress (WTC)

10:00 – 12:00

Monday, 1 December
10:00 – 12:00

Session 101:  Business and Regulatory Drivers in Telecommunications
Napoleon Ballroom/Third Floor

Regulatory measures influence market conditions as well as business models. Panel members will discuss different regulatory policies being applied in various world regions and their consequences for the markets and business strategies.

Chair: Marcus Weinkopf, Deutsche Telekom AG

Speakers:
Diana Tomimura, ALATEL, Field Measurements of Broadband PLC: A Case Study in the Brazilian Regulation
Shabnam Ladan, Iran Telecom Research Center (ITRC), Evaluation of Migration Scenarios toward NGN Considering Economic Aspects
Khaled K. Deeb, Barry University, A Survey on Network Neutrality - Aa New Form of Discrimination Based on Network Profiling
Dejan Siljanowski, MakTel, FTTx deployment in Macedonia

Session 102:  Packet/Optical Network Infrastructure
Jefferson Ballroom/Third Floor

Point-to-point WDM transport networks are evolving to dynamic optical networks to reduce both CAPEX and OPEX. In this session, we address enabling technologies for dynamic optical networks; optical node architectures, optical transmission technologies, and optical control plans.

Chair: Chang-Hee Lee, KAIST

Speakers:
Masahiko Jinno, NTT, Optical Transport Networks: Current Challenges and Solutions for the Future
Ho-Rang Jang, Carnegie Mellon University, A Self-routing Switch Fabric Architecture on a Chip
Noritake Miyoshi, NTT, Multilevel Transmission System Using Multiple LDs and Block Receiving Technique
KwangJoon Kim, ETRI, Activities and Plans on High Speed Transmission in Korea
George Clapp, Telcordia Applied Research, The Flexible, Dynamic Optical Layer: Myths and Realities


Monday, 1 December
13:50 – 15:30

Session 103: Ambient/Ubiquitous/Pervasive Intelligence and Cognitive Systems
Napoleon Ballroom/Third Floor

Networks are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, driven both by the proliferation of intelligent nodes and by expanding networking connectivity. This session investigates how this new infrastructure will be leveraged to provide ambient intelligence and cognitive services.

Chair: Prof. Dr. Geza Gordos, Budapest University of Technology & Economics

Speakers:
Zhanshan (Sam) Ma, University of Idaho, Dragonfly Inspiration for Pervasive Communications and Computing
Rongheng Lin, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, A Social Based Ubiquitous Service Platform
Keiji Hirata, NTT, t-Room: Next Generation Video Communication System
Jiang Tao, HIT, Cooperative Sensing Technique in Cognitive Radio
Nikhil Kelkar, Virginia Tech, A Business Model Framework for Dynamic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Networks

Session 104:  Data and Network Security
Jefferson Ballroom/Third Floor

In this session, we will discuss comprehensive approaches relating to security improvement in advanced telecommunications networks, new service creation based on the ring of trust, and ROI management for security measures.

Session Chair: Kazuhiko Ohkubo, NTT

Speakers:
Jonathan Zar, Pingalo, Inc. and the VoIP Security Alliance, Privacy and Security As Assets
Satanik Panda, Ardent Collaborations, Genetic Algorithm based Secure Authentication Protocol with Dual Central Server and Token Authentication in Large Scale Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Mahdi Khalesi and Mohammad A. Azgomi, Iran University of Science and Technology, Towards a Trust-Based Model for Administration of Mailing Lists
Florian Winkler, NEC Europe Ltd., Enriching IPTV Services and Infrastructure with Identity Management
Darren Grabowski, NTT America Inc., Global Network Pandemic – The Silent Threat


Monday, 1 December
16:00 – 18:00

Session 105: Fixed/Mobile Service Convergence
Napoleon Ballroom/Third Floor

This session highlights the latest innovations on how to manage mobility of multi-mode terminals, how to guarantee service continuity across different contexts, and how to support examples of convergent services through a fixed-mobile service platform.

Chair: Eugenio Guarene, Telecom Italia

Speakers:
Marco Liebsch, NEC Laboratories Europe, Simultaneous Binding Extension to Proxy Mobile IPv6 as Service Enabler for Multi-Mode Mobile Devices
Stefan Schmid, NEC Europe Ltd ., Voice Call Continuity - A Critical Step Towards All-IP based Next Generation Networks
Fernando Soriano Vallejo, Telefonica, IP Interconnection of Convergent Services
A. Schülke, NEC Laboratories Europe, Real-time SDP Personalization in a Multi-Device Environment
Kazumine Matoba, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Architecture and Key Technologies of the Next Generation Service Platform
Ogino Nagao, KDDI Labs, Enhanced Fixed/Mobile Converged Services Based on Context Management
Giuseppe Piersantelli, Telecom Italia Labs, Use of 2D Barcode to access Multimedia Content and the Web from a Mobile Handset

Session 106: Traffic Engineering and Network Architecture for Future Networks
Jefferson Ballroom/Third Floor

This session addresses the technology trends of traffic engineering and network architecture for future networks. Traffic engineering for multi-service networks, inter-domain routing management, autonomic network management and a content-centric network architecture for the future internet are discussed.

Session Chair: Kohei Shiomoto, NTT

Speakers:
Stefan Schnitter, Detecon International, and Martin Horneffer, Deutsche Telekom AG, Challenges for Class of Service aware Traffic Engineering in IP/MPLS Backbone Networks
Roberto Kung, Director, Core Networks, Orange Labs R&D, Traffic Engineering and Operational Issues in Aggregation and Core Networks with Mass Deployment of Broadband Multiservices with IPTV
Kyriaki Levanti, Carnegie Mellon University, P2P-based Internet-wide Management of Interdomain Routing
Gladys Diaz, Université Paris, Autonomic Networks and Management of Dynamic Services Deployment: A Study of Approaches by using Overlays Networks
M. D’Ambrosio, Telecom Italia, Providing Data Dissemination Services in the Future Internet