Final Schedule

Last Update: August 19, 2005


Monday, August 22, 2005

08h30-11h30 Tutorial 6: Future Open Mobile Services
Dr. Do van Thanh
Wireless Communications, Telenor R&D, Norway
     
12h30-15h30 Tutorial 1: Introduction to the IEEE 802.16/WiMax Broadband Wireless Networks
Dr. Michel Barbeau
Carleton University, Canada
     
15h30-18h30 Tutorial 4: Radio Resource Management Techniques for QoS Provisioning in Wireless Cellular Networks
Dr. Nidal Nasser
University of Guelph, Canada

18h30-20h30 Registration and Welcome Reception


Tuesday, August 23, 2005

08h30-09h45 Opening Session and Keynote Speech 1 (Régence C Room)

Opening Remarks
Samuel Pierre, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
General Chair

Welcome Word
Christophe Guy, Dean, Research & Innovation, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

Guest Speaker: Ian F. Akyildiz
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade

Chair: Jean Conan,
École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
 


09h45-10h00 Refreshment Break

10h00-12h00 Parallel Sessions: S11, S12, S13, S14, S15

S11 : Ad Hoc Networking & Routing 1 (Régence C Room)
Chair: Thomas H. Kunz (Carleton University, Canada)

19, Trajectory Based Communication in an Ad Hoc Network of Robots
Pirro Bracka, Serge Midonnet, Gilles Roussel (IGM - Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France)

97, Synchronization Effects in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Harpreet S. Arora (Drexel University, USA), Lloyd Greenwald (Lucent Bell Labs, USA), Harish Sethu, John Novatnack (Drexel University, USA)

98, An Efficient Algorithm for the Optimal Number of Route Transitions in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Natarajan Meghanathan, Andras Farago (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

113, Location-Based Associativity Routing for MANET
V.N. Sastry (Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, India), P. Supraja (University of
Hyderabad, India)


130, Self-Selective Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Gilbert G. Chen, Joel W. Branch, Boleslaw K. Szymanski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)

211, On the Inadequacy of MANET Routing to Efficiently Use the Wireless Capacity
Thomas H. Kunz (Carleton University, Canada)


S12 : Mobile Networking, Authentication & Security (Cartier A Room)
Chair: Michel Barbeau (Carleton University, Canada)

110, Evaluation of Mobile IP Fast Authentication Protocol Compared to Hierarchical Mobile IP
Ali Diab, Andreas Mitschele-Thiel, René Böringer (Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany)

181, Authenticated Stateful Auto-Configuration for Mobile IPv6 Based on Pre-IP Access Control
Jun Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Xin-ming Ye (Inner Mongolia University, China), Jing Ling Shi, Miao Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

189, Low-Latency Secure Mobile Communications
Vinod K. Choyi (Alcatel Canada, Canada), Michel Barbeau (Carleton University, Canada)

33, Non-repudiation of Consumption of Mobile Internet Services with Privacy Support
M. Hasan (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland), Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich, Switzerland)

138, Anomaly-Based Intrusion Detection Using Mobility Profiles of Public Transportation Users
Jeyanthi Hall, Michel Barbeau, Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University, Canada)

173, Optimal Secure Data Retrieval Using an Oblivious Transfer Scheme
Behzad Malek, Ali Miri (University of Ottawa, Canada)


S13 : Wireless Communications & Channel Characterization 1 (Cartier B Room)
Chair: Cédric Westphal (Nokia Research Center, USA)

39, Quantized Scheduling for Radio Networks with Heterogenous Fading Characteristics
Cédric Westphal (Nokia Research Center, USA)

85, Cramer-Rao Bounds for Different Vector-Hydrophone’s Configurations Located Near a Pressure-Release Boundary
Javad Ahmadi-Shokouh, Hengameh Keshavarz (University of Waterloo, Canada)

128, Output SIR Distribution of Optimum Combining in Rayleigh Fading Channels with Channel Estimation Errors
Amir Ali Basri, Teng Joon Lim (University of Toronto, Canada)

137, Weighted Signal-Subspace Direction-Finding of Ultra-Wideband Sources
Hengameh Keshavarz (University of Waterloo, Canada)

169, A New MMSE Based Cascade Filter MUD Tracking Mode in Time-Varying Channels
Adel Omar Dahmane (École d’ingénierie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada)

213, A Comparitive Analysis of Interference Mitigation Techniques for Ultra Wideband and WLAN Co-Existence
Nikhil V. Kajale, Ravi Sankar (University of South Florida, USA)


S14 : Ad Hoc Networking & WLAN 1 (St-Laurent Room)
Chair: Sacha C. Varone (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

9, Implementation of an IEEE 802.11 Link Available Bandwidth Algorithm to allow Cross-Layering
Mathieu Déziel, Louise Lamont (Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada)

27, Directed Broadcast: A MAC level Primitive for Robust Network Broadcast
Paul Rogers, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA)

50, A Queuing Theoretic Model of Ad Hoc Wireless LANs
Mustafa Ozdemir, A. Bruce McDonald (Northeastern University, USA)

91, Adaptive MAC Protocol for High-Load Inter-Vehicle Communication
Kentaro Dobashi, Takeshi Takahashi, Hideyoshi Tominaga (Waseda University, Japan)

174, Vulnerabilities of Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols to MAC Misbehavior
Lei Guang, Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada)

187 Analysis of Micro-Level behavior of Ad hoc Network MAC
Paul Rogers, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA)


S15 : Services & Applications (St-Charles Room)
Chair: Roch H. Glitho (Concordia University & Ericsson Research, Canada)

139, Discovering With QoS the Geo-Located Web Services over Next Generation of Mobile Networks
André Claude Bayomock Linwa, Samuel Pierre (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

156, Investigating Mobile Payment: Supporting Technologies, Methods and Use
Emilie Valcourt, Jean-Marc Robert (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada), Francis Beaulieu (LIPSO, Canada)

17, BRAINS: Blog Rendering and Accessing Instantly System
Jenq-Shiou Leu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Yuan-Po Chi (MOBITAI Communications, Taiwan), Wei-Kuan Shih (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

199, SAMVAAD: Speech Applications Made Viable for Access-Anywhere Devices
Nitendra Rajput, Amit A. Nanavati, Mohit Kumar, Pankaj Kankar, Rajan Dahiya (IBM India Research
Laboratory, India)

140, Context-Aware Service Selection Based on Dynamic and Static Service Attributes
Steve Cuddy, Michael Katchabaw, Hanan Lutfiyya (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)

155, Herecast: An Open Infrastructure for Location-Based Services Using WiFi
Mark Paciga, Hanan Lutfiyya (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)

 


12h00-13h30 Lunch + Best Student Paper Awards (Régence A Room)
   
13h30-14h30 Parallel Sessions: S21, S22, S23, S24, S25

S21 : Mobile Networking & Location Management (Cartier A Room)
Chair: Ronald Beaubrun (Université Laval, Canada)

61, Strategies for Blind Transport Format Detection Using Cyclic Redundancy Check in UMTS WCDMA
Shin-Lin Shieh (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan), Shih-Tsung Kuo (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan), Po-Ning Chen (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan), Yunghsiang S. Han (National Taipei University, Taiwan)

62, A Location Management Scheme for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Abdoul D. Assouma (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada), Ronald Beaubrun (Université Laval, Canada), Samuel Pierre (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

178, The Effect of Joint Allocation Policies on Preference-Triggered Vertical Handoffs
Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Hossam S. Hassanein, Hussein T. Mouftah (Queen's University, Canada)


S22 : Ad Hoc Networking & Routing 2 (Régence C Room)
Chair: S. S. Ravi (University of New York at Albany – SUNY, USA)

131, Understanding Protocol Performance and Robustness of Ad Hoc Networks Through Structural Analysis
Chris Barret (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, USA), Martin Drozda (University of Hannover, Germany), Dale C. Engelhart (Pennsylvania State University, USA),V. S. Anil Kumar (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA), Madhav V. Marathe (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, USA), Monique M. Morin (University of New Mexico, USA), S. S. Ravi (University of New York at Albany - SUNY, USA), James P. Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

167, Simple and Efficient Protocols for Guaranteed Message Delivery in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
Jernej Polajnar, Tyler Neilson, Xiang Cui, Alex A. Aravind (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada)

177, Route Compaction for Directional Route Discovery in MANETs
Vinay Kolar, Paul Rogers, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh (Binghamton University, USA)


S23 : Mobile Networking (Cartier B Room)
Chair: Michel Barbeau (Carleton University, Canada)

49, Anticipated Handover over IEEE 802.11 Networks
Nicolas Montavont, Thomas Noël (ULP – LSIIT, France)

83, Perfect Identity Concealment in UMTS over Radio Access Links
Michel Barbeau (Carleton University, Canada), Jean-Marc Robert (Alcatel, R&I Security Group, Canada)

25, Dynamic Capacity Allocation for Multimedia Services in TDMA/CDMA Cellular Networks
Tallal Elshabrawy , Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)


S24 : Ad Hoc Networking, Autoconfiguration & Topology Management (St-Laurent Room)
Chair: Alejandro Quintero (École Polytechnique de Montréal)

42, A Unified Framework for Topology Management in Multi-Rate Ad Hoc Networks
Haixia Tan, Weilin Zeng, Lichun Bao, Tatsuya Suda (University of California, Irvine, USA)

76, IP configuration in Ad Hoc Networks
Abdellatiff Ezzouhiari, Alejandro Quintero, Samuel Pierre (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

151 Self-Stabilizing Network-Layer Auto-Configuration for Mobile Ad Hoc Network Nodes
Timothy K. Forde, Linda E. Doyle, Donal O’Mahony (Trinity College, University of Dublin, Irland)


S25 : Services & Applications 2 (St-Charles Room)
Chair: Do Van Thanh (Telenor R&D, Norway)

47, Interworking of Presence Protocols and Service Interfaces
Florian Wegscheider, Sandford Bessler (Telecommunications Research Center (ftw.), Austria), Gerhard Gruber (Kapsch CarrierCom, Austria)

59, A Multi-Hop MANET Demonstrator Tested on Real-Time Applications
Giorgio Mulas, Alessandro La Piana, Fabio Cau, Pierluigi Iodice, Andrea Tamoni, Simone Antonini
(CEFRIEL, Italy)


122, The Personalization of Mobile Services
Ivar Jorstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway), Do Van Thanh (Telenor R&D, Norway), Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Norway)


14h30-15h30 Poster Session (Régence C Hall)

15, A Simple Improved Distributed Algorithm for Minimum CDS in Unit Disk Graphs
Stefan Funke (Stanford University, USA), Alexander Kesselman (Max Planck Institut fur Informatik,
Germany), Ulrich Meyer (Max Planck Institut fur Informatik, Germany), Michael Segal (Ben Gurion
University, Israel)


22, Context-Aware Implementation Based on CBR for Smart Home
Tinghuai Ma (NanJing University of Information Science & Technology, China), Yong-Deak Kim (Ajou
University, Korea), Qiang Ma (Ajou University, Korea), Meili Tang (NanJing University of Information
Science & Technology, China), Weican Zhou (NanJing University of Information Science & Technology,
China)


44, IP Addresses Auto-configuration in Global IP Connectivity of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Ru LI (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China),
Xin-min YE (Inner Mongolia University, China), Jing-Lin SHI (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Jiang-Ming SUN (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Hao-Hong WANG (Neimenggu Mobile Communication, Co., Ltd., China)


45, Name Resolution in On-demand MANET
Peng Hu, Pei-Lin Hong, Jin-Sheng Li (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

55, A Partition Network Model for Ad Hoc Networks
Tzu-Chiang Chiang (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan), Hsien-Ming Tsai (National Chung-Cheng
University, Taiwan), Yueh-Min Huang (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan)


60, Concatenation of Differential Space-Time Modulation and Turbo Codes for OFDM Systems
Hung-Ta Pai (National Taipei University, Taiwan)

64, Trusted Group Membership Service for JXME (JXTA4J2ME)
L. Kawulok, K. Zielinski, M. Jaeschke (AGH-University of Science and Technology, Poland)

65, Packet Scheduling Scheme in the Next Generation High-speed Wireless Packet Networks
Jing Qiu, Tiancong Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

77, Exploiting User Behaviour for Context-Aware Power Management
Colin Harris, Vinny Cahill (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

100, Hierarchical Proxy Mobile Resource Reservation Protocol for Mobile IP Networks
Charles Abondo, Samuel Pierre (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

103, Mobile Context Modelling using Conceptual Graphs
SuTe Lei (Arkmax Mobile Solutions Inc., Canada), Kang Zhang (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

108, A Task-based Clustering Method for the Dynamic Partitioning Management in CVE Systems
Hu Xiaomei, Zhai Zhengjun, Cai Xiaobin (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

114, Transmit Antenna Selection for V-BLAST Systems with Ordered Successive Interference Cancellation
Zhenping Hu, Guangxi Zhu, Meijing Liang, Desheng Wang (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China)

116, A New Methodology for Frequency Coordination of Wireless Microphone Systems over Occupied TV-Spectrum
Maliatsos N. Konstantinos, Adamis V. Athanassios, Vouddas P. Petros, Katimertzoglou K. Elias, Rittas E.
Nicolaos and Constantinou P (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)


124, Email Access via Mobile Phone
Do Van Thanh (Telenor R&D & Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway), Eivind Sivertsen (Linus AS, Norway), Jon-finngard Moe (Mnemonic S, Norway), Ivar Jørstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

129, A Mobile, Visual Scripting Environment for Monitoring and Controlling Wireless Devices
Kenneth D. Dwyer (University of Alberta, Canada), Trevor J. Smedley (Dalhousie University, Canada)

152, MMSE-Based MIMO Precoder using Partial Channel Information
Hamid Reza Bahrami, Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)

186, Framework Architecture and Mathematical Optimization of Vertical Handover Decision on 4G Networks Using mSCTP
Samir Chebbine, Mohand Tahar Chebbine (INRS, Québec, Canada), Abdel Obaid (UQAM, Canada), Robert Johnston (INRS, Québec, Canada)

188, Object Augmentation through Ecological Human - Wearable Computer Interactions
Nicolas Plouznikoff, Alexandre Plouznikoff, Jean-Marc Robert (École Polytechnique de Montréal Montréal, Canada)

196, A Limited Flooding Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Tzu-Chiang Chiang (National Cheng-Kung University, Hisng-Kuo University of Management, Taiwan), Po-Yi Wu,
Yueh-Min Huang (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan)


198, Approximation of the Bit-Error-Rate of BPSK Transmissions Over Frequency Selective Channels
O. Fonseca, I. N. Psaromiligkos (McGill University, Canada)

205, Archises -Middleware Architecture for Service Creation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Tuanloc Nguyen (Lip6, University Paris 6, France), Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia), Guy Pujolle (Lip6, University Paris 6, France)

206, A Mobility Management Tool -The Realistic Mobility Model
Joe Capka (Infusion Development Canada, Canada), Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)


15h30-17h30 Parallel Sessions: S31, S32, S33, S34, S35

S31 : Wireless Communication Systems (St-Charles Room)
Chair: Mohamed Ammari Lassaad (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

135, Power Consumption Evaluation of Efficient Digital Signature Schemes for Low Power Devices
Stefaan Seys, Bart Preneel (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)

35, Performance Evaluation of a Switched Mode Detector Using Nonlinear Method
R. Agarwal, B.V.R. Reddy, K.K. Aggarwal (Guru Gobind Singh Indra Prastha (GGSIP) University, India)

147, Cross-Layer Modelling for Efficient Transmission of Non-realtime Data Traffic over Downlink DS-CDMA Heterogenous Networks
Keivan Navaie (Carleton University, Canada), Shahrokh Valaee, Elvino S. Sousa (University of Toronto, Canada)

192, Capacity Evaluation of the OFDMA-CDMA Ranging Subsystem in IEEE 802.16-2004
Jisang You, Kanghee Kim, Kiseon Kim (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST),South Korea)

200, MCAS: A Macrocell Channel Allocation Scheme for Broadband Wireless Access Networks
Jenhui Chen, Wei-Kuang Tan, Chih-Chieh Wang (Chang Gung University, Taiwan)

71, On the Performance of Multi-Carrier DS-CDMA Systems Operating in Unbalanced Gain Channels
Joy Iong-Zong Che, Hao-Wen Hsieh, Shih-Tan Wang (Da Yeh University, Taiwan)


S32 : Ubiquitous & Pervasive Computing (Cartier A Room)
Chair: Ramiro Liscano (University of Ottawa, Canada)

107, Interacting with Paper: Coordinate Systems as Tools to Link Paper with Mobile Phones
Po-Yao Chao, Gwo-Dong Chen (National Central University, Taiwan)

127, The Virtual Device: Expanding Wireless Communication Services through Service Discovery and Session Mobility
Ron Shacham, Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia Univ., USA), Srisakul Thakolsri, Wolfgang Kellerer (DoCoMo Eurolabs, Germany)

145, Agent-Based Framework for Policy-driven Service Provisioning to Nomadic Users
Mohamed Ganna, Eric Horlait (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

16, Architectures for Ubiquitous Environments
Zigor Salvador, Raúl Jimeno, Alberto Lafuente, Mikel Larrea, Julio Abascal (The University of the Basque
Country, Espagne)


172, Projecting Web Services Using Presence Communication Protocols for Pervasive Computing
Ramiro Liscano (University of Ottawa, Canada), Anand Dersingh (Dalhousie University, Canada)

48, A Context-Sensitive Incremental Learning Paradigm of an Ubiquitous Multimodal Multimedia Computing System
Manolo Dulva Hina (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada), Amar Ramdane-Cherif (Université de Versailles, France),
Chakib Tadj (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)


S33 : Wireless Communications, MIMO & Multiuser Detection (Cartier B Room)
Chair: Jean-François Frigon (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

20, On Optimal Hybrid ARQ Control Schemes for HSDPA with 16QAM
Simon Bliudze (LIX, École Polytechnique, France), Nicolas Billy (Alcatel), Daniel Krob (LIX, École Polytechnique, France)

80, Ant-Colony Based Optimal MC-CDMA Multiuser Detector
Samer L. Hijazi, Andrew J. Best, Balasubramaniam Natarajan, Sanjoy Das (Kansas State University, USA)

94, Effect of the Modified Channel Matrix on the MMSE V-BLAST System Performance
Trung Q. Duong, Een K. Hong, Sung Y. Lee (Kyung Hee University, Korea)

117, MIMO Channel Characterization Results from Short Range Rooftop to Rooftop Wideband Measurements
Nikolaos D. Skentos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Athanasios G. Kanatas (University of
Piraeus, Greece), Philip Constantinou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)


160, Detection and Channel Estimation Algorithms for Chip-Level Space-Frequency Block Coded MC-CDMA Systems
S. Nayeb Nazar, I. N. Psaromiligkos (McGill University, Canada)

168, Joint Precoding and Beamforming Design for the Downlink in a Multiuser MIMO System
Roya Doostnejad, Teng Joon Lim, Elvino Sousa (University of Toronto, Canada)


S34 : Wireless Sensor Networks (St-Laurent Room)
Chair: Steven Chamberland (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

2, Tightly Integrating Activity Scheduling For Wireless Sensor Networks
Di Tian, Zhijun Lei, Nicolas D. Georganas (University of Ottawa, Canada)

28, Design and Implementation of a Smart Mobile Robot
Jang-Ping Sheu, Po-Wen Cheng, Kun-Ying Hsieh (National Central University, Taiwan)

51, Landscape: A High Performance Distributed Positioning Scheme for Outdoor Sensor Networks
Liqiang Zhang, Qiang Cheng, Yingge Wang, Sherali Zeadally (Wayne State University, USA)

68, Maximum Network Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks with Adjustable Sensing Ranges
Mihaela Cardei, Jie Wu, Mingming Lu, Mohammad O. Pervaiz (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

146, Energy and Deployement Aware Sensing for Wireless Sensor Networks
Ram Kalidindi, Rajgopal Kannan (Louisiana State University, USA)

166, Optimal Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) Deployment: Minimum Cost with Lifetime Constraint
Kenan Xu, Quanhong Wang, Hossam Hassanein, Glen Takahara (Queen’s University, Canada)


S35 : Ad Hoc Networking & QoS Routing (Régence C Room)
Chair: Mieso K. Denko (University of Guelph, Canada)

21, BEAN - BitTorrent Enabled Ad Hoc Networks
Paul Gillard, Padmini Vellore, Ramachandran Venkatesan (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)

38, Quality of Service for Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing
Yihai Zhang, T. Aaron Gulliver (University of Victoria, Canada)

63, A Reputation-Based Service Differentiation Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Mieso K. Denko (University of Guelph, Canada)

81, Evaluating Ad hoc Routing Protocols With Respect to Quality of Service
John Novatnack, Lloyd Greenwald, Harpreet Arora (Drexel University, USA)

171, Security in QoS Signaling Systems for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Bin Lu, Udo W. Pooch (Texas A&M University, USA)

204 A Proposal for an Ad-Hoc Network QoS Gateway
Yasser L. Morgan, Thomas Kunz (Carleton University, Canada)
 

19h00-22h00 Banquet (Régence B Room)

Guest Speaker: Pierre Boucher,
Ericsson Research Canada
Some Aspects of the Future of Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications

Chair: Charles Despins,
Prompt Québec, Canada
 

 

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

08h45-10h45 Parallel Sessions : S41, S42, S43, S44, S45

S41 : Mobile Networking & WLAN 2 (St-Laurent Room)
Chair: Steven Chamberland (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

1, Designing WLAN with Minimum Bandwidth Guarantees
Abderraouf Bahri, Steven Chamberland (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

12, Wideband Indoor Channel Measurements at 60 GHz for Wireless LANs
Nektarios Moraitis, Philip Constantinou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

144, A Credit-based Distributed Protocol for Long-term Fairness in IEEE 802.11 Single-Hop Networks
Yan Wu, Sonia Fahmy (Purdue University, USA)

161, Reducing Power Consumption in IEEE 802.11 Networks
Jean Lorchat, Thomas Noel (University Louis Pasteur,France)

180, A Wireless LAN Architecture Using PANA for Secure Network Selection
Yoshimichi Tanizawa, Masataka Goto (Toshiba Corporation, Japan), Victor I. Fajardo, Yoshihiro Ohba (Toshiba America Research Inc., USA)

183 Are Two Interfaces Better Than One?
Mohammad A. Munawar, Paul A.S. Ward (University of Waterloo, Canada)


S42 : Ad Hoc Networking, Power-aware Routing & Energy Consumption (Cartier A Room)
Chair: Izhak Rubin (University of California, USA)

6, Optimum Integrated Link Scheduling and Power Control for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
Arash Behzad, Izhak Rubin, Pallavi Chakravarty (University of California, USA)

13, Effects of Cross-Layer Processing on Wireless Ad Hoc Network Performance
Ning Yang, Ravi Sankar (University of South Florida, USA)

34, On the Route Refresh Frequency for On-demand Maximum Battery Life Routing in Ad Hoc Networks
Natarajan Meghanathan, Andras Farago (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

84, A Light-weight Solution for Selfish Nodes Problem Considering Battery Status in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
Yongwei Wang, Mukesh Singhal (University of Kentucky, USA)

99, On the Potential of Hybrid Route/Relay Schemes
Tianhao Qiu, Ioanis Nikolaidis (University of Alberta, Canada)

142, Energy-Aware Task Allocation over MANETs
Waleed Alsalih, Selim Akl, Hossam Hassanein (Queen’s University, Canada)


S43 : Wireless Communications & Channel Characterization 2 (Cartier B Room)
Chair: Sacha C. Varone (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

43, Comparison of Neural Network Models for Path Loss Prediction
Ileana Popescu (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Ioan Nafornita (“Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania), Philip Constantinou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

46, Low Complexity Iterative Receiver for Linear Precoded OFDM
P. J. Bouvet, M. Hélard, V. Le Nir (France Télécom Reseach and Development, France)

143, Collaborative Channel Affectation vs Greedy Method for 802.11 b/g Networks
Sacha C. Varone (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

79, The Effects of Channel Errors on Coordinated and Non-Coordinated Medium Access Control Protocols
Tolga Numanoglu, Bulent Tavli, Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester, USA)

82, The Effect of Jamming on the Performance of Carrier Interferometry/OFDM
Andrew J. Best, Balasubramaniam Natarajan (Kansas State University, USA)

112, Analysis and Performance Evaluation for Mapping Optimization in BICM-ID with OS Estimation and IC Equalization
A. Ghaith, Y. Yuan-Wu (France Télécom R&D, France), J. J. Boutros (ENST, France)


S44 : Ad Hoc Networking & Routing 3 (Régence C Room)
Chair: Stefan Funke (Stanford University, USA)

31, A Performance Comparison of Multi On-Demand Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
S. R. Chaudhry, A. N. Al-Khwildi, Y. Casey, H. Aldelou, H. S. Raweshidy (Brunel University, United Kingdom)

78, Hierarchical OLSR - A Scalable Proactive Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Ad Hoc Networks
Ying Ge , Louise Lamont (Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada), Luis Villasenor (CICESE Research Centre Mexico, Mexico)

141, Hierarchical Dynamic Source Routing: Passive Forwarding Node Selection for Wireless Ad hoc Networks
Mohammed Tarique, Kemal E. Tepe, Mohammad Naserian (University of Windsor, Canada)

148, Performance Comparison of A Beacon-Aided Source Routing Protocol to On-demand Source-Initiated Routing Protocols
Jun Liu (University of North Dakota, USA)

165 Routing Overhead Analysis for Reactive Routing Protocols in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
M. Naserian, Kemal E. Tepe, Mohammed Tarique (University of Windsor, Canada)

88, A Low Overhead Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks with Global Connectivity
Rui Teng, Hiroyuki Morkawa, Tomonori Aoyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan)


S45 : Mobile Networking & QoS (St-Charles Room)
Chair: Haidar Safa (American University of Beirut, Liban)

92, Improved Quality of Service for WCDMA Networks and Coexistence with Indoor Wireless Technologies
Deepak R Thometi, Wei Li, Demetrios Kazakos (University of Toledo, USA)

120, Congestion Pattern Matching in Case-Based Reasoning Control for 3G networks
S. Chantaraskul, L.G. Cuthbert (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)

149, Stochastic Analysis for Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation Framework in Wireless Cellular Networks
Nidal Nasser (University of Guelph, Canada)

182, New QoS Control Mechanism Based on Extension to SIP for Access to UMTS Core Network via Different Kinds of Access Networks
Mehdi Mani, Noël Crespi (Institute National Telecommunications, France)

193, Multipath Load Balancing in Multi-hop Wireless Networks
Evan Jones, Martin Karsten, Paul A. S. Ward (University of Waterloo, Canada)

202, Adaptive Approach for QoS Support in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN
Joe Naoum-Sawaya, Bissan Ghaddar, Sami Khawam, Haidar Safa, Hassan Artail, Zaher Dawy (American
University of Beirut, Liban)
 

10h45-11h00 Refreshment Break
   
11h00-12h00 Keynote Speech 2 (Régence C Room)

Guest Speaker: David Haccoun,
École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Simple and Efficient Error Control Coding for Reliable Wireless Communications

Chair: Khaled Ben Letaief,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
 

   
12h00-13h30 Lunch (Régence A Room)
   
13h30-14h45 Panel Session (Régence C Room)

Title: Challenges and Trends in WiMob

Chair: Gilles Delisle,
International Institute of Telecommunications (IIT), Montréal, Canada

Panelists:

- Khaled Ben Letaief, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Charles Despins, Prompt-Québec, Montréal, Canada
-
Laurent Marchand, Ericsson Research Canada
- Do Van Thanh, Wireless Communications, Telenor R&D, Norway
 

   
14h45-15h00 Refreshment Break
   
15h00-17h00 Parallel Sessions : S51, S52, S53, S54, S55


S51 : Ad Hoc Networking & Applications (Régence C Room)
Chair: Maryline Helard (France Telecom, France)

132, A SIP-based Multicast Framework in MANET
Ying Yu, Anjali Agarwal (Concordia University, Canada)

150, Database Caching in MANETs Based on Separation of Queries and Responses
Hassan Artail (American University of Beirut, Liban), Haidar Safa, Samuel Pierre (École Polytechnique de
Montréal, Canada)


158, Towards Voice Over Ad Hoc Networks: An Adaptive Scheme for Packet Voice Communications Over Wireless Links
Suhaib A. Obeidat, Sandeep K. S. Gupta (Arizona State University, USA)

184, Proactive Neighbor Replacement for RAON
Gabriel Lau, Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Govindan Ravindran (Ryerson University, Canada)

185, An integrated approach for P2P file sharing on multi-hop wireless networks
Bin Tang, Zongheng Zhou, Anand Kashyap, Tzi-cker Chiueh (Stony Brook University, USA)

163 An Intrusion Detection System for Wireless Sensor Networks
Ilker Onat, Ali Miri (University of Ottawa, Canada)


S52 : Ad Hoc Networking, Multicast Routing & Security (Cartier A Room)
Chair: Alejandro Quintero (École Polytechnique de Montréal)

95, Bandwidth-Satisfied Multicast Trees in MANETs
Chia-Cheng Hu, Eric Hsiao-Kuang Wu, Gen-Huey Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

154, Optimization to Multicasting Protocol in Unidirectional Ad-hoc Networks
Noparut Vanitchanant, John Silvester (University of Southern California, USA), Virote Vipanunt (IEEE-Computer Society)

175, Improving Energy Efficiency for Multicasting in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks with Adaptive Antennas
Song Guo, Oliver Yang (University of Ottawa, Canada)

191, Rate-adaptive Multicast in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
Uyen Trang Nguyen, Xing Xiong (York University, Canada)

203, Reliable Ad Hoc Group Communication using Local Neighborhoods
Lawrence Klos, Golden G. Richard III (University of New Orleans, USA)

170 Routeguard: An Intrusion Detection and Response System for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Ahmed Hasswa, Mohammad Zulkernine, Hossam Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)


S53 : Wireless Communications, Modulation & Coding (Cartier B Room)
Chair: Sonia Aissa (University of Quebec, Canada)

3, Capacity of Orthogonal Space Time Block Codes over Correlated Rayleigh and Rician Channels
Hao Zhang, Wei Li, T. Aaron Gulliver (University of Victoria, Canada)

37, On Adaptive Modulation When the Received Signal is Corrected With Imperfect Channel Estimates
Mohamed L. Ammari, François Gagnon, Jean Belzile (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

40, An Enhanced Block-Coded Modulation Scheme with Interblock Memory
S. C. Ma, C. F. Cheng (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan)

153, A New Metric for Space-Time Block Codes with Imperfect Channel Estimates
Bashir Iqbal Morshed (Carleton University, Canada), Behnam Shahrrava (University of Windsor, Canada)

157, A Linear Log-MAP Algorithm for Turbo Decoding and Turbo Equalization
Shahram Talakoub, Leila Sabeti, Behnam Shahrrava, Majid Ahmadi (University of Windsor, Canada)

162, On the effects of Gaussian Channel Estimation Errors on the Capacity of Adaptive Transmission with Space-Time Block Coding
Amine Maaref, Sonia Aissa (University of Quebec, Canada)


S54 : Ad Hoc Networking & Cluster-Based Routing (St-Laurent Room)
Chair: Ronald Beaubrun (Université Laval, Canada)

23, A Cluster-Based Multipath Dynamic Source Routing in MANET
An Hui-Yao, Lu Xi-Cheng, Peng Wei (National University Defense of Technology, Chine)

87, Quorum-Based Match-Making Services forWireless Mesh Networks
Ilknur Aydin (University of Delaware, USA), Chaiporn Jaikaeo (Kasetsart University, Thailand), and Chien-Chung Shen (University of Delaware, USA)

101, Fully Distributed Cluster Based Routing Architecture for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
A. Shajin Nargunam (N.I College of Engineering), M.P Sebastian (National Institute of Technology, India)

126, QoS in MANETs using a Mobility Prediction-based Weighted Clustering Algorithm
Vincent Bricard-Vieu, Noufissa Mikou (LIRSA, Faculté des Sciences Mirande, France)

159, Correctness of Fault-Tolerant Cluster-Based Beacon Vector Routing for Ad Hoc Networks
Luke Demoracski, Dimiter R. Avresky (Northeastern University, USA)

179 A Stable Clustering Formation Infrastructure Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Mohammed S. Al-kahtani, Hussein T. Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)


S55 : Mobile Networking, Video & Control (St-Charles Room)
Chair: Yves Lemieux (Ericsson Research Canada)

54, Resource Allocation for Scalable Video Broadcast in Wireless Cellular Networks
Junu Kim (Seoul National University), Jinsung Cho (Kyung Hee University, South Korea), Heonshik Shin (Seoul National University, Korea)

56, Archies: An End-to-End Architecture for Adaptive Live MPEG-4 Video Streaming over Wireless Networks
Rakesh Kothari, Aura Ganz (University of Massachusett, USA)

67, Modeling Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation Scheme for Multi-Service Wireless Cellular Networks
Shensheng Tang, Wei Li, Junghwan Kim (University of Toledo, USA)

195, TCP Packet Control for Wireless Networks
Wan G. Zeng, Ljiljana Trajkovic (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

212, Analysis of a Method for Improving Video Quality in the Internet with Inclusion of Redundant Essential Video Data
Suk Kim Chin (Australian Catholic University, Australia)

217,Improving Channel Utilization by Restricting Data Traffic Access in Voice-Video-Data Integration for High Capacity Wireless Channels
Polychronis Koutsakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)