ACM MSWiM 2010 Technical Program
(work in progress)

Program at a glance (click on the image to get to the event description, or scroll the page)

Long papers have 25 minutes for presentation

Short papers have 15 minutes for presentation

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

8:00 AM

Registration Open

All Day

Concurrent Symposia/Workshops I
(check individual Symposia/Workshops Schedules)

PE-WASUN 2010
7th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks

MobiWac 2010 2010
8th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access

Tutorials (check individual tutorial schedules)

8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Tutorial 1: Autonomic Wireless Communication
Prof. Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

1:30 - 5:30 PM

Tutorial 2: Data-driven Behavioral Modeling of Mobile Users for Analysis, Simulation and Design of Future Mobile Social Networks
Prof. Ahmed Helmy,  Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

 

Monday, October 18th, 2010

8:15 AM - 8:30 AM

MSWiM 2010
Welcome and Opening Remarks: MSWiM 2010 General and TPC Co-Chairs

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Keynote Speaker 1:
Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications
Prof. Ian Akyildiz,
Georgia Tech, USA

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Session 1: Applications

Empirical evaluation of signal-strength fingerprint positioning in wireless LANs
Maria Papadopouli (University of Crete, FORTH, UNC, Greece); Panagiotis Tsakalides (FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, Greece); Dimitris Milioris (University of Crete and FORTH-ICS, Greece); Artemis Papakonstantinou (University of Crete, Greece); Lito Kriara (Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece); George Tzagkarakis (University of Crete, Greece)
Are You Contributing Trustworthy Data? The Case for a Reputation System in Participatory Sensing
Kuan Lun Huang (University of New South Wales, Australia); Salil Kanhere (University of New South Wales, Australia); Wen Hu (CSIRO, Australia, Australia)
Utilizing WiMAX Mesh Mode for Efficient IPTV Transmission
Murat Ozyurt (Bogazici University, Turkey); Seckin Ulug (Bogazici University, Turkey); Tuna Tugcu (Bogazici University, Turkey)

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee Break

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Session 2: Simulation Methodologies

Considering Real-Life Application Code in Accurate Power Aware Simulation of Wireless Sensor Networks
Georg Möstl (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria); Richard Hagelauer (Instiute for Integrated Circuits, University Linz, Austria); Andreas Springer (University, Austria); Gerhard Mueller (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Advanced Faults Patterns for WSN Dependability Benchmarking
Ali Asim (LRI, University PARIS-SUD 11, France); Sebastien Tixeuil (Univ. Pierre & Marie Curie, France)
Simulation and Testing Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
David Anthony (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Paul Bennett (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Mehmet Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Matthew Dwyer (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Sebastian Elbaum (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Felipe Chavez-Ramirez (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Efficient SINR queries for CSMA/CA simulation
Alexander Kröller (Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany); Max Pagel (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany); Dennis Pfisterer (University of Luebeck, Germany)

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM: Lunch 

1:45 PM - 3:35 PM

Session 3: Localization

Performance Evaluation of Localization Algorithms for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
Aysegul Alaybeyoglu (Celal Bayar University, Turkey)
Sub-Area Localization: A Simple Calibration Free Approach
Aylin Aksu (University of Pittsburgh, USA); Prashant Krishnamurthy (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Design and Performance Evaluation of QoS Aware and Location Based Service Discovery Protocol for Vehicular Networks
Azzedine Boukerche (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada); Kaouther Abrougui (SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada)
Movement Detection for Power-Efficient Smartphone WLAN Localization
Ilari Shafer (Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, USA); Mark L Chang (Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, USA)

3:35 PM - 3:50 PM: Coffee Break

3:50 PM - 5:20 PM

Session 4: Routing

Adaptive Geographic Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Rey Abe (University of Tokyo, Japan); Shinichi Honiden (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Adaptive Routing in Mobile Opportunistic Networks
Jani Lakkakorpi (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland); Mikko J. Pitkanen (Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland); Joerg Ott (Aalto University, Finland)
A Scalable and Dynamic Data Aggregation Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Leandro Aparecido Villas (UFMG, Brazil); Daniel L. Guidoni (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Regina B. Araujo (Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil); Azzedine Boukerche (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada); Antonio A.F. Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
IIAR - A MAC level Interactions based Routing Metric
Saquib Razak (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Vinay Kolar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA)

5:20 PM - 6:35 PM

Session 5: 4G Networks

Accuracy of Link Status Detection in Wireless Multi-hop Networks
Bratislav Milic (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany); Miroslaw Malek (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Advanced Interference Mitigation with Frequency Reuse Schemes in the IEEE 802.16m Uplink
Florian Wamser (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); David Mittelstädt (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Dirk Staehle (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Phuoc Tran-Gia (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
A Novel Framework for Handoff Analysis Under Generalized Session and Mobility Statistics
Wolfgang Bziuk (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Said I Zaghloul (Technical University Carolo Wilhelmina of Braunschweig, Germany); Admela Jukan (Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany)

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM

Keynote Speaker 2:
3D TV and Video Streaming
Prof. Murat Tekalp, Koc University, Turkey

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Session 6: Wireless Networks Capacity

On the Achievable Forwarding Capacity of an Infinite Wireless Network
Jarno Nousiainen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Jorma Virtamo (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Pasi Lassila (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Interaction Engineering: Taming of the CSMA
Vinay Kolar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Saquib Razak (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA)
Throughput Characteristics of Free-Space-Optical Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Mehmet Bilgi (University of Nevada, Reno, USA); Murat Yuksel (University of Nevada - Reno, USA)

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee Break

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Session 7: Energy Efficiency

Mires++: A Reliable, Energy-aware Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
Pin Nie (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Zhihua Jin (Helsinki University of Technology, P.R. China); Yi Gong (Aalto University, Finland)
Efficient Resource Allocation for Energy Conservation in Uplink Transmissions of IEEE 802.16j Transparent Relay Networks
Jia-Ming Liang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); You-Chiun Wang (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Jen-Jee Chen (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Jui-Hsiang Liu (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)
Best Case Energy Analysis of Localized Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree Based Multicasting in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Hannes Frey (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Analysis and Simulation for Parameterizing the Energy-Latency Trade-off for Routing in Sensor Networks
Dionysios Efstathiou (University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute, Greece); Sotiris E. Nikoletseas (University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute, Greece); Andreas Koutsopoulos (U. of Patras, Greece)

12:30 PM - 1:50 PM: Lunch

1:50 PM - 3:20 PM

Session 8: Resource Allocation and Resource Planning

Cross Layer Association Control for Throughput Optimization in Wireless LANs with Inter-AP Interference
Ka Lok Hung (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Brahim Bensaou (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Rui Li (HKUST, Hong Kong)
Multi-objective Resource Allocation for the band-AMC IEEE 802.16 Downlink with Proportional Rate Constraints
Mina Sokar (Sysdsoft, Egypt); Khaled Elsayed (Cairo University, Egypt)
Genetic Algorithms for WMN Planning
Rastin Pries (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Viktor Wendel (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Barbara Staehle (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Dirk Staehle (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Optimal Control To Improve Throughput, Energy Consumption and Fairness in Wireless Networks
Chen Liu (University of Alberta, Canada); Janelle Harms (University of Alberta, Canada); Mike MacGregor (University of Alberta, Canada)

3:20 PM - 3:45 PM: Coffee Break and Poster Session

Realtime Traffic Scheduling for Missed Deadlines Minimization in Point-to-Multipoint OFDMA Systems
Donatella Ermini (University of Pisa, Italy); Maurizio Bonuccelli (University of Pisa, Italy)
Exploiting the Distribution of Distances between Nodes to Efficiently Solve the Localization Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks
Rodrigo Leão (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Valmir Barbosa (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
ACK Pushout to Achieve TCP Fairness under the Existence of Bandwidth Asymmetry
Shigeo Shioda (Chiba University, Japan); Hiroto Iijima (Chiba University, Japan); Tamaki Nakamura (Chiba University, Japan); Shiro Sakata (Chiba University, Japan); Yumi Hirano (NEC, Japan); Tutomu Murase (NEC, Japan)
Snoop Behaviour in Multihop Wireless Networks
Prasad Nambiar (University of Hertfordshire, UK); Hannan Xiao (University of Hertfordshire, UK); James Malcolm (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Candidate Selection Algorithms in Opportunistic Routing
Amir Darehshoorzadeh (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Mobility Management and Call Admission Control for IEEE802.16e Wireless Networks
Sihame Elhammani (Med V University, Morocco); Rachid El-Azouzi (LIA/CERI University of Avignon, France); Khalil Ibrahimi (University of Avignon, France); Bouyakhf Houssine (Université Mohammed V Agdal, Morocco)
A Failure Diagnosis Based Topology Reconfiguration Scheme for Ad Hoc Networks
Ye Ning, (Northeastern University, China); Zhiliang Zhu (Northeastern University, China); Jun Liu (Northeastern University, China); Wang Jue (Air Force Engineering University, China)
A Novel Approach to Power Allocation in Wireless Ad HocNetworks
Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi (University of Technology and Advanced Communications Research Institute - ACRI, Iran); Babak Hossein Khalaj (University of Technology and Advanced Communications Research Institute - ACRI, Iran)

3:45 PM - 5:50 PM

Session 9:Network Features Characterization I

Extract: Mining Social Features from WLAN Traces: A Gender-Based Case Study
Udayan Kumar (University of Florida, USA); Ahmed Helmy (University of Florida, USA)
Data-driven Co-clustering Model of Internet Usage in Large Mobile Societies
Saeed Moghaddam (University of Florida, USA); Ahmed Helmy (University of Florida, USA); Sanjay Ranka (University of Florida, USA); Manas H Somaiya (University of Florida, USA)
Joint Bluetooth/Wifi Scanning Framework for Characterizing and Leveraging People Movement on University Campus
Long Vu (University of Illinois, USA); Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Samuel Retika (University of Illinois, USA); Indranil Gupta (University of Ilinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
A Realistic Trace-based Mobility Model for First Responder Scenarios
Matthias Schwamborn (University of Bonn, Germany); Nils Aschenbruck (University of Bonn, Germany); Peter Martini (University of Bonn, Germany)
An Accurate and Analytically Tractable Model for Human Inter-Contact Times
Christoph Lindemann (University of Leipzig, Germany); Sascha Gübner (University of Leipzig, Germany); Simon Frohn (University of Leipzig, Germany)

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 10: Modelling and Performance Evaluation I

Analysis and performance modeling of the packet-level loss process in wireless channels
Eduardo Martínez Graciá (University of Murcia, Spain); Antonio Fernando Gómez Skarmeta (University of Murcia, Spain); Jordi Ortiz Murillo (University of Murcia, Spain)
Perfomance evaluation of service execution in opportunistic computing
Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy); Mohan J Kumar (The University of Texas at Arlington, USA); Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy); Eleonora Borgia (IIT-CNR, Italy)
On the Potential of IEEE 802.11s Intra-Mesh Congestion Control
Desheng Fu (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Barbara Staehle (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Rastin Pries (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Dirk Staehle (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Adopting FEC for Reliable Multicasting over LTE Networks
Christos Bouras (University of Patras, Greece); Antonios Alexiou (University of Patras, Greece); Vasileios Kokkinos (University of Patras, Greece); Andreas Papazois (University of Patras, Greece); George Tsichritzis (University of Patras and RACTI, Greece)

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM: Coffee Break

10:50 AM - 12:05 PM

Session 11: Modelling and Performance Evaluation II

Formal modelling and verification of the Common hopping multi-channel MAC protocols
Abdelaziz El Fatni (University of Toulouse, France); Guy Juanole (LAAS CNRS, France); Thierry Val (SCSF-LATTIS EA4155 - University of TOULOUSE 2, France)
Apples and Oranges: Comparing Schedule- and Contention-based Medium Access Control
Jonathan Lutz (Arizona State University, USA); Charles Colbourn (Arizona State University, USA); Violet R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University, USA)
Performance Evaluation of a Hybrid MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Bashir Yahya (University of Versailles, France); Jalel Ben-othman (Université de Versailles, France); Lynda Mokdad (Université de Paris 12, France)

12:05 PM - 1:40 PM: Lunch

1:40 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 12: Cognitive Radio Systems

A Non-Selfish and Distributed Channel Selection Scheme in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks
Suzan Bayhan (Bogazici University, Turkey); Fatih Alagoz (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Optimal sensing strategy for opportunistic secondary users in a cognitive radio network
Habachi Oussama (Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, France); Yezekael Hayel (LIA, University of Avignon, France)
Dynamic Spectrum allocation based on Cognitive Radio for QoS Support
Mohammed Raiss El Fenni (LIA, University of Avignon, France); Rachid El-Azouzi (LIA/CERI University of Avignon, France); Mohamed El Kamili (LISQ, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco); Khalil Ibrahimi (University of Avignon, France); Bouyakhf Houssine (Université Mohammed V Agdal, Morocco)
Optimal Flexible Spectrum Partitioning for Multihop Wireless Networks with Software Defined Radios
Mohammad Faisal Uddin (Concordia University, Canada); Hamed M. K. Alazemi (Kuwait University, Kuwait); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada)

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM: Coffee Break

3:15 PM - 4:35 PM

Session 13: Scheduling

Minimum-Latency Aggregation Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks under Physical Interference Model
Hongxing Li (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Qiang-Sheng Hua (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Chuan Wu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Francis C.M. Lau (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
ECNS: Energy-Efficient and Coverage-Specific Node Scheduling for Wireless Sensor Networks
Fanzhi Meng (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Distributed SINR based Scheduling Algorithm for Multi-hop Wireless Networks
Jiho Ryu (Seoul National University, Korea); Changhee Joo (Korea University of Technology and Education, Korea); Taekyoung Kwon (Seoul National University, Korea); Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University, USA); Yanghee Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)
Design and Performance Evaluation of an Energy-Aware Scheduling Framework for Mobile WiMAX
Claudio Cicconetti (Intecs S.p.A., Italy); Luciano Lenzini (University of Pisa, Italy); Daniele Migliorini (University of Pisa, Italy); Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy); Carlo Vallati (University of Pisa, Italy)

4:35 PM - 5:50 PM

Session 14: Wireless Sensor Networks

Supple: a flexible probabilistic data dissemination protocol for wireless sensor networks
Aline Carneiro Viana (INRIA/TU-Berlin, France); Thomas Herault (Universite Paris Sud (LRI), France); Thomas Largillier (Universite Paris Sud (LRI), France); Sylvain Peyronnet (Universite Paris Sud (LRI), France); Fatiha Zaidi (Universite Paris Sud (LRI), France)
Dynamic Random Replication for Data Centric Storage
Angel Cuevas Rumin (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Manuel Urueña (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Gustavo de Veciana (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Building a Potential Field to Provide Real-Time Transmission in Wireless Sensor Network
Yinsheng Xu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Fengyuan Ren (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Tao He (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Chuang Lin (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Sajal K. Das (The UniversityTexas at Arlington, USA)

5:50 PM - 6:00 PM

Closing Remarks: MSWiM 2010 General and TPC Co-Chairs

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

8:00 AM

Registration Open

All Day

Concurrent Workshops/Symposia II
(check individual Symposia/Workshops Schedules)

PM²HW²N 2010
5th ACM Workshop on Performance Monitoring and Measurement of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks

WMuNeP 2010
6th ACM Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling