Technical Program

Monday, March 3, 2003

9h45 -10h00: Opening

10h00-11h00: Plenary talk by Prof. P.R.Kumar, "Wireless networks: Analysis, protocols, architecture, and towards convergence",
Session chair: A. Ephremides

11h00-11h15: Coffee break

11h15-13h15: Session Performance and optimisation of mobile/wireless networks and systems,
Session chair: P. Nain

Invited talk by J. Roberts, "Multiservice traffic performance in mobile networks"
B. Liu and D. Towsley, "On the Coverage and Detectability of Large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks"
C. Farinetto and S. Zuyev, "Stochastic geometry modelling of hybrid wireless/ring networks"
F. Baccelli, B. Blaszczyszyn and M. Karray, "Capacity and Decentralized admission/congestion control in the up and down-link of the CDMA networks"

13h15-14h30: Lunch break

14h30-16h30 Session Energy Efficiency,
Session chair: M. D. Miorandi

Invited talk by I. Maric and R. Yates, "Performance of Repetition Codes and Punctured Codes for Accumulative Broadcast"
I. Papadimitriou and L. Georgiadis "Energy-aware broadcasting in wireless networks"
S. Banerjee and A. Misra "Adaptive transmission power for optimal energy reliable multi-hop wireless communication"
Isaac Keslassy, Murali Kodialam and T. V. Lakshman "Faster algorithms for minimum-energy scheduling of wireless data transmissions"

16h30-16h50: Coffee break

16h50-18h20: Session Optimization in Wireless Networks,
Session chair: Y. Onozato

Invited talk by B. Radunovic and J.Y. Le Boudec, "Joint scheduling power control and routing in symmetric one dimensional multi hop wireless networks"
S. Ben Jamaa, Z. Altman, J.M. Picard, B. Fourestie, J. Mourlon, "Manual and automatic design for UMTS networks"
J. Papandriopoulos, J.S. Evans and S. Dey, "Optimal power control in CDMA networks with constraints on outage probability"

Tuesday, March 4, 2003

8h30- 9h30: Plenary talk by Prof. D. Tse, "Mobilize!",
Session chair: F. Baccelli

9h40-11h10: Session Game models for cooperation in Ad-hoc networks,
Session chair: T. Basar

P. Michiardi and R. Molva, "A game theoretical approach to evaluate cooperation enforcement mechanisms in mobile ad hoc networks"
J. Crowcroft, R. Gibbens, F. Kelly and S. Östring, "Modelling Incentives for Collaboration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks"
A. Urpi, M. Bonuccelli and S. Giordano "Modelinig cooperation in mobile ad hoc networks: a formal description of selfishness"

11h10-11h30: Coffee break

11h30-13h30: Session Performance characterization of mobile/wireless networks and systems,
Session chair: V. Syrotiuk

Invited talk by Y. Souilmi, R. Knopp and G. Caire, "Coding strategies for UWB interference-limited peer-to-peer networks"
J.E. Wieselthier, G.D. Nguyen, and A. Ephremides, "Multiple access for multiple destinations in ad hoc networks"
J. Liu, I. Matta and M. Crovella, "End-to-end inference of loss nature in a hybrid wired/wireless environment"
A. Al-Fawal and C. Barakat, "Simulated-based study of link-level hybrid FEC/ARQ-SR for wireless links"

13h30-14h45: Lunch break

14h45-16h15: Session Bluetooth,
Session chair: S. Banerjee

F. Bektas, B. Vondra, P.E. Veith, L. Faltin, A. Pohl and A.L. Scholtz, "Antenna Diversity Techniques for Bluetooth Communication"
V.B. Misic and J. Misic, "Adaptive Management of Bluetooth Slave/Slave Bridge"
M.D. Miorandi, C. Caimi and A. Zanella, "Performance Characterisation of a Bluetooth Piconet with Multi-Slot Packets"

16h15-16h30: Coffee break

16h30-17h30: Poster session

B. Lamparter, M. Plaggemeier, and D. Westhoff, "Analysis of co-operation appproaches in Ad-Hoc networks"
J. Li, H. Kameda and Y. Pan, "Study on dynamic source routing protocols for mobile Ad-Hoc networks"
L. Buttyan, M. Jakobsson, J.P. Hubaux and N. Ben Salem, "Incentive mechanisms in multi-hop wireless networks"
K. Kar and S. Banerjee, "Node placement for connected coverage in sensor networks"
E. Yeh and T. Klein, "Optimal Trade-off Between Energy Efficiency and Average Delay"
H. Koskinen, "Statistical model describing connectivity in Ad Hoc networks"
B.-J. Ko, K. Ross, and D. Rubenstein, "Conserving Energy in Dense Sensor Networks via Distributed Scheduling"
T. Ikegawa, "Influence of False Congestion Alarms on Performance for Congestion Control based on Dynamic Window Flow Mechanism in Wireless Networks"
M. Johansson, L. Xiao and S. Boyd, "Optimal routing and SNIR target selection for power controlled CDMA wireless networks"
K. Oteng-Amoako, J. Yuan and S. Nooshabadi, "Selective hybrid-ARQ turbo schemes with various combining methods in fading channels"
J. Zhou, S. Sasaki, H. Kikuchi and Y. Onozato, "Optimum cell boundary with power ratio control and tilted antenna arrays in a cellular wireless communications"
M.C. Domingo Aladren and D. Remondo Bueno, "Per flow service differentiation via virtual MAC"
F. Alizadeh-Shabdiz and S. Subramaniam, "A finite load analytical model for the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function MAC"
S.-A. Yang and J.S. Baras, "TORA, verification, proofs and model checking"

17h30-18h30: Session Security,
Session chair: J. Wieselthier

A. Farago, "Graph theoretic analysis of Ad-Hoc network vulnerability"
S. Buchegger and J.-Y. Le Boudec, "The effect of rumor spreading in reputation systems for mobile ad-hoc networoks"

Evening: Banquet

Wednesday, March 5, 2003

8h30-11h00: Session Routing Protocoles,
Session chair: N. Nikaein

B. Bui Xuan, A. Ferreira and A. Jarry, "Evolving graphs and least cost journeys in dynamic networks"
V. Syrotiuk and C.J. Colbourn, "Routing in mobile aerial networks"
S. Mengesha and H. Karl, "Relay routing and scheduling for capacity improvement in cellular WLANs"
D. Nain, N. Petigara and H. Balakrishnan, "Integrated routing and storage for messaging applications in mobile ad hoc networks"
H. Mehta and J.S. Baras, "A Probabilistic Emergent Routing Algorithm (PERA) for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks"

11h00-11h30: Coffee break

11h30-13h30: Session Protocols in mobile communications,
Session chair: C. Barakat

C. Bonnet and N. Nikaein, "Improving routing and network performance in mobile Ad-Hoc networks using quality of nodes"
P. Mutaf and C. Castelluccia, "A hash-based paging and location update procedure"
C. Blondia, O. Casals, L. Cerda, P. De Cleyn, N. Van den Wijngaert, and G. Willems, "Performance Comparison of Low Latency Mobile IP schemes"
L. Peters, I. Moerman, B. Dhoedt, and P. Demeester, "Influence of the topology on the performance of micromobility protocols"

13h30-14h45: Lunch break

14h45-15h45: Plenary talk by Prof. V. Anantharam, "Large system asymptotics in mobile and Ad-Hoc wireless networks",
Session chair: J. Crowcroft

15h45-16h05: Coffee break

16h05-18h35: Session Pricing and game models in mobile networks,
Session chair: S. Östring

M. Dramitinos, C. Courcoubetis and G. Stamoulis, "Auction-based resouce reservaion in 2.5/3G networks"
R. Battiti, M. Conti, and E. Gregori, "Price-based Congestion-Control in Wi-Fi Hot Spots"
T. Alpcan and T. Basar, "A hybrid systems model for power control in a multicell wireless data network"
E. Altman, R. El-Azouzi and T. Jimenez, "Slotted Aloha as a stochastic game with partial information"

18h35-19h00: Best Student Paper Award Ceremony