ICC 2006 ISTANBUL | CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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11-15 June 2006, Istanbul, TURKEY

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TECHNICAL SYMPOSIA

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium

Co-Chairs:
Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University
Khaled B. Letaief, HKUST
Hamid Aghvami, Kings College
Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun-Yat Sen University, Taiwan

Sponsoring ComSoc Technical Committees:
Personal Communications
Radio Communications

Sessions:

Monday, 12 June 2006

10:30-12:00

WA-01: Wireless Sensor Networks-I

WA01.1.	Analysis of Different Sleep and Wakeup Strategies in Solar Powered Wireless Sensor Networks Dusit Niyato (TRLabs, Canada); Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada); Afshin Fallahi (University of Manitoba, Canada)
WA01.2.	Data-Collection Capacity of IEEE 802.11-like Sensor Networks Chi Pan Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Soung Chang Liew (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
WA01.3.	An RF ToF Based Ranging Implementation for Sensor Networks Tufan Karalar (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Jan Rabaey (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
WA01.4.	A Randomly Delayed Clustering Method for Wireless Sensor Networks Xiaobo Chen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
WA01.5.	TTS: A Two-Tiered Scheduling Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks Nurcan Tezcan (North Carolina State University, USA); Wenye Wang (North Carolina State University, USA)
WA01.5.	CLOSE

WA-12: Coding and Detection in MANETs-I

WA12.1.	Multipacket Reception in Wireless Local Area Networks Peng Xuan Zheng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Yingjun Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Soung Chang Liew (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
WA12.2.	Minimum Cost Multicast Trees in Ad Hoc Networks Aleksi Penttinen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
WA12.3.	A Self-Adaptive Detection System for MAC Misbehavior in Ad Hoc Networks Lei Guang (Concordia University, Canada); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada)
WA12.4.	Performance of Channel Information Estimation Method Utilizing Parity Check Bits for Turbo Coded Multi-Route Multi-Hop Networks Tadahiro Wada (Shizuoka University, Japan); Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia); Hiraku Okada (Nagoya University, Japan); Kouji Ohuchi (Shizuoka University, Japan); Masato Saito (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
WA12.5.	A Cross Layer Method for Interference Cancellation and Network Coding in Wireless Networks Wei Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Khaled Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Zhigang Cao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
WA12.5.	CLOSE

14:00–15:30

WA-02: Wireless Sensor Networks-II

WA02.1.	Micro-Frame Preamble MAC for Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks Abdelmalik Bachir (France Telecom R&D, France); Dominique Barthel (France Telecom R&D, France); Martin Heusse (LSR IMAG, France); Andrzej Duda (LSR-IMAG, France)
WA02.2.	Online Information Compression in Sensor Networks Song Lin (University of California, Riverside, USA); Vana Kalogeraki (University of California, Riverside, USA); Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of California, Riverside, USA); Stefano Lonardi (University of California, Riverside, USA)
WA02.3.	Self-Organization of Sensor Networks Using Genetic Algorithms Rahul Khanna (Intel, USA); Huaping Liu (Oregon State University, USA); Hsiao Hwa Chen (NSYSU, Taiwan)
WA02.4.	On the Intruder Detection for Sinkhole Attack in Wireless Sensor Networks Edith Ngai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Michael Lyu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
WA02.5.	Design and Application of Enhanced Communication Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks Operating in Environmental Monitoring Francesco Chiti (Università di Firenze, Italy); Michele Ciabatti (Università di Firenze, Italy); Giovanni Collodi (Università di Firenze, Italy); Davide Di Palma (Università di Firenze, Italy); Romano Fantacci (Università di Firenze, Italy); Antonio Manes (Università di Firenze, Italy)
	CLOSE

WA-13: Coding and Detection in MANETs-II

WA13.1.	Network Coding with Low Complexity in Wireless Ad-hoc Multicast Networks Zhang Jingyao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Pingyi Fan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Khaled Letaief (HKUST, Hong Kong)
WA13.2.	Position Error Bound for UWB Localization in Dense Cluttered Environments Damien Jourdan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Moe Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Davide Dardari (University of Bologna, Italy)
WA13.3.	An Approximate Approach for Layered Space-Time Multiuser Detection Performance and Its Application to MIMO Ad Hoc Networks Marco Levorato (University of Padova, Italy); Stefano Tomasin (University of Padova, Italy); Paolo Casari (University of Padova, Italy); Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy)
WA13.4.	Using Energy-Efficient Overlays to Reduce Packet Error Rates in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks Ghassen Ben Brahim (Western Michigan University, USA)
WA13.5.	Connection Data Rate Optimization of IEEE 802.15.3 Scatternets with Multi-Rate Carriers Zhanping Yin (University of British Columbia, Canada); Victor Leung (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
	CLOSE

16:00–17:30

WA-03: Wireless Sensor Networks-III

WA03.1.	An Intelligent Safety-Aware Gateway Relocation Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks Waleed Youssef (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Kemal Akkaya (Southern Illinois University, USA)
WA03.2.	Distributed Decision Making Algorithm for Self-Healing Sensor Networks Ming Zhang (North Dakota State University, USA); Xiaojiang Du (North Dakota State University, USA); Hsiao-Hwa Chen (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan); Kendall Nygard (North Dakota State University, USA)
WA03.3.	On Parameter Estimation over Fading Channels with TBMA Wireless Sensor Networks Ping Gao (Arizona State University, USA); Cihan Tepedelenlioglu (Arizona State University, USA)
WA03.4.	SAS: A Simple Anonymity Scheme for Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks Satyajayant Misra (Arizona State University, USA); Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA)
WA03.5.	An Optimal Coverage-Preserving Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Local Information Exchange Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
	CLOSE

WA-14: Cooperative Networking

WA14.1.	Proactive Cooperation Mechanism Based on Cooperation Records for Mobile Ad hoc Networks Toshihiro Suzuki (NTT DoCoMo, Japan); Motonari Kobayashi (NTT DoCoMo, Japan); Ashiq Khan (NTT DoCoMo, Japan); Masanori Morita (NTT DoCoMo, Japan)
WA14.2.	Multiple-Source Multiple-Relay Cooperation System Jun Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Tat Lok (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
WA14.3.	Capacity and Power Allocation for Transmitter and Receiver Cooperation in Fading Channels Chris Ng (Stanford University, USA); Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)
WA14.4.	Stimulating Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks through Pricing Naveen Shastry (University of Toronto, Canada); Raviraj Adve (University of Toronto, Canada)
WA14.5.	Adaptive Channel Selection through Collaborative Sensing Guang-Hua Yang (The University of Hong Kong, P.R. China); Haitao Zheng (University of California, Santa Barbara & MSRA, USA); Jun Zhao (Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China); Victor Li (University of Hong Kong, P.R. China)
	CLOSE

Tuesday, 13 June 2006

8:30–10:00

WA-04: Wireless Sensor Networks-IV

WA04.1.	Coalition-Aided Data Transmissions in Wireless Sensor Networks Qinghai Gao (Arizona State University, USA); Junshan Zhang (Arizona State University, USA); Bryan Larish (Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, USA); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
WA04.2.	A Performance Study of Splittable and Unsplittable Traffic Allocation in Wireless Sensor Networks Sylvia Tai (Queen's University, Canada); Robert Benkoczi (Queen's University, Canada); Hossam Hassanein (Queen’s University, Canada); Selim Akl (Queen's University, Canada)
WA04.3.	Energy-Aware Fair Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks with Maximum Data Collection 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); Junhua Zhu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Farid Nait-Abdesselam (University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France)
WA04.4.	Bounding the Lifetime of Target Tracking Sensor Networks Zeng Peng (Shenyang Institute of Automation, P.R. China)
WA04.5.	SHORT: Shortest Hop Routing Tree for Wireless Sensor Networks Yang Yang (University College London, United Kingdom); Huihai Wu (Brunel University, United Kingdom); Hsiao-Hwa Chen (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
	CLOSE

WA-15: Performance Analysis of MANETs-I

WA15.1.	On Constructing Low Interference Topology in Multihop Wireless Networks Kun-Da Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
WA15.2.	A New Approach for Traffic Engineering in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Mohamed Brahma (University of Haute Alsace, France); Kwan Woong Kim (University of Haute Alsace, France); Abdelhafid Abouaissa (University of Haute Alsace, France); Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace, France)
WA15.3.	A Novel Backoff-State Assignment Algorithm for Wireless Networks to Improve Channel Utilization Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, USA)
WA15.4.	Partition-Aware TCP for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Qianwen Lin (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Kwang Mien Chan (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Kean-Soon Tan (Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore); Boon Sain Yeo (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
WA15.5.	On the Energy Efficiency of Wireless Transceivers Andrew Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Charles Sodini (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
	CLOSE

8:30–12:00

WA-22(P): Topics in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks-I

WA22.1.	Concentric Anchor-Beacons (CAB) Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks Vijayanth Vivekanandan (University of British Columbia, Canada); Vincent Wong (University of British Columbia, Canada)
WA22.2.	Increasing Network Lifetime of an IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Network by Energy Efficient Routing Muhammad Ilyas (Michigan State University, USA); Hayder Radha (Michigan State University, USA)
WA22.3.	Challenges and Futuristic Perspective of CDMA Technologies: OCC-CDMA/OS for 4G Wireless Networks Hsiao-Hwa Chen (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan); Jie Li (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Yang Yang (University College London, United Kingdom); Xiaojiang Du (North Dakota State University, USA); Huaping Liu (Oregon State University, USA)
WA22.4.	Path Aggregation for Voice over IP in Multihop Wireless Mesh Networks Junxiu Lu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Kun Tan (Microosft Research Asia, P.R. China); Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
WA22.5.	A Physical Layer Aspect of Network Coding with Statistically Independent Noisy Channels Ming Xiao (Chalmers University, Sweden); Tor Aulin (Chalmers University, Sweden)
WA22.6.	Scheduling Using Near-Optimal Guard Zones for CDMA Ad Hoc Networks Aamir Hasan (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Jeffrey Andrews (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
WA22.7.	Connected Dominating Set Based Hybrid Routing Algorithm in Ad Hoc Networks with Obstacles Di Wu (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Yan Qu (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China)
WA22.8.	Effective Coverage in Sensor Networks: Binary Integer Programming Formulations and Heuristics Kuban Altınel (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
WA22.9.	Distributed Sensor Location through Linear Programming with Triangle Inequality Constraints Camillo Gentile (NIST, USA)
WA22.10.	ASAP: A MAC Protocol for Dense and Time Constrained RFID Systems Girish Khandelwal (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Kyounghwan Lee (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Semih Serbetli (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
	CLOSE

10:30–12:00

WA-05: Wireless Sensor Networks-V

WA05.1.	On the Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks Hosam Aboelfotoh (Kuwait University, Kuwait); Ehab Elmallah (University of Alberta, Canada); Hossam Hassanein (Queen’s University, Canada)
WA05.2.	Relay Deployment and Power Control for Lifetime Elongation in Sensor Networks Yufeng Xin (University of Maryland, USA); Tuna Guven (University of Maryland, USA); Mark Shayman (University of Maryland, USA)
WA05.3.	Joint Routing and Medium Access Control for Lifetime Maximization of Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks Seung-Jun Kim (NEC Laboratories America, USA); Xiaodong Wang (Columbia University, USA); Mohammad Madihian (NEC Laboratories America, USA)
WA05.4.	Optimal Placement of Relay Nodes for Energy Efficiency in Sensor Networks Sinem Ergen (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
WA05.5.	Grid Scan: A Simple and Effective Approach for Coverage Issue in Wireless Sensor Networks Shen Xingfa (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Chen Jiming (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
	CLOSE

WA-16: Performance Analysis of MANETs-II

WA16.1.	Active-time Based Bandwidth Allocation for Multi-hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Xiaomei Zhang (Central China Normal University, P.R. China); Liansheng Tan (Central China Normal University, P.R. China); Jie Li (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Sufen Zhao (Central China Normal University, Canada); Hsiao-Hwa Chen (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
WA16.2.	Bit-Per-Joule Performance of Power Saving Ad Hoc Networks under Mobile Backbone Coverage Xiaolong Huang (University of California at Los Angeles, USA); Izhak Rubin (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
WA16.3.	An Improved Busy Tone Solution for Collision Avoidance in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Ping Wang (University of Waterloo, Canada); Weihua Zhuang (University of Waterloo, Canada)
WA16.4.	Performance Enhancement for WLAN Supporting Integrated Voice/Data Traffic Ping Wang (University of Waterloo, Canada); Hai Jiang (University of Waterloo, Canada); Weihua Zhuang (University of Waterloo, Canada)
WA16.5.	Enhancing MAC Coordination to Boost Spatial Reuse in IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks Fengji Ye (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA); Hua Yang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA); Biplab Sikdar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
	CLOSE

14:00–15:30

WA-06: Wireless Sensor Networks-VI

WA06.1.	A Probabilistic Approach to Location Verification in Wireless Sensor Networks Eylem Ekici (Ohio State University, USA); Janise McNair (University of Florida, USA); Dawood Al-Abri (University of Florida, USA)
WA06.2.	MAC Aware Energy-Efficient Data-Centric Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks Frank Yeong-Sung Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Hong-Hsu Yen (Shih-Hsin University, Taiwan); Shu-Ping Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
WA06.3.	Implementation and Performance Evaluation of nanoMAC: A Low-Power MAC Solution for High Density Wireless Sensor Networks Junaid Ansari (Aachen University, Germany); Janne Riihijärvi (Aachen University, Germany); Petri Mähönen (Aachen University, Germany); Jussi Haapola (University of Oulu, Finland)
WA06.4.	Energy and Delivery Capacity of Wireless Sensor Networks with Random Duty-Cycles Lillian Dai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Prithwish Basu (BBN Technologies, USA)
WA06.5.	Utility-Lifetime Trade-off in Self-regulating Wireless Sensor Networks: A Cross-Layer Design Approach Hithesh Nama (Rutgers University, USA); Mung Chiang (Princeton University, USA); Narayan Mandayam (Rutgers University, USA)
	CLOSE

WA-17: Performance Analysis of MANETs-III

WA17.1.	Contention-Based Prioritized Opportunistic Medium Access Control in Wireless LANs Miao Zhao (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA); Huiling Zhu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Wenjian Shao (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Victor Li (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Yuanyuan Yang (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
WA17.2.	QoS Conflict Resolution in Ad Hoc Networks Ronan De Renesse (King's College London, United Kingdom); Piyush Khengar (King's College London, United Kingdom); Vasilios Friderikos (University of London, United Kingdom); Hamid Aghvami (King's College London, United Kingdom)
WA17.3.	Queueing Analysis of Distributed MAC in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Differentiated Services Afshin Fallahi (University of Manitoba, Canada); Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada)
WA17.4.	A New Approach to Service Discovery in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Yu Yang (Queen's University, Canada); Hossam Hassanein (Queen’s University, Canada); Afzal Mawji (Queen's University, Canada)
WA17.5.	Performance Evaluation of Time-Based and Hop-Based TTL Schemes in Partially Connected Ad Hoc Networks Wing Yuen (Columbia University, USA); Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)
	CLOSE

14:00–17:30

WA-23(P): Topics in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks-II

WA23.1.	Clustering of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: An Adaptive Broadcast Period Approach Damianos Gavalas (University of the Aegean, Greece); Grammati Pantziou (Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece); Charalampos Konstantopoulos (University of Patras, Greece); Basilis Mamalis (Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece)
WA23.2.	Adaptive MAC Protocol for QoS support in UWB-Based Wireless Networks Yuechun Chu (University of Massachusetts, USA); Aura Ganz (University of Massachusetts, USA)
WA23.3.	Adaptive Position Update in Geographic Routing Quan Jun Chen (University of New South Wales, Australia); Salil Kanhere (University of New South Wales, Australia); Mahbub Hassan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Kun-chan Lan (National ICT Australia Ltd., Australia)
WA23.4.	Achievable Communication Rates in Ad hoc Wireless Networks Using Local Node Cooperation Sumeeth Nagaraj (University of Alberta, Canada); Dmitri Truhachev (University of Alberta, Canada); Christian Schlegel (University of Alberta, Canada)
WA23.5.	A Forecasting-Based Monitoring and Tomography Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks Vehbi Cagri Gungor (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
WA23.6.	FIR Linear Relay Network with Frequency Selective Channels Tobias Oechtering (Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Benjamin Schubert (Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Holger Boche (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
WA23.7.	Distributed Active Hierarchy Maintenance in MANETs Kyriakos Manousakis (Telcordia Technologies, USA); Anthony McAuley (Telcordia Technologies, USA)
WA23.8.	Coverage in Sensor Networks When Obstacles Are Present Ertan Onur (Boğaziçi University, Turkey); Cem Ersoy (Boğaziçi University, Turkey); Hakan Deliç (Boğaziçi University, Turkey); Lale Akarun (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
WA23.9.	A Topology Control Approach to Using Directional Antennas in Wireless Mesh Networks Umesh Kumar (State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA); Himanshu Gupta (State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA); Samir Das (State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA)
WA23.10.	A Receiver-Initiated Directional MAC Protocol for Handling Deafness in Ad Hoc Networks Masanori Takata (Shizuoka University, Japan); Masaki Bandai (Shizuoka University, Japan); Takashi Watanabe (Shizuoka University, Japan)
	CLOSE

16:00–17:30

WA-07: Wireless Sensor Networks-VII

WA07.1.	A New MILP Formulation and Distributed Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks Lifetime Maximization Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA); Alessio Carosi (Universita` di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy); Emanuel Melachrinoudis (Northeastern University, USA); Chiara Petrioli (Universita` di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy); Zheng Wang (Northeastern University, USA)
WA07.2.	Energy Map: Mining Wireless Sensor Network Data Song Ci (University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA); Mohsen Guizani (Western Michigan University, USA)
WA07.3.	Multiple-Input Turbo Code for Joint Data Aggregation, Source and Channel Coding in Wireless Sensor Networks Hasan Cam (Arizona State University, USA)
WA07.4.	Distributed Minimum Energy Data Gathering in Sensor Networks with Correlated Sources Kevin Yuen (University of Toronto, Canada); Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada); Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada)
WA07.5.	Layered IP Header Compression for IP-Enabled Sensor Networks Cedric Westphal (Nokia Research Center, USA)
	CLOSE

WA-18: Performance Analysis of MANETs-IV

WA18.1.	Equilibria for Node Participation in Ad Hoc Networks - An Imperfect Monitoring Approach Vivek Srivastava (Virginia Tech, USA); Luiz A. DaSilva (Virginia Tech, USA)
WA18.2.	Variable Power Broadcasting in Ad Hoc Networks Avinash Chiganmi (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Kamil Sarac (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Ravi Prakash (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
WA18.3.	On Gain Asymmetry and Broadcast Efficiency in MIMO Ad Hoc Networks Francesco Rossetto (University of Padova, Italy); Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy)
WA18.4.	On the Connectivity and Average Delay of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Golnaz Farhadi (University of Alberta, Canada); Norman Beaulieu (University of Alberta, Canada)
WA18.5.	A Power Efficient QoS Provisioning Architecture for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Didem Gozupek (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Jie Yang (Spirent Communications, USA)
	CLOSE

Wednesday, 14 June 2006

8:30–10:00

WA-08: Routing for MANETs-I

WA08.1.	OLEAR: Optimal Localized Energy Aware Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Israat Tanzeena Haque (University of Alberta, Canada); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada)
WA08.2.	Hybrid Cluster Routing: An Efficient Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Xiaoguang Niu (Institute of Computing Technology, P.R. China); Zhihua Tao (Nankai University, P.R. China); Gongyi Wu (Nankai University, P.R. China); Changcheng Huang (Carleton University, Canada); Li Cui (Institute of Computing Technology, P.R. China)
WA08.3.	Logical Location-based Routing with Hole-Shadowing in Large-scale MANETs Guojun Wang (The Central South University, P.R. China); Lifan Zhang (The Central South University, P.R. China); Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
WA08.4.	Multipath Doppler Routing with QoS Support in Pseudo-Linear Highly Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Ehssan Sakhaee (The University of Sydney, Australia); Abbas Jamalipour (The University of Sydney, Australia, Australia); Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)
WA08.5.	An Optimized Polymorphic Hybrid Multicast Routing Protocol (OPHMR) for Ad Hoc Networks Chen Lei (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Chuan Heng Foh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Adel Ben Mnaouer (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
	CLOSE

WA-19: Performance Analysis of MANETs-V

WA19.1.	Distributed Cross-Layer Optimization of MANETs in Composite Fading John Papandriopoulos (University of Melbourne, Australia); Subhrakanti Dey (University of Melbourne, Australia); Jamie Evans (University of Melbourne, Australia)
WA19.2.	The Anti-Packets Can Increase the Achievable Throughput of a Wireless Multi-Hop Network Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark); Hiroyuki Yomo (Aalborg University, Denmark)
WA19.3.	Spreading-Hopping Tradeoff in Wideband Ad-hoc Communications Sudhir Srinivasa (University of California, Irvine, USA); Syed Jafar (University of California Irvine, USA)
WA19.4.	Impact of Power and Rate Selection on the Throughput of Ad Hoc Networks Cong Peng (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Fan Yang (Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China); Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Dapeng Oliver Wu (University of Florida, USA); Ming Zhao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yan Yao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
WA19.5.	Coverage Enhancement for a Multi-Channel Ring-Based Wireless Mesh Network with Guaranteed Throughput and Delay Jane-Hwa Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Li-Chun Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Chung-Ju Chang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
	CLOSE

10:30–12:00

WA-09: Routing for MANETs-II

WA09.1.	A Position-Based QoS Routing Scheme for UWB Ad-Hoc Networks Atef Abdrabou (University of Waterloo, Canada); Weihua Zhuang (University of Waterloo, Canada)
WA09.2.	A Hierarchical Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Large Scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Wasim El-Hajj (Western Michigan University, USA); Dionysios Kountanis (Western Michigan University, USA); Ala Al-Fuqaha (Western Michigan University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (Western Michigan University, USA)
WA09.3.	Bit-Error-Rate Performance Improvement in Wireless Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks Using Route Diversity Considerations Tadahiro Wada (Shizuoka University, Japan); Hiraku Okada (Nagoya University, Japan); Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia); Kouji Ohuchi (Shizuoka University, Japan); Masato Saito (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
WA09.4.	Joint Routing and Channel Assignment in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks Xiangrui Meng (Peking University, P.R. China); Kun Tan (Microosft Research Asia, P.R. China); Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
WA09.5.	Roadside-Aided Routing (RAR) in Vehicular Networks Yanlin Peng (Iowa State University, USA); Zakhia Abichar (Iowa State University, USA); Morris Chang (Iowa State University, USA)
	CLOSE

WA-20: IEEE 802 Based MANETs

WA20.1.	A Radio Resource Management Framework for IEEE 802.16-Based OFDM/TDD Wireless Mesh Networks Dusit Niyato (TRLabs, Canada); Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada)
WA20.2.	Secure, Fast Handhoff Techniques for 802.1X Based Wireless Network Leonardo Maccari (Univerity of Florence, Italy); Tommaso Pecorella (CNIT, Italy); Romano Fantacci (University of Florence, Italy); Federico Frosali (Telecom Italia Lab, Italy)
WA20.3.	Contention Window Adjustment for IEEE 802.11 WLANs: A Control-Theoretic Approach Qiuyan Xia (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Mounir Hamdi (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
WA20.4.	AGA: Adaptive GTS Allocation with Low Latency and Fairness Considerations for IEEE 802.15.4 Yu-Kai Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Ai-Chun Pang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Tei-Wei Kuo (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
WA20.5.	An Enhanced IEEE 802.11 MAC Algorithm for Tradeoff between Delay and Energy-Consumption Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA); Hang Su (Texas A&M University, USA)
	CLOSE

14:00–15:30

WA-10: Protocols for MANETs-I

WA10.1.	Cooperative ARQ in Wireless Networks: Protocols Description and Performance Analysis Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Zhao-Yang Zhang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Peiliang Qiu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
WA10.2.	An Optimistic Power Control MAC Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Hairong Yan (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Jie Li (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Guoji Sun (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Hsiao-Hwa Chen (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
WA10.3.	A Protocol for Interactive Streaming of Image-Based Scenes over Wireless Ad-hoc Networks Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada); Richard Pazzi (University of Ottawa, Canada)
WA10.4.	A LCG-Based Secure Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Yang Xiao (University of Memphis, USA); Bo Sun (Lamar University, USA); Chung-Chih Li (Lamar University, USA); Kui Wu (University of Victoria, Canada)
WA10.5.	A Fair Multiuser Cooperation Protocol for Increasing the Throughput in Energy-Constrained Ad-hoc Networks Lin Dai (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Wei Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Khaled Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Zhigang Cao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
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WA-21: Topics in MANETs

WA21.1.	Multimedia Traffic Management in IEEE 802.15.3a Wireless Personal Area Networks Romano Fantacci (University of Florence, Italy); Daniele Tarchi (University of Florence, Italy); Gregorio Izzo (Univeristy of Florence, Italy)
WA21.2.	Interaction Between Hidden Node Collisions and Congestions in Multihop Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks Hicham Khalife (Universte Pierre et Marie Curie, France); Naceur Malouch (University of Paris 6, France)
WA21.3.	Power Control in UWB Position-Location Networks Swaroop Venkatesh (Virginia Tech, USA); Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA)
WA21.4.	An Effective Broadcast Scheme for Alert Message Propagation in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks Andrea Zanella (University of Padova, Italy); Elena Fasolo (University of Padova, Italy)
WA21.5.	Effect of Chromatic Dispersion on Fiber over Wireless Systems Sghaier Guizani (University of Quebec a Trois Riviers, Canada); Mostapha Razzak (University of Moncton, Canada); Habib Hamam (University of Moncton, Canada); Yassine Bouslimani (University of Moncton, Canada); Ahmed Cheriti (University of Quebec, Canada)
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WA-11: Protocols for MANETs-II

WA11.1.	A Novel Adaptive p-Persistent MAC Scheme for WLAN Providing Low Delay Variance Chung-Ju Chang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Frank Yen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yih-Shen Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); ChingYao Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
WA11.2.	Performance Analysis of a Retransmission Scheme for High-Data-Rate MAC Protocol in Wireless LANs Kejie Lu (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Yi Qian (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, USA)
WA11.3.	An Adaptive Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Wen-Tsuen Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Taiwan); Ting-Kai Huang (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan); Yu-Chu Chang (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan)
WA11.4.	Performance Analysis of Directional CSMA/CA MAC Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Ju-lan Hsu (University of California at Los Angeles, USA); Izhak Rubin (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
WA11.5.	SUMP: A Secure Unicast Messaging Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks Jeff Janies (University of South Carolina, USA); Chin-Tser Huang (University of South Carolina, USA); Nathan Johnson (University of South Carolina, USA)
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