Room: Pavilion Room

Room: Pavilion Room

Room: Pavilion Room Foyer

Session: Scheduling, resource management (I)

Session chair: Thomas Hou

• Invited Paper: Exploiting Wireless Broadcast Using Opprotunistic Packet Splaying
  Authors: Vivek Raghunathan, Min Cao, and P.R. Kumar, Univ. of Illinois, USA

• Invited Paper: A Failure-tolerant Mobile Traversal Scheme based on Triangulation Scheme
  Authros: Asheq Khan, Chunming Qiao and Satish K. Tripathi , Department of Computer
  Science and Engineering State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

• Paper: Multiuser Detection Based MAC Design for Ad Hoc Networks
  Authors: Jinfang Zhang, Zbigniew Dziong, Francois Gagnon and Michel Kadoch, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole de Technologie Superieure
  Montreal, Quebec, Canada;
  

Room : Pavilion Rooms 1-2

Session: Peer-to-peer and overlay networks

Session chair: Pin Han Ho

• Invited Paper: Measurement and Modeling of a Large-scale Overlay for Multimedia Streaming
  Authors: Long H Vu, Indranil Gupta, Jin Liang, and Klara Nahrstedt, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA;

• Paper: A Scheme for Balancing Heterogeneous Request Load in DHT-based P2P Systems
  Authors: Juan Li, Billy Cheung and Son Vuong, University of British Columbia;
  

• Paper: Synthesis of network delays for voice packets in Service Overlay Networks
  Authors: Hong Li and Lorne Mason, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Department McGill University
  

Room: Pavilion Rooms 3-4

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Session: Quality of Service provisioning (I)

Session chair: Byung K. Yi

• Invited Paper: Energy-Efficient Airtime Allocation in Multi-Rate Multi-Power-Level Wireless LANs
  Authors: Daji Qiao, Iowa State University and Kang G. Shin , The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

• Paper: Uplink Scheduling for Supporting Packet Voice Traffic in IEEE 802.16 networks
  Authors: Lizhong Dai and Dongmei Zhao, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering McMaster University, Canada
  

• Paper: Comparison of Multimedia Delivery Scenarios Using Parallel Channels and Multipath Routing
  Authors: Ki-Dong Lee Byung K. Yi, and Victor C.M. Leung, Department of Eelectrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada;
  

Room: Pavilion Rooms 1-2

Session: Scheduling and traffic analysis in heterogeneous environments

Session chair: Chunming Qiao

• Invited Paper: Two-User Opprotunistic Scheduling using Hierachical Modulations in Wirless Networks with Heterogeneous Average Link Gains
  Authors: Md. J. Hossain, Mohamed-Slim Alouini and V. Bhargava, 1University of British Columbia, Canada

• Paper: Delay Sensitive Opportunistic Scheduler for Wireless Packet Networks
  Authors: Yu Wu, Ji-bo Wei, Yong Xi, 1National University of Defense Technology, ChangSha, Hunan, China, and Byung-Seo Kim, Networks and Enterprise, Motorola Inc, Schaumburg, IL;

• Paper: Analysis of Traffic Data from a Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Network
  Authors: Savio Lau and Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University ;
  

Room: Pavilion Rooms 3-4

Room: Pavilion Room Foyer

Session: Quality of Service provisioning (II)

Session chair: Ben Liang

• Paper: FBM model based network-wide performance analysis with service differentiation
  Authors: Yu Cheng, Department of Electrical and
  Computer Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology, Weihua Zhuang; Xinhua Ling, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Waterloo;
  

• Paper: An Adaptive Forward Error Correction Method for Ethernet Based Circuit Emulation Service
  Authors: Jinyou Dai, School of Computer, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Yu Shao-Hua, Wuhan Research Institute of Post and Telecommunications, China;
  

• Paper: Quality-of-Service Provisioning via Stochastic Path Selection under Weibullian Link Delays
  Authors: Suleyman Uludag, Dept. of Computer Science
  University of Michigan - Flint; Ljubomir Perkovic, School of Computer Science
  DePaul University; Anya Kashkanova, Dept. of Computer Science
  University of Michigan - Flint; Kemal Akkaya, Dept. of Computer Science
  Southern Illinois University;

Room: Pavilion Rooms 1-2

Session: Wireless Sensor Networks

Session chair: Kui Wu

• Invited Paper: TC-DSA: Topology Control for Delay Sensitive Applications in Wirless Sensor Networks
  Authors: Farshad Ahdi, Kee Cahing Chua and Vikram Srinivasan, National University of Singapore.

• Paper: On the Robustness of Range-Free Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Authors: Kui Wu, Dandan Huang, Jianping Pan, Computer Science Department
  University of Victoria and Chong Liu, Research In Motion, Waterloo, Canada

• Paper: AFSA: An Efficient Framework for Fast RFID Tag Reading in Dense Environments
  Authors: Malla Reddy Devarapalli, Venkatesh Saranagan and Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Oklahoma State University Department of Computer Science, USA

Room: Pavilion Rooms 3-4

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Session: Energy-aware protocols and algorithms in wireless networks

Session chair: Min Song

• Paper: Spectrum Allocation and Scheduling in Dynamic Spectrum Access Wireless Networks
  Authors: Jian Tang, Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science and Engineering Montana State University, Satyajayant Misra, and Guoliang Xue, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University.
  

• Paper: Performance Evaluation of a Power Management Scheme for Disruption Tolerant Networks
  Authors: Yong Xi, Mooi Choo Chuah, CSE Department Lehigh University Kirk Chang, Telcordia Technologies, USA

• Paper: The Cost of Secure and Reliable Sensing in 802.15.4 Networks
  Authors: Jelena Misic; Vojislav B Misic, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba;
  

  Room: Pavilion Rooms 1-2

Session: Design, implementation or architectures related to QoS-enabled networks and distributed systems

Session chair: Vincent Wong

• Paper: Multi-hop Clustering based on Neighborhood Benchmark in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
  Authors: Stephen S. Yau and Wei Gao, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Arizona State University,;

• Paper: Performance Analaysis of 802.11b Network in the Presence of Interfrence Aware Bluetooth Devices.
  Authors: Deepthi Gopalpet, and Min Song , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, USA
  

• Paper: LCSCW2: An Architecture for IP Multimedia Systems
  Authors: Arslan Munir and Vincent Wong, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;
  

Room: Pavilion Rooms 3-4

Room:Pavilion Room Foyer

Session: Quality of Service provisioning (IV)

Session chair: Katrin Hoper

• Paper: Effective Bandwidth Utilization in IEEE 802.11e
  Authors: Danny HK Tsang; Qinglin Zhao, Department of ECE, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;
  

• Paper: Reseach of Self-location Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Authors: Zhao Dali, Men Yunhui, Zhao Linliang, College of Information Science and Engeering, Northeastern University, China ;
  

• Paper: An Analytical Evaluation of a Tradeoff Between Power Efficiency and Scheduling Updating Responsivness in aTDMA Paradigm
  Authors: Valeria Loscri', University of Calabria, Italy;
  

  Room: Pavilion Rooms 1-2

Session: QoS in WLAN, WPAN, WMAN and WiMAX (IEEE 802.11/15/16/20)

Session chair:

• Paper: Adaptive Contention Resolution Parameters for the IEEE 802.16 Networks
  Authors: Alexander Sayenko, Nokia Reseach Center, Finland, O. Alanen and T. H¨am¨al¨ainen Telecommunication laboratory, MIT department,University of Jyv¨askyl¨a, Finland;
  

• Paper: SAM-MAC: An Efficient Channel Assignment Scheme of the Multi-channel MAC in Ad Hoc Networks
  Authors: Hongqiang Zhai; Chi Zhang; Rongsheng Huang and Yugang Fang, University of Florida, USA;
  

• Paper: On the effects of channel error compensation on the WF2Q+ scheduling performance in IEEE 802.16/WiMAX networks
  Authors: Sara Pizzi, Antonella Molinaro, and Antonio Iera, University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy.
  

Room: Pavilion Rooms 3-4

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Session: Security protocols and algorithms in wired, overlay and wireless networks (II)

Session chair: Vojislav Misic

• Paper: A Versatile Roaming Service Framework with Billing Support for WLAN/Cellular Integrated Networks
  Authors: Minghui Shi, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen , Jon W. Mark , Department of ECE, University of Waterloo, and Dongmei Zhao, Department of ECE McMaster University, Canada;
  

• Paper: VICSDA: Using Virtual Communities to Secure Service Discovery and Access
  Authors: Shudong Chen, Johan Lukkien and Igor Radovanovic, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Department Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands;
  

• Paper: Group Key Management in Wireless Mesh Networks
  Authors: Celia Li and Uyen Trang Nguyen, York University, Canada;

Room: Pavilion Rooms 1-2

Session: Pricing, billing, and resource allocation in wired, overlay and wireless networks

Session chair: Wenjing Lou

• Paper: Throughput Analysis on Geographic Collaborative Forwarding in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  Authors: Kai Zeng and Wenjing Lou, Department of ECE Worcester Polytechnic Institute;

• Paper: Bid-Based Cost Sharing Among Multicast Receivers
  Authors: Patrik österberg; Tingting Zhang, Patrik Österberg , Mid Sweden University Department of Information Technology and Media;
  

• Paper: Congestion-only Charging: A Novel Pricing Mechanism for Use in Differentiated Services Networks
  Authors: Brian M Carrig, David Denieffe, School of Engineering
  Institute of Technology, Carlow ,Ireland and John Murphy, School of Computer Science
  and Informatics University College Dublin, Ireland;
  
  

Room: Pavilion Rooms 3-4

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Session: Security protocols and algorithms in wired, overlay and wireless networks (III)

Session chair: Jelena Misic

• Paper: A Keyless Facility Access Control System with Wireless Enabled Personal Devices
  Authors: Chenxi Zhang, X. Sun and Pin Han Ho, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Waterloo, Canada;
  

• Paper: Secured fast link-layer handover protocols for 3G-WLAN Interworking architecture
  Authors: Ali A Al Shidhani and Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering;

• Paper: Where EAP Security Claims Fail
  Authors: Katrin Hoeper, Department of Electrical and Computer
  Engineering University of Waterloo and Lidong Chen, Computer Security Division
  National Institute of Standards and Technology;
  

Room: Pavilion Rooms 1-2

Session: Scheduling, resource management, and admission control (II)

Session chair: Danny Tsang

Paper: W-CBS: A scheduling Algorithm for Supporting QoS in IEEE 802.11e
Authors: Gabrielle Cecchetti, A. L. Ruscelli and F. Checconi , ReTiS Lab. Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa, Italy