Qshine 2007, August 14 - 17, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia

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Session: Scheduling, resource management (I)

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• Invited Paper: Exploiting Wireless Broadcast Using Opprotunistic Packet Splaying
  Authors: Vivek Raghunatan, P.R. Kumar , and Min Cao

• Paper: Spectrum Allocation and Scheduling in Dynamic Spectrum Access Wireless Networks
  Authors: Guoliang Xue; Jian Tang;
  

• Paper: Multiuser Detection Based MAC Design for Ad Hoc Networks
  Authors: Jinfang Zhang, Zbigniew Dziong, Francois Gagnon and Michel Kadoch;
  

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Session: Peer-to-peer and overlay networks

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• Invited Paper: Measurement and Modeling of a Large-scale Overlay for Multimedia Streaming
  Authors: Long H Vu, Indranil Gupta, Jin Liang, and Klara Nahrstedt;

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

• Paper: Synthesis of network delays for voice packets in Service Overlay Networks
  Authors: Hong Li and Lorne Mason
  

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Session: Quality of Service provisioning (I)

Session chair: Dongmei Zhao

• Invited Paper: Energy-Efficient Airtime Allocation in Multi-Rate Multi-Power-Level Wireless LANs
  Authors: Daji Qiao and Kang G. Shin

• Paper: Uplink Scheduling for Supporting Packet Voice Traffic in IEEE 802.16 networks
  Authors: Lizhong Dai and Dongmei Zhao;
  

• Paper: Comparison of Multimedia Delivery Scenarios Using Parallel Channels and Multipath Routing
  Authors: Kee-Dong Lee Byung K. Yi, and Victor C.M. Leung,;
  

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Session: Scheduling and traffic analysis in heterogeneous environments

Session chair: Ljiljana Trajkovic

• 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

• Paper: Delay Sensitive Opportunistic Scheduler for Wireless Packet Networks
  Authors: Yu Wu, Ji-bo Wei, Yong Xi and Byung-Seo Kim;

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

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Session: Quality of Service provisioning (II)

Session chair: Thomas Hou

• Paper: FBM model based network-wide performance analysis with service differentiation
  Authors: Weihua Zhuang; Xinhua ling; Yu Cheng;
  

• Paper: An Adaptive Forward Error Correction Method for Ethernet Based Circuit Emulation Service
  Authors: Jinyou Dai and Yu Shao-Hua;
  

• Paper: Quality-of-Service Provisioning via Stochastic Path Selection under Weibullian Link Delays
  Authors: Suleyman Uludag; Ljuomir Perkovic; Anya Kashkanova; Kemal Akkaya;

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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

• Paper: On the Robustness of Range-Free Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Authors: Kui Wu, Dandan Huang, Jianping Pan and Chong Liu

• Paper: AFSA: An Efficient Framework for Fast RFID Tag Reading in Dense Environments
  Authors: Malla Reddy Devarapalli, Venkatesh Saranagan and Sridhar Radhakrishnan

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Session: Energy-aware protocols and algorithms in wireless networks

Session chair: Vojislav Misic

• Invited Paper: A Failure-tolerant Mobile Traversal Scheme based on Triangulation Scheme
  Authros: Ashed Khan, Chunming Qiao and Satish K. Tripathi

• Paper: Performance Evaluation of a Power Management Scheme for Disruption Tolerant Networks
  Authors: Mooi Choo Chuah; Yong Xi; Kirk Chang;

• Paper: The Cost of Secure and Reliable Sensing in 802.15.4 Networks
  Authors: Jelena Misic; Vojislav B Misic;
  

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

Session chair: Vincent Wong

• Paper: Supporting IP Multicast Streaming using Overlay Networks
  Authors: Torsten Braun; Dragan Milic; Marc Brogle;
  

• Paper: Multi-hop Clustering based on Neighborhood Benchmark in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
  Authors: Wei Gao; Stephen S. Yau;
  

• Paper: LCSCW2: An Architecture for IP Multimedia Systems
  Authors: Vincent Wong, Arslan Munir;
  

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Session: Quality of Service provisioning (IV)

Session chair: Ki- Dong Lee

• Paper: Effective Bandwidth Utilization in IEEE 802.11e
  Authors: Danny HK Tsang; Qinglin Zhao;
  

• Paper: Reseach of Self-location Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Authors: Zhao Dali, Men Yunhui, Zhao Linliang;
  

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

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

Session chair: Sara Pizzi

• Paper: Adaptive Contention Resolution Parameters for the IEEE 802.16 Networks
  Authors: Alexander Sayenko;
  

• 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;
  

• 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
  

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

Session chair: Uyen Trang Nguyen

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

• Paper: VICSDA: Using Virtual Communities to Secure Service Discovery and Access
  Authors: Shudong Chen, Johan Lukkien and Igor Radovanovic;
  

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

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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;

• Paper: Bid-Based Cost Sharing Among Multicast Receivers
  Authors: Patrik österberg; Tingting Zhang;
  

• Paper: Congestion-only Charging: A Novel Pricing Mechanism for Use in Differentiated Services Networks
  Authors: Brian M Carrig, David Denieffe and John Murphy;
  
  

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

Session chair: Pin-Han Ho

• Paper: A Keyless Facility Access Control System with Wireless Enabled Personal Devices
  Authors: Chenxi Zhang, X. Sun and Pin Han Ho;
  

• Paper: Secured fast link-layer handover protocols for 3G-WLAN Interworking architecture
  Authors: Ali A Al Shidhani and Victor C. M. Leung;

• Paper: Where EAP Security Claims Fail
  Authors: Katrin Hoeper; Lidong Chen;
  

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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