Tentative Technical Program

 

Program at a glance


You may click on the individual sessions to see its list of papers, click on the specific date, or scroll down for the detailed program.

October 17th

 6:00pm -  8:00pm

Registration Desk Opens

October 18th

 8:30am -  8:45am

Welcome Remarks

 8:45am -  9:30am

Keynote Address: Dr. Sanjoy Paul
"Providing End-to-End QoS for Multimedia Applications in Converged Wired/Wireless Networks"

 9:30am - 10:00am

Coffee Break

10:00am - 12:00pm

Session 1: Admission Control and Resource Allocation

10:00am - 12:00pm

Session 2: Ad-hoc and sensor networks

12:00pm -  1:00pm Lunch

 1:00pm -  1:30pm

Posters Display
Come and see posters showing the best in recent research of state-of-the-art QoS wired/wireless networking projects.

 1:30pm -  3:30pm

Session 3: QoS and Multimedia Support

 1:30pm -  3:30pm

Session 4: QoS Routing

 3:30pm -  4:00pm

Coffee Break and Posters Display
Come and see posters showing the best in recent research of state-of-the-art QoS wired/wireless networking projects.

 4:00pm -  5:00pm

Panel: Can WiFi hotspots do without QoS?

 6:30pm

Banquet

October 19th

 8:15am 

Registration Opens

 8:30am -  9:30am

Keynote Address: Prof. Sajal K. Das
"Dynamic Resource Management in Competitive Wireless Data Networks: A Game Theoretic Framework"

 9:30am - 10:00am

Coffee Break

10:00am - 12:00pm

Session 5: Wired-Wireless Networks and Hybrid Networks

10:00am - 12:00pm

Session 6: Voice and Multi-Media Protocols

12:00pm -  1:30pm Lunch

 1:30pm -  3:30pm

Session 7: Reliability and Resource Management

 1:30pm -  3:30pm

Session 8: Advanced routing techniques

 3:30pm -  4:00pm

Coffee Break

 4:00pm -  5:00pm

Panel: QoS in the Internet: How strong is the need?

October 20th

8:15am

Registration Opens

 8:30am - 10:00am

Session 9: Miscellaneous

 8:30am - 10:00am

Session 10: Short Papers

10:00am - 10:30am

Coffee Break

10:30am - 11:30am

Panel: QoS for sensor networks: Is it an overkill?

11:30am

Closing Remarks



Detailed Program



October 17th


6:00pm - 8:00pm Welcome Reception, Registration Opens


October 18th


8:15am - Registration Opens


8:30am - 8:45am Welcome Remarks


8:45am - 9:30am Keynote Address: Dr. Sanjoy Paul
"Providing End-to-End QoS for Multimedia Applications in Converged Wired/Wireless Networks"


9:30am-10:00am Coffee Break


10:00am - 12:00pm Session 1: Admission Control and Resource Allocation
Session Chair: Jordi Pérez Romero (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain)

Session Based Access Control in Content Delivery Networks in Presence of Congestion

Novella Bartolini (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy),
Emiliano Casalicchio (University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy),
Imrich Chlamtac (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

 Uplink QoS-Aware Admission Control in WCDMA Networks with Class-Based Power Sharing

Hossam Hassanein (Queens University, Canada),
Alex Oliver (Queen's University, Canada),
Nidal Nasser (Queen's University, Canada),
Ehab Elmallah (University of Alberta, Canada)

PAC: Perceptive Admission Control for Mobile Wireless Networks

Ian Chakeres ( University of California , Santa Barbara , USA ),
Elizabeth Belding-Royer ( University of California Santa Barbara , USA )

QoS-Driven Asynchronous Uplink Subchannel Allocation Algorithms for Space-Time OFDM-CDMA Systems in Wireless Networks

Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA),
Jia Tang (Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical Engineering, USA)


10:00am - 12:00pm Session 2: Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
Session Chair: Hussein T. Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Contracted QoS policies for Distributed Space Division Multiple Access for ''ad-hoc'' Networks

Enzo Baccarelli (University of Rome ''''La Sapienza'''', Italy),
Mauro Biagi (University of Rome ''La Sapienza'', Italy),
Cristian Pelizzoni (University of Rome ''La Sapienza'', Italy),
Giuseppe Razzano (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)

BLMST: A Decentralized, Power-Efficient Broadcast Algorithm for Wireless Networks

Ning Li (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
Jennifer Hou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Design and Implementation of Two-tier Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Seamless Roaming and Load-balancing Routing Capacity

Yuan-Ying Hsu (National Chiao-Tung University, Republic of China),
Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao-Tung University, Republic of China),
Chien-Chao Tseng (National Chiao Tung University, Republic of China),
Chi-Fu Huang (National Chiao-Tung University, Republic of China),
Jung-Hsuan Fan (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan),
Hsiao-Lu Wu (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)

Scalable and Robust Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wei Liu (University of Florida, USA),
Yanchao Zhang (University of Florida, USA),
Wenjing Lou (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA),
Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, USA)

12pm-1:00pm: Lunch

1:00pm-1:30pm: Posters Display
Come and see posters showing the best in recent research of state-of-the-art QoS wired/wireless networking projects.


1:30pm - 3:30pm Session 3: QoS and Multimedia Support
Session Chair: Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA)

Cross-Layer Modeling of Adaptive Wireless Links for QoS Support in Multimedia Networks

Qingwen Liu ( University of Minnesota , USA ),
Shengli Zhou ( University of Connecticut , USA ),
Georgios B. Giannakis ( University of Minnesota , USA )

A Call Admission and Rate Control Scheme for Multimedia Support over IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs

Hongqiang Zhai (University of Florida, USA),
Xiang Chen (University of Florida, USA),
Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, USA)

Adaptive Delay and Synchronization Control for Wi-Fi Based AV Conferencing

Haining Liu ( University of California , Irvine , USA ),
Magda El Zarki (UC, Irvine , USA )

Modeling an Adaptive-Rate Video-Streaming Service Using Markov-Rewards Models

Isabel Martin (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain),
Juan Alins (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain),
Monica Aguilar-Igartua (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain),
Jorge Mata (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)

1:30pm - 3:30pm Session 4: QoS Routing
Session Chair: Wei Li (University of Toledo, USA)

Dynamic Widest Path Selection for Connection Admission Control in Core-Stateless Networks

Avadora Dumitrescu (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

QoS Provision and Routing with Stochastic Guarantees

Erez Biton (Technion , Israel),
Ariel Orda (Technion , Israel)

The Primal Simplex Approach to the QoS Routing Problem

Ying Xiao (University of Oklahoma, USA),
Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman (Professor and Hitachi Chair, University of Oklahoma, USA),
Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA)

Approximation and Heuristic Algorithms for Delay Constrained Path Selection under Inaccurate State Information

Ying Xiao (University of Oklahoma, USA),
Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman (Professor and Hitachi Chair, University of Oklahoma, USA),
Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA)


3:30-4:00pm   Coffee Break and Posters Display
Come and see posters showing the best in recent research of state-of-the-art QoS wired/wireless networking projects.


4:00pm - 5:00pm Panel: Can WiFi hotspots do without QoS?


6:30pm Banquet

 

 

October 19


8:15am - Registration Opens


8:30am - 9:30am Keynote Address: Prof. Sajal K. Das
 "Dynamic Resource Management in Competitive Wireless Data Networks: A Game Theoretic Framework"


9:30am - 10:00am  Coffee Break


10:00am - 12:00pm Session 5: Wired-Wireless Networks and Hybrid Networks
Session Chair: Sudhir Aggarwal (Florida State University, USA)

End-to-end Framework for QoS Guarantee in Heterogeneous Wired-cum-wireless
Networks

Ming Li (University of Texas at Dallas, USA),
Hua Zhu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA),
Sathish Sathyamurthy (University of Texas at Dallas, USA),
Imrich Chlamtac (University of Texas at Dallas, USA),
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Using Hybrid Selection Schemes to Support QoS When Providing Multihop Wireless Internet Access to Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Habib Ammari (Southern Methodist University, USA)
Hesham El-Rewini (Southern Methodist University, USA)
QoS Aware Wireless Bandwidth Aggregation (QAWBA) by Integrating Cellular and Ad-hoc Networks

Danyu Zhu (Michigan State University, USA),
Matt Mutka (Michigan State University, USA),
Zhiwei Cen (Michigan State University, USA)

Handoff Trigger Nodes for Hybrid IEEE 802.11 WLAN/Cellular Networks

Pejman Khadivi ( McMaster University , Canada ),
Terence D. Todd ( McMaster University , Canada ),
Dongmei Zhao ( McMaster University , Canada )


10:00am - 12:00pm Session 6: Voice and Multi-Media Protocols
Session Chair: Jun-Hong Cui (University of Connecticut, USA)

Middleware-level QoS Differentiation in the Wireless Internet: the ubiQoS solution for Audio Streaming over Bluetooth

Paolo Bellavista (Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy),
Cesare Stefanelli (University of Ferrara, Italy),
Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy)

A Channel Allocation Model with Preemptive Priority for Integrated Voice/Data
Mobile Networks

Shensheng Tang (University of Toledo, USA),
Wei Li (University of Toledo, USA)

On the Deployment of Multimedia Services in Wireless Networks: Radio Dimensioning Aspects for UTRAN FDD

David Soldani (Nokia, Finland),
Renaud Cuny (Nokia, Finland)

Adaptive Rate Control for VoIP over Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks

Abdelbasset Trad (INRIA French National Institue for Research in Computer
Science and Control , France )


12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch


1:30pm - 3:30pm Session 7: Reliability and Resource Management
Session Chair: Shigang Chen (University of Florida)

On Robust Allocation Policies in Wireless Heterogeneous Networks

Abd-Elhamid Taha (Queen's University , Canada ),
Hossam Hassanein ( Queens University , Canada ),
Hussein Mouftah ( School of Information Technology and Engineering , Canada )

Real-Time Comparison of Quality of Interfaces (QoI) by Mobile Devices over Heterogeneous Radio Networks

Erik Van den Berg (Telcordia, USA),
Sunil Madhani (Telcordia Technologies, USA),
Tao Zhang (Telcordia Technologies, USA)

A Fuzzy-Neural based approach for Joint Radio Resource Management in a Beyond 3G Framework

Ramon Agusti (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain),
Oriol Sallent (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain),
Jordi Perez-Romero (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain),
Lorenza Giupponi (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Restorability Enhancement and Service-Oriented Protection in Radio Access Networks

Zoe Antoniou (Nokia, USA),
Wee-Seng Soh (The University of Michigan, USA)


1:30pm - 3:30pm Session 8: Advanced routing techniques
Session Chair: Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman (University of Oklahoma, USA)

A Game Theoretic Framework for Bandwidth Reservation in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Bin Lu (Texas A&M University, USA)
Udo W. Pooch (Texas A&M University, USA)

Efficient Policy-based Routing without Virtual Circuits

J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
Brad Smith (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)

Adaptive Energy-Aware Routing Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Hussein Mouftah ( School of Information Technology and Engineering , Canada ),
Baoxian Zhang ( University of Ottawa , Canada )

QRP_RSTF: A QoS Routing Protocol based on Route Security Transmission Factor in Ad hoc Mobile Network

Gegang Peng ( Fudan University , P.R. China)


3:30pm- 4:00 Coffee Break


4:00pm - 5:00pm Panel: QoS in the Internet: How strong is the need?

 

October 20


8:15am - Registration Opens


8:30am - 10:00am  Session 9: Miscellaneous
Session Chair: Armin Mikler (University of North Texas)

Constrained Diameter Steiner Trees for Multicast Conferences in Overlay Networks

Sudhir Aggarwal (Florida State University, USA),
Madhura Limaye (Sun Microsystems, USA),
Arun Netravali (Lucent Technologies, USA),
Krishan Sabnani (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA)

Generic Signaling Service Protocol: State-management and Transport mechanisms

Tra Luu (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecom Paris, France),
Nadia Boukhatem (ENST, France)

Performance of Bluetooth piconets with finite buffers

Jelena Misic ( University of Manitoba , Canada ),
Vojislav Misic ( University of Manitoba , Canada )


8:30am - 10:00am Session 10: Short Papers
Session Chair: Erez Biton (Technion , Israel)

Dynamic Radio Channel Management in Cellular Mobile Communication Systems

Nusrat Yilmaz (Middle East Technical University Turkey, Turkey)

On-line Techniques for Service Quality Management

Manoel Penna (Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil)

Combining Wired and Wireless Networks for a QoS-Aware Broadband Infrastructure

Jens Pedersen ( Aalborg University , Denmark ),
Tahir Riaz ( Aalborg University , Denmark ),
Thomas Knudsen ( Aalborg University , Denmark ),
Ole Madsen ( Aalborg University , Denmark )

A Policy-Based Management Solution Towards QoS-Aware Video Streaming Services in Heterogeneous Environments

Javier Rubio Loyola (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain),
Joan Serrat (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain),
Jorge Mata (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain),
Isabel Martin (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain),
Fidel Casals (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Undesirable service differentiation in future WLANs

Srikant Kuppa (University of Texas at Dallas, USA),
Shashidhar Gandham (University of Texas at Dallas, USA),
Ravi Prakash (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

A QoS-Based Framework for Distributed Content Adaptation

Khalil El-Khatib (Univ. of Ottawa,, Canada )


10:00am - 10:30am Coffee Break


10:30am - 11:30am Panel: QoS for sensor networks: Is it an overkill?


11:30am Closing remarks