Technical Program

S1: Optical Networks, Monday 2pm-3:40pm, Palmer's Room

Session Chair: Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa

Particle Swarm Optimization for Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Optical Networks, Thambrahalli Rao (SUNY College, Brockport, US), Vishal Anand (State University of New York at Brockport, US)

On the Future of Optical Ring Networks, Martin Maier (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Canada)

Load Balancing in All-Optical Overlaid-Star TDM Networks, Jun Zheng (University of Ottawa, Canada), Cheng Peng (University of Ottawa, Canada), Gregor Bochmann (University of Ottawa, Canada), Trevor Hall (University of Ottawa, Canada)

A Heuristic Algorithm Based on Tabu Search for Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Multicast Multi-Wavelength Multi-Fiber Networks, Kanokporn Weesapen (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), Anuchit Munjirungkoon (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), Chutima Prommak (Suranaree University of Technology), Lunchakorn Wuttisittikulkij (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

Analysis of Nonlinear Phenomena for Optical Soliton Transmission in DWDM Systems, Sung Bang (Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, US), David G. Daut (Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, US)

S2: Microwave Systems, Monday, 2pm-3:40pm, Ship's Room

Session Chair: Farhad Meshkati, Princeton University

A Cavity Based High-Power Solid State Microwave Amplifier, Bernard Cheo (Aria Microwave Systems, Inc., US), Douglas Davids (Aria Microwave Systems, Inc., US), Li-hsiang Cheo (William Paterson Univerversity of NJ, US), Meng Ke (Agere Systems Inc., US)

A simple approach to analyze asymmetrical gaps of various configurations in microstrip line, Hirad Ghaemi (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran)

Applying a Novel Method to the Analysis of Asymmetrical Transverse Slit in Microstrip Line, Hirad Ghaemi (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran)

A New Compact Broad Band Branch-Line Coupler, Zahra Atlasbaf (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran), Keyvan Forooraghi (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran)

Analysis of a Novel Band-Stop Resonator by 3-D CFDTD Method, Reza Dehbashi (University of Tarbiat Modares (TMU), Iran)

S3: WDM Systems, Monday, 4:15pm-6pm, Palmer's Room

Session Chair: Ivan Glesk, Princeton University

Performance Evaluation of WDM Fiber Optic Frequency Distribution Systems, Pushkar Chennu (The University of Texas at San Antonio, US), Jennifer Bratton (The University of Texas at San Antonio, US), Mehdi Shadaram (The University of Texas at San Antonio, US)

Multi-constrained Routing in WDM Optical Networks with Shared Risk Link Groups, Bin Wang (Wright State Univ, US)

Approximating Optimal Survivable Routing in WDM Optical Networks under a Scheduled Traffic Model, Bin Wang (Wright State Univ, US), Tianjian Li (Wright State University, US)

A WDM Banyan Switching Network for Multicast Optical Cross-Connects, Haitham Hamza (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US), Jitender Deogun (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US)

Comparison of Modulation Formats for 40-Gbit/s DWDM Optical Fiber Transmission Systems with 50-GHz Channel Spacing, Changyuan Yu (NEC Labs. America, US), Lei Xu (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., US), Philip Ji (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., US), Ting Wang (NEC Laboratories America, US), Shuji Murakami (NEC America, US), Yutaka Yano (NEC Core Networks Division, Japan)

S4: Antennas, Monday, 4:15pm-6pm, Ship's Room

Session Chair: Karen Patten, NJIT

An Antenna Array for Ultra-Short Pulse and Ultra-Wideband Communication Systems, Nan Ni (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Haim Grebel (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)

Analysis of Dielectric Lens-Adaptive Array Antennas for Shaped Beam Applications, Ravishankar Sankaranarayanan (RV College of Engineering, India), Prakash Biswagar (RV College of Engineering, India)

A Harmonic-Rejecting Inset-Fed U-Slot Antenna for Rectenna Application, Reza Dehbashi (University of Tarbiat Modares (TMU), Iran)

Sidelobe Level Reduction of BTS Array Antennas Using Genetic Based Element Positioning, Siamak Ebadi (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran), Nasrin Amiri (Modares University, Iran), Keyvan Forooraghi (Tarbiat Modarres University, Iran)

Mitigating Deafness in Multiple Beamforming Antennas, Vivek Jain (University of Cincinnati, US), Dharma Agrawal (University of Cincinnati, US)

S5: Semiconductor Devices, Monday, 4:15pm-6pm, Princeton

Session Chair: Robert Atkins, IBM

An Efficient and Accurate Approach for Characterizing Non-Linear Capacitance in MESFET/HEMT Devices ,Stanley Henriquez (Morgan State University, US), Caroline Karangu (Morgan State University, US), Aderinto Ogunniyi (Morgan State University, US), Carl White (Morgan State University, US)

Latent Electro-Static Damage in Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Semiconductor Laser Arrays, Robert Atkins (IBM Corporation, US), Casimer DeCusatis (IBM Corporation, US)

Design of High-Speed Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photodetectors by Optimal Finger Sizing, Kan-Lin Hsiung (Stanford University, US)

Thermal and Substrate Modeling of Silicon MOSFETs for RF and Wireless Applications, Robert Caverly and James A. Reifsnyder III (Villanova University, US)

Design of a 4.2-5.4 GHz Differential LC VCO using 0.35 µm SiGe BiCMOS Technology, Onur Esame, Ibrahim Tekin, Yasar Gurbuz and Ayhan Bozkurt (Sabanci University, Turkey)

S6: AdHoc & Sensor Networks, Tuesday, 8am-9:30am, Senior Room

Session Chair: Sarvesh Kulkarni, Villanova University

An Availability-Based Energy-Efficient Routing for Mobile Ad hoc Networks, Aniket Malvankar, Ming Yu, and Ting Zhu (State University of New York, Binghamton, US)

An Overlay Framework for QoS Management in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Paul Jeon (Pennsylvania State University, US), Rajesh Rao (Pennsylvania State University, US), George Kesidis (Pennsylvania State University, US)

Peer-to-peer Sensor Network System with Pipelined Time Division Scheduling, Chellury Sastry (Siemens Corporate Research, US), Chi Ma (State University of New York at Stony Brook, US)

Potential for Intra-Vehicle Wireless Automotive Sensor Networks, Tamer ElBatt (HRL Laboratories, LLC, US), Cem Saraydar (General Motors R&D, US), Michael Ames (General Motors, US), Tim Talty (General Motors, US)

Policy-based adaptive routing in mobile ad hoc wireless networks, Suli Zhao (Rutgers University, US), Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers Univ., US)

S7: OFDM, Tuesday, 8am-9:30am, Palmer's Room

Session Chair: Nikos Annitsakis, Argon ST

MMSE Noise Power and SNR Estimation for OFDM Systems, Tevfik Yucek (University of South Florida, US), Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, US)

Self-Protection of Turbo- and LDPC-Coded OFDM Systems against Non-Stationary Disturbances, Julien Pons (ENSEA-ETIS, France), Amitkumar Mahadevan (Conexant, US), Patrick DUVAUT (Conexant, US)

Adjacent Frequency Coding Technique for Decreasing MultiBand-OFDM Ultrawideband Interference to Other Radio Services, Marilynn Green (Nokia Research Center, US)

An Analog/Mixed-Signal FFT Processor For Wideband OFDM Systems, Mark Lehne (Virginia Tech, US), Sanjay Raman (Virginia Tech, US)

Cognitive UWB-OFDM: Pushing UWB Beyond Its Limit Via Opportunistic Spectrum Usage, Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, US), Mustafa Sahin (University of South Florida, US)

S8: Network Security, Tuesday, 8am-9:30am, Nassau A&B

Session Chair: Ahmet Eskicioglu, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

OSPF-Based Adaptive and Flexible Security-Enhanced QoS Provisioning, Zhen Qin (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Roberto Rojas-Cessa (NJIT, US), Nirwan Ansari (NJIT, US)

IP Spoofing Detection Approach(ISDA) for Network Intrusion Detection System, Sui Song (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), C.N Manikopoulos (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)

A Study of Traffic Survivability Under Malicious Attacks, Yen-Hung Hu (Hampton University, US), Mira Yun (The George Washington University, US), Debra Tang (US Army, US), Hyeong-Ah Choi (The George Washington University, US)

Information Assurance in the Security-enhanced Quality of Service (SQoS) Network, Pitipatana Sakarindr (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Nirwan Ansari (NJIT, US), Roberto Rojas-Cessa (NJIT, US)

A Dynamic Secure QoS Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Ting Zhu (Dept of ECE, SUNY Binghamton, US), Ming Yu (State University of New York, Binghamton, NY)

S9: Multimedia Communications, Tuesday, 8am-9:30am, Princeton

Session Chair: Ofer Hadar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

An Error Concealment Scheme for Entire Frame Losses for H.264/AVC, Saurav Bandyopadhyay (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, US), Zhenyu Wu (Thomson Inc, US), Purvin Pandit (Thomson Inc., US), Jill Boyce (Thomson Inc., US)

Real-time Scheduling for Scalable Video Coding streaming system, Kui Gao (THOMSON Broadband R&D (Beijing) Co., Ltd., China), Jiefu Zhai (Thomson Broadband R&D(Beijing) Co., Ltd., China), Jiansong Li (Thomson, China), Charles Wang (Thomson Inc., US)

A Semi-Blind Watermarking Scheme for Images Using a Tree Structure, Ahmet Eskicioglu (CUNY Brooklyn College, US), Ersin Elbasi (City University of New York, US)

Transporting JPEG Images over MIMO Links in Ad-Hoc Networks: an Investigation, Derek Morris (CECOM (CERDEC), US), Ohju Kwon (Agency for defense development, Korea)

An End-To-End IPTV Broadcast Service Network Architecture, Bashar Bou-Diab (Alcatel, Canada), Bijan Raahemi (University of Ottawa, Canada)

S10: Signal Processing Techniques, Tuesday, 8am-9:30am, University&Colonial

Session Chair: Hong Zhao, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Comparison of Two Searchback Schemes for Non-Coherent TOA Estimation in IR-UWB Systems, Ismail Guvenc (University of South Florida, US), Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, US)

BAAD: Bidirectional Arbitrated Adaptive DFE, Gang Wang (IHP GmbH, Germany)

Mixed-Signal Tone Detection for Modem, Jack Kenney, Ahmed Shalash (Analog Devices, US)

A qHLRT Modulation Classifier in Fading Channels with Antenna Arrays, Hong Li (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Yeheskel Bar-Ness (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Ali Abdi (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Wei Su (U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC, US)

S11: Ultra-Wide-Band, Tuesday, 11am-12:40pm, Palmer's Room

Session Chair: Cem Saraydar, General Motors R&D

Technological Scaling and Impact on UWB Configurable RF Signal Source, Ulrich Rohde (Synergy Microwave Corp., US), Ajay Poddar (Synergy Microwave Corporation, US)

A Scheme of Private key Agreement Based on Delay Profiles in the UWB System, Akito Kitaura (Graduate of school, Doshisha University, Japan), Takenori SUMI (Graduate of school, Doshisha University, Japan), Kei TACHIBANA (J-POWER, Japan), Hisato IWAI (Doshisha University, Japan), Hideichi SASAOKA (Doshisha University, Japan)

UWB Configurable YRO, Ulrich Rohde (Synergy Microwave Corp., US), Ajay Poddar (Synergy Microwave Corporation, US)

Performance Measurements of IEEE 802.11a Wireless LANs in presence of Ultra Wideband Interference, Jai C. Dialani (University of Lousiana at Lafayette, US), Anita Patel (University of Lousiana at Lafayette, US), R. Jindal (University of Lousiana at Lafayette, US)

On the Statistics of Channel Models for UWB Ranging, Hasari Celebi (University of South Florida, US), Ismail Guvenc (University of South Florida, US), Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, US)

S12: Congestion and Error Control, Tuesday, 11am-12:40pm, Ship's Room

Session Chair: Tamer Nadeem, University of Maryland

DIDD backoff scheme: An enhancement to IEEE 802.11 DCF under burst transmission errors, Periklis Chatzimisios (TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Block Selective Repeat: A New ARQ Scheme for High Speed IrDA Links, Mohammad Shah Alam (Waseda University, Japan), Mst. Shamim Ara Shawkat (Waseda University, Japan), Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, Japan)

Performance analysis of collaborative H-ARQ over fading channels, Igor Stanojev (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Osvaldo Simeone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Yeheskel Bar-Ness (NJIT, US)

Integrating Fractional Congestion Control into SF-SCTP Design, Jianping Zou (CCNY, City University of New York, US), M. Umit Uyar (CCNY, City University of New York, US), Mariusz A. Fecko (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., US), Sunil Samtani (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., US)

A Performance Comparison of IrBurst and IrOBEX Protocol for High-speed Exchange of Large Data Contents, Shamim Ara Shawkat (Waseda University, Japan), Mohammad Shah Alam (Waseda University, Japan), and Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, Japan)

S13: Signal Processing in Communications, Tuesday, 11am-12:40pm, University&Colonial

Session Chair: Hongya Ge, NJIT

Analysis of Phase noise of RF signals in Analog Fiber Optic Systems, Virgilio Gonzalez (University of Texas at El Paso, US), Mehdi Shadaram (The University of Texas at San Antonio, US), Cecil Thomas (University of Texas at El Paso, US), Ahmed Musa (University of Texas at El Paso, US)

A 10-20GHz Wide Locking Range Multi-Phase Generator PLL for 80Gb/s Serial Data Communication, Young Yim (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US), Peter Curran (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US), John McDonald (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US)

A Real-Time SNR Estimator for D-MPSK over Frequency-Flat Slow Fading AWGN Channels, Yair Linn (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Angle of Arrival Estimation for Non-Circular Signals, Nizar Tayem (West Virginia University Institute of Technolgy, US), Amjad Salameh (Florida atlantic university, US)

GPS assisted fast-handoff mechanism for real-time communication, Ashutosh Dutta (Telcordia Technologies, US), Sunil Madhani (Telcordia, US), Wai Chen (Telcordia Technologies, US), Onur Altintas (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan), Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, US)

S14: Next Generation Routers, Tuesday, 2pm-3:40pm, Senior Room

Session Chair: Roberto Rojas-cessa, NJIT

IP+ Optical Technology for High-performance Backbone Network in Japan, Naoaki Yamanaka, (Keio University, Japan) (invited)

New Flow Control Paradigm for Next Generation Networks, Mounir Hamdi (CS Dept., HKUST, KLN, Hong Kong, China) (invited)

Challenges and Applications for Network Processor Based Programmable Routers, Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts, US) (invited)

On the Evolution of Internet Routers, Flavio Bonomi (Cisco Systems Inc., US) (invited)

A Control Theoretic Analysis of Scheduling and Arbitration Schemes for Packet Switches, Roberto Rojas-Cessa (NJIT, US), Zhen Guo (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)

S15: Wireless Systems (MIMO/OFDMA), Tuesday, 2pm-3:40pm, Palmer's Room

Session Chair: Aik Chindapol, Siemens

Optimal Training Sequences For Efficient MIMO Frequency Selective Fading Channel Estimation Shuangquan Wang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Ali Abdi (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)

Spatial Multiplexing in the Single-Relay MIMO Channel, Pedro Coronel (IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland), Wolfgang Schott (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland)

Distributed dynamic resource allocation for OFDMA transmissions with reuse partitioning, Aik Chindapol (Siemens Corporate Research, US), Jian Cao (Yale University, US) (invited)

OFDMA - A Technology for Broadband Wireless Communication, Hujun Yin (Intel, US), Siavash Alamouti (Vivato Inc., US) (invited)

Reduced State M-ary Iterative Channel and Data Estimation without Prefilter using Proportionate Algorithm, Thorben Detert (Rohde & Schwarz, Germany), Romain Drauge (Ecole Superieure d'Electricite Paris, France), Isabella de Broeck (Fachhochschule Wiesbaden (University of Applied Sciences), Germany), Ulrich Sorger (University of Luxemburg)

S16: Communication Systems, Tuesday, 2pm-3:40pm, Nassau A&B

Session Chair: Tamer Nadeem, University of Maryland

SIMO-NAR NEXT Canceller for DMT DSL-CPE: a Stochastic Shannon Capacity, Laurent Pierrugues (ENSEA-ETIS, France), Patrick DUVAUT (Conexant, US), Julien Pons (ENSEA-ETIS, France), Arnaud Santraine (Conexant, Universite de Cergy Pontoise, US)

Sub-band Division Multiplexing (SDM) and Its Applications, William Miller (Broadbandphysics, US), Yi Ling (Broadband Physics, Inc., US)

A Robust Data-Aided Frequency Offset Estimator for Single-Frequency Signals, Pakorn Ubolkosold (University of Siegen, Germany)

A Level-Crossing Sampling Scheme for Non-Bandlimited Signals, Karen Guan (ECE, UIUC, US)

BER of Uplink Distributed Wireless y´Communication System with Linear Array y´Topology in Rayleigh Fading Channel, Behrad Mahboobi (Tehran Univ, Iran), Said Nader-Esfahani (University of Tehran, Iran)

S17: Transceiver Design, Tuesday, 2pm-3:40pm, University&Colonial

Session Chair: Renuka Jindal, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

A CMOS Wideband Pulse Generator for UWB Transmitter Applications, Jun Zhao (Virginia Tech, US), Christopher Maxey (ISR, Fairmont, West Virginia, US), Arvind Narayanan (Metalink, Norcross, Georgia, US), Sanjay Raman (Virginia Tech, US)

Optimal Farrow Coefficients for Timing Recovery in QAM Demodulation Receiver, Han Li (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China), Chengyoun Lu (Data Device Corporation, US), Qin Wang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, CN)

A 1.2-V 8-mW 2.4-GHz CMOS RF Receiver IC for Low Power WPAN, Ickjin Kwon (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea)

A Baseband Transceiver for IEEE 802.16 OFDMA Downlink Communications, Jung-Mao Lin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Hsi-Pin Ma (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Joint Transmit Precoding in Downlink of MISO MC-CDMA Systems, S. Mohammad Razavizadeh (University of Waterloo, Canada), Narges Noori (Iran University of science and Technology, Iran)

S18: WLANS/WiMax, Tuesday, 4:15pm-6pm, Palmer's Room

Session Chair: Justinian Rosca, Siemens USA

WiMAX over Free-Space Optics -- Evaluating OFDM Multi-Subcarrier Modulation in Optical Wireless Channels, Neda Cvijetic (NEC Labs America/University of Virginia, US), Ting Wang (NEC Labs America, US)

Run-time Estimation of the Number of Active Stations in IEEE 802.11 WLANs, Ming Yu (State University of New York, Binghamton, US), Simon Foo (Florida State University, US), Wei Su (U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC, US)

Performance Evaluation of an MMAC Protocol for IEEE 802.11s Mesh Networks, Mathilde Benveniste (Avaya Labs Research, US), Zhifeng Tao (Polytechnic University, US)

Effects of nonlinear high power amplifier on the area covered by WiMAX signal, Gorazd Kandus (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slowenia), Tomaz Javornik (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slowenia), Igor Jelovcan (Joef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slowenia), Sreco Plevel (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slowenia)

A QoS Architecture of Integrating GEPON and WiMAX in the Access Network, Yuanqiu Luo (NJIT, US), Nirwan Ansari (NJIT, US), Ting Wang (NEC Laboratories America, US), Milorad Cvijetic (NEC America, Inc., Herndon, Virginia 20171 USA, US), Shinya Nakamura (NEC Corporation, 1131 Hinode, Abiko, Chiba 270-1198, Japan)

S19: Special Topics, Tuesday, 4:15pm-6pm, Nassau A&B

Session Chair: Ming Yu, SUNY Binghamton

Spanning Tree Objective Functions and Algorithms for Wireless Networks, Mike Morgan (University of Wales, United Kingdom), Vic Grout (University of Wales, United Kingdom)

A non contact characterization technique of the defect states of high k dielectrics using THz radiation, Amartya Sengupta (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Aparajita Bandyopadhyay (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), John Federici (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Haim Grebel (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Daniel Pham (Sematech Inc, US)

Interferometric terahertz imaging for detection of lethal agents using artificial neural network analyses, Aparajita Bandyopadhyay (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Alexander Sinyukov (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Amartya Sengupta (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Robert Barat (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), John Federici (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US), Dale Gary (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)

Research and implementation of zero-copy technology in Linux, Hua Liu (Northeastern University of China, China)

Degree and Link Failure Frequency Analysis for MANETs with Different Node Densities, Ibrahim Hokelek (City University of New York, US), Umit Uyar (City College, New York, US), Mariusz Fecko (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., US)

S20: IPv6/Telephony, Tuesday, 4:15pm-6pm, University&Colonial

Session Chair: Hong Zhao, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

IPv6 Translation For IPv4 Embedded Systems, Ed Jankiewicz (Datatek Applications, Inc, US), Marc Fiuczynski (Princeton University, US), David Green (SRI, US)

A VPN-driven Infrastructure for Vertical Handovers, Florian Evers (University of Ilmenau, Germany), Jochen Seitz (Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany)

Independent Relays in Overlays for Reliable Enterprise IP Telephony, Bengi Karacali (Avaya Labs, US), Mark Karol (Avaya Inc, US), P. Krishnan (Avaya Labs, US), Kapil Kumar (SUNY, Stony Brook, US), Jean Meloche (Avaya Labs, US)

Study of SIP-based VoIP Application Interworking with IPv4-IPv6 Transitioning Mechanisms, Slobodanka Tomic (ftw., Austria), Richard Menedetter (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

A Fiber Optic Binary Switch for Aircraft Application, Zhaoxia Xie (Texas A&M University, US), Henry Taylor (Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, TX)