Monday, April 30

All Tutorials will be presented in the Convocation Room of the Friends Center at Princeton University

8:30a-11:45a
Optical access networks today and tomorrow
Djafar K. Mynbaev, City University of New York
Advances in multi-user MIMO techniques
Yong-Hwan Lee, Seoul National University
Lunch:  11.45am – 1pm
1p-3p
RFIC Technologies for Low Cost Mobile Communications Systems
David Cheskis, Jazz Semiconductor  
UWB Antenna: Simulation and Design 
Qiubo Ye, Communications Research Centre Canada
Coffee Break: 3pm – 3.30pm
3:30p-5:30p
Signal Processing Techniques for Spectrum Sensing and Communication in Cognitive Radio Networks 
Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny, Univ of Utah 
Satellite Communication via DVB-RCS protocol 
Vinod Mishra, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) 

Tuesday, May 1

All Events will take place in Nassau Inn

Technical sessions:

S1: RF Electronics,   Tuesday 8-10:15 ,  Palmer's & Ship's

Session Chair: Allen Katz  (Linearizer, US)

Reconfigurable Concurrent Oscillators For Multi-Band Multi-Mode Wireless Communication Systems, Ajay Poddar (Synergy Microwave Corporation, US); Ulrich Rohde (Synergy Microwave Corp., US)

Mode-Coupled Stubs-Tuned Planar Resonator Based Spectral Pure Signal Source For Wireless Communication Systems,  Ajay Poddar (Synergy Microwave Corporation, US); Ulrich Rohde (Synergy Microwave Corp., US)

Switching FET Broadband DBM For Wireless Applications, Ajay Poddar (Synergy Microwave Corporation, US); Ulrich Rohde (Synergy Microwave Corp., US)

Performance Analysis of a Novel Real-Time Closed-Loop Technique for Non-Linearity Correction of Power Amplifiers, Walid Ahmed (Tyco M/A-COM, US); Ajit Reddy (M/A-COM, Tyco Electronics, US); Qing Li (M/A-COM, Tyco Electronics, US); Eoin Carey (M/A-COM, Tyco Electronics

Microwave Power Amplifiers for Satellite Communication Systems, Raghuvir Tomar (The LNM Institute of Information Technology, IN)

Dynamic Reflection of RF Signals from Fluorescent Lights;Their Spectral Analysis and Effects on Backscattered RFID Tag Signals’ Ghassan Ibrahim (Bloomsburg University, US); Tareef Almahdawi (Texas Instruments).

 

S2: Smart Antennas/MIMO, Tuesday 8-10:15am, University & Colonial

Session Chair: Alan Mainwaring (Intel Research Laboratory at Berkeley, US)

Space-Time Adaptive Processing in ESPAR Antenna and Adaptive Arrays in CDMA systems; A Comparison, Akram Baharlouei (Iran university of science and technology, IR)

Modified Antenna Effective Gain in Multiple-cluster 3D Channel Model, Xueyuan Zhao (Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited, HK)

Stochastic Optimization Methods for Angle of Arrival Estimation,  Hai Hoang (Florida State University, US); Turgay Koklu (Florida State University, US); W.Bing Kwan (florida state university, US); Ming Yu (Florida State University, US)

SC/FDE Combined with MIMO: An Improved Out of Band Power and Performance via Tamed Frequency Modulation, Tufik Buzid (University of Erlangen Nuremberg, DE); Mario Huemer (Klagenfurt University, AT); Steffen Reinhardt (University of Erlangen, DE)

Adaptive Reactance Parasitic Antenna Array, Vladimir Filimonov(Novgorod State University, Russia), Alan Mainwaring((Intel Research Laboratory at Berkeley, US), Ivan Shishalov(Novgorod State University, Russia), Maxim Shuralev(Novgorod State University, Russia), and Alexey Umnov (Novgorod State University, Russia)

Unequal Error Protection with Eigen Beamforming for Partial Channel Information MIMO-OFDM, Khaled Hassan (International University Bremen, DE); Werner Henkel (International University Bremen

S3: Sensor Networks/Real-Time Comm., Tuesday 8-10:15am,   Nassau A&B

Session Chair: Sarvesh Kulkarni (Villanova University, US)

Short Length CDMA Codes for Wireless Sensor Networks, Radha Poluri (NJIT, US); Ali Akansu (NJIT, US)

Distributed Fermat-Point Location Estimation for Wireless Sensor Network Applications, Jiann-Liang Chen (National Dong Hwa University, TW); Ming-Chiao Chen (National Dong Hwa University, TW); Tsui-Lien Chiang (National Dong Hwa University, TW); Yao-Chung Chang (Natioal Taitung University, TW); Frank Shih (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)

RDM+: A New Mac Layer Real-Time Communication Protocol, Mojtaba Sabeghi (Delft University of Technology, NL); Mahmoud Naghibzadeh (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, IR); Koen Bertels (Delft University of Technology, NL)

Reduced-Complexity Bandwidth-Constrained Distributed Estimation for Wireless Sensor Networks ,Trent Jacobs (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Hlaing Minn (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, US)

Cluster-Grid Structure Routing Protocol for Sensor Mobility Management, Jiann-Liang Chen (National Dong Hwa University, TW); Ming-Chiao Chen (National Dong Hwa University, TW); Po-Yueh Huang (National Dong Hwa University, TW); Yao-Chung Chang (Natioal Taitung University, TW)

Designing Efficient and Resilient Tactical Sensor Network Neighborhood Keying Algorithms, Brian Matt (SPARTA, US); Matt Mundy (SPARTA, US)

S4: Modulation and Spreading, Tuesday 8-10:15am, Princeton

Session Chair: Dr. Wing Kwong (Hofstra University, US)

A Wavelet based Filtered Multi-Tone,Roman Vitenberg (Wavetone Technologies, IL)

 

On the Minimization of the Total Generalized Squared Correlation of Synchronous DS-CDMA,Paul Cotae (University of Texas at San Antonio, US)

 Coherent Versus Differential Mobile OFDM with Application to DVB-H, Sili Lu (Univ. Texas at Dallas, US); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, US)

A New Frequency-Time-Spreading Code for MC/DS-CDMA Wireless Systems Over Rayleigh Fading Channels, Chi-Lin Lin (National Chung Hsing University, TW); Pei-Ju Lee (National Chung Hsing University, TW); Cheng-Yuan Chang (National Chung Hsing University, TW); Guu-Chang Yang (National Chung Hsing University, TW); Wing Kwong (Hofstra University, US)

 Study of MFSK/FH-CDMA Wireless Communication Systems Without Symbol-Synchronous Assumption, Tsung-Chi Lin (National Chung Hsing University, TW); Chia-Cheng Hsu (National Chung Hsing University, TW); Cheng-Yuan Chang (National Chung Hsing University, TW); Guu-Chang Yang (National Chung Hsing University, TW); Wing Kwong (Hofstra University, US)

Comparison of Time and Frequency Domain Single and Double Differential Schemes for OFDM UWB Systems, Samia Islam (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Hlaing Minn (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Sili Lu (Univ. Texas at Dallas, US)

 

Coffee Break: 10.15 – 10.45 , next to Senior Room

S5: Ad-hoc/Mesh/UWB Networks, Tuesday, 10:45-12:30pm, Palmer's & Ship's

Session Chair: Shalinee Kishore (Lehigh University, US)

Distributed Spectrum and Power Control in Cognitive Radio based Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Qi Qu (University of California at San Diego, US); Laurence Milstein (University of California, US); Dhadesugoor Vaman (Priarie View A&M University, US)

 A Link Layer Adaptive Pacing Scheme for Improving Performance of Wireless Mesh Networks, Antony Franklin A (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, IN); Venkataramana Badarla (Indian Institute of Technology, IN); Siva Ram Murthy (IIT Chennai, IN)

Investigations of Cross-Layer Designs for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Xiaoyu Hu (Stevens Institute of Technology, US); Yu-Dong Yao (Stevens Institute of Technology, US); Charles Graff (US Army CERDEC STCD, US); Trevor Cook (US Army RDECOM-CERDEC, US)

A Study on the Channel and BER-SNR Performance of Ultra Wide Band Systems Applied in Commercial Vehicles, Walid Aldeeb (University of Michigan - Dearborn, US); Weidong Xiang (University of Michigan, Dearborn, US); Paul Richardson (University of Michigan-Dearborn, US)

A receiver initiated power control multi-access protocol in wireless ad hoc networks, Swades De (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US); Komlan Egoh (NJIT, US); Gaurav Dosi (IIT Delhi, IN)

S6: Signal Processing, Tuesday 10:45-12:30pm, University & Colonial

Session Chair: Hongya Ge (NJIT, US)

Proposing SVS-PNLMS Algorithm for Sparse Echo Cancellation, Pejman Mowlaee Begzade Mahale (PhD student at Tehran Polytechnic, IR); Mahdi Orooji (Iran University of Science and Technology, IR)

On the Suitability of Bruun’s FFT Algorithm for Software Defined Radio, Shashank Mittal (IIIT Hyderabad, IN); Mohammed Khan (International Institute of Technology, IN); Srinivas Mandalika (International Institute of Information Technology, IN)

Construction of a DSL-MIMO Channel Model for Evaluation of FEXT Cancellation Systems in VDSL2,Massimo Sorbara (Conexant Systems, Inc., US); Patrick Duvaut (Conexant, US); Faina Shmulyian (Conexant Systems, Inc., US); Shailendra Singh (Conexant Systems, Inc, IN); Amitkumar Mahadevan (Conexant, US)

Experimental Study on the Performance of Reduced Rank Timing Acquisition Scheme for Multiple Access Communications, Mingzheng Cao, Xiaoli Wang, and Hongya Ge  (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)

Investigations on Inter-Node B Macro Diversity for Single-Carrier Based Radio Access in Evolved UTRA Uplink, Hiroyuki Kawai (NTT DoCoMo, Inc., JP); Akihito Morimoto (NTT DoCoMo Inc., JP); Kenichi Higuchi (NTT DoCoMo, Inc., JP); Mamoru Sawahashi (Musashi Institute of Technology, JP)

Invited I1: Network Security, Tuesday 10:45-12:30pm, Nassau A&B

Session Chair: Jelena Mirkovic (University of Delaware, US)

On Data Gathering and Security in Wireless Sensor Networks, Hidehisa Nakayama (Tohoku University, JP); Nirwan Ansari (NJIT, US); Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, AU); Yoshiaki Nemoto (Tohoku University, JP); Nei Kato (Tohoku University, JP)

 

 Network Security as a Composable Service, Stylianos Sidiroglou (Columbia University, US); Angelos Stavrou (Columbia University, US); Angelos Keromytis (Columbia University, US)

Security Vulnerabilities and Solutions for Packet Sampling, Sharon Goldberg (Princeton University, US); Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University, US)

New Directions in Covert Malware Modeling Which Exploit White-Listing,
Jisheng Wang (Pennsylvania State University, US); George Kesidis (Pennsylvania State University, US); David Miller (Pennsylvania State University, US)

An Architecture for Exploiting Multi-Core Processors to Parallelize Network Intrusion Prevention, Vern Paxson (ICSI, US); Nicholas Weaver (ICSI, US); Robin Sommer (ICSI and LBNL, US)

 

Lunch: 12.30 – 2pm , Ballroom

Military Panel: 2-4pm , Senior Room
Organizer: Matthew Zieniewicz

S7: OFDM Systems, Tuesday 2-4:15pm, Palmer’s & Ship’s

Session Chair: Ming Yu (Florida State University, US)

Channel Estimation in a Proposed Ieee802.11n OFDM MIMO WLAN System, I-Tai Lu (Polytechnic University, US); Kun-Ju Tsai (Polytechnic University, US)

Reduced-Complexity Hybrid Time/Frequency Channel Estimation for DVB-H, Sili Lu (Univ. Texas at Dallas, US); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, US)

Radio Resource Management for OFDMA Uplinks, Patrick Hosein (Huawei Technologies, US)

Channel Probing in the Uplink of OFDM-based Wireless Systems , Seung-Hwan Lee (Seoul national university, KR); Yong-Hwan Lee (Seoul National University, KR)

 Adaptive Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems in Time-Varying Non-stationary Wireless Channels Jianqiang Zeng (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Hlaing Minn (University of Texas at Dallas, US)

Effects of Channel Estimation on Dynamic Resource Allocation in Multiuser OFDM SystemsBahman Abolhassani (Iran University of Science and Technology, IR)

S8: Multimedia, Tuesday 2-4:15pm, Nassau A&B

Session Chair: Martin Fleury (University of Essex, UK)

Enrichment of Speech Calls by Live Video, Imre Varga (Siemens Networks, DE); Thomas Stockhammer (Nomor Research GmbH, DE)

Video Streaming Over Wireless Networks, Zohar Naor (University of Haifa, IL)

Performance Analysis of Medical Video Monitoring and Surveillance Applications for 3G Mobile Terminals, Omneya Issa (International Institute of Telecommunications, CA)

Image Component Transmissions in Wireless Sensor Network, Wei Wang (Univ of Nebraksa Lincoln, US); Dongming Peng (Univ. Nebraska - Lincoln, US); Honggang Wang (Univ of Nebraska Lincoln, US); Hamid Sharif (University of Nebraska Lincoln, US)

Deadline-Aware Video Delivery in a Disrupted Bluetooth Network, Rouzbeh Razavi (University of Essex, UK); Martin Fleury (University of Essex, UK); Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK)

Some UEP Concepts in Coding and Physical Transport,  Werner Henkel (International University Bremen, DE); Neele von Deetzen (Jacobs University Bremen, DE); Khaled Hassan (International University Bremen, DE); Lucile Sassatelli (ETIS ENSEA/UCP/CNRS UMR-8051, FR); David Declercq (University of Cergy-Pontoise, FR)

 

S9: Antenna Diversity/MIMO, Tuesday 2-4:15pm, University & Colonial  

Session Chair: Qing Li (Tyco, US)

Complexity Reduction of Matrix Manipulation for Multi-User STBC-MIMO Decoding,  Johan Eilert (Linkoping University, SE); Di Wu (Linkoping University, SE); Dake Liu (Linköping University, SE); Dandan Wang (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Hlaing Minn (University of Texas at Dallas, US)

Bandwidth Efficient Full-Diversity SF-MTCM,  Kampol Woradit (Chulalongkorn University, TH); Siwaruk Siwamogsatham (Nectec, TH); Lunchakorn Wuttisittikulkij (Chulalongkorn University, TH)

A New Full-Rate Full-Diversity STBC for 2 TX with Low Complexity ML Decodingj, Payam Rabiei (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, US)

Robust Asynchronous STBC Transceiver for Multiple-Access Frequency-Selective Channels, Dandan Wang (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Hlaing Minn (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, US)

On Lattice Decoding of Space-Time Block Codes for Asynchronous Cooperative Relaying, Roger Hammons (APL, Johns Hopkins University, US); Mohamed Oussama Damen (University of Waterloo, CA)

Iterative MIMO Detector Using a Group-Wise Approach, John Koshy (Telcordia Technologies, US)

 

Invited I2: Research Trends in Wireless Networks, Tuesday 2-4:15pm, Princeton

Session Chair: Roberto Rojas-Cessa (NJIT, US)

Energy Efficient Spatial Distribution of Nodes in a Sensor Network, Prathima Agrawal (Auburn University, US); Pratap Prasad (Auburn University, US)

Probabilistic Short-term Delay and Throughput Requirements of Multimedia Services in High Throughput Wireless Networks, Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, GR); Timotheos Kastrinogiannis (National Technical University of Athens, GR)

Model-free Stochastic Learning in Adaptive Wireless, Rajarathnam Chandramouli (Stevens Institute of Technology, US)

 Cluster interactions in large 802.15.4 networks - experiments with non-acknowledged transfer , Jelena Misic (University of Manitoba, CA); Ranjith Udayshankar (University of Manitoba, CA)

Terminal-oriented solutions for seamless service delivery via heterogeneous radio access networks, Sean Murphy (University College Dublin, IE); John Fitzpatrick (University College Dublin, IE); Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, US); John Murphy (University College Dublin, IE)

Securing Resource-Constrained Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, US); Yanchao Zhang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)

 

Student Poster Session: Tue 2-6pm, Ballroom

Session Chair: Shalinee Kishore (Lehigh University, US)

"Security Life-Cycle of Mobile Codes" Ankur Dauneria, Bharati
Vidhyapeeth Deemed University, Pune, India.

"An Architecture & Model for Multi-Level Secure Chat Services" John
Sturm, Indiana State University, IN.

"A Cluster Analysis Based P2P Trust Model" Jia Fan, Xie Di, Yang YiXian, BUPT, China.

"CODEC Analysis and Evaluation of VoIP Networks" Georgios Zantis, Salim
Hariri, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

"A SMP-Based and QoS-Differentiated Charging Model for 3G Streaming
Media"  Ruirui Zhang, BUPT, China.

"A Novel Broadcast Scheme to Reduce Traffic Chaos in Emergency and
Evacuation Scenarios" Syed Rashid Ali Rizvi, Stephan Olariu, Mona Rizvi, Old Domonion University, Norfolk, VA.

"A Local Stopping Criterion for Block Turbo Codes" Steven Peters, Robert Rogers, University of Texas at Austin, TX.

"Calculating Block Error Rate for Space-Time Cdoes:  Exact PEP and
Correct Probability based Numerical Evaluation" Z. Zhang, S.W. Cheung,
T.I. Yuk, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

"Analyzing BTS Antenna by Application of Geometrical Theory of
Diffraction" Shima Faramarzi, Saeed Erfanian, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.

"A New Method to Suppress High Harmonics of Lowpass Filter Using
Compensated Microstrip Line and Coupled Defected Ground Structures
(DGSs)" Ahmed Boutejdar, Abbas Omar, University-Otto-von-Guericke of
Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.

"A New Technique to Improve the Stopband of Miniaturized Microstrip
Low-Pass Filter by Using a Cross-Head Defected Ground Structure (CDGS)"
Ahmed Boutejdar, Abbas Omar, University-Otto-von-Guericke of Magdeburg,
Magdeburg, Germany.

"An Improvement Method for Compensating Memory Effects in High Power
Amplifiers"  P. Varahram, S.S. Jamuar, S. Mohammady, B.H. Nizar,
University of Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.

"Design and Simulation of Microstrip Edge-Coupled Filter" Nikunj
Agarawal, Deepjyoti Saha, T. Jayanthy, Sathyabama University, India.

"A Wideband 360 Degree Analog Phase Shifter Design" M.X. Xiao, S.W.
Cheung, T.I. Yuk, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

"Analysis and Implementation of an RF System with Real Time Autonomous
and Intelligent Control"  Altin Pelteku, John McNeil, Worcester  Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.

"Toward Implementation of Injection Lock Class-E Oscillators for Low
Power Wireless Sensor Applications" R. N. Devine, M.R. Tofighi,
Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, Middletown, PA.

"On Spectral Efficiency of Adaptive MIMO Systems in Spatially Correlated Rayleigh Fading Channel" Jinliang Huang, Svante Signell, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.

"Channel-Statistics Assited Power Minimization for Central Wishart MIMO
Block-Fading Channels with an Outage Probability Constraint" Jia Chen,
Kai-Kit Wong, University College London, U.K.

"An Interactive Optimal Sensor Selection Method for Wireless Sensor
Networks" Zhen Song, Chellury Sastry, N. Chian Tas, Utah State University.

"Bi-Connectivity of Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Networks (MANETs)" Ian
Mitchell, Dov Chelst, DeVry University, North Brunswick, NJ.

"Enhanced Synchronous Optical CDMA Capacity Using a Novel Double-Padded
Modified Prime Code Family" M.M. Karbassian, H. Ghafouri-Shiraz,
University of Birmingham, U.K.

Reception: 6-7pm , Senior Room

Dinner: 7pm – 9.30pm , Ballroom

Keynote Speaker: Paul Camuti, CEO and President of Siemens Corporate Research

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Wednesday, May 2

All Events will take place in Nassau Inn

Keynote Lecture: Wed, 9-10am, Senior Room

“Energy and Interference in Wireless Sensor Networks”

H.Vincent Poor, Dean School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University

 

Coffee Break: 10 – 10.30am , next to Senior Room

 

Technical sessions:

S10: Microwave Antennas and Electronics, Wed 10:30-12:30, Palmer's & Ship's

Session Chair: Philip Ji (NEC Lab America, Inc., US)

Experimental Study on Fan-Beam Cassegarian Antenna Fed by a 4-Element Binomial Array, Chinmoy Dasgupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, IN)

Ultra Wide-Stopband Planar Microstrip Bandpass Filter Above Defected Ground Structure, Eric Chikando (Morgan State University, US); Michel Reece (Morgan State University, US); Carl White (Morgan State University, US)

Miniature Wide-Band Microstrip Patch Antennas for GSM Applications : A Parametric Study and Optimum Design,  Anil Nandgaonkar (Dr. B. A. Technological University, Lonere, IN); Shankar Deosarkar (Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University,lonere, IN)

A Modified Half U-Slot Microstrip Patch Antennas with Shorting Wall,  Shankar Deosarkar (Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University,lonere, IN); Anil Nandgaonkar (Dr. B. A. Technological University, Lonere, IN); Suresh Shirbahadurkar (M.I.T. College of Engineering, IN)

On Lattice Decoding of Space-Time Block Codes for Asynchronous Cooperative Relaying, Roger Hammons (APL, Johns Hopkins University, US); Mohamed Oussama Damen (University of Waterloo, CA)

 

S11: Next Generation Network Design, Wed 10:30-12:30noon, University & Colonial

Session Chair: Yuanqiu Luo (NEC Labs America, Inc., US)

Disruption Tolerant Chat, Salil Parikh (MITRE, US)

Delay Tolerant Networking for Free-Space Optical Communication Systems, Robert Nichols (JHU/APL, US); Roger Hammons (APL, Johns Hopkins University, US); Daniel Tebben (JHU/APL, US); Anurag Dwivedi (JHU/APL, US)

Bandwidth Management of Voice and Data Traffic over Wireless-Optical Networks, Dirceu Cavendish (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., US); Dayou Qian (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., US); Ting Wang (NEC Laboratories America, US); Chi Zhou (Illinois Institute of Technology, US)

 Service-Oriented Network Abstraction and Discovery for the Diversified Internet, Qiang Duan (University of Central Arkansas, US)

Novel Next Generation Access Network Architecture with Optical/Wireless Convergence, Junqiang Hu (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., US); Junqiang Hu (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., US); Dayou Qian (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., US);  Yoshihiko Suemura (Optical Network Division, NEC Corporation); Shinya Nakamura (Optical Network Division, NEC Corporation); Milorad Cvijetic (NEC America, Inc.); Ting Wang (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., US);

 

S12: Network Management/Cross-Layer, Wed 10:30-12:30noon, Nassau A&B

Session Chair: Sarvesh Kulkarni (Villanova University, US)

Optimal Load Distribution in Large Scale WLAN Networks Utilizing a Power Management Algorithm, Mohamad Haidar (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, US); Robert Akl (University of North Texas, US); Hussain Al-Rizzo (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, US); Yupo Chan (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, US); Rami Adada (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, US)

A Dynamic Load Dispersion Algorithm for Load-Balancing in a Heterogeneous Grid System, David Acker (Villanova University, US); Sarvesh Kulkarni (Villanova University, US)

Rapid Collision Resolution in Slotted Aloha without Retransmission Delays, George Thomas (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, US)

Cooperative Diversity in the Presence of a Misbehaving Relay : Performance Analysis, Sintayehu Dehnie (Polytechnic University, US); Husrev Sencar (Polytechnic University, US); Nasir Memon (Polytech University, US)

Cross-layer Optimization with Retransmission Diversity in Wireless CDMA Networks, Baozhi Chen (City University of New York, US); Myung Lee (City University of New York, City College, US); Yi Sun (The City College of New York, US)

 

Industrial Update: Wed 2, 11-12, Senior Room
What drives the transition towards OFDMA
Organizer: Pantelis Monogioudis (Alcatel-Lucent)

 

Lunch: 12.30 – 2pm , Ballroom

S13: Optical Communications, Wed 2:15-4:30pm, University & Colonial

Session Chair: Lei Xu (NEC Labs America, Inc., US)

11 Gb/s Limiting Amplifier Flip-Chip Assembled in a BGA Package, Ward Titus (Analog Devices, US)

Timing jitter analysis of a multi-wavelength all-optical regenerator,  Yue-Kai Huang (Princeton University, TW); Ivan Glesk (Princeton University, US); Raji Shankar (Princeton University, US); Paul Prucnal (Princeton University, US); Lei Xu (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., US); Ting Wang (NEC Labs America/University of Virginia, US)

Effects of Multiple Access Interference and PMD on Optical Code Lightpaths, Felipe Rudge Barbosa (State University of Campinas -- Unicamp, BR)

Improved System Performance in DWDM Networks Using a Selective Filter Assignment Process, Sung Bang (Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, US); David Daut (Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, US)

Wavelength locked loops for optical communication systems, Casimer DeCusatis (IBM Corporation, US); Lawrence Jacobowitz (IBM Corporation, US)

All-order PMD Compensation Using Spectral Interference and Pulse Shaping, Arthur Dogariu, Philip N. Ji, Ting Wang (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., US)

S14: WLAN, Wed 2:15-4:30pm, Palmer's & Ship's

Session Chair: Alex Kesselman (Intel Corp., Israel)

Multi-Element Adaptive Arrays for Interference Mitigation of Multiple Barker/CCK signals in 802.11b WLANs,  Ayham Al-Banna (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Joseph LoCicero (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Donald Ucci (Illinois Institute of Technology, US)

User-Network Association in an 802.11 WLAN & 3G UMTS Hybrid Cell: Individual Optimality,  Dinesh Kumar (INRIA, FR); Eitan Altman (INRIA, FR); Jean-Marc Kelif (France Telecom R&D, FR)

Performance Analysis of a 802.11a OFDM System in the Presence of UWB and Multipath Interference, Abolfazl Mehbodniya (Institute national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) University of Quebec, CA); Sonia Aissa (University of Quebec, INRS-EMT, Canada, CA)

Performance Analysis of A-MPDU and A-MSDU Aggregation in IEEE 802.11n, Boris Ginzburg (Intel Corp., Haifa, Israel); Alex Kesselman (Intel Corp., Haifa, Israel)

S15: Communication Theory/ Resource Allocation, Wed 2:15-4:30pm, Nassau A&B

Session Chair: Octavia Dobre (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)

Finding Minimax Codes For Discrete And Continuous Classes of Sources, Laurence Wolfe (Management & Information Technology Consulting, US)

 A Novel Development for Parallel Cyclic Convolution: The Super Block Pseudocirculant Matrix, Marvi Teixeira (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, PR); Ivan Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, US); Angel Gonzalez (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, PR)

 Optimal Power Allocation For Transmitter Selection In MISO Rayleigh Fading Channels, Vadlamudi Kumar (IIIT, IN); Mohammed Khan (International Institute of Technology, IN); Harinath Patel (IIIT, IN); Srinivas Mandalika (International Institute of Information Technology, IN)

Optimal Power Allocation In Space And Time In MISO Rayleigh fading channels With Peak To Average Power Ratio Constraint, Harinath Patel (IIIT, IN); Mohammed Khan (International Institute of Technology, IN); Vadlamudi Kumar (IIIT, IN); Srinivas Mandalika (International Institute of Information Technology, IN)

 On Performance Bounds for Joint Parameter Estimation and Modulation Classification, Octavia Dobre (Memorial University of Newfoundland, CA); Fahed Hameed (Memorial University of Newfoundland, CA)

Capacity of SIMO Systems Over Non-Identically Independent Nakagami-m Channels, Amer Magableh (University of Mississippi, US); Mustafa Matalgah (University of Mississippi, US)

 

Invited I3: Advances in High-Performance Networks, Wed 2:15-4:30pm, Princeton

Session Chair: Roberto Rojas-Cessa (NJIT, US)

Policy-Based Resource Management Mechanism for Dynamic Grid Environments, Youngjoo Han (Information and Communications University, KR); Hyewon Song (Information and Communications University, KR); Chan-Hyun Youn (Information and Communications University, KR); EunBo Shim (Kangwon National University, KR); Bong-Hwan Lee (Daejon University, KR)

Measurement-based Computation of Equivalent Bandwidth Under Performance Constraints, Mario Marchese (DIST- University of Genoa, IT); Maurizio Mongelli (University of Genoa, IT)

Pricing and Optimal Resource Allocation in Next Generation Network Services, Michael Kallitsis (North Carolina State University, US); George Michailidis (University of Michigan, US); Michael Devetsikiotis (North Carolina State University, US)

A Fast Forward Medium Access Control Protocol for IEEE 802.11s Mesh Networks with Multiple Channels, Guomei Zhu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN); Geng-Sheng Kuo (National Chengchi University, TW)

 
PCE-Based Traffic Engineering in MPLS/GMPLS Networks,Eiji Oki (NTT, JP)