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2008 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium
April 28 - 30, 2008, Nassau Inn in Princeton, NJ, USA

Sponsored by: IEEE

Co-sponsors:Communication SocietyMTT     EDS     Princeton University    APSCiscoQualcommPanasonicVerizonTelcordia
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Technical Sessions

S1: Cognitive Radios, April 29, 2008  Tuesday 10:15am-12:30pm
Cognitive Sensing Based on Side Information,  Seung-Chul Hong (Harvard University, US); Mai Vu (Harvard University, US); Vahid Tarokh (Harvard University, US)
Improved 3dB Subgroup Algorithm for Optimal Discrete Bit Loading.  Asad Mahmood (ENSTA, FR)
Selective Broadcasting in Multi-Hop Cognitive Radio Networks, Yogesh Reddy Kondareddy (Auburn University, US); Prathima Agrawal (Auburn University, US)
Distributed Dynamic Frequency Allocation In Wireless Networks Under Time-Varying User Activities  Behtash Babadi (Harvard University, US); Vahid Tarokh (Harvard University, US)
Extending the Scope of the Resource Admission Control Subsystem (RACS) in IMS Using Cognitive Radios, Benon Muwonge (University of Cape Town, ZA); H Anthony Chan (University of Cape Town, ZA)
Protecting MANETs from Spurious CTS Attacks with Randomized Carrier Sensing, Jing Deng (University of New Orleans, US); Zhiguo Zhang (University of New Orleans, US); Sreekanth Pagadala (University of New Orleans, US); Pramod Varshney (Syracuse University, US)

S2: Modulation and Coding I, Tuesday 10:15am-12:30pm
Rate Splitting Issue for Finite Length Raptor Codes,  Auguste Venkiah (ETIS, FR); Charly Poulliat (ENSEA, FR); David Declercq (ETIS lab. ENSEA/UCP/CNRS UMR-8051, FR)
Performance and Power Spectrum Calculations for Convolutionally Coded Generalized MSK with Two Symbol Periods Pulse Shape Duration, Walid AbedIseid (University of Waterloo, CA)
Performance Prediction for Turbo Codes in Mimo Wireless Systems, Tom McGiffen (Stanford University, US); Donald Cox (Stanford University, US); John Koshy (Telcordia Technologies, US)
Closed-form approximation of Coded BER in QAM-based BICM Faded Transmission, Leszek Szczecinski (INRS-EMT, CA); Alex Alvarado (Chalmers University of Technology, SE); Rodolfo Feick (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, CL)
Fast Simulation for the Performance Evaluation of LDPC Codes using Fast Flat Histogram Method, Shahkar Kakakhail (ENSEA/University of Cergy Pontoise, FR); Sylvain Reynal (ENSEA/University of Cergy Pontoise, FR); David Declercq (ETIS lab. ENSEA/UCP/CNRS UMR-8051, FR); Vincent Heinrich (STMicroelectronics, FR)
Receiver design for turbo codes used in an impulsive noise environment,  Arnab Roy (Pennsylvania State University, US); John Doherty (The Pennsylvania State University, US)

S3: Ad-hoc Networks, Tuesday 10:15am-12:30pm
Impact of Topology-dependent and independent Mobility Models on the Connectivity of Wireless Networks,  Evsen Yanmaz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US)
A Receiver-Oriented Rate-Adaptation Strategy for Improving Network Efficiency in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, Annamalai Annamalai (Prairie View A&M University, US)
Wireless, Mesh & Ad Hoc Networks - Military Convoy Location And Situation Awareness, Martin Preuss (CERDEC, US); Shery Thomas (CERDEC, US)
Issues and Improvements in TCP Performance over Multihop Wireless Networks, Beizhong Chen (Rutgers University, US)
An Algorithm for Sensing Coverage Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks, Vinh Tran (Shibaura Institute of Technology, JP); Takumi Miyoshi (Shibaura Institute of Technology, JP)
Implementation of the Distributed Hash Tables on Peer-to-peer Networks, Haklin Kimm (East Stroudsburg University, US); Ho-sang Ham (Electronics & Communication Research Institute, KR)

Lunch Break – Exhibition Hall – 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Commercial Panel -  2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Military Panel – 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

S4: Network Managmement/Cross Layer, April 29, 2008 Tuesday 3:45 pm-6:00 pm
Forwarding Strategies for Uplink Gaussian Multi-source Multi-relay Network, Yong Peng (Southern Methodist University, US); Dinesh Rajan (Southern Methodist University, US)
Multicast Planning for Mission-Critical Networks, Selcuk Cevher (The City University of New York, US); Umit Uyar (City College, New York, US); Mariusz Fecko (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., US); John Sucec (Telcordia Technologies, US); Sunil Samtani (Telcordia Technologies Inc., US)
Cross-layer MAC Optimization for Wireless Sensor Networks, Qiong (Janet) Shi (Stevens Institute of Technology, US); Cristina Comaniciu (Stevens Institute of Technology, US)
The Optimal Joint power and rate adaptation for Mobile Multicast: A Theoretical Approach, Haibo Wang (Aalborg University, DK); Hans-Peter Schwefel (Aalborg University, DK); Thomas Skjodeberg Toftegaard (Manager, DK)
Handover-aware SIP-based VoIP provided by a Roaming-Enabled Architecture (REACH), Florian Evers (Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, DE); Yevgeniy Yeryomin (Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, DE); Jochen Seitz (Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, DE)
An Opportunistic Combined Power and Rate Allocation Approach in CDMA Ad Hoc Networks, Timotheos Kastrinogiannis (National Technical University of Athens, GR); Vasileios Karyotis (National Technical University of Athens, GR); Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, GR)

S5: WLAN, April 29, 2008, Tuesday, 3:45 pm- 6:00 pm
Performance Analysis of Slotted ALOHA in a Weibull Fading Channel, Timothy Garner (Stevens Institute of Technology, US); Yu-Dong Yao (Stevens Institute of Technology, US)
On the Time-Invariant Feature of the Frame Collision Probability Under IEEE 802.11b DCF,      Jun Liu (University of North Dakota, US)
Equitable MAC Layer Performance Comparison of Cooperative Diversity Protocols for Wireless Networks, Waqas Bukhari (NUST Institute of Information Technology, PK); Syed Ali Khayam (National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), PK)
Iterative Approach To Base Station Positioning In Cellular Networks, Behtash Babadi (Harvard University, US); Vahid Tarokh (Harvard University, US)
Fault Diagnosis in IP Networks via Noiseless Multicast Probing, Kiran Rege (Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, US); Ramesh Nagarajan (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Ahmet Akyamac (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US)
Security Implications of Cooperative Communications in Wireless Networks, Salik Makda (Polytechnic University, US); Ankur Choudhary (Indian Institute of Technology, IN); Naveen Raman (Polytechnic University, US); Thanasis Korakis (Polytechnic University, US); Zhifeng Tao (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, US); Shivendra Panwar (Polytechnic University, US)

S6: Resource Allocation, April 29, 2008, Tuesday 3:45pm-6:00pm
Concatenating Packets in Variable-size Based Input-Queued Packet Switches to Increase Bandwidth Utilization, Nabeel Al-Saber (NJIT, US); Roberto Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)
Achievable Rates for Adaptive IR Hybrid ARQ, Nandu Gopalakrishnan (Lucent, US); Saul Gelfand (Purdue University, US)
Rate Selection Algorithms for IR Hybrid ARQ, Nandu Gopalakrishnan (Lucent, US); Saul Gelfand (Purdue University, US)
Throughput Analysis of Multi-Hop CSMA/CA Wireless Networks, Ben Lauwens (Royal Military Academy, BE); Bart Scheers (Royal Military Academy, BE); Antoine Van de Capelle (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)
On the Reverse Link Capacity of a CDMA Network of Femto-cells,  Venkatesh Ramaswamy (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US); Deepak Das (Airvana, US)
Guaranteed Bandwidth Allocation and QoS support for Mobile Telemedicine Traffic, Lu Qiao (McMaster University, CA); Polychronis Koutsakis (McMaster University, CA)

Reception April 29, 2008, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm– Exhibition Hall
Banquet – April 29, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Exhibition Hall

S7: RF Electronics, Wednesday April 30, 8-10am
Low Frequency Transceptors for Localization, Ajit Reddy (M/A-COM, Tyco Electronics, US)
Super-Regenerative Receiver, Ajay Poddar (Synergy Microwave Corporation, US); Ulrich Rohde (Synergy Microwave Corp., US)
Affect of Weather on the Performance of Ka-band Traffic Radar, Allen Katz (The College of New Jersey, US)
Device Modeling Using Neural Network Techniques For Solid State Power Amplifier Applications, Caroline Karangu (Morgan State University, US); Aderinto Ogunniyi (Morgan State University, US); Stanley Henriquez (Morgan State University, US)
Mode-Selection and Mode-Feedback Techniques Optimizes VCXO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) Performances, Ajay Poddar (Synergy Microwave Corporation, US); Ulrich Rohde (Synergy Microwave Corp., US)

S8: Modulation and Coding II, April 30, Wednesday 8-10am
Asymmetric PSK Constellation Design to Minimize Distortion in PCM Data Transmission, Annamalai Annamalai (Prairie View A&M University, US)
Double-Differential Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Communications over Nakagami-m Channels with Carrier Offsets, Manav Bhatnagar (UNIK-University Graduate Center, University of Oslo, NO); Are Hjørungnes (Unversity of Oslo, NO); Lingyang Song (UniK, University of Olso, NO); Ranjan Bose (Indian Institute of Technology, IN)
Adaptive Synchronization for Gbps Single-Carrier 60 GHz Wireless Systems, Jun Yang (Nokia Research Center, US) and Mahbod Eyvazkhani
UWB Pulse Shaping under Spectral and Synchronization Issues, Enzo Baccarelli (University of Rome ''''La Sapienza'''', IT); Mauro Biagi (Sapienza University of Rome, IT); Cristian Pelizzoni (University of Rome ''La Sapienza'', IT); Nicola Cordeschi (''Sapienza'' University of Rome, IT)
Improved Demodulation of Phase Shift Keyed Signals Using Wavelet Thresholding, Ka Mun Ho (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, US); Canute Vaz (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, US); David Daut (Dept. of ECE, Rutgers Univ., US)

S9: Packet and Streaming Techniques, April 30, Wednesday 8-10am
Proactive Content Rate Selection for Enhanced Streaming Media Quality, Kiran Rege (Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, US); Krishna Balachandran (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, US); Doru Calin (Alcatel-Lucent, US); Eunyoung Kim (Alcatel-Lucent, US)
Space and Speed Tradeoffs in TCAM Hierarchical Packet Classification, Alex Kesselman (Intel Corp., IL); Kirill Kogan (Ben-Gurion University and Cisco Systems, IL); Sergey Nemzer (School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel, IL); Michael Segal (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IL)
Rule Caching for Packet Classification Support, Joji Phillip (NJIT, US); Roberto Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)
Multipath routing with adaptive playback scheduling for Voice Over IP in Service Overlay Networks, H. Li (McGill University, CA); Lorne Mason (McGill University, CA)

COFFEE BREAK – 10:00 -10:15 AM Exhibition Hall

S10: Smart Antennas/MIMO, April 30, 2008, Wednesday 10:15a-12:30pm  
Iterative SINR-Max Cooperative Beamforming in Multiuser MIMO Systems, Songnan Xi (Purdue University, US); Michael Zoltowski (Purdue University, US)
Dual selection diversity over correlated Weibull fading channels in the presence of cochannel interference, Daniela Milovic (University of Nis, YU); Mihajlo Stefanovic (Faculty of electronic engineering, Nis, YU); Anjan Biswas (Delaware State University, US)
HSDPA MIMO System Performance in Macro Cell Network, Timo Nihtilä (Magister Solutions Ltd., FI); Ville Haikola (Nokia, FI)
A Comparison of Two Lattice-Reduction-Based Receivers for MIMO Systems, Jun Niu (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, US); I-Tai Lu (Polytechnic University, US)
A Novel 45 Degree Beam Steerable Antenna For Modern Communications, Arun Raaza (Swansea University, UK); Srinivasan Venugopalan (Swansea university, UK); Amit Mehta (Swanse University, UK)

S11: Communication Theory I, April 30, 2008, Wednesday 10:15am-12:30pm, Princeton
BER Performance Evaluation of Overloaded DS-CDMA System with Timing Synchronization Error, Preetam Kumar (IIT Kharagpur, IN)
Cramer-Rao Bound for Joint Carrier Frequency Offset, Symbol Timing Offset and Channel Taps in MC-CDMA Systems, Amir Seirafian (MSc. student, IR); Vahid TabaTaba Vakili (Iran University of Science and Technology, IR)
BER Analysis of Hard Decision Interference Cancellation Receiver for Overloaded DS-CDMA System, Preetam Kumar (IIT Kharagpur, IN)
Modelling the frame error rate for iterative demapping and decoding techniques over quasi-static fading channels, William Carson (University of Cambridge, UK); Ian Wassell (University of Cambridge, UK); Miguel Rodrigues (University of Porto, PT)

S12: Invited Session on Security, April 30, 2008, Wednesday 10:15am-12:30pm
New Directions in P2P Malware, Sven Dietrich (Stevens Institute of Technology, US); Dave Dittrich (University of Washington, US)
Downscaling Network Scenarios with Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Wei-Min Yao (Purdue University, US); Sonia Fahmy (Purdue University, US)
Reliable Traffic Information Propagation in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, Soyoung Park (University of Central Florida, US); Cliff Zou (University of Central Florida, US)
Composition of testbeds and constraints to enhance secure testbed usability, Ted Faber (USC/ISI, US)
Collaborative Location Certification for Sensor Networks, Sol Lederer (Stony Brook University, US); Radu Sion (SUNSY Stony Brook, US); Jie Gao (Stony Brook University, US)

S13: Optical Communications, April 30, 2008 Wednesday 10:15am-12:30pm
Integrated Bandwidth Allocation and Wavelength Assignment in WDM-PON Networks, Xin Ye (The Graduate Center of City University of New York, US); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, CA); Mohamed Ali (City University of New York, US)
Real-Time All-Order PMD Measurement Using Spectral Interference, Arthur Dogariu (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., US); Philip Ji (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., US); Ting Wang (NEC Laboratories America, US)
Miniaturization of 2-D Wavelength-Hopping Time-Spreading Incoherent Optical CDMA Network by Pulse Carving of CW Laser Source, Yanhua Deng (Princeton University, US); Mable P. Fok (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Ivan Glesk (University of Strathclyde, UK); Paul Prucnal (Princeton University, US)
A Bandwidth Bottleneck Resolution Approach to Node Configuration Optimization in WDM Ring Networks, Nobuo Funabiki (Okayama University, JP); Toru Nakanishi (Department of Communication Network Engineering, Okayama University, JP)

Lunch Break – 12:30 – 2:00 PM, Exhibits Hall – Key note Lunch Talk
Poster Paper student award presentation

S14: Modulation and Coding III, April 30, Wednesday 2.15-4.30pm
Collision-captured Multicarrier Modulation System, Hou Yafei (Ryukoku University, JP); Tomohiro Hase (Ryukoku University, JP)
A novel NLMS-ZF data detection approach for WCDMA based HSDPA systems, I-Tai Lu (Polytechnic University, US)
Continuous Phase Modulation for Multi-Level Spreading Codes in CDMA Communications, Handan Agirman-Tosun (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US); Ali Akansu (NJIT, US)
A Novel Subspace Based Method for Direction of Arrival Estimation of Signals in a Multi-path CDMA System, Maryam Abolfath Beygi (University of Tehran, IR)
A CP-CDMA System with Comb Spectrum Codes and Its Performance Evaluation, Hongbing Cheng (Stevens Institute of Technology, US); Bingli Jiao (Peking University, CN); Yu-Dong Yao (Stevens Institute of Technology, US)

S15: Microwave Antennas and Electronics, April 30, Wednesday 2:15-4:30pm
A Dual-Resonant Microstrip Antenna for Paperboard in the Cold Chain, Daniel Deavours (Kansas University, US); Mutharasu Sivakumar (University of Kansas, US)
A Fundamental Limit on Antenna Gain for Electrically Small Antennas, Andrew Compston (Q-Track Corproation, US); Hans Schantz (The Q-Track Corporation, US); James Fluhler (Q-Track Corproation, US)
Optimized Design and Fabrication of a Fragmented Wire Antenna, Emanuel Merulla (University of Connecticut, US); Rajeev Bansal (University of Connecticut, US)
Antenna Array Synthesis Using Derivative, Non-Derivative and Random Search Optimization, Stephen Blank (New York Institute of Technology, US); Michael Hutt (Hutt Systems, US)
Mode-Coupled Stubs-Tuned Planar Resonator Offers Promissing And Integrable Alternatives of DRO (Dielectric Resonator Oscillator), Ajay Poddar (Synergy Microwave Corporation, US); Ulrich Rohde (Synergy Microwave Corp., US)

S16: Communication Theory II, April 30, Wednesday 2:15-4:30pm
Comparison of bi-directional relaying protocols, Sang Joon Kim (Harvard University, US); Natasha Devroye (Harvard University, US); Patrick Mitran (University of Waterloo, CA); Vahid Tarokh (Harvard University, US)
Proof-of-Concept C-UWB Data Link, Hans Schantz (The Q-Track Corporation, US); Kazimierz Siwiak (IEEE, US); Tad Janik (Miltec Systems, US)
Specific Emitter Identification using Nonlinear Device Estimation, Ming-Wei Liu (The Pennsylvania State University, US); John Doherty (The Pennsylvania State University, US)
Multiuser Opportunistic Scheduling for Hard Delay Constrained Systems, Muhammad Butt (Norwegian University of Science & Technology, NO); Kimmo Kansanen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO); Ralf Mueller (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO)
Implementation of Interleave Division Multiple Access (IDMA), Sana Javed (National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), PK); Imtiaz Khokhar (National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), PK)

S17: OFDM Systems, April 30 Wednesday 2:15-4:30pm
On improved channel estimation for OFDM systems using the additive eigen value inflation approach, Vinay Prabhu (IIT,Madras, IN)
An Investigation into Initial Ranging Method for Mobile OFDMA Systems, Jianqiang Zeng (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Hlaing Minn (University of Texas at Dallas, US)
Analysis of a Virtual Carrier Based Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation Algorithm in the Presence of I/Q Imbalance in OFDM Systems, Jiang Chang (Polytechnic University, US); I-Tai Lu (Polytechnic University, US)
An Enhanced Feedback Scheme for Extended Orthogonal Space Frequency Block Coded MISO-OFDM Systems, Nasr Eldin Eltayeb (Loughborough University, UK)
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