Technical Sessions

Tuesday, Mar 31

08:45 - 09:45
Keynote
Room: Prince William Ballroom
Rod C. Alferness
Chief Scientist for Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories

10:05 - 12:10
Mobility and Routing in Access Networks

Room: NASSAU
10:05 Sink Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks: When Theory Meets Reality
Natalija Vlajic (York University, Canada)
10:30 A Beaconless Node Velocity-based Stable Path Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks
Natarajan Meghanathan (Jackson State University, USA)
10:55 Impact of Mobility Models on the Cell Residence Time in WLAN Networks
Enrica Zola (Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña (UPC), Spain); Francisco Barcelo-Arroyo (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain)
11:20 Node Addressing Schemes for Scalable and Fault Tolerant Routing in Hierarchical WSNs
Anurag D (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India); Somprakash Bandyopadhyay (Indian Institute of Management, India)
11:45 Performance Analysis of Generalized Handover Model for Cellular Networks
Valentine Aalo (Florida Atlantic University, USA); George Efthymoglou (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Service Authentication

Room: PALMER
10:05 Making the Case for EAP Channel Bindings
T. Charles Clancy (University of Maryland, USA); Katrin Hoeper (Motorola, USA)
10:30 An Efficient and Scalable Key Distribution Mechanism for Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks
Song Guo (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
10:55 A Transport-Based Architecture for Fast Re-Authentication in Wireless Networks
Rafa Marin Lopez (University of Murcia, Spain); Fernando Pereñiguez (University of Murcia, Spain); Yoshihiro Ohba (TARI, USA); Fernando Bernal (University of Murcia, Spain); Antonio Fernando Gómez Skarmeta (University of Murcia, Spain)

Military Communications

Room: PRINCETON
10:05 Efficient Management of Multicast Communications in Mission-Critical Networks
Selcuk Cevher (The City University of New York, USA); Umit Uyar (City College, New York, USA); Mariusz Fecko (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA); John Sucec (Telcordia Technologies, USA); Sunil Samtani (Telcordia Technologies Inc., USA)
10:30 Covert Communications using Empirical Mode Decomposition
Arnab Roy (Pennsylvania State University, USA); John Doherty (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
10:55 QoI in DTN-Based Directional Networks
Robert Nichols (JHU/APL, USA)
11:20 Unified Continuous- and Discrete-Time Uplink Power Control Problem Formulation for SIR-Based Wireless Networks
Wu-Chung Su (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, R. O. C., USA); Bo-Hwan Jung (Yongin-Songdam College, Korea); Sheng-Yueh Chang (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan); Zoran Gajic (Rutgers University, Uruguay)
11:45 Applications of Game Theory to Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Node Spreading Potential Game
Janusz Kusyk (The Graduate Center,, The City University of New York, USA); Umit Uyar (City College, New York, USA); Elkin Urrea (City College of New York, USA); Mariusz Fecko (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA); Sunil Samtani (Telcordia Technologies Inc., USA)

Invited Session on Security
Room: SENIOR

10:05 A Dynamic Hierarchy for Intrusion Detection in MANETs
Dan Sterne
10:30 Resisting Node Spoofing Attacks in Random Key Predistribution Schemes: A Uniform Design
Kevin Chan
10:55 Power Allocation Tradeoffs in Multicarrier Authentication Systems
Paul Yu
11:20 Robust and Efficient Communication Overlays for Trust Authority Computations
Shane Balfe
11:45 A new schema for security in dynamic uncertain environments
Dakshi Agrawal

Service Enablement in Wireless Networks

Room: UNIVERSITY & COLONIAL
10:05 Transport Resource Manager for VPN Routing in Packet Networks
Huseyin Uzunalioglu (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Ramesh Nagarajan (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA); Gary Atkinson (Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
10:30 Performance Comparisons of Optimal Routing by Pipe, Hose, and Intermediate Models
Eiji Oki (University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Ayako Iwaki (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
10:55 A Two-Way Available Bandwidth Estimation Scheme for Multimedia Streaming Networks Adopting Scalable Video Coding
Mingfu Li (Chang Gung University, Taiwan)
11:20 Service-Based Traffic Classification: Principles and Validation
Mario Baldi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Fulvio Risso (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Niccolò Cascarano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Andrea Baldini (Cisco Systems, USA)
11:45 Estimating Topological Distances Based on End-to-end Path Sharing
Bengi Karacali (Avaya Labs, USA); Mark Karol (Telcordia Technologies, USA)

13:40 - 15:10

Military Panel

Room: PALMER

Commercial Panel

Room: UNIVERSITY & COLONIAL

New Role of Millimeter-Waves in Commercial Wireless Networking and the Co-existence between Military and Commercial Applications

Panelists:
1    David M. Britz, Principal Technical Staff Member, AT&T Labs Research - Shannon Labs.
2    Edouard Pereira, Optics CTO for Radio Evolution, Alcatel-Lucent, France.
3    Dr. Barry S. Perlman, Associate Director for Technology Communications-Electronics R&DE Center, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command
4    Dr. Mohsen Sarraf, Senior Scientist, Telcordia Technologies, New Jersey, USA.

15:25 - 17:55

Modulation and Coding I

Room: NASSAU
15:25 Search Sequence Determination for Tree Search based Detection Algorithms
Björn Mennenga (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
15:50 Blind Estimation of signal in Periodic Long-Code DSSS Communications
Saeed Daneshmand (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Hassan Aghaeinia (Amir Kabir University of Technology (Polytechnic of Tehran), Iran); Mahdi Tohidian (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Ali Jafarnia (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)
16:15 Blind Multiuser Data Estimation in Asynchronous and Unequal Power DS-SS Systems without any Prior Knowledge of Spreading Sequences
Siavash Ghavami (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran); Hooman Alikhanian (IUST, Iran); Bahman Abolhassani (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran); Hamidreza Saligheh Rad (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
16:40 Multi-rate Nonlinear Systematic Convolutional Codes
Gregory Mayhew (Washington University St Louis, USA)
17:05 Non-coherent Detection Method for 90°-Rotationally Invariant Trellis Coded QAM
Sami Hadda (National School of Engineers of Tunis, Tunisia); Ammar Bouallegue (National School of Engineers of Tunis, Tunisia)

Communication Theory I

Room: PALMER
15:25 A Wavelet-Based Method for Classification of Binary Digitally Modulated Signals
Ka Mun Ho (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA); Canute Vaz (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA); David Daut (Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, USA)
15:50 Throughput Enhancement of Joint AMC and Power Control with Diversity Combining for Next Generation Mobile Satellite Systems
Adeyemi Ajibesin (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
16:15 ESPRIT Condition in Signal Parameter Estimation
Mohamed El-Shafey (Ain Shams University, Egypt)
16:40 Comparison Of SPARLS And RLS Algorithms For Adaptive Filtering
Behtash Babadi (Harvard University, USA); Nicholas Kalouptsidis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Vahid Tarokh (Harvard University, USA)
17:05 Transmit and Receive Array Gain of Uniform Linear Arrays of Isotrops
Michel Ivrlac (Munich University of Technology, Germany); Josef Nossek (TU Munich, Germany)
17:30 A low complex and efficient coexistence approach for non-coherent multiband impulse radio UWB
Hanns-Ulrich Dehner (University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany); Micha Linde (University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany); Rainer Moorfeld (Dresden University of Technology, Germany); Holger Jaekel (University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany); Dennis Burgkhardt (University of Karlsruhe, Germany); Friedrich Jondral (Communications Engineering Lab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany); Adolf Finger (TU Dresden, Germany)

Air-Interface Resource Scheduling

Room: PRINCETON
15:25 A Deficit Round Robin with Fragmentation Scheduler for IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX
Chakchai So-In (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Raj Jain (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Abdel Karim Al Tamimi (Washington University in St.Louis, USA)
15:50 LASA: Low-Energy Adaptive Slot Allocation Scheduling Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
Sattar Hussain (Ryerson University, Canada); Amir Sepasi Zahmati (Ryerson University, Canada); Xavier Fernando (Ryerson University, Canada)
16:15 Chunk Based Diversity
Ronald Raulefs (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
16:40 Contention Free Slot Allocation and Reservation in Cellular Networks
Gunther Auer (DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany); Stefan Videv (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany); Birendra Ghimire (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Harald Haas (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Network Security
Room: SENIOR

15:25 Mitigation of Malware Proliferation in P2P Networks using Double-Layer Dynamic Trust (DDT) Management Scheme
Lin Cai (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Roberto Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
15:50 Towards The Perfect DDoS Attack: The Perfect Storm
Amey Shevtekar (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Nirwan Ansari (NJIT, USA); Roger Karrer (Credit Suisse Group, Switzerland)
16:15 A location privacy metric for V2X communication systems
Zhendong Ma (Ulm University, Germany); Frank Kargl (Ulm University, Germany); Michael Weber (Ulm University, Germany)

Application Enablement in Wireless Networks

Room: UNIVERSITY & COLONIAL
15:25 Coexistence of Streaming and Packetized Data Throughout the Protocol Stack
Roberto Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Ziqian Dong (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Chuan-bi Lin (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
15:50 U-turn Caching Optimization
Lev Sofman (Alcatel, USA, USA); Bill Krogfoss (Alcatel USA, USA); Anshul Agrawal (Alcatel, USA, USA)
16:15 Bounds on End-to-End Delay and Jitter in Input-Buffered and Internally Buffered IP Networks
Ted Szymanski (Mcmaster University, Canada)
16:40 Cooperative Video Summary Transmission in Wireless Networks
Dalei Wu (University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Song Ci (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Guan-Ming Su (Marvell Semiconductor, USA); Haohong Wang (Marvell Semiconductors, USA); Hui Tang (IOA, Chinese Academy of Sciences, USA)
17:05 IPv6 End-to-End QoS class mapping for Heterogeneous Networks Using Flow Label
Qiong Sun (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

18:30 - 20:45

Conference Banquet

Room: Prince William Ballroom

Mr. Nicholas Karter,
Senior Director of Global Business Development and Product Management at Qualcomm – Flarion Technologiesn.

Wednesday, Apr 1

08:00 - 10:30

RF Devices and Systems

Room: NASSAU
8:00 Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillator
Ajay Poddar (Synergy Microwave Corporation, USA); Ulrich Rohde (Synergy Microwave Corp., USA)
8:25 A wideband feedback compensated quadrature generator
Carlos Saavedra (Queen's University, Canada); Gideon Yong (Queen's University, USA)
8:50 Frequency Doubler Employing Active Fundamental Cancellation in CMOS
Stanley Ho (Queen's University, Canada); Carlos Saavedra (Queen's University, Canada)
9:15 0.6V Correlators for WLAN Receivers
Tanya Vanessa Abaya (University of the Philippines, Philippines); Dean Michael Ancajas (University of the Philippines, Philippines); Anastacia Ballesil (University of the Philippines, Philippines)
9:40 Miniaturized VCOs Arm Configurable Synthesizers
Ajay Poddar (Synergy Microwave Corporation, USA); Ulrich Rohde (Synergy Microwave Corp., USA)
10:05 Intrinsic Jitter of Flying-Adder Frequency Synthesizers
Paul Sotiriadis (Johns Hopkins University EPP, USA)

Modulation and Coding II

Room: PALMER
8:00 Carrier Frequency Synchronization based on Pulse-Pair Method for 8-VSB DTV Systems
Hyunju Kim (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea); Eonpyo Hong (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea); Seungwook Min (Sangmyung University, Korea); Dongsoo Har (GIST, Korea)
8:25 High Resolution Joint Time Delay and Frequency Estimation
Heba Shatnawi (Wichita State University, USA); Hirenkumar Gami (Wichita State University, USA); Mahmoud Qasaymeh (Wichita state university, USA); Nizar Tayem (Miami University, USA); Ravi Pendse (Wichita State University, USA); Edwin Sawan (Wichita State University, USA)
8:50 Resource Allocation And Block Coding Within A Three-Stage Collaborative Broadband Relay Network
Shakiru Kassim (Loughborough University, United Kingdom); Nasr Eldin Eltayeb (Loughborough University, United Kingdom); Jonathon Chambers (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
9:15 Reduced Complexity Demodulation and Equalization Scheme for Differential Impulse Radio UWB Systems with ISI
Xudong Ma (FlexRealm, USA)
9:40 Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff Analysis of A Cooperative Network Coding System
Li-Chun Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Wei-Cheng Liu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Sau-Hsuan Wu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

Optical Communications and Networking

Room: PRINCETON
8:00 Band-segment Protection in Multi-granular Optical Networks
Yang Wang (Georgia State University, USA); Xiaojun Cao (Georgia State University, USA)
8:25 Transmission Convergence Layer Framing in XG-PON1
Yuanqiu Luo (Huawei Technologies USA, USA)
8:50 Signal Re-modulation with High Extinction Ratio 10-Gbit/s IRZ signal for DWDM-PONs
Jinnan Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xueguang Yuan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xiaomin Ren (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yongqing Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Minglun Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
9:15 Traveling Wave Optical Modulator with High Dynamic Range (>130 dB) at Large Modulation Frequencies
Andru Prescod (City College of New York, USA); Benjamin Dingel (Nasfine Photonics Incorporated, USA); Nicholas Madamopoulos (City College of CUNY, USA)
9:40 Design of Flexible Protection Plans in Survivable WDM Networks: An Application to PWCE
Samir Sebbah (Concordia University, Canada); Brigitte Jaumard (Concordia University, Canada)

Communication Theory II

Room: SENIOR
8:00 Ei-Transform: A Useful and General Framework for Channel Capacity Analysis over Fading Channels
Marco Di Renzo (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia, Spain); Fabio Graziosi (University of l'Aquila, Italy); Fortunato Santucci (University of l'Aquila, Italy)
8:25 On the Capacity of Secondary Users in a Cognitive Radio Network
Yogesh Reddy Kondareddy (Auburn University, USA); Nirmal Andrews (Auburn University, USA); Prathima Agrawal (Auburn University, USA)
8:50 On Human Body Ultra Wideband Channel Characterizations for Different Wave Polarizations
Ali Khaleghi (Rikshospitalet and NTNU, Norway); Ilangko Balasingham (Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Norway)
9:15 Reconstruction of Streams of Impulses from Quantized Samples using a Stochastic Algorithm based on Genetic Algorithms
Aitor Erdozain (CEIT and TECNUN (University of Navarra), Spain); Pedro Crespo (CEIT and TECNUN (University of Navarra), Spain)
9:40 Overloading Scheme for Cellular DS-CDMA using Quasi-Orthogonal Sequences
Preetam Kumar (IIT Kharagpur, India)

Invited Papers on Wireless Systems

Invited Papers on Wireless Systems
Room: UNIVERSITY & COLONIAL

8:00 Layered Video Multicast Using Diversity Embedded Space Time Codes
Cagdas Bilen (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA); Elza Erkip (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA); Yao Wang (Polytechnic University, USA)
8:25 Multicasting of Digital Images Over Erasure Broadcast Channels Using Rateless Codes
Maria Fresia (Princeton University, USA); Ozgun Bursalioglu (University of Southern California, USA); Giuseppe Caire (USC, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
8:50 Robust Wireless Localization to Attacks on Access Points
Jie Yang (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Victor Lawrence (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Venkataraman Swaminathan (US Army, USA)
9:15 Design of Link and Routing Protocols for Cache and Forward Networks
Shweta Jain (WINLAB, Rutgers The state University of NJ, USA); Ayesha Saleem (Rutgers Univ, USA); Hongbo Liu (Rutgers Univ., USA); Yanyong Zhang (Rutgers University, USA); Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers Univ., USA)
9:40 Safety issues in collaborative vehicle control
Nick Maxemchuk ( Columbia University , USA )

10:45 - 12:50

Air-interface Power Management

Room: NASSAU
10:45 On the Power Efficient Resource Allocation for the Overloaded Multipath CDMA Systems
Paul Cotae (University of The District of Columbia, USA); Fatou Mbengue (University of the District of Columbia, USA)
11:10 Transmitter Optimization, Widely-Linear Detection, and Power Control for Energy-Efficient Networks: a Game-Theoretic Approach
Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino, Italy); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA); Alessio Zappone (University of Cassino, Italy)
11:35 Minimum Power Allocation for Cooperative Routing in Multihop Wireless Networks
Behrouz Maham (University of Oslo, Norway); Are Hjørungnes (University of Oslo, Norway)
12:00 Centralized PSM: An AP-centric Power Saving Mode for 802.11 Infrastructure Networks
Yi Xie (Xiamen University, P.R. China); Xiapu Luo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Rocky Chang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
12:25 PAPR reduction of Software Radio signals using PRC method
Sajjad Hussain (SUPELEC, France); Yves Louet (SUPELEC-Rennes Campus, France)

Adhoc Networks

Room: PALMER
10:45 Destination Assisted Routing Enhancement (DARE) Protocol for Ad Hoc Mobile Networks
Yousef Abdelmalek (City College, USA), Tarek Saadawi, City College of New York..
11:10 SEARCH: A Routing Protocol for Mobile Cognitive Radio Ad-hoc Networks
Kaushik Chowdhury (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy)
11:35 Enabling Cooperation in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Santosh Kulkarni (Auburn University, USA); Pratap Prasad (Auburn University, USA); Prathima Agrawal (Auburn University, USA)
12:00 Coverage area improvement in a camera sensor network
Shadrokh Samavi (McMaster University, Canada)

Invited Session on Microwave Photonics

Room: PRINCETON
10:45 Achieving Low-Noise-Figure Photonic Links without Pre-amplification
Edward Ackerman (Photonics Systems Inc, USA); Mary Phillips (Photonic Systems, Inc., USA)
11:10 Photonics for Microwave Signal Filtering
Jianping Yao (University of Ottawa, Canada)
11:35 Radio-over-Fiber Technologies for High Data Rate Wireless Applications
Anthony Ng'oma (Corning Incorporated, USA); Michael Sauer (Corning Incorporated, USA)
12:00 RF and Microwave Photonic Techniques in Biomedical applications
Afshin Daryoush (Drexel University, USA)
12:25 RF Photonics Applications Via Optically Injected Diode Lasers
Vassilios Kovanis (Wright Patterson AFB, USA)

OFDM Systems I

Room: SENIOR
10:45 Analysis of Joint Doppler, Phase Noise Effects on OFDM Systems in Time Varying Channels
Atanu Guchhait (Motorola Applied Technology and Research Center, India); Sivabalan Arumugam (Motorola India Research Labs, India)
11:10 Subspace-Based Blind CFO Estimation for OFDM by Exploiting Used Carriers
Hirenkumar Gami (Wichita State University, USA); Mahmoud Qasaymeh (Wichita state university, USA); Nizar Tayem (Miami University, USA); Ravi Pendse (Wichita State University, USA); Edwin Sawan (Wichita State University, USA)
11:35 Realizable Ideal D/C and C/D Converters for OFDM Signals
Ming-Xian Chang (Nation Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
12:00 Detection of OFDM Signals in Fast Time-Varying Channels with ICI Self-Cancellation
Ming-Xian Chang (Nation Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
12:25 Mean BER Minimization Loading Algorithm for Linear Precoded OFDM
Fahad Syed Muhammad (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes (IETR), France); Antoine Stephan (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes (IETR), France); Jean-Yves Baudais (CNRS, France); Jean-François Hélard (IETR, France)

Air-Interface Resource Management

Room: UNIVERSITY & COLONIAL
10:45 A Predictive Strategy for Lifetime Maximization in Selective Relay Networks
Seyed Mousavifar (University of British Columbia, Canada); Tamer Khattab (Qatar University, Qatar); Cyril Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada)
11:10 Sender-based Resource Allocation for Multi-Hop Routing Networks
Yean-Fu Wen (National Chiayi University, Taiwan)
11:35 Realistic user distribution and its impact on Capacity and coverage For a WCDMA mobile network
Mohamed Elalem Elalem (Ryerson University, Canada); Lian Zhao (Ryerson University, Canada)
12:00 Nonlinearity Estimation for Specific Emitter Identification in Multipath Environment
Ming-Wei Liu (The Pennsylvania State University, USA); John Doherty (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
12:25 On Multi-user Detection in CDMA Based Cooperative Networks
Ali Jafarnia (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Hassan Aghaeinia (Amir Kabir University of Technology (Polytechnic of Tehran), Iran); S. Mohammad Razavizadeh (Iran Telecomm. Research Center, Iran); Saeed Daneshmand (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch-Time Keynote Presentation

Room: Prince William Ballroom
Dr. Henning Schulzrinne
Chairman and Professor of Computer Science Department Columbia University, New York.

14:45 - 16:50

RF and Microwave Techniques

Room: NASSAU
14:45 Impacts of Different Arm Structures of Reflector IRA: Wire, Coplanar Plate, and Bi-conical Arms
Peng Zhang (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Yu-Dong Yao (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Erum Fajandar (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Harry Moore (U.S. Army ARDEC, USA); Hardev Singh (U.S. Army ARDEC, USA)
15:10 Almost-Digital Multiphase Frequency Mixing
William Ling (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Paul Sotiriadis (Johns Hopkins University EPP, USA)
15:35 A Coulomb Force Reconfigurable System
Thaddeus Gabara (MetaMEMS, USA)
16:00 Parameter Estimation of Acoustic Signals Using Linear Microphone Arrays
Liwen Guo (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Kishore Pochiraju (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)

MIMO Techniques

Room: PALMER
14:45 Joint MMSE Precoder and Decoder Design for Downlink Multiuser MIMO Systems with Arbitrary Transmit Power Constraints
I-Tai Lu (Polytechnic University, USA)
15:10 On the Efficiency of Directional Antennas in MIMO Communication Systems
Omid Darvishi (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran); Bahman Abolhassani (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran); Hamidreza Saligheh Rad (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
15:35 Maximum SINR Transmit Beamforming for Multiuser MIMO Systems with Limited Feedback
Songnan Xi (Purdue University, USA); Michael Zoltowski (Purdue University, USA)
16:00 An Incremental PGA Architecture for STBC MIMO Decoding
Leonard Colavito (Temple University, USA); Dennis Silage (Temple University, USA)
16:25 Closed-form Location Estimator from TOA/AOA/DOA Measurements in MIMO Communication Systems
Yaqin Xie (Southeast University, P.R. China); Wang Yan (Southeast university, P.R. China); Xiaohu You (National Mobile communication Research Lab., Southeast University, P.R. China)
16:50 MIMO NLMS-ZF Data Detection Approach for WCDMA Based HSDPA Systems
I-Tai Lu (Polytechnic University, USA); Enoch Lu (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA)

OFDM Systems II
Room: SENIOR

14:45 BPF and MPF-Based Packet Scheduling for AMC-Based OFDMA Wireless Communication Systems
Bai Zhang (Lakehead University, Canada); Zhiwei Mao (Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA)
15:10 On the analysis of P1 symbol performance for DVB-T2
Lorenzo Vangelista (University of Padova, Italy); Marco Rotoloni (University of Padova, Italy)
15:35 Revisiting Active Cancellation Carriers for Shaping the Spectrum of OFDM-based Cognitive Radios
Mahmoud Elsaadany (German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt); Ahmed Shalash (Cairo University, Egypt); Mohamed Abdallah (Cairo University, Egypt)
16:00 A Semi-analytical Method to Model Effective SINR Spatial Distribution in WiMAX Networks
Masood Maqbool (TELECOM ParisTech, France); Marceau Coupechoux (TELECOM ParisTech, France); Philippe Godlewski (ENST-Telecom Paris, France)
16:25 Merged SLM Scheme for PAPR Reduction of OFDM System with Low Complexity
Jongyeop Lee (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
16:50 Generalized Discrete Fourier Transform: Theory and Design Methods
Ali Akansu (NJIT, USA); Handan Agirman-Tosun (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

Sensor Networks

Room: UNIVERSITY & COLONIAL
14:45 Dynamic Cluster Header Selection with Self-incentive for Wireless Sensor Networks
Jinsuk Baek (Winston-Salem State University, USA); Sun Kyong An (Winston-Salem State University, USA); Paul Fisher (Winston-Salem State University, USA); Elva Jones (Winston-Salem State University, USA)
15:10 Radio Irregularity Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks: New Experimental Results
Nedal Ababneh (The University of Sydney, Australia)
15:35 Modeling and Evaluating Reliable Real-time Degree in Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks
Kambiz Mizanian (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Hamed Yousefi (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Amir Hossein Jahangir (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
16:00 Sensor Network Pair-wise Wireless Communications Performance with Unsteady Node Orientation
William Lintz (Naval Postgraduate School, USA); John McEachen (Naval Postgraduate School, USA); David Jenn (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
16:25 Throughput Performance Evaluation of Two-Tier TDMA for Sensor Networks
Di Zheng (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Yu-Dong Yao (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)