Technical Sessions

 

Tuesday, April 13

 

 

Information Theory        ROOM: NASSAU

Chair: Edwin Hou

 

10:05 EEO: an Efficient Horizontal MDS Erasure Code for Parallel Implementation

Jun Feng (State University of New York - Binghamton, USA); Yu Chen (State University of New York - Binghamton, USA); Douglas Summerville (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA)

10:25 Maximizing Throughput in Cooperative Networks via Cross-layer Adaptive Designs

Yupeng Jia (University of Rochester, USA); Azadeh Vosoughi (University of Rochester, USA)

10:45 On Capacity Computation for the Two-User Binary Multiple-Access Channel: Solutions by Cooperation

Jörg Bühler (TU Berlin, Germany); Gerhard Wunder (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany)

11:05 On The Modeling of Delay and Burstiness for Calculating Throughput

Kashif Mahmood (Norwegian University Of Science and Technology, Norway); Yuming Jiang (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway); Addisu Eshete (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

11:25 Dynamic Alarm Correlation Method in Telecommunication Networks based on Cellular Learning Automaton

Mahnaz Imanazari (Qazvin azad university, Iran)

Broadband Access Networks        ROOM: PALMERS

Chair: Shweta Jain

 

10:05 Fault Diagnosis in IP Networks via Multicast Probing: Noisy Measurements

Kiran M Rege (Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Ramesh Nagarajan (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA); Ahmet Akyamac (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)

10:25 Long-Term Prediction of MPEG Video Traffic for Broadband Cable Networks

Benny Bing (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

10:45 Cable Modem Buffer Management in DOCSIS Networks

Jim Martin (Clemson, USA); Mike Westall (Clemson University, USA)

11:05 The Role of Max-min Fairness in DOCSIS 3.0 Downstream Channel Bonding

Scott Moser (Clemson University, USA); Jim Martin (Clemson, USA); Mike Westall (Clemson University, USA); Brian Dean (Clemson University, USA)

11:25 Impulse Noise Cancellation based on the Common-Mode Signal

Werner Henkel (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany); Oana Graur (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)

Wireless Communications Transceivers        ROOM: PRINCETON

Chair: David Daut

 

10:05 Analytical Performance Evaluation of a Class of Receivers with Joint Equalization and Carrier Frequency Synchronization

Pedro Pedrosa (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal); Rui Dinis (Instituto de Telecomunicações/UNINOVA/FCT-UNL, Portugal); Fernando Nunes (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal)

10:25 On the Design of Frequency-Domain Equalizers for OQPSK Modulations

Rui Dinis (Instituto de Telecomunicações/UNINOVA/FCT-UNL, Portugal); Miguel Luzio (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Paulo Montezuma (FCT-UNL, Portugal)

10:45 Impact of Fade Distribution and Branch Correlation on Selection Diversity BPSK Receivers

Annamalai Annamalai (Prairie View A&M University, USA)

11:05 On Energy Efficiency of Pilot Assisted Modulation Schemes

Sahar Javaher Haghighi (University of Wester Ontario, Canada); Dan J Dechene (The University of Western Ontario, Canada); Abdallah Shami (The University of Western Ontario, Canada); Serguei L. Primak (The University of Western Ontario, Canada); Xianbin Wang (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

Antennas for Wireless Communications         ROOM: PALMERS

Chair: Allen Katz

 

10:05 Constructive Interference in Yagi-Uda Type Printed Terahertz Antenna on Photonic Crystal Substrate

Ghanashyam Singh (Jaypee University of Information Technology, India); Kumud Ranjan Jha (Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu and Kashmir, India); Sun Rao (Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, India)

10:25 Elementary and Competent Designing Technique for Broadband Patch Antenna

M Pramod Kumar (Sreenidhi vaughn college of engineering, India)

10:45 A 3.5-20 GHz New UWB Printed Antenna Using Bevels and Parasitic Elements

Zinab Fathy Elsharkawy (Eng. Dept., Nuclear Research Center, Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt, Egypt); Abdelmegeed Sharshar (Faculty of electronic engineering, menouf, menoufia, egypt, Egypt); Said Elhalafawy (Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menouf, Menoufia, Egypt, Egypt); Sayed Elaraby (Eng. Dept., Nuclear Research Center, Atomic energy authority, Cairo, Egypt, Egypt)

11:05 A study on using micro-GA techniques for thinning of antenna arrays

Rajashree Jain (Symbiosis International University, India)

11:25 A 9.3-19 GHz Stacked Segmented Microstrip Patch Antenna

Zinab Fathy Elsharkawy (Eng. Dept., Nuclear Research Center, Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt, Egypt); Abdelmegeed Sharshar (Faculty of electronic engineering, menouf, menoufia, egypt, Egypt); Sayed Elaraby (Eng. Dept., Nuclear Research Center, Atomic energy authority, Cairo, Egypt, Egypt)

Applications and Multimedia         ROOM: UNIVERSITY

Chair: Ajay Rajkumar

 

15:25 Backward-Compatible Robust Error Protection of JPEG XR Compressed Video

Paolo Micanti (University of Perugia, Italy); Giuseppe Baruffa (University of Perugia, Italy); Fabrizio Frescura (University of Perugia, Italy); Leonardo Angelini (Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy); Maurizio Caon (Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy)

15:45 Quality of Experience of the HTTP Session Mobility Service

Michael O. Adeyeye (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

16:05 Prototypical Implementation of a Service Oriented Wireless Sensor Networks Application

Fahad Aijaz (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

16:25 Hand Gesture Video Browsing for Broadband-Enabled HDTVs

Arnaud Bernard (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Benny Bing (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

16:45 Intelligent Activity Detection Techniques for Advanced HD Video Surveillance Systems

Benny Bing (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Rohit Nair (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

17:05 Network Assessment for Low Bitrate Video

Bengi Karacali (Avaya Labs, USA)

Wireless Communications RF Devices         ROOM: NASSAU

Chair: Wieslaw Bury

 

15:25 Low Profile Dipole Antenna Design Using Squar SRRs Artificial Ground Plane

Mustafa K. Taher Al-Nuaimi (University of Technology, Iraq)

15:45 Design Forms of Branching Lines for Microstrip Power Dividers

Asaad AL-Hindawi (Suliamani Technical College, Iraq)

16:05 Electromagnetic Interference Dynamics in High Frequency Crystal Oscillator Circuits

Ajay Kumar Poddar (Synergy Microwave Corporation, USA); Ulrich Rohde (Synergy Microwave Corp., USA)

16:25 A 3.7GHz 130nm CMOS-SOI Class E RF Power Amplifier

Luis Alejandro Andia Montes (ST Microelectronics, France); Didier BELOT (ST Microelectronics, France); Martine Villegas (ESYCOM ESIEE-Paris, France); Geneviève B. Baudoin (ESIEE, France)

Radio Resource and Interference Management I         ROOM: PALMERS

Chair: Pantelis Monogioudis

 

15:25 An Efficient Multi Code Design for Code Blocking Reduction in 3G Wireless Networks

Davinder Singh Saini (Jaypee University of Information Technology, India); Neeru Sharma (Jaypee University of Information Technology, India)

15:45 Random Access in a Cognitive Radio Network with Slotted Aloha for Primary Users and CSMA for Secondary Users

Yu-Dong Yao (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Di Zheng (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)

16:05 Global Resource Manager for Mobile Satellite Systems with Ancillary Terrestrial Component

Adam Eisenman (RKF Engineering, USA)

16:25 Steady-State Markov Chain Analysis for Heterogenous Cognitive Radio Networks

Amir Sepasi Zahmati (Ryerson University, Canada); Xavier N Fernando (Ryerson University, Canada); Ali Grami (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

16:45 Auction-based Spectrum Sharing for Multiple Primary and Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Networks

Hoda Shah Mohammadian (IUST, Iran); Bahman Abolhassani (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran)

17:05 Jointly Optimized Transmit Beamforming and Temporal User Scheduling in Multiuser Multicell Scenarios Based on Correlation Knowledge

Guido Dartmann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Xitao Gong (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Gerd H. Ascheid (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Wireless MIMO I         ROOM: PRINCETON

Chair: Walid Ahmed

 

15:25 A Simple Design of Structured Space-Time Block Codes for Communication in Spread Systems

Marko Beko (ULHT, Lisbon, Portugal, Portugal); Rui Dinis (Instituto de Telecomunicações/UNINOVA/FCT-UNL, Portugal)

15:45 Mobile Transmit Beam-Forming Diversity on UMTS/HSUPA Networks

Sherwin J Wang (Magnolia Broadband, USA); Eduardo Abreu (Magnolia Broadband Inc., USA); Haim Harel (Magnolia Broadband Inc., USA); Ken Kludt (Magnolia Broadband Inc., USA); Phil Chen (Magnolia Broadband Inc., USA)

16:05 Outage Probability in a Multi-Cellular Network Using Alamouti Scheme

Dorra Ben Cheikh Battikh (Télécom ParisTech, France)

16:25 Low Complexity Iterative MIMO Receiver Based on Successive Soft Interference-Cancellation and MMSE Spatial-Filtering

John C. Koshy (Telcordia Technologies, USA)

Wireless Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks I         ROOM: SENIOR

Chair: Mauro Biagi

15:25 Joint Relay Deployment and Power Allocation in Cooperative Wireless Sensor Networks

Mohammad Taghi Abdizadeh (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Hadi Jamali Rad (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran); Bahman Abolhassani (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran)

15:45 SPF-Net: A Scalable Protocol for Flexible Sensor Networks

Frank Kendall (Kean University, USA); Patricia A Morreale (Kean University, USA)

16:05 Group-based Key Management for Mobile Sensor Networks

Kashif Kifayat (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom)

16:25 Sensor Selection for Target Tracking in Binary Sensor Networks using Particle Filter

Javad Jafaryahya (Tehran Polytechnic (AUT), Iran); Seyedreza Najafi (Tehran Polytechnic (AUT), Iran); Hamid reza Dastmalchi (Tehran Polytechnic (AUT), Iran)

 

Wednesday, April 14

 

Wireless Communications Systems I         ROOM: UNIVERSITY

Chair: Pantelis Monogioudis

8:00 An Efficient Channel and Queue Aware Resource Allocation Strategy in Wireless Access Networks

Vaibhav Singh (Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, India); Swades De (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Hari Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Navrati Saxena (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Abhishek Roy (Samsung Electronics, Korea)

8:20 Detection and Punishment of Malicious Wireless Stations in IEEE 802.11e EDCA Network

Yong woon Ahn (University of Houston, USA); Albert M K Cheng (University of Houston, USA); Jinsuk Baek (Winston-Salem State University, USA); Paul Fisher (Winston-Salem State University, USA)

8:40 Joint Design in OFDM Systems Using Constellation Extension

Zhiwei Mao (Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA); Kewei Yuan (Lakehead University, Canada); Xianmin Wang (Harmonic Inc., USA)

9:00 Cooperative QoS Mechanism for Hetergeneous Networking

Jiann-Liang Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)

9:20 Towards Radix-4, Parallel Interleaver Design to Support High-Throughput Turbo Decoding for Re-Configurability

Rizwan Asghar (Linkoping University, Sweden); Dake Liu (Linköping University, Sweden)

Wireless MIMO II         ROOM: PALMERS

Chair: Kika Konstantinou

8:00 Joint Design of Modulation Coding Scheme for MIMO Quasi-Static Fading Systems

Jialing Li (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA); I-Tai Lu (Polytechnic University, USA)

8:20 MIMO Spatial Adaptivity for Tactical Communications in Dynamic Multipath and Mobility Environments

Carol Martin (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA); John C. Koshy (Telcordia Technologies, USA); Joseph Liberti (Telcordia Technologies, USA)

8:40 Performance of Wireless Body Area Network over On-Human-Body Propagation Channels

Yunjoong Park (Hanyang University, Korea); Sang Kyu Park (Hanyang University, Korea); Ho Yong Lee (Hanyang University, Korea)

9:00 Spatial Modulation with Partial-CSI at the Receiver: Optimal Detector and Performance Evaluation

Marco Di Renzo (French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France); Harald Haas (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

9:20 Transmit Diversity for Terrestrial Broadcast Systems

Ronald Raulefs (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)

Optical Communications I         ROOM: SENIOR

Chair: Nicholas Madamopoulos

8:00 PXT-based Path Protection for Multicast Sessions in WDM Networks

Taiming Feng (Iowa State University, USA); Lu Ruan (Iowa State University, USA); Chuang Wang (Iowa State University, USA); Hua Qin (Iowa State University, USA)

8:20 Linear Crosstalk Analysis of an Un-Amplified Ring PON Architecture

Dwight Richards (College of Staten Island, USA); Nicholas Madamopoulos (City College of CUNY, USA)

8:40 FWM: Effect of Channel Allocation with Constant Bandwidth and Ultra-Fine Grids in DWDM Systems

Paula Brandao Harboe (Federal Fluminense University, Brazil); Jose Rodolfo Souza (Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil)

9:00 Novel Geometrical Solution to Additivity Problem of Classical Quantum Channel Capacity

Laszlo Gyongyosi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Sandor Imre (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Radio Resource and Interference Management II         ROOM: NASSAU

Chair: John Kosinski

8:00 Fast Prediction of Scattering in Mountainous Terrain using Commonly Visible Surfaces

Alexander H. Xiao (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA); Henry L. Bertoni (Polytechnic University, USA); Chrysanthos Chrysanthou (US Army CERDEC, USA); Jeffrey Boksiner (US Army RDECOM CERDEC, USA)

8:50 Simplified Path Gain Model for Mobile-to-Mobile Communications in an Urban High-rise Environment

Jonathan Lu (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA); Henry L. Bertoni (Polytechnic University, USA); Chrysanthos Chrysanthou (US Army CERDEC, USA); Jeffrey Boksiner (US Army RDECOM CERDEC, USA)

9:10 An Investigation of Non-Data-Aided SNR Estimation Techniques for Analog Modulation Signals

Haifeng Xiao (New Jersey's Science & Technology University, USA); Yun Q. Shi (NJIT, USA); Wei Su (U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC, USA); John Kosinski (US Army CERDEC, USA)

9:30 Performance of a Constant Bit Rate Delay-Limited Adaptive Modulation Scheme

Arulsaravana Jeyaraj (UC, Irvine, USA); Magda El Zarki (University of California at Irvine, USA)

9:50 A Relaying Enticement Mechanism for Wireless CDMA Mesh Networks

Azin Neishaboori (ECI Telecom, USA); Arnab Das (Penn State, USA); George Kesidis (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

10:10 Provisioning Backhaul Traffic Flows in TDMA/OFDMA Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks with Near-Perfect QoS

Ted H. Szymanski (Mcmaster University, Canada)

Wireless Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks II         ROOM: PRINCETON

Chair: Edwin Hou

8:00 On the Eavesdrop Vulnerability of Wireless Networks using Random Network Coding, Subgraph Generation, and Repair Traffic

Roger Hammons (APL, Johns Hopkins University, USA); Qinqing Zhang (Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, USA); Brian Haberman (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA)

8:50 Cross-Layer Combining of Hierarchical Modulation and Retransmission Diversity for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Annamalai Annamalai (Prairie View A&M University, USA)

9:10 Joint Spectrum Allocation and Scheduling in Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Cognitive Radio Wireless Networks

Peng Wang (NRC PostDoc, USA); John D. Matyjas (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Michael Medley (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)

9:30 Improving Link Failover Efficiency in MANETs Using Modular Prediction

Eric van den Berg (Telcordia Technologies, USA); Arturo Cisneros (Telcordia Technologies, USA); Ibrahim Hokelek (Telcordia Technologies, USA); Kirthika Parmeswaran (Telcordia Technologies, USA); Sunil Samtani (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA); John Sucec (Telcordia Technologies, USA); Jonathan L Simbol (U.S. Army CERDEC, USA); Aristides Staikos (U.S. Army CERDEC, Fort Monmouth, NJ, USA); Gregory B Rucker (U.S. Army CERDEC, USA)

9:50 Latency-Information Theory: The Mathematical-Physical Theory of Communication-Observation

Erlan Feria (City University of New York/CSI, USA)

Invited - Bioinspired Engineered Networks and Applications         ROOM: UNIVERSITY

Chair: Umit Uyar

10:45 Morphogenesis in Computer Networks: A New Paradigm for Self-Organization

Vasileios Pappas (IBM Research, USA); Dinesh Verma (IBM, USA); Pietro Lio (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

11:05 Bio-inspired Communications for Coordination among Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Baozhi Chen (Rutgers University, USA); Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA); Manish Parashar (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)

11:25 Ant Based Hyper Heuristic for Physical Impairment Aware Routing and Wavelength Assignment

Ali Keles (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Aysegul Yayimli (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Sima Uyar (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

11:45 Genetic Algorithm-Based Optimization for Cognitive Radio Networks

Alexander M. Wyglinski (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Timothy R. Newman (Virginia Tech, USA); Joseph B. Evans (University of Kansas, USA)

12:05 Self Spreading Nodes Using Potential Games and Genetic Algorithms

Janusz Kusyk (The Graduate Center,, The City University of New York, USA); Elkin Urrea (City College of New York, USA); Cem Safak Sahin (City University of New York, USA); Umit Uyar (City College, New York, USA)

Wireless Military Communications Systems         ROOM: UNIVERSITY

Chair: Subramanian (Nagi) Naganathan

14:30 Convergence Analysis of Genetic Algorithms for Topology Control in MANETs

Cem Safak Sahin (City University of New York, USA); Umit Uyar (City College, New York, USA)

14:50 Automatic Classification of Amplitude, Frequency, and Phase Shift Keyed Signals in the Wavelet-Domain

Ka Mun Ho (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA); Canute Vaz (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA); David G Daut (Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, USA)

15:10 Capacity of Wireless Networks with Heterogeneous Traffic under Physical Model

Mingyue Ji (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Zheng Wang (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Hamid Sadjadpour (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)

15:30 Estimating Ergodic Capacity of Cooperative Analog Relaying under Different Adaptive Source Transmission Techniques

Annamalai Annamalai (Prairie View A&M University, USA)

15:50 Improved Performance Second Order Time Delay Digital Tanlock Loop

Saleh Al-Araji (Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE); Mahmoud Al-Qutayri (Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research, UAE)

Wireless Communications Systems II         ROOM: NASSAU

Chair: Iftekhar Rahman

14:30 A Novel Radio Resource Allocation Scheme with Delay Considerations for OFDMA Wireless Networks

Benny Bing (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

14:50 Iterative Frequency-Domain Equalization for General Constellations

Rui Dinis (ISR-IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal); Paulo Montezuma (FCT-UNL, Portugal); Nuno Souto (ISCTE/Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); João Silva (ISCTE / Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

15:10 Mobility Management for Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks

Zohar Naor (University of Haifa, Israel)

15:30 BER of Concatenated RS and Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation for MC-CDMA System

Chirawat Kotchasarn (Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Thailand)

15:50 A Novel DVB-H Time-Frequency Synchronization Scheme Based on Time Domain Continual-Scattered Pilot Pattern Correlation

Mohammad Taghi Abdizadeh (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)

Wireless MIMO III         ROOM: PALMERS

Chair: Christopher Schmidt

14:30 Performance Enhancement in MIMO Self-Encoded Spread Spectrum Systems by Using Multiple Codes

Shichuan Ma (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Lim Nguyen (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Won Mee Jang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Yaoqing (Lamar) Yang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

14:50 Energy Efficiency in Selective Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Communications

Annamalai Annamalai (Prairie View A&M University, USA); Ramesh Palat (Qualcomm, USA)

15:10 Unified Framework and MMSE Transceiver Designs for Multiple-Transmitter-Multiple-Receiver MIMO Systems

Jialing Li (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA); I-Tai Lu (Polytechnic University, USA); Enoch Lu (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA)

15:30 Comparison of Coordinated Beamforming and Non-Cooperative Multipoint using MMSE Transceiver Designs

Enoch Lu (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA); Jialing Li (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA); I-Tai Lu (Polytechnic University, USA)

15:50 A Novel Relay Selection Scheme in Distributed Cooperative Communication

Mohammad Taghi Abdizadeh (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)

Wireless Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks III         ROOM: PRINCETON

Chair: Erlan Feria

14:30 Identifying the Network Coding Opportunity

Nan Wang (NJIT, USA); Nirwan Ansari (NJIT, USA)

14:50 SDMA with Secrecy Constraints

Mauro Biagi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Enzo Baccarelli (University of Rome ''''La Sapienza'''', Italy); Nicola Cordeschi (''Sapienza'' University of Rome, Italy); Valentina Polli (University of Rome, Sapienza, Italy); Tatiana Patriarca (University of Rome, Sapienza, Italy)

15:10 MAC Layer Misbehavior Effectiveness and Collective Aggressive Reaction Approach

Vamshikrishna R Giri (Wichita State University, USA); Neeraj Jaggi (Wichita State University, USA)

15:30 Improving Routing Performance in High Mobility and High Density ad hoc Vehicular Networks

Miguel Luis (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal); Rodolfo Oliveira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Uninova, Portugal); Luis Bernardo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal); Paulo F Pinto (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

15:50 Evaluation of Routing Protocols for VANETs in Urban Environments

Nedal Ababneh (TELECOM Paris, France)

Optical Communications II         ROOM: SENIOR

Chair: Nicholas Madamopoulos

14:30 Adaptive Wavelength Allocation in GMPLS Controlled Optical Network

Rabindra Ghimire (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA); Seshadri Mohan (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)

14:50 Design of Multi-granularity Directed Segment p-Cycles

Brigitte Jaumard (Concordia University, Canada); Honghui Li (Concordia University, Canada); Samir Sebbah (Concordia University, Canada)

15:10 Evolution of Dynamic Routing Wavelength Code Assignment in WDM/OCDM OBS Network

Lídia Galdino (University of Campinas, Brazil); Luiz Henrique Bonani (Federal University of ABC, Brazil); José Maranhão (University of Campinas, Brazil); Joelma Costa (University of Campinas, Brazil); Indayara Martins (Unicamp, Brazil); Fabio Renan Durand (Universidade de Campinas, Brazil); Edson Moschim (State University of Campinas - Unicamp, Brazil)

15:30 80 Gbit/s RZ and NRZ DPSK receiver-sensitivity enhancement using a semiconductor optical amplifier

Ehab Awad (Cairo University, Egypt)