Preliminary Technical Program

Program in PDF

June 23rd

 

8:00 onwards

Registration Open

8:40-9:00 

Welcome from General Chair & TPC Chairs

9:00-10:00 

Keynote speech by Prof. Mung Chiang (Princeton)

“Wireless Scheduling”

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-11:30 

Session 1: Cellular Networks

Session Chair: Daniele Miorandi (CREATE-NET, Italy)

Cell Breathing, Sectorization and Densification in Cellular Networks

Jean-Marc Kelif (France Telecom R&D, FR); Marceau Coupechoux (TELECOM ParisTech, FR)

Optimization of Femtocell Network Configuration under Interference Constraints

Kwanghun Han (Seoul National University, KR); Youngkyu Choi (Samsung Electronics, KR); Dongmyoung Kim (Seoul National University, KR); Minsoo Na (Institute of Network Technoloy, SK Telecom, Sungnam, Korea); Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, KR); Kiyoung Han (Communication Lab, Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea)

Adaptive Multi-pattern Reuse in Multi-cell Networks

Kyuho Son (KAIST, KR); Yung Yi (KAIST, KR); Song Chong (KAIST, KR)

11:30-12:30

Session 2: Information Theoretic Issues and Approaches

Session Chair: Venkat Anantharam (UC Berkeley, USA)

On Models for Multi-User Gaussian Channels with Fading

Rony El Haddad (University of Texas at Austin, US); Brian Smith (University of Texas at Austin, US); Sriram Vishwanath (University of Texas at Austin, US)

Power Control for non-Gaussian Interference

Yi Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Wing Shing Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK);

Feasibility of the Receiver Capacity Model for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks

Avinash Sridharan (University of Southern California, US); Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, US)

12:30-14:00 

Lunch Break

14:00-15:20 

Session 3: Optimization in Wireless Networks

Session Chair: Jang Won Lee (Yonsei University, Korea)

Average-Delay Optimal Policies for the Point-to-Point channel

Vineeth Bala Sukumaran (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IN); Utpal Mukherji (Indian Institute of Science, IN)

Delay Reduction via Lagrange Multipliers in Stochastic Network Optimization

Longbo Huang (University of Southern California, US); Michael Neely (University of Southern California, US)

Distributed Throughput Maximization in Wireless Networks via Random Power Allocation

Hyang-Won Lee (MIT, US); Eytan Modiano (MIT, US); Long Bao Le (MIT, US)

Optimal Link Scheduling and Channel Assignment for Convergecast in Linear WirelessHART Networks

Haibo Zhang (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, SE); Pablo Soldati (Royal Institute of Technology, SE); Mikael Johansson (Royal Institute of Technology, SE)

15:20-15:50 

Coffee Break

15:50-17:10 

Session 4: Scheduling, Medium Access & Resource Allocation

Session Chair: Jeong Hoon Mo (Yonsei University, Korea)

A Feedback Scheme Based on Iterative Group Splitting for Opportunistic Scheduling with Adaptive Modulation

Haewoon Nam (Motorola Inc., US); Gustavo de Veciana (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (Texas A&M University at Qatar, QA)

Joint Load Balancing, Scheduling, and Interference Mitigation in Multi-cell and Multi-carrier Wireless Data Systems

Honghai Zhang (NEC Labs America, US); Sampath Rangarajan (NEC Labs America, US)

Distributed Adaptive Algorithms for Optimal Opportunistic Medium Access

Yahya Al-Harthi (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, SA); Sem Borst (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)

Mathematical Analysis of Throughput Bounds in Random Access with ZigZag Decoding

Jeongyeup Paek (University of Southern California, US); Michael Neely (University of Southern California, US)

 

June 24th

 

8:30-9:30 

Keynote speech by Prof. Venkat Anantharam (UC Berkeley)

"Recent Progress in Multiuser Information Theory with Correlated Sources"

9:30-10:00 

Coffee Break

10:00-11:00

Session 5: WSNs: Issues & Solutions

Session Chair: Mohuammad Ibrahim (INRIA, France)

Generic Coverage Verification without Location Information Using Dimension Reduction

Gaurav Kasbekar (University of Pennsylvania, US); Yigal Bejerano (Bell-Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US); Saswati Sarkar (University of Pennsylvania, US)

Distributed Algorithm for Minimizing Delay in Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks

Muhammad Farukh Munir (Institut Eurecom, FR); Arzad A. Kherani, (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi India); Fethi Filali (EURECOM, FR)

A Graph Theoretic Approach for Optimizing Key Pre-distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks

Aldar Chun-Fai Chan (National University of Singapore, SG)

11:00-12:20

Session 6: Wireless Games

Session Chair: Andrey Garnaev (St. Petersberg state univ., Russia)

Physical Layer Security: Coalitional Games for Distributed Cooperation

Walid Saad (University of Oslo, UniK, NO); Zhu Han (University of Houston, US); Tamer Basar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Merouane Debbah (Supelec, FR); Are Hjřrungnes (University of Oslo, NO)

A Dynamic Random Access Game with Energy Constraints

Eitan Altman (INRIA, FR); Tamer Basar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Ishai Menache (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Hamidou Tembine (University of Avignon, FR);

Jamming in wireless networks under uncertainty

Eitan Altman (INRIA, FR); Konstantin Avrachenkov (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, FR); Andrey Garnaev (St. Petersburg State University, RU)

Gaming the Jammer: Is Frequency Hopping Effective?

Konstantinos Pelechrinis (University of California Riverside, US); Christos Koufogiannakis (University of California, Riverside, US); Srikanth Krishnamurthy (University of California, Riverside, US)

12:20-14:00 

Lunch Break

14:00-15:20 

Session 7: Relaying & Forwarding in DTNs & MANETs

Session Chair: Do Young Eun (NCSU, USA)

Heterogeneity in Contact Dynamics: Helpful or Harmful to Forwarding Algorithms in DTNs?

Chul-Ho Lee (North Carolina State University, US); Do Young Eun (North Carolina State University, US)

A Generalized Framework for Throughput Analysis in Sparse Mobile Networks

Ramanan Subramanian (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Badri Narayanan Vellambi Ravisankar (University of South Australia, AU); Faramarz Fekri (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)

Analysis of Relay Protocols for Throwbox--Equipped DTNs

Mouhamad Ibrahim (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, FR); Philippe Nain (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, FR); Iacopo Carreras (Create-Net, IT)

Natural Selection of Message Forwarding Algorithms in Multihop Wireless Networks

Vilmos Simon (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU); Márton Bérces (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU); Endre Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU); Laszlo Bacsardi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU)

 15:20-15:50 

Coffee Break

15:50-16:50 

Session 8: Algorithms for Large-scale Wireless Networks

Session Chair: Ulrich Barth (Alcatel-Lucent, USA)

Efficient Algorithms to Solve a Class of Resource Allocation Problems in Large Wireless Networks

Jun Luo (Nanyang Technological University, SG); Andre Girard (INRS-EMT and GERAD, CA); Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo, CA)

Identifying RFID Tag Categories in Linear Time

Murali Kodialam (Bell Labs, US); Wing Cheong Lau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Thyaga Nandagopal (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Inc., US)

An Algorithmic Solution for Computing Circle Intersection Areas and its Applications to Wireless Communications

Federico Librino (University of Padova, IT); Marco Levorato (University of Padova, IT); Michele Zorzi (Universitŕ degli Studi di Padova, IT)

16:50-17:50 

Session 9: Cooperative Strategies

Session Chair: Kyo Min Chung (KAIST, Korea)

Protocol-level Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Stable Throughput and Delay Analysis

Beiyu Rong (University of Maryland, College Park, US); Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland at College Park, US)

SI-CCMAC: Sender Initiating Concurrent Cooperative MAC for Wireless LANs

Zhengqing Hu (National University of Singapore, SG); Chen-Khong Tham (National University of Singapore, SG)

Transmission Schedule Optimization for Half-Duplex Multiple-Relay Networks

Wei Wang (Microsoft Research Asia, CN); Lawrence Ong (The University of Newcastle, AU); Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore, SG)

  

June 25th

 

8:30-9:30   

Keynote speech by Dr. Ulrich Barth (Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent)

"Self-X RAN: Autonomous Self Organizing Radio Access Networks"

9:30-10:00  

Coffee Break

10:00-11:00 

Session 10: Cognitive Radios

Session Chair: Wing Cheong Lau (CUHK, Hong Kong)

Spectrum Sharing between Cellular and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Transmission-Capacity Tradeoff

Kaibin Huang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Vincent K. N. Lau (The university of science and technology, HK); Yan Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

Exploiting Buffers in Cognitive Multi-Relay Systems for Delay-Sensitive Applications

Yan Chen (Zhejiang University, CN); Vincent K. N. Lau (the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Shunqing Zhang (Hong Kong Univeristy of Science and Technology, HK); Peiliang Qiu (Zhejiang University, CN)

Cognitive Networks Achieve Throughput Scaling of a Homogeneous Network

Sang-Woon Jeon (KAIST, KR); Natasha Devroye (University of Illinois at Chicago, US); Mai Vu (McGill University, CA); Sae-Young Chung (KAIST, KR); Vahid Tarokh (Harvard University, US)

11:00-12:20 

Session 11: Energy issues in WSN

Session Chair: Simon Vilmos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Battery Recovery Aware Sensor Networks

Chi-Kin Chau (University of Cambridge & University College London, UK); Muhammad Husni Wahab (University College London, UK); Fei Qin (University College London, UK); Yunsheng Wang (University College London, UK); Yang Yang (University College London, UK)

Multi-sensor Event Detection under Temporal Correlations with Renewable Energy Sources

Neeraj Jaggi (Wichita State University, US); Koushik Kar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US)

Energy-efficient Area Coverage by Sensors with Two Adjustable Ranges

Vyacheslav Zalyubovsky (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, SB RAS, RU); Adil Erzin (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, SB RAS, RU); Sergey Astrakov (Russian State University of Trade and Economics, RU); Hyunseung Choo (Sungkyunkwan University, KR)

Quantization, Channel Compensation, and Energy Allocation for Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Xusheng Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Edward J. Coyle (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)

12:20-14:00 

Lunch Break

14:00-15:20 

Session 12: WLANs & WMANs

Session Chair: Yung Yi (KAIST, Korea)

Downlink Multi-user Transmission for Higher User Speeds in IEEE 802.16m

Christos Papathanasiou (University of Thessaly, GR); Nikos Dimitriou (University of Athens, GR); Leandros Tassiulas (University of Thessaly, GR)

Characterization of power consumption in thin clients due to protocol data transmission over IEEE 802.11

Pieter Simoens (University of Ghent, BE); Bert Vankeirsbilck (Ghent University, BE); F. Azmat Ali (University of Ghent, BE); Lien Deboosere (Ghent University, BE); Filip De Turck (Ghent University, BE); Bart Dhoedt (Ghent University, BE); Piet Demeester (Ghent University, BE); Rodolfo Torrea (IMEC, BE); Claude Desset (IMEC, BE)

The Impact of Association on the Capacity of WLANs

Thomas Bonald (Orange Labs, FR); Ali Ibrahim (France Telecom R&D, FR); James Roberts (France Telecom, FR)

Joint Resource Allocation and Admission Control in Wireless Mesh Networks

Tae-Suk Kim (University of California, Riverside, US); Yong Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Jennifer C. Hou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy (University of California, Riverside, US)

15:20-15:50 

Coffee Break

15:50-16:50 

Session 13: Simulation & Performance Evaluation

Session Chair: Sae-Young Chung (KAIST, Korea)

Techniques for Simulation of Realistic Infrastructure Wireless Network Traffic

Caleb Phillips (University of Colorado, US); Douglas Sicker (University of Colorado, US); Dirk Grunwald (University of Colorado, US); Suresh Singh (Portland State University, US)

The Impact of Directional Antenna Models on Simulation Accuracy

Eric Anderson (University of Colorado, US); Gary Yee (University of Colorado, Boulder, US); Caleb Phillips (University of Colorado, US); Douglas Sicker (University of Colorado, US); Dirk Grunwald (University of Colorado, US)

An Analytical Model for WiMAX Networks with Multiple Traffic Profiles and Throttling Policy

Sébastien Doirieux (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, LIP6, Paris, France); Bruno Baynat (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, LIP6, Paris, France); Masood Maqbool (TELECOM ParisTech & CNRS LTCI, Paris, France); Marceau Coupechoux (TELECOM ParisTech & CNRS LTCI, Paris, France)

16:50-17:00 

Closing and Announcement of 2010 Edition

18:30-...   

Social Event @ Korean House

  

June 26th

WiNMee, SpaSWiN

June 27th

RAWNET/WNC^3, PHYCOMNET, ConCom