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WORKSHOPS

Monday, 3 December 2012
W1: Heterogeneous and Small Cell Networks
W2: Broadband Wireless Access
W3: Workshop on Radar and Sonar Networks
W4: Emerging Technologies for LTE-Advanced and Beyond-4G
W5: Heterogeneous, Multi-hop, Wireless and Mobile Networks
W6: Multicell Cooperation
W7: Optical Wireless Communications
W8: Smart Grid Communications: Design for Performance
W9: Cloud Base-station and Large-scale Cooperative Communications
W10: Management of Emerging Networks and Services
W11: Mobility Management in the Networks of the Future World

Friday, 7 December 2012
W12: Ad Hoc Networking with MIMO and Cognitive Radio
W13: Emerging Technologies for Smart Devices
W14: Management and Security technologies for Cloud Computing
W15: Rural Communications
W16 Green Internet of Things
W17: Flexible Optical Networks
W18: Machine-to-Machine Communications
W19: Open NGN and IMS Testbeds
W20: Wireless Networking and Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
W22: Quality of Experience for Multimedia Communications


 


Monday, 3 December 2012
8:10 – 18:00 
Room: Castle C

W1: 4th International Workshop on Heterogeneous and Small Cell Networks (HetSNets)
Organizers:
Tony Q.S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Ismail Guvenc (DOCOMO Innovations, USA)
Marios Kountouris (Supelec, France)
David López-Pérez (Bell Labs, Ireland)

08:10 – 08:15: Welcome/Opening Address

08:15 – 09:00: Keynote Session I
Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)

09:00 – 10:00: Technical Session I
Energy Efficiency

Area Green Efficiency (AGE) of Two Tier Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
Hina Tabassum (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar)
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)

Energy-Efficient Power Allocation with Dual-Utility in Two-Tier OFDMA Femtocell Networks
Wei Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Haijun Zhang (King's College London, UK)
Wei Zheng, Tao Su, Xiangming Wen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Determining the Energy Efficiency of Femtocell Basestations with Multiple Antennas
David Stuart Muirhead, Muhammad Ali Imran (University of Surrey, UK)

10:00 – 10:30: Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:15: Keynote Session II
Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany)

11:15 – 12:15: Technical Session II
Multiple Antennas Techniques

Multiuser MIMO in Distributed Antenna Systems with Limited Feedback
Stefan Schwarz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Robert Heath (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
Markus Rupp (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Interference Mitigation and Capacity Optimization in Cooperative Public Femtocell Networks with Cognitive Enabled Multi-element Antennas
Shi Chen, Zhiyong Feng, Qixun Zhang, Ping Zhang
(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Impact of Pattern Reconfigurable Antennas on Interference Alignment Over Measured Channels
Rohit Bahl (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Nikhil Gulati, Kapil Dandekar (Drexel University, USA)
Dwight Jaggard (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

12:15 – 13:15: Lunch Break

13:15 – 14:00: Keynote Session III
Mark Reed (University of New South Wales, Australia)

14:00 – 15:20, Technical Session II
Performance Analysis & Measurements

Heterogeneous Cellular Network Performance Analysis under Open and Closed Access
Prasanna Madhusudhanan, Juan Restrepo, Youjian (Eugene) Eugene Liu, Timothy Brown
(University of Colorado, USA)

Shared Access Protocol (SAP) in Femtocell Channel Resources for Cellular Coverage Enhancement
Amer M. Magableh (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Redha M. Radaydeh (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

Performance Comparison of Fixed and Moving Relays under Co-channel Interference
Yutao Sui, Agisilaos Papadogiannis, Wei Yang, Tommy Svensson
(Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Radio Signal Propagation and Attenuation Measurements for Modern Residential Buildings
Ari Asp, Yaroslav Sydorov, Mikko Valkama, Jarno Niemelä (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

15:20 – 15:50: Coffee Break

15:50 – 17:10: Technical Session III
Self Organization and Dynamic Operation

Dynamic TDD support in the LTE-B enhanced Local Area Architecture
Bo Yu (Colorado State University, USA)
Sayandev Mukherjee (DOCOMO Innovations Inc., USA)
Hiroyuki Ishii (DOCOMO Innovations, Inc, Japan)
Liuqing Yang (Colorado State University, USA)

Uplink Power Control in LTE Heterogeneous Networks
Yuanye Wang (Powerwave Technologies / Aalborg University, USA)
Shankar Venkatraman (Powerwave Technologies, USA)

Distributed Bayesian Pricing for Sum-Rate Maximization in Small-Cell Networks
Alessandro Carfagna, Sergio Barbarossa (University of Rome, Italy)

Coordinated Beam Selection in LTE-Advanced HetNets: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Meryem Simsek (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Mehdi Bennis (University of Oulu, Finland)
Andreas Czylwik (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

17:10 – 18:00: Panel Discussion
Chair: Anthony C.K. Soong (Huawei Technologies, USA)

 


Monday, 3 December 2012
09:00 – 17:15 
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room B / C

W2: Broadband Wireless Access (BWA)
Organizers:
Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena, Italy)
Vasilios A. Siris (Athens University of Economics and Business / FORTH, Greece)
Andreas Maeder (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany)
Rajev Shorey (NIIT University, India)

Sponsors:
NEC (Premium)
Qualcomm (Silver)

09:00 – 09:10: Welcome/Opening Address (Room B)
Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena, Italy)
Andreas Maeder (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany)
Rajeev Shorey (NIIT University, India)

09:10 - 10:00: Keynote Session I (Room B)
Wireless Access Considerations for the Mobility First Future Internet Architecture
Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Director WINLAB/Rutgers University, USA)

10:15 – 11:05: Keynote Session II (Room B)
Small Cells: The Next Big “Small” Thing in Cellular Deployments
Sampath Rangarajan (NEC Labs America Mobile Communications and Networking Research, USA)

11:05 – 11:30: Invited Paper (Room B)
Power-Efficient Persistent Web-based Cellular Connectivity
Giridhar Mandyam (Qualcomm, USA)

11:30 – 13:00

S1: Energy/Service-Aware Networks (Room B)
Chair: Giridhar Mandyam (Qualcomm, USA)

Design Challenges in Transmitting Scalable Video over Multi-Radio Networks
Vivek Gupta, Srinivasa Somayazulu, Nageen Himayat (Intel, USA)
Harsh Verma, Mohan Bisht, Vikram Nandwani (R-Systems International, USA)

MOS-driven Energy Efficient Power Allocation for Wireless Video Communications
Wenmin Ma, Haijun Zhang, Wei Zheng, Zhaoming Lu, Xiangming Wen
(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Impact of Densification on Energy Efficiency in Wireless Access Networks
Sibel Tombaz, Ki Won Sung, Jens Zander (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

A Genetic Algorithm Based Cell Switch-off Scheme for Energy Saving in Dense Cell Deployments
Furkan Alaca, Akram Bin Sediq, Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)

An energy efficient Polarization Modulation Scheme for Nonlinear Power Amplifier
Dong Wei, Feng Chunyan, Caili Guo, Fangfang Liu
(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

S2: Multi-Antenna Systems (Room C)
Chair: Andreas J. Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden)

On Space-Time Block Codes for Two-User MIMO Interference Channels
Long Shi, Wei Zhang (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Xiang-Gen Xia (University of Delaware, USA)

Maximum SNR Transmit Filtering for Linear Equalization in Physical Layer Network Coding
Armin Schmidt, Wolfgang Gerstacker (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany)
Robert Schober (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Greedy Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding with Scheduling and Receiver Processing for Downlink MU-MIMO
Xinlei Wang, Yabo Li, Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)

On The Secrecy Rate Region of a Fading Multiple-Antenna Gaussian Broadcast Channel with Confidential Messages and Partial CSIT
Pin-Hsun Lin, Chien-Li Su, Hsuan-Jung Su (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Throughput Distribution Analysis of Return Link Multi-Gateway Interference Cancellation Strategies for Multi-Beam Broadband Satellite Systems
Francesco Lombardo, Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli, Enzo Alberto Candreva, Giovanni Emanuele Corazza (University of Bologna, Italy)

14:00 – 15:30

S3: Relays (Room B)
Chair: Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University, USA)

A Practical Transmission Scheme for Half-Duplex Decode-and-Forward MIMO Relay Channels
Edwin Monroy, Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)
Bijan Jabbari (George Mason University, USA)

Noncoherent Relay Selection for Bidirectional Cooperative Networks
Mehdi Seyfi, Sami Muhaidat, Jie Liang (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

On the Joint Scheduling and Intra-cell Interference Coordination in Multi-relay LTE Uplink
Irfan Ahmed (Taif University, Saudi Arabia)
Amr Mohamed (Qatar University, Qatar)

Performance of Hybrid-ARQ with Incremental Redundancy over Relay Channels
Ali Chelli, Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

Outage Probability of Decode-and-Forward Relaying System with Weibull Distributed Multiple Co-channel Interferences
Kwang-Sik Choi, Hyun-Ho Lee, Young-Chai Ko (Korea University, Korea)

S4: Resource Control (Room C)
Chair: Sampath Rangarajan
(NEC Labs America Mobile Communications and Networking Research, USA)

Analysis of Downlink Performance for Broadband Wireless Systems
Giovanni Giambene, Snezana Hadzic (University of Siena, Italy)

Integrated CAC and Scheduling Cross-layer Algorithms in WiMAX Networks with Dynamic Polling Management
Marcio Andrey Teixeira (Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of São Paulo, Brazil)
Paulo R. Guardieiro (Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil)

Joint Scheduling for Dual-Hop Block-Fading Broadcast Channels
Ammar Zafar (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Mohammad Shaqfeh (Texas A&M University, Qatar)
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Hussein Alnuweiri (Texas A&M University, Qatar)

Efficiently Computable Bounds on the Rates Achieved by A Cross Layer Design with Binary Scheduling in Generic OFDMA Wireless Networks
Rozita Rashtchi, Ramy Gohary, Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)

A Graph-based Approach for Distributed Parameter Coordination in Wireless Communication Networks
Igor Guerreiro (Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil)
Dennis Hui (Ericsson Research, USA)
Jiann-Ching Guey (ITRI, Taiwan)
Charles Casimiro Cavalcante (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)

15:45 – 17:15

S5: Opportunistic and Cognitive Access Room B)
Chair: Andreas Maeder (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany)

Cognitive Radios Methodology for Dynamic Spectrum Allocation in Broadband Wireless Cellular/Public Safety Network Systems
Chihkai Chen, Kung Yao (UCLA, USA)

Iterative Power Allocation for Downlink Green Cognitive Radio Networks
Muhammad Naeem, Kandasamy Illanko, Ashok K. Karmokar, Alagan Anpalagan, Muhammad Jaseemuddin (Ryerson University, Canada)

Multi-Spectrum and Transmit-Antenna Switched Diversity Schemes for Spectrum Sharing Systems: A Performance Analysis
Mostafa Sayed (Varkon Semiconductors, Egypt)
Mohamed M. Abdallah (Texas A&M University / Cairo University, Qatar)
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Khalid A. Qaraqe (Texas A&M University, Qatar)

Sensing-Throughput Tradeoff in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing
Mohsen Nader Tehrani (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Murat Uysal (Ozyegin University, Turkey)

Opportunistic Service Promotion for End-to-End Delay Minimization in IEEE 802.11p Vehicular Networks
Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Ala Al-Fuqaha (Western Michigan University, USA)

S6: Beyond 4G Access (Room C)
Chair: Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena, Italy)

CloudMAC - An OpenFlow based Architecture for 802.11 MAC Layer Processing in the Cloud
Peter Dely, Jonathan Vestin, Andreas J. Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Nico Bayer, Hans Joachim Einsiedler, Christoph Peylo (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany)

FS-FBMC: A Flexible Robust Scheme for Efficient Multicarrier Broadband Wireless Access
Maurice G. Bellanger (CNAM, France)

A Comparative Study of FBMC Prototype Filters in Doubly Dispersive Channels
Alphan Şahin (University of South Florida, USA)
Ismail Güvenç (Florida International University, USA)
Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, USA)

Space-Time Block Code Design for Asymmetric-OFDM Systems
Lin Luo (University of South Australia, Australia)

Optimizing Network Performance with Multihoming and Network Coding
Nelson Capela, Susana Sargento (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)

 


Monday, 3 December 2012
08:00 – 18:00
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room F

W3: Workshop on Radar and Sonar Networks
Organizers:
Qilian Liang (University of Texas, Arlington, USA)
Jing Liang, Yiming Pi, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China)
Baoju Zhang (Tianjin Normal University, China)

08:00 – 09:30: Keynote Session
Qilian Liang (University of Texas, Arlington, USA)
Zongjie Cao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

09:30 – 10:00: Coffee Break

10:00 – 12:00: Technical Session I
Networking and Optimization
Chair: Baoju Zhang, Tianjin Normal University, China

Radar Networking in Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of Atmosphere: State of the Art and Research Challenges
Herath Mudiyanselage Nelanga Dilum Bandara, Anura Jayasumana (Colorado State University, USA)
Michael Zink (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

Super-resolution SAR Tomography Focusing by Lp-Norm Regularization-the FOCUSS Algorithm
Qianqian Yang, Rui Min, Zongjie Cao, Yiming Pi
(University of Electronic Science and Engineering of China, China)

Classification of Transmission Environment in UWB Communication Using a Support Vector Machine
Ru Ying, Ting Jiang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Zhihao Xing (Huawei Technologies, China)

Low Complexity Receiver Design for MIMO-Radar
Sajid Ahmed, Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

Energy-balanced Routing Scheme in Varying ZigBee Networks
Jiasong Mu, Baoju Zhang, Wei Wang (Tianjin Normal University, China)

A Multi-hop Routing Protocol Based on Grid Optimization for Wireless Sensor Networks
Xiaochuan Zhao, Zheng Zhou, Ting Jiang, Zhichao Qin, Zhang Yang
(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

12:00 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 15:30: Technical Session II
Compressive Sensing in RSN
Chair: Zongjie Cao (University of Electronic Science and Engineering of China, USA)

Compressive Sensing in Radar Sensor Networks for Target RCS Value Estimation
Lei Xu, Qilian Liang (University of Texas, Arlington, USA)
Baoju Zhang, Xiaorong Wu (Tianjin Normal University, China)

Sparsity and Compressive Sensing for SAR Signal
Wei Wang, Baoju Zhang, Jiasong Mu, Xiaorong Wu (Tianjin Normal University, China)

A Novel and Comprehensive Compressive Sensing-based System for Data Compression
Ji Wu, Qilian Liang (University of Texas, Arlington, USA)
Chiman Kwan (Signal Processing Inc, USA)

Research of Image Sparse Algorithm based on Compressed Sensing
Qing Lei, Baoju Zhang, Wei Wang (Tianjin Normal University, China)

Amplitude Based Compressive Sensing for UWB Noise Radar Signal
Ji Wu, Qilian Liang (University of Texas, Arlington, USA)
Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington University, USA)
Dechang Chen (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA)
Ram Narayanan (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:00: Technical Session III
Target Detection and Classification
Chair: Ting Jiang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

UWB Radar for Target Detection: DCT versus Matched Filter Approaches
Qilian Liang (University of Texas, Arlington, USA)
Baoju Zhang, Xiaorong Wu (Tianjin Normal University, China)

SAR Target Feature Extraction based on Sparse Constraint Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
Xin Gao, Zongjie Cao, Yingxi Zheng, Yong Fan, Qi Zhang
(University of Electronic Science and Engineering of China, China)

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Impact on Beach Soil: UWB Radars-Based Approach
Qilian Liang (University of Texas, Arlington, USA)
Baoju Zhang, Xiaorong Wu (Tianjin Normal University, China)

SAR Automatic Target Recognition Using a Hierarchical Multi-feature Fusion Strategy
Zongjie Cao, Zongyong Cui, Yong Fan, Qi Zhang
(University of Electronic Science and Engineering of China, China)

Experimental Study of Through-wall Human Being Detection Using Ultra-wideband (UWB) Radar
Ashith Kumar, Qilian Liang, Zhuo Li (University of Texas, Arlington, USA)
Baoju Zhang, Xiaorong Wu (Tianjin Normal University, China)

A Method of Target Detection and Identification Based On RPROP and UWB Channel Characteristic Parameters
Junqin He, Ting Jiang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Zhihao Xing (Huawei Technologies, China)

 


Monday, 3 December 2012
8:30 – 17:20           
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room D / E

W4: Emerging Technologies for LTE-Advanced and Beyond-4G
Organizers:
Charlie (Jianzhong) Zhang (Samsung Electronics, USA)
Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)
Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, USA)
Lingjia Liu (University of Kansas, USA)
Tommy Svensson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)

08:30 – 08:40: Welcome/Open Address
Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)
Charlie (Jianzhong) Zhang (Samsung Electronics, USA)

08:40 – 10:00: S1: Network Advancement Techniques
Chair: Lingjia Liu (University of Kansas, USA)

Coordinated Multi Point Transmission in 3GPP LTE Heterogeneous Networks
Stefan Geirhofer, Peter Gaal

B4G Local Area: High Level Requirements and System Design
Preben Mogensen, Kari Pajukoski, Bernhard Raaf, Esa Tiirola, Eeva Lähetkangas, Istvan Z. Kovács, Gilberto Berardinelli, Luis Garcia, Liang Hu, Andrea F. Cattoni

Utility-Based Radio Link Assignment in Multi-Radio Heterogeneous Network
Ali Y. Panah, Shu-ping Yeh, Nageen Himayat, Shilpa Talwar

A Novel Architecture for LTE-B - C-plane/U-plane Split and Phantom Cell Concept
Hiroyuki Ishii, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Hideaki Takahashi

10:00 – 10:20: Coffee Break 

10:20 – 11:00:  Keynote Session I
Chair: Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)

Giuseppe Caire (University of Southern California, USA)

11:00 – 12:00

S 2.1: Coverage Extension Techniques (Room D)
Chair: Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, USA)

On the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio of Pre-Equalized Base-Field Hartley OFDM
Lin Luo, Chung Shue Chen, Siu-Wai Ho

Analytical Performance Evaluation of Base Station Cooperation Systems Using SC-FDE Modulations with Iterative Receivers
Filipe Casal Ribeiro, Rui Dinis, Francisco Cercas, Adão Silva

Coverage in the Downlink of an OFDMA Cellular Network with Maximum SIR Connectivity
Prasanna Madhusudhanan, Timothy Brown, Youjian (Eugene) Liu

S 2.2: Cell Capacity Enhancement Techniques (Interference Control) (Room E)
Chair: Tommy Svensson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Feedback Schemes for Dynamic Cooperation among Multiple Transmission Points in LTE-Advanced Networks
Hyojin Lee, Younsun Kim, Juho Lee

Throughput Optimization in MU-MIMO Systems via Exploiting the BS Antenna Tilt
Nima Seifi, Mikael Coldrey, Tommy Svensson

Interference Robustness for MIMO Networks --- System-Level Performance Evaluation for LTE-Advanced
Jan Ellenbeck, Andreas Dotzler, Wolfgang Utschick

12:00 – 13:30: Lunch

13:30 – 14:10: Keynote Session II
Chair: Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)

Nigel Jefferies, Wireless World Research Forum Chair

14:10 – 15:40: Panel Discussion
Moderator: Charlie (Jianzhong) Zhang (Samsung Electronics, USA)

Panelists: Kumar Balachandran (Expert, Wireless Networks, Ericsson Research, USA)
Arunable Ghosh (Lead Member, Technical Staff, AT&T Labs, USA)
Angel Lozano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Peiying Zhu (Senior Director, Wireless Research North America, Huawei, USA)

15:40 – 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:20

S3.1: Heterogeneous Networks Techniques (Room D)
Chair: Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)

Optimized Green Operation of LTE Networks in the Presence of Multiple Electricity Providers
Hakim Ghazzai, Elias Yaacoub, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Adnan Abu-Dayya

QoS-Aware Multi-RAT Resource Allocation with Minimum Transmit Power in Multiuser OFDM System
Mohamed Fadel, Ahmed S. Ibrahim, Hani Elgebaly

Power Control Based on Interference Pricing in D2D/Cellular Networks
Fei Teng, Dongning Guo, Michael Honig, Jialing Liu, Weimin Xiao

A New Fountain Decoder Escaping Almost All Absorbing Sets
Masoud Mir Rezaei, Shahram Yousefi

S3.2: Advanced Antenna Techniques (Room E)
Chair: Charlie (Jianzhong) Zhang (Samsung Electronics, USA)

A New Approach to Beamformer Design for Massive MIMO Systems Based on k-Regularity
Gilwon Lee, Juho Park, Youngchul Sung, Junyeong Seo

Fulfilling the Promise of Massive MIMO with 2D Active Antenna Array
Boon Loong Ng, Younsun Kim, Juho Lee, Yang Li, Young-Han Nam, Jianzhong Zhang, Krishna Sayana

A Dual-polarized Antenna based Sensing Algorithm for OFDM Signals in LTE-Advanced Systems
Lin Lin, Caili Guo, Feng Chunyan, Xiaobin Wu

Low Complexity Direction of Arrival (DoA) Estimation for 2D Massive MIMO Systems
Anding Wang, Lingjia Liu, Jianzhong Zhang

 


Monday, 3 December 2012       
8:30 – 18:00      
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room G / H

W5: Workshop on Heterogeneous, Multi-hop, Wireless and Mobile Networks (HETERWMN)

Organizers:
Waltenegus Dargie, Dresden University
Jaafar Elmirghani, Leeds University
Vincent Lau, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

08:30 – 09:50

S1: Heterogeneous Networks Designs and Optimizations (Room G)

A Distance-dependent Mode Selection Algorithm in Heterogeneous D2D and IMT-Advanced Network
Shang Xiang, Tao Peng, Ziyang Liu, Wenbo Wang
(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Heterogeneous LTE/802.11a Mobile Relays for Data Rate Enhancement and Energy-Efficiency in High Speed Trains
Rachad Atat (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Elias Yaacoub (Qatar University Wireless Innovations Center, Qatar)
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Adnan Abu-Dayya (QMIC, Qatar)

Improved Mobility Performance in LTE Co-Channel HetNets through Speed Differentiated Enhancements
Simone Barbera (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Per Henrik Michaelsen, Mikko Säily, Klaus Pedersen (Nokia Siemens Networks, Denmark)

S2: Multi-access and Cooperative Relays (Room H)

In-Network Area Estimation and Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Nabanita Das (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Srabani Kundu (Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India)

Handling Randomness of Multi-Class Random Access Loads in LTE-Advanced Network
Ki-Dong Lee (LG Electronics Mobile Research, USA)

On the Exact Capacity of Dual-Hop AF Relaying With Adaptive Channel Inversion
Samy S. Soliman, Norman C. Beaulieu (University of Alberta, Canada)

Dual-Hop AF Relaying Systems in Mixed Nakagami-m and Rician Links
Samy S. Soliman, Norman C. Beaulieu (University of Alberta, Canada)

10:20 – 12:00

S3: QoS Issues (Room G)

Role-based Quality of Service for Web Services
Frank T. Johnsen, Trude H. Bloebaum (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway)
Jørgen Nordmoen (NTNU, Norway)

Delay Performance of Opportunistic Network Coding for a Bidirectional Relaying Link
Hadi Meshgi, Dongmei Zhao (McMaster University, Canada)

A Reputation based Vertical Handover Decision making Framework (R-VHDF)
Mehdi Loukil, Mariem Zekri (Telecom Sud Paris, France)
Takoua Ghariani, Badii Jouaber (Institut Telecom / Telecom SudParis, France)

A Joint Polling and Contention Based Opportunistic Scheduling Algorithm with Fairness Constraint
Mohammed Eltayeb, Hamid Reza Bahrami (University of Akron, USA)

S4: Geolocation Assisted Network Routing (Room H)

Weighted Signed Graph (WSG) Power-aware Routing in Distributed Wireless Networks
Hemant Kumar Rath (Tata Consultancy Services, India)
Akash Chaturvedi (IIT Patna, India)
Rajan Ma, Anantha Simha (Tata Consultancy Services, India)

A Novel Device and Application-Aware Energy Efficient Routing Algorithm for WLANs
Ruiqi Ding, Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Inter-MAC Green Path selection for Heterogeneous Networks
Olivier Bouchet, Abdesselem Kortebi (France Telecom, Orange Labs, France)
Mathieu Boucher (Neo-Soft, France)

Available Bandwidth Probing for Path Selection in Heterogeneous Home Networks
Oscar Olvera-Irigoyen (Orange Labs, France)
Abdesselem Kortebi (France Telecom, Orange Labs, France)
Laurent Toutain (Telecom Bretagne, France)

14:00 – 15:10

S5: Geolocation Assisted Network Routing (Room G)

A Novel Insight into Beaconless Geo-Routing
Ahmed Bader, Karim Abed-Meraim (Télécom Paris, France)
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

Network Coding Based Geographical Opportunistic Routing for Ad Hoc Cognitive Radio Networks
Xing Tang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

A Cross-Layer Routing Protocol with Quality of Service Support for Flexible Deployment in MANETs
Giovanni Rigazzi (University of L' Aquila, Italy)
Veronica Palma (University of ROMA TRE, Italy)
Gabriele Tamea (Universtà di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Fortunato Santucci (University of l'Aquila, Italy)
Alessandro Neri (University of ROMA TRE, Italy)

S6: Heterogeneous Networks Designs and Optimizations (Room H)

A Dynamic Network Gateway Selection Scheme Based on Autonomous Clustering for Heterogeneous Mobile Ad Hoc Network Environment
Keisei Okano, Tomoyuki Ohta, Yoshiaki Kakuda (Hiroshima City University, Japan)

Secrecy Broadcast Transmission Capacity for Heterogeneous Correlated Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Xiaohui Sun, Changchuan Yin, Yang Liu, Jing Gao
(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

An Energy Efficient Clustering in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor and Actuators Networks
Dong Sung Kim, Quang Pham (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea)

 


Monday, 3 December 2012
8:50 – 18:00
Room: Castle A

W6: 2nd Workshop on Multicell Cooperation (MuCo)
Organizers:
Zander Zhongding Lei (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Lie-Liang Yang (University of Southampton, UK)

08:50 – 09:00: Welcome/Open Address

09:00 – 09:30: Keynote Session I
Klaus Doppler (Nokia)

09:30 – 10:00: Coffee Break

10:00 – 10:30: Keynote Session II
Haralabos Papadopoulus (DoCoMo)

10:30 – 12:00: S1: Optimization for Heterogeneous Network
Common Rate Maximization in Two-Layer Cellular Radio Systems
Kemal Davaslioglu, Ender Ayanoglu (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Adaptive Multi-Objective Optimization for Distributed Heterogeneous Networks
Na Li, Chengwen Xing, Zesong Fei, Jingming Kuang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

CoMP and Interference Coordination in Heterogeneous Network for LTE-Advanced
Yu-Ngok Ruyue Li (ZTE Corporation, China)
Huaming Wu (ZTE Inc., USA)
Jian Li, Weimin Li, Yan Xue (ZTE Corporation, China)

Optimal Power Control and Antenna Selection for Multi-User Distributed Antenna System with Heterogeneous QoS Constraints
Naveed Ul Hassan (LUMS School of Science and Engineering, Lahore, Pakistan)
Chau Yuen (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)

12:00 – 13:30: Lunch

13:30 – 15:30: S2: Transmission and Base Station Clustering/Selection

Joint Transmission Using Global Codeword and Codebook Design for Coordinated Multipoint Processing (CoMP)
Huy-Dung Han, Chenxi Zhu (Fujitsu Laboratories America Inc., USA)
Yueqiao Xu, Yi Wang (Fujitsu R&D Center, China)
Zhi Ding (University of California, Davis, USA)

A New Opportunistic Interference Alignment Scheme and Performance Comparison of MIMO Interference Alignment with Limited Feedback
Johann Leithon, Chau Yuen, Himal A. Suraweera, Hui Gao
(Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Large Scale Field Trial Results on Frequency Domain Compression for Uplink Joint Detection
Michael Grieger, Stefan Boob, Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

Joint Base Station Selection and Distributed Compression for Cloud Radio Access Networks
Seok-Hwan Park, Osvaldo Simeone (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Onur Sahin (InterDigital, Inc., USA)
Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (Technion, Israel)

On the Dynamic Formation of Cooperative Multipoint Transmissions in Small Cell Networks
Francesco Pantisano (University of Bologna, Italy)
Mehdi Bennis (University of Oulu, Finland)
Walid Saad (University of Miami, USA)
Roberto Verdone (University of Bologna, Italy)
Matti Latva-aho (University of Oulu, Finland)

Shared Remote Radio Head Architecture to Realize Dynamic Clustering in CoMP Cellular Networks
Daisuke Matsuo, Roya Rezagah, Gia Khanh Tran (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Kei Sakaguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
Kiyomichi Araki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Shoji Kaneko, Noriaki Miyazaki, Satoshi Konishi, Yoji Kishi (KDDI Corporation, Japan)

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:00: S3: Energy Saving, Relay, Handover and Scheduling

Energy-Saving Coordinated Napping (CoNap) for Wireless Networks
Koichi Adachi, Jingon Joung, Sumei Sun, Peng Hui Tan (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Energy Efficient Relay-Assisted Cellular Network Model using Base Station Switching ATM
Shafiul Alam, Laurence S. Dooley, Adrian Poulton (Open University, UK)

Relay Assignment over Distributed Wireless Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach
Ruijian An, Yu Gu, Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Optimal Relay Deployment for Multihop Multicast Scheduling in Cellular Wireless Networks
Izhak Rubin, Hung-Bin Chang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Reuven Cohen (Technion, Israel)

Intra-Frequency Handover Algorithm Design in LTE Networks Using Doppler Frequency Estimation
Omar H Altrad, Sami Muhaidat (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

On Downlink Coordinated Scheduling for Inter-cell Interference Alleviation with Inter-BS Cooperation
Qi Wang, Shi Jin, Qiang Sun, Xiao Li, Yongming Huang, Xiqi Gao (Southeast University, China)

 


Monday, 3 December 2012   
08:00 – 15:30       
Room: Castle B

W7: 3rd Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC)
Organizers:
Jean Armstrong (Monash University, Australia)
Harald Haas (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Thomas DC Little (chair) (Boston University, USA)
Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, Japan)
Zhengyuan Xu (Tsinghua University, China)

08:00 – 08:20: Welcome/Open Address
Thomas DC Little (Boston University & NSF Smart Lighting ERC, USA)

08:20 – 09:40: S1: FSO
Chair: Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)

Receiver Design for Shot Noise Limited MIMO FSO/UV Communication Systems
Ankit Gupta, Maite Brandt-Pearce (University of Virginia, USA)

Impact of Tracking Errors on Dual Diversity Structure over the Free Space Optics Links
Peng Liu (North China Electric Power University, China)
Song Liu (North China Electric Power University / Waseda University, China)
Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, Japan)

Opportunistic Cooperation for FSO Links Aided by Decode and Forward Relay
Qunfeng He (Qualcomm Technologies Inc., USA)
Zhengyuan Xu (University of California, Riverside, USA)

FSO-MIMO Behavior in Variable Atmospheric Turbulence - An Asymptotic Approach
Istvan Frigyes, László Csurgai-Horváth, Péter Horváth
(Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

09:40 – 10:00: Coffee Break

10:00 – 12:00: S2: Modulation
Chair: Jean Armstrong (Monash University, Australia)

Achievable Data Rate Analysis of Clipped Flip-OFDM in Optical Wireless Communication
Zhenhua Yu, Robert John Baxley, G. Tong Zhou (Georgia Tech, USA)

Pulse Shaping in Unipolar OFDM-based Modulation Schemes
Dobroslav A. Tsonev, Sinan Sinanović, Harald Haas (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Analytical Model for Optical Wireless OFDM System with Digital Signal Restoration
Evgeny V. Vanin (Acreo AB, Sweden)

Position Modulating OFDM for Optical Wireless Communications
Asanka Nuwanpriya, Alex Grant, Siu-Wai Ho, Lin Luo (University of South Australia, Australia)

Constellation Design for Color-Shift Keying Using Interior Point Methods
Eric Monteiro, Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)

Performance Analysis of Multi-pulse PPM for Optical Wireless Hierarchical Transmission System
Yusuke Kozawa (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
Hiromasa Habuchi (Ibaraki University, Japan)

12:00 – 13:00: Lunch

13:00 – 14:00: S3: Imaging
Chair: Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, Japan)

High-speed Transmission of Overlay Coding for Road-to-Vehicle Visible Light Communication Using LED Array and High-Speed Camera
Sayaka Nishimoto, Takaya Yamazato, Hiraku Okada, Toshiaki Fujii, Tomohiro Yendo
(Nagoya University, Japan)
Shintaro Arai (Kagawa National College of Technology, Japan)

Hemispherical Lens Based Imaging Receiver for MIMO Optical Wireless Communications
Thomas Wang, Ahmet Sekercioglu, Jean Armstrong (Monash University, Australia)

Using a CMOS Camera Sensor for Visible Light Communication
Christos Danakis, Mostafa Afgani, Gordon Povey (PureVLC Ltd., UK)
Ian Underwood, Harald Haas (University of Edinburgh, UK)

14:00 – 14:20: Coffee Break

14:20 – 15:40: S4: Applications
Chair: Harald Haas (University of Edinburgh, UK)

State Estimation and Motion Tracking for Spatially Diverse VLC Networks
Michael Rahaim, Gregary B Prince, Thomas DC Little (Boston University / NSF Smart Lighting ERC, USA)

Hybrid Visible Light Communications in Intelligent Transportation Systems with Position Based Services
Jiang Liu (Waseda University, Japan)
Peter Chan (CTTC-HK, Hong Kong)
Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Ernest S. Lo (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Hong Kong)
Shigeru Shimamoto (Waseda University, Japan)

Designs of a Free-Space White-LED Mass-Storage Transceiver for SD-Card File Transfer
Lih Chieh Png, Nhat Le Minh, Liangquan Chen, Kiat Seng Yeo
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

An LED-to-LED Visible Light Communication System with Software-Based Synchronization
Stefan Schmid (ETH Zurich / Disney Research, Switzerland)
Giorgio Corbellini, Stefan Mangold (Disney Research, Switzerland)
Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
15:40 – 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00: S5: Panel Discussion
Chair: Jean Armstrong (Monash University, Australia)

17:00 – 17:30: S6: Wrap Up and Planning for 2013
Chair: Thomas DC Little (Boston University / NSF Smart Lighting ERC, USA)

 


Monday, 3 December 2012
08:30 – 17:30
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room Ι

W8: Smart Grid Communications: Design for Performance (SGComm)
Organizers:
Michael Devetsikiotis (North Carolina State University, USA)        
George Michailidis (University of Michigan, USA)
Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessalonki, Greece)

08:30 – 08:45: Welcome/Open Address

08:45 – 09:25: Invited Talk
Anna Scaglione (University of California, Davis, USA)

09:25 – 10:05: Invited Talk
George Kesidis (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

10:05 – 10:20: Coffee Break

10:20– 11:30: S1: Networking for Smart Metering and Demand Response Management

PMU Deployment for Optimal State Estimation Performance
Yue Yang, Sumit Roy (University of Washington, USA)

Smooth Electric Power Scheduling in Power Distribution Networks
Yingsong Huang, Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)
Mark Nelms (USA)

An Optimization-based Demand Response in Radial Distribution Networks
Na Li (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Lijun Chen (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Lingwen Gan, Steven Low (California Institute of Technology, USA)

Highly Reliable Star and Sub-Mesh Hybrid Sensor Network for Smart Grid Monitoring
Leonardo Goratti (Joint Research Center), Italy)
Jussi P. Haapola (University of Oulu, Finland)
Shuzo Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)

11:30 – 12:15: Industrial Forum with ABB, Cisco and IBM

12:15 – 13:00: Lunch Break

13:00 – 13:40: Invited Talk
Steven Low (California Institute of Technology, USA)

13:40 – 14:20: Invited Talk
Jaime Lloret Mauri (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

14:20 – 15:30: S2: Communication Architectures, Networks and Protocols for Smart Grid
A Study on the Impact of Packet Loss and Latency on Real-Time Demand Response in Smart Grid
Marco Pruckner, Abdalkarim Awad, Reinhard German (University of Erlangen, Germany)

DRIFT: Differentiated RF-based Power Transmission for Wireless Sensor Network Deployment in the Smart Grid
Melike Erol-Kantarci, Hussein T. Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Energy Consumption Study of Network Access Switches to Enhance Energy Distribution
Emilio Granell,  Sebastián Andrade-Morelli, Eduardo Ruiz-Sánchez, Jaime Lloret
(Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

Performance Analysis of an LTE TDD Based Smart Grid Communications Network for Uplink Biased Traffic
Jason Brown, Jamil Y. Khan (University of Newcastle, Australia)

15:30 – 15:45: Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:55: S3: Security and Performance issues in Smart Grid Communications

Exploiting the GOOSE Protocol: A Practical Attack on Cyber-infrastructure
Juan Hoyos, Mark Dehus, Timothy Brown (University of Colorado, USA)

The Not-So-Smart Grid: Preliminary Work on Identifying Vulnerabilities in ANSI C12.22
Shehla Rana, David Nicol (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA)
Cheol Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
Incheol Shin (National Security Research Institute, Korea)
Huaiyu Zhu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Charging of Electric Vehicles Utilizing Random Wind: A Stochastic Optimization Approach
Mathew Pradeep Goonewardena, Long Bao Le (University of Quebec, Canada)

Support Vector Machine based Fault Detection & Classification in Smart Grids
Nauman Shahid (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
Saad Abdul Aleem, Ijaz Haider Naqvi (LUMS School of Science and Engineering, Pakistan)
Nauman Zaffar (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

16:55 – 17:30: Closing Session

 


Monday, 3 December 2012
8:30 – 18:00
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room J

W9: International Workshop on Cloud Base-station and Large-scale Cooperative Communications
Organizers:
Robert W. Heath Jr. (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
Yi Wang (Huawei Technology Co., Ltd., China)
Chih-Lin I (ChinaMobile Research Institute, China)
Xin Su (Tsinghua University, China)

08:30 – 09:10: Keynote Session I
Accelerate the Convergence of Computing and Communication
Jesse Fang (Director, Intel Labs China, China)

09:10 – 10:30: S1: Algorithms

Exploiting Scalar Effects of MIMO Detection in Could Base-Station: Feasible Scheme and Universal Significance
Rongrong Qian (BUPT, China), Yuan Qi, Tao Peng, Wenbo Wang, Duan Ran (CMCC, China), Chen Kuilin

Performance Evaluation of Cloud-RAN System with Carrier Frequency Offset
Jian Li (Huawei, China), Dageng Chen, Yi Wang, Jianjun Wu

Codebook Aided User Pairing and Resource Allocation for SC-FDMA
Michael A. Ruder (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), Sebastian Heinrichs, Wolfgang Gerstacker

Network Massive MIMO for Cell-Boundary Users: From a Precoding Normalization Perspective
Changwoo Lee (Yonsei University, Korea), Chan-Byoung Chae, Taehyung Kim, Sooyong Choi, Juho Lee

10:50 – 12:30: S2: Architectures

Cloud Base Stations and Fixed Mobile Convergence for the Next Mobile Network
Wolfgang Kiess (DOCOMO, Germany), Changsoon Choi, Ashiq Khan, Kazuyuki Kozu

A Backhaul Scheme for Uplink Cooperation among Base Stations
Zi Teng (Tongji University, China), Wenwen Cao, Jun Wu

Pathloss Determination of Uplink Power Control for UL CoMP in Heterogeneous Network
Jiayin Zhang (Huawei, China), Pablo Soldati, Yongming Liang, Lei Zhang, Chen Kuilin (CMCC, China)

Large Scale MIMO Transmission Technology in the Architecture of Cloud Base-Station
Liping Rong (UESTC, China), Xin Su (Tsinghua University, China), Jie Zeng; Yujun Kuang, Jingyu Li

Antenna and User Selection for a Cloud Base Station with (Reverse) Compute-and-Forward
SongNam Hong (Univeristy of Southern California, USA), Giuseppe Caire

13:50 – 15:30: S3 Architectures

Architecture of GPP based, Scalable, Large Scale C-RAN BBU Pool
Guangjie Li (Intel, China), Chen Kuilin (CMCC, China), Senjie Zhang (Intel, China), Xuebin Yang, Fanglan Liao, Tin-Fook Ngai, Xu Zhang

Energy-Efficient User Association for Heterogeneous Cloud Cellular Networks
Hang Zhu (Nanjing University, China); Shaowei Wang; Dageng Chen (Huawei, China)

LTE eNodeB Prototype based on GPP Platform
Kai Niu (BUPT, China), Jianxing Sun, Zhiqiang He; Kok Keong Chai (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

Automated Healing Approach in Cloud Base-Station with High Load using RRUs Cooperation
Li He (UESTC, China); Xin Su(Tsinghua University, China), Jie Zeng; Yujun Kuang (UESTC, China)

A Physical Layer Solution for Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding in the Framework of LTE-Advanced
Hua Yan (Huawei, China), Tingjian Tian, Lei Chen, Jing Qiu

16:00 – 16:20: S4 Algorithms II
Inter-Cell Antenna Calibration for Coherent Joint Transmission in TDD System
Hanqing Xu (ZTE, China); Yajun Zhao, Linmei Mo, Chen Huang, Baoyu Sun; Qingchun Chen (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)

16:20 – 17:00: Keynote Sessions I
Cloud-RAN: An enabler of Hyper-Transceiver
Peiying Zhu (Vice Director, Huawei Canada)

17:00 – 18:00: Panel
Moderator: Robert Heath

Panelists:
Chih-Lin I (ChinaMobile, China)
Peiying Zhu (Huawei, Canada)
Jesse Fang (Intel, China)
Yi Wang (Huawei, China)
Jianjun Wu (Huawei, China)
Xin Su (Tsinghua University, China)

 


Monday, 3 December 2012   
08:30 – 17:00
Room: Monorail A / B

W10: 4th International Workshop on Management of Emerging Networks and Services Program (MENS)
Organizers:
Jianguo Ding (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Ranganai Chaparadza (IPv6 Forum, ETSI AFI, Germany)
Djamel Djenouri (CERIST Research Center, Algiers, Algeria)

08:30 – 09:30: Keynote Session I (Monorail A)
Industry and Standardization Activities on Converged Management of Fixed & Mobile Networks and the benefits brought by Autonomic Management & Control Principles: NGMN NGCOR and ETSI AFI Reports
Ranganai Chaparadza (ETSI AFI, IPv6 Forum, Germany)
Klaus Martiny (Deutsche Telekom, NGMN, Germany)
Tayeb Ben Meriem (France Telecom/Orange, NGMN / ETSI AFI, France)

10:00 – 11:00

MENS1-1: Management of P2P Networks, Wireless and Heterogeneous Networks (Monorail A)

Secure Web Framework for Mobile Devices
Muneer Malik, Dharma P Agrawal (University of Cincinnati, USA)

Mobility Management Issues in Heterogeneous Mobile Wireless Networks
Leo Bhebhe (Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland)

A New Algorithm of Virtual Network Embedding based on Minimum Node Stress and Adjacent Principle
Hongyan Cui, Fangjie Kong, Yunjie Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

An Adaptive Source Rate Regulation Scheme for Wireless Periodical Data Collection Systems
Yusuke Matsuda, Kenichi Mase (Niigata University, Japan)

MENS 2-1: Management of Future Internet (Monorail B)

A Policy based Framework for governing Future Networks
Aristi Galani, Nikos Koutsouris, Kostas Tsagkaris, Panagiotis Demestichas (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Beatriz Fuentes, Carolina Vazquez (Telefonica ID, Spain)
Gerard Nguengang (Thales Communications & Security SA, France)

Auto-Collaboration for Optimal Network Resource Utilization in Fixed IPv6 Networks
Nikolay Tcholtchev (FOKUS Fraunhofer, Germany)
Arun Prakash, Ina K. Schieferdecker (TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)
Ranganai Chaparadza (IPv6 Forum, Germany)
Razvan Petre (Testing Technologies IST GmbH, Germany)

Performance Evaluation of LTE EPC Self- Healing Solutions
Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Shahram Shah Heydari (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

Autonomicity Design in Openflow Based Software Defined Networking
Wang Wendong, Yannan Hu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Xirong Que (Institute of Networking Technology, China)
Gong Xiangyang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

11:00 – 12:00

MENS 1-2: Management of P2P Networks, Wireless and Heterogeneous Networks (Monorail A)

Construction and Evaluation of a Regional Protection System Employing Power-saving Wireless Terminals without Using GPS Modules
Hiroaki Nose (Nagano Prefectural Institute of Technology, Japan)
Hideki Motoyama (Nagano Japan Radio Co., Ltd., Japan)
Hikofumi Suzuki, Yasushi Fuwa (Shinshu University, Japan)

Multiplatform Management of a Hard Real-Time Ethernet Switch
Aleksander Pleszko, João Paulo Barraca, Joaquim Ferreira, Pedro A. Gonçalves
(Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)

A Novel Cognitive Management Scheme for the Virtual Network Resources
Yanni Han, Zihou Wan, Hui Tang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Song Ci (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

MENS 2-2: Management of Future Internet (Monorail B)

Link Sleeping Optimization for Green Virtual Network Infrastructures
Ebrahim Ghazisaeedi, Ning Wang, Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, UK)

Standardization of an Autonomicity-Enabled Mesh Architecture Framework, from ETSI-AFI Group perspective: Work in Progress
Szymon Szott (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
Michal Wodczak (Ericsson / Telcordia, Poland)
Ranganai Chaparadza (IPv6 Forum, Germany)
Tayeb Ben Meriem (Orange, France)
Kostas Tsagkaris (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Apostolos Kousaridas (University of Athens, Greece)
Benoit Radier (Orange France Telecom R&D, France)
Andrej Mihailovic (King's College London, UK)
Marek Natkaniec, Krzysztof Loziak, Katarzyna Kosek-Szott, Michal Wagrowski
(AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)

Preventive Network Protection in Probabilistic Large-Scale Failure Scenarios
Alireza Izaddoost, Shahram Shah Heydari (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

14:00 – 15:00: Keynote Session II (Monorail A)
Industry and Standardization Activities on Converged Management of Fixed & Mobile Networks and the benefits brought by Autonomic Management & Control Principles: NGMN NGCOR and ETSI AFI Reports
Krzysztof Łoziak (AGH, Poland)
Latif Ladid (IPv6 Forum President. Luxembourg)
Ranganai Chaparadza (ETSI AFI, IPv6 Forum, Germany)
Klaus Martiny (Deutsche Telekom, Germany)
Tayeb Ben Meriem (France Telecom, ETSI AFI, France)
Michał Wódczak (Ericsson, AFI, Poland)
Leo Bhebhe (Nokia, Finland)

15:30 – 17:00

MENS:3: QoS for Emerging Networks (Monorail A)

Column Generation Approach for One-Shot Virtual Network Embedding
Abdallah Jarray, Ahmed Karmouch (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Multi-Granular Optical Transport Network Design with Dual Power State
Nabil A Naas (University of Ottawa / Tripoli University, Tripoli-Libya, Canada)
Burak Kantarci, Hussein T. Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Network Construction Management for Emergency Communication System SKYMESH in Large Scale Disaster
Hiraku Okada (Nagoya University, Japan)
Hironori Oka, Kenichi Mase (Niigata University, Japan)

Throughput Enhancement for VHT WLANs Based on Two Level Network Allocation Vector
Baofeng Ji, Kang Song, Chunguo Li, Yongming Huang, Yang Luxi (Southeast University, China)

Fuzzy Non-dominance Multipath Link-state Routing Framework for Network Routing Management with Inaccurate Information
Jing An, Paul Pangalos, Hamid Aghvami (King's College London, UK)

MENS:4: Autonomic Networking, Cognitive Networking, and Self-Management (Monorail B)

Rotary Dial Model - A Model-Driven Methodology for Autonomic Network Design
Arun Prakash, Ina K. Schieferdecker (TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)
Michael Wagner, Christian Hein (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)

The Self-Growing Concept as a Design Principle of Cognitive Self-Organization
Marc Emmelmann, Bernd Bochow (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)
Athanasios Makris (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Alexandros Kaloxylos (University of Peloponnisos, Greece)
Georgios P. Koudouridis (Huawei Technologies Sweden R&D Center
/ Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Testbed Implementation for Autonomic Network Performance Management of Wireless Mesh Networks
Abdelhamid G. Moursy, Ahmed Aly, Bide Xu, Dmitri Perkins, Magdy Bayoumi
(University of Louisiana, USA)

Autonomic Cooperative Networking for Emergency Communications
Michal Wodczak (Ericsson / Telcordia, Poland)

GARSON: Management Performance Aware Approach to Autonomic and Cognitive Networks
Sławomir Kukliński (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
Mariusz Skrocki, Lukasz Rajewski, Joan Meseguer Llopis, Zygmunt Wereszczyński
(Orange Labs Poland, Poland)

A Game Theory Approach: Dynamic Behaviors for Spectrum Management in Cognitive Radio Network
Saed Alrabaee, Mahmoud Khasawneh, Anjali Agarwal (Concordia University, Canada)
Nishith Goel, Marzia Zaman (Cistel Technology Inc., Canada)

 


Monday, 3 December 2012    
08:40 – 18:00    
Room: Monorail C

W11: 4th International Workshop on Mobility Management in the Networks of the Future World (MobiWorld)
Organizers:
Yi-Bing Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Ilsun You (Korean Bible University, South Korea)

08:40 – 10:10: Session I
Chair: Kangbin Yim (SCH University, Korea)

Maintaining Strong Consistency for the Identifier-to-Locator Mapping Cache
Xiaoqian Li, Feng Qiu, Huachun Zhou, Zhang Hongke

The Multicast Service Model for Next Generation Internet based on Identifier/Locator Separation
Jianfeng Guan, Wei Quan, Changqiao Xu, Huachun Zhou, Zhang Hongke

Network Mobility Management in HIMALIS Architecture of Future Networks
Ved P. Kafle, Ruidong Li, Hajime Tazaki, Hiroaki Harai

An Experimental Framework for Vertical Hand-Over to Guarantee Session Continuity in Heterogeneous Wireless Environments
Andreas Bontozoglou, Kun Yang, Ken Guild, Marcos Farrera

A Content Retrieval Model for Information Centric MANETs: 1-Dimensional Case
Wei Quan, Jianfeng Guan, Shijie Jia, Junlong Zhu, Changqiao Xu, Zhang Hongke

10:10 – 10:30: Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:30: Session II
Chair: Sudip Misra (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Tutorial Talk: Mobile GLoWBAL IP: Enabling Transparent IPv6 Mobility in the Internet of Things
Antonio Jara (University of Murcia, Spain)

An Inter-Store Transaction Mechanism to Distribute Mobile Applications
Chen-Yuan Chuang, Hsu-Sheng Chang, Yuh-Jer Hungv

Challenges and Opportunities in Content Distribution Networks: A Case Study
Muslim Elkotob, Karl Andersson

Emergency Service Model Analysis to Heterogeneous Network Environment
Huei-Min Liao, Kai-Di Chang, Chi-Yuan Chen, Jiann-Liang Chen, Han-Chieh Chao, Hua-Pei Chiang

Improving Security Level of LTE Authentication and Key Agreement Procedure
Fang-Yie Leu, Ilsun You, Yi-Li Huang, Kangbin Yim, Cheng-Ru Dai

Comparison of Two Security Protocols for Preventing Packet Dropping and Message Tampering Attacks
on AODV-Based Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Isaac Woungang, Sanjay Kumar Dhurandher, Vincent Koo, Issa Traore

12:30 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 15:40: Session III
Chair: Karl Andersson (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)

Keynote: A Network-based Seamless Handover Scheme for Multi-homed Devices
Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, USA)

Multiple Virtual Interfaces to Support Multi-homing Hosts in PMIPv6 Network
Seong-Mun Kim, Hyon-Young Choi, Hyo-Beom Lee, Sung-Gi Min, Youn-Hee Han

Providing a High-Speed Train with a Broadband and Fault Tolerant IPv4/6 NEMO Environment
Masanori Terada, Fumio Teraoka

A Mobile QoE Architecture for Heterogeneous Multimedia Wireless Networks
Eduardo Cerqueira, Marilia Curado, Augusto Jose Venancio Neto, André Riker, Roger Immich, Carlos Quadros

15:40 – 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:00: Session IV
Chair: Ved P. Kafle (NICT, Japan)

Nomadic Mobility between Smart Homes
Raihan UI Islam, Mischa Schmidt, Hans-Joerg Kolbe, Karl Andersson

Performance Analysis for Distributed Mobility Management Schemes Based on Flow Duration
Li Yi, Huachun Zhou, Daochao Huang, Hongke Zhang

Decoupling and Distribution of Mobility Management
Tiago Silvestre Condeixa, Susana Sargento, Andrea Giordanna O. Nascimento, Rute C. Sofia

Comparative Study of Centralized Mobility Management and Distributed Mobility Management
on ID/Locator Separation Architectures
Younghyun Kim, Haneul Ko, Sangheon Pack, Jong-Hyouk Lee

A Smart Notification Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
Fei Song, Lulu Liang, Huachun Zhou, Hongke Zhang

The Stable Routing Protocol for the Cognitive Network
Yidan Zhang, Jianfeng Guan, Changqiao Xu, Hongke Zhang

 


Friday, 7 December 2012
09:00 – 12:00
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room A

W12: Ad Hoc Networking with MIMO and Cognitive Radio (MIMOCR)

Organizers:
Maggie Cheng (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
Lin Cai (University of Victoria, Canada)
Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA)

09:00 – 10:15: Session I

Primary and Secondary Nodes Coexistence through Opportunistic MIMO Cognitive Radio
Mauro Biagi, Francesca Cuomo (University of Rome Sapienza, Italy)

A Combinatorial Solution for Scheduling Spatial Multiplexing in MIMO-Based Ad Hoc Networks
Maggie Cheng, Quanmin Ye (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

BAR: Bandwidth-Aware Opportunistic Localized-Routing for Cognitive Radio Networks
Tung Le, Quang Pham, Soo Young Shin, Dong Sung Kim (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea)

Predictive Spectrum Decision Mechanisms in Cognitive Radio Networks
G. Selda Uyanik, Berk Canberk, Sema Oktug (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

AJIM: A Transparent Cognitive Anti-Jamming and Interference Mitigation Framework
Kyriakos Manousakis (Telcordia Technologies, USA)
John Sucec, Mariusz A. Fecko, Kenneth Young (Applied Communication Sciences, USA)

10:45 – 12:00:  Session II

Spectrum Utility Optimization by Priced Timed Automata Model under Heterogeneous Primary User Traffics in CR Networks
Berk Canberk, Tolga Ovatman (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

Wireless MIMO Switching: Distributed Zero-Forcing Relaying Using Network Coding
Miao Wang, Fanggang Wang, Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Cooperative Spectrum Sharing with Bi-directional Secondary Transmissions
Yiyang Pei, Ying-Chang Liang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Favor-Aware Distributed Spectrum Allocation via Compressive Skycube Query
Lixia Liu, Hu Gang, Ming Xu, Peng Yuxing (National University of Defense Technology, China)

Routing and Resource Allocation with Collision Constraint in Multi-hop Cognitive Radio Networks
Liren Lai, Jian Wang, Aiping Huang, Hangguan Shan (Zhejiang University, China)

Bio-Inspired Time Synchronization for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks
Nadine Pari (Federal University of Parana, Brazil)
Aravind Kailas (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)
Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Parana, Brazil)

 


Friday, 7 December 2012                    
08:00 – 15:20                             
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room B

W13: Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Smart Devices (ETSD)

Organizers:
Joel Rodrigues (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Bin Wei (Georgia Southern University, USA)
Feng Xia (Dalian University, China)
Liang Zhou (Nanjing University, China)

08:00 – 08:15: Welcome/Opening Address
Joel Rodrigues (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)

08:15 - 09:30: Keynote Session
Mulithoming using Multiple Heterogeneous Interfaces for Seamless Handoff of Smart devices
Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, USA)

09:30 – 10:00: Coffee Break

10:00 – 12:00: S1: Emerging Technologies for Smart Devices
Chair: Jaime Lloret (Universidad Politecnica Valencia, Spain)

Smart Devices Fingerprint Detection
Emilio Granell, Diana Bri, Jesus Tomas, Jaime Lloret (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

DSMIP and PMIP for Mobility Management of Heterogeneous Access Networks: Evaluation of Authentication Delay
Paulo Roberto Gondim, José Trineto (Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil)

Gyroscope Drift Correction Based on TDoA Technology in Support of Pedestrian Dead Reckoning
Mohammed Elbes, Ala Al-Fuqaha (Western Michigan University, USA)
Ammar Rayes (Cisco / San Jose State University, USA)

Goodies for Data: Game-based Data Propagation in DTNs
Sebastian Schildt, Lars C. Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)

A Queuing-Based Delay-Tolerant Scheme for Energy Efficiency over Cognitive Radio Networks
Bi Zhao, Vasilis Friderikos (King's College London, UK)

13:30 – 15:00: S2: Research Forum: Will smart devices converge or diverge in 10 years?
Chair: Feng Xia (Dalian University, China)

15:00 – 15:20: Closing Remarks

 


Friday, 7 December 2012
08:25 – 17:20
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room C

W14: Management and Security technologies for Cloud Computing (ManSec-CC)

Organizers:
Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Panagiotis Rizomiliotis, Charalabos Skianis (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Jianying Zhou (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

08:25 – 08:30: Welcome/Opening Address

08:30 – 09:10: Keynote Session I
Chair: Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Management of Converged Resources in Application Platforms
Alberto Leon-Garcia

09:10 – 10:00: Energy Efficiency in Cloud Environments
Chair: Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Inter-and-Intra Data Center VM-Placement for Energy-Efficient Large-Scale Cloud Systems
Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna, Italy)
Hussein T. Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Reducing Power Consumption in Embedding Virtual Infrastructures
Bin Wang, Xiaolin Chang, Jiqiang Liu (Beijing Jiao Tong University, China)
Jogesh K. Muppala (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

10:00 – 10:30: Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:35: Services in Cloud Environments
Chair: Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)

OpenADN: Mobile Apps on Global Clouds Using OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking
Subharthi Paul, Raj Jain (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

An Approach to Identify and Monitor SLA Parameters for Storage-as-a-Service Cloud Delivery Model
Nirnay Ghosh, Soumya K. Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology, India)

Risk Propagation of Security SLAs in the Cloud
Matt Hale, Rose Gamble (University of Tulsa, USA)

Internet Traffic Classification based on Bag-of-words Model
Yin Zhang, Yi Zhou, Kai Chen (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

Multiocular Surveillance of Wide Dynamic Environments Based on Optical Vision, Event Modeling and End-to-End Data Encryption - A Cloud-based Monitoring approach of Maritime Activities
Klimis Ntalianis, Emmanuel S. Sardis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Nicolas Tsapatsoulis (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
Anastasios D. Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Panagiotis Rizomiliotis (University of the Aegean, Greece)

12:35 – 13:35: Lunch

13:35 – 14:20: Keynote Session II
Chair: Harry Skianis (University of the Aegean, Greece)

Cross Roads: Cloud Computing and Mobile Networking
Tarik Taleb (NEC Europe Ltd., Germany)
Thomas Bohnert (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)

Media Streaming in Cloud Environments
Chair: Harry Skianis (University of the Aegean, Greece)

Experimental Evaluation of Linux TCP for Adaptive Video Streaming over the Cloud
Rafael Alvarez-Horine, Melody Moh (San Jose State University, USA)

Prediction-based Resource Allocation in Clouds for Media Streaming Applications
Amr Alasaad, Kaveh Shafiee, Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Victor CM Leung
(University of British Columbia, Canada)

15:10 – 15:40: Coffee Break

15:40 – 17:20: Security and Trust in the Cloud
Chair: Panagiotis Rizomiliotis (University of the Aegean, Greece)

A Novel Architecture for a Computer Network Defense (CND) System Using Content Addressable Networks (CAN)
Derar Khalaf Al-Omari (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Vijay Gurbani (Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
Tricha Anjali (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

Platform Capability Based Identity Management for Scalable and Secure Cloud Service Access
Abhilasha Bhargav (Intel Corporation, USA); Steve Deutsch (Intel, USA)

Incorporating Hardware Trust Mechanisms in Apache Hadoop
Jason C. Cohen (Towson University / Hewlett Packard Company, USA)
Subrata Acharya (Towson University, USA)

Digital Forensics in the Cloud Computing Era
Nikolaos Marangos, Panagiotis Rizomiliotis, Lilian Mitrou (University of the Aegean, Greece)

17:20: Closing Remarks

 


Friday, 7 December 2012
08:30 – 16:30
Room North Exhibit Hall Room D

W15: Workshop on Rural Communications (RuralComm)
Organizers:
Sudhir Dixit (HP Labs, India)
Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada)
Mehmet Ulema (Manhattan College, USA)

08:30 –0 8:40: Welcome / Opening Address

08:40 – 09:30: Keynote Session
Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine, USA) 

10:00 – 11:00: S1: Optimization for Rural Areas

Cost/Revenue Optimization of WiMAX Networks with Relay Power Saving Modes: Measurement-Based Scenario in a Hilly Region
Fernando J. Velez, João R. Oliveira, Daniel Robalo (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Oliver D. Holland, Hamid Aghvami (King's College London, UK)

Protocol Based Selective FIB Download for Distributed Forwarding Architecture,
Hany Mohamed (EGYPT, Egypt)
Ahmed Bashandy (Cairo University, USA)
Samir I. Shaheen (Cairo University, Egypt)

11:00 – 12:00: S2: Coverage Issues in Rural Areas

Regional Coverage Scheme Based on LEO Micro-satellite Formation
Bingcai Chen, Zhinan Li, Xiaodong Yang (Harbin Engineering University, China)

Actual and Predicted Coverage of Multiuser MIMO Based Fixed Wireless Access in Rural Areas
Hajime Suzuki (CSIRO, Australia)

14:00 – 15:00: S3: Backhaul Networks for Rural Areas

QoS-aware Wireless Back-haul Network for Rural Areas in Practice, 
Christian Niephaus, Mathias Kretschmer, Karl Jonas (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)

ROFL: Restoration of Failures through Link-Bandwidth Sharing,
Daniel Philip Venmani, Yvon Gouhant (Orange Labs)
Djamal Zeghlache (Telecom Sud Paris)

16:00 – 16:30: S3: Broadband Access Networks 

Integrated Solutions for Broadband Access in Brazilian Amazon Rural Areas
Lamartine V. de Souza, Joao Crisostomo Weyl Costa, Carlos Renato Francês
(Universidade Fereral do Para, Brazil)

 


Friday, 7 December 2012
08:45 – 15:30
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room E

W16: Green Internet of Things

Organizers:
Hossam Hassanein (Queens University, Canada)
Ayman Radwan (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Fadi Al-Turjman (Queen’s University, Canada)
Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

08:45 – 09:00 Welcome/Opening Address
Chair: Fadi Al-Turjman (Queen’s University, Canada)

09:00 – 10:00: Keynote Session
Chair: Fadi Al-Turjman (Queen’s University, Canada)

Abdallah Shami (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

10:00 – 10:30: Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00: S1: On Green Management in IoT
Chair: Fadi Al-Turjman (Queen’s University, Canada)

Green Fleet Management Architecture: Application to Economic Itinerary Planning
Guillaume Rémy, Sara Mehar, Tonino Sophy, Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, François Jan, Yvon Gourhant

Utilizing RFID-WSNs for Reducing the Footprint of the Oil Sands Industries
Ashraf E. Al-Fagih, Ahmad El Kouche, Sharief M.A. Oteafy, Abdallah Alma'aitah

Moblist: A Signal Strength Based Clustering Algorithm for Ordered Mobile Scenarios
Victor Sucasas, Ayman Radwan, Hugo Marques, Jonathan Rodriguez, Rahim Tafazolli

Data Management for the Internet of Things: Green Directions
Najah A. Abu Ali, Mervat Abu-Elkheir

12:00 – 13:45: Lunch

13:45 – 15:30: S2: Energy-aware Protocols in Green-IoT
Chair: Ayman Radwan (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Energy-efficient Device-to-device Communications in LTE Public Safety Networks
Elias Yaacoub, Osama Kubbar

Starting from Green: Energy-centric Transformation of Smart Object Architectures
Paul G. Flikkema, Kenji Yamamoto, Samuel Boegli

Energy efficient CoMP Transmission in LTE-advanced
Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq, Shahid Mumtaz, Muhammad Alam, Ayman Radwan, Jonathan Rodriguez

Energy Aware Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Petros Spachos, Periklis Chatzimisios, Dimitrios Hatzinakos

Algorithms and Bounds for Energy-based Multi-source Localization in Log-normal fading
Ioannis Dagres, Andreas Polydoros, Daniel Denkovski, Marko Angjelicinoski, Vladimir Atanasovski, Liljana Gavrilovska

 


Friday, 7 December 2012
08:00 – 17:00
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room F

W17: Workshop on Flexible Optical Networks (FON)
Organizers:
Filippo Cugini (CNIT, Italy)
Tarek S. El-Bawab (Jackson State University, USA)

08.00 – 08.15: Welcome/Opening Address
Tarek S. El-Bawab (Jackson State University, USA)

08.15 – 08.50: Advanced Adaptation Capabilities for Flexible Optical Networks
Chair: Filippo Cugini (CNIT, Italy)

Adaptive Coded Modulation for Nonlinear Fiber-Optical Channels
Lotfollah Beygi, Erik Agrell, Magnus Karlsson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Versatile Low-Complex 16-QAM Optical Transmitter Driven by Binary Signals
Antonio Malacarne (CNIT, Italy); Luca Potì (CNIT, Italy)
Francesco Fresi, Jonathan Klamkin (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)

10.00 – 10.30: Coffee Break

10.30 – 11.20: Keynote Session

Glenn Wellbrock (Director of Optical Transport Network - Architecture, Design & Planning, Verizon, USA)

A Naturally-Inspired Algorithm for Routing, Wavelength Assignment, and Spectrum Allocation in Flexible Grid WDM Networks
Ankitkumar Patel, Philip N. Ji (NEC Laboratories America, USA)
Jason P. Jue (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)
Ting Wang (NEC Laboratories America, USA)

Survivable Multipath Provisioning in OFDM-Based Flexible Optical Networks
Nan Xiao (Iowa State University, USA); Lu Ruan (Iowa State University, USA)

12.30 – 13.30: Lunch

13:30 – 15:45: Technical Session

Control Plane Techniques for Elastic Optical Networks: GMPLS/PCE vs OpenFlow
Lei Liu, Takehiro Tsuritani, Itsuro Morita (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan)
Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martinez, Raul Muñoz (CTTC, Spain)

Cost Evaluation for Flexible-Grid Optical Networks
Jorge López Vizcaíno, Yabin Ye (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany)
Victor López, Felipe Jiménez, Raúl Duque (Telefónica I+D, Spain)
Peter Krummrich (TU Dortmund, Germany)

Cost Analysis for Elastic Optical Networking: Single Channel vs. Multi Channels
Ming Xia (Ericsson Research US, USA)
Stefan Dahlfort (Ericsson, Sweden)

15:15 – 15.45: Coffee Break

15.45 – 17:00: Panel

 


Friday, 7 December 2012
08:30 – 18:00
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room G
W18: International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications

Organizers:
Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, UK)
Thierry Lestable (Sagemcom SAS, France)
Carles Antón-Haro (CTTC, Spain)
Trevor Gill (Vodafone Group, UK)
Pirabakaran Navaratnam (University of Surrey, UK)
Peter Rost (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany)

08:30 – 08:45: Welcome/Opening Address
Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, UK)

08:45 – 09:15: Keynote Session I
Martin Beale (IPWireless Inc., UK)

09:15 – 09:55: S1: Resource Management

Evolution of Packet Scheduling for Machine-Type Communications over LTE: Algorithmic Design and Performance Analysis
Antonis G Gotsis, Athanasios Lioumpas, Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)

RAN Overload Control for Machine Type Communications in LTE
Anna Larmo, Riikka Susitaival (Ericsson Research, Finland)

09:55 – 10:15: Coffee Break

10:15 – 10:55: S1: Resource Management (continued)

Energy and Delay Analysis of LTE-Advanced RACH Performance under MTC Overload
Mikhail Gerasimenko, Vitaly Petrov, Olga Galinina, Sergey Andreev, Yevgeni Koucheryavy
(Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

On Resource Allocation for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications in Cellular Networks
Harpreet S. Dhillon (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
Howard Huang, Harish Viswanathan (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
Reinaldo Valenzuela (Lucent Technologies, USA)

10:55 – 12:15: S2: Energy-efficiency

Energy-Efficient Power Allocation for M2M Communications with Energy Harvesting Transmitter
Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Robert Schober (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Reducing Energy Consumption of LTE Devices for Machine-to-Machine Communication
Tuomas Tirronen, Anna Larmo (Ericsson Research, Finland)
Joachim Sachs (Ericsson Research, Germany)
Niclas Wiberg, Bengt Lindoff (Ericsson Research, Sweden)

A Learning Theoretic Approach to Energy Harvesting Communication System Optimization
Pol Blasco, Deniz Gündüz, Mischa Dohler (CTTC, Spain)

Optimizing Energy-Efficiency of PHY-Layer Authentication in Machine-to-Machine Networks
Andrea Bartoli (CTTC, Spain)
Juan Hernández-Serrano (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Miguel Soriano (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
Mischa Dohler (CTTC, Spain)
Apostolos Kountouris (France Telecom, France)
Dominique Barthel (Orange Labs, France)

12:15 – 13:30: Lunch

13:30 – 14:00: Keynote Session II
Mischa Dohler (CTTC, Spain)

14:00 – 15:00: Panel Discussion
Chair: Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, UK)

Panelists:
Martin Beale (IPWireless Inc., UK)
Mischa Dohler (CTTC, Spain)
Thierry Lestable (Sagemcom SAS, France)

15:00 – 15:40: S3: Medium Access Control

A Hybrid Contention/Reservation Medium Access Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Petros S. Bithas, Athanasios Lioumpas, Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Enhancements to CDMA2000 1x for M2M Communications
Rashid Attar, Linhai He, Christopher Lott, Ravi Patwardhan, Jing Sun (Qualcomm, USA)

15:40 – 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:40: S3: Medium Access Control (continued)

Code-Expanded Random Access for Machine-Type Communications
Nuno K. Pratas, Henning Thomsen, Čedomir Stefanović, Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Feasibility Study of IEEE 802.11ah Radio Technology for IoT and M2M use Cases
Ali Hazmi, Jukka Rinne, Mikko Valkama (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

16:40 – 18:00: S4: Selected Topics

Cooperative Coverage Extension in Heterogeneous Machine-to-Machine Networks
Giuseppe Cocco, Christian Ibars (CTTC, Spain)
Nader Alagha (European Space Agency, Netherlands)

Providing Statistical QoS Guarantees in Large Cognitive Machine-to-Machine Networks
Shih Chun Lin, Lei Gu, Kwang-Cheng Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Sparsity Aware Multiuser Detection for Machine to Machine Communication
Fabian Monsees, Carsten Bockelmann, Dirk Wübben, Armin Dekorsy (University of Bremen, Germany)

Service-domain Solutions to Radio Interference for M2M Communications and Networking
Milos Tesanovic, Paul Bucknell, Hind Munzer Chebbo, Jumoke Ogunbekun
(Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd., UK)

18:00: Closing Remarks

 


Friday, 7 December 2012
09:00 – 17:30
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room H

W19: 4th International Workshop on Open NGN and IMS Testbeds (ONIT)

Organizers:
Dragos Vingarzan (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)
Vijay K. Varma (Applied Communication Sciences, USA)
Nguyen Huu Thanh (Hanoi University for Technology, Vietnam)
Neco Ventura (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

09:00 – 09:10: Welcome/Opening Address
Chair: Thomas Magedanz (Technische Universtät Berlin, Germany)

09:10 – 09:50: Keynote Session II
Towards Mobile Cloud Networking
Thomas Michael Bohnert (ZHAW, Switzerland)
Tarik Taleb (NEC Europe Ltd, Germany)

09:50 – 10:30: Keynote Session II
Future Radio Access, M2M and Grand Societal Challenges
Hendrik Berndt (DOCOMO Eurolabs, Germany)

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30: Networking Session
Chair: Alfonso Ehijo (University of Chile, Chile)

Past and Current IMS Testbed Initiatives The UCT IMS and EPC Testbed - The UCT IMS and EPC Testbed
Joyce Mwangama, Richard Spiers, Neco Ventura (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Integrating Off-the-shelf 3GPP Access Networks in the OpenEPC Software Toolkit Realizing Cost-efficient and Complete Small-scale Operator Testbeds
Marius Corici, Mihai Constantin, Dana Dwianto Satriya, Dragos Vingarzan, Valentin Vlad, Lukas Wöllner (Fraunhofer FOKUS / Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

Ethernet-Services Transport Protocol Design oriented to Carrier Ethernet Networks
Claudio I Estevez, Sergio Angulo, Alfonso Ehijo, Georgios Ellinas, Gee-Kung Chang
(University of Chile, Chile / Georgia Tech, USA)

12:30 – 13:30: Luncheon

13:30 – 15:00: Applications Session
Chair: Dragos Vingarzan (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)

OpenMTC: Prototyping Machine Type Communication in Carrier Grade Operator Networks
Marius Corici, Hakan Coskun, Asma Elmangoush, Agus Kurniawan, Thomas Magedanz, Sebastian Wahle, Tong Mao (Fraunhofer FOKUS / Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

X-centric Positioning: A Combination of Device-centric and Multi-RAT Network-centric Positioning Approaches
Mohamed Salem, Peter Ruppel, Ulrich Bareth, Axel Küpper
(Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

Machine Type Communications in 3GPP
Andreas Kunz, LaeYoung Kim, Hyunsook Kim, Syed S Husain
(NEC Europe Ltd., Germany / LG Electronics, Korea / Telecom Consultant-Industry Standards, USA)

15:00 – 15:30: Coffee and Demonstrations Break

15:30 – 17:10: Panel Discussion: Machine-to-Machine Communication in a Seamless Communication Environment
Chair: Vijak K. Varma (Applied Communication Sciences, USA)

Invited Panelists:
Hendrik Bernd (DOCOMO Eurolabs, Germany)
Thomas Bohnert (ZHAW, Switzerland)
Mike A. Loushine (Applied Communication Sciences, USA)
Tarek Taleb (NEC Labs Europe (TBC))
Alfonso Ehijo (University of Chile, Chile (TBC))

17:10 – 17:30: Closing Remarks

 


Friday, 7 December 2012                    
08:30 – 17:00                  
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room I

W20: Wireless Networking and Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles: Architectures, Protocols and Applications (Wi-UAV)

Organizers:
Jonathan How (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Yasamin Mostofi (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund, Germany)

08:30 – 10:00: S1: Connectivity and Coverage Optimization for Unmanned Systems
Chair: Jonathan How (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Optimal Motion and Communication for Persistent Information Collection using a Mobile Robot
Alireza Ghaffarkhah (University of New Mexico, USA)
Yasamin Mostofi (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Impact of Motion and Channel Parameters on the Estimation of Transmitter Position in Robotic Networks
Mehrzad Malmirchegini; Alireza Ghaffarkhah (University of New Mexico, USA)
Yasamin Mostofi (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Communication Provision for a Team of Remotely Searching UAVs: A Mobile Relay Approach
Chunbo Luo (University of Ulster, UK)
Paul Ward; Stephen Cameron (University of Oxford, UK)
Gerard P. Parr; Sally I. McClean (University of Ulster, UK)

Experimental Validation of RSS Driven UAV Mobility Behaviors in IEEE 802.11s Networks
Niklas Goddemeier; Sebastian Rohde; Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University, Germany)

10:00 – 10:30: Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00: S2: Cooperative Behavior of Unmanned Systems
Chair: Eric W. Frew (University of Colorado, USA)

Robust Minimum Energy Wireless Routing for Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks
Brooks Reed (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern University, Boston, USA)
Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA)
Franz Hover (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Multiple Event Localization in a Sparse Acoustic Sensor Network Using UAVs as Data Mules
Jason Isaacs, Sriram Venkateswaran, Joao P. Hespanha, Upamanyu Madhow
(University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Jerry Burman (Teledyne Scientific Company, USA)
Tien Pham (US Army Research Laboratory, USA)

Path- and Data Transmission Planning for Cooperating UAVs in Delay Tolerant Network
Esten Ingar Grøtli, Tor Arne Johansen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Mobile Robots Assisted Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks
Phuong Pham, Anh Mai, Sesh Commuri (University of Oklahoma, USA)

12:00 – 13:00: Lunch

13:00 – 13:45: Keynote Session
Chair: Yasamin Mostofi (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Control of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles for Optimal Information Gathering
Joao P. Hespanha (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

13:45 – 15:15: S3: Unmanned Vehicle Based Ad-hoc Meshing
Chair: Shigeru Shimamoto (Waseda University, Japan)

Multi-UAV Network Control through Dynamic Task Allocation: Ensuring Data-Rate and Bit-Error-Rate Support
Andrew Kopeikin, Sameera Ponda, Luke Johnson, Jonathan How
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Optimal Relay Path Selection and Cooperative Communication Protocol for a Swarm of UAVs
Dac-Tu Ho, Esten Ingar Grøtli (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Shigeru Shimamoto (Waseda University, Japan)
Tor Arne Johansen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Implementation of a Wireless Mesh Network of Ultra Light MAVs with Dynamic Routing
Alberto Jimenez-Pacheco, Denia Bouhired, Yannick Gasser, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Bixio Rimoldi (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

A Geographic Mobility Prediction Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc UAV Network
Lin Lin, Qibo Sun, Shangguang Wang, FangChun Yang
(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

15:15 – 15:45: Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:00: S4: UAV System Design Aspects
Chair: Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University, Germany)

UAVnet: A Mobile Wireless Mesh Network Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Simon Morgenthaler, Torsten Ingo Braun, Zhongliang Zhao, Thomas Staub, Markus Anwander
(University of Bern, Switzerland)

Online Evaluation of Communication Models Derived via Transfer Learning
Neeti Wagle, Eric W. Frew (University of Colorado, USA)

Policy-based Radios for UAS Operations
Timothy Brown, Suppapol Jaroonvanichkul (University of Colorado, USA)

 


Friday, 7 December 2012
08:30 – 17:30
Room: North Exhibit Hall Room J

W22: Quality of Experience for Multimedia Communications (QoEMC)
Organizers:
Periklis Chatzimisios (TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece)        
Tasos Dagiuklas (TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece)     
Chang Wen Chen (University at Buffalo, USA)          
Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy)

08:30 – 08:40: Welcome/Opening Address

08:40 – 09:20: Keynote Session
Jin Li (Microsoft Research, USA)

09:30 – 11:00: S1: QoE in Wireless Multimedia

YouTube & Facebook Quality of Experience in Mobile Broadband Networks
Pedro Casas, Andreas Sackl, Sebastian Egger, Raimund Schatz
(FTW Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria)

Power-Driven VoIP Quality Adaptation Over WLAN in Mobile Devices
Is-Haka Mkwawa (Plymouth University, UK)

A Parametric QoE Video Quality Estimator for Wireless Networks
Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para, Brazil)
Augusto Jose Venancio Neto (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil)
Roger Immich, Marilia Curado, André Riker (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Hugo Barros (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)

Cross-Layer Algorithms for Distortion-Fair Scalable Video Delivery over OFDMA Wireless Systems
Sergio Cicalò, Velio Tralli (University of Ferrara - Italy)

A QoE-based OFDM Resource Allocation Scheme for Energy Efficiency and Quality Guarantee in Multiuser-Multiservice System
Bingquan Li, Shuo Li, Chengwen Xing, Zesong Fei, Jingming Kuang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

11:00 – 12:30: S2: QoE Modeling

Intention-Aware Multimedia Modeling for Optimized Quality of Experience
Vincent Verdot, Arnaud Gonguet, Nicolas Bouché, Ubirajara Lucena Pereira Silva (Alcatel-Lucent, France)

Evaluation of Several Visual Saliency Models in Terms of Gaze Prediction Accuracy on Video
Victor Mateescu, Hadi Hadizadeh, Ivan V. Bajic (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Toward task-dependent evaluation of Web-QoE: Free Exploration vs. "Who Ate What?"
Dominik Strohmeier (Berlin University of Technology, Germany)
Satu Jumisko Pyykkö (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Alexander Raake (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany)

QoE-Based Evaluation Model on Video Streaming Service Quality
Yun Shen, Yitong Liu, Qiao Nan, Lin Sang, Dacheng Yang
(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Online Learning for QoE-based Video Streaming to Mobile Receivers
Nesrine Changuel, Bessem Sayadi, (Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, France)
Michel Kieffer (CNRS - SUPELEC - UniversityParis-Sud, France)

13:30 – 15:00: S3: QoE Metrics & Estimation

New Reduced Reference Objective Quality Metric for Stereoscopic Video
Hossein Malekmohamadi, Anil Fernando, Ahmet Kondoz (University of Surrey, UK)

QoE Assessment of Multimedia Video Consumption on Tablet Devices
Alessandro Floris (CNIT, Italy)
Luigi Atzori, Giaime Ginesu, Daniel D Giusto (University of Cagliari, Italy)

A Model of Network Related QoE for 3D Video
Ilias Politis (University of Patras, Greece)
Lambros Dounis (TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece)
Christos Tselios (University of Patras, Greece)
Athanasios Kordelas, Tasos Dagiuklas, (TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece)
Andreas Papadakis (ASPETE, Greece)

Systems Considerations in Real Time Video QoE Assessment
Amy Csizmar Dalal (Carleton College, Canada)

No-reference Quality of Experience Estimation of H264/SVC Stream
Wael Cherif, Adlen Ksentini (University of Rennes, France)
Daniel Négru (University of Bordeaux, France)

15:15 – 16:45: S4: QoE Evaluation

The Role of Cognitive Dissonance for QoE Evaluation of Multimedia Services
Andreas Sackl, Patrick Zwickl, Sebastian Egger
(FTW Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria)
Université Européenne de Bretagne (France)

Quality Perception of Coding Artifacts and Packet Loss in Networked Video Communications
Soo-Jin Kim, Chan-Byoung Chae, Jong-Seok Lee (Yonsei University, Korea)

QoE-based Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Algorithms over LTE
Ali Alfayly (Plymouth University, UK)

Online Path Selection for Video Delivery over Cellular Networks
Daniele Munaretto (University of Padova, Italy)
Telemaco Melia, Sabine Randriamasy Alcatel-Lucent, France)
Michele Zorzi, (University of Padova, Italy)

CoS Enforcement for HTTP Adaptive Streaming
Kevin J Ma, Radim Bartos (University of New Hampshire, USA)

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