Technical Program For WICON 2006

 

                                                August 2
 

9:00 Welcome

9:15 Session I: Wireless Measurement
- Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Traffic Workload in a Campus WLAN.
Felix Hernandez-Campos, Merkouris Karaliopoulos, Maria Papadopouli,
and Haipeng Shen (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA)
Slides:PPT

- Characterization by Measurement of a CDMA 1x EVDO Network.
Mark Claypool (WPI, USA)
Slides:ZIP

- End-To-End Microflow Performance Measurement of IPv6 Traffic Over
Diverse Wireless Topologies.
Dimitrios Pezaros, Manolis Sifalakis, David Hutchison (Lancaster University, UK)
Slides:ZIP

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Keynote 1 - The Wireless Internet , Its all about access!
Paul Kolodzy (Advanced Wireless and Networking Technology, and Former-DARPA Program Manager)
Slides:PDF

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Session II: Wireless Mesh Networks
- A Simple and Efficient Hop-by-hop Congestion Control Protocol for
Wireless Mesh Networks.
Bahareh Sadeghi (Intel, USA), Akira Yamada and
Atsushi Fujiwara (DoCoMo, Japan), Lily Yang (Intel, USA)

- Proposed Routing for IEEE 802.11s Mesh Networks.
Michael Bahr (Siemens, Germany)

- VoIP over Wireless Mesh Neworks: Challenges and Approaches.
Xudong Wang, Abhishek Patil, and Weilin Wang (Kiyon, USA)

- Mesh Technology enabling Ubiquitous Wireless Networks. Guido
R. Hiertz, Sebastian Max, Erik Wei, Lars Berlemann(RWTH Aachen,
Germany), Dee Denteneer (Philips, Netherlands), Stefan Mangold (Swisscom,
Switzerland)

2:45 Coffee break

3:15 Session III: Congestion Control
- Congestion Control in CSMA-Based Networks with Inconsistent Channel
State.
V. Gambiroza and E. Knightly (Rice University, USA)

- A TCP with Guaranteed Performance in Networks with Dynamic
Congestion and Random Wireless Losses.
Stefan Schmid, Roger Wattenhofer (ETH, Switzerland)
Slides:PPT


4:10 Session IV: Wireless Performance
- Combinatorial Approaches to QoS Scheduling in Multichannel Wireless
Networks.
Rajagopal Iyengar (RPI, USA).
Slides:PPT

- Design and Implementation of a Socket-level Bandwidth Aggregation Mechanism for Wireless Networks.
Hiroshi Sakakibara, Masato Saito, Hide Tokuda (Keio University, Japan)

- Improving Layer 3 Handoff Delay in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks.
Andrea Forte, Sangho Shin, Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA).
Slides:PPT

 


                                            August 3

 


9:15 Session V: Spectrum Efficiency
- Opportunistic Spectrum Access: Challenges, Architecture, and
Protocols. C. Santivanez, Ram Ramanathan, Craig Partridge,
R. Krishnan, M. Condell, S. Polit (BBN Technologies, USA)
Slides:PPT

- Single-Packet Radiolocation of 802.11 Wireless Sources Using an
Array of Stationary Antennas and High-Speed RF Multiplexing. 
Danko Antolovic (Indiana University, USA)

-Selecting Transmit Powers and Carrier Sense Thresholds in CSMA.
Jason A. Fuemmeler, Nitin H. Vaidya, Venugopal V. Veeravalli, UIUC.
Slides:PDF Slides:PPT

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Keynote 2 : Lessons Unlearned in Wireless Data
-Rajiv Laroia , Qualcomm Flarion Technologies
Slides:PPT

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Panel organized by Dr. Sneha Kumar Kasera
Panel Title: Future Wireless Internet Design
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Panelists: Dr. Milind Buddhikot (Bell Labs), Prof. Guevara Noubir (Northeastern University),
Prof. Lili Qiu (University of Texas at Austin),Dr. Ram Ramanathan (BBN)
Moderator: Prof. Sneha Kumar Kasera (University of Utah)

2:30 Session VI: Wireless Security
- An efficient signature representation and matching method for mobile
devices.
Deepak Venugopal.

- A Low-Cost Robust Localization Scheme for WLAN.
S. Pandey, F. Anjum, B. Kim and P. Agrawal.

3:15 Coffee break

3:45 Session VII: Future Wireless Networks
- People-Centric Urban Sensing.
Andrew T. Campbell (Dartmouth College),
Shane B. Eisenman (Columbia University),
Nicholas D. Lane (Dartmouth College),
Emiliano Miluzzo (Dartmouth College),
Ronald A. Peterson (Dartmouth College)
Slides:PDF

- Vehicular Grid Communications: The Role of the Internet
Infrastructure. Mario Gerla, Biao Zhou, Yeng-Zhong Lee, Fabio Soldo,
Uichin Lee, Gustavo Marfia (UCLA, USA).
Slides:PPT

- Context Reactive User Experience.
Babak Hodjat (Dejima Inc., USA)
Slides:PDF

 

                                    August 4 Industry track
 

9:00 Welcome

9:15 Session I: Applications

- Adaptive Wireless Video Streaming Proxy for Home Entertainment Networks
Richard Chen (Philips Research), Pei Liu (Polytechnic University) , Karl Wittig , Ruediger Schmitt (Philips Research)

- Intel VoIP over WLAN Architecture
Ajay V. Bakre (Intel Research, Berkeley)

- Ontology and Application to Improve Dynamic Bindings in Mobile Distributed Systems
Ben Falchuk , Dave Marples (Telcordia Technologies)

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Keynote

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Session II: Infrastructure
Session Chair: John M. Chapin, Vanu, Inc.

- Towards an Internet Mobility Management Architecture
James Kempf (DoCoMo labs, USA) and Phil Roberts (Motorola Labs)

- Antenna Tilt Control in CDMA Networks
George Calcev , Matt Dillon (Motorola, Inc.)

- Impact of the 802.11e MAC Layer on Mixed TCP-based Applications
Marina Thottan (Bell Labs) and Michele Weigle (Clemson University)

- Evolution of Spectrum-Agile Cognitive Radios: First Wireless Internet Standard and Beyond
Kiran Challapali, Carlos Cordeiro, Dagnachew Birru (Philips Research)

2:45 Coffee break

3:15 Panel


                                 August 5 Workshops
- TAPAS (Workshop on Technology and Policy for Accessing Spectrum)
www.tapas.org
- WITMEMO (Workshop on Wireless Traffic Measurements and Modelling)
www.witmemo.org