MASS 2006 Sessions



Capacity and Bandwidth Allocation

 

Design of a Cross-Layer Optimization Framework for Rate Allocation in Wireless Multicast

Amr Mohamed (Univ. British Columbia, CA)

An Efficient Capacity Allocation Scheme of Periodic Polling Services for a Multimedia Traffic in an IEEE802.16 System

Jun Bae Seo (Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute, KR); Hyong Woo Lee (Korea University, KR)

Max-Min Fair Capacity of Wireless Mesh Networks

Bassam Aoun (University of Waterloo, CA); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, CA)

Capacity Enhancement using Throwboxes in DTNs

Wenrui Zhao (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Yang Chen (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Mark Corner (University of Massachusetts, US); Brian Levine (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US); Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)

 

Channel Modeling and MAC

 

Channel Access Using Opportunistic Reservations in Ad Hoc Networks

Xiaoqiao Meng (University of California, Los Angeles, US); J.j. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz, US)

HIMAC: High Throughput MAC Layer Multicasting in Wireless Networks

Ai Chen (Ohio State University, CN); Gayathri Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, US); Dongwook Lee (Ohio State University, US); Prasun Sinha (Ohio State University, US)

On the Fading and Shadowing Effects for Wireless Sensor Networks

Michael Liu (University of Technology, Sydney, AU); Chun Tung Chou (School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, AU)

QoS Provision for Remote Sensing and Control in Heterogeneous Environments

Zhiwei Cen (Michigan State University, US); Matt Mutka (Michigan State University, US)

 

Cross Layer Design

 

An Integrated Scheme for Fully-Directional Neighbor Discovery and Topology Management in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Ece Gelal (University of California, Riverside, US); Gentian Jakllari (University of California,Riverside, US); Srikanth Krishnamurthy (University of California, Riverside, US); Neal E. Young (University of California, Riverside, US)

Cross-Layer Discovery and Routing in Reconfigurable Wireless Networks

Christine Julien (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Meenakshi Venkataraman (The University of Texas at Austin, US)

Cross-layer Optimal Decision Policies for Spatial Diversity Forwarding in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Jing Ai (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Zhenzhen Ye (RPI, US); Alhussein Abouzeid (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US)

Cross Layer Ad hoc Multiple channel Multicasting Protocol

Ravindra Vaishampayan (University of California Santa Cruz, US); J.j. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz, US)

 

Data Transport

 

Time-Optimum Packet Scheduling for Many-to-One Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wen-Zhan Song (Washington State University, Vancouver, US)

Efficient Sharing of Sensor Networks

Rene Mueller (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH); Gustavo Alonso (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Z"urich, CH)

A Delay-Aware Reliable Event Reporting Framework for Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks

Edith Ngai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Yangfan Zhou (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Michael Lyu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, CA)

Smart Gossip: An Adaptive Gossip-based Broadcasting Service for Sensor Networks

Pradeep Kyasanur (UIUC, US); Romit Roy Choudhury (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, US); Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)

 

Localization

 

Distributed Boundary Estimation using Sensor Networks

Subhasri Duttagupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, IN); Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IN); Parmesh Ramanathan (University of Wisconsin at Madison, US)

Virtual Ruler: Mobile Beacon Based Distance Measurements for Indoor Sensor Localization

Chen Wang (Michigan State University, US); Yong Ding (Michigan State University, US); Li Xiao (Michigan State University, US)

Communication Area Based Positioning

Jürgo Preden (Tallinn University of Technology, EE)

Localization Algorithm using Expected Hop Progress in Wireless Sensor Networks

Yun Wang (University of Cincinnati, US); Xiaodong Wang (University of Cincinnati, US); Demin Wang (Univ. of Cincinati, US); Dharma Agrawal (University Of Cincinnati, US)

 

Middleware and Overlay

 

SENSTRAC: Scalable Querying of SENSor Networks from Mobile Platforms Using TRACking-Style Queries

Stefan Pleisch (Cornell University, US); Ken Birman (Cornell University, US)

An Push-based Paradigm for Environment-adaptive Application Reconfiguration in Clustered Sensor Networks

Liang Liu (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, CN)

A Distributed Approach for Building Ring-Like Overlays on Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Amit Banerjee (National Tsing-Hua University, TW); Chung-Ta King (National Tsing-Hua University, TW)

Ad-hoc Storage Overlay System (ASOS): A Delay-Tolerant Approach in MANETs

Guang Yang (University of California, Los Angeles, US); Ling-Jyh Chen (Academia Sinica, TW); Tony Sun (UCLA, US); Kelvin Biao Zhou (UCLA, US); Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, US)

 

Power-aware and Energy-efficient Design

 

A New Power-Efficient Scheme to Deliver Time-Sensitive Data in Sensor Networks

Shanzhong Zhu (University of California, Riverside, US); Wei Wang (University of California, Riverside, US); Chinya Ravishankar (Universityiversity of California, Riverside, US)

Distributed Adaptive Power Control in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks

Wang Hei Ho (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Soung Chang Liew (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)

On the Energy Hole Problem of Nonuniform Node Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks

Xiaobing Wu (Nanjing University, CN); Guihai Chen (Nanjing University, CN); Sajal Das (The UniversityTexas at Arlington, US)

Energy Efficient Routing With Unreliable Links in Wireless Networks

Xiang-Yang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Yantai Shu (Tianjin University, CN); Haiming Chen (Tianjin University, CN); Xiaowen Chu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK)

 

Reliability and Robustness

 

PriorityCast: Efficient and Time-Critical Decision Making in First Responder Ad-Hoc Networks

Vartika Bhandari (UIUC, US); Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)

Two Standards for Rigorous MANET Routing Protocol Evaluation

Stuart Kurkowski (Colorado School of Mines, US); Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines, US); William Navidi (Colorado School of Mines, US)

ODAR: On-Demand Anonymous Routing in Ad Hoc Networks

Lichun Bao (University of California, Irvine, US); Rex Chen (University of California, Irvine, US); Denh Sy (University of California, Irvine, US)

Robust Estimation and Detection in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Tanya Roosta (UC Berkeley, US);

Mubaraq Mishra (UC Berkeley, US);

Ali Ghazizadeh (UC Berkeley, US)

 

Routing in Ad Hoc Networks

 

QoS Routing for Real-time Applications in CDMA Based Ad Hoc Networks

Lin Xiao (Queen Mary, University of London, UK); Eliane Bodanese (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

SSR: Segment-by-Segment Routing in Large-scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, HK); Lifan Zhang (The Central South University, CN); Guojun Wang (The Central South University, CN); Hui Cheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK)

Low Overhead and Scalable Proxied Adaptive Gateway Discovery for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Francisco Ros (University of Murcia, ES); Pedro Ruiz (University of Murcia, ES)

An Efficient Algorithm for Finding an Almost Connected Dominating Set of Small Size on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Shietung Peng (HOSEI University, JP)

 

Routing in Sensor Networks

 

Aligned Virtual Coordinates for Greedy Routing on WSNs

Ke Liu (SUNY Binghamton, US); Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (State University of New York, Binghamton, US)

An Intelligent Agent Routing over Wireless Sensor Networks

Huey-Ing Liu (Fu-Jen Catholic University, TW); Chi-Chuan Liu (Fu-Jen Catholic University, TW)

RGP: Active Route Guiding Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks with Obstacles

Chih-Yung Chang (Tamkang University, TW); Shih-Chieh Lee (Tamkang University, TW); Ching-Chung Lin (Tamkang University, TW); Hsu-Ruey Chang (Tamkang Univeristy, TW)

Apples, Oranges, and Testbeds

Koen Langendoen (Delft University of Technology, NL)

 

Security and Trustworthiness

 

PLUS: Parameterized and Localized trUst management Scheme for sensor networks security

zhiying yao (ETRI, Korea, KR); Daeyoung Kim (Information and Communications University, KR); Yoonmee Doh (ETRI, KR)

A Self-Configured Key Establishment Scheme for Large-Scale Sensor Networks

Fang Liu (George Washington University, US); Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington Univ, US)

S2RP: a Secure and Scalable Rekeying Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Ida Savino (University of Pisa, IT); Gianluca Dini (University of Pisa, IT)

Dynamic Authentication-Key Re-assignment for Reliable Report Delivery

Weijia Li (University of Pittsburgh, US); Youtao Zhang (University of Pittsburgh, US); Jun Yang (Univ. of California, Riverside, US)

 

Topology and Coverage

 

Energy-Efficient Target Coverage in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

Ionut Cardei (Florida Atlantic University, US)

Dropped Edges and Faces' Size in Gabriel and Relative Neighborhood Graphs

Bratislav Milic (Humboldt University, Berlin, DE); Miroslav Malek (Humboldt University of Berlin, DE)

Distributed Channel Assignment for Multi-radio Wireless Networks

Minho Shin (University of Maryland, College Park., US); Seungjoon Lee (University of Maryland at College Park, US); Yoo-Ah Kim (University of Maryland, US)

A Dual Approach for The Worst-Case-Coverage Deployment Problem in Ad-Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks

Rung-Hung Gau (National Sun Yat-Sen University, TW); Yi-Yang Peng (Asus Inc., TW)

 

Posters

 

SaFT: Reliable Transport in Mobile Networks

Simon Heimlicher (ETH Zurich, CH); Rainer Baumann (ETH Zurich, CH); Martin May (ETH Zurich, CH); Bernhard Plattner (ETH Zurich, CH)

Challenges of Secure Routing in MANETs: A Simulative Approach using AODV-SEC

Stephan Eichler (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, DE); Christian Roman (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, DE)

Cross-layered hop-by-hop congestion control for Multihop Wireless Networks

Kang Yong Lee (ETRI, KR)

A scalable quorum based location service in ad hoc and sensor networks

Dandan Liu (Wuhan University, CN); Ivan Stojmenovic (University of Ottawa, CA); Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong, HK)

The Study of False Route Breakage in IEEE 802.11 based Ad Hoc Networks

Xia Li (National University of Singapore, SG)

Extending Broadcast Lifetime in Ad Hoc Networks by Distributed and Smooth Backbone Update

Iana Siomina (Linköping University, SE); Di Yuan (Linköping University, SE)

Quality of Service Routing and Admission Control for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks with a Contention-based MAC Layer

Lajos Hanzo II. (University of Surrey, UK); Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, UK)

Temporal Analysis of Routing Activity for Anomaly Detection in Ad hoc Networks

Haitao Liu (University of Arizona, US); Rajiv Gupta (University of Arizona, US)

Clustering Mesh-Like Wireless Sensor Networks with an Energy-Efficient Scheme

Dajin Wang (Montclair State University, US)

Max-min Fair Rate Allocation in Multi-hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Xueyuan Su (City University of Hong Kong, HK); Sammy Chan (City University of Hong Kong, HK)

Improving Accuracy in Available Bandwidth Estimation for 802.11-based Ad Hoc Networks

Isabelle Guerin Lassous (Inria, FR); Cheikh Sarr (INSA de Lyon, FR); Claude Chaudet (ENST, FR); Guillaume Chelius (INSA de Lyon, FR)

Distributed Topology Control for Stationary and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Liang Zhao (University of Delaware, US); Errol Lloyd (University of Delaware, US)

Deterministic Data Reduction in Sensor Networks

Huseyin Akcan (Polytechnic University, US); Herve Bronnimann (Polytechnic University, US)

Adaptation of On-line Scheduling Strategies for Sensor Network Platforms

Christian Decker (TecO, University of Karlsruhe, DE); Till Riedel (TecO, University of Karlsruhe, DE); Emilian Peev (University of Karlsruhe, DE); Michael Beigl (University of Karlsruhe, DE)

Router Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks

Michael Ahlberg (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE); Vladimir Vlassov (Royal Institute of Technology, SE); Terumasa Yasui (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, JP)

Lifetime issues in wireless sensor networks for vineyard monitoring

Sebastia Galmes (Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES)

Lifetime Enhancement of Wireless Sensor Networks by Differentiable Node Density Deployment

Demin Wang (Univ. of Cincinati, US); Yi Cheng (University of Cincinnati, US); Yun Wang (University of Cincinnati, US); Dharma Agrawal (University of Cincinnati, US)

AODV-DFR: Hybrid Routing Scalable to Mobility and Load

Jiwei Chen (University of California, Los Angeles, US); He Zhou (Tianjin University, CN); Yeng-Zhong Lee (University of California at Los Angeles, US); Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, US); Yantai Shu (Tianjin University, CN)

Multirate-aware Multicast Routing in MANETs

Uyen Trang Nguyen (York University, CA)

On mitigating hot spots for clustering mechanisms in wireless sensor networks

Mao Ye (City University of Hong Kong, HK); Edward Chan (City University of Hong Kong, HK); Guihai Chen (Nanjing University, CN)

Adaptive Consensus Averaging for Information Fusion over Sensor Networks

Mohammad Talebi (Sharif University of Technology, IR); Mahdi Kefayati (Sharif University of Technology, IR); Babak H. Khalaj (Sharif University of Technology, IR); Hamid Rabiee (Sharif University of Technology, IR)

Coverage time characteristics in sensor networks

Ravi Balasubramanian (University of Arizona, US); Alon Efrat (University of Arizona, US); Srinivasan Ramasubramanian (The University of Arizona, US)

Opportunistic Routing in Dynamic Ad Hoc Networks: the OPRAH protocol

Cedric Westphal (Nokia Research Center, US)