MASS 2006 Technical Program

October 10, 2006, Tuesday
8:30am-9:00am Welcome
9:00am-10:00am Keynote Speech
Title: From sensing to actuation over wireless networks
Speaker: Professor P. R. Kumar
Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
10:00am-10:30am Break
10:30am-12:00pm Session 1: Capacity and Bandwidth Allocation

Session chair: Jianchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University)

Design of a Cross-Layer Optimization Framework for Rate Allocation in Wireless Multicast
Amr Mohamed and Hussein Alnuweiri (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)

12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm-3:00pm Panel: Challenges and Opportunities of Wireless Sensor Networks and Its Role in the GENI Effort.
Moderator: Dr. Guru Parulkar
Panelists: TBD
3:00pm-3:30pm Break
3:30pm-5:00pm Session 2: Channel Modeling and MAC

Session chair: Ivan Stojmenovic (University of Ottawa)

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)

5:00pm-6:30pm Session 3:Data Transport

Session chair: Ben Liang (University of Toronto)

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

6:30pm-7:00pm Break
7:00-9:00pm Poster Session and Reception


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 (Linkoping University, SE); Di Yuan (Linkoping 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)

Location-aware ID Assignment in Wireless Sensor Networks
Yunhuai Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Lionel Ni (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, HK)

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)

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
Edward Chan (City University of Hong Kong, HK); Mao Ye (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)

Wireless Mesh Network Testbed
L. Iannone, K. Kabassanov, and S. Fdida (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris France)

Dynamic Decision Support in Direct-Access Sensor Networks - a Demonstration
J. Hammer, I. Hassan, C. Julien (University of Florida) S. Kabadyi, W. J. O'Brien, and J. Trujillo (University of Texas at Austin, US)

Dynamic Reconfiguration in the RUNES Middleware
G. Coulson (Lancaster University, UK), R. Gold (University College London, UK), M. Lad (University College London, UK) L. Mottola (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), G. Picco (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), and S. Zachariadis (university College London, UK)


October 11, 2006, Wednesday
8:30am-10:00am Session 4: Cross Layer Design

Session chair: Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University)

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)

10:00am-10:30am Break
10:30am-12:00pm Session 5: Power-aware and Energy-efficient Design

Session chair: Srikanth Krishnamurthy (University of California, Riverside)

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)

12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm-3:00pm Session 6: Routing in Ad Hoc Networks

Session chair: Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin)

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)

3:00pm-3:15pm Break
3:15pm-4:45pm Session 7: Reliability and Robustness

Session chair: Deepa Kundur (Texas A & M University)

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)

4:45pm-5:00pm Break
5:00pm-6:30pm Session 8: Middleware and Overlay

Session chair: Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

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)

7:00pm-9:00pm Banquet & Dinner Speech
Title: Wireless Tales from a Globetrotting Professor
Speaker: Professor Vijay Bhargava
Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of British Columbia, Vancouver


October 12, 2006, Thursday
8:30am-9:30am Keynote Speech
Title: Key Technologies for the Next Generation Network
Speaker: Dr. Krishan Sabnani,
Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory
Bell Labs Research of Lucent Technologies
9:30am-10:00am Break
10:00am-11:30pm Session 9: Localization

Session chair: Alhussein Abouzeid (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

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)

11:30am-1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm-2:30pm Session 10: Routing in Sensor Networks

Session chair: Rung-Hung Gau (National Sun Yat-Sen University)

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)

2:30pm-4:00pm Session 11: Topology Control and Coverage

Session chair: Pedro Ruis (University of Murcia)

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)

4:00pm-4:30pm Break
4:30pm-6:00pm Session 12: Security and Trustworthiness

Session chair: Falko Dressler (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

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)



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