MobiCom 2000 Advance Program     Click here for the schedule at a glance.     August 6, 2000 (Sunday)  Full-Day and Half-Day Tutorials August 7, 2000 (Monday)  Full-Day and Half-Day Tutorials 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Research Demos and Expo Open 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Welcome Reception August 8, 2000 (Tuesday)   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Research Demos and Expo Open   8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Opening Session Welcome and Opening Remarks Awards Presentation Keynote Address: Sentient Computing: The Interface is Everywhere Andy Hopper  (AT&T Laboratories Cambridge and University of Cambridge, UK) 10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Break 10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon: Systems and Networks Session Chair: M. Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)  Analysis of a Local-Area Wireless Network Diane Tang and Mary Baker (Stanford University, USA)   Dynamic Power Management for Portable Systems Tajana Simunic (Stanford University, USA), Luca Benini (University of Bologna, Italy), Peter Glynn and Giovanni De Micheli (Stanford University, USA)   Experiences of Developing and Deploying a Context-Aware Tourist Guide: The GUIDE Project Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell and Adrian Friday (Lancaster University, UK) 12:00 Noon - 1:30 PM: Conference Luncheon 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Location Support and Data Dissemination Session Chair: Mary Baker (Stanford University, USA) The Cricket Location-Support System Nissanka Priyantha, Anit Chakraborty and Hari Balakrishnan (MIT, USA)   Sending Messages to Mobile Users in Disconnected Ad-hoc Wireless Networks Qun Li and Daniela Rus (Dartmouth College, USA)   Directed Diffusion: A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sensor Networks  Chalermek Intanagonwiwat,  Ramesh Govindan (USC/ISI, USA) and Deborah Estrin (UCLA and USC/ISI, USA)  3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Break 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Panel 1 Moderator: Deborah Estrin (UCLA and USC/ISI, USA) Comm'n Sense: Wireless Sensor Networks Panelists: Anantha Chandrakasan (MIT LCS), Andrew Hopper (AT&T Laboratories Cambridge), Joe Paradiso (MIT Media Lab) and Roy Want (Xerox PARC) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM: IBM Research Platinum Supporter Hosted Reception 5:15 PM - 6:45 PM: Open SIGMOBILE Business Meeting 6:45 PM - 10:00 PM: Social Outing  Motor coaches from Gray Line Tours will pick up the participants at the Seaport Hotel. They will provide a short (1.5 hour) narrated tour of Boston that will end in Newbury Street, a central attraction with great restaurants and shopping. The participants will be picked up from Newbury Street again at 10 PM and dropped off at the hotel. August 9, 2000 (Wednesday)  8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Modeling and Analysis Session Chair: Hari Balakrishnan (MIT, USA) Analysis of Analytical Mobility Models with Respect to the Applicability for Handover Modeling and to the Estimation of Signaling Cost Enrico Jugl (Ilmenau Technical University, Germany) and Holger Boche (Heinrich-Hertz Institute, Germany)   A New Model for Packet Scheduling in Multihop Wireless Networks Haiyun Luo, Songwu Lu (UCLA, USA) and Vaduvur Bharghavan  (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)   Achieving MAC Layer Fairness in Wireless Packet Networks Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Tae-Eun Kim, Xia Gao and Vaduvur Bharghavan  (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Break 10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon: Location Tracking Session Chair: Ravi Jain (Telcordia Technologies, USA) Intersystem Location Update and Paging Schemes for Multitier Wireless Networks Wenye Wang and Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)   Tracking Mobile Users with Uncertain Parameters Zohar Naor (Tel Aviv University, Israel)   A Scalable Location Service for Geographic Ad Hoc Routing Jinyang Li, John Jannotti, Douglas S. J. De Couto, David R. Karger and Robert Morris (MIT, USA) 12:00 Noon - 1:30 PM: Conference Luncheon 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Mobile Internetworking Session Chair: Martha Steenstrup (BBN Technologies, USA)  A Unified Header Compression Framework for Low-Bandwidth Links Jeremy Lilley,  Jason Yang,  Hari Balakrishnan (MIT, USA) and Srinivasan Seshan (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)   Reduced Cell Switching in a Mobile Computing Environment Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines, USA),  John Lusth (Boise State University, USA),  Jeff Matocha (Xavier University of LA, USA) and Charles Perkins (Nokia Research Center, USA)   An End-to-End Approach to Host Mobility Alex C. Snoeren and Hari Balakrishnan (MIT, USA) 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Break 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM:  Panel 2 Moderator: Armando Fox (Stanford University, USA) The Future Wireless Internet: Gazing into the Crystal Ball Panelists: Ramon Caceres (AT&T Labs - Research), William R. Cockayne (Scout Electromedia), Rohit Khare (KnowNow), Kathy Richardson (Compaq Western Research Laboratory), Mahmoud Naghshineh (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center) and Bill Maggs (Palm Inc.) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM: HP Laboratories Platinum Supporter Hosted Reception 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM: Conference Dinner Banquet The dinner banquet will be held on the Spirit of Boston cruise. The cruise will leave from the World Trade Center at 7 PM (boarding at 6:30 PM) and return at 10 PM. The cruise offers an excellent dining experience, nice views of Boston, and opportunities for socializing with the other conference participants. August 10, 2000 (Thursday) 8:30 A.M - 10:00 A.M: Packet Scheduling and Channel Allocation Session Chair: Ram Ramanathan (BBN Technologies, USA) Distributed Fair Scheduling in a Wireless LAN Nitin Vaidya (Texas A&M University, USA), Paramvir Bahl (Microsoft Research, USA) and Seema Gupta (Texas A&M University, USA)   Microwaves and Coffee Cups or Downlink Scheduling in CDMA Data Networks Niranjan S. Joshi, Srinivas R. Kadaba, Sarvar Patel and Ganapathy S. Sundaram (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA)   Adaptive Allocation of CDMA Resources for Network-level QoS Assurances Moncef Elaoud and Parameswaran Ramanathan (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA) 10:00 A.M - 10:30 A.M: Break 10:30 P.M - 12:00 Noon: Data Management Session Chair: Nigel Davies (Lancaster University, UK) A Scalable Low-Latency Cache Invalidation Strategy for Mobile Environments Guohong Cao (Pennsylvania State University, USA)   Using Semantic Caching to Manage Location Dependent Data in Mobile Computing Qun Ren and Margaret Dunham (Southern Methodist University, USA)   Pushing Dependent Data in Clients-Providers-Servers Systems Amotz Bar-Noy (AT&T Research Labs, USA),  Joseph Naor (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA)  and Baruch Schieber (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) 12:00 Noon - 1:30 P.M: Conference Luncheon 1:30 P.M - 3:00 P.M: Routing for Ad Hoc Networks Session Chair: Stefano Basagni (UT Dallas, USA)  Caching Strategies in On-Demand Routing Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Yih-Chun Hu and David B. Johnson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)   GPSR: Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing for Wireless Networks  Brad Karp  (Harvard University and ACIRI, USA)  and H. T. Kung (Harvard University, USA)   Mitigating Routing Misbehavior in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Sergio Marti, Thomas Giuli, Kevin Lai and Mary Baker  (Stanford University, USA) 3:00 P.M - 3:30 P.M: Break 3:30 P.M - 5:00 P.M: Challenges Session Chair: Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research, USA)  An Application Model for Pervasive Computing Guruduth Banavar, James Beck, Eugene Gluzberg, Jonathan Munson, Jeremy Sussman and Deborra Zukowski (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)   Intrusion Detection for Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks Yongguang Zhang (HRL Laboratories, USA) and Wenke Lee (North Carolina State University, USA)   W-MAIL: An Electronic Mail System for Wearable Computing Environments Hirotaka Ueda, Masahiko Tsukamoto and Shojiro Nishio (Osaka University, Japan)   Research Challenges in Environmental Observation and Forecasting Systems David Steere (Oregon Graduate Institute, USA),  Antonio Baptista  (Oregon Graduate Institute, USA),  Dylan Mcnamee  (Oregon Graduate Institute, USA), Calton Pu  (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) and Jonathan Walpole  (Oregon Graduate Institute, USA)   August 11, 2000 (Friday) All-Day Workshops (Concurrent)