Advance Program

Schedule-at-a-Glance (click on items below for details)

Sunday, September 26

7:30 AM-5:00 PM		Registration Open
8:30 AM-5:00 PM		Full-Day Tutorial
		Tutorial 1: Evolution of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs: QoS, Security, Mobility, and Emerging Standard Perspectives (Full-Day) Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University and Anand Balachandran, Intel Research
1:30 PM-5:00 PM		Afternoon Half-Day Tutorial
		Tutorial 2: New Methods for Analyzing Wireless and Sensor Networks: Capacity, Architecture, Information Theory, and Protocols (Half-Day) P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Monday, September 27

7:30 AM-5:00 PM		Registration Open
8:30 AM-5:00 PM		Full-Day Tutorial
		Tutorial 3: Power-Efficient Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (Full-Day) Marwan M. Krunz, University of Arizona and Sung-Ju Lee, Hewlett Packard Laboratories
1:30 PM-5:00 PM		Afternoon Half-Day Tutorial
		Tutorial 4: Sensor Networks: Hardware, Software, and Applications (Half-Day) Kris Pister, Founder and CTO Dust Networks, Berkeley, California
6:00 PM-9:00 PM		Welcome Reception
		Come enjoy refreshments, visit with old friends, and meet new ones, before the main conference starts Tuesday morning.

Tuesday, September 28

7:30 AM-5:00 PM		Registration Open
7:30 AM-8:30 AM		Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM-9:00 AM		Opening Session
		Welcome and Opening Remarks MobiCom 2004 General Chair: Zygmunt J. Haas (Cornell University) MobiCom 2004 Program Co-Chairs: Samir R. Das (Stony Brook University) and Ravi Jain (DoCoMo USA Labs) MobiCom Best Student Paper Award Presentation SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award Presentation
9:00 AM-10:00 AM   Keynote Speech   Dr. Richard D. Gitlin, Bell Labs and NEC, retired "The Wireless Century"
10:00 AM-10:30 AM	Break
10:30 AM-12:00 PM	Service Infrastructure and Network Management Session Chair: Robin Kravets (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
	MobiDesk: Mobile Virtual Desktop Computing Ricardo A. Baratto, Shaya Potter, Gong Su, Jason Nieh (Columbia University, USA) Using code collection to support large applications on mobile devices Lucian Popa, Costin Raiciu, (Politechnica University Bucharest, Romania), Radu Teodorescu (Lehman Brothers, USA), Irina Athanasiu (Politehnica University Bucharest, Romania), Raju Pandey (University of California, Davis, USA) Architecture and Techniques for Diagnosing Faults in IEEE 802.11 Infrastructure Networks Atul Adya, Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research, USA), Ranveer Chandra (Cornell University, USA), Lili Qiu (Microsoft Research, USA)
12:00 PM-1:30 PM	Conference Lunch and Invited Speaker
	During lunch, Prof. Robert Gallager from MIT will present an invited talk on "Information Technology and its Information Theoretic Roots".
1:30 PM-3:00 PM	Localization Session Chair: Rajeev Shorey (IBM India Research Lab, India)
	Localization for Mobile Sensor Networks Lingxuan Hu, David Evans (University of Virginia, USA) VOR BAsestations for Indoor 802.11 Positioning Dragos Niculescu, Badri Nath (Rutgers University, USA) Practical Robust Localization over Large-Scale 802.11 Wireless Networks Andreas Haeberlen, Eliot Flannery, Andrew Ladd, Algis Rudys, Dan Wallach, Lydia Kavraki (Rice University, USA)
3:00 PM-3:30 PM	Break
3:30 PM-5:00 PM	Algorithms for Multihop Networks I Session Chair: Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL, Switzerland)
	Revisiting the TTL-based Controlled Flooding Search: Optimality and Randomization Nicholas Chang, Mingyan Liu (University of Michigan, USA) Network Deformation: Traffic-Aware Algorithms for Dynamically Reducing End-to-end Delay in Multihop Wireless Networks Anindya Basu (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA), Brian Boshes (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Sayandev Mukherjee, Sharad Ramanathan (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA) Routing in multi-radio, multi-hop wireless mesh networks Jitendra Padhye, Richard Draves, Brian Zill (Microsoft Research, USA)
5:15 PM-6:45 PM	Open SIGMOBILE Business Meeting
	An open meeting to discuss issues relevant to SIGMOBILE, the ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing. ACM SIGMOBILE is the sponsor of this conference. This open meeting covers issues such as future SIGMOBILE conference activities, publications, budget, and membership. Everyone interested is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Wednesday, September 29

7:30 AM-5:00 PM		Registration Open
7:00 AM-8:00 AM		Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM-9:00 AM		Keynote Speech
		Prof. Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Director of WINLAB, Rutgers University "Adaptive Wireless Networking Using Cognitive Radios as a Building Block"
9:00 AM-10:00 AM		Sensor Networks Session Chair: Erran Li Li (Bell Labs, USA)
		Power Conservation and Quality of Surveillance in Target Tracking Sensor Networks Chao Gui, Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA) On k-Coverage in a Mostly Sleeping Sensor Network Santosh Kumar, Ten Hwang Lai, Jozsef Balogh (The Ohio State University, USA)
10:00 AM-10:30 AM		Break
10:30 AM-12:00 PM		Experimental Testbeds and Data Session Chair: Farooq Anjum (Telcordia, USA)
		Performance Optimizations for Wireless Wide-area Networks: Comparative Study and Experimental Evaluation Rajiv Chakravorty (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom), Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Pablo Rodriguez (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom), Julian Chesterfield, Ian Pratt (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Characterizing Flows in Large Wireless Data Networks Xiaoqiao Meng, Starsky H.Y. Wong, Yuan Yuan, Songwu Lu (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) The Changing Usage of a Mature Campus-wide Wireless Network Tristan Henderson, David Kotz, Ilya Abyzov (Dartmouth College, USA)
12:00 PM-1:30 PM		Conference Lunch and Invited Speaker
		During lunch, Mr. Masaki Yoshikawa from DoCoMo, Japan, will present an invited talk on "New Directions in Mobile Communications Services".
1:30 PM-3:00 PM		Ad Hoc Networks Session Chair: David Kotz (Dartmouth College, USA)
		Denial of Service Resilience in Ad Hoc Networks Imad Aad, Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL, Switzerland), Edward W. Knightly (Rice University, USA) SSCH: Slotted Seeded Channel Hopping for Capacity Improvement in IEEE 802.11 Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research, USA), Ranveer Chandra (Cornell University, USA), John Dunagan (Microsoft Research, USA) Improving TCP Performance over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by Exploiting Cross-Layer Information Awareness Xin Yu (New York University, USA)
3:00 PM-5:00 PM		Demos and Student Posters (with refreshments)
		Come see posters showing the best in recent student research, plus demonstrations of state-of-the-art mobile and wireless networking projects from industry and universities. Refreshments will be served.
5:15 PM-10:00 PM		Conference Dinner Banquet Cruise
		The Conference Dinner Banquet is included with your MobiCom 2004 conference registration. Buses for the cruise depart the Loews hotel at 5:15 PM SHARP. Be sure to bring your BANQUET CRUISE TICKET.

Thursday, September 30

7:30 AM-5:00 PM		Registration Open
7:00 AM-8:00 AM		Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM-8:45 AM		SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award Winner Speech
		An invited talk by this year's winner of the ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award. The SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award is given for significant and lasting contributions to the research on mobile computing and communications and wireless networking.
8:45 AM-9:00 AM		Break
9:00 AM-10:30 AM		Algorithms for Multihop Networks II Session Chair: Thyagarajan Nandagopal (Bell Labs, USA)
		Truthful Multicast Routing in Selfish Wireless Networks Weizhao Wan, Xiang-Yang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA), Yu Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) Initializing Newly Deployed Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Moscibroda, Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) FLSS: A Fault-Tolerant Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Networks Ning Li, Jennifer Hou (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
10:30 AM-11:00 AM		Break
11:00 AM-12:30 PM		Panel Discussion Organizer: Dr. Victor Bahl (Microsoft, USA)
		Wireless Community Mesh Networks - Hype or the Next Big Frontier? Panelists: Devabhaktuni "Sri" Srikrishna (Chief Technology Officer, Tropos Networks), Roxanne Gryder (Technology Strategist, Corporate Technology Group, Intel Corporation), Keith Hampton (Assistant Professor of Technology, Urban and Community Sociology, MIT), Pierre De Vries (Chief of Incubation, Advanced Strategy and Policy Group, Microsoft Corporation), Edward W. Knightly (Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM		Lunch (on your own)
2:00 PM-3:30 PM		Fairness and Load Balancing Session Chair: Brad Karp (Intel Research/Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
		End-to-End Performance and Fairness in Multihop Wireless Backhaul Networks Violeta Gambiroza, Bahareh Sadeghi, Edward W. Knightly (Rice University, USA) Coordinated Load Balancing, Handoff/Cell-site Selection, and Scheduling in Multi-cell Packet Data Systems Aimin Sang (NEC Laboratories America, USA), Xiaodong Wang (Columbia University, USA), Mohammad Madihian, Richard Gitlin (NEC Laboratories America, USA) Fairness and Load Balancing in Wireless LANs Using Association Control Yigal Bejerano, Seung-Jae Han, Li Li (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA)
3:30 PM-4:00 PM		Break
4:00 PM-5:30 PM		Medium Access Control Session Chair: Chiara Petrioli (Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
		A Scalable Model for Channel Access Protocols in Multihop Ad Hoc Networks Marcelo Carvalho, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Exploiting Medium Access Diversity in Rate Adaptive Wireless LANs Zhengrong Ji, Yi Yang, Junlan Zhou, Mineo Takai, Rajive Bagrodia (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) On Using Battery State for Medium Access Control in Ad hoc Wireless Networks Jayashree Subramanian, Manoj Bs, Siva Ram Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)
5:30 PM		Conference Adjourns

Friday, October 1

7:30 AM-5:00 PM		Registration Open
All Day		Full-Day Workshops (concurrent, check individual workshop schedules)
		DIALM-POMC 2004 Joint Workshop on Foundations of Mobile computing VANET 2004: First ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks WiSe 2004: The Third ACM International Workshop on Wireless Security WMash 2004: The Second ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots MobiWac 2004: ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access Protocols