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Tutorial 1: Random Trip Mobility Models

• Jean-Yves Le Boudec (EPFL) and Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft Research)

Tutorial 2: Routing in Delay Tolerant Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Overview and Challenges

• Dr. Zhensheng Zhang, San Diego Research Center

Tutorial 3: RFID: Addressing, Event Management and Network Services

• Sastry Drury (IBM) and George Roussos (Univ. of London)

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Concurrent Workshops (check individual workshop schedules)

• CRAWDAD

• DIWANS

• MobiShare

• WUWNET

Welcome Reception- Marriot Marina del Rey Hotel

• Come enjoy refreshments, visit with old friends, and meet new ones, before the main conference starts Tuesday morning

Continental Breakfast

Registration Open

Keynote Address

• Dr. Andrew Viterbi,
  President, Viterbi Group, LLC
  Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Southern California

Mesh Networks (Session chair: Jennifer Hou)

• Computationally Efficient Scheduling with the Physical Interference Model for Throughput Improvement in Wireless Mesh Networks
  Gurashish Brar (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Douglas Blough (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Paolo Santi (CNR, IT)

• A Coordinate-Based Approach for Exploiting Temporal-Spatial Diversity in Wireless Mesh Networks
  Hyuk Lim (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, KR); Chaegwon Lim (Seoul National University, KR); Jennifer Hou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)

• Enabling Distributed Throughput Maximization in Wireless Mesh Networks - A Partitioning Approach
  Andrew Brzezinski (MIT, US); Gil Zussman (MIT, US); Eytan Modiano (MIT, US)

• On Accurate Measurement of Link Quality in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks
  Kyu-Han Kim (University of Michigan, US); Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan, US)

Lunch

Athena Award Lecture:

• Prof. Deborah Estrin
  Jon Postel Chair in Computer Networks, Computer Science Department, UCLA
  Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
  
  Wireless Sensing Systems: From ecosystems to human systems

Measurements (Session chair: Suman Banerjee)

• A Measurement Study of Vehicular Internet Access Using In Situ Wi-Fi Networks
  Vladimir Bychkovsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Bret Hull (MIT, US); Allen Miu (MIT, US); Hari Balakrishnan (MIT, US); Samuel Madden (MIT, US)

• Packet-Level Diversity - From Theory to Practice: An 802.11-based Experimental Investigation
  Evangelos Vergetis (University of Pennsylvania, US); Eric Pierce (University of Pennsylvania, US); Marc Blanco (University of Pennsylvania, US); Roch Guerin (University of Pennsylvania, US)

• Long-Distance 802.11b Links: Performance Measurements and Experience
  Kameswari Chebrolu (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, IN); Bhaskaran Raman (Indian institute of Technology, Kanpur, IN); Sayandeep Sen (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, IN)

• Analysis and Implications of Student Contact Patterns Derived from Campus Schedules
  Vikram Srinivasan (National University of Singapore, SG); Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore, SG); Wei Tsang Ooi (National University of Singapore, SG)

Continental Breakfast

Registration Open

Sensor Networks I (Session chair: Dr. Loukas Lazos)

• Stochastic Event Capture Using Mobile Sensors Subject to a Quality Metric
  Nabhendra Bisnik (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Alhussein Abouzeid (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Volkan Isler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US)

• Localization in Sparse Networks using Sweeps
  David Goldenberg (Yale University, US); Pascal Bihler (Yale University, US); Ming Cao (Yale University, US); Jia Fang (Yale University, US); Brian Anderson (National ICT Australia, AU); A. Stephen Morse (Yale University, US); Yang Richard Yang (Yale
  University, US)

• Boundary Recognition in Sensor Networks by Topological Methods
  Yue Wang (Stony Brook University, US); Jie Gao (Stony Brook University, US); Joseph Mitchell (Stony Brook University, US)

• Practical Synchronization Techniques for Multi-Channel MAC
  Hoi-Sheung Wilson So (University of California Berkeley, US); Giang Nguyen (University of California at Berkeley, US); Jean Walrand (University of California at Berkeley, US)

Wireless LANs (Session chair: Lili Qiu)

• Robust Rate Adaptation in 802.11 Wireless Networks
  Starsky H.Y. Wong (University of California at Los Angeles, US); Hao Yang (IBM Research, US); Songwu Lu (University of California at Los Angeles, US); Vaduvur Bharghavan (Merunetworks Inc, US)

• IQU: Practical Queue-Based User Association Management for WLANs
  Amit Jardosh (University of California, Santa Barbara, US); Kimaya Mittal (University of California Santa Barbara, US); Krishna Ramachandran (University of California, Santa Barbara, US); Elizabeth Belding (University of California Santa Barbara, US); Kevin
  Almeroth (University of California at Santa Barbara, US)

• Distributed Channel Management in Uncoordinated Wireless Environments
  Arunesh Mishra (University of Maryland, US); Vivek Shrivastava (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US); Dheeraj Agrawal (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US); Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin, US); Samrat Ganguly (NEC Labs, US)

Cellular Networks (Session chair: Ravi Jain)

• Mitigating Attacks on Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks
  Patrick Traynor (Penn State University, US); William Enck (Pennsylvania State University, US); Patrick McDaniel (Pennsylvania State University, US); Thomas La Porta (Penn State University, US)

• A3: Application-Aware Acceleration for Wireless Data Networks
  Zhenyun Zhuang (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Tae-Young Chang (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Aravind Velayutham (Asankya Networks, US)

• Metastability of CDMA cellular systems
  Nelson Antunes (University of Algarve, PT); Christine Fricker (INRIA, FR); Philippe Robert (INRIA, FR); Danielle Tibi (Université Paris 7, FR)

• TCP-Aware Resource Allocation in CDMA Networks
  Majid Ghaderi (University of Waterloo, CA); Ashwin Sridharan (Sprint ATL, US); Hui Zang (Sprint ATL, US); Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US); Rene Cruz (University of California, San Diego, US)

Wireless Fundamentals (Session chair: Thyaga Nandagopal)

• On the Complexity of Scheduling in Wireless Networks
  Gaurav Sharma (Purdue University, US); Ravi Mazumdar (University of Waterloo, CA); Ness Shroff (Purdue University, US)

• Broadcast Capacity in Multihop Wireless Networks
  Alireza Keshavarz-Haddad (Rice University, US); Vinay Ribeiro (Rice University, US); Rudolf Riedi (Rice University, US)

• Performance analysis of access selection and transmit diversity in multi-access networks
  Fredrik Berggren (Huawei Technologies, SE); Remco Litjens (TNO Information and Communication Technology, NL);

• Efficient Interference-Aware TDMA Link Scheduling for Static Wireless Networks
  W. Wang (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago), Y. Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US), Y. Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, US), W. Song (Washington State University, Vancouver, US), O. Frieder (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, US)

Continental Breakfast

Registration Open

Sensor Networks II (Session chair: Guohong Cao)

• Localized Algorithm for Aggregate Fairness in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Shigang Chen (University of Florida, US); Zhan Zhang (University of Florida, US)

• Double Rulings for Information Brokerage in Sensor Networks
  Rik Sarkar (Stony Brook University, US); Xianjin Zhu (Stony Brook University, US); Jie Gao (Stony Brook University, US) Routing Algorithms for Delay-insensitive and

• Routing Algorithms for Delay-insensitive and Delay-sensitive Applications in Underwater Sensor Networks
  Dario Pompili (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Tommaso Melodia (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)

• On Optimal Communication Cost for Gathering Correlated Data through Wireless Sensor Networks
  Junning Liu (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US); Micah Adler (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US); Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US); Chun Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US)

Panel: Wired vs Wireless access: the Race to Higher Speeds

• Organizer and Moderator:
  Mauro Sentinelli (Telecom Italia)

• Participants:
  Erik Ekudden (VP Head of Standardization, Ericsson)
  Kevin Kahn (Senior Fellow, Director, Communications Technology, Intel)
  Larry Lang (Cisco Systems)
  Dick Lynch (CTO, Verizon Wireless)
  Bob Miller (AT&T Labs Research)
  Hossein Moiin (VP Head of Next Generation, T-Mobile)
  Roberto Padovani (CTO, Qualcomm)
  Jon Summer (VP Product Development, Cingular)
  Barry West (CTO, Sprint)

New Topics (Session chair: Li Erran Li)

• Fast and Reliable Estimation Schemes in RFID Systems
  M. Kodialam (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Thyaga Nandagopal (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US)

• Low-cost Communication for Rural Internet Kiosks Using Mechanical Backhaul
  A. Seth (University of Waterloo, CA); D. Kroeker (University of Waterloo, CA); M. Zaharia (University of Waterloo, CA); S. Guo (University of Waterloo, CA); S. Keshav (University of Waterloo, CA)

• Coverage and Connectivity in Three-Dimensional Networks
  S. M. Nazrul Alam (Cornell University, US); Zygmunt Haas (Cornell University, US)

• Hot Topic: Physical-Layer Network Coding
  Shengli Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Soung Chang Liew (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Patrick Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)

Ad Hoc Networks (Session chair: Sung-Ju Lee)

• Improving Spatial Reuse Through Tuning Transmit Power, Carrier Sense Threshold, and Data Rate in Multihop Wireless Networks
  Tae-Suk Kim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Hyuk Lim (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, KR); Jennifer Hou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)

• Component Based Channel Assignment in Single Radio, Multichannel Ad hoc Networks
  Ramanuja Vedantham (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Sandeep Kakumanu (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Sriram Lakshmanan (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)

• On Delivery Guarantees of Face and Combined Greedy-Face Routing in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
  Hannes Frey (IMADA, University of Southern Denmark, DE); Ivan Stojmenovic (University of Ottawa, CA)

• OURS: Optimal Unicast Routing Systems in Non-Cooperative Wireless Networks
  W. Wang (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, US), S. Eidenbenz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US), Y. Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US), X. Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, US)

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Concurrent Workshops (check individual workshop schedules)

• VANET

• WiNTECH

• WiSe

• WMASH