Program Schedule

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Monday, October 8, 2012 Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Wednesday, October 10, 2012
TimeAula 10Aula 11Aula 13 TimeAula MagnaAula 11Aula 13 TimeAula MagnaAula 11Aula 13
8:30 13:00

Registration in Hall

 8:30 13:00

Registration in Hall

 8:30 13:00

Registration in Hall
9:00 10:30 PEMOS1 WMSN1 CNBuB1 9:00 9:30

Opening Ceremony (Aula Magna)

 8:45 9:35

Keynote 2 (Aula Magna)
9:30 10:30

Keynote 1 (Aula Magna)

 9:40 10:30

Keynote 3 (Aula Magna)
10:30 11:00

Coffee Break

 10:30 11:00

Coffee Break

 10:30 11:00

Coffee Break
11:00 13:00 PEMOS2 WMSN 2 CNBuB2 11:00 13:00 S1: Wireless Sensor Networks I S2: Handoff Management S3: OFDM and CDMA Technologies and Systems 11:00 13:00 S10: Opportunistic Networks and DTN S11: Algorithms and Models S12: Cognitive Radio
13:00 14:30

Lunch

 13:00 14:30

Lunch

 13:00 14:30

Lunch
14:30 16:30VECON1STWimob1STWimob2 14:30 16:30 S4: Context-Aware Systems/Vanets S5: Wireless Sensor Networks II S6: Modulation and Coding 14:30 16:00 S13: Security, Privacy and Location Aware Applications S14: Cellular Systems II S15: Cooperative Networks and MIMO Channels
16:30 17:00

Coffee Break

 16:30 17:00

Coffee Break
17:00 18:30VECON2STWimob3STWimob4 17:00 18:00 S7: Energy Efficient Protocols for Wireless Networks S8: Wireless Mesh Networks S9: Cellular Systems I
18:30 19:00

Welcome Cocktail

 20:30

Conference Banquet

Instructions for presenters

  • Please go to the session room 5 minutes before the session starts and provide the Session Chair with a printed short biography (2-3 lines).
  • Take with you an USB with your presentation and upload it in the PC of the session room.

DAY 1 (Monday, October 8, 2012) - Workshops

PEMOS 1: 3rd International Workshop on the Performance Enhancements in MIMO-OFDM Systems (Aula 10 - 9:00-10:30) top

Chair: Shihab Jimaa (Khalifa University, UAE)
  1. Resource Allocation Scheme for MIMO-OFDMA Systems with Proportional Fairness Constraints
    Mohammed Ali (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Samir Al-Ghadhban (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Ashraf Mahmoud (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia)
  2. Outage performance analysis and optimization of OFDM-based relaying protocols
    Nassar Ksairi (HIAST, Syria)
  3. Performance of Space Time Trellis Code Using Fading Channel
    Muhammad Ehsan ul Haq (National University of Modern Languages, Pakistan)

WMSN 1: 1st Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (Aula 11 - 9:00 -10:30) top

Chair: Jose M. Barcelo-Ordinas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  1. QoV: Assessing the Monitoring Quality in Visual Sensor Networks
    Daniel G. Costa (State University of Feira de Santana, Brazil); Luiz Affonso Guedes (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil); Francisco Vasques (University of Porto, Portugal); Paulo Portugal (University of Porto, Portugal)
  2. Packet Scheduling in Multi-Channel Layered-Video Streaming over Wireless Networks
    Ronit Nossenson (Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel); Noam Amram (LiveU, Israel)
  3. Fusion Techniques for Multi-hop Relay Wireless Sensor Networks
    Joumana Farah (Holy-Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon); Anthony Beylerian (Holy-Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon); Charles Yaacoub (Holy-Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon); Ralph Stephan (Holy-Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon)
  4. QoE-aware FEC Mechanism for Intrusion Detection in Multi-tier Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
    Zhongliang Zhao (University of Bern, Switzerland); Torsten Ingo Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland); Denis Lima Rosário (Federal University of Para, Brazil); Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para, Brazil); Roger Immich (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal); Marilia Curado (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

CNBuB 1: 1st Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-up-Broadband (Aula 13 - 9:00-10:30) top

Chair: Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  1. On the Relevance of Using Affordable Tools for White Spaces Identification
    Marco Zennaro (ICTP - The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy); Ermanno Pietrosemoli (International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy); Antoine Bigomokero Bagula (University of Cape Town, South Africa); Sindiso Nleya (Computer Science Department, Zimbabwe)
  2. Topology patterns of a community network: Guifi.net
    Davide Vega (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Leandro Navarro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Roc Meseguer (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  3. Community-Lab: Architecture of a Community Networking Testbed for the Future Internet
    Axel Neumann (Pangea, Spain); Ivan Vilata (Pangea, Spain); Xavier León (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Pau Escrich Garcia (Guifi.net Foundation, Spain); Leandro Navarro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Ester López (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  4. Characterizing the Multimedia Service Capacity of Wireless Mesh Networks for Rural Communities
    Joaquín Chung (University of Panama, Panama); Grace González (University of Panama, Costa Rica); Ivan Armuelles (University of Panama, Costa Rica); Tomás Robles (Technical University of Madrid, Spain); Ramon Alcarria (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Augusto Morales (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)

PEMOS 2: 3rd International Workshop on the Performance Enhancements in MIMO-OFDM Systems (Aula 10 - 11:00-13:00) top

Chair: Felip Riera-Palou (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)
  1. Channel Estimation Using RF Signal Processor Based on OFDM System
    Md. Abdul Latif Sarker (Chonbuk Nattional University, Korea)
  2. An Improved Sphere Decoder for MIMO Systems
    Goodwell Kapfunde (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom); Yichuang Sun (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom); Nandini Alinier (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)
  3. Robust adaptive detection in linearly precoded MIMO-OFDM systems with hard/soft decoding
    Felip Riera-Palou (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain); Guillem Femenias (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)
  4. Enhanced Channel Estimation Technique in MIMO-OFDM System
    Mohamed Ahmed (Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE); Shihab Jimaa (Khalifa University, UAE); Ibrahim Abualhaol (Khalifa University, UAE)

WMSN 2: Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (Aula 11 - 11:00-13:00) top

Chair: Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  1. Cross-Layer Caching Based Optimization for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
    Nestor Tiglao (INESC ID, Portugal); Antonio M. Grilo (INESC/IST, Portugal)
  2. Detecting and Coding Region of Interests in Bi-Level Images for Data Reduction in Wireless Visual Sensor Network
    Khursheed Khursheed (Mid Sweden University, Sweden); Naeem Ahmad (Mid Sweden University, Sweden); Muhammad Imran (Mid Sweden University, Sweden); Mattias O'Nils (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
  3. Motion estimation on decoder side for low-complexity video encoding in wireless sensor networks
    Johannes Karlsson (Umeå University, Sweden)

CNBuB 2: 1st Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-up-Broadband (Aula 13 - 11:00-13:00) top

Chair: Leandro Navarro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  1. Improved Community Network Node Design using a DLEP based Radio-to-Router Interface
    Christoph Barz (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany); Henning Rogge (Fraunhofer Inst. for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE, Germany)
  2. Overhead Analysis of Embedded Wireless Testbeds
    Nathan Samson (University of Antwerp, Belgium); Glenn Daneels (University of Antwerp, Belgium); Bart Braem (IBBT, Belgium); Chris Blondia (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
  3. An evaluation of BMX6 for Community Wireless Networks
    Axel Neumann (Pangea, Spain); Ester López (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Leandro Navarro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  4. Improving Mesh-Agnostic Client Announcement in B.A.T.M.A.N.-Advanced
    Antonio Quartulli (University of Trento, Italy); Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento, Italy)

VECON 1: 2nd International Workshop on Vehicular Communications and Networking (Aula 10 - 14:30-16:30) top

Chair: Juan Jose Alcaraz (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain)
  1. Optimum maneuvering under time constraints for high speed vehicles
    Juan-Bautista Tomas-Gabarron (Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain); Esteban Egea-Lopez (Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), Spain); Joan Garcia-Haro (Technical University of Cartagena, Spain)
  2. Enhancing Broadcast Vehicular Communications Using Beamforming Technique
    Ahmed Soua (Institut Telecom, France); Walid Ben-Ameur (Telecom SudParis, France); Hossam Afifi (Institut Telecom, France)
  3. Advances in the Analysis of Urban VANETs: Scalable Integration of RADII in a Network Simulator
    Riccardo M. Scopigno (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy); Hector Agustin Cozzetti (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy); Luca Pilosu (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy); Francesco Fileppo (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy)
  4. Multi-objective OLSR optimization for VANETs
    Jamal Toutouh (University of Malaga, Spain); Enrique Alba (University of Malaga, Spain)

STWimob 1: 5th International Workshop on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Computing (Aula 11 - 14:30-16:30) top

Chair: Wael Guibène (EURECOM, France)
  1. A Combined Spectrum Sensing and Terminals Localization Technique for Cognitive Radio Networks
    Wael Guibène (EURECOM, France)
  2. Signal Detection for Spread Spectrum Communication Systems with Gradient Algorithm
    Samantha Sriyananda (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Jyrki Joutsensalo (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland); Timo Hämäläinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
  3. TOA Location Estimation based on Cognitive Radio Channel Occupancy Prediction
    Robin Thomas (University of Pretoria, South Africa); Simon Barnes (University of Pretoria, South Africa); Bodhaswar TJ Maharaj (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
  4. Effect of Spatial Correlation on MMSE-Based Interference Alignment in a Multiuser MIMO MB-OFDM System
    Chung Le (Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Communications Technology, Germany); Emil Dimitrov (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany); Anggia Anggraini (University of Hannover, Germany); Jürgen Peissig (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany); Hans-Peter Kuchenbecker (University of Hannover, Institut fuer Allgemeine Nachrichtentechnik, Germany)
  5. Analyzing Randomly Placed Multiple Antennas for MIMO Wireless Communication
    Thomas Janson (University of Freiburg, Germany); Christian Schindelhauer (University of Freiburg, Germany)

STWimob 2: 5th International Workshop on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Computing (Aula 13 - 14:30-16:30) top

Chair: Christos Antonopoulos (Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi, Greece)
  1. Multicast Routing Protocol for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks
    Adriano Palma (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal); Paulo Pereira (INESC-ID, Portugal); Augusto J. D. Casaca (Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal)
  2. A Hybrid Network for Maritime On-Board Communications
    Liping Mu (Universtiy of Agder, Norway)
  3. Implementing Personal Home Controllers on Smartphones for Service-Oriented Home Network
    Keisuke Tokuda (Kobe University, Japan); Shinsuke Matsumoto (Kobe University, Japan); Masahide Nakamura (Kobe University, Japan)
  4. Optimising file delivery in a maritime environment through inter-vessel connectivity predictions
    Panayiotis Kolios (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus); Lambros Lambrinos (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
  5. Moving the Mobile Evolved Packet Core to the Cloud
    James Kempf (Ericsson Research, USA); Bengt Johansson (Ericsson, Sweden); Sten Pettersson (Ericsson, Sweden); Harald Lüning (Ericsson, Sweden); Tord Nilsson (Ericsson, Sweden)
  6. Mobile Clouds: Comparative Study of Architectures and Formation Mechanisms
    Hamidreza Bagheri (University of Oulu, Finland); Prasanth Karunakaran (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Kaveh Ghaboosi (Airvana, LLC., USA); Timo Braysy (University of Oulu, Finland); Marcos D Katz (University of Oulu, Finland)

VECON 2: 2nd International Workshop on Vehicular Communications and Networking (Aula 10 - 17:00-18:30) top

Chair: Esteban Egea-Lopez (Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain)
  1. EHealth Service Support In IPv6 Vehicular Networks
    Sofiane Imadali (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, France); Athanasia Karanasiou (Vidavo, Greece); Alexandru Petrescu (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, France); Ioannis Sifniadis (Vidavo, Greece); Véronique Vèque (University of Paris-Sud 11, France)
  2. Field Trial Results on Uplink Joint Detection for Moving Relays
    Michael Grieger (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
  3. Distributed Clustering in Vehicular Networks
    Leandros Maglaras (University of Thessaly, Greece); Dimitrios Katsaros (University of Thessaly, Greece)
  4. Physical-Layer Network Coding based on Integer-Forcing Precoded Compute and Forward
    Smrati Gupta (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain); Maria-Angeles Vázquez-Castro (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

STWimob 3: 5th International Workshop on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Computing (Aula 11 - 17:00-18:30) top

Chair: Bodhaswar TJ Maharaj (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
  1. The Effect of Symmetric Block Ciphers on WSN Performance and Behavior
    Christos Antonopoulos (Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi, Greece); Christos Petropoulos (Technological Educational Institute of Messolonghi, Greece); Konstantinos Antonopoulos (Technological Educational Institute of Messolonghi, Greece); Nikolaos Voros (Dept. of Telecommunication Systems and Networks, Greece); Vasilios Triantafyllou (Technical University of Messology, Greece)
  2. Secure Hotspot Authentication through a Near Field Communication Side-Channel
    Alfredo Matos (Caixa Mágica Software, Portugal); Daniel Romão (Caixa Mágica Software, Portugal); Paulo Trezentos (Caixa Mágica Software Lda, Portugal)
  3. Cross-Layer adaptive power save control method for wireless local area networks
    Hirokazu Kobayashi (Panasonic Corporation, Japan); Masaaki Harada (Panasonic Corporation, Japan); Satoshi Senga (Panasonic Corporation, Japan); Kazushige Yamada (Panasonic Corporation, Japan); Junichiro Soeda (Panasonic Corporation, Japan); Tsutomu Sekibe (Panasonic Corporation, Japan)
  4. Traffic Distribution and Network Capacity Analysis in Social Opportunistic Networks
    Bambang Soelistijanto (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Michael P. Howarth (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
  5. Impact of Semantic-aware Radio Resource Management Schemes on Video Streaming Service
    Luis Guillermo Martinez Ballesteros (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Pietro Lungaro (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Zary Segall (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

STWimob 4: 5th International Workshop on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Computing (Aula 13 - 17:00-18:30) top

Chair: Jürgen Peissig (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
  1. Real Time Radio Coverage Monitoring in Self-organizing Networks with User Feedback
    Kejiong Li (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Peng Jiang (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom); Eliane Bodanese (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); John Bigham (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)
  2. Physical-layer Intrusion Detection for Wireless Networks using Compressed Sensing
    Alexandros Fragkiadakis (Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece); Sofia Nikitaki (FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, Greece); Panagiotis Tsakalides (FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, Greece)
  3. An Approach of Secure and Fashionable Recognition for Pervasive Face-to-Face Social Communications
    Zheng Yan (Xidian University, P.R. China); Yu Chen (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland); Peng Zhang (Xian University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
  4. A Deployable Scheme of CMT-SCTP with Off-the-Shelf Android Smartphones
    Atsuo Tachibana (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan); Teruyuki Hasegawa (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan)
  5. Correlated Movement Mobility Model and Constant Acceleration Model for EKF-Based Tracking Applications
    Oktay Alkin (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA); Binod Pant (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA)

DAY 2 (Tuesday, October 9, 2012) – Main Conference

Session 1: WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS I (Aula Magna - 11:00-13:00) top

Track: Wireless Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity
Chair: Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester, USA)
  1. Minimum 2-connected distance-k p-dominating set in wireless networks
    Louisa Harutyunyan (Concordia University, Canada); Lata Narayanan (Concordia University, Canada)
  2. CPWS: An Efficient Routing Protocol for RGB Sensor-based Fish Pond Monitoring System
    Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia); A N K Zaman (University of Guelph, Canada); Lutful Karim (University of Guelph, Canada); Nargis Khan (Ryerson University, Canada)
  3. SARI-MAC: The Self Adapting Receiver Initiated MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
    Quentin Lampin (Orange Labs, France); Dominique Barthel (Orange Labs, France); Isabelle Augé-Blum (CITI, INSA Lyon, France); Fabrice Valois (INSA Lyon, France)
  4. Optimized packet size for energy efficient delay-tolerant sensor networks
    Károly Lendvai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Ákos Milánkovich (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Sándor Imre (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary); Sándor Szabó (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
  5. Energy-Efficient Multicast Tree Construction Protocol for Real-Time Data Streaming in WSNs
    Nedal Ababneh (Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland); Antonio M. Ortiz (WiSAR Lab, Ireland); Nick Francis Timmons (Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland); Jim Morrison (WiSAR Lab - Letterkennt Insitute of Technology, Ireland)
  6. A Lightweight Inter-User Interference Mitigation Method in Body Sensor Networks
    Wen Sun (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Yu Ge (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Wai-Choong Wong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Session 2: HANDOFF MANAGEMENT (Aula 11 - 11:00-13:00) top

Track: Wireless Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity
Chair: Allen B. MacKenzie (Virginia Tech, USA)
  1. Cooperative end-to-end roaming through homogeneous and heterogeneous networks
    Abdellatif Ezzouhairi (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada); Samuel Pierre (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada); Alejandro Quintero (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)
  2. O-PMIPv6: Efficient Handover with Route Optimization in Proxy Mobile IPv6 Domain
    Ahmad Rasem (Carleton University, Canada); Christian Makaya (Telcordia Technologies, USA); Marc St-Hilaire (Carleton University, Canada)
  3. Achieving Efficient Network Resources Utilization in Bicasting Proxy Mobile IPv6
    Lebajoa Mphatsi (University of Cape Town, South Africa); Olabisi Emmanuel Falowo (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
  4. Host-based Distributed Mobility Management Support Protocol for IPv6 Mobile Networks
    Jong-Hyouk Lee (TELECOM Bretagne, France); Jean-Marie Bonnin (Institut Mines Telecom / Telecom Bretagne, France); Xavier Lagrange (Institut Telecom - Telecom Bretagne, France)
  5. MOSAIC: Stateless Mobility for HTTP-based Applications
    Wonsang Song (Columbia University, USA); Georg Hampel (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Anil Rana (Bell Labs, USA); Thierry E Klein (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)
  6. Using Data Mining and Fingerprinting Extension with Device Orientation Information for WLAN Efficient Indoor Location Estimation
    David Sánchez (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain); Jose Quinteiro (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain); Pablo Hernández-Morera (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain); Ernestina Martel-Jordán (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)

Session 3: OFDM and CDMA TECHNOLOGIES and SYSTEMS (Aula 13 - 11:00-13:00) top

Track: Wireless Communications
Chair: Sheng-Ju Ku (Tatung University, Taiwan)
  1. Contention Resolution in Wireless LANs Using Frequency-Domain Backoff
    Sheeraz A. Alvi (National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan); Adeel Baig (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan)
  2. An Adaptive Resource Allocation in OFDMA Multi-hop Relay Networks
    Yue Zhao (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Xuming Fang (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Miao Pan (Texas Southern University, USA); Rongsheng Huang (University of Florida, USA); Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, USA); Yu Chen (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
  3. A real-time FPGA-based implementation of a high-performance MIMO-OFDM transceiver featuring a closed-loop communication scheme
    Oriol Font-Bach (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain); Nikolaos Bartzoudis (CTTC, Spain); Antonio Pascual-Iserte (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); David López Bueno (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)
  4. A New Side-Information Free PTS Scheme for PAPR Reduction in OFDM Systems
    Sheng-Ju Ku (Tatung University, Taiwan); Chin-Liang Wang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
  5. Performance Analysis of Pilot Arrangement for OFDM Systems over Time Varying Frequency Selective Channels
    Begüm Korunur Engiz (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey); Cetin Kurnaz (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey); Hatice Sezgin (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey)
  6. Computationally Efficient Modulation of Well-Localised Signals for OFDM
    Dmitry Petrov (Magister Solutions Ltd., Finland); Pavel Gonchukov (University of Juväskylä, Finland); Timo Hämäläinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

Session 4: CONTEXT-AWARE SYSTEMS/VANETs (Aula Magna - 14:30-16:30) top

Track: Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications
Chair: Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento, Italy)
  1. A Web Platform and a Methodology to promote a Collaborative Development of Context-Aware Systems
    David Martín (CICtourGUNE, Spain); Carlos Lamsfus (CICtourGUNE, Spain); Aurkene Alzua (CICtourGUNE, Spain); Diego López-de-Ipiña (Deusto Institute of Technology - DeustoTech, University of Deusto, Spain)
  2. Decentralized Search and Retrieval for Mobile Networks using SMS
    Isai Michel Lombera (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Louise E. Moser (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Michael Melliar-Smith (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Yung-Ting Chuang (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
  3. A Programming Model for Context-Aware Applications in Large-Scale Pervasive Systems
    Sanjin Sehic (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Fei Li (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Stefan Nastic (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
  4. A Multi-metric QoS-balancing Scheme for Gateway Selection in a Clustered Hybrid VANET network
    Ghayet el mouna Zhioua (Sup'Com - Tunisia); Houda Labiod (TELECOM ParisTech (ex: ENST), France); Nabil Tabbane (Sup'Com, Tunisia); Sami Tabbane (Sup Telecom, Tunisia)
  5. Analysis of Information Relay Processing in Inter-Vehicle Communication: A novel visit
    Ahmed Soua (Institut Telecom, France); Walid Ben-Ameur (Telecom SudParis, France); Hossam Afifi (Institut Telecom, France)
  6. Simulation-based evaluation of techniques for privacy protection in VANETs
    Andreas Tomandl (University of Regensburg, Germany); Florian Scheuer (University of Regensburg, Germany); Hannes Federrath (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Session 5: WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS II (Aula 11 - 14:30-16:30) top

Track: Wireless Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity
Chair: Antonio M. Ortiz (WiSAR Lab, Ireland)
  1. An Energy Efficient Tracking Algorithm in UWB-based Sensor Networks
    Mingbo Dai (Politecnico Di Torino, Italy); Francesco Sottile (ISMB, Italy); Maurizio A. Spirito (ISMB, Italy); Roberto Garello (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
  2. Content centric and Load-balancing aware Dynamic Data Aggregation in Multihop Wireless Networks
    Yichao Jin (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom); Parag Kulkarni (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., United Kingdom); Sedat Gormus (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., United Kingdom); Mahesh Sooriyabandara (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, United Kingdom)
  3. A GRASP Based Algorithm For Efficient Cluster Formation in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Victor Matos (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil); Jose Elias Claudio Arroyo (Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil); André dos Santos (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil); Luciana Gonçalves (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil)
  4. Adding QoS Support For Timeliness To The Observe Extension Of CoAP
    Alessandro Ludovici (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Ernesto Garcia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Xavi Gimeno (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Anna Calveras Augé (Universtidad Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  5. ASF: an Attack Simulation Framework for wireless sensor networks
    Gianluca Dini (University of Pisa, Italy); Marco Tiloca (University of Pisa, Italy)

Session 6: MODULATION AND CODING (Aula 13 - 14:30-16:30) top

Track: Wireless Communications
Chair: Shihab Jimaa (Khalifa University, UAE)
  1. Interference-free regions with Han-Kobayashi Scheme for M-QAM and Scalar channels
    Paresh Saxena (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain); Maria-Angeles Vázquez-Castro (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
  2. Interference Mitigation with Rate Splitting in Multi-Cell Wireless Networks
    Guangxia Zhou (Intel Mobile Communications GmbH, Germany); Wen Xu (Intel, Germany); Gerhard Bauch (Universitaet der Bundeswehr Munich, Germany)
  3. Lattice Network Codes Based on Eisenstein Integers
    Qifu T Sun (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
  4. Impact of intra-flow network coding on the relay channel performance: an analytical study
    Anya Apavatjrut (Chiang Mai University, Thailand); Claire Goursaud (INSA-Lyon, France); Katia Jaffrès-Runser (University of Toulouse, France); Jean-Marie Gorce (INSA-Lyon, France)
  5. Impact of Rateless Codes on System Delay and Throughout for Network-coded Multi-source and Multi-destination Scenarios
    Zheng Ma (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Zhiguo Ding (Newcastle University, United Kingdom); Pingzhi Fan (Southwest Jiaotong Universityiversity, P.R. China)
  6. Joint Source/Channel Coding in 3D-JPEG2000 for Wireless 3D Region of Interest Transmission in 3D Medical Imaging Data
    Victor Sanchez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain); Joan Serra-Sagrista (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

Session 7: ENERGY EFFICIENT PROTOCOLS for WIRELESS NETWORKS (Aula Magna - 17:00-18:00) top

Track: Wireless Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity
Chair: Pietro Manzoni (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
  1. Energy Efficient Network Data Transport through Adaptive Compression using the DEEP Platforms
    Digvijay Singh (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); William Kaiser (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
  2. NIZE - A Near Field Communication Interface Enabling Zero Energy Standby for Everyday Electronic Devices
    Norbert Druml (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Manuel Menghin (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Rejhan Basagic (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Christian Steger (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Reinhold Weiss (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Holger Bock (Infineon Technologies, Austria); Josef Haid (Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Austria)
  3. Time-Knocking: A Novel Addressing Mechanism for Wake-up Receivers
    Joaquim Oller (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Ilker Demirkol (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Josep Paradells (UPC, Spain); Jordi Casademont (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester, USA)

Session 8: WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (Aula 11 - 17:00-18:00) top

Track: Wireless Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity
Chair: Jose M. Barcelo-Ordinas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  1. The Interaction Between TCP Reordering Mechanisms and Multi-path Forwarding in Wireless Mesh Networks
    Jonas Karlsson (Karlstad University, Sweden); Per Hurtig (Karlstad University, Sweden); Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University, Sweden); Andreas J. Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden); Giovanni Di Stasi (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy)
  2. An Interference-Aware Routing Metric for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
    Amira Bezzina (University of Manouba, Tunisia); Mouna Ayari (University of La Manouba - Tunisia, Tunisia); Rami Langar (UPMC - University of Paris 6, France); Farouk Kamoun (SESAME University, Tunisia)
  3. VLX: A Novel Virtual Localization Extension for Geographical Leash-based Secure Routing in Indoor Wireless Mesh Scenarios
    Mohamad Sbeiti (Dortmund University of Technology, Germany); Jonas Hinker (Dortmund University of Technology, Germany); Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University, Germany)

Session 9: CELLULAR SYSTEMS I (Aula 13 - 17:00-18:00) top

Track: Wireless Communications
Chair: Abdelhakim Khlifi (National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunisia)
  1. On the Relay Placement Problem in a Multi-cell LTE-Advanced System with Co-channel Interference
    Omar Abdallah Elgendy (Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt); Mahmoud H. Ismail (Cairo University, Egypt); Khaled Elsayed (Cairo University, Egypt)
  2. Dimensioning of the Shared Transport Network for Collocated Multiradio: LTE and HSDPA
    Xi Li (University of Bremen, Germany); Ming Li (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany); Umar Toseef (University of Bremen, Germany); Dominik Dulas (Nokia Siemens Networks, Poland); Michal Nowacki (Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany); Andreas Timm-Giel (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany); Carmelita Goerg (University of Bremen, Germany); Radoslaw Ruchala (Nokia Siemens Networks, Poland)
  3. Reduced Complexity of a Hybrid LS-LMMSE Channel Estimation Technique for LTE Downlink Systems
    Abdelhakim Khlifi (National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunisia)

DAY 3 (Wednesday, October 10, 2012) – Main Conference

Session 10: OPPORTUNISTIC NETWORKS and DTN (Aula Magna - 11:00-13:00) top

Track: Wireless Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity
Chair: Jose M. Barcelo-Ordinas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  1. Context Sensing for Autonomic Forwarding in Opportunistic Networks
    Elena Pagani (University of Milano, Italy); Gian Paolo Rossi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
  2. Energy-Efficient Cooperative Download for Smartphone Users through Contact Time Estimation
    Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Yu Takamatsu (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) ; Weihua Sun (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Minoru Ito (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
  3. DTN-Based Data Aggregation for Timely Information Collection in Disaster Areas
    Jovilyn Therese Fajardo (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Naoki Shibata (Shiga University, Japan); Weihua Sun (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Minoru Ito (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
  4. Mistify: Augmenting Cloud Storage With Delay-Tolerant Cooperative Backup
    Karthik Nilakant (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
  5. Dynamic Temporal Scalability: video adaptation in sparse Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
    Sergio Cabrero (University of Oviedo, Spain); Thomas Plagemann (University of Oslo, Norway); Xabiel García Pañeda (University of Oviedo, Spain); Roberto Garcia (University of Oviedo, Spain); David Melendi (University of Oviedo, Spain)

Session 11: ALGORITHMS and MODELS (Aula 11 - 11:00-13:00) top

Track: Wireless Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity
Chair: Jorge Garcia-Vidal (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
  1. Modeling Routing in Smartphones-Based Wireless Networks using Evolving Graphs
    David Soler (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); José Albiach (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Eulalia Martínez (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Pietro Manzoni (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
  2. Mitigating the Effect of Mobility on Cooperation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
    Amr E. Hilal (Virginia Tech, USA); Allen B. MacKenzie (Virginia Tech, USA)
  3. How to Reduce and Stabilize MPR sets in OLSR networks
    Leonardo Maccari (University of Trento, Italy); Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento, Italy)
  4. Mean Degree of Ad Hoc Networks in Environments with Obstacles
    Cédric Aboue-nze (University of Le Havre, France); Frédéric Guinand (Le Havre University, France)
  5. On the Topology Characterization of Guifi.net
    Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  6. On the Modeling of a Realistic Wireless Channel by means of a Hidden Markov Process
    David Gomez (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain); Ramon Aguero (University of Cantabria, Spain); Marta Garcia (University of Cantabria, Spain); Luis Muñoz (University of Cantabria, Spain)

Session 12: COGNITIVE RADIO (Aula 13 - 11:00-13:00) top

Track: Wireless Communications
Chair: Elena Meshkova (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
  1. Optimal Random Access and Random Spectrum Sensing for an Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio
    Ahmed El Shafie (Wireless Intelligent Networks Center (WINC), Nile University, Egypt); Ahmed Sultan (Alexandria University, Egypt
  2. Optimal Policy for Joint Spectrum Resource Management in Multi-Band Cognitive Radio Networks
    Junichi Suga (Fujitsu Laboratories LTD., Japan); Tao Guo (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
  3. Enhanced Protection of Hidden Primary Users through Filtering based on Suspect Channels Classification
    José Marinho (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal); Edmundo Monteiro (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
  4. Heterogeneous torus Quorum-based Rendezvous in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks
    Sylwia Antonina Romaszko (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Session 13: SECURITY, PRIVACY & LOCATION AWARE APPLICATIONS (Aula Magna - 14:30-16:00) top

Track: Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications
Chair: Younghwan Yoo (Pusan National University, Korea)
  1. Path Privacy Protection in Continuous Location-Based Services over Road Networks
    Huei-Jhih Lyu (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan); Kai-Ting Yang (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan); Ge-Ming Chiu (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan); Ding-Jie Huang (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan); Wei-Chung Teng (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
  2. Evaluating the threat of epidemic mobile malware
    Christian Szongott (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany); Benjamin Henne (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany); Matthew Smith (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
  3. Container Security Device Chain Network for Safe Railway Transportation
    Younghwan Yoo (Pusan National University, Korea)
  4. Authenticating a Mobile Device's Location Using Voice Signatures
    Jack Brassil (HP Laboratories, USA); Ravi Netravali (Columbia University, USA); Stuart Haber (HP Laboratories, USA); Pratyusa K Manadhata (Hewlett Packard, USA); Prasad Rao (Hewlett Packard, USA)

Session 14: CELLULAR SYSTEMS II (Aula 11 - 14:30-16:00) top

Track: Wireless Communications
Chair: Vicente Casares-Giner (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain)
  1. PaGeO: Pareto-based Genetic Optimization for LTE Radio-over-Fiber Cellular Backhauling
    Ahmed Haddad (Telecom ParisTech, France); Maurice Gagnaire (Telecom ParisTech (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications), France)
  2. Resource Allocation in Macrocell-Femtocell Network using Genetic Algorithm
    Hanaa Marshoud (Khalifa University, UAE); Hadi Otrok (Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research (KUSTAR), UAE); Hassan Barada (Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE); Rebeca Estrada (ETS, Canada); Abdallah Jarray (University of Ottawa, Canada); Zbigniew Dziong (École de technologie supérieure, University of Quebec, Canada)
  3. Deployment and Interface Design Considerations for Radio Environment Maps
    Siva Subramani (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, United Kingdom); Tim D Farnham (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., United Kingdom); Mahesh Sooriyabandara (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, United Kingdom)

Session 15: COOPERATIVE NETWORKS and MIMO CHANNELS (Aula 13 - 14:30-16:00) top

Track: Wireless Communications
Chair: Tadashi Fujino (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
  1. On the Impact of Power Allocation on Coalition Formation in Cooperative Wireless Networks
    Mohammed W. Baidas (Kuwait University, Kuwait); Allen B. MacKenzie (Virginia Tech, USA)
  2. Power Allocation in Multi-node Cooperative Network in Rician Fading Channels
    Mulugeta Fikadu (University of Vaasa, Finland); Mohammed Salem Elmusrati (University of Vasa, Finland); Reino Virrankoski (University of Vaasa, Finland)
  3. Adaptive Candidate Selection Scheme in QRM-MLD Algorithm for MIMO Detection
    Wei Hou (The Uinversity of Electro-Communications, Japan); Tadashi Fujino (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Toshiharu Kojima (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
  4. A Simple Model for Imperfect Channel State Information and Its Application for the Assessment of Interference Alignment
    Danish Aziz (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Germany); Sevil Sentuerk (Alcatel-Lucent, Germany); Andreas Weber (Alcatel-Lucent, Germany); Thorsten Wild (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Germany)

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