Technical Program

     Session 1: Cognitive Radio Networks (Session Chair: Ben Liang, University of Toronto, Canada)

a)        Transport Control Based on Spectrum Switching Detection in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks, 
Ren Han, Xiaoxia Huang (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, China), and Pan Li (Mississippi State University)

b)       Spectrum Prediction via Temporal Conditional Gaussian Random Field Model in Wideband Cognitive Radio Networks, 
Zhenghao Zhang, Husheng Li, Hannan Ma, Kun Zheng, Depeng Yang (University of Tennessee), and Changxing Pei (Xidian University, China)

c)        Cross-Layer Control for Utility Maximization in Multihop Cognitive Radio Networks, 
Long Bao Le (University of Quebec, Canada)

d)       Reliable Channel Selection and Routing for Real-time Services over Cognitive Radio Mesh Networks, 
Lang Xie, P.E. Heegaard (NTNU, Norway), Yan Zhang (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway; University of Oslo, Norway), and Jie Xiang (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)

     Session 2: Networks Security (Session Chair: Guangzhi Qu, Oakland University)  

a)        Studying Non-intrusive Tracing in the Internet, 
Alina Olteanu, Yang Xiao, Jing Liu (University of Alabama), and Thomas M. Chen (Swansea University, UK)

b)       A Sparse Bayesian Framework for Anomaly Detection in Heterogeneous Networks, 
Jian Zhang and Rajgopal Kannan (Louisiana State University)

c)        Mobile Sensing Enabled Robust Detection of Security Threats in Urban Environments, 
Jie Yang (Stevens Institute of Technology), Jerry Cheng (Columbia University), and Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology)

d)       Detection of Fabricated CTS Packet Attacks in Wireless LANs, 
Xiaochen Zou and Jing Deng (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

     Session 3: Resource Allocation (Session Chair: Qinghe Du, Texas A&M University)  

a)        Channel Aware and Queue Aware Scheduling in LTE Uplink, 
Javad Hajipour (University of British Columbia, Canada), Amr Mohamed (Qatar University, Qatar), and Victor C.M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada)

b)       Optimal Channel Pairing and Power Allocation for Multi-Channel Multi-Hop Relay Networks, 
Mahdi Hajiaghayi (University of Toronto, Canada), Min Dong (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada), and Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada)

c)        Resource Allocation with Minimum End-to-End Delay Differential Consideration in Multi-hop Cognitive Radio Networks, 
Yean-Fu Wen (National Chiayi University, Taiwan) and Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

     Session 4: Wireless Protocols and Algorithms (Session Chair: Wei Song, University of New Brunswick, Canada)

a)        Enabling Multi-packet Transmission and Reception: An Adaptive MAC Protocol for MANETs, 
Hui Xu, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, and Hamid R. Sadjadpour (University of California, Santa Cruz)

b)       Admission Control and QoS Provisioning in Multi-Service MDA for IEEE 802.11s-based Wireless Mesh Networks, 
Jihene Rezgui, Abdelhakim Hafid, and Michel Gendreau (University of Montreal, Canada)

c)        Empirical Analysis of Local Round Trip Time for Wireless Traffic Differentiation, 
Guangzhi Qu and Michael M. Nefcy (Oakland University)

d)       On the Design of Access Network Packet Consolidation Protocol of CDMA 1xEV-DO Systems, 
Venkatesh Ramaswamy, Pradeepkumar Mani, and Olufemi Adeyemi (Airvana Network Solutions)

     Session 5: Advanced Networking Systems (Session Chair: Long Bao Le, University of Quebec, Canada)  

a)        Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Centers, 
Hamzeh Khazaei (University of Manitoba, Canada), Jelena Misic, and Vojislav B. Misic (Ryerson University, Canada)

b)       Efficient Stream Processing in the Cloud, 
Dung Vu (University of California-Riverside), Vana Kalogeraki (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece), and Yannis Drougas (Environmental Systems Research Institute)

c)        Deterministic Algorithm for Coded Cooperative Data Exchange, 
Alex Sprintson (Texas A&M University), Parastoo Sadeghi (Australian National University, Australia), Graham Booker (Texas A&M University), and Salim El Rouayheb (University of California at Berkeley)

d)       Dynamically Provisioned Priority-Aware Algorithms in Shared Mesh Optical Networks, 
Alireza Nafarieh (Dalhousie University, Canada), Shyamala Sivakumar (Saint Mary’s University, Canada), William Phillips, and William Robertson (Dalhousie University, Canada)

     Session 6: Sensor Networks (Session Chair: Daji Qiao, Iowa State University)  

a)        NAT-ZigBee: NAT-based Address Assignment for Scalable ZigBee Networks, 
Yuan-Yao Shih (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Yu-Kai Huang, Ai-Chun Pang, Pang-Feng Liu, and Wei-Ni Chu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

b)       Interference Aware Routing and Load Balancing in Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks, 
Shekar Nethi and Riku Jantti (Aalto University, Finland)

c)        Sensor Distribution on Coverage in Sensor Networks, 
Miao Peng, Yang Xiao (University of Alabama), Hui Chen (Virginia State University), Qi Hao (University of Alabama), Athanasios V. Vasilakos (Univ. of Western Macedonia, Greece), and Jie Wu (Temple University)

d)       Sensor-Aided Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments, 
Ka Yang, Daji Qiao and Wensheng Zhang (Iowa State University)

     Session 7: Scheduling and Optimization (Session Chair: Alex Sprintson, Texas A&M University)

a)        Time and Power Scheduling in a Wireless Network with Network Coding and Bidirectional Relaying, 
Maryam Mohseni and Dongmei Zhao (McMaster University, Canada)

b)       Distributed Scheduling for Advance Bandwidth Reservation in High-Performance Networks, 
Qishi Wu and Yunyue Lin (University of Memphis)

c)        Proportionally Fair Selective Cooperation for Cellular Networks: Algorithm, Simulation and Analysis, 
Erwu Liu (Imperial College, UK), Qinqing Zhang (Johns Hopkins University), and Kin K. Leung (Imperial College, UK)

d)        A Multi-objective Optimization Approach for Designing Multihop Cellular Networks, 
Souha Bannour, Abdelhakim Hafid, and Mariam Tagmouti (University of Montreal, Canada)

     Session 8 : Routing Protocols (Session Chair: Costas Busch, Louisiana State University)

a)        Optimal Oblivious Routing in Hole-Free Networks, 
Costas Busch (Louisiana State University) and Malik Magdon-Ismail (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

b)       A Novel Buffer Management Architecture for Epidemic Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), 
Ahmed Elwhishi, Pin-Han Ho, K. Naik (University of Waterloo, Canada), and Basem Shehada (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)

c)        Self-optimizing Mechanism for Prediction-based Decentralized Routing, 
Abutaleb Abdelmohdi Turky, Florian Liers, and Andreas Mitschele-Thiel (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)

d)       HDMRP : An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Multipath Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks, 
Abdelkrim Hadjidj, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, and Yacine Challal (University of Technology of Compiegne, France)

     Session 9 : Multimedia and Stream Processing (Session Chair: Shiwen Mao, Auburn University)

a)        Downlink Power Allocation for Stored Variable-Bit-Rate Videos, 
Yingsong Huang, Shiwen Mao, and Yihan Li (Auburn University)

b)       Cross-layer Multipath Transmission of Elastic and Streaming Traffic over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks and its Performance Analysis, 
Wei Song (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

c)        Battery-aware Wireless Video Delivery, 
Jianxin Sun, Dalei Wu and Song Ci (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

d)       MERIT: P2P Media Streaming with High Content Diversity and Low Delay, 
Shiyun Zhang, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Deng Pang and Zhenyu Yang (Florida International University)

     DSRC Workshop Session 1: DSRC Networks  

a)        An Overview of the DSRC/WAVE Technology, 
Yunxin (Jeff) Li (NICTA, Australia)

b)       A comparison of 802.11a and 802.11p for V-to-I communication: a measurement study, 
Wei-Yen Lin, Mei-Wen Li, Kun-chan Lan (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), and Chung-Hsien Hsu (Information and Communications Research Laboratories, Taiwan)

c)        Analysis of Information Fusion for Low Cost, Precise and Reliable Vehicular Cooperative Positioning with DSRC, 
Mahmoud Efatmaneshnik (University of New South Wales, Australia), Allison Kealy (University of Melbourne, Australia), Samsung Lim and Andrew G Dempster (University of New South Wales, Australia)

d)       A Distributed Challenge Detection System for Resilient Networks, 
Yue Yu (University of Sydney, Australia)

     DSRC Workshop Session 2: DSRC Security  

a)        Maximizing Mix Zone Effectiveness for the Mitigation of De-Anonymization Threats in the Traffic Probe Message Service, 
Jeremy J. Blum and Peter O. Okosun (Penn State University)

b)       Layered and Service-Dependent Security in CSMA/CA and Slotted Vanets, 
Luca Pilosu, Hector Agustin Cozzetti and Riccardo Scopigno (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy)

c)        Smart Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Smart Dust, 
Johann Groszschaedl (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Matthias Hudler, Manuel Koschuch, Michael Krueger (FH Campus Wien - University of Applied Sciences, Austria), Alexander Szekely (Graz University of Technology, Austria)