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Technical Program

Day 1: Monday July 28

8:45am

Opening Remarks and Welcome (Jade Ballroom)

9:00am-10:15am

Keynote Address: Cognitive Radio Networks: The Future is Friendly
Presented by:
Prof. Vijay K. BhargavaChair Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia

10:15am-10:45am

Coffer Break

10:45am-12:15pm

Session 1: (Jade Balloon)
Wireless Mesh Networks

Session 2:  (Pearl Room)
Information Management in Wireless Sensor Networks

12:15pm-14:00pm

Lunch

14:00pm-15:30pm

Session 3: (Jade Balloon)
Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Session 4: (Pearl Room)
Wireless Security

15:30pm-16:00pm

Coffer Break

16:00pm-17:30pm

Session 5:  (Jade Balloon)
Topics related to P2P networks/overlay networks (1)

Session 6: (Pearl Room)
Wireless Personal Area Networks

Day 2: Tuesday July 29

9:00am-10:15am

Keynote Address: Reducing Call Costs Acrossing Various International Telecommunications Networks
Presented by:
Prof. Yi-Bing Lin
Chair Professor and Dean of College of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

10:15am-10:45am

Coffer Break

10:45am-12:15pm

Session 7:  (Jade Balloon)
MAC design in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Session 8: (Pearl Room)
QoS support in general networks

12:15pm-14:00pm

Lunch

14:00pm-15:30pm

Session 9: (Jade Balloon)
Topics in Wireless Sensor Networks

Session 10: (Pearl Room)
Topics related to P2P networks/overlay networks (2)

15:30pm-16:00pm

Coffer Break

16:00pm-17:30pm

Session 11:  (Jade Balloon)
cognitive radio networks

Session 12: (Pearl Room)
QoS support in general networks (2)

Day 3: Wednesday July 30

8:45am-10:15am

Session 13: (Jade Balloon)
Cross-layer Design for Wireless networks

Session 14: (Pearl Room)
Topics in general Wireless Networks

10:15am-10:45am

Coffer Break

10:45am-12:15pm

Panel: Next-Generation Wireless Networking: Opportunities and Challenges
Moderator: Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Panelist:
Yuguang "Michael" Fang, University of Florida
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba
Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan

12:15pm-14:00pm

Lunch

14:00pm-15:30pm

Session 15:  (Jade Balloon)
IEEE 802.16 based networks

Session 16: (Pearl Room)
QoS support in general networks (3)

15:30pm-16:00pm

Coffer Break

16:00pm-17:30pm

Session 17: (Jade Room)
Other topics

Day 4: Thursday May 31 (Workshops only)

9:00am-12:00pm

Workshop 1: "Future Trends on Design and Analysis of Dynamic Networks" (FTDA-DN) 

Workshop 2: Connecting Health: Using IT to Assist Patient Recovery (ConnectingHealth)

Workshop 3:
"Artificial Intelligence in Grid Computing"
(AIGC) 

12:00pm-14:00pm

Lunch

 



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l         Session 1: Wireless Mesh Networks  (Session Chair: Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada)

a)        Routing Optimization in Wireless Mesh Networks under Uncertain Traffic Demands,
Yang Song, Chi Zhang and Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, USA)

b)       Distributed Contention-Aware Call Admission Control for IEEE 802.11 Multi-Radio Multi-Rate Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks,
Tehuang Liu and Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University, TW)

c)        Fairness in Multi-hop Wireless Backhaul Networks: A Dynamic Estimation Approach,
JengFarn Lee and YuanNeng Hsu (National Chung Cheng University, TW)

l         Session 2:Information Management in Wireless Sensor Networks (Session Chair: Vincent Wong, University of British Columbia, Canada)

a)        Runner-Up, Best Paper Award: Directional Controlled Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks,
Min Chen, Victor C. M. Leung (University of British Columbia, CA) and Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)

b)       Efficient Data Gathering in Partially Connected and Delay-Tolerant Wireless Sensor Networks,
Ruiyun Yu, Xingwei Wang (Northeastern University, CN) and Sajal K. Das (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)

c)        A Preliminary Study of Information Collection in a Mobile Sensor Network,
Yueming Hu, Qing Li (South China Agricultural University, CN), Fangming Liu, Gabriel Y. Keung and Bo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

l         Session 3: Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks  (Session Chair: Vincent Wong, University of British Columbia, Canada)

a)        GMZRP: Geography-aided Multicast Zone Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,
hui cheng, Jiannong Cao and Xiaopeng Fan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK)

b)       Cooperative Protocols Design for Wireless Ad-hoc Networks with Multi-hop Routing,
Yuxia Lin, Joo-Han Song and Vincent Wong (University of British Columbia, CA)

c)        Best Paper Award Winner: DTN Based Dominating-Set Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,
Hany Samuel and Weihua Zhuang (University of Waterlo
o, CA) and Bruno Preiss

l         Session 4: Wireless Security (Session Chair: Yong Guang, Iowa State University, USA)

a)        Towards Address Privacy in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,
Yanchao Zhang (New Jersey Institute of Technology) and Kui Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology)

b)       Efficient User Revocation for Privacy-aware PKI,
Wei Ren, Kui Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology), Wenjing Lou (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and Yanchao Zhang (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

c)        OMH - Suppressing Selfish Behavior in Ad hoc Networks with One More Hop,
Chengqi Song and Qian Zhang
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

l         Session 5: Topics related to P2P networks/overlay networks (1) (Session Chair: Xiaojun Hei, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

a)        Towards Low-Redundancy Push-Pull P2P Live Streaming,
Zhenjiang Li, Yao Yu, Xiaojun Hei and Danny Tsang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

b)       A Mesh Check Scheme against P2P Live Streaming Attacks,
Jinkang Jia and Changjia Chen (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN)

c)        A request-driven swarming scheme for P2P data streaming,
Jialing Xu and Victor Li (University of Hong Kong, HK)

l         Session 6: Wireless Personal Area Networks (Session Chair: Min Chen, University of British Columbia, Canada)

a)        Auxiliary Channel Diffie-Hellman Encrypted Key-Exchange Authentication,
Dennis K. Nilsson, Ulf Larson and Erland Jonsson (University of Technology, Sweden)

b)       Admission Control and Concurrent Scheduling for IPTV over mmWave-based WPANs,
Lin X. Cai, Lin Cai, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen and Jon W. Mark (University of Waterloo, CA)

c)        Performance Improvement of Generation-2 RFID Protocol,
Chonggang Wang (University of Arkansas)

l         Session 7: MAC design in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (Session Chair: Qinqing Zhang, Johns Hopkins University)

a)        Receiver Initiated MAC Design for Ad Hoc Networks Based on Multiuser Detection,
Jinfang Zhang, Zbigniew Dziong, François Gagnon and Michel Kadoch (École de Technologie superieure, CA)

b)       Exploiting Time and User Diversity in Distributed Medium Access Control for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,
Qinqing Zhang, Lotfi Benmohamed and I-Jeng Wang (Johns Hopkins University)

c)        VCGG: A Varying Cone Distributed Topology-Control Algorithm for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,
Jianxin Wang, Yuhong Luo, Jiawei Huang (Central South University, CN) and Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University)

l         Session 8: QoS support in general networks (Session Chair: Xinwei Wang, Northestern University, China)

a)        End-to-edge QoS across Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Domains,
Nemanja Vucevic, Francisco Bernardo, Anna Umbert and Miguel Lopez-Benitez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)

b)       An ABC Supported QoS Multicast Routing Scheme Based on Beehive Algorithm in NGI,
Xingwei Wang, Qiang Chen, Rongzhu Zou and Min Huang (Northeastern University, CN)

c)        A RULESPACES FOR SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES BASED ON TUPLESPACE AND SWRL,
Liang Li, Bin Li (Yangzhou University, CN), Junwu Zhu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, CN) and Xiaowei Zhang (Yangzhou University, CN)

l         Session 9: Topics in Wireless Sensor Networks (Session Chair: Xingcheng Liu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

a)        Impact of Delay on Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
Hongli Xu, Liusheng Huang, Junmin Wu, Gang Wang and Wang Liu (University of Science and Technology of China, CN)

b)       On Sensor Network Reconfiguration for Downtime-Free System Migrations,
Yangfan Zhou, Michael Lyu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK) and Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, CA)

c)        A Novel Cluster-Chain Channel Adaptive Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks,
Xingcheng LIU, Xiaoxiang Bian (Sun Yat-Sen University, CN) and Haengrae Cho (Yeungnam University, Korean)

l         Session 10: Topics related to P2P networks/overlay networks (2) (Session Chair: Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada)

a)        Efficient Content Distribution in Wireless P2P Networks,
Qiong Sun, Victor Li and Ka-Cheong Leung (University of Hong Kong, HK)

b)       Measuring Web Feature Impacts in BitTorrent-like Systems,
Sirui Yang, Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CN), Bo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK), Xiaofei Liao, Hong Yao and Qi Huang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CN)

c)        Fake Servers in EDonkey Networks,
Min Zhang, Changjia Chen and Jinkang Jia (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN)

l         Session 11: Cognitive radio networks (Session Chair: Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada)

a)        Reducing Sensing Error in Cognitive PANs Through Differential Sensing,
Jelena Misic and Vojislav Misic (University of Manitoba, CA)

b)       Joint Rate and Power Allocation in Spectrum Sharing Networks with Balanced QoS Provisioning and Power Saving,
Yuan Wu and Danny Tsang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

c)        Mitigating Energy Holes Based on Transmission Range Adjustment in Wireless Sensor Networks,
Chao Song (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN), Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK), Ming Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN), Yuan Zheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK), Haigang Gong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN) and Guihai Chen (Nanjing University, CN)

l         Session 12: QoS support in general networks (2) (Session Chair: Min Chen, University of British Columbia, Canada)

a)        QoS-Guaranteed Path Selection Algorithm for Service Composition,
Manish Jain (Telchemy Inc.), Puneet Sharma and Sujata Banerjee (HP)

b)       PMUF: A High-Performance Scheduling Algorithm for DiffServ Classes,
Yi Peng, binqiang wang and Hongchao Hu (National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technology R&D Center, CN)

c)        Enhanced "ULTRA GRIDSEC": Enhancing High Performance Symmetric Key Cryptography Schema Using Pure Peer To Peer Computational Grid Middleware (HIMAN),
hishamAbd Elazeem Ismail Kholidy (Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt)

l         Session 13: Cross-layer Design for Wireless networks (Session Chair: Jianhua Lu, Tsinghua University, China)

a)        Cross-Layer based Congestion Control for WLANs,
Lei ZHANG, Patrick Senac, Emmanuel Lochin and Michel Diaz (University of Toulouse, France)

b)       Dynamic cross-layer framework to provide QoS for video streaming services over ad hoc networks,
Victor Carrascal, Aida Zavala, Guillermo Diaz and Monica Aguilar (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain)

c)        Joint Congestion Control, Contention Control and Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks,
Danhua Zhang, Chao Zhang and Jianhua Lu (Tsinghua University, CN)

l         Session 14: Topics in general Wireless Networks (Session Chair: Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

a)        Leveraging Spatial Reuse with Adaptive Carrier Sensing in 802.11 Wireless Networks,
Qiang Shen, Xuming Fang (Southwest Jiaotong University, CN), Rongsheng Huang, Pan Li and Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, USA)

b)        QoS Based Scheduling in the Downlink of Multiuser Wireless Systems,
Feng Wang and Mounir Hamdi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

l         Session 15: IEEE 802.16 based networks (Session Chair: Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

a)        Fault-Tolerant Transmission Mechanism for IEEE 802.16e OFDMA Systems,
Jenhui Chen, Syao-Syuan Liu and Chih-Chieh Wang (Chang Gung University, TW)

b)       A Distributed QoS Guaranteed Scheme for IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access Systems,
Jau-Yang Chang (National Formosa University, TW)

c)        Isolation Band based Frequency Reuse Scheme for IEEE 802.16j Wireless Relay Networks,
Wei wei Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN), Zi hua Guo (Lenovo Corporate Research, Beijing, CN), Jun Cai (University of Manitoba, CA), Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, CA) and Changjia Chen (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN)

l         Session 16: QoS support in general networks (3) (Session Chair: Kin-Hon Ho, University of Surrey, UK)

a)        A Mechanism for Automated Monitoring Deployment in Grid Environment,
Wang Yinfeng, Sim Kwang Mong (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK)and xiaoshe Dong (Xi'an Jiaotong University, CN)

b)       Performance Evaluation and Comparison of Three Counting Bloom Filter Schemes,
zhang jin, binqiang wang and jiangxing wu (National Digital Switching R&D Center, CN)

c)        Optimizing Post-Failure Network Performance for IP Fast Reroute using Tunnels,
Kin-Hon Ho, Ning Wang (University of Surrey, UK), George Pavlou (University College London, UK) and Christos Botsiaris (University of Surrey, UK)

l         Session 17: Other topics  (Session Chair: Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

a)        A Study of An Open Source IP Multimedia Subsystem Test Bed,
Jin Tang, Carol Davids and Yu Cheng (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

b)       A Statistical Indoor Localization Method for Supporting Location-based Access Control,
Chunwang Gao, Zhen Yu, Yawen Wei, Steve Russell, and Yong Guan (Iowa State University, USA)

c)        Opportunistic Broadcast of Emergency Messages in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks with Unreliable Links,
Ming Li (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) and Wenjing Lou (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Program for Workshop1 ("Future Trends on Design and Analysis of Dynamic Networks" (FTDA-DN))

l         Session 1:  Ad hoc Networks  (9:00 - 10:15)

a)   Connectivity Aware Instrumental Approach for Measuring Vocal Transmission Quality over a Wireless Ad hoc Network
Sofiene Jelassi and Habib Youssif (Higher Institute of Computer Science and Communication Technologies, Sousse, Tunisia)

b)   Efficient Multicast Routing to Wireless Internet Access Points in Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANETs)
Kin Choong Yow and Gui Ying Aw (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

c)    Polymorphic Routing using Proactive and Probabilistic Approaches for MANETs
Abdelfettah Belghith (Manouba University,Tunisia), Adel Ben Mnaouer (Univ. of Trinidad and Tobago), Hanen Idoudi (Manouba University,Tunisia).

l        Coffee break (10:15 -- 10:45)

l         Session 2: Sensor and Mobile Networks (10:45 - 12:00)

d)    Robustness and Performance Analysis of a Dynamic Sensor Network Scheduling Algorithm
Miklos Molnar (RISA, INSA of Rennes, France), Gyula Simon (University of Pannonia, Hungary), Laszlo Gonczy,I (Budapest University of Technology, and Economics, Hungary)

      e)    High-mobility effects on WLAN fast re-authentication methods efficiency

         Mohamed Kassab, Safaa Hachana, Jean Marie Bonnin (IT/TELECOM-Bretagne/RSM, Rennes, France) and Abdelfettah Belghith (Manouba University,Tunisia)  

f)     A Centralized Resource Reservation for Cellular IP Access Networks
Rachid Zagrouba, Jean-Marie Bonnin (TELECOM de Bretagne, Rennes, France) , Karine Guillouard (Orange-ftgroup)

Program for Workshop2 and Workshop3 (ConnectingHealth + AIGC)

l         Session 1: Connecting Heather

a)  Quality of Service Control in Wireless Sensor Network with Priority Access
Kae Hsiang Kwong (University of Strathclyde)

b)  Anti-virus Security and Robustness of Heterogeneous Immune Static Network
Authors: Tao Gong (Donghua University)

c)  A New Cognitive Mobile Communication System
Hua hou (University of Science and Technology of China(USTC), China)

l        Coffee break (10:15 -- 10:45)

l         Session 2: Artificial Intelligence in Grid Computing

d)  A Hybrid Multiprocessor Task Scheduling Method Based on Immune Genetic Algorithm

     Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Mohammad Reza Bonyadi, Sara Hashemi, and Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghadam (Shahid Beheshti University)

e)  Security Deciding in Publishing Views Based on Entropy

    Zhang Kun, Pan De-fen (Hebei University of Science and Technology, China)

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Dates & News

Technical Program Updated

Camera-ready Manuscripts
June 1, 2008
June 10, 2008

Paper Submission Deadline
March 10, 2008
March 24, 2008

Notification of Acceptance
May 15, 2008
May 20, 2008

Workshop Proposal Deadline
January 15, 2008


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