ACM MSWiM 2009 Technical Program
(work in progress)

Program at a glance (click on the image to get to the event description, or scroll the page)

Tutorial 1: "Using Information Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks"

Prof. Antonio A.F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Geiras (UFMG), Brazil
Prof. Eduardo F. Nakamura, Research and Technological Innovation Center (FUCAP), Brazil

Tutorial 2: "Community Mesh Networks: from Theory to Applications"

Prof. Andreas Kassler, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Prof. Dirk Staehle, University of Wuerzburg, Germany

Tutorial 3: "Cognitive Radio Networks"

Prof. Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

Tutorial 4: "Intelligent Vehicular Networks"

Prof. Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA

Tutorial 5: "Modeling and Mitigating Interference in Wireless Networks"

Dr. Paolo Santi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR, Italy

Tutorial 6: "Mobility Modeling for Future Mobile Network Design and Simulation"

Prof. Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA

Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Transmission Control Protocol over Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks

Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, IT); Luciano Bononi (University of Bologna, IT); Kaushik Chowdhury (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)

ROSA: Distributed Joint Routing and Dynamic Spectrum Allocation in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks

Lei Ding (State University of New York at Buffalo, US); Tommaso Melodia (State University of New York at Buffalo, US); Stella N. Batalama (State University of New York at Buffalo, US); Michael J. Medley (Air Force Research Laboratory)

Contention in Multi-hop Wireless Networks: Model and Fairness Analysis

Vinay Kolar (RWTH Aachen University, DE); Karthik Bharath (University of Connecticut, US); Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (State University of New York at Binghamton, US); Janne Riihijärvi (RWTH Aachen University, DE)

A Distributed Fair MAC Flow Allocation and Scheduling Framework for IEEE 802.11 based Wireless Mesh Networks

Kin Wah Edward Lin (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Brahim Bensaou (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

Gateway-assisted Max-Min Rate Allocation for Wireless Mesh Networks

Kamran Jamshaid (University of Waterloo, CA); Paul Ward (University of Waterloo, CA)

A Performance Evaluation Framework for Fair Solutions in Ad Hoc Networks

Manos Dramitinos (INRIA, LIP Laboratory, RESO Team, FR); Remi Vannier (INRIA, France, FR); Isabelle Guerin-Lassous (Université de Lyon - LIP, FR)

Improving security information gathering with IEEE 802.21 to optimize handover performance

Antonio Izquierdo (NIST, US); Nada Golmie (NIST, US)

Removal of Misbehaving Insiders in Anonymous VANETs

Xuejun Zhuo (Tsinghua University, CN)

On Providing Location Privacy for Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Edith Ngai (Uppsala University, SE); Ioana Rodhe (Uppsala University, SE)

Design and Evaluation of Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Simulation Framework for INET/OMNeT++

Laszlo Bokor (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU); Szabolcs Nováczki (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU); Laszlo Zeke (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU); Jeney Gabor (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU)

Good News for Parallel Wireless Network Simulations

Patrick Peschlow (University of Bonn, DE); Andreas Voss (University of Bonn, DE); Peter Martini (University of Bonn, DE)

LiLaS: A Link Layer Simulator in Matlab/Octave

Svante Signell (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, SE); Jinliang Huang (Erisson AB, SE)

Wireless Multihoming Modeled as a Multi-WLAN Game

Jerzy Konorski (Gdansk University of Technology, PL)

Socially Conscious Channel Selection in 802.11 WLANs for Coexistence in a Non-cooperative Environment

Joo Ghee Lim (University of New South Wales, AU); Chun Tung Chou (University of New South Wales, AU); Sanjay Jha (University of NSW, AU)

Real-time Trajectory Estimation in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Sae Fujii (Osaka University, JP); Takashi Nomura (Osaka University, JP); Takaaki Umedu (Osaka University, JP); Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, JP); Teruo Higashino (Osaka University, JP)

A Hierarchical Prediction Model for two Nodes-based IP Mobile Networks

Leila Kloul (PRiSM Laboratory, University of Versailles, FR); Samir Bellahsene (PriSM, University of Versailles, FR); Dominique Barth (University of Versailles-St Quentin, FR)

A DBN Approach for Network Availability Prediction

Upendra Rathnayake (University of New South Wales, AU); Max Ott (NICTA, AU); Aruna Seneviratne (NICTA, AU)

Connection Availability and Transient Survivability Analysis in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks

Georgios Kalogridis (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, UK); Ruijie Lin (University of Bristol, UK)

The MAC Unreliability Problem in IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks

Giuseppe Anastasi (University of Pisa, IT); Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, IT); Mario Di Francesco (University of Pisa, IT)

Medium Access Control for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks with MIMO Links

Li-Chung Kuo (State University of New York at Buffalo, US); Tommaso Melodia (State University of New York at Buffalo, US)

How do Wireless Chains Behave? The Impact of MAC Interactions

Saquib Razak (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Vinay Kolar (RWTH Aachen University, DE); Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (State University of New York at Binghamton, US); Khaled Harras (Carnegie Mellon University, US)

The Optimization of Framed Aloha based RFID Algorithm

Lei Zhu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, CN); Peter Yum (Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)

Traffic Scheduling for Frame Length Minimization in OFDMA Based Systems

Maurizio Bonuccelli (Universita' di Pisa, IT); Donatella Ermini (Universita' di Pisa, IT)

When Mobile Services Go Local

Diego Borsetti (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Marco Fiore (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Claudio Casetti (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, IT)

A Reliable and Data Aggregation Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Leandro Villas (UFSCar, BR); Azzedine Boukerche (Univ. of Ottawa, CA); Regina Araujo (Federal University of Sao Carlos, BR); Antonio A.F. Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais, BR)

Energy Efficient Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Networks

Xufei Mao (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Xiang-Yang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); WenZhan Song (Washington State University, US); Ping Xu (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Kousha Moaveni-Nejad (Illinois Institute of Technology, US)

Improving an Over-the-Air Programming Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Small World Concepts

Guilherme Maia (Federal University of Minas Gerais, BR); Daniel Guidoni (Federal University of Minas Gerais, BR); Andre Aquino (Federal University of Ouro Preto, BR); Antonio A.F. Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais, BR)

Performance Evaluation of Multi-Path Routing in Reservation-Based Wireless Networks

Mattias Nissler (University of Kaiserslautern, DE); Reinhard Gotzhein (University of Kaiserslautern, DE)

Yenta: An asynchronous group communication middleware for wireless users

Xuwen Yu (University of Notre Dame, US); Surendar Chandra (Chandra-Brown, US)

RENA: Region-based Routing in Intermittently Connected Mobile Network

Hao Wen (Tsinghua University, CN); Jia Liu (Tsinghua University, CN); Chuang Lin (Tsinghua University, CN); Pan Li (University of Florida, US); Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, US); Fengyuan Ren (Tsinghua University, CN); Xiaomeng Huang (Tsinghua University, CN)

HUBCODE: Message Forwarding using Hub-based Network Coding in Delay Tolerant Networks

Shabbir Ahmed (The University of New South Wales, AU); Salil Kanhere (University of New South Wales, AU)

Distributed Virtual-Movement Scheme for Improving Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks

Carmelo Costanzo (University of Calabria, IT); Valeria Loscri (University of Calabria, IT); Enrico Natalizio (D.E.I.S. University of Calabria, IT)

P&P protocol: local coordination of mobile sensors for self-deployment

Simone Silvestri (University of Rome "La Sapienza", IT); Novella Bartolini (Sapienza University of Rome, IT); Annalisa Massini (Sapienza University of Rome, IT)

Generalized Analysis of a Distributed Energy Efficient Algorithm for Change Detection

Taposh Banerjee (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IN); Vinod Sharma (Indian Institute of Science, IN)

A Hybrid Multiobjective Approach for Designing Wireless Sensor Networks

Flávio Martins (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, BR); Eduardo Carrano (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, BR); Elizabeth Wanner (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, BR); Ricardo Takahashi (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, BR); Geraldo Mateus (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, BR)

A Time & Energy Efficient Toplogy Discovery and Scheduling Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abdulaziz Barnawi (Carleton University, CA); Roshdy Hafez (Carleton University, CA)

Efficient Channel Assignment Algorithms for Infrastructure WLANs Under Dense Deployment

Azzedine Boukerche (Univ. of Ottawa, CA); Suparerk Manitpornsut (University of Sydney, AU); Bjorn Landfeldt (University of Sydney, AU)

TCP Performance Optimization in Multi-Cell WLANs

Ka Lok Hung (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Brahim Bensaou (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

Performance evaluation of a fast MAC layer handoff scheme using dynamic adaption

Azzedine Boukerche (Univ. of Ottawa, CA); Zhenxia Zhang (University of Ottawa, CA)

On Power and Energy Trends of IEEE 802.11n PHY

Balaji Iyer (Georgia Insititute of Technology, US); Tom Conte (NC State University, US)

A Space-Time Batch-service Queueing Model for Multi-user MIMO communication systems

Boris Bellalta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES); Miquel Oliver (Pompeu Fabra University, ES)

Directional neighbor discovery in 60 GHz indoor wireless networks

Jianxia Ning (University of California, Riverside, US); Tae-Suk Kim (University of California, Riverside, US); Srikanth Krishnamurthy (University of California, Riverside, US); Carlos Cordeiro (Intel Corporation, US)

Performance Evaluation and Parametrization of the IEEE 802.16 Contention-Based CDMA Bandwidth Request Mechanism for the OFDMA Physical Layer

Dirk Staehle (University of Wuerzburg, DE); Rastin Pries (University of Wuerzburg, DE); Alexey Vinel (Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, RU); Andreas Maeder (NEC Laboratories Europe, DE)

An Enhanced Mechanism for Efficient Assignment of Multiple MBMS Sessions towards LTE

Christos Bouras (University of Patras, GR); Vasileios Kokkinos (University of Patras and RACTI, GR); Antonios Alexiou (University of Patras, GR)

On the Possibility of Applying Polarization Diversity to MIMO Techniques in Tunnels

Jose-Maria Molina-Garcia-Pardo (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, ES); Martine Lienard (University of Lille, FR); Eric Simon (University of Lille, FR); Pierre Degauque (University of Lille, FR)

Using a-priori information to improve the accuracy of indoor dynamic localization

Begumhan Turgut (Rutgers University, US); Richard Martin (Rutgers University, US)

Cognitive Personal Positioning Based on Activity Map and Adaptive Particle Filter

Hui Fang (Nanyang Technological University, SG); Wen Jing Hsu (Nanyang Technological University, SG); Larry Rudolph (MIT, US)

The role of colinearity of sensors in target localization using distance measurements

Vaishali Sadaphal (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, IN); Bijendra Jain (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, IN)

On the Performance of Target Tracking Algorithms using Actual Localization Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks

Efren Souza (Federal University of Amazonas, BR); Horacio Oliveira (Federal University of Amazonas, BR); Eduardo Nakamura (FUCAPI - Research and Technological Innovation Center, BR)

6:40 PM - 6:50 PM

Closing Remarks: MSWiM 2009 General and TPC Co-Chairs