Conference Program

The presentation facilities available are: overhead projector and portable PC projector. A portable PC equipped with Windows XP, MS Office and Acrobat Reader, and USB for USB key (no floppy) will be provided by the symposium organization for the presentation, upon request.

All speakers are kindly invited to contact their respective session chairs before the session start, with a short written speaker-bio information.

Please note that presentations are scheduled for 25 minutes (questions included) for regular papers and for 15 minutes (questions included) for short papers.

Here is a tentative program.

(Tentative) Technical Program Schedule

October 27th, 2008

• 8:15 - Registration Opens
  
  
• 8:30-8:45 - Opening ceremony - Welcome addressed by TPC Co-Chairs (L. Bononi and I. Guérin Lassous)
  
  
• 8:45-9:50 - Session 1: Experimentations and Tools
  - Modular Network Trace Analysis - Presentation
  Wolfgang Kiess, Nadine Chmill, Ulrich Wittelsbürger, Martin Mauve (University of Düsseldorf).
  - Experimentation and Performance Evaluation of Rate Adaptation Algorithms in Wireless Mesh Networks - Presentation
  Emilio Ancillotti, Raffaele Bruno, Marco Conti (IIT-CNR).
  - Data Analysis on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks with Commercial Pre-WiMAX, EVDO and WiFi Products - Presentation
  Bing Cheung (Public Works and Government Services Canada).
  
  
• 9:50-10:20 - Coffee Break
  
  
• 10:20-11:25 - Session 2: Multicast
  - Fast, Efficient, and Robust Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks - Presentation
  Ian Chakeres, Chivukula Koundinya, Pankaj Aggarwal (Motorola).
  - Broadcast Routing Based on New Link Cost Model for Ad-Hoc Networks - Presentation
  Jia-Hong Yan, Hwang-Cheng Wang (National Ilan University).
  - An Efficient Anycast Scheme for Discovering K Services in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks - Presentation
  Pei-Jung Lin (Hungkung University), Chyi-Ren Dow, Sheng-Chang Chen, Chia-Jung Lin, Shiow-Fen Hwang (Feng Chia University).
  -An Efficient Multicast Protocol in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Using Forward Error Correction Techniques - Presentation
  Sheng-Chang Chen, Chyi-Ren Dow (Feng Chia University), Pei-Jung Lin (Hungkung University), Shiow-Fen Hwang (Feng Chia University).
  
  
• 11:25-11:40 - Short Break
  
  
• 11:40-12:20 - Session 3: Routing
  - The Impact of the delayed topology information in proactive routing protocols for MANETs - Presentation
  Andres Medina, Stephan Bohacek (University of Delaware).
  - PyraNet: An Efficient and Reliable Pyramidal Wireless Sensor Network - Presentation
  Jyh-Ming Huang, Po-Chih Hsu, Kuong-Ho Chen (Feng Chia University).
  
  
• 12:20-14:30 - Lunch
  
  
• 14:30-15:45 - Session 4: MAC Protocols
  - Performance Evaluation of MAC Protocols for Cooperative MIMO Transmissions in Sensor Networks
  Mohd Riduan Bin Ahmad (Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka), Eryk Dutkiewicz, Xiaojing Huang (University of Wollongong).
  - Modeling IEEE 802.15.4 based Wireless Sensor Network with Packet Retry Limits - Presentation
  Prasan Kumar Sahoo (Vanung University), Jang-Ping Sheu (National Tsing Hua University).
  - Future Channel Reservation Medium Access Control (FCR-MAC) Protocol for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks - Presentation
  Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna), Guomei Zhu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Luciano Bononi (University of Bologna).
  
  
• 15:45-16:15 - Coffee Break
  
  
• 16:15-17:20 - Session 5: Modeling
  - Communication Models for Capacity Optimization in Mesh Networks
  Peng Wang, Stephan Bohacek (University of Delaware).
  - Security Management Using a Novel Computational Reputation Model for Wireless and Mobile Ad hoc Networks - Presentation
  Azzedine Boukerche, Yonglin Ren (University of Ottawa).
  - Source Traffic Modeling in Wireless Sensor Networks for Target Tracking - Presentation
  Qinghua Wang, Tingting Zhang (Mid Sweden University).
  

October 28th, 2008

• MSWiM and PE-WASUN keynote speakers
  - Vehicular Urban Sensing: efficiency and privacy
  Prof. Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles - UCLA, USA).
  Abstract
  
  
• Posters session