Conference Program

The presentation facilities available are: overhead projector and portable PC projector. A portable PC equipped with 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 the program. The speaker's name is in bold.

Technical Program Schedule

October 29th, 2009

• 8:00 - Registration Opens
  
  
• 8:20-8:30 - Opening ceremony - Welcome addressed by TPC Co-Chairs (A. Boukerche and I. Guérin Lassous)
  
  
• 9:30-10:30 - Session 1: Physical layer / Cognitive radios - Chair: Isabelle Guérin Lassous
  - Reliability Through Frequency Diversity: Why Channel Hopping Makes Sense
  Thomas Watteyne, Ankur Mehta and Kris Pister (BSAC, UC Berkeley, USA).
  - Analysis of k-connectivity of a cognitive radio ad-hoc network
  Anna Abbagnale, Francesca Cuomo and Emanuele Cipollone (University of Rome "Sapienza", Italy).
  - Practical Investigation of Performance Trade-Offs in Cooperative-Relaying Wireless Networks
  Guchun Zhang, Xiaohong Peng (Aston University, UK) and Xuanye Gu (BT, UK).
  
  
• 10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break
  
• 10:30-11:30 - Posters session
  
  
• 11:00-12:35 - Session 2: Energy consumption - Chair: Riadh Dhaou
  - Range Assignment and lambda-proximity in Wireless Sensor Networks with a Realistic Physical Layer
  Fadila Khadar and David Simplot-Ryl (INRIA, IRCICA, LIFL, France).
  - Adaptive slotted CSMA/CA algorithm for the traffic accumulated during the inactive period
  Nassima Hadid, Alexandre Guitton and Michel Misson (Clermont-Ferrand University, France).
  - An Application Adaptive Energy Model for Wireless Sensor Nodes
  Waqas Ahmed, Meriel Huggard and Ciaran Mc Goldrick (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland).
  - Performance Evaluation of a Generalized Energy Efficient Time Based Protocol under Different Applications
  Tayseer Al-Khdour and Uthman Baroudi (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia).
  
  

October 30th, 2009

• 8:45-10:30 - Session 3: Routing - Chair: Isabelle Guérin Lassous
  - Fading and Interference Aware Routing Protocol for Multi-Channel Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
  Marco Di Felice, Luciano Bononi (University of Bologna, Italy) and Kaushik Roy Chowdhury (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA).
  - Dynamic Clustering and Distance Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Navin Gautam, Won-Il Lee and Jae-Young Pyun (Chosun University, Republic of Korea).
  - Near optimal Data Propagation by Efficiently Advertising Obstacle Boundaries
  Andreas Koutsopoulos, Sotiris Nikoletseas (University of Patras and CTI, Greece) and Jose Rolim (University of Geneva, Switzerland).
  - Implementation of the Multi-Geo Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Quadtrees
  Vitor Barbosa C. Souza, Mauro Nacif Rocha, Ricardo dos Santos Ferreira and Carlos de Castro Goulart (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil).
  - A Warning Based Preemptive Routing Scheme for QoS Maintenance in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  Sk. Mohammad Rokonuzzaman, Ronald Pose and Iqbal Gondal (Monash University, Australia).
  
  
• 10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break
  
  
• 11:00-12:30 - Session 4: Models - Algorithms - Chair: Xiaohong Peng
  - Point Processes for Interference Modeling in CSMA/CA Ad-Hoc Networks
  Anthony Busson (University Paris 11, France) and Guillaume Chelius (INRIA, France).
  - Fast Simulation Method to Predict Wireless Sensor Networks Performance
  Milos Blagojevic (Embedded System Institute, Netherlands), Majid Nabi (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Teun Hendriks (Embedded System Institute, Netherlands), Twan Basten and Marc Geilen (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands).
  - Local Algorithms for Backbone Formation in Ad Hoc Networks
  Mona mehrandish, Hossein Kassaei, Lata Narayanan and Jaroslav Opatrny (Concordia University, Canada).
  - On the Comparison of Performance, Capacity and Economics of Terrestrial Base Station and High Altitude Platform Based Deployment of 4G
  Ali Imran, Majid Shateri and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, UK).
  
  
• 12:30-14:00 - Lunch
  
  
• 14:00-15:40 - Session 5: Sensor networks - Chair: Iqbal Gondal
  - Accelerated Sensory Data Collection by Greedy or Aggregate Mobility-based Topology Ranks
  Constantinos Marios Angelopoulos and Sotiris Nikoletseas (University of Patras and CTI, Greece).
  - Wireless Line Sensor Network for Distributed Visual Surveillance
  Mangesh Chitnis (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy), Yao Liang, Jiang Yu Zheng (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA), Paolo Pagano and Giuseppe Lipari (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy).
  - Acoustic Counting Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Harry Gros-Desormeaux, Philippe Hunel, Nicolas Vidot and Erick Sttatner (University Antilles-Guyane, France).
  - Performance Evaluation of a Selective Cooperative Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Marcelo P. Sousa (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil), Ajey Kumar (Institute for Advanced Studies in Communication, India), Marcelo S. Alencar (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil) and Waslon T. A. Lopes (AREA1 College, Brazil).
  
  
• 15:40-16:10 - Break
  
• 15:40-17:30 - Poster session
  
  
• 16:10-17:25 - Session 6: Mobility - Vehicular Networks - Chair: Waslon T. A. Lopes
  - Context-aware and Location-based Service Discovery Protocol for Vehicular Networks
  Azzedine Boukerche, Kaouther Abrougui and Richard Pazzi (University of Ottawa, Canada).
  - Selecting an Appropriate Routing Protocol for In-Field MANEMO Experiments
  Hajime Tazaki, Rodney Van Meter (Keio University, Japan), Ryuji Wakikawa (TOYOTA InfoTechnology Center, Japan), Thirapon Wongsaardsakul, Kanchana Kanchanasut (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand), Marcelo Dias de Amorim (UPMC, France) and Jun Murai (Keio Univeristy, Japan).
  - Performance Evaluation of Broadcast Protocols in VANET: a Point Process Approach
  Anthony Busson (University Paris 11, France)
  
  

The Poster Session will consist of the following posters:
- Distributed Channel Selection Protocol for Single-Hop Transmissions in Cognitive Radio Networks
Christopher N. Ververidis (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Jad Nasreddine (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) and Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany).
- Bidirectional Cooperative Communications for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks
Hong Zhou (Osaka Inst. of Tech., Japan).
- DWNG: Distributed Dynamic Algorithm For Mobility Patterns Prediction
Esam Alnasouri, Ali Diab and Andreas Mitschele-Thiel (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany).
- Comparative Analysis of LHA, MANETconf and PROPHET Stateful Address Auto-Configuration Protocols in Ad hoc Networks
Ausama Yousef, Andreas Mitschele-Thiel, Philipp Driess and Ali Diab (Automation Technische University, Germany).
- Performance Evaluation of the Impact of Attacks on Mobile Ad hoc Networks
Peter Ebinger (Fraunhofer IGD, Germany) and Malcolm Parsons (TU Darmstadt, Germany).
- Towards an optimun reed solomon code for sensor networks : A study case using tmote sky
Soude Henoc (University Paris 8, France), Max Agueh (LACSC/ECE, France) and Jean Mehat (Univeristy Paris 8, France).