WTS 2008 Accepted Paper Sessions and Wireless Network Security Tutorial
Saturday April 26, 2008

(Updated April 21, 2008)


Track 1 - Wireless Security

Track Chairs: Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
               Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Session E1 – Chair: Dr. Henry Wu, California State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona, US

Building Secure User-to-user Messaging Channels in Mobile Telecommunication Networks
Shushan Zhao, Shuping Liu (Univ. of Testing, CA)

A New Dynamic Cache Flushing (DCF) Algorithm for Preventing Cache Timing Attack
Jalpa Bani, Syed Rizvi (Univ. of Bridgeport, US)

Unidirectional Auxiliary Channel Challenge - Response Authentication
Dennis Nilsson, Ulf Larson, Erland Jonsson (Chalmers Univ. of Technology, SE)

Securing Media Hotspots
Aroua Biri (INT evry, FR)

Reverse Piloting Protocol for Securing Time Varying Wireless Channels
Gill Tsouri, Dov Wulich (Ben Gurion Univ., IL)

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM (Networking Break)
Track 2 - Wireless Communications and Network Technologies

Track Chairs: Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada
                                  Chunsheng Xin, Norfolk State University, USA
 
8:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Session B1 – Chair: Dr. Jan Holub, Czech Technical Univ., CZ

Dynamic Resource Allocation for Uplink Contention Channels in WiMAX
Patrick Hosein (Huawei Technologies, US)

Collaborative Storage with Mobile Devices in Wireless Networks for P2P Media Sharing
Fulu Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)

The Quality of Spatial-temporal Information from Mobile Peer-to-Peer Interactions
Halikul Lenando, Roger Whitaker (Cardiff Univ., UK)

A Distributed Admission Control to Lower End-to-End Delay in P-Persistent 802.11 MAC Protocol
Kiran Anna, Mostafa Bassiouni (Univ. of Central Florida, US)

Reducing Signal Distortion Due to Transmission Errors via Multiresolution Digital Modulations
Jing Lu, Annamalai Annamalai, Dhadesugoor R. Vaman (Prairie View A&M Univ., US)

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM (Networking Break)
10:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Session B2 – Chair: Dr. Liang Hong, Tennessee State Univ., US

A Reduced-Rank Eigenbasis MIMO Channel Model
Leslie Wood, William Hodgkiss (Univ. of California, San Diego, US)

Efficient Error Control Scheme for Video Streaming over Wireless Networks
Liang Hong (Tennessee State Univ., US); Zhenyu Wu (MY EZ Communications, LLC, US)

New Cross-Layer Channel Switching Policy for TCP Transmission on 3G UMTS Downlink
Dinesh Kumar (INRIA, FR); Dhiman Barman (UC, Riverside, US); Eitan Altman (INRIA, FR); Jean-Marc Kelif (France Telecom R&D, FR)

Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Networks with Cognitive Controllers
Michael Slavik, Imad Mahgoub, Ahmed Badi (Florida Atlantic Univ., US)

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM (Buffet Lunch - Kellogg West)
1:15 PM – 1:40 PM (Doctoral Students Session/Poster paper Session) – Chair: TBD

A Networking Perspective of Cooperative Spectrum Sharing in Wireless Networks: Analysis and Experiments
Fulu Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)

1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Session B3 – Chair: Chair: Dr. Masaki Bandai, Shizuoka Univ., Japan

The Performance of WiFi Network for Application in A Navigation System for Visually Impaired People
Khalid Alhajri (Brunel Univ., UK); Nawzad Al-Salihi (Brunel Univ., UK)

Mobile Multi-hop Relay System using AMC for Multicast Broadcast Service over Mobile WiMAX
Chi Hyun Cho, Kyung Tae Kim, Hee Yong Youn (SungKyunKwan Univ., KR)

Self-optimization of Coverage for Femtocell Deployments
Holger Claussen, Lester Ho, Louis Samuel (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, UK)

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM (Networking Break)
3:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Session B4 – Chair: Dr. J.P. Shim, Mississippi State Univ., US

Efficient Spectrum Matching Based on Spectrum Characteristics in Cognitive Radio Systems
Ohyun Jo (KAIST, KR)

Design of an Efficient and Robust Multimedia Gateway for Pervasive Communication
Fung Po TSO, Yufei Du, Weijia Jia (City Unicersity of Hong Kong, CN)

Low-Complexity Two-Stage Timing Acquisition Scheme for UWB Communications
Yanjie Peng, Lang Mai, Xiaoyang Zeng (Fudan Univ., CN)

Encryption vs. Performance of Infrastructure IEEE 802.11 WLAN
Siwaruk Siwamogsatham, Songrit Srilasak, Kitiwat Limmongkol, Kitti Wongthavarawat (National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, TH)

Track 3 - Wireless Algorithms, Methods, Simulations, and Software

Track Chair: Huan Li, Beihang University, China
 
8:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Session C1Chair: Dr. Izabella Lokshina, SUNY Oneonta, US

Effective Assessment of Mobile Communication Networks Performance
Izabella Lokshina (SUNY Oneonta, US); Michael Bartolacci (Penn State - Berks, US)

Soft Parallel Interference Cancellation for a Turbo Coded Uplink MC-CDMA System
Jun Luo (Florida International Univ., US)

A Low-Complexity Filter-Based Turbo Equalizer for Quasi-Static Channels
Shou-Sheu Lin (National Kaohsiung First Univ. of Science and Technology, TW); Wen-Rong Wu (National Chiao-Tung Univ., TW)

A New Freqeuncy Offset Estimation Algorithm for DBO-CSS in Multipath Channels
Seunghan Baik (Hanyang Univ., KR)

Transcoded Speech Contemporary Objective Quality Measurements Reliability
Jan Holub, Lubica Blaskova (FEE CTU Prague, CZ)

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM (Networking Break)
10:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Session C2 – Chair: Dr. Jan Holub, Czech Technical Univ., CZ

Cross Layer Optimization of Iterative OFDM Reception with Clipping
Thomas Ketseoglou (California State Polytechnic Univ., US)

A Power Efficient Continuous Phase Modulation - Single Carrier FDMA Transmission Scheme
Marilynn P. Wylie-Green (Nokia Siemens Networks, US)

Repair Costs of the IPDC/DVB-H File Repair Mechanism
Bernhard Hechenleitner (Salzburg Univ. of Applied Sciences, AT)

An Efficient Communication System for Disaster Detection and Coordinated Emergency Evacuation
Qing-An Zeng, Heng Wei, Vineet Joshi (Univ. of Cincinnati, US)

Analysis and Evaluation of Reed–Solomon Codes in Digital Video Broadcasting Systems
Izabella Lokshina (SUNY Oneonta, US); Teodor Iliev, Dimitar Radev, Georgi Hristov (Univ. of Rousse, BG)

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM (Buffet Lunch - Kellogg West)
1:15 PM – 1:40 PM (Doctoral Students Session/Poster paper Session) – Chair: TBA

A Networking Perspective of Cooperative Spectrum Sharing in Wireless Networks: Analysis and Experiments
Fulu Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)

1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Session C3 – Chair: Dr. Salam Salloum, California State Polytechnic Univ., US

Efficient Coding of Side Information for Selected Mapping PAPR Reduction
Gill Tsouri, Dov Wulich (Ben Gurion Univ., IL)

Improving the Efficiency of Wireless Networks via a Passive Rate-Adaptation Strategy
Annamalai Annamalai, Jing Lu, Dhadesugoor R. Vaman (Prairie View A&M Univ., US)

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM (Networking Break)
Track 4 - Wireless Communications: Military Aspects and Satellite Applications

Track Chairs: Jan Holub, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
             Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University, USA 

8:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Session D1 – Chair: Dr. Hidetoshi Yokota, KDDI R&D Labs. Inc., Japan

Entropy Based Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio
Xiaofei Chen, Santosh Nagaraj (San Diego State Univ., US)

A Closed-Form Expression for BER to Quantify MAI for Synchronous DS-CDMA Multi-user Detector
Syed Rizvi (Univ. of Bridgeport, US); Aasia Riasat (Institute of Business Management, PK); Khaled Elleithy (Univ. of Bridgeport, US)

A New Approach to Improve BER Performance of a High Peak-to-Average Ratio (PAR) OFDM Signal over FM based Land Mobile Radios (LMR)
Abhijit Navalekar, William Michalson (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US)

OTR-UWB System
Hossein Gharaee (Tarbiat Modares Univ., IR); Jalil (Joe) Etminan (Rock Valley College, US)

Mid Millimeter Waves for Broadband Satellite Communication 72-100 GHz
Paul Christopher (PFC Associates, US)

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM (Networking Break)
10:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Session D2 – Chair: Dr. Joe Etminan, Rock Valley College, US

Simulation of spectrum sharing in WLAN and WMAN using frequency hopping and spectrum commons
Steve Hurley, Archie Wade, Roger Whitaker (Cardiff Univ., UK)

On the Implementation of a Space Time Block Coded Transmitter in an FPGA Platform
Citlalli Anguiano, Guillermo Galaviz, Angel Andrade (Univ. of Baja California, MX)

Input-to-Output Cross Polarization Discrimination (IOXPD) Dispersion Model for Mobile-to-Mobile LOS Wireless Communications MIMO Channels
Thomas Pratt, Ramya Srinivasan (Georgia Tech, US); Son Nguyen (US Army Research Laboratory, US)

Improvements in Fixed Point-to-Point Microwave Radio Path Design
George Kizer (TeleVision, Inc., US)

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM (Buffet Lunch - Kellogg West)
1:15 PM – 1:40 PM (Doctoral Students Session/Poster paper Session) – Chair: TBD

A Networking Perspective of Cooperative Spectrum Sharing in Wireless Networks: Analysis and Experiments
Fulu Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)

Track 5 - Ad Hoc Networks, Sensor Networks, Mesh Networks, and RFID

Track Chairs: Bin Wang, Wright State University, USA
     Wei Ye, Bravotech Inc., USA
 
8:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Session A1 – Chair: Dr. Takashi Watanabe, Shizuoka Univ., Japan

Service Organization and Discovery for Facilitating RFID Network Manageability and Usability via WinRFID Middleware
Xiaoyong Su, Chi-Cheng Chu, Shiv Prabhu, Rajit Gadh (Univ. of California - Los Angeles, US)

Capacity of Ad hoc Networks with Line Topology based on UWB and WLAN Technologies
Samer Bali (Leibniz Universtät Hannover, DE); Jan Steuer (DOK Systeme, DE); Klaus Jobmann (Leibniz Universität Hannover, DE)

EECCP: An Energy-Efficient Coverage- and Connectivity Preserving Algorithm under Border Effects in Wireless Sensor Networks
Yan Jin, Ju-Yeon Jo, Yoohwan Kim, Yingtao Jiang, Mei Yang (Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, US)

Maximum Capacity in Chain-Topology Wireless Mesh Networks
Fang-Yie Leu, Yu-Ting Huang (TungHai Univ., TW)

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM (Networking Break)
10:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Session A2 – Chair: Dr. Stefano Basagni, Northeastern Univ., US

A MAC Protocol for Directional Hidden Terminal and Minor Lobe Problems
Yuya Takatsuka, Masanori Takata,  Masaki Bandai, Takashi Watanabe (Shizuoka Univ., Japan, JP)

Impact of Interference Aware Metrics over UWB based MANET
Floriano De Rango, Peppino Fazio, Fiore Veltri, Salvatore Marano (Univ. of Calabria, IT)

On the Effects of Multiple Beacons on Localization for Wireless Sensor Network
Rajaa Alquda, Stefano Basagni (Northeastern Univ., US)

Vertical Handover during a VoIP call in Hybrid Mobile ad hoc Networks
Juhani Latvakoski, Pekka Välitalo, Teemu Väisänen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, FI),

Transmission Hold-off Time Mitigation for IEEE 802.16 Mesh Networks: A Dynamic Approach
Valeria Loscrì, Gianluca Aloi (Univ. of Calabria, IT)

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM (Buffet Lunch - Kellogg West)
1:15 PM – 1:40 PM (Doctoral Students Session/Poster paper Session) – Chair: TBD

A Networking Perspective of Cooperative Spectrum Sharing in Wireless Networks: Analysis and Experiments
Fulu Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)

3:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Session A3 – Chair: Dr. Stefano Basagni, Northeastern Univ., US

Improving QoS for Real-time Multimedia Traffic in Ad-hoc Networks with Delay Aware Multi-path Routing
Jacobus Boshoff (Telkom SA Ltd., ZA); A.S.J. Helberg (NWU, ZA)

Variant Rate Based Cross Layer Time Frame Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks
Wei Wei, Yong Qi (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ., CN); Wei Wang (Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln, US); Ruidong Li (Univ. of Tsukuba, IP); Yu Gu (USTC, CN); Andrew Chen (Univ. of California – Riverside, US)

Route Dynamics for Shortest Path First Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Yangcheng Huang (Univ. College London, UK); Kannan Govindan (IIT-Bombay, IN); Saleem Bhatti (Univ. of St Andrews, UK); S. n. Merchant, Uday Desai (IIT Bombay, IN)

Track 6 - Wireless Services and Business

Track Chairs: Michael Bartolacci, Penn State University - Berks, USA
Katia Passerini, NJIT, USA                    
 
1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Session F1 – Chair: Dr. J.P. Shim, Mississippi State Univ., US

Cellular Mobile TV Phone: Current Status and Misconceptions
JP Shim (Mississippi State Univ., US); Sungmin Park (Brunel Univ., UK); Julie Shim (Soldier Design, US)

Broadband Access for All: The Economic and Political Implications of Municipal Wireless Networks
Geoffrey Okamoto (California State Polytechnic Univ. of Pomona, US)

Dynamic XML Deployment of Geospatial Peer Nodes
Clayton Thomas (Morgan State Univ., US)

Invited Presentation:

International Expansion of Wireless Telecommunications Service Providers: An Update
Steven Powell (California State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona, US)

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM (Networking Break)
Track 7 - Wireless Standards and Platforms

Track Chair: Qing-An Zeng, University of Cincinnati, USA

3:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Session G1 – Chair: Dr. Qing-An Zeng, Univ. of Cincinnati, US

An Architecture for Mobility Management in Interworked 3G Cellular and WiMAX Networks
Kumudu Munasinghe, Abbas Jamalipour (Univ. of Sydney, AU)

In the Direction of a Sensor Mapping Platform Based on Cellular Phone Networks
Kirby Chiang, Chi-Cheng Chu, Shiv Prabhu, Rajit Gadh (Univ. of California - Los Angeles, US)

Tutorial - Wireless Network Security III


3:45 PM – 5:00 PM Wireless Network Security Tutorial III

Wi-Fi Protected Access
Dr. Tim H. Lin, (California State Polytechnic Univ. of Pomona, US)

5:00 PM – 5:15 PM (Best Papers Award Ceremony)
5:15 PM (Conference Ends)