Sympsium Technical Program




Day 1, 30th October.


8.30 - 9.30
Keynote Address:
"Breaking the Silos - Access and Service Convergence over the Mobile Internet"
Professor Victor C M Leung.


9.30 - 9.40
Welcome from MobiWac Chair


9.40 - 12.00
Session 1:
Short papers poster session
Session Chair: Bjorn Landfeldt (University of Sydney, Australia)



Improving Multi-Path Routing Performance in WSNs by Tuning IEEE 802.11 Parameters
Chen Liu; Janelle Harms; Mike MacGregor (University of Alberta, Canada)

A comparison of VoIP Performance over three routing protocols for IEEE 802.11s-based Wireless Mesh Networks (WLAN Mesh)
Ubaid Abbasi, Adlen Ksentini (University of Rennes 1 / IRISA-INRIA Lab, France)

Missing Values in the User Activity Classification Applications Utilizing Wireless Sensors
Ivan Avdouevski (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

Retransmission Cut-Off Half-Duplex Slotted ALOHA for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Jahangir Sarker; Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Analysis of MAC layer retransmission scheme in wireless Networks
Jianping He (Tsinghua University, China)

EM-based reduced complexity channel estimation for OFDM in mobile wireless system
Seung-Hyun Nam (SeJong University, Korea); Sung-Ju Lee (SeJong University, Korea);
Jae-Seon Yoon; (The uT Communication Research Institute, Korea); Hyoung-Kyu Song
(SeJong University, Korea)

Enhanced Detection Technique for MIMO-OFDM with DFE in Hybrid STBC
Jee-Hye Lee; Myung-sun Baek; Hyoung-Kyu Song (Sejong University, Korea)

Adaptive Detection Scheme in Accordance with Channel Condition for MIMO-OFDM System
Hun-Hee Lee; Myung-sun Baek; Hyoung-Kyu Song (Sejong University, Korea)

Cooperative Transmission of Modified Quasi-Orthogonal STBC with Multiuser-OFDM
Jung-In Baik; Ho-Jung An; Jin-Hyuk Song; Hyoung-Kyu Song (Sejong University, Korea)



Day 1, 31st October.


8.00 - 9.00
Keynote Address:
"Hybrid Intelligent Methods for Solving the Mobility Management Problem"
Professor Albert Y. Zomaya
9.00 - 9.50
Session 2:
Wireless Sensor Networks and Simulations
Session Chair:  K. Elkhatib, University of Ontario, Canada


Energy Consumption vs. Latency in a new Boundary Identification Method for WSNs with a Mobile Sink
Majid Khan; Wilfried Gansterer; Guenter Haring (University of Vienna, Austria)


Distributed Simulation of Heterogenous Systems of Small Programmable Objects and Traditional Processors
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (Computer Technology Institute, Greece); Christos Koninis (University of Patras, Greece);
Grigorios Prasinos
(University of Patras, Greece) ; Christos Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)

9.50 - 10.10
Coffee Break

10.10 - 11.50
Session 3:
Mobility and Handover Management
Session Chair: Sherali Zeadally (University of the District of Columbia, USA)


System Design and Implementation of Seamless Handover Support Enabling Real-time Telemetry Applications for Highly Mobile Users
Marc Emmelmann (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)


A comprehensive mobility management solution for handling peak load in cellular network scenarios
Stefan Michaelis; Andreas Lewandowski; Kai Daniel; Faqir Yousaf; Christian Wietfeld (Dortmund University of Technology, Germany)


The Problem of Placing Mobility Anchor Points in Wireless Mesh Networks
Lei Wu; Bjorn Landfeldt (University of Sydney, Australia)


Using Conference Servers for SIP-based Vertical Handoff between IP and Cellular Networks
Arpit Mehta; Andrea Forte; Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)

11.50 - 12.50
Lunch

12.50 - 14.30
Sesion 3:
Routing and forwarding
Session Chair: Bjorn Landfeldt (University of Sydney, Australia)


Implementing distributed multicost routing in ad hoc networks using DSR
Christos Papageorgiou; Panagiotis Kokkinos; Emmanouel Varvarigos (University of Patras, Greece)


Performance Improvement of Layered Modulation Based Cooperative Relaying Scheme
Jee-Hoon Kim (Sejong University, Korea); Jung-In Baik (Sejong University, Korea);
Jin-Hyuk Song (Sejong University, Korea); Hyoung-Kyu Song (Sejong University, Korea)


Efficient Cooperative Transmission Scheme for Resource-Constrained Networks
Jee-Hoon Kim; Hyoung-Kyu Song (Sejong University, Korea)


QoS Routing Mechanism using Mobility Prediction of Node in Ad-hoc Network
Hyun-Jong Cha (Kwangwoon University, Korea); Insung Han  (kwangwoon University, Korea);
 Hwang Bin Ryou
(kwangwoon University, Korea)

14.30 - 14.50
Coffee Break

14.50 - 16.30
Session 4:
Multi Access and Location Management
Session Chair: Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)


The distance to the ideal alternative (DiA) algorithm for Interface Selection in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Phuoc Nguyen Tran (Telecom ParisTech, France); Nadia Boukhatem (ENST, France)


Handset Based Automatic Network Re-selection System for GSM/GPRS and WiFi
Alexander Garcia Davalos (Universidad Autonoma de Occidente, Colombia); Andres Navarro (Universidad Icesi, Colombia);
Gabriel Tamura (Universidad Icesi, Colombia); Andres Felipe Millán Cifuentes (University of Santiago de Cali, Colombia);
Oscar Wilfredo Jimenez (Universidad Autonoma de Occidente, Colombia)



Performance Improvement of LTE Tracking Area Design: A Re-optimization Approach
Sara Razavi; Di Yuan (Linkoping University, Sweden)


Efficient Multimedia Call delivery over IP-Based Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks
Peyman TalebiFard; Victor Leung (University of Brittish Columbia, Canada)

16.30 - 16.50
Coffee Break

16.50 - 18.30
Session 6:
Management and Modeling
Session Chair: Regina Araujo, Federal Univ. of Sao Carlos, Brasil


Managing Hotspots in Wireless Cellular Networks with Partial Coverage Picocells
Jingxiang Luo; Carey Williamson (University of Calgary, Canada)


Progressive Image Mosaicking in Wireless Image Sensor Networks
Azzedine Boukerche; Ying Huang; Richard Pazzi; Jing Feng (University of Ottawa, Canada)


Next Generation Network Management of Heterogeneous Mobile Users
Jose Moura (Adetti / ISCTE, Portugal); Martin Dunmore (Lancaster University, UK); Christopher Edwards (Lancaster University, UK)


Cross-layer based erasure code to reduce the 802.11 performance anomaly: when FEC meets ARF
Lei ZHANG; Patrick Senac; Emmanuel Lochin; Jerome Lacan; Michel Diaz (University of Toulouse - ISAE / LAAS-CNRS, France)

18.30 - 18.40

Concluding remarks, closing of symposium