EW2002 Summary

EW2002 in numbers

• Though named "European", the EW2002 conference has received attention from all over the world. 221 papers, from 25 different countries in 5 continents, have been submitted.
  
• 152 papers have been accepted for presentation in the conference and publication in the proceedings. Among these, 18 have been selected for journal publication. 
  
• 246 participants have been welcomed to EW2002. 

Best Student Paper Awards

Among many worthy competitors, the following two students have been selected for the Best Student Paper Awards:

Daniela Tuninetti, for the paper "The long-term average capacity region per unit energy with application to protocols for sensor networks", by D. Tuninetti, G. Caire, Institut Eurécom, France

Rami Mukhtar, for the paper "Packet Latency for Type-II Hybrid ARQ Transmissions over a Correlated Error Channel", by R. Mukhtar, M. Zukerman, F. Cameron, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Journal Publications

As announced, papers of particular merit are proposed for publication in the AEI European Transactions on Telecommunications and ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks journals. Following is the list of the selected papers:

- Selected list of papers that will compete for publication on a special issue of ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks reserved to European Wireless 2002.

1. Hiperlan/2 Public Access Interworking with 3G Cellular Systems
   S.McCann, and H. Flygare
   
2. Characteristics of WAP Traffic
   I.C.Y.Ma, and J. Irvine
   
3. Packet Latency for Type-II Hybrid ARQ Transmissions over a Correlated Error Channel
   R. Mukhtar, M. Zukerman, and F. Cameron
   
4. Local and Global QoS-aware Token Bucket Parameters Determination for Traffic Conditioning in 3rd Generation Wireless Networks
   Frank Yong Li
   
5. Adaptive Core Multicast Routing Protocol
   S. Park, and D. Park
   
6. Study of the TCP Dynamics over Wireless Networks with Micromobility Support Using the ns Simulator
   L. Cerdà, F. Vena, and O. Casals
   
7. Bluetooth/802.11 Protocol Adaptation for RFID Tags
   R. Bridgelall
   
8. Distributed power control for power-aware energy-efficient routing in ad-hoc networks
   P. Bergamo, D. Maniezzo, A. Giovanardi, G. Mazzini, and M. Zorzi

- Selected list of papers that will compete for publication on a special issue of AEI European Transactions on Telecommunications reserved to European Wireless 2002 (scheduled as the first issue of 2003).

1. The long-term average capacity region per unit energy with application to protocols for sensor networks
   D. Tuninetti and G. Caire
   
2. Performance Evaluation of Frequency Spread Coding and Frequency Interleaving for OFDM Systems Using Adaptive Co-Channel Interference Canceller
   M. Shibahara, T. Fujii, T. Saba, I. Sasase
   
3. Joint Coded-Precoded OFDM with Low-Complexity Turbo-decoding
   Z. Wang, S. Zhou, G.B. Giannakis
   
4. A New Unified Approach to Adaptive Blind Equalization for Multicarrier CDMA Systems with Receiver Diversity
   D. Chen and K. Yao
   
5. Acquisition of Orthogonal Modulated Signals in Rayleigh-Fading Channels
   P. Xiao, E. Strom
   
6. Dynamic Code Assignment in Hybrid MC-CDMA/TDMA System
   C.-L. Yang, J.-F. Chang
   
7. Advanced Ray-Optical Propagation Modeling for Indoor Environments Including Wideband Properties
   R. Hoppe, G. Woelfle, P. Wertz, F.M. Landstorfer
   
8. Performance of Space-Combining Transmission Diversity with OFDM for Broadband Wireless Access System
   M. Nobuaki, Y. Asai, O. Kagami, H. Hojo
   
9. Reduction of Co-Channel Interference in GSM by Joint Channel and Data Estimation
   M. Loncar, C. F. Mecklenbrauker, R. Muller
   
10. A Priority MAC Protocol to Support Real-time Multimedia Traffic in Ad Hoc Networks
    J.-P. Sheu, C.-H. Liu, S.-L. Wu, Y.-C. Tseng