Wednesday, February 27, 2002

TRACK A

Ad Hoc Wireless Networks/1

Chair: Bijan Jabbari, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

- On the Message and Time Complexity of a Distributed Mobility Adaptive Clustering Algorithm in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
C. Bettstetter, S. König
Technische Universität München, Germany

- An On-Demand, Link-State, Multi-Path QoS Routing in a Wireless mobile Ad-Hoc Network
Y.-S. Chen¹, Y.-C. Tseng², J.-P. Sheu³, P.-H. Kuo^3
1 National Taipei University, Taiwan; ² National Chao-Tung University, Taiwan; ³ National Central University, Taiwan

- IPv6 Autoconfiguration in Large Scale Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
K. Weniger, M. Zitterbart
University of Karlsruhe, Germany

- A Priority MAC Protocol to Support Real-time Multimedia Traffic in Ad Hoc Networks
J.-P. Sheu¹, C.-H. Liu¹, S.-L. Wu², Y.-C. Tseng^3
1 National Central University, Taiwan; ² Chang-Gung University, Taiwan; ³ National Chao-Tung University, Taiwan

- Power Control in Ad-Hoc Networks: Theory, Architecture, Algorithm and Implementation of the COMPOW Protocol
S. Narayanaswamy, V. Kawadia, R.S. Sreenivas, P.R. Kumar
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA

- Scheduling of Broadcasts in Multihop Wireless Networks
P.-K. Hung, J.-P. Sheu, C.-S. Hsu
National Central University, Taiwan

QoS in Wireless

Session Organizer: Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Chair: Marco Ajmone Marsan

- Design and Deployment of Link-Layer Boosters for Per-flow Improvement of QoS in Wireless Internet Access (Invited Paper)
C. Hoene, I. Carreras, T. Chen, A. Wolisz
Technical University Berlin, Germany

- Pricing Strategies for Broadband Radio Access to Network Services with Performance Guarantees (Invited Paper)
N. Blefari-Melazzi, D. Di Sorte, G. Reali
Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy

- Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol
C. H. Foh, M. Zukerman
The University of Melbourne, Australia

- Remarks on per-flow differentiation in IEEE 802.11 (Invited Paper)
I. Aad, C. Castelluccia
INRIA, France

- A New Medium Access Control Protocol for TDD Mode Wideband CDMA Wireless Local Area Networks (Invited Paper)
I. F. Akyildiz, X. Wang
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

- End-to-end Adaptive Multimedia over Bluetooth Scatternets (Invited Paper)
M. Kazantzidis, A. Zanella, M. Gerla
UCLA, CA, USA

Energy Efficient Computation

Session Organizer: Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Chair: Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

- The long-term average capacity region per unit energy with application to protocols for sensor networks (Invited Paper)
D. Tuninetti, G. Caire
Institut Eurécom, France

- Computationally Simple Battery Management Techniques for Wireless Nodes (Invited Paper)
M. Adamou, S. Sarkar
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

- Energy Efficiency of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks with Selfish Users (Invited Paper)
V. Srinivasan⁺, P.n Nuggehalli⁺, C. F. Chiasserini^*, R. R. Rao^+
+University of California, La Jolla, CA, USA; ^*Politecnico di Torino, Italy

- A trace-based approach for determining the energy consumption of a WLAN network interface
J.-P. Ebert, B. Burns, A. Wolisz
Technical University Berlin, Germany

- Distributed Power Control for Power-aware Energy-efficient Routing in Ad-Hoc Networks (Invited Paper)
P. Bergamo, D. Maniezzo, A. Giovanardi, G. Mazzini, M. Zorzi
Università di Ferrara, Italy

New MAC Protocols for QoS Guarantees in Wireless Networks

Chair: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Ensemble Communication Inc., San Diego, USA

- Wireless Tree Protocols for QoS Guarantees in Wireless Networks with Bursty Traffic
C.-H. Yeh
Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

- Design Issues of Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol for Multimedia Traffic over DS-CDMA Systems
L. Wang, A.H. Aghvami, W.G. Chambers
King's College London, University of London, UK

- MAC Protocol for Supporting QoS in All-IP HiperLAN2 (Invited Paper)
C. Politis, R. Tafazolli
University of Surrey, UK

TRACK B

Capacity of Wireless Network

Chair: Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, Italy

- BRuIT: Bandwidth Reservation under InTerferences Influence
C. Chaudet, I. Guérin Lassous
ENS Lyon, France

- Impact of Interference on the GPRS Multislot Link Level Performance
J. Gozalvez, J. Dunlop
University of Strathclyde, Scotland

- Dynamic Code Assignment in Hybrid MC-CDMA/TDMA System
C.-L. Yang, J.-F. Chang
National Taiwan University and National Chi Nan University, Taiwan

- Capacity Analysis of Multicell CDMA Networks with Fast Power Control under Multipath Fading
J.M. Romero Jerez, M. Ruiz Garcia, A. Diaz Estrella
University of Malaga, Spain

- Enhanced Formulations for Call Capacity Improvement of Distributed DCA Schemes Based on Hopfield Neural Networks
O. Lazaro, D. Girma
University of Strathclyde, Scotland

- Link Adaptation Techniques for High-Speed Packet Data in Third Generation Cellular Systems
E. Esteves, P.J. Black, M.I. Gurelli
Qualcomm Inc., USA

QoS and Services in Mobile Internet Environment

Session Organizer: Seshaiah Ponnekanti, Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd, UK
Chair: Seshaiah Ponnekanti

- Enabling Mobile Heterogeneous Networking Environments with End-to-End QoS - The BRAIN vision and the MIND approach (Invited Paper)
A. Kassler¹, T. Guenkova-Luy¹, D. Mandato², P. Schoo³, I. Armuelles4, T. Robles⁴, P. Ruiz⁵, A. Bascuñana^6
1University of Ulm, Germany; ²Sony International (Europe) GmbH, Germany; ³DoCoMo Communications Labs GmbH, Germany; ⁴Technical University of Madrid, Spain; ⁵Agora Systems S.A., Spain; ⁶Ericsson España S.A., Spain

- Implementation Options, QoS Aspects and Economics of Phased UMTS deployments
D. Grillo, M. Montagna, F. Alfano, A. Colombo, S. Ricci
Alcatel Italia, Vimercate, Italy

- Adam Smith Goes Mobile: Managing Serviced Beyond 3G with the Digital Marketplace (Invited Paper)
J. Irvine
University of Strathclyde, Scotland

- Estimating Commitment in Digital Marketplace Environment
R. Mathur, J. Irvine, J. Dunlop
University of Strathclyde, Scotland

- Interoperability of Structured and Unstructured Services in Personal Mobility Information Space
A. Mingkhwan, M. Merabti, B. Askwith
Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

- QoS provisioning in mobile Internet environment
S. Lepaja, R. Fleck, N. Nam Hoang
Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Advanced Wireless Systems and Services

Chair: Iwao Sasase, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

- An Ultra Wide Bandwidth System for In-Home Wireless Networking
D. Gerakoulis¹, P. Salmi², S.S. Ghassemzadeh^1
1 AT&T Labs - Research, NJ, USA - ² University of Bologna, Italy

- Dynamic channel filtering method for multi-mode & multi-service software radio communication systems
R. Sawai¹, H. Harada², H. Shirai¹, M. Fujise^2
1 Chuo University, Japan, ² Communications Research Laboratory, Japan

- An Intelligent Handoff Scheme Based On Location Prediction Technologies
M.-H. Jin, E. H.-K. Wu, J.-T. Horng
National Central University, Chungli Taiwan

- Enhanced Location Techniques based on Accurate and Fast Propagation Models in Urban and Indoor Environments
G. Woelfle^*, R. Hoppe⁺, D. Zimmermann⁺, F.M. Landstorfer^+
* AWE communications, Germany; ⁺ University of Stuttgart, Germany

- Localising GSM Mobiles Inside Prisons
D. Mansel , E. Mârza , C. Dumitrescu2
Fachbereich Informatik, Gelsenkirchen, Germany; 2 Facultatea de Electronică şi Telecomunicaţii, Romania

Mobile Agents in Wireless Networks

Session Organizer: Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
Chair: Antonio Puliafito

- Tracker: A Universal Location Management System for Mobile Agents (Invited Paper)
G. Samaras¹, C. Spyrou¹, E. Pitoura², D. Marios^1
1 University of Cyprus, Cyprus; ² University of Ioannina, Greece

- Flexible, Mobile Agent based Intrusion Detection for Dynamic Networks
C. Krugel, T. Toth
Technical University of Vienna, Austria

- Digital still cameras and mobile agents: How to create a distributed service for image processing (Invited Paper)
M. Mancuso¹, M. Guarnera¹, A. Puliafito², M. Villari^2
1 St Microlectonics, Milano, Italy; ² Università di Messina, Italy

- CORTEX: Towards Supporting Autonomous and Cooperating Sentient Entities (Invited Paper)
P. Verissimo¹, V. Cahill², A. Casimiro¹, K. Cheverst³, A. Friday³, J. Kaiser^4
1 University of Lisboa, Portugal; ² Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; ³ University of Lancaster, UK; ⁴ University of Ulm, Germany

TRACK C

Signal Equalization and Channel Estimation

Chair: Kung Yao, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

- Frequency Scaled Time Domain Equalization for OFDM in Wireless Communication
V.S. Abhayawardhana, I.J. Wassel
University of Cambridge, UK

- Channel Estimation with Pilot-Symbols over WSSUS Channels
I. Perisa, J. Egle, J. Lindner
University of Ulm, Germany

- A New Unified Approach to Adaptive Blind Equalization for Multicarrier CDMA Systems with Receiver Diversity
D. Chen and K. Yao
UCLA, CA, USA

- Comparative Study of Efficient Decision-Feedback Equalization Schemes for MIMO Systems
C. Degen, C. Walke, B. Rembold
Aachen University of Technology, Germany

- Reduction of Co-Channel Interference in GSM by Joint Channel and Data Estimation
M. Loncar, C. F. Mecklenbrauker, R. Muller
Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria

- Estimation of Time-Varying Wireless Channels and Application to the UMTS W-CDMA FDD Downlink
M. Lenardi, D.T.M. Slock
Institut Eurecom, France

Modulation and Signal Synchronization

Chair: Helmut Boelcskei, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

- Acquisition of Orthogonal Modulated Signals in Rayleigh-Fading Channels
P. Xiao, E. Strom
Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden

- A Novel Carrier Phase Recovery Method for Turbo-Coded QPSK Systems
L. Zhang, A. Burr
University of York, UK

- LPDC-coded adaptive modulation on slowly varying Nakagami-fading channels
B. Myhre^*, V. Markhus⁺, G.E. Øien^+
* SINTEF Telecom and Informatics, Norway; ⁺ Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

- Blind Estimation of the Modulation Scheme Adapted to Noise Power Based on a Concept of Software Define Radio
K. Umebayashi, S. Ishii, R. Kohno
Yokohama National University, Japan

- Frame Synchronization and Digital AGC for OFDM Based WLAN
C.-S. Peng, C.-H. Cho, K.-A. Wen
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

- Iterative Carrier Phase Synchronization for Coherent Detection of Turbo-Coded Modulations
V. Lottici, M. Luise
University of Pisa, Italy

Space-Time Signal Processing for Wireless Systems

Chair: Sergio Barbarossa, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy

- On the equivalence of Space-Time Block Coding with Multipath Propagation and/or Cyclic Delay Diversity in OFDM
A. Dammann¹, P. Lusina², M. Bossert²,
¹ German Aerospace Center (DLR) - ² University of Ulm, Germany

- Enhancement of Hiperlan/2 System using Space-Time Coding
M. Gidlund
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

- Optimized Design and Performance of Multiple-Antenna 4th Generation WLANs for Partially Coherent Decoding
E. Baccarelli, M. Biagi, A. Fasano
Università di Roma 1, Italy

- Space-time UMTS uplink system for future generation mobile radio communication system
S.L. Ling, M.F. Siyau, R.F. Ormondroyd
Cranfield University, RMCS, Swindon, UK

- Reflections on Smart Antennas for MAC Protocols in Multihop Ad Hoc Networks
H. Koubaa
LORIA INRIA, Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France

Channel Coding: from Theory to Practice

Chair: Marco Luise, University of Pisa, Italy

- On Diagonal Space-Time Codes Using Algebraic Rotations
M.O. Damen, N.C. Beaulieu
University of Alberta, Canada

- Adaptive Coding Schemes Using Finite State Machine for Software Defined Radio
K. Ikemoto, R. Kohno
Yokohama National University, Japan

- Coding of short control frames for UMTS mobile communication
W. Adi, F. Kriaa
University of Braunschweig, Germany

Round Table: Transition from 3G Deployment to 3G⁺/4G Design (plenary)

Chair: Davide Grillo, UMTS Initiatives and Coordination Group, Alcatel Italia S.p.A., Italy

Panelists:

• Dr. Stanley Chia, Vodafone, USA
• Prof. Radu Popescu-Zeletin, Technical University Berlin, Germany
• Dr. Walter Tuttlebee, Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence, UK
• Prof. Bernhard Walke, Aachen University of Technology, Germany

Conference banquet

This was held in a historical  building in the city center.