Technical Program
Monday, June 25
D-SPAN: Workshop on Data Security and PrivAcy in wireless Networks
AOC: Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications
HOTMESH: Workshop on Hot Topics in Mesh Networking
CORAL: Workshop on Emerging COgnitive Radio Applications and aLgorithms
IoT-SoS: Workshop on Internet of Things - Smart Objects and Services
VIDEV: Workshop on Video Everywhere
VTP: Workshop on VANETs - from Theory to Practice
18.00 - 19.30: Reception
Tuesday, June 26
8.30 - 9.00: Opening Remarks
9.00 - 10.00: Keynote talk I
- Title: Monitoring and Coaching Elderly People to Exercise at HomeSpeaker: Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy (UC Berkeley)
10.00 - 10.30: Coffee Break
10.30 - 12.00: Session 1 - Social and Human Interactions in Networking
(session chair: Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
- An Arrival-based Framework for Human Mobility Modeling
Dmytro Karamshuk (IMT, Italy); Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR, Italy); Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy); Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) - I Know Who You Will Meet This Evening! Linking Wireless Devices Using Wi-Fi Probe Requests
Mathieu Cunche (INRIA, France); Mohamed Ali Kaafar (INRIA, France); Roksana Boreli (National ICT Australia, Australia) - Improving Link Prediction in Intermittently Connected Wireless Networks by Considering Link and Proximity Stabilities
Mohamed-Haykel Zayani (TELECOM & Management SudParis, France); Vincent Gauthier (Institut TELECOM; Telecom SudParis; SAMOVAR UMR, France); Djamal Zeghlache (Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France) - STOP: Socio-Temporal Opportunistic Patching of Short Range Mobile Malware
John Tang (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Hyoungshick Kim (University of British Columbia, United Kingdom); Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Mirco Musolesi (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
10:30 - 12:00: Session 2: Wireless Sensor Networks
(session chair: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland)
- CBFR: Bloom Filter Routing with Gradual Forgetting for Tree-structured Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Nodes
Andreas Reinhardt (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Olivia Morar (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Silvia Santini (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Sebastian Zöller (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Ralf Steinmetz (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) - Cost-Efficient Sensor Deployment in Indoor Space with Obstacles
Nanan Marc Thierry Kouakou (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Shinya Yamamoto (Tokyo University of Science Yamaguchi, Japan); Minoru Ito (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) - Tree-based Multi-Channel Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Networks
Dingwen Yuan (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) - Performance Analysis of a Hierarchical Discovery Protocol for WSNs with Mobile Element
Francesco Restuccia (University of Pisa, Italy); Giuseppe Anastasi (University of Pisa, Italy); Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy); Sajal K. Das (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
12.00 - 13.30: Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00: Session 3: Multimedia and Multicasting
(session chair: Terry Todd, McMaster University, Canada)
- Enhancing QoS of Voice over WLANs
Byoungjin Kim (Seoul National University, Korea); Hyewon Lee (Seoul National University, Korea); Seongho Byeon (Seoul National University, Korea); Kwang Bok Lee (Seoul National University, Korea); Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea) - Predictive Buffering for Streaming Video in 3G Networks
Varun Singh (Aalto University, Finland); Joerg Ott (Aalto University, Finland); Igor Curcio (Nokia Research Center, Finland) - Network Aware Caching for Video on Demand Systems
Bogdan Carbunar (Florida International University, USA); Rahul Potharaju (Purdue University, USA); Michael Pearce (Motorola Labs, USA); Venu Vasudevan (Motorola, Inc., USA) - Performance Modeling of Multicast with Network Coding in Multi-Channel Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
Hoang Lan Nguyen (York University, Canada); Uyen Trang Nguyen (York University, Canada)
13.30 - 15.00: Session 4 - Routing and Information Spreading in Wireless
Networks
(session chair: Andreas Reinhardt, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
- ECTX: A High-Throughput Path Metric for Multi-Hop Wireless Routing Exploiting MAC-Layer Cooperative Retransmission
Bipul Sen (University of New South Wales, Australia); Jun Guo (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Xin Zhao (The University of New South Wales, Australia); Sanjay Jha (University of NSW, Australia) - On the Cost/Delay Tradeoff of Wireless Delay Tolerant Geographic Routing
Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece); Christos K. Tsiaras (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Stavros Toumpis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) - Curve-based Planar Graph Routing with Guaranteed Delivery in Multihop Wireless Networks
Hannes Frey (University of Paderborn, Germany); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Adrian Loch (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) - An Analysis of the Information Spreading Delay in Heterogeneous Mobility DTNs
Andreea M Picu (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (EURECOM, France); Theus Hossmann (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
15.00 - 15.30: Coffee Break
15.30 - 17.00: Panel
- Topic: Challenges and Emerging Techniques for Efficient M2M Data Transport over Wireless Mobile NetworksModerator: Dilip Krishnaswamy (Qualcomm)
Wednesday, June 27
9.00 - 10.00: Keynote talk II
- Title: Mobile Advertising, Data and Networks Speaker: Ravi Jain (Google, Inc.)
10.00 - 10.30: Coffee Break
10.30 - 12.00: Session 5 - Mobile, Wireless and Multimedia Applications
(session chair: Patrick Tague, Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- Efficient Channel Selection Using Hierarchical Clustering
Hyoungshick Kim (University of British Columbia, United Kingdom); Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Fernando Ramos (University of Lisbon, Portugal) - To Cloud or Not to Cloud: A Mobile Device Perspective on Energy Consumption of Applications
Vinod Namboodiri (Wichita State University, USA); Toolika Ghose (Wichita State University, USA) - PRICE: PRivacy preserving Incentives for Cooperation Enforcement
Leucio Antonio Cutillo (EURECOM, France); Refik Molva (Insitut Eurecom, France); Melek Önen (EURECOM, France) - Enhancing the performance of safety applications in IEEE 802.11p/WAVE Vehicular Networks
Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy); Ali J. Ghandour (American University of Beirut, Lebanon); Hassan A. Artail (American University of Beirut, Lebanon); Luciano Bononi (University of Bologna, Italy)
10.30 - 12.00: Session 6 - Performance Evaluation and Models of Radio Systems
(session chair: Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy)
- Non-equilibrium Information Envelopes and the Capacity-Delay-Error-Tradeoff of Source Coding
Lübben Ralf (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany); Markus H Fidler (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany) - Long-term Indoor Propagation Models for Radio Resource Management
Zaheer Abbas (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Jad Nasreddine (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Janne Riihijärvi (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) - Experimental Evaluation of Measurement-based SINR Interference Models
Wee Lum Tan (National ICT Australia, Australia); Peizhao Hu (National ICT Australia, Australia); Marius Portmann (University of Queensland, Australia) - Edge-prioritized Channel- and Traffic-aware Uplink Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced Systems
Rajarajan Sivaraj (University of California, Davis, USA); Amit Pande (University of California Davis, CA, USA); Kai Zeng (University of Michigan - Dearborn, USA); Kannan Govindan (University of California Davis, USA); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)
12.00 - 13.30: Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00: Demo and WiP Session
Work-in-Progress Papers
- Energy-efficient Wireless Resource Sharing for Federated Residential Networks
Claudio Rossi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Claudio E. Casetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) - Opportunistic User Scheduling with normalized CQI in Heterogeneous Channel Environments
Gil-Su Heo (Seoul National University, Korea); Jeong Soo Park (Seoul National University, Korea); Yong-suk Byun (Seoul National University, Korea); Yong-Hwan Lee (Seoul National University, Korea) - Lego-like Middleware for Heterogeneous Sensor and Actuator Networks
José Cecílio (University of Coimbra / CISUC, Portugal); Pedro N. Furtado (UniversityCoimbra / CISUC, Portugal) - An Energy-Efficient Relay Selection Strategy Based on Optimal Relay Location for AF Cooperative Transmission
Zhenzhou Tang (Wenzhou University, P.R. China); Hongyu Wang (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China); Qian Hu (Wenzhou University, P.R. China) - Impact of Multi-path Routing on TCP Performance
Jonas Karlsson (Karlstad University, Sweden); Per Hurtig (Karlstad University, Sweden); Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University, Sweden); Andreas J. Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden); Giovanni Di Stasi (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy) - Power Loading: Candidate for Future WLANs?
Oscar Puñal (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); James Gross (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) - User-Satisfaction Based Resource Allocation for GEO Satellites
Charalabos Stamos (Technical University of Crete, Greece); Dimitra Vasileiadou (Technical University of Crete, Greece); Georgia Koutsandria (Technical University of Crete, Greece); Irene Spanou (Technical University of Crete, Greece); Aikaterini Vlachaki (TUC, Greece); Aggelos Lazaris (University of Southern California, USA); Polychronis Koutsakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece) - User-profiled Platform with Advanced Navigation Support
Salvatore Vanini (University of Applied Science - SUPSI, Switzerland); Claudio Di Giacinto (SUPSI, Switzerland); Dario Gallucci (University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland); Tiziano Leidi (SUPSI, Switzerland); Silvia Giordano (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland); Piergiorgio Cremonese (ASH, Italy)
Demos
- Offloading cellular networks with Information-Centric Networking: the case of video streaming
Andrea Detti (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Stefano Salsano (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Nicola Blefari Melazzi (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Matteo Pomposini (University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy); Andrea Bragagnini (Telecom Italia, Italy) - ETSI M2M Release 1 Demonstration
Claudio Cicconetti (Intecs S.p.A., Italy); Novella Buonaccorsi (Italy, Italy); Raffaella Mambrini (Intecs S.p.A., Italy); Paul Russell (InterDigital, USA); Nick Podias (Interdigital, USA) - S-SPAN: Secure Smart Posters in Android using NFC
Jason C Wu (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Lin Qi (CMU, USA); Nishant Kumar (CMU, USA); Ram Shankar Siva Kumar (CMU, USA); Patrick Tague (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Hierarchical routing management for improving multimedia transmissions and QoE
Thomas Volkert (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany); Andreas Mitschele-Thiel (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany) - On Developing Interest-centric Applications for Ad hoc Networks
Héberte F Moraes (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Renato de Castro Dutra (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Claudio L Amorim (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Nelson R. Perez Benitez (UFRJ, Brazil) - The OpenMTC Framework - M2M Solutions for Smart Cities and the Internet of Things
Sebastian Wahle (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany); Thomas Magedanz (Fraunhofer FOKUS / TU Berlin, Germany); Frank Schulze (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany) - Improved Timing Carrier Synchronizer and Error controller for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
Meng Zhang (Southeast University, P.R. China); Weifeng Sun (Southeast University, P.R. China); Youchao Dong (Southeast University, P.R. China) - E-SAVE: Saving Energy by Smart Services
Swati Soni (University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA); Yugyung Lee (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA) - Demonstrating Distributed Transmit Beamforming with Software-defined Radios
Francois Quitin (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Upamanyu Madhow (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman (University of Iowa, USA); Raghuraman Mudumbai (University of Iowa, USA)
15.00 - 15.30: Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00: PhD Forum
- AP Buffer Sizing in IEEE 802.11 WLANs
Naeem Khademi (University of Oslo, Norway) - Pairwise Post Deployment Key Management Scheme for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Kanwalinderjit Kaur Gagneja (North Dakota State University, USA) - Exploiting an Elastic 2-Tiered Cloud Architecture for Rich Mobile Applications
M. Reza Rahimi (University of California, Irvine, USA) - A Pragmatic Node based DTN Performance Modeling
Veeramani Mahendran (Indian Institute of Technology, India) - Resource Management and Task Allocation in Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks
Neda Edalat (Natinal University of Singapore, Singapore)
18.00 - 22.00: Conference Banquet
- 18.00 - 19.00: Boat Tour in SF Bay
- 19.00 - 22.00: Dinner at Fog Harbor Fish House
Thursday, June 28
8.30 - 10.00: Session 7 - Evaluation and Enhancements in Wireless LAN
(session chair: Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea)
- Exploiting the Capture Effect to Improve WLAN Throughput
Paul Patras (Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Ireland); Hanghang Qi (Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Ireland); David Malone (Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Ireland) - Collision-Free Medium Access Based on Traffic Forecasting
Vladislav Petkov (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Katia Obraczka (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) - Analysis of the Early Flow Discard (EFD) Discipline in 802.11 Wireless LANs
Jinbang Chen (Eurecom, France); Martin Heusse (Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, France); Guillaume Urvoy-Keller (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France) - Experimental Evaluation of TCP Performance in Multi-rate 802.11 WLANs
Naeem Khademi (University of Oslo, Norway); Michael Welzl (University of Oslo, Norway); Stein Gjessing (University of Oslo and Simula Research Lab., Norway)
8.30 - 10.000: Session 8: Experimental Evaluation and Deployments of Wireless
Systems
(session chair: Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden)
- CRAWLER: An Experimentation Platform for System Monitoring and Cross-Layer-Coordination
Ismet Aktas (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Florian Schmidt (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Muhammad Hamad Alizai (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Tobias Drüner (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) - Hermes: A Versatile Platform for Wireless Embedded Systems
André Miguel Rodrigues (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Miguel Silva (PDM&FC, Portugal); Tiago Andre Camilo (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Nelson Blanco (PDM&FC, Portugal); José G Pedro (PDM&FC, Portugal); João Martins (PDM&FC, Portugal); Jorge Sá Silva (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Fernando Boavida (University of Coimbra, Portugal) - FLEXOR: User Friendly Wireless Sensor Network Development and Deployment
Anna Förster (SUPSI, Switzerland); Kamini Garg (SUPSI, Switzerland); Daniele Puccinelli (University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland); Silvia Giordano (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland) - Improving Packet Reception Rate for Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks
Navid Pustchi (University of Texas San Antonio, USA); Turgay Korkmaz (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
10.00 - 10.30: Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.45: Short Papers Session I
(session chair: Paul Patras, Hamilton Institute, Ireland)
- Distributed Optimization of Contention Windows in 802.11e MAC to Provide QoS Differentiation and Maximize Channel Utilization
Budhaditya Deb (GE Global Research, USA); Michael Hartman (GE Research, USA) - Measurement-Based Interference Modeling Using Channel Occupancy in Wireless Mesh Networks
Felix Juraschek (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany); Mesut Guenes (Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany); Bastian Blywis (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) - DBLA: Distributed Block Learning Algorithm for Channel Selection in Cognitive Radio Networks
Chowdhury Hyder (MSU, Bangladesh); Li Xiao (Michigan State University, USA)
10.30 - 11.45: Short Papers Session II
(session chair: Marco di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy)
- Reliable Data Collection from Mobile Users with High Data Rates in Wireless Sensor Networks
Lin Guo (Colorado School of Mines, USA); Qi Han (Colorado School of Mines, USA) - A Case for MANET-Aware Content Centric Networking of Smartphones
Praveen Sharma (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Daniel Souza (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Evan Fiore (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Jeffrey Gottschalk (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); D. Marquis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory, USA) - Range-free Passive Localization Using Static and Mobile Sensors
Anindya Iqbal (Monash University, Australia); Manzur Murshed (Monash University, Australia) - Scalable Architecture for Multimedia Multicast Internet Applications
Tatiana Polishchuk (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Finland); Michael Karl (Saarland University, Germany); Thorsten Herfet (Saarland University, Germany); Andrei Gurtov (University of Oulu, Finland)
11.45 - 12.15: Closing Remarks





