Tuesday, April 25, 2006         14:30 - 16:00               Tuesday, April 25, 2006         14:30 - 16:00

   

Session 01: Ad hoc mobile networks I                         Session 03: Routing I

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Luigi Fratta (Politecnico di Milano, IT)                                          Sue Moon (KAIST, KR)

    Path Selection in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and Distribution           Using Repeated Games to Design Incentive-Based Routing

      of Path Duration                                                                      Systems

      Yijie Han (University of Maryland, College Park, US); Richard La                 Michael Afergan (MIT CSAIL/Akamai, US)

      (University of Maryland, US); Hongqiang Zhang (University of

      Maryland, College Park, US)

      Efficient Flooding Scheme Based on 1-hop Knowledge in               A Stochastic Random-Races Algorithm for Routing in MPLS

      Mobile Ad Hoc Networks                                                           Traffic Engineering

      Liu Hai (City University of Hong Kong, HK); Xiaohua Jia (City Univ. of           John Oommen (Carleton University, CA); Sudip Misra (Carleton

      Hong Kong, HK); Xinxin Liu (City University of Hong Kong, HK);                  University, CA); Ole-Christoffer Granmo (Agder University College,

      Frances Yao (City University of Hong Kong, HK)                                    NO)

      The Complexity of Connectivity in Wireless Networks                   Maximum Throughput Routing of Traffic in the Hose Model

      Thomas Moscibroda (ETH Zurich, CH); Roger Wattenhofer (ETH                 M. Kodialam (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); T. V. Lakshman

      Zurich, CH)                                                                               (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Sudipta Sengupta (MIT, US)

      A Framework for Distributed Spatio-Temporal                            Approximation Algorithms for Survivable Multi-commodity

      Communications in Mobile Ad hoc Networks                                Flow Problems with Applications to Network Design

      Gentian Jakllari (University of California,Riverside, US); Srikanth                Ajay Todimala (University of Nebraska, US); Byrav Ramamurthy

      Krishnamurthy (University of California, Riverside, US); Michalis                 (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US)

      Faloutsos (University of California Riverside, US); Prashant

      Krishnamurthy (University of Pittsburgh, US); Ozgur Ercetin (Sabanci

      University, TR)

    Tuesday, April 25, 2006         14:30 - 16:00               Tuesday, April 25, 2006         14:30 - 16:00

   

Session 02: Power control I                                            Session 04: Viruses and worms

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Matthew Andrews (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US)                  Christos Papadopoulos (University of Southern California, US)

      On the Performance of Joint Rate/Power Control with                  A Quasi-species Approach for Modeling the Dynamics of

      Adaptive Modulation in Wireless CDMA Networks                        Polymorphic Worms

      Alaa Muqattash (University of Arizona, US); Tao Shu (University of             Bradley Stephenson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Biplab

      Arizona, US); Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, US)                          Sikdar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US)

      Minimum-Energy Broadcast Using Practical Directional                Efficient quarantining of scanning worms: optimal detection

      Antennas in All-Wireless Networks                                            and coordination

      Sabyasachi Roy (Purdue University, US); Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue                 Ayalvadi Ganesh (Microsoft Research, UK); Dinan Gunawardena

      University, US); Dimitrios Peroulis (Purdue University, US); Xiang-               (Microsoft Research, UK); Peter Key (Microsoft Research, UK);

      Yang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, US)                                        Laurent Massouli (Microsoft Research, UK); Jacob Scott (UC Berkeley,

                                                                                                   US)

      A Network Coding Approach to Energy Efficient                            Design and Evaluation of a Fast and Robust Worm

      Broadcasting: from Theory to Practice                                       Detection Algorithm

      Christina Fragouli (EPFL, CH); Joerg Widmar (DoCoMo Euro-Labs,               Tian Bu (Bell labs, Lucent, US); Aiyou Chen (Bell Labs, US); Scott

      DE); Jean-Yves Le Boudec (EPFL, CH)                                               Vander Wiel (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US; Los Alamos National

                                                                                                  Laboratory, US); Thomas Woo (Lucent Bell Labs, US)

      Optimal Traffic-Oblivious Energy-Aware Routing For                    Epidemiological Modeling of Peer-to-Peer Viruses and

      Multihop Wireless Networks                                                      Pollution

      Yuxi Li (University of Alberta, CA); Janelle Harms (University of                 Richard Thommes (McGill University, CA); Mark Coates (McGill

      Alberta, CA); Robert Holte (University of Alberta, CA)                            University, CA)

    Tuesday, April 25, 2006         14:30 - 16:00               Tuesday, April 25, 2006         14:30 - 16:00

 

    Session 05: Congestion control I                              Session 07: Pricing & billing

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Lars Eggert (NEC Europe Ltd. Network Laboratories, DE)               Jörn Altmann (International University in Germany, DE)

      Dual-resource TCP/AQM for processing-constrained                    Network Utility Maximization and Price-Based Distributed

                                                                                                  Algorithms for Rate-Reliability Tradeoff

      Minsu Shin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology               Jang-Won Lee (Yonsei University, KR); Mung Chiang (Princeton

      (KAIST), KR); Song Chong (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and           University, US); A. Robert Calderbank (Princeton University, US)

      Technology (KAIST), KR); Injong Rhee (North Carolina State

      University, US)

      TCP as an Implementation of Age-Based Scheduling:                   Loss-cognizant Pricing in feed-forward Networks with

      Fairness and Performance                                                        Greedy Users

      Arzad Kherani (INRIA, FR); Rudesindo Nunez-Queija (CWI, NL)                 Ashraf Al Daoud (Boston University, US); Murat Alanyali (Boston

                                                                                                  University, US)

      Parallel TCP Sockets: Simple Model, Throughput and                    An Optimal Dynamic Pricing Framework for Autonomous

      Validation                                                                               Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

      Eitan Altman (INRIA, FR); Dhiman Barman (INRIA, FR); Bruno Tuffin           Zhu Ji (University of Maryland, College Park, US); Wei Yu (University

      (IRISA, FR); Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft Research, UK)                             of Maryland, US); K.J. Ray Liu (University of Maryland, US)

      Oscillations with TCP-like Flow Control in Networks of Queues        Price Competition in Communication Networks

      Matthew Andrews (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Aleksandrs            Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US);

      Slivkins (Cornell University, US)                                                       Asuman Ozdaglar (Massashusetts Institute of Technology, US)

    Tuesday, April 25, 2006         14:30 - 16:00               Tuesday, April 25, 2006         16:30 - 18:00

 

    Session 06: Optical networks I                                   Session 08: Sensor networks I

    Session Chair:                                                                  Session Chair:

     Xavier Masip-Bruin (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES)          Jeremy Elson (Microsoft, US)

      Multistage Constructions of Linear Compressors, Non-                 Achieving Repeatability of Asynchronous Events in

      overtaking Delay Lines, and Flexible Delay Lines                         Wireless Sensor Networks with EnviroLog

      Cheng-Shang Chang (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Yi-Ting               Liqian Luo (University of Virginia, US); Tian He (University of Virginia,

      Chen (National Tsing Hua University, R.O.C, TW); Jay Cheng                   US); Gang Zhou (University of Virginia, US); Lin Gu (University of

      (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Duan-Shin Lee (National Tsing             Virginia, US); John Stankovic (University of Virginia, US); Tarek

      Hua University, TW)                                                                    Abdelzaher (University of Virginia, US)

      On the Capacity of Optical Networks: A Framework for                  Landmark-Based Information Storage and Retrieval in

      Comparing Different Transport Architectures                             Sensor Networks

      Guy Weichenberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US);                Qing Fang (Stanford University, US); Jie Gao (Stony Brook University,

      Vincent Chan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Muriel               US); Leonidas Guibas (Stanford University, US)

      Medard (MIT, US)

      Power-Law Tradeoffs Between Optical and Electronic                   Achieving Long-Term Surveillance in VigilNet

      Switching

      Huan Liu (Stanford University, US); Benjamin Chen (Stanford                    Tian He (University of Virginia, US); Pascal Vicaire (University of

      University, US); Fouad Tobagi (Stanford University, US)                          Virginia, US); Ting Yan (University of Virginia, US); Qing Cao

                                                                                                  (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US); Gang Zhou (University

                                                                                                  of Virginia, US); Lin Gu (University of Virginia, US);

      Packet Pacing in Short Buffer Optical Packet Switched                  Optimal Distributed Detection in Clustered Wireless Sensor

      Networks                                                                               Networks: The Weighted Median

      Vijay Sivaraman (University of New South Wales, AU); Hossam                  Qingjiang Tian (Purdue University, US); Edward Coyle (Purdue

      Elgindy (University of New South Wales, AU); David Moreland                   University, US)

      (CSIRO, AU); Diethelm Ostry (CSIRO, AU)

    Tuesday, April 25, 2006         16:30 - 18:00               Tuesday, April 25, 2006         16:30 - 18:00

 

    Session 09: Smart antennas and MAC                     Session 11: DDoS and Packet Filtering

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, US)                                    Peter Reiher (University of California at Los Angeles, US)

      Simple Directional Antennas: Improving Performance in               Identification of Repeated Denial of Service Attacks

      Wireless Multihop Networks

      Kok-Kiong Yap (National University of Singapore, SG); Wai-Leong               Alefiya Hussain (University of Southern California/Information

      Yeow (National University of Singapore, SG); Mehul Motani (National           Sciences Institute, US); John Heidemann (University of Southern

      University of Singapore, SG); Chen-Khong Tham (National University           California/Information Sciences Institute, US); Christos Papadopoulos

      of Singapore, SG)                                                                       (University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute, US)

      Physical Carrier Sensing and Spatial Reuse in Multirate and          DDoS-Resilient Scheduling to Counter Application Layer

      Multihop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks                                           Attacks under Imperfect Detection

      Hongqiang Zhai (University of Florida, US); Yuguang Fang (University          Supranamaya Ranjan (Narus, Inc., US); Ram Swaminathan (HP Labs,

      of Florida, US)                                                                           US); Mustafa Uysal (HP Labs, US); Edward W. Knightly (Rice

                                                                                                  University, US)

      Modeling Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Directional                    Constructing Inter-Domain Packet Filters to Control IP

                                                                                                  Spoofing Based on BGP Updates

      Marcelo Carvalho (University of California Santa Cruz, US); J.J.                 Zhenhai Duan (Florida State University, US); Xin Yuan (Florida State

      Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz, US; Palo           University, US); Jaideep Chandrashekar (University of Minnesota,

      Alto Research Center, US)                                                             US)

      Collaboration Improves the Connectivity of Wireless                   Adaptive Statistical Optimization Techniques for Firewall

                                                                                                  Packet Filtering

      Sanquan Song (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Dennis            Hazem Hamed (DePaul University, US); Adel El-Atawy (DePaul

      Goeckel (University of Massachusetts, US); Don Towsley (University           University, US); Ehab Al-Shaer (DePaul University, US)

      of Massachusetts at Amherst, US)

    Tuesday, April 25, 2006         16:30 - 18:00               Tuesday, April 25, 2006         16:30 - 18:00

   

Session 10: BGP and inter-domain issues                 Session 12: Replication

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Daniel Massey (Colorado State University, US)                             Pablo Rodriguez (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)

      How to Construct a Correct and Scalable iBGP Configuration         Analysis of Long-Running Replicated Systems

      Mythili Vutukuru (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Paul             Narayanan Sriram (University of California, San Diego, US); Joseph

      Valiant (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Swastik                    Pasquale (University of California, San Diego, US)

      Kopparty (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Hari

      Balakrishnan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)

      iREX: Inter-domain Resource Exchange Architecture                   Mistreatment in Distributed Caching Groups: Causes and

                                                                                                  Implications

      Ariffin Datuk Yahaya (University of California, Irvine, US); Tatsuya             Nikolaos Laoutaris (Boston University, US); Georgios Smaragdakis

      Suda (University of California, Irvine, US)                                           (Boston University, US); Azer Bestavros (Boston University, US);

                                                                                                  Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens, GR)

      Avoiding Oscillations due to Intelligent Route Control                  Proportional Replication in Peer-to-Peer Networks

      Ruomei Gao (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Constantinos               Saurabh Tewari (University of California at Los Angeles, US); Leonard

      Dovrolis (Georgia Tech, US); Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of                   Kleinrock (University of California, Los Angeles, US)

      Technology, US)

      Towards a Unified Theory of Policy-Based Routing                       Optimizing Caching Policy for Loss Recovery in Reliable

                                                                                                  Multicast

      Chi-kin Chau (University of Cambridge, UK); Richard Gibbens                    Feng Xie (Nanyang Technological University, SG); Gang Feng

      (Computing Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK); Tim Griffin               (Nanyang Technological University, SG); Xun Yang (Nanyang

      (University of Cambridge, UK)                                                         Technological University, SG)

    Tuesday, April 25, 2006         16:30 - 18:00               Wednesday, April 26, 2006   09:00 - 11:00

 

    Session 13: Scheduling & buffer                               Session 15: Ad hoc mobile networks II

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Zdzislaw Papir (AGH University of Science and Technology, PL)      Fernando Boavida (Coimbra University, PT)

      Scheduling in Non-Blocking Three-Stage Switching Fabrics            Cross-Layer Congestion Control Routing and Scheduling

                                                                                                  Design in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

      Nikolaos Chrysos (FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, GR); Manolis            Lijun Chen (California Institute of Technology, US); Steven Low

      Katevenis (FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, GR)                              (California Institute of Technology, US); Mung Chiang (Princeton

                                                                                                  University, US); John Doyle (California Institute of Technology, US)

      Strong Performance Guarantees for Asynchronous                     Optimal Hopping in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

      Crossbar Schedulers

      Jonathan Turner (Washington University in St. Louis, US)                        Abbas El Gamal (Stanford University, US); James Mammen (Stanford

                                                                                                  University, US)

      DS-PPS: A Practical Framework to Guarantee Differentiated         Delay and Capacity Trade-offs in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A

       QoS in Terabit Routers with Parallel Packet Switch                      Global Perspective

      Lei Shi (Tsinghua University, CN); Bin Liu (Tsinghua University, CN);            Gaurav Sharma (Purdue University, US); Ravi Mazumdar (University

      Wenjie Li (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, CN); Beibei Wu             of Waterloo,CA); Ness Shroff (Purdue University, US)

      (University of Tsinghua, CN); Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University, HK)

      A Scalable Priority Queue Architecture for High Speed                  Generalized Proportional Fair Scheduling in Third

      Network Processing                                                                 Generation Wireless Data Networks

      Xiaotong Zhuang (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Santosh               Tian Bu (Bell labs, Lucent, US); Li Li (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies,

      Pande (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)                                       US); Ramachandran Ramjee (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US)

    Tuesday, April 25, 2006         16:30 - 18:00               Wednesday, April 26, 2006   09:00 - 11:00

 

    Session 14: Service overlays                                      Session 16: Power control II

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Michel Diaz (LAAS-CNRS, FR)                                                   Lavy Libman (National ICT Australia, AU)

      Repeated-Game Modeling of Multicast Overlays                         On the Trade-off between Energy and Multicast Efficiency in

                                                                                                   802.16e-like Mobile Networks

      Michael Afergan (MIT CSAIL/Akamai, US); Rahul Sami (MIT                       Reuven Cohen (Technion, IL); Romeo Rizzi (University of Trento, IT)

      CSAIL/Akamai, US)

      Dynamic Topology Configuration in Service Overlay                     Optimal Transmission Scheduling for Energy-efficient

      Networks: A Study of Reconfiguration Policies                             Wireless Networks

      Jinliang Fan (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Mostafa Ammar             Lei Miao (Boston University, US); Christos Cassandras (Boston

      (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)                                                University, US)

      Considering Priority in Overlay Multicast Protocols Under             Throughput Scaling of Wideband Sensory Relay Networks:

      Heterogeneous Environments                                                   Cooperative Relaying, Power Allocation and Achievable

      Michael Bishop (Purdue University, US); Sanjay Rao (Purdue                     Bo Wang (Arizona State Univ, US); Junshan Zhang (Arizona State

      University, US); K. Sripanidkulchai (National electronics and computer          University, US)

      Technology Center, TH )

      Scalable Clustering of Internet Paths by Shared Congestion         Extending Network Lifetime for Precision-Constrained Data

                                                                                                  Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks

      Min Kim (Washington State University, US); Taekhyun Kim (The                  Xueyan Tang (Nanyang Technological University, SG); Jianliang Xu

      University of Texas at Austin, US); Yong-June Shin (University of               (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK)

      South Carolina, US); Simon Lam (University of Texas at Austin, US);

      Edward Powers (University of Texas at Austin, US)

    Wednesday, April 26, 2006   09:00 - 11:00               Wednesday, April 26, 2006   09:00 - 11:00

 

    Session 17: Broadband access                                 Session 19: Synchronization and

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Peter Marbach (University of Toronto, CA)                                    Martín López-Nores (Universidad de Vigo, ES)

      Wireless Operators in a Shared Spectrum                                   Resequencing delays under multipath routing --

                                                                                                  Asymptotics in a simple queueing model

      Mark Felegyhazi (EPFL - Switzerland, CH); Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL,         Yijie Han (University of Maryland, College Park, US); Armand

       CH)                                                                                       Makowski (University of Maryland, US)

      Provisioning Quality Controlled Medium Access in                        Impact of Load Sharing on Provisioning Services with

      UltraWideBand-Operated WPANs                                               Consistency Requirements

      Chunyu Hu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US);                     Daniel Villela (Columbia University, US); Dan Rubenstein (Columbia

      Hwangnam Kim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US);                University, US); Vishal Misra (Columbia University, US); Sambit Sahu

      Jennifer Hou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Dennis          (IBM Research, US)

      Chi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Saishankar

      Nandagopalan (Qualcomm Inc., US)

      Fault-tolerant Wireless Access Network Design for Dual-              Network Clock Frequency Synchronization

      homed Users

      Xiaodong Huang (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Jianping Wang            Omer Gurewitz (Technion, IL); Israel Cidon (Technion, IL); Moshe Sidi

      (Georgia Southern University, US); Vinod Vokkarane (University of              (Technion, IL)

      Massachusetts Dartmouth, US); Jason Jue (University of Texas-

      Dallas, US)

      Effective Scheduling with Fairness Adaptation in Ultra                  Time Synchronization for High Latency Acoustic Networks

      Wideband Wireless Networks

      Hai Jiang (University of Waterloo, CA); Weihua Zhuang (University of         Affan Syed (USC/ISI, US); John Heidemann (USC/ISI, US)

       Waterloo, CA)

    Wednesday, April 26, 2006   09:00 - 11:00               Wednesday, April 26, 2006   09:00 - 11:00

   

Session 18: Trust, privacy and security                      Session 20: Optical networks II

    Session Chair:                                                                   Session Chair:

    Taieb Znati  (University of Pittsburgh, US)                                    Davide Careglio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES)

      A Trust Evaluation Framework in Distributed Networks:                Integrated Intermediate Waveband and Wavelength

      Vulnerability Analysis and Defense against Attacks                     Switching for Optical WDM Mesh Networks

      Yan Sun (University of Rhode Island, US); Zhu Han (University of               Mengke Li (Microsoft, US); Byrav Ramamurthy (University of

      Maryland, College Park, US); Wei Yu (University of Maryland, US);              Nebraska-Lincoln, US)

      K.J. Ray Liu (University of Maryland, US)

      Session Privacy Enhancement by Traffic Dispersion                     Time-domain Wavelength Interleaved Networking with

                                                                                                  Wavelength Reuse

      Haim Zlatokrilov (Tel Aviv University, IL); Hanoch Levy (Tel Aviv                 Indra Widjaja (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Carl Nuzman (Bell

      University, IL)                                                                            Laboratories, US)

      Trust Evaluation in Anarchy: A Case Study on Autonomous           Complexity of Wavelength Assignment in Optical Network

      Networks                                                                               Optimization

      Tao Jiang (University of Maryland, College Park, US); John S. Baras            Matthew Andrews (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Lisa Zhang

      (University of Maryland College Park, US)                                           (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US)

      Network Protocol System Fingerprinting - A Formal                     Cooperative Data-Optical Inter-Networking: Distributed

                                                                                                  Multi-Layer Optimization

      Guoqiang Shu (Ohio State University, US); David Lee (The Ohio State          Anwar Elwalid (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Mitra Debasis

      University, US)                                                                           (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Qiong Wang (Bell Labs, Lucent

                                                                                                  Technologies, US)

    Wednesday, April 26, 2006   09:00 - 11:00               Wednesday, April 26, 2006   11:30 - 13:00

 

    Session 21: Broadcast                                                 Session 23: Wireless capacity planning

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Robin Kravets (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)      Li Li (Bell Labs Lucent Technologies, US)

      Optimized Stateless Broadcasting in Wireless Multi-hop               Adaptive CSMA for Scalable Network Capacity in High-

      Networks                                                                               Density WLAN: a Hardware Prototyping Approach

      Marc Heissenbuettel (University of Bern, CH); Torsten Braun                    Jing Zhu (Intel, US); Benjamin Metzler (Intel Corp., US); York Liu

      (University of Bern, CH); Markus Waelchli (University of Bern, CH);             (Intel Corp., US); Xingang Guo (Intel Corp., US)

      Thomas Bernoulli (University of Bern, CH)

      Controlled Flooding Search with Delay Constraints                       Capacity of Wireless Data Networks with Intra- and Inter-

                                                                                                  Cell Mobility

      Nicholas Chang (University of Michigan, US); Mingyan Liu (University           Sem Borst (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US; CWI, NL; Eindhoven

      of Michigan, US)                                                                         University of Technology, NL); Alexandre Proutiere (France Telecom

                                                                                                  R&D, FR); Nidhi Hegde (France Telecom R & D, FR)

      Information Dissemination in Power-constrained Wireless            Scheduling Efficency of Distributed Greedy Scheduling

      Networks                                                                               Algorithms in Wireless Networks

      Rong Zheng (University of Houston, US)                                            Xinzhou Wu (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US); R. Srikant

                                                                                                  (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)

      Broadcasting in Sensor Networks: The Role of Local                     Interference-Aware Channel Assignment in Multi-Radio

      Information                                                                            Wireless Mesh Networks

      Sundar Subramanian (University ot Texas at Austin, US); Sanjay                Krishna Ramachandran (University of California, Santa Barbara, US);

      Shakkottai (University of Texas at Austin, US); Ari Arapostathis                 Elizabeth Belding-Royer (University of California Santa Barbara, US);

      (University of Texas at Austin, US)                                                   Kevin Almeroth (University of California at Santa Barbara, US); Milind

                                                                                                  Buddhikot (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US)

    Wednesday, April 26, 2006   11:30 - 13:00               Wednesday, April 26, 2006   11:30 - 13:00

   

Session 22: Mobility models & systems                      Session 24: Overlay routing

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Lars Wolf (TU Braunschweig, IBR, DE)                                         Caterina Scoglio (Kansas State University, US)

      Impact of Mobility on the Performance of Relaying in Ad              Placing Relay Nodes for Intra-Domain Path Diversity

      Hoc Networks

      Ahmad Al Hanbali (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, FR); Arzad Kherani                   Meeyoung Cha (KAIST, KR); Sue Moon (KAIST, KR); Chong-Dae Park

      (INRIA, IN); Robin Groenevelt (INRIA,FR); Philippe Nain (INRIA,                (KAIST, KR); Aman Shaikh (AT&T Labs - Research, US)

      Sophia Antipolis, FR); Eitan Altman (INRIA, FR)

      Predictability of WLAN Mobility and its Effects on Bandwidth         How to Select a Good Alternate Path in Large Peer-to-Peer

       Provisioning                                                                           Systems?

      Libo Song (Dartmouth College, US); Udayan Deshpande (Dartmouth            Teng Fei (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US); Shu Tao (IBM T.

      College, US); Ulas Kozat (DoCoMo-Labs USA, TR); David Kotz                    J. Watson Research Center, US); Lixin Gao (University of

      (Dartmouth College, US); Ravi Jain (NTT DoCoMo USA Labs, US)                Massachusetts at Amherst, US); Roch Guerin (University of

                                                                                                  Pennsylvania, US)

      Impact of Human Mobility on the Design of Opportunistic             On Heterogeneous Overlay Construction and Random Node

      Forwarding Algorithms                                                             Selection in Unstructured P2P Networks

      Augustin Chaintreau (Thompson Research, FR); Pan Hui (Cambridge           Vivek Vishnumurthy (Cornell University, US); Paul Francis (Cornell

      University, UK); Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK);                   University, US)

      Christophe Diot (Thompson Research, FR); Richard Gass (Intel

      Research Cambridge, UK); James Scott (Intel Research Cambridge,

      UK)

      Extracting a mobility model from real user traces                       A Versatile Scheme for Routing Highly Variable Traffic in

                                                                                                  Service Overlays and IP Backbones

      Minkyong Kim (Dartmouth College, US); David Kotz (Dartmouth                  M. Kodialam (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US; MIT, US); T. V.

      College, US); Songkuk Kim (Xerox Corporation, US)                                Lakshman (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US; MIT, US); James Orlin

                                                                                                  (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US; MIT, US); Sudipta Sengupta (Bell

                                                                                                   Labs, Lucent Technologies, US; MIT, US)

    Wednesday, April 26, 2006   11:30 - 13:00               Wednesday, April 26, 2006   14:30 - 16:00

 

    Session 25: Network simulations and                      Session 27: Sensor networks II

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Serge Frida (University Pierre & Marie Curie, FR)                           Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong  University of Science and Technolgy,

      Mobile emulab: A Robotic Wireless and Sensor Network             HK)

                                                                                                  Non-Interactive Location Surveying for Sensor Networks

                                                                                                  with Mobility-Differentiated ToA

      David Johnson (University of Utah, US); Tim Stack (University of

      Utah, US); Russ Fish (University of Utah, US); Daniel Flickinger                  Jun Luo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), CH); Hersh

      (University of Utah, US); Leigh Stoller (University of Utah, US);                 Shukla (EPFL, CH); Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL, CH)

      Robert Ricci (University of Utah, US); Jay Lepreau (University of

      Utah, US)

      TWINE: A Hybrid Emulation Testbed for Wireless Networks

      and Applications                                                                      Distributed Navigation Algorithms for Sensor Networks

      Junlan Zhou (UCLA, US); Zhengrong Ji (UCLA, US); Rajive Bagrodia

      (UCLA, US)                                                                               Chiranjeeb Buragohain (University of California, Santa Barbara, US);

                                                                                                  Divyakant Agrawal (University of California, Santa Barbara, US);

                                                                                                  Subhash Suri (University of California at Santa Barbara, US)

      SIMPLE: using Swarm Intelligence Methodology to design

      Data Acquisition Protocol in Sensor Networks with Mobile             On the Potential of Structure-free Data Aggregation in

      Sinks                                                                                     Sensor Networks

      Hua Yang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Fengji Ye

      (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Biplab Sikdar (Rensselaer                Kaiwei Fan (Ohio State University, US); Sha Liu (Ohio State

      Polytechnic Institute, US)                                                              University, US); Prasun Sinha (Ohio State University, US)

      Accelerating Simulation of Large-Scale IP Networks: A

      Network Invariant Preserving Approach                                     Efficiency Centric Communication Model for Wireless

                                                                                                  Sensor Networks

      Hwangnam Kim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Hyuk

       Lim (University of Illinois, US); Jennifer Hou (University of Illinois at            Qing Cao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US); Tian He

      Urbana-Champaign, US)                                                                (University of Virginia, US); Lei Fang (University of Virginia, US);

                                                                                                  Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Virginia, US); John Stankovic

                                                                                                  (University of Virginia, US); Sang Son (University of Virginia, US)

    Wednesday, April 26, 2006   11:30 - 13:00

 

    Session 26: Congestion control II                             Wednesday, April 26, 2006   14:30 - 16:00

    Session Chair:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Session 28: Wireless access issues

    Sergey Gorinsky (Washington University in St. Louis, US)               Session Chair:

      Flow Control over Wireless Network and Application Layer                                                                                                                                                                                               Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

      Implementation                                                                      Modeling Per-flow Throughput and Capturing Starvation In

                                                                                                  CSMA Multi-hop Wireless Networks

      Minghua Chen (University of California at Berkeley, US); Avideh

      Zakhor (University of California at Berkeley, US)                                   Michele Garetto (Rice University, US); Theodoros Salonidis (Rice

                                                                                                  University, US); Edward W. Knightly (Rice University, US)

    JetMax: Scalable Maxmin Congestion Control for High-

      Speed Heterogeneous Networks                                               A Client-driven Approach for Channel Management in

                                                                                                  Wireless LANs

      Yueping Zhang (Texas A&M University, US); Derek Leonard (Texas

      A&M University, US); Dmitri Loguinov (Texas A&M University, US)              Arunesh Mishra (University of Maryland, US); Vladimir Brik (University

                                                                                                  of Wisconsin, Madison, US); Suman Banerjee (University of

                                                                                                  Wisconsin, US); Aravind Srinivasan (University of Maryland, US);

                                                                                                  William Arbaugh (Univ. of Maryland, US)

      A Compound TCP Approach for High-speed and Long

      Distance Networks                                                                  Cell Breathing Techniques for Load Balancing in Wireless

      Kun Tan (Microosft Research Asia, CN); Jingmin Song (Microsoft

      Research Asia, CN); Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science              Yigal Bejerano (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Seung-Jae Han

      and Technology, HK); Murari Sridharan (Microsoft Corporation, US)            (Yonsei University, KR)

      Design and Analysis of a Self-tuning Proportional and

      Integral Controller for Active Queue Management Routers           Flow Scheduling for End-host Multihoming

      to support TCP Flows

      Xiong Xue (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, JP;

      Wuhan University, CN); Xavier Defago (Japan Advanced Institute of           Nathanael Thompson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US);

      Science and Technology, JP; Japan Science and Technology Agency,          Guanghui He (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Haiyun

      JP); Xiaohua Jia (Wuhan University, CN; City University of Hong                 Luo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)

      Kong, HK); Yan Yang (Wuhan University of Science and Technology,

      CN); Yanxiang He (Wuhan University, CN)

    Wednesday, April 26, 2006   14:30 - 16:00               Wednesday, April 26, 2006   14:30 - 16:00

   

   Session 29: Wireless routing                                       Session 31: Peer-to-Peer Networks and QoS

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Jarmo Harju (Tampere University of Technology, FI)                      Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University, US)

      Density-based vs. Proximity-based Anycast Routing for               Minimum User-perceived Interference Routing in Service

      Mobile Networks                                                                     Composition

      Vincent Lenders (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), CH);            Li Xiao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Klara

      Martin May (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), CH);                  Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)

      Bernhard Plattner (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), CH)

      Energy-Efficient Interference-Based Routing for Multi-hop           A Comparative Study of Current DNS with DHT-Based

      Wireless Networks                                                                   Alternatives

      Sungoh Kwon (Purdue University, US); Ness Shroff (Purdue                      Vasileios Pappas (University of California, Los Angeles, US); Daniel

      University, US)                                                                           Massey (Colorado State University, US); Andreas Terzis (Johns

                                                                                                  Hopkins University, US); Lixia Zhang (University of California at Los

                                                                                                  Angeles, US)

      Ad hoc routing with distributed ordered sequences                     SmartSeer: Using a DHT to Process Continuous Queries

                                                                                                  over Peer-to-Peer Networks

      Marc Mosko (Palo Alto Research Center, US); J.J. Garcia-Luna-                 Jayanthkumar Kannan (UC Berkeley, US); Beverly Yang (Google, US);

      Aceves (Palo Alto Research Center and University of California at               Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley, ICSI, US); Puneet Sharma (HP Labs,

      Santa Cruz, US)                                                                         US); Sujata Banerjee (HP Labs, US); Sujoy Basu (HP Labs, US); Sung-

                                                                                                  Ju Lee (HP Labs, US)

      Optimal Power, Throughput and Routing for Wireless Link             RandPeer: Membership Management for QoS Sensitive

      Arrays                                                                                   Peer to Peer Applications

      Francois Baccelli (INRIA-ENS, FR); Nicholas Bambos (Stanford                   Jin Liang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Klara

      University, US); Carri Chan (Stanford, US)                                          Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)

    Wednesday, April 26, 2006   14:30 - 16:00               Wednesday, April 26, 2006   14:30 - 16:00

 

    Session 30: Intrusion detection                                 Session 32: Scheduling & buffer

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Ehab Al-Shaer (Depaul University, US)                                        Dapeng Oliver Wu (Univ. of Florida, US)

      Intelligent Distribution of Intrusion Prevention Services on          Joint Asynchronous Congestion Control and Distributed

      Programmable Routers                                                            Scheduling for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks

      Andreas Hess (Technical University of Berlin, DE); Hans-Florian                  Loc Bui (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Atilla

      Geerdes (Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB),           Eryilmaz (LIDS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); R.

      DE); Roland Wessäly (Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, Berlin, DE)                         Srikant (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Xinzhou Wu

                                                                                                  (Flarion Technologies, US)

      Reverse Hashing for High-speed Network Monitoring:                  Energy Efficient Scheduling with Individual Packet Delay

      Algorithms, Evaluation, and Applications                                    Constraints

      Robert Schweller (Northwestern University, US); Zhichun Li                      Wanshi Chen (University of Southern California, US); Urbashi Mitra

      (Northwestern University, US); Yan Chen (Northwestern University,           (University of Southern California, US)

      US); Yan Gao (Northwestern University, US); Ashish Gupta

      (Northwestern University, US); Yin Zhang (University of Texas at

      Austin, US); Peter Dinda (Northwestern University, US); Ming-Yang

      Kao (Northwestern University, US); Gokhan Memik  (Northwestern

      High-Performance Pattern-Matching for Intrusion                       Buffer Scalability of Wireless Networks

      Jan Van Lunteren (IBM, CH)                                                           Predrag Jelenkovic (Columbia University, US); Petar Momcilovic

                                                                                                  (University of Michigan, US); Mark Squillante (IBM Thomas J. Watson

                                                                                                  Research Center, US)

      MIND: A Distributed Multi-Dimensional Indexing System for         Achieving Delay Guarantees in Ad Hoc Networks through

       Network Diagnosis                                                                  Dynamic Contention Window Adaptation

      Xin Li (University of Southern California, US); Fang Bian (Univeristy Of         Yaling Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, US); Robin

       Southern California, US); Hui Zhang (NEC Laboratories America, US);         Kravets (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)

       Christophe Diot (Thomson, FR); Ramesh Govindan (University of

      Southern California, US); Wei Hong (Intel Research, US); Gianluca

      Iannaccone (Intel Research, US)

    Wednesday, April 26, 2006   14:30 - 16:00               Wednesday, April 26, 2006   16:30 - 18:00

   

    Session 33: Multicast                                                    Session 35: Wireless location

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Salvatore Spadaro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES)          Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin, USA

      Design and Implementation of An Efficient Multicast                    Location Discovery using Data-Driven Statistical Error

      Support Scheme for FMIPv6                                                     Modeling

      Dong-Hee Kwon (Pohang University of Science and Technology, KR);          Jessica Feng (University of California, Los Angeles, US); Lewis Girod

      Woo-Jae Kim (POSTECH, KR); Yong-Sung Kim (Pohang University of            (University of California, Los Angeles, US); Miodrag Potkonjak

      Science and Technology, KR); Wan-Sun Im (POSTECH, KR); Young-            (University of California at Los Angeles, US)

      Joo Suh (Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH),

      KR)

      Efficient Distributed MPLS P2MP Fast Reroute                             Zero-Configuration, Robust Indoor Localization: Theory and

                                                                                                   Experimentation

      Guangzhi Li (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Dongmei Wang (AT&T Labs -         Hyuk Lim (University of Illinois, US); Lu-chuan Kung (University of

       Research, US); Robert Doverspike (AT&T Labs - Research, US)                Illinois, US); Jennifer Hou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

                                                                                                   US); Haiyun Luo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)

      Asymptotic Performance Limits of Switches with Buffered            Locating Sensors in Concave Areas

      Crossbars supporting Multicast Traffic

      Paolo Giaccone (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Emilio Leonardi (Politecnico           Chen Wang (Michigan State University, US); Li Xiao (Michigan State

      di Torino, IT)                                                                             University, US)

      Multicast Wavelength Assignment for Sparse Wavelength            Source-Assisted Direction Estimation Inside Buildings

      Conversion in WDM Networks

      Yinzhu Zhou (Nanyang Technological University, SG); Gee-Swee Poo           Kamran Sayrafian-Pour (NIST, US); Dominik Kaspar (Swiss Federal

      (Nanyang Technological University, SG)                                             Institute of Technology, SW)

    Wednesday, April 26, 2006   16:30 - 18:00               Wednesday, April 26, 2006   16:30 - 18:00

   

    Session 34: 802.11 Issues I                                         Session 36: Routing II

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Konstantina Papagiannaki (Intel Corporation, US)                         Tim Griffin (University of Cambridge, UK)

      A General Model and Analysis of Physical Layer Capture in            Bottleneck Routing Games in Communication Networks

      802.11 Networks

      Hoon Chang (Columbia University, US); Vishal Misra (Columbia                   Ron Banner (Technion, IL); Ariel Orda (Technion, IL)

      University, US); Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University, US)

      Towards Performance Modeling of IEEE 802.11 based                   Fast IP Network Recovery using Multiple Routing

      Wireless Networks: A Unified Framework and its Applications        Configurations

      Kamesh Medepalli (Stanford University, US); Fouad Tobagi (Stanford           Amund Kvalbein (Simula Research Laboratory, NO); Audun Hansen

      University, US)                                                                           (Simula Research Laboratory, NO; Telenor R&D, NO); Tarik Cicic

                                                                                                  (Simula Research Laboratory, NO); Stein Gjessing (Simula Research

                                                                                                  Laboratory, NO); Olav Lysne (Simula Research Laboratory, NO)

      Constant-Complexity Models for Wireless Channels                     MaxProp: Routing for Vehicle-Based Disruption-Tolerant

                                                                                                  Networks

      Syed Khayam (Michigan State University, US); Hayder Radha                    John Burgess (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, US); Brian Gallagher

      (Michigan State University, US)                                                       (University of Massachusetts, US); David Jensen (University of

                                                                                                  Massachusetts, US); Brian Levine (University of Massachusetts at

                                                                                                  Amherst, US)

      Learn on the Fly: Data-driven Link Estimation and Routing            On Count-to-Infinity Induced Forwarding Loops in Ethernet

      in Sensor Network Backbones                                                   Networks

      Hongwei Zhang (Ohio State University, US); Anish Arora (Ohio State           Khaled Elmeleegy (Rice University, US); Alan L. Cox (Rice University,

      University, US); Prasun Sinha (Ohio State University, US)                        US); T. S. Eugene Ng (Rice University, US)

    Wednesday, April 26, 2006   16:30 - 18:00               Wednesday, April 26, 2006   16:30 - 18:00

   

    Session 37: Attacks and defenses in                        Session 39: Switches & switching

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Shivendra Panwar, Polytechnic University, USA                                Joseph Bannister (USC/ISI, US)

      A Statistical Framework for Intrusion Detection in Ad Hoc            Optimal scheduling algorithms for input-queued switches

      Networks

      Dhanant Subhadrabandhu (University of Pennsylvania, US); Saswati           Devavrat Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Damon

      Sarkar (University of Pennsylvania, US); Farooq Anjum (Telcordia               Wischik (University College London, UK)

      Tech., US)

      Eclipse Attacks on Overlay Networks: Threats and Defenses         The Concurrent Matching Switch Architecture

      Atul Singh (Rice University, US); Tseun-Wan Ngan (Rice University,            Bill Lin (University of California, San Diego, US); Isaac Keslassy

      US); Peter Druschel (MPI-SWS, DE); Dan Wallach (Rice University,              (Technion, IL)

      US)

      The Index Poisoning Attack in P2P File Sharing Systems               Routers with Very Small Buffers

      Jian Liang (Polytechnic University, US); Naoum Naoumov (Polytechnic          Mihaela Enachescu (Stanford University, US); Yashar Ganjali

      University, US); Keith W. Ross (Polytechnic University, US)                      (Stanford University, US); Ashish Goel (Stanford University, US); Nick

                                                                                                   McKeown (Stanford University, US); Tim Roughgarden (Stanford

                                                                                                  University, US)

      Cooperative Security for Network Coding File Distribution             IPv6-oriented 4*OC768 Packet Classification Scheme with

                                                                                                  Deriving-Merging Partition and Field-Variable Encoding

                                                                                                  Algorithm

      Christos Gkantsidis (Microsoft Research, UK); Pablo Rodriguez                   Xin Zhang (University of Tsinghua, CN); Bin Liu (Tsinghua  University,

      (Microsoft Research Ltd, Cambridge, UK)                                            CN); Wei Li (Tsinghua University, CN); Xiaojun Wang (Dublin City

                                                                                                  Univ., IE)

    Wednesday, April 26, 2006   16:30 - 18:00               Wednesday, April 26, 2006   16:30 - 18:00

   

    Session 38: Topology characterization and           Session 40: Multimedia protocols

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Rui Aguiar, Universitat Aveiro, Portugal                                                 Narasimha Reddy (Texas A & M University, US)

      The Internet Dark Matter - on the Missing Links in the AS             MobiStream: Error-resilient Video Streaming in Wireless

      Connectivity Map                                                                    WANs using Virtual Channels

      Rami Cohen (Technion, IL); Danny Raz (Technion, IL)                             Rajiv Chakravorty (Unversity of Wisconsin, US); Suman Banerjee

                                                                                                  (University of Wisconsin, US); Samrat Ganguly (NEC Labs, US)

      Wealth-based Evolution Model for the Internet AS-Level              Performance of VoIP in a 802.11-based Wireless Mesh

      Topology                                                                                Network

      Xiaoming Wang (Texas A&M University, US); Dmitri Loguinov (Texas            Dragos Niculescu (NEC Labs, US); Samrat Ganguly (NEC Labs, US);

      A&M University, US)                                                                    KyungTae Kim (NEC Labs, US); Rauf Izmailov (NEC Labs, US)

      To Peer or not to Peer: Modeling the Evolution of the                   Media Streaming via TFRC: An Analytical Study of the

      Internet's AS-level Topology                                                    Impact of TFRC on User-Perceived Media Quality

      Hyunseok Chang (University of Michigan, US); Sugih Jamin (University         Lisong Xu (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US); Josh Helzer

       of Michigan, US); Walter Willinger (AT&T Labs - Research, US)                  (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US)

      Taking The Skeletons Out Of The Closets: A Simple And                On the TCP-Friendliness of VoIP Traffic

      Efficient Topology Discovery Scheme For Large Ethernet

      Yigal Bejerano (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US)                                Tian Bu (Bell labs, Lucent, US); Yong Liu (Polytechnic University, US);

                                                                                                  Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US)

    Thursday, April 27, 2006        09:00 - 11:00               Thursday, April 27, 2006        09:00 - 11:00

   

    Session 41: Wireless resource management         Session 43: Capacity planning

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, KR)                            Sebastia Sallent (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, ES)

      Resource Allocation for Multicast Services in Multicarrier             Designing Low Cost Networks with Short Routes and Low

      Wireless Communications                                                        Congestion

      Changho Suh (Samsung Electronics., KR); Jeonghoon Mo                         Van Nguyen (University of California, Davis, US); Charles Martel

      (Information and Communications University, KR)                                  (University of California, Davis, US)

      Throughput Optimization and Fair Bandwidth Allocation in            Asymptotics of Efficiency Loss in Competitive Market

      Multi-hop Wireless LANs                                                           Mechanisms

      Qunfeng Dong (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US); Suman                   Jia Yuan Yu (McGill University, CA); Shie Mannor (McGill University, CA)

      Banerjee (University of Wisconsin, US); Benyuan Liu (University of

      Massachusetts Lowell, US)

      Distributed Uplink Power Control for Optimal SIR                         Achieving Bounded Blocking in Circuit-Switched Networks

      Assignment in Cellular Data Networks

      Prashanth Hande (Princeton University, US; Flarion Technologies,              Rui Zhang-Shen (Stanford University); Muralidharan Kodialam

      US); Sundeep Rangan (Princeton University, US; Flarion                          (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); T. V. Lakshman (Bell Labs,

      Technologies, US); Mung Chiang (Princeton University, US; Flarion              Lucent Technologies, US)

      Technologies, US)

      Maximum Throughput and Fair Bandwidth Allocation in                Alternative Decompositions for Distributed Maximization of

      Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks                                      Network Utility: Framework and Applications

      Jian Tang (Arizona State University, US); Guoliang Xue (Arizona State         Daniel Palomar (Princeton University, US); Mung Chiang (Princeton

       University, US); Weiyi Zhang (Arizona State University, US)                     University, US)

    Thursday, April 27, 2006        09:00 - 11:00               Thursday, April 27, 2006        09:00 - 11:00

   

    Session 42: MAC Protocols                                         Session 44: Secure wireless

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Vishal Misra (Columbia University, US)                                        Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Purdue  Univ., US)

      Utility-Optimal Medium Access Control: Reverse and                   Threshold Key-Establishment in Distributed Sensor

      Forward Engineering                                                                Networks Using a Multivariate Scheme

      Jang-Won Lee (Yonsei University, KR); Mung Chiang (Princeton                 Farshid Delgosha (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Faramarz

      University, US); A. Robert Calderbank (Princeton University, US)               Fekri (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)

      Virginia, US)

      A Packing Approach to Compare Slotted and Non-Slotted             Leveraging Channel Diversity for Key Establishment in

      Medium Access Control                                                            Wireless Sensor Networks

      Mathilde Durvy (EPFL, CH); Patrick Thiran (EPFL, CH)                             Matthew Miller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Nitin

                                                                                                  Vaidya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)

      MMSN: Multi-Frequency Media Access Control for Wireless            Establishing Pair-Wise Keys in Heterogeneous Sensor

      Sensor Networks                                                                     Networks

      Gang Zhou (University of Virginia, US); Chengdu Huang (University of         Patrick Traynor (Penn State University, US); Heesook Choi (Penn

       Virginia, US); Ting Yan (University of Virginia, US); Tian He                       State University, US); Guohong Cao (Pennsylvania State University,

      (University of Virginia, US); John Stankovic (University of Virginia,              US); Sencun Zhu (The Pennsylvania State University, US); Tom La

      US); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Virginia, US)                                 Porta (Penn State University, US)

      Performance Analysis of Contention Based Medium Access           Supporting Secure Communication and Data Collection in

      Control Protocols                                                                    Mobile Sensor Networks

      Gaurav Sharma (Purdue University, US); Ayalvadi Ganesh (Microsoft           Li Zhou (University of California, Riverside, US); Jinfeng Ni (University

      Research, UK); Peter Key (Microsoft Research, UK)                               of California, Riverside, US); Chinya Ravishankar (Universityiversity

                                                                                                  of California, Riverside, US)

    Thursday, April 27, 2006        09:00 - 11:00               Thursday, April 27, 2006        11:30 - 13:00

   

    Session 45: Bandwidth sharing and                         Session 47: Fault tolerance in sensor

    Session Chair:                                                                      Session Chair:

    Lau Wing-Cheong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)              Christophe Diot, Thompson Research, France

      Mean delay analysis of Multi Level Processor Sharing                   Fault-Tolerance in Sensor Networks: A New Evaluation Metric

      disciplines

      Samuli Aalto (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Urtzi Ayesta                Arunabha Sen (Arizona State University, US); Bao Hong Shen

      (Helsinki University of Technology, FI; CWI, NL)