International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 200

A Probabilistic Interference and Energy Aware Gradient Broadcasting Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks

Katia Jaffrès-Runser (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Cristina Comaniciu (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)

A Simulation Framework for Evaluating Complete Reprogramming Solutions in Wireless Sensor Networks

Michiel Horsman (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Mihai Marin-Perianu (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Pierre Jansen (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Paul Havinga (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Load Repartition for Congestion Control in Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks with Multipath Routing

Moufida Maimour (Nancy University, France); Pham CongDuc (Univ. of Pau, France); Julien Amelot (Esial/Cran, France)

Impact of Node Failure for duty-cycle MAC Protocol Design in Wireless Sensor Networks

John Dunlop (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Florence Kolberg (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)

A Runtime Energy Monitoring System for Wireless Sensor Networks

Thomas Trathnigg (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Reinhold Weiss (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

Lightweight Clustering in Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks on Obstructed Environments

Ricardo Lent (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Edith Ngai (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)

Cross Layer Design and Optimization

Backhaul Network Based on WiMAX with Relays - System Level Performance Analysis

Alexander Maltsev(Intel A/O, Russia); Vadim Sergeyev (Intel Nizhny Novgorod Lab, Russia)

A Cross-layer Study on Multiple-antenna Techniques in Wireless Backhaul Networks

Yun Hou (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Alex Kuzminskiy (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, United Kingdom); Federico Boccardi (Bell Labs, United Kingdom); Kai Yu (Bell Labs Research, United Kingdom); Kin Leung (Imperial College, United Kingdom)

TCP Optimization in Wireless Mesh Backhaul Networks

Sara Grilli Colombo (CEFRIEL, Italy); Giovanni Paltenghi (CEFRIEL, Italy); Tommaso Mandorino (CEFRIEL, Italy)

MIMO Routing with QoS Provisioning

Athanasios Gkelias (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Federico Boccardi (Bell Labs, United Kingdom); Chi Harold Liu (Imperial College, United Kingdom); Kin Leung (Imperial College, United Kingdom)

Testbed for Wireless Mesh Backhaul Networks MEMBRANE Demonstrator

Antonios Valkanas (INTRACOM S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece); Konstantinos Stamatis (INTRACOM S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece); Alexander Maltsev (Intel A/O, Russia); Ilias Panayiotopoulos (INTRACOM S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece)

High Data Rate Relay Transmissions with Multiple Antennas

Federico Boccardi (Bell Labs, United Kingdom); Kai Yu (Bell Labs Research, United Kingdom); Angeliki Alexiou (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, United Kingdom)

Capacity of WCDMA Multicellular Networks under different Radio Resource Management Strategies

Panagiotis Gkonis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); George Tsoulos (University of Pelloponese, Greece); Dimitra Kaklamani (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Channel State Information Enhanced Adaptive MC-CDMA

Uchennaya Obo Ibom (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, Beijing China., P.R. China)

Demodulation of a Chaos-based CDMA system using Support Vector Machine

Johnny Kao (University of Auckland, New Zealand); Stevan Berber (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Subcarrier Allocation Algorithms for multicellular OFDMA networks without CSI

Ioannis Stiakogiannakis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Dimitra Zarbouti (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); George Tsoulos (University of Pelloponese, Greece); Dimitra Kaklamani (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

On the Problem of Joint Power and Rate Control in CDMA Ad Hoc Networks

Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Timotheos Kastrinogiannis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Vasileios Karyotis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

A Transceiver Scheme for Localized DFT Spread OFDM (DFT-SOFDM) in Time-Selective Channel

Meng Wah Chia (Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore); Boon Sim Thian (Stanford University, USA); Tjeng Thiang Tjhung (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Bandwidth Utilisation for Volume-to-Volume UWB MIMO Communications

Tim Aubrey (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia); Khalid Aboura (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

On the Influence of Carrier Frequency Offset and Sampling Frequency Offset in MIMO-OFDM Systems for Future Digital TV

Youssef Nasser (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, France); Jean François Helard (INSA Rennes, France); Matthieu Crussière (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Rennes (IETR/INSA), France)

Performance Analysis of Adaptive Low Rate Differential CSI Feedback for MIMO-OFDM Systems

Woon Hau Chin (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Chau Yuen (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Parallel Detection Algorithm Using Multiple QR Decompositions with Permuted Channel Matrix for SDM/OFDM

Chang-Jun Ahn (Hiroshima City University, Japan)

Some Applications of Tensor Algebra to Estimation Theory

Samuel Drake (Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia); Kutluyil Dogancay (University of South Australia, Australia)

Errors in Determinstic Wireless Fingerprinting Systems for Localisation

Andrew Dempster (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Self-localization of Mobile Agents in the Plane

Iman Shames (Australian national University, Australia); Baris Fidan (National ICT Australia, Canberra, Australia); Brian Anderson (National ICT Australia, Australia); Hatem Hmam (Defence Science & Technology Organisation, Australia)

Exploiting Geometric Translations in Bearings-Only TLS Tracking

Kutluyil Dogancay (University of South Australia, Australia)

Passive source localization from Time of Arrival Measurements

Hatem Hmam (Defence Science & Technology Organisation, Australia)

Eating habits monitoring using wireless wearable in-ear microphone

Jun Nishimura (Keio University, Japan); Tadahiro Kuroda (Keio University, Japan)

Implementing a Low-Cost, Personalized and Location Based Service for Delivering Advertisements to Mobile Users

Dimitris Liapis (Athens Information Technology, Greece); Spyros Vassilaras (Athens Information Technology, Greece); Gregory Yovanof (Athens Information Technology, Greece)

Experiences applying Sensor Web Enablement to a practical Telecare application

Gavin Churcher (British Telecom plc, United Kingdom); Jeff Foley (British Telecommunications Plc, United Kingdom); George Bilchev (British Telecommunications, United Kingdom)

A Low Power Pervasive RFID Identification System for Medication Safety in Hospital or Home Tele-Care

Mohsen Darianian (Nokia, Finland); Martin Peter Michael (Nokia Research Center, Finland)

Building a Research Prototype to Provide Pervasive Services in Hospitals

Juan Carlos Cano Escriba (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Carlos Calafate (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain); Pietro Manzoni (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)

Wireless Communications Issues

Systematic Repeat Accumulate Codes For Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation With Iterative Demapping Over AWGN And Rayleigh Fading Channels

Wei Kwang Han (Newcastle University, United Kingdom); Stephane Le Goff (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom); Bayan Sharif (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom)

Effect of Sleep Schedule and Frame Rate on the Capabilities of Video Sensor Networks

Atay Ozgovde (Bogazici University, Turkey); Ilker Demirkol (Bogazici University, Turkey); Cem Ersoy (Bogazici University, Turkey)

Advantages in Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Networks

Luca Paladina (University of Messina, Italy); Marco Scarpa (University of Messina, Italy); Antonio Puliafito (Università di Messina - Dipartimento di Matematica, Italy)

A Dynamic Subchannel Allocation Algorithm for IEEE 802.16e Networks

Dionysios Xenakis (University of Athens, Greece); Dimitris Tsolkas (University of Athens, Greece); Spyros Xergias (University of Athens, Greece); Nikos Passas (University of Athens, Greece); Lazaros Merakos (University of Athens, Greece)

Efficient, distributed, multiple relay selection procedures for cooperative communications

Barnabas Hegyi (Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Hungary); Janos Levendovszky (Budapest University of Tecnology and Economics, Hungary)

Seamless Mobile Robot Localization Service Framework for Integrated Localization Systems

Jonggu Kang (Information and Communications University, Korea); Daeyoung Kim (Information and Communications University, Korea); Eunjo Kim (Information and Communication University, Korea); Youngsoo Kim (Information and Communications University, Korea); Seong-eun Yoo (Information and Communications University, Korea); Daehan Wi (Chonnam National University, Korea)

New methods for reliable packet transfer and energy balancing in wireless sensor networks

Andras Olah (Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary); Janos Levendovszky (Budapest University of Tecnology and Economics, Hungary); Andras Bojarszky (Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary)

User Controlled Content Access

György Kálmán (UniK - University Graduate Center, Norway); Josef Noll (UNIK, Norway)

Cooperative and Sequential User Detection for Wireless Network Diversity Multiple Access Protocols

Ramiro Samano-Robles (University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Mounir Ghogho (University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Desmond McLernon (The University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

Connecting Bridge in SoC used for Wireless Home Healthcare System

Zheying Li (College of Information, Beijing Union University, P.R. China)

Bluetooth Energy Characteristics in Wireless Sensor Networks

Marcus Blom (Mälardalen University, Sweden); Javier Castano (Mälardalen University/ Sweden Connectivity AB, Sweden); Martin Ekström (Mälardalen University, Sweden); Mikael Ekström (Mälardalen University, Sweden); Maria Lindén (Mälardalen University, Sweden)

Robustness of Heuristic Strategies with Slow Mobility in Spatial TDMA Multihop Ad Hoc Networks

Oscar Somarriba (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Service Composition in IMS: A Location Based Service Example

Agata Brajdic (University of Zagreb, Croatia); Maja Matijasevic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Comparison of Efficient Small Antennas for Wireless Microsensors through Simulation and Experiment

Constantine Kakoyiannis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Sophia Troubouki (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Philip Constantinou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

PGS: Parking Guidance System based on Wireless Sensor Network

Seong-eun Yoo (Information and Communications University, Korea); Poh Kit Chong (Information and Communications University, Korea); Taehong Kim (Information and Communications University, Korea); Jonggu Kang (Information and Communications University, Korea); Daeyoung Kim (Information and Communications University, Korea); Changsub Shin (ETRI, Korea); KyoungBook Sung (ETRI, Korea); Byung-Tae Jang (Electronic Telecommunication Research Institute ; ETRI, Korea)

A Near Optimum Joint Detection and Decoding Algorithm for MIMO-OFDM Channels

Ebrahim Karami (University of Oulu, Finland); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland)

Design and Implementation of Printed Multi-Element Antennas on Wireless Sensor Nodes

Constantine Kakoyiannis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Sophia Troubouki (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Philip Constantinou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

turbo channel estimation for TDMA systems on highly time and frequency selective channels

Sihem Chaabouni (High School of Communication in Tunis, Tunisia); Noura Sellami (Institut Supérieur de l'Electronique et des Communications de Sfax, Tunisia); Mohamed Siala (Sup'Com, Tunisia)

Low Complexity Frequency Offset Estimation for MB-OFDM System.

Sunkyung Shin (Inha University, Korea); Kyung Sup Kwak (Inha University, Korea)

Effects of Push-To-Talk (PTT) delays on CSMA based Capacity Limited Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Networks

Abhijit Navalekar (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Jitish Kolanjery (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); William Michalson (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Cross Layer Optimization for Transport over Wireless

Yogesh Swami (Nokia Research Center, USA); Khiem Le (Nokia Research Center, USA); Shashikant Maheshwari (Nokia Siemens Networks, USA); Naveen Kakani (Nokia, USA)

A Dynamic Queue Length Scheduling Algorithm for QoS Guarantee in Heterogeneous Traffic Indoor Systems

Nizar Zorba (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC), Spain); Christos Verikoukis (Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia (CTTC), Spain); Ana I. Pérez-Neira (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Andreas Foglar (Infineon Technologies AG, Germany)

A Cross-Layer Approach for Enabling Low Duty Cycled ZigBee Mesh Sensor Networks

Barbara Staehle (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Norbert Vicari (Siemens AG, Germany); Matthias Kuhnert (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)

Joint Application and Physical Layer Adaptation for Improved Performance in IEEE 802.16e Networks

Dionysia Triantafyllopoulou (University of Athens, Greece); Nikos Passas (University of Athens, Greece); George Lampropoulos (University of Athens, Greece); Alexandros Kaloxylos (University of Peloponnisos, Greece)

MAC-Level Video Frame Grouping using Cross-Layer Architecture

Ismail Djama (University of Bordeaux1 CNRS-LaBRI, France); Toufik Ahmed (University of Bordeaux-1 / CNRS-LaBRI, France)

Performance Benefits of Resource-Constrained Adaptive Filtering

Kutluyil Dogancay (University of South Australia, Australia)

Improving The Threshold Performance Of The Estimator Bank Direction Finding Techniques Using Outlier Identification And Cure

Pouyan Parvazi (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Alex Gershman (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany); Yuri Abramovich (Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australia)

Goodness Measure of Speech Reconstruction using the Bootstrap

Philipp Heidenreich (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Abdelhak Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)

Bayesian Hierarchical Models and Inference for Musical Audio Processing

Paul Peeling (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Ali Taylan Cemgil (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Simon Godsill (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Particle Swarm Optimization for UMTS WCDMA Network Planning

Dimitrios Tsilimantos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); George Tsoulos (University of Pelloponese, Greece); Dimitra Kaklamani (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Self-Organizing Sensor Networks

Dan Marinescu (University of Central Florida, USA); Gabriela Marinescu (University of Central Florida, USA)

Fair Scheduling in Multirate Wireless Access Networks

Yaser Pourmohammadi-Fallah (University of British Columbia, Canada); Panos Nasiopoulos (University of British Columbia, Canada); Victor Leung (The University of British Columbia, Canada)

An Admission Control Algorithm for QoS Provisioning in IEEE 802.11e EDCA

Alessandro Andreadis (University of Siena, Italy); Giuliano Benelli (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, University of Siena, Italy); Riccardo Zambon (University of Siena, Italy)

A theoretical scheme for applying Game Theory and Network Selection Mechanisms in Access Admission Control

Dimitris Charilas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Ourania Markaki (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Elias Tragos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Dynamic Packet Scheduling Performance in UTRA Long Term Evolution Downlink

Petteri Kela (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Jani Puttonen (Magister Solutions Ltd., Finland); Niko Kolehmainen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Tapani Ristaniemi (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Tero Henttonen (Nokia Research Center, Finland); Martti Moisio (Nokia Research Center, Finland)

Technical Challenges

Error Performance of Multi-hopping Half-duplex Relay Networks

Tobias Renk (University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany); Clemens Kloeck (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany); Holger Jaekel (University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany); Friedrich Jondral (Communications Engineering Lab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany)

A Reconfigurable Linear FeedBack Shift Register Operator for Software Defined Radio Terminal

Laurent ALAUS (CEA-LETI, France); Dominique Noguet (CEA LETI, France); Jacques Palicot (IETR/Supélec- Campus de Rennes, France)

Information Processing Techniques for Cognitive Base Transceiver Stations

Luca Bixio (University of Genoa, Italy, Italy); Andrea Cattoni (University of Genova, Italy); Giacomo Oliveri (University of Genoa, Italy, Italy); Marina Ottonello (University of Genoa, Italy); Mirco Raffetto (University of Genoa, Italy, Italy); Carlo Regazzoni (University Of Genova, Italy)

A Combinatorial Clock Auction for OFDMA-based Cognitive Wireless Networks

Linda Doyle (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Tim Forde (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Using Random Matrix Theory

Leonardo Cardoso (Supelec, France); Merouane Debbah (Supelec, France); Pascal Bianchi (Supelec, France); Jamal Najim (CNRS, France)

Towards a FIPA Compliant Multiagent based Middleware Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks

Khalid Nawaz (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Alejandro Buchmann (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)

Design OLN Optimized Low Cost Wireless Sensor Networks

Harry Li (San Jose State University, USA)

Reconfiguration in Heterogeneous Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Mikhail Lisovich (Cornell University, USA); Sergio Bermudez (Cornell University, USA); Stephen Wicker (Cornell University, USA)

Modulation-Aware Energy Balancing in Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks

Maryam Soltan (University of Southern California, USA); In Kwon Hwang (University of Southern California, USA); Massoud Pedram (University of Southern California, USA)

Remote Interaction Tool for Wireless Sensor Networks

Fadi Tirkawi (University of Lübeck, Germany); Stefan Fischer (University of Luebeck, Germany)

Approximate Replication of Data using Adaptive Filters in Wireless Sensor Networks

Qutub Bakhtiar (Florida International University, USA); Niki Pissinou (Florida International University, USA); Kia Makki (Florida International University, USA)

Hybrid TOA/AOA Mobile Localization with NLOS Mitigation in Ring Scattering

Mohamed Zhaounia (High School of Communication of Tunisia, Tunisia); Adnan Al-Andalousi (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Ridha Bouallegue (National Engineering School of Sousse SUP’COM, 6’Tel Laboratory, Tunisia)

Robust 3D Orientation-Location Estimation for Ultrasonic Sensor Arrays

Juan Ramon Gonzalez (University College Dublin, Ireland)

An Evaluation of UWB Localization under Non Line-of-Sight (NLOS) Propagation

Abdelmadjid Maali (EMP, Algeria); Hassane Mimoun (Paris Est University - ESIEE Paris, France); Geneviève Baudoin (ESIEE, France); Abdelaziz Ouldali (EMP, Algeria)

Evaluation of indoor Location Based on combination of AGPS/ HSGPS

Anwar Al-Khateeb (Al-Nahrain university, Iraq)

Tracking Algorithms Based on Dynamics of Individuals and MultiDimensional Scaling

Jose Cabero (Robotiker-Tecnalia, Spain); Fernando De la Torre (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Galder Unibaso (Robotiker-Tecnalia, Spain); Aritz Sanchez (Robotiker-Tecnalia, Spain)

Nonmetric MDS for Sensor Localization

Nhat Vo (Kyung Hee University, Korea)

A Novel Low-Complexity Algorithm for Linear MMSE MIMO Receivers

David Kühling (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany); Andreas Ibing (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany)

Intra-cell Interference Aware Equalization for TxAA HSDPA

Christian Mehlfuehrer (TU Wien, Austria); Martin Wrulich (TU Wien, Austria); Markus Rupp (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Performance of Linear Multi-User MIMO Precoding in LTE System

Cassio Ribeiro (Nokia Research Center, Finland); Klaus Hugl (Nokia, Finland); Marko Lampinen (Nokia, Finland); Markku Kuusela (Nokia, Finland)

A Distributed Simulation System and its Application for 3GPP LTE Indoor Scenarios

Qipeng Cai (University of Hannover, Germany); Zhao Zhao (University of Hannover, Germany); Sebastian Sczyslo (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany); Andreas Wilzeck (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany); Christiane Senger (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany); Thomas Kaiser (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany)

Performance of a Full Rate Quasi-Orthogonal Extended MIMO MC-CDMA System with Efficient Channel Estimator

Athanasios Marousis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Philip Constantinou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Performance Enhancement of DQMAN-based Wireless Ad Hoc Networks in Multi-Hop Scenarios

Jesus Alonso-Zarate (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Elli Kartsakli (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Christos Verikoukis (Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia (CTTC), Spain); Luis Alonso (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Reed-Solomon Codes and Multi-Path Strategies to Improve Privacy Performance over Ad Hoc Networks

Hervé Aiache (Thales Communications, France); Cedric Tavernier (Thales Communications, France); Corinne SIEUX (THALES Communications, France)

Virtual Structure Effects in Two Hybrid Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks

Luiz Carlos Albini (Federal University of Parana, Brazil); Alessandro Brawerman (University of Positivo, Brazil); Michele Nogueira Lima (Université Pierre et Marie Currie, France); Stefano Chessa (University of Pisa, Italy); Piero Maestrini (CNR - ISTI, Italy)

Requirements for survivable routing in MANETs

Michele Nogueira Lima (Université Pierre et Marie Currie, France); Helber da Silva (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Aldri Santos (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil); Guy Pujolle (University of Paris 6, France)

LE-WiMARK: An intelligent power-efficient Ad Hoc MAC protocol with Busy Tone and Power Control

George Kalfas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece, Greece); Georgios Papadimitriou (Aristotle University, Greece); Petros Nicopolitidis (Aristotle University, Greece); Andreas Pomportsis (Aristotle University, Greece)

Use of Neural Networks for Design of Geolocation System in Indoor Applications

Maciej Rutecki (Technical University of Lodz, Poland); Tomasz Kacprzak (Technical University of Lodz, Poland)

A Real-Time Cross-Layer Design of Multimedia Application layer with the Wireless Physical Layer

Arulsaravana Jeyaraj (UC, Irvine, USA); Magda El Zarki (University of California at Irvine, USA)

Kalman Filter Based Variable Bit Rate Video Frame Size Prediction

Jibukumar Mangalathu Gopalakrishnan (Cochin university, India); Raja Datta (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Prabir Biswas (I. I. T. Kharagpur, India)

Bit-Rate Estimation for Bit-Rate Reduction H.264/AVC Video Transcoding in Wireless Networks

Qiang Tang (University of British Columbia, Canada); Hassan Mansour (University of British Columbia, Canada); Panos Nasiopoulos (University of British Columbia, Canada); Rabab Ward (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Statistical multiplexing gains of H.264/AVC video in E-MBMS

Vladimir Vukadinovic (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Joerg Huschke (Ericsson, Germany)

Wireless Networking Issues

Cross-Layer Information Sharing for Wireless Networks with Asymmetric Links

Dan Marinescu (University of Central Florida, USA); Guoqiang Wang (University of Central Florida, USA)

Model-based adaptive medium access for data intensive sensor networks

Zdravko Karakehayov (Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria)

Ubiquitous Information Provision in the Vehicle Domain

Jose Santa (University of Murcia, Spain); Antonio Moragon (University of Murcia, Spain); Antonio Gomez-Skarmeta (University of Murcia, Spain)

WiMAX: MAC Layer Performance Assessments

Alberto Bestetti (Alcatel-Lucent, Italy); Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena, Italy); Snezana Hadzic (University of Siena, Italy)

RoF Networks: A Comprehensive Study

Hichem Chettat (SEO Laboratory, EMP, Algeria); Simohamed Lotfy Mokhtar (SEO Laboratory, EMP, Algeria); Yassine Bouslimani (University of Moncton, Canada); Habib Hamam (University of Moncton, Canada)

Power Gating in Wireless Sensor Networks

Goran Panic (IHP GmbH, Germany); Zoran Stamenkovic (IHP GmbH, Germany); Rolf Kraemer (IHP Microelectronics, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany)

An improved TCP congestion control mechanism based on double-windows for wireless network

Fu Lin (Wuhan University, P.R. China); DengYi Zhang (Wuhan University, P.R. China); WenBin Hu (Wuhan University, P.R. China)

Neighbor Detection Power Control (NDPC) MAC Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Behzad Abasgholi (Ferdowsi University of Mashad, Iran); Ramtin Kazemi (Ferdowsi University of Mashad, Iran); Masoud Arezoomand (Iran Telecom. Reaserch Center (ITRC), Iran); Ali Reza Enayati (Iran Telecommunication Research center, Iran)

On the Efficient Data Gathering in Large Scale Autonomous Bandwidth-limited Sensor Networks

Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Stella Kafetzoglou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Maria Alexandropoulou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Query Processing for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks: State-of-the-art and Research Challenges

Yingjie He (Newcastle University, United Kingdom); Alan Tully (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)

Pattern-Based Planning System (PBPS): A Novel Approach for Uncertain Dynamic Multi-Agent Environments

Mahshid Ehsaei (Qazvin Azad University, Iran); Yasaman Heydarzadeh (Qazvin Azad University, Iran); Siavash Aslani (Qazvin Azad University, Iran); Abolfazl Haghighat (Islamic azad university of Qazvin, Iran)

SA-mobicast:A Simulated Annealing-based Mobicast Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Soulmaz Gheisari (Azad university of Qazvin, Iran); Abolfazl T. Haghighat (Azad university, Iran); Saman Saadat (Azas university of Shiraz, Iran)

Range-Free Node Localization for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Chia-Ho Ou (National Pingtung Institute of Commerce, Taiwan)

Simple Algorithm Aggregation Improves Signal Strength Based Localization

Xiaoyan Li (Lafayette College, USA); Richard Martin (Rutgers University, USA)

Online Multicasting Using Network Coding in Energy Constrained Wireless Ad hoc Networks

Homa Hosseinmardi (University of Tehran, Iran); Farshad Lahouti (University of Tehran, Iran)

Delay Tolerant Network Routing: Beyond Epidemic Routing

Padma Mundur (University of Maryland, USA); Matthew Seligman (LTS, USA)

Cooperative Agent Delay Routing Approach for MANET

Saida Ziane (Glaizer Group, France)

Maximizing the Lifetime of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using Minimizing the Maximum Used Power Routing

Kwang-Ryoul Kim (Korea University, Korea); Nam-Kyu Yu (TmaxSoft, Korea); Sung-Gi Min (Korea University, Korea)

Intersection Location Service and Performance Comparison of Three Location Service Algorithms for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in City Environments

Yao-Jen Chang (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan); Ting-Liang Shih (Driver Design section, Hardware Design Department 2, R&D 3, ArimaComm, Taiwan, Taiwan)

Information Visualization for Mobile Devices: A Novel Approach based on the MagicEyeView

Gheorghita Ghinea (Brunel University, United Kingdom); Anders Fongen (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway); Jorn Heigum (Brunel University, United Kingdom)

Performance Comparison and Evaluation of AODV, OLSR and SBR in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Alexander Klein (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)

Panel Session I

A Reuse-Greedy Algorithm for STDMA Multihop Networks With Advanced Antennas & Rate Control

Marvin Sánchez Garache (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Jens Zander (Royal Inst Tech, Stockholm, Sweden); Bo Hagerman (Ericsson, Sweden)

Optimization of Handover Scanning Procedure in WiMAX Networks with Relay Stations

Zdenek Becvar (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic); Pavel Mach (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic); Robert Bestak (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)

Performance Analysis of Opportunistic Incremental Relaying with Adaptive Modulation

Kyu-Sung Hwang (Korea University, Korea); Young-Chai Ko (Korea University, Korea); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar)

Channel Estimation Techniques for Half-Duplex Cooperative Communication systems

Aris Lalos (University of Patras, Dept. of Computer Eng. and Informatics, Greece); Athanasios Rontogiannis (National Observatory of Athens, Greece); Kostas Berberidis (University of Patras, Greece)

Cooperative Multiuser Detection for Decode & Forward Relay-based Access Systems

Achilleas Drettas (INTRACOM S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece); Antonios Valkanas (INTRACOM S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece); Ilias Panayiotopoulos (INTRACOM S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece); Salliari Vasiliki (INTRACOM S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece)

Impact of Channel Side Information Availability at the Source Node on the Capacity of Multi-Hop MIMO Relay Networks

Erhan Yilmaz (Institute Eurecom, France); Oguz Sunay (Koc University, Turkey)

A Snooping Rate Adaptation Algorithm for IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Jihun Ha (Korea University, Korea); Kyungsoo Lee (Korea University, Korea); Hyogon Kim (Korea University, Korea); Inhye Kang (University of Seoul, Korea)

A Measurement Study on 802.11 concurrently used for Positioning and Communications

Thomas King (University of Mannheim, Germany); Thomas Haenselmann (University of Mannheim, Germany); Stephan Kopf (University of Mannheim, Germany); Wolfgang Effelsberg (University of Mannheim, Germany)

Queuing analysis for dynamic bandwidth allocation in IEEE 802.16 standard

Mohammad Fathi (Amirkabir universty of technology, Tehran, Iran)

Analysis of Bluetooth Transmission Delay in Personal Area Networks

María Moron (University of Malaga, Spain); Rafael Luque-Giráldez (University of Malaga, Spain); Eduardo Casilari-Perez (Universidad de Malaga, Spain); Antonio Díaz-Estrella (University of Malaga, Spain)

Mobile Computing for Indoor Wayfinding Based on Bluetooth Sensors for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments

Yao-Jen Chang (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan); Frank Wang (National Taipei University, Taiwan)

A Frequency-Domain Interpolation Implementation

Eleni Fotopoulou (University of Patras, Greece); Vassilis Paliouras (University of Patras, Greece); Thanos Stouraitis (University of Patras, Greece)

Relationship among BER, power consumption and PAPR

Thodoris Giannopoulos (University of Patras, Greece); Vassilis Paliouras (University of Patras, Greece)

Roundoff Error Effects on a Quasi-Newton Frequency Domain Channel Equalizer

Panos Karaivazoglou (University of Patras, Greece); Konstantina Karagianni (University of Patras, Greece); Vassilis Paliouras (University of Patras, Greece); Kostas Berberidis (University of Patras, Greece)

On the implementation of bus-based architectures

George Aggouras (University of Patras, Greece); Vassilis Paliouras (University of Patras, Greece)

Impact of roundoff errors in LDPC decoding

Nikolaos Kanistras (University of Patras, Greece); Vassilis Paliouras (University of Patras, Greece)

Semi-blind channel estimation schemes based on a cooperative form of the cross relation criterion

Christos Mavrokefalidis (University of Patras, Greece); Kostas Berberidis (University of Patras, Greece); Athanasios Rontogiannis (National Observatory of Athens, Greece)

About Asymptotic Spectral Efficiency in the DS/CDMA Amplify and Forward Relay Channel

David Gregoratti (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Xavier Mestre (CTTC, Spain)

Outage Capacity of a Noncoherent Cooperative Scheme with Binary Input and a Simple Relay

Athanasios Liavas (Technical University of Crete, Greece); George Karystinos (Technical University of Crete, Greece)

Improved OFDM transmission with DF relaying and power allocation for a sum power constraint

Luc Vandendorpe (University of Louvain, Belgium); Jerome Louveaux (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Onur Oguz (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Abdellatif Zaidi (Catholic University of Louvain, UCL, Belgium)

Spectrum Handoff for Link Maintenance in Cognitive Radio

Li-Chun Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Anderson Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

On Spectrally Efficient Multiplexing in Cognitive Radio Systems

Tero Ihalainen (TUT, Finland); Ari Viholainen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Markku Renfors (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

Trading Strategies in Radio Spectrum Management

Eric Chin (British Telecom, Malaysia)

Scalability of Cognitive Radio Control Algorithms

Christian Doerr (University of Colorado, USA); Michael Colagrosso (Colorado School of Mines, USA); Dirk Grunwald (University of Colorado, USA); Douglas Sicker (University of Colorado, USA)

A Novel Handover Protocol to Prevent Hidden Node Problem in Satellite Assisted Cognitive Radio Networks

Didem Gozupek (Bogazici University, Turkey); Suzan Bayhan (Bogazici University, Turkey); Fatih Alagoz (Bogazici University, Turkey)

Design of Fast Handover Mechanism for Multiple Interfaces Mobile IPv6

ManKyu Park (Chungnam National University, Korea); JaeYong Lee (Chungnam National University, Korea); Byungchul Kim (Chungnam National University, Korea); Dae Young Kim (Chungnam Nat'l University, Korea)

Channel Management Based on Maximizing of Customers' Satisfaction and Service Providers' Revenue

Ali Fakoorian (University of Polytechnic, Iran); Hassan Taheri (Amir Kabir University, Iran); Mohammad Fathi (Amirkabir universty of technology, Tehran, Iran)

Joint Routing and Per-Flow Fairness in Wireless Multihop Networks

Angeliki Sgora (University of the Aegean, Greece); Dimitrios Vergados (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Dimitrios Vergados (University of the Aegean, Greece); Ilenia Tinnirello (University of Palermo, Italy); Ioannis Anagnostopoulos (University of the Aegean, Greece); Demosthenes Vouyioukas (University of the Aegean, Greece)

Efficient route maintenance in wireless mesh networks

Usman Ashraf (INSA Toulouse, France); Slim Abdellatif (LAAS/CNRS, France); Guy Juanole (LAAS CNRS, France)

Impact of Mobility on Geographic Routing

Samuela Persia (University of Tor Vergata- Rome, Italy); Dajana Cassioli (RadioLabs - University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Francesco Vatalaro (Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Fulvio Ananasso (AGCOM, Italy)

Error performance of triple-branch generalized selection diversity over Nakagami fading channels

Kostas Peppas (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece); Nikos Sagias (University of Peloponnese, Greece); Fotis Lazarakis (NCSR Demokritos, Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, Greece); Antonis Alexandridis (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece); Kostas Dangakis (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)

Transmit diversity in multicarrier transmission using OQAM modulation

Maurice Bellanger (CNAM, France)

Blind Cooperative Diversity With Multiple Relays

Kamel Tourki (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar); Luc Deneire (University of Nice, France)

Lower and Upper Bounds for the Generalized Marcum and Nuttall Q-Functions

Sotirios Mihos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Vasilios Kapinas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); George Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

On Free-Space Optic Communication with Alamouti-Type Coding and Direct Detection

Mamdouh El Tabach (France Telecom R&D, France); Patrick Tortelier (France Telecom R&D, France); Ramesh Pyndiah (institut Telecom/TELECOM Bretagne, France); Olivier Bouchet (France Telecom, France)

CPFP: An Efficient Key Management Scheme for Large Scale Personal Networks

Shahab Mirzadeh (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Frederik Armknecht (Ruhr-Universitaet, Germany); Jordi Pallares (Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Germany); Hossam Afifi (Institut Telecom, France); Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)

Towards a security framework for an established autonomous network

Dimitris Ztoupis (University of Athens, Greece); Kyriakos Zarifis (University of Athens, Greece); Christos Xenakis (University of Piraeus, Greece); Ioannis Stavrakakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Real-Time Sensing and Acoustic Scene Characterization for Security Applications

Homin Kwon (ASU, USA); Visar Berisha (ASU, USA); Andreas Spanias (ASU, USA)

Greedy Gossip with Eavesdropping

Deniz Ustebay (McGill University, Canada); Mark Coates (McGill University, Canada); Michael Rabbat (McGill University, Canada)

Prototype of pedestrian-to-vehicle communication system for the prevention of pedestrian accidents using both 3G wireless and WLAN communication

Chika Sugimoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Yasuhisa Nakamura (NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan); Takuya Hashimoto (NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan)

Dual Standard Re-configurable Hardware Interleaver for Turbo Decoding

Rizwan Asghar (Linköping University, Sweden); Dake Liu (Linköping University, Sweden)

Fully Integrated Self-Quenched Super-Regenerative UWB Impulse Detector

Syed Muhammad Anis (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany); Reinhard Tielert (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany); Norbert Wehn (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

The Bluetooth Medallion: a Wearable Device for Human MANETs

Jose Cabero (Robotiker-Tecnalia, Spain); Galder Unibaso (Robotiker-Tecnalia, Spain); Aritz Sanchez (Robotiker-Tecnalia, Spain); Iñigo Arizaga (Robotiker-Tecnalia, Spain)

Packet detector for multiband UWB

Dionisis Pettas (University of Patras, Greece); Vassilis Paliouras (University of Patras, Greece)