EDAS (10143 - biazsaa@auburn.edu): 13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications Program [ISCC'08]

The pdf for the final program for ISCC can be found here.

The program for the colocated workshop, MediaWiN, can be found here.

Sunday, Jul 6

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

MediaWiN 2008: Welcome Address & Keynote Speakers

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

MediaWiN: Coffee Break

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

MediaWiN: A/V Streaming over Wireless I

Block-Based Rateless Coding for Energy-Efficient Video Streaming over Bluetooth: Rouzbeh Razavi (University of Essex, United Kingdom); Martin Fleury (University of Essex, United Kingdom); Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, United Kingdom)
Streaming Video Timing Analysis in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks: Anastasios Politis (University of Macedonia, Greece); Isabella Kotini (University of Macedonia, Greece); Athanasios Manitsaris (University of Macedonia, Greece)
Analysis of compressed depth and image streaming on unreliable networks: Andrea Zanella (University of Padova, Italy); Pietro Zanuttigh (University of Padua, Italy)

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

MediaWiN: Lunch Break

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

MediaWiN: A/V Streaming over Wireless II

A Measurement Study of Speex VoIP and H.264/AVC Video over over IEEE 802.16d and IEEE 802.11g: Kostas Pentikousis (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Jarno Pinola (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Esa Piri (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)
Efficient Collision Detection for Auto Rate Fallback Algorithm: Federico Maguolo (University of Padova, Italy); Mathieu Lacage (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France); Thierry Turletti (INRIA, France)
Improving Audio Streaming over Multi-hop Zigbee Networks: Davide Brunelli (University of Bologna, Italy); Loris Teodorani (Università di Bologna, Italy)

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

MediaWiN: Coffee Break II

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

MediaWiN: Multimedia Applications over Wireless

Caller Identity Privacy in SIP heterogeneous realms: A practical solution: Georgios Kambourakis (University of the Aegean, Greece); Stefanos Gritzalis (University of the Aegean, Greece); Giorgos Karopoulos (University of the Aegean, Greece)
A Complete Content Production and Delivery System in a Controlled Multimedia Network: Chrisa Papagianni (NTUA, Greece); Nikos Tselikas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Vagelis Kosmatos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Andreas Papadakis (Archetypon S.A., Greece); Thierry Keutgen (Delcatec, Belgium); Dimitra Kaklamani (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Iakovos Venieris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Monday, Jul 7

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Welcome Address

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Keynote Speaker (Dr. Khorram)

The conventional acquisition of imagery from space started in 1960s from a Gemini and Apollo spacecrafts that were followed in 1970s by Skylab and Landsat satellites. Since 1980s a large number of satellites have collected data routinely from the Earth by a number of countries including the U.S., French, Japanese, Indians, and Russians satellites. Today, a variety of satellite data are collected in many parts of the electromagnetic spectrum such as visible, infrared, and radar. The spatial, spectral, radiometric, and temporal resolutions of satellite data has grown finer and currently multispectral data collected in as fine as 61 cm. from the globe. Image processing techniques have progressed quite well with the advances in computer and electronics technologies. Along with these advances, the applications of remotely sensed data have advanced from global to large scale to local study areas. In this talk, we will address the current and future trends in satellite data acquisition, processing, and applications along with the roles information and communication technologies have played in these trends. A variety of satellite imagery will be demonstrated.

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Break

11:00 AM - 12:45 PM

Optical Networks

On Controlling Burst Loss Ratio Inside an OBS Network: Wael Hosny Fouad Aly (University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada); Mohamed Faten Zhani (UQAM-Canada, ENSI-Tunisia, Canada); Halima Elbiaze (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada)
Performance Evaluation of Routing and Wavelength Assignment Algorithms For Optical Networks: Eun-sung Jung (University of Florida, USA); Yan Li (University of Florida, USA); Sanjay Ranka (University of Florida, USA); Sartaj Sahni (University of Florida, USA)
Arranging Shareability Dynamically for the Availability-Constrained Design of Optical Transport Networks: Burak Kantarci (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada); Sema Oktug (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
A Novel Distributed Destination Routing Based Availability-Aware Provisioning Framework for Differentiated Protection Services in Optical Mesh Networks: Emad Al-Sukhni (University of Ottawa, Canada); Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)
On the Application of Long SOAs in Linear Operating and Saturation Regimes: Exploitation in High Bit Rate Optical Networks: Youssef Said (National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT), Tunisia); Houria Rezig (National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT), Tunisia); Ammar Bouallegue (SysCom Lab, ENIT,, Tunisia)
Using Adapted Visibility Graphs for Network Planning: Branka Lakic (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Service Oriented Architecture

Autonomous Preference-aware Multi-service Integration and Allocation: Xiaodong Lu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Automating media processes in a Service Oriented Architecture: Dietrich Van der Weken (VRT, Belgium); Stein Desmet (Ghent University, Belgium); Bjorn Muylaert (VRT, Belgium); Steven Van Assche (VRT MediaLab, Belgium); Bruno Volckaert (University of Ghent, Belgium)
Towards Business Model and Technical Platform for the Service Oriented Context-Aware Mobile Virtual Communities: Pravin Pawar (University of Twente, The Netherlands., The Netherlands); Julien Subercaze (INSA Lyon, France); Pierre Maret (INSA Lyon, France); Bert-Jan van Beijnum (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Dimitri Konstantas (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
A user-centric composition model for the Internet of Services: Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna, Italy); Enrico Lodolo (University of Bologna, Italy); Stefano Monti (University of Bologna, Italy); Samuele Pasini (University of Bologna, Italy)

MAC Rate Adaptation and TCP

An Efficient Rate Adaptation Scheme for Multihop Wireless Networks Using Kalman Filter: Basel Alawieh (Concordia University, Canada); Yongning Zhang (Concordia University, Canada); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Rate Adaptation Algorithms for IEEE 802.11 Networks: A Survey and Comparison: Shaoen Wu (Auburn University, USA); Saad Biaz (Auburn University, USA)
A Robust Controller for the TCP Congestion Window: Cire Sall (Faculty of Science and Technology of Marrakesh, Morocco)
A Dynamic Rate Adaptation with Fragmentation MAC Protocol against Channel Variation for Wireless LANs: Kuei-Ping Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan); San-Yuan Wang (I-Shou University, Taiwan); Chien-Min Chou (Tamkang University, Taiwan); Li-Jie Cheng (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
Adaptive Window Size to Reduce the Influence of Heterogeneous Mobility on TCP Performance: Pablo Vidales (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany); Frank Steuer (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Albayrak Sahin (Technische University, Germany)
$F^2$-TCP: A Fairer and TCP-Friendlier Congestion Control Protocol for High-Speed Networks: Shan Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Junhua Zhu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Brahim Bensaou (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Farid Naït-Abdesselam (University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France)
Evaluating and Improving the TCP/UDP Performances of IEEE 802.11(p)/1609 Networks: Shie-Yuan Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Taiwan); Hsi-Lu Chao (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Kuang-Che Liu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Ting-Wei He (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Chih-Che Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Chih-Liang Chou (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

Data Mining I

A Double K-Clustering Approach for Restructuring Distributed Object-Oriented Software: Safwat Hamad (Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Egypt); Tahany Fergany (Computer Sc. Dept, Univ. of New Haven, USA); Reda Ammar (University of Connecticut, USA); Amal Abdel-raouf (Southern Connecticut State University, USA)
Mining Drug Targets based on Microarray Experiments: Hisham ElShishiny (IBM, Egypt); Taysir Hassan (Assiut University, Egypt); Mohamed El-Asmar (IBM Cairo CAS, Egypt)
Mining Software Aging: A Neural Network Approach: Hisham ElShishiny (IBM, Egypt); Sally Deraz (IBM Cairo Technology Development Center, Egypt); Omar Bahy (Ottawa University, Canada)
Investigation of Feature Dimension Reduction based DCT/SVM for Face Recognition: Aouatif Amine (Mohammed V University, Morocco); Sanaa Ghouzali (Mohammed V University, Morocco); Mohammed Rziza (University Mohammed V, Morocco); Driss Aboutajdine (GSCM_LRIT Mohammed V-agdal University, Morocco)

12:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Lunch

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Cellular and Mobile Communications I

Power-Controlled Rate and Coverage Adaptation for WCDMA Cellular Networks: Khaled Ali (Queen's University, Canada); Hossam Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada); Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Uplink Call Admission Control in Multi-services W-CDMA Network: Rachid El-Azouzi (LIA/CERI Universite of Avignon, France); Khalil Ibrahimi (University of Avignon, France); Bouyakhf Houssine (Université Mohammed V Agdal, Morocco)
A Resource Allocation Algorithm and System Architecture to Extend the Cell Coverage and Alleviate the Inter-Cell Interference: Woonsik Lee (KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Korea); Minh-Viet Nguyen (Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea); Hwang Soo Lee (KAIST, Korea)
A Study on Optimal Termination Target of Synchronous H-ARQ for the Next Generation Cellular System: Toshihiko Komine (KDDI R&D Labs., Inc., Japan); Satoshi Konishi (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan); Hiroyuki Shinbo (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan)

Secured Networks I

Analyzing a Human-based Trust Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Pedro Velloso (Paris VI, France); Rafael Laufer (University of California at Los Angeles, USA); Otto Duarte (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Guy Pujolle (University of Paris 6, France)
A Sybilproof Distributed Identity Management for P2P Networks: François Lesueur (SUPELEC, France); Ludovic Me (Supelec, France); Valérie Viet Triem Tong (Supelec, France)
An analysis of ASMA performances against packet dropping attacks in dense networks: Vincent Toubiana (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France); Houda Labiod (ENST, France); Yvon Gourhant (France Telecom R&D, France); Laurent Reynaud (Orange Labs, France)
The Impact of Wireless LAN Security on Performance for Different Windows Operating Systems: Samad Kolahi (Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand); Shaneel Narayan (Unitec New Zealand, New Zealand); Du Nguyen (Unitec New Zealand, New Zealand); Yonathan Sunarto (Unitec New Zealand, New Zealand); Paul Mani (Unitec New Zealand, New Zealand)

Mesh Networks I

Efficient Routing in WiMax/802.16 based Mesh Networks with Centralized Scheduling.: Jad El-Najjar (Concordia University, Canada); Brigitte Jaumard (Concordia University, Canada); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada)
Distributed Channel Assignment for Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh-Networks: Mesut Guenes (FU Berlin, Germany); Sadeq Makram (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Managing Community Aware Wireless Mesh Networks: João Paulo Barraca (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Rui Aguiar (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Header Compression for VoIP Over Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks: Andrea Giordanna Nascimento (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil); Edjair Mota (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil); Saulo Queiroz (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil); Arlen Nascimento (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil); Edjard Mota (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil); Edson Nascimento (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil)
Mesh Topology Viewer (MTV): an SVG-Based Interactive Mesh Network Topology Visualization Tool: Rafael Valle (Federal Fluminense University, Brazil); Debora Muchaluat-Saade (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil); Diego Passos (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil); Celio Albuquerque (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)

Secured Systems

Highly Compressed Aho-Corasick Automata For Efficient Intrusion Detection: Xinyan Zha (University of Florida, USA); Sartaj Sahni (University of Florida, USA)
Efficient Disk Encryption and Verification through Trusted Nonce: Fangyong Hou (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Dawu Gu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Fast Multiplication Techniques for Public Key Cryptography: Michael Kounavis (Intel Corporation, USA); Vinodh Gopal (Intel Corporation, USA); Satyajit Grover (Intel Corporation, USA)
UBSF: A Novel Online URL-Based Spam Filter: Yang Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
Evaluation of Resilience for Distributed Data Centers: Yehia Khalil (University of Louisville, USA); Adel Elmaghraby (University of Louisville, USA); Anup Kumar (University Of Louisville, USA)
Building a Secure Medical Research Organization: Adil Alaoui (Georgetown University Medical Center, USA); Seong Mun (Georgetown University, USA)

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

- Break -

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Cellular and Mobile Communications II

A New Approach for Efficient MBMS Service Provision in UTRAN: Christoforos Christoforou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Andreas Pitsillides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
An Enhanced approach for Efficient MBMS Handovers in 3G Networks: Christoforos Christoforou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Andreas Pitsillides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Power Counting for Optimized Capacity in MBMS Enabled UTRAN: Andreas Panayides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Christoforos Christoforou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Josephina Antoniou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Andreas Pitsillides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Vasos Vassiliou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Access Control in Group Communication Systems: Qi Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Secured Networks II

FlexBox: Sandboxing Internet Servers based on Layer-7 Contexts: Ayumu Tanoue (Keio University, Japan); Makoto Shimamura (Keio University, Japan); Miyuki Hanaoka (Keio University, Japan); Kenji Kono (Keio Univ., Japan)
A Two-Level Source Address Spoofing Prevention based on Automatic Signature and Verification Mechanism: Jun Bi (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
An Unsupervised Network Anomaly Detection Approach by K-Means Clustering & ID3 Algorithms: Yasser Yasami (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)

Mesh Networks II

End-to-end Shared Restoration Algorithms in Multi-domain Mesh Networks: Zhiying Gao (Lakehead University, Canada); Hassan Naser (Lakehead University, Canada)
High Throughput Path Selection Mechanism for Multi-Path Video Streaming in Ad-Hoc Networks: Ahmed Abd El Al (City University of New York, USA); Tarek Saadawi (The City College/The City University of New York, USA)
A Load aware Routing Metric for Wireless Mesh Networks: Lan Tien Nguyen (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Razvan Beuran (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Yoichi Shinoda (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
CLE^2aR^2: A Cross-Layer Energy-Efficient and Reliable Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Kuei-Ping Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan); Hung-Chang Chen (Tamkang University, Taiwan); Chun-Chih Li (Tamkang University, Taiwan); Hsiang-I Chen (Tamkang University, Taiwan)

Architecture

Pro-active Task Sharing in a Self-organizing Server Cluster: Samah Senbel (Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt)
Model for On-Demand Virtual Computing Architectures - OVCA: Alejandra Rodriguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Javier Fernandez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Jesus Carretero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Performance Modeling of A Grid-based Data Distributed Management Protocol: Yunfeng Gu (University of Ottawa, Canada); Azzedine Boukerche (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada)
Improving Reliability and Energy Efficiency of Disk Systems via Utilization Control: Kiranmai Bellam (Auburn University, USA); Xiao Qin (Auburn University, USA); Adam Manzanares (Auburn University, USA); Xiaojun Ruan (Auburn University, USA); Yiming Yang (Intel Corporation, USA)
The Impact of Interconnection Networks and Applications Granularity to Compound Cluster Configurations: Mario Dantas (UFSC, Brazil); Rodrigo Mendonça (Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil); Luiz Carlos Pinto (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Building Efficient Multi-Core Clusters for High Performance Computing: Luiz Carlos Pinto (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); Luiz Henrique Tomazella (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); Mario Dantas (UFSC, Brazil)

Tuesday, Jul 8

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Keynote Speaker (Dr. Boutaba)

Peer‑to‑peer technology has impacted a wide range of distributed systems beyond simple file‑sharing. Distributed XML databases, Distributed computing, server‑less web publishing and networked resource/service sharing are only a few to name. Despite the diversity in applications, these systems share a common problem regarding searching and discovery of information. This commonality stems from transitory peer population and volatile peer content. As an effect users do not have the exact information about what they are looking for. Rather queries are based on partial information, which requires the search mechanism to be flexible. On the other hand to scale with network size the search mechanism is also required to be bandwidth efficient. Since the advent of P2P technology experts from industry and academia have proposed a number of search techniques ‑ none of which is able to provide satisfactory solution to the conflicting requirements of search efficiency and flexibility. Structured search techniques, mostly DHT‑based, are bandwidth efficient while semi(un)‑structured techniques are flexible. But, neither achieves both ends. This talk will introduce a generic framework called Distributed Pattern Matching to address the search problem in distributed environments while achieving both search flexibility and efficiency.

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

-Break

10:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Peer to Peer

P-CDN: Extending Access Control Capabilities of P2P Systems to provide CDN Services: Bruno Crispo (Universita di Trento, Italy); Fatih Turkmen (University of Trento, Italy); Pietro Mazzoleni (Università di Milano, Italy)
Multicast-P2P Content Distribution in Large-Scale Enterprise Networks: Alberto Aguilar (Florida International University, USA); Raime Bustos (Florida International University, USA); Kia Makki (Florida International University, USA); Raimund Ege (Florida International University, USA)
VoRaQue: Range Queries on Voronoi Overlays: Michele Albano (University of Pisa, Italy); Martina Baldanzi (National Research Council, Italy); Ranieri Baraglia (ISTI-CNR, Italy); Laura Ricci (University of Pisa, Italy)
TorrentLab: investigating BitTorrent through simulation and live experiments: Marinho Barcellos (PUCRS University, Brazil); Rodrigo Mansilha (UNISINOS, Brazil); Francisco Brasileiro (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil)
T2MC: A Peer-to-Peer Mismatch Reduce Technique by Traceroute and 2-Means Classification Algorithm: Hao Gong (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, P.R. China); Guangyu Shi (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, P.R. China); Jian Chen (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, P.R. China); Youshui Long (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, P.R. China)
A Real-Time Road Traffic Information System based on a Peer-to-Peer Approach: Chien-Ming Cheng (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Shiao-Li Tsao (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

Applications in Computers and Communications I

Formal Automated Transformation of SDL Specification to Lotos Specifications: Hazem El-Gendy (Assistant Minister, Egypt)
Tile Logic as an Architectural Model for Mobility: Chafia Bouanaka (University Mentouri of Constantine, Algeria, Algeria); Faiza Belala (Mentouri University, Algeria)
Comparison of Four Similarity Measures Based on GO Annotation for gene Clustering: Hisham Al-Mubaid (University of Houston-Clear lake, USA); Anurag Nagar (University of Houston-Clear lake, USA)
Countering Sinkhole and Black hole Attacks on Sensor Networks using Dynamic Trust Management: Subhrabrata Choudhury (National Institute of Technology-Durgapur, India)
A Proactive Burst Assembly Algorithm for Optical Burst Switched Network: Subhrabrata Choudhury (National Institute of Technology-Durgapur, India); Narayan Debnath (Winona State University, USA)

Wireless Network Models

Modeling Wireless Channel for Ad-Hoc Network Routing Protocol: Tarek Saadawi (The City College/The City University of New York, USA); Merlinda Drini (City College of the City University of New York, USA)
A queuing analysis of packet dropping for Real-Time Applications: Rachid El-Azouzi (LIA/CERI Universite of Avignon, France); Abdellatif Kobbane (Université d'Avignon, France); Bouyakhf Houssine (Université Mohammed V Agdal, Morocco)
Multicast in Wireless Erasure Networks with Feedback: Sriram Vishwanath (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Chong Jiang (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Brian Smith (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Babak Hassibi (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Impact Evaluation of Radio Propagation Models on Performance Parameters of Application Layer in Wireless Mesh Backbone Simulation: Saulo Queiroz (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil); Arlen Nascimento (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil); Edjair Mota (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil); Andrea Giordanna Nascimento (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil); Leandro Carvalho (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil); Edson Nascimento (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil)

Data Mining II

Document Clustering Based on Diffusion Maps and a Comparison of the k-means performances in various spaces: Fadoua Ataa Allah (University Mohamed V - Agdal, Morocco); William Grosky (U of Michigan, USA); Driss Aboutajdine (GSCM_LRIT Mohammed V-agdal University, Morocco)
Semi-Supervised Clustering and Aggregation of Relational Data: Hichem Frigui (University of Louisville, USA)

12:15 PM - 2:15 PM

- Lunch

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Mobility I

Session Mobility in the Mockets Communication Middleware: Cesare Stefanelli (University of Ferrara, Italy); Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy); Erika Benvegnù (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, Italy); Niranjan Suri (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA)
Release of Unnecessary Resource Reservation in Mobility Cases: Lin Hai (Telecom Paris (ENST, France), France); Houda Labiod (ENST, France)
Interface Selection Mechanisms in Multi-Homed Mobile Nodes using Game Theory: Omar Raoof (Brunel University, United Kingdom)
A Reference Architecture for Micro-Mobility Support in IP Networks: Rodrigo Prado (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Eduardo Zagari (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Tomás Badan (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil); Eleri Cardozo (State University of Campinas - School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brazil); Maurício Magalhães (University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil); José Carrilho (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Rossano Pinto (State University of Campinas - School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brazil); André Berenguel (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Daniel Barboza (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Daniel Moraes (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Thienne Johnson (State University of Campinas - School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brazil); Lars Westberg (Ericsson Research, Sweden)
Pitfalls and Tradeoffs on Dealing with Handoff Management in Bluetooth-based WPANs for Real-Time Applications: Loreno Oliveira (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil); Leandro da Silva (Paraíba State University, Brazil); Kyller Gorgônio (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil); Angelo Perkusich (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)

Applications in Computers and Communications II

Using Path Length Measure for Gene Clustering Based on Similarity of Annotation Terms: Anurag Nagar (University of Houston-Clear lake, USA); Hisham Al-Mubaid (University of Houston-Clear lake, USA)
Towards Sound development of PIXITP: Hazem El-Gendy (Assistant Minister, Egypt)
Combining Multiple Segmentation Methods for: Sultan Aljahdali (Taif University, Saudi Arabia)
Metrics Applied to Aspect Oriented Design using UML Profiles: Narayan Debnath (Winona State University, USA); Daniel Riesco (Universidad Nocional de San Luis, Argentina); German Montejano (Universidad Nocional de San Luis, Argentina)
An Interoperability Approach Based on Asynchronous Replication Among Distributed Internet Databases: Mario Dantas (UFSC, Brazil); Douglas Macedo (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Data Communications I

Model for Polling in Noisy Multihop Systems with Application to PLC and AMR: Josep Selga (University Ramon Llull, Spain)
A New Signal Separation Technique Using Double Referenced System: JBARI ATMAN (university mohamed V, Morocco); Abdellah Adib (institut scientifique, Morocco); Driss Aboutajdine (GSCM_LRIT Mohammed V-agdal University, Morocco)
A Graph Theory Based Scheduling algorithm For MIMO-CDMA sytstem Using Zero Forcing Beamforming: Elmahdi Driouch (Universite du Quebec à Montreal, Canada); Wessam Ajib (Universite de Quebec a Montreal, Canada)
Performance Analysis for Resource Coordination in a High-density Wireless Environment: LI Zheng (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia); Doan Hoang (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
MC-CDMA Multiuser Detection Using a Hybrid Immune Clonal Selection Algorithm with Hopfield Neural Network in Fading Channels: Binbin Xu (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Jianping An (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Zhongxia He (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

Software & Applications

Formal Specification of a Particular Banking Domain with RAISE Specification: Mohammad Nami (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran); Abbas Malekpour (University Of Rostock, Germany)
SSMS - A Secure SMS Messaging Protocol for the M-Payment Systems: Mohsen Toorani (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran); Ali Asghar Beheshti (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran)
Primal-Dual Algorithm for Linear Optimization Problems Based on a New Class of Kernel Functions: Mohamed El Ghami (University of Bergen, Norway); Ivan Ivanov (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Hans Melissen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Cornelis Roos (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Trond Steihaug (University of Bergen, Norway)
Variability Modeling for Business Component Customization: Rajaa Saidi (Mohammed V-Agdal University, Morocco); Mounia Fredj (L@GI, Al Qualsadi Team, ENSIAS, Morocco); Salma Mouline (Gscm_Lrit, Morocco); Dominique Rieu (Lig-Sigma, France); Agnes Front (Lig-Sigma, France)
Efficient Sorting Algorithms for the Cell Broadband Engine: Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (University of Connecticut, USA); Reda Ammar (University of Connecticut, USA)

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Break -

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Mobility II

How Node Mobility Affects k-hop Cluster Quality in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: a Quantitative Evaluation: Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy); Eugenio Magistretti (Rice University, USA)
Implementation and Experimental Evaluation of a Fast Local Mobility Protocol: Susana Sargento (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, Portugal)
An IMS Vertical Handoff Solution to Dynamically Adapt Mobile Multimedia Services: Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy); Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna, Italy); Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Performance Testing of Mobile IPv6 Protocol: Wang Huiming (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Xingang Shi (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Zhiliang Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yin Xia (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Jianping Wu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Network Management

Measuring and Visualizing Interdomain Routing Dynamics with BGPATH: Luca Cittadini (Roma Tre University, Italy); Tiziana Refice (Roma Tre University, Italy); Alessio Campisano (Roma Tre University, Italy); Giuseppe Di Battista (Roma Tre University, Italy); Claudio Sasso (Roma Tre University, Italy)
Distributed Fault Localization for Multi-Domain All-Optical Networks with Partial Power Monitoring: Mazen Khair (University of Ottawa, Canada); Jun Zheng (University of Ottawa, Canada); Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Design and Evaluation of a P2MP MPLS-based Hierarchical Service Management System: Kenji Kumaki (KDDI R&D Labs., Japan); Kenichi Nagami (Intec Netcore Inc., Japan); Ikuo Nakagawa (Intec Netcore Inc., Japan); Tomohiko Ogishi (KDDI R&D Lab., Japan); Shigehiro Ano (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan)
A Flexible Network Monitoring Tool based on a Data Stream Management System: Natascha Ligocki (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil); Christian Lyra (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil); Carmem Hara (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil)
Using Visualization Techniques for SNMP Traffic Analyses: Ewerton Salvador (UFRGS, Brazil); Lisandro Granville (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Data Communications II

Blind MIMO Deconvolution Of Any Source Distributions Via High-Order: Manal Taoufiki (university Mohamed V, Morocco); Abdellah Adib (institut scientifique, Morocco); Driss Aboutajdine (GSCM_LRIT Mohammed V-agdal University, Morocco); Saad Biaz (Auburn University, USA)
Investigation on folded Patch Antenna for Cellular Applications: Adnane LATIF (National School of Sciences Applied, University Abdelemalek Essaadi, Tangier, Morocco); Rachid Hilal (University Cadi Ayyad, Morocco); Abdellah Ait Ouahman (University Cadi Ayyad, Morocco)
Comparison of CDMA Tele-traffic Models: Samad Kolahi (Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand)

Document Retrieval

A Novel Transliteration Technique in English‑Arabic Cross Language Information Retrieval: Bellaachia Abdelghani (George Washington University, USA); Ghita Amor-Tijani (George Washington University, USA)
Multi-word term indexing for Arabic document retrieval: SIHAM Boulaknadel (university mohamed V rabat, Morocco); Beatrice Daille (LINA, France); Driss Aboutajdine (GSCM_LRIT Mohammed V-agdal University, Morocco)
OOV Words in an English-Arabic CLIR System: Bellaachia Abdelghani (George Washington University, USA); Ghita Amor-Tijani (George Washington University, USA)

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Conference Banquet

Wednesday, Jul 9

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Keynote Speaker (Dr. Daneshmand)

This talk will contain an overview of AT&T Shannon Labs (the Research arm of AT&T Labs), and a more detailed discussion of our work in Information Mining and Software Research with applications in telecommunications industry including network operations, network security, IP network management, fraud detection, marketing, and business & consumer markets analysis. Over the past 10 years, AT&T Labs has had a focused program in information mining at very large scale. This has included inventing many tools & techniques, building quite a few applications, and collecting a few petabytes of telecommunications data. It also has included learning about what is useful and not so useful, possible and not so possible, and what directions we should be taking. Emphasis has been on near real-time mining; therefore on data streams, analysis within windows of data, and interactive visualization with record and playback. This talk will review some of the tools, techniques, learning and challenges of this research program thus far.

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

. Break

10:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Quality of Service I

A Stateless Architectural Approach to Inter-domain QoS: Vitor Jesus (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Rui Aguiar (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Analysis of the EDCA access mechanism for an IEEE 802.11e-compatible wireless LAN: Jose Gallardo (CICESE Research Center, Mexico); Sarai Cruz (CICESE Research Center, Mexico); Dimitrios Makrakis (University of Ottawa, Canada); Abdallah Shami (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)
A Vendor-Independent Resource Control Framework for WiMAX: Pedro Neves (Portugal Telecom Inovação, Portugal); Tuomas Nissilä (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Telmo Pereira (IT-Aveiro, Portugal); Ilkka Harjula (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); João Monteiro (IT-Aveiro, Portugal); Kostas Pentikousis (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Susana Sargento (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, Portugal); Francisco Fontes (Portugal Telecom Inovacao, Portugal)
Distributed Quality-of-Service Routing of Best Constrained Shortest Paths.: Abdelhamid Mellouk (University Paris XII, France)

Routing I

Relaxed Min-Augmented Range Trees for the Representation of Dynamic IP Router Tables: Christine Maindorfer (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany); Bettina Bär (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany); Thomas Ottmann (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany)
Bypass: Providing Secure DHT Routing through Bypassing Malicious Peers: Marc Artigas (Rovira i Virgili University, Spain); Pedro Garcia-Lopez (University Rovira i Virgili, Spain); Antonio Gomez-Skarmeta (University of Murcia, Spain)
A Partially Buffered Crossbar Packet Switching Architecture and Its Scheduling: Lotfi Mhamdi (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Sensor Networks I

Exploiting the Cloning Capability of Mobile Agents for Cost-Effective Data Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks: Aristides Mpitziopoulos (University of the Aegean, Greece); Damianos Gavalas (University of the Aegean, Greece); Charalampos Konstantopoulos (University of Patras, Greece); Grammati Pantziou (Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece)
On the self-healing properties of an extremely low power indoor metering network: Nicola Altan (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Erwin Rathgeb (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
EATA: Effectiveness based Aggregation Time Allocation Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks: Wei Huangfu (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science, P.R. China); Yan LIU (Peking University, P.R. China); Bin Duan (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Limin Sun (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Canfeng Chen (Nokia Research Center, P.R. China); Jian Ma (Nokia Research Center, P.R. China)

Image Processing

A New Approach of 3D Watermarking Based on Image Segmentation: Saoussen Ben Jabra (Sciences University of Tunis, Tunisia); Zagrouba Ezzeddine (ISI, Tunisia)
A Robust Digital Image Watermarking Method Using Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform: Samira Mabtoul (Faculty of Sciences, Morocco); Ibn Elhaj Elhassane (National Institute of Post and Telecommunications (INPT) Rabat-Morocco, Morocco); Driss Aboutajdine (GSCM_LRIT Mohammed V-agdal University, Morocco)
Using The Maximum Mutual Information Criterion To Textural Feature Selection For Satellite Image Classification: Mounir Ait Kerroum (Faculty of Sciences, Mohamed V-Agdal University, Morocco); Ahmed Hammouch (Faculty of Sciences, Mohamed V-Agdal University, Morocco); Driss Aboutajdine (GSCM_LRIT Mohammed V-agdal University, Morocco); Bellaachia Abdelghani (George Washington University, USA)
Automatic color Face tracking using gray information: Leila Essannouni (Fsr, Morocco); El hassane Ibn Elhaj (INPT, Morocco); Driss Aboutajdine (FSr, Morocco)

12:00 PM - 2:15 PM

. Lunch

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Quality of Service II

Deterministic Service on IEEE 802.11-like Networks: Mario Baldi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Marco Papa Manzillo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
QoS-aware Application Layer Multicast: Bin Rong (RMIT University, Australia); Ibrahim Khalil (Faculty member, RMIT University, Australia); Zahir Tari (RMIT University, Australia)
Wavelet-based Geometry Coding for 3D Mesh Using Space Frequency Quantization: Walaa Sheta (Informatic Research Institute, MuCSAT, Egypt)
Robustness Study of MBAC Algorithms: Anne Nevin (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Yuming Jiang (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway); Peder Emstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Routing II

Flooding Zone Initialization Protocol (FZIP): Enabling Efficient Multimedia Diffusion for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks: Tarik Elamsy (University of Windsor, Canada); Randa El-Marakby (University of Windsor, Canada)
Measuring Network Performance of Swarm Power Aware Routing Protocol for MANETs: Ahmed Nagy (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
A Reliability Aware Flooding Algorithm (RAFA) in Wireless Multi-hop Networks: Youndo Lee (Seoul National University, Korea); YoonBo Shim (Seoul National University, Korea); Yanghee Choi (Seoul National University, Korea); Taekyoung Kwon (Seoul National University, Korea)

Sensor Networks II

A spatial extension of TinyDB for wireless sensor networks: Luigi Pomante (University of L'Aquila, Italy); Paolino Di Felice (University of L'aquila, Italy); Massimo Ianni (University of L'Aquila, Italy)
A Reliable Synchronous Transportation Protocol for Wireless Image Sensor Networks: Azzedine Boukerche (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada); Yan Du (University of Ottawa, Canada); Jing Feng (University of Ottawa, Canada); Richard Pazzi (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Broadcast Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks with Dynamic Power Management: Paulo Sausen (University UNIJUI, Brazil); Marco Spohn (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil); Angelo Perkusich (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)
Data Collection in Sensor Networks with Data Mules: an Integrated Simulation Analysis: Giuseppe Anastasi (University of Pisa, Italy); Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy); Mario Di Francesco (University of Pisa, Italy)

Systems

A New Approach to Content-based File Type Detection: Mohsen Toorani (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran); Mehdi Chehel Amirani (Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Iran); Ali Asghar Beheshti (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran)
JaDE: A JXTA Support for Distributed Virtual Environments: Laura Ricci (University of Pisa, Italy); Luca Genovali (IMT, Italy)
Transactional Agents for Pervasive Computing: Machigar Ongtang (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Ali Hurson (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Yu Jiao (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

. Break .

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

VoIP, Multicast, and Load Balancing

Cooperative Load Balancing in IEEE 802.11 Networks with Cell Breathing: Eduard Garcia Villegas (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Rafael Vidal (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Josep Paradells (UPC, Spain)
ROHC and Aggregated VoIP over Fixed WiMAX: An Empirical Evaluation: Esa Piri (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Jarno Pinola (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Frerk Fitzek (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany); Kostas Pentikousis (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)
Efficient Failover and Load Balancing for Dependable SIP Proxy Servers: Yun-Jung Cheng (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Kuochen Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Rong-Hong Jan (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Chien Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Taiwan); Chia-Yuan Huang (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan)

Sensor Networks III

Underwater Wireless Hybrid Sensor Networks: Kashif Ali (Queen's University, Canada); Hossam Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
Efficient Deployment of Surface-Level Gateways in Underwater Sensor Networks: Saleh Ibrahim (University of Connecticut, USA); Jun-Hong Cui (University of Connecticut, USA); Reda Ammar (University of Connecticut, USA)
Enlightness: An Enhanced and Lightweight Algorithm for Time-Space Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks: Azzedine Boukerche (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada); Horacio Oliveira (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil); Eduardo Nakamura (FUCAPI - Research and Technological Innovation Center, Brazil); Antonio A.F. Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
AT-Angle: A Distributed Method for Localization using Angles in Sensor Networks: Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon, France); Clément Saad (Université Montpellier 2 - LIRMM, France)

Day	Time	Agadir	Erfoud	Fes	Ouarzazate	Plenary
Sun	09:00 AM-10:00 AM			MediaWiN 2008: Welcome Address & Keynote Speakers
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM			MediaWiN: Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM			MediaWiN: A/V Streaming over Wireless I
	12:00 PM-02:00 PM			MediaWiN: Lunch Break
	02:00 PM-03:30 PM			MediaWiN: A/V Streaming over Wireless II
	03:30 PM-04:00 PM			MediaWiN: Coffee Break II
	04:00 PM-05:00 PM			MediaWiN: Multimedia Applications over Wireless
Mon	08:30 AM-09:00 AM	Welcome Address
	09:00 AM-10:30 AM	Keynote Speaker (Dr. Khorram)
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM					Break
	11:00 AM-12:45 PM	Optical Networks	Service Oriented Architecture	MAC Rate Adaptation and TCP	Data Mining I
	12:15 PM-02:15 PM					Lunch
	02:15 PM-04:00 PM	Cellular and Mobile Communications I	Secured Networks I	Mesh Networks I	Secured Systems
	04:00 PM-04:30 PM					- Break -
	04:30 PM-06:00 PM	Cellular and Mobile Communications II	Secured Networks II	Mesh Networks II	Architecture
Tue	09:00 AM-09:45 AM	Keynote Speaker (Dr. Boutaba)
	09:45 AM-10:15 AM					-Break
	10:15 AM-12:00 PM	Peer to Peer	Applications in Computers and Communications I	Wireless Network Models	Data Mining II
	12:15 PM-02:15 PM					- Lunch
	02:15 PM-04:00 PM	Mobility I	Applications in Computers and Communications II	Data Communications I	Software & Applications
	04:00 PM-04:30 PM					Break -
	04:30 PM-06:00 PM	Mobility II	Network Management	Data Communications II	Document Retrieval
	07:00 PM-10:00 PM					Conference Banquet
Wed	09:00 AM-09:45 AM	Keynote Speaker (Dr. Daneshmand)
	09:45 AM-10:15 AM					. Break
	10:15 AM-12:00 PM	Quality of Service I	Routing I	Sensor Networks I	Image Processing
	12:00 PM-02:15 PM					. Lunch
	02:15 PM-04:00 PM	Quality of Service II	Routing II	Sensor Networks II	Systems
	04:00 PM-04:30 PM					. Break .
	04:30 PM-06:00 PM	VoIP, Multicast, and Load Balancing		Sensor Networks III
	05:30 PM-06:00 PM	Closing Plenary and Awards Session