International Conference on Wireless Algorithms,
Systems and Applications
Dallas, TX, USA

Program

October 26 (Sunday)
8:00 - 8:30
Opening
8:30 - 9:30
9:30 - 9:45
Coffee Break
9:45 - 12:15
12:15 - 13:45
Lunch
13:45 - 14:45
14:45 - 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 - 17:30

October 27 (Monday)
8:00 - 8:50
8:50 - 9:00
Introduction to WASA 2009: Dr. Jie Wang
9:00 - 9:15
Coffee Break
9:15 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
14:00 - 18:00
Free Time
18:00 - 20:00
Banquet

October 28 (Tuesday)
8:00 - 9:40
9:40 - 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:10
15:10 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:10

Session 1: Routing

Session Chair: Mihaela Caidei (Florida Atlantic University)

  1. Delivery Guarantee of Greedy Routing in Three Dimensional Wireless Networks, Yu Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), Chih-Wei  Yi (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), and Fan Li (Beijing Institute of Technology)
  2. Landmarks Selection Algorithm for Virtual Coordinates Routing, S. Baskakov (Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russian)
  3. DTN Routing with Probabilistic Trajectory Prediction, Ionut Cardei, Cong Liu, Jie Wu, and Quan Yuan (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
  4. HoP: Pigeon-assisted Forwarding in Partitioned Wireless Networks,  Hui Guo, Jiang Li (Howard University, USA), and Yi Qian(National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
  5. Load-Based Metrics and Flooding in Wireless Mesh Networks,  Sameh Gobriel (Intel Research Labs, USA), A. S. Krishnakumar, P. Krishnan, and Shalini Yajnik (Avaya Labs,, USA)
  6. New Approximation for Minimum-weight Routing Backbone in Wireless Sensor Network,  Ning Zhang, Incheol Shin, Bo Li, Cem Boyaci, Ravi Tiwari, and My T. Thai (University of Florida, USA)
  7. Ant Colony Optimization-Based Location-Aware Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks,  Xiaoming Wang (Shaanxi Normal University, China; Georgia State University, USA), Qiaoliang Li (Hunan University, China; Georgia State University, USA), Naixue Xiong, and Yi Pan (Georgia State University, USA)
  8. A Simple Yet Effective Diversifying Improvement of the Minimum Power Multicast Tree Algorithms in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Manki Min (South Dakota State University)

Session 2: Event Detection and Security

Session Chair: My T. Thai (University of Florida)

  1. Sensor Deployment for Composite Event Detection in Mobile WSNs, Yinying Yang and Mihaela Cardei (Florida Atlantic University)
  2. Reliable and Fast Detection of Gradual Events in Wireless Sensor Networks, Liping Peng, Hong Gao, Jianzhong Li, Shengfei Shi, and Boduo Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
  3. An Energy-Efficient Object Tracking Algorithm in Sensor Networks, Qianqian Ren, Hong Gao, Shouxu Jiang, and Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
  4. A Random Key Management Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks, Qing Yang (Hunan University, China), Qiaoliang Li (Hunan University, China; Georgia State University, USA), Xiaoming Wang (Shanxi Normal University, China; Georgia State University, USA), Naixue Xiong, and Yi Pan (Georgia State University, USA)
  5. WORMEROS: A New Framework for Defending Against Wormhole Attacks on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,  Hai Vu, Ajay Kulkarni, Kamil Sarac, and Neeraj Mittal (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
  6. Designing Secure Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks, A. Selcuk Uluagac, Chritopher P. Lee (Georgia Institute of Tehnology, USA), Raheem A. Beyah (Georgia State University, USA), and John A. Copeland (Georgia Institute of Tehnology, USA)
  7. Privacy-Preserving Communication Algorithms and Network Protocols, Jian Ren (Michigan State University, USA)
  8. Secure Multi-Party Protocols for Privacy Preserving Data Mining, Qingkai Ma (Utica College, USA) and Ping Deng (University of Illinois at Springfield, USA)

Session 3: Connected Dominating Sets and Information Management

Session Chair: Yu Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

  1. Construction of Minimum Connected Dominating Set in 3-Dimensional Wireless Network,  Feng Zou (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Xianyue Li (Lanzhou University, China), Donghyun Kim, and Weili Wu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
  2. Maintaining CDS in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Kazuya Sakai (Auburn University, USA), Min-Te Sun (National Central University, Taiwan), Wei-Shinn Ku (Auburn University, USA), and Hiromi Okada (Kansai University, Japan)
  3. PTAS for Minimum Connected Dominating Set in Unit Ball Graph, Zhao Zhang (Xinjiang University), Xiaofeng Gao, Weili Wu, and Ding-Zhu Du (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
  4. A Better Theoretical Bound to Approximate Connected Dominating Set in Unit Disk Graph, Xianyue Li (Lanzhou University), Xiaofeng Gao, and Weili Wu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
  5. Minimum Power Minimum D-Hop Dominating Sets in Wireless Sensor Networks, Trac N. Nguyen, Dung T. Huynh, and Jason A. Bolla (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
  6. C-kNN Query Processing in Object Tracking Sensor Networks,  Jinghua Zhu, Jianzhong Li, Jizhou Luo, Wei Zhang, and Hongzhi Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
  7. Power-Efficient Data Exchanging Algorithm in Wireless Mesh Networks,  Jinbao Li, Peng Wang, and Qianqian Ren (Heilongjiang University, China)
  8. Composite Spatio-Temporal Co-occurrence Pattern Mining,  Zhongnan Zhang and Weili Wu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
  9. Belief Propagation in Wireless Sensor Networks - A Practical Approach,  Tal Anker (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Marvell Semiconductor, USA), Danny Dolev, and Bracha Hod (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
  10. Enhancing Software Product Line Maintenance with Source Code Mining, Michael Jiang, Jing Zhang (Motorola Labs, USA), Hong Zhao (Motorola, USA), and Y. Zhou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Session 4: Scheduling, Synchronization and Channel Assignment

Session Chair: Calinescu (Illinois Institute of Technology)

  1. Transmission Scheduling for CBR Traffic in Multihop Wireless Networks,  Maggie X. Cheng, Xuan Gong (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA), Lin Cai, and Ahmad Abdullah (University of Victoria, Canada)
  2. Leader Election Algorithms for Multi-Channel Wireless Networks, Tarun Bansal, Neeraj Mittal, and S. Venkatesan (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
  3. Clock Offset Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Bootstrap Bias Correction, Jaehan Lee, Jangsub Kim, and Erchin Serpedin (Texas A&M University, USA)
  4. Correction Analysis for Spreading Codewords in Quasi-Synchronous CDMA Communication,  Sujit Jos (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
  5. Analytical Study of the Expected Number of Hops in Wireless Ad Hoc Network, Shadi Harb and Janise McNair (University of Florida, USA)

Session 5: Coverage, Monitoring and Relay Management

Session Chair: Maggie X. Cheng (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

  1. Convex Combination Approximation for the Min-Cost WSN Point Coverage Problem,  Zheng Fang and Jie Wang (University of Massachusetts, USA)
  2. p-Percent Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks, Yiwei Wu, Chunyu Ai, Shan Gao, and Yingshu Li (Georgia State University, USA)
  3. Prolonging Network Lifetime for Target Coverage in Sensor Networks, Yuzhen Liu and Weifa Liang (Australian National University, Australia)
  4. An Environmental Monitoring System with Integrated Wired and Wireless Sensors, Jue Yang, Chengyang Zhang, Xinrong Li, Yan Huang, and Shengli Fu, and Miguel Acevedo (University of North Texas, USA)
  5. Locate More Sensors with Fewer Anchors in Wireless Sensor Networks, Hui Ling and Taieb Znati (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
  6. Mobility Model and Relay Management for Disaster Area Wireless Networks, Wenxuan Guo and Xinming Huang (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
  7. Relay Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks,  Gruia Calinescu and Sutep Tongngam (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

Session 6: System Design and Optimization

Session Chair: Wei Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)

  1. Toward A Real and Remote Wireless Sensor Network Testbed,  Shu Chen, Yan Huang, and Chengyang Zhang (University of North Texas, USA)
  2. An Optimal Algorithm for Minimizing Cluster Overlap of ACE, Qiang Hu (Hunan University, China), Qiaoliang Li (Hunan University, China; Georgia State University, USA), Xiaoming Wang (Shanxi Normal University, China; Georgia State University, USA), Naixue Xiong, and Yi Pan (Georgia State University, USA)
  3. Supporting IPv6 Interaction with Wireless Sensor Networks Using NP++, Matthew Jakeman, Danny Hughes, Geoff Coulson, Gordon Blair, Steve Pink (Lancaster University, UK), and Kevin Lee (University of Manchester, UK)
  4. The Effect of Re-Sampling on Incremental Nelder-Mead Simplex Algorithm: Distributed Regression in Wireless Sensor Networks, Parisa J. Marandi, Muharram Mansoorizadeh, and Nasrollah M. Charkari (Tarbiat Modares University,  Iran)
  5. Software Fault Localization Using N-gram Analysis, Syeda Nessa, Muhammad Abedin, W. Eric Wong, Latifur Khan, and Yu Qi (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Session 7: Resource Management and Energy-Conserving Design

Session Chair: Manki Min (South Dakota State University)

  1. Energy Consumption Reduction of a WSN Node Using 4-bit ADPCM, Mohammed Billoo and Carl Sable (Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, USA)
  2. Minimizing Transferred Data for Code Update on Wireless Sensor Network, Jingtong Hu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Chun J. Xue (City University of Hong Kong, Hong kong), Meikang Qiu (University of New Orleans, USA), Wei-Che Tseng, Cathy Q. Xu, Lei Zhang, and Edwin H.-M. Sha (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
  3. Opportunistic Cooperation with Receiver-based Ratio Combining Strategy, Qian Wang, Kui Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA), Yanchao Zhang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), and Bo Zhu (Concordia University, Canada)
  4. Message-Driven Frequency Hopping -- Design and Analysis, Qi Ling, Jian Ren, and Tongtong Li (Michigan State University, USA)
  5. Recyclable Connected Dominating Set for Large Scale Dynamic Wireless Networks, Donghyun Kim (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Xianyue Li (Lanzhou University, China), Feng Zou (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Zhao Zhang (Xinjiang University, China), and Weili Wu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)