Sunday, August 16, 2009

 

07:30-08:30     Breakfast

 

08:00-12:00    Registration open ( Nantucket room, also open 13:30-14:30)

 

08:30-09:00    Conference Opening

 

09:00-10:45

 

Session 1A: Applications and Experimentation

(Nantucket Room, Session Chair: Xiuzhen Cheng)

 

1. Long-term Animal Observation by Wireless Sensor Networks with Sound Recognition

Ning-Han Liu, Chen-An Wu, Shu-Ju Hsieh ( National Pingtung University of Science & Technology, Taiwan)

 

2. Experimental Study on Mobile RFID Performance

Zhong Ren ( Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Chiu Tan ( College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA), Dong Wang ( Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Qun Li ( College of William and Mary, USA)

 

3. Experimental Study on Secure Data Collection in Vehicular Networks

Harry Gao , Seth Utecht , Fengyuan Xu , Haodong Wang , Qun Li (College of William and Mary, USA)

 

4. Experimental Study of Independent and Dominating Sets in Wireless Sensor Networks using Graph Coloring Algorithms

Dhia Mahjoub , David Matula (Southern Methodist University , USA)

 

Session 1B: Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems I

(Dedham Room, Session Chair: Guanling Chen)

1. Discovery and Protection of Sensitive Linkage Information for Online Social Networks Services
Nan Zhang (George Washington University), Min Song (Old Dominion University), Xinwen Fu (University of Massachusetts Lowell), and Wei Yu (Towson University)

2. Social Network Privacy via Evolving Access Control
Giovanni Di Crescenzo (Telcordia Technologies) and Richard J. Lipton (Georgia Tech)

3. Utopia: Providing Trusted Social Network Relationships within an Un-Trusted Environment
William Gauvin, Benyuan Liu, Xinwen Fu, and Jie Wang (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

 

10:45-11:15    Coffee Break

 

11:15-12:15    Keynote 1: Sajal Das (National Science Foundation)

Title: A Multi-Layer Framework for Securing Wireless Sensor networks

(Nantucket Room, Session Chair: Benyuan Liu)

 

12:15-13:30    Lunch

 

13:30-15:15

 

Session 2A: Routing

(Nantucket Room, Session Chair: My Thai )

 

1. CSR: Constrained Selfish Routing in Ad-Hoc Networks

Christine Bassem, Azer Bestavros ( Boston University, USA)

 

2. NQAR: Network Quality Aware Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Jaewon Choi ( Changwon National University, South Korea), Baek-Young Choi ( Univ. of Missouri, USA), Sejun Song ( Wichita State University, USA) and Kwang-Hui Lee ( Changwon National University, South Korea)

 

3. Communication in Naturally Mobile Sensor Networks

Donghua Deng (Juniper Networks, USA), Qun Li ( College of William and Mary, USA)

 

4. On the Capacity of Hybrid Wireless Networks with Opportunistic Routing

Tan Le,Yong Liu (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA)

 

Session 2B: Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems II

(Dedham Room, Session Chair: William Gauvin)

1. Design and Implementation of Davis Social Links OSN Kernel
Thomas Tran, Kelcey Chan, Shaozhi Ye, Prantik Bhattacharyya, Ankush Garg, Xiaoming Lu, and S. Felix Wu (University of California Davis)

2. Latency-bounded Minimum Influential Node Selection in Social Networks
Feng Zou (University of Texas Dallas), Zhao Zhang (Xinjiang University), and Weili Wu (University of Texas Dallas)

3. Information Extraction as Link Prediction: Using Curated Citation Networks to Improve Gene Detection
Andrew Arnold and William W. Cohen (Carnegie Mellon University)

15:15-15:45    Coffee Break

 

15:45-17:30   

 

Session 3A: Localization

(Nantucket Room, Session Chair: Qun Li )

 

1. Relative Span Weighted Localization of Uncooperative Nodes in Wireless Networks

Christine Laurendeau, Michel Barbeau (Carleton University, Canada)

 

2. Distributed Range-free Localization Algorithm Based on Self-Organizing Maps

Pham Doan Tinh , Makoto Kawai ( Ritsumeikan University, Japan)

 

3. Location Discovery in SpeckNets using Relative Direction Information

Ryan McNally, D.K. Arvind ( University of Edinburgh, UK)

 

4. Fully Decentralized and Collaborative Multilateration Primitives for Uniquely Localizing WSNs

Arda Cakiroglu ( Isık University, Turkey), Cesim Erten (Kadir Has University,  Turkey).

 

Session 3B: Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems III

(Dedham Room, Session Chair: Guanling Chen)

 

1. Social-stratification Probabilistic Routing Algorithm in Delay-Tolerant Network
Fuad Alnajjar and Tarek Saadawi (The City University of New York)

2. Geographic Community Analysis of Mobile Social Network (short paper)
Nan Li and Guanling Chen ( University of Massachusetts Lowell)

 

3. Architecture and Design of Mobile Client for Multiple Social  Networking Services (short paper)
Babjan Saheb, Bharath Kumar, Bhavana Gajendra, Bhuvaneswari J, Inderjeet Singh, Jitesh Chawla, Jolly Mathew, Kavitha Prasad, Manjula  Gupta, Nishanth T.S, Vinu Warrier and Yogesh Singh (Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd, Bangalore, India)

 

4. Design of a Social Networking Analysis and Information Logger Tool (short paper)

William Gauvin, Benyuan Liu ( University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)

 

Monday, August 17

 

07:30-08:30     Breakfast

 

08:00-16:00    Registration open (Nantucket Room)

 

08:45-10:30   

 

Session 4A: Coverage and Detection

(Nantucket Room,Session Chair: Benyuan Liu)

 

1. Epsilon-Net Approach to Sensor k-Coverage

Giordano Fusco, Himanshu Gupta (Stony Brook University , USA)

 

2. Stochastic k-Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks  

Habib M. Ammari ( Hofstra University , USA)

 

3. Herd-Based Target Tracking Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks  

Xiaofei Xing ( Central South University, China), Guojun Wang, Jie Wu ( Florida Atlantic University, USA)

 

4. Biologically-Inspired Target Recognition in Radar Sensor Networks

Qilian Liang ( University of Texas at Arlington , USA)

 

Session 4B: Scheduling

(Dedham Room, Session Chair: Yu Wang)

 

1. An Approximation Algorithm for Conflict-Aware Many-to-One Data Aggregation Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks

Qinghua Zhu, Deying Li (Renmin University of China, China)

 

2. On approximation algorithms for Interference-Aware Broadcast Scheduling in 2D and 3D Wireless Sensor Networks

Ravi Tiwari, Thang Dinh, My Thai ( University of Florida, USA)

 

3. Dynamic Scheduling of Pigeons for Delay Constrained Applications

Jiazhen Zhou, Jiang Li, Legand Burge  ( Howard University, USA)

 

4. Minimum-Latency Schedulings for Group Communications in Multi-Channel Multihop Wireless Networks

Peng-Jun Wan, Zhu Wang (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA), Zhiyuan Wan, Scott C.-H. Huang (City Univesrsity of Hong Kong,  Hong Kong), Hai Liu ( Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong).

 

10:30-11:00    Break

 

11:00-12:00    Keynote 2: Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Title: Mobility Models for Wireless Networks: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Successes

(Nantucket Room, Session Chair: Jie Wang)

 

12:00-13:30    Lunch

 

13:30:-18:30   Excursion (Red Trolley, Boston Harbor Cruise)

 

18:30:             Banquet ( China Pearl Restaurant, Boston Chinatown, 9 Tyler St)

 

 

Tuesday, August 18

 

07:30-08:30     Breakfast

 

08:00-16:00    Registration open

 

08:30-10:15 

 

Session 5A: Wireless Network Topology

(Nantucket Room, Session Chair: Dechang Chen)

 

1.RE2-CD: Robust and Energy Efficient Cut Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks

Myounggyu Won, Stephen George, Radu Stoleru ( Texas A&M University, USA)

 

2. Minimum Interference Planar Geometric Topology in Wireless Sensor Networks

Trac Nguyen, Dung Huynh ( University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

 

3. Topology Inference in Wireless Mesh Networks

Kai Xing, Xiuzhen Cheng ( George Washington University, USA), Dechang Chen(Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, USA), David Hung-Chang Du ( University of Minnesota, USA)

 

4. Maximum Independent Set of Links under Physical Interference Model

Peng-Jun Wan (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA), Xiaohua Jia, Frances Yao (City Univesrsity of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

 

Session 5B: Resource Management

(Dedham Room, Session Chair: Tongtong Li)

 

1. Traffic-Aware Channel Assignment in Wireless Sensor Networks

Yafeng Wu ( University of Virginia, USA), Gang Zhou, Weizhen Mao (College of William and Mary, USA)

 

2. Uplink Resource Management Design in Multi-Access Wireless Networks

Mira Yun , Timothy Kim, Yu Zhou, Hyeong-Ah Choi ( George Washington University, USA), Amrinder Arora, Joseph Gomes (Bowie State University, USA)

 

3. Throughput Measurement-based Access Point Selection for Multi-rate Wireless LANs

Yanxiao Zhao, Min Song, Jun Wang ( Old Dominion University, USA), Eun Park ( University of Missouri at Kansas City, USA)

 

4. Sniffer Channel Selection for Monitoring Wireless LANs

Yuan Song , Xian Chen, Yoo-Ah Kim, Bing Wang ( University of Connecticut, USA), Guanling Chen ( University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)

 

10:15-10:45    Coffee Break

 

10:45-12:00   

 

Session 6A: Routing and Querying

(Nantucket Room, Session Chair: Min Song)

 

1. Void Avoidance in Three-Dimensional Mobile Underwater Sensor Networks

Peng Xie , Zhong Zhou , Zheng Peng , Jun-Hong Cui , Zhijie Shi ( University of Connecticut, USA)

 

2. Energy Consumption of Fair-Access in Sensor Networks with Linear and Selected Grid Topologies

Miao Peng, Yang Xiao ( University of Alabama, USA)

 

3. Routing-Aware Query Optimization for Conserving Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks

Jie Yang,  Jie Wang ( University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)

 

4. In-network Historical Data Storage and Query Processing Based on Distributed Indexing Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks

Chunyu Ai, Yingshu Li ( Georgia State University, USA), Ruiying Du ( Wuhan University, China), Minghong Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

 

Session 6B: Services

(Dedham Room, Session Chair: Jian Ren)

 

1. Introduction to Mobile Trajectory Based Services: A New Direction in Mobile Location Based Services

Sarfraz Khokhar (Cisco Systems, USA), Arne Nilsson ( North Carolina State University, USA)

 

2. Can You See Me? - The Use of a Binary Visibility Metric in Distance Bounding

Michelle Graham, David Gray ( Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland)

 

3. A QoS Framework with Traffic Request in Wireless Mesh Network

Bo Fu , Hejiao Huang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China).

 

4. A Comparison of Block-based and Clip-based Cooperative Caching Techniques for Streaming Media in Wireless Home Networks

Shahram Ghanderharizadeh, Shahin Shayandeh ( University of Southern California, USA)

 

12:00-13:30    Lunch

 

13:30-15:15   

 

Session 7A: Multicast and Broadcast

(Nantucket Room, Session Chair: Duc Tran)

 

1.Multicast Extensions to the Location-Prediction Based Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad  Hoc Networks

Natarajan Meghanathan ( Jackson State University, USA)

 

2. AGSMR: Adaptive Geo-Source Multicast Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks

Sejun Song, Daehee Kim ( Wichita State University, USA), Baek-Young Choi (University of Missouri Kansas City, USA)

 

3. Lookahead Expansion Algorithm for Minimum Power Multicasting in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Manki Min, Austin O'Brien ( South Dakota State University, USA)

 

4. A Network Coding Approach to Reliable Broadcast in Wireless Mesh Networks

Zhenyu Yang, Ming Li, Wenjing Lou (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

 

Session 7B: Security

(Dedham Room, Session Chair: Honggang Zhang)

 

1. Providing Source-Location Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks

Yun Li, Jian Ren ( Michigan State University, USA)

 

2. Spectrally Efficient Frequency Hopping System Design Under Hostile Jamming

Lei Zhang , Tongtong Li ( Michigan State University, USA)

 

3. Consistency-based Secure Localization Scheme Against Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Honglong Chen, Wei Lou ( Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong), Zhi Wang ( Zhejiang University, China)

 

4. A Secure Framework for Location Verification in Pervasive Computing

Dawei Liu, Moon-Chuen Lee, Dan Wu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

 

15:15-15:45    Break

 

15:45-17:00   

 

Session 8A: Power Management

(Nantucket Room, Session Chair: Jie Wang)

 

1. Energy-Efficient Composite Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks

Mirela Marta, Yinying Yang, Mihaela Cardei ( Florida Atlantic University, USA)

 

2. Dynamic Power Management for Sensor Node in WSN Using Average Reward MDP

Somayeh Kianpisheh , Nasrolah Moghadam Charkari ( Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran)

 

3. Energy Efficient DNA-Based Scheduling Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

Shan Suthaharan, Abhinav Chawade, Jing Deng ( University of North Carolina at  Greensboro, USA), Rittwik Jana (AT&T Labs, USA)

 

Session 8B: Data Collection and Query

(Dedham Room, Session Chair: Benyuan Liu)

 

1. Data Collection With Mutliple Sinks in Wireless Networks

Hieu Dinh , Sixia Chen , Bing Wang, Yoo-Ah Kim, Matthew Coolbeth ( University of Connecticut, USA)

 

2. Throughput Potential of Overlay Cognitive Wireless Mesh Networks

Jonathan Backens, Min Song ( Old Dominion University, USA)

 

3. Workload-Driven Compressed Skycube Queries in Wireless Applications

Zheng Fang, Jie Wang ( University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA), Donghui Zhang (Northeastern University, USA)