TECHNICAL PROGRAM SCHEDULE
TUESDAY: October 5, 2004
08:30 – 09:00 am: Opening Remarks
09:00 – 09:45 am: Keynote Address - I
"A National Network - What we have learned?"
John Strand, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
09:45 – 10:30 am: Keynote Address – II
"Commercial Wireless Sensor Networks: Status, Issues and Challenges"
Mike Horton, CEO Crossbow Tech. Inc.
10:30 – 11:00 am: Break/Posters
11:00 – 12:30 pm: Panel I: Technical Challenges in Deploying Real Adhoc/Sensor Networks
12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch
Session 1: Tue, 1.30 - 3.00pm
Title: Applications
Chair: Surendar Chandra, Univ. of Notre Dame
Controlled Mobility for Sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks (Invited - Short Paper)
Aman Kansal (University of California, Los Angeles),
Mohammad Rahimi (University of California, Los Angeles),
Deborah Estrin (University of California, Los Angeles),
William J Kaiser (University of California, Los Angeles),
Gregory J Pottie (University of California, Los Angeles),
Mani B Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles)
Applications and Experiments with eBlocks – Electronic Blocks for Basic Sensor-Based Systems
Susan Cotterell (University of California, Riverside, USA),
Kelly Downey (University of California, Riverside, USA),
Frank Vahid (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Analysis of the performance of IEEE 802.15.4 for Medical Sensor Body Area Networking
Nick Timmons (Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland),
William Scanlon (Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom)
Incremental Network Programming for Wireless Sensors
Jaein Jeong (University of California, Berkeley, USA),
David Culler (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Session 2: Tue, 1.30 - 3.00pm
Title: Routing - I
Chair: Koen Langendoen, TU Delft
Interaction of Retransmission, Blacklisting, and Routing Metrics for Reliability in Sensor Network Routing
Omprakash Gnawali (University of Southern California, USA),
Mark Yarvis (Intel Corporation, USA),
John Heidemann (University of Southern California, USA),
Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California, USA)
Cost-Conscious Geographic Multicast on MANET
Akira Mizumoto (Osaka University, Japan),
Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka Univ., Japan),
Kenichi Taniguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
Reducing Data-Overhead of Mesh-based Ad hoc Multicast Routing Protocols by Steiner Tree Meshes
Pedro Ruiz (University of Murcia, Spain),
Antonio Gomez-Skarmeta (University of Murcia, Spain)
Modelling Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Dynamic Bayesian Games
Petteri Nurmi (Helsinki Insitute of Information Technology, Finland)
Session 3: Tue, 1.30 - 3.00pm
Title: Security
Chair: Robin Kravets, UIUC
A Public-Key Infrastructure for Key Distribution in TinyOS Based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography
David Malan (Harvard University, USA),
Matt Welsh (Harvard University, USA),
Michael Smith (Harvard University, USA)
Glacsweb: a sensor network for hostile environments
Kirk Martinez (University of Southampton, United Kingdom),
Royan Ong (University of Southampton, United Kingdom),
Jane Hart (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
A Network Layer Covert Channel in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks
Song Li (University of Maryland at College Park, USA),
Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland at College Park, USA)
Efficacy of Misuse Detection in Adhoc Networks
Dhanant Subhadrabandhu (University of Pennsylvania, USA),
Saswati Sarkar (University of Pennsylvania, USA),
Farooq Anjum (Telcordia Tech., USA)
Session 4: Tue, 4.00 - 5.10pm
Title: Quality of Service
Chair: Wendi Heinzelman, Univ. of Rochester
QoS Aware Source-Initiated Ad-hoc Routing
Sirisha Medidi (Washington State University, USA),
Knut-Helge Vik (Washington State University, USA)
Distributed QoS Guarantees for Realtime Traffic in Ad Hoc Networks
Yaling Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA),
Robin Kravets (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Toward the use of local monitoring and network-wide correction to achieve QoS guarantees in mobile ad hoc networks
Harpreet Arora (Drexel University, USA),
Lloyd Greenwald (Drexel University, USA)
Session 5: Tue, 4.00 - 5.10pm
Title: Testbed and Simulators
Chair: Andreas Savvides, Yale Univ.
Wireless Integrated Networked Sensors: Signal Search Engine For Signal Classification (Short Paper)
Sivatharan Natkunanathan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA),
Joe Pham (University of California, Los Angeles, USA),
William Kaiser (University of California, Los Angeles, USA),
Gregory Pottie (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
ATEMU: A Fine-Grained Sensor Network Simulator
Jonathan Polley (University of Maryland, USA),
Dionysus Blazakis (University of Maryland, USA),
Jonathan McGee (University of Maryland, USA),
Daniel Rusk (University of Maryland, USA),
John S. Baras (University of Maryland College Park, USA),
Manish Karir (University of Maryland, USA)
A Two-tier Representation of Node Mobility in Ad Hoc Networks
Zainab Zaidi (George Mason University, USA),
Brian Mark (George Mason University, USA),
Roshan Thomas (McAfee Research, USA)
Session 6: Tue, 4.00p - 5.10p
Title: Data Analysis
Chair: Guohong Cao, Penn State Univ.
Modeling spatially-correlated sensor network data
Apoorva Jindal (University of Southern California, USA),
Konstantinos Psounis (Stanford University, USA)
Effect of Partially Correlated Data on Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mahdi Lotfinezhad (University of Toronto, Canada),
Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada)
Serial Data Fusion Using Space-filling Curves in Wireless Sensor Networks
Swapnil Patil (SUNY at Stony Brook, USA),
Samir Das (SUNY at Stony Brook, USA),
Asis Nasipuri (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
6:30 – 8:30 pm: RECEPTION
WEDNESDAY: October 6, 2004
8:30 – 10:00 am: Panel II: Research Funding in Ad hoc/Sensor Networks
10:00 – 11:00 am: Break/Posters
11:00 – 12:30 pm: Panel III: A view from the future: Ad hoc/Sensor networks in use
12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch
Session 7: Wed, 1.30 - 3.00p
Title: Theoretical Models
Chair: Cedric Westphal, Nokia
Hierarchical Sensor Networks: Capacity Bounds and Cooperative Strategies using the Multiple-Access Relay Channel Model
Lalitha Sankaranarayanan (Rutgers University, USA),
Gerhard Kramer (Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, USA),
Narayan Mandayam (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA)
Throughput-Delay Analysis of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks with a Multi-Copy Relaying Strategy
Renato Moraes (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA),
Hamid Sadjadpour (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA),
J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Bounds on the Throughput Capacity of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Non-Uniform Traffic
Tarik Tabet (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland),
Raymond Knopp (Institut Eurecom, France)
Feasibility Analysis of Stochastic Sensor Networks
Shi Chao Zhang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
F. Irem Koprulu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
Ralf Koetter (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
Douglas L. Jones (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Session 8: Wed, 1.30p-3.00p
Title: Routing - II
Chair: Ben Liang, Univ. of Toronto
OSPF-style Database Exchange and Reliable Synchronization in the Optimized Link-State Routing Protocol
Thomas Clausen (INRIA, France),
Emmanuel Baccelli (INRIA, France),
Philippe Jacquet (INRIA, France)
Single-Copy Routing in Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks
Akis Spyropoulos (University of Southern California, USA),
Konstantinos Psounis (Stanford University, USA),
Cauligi Raghavendra (University of Southern California, USA)
MARVIN: Movement-Aware Routing oVer Interplanetary Networks
Archana Sekhar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India),
Manoj Bs (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India),
Siva Ram Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)
Dynamic Codeword Routing (DCR): A cross-layer Approach for Performance Enhancement of General Multi-hop Wireless Routing
Yue Fang (Northeastern University, USA),
Bruce McDonald (Northeastern University, USA)
Session 9: Wed, 1.30p-3.00p
Title: Energy Efficient Design
Chair: Rudra Dutta, NCSU
Joint Estimation in Sensor Networks under Energy Constraints
Jin-Jun Xiao (University of Minnesota, USA),
Shuguang Cui (Stanford University, USA),
Zhi-Quan Luo (University of Minnesota, USA),
Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)
Energy-Constrained Optimal Quantization for Wireless Sensor Networks
Xiliang Luo (University of Minnesota, USA),
Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA)
The Energy-Limited Capacity of Wireless Networks
Wenrui Zhao (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA),
Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA),
Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Experimental study of the effects of Transmission Power Control and Blacklisting in Wireless Sensor Networks
Dongjin Son (University of Southern California, USA),
Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA),
John Heidemann (University of Southern California, USA)
Session 10: Wed, 3.30p-5.00p
Title: Communications Architectures
Chair: Saswati Sarkar, UPenn
An Energy-efficient Virtual MIMO Communications Architecture Based on V-BLAST Processing for Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks
Sudharman Jayaweera (Wichita State University, USA)
Source and Channel Coding in Wireless Sensor Networks using LDPC Codes
Mina Sartipi (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA),
Faramarz Fekri (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Effect of Narrowband Channels on the Control Performance of a Mobile Sensor Node
Yasamin Mostofi (California Institute of Technology, USA)
An Efficient UWB Radio Architecture for Busy Signal MAC Protocols
Nathaniel August (Virginia Tech, USA),
Dong Ha (Virginia Tech, USA)
Session 11: Wed, 3.30p-5.00p
Title: Medium Access Control Protocols I
Chair: Xin Liu, UC Davis
TDMA based Energy Efficient MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
Zhihui Chen (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA),
Ashfaq Khokhar (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
An Adaptive Ad-hoc Self-Organizing Scheduling for Quasi-Periodic Sensor Traffic
Sharat C. Visweswara (North Carolina State University, USA),
Apurva A. Goel (North Carolina State University, USA),
Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State University, USA)
Broadcasting for network lifetime maximization in wireless sensor networks
Xiaoxing Guo (Australian National University, Australia)
An Improvement to the Reliability of IEEE 802.11 Broadcast Scheme for Multicasting in Mobile Ad hoc Networks
Jiawei Xie (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),
Amitabha Das (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),
Sukumar Nandi (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India)
Session 12: Wed, 3.30p-5.00p
Title: Coverage
Chair: Fred Bauer, Packethop
Impact of Heterogeneous Deployment on Lifetime Sensing Coverage in Sensor Networks
Jae-Joon Lee (University of Southern California, USA),
Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA),
C.C. Jay Kuo (University of Southern California, USA)
Coverage Preserving Redundancy Elimination in Sensor Networks
Bogdan Carbunar (Purdue University, USA)
Ananth Grama (Purdue University, USA)
Jan Vitek (Purdue University, USA)
Octavian Carbunar (IFIN, ROMANIA)
Variable Radii Connected Sensor Cover in Sensor Networks
Zongheng Zhou (SUNY at Stony Brook, USA),
Samir Das (SUNY at Stony Brook, USA),
Himanshu Gupta (SUNY, Stony Brook, USA)
Using Adaptive Range Control to Maximize 1-Hop Broadcast Coverage in Dense Wireless Networks
Xiaoyan Li (Rutgers University, USA),
Thu Nguyen (Rutgers University, USA),
Richard Martin (Rutgers University, USA)
5:30 – 6:00: TC Meeting
THURSDAY: October 7, 2004
8:30 – 9:30 am: Panel IV: Investor's Views: Ad hoc/Sensor Networks?
09:30 – 10:30 am: Break/Posters
Session 13: Thu, 10.30 - 12.00p
Title: Localization
Chair: Eyal de Lara, Univ. of Toronto
The Limits of Localization Using Signal Strength: A Comparative Study
Eiman Elnahrawy (Rutgers University, USA),
Xiaoyan Li (Rutgers University, USA),
Richard Martin (Rutgers University, USA)
Estimation Bounds for Localization
Cheng Chang (University of California, Berkeley, USA),
Anant Sahai (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
A Sub-Optimal Hierarchical Maximum Likelihood Algorithm for Collaborative Localization in Ad-Hoc Networks
Davide Dardari (University of Bologna, Italy),
Andrea Conti (IEIIT-BO/CNR, University of Bologna, Italy)
Probability Grid: A Location Estimation Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
Radu Stoleru (University of Virginia, USA),
John Stankovic (University of Virginia, USA)
Session 14: Thu, 10.30 -12.00p
Title: Network and Transport Layers
Chair: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC
NASCENT: Network Layer Service for Vicinity Ad-hoc Groups
Jun Luo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland),
Jean-Pierre Hubaux (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)
Reliable Transfer on Wireless Sensor Networks
Sukun Kim (University of California at Berkeley, USA),
Rodrigo Fonseca (University of California, Berkeley, USA),
David Culler (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Distributed Parameter Estimation for Monitoring Diffusion
Phenomena Using Physical Models
Lorenzo Rossi (University of Southern California, USA),
Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA),
C.C. Jay Kuo (University of Southern California, USA)
Increasingly Correct Message Passing Algorithms for Heat Source Detection in Sensor Networks
Kurt Plarre (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
Thomas Seidman (UMBC, USA)
Session 15: Thu, 10.30 -12.00p
Title: Connectivity and Topology Management
Chair: Konstantinos Psounis, USC
Topology Control in Ad hoc Wireless Networks with Hitch-hiking
Mihaela Cardei (Florida Atlantic University, USA),
Jie Wu (Florida Atlantic University, USA),
Shuhui Yang (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
A Partition Detection System for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Hartmut Ritter (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany),
Rolf Winter (Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Germany),
Jochen Schiller (FU Berlin, Germany)
On Connectivity Properties of Large-Scale Sensor Networks
Hossein Pishro-Nik (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA),
Kevin Chan (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA),
Faramarz Fekri (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
An Information-Theoretic View of Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks
Xin Liu (University of California, Davis, USA),
R. Srikant (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
12:00 – 1:30 pm: Lunch
Session 16: Thu, 1.30p-3.00p
Title: Medium Access Control Protocols II
Chair: Winston Seah, Institute of Infocomm Research
Analyzing the Transitional Region in Low Power Wireless Links
Marco Zuniga (University of Southern California, USA),
Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA)
Energy Efficient Power Control Policies for the Low Rate WPAN
Ivan Howitt (UNC Charlotte, USA),
Jing Wang (UNC Charlotte, USA)
Channel Assignment for Nullifying the Critically Exposed Node Problem in Ad Hoc Wireless Network
Jaya Shankar Pathmasuntharam (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore),
Amitabha Das (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),
Anil K. Gupta (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Bluetooth Time Division Duplex - Analysis as a Polling System
Gil Zussman (Technion, Israel),
Adrian Segall (Technion, Israel),
Uri Yechiali (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Session 17: Thu, 1.30p-3.00p
Title: Data Gathering and Tracking
Chair: Rich Martin, Rutgers Univ.
On the Interaction between Data Aggregation and Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
Vijay Erramilli (Boston University, USA),
Ibrahim Matta (Boston University, USA),
Azer Bestavros (Boston University, USA)
Improving Lifetime Data Gathering and Distortion for Mobile Sensing Networks
Vikrant Sharma (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA),
Emilio Frazzoli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
Petros Voulgaris (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Model based error correction for wireless sensor networks
Shoubhik Mukhopadhyay (University of California, San Diego, USA),
Debashis Panigrahi (University of California, San Diego, USA),
Sujit Dey (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Low Complexity Tracking for Ad-hoc Automotive Sensor Networks
Mats Rydstrom (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden),
Andreu Urruela (UPC, Spain),
Erik Strom (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden),
Arne Svensson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Session 18: Thu, 1.30p-3.00p
Title: Network Management
Chair: Charles Perkins, Nokia
Reference Architecture and Management Model for Ad hoc Sensor Networks
John Serri (Ubiquity Technologies Inc, & CSU at Hayward, USA)
DAMON: A Distributed Architecture for Monitoring Multi-hop Mobile Networks
Krishna Ramachandran (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA),
Elizabeth Belding-Royer (University of California Santa Barbara, USA),
Kevin Almeroth (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Simplified Simulation Models for Indoor MANET Evaluation are not Robust
Horacio Lagar Cavilla (University of Toronto, Canada),
Gerard Baron (University of Toronto, Canada),
Thomas Hart (University of Toronto, Canada),
Lionel Litty (University of Toronto, Canada),
Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto, Canada)
Extended Multipoint Relays to Determine Connected Dominating Sets in MANETs
Jie Wu (Florida Atlantic University, USA),
Wei Lou (Florida Atlantic University, USA)