IEEE Secon 2010 Workshops

Fifth IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh 2010)

In conjunction with IEEE SECON 2010

June 21, 2010, Boston, Massachusetts

Wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest as a low-cost networking platform to support ubiquitous broadband access in home networks, enterprise networks, or larger, community or metro-scale networks. Many universities and industrial labs have on-going research projects on various aspects of mesh networking, including architectures, protocols, services and applications. Several startups are building mesh networking platforms and deploying services.

Following the success of the first four IEEE Workshops on Wireless Mesh Networks, WiMesh 2010 will be a one-day forum for meeting, presenting and discussing core technical issues and current research problems in wireless mesh networking. Given its one-day, highly interactive format, papers presenting early innovative ideas are very welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Experiences with the deployment of wireless mesh networks
Wireless mesh network performance
Integration of wireless mesh networks with wired/wireless networks (802.11, white space, etc.)
Experimental validation of wireless mesh network algorithms
Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for wireless mesh networks
Localization and mobility in wireless mesh networks
Security, privacy, and trustworthiness
Protocols exploiting novel technologies such as UWB, MIMO, directional antennas, software radios
Wireless mesh network testbeds

Update: A full technical program is available at the bottom of the page

Keynote: Towards Layered Cross-Layer Wireless Protocols

Over the past few years, researchers have developed many cross-layer wireless protocols to improve the performance of wireless networks. These protocols realize their performance gains by paying little heed to layering and by freely using information across layers. In this talk, I ask whether we can realize the gains of cross-layer wireless protocols without losing the modularity and architectural benefits of layering. Using a number of examples, I'll present some simple and practical mechanisms to implement cross-layer protocols in a layered way.

The keynote speaker is Hari Balakrishnan (MIT).
Hari Balakrishnan is a Professor in the EECS Department and CSAIL at MIT. His research is in the area of networked computer systems, with current projects in vehicular and mobile systems, high-performance cross-layer wireless protocols, Internet architecture, and distributed data management. Past projects include the RON overlay network, the Chord DHT and DHT-based applications, the Cricket location system, the Infranet anti-censorship system, robust inter-domain routing, and Internet accountabilty and security. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1998 and a B.Tech. from IIT Madras in 1993. He is an ACM Fellow (2008) and a Sloan Fellow (2002). He won ACM's doctoral dissertation award for TCP over wireless networks in 1998, and has co-authored nine award-winning papers including one that won the IEEE Bennett Prize in 2004. In 2003, he co-founded StreamBase Systems to commercialize academic work on data stream processing.

Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: Friday April 23, 2010, 23:59 EDT
Notification of acceptance: Monday May 5, 2010
Camera-ready papers due: Monday May 10, 2010

Submission guidelines:
All regular paper submissions will be handled electronically via the EDAS
system and should conform to the following requirements:
The paper must be formatted according to IEEE conference proceedings style in two-column format, have a maximum of 6 (six) 8.5"x11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) using 10-point size or greater and must be submitted in PDF format.

Program Co-Chairs:
Theodoros Salonidis, Technicolor
Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke University

TPC Members:
Joe Camp Southern Methodist University
Ranveer Chandra Microsoft Research Redmond
Samir Das SUNY Stony Brook University
Luigi Iannone Deutsche Telekom Labs
Ed Knightly Rice University
SJ Lee HP Labs
Hang Liu Technicolor
Srihari Nelakuditi USC
Max OTT NICTA
Amit Saha Juniper Networks
Anmol Sheth Intel Labs
Vasilios Siris Athens University of Economics and Business
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian NYU
Karthik Sundaresan NEC Labs
Kun Tan Microsoft Research Asia
Cedric Westphal Docomo

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IEEE WIMESH 2010: Technical Program

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9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome Note

9:15 - 10:45 - Session 1: Misbehavior, Security, Reliability (3 papers)

Witness-based Detection of Forwarding Misbehaviors in Wireless Networks
Sookhyun Yang, Sudarshan Vasudevan, and Jim Kurose (U. Mass, Amherst)

Secure Neighbor Discovery through Overhearing in Static Multihop Wireless Networks
Srikanth Hariharan, Ness B. Shroff (Ohio State), Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue)

Using Relative Neighborhood Graphs for Reliable Database Synchronization in MANETs
Emmanuel Baccelli, Juan Antonio Cordero and Philippe Jacquet (INRIA)

BREAK

11:00 - 12:00 - Keynote by Hari Balakrishnan (MIT)

12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch

1:15 - 2:45 - Session 2: Exploiting PHY Layer Capabilities (3 papers)

To Sense or To Transmit: A Learning-based Spectrum Management Scheme for Cognitive Radio Mesh Networks
Marco Di Felice (U. Bologna), Kaushik Roy Chowdhury (NEU), Waleed Meleisy (NEU), Luciano Bononi (U. Bologna)

Rethinking Indoor Wireless Mesh Design: Low Power, Low Frequency, Full-duplex
Bozidar Radunovic, Dinan Gunawardena, Peter Key, Alexandre Proutiere (MSR Cambridge), Nikhil Singh (UIUC), Vlad Balan (USC), Gerald Dejean (MSR Cambridge)

Known Interference Cancellation: Resolving Collisions due to Repeated Transmissions
Chuan Qin (U. South Carolina) N. Santhapuri, S. Sen (Duke), Srihari Nelakuditi (U. South Carolina)

BREAK

3:00 - 5:00 - Session 3: Link Layer Protocols, Algorithms (4 papers)

Synchronization vs. Signaling: Energy-Efﬁcient Coordination in WSN
Farhana Ashraf, Riccardo Crepaldi and Robin H. Kravets (UIUC)

The Effect of Ordering on Wireless Optimization Algorithms
Gary V. Yee, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas C. Sicker (U. Colorado)

Joint Transmission Rate, Power, and Carrier Sense Settings: An Initial Measurement Study
Thomas Huehn (TU Berlin), Ruben Merz and Cigdem Sengul (Deutsche Telekom)

A Distributed Throughput-Optimal CSMA
Tae Hyun Kim, Jian Ni and Nitin H. Vaidya (UIUC)