Technical Program

(Final Version)

Wednesday 19

Welcome

Keynote Speech

Session 1

Applications, Services and Data dissemination

• Performance Evaluation of Service Discovery Architectures for On Demand Ad Hoc Networks
  Paal Engelstad
• Context Awareness for Impromptu Collaboration in MANETs
  Dario Bottazzi, Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari
• UDDI in Mobile Ad Hoc Network
  Piergiorgio Cremonese, Veronica Vanni
• Fast Distributed Algorithm for Convergecastin Ad Hoc Geometric Radio Networks
  Alex Kesselman, Dariusz Kowalski
• Cooperative Downloading for Vehicular Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
  Alok Nandan, Shirshanka Das, Giovanni Pau, Medy Sanadidi, Mario Gerla

Reception

Thursday 20

Session 2

Architectures and protocols

• Ant Agents for Hybrid Multipath Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  Frederick Ducatelle, Gianni Di Caro, Luca Maria Gambardella
• Massive: An Emulation Environment for Mobile Ad hoc Networks
  Michael Lauer
• Multipath Associativity Based Routing
  Patrick McCarthy, Dan Grigoras
• Abbreviated Dynamic Source Routing: Source Routing with Non-Unique Network Identifiers
  Miguel A. Ortuño, Vicente Matellán, Luis Rodero, Gregorio Robles
• Pervasive wireless grid architecture
  S. H. Srinivasan
• Secure Multipath Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou, Rosa Mavropodi, Christos Douligeris

Coffee Break

Session 3

Energy and Power management

• Gibraltar: Application and Network Aware Adaptive Power Management for IEEE 802.11
  Rajesh Banginwar, Eugene Gorbatov
• Dynamic Power Management in Wireless Sensor Networks: An Application-driven Approach
  Antonio Loureiro, Rodrigo Passos
• Energy-Optimal Online Algorithms for Broadcasting in Wireless Networks
  Shay Kutten, Hirotaka Ono, David Peleg, Kunihiko Sadakane, Masafumi Yamashita
• Using the energy map to disseminate data
  Antonio Loureiro, Max Machado
• Broadcasting in Hybrid Ad Hoc Networks
  Franc¸ois Ingelrest ,David Simplot-Ryl, Ivan Stojmenovic

Coffee Break

Session 4

Socio-economic aspects

• Commercial Wireless Sensor Networks: Technical and Business Issues
  Vassileios Tsetsos, George Alyfantis, Tilemahos Hasiotis, Odysseas Sekkas, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades
• The Simplicity project: improving ease of use and personalization of ICT services
  Nicola Blefari Melazzi
• Rural/Remote Wi-Fi Wireless Broadband System
  Wahab Almuhtadi

Session 5

Analysis through simulation and experimental evaluation – Ad hoc

• Experiments of some performance issues with IEEE 802.11b in ad hoc networks
  Claude Chaudet, Dominique Dhoutaut, Isabelle Guerin Lassous
• SAMPLE: Statistical Network Link Modelling in an On-Demand Probabilistic Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
  Jim Dowling
• The Pulse Protocol: Mobile Ad hoc Network Performance Evaluation
  Baruch Awerbuch, David Holmer, Herbert Rubens
• Common Gateway Architecture for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
  Marcin Michalak, Torsten Braun

WONS Panel

Is Autonomic Communication the future paradigm of networking?
Panel Organizer: Enrico Gregori – IIT CNR
Panelists: Battiti Roberto, Christophe Diot, Ioannis Stavrakakis, Christian Tschudin

Social Diner

Friday 21

Session 6

Localization and Mobility

• WiSwitch: Seamless Handover between Multi-Provider Networks
  Silvia Giordano, Davide Lenzarini, Salvatore Vanini, Alessandro Puiatti
• A Partition Prediction Algorithm for Service Replication in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  Abdelouahid Derhab, Nadjib Badache, Abdelmadjid Bouabdellah
• Merit of Adaptability to Mobile User Parameters in IP Paging
  Hung T. Do, Yoshikuni Onozato
• Fast Handoff process for Mobile MPLS Micro Mobility protocol in Next Generation Wireless Access Networks
  Rami Langar, Gwendal Le Grand, Samir Tohmé
• Multi-Home Region Location Service for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: An Adaptive Demand-driven Approach
  Boon-Chong Seet

Session 7

Analysis through simulation and experimental evaluation – Ad hoc

• Building a Better Wireless Mousetrap: Need for More Realism in Simulations
  Matthias Wellens, Marina Petrova, Janne Riihijärvi, Petri Mähönen
• Distributed Contention Control in Heterogeneous $802.11b$ WLANs
  Raffaele Bruno, Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori
• Frequency allocation for WLANs using graph colouring techniques
  Janne Riihijärvi, Marina Petrova, Petri Mähönen

Closing – best papers award