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INFOCOM 2009 SCHEDULE
  Sunday – April, 19
13:30 – 15:00 TUTORIAL
15:00 – 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30 - 17:00 TUTORIAL
  Monday – April, 20
8:00 - 8:30 BREAKFAST
8:30 - 9:00   MINI CONFERENCE (OPENING SESSION) STUDENT WORKSHOP (OPENING SESSION)            
9:00 – 10:30 MC 17 –
Network Control and Management 1
MC 1 –
Ad Hoc Mobile Networks 1
STUDENT WORKSHOP       MC 2 – QoS Provisionings and Evaluations MC 3 –
Content Distribution and Delay/
Disruption Tolerance Networks
MC 4 –
Broadband Access Technologies
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 MC 18 –
Routing Protocols
MC 5 –
Network Architecture and Modeling
STUDENT WORKSHOP       MC 6 –
Multicast/ Broadcast/ Anycast
MC 7 –
Pricing, Billing & Network Measurement
1
MC 8 –
Peer-to-Peer Networks
12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30 MC 19 –
Wireless Mesh Networks
MC 9 –
Wireless Sensor Networks  1
STUDENT WORKSHOP       MC 10 –
Scheduling, Resource Allocation, and Management 1
MC 11 –
Internet Design
MC 12 – Security, Trust, and Privacy
15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 – 17:30  MC 20 – Network Control and Management 2 MC 13 – Wireless Sensor Networks 2 STUDENT WORKSHOP       MC 14  – Scheduling, Resource Allocation, and Management 2 MC 15  – Pricing, Billing & Network Measurement 2 MC 16  –     Ad Hoc Mobile Networks 2
18:00 – 19:00 STUDENTS COCKTAIL
  Tuesday – April, 21
8:00 - 8:30 BREAKFAST
8:30 – 10:30 OPENING SESSION, Keynote 1
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 ALL CONFERENCE PANEL
12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30 TS 1 –
Congestion Control 1
TS 2 –
Routing 1
TS 3 –
P2P 1
TS 4 –
Sensor Networks 1
TS 5 -
Energy Efficiency
Demo Session 1 TS 6 –
Network
Coding 1
TS 7 –
Vehicular, Delay Tolerant Networks
 
15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 – 17:30 TS 8 – Congestion Control 2 TS 9 –
Routing 2
TS 10 –
P2P 2
TS 11 –
Sensor Networks 2
TS 12 – Security 1 Demo Session 1 TS 13 –
Network
Coding 2
TS 14 – Wireless / QoS  
17:30 – 19:00 TCCC BUSINESS MEETING
19:00 – 21:00 WELCOME RECEPTION
  Wednesday – April, 22
8:00 - 8:30 BREAKFAST
8:30 – 10:00 TS 15 – Inference 1 T 16 –
Routing 3
TS 17 –
P2P 3
TS 18 –
Sensor Networks 3
TS 19 – Security 2   TS 20 - Measurements, Management TS 21 – Optical 1 TS 22 – Architecture, Survivability
10:00 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 – 12:00 TS 23 – Inference 2 TS 24 –
DTN 1
TS 25 –
P2P 4
TS 26 –
Sensor Networks 4
TS 27 – Security 3   TS 28 –  Incentive Pricing and Game Theory TS 29 – Optical 2 TS 30 –  Resource Management
12:00 – 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 – 15:00 TS 31 -  Inference 3 TS 32 –
DTN 2
TS 33 –
P2P 5
TS 34 –
Sensor Networks 5
TS 35 – Security 4 Demo Session 2 (start 2PM) TS 36 - Wireless    Scheduling 1 TS 37 – TCAM / Optical TS 38 – Capacity
15:00 – 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30 – 17:00 TS 39 – Inference 4 TS 40 –
DTN 3
TS 41 –
P2P 6
PANEL 2 TS 42 – Security 5 Demo Session 2 TS 43 - Wireless   Scheduling 2 TS 44 – Optical 3 TS 45 –
LAN, Access Networks
19:00 – 22:00 BANQUET AT PORCÃO RIO'S
  Thursday – April, 23
8:00 – 8:30 BREAKFAST
8:30 – 9:30 Keynote 2
9:40 – 11:10 TS 46 – Game Theory, Wireless TS 47 –
Ad Hoc 1
TS 48 – Wireless Scheduling 3 TS 49 –
Sensor Networks 6
TS 50 – Security 6   TS 51 - Coding, Wireless  
11:10 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 13:00 TS 52 –
MAC 1
TS 53 –
Ad Hoc 2
TS 54 –
Error Correction, Wireless
PANEL 3 TS 55 – Security 7   TS 56 – Multicasting TS 57 – Scheduling  
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 – 16:00 TS 58 –
MAC 2
TS 59 –
Ad Hoc 3
TS 60 –
Cooperative Networks, Wireless
TS 61 –
Sensor  Networks 7
TS 62 – Security 8 Demo Session 3 (start 2PM) TS 63 - Multicasting, Wireless TS 64 – Backend Services  
16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 – 18:00 TS 65 –
MAC 3
TS 66 –
Ad Hoc 4
TS 67 -
Wireless,
Sensor Networks
TS 68 – Sensor Networks 8 TS 69 – Security 9 Demo Session 3 TS 70 - Protocols, Wireless TS 71 – Algorithms  
  Friday – April, 24
8:00 - 8:30 BREAKFAST
8:30 – 10:00 HSN
Workshop
GI
Workshop
NetSciCom
Workshop
      MoViD
Workshop
   
10:00 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 – 12:00 HSN
Workshop
GI
Workshop
NetSciCom
Workshop
      MoViD Workshop    
12:00 – 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 – 15:00 HSN Workshop GI Workshop NetSciCom
Workshop
      MoViD Workshop    
15:00 – 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30 – 17:00 HSN
Workshop
GI
Workshop
NetSciCom
Workshop
      MoViD Workshop    

 

Sunday, April 19

1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Student Tutorial: "Sensor networking: next-generation sensor networks and applications"

Professor Ramesh Govindan (Univ. Southern California)
Professor Jim Kurose (Univ. Massachusetts)


(Tutorial free of charge to students attending the conference)

 

Monday, April 20

08:30 AM - 09:00 AM

MC 0: Mini-Conference Opening Remarks and Plenary Session
Chaired by IEEE INFOCOM 2009 Mini-Conference Co-Chairs:

Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA)
Miki Yamamoto (Kansai University, Japan)
Paulo Cunha (UFPE, Brazil)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

MC 1: Ad Hoc Mobile Networks 1
Session Chair: Richard Yu (Carleton University, CA)

Capacity of Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Incomplete Traffic Specification
M. Kodialam (Bell Labs, US); T. V. Lakshman (Bell Labs Lucent Technologies, US); Sudipta Sengupta (Microsoft Research, US);
AAA: Asynchronous, Adaptive, and Asymmetric Power Management for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Shan-Hung Wu (Telcordia Technologies, TW); Chung-Min Chen (Telcordia Technologies, US); Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University, TW);
A Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Consensus Scheme in Cognitive Radios
Zhiqiang Li (Carleton University, CA); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, CA); Minyi Huang (Carleton University, CA);
Capabilities of Low-Power Wireless Jammers
Lifeng Sang (The Ohio State University, US); Anish Arora (The Ohio State University, US);
On the Properties of Giant Component in Wireless Multi-hop Networks
Xiaoyuan Ta (The University of Sydney, AU); Guoqiang Mao (The University of Sydney, AU); Brian Anderson (National ICT Australia, AU);

MC 2: QoS Provisionings and Evaluations
Session Chair: Ryoichi Kawahara (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, JP)

Delay-Limited Cooperative Communication with Reliability Constraints in Wireless Networks
Rahul Urgaonkar (University of Southern California, US); Michael Neely (University of Southern California, US);
Optimizing Energy-Latency Trade-off in Sensor Networks with Controlled Mobility
Ryo Sugihara (University of California San Diego, US); Rajesh Gupta (University of Calfornia San Deigo, US);
Smart Trend-Traversal: A Low Delay and Energy Tag Arbitration Protocol for Large RFID Systems
Lei Pan (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, US); Hongyi Wu (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, US);
Optimum Network Coding for Delay Sensitive Applications in WiMAX Unicast
Amin Alamdar Yazdi (University of Toronto, CA); Sameh Sorour (University of Toronto, CA); Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, CA); Ronny Yongho Kim (LG Electronics Inc. KR);
Towards an Efficient Service Level Agreement assessment
Ren Serral-Graci (Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), ES); Yann Labit (Laas-cnrs, FR); Jordi Domingo-Pascual (Technical University of Catalunya (UPC) Advanced Broadband Communications Center, ES); Philippe Owezarski (LAAS, FR);

MC 3: Content Distribution and Delay/Disruption Tolerance Networks
Session Chair: Santosh Kumar (University of Memphis, US)

Route Selection Strategies for Store-Carry-Forwarding
Nishanth Sastry (University of Cambridge, UK); Karen Sollins (MIT, US); Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK);
Keep Cache Replacement Simple in Peer-Assisted VoD Systems
Jiahua Wu (University of Toronto, CA); Baochun Li (University of Toronto, CA);
Impact of Network Topology Errors on Fairness: A Geometric Approach for TDMA Networks
David Kao (Rice University, US); Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University, US);
CFP: Cooperative Fast Protection
Bin Wu (University of Waterloo, CA); Pin-Han Ho (University of Waterloo, CA); Kwan Yeung (University of Hong Kong, HK); János Tapolcai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU); Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, CA);

MC 4: Broadband Access Technologies
Session Chair: Jun Zhang (The City University of Hongkong University, HK)

Proportional Fair Frequency-Domain Packet Scheduling for 3GPP LTE Uplink
Suk-Bok Lee (University of California Los Angeles, US); Ioannis Pefkianakis (UCLA, US); Adam Meyerson (UCLA, US); Shugong Xu (Huawei Technologies, US); Songwu Lu (University of California at Los Angeles, US);
D-Scan: Enabling Fast and Smooth Handoff in AP-dense 802.11 Wireless Networks
Jin Teng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN); Weijia Jia (City University of Hong Kong, CN); Changqing Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN); Dong Xuan (The Ohio State University, US);
Towards Adaptive Beamforming in Indoor Wireless Networks: An Experimental Approach
Sriram Lakshmanan (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Karthikeyan Sundaresan (NEC Labs America, US); Ravi Kokku (NEC Laboratories America, US); Mohammad Khojastepour (NEC Laboratories America, US); Sampath Rangarajan (NEC Labs America, US);
Enhanced Spatial Reuse in Multi-Cell WLANs
Thomas Bonald (Orange Labs, FR); Ali Ibrahim (France Telecom R&D, FR); James Roberts (France Telecom, FR);

MC 17: Network Control and Management 1
Session Chair: Jay Cheng (National Tsing Hua University, TW)

Breadcrumbs: Efficient, Best-effort Content Location in Cache Networks
Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US); Elisha Rosensweig (UMass Amherst, US);
Noncooperative Load Balancing in the Continuum Limit of a Dense Network
Eitan Altman (INRIA, FR); Ishai Menache (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Asuman Ozdaglar (Massashusetts Institute of Technology, US);
"Not All At Once!" - A Generic Scheme for Estimating the Number of Affected Nodes While Avoiding Feedback Implosion
Alexander Landau (Technion, IL); Reuven Cohen (Technion, IL);
Localized Construction of Fault Resilient High Capacity Wireless Networks with Bounded Node Degree
Yigal Bejerano (Bell-Labs Alcatel-Lucent, US); Qunfeng Dong (University of Science and Technology of China, CN);
Dimensioning an OBS switch with Partial Wavelength Conversion and Fibre Delay Lines via a Mean Field Model
Juan Perez (University of Antwerp, BE); Benny Van Houdt (University of Antwerp, BE);

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

MC 5: Network Architecture and Modeling
Session Chair: Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, US)

Application-Specific, Agile and Private (ASAP) Platforms for Federated Computing Services over WDM Networks
Xin Liu (SUNY at Buffalo, US); Chunming Qiao (State University of New York at Buffalo, US); Ting Wang (NEC Laboratories America, US);
Physical Interference Modeling for Transmission Scheduling on Commodity WiFi Hardware
Ritesh Maheshwari (Stony Brook University, US); Jing Cao (Beihang University, CN); Samir Das (Stony Brook University, US);
A Queueing Model Framework of PCE-based Inter-area Path Computation
Juanjuan Yu (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Yue He (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Kai Wu (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Marco Tacca (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Andrea Fumagalli (UTD, US); Jean-Phillippe Vasseur (Cisco Systems, US);
Topology Formation for Wireless Mesh Network Planning
Chun-cheng Chen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Chandra Chekuri (UIUC, US);

MC 6: Multicast / Broadcast/ Anycast
Session Chair: Noriaki Kamiyama (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, JP)

A Multi-Burst Sliding Encoding for Mobile Satellite TV Broadcasting
Mohamed Amine Ismail (INRIA, FR); Walid Dabbous (INRIA, FR); Antoine Clerget (INRIA, FR);
Approximation Algorithms for Data Broadcast in Wireless Networks
Rajiv Gandhi (Rutgers University - Camden, US); Yoo-Ah Kim (University of Connecticut, US); Seungjoon Lee (AT&T Labs Research, US); Jiho Ryu (Seoul National University, KR); Peng-Jun Wan (Illinois Institute of Technology, US);
Exploring the Multicast Lifetime Capacity of WANETs with Directional Multibeam Antennas
Song Guo (The University of British Columbia, CA);
Guaranteed Delivery for Geographical Anycasting in Wireless Multi-Sink Sensor and Sensor-Actor Networks
Nathalie Mitton (INRIA Lille-Nord Europe CNRS UMR 8022 IRCICA USTL, FR); David Simplot-Ryl (INRIA Univ. Lille, FR); Ivan Stojmenovic (University of Ottawa, CA);
Optimal Construction of Redundant Multicast Trees in Directed Graphs
Yigal Bejerano (Bell-Labs Alcatel-Lucent, US); Pramod Koppol (Bell Labs Lucent Technologies, US);

MC 7: Pricing, Billing & Network Measurement 1
Session Chair: Lydia Chen (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, CH)

Graph Sampling Techniques for Studying Unstructured Overlays
Amir Hassan Rasti Ekbatani (University of Oregon, US); Mojtaba Torkjazi (University of Oregon, US); Reza Rejaie (University of Oregon, US); Nick Duffield (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Walter Willinger (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Daniel Stutzbach (Stutzbach Enterprises LLC, US);
A Framework for Efficient Class-based Sampling
Mohit Saxena (Purdue University, US); Ramana Rao Kompella (Purdue University, US);
An Efficient Algorithm for Measuring Medium- to Large-sized Flows in Network Traffic
Ashwin Lall (University of Rochester, US); Mitsunori Ogihara (University of Rochester, US); Jun Xu (Georgia Tech, US);
EnLoc: Energy-Efficient Localization for Mobile Phones
Ionut Constandache (Duke University, US); Shravan Gaonkar (University Of Ilinios, US); Matt Sayler (Duke University, US); Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University, US); Landon Cox (Duke University, US);
Monitoring Time-Varying Network Streams Using State-Space Models
Jin Cao (Bell Labs Lucent Technologies, US); Tian Bu (Bell labs Lucent, US); Arumugam Buvaneswari (Bell Labs Lucent Technologies, US); Aiyou Chen (Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, US);

MC 8: Peer-to-Peer Networks
Session Chair: Baochun Li (University of Toronto, CA)

View-Upload Decoupling: A Redesign of Multi-Channel P2P Video Systems
Di Wu (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, US); Chao Liang (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, US); Yong Liu (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, US); Keith W. Ross (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, US);
Diagnosing Network-wide P2P Live Streaming Inefficiencies
Chuan Wu (The University of Hong Kong, HK); Baochun Li (University of Toronto, CA); Shuqiao Zhao (UUSee Inc., CN);
Impacts of Peer Characteristics on P2PTV Networks Scalability
Khaldoon Shami (University of Haute Alsace, FR); Damien Magoni (University of Bordeaux, FR); Hyunseok Chang (University of Michigan, US); Wenjie Wang (Zattoo Inc., US); Sugih Jamin (University of Michigan, US);
iPASS: Incentivized Peer-assisted System for Asynchronous Streaming
Chao Liang (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, US); Zhenghua Fu (IBM Research, US); Yong Liu (Polytechnic University, US); Chai Wah Wu (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, US);
Large Scale Analysis of eDonkey P2P File Sharing
Patrick Brown (France Telecom, FR); Sanja Petrovic (France telecom R&D, FR);

MC 18: Routing Protocols
Session Chair: Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi (AT&T Labs - Research, US)

Efficient Geometric Routing in Three Dimensional Ad Hoc Networks
Cong Liu (Florida Atlantic University, US); Jie Wu (Florida Atlantic University and National Science Foundation, US);
Multi-VPN Optimization for Scalable Routing via Relaying
MohammadHossein Bateni (Princeton University, US); Alexandre Gerber (AT&T Labs -- Research, US); Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Subhabrata Sen (AT&T Labs - Research, US);
On the Quality of Triangle Inequality Violation Aware Routing Overlay Architecture
Ryoichi Kawahara (NTT Service Integration Laboratories, JP); Eng Keong Lua (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Masato Uchida (Kyushu Institute of Technology, JP); Satoshi Kamei (NTT Service Integration Laboratories, JP); Hideaki Yoshino (NTT, JP);
Spatial Distribution in Routing Table Design for Sensor Networks
Rik Sarkar (Stony Brook University, US); Xianjin Zhu (Stony Brook University, US); Jie Gao (Stony Brook University, US);
IP Fast ReRoute: Lightweight Not-Via without Additional Addresses
Gábor Enyedi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU), Péter Szil&aacut;gyi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU), Gábor Rétvári (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU), Andrés Csiszar (Ericsson Research, HU)

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

MC 9: Wireless Sensor Networks 1
Session Chair: Yi Qian (National Institute of Standards and Technology, US)

A Generalized Probabilistic Topology Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
Yunhuai Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CN); Lionel Ni (HKUST, HK);
A Multi-Poller based Energy-Efficient Monitoring Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
Changlei Liu (The Pennsylvania State University, US); Guohong Cao (Pennsylvania State University, US);
Using Failure Models for Controlling Data Availability in Wireless Sensor Networks
Riccardo Crepaldi (University of Illinois, US); Mirko Montanari (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US); Robin Kravets (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US);
A Coverage-Enhancing Method for 3D Directional Sensor Networks
Huadong Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN); Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University ECE Department, US); Anlong Ming (Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, CN);
Sensor Network Localization Using Sensor Perturbation
Yuanchen Zhu (Harvard University, US); Steven Gortler (Harvard University, US); Dylan Thurston (Columbia University, US);

MC 10: Scheduling, Resource Allocation, and Management 1
Session Chair: Chuan Wu (The University of Hong Kong, HK)

Fast Resource Allocation for Network-Coded Traffic --- A Coded-Feedback Approach
Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, US); Xiaojun Lin (Purdue University, US);
Link Scheduling with QoS Guarantee for Wireless Relay Networks
Chi-Yao Hong (National Taiwan University, TW); Ai-Chun Pang (National Taiwan University, TW);
Fair and Efficient User-Network Association Algorithm for Multi-Technology Wireless Networks
Pierre Coucheney (INRIA, FR); Corinne Touati (INRIA - LIG Grenoble, FR); Bruno Gaujal (INRIA, FR);
Network Bandwidth Allocation via Distributed Auctions with Time Reservations
Pablo Belzarena (Universidad de la Republica Uruguay, UY), Andres Ferragut (Universidad ORT, UY), Fernando Paganini (Universidad ORT, UY);
On the Exploitation of CDF based Wireless Scheduling
Udi Ben-Porat (Tel-Aviv University, IL); Anat Bremler-Barr (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, IL); Hanoch Levy (Tel Aviv University, IL);

MC 11: Internet Design
Session Chair: Cedric Westphal (Docomo Labs USA, US)

Scalable Routing Via Greedy Embedding
Cedric Westphal (Docomo Labs USA, US); Guanhong Pei (Virginia Tech, US);
Alpha Coverage: Bounding the Interconnection Gap for Vehicular Internet Access
Zizhan Zheng (The Ohio State University, US); Prasun Sinha (Ohio State University, US); Santosh Kumar (University of Memphis, US);
A Fluid Limit for Cache Algorithms with General Request Processes
Takayuki Osogami (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, JP);
Mining the Web and the Internet for Accurate IP Address Geolocations
Chuanxiong Guo (Microsoft Research Asia, CN); Yunxin Liu (Microsoft Research Asia, CN); Wenchao Shen (Tsinghua, CN); Helen Wang (Microsoft Research, US); Yongguang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, CN);
Reasoning about Uncertainty for Overlay Fault Diagnosis Based on End-User Observations
Yongning Tang (Illinois State University, US); Ehab Al-Shaer (DePaul University, US);

MC 12: Security, Trust, and Privacy
Session Chair: Ehab Al-Shaer (DePaul University, US)

Secure Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Randomized Dispersive Routes
Tao Shu (University of Arizona, US); Sisi Liu (The University of Arizona, US); Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, US);
Faster DFAs Through Simple and Efficient Inverse Homomorphisms
Domenico Ficara (University of Pisa, IT); Stefano Giordano (University of Pisa, IT); Gregorio Procissi (Universit? di Pisa, IT); Fabio Vitucci (University of Pisa, IT); Gianni Antichi (University of Pisa, IT); Andrea Di Pietro (University of Pisa, IT);
Privacy in VoIP Networks: A $k$-Anonymity Approach
Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US); Arun Iyengar (IBM Research, US);
Rome: Performance and Anonymity using Route Meshes
Krishna Puttaswamy (University of California Santa Barbara, US); Alessandra Sala (University California Santa Barbara, US); Omer Egecioglu (University of California Santa Barbara, US); Ben Zhao (University of California at Santa Barbara, US);
Applying PCA for Traffic Anomaly Detection: Problems and Solutions
Daniela Brauckhoff (ETH Zurich, CH); Kave Salamatian (Lancaster University, FR); Martin May (Thomson, CH);

MC 19: Wireless Mesh Networks
Session Chair: Yu Cheng (Illinois Institute of Technology, US)

Medium Access Control for 60 GHz Outdoor Mesh Networks with Highly Directional Links
Raghuraman Mudumbai (University of California Santa Barbara, US); Sumit Singh (University of California, US); Upamanyu Madhow (University of California Santa Barbara, US);
muNet: Harnessing Multiuser Capacity in Wireless Mesh Networks
Li (Erran) Li (Bell Labs Lucent Technologies, US); Richard Alimi (Yale University, US); Ramachandran Ramjee (Microsoft Research, IN); Harish Viswanathan (Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent, US); Y. Richard Yang (Yale University, US);
Capacity Analysis of Wireless Mesh Networks with Omni or Directional Antennas
Jun Zhang (The City University of Hongkong University, HK); Xiaohua Jia (City Univ. of Hong Kong, HK);
Opportunistic Routing with Directional Antennas in Wireless Mesh Networks
Chun-Pong Luk (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Wing Cheong Lau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); On Ching Yue (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK);
Experimental Comparison of Bandwidth Estimation Tools for Wireless Mesh Networks
Dhruv Gupta (University of California Davis, US); Daniel Wu (University of California Davis, US); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California Davis, US); Chen-Nee Chuah (University of California Davis, US);

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

MC 13: Wireless Sensor Networks 2
Session Chair: Huadong Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN)

Random versus Deterministic Deployment of Wireless Sensors --- Which is Better in the Presence of Failures and Placement Errors?
Paul Balister (University of Memphis, US); Santosh Kumar (University of Memphis, US);
Shape Estimation Using Networked Binary Sensors
Hiroshi Saito (NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, JP); Shinsuke Shimogawa (NTT, JP); Shigeo Shioda (Chiba University, JP); Junko Harada (Chiba University, JP);
A Localized Multi-Hop Desynchronization Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
Hui Kang (State University of New York at Stony Brook, US); Jennifer Wong (SUNY Stony Brook University, US);
Topological Data Processing for Distributed Sensor Networks with Morse-Smale Decomposition
Xianjin Zhu (Stony Brook University, US); Rik Sarkar (Stony Brook University, US); Jie Gao (Stony Brook University, US);
CASE: Connectivity-based Skeleton Extraction in Wireless Sensor Networks
Hongbo Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CN); Wenping Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CN); Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK); Tian Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CN); Xue Liu (Mcgill University, CA); Ying Wu (Northwestern University, US); Liu Wenyu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CN);

MC 14: Scheduling, Resource Allocation, and Management 2
Session Chair: Ben Liang (University of Toronto, CA)

Optimal Scheduling Policies in Small Generalized Switches
Tianxiong Ji (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Eleftheria Athanasopoulou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); R. Srikant (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US);
Scheduling in Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Priorities
Qiao Li (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Rohit Negi (Carnegie Mellon University, US);
TDMA Scheduling in Long-Distance WiFi Networks
Debmalya Panigrahi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Bhaskaran Raman (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IN);
Novel Architectures and Algorithms for Delay Reduction in Back-pressure Scheduling and Routing
Loc Bui (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); R. Srikant (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Alexander Stolyar (Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent, US);

MC 15: Pricing, Billing & Network Measurement 2
Session Chair: Jacomo Corbo (Harvard University, US)

An Economically-Principled Generative Model of AS Graph Connectivity
Jacomo Corbo (Harvard University, US); Shaili Jain (Harvard University, US); Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard University, US); David Parkes (Harvard University, US);
On Passive One-Way Loss Measurements Using Sampled Flow Statistics
Yu Gu (NEC Labs America, US); Lee Breslau (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Nick Duffield (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Subhabrata Sen (AT&T Labs - Research, US);
Server Frequency Control Using Markov Decision Processes
Lydia Chen (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, CH); Natarajan Gautam (Texas A&M University, US);
Shadow Prices vs. Vickrey Prices in Multipath Routing: Respective Significance, Underlying Connections and Joint Algorithms
Parthasarathy Ramanujam (University of Calgary, CA); Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary, CA); Lisa Higham (University of Calgary, CA);
STUMP: Exploiting Position Diversity in the Staggered TDMA Underwater MAC Protocol
Kurtis Kredo II (University of California Davis, US); Petar Djukic (Carleton University, CA); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California Davis, US);

MC 16: Ad Hoc Mobile Networks 2
Session Chair: Falko Dressler (University of Erlangen, DE)

A Learning-based Multiuser Opportunistic Spectrum Access Approach in Unslotted Primary Networks
Sachin Shetty (Rowan University, US); Min Song (Old Dominion University, US); Chunsheng Xin (Norfolk State University, US);
Throughput of Slotted ALOHA with Encoding Rate Optimization and Multipacket Reception
Paolo Minero (Univ. of California at San Diego, US); Massimo Franceschetti (University of California at San Diego, US);
Coordinated Channel Access in Cognitive Radio Networks: A Multi-level Spectrum Opportunity Perspective
Tao Shu (University of Arizona, US); Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, US);
An Empirical Study of Performance Benefits of Network Coding in Multihop Wireless Networks
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Purdue University, US); Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University, US); Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, US);
PAMAC: A PHY Aided MAC for Wireless Networks
Dola Saha (University of Colorado at Boulder, US); Aveek Dutta (University of Colorado at Boulder, US); Dirk Grunwald (University of Colorado, US); Douglas Sicker (University of Colorado, US);

MC 20: Network Control and Management 2
Session Chair: Xinwen Fu (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)

Robust Event Boundary Detection and Event Tracking in Sensor Networks - a Mixture Model based Approach
Min Ding (George Washington University, US); Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington Univ, US);
A Threshold Based MAC Protocol for Cooperative MIMO Transmissions
Haiming Yang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Hsin-Yi Shen (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Biplab Sikdar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US);
Distributed Non-Autonomous Power Control through Distributed Convex Optimization
SundharRam Srinivasan (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, US); Venugopal Veeravalli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Angelia Nedic (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US);
Physical Layer Provisioning of Valiant Load-Balanced Networks
Andrew Curtis (University of Waterloo, CA); Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz (University of Waterloo, CA);
Selfish Distributed Compression over Networks
Aditya Ramamoorthy (Iowa State University, US); Vwani Roychowdhury (University of California at Los Angeles, US); Sudhir Singh (University of California, US);

 

Tuesday, April 21

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Keynote 1: TBA

Prof. Nick McKeown, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University (bio)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

All Conference Panel (Panel 1):
Clean Slate Architectures: Where Are We Today, And What Is The Path Forward?

Panelists:

Christophe Diot (Thomson Paris Research Center, France)
Joe Touch (Postel Center - Information Sciences Institute, US)
John Silvester (University of Southern California, US)
Nick McKeown (Stanford University, US)

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

TS 1: Congestion Control 1
Session Chair: Anwar Walid (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Tchnologies, USA)

RAPID: Shrinking the Congestion-control Timescale
Vishnu Konda (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US); Jasleen Kaur (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US);
Congestion Control using Efficient Explicit Feedback
Ihsan Qazi (University of Pittsburgh, US); Lachlan Andrew (Swinburne University of Technology, AU); Taieb Znati (University of Pittsburgh, US);
Stochastic Analysis of Scalable TCP
Giovanna Carofiglio (Alcatel-Lucent France, FR); Francois Baccelli (INRIA-ENS, FR); Marta Piancino (None, IT);
Is the "Law of the Jungle" Sustainable for the Internet?
Thomas Bonald (Orange Labs, FR); Mathieu Feuillet (Microsoft Research, UK); Alexandre Proutiere (Microsoft Research, UK);

TS 2: Routing 1
Session Chair: Jordi Domingo-Pascual (Technical University of Catalunya (UPC) Advanced Broadband Communications Center, Spain)

Multirate Anypath Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks
Rafael Laufer (University of California at Los Angeles, US); Henri Dubois-Ferriθre (Riverbed Technology, Inc., Lausanne, Switzerland); Leonard Kleinrock (University of California, Los Angeles, US);
Minimizing End-to-End Delay: A Novel Routing Metric for Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks
Hongkun Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Yu Cheng (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Chi Zhou (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Weihua Zhuang (University of Waterloo, CA);
On Leveraging Partial Paths in Partially-connected Networks
Simon Heimlicher (ETH Zurich, CH); Merkourios Karaliopoulos (ETH Zurich, CH); Hanoch Levy (Tel Aviv University, IL); Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (ETH, CH);
Routing Metric Designs for Greedy, Face and Combined Greedy-Face Routing
Yujun Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN); Yaling Yang (Virginia Tech, US); Xianliang Lu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN);

TS 3: P2P 1
Session Chair: Jussara Almeida (UFMG,Brazil)

Queuing Network Models for Multi-Channel P2P Live Streaming Systems
Di Wu (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, US); Yong Liu (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, US); Keith W. Ross (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, US);
Distilling Superior Peers in Large-Scale P2P Streaming Systems
Zimu Liu (University of Toronto, CA); Chuan Wu (The University of Hong Kong, HK); Baochun Li (University of Toronto, CA); Shuqiao Zhao (UUSee Inc., CN);
CPM: Adaptive Video-on-Demand with Cooperative Peer Assists and Multicast
Vijay Gopalakrishnan (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Samrat Bhattacharjee (University of Maryland at College Park, US); K. K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs. Research, US); Rittwik Jana (AT&T Labs Research, US); Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs, US);
P2P-TV Systems under Adverse Network Conditions: a Measurement Study
Eugenio Alessandria (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Massimo Gallo (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Emilio Leonardi (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino, IT);

TS 4: Sensor Networks 1
Session Chair: Dong Xuan (Ohio State University, USA)

Surface Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks
Ming-Chen Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN); Jiayin Lei (Shanghai Jiaotong University, CN); Min-You Wu (Shanghai JiaoTong University, CN); Yunhuai Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CN); Wei Shu (The University of New Mexico, US);
Double Mobility: Coverage of the Sea Surface with Mobile Sensor Networks
Ji Luo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK); Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK);
Barrier Coverage of Line-Based Deployed Wireless Sensor Networks
Anwar Saipulla (University of Massachusetts Lowell, US); Cedric Westphal (Docomo Labs USA, US); Benyuan Liu (University of Massachusetts Lowell, US); Jie Wang (University of Massachusetts Lowell, US);
Trap Coverage: Allowing Coverage Holes of Bounded Diameter in Wireless Sensor Networks
Paul Balister (University of Memphis, US); Zizhan Zheng (The Ohio State University, US); Santosh Kumar (University of Memphis, US); Prasun Sinha (Ohio State University, US);

TS 5: Energy Efficiency
Session Chair: Xin Liu (University of California, Davis, USA)

Dynamic Power Allocation Under Arbitrary Varying Channels - An Online Approach
Niv Buchbinder (Technion University, IL); Liane Lewin-Eytan (Technion, IL); Ishai Menache (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Joseph (Seffi) Naor (Technion, IL); Ariel Orda (Technion, IL);
An Adaptive Link Layer for Range Diversity in Multi-radio Mobile Sensor Networks
Jeremy Gummeson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US); Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US); Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US); Mark Corner (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US);
Near Optimal Multicriteria Spanner Constructions in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
Hanan Shpungin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IL); Michael Segal (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IL);
Monotonic Optimization for Non-concave Power Control in Multiuser Multicarrier Network Systems
Liping Qian (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK);

TS 6: Network Coding 1
Session Chair: Yu Cheng (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

Cooperative Network Coding-Aware Routing for Multi-Rate Wireless Networks
Jin Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK);
Minimizing Delay for Multicast-Streaming in Wireless Networks with Network Coding
Wai-Leong Yeow (Institute for InfoComm Research, SG); Anh Tuan Hoang (Institute for Infocomm Research, SG); Chen Khong Tham (Institute for Infocomm Research, SG);
Throughput-Delay Tradeoffs in Large-Scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Network Coding
Chi Zhang (University of Florida, US); Xiaoyan Zhu (Xidian University, CN); Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, US);
Effective Delay Control for Online Network Coding
Joao Barros (University of Porto, PT); Rui Costa (Universidade do Porto / Instituto de Telecomunicaçáes, PT); Daniele Munaretto (DoCoMo Euro-Labs, DE); Joerg Widmer (DoCoMo Euro-Labs, DE);

TS 7: Vehicular, Delay Tolerant Networks
Session Chair: Christophe Diot (Thomson Paris Research Center, France)

SEER: Metropolitan-scale Traffic Perception Based on Lossy Sensory Data
Hongzi Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN); Yanmin Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN); Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN); Lionel Ni (HKUST, HK);
Reliable Broadcast of Safety Messages in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Farzad Farnoud (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US); Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, CA);
To Cache or Not To Cache?
Marco Fiore (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Francesco Mininni (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Claudio Casetti (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, IT);
Information Propagation Speed in Mobile and Delay Tolerant Networks
Philippe Jacquet (INRIA, FR); Bernard Mans (Macquarie University, AU); Georgios Rodolakis (Macquarie University, AU);

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

TS 8: Congestion Control 2
Session Chair: Claudio Casetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

A Unified Approach to Optimizing Performance in Networks serving Heterogeneous Flows
Ruogu Li (The Ohio State University, US); Lei Ying (Iowa State University, US); Atilla Eryilmaz (Ohio State University, US); Ness Shroff (The Ohio State University, US);
DiffQ: Practical Differential Backlog Congestion Control for Wireless Networks
Ajit Warrier (North Carolina State University, US); Sankararaman Janakiraman (North Carolina State University, US); Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University, US);
On the Trade-off Between Control Rate and Congestion in Single Server Systems
Krishna Prasanna Jagannathan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Eytan Modiano (MIT, US); Lizhong Zheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US);
Network Coding Meets TCP
Jay Kumar Sundararajan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Devavrat Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Muriel Medard (MIT, US); Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard University, US); Joao Barros (University of Porto, PT);

TS 9: Routing 2
Session Chair: Renata Teixeira (UPMC Paris Universitas & CNRS, France)

Graceful Network Operations
Saqib Raza (University of California, Davis, US); Yuanbo Zhu (University of California, Davis, US); Chen-Nee Chuah (University of California, Davis, US);
MARA: Maximum Alternative Routing Algorithm
Yasuhiro Ohara (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, JP); Shinji Imahori (University of Tokyo, JP); Rodney Van Meter (Keio University, JP);
Path Diversity Aware Interdomain Routing
Feng Wang (Liberty University, US); Lixin Gao (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US);
BGP-aware IGP Link Weight Optimization in Presence of Route Reflectors
Simon Balon (Universite de Liege, BE); Guy Leduc (University of Liege, BE);

TS 10: P2P 2
Session Chair: Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento, Italy)

Analysis of Adaptive Incentive Protocols for P2P Networks
Bridge Zhao (Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); John C. S. Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Dah Ming Chiu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK);
On the Market Power of Network Coding in P2P Content Distribution Systems
Xinyu Zhang (University of Michigan, US); Baochun Li (University of Toronto, CA);
A Sybilproof Indirect Reciprocity Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Networks
Raul Landa (University College London, UK); Richard Clegg (University College London, UK); Eleni Mykoniati (University College London, UK); David Griffin (University College London, UK); Miguel Rio (UCL, UK);
Budget-Based Self-Optimized Incentive Search in Unstructured P2P Networks
Yi Hu (University of California, Riverside, US); Min Feng (University of California, Riverside, US); Laxmi Bhuyan (University of California, US); Vana Kalogeraki (University of California, Riverside, US);

TS 11: Sensor Networks 2
Session Chair: Santosh Kumar (University of Memphis, USA)

A New Distributed Algorithm for Even Coverage and Improved Lifetime in a Sensor Network
Xiaoyu Chu (Drexel University, US); Harish Sethu (Drexel University, US);
Bi-Criteria Approximation Algorithms for Power-Efficient and Low-Interference Topology Control in Unreliable Ad hoc Networks
Maleq Khan (Virginia Tech, US); Anil Vullikanti (Virginia Tech., US); Madhav Marathe (Virginia Tech, US); Gopal Pandurangan (Purdue University, US); S. s. Ravi (University at Albany -- State Univ. of New York, US);
More is More: the Benefits of Denser Sensor Deployment
Matthew Johnson (City University of New York, US); Amotz Bar-Noy (Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, US); Chai Wu (IBM Research center, US); Deniz Sarioz (CUNY Graduate Center, US); Theodore Brown (City University of New York, US); Dinesh Verma (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US);
Constructing Multiple-Connectivity and Full-Coverage Three Dimensional Networks
Xiaole Bai (The Ohio State University, US); Chuanlin Zhang (Jinan University, CN); Dong Xuan (The Ohio State University, US); Weijia Jia (City University of Hong Kong, CN);

TS 12: Security 1
Session Chair: Yanchao Zhang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

Accelerating Multi-patterns Matching on Compressed HTTP Traffic
Anat Bremler-Barr (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, IL); Yaron Koral (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, IL);
An Efficient Scheme for Securing XOR Network Coding against Pollution Attacks
Zhen Yu (Iowa State University, US); Yawen Wei (Iowa State University, US); Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar (Iowa State University, US); Yong Guan (Iowa State University, US);
Variable-Stride Multi-Pattern Matching For Scalable Deep Packet Inspection
Nan Hua (Georgia Tech, US); Haoyu Song (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US); T. V. Lakshman (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US);
Rule-Based Anomaly Detection on IP Flows
Nick Duffield (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Patrick Haffner (AT&T, US); Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Haakon Ringberg (Princeton University, US);

TS 13: Network Coding 2
Session Chair: Joerg Widmer (DoCoMo Euro-Labs, DE)

On Effectiveness of Application-Layer Coding
Yoojin Choi (University of Michigan, US); Petar Momcilovic (University of Michigan, US);
Layered Multicast with Inter-layer Network Coding
Sorina Dumitrescu (McMaster University, CA); Mingkai Shao (McMaster University, CA); Xiaolin Wu (McMaster University, CA);
An Evolutionary Approach To Inter-Session Network Coding
Minkyu Kim (MIT, US); Muriel Medard (MIT, US); Una-May O'Reilly (MIT, US); Danail Traskov (Technical University of Munich, DE);
Nuclei: Graphics-Accelerated Multi-Core Network Coding
Hassan Shojania (University of Toronto, CA); Baochun Li (University of Toronto, CA);

TS 14: Wireless / QoS
Session Chair: Celio Albuquerque (UFF, Brazil)

Duty-Cycle-Aware Broadcast in Wireless Sensor Networks
Feng Wang (Simon Fraser University, CA); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, CA);
Statistical QoS Provisionings for Wireless Unicast/Multicast of Layered Video Streams
Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, ECE Department, US); Qinghe Du (Texas A&M University, US);
A Theory of QoS for Wireless
I-Hong Hou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Vivek Borkar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, IN); P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US);
Structured Admission Control Policies in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with Mesh Underlay
Amin Farbod (University of Toronto, CA); Ben Liang (University of Toronto, CA);

 

Wednesday, April 22

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

TS 15: Inference 1
Session Chair: Gerardo Rubino (Irisa/Inria, France)

Fit A Spread Estimator in A Small Memory
MyungKeun Yoon (University of Florida, US); Tao Li (University of Florida, US); Shigang Chen (University of Florida, US); Jih-Kwon Peir (University of Florida, US);
Fast Multiset Membership Testing Using Combinatorial Bloom Filters
Fang Hao (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US); M. Kodialam (Bell Labs, US); T. V. Lakshman (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Haoyu Song (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US);
Robust Counting Via Counter Braids: An Error-Resilient Network Measurement Architecture
Yi Lu (Stanford University, US); Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford University, US);
Towards Efficient Large-Scale VPN Monitoring and Diagnosis under Operational Constraints
Yao Zhao (Northwestern Univ, US); Zhaosheng Zhu (Northwestern University, US); Yan Chen (Northwestern University, US); Dan Pei (AT&T Labs-Research, US); Jia Wang (AT&T Labs - Research, US);

TS 16: Routing 3
Session Chair: Yaling Yang (Virginia Tech, USA)

Traffic Engineering versus Content Distribution: A Game-Theoretic Perspective
Dominic DiPalantino (Stanford University, US); Ramesh Johari (Stanford University, US);
Searching for Stability in Interdomain Routing
Rahul Sami (University of Michigan, US); Michael Schapira (The Hebrew University, IL); Aviv Zohar (The Hebrew University, IL);
Polynomial Time Approximations for Multi-Path Routing with Bandwidth and Delay Constraints
Satyajayant Misra (Arizona State University, US); Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, US); Dejun Yang (Arizona State University, US);
Scalable Content-Based Routing in Pub/Sub Systems
Anirban Majumder (Bell Labs, Bangalore, IN); Rajeev Rastogi (Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore, IN); Nisheeth Shrivastava (Bell Labs, Bangalore, IN); Anand Srinivasan (Google, Bangalore, IN);

TS 17: P2P 3
Session Chair: Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, CA)

Absence of Evidence as Evidence of Absence: A Simple Mechanism for Scalable P2P Search
Stratis Ioannidis (University of Toronto, CA); Peter Marbach (University of Toronto, CA);
BitTorrent: An Extensible Heterogeneous Model
Alix L. H. Chow (University of Southern California, US); Leana Golubchik (USC, US); Vishal Misra (Columbia University, US);
Minimizing Average Finish Time in P2P Networks
G. Matthew Ezovski (Cornell University, US); Lachlan Andrew (Swinburne University of Technology, AU); Kevin Tang (Cornell University, US);
LayerP2P: A New Data Scheduling Approach for Layered Streaming in Heterogeneous Networks
Xin Xiao (Tsinghua University, CN); Yuanchun Shi (Tsinghua University, CN); Yuan Gao (Tsinghua University, CN); Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK);

TS 18: Sensor Networks 3
Session Chair: Antonio Loureiro (UFMG, Brazil)

Optimal Anycast Technique for Delay-Sensitive Energy-Constrained Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks
Joohwan Kim (Purdue University, US); Xiaojun Lin (Purdue University, US); Ness Shroff (The Ohio State University, US);
Energy-Efficient Clustering/Routing for Cooperative MIMO Operation in Sensor Networks
Mohammad Siam (University of Arizona, US); Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, US); Ossama Younis (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., US);
Energy Efficient TDMA Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks
Junchao Ma (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK); Wei Lou (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK); Xiang-Yang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, US);
Hermes: Fast and Energy Efficient Incremental Code Updates for Wireless Sensor Networks
Rajesh Panta (Purdue University, US); Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University, US);

TS 19: Security 2
Session Chair: Lisandro Granville (UFRGS, Brazil)

Packet Classification Algorithms: From Theory to Practice
Yaxuan Qi (Tsinghua University, CN); Lianghong Xu (Tsinghua University, CN); Baohua Yang (Tsinghua University, CN); Yibo Xue (Tsinghua university, CN); Jun Li (Tsinghua University, CN);
Detecting Selfish Exploitation of Carrier Sensing in 802.11 WLANs
Konstantinos Pelechrinis (University of California Riverside, US); Guanhua Yan (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US); Stephan Eidenbenz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US); Srikanth Krishnamurthy (University of California, Riverside, US);
Determining the Number of Attackers and Localizing Multiple Adversaries in Wireless Spoofing Attacks
Jie Yang (Stevens Institute of Technology, US); Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology, US); Wade Trappe (WINLAB, Rutgers University, US); Jerry Cheng (Rutgers University, US);
ALDO: An Anomaly Detection Framework for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
Song Liu (Rutgers University, US); Larry Greenstein (Rutgers University, US); Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology, US); Wade Trappe (WINLAB, Rutgers University, US);

TS 20: Measurements, Management
Session Chair: Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (IBM India Research Laboratory, Bangalore, IN, on leave from RPI, USA)

Controlling False Alarm/Discovery Rates in Online Internet Traffic Flow Classification
Daniel Nechay (McGill University, CA); Yvan Pointurier (Athens Information Technology, GR); Mark Coates (McGill University, CA);
On the Effectiveness of Measurement Reuse for Performance-Based Detouring
David Choffnes (Northwestern University, US); Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University, US);
OneClick: A Framework for Capturing Users' Network Experiences
Kuan-Ta Chen (Academia Sinica, TW); Cheng Chun Tu (Stony Brook University, US); Wei-Cheng Xiao (National Taiwan University, TW);
Seven Years and One Day: Sketching the Evolution of Internet Traffic
Pierre Borgnat (ENS Lyon, FR); Guillaume Dewaele (ENS Lyon, FR); Kensuke Fukuda (National Institute of Informatics, JP); Patrice Abry (Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, FR); Kenjiro Cho (IIJ, JP);

TS 21: Optical 1
Session Chair: Jay Cheng (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Emulation and Approximation of a Flexible Delay Line by Parallel Non-overtaking Delay Lines
Duan-Shin Lee (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Kai-Jie Hsu (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Cheng-Shang Chang (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Jay Cheng (National Tsing Hua University, TW);
The Crosspoint-Queued Switch
Josef Kanizo (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IL); David Hay (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Isaac Keslassy (Technion, IL);
SDL Constructions of FIFO, LIFO and Absolute Contractors
Cheng-Shang Chang (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Jay Cheng (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Duan-Shin Lee (National Tsing Hua University, TW);
A Dynamic Frame Sizing Algorithm for CICQ Switches with 100% Throughput
Cheng-Shang Chang (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Yu-Hao Hsu (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Jay Cheng (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Duan-Shin Lee (National Tsing Hua University, TW);

TS 22: Architecture, Survivability
Session Chair: Ehab Al-Shaer (DePaul University, USA)

On Efficient Content Matching in Distributed Pub/Sub Systems
Weixiong Rao (Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK);
Fault Management Using the CONMan Abstraction
Hitesh Ballani (Cornell University, US); Paul Francis (Cornell University, US);
Hardness and Approximation of the Survivable Multi-Level Fat Tree Problem
Hung Ngo (State University of New York at Buffalo, US); Thanh-Nhan Nguyen (State University of New York at Buffalo, US); Dahai Xu (AT&T Labs - Research, US);
Virtual Network Embedding with Coordinated Node and Link Mapping
N. M. Mosharaf Chowdhury (University of Waterloo, CA); Muntasir Raihan Rahman (University of Waterloo, CA); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, CA);

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

TS 23: Inference 2
Session Chair: Alhussein Abouzeid (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Quantifying the Importance of Vantage Points Distribution in Internet Topology Measurements
Udi Weinsberg (Tel-Aviv University, IL); Yuval Shavitt (Tel-Aviv University, IL);
Estimating Hop Distance Between Arbitrary Host Pairs
Brian Eriksson (University of Wisconsin - Madison, US); Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin - Madison, US); Rob Nowak (University of Wisconsin, Madison, US);
Identifying High Cardinality Internet Hosts
Yu Jin (University of Minnesota, US); Jin Cao (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Aiyou Chen (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US); Tian Bu (Bell labs, Lucent, US); Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota, US);
Tracking cardinality distributions in network traffic
Aiyou Chen (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US); Li (Erran) Li (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Jin Cao (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US);

TS 24: DTN 1
Session Chair: Giovanni Neglia (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France)

Exact Analysis of Latency of Stateless Opportunistic Forwarding
Chi-Kin Chau (University of Cambridge, UK); Prithwish Basu (BBN Technologies, US);
Fair Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks
Josep Pujol (Telefonica Research, ES); Alberto Lopez Toledo (Telefonica Research, ES); Pablo Rodriguez (Telefonica Research, Barcelona, ES);
Encounter-Based Routing in DTNs
Samuel Nelson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Mehedi Bakht (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US); Robin Kravets (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US);
SLAW : A New Mobility Model for Human Walks
Kyunghan Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), KR); Seongik Hong (North Carolina State University, US); Seong Joon Kim (North Carolina State University, US); Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University, US); Song Chong (KAIST, KR);

TS 25: P2P 4
Session Chair: Mooi Choo Chuah (Lehigh University, USA)

apt-p2p: A Peer-to-Peer Distribution System for Software Package Releases and Updates
Cameron Dale (Simon Fraser University, CA); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, CA);
FS2You: Peer-Assisted Semi-Persistent Online Storage at a Large Scale
Ye Sun (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CN); Fangming Liu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Bo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CN); Baochun Li (University of Toronto, CA); Xinyan Zhang (Roxbeam Co., CN);
Minimum Degree Publish-Subscribe Overlay Network Design
Melih Onus (Arizona State University, US); Andrea Richa (Arizona State University, US);
Understanding the Performance Gap between Pull-based Mesh Streaming Protocols and Fundamental Limits
Chen Feng (University of Toronto, CA); Baochun Li (University of Toronto, CA); Bo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CN);

TS 26: Sensor Networks 4
Session Chair: Tian He (University of Minnesota, USA)

Event Recognition in Sensor Networks by Means of Grammatical Inference
Sahin Geyik (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Boleslaw Szymanski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US);
Obstacle Discovery in Distributed Active Sensor Networks
Rong Zheng (University of Houston, US); Amit Pendharkar (University of Houston, US);
Barrier Information Coverage with Wireless Sensors
Guanqun Yang (Iowa State University, US); Daji Qiao (Iowa State University, US);
VISA: Virtual Scanning Algorithm for Dynamic Protection of Road Networks
Jaehoon Jeong (University of Minnesota, US); Yu Gu (University of Minnesota, US); Tian He (University of Minnesota, US); David Du (University of Minnesota, US);

TS 27: Security 3
Session Chair: Shigang Chen (University of Florida, USA)

ElliPS: A Privacy Preserving Scheme for Sensor Data Storage and Query
Nalin Subramanian (Iowa State University, US); Ka Yang (Iowa State University, US); Wensheng Zhang (Iowa State University, US); Daji Qiao (Iowa State University, US);
Secure Range Queries in Tiered Sensor Networks
Jing Shi (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US); Rui Zhang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US); Yanchao Zhang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US);
Dependable and Secure Sensor Data Storage with Dynamic Integrity Assurance
Qian Wang (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Kui Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Wenjing Lou (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US); Yanchao Zhang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US);
FDAC: Toward Fine-grained Distributed Data Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
Shucheng Yu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US); Kui Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Wenjing Lou (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US);

TS 28: Incentive Pricing and Game Theory
Session Chair: Fernando Paganini (Universidad ORT, UY)

On Mechanism Design without Payments for Throughput Maximization
Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft Research, US); Stefan Schmid (TU Munchen, DE);
Distributed Multi-channel Power Allocation Algorithm for Spectrum Sharing Cognitive Radio Networks with QoS Guarantee
Yuan Wu (HKUST, HK); Danny H. K. Tsang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK);
Network Rate Allocation with Content Provider Participation
Prashanth Hande (Princeton University, US); Mung Chiang (Princeton University, US); A. Robert Calderbank (Princeton University, US);
TRUST: A General Framework for Truthful Double Spectrum Auctions
Xia Zhou (University of California, Santa Barbara, US); Haitao Zheng (University of California, Santa Barbara, US);

TS 29: Optical 2
Session Chair: Srinivasan Ramasubramanian (The University of Arizona, USA)

On Monitoring and Failure Localization in Mesh All-Optical Networks
Janos Tapolcai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU); Bin Wu (University of Waterloo, CA); Pin-Han Ho (University of Waterloo, CA);
Cross-Layer Survivability in WDM-Based Networks
Kayi Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Eytan Modiano (MIT, US);
Circuits/Cutsets Duality and a Unified Algorithmic Framework for Survivable Logical Topology Design in IP-over-WDM Optical Networks
Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman (Professor and Hitachi Chair, US); Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, US); Muhammad Javed (University of Oklahoma, US);
Diverse Routing in Networks with Probabilistic Failures
Hyang-Won Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Eytan Modiano (MIT, US);

TS 30: Resource Management
Session Chair: Ben Liang (University of Toronto, CA)

Online Bipartite Perfect Matching with Augmentations
Kamalika Chaudhuri (IIT Kanpur, India, IN); Konstantinos Daskalakis (UC Berkeley, US); Robert Kleinberg (U.C. Berkeley, US); Henry Lin (UC Berkeley, US);
An Information Theoretic Characterization of Weighted Alpha-Proportional Fairness
Masato Uchida (Kyushu Institute of Technology, JP); Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US);
Competitive Scheduling of Packets with Hard Deadlines in a Finite Capacity Queue
Fei Li (George Mason University, US);
A Case for Decomposition in FIFO Networks
Florin Ciucu (University of Toronto, CA); Jorg Liebeherr (University of Toronto, CA);

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

TS 31: Inference 3
Session Chair: Gerardo Rubino (Irisa/Inria, France)

Isolating Physical PER for Smart Rate Selection in 802.11
Malik Khan (University of Melbourne, AU); Darryl Veitch (University of Melbourne, AU);
Assessing the Fidelity of COTS 802.11 Sniffers
Pablo Serrano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES); Michael Zink (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US); Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US);
Understanding Fairness and its Impact on Quality of Service in IEEE 802.11
Michael Bredel (TU Darmstadt, DE); Markus Fidler (TU Darmstadt, DE);
Measuring Complexity and Predictability in Networks with Multiscale Entropy Analysis
Janne Riihijarvi (RWTH Aachen University, DE); Matthias Wellens (RWTH Aachen University, DE); Petri Mahonen (RWTH Aachen University, DE);

TS 32: DTN 2
Session Chair: Prithwish Basu (BBN Technologies, USA)

The Accordion Phenomenon: Analysis, Characterization, and Impact on DTN Routing
Pierre-Ugo Tournoux (Thales and UPMC Univ Paris 06, FR); Jeremie Leguay (Thales Communications, FR); Farid Benbadis (Orange Labs, FR); Vania Conan (Thales Architecture Framework Centre, FR); Marcelo Dias de Amorim (UPMC Paris Universitas, FR); John Whitbeck (Thales, FR);
An Evaluation of Weak State Mechanism Design for Indirection in Dynamic Networks
Utku Acer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Alhussein Abouzeid (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (IBM India Research Laboratory, Bangalore, IN, on leave from RPI, US);
Decentralized Stochastic Control of Delay Tolerant Networks
Eitan Altman (INRIA, FR); Giovanni Neglia (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, FR); Francesco De Pellegrini (CREATE-NET, IT); Daniele Miorandi (Create-Net, IT);
Performance Comparison of Weather Disruption-Tolerant Cross-Layer Routing Algorithms
Abdul Jabbar (The University of Kansas, US); Justin Rohrer (The University of Kansas, US); Andrew Oberthaler (The University of Kansas, US); Egemen Cetinkaya (University of Kansas, US); Victor Frost (Univ. Kansas, US); James Sterbenz (University of Kansas & Lancaster University (UK), US);

TS 33: P2P 5
Session Chair: Yong Liu (Polytechnic University, USA)

NetTube: Exploring Social Networks for Peer-to-Peer Short Video Sharing
Xu Cheng (Simon Fraser University, CA); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, CA);
P2P Second Life: Experimental Validation Using Kad
Matteo Varvello (Eurecom - Thomson, FR); Ernst Biersack (Institut EURECOM, FR); Christophe Diot (Thomson, FR);
MIX-Crowds, an Anonymity Scheme for File Retrieval Systems
Wai Hung Tang (The University of Hong Kong, HK); H. W. Chan (The University of Hong Kong, HK);
Tuning the Redundancy Control Algorithm of Skype for User Satisfaction
Te-Yuan Huang (National Taiwan University, TW); Kuan-Ta Chen (Academia Sinica, TW); Polly Huang (National Taiwan University, TW);

TS 34: Sensor Networks 5
Session Chair: Wing Cheong Lau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)

Dynamic Node Collaboration for Mobile Target Tracking in Wireless Camera Sensor Networks
Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, ECE Department, US); Liang Liu (Texas A&M University, US); Huadong Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN);
Opportunistic Processing and Query of Motion Trajectories in Wireless Sensor Networks
Dengpan Zhou (Stony Brook University, US); Jie Gao (Stony Brook University, US);
Sensor Placement for Detecting Propagative Sources in Populated Environments
Yong Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); I-Hong Hou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Jennifer Hou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Mallikarjun Shankar (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US); Nageswara Rao (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US);
Tracking with Unreliable Node Sequences
Ziguo Zhong (University of Minnesota, US); Ting Zhu (University of Minnesota, US); Dan Wang (University of Minnesota, US); Tian He (University of Minnesota, US);

TS 35: Security 4
Session Chair: Kui Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

Null Keys: Limiting Malicious Attacks Via Null Space Properties of Network Coding
Elias Kehdi (University of Toronto, CA); Baochun Li (University of Toronto, CA);
Time Valid One-Time Signature For Time-Critical Multicast Data Authentication
Qiyan Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Himanshu Khurana (University of Illinois, US); Ying Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US);
Lightweight Remote Image Management for Secure Code Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks
An Liu (North Carolina State Univeristy, US); Peng Ning (North Carolina State University, US); Cliff Wang (Army Research Office, US);
DP^2AC: Distributed Privacy-Preserving Access Control in Sensor Networks
Rui Zhang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US); Yanchao Zhang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US); Kui Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology, US);

TS 36: Wireless Scheduling 1
Session Chair: Emilio Leonardi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Mobility-driven Scheduling in Wireless Networks
Sem Borst (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Nidhi Hegde (Orange Labs, FR); Alexandre Proutiere (Microsoft Research, UK);
Downlink MIMO with Frequency-Domain Packet Scheduling for 3GPP LTE
Suk-Bok Lee (University of California, Los Angeles, US); Sayantan Choudhury (Sharp Labs of America, US); Ahmad Khoshnevis (IRCOMM / Sharp Laboratories of America, US); Shugong Xu (Huawei Technologies, US); Songwu Lu (University of California at Los Angeles, US);
Contiguous-Carrier Scheduling Algorithms for Multi-Carrier Wireless Systems
Matthew Andrews (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US); Lisa Zhang (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US);
Self-organizing Dynamic Fractional Frequency Reuse for Best-Effort Traffic Through Distributed Inter-cell Coordination
Alexander Stolyar (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US); Harish Viswanathan (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US);

TS 37: TCAM / Optical
Session Chair: Michael Stanton (RNP, Brazil)

PEDS: A Parallel Error Detection Scheme for TCAM Devices
Anat Bremler-Barr (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, IL); David Hay (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Danny Hendler (Ben-Gurion University, IL); Ron Roth (Technion, IL);
Layered Interval Codes for TCAM based Classification
Anat Bremler-Barr (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, IL); David Hay (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Danny Hendler (Ben-Gurion University, IL); Boris Farber (Inter-Disciplinary Center, IL);
Minimizing Rulesets for TCAM Implementation
Rick McGeer (HP Laboratories, US); Praveen Yalagandula (HP Labs, US);
Considerations for Sizing Buffers in Optical Packet Switched Networks
Arun Vishwanath (University of New South Wales, AU); Vijay Sivaraman (University of New South Wales, AU); George Rouskas (North Carolina State University, US);

TS 38: Capacity
Session Chair: Ness B Shroff (The Ohio State University, USA)

Maximizing Capacity in Arbitrary Wireless Networks in the SINR Model: Complexity and Game Theory
Michael Dinitz (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Matthew Andrews (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US);
Computing the Capacity Region of a Wireless Network
Ramakrishna Gummadi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Kyomin Jung (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Devavrat Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Ramavarapu Sreenivas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US);
Fast Algorithms and Performance Bounds for Sum Rate Maximization in Wireless Networks
Chee Wei Tan (Princeton University, US); Mung Chiang (Princeton University, US); R. Srikant (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US);
The Capacity Allocation Paradox
Asaf Baron (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IL); Isaac Keslassy (Technion, IL); Ran Ginosar (Technion, IL);

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

TS 39: Inference 4
Session Chair: Rosa M.M. Leγo (UFRJ, Brazil)

Fast Recovery from Dual Link Failures in IP Networks
Shrinivasa Kini (The University of Arizona, US); Srinivasan Ramasubramanian (The University of Arizona, US); Amund Kvalbein (Simula Research Laboraatory, NO); Audun Hansen (Simula Research Laboratory, NO);
Network Performance Anomaly Detection and Localization
Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin - Madison, US); Nick Duffield (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Amos Ron (University of Wisconsin, US); Joel Sommers (Colgate University, US);
Minimizing Probing Cost for Detecting Interface Failures: Algorithms and Scalability Analysis
Hung Nguyen (University of Adelaide, AU); Renata Teixeira (UPMC Paris Universitas and CNRS, FR); Patrick Thiran (EPFL, Switzerland); Christophe Diot (Thomson, FR);
Failure Control in Multipath Route Tracing
Darryl Veitch (University of Melbourne, AU); Brice Augustin (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, FR); Renata Teixeira (UPMC Paris Universitas and CNRS, FR); Timur Friedman (UPMC Paris Universitas and CNRS, FR);

TS 40: DTN 3
Session Chair: Hongyi Wu (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)

MobTorrent: A Framework for Mobile Internet Access from Vehicles
Bin Bin Chen (National University of Singapore, SG); Mun Choon Chan (National University of Singapore, SG);
SPARK: A New VANET-based Smart Parking Scheme for Large Parking Lots
Rongxing Lu (University of Waterloo, CA); Xiaodong Lin (University of Waterloo, CA); Haojin Zhu (University of Waterloo, CA); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, CA);
Optimal and Scalable Distribution of Content Updates over a Mobile Social Network
Stratis Ioannidis (University of Toronto, CA); Augustin Chaintreau (Thomson, FR); Laurent Massoulie (Thomson Paris Research Lab, FR);
Distributed Storage Management of Evolving Files in Delay Tolerant Ad Hoc Networks
Eitan Altman (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, FR); Philippe Nain (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, FR); Jean-Claude Bermond (UNSA/CNRS and INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, FR);

TS 41: P2P 6
Session Chair: Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento, Italy)

The Stable Configuration of Acyclic Preference-Based Systems
Fabien Mathieu (Orange Labs, FR); Gheorghe Postelnicu (Google Labs, CH); Julien Reynier (ENS of Paris, FR);
Routing Fairness in Chord: Analysis and Enhancement
Ruben Cuevas RumΓ­n (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES); Manuel Uruena (University Carlos III Madrid, ES); Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES);
Distributed Arrays: A P2P Data Structure for Efficient Logical Arrays
Daisuke Fukuchi (The University of Tokyo, JP); Christian Sommer (The University of Tokyo, JP); Yuichi Sei (The University of Tokyo, JP); Shinichi Honiden (National Institute of Informatics,The University of Tokyo, JP);
Exploiting Internet Delay Space Properties for Selecting Distinct Network Locations
Bo Zhang (Rice University, US); T. S. Eugene Ng (Rice University, US);

Panel 2:
Current Trends in Wireless Networks

Panelists:

Edward W. Knightly (Rice University, US)
Josι Roberto Boisson de Marca (Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Marwan Krunz (The University of Arizona, US)
Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

TS 42: Security 5
Session Chair: Peng Ning (North Carolina State University, USA)

A Social Network Based Patching Scheme for Worm Containment in Cellular Networks
Zhichao Zhu (The Pennsylvania State University, US); Guohong Cao (Pennsylvania State University, US); Sencun Zhu (The Pennsylvania State University, US); Supranamaya Ranjan (Narus Inc, US); Antonio Nucci (Narus inc., US);
Protecting Against Network Infections: A Game Theoretic Perspective
Jasmina Omic (Delft University of Technology, NL); Ariel Orda (Technion, IL); Piet Van Mieghem (Delft University of Technology, NL);
Economic Incentives to Increase Security in the Internet: The Case for Insurance
Marc Lelarge (INRIA and ENS, FR); Jean Bolot (Sprint, US);
Defending Mobile Phones from Proximity Malware
Gjergji Zyba (University of California, San Diego, US); Geoffrey Voelker (University of California, San Diego, US); Michael Liljenstam (Ericsson Research, SE); Andras Mehes (Ericsson Research, SE); Per Johansson (Calit2, US);

TS 43: Wireless Scheduling 2
Session Chair: Emilio Leonardi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

The Complexity of Channel Scheduling in Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Networks
Wei Cheng (The George Washington University, US); Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington Univ, US); Taieb Znati (University of Pittsburgh, US); Lu Xicheng (National University of Defense Technology, CN); Zexin Lu (National University of Defense Technology, CN);
Distributed Strategies for Channel Allocation and Scheduling in Software-Defined Radio Networks
Bo Han (University of Maryland, US); Anil Vullikanti (Virginia Tech., US); Madhav Marathe (Virginia Tech, US); Srinivasan Parthasarathy (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, US); Aravind Srinivasan (University of Maryland, US);
Power Controlled Scheduling with Consecutive Transmission Constraints: Complexity Analysis and Algorithm Design
Liqun Fu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Soung Chang Liew (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK);
Efficient Algorithms for Leveraging Spatial Reuse in OFDMA Relay Networks
Karthikeyan Sundaresan (NEC Labs America, US); Sampath Rangarajan (NEC Labs America, US);

TS 44: Optical 3
Session Chair: Hung Ngo (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

Approximation Algorithms for Grooming in Optical Network Design
Spyridon Antonakopoulos (Columbia University, US); Lisa Zhang (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US);
Impairment-Aware Offline RWA for Transparent Optical Networks
Konstantinos Manousakis (University of Patras, GR); Kostas Christodoulopoulos (University of Patras, GR); Emmanouel Varvarigos (University of Patras, GR);
Assessing the Vulnerability of the Fiber Infrastructure to Disasters
Sebastian Neumayer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Gil Zussman (Columbia University, US); Reuven Cohen (Bar-Ilan University, IL); Eytan Modiano (MIT, US);
Analysis of Blocking Probability for First-Fit RWA in Transmission Impaired Optical Networks
Jun He (University of Virginia, US); Maite Brandt-Pearce (University of Virginia, US); Suresh Subramaniam (The George Washington University, US);

TS 45: LAN, Access Networks
Session Chair: Daji Qiao (Iowa State University, USA)

EtherProxy: Scaling The Ethernet By Suppressing Broadcast Traffic
Khaled Elmeleegy (Yahoo! Research, US); Alan L. Cox (Rice University, US);
A Measurement Based Rogue AP Detection Scheme
Hao Han (Nanjing University, CN); Chiu Tan (College of William and Mary, US); Bo Sheng (College of William and Mary, US); Qun Li (College of William and Mary, US); Sanglu Lu (Nanjing University, CN);
All Bits Are Not Equal -- A Study of IEEE 802.11 Communication Bit Errors
Bo Han (University of Maryland, US); Lusheng Ji (AT&T Labs Research, US); Seungjoon Lee (AT&T Labs Research, US); Samrat Bhattacharjee (University of Maryland at College Park, US); Robert Miller (AT&T Labs - Research, US);

 

Thursday, April 23

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Keynote 2: TBA

Prof. Andrew Odylzko, School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota (bio)

9:40 AM - 11:10 AM

TS 46: Game Theory, Wireless
Session Chair: Anil Vullikanti (Virginia Tech., USA)

Team and Noncooperative Solutions to Access Control with Priorities
Eitan Altman (INRIA, FR); Ishai Menache (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Alberto Suarez (Eurecom, FR);
Topology Design and Control: A Game-Theoretic Perspective
Amir Nahir (Technion, IL); Ariel Orda (Technion, IL);
Spatial SINR Games Combining Base Station Placement and Mobile Association
Eitan Altman (INRIA, FR); Anurag Kumar (Indian Institute of Science, IN); Chandramani Singh (Indian Institute of Science, IN); Rajesh Sundaresan (Indian Institute of Science, IN);
Wi-Sh: A Simple, Robust Credit Based Wi-Fi Community Network
Xin Ai (National University of Singapore, SG); Vikram Srinivasan (Bell Labs Research India, IN); Chen Khong Tham (National University of Singapore / I2R, SG);

TS 47: Ad Hoc 1
Session Chair: Lei Ying (Iowa State University, USA)

Hyperbolic Embedding and Routing for Dynamic Graphs
Andrej Cvetkovski (Boston University, US); Mark Crovella (Boston University, US);
Load Balancing in Wireless Sensor Networks using Kirchhoff's Voltage Law
Stavros Toumpis (University of Cyprus, CY); Savvas Gitzenis (Certh, GR);
Joint Transport, Routing and Spectrum Sharing Optimization for Wireless Networks with Frequency Agile Radios
Zhenhua Feng (Virginia Polytechnic and State University, US); Yaling Yang (Virginia Tech, US);
On Combining Shortest-Path and Back-Pressure Routing Over Multihop Wireless Networks
Lei Ying (Iowa State University, US); Sanjay Shakkottai (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Aneesh Reddy (The University of Texas at Austin, US);

TS 48: Wireless Scheduling 3
Session Chair: Matthew Andrews (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)

Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling WIth Two-Level Channel Probing
Chandrashekhar Thejaswi PS (Arizona State University, US); Man-On Pun (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, US); Junshan Zhang (Arizona State University, US); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, US);
Delay-optimal Opportunistic Scheduling and Approximations: the Log Rule
Bilal Sadiq (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Seung Baek (Korea University, KR); Gustavo de Veciana (The University of Texas at Austin, US);
Instability of MaxWeight Scheduling Algorithms
Peter van de Ven (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL); Sem Borst (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Vsevolod Shneer (Technical University of Eindhoven, NL);
On Fast Optimal STDMA Scheduling over Fading Wireless Channels
Jialiang Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, CN); Soung Chang Liew (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Liqun Fu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK);

TS 49: Sensor Networks 6
Session Chair: Falko Dressler (University of Erlangen, Germany)

Visibility-Graph-based Shortest-Path Geographic Routing in Sensor Networks
Guang Tan (INRIA - Rennes, FR); Marin Bertier (IRISA/INSA, Rennes, FR); Anne-Marie Kermarrec (INRIA, France, FR);
VirtualFace: An Algorithm to Guarantee Packet Delivery of Virtual-Coordinate-Based Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
Ming-Jer Tsai (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Fang-Ru Wang (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Hong-Yen Yang (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Yuan-Po Cheng (National Tsing Hua University, TW);
Greedy Routing with Bounded Stretch
Roland Flury (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Sriram Pemmaraju (The University of Iowa, US); Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland);
Convex Partition of Sensor Networks and Its Use in Virtual Coordinate Geographic Routing
Guang Tan (INRIA - Rennes, FR); Marin Bertier (IRISA/INSA, Rennes, FR); Anne-Marie Kermarrec (INRIA, France, FR);

TS 50: Security 6
Session Chair: Yingfei Dong (University of Hawaii, USA)

Fighting Spam with the NeighborhoodWatch DHT
Adam Bender (University of Maryland, US); Rob Sherwood (University of Maryland at College Park, US); Derek Monner (University of Maryland College Park, US); Nathan Goergen (University of Maryland, US); Samrat Bhattacharjee (University of Maryland at College Park, US); Neil Spring (University of Maryland, US);
Detecting Spam Zombies by Monitoring Outgoing Messages
Zhenhai Duan (Florida State University, US); Peng Chen (Florida State University, US); Fernando Sanchez (Florida State University, US); Yingfei Dong (Univ. of Hawaii, US);
Fast Detection of Replica Node Attacks in Mobile Sensor Networks Using Sequential Analysis
Jun-Won Ho (The University of Texas at Arlington, US); Matthew Wright (University of Texas at Arlington, US); Sajal Das (The University of Texas at Arlington, US);
Grouping-based Resilient Statistical En-route Filtering for Sensor Networks
Lei Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology, CN); Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, CN);

TS 51: Coding, Wireless
Session Chair: Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA)

Rateless Coding with Feedback
Andrew Hagedorn (Boston University, US); Sachin Agarwal (Deutsche Telekom AG, Laboratories, US); David Starobinski (Boston University, US); Ari Trachtenberg (Boston University, US);
Random Linear Network Coding For Time Division Duplexing: When To Stop Talking And Start Listening
Daniel Lucani (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern University, US); Muriel Medard (MIT, US);
Passive Loss Inference in Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Network Coding
Yunfeng Lin (University of Toronto, CA); Ben Liang (University of Toronto, CA); Baochun Li (University of Toronto, CA);
Reducing Packet Losses in Networks of Commodity IEEE 802.15.4 Sensor Motes Using Cooperative Communication and Diversity Combination
Muhammad Ilyas (Michigan State University, US); Moonseong Kim (Michigan State University, US); Hayder Radha (Michigan State University, US);

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

TS 52: MAC 1
Session Chair: Yaling Yang (Virginia Tech, USA)

ST-MAC: Spatial-Temporal MAC Scheduling for Underwater Sensor Networks
Chih-Cheng Hsu (National Taiwan University, TW); Kuang-Fu Lai (National Taiwan University, TW); Cheng-Fu Chou (National Taiwan University, TW); Kate Ching-Ju Lin (National Taiwan University, TW);
Soft-TDMAC: Software TDMA-based MAC over Commodity 802.11 hardware
Petar Djukic (Carleton University, CA); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, US);
C-MAC: Model-driven Concurrent Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
Mo Sha (City University of Hong Kong, HK); Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University, US); Gang Zhou (College of William and Mary, US); Shucheng Liu (City University of HK, HK); Xiaorui Wang (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, US);
Interference-Aware MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks by a Game-Theoretic Approach
HyungJune Lee (Stanford University, US); Hyukjoon Kwon (Stanford University, US); Arik Motskin (Stanford University, US); Leonidas Guibas (Stanford University, US);

TS 53: Ad Hoc 2
Session Chair: Jose F. de Rezende (UFRJ, Brazil)

Scaling Laws on Multicast Capacity of Large Scale Wireless Networks
Cheng Wang (Tongji University, Shanghai, CN); Xiang-Yang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Changjun Jiang (Department of Computer Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, CN); Shao-Jie Tang (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK);
The Capacity of Arbitrary Wireless Networks
Olga Goussevskaia (ETH Zurich, CH); Magnus Halldorsson (Reykjavik University, IS); Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich, CH); Emo Welzl (ETH Zurich, CH);
The Multicast Capacity Region of Large Wireless Networks
Urs Niesen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Piyush Gupta (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US); Devavrat Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US);
Capacity Scaling of Wireless Networks with Inhomogeneous Node Density: Lower Bounds
Giuseppa Alfano (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Michele Garetto (Universita di Torino, IT); Emilio Leonardi (Politecnico di Torino, IT);

TS 54: Error Correction, Wireless
Session Chair: Otto Duarte (UFRJ, Brazil)

Forward Correction and Fountain codes in Delay Tolerant Networks
Eitan Altman (INRIA, FR); Francesco De Pellegrini (CREATE-NET, IT);
Extreme Value FEC for Wireless Data Broadcasting
Weiyao Xiao (Boston University, US); David Starobinski (Boston University, US);
Cross-Layer Hybrid FEC/ARQ Reliable Multicast with Adaptive Modulation and Coding in Broadband Wireless Networks
Reuven Cohen (Technion, IL); Guy Grebla (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, IL); Liran Katzir (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IL);
On Optimal Control of Wireless Networks with Multiuser Detection, Hybrid ARQ and Distortion Constraints
Marco Levorato (University of Padova, IT); Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, US); Michele Zorzi (Universita degli Studi di Padova, IT);

TS 55: Security 7
Session Chair: Yong Guan (Iowa State University, ECpE, USA)

On Cooperative Wireless Network Secrecy
Etienne Perron (EPFL, Switzerland); Suhas Diggavi (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland); Emre Telatar (EPFL, Switzerland);
Location Cloaking for Safety Protection of Ad Hoc Networks
Toby Xu (Iowa State University, US); Ying Cai (Iowa State University, US);
ACTION: Breaking the Pravicy Barrier for RFID Systems
Li Lu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Jinsong Han (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK);
Fundamental Limits on Secure Clock Synchronization and Detection of Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Jerry Chiang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Jason Haas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Yih-Chun Hu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Jihyuk Choi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US);

Panel 3:
What Are The Hot Topics in Networking?

Panelists:

Keith Ross (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, US)
Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University, US)
Sajal Das (National Science Foundation and University Texas at Arlington, US)
Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts - Amherst, US)

TS 56: Multicasting
Session Chair: Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada)

Improving Zap Response Time for IPTV
Yigal Bejerano (Bell-Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US); Pramod Koppol (Bell-Labs, Lucent Technologies, US);
Enabling Content Dissemination Using Efficient and Scalable Multicast
Tae Won Cho (University of Texas at Austin, US); Michael Rabinovich (Case Western Reserve University, US); K. K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs. Research, US); Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs, US); Yin Zhang (University of Texas at Austin, US);
Towards Economically Viable Infrastructure-based Overlay Multicast Networks
Varun Khare (University of Arizona, US); Beichuan Zhang (University of Arizona, US);
RADcast: Enabling Reliability Guarantees for Content Dissemination in Ad Hoc Networks
Bo Xing (University of California, Irvine, US); Sharad Mehrotra (University of California, Irvine, US); Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine, US);

TS 57: Scheduling
Session Chair: Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen, Germany)

Power-Aware Speed Scaling In Processor Sharing Systems
Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology, US); Lachlan Andrew (Swinburne University of Technology, AU); Kevin Tang (Cornell University, US);
Admissible Traces, Stability and Rate Management of Queueing / Switching Service Structures
Lykomidis Mastroleon (Stanford Universiry, US);
Exploiting the Path Propagation Time Differences in Multipath Transmission with FEC
Maciej Kurant (EPFL, CH);
UNAP: User-Centric Network-Aware Push for Mobile Content Delivery
Randeep Bhatia (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Ivica Rimac (Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent, US); Girija Narlikar (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); Andre Beck (Bell Laboratories Research, US);

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

TS 58: MAC 2
Session Chair: Jose Augusto Suruagy Monteiro (UNIFACS, Brazil)

Analysis of Spatial Unfairness in Wireless LANs
Yigal Bejerano (Bell-Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US); Thyaga Nandagopal (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Inc., US); Seung-Jae Han (Yonsei University, KR); Hyoung-gyu Choi (Yonsei University, KR);
Synchronized CSMA Contention: Model, Implementation and Evaluation
Jingpu Shi (Rice University, US); Ehsan Aryafar (Rice University, US); Theodoros Salonidis (Thomson, FR); Edward Knightly (Rice University, US);
Toward Optimal Utilization of Shared Random Access Channels
Joseph (Seffi) Naor (Technion, IL); Danny Raz (Technion, IL); Gabriel Scalosub (University of Toronto, CA);
A Protocol-Independent Approach for Analyzing the Optimal Operation Point of CSMA/CA Protocols
Yu Cheng (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Xinhua Ling (Research In Motion, CA); Weihua Zhuang (University of Waterloo, CA);

TS 59: Ad Hoc 3
Session Chair: Piyush Gupta (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA)

Routing Over Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Non-ergodic Mobility
Chris Milling (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Sundar Subramanian (Qualcomm Flarion Technologies, US); Sanjay Shakkottai (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Randall Berry (Northwestern University, US);
The Impact of Mobility on Gossip Algorithms
Anand Sarwate (University of California, Berkeley, US); Alex Dimakis (University of California, Berkeley, US);
Using NEMO to Support the Global Reachability of MANET Nodes
Ben McCarthy (Lancaster University, UK); Christopher Edwards (Lancaster University, UK); Martin Dunmore (Lancaster University, UK);
SWIM: A Simple Model to Generate Small Mobile Worlds
Alessandro Mei (Sapienza University of Rome, IT); Julinda Stefa (Sapienza University of Rome, IT);

TS 60: Cooperative Networks, Wireless
Session Chair: Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada)

Coalitional Games for Distributed Collaborative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks
Walid Saad (University of Oslo, UniK, NO); Zhu Han (University of Maryland, College Park, US); Merouane Debbah (Supelec, FR); Are HjΓΈrungnes (University of Oslo, NO); Tamer Basar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US);
Cooperative Profit Sharing in Coalition Based Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks
Alireza Aram (University of Pennsylvania, US); Chandramani Singh (Indian Institute of Science, IN); Saswati Sarkar (University of Pennsylvania, US); Anurag Kumar (Indian Institute of Science, IN);
On the Convergence of Perturbed Non-Stationary Consensus Algorithms
Tuncer Aysal (Cornell University, US); Kenneth Barner (University of Delaware, US);
XOR-Assisted Cooperative Diversity in OFDMA Wireless Networks: Optimization Framework and Approximation Algorithms
Hong Xu (University of Toronto, CA); Baochun Li (University of Toronto, CA);

TS 61: Sensor Networks 7
Session Chair: Yuanyuan Yang (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)

Prize-Collecting Data Fusion for Cost-Performance Tradeoff in Distributed Inference
Animashree Anandkumar (Cornell University, US); Meng Wang (Cornell University, US); Lang Tong (Cornell University, US); Ananthram Swami (Army Research Lab., US);
Distributed Data Aggregation Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks
Bo Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology, CN); Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, CN); Yingshu Li (Georgia State University, US);
Minimizing the Cost of Mine Selection Via Sensor Networks
Changlei Liu (The Pennsylvania State University, US); Guohong Cao (Pennsylvania State University, US);
Identity Aware Sensor Networks
Lorenzo Keller (EPFL, Switzerland); Mahdi Jafarisiavoshani (EPFL, SwitzerlanD); Christina Fragouli (EPFL, Switzerland); Katerina Argyraki (EPFL, Switzerland); Suhas Diggavi (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL, Switzerland);

TS 62: Security 8
Session Chair: Yih-Chun Hu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Building Covert Channels over the Packet Reordering Phenomenon
Adel El-Atawy (DePaul University, US); Ehab Al-Shaer (DePaul University, US);
Blind Detection of Spread Spectrum Flow Watermarks
Weijia Jia (City University of Hong Kong, CN); Fung Po TSO (City University of Hong Kong, HK); Zhen Ling (Southeast University, CN); Xinwen Fu (University of Massachusetts Lowell, US); Dong Xuan (The Ohio State University, US);
Covert TCP/IP Timing Channels: Theory to Implementation
Sarah Sellke (Purdue University, US); Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, US); Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University, US); Ness Shroff (The Ohio State University, US);
An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Scheme against Traffic Analysis Attacks in Network Coding
Yanfei Fan (University of Waterloo, CA); Yixin Jiang (University of Waterloo, CA); Haojin Zhu (University of Waterloo, CA); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, CA);

TS 63: Multicasting, Wireless
Session Chair: Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)

On Video Multicast in Cognitive Radio Networks
Donglin Hu (Auburn University, US); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, US); Jeffrey Reed (Virginia Tech, US);
Time Slicing in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks with Arbitrary Channel Bit Rates
Mohamed Hefeeda (Simon Fraser University, CA); Cheng-Hsin Hsu (Simon Fraser University, CA);
Locally vs. Globally Optimized Flow-Based Content Distribution to Mobile Nodes
Reuven Cohen (Technion, IL); Danny Raz (Technion, IL); Mhameed Aezladen (Technion, IL);
Interference-Resilient Information Exchange
Seth Gilbert (EPFL, CH); Rachid Guerraoui (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), CH); Dariusz Kowalski (University of Liverpool, UK); Calvin Newport (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US);

TS 64: Backend Services
Session Chair: Sudipta Sengupta (Microsoft Research, USA)

Link Gradients: Predicting the Impact of Network Latency on Multi-Tier Applications
Shuyi Chen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Kaustubh Joshi (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Matti Hiltunen (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Richard Schlichting (AT&T Labs - Research, US); William Sanders (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US);
On the Impact of Heterogeneity and Back-end Scheduling in Load Balancing Designs
Ho-Lin Chen (California Institute of Technology, US); Jason Marden (California Institute of Technology, US); Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology, US);
FiConn: Using Backup Port for Server Interconnection in Data Centers
Dan Li (MSRA, CN); Chuanxiong Guo (Microsoft Research Asia, CN); Haitao Wu (Microsoft Research Asia, CN); Kun Tan (Microosft Research Asia, CN); Yongguang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, CN); Songwu Lu (University of California at Los Angeles, US);
Load Balancing for SIP Server Clusters
Hongbo Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CN); Arun Iyengar (IBM Research, US); Erich Nahum (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US); Wolfgang Segmuller (IBM Research, US); Asser Tantawi (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US); Charles Wright (IBM Research, US);

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

TS 65: MAC 3
Session Chair: Eytan Modiano (MIT, US)

Optimal Sensing-Transmission Structure for Dynamic Spectrum Access
Senhua Huang (University of California, Davis, US); Xin Liu (University of California, Davis, US); Zhi Ding (University of California at Davis, US);
Cooperative Relay for Cognitive Radio Networks
Juncheng Jia (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Jin Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK);
An Experimental Evaluation of Rate Adaptation for Multi-Antenna Systems
Scott Nettles (University of Texas at Austin, US); Wonsoo Kim (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Robert Heath (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Kien Truong (the University of Texas at Austin, US); Soon-Hyeok Choi (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Robert Grant (University of Texas at Austin, US); Hyrum Wright (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Ketan Mandke (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Robert Daniels (The University of Texas at Austin, US);
Dynamic Spectrum Access Protocol Without Power Mask Constraints
Haythem Bany Salameh (University of Arizona, US); Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, US); Ossama Younis (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., US);

TS 66: Ad Hoc 4
Session Chair: Piyush Gupta (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA)

Asymptotically Tight Delay Guarantees Through Wireless Link Scheduling
Koushik Kar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Xiang Luo (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US); Saswati Sarkar (University of Pennsylvania, US);
Minimum-Latency Beaconing Schedule in Multihop Wireless Networks
Peng-Jun Wan (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); XiaoHua Xu (Illinois Institute of Technology, US); Xiaohua Jia (City Univ. of Hong Kong, HK); E. k. Park (UMKC, US);
Scheduling in Mobile Wireless Networks with Topology and Channel-State Uncertainty
Lei Ying (Iowa State University, US); Sanjay Shakkottai (The University of Texas at Austin, US);
Delay Analysis for Multi-hop Wireless Networks
Gagan Gupta (Purdue University, US); Ness Shroff (The Ohio State University, US);

TS 67: Wireless, Sensor Networks
Session Chair: Xinwen Fu (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)

Drowsy Transmission: Physical Layer Energy Optimization for Transmitting Random Packet Traffic
Husheng Li (the University of Tennessee, US); Lin Zhong (Rice University, US); Kun Zheng (The University of Tennessee, US);
Opportunistic Routing Algebra and its Applications
Mingming Lu (Central South University, China); Jie Wu (Florida Atlantic University and National Science Foundation, US);
Lightweight Coloring and Desynchronization for Networks
Arik Motskin (Stanford University, US); Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University, US); Primoz Skraba (Stanford University, US); Leonidas Guibas (Stanford University, US);

TS 68: Sensor Networks 8
Session Chair: Artur Ziviani (LNCC, Brazil)

Beyond Trilateration: On the Localizability of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
Zheng Yang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Xiang-Yang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, US);
Connectivity-based Sensor Network Localization with Incremental Delaunay Refinement Method
Yue Wang (Stony Brook University, US); Sol Lederer (Stony Brook University, US); Jie Gao (Stony Brook University, US);
Distributed Progressive Algorithm for Maximizing Lifetime Vector in Wireless Sensor Networks
Liang Zhang (University of Florida, US); Shigang Chen (University of Florida, US); Ying Jian (University of Florida, US); Yuguang Fang (University of Florida, US);
Sensor Network Navigation without Locations
Mo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Techonlogy, HK); Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Jiliang Wang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Zheng Yang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK);

TS 69: Security 9
Session Chair: Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University, USA)

Thwarting Blackhole Attacks in Distruption-Tolerant Networks using Encounter Tickets
Feng Li (Florida Atlantic University, US); Avinash Srinivasan (Bloomsburg University, US); Jie Wu (Florida Atlantic University and National Science Foundation, US);
Adaptive Early Packet Filtering for Protecting Firewalls against DoS Attacks
Adel El-Atawy (DePaul University, US); Ehab Al-Shaer (DePaul University, US); Tung Tran (University of Waterloo, CA); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, CA);
Optimal Filtering of Source Address Prefixes: Models and Algorithms
Fabio Soldo (University of Califonia, Irvine, IT); Athina Markopoulou (University of California, Irvine, US); Katerina Argyraki (EPFL, CH);
A Chain Reaction DoS Attack on 3G Networks: Analysis and Defenses
Bo Zhao (The Pennsylvania State University, US); Caixia Chi (Alcatel-Lucent, CN); Wei Gao (Pennsylvania State University, US); Sencun Zhu (The Pennsylvania State University, US); Guohong Cao (Pennsylvania State University, US);

TS 70: Protocols, Wireless
Session Chair: Cedric Westphal (Docomo Labs, USA)

An Efficient Filter-based Addressing Protocol for Autoconfiguration of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Natalia Fernandes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BR); Marcelo Moreira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BR); Otto Duarte (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BR);
Pacifier: High-Throughput, Reliable Multicast without ``Crying Babies'' in Wireless Mesh Networks
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Purdue University, US); Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University, US); Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, US);
TP-CRAHN: A Transport Protocol for Cognitive Radio Ad-hoc Networks
Kaushik Chowdhury (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, IT); Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, US);
Exploiting the Capture Effect for Low-Latency Flooding in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jiakang Lu (University of Virginia, US); Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia, US);

TS 71: Algorithms
Session Chair: Daniel Figueiredo (UFRJ, Brazil)

Optimal Fast Hashing
Josef Kanizo (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IL); David Hay (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Isaac Keslassy (Technion, IL);
Scalar Prefix Search: A New Route Lookup Algorithm for Next Generation Internet
Mohammad Behdadfar (Isfahan University of Technology, IR); Hossein Saidi (Isfahan University of Technology, IR); Hamid Alaei (Isfahan University of Technology, IR); Babak Samari (Isfahan University of Technology, IR);
IPv6 Lookups using Distributed and Load Balanced Bloom Filters for 100Gbps Core Router Line Cards
Haoyu Song (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US); Fang Hao (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, US); M. Kodialam (Bell Labs, US); T. V. Lakshman (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US);
Using Three States for Binary Consensus on Complete Graphs
Etienne Perron (EPFL, Switzerland); Dinkar Vasudevan (EPFL, Switzerland); Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft Research, UK);