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MobiCom'98
October 25-30, 1998 Dallas, Texas



Conference Schedule




Registration will take place daily in the Parkwest Ballroom Foyer.
All sessions will take place in the Texas Learning Center, unless otherwise noted.
A print friendly copy of the schedule is available without color or graphics.

Saturday, October 24, 1998
12:00 pm - 8:00 pm Registration
  • Parkwest Ballroom Foyer
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Sunday, October 25, 1998
7:00 am - 8:30 am Morning Coffee
  • Parkwest Ballroom Foyer
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Tutorial 1
  • Mobile IP: Adding Mobility to the Internet
    Charles E. Perkins
    • Parkwest Ballroom A/B
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Tutorial 2
  • Overview of 3rd Generation of Wireless Networks
    Ramki Rajagopalan
    • Trinity Ballroom
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Luncheon
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Monday, October 26, 1998
7:00 am - 8:30 am Morning Coffee
  • Parkwest Ballroom Foyer
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Tutorial 3
  • Client/Server Computing in Wireless and Mobile Environments
    Sumi Helal
    • Parkwest Ballroom C/D
8:30 am - 12:00 pm Tutorial 4
  • TCP for Wireless and Mobile Hosts
    Nitin Vaidya
    • Parkwest Ballroom A/D
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Tutorial 5
  • Wireless Ad Hoc Networking
    David A. Maltz and Josh Broch
    • Parkwest Ballroom A/D
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Luncheon
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Welcome Reception
  • Parkwest Ballroom C/D
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Tuesday, October 27, 1998
7:00 am - 8:30 am Morning Coffee
  • Parkwest Ballroom Foyer
8:30 am - 8:40 am Opening Remarks and Introduction of Dignitaries
  • by Imrich Chlamtac, Steering Committee Chair
8:40 am - 9:05 am Introduction of the Conference
  • by Arvind Krishna and Magda El Zarki, Program Chairs
9:05 am - 9:15 am ACW Awards Presentation
  • by Victor Bahl
9:15 am - 10:00 am Keynote Address
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Paper Session 1: Scheduling for Wireless Networks
  • Adapting Packet Fair Queuing Algorithms to Wireless Networks
    P. Ramanathan and P. Agrawal
  • A Wireless Fair Service Algorithm for Packet Cellular Networks
    S. Lu, T. Nandagopal, and V. Bharghavan
  • Balanced Media Access Methods for Wireless Networks
    T. Ozugur, M. Naghshineh, P. Kermani, C. M. Olsen, B. Rezvani, and J. A. Copeland
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Conference Luncheon with Speaker
  • Bob Brodersen (UC-Berkley)
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Paper Session 2: Information Delivery
  • Joint Broadcast Scheduling and User's Cache Management for Efficient Information Delivery
    C. J. Su and L. Tassiulas
  • Scheduling On-Demand Broadcasts for Heterogeneous Workloads: New Metrics and Algorithms
    S. Acharya and S. Muthukrishnan
  • Modeling and Evaluation of Prefetching Policies for Context-Aware Information Services
    V. de Nitto Persone, V. Grassi, and A. Morlupi
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Panel 1
  • Proxy Based Networking vs End-to-End Networking
    Panel Organizers: Pravin Bhagwat and Richard LaMaire
6:00 pm - 12:00 am A Night on the Town - Dallas Style
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Wednesday, October 28, 1998
7:00 am - 8:30 am Morning Coffee
  • Parkwest Ballroom Foyer
8:30 am - 10:00 am Paper Session 3: Ad Hoc Network Routing
  • Location-Aided Routing (LAR) in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
    Y. B. Ko and N. H. Vaidya
  • A Distance Routing Effect Algorithm for Mobility (DREAM)
    S. Basagni, I. Chlamtac, V. R. Syrotiuk, and B. A. Woodward
  • A Performance Comparison of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols
    J. Broch, D. A. Maltz, D. B. Johnson, Y. C. Hu, and J. Jetcheva
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Paper Session 4: Mobile Application Middleware
  • What is a File Synchronizer?
    S. Balasubramaniam and B. C. Pierce
  • Mobile Awareness in a Wide Area Wireless Network of Info-Stations
    T. Ye, H. A. Jacobsen, and R. Katz
  • StratOSphere: Mobile Processing of Ditributed Objects in JAVA
    D. Wu, D. Agrawal, and A. El Abbadi
12:00 pm Exhibits Open
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Conference Luncheon with Speaker
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1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Paper Session 5: System Design for Mobile Applications and Networks
  • Towards a Design Methodology for Adaptive Applications
    M. McIlhagga, A. Lightm and I. Wakeman
  • Flexible Network Support for Mobility
    X. Zhao, C. Castelluccia, and M. Baker
  • Power Management Techniques for Mobile Communications
    R. Kravets and P. Krishnan
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Paper Session 6: Adaptive Networking for Mobility
  • Rate Adaptation Schemes in Networks with Mobile Hosts
    A. K. Talukdar, B. R. Badrinath, A. Acharya
  • Power-Aware Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
    S. Singh, M. Woo, and C. S. Raghavendra
  • On Programmable Universal Mobile Channels in a Cellular Internet
    R. R. F. Liao and A. T. Campbell
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Conference Banquet
  • Trinity Ballroom
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Thursday, October 29, 1998
7:00 am - 8:30 am Morning Coffee
  • Parkwest Ballroom Foyer
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Exhibit Hall
8:30 am - 10:00 am Paper Session 7: Location Management
  • Multi-Sensor Location Tracking
    U. Leonhardt and J. Magee
  • An Efficient Mobility Management Strategy for Personal Communication Systems
    Y. Bejerano and I. Cidon
  • Optimal Location Management Algorithms for Mobile Networks
    G. Krishnamurthi, A. Somani, and M. Azizoglu
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Paper Session 8: Wireless ATM
  • Effective Bandwidth in Wireless ATM Networks
    J. G. Kim and M. Krunz
  • Performance Evaluation of Path Optimization Schemes for Inter-Switch Handoffs in Wireless ATM Networks
    V. Wong, H. Chan, and V. Leung
  • Integration of Circuit and Packet Switched Transport in a Third Generation Mobile Network
    A. Calvi and F. J. C. Hila
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Conference Luncheon with Speaker
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Panel 2
  • Security in Mobile Systems
    Panel Organizer: Anupam Joshi
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Paper Session 9: Connection Admission-Control
  • Comparison of Connection Admission-Control Schemes in the Presence of Hand-Offs in Cellular Networks
    S. Choi and K. G. Shin
  • A Call Admission Control Scheme for TCP/IP Based CDMA Voice/Data Network
    S. Sen, J. Jawanda, K. Basu, N. Kakani, and S. Das
  • Undeniable Billing in Mobile Communications
    J. Zhou and K. Y. Lam
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Friday, October 30, 1998
7:00 am - 8:30 am Morning Coffee
  • Parkwest Ballroom Foyer
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Workshops
  • (Room TBD)
Workshop List
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Luncheon
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