Advance Program

Schedule-at-a-Glance (click on items below for details)

Sunday, August 28

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Registration Open 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Full-Day Tutorial  Location: Martin & Augustin Tutorial 1:  Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM Afternoon Half-Day Tutorial - canceled  Location: Severin Tutorial 2:  802.11 WLAN MAC and smart antennas: issues and directions Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Monday, August 29

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Registration Open 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Full-Day Tutorial  Location: Martin & Augustin Tutorial 3:  Security in Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks: Perspective and Status Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland at College Park 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM Afternoon Half-Day Tutorial  Location: Severin Tutorial 4:  Wide-area Wireless Networks: Third Generation and Beyond Ram Ramjee, Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies, NJ, USA 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Welcome Reception  Location: Restaurant Faveo Come enjoy refreshments, visit with old friends, and meet new ones, before the main conference starts Tuesday morning.

Tuesday, August 30

7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast Location: Foyer Pipin / Foyer Ground Floor 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Registration Open 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Opening Session  Location: Pipin I/II 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote Speech  Location: Pipin I/II Ralf Guido Herrtwich, Director Vehicle IT and Services Research DaimlerChrysler AG Communicating Vehicles - Communicating Roadways: New Approaches to Driver Information and Road Safety 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break Location: Foyer Pipin / Foyer Ground Floor 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Best Student Paper Candidates  Location: Pipin I/II Session Chair: Thyaga Nandagopal A Unified Energy-Efficient Topology for Unicast and Broadcast Wen-Zhan Song (Washington State University, Vancouver Campus, US), Xiang-Yang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, US) Improving Loss Resilience with Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless Networks Allen Miu (MIT, US), Hari Balakrishnan (MIT, US), Can Emre Koksal (EPFL, CH) Architecture and Evaluation of an Unplanned 802.11b Mesh Network John Bicket (MIT, US), Daniel Aguayo (MIT, US), Sanjit Biswas (MIT, US), Robert Morris (MIT, US) 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Conference Lunch Location: Restaurants Faveo, Maulbeers, Overstolz 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Multi-Radio, Multi-Channel Communication  Location: Pipin I/II Session Chair: Stefano Basagni Capacity of Multi-Channel Wireless Networks: Impact of Number of Channels and Interfaces Pradeep Kyasanur (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US), Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US) Joint Channel Assignment and Routing for Throughput Optimization in Multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks Mansoor Alicherry (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US), Randeep Bhatia (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US), Li Li (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US) Characterizing the Capacity Region in Multi-Radio, Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks Muralidharan Kodialam (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, US), Thyaga Nandagopal (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US) 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Break Location: Foyer Pipin / Foyer Ground Floor 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Routing Protocols  Location: Pipin I/II Session Chair: Kurt Rothermel MAP: Medial Axis Based Geometric Routing in Sensor Network Jehoshua Bruck (California Institute of Technology, US), Jie Gao (California Institute of Technology, US), Anxiao Andrew Jiang (Caltech, US) Effects of Routing Computations in Content-Based Routing Networks with Mobile Data Sources Vinod Muthusamy (University of Toronto, CA), Milenko Petrovic (University of Toronto, CA), Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto, CA) On Designing Incentive-Compatible Routing and Forwarding Protocols in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks Sheng Zhong (Yale University, US), Li Li (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US), Yanbin (Grace) Liu (The University of Texas at Austin, US), Yang Richard Yang (Yale University, US) 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Open SIGMOBILE Meeting  Location: Pipin I/II An open meeting to discuss issues relevant to SIGMOBILE, the ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing. ACM SIGMOBILE is the sponsor of this conference. This open meeting covers issues such as future SIGMOBILE conference activities, publications, budget, and membership. Everyone interested is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Wednesday, August 31

7:00 AM - 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast Location: Foyer Pipin / Foyer Ground Floor 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Registration Open 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote Speech  Location: Pipin I/II Jeffrey M. Jaffe, President Bell Labs Research and Advanced Technologies Secure, Natural Communications 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break Location: Foyer Pipin / Foyer Ground Floor 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Challenge Papers  Location: Pipin I/II Session Chair: Ravi Jain Challenges: A Radically New Architecture for Next Generation Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Ram Ramanathan (BBN Technologies, US) Challenges: Communication through Silence in Wireless Sensor Networks Yujie Zhu (Georgia Institute of Technology, US), Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Institute of Technology, US) Challenges: CeTV and Ca-Fi - Cellular and Wi-Fi over CATV Erez Biton (Clariton Networks, IL), Danny Sade (Clariton Networks, IL), Dan Shklarsky (Clariton Networks, IL), Mota Zussman (Clariton Networks, IL), Gil Zussman (MIT, US) 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Conference Lunch Location: Restaurants Faveo, Maulbeers, Overstolz 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM 802.11 Protocols and Usage  Location: Pipin I/II Session Chair: Joerg Eberspaecher Design and Evaluation of a new MAC Protocol for Long-Distance 802.11 Mesh Networks Bhaskaran Raman (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, IN), Kameswari Chebrolu (IIT Kanpur, IN) Model T: An Empirical Model for User Registration Patterns in a Campus Wireless LAN Ravi Jain (NTT DoCoMo USA Labs, US), Dan Lelescu (DoCoMo USA Laboratories, US), Mahadevan Balakrishnan (DoCoMo Communications Labs, USA, US) Self-Management in Chaotic Wireless Deployments Aditya Akella (Carnegie Mellon University, US), Glenn Judd (Carnegie Mellon University, US), Srinivasan Seshan (Carnegie Mellon University, US), Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon University, US) 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Break Location: Restaurant Faveo 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Demos, Student Posters, SRC Posters  Location: Martin & Augustin, Severin Come see posters showing the best in recent student research, plus demonstrations of state-of-the-art mobile and wireless networking projects from industry and universities. 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Student Research Competition Session  Location: Pipin I/II 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM Conference Dinner Banquet  Location: Gürzenich The Conference Dinner Banquet is included with your MobiCom 2005 conference registration.

Thursday, September 1

7:00 AM - 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast Location: Foyer Pipin / Foyer Ground Floor 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Registration Open 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Analytical Models of Wireless Networks  Location: Pipin I/II Session Chair: Li Erran Li Modeling Media Access in Embedded Two-Flow Topologies of Multi-hop Wireless Networks Michele Garetto (Politecnico di Torino, IT), Jingpu Shi (Rice University, US), Edward W. Knightly (Rice University, US) An analytical model for the dimensioning of a GPRS/EDGE network with a capacity constraint on group of cells Georges Nogueira (LIP6 - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, FR), Bruno Baynat (Université Pierre et Marie Curie-LIP6, FR), Pierre Eisenmann (Nortel Networks, FR) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break Location: Foyer Pipin / Foyer Ground Floor 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Panel  Location: Pipin I/II Wearable Computing - Empowering the Mobile Worker? Organizer: Prof. Dr. Michael Lawo (Mobile Research Centre Bremen, Germany) Panelists: Alois Ferscha (Full Professor for Pervasive Computing at the University of Linz, Austria), Otthein Herzog (Full Professor, Head of AI Research Group, University of Bremen, Germany), Paul Lukowicz (Professor in Computer Science, University of Health Informatics & Technology, Austria), Cliff Randell (Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK), Bradley Rhodes (PhD of MIT, Researcher at Ricoh RC, Palo Alto, USA), Bruce Thomas (Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern Australia), Steve Mann - remote - (Professor and Inventor of WearComp, University of Toronto, Canada) 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch (on your own) 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Bazaars, Services, and Systems  Location: Pipin I/II Session Chair: Chen-Nee Chuah MoB: A Mobile Bazaar for Wide-area Wireless Services Rajiv Chakravorty (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US), Sulabh Agarwal (Unaffiliated, US), Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US), Ian Pratt (Cambridge University, UK) PeopleNet: Engineering A Wireless Virtual Social Network Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore, SG), Vikram Srinivasan (National University of Singapore, SG), Pavan Nuggehalli (Indian Institute of Science, IN) Experimental Platform for Mobile Information Systems Rudi Belotti (ETH Zurich, CH), Corsin Decurtins (ETH Zurich, CH), Moira Norrie (ETH Zurich, CH), Beat Signer (ETH Zurich, CH), Ljiljana Vukelja (ETH Zurich, CH) 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Break Location: Foyer Pipin / Foyer Ground Floor 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Sensor Networks  Location: Pipin I/II Session Chair: Brad Karp Using Mobile Relays to Prolong the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks Wang Wei (National University of Singapore, SG), Vikram Srinivasan (National University of Singapore, SG), Chua Kee Chaing (NUS, Singapore, SG) Barrier Coverage With Wireless Sensors Santosh Kumar (The Ohio State University, US), Ten Hwang Lai (The Ohio State University, US), Anish Arora (The Ohio State University, US) Cross-Layer Optimization for Routing Data Traffic in UWB based sensor networks Yi Shi (Virginia Tech, US), Y. Thomas Hou (Virginia Tech, US), Hanif D. Sherali (Virginia Tech, US), Scott F. Midkiff (Virginia Tech, US)

Friday, September 2

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Registration Open All Day Full-Day Workshops (concurrent, check individual workshop schedules)  Location: Pipin I, Pipin II, Martin & Augustin, Severin, Sandkaul DIALM POMC DIN VANET WiSe WMASH

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