Program

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Monday, June 22

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast & Registration

Tuesday, June 23

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast & Registration

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Opening Remarks

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Keynote
Prof. Ness B. Shroff (Ohio Eminent Scholar in Networking and Communications, Chaired Professor of ECE and CSE, The Ohio State University)
Fast Data Retrieval in Cloud Storage Systems

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Coffee Break

10:20 AM - 12:00 PM

Dynamic spectrum access and white space networking

Session Chair: Xin Liu (UC Davis)

WATCH: WiFi in Active TV Channels
Xu Zhang (Rice University, USA)
Edward W. Knightly (Rice University, USA)
FIWEX: Compressive Sensing Based Cost-Efficient Indoor White Space Exploration
Dongxin Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Zhihao Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Fan Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Yuan Zhang (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
ALETHEIA: Robust Large-Scale Spectrum Auctions against False-name Bids
Qinhui Wang (Nanjing University & Army Command College, P.R. China)
Baoliu Ye (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
Bin Tang (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
Tianyin Xu (UC San Diego, USA)
Song Guo (The University of Aizu, Japan)
Sanglu Lu (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
Weihua Zhuang (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Turning Waste into Wealth: Enabling Communication in Guardband Whitespace
Jiansong Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China)
Jin Zhang (HKUST, Hong Kong)
Kun Tan (Microosft Research Asia, P.R. China)
Lin Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Yongguang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China)
Qian Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

12:00 PM - 1:20 PM

Lunch

1:20 PM - 3:00 PM

Algorithms and performance

Session Chair: Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Asynchronous Neighbor Discovery on Duty-cycled Mobile Devices: Integer and Non-Integer Schedules
Sixia Chen (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
Alexander Russell (University of Connecticut, USA)
Ruofan Jin (University of Connecticut, USA)
Yanyuan Qin (University of Connecticut, USA)
Bing Wang (University of Connecticut, USA)
Sudarshan Vasudevan (Palo Alto Networks, USA)
The Value-of-Information in Matching with Queues
Longbo Huang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
EarlyBird: Learning-based Mobile Prefetching through Content Preference and Usage Pattern
Yichuan Wang (University of California, Davis, USA)
Xin Liu (UC Davis, USA)
David Chu (Microsoft Research, USA)
Yunxin Liu (Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China)
Handoff Rate Analysis in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with Poisson and Poisson Cluster Patterns
Wei Bao (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada)

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Coffee Break

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Forwarding and Routing

Session Chair: Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Loop-Free Backpressure Routing Using Link-Reversal Algorithms
Anurag Rai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Chih-ping Li (Qualcomm, USA)
Georgios S. Paschos (Huawei Technologies & CERTH-ITI, France)
Eytan Modiano (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Face Routing on a Non-Planar Graph: Theory and Applications to Networks
Yuan-Po Cheng (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan)
Ming-Jer Tsai (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
From Rateless to Hopless
Zhenjiang Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Wan Du (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Yuanqing Zheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Mo Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Dapeng Oliver Wu (University of Florida, USA)

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Posters / Demos & Reception

Wednesday, June 24

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast & Registration

8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

Mobile applications

Session Chair: Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology)

SmartGuide: Towards Single-image Building Localization with Smartphone
Xi Xiong (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Zheng Yang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Longfei Shangguan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Yun Fei (Columbia University in the City of New York, USA)
Milos Stojmenovic (Singidunum University, Serbia)
Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University & The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
Distributed Caching and Small Cell Cooperation for Fast Content Delivery
Weng Chon Ao (University of Southern California, USA)
Konstantinos Psounis (University of Southern California, USA)
Multiview Wireless Video Streaming Based on Compressed Sensing: Architecture and Network Optimization
Nan Cen (Northeastern University, USA)
Zhangyu Guan (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)
When Network Effect Meets Congestion Effect: Leveraging Social Services for Wireless Service
Xiaowen Gong (Arizona State University, USA)
Lingjie Duan (Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore)
Xu Chen (University of Goettingen, Germany)

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM

Coffee Break

10:40 AM - 11:40 AM

Keynote
Prof. Wen Gao (Vice President, NSF China and Professor, Peking University)
Mobile Visual Search

11:40 AM - 12:50 PM

Lunch

12:50 PM - 2:00 PM

Panel

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Mobile Crowdsensing

Session Chair: Alon Efrat (University of Arizona)

Distributed Time-Sensitive Task Selection in Mobile Crowdsensing
Man Hon Cheung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Richard Southwell (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Fen Hou (University of Macau, Macao)
Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Quality of Information Aware Incentive Mechanisms for Mobile Crowd Sensing Systems
Haiming Jin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Lu Su (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Danyang Chen (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Jinhui Xu (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Pay as How Well You Do: A Quality Based Incentive Mechanism for Crowdsensing
Dan Peng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Fan Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Coffee Break

3:45 PM - 5:25 PM

Wireless Scheduling

Session Chair: Lingjie Duan (Singapore University of Technology and Design)

An Online Approach to Dynamic Channel Access and Transmission Scheduling
Yang Liu (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Mingyan Liu (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
A High Reliability Asymptotic Approach for Packet Inter-Delivery Time Optimization in Cyber-Physical Systems
Xueying Guo (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Rahul Singh (Texas A&M University, USA)
P R Kumar (Texas A&M University, USA)
Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
QoE-Optimal Scheduling for On-Demand Video Streams over Unreliable Wireless Networks
I-Hong Hou (Texas A&M University, USA)
Ping-Chun Hsieh (Texas A&M University, USA)
On the Capacity Requirement of Largest-Deficit-First for Scheduling Real-Time Traffic in Wireless Networks
Xiaohan Kang (Arizona State University, USA)
I-Hong Hou (Texas A&M University, USA)
Lei Ying (Arizona State University, USA)

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Banquet

Thursday, June 25

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

Security, Censorship, and RFID

Session Chair: Xinyu Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Secure Communication through Jammers Jointly Optimized in Geography and Time
Yuval Cassuto (Technion, Israel)
Michael Segal (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Yair Allouche (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Esther Arkin (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Alon Efrat (University of Arizona, USA)
Joseph Mitchell (SUNY Stony Brook, USA)
Swaminathan Sankararaman (Akamai Technologies, USA)
Guy Grebla (Columbia University, USA)
Mitigating Rate Attacks through Crypto-Coded Modulation
Triet Vo-Huu (Northeastern University, USA)
Guevara Noubir (Northeastern University, USA)
Temporally or Spatially Dispersed Joint RFID Estimation Using Snapshots of Variable Lengths
Qingjun Xiao (SouthEast University of China, P.R. China)
Min Chen (University of Florida, USA)
Shigang Chen (University of Florida, USA)
Yian Zhou (University of Florida, USA)
Performance and Energy Consumption Analysis of a Delay-Tolerant Network for Censorship-Resistant Communications
Yue Liu (University of Michigan, USA)
David Bild (University of Michigan, USA)
David Adrian (University of Michigan, USA)
Gulshan Singh (University of Michigan, USA)
Robert Dick (University of Michigan, USA)
Dan Wallach (Rice University, USA)
Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan, USA)

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM

Coffee Break

10:40 AM - 11:40 AM

Keynote
Prof. Andrea Goldsmith (The Stephen Harris Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University)
The Road Ahead for Wireless Technology: Dreams and Challenges

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

N^2 Women Meeting
Speaker: Prof. Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University)
Organizer: Nan Cen (Northeastern University)

12:50 PM - 2:30 PM

Wireless systems and applications

Session Chair: Fan Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Tracking Vital Signs During Sleep Leveraging Off-the-shelf WiFi
Jian Liu (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Yan Wang (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Jie Yang (Florida State University, USA)
Xu Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Jerry Cheng (Rutgers University, USA)
UbiBreathe: A Ubiquitous non-Invasive WiFi-based Breathing Estimator
Heba Abdelnasser (Alexandria University, Egypt)
Moustafa Youssef (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (EJUST), Egypt)
Khaled A. Harras (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Taming Wireless Fluctuations by Predictive Queuing Using a Sparse-Coding Link-State Model
Stephen J Tarsa (Harvard University, USA)
Michael Crouse (Harvard University, USA)
Bradley McDanel (Harvard University, USA)
Marcus Comiter (Harvard University, USA)
Ht Kung (Harvard University, USA)
TRINITY: A Practical Transmitter Cooperation Framework to Handle Heterogeneous User Profiles in Wireless Networks
Shailendra Singh (University Of California, Riverside, USA)
Karthikeyan Sundaresan (NEC Labs America, USA)
Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Xinyu Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Mohammad Khojastepour (NEC Laboratories America, USA)
Sampath Rangarajan (NEC Labs America, USA)

2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Coffee Break

2:50 PM - 4:30 PM

Cellular and MU-MIMO

Session Chair: Longbo Huang (Tsinghua University)

Device-to-Device Communication Overlaying Two-Hop Multi-Channel Uplink Cellular Networks
Jiajia Liu (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)
On the decomposition of cell phone activity patterns and their connection with urban ecology
Blerim Cici (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Minas Gjoka (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Athina Markopoulou (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Carter T Butts (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Signpost: Scalable MU-MIMO Signaling with Zero CSI Feedback
Anfu Zhou (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
Teng Wei (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA)
Xinyu Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Min Liu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
Zhongcheng Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
Cross-Cell DoF Distribution: Combating Channel Hardening Effect in Multi-Cell MU-MIMO Networks
Xiufeng Xie (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Xinyu Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Eugene Chai (NEC Laboratories American Inc, USA)

4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

Wireless Sensor Networks

Session Chair: Shibo He (Zhejiang University)

A Distributed Algorithm to Construct Multicast Trees in WSNs: An Approximate Steiner Tree Approach
Hongyu Gong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Lutian Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Kainan Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Weijie Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Virtually Moving Base Stations for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks
Runwei Zhang (EPFL, Switzerland)
Patrick Thiran (EPFL, Switzerland)
Martin Vetterli (EPFL, Switzerland)
An Operator Calculus Approach for Multi-constrained Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Bilel Nefzi (LORIA - University of Lorraine - France, France)
George Stacey Staples (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA)
René Schott (LORIA - University of Lorraine - France, France)
YeQiong Song (LORIA - University of Lorraine - France, France)
Evangelia Tsiontsiou (LORIA - University of Lorraine - France, France)