Conference Program

The presentation facilities available are: overhead projector and portable PC projector. A portable PC equipped with Acrobat Reader, and USB for USB key will be provided by the symposium organization for the presentation, upon request.

All speakers are kindly invited to contact their respective session chair before the session start, with a short written speaker-bio information.

Please note that presentations are scheduled for 25 minutes (questions included) for regular papers.

The speaker's name is in bold.

Technical Program Schedule

Day 1. October 24th 2012

• 8:00-8:30 - Registration
  
  
• 8:30-9:30 - Keynote Speaker - Sensing, Tracking and Contextualizing Entities in Ubiquitous Computing - Professor Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Computer Science Department, UFMG, Brazil.
  
  
• 9:30-11:30 - Poster Session 1
  - Priority Based Expansion of Neighborhood Size for Heterogeneous Traffic Routing in WSN
  Muhammad Nur Rizal (Gadjah Mada University Indonesia), Iqbal Gondal, Pari Haghighi and Bin Qiu.
  - Understanding Co-Channel Interference in LTE-based Multi-Tier Cellular Network
  Fabio Pianese (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Antwerp, Belgium), Xueli An.
  - A Channel Busy Rate-Aware Congestion Avoidance Mechanism for the Wireless Ad Hoc Network
  Chung-Ming Huang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), Ching-Yuan Lin and Shih-Yang Lin.
  - Construction and Evaluation of a Regional Protection System Employing Power-saving Wireless Terminals without Using GPS Modules
  Hiroaki Nose (Nagano Prefectural Institute of Technology, Japan), Hideki Motoyama, Hikofumi Suzuki and Yasushi Fuwa.
  

Day 2. October 25th 2012

• 8:00-8:15 - Registration
  
  
• 8:15-8:30 - Opening ceremony - Welcome addressed by TPC and GC Chairs
  
  
• 8:30-10:15 - Session 1: Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
  - Loss Reasons in Safety VANETs and Implications on Congestion Control
  Razvan Stanica (INSA Lyon), Emmanuel Chaput and André-Luc Beylot - Aerial Networks: performance, challenges and applications
  Laurent Reynaud (Orange Labs, France), Tinku Rasheed.
  - Population protocols on real social networks
  Luca Becchetti, Lorenzo Bergamini (Sapienza - University of Rome), Francesco Ficarola and Andrea Vitaletti. (TO BE PRESENTED DURING THE POSTER SESSION 2)
  - Efficient me asurements of IP level performances to drive interface selection in heterogeneous wireless networks
  Fabio Patriarca and Stefano Salsano (University of Rome - Tor Vergata)
  
  
• 10:15-10:30 - Coffee Break
  
  
• 10:30-12:15 - Session 2: Multi-hop Wireless Networks
  - Symptotics: A Framework for Analyzing the Scalability of Real-World Wireless Networks
  Ram Ramanathan, Abhishek Samanta (Northeastern University) and Tom La Porta
  - An Efficient and Robust Data Dissemination Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
  Leandro Villas, Heitor Ramos, Azzedine Boukerche, Daniel Guidoni, Regina Araujo and Antonio Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG, Brazil)
  - Evaluation of a Redirection Technique in Cooperative Caching for MANETs
  Francisco Javier González-Cañete (University of Malaga, Spain) and Eduardo Casilari. Evaluation of a Redirection Technique in Cooperative Caching for MANETs
  - Channel Assignment Strategies for Optimal Network Capacity of IEEE 802.11s
  Carina Teixeira De Oliveira, Fabrice Theoleyre and Andrzej Duda. (TO BE PRESENTED DURING THE POSTER SESSION 2)
  
  
• 12:15-13:30 - Lunch
  
  
• 13:30-15:30 - Session 3: Wireless Sensor Networks
  - A Hardware/Software Simulation Environment for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
  Leander Bernd Hörmann (Graz University of Technology, Austria), Philipp Maria Glatz, Karima B. Hein, Christian Steger and Weiss Reinhold. A Hardware/Software Simulation Environment for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks - Minimum Overhearing and Transmission Multicast Routing Protocol for Sensor Networks
  Ramon Lopes, Tiago Januario, Thiago F. Noronha and Antonio A.F. Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG, Brazil)
  - Performance evaluation of Mobile IPv6 over 6LoWPAN
  Damien Roth, Julien Montavont (University of Strasbourg, France) and Thomas Noel
  - A Distributed Preventive Maintenance Strategy for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Skander Azzaz (ENSI, Tunisia) and Leila Azouz Saidane (TO BE PRESENTED DURING THE POSTER SESSION 2)
  
  - Congestion Mitigation using In-network Sensor Data Summarization
  Abu Raihan M. Kamal (University College Dublin - UCD, Ireland), Chris Bleakley and Simon Dobson