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Monday 12 April 2010
Tutorials
09:00 - 12:30	Mobile WiMAX: Architecture, Protocol and Perspectives	Eigen-interference analysis methods for cognitive radio
14:00 - 17:30	Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Signal Processing and Receiver Architecture	Topology Control Approaches and Cross-Layer Design in Wireless Multi-hop Networks
18:00 - 20:00	Icebreaking Party

Tuesday 13 April 2010
08:30 - 09:15	Registration
09:15 - 09:30	Opening Session
09:30 - 10:30	Sajal Das
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee
11:00 - 12:30	Session 1: Physical Security (Invited Session)	Session 2: Opportunistic Networks (Invited Session)	Session 3: Resource Allocation I
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Session 4: Tools for Assessing the Performance of Wireless Networks (Invited Session)	Session 5: Transmission Technologies	Session 6: Multihop Wireless Networks
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee
16:00 - 17:00	Session 7: Industry Session (Invited Session)	Session 8: Antennas and Propagation	Session 9: WiMax I
17:15 - 18:30	Session 10: Panel

Wednesday 14 April 2010
09:00 - 10:30	Session 11: Adaptive Modulation and Coding for Emerging Wireless Systems (Invited Session)	Session 12: Technologies for Green Communications	Session 13: Game Theory and Resource Sharing in Wireless Communications (Invited Session)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee
11:00 - 12:30	Session 14: Localization	Session 15: Mesh Networks I	Session 16: Cellular Networks
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Andrea Goldsmith
15:00 - 16:30	Session 17: Greening of the Wireless Internet (Invited Session)	Session 18: Resource Allocation II	Session 19: Modern Channel Coding (Invited Session)
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee
17:00 - 18:30	Session 20: HSPA & LTE	Session 21: Scheduling	Session 22: Advances in Multicarrier Technologies: the PHYDYAS FP7 Project (Invited Session)

Thursday 15 April 2010
09:00 - 10:30	Session 23: OFDMA Technologies (Invited Session)	Session 24: Mesh Networks II (Invited Session)	Session 25: Cooperation & Diversity
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee
11:00 - 12:30	Session 26: Coding and Decoding	Session 27: WiMax II: State of the Art and Future Perspectives (Invited Session)	Session 28: Cooperative Communications
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Michele Zorzi
15:00 - 16:30	Session 29: MIMO I	Session 30: Cognitive Radio I (NewCom++) (Invited Session)	Session 31: VANET & Ad-Hoc Networking
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee
17:00 - 18:30	Session 32: MIMO II	Session 33: Cognitive Radio II	Session 34: Advances in Waveform Design and Parameter Estimation (Invited Session)

Monday 12 April 2010

9:00 - 12:30

Mobile WiMAX: Architecture, Protocol and Perspectives

Claudio Cicconetti (Intecs SpA, Pisa, Italy)

9:00 - 12:30

Eigen-interference analysis methods for cognitive radio

Mérouane Debbah and Romain Couillet (SUPELEC, France)

14:00 - 17:30

Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Signal Processing and Receiver Architecture

Charles Fernandez Prades (CTTC, Castelldefels, Spain)

14:00 - 17:30

Topology Control Approaches and Cross-Layer Design in Wireless Multi-hop Networks

Vasileios Karyotis and Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece)

Tuesday 13 April 2010

08:30 - 09:15 Registration

09:15 - 09:30 Opening Session

09:30 - 10:30

Keynote Speech

Sajal Das

Future Directions and Perspectives on Wireless Sensor Networks

Sajal K. Das (Program Director at NSF; Director, Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN); The University of Texas at Arlington, US)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 12:30

Session 1: Physical Security (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

Merouane Debbah (Bilkent University, Supelec, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France)

Mari Kobayashi (Insitute Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France)

On Gaussian wiretap Channels With Arbitrary Inputs

Miguel Rodrigues (University of Porto, Porto, Portugal), Matthieu Bloch (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia), Anelia Somekh-Baruch (School of Engineering Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Ramat Gan, Israel)

Physical Layer Secrecy for OFDM Systems

Francesco Renna, Nicola Laurenti (University of Padova, Padova, Italy), H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey)

On the Effect of Colluding Eavesdroppers on Secrecy Capacity Scaling

Onur Ozan Koyluoglu, Can Emre Koksal, Hesham El Gamal (The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio)

Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff for MIMO Wire-tap Channels with CSIT

Melda A Yuksel (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, TR), Elza Erkip (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, US)

Secret-key agreement on wiretap channel with transmitter side information

Ashish Khisti (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)

Session 2: Opportunistic Networks (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

Marco Conti (CNR/IIT, Italy)

Silvia Giordano (SUPSI, Switzerland)

Optimal Two-Hop Routing in Delay-Tolerant Networks

Francesco De Pellegrini, Daniele Miorandi, Iacopo Carreras, Tinku Rasheed (Create net, Italy)

Performance of Opportunistic Content Distribution

Olafur Ragnar Helgason (KTH, Sweden), Franck Legendre (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland), Vincent Lenders (Armasuisse, Switzerland), Martin May (Thomson, Paris, France), Gunnar Karlsson (KTH, Sweden)

Opportunistic Vehicular Routing

Kevin Lee (UCLA, US), Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California)

Interest Dissemination in a Searchable Data-Centric Opportunistic Network

Fredrik Bjurefors, Per Gunningberg, Erik Nordström, Chrsitian Rhoner (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Sink mobility schemes for data extraction in large scale WSNs under single or zero hop data forwarding

Leonidas Tzevelekas, Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens, Greece)

Session 3: Resource Allocation I

Session Chair: Luciano Lenzini

A Coalitional Game-Inspired Algorithm for Resource Allocation in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access

Farshad Shams (Institutions Markets Technologies IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, IT), Giacomo Bacci, Marco Luise (University of Pisa, IT)

Uplink Resource Allocation Algorithms for Single-Carrier FDMA Systems

Fatma Irem Sokmen (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, TR), Tolga Girici (TOBB Economics and Technology University, TR)

Call Admission Control for Wireless Videoconference Traffic Based on the Users’ Willingness to Pay

Polychronis Koutsakis (Technical University of Crete, GR)

Utility-based Power Control via Convex Pricing for the Uplink in CDMA Wireless Networks

Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (National Technical University of Athens/ICCS, GR), Georgios Katsinis (National Technical University of Athens, GR), Symeon Papavassiliou (Institute of Comm. And Comp. Systems/National Technical University of Athens, Athens, GR)

Load Balancing in Integrated Optical Wireless Networks: Algorithms and Evaluation

Ying Yan (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 4: Tools for Assessing the Performance of Wireless Networks (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

Luiz Felipe Perrone (Bucknell University, PA, USA)

Giovanni Stea (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)

Evaluation of Wireless Multi-hop Networks in Tactical Scenarios using BonnMotion

Nils Aschenbruck, Raphael Ernst, Peter Martini (University of Bonn, Germany)

Constructing Rigorous MANET Simulation Scenarios with Realistic Mobility

Aarti Munjal, Tracy Camp, William Navidi (Colorado School of Mines, US)

Performance Evaluation of OFDMA Femtocells Link-Layer in Uncontrolled Deployments

Tania Villa (KTH, SE), Ruben Merz (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, DE), Pablo Vidales (T Systems, MX)

Experience with a Wireless Network Testbed based on Signal Propagation Emulation

Kevin C. Borries, Xiaohui Wang, Glenn Judd, Peter Steenkiste, Daniel Stancil (Carnegie Mellon Universtiy, US)

Acceleration of Wireless Channel Simulation Using GPUS

David Nicol (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US), Scott Bai (The MITRE Corporation, McLean, US)

Session 5: Transmission Technologies

Session Chair: Carles Fernandez

An Efficient Recursive Inverse Adaptive Filtering Algorithm for Channel Equalization

Mohammad M. Shukri Ahmad, Osman Kukrer, Aykut Hocanin (Eastern Mediterranean University, TR)

A finite interval constant modulus criterion for multicarrier channel shortening

Emna Bensalem (Sup'com, TN)

Soft Carrier Phase Recovery for Continuous Phase Modulations

Marilena Maiolo (University of Pisa, IT), Gabriele Boccolini (ENSEA, IT), Marco Luise (University of Pisa, IT)

Ergodic Sum-Rate Maximization in OFDMA Uplink with Discrete Rates

Elias Yaacoub, Ahmad El Hajj, Zaher Dawy (American University of Beirut, LB)

Session 6: Multihop Wireless Networks

Session Chair: Bernard Walke

The Capacity of Multihop Relay Wireless Networks

Mingyue Ji, Zheng Wang, Hamid Sadjadpour, JJ Garcia Luna Aceves (University of California, Santa Cruz, US)

Performance Analysis of a two-relay transmission scheme

Isabelle Icart, Pascale Fouillot, Christophe J. Le Martret (Thales Communications, FR)

A Closed Loop Control Model separating Resource and Packet Scheduling in Multihop Cellular Networks

Rainer Schoenen, Fei Qin (RWTH Aachen University Faculty 6, DE)

A Multi-Channel Multi-Interface MAC for Collision-Free Communication in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Claudia Cormio, Pietro Camarda, Gennaro Boggia, Luigi Alfredo Grieco (Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy)

Analytical Study of the Outage Probability of ALOHA and CSMA in Bounded Ad Hoc Networks

Mariam Kaynia (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway), Flavio Fabbri, Roberto Verdone (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy), Geir E. Oien (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 17:00

Session 7: Industry Session (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

Daniele Franceschini (Telecom Italia, Italy)

Vieri Vanghi (Qualcomm Europe, Italy)

NGMN (R)evolution of Mobile Radio Network

Mathhias Siebert, Zhongrong Liu (Radio Networks Strategy, Deutsche Telekom, DE)

LTE Advanced: Heterogeneous Networks

Naga Bhushan, Aamod Khandekar (Qualcomm, US), Vieri Vanghi (Qualcomm Europe, Italy), Ji Tingfang (Qualcomm, US)

Mobile Broadband evolution: What Is LTE-Advanced & What Will It Offer to Your Network

Matti Kiiski (Nokia Siemens Networks, FI)

Session 8: Antennas and Propagation

Session Chair: Christoph Mecklenbrauker

RF Propagation Through Transparent Conductors in Energy Efficient Windows

Dennis Stolhofer (Fachhochschule Hannover, Hannover, DE), Yaqiang Liu, Paul O'Leary (Waterford Institute of Technology, IE)

Lateral Propagation Effects over Irregular Terrain

George Koutitas (International Hellenic University, GR)

Session 9: WiMax I

Session Chair: Angel Lozano

Decreasing the MAP Overhead in the IEEE 802.16 OFDMa Systems

Vitaliy Tykhomyrov (University of Jyväskylä, FI), Alexander Sayenko (Nokia Siemens Networks, FI), Olexander Puchko, Timo Hämäläinen (University of Jyväskylä, FI)

Performance Evaluation of Mesh-based Mobile WiMax PHY Baseband for Above the Sea Propagation

Lok Tiing Tie (Institute for Infocomm Research, SG), Yan Wu (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL), Kar-Peo Yar (I2R, SG), Wong Sai Ho, Jaya Shankar Pathmasuntharam (Institute for Infocomm Research, SG), Htun Htun Win (I2R, SG)

Power-Aware Opportunistic Downlink Scheduling In IEEE 802.16 Wireless Networks

Claudio Cicconetti (Intecs SpA, Pisa, Italy), Luciano Lenzini, Daniele Migliorini, Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)

17:15 - 18:30

Session 10: IMT: A-Systems - What Can Be Expected? (Panel Session)

Panel Chair

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Walke, ComNets Research Group, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany:

ComNets, in the IMT-A Candidate Systems Evaluation Initiative (established by ITU-R), is a partner in the "IMT-A Candidate Systems Evaluation Group of WINNER+". ComNets main focus is on system level performance evaluation of LTE-A and IEEE 802.16m systems, including multi-hop relays.

Panellists

Andrea Goldsmith Ph.D., Prof. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford Faculty Senate Chair, Stanford, CA, USA:

"*IMT-A Systems: the PHY layer is not dead! Long live PHY design!* The demand for wireless communications has enjoyed exponential growth worldwide for decades, and looks to continue unabated into the foreseeable future. To fulfill this demand, the next generation of cellular networks must support higher capacity, better coverage, and more demanding applications, which will require significant technology breakthroughs in wireless system as well as component design. My statement will discuss some recent advances in MIMO-OFDM multiuser communications that will serve as crucial building blocks in supporting the requirements of LTE-Advanced cellular systems, along with some of the barriers towards exploiting these advances. Coexistence and synergies between 4^th generation networks such as LTE, Wimax, and Wifi will also be discussed, along with cognitive and cooperative methods for using the wireless spectrum more efficiently as well as extending system range and robustness. The elusive goal of guaranteed wireless service quality via cross-layer design will also be addressed."

Dr. Zhongrog Liu, Radio Networks Strategy, Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn, Germany:

"LTE FDD and TDD technology development has been successful. A huge e2e eco-system has been established. However, industry must stay focused to deliver timely the products needed by operators. Time to market of multi-mode and multi-bands terminals is key. Voice support in LTE must be available. After the phase 1 deployment of NGMN, operators will need solutions for NGMN Evolution. IMT/LTE-A standardization is an important part of the work. However much more is needed for NGMN Evolution. Technologies for reduction of Capex and Opex. Hardware evolution: reduction of size and weight, higher power efficiency, further distribution, cost effective support of multi-modes/multi-bands, active/smart antennas, … QoS solutions for multi-media services."

Dr. Claudio Cicconetti, INTECS SpA, Pisa, Italy:

"While the IEEE 802.16d version is finding its niche and the 802.16e is slowly, but relentlessly, emerging in the crowded market of 3G mobile networking, the IEEE 802.16 family is about to take a major leap forward with its 'm' revision, aiming at IMT-Advanced long ahead of time. Building on the rock solid foundations of a QoS-oriented MAC (since 2001) and on the long standing experience in OFDMA (since 2005) the IEEE 802.16m can be a real threat to other technologies in the IMT-Advanced run. Strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threads (SWOT) analysis results as seen from a personal perspective will be contributed.

Matti Kiiski Ph.D., Nokia Siemens Networks, Oulu, Finland:

"LTE-Advanced meets the IMT-Advanced requirements and is backwards compatible with LTE ( LTE Release 10 vs.. LTE Release 8). Main performance enhancements in wide area deployment could be achieved with multiantenna technologies (single cell and multi-cell) but implementation constraints and overheads decrease the practical gain. Local area deployments with pico and femto cells and relays will increase the system capacity and availability of wideband services. Local area optimization needs to focus on energy efficiency, effective spectrum utilization and self organization & optimization, cost of backhaul and multi-RAT interworking to further reduce the cost per bit. Results about LTE-Advanced evaluation by 3GPP and external evaluation bodies, e.g., WINNER+ will be contributed to back-up the forementioned statements."

Dr. Michael Meyer, Ericsson Research, Ericsson GmbH, Eurolab Germany:

"Recently, the world's first commercial LTE system was launched by TeliaSonera in Sweden. Measurement results from that network will be presented in order to show the LTE performance that is already available today. In addition an outlook will be given on the LTE advanced features that will enhance the LTE performance even further."

Wednesday 14 April 2010

09:00 - 10:30

Session 11: Adaptive Modulation and Coding for Emerging Wireless Systems (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

Filippo Giannetti (University of Pisa)

Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, Stanford)

Adaptive Cross-Layer Resource Allocation for Wireless Orthogonal-Access Networks

Antonio G. Marques (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos,, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain), Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)

Discrete Rate and Variable Power Adaptation for Underlay Cognitive Networks with Average and Interference Power Constraints

Mohamed Abdallah (Texas A&M University at Qatar Education City, Doha, Qatar), Ahmed Salem (Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt), Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Sciences and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia), Khaled Qaraqe (Texas A&M University at Qatar Education City, Qatar)

Space-Time Constellation Design based on Bhattacharya Distance for Partially Coherent Rayleigh Fading Channels

Animesh Yadav, Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, FI), Jorma Lilleberg (Nokia Devices Oulu, Finland)

Optimum Pilot Overhead in Wireless Communication: a Unified Treatment of Continuous and Bock-Fading Channels

Angel Lozano (UPF, Spain), Nihar Jindal (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)

Online Adaptive Modulation and Coding with Support Vector Machines

Robert C Daniels, Robert Heath (University of Texas at Austin, US)

Session 12: Technologies for Green Communications

Session Chair: Ioannis Stavrakakis

Cell Size Breathing and Possibilities to Introduce Cell Sleep Mode

Gilbert Micallef (Aalborg University, DK)

Low Carbon Network Planning

George Koutitas (International Hellenic University, GR)

Energy Utilization of HTAP under Specific Node Placements in Wireless Sensor Networks

Charalambos Sergiou, Vasos Vassiliou (University of Cyprus, CY)

Throughput and Energy Efficiency Comparison of One-hop, Two-hop, Virtual Relay and Cooperative Retransmission Schemes

Xin He, Frank Y. Li (University of Agder, NO)

Energy-efficient Scheduling in Multi-access Wireless Sensor Networks: A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Method

Xiaomao Mao, Peiliang Qiu (Zhejiang University, CN)

Session 13: Game Theory and Resource Sharing in Wireless Communications (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

Giacomo Bacci (University of Pisa)

Eduard Axel Jorswieck (Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany)

Cooperative Beamforming for the MISO Interference Channel

Johannes Lindblom, Eleftherios Karipidis (Linköping University, SE)

Network Coded Modulation with Partial Side-Information and Hierarchical Decode and Forward Relay Sharing in Multi-Source Wireless Network

Jan Sykora (Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ), Alister Burr (University of York, UK)

A game-theoretic approach to energy-efficient power control in cognitive wireless networks

Stefano Buzzi, Daniela Saturnino (University of Cassino, IT)

Distributed Power Control and Beamforming on MIMO Interference Channels

Ka Ming Ho (Institute Eurecom, FR), Mariam Kaynia (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway), David Gesbert (Eurecom, FR)

Universal Pricing Mechanism for Utility Maximization for Interference Coupled Systems

Holger Boche (Technical University of Berlin, DE), Siddharth Naik (Fraunhofer MCI, DE), Tansu Alpcan (Technical University of Berlin, DE)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 12:30

Session 14: Localization

Session Chair: Montse Najar

System Issues for Time Synchronization in Real Time Localization Systems with Multi Path Mitigation

Michael Marx (Fraunhofer IMS, DE)

Experimental Analysis of RSSI-based Indoor Localization with IEEE 802.15.4

Emanuele Goldoni, Alberto Savioli, Marco Risi (University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy), Paolo Gamba (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy)

Ultimate Precision Bound and Comparison Study of Dynamic Indoor Localization Systems

Yiming Ji (University of South Carolina Beaufort, US)

ADNL: Accurate Distributed Node Localization Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks

Julien Champ (LIRMM, FR), Vincent Boudet (University of Montpellier, FR)

Spiderweb: a social mobile network

Antonio Sapuppo (Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark)

Session 15: Mesh Networks I

Session Chair: Pablo Serrano

WICKPro: A Hard Real-Time Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks with Chain Topologies

Jesús Aísa (Universidad de Zaragoza, ES)

Effects of Link Rate Assignment in IEEE 802.11 Mesh Networks

Barbara Staehle, Dirk Staehle, Rastin Pries (University of Wuerzburg, DE)

A Case for Mobility- and Traffic-Driven Routing Algorithms for Wireless Access Mesh Networks

Bahareh Nazari (National University of Singapore, SG)

Simulative Analysis of the Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP)

Malte Cornils (Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, DE), Michael Bahr (Siemens AG, DE), Thomas Gamer (Universität Karlsruhe (TH), DE)

Trusted Distributed Log Services (and their TPM-based implementation)

Marco D Aime (Politecnico di Torino, IT)

Session 16: Cellular Networks

Session Chair: Claudio Cicconetti

Comparison of RF-Repeater Efficiency in Macrocellular Network Topologies

Panu Lähdekorpi (Tampere University of Technology, FI), Jarkko Itkonen (ECE Ltd, FI), Jukka Lempiäinen (Tampere University of Technology, FI)

Enhanced Base Station Assignment Approach for Coping with Backhaul Constraints in OFDMA-based Cellular Systems

Hiram Galeana, Ramon Ferrús (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES)

On Modeling the Downlink Inter-Cell Interference Power in Wireless Cellular Networks

Benoit Pijcke (Université Lille Nord de France, FR), Marie Zwingelstein-Colin (University of Valenciennes, FR), Marc Gazalet (IEMN/DOAE UMR CNRS 8520, FR), Francois-Xavier Coudoux (University of Lille Nord de France, FR)

Co-channel co-existence study of outdoor macrocell and indoor femtocell users

Pekka Pirinen (University of Oulu, FI)

Replacing Terrestrial UMTS Coverage by HAP in Disaster Scenarios

Panu Lähdekorpi, Tero Isotalo, Kai Kylä-Liuhala, Jukka Lempiäinen (Tampere University of Technology, FI)

An Improvement of collision probability in biased birthday attack against A5/1 stream cipher

Hossein Kourkchi (Sharif University of Technology, IR), Hamidreza Tavakoli (Iran University of Science and Technology, IR), Majid Naderi (Iran University of Science & Technology (IUST), IR)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Keynote Speech

Andrea Goldsmith

The Next Wave in Wireless Technology: Challenges and Solutions

Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, Stanford, US)

15:00 - 16:30

Session 17: Greening of the Wireless Internet (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

Marco Ajmone Marsan (Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy)

Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy)

ICT & Wireless networks and their impact on global warming

Hans-Otto Scheck (Nokia Siemens Networks, FI)

Energy Savings for Cellular Network with Evaluation of Impact on Data Traffic Performance

Katerina Dufková (Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ), Milan Bjelica (University of Belgrade, RS), Byongkwon Moon (EPFL, CH), Lukas Kencl (Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ), Jean-Yves Le Boudec (EPFL, CH)

Power consumption in wireless access networks

Margot Deruyck, Emmeric Tanghe (Ghent University / IBBT, BE), Willem Vereecken, Wout Joseph, Mario Pickavet, Luc Martens, Piet Demeester (Ghent University, BE)

On the Energy Efficiency of IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Pablo Serrano, Andrés García Saavedra (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES), Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt, DE), Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES)

Session 18: Resource Allocation II

Session Chair: Paolo Santi

Quality of Experience Based Resource Sharing in IEEE 802.11e HCCA

Jorge Navarro-Ortiz, Juan M. Lopez-Soler (University of Granada, ES), Giovanni Stea (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)

Channel Dependent Adaptation Scheme for Spreading Codes in DS-CDMA

Abhijit Ambekar, Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

A Greedy Algorithm for Goodput-Based Adaptive Modulation and Coding in BIC-OFDM Systems

Ivan Stupia, Filippo Giannetti, Vincenzo Lottici (University of Pisa, IT), Luc Vandendorpe (University of Louvain, BE)

Real-Time Computational Performance of Advanced JRRM Policies in B3G Heterogeneous Wireless Systems

Maria del Carmen Lucas-Estañ, Javier Gozalvez (Universidad Miguel Hernandez, ES)

Load Adaptive Power Control in LTE UL

Malek Boussif (Nokia Siemens Networks, DK), Claudio Rosa (Nokia Siemens Networks/Aalborg, DK), Jeroen Wigard (Nokia Siemens Networks, DK), Robert Muellner (Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG, DE)

Session 19: Modern Channel Coding (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

David Declercq (ENSEA Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France)

Stephan Pfletschinger (CTTC, Castelldefels, Spain)

Error Bounds for Decode-and-Forward Relaying

Alexandre Graell i Amat (Telecom Bretagne, FR), Ingmar Land (University of South Australia, Australia), Lars K. Rasmussen (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, SE)

Reduced-Latency Stochastic Decoding of LDPC Codes over GF(q)

Gabi Sarkis, Warren J. Gross (McGill University, Montreal, CA)

Some New Results on LT and Raptor Codes

Auguste Venkiah, Charly Poulliat (University of Cergy-Pontoise, FR)

Optimal Time and Rate Allocation for a Network-coded Bidirectional Two-Hop Communication

Christoph Hausl, Onurcan Iscan (Technical University of Munich, DE), Francesco Rossetto (Institute of Communications and Navigation, DE)

Outage Threshold of Some LDPC Codes For Transmission over Non-Ergodic Block-Fading Channels

Iryna Andriyanova (University of Cergy-Pontoise, FR), Joseph J. Boutros (Texas A&M University at Qatar, QA), Ezio Biglieri (WISER S.r..l., IT)

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee

17:00 - 18:30

Session 20: HSPA & LTE

Session Chair: Douglas Blough

Mobile Broadband Field Network Performance with HSPA+

Yannick Le Pézennec, Santiago Tenorio, Kyriakos Exadaktylos, Brendan Hugh McWilliams (Vodafone, ES)

Bundling and Multiplexing in Packet Based Mobile Backhaul

Árpád Drozdy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU), Csaba Vulkan, Zoltán Vincze (Nokia Siemens Networks, HU)

LTE uplink power control and base station antenna down tilt in a 3D channel model

Xiaojia Lu, Esa Kunnari (University of Oulu, FI), Jouko Tapio Leinonen (Universtity of Oulu, Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), FI), Olli Piirainen, Markku Vainikka (Nokia Siemens Networks, FI), Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, FI)

Measurements on HSUPA with Uplink Diversity Reception in Indoor Environment

Tero Isotalo, Jukka Lempiäinen (Tampere University of Technology, FI)

Effective Scheduling of Real-time Traffic in HSUPA

Matteo Andreozzi, Giovanni Stea (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)

Window-based HSDPA Transport Network Congestion Control

Pal L. Palyi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU), Sandor Racz, Szilveszter Nadas (Ericsson Research, HU)

Session 21: Scheduling

Session Chair: Albert Banchs

A Simplified Adaptive Scheduling Algorithm for Increased Throughput Guarantees

Jawad Rasool (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO), Geir E. Oien (NTNU, NO)

Multicell Zero-Forcing Beamforming and Multiuser Scheduling

Hans Jørgen Bang (University of Oslo, NO)

A Two-level Scheduling Algorithm for QoS Support in the Downlink of LTE Cellular Networks

Giuseppe Piro, Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Gennaro Boggia, Pietro Camarda (Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy)

A Reactive Scheduling Approach to Combat Remote Interference in TDMA-based Wireless Mesh Networks

Claudio Cicconetti (Intecs SpA, Pisa, Italy), Luciano Lenzini, Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)

Scheduling with QoS provisioning in mobile broadband wireless systems

Dimitrios N Skoutas (University of the Aegean, GR), Angelos Rouskas (University of Piraeus, GR)

Randomized Scheduling Algorithm for Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Mario O Diaz, Kin Leung (Imperial College, London, UK)

Session 22: Advances in Multicarrier Technologies: the PHYDYAS FP7 Project (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

M. Bellanger (CNAM, France)

Multicarrier Physical Layer for Cognitive Radio

M. Bellanger (CNAM, France)

FBMC in the WiMAX Context

Frank Schaich (Alcatel-Lucent, DE)

MIMO Schemes for Filter Bbank Multicarrier (FBMC) Systems

Montse Najar (CTTC, Barcelona, ES)

FBMC and the Alamouti Scheme

Markku Renfors (Tampere University of Technology, FI)

ML Decoding in MIMO-FBMC

Didier Le Ruyet (CNAM, FR)

Scheduling and Resource Allocation on OFDM and FBMC Systems: an Interactive Approach and Performance Comparison

Q. Bai (TU, Munich, Germany), Nikos Passas (University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Josef Nossek (TU, Munich, Germany)

Dynamic Resource Allocation in Adaptive Multiuser Multicarrier Systems

D. Xenakis, D. Tsolkas, Nikos Passas, L. Merakos (University of Athens, Athens, Greece)

Thursday 15 April 2010

09:00 - 10:30

Session 23: OFDMA Technologies (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)

Heidi Steendam (University of Ghent, Belgium)

Robust EM-based Detection of BICM-OFDM Transmissions in the Presence of Narrowband Interference

Luca Sanguinetti, Michele Morelli (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy), H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey)

Bandwidth Efficient 3D Pilot Design for MIMO-OFDM

Gunther Auer (DOCOMO EuroLabs, Munich, Germany)

A Review of OFDMA and Single-Carrier FDMA

Cristina Ciochina (Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe, Rennes Cedex, France), Hikmet Sari (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (SUPELEC), Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France)

On the Benefit of Location and Channel State Information for Synchronization in 3GPP-LTE

Armin Dammann, Christian Mensing, Stephan Sand (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)

Session 24: Mesh Networks II (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)

Vasilios Siris (Athens University of Economics and Buisiness and ICS-FORTH, Athens, Greece)

Lessons Learned from the Deployment of a Multihop IEEE 802.11g Testbed Using COTS Devices

Pablo Serrano, Carlos J. Bernardos, Antonio De La Oliva, Ignacio Soto (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)

Connecting Remote Sites to the Wired Backbone by Wireless Mesh Access Networks

Thomas Staub, Markus Anwander (University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland), Kurt Baumann (SWITCH, Zurich, Switzerland), Torsten Ingo Braun, Marc Brogle, Kirsten Dolfus (University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland), Christian Félix (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland), Paul Kim Goode (University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland)

A Traffic-Aware Channel Re-Assignment Algorithm for Wireless Mesh Networks

Stefano Avallone (University of Naples, Napoli, Italy), Francesco Paolo D'Elia, Giorgio Ventre (Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy)

C-VET the UCLA Campus Vehicular Testbed: Integration of Vanet and Mesh Networks

Matteo Cesana, Luigi Fratta (Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy), Mario Gerla, Eugenio Giordano, Giovanni Pau (University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA)

Session 25: Cooperation & Diversity

Session Chair: Miguel Rodrigues

Performance of Joint Transmit and Receive Antenna Selection in Nakagami-m Channels

Ahmet Coskun, Oguz Kucur (Gebze Institute of Technology, Gebze, Turkey)

The Influence of Severity of Fading on the Statistical Properties of the Capacity of Nakagami-m Channels with MRC and EGC

Gulzaib Rafiq (University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway), Valeri Ya Kontorovitch (Cinvestav ipn mx, Mexico)

Cooperative Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Robustness to Asynchronism

Abdulghani M. Elazreg, Shakiru K. Kassim, Jonathon A. Chambers (Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom)

Cooperative Delay Diversity Scheme with low Complexity Channel Estimation in integrated Satellite/Terrestrial Systems

Simone Morosi (University of Florence, Florence, Italy), Sara Jayousi (CNIT University of Florence, Florence, Italy), Enrico Del Re (University of Florence, Florence, Italy)

Do Decode-and-Forward Relaying Protocols beat Transmit Diversity?

Tobias Renk, Holger Jaekel, Friedrich K. Jondral (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany), Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, Stanford, US)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 12:30

Session 26: Coding and Decoding

Session Chair: David Haccoun

Boosting Sphere Decoding Speed Through Graphic Processing Units

Muhammad S Khairy (University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA), Christian Mehlführer, Markus Rupp (Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria)

On the Performance of Distributed-STBC in Multi-hop Wireless Relay Networks

Jaafar Wael (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada), Wessam Ajib (Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada), David Haccoun (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada)

Adopting forward error correction for multicasting over cellurar networks

Christos Bouras, Antonios Alexiou, Andreas Papazois (University of Patras, Patras, Greece)

Irregular M-SC-MPC Codes for Wireless Applications

Marco Baldi, Giovanni Cancellieri, Franco Chiaraluce, Amedeo De Amicis (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy)

3GPP2/802.20 RC/QC-LDPC Encoding

Jesús Pérez, Victor Fernández (University of Cantabria, Spain)

Session 27: WiMax II: State of the Art and Future Perspectives (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

Claudio Cicconetti (Intecs SpA, Pisa, Italy)

Alexander Sayenko (Nokia Siemens Networks)

Analysis of Duplexing Modes in the IEEE 802.16 Wireless System

Henrik M.J. Martikainen (University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland)

AMC and Channel-Awareness for QoS-based Scheduler Design in WIMAX Networks

Sara Pizzi, Antonella Molinaro, Antonio Iera (University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy)

How Bad is Interference in IEEE 802.16e Systems?

Farshad Naghibi, James Gross (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)

Analysis of IEEE 802.16e Contention-based Handover in Erroneous Channel

Pero Latkoski (Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia)

A Deadline and Minimal Overhead Scheduling Algorithm for the WIMAX Logical Scheduler

Matan Mandelbrod (Runcom Technologies LTD, Israel)

Session 28: Cooperative Communications

Session Chair: Stefano Buzzi

An asymptotically optimal approach to the distributed adaptive transmit beamforming in wireless sensor networks

Rayan El Masri, Stephan Sigg, Michael Beigl (TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany)

Autonomous Beam Coordination for the Downlink of an IMT-Advanced Cellular System

Jan Ellenbeck, Mahmoud Hammoud, Boyan Lazarov, Christian Hartmann (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany)

On the Implementation Feasibility of Reputation Techniques for Cooperative Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Alberto Rodriguez-Mayol (University Miguel Hernandez, Elche, Spain), Javier Gozalvez (Universidad Miguel Hernandez, ES)

Impact of relaying on inter-cell interference in mobile cellular networks

Kamen Georgiev (Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria), Desislava Dimitrova (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)

Joint Discovery in Wireless Network

Alberto Vigato, Lorenzo Vangelista (University of Padova, Padova, Italy), Cyril Measson, Xinzhou Wu (Qualcomm, USA)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Keynote Speech

Michele Zorzi

Re-engineering Wireless Networking Protocols: the Case of Underwater Acoustic communications

Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Padova, Italy)

15:00 - 16:30

Session 29: MIMO I

Session Chair: Filippo Giannetti

Fair Performance Comparison between CQI- and CSI-based MU-MIMO for the LTE Downlink

Philipp Frank (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany), Andreas Mueller, Joachim Speidel (University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany)

Parallel Low-Complexity MIMO Detection Algorithm using QR Decomposition and Alamouti Space-Time Code

Maher Arar, Abbas Yongacoglu (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada)

Performance of Space-Time Block Codes with Transmit Antenna Selection in Nakagami-m Fading Channels

Ahmet Coskun, Oguz Kucur (Gebze Institute of Technology, Gebze, Turkey), Ibrahim Altunbas (Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey)

Radio Resource Management for MIMO–OFDMA Access in Rayleigh Fading Channel

Albert Mráz (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary), Sándor Imre (Technical University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary), Tamás Zámbó (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary)

Session 30: Cognitive Radio I (NewCom++) (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

Lorenza Giupponi (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain)

Jordi Perez-Romero (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain)

MIMO Crystallized Rate Regions

Adrian Kliks, Pawel Sroka (Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland), Merouane Debbah (Bilkent University, Supelec, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France)

Evaluation of spectrum opportunities in the GSM band

Andrea Carniani (CNIT, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy), Lorenza Giupponi (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain), Roberto Verdone (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)

Cluster-formation Protocol for Cognitive Radio Ad hoc Networks

Alfred Asterjadhi (University of Padova, Padova, Italy), Nicola Baldo (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain), Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Padova, Italy)

Impact of Primary User Activity Patterns on Spatial Spectrum Reuse Opportunities

Janne Riihijärvi, Jad Nasreddine, Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)

Performance of spectrum sensing for cognitive radio based on field measurements of various radio technologies

Miguel López-Benítez, Ferran Casadevall (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain), Corrado Martella (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)

Session 31: VANET & Ad-Hoc Networking

Session Chair: Ruben Merz

An Optimal Setting for the Parameters of an Intelligent Flooding Scheme in VANETs

Luca Anchora (IMT of Lucca, Lucca, Italy), Luca Casone (STMicroelectronics, Lecce, Italy), Giovanni Ciccarese, Mario De Blasi, Pierluigi Marra (University of Lecce, Lecce, Italy), Cosimo Palazzo (University of Salento, Lecce, Italy)

Joint Topology Control and Routing in ad hoc Vehicular Networks

Miguel Luis (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal), Rodolfo Oliveira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Uninova, Lisbon, Portugal), Luis Bernardo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal), André Garrido (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal), Paulo F. Pinto (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)

A Simple and Robust Dissemination Protocol for VANETs

Ramon Schwartz, Rafael Barbosa, Nirvana Meratnia, Geert Heijenk, Hans Scholten (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)

A Novel Routing Protocol - Junction Based Adaptive Reactive Routing (JARR) for VANET In City Environments

Clarence Augustine Tee (Malaysia University of Science and Technology, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia)

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee

17:00 - 18:30

Session 32: MIMO II

Session Chair: Marco Luise

On the minimum side information of MIMO broadcast channel

Zheng Wang, Mingyue Ji, Lemonia Dritsoula, Hamid Sadjadpour, JJ Garcia Luna Aceves (University of California, Santa Cruz, US)

Opportunistic Target SINR Setting for the MIMO Broadcast Channel

Norbert Reider (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary), Gabor Fodor, Andras Racz (Ericsson Research, Hungary)

Random Matrix Processes: Quantifying Rates of Change in MIMO Systems

Peter J. Smith (The University of Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zeland), Matthew R. McKay (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Andrea Giorgetti, Marco Chiani (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)

Maximizing Throughput in MIMO Networks with Variable Rate Streams

Ramya Srinivasan, Douglas Blough, Luis Miguel Cortes-Pena (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA), Paolo Santi (IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy)

Session 33: Cognitive Radio II

Session Chair: Jad Nasreddine

Impact of shadowing on the primary exclusive region in cognitive networks

Abdoulaye Bagayoko (Orange Labs, France), Patrick Tortelier (Orange Labs - France Telecom R&D, FR), Inbar Fijalkow (University of Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy, France)

Analysis on Channel Bonding/Aggregation for Multi-channel Cognitive Radio Networks

Lei Jiao (University of Agder, Norway), Vincent Pla (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain), Frank Y. Li (University of Agder, NO)

Spectrum Occupancy in the 2.36-2.4 GHz Band: Measurements and Analysis

Ruben de Francisco (IMEC Netherlands, Eindhoven, The Netherlands), Ashish Pandharipande (Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

Protection and Fairness Oriented Cognitive Radio MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks (PROFCR)

Beycan Kahraman, Feza Buzluca (Instanbul Technical University, Instanbul, Turkey)

Auction-based Interface Selection with Media Independent Handover Services and Flow Management

Manzoor Khan (Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

Session 34: Advances in Waveform Design and Parameter Estimation (Invited Session)

Session Organizers

Maria Greco (University of Pisa, Italy)

Arye Nehorai (Washington Univerisity in St. Luis, MO)

A stochastic-gradient method to design optimal space-time codes for MIMO radar detection

Luca Venturino (University of Cassino, Cassino, Italy), Ke Dong (Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China), Xiaodong Wang (Columbia University, New York, USA), Marco Lops (University of Cassino, Cassino, Italy)

Fast Code Design For Sensors In Noncooperative Networks

Silvio De Nicola, Antonio De Maio (University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy), Alfonso Farina (SELEX-SI, Italy), Michael C. Wicks (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)

Detection and Discrimination of Over Resolved Targets using Hotelling’s T Test/GIP

Michael C. Wicks (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA), Yuhong Zhang, Richard Schneible (Stiefvater Consultants, USA)