Conference Program

The presentation facilities available are: overhead projector and portable PC projector. A portable PC equipped with Windows XP, MS Office and Acrobat Reader, CD/DVD reader and USB for USB key (no floppy) will be provided by the symposium organization for the presentation, upon request.

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

Please note that presentations for Regular papers are scheduled for 20 minutes plus 2-4 minutes Q&A time.

PE-WASUN'06 Technical Program Schedule
Sunday October 6, 2006

8:30 Registration Opens

8:50-9:10 Opening ceremony - Welcome address by TPC Co-Chair Isabelle Guérin Lassous

9:10-10:40 Session 1: Quality of Service

Evaluation of the Energetic Impact of Bluetooth Low-Power Modes for Ubiquitous Computing Applications, Juan-Carlos Cano (Polytechnic University of Valencia), José-Manuel Cano, Eva González (University of Malaga), Carlos Calafate, Pietro Manzoni (Polytechnic University of Valencia).
Experimental Analysis of a Transport Protocol for Ad hoc Networks (TPA), Giuseppe Anastasi, Emilio Ancillotti (University of Pisa), Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella (National Research Council).
Dimensioning of Wireless Mesh Networks with Flow-Level QoS Requirements, Pasi Lassila, Aleksi Penttinen, Jorma Virtamo (Helsinki Univ. of Technology).
CEQMM: A Complete and Efficient Quality of service Model for MANETs, Hakim Badis (Ecole Polytechnique & INRIA Laboratory, Rocquencourt), Khaldoun Alagha (University of Paris XI & INRIA Laboratory, Rocquencourt).

10:40-11:30 Poster Session 1

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Session 2: Energy Efficient Algorithms

A Comparison of Lifetime-Efficient Forwarding Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks, Marcel Busse, Thomas Haenselmann, Wolfgang Effelsberg (University of Mannheim).
End-toEnd Performance Characteristics in Energy-Aware Wireless Sensor Networks, Feng Chen, Falko Dressler, Armin Heindl (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg).
Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Network Applications, M. Kohvakka, Mauri Kuorilehto, Marko Hännikäinen, Timo D. Hämäläinen (Tampere University of Technology).
Coverage protocols for Detecting Fully Sponsored Sensors in Wireless Sensor Networks, A. Boukerche and Xin Fein (University of Ottawa).

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:30 Session 3: Networking Protocols

Context-Aware Multicast Routing Scheme for Disruption Tolerant Networks, Peng Yang, Mooi Choo Chuah (Lehigh University).
Revisiting Neighbor Discovery with Interferences Consideration, Elyes Ben Hamida (CITI/ARES - INSA de Lyon ), Guillaume Chelius (CITI/ARES - INRIA), Eric Fleury (CITI/ARES - INSA de Lyon ).
Performance Evaluation of Backoff algorithms in 802.11 Ad-Hoc Networks, Tahiry RAZAFINDRALAMBO, Fabrice VALOIS (Project INRIA ARES).
Routing Protocols for Efficient Communication in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Panagiotis Kokkinos, Christos Zaroliagis (University of Patras).

15:30-16:00pm Coffee break

15:30-16:10 Poster Session 2

16:10-17:40 Session 4: Service, Mobility, Topology, Channel Modeling

Integration of Physical Phenomena into an Experiment-Based Propagation Model, Dominique Dhoutaut, Anthony Regis, François Spies (Université de Franche-Comté)
Analytical Modeling of Random Waypoint Mobility Patterns, Fabio Delamare, Fernando L. Dotti, Paulo Fernandes, Cristina M. Nunes, Luciano C. Ost (PUCRS/PPGCC).
Coordinated Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks using the Omega Failure Detector, Mikel Larrea, Cristian Martin (The University of the Basque Country), Jose Javier Astrain (Universidad Pública de Navarra).
Describing MANETS: Principal Component Analysis of Sparse Mobility Traces, Hector Flores (Rice University), Stephan Eidenbenz (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Rudolf Riedi (Rice University), Nick Hengartner (Los Alamos National Laboratory).

17:40 Workshop Conclusion

PE-WASUN'06 Poster Session Topics

Towards 100 Reliability in Wireless Monitoring Networks, Lance Doherty, Dana A. Teasdale (Dust Networks).
Performance Analysis of the Link Layer Protocol for UWB Impulse Radio Networks, Nan Shi, Xueli An, Ignas G. Niemegeers (WMC group, Delft University of Technology).
Look-Ahead Scheduling for Energy-Efficiency and Low-Latency in Wireless Sensor Networks, Jaesub Kim, Keuntae Park, Jeong-Hun Shin, Daeyeon Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology).
Approximating Relay Placement in Sensor Networks, Jukka Suomela (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology).
Energetic Sustainability of Environmentally Powered Wireless Sensor Networks, Alessandro Bogliolo, Emanuele Lattanzi, Andrea Acquaviva (University of Urbino).
Host-based Network Monitoring Tools for MANETs, A. Karygiannis, E. Antonakakis, A. Apostolopoulos (NIST).
Wave Propagation Using the Photon Path Map, Arne Schmitz, Leif Kobbelt (University of Aachen).
A Distributed Data Gathering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks with Uniform Architecture, Marcos Goyeneche, Jesus Villadangos, Jose Javier Astrain, Manuel Prieto, Alberto Córdoba (Universidad Pública de Navarra).