SECON logo

IEEE Communications Society logo

IEEE logo

Second Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks

Santa Clara, California, USA

26-29 September 2005

Santa Clara Mission
Home Call for Papers Author's Kit Executive Committee Program Committee Hotel Information
Visa Information Corporate Patrons Travel Grants WiMesh 2005 Register on-line Register off-line
Program Overview Paper Sessions Tutorials Demos Posters Panels

IEEE SECON 2005 Paper Sessions

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Architectures and Platforms
Chair: Mark Yarvis
Co-S: A high performance Co-processing Sensor architecture for offloading sensing and data processing
Anirban Banerjee, Abhishek Mitra, Walid Najjar, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of California, Riverside)
A Scalable Framework for Distributed Time Synchronization in Multi-hop Sensor Networks
Ossama Younis, Sonia Fahmy (Purdue University)
A Layered Architecture for Delay Sensitive Sensor Networks
Dan Wang, Yan Long, Funda Ergun (Simon Fraser University)
Designing new Architectures and Protocols for Wireless Senosor Networks: A Perspective
Mukundan Venkataraman (Software Engineering and Technology Labs, Infosys Technologies Ltd), Kartik Muralidharan (Infosys Technologies Limited), Puneet Gupta (Infosys Technologies)
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Security
Chair: Fred Bauer
Group Key Distribution via Local Collaboration in Wireless Sensor Networks
Anuj Chadha (University Of Texas at Arlington), Yonghe Liu (UT Arlington), Sajal Das (UniversityTexas at Arlington)
Secure Cooperative Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Against Injecting Traffic Attacks
Wei Yu, K.J. Ray Liu (University of Maryland)
Stimulating Cooperation and Defending Against Attacks in Self-Organized Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Wei Yu, K.J. Ray Liu (University of Maryland)
Efficient Hierarchical Key Generation and Key Diffusion for Distributed Sensor Networks
Mohamed Shehab, Elisa Bertino, Arif Ghafoor (Purdue University)
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Resource Management and Network Planning
Chair: Tony Ephremides
Price/utility-based optimization of resource allocation in ad hoc networks
Calin Curescu, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani (Linköping University)
Congestion Control in Multi-hop Wireless Networks
Kun Tan (Microosft Research Asia), Feng Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Qian Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia), Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo)
Proactive Address Autoconfiguration and Prefix Continuity in IPv6 Hybrid Ad Hoc Networks
Christophe Jelger (University of Basel), Thomas Noel (Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg)
Key Predistribution in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Multivariate Polynomials
Farshid Delgosha, Faramarz Fekri (Georgia Institute of Technology)
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Routing and Forwarding-I
Chair: SJ Lee
On the Forwarding Area of Contention-Based Geographic Forwarding for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Dazhi Chen (Syracuse University), Jing Deng (University of New Orleans), Pramod Varshney (Syracuse University)
Channel-Adaptive Relaying in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Fading
Michael Souryal (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Nader Moayeri (NIST)
Improving the performability of data transfer in mobile ad hoc networks
Marco Conti (IIT-CNR), Enrico Gregori, Gaia Maselli (CNR-IIT)
Routing in a Highly Dynamic Topology
Yashar Ganjali, Nick McKeown (Stanford University)
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Applications and Experimental designs
Chair: Ossama Younis
Redundant-Reader Elimination in RFID Systems
Bogdan Carbunar, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Mehmet Koyuturk, Christoph Hoffmann, Ananth Grama (Purdue University)
Streaming versus Batch Processing of Sensor Data in a Hazardous Weather Detection System
Mark Sims (University of Massachusetts), James F. Kurose (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Victor Lesser (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Switching Kalman Filters for Prediction and Tracking in an Adaptive Meteorological Sensing Network
Victoria Manfredi, Sridhar Mahadevan (University of Massachusetts Amherst), James F. Kurose (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Embedding Intelligent Sensor Signal Change Detection into Sensor Network Protocols
Leon Reznik, Gregory Von Pless, Tayeb Karim (Rochester Institute of Technology)
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Routing and Forwarding-II
Chair: Elizabeth Belding-Royer
Expected Data Rate: An Accurate High-Throughput Path Metric For Multi-Hop Wireless Routing
Jun Cheol Park, Sneha Kasera (University of Utah)
A Local Metric for Geographic Routing with Power Control in Wireless Networks
Chih-ping Li, Wei-jen Hsu, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Ahmed Helmy (University of Southern California)
Scalable Routing for Networked Sensors and Actuators
Thomas Fuhrmann (University of Karlsruhe)
Blacklist-Aided Forwarding in Static Multihop Wireless Networks
Srihari Nelakuditi (University of South Carolina), Sanghwan Lee, Yinzhe Yu (University of Minnesota), Junling Wang, Zifei Zhong (University of South Carolina), Guor-Huar Lu, Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota)
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Topology Control
Chair: Stefano Basagni
Interference-Aware Topology Copntrol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Xiang-Yang Li, Kousha Moaveni-Nejad (Illinois Institute of Technology), Wen-Zhan Song (Washington State University, Vancouver Campus), Weizhao Wang (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Optimal Placement of Nodes in Large Sensor Networks under a General Physical Layer Model
Stavros Toumpis (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien), Gautam A. Gupta (IIT New Delhi)
Mesh Topology Construction for Interconnected Wireless LANs
Laura Huei-Jiun Ju (UCLA), Izhak Rubin (University of California at Los Angeles)
Prolonging Sensor Network Lifetime with Energy Provisioning and Relay Node Placement
Thomas Hou, Yi Shi, Hanif Sherali, Scott Midkiff (Virginia Tech)
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Network Modeling and Analysis
Chair: Michele Zorzi
Modeling Spatially Correlated Data of Sensor Networks with Irregular Topologies
Apoorva Jindal (University of Southern California), Konstantinos Psounis (Stanford University)
The Impact of the Topology on the Throughput of Interference-limited Sensor Networks with Rayleigh Fading
Xiaowen Liu, Martin Haenggi (University of Notre Dame)
Practical Limits on Achievable Energy Improvements and Useable Delay Tolerance in Correlation Aware Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks
Yujie Zhu (Georgia Institute of Technology), Karthikeyan Sundaresan (Georgia Tech), Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Modeling the effects of network parameters on delay in a wireless ad-hoc network
Srisankar Kunniyur (Motorola India), Srihari Narasimhan (University of Pennsylvania)
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Scheduling
Chair: Tamer ElBatt
Collaborative Two-Level Task Scheduling for Wireless Sensor Nodes with Multiple Sensing Units
Ozgur Sanli (Arizona State University), Rajesh Poornachandran (ASU), Hasan Cam (Arizona State University)
Energy Efficient Joint Scheduling and Power Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
Gang Lu, Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California)
A Dynamic Clustering and Scheduling Approach to Energy Saving in Data Collection from Wireless Sensor Networks
Chong Liu, Kui Wu (University of Victoria), Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University)
Partitioning-Based Mobile Element Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks
Yaoyao Gu (Ohio State University), Doruk Bozdag (The Ohio State University), Eylem Ekici (Ohio State University), Fusun Ozguner, Chang-Gun Lee (The Ohio State University)
Thursday, September 29, 2005
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Energy Management
Chair: Bhaskar Krishnamachari
EASE: An Energy-Efficient In-Network Storage Scheme for Object Tracking in Sensor Networks
Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University), Xueyan Tang (Nanyang Technological University), Wang-Chien Lee (The Pennsylvania State University at University Park)
Evolutionary Energy Management and Design of Wireless Sensor Networks
Konstantinos Ferentinos (Agricultural University of Athens), Theodore Tsiligiridis (Athens University of Agricultural (AUA))
Power Management in Delay Tolerant Networks: A Framework and Knowledge-Based Mechanisms
Hyewon Jun, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Battery Discharge Characteristics of Wireless Sensor Nodes: An Experimental Analysis
Chulsung Park (University of California, Irvine), Kanishka Lahiri (NEC Laboratories America), Anand Raghunathan (NEC)
1:30PM - 3:00PM
MAC and Spectrum Allocation
Chair: Cedric Westphal
SoftMAC: Layer 2.5 MAC for VoIP Support in Multi-hop Wireless Networks
Haitao Wu (microsoft research asia), Xin Wang (Tsinghua University), Yunxin Liu, Qian Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia), Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota)
A Multiband MAC Protocol for Impulse-based UWB Ad Hoc Networks
Ioannis Broustis (University of California,Riverside), Srikanth Krishnamurthy (University of California, Riverside), Michalis Faloutsos (University of California Riverside), Mart Molle (Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of California, Riverside), Jeffrey Foerster (Intel Research and Development)
Optimization Models for Fixed Channel Assignment in Wireless Mesh Networks with Multiple Radios
Arindam Kumar Das (University of Washington), Hamed Alazemi (Kuwait University), Rajiv Vijaykumar (University Washington), Sumit Roy (University of Washington)
Distributed Spectrum Allocation via Local Bargaining
Lili Cao (Shanghai Jiaotong University), Haitao Zheng (University of California Santa Barbara & Microsoft Research Asia)
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Routing and Forwarding-III
Chair: Kimaya Sanzgiri
Variable Resolution Information Dissemination
Arpita Ghosh (Stanford University), Dan Greene (PARC), Qingfeng Huang (Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Inc.), Juan Liu (Palo ALto research Center)
Attribute-Based Clustering for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks Networks
Ke Wang (Boston University), Prithwish Basu (BBN Technologies), Salma Abu Ayyash, Thomas Little (Boston University)
Reliable Broadcast in ZigBee Networks
Gang Ding (Purdue University), Zafer Sahinoglu (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories), Bharat Bhargava (Purdue University), Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric), Jinyun Zhang (MERL)
Securing MAODV: Attacks and Countermeasures
Sankardas Roy, Venkata Gopala Addada, Sanjeev Setia, Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University)
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Localization and Ranging
Chair: Rajeev Koodli
Precise Localization in Coarse-Grained Localization Algorithms Through Local Learning
Ralf Salomon (University of Rostock)
Robust Probabilistic Constraint-Based Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks
Rong Peng, Mihail Sichitiu (North Carolina State University)
Acquiring Medium Models for Sensing Performance Estimation
Aman Kansal (University of California, Los Angeles), James Carwana (UCLA), William Kaiser, Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles)
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Network Coverage
Chair: Thyaga Nandagopal
Outage Probabilities in Poisson and Clumped Poisson-distributed Hybrid Ad-Hoc Networks
Sayandev Mukherjee (Lucent Technologies Bell Labs), Dan Avidor (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)
Relay Node Deployment Strategies in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks: Multiple-Hop Communication Case
Kenan Xu (Queen's University), Hossam Hassanein (Queens University), Glen Takahara (Queen's University)
Energy-Efficient Sensor Network Design Subject to Complete Coverage and Discrimination Constraints
Pei-Ling Chiu, Frank Yeong-Sung Lin (National Taiwan University)
Fault Tolerant Connected Sensor Cover with Variable Sensing and Transmission Ranges
Zongheng Zhou, Samir Das (SUNY at Stony Brook), Himanshu Gupta (SUNY, Stony Brook)