WiMob 2008: Avignon, France

• Abderrahim Benslimane:
  Message from the General Chair.
  
• Chadi Assi, Hsiao-Hwa Chen:
  Message from the Technical Program Committee Co-chairs.
  
• Peter Mueller, Mieso K. Denko:
  Message from the Workshops Co-chairs.
  
• Nidal Nasser, Waltenegus Dargie, Mieso K. Denko, Ahmed H. Zahran:
  Message from the HWN-RMQ Workshop Organizing Technical Co-chairs.
  
• Peter L. Reiher, John Zimmerman, Kevin Eustice:
  Message from the SAUCE Workshop Organizing Technical Co-chairs.
  
• Peter Mueller, Kaisa Nyberg, Stefanos Gritzalis, Costas Lambrinoudakis:
  Message from the SecPri Workshop Organizing Technical Co-chairs.
  
• Guillaume Chelius, Isaac Woungang, Stuart Cunningham:
  Message from the STWiMob Workshop Organizing Technical Co-chairs.
  

Keynotes

• Ian F. Akyildiz:
  Spectrum Management in Cognitive Radio Networks.
  
• Luigi Fratta:
  Inter-vehicles Communication: A New Frontier of Ad Hoc Networking.
  

Wireless Sensor Networks I

• Shouwen Lai, Binoy Ravindran, Hyeonjoong Cho:
  Rate Allocation with Lifetime Maximization and Fairness for Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks. 1-6
  
• Azzedine Boukerche, Xin Fei:
  Adaptive Data-Gathering Protocols with Mobile Collectors for Vehicular Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. 7-12
  
• Philippe Le-Huy, Sébastien Roy:
  Low-Power 2.4 GHz Wake-Up Radio for Wireless Sensor Networks. 13-18
  
• Yahya E. Osais, Marc St-Hilaire, Fei Richard Yu:
  Directional Sensor Placement with Optimal Sensing Range, Field of View and Orientation. 19-24
  
• Yann Busnel, Marin Bertier, Anne-Marie Kermarrec:
  SOLIST or How to Look for a Needle in a Haystack? A Lightweight Multi-overlay Structure for Wireless Sensor Networks. 25-31
  

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)

• Takeshi Matsuda, Hidehisa Nakayama, Sherman Shen, Yoshiaki Nemoto, Nei Kato:
  On Gateway Selection Protocol for DYMO-Based MANET. 32-37
  
• Christopher N. Ververidis, George C. Polyzos:
  AVERT: Adaptive SerVicE and Route Discovery ProTocol for MANETs. 38-43
  
• Thomas Kunz:
  Accurately Predicting Residual Energy Levels in MANETs. 44-50
  
• Haïdar Safa, Omar Mirza, Hassan Artail:
  A Dynamic Energy Efficient Clustering Algorithm for MANETs. 51-56
  
• Lara B. Deek, Sarah Thoubian, Serouj Jamijian, Khaled A. Harras, Hassan Artail:
  Exploiting Parallel Networks in Intermittently-Connected Mobile Environments. 57-62
  

WLAN and 802.11

• Armelle Gnassou, Jean-François Frigon, Brunilde Sansò:
  Impact of Wireless Channel on VoIP QoS and Admission Regions in IEEE 802.11g WLANs. 63-68
  
• Puttipong Mahasukhon, Hamid Sharif, Michael Hempel, Ting Zhou, Wei Wang, Tadeusz A. Wysocki:
  Performance Analysis of Multi-hop IEEE 802.11 DCF Backhaul Networks. 69-74
  
• Athanassios V. Adamis, Konstantinos N. Maliatsos, Philip Constantinou:
  Throughput Analysis of Overlay CSMA/CA for Secondary Networks. 75-81
  
• Afef Ben Hadj Alaya-Feki, Berna Sayraç, Paul Houze, Eric Moulines:
  Opportunistic Spectrum Access with IEEE 802.11 in IEEE P1900.4 Framework. 82-83
  

MIMO and OFDMA

• Jelena Mirkovic, Bernhard Walke:
  On Performance of MIMO Link Adaptation in the Presence of Channel Uncertainty. 84-89
  
• Masoomeh Torabzadeh, Wessam Ajib:
  Proportional Fairness for MIMO Multi-user Schedulers with Traffic Arrival Process. 90-95
  
• Antonis G. Gotsis, Philip Constantinou:
  Adaptive Single-Cell OFDMA Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Data Traffic. 96-103
  
• Myeon-Gyun Cho, Shik Kim:
  An Efficient CQI Feedback Scheme for Multi-user and Single-User MIMO/OFDMA Systems. 104-105
  

Scheduling I

• Desislava C. Dimitrova, Geert J. Heijenk, Hans van den Berg, Remco Litjens:
  Impact of Inter-cell Interference on Flow Level Performance of Scheduling Schemes for the UMTS EUL. 106-112
  
• Liping Wang, Yusheng Ji, Fuqiang Liu:
  A Novel Centralized Resource Scheduling Scheme in OFDMA-Based Two-Hop Relay-Enhanced Cellular Systems. 113-118
  
• Cédric Gueguen, Sébastien Baey:
  Compensated Proportional Fair Scheduling in Multiuser OFDM Wireless Networks. 119-125
  
• Faisal Alazem, Jean-François Frigon, David Haccoun:
  Throughput and Performance Optimization Using an Adaptive Coded Cooperation Protocol. 126-132
  

MIMO

• Davide Mattera, Luigi Paura, Fabio Sterle:
  MultistageWidely-Linear DF Equalizers for MIMO Channels. 133-138
  
• Karel-Peet Mare, Bodhaswar T. Maharaj:
  Performance Analysis of Modern Space-Time Codes on a MIMO-WiMAX Platform. 139-144
  
• P. Ubaidulla, A. Chockalingam:
  Precoder Designs for MIMO Broadcast Channels with Imperfect CSI. 145-150
  
• Ertugrul Basar, Ümit Aygölü:
  A New 2×2 Coordinate Interleaved STBC for High-Rate Wireless Systems. 151-152
  

Mobility and resource management

• Kang-Won Lee, Won-Kyeong Seo, Dong-Won Kum, You Ze Cho:
  Global Mobility Management Scheme with Interworking between PMIPv6 and MIPv6. 153-158
  
• Linoh A. Magagula, H. Anthony Chan:
  IEEE 802.21-Assisted Cross-Layer Design and PMIPv6 Mobility Management Framework for Next Generation Wireless Networks. 159-164
  
• Leo Bhebhe:
  Multi-access Mobility in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Today and Tomorrow. 165-171
  
• Claudia Canali, Michele Colajanni, Riccardo Lancellotti:
  Resource Management Strategies for Mobile Web-Based Services. 172-177
  
• Flaminio Borgonovo, Matteo Cesana:
  ARPA: An Arbitration Protocol Based on Advanced Channel Feedback for Radio Frequency Identification. 178-183
  

Internet and Technologies

• Marco von Arb, Matthias Bader, Michael Kuhn, Roger Wattenhofer:
  VENETA: Serverless Friend-of-Friend Detection in Mobile Social Networking. 184-189
  
• Bayrem Chelly, Naceur Malouch:
  Movement and Connectivity Algorithms for Location-Based Mobile Social Networks. 190-195
  
• Do Van Thanh, Paal E. Engelstad, Tore E. Jønvik, Do van Thuan, Ivar Jørstad:
  Towards a Uniform IMS Client on Heterogeneous Devices. 196-201
  
• Assadarat Khurat, Joerg Abendroth:
  A Mechanism for Requesting Hierarchical documetns in XACML. 202-207
  

Localization

• Toshihiro Hori, Tomotaka Wada, Yuuki Ota, Norie Uchitomi, Kouichi Mutsuura, Hiromi Okada:
  A Multi-Sensing-Range Method for Position Estimation of Passive RFID Tags. 208-213
  
• Eddie C. L. Chan, George Baciu, S. C. Mak:
  Wireless Tracking Analysis in Location Fingerprinting. 214-220
  
• Ustijana Sikoska, D. Davcev, Jordan Sikoski:
  Sensitivity Analysis for GPS in Land-Vehicle Navigation. 221-222
  

Wireless Sensor Networks II

• Jenq-Shiou Leu, Hui-Ching Hsieh:
  An Autonomous Wireless Sensor Network with Fault Resilience. 223-227
  
• Tarek El Salti, Nidal Nasser:
  Generic 3-D Routing Protocols in Sensing-Covering Regions. 228-233
  
• Diana Berbecaru, Luca Albertalli:
  On the Performance and Use of a Space-Efficient Merkle Tree Traversal Algorithm in Real-Time Applications for Wireless and Sensor Networks. 234-240
  
• Driss El Ghanami, Taek Jin Kwon, Abdel Hafid:
  GRIDS: Geographically Repulsive Insomnious Distributed Sensors - An Efficient Node Selection Mechanism Using Passive Clustering. 241-246
  
• Anna Förster, Amy L. Murphy, Jochen H. Schiller, Kirsten Terfloth:
  An Efficient Implementation of Reinforcement Learning Based Routing on Real WSN Hardware. 247-252
  

Scheduling II

• Chi Harold Liu, Athanasios Gkelias, Yun Hou, Kin K. Leung:
  A Distributed Scheduling Algorithm with QoS Provisions in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks. 253-258
  
• Jad El-Najjar, Brigitte Jaumard, Chadi Assi:
  Maximizing Network Stability in a Mobile WiMax/802.16 Mesh Centralized Scheduling. 259-265
  
• Hamed Nasrabadi, Farid Ashtiani:
  Improving Coverage-Capacity Tradeoff and Power Consumption of TDMA-CDMA by Coverage-Dependent Timeslot Allocation. 266-271
  
• Ghalem Boudour, Cédric Teyssié, Zoubir Mammeri:
  Scheduling-Based Reservation MAC Protocol for Bandwidth and Delay Optimization in Wireless Mesh Networks. 272-277
  

Cross Layer design

• Wei Kuang Lai, Kai-Ting Yang:
  Frame Size Adaptation in Mobile Wireless Networks with Cross-Layer Cooperative Model. 278-283
  
• Mohammad Abdur Razzaque, Simon Dobson, Paddy Nixon:
  Cross-Layer Self Routing: A Self-Managed Routing Approach for MANETs. 284-290
  
• Philipp Hurni, Torsten Braun, Bharat K. Bhargava, Yu Zhang:
  Multi-hop Cross-Layer Design in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Case Study. 291-296
  
• Laila Daniel, Ilpo Järvinen, Markku Kojo:
  Combating Packet Reordering in Vertical Handoff Using Cross-Layer Notifications to TCP. 297-303
  

WiMAX

• Luci Pirmez, Cesar de Carvalho Jaime Jr., Flávia Coimbra Delicato, Luiz Fernando Rust C. Carmo, Marcos Pirmez, Paulo F. Pires:
  User's Profile-Driven Resource Reservation for WiMAX Networks. 304-309
  
• Christos D. Antonopoulos:
  On SDMA Transmission Considering an Efficient IP Based IEEE 802.16 Relay Station. 310-315
  
• Victor Rangel, M. Perez, Javier Gomez, Miguel López-Guerrero, R. Aquino:
  Performance Evaluation of Five New Adaptive Contention Slot Allocators for IEEE 802.16 Based Systems. 316-321
  

Coding

• Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman, Rym Ouertani, Abdellatif Salah:
  The Spherical Bound Stack Decoder. 322-327
  
• Bodhaswar T. Maharaj, Francois P. S. Luus:
  Decremental Redundancy Compression with Fountain Codes. 328-332
  
• Keunhyung Lee, Huisoo Lee, Yongwook Lee, Jihyun Lee, Wangrok Oh:
  A New Channel Reliability Value for Iterative MAP Turbo Decoder. 333-334
  

MIMO and OFDM

• Dare Sokoya, B. T. Maharaj:
  Channel Estimation Algorithm for Super-Orthogonal Space Time Trellis Coded-OFDM Systems. 335-339
  
• Athanasios Doukas, Grigorios Kalivas:
  A Novel SNR per Subcarrier Estimation Scheme for OFDM Systems in Frequency Selective Channels. 340-345
  
• Ali Ramadan Ali, Tariq Jamil Saifullah Khanzada, Abbas S. Omar:
  Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems in Rapidly Time-Variant Channels Using High Degree Channel Approximation. 346-348
  

OFDM

• Lorenzo Favalli, Pietro Savazzi, Anna Vizziello:
  Estimation and Mitigation of Intercarrier Interference for OFDM Systems in Multipath Fading Channels. 349-354
  
• Josko Radic, Nikola Rozic:
  Improved Decoding of Clipped OFDM Signals through Iteration. 355-359
  
• Oscar Real, Vicenc Almenar:
  OFDM ICI Self-Cancellation Scheme Based on Five Weights. 360-364
  
• Rong-Terng Juang, Kun-Yi Lin, Pangan Ting, Hsin-Piao Lin, Ding-Bing Lin:
  Hybrid ARQ Scheme with Intercarrier Interference Mitigation for OFDM Systems. 365-366
  

Wireless networks and applications

• Randall Landry, Jared Burdin:
  An Evolutionary Model for the Study of Wireless Networks. 367-372
  
• Thomas D. C. Little, Peter Dib, Kandarp Shah, Nick Barraford, Beth Gallagher:
  Using LED Lighting for Ubiquitous Indoor Wireless Networking. 373-378
  
• Abdulbaset Gaddah, Thomas Kunz:
  Subscriber Mobility in Pub/Sub Systems: Pro-active vs. Reactive Handoffs. 379-384
  
• Tiziano Inzerilli, Anna Maria Vegni, Alessandro Neri, Roberto Cusani:
  A Location-Based Vertical Handover Algorithm for Limitation of the Ping-Pong Effect. 385-389
  

Media Streaming and QoS

• Ahmed H. Zahran, Cormac J. Sreenan:
  PGMS: Pseudo-optimal Greedy Media Streaming Algorithm for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks. 390-396
  
• Antonio-Javier Garcia-Sanchez, Felipe Garcia-Sanchez, Joan García-Haro:
  Feasibility Study of MPEG-4 Transmission on IEEE 802.15.4 Networks. 397-403
  
• Laszlo Korossy, Csaba Vulkán:
  QoS Aware HSDPA Congestion Control Algorithm. 404-409
  
• Ju-Eun Kang, Dong-Won Kum, Yang Li, You Ze Cho:
  Seamless Handover Scheme for Proxy Mobile IPv6. 410-414
  
• Wajdi Elleuch, Alain C. Houle:
  Multiparty Voice over IP (MVoIP) Peer-Based System for Large-Scale Conference Support. 415-416
  

Security

• Abderrezak Rachedi, Abderrahim Benslimane, Hadi Otrok, Noman Mohammed, Mourad Debbabi:
  A Mechanism Design-Based Secure Architecture for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. 417-422
  
• Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman, Nidal Nasser, Kassem Saleh:
  Identity and Pairing-Based Secure Key Management Scheme for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks. 423-428
  
• Christian Tchepnda, Hasnaa Moustafa, Houda Labiod, Gilles Bourdon:
  Prioritizing and Enhancing Vehicular Networks Authentication Process Using DSRC Channels Diversity. 429-434
  
• Anand Dersingh, Ramiro Liscano, Allan G. Jost:
  Utilizing Semantic Knowledge for Access Control in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Systems. 435-441
  

HWN-RMQ_WiMob2008 sessions

• Raheleh B. Dilmaghani, Ramesh R. Rao:
  An Ad Hoc Network Infrastructure: Communication and Information Sharing for Emergency Response. 442-447
  
• Shuai Liu, D. Y. Zhang, Xiao Chu, Hadi Otrok, Prabir Bhattacharya:
  A Game Theoretic Approach to Optimize the Performance of Host-Based IDS. 448-453
  
• Yacob Astatke, R. Dean, L. S. Ange:
  Power Performance Measure for QOS Service Management in Mixed Networks. 454-459
  
• Ali Chamam, Samuel Pierre:
  Power-Efficient Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks under Coverage Constraint. 460-465
  
• Ana Goulart, Wei Zhan:
  A Design of Experiment (DOE) Analysis of the Performance of Uplink Real-Time Traffic over a 3G Network. 466-471
  
• Ada Diaconescu, Johann Bourcier, Clément Escoffier:
  Autonomic iPOJO: Towards Self-Managing Middleware for Ubiquitous Systems. 472-477
  
• Sara Bury, Johnathan Ishmael, Nicholas J. P. Race, P. Smith, Mark Rouncefield:
  Towards an Understanding of Security Concerns within Communities. 478-483
  
• Greg Bigwood, D. Rehunathan, Martin Bateman, Tristan Henderson, Saleem N. Bhatti:
  Exploiting Self-Reported Social Networks for Routing in Ubiquitous Computing Environments. 484-489
  
• D. Manzaroli, P. Lacche, Marina Pettinari, Luca Roffia, A. D'Elia, Tullio Salmon Cinotti:
  Enhancing Social Life with Path Solvers: Rendezvous without Constraints on Meeting Place and Time. 490-495
  
• Kevin Eustice, A. M. Jourabchi, J. Stoops, Peter L. Reiher:
  Improving User Satisfaction in a Ubiquitous Computing Application. 496-501
  
• Jonathan Engelsma, James C. Ferrans, M. C. Hans:
  EncounterEngine: Integrating Bluetooth User Proximity Data into Social Applications. 502-507
  

First International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications SecPriWiMob 2008

Privacy in Mobile and Wireless Computing (I)

• Mike Burmester, Emmanouil Magkos, Vassilios Chrissikopoulos:
  Strengthening Privacy Protection in VANETs. 508-513
  
• Aleksi Saarela, Jan-Erik Ekberg, Kaisa Nyberg:
  Random Beacon for Privacy and Group Security. 514-519
  

Privacy in Mobile and Wireless Computing (II)

• Florian Scheuer, Klaus Poessel, Hannes Federrath:
  Preventing Profile Generation in Vehicular Networks. 520-525
  
• Ioannis Krontiris, Thanassis Giannetsos, Tassos Dimitriou:
  Launching a Sinkhole Attack in Wireless Sensor Networks; The Intruder Side. 526-531
  

Key Management in Mobile and Wireless Computing

• Manel Boujelben, Habib Youssef, Mohamed Abid:
  An Efficient Scheme for Key Pre-distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks. 532-537
  
• Hisham Dahshan, James Irvine:
  Analysis of Key Distribution in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Based on Message Relaying. 538-542
  
• Imran Erguler, Emin Anarim:
  A Password-Based Key Establishment Protocol with Symmetric Key Cryptography. 543-548
  
• Firdous Kausar, M. Q. Saeed, Ashraf Masood:
  Key Management and Secure Routing in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks. 549-554
  

Cryptographic Protocols for Mobile and Wireless Environments (I)

• Christian Bauer, Max Ehammer:
  Securing Dynamic Home Agent Address Discovery with Cryptographically Generated Addresses and RSA Signatures. 555-560
  
• Saber Zrelli, A. Miyaji, Yoichi Shinoda, T. Ernst:
  Security and Access Control for Vehicular Communications. 561-566
  

Cryptographic Protocols for Mobile and Wireless Environments (II)

• David A. Knox, Thomas Kunz:
  RF Fingerprints for Secure Authentication in Single-Hop WSN. 567-573
  
• Alberto Ferrante, Roberto Pompei, Anastasia Stulova, Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo:
  A Protocol for Pervasive Distributed Computing Reliability. 574-579
  

Sensor Networks Security

• Giacomo de Meulenaer, François Gosset, François-Xavier Standaert, Olivier Pereira:
  On the Energy Cost of Communication and Cryptography in Wireless Sensor Networks. 580-585
  
• Christoph Krauß, Markus Schneider, Claudia Eckert:
  An Enhanced Scheme to Defend against False-Endorsement-Based DoS Attacks in WSNs. 586-591
  
• Suat Özdemir:
  Functional Reputation Based Data Aggregation for Wireless Sensor Networks. 592-597
  
• Sanjay Kumar Dhurandher, Sudip Misra, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Nidhi Gupta:
  QDV: A Quality-of-Security-Based Distance Vector Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Ant Colony Optimization. 598-602
  

Wireless Ad-hoc Networks Security (I)

• Sudip Misra, Kiran Isaac Abraham, Mohammad S. Obaidat, P. Venkata Krishna:
  Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks: The S-Model Learning Automata Approach. 603-607
  
• Hadi Otrok, Noman Mohammed, Lingyu Wang, Mourad Debbabi, Prabir Bhattacharya:
  A Moderate to Robust Game Theoretical Model for Intrusion Detection in MANETs. 608-612
  

Wireless Ad-hoc Networks Security (II)

• Do Van Thanh, Ivar Jørstad, Paal E. Engelstad, Tore E. Jønvik, Boning Feng, Do van Thuan:
  Authentication in a Multi-access IMS Environment. 613-618
  
• Chung Tien Nguyen, Olivier Camp:
  Using Context Information to Improve Computation of Trust in Ad Hoc Networks. 619-624
  

IEEE International Workshop on Selected topics in mobile and wireless computing (STWiMob'2008)

• Andrzej Sikora, Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz:
  MobASim: A Software Platform for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Modeling and Simulation. 625-630
  
• L. Felipe Perrone, Christopher J. Kenna, Bryan C. Ward:
  Enhancing the Credibility of Wireless Network Simulations with Experiment Automation. 631-637
  
• Robin D'Haenens, Jeroen Doggen, Dirk Bakker, Tim Dams:
  Transmitting Scalable Video with Unequal Error Protection over 802.11b/g. 638-643
  
• Yuro Lee, Jaemin Ahn, Sok-Kyu Lee:
  Multi-rate QR-MDD for High Data Rate Transmission in Nomadic Local Wireless Access. 644-648
  
• Supasate Choochaisri, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat:
  A System for Using Wireless Sensor Networks as Globally Deductive Databases. 649-654
  
• Marc-Olivier Ouellet, Steven Chamberland, Philippe Galinier:
  On the Planning Problem of Wireless Local Area Networks with Directional Antennas. 655-660
  
• Maja Ilic, M. Pejanovic-Djurisic:
  SER Performance of OFDM Polarization Diversity System with EGC. 661-665
  
• L. P. Rodriguez, Ángel García-Crespo, M. Lara, Belén Ruíz-Mezcua:
  Study of Different Fusion Techniques for Multimodal Biometric Authentication. 666-671
  
• Myung Sil Choi, Hyun Woo Kim, Yong Hwan Kim, Kyung Ho Chung, Kwang Seon Ahn:
  Private Information Protection System with Web-Crawler. 672-677
  
• Hong Zhou:
  Code Combining Diversity Reception and Its Application to Broadband Wireless. 678-683
  
• Kazuya Tsukamoto, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Shigeru Kashihara, Yuji Oie:
  Implementation Design of Handover Management Scheme for Efficient Multimodal Communication. 684-689