ICWN'06: June 26, 2006 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'06 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:45am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  Erasing the Digital Divide: Putting Your Best Idea on the
                  $100 Laptop
                  Prof. Barry Vercoe
                  Founding Member of MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  The Reinvention of the Microprocessor
                  Dr. Chris Rowen
                  President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc., USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:50 - 11:20am:  Increasing Diversity and Participation in Advanced Computing
                  Dr. John R. Boisseau
                  Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center,
                  The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:20a - 12:20p:  Panel - Performance and Connectivity on the $100 Laptop
                  Panel Chair: Prof. Barry Vercoe, MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  Panelists: Jim Gettys* and Michail Bletsas**
                  *Vice President, Software Engineering, OLPC
                  **Chief Connectivity Officer, OLPC
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:20 - 01:10pm:  Lunch (On Your Own)


01:10 - 01:40pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION A-ICWN (Refreshments will be available)
                  June 26 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 6-8)
                  List of papers appears at the end of ICWN's schedule.


SESSION 1-ICWN:   COMMUNICATION ALGORITHMS + PROTOCOLS
                  Chair: Dr. Namdar Mogharreban* and Sin Ming Loo**
                  *Southern Illinois University, Illinois, USA
                  **Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday); 1:40 - 5:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 6)

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Predicting Access Point Utilization with Locator@CMU, a
                  Centralized 802.11 Wireless Location Service
                  Jeremy Shaffer and  Daniel Siewiorek
                  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Using Notional Currencies for Wireless Network Resource Allocation
                  Timothy K. Buennemeyer, William J. Adams, Calvert L. Bowen III
                  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, VA, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  The Election Protocol for Reconfigurable Distributed Systems
                  Sung-Hoon Bauk and Chang-Young Kim
                  Chungbuk National University, Chung-Buk, Korea

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Low Complexity Implementation for the Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time
                  Block Coded OFDM System
                  Jintao Wang, Jian Song*, Changyong Pan, Jun Wang, and Zhixing Yang
                  Tsinghua University, P. R. China

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK

03:20 - 03:40pm:  Pipeline Decoding of New LDPC-HDPC Product Code for MIMO System
                  Yih-Fuh Wang* and Ko-Yin Li
                  Leader University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC

03:40 - 4:00pm:  Mobility Management Using Fuzzy-Logic Based 4-Group Quorum
                  System in MANET
                  Sun Jin Oh
                  Semyung University, Korea

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Multi-path routing of real-time network streaming reinforced by
                  erasure resilient codes 
                  Emin Gabrielyan
                  EPFL and Switzernet Sarl, Lausanne, Switzerland

04:20 - 04:40pm:  A Hybrid Communication Protocol For Cellular Architecture Using
                  Energy-Efficient AODV
                  B. Gupta*, V. Gorrepati, and N. Mogharreban
                  Southern Illinois University, IL, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm:  FREE SLOT

05:00 - 05:20pm:  FREE SLOT


06:00 - 9:00pm:   TWO TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL A
                  Alice: Using Animation to Teach Introductory Programming
                  Dr. H. Keith Edwards
                  University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 7)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL B
                  An Introduction to Biometric Recognition Systems
                  Dr. M. Deriche
                  KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 8)


09:00 - 11:00pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER - June 26 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Rooms 1-5)

                   DISCUSSION SESSION A-ICWN
                     June 26 (Monday), 2006
                       RRR/SRP/PST Papers
                        1:10 - 1:40pm
         (LOCATION: Hallways/Lobby - Meeting Rooms 6-8)

LIST OF PAPERS IN DISCUSSION SESSION A-ICWN:

O.  Performance Analysis of Vertical Blast Multiplexing with Selection
    Transmit Diversity
    Intae Hwang** and Mingoo Kang*
    *Hanshin University, Kyounggi, Korea
    **Chonnam University, Gwangju, Korea
O.  A Probability-Based Method for Resources Advanced Reservation
    in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
    Dandan Yu, Yanxiang He, and Guoqing Tu
    Wuhan University, Wuhan, P. R. China
O.  Fusion of Neural Network Positioning and Database Correlation
    in Localizing a Mobile Terminal
    Claude Mbusa Takenga, Chen Xi, and Kyandoghere Kyamakya
    University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany
    Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
O.  VLSI Design of Multiple Specifications Viterbi Decoder
    Chun-Guan Kim, Hongmoon Wang, Dae Jin Bae, and Jong-Tae Kim
    Sungkyunkwan University, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
O.  A Survey on Topology Issues in Wireless Sensor Network
    Mo Li and Baijian Yang
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China
    Ball State University, USA
O.  Improving the Safety and Efficiency for Rail Track Working Using
    Intelligent Location Based Systems
    N. J. Thomas, A. Olden, G. Taylor, and J. M. Ware
    University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales, UK

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