Technical Program

Preliminary schedule

Monday 29.6.09

09:00 Registration
09:30-10:00 Opening session
10:00-11:00 Opening talk - Luigi Fratta
11:30-13:00 Technical session 1
13:00-14:00 lunch break
14:00-15:30 Technical session 2
15:45 Trip to Caesarea
19:30 Dinner in Zichron Yaacov

Tuesday 30.6.09

08:30-09:30 Keynote talk - Mario Gerla
10:00-11:30 Technical session 3
12:00-13:30 Technical session 4
13:30-14:30 lunch break (on site)
14:30-16:00 Technical session 5
16:30-18:00 Technical session 6

Wednesday 1.7.09

Galilee trip - optional, not included in registration fees

Technical Sessions

Two types of presentations are included in the workshop schedule below:

Workshop papers (WP) - papers that have been submitted to Med-Hoc-Net 2009 and have been accepted following a review by the TPC. These papers will appear in the proceedings.

Workshop talks (WT) - papers that already appeared in a leading conference or journal and will be presented at the conference by one of the authors (underlined). These papers will not appear in the Med-Hoc-Net 2009 proceedings.

Technical session 1 (Monday, 11:30-13:00)

Chair: Jean-Marc Robert (École de Technologie Supérieure, CA)

  • 3DLS: Density-Driven Data Location Service for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (WT) [abstract],
    Roy Friedman (Technion, IL), Noam Mori (Technion, IL)
  • CORP: Cooperative Rateless code Protocol for Vehicular Content Dissemination (WP),
    Pasquale Cataldi (UCLA, US), Andrea Tomatis (Politecnico di Torino, IT), Gianluca Grilli (UCLA, US), Mario Gerla (UCLA, US)
  • Random Access Wireless Networks with Controlled Mobility (WP),
    Guner Celik (MIT, US), Eytan Modiano (MIT, US)
  • Topology Design and Control: A Game-Theoretic Perspective (WT) [abstract],
    Amir Nahir (Technion, IL), Ariel Orda (Technion, IL), Ari Fruend (IBM Research, Israel)

Technical session 2 (Monday, 14:00-15:30)

Chair: Eytan Modiano (MIT, US)

  • Preventing Layer-3 Wormhole Attacks in Ad-hoc Networks with Multipath DSR (WP),
    Luis Fernando Garcia (École de Technologie Supérieure, CA), Jean-Marc Robert (École de Technologie Supérieure, CA)
  • Cross-Layer Hybrid FEC/ARQ Reliable Multicast with Adaptive Modulation and Coding in Broadband Wireless Networks (WT) [abstract],
    Reuven Cohen (Technion, IL), Guy Grebla (Technion, IL), Liran Katzir (Technion, IL)
  • Extrapolation-based and QoS-aware Real-Time Communication in Wireless Mobile (WP),
    Adnan Agbaria (IBM Haifa Research Lab, IL), Gidon Gershinsky (IBM Haifa Research Lab, IL), Nir Naaman (IBM Haifa Research Lab, IL), Konstantin Shagin (IBM Haifa Research Lab, IL)
  • Cross-Layer On-Demand Routing Algorithms for Multi-Hop Wireless CSMA/CA Networks (WT) [abstract],
    Ju-Lan Hsu (UCLA, US), Izhak Rubin (UCLA, US)

Technical session 3 (Tuesday, 10:00-11:30)

Chair: Nir Naaman (IBM Haifa Research Lab, IL)

  • TDCS: A New Mechanism for Automatic Channel Assignment for Independent IEEE 802.11 Networks (WP),
    Marcel Silva (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BR), Jose F. de Rezende (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, BR)
  • Throughput-Capacity and Bit-per-Joule Performance of IEEE 802.11 Based Wireless Mesh Networks (WP),
    Rima Khalaf (UCLA, US), Izhak Rubin (UCLA, US)
  • RI-MAC: A Receiver Initiated Asynchronous Duty Cycle MAC Protocol for Dynamic Traffic Loads in Wireless Sensor Networks (WT) [abstract],
    Yanjun Sun (Rice University, US), Omer Gurewitz (Ben-Gurion University, IL), David B. Johnson (Rice University, US)
  • MAC for Networks with Multipacket Reception Capability and Spatially Distributed Nodes (WT) [abstract],
    Gunar D. Celik (MIT, US), Gil Zussman (Columbia University, US), Wajahat F. Khan (MIT, US), Eytan Modiano (MIT, US)

Technical session 4 (Tuesday, 12:00-13:30)

Chair: Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College London, UK)

  • Maximum-Lifetime Routing: System Optimization & Game-Theoretic Perspectives (WT) [abstract],
    Liane Lewin-Eytan (Technion, IL), Seffi Naor (Technion, IL), Ariel Orda (Technion, IL)
  • Scalable Communication Cost Reduction: The Chord Case (WP),
    Konstantinos Oikonomou (Ionian University, GR), Spyros Sioutas (Ionian University, GR), Ioannis Stavrakakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, GR)
  • A Novel Routing Algorithm Based on Chord for Hybrid Wireless Ad-hoc Networks (WP),
    Jing Cao (Beihang University, CN), Wei Wu (State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, CN)
  • Self-stabilizing and self-organizing mobile networks (WT) [abstract],
    Shlomi Dolev (Ben-Gurion University, IL)

Technical session 5 (Tuesday, 14:30-16:00)

Chair: Roy Friedman (Technion, IL)

  • Content-Based Routing Using Subpart Orthogonal Codes (WP),
    Christine Jardak (RWTH Aachen university, DE); Janne Riihijärvi (RWTH Aachen University, DE); Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University, DE)
  • Travel delays in wireless networks (WT) [abstract],
    Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College London, UK)
  • Random walks techniques for wireless networks (WT) [abstract],
    Chen Avin (Ben Gurion University, IL)
  • "Not All At Once!" - A Generic Scheme for Estimating the Number of Affected Nodes (WT) [abstract],
    Reuven Cohen (Technion, IL), Alex Landau (Technion, IL)

Technical session 6 (Tuesday, 16:30-18:00)

Chair: Gil Zussman (Columbia University, US)

  • On the Exploitation of CDF based Wireless Scheduling (WT) [abstract],
    Udi Ben-Porat (Tel-Aviv University, IL), Anat Bremler-Barr (IDC Herzliya, IL), Hanoch Levy (Tel-Aviv University, IL)
  • Toward Optimal Utilization of Shared Random Access Channels (WT) [abstract],
    Seffi Naor (Technion, IL), Danny Raz (Technion, IL), Gabriel Scalosub (University of Toronto, CA)
  • Improved Approximation Algorithms for Relay Placement (WT) [abstract],
    Alon Efrat (The University of Arizona, US), Sándor P. Fekete (Braunschweig University of Technology, DE), Poornananda R. Gaddehosur (The University of Arizona, US), Joseph S. B. Mitchell (Stony Brook University, US), Valentin Polishchuk (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, FI), Jukka Suomela (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, FI)
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