The Third IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks

(WiMAN 2009)

in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2009

Advance Program (Tentative)

June 26, 2009

08:45 – 09:00 Open Remarks

09:00  - 10:00 Keynote

Title: TBD

By Dr. Jie Wu (NSF Program Director, Distinguished Professor, Florida Atlantic University)

10:00  - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00

Session 1: Routing and Channel Assignment

Chair:  Il-Min Kim (Queens University)

Joint Channel Assignment and Multi-Path Routing for Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks

Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna), Sara Pizzi (University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria), Luciano Bononi (University of Bologna), Antonella Molinaro, (University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria)

A Contention-Based Routing Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in City Environments

Tonghong Li (Technical University of Madrid), Yuanzhen Li (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications)

Nomad – A Mobile Ad Hoc and Disruption Tolerant Routing Protocol for Tactical Military Networks

Peter Holliday (Cisco Systems)

DT-DYMO: Delay-tolerant Dynamic MANET On-demand Routing

Stefan Ruehrup (University of Freiburg), Christian Kretschmer (University of Freiburg, Germany), Christian Schindelhauer (University of Freiburg, Germany)

12:30  - 14:00    Lunch Break

14:00  - 15:30

Session 2: MAC, PHY, and Cross-Layer Optimizations

Chair: Habib M. Ammari (Hofstra University)

ML Performance Analysis of the Decode-and-Forward Protocol in Multi-Hop Networks

MinChul Ju (Queen's University), Il-Min Kim (Queens' University)

Performance Analysis of WiMedia UWB MAC

Rukhsana Ruby (University of Victoria), Jianping Pan (University of Victoria)

Approximate BER Expressions of Distributed Alamouti’s Code in Two-Hop Systems

Zhihang Yi (Queen’s University), Il-Min Kim (Queens' University)

Predictive Scheduling in Rate-Adaptive Multi-User Relay Channels with Reconfiguration Delays

Gokhan Sahin (Miami University)

15:30  - 16:00    Coffee Break

16:00  - 17:30   

Session 3: Mobility and Security

Chair: TBD

Software Architecture for Scalable Multi-Hop Mobility Emulation with Indoor Wireless Grids

Gautam Bhanage (WINLAB, Rutgers University), Yanyong Zhang (WINLAN, Rutgers University)

Dynamic TCP Proxies: Coping with Disadvantaged Hosts in MANETs

Tu Ouyang (Case Western Reserve University), Shudong Jin (Case Western Reserve University), Michael Rabinovich (Case Western Reserve University)

On the Implications of Adaptive Transmission Power for Assisting MANET Security

Andre Koenig (TU Darmstadt), Matthias Hollick (TU Darmstadt), Ralf Steinmetz (TU Darmstadt)