IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

CFP1219E-PRT 978-1-4577-1378-1

2012 8th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2012)

Limassol, Cyprus 27-31 August 2012

Pages 1-630

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Tuesday

TM-1: INVITED PAPERS Session Chair: Koichi Asatani, Kogakuin University, Japan

Distributed Collaborative Beamforming with Minimum Overhead for Local Scattering Environments ..................................................................................................................................... 1

Slim Zaidi (INRS-EMT, CA) Sofiène Affes (INRS-EMT, CA)

A New Application Level Link Aggregation and Its Implementation on Android Terminals ..................... 8 Takafumi Takiguchi (Kogakuin University, JP) Hiromu Masui (Fujitsu Network Solutions Limited, JP) Akira Hidaka (Kogakuin University, JP) Yoshio Sugizaki (Kogakuin University, JP) Osamu Mizuno (Kogakuin University, JP) Koichi Asatani (Kogakuin University, JP)

Buffer-Aided Relaying with Mixed Rate Transmission ................................................................................. 13 Nikola Zlatanov (University of British Columbia, CA) Robert Schober (University of British Columbia, CA)

ε-Overflow Rate: Buffer-Aided Information Transmission over Nakagami-m Fading Channels ............. 19 Yunquan Dong (Tsinghua University, CN) Pingyi Fan (Tsinghua University, CN) Khaled Ben Letaief (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK) Ross D. Murch (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

Base Stations Locations Optimisation in an Airport Environment using Genetic Algorithms .................. 24 Imad E. Ahmed (University of Leeds, UK) Bilal R. Qazi (University of Leeds, UK) Jaafar M.H. Elmirghani (University of Leeds, UK)

TA-1: Network Structural Analysis (TRAC Workshop) Session Chair: Christian Callegari, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy Session Co-Chair: Sandrine Vaton, Telecom Bretagne, France

A Distributed DNS Traffic Monitoring System .............................................................................................. 30 Luca Deri (IIT/CNR, IT) Lorenzo Luconi Trombacchi (IIT/CNR, IT) Maurizio Martinelli (IIT/CNR, IT) Daniele Vannozzi (IIT/CNR, IT)

Traffic vs Topology in Network Clustering: Does it Matter? ........................................................................ 36 Sancho Salcedo-Sanz (Universidad de Alcalá, ES) Maurizio Naldi (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, IT) Leopoldo Carro-Calvo (Universidad de Alcalá, ES) Luigi Laura (“Sapienza” Università di Roma, IT) Antonio Portilla-Figueras (Universidad de Alcalá, ES) Giuseppe F. Italiano (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, IT)

Real-Time Analysis of Critical Nodes in Network Cores ............................................................................... 42 Giorgio Ausiello (Sapienza University of Rome, IT) Donatella Firmani (Sapienza University of Rome, IT) Luigi Laura (Sapienza University of Rome, IT)

Online Anomaly Detection by using N-gram Model and Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps ........................................................................................................................................ 47

Mikhail Zolotukhin (University of Jyväskylä, FI) Timo Hämäläinen (University of Jyväskylä, FI) Antti Juvonen (University of Jyväskylä, FI)

On the Real Impact of Path Inflation in Networks Under Production ......................................................... 53 Felipe Mata (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ES) Roberto González-Rey (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ES) José Luis García-Dorado (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ES) Javier Aracil (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ES)

TA-2: Resource Allocation and Management I (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Najah A. Abu Ali (UAE University, UAE)

Efficient Resource Allocation for Wireless Virtualization using Time-Space Division .............................. 59 Xu Zhang (Tsinghua University, CN) Yong Li (Tsinghua University, CN) Depeng Jin (Tsinghua University, CN) Li Su (Tsinghua University, CN) Lieguang Zeng (Tsinghua University, CN) Pan Hui (Technische Universität Berlin, DE)

New Insights from a Delay Analysis for Cognitive Radio Networks with and without Reservation ......... 65 Mouna Elmachkour (University Mohammed V-Souissi, MA) Abdellatif Kobbane (University Mohammed V-Souissi, MA) Essaid Sabir (University Hassan II, FR) Mohammed El Koutbi (University Mohamed V - Souissi, MA)

Disease Tracking Service in Urban Areas ....................................................................................................... 71 Stéphane Cormier (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, FR) Hacène Fouchal (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, FR) Itheri Yahiaoui (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, FR)

Adaptive Packet Reservation Multiple Access Protocol for Fixed Wireless Communications .................. 76 Salman A. AlQahtani (King Saud University, SA)

A Generic Cross-Layer Architecture for Autonomic Network Management with Network Wide Knowledge ................................................................................................................................................ 82

Wafa Berrayana (University of Sousse, TN) Habib Youssef (University of Sousse, TN) Guy Pujolle (University Pierre and Marie Curie, FR)

TA-3: Applications and Data Aggregation (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Yanjun Li, Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China Session Co-Chair: Nidal Nasser, Alfaisal University, KSA

Monitoring the Reliability of Industrial Equipment using Wireless Sensor Networks .............................. 88 Ahmad El Kouche (Queen's University, CA) Hossam Hassanein (Queen's University, CA) Khaled Obaia (Oil and Energy, CA)

Data Survivability for WSNs via Decentralized Erasure Codes ................................................................... 94 Louai Al-Awami (Queen's University, CA) Hossam Hassanein (Queen's University, CA)

Constructing Data Gathering Tree to Maximize the Lifetime of Unreliable Wireless Sensor Network under Delay Constraint ................................................................................................................... 100

Yueyun Shen (Zhejiang University of Technology, CN) Yanjun Li (Zhejiang University of Technology and Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Network Technology, CN) Yi-Hua Zhu (Zhejiang University of Technology, CN)

Towards Accurate and Robust Map-Aid Indoor Human Tracking ........................................................... N/A Peisen Zhao (Tsinghua University, CN) Chunxiao Jiang (University of Maryland, College Park and Tsinghua University, US, CN) Hongyang Chen (The University of Tokyo, JP) Yong Ren (Tsinghua University, CN)

Combined Methods to Extend the Lifetime of Power Hungry WSN with Multimodal Sensors and Nanopower Wakeups ....................................................................................................................................... 112

Michele Magno (University of Bologna, IT) Stevan Marinkovic (University College Cork, IE) Davide Brunelli (University of Trento, IT) Luca Benini (University of Bologna, IT) Emanuel Popovici (University College Cork, IE)

Cross-Layer Optimization Protocol for Guaranteed Data Streaming over Wireless Body Area Networks .................................................................................................................................................. 118

Nedal Ababneh (Letterkenny Institute of Technology, IE) Nicholas Timmons (Letterkenny Institute of Technology, IE) Jim Morrison (Letterkenny Institute of Technology, IE)

TA-4: Mobile Computing (Mobile Computing Symposium) Session Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece

A New Markovian Approach for Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation in Wireless Networks ....................... 124 P. Fazio (University of Calabria, IT) M. Tropea (University of Calabria, IT) C. Sottile (University of Calabria, IT)

Flow-Based Power Control in Cognitive Radio Ad-Hoc Network .............................................................. 130 Ba Lam To (University Pierre and Marie Curie, FR) Thi Mai Trang Nguyen (University Pierre and Marie Curie, FR) Guy Pujolle (University Pierre and Marie Curie, FR)

TCP-Freeze: Beneficial for Virtual Machine Live Migration with IP Address Change? ......................... 136 Mehmet Vefa Bicakci (Carleton University, CA) Thomas Kunz (Carleton University, CA)

Dynamic Resource Allocation for MMOGs in Cloud Computing Environments ..................................... 142 Chen-Fang Weng (National Chiao Tung University, TW) Kuochen Wang (National Chiao Tung University, TW)

Cross Device Fingerprint-Based Positioning using 3D Ray Tracing .......................................................... 147 Marios Raspopoulos (Sigint Solutions Ltd., CY) Christos Laoudias (University of Cyprus, CY) Loizos Kanaris (Sigint Solutions Ltd., CY) Akis Kokkinis (Sigint Solutions Ltd., CY) Christos G. Panayiotou (University of Cyprus, CY) Stavros Stavrou (Open University of Cyprus, CY)

Privacy-Aware and Energy-Efficient Geofencing through Reverse Cellular Positioning ........................ 153 Ulrich Bareth (Technische Universität Berlin, DE)

EnergySniffer: Home Energy Monitoring System using Smart Phones .................................................... 159 Mostafa Abdulla Uddin (Old Dominion University, US) Tamer Nadeem (Old Dominion University, US)

TA-5: Cooperative Networks (Cooperative and Cognitive Networks Workshop) Session Chair: Alvaro Araujo Pinto, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Implementation of Opportunistic Cooperative Diversity in an Ad-Hoc Network using Commodity Hardware ..................................................................................................................................... 165

C.S. Cooper (University of Wollongong, AU) Brett Hagelstein (University of Technology Sydney, AU) Daniel Franklin (University of Technology Sydney, AU)

Asynchronous Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Multi-Hop Cognitive Radio Networks ........................ 169 Yi Liu (South China University of Technology, CN) Yan Zhang (Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, NO) Rong Yu (Guangdong University of Technology, CN) Shengli Xie (South China University of Technology, CN)

Generalized Differential Distributed Space-Time Block Codes using Co-Efficient Vectors .................... N/AGbenga Owojaiye (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Yichuang Sun (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

Distance Progress based Opportunistic Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks ......................................... 179 Amir Darehshoorzadeh (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES) Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES)

Generalized Beamforming (GBF) for MIMO Amplify-and-Forward Relaying ........................................ 185 Sayeb Rahima (Manar University, TN) Noureddine Hamdi (University of Carthage, TN)

Software Defined Radio Architecture Survey for Cognitive Testbeds ....................................................... 189 Mickaël Dardaillon (INSA Lyon, FR) Kevin Marquet (INSA Lyon, FR) Tanguy Risset (INSA Lyon, FR) Antoine Scherrer (INSA Lyon, FR)

TA-6: OFDM/OFDMA (Communication & Information Theory Symp.) Session Chair: Fumiyuki Adachi (Tohoku University, Japan)

An Iterative Joint Channel Estimation and Data Detection Technique for MIMO-OFDM Systems ..... 195 Fabien Delestre (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Gbenga Owojaiye (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Yichuang Sun (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

Decision-Directed Tracking for Burst-Mode OFDM with Frequency Selective Channel ........................ 200 Guanping Lu (Tsinghua University, CN) Jun Wang (Tsinghua University, CN) Chao Zhang (Tsinghua University, CN) Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, CN)

High Efficiency Resource Allocation in Multicast OFDM Systems ............................................................ 205 Meng Li (USTC, CN) Yu Gu (National Institute of Informatics, JP) Li Qiang (USTC, CN) Baohua Zhao (USTC, CN)

Signaling-Embedded Preamble Design for OFDM System with Transmit Diversity ............................... 211 Wenbo Ding (Tsinghua University, CN) Fang Yang (Tsinghua University, CN) Jian Song (Tsinghua University, CN) Lifeng He (Tsinghua University, CN)

TA-7: Relays (Communication & Information Theory Symp.) Session Chair: Annamalai Annamalai (Prairie View A&M University, USA)

A Novel Selective-Relaying Protocol for Cooperative IR-UWB Communications with PPM ................. 216 Chadi Abou-Rjeily (Lebanese American University (LAU), LB)

Performance Analysis of Network-Coded Bi-Directional Relaying for Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Wireless Networks ...................................................................................................................... 222

Mohammed W. Baidas (Virginia Tech, US) Allen B. MacKenzie (Virginia Tech, US) R. Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, US)

A Successive Opportunistic Relaying Protocol with Inter-Relay Interference Mitigation ....................... 228 Nikolaos Nomikos (University of the Aegean, GR) Demosthenes Vouyioukas (University of the Aegean, GR)

Asymptotic Error Rates Analysis for Multi-Hop Multi-Relay Cooperative Non-Regenerative Networks over Generalized Fading Channels ............................................................................................... 234

A. Annamalai (Prairie View A&M University, US) O. Olabiyi (Prairie View A&M University, US)

Optimal Power Allocation and Relay Location for Decode-and-Forward Dual-Hop Systems over Weibull Fading Channels ................................................................................................................................ 240

Miao Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN)

TA-8: Wireless Technologies II (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: George Hadjichristofi, Frederick University, Cyprus

Experimental Evaluation of Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Distributed Cognitive Radio Networks ................................................................................................................................................ 245

Ahmed Khattab (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, US) Dmitri Perkins (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, US) Magdy A. Bayoumi (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, US)

Time-Based and Low-Cost Bandwidth Estimation for IEEE 802.11 Links ............................................... 251 Jonathan Guerin (University of Queensland and NICTA, AU) Stephen Glass (NICTA, AU) Peizhao Hu (NICTA, AU) Wee Lum Tan (NICTA, AU) Marius Portmann (University of Queensland and NICTA, AU)

Evaluating RaptorQ FEC over 3GPP Multicast Services ............................................................................ 257 Christos Bouras (CTI Diophantus and University of Patras, GR) Nikolaos Kanakis (University of Patras, GR) Vasileios Kokkinos (CTI Diophantus and University of Patras, GR) Andreas Papazois (CTI Diophantus and University of Patras, GR)

DCF/USDMA: Enhanced DCF for Uplink SDMA Transmissions in WLANs .......................................... 263 Ruizhi Liao (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES) Boris Bellalta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES) Miquel Oliver (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES)

Reversing the IEEE 802.11 Backoff Algorithm for Receiver-Initiated MAC Protocols ........................... 269 Tiago da Silva Bonfim (University of Brasília, BR) Marcelo M. Carvalho (University of Brasília, BR)

TA-9: MAC and Design Techniques (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Jianming Wu (Fujitsu Research and Development Center, Co., LTD, P.R. China) Session Co-Chair: Tomohiko Taniguchi (Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan)

An Improved Common Hopping Multiple Access Protocol for Smart Meter Wireless Networks .......... 275 Fan Xiaojing (Fujitsu Research and Development Center, Co., LTD, CN) Wang Hao (Fujitsu Research and Development Center, Co., LTD, CN) Tian Jun (Fujitsu Research and Development Center, Co., LTD, CN)

Space Diversity for Wireless Sensor Networks at 2.4 GHz .......................................................................... N/A Ruoshui Liu (University of Cambridge, UK) Ian J. Wassell (University of Cambridge, UK)

Mixed TDMA/Simultaneous-Transmission Scheduling for Delay Sensitive Applications ....................... N/A Alaa Awad (Cairo University, EG) Omar A. Nasr (Cairo University, EG) Mohamed M. Khairy (Cairo University, EG)

A Combined Relay-Selection and Routing Protocol for Cooperative Wireless Sensor Networks ........... 293 Ahmed Ben Nacef (France Telecom - Orange, FR) Sidi-Mohammed Senouci (Université de Bourgogne, FR) Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (ENSIIE and Université Paris-Est, FR) André-Luc Beylot (ENSEEIHT, FR)

An Optimal Sensor Deployment Scheme to Ensure Multi Level Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks ............................................................................................................................... 299

Arnab Raha (Jadavpur University, IN) Shovan Maity (Jadavpur University, IN) Mrinal Kanti Naskar (Jadavpur University, IN) Omar Alfandi (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, DE) Dieter Hogrefe (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, DE)

TA-10: Wireless Technologies I (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Hazem Refai, Oklahoma University, USA

Enhanced Frequency Hopping for Reliable Interconnection of Low Power Smart Home Devices ......... 305 Nils Langhammer (Technische Universität Dortmund, DE) Ruediger Kays (Technische Universität Dortmund University, DE)

A Novel Adaptive Bit Loading Algorithm for BICM-OFDM System ........................................................ 311 Wang Hao (Fujitsu Research and Development Center, Co., LTD, CN) Yang Hongwen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN) Tian Jun (Fujitsu Research and Development Center, Co., LTD, CN)

Two-Dimensional Markov Model for Throughput Analysis of IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function in Non Ideal Channel with Capture Effects .......................................................... 316

Nesreen Alsbou (University of Oklahoma, US) Hazem Refai (University of Oklahoma, US)

The Search Space Design for Enhanced Downlink Control Channel in LTE-Advanced System ............ 322 Wang Yi (Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co. LTD, CN) Zhou Hua (Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co. LTD, CN) Wu Jianming (Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co. LTD, CN)

Power Smart In-Door Optical Wireless Link Applications ......................................................................... 327 Nabeel A. Riza (University College Cork, IE) Philip J. Marraccini (University College Cork, IE)

MIMODog: How to Solve the Problem of Selfish Misbehavior Detection Mechanism in MANETs using MIMO Technology? .............................................................................................................................. 333

Abderrezak Rachedi (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, FR) Hakim Badis (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, FR)

TA-11: Cognitive Networks (Cooperative and Cognitive Networks Workshop) Session Chair: Alvaro Araujo Pinto, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

A Fair and Energy-Efficient Spectrum Management Mechanism for Cognitive Radio Networks ......... 338 Sadia Quadri (Toshiba Research Europe, UK) Zhong Fan (Toshiba Research Europe, UK) Stephen Lingfeng Wang (Toshiba Research Europe, UK)

Novel Cognitive Mobile Router and Its Efficient use in a Heterogeneous Wireless Network .................. 344 Kosuke Yamazaki (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., JP) Takashi Fujimoto (KDDI R&D Laboratories, JP) Yuichi Imagaki (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., JP) Kanshiro Kashiki (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., JP) Akira Yamaguchi (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., JP)

Practical Implementation of a Holding Time based Model for Cognitive Radio Access within a Common Pilot Channel Framework .............................................................................................................. N/A

Soumaya Dahi (Ecole Supérieure des Communication de Tunis, TN) Sami Tabbane (Ecole Supérieure des Communication de Tunis, TN)

Analysis of Spectrum Sensing Characteristics for Cognitive Radio GFDM Signal .................................. 356 Rohit Datta (Technische Universität Dresden, DE) Kamran Arshad (University of Surrey, UK) Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, DE)

Spectrum Availability Model of Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Networks ...................................... 360 Nariman Rahimian (Texas A&M University, US) Costas N. Georghiades (Texas A&M University, US) Hasari Celebi (Gebze Institute of Technology, TR) Khalid A. Qaraqe (Texas A&M University at Qatar, QA)

Time Slotted Based Cognitive MAC Protocols for Multi-Channel Wireless Ad Hoc Networks .............. 366 A. Masrub (Brunel University, UK) H. Al-Raweshidy (Brunel University, UK)

TA-12: Performance Evaluation (General Symposium) Session Chair: Mehrdad Dianati, University of Surrey, UK

Performance Analysis of Primary user Emulation Attack in Cognitive Radio Networks ........................ 371 Chaorui Zhang (South China University of Technology, CN) Rong Yu (Guangdong University of Technology, CN) Yan Zhang (Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, NO)

Performance Evaluation of an Adaptive Route Change Application using an Integrated Cooperative ITS Simulation Platform ........................................................................................................... 377

Charalambos Zinoviou (University of Surrey, UK) Konstantinos Katsaros (University of Surrey, UK) Ralf Kernchen (University of Surrey, UK) Mehrdad Dianati (University of Surrey, UK)

Performance Evaluation of Low Density Spreading Multiple Access ........................................................ 383 Mohammed AL-Imari (University of Surrey, UK) Muhammad Ali Imran (University of Surrey, UK) Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, UK) Dageng Chen (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., CN)

Fairness Evaluation in Cooperative Hybrid Cellular Systems .................................................................... 389 Juan F. Awad (University of Surrey, UK) Muhammad A. Imran (University of Surrey, UK) Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, UK)

Throughput Analysis using Eigenvalue based Spectrum Sensing Under Noise Uncertainty ................... 395 Ayse Kortun (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) Tharm Ratnarajah (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) Mathini Sellathurai (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) Ying-Chang Liang (A*STAR, SG) Yonghong Zeng (A*STAR, SG)

Wednesday

WM-1: INVITED PAPERS Session Chair: Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy

Correlated Energy Generation and Imperfect State-of-Charge Knowledge in Energy Harvesting Devices ........................................................................................................................................... 401

Nicolò Michelusi (University of Padova, IT) Leonardo Badia (University of Padova, IT) Ruggero Carli (University of Padova, IT) Kostas Stamatiou (University of Padova, IT) Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, IT)

Recursive QR Packet Combining for Uplink Single-Carrier Multi-User MIMO HARQ using Near ML Detection .......................................................................................................................................... 407

Tetsuya Yamamoto (Tohoku University, JP) Koichi Adachi (A*STAR, SG) Sumei Sun (A*STAR, SG) Fumiyuki Adachi (Tohoku University, JP)

On the Multicast Throughput for Half-Duplex Butterfly Network using Deterministic Approach ........ 413 Zhengchuan Chen (Tsinghua University, CN) Pingyi Fan (Tsinghua University, CN)

Cross-Layer Design for Cognitive Radios with Joint AMC and ARQ Under Delay QoS Constraint ..... 419 Leila Musavian (McGill University, CA) Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, CA)

Capacity Limits in a Variable Duty Cycle IEEE 802.11p-Based VANET .................................................. 425 Serkan Ozturk (Erciyes University, TR) Jelena Mišić (Ryerson University, CA) Vojislav B. Mišić (Ryerson University, CA)

On the Complexity of Routing in Wireless Multihop Network ................................................................... 431 Sonia Waharte (University of Bedforshire, UK) Alexander Golynski (Google Inc., US) Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, CA)

WA-1: High Speed Traffic Analysis (TRAC Workshop) Session Chair: Christian Callegari, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Reducing Memory in High-Speed Packet Classification .............................................................................. 437 Viktor Puš (CESNET, CZ) Jan Kořenek (Brno University of Technology, CZ)

Hardware Acceleration of SVM-Based Traffic Classification on FPGA ................................................... 443 Tristan Groleat (Télécom Bretagne, FR) Matthieu Arzel (Télécom Bretagne, FR) Sandrine Vaton (Télécom Bretagne, FR)

MTCLASS: Enabling Statistical Traffic Classification of Multi-Gigabit Aggregates on Inexpensive Hardware ..................................................................................................................................... 450

Francesco Gringoli (University of Brescia, IT) Lorenzo Nava (University of Brescia, IT) Alice Este (University of Brescia, IT) Luca Salgarelli (University of Brescia, IT)

From Ideality to Practicability in Statistical Packet Features Masking ..................................................... 456 Alfonso Iacovazzi (Sapienza University of Rome, IT) Andrea Baiocchi (Sapienza University of Rome, IT)

Hierarchical Learning for Fine Grained Internet Traffic Classification ................................................... 463 Luigi Grimaudo (Politecnico di Torino, IT) Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino, IT) Elena Baralis (Politecnico di Torino, IT)

WA-2: Wireless Multi-Hop Networks (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Marc St-Hilaire, Carleton University, Canada

Tracking Topology Dynamicity for Link Prediction in Intermittently Connected Wireless Networks ........................................................................................................................................... 469

Mohamed-Haykel Zayani (Télécom SudParis, FR) Vincent Gauthier (Télécom SudParis, FR) Ines Slama (Télécom SudParis, FR) Djamal Zeghlache (Télécom SudParis, FR)

A Medium Access Delay MAC Aware Metric for Multihop Wireless Networks ...................................... 475 Le Minh Duong (Université Paris-Sud, FR) Lynda Zitoune (ESIEE-Paris, FR) Véronique Vèque (University of Paris-Sud 11, FR)

Evaluating the Impact of Energy Consumption on Routing Performance in Delay Tolerant Networks ........................................................................................................................................... 481

Annalisa Socievole (University of Calabria, IT) Salvatore Marano (University of Calabria, IT)

On Monitoring Overhead Impact in Wireless Mesh Networks ................................................................... 487 Adriana Hava (University College Dublin, IE) Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University College Dublin, ENSIIE, and Université Paris-Est, IE, FR) John Murphy (University College Dublin, IE)

Accumulative Interferences Removal in Multi-Hop Linear and Circular Ad Hoc WLANs .................... 493 Essaid Sabir (University of Avignon and University Hassan II, FR, MA) Rachid El-Azouzi (University of Avignon, FR)

WA-3: WSN and Other Networks (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Abdullah Kadri (QU Wireless Innovations Center, Qatar) Session Co-Chair: Tomohiko Taniguchi, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan

Design and Performance Analysis of Bandwidth and QoS Aware LTE Uplink Scheduler in Heterogeneous Traffic Environment .............................................................................................................. 499

Safdar N.K. Marwat (University of Bremen, DE) Yasir Zaki (University of Bremen, DE) Carmelita Goerg (University of Bremen, DE) Thushara Weerawardane (Hamburg University of Technology, DE) Andreas Timm-Giel (Hamburg University of Technology, DE)

Connectivity based Transmit Power Control in VANET ............................................................................ 505 Jun Tian (Fujitsu Research and Development Center, Co., LTD, CN) Chao Lv (Fujitsu Research and Development Center, Co., LTD, CN)

A Closed-Form Rate Outage Probability Description based on Nakagami-m Channel Model ............... 510 Mohammad Hayajneh (United Arab Emirates University, AE) Najah AbuAli (United Arab Emirates University, AE)

Efficient and Anonymous RFID Tag Counting and Estimation using Modulation Silencing .................. 515 Abdallah Y. Alma'aitah (Queen's University, CA) Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, CA) Mohamed Ibnkahla (Queen's University, CA)

A Two-Tier Integrated RFID/Sensor Network with a WiFi WLAN .......................................................... 521 Haleh Khojasteh (Ryerson University, CA) Jelena Mišić (Ryerson University, CA) Vojislav B. Mišić (Ryerson University, CA)

Performance of IEEE 802.15.4-Based Wireless Sensors in Harsh Environments ..................................... 526 Abdullah Kadri (QU Wireless Innovations Center, QA)

WA-4: Coverage and Security (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Zaher Merhi (Lebanese International University, Lebanon) Session Co-Chair: Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, KSA)

Practical RF Fingerprints for Wireless Sensor Network Authentication ................................................... 531 D.A. Knox (Carleton University, CA) T. Kunz (Carleton University, CA)

NSSN: A Network Monitoring and Packet Sniffing Tool for Wireless Sensor Networks ......................... 537 Zhonghua Zhao (The Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN) Wei Huangfu (The Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN) Limin Sun (The Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN)

Secure Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks using Decentralized Dynamic Key Generation ....... 543 Zaher Merhi (Lebanese International University, LB) Amin Haj-Ali (Lebanese International University, LB) Samih Abdul-Nabi (Lebanese International University, LB) Magdy Bayoumi (Univeristy of Louisiana at Lafayette, US)

System-Level Evaluation of Sensor Networks Deployment Strategies: Coverage, Lifetime and Cost ........................................................................................................................... 549

Huimin She (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE) Zhonghai Lu (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE) Axel Jantsch (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE)

WA-5: Access and Data Transmission (General Symposium) Session Chair: Muhammad Imran University of Surrey, UK

Medium Access Control via Contention-Based Distributed Power Control .............................................. 555 Themistoklis Charalambous (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE) Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, CY)

Hybrid Transmission Schemes for Grouped Users in Cellular Systems .................................................... 561 Juan F. Awad (University of Surrey, UK) Muhammad A. Imran (University of Surrey, UK) Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, UK)

Flexible and Dynamic Network Coding for Adaptive Data Transmission in DTNs .................................. 567 Milena Radenkovic (University of Nottingham, UK) Sameh Zakhary (University of Nottingham, UK)

Novel DR-Tree Index based on the Diagonal Line of MBR ......................................................................... 574 Jine Tang (China University of Geosciences, CN) Zhangbing Zhou (China University of Geosciences, CN) Zhi-Yong Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN) Qun Wang (China University of Geosciences, CN)

A Novel Handover Algorithm Design in WiMAX Networks ....................................................................... 580 Omar Altrad (Simon Fraser University, CA) Sami Muhaidat (Khalifa University, AE) Mehrdad Dianati (University of Surrey, UK)

WA-6: Transceiver Design-I (Communication and Information Theory Symp.) Session Chair: Jaafar Elmirghani (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) Session Co-Chair: Ali Almutairi, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Narrowband Interference Suppression in DS-UWB Communication Systems using Digital Delay Filter ........................................................................................................................................... 585

Ehab M. Shaheen (Military Technical College, EG)

Antenna Beam Pattern Modulation for MIMO Channels ........................................................................... 591 Raymundo Ramirez-Gutierrez (University of Leeds, UK) Li Zhang (University of Leeds, UK) Jaafar Elmirghani (University of Leeds, UK) Ali F. Almutairi (Kuwait University, KW)

A Novel Synchronization Method for DS-CDMA Systems .......................................................................... 596 Yi Wan (Lanzhou University, CN) Zhongping Chen (Lanzhou University, CN)

A Novel Space-Time Shift Keying and Its Reduced Complexity Detector ................................................. 602 Han-Wen Liang (Academia Sinica, TW) Chiao-En Chen (National Chung Cheng University, TW) Wei-Ho Chung (Academia Sinica, TW)

New Blind Synchronization Algorithm for DS-UWB Systems .................................................................... N/A Karima Ben Hamida El Abri (National School of Engineers of Tunis, TN) Ammar Bouallegue (National School of Engineers of Tunis, TN)

WA-7: Overlay Networks Analysis (TRAC Workshop) Session Chair: Sandrine Vaton, Telecom Bretagne, France

Four Months in DailyMotion: Dissecting User Video Requests .................................................................. 613 Yannick Carlinet (Orange Labs, FR) The Dang Huynh (Alcatel-Lucent and LINCS, FR) Bruno Kauffmann (Orange Labs, FR) Fabien Mathieu (INRIA, FR) Ludovic Noirie (Alcatel-Lucent and LINCS, FR) Sébastien Tixeuil (University Pierre & Marie Curie and LINCS, FR)

Internet Traffic Clustering with Constraints ................................................................................................ 619 Yu Wang (Deakin University, AU) Yang Xiang (Deakin University, AU) Jun Zhang (Deakin University, AU) Shunzheng Yu (Sun Yat-Sen University, CN)

Classification of Content and Users in BitTorrent by Semi-Supervised Learning Methods .................... 625 Konstantin Avrachenkov (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, FR) Paulo Gonçalves (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, FR) Arnaud Legout (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, FR) Marina Sokol (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, FR)

SIP Trace Recorder: Monitor and Analysis Tool for Threats in SIP-Based Networks ............................ 631 Dirk Hoffstadt (University of Duisburg-Essen, DE) Stefan Monhof (University of Duisburg-Essen, DE) Erwin Rathgeb (University of Duisburg-Essen, DE)

Identifying Skype Nodes by NetFlow-Based Graph Analysis ...................................................................... 636 Jan Jusko (Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ) Martin Rehak (Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ)

WA-8: Power Control (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Themistoklis Charalambous, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

Joint Design on Energy Efficiency and Throughput for Non-Infrastructure based Cognitive Radio Networks .............................................................................................................................. 642

Po-Kai Tseng (Academia Sinica, TW) Huan Chen (National Chung-Hsing University, TW) Wei-Ho Chung (Academia Sinica, TW)

Dynamic Power Control for Balanced Data Traffic with Coverage in Femtocell Networks .................... 648 Donghoon Shin (KAIST, KR) Sunghee Choi (KAIST, KR)

A Paradigm for the Development of Self-Growing Energy-Aware Networks ........................................... 654 Ioannis P. Chochliouros (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A., GR) Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A., GR) Evangelos Sfakianakis (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A., GR) Nina Mitsopoulou (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A., GR) Nancy Alonistioti (University of Athens, GR) Makis Stamatelatos (University of Athens, GR) Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, GR)

TeamSense: Energy-Efficient Autonomous Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks for Object Tracking ..... 660 Ala Alnawaiseh (Southern Methodist University, US) Khaled Abdelghany (Southern Methodist University, US)

Communication Requirements and Analysis of Distribution Networks using WiMAX Technology for Smart Grids ................................................................................................................................................ 666

Perumalraja Rengaraju (Carleton University, CA) Chung-Horng Lung (Carleton University, CA) Anand Srinivasan (EION Inc., CA)

A Novel Packet Scheduling for High Speed Bursty Traffic in LTE Based-3G Concepts ......................... 671 Konstantinos Lizos (Embassy of Greece, NO) Saied M. Abd El-atty (Menoufia University, EG)

WA-9: Protocols and Attacks (Security Symposium) Session Chair: Hyoung-Kee Choi (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea) Session Co-Chair: Sattar B. Sadkhan (University of Babylon, Iraq)

A Study on Reservation-Based Adaptation for QoS in Adversarial MANET Environments .................. 677 Peter J.J. McNerney (University of Manchester, UK) Ning Zhang (University of Manchester, UK)

A Versatile Suite of Strong Authenticated Key Agreement Protocols for Body Area Networks ............. 683 Jin-Meng Ho (Texas Instruments Inc., US)

A Secure Dynamic Data Aggregation System for Citizen Safety in Emergency Response Scenarios ..... 689 Miltos Hadjioannou (University of Cyprus, CY) George C. Hadjichristofi (Frederick University, CY)

Log-Based Intrusion Detection for MANET ................................................................................................. 697 Mouhannad Alattar (University of Franche-Comté, FR) Françoise Sailhan (CNAM, FR) Julien Bourgeois (University of Franche-Comté, FR)

A Swarm-Based Robot Team Coordination Protocol for Mine Detection and Unknown Space Discovery ................................................................................................................................................ 703

F. De Rango (University of Calabria, IT) N. Palmieri (University of Calabria, IT)

IP based Security Architecture of Virtual Network in Cloud Computing System .................................... 709 Jong-Sung Yang (Sungkyunkwan University, KR) Hyoung-Kee Choi (Sungkyunkwan University, KR)

WA-10: Network Protocols (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Ilker Demirkol, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Using Aggregated RSVP in Nested HMIPv6 ................................................................................................. 716 Esmat Mirzamany (Middlesex University, UK) Aboubaker Lasebae (Middlesex University, UK) Orhan Gemikonakli (Middlesex University, UK)

A Comparative Analysis of Predictive and Reactive Mode of Optimized PMIPv6 ................................... 722 Ahmad Rasem (Carleton University, CA) Marc St-Hilaire (Carleton University, CA) Christian Makaya (Telcordia Technologies, US)

Impact of Transmission Range in 802.15.4 with Usual Routing Protocols ................................................. 728 Cédric Ramassamy (Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, FR) Hacène Fouchal (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, FR) Philippe Hunel (Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, FR)

Modified R-ALOHA: Broadcast MAC Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks ................................... 734 Sina Asadallahi (University of Oklahoma, US) Hazem H. Refai (Oklahoma University, US)

Routing Across Wired and Wireless Mesh Networks: Experimental Compound Internetworking with OSPF ............................................................................................................................ 739

Juan Antonio Cordero Fuertes (INRIA, FR) Matthias Philipp (INRIA, DE) Emmanuel Baccelli (INRIA, FR)

Flow Scheduling at Multihomed Devices during Vertical Handover in NGN ........................................... 746 Julien Arnaud (University of Bordeaux, FR) Daniel Négru (University of Bordeaux, FR)

WA-11: Web Services and M2M Session Chair: Derjiunn Deng, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan

Towards a Best-Effort Framework for Developing Smart Mobile Applications ....................................... 752 Abdelghani Benharref (Abu Dhabi University, AE) Rabeb Mizouni (Khalifa University, AE) M. Adel Serhani (United Arab Emirates University, AE)

A Bandwidth-Aware Algorithm for Dynamic Service Placement in Size-Fixed Networks ...................... 758 Jing Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN) XingYu Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN) Peng Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN) Teng Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN)

Topic Discovery for Publish/Subscribe Web Services .................................................................................. 763 Frank T. Johnsen (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), NO) Trude H. Bloebaum (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), NO)

Optimal Resource Reservations to Provide Quality-of-Service Guarantee in M2M Communications .................................................................................................................................... 769

Ping-Heng Lee (National Taiwan University, TW) Mei-Ju Shih (National Taiwan University, TW) Guan-Yu Lin (National Taiwan University, TW) Hung-Yu Wei (National Taiwan University, TW)

Enabling Dense Machine-to-Machine Communications through Interference-Controlled Clustering ................................................................................................................ 774

Shih-En Wei (National Taiwan University, TW) Hung-Yun Hsieh (National Taiwan University, TW) Hsuan-Jung Su (National Taiwan University, TW)

An Enhanced Port Forwarding (EPF) Solution for NAT Traversal in 3GPP Machine Type Communications ..................................................................................................................... 780

Whai-En Chen (National ILan University, TW) Chun-Chieh Chiu (National Ilan University, TW) Yuan-Bo Chang (National Ilan University, TW) Ying-Wei Chiang (National Ilan University, TW)

WA-12: Multimedia over Wireless (Multimedia over Wireless Symposium) Session Chair: Tasos Dagiuklas, Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi, Greece

Layered Data Transmission based on Training Sequences in TDS-OFDM System ................................. 786 Wenting Chang (University of Tsinghua, CN) Jintao Wang (Tshinghua University, CN) Changyong Pan (Tsinghua University, CN)

Watermarking Scalability for Copyright Protection in Wireless and Mobile Environments .................. 791 Jutta Hämmerle-Uhl (University of Salzburg, AT) Karl Raab (University of Salzburg, AT) Andreas Uhl (Salzburg University, AT)

Light-Weight Feedback based SVC Multicast in Multi-Carrier Wireless Data Systems ......................... 797 Hao Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China and National Institute of Informatics, CN, JP) Yu Gu (National Institute of Informatics, JP) Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, JP) Baohua Zhao (University of Science and Technology of China, CN)

Alamouti based Cooperative Wireless Networks for Multiplexing-Diversity Balanced Multimedia Transmission ............................................................................................................................... 803

Kun Hua (Lawrence Technological University, US) Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, US) Wei Wang (South Dakota State University, US)

Thursday

ThM-1: INVITED PAPERS Session Chair: Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada

Cooperative Relay-Based Multicasting for Energy and Delay Minimization ............................................ 808 Rachad Atat (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), SA) Elias Yaacoub (Qatar University Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC), QA) Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), SA) Adnanq Abu-Dayya (Qatar University Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC), QA)

Co-Existence Studies of LTE-A with Carrier Aggregation at 3.5GHz ....................................................... 814 Yu-Ting Lin (National Taiwan University, TW) Kwang-Cheng Chen (National Taiwan University, TW)

Combined Reactive-Geographic Routing for Unmanned Aeronautical Ad-Hoc Networks ..................... 820 Rostam Shirani (Carleton University, CA) Marc St-Hilaire (Carleton University, CA) Thomas Kunz (Carleton University, CA) Yifeng Zhou (Communications Research Centre, CA) Jun Li (Communications Research Centre, CA) Louise Lamont (Communications Research Centre, CA)

Optimized Frequency Allocation for Interference Mitigation in Femtocellular Networks ...................... 827 Mahmoud Ouda (Queen's University, CA) Najah AbuAli (United Arab Emirates University, AE) Hossam Hassanein (Queen's University, CA) Osama Kubbar (QU Wireless Innovations Center, QA)

On-Demand Scheduling for Concurrent Multipath Transfer under Delay-Based Disparity .................. 833 T. Daniel Wallace (University of Western Ontario, CA) Abdallah Shami (University of Western Ontario, CA)

ThA-1: Design and Routing Protocols (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Najah A. Abu Ali (UAE University, UAE) Session Co-Chair: Tomohiko Taniguchi (Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan)

A New Ultra-Low Energy Consumption Communication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks ........ 838 Tao Ma (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US) Michael Hempel (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US) Hamid Sharif (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US)

Cross-Layer Protocols for WSNs: A Simple Design and Simulation Paradigm ........................................ 844 Mohamed Hefeida (University of Illinois at Chicago, US) Min Shen (University of Illinois at Chicago, US) Ajay Kshemkalyani (University of Illinois at Chicago, US) Ashfaq Khokhar (University of Illinois at Chicago, US)

FLOGERA – A Fuzzy LOGic Event Recognition Algorithm in a WSN Environment ............................. 850 Sofia-Maria Dima (University of Patras, GR) Dimitris Tsitsipis (University of Patras, GR) Christos Antonopoulos (University of Patras, GR) John Gialelis (University of Patras, GR) Stavros Koubias (University of Patras, GR)

Contention Resolution Algorithm for MAC Protocol in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks ............................... 856 Hui-Hsin Chin (National Changhua University of Education, TW) Chun-Cheng Lin (National Chiao Tung University, TW) Der-Jiunn Deng (National Changhua University of Education, TW)

Performance Evaluation of Channel Models of Zigbee Sensor Networks .................................................. 860 Najah AbuAli (United Arab Emirates University, AE) Mohammad Hayajneh (United Arab Emirates University, AE)

ThA-2: Resource Allocation and Management II (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Hossam Hassanein, Queen’s University, Canada

Adaptive Admission Control and Packet Scheduling Schemes for QoS Provisioning in Multihop WiMAX Networks .......................................................................................................................... 866

Perumalraja Rengaraju (Carleton University, CA) Chung-Horng Lung (Carleton University, CA) Anand Srinivasan (EION Inc., CA)

Channel Allocation Strategies in Opportunistic-Based Cognitive Networks ............................................. 872 Yassin Belkasmi (University Mohammed V-Souissi, MA) Abdellatif Kobbane (University Mohammed V-Souissi, MA) Mohammed El Koutbi (University Mohammed V-Souissi, MA) Jalel Ben-othman (University of Paris 13, FR)

Mobility Prediction and Resource Reservation in Cellular Networks with Distributed Markov Chains ................................................................................................................................................. 878

Peppino Fazio (University of Calabria, IT) Salvatore Marano (University of Calabria, IT)

A Two-Way Communication Scheme for Vehicles Charging Control in the Smart Grid ........................ 883 Jihene Rezgui (Université de Sherbrooke, CA) Soumaya Cherkaoui (Université de Sherbrooke, CA) Dhaou Said (Université de Sherbrooke, CA)

Markov Decision Process based Content Dissemination in Hybrid Wireless Networks ........................... 889 Fang Wang (Tsinghua University, CN) Yong Li (Tsinghua University, CN) Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, CN) Zhixing Yang (Tsinghua University, CN)

Virtual Currency and Reputation-Based Cooperation Incentives in User-Centric Networks ................. 895 A. Bogliolo (University of Urbino, IT) P. Polidori (University of Urbino, IT) A. Aldini (University of Urbino, IT) W. Moreira (SITI, University Lusofona, PT) P. Mendes (SITI, University Lusofona, PT) M. Yildiz (Technische Universität Berlin, DE) C. Ballester (University of Geneva, CH) J.-M. Seigneur (University of Geneva, CH)

ThA-3: Capacity (Communication and Information Theory Symp.) Session Chair: Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis, USA

Optimum Ergodic Beamforming Capacity in Urban Microcellular Operational Environments ............ 901 Dimitris E. Kontaxis (University of Athens, GR) George V. Tsoulos (University of Pelloponese, GR) Serafim Karaboyas (University of Athens, GR)

The Asymptotic Capacity of Opportunistic Scheduling over Shadowed Nakagami Fading Channels .............................................................................................................................................. 907

Saad Al-Ahmadi (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, SA)

Channel Capacity of the Generalized Alpha-Mu Multipath Fading Model Under Different Adaptive Transmission Protocols ................................................................................................................... 912

Amer M. Magableh (Jordan University of Science and Technology, JO) Mustafa M. Matalgah (University of Mississippi, US)

Non-Gaussian MAI Modeling to the Performance of TH-BPSK/PPM UWB Communication Systems ................................................................................................................................. 916

Ehab M. Shaheen (Military Technical College, EG)

Rate-Compatible QC-LDPC Codes Design based on EXIT Chart Analysis ............................................. 921 Zaishuang Liu (Tsinghua University, CN) Kewu Peng (Tsinghua University, CN) Weilong Lei (Tsinghua University, CN) Chen Qian (Tsinghua University, CN) Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, CN)

ThA-4: Performance Analysis & Optimization (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Vojislav Misic, Ryerson University, Canada

On the Performance of Distributed base Stations in LTE Public Safety Networks .................................. 927 Elias Yaacoub (Qatar University Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC), QA) Osama Kubbar (Qatar University Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC), QA)

QoS Performance Evaluation of Multimedia Services in Emergency Networks ....................................... 933 A. Paganelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT) D. Saladino (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT) M. Casoni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT)

A Comprehensive Performance Analysis of LTE and Mobile WiMAX ..................................................... 939 Fahimeh Rezaei (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US) Michael Hempel (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US) Hamid Sharif (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US)

Automated Coverage Optimization Scheme based on Downtilt-Adjustment in Wireless Access Networks ............................................................................................................................... 945

Youlin Jiang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN) Peng Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN) Wenjing Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN) Pengfei Ren (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN) Xuesong Qiu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN)

Optimal Number of Users in Wireless Networks: A Flat Rate Pricing ...................................................... 950 Mohammed Raiss-el-fenni (University of Avignon and University of Mohammed V, FR, MA) Rachid El-Azouzi (University of Avignon, FR) Andrey Garnaev (St. Petersburg State University, RU) El Houssine Bouyakhf (University of Mohammed V, MA)

NetBoxIT: An Open Testbed for Heterogeneous Networks Study ............................................................. 956 Giorgio Calarco (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT) Maurizio Casoni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT)

ThA-5: Wireless Communication Networks: Design and Performance Analysis (Vehicular Symp.) Session Chair: Georg Maier, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Performance Analysis for VoIP Traffic with Limited Retransmissions in IEEE 802.11-Based Wireless Networks ........................................................................................................................................... 962

Yongmei Zhao (The Chinese People's Armed Police Academy, CN)

Statistical Characterization of Uplink Interference in Two-Tier Co-Channel Femtocell Networks ....... 968 Nessrine Chakchouk (Oregon State University, US) Bechir Hamdaoui (Oregon State University, US)

Randomized Resource Allocation for Wireless Networks with Cooperative Relay .................................. 974 Di Wu (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Gang Zhu (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Lina Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Yuanxuan Li (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN)

Analysis of LTE and DC-HSDPA Performance with Variable Number of Users per TTI in Macro Cellular Network ................................................................................................................................. 979

Muhammad Usman Sheikh (Tampere University of Technology, FI) Jukka Lempiäinen (Tampere University of Technology, FI)

A Reduced Dimension MDP-Based Call Admission Control Scheme for Next Generation Telecommunications .................................................................................................................... 984

Huan Chen (National Chung-Hsing University, TW) Chih-Chuan Cheng (Academia Sinica, TW) Wei-Ho Chung (Academia Sinica, TW) Hsi-Hsun Yeh (National Chung Cheng University, TW)

Hybrid Digital Modulation Classification ..................................................................................................... 990 Yuanxuan Li (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Fanggang Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Gang Zhu (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN)

Deadline-Constrained Content Distribution in Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks ............................... 994 Deze Zeng (The University of Aizu, JP) Lei Cong (China University of Geosciences, CN) Huawei Huang (China University of Geoscience, CN) Song Guo (The University of Aizu, JP) Hong Yao (China University of Geosciences, CN)

ThA-6: Multimedia over Wireless (Multimedia over Wireless Symposium) Session Chair: Derjiunn Deng, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan Session Co-Chair: Tasos Dagiuklas, Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi, Greece

Cross-Layer Energy Optimization Under Image Quality Constraints for Wireless Image Transmissions ..................................................................................................................................... 1000

Na Yang (University of Rochester, US) Ilker Demirkol (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and Fundacio i2CAT, ES) Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester, US)

Fair Cross-Layer Scheme for Heterogeneous H.264/AVC Video Streams over LTE-Based Broadband Systems ....................................................................................................................................... 1006

Sotiris Karachontzitis (University of Patras, GR) Tasos Dagiuklas (Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi and Open University of Cyprus, GR, CY) Lambros Dounis (Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi, GR)

QoE-Based Cross-Layer Resource Allocation for Video Streaming in High Speed Downlink Access ............................................................................................................................................. 1011

Qing Ai (Tongji University and National Institute of Informatics, CN, JP) Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, JP) Lei Zhong (National Institute of Informatics, JP) Ping Wang (Tongji University, CN) Fuqiang Liu (Tongji University, CN)

Video Traffic Prediction for Improved Scheduling in Joint WiMAX / Satellite Networks .................... 1017 Anastasia Lygizou (University of Athens, GR) Spyros Xergias (University of Athens, GR) Nikos Passas (University of Athens, GR)

ThA-7: Physical and Application Level Security (Security Symposium) Session Chair: Samia Jones (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar) Session Co-Chair: Hyoung-Kee Choi (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)

Artificial Noise Scheme to Ensure Secure Communications in CWSN .................................................... 1023 Alvaro Araujo (Universidad Politécnica Madrid, ES) Javier Blesa (Universidad Politécnica Madrid, ES) Elena Romero (Universidad Politécnica Madrid, ES) Octavioq Nieto-Taladriz (Universidad Politécnica Madrid, ES)

On Improving the Robustness of Physical-Layer Key Extraction Mechanisms against Delay and Mobility ......................................................................................................................................... 1028

Youssef El Hajj Shehadeh (University of Goettingen, DE) Omar Alfandi (University of Goettingen, DE) Dieter Hogrefe (University of Goettingen, DE)

How Much Security for Switching a Light Bulb – The SOA Way ............................................................ 1034 Sebastian Unger (University of Rostock, DE) Stefan Pfeiffer (University of Rostock, DE) Dirk Timmermann (University of Rostock, DE)

A Decentralized Location-Query-Sensitive Cloaking Algorithm for LBS ............................................... 1040 Wei Li (Beihang University, CN) Chunlei Liu (Beihang University, CN)

Graph-Based Learning Model for Detection of SMS Spam on Smart Phones ........................................ 1046 Muhammad Zubair Rafique (King Saud University, SA) Muhammad Abulaish (King Saud University, SA)

Proposed Relay Selection Scheme for Physical Layer Security in Cognitive Radio Networks .............. 1052 Hefdhallah Sakran (Ibb University, YE) Omar Nasr (Cairo University, EG) Mona Shokair (El-Menoufia University, EG) El Sayed El-Rabaie (El-Menoufia University, EG) Atef Abou El-Azm (El-Menoufia University, EG)

An Audio/Video Crypto – Adaptive Optical Steganography Technique .................................................. 1057 Sghaier Guizani (Alfaisal University, SA) Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, SA)

ThA-8: Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Ilker Demirkol, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Self-Organization Framework for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ................................................................... 1063 Ali Kies (University of Sciences and the Technology of Oran, DZ) Sara Mehar (University of Bourgogne, FR) Belbachir Redouane (University of Sciences and the Technology of Oran, DZ) Zoulikha Mekkakia Maaza (University of Sciences and the Technology of Oran, DZ) Sidi Mohammed Senouci (University of Bourgogne, FR)

Saturation Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 Broadcast in 2-D Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ........... 1069 Minming Ni (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Jianping Pan (University of Victoria, CA) Dongmei Zhao (McMaster University, CA)

MUDDS: Multi-Metric Unicast Data Dissemination Scheme for 802.11p VANETs ............................... 1074 Omar Chakroun (Université de Sherbrooke, CA) Soumaya Cherkaoui (Université de Sherbrooke, CA) Jihene Rezgui (Université de Sherbrooke, CA)

An User-Controllable Multi-Layer Secure Algorithm for MANET ......................................................... 1080 Paul Loh Ruen Chze (Nanyang Polytechnic, SG) Wayne Kan Wai Yan (Nanyang Polytechnic, SG) Kan Siew Leong (Nanyang Polytechnic, SG)

Using SAT and ILP Techniques to Solve Enhanced ILP Formulations of the Clustering Problem in MANETS .................................................................................................................................... 1085

Syed Zahidi (American University of Sharjah, AE) Fadi Aloul (American University of Sharjah, AE) Assim Sagahyroon (American University of Sharjah, AE) Wassim El-Hajj (American University of Beirut, LB)

ThA-9: Vehicular Communication Networks: Architectures and Protocols (Vehicular Symp.) Session Chair: Jelena Misic, Ryerson University, Canada

Bandwidth Efficient Broadcasting in VANETs .......................................................................................... 1091 Estrella Garcia-Lozano (University Carlos III of Madrid, ES) Celeste Campo (University Carlos III of Madrid, ES) Carlos Garcia-Rubio (University Carlos III of Madrid, ES) Alberto Cortes-Martin (University Carlos III of Madrid, ES)

Free Space Optical Communication in the Visible Bandwidth for V2V Safety Critical Protocols ........ 1097 R. Corsini (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, IT) R. Pelliccia (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, IT) G. Cossu (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, IT) A.M. Khalid (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, IT) M. Ghibaudi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, IT) M. Petracca (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, IT) P. Pagano (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, IT) E. Ciaramella (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, IT)

Transmission Schemes for High-Speed Railway: Direct or Relay? .......................................................... 1103 Jia You (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Rongtao Xu (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Gongpu Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN)

Location Assistant Beamforming for High Speed Railway ........................................................................ 1108 Chen Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Rongtao Xu (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Jia You (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN) Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, CN)

Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.11p Infrastructure-to-Vehicle Real-World Measurements with Receive Diversity ......................................................................................................... 1113

Georg Maier (Vienna University of Technology, AT) Alexander Paier (Kapsch TrafficCom AG, AT) Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker (Vienna University of Technology, AT)

A Packing Model to Estimate VANET Capacity ........................................................................................ 1119 Anh Tuan Giang (Université Paris Sud, FR) Anthony Busson (Université Paris Sud, FR) Dominique Gruyer (IFSTTAR, FR) Alain Lambert (IFSTTAR, FR)

Evaluation of a Multi-Antenna Switched Link-Based Network Architecture for Quasi-Stationary Vehicle Network ............................................................................................................... 1125

Ratul K. Guha (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., US) Jasmine Chennikara-Varghese (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., US) Wai Chen (ASTRI, HK) Rama Vuyyuru (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Co., LTD, US) Junichiro Fukuyama (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Co., LTD, US)

ThA-10: Wireless Sensor Networks (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Hazem Refai, Oklahoma University, USA

Robust Routing for Target Tracking in Quantized Sensor Networks ...................................................... 1130 Majdi Mansouri (Texas A&M University at Qatar, QA) Lyes Khoukhi (University of Technology of Troyes, FR) Hazem Nounou (Texas A&M University at Qatar, QA) Mohamed Nounou (Texas A&M University at Qatar, QA)

Analyzing and Modeling the Failure Behavior of Wireless Sensor Networks Software under Errors .................................................................................................................................. 1136

Marcello Cinque (University of Naples, IT) Catello Di Martino (Università di Napoli Federico II, IT) Alessandro Testa (Università di Napoli Federico II and ICAR - CNR, IT)

Design and Performance Evaluation of a Composite-Based Back End System for WSNs ..................... 1142 Wassim Drira (Télécom SudParis, FR) Éric Renault (Télécom SudParis, FR) Djamal Zeghlache (Télécom SudParis, FR)

Performance Comparison of CSMA/CA Advanced Infrared (AIr) and a New Point-to-Multipoint Optical MAC Protocol ................................................................................................................................... 1149

Sina Asadallahi (University of Oklahoma, US) Hazem H. Refai (University of Oklahoma, US) Peter G. LoPresti (University of Oklahoma, US)

A Unified Approach for Online and Offline Estimation of Sensor Platform Energy Consumption ..... 1154 Markus Buschhoff (Technische Universität Dortmund, DE) Christian Günter (Technische Universität Dortmund, DE) Olaf Spinczyk (Technische Universität Dortmund, DE)

EM-MAC: An Energy-Aware Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks ........ 1159 Akhil Sivanantha (Oregon State University, US) Bechir Hamdaoui (Oregon State University, US) Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, QA) Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington University, US) Taieb Znati (University of Pittsburgh, US)

ThA-11: Transceiver Design-II (Communication and Information Theory Symp.) Session Chair: Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada

Modal Theory for Interpreting Path Loss and MIMO Capacity in a Tunnel Excited by an Outside Antenna .................................................................................................................................. 1165

Jose-Maria Molina-Garcia-Pardo (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, ES) Martine Liénard (University of Lille, FR) Pierre Degauque (University of Lille, FR)

Impact of Propagation/System Parameters on Cellular Wireless Network Operating at Frequencies Greater than 2 GHz .................................................................................................................. N/A

Kwashie A. Anang (University of Greenwich, UK) Predrag B. Rapajic (University of Greenwich, UK) Ruiheng Wu (University of Greenwich, UK) Lawal Bello (University of Greenwich, UK) Titus Eneh (University of Greenwich, UK)

An EXIT-Chart Aided Optimization of Bit Mapping for DVB-C2 System ............................................. 1175 Keqian Yan (Tsinghua University, CN) Kewu Peng (Tsinghua University, CN) Fang Yang (Tsinghua University, CN) Tao Cheng (Tsinghua University, CN) Jian Song (Tsinghua University, CN)

Non-Coherent Detection of Weak M-ary Chirp Signals in Non-Gaussian Impulsive Noise .................. 1180 Abdullah Kadri (QU Wireless Innovations Center, QA)

Detection of Space Shift Keying Signaling in Large MIMO Systems ....................................................... 1185 Ronald Y. Chang (Academia Sinica, TW) Wei-Ho Chung (Academia Sinica, TW) Sian-Jheng Lin (Academia Sinica, TW)

VAE VICTIS and Democratic Admission Control Strategies for OFDMA Networks ........................... 1191 Yosra Abbes (University of Carthage, TN) Hichem Besbes (University of Carthage, TN)

ThA-12: Traffic and Distribution (General Symposium) Session Chair: Mehrdad Dianati, University of Surrey, UK Session Co-Chair: Sghiaer Guizani, Alfaisal University, KSA

Open Spectrum Communication Systems and Optimized Downlink Beamforming ............................... 1197 Miguel Ángel Vázquez (CTTC, ES) Ana Pérez-Neira (CTTC and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES) Miguel Ángel Lagunas (CTTC and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES)

Traffic Relaying in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks ..................................................................................... 1203 Alessandro Nordio (IEIIT CNR, IT) Vahid Forutan (Politecnico di Torino, IT) Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, IT)

Towards Distributed Transmission Scheduling for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks ..................................... 1209 Angelos Vassiliou (University of Cyprus, CY) Themistoklis Charalambous (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE) Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, CY) Evelina Klerides (Imperial College London, UK)

Timing Synchronization for OFDMA Femtocells in the Presence of Co-Channel Interference ............ 1215 Jinlin Peng (University of Leeds, UK) Pengfei Sun (Renesas Mobile Europe, CN) Li Zhang (University of Leeds, UK) Keshav Kuber (University of Leeds, UK) Desmond McLernon (University of Leeds, UK)

New Exponential-Type Approximations for the erfc(.) and erfcp(.) Functions with Applications ........ 1221 O. Olabiyi (Prairie View A&M University, US) A. Annamalai (Prairie View A&M University, US)

Throughput-Constrained Scheduling in OFDMA Wireless Networks ..................................................... 1227 Debalina Ghosh (University of California at Davis, US) Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, US)