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CFP1319E-POD 978-1-4673-2479-3

2013 9th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2013)

Sardinia, Italy 1-5 July 2013

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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

Novel Activity-based Metrics for Efficient Forwarding over Online and Detected Social Networks .......... 1 Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy) Annalisa Socievole (University of Calabria, Italy) Antonio Scaglione (University of Calabria, Italy) Salvatore Marano (University of Calabria, Italy)

Average Power Limitations in Sliding Window Contention Resolution Diversity Slotted Aloha ................ 7 Alessio Meloni (University of Cagliari, Italy) Maurizio Murroni (University of Cagliari, Italy)

A New TCP Bandwidth Estimation Protocol for Satellite Networks ............................................................ 13 Mauro Tropea (University of Calabria, Italy) Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy) Peppino Fazio (University of Calabria, Italy) Antonio Francesco Gentile (University of Calabria, Italy)

Intelligent and Cooperative Environments via Internet of Sensors: Perspective and Case Study Analysis .................................................................................................................................................... 19

Francesco Chiti (University of Florence, Italy) Romano Fantacci (University of Florence, Italy)

Enhancement of Multi-User Access in IEEE 802.11 WLAN Channels ........................................................ 24 Arafet Ben Makhlouf (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Mounir Hamdi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Performance of MRC Fusion-based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing with Censoring of Cognitive Radios in Rayleigh Fading Channels ............................................................................................................... 30

Srinivas Nallagonda (National Institute of Technolgy, India) S. Dhar Roy (National Institute of Technolgy, India) S. Kundu (National Institute of Technology, India) G. Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy) R. Raheli (University of Parma, Italy)

TM-2: WINET II (Wireless Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Soumaya Cherkaoui, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

Evolutionary Approach for Multi-objective Optimization of Wireless Mesh Networks ............................ 36 P. Chakraborty (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) C. Mannweiler (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

Delay Analysis of the Approximate Maximum Weight Scheduling in Wireless Networks ........................ 41 Cem Boyaci (University of Florida, USA) Ye Xia (University of Florida, USA)

CIPRA: Coherence-Aware Channel Indication and Prediction for Rate Adaptation ................................ 47 Yongjiu Du (Southern Methodist University, USA) Pengda Huang (Southern Methodist University, USA) Dinesh Rajan (Southern Methodist University, USA) Joseph Camp (Southern Methodist University, USA)

Reducing Complexity of GPS/INS Integration Scheme Through Neural Networks ................................... 53 Sara Benkouider (University of Laghouat, Algeria) Nasreddine Lagraa (University of Laghouat, Algeria) Mohamed B. Yagoubi (University of Laghouat, Algeria) Abderrahmane Lakas (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)

A Distributed Broker System Enabling Coordinated Access Schemes in Autonomous Wireless Networks ............................................................................................................................................. 59

Christian Mannweiler (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Joerg Schneider (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Pratip Chakraborty (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Andreas Klein (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

Queuing Model for EVs Charging at Public Supply Stations ........................................................................ 65 Dhaou Said (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) Soumaya Cherkaoui (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) Lyes Khoukhi (University of Technology of Troyes, France)

TM-3: Traffic Classification and Network Analysis (TRAC Workshop) Session Chair: Christian Callegari, University of Pisa, Italy

Mini-IPC: A Minimalist Approach for HTTP Traffic Classification using IP Addresses .......................... 71 Pedro Casas (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria) Pierdomenico Fiadino (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria)

Low Complexity, High Performance Neuro-Fuzzy System for Internet Traffic Flows Early Classification ............................................................................................................................................ 77

Antonello Rizzi (University of Roma Sapienza, Italy) Silvia Colabrese (University of Roma Sapienza, Italy) Andrea Baiocchi (University of Roma Sapienza, Italy)

Optimizing Agent Placement for Flow Reconstruction of DDoS Attacks .................................................... 83 Ömer Demir (Turkish National Police, Turkey) Bilal Khan (John Jay College, CUNY, USA) Ghassen Ben Brahim (Prince Mohamed University, Saudi Arabia) Ala Al-Fuqaha (Western Michigan University, USA)

The (Betweenness) Centrality of Critical Nodes and Network Cores ........................................................... 90 Giorgio Ausiello (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Donatella Firmani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Luigi Laura (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Realtime MicroCloud-based Flow Aggregation for Fixed and Mobile Networks ....................................... 96 Luca Deri (NTOP, Italy) Francesco Fusco (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

TM-4: Modeling and Optimization I (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Hossam Ahmed, Memorial University, Canada

Distributed Real-time Optimization of Average Consensus ........................................................................ 102 Haitao Yang (Swansea University, United Kingdom) Xinheng Wang (University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom) Christos Grecos (University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom) Lin Bai (Beihang University, P.R. China)

A Tripartite Graph Approach for Optimizing Sensor Placement Problem ............................................... 108 S. Abid (University of Oran, Algeria) H. Haffaf (University of Oran, Algeria)

Network Throughput Maximization in Unreliable Sensor Networks with a Mobile Sink ....................... 114 Xu Xu (Australian National University, Australia)

Minimizing the Probability of Collision in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Cooperative Diversity and Optimal Power Allocation ....................................................................................................... 120

Fatemeh Mansourkiaie (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) Mohamed Hossam Ahmed (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) Yasser Gadallah (The American University in Cairo, Egypt)

The Optimal Transmitting Power in Randomly Deployed Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks for Predetermined Average Node Degree .................................................................................... 125

Ghofrane Fersi (University of Sfax, Tunisia) Wassef Louati (University of Sfax, Tunisia) Maher Ben Jemaa (University of Sfax, Tunisia)

TM-5: Wireless Security (Security Symposium) Session Chair: Michele Luglio (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

DVB-RCS Security Framework for ULE-Based Encapsulation ................................................................. 131 A. Abdel Salam (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) M. Luglio (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) C. Roseti (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) F. Zampognaro (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

Seamless Authentication Across Heterogeneous Networks using Generic Bootstrapping Systems ........ 137 Yousif Targali (InterDigital Communications, LLC, USA) Vinod Choyi (InterDigital Communications, LLC, USA) Yogendra Shah (InterDigital Communications, LLC, USA)

A Tight Estimation of the Security Gap over the Fast Fading Wiretap Channel ...................................... 143 Marco Baldi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy) Marco Bianchi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy) Nicola Maturo (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy) Franco Chiaraluce (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)

Improving Physical-layer Security using APSK Constellations with Finite-alphabet Inputs .................. 149 Ruifeng Ma (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Zhixing Yang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

E-SeRLoc: An Enhanced SeRLoc Localization Algorithm with Reduced Computational Complexity ............................................................................................................................. 153

Issam Mabrouki (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Abdelfettah Belghith (University of Manouba, Tunisia)

TM-6: Design and Routing Protocols (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Ala Al-Fuqaha (Western Michigan University, USA

Routing Scheme for a Wireless Sensor Network Real-Time Locating System .......................................... 159 Hugo Cruz-Sanchez (INRIA, France) Laurent Ciarletta (LORIA, University of Lorraine, France) Ye-Qiong Song (LORIA, University of Lorraine, France) Priyadarsi Nanda (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

ECTP: Enhanced Collection Tree Protocol for Practical Wireless Sensor Network Applications .......... 165 Yasser Gadallah (The American University in Cairo, Egypt) Mohammed Elmorsy (University of Alberta, Canada) Mohamed N. Ibrahim (Ain Shams University, Egypt) Hani Ragai (Ain Shams University, Egypt)

An Energy Efficient Clique Based Clustering and Routing Mechanism in Wireless Sensor Networks ............................................................................................................................................... 171

Kamanashis Biswas (Griffith University, Australia) Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy (Griffith University, Australia) Elankayer Sithirasenan (Griffith University, Australia) Muhammad Usman (Griffith University, Australia)

Energy Efficient Cross-Layer Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Fuzzy Logic ....................................................................................................................................................... 177

Toleen Jaradat (University of Houston, USA) Driss Benhaddou (University of Houston, USA) Manikanden Balakrishnan (New Mexico State University, USA) Ala Al-Fuqaha (Western Michigan University, USA)

H-DHAC: A Hybrid Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks .................................................. 183 Jiang Zhu (Carleton University, Canada) Chung-Horng Lung (Carleton University, Canada) Vineet Srivastava (Cistech Limited, Canada)

TM-7: MANET I (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Abdallah Shami, Western University London, Canada

Simulative Analysis of Saturation Condition in a Pedestrian Ad-hoc Network ........................................ 189 Andrea Gorrieri (University of Parma, Italy) Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy)

Analysis and Experimental Evaluation of Rate Adaptation with Transmit Buffer Information ............ 194 Yongjiu Du (Southern Methodist University, USA) Dinesh Rajan (Southern Methodist University, USA) Joseph Camp (Southern Methodist University, USA)

A Route Control Method Based on Cross Layer Approach Between Physical and Media Access Control Layer ....................................................................................................................................... 201

Kenko Ota (Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan) Yoshihiro Kainuma (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) Kohei Miyasaka (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) Makoto Sugita (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) Hideaki Matsue (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)

DataMonitor - A Formal Approach for Passively Testing a MANET Routing Protocol .......................... 207 Felipe Lalanne (Telecom SudParis, France) Stephane Maag (Telecom SudParis, France)

A Resource Scheduling Model for Cloud Computing Data centers ............................................................ 213 Mohamed Abu Sharkh (Western University London, Canada) Abdelkader Ouda (Western University London, Canada) Abdallah Shami (Western University London, Canada)

Simultaneous Mobility Management in the HIP-based M2M Overlay Network ...................................... 219 Amine Dhraief (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Mohamed Amine Ghorbali (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Tarak Bouali (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Abdelfettah Belghith (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Khalil Drira (LAAS-CNRS, France)

TA-1: General Session Chair: Tamer ElBatt, Cairo University, Egypt

On the Flow Anonymity Problem in Network Coding ................................................................................. 225 Ahmed Osama Fathy Atya (University of California, Riverside, USA) Tamer ElBatt (Nile University, Egypt) Moustafa Youssef (Alexandria University and E-JUST, Egypt)

Performance Evaluation for Compression-Accuracy trade-off using Compressive Sensing for EEG-based Epileptic Seizure Detection in Wireless Tele-monitoring ........................................................ 231

Khalid Abualsaud (Qatar University, Qatar) Massudi Mahmuddin (Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia) Ramy Hussein (Qatar University, Qatar) Amr Mohamed (Qatar University, Qatar)

Analytical Study of Frame Aggregation in Error-prone Channels ............................................................. 237 Hajlaoui Nasreddine (University of Sfax, Tunisia) Issam Jabri (National School of Engineers of Gabes, Tunisia) Maher Ben Jemaa (University of Sfax, Tunisia)

Context-aware Handoff Selection Algorithm in Femtocell Networks ........................................................ 243 Aicha Ben Salem (University of Carthage, Tunisia) Kaouthar Sethom Ben Reguiga (University of Carthage, Tunisia)

Minimum Transmission Power Design for Diffusion Adaptive Network with Imperfect Channels .......................................................................................................................................... 248

Wael Bazzi (American University in Dubai, UAE) Azam Khalili (Malayer University, Iran) Amir Rastegarnia (Malayer University, Iran)

Flying Against Lossy Light-Load Hybrid Networks .................................................................................... 252 Kai Pan (Peking University, P.R. China) Hui Li (Peking University, P.R. China) Shuo-Yen Robert Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Qin Shi (Peking University, P.R. China) Weijuan Yin (Peking University, P.R. China)

TA-2: LTE II (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Mahasweta Sarkar, San Diego State University, USA

Throughput Performance Insights of LTE Release 8: Malaysia's Perspective .......................................... 258 Abdulaziz M. Ghaleb (MIMOS, Malaysia) David Chieng (MIMOS, Malaysia) Alvin Ting (MIMOS, Malaysia) Ayad Abdulkafi (MIMOS, Malaysia) Kim-Chuan Lim (University Teknikal Malaysia, Malaysia) Heng-Siong Lim (Multimedia University, Malaysia)

Comparing Different LTE Scheduling Schemes ........................................................................................... 264 Salman A. AlQahtani (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia) Mohammed Alhassany (King Fahd Security College, Saudi Arabia)

Achieving Energy Efficiency in LTE with Joint D2D Communications and Green Networking Techniques ................................................................................................................................... 270

Elias Yaacoub (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar) Hakim Ghazzai (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) Adnan Abu-Dayya (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar)

Predicting Burst Error Statistics of Digital Wireless Systems with HARQ ............................................... 276 Omar S. Salih (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom) Cheng-Xiang Wang (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom) Raed Mesleh (University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia) Xiaohu Ge (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, P.R. China) Dongfeng Yuan (Shandong University, P.R. China)

QoS and Protection of Relay Nodes in 4G Wireless Networks Using Network Coding ............................ 282 Perumalraja Rengaraju (Carleton University, Canada) Chung-Horng Lung (Carleton University, Canada) Anand Srinivasan (Carleton University, Canada)

Auction based Resource Allocation in WiMAX ............................................................................................ 288 Sahana Pillappaiah (San Diego State University, USA) Mahasweta Sarkar (San Diego State University, USA) S. Nagaraj (San Diego State University, USA) C. Paolini (San Diego State University, USA)

TA-3: WLAN I (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Salvatore Marano, University of Calabria, Italy

A Distributed Hand-over Management and Pattern Prediction Algorithm for Wireless Networks With Mobile Hosts .......................................................................................................................... 294

Peppino Fazio (University of Calabria, Italy) Mauro Tropea (University of Calabria, Italy) Salvatore Marano (University of Calabria, Italy)

Performance Analysis of Multiple Classes of Traffic in Wi-Fi Networks: A Markov Chain-Based Approach ................................................................................................................................... 299

Sajib Datta (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Sajal K. Das (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)

A Competitive AL-FEC Framework over Mobile Multicast Delivery ....................................................... 305 Christos Bouras (University of Patras, Greece) Nikolaos Kanakis (University of Patras, Greece)

An Energy-efficient Message Scheduling Algorithm in Internet of Things Environment ........................ 311 Saima Abdullah (University of Essex, United Kingdom) Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom)

Optimal Resource Sharing in Multi-Cell Wireless LANs: Joint Channel Assignment, Association Control, Airtime Sharing and Contention Resolution ............................................................. 317

Jun Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Jason Min Wang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Brahim Bensaou (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

TA-4: Mobile Development & Offloading (Mobile Computing Symposium) Session Chair: Tamer Nadeem, Old Dominion University, USA

Survey, Comparison and Evaluation of Cross Platform Mobile Application Development Tools .......... 323 Isabelle Dalmasso (EURECOM, France) Soumya Kanti Datta (EURECOM, France) Christian Bonnet (EURECOM, France) Navid Nikaein (EURECOM, France)

Smartphone Energizer: Extending Smartphone's Battery Life with Smart Offloading .......................... 329 Ayat Khairy (Cairo University, Egypt) Hany H. Ammar (West Virginia University, USA) Reem Bahgat (Cairo University, Egypt)

Nesto - Network Selection and Traffic Offloading System for Android Mobile Devices .......................... 337 Ariel Bar (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Dudu Mimran (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Lena Chekina (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Yuval Elovici (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Bracha Shapira (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

Efficient ANDSF-assisted Wi-Fi Control for Mobile Data Offloading ....................................................... 343 Dae Sun Kim (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan) Yujin Noishiki (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan) Yoshinori Kitatsuji (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan) Hidetoshi Yokota (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan)

A Hybrid Approach with Collaborative Filtering for Recommender Systems .......................................... 349 Gilbert Badaro (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) Hazem Hajj (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) Wassim El-Hajj (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) Lama Nachman (Intel Corporation, USA)

TA-5: Cooperative Networks (Cognitive and Cooperative Networks Workshop) Session Chair: Vojislav Misic, Ryerson University, Canada

ARQ-Based Scheme for Coded Wireless Cooperative Communications ................................................... 355 Ahmad Suhail Salim (Arizona State University, USA) Hussain Ali (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia) Maan Kousa (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia)

An Cooperation Incentive Scheme based on Coalitional Game Theory for Sparse and Dense VANETs ................................................................................................................................................. N/A

Di Wu (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China) Yanrong Gao (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China) Guozhen Tan (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China) Limin Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China) Jie Liang (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Wireless Cooperative Communication with Incomplete Interference Cancellation and Lightweight Synchronization .......................................................................................................................... N/A

Junquan Deng (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China) Shaohe Lv (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China) Hu Shen (National University of Defence Technology, P.R. China) Xuan Dong (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China) Xiaodong Wang (National University of Defence Technology, P.R. China) Xingming Zhou (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)

Enhanced Rank Based Cooperative Game (ERBCG) Strategy for IEEE 802.11s Mesh WLAN Power Management ......................................................................................................................................... 375

Yasmine Morad El-sabe (German University in Cairo, Egypt) Mohamed EsamEldin (German University in Cairo, Egypt) Mohamed Ashour (German University in Cairo, Egypt)

Energy and Throughput Efficient Transmission Strategy with Cooperative Transmission in Ad-hoc Networks .............................................................................................................................................. 381

Hicham Slimani (University of Toulouse, France) Benoit Escrig (University of Toulouse, France) Riadh Dhaou (University of Toulouse, France) André-Luc Beylot (University of Toulouse, France)

Multi-criteria Cooperative Energy-aware Routing in Wireless Ad- Hoc Networks ................................. 387 I. Gravalos (University of Patras, Greece) P. Kokkinos (University of Patras, Greece) E.A. Varvarigos (University of Patras, Greece)

A Cooperative Network Coding Approach to Reliable Wireless Body Area Networks with Demodulate-and-Forward ............................................................................................................................... 394

Samaneh Movassaghi (University of Technology, Australia) Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam (University of Sydney, Australia) Mehran Abolhasan (University of Technology, Australia)

TA-6: MAC and Design Techniques (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Wenying Zheng, University of Windsor, Canada

Reliable and Energy Efficient Cooperative Relaying Scheme (REECR) in Wireless Sensor Networks ............................................................................................................................................... 400

Wenying Zheng (University of Windsor, Canada) Kazi Atiqur Rahman (University of Windsor, Canada) Kemal E. Tepe (University of Windsor, Canada)

Performance Evaluations of unslotted CSMA/CA Algorithm at High Data Rate WSNs Scenario ................................................................................................................................................. 406

Nanhao Zhu (Université de Lyon, France) Ian O'Connor (Université de Lyon, France)

Low-Latency Asynchronous Duty-Cycle MAC Protocol for Burst Traffic in Wireless Sensor Networks ............................................................................................................................................... 412

Hongwei Tang (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China) Caixia Sun (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China) Yongpeng Liu (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China) Baohua Fan (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)

Distributed and Stable Energy-Efficient Scheduling Algorithm for Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks ............................................................................................................................................... 418

Manel Chenait (University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria) Bahia Zebbane (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedienne, Algeria) Hamza Belbezza (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedienne, Algeria) Hakim Balli (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedienne, Algeria) Nadjib Badache (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedienne, Algeria)

Duo-MAC: Energy and Time Constrained Data Delivery MAC Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks ............................................................................................................................................... 424

Messaoud Doudou (University of Sciences and Technology Houari-Boumediene, Algeria) Mohammad Alaei (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Djamel Djenouri (CERIST Research Center, Algeria) Jose M. Barceló-Ordinas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Nadjib Badache (University of Sciences and Technology Houari-Boumediene, Algeria) Nadjib Badache (Centre de Recherche sur l'Information Scientifique et Technique, )

TA-7: General Symposium I Session Chair: Jelena Misic, Ryerson University, Canada

Performance Optimization of the BitTorrent Protocol in the Framework of P4P IETF ALTO ............. 431 Leonardo Bruni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Paolo Giacomazzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Alessandro Poli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Analytical Model for IEEE 802.11e EDCA with Non-Saturated Stations .................................................. 437 Chongyang Huang (Chiba University, Japan) Shigeo Shioda (Chiba University, Japan)

Kernel Level Energy-Efficient 3G Background Traffic Shaper for Android Smartphones .................... 443 Ekhiotz Jon Vergara (Linköping University, Sweden) Joseba Sanjuan (Linköping University, Sweden) Simin Nadjm-Tehrani (Linköping University, Sweden)

WiTracer: A Novel Solution to Improve TCP Performance over Wireless Network ............................... 450 Chaoxin Hu (Xi’an Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Xinyu Yang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Manli Fan (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Peng Zhao (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)

Outage Probability of Multihop Relay Networks ......................................................................................... 456 Bappi Barua (University of Technology, Australia) Mehran Abolhasan (University of Technology, Australia) Daniel R. Franklin (University of Technology, Australia) Farzad Safaei (University of Wollongong, Australia)

A Model for Bursty PU Channel and its Impact on the Study of Cognitive Radio Networks .................. 461 Sofia C. Alvarenga Chu (University of Manitoba, Canada) Attahiru S. Alfa (University of Manitoba, Canada) Jun Cai (University of Manitoba, Canada)

Social Interaction Increases Capacity of Wireless Networks ...................................................................... 467 Mohsen Karimzadeh Kiskani (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Hamid Sadjadpour (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)

TA-7: Cellular Networks (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Wassim El-Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Adaptive Mobility Management in Cellular Networks with Multiple Model-based Prediction .............. 473 Satoshi Ikeda (NEC Corporation, Japan) Nobuharu Kami (NEC Corporation, Japan) Takashi Yoshikawa (NEC Corporation, Japan)

Directional Share and Ranking Based Neighboring Cell List Optimization Algorithm in UMTS Cellular Network ................................................................................................................................. 479

Mariam El Azab (German University in Cairo, Egypt) Ramy Atawia (German University in Cairo, Egypt) Tallal Elshabrawy (German University in Cairo, Egypt) Mohamed Ashour (German University in Cairo, Egypt)

Extending Generalized Processor Sharing for Multi-Operator Scheduling in Cellular Networks ......... 485 Stefan Valentin (Alcatel-Lucent, Germany) Wahid Jamil (University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany) Osman Aydin (Alcatel-Lucent, Germany)

Novel Frequency Reusing Scheme for Interference Mitigation in D2D Uplink Underlaying Networks ..................................................................................................................................... 491

Pengcheng Bao (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Rui Yin (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

Mobile Short Data Services as a Carrier for Message Communications ................................................... 497 Juho Määttä (Aalto University, Finland) Risto Järvinen (Aalto University, Finland) Riku Luostarinen (Aalto University, Finland) Lauri Liuhto (Aalto University, Finland) Taneli Taira (Aalto University, Finland) Jukka Manner (Aalto University, Finland)

TA-8: QoS and QoE Session Chair: Abderrezak Rachedi, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France

Modeling and Analysis of QoS Class Mapping for Hybrid QoS Domains Using Flow Aggregate .......... 503 Wang Zai-jian (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China) Yu-ning Dong (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China) Hai-xian Shi (Nanjing Agricultural University, P.R. China) Zhang Hui (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Efficient Network Coding Packet Selection Model for QoS-based Applications ....................................... 509 Samih Abdul-Nabi (Lebanese International University, Lebanon) Ayman Khalil (Lebanese International University, Lebanon) Jean-François Hélard (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, France)

Lookback Scheduling for Long-Term Quality-of-Service Over Multiple Cells ......................................... 515 Hatem Abou-zeid (Queen's University, Canada) Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada) Stefan Valentin (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany) Mohamed F. Feteiha (Queens University, Canada)

Network Coding and Quality of Service Metrics for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks ........................................ 521 Michael Hay (Carleton University, Canada) Basil Saeed (Carleton University, Canada) Chung-Horng Lung (Carleton University, Canada) Thomas Kunz (Carleton University, Canada) Anand Srinivasan (EION Inc., Canada)

Energy-Efficient Sleep Scheduling with QoS Considerations in 3GPP LTE-Advanced Networks ......... 527 Jia-Ming Liang (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan) Jen-Jee Chen (National University of Tainan, Taiwan) Hung-Hsin Cheng (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan) Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)

Scheduling Algorithms in Mobile WiMAX for rtPS QoS Class .................................................................. 532 Ahmed Mohamed Medhat Hassan (German University in Cairo, Egypt) Mohamed Ashour (German University in Cairo, Egypt)

Is QoE Estimation Based on QoS Parameters Sufficient for Video Quality Assessment? ....................... 538 Hajer Gahbiche Msakni (University of Sousse, Tunisia) Habib Youssef (University of Sousse, Tunisia)

A Survey on Communication Infrastructure for Micro-grids ..................................................................... 545 Salman Safdar (Oregon State University, USA) Bechir Hamdaoui (Oregon State University, USA) Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez (Oregon State University, USA) Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)

TA-9: Communication Systems I (Comm. and Signal Processing Symposium) Session Chair: Mahasweta Sarkar (San Diego State University, USA)

Closed-form Expression for Bit Error Rate in Relay-Based Cooperative Diversity Systems over Multipath Fading Channels with Interference .............................................................................................. 551

Amer Magableh (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan) Mamoun F. Al-Mistarihi (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan) Rami Mohaisen (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan)

Cell Zooming for Power Efficient Base Station Operation .......................................................................... 556 R. Balasubramaniam (San Diego State University, USA) S. Nagaraj (San Diego State University, USA) M. Sarkar (San Diego State University, USA) C. Paolini (San Diego State University, USA) Paras Khaitan (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)

Blind Phase Estimation Algorithm for Trellis Coded Modulation over Both AWGN and Rayleigh Flat Fading Channels ....................................................................................................................................... 561

Emna Ben Slimane (ENIT, Tunisia) Slaheddine Jarboui (King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia) Ammar Bouallegue (ENIT, Tunisia)

Precoder Design for a Single-Relay Non-Orthogonal AF System based on Mutual Information ........... 567 Tamseel Mahmood Syed (University of Akron, USA) Nghi H. Tran (University of Akron, USA) Tuyen X. Tran (University of Akron, USA) Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)

Tradeoff Between Network Energy Consumption and Terminal Energy Consumption via Small Cell Power Control .......................................................................................................................................... 573

Qimei Chen (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Yuhuan Jiang Zhejiang University (P.R. China, Aiping) Huang Zhejiang University (P.R. China, )

TA-10: Environmental Issues Session Chair: Hacene Fouchal, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France

Transitive Approach for Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks ................................................ 579 Karim Bessaoud (Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France) Alain Bui (Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France) Toshimitsu Masuzawa (Osaka University, Japan) Laurence Pilard (Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France)

Low Energy Geographical Routing Protocol for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks ....................... 585 I. Bennis (University of Mohamed V, Morocco) O. Zytoune (University of Mohamed V, Morocco) D. Aboutajdine (University of Mohamed V, Morocco) H. Fouchal (Universit´e de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)

Worst-Case Models of Electromagnetic Background Created by the Radiation of Cellular Base Stations ..................................................................................................................................................... 590

Vladimir Mordachev (Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus)

Air Quality Monitoring and Analysis in Qatar using a Wireless Sensor Network Deployment .............. 596 Elias Yaacoub (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar) Abdullah Kadri (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar) Mohammed Mushtaha (Qatar University, Qatar) Adnan Abu-Dayya (Qatar University, Qatar)

TA-11: Cognitive and WSN (Wireless Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Floriano De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy

STEM-Mesh: Self-Organizing Mobile Cognitive Radio Network for Disaster Recovery Operations ....................................................................................................................................... 602

Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy) Angelo Trotta (University of Bologna, Italy) Luca Bedogni (University of Bologna, Italy) Luciano Bononi (University of Bologna, Italy) Fabio Panzieri (University of Bologna, Italy) Giuseppe Ruggeri (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy) Valeria Loscrì (University of Calabria, Italy) Pasquale Pace (University of Calabria, Italy)

Oppurtunistic Interference Cancellation Evaluation in Cognitive Radios under Power Control Strategies ............................................................................................................................................ 609

Ferdinando Suriano (University of Calabria, Italy) Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy) Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Cognitive Extensions to Existing Wireless Technology ................................................................................ 615 William J. Barnes (University of Oklahoma, USA) Asaad Kaadan (University of Oklahoma, USA) Samer Rajab (University of Oklahoma, USA) Hazem H. Refai (University of Oklahoma, USA)

Localization Procedure for Randomly Deployed WSNs based on the Composability of Position Estimation Protocols ......................................................................................................................... 621

Luis Sanabria-Russo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Cristina Cano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Boris Bellalta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Reducing Traffic Congestion in ZigBee Networks: Experimental Results ................................................ 627 Luca Secci (University of Bologna, Italy) Chiara Buratti (University of Bologna, Italy)

TA-12: Cloud-Assisted Mobile Computing and Pervasive Services Session Chair: Sghaier Guizani, Alfaisal University, SA

TCP Noordwijk+: An Upgrade for a Cost-Effective Cloud Computing via Satellite ............................... 633 M. Luglio (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy) C. Roseti (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy) F. Zampognaro (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)

Intelligent Home-Appliance Recognition over IoT Cloud Network ............................................................ 639 Shih-Yeh Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Chin-Feng Lai (National Ilan University, Taiwan) Yueh-Min Huang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Yu-Lin Jeng (Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan)

Mobile Cloud Computing: Application Scenarios and Service Models ...................................................... 644 Jiafu Wan (Guangdong Jidian Polytechnic, P.R. China) Zhuohua Liu (Guangdong Jidian Polytechnic, P.R. China) Keliang Zhou (Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, P.R. China) Rongshuang Lu (Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

CAMSPF: Cloud-Assisted Mobile Service Provision Framework Supporting Personalized User Demands in Pervasive Computing Environment ................................................................................. 649

Bin Pan (Yonsei University, Korea) Xiaofei Wang (Seoul National University, Korea) Enmin Song (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China) Chin-Feng Lai (National Ilan University, Taiwan) Min Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

Security and Privacy in Mobile Cloud Computing ....................................................................................... 655 Hui Suo (Guangdong Jidian Polytechnic, P.R. China) Keliang Zhou (Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

Challenges and Opportunities of Mobile Cloud Computing ....................................................................... 660 Mojtaba Alizadeh (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia) Wan Haslina Hassan (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia)

The Quest for Location-Privacy in Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks .............................................. 667 Sameh Zakhary (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) Milena Radenkovic (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon, France)

Development of a Virtual Butterfly Ecological System Based on Augmented Reality and Mobile Learning Technologies ........................................................................................................................ 674

Wernhuar Tarng (National Hsinchu University of Education, Taiwan) Chuan-Sheng Yu (National Hsinchu University of Education, Taiwan) Fong-Lu Liou (National Hsinchu University of Education, Taiwan) Hsin-Hun Liou (National Central University, Taiwan)

Wednesday

WM-1: INVITED PAPERS Session Chair: Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA

Statistical Analysis of Non Orthogonal Spectrum Sharing and Scheduling Strategies in Next Generation Mobile Networks .......................................................................................................................... 680

Francesco Guidolin (University of Padova, Italy) Antonino Orsino (Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche, Italy) Leonardo Badia (University of Padova, Italy) Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy)

MADN - Multipath Ad-hoc Data Network Prototype and Experiments .................................................... 686 Fabio Angius (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Aditya Bhiday (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Mario Gerla (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Giovanni Pau (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Fast Audio Fingerprint Comparison for Real-Time TV-Channel Recognition Applications .................. 694 Igor Bisio (University of Genoa, Italy) Alessandro Delfino (University of Genoa, Italy) Fabio Lavagetto (University of Genoa, Italy) Mario Marchese (University of Genoa, Italy) Cristina Frà (Telecom Italia S.p.A., Italy) Massimo Valla (Telecom Italia S.p.A., Italy)

Compressive Sensing Based Vehicle Information Recovery in Vehicular Networks ................................ 700 Waleed Alasmary (University of Toronto, Canada) Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)

WINSOME: a Middleware Platform for the Provision of Secure Monitoring Services over Wireless Sensor Networks ............................................................................................................................... 706

Luigi Pomante (University of L’Aquila, Italy) Marco Pugliese (University of L’Aquila, Italy) Stefano Marchesani (University of L’Aquila, Italy) Fortunato Santucci (University of L’Aquila, Italy)

SALT: Sensing enAbled Localization and Tracking for Geolocation Database in TV White Space ...................................................................................................................................................... 712

Li Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Tengyi Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Danny H.K. Tsang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

WM-2: Satellite and DTN (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Mauro Tropea, University of Calabria, Italy

Interest-driven Forwarding for Delay-tolerant Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ................................................ 718 Elena Pagani (University of Milano, Italy) Gian Paolo Rossi (University of Milano, Italy)

Queue Maximum Proportional Fair Scheduling for Saturated and Non-Saturated Regimes ................. N/A Hicham Anouar (Thales Communications and Security, France)

Enhancements of Epidemic Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks from an Energy Perspective ............. 731 Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy) Salvatore Amelio (University of Calabria, Italy) Peppino Fazio (University of Calabria, Italy)

Markovian Channel Modeling for DVB-RCS Satellite Systems Based on Observation Window Concept .............................................................................................................................................. 736

Mauro Tropea (University of Calabria, Italy) Peppino Fazio (University of Calabria, Italy) Fiore Veltri (University of Calabria, Italy) Salvatore Marano (University of Calabria, Italy)

A Divide and Conquer Approach for Efficient Bandwidth Allocation in Next Generation Satellite-Routed Sensor System (SRSS) ......................................................................................................... 741

Yuichi Kawamoto (Tohoku University, Japan) Hiroki Nishiyama (Tohoku University, Japan) Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan) Shinichi Yamamoto (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) Naoko Yoshimura (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) Naoto Kadowaki (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

WM-3: WSN and Other Networks (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Jalal Almhana, University of Moncton, Canada

Reciprocal Public Sensing for Integrated RFID-Sensor Networks ............................................................. 746 Fadi M. Al-Turjman (Queen's University, Canada) Ashraf E. Al-Fagih (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia) Waleed M. Alsalih (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia) Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)

Adaptive Traffic Light Control Using VANET: A Case Study ................................................................... 752 S. Kwatirayo (Université de Moncton, Canada) J. Almhana (Université de Moncton, Canada) Z. Liu (Université de Moncton, Canada)

A Triple-Band WLAN Antenna ..................................................................................................................... 758 Alessandro Fanti (University of Cagliari, Italy) Paolo Maxia (University of Cagliari, Italy) Claudia Musu (University of Cagliari, Italy)

A Wire Antenna for Broadband WLAN and Wi-Fi Applications .............................................................. 763 Alessandro Fanti (University of Cagliari, Italy) Paolo Maxia (University of Cagliari, Italy) Claudia Musu (University of Cagliari, Italy)

Adaptation of an Active RFID Technology for Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks ........................... 769 Ivo Dufek (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) Vojtech Derbek (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)

Interaction of Clustering Period and Event Sensing Reliability in IEEE 802.15.4 Based WSNs ............. 774 Hamidreza Tavakoli (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran) Jelena Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada) Majid Naderi (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran) Vojislav B. Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada)

WM-4: Green Communications and Networking Session Chair: Hans-Juergen Zepernick, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Outage Analysis of Cognitive Relay Networks over α-µ Fading Channels ................................................ 780 Charles Kabiri (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Hans-Jürgen Zepernick (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Hung Tran (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Outage Probability and Ergodic Capacity of Underlay Cognitive Radio Systems with Adaptive Power Transmission ......................................................................................................................................... 785

Charles Kabiri (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Hans-Jürgen Zepernick (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Hung Tran (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Packet Transmission Time for Cognitive Radio Networks Considering Interference from Primary User .................................................................................................................................................... 791

Louis Sibomana (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Hans-Jürgen Zepernick (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Hung Tran (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Charles Kabiri (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Performance Evaluation of Energy Efficient Policies for Ethernet Switches ............................................ 797 Beatrice Paillassa (University of Toulouse, France) Riadh Dhaou (University of Toulouse, France) Gentian Jakllari (University of Toulouse, France) Thaenchaikun Chakadkit (University of Toulouse, France)

Fault Tolerant Routing Algorithms for Hyper-De Bruijn Networks .......................................................... 803 Ngoc Chi Nguyen (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam) Thanh Vu-Dinh (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam)

WM-5: LTE I (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Hassan Mahasneh, University of Calgary, Canada

The Directional Relay (DR) Scheme-Aided LTE-A Communication Systems .......................................... 809 Hassan A. Mahasneh (University of Calgary, Canada) A.B. Sesay (University of Calgary, Canada)

Adaptive Random Access Preamble Split in LTE ........................................................................................ 814 Daehee Kim (Korea University, Korea) Wook Kim (Korea University, Korea) Sunshin An (Korea University, Korea)

Multi-Layer Cell Deployment Strategy for Self-Organizing LTE-Advanced Networks .......................... 820 Mohammadreza Behjati (Brunel University London, United Kingdom) John Cosmas (Brunel University London, United Kingdom)

Utility-Based Resource Allocation in LTE-Advanced Heterogeneous Networks ...................................... 826 Mohammed Al-Rawi (Ericsson Research, Finland) Meryem Simsek (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Riku Jäntti (Aalto University, Finland)

Improved Handover Mechanisms to Reduce Packet Forwarding in LTE-Advanced .............................. 831 Parth Amin (Aalto University, Finland) Antti Ylä-Jääski (Aalto University, Finland)

WM-6: WLAN II (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Leonardo Bruni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Joint Association Control, Airtime Sharing and Contention Resolution in Multi-Cell WLANs with Directional Antennas ............................................................................................................................... 837

Jun Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Jason Min Wang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Brahim Bensaou (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

On the Stability of Asynchronous Random Access Schemes ....................................................................... 843 Alessio Meloni (University of Cagliari, Italy) Maurizio Murroni (University of Cagliari, Italy)

Cross-Layer Queuing Control in Mobile Router for Power Saving ........................................................... 849 Masakatsu Ogawa (Sophia University, Japan)

A Quorum-Based Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks .................................... N/A Chih-Yung Chang (Tamkang University, Taiwan) Li-Ling Hung (Aletheia University, Taiwan) Chao-Tsun Chang (Hsiuping University of Science and Technology, Taiwan) Tzu-Lin Wang (Tamkang University, Taiwan) Tzu-Chia Wang (Tamkang University, Taiwan)

DGA: Distributed Genetic Algorithm Based Relay Assignment in Cooperative Communication .......................................................................................................................... 861

Ruijian An (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Experimental Analysis of VHO-enabled Mobile Application for Data Offloading in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks ................................................................................................................. 867

Marco Picone (University of Parma, Italy) Giovanni Spigoni (University of Parma, Italy) Stefano Busanelli (Guglielmo Srl, Italy) Nicola Iotti (Guglielmo Srl, Italy) Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy)

WA-1: OFDM (Comm. And Signal Processing Symposium) Session Chair: Haikal Al Abed, GIZ, Germany

Adaptive Compressive Sensing Based Channel Estimation for TDS-OFDM Systems ............................. 873 Xudong Zhu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Jintao Wang (Tshinghua University, P.R. China) Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Adaptive Sparse Channel Estimation for Time-Variant MIMO-OFDM Systems .................................... 878 Guan Gui (Tohoku University, Japan) Fumiyuki Adachi (Tohoku University, Japan)

Performance of Fast Frequency Hopping OFDM Under Doppler Spread ................................................ 884 Ahmet Oturak (Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey) Ertan Öztürk (Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey)

Optimizing User Throughput with the Consideration of Multiple Acces Interference in the OFDMA Uplink ................................................................................................................................................ 889

Hieu Le (Technical University Berlin, Germany) Daniel Willkomm (Technical University Berlin, Germany) Adam Wolisz (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)

Spectrum Notch Techniques for TDS-OFDM System ................................................................................. 895 Wenbo Ding (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Fang Yang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Jian Song (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Fei Ren (Sichuan Changhong Electronic Ltd. Co., P.R. China) Jia Li (P.R. China, )

Effects of Channel Estimation Errors on BER Performance of DFT-precoded OFDM Systems ............ 900 Chan-Tong Lam (Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao) David D. Falconer (Carleton University, Canada)

Taking Advantage of Multi-User Diversity in OFDM Systems ................................................................... 906 Jose Armando Oviedo (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) H.R. Sadjadpour (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)

WA-2: Security Architectures and Performance (Security Symposium) Session Chair: Jalal Almhana, University of Moncton, Canada

COACH: a COntext Aware and multi-service trust model for Cooperation management in Heteregenous wireless networks ..................................................................................................................... 911

Yosra Ben Saied (CEA LIST, France) Alexis Olivereau (CEA LIST, France) Radhouene Azzabi (CEA LIST, France)

Low Power Link Layer Security for IoT: Implementation and Performance Analysis ........................... 919 Diego Altolini (Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche, Italy) Vishwas Lakkundi (Patavina Technologies, Italy) Nicola Bui (Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche, Italy) Cristiano Tapparello (University of Padova, Italy) Michele Rossi (Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche, Italy)

On Detecting and Clustering Distributed Cyber Scanning .......................................................................... 926 Elias Bou-Harb (Concordia University, Canada) Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, Canada) Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada)

Firewall Performance Optimization using Data Mining Techniques ......................................................... 934 Umniya Mustafa (The George Washington University, USA) Mohammad M. Masud (UAE University, UAE) Zouheir Trabelsi (UAE University, UAE) Timothy Wood (The George Washington University, USA) Zainab Al Harthi (UAE University, UAE)

WA-3: General Symposium II Session Chair: Igor Bisio, University of Genoa, Italy

Towards Integrated Operations for Ships ..................................................................................................... 941 Liping Mu (Universtiy of Agder, Norway) Andreas Prinz (University of Agder, Norway) Frank Reichert (University of Agder, Norway)

Performance and Fairness Comparison of Extensions to Dynamic Window Coupling for Multipath TCP ................................................................................................................................................. 947

Amanpreet Singh (University of Bremen, Germany) Mei Xiang (University of Bremen, Germany) Andreas Könsgen (University of Bremen, Germany) Carmelita Goerg (University of Bremen, Germany)

Comparison of Channel Estimation Algorithms for MIMO Downlink LTE Systems .............................. 953 Simone Morosi (University of Florence, Italy) Fabrizio Argenti (University of Florence, Italy) Massimiliano Biagini (University of Florence, Italy) Enrico Del Re (University of Florence, Italy)

Spatial Data Visualization on Mobile Interface - A Usability Study ........................................................... 959 Luca Paolino (University of Salerno, Italy) Marco Romano (University of Salerno, Italy) Giuliana Vitiello (University of Salerno, Italy)

A Perceptually Sensitive Markovian Model of Packet Loss Processes during VoIP Conversations ......................................................................................................................................... 964

Sofiene Jelassi (INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, France) Gerardo Rubino (INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, France)

Network Topology Configuration .................................................................................................................. N/A Ryan Matthew Salisbury (The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA) Reza Adhami (The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)

Enhancing TETRA with Capabilities Exploiting MIPv6 and IEEE 802.21 MIH Services ...................... 976 Salvatore D'Oro (University of Catania, Italy) Salvatore Cristian Grancagnolo (University of Catania, Italy) Emanuele Marano (University of Catania, Italy) Corrado Rametta (University of Catania, Italy)

WA-4: MIMO/Antenna (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Stefania Monica, University of Parma, Italy

Optimized Anchors Placement: An Analytical Approach in UWB-based TDOA Localization ............... 982 Stefania Monica (University of Parma, Italy) Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy)

End-to-End Channel Capacity of Multiple-Hop MIMO Relay System with MAC-PHY cross-layer ..... 988 Pham Thanh Hiep (Yokohama National University, Japan) Nguyen Huy Hoang (Le Quy Don Technical University, Vietnam) Ryuji Kohno (Yokohama National University, Japan)

Optimized Transmitted Antenna Power Indoor Planning using Distributed Antenna Systems .............................................................................................................................................. 993

Ramy Atawia (German University in Cairo, Egypt) Mohamed Ashour (German University in Cairo, Egypt) Tallal El Shabrawy (German University in Cairo, Egypt) Hany Hammad (German University Cairo, Egypt)

Performance Analysis of Cooperative MIMO ARQ Protocols using Different Combining Techniques .................................................................................................................................. 1001

Maymouna Ben Said (University of Carthage, Tunisia) Hatem Boujemaa (University of Carthage, Tunisia)

Detection and Compensation Algorithm for Antenna Gain Imbalance in MIMO Systems ................... N/A Xin Zhang (Xidian University, P.R. China) Xiaohui Li (Xidian University, P.R. China) Xubin Yuan (Xidian University, P.R. China) Yongqiang Hei (Xidian University, P.R. China)

WA-5: Multihop Wireless Networks Session Chair: Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada

Experimental Performance Analysis of Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks ........................... 1011 Chiraz Houaidia (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Adrien van den Bossche (University of Toulouse, France) Hanen Idoudi (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Thierry Val (University of Toulouse, France) Leila Azouz Saidane (University of Manouba, Tunisia)

An Empirical Study on the Performance of Bluetooth Scatternets .......................................................... 1017 J.M. Cano-Garciá (University of Málaga, Spain) E. Casilari (University of Málaga, Spain) E. Gonzalez-Parada (University of Málaga, Spain)

Improved MAODV Link Repair Technique for Group Team Communication in MANET ................. 1023 Xu Li (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Naren Gaowa (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China) MingQiang Yang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)

Analyzing a Self-Organizing Multi-Hop Protocol: Ease of Simulations and Need for Real-World Tests ........................................................................................................................................... 1029

Clemens Mühlberger (University of Würzburg, Germany)

Control System for Workplace Safety in a Cargo Terminal ..................................................................... 1035 Mariella Sole (University of Cagliari, Italy) Claudia Musu (University of Cagliari, Italy) Fabrizio Boi (University of Cagliari, Italy) Daniele D. Giusto (University of Cagliari, Italy) Vlad Popescu (Transilvania University of Braşov, Romania)

WA-6: VTS-Protocols and Performance (Vehicular Symposium) Session Chair: Abderrahmane Lakas, UAEU, UAE

Adaptive Data Collection Protocol using Reinforcement Learning for VANETs ................................... 1040 Ahmed Soua (Telecom SudParis, France) Hossam Afifi (Telecom SudParis, France)

Optimized Cross-Layer Protocol Choices for LTE in High-Speed Vehicular Environments ................ 1046 Bjoern Dusza (TU Dortmund University, Germany) Christoph Ide (TU Dortmund University, Germany) Patrick-Benjamin Bök (TU Dortmund University, Germany) Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University, Germany)

On the Performance Analysis of Cooperative Vehicular Relaying in LTE-A Networks ........................ 1052 Mohamed F. Feteiha (Queen's University, Canada) Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)

A Loss-tolerant Scheme for Unicast Routing in VANETs using Network Coding .................................. 1058 Celimuge Wu (University of Electro-Communications, Japan) Satoshi Ohzahata (University of Electro-Communications, Japan) Toshihiko Kato (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

Evaluation of TCP Performance with LTE Downlink Schedulers in a Vehicular Environment ........... 1064 Dizhi Zhou (University of New Brunswick, Canada) Wei Song (University of New Brunswick, Canada) Nicola Baldo (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain) Marco Miozzo (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain)

Token-based Clustered Data Gathering Protocol (TCDGP) in Vehicular Networks ............................. 1070 Bouziane Brik (University of Laghouat, Algeria) Nasreddine Lagraa (University of Laghouat, Algeria) Hadda Cherroun (University of Laghouat, Algeria) Abderrahmane Lakas (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)

WA-7: Coding (Comm. and Signal Processing Symposium) Session Chair: Maan Kousa, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Incremental Relaying Protocols for Extended LDPC Coded Cooperative Diversity .............................. 1075 Hussain Ali (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia) Maan Kousa (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia)

Adaptive Normalized Min-Sum Algorithm for LDPC Decoding .............................................................. 1081 Liwen Fan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Changyong Pan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Kewu Peng (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Jiachen Huang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

A New Look of Doping Technique in BICM-ID ......................................................................................... 1085 Tao Cheng (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Kewu Peng (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Changyong Pan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Zaishuang Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Zhixing Yang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

A 122Mb/s Turbo Decoder using a Mid-range GPU .................................................................................. 1090 Jiao Xianjun (Nokia Research Center, P.R. China) Canfeng Chen (Nokia Research Center, P.R. China) Pekka Jääskeläinen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Vladimír Guzma (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Heikki Berg (Nokia Research Center, Finland)

Turbo Decoding on Tailored OpenCL Processor ....................................................................................... 1095 Heikki Kultala (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Otto Esko (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Pekka Jääskeläinen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Vladimír Guzma (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Jarmo Takala (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Jiao Xianjun (Nokia Research Center, P.R. China) Tommi Zetterman (Nokia Research Center, Finland) Heikki Berg (Nokia Research Center, Finland)

Adaptation of Opportunistic Relay Selection into Distributed Turbo Coded Cooperative Communication System ................................................................................................................................. 1101

Hakan Kaya (Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey) Ertan Öztürk (Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey)

WA-8: Attacks and Countermeasures (Security Symposium) Session Chair: Wassim El-Hajj (American University of Beirut, Lebanon

A Novel Key Management Protocol for RFID Systems ............................................................................. 1107 Mohammed J. Hakeem (Ryerson University, Canada) Kaamran Raahemifar (Ryerson University, Canada) Gul N. Khan (Ryerson University, Canada)

Framework for Creating Realistic Port Scanning Benchmarks ................................................................ 1114 Mustafa Al-Tamimi (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) Wassim El-Hajj (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) Fadi Aloul (American University of Sharjah, UAE)

Hardware Implementable S-box based on a Discretized Piecewise Linear Chaotic Map ...................... 1120 Daisaburo Yoshioka (Sojo University, Japan)

Detecting Attacks in QoS-OLSR Protocol ................................................................................................... 1126 Hiba Sanadiki (Lebanese American University, Lebanon) Hadi Otrok (Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research, UAE) Azzam Mourad (Lebanese American University, Lebanon) Jean-Marc Robert (Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

A Dynamic Identity User Authentication Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks .................................... 1132 Wen-Bin Hsieh (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan) Jenq-Shiou Leu (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)

A Novel Active Warden Steganographic Attack for Next-Generation Steganography .......................... 1138 Aaron Sharp (University of Nebraska, USA) Qilin Qi (University of Nebraska, USA) Yaoqing Yang (University of Nebraska, USA) Dongming Peng (University of Nebraska, USA) Hamid Sharif (University of Nebraska, USA)

WA-9: Traffic Analysis and Modeling (TRAC Workshop) Session Chair: Sandrine Vaton, Telecom Bretagne, France

Experimental Study and Modelling of Networked Virtual Environment Server Traffic ....................... 1144 Juan Luis Font (University of Seville, Spain) Christian Callegari (University of Pisa, Italy) José Luis Sevillano-Ramos (University of Seville, Spain)

Tracking Application Network Performance in Home Gateways ............................................................ 1150 Ahlem Reggani (UPMC Sorbonne Universités and CNRS, France) Fabian Schneider (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany) Renata Teixeira (UPMC Sorbonne Universités and CNRS, France)

Empirical Analysis of Traffic to Establish a Profiled Flow Termination Timeout ................................. 1156 Juan Moliná Rodrıguez (UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain) Valentín Carela Español (UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain) Pere Barlet Ros (UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain) Ralf Hoffmann (ipoque GmbH, Germany) Klaus Degner (ipoque GmbH, Germany)

Graph Theoretical Models of DNS Traffic .................................................................................................. 1162 Luca Deri (IIT, CNR, Italy) Simone Mainardi (University of Pisa, Italy) Maurizio Martinelli (IIT, CNR, Italy) Enrico Gregori (IIT, CNR, Italy)

A Complete Framework for Modelling and Generating Workload Volatility of a VoD System ........... 1168 Shubhabrata Roy (Université de Lyon, France) Thomas Begin (Université de Lyon, France) Paulo Gonçalves (Université de Lyon, France)

WA-10: Wireless Multimedia Networks (Multimedia Over Wireless Symposium) Session Chair: Fen Hou, University of Macau, Macao

Multimedia Multicast Service Provisioning in Cognitive Radio Networks .............................................. 1175 Fen Hou (University of Macau, Macao) Zhaofu Chen (Northwestern University, USA) Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Zhu Li (Samsung Telecom America, USA) Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern University, USA)

Cross-Layer Scheduling for Multi-Quality Video Streaming in Cellular Wireless Networks ............... 1181 Martin Dräxler (University of Paderborn, Germany) Holger Karl (University of Paderborn, Germany)

Group Streaming Service for the Public Transportation System over Fixed Mobile Convergence Networks .................................................................................................................................. 1187

Yuan-Tse Yu (National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan) Chung-Ming Huang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Chi-Hong Liu (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

A Novel Packet Urgency Metric-based Cross-layer Design for Video Streaming over Multi-rate MANETs ...................................................................................................................................... 1193

Wan Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) Hyunchul Joo (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) Ki Jin An (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) Hwangjun Song (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)

WiMAX Network with Quality of Service for Streaming Multimedia Applications .............................. 1199 Ricky Wong (Algonquin College, Canada) Wahab Almuhtadi (Algonquin College, Canada) Anand Srinivasan (EION Wireless Inc., Canada)

Analysis of Management Policies for Multicast Transmission of Scalable Video Content in Next Generation Networks ....................................................................................................................... 1206

Iffat Ahmed (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy) Leonardo Badia (University of Padova, Italy)

WA-11: M2M Communications Session Chair: Phone Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Linked Services for M2M Communication with Enterprise IT systems .................................................. 1212 Matthias Thoma (University of Bern, Switzerland) Alexandru-Florian Antonescu (University Bern, Switzerland) Theano Mintsi (SAP Research, Switzerland) Torsten Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland)

A Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA)-based Multichannel Protocol for Large Scale Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Networks ............................................................................................................................ 1217

Lun-Kai Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Chun-Ting Chou (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

An Adaptive Multichannel Protocol for Large-Scale Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Networks .............. 1223 Chen-Yu Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Chi-Hsien Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Chun-Ting Chou (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Leveraging Overhearing for Correlated Data Gathering in M2M Communications with Limited Radio Resources .............................................................................................................................. 1229

Wei-Chih Liao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Hung-Yun Hsieh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

uLIPA: a Universal Local IP Access Solution for 3GPP Mobile Networks ............................................. 1235 Jia-Wei Wu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Ching-Wen Cheng (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan) Shun-Ren Yang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Chai-Hien Gan (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan) Yi-Bei Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Sensor Networks for Remote Monitoring of Public Transport Vehicles .................................................. 1241 Romeo Giuliano (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Franco Mazzenga (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Marco Petracca (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

WA-12: VTS—Physical Layer Designs and Analysis (Vehicular Symposium) Session Chair: Xiaomin Ma, Oral Roberts University, USA

Capacity Maximization in MIMO Vehicular Communication using a Novel Antenna Selection Algorithm ....................................................................................................................................... 1246

Hojjat Seyed Mousavi (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Bahar Khalighinejad (Sharif University of Technology, Iran) Babak H. Khalaj (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)

Spreading Codes for Multiuser Estimation in Non Coherent and Non Cooperative Environments ........................................................................................................................... 1252

Chirag Warty (Ahilya Technologies, USA) Sandeep Mattigiri (California State University, USA) Richard Yu (NAVSEA - Port Hueneme, USA) Ennio Gambi (Marche Polytechnic University, Italy) Susanna Spinsante (Marche Polytechnic University, Italy)

Joint Interference Alignment and Power Allocation in MIMO Interference Network .......................... 1258 Shengfeng Xu (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Gang Zhu (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Qian Sun (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Yuanxuan Li (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)

Implementation and Evaluation of Channel Estimation and Phase Tracking for Vehicular Networks ....................................................................................................................................... 1263

Yongjiu Du (Southern Methodist University, USA) Dinesh Rajan (Southern Methodist University, USA) Joseph Camp (Southern Methodist University, USA)

Numerical Simulation of Channel Models for Aicraft ............................................................................... 1269 Andrew Thain (EADS Innovation Works, France) Gilles Peres (EADS Innovation Works, France) David Naveiras-Ferreiro (University of Vigo, Spain)

Thursday

ThM-1: WINET I (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Fulvio Babich, University of Trieste, Italy

On the Interplay Between RPL and Address Autoconfiguration Protocols in LLNs ............................. 1275 Emilio Ancillotti (IIT-CNR, Italy) Raffaele Bruno (IIT-CNR, Italy) Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy)

A Novel Angle-of-Arrival Assisted Extended Kalman Filter Tracking Algorithm with Space-Time Correlation based Motion Parameters Estimation ..................................................................................... 1283

Li Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Yong Huat Chew (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Wai-Choong Wong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

SuperBS: A Methodology for Resource Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks ................ 1290 Ilias Tsompanidis (University College Cork, Ireland) Ahmed H. Zahran (Cairo University, Egypt) Cormac J. Sreenan (University College Cork, Ireland)

Improved Utility-Based Radio Resource Allocation in OFDMA Systems with Mixed Traffics ............ 1296 Ying Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Feng Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Shihua Zhu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Lina Geng (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China)

External Interference-Aware Channel Assignment ................................................................................... 1302 Felix Juraschek (Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität, Germany) Mesut Günes (Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität, Germany)

Multi-Packet Communication by Spatial Reuse: Application Scenarios and Open Research Issues ............................................................................................................................................... 1308

F. Babich (University of Trieste, Italy) M. Comisso (University of Trieste, Italy)

ThM-2: Security and Synchronization in WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Abderrezak Rachedi, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France

Mutual Authentication in Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSN) based on Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) .......................................................................................................................... 1314

Young Sil Lee (Dongseo University Graduate School, Korea) Esko Alasaarela (University of Oulu, Finland)

Security with Quality-of-Services Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks ....................................... 1319 Abderrezak Rachedi (University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France) Amina Hasnaoui (University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)

A Recursive Solution for Improving the Synchronization Accuracy in Wireless Sensor Networks ...... 1325 MohammadJavad Hajikhani (Carleton University, Canada) Thomas Kunz (Carleton University, Canada) Howard Schwartz (Carleton University, Canada)

Distributed Binary Consensus Algorithm and Wireless Sensor Network ................................................ 1331 Abderrazek Abdaoui (Qatar University, Qatar) Tarek M. Elfouly (Qatar University, Qatar) Moez Draief (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)

Binary Consensus in Sensor Motes .............................................................................................................. 1337 Noor Al-Nakhala (Qatar University, Qatar) Ryan Riley (Qatar University, Qatar) Tarek M. Elfouly (Qatar University, Qatar)

ThM-3: MANET II (Wireless Networking Symposium) Session Chair: Giorgia Rossi, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Performance Tradeoffs by Power Control in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks .............................................. 1343 Giorgia V. Rossi (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Kin K.K. Leung (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)

Wireless Body Area Network Platforms Evaluation .................................................................................. 1348 Bandar Alghamdi (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France) Hacène Fouchal (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)

Multi-Phase Socially-Aware Routing in Distributed Mobile Social Networks ........................................ 1353 Nikolaos Vastardis (University of Essex, United Kingdom) Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom)

2PACA: Two Phases Algorithm of Checkpointing for Ad hoc Mobile Networks ................................... 1359 Haroun Benkaouha (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria) Lynda Mokdad (Université Paris-Est, France) Abdelkrim Abdelli (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria)

Robust Brute Force and Reduced Complexity Approaches for Timing Synchronization in IEEE 802.11a/g WLANs ........................................................................................................................... 1365

Leïla Nasraoui (SUP' COM, Tunisia) Leila Najjar (SUP' COM, Tunisia) Mohamed Siala (SUP' COM, Tunisia)

ThM-4: Applications and Data Aggregation (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada

MUSIKA: a Multichannel Multi-sink Data Gathering Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks ......... 1370 Ridha Soua (INRIA, France) Erwan Livolant (INRIA, France) Pascale Minet (INRIA, France)

Vibration Sensor based Intelligent Fault Diagnosis System for Large Machine Unit in Petrochemical Industry ................................................................................................................................. 1376

Qing-Hua Zhang (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, P.R. China) Aisong Qin (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, P.R. China) Lei Shu (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, P.R. China) Guoxi Sun (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, P.R. China) Longqiu Shao (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, P.R. China)

Evaluation of the Wireless M-Bus Standard for Future Smart Water Grids .......................................... 1382 Susanna Spinsante (Marche Polytechnic University, Italy) Mirco Pizzichini (Marche Polytechnic University, Italy) Matteo Mencarelli (Marche Polytechnic University, Italy) Stefano Squartini (Marche Polytechnic University, Italy) Ennio Gambi (Marche Polytechnic University, Italy)

Monitoring Operational Mining Equipment Using Sprouts Wireless Sensor Network Pltaform .......................................................................................................................................... 1388

Ahmad El Kouche (Queen's University, Canada) Abdallah Alma'aitah (Queen's University, Canada) Hossam Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada) Khaled Obaia (Oil and Energy, Canada)

Exploring Gradient in Sensor Deployment Pattern for Data Gathering with Sleep based Energy Saving ...................................................................................................................................... 1394

Suchetana Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India) Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India) Sukumar Nandi (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India) Sushanta Karmakar (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

ThM-5: Mobile Systems & Resource Management (Mobile Computing Symposium) Session Chair: Gianluigi Ferrari, (University of Parma, Italy

Data Storage and Retrieval with RPL Routing ........................................................................................... 1400 Pietro Gonizzi (University of Parma, Italy) Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy) Paolo Medagliani (Thales Communications and Security, France) Jérémie Leguay (Thales Communications and Security, France)

CaregiverNet: A Novel Social Support Intervention for Locating and Securing Wandering Alzheimer's Patients As Soon As Possible ............................................................................... 1405

Yilmaz Kemal Yüce (Akdeniz University, Turkey) Kemal Hakan Gulkesen (Akdeniz University, Turkey)

CTrack: A Cyber-Physical Approach to Construction Site Work Improvement Studies ...................... 1412 Alan Baines (Virginia Tech, USA) Thaddeus Czauski (Virginia Tech, USA) Jules White (Virginia Tech, USA) Brian Dougherty (Virginia Tech, USA) Mani Golparvar-Fard (Virginia Tech, USA)

A Probabilistic Approach to Outdoor Localization Using Clustering and Principal Component Transformations ........................................................................................................................ 1418

Kejiong Li (University of London, United Kingdom) John Bigham (University of London, United Kingdom) Laurissa Tokarchuk (University of London, United Kingdom) Eliane Bodanese (University of London, United Kingdom)

A Read-Write-Validate Approach to Optimistic Concurrency Control for Energy Efficiency of Resource-Constrained Systems .............................................................................................. 1424

Kamal Solaiman (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) Matthew Brook (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) Gary Ushaw (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) Graham Morgan (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)

A Coordination Framework for Dynamic Adaptation in Ubiquitous Systems Based on Distributed Tuple Space ........................................................................................................................... 1430

Benedito J.A. Neto (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil) Rossana M.C. Andrade (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil) Marcio E.F. Maia (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil) André Fonteles (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil) Windson Viana (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)

ThM-6: Modeling and Optimization II (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA

Domain and Location Specific Modeling of Mobile Users Online Interests ............................................. 1436 Saeed Moghaddam (University of Florida, USA) Marco Carvalho (Florida Institute for Technology, USA) Ahmed Helmy (University of Florida, USA)

Consistency Analysis of Sensor Data Distribution ...................................................................................... 1442 Gianluca Reali (University of Perugia, Italy) Mauro Femminella (University of Perugia, Italy)

Adaptive Data Collection Approach for Periodic Sensor Networks ......................................................... 1448 David Laiymani (University of Franche-Comté, France) Abdallah Makhoul (University of Franche-Comté, France)

Diffusion Normalized Least Mean Squares Over Wireless Sensor Networks .......................................... 1454 Syed Abdul Baqi (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia) Azzedine Zerguine (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia) Muhammad Omer Bin Saeed (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia)

A Dynamic 6LoWPAN Context Table Maintaining Algorithm ................................................................ 1458 Laizhong Cui (Shenzhen University, P.R. China) Guibin Hua (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Nan Lu (Shenzhen University, P.R. China)

Lifetime Scaling Law of Ordinary Clustering Ultra-wideband Sensor Network .................................... 1464 Juan Xu (Tongji University, P.R. China) Jiujun Cheng (Tongji University, P.R. China) Lina Han (Tongji University, P.R. China) Jing Zhou (FEIT, University of Technology, )

ThA-1: QoS in Wireless Sensor Networks (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada

A Delay Mitigation Scheme for WSN-based Smart Grid Substation Monitoring ................................... 1470 Irfan Al-Anbagi (University of Ottawa, Canada) Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada) Hussein T. Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)

A QoS-assured Opportunistic Routing Mechanism for WMN .................................................................. 1476 Weifeng Sun (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China) Haotian Wang (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China) Ning Zhang (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China) Dongdong Tang (Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China) Lei Shu (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, P.R. China)

Model-Driven Approach to Agilla Agent Generation ................................................................................ 1482 Antinisca Di Marco (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Stefano Pace (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

Transmitting Objects in Images with Service Differentiation Based Source Coding in Wireless Sensor Networks ............................................................................................................................. 1488

Alper K. Demir (Kocaeli University, Turkey) Kerem Irgan (Yeditepe University, Turkey) Sebnem Baydere (Yeditepe University, Turkey) H. Engin Demiray (Kocaeli University, Turkey)

ThA-2: MIMO Systems (Comm. And Signal Processing Symposium) Session Chair: Ertan Ozturk, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, Turkey

SINR-Interference Tradeoff Beamforming for MISO Cognitive Radio Network ................................... 1494 Huiqin Du (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Tharm Ratnarajah (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Ergodic Sum Rate Analysis of K Fading MIMO Channels with Linear MMSE Receiver ..................... 1499 Jiang Xue (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Caijun Zhong (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) T. Ratnarajah (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Distributed Optimal Cyclotomic Space-Time Coding for Full-Duplex Cooperative Relay Networks .............................................................................................................................................. 1504

Hua Jiang (Nanjing University, P.R. China) Xianglei Xing (Nanjing University, P.R. China) Sidan Du (Nanjing University, P.R. China)

Analysis of Effective SINR Mapping Models for MIMO OFDM in LTE System ................................... 1509 Zakaria Hanzaz (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Hans Dieter Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

ThA-3: Coverage and Topology Control (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Nidal Nasser, Alfaisal University, SA

Efficient Visual Sensor Coverage Algorithm in Wireless Visual Sensor Networks ................................. 1516 Hong-Hsu Yen (Shih-Hsin University, Taiwan)

Topology and Link Quality-aware Geographical Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks ............................................................................................................................................ 1522

Zhongliang Zhao (University of Bern, Switzerland) Denis Rosário (Federal University of Para, Brazil) Torsten Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland) Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para, Brazil) Hongli Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China) Liusheng Huang (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

An Energy Efficient Hierarchical Clustering Index Tree for Facilitating Time-Correlated Region Queries in Wireless Sensor Network ............................................................................................... 1528

Jine Tang (China University of Geosciences, P.R. China) Yi Xiao (China University of Geosciences, P.R. China) Zhangbing Zhou (TELECOM SudParis, France) Lei Shu (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, P.R. China) Qun Wang (China University of Geosciences, P.R. China)

An Indoor Dead-Reckoning Algorithm with Map Matching .................................................................... 1534 Haitao Bao (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Wai-Choong Wong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Coverage-Connectivity based Fault Tolerance Procedure in Wireless Sensor Networks ...................... 1540 Inès El Korbi (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (ENSIIE & Université Paris-Est, France) Rimel Jazi (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Leila Azouz Saidane (University of Manouba, Tunisia)

ThA-4: Wireless Networked Systems (Mobile Computing Symposium) Session Chair: Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA

Collision Aware Coloring Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks ....................................................... 1546 Imen Jemili (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Dhouha Ghrab (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Abdelfettah Belghith (University of Manouba, Tunisia)

On Sellers' Quantity Games for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing ................................................................... 1554 Chih-Wei Huang (National Central University, Taiwan) How-Min Lin (National Central University, Taiwan) Wen-Hsin Wei (Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan)

A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Optimizing Channel Selection in Cognitive Radio Networks ......... 1559 Luca Zappaterra (George Washington University, USA) Joseph S. Gomes (Bowie State University, USA) Amrinder Arora (George Washington University, USA) Hyeong-Ah Choi (George Washington University, USA)

Service Selection and Composition in Opportunistic Networks ................................................................ 1565 Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy) Emanuel Marzini (IIT-CNR, Italy) Davide Mascitti (IIT-CNR, Italy) Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) Laura Ricci (University of Pisa, Italy)

Design and Evaluation of a Delay-Efficient RPL Routing Metric ............................................................ 1573 Pietro Gonizzi (University of Parma, Italy) Riccardo Monica (University of Parma, Italy) Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy)

Stochastic Analysis on Epidemic Dissemination of Lifetime-Controlled Messages in DTNs ................. 1578 Huawei Huang (China University of Geoscience, P.R. China) Deze Zeng (The University of Aizu, Japan) Song Guo (The University of Aizu, Japan) Hong Yao (China University of Geoscience, P.R. China) Toshiaki Miyazaki (The University of Aizu, Japan)

Changing Patterns of Mobile Network (WLAN) Usage: Smart-Phones vs. Laptops .............................. 1584 Udayan Kumar (University of Florida, USA) Jeeyoung Kim (University of Florida, USA) Ahmed Helmy (University of Florida, USA)

ThA-5: Wireless Multimedia Communications (Multimedia over Wireless Symposium) Session Chair: Jun Liu, Tsinghua University, P.R. China

User-Based Energy-Efficient Scalable Video Multicast over Wireless Networks ................................... 1590 Jun Liu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Yu Zhang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Jian Song (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Outdoor Scenes Identification on Mobile Device by Integrating Vision and Inertial Sensors ............... 1596 Zhenwen Gui (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Yongtian Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Yue Liu (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Jing Chen (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

Unwired: A Simulation Test-bed for Mobile P2P Live Streaming ............................................................ 1601 Maaz M. Mohiuddin (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India) Philipp M. Eittenberger (Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, Germany) Udo R. Krieger (Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, Germany)

An Adaptive Video Streaming Scheme for a Cooperative Fleet of Vehicles ............................................ 1607 Chung-Ming Huang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Chia-Ching Yang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Yu-Cheng Lin (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

Wireless Cooperative Access to Images ....................................................................................................... 1613 Cristian Perra (University of Cagliari, Italy)

ThA-6: VANET (Vehicular Symp.) Session Chair: Ala Al-Fuqaha, Western Michigan University, USA

Performance of VANET Safety Message Broadcast at Rural Intersections ............................................ 1617 Xiaomin Ma (Oral Roberts University, USA) Matthew Wilson (Oral Roberts University, USA) Xiaoyan Yin (Duke University, USA) Kishor S. Trivedi (Duke University, USA)

Context Severity Based Opportunistic Service Reprioritization for IEEE 802.11p VANETs ............... 1623 Mohammad A Salahuddin (Western Michigan University, USA) Ala Al-Fuqaha (Western Michigan University, USA) Frederic Jacquelin (Scenaria, Inc., USA) Yohan Shim (Scenaria, Inc., USA)

Scalable VANET Content Routing Using Hierarchical Bloom Filters ..................................................... 1629 Yu-Ting Yu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Xiao Li (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Mario Gerla (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) M.Y. Sanadidi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Analyzing Extended Sliding Frame Reservation-Aloha MAC Protocol against Asymmetric Radio Link Problem in MANET/VANET ............................................................................. 1635

Kazi Atiqur Rahman (University of Windsor, Canada) Kemal E. Tepe (University of Windsor, Canada)

Reliable Broadcast in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks ................................................................................... 1640 Shu Zhang (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Mikael Asplund (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Vinny Cahill (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

A Presence-Based Architecture for a Gateway to Integrate Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) ......................... 1648

Mohab Aly (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada) Alejandro Quintero (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

Enhanced Connectivity in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks via V2V Communications ............................... 1654 Elias Yaacoub (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar) Nizar Zorba (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar)

ThA-7: Application Level Security (Security Symposium) Session Chair: Jeremy Seideman, Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, USA

A Contactless E-health Information System with Privacy ......................................................................... 1660 Aude Plateaux (ENSICAEN, France) Patrick Lacharme (ENSICAEN, France) Christophe Rosenberger (ENSICAEN, France) Kumar Murty (University of Toronto, Canada)

Applying Machine Learning Classifiers to Dynamic Android Malware Detection at Scale .................. 1666 Brandon Amos (Virginia Tech, USA) Hamilton Turner (Virginia Tech, USA) Jules White (Virginia Tech, USA)

Improved ID-Based Remote User Authentication Scheme Using Smart Card ........................................ 1672 Toan-Thinh Truong (University of Science, Vietnam) Minh-Triet Tran (University of Science, Vietnam) Anh-Duc Duong (University of Science, Vietnam)

Determining Vulnerability Resolution Time by Examining Malware Proliferation Rates .................... 1678 Jeremy D. Seideman (City University of New York, USA) Bilal Khan (City University of New York, USA) Ghassen Ben Brahim (Prince Mohamed University, Saudi Arabia)

Sandroid: Simplistic Permission Based Android Malware Detection and Classification ....................... N/A Bemnet Aberra Debelo (Ajou University, Korea) Wooguil Pak (Ajou University, Korea) Young-June Choi (Ajou University, Korea)

Batch-based Group Key Management with Shared Key Derivation in the Internet of Things ............. 1688 Luca Veltri (University of Parma, Italy) Simone Cirani (University of Parma, Italy) Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy) Stefano Busanelli (Guglielmo Srl, Italy)

ThA-8: Communication Systems II (Comm. And Signal Processing Symposium) Session Chair: Haikal Al Abed, GIZ, Germany

A Dual-layer Differential Equal Gain Transmission Technique using M-PSK Constellations .............. 1694 Young Ju Kim (Chungbuk National University, Korea) Noe Yoon Park (Chungbuk National University, Korea)

On Maximizing the Performance of SC-FDMA Systems with Rotated Constellation ............................ 1699 Benjamin K. Ng (Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao) Chan Tong Lam (Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao)

Genetic Algorithm Aided Gray-APSK Constellation Optimization ......................................................... 1705 Keqian Yan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Fang Yang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Changyong Pan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Jian Song (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Fei Ren (Sichuan Changhong Electronic Ltd. Co., P.R. China) Jia Li (Sichuan Changhong Electronic Ltd. Co., P.R. China)

An Improved Preamble Design for Broadcasting Signalling with Enhanced Robustness ...................... 1710 Zhen Gao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Chao Zhang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Adaptive Primary Synchronization Signal Detection for 3GPP Long Term Evolution ......................... 1716 Ahmed R. Elsherif (Cairo University, Egypt) Mohamed M. Khairy (Cairo University, Egypt)

Adaptive Service Function for System Reward Maximization Under Elastic Traffic Model ................ N/A MohammadJavad NoroozOliaee (Oregon State University, USA) Bechir Hamdaoui (Oregon State University, USA) Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar)

ThA-9: VTS—Traffic, Services, and Applications (Vehicular Symposium) Session Chair: Celimuge Wu, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Availability Evaluation of IPTV Services in Roadside Backbone Networks with Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication .................................................................................................. 1727

Sadaf Momeni (University of Hamburg, Germany) Junyu Lai (NEC Labs China, P.R. China) Bernd E. Wolfinger (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Location Prediction for Large Scale Urban Vehicular Mobility ............................................................... 1733 Siyu Chen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Yong Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Wenyu Ren (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Depeng Jin (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Pan Hui (TU Berlin, Germany)

Mobile Application for Driver's Health Status Remote Monitoring ......................................................... 1738 K. Różanowski (Military Institute of Aviation Medicine, Poland) Z. Piotrowski (Military University of Technology, Poland) M. Ciolek (Military University of Technology, Poland)

Quorum-based Location Service in Vehicular Sensor Networks .............................................................. 1744 Euisin Lee (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Hyunsoo Choe (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Pragadheeshwaran Thirumurthi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Mario Gerla (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Sang-Ha Kim (Chungnam National University, Korea)

SmartGeocast: Dynamic Abnormal Traffic Information Dissemination to Multiple Regions in VANET ......................................................................................................................................... 1750

Linjuan Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Deyun Gao (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Shuai Gao (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Victor C.M. Leung (The University of British Columbia, Canada)

On the Existence of Self-similarity in Large-scale Vehicular Networks ................................................... 1756 Gautam S. Thakur (University of Florida, USA) Pan Hui (Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Germany) Ahmed Helmy (University of Florida, USA)

ThA-10: Cognitive Networks (Cognitive and Cooperative Networks Workshop) Session Chair: Sghaier Guizani, Alfaisal University, SA

Exploring Qualitative Probabilistic Networks for Knowledge Modeling in Cognitive Wireless Networks ......................................................................................................................................... 1762

Balamuralidhar P. (Tata Consultancy Services, India)

Reduced Complexity Blind Beamforming for Multiple Antenna Spectrum Sensing .............................. 1769 Ines Elleuch (SUP' COM, Tunisia) Fatma Abdelkefi (SUP' COM, Tunisia) Mohamed Siala (SUP' COM, Tunisia)

A Cognitive Radio MAC Protocol for Exploiting Bandwidth Utilization in Wireless Networks ........... 1774 Chih-Yung Chang (Tamkang University, Taiwan) Li-Ling Hung (Aletheia University, Taiwan) Chao-Tsun Chang (Hsiuping University of Science and Technology, Taiwan) Tzu-Lin Wang (Tamkang University, Taiwan) Tzu-Chia Wang (Tamkang University, Taiwan)

Handoff Reducing Model for Multichannel Access in Cognitive Radio Networks ................................. 1780 Soumaya Dahi (SUP' COM, Tunisia) Sami Tabbane (SUP' COM, Tunisia)

On the Selection of Working Channels in a Channel-Hopping Cognitive PAN ...................................... 1786 Jelena Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada) Vojislav B. Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada) Mohammad Shahnoor Islam Khan (Ryerson University, Canada)

Use of Chance-Constrained Programming for Solving the Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing Problem under Rayleigh Fading ................................................................................................................... 1792

Quang-Tuan Thieu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Hung-Yun Hsieh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

ThA-11: Signal Processing for Communications (Communication and Signal Processing Symp.) Session Chair: Sofiene Affes, INRS-EMT, Canada

Multi-User Multi-Carrier Differential Chaos Shift Keying Communication System ............................. 1798 Georges Kaddoum (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) Francois-Dominique Richardson (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) Sarra Adouni (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) François Gagnon (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) Claude Thibeault (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

Interference-Aware Weighting Scheme for Satellite/Terrestrial Integrated Mobile Communication System ................................................................................................................................. 1803

Akihisa Tanaka (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) Eiji Okamoto (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) Hiroyuki Tsuji (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) Yoshiyuki Fujino (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

Downlink Interference Cancellation Strategy for Shared-Spectrum LTE HetNet ................................. 1809 Ahmed Latrach (INRS-EMT, Canada) Raouia Nasri (INRS-EMT, Canada) Sofiène Affes (INRS-EMT, Canada)

Effect of Near-Surface Bubble Plumes on the Acoustic Signal used in UWACNs .................................. 1816 Amit Kumar Mandal (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India) Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India) Mihir Kumar Dash (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India)

ThA-12: Localization Techniques (Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium) Session Chair: Abdallah Shami, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Indoor Localization System for First Responders in Emergency Scenario .............................................. 1821 Romeo Giuliano (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Franco Mazzenga (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Marco Petracca (Radiolabs, Consorzio Università Industria, Italy) Marco Vari (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

Performance Evaluation of DV-hop Localization Algorithm with Mobility Models for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks ............................................................................................ 1827

Jia Chao (Hohai University, P.R. China) Guangjie Han (Hohai University, P.R. China) Chuan Zhu (Hohai University, P.R. China) Hui Guo (Hohai University, P.R. China) Lei Shu (Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, P.R. China)

Wireless Indoor Tracking of Livestock for Behavioral Analysis .............................................................. 1833 Mikko Asikainen (Unversity of Eastern Finland, Finland) Keijo Haataja (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) Pekka Toivanen (Unversity of Eastern Finland, Finland)

A Practical Ranging Method Using IR-UWB Signals ................................................................................ 1839 Tingting Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Qinyu Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Hongguang Xu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Hong Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

An Asynchronous UWB TDOA Localization Method ............................................................................... N/A Hongliang Zou (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Tingting Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Qinyu Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)