5th IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Networking (PWN09)

Friday, March 13

In conjunction with the Seventh IEEE International Conference on
Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2009

Final Program

Opening Remak (8:20-8:30)

Session I: PHY Layer Issues in Wireless Networks (8:30-10:00)
Session Chair: TBA

Markov Chain Existence and Hidden Markov Models in Spectrum Sensing
Chittabrata Ghosh, Carlos Cordeiro, Dharma P. Agrawal, and M. B. Rao (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA)

Dynamic Hard Fractional Frequency Reuse for Mobile WiMAX
Soumaya Hamouda, Choongil Yeh, Jihyung Kim, Shin Wooram, Dong Seung Kwon (Communication Engineering School, Tunis, Tunisia)

Localizing Jammers in Wireless Networks
Hongbo Liu, Wenyuan Xu, Yingying Chen and Zhenhua Liu (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, USA)

Break (10:00-10:30)

Session II: Localization Technologies (10:30-12:00)
Session Chair: TBA

Reliable Ranging Technique based on Statistical RSSI Analyses for an Ad-Hoc Proximity Detection System
Keiichi Nakamura, Masato Kamio, Tetsushi Watanabe, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Noboru Koshizuka and Ken Sakamura (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)

HexNet: Hexagon-Based Localization Technique For Wireless Sensor Networks
Hady S. AbdelSalam, Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA)

On the Accuracy of RFID-based Localization in a Mobile Wireless Network Testbed
Vikram Munishwar, Shailendra Singh, Xiaoshuang Wang, Christopher Mitchell, Kartik Gopalan and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (State University of New York, Binghamton, USA)

Lunch (12:00-1:30)

Session III: Relaying and Routing in Wireless Networks (1:30-3:00)
Session Chair: TBA

An Energy-Aware Relay Selection Scheme for ALLIANCES
Xinhua Yang and Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA)

A Formal Passive Testing Approach to test a MANET Routing Protocol
Ana Cavalli, Stephane Maag, Edgardo Montes de Oca and Fatiha Zaidi (Institu Telecom, Evry Cedex, France)

Articulation Nodes Based Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks
Li Ding, Bo Gu, Xiaoyan Hong, Brandon Dixon (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA)

Break (3:00-3:30)

Session IV: Applications and Mobility in Wireless Networks (3:30-5:00)
Session Chair: TBA

An Empirical Analysis of Wi-Fi Activity in Three Urban Scenarios
Thomas Claveirole, Mathias Boc and Marcelo Dias de Amorim (Universit´e Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

Seamless VoWLAN Handoff Management based on Estimation of AP Queue Length and Frame Retries
Muhammad Niswar, Eigo Horiuchi, Shigeru Kashihara, Tsukamoto Kazuya, Youki KADOBAYASHI and Suguru Yamaguchi (
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

SRRP: Social Relation aware Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
Jisun An, Yangwoo Ko, and Dongman Lee (Information and Communications University, Daejeon, Korea)