IEEE SECON 2013

Session 1: Wireless MAC 

• Making 802.11 DCF Near-Optimal: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

• iQueue-MAC: A Traffic Adaptive duty-cycled MAC Protocol With Dynamic Slot Allocation

• Distributed MAC and Rate Adaptation for Ultrasonically Networked Implantable Sensors

• TAS-MAC: A Traffic-Adaptive Synchronous MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Session 2: Privacy, Preservation, and Trust

• Data Preservation in Intermittently Connected Sensor Networks With Data Priority

Xinyu Xue (Wichita State University, USA); Xiang Hou (Wichita State University, USA); Bin Tang (Azusa Pacific University, USA); Rajiv Bagai (Wichita State University, USA)

• Zigzag: Partial Mutual Revocation Based Trust Management in Tactical Ad Hoc Networks

Xin Chen (The Pennsylvania State University, USA); Harshal Patankar (The Pennsylvania State University, USA); Sencun Zhu (The Pennsylvania State University, USA); Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA); Jeff Opper (BBN, USA)

• An Adaptive Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Location Tracking of a Mobile User

Jindan Zhu (University of California, Davis, USA); Kyu-Han Kim (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA); Paul T Congdon (University of California, Davis, USA)

• Smartphone Based User Verification Leveraging Gait Recognition for Mobile Healthcare Systems

Yanzhi Ren (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Mooi Choo Chuah (Lehigh University, USA); Jie Yang (Oakland University, USA)

Session 3: MIMO and Smart Antennas

• Characterization of 802.11n Wireless LAN Performance via Testbed Measurements and Statistical Analysis

Lito Kriara (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Mahesh K Marina (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Arsham Farshad (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

• Joint Rate and Channel Width Adaptation for 802.11 MIMO Wireless Networks

Lara Deek (University of California Santa Barbara, USA); Eduard Garcia-Villegas (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Elizabeth Belding (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Sung-Ju Lee (HP Labs, USA); Kevin C Almeroth (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

• Electronically-switched Directional Antennas for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Full-stack Evaluation

Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano-Italy and Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Italy); Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden); Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy)

• Adaptive Antenna Adjustment for 3D Urban Wireless Mesh Networks

Guoqing Yu (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Wei Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Kim Leng Yong (VSee Lab, Inc, USA); Ben Leong (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Wei Tsang Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Session 4: Network Monitoring and Optimizations

• Energy and Bandwidth-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks for Monitoring High-Frequency Events

Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan (Central South University, P.R. China); Guojun Wang (Central South University, P.R. China); Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong); Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)

• Toward Optimal Sniffer-Channel Assignment for Reliable Monitoring in Multi-Channel Wireless Networks

Dong-Hoon Shin (Arizona State University, USA); Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University, USA); Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, USA)

• On Packet Size and Error Correction Optimisations in Low-Power Wireless Networks

Claro A Noda (CISTER Research Unit - Politécnico do Porto, Portugal); K. Shashi Prabh (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal); Mário Alves (CISTER/INESC-TEC, ISEP, Politécnico do Porto, Portugal); Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)

• A Long-Term Study of Correlations between Meteorological Conditions and 802.15.4 Link Performance

Hjalmar Wennerström (Uppsala University, Sweden); Frederik Hermans (Uppsala University, Sweden); Olof Rensfelt (Uppsala University, Sweden); Christian Rohner (Uppsala University, Sweden); Lars-Åke Nordén (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Session 5: Scanning and Sensing 

• To Scan or Not To Scan: The Effect of Channel Heterogeneity on Optimal Scanning Policies

Fidan Mehmeti (EURECOM, France); Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (EURECOM, France)

• Data Gathering Optimization by Dynamic Sensing and Routing in Rechargeable Sensor Networks

Yongmin Zhang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Shibo He (Arizona State University, USA); Jiming Chen (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

• Recursive Validation and Clustering for Distributed Spectrum Sensing in CR-MANET

Kanthakumar Pongaliur (Michigan State University, USA); Li Xiao (Michigan State University, USA)

• On-Mote Compressive Sampling to Reduce Power Consumption for Wireless Sensors

Marc Rubin (Colorado School of Mines, USA); Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines, USA)

Session 6: Sensing Applications

• SugarTrail: Indoor Navigation in Retail Environments without Surveys and Maps

Aveek Purohit (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Zheng Sun (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Shijia Pan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Pei Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

• Joint Ultra-wideband and Signal Strength-based Through-building Tracking for Tactical Operations

Merrick McCracken (University of Utah, USA); Maurizio Bocca (University of Utah, USA); Neal Patwari (University of Utah, USA)

• Bias Adjustment of Spatially-distributed Wireless Pollution Sensors for Environmental studies in India

Lamling Venus Shum (University College London, United Kingdom); Manik Gupta (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Stephen Hailes (University College London, United Kingdom); Eliane Bodanese (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Liora Malki-Epshtein (University College London, United Kingdom); Nina Glover (University College London, United Kingdom); Styliani Karra (University College London, United Kingdom)

• Imaging Seismic Tomography in Sensor Network

Lei Shi (Georgia State University, USA); Wen-Zhan Song (Georgia State University, USA); Mingsen Xu (Georgia State University, USA); Qingjun Xiao (Georgia State University, USA); Jonathan Lees (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA); Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University, USA)

Session 7: WLANs and Interference

• Interference Aware Adaptive Clear Channel Assessment for Improving ZigBee Packet Transmission under Wi-Fi Interference

Yong Tang (University of Ottawa, Canada); Zhipeng Wang (University of Ottawa, Canada); Dimitrios Makrakis (University of Ottawa, Canada); Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)

• X-WING: A High-Speed Wireless Broadcasting Framework for IEEE 802.11 Networks

Ho Yin Starsky Wong (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA); Ramya Raghavendra (IBM Research, USA); Yang Song (IBM Research, USA); Kang-Won Lee (IBM Research, USA)

• Surviving the RF Smog: Making Body Area Networks Robust to Cross-Technology Interference

Yantian Hou (USU, USA); Ming Li (Utah State University, USA); Shucheng Yu (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)

• Distributed Association Control in Shared Wireless Networks

Krishna C. Garikipati (University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA); Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan, USA)

Session 8: Cognitive Radio Networks

• Nearly Optimal Asynchronous Blind Rendezvous Algorithm for Cognitive Radio Networks

Zhaoquan Gu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Qiang-Sheng Hua (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Amy Yuexuan Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Francis C.M. Lau (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

• Rate-Percentile-Optimal Sequential Channel Sensing and Probing in Cognitive Radio Networks Under Spectrum Uncertainty

Tao Shu (Oakland University, USA); Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, USA)

• Minimum-Latency Broadcast Scheduling for Cognitive Radio Networks

Shouling Ji (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Raheem Beyah (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Zhipeng Cai (Georgia State University, USA)

• Beyond Interference Avoidance: On Transparent Coexistence for Multi-hop Secondary CR Networks

Xu Yuan (Virginia Tech, USA); Canming Jiang (Cisco Systems, USA); Yi Shi (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA); Thomas Hou (Virginia Tech, USA); Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech, USA); Sastry Kompella (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)

Session 9: Video Delivery

• A Collaborative Framework for In-network Video Caching in Mobile Networks

Jun He (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Honghai Zhang (Google, USA); Baohua Zhao (, P.R. China); Sampath Rangarajan (NEC Labs America, USA)

• Mobile Video Delivery Via Human Movement

Gene Moo Lee (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Swati Rallapalli (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Wei Dong (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Yi-Chao Chen (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Lili Qiu (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Yin Zhang (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

• Design and Implementation of a Frequency-aware Wireless Video Communication System

Kefeng Tan (University of California, Davis, USA); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)

Session 10: Multi-carrier and Network Coding Techniques

• Building Blocks of Physical-layer Network Coding

Jianghao He (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Soung Chang Liew (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

• A Rapid Prototyping Framework for Practical OFDMA Systems using Software Defined Radios

Robin Klose (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Adrian Loch (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)

• Sub-carrier Switch Off in OFDM-Based Wireless Local Area Networks

Thomas Nitsche (Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies, Spain); Joerg C. Widmer (Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain)

• Ravine Streams: Persistent Data Streams in Disruptive Sensor Networks

Mingsen Xu (Georgia State University, USA); Wen-Zhan Song (Georgia State University, USA)

Session 11: Mobile and Cellular Networks

• Capacity Optimization of Femtocell Networks

Giordano Fusco (Stony Brook University, USA); Navid Azimi (SUNY Stony Brook, USA); Himanshu Gupta (SUNY, Stony Brook, USA)

• Joint Carrier Aggregation and Packet Scheduling in LTE-Advanced Networks

Xiaolin Cheng (University of California at Davis, USA); Gagan R Gupta (AT&T Labs, USA); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)

• Minimizing Capacity Requirements of Cellular Networks via Delayed Scheduling

Navid Azimi (SUNY Stony Brook, USA); Himanshu Gupta (SUNY, Stony Brook, USA); Utpal Paul (Stony Brook University, USA); Milind Madhav Buddhikot (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Samir R. Das (Stony Brook University, USA)

• Enabling Energy-Aware Collaborative Mobile Data Offloading for Smartphones

Aaron Yi Ding (University of Helsinki, Finland); Bo Han (University of Maryland, USA); Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany); Aravind Srinivasan (University of Maryland, USA); Markku Kojo (University of Helsinki, Finland); Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Session 12: Security

• How to Jam Without Getting Caught: Analysis and Empirical Study of Stealthy Periodic Jamming

Bruce DeBruhl, II (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Patrick Tague (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

• Efficient Wireless Security Through Jamming, Coding and Routing

Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary, Canada); Dennis Goeckel (University of Massachusetts, USA); Ariel Orda (Technion, Israel); Mostafa Dehghan (University of Massachusetts, USA)

• ASIA: Accelerated Secure In-network Aggregation in Vehicular Sensing Networks

Xiao Wang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Patrick Tague (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

• Combined Secure Storage and Communication for the Internet of Things

Ibrahim Ethem Bagci (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Shahid Raza (Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Sweden); Antony Chung (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Utz Roedig (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)

Session 13: Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networks

• Multicent: A Multifunctional Incentive Scheme Adaptive to Diverse Performance Objectives for DTN Routing

Kang Chen (Clemson University, USA); Haiying Shen (Clemson University, USA)

• Delay Analysis of Bursty Traffic in Finite-Buffer Disruption-Tolerant Networks with Two-Hop Routing

Nima Torabkhani (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Faramarz Fekri (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

• Plankton: An Efficient DTN Routing Algorithm

Xiangfa Guo (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Mun Choon Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

• Opportunistic Walks on Random Geometric Networks and Their Application in Scalability Analysis

Ali Dabirmoghaddam (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)