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08:30-08:40---Welcome note

08:40-09:40---Keynote talk

Can theory meet practice? The case of multi-channel wireless networks

Nitin Vaidya (Co-Director, Illinois Center for Wireless Systems, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:40-10:40---Session 1: Metro-Area Testbed and Characterization

A City-Wide Vehicular Testbed for Wide-area Wireless Experimentation

Justin Ormont, Jordan Walker, Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin, USA), Sridhar Machiraju, Mukund Seshadri, Ashwin Sridharan (Sprint, USA)

An Empirical Study of Bandwidth Predictability in Mobile Computing

Jun Yao, Salil Kanhere, Mahbub Hassan (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Municipal Wireless Data Network in Longmont, CO

Thomas Schwengler (Qwest, USA)

10:40-10:55---Tea/Coffee break

10:55-11:55---Session 2: Methodologies and Tools

Validation of a Miniaturized Wireless Mesh Network Testbed

Yang Su, Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Peeling the 802.11 Onion: separating congestion from physical PER

Malik Khan, Darryl Veitch (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Active Capture of Wireless Traces: Overcome the Lack in Protocol Analysis

Jaeyong Yoo, Thomas Huehn, and JongWon Kim (Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, Republic of Korea and Technical University Berlin, Germany)

12:00-13:00---Lunch (Poster/Demo Setup)

13:00-14:45---Poster/Demo Session

14:45-15:45--- Session 3: Ad Hoc, Vehicular Networks

Insights from a Freeway Car-to-Car Real-World Experiment

Karim Seada (Nokia Research Center, USA)

MMAN - A Monitor for Mobile Ad hoc Networks: Design, Implementation and Experimental Evaluation

Hanif Kazemi (Deloitte Consulting LLP, US), George Hadjichristofi (University of Cyprus, CY), and Luiz A. DaSilva (Virginia Tech, USA)

Characterizing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks – The MANIAC Challenge Experiment

Vivek Srivastava, Amr Hilal, Michael Thompson, Jawwad Chattha, Allen MacKenzie, and Luiz A. DaSilva (Virginia Tech and Bucknell University, USA)

15:45-16:00---Tea/Coffee break

16:00-17:00--- Session 4: Testbed Driven Design and Evaluation

Using Commodity Hardware Platform to Develop and Evaluate CSMA Protocols

Mei-Hsuan Lu, Peter Steenkiste, Tsuhan Chen (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

On The Topology Creation For An Indoor Wireless Grid

Gautam Bhanage, Yanyong Zhang, Ivan Seskar (Rutgers University, USA)

On Estimating Joint Interference for Concurrent Packet Transmissions in Low Power Wireless Networks

Ritesh Maheshwari (Stony Brook University, USA), Shweta Jain (Staccato Communications, USA), Samir Das (Stony Brook University, USA)

17:00-17:15---Awards/Workshop Concluding Remarks

 

Posters

Understanding and Modeling Pedestrian Mobility of Train-Station Scenarios

Mingmei Li, Shinichi Konomi, Kaoru Sezaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Extending Wireless Mesh Networks into Deep Forests: A Study of Antenna Direction, Transmit Power, and Vegetation Effects on Network Performance

Kuang-Ching Wang, Gayatri Venkatesh, Sajindra Pradhananga, Sandeep Lokala (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University, USA), Shari Carter, Jason Isenhower, James Vaughn (South Carolina Governor’s School, USA)

Demonstrations (* Entries for WinCool Demo Contest)

*Interactions between Cooperation Strategies in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Amr Hilal, Jawwad N. Chattha, Vivek Srivastava, Michael S. Thompson†, Allen B. MacKenzie, Luiz A. DaSilva (Virginia Tech and Bucknell University, USA)

PaPMo: Packet accurate Protocol Monitoring System

JaeYong Yoo, Thomas Huehn, JongWon Kim, Roger P. Karrer (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea and TU Berlin, Germany)

*WiPal and WScout, Two Hands-on Tools for Wireless Packet Traces Manipulation and Visualization

Thomas Claveirole and Marcelo Dias de Amorim (LIP6/CNRS — UPMC Univ Paris 06, France)

*FlexMAC: A Wireless Protocol Development and Evaluation Platform Based On Commodity Hardware

Mei-Hsuan Lu, Peter Steenkiste, and Tsuhan Chen (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Cross-Layer Rate Adaptation Using WARP

Joseph Camp, Ahmed Khattab, Chris Hunter, Patrick Murphy, Ashu Sabharwal, and Edward W. Knightly (Rice University, USA)

*A Demonstration of Frequency Hopping Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Synchronization Method on WARP boards

Teemu Vanninen, Hannu Tuomivaara and Juha Huovinen (University of Oulu, Finland)

*Multi-User MIMO Testbed

Peter Luethi, Markus Wenk, Wolfgang Fichtner, and Helmut Bölcskei (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

*Interference Aware Channel Allocation in a Multichannel, Multi-interface Wireless Network

Vijay Raman and Nitin H. Vaidya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

*Machine Learning for Physical Layer Link Adaptation in Multiple-Antenna Wireless Networks

Robert C. Daniels, Ketan Mandke, Steven W. Peters, Scott M. Nettles, and Robert W. Heath, Jr. (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

*Continuous Monitoring of Wide-Area Wireless Networks: Data Collection and Visualization

Justin Ormont, Jordan Walker, and Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

*A Demonstration of Video over a Cooperative PHY layer Protocol

Shashi Raj Singh, Ehtesham Akhtar Siddiqui, Thanasis Korakis, Pei Liu,  and Shivendra S. Panwar (Polytechnic Institute of NYU and IIT Kanpur)

Energy-Efficient Wireless Communication based on Directional Transmission from Mobile Access

Hasan Dumanli and Lin Zhong (Rice University)