Programme for WISARD 2008

Best paper/poster awards committee:

Day 1 : Saturday 05 January 2008

8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:30 Session 1: WiFi Networking (Invited)
Session Chair: Venkat Padmanabhan
9:00 - 9:30 Long-Distance 802.11b Links: Performance Measurements and Experience
Kameswari Chebrolu, Bhaskaran Raman, and Sayandeep Sen, ACM MOBICOM 2006
Speaker: Bhaskaran Raman [PDF slides]
9:30 - 10:00 WiLDNet: Design and Implementation of High Performance WiFi Based Long Distance Networks
Rabin Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi, Sonesh Surana, Anmol Sheth, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Eric Brewer, USENIX NSDI 2007
Speaker: Rabin Patra [PDF slides]
10:00 - 10:30 Automating Cross-Layer Diagnosis of Enterprise Wireless Networks
Yu-Chung Cheng, Mikhail Afanasyev, Patrick Verkaik, Peter Benkoy, Jennifer Chiang, Alex C. Snoeren, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, ACM SIGCOMM 2007
Speaker: Geoffrey M. Voelker [PDF slides]
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 2: Wireless Sensor Networks (Contributed)
Session Chair: Bhaskaran Raman
11:00 - 11:30 Undersea Wireless Sensor Network for Ocean Pollution Prevention
Arijit Khan and Lawrence Jenkins
11:30 - 12:00 An Effective Group-Based Key Establishment Scheme for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks using Bivariate Polynomials
Ashok Kumar Das and Indranil Sengupta [PDF slides]
12:00 - 12:30 Simulation Blocks for TOSSIM-T2,
Prabhakar Venkata [PDF slides]
12:30 - 1:00 Posters before lunch
1:00 - 2:30 Lunch
2:30 - 4:00 Session 3: Algorithms and Analyses (Invited)
Session Chair: Vikram Srinivasan
2:30 - 3:00 Capacity for Multihop Wireless Networks
A. Keshavarz-Haddad, Vinay Ribeiro, and R. Riedi, ACM MOBICOM 2006
Speaker: Vinay Ribeiro [PDF slides]
3:00 - 3:30 A New Distributed Time Synchronization Protocol for Multihop Wireless Networks
Roberto Solis, Vivek Borkar and P. R. Kumar, 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec 2006
Speaker: P.R.Kumar [PDF slides]
3:30 - 4:00 Fixed Point Analysis of Single Cell IEEE 802.11e WLANs: Uniqueness, Multistability & Throughput Differentiation
Venkatesh Ramaiyan, Anurag Kumar, Eitan Altman, ACM SIGMETRICS 2005
Speaker: Anurag Kumar [PDF slides]
4:00 - 4:30 Coffee

Day 2 : Sunday 06 January 2008

8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:30 Session 4: Routing and Connectivity (Invited)
Session Chair: Joy Kuri
9:00 - 9:30 Weak State Routing for Large Scale Dynamic Networks
Utku Gunay Acer, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, and Alhussein A. Abouzeid, ACM MOBICOM 2007
Speaker: Shivkumar Kalyanaraman [PDF slides]
9:30 - 10:00 Adaptive Contact Probing Mechanisms for Delay Tolerant Applications
W. Wang, Vikram Srinivasan, and Mehul Motani, ACM MOBICOM 2007
Speaker: Vikram Srinivasan [PDF slides]
10:00 - 10:30 The Complexity of Connectivity in Wireless Networks
Thomas Moscibroda and Roger Wattenhofer, IEEE INFOCOM 2006
Speaker: Roger Wattenhofer [PDF slides]
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 5: Measuring and Improving Wireless Links (Invited)
Session Chair: Vinay Ribeiro
11:00 - 11:30 On Accurate Measurement of Link Quality in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks
Kyu-Han Kim and Kang G. Shin, ACM MOBICOM 2006
Speaker: Kang G. Shin [PDF slides]
11:30 - 12:00 PPR: Partial Packet Recovery for Wireless Networks
Kyle Jamieson and Hari Balakrishnan, ACM SIGCOMM 2007
Speaker: Hari Balakrishnan [PDF slides]
12:00 - 12:30 MobiSteer: Using Steerable Beam Directional Antenna for Vehicular Network Access
Vishnu Navda, Anand Prabhu Subramanian, Kannan Dhanasekaran, Andreas Timm-Giel, Samir R. Das, ACM MOBISYS 2007
Speaker: Vishnu Navda [PDF slides]
12:30 - 1:00 Posters before lunch
1:00 - 2:30 Lunch
2:30 - 4:00 Session 6: Physical Layer Aspects (Contributed)
Session Chair: Rajesh Sundaresan
2:30 - 3:00 Performance Evaluation of a New Overloading Scheme for Cellular DS-CDMA with Iterative Multistage Interference Cancellation Receiver
Preetam Kumar and Saswat Chakrabarti
3:00 - 3:30 Experiments with Low Power Commodity Hardware Platforms for Challenged Networks
Rajat Sethi [PDF slides]
3:30 - 4:00 Thresholds for LDPC codes over OFDM
Srikrishna Bhashyam, Andrew Thangaraj, Dileep M. K., and Aravind Iyengar [PDF slides]
4:00 - 4:30 Coffee break
4:30 - 5:00 Best paper / poster awards, organisers views, and feedback on workshop