TECHNICAL PROGRAM

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IEEE SECON 2011 technical program at a glance (xls/ pdf).

Keynote talks

Putting the Cloud in the Palm of your Hand
Dr. Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research
Tuesday June 28th 2011 (pdf)



Cyber-physical systems: linking sensing, networking, computation, and people
Prof. Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts
Wednesday June 29th 2011 (pdf)


See more details on the keynote talks here!

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Tuesday June 28th 2011

Opening Remarks (8:30 - 9:00 AM)

Keynote talk (9:00 - 10:00 AM)

Putting the Cloud in the Palm of your Hand
Dr. Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research (details)

Panel (10:30 AM - 12:00 PM)

Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability
Moderator: Krishna Kant, National Science Foundation

The panel will be a report-out and discussions following through the Workshop of Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability (WICS). The panelist will discuss a broader range if sustainability impacts related to energy, water, food, environment, and bio-diversity.

Medium Access Control (1:30 – 3:00 PM)
Session chair: Young-Bae Ko

NOMAD: Deterministic Collision-Free Channel Access with Channel Reuse in Wireless Networks
JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA); Ashok N Masilamani (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

PowerNap: An Energy Efficient MAC Layer for Random Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Onur Soysal (Google Inc., USA); Sami Ayyorgun (Telcordia, USA); Murat Demirbas (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)

Any-MAC: Extending Any Asynchronous MAC with Anycast to Improve Delay in WSN
Farhana Ashraf (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Robin Kravets (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

WiSP: A Protocol for Overcoming MAC Overheads Using Packet Size Dependent Channel Widths
Vijay Raman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Energy Efficiency (1:30 – 3:00 PM)
Session chair: Lili Qiu

Power-Efficient Wireless Sensor Network for Continuously Monitoring Seismic Vibrations
Beat Weiss (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland); Hong Linh Truong (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland); Wolfgang Schott (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland); Andrea Munari (University of Padova, Italy); Clemens Lombriser (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland); Urs Hunkeler (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Pierre R Chevillat (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland)

Compressed Data Aggregation for Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
Liu Xiang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Jun Luo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Athanasios Vasilakos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Energy-Efficiency Through Micro-Managing Communication and Optimizing Sleep
Alexandru Caracas (IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland); Clemens Lombriser (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland); Yvonne-Anne Pignolet (ABB Corporate Research, Dättwil, Switzerland); Thorsten Kramp (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland); Thomas Eirich (IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland); Rolf S Adelsberger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Urs Hunkeler (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)

Energy Efficient Online Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Hanan Shpungin (University of Calgary, Canada)

Sensor Network Performance (3:30 – 5:00 PM)
Session chair: Mehmet Can Vuran

Linear Decentralized Estimation of Correlated Data for Wireless Sensor Networks
Alireza S. Behbahani (University of California, Irvine, USA); Ahmed M. Eltawil (University of California, Irvine, USA); Hamid Jafarkhani (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Information Capacity of Pulse-based Wireless Nanosensor Networks
Josep Miquel Jornet (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Optimal Non-Uniform Deployment of Sensors for Detection in Single-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks
Vibhav A Kapnadak (AT&T Labs, USA); Edward Coyle (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Energy-Delay Optimization in an Asynchronous Sensor Network with Multiple Gateways
Reuven Cohen (Technion, Israel); Boris Kapchits (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

Sensing (3:30 – 5:00 PM)
Session chair: Krishna Kant

OppSense: Information Sharing for Mobile Phones in Sensing Field with Data Repositories
Edith C.-H. Ngai (Uppsala University, Sweden); He Huang (Uppsala University, Sweden); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Mani B. Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Efficient Network Management for Context-Aware Participatory Sensing
Chi Harold Liu (IBM Research - China, P.R. China); Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany); Joel W. W. Branch (IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA); Chatschik Bisdikian (T. J. Watson Research, USA); Bo Yang (IBM China Research Lab, P.R. China)

RoadSoundSense: Acoustic Sensing based Road Congestion Monitoring in Developing Regions
Rijurekha Sen (IIT Bombay, India); Pankaj Siriah (IIT Bombay, India); Bhaskaran Raman (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)

Distance and Time Based Node Selection for Probabilistic Coverage in People-Centric Sensing
Asaad Ahmed Gad Elrab Ahmed (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Yukiko Yamauchi (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Minoru Ito (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

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Wednesday June 29th 2011

Keynote talk (8:30 - 9:30 AM)

Cyber-physical systems: linking sensing, networking, computation, and people
Professor Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts (details)

NSF Informational Session on SEES Initiative (9:30 - 10:30 AM)

Cognitive networks (10:30 AM – 12:00 noon)
Session chair: Jeongkeun Lee

Adaptive Energy-Efficient Spectrum Probing in Cognitive Radio Networks
Zesheng Chen (Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA); Chao Chen (Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA)

Delay Analysis for Cognitive Radio Networks Supporting Heterogeneous Traffic
Yanxiao Zhao (Old Dominion University, USA); Min Song (Old Dominion University, USA); Chunsheng Xin (Norfolk State University, USA)

Rateless-coding-based cooperative cognitive radio networks: design and analysis
Behzad Shahrasbi (Oklahoma State University, USA); Nazanin Rahnavard (Oklahoma State University, USA)

Interference Pair-Based Distributed Spectrum Allocation in Wireless Mesh Networks with Frequency-Agile Radios
Tong Shu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Min Liu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Zhongcheng Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Qishi Wu (University of Memphis, USA)

Detection/Tracking (10:30 – 12:00 noon)
Session chair: Neal Patwari

Detection and Tracking of Dynamic Amorphous Events in Wireless Sensor Networks
Nicholas Hubbell (Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA); Qi Han (Colorado School of Mines, USA)

Noise Reduction for Variance-Based Device-Free Localization and Tracking
Yang Zhao (University of Utah, USA); Neal Patwari (University of Utah, USA)

Inferring Mobile Trajectories Using a Network of Binary Proximity Sensors
Eunjoon Cho (Stanford University, USA); Kevin Wong (Stanford University, USA); Omprakash Gnawali (Stanford University, USA); Martin Wicke (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Leonidas Guibas (Stanford University, USA)

Towards a Pulse Switching Protocol for Event and Target Tracking using Ultra Wide Band Impulse Radio
Qiong Huo (Michigan State University, USA); Subir Biswas (Michigan State University, USA); Anthony Plummer Jr (Michigan State University, USA)

Wireless Networks: Performance and Fairness (1:30 – 3:00 PM)
Session chair: Konstantinos Pelechrinis

Realizing High Performance Multi-radio 802.11n Wireless Networks
Sriram Lakshmanan (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Jeongkeun Lee (HP Labs, USA); Raul Etkin (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA); Sung-Ju Lee (HP Labs, USA); Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Characterizing WiFi Link Performance in Open Outdoor Networks
Utpal Paul (Stony Brook University, USA); Riccardo Crepaldi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Jeongkeun Lee (HP Labs, USA); Sung-Ju Lee (HP Labs, USA); Raul Etkin (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA)

FOG: Fairness in Mobile Opportunistic Networking
Abderrahmen Mtibaa (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Khaled A. Harras (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Capacity Bounds for Energy Efficient Data Streaming in Homogeneous Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Hanan Shpungin (University of Calgary, Canada); Ajay Gopinathan (University of Calgary, Canada); Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary, Canada)

RFID and Routing (1:30 – 3:00 PM)
Session chair: Krishna Kant

Fast Identification of the Missing Tags in a Large RFID System
Rui Zhang (Arizona State University, USA); Yunzhong Liu (Arizona State University, USA); Yanchao Zhang (Arizona State University, USA); Jinyuan (Stella) Sun (University of Tennessee, USA)

Efficient Pinpointing of Misplaced Tags in Large RFID Systems
Kai Bu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Bin Xiao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Qingjun Xiao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Shigang Chen (University of Florida, USA)

Dynamic Data Prioritization for Quality-of-Service Differentiation in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
Majid Nabi (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Milos Blagojevic (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Marc Geilen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Twan Basten (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Geo-Logical Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Dulanjalie Dhanapala (Colorado State University, USA); Anura Jayasumana (Colorado State University, USA)

Security 1 (3:30 – 4:40 PM)
Session chair: Srikanth Krishnamurthy

An Optimal Distributed Malware Defense System for Mobile Networks with Heterogeneous Devices
Yong Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany); Depeng Jin (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Li Su (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Lieguang Zeng (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Trade-offs of Source Location Protection in Globally Attacked Sensor Networks: a Case Analysis
Silvija Kokalj-Filipovic (INRIA Saclay, France); Fabrice Le Fessant (INRIA Saclay, France); Predrag Spasojevic (Rutgers University, USA)

Making DTNs Robust Against Spoofing Attacks with Localized Countermeasures
Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Ahmed Khurshid (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Hee Dong Jung (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Carl Gunter (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Matthew Caesar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA)

Vehicular networks (3:30 – 4:40 PM)
Session chair: SJ Lee

QUO VADIS: QoS-aware Underwater Optimization Framework for Inter-vehicle Communication using Acoustic Directional Transducers
Baozhi Chen (Rutgers University, USA); Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA

Minimizing Age of Information in Vehicular Networks
Sanjit Kaul (WINLAB / Rutgers University, USA); Marco Gruteser (WINLAB / Rutgers University, USA); Vinuth Rai (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA); John Kenney (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA)

VTube: Towards the Media Rich City Life with Autonomous Vehicular Content Distribution
Tom H. Luan (University of Waterloo, Canada); Lin X. Cai (Princeton University, USA); Jiming Chen (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada); Fan Bai (General Motors, USA)

Snowbird Social event: 4:45pm.

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Thursday June 30th 2011

Security 2 (8:30 – 10:00 AM)
Session chair: Patrick Tague

Coping with Packet Replay Attacks in Wireless Networks
Zi Feng (University of California, Riverside, USA); Jianxia Ning (University of California, Riverside, USA); Ioannis Broustis (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Konstantinos Pelechrinis (University of Pittsburgh, USA); Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy (University of California, Riverside, USA); Michalis Faloutsos (University of California, Riverside, USA)

Broadcasting in Multi Channel Wireless Networks in the Presence of Adversaries
Alfred Asterjadhi (University of Padova, Italy); Raju Kumar (Penn State University, USA); Tom La Porta (Penn State University, USA); Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy)

Trust-Assisted Anomaly Detection and Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Shanshan Zheng (University of Maryland, College Park, USA); John S. Baras (University of Maryland College Park, USA)

Collusion-resilient Quality of Information Evaluation Based on Information Provenance
Xinlei (Oscar) Wang (University of California, Davis, USA); Kannan Govindan (University of California Davis, USA); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)

Scheduling/Resource allocation (8:30 – 10:00 AM)
Session chair: Sneha Kasera

Optimal One-Shot Scheduling for MIMO Networks
Douglas Blough (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Giovanni Resta (Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Italy); Paolo Santi (IIT-CNR, Italy); Ramya Srinivasan (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Luis Miguel Cortés-Peña (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Sensor-mission Assignment in Wireless Sensor Networks with Energy Harvesting
Tom La Porta (Penn State University, USA); Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Dora Spenza (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)

Minimum-Time Aggregation Scheduling in Multi-sink Sensor Networks
Bo Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

Interference-aware Spatio-Temporal Link Scheduling for Long Delay Underwater Sensor Networks
Junchao Ma (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Wei Lou (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Sensor network Systems (10:30 AM – 12:00 noon)
Session chair: Neal Patwari

Software-Hardware Emulator for Sensor Networks
Jingyao Zhang (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Yi Tang (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Sachin Hirve (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Srikrishna Iyer (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Patrick Schaumont (Virginia Tech, USA); Yaling Yang (Virginia Tech, USA)

Chrysso -- A Multi-channel Approach to Mitigate External Interference
Venkat Iyer (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Matthias Woehrle (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Koen Langendoen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

A Real-time Monitor and Rescue System: Towards Practical Implementation of Robotic Sensor Network
Jing Yuan (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Shao-Jie Tang (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

Nano-CF: A Coordination Framework for Macro-programming in Wireless Sensor Networks
Vikram Gupta (Carnegie Mellon University, Portugal); Junsung Kim (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Aditi Pandya (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Karthik Lakshmanan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Ragunathan Rajkumar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Eduardo Tovar (ISEP-IPP, Portugal)

Distributed Algorithms (10:30 AM – 12:00 noon)
Session chair: Dario Pompili

On the Construction of the Minimum Cost Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Overlays
Yaxiong Zhao (Temple University, USA); Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)

Distributed Coordination for Fast Iterative Optimization in Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks
Rahul Balani (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Nabil Hajj Chehade (UCLA, USA); Supriyo Chakraborty (University of California at Los Angeles, USA); Mani B. Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Distributed Algorithms for Bottleneck Identification and Segmentation in 3D Wireless Sensor Networks
Hongyu Zhou (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Ning Ding (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Miao Jin (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Su Xia (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Hongyi Wu (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)

Optimizing Cooperative Video Streaming in Wireless Networks
Zhangyu Guan (Shandong University, P.R. China); Tommaso Melodia (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Dongfeng Yuan (Shandong University, P.R. China)

Incentives and Games (1:30 – 3:00 PM)
Session chair: Prasant Mohapatra

Analyzing Credit Evolution for Credit-based Incentive Schemes in Wireless Mesh Networks
Patrick Pak-Ching Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Hongying Liu (BeiHang University, P.R. China); John Chi Shing Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

District: Embracing Local Markets in Truthful Spectrum Double Auctions
Wei Wang (University of Toronto, Canada); Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada); Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada)

A Game Approach for Cell Selection and Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Lin Gao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Gaofei Sun (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Youyun Xu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China)

Incentive-Aware Data Dissemination in Delay-Tolerant Mobile Networks
Ting Ning (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Zhipeng Yang (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Xiaojuan Xie (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Hongyi Wu (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)

Topology, Coverage and Connectivity (1:30 – 3:00 PM)
Session chair: Fred Bauer

TOM: Topology Oriented Maintenance in Sparse Wireless Sensor Networks
Piotr Szczytowski (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany); Abdelmajid Khelil (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Azad Ali (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany); Neeraj Suri (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)

Exploring Redundancy in Sensor Deployment to Maximize Network Lifetime and Coverage
Wei Shen (Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, P.R. China); Qishi Wu (University of Memphis, USA)

Dual Power Assignment Optimization For k-Edge Connectivity in WSNs
Nhat X Lam (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Trac Ngoc Nguyen (Raytheon Systems, USA); Min Kyung An (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Dung Huynh (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

A Cooperative Clustering Protocol for Energy Constrained Networks
Diep N. Nguyen (University of Arizona, USA); Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA)

Rate Adaptation/Selection (3:30 – 4:40 PM)
Session chair: Sneha Kasera

Rate Adaptation in Visual MIMO
Ashwin Ashok (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA); Marco Gruteser (WINLAB / Rutgers University, USA); Narayan Mandayam (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA); Taekyoung Kwon (Seoul National University, Korea); Wenjia Yuan (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA); Michael Varga (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA); Kristin Dana (Rutgers University, USA)

A Context-aware Approach to Wireless Transmission Adaptation
Veljko Pejovic (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Elizabeth Belding (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

End-to-End Rate Selection for Opportunistic Reception in Multi-Rate Wireless Networks
Raju Kumar (Penn State University, USA); Sharanya Eswaran (Telcordia Technologies, USA); Tom La Porta (Penn State University, USA)