Third International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN 2003)

Tuesday October 21, 2003

Schedule Overview:

8:30-9:30 Welcome and keynote
9:30-10:45 Session I – Wireless LAN Performance
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:15 Session II – Wireless Medium Access

12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:45 Session III – Ad Hoc Routing/Scheduling
2:45-3:15 Coffee and snack break
3:15-4:30 Session IV – Ad Hoc/Wireless Miscellaneous

4:30-6:00 Poster Session

Welcome and keynote (8:30 to 9:30)

WLAN Security Threats & Solutions

Franjo Majstor (EMEA Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems, Brussels, Belgium)

Session I: Wireless LAN Performance (9:30 to 10:45)

Measuring the Impact of Slow User Motion on Packet-Loss and -Delay of IEEE 802.11b Wireless Links

Christian Hoene, André Günther, Adam Wolisz (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)

Simulation Evaluation of Wireless Web Performance in an IEEE 802.11b Classroom Area Network

Guangwei Bai, Carey Williamson (University of Calgary, Canada)

Performance Analysis of IP Paging Protocol in IEEE 802.11 Networks

Sangheon Pack, Ved Kafle, Yanghee Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)

Session II: Wireless Medium Access (11:00 to 12:15)

Improving the Aggregate Throughput of Access Points in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs

Xuanming Dong, Mustafa Ergen, Pravin Varaiya, Anuj Puri (University of California at Berkeley, USA)

Performance Analysis and Service Differentiation for 802.11 Wireless LAN

Jianhua He, Lin Zheng, Zongkai Yang, (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China), Chun Tung Chou (University of Wollongong, Australia)

BROADEN: An Efficient Collision-Free MAC Protocols for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

Tiantong You, Chi-Hsiang Yeh, Hossam Hassanein (Queen’s University, Canada)

Session III: Ad Hoc Routing/Scheduling (1:30 to 2:45)

Experimental Results with a GPS and Signal Strength extended Ad Hoc Routing Protocol

Ingo Gruber, Stefan Högg (Technische Universität München, Germany)

Reliable Multipath Routing with Fixed Delays in MANET Using Regenerating Nodes

Rui Ma, Jacek Ilow (Dalhousie University, Canada)

New metrics for dominating set based energy efficient activity scheduling in ad hoc networks

Jamil A. Shaikh, Ivan Stojmenovic (University of Ottawa, Canada), Julio Solano (Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico), Jie Wu (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

Session IV: Ad Hoc/Wireless Miscellaneous (3:15 to 4:30)

WANMon: A Resource Usage Monitoring Tool for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

Don Ngo, Naveed Hussain, Mahbub Hassan, Jim Wu (University of New South Wales, Australia)

A Highly Flexible Testbed for Studies of ad-hoc Network Behaviour

Hartmut Ritter, Min Tian, Thiemo Voigt, Jochen Schiller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Reducing Signalling Overhead in Cell-Hopping Mobile Wireless Networks using Location Cache

Jahan Hassan, Sanjay Jha (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Poster Session (4:30 to 6:00)

Improving Multicast Tree Construction in Static Ad Hoc Networks

Aleksi Penttinen, JormaVirtamo (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

Towards Supporting GPS-unequipped Vehicles in Inter-Vehicle Geocast

Abdemalik Bachir, Abderrahim Benslimane (Université D’Avignon, France)

Energy Aware Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada), Harold Owens II (University of North Texas, USA)

IP-based Soft Handover in All-IP wireless networks

Farouk Belghouk,Yan Moret, Christian Bonnet (Institute Eurécom, France)

Designing a Peer-to-Peer Wireless Confederation

Elias C. Efstathiou, George C. Polyzos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)