4th Asian International Mobile Computing Conference (AMOC 2006)
 
Asian International Mobile Computing Conference provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to meet and share their new ideas. Following the success of The first (AMOC 2000 in Penang, Malaysia), The second conference (AMOC 2002 in Langkawi, Malaysia), The third conference (AMOC 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand), The fourth conference will be held at Kolkata, India and will be organized by the Centre for Mobile Computing & Communication, Jadavpur University as a pioneering activity under the UGC Scheme "Universities with Potential for  Excellence". This event is dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and networking. This highly selective, single-track conference serves as the premier forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. AMOC 2006 aims to bring together participants from universities and industries in the field of mobile computing and communications from all over the world.
Venue of AMOC 2006 : Hyatt Regency, Kolkata     Date: 4th - 7th January, 2006                        List of Sponsors
Advance Program

January 04, 2006
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:45 Inauguration
09:45 – 10:15 Tea Break
10:15 Tutorial – “Mobility and Resource Management in Next Generation Wireless Networks”
14:15 – 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 Tutorial – “Wireless LAN, Mobile Ad-Hoc and Wireless Mesh Networks”
17:00 – 17:15 Tea Break
17:15 Tutorial Continued

January 05, 2006
09:00 Tutorial – “Sensor Networks and Applications”
11:00 – 11:15 Tea Break
11:15 Tutorial Continued
13:15 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Tutorial – “SIP: Signaling for Multimedia Services in Converged Networks”
16:00 – 16:15 Tea Break
16:15 Tutorial Continued

January 06, 2006
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 Session 1 – Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
10:30 – 11:00 Tea Break
11:00 Session 2 - Wireless Sensor Networks
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 Session 3 - Mobile Applications, Services and Middleware Support
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 Industry Session
18:00 Cultural Programme & Banquet Dinner

January 07, 2006
09:00 Session 4 – Architectures, Protocols and Algorithms – I
10:30 – 11:00 Tea Break
11:00 Session 5 - Architectures, Protocols and Algorithms – II
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Session 6 – Issues in Mobile & Distributed Computing
15:20 Session 7 – Distributed Aspects of Mobile Computing
16:00 – 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 – 17:00 Session 7 Continued

January 06, 2006

09:00 – 10:30 – Session 1 – Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Comparison of Routing Strategies for Minimizing
Energy Consumption in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Natarajan Meghanathan (USA), Andras Farago (USA)

Implementing Global Connectivity and Mobility
support in a Wireless multi-hop ad hoc Network

Robert Brännström (Sweden), Ruwini Kodikara E (Australia), Christer Åhlund (Sweden), Arkady Zaslavsky (Australia)


S -TCP: A Sophisticated TCP For Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Sourav Saha (India), Sarmistha Neogy (India)


A Pragmatic Approach towards the improvement
of performance of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols

Rajesh Roy (India), Sudipto Das (India), Pradip K. Das (India)


Load Balanced Link Reversal Routing in Mobile
Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks

Nabhendra Bisnik (USA), Alhussein Abouzeid (USA), Costas Busch (USA)


A Novel Algorithm for Managing Network
Configuration of a Mobile Ad-hoc Network

Somnath Samanta (India), Surjya S. Ray (India),Sourav Sen Gupta (India), Mrinal K. Naskar (India)

11:00 – 13:30 – Session 2 – Wireless Sensor Networks

Physical layer impact on finding local knowledge information
in ad hoc and sensor networks
Nishith Goel (Canada), Kalai Kalaichelvan (Canada), Amiya Nayak (Canada), Ivan Stojmenovic (Canada), Eduardo Villanueva-Pena (Canada)

An Identity Based Key Management Scheme in Wireless 
Sensor Networks

Ashok Kumar Das (India), Debasis Giri (India)

Energy-Efficient Connected Coverage in Wireless Sensor 
Networks

Neeraj Jaggi (USA), Alhussein A. Abouzeid (USA)

A Centralized Dynamic Power-Aware Communication Protocol
for Wireless Sensor Networks

Ghanshani Pankaj (India), Bansal Tarun (India), Yadav Amit (India), Garg Kumkum (India), Jain Sumit (India)

An Improved Energy Efficient Distributed Clustering Algorithm
for Large Wireless Sensor Networks

Rajiv Misra (India), Chittaranjan Mandal (India)

Iterative Refinement of Clusterheads in Sensor
Networks

Sushanta Karmakar (India), Arobinda Gupta (India)

Optimal Clustering in Sensor Networks Using
Game-theoretic Particle Swarm Optimization

Rajiv Misra (India), Chittaranjan Mandal (India)


14:30 – 16:00 – Session 3 – Mobile Applications, Services and Middleware Support

Policy Based Architecture for Active and Programmable
Network Management
S. Rajeev (India), K.V. Sreenaath (India), A.S.Bharathi Manivannan (India)

CAL: A Layer for Executing Mobile CORBA Clients
on WAP …

Matangini Chattopadhyay (India), Arnab De (India), Kausik Ghatak (India), Samiran Chattopadhyay (India)

IEEE 802.11b Based Broadband Wireless Access for Users on the Road

Moh Lim Sim (Malaysia), Maziar Nekovee (UK), Yin Fern Ko (Malaysia)

Smart Wireless Sensor Network in Underground Coalmines

Partha Mukhopadhyay (India), Sandip Boral (India), Partha Bhattacharya (India), Hiranmay Saha (India)

Next Generation Mobile Services using Location specific applications

Amitabha Samajpati (India), Pramita Mitra (India), Tanmoy Sarkar (India), Pradip K. Das (India)


Location-aware Services in Mobile Environment

Pampa Sadhukhan (India), Pradip K. Das (India)

06:00 p.m – 11:00 p.m Cultural Programme
Conference Dinner

January 07, 2006

09:00 – 10:30 – Session 4 – Architectures, Protocols and Algorithms – I

Measurment Study on Performance of Single Radio Multihop
Wi-Fi Systems with Chain Topology
Kee Ngoh Ting (Malaysia), Moh Lim Sim (Malaysia)

On the Development of a Combined Scheduling/Traffic Policing Mechanism
for 4th Generation Wireless Networks

P. Koutsakis (Greece), H. Papadakis (Greece)


Analysis and Optimization Of Routing Protocols In
IEEE 802.15.4

Debarshi Kumar Sanyal (India), Sudeepta Ray (India), Uttam Kumar Roy (India)


An Efficient QoS Scheduling Architecture for
IEEE 802.16 Wireless MANs

Supriya Maheshwari (India), Sridhar Iyer (India), Krishna Paul (India)


Performance of Fixed point analysis for IEEE 802.11 compliant WLAN

Samudra Dasgupta (India), Jithun Nair (India)

11:00 – 13:00 – Session 5 – Architectures, Protocols and Algorithms – I

Performance analysis of Distributed Call Admission control (D-CAC)
and Enhanced D-CAC Schemes for 2-D Cellular Networks  

Kalpana Saha (Roy) (India), Iti Saha Misra (India), Arindam Sen (India)

Design and Performance Analysis of an Efficient 3D Handoff Queuing
Scheme for 3G Cellular Wireless Networks

Iti Saha Misra (India), Amitava Banerjee (India), Kalpana Saha (Roy) (India)


An Efficient Technique of Integrating WLAN into
GPRS Network

Sibaram Khara (India), Iti Saha Misra (India), Debashis Saha (India)


Generalized Lower Bounds on Bandwidth for Channel Assignment in Cellular
Networks with k-Band Buffering

Sasthi C. Ghosh (India), Bhabani P. Sinha (India)


Improved Lower Bounds and Frequency Assignment Strategy In Cellular Networks

Damayanti Datta (USA)


14:00 – 15:20 – Session 6 – Issues in Mobile & Distributed Computing

An Adaptive Control Scheme for Real-time MPEG4
Video over Ad-hoc Networks IEEE
Bo wang (China), Guiming He (China), Zhixiong Liu (China)

Robust H.263 video streaming under erroneous transmission conditions over GPRS wireless networks

Mehdi Jafari (Iran), Shohreh Kasaei (Iran)


Index Structures for Multitree-Multilevel Mobile Database architecture in Mobile Database Management System

Diganta Saha (India), Arup Kumar Salui (India), Sanjoy Kumar Saha (India)


A New Metric for Cache Invalidation of Location Dependent Data in Mobile
Environment

Ajey Kumar (India), Manoj Misra(India), A. K. Sarje (India)


15:20 – 17:00 – Session 7 – Distributed Aspects of Mobile Computing

A Modified Priority-Based Deadlock Detection and Resolution Algorithm
for Mobile Agent Systems
Rahil Hosseini (Iran)

Structural and Behavioral Run-Time Validation of Dynamic Reconfiguration
in Pervasive Computing Environments

Hadi Hemmati (Iran), Saeed Aliakbarian (Iran), Mahdi Niamanesh (Iran), Rasool Jalili (Iran)


Sb: A Semantics preserving distributed message ordering protocol for group communication

Chaitanya Krishna Bhavanasi (India), Sridhar Iyer (India)


Bidding Agent Strategies in a Dutch Auction Marketplace

Norleyza Jailani (Malaysia), Mohd Fauzan Abbas (Malaysia), Mazliza Othman (Malaysia), Mohamad Shanudin Zakaria (Malaysia)


Scheduling of DAG Structured Parallel Program onto Heterogeneous Wireless
Mobile Computing Environment

E. Ilavarasan (India), P. Thambidurai (India)