Advance Program

January 03, 2007
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:45 Inauguration
09:45 – 10:15 Tea Break
10:15 Tutorial – “Designing Smart and Pervasive Environments: Challenges and Solution”
Speaker: Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Chair: Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA
14:15 – 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 Tutorial – “Game Theory for Wireless Networks”
Speaker: Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA Chair: Bhabani Prasad Sinha, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
17:00 – 17:15 Tea Break
17:15 Tutorial Continued

January 04, 2007
09:00 Tutorial – “IMS Convergent Network: Opportunities and Challenges”
Speaker: Kalyan Basu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Chair: Dipak Basu, Jadavpur University, India
11:00 – 11:15 Tea Break
11:15 Tutorial Continued
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Tutorial – “Wireless Sensor Networks: A Perspective from Application-Specific Sensor Control”
Speaker: Wook Choi, Corporate R & D Center, Samsung, Seoul, Korea Chair: Aditya Bagchi, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
16:00 – 16:15 Tea Break
16:15 Tutorial Continued

January 05, 2007
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 Session 1 – Architectures and Protocols
10:30 – 10:45 Tea Break
10:45 Industry Research & Development Session
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Session 2 - Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 Keynote Speech - “Next Generation Mobile Networks” Speakers: Tapan J Chakraborty, Anil Sawkar, ALCATEL-Lucent, USA
Chair: Somprakash Bandopadhyay, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India
January 06, 2007
09:00 Session 3 – Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
10:30 – 11:00 Tea Break
11:00 Session 4 – Mobile Applications, Middleware Support and Algorithms
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Session 5 - Wireless and Mobile Security
15:30 – 16:00 Tea Break
16:00 Session 6 – Mobile and Wireless Communication Protocols

January 05, 2007

09:00 – 10:30 – Session 1 – Architectures and Protocols

Interworking of WLAN and Mobile Communication Network through
Wired & Wireless Access Gateway
Sewook Oh (Korea), Sung-il Jin (Korea) Kijin Baek (Korea),Sangman Bak(Korea)

Efficient Mobility Support in IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee Network

Sumay Guin (India), Ashish Dasani (India), Santosh Kumar Sharma (India), Parama Bhaumik (India)


Rights management and protection for network based broadcast
content distribution using Virtual PDR

Mohammad Kasim (India), Kiyohiko Ishikawa (Japan), Shunji Sunasaki(Japan)


An Implementation Technique for Network-Specific Authentication in
Cellular/WLAN Integrated Network

Sibaram Khara (India)


Breaking the barriers of constrained, mobile
devices in the home

Wouter Haerick (Belgium), Davy De Winter (Belgium), Peter Vandenberghe (Belgium), Filip De Truck (Belgium), Bart Dhoedt (Belgium), Sylvie Bracke (Belgium), Willem Acke, Christele Bouchat (Belgium)


Sporadic Communication Protocol between
Clusters of Mobile Computers

Hiroaki Higaki (Japan)


10:45 – 13:00 – Industry Research & Development Session

Chair: Partha Pratim Das, Head of Engineering, Interra Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
P. Balamuralidhar, Tata Consultancy Services Research & Development
Subir Saha, Motorola India Research Laboratory
Kalyan Basu, University of Texas at Arlington
Archan Mishra, IBM Research Laboratory, USA

14:00 – 16:00 – Session 2 – Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Chair: Prof. Sajal Das, University of Texas at Atrlington, USA

A Comparison of Greedy-like Algorithms for Selecting Routers in Ad Hoc Networks
Michael Rieck (USA), Subhankar Dhar (USA)

Energy Efficient On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol for MANETs

Rajendran Manoharan (India), P. Thambidurai (India), S Lakshmana Pandian (India)

IPMANautoconf: A Scheme for IPv6 Address Autoconfiguration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Sourav Saha (India), Sarmistha Neogy (India)

A Distributed Approach to Maintain Network Connectivity in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Samir Biswas (India), Avik Ray (India), Kanad Basu (India), M.K. Naskar (India)

A Stochastic Approach for Topology Management of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Sourav Sengupta (India), Surjya S. Ray (India), Somnath Samanta (India), Oly Mistry (India) and Mrinal K. Naskar (India)

January 06, 2007

09:00 – 10:30 – Session 3 – Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks

Chair: Nabanita Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

A Localized Self-configuration Scheme for Controlled Mobility in Self-Organizing Sensor Network
Rajiv Misra (India),Chittaranjan Mandal (India)

A distributed protocol for maintaining energy efficient connectivity in Ad hoc sensor network

Umesh Roy (India) , Asim Kar (India)


Global Incremental Power Model for Life Maximization
in Ad Hoc Networks

Shiva Prakash Thayagaraj (India), Badrinath G.S. (India), Venugopal Kuppanna Rajuk (India), L. M. Patnaik (India)


A Distributed Algorithm for Bounded-degree
Connected Dominating Set

Ankur Jain (India), Sushanta Karmakar (India), Arobinda Gupta (India)


RFIDPlanner - A Coverage Planning Tool for RFID Networks

Nitesh Gupta (India), Sridhar Iyer (India)

11:00 – 13:00 – Session 4 – Mobile Applications, Middleware Support and Algorithms

Chair: Rajarshi Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Cell Phones making a sonorous trip: The grail

Diego Restrepo Paris (Colombia)

Fast Cache-based Processing of k-Nearest-Neighbor and Ranking Queries in the Wireless Environment

Shyamal Banerji (India), Sipra DasBit (India), Atal Chaudhuri (India)


An Efficient Adaptive Residual Time based Scheduler
in Wireless Networks

Ramtin Kazemi (Iran), Mohammad Hossien Yaghmaee (Iran), Jalil Chiti-zadeh (Iran)


A Middleware-Based Approach to Mobile Web Services

Pradip Das (India), Pampa Sadhukhan (India), Arijit Das (India), Rijurekha Sen (India), Niladrish Chatterjee (India)


FRAMMME: An Integrated Framework for a Mobile Middleware for
Multimedia Content Delivery

Matangini Chattopadhyay (India), Debesh Das (India), Subharthi Paul (India), Suman Sanyal (India), Samiran Chattopadhyay (India)



Population Entropy of Mobile Hotspots

Mohammed Baseem Hassan (Australia), Mahbub Hassan (Australia), Boulem Bentallah (Australia), Sajal Das (USA)


14:00 – 15:30 – Session 5 – Wireless and Mobile Security

Chair: Shamik Sural, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Residential Gateway Discovery Mechanism
Jahan Hassan (Australia), Peter Glavas (Australia)

A Certificate-Based Authentication Mechanism for
Ad Hoc Networks

Jaydip Sen (India), Piyali Roy Chowdhury (India), Indranil Sengupta (India)


A Collaborative Approach for Intrusion Detection in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Ningrinla Marchang (India), Uttam Ghosh (India), Raja Dutta(India)


A Secured Response Algorithm with Query
Authentication for Wireless Sensor Networks

Somanath Tripathy (India), Sukumar Nandi (India), Abhijit Mitra (India)


16:00 – 17:30 – Session 6 – Mobile and Wireless Communication Protocols

Chair: Tapan J. Chakraborty, ALCATEL-Lucent, USA

Analysis and Simulation of Turbo Coding Techniques
for Wireless Communication and
their Optimization Methods
Bala Krishna Maddali (India), B. V. R. Reddy (India)

Design optimization of LDPC coded MIMO OFDM system

Anuradha Kondelwar (India), D.V. Padole(India)


Fractionally spaced Adaptive Equalizer for
Multiple-Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Channels

Saurav Dutt (India), Ratnajit Bhattacharjee (India)


Factors affecting Wireless Local Area Network Performance
and ways to circumvent them

Avirup Dasgupta (India), Aniruddha Dasgupta (Australia)