MobiCom 2003, September 14-19, 2003, San Diego, California, USA, Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE

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Program-at-a-Glance

Sunday, September 14

7:30 AM-6:00 PM Registration Open

8:30 AM-5:00 PM Full-Day Tutorial

Tutorial 1: Secure Routing in Ad Hoc Networks ,
Adrian Perrig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) and Yih-Chun Hu (Rice University, USA)

Monday, September 15

7:30 AM-6:00 PM Registration Open

8:30 AM-12:00 PM Morning Half-Day Tutorials

Tutorial 2: Public-Area Wireless Networks: Security, Deployment, Performance Optimization, and Pricing Issues ,
Anand Balachandran (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Tutorial 4: Mobile Ad Hoc Networking ,
Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) and Sung-Ju Lee (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA)

1:30 PM-5:00 PM Afternoon Half-Day Tutorials

Tutorial 3: IP Mobility Support in a Mobile Internet ,
Rajeev Koodli (Nokia Research Center, Mountain View, CA, USA)
Tutorial 5: Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks ,
Paolo Santi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA; on leave from IIT-CNR, Italy)

6:00 PM-9:00 PM Welcome Reception

Come enjoy refreshments, visit with old friends, and meet new ones, before the main conference starts Tuesday morning. In the Garden Pavilian, on the fourth floor of the Westin Horton Plaza.

Tuesday, September 16

7:30 AM-5:00 PM Registration Open

7:30 AM-8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM-9:00 AM Opening Session

Welcome and Opening Remarks
- MobiCom 2003 General Chair: David B. Johnson (Rice University)
- MobiCom 2003 Program Co-Chairs: Anthony D. Joseph (University of California, Berkeley) and Nitin H. Vaidya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
MobiCom Best Student Paper Award Presentation
SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award Presentation
- Award Winner: Dr. Ian F. Akyildiz , Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor in Telecommunications, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Citation: "For pioneering contributions in the area of mobility and resource management for wireless communication networks"
  
  Professor Akyildiz will give an invited talk during lunch on Wednesday, 12:00 PM-1:30 PM.

9:00 AM-10:00 AM Keynote Speech
Session Chair: David B. Johnson (Rice University)
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Dr. Paul J. Kolodzy

Dr. Paul J. Kolodzy, Director of the Wireless Network Security Center (WiNSeC) at Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Kolodzy's previous work includes serving as Senior Spectrum Policy Advisor and Director of the Spectrum Policy Task Force at the United States FCC, and as a Program Manager at DARPA.

10:30 AM-12:00 PM Transport Protocols
Session Chair: Helen Wang (Microsoft Research)

A Receiver-Centric Transport Protocol for Mobile Hosts with Heterogeneous Wireless Interfaces,
Hung-Yun Hsieh, Kyu-Han Kim, Yujie Zhu, and Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Tech)
Enhancing TCP Fairness in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Using Neighborhood RED,
Kaixin Xu and Mario Gerla (UCLA); and Lantao Qi and Yantai Shu (Tianjin University)
A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving Mobile IP Handoff Latency for End-to-End TCP,
Robert Hsieh and Aruna Seneviratne (University of New South Wales)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM Conference Lunch

1:30 PM-3:00 PM Wireless Network Performance
Session Chair: Mingyan Liu (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)

Characterizing the Achievable Rates in Multihop Wireless Networks,
Murali Kodialam and Thyagarajan Nandagopal (Lucent Technologies)
Throughput Capacity of Random Ad Hoc Networks with Infrastructure Support,
Ulas Kozat and Leandros Tassiulas (University of Maryland)
Impact of Interference on Multi-hop Wireless Network Performance,
Kamal Jain, Jitendra Padhye, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Lili Qiu (Microsoft Research)

3:30 PM-5:00 PM Location Information
Session Chair: Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research)

Range-Free Localization Schemes for Large Scale Sensor Networks,
Tian He, Chengdu Huang, Brian Blum, John A Stankovic, and Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Virginia)
Geographic Routing without Location Information,
Ananth Rao, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Christos Papadimitriou, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica (University of California, Berkeley)
Efficient Location Area Planning for Personal Communication Systems,
Yigal Bejerano (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), Nicole Immorlica (MIT), Joseph Naor (The Technion), and Mark Smith (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

5:30 PM-9:00 PM Conference Dinner Banquet Cruise

Join us aboard the Spirit of San Diego, the flagship of the San Diego Harbor Excursion fleet, for an enjoyable dinner cruise. With breathtaking views of the San Diego skyline and San Diego bay, the cruise will offer an excellent dining experience, great views of San Diego, and opportunities for socializing with the other conference participants. The Conference Dinner Banquet is included with your MobiCom 2003 conference registration. Boarding for the cruise begins at 5:30, and the cruise departs at 6:00.

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Spirit of San Diego

Wednesday, September 17

7:30 AM-6:00 PM Registration Open

7:30 AM-8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Routing Optimizations
Session Chair: Taieb Znati (National Science Foundation and University of Pittsburgh)

Minimum Energy Disjoint Path Routing in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks,
Anand Srinivas and Eytan Modiano (MIT)
A High-Throughput Path Metric for Multi-Hop Wireless Routing,
Douglas De Couto, Daniel Aguayo, John Bicket, and Robert Morris (MIT)
Reactive Routing Overhead in an Unreliable Grid,
Nianjun Zhou, Huaming Wu, and Alhussein Abouzeid (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM Wireless LAN Optimizations
Session Chair: Adam Wolisz (Technical University of Berlin)

MiSer: An Optimal Low-Energy Transmission Strategy for IEEE 802.11a/h,
Daji Qiao (University of Michigan), Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University); and Amit Jain and Kang Shin (University of Michigan)
Self-Tuning Wireless Network Power Management,
Manish Anand, Edmund Nightingale, and Jason Flinn (University of Michigan)
Improving Protocol Capacity with Model-based Frame Scheduling in IEEE 802.11-Operated WLANs,
Hwangnam Kim and Jennifer Hou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM Conference Lunch and Invited Speaker

During lunch, Professor Ian F. Akyildiz, recipient of the 2003 SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award, will present an invited talk on "InterPlaNetary Internet: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges".

1:30 PM-3:00 PM Simulation and Implementation Issues
Session Chair: Charles Perkins (Nokia)

Sound Mobility Models,
Jungkeun Yoon, Mingyan Liu, and Brian Noble (University of Michigan)
Towards Realistic Mobility Models for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,
Amit Jardosh, Elizabeth Belding-Royer, Kevin Almeroth, and Subhash Suri (University of California, Santa Barbara)
DIRAC: A Software-based Wireless Router System,
Petros Zerfos, Gary Zhong, Jerry Cheng, Haiyun Luo, Songwu Lu, and Jeffrey Jia-ru Li (UCLA)

3:00 PM-5:00 PM Demos and Student Posters (with refreshments)

Come see posters showing the best in recent student research, plus demonstrations of state-of-the-art mobile and wireless networking projects from industry and universities. Refreshments will be served.

5:00 PM-6:30 PM Open SIGMOBILE Business Meeting

An open meeting to discuss issues relevant to SIGMOBILE, the ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing. ACM SIGMOBILE is the sponsor of this conference. This open meeting covers issues such as future SIGMOBILE conference activities, publications, budget, and membership. Everyone interested is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Thursday, September 18

7:30 AM-6:00 PM Registration Open

7:30 AM-8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Routing and Forwarding
Session Chair: Admela Jukan (National Science Foundation)

Ad hoc-VCG: A Truthful and Cost-Efficient Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Selfish Agents,
Stephan Eidenbenz (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and Luzi Anderegg (ETH Zurich)
Trajectory Based Forwarding and Its Applications,
Dragos Niculescu and Badri Nath (Rutgers)
Manycast: Exploring the Space Between Anycast and Multicast in Ad Hoc Networks,
Casey Carter, Seung Yi, Prashant Ratanchandani, and Robin Kravets (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM Panel Discussion
Organizer and Moderator: Prof. Zygmunt J. Haas (Cornell University, USA)

The Challenges of a More Secure Wireless and Mobile Future,
Panelists: Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL, Switzerland), Dr. Markus Jakobsson (RSA Laboratories, USA), Prof. John Mitchell (Stanford University, USA), and Dr. Lidong Zhou (Microsoft Research, USA)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM Lunch (on your own)

Explore the San Diego Gaslamp Quarter and the Horton Plaza shopping mall, both immediately next to the hotel, where you will find a large number of restaurants of all kinds for lunch.

1:30 PM-3:00 PM Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Session Chair: Young-bae Ko (Ajou University)

Topology Control for Wireless Sensor Networks,
Jianping Pan (University of Waterloo), Thomas Hou (Virginia Tech), Lin Cai (University of Waterloo), Yi Shi (Virginia Tech), and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo)
Power Optimization in Fault-Tolerant Topology Control Algorithms for Wireless Multi-hop Networks,
MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Nicole Immorlica, and Vahab S. Mirrokni (MIT)
Distributed Algorithms for Guiding Navigation across a Sensor Network,
Qun Li, Michael DeRosa, and Daniela Rus (Dartmouth)

3:30 PM-5:00 PM Cellular and Hybrid Networks
Session Chair: Parmesh Ramanathan (University of Wisconsin)

ARC: An Integrated Admission and Rate Control Framework for CDMA Data Networks Based on Non-cooperative Games,
Haitao Lin (University of Texas at Arlington); Mainak Chatterjee (University of Central Florida); and Sajal Das and Kalyan Basu (University of Texas at Arlington)
Wireless Downlink Data Channels: User Performance and Cell Dimensioning,
Thomas Bonald and Alexandre Proutiere (France Telecom)
UCAN: A Unified Cellular and Ad-Hoc Network Architecture,
Haiyun Luo (UCLA), Ramachandran Ramjee (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), Prasun Sinha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Li Li (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), and Songwu Lu (UCLA)

5:00 PM Conference Adjourns

Friday, September 19

7:30 AM-5:00 PM Registration Open

All Day Full-Day Workshops (concurrent, check individual workshop schedules)