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ICT 2006

13th International Conference on Telecommunications
9-12 May 2006
(Funchal, Madeira island, Portugal)

 

- Programme -

Technical Sessions Guest Speakers Board of Reviewers
Tuesday, May 09
Time Selvagens I Selvagens II Selvagens III Selvagens IV Selvagens V
02:00PM
05:30PM
      Tutorial 1:
"All-Optical Networking: Concepts and Enabling Technologies
"
Tutorial2:
"Data Protection Tec
hnics and Cryptographic Protocols in Modern Computer Networks"

 

Wednesday, May 10
Time Selvagens I Selvagens II Selvagens III Selvagens IV Selvagens V
09:00AM
09:20AM
Opening        
09:20AM
10:20AM
Plenary Ia        
10:20AM
10:50AM

Break

10:50AM
11:50AM
Plenary Ib        
11:50AM
01:00PM
Mobility Cellular Networks Poster - Components OFDM Wireless Mesh Networks
01:00PM
02:30PM

Lunch

02:30PM
04:10PM
Wireless Sensor Nestworks - I Broadcast and Sattelite Communications Poster - Optical Coding Routing and Addressing
04:10PM
04:40PM

Break

04:40PM
06:00PM
Wireless Multimedia Wireless Networks   Propagation Traffic Modelling
08:00PM

Gala Dinner

 

Thursday, May 11
Time Selvagens I Selvagens II Selvagens III Selvagens IV Selvagens V
09:00AM
10:00AM
Plenary 2        
10:00AM
11:00AM
UMTS Optical Devices  

 

Economy Security
11:00AM
11:30AM

Break

11:30AM
12:50PM
Wireless Systems Optical Transmission Poster - Coding Antennas IP-Networks:
QoS-1
12:50PM
02:30PM

Lunch

02:30PM
04:10PM
Reconfigurability Optical Systems Poster - Comm. Systems MIMO and OFDM Ad hoc Networks
04:10PM
04:40PM

Break

04:40PM
06:10PM
Panel 1        
08:00PM

Farewell Dinner
Under the sponsorship of His Excellency the President of Regional Government of Madeira,
 Dr. Alberto João Cardoso Gonçalves Jardim

 

Friday, May 12
Time Selvagens I Selvagens II Selvagens III Selvagens IV Selvagens V
09:00AM
10:30AM
Panel 2        
10:30AM
11:00AM

Break

11:00AM
01:00PM
HAPS Optical
Networks - I
Poster - Comm. Networks Signal Processing IP-Networks:
QoS-2
01:00PM
02:30PM

Lunch

02:30PM
04:10PM

Wireless Sensor Networks - II

Optical
Networks - II

 

Wireless Transmission and Reception

Network Management Applications

 

Technical Sessions

 

Tuesday, May 9

Tutorial 1

Tuesday, May 9; 14:00

Room: Selvagens – IV

All-Optical Networking: Concepts and Enabling Technologies  

Mohammad T. Fatehi (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)

 

Tutorial 2

Tuesday, May 9; 14:00

Room: Selvagens – V

Data Protection Technics and Cryptographic Protocols in Modern Computer Networks  

Milan Marković (Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro)

 

Wednesday, May 10

Opening

Wednesday, May 10; 9:00

Room: Selvagens – I

Pedro Telhado Pereira (Reitor Universidade da Madeira)
Francisco José Vieira Fernandes (Secretário Regional da Educação)
Hamid Aghvami, (King’s College, London, UK)
Luís Correia (Instituto Superior Técnico/IT, Lisbon, Portugal)
Rui Aguiar (Universidade de Aveiro/IT, Aveiro, Portugal)

 

Plenary Ia

Wednesday, May 10; 9:20 – 10:20

Room: Selvagens – I

Chairperson: Luis Correia (IST - Tech. Univ. Lisbon, PT)

Next Direction of Info-Communication Technology, that is Medical ICT!

Ryuji Kohno, Ph.D. (Director Center of Medical Information and Communication Technology, Yokohama National University)

 

Plenary Ib

Wednesday, May 10; 10:50 – 11:50

Room: Selvagens – I

Chairperson: Luis Correia (IST - Tech. Univ. Lisbon, PT)

Next Generation Networks for the 21st Century

Malcom Wardlaw (Vice President Mobility, Intelligence and Applications, BT, UK)

 

Mobility

Wednesday, May 10; 11:50 – 13:00

Room: Selvagens – I

Chairperson: Baltasar Beferull-Lozano (Universidad de Valencia, ES)

An Active Reservation Scheme with Predictive Estimation in WLAN Networks under 2D Mobility Model

Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy); Peppino Fazio (University of Calabria, Italy); Salvatore Marano (University of Calabria, Italy)

A SCTP Layer 2 Cross Layer Mechanism for Data Handover in Wireless Networks (application to EGPRS)

Afif Mériem (ENST Paris, France); Philippe Martins (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France); Sami Tabbane (Sup Telecom, Tunisia); Philippe Godlewski (Ecole Nationale Superieure de Telecommunication, France)

Vertical handover in heterogeneous networks for multimedia sessions based on SIP and L2.5 triggers

Thikrait Al Mosawi (King's college university of London, United Kingdom)

A Fast Handover Solution for SIP-based Mobility

Miao Wang (Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)

 

Cellular Networks

Wednesday, May 10; 11:50 – 13:00

Room: Selvagens – II

Chairperson: Filipe Cardoso (ESTSetúbal/IPS - IT/IST, PT)

Cell Splitting and Exposure in GSM networks

Michael Baldauf (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany); Sandra Knoerzer (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany); Werner Soergel (University of Karlsruhe, Germany); Werner Wiesbeck (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)

Performance of Cost-Based Resource Management in Cellular-Broadcasting Systems with Multicast Traffic

Aurelian Bria (Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden)

Enhanced UMTS Simulation-based Cellular Planning in Urban Scenarios

Orlando Cabral (IT-DEM, University of Beira Interior, Portugal); Fernando Velez (University of Beira Interior, Portugal); Cátia Franco (IT-DEM/University of Beira Interior, Portugal); Ricardo Rei (IT-DEM/University of Beira Interior, Portugal)

Enhanced UMTS Micro-Celular Multi-Service Planning Optimisation in Business City Centres

Cátia Franco (IT-DEM/University of Beira Interior, Portugal); Ricardo Rei (ITDEM/ University of Beira Interior, Portugal); Fernando Velez (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)

 

OFDM

Wednesday, May 10; 11:50 – 13:00

Room: Selvagens – IV

Chairperson: Martijn Kuipers (IT / IST-TUL, PT)

Invertible Clipping for Increasing the Power Efficiency of OFDM Amplification

Yves Louet (Supelec Campus de Rennes, France)

A Comparative Analysis of the Performance of OFDM and COFDM Indoor PLC Systems

Jair Silva (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil); Tonny Siqueira (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil); Moises Ribeiro (Federal Universty of Espirito Santo, Brazil); Rodrigo Andreão (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil); Evandro Salles (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil); Marcelo Segatto (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)

Optimal Walsh Sequences Selection for MIMO-OFDM Channel Estimation

Jianhua Zhang (Beijing university of posts and telecommunications, P.R. China); Guangyi Liu (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Efficient Multipath Delay Estimation for Multi-User OFDM System

Jianhua Zhang (Beijing university of posts and telecommunications, P.R. China); Guangyi Liu (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China)

 

Wireless Mesh Networks

Wednesday, May 10; 11:50 – 13:00

Room: Selvagens – V

Chairperson: Kilian Weniger (Panasonic R&D Center Germany, DE)

Underground mines applications of wireless Mesh networks

Manani Moutairou (Laval University, Québec, Canada, Canada); Hasnaa Aniss (UQAT, Canada); Gilles Y. Delisle (International Institute of Telecommunications, Canada)

Tree-type Routing and Level-based Centralized Scheduling in Wireless Mesh Access Networks

Yingjie Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

An Adaptive Power Control Algorithm in IEEE 802.16 Wireless Mesh Networks

Zhenhua Wu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Huali Song (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yingjie Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Mugen Peng (Beijing University of posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China)

A Channel Assignment Algorithm for Multi-Interface Wireless Mesh Networks

Leiming Xu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

 

Poster - Components

Wednesday, May 10; 11:50 – 13:00

Room: Selvagens – III

Monte-Carlo Analysis for Estimation of Practical Inter-modulation Rejection Values in Feed-forward Microwave Amplifiers

Alimohammad Hemmatyar (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Forouhar Farzaneh (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)

RF Power Amplifiers and Combline Filters for Wireless Base-Stations

Djuradj Budimir (Westminster University, United Kingdom); Helias Koulouzis (University of Westminster, United Kingdom)

A 0.6 to 3.0 GHz Microstrip Balun using a Wilkinson Divider and 3-dB Quadrature Couplers

Haeng Sook Noh (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea); Unghee Park (ETRI, Korea)

SoPC Design of Protocol Data Unit Constructor for 802.16 Wireless MAC

Hamed Holisaz (University of Tehran, Iran); Mehdi Fakhraie (University of Tehran, Iran)

Efficient Gain Optimization of Raman Amplifiers: Genetic Algorithm Approach

Berta Neto (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Sergio Stevan Jr. (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Antonio Teixeira (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Paulo André (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Blocking Probability in a Virtual Circuit Switching Node with Multicast Connections, Finite Source Population and Bandwidth Reservation

Mariusz Glabowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Maciej Stasiak (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Piotr Zwierzykowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)

Performance Evaluation of Packet Classification on Network Processors

Tyrell Sassen (University of Cape Town, South Africa); Neco Ventura (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

A Distributed Simulation Framework for Next Generation Service Networks

Stefan Diepolder (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

 

Wireless Sensor Networks - I

Wednesday, May 10; 14:30 - 16:10

Room: Selvagens – I

Chairperson: Antoine Dejonghe (IMEC, BE)

End-user friendly and DoS Resilient Access Control for WSNs

Dirk Westhoff (NEC Europe Ltd., Germany)

Event Driven Sensor Network Localization

Sarfraz Nawaz (UNSW, Australia); Sanjay Jha (University of NSW, Australia); Mark Peters (UNSW, Australia)

A Comparative Study of Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

Adam Chalak (University of New South Wales, Australia); Vijay Sivaraman (University of New South Wales, Australia); Nevin Aydin (Istanbul University, Turkey); Damla Turgut (University of Central Florida, USA)

AR Modeling for Spatially and Temporally Correlated Sensor Network Data

Hossein Najafi (University of Tehran, Iran); Farshad Lahouti (University of Waterloo, Canada); Mohsen Shiva (University of Tehran, Iran)

Dual-training for Massively-Deployed Sensor Networks

Ruzana Ishak (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia) 

 

Broadcast and Satelite Communications

Wednesday, May 10; 14:30 - 16:10

Room: Selvagens – II

Chairperson: Jose Pereira (University of Aveiro, PT)

The Important Role of Gateway in a Scalable SCORE-Terrestrial/GEO-Satellite Network

Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy); Mauro Tropea (University of Calabria, Italy)

A QoS Multicast Genetic Algorithm in a Hybrid HAP/DVB-RCS Satellite Platform

Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy); Mauro Tropea (University of Calabria, Italy)

Active Elements for High-Definition Video Distribution

Petr Holub (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic); Eva Hladka (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic); Jiri Denemark (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic); Tomas Rebok (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic)

A DTV Interactive Application Development Framework

Henrique Pequeno (Federal University of Ceara, Brazil); Miguel Franklin de Castro (Federal University of Ceara, Brazil); José Gilvan Rodrigues Maia (Federal University of Ceara, Brazil); Luiz David Campelo (Federal University of Ceara, Brazil); Wellington F. Sarmento (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Jose Neuman (UFC, Brazil); Fernando Gomes Carvalho (Federal University of Ceara, Brazil)

Simplified Canceller for Multi-level Modulation Super- positioning for Freq       uency Reuse Satellite Communications

Mayumi Osato (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Hiroyuki Kobashi (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Takao Hara (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Minoru Okada (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Heiichi Yamamoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

 

Coding

Wednesday, May 10; 14:30 - 16:10

Room: Selvagens – IV

Chairperson: Yves LOUET (SUPELEC-Rennes, FR)

On the Design of Maximum-SINR Binary Spreading Codes

George Karystinos (Technical University of Crete, Greece); Dimitris Pados (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

Bit-error-rate and Maximum-SINR Performance of the Odd-length Minimum-TSC Binary Signature Sets

George Karystinos (Technical University of Crete, Greece); Dimitris Pados (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

Truncation Biasing in Importance Sampling Simulation of Encoded Systems

Edmar Gurjão (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil); Bruno Albert (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil); Francisco M. Assis (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil)

A New Deterministic Interleaver for Turbo Codes

Muhammad Arif (University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan); Noor Sheikh (University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan); Asrar Sheikh (King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia)

Improved Iterative Decoding Algorithm with Analysis for Generalized Low- Density Codes

He Zheng (Information Science and Technology Institute, P.R. China); Shaobo Zhang (Information Science and Technology Institute, P.R. China); Hanying Hu (Information Science and Technology Institute, P.R. China)

 

Routing and Addressing

Wednesday, May 10; 14:30 - 16:10

Room: Selvagens – V

Chairperson: Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, IE)

An Algorithm for Quality-of-Service Unicast Routing in Data Communication Networks

Raulison Resende (UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS - UNICAMP, Brazil); Fabiano Joao Leoncio de Padua (University of Campinas, Brazil); Rubia Mara de Oliveira (University of Campinas, Brazil); Antonio Carlos Lavelha (CPqD, Brazil); Akebo Yamakami (University of Campinas, Brazil); Ivanil Bonatti (University of Campinas, Brazil)

Routing and Level 2 Addressing in a Hardware Accelerator for Network Applications

David Antos (Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic); Vojtech Rehak (Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic)

Reconsidering Socket Pair for Connection Identification

Eric Beda (University of Cape Town, South Africa); Neco Ventura (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Proxy Usage for Vehicular Networks

Alfredo Matos (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Rui L. A. Aguiar (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Justino Santos (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)

 

Poster - Optical

Wednesday, May 10; 14:30 - 16:10

Room: Selvagens – III

Significant Cost Reduction in Optical Networks through Multi-Port Memory Usage

Moorthy Vellaiyan (Central Research Laboratory, Bharat Electronics Limited, India)

Low cost technique for improving open loop fiber optic gyroscope scale factor linearity.

M. HOCINE (EMP, Algeria)

A Novel Adaptive Routing Algorithm for Intelligent and Transparent WDM Networks

Felipe Rudge Barbosa (State University of Campinas -- Unicamp, Brazil)

Analysis of All-Optical Code Converter Placement in Hybrid WDM/OCDM Networks

Fabio Durand (Universidade de Campinas, Brazil)

Clocking and wavelength conversion using semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors

Matei Rusu (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Mircea Guina (Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Oleg Okhotnikov (Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

Optical Small-Signal Modulation Using Tunable Fiber Bragg Gratings and Its Application for Label Swapping in All-Optical Networks

Mohammad Rajabvand (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Ferydon Behnia (sharif university of technology, Iran); Mohammad Fatehi (sharif university of technology, Iran)

Improvements in a 10 Gb/s Optical Communication System using a Tuneable Chirped Fibre Bragg Grating Chromatic Dispersion Compensator

Berta Neto (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Paulo André (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Development of integrated photonic waveguides based on organicinorganic hybrids

Maria André (CICECO-UA, Portugal); Rogério Nogueira (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Antonio Teixeira (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Paulo André (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

 

Wireless Multimedia

Wednesday, May 10; 16:40 – 18:00

Room: Selvagens – I

Chairperson: Américo Correia (ADETTI, PT)

Errorless Video Streaming Quality Evaluation

André Marquet (ISCTE, Portugal); Nuno Martins (Siemens, Portugal); Américo Correia (ADETTI, Portugal)

                Enhanced MBMS in the Band of 2500-2690MHz

Luísa SILVA (ADETTI, Portugal)

Providing Differentiated End-user Quality for in-Home Wireless Multimedia Streaming

Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Dynamic Bit Rate Adaptation for Multimedia Streaming over 802.11b WLANs

Siphiwe Nelwamondo (Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa); Damien Chatelain (F'SATIE, South Africa); Ben Van Wyk (Tswane University of Technology (TUT), South Africa); Ferial Virolleau (Ecole superieure d'ingenieurs en electronique et electrotechnique (ESIEE), France)

 

Wireless Networks

Wednesday, May 10; 16:40 – 18:00

Room: Selvagens – II

Chairperson: Dirk Westhoff (NEC Europe Ltd., DE)

Simultaneous location privacy and optimized routing support for Mobile IPv6

Kilian Weniger (Panasonic R&D Center Germany, Germany)

Endpoint Admission Control for VoIPoWLAN

Philip McGovern (University College Dublin, Ireland); Simon Chung (S3, Ireland); Sean Murphy (University College Dublin, Ireland); Liam Murphy (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Monitoring the state of wireless channels in terms of the covariance stationary PDU error process

Dmitri Moltchanov (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

Rate Adaptive MAC Protocol for IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Xi Yong (School of Electronic Science and Engineer, National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)

 

Propagation

Session: Propagation

Wednesday, May 10; 16:40 – 18:00

Room: Selvagens – IV

Chairperson: Martijn Kuipers (IT / IST-TUL, PT)

A New Approach to Mapping of Underground Radio Sources

Moise Ndoh (National Research Council Canada, Canada); Gilles Y. Delisle (International Institute of Telecommunications, Canada)

Adaptive Method in Space for the Resolution of Maxwell’s Equations

Pedro Pinho (ISEL, Portugal); Sonia Gomes (UNICAMP, Brazil); Paulo Ferreira (UA, Puerto Rico); Jose Pereira (University of Aveiro, Portugal)

Appropriate Short-term Fading Margins for UMTS Planning

Filipe Cardoso (ESTSetúbal/IPS - IT/IST, Portugal); Luis Correia (IT/IST, Portugal)"

Least Square Solution of the Wide-Angle Parabolic Wave Equation

Narges Noori (Iran University of science and Technology, Iran)

 

Traffic Modelling

Wednesday, May 10; 16:40 – 18:00

Room: Selvagens – V

Chairperson: Rui L. A. Aguiar (Universidade de Aveiro, PT)

Delay analysis in a BMAP queue

Andrzej Chydzinski (Silesian University of Technology, Poland)

Two-Terminal and All-Terminal Reliabilities for Ladder Networks: Exact Results

Christian Tanguy (France Telecom Division R&D, France)

A Generic Framework for Modeling Multimedia Applications

Hassan HASSAN (LAAS-CNRS, France); Jean-Marie Garcia (LAAS, France); Frederic CAMPS (LAAS-CNRS, France); Charles Bockstal (Laas-CNRS, France)

Intelligent content caching for mobile devices

Sachin Agarwal (Deutsche Telekom AG, Laboratories, USA)

 

Thursday, May 11

Plenary II

Thursday, May 11; 9:00 – 10:00

Room: Selvagens – I

Chairperson: Luis Correia (IST - Tech. Univ. Lisbon, PT)

Wireless Access Network Design

Hamid Aghvami (King's College London, United Kingdom)

 

UMTS

Thursday, May 11; 10:00 - 11:00

Room: Selvagens – I

Chairperson: Custodio Peixeiro (IST-TUL, PT)

Data traffic, scheduling and lost capacity in UMTS downlink radio interface

Krzysztof Kordybach (VTT Information Technology, Finland); Pertti Raatikainen (VTT Information Technology, Finland)

HSDPA Delivering MBMS Video Streaming using Deficit Round Robin Scheduler

Filipe Leitão (ADETTI, Portugal); Américo Correia (ADETTI, Portugal)

Performance Analysis and Improvement of Link Adaptation Techniques in TDDHSDPA /SA System

Shuping Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

 

Optical Devices

Thursday, May 11; 10:00 - 11:00

Room: Selvagens – II

Chairperson: Naoya Wada (NICT, JP)

Wavelength Converter-Regenerator based on Auxiliary Carrier induced modulation by means of Super-Continuum Generation

Davide Massimiliano Forin (ISCOM and Universit di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy); Giorgio Beleffi (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy); Franco Curti (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy); Antonio Teixeira (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Stefano Taccheo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Karin Ennser (CNIT, Italy)

Double shifted Raman amplification by means of spontaneous Rayleigh Backscattering lasing control

Sergio Stevan Jr. (IT - Instituto de Telecomunicações - Aveiro, Portugal); Antonio Teixeira (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Tiago Silveira (Siemens SA, Portugal); Paulo André (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Giorgio Beleffi (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy); Alexadre Pohl (CEFET-PR, Brazil); Andrea Reale (Università degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata, Italy)

Model for the Laser Optical Spectrum and Analysis of the Phase Noise Effect

Marcelo Alencar (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil)

 

Economy

Thursday, May 11; 10:00 - 11:00

Room: Selvagens – IV

Chairperson: Paulo André (Instituto de Telecomunicações, PT)

Technology and Competition in International Telecommunications Imbalances

Alberto Nucciarelli (University of L'Aquila, Italy); Massimo Gastaldi (University of L'Aquila, Italy); Nathan Levialdi Ghiron (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)

Coverage Costs with an Amplify-and-Forward Relaying Scheme

Bogdan Timus (KTH, Sweden)

Pricing Profiles for 3G services with QoS Guarantees

Vitalis Ozianyi (University of Cape Town, South Africa); Neco Ventura (University of Cape Town, South Africa); Eugene Golovins (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

 

Security

Thursday, May 11; 10:00 - 11:00

Room: Selvagens – V

Chairperson: Milan Markovic (Banca Intesa ad Beograd, YU)

A New Concentrative OVPN Model and its Standard Expansion Research in ASON

Li Yong (Beijing Institute of technology, P.R. China)

A High Performance IPsec Gateway Based on the Intel IXP2400 Network Processor

Marc Brooker (University of Cape Town, South Africa); Neco Ventura (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

New Traitor Tracing Scheme against Anonymous Attack

Chen Yang (XIDIAN University, P.R. China)

 

Wireless Systems

Thursday, May 11; 11:30 – 12:50

Room: Selvagens – I

Chairperson: Filipe Cardoso (ESTSetúbal/IPS - IT/IST, PT)

From Beyond 3G to All-G

(invited paper)

Jorge Pereira (European Commission, Portugal)

Quadrant-based Geocasting and Forwarding Strategy in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

L. A. Latiff (University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia); A. Ali (University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia); Ooi Chia Ching (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia); Norsheila Fisal (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia)

Effective Bandwidth Management for Roaming Users in an 802.11-based Wireless MAN

Stefan Diepolder (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Juan Miguel Espinosa Carlin (RWTH Aachen, University, Germany)

Hybrid ARQ Scheme Using Random Signal Mapping and Turbo Coding

Tamara Rodrigues (UTFPR, Brazil); Richard Demo Souza (UTFPR, Brazil); Walter Godoy (CEFET-PR, Brazil)

 

Optical Transmission

Thursday, May 11; 11:30 – 12:50

Room: Selvagens – II

Chairperson: António Teixeira (Instituto de Telecomunicações - Aveiro, PT)

Electronic Distortion Equalization for Dispersion-Limited Radio-over-Fiber Systems

Josep Prat (UPC, Spain); Maria Concepción Santos (Universitat Politecnica Catalunya, Spain); Mireia Omella (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Antonio Napoli (Polito, Italy)

Fully Integrable Optical Single Sideband Transmitter

Tiago Silveira (Siemens SA, Portugal); Ana Ferreira (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Paulo Monteiro (SIEMENS, S.A., Portugal); Antonio Teixeira (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Rui Ribeiro (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Sinusoidal pulse formatting in Optical Single Sideband transmission systems

Ana Ferreira (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Tiago Silveira (Siemens SA, Portugal); Rui Ribeiro (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Paulo Monteiro (SIEMENS, S.A., Portugal); Manuel Violas (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

NRZ Optical Single Sideband Transmitter Based on Three Phase Modulators

Daniel Fonseca (Siemens S. A., Portugal); Adolfo Cartaxo (IST-TUL, Portugal); Paulo Monteiro (SIEMENS, S.A., Portugal)

 

Antennas

Thursday, May 11; 11:30 – 12:50

Room: Selvagens – IV

Chairperson: Jean-Sebastien Neron (Laval University, CA)

Planar Inverted-F Antennas for MIMO Applications in Small Multi-Standard Handsets

Custodio Peixeiro (IST-TUL, Portugal)

Radiation Measurements at Short Wave Antennae Park

Konstantinos Voudouris (Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece); Panagiotis Grammatikakis (Hellenic Telecommunications Organizations S.A., Greece)

The Synthesis of Non-uniformly Spaced Arrays with Uniform Amplitude Using the Chebyshev Patterns

Ren Xianfeng (University of Madeira, Portugal, Portugal)

Multiple-Beam Array Realization at EHF Band

Jean-Sebastien Neron (Laval University, Canada); Gilles Y. Delisle (International Institute of Telecommunications, Canada)

 

IP-Networks: QoS-1

Thursday, May 11; 11:30 – 12:50

Room: Selvagens – V

Chairperson: Teresa Vazao (Instituto Superior Técnico, PT)

Comparison of Different QoS-oriented Objectives for Multicommodity Flow Routing Optimization

Olivier Klopfenstein (France Télécom R&D, France); Eric Gourdin (France Telecom R&D, France)

Improving the delivery of Interactive Video over QoS enabled IP Networks

Brendan McAllister (Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom); Alan Marshall (Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom); Roger Woods (Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom)

Source Channel Adaptation as a QoS strategy for DAIDALOS

Zhikui Chen (Stuttgart University, Germany); Paul Christ (University of Stuttgart, Germany); Yan Tang (Computer Science Department, Southwest University, China, Switzerland)

Implementation of NMS for Traffic Engineering and provisioning DiffServ and VPN in MPLS network

Hyunsub Jung (Korea Telecom, Korea); Yongsik Kwon (Korea Telecom, Korea); Yeooak Yoon (Korea Telecom, Korea); Sungsuk Yoon (Korea Telecom, Korea); Soonyong Song (Korea Telecom, Korea)

 

Poster - Coding

Thursday, May 11; 11:30 – 12:50