GLOBECOM'08 conference program can be found here.
9.00 – 10.00, Keynote Speech
- Ultra-Low Cost Wireless Access: Lessons from the Field
- Edward Knightly (Rice University, US)
10:30-12:00, Optimization and Performance Evaluation
- Optimal Configuration of Mobility Agents in Broadband Wireless Access Networks
- Dev Pragad Audsin (King's College London, UK); Vasilis Friderikos (King's College London, UK); Hamid Aghvami (King's College London, UK)
- Scheduling for Network Coded Multicast: A Conflict Graph Formulation
- Danail Traskov (Technical University of Munich, DE); Michael Heindlmaier (Technical University of Munich, DE); Muriel Medard (MIT, US); Ralf Koetter (Technical University of Munich, Germany, DE); Desmond Lun (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, US)
- Evaluation of Various Interference Models for Joint Routing and Scheduling in Wireless Mesh Networks
- Leonardo Badia (IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, IT); Alessio Botta (IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, IT)
- Simple Analytical Model for the Periodic Broadcasting in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
- Alexey Vinel (Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, RU); Yevgeni Koucheryavy (Tampere University of Technology, FI)
- HSUPA Transport Network Congestion Control
- Szilveszter Nadas (Ericsson Research, HU); Zoltan Nagy (Ericsson Research, HU); Sandor Racz (Ericsson Research, HU)
13:30-14:40, Resource Allocation and Scheduling
- Dynamic Frequency Allocation in Fractional Frequency Reused OFDMA Networks
- Syed Hussain Ali (The University of British Columbia, CA); Victor Leung (The University of British Columbia, CA)
- A Framework for Decentralising Multi-Cell Cooperative Processing on the Downlink
- Agisilaos Papadogiannis (France Telecom, Research & Development Division, FR); Eric Hardouin (France Telecom, Research & Development Division, FR); David Gesbert (Eurecom Institute, FR)
- Cooperative Scheduling of Downlink Beam Transmissions in a Cellular Network
- Patrick Hosein (Huawei Technologies, US)
- Fairness Adjustable Grouping Multiuser Scheduling for MIMO MAC with MMSE-SIC receiver
- Xiaoting Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, CN)
15:10-16:20, Channel and Physical Layer Modeling
- Multiuser MIMO Downlink: Multiplexing Gain Without Free Channel Information
- Umer Salim (Eurecom), Dirk Slock (Eurecom)
- Efficient Link-to-System Level Model for MIMO HSDPA
- Martin Wrulich (TU Wien, AT); Sven Eder (Siemens, AT); Ingo Viering (Nomor Research GmbH, DE); Markus Rupp (Vienna University of Technology, AT)
- GMSK Modulation over Weibull Fading Channels and its Impact on the Effective Transport Capacity of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
- Ibrahim Ghareeb (Jordan University of Science and Technology, JO); Ahmad Abu-Al-Haija (JUST, JO)
- Simple Closed-Form Channel Capacity Formulas for the SIMO Nakagami Channel
- Efstathios Vagenas (Wireless Telecommunications Laboratory, GR); Petros Karadimas (Wireless Telecommunications Laboratory, GR); Stavros Kotsopoulos (Wireless Telecommunications Laboratory, GR)
16:50-18:00, Relay Networks
- Resource allocation in OFDMA Based Cooperative Relay Networks
- Danhua Zhang (Tsinghua University, CN); Youzheng Wang (Tsinghua University, TW); Jianhua Lu (Tsinghua University, CN)
- A Semi-distributed Resource Allocation Scheme for OFDMA Relay-Enhanced Downlink Systems
- Liping Wang (the Graduate University for Advances Studies, JP); Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, JP); Fuqiang Liu (Tongji University, Shanghai, China, CN)
- Opportunistic Two-hop Relays for OFDMA Cellular Networks
- George Calcev (Motorola, US); Jeff Bonta (Motorola, US)
- An Interference-Aware Analytical Model for Performance Analysis of Transparent Mode 802.16j Systems
- Vasken Genc (University College Dublin, IE); Sean Murphy (University College Dublin, IE); John Murphy (University College Dublin, IE)
Poster presentations
Depending on the number of participants, posters will either be presented in the same room as the workshop itself or in on room next to it with direct access to the workshop room.
Session 1
- Distributed inter-cell interference mitigation in OFDMA wireless data networks
- Honghai Zhang (NEC Labs America, US); Luca Venturino (Universita' degli Studi di Cassino, IT); Narayan Prasad (NEC Labs America, Princeton, US); Sampath Rangarajan (NEC Labs America, US)
- Loss differentiation and improved SNR estimates at the physical layer in wireless LANs
- Sam Keene (Boston University, US); Jeffrey Carruthers (Boston University, US)
- Cooperative Spectrum Sensing over Imperfect Channels
- Tuncer Aysal (Cornell University, US); Kandeepan Sithamparanathan (Australian National University, AU); Radoslaw Piesiewicz (Create-Net, IT)
- Improvement on Flexibility of Fixed Multiplexing Radio Networks by Employing Cognitive Relay
- Chunyi Song (Waseda University, JP); Shigeru Shimamoto (Waseda University, JP)
Session 2
- Reliable Broadcast Mechanism for the IEEE 802.16 Mesh Extension
- Andreas Ziller (Siemens AG, DE); Parag Mogre (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, DE); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, DE); Christian Schwingenschloegl (Siemens Corporate Technology, DE)
- Bottleneck Analysis for Routing and Call Scheduling in Multi-hop Wireless Networks
- Cristiana Gomes (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, FR); Stephane Perennes (INRIA, FR); Herve Rivano (Inria-I3S (Cnrs/Unsa), FR)
- A Proposal for a Broadband Wireless Access Technology based on RoFSO Links
- Kamugisha Kazaura (Waseda University, JP)
Session 3
- An Internal Scheduling Framework for Management of Best Effort Connections per SS in WiMAX System
- Yi Wu (Nokia Siemens Networks, CN); Yanqun Le (Nokia Siemens Networks, CN); Dongmei Zhang (Nokia Siemens Networks, CN)
- A Standard-Compliant Scheduler for WiMAX Networks
- Juliana Freitag Borin (University of Campinas, BR); Nelson L. S. da Fonseca (State University of Campinas, BR)
- Performance Evaluation of a Two-Class Scheduler for WiMAX Networks
- Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena, IT); Alberto Bestetti (Alcatel-Lucent, IT); Snezana Hadzic (University of Siena, IT); Olivier Kakanou (University of Siena, IT)
