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Conference Program - Tuesday 2 October

Time	Location	Event
9.00-10.30	*Aula Magna* *(Building A)*	Session 7 - Invited Session *A pragmatic approach in opportunistic and autonomic networking* Session Organizers: *Silvia Giordano* University of Applied Science SUPSI, Switzerland *Marco Conti* IIT-CNR, Italy Session Chair: Silvia Giordano University of Applied Science SUPSI, Switzerland A System Architecture for Delay-Tolerant Content Distribution Martin May ETH Zurich, Switzerland Gunnar Karlsson, Olafur Helgason KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Vincent Lenders Princeton University, USA Landslide Monitoring with Sensor Networks: a Case for Autonomic Communication Services Alberto Rosi, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Antonio Manzalini Telecom Italia, Italy The Power of Autonomic Characteristics in Opportunistic Networks Silvia Giordano, Hoang Anh Nguyen, Alessandro Puiatti, Salvatore Vanini University of Applied Science - SUPSI, Switzerland BIONETS: a New Vision of Opportunistic Networks Vilmos Simon, Laszlo Bacsardi, Sándor Szabó BudapestUniversity of Technology and Economics, Hungary Daniele Miorandi CREATE-NET, Italy Users Mobility Models for Opportunistic Networks: the Role of Physical Locations Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella IIT-CNR, Italy
9.00-10.30	Sala Verde (Building A)	Session 8 - Regular Session Projects and applications for rural and emergency communications Session Chair: Takis Mathiopoulos Institute for Space Applications & Remote Sensing, Greece HF-IP Systems for Civilian Disaster Management o Sharadha Kariyawasam, Bahram Honary Lancaster University, United Kingdom o George Vongas OBE Defence Science and Technology Laboratory(DSTL), United Kingdom Rural Wireless Networking in Developing Countries: ICTP Contribution o Marco Zennaro, Sandro Radicella International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy o Ryszard Struzak National Institute for Telecommunications, Poland Community-Based Hazard Warnings in Rural Sri Lanka: Performance of Alerting and Notification in a Last-Mile Message Relay o Nuwan Waidyanatha LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka o Gordon Gow University of Alberta, Canada o Peter Anderson Simon Fraser University, Canada Multimedia Distribution System for Rural Communities o Tiziano Inzerilli, Roberto Cusani University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Telecommunication System for the I-GARMENT Project o Pedro Claro Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal o Nuno Borges Carvalho Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
9.00-10.30	Sala del Consiglio (Building B)	Session 9 - Regular Session Wireless sensors networks for rural and emergency communications Session Chair: Sergio Palazzo University of Catania, Italy A Multi-Objective Sensor Routing Protocol o Jitae Shin, Navrati Saxena Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Towards a Tailored Sensor Network for Fire Emergency Monitoring in Large Buildings o Athanasia Tsertou, Steve McLaughlin, David Laurenson, Rochan Upadhyay University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom A Quantization Scheme for Lattice-Reduction Aided Linear Detection o Duc Nguyen University of Electro-communications, Japan Power Efficiency of the Similarity-based Adaptive Framework in Wireless Sensor Networks o Gennaro Boggia, Pietro Camarda, Luigi Grieco, Maria Palattella Politecnico di Bari, Italy Fault Tolerance in Wireless Sensor Networks based on the Gossip Algorithm o Marco Baldi, Franco Chiaraluce, Elma Zanaj Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
10.30-11.00		*Coffee break*
11.00-12.30	*Aula Magna* *(Building A)*	Session 10 - Invited Session *Advanced technologies for next generation wired/wireless convergent networks* Session Organizer : *Nei Kato* Tohoku University, Japan Session Chair: Nei Kato Tohoku University, Japan On the Performance of Congestion Control Protocols in Lossy Wireless Networks o Hiroki Nishiyama, Yoshiaki Nemoto, Nei Kato, Tarik Taleb Tohoku University, Japan o Nirwan Ansari NJIT, USA SEISMIC: a System for Environmental Integrated Sensing, Monitoring and Interactive Control o Giacomo Morabito, Sergio Palazzo University of Catania, Italy o Francesco Scoto, Renato Narcisi CNIT, Italy o Salvatore Cocina, Fausto Formosa Dept. of Civil Protection, Sicilian Region, Italy Challenges to the Lifeline Wireless Communications – Latest Trials Using Airship and UAV o Ryu Miura, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Mikio Suzuki, Derek Gray NICT, Japan Prototype Development of Transmission Control System for Communication-Broadcasting Integrated Services on Mobile Digital TV Phones o Hideyuki Koto, Keigo Takehara, Izumi Okamoto, Tatsuo Shibata, Hiroki Furuya, Hajime Nakamura KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan o Haruo Hoshino NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Japan An Experimental Analysis of IEEE 802.11a/b/g Cards in Ad-hoc Mode o Katarzyna Kosek, Szymon Szott, Marek Natkaniec, Krzysztof Loziak AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
11.00-12.30	Sala Verde (Building A)	Session 11 Regular Session *Advanced communications techniques and technologies* Session Chair: Vilmos Simon Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary An Improved Quantization Scheme for Lattice-Reduction Aided Linear Detection in MIMO Systems o Duc Nguyen University of Electro-communications, Japan Radio Resource Allocation in Spatial TDMA Multihop Networks with Advanced Antennas o Marvin Sánchez Garache, Jens Zander Royal Inst Tech, Stockholm, Sweden o Bo Hagerman Ericsson, Sweden A Novel MAC Protocol for High Rate UWB Network o Waleed Saad Menofia University, Egypt Performance Evaluation of UWB Networks Using Detect and Avoid Procedures o Franco Mazzenga University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy o Romeo Giuliano RadioLabs, Italy
11.00-12.30	Sala del Consiglio (Building B)	Session 12 - Regular Session *Hybrid, heterogeneous networks and monitoring applications* Session Chair: Wuyi Yue Konan University, Japan Performance Analysis and Evaluation of Integrated Voice and Data Traffic in Wireless Communication Networks o Wuyi Yue Konan University, Japan Measurements of Performance of Robust and High Data Rate Wireless Link for Audio-video Monitoring Embedded in a Suburban Train o Emilie Masson, Moniak Gérald, Marion Berbineau, Jean Pierre Ghys Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité, France User-Centric Emergency Management: a Disappearing Middleware Approach Antonio Corradi, Enrico Lodolo, Stefano Monti, Samuele Pasini University of Bologna, Italy A DPC-Based Broadcast and Unicast Hybrid System o Hongxiang Li, Hui Liu, Bin Liu University of Washington, USA Seamless and Reliable Integrated Communication and Service-enabling Platform for Emergency Service Support based on Multi-Agents Middleware o Marco Pugliese University of L'Aquila, Italy o Cristiano Monti, Antonio Saitto Telespazio, Italy o Giovanni Minei, Valentina Lersi Mars s.r.l., Italy o Giovanni Pico PXL s.r.l., Italy
12.30-14.00		Lunch *break*
14.00-15.30	*Aula Magna* *(Building A)*	Session 13 - Invited Session Heterogeneous wireless networks for emergency communications Session Organizer : *Franco Davoli* University of Genoa, Italy Session Chair: *Franco Davoli* University of Genoa, Italy Satellite Independent – Service Access Point for QoS Interworking o Mario Marchese, Maurizio Mongelli University of Genoa, Italy Audio-Video Services for Emergency Scenarios over Heterogeneous Satellite-WiFi Networks o Oreste Andrisano, Alessandro Bazzi, Andrea Giorgetti, Gianni Pasolini University of Bologna, Italy o Vincenzo Schena Alenia Spazio S.p.A., Italy A Method for Reliable and Efficient Sensor Networks over Satellite o Igor Bisio, Mario Marchese, Giancarlo Portomauro University of Genoa, Italy o Vincenzo Gesmundo, Annamaria Raviola Selex Communications, Italy Network Application Identification Based on Transition Pattern of Packets o Yuji Waizumi. Yoshiaki Nemoto Tohoku University, Japan o Abbas Jamalipour University of Sydney, Australia
14.00-15.30	Sala Verde (Building A)	Session 14 - Regular Session *Localization, optimization and advanced applications for security in wireless networks* Session Chair: Laura Pierucci University of Florence, Italy Localization and Immersive Guide in Indoor Mobile Environments through Wireless Sensor Networks: a Support for Emergency Situations o Davide Dardari, Thomas Pavani, Andrea Conti, Oreste Andrisano University of Bologna, Italy Efficient Speech Watermarking for Air Traffic Control Narrow-Band Communications o Simone Menci, Romano Fantacci, Laura Pierucci University of Florence, Italy o Claudio Borgioli, Pier Luigi Fantappiè, Paolo Maltese Selex Communications - OTE S.p.A., Italy An Advanced Speech Watermarking System for Air Traffic Control Communications Based on MPEG Psychoacoustics Models o Romano Fantacci, Giulia Maneschi, Simone Menci, Laura Pierucci University of Florence, Italy Accurate Indoor Positioning and Localization Techniques for Pervasive Computing Applications o Franco Gottifredi, Enrico Varriale Alcatel Alenia Space Italia S.p.A., Italy Optimal System Bandwidth in Wireless Multichannel Communication Networks o Wuyi Yue Konan University, Japan
15.30-16.00		*Coffee break*
16.00-17.30	*Aula Magna* *(Building A)*	Session 15 - Regular Session *Wireless technologies and channel modeling* Session Chair: Alessandro Neri University of Roma Tre, Italy Miniaturized Sensor RFID tags for Mobile Healthcare Networks o Gaetano Marrocco University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Simulation of Generalized Gamma Fading Channels with Finite State Markov Chains o Nikos Sagias National Centre for Scientific Research-"Demokritos", Greece o Mathiopoulos Panayiotis Takis Institute for Space Applications & Remote Sensing, Greece An Analytical Prediction Model of Time Diversity Performance for Earth-Space Fade Mitigation o Pantelis-Daniel Arapoglou, Athanasios Panagopoulos, Panayotis Cottis National Technical University of Athens, Greece Electromagnetic Characterization of Inter-Vehicle Communications o Emidio Di Giampaolo University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
16.00-17.30	Sala Verde (Building A)	Session 16 - Regular Session *QoS and traffic engineering* Session Chair: Roberto Cusani University of Rome Sapienza, Italy An Adaptive Modulation Scheme Based on Packet Error Rate for MIMO Systems o Azadeh Jafari Amirkabir University, Iran Traffic Engineering in Rural Wireless Networks for Developing Countries using IEEE 802.11 EDCA o Sandra Salmerón Ntutumu, Francisco Javier Simó Reigadas, Andrés Martínez, Julio Ramiro University King Juan Carlos, Spain Adaptive Pilot Distribution for OFDM-Based WLAN Systems in Doubly Dispersive Channels o Ali Ramadan Ali, Tariq Jamil Khanzada, Abbas S. Omar University of Magdeburg, Germany An Overlay Scheme to Exploit IEEE 802.11e-Based QoS o Luca Caviglione, Franco Davoli University of Genoa, Italy o Mirko Polizzi CNIT, Italy A Joint Design of QoS Support and Link Rate Adaptation in IEEE 802.16 BWA Systems o Hsi-Lu Chao NationalChiaoTungUniversity, Taiwan