DIMACS Workshop on Mobile Networks and Computing

March 25 - 27, 1999
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Badri R. Badrinath, Rutgers University, badri@cs.rutgers.edu

Frank Hsu, Fordham University, hsu@murray.fordham.edu

Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, pardalos@ufl.edu

Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, University of Florida, raj@cise.ufl.edu

Workshop Program:

Thursday, March 25, 1999

8:45--9:15   Breakfast and Registration

9:15--9:30   Welcome and Greeting

Session T.A  Chairman: S. Rajasekaran

9:30--10:00  Tomasz Imielinski, Rutgers University
	     "DataSpace - querying and monitoring deeply
              networked collections of physical objects"

10:00--10:30 Zygmunt J. Haas and A. Warkhedi, Cornell University
             "Improving the Performance of TCP over Wireless Links"

10:30--11:00 COFFEE BREAK

Session T.B  Chairman: P.M. Pardalos

11:00--11:30 David Wei, Fordham University
	     "Software Implementation Strategies
              for Power-Conscious Syatems"

11:30--12:00 Robert A. Murphey, Eglin; Panos M. Pardalos,
             University of Florida;  and Eduardo Pasiliao,
	     University of Milan
	     "Multicriteria Optimization for Frequency Assignment"

12:00--02:00 LUNCH

Session T.C  Chairman: B.R. Badrinath    

02:00--02:30 A. Abouzeid, M. Azizoglu, and S. Roy,
	     University of Washington, Seattle
	     "Stochastic Modelling of a TCP/IP Session
              over a Channel with Random Packet Loss"

02:30--03:00 Jean-Claude Bermond, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
             "Routing in satellite constellations"

03:00--03:30 COFFEE BREAK

Session T.D  Chairman: F. Hsu

03:30--04:00 Jeng-Ping Lin, Sy-Yen Kuo, and Yennun Huang,
	     National Taiwan University
	     "A Cluster-based Checkpointing Scheme for
              Mobile Computing on Wide Area Networks"

04:00--04:30 Stephen Olariu, Old Dominion University
	     "Efficient initialization and leader
              election in mobile radio networks"

04:30--05:00 Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Pravin Bhagwat,
             Chatschik Bisdikian, and Mahmoud Naghshineh, IBM
             "Challenges of Mobile and Wireless Networking
              Support for Palmtop Devices"



Friday, March 26, 1999

Session F.A  Chairman: S. Rajasekaran

9:00--9:30   Breakfast and Registration

9:30--10:00  Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dalls;
	     and Mukesh Singhal, The Ohio State University
             "Impact of Unidirectional Links
              in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks"

10:00--10:30 Javier Gomez-Castellanos and Andrew T. Campbell,
	     Columbia University
	     "Supporting Integrated-QOS in Wireless Networks"

10:30--11:00 COFFEE BREAK

Session F.B  Chairman: P.M. Pardalos

11:00--11:30 Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, University of Florida
	     "On Frequency Assignment in Cellular Networks"

11:30--12:00 Sumi Helal, Jin Jing, and Ahmed Elmagarmid,
	     University of Florida
	     "Supporting Application-level handoff in Overlay Networks"

12:00--02:00 LUNCH

Session F.C  Chairman: F. Hsu    

02:00--02:30 Brigitte Jaumard, Christophe Meyer, and Tsevi Vovor,
	     Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
	     "How to Combine a Column and Row Generation Method with
	      a Column or Row Elimination Procedure -- Application to
	      a Channel Assignment Problem"

02:30--03:00 Anup K. Talukdar and B.R. Badrinath, Rutgers University;
	     and Arup Acharya, NEC
	     "Rate Adaptation Schemes in Networks with Mobile Hosts"

03:00--03:30 COFFEE BREAK

Session F.D  Chairman: B.R. Badrinath

03:30--04:00 Sajal K. Das, University of North Texas;
	     and Sanjoy K. Sen, Nortel Networks
	     "Quality of Service Provisioning in
	      Next Generation Wireless Networks"

04:00--04:30 Kshirasagar Naik, University of Aizu
	     "Energy-Conserving Software Design for Mobile Computers"

04:30--05:00 Xun Yi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
             "An Agent-based Architecture for Securing Mobile IP"


Saturday, March 27, 1999

Session S.A  Chairman: B.R. Badrinath

9:00--9:30   Breakfast and Registration

9:30--10:00  Ali F. Almutairi, Scott L. Miller, and Haniph Latchman,
	     University of Florida
	     "Adaptive Detection of Multi-level Modulation Formats
	      for DS/CDMA Systems in A Slowly Fading Channel"

10:00--10:30 Sunil Shende, Rutgers University
             "Online protocols for channel assignment
              in  wireless  networks"

10:30--11:00 COFFEE BREAK

Session S.B  Chairman: F. Hsu

11:00--11:30 Sandeep K.S. Gupta and Pradip K. Srimani,
  	     Colorado State University
	     "Using Self-Stabilization to Design Adaptive Multicast
	      Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks"

11:30--12:00 Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland Baltimore County
	     "On Mobility and Agents"

12:00--12:30 Xin Liu, P.M. Pardalos, and S. Rajasekaran
	     University of Florida
	     "A GRASP for frequency assignment
              problems in mobile networks"

12:30--1:00  Julio C. Navas and Tomasz Imielinski, Rutgers University
             "Geographic Routing: Improving Routing through
              Approximation"

1:00--02:30 CONCLUDING REMARKS AND LUNCH

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