Conference Final Program

Thursday – 16/08

08:30 – 8:45

Opening Ceremony (Dr. Djamel Sadok, Program Chair)

08:45 – 9:30

Invited Talk – Tendencies for Mobile Communications, Prof. José Boisson President of the IEEE ComSoc.,

09:30 – 10:15

Keynote Speech – New Architectures for Wireless Communications, Dr. Chistopher Rose, WINLAB, USA.

10:15 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00

TS 1

TS 2

12:00 – 12:30

Keynote Speech – Fernando Zandona, Microsoft of Brazil

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Discussion Panel – The Evolution of Mobile Communications –

Prof. José R. Boisson de Marca (IEEE ComSoc), Prof. Guy Pujolle (Universite Paris 6).

15:30 – 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:15

TS-3

TS-4

17:15 – 18:30

Keynote Speech- Wireless for the New Millennium, Dr. Pieter van Rooyen, Ronin Wireless, USA.

Friday – 17/08

08:30 – 10:00

TS-5

TS-6

10:00 – 10:15

Coffee Break

10:15 – 11:45

TS-7

TS-8

11:45 – 12:30

Keynote Speech- Recent Advances on Mobile IP, Dr. Charles Perkins, Nokia Research Center, USA.

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

TS-9

TS-10

15:30 – 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:30

Keynote Speech – Siemens

16:30 – 17:15

Keynote Speech – Ms. Yolande Pineda (Nokia of Brazil) Evolution of Wireless Systems from 2G to 3G: Challenges and Pre-requisites for Success.

17:15 – 18:30

Industrial Panel – New Business Opportunities in The Wireless Industry

Ms. Yolande Pineda (Nokia of Brazil), Marco Moraes (Siemens) and Fernando Zandona (Microsoft)

TS 1 – Mobility and Simulation

Section Chair: Robson Mateus

Classification of Mobility Management Methods, Realistic Simulation Framework and Relative Performance Analysis, K. Kyandoghere and Klaus Jobmann

Improving TCP Performance  in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using Mobility Prediction, A. Torok, I, Moldovan and C. Simon

Border Effects in Modeling and Simulation Wireless of Ad-hoc Networks, C. Bettstetter and O. Krause.

TS 2 – Multimedia

Section Chair: Vassilis Tsaoussidis

On the Performance of Interactive Packet Video Systems over Wireless LANs, M. Freytes and C. Marques

A Dynamic Q-Learning-Based Call Admission Control for Multimedia Cellular Networks, S. Senouci, A. Beylot and G. Puyjolle

MOBICS and Environment for Prototyping and Simulating Distributed Protocols for Mobile Networks, R. Rocha and M. Endler

TS 3 – 3G Networks

Section Chair: Charles Perkins

Service Control Architecture in IP Multimedia based 3G Networks (An OSA API Service Scenario), Moh Torabi, Lucent Technologies Inc (US), Musa Unmehopa, Lucent Technologies Nederland B.V. (NL)

Mobile Internet Made Easy, Dick Schefström

A Simulation Environment for Analisys of QoS and Signaling Load in Mobile Cellular Networks, Denio Mariz, Dave Cavalcanti, Thienne Melo, Kelvin Dias and Judith Kelner.

TS 4 – Satellites and Propagation

Section Chair: Guy Omidyar

Bridging the Information Gap using Stratospheric Aeronautical Platform, M. Nofal 

A Time Based Reservation Scheme for the Handover problem in Future LEO Satellite Systems, L. Boukhatem, D. Gaiti and G. Puyjolle

Indoor UHF Propagation Modeling Using FDTD, L. Talbi

TS 5 – CDMA 1

Section Chair: Christopher Rose

A Novel Low Complexity Multi-user Architecturefor Wideband over CDMA Communication over Wireless Links, Z. Guo, K. Letaief and M. Hamdi

Performance Comparison of Frequency Domain Equalizers for MC-CDMA systems, Z. Li and M. Latva-aho

Capacity Simulation of CDMA2000 1XEV Wireless Internet Access System, M. Gurelli and P. Black

TS 6 – Propagation and Optimization

Section Chair: Pieter van Rooven

Rain Attenuation Considerations in Broadband Wireless Systems Operating at Frequencies above 10 Ghz, N. Garcia and L. Melo 

Perturbation Principle of Multi-user Detection, C. C. Lu

Optimized DDesign of LMDS Cells: Site Location, Equipment Sizing and Users Homing, C. Carlson and Gerard Authie.

TS 7 – Quality of Service 1

Section Chair:Guy Pujolle

DS-TDMA/CP a Flexible TDMA protocol for Wireless Networks, H. Zhang and P. Gburzynski

On Achieving QoS for a Multiple Delay Classes in a Wireless TDMA Environment, K. Tong and M. Hamdi

An Optimal Frame Size Predictor for Indoor Wireless Network, S. Ci, H. Sharif and A. Young

TS 8 – Resource Managment

Section Chair: Antonio Loureiro

Channel Augmentation Algorithm for Wireless Networks Considering Generic Sectorization and Channel Interference, C. Lin and F. Y. Lin

Frequency Planning Optimization Using Isolation and Compatibility Matrixes, Robson D. Vieira, Gláucio L. Siqueira and Oscar Porto

Capacity Planning and Optimal Network Design on TDMA Mobile Phone, Ricardo Rodrigues, Geraldo Mateus.

TS 9 – CDMA 2

Section Chair: Danie van Wyk

System Performance and Service Coverage Analysis of the cdma20001x, S. Shin

Inter-Frequenccy Hard Handoff in cdma2000, S. Sarkar and E. Tiedmann. 

On the Peak for Average Ratio (PAR) of an IS-856 Forward Link, R. Attar  

TS 10 – Quality of Service 2

Section Chair: Markus Endler

Proposal and Validation of a Mechanism to Guarantee QoS for Adhoc Wireless Networks, A. Roche, C. B. Westphal and P. A. C. K-S Graf Von Mecklunburg

Medium Access Control with Differentiated Adaptation for QoS Management in Wireless Networks, Chi-Hsiang Yeh.

Using Differentiated Services in 3G Cellular Networks, José Resende, Saulo Vasconcelos.