Technical Program

 

SESSION I: Mobility Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

10:00-10:30 Connection-based Mobility Management for Seamless Service Continuity in Heterogeneous Networks
 

George Lampropoulos (University of Athens, Greece), Nikos Passas (University of Athens, Greece), Alexandros Kaloxylos (University of Peloponnesus, Greece), and Lazaros Merakos (University of Athens, Greece)

10:30-11:00 A Comparison of Interworking Architectures for WLAN Integration at UMTS Radio Access Level
 

Natasa Vulic (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Sonia Heemstra de Groot (University of Twente, The Netherlands), and Ignas Niemegeers (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

11:00-11:30 On Mobility Support in Multi-Access Wireless Networks
 

Hakima Chaouchi (University of Paris VI, France), Faouzi Bader (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia, Spain), Josep Manques (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia, Spain), Nino Kubinidze (University of Limerick, Ireland), Ivan Ganchev (University of Limerick, Ireland), Mairtin O'Droma (University of Limerick, Ireland), and Ivan Armuelles (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)

11:30-12:00 Handover Performance in Systems Beyond 3G
 

Henrik Persson and Johan M Karlsson (Lund University, Sweden)

12:00-1:30

Lunch

 

SESSION II: Modeling of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

1:30-2:00 Analytical Model for Admission Control in Next Generation Wireless Systems
 

H. Birkan Yilmaz (Bogazici University, Turkey), Tuna Tugcu (Bogazici University, Turkey), and Feodor Vainstein (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

2:00-2:30 Some Elements of the Performance Control System for Wireless Channels
 

Dmitri Moltchanov and Yevgeni Koucheryavy (Tempere University of Technology, Finland)

2:30-3:00 Is Latency the Real Enemy in Next Generation Networks?
 

David N. Cottingham and Pablo A. Vidales (University of Cambridge, UK)

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

 

SESSION III: Routing in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

3:30-4:00 Towards a Routing Overlay for a Mobile Ad hoc Network
 

Latvakoski Juhani and Aapaoja Tommi (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)

4:00-4:30 A Routing-Centric Approach for Covering Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
 

Hitomi Takahashi, Masato Saito, Hiroto Aida, and Hideyuki Tokuda (Keio University, Japan)

4:30-5:00 IPv6 in Wireless Sensor Networks, a New Challenge
 

Tiago Camilo, Jorge Sa Silva, and Fernando Boavida (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

5:00-5:30 A New Approach to Service Differentiation: Non-Congestive Queueing
 

L. Mamatas and V. Tsaoussidis (Demokritos University of Thrace, Greece)