IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference
 


Saturday, January 14, 2012

CCNC'2012 Pernets Workshop
6th IEEE International Workshop on Personalized Networks
Location:   Sunset 1

8:45 - 9:30 Welcome Speaker
Prof. Ignas Niemegeers, TU Delft, The Netherlands

9:30 - 10:00 Session 1:  Network and Higher Layers 
HTR: a framework for interconnecting wireless heterogeneous devices
Eduardo James Souto (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil); Rafael Roque Aschoff (City University London, United Kingdom); Djamel Hadj Sadok (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil); Judith Kelner (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)

10:00 – 10:30   Break

10:30 – 12:00      Session 1 cont.
An Architectural Framework for Mobile Device Interaction with Consumer Home Network Appliances
Brijesh Kumar (Drexel University, USA); Constantine Katsinis (Drexel University, USA)

Enriched Connectivity-as-a-Service for Dynamic Mobile-Cloud
Lounes Baleh (France Télécom - Orange Labs R&D, France); Lucian Suciu (France Télécom R&D, France); Jean-Marie Bonnin (Telecom Bretagne, France)

A Mobile Platform for Real-time Human Activity Recognition
Oscar D. Lara (University of South Florida, USA); Miguel A. Labrador (University of South Florida, USA)

12:00 – 13:00      Lunch

13:00 – 15:00   Session 2: Network and Lower Layers
A Cooperative Mobility Management Scheme for Wireless Mesh Networks
Jiaying Song (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)

Simple Mobility Management Protocol for Global Seamless Handover
Jong Tae Park (Kyungpook National University, Korea); Seung-Man Chun (Kyungpook National University, Korea); Jun Hyuk Choi (Kyungpook National University, Korea); Seung-Mu Lee (Kyungpook National University, Korea)

A Utility-based Handover Decision Scheme for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Meriem Abid (Paris Universitas, France); Tara Ali Yahiya (University Paris Sud 11, France); Guy Pujolle (University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France)

Joint-Design of PHY/MAC Layers for Throughput Optimization
Oluwatobi O Olabiyi (Prairie View A&M University, USA); Eyidayo Adebola (Prairie View A & M University, USA); Annamalai Annamalai (Prairie View A&M University, USA); Olusegun O. Odejide (Prairie View A&M University, USA)
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CCNC'2012 DENVECT Workshop
4th IEEE International Workshop on Digital Entertainment, Networked Virtual Environments, and Creative Technology
Location:  Sunset 2

8:30 - 10:00 Session I - Chair: Prof. Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna, Italy)

Welcome and Keynote
Keynote Speech: Dr Giovanni Pau, UCLA, US

Talk: Multimedia Applications Over Vanets

Bio: Dr. Giovanni Pau holds the Italian Laurea doctorate in Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Engineering awarded by the University of Bologna, Italy in 1998 and 2002 respectively. He is currently a research scientist with the UCLA Computer Science Department and his main research interests lie in the area of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks and Urban Sensing. He is currently leading the UCLA vehicular laboratory aimed at building a publicly available vehicular testbed for the research community. Dr. Pau published more than 50 scientific papers in international conferences and archived journals. He is serving as Associated Editor for the Elsevier International Journal of Ad Hoc Networks and the Springer International Journal on Peer to Peer Systems. Dr. Pau served as Vice Chair for North America for the IEEE COMSOC Multimedia Technical Committee and he serves in the technical program committee of several conferences including IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, ACM MobiHoc, ACM VANET, IEEE SECON, and IEEE MASS.

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 Session II - Chair: Prof. A. El Rhalibi (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)

Creative Testbeds for VANET Research: A New Methodology
Alessandro Amoroso (University of Bologna, Italy); Gustavo Marfia (Università di Bologna, Italy); Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna, Italy); Giovanni Pau (UCLA, USA)

The Effect of Router Buffer Size on Subjective Gaming Quality Estimators based on Delay and Jitter
Jose Saldana (University of Zaragoza, Spain); Julián Fernández-Navajas (University of Zaragoza, Spain); José Ruiz (University of Zaragoza, Spain); Eduardo Antonio Viruete Navarro (University of Zaragoza, Spain); Luis Casadesus, Sr. (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Augmenting Augmented Reality with Pairwise Interactions: The Case of Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsili Shooting Game
Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna, Italy); Gustavo Marfia (Università di Bologna, Italy); Alessandro Amoroso (University of Bologna, Italy); Simona Caraceni (University of Bologna, USA); Angelo Varni (University of Bologna, USA)

An Architecture for Complex P2P Systems
Sebastian Holzapfel (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Arno Wacker (University of Kassel, Germany); Torben Weis (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Matthäus Wander (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) 

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch 

13:30 - 15:00 Session III - Chairs: Dr Claudio Palazzi (University of Padua, Italy)

AREEB: Automatic REfrain Extraction for ThumBnail
Alessio Mellina (STMicroelectronics, Italy); Alexandro Sentinelli (ST Microelectronics, USA); Gustavo Marfia (Università di Bologna, Italy); Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna, Italy)

Evaluation of a Quadric-Based Surface Adaptive LOD for MPEG-4 FA
Abdennour El Rhalibi (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom); Madjid Merabti (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom)

Movement Pattern Recognition through Smartphone's Accelerometer
Armir Bujari (University of Padua, Italy); Bogdan Licar (University of Padua, Italy); Claudio E. Palazzi (University of Padua, Italy)

DIS Planning Algorithms Evaluation
Abdennour El Rhalibi (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom); Madjid Merabti (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom)

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00 Session IV (Chair: Dr Gustavo Marfia)

Influence of Online Games Traffic Multiplexing and Router Buffer on Subjective Quality
Jose Saldana (University of Zaragoza, Spain); Julián Fernández-Navajas (University of Zaragoza, Spain); José Ruiz (University of Zaragoza, Spain); Eduardo Antonio Viruete Navarro (University of Zaragoza, Spain); Luis Casadesus, Sr. (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Automatic Audio Routing for Home Entertainment”
Davide Pesavento (University of Padua, Italy); Martina Astegno (University of Padua, Italy); Claudio E. Palazzi (University of Padua, Italy)

ATTN-SPAN: Automatic summarization of long form primary source media into digestible episodes
Daniel Schultz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Henry Holtzman (MIT Media Lab, USA)
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CCNC'2012 DRM Workshop
8th IEEE International Workshop on Digital Rights Management Impact on Consumer Communications
Location:    Sunset 6

13:30 – 15:00
Analysis of Set-cover traitor tracing scheme
Fen Liu (Sony Research Lab., P.R. China); Gui Zhang (Tshinghua University, P.R. China)

iVDR's Storage and Cryptography for Internet Video
L Wu (Hitachi Corporation, P.R. China); Hongming Wang (Hitachi (China) R&D, P.R. China)

Deploying adaptation in rights exporting
Wenhui Lu (The University of Tampere, Finland); Zheying Zhang (University of Tampere, Finland); Jyrki Nummenmaa (The University of Tampere, Finland)

Digital Rights and Privacy Policies Management as a Service
Jaime Delgado (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Silvia Llorente (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Eva Rodriguez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
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CCNC'2012 CeHPSA Workshop
2nd IEEE International Workshop on Consumer eHealth Platforms, Services and Applications
Location:   Sunset 6

8:00 – 10:00
Enforcing Privacy as Access Control in a Pervasive Context
Aurélien Faravelon (LIG, France); Stéphanie Chollet (LIG, France); Christine Verdier (University Joseph Fourier Grenoble, France); Agnes Front (Lig-Sigma, France)

Web-based Mobile e-Diary for Youth with Sickle Cell Disease
Sungwon Yang (UCLA, USA); Eufemia Jacob (University of California Los Angeles, USA); Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)

Anticipatory Lighting in Smart Building
Hannu Järvinen (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland); Petri Vuorimaa (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

Monitoring and Measuring Sedentary Behaviour with the Aid of Human Digital Memories
Chelsea Dobbins (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom); Paul Fergus (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom); Madjid Merabti (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom); David Llewellyn-Jones (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom)

10:30 – 12:00
Using Smart Phones for Context-Aware Prompting in Smart Environments
Barnan Das (Washington State University, Pullman, USA); Adriana Seelye (Washington State University, USA); Brian Thomas (WSU, USA); Diane J. Cook (Washington State University, USA); Larry Holder (Washington State University, USA); Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe (Washington State University, USA)

Enhancing accessibility: mobile to ATM case study
Marc Pous (Barcelona Digital Centre Tecnològic, Spain); Circe Serra-Vallmitjana (Barcelona Digital Centre Tecnològic, Spain); Marc Torrent-Moreno (Barcelona Digital Centre Tecnològic, Spain); Rafael Giménez (Barcelona Digital Technology Centre, Spain); David Boix (e-la Caixa, Spain)

An ultra low power and small size PLL for wearable and implantable medical sensors
Bahram Ghafari (The University of Melbourne, Australia); Leila Koushaeian (Melbourne Univ, Australia); Farhad Goodarzy (University of Melbourne, Australia)
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CCNC'2012 DCN Workshop
2nd IEEE International Workshop on Densely Connected Networks
Location:   Sunset 4

9:00 – 12:00

Trading Seeder Bandwidth for Efficient Content Distribution in Swarming System
HyunYong Lee (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Masahiro Yoshida (University of Tokyo, Japan); Akihiro Nakao (University of Tokyo, Japan)

A Primary Traffic Based Multihop Routing Algorithm Using Cooperative Transmission in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks
I-Te Lin (Keio University, Japan); Iwao Sasase (Keio University, Japan)

A Min-Max multi-commodity flow model for Wireless Body Area Networks routing
Hassine Moungla (Paris Descartes University, France); Nora Touati (LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, France); Osman Salem (University of Paris Descartes, France); Ahmed Mehaoua (University of Paris Descartes, France)

Battery Lifetime Performance of Wi-Fi Enabled Sensors
Serbulent Tozlu (Bosch Research, USA); Murat Senel (Robert Bosch LLC, Research and Technology Center (RTC), North America, USA)

On Energy Consumption of Wi-Fi Access Points
Gangi Palem (Robert Bosch Technology Center, USA); Serbulent Tozlu (Bosch Research, USA)

13:00 – 15:00
Adaptive Buffering Scheme To Reduce Packet Loss On Densely Connected WSN With Mobile Sink
Zaenab Shakir (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA); Kenji Yoshigoe (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA); Rathinasamy B. Lenin (University of Central Arkansas, USA)

Adaptive Rate Transmission with Opportunistic Scheduling in Wireless Networks
Yufeng Wang (University of South Florida, USA); Ismail Butun (University of South Florida, USA); Ravi Sankar (University of South Florida, USA); Salvatore Morgera (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

Analysis of Detection Performance of Modified Periodogram over Fading Channels
Oluwatobi O Olabiyi (Prairie View A&M University, USA); Annamalai Annamalai (Prairie View A&M University, USA)

Extending the Capability of Energy Detector for Sensing of Heterogeneous Wideband Spectrum
Oluwatobi O Olabiyi (Prairie View A&M University, USA); Annamalai Annamalai (Prairie View A&M University, USA)
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CCNC'2012 FMN Workshop
4th IEEE International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking
Location:   Sunset 5

Invited Guest Speaker


8:30 – 9:15
Evaluating Video Quality in Public Safety Applications
Joel Dumke, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) of National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Boulder, Colorado, USA


9:15 – 10:45
Implications of the ISO Base Media File Format on Adaptive HTTP Streaming of H.264/SVC
Ingo Kofler (Klagenfurt University, Austria); Robert Kuschnig (Klagenfurt University, Austria); Hermann Hellwagner (Klagenfurt University, Austria)

Field trial of Quality Driven Video Streaming
Barry Crabtree (British Telecommunications PLC, United Kingdom); Steve Appleby (British Telecommunications Plc, United Kingdom); Mike E Nilsson (British Telecommunications plc, United Kingdom); Rory Turnbull (BT Plc, United Kingdom); Christopher Ormston (BT Plc, United Kingdom)

Inter-Domain Mobility Management Solution for Service Continuity in IMS-based Networks
Amel Achour (University of PARIS6, France); Kamel Haddadou (LIP6 University of Paris 6, France); Brigitte Kervella (LIP6, France); Guy Pujolle (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, France)


11:00 – 12:00
A flexible product management system for IPTV service
Jen-Chieh Yu (Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., Taiwan); Nai-Lun Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Jung-Shyr Wu (National Central University, Taiwan)

Error tolerance schemes for H.264/AVC: an evaluation
Tuan Tran Thai (University of Toulouse, France); Jerome Lacan (University of Toulouse, France); Hugo Meric (University of Toulouse, France)

13:30 – 15:00
Open Virtual Playground: Initial Architecture and Results
May El Barachi (Zayed University, UAE); Nadjia Kara (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Rachida Dssouli (Concordia University, Canada)

Connected TV and Beyond
Sergios Soursos (Intracom Telecom S. A., Greece); Nikolaos D. Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Juno: An Adaptive Delivery-Centric Middleware
Gareth Tyson (King's College London, United Kingdom); Andreas U. Mauthe (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Sebastian Kaune (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany); Paul Grace (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Thomas Plagemann (University of Oslo, Norway)

15:00 – 16:00
Real-time QoE Prediction for Multimedia Applications in Wireless Mesh Networks
Elisangela Aguiar (Federal University of Para, Brazil); André Riker (UFPA, Brazil); Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para, Brazil); Antonio Jorge Gomes Abelem (UFPA - Federal University of Pará, Brazil); Mu Mu (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Sherali Zeadally (University of the District of Columbia, USA)

Perceptual Quality Assessment for H.264/AVC Compression
Piotr Romaniak (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Lucjan Janowski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Mikolaj I. Leszczuk (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Zdzislaw Papir (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
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CCNC'2012 RSW Workshop
3rd IEEE International Research Student Workshop
Location:    Sunset 3

8:30 – 10:00
Quantitative Performance Analysis of 3.65 GHz Mobile WiMAX
Pradhumna L Shrestha (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Michael Hempel (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Puttipong Mahasukhon (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Tao Ma (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Hamid Sharif (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Power Selection for Maximizing SINR in Femtocells with Sectorized Antennas
Mohammad Reza Sanatkar (Kansas State University, USA); Bala Natarajan (Kansas State University, USA)

On the Study of Anomaly-based Spam Filtering Using Spam as Representation of Normality
Carlos Laorden (DeustoTech, Spain); Xabier Ugarte-Pedrero (University of Deusto, Spain); Igor Santos (DeustoTech, Spain); Borja Sanz (DeustoTech, Spain); Javier Nieves (DeustoTech, Spain); Pablo Garcia Bringas (University of Deusto, Spain)

10:30 – 12:00
Fractional Frequency Reuse-based Resource Sharing Strategy in Two-Tier Femtocell Networks
Juhee Kim (Seoul National University, Korea); Wha Sook Jeon (Seoul National University, Korea)

Grid-based Routing Protocol Using Cell Rotation to Reduce Packets Latency and Energy consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks
Hidetoshi Kajikawa (University of Keio, Japan); I-Te Lin (Keio University, Japan); Iwao Sasase (Keio University, Japan)

A Hybrid Content Distribution Model for Fast Data Dissemination in Overlay Networks
Maryam Feily (Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia); Salah Noori (universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia); Sureswaran Ramadass (, Malaysia)

13:30 – 15:00
Linear Approximation for Energy and Throughput Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mohamed Elsersy (University of Calgary, Canada); Jaya B Rao (University of Calgary, Canada)

Method for Estimation of Distance between Objects and its Application for Finding Lost Objects
Satoshi Konishi (the University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Yuusuke Kawakita (University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Haruhsia Ichikawa (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

A Fair Power-Efficient Cross-Layer Relay Selection based on Priority and Buffer Management
Farimah Mapar,  (Iran University of Science and Technology)
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CCNC'2012 SNTV Workshop
IEEE International Workshop on Social Networks and TV
Location:   Sunset 4

13:30 – 15:00
MatchMaker: A Friend Recommendation System through TV Character Matching
Li Bian (MIT Media Lab, USA); Henry Holtzman (MIT Media Lab, USA); Tuan Huynh (MIT, USA); Marie-Jose Montpetit (MIT RLE, USA)

WorldTV: A 3D Globe-Based Interface for Social Video Discovery
Ian Lamont (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Jungmoo Park (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Giacomo Summa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Marie-Jose Montpetit (MIT RLE, USA); Henry Holtzman (MIT Media Lab, USA)

Towards Interactivity for Citizenship: An Approach to Interactive Digital Television
João Benedito dos Santos Junior (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Kim Braga (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Danilo de Souza (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Gustavo Vilela (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

15:30 – 16:30
MatchMaker: A Friend Recommendation System through TV Character Matching
Li Bian (MIT Media Lab, USA)

Tweeting with the telly on
Mark Lochrie (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Paul Coulton (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)

 

 

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