Technical programme

 

A1 : IMS Enhancements

 

IMS 2.0 Service Architecture

Menuka Jain (France Telecom, UK); Maria Prokopi (France Teleco, UK)

Charging for Multi-Grade Services in the IP Multimedia Subsystem

May El Barachi (Concordia University, CA); Roch Glitho (Ericsson Canada, CA); Rachida Dssouli (Concordia University, CA)

WIMS 2.0, converging IMS and Web 2.0. Designing REST APIs for the exposure of session-based IMS capabilities

David Lozano (Telefonica I+D, ES); Luis Angel Galindo (Telefonica España, ES); Luis García (HI Iberia, ES)

Cost Control in Service Composition Environments

Joerg Niemoeller (Ericsson Corporate Research, DE); Roman Levenshteyn (Ericsson, DE); Ioannis Fikouras (Ericsson, DE)

 

A2: Services platforms beyond IMS

 

7DS - A Modular Platform to Develop Mobile Disruption-tolerant Applications

Arezu Moghadam (Columbia University, US); Suman Srinivasan (Columbia University, US); Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, US)

Simple Mobile Services for IMS

Stefano Salsano (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", IT); Andrea Polidoro (University of Roma "Tor Vergata", IT); Giovanni Bartolomeo (Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata", IT)

Enterprise Communications Platform Support for Integrated Location-Based Applications

John Buford (Avaya Labs Research, US); Xiaotao Wu (Avaya Labs Research, US); Ratan Bajpai (Avaya Labs Research, US); Venkatesh Krishnaswamy (Avaya Labs Research, US)

Phone-controlled Delivery of NGN Services into Residential Environments

Andreas Fasbender (Ericsson, DE); Stefan Hoferer (RWTH Aachen, DE); Martin Gerdes (Ericsson, DE); Takeshi Matsumura (Ericsson, JP); Andreas Häber (University of Agder, NO); Frank Reichert (University of Agder, NO)

 

 

 

 

 

 

A3: QoS mechanisms in NGN

 

Admission Control in IP Multicast over Heterogeneous Access Networks

Pedro Santos (Portugal Telecom Inovação, PT); Antonio Pinto (INESC Porto, PT); Manuel Ricardo (INESC Porto, PT); Francisco Fontes (Portugal Telecom Inovacao, PT); Teresa Almeida (IT Aveiro, PT)

A Proactive and Distributed QoS Negotiation Approach for Heterogeneous Environments: an Evaluation of QoS Signalling Overhead

Anis Zouari (France telecom R&D, FR); Lucian Suciu (France Télécom R&D, FR); Jean-Marie Bonnin (ENST Bretagne, FR); Karine Guillouard (France Telecom R&D, FR)

QoS-enabled Information Transport: Yet Another Operator Service

Antonio Cuevas Casado (Universität Stuttgart, DE); Jose Ignacio Moreno (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES); Rui Aguiar (University of Aveiro, PT)

NETQOS Policy Management Architecture for flexible QoS Provisioning in Future Internet

Ilka Miloucheva (Fraunhofer Institute, DE)

 

A4: Services in Cellular Networks

 

Public Safety Communication using Commercial Cellular Technology

Rolf Blom (Ericsson AB, SE); Peter de Bruin (Ericsson AB, SE); Jesper Eman (Ericsson AB, SE); Mats Folke (Ericsson AB, SE); Hans Hannu (Ericsson AB, SE); Mats Naslund (Ericsson Research, SE); Marika Stålnacke (Ericsson AB, SE); Per Synnergren (Ericsson AB, SE)

A Generic Framework for Resource Scheduling in Personal Mobile Grids based on Honeybee Colony

Heba Kurdi (Brunel University, UK); Maozhen Li (Brunel University, UK); Hamed Al-Raweshidy (University of Brunel, UK)

A Model Based RL Admission Control Algorithm for Next Generation Networks

Silvano Mignanti (University of Rome "Sapienza", IT); Alessandro Di Giorgio (University of Rome "Sapienza", IT); Vincenzo Suraci (University of Rome "La Sapienza", IT)

Proper Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solution

Ahmed Jaha (Higher Institute of Industry, Misurata - Libya, LY)

 

A5: Mobility in NGN

 

Adaptive Context Transfer Scheme for Fast Handoff in Proxy Mobile IPv6

Jaejong Baek (University of Yonsei, KR); JooSeok Song (University of Yonsei, KR)

Fast MIP Handover Amelioration in Wireless Network by Cross-layer Solution

Anne Wei (Université Parix XII, FR)

A Novel Mechanism to Select Better Multi-homed MIPv6 Network

Zina Jerjees (Brunel University, UK)

Transmission Delay Reduction in IMS by Re-registration procedure modification

Reza Farahbakhsh (University of Isfahan, IR); Marzieh Varposhti (university of Isfahan, IR); Naser Movahhedinia (University of Isfahan, IR)

 

 

B1: M-learning

 

ICT-based Learning – More Freedom, More Side-effects?

Xinhao Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN)

Mobile Learning against Forgetting

Yuan Miao (Victoria University, AU)

Personalization for Location-Based E-Learning

Rui Zhou (University of Freiburg, DE)

Experiments in ubiquitous computing for communities of practice using learning resources

Sarra Kaddouci (University of Lille 1, FR); Amel Bouzeghoub (Telecom Sud Paris, FR); Pierre-André Caron (LIFL, Université Lille 1, FR); Claire Lecocq (Telecom Sud Paris, FR); Xavier Le Pallec (LIFL, Université Lille 1, FR); François-Julien Ritaine (LIFL, Université Lille 1, FR); José Rouillard (LIFL, Université Lille 1, FR)

 

B2: M-Commerce

 

A Multi-facet Requirement Assessment of Customer-Oriented Mobile Tourism Services

Chien-Chih Yu (National ChengChi University, TW); Hsiao-ping Chang (National Chengchi University, TW)

fairCASH: Concepts and Framework

Yen Choon Ching (University of Kiel, DE); Heinz Kreft (University of Kiel, DE)

Pivot: Automatically Offering Information and Services to Real-World Shoppers

Nathan Nichols (Northwestern University, US); Kristian Hammond (Northwester University, US); Larry Birnbaum (Northwestern University, US); Lisa Gandy (Northwestern University, US)

Key Distribution Framework for a Mobile Agent Platform

Leila Ismail (UAE University, AE)

 

 

B3: Sharing content, Accessing content

 

Palpatine: a P2MP IMS Video Share architecture and implementation

Luis Lopez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, ES); Micael Gallego Carrillo (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, ES); Jose Maria Recio Pelaez (Solaiemes S.L., ES); Javier López Fernández (Solaiemes S.L., ES)

Mobile Content Sharing Utilizing the Home Infrastructure

Petros Belimpasakis (Nokia Research Center, FI); Shahzad Awan (University of Tampere, FI); Eleni Berki (University of Tampere, FI)

Delivering Services to Residential Appliances by utilizing Remote Resource Awareness

Andreas Häber (University of Agder, NO); Martin Gerdes (Ericsson, DE); Frank Reichert (University of Agder, NO); Andreas Fasbender (Ericsson, DE); Ram Kumar (University of Agder, NO)

User Centered Mobile Applications

Luis Angel Galindo (Telefonica España, ES); Joaquin Salvachua (Techincal University of Madrid, ES)

 

 

 

 

B4: Peer to peer /Energy Consumption

 

Energy Consumption of Mobile YouTube: Quantitative Measurement and Analysis

Yu Xiao (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Ramya Sri Kalyanaraman (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Antti Ylä-Jääski (Helsinki University of Technology, FI)

Optimizing Energy Consumption of Mobile Nodes in Heterogeneous Kademlia-based Distributed Hash Tables

Imre Kelényi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU); Jukka Nurminen (Nokia Research Center, FI)

P2P-SIP in Mobile and Highly Volatile Environments

Adetola Oredope (University of Essex, UK); Antonio Liotta (University of Essex, UK); Jason Morphett (British, UK); Ivan Roper (British Telecommunications (BT), UK)

Interconnecting P2PSIP and IMS

Jani Hautakorpi (Ericsson, FI); Arturo Salinas (Ericsson, FI); Erkki Harjula (University of Oulu, FI); Mika Ylianttila (University of Oulu, FI)

Partially Decentralised Context Management for P2P Communities

Jani Pellikka (University of Oulu, FI)

 

B5:  Service composition/ Context aware services

 

A SIP Application Router for Presence-Driven Composition of IMS Services

Juan Miguel Espinosa Carlin (RWTH Aachen University, DE); Dirk Thissen (RWTH Aachen University, DE)

A view-based approach for semantic service descriptions

Carsten Jacob (Fraunhofer FOKUS, DE); Heiko Pfeffer (TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, DE); Stephan Steglich (TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, DE)

SITUMET: Situation-based meteorological services

Michael Klafft (Fraunhofer ISST, DE); Daniela Knorr (Meteomedia GmbH, AT); Ulrich Meissen (Fraunhofer ISST Berlin, DE); Manfred Spatzierer (Meteomedia GmbH, AT); Agnes Voisard (Fraunhofer ISST Berlin, DE)

Mobile Situation-aware Task Recommendation Application

Doreen Cheng (Samsung Information Systems America, US); Henry Song (Samsung Electronics R&D Center, US); Hyuk Cho (University of Texas at Austin, US); Sangoh Jeong (Samsung Information Systems America, US); Swaroop Kalasapur (Samsung R&D, US); Alan Messer (Samsung Electronics, US)

 

 

C1: WiMax and beyond

 

Performance Comparison of Polling Mechanisms in IEEE 802.16 Networks

Fei YIN (LIP6, University of Paris 6, FR)

Fixed Mobile Convergence: A self-Aware QoS Architecture for Converging WiMAX and GEPON Access Networks

Brownson Obele (Information and Communications University, KR); Minho Kang (Information and Communications University, KR)

Advanced WiMAX Adapter to Serve Adaptive Applications/ Processes in Convergenced Manner

Tuomas Nissilä (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, FI); Kostas Pentikousis (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, FI); Ilkka Harjula (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, FI); Jyrki Huusko (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, FI); Marcos Katz (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, FI)

Propagation effects in WiMAX Systems

Sharmini Enoch (University of Glamorgan, UK)

 

 

C2: Propagation and antennas

 

Studies on a Next Generation Access Technology using Radio over Free-Space Optic Links

Kamugisha Kazaura (Waseda University, JP); Dat Pham (Waseda University, JP); Mohammad Shah Alam (Waseda University, JP); Toshiji Suzuki (Engineering, JP); Kazuhiko Wakamori (Engineering, JP); Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, JP); Takeshi Higashino (Osaka University, JP); Katsutoshi Tsukamoto (Osaka University, JP); Shozo Komaki (Osaka University, JP)

Evaluating Time Diversity Performance on an On-Board Processing Satellite to Earth Station Downlink

Kufre Udofia (University of Glamorgan, UK)

Investigation into GPRS Transmission Employing Switched Beam Antenna at Mobile Station

Monthippa Uthansakul (Suranaree University of Technology, TH)

Restoration of the RET Phase Function Signal using Deconvolution

Huajian Cui (University of Glamorgan, UK); Jürgen Richter (University of Glamorgan, UK)

Turbo Codes with Internal Pilot Insertion

Abdulkareem Kadhim (Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq, IQ); Ahmed Hamad (Engineering College, Babylon University, Iraq, IQ)

 

 

C3: Ad hoc networks

A Reliable Broadcast Method for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks Considering Fragmentation and Intersection Problems

Samaneh Khakbaz (IUST, IQ)

Adding Reliability of Broadcast Methods in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks

Samaneh Khakbaz (IUST, IQ)

Intelligent MANET Routing Protocol Selector

Nagham Saeed (Brunel University, UK); Maysam Abbod (Brunel University, UK); Thafer Sulaiman (Brunel University, UK); Hamed Al-Raweshidy (University of Brunel, UK); Heba Kurdi (Brunel University, UK)

A Technical Framework for Designing Wireless Sensor Networks for Agricultural Monitoring in Developing Regions

Jaafar Elmirghani (University of Leeds, UK); Amar Kabashi (University of Leeds, UK)

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C4: Location techniques

 

Error Corrected Rectangulation Method for Location Determination of Mobile in GSM Network

Muhammad Imran Razzak (Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, PK)

A Novel WLAN Positioning Technique Employing Time Delay of Successful Transmission

Peerapong Uthansakul (Suranaree University of Technology, TH); Monthippa Uthansakul (Suranaree University of Technology, TH)

Significant Location Identification Based on User Behavior Modeling

Onoriu Bradeanu (MobiFon S.A., RO); Doru-Petru Munteanu (Military Technical Academy, RO)

 

GenXfon: Design and Implementation of an Ubiquitous SIP Video Client

Alhad Kuwadekar, Chitra Balakrishna, Khalid Al-Begain (University of Glamorgan, UK)

 

 

C5: QoS techniques

 

Real-time Multi-user Transcoding For Push To Talk Over Cellular

Stephane Coulombe (Ecole de technologie supérieure, CA)

An ANFIS-based Hybrid Video Quality Prediction Model for Video Streaming over Wireless Networks

Asiya Khan (University of Plymouth, UK); Lingfen Sun (University of Plymouth, UK); Emmanuel Ifeachor (University of Plymouth, UK)

Congestion Control and Adaptive Retransmission for Multimedia Streaming over Wireless Networks

Kamal Singh (IRISA/INRIA Rennes, FR); Arpad Huszak (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU); David Ros (TELECOM Bretagne, FR); César Viho (University of Rennes I, FR); Jeney Gabor (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU)

A Dynamic Buffer Management Scheme for End-to-End QoS Enhancement of Multi-flow Services in HSDPA

Suleiman Yerima (University of Glamorgan, UK)