09:00 - 10:30

Session 1. Femtocells Deployment

Chair: Ismail Guvenc (DOCOMO USA Labs, US)

Femtocells: The HOMESNET Vision

Olivier Marce (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, FR); Carine Balageas (Alcatel-Lucent, FR); Zwi Altman (France Telecom R&D, FR); Eric Formet (Orange Labs, FR); Jyri Hämäläinen (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Edward Mutafungwa (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, FI); Zhong Zheng (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, FI); Moshe Ran (Holon Institute of Technology, IL); Yossef Ben Ezra (Optiway, IL); Pablo Beltran (Telnet RI, ES); Sergio Perales (TelnetRI, ES)

A Comparative Study of Deployment Options, Capacity and Cost Structure for Macrocellular and Femtocell Networks

Jan Markendahl (Royal Institute of Technology, SE); Östen Mäkitalo (Royal Institute of technology, SE)

A Simulation Study of Performance Trade-offs in Open Access Femtocell Networks

Ibrahim Demirdogen (University of South Florida, US); Ismail Guvenc (DOCOMO USA Labs, US); Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, US)

Impact of Mobility on Call Block, Call Drops and Optimal Cell Size in Small Cell Networks

Sreenath Ramanath (INRIA, FR); Veeraruna Kavitha (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, FR); Eitan Altman (INRIA, FR)

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Session 2. Interference Avoidance and Mitigation

Chair: Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, FI)

Interference Avoidance in 3GPP Femtocell Networks Using Resource Partitioning and Sensing

Ismail Guvenc (DOCOMO USA Labs, US); Moo Ryong Jeong (DOCOMO USA Labs, US); Mustafa Emin Sahin (University of South Florida, US); Huilin Xu (University of Florida, US); Fujio Wanatabe (DoCoMo USA Labs, US)

Dominant Interferer Mitigation in Closed Femtocell Deployment

Mika J Husso (Aalto University, FI); Zhong Zheng (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, FI); Jyri Hämäläinen (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Edward Mutafungwa (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, FI)

Interference Avoidance via Resource Scheduling in TDD Underlay Femtocells

Francesco Pantisano (University of Bologna, IT); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, FI); Kaveh Ghaboosi (Univeristy of Oulu, FI); Matti Latva-aho (UoOulu, FI)

Receive Antenna Selection Techniques for Femtocell Uplink Interference Mitigation

Ngoc-Dung Dao (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., UK); Yong Sun (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK); Woon Hau Chin (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK)

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 3. Keynotes

Chair: Afef Feki (Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, France)

Keynote Speech 1: Flexible Small Cell Green Networks: Breaking the Spectral Efficiency Barrier

Mérouane Debbah (Supelec, FR)

http://www.supelec.fr/342_p_14392/prof-merouane-debbah.html

Keynote Speech 2: Game Theory in Wireless Networks,

Tansu Alpcan (Technical Univ. Berlin, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany)

http://www.tansu.alpcan.org

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Session 4. Radio Resource Management

Chair: Carine Balageas (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, FR)

On Spectrum Sharing With Underlaid Femtocell Networks

Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, FI); Merouane Debbah (Supelec, FR)

A Radio Resource Management Scheduling Algorithm for Self-Organizing Femtocells

Antonio De Domenico (CEA-LETI Minatec, FR); Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, FR)

Time-Efficient Resource Allocation Algorithm over HSDPA in Femtocell Networks

Zhenfeng He (Imperial College London, UK); Mustafa Gurcan (Imperial College London, UK); Hadhrami AbGhani (Imperial College London, UK)

A Two-Tier Frequency Reuse Scheme

Yoram Haddad (JCT, IL)

Sponsors Slot: PeRaDa, Alcatel Lucent, Homesnet

09:00 - 10:30

Session 1. Energy Efficient Communications

Chair: Mehdi Bennis (University of Oulu, Finland)

Keynote Speech: Sustainable Communications (09:00-09:50), Gee Rittenhouse, Vice President, Head of Research Bell Labs

Bio: Gee Rittenhouse is Vice President of Bell Labs Research, overseeing all Alcatel-Lucent research in physics, computer science, mathematics, optics, access, networking, and applications. He is also Chairman of the Board of Green Touch, a non-profit pre-competitive research consortium focused on dramatic reductions in network energy requirements. Prior to leading research he was Vice President of Bell Labs' Technology Integration Group, with the primary mission of taking Bell Labs research innovations and driving them into Alcatel-Lucent’s products and services. Before that Gee was Vice President, Bell Labs Wireless Research. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1986. Then in 1993 he received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in 1993 where he worked on high-speed circuits using X-ray lithography for optical networking applications. He later joined the Wireless Research Laboratory at Bell Laboratories where his research focused on RF front-end radio architectures and cellular system engineering. In 2000 he was promoted to Director of the Wireless Technology Research Department and led several projects including MIMO system development, cellular network optimization, wireless IP networks, and fourth generation wireless systems. In 2002 he received the Bell Labs Fellow Award. He has numerous publications and patents in the areas of communications and circuits.

A survey on energy-efficient communications, Elena Veronica Belmega (CNRS-Supélec-Paris-Sud), Samson Lasaulce (CNRS/LSS), Mérouane Debbah (Supélec)

Towards a deplloyment tool for wireless access networks wih minimal power consumption, Margot Deruyck (Ghent University/IBBT), Emmeri Tanghe (Ghent University/IBBT), Wout Joseph (Ghent University), Willem Vereecken (Ghent University), Mario Pickavet (Ghent University), art Dhoedt (Ghent University), Luc Martens (Ghent University)

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Session 2. Power Efficiency Performance

Chair: Mérouane Debbah (Supélec, France)

Power Dissipation Minimization in RF Front Ends, Peter Baltus (Eindhoven University of Technology), Yan Wu (Eindhoven University of Technology), Johannes van den Heuvel (Eindhoven University of Technology), Jean-Paul Linnartz (Philips Research)

Power Savings in Small Cell Deployments via Sleep Mode Techniques, Imran Ashraf (Alcatel-Lucent), Federico Boccardi (Alcatel-Lucent), Lester Ho (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent)

Switching Off Low Utilization Base Stations via Store Carry and Forward Relaying, Panayiotis Kolios (King's College London), Vasilis Friderikos (King's College London), Katerina Papadaki (London School of Economics)

Power Efficiency Model for Mobile Access Network, Maliha Jada (Aalto University, School of Science and Technology)

Energy Efficient Transmission in a Simple Wireless Multicast Network, Nof Abuzainab (University of Maryland, College Park) , Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland, College Park)

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 3. Energy Efficiency Algorithms

Chair: Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, College Park)

Information-Theoretic Analysis of an Energy Harvesting Communication System, Omur Ozel (University of Maryland, College Park), Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, College Park)

Applying multi-agent Q-learning scheme in cognitive wireless mesh networks for green communications, Xianfu Chen (Zhejiang University), Zhifeng Zhao (Zhejiang University), Honggang Zhang (Zhejiang University), Tao Chen (VTT)

Energy-Efficient Relay Selection for Multicast Traffic, Anna Pantelidou (Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu), Qiang Xue (University of Oulu)

New Channel Allocation Techniques for Power Efficient WiFi Networks,Vasileios Miliotis (University of Thessaly, CERTH), Apostolos Apostolaras (University of Thessaly, CERTH), Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly, CERTH), Zhifeng Tao (Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab), Leandros Tassiulas (University of Thessaly, CERTH)

Interference Management for Self-Organized Femtocells Towards Green Networks, Carlos H. M. de Lima (University of Oulu), Mehdi Bennis (University of Oulu), Kaveh Ghaboosi (University of Oulu), Matti Latva-aho (University of Oulu)

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Session 4. Green Cellular Networks

Chair: Imran Ashraf (Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent)

Micro Base Stations in Load Constrained Cellular Mobile Radio Networks, Fred Richter (Technische Universität Dresden) , Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden), Markus Gruber (Alcatel-Lucent) , Oliver Blume (Alcatel-Lucent)

On the Energy Aware Deployment Strategy in Cellular Systems, Yinan Qi (University of Surrey), Muhammad Ali Imran (University of Surrey), Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey)

Panel: "Addressing the 2% Share in Green Communications"

Chair: Luis M. Correia (Professor - IST/Tech. Univ. Lisbon, PT)
Ultan Mulligan (Director of Strategy and New Initiatives - ETSI, FR), Ylva Jading (Senior Researcher, Ericsson, SE, and Technical Manager - EU ICT EARTH Project), Gee Rittenhause (Vice President - Bell Labs Research, Alcatel-Lucent, US, and Chairman of the Board - Green Touch), Takehiro Nakamura (Director - Radio System Design Group, DOCOMO, JP, and Chairman - 3GPP TSG-RAN)
Luis Neves (Vice President - Corporate Responsibility, Deutsche Telecom, DE, and Chairman - GeSI )

Luis M. Correia received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST-TUL (Technical University of Lisbon), where he is currently a Professor with his work focused in Wireless/Mobile Communications. He has been active in various research projects within the European frameworks of RACE, ACTS, IST, ICT and COST (where he also served as evaluator and auditor), having coordinated two COST projects, and taken leadership responsibilities at the workpackage and task levels in various ones. He has edited 3 books, and authored more than 270 papers. He was part of the COST Domain Committee on ICT. He was the Chairman of the Technical Programme Committee of several conferences, namely PIMRC’2002. He is part of the Expert Advisory Group and of the Steering Board of the European eMobility platform, and the Chairman of its Working Group on Applications.

Ultan Mulligan is Director of Strategy and New Initiatives in the ETSI Secretariat. His role includes facilitating the development of any new standardisation or pre-standardisation activities at ETSI. Previously in the ETSI Protocol and Testing Competence Centre (PTCC), he managed OSA/Parlay standardisation activities for ETSI and was engaged in developing ETSI's IMS Interoperability initiative. He has managed specification and testing projects at ETSI in fields as diverse as X.25, DECT, V5, IN, OSA, and DSRC radio (road tolling). He has participated in most ETSI committees, in ITU-T, CEN, and groups such as Bluetooth SIG and Parlay. Mr Mulligan has a B. Eng. from Dublin City University and an Executive MBA from the ESCP-EAP in Paris.

Ylva Jading currently holds a position as senior researcher at Ericsson Research and is also technical manager of the EU project EARTH, a consortium aiming at developing techniques for significantly reducing the energy consumption of mobile wireless communication networks. During the last years, she has contributed significantly to the concept-development and standardisation activities for the LTE radio-access technology, both internally within Ericsson and within the standardisation body 3GPP, in particular in RAN Workgroup 1. She received her Master of Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg 1992 and her Ph.D. in Nuclear Astrophysics from Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz 1996. She was Research Fellow in Experimental Physics at CERN, Geneva. She joined Ericsson in 1999 driving system characteristics verification for TDMA and WCDMA products. Since 2004 she is part of Ericsson Research.

Gee Rittenhouse is Vice President of Bell Labs Research. He is also Chairman of the Board of Green Touch, a non-profit pre-competitive research consortium focused on dramatic reductions in network energy requirements. Prior to leading research he was Vice President of Bell Labs' Technology Integration Group, and Vice President, Bell Labs Wireless Research. He received his Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1986, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1993. He joined Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in 1993, he later joined the Wireless Research Laboratory at Bell Laboratories. In 2000 he was promoted to Director of the Wireless Technology Research Department. In 2002 he received the Bell Labs Fellow Award. He has numerous publications and patents in the areas of communications and circuits.

Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Laboratories in 1990. In 1992, he transferred to NTT DOCOMO, Inc. He is now Director of the Radio System Design Group of NTT DOCOMO, Inc. Mr. Nakamura has been working for research and development of the W-CDMA. He has been engaged in the W-CDMA standardisation activity at ARIB in Japan since 1997 and he is currently the leader of the IMT-Partnership Group in ARIB since March 2006. He has been contributing to standardization activities in 3GPP since1999. He has been the rapporteur for LTE and LTE-Advanced in 3GPP TSG-RAN since December 2004 and March 2008, respectively. He had contributed to 3GPP TSG-RAN as a vice chairman during March 2005 to March 2009. He is currently a chairman of 3GPP TSG-RAN since April 2009.

Luis Neves has a University degree in History. He worked for more than 25 years for Marconi as Head of Department and lately at the Corporate Office. Afterwards, he started an international career and developed activity at European and International levels, being a member of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications in the EU and Chair and Expert from the EC to Working Groups in the Telecommunications and Information Society fields. He joined Deutsche Telekom in May 2004 as a Senior Manager in the Corporate Sustainability and Citizenship Department. In May 2008 he was appointed Head of Sustainable Development and Environment at Deutsche Telekom Corporate Responsibility, and as from December 2008 he holds the position Vice-President Corporate Responsibility. He has been playing a fundamental role in promoting the role of ICT in relation to Climate Change. Luis was the driving force and the chairman of the steering committee of the recent Study “SMART 2020 - Enabling the Low Carbon Economy in the Information Age”.

09:00 - 10:30

Session 1. Keynotes

Chair:Yonghong Zeng (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Wireless cloud computing and cognitive wireless cloud

- Needs, research, and development -

Hiroshi Harada (National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

Robust spectrum sensing in cognitive radio

Yonghong Zeng and Liang Ying Chang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Session 2. Standardization and Regulations

Chair: Aawatif Hayar (Eurecom, FR)

ETSI RRS - The Standardization Path to Next Generation Cognitive Radio Systems

Markus Dominik Mueck (Infineon Technologies, DE); Aawatif Hayar (Eurecom, FR); Pierre-Jean Muller (Huawei Technologies, FR); Nancy Alonistioti (University of Athens, GR); Kari Kalliojarvi (Nokia Research Center, FI); Antti Piipponen (Nokia, FI); Kostas Tsagkaris (University of Piraeus, GR); Panagiotis Demestichas (University of Piraeus, GR); Jens Gebert (Alcatel-Lucent, DE); Stanislav Filin and Hiroshi Harada (NICT, JP); Merouane Debbah (Supelec, FR); Gianmarco Baldini (Joint Research Centre - European Commission, IT); Thomas Haustein (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, DE)

IEEE Draft Standard P1900.4a for Architecture and Interfaces for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks in White Space Frequency Bands: Technical Overview and Feasibility Study

Stanislav Filin, Kentaro Ishizu and Hiroshi Harada (National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

Cognitive Management Systems for Supporting Operators in the Emerging Future Internet Era

Panagiotis Demestichas, Kostas Tsagkaris and Vera Stavroulaki (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Standardization activities in spectrum sensing and interface for dynamic spectrum access

Ha Nguyen Tran, Yohannes D Alemseged, Chen Sun and Hiroshi Harada (National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 3. Experimental Systems and Cognitive Management

Chair: Panagiotis Demestichas (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Experimental Evaluation of Distributed Radio Resource Optimization Algorithm Based on the Neural Networks for Cognitive Wireless Cloud

Mikio Hasegawa (Tokyo University of Science, Japan), Kentaro Ishuzu, Homare Murkami and Hiroshi Harada (National Institute of Information & Communications Technology, Japan)

Overview of TV White Spaces: Current Regulations, Standards and Coexistence between Secondary Users

Tuncer Baykas, Junyi Wang, M Azizur Rahman, Stanislav Filin, Zhou Lan, Gabriel Villardi, Chunyi Song, Ha Nguyen Tran, Yohannes D Alemseged, Chin-Sean Sum, Chen Sun and Hiroshi Harada (National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

Technical Challenges for Merging Opportunistic Networks with Respective Cognitive Management Systems in the Future Internet

Panagiotis Demestichas, Kostas Tsagkaris, Vera Stavroulaki, Yiouli Kritikou and Andreas Georgakopoulos (University of Piraeus, Greece)

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Session 4. Advanced Methods

Chair: Tuncer Baykas (NICT, Japan)

Modeling and Analysis of System Dynamics and State Estimation in Cognitive Radio Networks

Boris Oklander (Technion, Israel); Moshe Sidi (Technion, Israel)

Femtocell Gateway Scheduling for Capacity and Fairness Improvement in Neighboring Femtocell Networks

Mustafa Cenk Erturk (University of South Florida, US); Ismail Guvenc (DOCOMO USA Labs, US); Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, US)

Primary Exclusive Region and Optimality of the Link-Level Throughput of Cognitive Terminals

Jean-Michel Dricot (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

09:00 - 10:30

Session 1. Future Air Interfaces

Chair: Erdal Arikan (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Future Pervasive Wireless Communications - Air interface challenges

Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece), Jim Womack (RIM, USA),

Yi Wang (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, P.R. China)

Throughput of a Wireless Cell Using Superposition Based Multiple-Access with Non-ideal Interference Cancellation

Joerg Schaepperle (Alcatel-Lucent, Germany)

The Way Forward to the Next Generation Radio Access Network beyond IMT-Advanced: Potential Technologies and Overall Framework

Sheng Liu (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, P.R. China), Jianjun Wu (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., P.R. China)

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Session 2. Advanced Resource Allocation

Chair: Garik Markarian (Rinicom Ltd., United Kingdom)

Coordinate Ascent Based Resource Allocation Algorithm for Maximizing WSMR in Downlink Cellular OFDMA Systems

Tao Wang (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Luc Vandendorpe (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

Distortion-Aware MIMO Link Adaptation for Enhanced Multimedia Communications

Ozgur Oyman (Intel Corporation, USA), Jeffrey Foerster (Intel Corporation, USA)

On the Physical Layer Performance with Rank Indicator Selection in LTE/LTE-Advanced System

Zijian Bai (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Christoph Spiegel (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Guido Bruck (University of Duisburg Essen, Germany), Peter Jung (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Michael Horvat (Infineon Technologies AG, Germany)

Novel Technique for Efficient Video Distribution over WiMAX Networks

Garegin Markarian (University of Lancaster, United Kingdom), Dmitry Tsitserov (University of Lancaster, United Kingdom), Anna Zvikhachevskaya (University of Lancaster, United Kingdom)

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 3. Evolution Towards 4G

Chair: Yi Wang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, P.R. China)

Overview and Status of IEEE P802.16m Standard Development

Phillip Barber (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., USA)

Path to 4G Wireless Networks

Ahmet Akan (Turkcell), Cagatay Edeman (Turkcell)

4G Test-Bed Trial

Ni Ma (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., P.R. China), Yongmao Li (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, P.R. China)

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Session 4. Advanced Methods for 4G

Chair: Hua Huang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China)

A Reduced Feedback User Location-Aware Network MIMO Coordination Scheme for Cellular Downlink

Mohsen Eslami (University of Alberta, Canada), Witold A. Krzymien (University of Alberta / TRLabs, Canada)

A Downlink ICIC Method Based on Region in the LTE-Advanced System

Jian Huang (Student, P.R. China); Peter Xiao (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., P.R. China), Xiao Jun Jing (Collaborative professor, P.R. China)

Overview of ARQ and HARQ in Beyond 3G Systems

Antonio M. Cipriano (Thales Communications, France), Paul Gagneur (Thales Communications, France), Guillaume Vivier (Sequans, France), Serdar Sezginer (Sequans, France)

A Unified Interference Suppression Framework --- Joint Vector and Lattice Approach

Bin Li (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., P.R. China), Yi Luo (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., P.R. China), Rui Wang (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Hong Kong), Hui Shen (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., P.R. China)

Adaptive Radio Resource Management in a Sectored Cell for Broadband Wireless Access Systems

Christos Papathanasiou (University of Thessaly, Greece), Nikos Dimitriou (University of Athens, Greece), Leandros Tassiulas (University of Thessaly, Greece)

09:00 - 10:30

Session 1. BAN Standardization, Technology and Challenges

Chair: Kamran Sayrafian (NIST, US)

Plenary Talk: Body Area Network: Standardization and Technology (9:10-10:10)

Prof. Huan-Bang Li, Medical ICT Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Yokosuka, Japan

Open-source Testbed for Body Area Networks: 200 sample/sec, 12 hrs Continuous Measurement (10:10-10:30)

Leif W Hanlen (National ICT Australia, AU); Vasanta Chaganti (Australian National University, AU); Ben Gilbert (National ICT Australia, AU); David Rodda (National ICT Australia, AU); Tharaka Anuradha Lamahewa (Australian National University, AU); David B Smith (National ICT Australia, AU)

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Session 2.: PHY, MAC Design and Performance Evaluation I

Chair: Kamya Y. Yazdandoost (NICT, Japan)

Performance Analysis of Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband Differential Detection Schemes for Body Area Networks

Igor Dotlic (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, JP); Ryuji Kohno (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), JP)

Physical Layer Design of Distributed Proportional Fair Scheduling in Wireless Body Area Networks

Ramy Abdallah Tannious (University of California Davis, US); Anna Scaglione (UD Davis, US)

Spreading with Walsh Code for π/2-DBPSK Modulated WBAN Systems

Jian (Andrew) Zhang (CSIRO, AU); Leif W Hanlen (National ICT Australia, AU); Xiaojing Huang (CSIRO ICT Centre, AU)

Performance Evaluation of an Ultra-Low Power Receiver for Body Area Networks

Li Huang (IMEC Netherlands, NL); Pieter Harpe (IMEC Netherlands, NL); Cui Zhou (IMEC Netherlands, NL); Simonetta Rampu (IMEC Netherlands, NL); Maja Vidojkovic (IMEC Netherlands, NL); Guido Dolmans (IMEC Netherlands, NL); Harmke de Groot (IMEC Netherlands, NL); Koji Imamura (Panasonic Corp., Japan)

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 3: PHY, MAC Design and Performance Evaluation II

Chair: Kamran Sayrafian (NIST, US)

Performances of IEEE 802.15.4 and its High Rate Extensions for Body Sensor Networks

Shenqiu Zhang (University of Rochester, US); Alireza Seyedi (University of Rochester, US)

Energy Efficient Methods of Encoding Destination Address to Address Overhearing Problem in Wireless BAN

Maulin D. Patel (Philips Research N. A., US); Dong Wang (Philips Research North America, US)

Design and Performance of Contention Based MAC Protocols in WBAN for Medical ICT Using IR-UWB

Leena Kynsijärvi (Centre for Wireless Communications, FI); Leonardo Goratti (Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, FI); Raffaello Tesi (University of Oulu, FI); Jari Iinatti (University of Oulu, FI); Matti Hämäläinen (University of Oulu, FI)

Performance Study of WiseMAC, SMAC, IEEE 802.15.4 and Improved IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Protocols for Wireless Body Area Network

Sana Ullah (Inha University, KR); Kyung S. Kwak (Inha University, KR)

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Session 4: Advanced Networking and System Issues

Chair: Kamya Y. Yazdandoost (NICT, Japan)

Link Adaptation in IEEE 802.15.4 Based Wireless Body Area Networks

Flavia Martelli (University of Bologna, IT); Chiara Buratti (University of Bologna, IT); Roberto Verdone (University of Bologna, IT)

Methodology and Software Development Platform for Wearable Computers

Kazi Atiqur Rahman (University of Windsor, CA); Ansger Jacob (University of Hohenheim, Germany); Stefan Kirn (University of Hohenheim, Germany); Kemal E. Tepe (University of Windsor, CA)

Localization Performance in Wireless Body Sensor Networks with Beacon Enabled MAC and Space-Time Dependent Channel Model

Elyes Ben Hamida (CEA-LETI, Minatec, FR); Mickael Maman (CEA-Leti Minatec, FR); Benoit Denis (CEA-Leti Minatec, FR); Laurent Ouvry (CEA-LETI-DCIS-ASTI, FR)

Networking Coding for Wireless Body Area Networks

Attaphongse Taparugssanagorn (University of Oulu, FI); Fumie Ono (Yokohama National University, JP); Ryuji Kohno (Yokohama National University, JP)

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Plenary Talk: Body Area Network: Standardization and Technology

Abstract: Body area network (BAN) is developed as an effective and efficient technology to assist medical and healthcare monitoring as well as to provide a convenient tool for consumer electronics. Task group (TG) 15.6 is a group formally approved by IEEE 802 Standardization Committee in December 2007. From then on, TG15.6 has been working for more than two years to make an international BAN standard. As a result, the first draft of the BAN standard has been completed in May 2010. In this keynote, some aspects of the standardization on BAN will be addressed. To meet various technical requirements, a narrow band PHY, a UWB PHY, and a PHY using human body communication (HBC) were specified in the draft. A single common MAC was defined to enable common control. When defining the technical specifications of PHY and MAC, attentions were paid to conform to spectrum regulations in different countries and regions. Some regulations on main candidate frequency bands will be reviewed. Examples of prototype BANs will be presented.

Speakers Biography: Huan-Bang Li received the Dr. of Eng. degree from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan in 1994. Since then, He has been working for the Communications Research Laboratory (now, National Institute of Information and communications Technology: NICT), Japan. His research interests include mobile satellite communication, coded modulation, ultra-wideband (UWB), body area network (BAN), etc. He is now a senior researcher of NICT. From 1999 to 2000, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, CA, USA. He was a Visiting Associate Professor from 2002 to 2009, and has been a Visiting Professor since 2010, at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. He currently serves as the vice chairman of IEEE 802.15.6. He received the Young Engineer Award and the Excellent Paper Award of IEICE Japan in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and the Distinguished Patent Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology Agency of Japan in 2000.

09:00 - 10:30

Session 1. Invited Speakers – Emerging Positioning Techniques & Technologies

Chair: Nayef Alsindi (Telecom Regulatory Authority, Bahrain)

Tracking Emergency Responders in Challenging Environments

Jalal Mapar (Department of Homeland Security, USA):

Jalal Mapar is a Program Manager at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate. Since joining DHS in 2005, he has spearheaded the development of several key technologies for the responder community such as the 3-D location tracking program in GPS denied environments, a miniature relay tag for wireless mesh networks for responder operations, Physiological Health Monitoring system for first responders, and a unique concrete breaching tool for the Urban Search and Rescue Teams (selected by Popular Science as one of the 2008 Innovations of the Year). Prior to joining DHS S&T, Mapar was a VP/Division Manager at SAIC in McLean, VA where he directed R&D programs in air, space, information technology, sensors, and decision aid systems. Prior to SAIC, Mapar held a variety of technical and management positions at Orbital Sciences Corp, Oceaneering Space Systems, Grumman, Dynacs Engineering, and Lockheed. Mapar holds a B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and has over 18 journal/conference publications in advanced technology topics. Mapar is, a frequent Speaker at WPI Precision Indoor Personnel Location and Tracking for Emergency Responders (2007-2009), and a member of the Board of Joint Navigation Conference. In 2008, he was the recipient of the DHS S&T Under Secretary’s Award for Program Management in Science and Technology.

Wi-Fi Localization for Smart Devices

Kaveh Pahlavan(Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA):

Kaveh Pahlavan is a Professor of ECE, a Professor of CS, and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. He is also a visiting Professor of Telecommunication Laboratory and Center for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland and the chief technical advisor of the Skyhook Wireless, Boston, MA. His current area of research is localization using signals of opportunity and sensor networking with geolocation. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Wireless Information Networks and a member of the advisory board of the IEEE Wireless Magazine. He is a steering committee member and co-founder of the IEEE PIMRC and the founder and chair of the IEEE Wireless LAN Workshop, in 1991, 1996, and 2001; co-chair of the International Workshop on Ultra Wideband Systems, Oulu, Finland, 2003; co-chair of the International Workshop on Wireless Adhoc Network, Oulu, Finland, 2004; the chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Adhoc Sensor Systems, 2005, and the founder and general chair of the Workshop on Opportunistic RF Localization for the Next Generation Wireless Devices, June 16-17, 2008, June 14-15, 2010. He was the Westin Hadden Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI during 1993-1996, was elected as a fellow of the IEEE in 1996, became a fellow of the Nokia in 1999, and received the first Fulbright-Nokia scholarship in 2000.

RFID-Assisted Localization

Nader Moayeri (NIST, USA):

Nader Moayeri is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland. His research interests are in wireless communications and networking, in particular, wireless ad hoc and mesh networks, indoor localization and tracking, and wireless sensor networks. During 1994-1997, he was with the Imaging Technology Department at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA. During 1986-1994, he was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He studied electrical engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, from 1974 to 1978, and received the MSEE, MSCICE, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-Systems from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1980, 1981, and 1986, respectively.

Position Estimation via Ultra-Wideband Signals

Sinan Gezici (Bilkent University, Turkey):

Sinan Gezici received the B.S. degree from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 2006. From April 2006 to January 2007, he worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA. Since February 2007, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University. His research interests are in the areas of signal detection, estimation and optimization theory, and their applications to wireless communications and localization systems. Among his publications in these areas is the recent book Ultra-Wideband Positioning Systems: Theoretical Limits, Ranging Algorithms, and Protocols (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008).

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Session 2A. Localization Systems

Chair: Nader Moayeri (NIST, USA)

The ARPEGEO Project: a New Look at Cellular RSSI Fingerprints for Localization

Bruce Denby (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France); Iness Ahriz (ESPCI - Paristech, France); Gerard Dreyfus (ESPCI - Paristech, France); Remi Dubois (ESPCI-ParisTech, France); Pierre Roussel (ESPCI-ParisTech, France)

Cramer-Rao Bounds for Hybrid Localization Methods in LOS and NLOS Environments

Konstantinos Papakonstantinou (Eurecom Institute, France); Dirk Slock (Eurecom, France)

LAURA - LocAlization and Ubiquitous monitoRing of pAtients for Health Care Support

Alessandro Redondi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marco Tagliasacchi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Matteo Cesana (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Luca Borsani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy Paula Tarrío (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Fabio Salice (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Assessment of GNSS Signal Acquisition Sensitivities for Indoor and Urban Scenarios

Ayse Sicramaz Ayaz (University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany); Thomas Pany (IFEN GmbH, Germany); Bernd Eissfeller (University FAF Munich, Germany)

A Tutorial on Indoor Wireless Positioning with Anonymous Beacons using Random-Finite-Set Statistics

Adrian Bishop (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE)

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 2B. Localization Systems

Chair: Nayef Alsindi (Telecom Regulatory Authority, Bahrain)

Multiuser Radiolocation in CDMA Networks

Zahid Ali (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Adnan Landolsi (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia), Mohamad A. Deriche (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia)

Bearing-only Target Localization with Uncertainties in Observer Position

Reza M. Vaghefi (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mohammad Reza Gholami (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Erik G Ström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Session 3. Location-Enabled Communications

Chair: Nayef Alsindi (Telecom Regulatory Authority, Bahrain)

Location Aided Transmit Strategy in Two-Way Relay Networks

Dong Xu (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Zijian Bai (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Guido Bruck (University of Duisburg Essen, Germany); Peter Jung (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Discrete Rate Resource Allocation for OFDMA Cognitive Radio Systems With Location Information

Mahdi Ben Ghorbel (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Haewoon Nam (Motorola Inc., USA); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar)

Enhanced Wireless Multiple-Access and Scheduling Techniques Using Positional and Environmental Information

Congzheng Han (University of Bristol, UK); Matthew W Webb (University of Bristol, UK); Angela Doufexi (University of Bristol, UK); Mark Beach (University of Bristol, UK)

Position Aware Communication with Noisy Position Measurements

Stephan Sand (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Christian Mensing (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Ronald Raulefs (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Ralph Tanbourgi (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Session 4. Cooperative Localization

Chair: Ronald Raulefs (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)

Censored Cooperative Positioning for Dense Wireless Networks

Kallol Das (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweeden); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweeden)

Collaborative Position Location with NLOS Mitigation

Tao Jia (Virginia Tech, USA); Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA)

Hybrid GNSS-ToA Localization and Tracking via Cooperative Unscented Kalman Filter

Mauricio A. Caceres (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Francesco Sottile (ISMB, Italy); Roberto Garello (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Maurizio A. Spirito (ISMB, Italy)

Bounds on Performance of Hybrid WiFi-UWB Cooperative Localization for Robotic Applications

Nader Bargshady (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Kaveh Pahlavan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Yunxing Ye (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Ferit Ozan Akgul (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Nayef A. Alsindi (Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Bahrain)

Real-Time Path Loss And Node Selection For Cooperative Localization In Wireless Sensor Networks

Albert Bel (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain); José López Vicario (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain); Gonzalo Seco-Granados (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

09:00 - 10:30

Session 1. Wireless Distributed Networks I

Chair: Takeo Fujii (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

Opening

Takeo Fujii (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan)

[Invited Talk I] On the Potential and Challenges connected to Coordinated Multi-Point in LTE-Advanced - From Theory to Recent Field Trial Results

Patrick Marsch (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Michael Grieger (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Joerg Holfeld (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Vincent Kotzsch (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany)

Field Trials using Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission in the Downlink

Volker Jungnickel (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany); Andreas Forck (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany); Stephan Jaeckel (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany); Frank Bauermeister (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, DE); Stefan Schiffermueller (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany); Simon Schubert (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany); Sander Wahls (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany); Lars Thiele (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany); Thomas Haustein (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany); Wolfgang Kreher (Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany); Juergen Mueller (Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany); Heinz Droste (Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany); Gerhard Kadel (Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany)

Joint Power Control, Receiver Beamforming and Adaptive Multi Base Station Coordination for Uplink Wireless Communications

Xiaojia Lu (University of Oulu, Finland); Wei Li (University of Oulu, Finland); Antti Tolli (University of Oulu, Finland); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland); Esa Kunnari (University of Oulu, Finland); Olli Piirainen (Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland)

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Session 2. Wireless Distributed Networks II

Chair: Kenta Umebayashi (Tokyo University of agriculture and technology, Japan)

[Invited Talk II] Game Theory: an Indispensable Tool for Studying Scalable Wireless Networks

Ömer İleri (Multimedia Technologies Assessment, Research and Development Laboratory TUBITAK-UEKAE, Turkey)

Management of Dominant Interference in Cognitive Radio Networks

Koji Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan); Hidekazu Murata (Kyoto University, Japan); Susumu Yoshida (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan)

Network Throughput of TDD/TDMA Two-way Multi-hop Relay Network with MIMO Network Coding in Indoor Environment

Keiichi Mizutani (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Takehiro Miyamoto (Nihon Dengyo Kosaku Co. Ltd., Japan); Kei Sakaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Kiyomichi Araki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

A CSI Reduction Method of Block Cooperative Decoding System in OFDM Wireless Communication Scheme

Yi Zhou (Tokyo University of Science, Japan); Osamu Takyu (Tokyo University of Science, Japan); Yohtaro Umeda (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 3. Wireless Distributed Networks III

Chair: Koji Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan)

[Invited Talk III] Wireless Network Challenges: Interference, Compression and Cooperation

Markku Juntti (Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)

Cooperative ARQ using Distributed Relay Selection and Inter-relay Opportunistic Listening

Nandar Lynn (Keio University, Japan); Osamu Takyu (Tokyo University of Science, Japan); Koichi Adachi (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore); Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, JP); Masao Nakagawa (Keio University, Japan)

FORTEL: Forecasting Routing Technique using Location information for Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Hadi Noureddine (Brunel University, United Kingdom)

Delay Properties of Opportunistic Back-Pressure Routing in CSMA-based Wireless Mesh Networks

Mathias Kurth (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany); Jens-Peter Redlich (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Session 4. Wireless Distributed Networks IV

Chair: Shinsuke Ibi (Osaka University, Japan)

A Study on Joint Channel Decoding Using Spatial Correlation of Sensor Observations According to ADC Bit levels

Kentaro Kobayashi (Nagoya University, Japan); Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya University, Japan); Masaaki Katayama (Nagoya University, Japan)

On using the message digest for error correction in wireless communication networks

Natasa Zivic (University of Siegen, Germany); Obaidur Rehman (University of Siegen, Germany)

Packet-Level Forward Erasure Correction with User Fairness in Lossy Wireless Networks

Satoshi Hisamatsu (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan); Hitomi Tamura (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan); Masato Tsuru (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan); Yuji Oie (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

Performance Evaluation of Coding-Based Cognitive Radio for Various Packet Sizes

Arash Asareh (The University of Electro-Communication, Japan); Takeo Fujii (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

Closing

Antti Tölli(University of Oulu, Finland)