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TECHNICAL SESSIONS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2003 8:00am - 6:00pm
The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Time
Event
8:00 – 8:15
Opening Remarks
Peter Zalud, General Chair, Sarnoff Corporation
Gerhard Franz, Technical Program Chair, A. G. Franz Associates, LLC
8:15 - 8:45
Keynote Address:
Bruce Friedman, Sprint Mobile Computing Services Group: The Economics of Interoperability
9:00 - 10:00
Software Radio
Chairpersons: C. Reed/H. Owen
  • Software Defined Radio: The Good, the Bad and the Challenges, T. Sterkel, MITRE Corporation
  • A Feasibility Study of Embedded Linux For The Software Defined Radio, X.D. Yang, Communications Test Operation, Agilent Technologies Singapore Pte. Ltd., C. Chang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • A Practical Approach for the Automatic Recognition and Identification of Digital Modulations, X.D. Yang, Communications Test Operation, Agilent Technologies Singapore Pte. Ltd., C. Chang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Microwave Devices
Chairperson: A. Dutta
  • The Michigan Wireless Integrated Microsystems Center, M. Flynn, University of Michigan (Invited)
  • Electro-Absorption Modulated Laser Transmitters for DWDM Analog Fiber Optic Systems, A. Paolella, Artisan Laboritories Corporation, J. Wang, H. Gysel, G. Picard, Motorola Broadband Communications Sector
10:00 - 10:45
Break - Exhibit Opens
10:45 - 12:00
Keynote Panel - The Future of Telecom
       Moderator: Dr. Gerhard Franz, A.G. Franz Associates, LLC
       Janet Boudris, Broadbeam Corporation
       Bruce Friedman, Sprint Mobile Computing Services Group
       Dr. Markus Kommenda, ftw. Vienna, Austria
10:45 - 12:00
Network Security
Chairpersons: D. Bachman
  • Multi-Layer Wireless Network Security, M. Barton, K. D. Wong, J. Lee, T. J. Kwon & A. Cheng, Telcordia Technologies
  • Limiting the Execution Time in a Host: A Way Of Protecting Mobile Agents, O. Esparza, M. Soriano, J. Munoz, J. Forn, Polythecnical University of Catalonia
VOIP/QOS & Optical Networking
Chairpersons: I. Venieris/ D. Sullivan
  • Multi-Level Expediated Forwarding Per Hop Behavior, S. Silverman, D. Sullivan, Hoston Associates, Inc.
  • QoS Provisioning Mechanisms in GPRS Networks, A.C. Kochem, E. Bodanese, CEFET-PR DAINF, Brazil
  • Impact of Mobility in Wireless Networks, V. Shyam, Motorola
  • SNR and BER Performance of Wideband Offset Signal Modulation, C. Engel, Penn State University
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
1:30 - 3:15

Military Communications
Chairpersons: S. Shamsunder

  • Efficient Methods for Mobile Database Synchronization, M. Zieniewicz, US Army CECOM, Fort Monmouth (Invited)
  • Quasi CDMA Direct Conversion MIL-STD-188-110A HF Single-Tone MODEM, M. Qahwash, W. Mikael, University of Central Florida
  • LPI Performance of Chaotic Signals in Spread Spectrum Communications, J. Yu, Yu-Dong Yao, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Optimum Filtration of NB Interference in Adaptive DS-CDMA Systems Via Double Matching of a Reciver, J. Pawelec, Military Communication Institute, Poland
  • Channel Utilization for a Wireless Collaboration Planning Tool, M. Zieniewicz, US Army CECOM, Fort Monmouth (Invited) RDEC

3G Mobile Systems and Wireless LANs
Chairpersons: S. Murthy/B. McNair

  • A New Approach to Mobile Position Tracking, S. Gezici, H. Kobayashi, H. V. Poor, Princeton University
  • Integrated WLAN-Cellular Voice Systems, C. Fors, R. Liss, R. Pazhyannur, Motorola, Inc.
  • Routing Protocols for Self-Organizing Hierarchical Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks, S. Zhao, K. Tepe, I. Seskar, D. Raychaudhuri, WINLAB, Rutgers Univesity
  • CMOS RFIC Architectures for IEEE 802.15.4Networks, H. Schimdbaur, J. Notor, A Caviglia, G. Levy, Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
  • Combining FEC and Traffic Throttling to Control Interference in a Frequency-hopping Wireless Link, B. Kraimeche, C. Manelis, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • A MAC Protocol for Wireless Video Transmission Over Multi-Code CDMA Ad Hoc Networks, D. Liu, Ohio State University
3:15 - 4:00
Break - Exhibit Area
4:00 - 6:00

Signal Processing
Chairperson: J. Pawelec

  • Subcarrier Orthogonal Coding for OFDM Peak-to-Average Power Reduction Without Requiring Side Information, S. O'Hara, J. Periard, Syracuse Research Corporation, B. Chen, Syracuse University
  • A Routing Protocol with Byzantine Robustness, I. Avramopoulos, H. Kobayashi, R. Wang, Princeton University
  • Multiple Access Capacity of Delay-Hopped Transmitted-Reference (DHTR) Spread Spectrum, R. Hoctor, GE Global Research
  • The Cell Bunching Effect in MPLS Backbones, R. Krzanowski, L. Sattler, C. Wilkes, Verizon Technology
  • Performance Analysis To Joint Carrier Offset and Code Timing Estimation For DS-CDMA Systems, K. Amleh, H. Li, Stevens Institute of Technology

Modeling & Simulation
Chairpersons: V. Mishra/A. Dandawate

  • Code Synchronization Scheme for DS-CDMA with Bandlimited Chip Waveforms, R. Wang, H. Li, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • MLSE with Trellis Embedded Noise Prediction in Windowed OFDM Receivers: Application to Compensation of Excessive Delay-Spread in Mobile Communications, S. Nedic, Nedic Associates
  • TCP and IEEE 802.11b Protocol Performance in Indoor Wireless Channels, V. Vasudevan, M. Parikh, K. Chandra, C. Thompson, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Numerical Simulations and Modeling for Optical Limiting Materials and Structures with Applications in Optical Communications and Laser Protection, M.J. Potasek, City College of the City University of New York, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  • Resource Allocation and Performance in Quasi Synchronous CDMA Systems, V. Kravcenko, S. Stanczak, B. Filova, Heinrich-Hertz Institut fur Nachrichtentechnik, Berlin, Germany
  • Log-Likelihood-Ratio Based Stopping Criteria for Turbo Decoding, J. Jain, N.V. Rao, Sanyo LSI Technology, India
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