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Workshop Date: Friday, April 18, 2008

Best Paper Award: Sponsored by Nile University, Egypt.

MCN Program

Time Plenary
08:00 AM-08:10 AM Welcome
08:10 AM-09:10 AM Keynote Speech by Prof. David Du
09:15 AM-10:45 AM S1: Localization and Topology Control
11:00 AM-12:30 PM S2: Performance and Optimization
12:30 PM-01:30 PM Lunch
01:30 PM-02:30 PM Panel Discussion - Grand Challenges in Mission-Critical Networking
02:45 PM-04:05 PM S3: Architecture and Design
04:10 PM-05:30 PM S4: Security

Friday, Apr 18

8:00 AM - 8:10 AM

Welcome

8:10 AM - 9:10 AM

Keynote Speech

Dependable Networks for Critical Infrastructures 

Prof. David Du, University of Minnesota and National Science Foundation

One way to solve the mission-critical network problem is to create a fully protected and isolated network. This is the preferred approach in many DCS (Distributed Control System) applications.  However, more and more mission-critical data is delivered over Internet today. We will discuss why. NSF funding is to support fundamental research that is transformative and addresses the societal needs. We will cover the societal needs and the critical infrastructures that provide many important societal needs. The challenges of creating dependable networks as part of Internet to support critical infrastructures will also be discussed.

9:15 AM - 10:45 AM

S1: Localization and Topology Control

A Secure Integrated Routing and Localization Scheme for Broadband Mission Critical Networks
Unoma Okorafor (Texas A & M University, USA); Deepa Kundur (Texas A&M University, USA)
Distribution of Nodes in Disaster Area Scenarios and its Impact on Topology Control Strategies (Best paper award)
Nils Aschenbruck (University of Bonn, Germany); Christian de Waal (Institute of Computer Science IV, University at Bonn, Germany); Peter Martini (University of Bonn, Germany)
A Durable Sensor Enabled Lifeline Support for Firefighters
Hady Abdel Salam (Old Dominion University, USA); Syed Rizvi (Old Dominion University, USA); Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA)
RF-Based Location Determination in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks Using Rayleigh Fading Channel
Aly El-Osery (New Mexico Tech, USA); Sabit Ekin (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA); Wael Abd-Almageed (University of Maryland, USA)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

S2: Performance and Optimization

Reliable Real-Time Data Acqusition for Rapidly Deployable Mission-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks
Mujdat Soyturk (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Turgay Altilar (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
On Congestion Control in Mission Critical Networks
Ali Tizghadam (University of Toronto, Canada)
On Optimizing Load Balancing of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
Anh Le (University of Waterloo, Canada); Ehab Al-Shaer (DePaul University, USA); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Enhancing the Performance of Mobile Healthcare Systems Based on Task-Redistribution
Hailiang Mei (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Bert-Jan van Beijnum (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Ing Widya (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Val Jones (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Hermie Hermens (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Panel Discussion

Grand Challenges in Mission-Critical Networking - (Download 1, Download 2, Download 3)

Sandeep Gupta (Arizaona State University), Deepa Kundur (Texas A&M University), Nader Moayeri (NIST)

2:45 PM - 4:05 PM

S3: Architecture and Design

Towards Evolving Sensor Actor Networks
Ramy Eltarras (Virginia Tech, USA); Mohamed Eltoweissy (Virginia Tech, USA); Moustafa Youssef (Nile University, Egypt)
G-E-M Sensor Networks for Mission Critical Surveillance in Hostile Environments
Aleksandra Czarlinska (Texas A&M University, USA); William Luh (Texas A&M University, USA); Deepa Kundur (Texas A&M University, USA)
Interference Avoidance in Rapidly Deployed Wireless Ad hoc Incident Area Networks
Mohamed Tamer Refaei (National Institute of Standards and Technologies, USA); Michael Souryal (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Nader Moayeri (NIST, USA)
Infrastructure-Level Trust-based Protection for Security-Concerned Systems and Their Communications
Yingfei Dong (Univ. of Hawaii, USA); David Du (University of Minnesota, USA); Feng Cao (CISCO INc., USA)

4:10 PM - 5:30 PM

S4: Security

Secure Capacity of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Random Key Pre-distribution
Vartika Bhandari (UIUC, USA); Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
DoS Resistent Broadcast Authentication With Low End-to-end Delay
Ying Huang (University of Illinois ar Urbana-Champaign, USA); Wenbo He (University of Illinois, USA); Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Whay Chiou Lee (Motorola Labs, USA)
Secure Hop-by-Hop Aggregation of End-to-End Concealed Data in Wireless Sensor Networks
Esam Mlaih (Texas A&M University, USA); Salah A. Aly (Texas A&M University, USA)
EKG-based Key Agreement in Body Sensor Networks
Sandeep Gupta (Arizona State University, USA); Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian (Arizona State University, USA); Ayan Banerjee (Arizona State University, USA)
 


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