| Wednesday,   7 January 2009 COMSNETS KEYNOTE TALK (9:30 AM – 10:30 AM)
 Prof.  Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia   University
 Paper  Sessions  (11:00 AM – 12:40 PM)
 
 
 Track 1: Grand Ballroom ISession 1-1: Sensor  Networks 
								  
								  (11:00 AM- 12:15 PM)
								  Session Chair : Anurag Kumar (Indian Institute of Science, India) 
								    David Kotz (Dartmouth   University), "Opportunistic Sensing: Security Challenges  for the New Paradigm"   PRESENTATION  (PDF)                                           Buddhadeb Sau (Jadavpur University, Kolkata), Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya (Indian Satistical Institute, Kolkata), Length Based Anchor-Free Localization in a Fully Covered Sensor Network    PRESENTATION  (PDF) Ciza Thomas, N. Balakrishnan (SERC, IISc, Bangalore, India), Mathematical Analysis of Sensor Fusion for Intrusion Detection Systems     PRESENTATION  (PDF)  Track 2: Grand Ballroom II (11:00 AM- 12:40 PM)Session 2-1: Security and Systems
                                    Session Chair : Uday Desai (IIT Bombay, India)
                                  
                                                                         Kolendavelu Manivannan (Infineon Technologies India), Satish Polisetti (Infineon  Technologies India),  Raimar Thudt (Infineon  Technologies AG, Germany), Performance  Modeling of a Network Processor Data Path Using Queuing Systems   PRESENTATION  (PDF)                                      Visham Ramsurrun, K. M. S. Soyjaudah (University   of Mauritius), A Stateful CSG-based Distributed Firewall Architecture for  Robust Distributed Security       PRESENTATION  (PDF) Archit Gupta, Pavan Kuppili, Aditya Akella , Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin, Madison), An Empirical Study of Malware Evolution    PRESENTATION  (PDF) Prashant Shenoy (University   of Massachussets,  Amherst) and Harrick Vin (TCS, TRDDC, Pune), “Performance Debugging in  Data Centers: Doing More With Less”   PRESENTATION  (PDF) 
 Paper Sessions  (2:00 PM – 3:40 PM)
 Track 1: Grand Ballroom I
                                  Session  1-2 : Broadband  Wireless CommunicationSession Chair : Bhaskaran Raman (IIT Bombay, India)
 
                                      Ramakrishna Gummadi (MIT), Hari Balakrishnan (MIT),  Srinivasan Seshan (CMU), "Metronome:  Coordinating Spectrum Sharing in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks"    PRESENTATION (PDF)                                                                          Jaiganesh Balakrishnan (Texas Instruments), Dummy Tone  Insertion for Spectral Sculpting of the Multi-Band OFDM UWB System  PRESENTATION (PDF)  Manav R. Bhatnagar, Are Hjørungnes, Lingyang Song (University of Oslo), Amplify  Based Double-Differential Modulation for Cooperative Communications                                        PRESENTATION (PDF)                                       Srikrishna Sridhar (Birla Institute   of Technology and  Science, Pilani), Jun Guo (University of New South Wales), Sanjay Jha (University   of New South Wales) Channel  Assignment in Wireless Mesh Networks  PRESENTATION (PDF)  Track 2: Grand Ballroom IISession 2-2 :  Wireless LANs and  MANs  
                                  Session Chair : Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, USA)
                                  
                                   V. S. Anitha,  Dr. M. P. Sebastian  (National  Institute of Technology, Calicut), SCAM  : Scenario-based Clustering Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks  PRESENTATION (PDF)  Manoj K. Panda,   Anurag Kumar (IISc,  Bangalore), State  Dependent Attempt Rate Modeling of Single Cell IEEE 802.11 WLANs with  Homogeneous Nodes and Poisson Arrivals  PRESENTATION (PDF)  Vijaynarayanan Subramanian  (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY), K.K. Ramakrishnan  (AT&T Labs Research, NJ), Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (IBM India Research Laboratory, Bangalore) Experimental  Study of Link and Transport Protocols in Interference-Prone Wireless LAN Environments  PRESENTATION (PDF) Bhaskar Ramamurthi (IIT-Madras), "Cutting Edge at the Cell Edge:  Co-Channel Interference Mitigation in Emerging Broadband Wireless Systems" PRESENTATION (PDF)  Poster  PRESENTATION  Session (4:15 PM – 5:45   PM)  Top
 
 Thursday,   8 January 2009 COMSNETS KEYNOTE Talk (9:15 AM – 10:15 AM)
 Prof. P.R. Kumar, University of Illinois,  Urbana-Champaign
 Poster Display  &  Tea Break (10:15 AM – 11:00 AM)
 Paper  Session (11:00 AM – 12:40 PM)
 
 
 Track 1: Grand Ballroom I
                                  Session  1-3 : Social,  P2P & Multimedia NetworkingSession Chair : Ramakrishnan Ramalingam (Motorola India Research Labs, India)
 
                                       Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs Research, NJ), “A Measure of  Online Social Networks”   PRESENTATION  (PDF)  Anish Mathuria, Aakar Gupta, Milan Saini  (DA-IICT, Gandhinagar),   Security  Analysis of the Louis Protocol for Location Privacy   PRESENTATION  (PDF)  Fang Yu (The Ohio State University), Vijay Gopalakrishnan  (AT&T Labs Research), K. K. Ramakrishnan  (AT&T Labs Research), David Lee (The Ohio State University) Loss-tolerant  Real-time Content Integrity Validation for P2P Video Streaming    PRESENTATION  (PDF)                                     R.Aparna (Siddaganga Institute of  Technology, Tumkur), B.B.Amberker  (National Institute   of Technology, Warangal), Key  Management Scheme for Multi-Layer Secure Group Communication    PRESENTATION  (PDF)  Track 2: Grand Ballroom IISession 2-3 : Next Gen Routing and Router Design 
                                  Session Chair : Kartik Gopalan (SUNY Binghamton, USA)
 
                                  Kamal Mistry, Sanjay Srivastava,  R B Lenin (DA-IICT, Gandhinagar), Buffer Aware  Routing in Interplanetary Ad Hoc Network   PRESENTATION  (PDF)                                         Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi,  Andrea Ranieri (DIST - University of Genoa), Performance  and Power Consumption Modeling for Green COTS Software Router   PRESENTATION  (PDF)                                         Azeem J. Khan, Noel Athaide, D. Manjunath, Anirudha Sahoo (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Trie Partitioning in Distributed PC Based Routers  PRESENTATION  (PDF) Umar Javed, Martin Suchara, Jiayue He,  and Jennifer Rexford (Princeton    University, NJ),  "Multipath protocol for delay-sensitive  traffic"  PRESENTATION  (PDF) 
 Paper  Session (2:00 PM – 3:40 PM)
 Track 1: Grand Ballroom I
                                  Session  1-4 : Wireless  & Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks                                  Session Chair : Ramakrishna Gummadi (MIT, USA)
 
                                     Soon Y. Oh, Mario Gerla (University of California,  Los Angeles  (UCLA)), "Robust MANET Routing using Adaptive Path Redundancy and Coding" PRESENTATION  (PDF)  Sebastian Hanigk,  Michael Kretzschmar, Frank Eyermann  (Universität der Bundeswehr, München), A  Distributed Routing Architecture for Secure Communication over Dynamic Tactical  Radio Networks    PRESENTATION  (PDF)                                         Alaa Seddik-Ghaleb, Yacine  Ghamri-Doudane, Sidi-Mohammed  Senouci (ENSIIE, France), TCP  WELCOME: TCP variant for Wireless Environment, Link losses, and COngestion packet loss ModEls  PRESENTATION  (PDF)   M. Shamim  Kaiser, Imran Khan, F. Adachi, Kazi  M Ahmed, (Asian Institute of Technology,   Thailand), Fuzzy Logic  Based Relay Search Algorithm For Cooperative Systems    PRESENTATION  (PDF)  Track 2: Grand Ballroom II
                                  Session 2-4 : High Speed Router and Infrastructure Design Session Chair : Prof. Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University, USA)
 
                                       Andreas Monger (Universität  Tübingen), Marc Fouquet (Technische  Universität, München),  Christian Hoene (Universität  Tübingen), Georg Carle (Technische  Universität, München),  Morten  Schläger (Nokia Siemens Networks) A Metering  Infrastructure for Heterogenous Mobile Networks   PRESENTATION  (PDF)  Fabius Klemm, Jean-Yves Le Boudec , Dejan Kostic,  Karl Aberer  (EPFL), Handling  Very Large Numbers Of Messages In Distributed Hash Tables  PRESENTATION  (PDF)  Marco Canini  (University of Genoa), Damien Fay, David J. Miller,  Andrew W. Moore,  (University of  Cambridge), Raffaele Bolla  (University of Genoa), Per Flow  Packet Sampling for High-Speed Network Monitoring  PRESENTATION  (PDF) Dah Ming Chiu (Chinese   University of Hong Kong), John C.S. Lui (Chinese University  of Hong Kong), Jilong  Wang (CERNET), "Credit-based Networking" PRESENTATION  (PDF)   Poster Display  & Tea  Break (3:45 PM – 4:15 PM)Paper Sessions  (4:15 PM – 5:30 PM)
 Track 1: Grand Ballroom ISession  1-5 : Mobile Wireless Networks 
                                  Session Chair : Rahul Mangharam (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
                                  
                                   Matthias Grossglauser (Nokia Reseach   Center & EPFL), “A  Parsimonious Model of Mobile  Partitioned Networks with Clustering”  PRESENTATION  (PDF)  Christopher Mitchell (The Cooper Union), Vikram P. Munishwar, Shailendra Singh, Xiaoshuang Wang, Kartik Gopalan, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh (SUNY, Binghamton, NY) Testbed Design and Localization in MiNT-2: A Miniaturized  Robotic Platform for Wireless Protocol Development and Emulation PRESENTATION  (PDF)                                        Karthikeyan V, Malmurugan N, Senthil Kumaran D (Satyam  Computer Services Limited), Performance  evaluation of Preamble detection under ITU and SUI channel models in Mobile WiMAX  Track 2: Grand Ballroom IISession 2-5 : New Network Design Models Session Chair : Kaliappa Ravindran (City University of New York, USA)
 
                                      
                                        Yun Hou (Imperial College  London),  Murtaza Zafer, Kang-Won Lee, Dinesh Verma (IBM T. J. Watson  Research, NY), Kin K. Leung (Imperial   College London), On the  Mapping between Logical and Physical Topologies  PRESENTATION  (PDF)                                     Pan Hui,  Anders Lindgren, Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge), Empirical  Evaluation of Hybrid Opportunistic Networks  PRESENTATION  (PDF) Amogh Dhamdhere, Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Institute of Technology),  “An Agent Based  Model for the Evolution of the Internet Ecosystem”  PRESENTATION  (PDF)    Top 
 Friday, 9 January 2009COMSNETS KEYNOTE Talk (9:15 AM – 10:15 AM)
 Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Indian  Institute of Technology, Chennai
 Paper  Sessions (11:00 AM – 12:15 PM)
 
 
 Track 1: Grand Ballroom ISession  1-6 : Mesh,  Ad-Hoc & Broadband Wireless 
                                  Session Chair : G. Viswanath (Honeywell Technology Solutions Laboratory, India)
 
                                  Nachiket Sahasrabudhe, Joy Kuri (CEDT, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore),  Near -  Optimal Distributed Scheduling for Multihop Wireless  Networks    PRESENTATION  (PDF)                                     Ritesh Kumar Kalle, Mayank  Raj, Debabrata Das (IIIT Bangalore), A Novel  Architecture for IEEE 802.16m Subscriber Station for Joint Power Saving Class  Management     PRESENTATION  (PDF) Nirnay Ghosh, Saurav Nanda, S K Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India) A Quantitative Approach towards Detection of an Optimal Attack Path in a Wireless Network using Modified PSO Technique  PRESENTATION  (PDF)  Track 2: Grand Ballroom IISession  2-6 : Congestion  Control & Traffic Management 
                                  Session Chair : Venkat Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research, India)
                                    
                                  Nedeljko Vasic (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland),  Srinidhi Kuntimaddi (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India), Dejan Kostic  (EPFL Lausanne,  Switzerland), One Bit Is Enough: a Framework for Deploying Explicit  Feedback Congestion Control Protocols    PRESENTATION  (PDF)                                       Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, Sathya Parthasarathy (University of Arizona), Arun K. Somani (Iowa   State University), AMES:  A framework for fair bandwidth sharing    PRESENTATION  (PDF)                                       Ashok Singh Sairam  (IIT Guwahati), Gautam Barua (IIT Guwahati), Load  Balancing Inbound Traffic in Multihomed Stub  Autonomous Systems  PRESENTATION  (PDF) 
 Paper  Sessions (1:30 PM – 2:45 PM)
 Track 1: Grand Ballroom ISession  1-7 : Resource  Management in Wireless Networks  
                                  Session Chair : Joy Kuri (Indian Institute of Science, India)
                                    
                                    Onkar Bharadwaj (Computing Research Labs,  Pune,   India), G. V.  V. Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Manoj  Panda, Anurag Kumar (Indian Institute of Science,  Bangalore), Modeling  Finite Buffer Effects on TCP Traffic over an IEEE 802.11 Infrastructure WLAN    PRESENTATION  (PDF)                                     Deepti Singhal (Tech Mahindra, Pune, India), Naresh Jotwani (DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India) A Fair  Packet Scheduler to Support QoS in HSDPA  PRESENTATION  (PDF) S. Laniepce, L. Lancieri,  M. Achemlal (Orange Labs), M. Bouabdallah (Heudiasyc lab) Mitigating Routing Non-Cooperation Effects Within Hybrid Ad-Hoc Networks
 Track 2: Grand Ballroom IISession  2-7 : Wireless  Communication and Systems 
                                  Session Chair : Ramachandran Ramjee (Microsoft Research, India)
                                    
                                  Samir K Sadhukhan (IIM Calcutta,  India), Swarup Mandal (Wipro Technologies Kolkata, India), Saroj R Biswas (IBM Kolkata, India), Partha Bhaumik (Jadavpur University, India), Debashis  Saha (IIM Calcutta, India), Post-deployment  Tuning of UMTS Cellular Networks through Dual-homing of RNCs    PRESENTATION  (PDF) Sarad AV, S Srikanth (Anna   University, India), Improved  Interference Diversity in Multicellular OFDMA Systems    PRESENTATION  (PDF) 
 Paper  Sessions (3:15 PM – 4:30 PM)
 Track 1: Grand Ballroom I
                                  Session  1-8 : Network  Management                                  Session Chair : Srinivasan Ramasubramanian (University of Arizona, USA)
 
                                        Prasanna. G, Sai Kishore. B, Omprasad. G. K, Sathyanarayana Raju. K (Sri   Sathya Sai University),  Ron Johnson (Cisco Systems, CA, USA), Pavan Voruganti (OpVista Inc., Milpitas,   California, U.S.A.),  Gowrishankar. R, Venkataramaniah. K (Sri Sathya Sai University), Versatility  of a colorless and directionless WSS based ROADM architecture    PRESENTATION  (PDF) 
                                    Santosh S. Chavan, R. Madanagopal  (NMSWorks Software Pvt. Ltd. Chennai, India), Generic  SNMP Proxy Agent Framework for Management of Heterogeneous Network Elements   PRESENTATION  (PDF)   Track 2: Grand Ballroom IISession  2-8 : Security  in Sensor/Home Networks  
                                  Session Chair : Ranjita Bhagwan (Microsoft Research, India)
                                    
                                  Vaishali P. Sadaphal (TRDDC, Pune), Bijendra N. Jain (IIT Delhi), Tracking mobile target using selected sensors    PRESENTATION  (PDF) 
                                     Ramu Panayappan, Tom Palarz,  Lujo Bauer, Adrian Perrig (Carnegie Mellon University), Usable  Key Agreement in Home Networks    PRESENTATION  (PDF)  Top |