Session Details

 

11:00-12:40PM: Session 1: Mobile Systems and Applications

1) I am a Smartphone and I Know My User is Driving
Hon Chu (Duke University, USA), Jeffrey Shen (Duke University, USA); Vijay Raman (Duke University, USA); Aman Kansal (Microsoft Research, USA); Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research, USA); Romit Roy Choudhury (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)

Invited Paper

2) (Stable) Virtual Landmarks: Spatial Dropbox to enhance Retail Experience
Swadhin Pradhan (IIT Kharagpur, India); Ananth Balashankar (IIT Kharagpur, India); Niloy Ganguly (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Bivas Mitra (CREA, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique, France)


3) Characterizing Mobility Patterns of People in Developing Countries using Their Mobile Phone Data
Kuldeep Yadav (IIIT Delhi, India); Amit Kumar (IIIT-Delhi, India); Aparna Bharati (IIIT-Delhi, India); Vinayak S. Naik (IIIT-Delhi, India)


4) Graph-based Redundancy Removal Approach for Multiple Cross-Layer Interactions
Ismet Aktas (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Martin Henze (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Muhammad Hamad Alizai (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Kevin Möllering (RWTH-Aachen University, Germany); Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

11:00-12:40PM: Session 2: Wireless Communications

1) QoS Aware Overlay MAC Layer for Coexistence of Heterogeneous Networks over White Spaces
Kshiteej S. Mahajan (IBM Research, India); Dipanshu Agarwal (IIT Delhi, India); Vinay J. Ribeiro (IIT Delhi, India)

2) Defending Concealedness in IEEE 802.11n
Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Subhrendu Chattopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Suchetana Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Sukumar Nandi (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India)

3) Throughput Improvement of IEEE 802.11 using Adaptive Slot Size
Vinay J. Ribeiro (IIT Delhi, India); Sumeet Mundra (Cisco Systems, India)

4) VillageLink: Wide-Area Wireless Coverage
Veljko Pejovic (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom); David Lloyd Johnson (University of California Santa Barbara, USA); Mariya Zheleva (UCSB, USA); Elizabeth Belding (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Albert A. Lysko (Council for Industrial and Scientific Research, South Africa)

Invited Paper

1:45-3:00PM: Session 3: Video

1) Efficient P2P Video Distribution by Peer Reorganization
Chunfeng Yang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); YiPeng Zhou (Shenzhen University, P.R. China); Tom Z. J. Fu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Dah Ming Chiu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Invited Paper

2) Pros & Cons of Model-based Bandwidth Control for Client-assisted Content Delivery
Abhigyan Sharma (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Arun Venkataramani (UMass Amherst, USA); Antonio A Rocha (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)

3) A Dynamic Popularity-based Partial Caching Scheme for Video on Demand Service in IPTV Networks
Krishna Mohan Agrawal (IIT Guwahati, India); Venkatesh Tamarapalli (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Deep Medhi (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)

1:45-3:00PM: Session 4: Smart Grids

1) Loss Localisation in Smart Distribution Networks
Vijay Arya (IBM Research - India, India); Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy (IBM Research, India)

2) A Co-Simulation Framework for Smart Grid Wide-Area Monitoring Networks
Dhananjay Bhor (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Kavinkadhirselvan Angappan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Krishna M. Sivalingam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

3) A Mobility Aware Scheduler for Low Cost Charging of Electric Vehicles in Smart Grid
Joy Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Arobinda Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)

 

Jan 8th:

10:30-1:00PM: Session 5: Wireless and Sensor Networks

1) A Two Time Scale Approach for Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission and Reception over Practical Backhaul
Narayan Prasad (NEC Labs America, Princeton, USA); Mustafa Y. Arslan (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA); Sampath Rangarajan (NEC Labs America, USA)

Invited paper

2) Evaluating the Effect of Path Diversity over QoS and QoE in a High Speed Indoor Mesh Backbone
Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Sukumar Nandi (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India)

3) Overhearing packet transmissions to reduce preamble overhead and improve throughput in IEEE 802.11 networks
Shantanu Shrivastava (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Vinay J. Ribeiro (IIT Delhi, India)

4) DF versus AF: Energy Consumption Comparison for IEEE 802.15.4 Networks
Sankalita Biswas (Burdwan, West Bengal, India); Aniruddha Chandra (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India)

5) Maximizing Transported Data Before Partition in a Wireless Sensor Network
Samta Shukla (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA); Siddhartha Sarma (Indian Institute of Science, India); Joy Kuri (Indian Institute of Science, India)

6) Line Sweep Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks
Barun Gorain (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Partha Sarathi Mandal (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

10:30-1:00PM: Session 6: Networking and Cloud

1) Balancing Work and Size with Bounded Buffers
Kirill Kogan (Purdue University, USA); Alejandro López-Ortiz (University of Waterloo, Canada); Sergey Nikolenko (St. Petersburg Academic University, Russia); Gabriel Scalosub (Ben-Gurion University, Israel); Michael Segal (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

2) Equinox: Adaptive Network Reservation in the Cloud
Praveen Kumar (IBM Research - India, India); Garvit Choudhary (IIT Roorkee, India); Dhruv Sharma (IBM Research - India, India); Vijay Mann (IBM Research, New Delhi, India)

3) Avalanche: Data Center Multicast using Software Defined Networking
Aakash Iyer (IBM Research - India, India); Praveen Kumar (IBM Research - India, India); Vijay Mann (IBM Research, New Delhi, India)

4) Selective Randomized Load Balancing Outperforms VPN-Tree Routing for Disparate Demand and Link Granularities
Andrew Feldman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Jesse Edward Simsarian (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Peter Winzer (Bell Labs, USA)

5) Data Throughput Maximization for Broadband over Power Line
Sesha Raghav (Indian Institute of Science, India); Varun Gowtham (Indian Institute of Science, India); Jamadagni (Indian Institute of Science, India); T V Prabhakar (IISc, India)

6) FRANTIC: A Fast Reference-based Algorithm for Network Tomography via Compressive Sensing
Sheng Cai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Mayank Bakshi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Sidharth Jaggi (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Minghua Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, P.R. China) Invited paper

Jan 9th:

10:30-1:00PM: Session 7: Energy Optimization

1) The Challenge of Continuous Mobile Context Sensing
Rajesh K Balan (Singapore Management University, Singapore); Youngki Lee (Singapore Management University, Singapore); Tan Kiat Wee (Singapore Management University, Singapore); Archan Misra (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Invited paper

2) Efficient Neighbor Discovery in Mobile Opportunistic Networking using Mobility Awareness
Andrea Hess (University of Vienna, Austria); Esa Hyytiä (Aalto University, Finland); Joerg Ott (Aalto University, Finland)

3) Reducing Energy Costs in Internet-Scale Distributed Systems Using Load Shifting
Vimal Mathew (UMass Amherst, USA); Ramesh K Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA); Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)

4) Adaptive Sleep-Wake Control using Reinforcement Learning in Sensor Networks
Prashanth Lakshmanrao Anantha Padmanabha Rao (INRIA, France); Abhranil Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Science, India); Shalabh Bhatnagar (Indian Institute of Science, India)

5) GreenSlice: Enabling Renewable Energy Powered Cellular Base Stations Using Asynchronous Delivery
Vijay Gabale (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Anand Prabhu Subramanian (IBM Research, India)

6) Pareto Optimal Cross Layer Lifetime Optimization for Disaster Response Networks
Harsha Chenji (Texas A&M University, USA); Radu Stoleru (Texas A&M University, USA)

10:30-1:00PM: Session 8: Theory

1) An Information Theoretic Point of View to Contention Resolution
Venkatesh Ramaiyan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Vaishakh J (IITM, India)

2) The Gaussian CEO Competitive Pricing Game
Amitalok J Budkuley (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Bikash K Dey (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Sibi Raj B Pillai (IIT Bombay, India); Vinod M Prabhakaran (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)

3) Utility Based Scheduling Algorithm for Contiguous Resource Allocation for LTE Uplink
Anver Hisham, U S (CEWIT, India); Narendran K (Center of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWIT), India); Klutto Milleth (Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, India)

4) Two-Sided Expanding Ring Search
Simon Shamoun (Bar Ilan University, USA); David Sarne (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

5) On Whitespace Identification Using Randomly Deployed Sensors
Rahul Vaze (TIFR Mumbai, India); Chandra R Murthy (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Invited paper

6) Fair Scheduling with Deadline Guarantees in Single-hop Networks
Hussam Ahmed (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Krishna P Jagannathan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Srikrishna Bhashyam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

Invited paper

2:00-3:15PM: Session 9: Privacy and Security

1) Privacy-preserving Channel Access using Blindfolded Packet Transmissions
Debasmit Banerjee (Michigan State University, USA); Dong Bo (Michigan State University, USA); Subir Biswas (Michigan State University, USA); Mahmoud Taghizadeh (Michigan State University, USA)

2) Loki: A Privacy-Conscious Platform for Crowdsourced Surveys
Thivya Kandappu (University of New South Wales, Australia); Vijay Sivaraman (University of New South Wales, Australia); Arik Friedman (NICTA, Australia); Roksana Boreli (National ICT Australia, Australia)

3) Novel Approach for Security in Wireless Sensor Network using Bio-Inspirations
Heena Rathore (Indian Instittute of Technology, India); Venkataramana Badarla (Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan, India); Sushmita Jha (Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan, India); Anupam Gupta (IIT Rajasthan, India)

2:00-3:15PM: Session 10: Social Networks and Games

1) Discovering Signature of Social Networks with Application to Community Detection
RamaSuri Narayanam (IISc, India); Dinesh Garg (IBM Research, India); Hemank Lamba (IBM Research, India)

2) Influence Factor Based Opinion Mining of Twitter Data Using Supervised Learning
Malhar Anjaria (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India); Ram Guddeti (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India)

3) Managing Shared Contexts in Distributed Multi-player Game Systems
Kaliappa Ravindran (City University of New York, USA); Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Louisiana State University, USA); Subhajit Sidhanta (Louisiana State University, USA); Ali S Sabbir (Independent University, Bangladesh)

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