SECON 2007: San Diego, CA, USA

Proceedings of the Fourth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON 2007, Merged with IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN), June 18-21, 2007, San Diego, California, USA. IEEE 2007

Opening Remarks

Nitin H. Vaidya:
Multi-Channel Wireless Networks: Theory to Practice.

Best Papers

Kefeng Tan, Zhiwen Wan, Hao Zhu, Jean Andrian:
CODE: Cooperative Medium Access for Multirate Wireless Ad Hoc Network. 1-10
Sha Liu, Kai-Wei Fan, Prasun Sinha:
CMAC: An Energy Efficient MAC Layer Protocol Using Convergent Packet Forwarding for Wireless Sensor Networks. 11-20
Christopher M. Vigorito, Deepak Ganesan, Andrew G. Barto:
Adaptive Control of Duty Cycling in Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks. 21-30
Sungwon Yang, Jiyoung Yi, Hojung Cha:
HCRL: A Hop-Count-Ratio based Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks. 31-40

Security I

Vinod Shukla, Daji Qiao:
Distinguishing Data Transience from False Injection in Sensor Networks. 41-50
Ortal Arazi, Hairong Qi, Derek Rose:
A Public Key Cryptographic Method for Denial of Service Mitigation in Wireless Sensor Networks. 51-59
Anthony D. Wood, John A. Stankovic, Gang Zhou:
DEEJAM: Defeating Energy-Efficient Jamming in IEEE 802.15.4-based Wireless Networks. 60-69
Masahiro Kuroda, Ritsu Nomura, Wade Trappe:
A Radio-independent Authentication Protocol (EAP-CRP) for Networks of Cognitive Radios. 70-79

Underwater and Vehicular Networks

Albert F. Harris III, Michele Zorzi:
On the Design of Energy-efficient Routing Protocols in Underwater Networks. 80-90
Amitabha Ghosh, Yi Wang, Bhaskar Krishnamachari:
Efficient Distributed Topology Control in 3-Dimensional Wireless Networks. 91-100
Hsin-Mu Tsai, Wantanee Viriyasitavat, Ozan K. Tonguz, Cem U. Saraydar, Timothy Talty, Andrew MacDonald:
Feasibility of In-car Wireless Sensor Networks: A Statistical Evaluation. 101-111
Sanjit Krishnan Kaul, Kishore Ramachandran, Pravin Shankar, Sangho Oh, Marco Gruteser, Ivan Seskar, Tamer Nadeem:
Effect of Antenna Placement and Diversity on Vehicular Network Communications. 112-121

Power Management

Ashima Gupta, Prasant Mohapatra:
Energy Consumption and Conservation in WiFi Based Phones: A Measurement-Based Study. 122-131
Sukwon Choi, Hojung Cha, SungChil Cho:
A SoC-based Sensor Node: Evaluation of RETOS-enabled CC2430. 132-141
Qin Wang, Woodward Yang:
Energy Consumption Model for Power Management in Wireless Sensor Networks. 142-151
Patrik Floréen, Petteri Kaski, Jukka Suomela:
A distributed approximation scheme for sleep sceduling in sensor networks. 152-161

Localization

Jiyoung Yi, Sungwon Yang, Hojung Cha:
Multi-hop-based Monte Carlo Localization for Mobile Sensor Networks. 162-171
Ovidiu Valentin Drugan, Thomas Plagemann, Ellen Munthe-Kaas:
Non-intrusive Neighbor Prediction in Sparse MANETs. 172-182
Mingze Zhang, Mun Choon Chan, Akkihebbal L. Ananda:
Coverage Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Distance Estimates. 183-192
Yingying Chen, Wade Trappe, Richard P. Martin:
Detecting and Localizing Wireless Spoofing Attacks. 193-202

Security II

Bogdan Carbunar, Yang Yu, Weidong Shi, Michael Pearce, Venu Vasudevan:
Query privacy in wireless sensor networks. 203-212
Abhishek Sharma, Leana Golubchik, Ramesh Govindan:
On the Prevalence of Sensor Faults in Real-World Deployments. 213-222
Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, Yanchao Zhang:
Multi-user Broadcast Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks. 223-232
Heesook Choi, Patrick Drew McDaniel, Thomas F. La Porta:
Privacy Preserving Communication in MANETs. 233-242

Broadcast, Multicast and Anycast

Song Guo, Oliver W. W. Yang, Victor C. M. Leung:
Improving Scalability for Longest-lived Multicast Using Localized Operations in WANETs. 243-252
Alireza Keshavarz-Haddad, Vinay J. Ribeiro, Rudolf H. Riedi:
DRB and DCCB: Efficient and Robust Dynamic Broadcast for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. 253-262
Reza Curtmola, Cristina Nita-Rotaru:
BSMR: Byzantine-Resilient Secure Multicast Routing in Multi-hop Wireless Networks. 263-272
Vincent Lenders, Gunnar Karlsson, Martin May:
Wireless Ad Hoc Podcasting. 273-283

Power and Topology Control

Shrutivandana Sharma, Demosthenis Teneketzis:
An Externality-based Decentralized Optimal Power Allocation Scheme for Wireless Mesh Networks. 284-293
Steven Myers, Seapahn Megerian, Suman Banerjee, Miodrag Potkonjak:
Experimental Investigation of IEEE 802.15.4 Transmission Power Control and Interference Minimization. 294-303
Yuanyuan Zhou, Muralidhar Medidi:
Sleep-based Topology Control for Wakeup Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks. 304-313
Alireza Keshavarz-Haddad, Rudolf H. Riedi:
On the Broadcast Capacity of Multihop Wireless Networks: Interplay of Power, Density and Interference. 314-323

Cooperative Communication

Kiran Misra, Shirish S. Karande, Hayder Radha:
INPoD: In-Network Processing over Sensor Networks based on Code Design. 324-333
Lawrence Ong, Mehul Motani:
Optimal Routing for Decode-and-Forward based Cooperation in Wireless Networks. 334-343
Saad B. Qaisar, Hayder Radha:
OPERA: An Optimal Progressive Error Recovery Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks. 344-352
Tom Parker, Koen Langendoen:
Foxtrot: phase space data representation for correlation-aware aggregation. 353-360

Rate Adaptation

Fang Bian, Sumit Rangwala, Ramesh Govindan:
Quasi-static Centralized Rate Allocation for Sensor Networks. 361-370
Angad Singh, David Starobinski:
A Semi Markov-based Analysis of Rate Adaptation Algorithms in Wireless LANs. 371-380
Hoon Chang, Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein:
Fairness and Physical Layer Capture in Random Access Networks. 381-390
Ramanan Subramanian, Faramarz Fekri:
Analysis of Latency and Related Tradeoffs in Distribute Sensor Networks. 391-400

Radios

Romit Roy Choudhury, Nitin H. Vaidya:
MAC-Layer Capture: A Problem in Wireless Mesh Networks using Beamforming Antennas. 401-410
Chenxi Zhu, Tamer Nadeem, Jonathan R. Agre:
On Spatial Fairness of the 802.11 DCF Protocol and the Role of Directional Antenna. 411-420
Yu Zhang, Gautam D. Bhanage, Wade Trappe, Yanyong Zhang, Richard Howard:
Facilitating an Active Transmit-only RFID System Through Receiver-based Processing. 421-430
Hazer Inaltekin, Stephen B. Wicker:
The Behavior of Unbounded Path-loss Models and the Effect of Singularity on Computed Network Interference. 431-440

Routing

Zifei Zhong, Srihari Nelakuditi:
On the Efficacy of Opportunistic Routing. 441-450
Jangeun Jun, Mihail L. Sichitiu, Hector D. Flores, Stephan Eidenbenz:
The Optimum Number of OSPF Areas for MANETs. 451-460
Fan Bai, Ahmed Helmy:
Impact of Mobility on Last Encounter Routing Protocols. 461-470
Wei Wang, Xin Liu, Dilip Krishnaswamy:
Robust Routing and Scheduling in Wireless Mesh Networks. 471-480

Interference

Anand Prabhu Subramanian, Himanshu Gupta, Samir R. Das:
Minimum Interference Channel Assignment in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks. 481-490
Jeongkeun Lee, Sung-Ju Lee, Wonho Kim, Daehyung Jo, Taekyoung Kwon, Yanghee Choi:
RSS-based Carrier Sensing and Interference Estimation in 802.11 Wireless Networks. 491-500
Xue Yang, Nitin H. Vaidya:
A Spatial Backoff Algorithm Using the Joint Control of Carrier Sense Threshold and Transmission Rate. 501-511

Coverage

Yi Shi, Yiwei Thomas Hou:
Approximation Algorithm for Base Station Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks. 512-519
Arunabha Sen, Nibedita Das, Ling Zhou, Bao Hong Shen, Sudheendra Murthy, Prajesh Bhattacharya:
Coverage Problem for Sensors Embedded in Temperature Sensitive Environments. 520-529
Xin Ai, Vikram Srinivasan, Chen-Khong Tham:
DRACo: Distributed, Robust an Asynchronous Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks. 530-539
Ossama Younis, Marwan Krunz, Srinivasan Ramasubramanian:
A Framework for Resilient Online Coverage in Sensor Networks. 540-549

Relaying and Capacity

Patrick Stuedi, Gustavo Alonso:
Log-normal shadowing meets SINR: A numerical study of Capacity in Wireless Networks. 550-559
Sam Vakil, Ben Liang:
Decentralized Multiuser Diversity with Cooperative Relaying in Wireless Sensor Networks. 560-569
Furuzan Atay Onat, Dan Avidor, Sayandev Mukherjee:
Two-hop Relaying in Random Networks with Limited Channel State Information. 570-579
Olivier Dousse:
Revising buffering in multihop CSMA/CA wireless networks. 580-589

Services

Mischa Dohler, Dominique Barthel, Florence Maraninchi, Laurent Mounier, Stephane Aubert, Christophe Dugas, Aurélien Buhrig, Franck Paugnat, Marc Renaudin, Andrzej Duda, Martin Heusse, Fabrice Valois:
The ARESA Project: Facilitating Research, Development and Commercialization of WSNs. 590-599
Hazer Inaltekin, Tom Wexler, Stephen B. Wicker:
A Duopoly Pricing Game for Wireless IP Services. 600-609
Marcin Karpinski, Vinny Cahill:
High-Level Application Development is Realistic for Wireless Sensor Networks. 610-619
Robert P. Adler, Jonathan Huang, Raymond Kong, Philip Muse, Lama Nachman, Rahul C. Shah, Chieh-Yih Wan, Mark D. Yarvis:
Edge Processing and Enterprise Integration: Closing the Gap on Deployable Industrial Sensor Networks. 620-630

Beibei Wang, Zhu Ji, K. J. Ray Liu:
Self-Learning Repeated Game Framework for Distributed Primary-Prioritized Dynamic Spectrum Access. 631-638
Chittabrata Ghosh, Dharma P. Agrawal:
Cross Layer Performance Evaluation of a Software Defined Radio UWB Receiver using Turbo Decoding. 639-646
Ling Luo, S. Roy:
Analysis of Search Schemes in Cognitive Radio. 647-654
N. Ahmed, K. Jamshaid, O. Z. Khan:
SAFIRE: A Self-Organizing Architecture for Information Exchange between First Responders. 655-661
Masahiro Kuroda, Kentaro Ishizu, Hiroshi Harada, R. Komiya:
A Study of Radio-information Services for Networks of Cognitive Radios. 662-669
Robert C. Miller, Wenyuan Xu, Pandurang Kamat, Wade Trappe:
Service Discovery and Device Identification in Cognitive Radio Networks. 670-677
Damon McCoy, Douglas C. Sicker, Dirk Grunwald:
A Mechanism for Detecting and Responding to Misbehaving Nodes in Wireless Networks. 678-684

Posters

Mahesh Arumugam, Sandeep S. Kulkarni:
ProSe - A Programming Tool for Rapid Prototyping of Sensor Networks. 685-686
Bernhard Wiegel, Yvonne Günter, Hans Peter Großmann:
Concept of a Cross-Layer Design for Packet Routing in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. 687-688
Özlem Durmaz Incel, Sape J. Mullender, Pierre G. Jansen, Stefan Dulman:
Measurements on the Efficiency of Overlapping Channels. 689-690
Erman Ayday, Farshid Delgosha, Faramarz Fekri:
Efficient Broadcast Authentication for Wireless Sensor Networks. 691-692
Sang Wu Kim:
Concatenated Random Parity Forwarding in Wireless Sensor Networks. 693-694
Xue Yang, Jing Zhu, Xingang Guo:
Using "Scaled Credit Payback" to Achieve Soft-fairness for Disruptive Radios in CSMA Networks. 695-697
Raluca Marin-Perianu, Hans Scholten, Paul J. M. Havinga:
Demo Abstract: Service Oriented Wireless Sensor Networks - A Cluster-based Approach. 698-699
H. A. Cunningham:
Sensor Localization with Lateral Inhibition & Statistical Inference. 700-702
S. Kini, S. Ramasubramanian:
SenNetSim: A GUI-Based Simulator for Sensor Networks. 703-704