CNSR Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR 2004)
 

Final Program at a Glance

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Wednesday, May 19

Thursday, May 20

Friday, May 21

 

Morning

 

8:30

Conference On-Site Registration

 

 

Invited Talk 2

9:00

Welcome

Invited Talk 3

 

9:30

Invited Talk 1

Morning Break

A1

E1

Morning Break

10:30

Morning Break

E2

 

10:45

M1

12:00

Lunch

 

Afternoon

 

13:00

C

M2

A2

 

 

14:15

V

15:05

Break

 

15:20

W1

W2

POSTERS

17:00

Break

 

17:30

Reception

Tour of UNB

19:00

 

Banquet

A:

 Algorithms and Protocol Design and analysis

 

M:

 Mobile Communication Systems

C:

 Communication Systems

 

V:

 Architectures for Combined Voice and Data Sources

E:

 Emerging Communication Technologies

 

W:

 Web Information Retrieval and Management

 

 

Final Program (Details)

Note: Each regular (full) paper is allocated 25 minutes.

 

Tuesday, 18 May 2004

Time

Sessions

16:00-18:00

Conference On-Site Registration

Wednesday, 19 May 2004

8:00-9:00

Conference On-Site Registration    (between Ballroom D and Governor’s B)

9:00-9:30

Welcome

Venue

Ballrooms C & D

9:30-10:30

Invited Talk 1

Chair: David Macneil

Speaker: Bill St. Arnaud

Title: (Prospective) Optical Networking and Building Canada's i-Infrastructure

 

10:30-10:45

Morning Break

10:45-12:00

Session M1Mobile Communication Systems

Chair: Bradford Nickerson

 

FAÇADE-A FrAmework for Context-aware Content Adaptation and DElivery

B. Kurz, S. Gallache, and I. Popescu

● A Study of Retrodirective Array Performance in the Presence of Multipath

C. Loadman and Z. Chen

● Self-limiting, Adaptive Protocols for Controlled Flooding in Ad Hoc Networks 

L. Hughes and Y. Zhang

12:00-13:00

Lunch  (provided)

13:00-14:15

Session C: Communication Systems

Chair: Z. David Chen

 

● Compensation of Nonlinear Distortions with Memory Effects in Digital Transmitters   

 T. Wang  and  J. Ilow

● An Application of Multi-wavelet Packets in Digital Communications 

M. You and J. Ilow

● Practical Design of Single Feed Truncated Corner Microstrip Antenna 

M. Niroojaz and M. Naghi Azarmanesh

 

Wednesday, 19 May 2004

Time

Sessions

Venue

Ballroom D

14:15-15:05

Session V: Architectures For Combined Voice and Data Source

Chair: John DeDourek

● Similarities between Voice and High Speed Internet Traffic Provisioning

R. McGorman, J. Almhana, V. Choulakian, Z. Liu, and W. Jedidi

● LRRP SpeechWebs  

R. Frost, N. Abdullah, K. Bhati, S. Chitte, F. Hanna, M. Roy, Y. Shi and L. Su

 

15:05-15:20

Afternoon Break

15:20-17:00

Session W1: Web Information Retrieval and Management

Chair: Jalal Almhana

● A Language for Wireless Sensor Webs   

B. G. Nickerson and J. Lu

● Weighted PageRank Algorithm 

W. Xing and Ali A. Ghorbani 

● A Topic Sharing Infrastructure for Weblog Networks

S. Paquet and P. Pearson 

Improving the Referrer-based Web Log Session Reconstruction

M. Nadjarbashi-Noghani and Ali A. Ghorbani 

17:00-17:30

Break

17:30- 18:30

Reception*   (Victoria)

 *Sponsored by the Faculty of Computer Science, UNB


Thursday, 20 May 2004

Time

Sessions

8:45-9:45

Invited Talk 2   (Ballroom D)

Chair: Jacek Ilow

Speaker: Mark Cummings

Title: Vision, Current Status, Opportunities and Challenges of Software Defined Radio

 

9:45-10:00

Morning Break

Venue

Governor’s B

Ballroom D

10:00-12:05

Session A1: Algorithms and Protocol Design and Analysis

Chair: Jacek Ilow

Session E1: Emerging Communication Technologies

Chair: Bernd Kurz

● Performance of Generative Programming Based Protocol Implementation  

Zheyin Li and Michel Barbeau

● Petri Net Approach to Improving SACK TCP Resilience

Qiang Ye and Mike H. MacGregor

● An Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for IEEE 802.11 WLANs       

Shih-Lin Wu and Pao-Chu Tseng 

● Trusted Route Discovery with TORA Protocol

Asad Amir Pirzada and Chris McDonald

● An Efficient Key Management for Large Dynamic Groups

Y. Wang, J. Li, L. Tie, and Q. Li

On the Performance and Policies of Mobile Peer-to-Peer Network Protocols

T. Qiu   and I. Nikolaidis

Adaptive Filtering of SPAM

L. Pelletier, J. Almhana and V. Choulakian

● On Dataset Biases in a Learning System with Minimum A Priori Information for Intrusion Detection

G. Kayacik, M. I. Heywood and N. Zincir-Heywood

● Network Intrusion Detection Using an Improved Competitive Learning Neural Network

J. Lei and Ali A. Ghorbani

● Recursive EM Algorithm for Finite Mixture Models with Applications to Internet Traffic Modeling

Z. Liu, J. Almhana, V. Choulakian, and R. McGorman

 

12:05-13:00

Lunch (provided)

 

Thursday, 20 May 2004

Time

Sessions

Venue

Governor’s B

Ballroom D

13:00-15:05

 

 

Session A2:            Algorithms and Protocol Design and Analysis

Chair: Larry Hughes

Session M2: Mobile Communication Systems

Chair: Michel Barbeau

● CDMA Downlink Rate Allocation for Heterogeneous Traffics Based on Utility Function: GA-SA Approach  

W.Zhao and M. Lu  

● A Delay-Constrained Multicasting Algorithm for Dynamic Membership  

Z. Xu  and L. Chen

● PBit - A Pattern-based Testing Framework for IPtables

Y.Du  and D. Hoffman

● CSN: A Network Protocol for Serving Dynamic Queries in Large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks

M. Ali and Z. A. Uzmi 

● A Micro-Genetic Algorithm Based CDMA Multi-user Detector

M.S. Al-Sawafi and J. Jervase  

● An Authenticated Broadcasting Scheme for Wireless Ad Hoc Network

M. Bohio and A. Miri

● Mobile IP Performance and Interworking Architecture in 802.11 WLAN/CDMA2000 Networks

A. Saleh

● Performance Evaluation of Service Discovery Strategies in Ad Hoc Networks 

H. Luo and M. Barbeau

● Partial Weight Multistage Interference Cancellation for Reverse Link MC-CDMA System Using Pilot Assisted Channel Estimation

S. Kunaruttanapruk and S. Jitapunkul

● The Novel Decision Feedback Equalizer for OFDM System with Insufficient Cyclic Prefix 

Suwich Kunaruttanapruk and Somchai Jitapunkul

 

15:05-15:20

Afternoon Break

 

Thursday, 20 May 2004