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

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 M1：Mobile 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)

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

Time

Sessions

Venue

Governor’s A

Ballroom D

15:20-17:00

POSTERS

Session W2: Web Information Retrieval and Management

Chair: Robert McGorman

· Mesh Partitioning for Computational Grids

R. Wanschoor and E. Aubanel

· Frequency Multiplication and QPSK Modulation with Subharmonic Injection-locked Active Antenna       

X. Zeng  and Z. Chen

· The Effectiveness of Brute Force Attacks on RC4

N. Couture and K. B. Kent  

· Provision of QoS in Wireless Networks 

J. Grewal  and J. DeDourek

· Software Brokers for Quality of Services in Service-oriented Distributed Systems   

J. Xu and W. Du

· Remote Sign Language Interpretation Using the Internet      

G. Hughes, B. Hudgins and J. MacDougall

· Performance Analysis of Audio Codes over Real-time Transmission Protocol (RTP) For Voice Services over Internet Protocol    

J. L. Thompson and A. Bhuvaneshwari

· Integrating Service Discovery Protocols with Presence-based Communications for Ad Hoc Collaborative Scenarios

R.   Liscano, A. Ghavam and M. Barbeau

● The Reconstruction of User Sessions from a Server Log Using Improved Time-oriented Heuristics

J. Zhang and Ali A. Ghorbani 

● A Comparative Study of Naming, Resolution & Discovery Schemes for Networked Environments     

U. Bukhari and F. Abbas

● Transcoding Proxy Placement in En-Route Web Caching

K. Li and H. Shen

● A Validation Solution for Network Configuration

R. Deca, O. Cherkaoui and D. Puche

17:30 – 18:30

Tour of UNB*

19:00

Banquet (Ballroom D)

*

17:30:

Tour bus departs Delta Hotel for UNB.

18:30:

Tour bus departs UNB for return to Delta Hotel.

Friday, 21 May 2004

Time

Sessions

Venue

Ballroom D

9:00-10:00

Invited Talk 3

Chair: Bernd Kurz

Speaker: Amir K. Khandani

Title:           Future Wireless Networks, Band-width Requirements and Complexity

10:00-10:10

Morning Break

10:10-12:15

Session E2: Emerging Communication Technologies

Chair: Ioanis Nikolaidis

● Developing Multitier Lightweight Techniques for Protecting Medical Images within Ubiquitous Environments

M. Sabah, J. Fiaidhi and L. Yang

● Fast Flow Classification over Internet

A. Oveissian, K. Salamatian, A. Soule, and N. Taft

● Intelligent Agents for Routing on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Y. Zhou  and A. N. Zincir-Heywood   

● Intelligent Ants for Adaptive Network Routing

H. Yun    and A. N. Zincir-Heywood

● Performance Analysis of Multicast-based Localized Mobility Support Scheme in IPv6 Networks

H.-S. Jun and M. Woo