Preliminary Program

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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

9:00-9:30

Welcome

Venue

Ballroom

9:30-10:30

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

Bill St. Arnaud

10:30-10:45

Morning Break

 

Mobile Communication Systems 1

10:45-11:10

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

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

11:10-11:35

A Study of Retrodirective Array Performance in the Presence of Multipath

C. Loadman and Z. Chen

11:35-12:00

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

L. Hughes and Y. Zhang

12:00-13:00

Lunch

 

Communication Systems

13:00-13:25

Compensation of Nonlinear Distortions with Memory Effects in Digital Transmitters   

 T. Wang  and  J. Ilow

13:25-13:50

An Application of Multi-wavelet Packets in Digital Communications 

M. You and J. Ilow

13:50-14:15

Practical Design of Single Feed Truncated Corner Microstrip Antenna 

M. Niroojaz and M. Naghi Azarmanesh

 

Architectures For Combined Voice and Data Source

14:15-14:40

Similarities between Voice and High Speed Internet Traffic Provisioning

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

14:40-15:05

LRRP SpeechWebs  

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

15:05-15:30

Multi-agent System for Multimedia Communications Traversing NAT/Firewall in Next Generation Networks  

Xiantai Gou and Weidong Jin 

15:30-15:45

Afternoon Break

 

Web Information Retrieval and Management I

15:45-16:10

A Language for Wireless Sensor Webs   

B. G. Nickerson and J. Lu

16:10-16:35

Weighted PageRank Algorithm 

W. Xing and Ali A. Ghorbani 

16:35-17:00

A Topic Sharing Infrastructure for Weblog Networks

S. Paquet and P. Pearson 

17:00-17:25

Improving the Referrer-based Web Log Session Reconstruction

M. Nadjarbashi-Noghani and Ali A. Ghorbani 

17:25-18:00

Break

18:00- 19:00

Reception

 

Thursday, 20 May 2004

Venue

Governor’s

Ballroom

8:45-9:45

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

Mark Cummings

9:45-10:00

Morning Break

 

Algorithms and Protocol Design and analysis I

Emerging Communication Technologies I

10:00-10:25

Performance of Generative Programming Based Protocol Implementation  

Zheyin Li and Michel Barbeau

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

T. Qiu   and I. Nikolaidis

10:25-10:50

Petri Net Approach to Improving SACK TCP Resilience

Qiang Ye and Mike H. MacGregor

Adaptive Filtering of SPAM

L. Pelletier, J. Almhana and V. Choulakian

10:50-11:15

An Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for IEEE 802.11 WLANs       

Shih-Lin Wu and Pao-Chu Tseng 

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

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

11:15-11:40

Trusted Route Discovery with TORA Protocol

Asad Amir Pirzada and Chris McDonald

Network Intrusion Detection Using an Improved Competitive Learning Neural Network

J. Lei and Ali A. Ghorbani

11:40-12:05

An Efficient Key Management for Large Dynamic Groups

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

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

 

Mobile Communication Systems II

Algorithms and Protocol Design and analysis II

13:00-13:25

An Authenticated Broadcasting Scheme for Wireless Ad Hoc Network

M. Bohio and A. Miri

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

W.Zhao and M. Lu  

13:25-13:50

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

A. Saleh

PBit - A Pattern-based Testing Framework for IPtables

Y.Du  and D. Hoffman

13:50-14:15

Performance Evaluation of Service Discovery Strategies in Ad Hoc Networks 

H. Luo and M. Barbeau

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

M. Ali and Z. A. Uzmi 

14:15-14:40

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

S. Kunaruttanapruk and S. Jitapunkul

A Micro-Genetic Algorithm Based CDMA Multi-user Detector

M.S. Al-Sawafi and J. Jervase  

14:40-15:05

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

Venue

Governor’s

Ballroom

 

Web Information Retrieval and Management II

POSTER

15:20-15:45

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

J. Zhang and Ali A. Ghorbani 

·      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

15:45-16:10

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

U. Bukhari and F. Abbas

16:10-16:35

Transcoding Proxy Placement in En-Route Web Caching

K. Li and H. Shen

16:35-17:00

A Validation Solution for Network Configuration

R. Deca, O. Cherkaoui and D. Puche

 

 

18:30

Banquet


 

 

Friday, 21 May 2004

Venue

 

9:00-10:00

Invited Talk: Amir K. Khandani

10:00-10:10

Morning Break

 

Emerging Communication Technologies III

10:10-10:35

Developing Multitier Lightweight Techniques for Protecting Medical Images within Ubiquitous Environments     

M. Sabah, J. Fiaidhi and L. Yang                                 

10:35-11:00

Fast Flow Classification over Internet

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

11:00-11:25

Intelligent Agents for Routing on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Y. Zhou  and A. N. Zincir-Heywood   

11:25-11:50

Intelligent Ants for Adaptive Network Routing

H. Yun    and A. N. Zincir-Heywood

11:50-12:15

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

H.-S. Jun and M. Woo