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9783540201236

Personal Wireless Communications: Ifip-Tc6 8th International Conference, Pwc 2003, Venice, Italy, September 23-25, 2003 : Proceedings

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  • Copyright: 2003-09-01
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 8th International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications, PWC 2003, held in Venice, Italy in September 2003. The 49 revised papers presented together with 6 special track papers, 1 invited paper, 11 project descriptions, 7 work in progress reports, and 8 novel ideas reports were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on mobile computing, wireless access, sensor networks, transport protocols, performance models, WCDMA, ad-hoc networks, wireless and mobile systems, cellular networks, IPv6, Bluetooth, and security and cooperations in ad-hoc networks.

Table of Contents

Collaborative and Distributed Computation in Mesh-Like Wireless Sensor Arraysp. 1
Prediction-Based Energy Map for Wireless Sensor Networksp. 12
A Formally Verified Decentralized Key Management Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networksp. 27
JMS on Mobile Ad Hoc Networksp. 40
Dynamic Device Access for Mobile Usersp. 53
A Checkpointing Algorithm for Mobile Computing Environmentp. 65
Testing Mobile Wireless Applicationsp. 75
TAPI: Transactions for Accessing Public Infrastructurep. 90
On the Coexistence of UWB with Fixed Wireless Access Systemsp. 101
Improving Wireless Access Control Schemes via Adaptive Power Regulationp. 114
Achieving Service Differentiation and High Utilization in IEEE 802.11p. 128
Optimized Power Allocation and Signal Shaping for Interference-Limited Multi-antenna "Ad Hoc" Networksp. 138
On the Performance of a Medium Access Scheme Based on EY-NPMA in a High Bitrate Wireless LANp. 153
WILMA: An Open Lab for 802.11 HotSpotsp. 163
MobileMAN: Mobile Metropolitan Ad Hoc Networksp. 169
Wireless Networking for Virtual Immersive COMmunications: The VICOM Projectp. 175
DARWIN: Demonstrator for an Adaptive and Reconfigurable Wireless IP Networkp. 182
pPROS: Micro Protocol Based Development of Mobile Ad Hoc Networksp. 188
Simulation Results and a Proof-of-Concept Implementation of the FleetNet Position-Based Routerp. 192
EYES: Energy Efficient Sensor Networksp. 198
NetMoAd: Scalability, Dependability, and Flexibility in Ad Hoc Networksp. 202
The SONG (Solutions for Next Generation Mobile Systems) Projectp. 207
Mobile Ad Hoc Communication Issues in Ubiquitous Computing - The Smart-Its Experimentation Platformsp. 213
IST Project: BroadWay - The Way to Broadband Access at 60 GHzp. 219
An Adaptive Radio Link Protocol to Improve TCP Performance over Correlated Fading Wireless Channelsp. 222
Novel Delayed ACK Techniques for Improving TCP Performance in Multihop Wireless Networksp. 237
Performance Evaluation of Transport Protocols with Local Mobility Managementp. 251
Analysis and Measurement of TCP/IP Performance over GPRS Networksp. 261
Exact Probabilistic Analysis of the Limited Scheduling Algorithm for Symmetrical Bluetooth Piconetsp. 276
A Probabilistic Topology Unaware TDMA Medium Access Control Policy for Ad Hoc Environmentsp. 291
Power-Saving in Wi-Fi Hotspots: An Analytical Studyp. 306
A Queuing Analysis of Packet Dropping over a Wireless Link with Retransmissionsp. 321
Models for Non-intrusive Estimation of Wireless Link Bandwidthp. 334
Supporting Proactive Location-Aware Services in Cellular Networksp. 349
Implementation of a Scalable Context-Aware Computing Systemp. 364
SPREADing the Webp. 375
A Service Discovery Model for Wireless and Mobile Terminals in IPv6p. 385
Comparing SOAP Performance for Various Encodings, Protocols, and Connectionsp. 397
Channel Capacity of MIMO Wideband CDMA System under the Imperfect Channel Estimation and Near/Far Effectp. 407
Performance Evaluation of Partially Coherent MC/DS-CDMA System with MOC Sequencep. 417
Throughput Competitiveness of WCDMA Channel Assignmentp. 426
Radio Planning and Optimization of W-CDMA Systemsp. 437
Soft Output Bit Error Rate Estimation for WCDMAp. 448
The Convergence of Control, Communication, and Computationp. 458
Self-Organising Node Address Management in Ad Hoc Networksp. 476
DiSUS: Mobile Ad Hoc Network Unstructured Servicesp. 484
Performance Evaluation of Base-Station-Assisted Link State Routing Method for Mobile Ad Hoc Networksp. 492
A QoS Control Scheme for Voice and Data Services in cdma2000 Systemp. 498
Push Driven Service Composition in Personal Communication Environmentsp. 505
Performance Analysis and Modelling of an OSA Gatewayp. 511
Experimental Results of 802.11a Wireless LAN System over Optical Fiberp. 518
Last Interaction Based Paging in Mobile Cellular Networksp. 526
Multi-period Channel Assignmentp. 541
Supporting UMTS QoS in Wireless LANsp. 555
"On the Integration of MPEG-4 Streams Pulled Out of High Performance Mobile Devices and Data Traffic over a Wireless Network"p. 568
Embedding MANETs in the Real Worldp. 578
Impact of Directional Antennas on Ad Hoc Routingp. 590
A Rotational Sector-Based, Receiver-Oriented Mechanism for Location Tracking and Medium Access Control in Ad Hoc Networks Using Directional Antennap. 601
Alleviating Effects of Mobility on TCP Performance in Ad Hoc Networks Using Signal Strength Based Link Managementp. 611
Energy Efficient Multicast Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networksp. 625
Providing Internet Access to IPv6 Mobile Personal Area Networks through UMTSp. 640
Smooth Handover and Optimized Uplink Routing in Cellular IPv6 Networksp. 651
IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in Ad Hoc Networksp. 665
Performance Analysis of Fast Handover in Mobile IPv6 Networksp. 679
A Novel Energy Efficient Communication Architecture for Bluetooth Ad Hoc Networksp. 692
Design and Analysis of a Bluetooth-Based Indoor Localization Systemp. 711
On Efficient Topologies for Bluetooth Scatternetsp. 726
Enhancing Scatternets Performance via Scheduling Algorithm Parametrizationp. 741
Security in Ad Hoc Networksp. 756
Equilibrium Analysis of Packet Forwarding Strategies in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks - The Static Casep. 776
Toward Reliable Forwarding for Ad Hoc Networksp. 790
Towards a Novel Transport Protocol for Ad Hoc Networksp. 805
An Enhanced MAC Architecture for Multi-hop Wireless Networksp. 811
On Demand Network Level Service Deployment in Ad Hoc Networksp. 817
A Context-Aware Location Service for Metropolitan Ad Hoc Networksp. 823
A Novel Approach for Distributed Simulation of Wireless Mobile Systemsp. 829
Enhanced Power Saving Scheme for IEEE 802.11 DCF Based Wireless Networksp. 835
Are Classes of Nodes with Different Power Amplifiers Good for Wireless Multi-hop Networks?p. 841
Solar-Aware Routing in Wireless Sensor Networksp. 847
Author Indexp. 853
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