27. ICDCS 2007: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Workshops

The 5th Int. Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'07)

Session 1: Ad Hoc Networks

• Tinghui Xu, Jie Wu:
  Quorum Based IP Address Autoconfiguration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. 1
  
• Jiayu Gong, Cheng-Zhong Xu, James Holle:
  Predictive Directional Greedy Routing in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks. 2
  
• Pradip K. Srimani, Zhenyu Xu:
  Self-Stabilizing Algorithms of Constructing Spanning Tree and Weakly Connected Minimal Dominating Set. 3
  

Session 2: Mobile and Wireless Systems

• P. D. Mzila, M. O. Adigun, S. S. Xulu:
  A Service Supplier Database for Location-Based Mobile Commerce. 4
  
• Geethapriya Thamilarasu, Ramalingam Sridhar:
  Toward Building a Multi-level Robust Intrusion Detection Architecture for Distributed Mobile Networks. 5
  
• Sean Lawrence, Ashim Biswas, Anees A. Sahib:
  A comparative analysis of VoIP support for HT transmission mechanisms in WLAN. 6
  

Session 3: Distributed and Pervasive Systems

• Luís Veiga, Paulo Ferreira:
  Object-Swapping for Resource-Constrained Devices. 7
  
• In Kee Kim, Sung-Ho Jang, Jong Sik Lee:
  Adaptive Distance Filter-based Traffic Reduction for Mobile Grid. 8
  
• Yu Zhou, Jiannong Cao, Vaskar Raychoudhury, Joanna Izabela Siebert, Jian Lu:
  A Middleware Support for Agent-Based Application Mobility in Pervasive Environments. 9
  
• Brent Lagesse, Mohan Kumar:
  UBCA: Utility-Based Clustering Architecture for Peer-to-Peer Systems. 10
  

The 4th International Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networking (WWASN'07)

Session I: Routing

• Nirisha Shrestha:
  Reception-Aware Routing for Energy Conservation in Ad Hoc Networks. 11
  
• Nidal Nasser, Yunfeng Chen:
  Secure Multipath Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. 12
  

Session II: Routing and Mesh Networks

• Yangcheng Huang, Saleem N. Bhatti, Søren-Aksel Sørensen:
  Analysing the Impact of Topology Update Strategies on the Performance of a Proactive MANET Routing Protocol. 13
  
• Ming Li, David Kotz:
  Group-aware Stream Filtering. 14
  
• Petar Djukic, Shahrokh Valaee:
  Towards Guaranteed QoS in Mesh Networks: EmulatingWiMAX Mesh over WiFi Hardware. 15
  

Session III: Sensor Networks (Data Dissemination and Security)

• Kewei Sha, Weisong Shi:
  Modeling Data Consistency in Wireless Sensor Networks. 16
  
• Donnie H. Kim, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan:
  Exploring Symmetric Cryptography for Secure Network Reprogramming. 17
  
• Chia-Mu Yu, Cheng-Chung Li, Chun-Shien Lu, Der-Tsai Lee, Sy-Yen Kuo:
  Attack Probability Based Deterministic Key Predistribution Mechanism for Non-Uniform Sensor Deployment. 18
  

Session IV: Miscellaneous

• Chunyan Fu, Roch H. Glitho, Ferhat Khendek:
  A Novel Session Recovery Mechanism for Cluster-based Signaling Architecture for Conferencing in MANETs. 19
  
• Jelena V. Misic:
  Analysis of non-acknowledged, CSMA-CA, slave-slave bridging in 802.15.4 beacon enabled networks. 20
  
• Keivan Ronasi, Mohammad Hamed Firooz, Mohammad Reza Pakravan, Alireza Nasiri Avanaki:
  An Enhanced Random-walk Method for Content Locating in P2P Networks. 21
  

The 1st Int. Workshop on Trust and Reputation Management in Massively Distributed Computing Systems (TRAM'07)

Building Trust and Reputation

• Thomas Wölfl, Kai Fischbach:
  A Method for the Certification and the Delegation of Trust in Distributed Systems. 22
  
• Yafei Yang, Yan Lindsay Sun, Jin Ren, Qing Yang:
  Building Trust in Online Rating Systems Through Signal Modeling. 23
  
• Muthucumaru Maheswaran, Hon Cheong Tang, Ahmad Ghunaim:
  Towards a Gravity-Based Trust Model for Social Networking Systems. 24
  

Trust and Reputation Systems

• Yao Wang, Julita Vassileva:
  A Review on Trust and Reputation for Web Service Selection. 25
  
• Sylvain Dahan, Mitsuhisa Sato:
  Survey of Six Myths and Oversights about Distributed Hash Tables' Security. 26
  
• Dmitri Alperovitch, Paul Judge, Sven Krasser:
  Taxonomy of Email Reputation Systems. 27
  

Trust in Peer-to-Peer Networks

• Xiaosong Lou, Kai Hwang, Runfang Zhou:
  Integrated Copyright Protection in Peer-to-Peer Networks. 28
  
• Mao Yang, Qinyuan Feng, Yafei Dai, Zheng Zhang:
  A Multi-dimensional Reputation System Combined with Trust and Incentive Mechanisms in P2P File Sharing Systems. 29
  
• Kenichi Watanabe, Yoshio Nakajima, Naohiro Hayashibara, Tomoya Enokido, Makoto Takizawa:
  Confidence-based Trustworthiness of Acquaintance Peers in Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks. 30
  
• Arindam Mitra, Muthucumaru Maheswaran:
  Impact of Peer Churning in Trusted Gossiping for P2P Information Sharing. 31
  

The 9th International Workshop on Multimedia Network on Systems and Applications (MNSA'07)

Session 1: Distributed Systems

• Kenichi Watanabe, Naohiro Hayashibara, Makoto Takizawa:
  Performance Analysis of the Superpeer-based Two-layer P2P Overlay Network with the CBF Strategy. 32
  
• Yoshitaka Shibata, Hiroaki Yuze, Tsuyoshi Hoshikawa, Kazuo Takahata, Nobuhiro Sawano:
  Large Scale Distributed Disaster Information System based on MANET and Overlay Network. 33
  
• Naohiro Hayashibara, Makoto Takizawa:
  Performance Analysis of the Interrogation-based Failure Detector. 34
  

Session 2: Multimedia Systems

• Nobuyoshi Sato, Minoru Uehara, Koichiro Shimomura, Hirobumi Yamamoto, Ken'ichi Kamijo:
  Effective Retrieval of High Dimensional Vector by Class Coding in Vegetable Geographical Origin Identification System. 35
  
• Yan Bai:
  Dynamic Class-based Control for Improving Perceived Voice Quality. 36
  

Session 3: Wireless Communications

• Arjan Durresi, Mimoza Durresi, Leonard Barolli:
  Wireless Communications for Health Monitoring on Highways. 37
  
• Leonard Barolli, Fatos Xhafa, Arjan Durresi, Akio Koyama:
  A Fuzzy-based Call Admission Control System forWireless Cellular Networks. 38
  
• Thomas Butter, Markus Aleksy, Philipp Bostan, Martin Schader:
  Context-aware User Interface Framework for Mobile Applications. 39
  

Session 4: Distributed Applications

• Christos Bouras, Ch. Tegos, V. Triglianos, Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos:
  X3D Multi-user Virtual Environment Platform for Collaborative Spatial Design. 40
  
• Yosuke Sato, Yuya Maita, Koji Hashimoto, Yoshitaka Shibata:
  A New Teleconference System and Its Applications by Omni-directional Audio and Video Transmission. 41
  
• Yoichi Nakamura, Hiroki Saito, Shin Ito, Yoshito Tobe:
  SNEO: Proposal of a Platform for Network Game Using Overlay Network. 42
  

The 7th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC'07)

Toolkits and Frameworks

• Hendrik Witt, Tom Nicolai, Holger Kenn:
  The WUI-Toolkit: A Model-Driven UI Development Framework for Wearable User Interfaces. 43
  
• Yoshihiro Kawahara, Nao Kawanishi, Masahiro Ozawa, Hiroyuki Morikawa, Tohru Asami:
  Designing a Framework for Scalable Coordination of Wireless Sensor Networks, Context Information and Web Services. 44
  
• Yohei Iwasaki, Nobuo Kawaguchi:
  An Automatic Software Decentralization Framework for Distributed Device Collaboration. 45
  

Wearable Sensors

• Kazuya Murao, Yoshinari Takegawa, Tsutomu Terada, Shojiro Nishio:
  CLAD: a Sensor Management Device forWearable Computing. 46
  
• Kristof Van Laerhoven, André Kvist Aronsen:
  Memorizing What You Did Last Week: Towards Detailed Actigraphy With A Wearable Sensor. 47
  

Context Awareness

• Keshu Zhang, Kari Torkkola, Haifeng Li, Christopher Schreiner, Harry Zhang, Robert Mike Gardner, Zheng Zhao:
  A Context Aware Automatic Traffic Notification System for Cell Phones. 48
  
• Adrienne H. Andrew, Yaw Anokwa, Karl Koscher, Jonathan Lester, Gaetano Borriello:
  Context to Make You More Aware. 49
  
• Hua Si, Seung Jin Kim, Nao Kawanishi, Hiroyuki Morikawa:
  A Context-aware Reminding System for Daily Activities of Dementia Patients. 50
  

Smart Appliances and Environments

• Luís Veiga, Paulo Ferreira:
  OSMOSIS - Semantic Work-Spaces for Smart Environments. 51
  
• Martin Berchtold, Christian Decker, Till Riedel, Tobias Zimmer, Michael Beigl:
  Using a Context Quality Measure for Improving Smart Appliances. 52
  
• Masayuki Iwai, Ryo Ohsawa, Takuya Imaeda, Kei Suzuki, Hideyuki Tokuda:
  Smart-Furoshiki: RFID-embedded Cloth enabling Multiple Area Detection. 53
  

The Sixth International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks (ADSN'07)

Session 1: Assurance in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

• Murat Demirbas, Srivats Balachandran:
  Robcast: A Singlehop Reliable Broadcast Protocol forWireless Sensor Networks. 54
  
• Hideharu Kojima, Tomoyuki Ohta, Yoshiaki Kakuda:
  State Transition Model for Test Sequence Generation of MANET Clustering Protocols. 55
  
• Tomoyuki Ohta, Naoyoshi Murakami, Yoshiaki Kakuda:
  Performance Evaluation of Autonomous Clustering for Hierarchical Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. 56
  

Session 2: Assurance Technologies and Applications

• Hiroyuki Endo, Yosuke Sugiyama, Kotaro Hama, Yuuki Nakahara, Kinji Mori:
  Autonomous Community Area Construction Technology to Achieve High Assurance. 57
  
• Akio Shiibashi, Yoshitaka Maruyama, Motoharu Yamana, Kinji Mori:
  Multi-layered Data Consistency Technology in Autonomous Decentralized IC Card Ticket System. 58
  
• Atsushi Kawano, Junichi Funasaka, Kenji Ishida:
  Parallel Downloading Using Variable Length Blocks for Proxy Servers. 59
  

Session 3: Analysis of Assurance Methods

• Cristina Abad, Rafael Bonilla:
  An Analysis on the Schemes for Detecting and Preventing ARP Cache Poisoning Attacks. 60
  
• Rong Zhang, Yong Meng Teo, Qijuan Chen, Xianbing Wang:
  Lower Bounds for Achieving Synchronous Consensus with Orderly Crash Failure. 61
  

The First International Workshop on Distributed Event Processing, Systems and Applications (DEPSA'07)

Session 1: Gossip Protocols

• Ken Birman, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Krzysztof Ostrowski, Marin Bertier, Danny Dolev, Robbert van Renesse:
  Exploiting Gossip for Self-Management in Scalable Event Notification Systems. 62
  
• Sébastien Baehni, Rachid Guerraoui, Boris Koldehofe, Maxime Monod:
  Towards Fair Event Dissemination. 63
  
• Karen Walzer, Jürgen Anke, Alexander Löser, Huaigu Wu:
  A Concept for Flexible Event-Driven Invocation of Distributed Service Compositions. 64
  

Session 2: Applications

• Erik Zeitler, Tore Risch:
  Using stream queries to measure communication performance of a parallel computing environment. 65
  
• Eric P. Kasten, Philip K. McKinley, Stuart H. Gage:
  Automated Ensemble Extraction and Analysis of Acoustic Data Streams. 66
  
• Ming Li, Mo Liu, Luping Ding, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Murali Mani:
  Event Stream Processing with Out-of-Order Data Arrival. 67
  

Session 3: Publish/Subscribe Systems

• Luis Vargas, Lauri I. W. Pesonen, Ehud Gudes, Jean Bacon:
  Transactions in Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Middleware. 68
  
• Madhu Kumar SD, Umesh Bellur:
  A Distributed Algorithm for Underlay Aware and Available Overlay Formation in Event Broker Networks for Publish/Subscribe Systems. 69
  

The First International Workshop on Cooperative Distributed Systems (CDS'07)

Session 1: Peer-to-Peer Systems and Frameworks

• Leandro Quiroga, Alejandro Fernandez:
  A P2P Groupware Framework based on Operational Transformations. 70
  
• Jehn-Ruey Jiang, Jiun-Shiang Chiou, Shun-Yun Hu:
  Enhancing Neighborship Consistency for Peer-to-Peer Distributed Virtual Environments. 71
  
• Hyeokchan Kwon, Sangchoon Kim, Jaehoon Nah, Jongsoo Jang:
  Public Key Management Framework for Two-tier Super Peer Architecture. 72
  
• Eric Gouardères, Yon Dourisboure, Guy Gouardères, Mansour Saber:
  The ARS Model: Virtual Learning Communities with P2PAgents on the Grid. 73
  

Session 2: Mobile Services

• Brahim Medjahed, David Carver:
  An Enterprise Messaging Middleware for Mobile Services. 74
  
• Thinh Nguyen, Kien Nguyen, Linhai He:
  Collaborative Distributed Admission Control (CDAC) for Wireless Network. 75
  

Session 3: Distributed Systems Applications

• Camelia Chira, D. Dumitrescu:
  Multi-Agent Cooperative Design Support in Distributed Environments. 76
  
• Brajesh Kumar Shrivastava, Guruprasad Khataniar, Diganta Goswami:
  Binary Search Tree: An Efficient Overlay Structure to Support Range Query. 77
  

The First International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS'07)

Session 1 (Short Papers): Miscellaneous Specialized Solutions for Ad Hoc Networks

• Amir Sepasi Zahmati, Nadieh M. Moghadam, Bahman Abolhassani:
  EPMPLCS: An Efficient Power Management Protocol with Limited Cluster Size for Wireless Sensor Networks. 78
  
• Vidya Bharrgavi Balasubramanyn, Geethapriya Thamilarasu, Ramalingam Sridhar:
  Security Solution For Data Integrity InWireless BioSensor Networks. 79
  
• Raul Aquino-Santos, Luis A. Villaseñor-Gonzalez, José R. Gallardo, A. Edwards:
  Measurements for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks in Motorway Environments. 80
  
• Huafeng Wu, Chaojian Shi, Bo Yu, Haiguang Chen, Chuanshan Gao:
  Influence of Bit-Error Rate on the Throughput of STDMA Ad-hoc Network. 81
  

Session 2: Specialized Solutions for Ad Hoc Communications

• Peter A. Parker, Daniel W. Bliss, Patrick Mitran, Vahid Tarokh:
  Adaptive Frequency Synchronization for Collaborative Communication Systems. 82
  
• Sang Joon Kim, Patrick Mitran, Vahid Tarokh:
  Performance Bounds for Bi-Directional Coded Cooperation Protocols. 83
  

Session 3: Specialized Solutions for MANETs

• Yao-Nan Lien, Ho-Cheng Hsiao:
  A New TCP Congestion Control Mechanism over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks by Router-Assisted Approach. 84
  
• Thomas Plagemann, Ellen Munthe-Kaas, Katrine Stemland Skjelsvik, Matija Puzar, Vera Goebel, Ulrik Johansen, Joe Gorman, Santiago Pérez Marín:
  A Data Sharing Facility for Mobile Ad-Hoc Emergency and Rescue Applications. 85
  
• Hadi Otrok, Mourad Debbabi, Chadi Assi, Prabir Bhattacharya:
  A Cooperative Approach for Analyzing Intrusions in Mobile Ad hoc Networks. 86
  

Session 4: Specialized Solutions for VANETs and Opportunistic Networking

• Jason D. Watson, Mark Pellerito, Charlie Gladden, Huirong Fu:
  Simulation and Analysis of Extended Brake Lights for Inter-Vehicle Communication Networks. 87
  
• Fan Yu, Subir K. Biswas:
  A Self-Organizing MAC Protocol for DSRC based Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. 88
  
• Liang Song, Dimitrios Hatzinakos:
  Architecture for Supporting Real Time Traffic in Large ScaleWireless Networks. 89