JNCW 2011 - NEWCOM++/COST 2100 joint Workshop

JNCW 2011 Program

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WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

09:00 – 09:45

Opening and Overviews

Opening of the workshop
Hikmet Sari, JNCW 2011 Organizer, SUPELEC, France

NEWCOM++ Overview
Sergio Benedetto, NEWCOM++ Scientific Director, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

COST 2100 Overview
Roberto Verdone, COST 2100 Chair, University of Bologna, Italy

09:45 – 11:00

The Radio Channel
Session Chair: Roberto Verdone

COST 2100 WG2 – Radio Channel
Alain Sibille, Télécom ParisTech, France

COST 2100 SWG2.1 – RF Aspects in UWB Communication and Localization
Grzegorz Adamiuk, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany

COST 2100 SWG2.2 – Compact Antenna Systems for Terminals
Moray Rumney, Agilent, United Kingdom

COST 2100 SWG2.3 – Reference Channel Modelling

Claude Oestges, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Coffee Break (11:00 – 11:30)

11:30 – 13:15

From the Radio Channel to the Wireless Link
Session Chair: Pierre Duhamel

NEWCOM++ WPR.1 – Modeling, Calibration and Validation of Multi-dispersive Multi-Link Channels
Bernard Fleury, Aalborg University, Denmark

NEWCOM ++ WPR.2 – Feedback and Resolution of the Channel State
Raymond Knopp, Eurecom Institute, France

NEWCOM ++ WPR.3 – Adaptive Coding/Modulation for the Wireless Channel
Andreas Polydoros, University of Athens, Greece

NEWCOM ++ WPR.4 – Iterative Receivers for Wireless Communications
Erdal Arikan, Bilkent University, Turkey

NEWCOM ++ WPR.7 – Joint Source and Channel Coding/Decoding

Christine Guillemot, CNRS, France

COST 2100 WG1 – Transmission Techniques and Signal Processing
Alister Burr, University of York, United Kingdom

Lunch (13:15 – 14:30)

14:30 – 16:00

Technical Session 1: Advanced Communications Techniques
Session Chair: Davide Dardari

On the Secrecy Degrees of Freedom of MISO Wiretap Channels with Delayed CSIT
Mari Kobayashi, Pablo Piantanida, Sheng Yang (SUPELEC, France)
Shlomo Shamai (The Technion, Israel)

Crystallized Rate Regions in MIMO communications
Adrian Kliks, Pawel Sroka (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Mérouane Debbah (SUPELEC, France)

MAC Layer Outage Probability of Bounded Ad Hoc Networks
Mariam Kaynia, Geir E. Øien (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Flavio Fabbri, Roberto Verdone (University of Bologna, Italy)

A Pre-Bayesian Game Formulation for Energy-Efficient CDMA Power Control
Giacomo Bacci, Marco Luise (University of Pisa, Italy)

On the Performance of Distributed Power Allocation and Scheduling in Multi-Cell OFDMA Systems
Sergio Cicalò, Velio Tralli (University of Ferrara - Italy)
Ana Perez-Neira (UPC, Spain)

Coffee Break (16:00 – 16:30)

16:30 – 18:00 Technical Session 2: Channels and Localization
Session Chair: Alain Sibille

Dynamic Channel Modeling at 2.4 GHz for On-Body Area Networks
Raffaele D'Errico, Laurent Ouvry (CEA-LETI, France)
Lingfeng Liu, Claude Oestges (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Philipe De Doncker (ULB, Belgium)

Validation of the COST2100 Channel Model in Indoor Environments
Katsuyuki Haneda, Juho Poutanen, Veli-Matti Kolmonen, Pertti Vainikainen (Aalto University, Finland)
Lingfeng Liu, Claude Oestges (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Fredrik Tufvesson (Lund University, Sweden)

The Diffuse Multipath Component and Multipath Component Visibility
Dana Porrat (The Hebrew University, Israel)

Statistical Characterization and Mitigation of NLOS Bias in UWB Localization Systems
Francesco Montorsi, Fabrizio Pancaldi, Giorgio M. Vitetta (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Discrete Fourier Transform based TOA estimation in UWB systems
Achraf Hassan Mallat, Jerome Louveaux, Luc Vandendorpe (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Mario Di Dio, Marco Luise (University of Pisa, Italy)

Workshop Banquet (19:30 – 22:00)

Chez Jenny, 39 boulevard du Temple, 75003 Paris
(Metro: République, Temple)

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

09:00 – 11:00
From the Wireless Link to the Radio Network
Session Chair: Sergio Palazzo

NEWCOM ++ WPR.5 – Coding for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Michael Heindlmaier, Technical University of Munich, Germany

NEWCOM ++ WPR.6 – Relaying and Cooperation in Networks
Luc Vandendorpe, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

NEWCOM ++ WPR.10 – Network Theory
Iordanis Koutsopoulos, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

NEWCOM ++ WPR.8 – Scheduling and Adaptive Radio Resource Assignment
Roberto Verdone, University of Bologna, Italy

NEWCOM ++ WPR.9 – Joint RRM and Flexible Use of Radio Spectrum
Jordi Perez Romero, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

NEWCOM ++ WPR.11 – Opportunistic Networks
Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy

COST 2100 WG3 – Radio Network Aspects
Narcis Cardona, Polytechnic University of Valencia

COST 2100 SWG3.1 – Measurements Based Optimization for Mobile Wireless Networks
Maciej Nawrocki, Optyme, Poland

Coffee Break (11:00 – 11:30)

11:30 – 13:15
Applications of Radio Technologies
Session Chair: Luis Correia

COST 2100 SIG B – Hybrid Cellular and Broadcasting Networks
Narcis Cardona, Polytechnic University of Valencia

COST 2100 SIG C – Mobile-to-Mobile Communications
Christoph Mecklenbrauker, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

COST 2100 SIG E – Body Communications
Arie Reichman, Ruppin, Israel

NEWCOM ++ WPR.A – Security in Wireless Networks
Merouane Debbah, SUPELEC, France

NEWCOM ++ WPR.B – Localization and Positioning Techniques
Davide Dardari, University of Bologna, Italy

NEWCOM ++ WPR.C – Flexible Radio Platforms
Dominique Noguet, CEA - LETI, France

Lunch (13:15 – 14:30)

14:30 – 15:45 Demos and Posters Session 1

A. Demos

D1. Evaluation of Tracking Algorithms using Heterogeneous Technologies
Francesco Sottile, Maurizio A. Spirito (ISMB, Italy)
Pau Closas, Javier Arribas, Carles Fernández (CTTC, Spain)
Michel Kieffer (CNRS, France)
Montse Nájar, Eva Lagunas (UPC, Spain)
Achraf Mallat, Pierre Gérard, Luc Vandendorpe (UCL, Belgium)
Davide Dardari, Nicolò Decarli (CNIT, Italy)
Andrea Conti (University of Ferrara, Italy)

D2. SDR4ALL – A New Way of Teaching Telecommunications
Sylvain Azarian, Leonardo Cardoso, Luca Rose, Mérouane Debbah (SUPELEC, France)

D3. KauNet: A Network Emulation System with Cross-Layer Capabilities
Per Hurtig, Tomas Hall, Anna Brunstrom, Johan Garcia (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Tanguy Pérennou (CNRS, France)

D4. UWB Channel Sounding System at 60 GHz
Walter Wirnitzer (MEDAV, Germany)
Paolo Garcia, Thoma Reiner (Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany)

D5. ViCE-WiCom, the Software Simulation and Data Library (SSL)
Renato Narcisi (University of Catania, Italy)

D6. Virtual MIMO – Outdoor to Indoor Experimental Evaluation
Matthew Webb, Carmen Stan, Mark Beach (University of Bristol, UK)

D7. Demonstration of OpenAirInterface.org Platform
Florian Kaltenberger, Raymond Knopp (EURECOM, France)
Nicolai Czink (FTW, Austria)
Claude Oestges (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

B. Poster Presentations

P1. The COST 2100 MIMO Channel Model
Lingfeng Liu, Claude Oestges (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
François Quitin, Philipe De Doncker (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium)
Juho Poutanen, Katsuyuki Haneda, Pertti Vainikainen (Aalto University, Finland)
Fredrik Tufvesson (Lund University, Sweden)

P2. Directional Characterisation of the Scattering Field Inside an Anechoic Chamber
Denia Bouhired, Geoffrey Hilton, Mark Beach (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

P3. Upper Bounds on Wheeler Cap Antenna Efficiency Measurements via Fixed-Geometry Cavity Design
Constantine G. Kakoyiannis, Philip Constantinou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

P4. Electromagnetic Analysis of RFID TAG Backscattering
Francesco Guidi (ENSTA ParisTech and University of Bologna, France)
Christophe Roblin (ENSTA ParisTech, France)
Moussa Sacko, Alain Sibille (Telecom ParisTech, France)

P5. GRASS-RaPlaT − an Open-Source Tool for Radio Coverage Calculations
Igor Ozimek, Andrej Hrovat, Andrej Vilhar, Tine Celcer, Tomaz Javornik (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Iztok Saje (Mobitel, d. d., Slovenia)

P6. SCME true PDP emulation using a channel emulator and a mode-stirred reverberation chamber
Miguel A. Garcia-Fernandez, David A Sanchez-Hernandez (Technical University of Cartagena, Spain)

P7. Two-stage Over the Air (OTA) Test Method for MIMO Device Performance Evaluation
Ya Jing (Agilent Technologies, P.R. China)

P8. Capacity of Multiple Access Channel with Noncausal and Strictly Causal States at the Encoders
Abdellatif Zaidi (Université Paris-Est Marne La Vallée, France);
Pablo Piantanida (SUPELEC, France);
Shlomo Shamai (Technion, Israel)

P9. Semi-Blind Key-Agreement over MIMO Quasi-Static Channels
Francesco Renna; Nicola Laurenti (University of Padova, Italy);
Matthieu Bloch (Georgia Institute of Technology Metz, France);

P10. Factor-Graph-Based Detection Algorithms for Coded OFDM over Time-Varying Channels
Werner Haselmayr, Bernhard Etzlinger, Andreas Springer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

P11. Trading-off Troughput vs. Energy in Adaptive BIC-OFDM over Nonlinear Channels: a Novel Approach
Filippo Giannetti, Ivan Stupia, Vincenzo Lottici, Riccardo Andreotti (University of Pisa, Italy);
Luc Vandendorpe (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

P12. Compressed Channel Estimation and Data Detection Algorithms for IR-UWB
Alessandro Barbieri, Fabrizio Pancaldi, Giorgio M. Vitetta (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

P13. Multi-layer Coding in Oblivious Cooperation via Occasional Relaying
Evgeniy Braginskiy, Avi Steiner, Shlomo Shamai (Technion, Israel)

P14. A Parallel Implementation of LLR Generator for Soft-input Soft-output MIMO Detection
Guido Masera, Bin Wu (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

P15. Combined Hybrid ARQ and Link Adaptation for Coded Cooperation in Block-Fading Channels
Mihaly Varga, Mihai Alin Badiu, Vasile Bota (Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania)

P16. Distributed Network Coded Control Channel for Large Wireless Networks
Nicola Baldo, Lorenza Giupponi (CTTC, Spain);
Alfred Asterjadhi, Michele Zorzi (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)

P17. Unequal Error Protection Rateless Coding for Urban Traffic Data Broadcast
Cedomir Stefanović, Vladimir Crnojević (University of Novi Sad, Serbia);
Dejan Vukobratović (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom);
Lorenzo Niccolai, Francesco Chiti, Romano Fantacci (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)

Coffee Break (15:45 – 16:15)

16:15 – 17:30 Demos and Posters Session 2

A. Demos

D8. Two-Stage MIMO over the Air Measurements
Hongwei Kong, Ya Jing (Agilent Technologies, China)

D9. MAGALI Platform Demonstration
Fabien Clermidy, Romain Lemaire (CEA-LETI, France)

D10. Joint Source/Protocol/Channel Decoding: Application to Multimedia Files Transmitted over Wireless Channels
Michel Kieffer, Pierre Duhamel, Cagatay Dikici (CNRS, France)

D11. Self-Organizing Network with Intelligent Relaying
Bilal Zaafar, Sohayl Gherekhloo, Aidin Asgharzadeh, Mehdi Tavakoli Garrosi, Martin Haardt (Technical
University of Ilmenau, Germany)

D12. WSN Testbed for Lighting Control and Environmental Monitoring
Matevz Vucnik, Carolina Fortuna, Maria Porcius, Mihael Mohorcic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)

D13. Joint Channel Estimation and Equalization for Downlink OFDMA Systems in Very Rapidly Varying Mobile Channels
Habib Senol, Erdal Panayirci (Kadir Has University, Turkey);
Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

D14. Common Operator Approach for Flexible Radio Design
Malek Naoues, Dominique Noguet (CEA-LETI, France);
Yves Louet (SUPELEC, France),
Khaled Grati, Adel Ghazel (SUPCOM, Tunisia)

B. Poster Presentations

P18. Performance of an IEEE 802.15.6 Wireless Body Area Network
Flavia Martelli, Chiara Buratti, Roberto Verdone (University of Bologna, Italy)

P19. Large System Analysis of Interference Alignment in Clustered Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Roland Tresch (FTW, Austria);
Giuseppa Alfano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy);
Maxime Guillaud (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

P20. Macro Network Aspects For Realistic LTE Usage Scenarios
Ayaz Khan Afridi, Ahmad (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

P21. Efficient Margin Adaptive Scheduling for MIMO-OFDMA Systems
Marco Moretti, Giulio Dainelli (University of Pisa, Italy);
Ana Pérez-Neira (CTTC, Spain)

P22. Scheduling Policies for Improved Throughput Guarantees in MIMO Broadcast Channel
Jawad Rasool, Geir E. Øien (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

P23. Exploiting Opportunistic Interactions for Localization in Heterogeneous Wireless Systems
Francesco Zorzi, Andrea Bardella, Andrea Zanella (University of Padova, Italy);
Tanguy Perennou (University of Toulouse - ISAE / LAAS-CNRS, France);
GuoDong Kang (ISAE, France);
Francesco Sottile (ISMB, Italy)

P24. On Delay Estimation with Multicarrier Signals and its Relation with Cognitive Positioning
Mario Di Dio, Marco Luise, Francesca Zanier (University of Pisa, Italy);
Achraf Hassan Mallat, Jerome Louveaux, Luc Vandendorpe (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

P25. Localization of Mobile Devices in Non-Line-of-Sight Scenarios
Davy Gaillot, Paul Stefanut, Martine Lienard, Pierre Degauque (University of Lille, France)

P26. A Two-Step RA Algorithm For Multiple DF Relays Aided OFDMA Downlink Transmission
Tao Wang, Luc Vandendorpe (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

P27. Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Machine-to-Machine Communications with Cooperative ARQ
Jesus Alonso-Zarate, Christos Verikoukis (CTTC, Spain);
Luis Alonso (UPC, Spain)

P28. Exact and Approximated Factor Graph Methods for MIMO Detection
Bernhard Etzlinger, Werner Haselmayr, Andreas Springer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

P29. Opportunistic Routing with Agendas of Contacts
Mathias Boc, Anne Fladenmuller, Marcelo Dias de Amorim (UPMC Université Paris 6, France);
Sergio Palazzo (University of Catania, Italy)

P30. Iterative Interference Cancellation in Generalized Multicarrier Communications
Adrian Kliks, Hanna Bogucka (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)

P31. Optimal Dimensioning of Sensor Networks for Spatial Field Estimation with Random Sampling
Javier Matamoros, Carles Antón-Haro ( CTTC, Spain);
Flavio Fabbri, Davide Dardari (University of Bologna, Italy)

P32. A Signal Strength Based Cross Layer QoS Routing Protocol for OFDMA Based Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Hong Yi Xiong, Eliane Bodanese (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)

P33. A Trellis-Based ACM Algorithm for Coded Cooperation in OFDMA Wireless Systems
Mihai Alin Badiu, Mihaly Varga, Vasile Bota (Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania)

P34. An Investigation of Pulse-Based M-ary UWB-FSK
Fernando Ramirez-Mireles (ITAM, Mexico);
Luis Orozco Barbosa (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain)