Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design

Tuesday 10 March
11:00 - 12:30
 
MAC-01: LTE/LTE-Advanced I
Spatial and Temporal Mobility Analysis in LTE Mobile Network
Qiujian Lv (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yufei Di (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, P.R. China); Yuanyuan Qiao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhenming Lei (University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Chao Dong (Agricultural Bank of China, P.R. China)
 
Characterizing and Modeling of Large-Scale Traffic in Mobile Network
Jie Yang, Weicheng Li and Yuanyuan Qiao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zubair Fadlullah and Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)
 
Self-optimizing Strategies for Dynamic Vertical Sectorization in LTE Networks
Abdoulaye Tall and Zwi Altman (Orange Labs, France); Eitan Altman (INRIA, France)
 
A Price Selective Centralized Algorithm for Resource Allocation with Carrier Aggregation in LTE Cellular Networks
Haya Shajaiah, Ahmed Abdelhadi and T. Charles Clancy (Virginia Tech, USA)
 
Interference-Aware Spectral-and-Energy Efficiency Tradeoff in Heterogeneous Networks
Chungang Yang and Jiandong Li (Xidian University, P.R. China); Xiaohong Jiang (Future University-Hakodate, Japan); Alagan Anpalagan (Ryerson University, Canada)
 
 
MAC-02: Sensor and Short-Range Networks I
An Efficient Method to Minimize TDMA Frame Length in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mahesh Bakshi (Concordia University, Canada); Mejdi Kaddour (University of Oran & Laboratoire de l'Informatique et et des Technologies d'Information, Algeria); Brigitte Jaumard and Lata Narayanan (Concordia University, Canada)
 
A Polling MAC with Reliable RF Recharging of Sensor Nodes
Mohammad Khan, Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada)
Minimum Time Length Link Scheduling under Blockage and Interference in 60GHz Networks
Zhifeng He and Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA); Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA)
 
Energy Conservative Distributed Average Consensus Through Connected Dominating Set
Mahendra Talasila, Shengli Fu and Yan Wan (University of North Texas, USA)
 
An adaptive energy-aware MAC frame size scheme in Wireless Delay-Tolerant Sensor Network
Xiaoli Zhou and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
 
Tuesday 10 March
14:00 - 15:30
 
MAC-03: Small Cell and Green Cellular Networks
On the Performance of Stadium High Density Carrier Wi-Fi Enabled LTE Small Cell Deployments
Aliye Ozge Kaya, Doru Calin and Harish Viswanathan (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
 
Dynamic FemtoCaching for Mobile Users
Tianyu Wang and Lingyang Song (Peking University, P.R. China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
 
Traffic-aware User Association Technique for Dynamic On/Off Switching of Small Cells
Shady Elbassiouny (Intel, Egypt); Ahmed Elhamy (Intel Corporation & The American University in Cairo, Egypt); Ahmed S. Ibrahim (InterDigital Communications Inc., USA)
 
RF Chain and User Selection for Multiuser MIMO Systems under Random Data Arrival
Xu Zhang, Sheng Zhou, Zhisheng Niu and Xiaokang Lin (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
 
A Scalable Multimode Base Station Switching Model for Green Cellular Networks
Atm Shafiul Alam and Laurence S Dooley (The Open University, United Kingdom)
 
 
MAC-P01: Mobile Networks Poster Session
A Framework for Data Storage Algorithms in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks
Mustafa A Kishk and Omar Nasr (Cairo University, Egypt); Mohamed Khairy (Elec. and Comm. Dept., Faculty of Eng., Cairo Univ, Egypt)
 
On the Design of Relay-Assisted Primary-Secondary Networks
Ahmed El Shafie (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Ahmed Sultan (Alexandria University, Egypt); Tamer Khattab (Qatar University, Qatar); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
 
Delay-oriented Dynamic Control for Interactive Mobile Cloud Services
Jiadi Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Qiang Zheng and Hang Long (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China); Wenbo Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
 
Extended Shadow Fading Model for Irregular Cellular Networks
Levent Kayili and Elvino Silveira Sousa (University of Toronto, Canada)
 
Enhancement of the TXOP Sharing designed for DL-MU-MIMO IEEE 802.11ac WLANs
Mohand Yazid (Laboratory Lamos, University of Béjaïa, Algeria); Adlen Ksentini (University of Rennes 1 / IRISA Lab, France); Louiza Bouallouche-Medjkoune (University of Bejaia, France); Aïssani Djamil (LAMOS, university of Bejaia, Algeria)
 
MAC-P02: Wireless Networks Poster Session
A Novel Access Control Scheme to Construct Fresh Database of Ambient Information in Internet of Things
Yuichi Kawamoto, Hiroki Nishiyama and Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan); Yoshitaka Shimizu and Atsushi Takahara (NTT, Japan); Tingting Jiang (Virginia Tech, USA)
 
SINR based Topology Control for Multihop Wireless Networks with Fault Tolerance
Maryam Riaz, Seiamak Vahid and Klaus Moessner (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
 
Multi-pair Device-to-Device Communications with Space-Time Analog Network Coding
Lili Wei and Geng Wu (Intel Corporation, USA); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA)
 
Performance Evaluation of Cooperative Sensing via IEEE 802.15.4 Radio
Tahir Akram (Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Horst Hellbrück (University of Applied Sciences Lübeck & CoSA Center of Excellence, Germany)
 
Distributed Power Allocation for Rate Maximization in Cognitive Radio Networks with Horizontal Spectrum Sharing
Saygın Bakşi and Dimitrie C. Popescu (Old Dominion University, USA)
 
Tuesday 10 March
16:00 - 17:30
 
MAC-04: Cognitive Radio I
Coalition Formation Game for Cooperative Cognitive Radio Using Gibbs-Sampling
Nof Abuzainab (INRIA, France); Sai Rakshit Vinnakota (INRIA, India); Corinne E Touati (INRIA - LIG Grenoble, France)
 
Energy Efficient Joint Chunk and Power Allocation for Chunk-based Multi-carrier Cognitive Radio Networks
Ding Xu and Qun Li (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
 
Analytical and Simulation Study of the Effect of Secondary User Cooperation on Cognitive Radio Networks
Mohamed Abdelraheem (Virginia Tech, USA); Mustafa El-Nainay (Alexandria University & Virginia Tech, Egypt); Scott F Midkiff (Virginia Tech, USA)
 
On Channel Selection Schemes for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks
Nazanin Rastegardoost and Bijan Jabbari (George Mason University, USA)
 
Joint Rate, Channel and Route Selection for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks
Lijuan Ji (ShangHai Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Feilong Tang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Yanqin Yang (East China Normal University, P.R. China); Minyi Guo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
 
Wednesday 11 March
11:00 - 12:30
 
MAC-05: LTE/LTE-Advanced II
LTE Multi-cell Dynamic Resource Allocation for Wireless Network Virtualization
Mahmoud I Kamel (INRS-EMT, University of Quebec, Canada); Long Bao Le (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Andre Girard (INRS-EMT and GERAD, Canada)
 
Game Theory Based Power Allocation in LTE Air Interface Virtualization
Bo Fan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Hui Tian (Beijng university of posts and telecommunications, P.R. China); Bin Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
 
Performance of Uplink Joint Reception CoMP with Antenna Selection for Reducing Complexity in LTE-A Systems
Peng Shang (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, P.R. China); Lu Zhang (Alcatel-Lucent, P.R. China); Mingli You (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, P.R. China); Yubo Yang (Alcatel Shanghai Bell, P.R. China); Qingchuan Zhang (Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai, P.R. China)
 
Joint and Partial Carrier Components Assignment Techniques Based on User Profile in LTE Systems
Husnu S Narman and Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, USA)
 
Real-Time Guaranteed TDD Protocol Processing for Centralized Super Base Station Architecture
Zhai Guowei (Institue of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Lin Tian (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yiqing Zhou (Chinese Academy of Science, P.R. China); Xiaodong Wang (Columbia University, USA); Jinglin Shi (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
 
Wednesday 11 March
14:00 - 15:30
 
MAC-06: Next Generation Cellular Networks
Access-Link Provisioning and Coordination: Tradeoff Between Proactive and Reactive Strategies
Philippe Leroux (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Canada); Aaron Callard and Ngoc-Dung Dao (Huawei, Canada); Alex Stéphenne (Ericsson & INRS-EMT, Canada)
 
Coordinative Switch Beamforming Scheduler for Guaranteed Service with Service Area Subsectorization in Next Generation Cellular Network
Zheng-En Huang (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan); Jen-Yi Pan (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
 
Optimal Load Balancing in Cloud Radio Access Networks
Shaowei Wang and Chen Ran (Nanjing University, P.R. China); Chonggang Wang (InterDigital Communications, USA)
 
Novel Distributed Decoding Scheme for Efficient Resource Utilization in Network Coding
Samih Abdul-Nabi (Lebanese International University, Lebanon); Philippe Mary (INSA Rennes, IETR UMR CNRS, France); Ayman Khalil (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes - IETR & INSA, France); Jean-François Hélard (IETR, France)
 
A Novel Cross-Layer Adaptation and QoS Optimization in LTE-A and Beyond Networks
Sonia Ben Rejeb (SUPCOM, Tunisia); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia); Sami Tabbane (Sup Telecom, Tunisia)
 
Wednesday 11 March
16:00 - 17:30
 
MAC-07: Sensor and Short-Range Networks II
Efficient scheduling for Minimum Latency Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jonathan Gagnon (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada); Lata Narayanan (Concordia University, Canada)
 
Optimal Task Scheduling Policy in Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
Vijay S Rao and Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Ignas Niemegeers (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
 
A Heuristic Clique Based STDMA Scheduling Algorithm for Spatial Concurrent Transmission in mmWave Networks
Zhongjiang Yan (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, P.R. China); Bo Li, Xiaoya Zuo and Mao Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
 
Impacts of Sub Hub on Connectivity of IEEE 802.15.4 in Healthcare Environments
Sungwoo Weon, Seokwon Lee, Sooyong Choi, Jang-Won Lee and Daesik Hong (Yonsei University, Korea)
 
Balancing between robustness and energy consumption in underwater acoustic sensor networks
Cheng Li (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada); Ruoyu Su (Memorial University, Canada); Ramachandran Venkatesan (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
 
 
MAC-08: MAC Protocols I
Efficient MAC Protocols Optimization for Future High Density WLANS
Imad Jamil (Orange, France); Laurent Cariou (Orange Labs, France); Jean-François Hélard (IETR, France)
 
Evaluation of Dynamic Sensitivity Control Algorithm for IEEE802.11ax
M. Shahwaiz Afaqui, Eduard Garcia-Villegas and Elena Lopez-Aguilera (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Graham Smith (DSP Group, USA); Daniel Camps (i2CAT, Spain)
 
QoE-aware admission control and MAC layer parameter configuration algorithm in WLAN
Hu Zhou, Bo Li and Mao Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Zhongjiang Yan (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, P.R. China)
 
Doubly-Generalized LDPC Codes with SPC Codes as Super Variable Nodes
Yejun He, Jie Yang and Guiyuan Sun (Shenzhen University, P.R. China)
 
 
Thursday 12 March
11:00 - 12:30
 
MAC-09: Cognitive Radio II
Dynamic Spectrum Management for Heterogeneous UAV Networks with Navigation Data Assistance
Pengbo Si (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Ruizhe Yang and Yanhua Zhang (Beijing University of Technology, P.R. China)
 
Implementation of an Opportunistic Spectrum Access System with Disruption QoS Provisioning and PU Traffic Parameter Estimation
Anirudha Sahoo (NIST, USA); Michael R. Souryal (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
 
Dynamic Power Pricing using Distributed Resource Allocation for Large-Scale DSA Systems
Bassem Khalfi (Oregon State University, USA); Mahdi Ben Ghorbel (Qatar University, Qatar); Bechir Hamdaoui (Oregon State University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (QU, USA)
 
Distributed and Cheat-Proof Spectrum Contention Scheme for IEEE 802.22 WRAN Networks
Kenneth U Ezirim (Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA); Ligon Liu (Graduate Center / CUNY, USA); Ping Ji (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), USA); Shamik Sengupta (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
 
Cooperative Sensing under Imperfect Feedback Channels in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
Omar H Altrad (American University of Madaba, Jordan); Sami Muhaidat (Khalifa University, UAE); Nayef Alsindi (Etisalat-British Telecommunications Innovation Centre (EBTIC), UAE); James Aweya (Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Center/Khalifa University, UAE)
 
MAC-10: MAC Protocols II
Signal-Centric Predictive Polling for Medium Access Control in M2M Communications Networks
Rung-Hung Gau and Chih-Huan Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Modeling of Coupled Collision and Congestion in Finite Source Wireless Access Systems
Ahsan-Abbas Ali and Shuangqing Wei (Louisiana State University, USA)
 
Fast and Accurate Cardinality Estimation in Cellular-Based Wireless Communications
Mohammad Ghadir Khoshkholgh Dashtaki (UBC, Canada); Victor CM Leung (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan, USA)
 
Distributed Channel Access Schemes for Multi-Channel ALOHA Cognitive Radio Networks
Chang-Shen Lee (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Wei-Ho Chung (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Ta-Sung Lee (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
 
Rate Constrained Power Optimization for STDMA MAC Protocols
Siqian Cui (Harbin Institute of Technology & University of California, Irvine, P.R. China); Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh (University of California, Irvine, USA); Xuemai Gu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)
 
Thursday March 12
14:00 - 15:30
 
MAC-11: Relaying in Wireless Networks
Secrecy Rate with Friendly Full-Duplex Relay
Saeedeh Parsaeefard and Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)
 
Joint Power Assignment and Relay Location Design for Cooperative Power-efficient Networks with Adaptive Transmission Mode Selection
Jane-Hwa Huang (National Chi Nan University, Taiwan); Sz-Yan Hsu (National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan)
 
Optimal Power Allocation Assisted with Relay in Open Access Femtocell Network with the Registered Users Protection
Chengyi Liu (Southeast University, P.R. China); Weiwei Xia (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, P.R. China); Song Xing (California State University, Los Angeles, USA); Lianfeng Shen (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, P.R. China)
 
Exploiting Sparsity of Relay-Assisted Cognitive Radio Networks
Ahmed El Shafie and Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Ridha Hamila (Department of Electrical Engineering & Qatar University, Qatar)
 
Opportunistic Routing Based Scheme with Multi-layer Relay Sets in Cognitive Radio Networks
Ying Dai and Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)
 
 
MAC-12: Resource Management I
Distributed Power Control in Full Duplex Wireless Networks
Yu Wang and Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)
 
Lifetime-Aware Scheduling and Power Control for Cellular-based M2M Communications
Amin Azari (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Guowang Miao (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology & Department of Communications Systems, Sweden)
 
Joint Base Station Assignment and Power Control in Hybrid Energy Supply Wireless Networks
Yuyi Mao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Jun Zhang and Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
 
Joint Channel Assignment, Stable Routing and Adaptive Power Control in Mobile Cognitive Networks
Jin Zhou and Feilong Tang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Jie Li (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Wenchao Xu (East China Normal University, P.R. China); Minyi Guo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
 
Capacity Analysis of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Improved Channel Reservation
Yongping Zhang, Bo Li and Mao Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Zhongjiang Yan (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, P.R. China)
 
Thursday 12 March
16:00 - 17:30
 
MAC-13: Vehicular and D2D Networks
Evaluating Mobile Signal and Location Predictability along Public Transportation Routes
Hatem Abou-zeid, Hossam S. Hassanein and Zohaib Tanveer (Queen's University, Canada); Najah A. Abu Ali (UAEU, UAE)
 
FIT: On-the-Fly, In-Situ Training with Sensor Data for SNR-Based Rate Selection
Hui Liu and Jialin He (Southern Methodist University, USA); Onur Altintas (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan); Rama K Vuyyuru (Toyota Info Technology Center, USA); Joseph D. Camp and Dinesh Rajan (Southern Methodist University, USA)
 
Roadside-Unit Caching in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks for Efficient Popular Content Delivery
Ruizhou Ding, Tianyu Wang and Lingyang Song (Peking University, P.R. China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Jianjun Wu (Peking University, P.R. China)
 
Downlink Resource Allocation for the High-speed Train and Local Users in OFDMA Systems
Chuang Zhang and Pingyi Fan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Ke Xiong (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
 
Power Allocation for Device-to-Device Communication Underlaying Massive MIMO Multicasting Networks
Belal S. Amin and Yahia R. Ramadan (Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt); Ahmed S. Ibrahim (InterDigital Communications Inc., USA); Mahmoud H. Ismail (Cairo University, Egypt)
 
 
MAC-14: Resource Management II
MIMO Link Scheduling for Interference Cancellation in Dense Wireless Networks
Douglas Blough (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Luis Miguel Cortés-Peña (Harris Corporation, USA)
 
Network Navigation Algorithms with Power Control
Wenhan Dai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Moe Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
 
Preliminary Evaluation of Simultaneous Data and Power Transmission in the Same Frequency Channel
Keita Yamazaki and Yusuke Sugiyama (Shizuoka University, Japan); Yoshihiro Kawahara (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Shunsuke Saruwatari (Shizuoka University, Japan); Takashi Watanabe (Osaka University, Japan)
 
Resource Allocation Optimization for the Hybrid Access Mode in Heterogeneous Networks
Yuling Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Mugen Peng (Beijing University of posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China); Jian Li and Aolin Cheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Chonggang Wang (InterDigital Communications, USA)
 
On Two-user degraded GBC with Finite Input Constellations
Huangping Jin, Kewu Peng and Jian Song (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)