| Plenary Session: Sensor Networks |
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
Stuart Milner - Research Professor & Director, Centre for Networking and Infrastructure Sensors, University of Maryland, USA
Scalable wireless sensor networks with assured connectivity and coverage |
| 9:45 - 10:30 |
Bruce Hemingway - Lecturer & Manager of the Baxter Computer Engineering Laboratory, University of Washington, USA
Variations on the Flock: Wireless Embedded Systems in an Undergraduate Curriculum |
| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Morning Break |
| Plenary Session: Wireless Networks |
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Rob Evans - Director Victoria Research Laboratory, NICTA
Wireless sensor networks, information theory and stochastic control |
| 11:15 - 11:45 |
Toshiaki Kuri - National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Enabling Technology for Scaleable WDM Millimeter-wave-band fibre-radio systems |
| 11:45 - 12:15 |
Stan Skafidas - Program Leader Sensor Networks, NICTA
Advances in millimeter wave communication |
| 12:15 - 12:45 |
Simon Curry - Intel Australia
Mobile wireless broadband: an effective alternative to traditional broadband services |
| 12:45 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
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Session W1A
Optical Networks 2 |
Session W1B
Ad Hoc Networks |
Sensor Network Workshop |
| 1:30 - 1:55 |
Optical Power Constraints in Future All-Optical Networks, K Hinton, P. Farrell, R. Ayre (The University of Melbourne) |
H.264 Compression Based Improvement in Hop Count and Power Consumption of MANETs, H. Asif, T.Sheltami (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran) |
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| 1:55 - 2:20 |
Automatically Switched Optical Network Path Selection Using Eye Closure Penalty, K. Hinton (CUBIN, University of Melbourne), J. Li, P. Farrell, S. Dods (NICTA, University of Melbourne) |
Dynamic Distributed Contention Window Control in Wireless AD Hoc LANs, S. Romaszko, C. Blondia (University of Antwerp, Belgium) |
| 2:20 - 2:45 |
Transient Control in ASONs, K. Hinton, P. Farrell, P. Dower (The University of Melbourne) |
Channel MAC: A Novel Medium Access Control Paradigm for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, M. Ashraf, A. Jayasuriya, S. Perreau, L. Rasmussen (University of South Australia) |
| 2:45 - 3:10 |
Planning & Dimensioning of Optical Label Switched Networks: A QoS-based Approach, N. Boudriga, Y. Khlifi, S. Fatmi (University of November 7th at Carthage, Tunisia) (50) |
A Case for Cross Layer Design: The Impact of Physical Layer Properties on Routing Protocol Performance in MANETs, R. Doss, L. Pan, (Deakin University) |
| 3:10 - 3:30 |
Afternoon Break |
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Session W2A
Media Services |
Session W2B
MIMO and OFDM |
Sensor Network Workshop |
| 3:30 - 3:55 |
Features required of a broadband access network capable of supporting IP based television, Content Management, Phillip Stevens, Siemens Ltd Communications (invited) |
Time Variation Characteristics of MIMO-OFDM Broadband Channels in Populated Indoor Environments, J. Das Gupta, K. Ziri-Castro, R. Addie (University of Southern Queensland) |
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| 3:55 - 4:20 |
Converging Mobile and Broadband Networks with IMS, T. Coyle (Senior Solutions Manager, Ericsson Australia/NZ) (invited) |
Performance of Antenna Selection for MIMO-OFDM Systems Based on Measured Indoor Correlated Frequency Selective Channels, Z. Tang, H. Suzuki, I.B.Collings (CSIRO ICT Centre, NSW) |
| 4:20 - 4:45 |
Error-Resilient Scalable Video over the Internet, M. Lee, R. Qiao, K. Bengston (CSIRO ICT Centre) |
Implementation of 4 x 4 MIMO-OFDM-LDPC Achieving 600 Mbps Packet Transmission, H. Suzuki, M.Hedley, G.Daniels, I.B.Collings (CSIRO ICT Centre, NSW) |
| 4:45 - 5:10 |
Topological Optimisation for Online First Person Shooter Game Server Discovery, G. Armitage, C. Javier, S. Zander (Swinburne University of Technology) |
Performance of Space-Time Block Coded OFDM in Time-Selective Macrocell Channel Environments, Z. Hussain, F. Al-Qahtani (RMIT University) |
