Program :

I. Introductory Session : 08.30-09.00

    •  NEWCOM Presentation: S.Benedetto (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy)

II. Cluster Presentations: 10.00-17.15

09.00-11.15: PHY Cluster Topics
	□	09.00-09.15: PHY Cluster Overview: P.Duhammel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
	□	09.15-09.45: “Optimization of LDPC Codes for MIMO Detectors” Authors: G.Lechner, J.Sayir, I.Land. Speaker: Jossy Sayir, (Vienna Telecommunications Research Centre , Austria)
	□	09.45-10.15: “Propagation-Based Array Optimization for MIMO Systems” Authors: M.Guillaud, M.Debbah, C.Oestges and B.H. Fleury. Speaker: C.Oestges (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
	□	10.15-10.45: “Joint source and channel coding/decoding can be used in practical situations” Authors: M.Kieffer, M.Grangetto, C.Lamy-Bergot and P. Duhamel. Speaker: P.Duhamel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
	□	10.45-11.15: “Higher Order Signalling Schemes for Impulse Radio UltraWideband Short-Range Communications” Authors: J.Fiorina, S.Morosi and D.Marabissi. Speaker: J.Fiorina (SUPELEC, France)
11.30-13.45: FLEX Cluster Topics
	□	11.30-11.45: FLEX Cluster Overview: A.Polydoros (National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
	□	11.45-12.15: “Design, Modeling and Experimental Characterisation of RF and Microwave Devices and Subsystems” Authors: A.Atalar. T.Eriksson, G.Ghione and A.Rydberg. Speaker: A.Atalar (Bilkent University, Turkey).
	□	12.15-12.45: “ASIP design for partially structured LDPC codes” Authors: G. Masera, F. Quaglio, F. Vacca, L. Dinoi. Speaker: G. Masera (Politecnico di Torino, Italy).
	□	12.45-13.15: “Reconfigurable Radio for Interoperable Transceivers” Authors: A.Polydoros, N.Dimitriou, H.Bogucka, A.Gelonch, W.Eberle, M.Witte, C.Moy. Speaker: A.Polydoros (National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece).
	□	13.15-13.45: “Advances in cross-layer designs of wireless networks” Authors: L.Alonso, C.Anton, A.Dejonghe, M.Jordan, I.Koutsopoulos, E.Masala, U.Spagnolini, L.Tassiulas Speaker: I. Koutsopoulos(Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece).
14.00-16.15: NETWORKING Cluster Topics
	□	14.00-14.15: NETWORKING Cluster Overview: S.Palazzo (UoC)
	□	14.15-14.45: “An integrated framework to evaluate the performance of video transmission over wireless networks” Authors: N.Akar, E.Kankaya, G.Schembra, M.Barbera, R. Ferrus and A. Liew. Speaker name: N.Akar (Bilkent University, Turkey).
	□	14.45-15.15: “QoS provision in wireless networks: Mobility, Security, and Radio Resourse Management. An overview” Authors: “L. Ferreira, J.Perez-Romero, V.Tralli, P.Fazekas, M.Oliver, S.Lindskog and R.Agusti. Speaker: P. Fazekas(Budapest University of Technology and Economics).
	□	15.15-15.45: “A Realistic Mobility Simulator for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks” Authors:J.Haerri, M.Fiore, F.Filali, C.Bonnet, C.Casetti and C.F.Chiasserini. Speaker: J.Haerri (Eurecom, France).
	□	15.45-16.15: “Adaptive cross-layer techniques for cellular systems and WLANs: Simulative results within NEWCom Proj.C” Authors:A.Bazzi, M.Lanaro, A.Moustakas, N.Dimitriou and A.Conti. Speaker: Andrea Conti (CNIT Bologna, Italy).

III. Concluding Panel Session: Future Directions in Wireless Communications (16.15-17.00)

    •  S.Benedetto (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy)

    •  P.Duhammel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)

    •  A.Polydoros (National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

    •  S.Palazzo (University of Catania, Italy)

Check the workshop website http://www.multicomm.org for updates.

Program :

8:30-9:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH-State of the Art and Future Directions in 3DTV
	Keynote speaker: Levent Onural, Bilkent University
10:00-12:00 MORNING SESSION
	□	WS02.1 - PSNRr,f: Assessment of Delivered AVC/H.264 Video Quality over 802.11a WLANs with Multipath Fading Jing Hu, Sayantan Choudhury, and Jerry D. Gibson
	□	WS02.2 - Error Propagation After Concealing a Lost Speech Frame Christian Hoene, Ian Marsh, Günter Schäfer, and Adam Wolisz
	□	WS02.3 - A Performance Study of VoIP Applications: MSN vs. Skype Cheng-Fu Chou
	□	WS02.4 - BMC: A Two-stage Switch Architecture for High Performance Multimedia Communication Yang Xu, Bin Liu, Beibei Wu, and Wei Li
14:00-15:30 AFTERNOON SESSION
	□	WS02.5 - Dissemination of Dynamic Multimedia Content in Networked Virtual Environments Tolga Bektas, Farzad Safaei, Iradj Ouveysi, and Osman Oguz
	□	WS02.6 - Rate Adaptation for Buffer Underflow Avoidance in Multimedia Signal Streaming Matteo Petracca, Fabio De Vito, and Juan Carlos De Martin
	□	WS02.7 - Open Issues in P2P Multimedia Streaming Djamal-Eddine Meddour, Mubasher Musthaq, and Toufik Ahmed
16:00-17:00 FINAL PANEL
	□	Multimedia Communications: Future Directions Panelists: Juan Carlos De Martin, Jerry Gibson, Levent Onural, Oguz Sunay, Murat Tekalp

Organizer: Charalabos Skianis

Program :

Sessions:

8:30-9:10 IPBN-01: Wireless Networks
	□	IPBN0.1.1 - An Enhanced Leader Election Algorithm For Ad Hoc Networks Noureddine Kettaf (Haute Alsace University, France); Hafid Abouaissa (Haute Alsace University, France); Pascal Lorenz (Haute Alsace University, France)
	□	IPBN0.1.2 - Efficient Multicast Transmission in WiMAX Mesh Networks Spyros Xergias (University of Athens, Greece); Nikos Passas (University of Athens, Greece); Lazaros Merakos (University of Athens, Greece)
9:10-10:10 IPBN-02: IP Services
	□	IPBN0.2.1 - A Solution for Providing Broadband IP Services to Public Safety Radio Networks Apostolis K. Salkintzis (Motorola, Greece)
	□	IPBN0.2.2 - Internet Multimedia Subsystem as enabling platform for Next Generation TV St. Arbanowski (Fraunhofer FOKUS / Technical University of Berlin, Germany); A. Al-Hezmi (Fraunhofer FOKUS / Technical University of Berlin, Germany); O. Friedrich (Fraunhofer FOKUS / Technical University of Berlin, Germany); T. Magedanz (Fraunhofer FOKUS / Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
	□	IPBN0.2.3 - IPv6 over DVB based Satellite-Terra Distance-Education Network Platform Jun Zhang (Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China-Inner Mongolia University, China); Xinming Ye(Inner Mongolia University, China); Hai Jiang(Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Xiangyu Bai(Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Ru Li(Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China-Inner Mongolia University, China); Zhijun Xu(Inner Mongolia University, China)
10:30-11:10 IPBN-03: Adaptive and Interactive Broadcasting
	□	IPBN0.3.1 - Enabling Adaptive and Interactive Services in Broadcasting Networks Toufik Ahmed (University of Bordeaux 1, France) ; Daniel Negru (University of Versailles, France); Ahmed Mehaoua (University of Versailles, France)
	□	IPBN0.3.2 - Dynamic IP Configuration for Interactive Digital Television Terminals George Gardikis (University of the Aegean, Greece); Georgios Kormentzas (University of the Aegean, Greece); Anastasios Kourtis (National Centre for Scientific Research ”Demokritos”, Greece)
11:10-12:30 IPBN-04: Satellite Networks
	□	IPBN0.4.1 - Data Transfer Optimisation in DVB-RCS Satellite Networks Vasilios Pasias (Hellenic Aerospace Industry S.A., Greece); Demosthenes Vouyioukas (University of the Aegean, Greece)
	□	IPBN0.4.2 - A Joint Robust Header-Compression and Multi-layer RTP packet Multiplexing for Real-time IP services over DVB-S2 Networks A. Mehaoua (University of Versailles, France); A. Nafaa (University of Versailles, France); G. Gardikis (National Centre for Scientific Research ”Demokritos”, Greece); A. Kourtis (National Centre for Scientific Research ”Demokritos”, Greece)
	□	IPBN0.4.3 - Spectrum Sharing between High Altitude Platform and Fixed Satellite Networks in the 50/40 GHz band Vasilis F. Milas (University of Athens, Greece); Demosthenes Vouyioukas (University of Athens, Greece); Philip Constantinou (University of Athens, Greece)
	□	IPBN0.4.4 - Concept of all-IP over DVB-S Multifunctional Networking Technology B3G/4G with Radically Distributed QoS-Oriented Satellite Symmetric Return Channel RCS-MFMAC Alexander B. Markhasin (Siberian Telecommunications University, Russia)
14:00-15:40 IPBN-05: Management of Converged Networks
	□	IPBN0.5.1 - Exploiting Digital Terrestrial Television for Broadband access to Dispersed Locations George Mastorakis (University of the Aegean, Greece); Evangelos Pallis (Centre for Technological Research of Crete, Greece); Charalabos Mantakas (METIL telecom consultant, Greece); George Kormentzas (University of the Aegean, Greece); Charalabos Skianis (National Centre for Scientific Research ”Demokritos”, Greece)
	□	IPBN0.5.2 - Predictive Resource Management for mixed IP/DTV Services in Broadcasting Networks Yassine Hadjadj Aoul (University of Versailles, France); Daniel Negru (University of Versailles, France); Ahmed Mehaoua (University of Versailles, France)
	□	IPBN0.5.3 - Joint DiffServ and BM operation in a Heterogeneous IP/DVB Network George Xilouris (National Centre for Scientific Research ”Demokritos”, Greece); George Kormentzas (University of the Aegean, Greece); Anastasios Kourtis (National Centre for Scientific Research ”Demokritos”, Greece); Apostolos Manolitzas (National Centre for Scientific Research ”Demokritos”, Greece)
	□	IPBN0.5.4 - Performance comparison of Mobile IP and IDMH protocols during inter-domain handoff D. Tandjaoui (CERIST, Algeria); N. Badache (LSI USTHB, Algeria)
	□	IPBN0.5.5 - Performance Analysis of Adaptive Buffer Management Scheme for Bursty Internet Traffic with Priority Classes Irfan Awan (University of Bradford, UK)