WCNC 2012 Workshop on Internet of Things Enabling Technologies, Embracing Machine-to-Machine Communications and Beyond Program

Sunday, April 1

Room: 304/305

Chair: Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)

M2M Communication in Smart Grids: Implementation Scenarios and Performance Analysis: Syed Abdul Salam (University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan); Sahibzada Ali Mahmud (University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan); Gul Khan (University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan); Hamed Saffa Al-Raweshidy (University of Brunel, United Kingdom)
Enabling Smart Grid with ETSI M2M Standards: Guang Lu (InterDigital Communications, Canada); Dale Seed (InterDigital, USA); Michael Starsinic (InterDigital, USA); Chonggang Wang (InterDigital Communications, USA); Paul Russell (InterDigital, USA)
Ultra Low-Power UWB-RFID System for Precise Location-Aware Applications: Yuan Zhou (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Choi Look Law (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Jingjing Xia (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Prototyping a Multi-Root ONS: Roberto Quilez (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France); Nathalie Mitton (INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, CNRS UMR 8022, IRCICA, USTL, France); Marcelo Dias de Amorim (UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France); Nicolas Pauvre (GS1 France, France)
A Secure Tag Ownership Transfer Scheme in a Closed Loop RFID System: Robin Doss (Deakin University, Australia); Wanlei Zhou (Deakin University, Australia)

Room: 304/305

Chair: Djelal Raouf (Sagemcom Energy&Telecom, France)

UPnP: Breaking out of the LAN: Jim Grimmett (University of Bath, United Kingdom); Eamonn O'Neill (University of Bath, United Kingdom)
Improving Vertical Handovers using IEEE 802.21 Services and Multicast Addressing: Michel Bonfim (Federal Univerty of Ceará, Brazil); Miguel Franklin de Castro (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Stenio Fernandes (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil); Rossana Maria de Castro Andrade (Federal University of Ceara, Brazil); Ahmed Karmouch (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Supporting Efficient Machine-to-Machine Communications in the Future Mobile Internet: Jun Li (Rutgers University & Rutgers University, USA); Yanyong Zhang (Rutgers University, USA); Kiran Nagaraja (Rutgers University, USA); Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University, USA)
Future Challenges in Efficiently Supporting M2M in the LTE Standards: Martin Beale (IPWireless Inc., United Kingdom)
UWB channel modeling for objects evolving in impulsive environnements: Nourddine Azzaoui (Université Blaise Pascal, France); Clavier Laurent (IEMN & Institut TELECOM, TELECOM Lille 1, France)

Room: 304/305

Chair: Chonggang Wang (InterDigital Communications, USA)

Bringing IoT to Hospital Logistics Systems: Juan Rico (TST Sistemas, Spain); Bruno Cendón (TST Sistemas, Spain); Jorge Lanza (University of Cantabria, Spain); Javier Valino (TST Sistemas, Spain)
WebIoT: A Web Application Framework for the Internet of Things: Angelo P. Castellani (University of Padova, Italy); Moreno Dissegna (University of Padova, Italy); Nicola Bui (University of Padova & Patavina Technologies, Italy); Michele Zorzi (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
Exploring Passenger Dynamics and Connectivities in Beijing Underground via Bluetooth Networks: Rina Wu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yuan Cao (Lehigh University, USA); Chi Harold Liu (IBM Research - China, P.R. China); Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories & Univeristy of Cambridge, Germany); Li Li (IBM Research - China, P.R. China); Erwu Liu (Tongji University, P.R. China)
Wireless Networks for Smart Surveillance: Technologies, Protocol Design and Experiments: Milo Spadacini (Politecnico di Milano & Comelit S.p.A., Italy); Stefano Savazzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Monica Nicoli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Sergio Nicoli (Comelit S.p.A. BG Italy, Italy)
Secure Bootstrapping of Nodes in a CoAP Network: Olaf Bergmann (Universitaet Bremen, Germany); Stefanie Gerdes (Universitaet Bremen, Germany); Silke Schäfer (Universitaet Bremen, Germany); Florian Junge (Universitaet Bremen, Germany); Carsten Bormann (Universität Bremen, Germany)

Room: 304/305

Chair: Robin Doss (Deakin University, Australia)

Standardized Power-Efficient & Internet-Enabled Communication Stack for Capillary M2M Networks: Nicola Accettura (Politecnico di Bari, Italy); Maria Rita Palattella (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg); Mischa Dohler (CTTC, Spain); Luigi Alfredo Grieco (Politecnico di Bari, Italy); Gennaro Boggia (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
How Low Energy is Bluetooth Low Energy? Comparative Measurements with ZigBee/802.15.4: Matti Siekkinen (Aalto University, Finland); Markus Hiienkari (Aalto University, Finland); Jukka K. Nurminen (Aalto University, Finland); Johanna Maria Nieminen (Nokia Research Center, Finland)
Energy Efficient Cooperative Scheduling based on Sleep-Wake Mechanisms: Georgina Abou Elkheir (University of Piraeus, Greece); Athanasios Lioumpas (University of Piraeus, Greece); Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Enhancing the Efficiency of Cluster-based Networks through MISO Techniques: Petros S. Bithas (National Observatory of Athens, Greece); Athanasios Lioumpas (University of Piraeus, Greece); Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Performance Evaluation of Radio Access Network overloading from Machine Type Communications in LTE-A Networks: Ming-Yuan Cheng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Guan-Yu Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Hung-Yu Wei (NTU, Taiwan); Alex Hsu (MediaTek, Taiwan)