Conference / Technical Program Award Ceremony Speakers Panels Social Events Call for Papers Tech. Program Committee

Tuesday, August 17, 1999

8:30 A.M: Opening Ceremonies

Introductions - Imrich Chlamtac (University of Texas at Dallas), MobiCom Steering Committee Chair Welcome Remarks - Harel Kodesh (Microsoft), General Chair Program Highlights and Best Student Paper Award - Tomasz Imielinski (Rutgers) and Martha Steenstrup (BBN), Program Committee Co-Chairs. SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contributions Award Ceremony (Award Winner: Mark D. Weiser) - Victor Bahl, SIGMOBILE Keynote Speech Personal Computing - The New Future Richard F. Rashid Vice President Microsoft Research

10:00 A.M. - Refreshment Break

10:30 A.M: Location Management and Service Discovery Session Chair: Ram Ramanathan (BBN Technologies)

LeZi-Update: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Track Mobile Users in PCS Networks Amiya Bhattacharya and Sajal K. Das (University of North Texas, USA) - Best student paper award Analysis of a Metropolitan-Area Wireless Network Diane Tang and Mary Baker (Stanford University, USA) An Architecture for a Secure Service Discovery Service Steven Czerwinski, Ben Y. Zhao, Todd Hodes, Anthony D. Joseph, and Randy Katz (University of California at Berkeley, USA)

12:00 A.M. - Conference Luncheon

1:30 P.M: Mobile Computing Session Chair: Nigel Davies (Lancaster University)

Supporting CORBA Applications in a Mobile Environment Mads Haahr, Raymond Cunningham, and Vinny Cahill (Trinity College, Ireland) Using Code Mobility to Create Ubiquitous and Active Augmented Reality in Mobile Computing Kari Kangas and Juha Roning (University of Oulu, Finland) The Anatomy of a Context-Aware Application Andy Harter, Andy Hopper, Pete Steggles, Andy Ward, and Paul Webster (AT& T Laboratories - Cambridge)

3:00 P.M. - Refreshment Break

3:30 P.M: Panels - Session 1

Panel A: The Future of Local Area Wireless Networking Moderator: Marvin Theimer (Microsoft Research, USA) Panel B: Electronic Books Moderator: Dan Russell (Xerox, Palo Alto Research Center, USA)

5:15 P.M. - SIGMOBILE Buisness Meeting - Bell Harbor Conference Center

Wednesday, August 18, 1999

8:30 A.M: Handheld Devices Session Chair: C-K. Toh (Georgia Institute of Technology)

BlueSky: a cordless networking solution for palmtop computers Pravin Bhagwat, Chatschik Bisdikian, Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Mahmoud Naghshineh (IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center), and Satish Tripathi (University of California at Riverside) Octopus: Embracing the Energy Efficiency of Handheld Multimedia Computers Paul J.M. Havinga and Gerard J.M. Smit (University of Twente, Netherlands) Importance of a Battery Pulsed Discharge in Portable Radio Devices Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) and Ramesh R. Rao (University of Californi at San Diego, USA)

10:00 A.M. - Refreshment Break

10:30 A.M: Power and Error Control Session Chair: James Freebersyser (Office of Naval Research)

Power Control for Link Quality Protection in Integrated (Packet and Circuit) Services in DS-CDMA Networks Deepak Ayyagari (GTE, USA) and Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland at College Park, USA) Optimality of Bang-Bang Power Control in CDMA Mobile Networks Seong-Jun Oh and Kimberly M. Wasserman (University of Michigan, USA) Trace-based Analysis of the GSM Circuit-Switched Data Link Reiner Ludwig (Ericsson, Sweden), Almudena Konrad, and Anthony Joseph (University of California at Berkeley, USA)

12:00 Noon - Conference Luncheon Luncheon Speech Can the End-to-End Principle Survive? Phil Karn Qualcomm

1:30 P.M: Traffic Scheduling Session Chair: Kimberly Wasserman (University of Michigan)

Reversing the Collision-Avoidance Handshake in Wireless Networks J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves and Asimakis Tzamaloukas (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) A Unified Architecture for the Design and Evaluation of Wireless Fair Queueing Algorithms Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Songwu Lu, Vaduvur Bharghavan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Performance Evaluation of PRADOS: A Scheduling Algorithm for Traffic Integration in a Wireless ATM Network G. Colombo, B. Cornaglia, L. Lenzini, E. Mingozzi, and R. Santaniello (Università di Pisa, Italy)

3:00 P.M. - Refreshment Break

3:30 P.M: Panels - Session II

Panel C: Global Satellite Communication Networks Moderator: Satchandi Verma (Satellite Systems Division, Motorola Inc., USA) Panel D: Wearable Computing Moderator: Chris Schmandt (Principal Research Scientist, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

7:00 P.M. - Conference Dinner Banquet - Seattle Space Needle Banquet Speech Eye am a Camera: Mediated Reality, WearComp, and the EyeTap Camera Steve Mann Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto, Canada

Thursday, August 19, 1999

8:30 A.M: Data Dissemination Session Chair: Andrew Campbell (Columbia University)

The Broadcast Storm Problem in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network Sze-Yao Ni, Yu-Chee Tseng, Yuh-Shyan Chen, and Jang-Ping Sheu (National Central University, Taiwan) Performance Evaluation of a Wireless Hierarchical Data Dissemination System Qinglong Hu (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), Wang-Chien Lee (GTE, USA), and Dik Lun Lee (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Adaptive Protocols for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks Joanna Kulik, Wendi Rabiner, and Hari Balakrishnan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

10:00 A.M. - Refreshment Break

10:30 P.M: Routing Session Chair: David Johnson (Carnegie Mellon University)

Query Localization Techniques for On-demand Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks Robert Castaneda and Samir R. Das (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks - A Comparative Performance Analysis Per Johansson, Tony Larsson, Nicklas Hedman (Ericsson), Bartosz Mielczarek (Chalmers University of Technology), and Mikael Degermark (Lulea University of Technology). Multicast Using Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Elizabeth M. Royer (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA) and Charles E. Perkins (Sun Microsystems, USA)

12:00 P.M. - Conference Luncheon Luncheon Speech ProActive Computing David L. Tennenhouse Director, Information Technology Office Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

1:30 P.M: Transport Protocols Session Chair: Ramon Caceres (AT&T Labs - Research)

Analysis of TCP Performance over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Gavin Holland and Nitin Vaidya (Texas A&M University, USA) WTCP: A Reliable Transport Protocol for Wireless Wide-Area Networks Prasun Sinha, Narayanan Venkitaraman, Raghupathy Sivakumar, and Vaduvur Bharghavan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

3:00 P.M. - Refreshment Break

3:30 P.M: Next Century Challenges Session Chair: Tomasz Imielinski (Rutgers University)

RadioActive Networks: Freedom from the Worst Case Design Vanu G. Bose and David J. Wetherall (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Nexus - An Open Global Infrastructure for Spatial-Aware Applications Fritz Hohl, Uwe Kubach, Alexander Leonhardi, Kurt Rothermel and Markus Schwehm (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Data-Centric Networking for Invisible Computing: The Portolan Project Michael Esler, Jeffrey Hightower, and Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington, USA) Scalable Coordination in Sensor Networks Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, John Heidemann (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA) Mobile Networking for "Smart Dust" J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz, K. S. J. Pister (University of California at Berkeley, USA)

5:00 P.M. - Conference Adjourns