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Tuesday, August 17, 1999
8:30 A.M: Opening Ceremonies
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- 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
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10:00 A.M. - Refreshment Break
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10:30 A.M: Location Management and Service Discovery
Session Chair: Ram Ramanathan (BBN Technologies)
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- 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)
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12:00 A.M. - Conference Luncheon
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1:30 P.M: Mobile Computing
Session Chair: Nigel Davies (Lancaster University)
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- 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)
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3:00 P.M. - Refreshment Break
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3:30 P.M: Panels - Session 1
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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)
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5:15 P.M. - SIGMOBILE Buisness Meeting - Bell Harbor Conference Center
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Wednesday, August 18, 1999
8:30 A.M: Handheld Devices
Session Chair: C-K. Toh (Georgia Institute of Technology)
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- 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)
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10:00 A.M. - Refreshment Break
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10:30 A.M: Power and Error Control
Session Chair: James Freebersyser (Office of Naval Research)
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- 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)
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12:00 Noon - Conference Luncheon
Luncheon Speech
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1:30 P.M: Traffic Scheduling
Session Chair: Kimberly Wasserman (University of Michigan)
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- 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)
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3:00 P.M. - Refreshment Break
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3:30 P.M: Panels - Session II
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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)
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7:00 P.M. - Conference Dinner Banquet - Seattle Space Needle
Banquet Speech
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Thursday, August 19, 1999
8:30 A.M: Data Dissemination
Session Chair: Andrew Campbell (Columbia University)
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- 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)
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10:00 A.M. - Refreshment Break
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10:30 P.M: Routing
Session Chair: David Johnson (Carnegie Mellon University)
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- 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)
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12:00 P.M. - Conference Luncheon
Luncheon Speech
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1:30 P.M: Transport Protocols
Session Chair: Ramon Caceres (AT&T Labs - Research)
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- 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)
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3:00 P.M. - Refreshment Break
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3:30 P.M: Next Century Challenges
Session Chair: Tomasz Imielinski (Rutgers University)
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- 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)
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5:00 P.M. - Conference Adjourns
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