The 33rd Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'14), April 27th - May 2nd, 2014, Toronto, Canada

Technical Program


April 28th, 2014 (Monday)

8:50-9:00         Welcome Note

9:00-10:00       Keynote Speech

Reduce Energy Waste by Adapting to Real-traffic Dynamics (REWARD)

Zhisheng Niu

Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University

Tsinghua National Lab for Information Science and Technology, China

10:00-10:30   Coffee Break

10:30-12:00   Session 1:

Distributed Dynamic Spectrum Access with Adaptive Power Allocation: Energy Efficiency and Cross-Layer Awareness

Mahdi Ben Ghorbel (Qatar University, Qatar); Bechir Hamdaoui (Oregon State University, USA); Rami Hamdi (Qatar University, Qatar); Mohsen Guizani (QU, USA); MohammadJavad NoroozOliaee (Oregon State University, USA)

Dynamic Uplink-Downlink Optimization in TDD-based Small Cell Networks

Mohammed Saad ElBamby (University of Oulu, Finland); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Walid Saad (University of Miami, USA); Matti Latva-aho (UoOulu, Finland)

Robust Transmit Beamforming against Steering Vector Uncertainty in Cognitive Radio Networks

Md Monzurul Alam (Tennessee State University, USA); Sudeep Bhattarai (Virginia Tech, USA); Liang Hong (Tennessee State University, USA); Sachin Shetty (Tennessee State University, USA)

Energy-Efficient Power Adaptation for Cognitive Radio Systems under Imperfect Channel Sensing

Gozde Ozcan (Syracuse University, USA); M. Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University, USA)

Equivalent Bandwidth Adaptation with Energy Preservation under Delay Constraints

Maurizio Mongelli (National Research Council of Italy, Italy); Franco R. Davoli (University of Genoa, Italy); Roberto Bruschi (CNIT, Italy)

12:00-13:30   Lunch

13:30-15:00   Session 2: (Invited Session)

A Game Theory Framework for a Distributed and Energy Efficient Bandwidth Expansion Process

Rodrigo A. Vaca Ramírez (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Eitan Altman (INRIA, France); Victor Ramos (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)

Coordinated Paradigm for D2D Communications

Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Unlimited Cooperative Sensing with Energy Detection for Cognitive Radio

Hongseok Kim (Sogang University, Korea); Sunghwan Bae (Sogang University, Korea)

Context-Aware Machine-to-Machine Communications

Javier Mendonca Costa (KTH, Sweden); Guowang Miao (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Modeling and Analysis of Handover Failure Probability in Small Cell Networks

Carlos H. M. de Lima (University of Oulu, Finland); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Matti Latva-aho (UoOulu, Finland)

15:00-15:30   Coffee Break

15:30-17:00   Session 3:

Power Allocation for Interference Alignment Based Cognitive Radio Networks

Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, Canada); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Hongjian Sun (Durham University, United Kingdom)

Energy Efficient Resource Allocation for Collaborative Mobile Cloud with Hybrid Receiver

Zheng Chang (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Jie Gong (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Tapani Ristaniemi (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

Power Consumption Optimization for Real-Time Applications

Michel Bourdellès (THALES, France); Julien Marechal (TALES Communications&Security, France)

Spectrum Aware and Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for Cognitive Radio Sensor Network

Amna Jamal (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Chen-Khong Tham (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Wai-Choong Wong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Spectrum Sensing-Energy Tradeoff in Multi-hop Cluster Based Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks

Ahmed S. B. Kozal (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom); Madjid Merabti (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom); Faycal Bouhafs (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom)