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Sunday 18 April 2010
                    

9:00 – 12:30
WS1: Workshop on Integrated Optical-Wireless Networks

14:00 – 17:30

WS 2: Second International Workshop on Planning and Optimization of Wireless Communication Networks (PlanNet2010)


WS1: Workshop on Integrated Optical-Wireless Networks
 
Description:
With demand growing for broadband wireless access to multimedia content, the close integration of wireless access systems with the backbone and access optical networks has become an urgent requirement. This Workshop will offer expert views and an opportunity for open discussion of the many relevant issues, which include:

• Radio over fiber (remote location of most transmitter/receiver functions)
• Edge nodes sharing resources between optical and wireless functions
• Common standards for broadband wireless-optical interfaces
• Exploiting subcarrier modulation (such as OFDM) across wireless and optical transmission segments
• Self-configuring optical-wireless networks.
• Seamless service continuity between wired and wireless networks.
• Mapping quality of service (QoS) from air interfaces to optical subchannels
• Realizing end-to-end QoS and quality of experience across the concatenation of wireless and optical segments.
 
Program:

9:00 Opening Comments by General Chair Steve Weinstein

9:15 Optical-Wireless Integration for Evolving Applications

Martin Maier & Navid Ghazisaidi (INRS-Montreal, Canada)
"QoS-Aware Radio and Fiber (R&F) Access-Metro Networks"

9:40 The FUTON European Project: Broadband Wireless Access with Optical Network Support

Paulo Monteiro, Sylvia Pato, Esther Lopez, David Wake, Nathan Gomes & Atilio Gameiro
(Instituto de Telecomunicações, Univ. of Aveiro, Univ. of Kent (U.K.), ACORDE Technologies & Nokia-Siemens Networks, Portugal)
"Fiber Optic Networks for Distributed Radio Architectures: FUTON concept and operation"

Fabian Diehm, Patrick Marsch & Gerhard Fettweis (Tech. University of Dresden, Germany)
"The FUTON Prototype: Proof of Concept for Coordinated Multi-Point in Conjunction with a Novel Integrated Wireless/Optical Architecture"

10:30 BREAK: Refreshments, demo video, informal discussion

11:00 Physical Layer Techniques To Enhance Service Opportunities

Christina Lim & Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas (University of Melbourne, Australia)
"Optical-Wireless Integration: Technologies for Physical Layer Networking"

Neda Cvijetic, Dayou Qian & Ting Wang (NEC Labs America)
"OFDM for Next-Generation Optical Access Networks"

István Frigyes & László Csurgai-Horváth (Budapest Univ. of Technology & Economics, Hungary)
"Complementary Techniques, FSO and E-band - New Ways in Wireless Gbit/sec Transmission"

12:10 PANEL DISCUSSION: NEXT STEPS FOR OPTICAL-WIRELESS INTEGRATION
The speakers and Workshop Chair forming a panel in an open discussion with the audience. Topics may include
optical-wireless standards, picocells networks, dynamic bandwidth allocation, scalability, network resilience, QoS continuity.

12:30 End of Workshop

Committee:
Chair: Steve Weinstein (s.weinstein@ieee.org)
Program Organization: Chunming Qiao (drqiao01@gmail.com)
and Sudhir Dixit(sudhir.dixit@gmail.com)
Demonstration: Ting Wang (ting@nec-labs.com)
Publications: Hussein Mouftah (mouftah@uottawa.ca)



WS 2: International Workshop on Planning and Optimization of Wireless Communication Networks (PlanNet 2010)

Sunday 18 April 2010
14:00 - 17:30
Room: Bayside 101

14: 00 - 14:10 Opening remarks by Workshop Chairs

14:10 - 15:30 Session I: Resource Allocation

Region Coordination across Space Division Multiple Access Enhanced Base Stations in IEEE 802.16m Systems
Benedikt Wolz (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Generalizing FFR by Flexible Sub-band Allocation in OFDMA Networks with Irregular Cell Layout
Lei Chen (Linköping University, Sweden)
Di Yuan (Linköping University, Sweden)

Resource Allocation in Hybrid Macro/Femto Networks
Xiaoli Chu, Yuhua Wu, Lamia Benmesbah, Wing-Kuen Ling (King's College London, UK)

A Threshold-Based Hybrid Relay Selection Scheme
Tianxi Liu, Lingyang Song, Bingli Jiao, Yuping Zhao (Peking University, China)

15:30 - 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 - 16:50 Session II: Physical layer issues

Characterisation of Human Body Influence on Indoor 3.5 GHz Path Loss Measurement
Zhihua Lai, Nik Bessis, Guillaume De La Roche (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
Pierre Kuonen (University of Applied Sciences of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Jie Zhang, Gordon Clapworthy (University of Bedfordshire, UK)

Constellation Design for Odd-bit Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
Yiling Wu, Yuping Zhao, Hongbin Li (Peking University, China)

Downlink VoIP Capacity with Network-Synchronized Cyclic Beamswitching
Patrick Hosein (Huawei, US)

16:50 - 17:30 Session III: Performance evaluation

A Markov Model for Performance Evaluation of CRRM Algorithms in a co-located GERAN/UTRAN/WLAN Scenario
Leijia Wu, Kumbesan Sandrasegaran (UTS, Australia)
Maged Elkashlan (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)

Capacity of Wireless Mesh Networks: Determining Elements and Insensible Properties
Anis Ouni (Université de Lyon, INRIA INSA Lyon, France)
Hervé Rivano (CNRS-INRIA-UNS Mascotte INSA Lyon, France)
Fabrice Valois (Université de Lyon, INRIA INSA Lyon, France)