The Fourth International Conference
on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU 2008)
Miraikan, Tokyo Japan, June 11-13, 2008

Program

Seamless Network Access Security in Heterogeneous Networks - How far are We?
Dr. Subir Das (Telcordia Technologies, Inc.)

Session 1: Radio system

(1-1) Communication With Causal CSI and Information Outage
Jia Chen, Kai Kit Wong (University College London)

(1-2) Dynamic Cell Shape Scheme in Smart Antenna Wireless and Mobile Systems
Qing-An Zeng (University of Cincinnati)

(1-3) Architecture of Low Complexity and High Throughput Sphere Decoder for MIMO System
Jin Lee, Sin-Chong Park (Information and communications University)

Session 2: Application network (1)

(2-1) A Scheduling Method for On-demand Delivery of Selective Contents
Yusuke Gotoh (Kyoto University), Tomoki Yoshihisa (Osaka University), Masanori Kanazawa (Kyoto University)

(2-2) Adaptive Inter-platform Communication Mechanism in Agent-based Middleware for Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Taishi Ito, Shintaro Imai, Hideyuki Takahashi, Takuo Suganuma, Norio Shiratori (Tohoku University)

Session 3: Security

(3-1) Audio Watermark Embedding Technique Applying Auditory Stream Segregation: "G-encoder Mark," Able to Be Extracted by Mobile Phone
Toshio Modegi (Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.)

(3-2) An Authentication Method Combining Spatiotemporal Information and Actions
Masateru Tsunoda, Kohei Mitsui, Kyohei Fushida, Yasutaka Kamei (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Masahide Nakamura (Kobe University), Keita Goto, Ken-ichi Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

(3-3) Kernel-based Lightweight Obfuscator for OS isolation toward Open Cellphones
Tomohiro Nakagawa (NTT DoCoMo, Inc.)

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Keynote 2:

Service opportunities for Mobile Network Operators - A Strategic Research Agenda for Mobile Applications
Dr. Hendrik Berndt (DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH)

Session 4: Ad-hoc network (1)

(4-1) Dynamic Load-Balancing Routing Approach for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Namhi Kang (The Catholic University of Korea), Seongil Yoo (Soongsil University)

(4-2) A Comparative Analysis of Mobility-based Lifetime-Aware Multicast Routing Protocols for MANETs
Song Guo (The University of British Columbia)

(4-3) OLAR: On-demand Lightweight Anonymous Routing in MANETs
Yang Qin, Dijiang Huang, Vinayak Kandiah (Arizona State University)

Panel Discussion:

Theme: Future Mobile Technologies -- Who and what will survive?

Panel Chair:
Prof. Qing-An Zeng (University of Cincinnati USA)

Panelists:
Dr. Hendrik Berndt (DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH Germany)
Dr. Subir Das (Telcordia Technologies, Inc. USA)
Dr. Ved Kafle (National Institute of Information, Communications and Technology (NICT) Japan)

Session 5: Wireless LAN

(5-1) A Contention-free Data Transmission in Asymmetric Wireless Multi-hop Access Networks
Ryugo Nishii, Tatsuji Munaka (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation) , Masaki Bandai and Takashi Watanabe (Shizuoka University)

(5-2) Dynamic Predictive Handoff Schemes for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
Qing-An Zeng (University of Cincinnati)

Session 6: Sensor network

(6-1) A Study on Passive Crowd Density Estimation using Wireless Sensors
Masayuki Nakatsuka, H. Iwatani, J. Katto (Waseda University)

(6-2) Using Target-View Clustering Algorithm to Solve Target Multi-Coverage Problem in Directional Sensor Networks
Hung-En Kuo, Kuo-Feng Ssu (National Cheng Kung University)

Friday, June 13, 2008

Keynote 3:

Ubiquitous Network from Web2.0 Viewpoint
Prof. Hiroyuki Morikawa (Univ. of Tokyo)

Session 7: Application, network (2)

(7-1) Study and Implementation of Dynamic Network Composition in Heterogeneous Network Environments
Yujin Noishiki, Hidetoshi Yokota (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc.)

(7-2) An Adaptive Control Scheme of Context Information for Ubiquitous Computing Environment
Yoshihisa Sato, Satoru Izumi, Hideyuki Takahashi, Takuo Suganuma, Norio Shiratori (Tohoku University)

Session 8: Ad-hoc network (2)

(8-1) An Effective Pacing Scheme for MANET with Frame Aggregation and Extra Backoff
Naoki Nakamura, Gen Kitagata, Debasish Chakraborty (Tohoku University), David Wei (Fordham University), Shuhei Watanabe, Norio Shiratori (Tohoku University)

(8-2) An Information Theoretic Approach for MANET Unlinkability Measure
Dijiang Huang, Yang Qin (Arizona State University)

Short paper:

(S-1) Dispersive Packet Transmission to Multiple Sinks to Reduce the Load of Individual Nodes in Sensor Networks
Tadao Oishi, Masaki Bandai, Takashi Watanabe (Shizuoka University)

(S-2) Mobility Aware Transmission Control Protocol (MA-TCP)
Muhammad Saeed Akbar, Syed Ahmad, Muhammad Abdul Qadir (Mohammad Ali Jinnah University)

(S-3) Directional Antenna Preferable Routing Protocol in Ad Hoc Networks
Takayuki Konishi, Hiroki Yahata, Kagenari Yamamoto, Miki Yamamoto (Kansai University)

(S-4) Implementation and Evaluation of TCP Retransmission Algorithm For Wireless Packet Channel with Delay Variation
Katsumi Sekiguchi (NTT DoCoMo, Inc), Osamu Takahashi (Future University Hakodate)

(S-5) The Design and Implementation of an IPTV service architecture based on OSGi gateway and UPnP AV over heterogeneous network
Chuan-Ching Sue, Chi-Yu Hsu, Yung-Yi Shieh, Yu-Shiang Su (National Cheng Kung University)

(S-6) A hop-vector based routing scheme for Data-Centric Sensor Networks
Kentaro Aburada (Prefectural University of Kumamoto), Yusuke Sato, Naonobu Okazaki, Shigeyuki Tomita (University of Miyazaki), Mirang Park (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.)

Sponsored by
IPSJ SIG-MBL (Information Processing Society of Japan, Special Interest Group of Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking)

Co-Sponsored by
IPSJ SG-BCC (Study Group of Broadcast Communication and Computing)

Supported by
IPSJ SIG-ITS (Special Interest Group of Intelligent Transport Systems)
and
IPSJ SIG-UBI (Special Interest Group of Ubiquitous Systems Computing)