Keynote Speakers
Part 1
Ivan Stojmenovic
800 King Edward
Canada
K1N 6N5
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~ivan/
Biography:
Ivan Stojmenovic
received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics. He held regular and
visiting positions in Serbia, Japan, USA, Canada, France, Mexico,
Spain, UK (as Chair in Applied Computing at the University of
Birmingham), Hong Kong, Brazil, Taiwan, and China, and is Full
Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada and Adjunct Professor
at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He published over 250
different papers, and edited seven books on wireless, ad hoc, sensor
and actuator networks and applied algorithms with Wiley. He is
editor of over dozen journals, editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions
on Parallel and Distributed Systems (from January 2010), and founder
and editor-in-chief of three journals (MVLSC, IJPEDS and AHSWN).
Stojmenovic is one of about 260 computer science researchers with
h-index at least 40 and has >10000 citations. He received three best
paper awards and the Fast Breaking Paper for October 2003, by
Thomson ISI ESI. He is recipient of the Royal Society Research Merit
Award,
Title:
Contribution of applied algorithms to applied computing
Abstract:
There are many attempts
to bring together computer scientists, applied mathematician and
engineers to discuss advanced computing for scientific, engineering,
and practical problems. This talk is about the role and contribution
of applied algorithms within applied computing. It will discuss some
specific areas where design and analysis of algorithms is believed
to be the key ingredient in solving problems, which are often large
and complex and cope with tight timing schedules. The talk is based
on recent Handbook of Applied Algorithms (Wiley, March 2008),
co-edited by the speaker. The featured application areas for
algorithms and discrete mathematics include computational biology,
computational chemistry, wireless networks, Internet data streams,
computer vision, and emergent systems. Techniques identified as
important include graph theory, game theory, data mining,
evolutionary, combinatorial and cryptographic, routing and localized
algorithms.
Andreas F. Molisch
Department of
Electrical Engineering
CA90089-1111,
http://wides.usc.edu/people/molisch/
Biography:
Andy Molisch received the
Dr. techn., and habilitation degrees from the Technical University
Vienna (
Dr. Molisch's current research interests are measurement and
modeling of mobile radio channels, UWB, cooperative communications,
and MIMO systems. He has authored, co-authored or edited four books
(among them the textbook "Wireless Communications"), fourteen book
chapters, more than 130 journal papers, and numerous conference
contributions, as well as more than 70 patents and 60 standards
contributions.
Dr. Molisch has been an editor of a number of journals and special
issues, General Chair, TPC Chair, or Symposium Chair of multiple
international conferences, and chairman of various international
standardization groups. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the
IET, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, and recipient of several
awards, most recently the IEEE's Donald Fink Award.
Title:
Wireless propagation and its impact on wireless system design
Abstract:
Arun Somani
Electrical
and Computer
2215
Coover Hall
http://ecpe.ee.iastate.edu/arun/
Biography:
Arun K. Somani
is currently Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at
Professor Somani's research interests are in the area of computer
system design and architecture, fault tolerant computing, computer
interconnection networks, WDM-based optical networking, and
reconfigurable and parallel computer systems. He has published more
than 250 technical papers, several book chapters, and has supervised
more than 100 graduate students (35 PhD students). He is the chief
architects of an anti-submarine warfare system for Indian navy, Meshkin
fault-tolerant computer system architecture for the Boeing Company,
Proteus multi-computer cluster-based system for US Coastal Navy,
and HIMAP design tool for the Boeing Commercial Company.
He
has served on several program committees of various conferences in
his research areas, served as IEEE distinguished visitor and IEEE
distinguished tutorial speaker, and delivered several key note
speeches, tutorials and distinguished and invited talks all over the
world. He received commonwealth fellowship for his postgraduate work
from
Title:
Aggressive and Reliable High-Performance Architectures
Abstract:
As the transistor count
on a chip goes up, the system becomes extremely sensitive to any
voltage, temperature or process variations. One approach to immunize
the system from the adverse effects of these variations is to add
sufficient safety margins to the operating clock frequency. Timing
Speculation (TS) provides a silver lining by providing
better-than-worst-case systems. We introduce an aggressive yet
reliable framework for energy efficient thermal control. We bring
out the inter-relationship between power, temperature and
reliability of aggressively clocked systems. We provide solutions to
improve the existing power management in chip multiprocessors to
dynamically maximize system utilization and satisfy the power
constraints within safe thermal limits. We observe that up to 75%
Energy-Delay squared product savings relative to base architecture
is possible.
Michael
Small
Department of Electronic
and Information Engineering
The
Hung Hom,
http://small.eie.polyu.edu.hk/
Biography:
Michael Small got his PhD in applied mathematics from the University
of Western Australia in 1998. Since then he held post doctoral
positions at UWA, Heroit-Watt University (Edinburgh) and Hong Kong
Polytechnic University. Dr. Small is now an Associate Professor in
the department of Electronic and Information Engineering at the Hong
Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests focus on complex
systems and nonlinear time series analysis. His work emphasises the
application of these methods in a diverse range of fields: disease
propagation, neurophysiology, cardiac dynamics and many others. He
has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers (and a similar number of
conference papers), 3 books and 10 book chapters. His Erds number is
bounded above by 3.
Dr. Small is an associate editor for several international journals,
including Guest Associate Editor of International Journal of
Bifurcations and Chaos, and on the editorial board of others. In
addition to serving on the technical and programming committee of
innumerable conferences, he has organised around a dozen special
session and international workshops. He has given many plenary,
keynote and invited presentations at various venues around the
world.
Title:
Complex Networks – Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract: In the last decade, physicists and then biological scientists have found evidence of complex networks in a stunning range of physical and biological systems. In this talk, I will focus on a more basic, and possibly more interesting question: what can complex networks and the methods of complexity theory actually tell us about the dynamics underlying observed time series data?
A variety of methods have been introduced to transform time series data into complex networks. The complex network representation of the time series can then be used to gain new insight (information not readily available from other methods) about the underlying dynamics. We show that the structure of the complex network, and more specifically, the motif frequency distribution, depends on the nature of the underlying dynamics. In particular, low dimensional chaotic dynamics are associated with one particular class of complex network; and hyper-chaotic, periodic and stochastic motion are each associated with others. This complex network approach can then be used to identify the nature of the dynamics underlying a particular time series. Application of these methods will be demonstrated with several experimental systems: from musical composition, to sound production, and population dynamics.
Part II
Nei Kato
Graduate School of Information Sciences. Tohoku University
Aoba 09, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan. 980-8579
http://www.it.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~kato/index-e.html
Biography: Nei Kato received his M.S. and Ph.D.
Degrees in information engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, in
1988 and 1991, respectively. He joined Computer Center of Tohoku
University at 1991, and has been a full professor at the Graduate
School of Information Sciences since 2003. He has been engaged in
research on computer networking, wireless mobile communications,
image processing and neural networks. He has published more than 200
papers in journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings.
Nei Kato currently serves as the chair of IEEE Satellite and Space
Communications TC, the secretary of IEEE Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks
TC, the chair of IEICE Satellite Communications TC, a technical
editor of IEEE Wireless Communications(2006~), an editor of IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications(2008~), an associate editor
of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology(2009~). He has served
as co-guest-editor for many IEEE journals and magazines, symposium
co-chair for GLOBECOM’07, ICC’10, ICC’11, ChinaCom’08, ChinaCom’09,
and WCNC2010-2011 TPC Vice Chair.
His awards include Minoru Ishida Foundation Research Encouragement
Prize(2003), Distinguished Contributions to Satellite Communications
Award from the IEEE Communications Society, Satellite and Space
Communications Technical Committee(2005), the FUNAI information
Science Award(2007), the TELCOM System Technology Award from
Foundation for Electrical Communications Diffusion(2008), the IEICE
Network System Research Award(2009), and best paper awards from many
prestigious international conferences such as IEEE GLOBECOM, IWCMC,
etc.
Besides his academic activities, he also serves as a member on the
expert committee of Telecommunications Council, the special
commissioner of Telecommunications Business Dispute Settlement
Commission, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan,
and as the chairperson of ITU-R SG4 and SG7, Japan. Nei Kato is a
member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and
Communication Engineers (IEICE) and a senior member of IEEE.
Title: Robust and Efficient Stream Delivery for Application
Layer Multicasting in Heterogeneous Networks
Abstract: Application Layer Multicast (ALM) is highly expected to
replace IP multicasting as the new technological choice for content
delivery. Depending on the streaming application, ALM nodes will
construct a multicast tree and deliver the stream through this tree.
However, if a node resides in the tree leaves, it cannot deliver the
stream to its descendant nodes. In this case, Quality of Service (QoS)
will be compromised dramatically. To overcome this problem,
Topology-aware Hierarchical Arrangement Graph (THAG) was proposed.
By employing Multiple Description Coding (MDC), THAG first splits
the stream into a number of descriptions, and then uses Arrangement
Graph (AG) to construct node-disjoint multicast trees for each
description. However, using a constant AG size in THAG creates
difficulty in delivering descriptions appropriately across a
heterogeneous network. In this talk, a new method, referred to as
Network-aware Hierarchical Arrangement Graph (NHAG), to change the
AG size dynamically to enhance THAG performance, even in
heterogeneous networks, will be introduced. By comparing this new
method to THAG and SplitStream, the new method can be considered
with better performance in terms of throughput and QoS. Meanwhile,
some other related topics such as how to detect streaming content in
high speed networks will also be touched upon.
Yasushi Yamao
Advanced Wireless Communication Research Center
The University of Electro-Communications 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu-shi,
Tokyo 182-8585
http://kjk.office.uec.ac.jp/Profiles/0013/0005121/prof_e.html
Biography: Dr. Yasushi Yamao received his B.S.,
M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from Kyoto
University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1977, 1979, and 1998, respectively.
He started his research career of mobile communications from the
measurement and analysis of urban radio propagation as his M.S.
thesis. In 1979, he joined the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corporation (NTT) Laboratories, Japan, where his major activities
included leading research on GMSK modulator /demodulator and GaAs RF
ICs for digital mobile communications, and development of PDC
digital cellular handheld phones. In 1993, he moved to NTT DoCoMo
Inc. and directed standardization of high-speed paging system
(FLEX-TD) and development of 3G radio network system. He also joined
European IST research programs for IP-based 4th generation mobile
communication.
In 2005, he moved to the University of Electro-Communications as a
professor of the Advanced Wireless Communication Research Center
(AWCC). His current interests focus on wireless ubiquitous
communication networks and protocols, as well as high-efficiency and
reconfigurable wireless circuit technologies both in RF and Digital
Signal Processing. He is a Fellow of IEICE and member of IEEE. He
served as Vice President of IEICE Communications Society
(2003-2004), Chairman of the IEICE Technical Group on Radio
Communication Systems (2006-2008) and Chief Editor of IEICE
Communication Magazine (2008-2010). He is currently Vice Chairman of
IEEE VTS Japan Chapter.
Title: An Intelligent WDN for Future Ubiquitous Society
Abstract: Intelligence is an essential feature of advanced systems.
The most important ability given by intelligence is adaptation,
which keeps system performance high under the change of its
environment. One of the interesting areas to apply intelligence is
Wireless Distributed Network (WDN), which is an important technology
of future ubiquitous society. Under the time-varying wireless
environments that severely suffer from fading, quality control of
multihop communication is a critical issue. This speech discusses
how multi-hop communication quality in WDN can be maintained by the
intelligence of distributed nodes that always watch surrounding
node's behavior and take cognitive action. Cross-layer cooperation
at each node enables real-time local path optimization including
creation of bypass and shortcut paths. Packet communication quality
improvements in terms of delivery ratio and delay are shown in some
examples.
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