Important Dates

ITC Specialist Seminar
Special session proposals:
May, 1st, 2013
Paper submission:
June, 24th, 2013
Acceptance notification:
August 1st, 2013
August 9th, 2013
Final paper submission:
September 15th, 2013 (extended)
Early bird registration:
October 1st, 2013 (Newer deadline)
Conference: November 20-22, 2013

Sponsors

University of Canterbury

Patrons

Telecom NZ

Supporters

Engineers Australia
IEEE

Registration

On Tuesday, the 19th of November 2013, the conference's registration desk will be open  in the Chateau on the Park between 3:30 pm and 6:0 pm.

The following days, it will be open from 8:00 am on Wednesday, and from  8:30 am on Thursday and Friday.

Draft Conference Program

Listed below are draft programs for ITC SS EEGN and ATNAC 2013. They may be subject to change but currently represent a realistic program based on available information. At the bottom of these two lists is the proposed detailed layout of the sessions including invited talks, special sessions and tutorials.

TimeSession 1Session 2
Wednesday, 20th November
8:00Registration opens
8:45Welcome and opening address
9:00Invited #1: Professor Franco Davoli
9:50Invited #2: Dr. Iain Collings
10:40Morning tea break
11:00ATNAC Session #1
Mobile Cellular and Wireless Networks I
ITC SS Session #1
Energy Reduction in Cellular and Wireless Networks
11:25
11:50
12:15
12:40Lunch
13:45ATNAC Session #2
Internet Technologies
ATNAC Session #3
Optical Communications and Network Architectures
14:10
14:35
15:00
15:25Afternoon tea
15:45ATNAC Session #4
Mobile Cellular and Wireless Networks II
ITC SS Tutorial
Tutorial
16:10
16:35
17:00
18:00Cocktail Function - sponsored by Tait Communications and Telecom New Zealand
Thursday, 21st November
8:30Registration opens
9:00Invited #3: Professor Abbas Jamalipour
9:40Invited #4: Professor Neville Watson
10:30Morning tea break
10:50ATNAC Session #5
Mobile Cellular and Wireless Networks III
ITC SS Session #2
Energy Saving for Applications and Networks
11:15
11:40
12:05
12:30Lunch
13:30ATNAC Session #6
Performance Analysis
ITC SS Panel Discussion
13:55
14:20
14:45
15:10Afternoon tea
15:30ATNAC Session #7
Channel Modelling and Scheduling
ATNAC Session #8
Networks and Management
15:55
16:20
16:45
19:00Conference dinner - sponsored by Allied Telesis
Friday, 22nd November
8:30Registration opens
9:00Invited #5: Dr Prasan de Silva
9:40Invited #6: Dr Murray Milner
10:30Morning tea break
10:50ATNAC Session #9
Network Based Applications
ITC SS Session #3
Performance Impacts Through Energy Saving
11:15
11:40
12:05
12:30Lunch
13:30ATNAC Session #10
Quality of Service
ATNAC Demonstration Session
13:55
14:20
15:10Conference closing session

ITC Specialist Seminar Technical Sessions

Session 1: Energy Reduction in Cellular and Wireless Networks

Wednesday 20th November – 11:00 – 12:40 
Trade-Offs for Video-Providers in LTE Networks: Smartphone Energy Consumption Vs Wasted Traffic
Christian Schwartz; Marc Scheib; Tobias Hoßfeld; Phuoc Tran-Gia; Jose Manuel Giménez Guzmán
An Energy Saving Approach for Femtocell Coverage Function
Anna Dudnikova; Daniela Panno
QoE-Based Energy Reduction by Controlling the 3G Cellular Data Traffic on the Smartphone

Selim Ickin; Katarzyna Wac; Markus Fiedler
Small Cells in UMTS Radio Access Networks: Implications on Coverage and Energy Efficiency
Andreas Baumgartner; Thomas Bauschert

Session 2: Energy Saving for Applications and Networks

Thursday 21st November – 10:50 – 12:30 
Network-Wide Power Management in Computer Networks
Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz; Andrzej Sikora; Michał Marks; Piotr Arabas
EESManager: Making Greener Cloud Apps

Chutiwan Rakjit; William Liu; Jairo A Gutierrez
Evaluation of Energy Consumption and Data Access Time in Data Fetching in Grid-based Data-Intensive Applications
Saghar Izadpanah; Franco R. Davoli; Krzysztof Pawlikowski; Don McNickle
Power Management and TCP Congestion Control: Friends or Foes?
Carla Panarello; Alfio Lombardo; Giovanni Schembra; Michela Meo; Marco Mellia; Marco G Ajmone Marsan

Session 3: Performance Impacts through Energy Saving

Friday 22nd November – 10:50 – 12:30 
Performance-Energy Trade-Off in Data Centers: Impact of Switching Delay
Xiaohua Lu; Samuli Aalto; Pasi Lassila
High-Power LED Dimming Driver with Multi-Level Current for Smart Street Lighting System
Shih Chang Hsia
Controversial Substantiation Between Disaster Risk Reduction and Hedging Investment Risk: Case Study on Data Center Risk Management
Montri Wiboonrat

ATNAC Technical Sessions

Session 1: Mobile Cellular and Wireless Networks – I

Wednesday 20th November – 11:00 – 12:40 
Optimum Power Allocation for Sensor Networks that Perform Object Classification
Gholamreza Alirezaei; Rudolf Mathar
A Model of Self Deployment to Maximise Area Coverage in Sensor Networks
Anthony Krzesinski; Johannes Goebel
Efficient Mobility Management Using Simplified Cellular IP

Sobia Omer; Sajid Qamar; Rein Vesilo; Eryk Dutkiewicz
Hunter Friendly Fire Avoidance: Modeling a wireless solution
Craig Walker; Adnan Al-Anbuky

Session 2: Internet Technologies

Wednesday 20th November – 13:45 – 15:25 
Quantifying the Performance Degradation of IPv6 for TCP in Windows and Linux Networking
Burjiz Soorty; Nurul I Sarkar
Flow-Aware Networking as an Architecture for the IPv6 QoS Parallel Internet
Jerzy Domżał
Scaling Analysis of the Internet Traffic Structural Dynamics
Muhammad Asad Arfeen; Krzysztof Pawlikowski; Don McNickle; Andreas Willig
Burjiz Soorty; Nurul I Sarkar
On the Accuracy of Leveraging SDN for Passive Network Measurements
Michael Jarschel; Thomas Zinner; Thomas Höhn; Phuoc Tran-Gia

Session 3: Optical Communications and Network Architectures

Wednesday 20th November – 13:45 – 15:25 
A Delay-based Void Filling DBA in Long-reach EPON for Multimedia Services
Pu-Chen Mao; Ho-Ting Wu; Kai-Wei Ke
Performance analysis of multistage switching networks

Zbigniew Hulicki
Estimation of Round Trip Time in Distributed Real Time System Architectures
Ananda Maiti; Alexander A. Kist; Andrew Maxwell
Feeder Fiber and OLT Protection for Ring-and-Spur Long-reach Passive Optical Network
Huda Abbas; Mark A. Gregory

Session 4: Mobile Cellular and Wireless Networks – II

Wednesday 20th November – 15:45 – 17:25 
Uplink VoIP Capacity of 3GPP LTE under Power Control and Semi-Persistent Scheduling
Maciej Mühleisen; Bernhard H. Walke; Andreas Timm-Giel
Route Caching in DTNs Interconnected by Infrastructure
Md. Enamul HaqueYasser Kamal Hassan; Anika Aziz; Cristian BorceaShigeki Yamada
On the Bit Error Probability for Interference Limited Cooperative Networks
Rajitha Senanayake; Phee Lep Yeoh; Jamie Evans

Session 5: Mobile Cellular and Wireless Networks – III

Thursday 21st November – 10:50 – 12:30 
Investigations on passive discovery schemes for IEEE 802.15.4 based Body Sensor Networks
Saima Ali; Ehsan Tabatabaei Yazdi; Andreas Willig
Spatial Blocking in Poisson Cellular Networks with Random Channel Reuse

Yeqing Hu; Yi Hong; Jamie Evans
AVHRC:A Scheme to Improve QoS for VoIP Traffic
Muhammad Tahir Baig; Zawar Shah; Adeel Baig
Decentralized Coding Algorithm in Data Centric Storage for Wireless Sensor Networks
Khandakar Ahmed; Mark A. Gregory

Session 6: Performance Analysis

Thursday 21st November – 13:30 – 15:10 
End-to-end bandwidth measurement method considering effects on power-saving routers
Daisuke Kobayashi; Go Hasegawa; Masayuki Murata 
Performance Analysis of a City Smart Grid Communication Network based on the IEEE 802.16e Standard
Khalid Saad; Jamil Y Khan
Experimental Performance Analysis of Current Bypass Anti-Tampering in Smart Energy Meters
Chaiyod Pirak
An Energy Aware Mobile-Controlled Handover Method for Natural Disaster Situations
Sayan Kumar Ray; William Liu; Harsha R Sirisena; Swapan K. Ray; Devatanu DekaSession 7: Channel Modelling and Scheduling

Thursday 21st November – 15:30 – 17:10 
Investigation of Forward Error Correction Coding Schemes for a Broadcast Communication System
Xiaohan Wang; Andreas Willig; Graeme K Woodward
Optimal Random Parameter EM Based Kalman Filter (REKF) for Fast Fading MIMO Channel Estimation
Amrita Mishra; Gayathri R; Aditya K Jagannatham
Cross-layer MIMO-Links Exploiting Packet Re-routing Mechanisms and Adaptive Modulation in Diverse Channel Condition
Erwin Anggadjaja; Ian McLoughlin
Performance Analysis of an Enhanced Delay Sensitive LTE Uplink Scheduler for M2M Traffic
Nusrat Afrin; Jason Brown; Jamil Y Khan

Session 8: Networks and Management

Thursday 21st November – 15:30 – 17:10 
Energy Aware Survivable Routing Approaches for Next Generation Networks
Bing Luo; William Liu; Adnan Al-Anbuky
Generalised Unavailability and Generalised Nines in Designing Services for Maximum Profit
Bob Warfield
Monitoring available bandwidth in overlay networks using local information exchange
Hoang Dinh; Go Hasegawa; Masayuki Murata 
Video-Aware Measurement-Based Admission Control
Safeen Qadir; Alexander A. Kist

Session 9: Network - Based Applications

Friday 22nd November – 10:50 – 12:30 
WCMT: Web Censorship Monitoring Tool
Shadi Esnaashari; Ian Welch; Brenda Chawner
Virtualization and New Generation Network Design
Aun Haider; Harsha R Sirisena; Richard J Harris
Video Conferencing Solution for Medical Applications in Low-Bandwidth Networks
Arun Shankar Narayanan; Kok Kiong TanMEETING ROOM - a Secure Multi-Access, Cross-Platform Telemedicine Application
Geck Keat Chan, Tan Kok Kiong, Arun Shankar Narayanan

Session 10: Quality of Service

Friday 22nd November – 13:30 – 14:45 
Assessment of the rating performance of ITU-T recommended Video Quality Metrics in the context of video freezes
Tahir Nawaz Minhas; Muhammad Shahid; Andreas Rossholm; Benny Lövström; Hans-Juergen Zepernick; Markus Fiedler
QoS-Aware Cross-Layer Scheduling for Cognitive Radio Networks with Heterogeneous Data Traffics
Yin Hui Chye; Eryk Dutkiewicz; Rein Vesilo; Ren Ping Liu
A QoS Guaranteed Energy Optimized Packet Transmission Technique for the IEEE802.11 WLAN
Wan Norsyafizan W Muhamad W.Muhamad; Jamil Y Khan; Jason Brown