Symposia
The IEEE Communications Society invited the world's leading researchers and engineers from academia, industry and government
to exchange their ideas at the IEEE ICC 2009 conference in Dresden, Germany in June 2009.
At IEEE ICC 2009 original papers on the most recent results and technology trends in the field of communications were presented.
The technical program was divided in 11 symposia:
1. Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications
Co-Chairs: Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Gabriel Jakobson, K.P. Subbalakshmi, Madjid Merabti, Sedat Oelcer
2. Communication Theory Symposium
Co-Chairs: Lutz Lampe, Aylin Yener, Angela Yingjun Zhang
3. Signal Processing for Communications Symposium
Co-Chairs: Luc Deneire, Tomohiko Taniguchi, Wai Pang Ng
4. Wireless Communications Symposium
Co-Chairs: Sonia Aissa, Nallanathan Arumugam, Erik Perrins, Yi Qian, Matthew Valenti, Takayo Yamazato
5. Wireless Networking Symposium
Co-Chairs: Yu Cheng, Hossam Hassanein, Mario Marchese, Abdelhamid Mellouk
6. Optical Networks and Systems Symposium
Co-Chairs: Dominic Schupke, Kyriakos Vlachos, Jun Zheng
7. Next Generation Networking Symposium
Co-Chairs: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Marcus Brunner, Latif Latid, Ivica Rimac
8. Communications QoS, Reliability and Modelling Symposium
Co-Chairs: Nelson Fonseca, Ralf Lehnert, Hiromi Ueda
9. Adhoc and Sensor Networking Symposium
Co-Chairs: Tommaso Melodia, Hongchi Shi, Larry Xue, Mohamed Younis
10. Communications Software and Services Symposium
Co-Chairs: Wolfgang Kellerer, Pascal Lorenz, Giovanni Pau, Lars Wolf
11. Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium
Co-Chairs: Raouf Boutaba, Stefanos Gritzalis, Jiankun Hu, Peter Müller
1. Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications
The IEEE ICC 2009 Symposium in Selected Areas in Communications (SSAC) concentrates
on new and emerging communication technology areas, including the ones that are not directly
addressed in any of the ten named symposia. It offers a open forum for academic and industrial
researchers to exchange the latest technical information and research findings on novel communication
concepts, technologies, systems, and applications.
Session names
- Cognitive Networks: Spectrum Sensing
- Cognitive Networks: Modeling and Security in Dynamic Spectrum Access
- Cognitive Networks: Spectrum Management and Policy
- Data Storage
- Networked Services
- Situation Management
- Vehicular Communications
- Selected Topics in Communication (Poster)
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2. Communications Theory
Sponsoring TCs: | Communication Theory TC |
| Wireless Communications TC |
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Chairs: | Aylin Yener, Pennsylvania State University (USA) |
| Lutz Lampe, University of British Columbia (Canada) |
| Angela Yingjun Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong (China) |
The Communication Theory Symposium aims to provide the audience of ICC with the state
of the art research towards understanding the fundamentals of communication systems including
that of wireless, mobile and wire-line communication systems.
The symposium welcomes original research in the general areas of wireless and wire-line
communication theory, with focus on physical-layer as well as certain higher-layer issues
including source coding, modulation, channel coding, detection and estimation, joint
source-channel coding, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, optical communication,
cooperative communications, signal processing as applied to ad-hoc and sensor networks,
information theory for mobile ad hoc networks, networked cognitive radios, advanced multiple
access strategies, network information theory, and network coding. Research results on
communication theory that impact other disciplines such as networking, genetics, bioinformatics, and quantum information processing are also encouraged.
Session names
- Relaying
- Two-way Relaying
- Network Information Theory
- Ad Hoc Network Capacity
- Wireless Networks
- Network Coding
- Cognitive Radio
- MIMO Systems
- Capacity
- Multiuser or Network MIMO
- Channel Coding
- OFDM/OFDMA
- Modulation and Coding
- Fading Channels
- LDPC Codes
- Selected Topics (Poster)
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3. Signal Processing for Communications
Sponsoring TCs: | Signal Processing and Communications Electronics TC |
| Communication Theory TC |
| Wireless Communications TC |
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Chairs: | Luc Deneire, University of Nice (France) |
| Tomohiko Taniguchi, Fujitsu Labs (Japan) |
| Wai Pang Ng, Northumbria Univiversity (UK) |
The Signal Processing for Communications Symposium hosts papers dealing with the algorithmic and implementation
aspects within the topics listed below.
Among others, in the focus are the design of new algorithms for communication systems, as well as performance analysis and implementation of algorithms.
Session names
- Blind and semi-blind algorithms
- FPGA-based Implementations
- Implementation and platforms
- Performance analysis
- Iterative and sequential algorithms
- Synchronization algorithms
- Precoding-related algorithms
- Beamforming
- Equalization
- Channel estimation
- Detection and decoding
- Optimization
- OFDM and MIMO (Poster)
- Theoretic and implementation topics (Poster)
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4. Wireless Communications
Sponsoring TCs: | Wireless Communications TC |
| Radio Communications TC |
| Communication Theory TC |
| Satellite and Space Communications TC |
| Signal Processing and Communications Electronics TC |
| Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks TC |
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Chairs: | Sonia Aissa, University of Quebec (Canada) |
| Nallanathan Arumugam, King's College London (UK) |
| Yi Qian, National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA) |
| Takaya Yamazato, Nagoya University (Japan) |
| Matthew Valenti, West Virginia University (USA) |
| Erik Perrins, University of Kansas (USA) |
To promote the advances in wireless communications technologies, the ICC’09 Wireless
Communications Symposium will include topics related to all aspects of Physical layer (PHY),
MAC layer, Cross-layer analysis and design, and Physical layer-related network analysis and design.
To ensure complete coverage of the advances in wireless communications technologies for current and
future systems, the Wireless Communications Symposium presents original contributions in, but not limited to, the following topical areas:
Session names
- Cognitive Radio
- Synchronization
- Resource Allocation
- OFDMA
- Channel Measurement and Modeling
- Cellular Communication Systems
- Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
- OFDM
- Distributed Space-Time Coding
- UWB Communications
- Precoding
- Cooperative Networks
- Coding
- CDMA
- MIMO
- Scheduling
- Wireless Channels
- Cooperative Communication in OFDM Systems
- Capacity and Performance Analysis
- MIMO Estimation and Detection
- MIMO-OFDM
- MIMO Beamforming
- OFDM Estimation and Synchronization
- MIMO Cooperative Networks
- Transmission Technologies, Power and Bandwidth Efficiencies
- Performance Analysis
- Estimation and Detection
- Topics in MIMO (Poster)
- Topics in Transmission Technologies (Poster)
- Topics in Cooperative Communications (Poster)
- Topics in Multicarrier Communications (Poster)
- Topics in Resource Allocation, Management (Poster)
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5. Wireless Networking
Sponsoring TCs: | Wireless Communications TC |
| Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks TC |
| Satellite and Space Communications TC |
| Communication Switching and Routing TC |
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Chairs: | Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University (Canada) |
| Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology (USA) |
| Mario Marchese, University of Genova (Italy) |
| Abdelhamid Mellouk, University Paris XII (France) |
Advances in radio technologies and low power electronics have fueled developments in
wireless networks and systems. Such advances are widely being viewed as changing the way
we interact, do business and manage our daily life. Examples of civil wireless applications
include smart homes, remote medical care, mobile commerce, disaster management, etc. It is
even envisioned that most future business solutions will involve, if not become totally based on,
wireless technologies. In addition, many defense and combat systems are becoming wireless or providing
a wireless interface. Moreover, wireless and satellite networking is essential to scientific exploration
both in space and in remote areas. Along with the expanding set of applications comes a growing list
challenges. Wireless networks may be based on stand alone infrastructure or formed on demand in an
ad-hoc manner, may involve a diverse set of data rates, may be expected to meet a variety of data
delivery latency requirements, etc. In addition, nodes can be stationary or mobile causing communication
links to be unstable and forcing frequent changes in the network topology. Also, nodes are often constrained
in on-board energy, computation and storage resources necessitating lightweight communication protocols.
Moreover, the shared medium and the variable signal propagation conditions may disrupt the network connectivity
and further complicate the network management. Last, but not least, wireless networks are susceptible to myriad
of security attacks ranging from eavesdropping to radio jamming and non-cooperative (selfish or compromised)
communications. Such non-conventional challenges have motivated lots of research by the scientific and engineering communities.
Session names
- WLAN and Home/Personal Wireless Networks
- Inter-networking of heterogeneous networks
- Cognitive Radio Networks
- Mobility Management
- Cooperative Communications and Networking
- Wireless Mesh Networks
- Broadband Wireless, WiMax, LTE
- Wireless Network Performance, Resource Allocation, and QoS
- Routing, Scheduling, and Medium Access Control
- Cross-layer Design and Optimization
- Wireless Network Security
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
- Satellite Systems, Proxy, and Gateways
- Next Generation Wireless Networks
- Topics in Wireless Networks (Poster)
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6. Optical Networks and Systems
Sponsoring TCs: | Optical Networking TC |
| Communications Switching and Routing TC |
| Transmission, Access and Optical Systems TC |
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Chairs: | Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks (Germany) |
| Kyriakos Vlachos, University of Patras (Greece) |
| Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa (Canada) |
Research on optical systems has been gathering pace and researchers have been working to
produce faster and faster transmission and switching technologies. With rapid advances
in optical enabling devices and systems over the past decade, multi-terabit transport
networks have now become a reality. In particular, long-haul domains have seen significant
induction of advanced dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) technology. More lately,
DWDM and coarse WDM (CWDM) technologies have steadily permeated into the more focused metro/regional
and edge domains. A complementary development has also been the rapid maturation of next-generation
electronic SONET/SDH grooming technologies. As these paradigm shifts take hold, related standards activities
to develop unified provisioning and control-plane architectures for optical and electronic layers have seen much impetus as well.
This symposium seeks to showcase the latest developments in key open areas of optical networks and systems,
emergent network infrastructures
and new optical service paradigms. One of the major themes will be on vertical and horizontal integration.
For example, the former entails issues such as Ethernet-optical internetworking, SONET/SDH-WDM multi-granularity
grooming, traffic engineering, physical-layer aware networking, as well as the routing, grooming, wavelength assignment
and protection/restoration of unicast, multicast or anycast optical connections.
Session names
- Network Survivability
- Protection and Restoration
- Network Architecture
- Optical Switching
- Routing and Wavelength Assignment
- Resource Allocation
- Traffic Grooming and Resource Management
- Selected Topics (Poster)
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7. Next Generation Networking
Next Generation Networks and the future Internet face challenges from scaling to trillions
of nodes and zillions of information elements. At the same time, convergence over several
underlying network technologies is required to achieve the best integration architecture,
services and operations management, and service provisioning in both wired and wireless domains.
The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum for discussions on challenging research topics
concerning networks, operation of networks, and network services in future fixed, mobile, and wireless networks.
Session names
- Routing
- Architecture
- Security
- Performance
- Peer-to-Peer Networks
- Selected Topics (Poster)
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8. Communications QoS, Reliability and Modelling
Sponsoring TCs: | Communications Quality and Reliability TC |
| Communications System Integration and Modelling TC |
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Chairs: | Hiromi Ueda, Tokyo University of Technology (Japan) |
| Nelson Fonseca, State Univ of Campinas (Brazil) |
| Ralf Lehnert, TU Dresden (Germany) |
Communication networks are designed to provide services to their users and do that
while offering an acceptable quality level. For this purpose, network traffic should be
understood and properly controlled so that the desired Quality of Service requirements of
applications and Services are achieved.
The diversity in the characteristics of emerging applications and current network technologies demand
the design and employment of specialized control mechanisms. Moreover, to understand how well these
mechanisms contribute to service provisioning calls for the use of different approaches such as analytical
modeling, simulation, measurement and monitoring.
The aim of the Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling Symposium is to provide a venue for the discussion of
communications service provisioning, the quality of such provisioning as well as the techniques to understand the
performance of networks designed to provide such services.
Session names
- Traffic control mechanisms
- Resource allocation and scheduling
- Traffic engineering
- QoS in emerging wireless networks
- QoS analysis and control
- Network design and control
- QoS for emerging video services
- Network survivability
- Network modeling and simulation tools
- Communications Qos, Reliability, and Performance Modeling (Poster)
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9. Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networking
Ad-hoc and sensor networks (AHSNET) are self-organizing systems formed by co-operating nodes that create
a temporary network infrastructure. The key advantages of these networks include allowing anywhere, anytime
network connectivity with lack of centralized control, ownership, and regulatory influence; their ability to
operate unattended in harsh environments in which contemporary human-in-the-loop monitoring schemes are risky,
inefficient and sometimes infeasible; and ease of reconfiguration to fit specific application needs. However,
the resource-constrained nature of the employed devices and the self-organization of the network, coupled with an
often unattended deployment of a large population of nodes, pose non-conventional challenges and motivate the need
for special techniques for dependable design and management of AHSNET.
The last few years have witnessed a growing interest in the application of AHSNET in fields such as emergency search-and-rescue operations,
decision making during combat, data acquisition operations in inhospitable terrains, dangerous battlefields, outer space,
or deep oceans, among others. Such interest has fueled a wealth of research ideas that are moving rapidly into
commercialization and standardization. The ICC Symposium on AHSNET opts to bring together researcher and practitioners
from academia and industry and foster a forum for discussing and presenting recent research results. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, the following:
Session names
- Localization and Synchronization
- Mobility in Sensor Networks
- Optimization through Selective Engagement
- Cross Layer Optimization in WSN
- Cross Layer Optimization
- Quality of Service
- Cognitive and Mesh Networks
- Topology Management
- Deployment Strategies
- Routing Protocols
- Medium Access Control
- Link Layer
- Reliable Data Delivery
- In-network Data Storage and Query Optimization
- Network Longevity
- Modeling
- Selected Topics (Poster)
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10. Communications Software and Services
The Communications Software and Services Symposium covers challenges and advances for service support and delivery
in fixed and mobile communication networks. These topics are particularly relevant for researchers, developers
and industries in the areas of networking and services covered by many Technical Committees.
Session names
- Multimedia applications and services
- Peer-to-Peer Services
- Peer-to-Peer Media Delivery
- Network and Service Management
- Fixed and Mobile Service Platforms
- Software and Protocol Technologies (Poster)
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11. Communication and Information Systems Security
Sponsoring TCs: | Communications and Information Security TC |
| Radio Communications TC |
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Chairs: | Peter Muller, IBM Zurich Research Labs (Switzerland) |
| Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo (Canada) |
| Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean (Greece) |
| Jiankun Hu, RMIT University (Australia) |
With the advent of pervasive computer applications and due to the proliferation of heterogeneous wired and
wireless computer and communication networks, security and privacy issues have become paramount. This
Symposium will address all aspects of the modeling, design, implementation, deployment, and management of
security algorithms, protocols, architectures, and systems. Furthermore, papers devoted to the evaluation,
optimization, or enhancement of security and privacy mechanisms for current technologies, as well as devising
efficient security and privacy solutions for emerging technologies, are presented.
Session names
- Wireless Network Security
- Sensor Network Security
- Intrusion Detection and Denial of Service
- Authentication
- Information Hiding and Watermarking
- Deployment and Management of Security Policies
- Application Layer Security
- Cryptography and Cryptographic Procedures
- IP Security
- Special Topics on Information Security
- Privacy and Peer to Peer Security
- Distributed Systems Security
- Metrics and Performance Evaluation
- Vulnerabilities and Malicious Behavior
- Information Systems Security (Poster)
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