IEEE SECON 2015 Program




ACCepted papers

Session: Cognitive Radios #1
Time: Tuesday June 23, 2-3:30pm
Session Chair: Sangtae Ha, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA


Cooperative Sequential Compressed Spectrum Sensing over Wide Spectrum Band
Jie Zhao, Xin Wang and Qiang Liu (Stony Brook University, USA)

CORE: A Combinatorial Game-theoretic Framework for Coexistence Rendezvous in DSA Networks
Mohammad J. Abdel-Rahman (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA)

DASI: A Truthful Double Auction Mechanism for Secure Information Transfer in Cognitive Radio Networks
Xiaoyan Wang and Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Hao Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Jie Li (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

RcUBe: Real-Time Reconfigurable Radio Framework with Self-Optimization Capabilities
Emrecan Demirors (Northeastern University, USA); George Sklivanitis (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA); Stella Batalama (State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, USA)

Session: Sensor Networks #1 
Time: Tuesday June 23, 2-3:30pm
Session Chair: Chen-Khong Tham, National University of Singapore, Singapore

CD-MAC: A Contention Detectable MAC for Low Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks
Daibo Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Xiaopei Wu and Zhichao Cao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Mingyan Liu (University of Michigan, USA); Mengshu Hou and Yujun Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University & The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

Energy-Efficient Statistical Delay Guarantee for Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks
Long Cheng (BUAA, Singapore); Jianwei Niu (Beihang University, P.R. China); Yu Gu (IBM Research-Austin, USA); Tian He (University of Minnesota, USA); Qingquan Zhang (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)

On the Benefits of Network Coding to Compressive Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks
Dariush Ebrahimi and Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada)

ResAll: Energy Efficiency Maximization for Wireless Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks
Songtao Guo and Chunrong He (Southwest University, P.R. China); Yuanyuan Yang (Stony Brook University, USA)

Session: Wi-Fi   
Time: Tuesday June 23, 4-5:30pm
Session Chair: Xin Wang, Stony Brook University, USA

Dynamic Switching with Heterogeneous Channels in Multichannel 802.11 WLANs
Juan J Galvez (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spain); Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Learning Wi-Fi Performance
Julien Herzen (EPFL, Switzerland); Henrik Lundgren (Technicolor, France); Nidhi Hegde (Alcatel Lucent, Bell Labs, France)

Robust CSMA: Adapting to Channel and Traffic Asymmetry
Bruno Nardelli and Edward W. Knightly (Rice University, USA)

WiZizz: Energy Efficient Bandwidth Management in IEEE 802.11ac Wireless Networks
Okhwan Lee, Jihoon Kim and Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)

Session: Sensor Networks #2 
Time: Tuesday June 23, 4-5:30pm
Session Chair: Brooke Shrader, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA

An Altruistic Compression-Scheduling Scheme for Cluster-based Wireless Sensor Networks
Wanli Yu, Yanqiu Huang and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz (University of Bremen, Germany)

Congestion-adaptive Data Collection with Accuracy Guarantee in Cyber-Physical Systems
Nematollah Iri (Clemson University, USA); Lei Yu (Georgia State University, USA); Haiying Shen and Gregory Caulfield (Clemson University, USA)

MobileCopy: Resisting Correlated Node Failures to Enhance Data Availability in DTNs
Li Yan, Kang Chen, Haiying Shen and Guoxin Liu (Clemson University, USA)

Property-Based Testing of Sensor Networks
Andreas Löscher and Konstantinos Sagonas (Uppsala University, Sweden); Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)

Session: Cellular Networks #1           
Time: Wednesday June 24, 11am-12:30pm
Session Chair: Nidhi Hegde, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France

A semi-distributed mechanism for Inter-cell Interference Coordination exploiting the ABSF paradigm
Vincenzo Sciancalepore (Institute IMDEA Networks & Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Ilario Filippini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Antonio Capone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Efficient Area Formation for LTE Broadcasting
Carlo Borgiattino, Claudio E. Casetti and Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Francesco Malandrino (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)

Robust Data Rate Estimation with Stochastic SINR Modeling in Multi-Interference OFDMA Networks
Fei Liu (RWTH Aachen University & Institute for Networked Systems, Germany); Janne Riihijärvi and Marina Petrova (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Session: MIMO 
Time: Wednesday June 24, 11am-12:30pm
Session Chair: Joseph Camp, Southern Methodist University, USA

Power-controlled Channel Access Protocol for Wireless Networks with Full-duplex and OFDMA Capabilities
Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA); Junseok Kim (Broadcom, USA); Mohammed Alfowzan (University of Arizona, USA)

SAMU: Design and Implementation of Selectivity-Aware MU-MIMO for Wideband WiFi
Yongjiu Du (Southern Methodist University, USA); Ehsan Aryafar (Intel Labs, USA); Pengfei Cui and Joseph D. Camp (Southern Methodist University, USA); Mung Chiang (Princeton University, USA)

Scaling Multi-User MIMO WLANs: The Case for Concurrent Uplink Control Messages
Oscar Bejarano and Sadia Quadri (Rice University, USA); Omer Gurewitz (Ben Gurion University, Israel); Edward W. Knightly (Rice University, USA)

Session: IoT     
Time: Wednesday June 24, 2-3:30pm
Session Chair: Suresh Singh, Portland State University, USA

Connection-less communication of IoT devices over LTE mobile networks
Roger Piqueras Jover and Ilona Murynets (AT&T Security Research Center, USA)

Enabling Ubiquitous Interaction with Smart Things
Hanno Wirtz and Jan Rüth (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Martin Serror (RWTH University, Germany); Torsten Zimmermann and Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

QU-RPL: Queue Utilization based RPL for Load Balancing in Large Scale Industrial Applications
Hyung-Sin Kim (Seoul National University, Korea); Jeongyeup Paek (Hongik University, Korea); Saewoong Bahk (Seoul National University, Korea)

SMACK: Short Message Authentication ChecK Against Battery Exhaustion in the Internet of Things
Christian Gehrmann (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden); Marco Tiloca and Rikard Höglund (SICS Swedish ICT AB, Sweden)

Session: Routing           
Time: Wednesday June 24, 2-3:30pm
Sesson Chair: Mike Macgregor, University of Alberta, Canada

A Multipath Routing Overlay for Networks with Blockage
Brooke Shrader and Scott M Pudlewski (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Laura Herrera (OPNET, USA); Nathaniel M Jones and Andrew P. Worthen (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)

Characterizing Data Deliverability of Greedy Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jinwei Liu (Clemson University, USA); Lei Yu (Georgia State University, USA); Haiying Shen, Yangyang He and Jason Hallstrom (Clemson University, USA)

Deadline-sensitive Opportunistic Utility-based Routing in Cyclic Mobile Social Networks
Mingjun Xiao (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Jie Wu (Temple University, USA); He Huang (Soochow University, P.R. China); Liusheng Huang and Wei Yang (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

MuCAR: A Greedy Multi-flow-based Coding-Aware Routing in Wireless Networks
Jing Chen (Wuhan University, P.R. China); Quan Yuan (University of Texas-Permian Basin, USA); Ruiying Du (Wuhan University, P.R. China); Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)


Session: Environment Sensing           
Time: Wednesday June 24, 4-5:30pm
Session Chair: Apostolos Apostolaras, University of Thessaly/CERTH, Greece

Data Collection and Event Detection in the Deep Sea with Delay Minimization
Huanyang Zheng and Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)

DEEL: Detecting Elevation of Urban Roads with Smartphones on Wheels
Yaoming Gong, Yanmin Zhu and Jiadi Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

Evidence-based Landscape Rehabilitation through Microclimate Sensing
Branislav Kusy (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) ICT Centre, Australia); Christian Richter and Siddhartha Bhandari (CSIRO, Australia); Raja Jurdak (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) ICT Centre, Australia); Michael Ngugi and John Neldner (DSITIA, Australia)

ScorePlus: An Integrated Scalable Cyber-Physical Experiment Environment for Smart Grid
Song Tan and Wen-Zhan Song (Georgia State University, USA); Steve Yothment (Panasonic Automotive Systems of America, USA); Junjie Yang (Shanghai University of Electric Power, P.R. China); Lang Tong (Cornell University, USA)

Session: Crowdsourcing         
Time: Wednesday June 24, 4-5:30pm
Session Chair: Bin Xiao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

An Information-Driven Incentive Scheme with Consumer Demand Awareness for Participatory Sensing
Wen Sun and Chen-Khong Tham (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Characterization of Wireless Multi-Device Users
Aveek K Das, Parth H Pathak, Chen-Nee Chuah and Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)

Confidence-Aware Truth Estimation in Social Sensing Applications
Dong Wang and Chao Huang (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Utility-Maximizing Data Collection in Crowd Sensing: An Optimal Scheduling Approach
Yang Han, Yanmin Zhu and Jiadi Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

Session: Cellular Networks #2           
Time: Thursday June 25, 8:30-9:45am
Session Chiar: Kyunghan Lee, UNIST, Korea

A Self-Adaptive Handoff Decision Algorithm for Densely Deployed Closed-Group Femtocell Networks
Wahida Nasrin and Linda Jiang Xie (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)

Efficient, Adaptive and Scalable Device Activation for M2M Communications
Arijit Banerjee and Binh Nguyen (University of Utah, USA); Vijay Gopalakrishnan (AT&T Labs - Research, USA); Sneha Kumar Kasera (University of Utah, USA); Seungjoon Lee (Two Sigma Investments, USA); Jacobus Van der Merwe (University of Utah, USA)

Evolved User Equipment for Collaborative Wireless Backhauling in Next Generation Cellular Networks 
Apostolos Apostolaras (University of Thessaly & The Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, CERTH, Greece); Navid Nikaein (Eurecom, France); Raymond Knopp (Institut Eurecom, France); Antonio M. Cipriano (Thales Communications and Security, France); Thanasis Korakis (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA); Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business and CERTH & CERTH, Greece); Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA)

Session: Cognitive Radios #2  
Time: Thursday June 25, 8:30-9:45am
Session Chair: Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China

Primary Social Behavior aware Routing and Scheduling for Cognitive Radio Networks
Shouling Ji (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Zhipeng Cai (Georgia State University, USA); Jing (Selena) He (Kennesaw State University, USA); Raheem Beyah (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

SUBSET: A Joint Design of Channel Selection and Channel Hopping for Fast Blind Rendezvous in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks
Xingya Liu and Linda Jiang Xie (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)

Whitespace Measurement and Virtual Backbone Construction for Cognitive Radio Networks: From the Social Perspective
Shouling Ji (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Zhipeng Cai and Meng Han (Georgia State University, USA); Raheem Beyah (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Session: Application Layer 
Time: Thursday June 25, 10-11:15am
Session Chair: Eduardo Cuervo, Microsoft Research, USA

Enabling Privacy-Preserving First-Person Cameras using Low-Power Sensors
Muchen Wu, Parth H Pathak and Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)

JICE: Joint Data Compression and Encryption for Wireless Energy Auditing Networks
Sheng-Yuan Chiu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Hoang Hai Nguyen, Rui Tan and David Yau (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore); Deokwoo Jung (Advanced Digital Sciences Center & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Singapore)

Make Smartphones Last A Day: Pre-processing Based Computer Vision Application Offloading
Jiwei Li, Zhe Peng and Bin Xiao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Yu Hua (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

Optimizing TCP Loss Recovery Performance over Mobile Data Networks
Zhongbin Zha (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Ke Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences & Institute of Computing Technology, P.R. China); Binzhang Fu and Mingyu Chen (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)

Session: Location         
Time: Thursday June 25, 10-11:15am
Session Chair: Jeongyeup Paek, Hongik University, Korea

A Qi Wireless Charging Based System for Robust User-Initiated Indoor Location Services
Yilong Li (Wuhan University of Technology, P.R. China); Yu Wang (Michigan State University, USA); Yun Cheng and Xiucheng Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University, USA)

iMap: Automatic Inference of Indoor Semantics Exploiting Opportunistic Smartphone Sensing
Chengwen Luo and Hande Hong (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Long Cheng (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore); Kartik Sankaran and Mun Choon Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Is Cooperative Localization in Wireless Body Area Networks Accurate Enough for Motion Capture Applications?
Jihad Hamie (Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France); Anis Ouni (Telecom ParisTech, France); Claude Chaudet (Telecom Paristech, France)

Session: Vehicular       
Time: Thursday June 25, 11:30am-1pm
Session Chair:  Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA

A Tale of Two Cities - Characterizing Social Community Structures of Fleet Vehicles for Modeling V2V Information Dissemination
Fan Bai (General Motors, USA); Keyvan Rezaei Moghadam and Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA)

Crowdsourcing Undersampled Vehicular Sensor Data for Pothole Detection
Andrew Fox and B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Jinzhu Chen and Fan Bai (General Motors, USA)

D3: Abnormal Driving Behaviors Detection and Identification using Smartphone Sensors
Zhongyang Chen (Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Jiadi Yu and Yanmin Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)

QA-Share: Towards Efficient QoS-Aware Dispatching Approach for Urban Taxi-sharing
Shanfeng Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Qiang Ma (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yanyong Zhang (Rutgers University, USA); Kebin Liu and Tong Zhu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University & The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)


Posters

New Service Discovery Algorithm Based on DHT for Mobile Application
Degan Zhang and Wenbin Li (Tianjin University of Technology, P.R. China); Zhen Ma (TJUT, Australia)

Source Authentication Schemes for Reprogramming with Variable Packet Size in Wireless Sensor Networks
Daehee Kim (University of Korea, Korea); Sunshin An (SEOUL, Korea)

On Spatial-Temporal Truth Finding in Social Sensing
Dong Wang, Chao Huang and Nitesh Chawla (University of Notre Dame, USA)

RoMD: Robust Device-free Motion Detection using PHY Layer Information
Guo Liu (Wuhan University of Technology, P.R. China); Yilong Li (Intel Lab, Wuhan University of Technology, P.R. China); Deng Li and Xiaolin Ma (Wuhan University of Technology, P.R. China); Fangmin Li (School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, P.R. China)

Distributed and Scalable Context Reasoning in a home environment
Sabarimuthu Irene (Ubiquitous Computing & CDAC, India); Pitchiah R (DeitY, India)

The Smart Service Proxy - A Middlebox for a Semantic Web of Things
Oliver Kleine (University of Luebeck, Germany)

Optimized O-ACK: An Adaptive Wireless MAC Protocol for Multiple Access Points
Shegufta Ahsan (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA); Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Frequency-Selective Signal Sensing with Sub-Nyquist Uniform Sampling Scheme
Jacek M Pierzchlewski and Thomas Arildsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Improve your USB Experience with Wi-Fi through Dynamic QoS Adaptation
Woo-Sung Jung (Ajou University, Korea); Keun-Woo Lim (Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Paris 6, Korea); Young-Bae Ko (Ajou University, Korea)

Greedy Zone Routing:Scalable Routing in Large Scale Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
Kasun Samarasinghe and Pierre Leone (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Improving Reliability and Performance of Dense-AP Network using DAPnet
Syeda Aziz and Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Dynamic Traffic Shaping Technique for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming using Software Defined Networks
Ibrahim Ben Mustafa (Old Dominion University, USA); Tamer Nadeem (Old Dominion University, USA)

Demos

Demo Abstract: Unobtrusive Real-time Shopping Assistance in Retail Stores Using Smart Glasses
Shibing Feng (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Wei Zheng (Sanofi-Aventis US, USA); Hengchang Liu (USTC, P.R. China)

Demonstration of Robotic Repair for Wireless Networks
Thuy T Truong and Rodolfo Bisol (University College Cork, Ireland); James Giller (Osaka University, Japan); Hugh Whelan, Kenneth N Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan (University College Cork, Ireland)

Demo Paper: A Confidence-Aware Truth Estimation Tool For Social Sensing Applications
Chao Huang and Dong Wang (University of Notre Dame, USA)

A Demonstration of Evolved User Equipment for Collaborative Wireless Backhauling in Next Generation Cellular Networks
Apostolos Apostolaras (University of Thessaly & The Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, CERTH, Greece); Navid Nikaein (Eurecom, France); Raymond Knopp (Institut Eurecom, France); Antonio M. Cipriano (Thales Communications and Security, France); Thanasis Korakis (New York University, USA); Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business and CERTH & CERTH, Greece); Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA)