The Third International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU 2006)

October 11 - 13, 2006
BCS London Office, London, U.K.

Program at a Glance

This is the final program.

We have book exhibits by Cambridge University Press at the venue.

Keynote 1: (Chair: Eiji Kamioka) (time table)

Reconciling Communication Networks, Sensor Networks, and Human Networks: a Social Perspective on Ubiquitous Computing
Dr. Ken Wood (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)

Session 1: Location (Chair: Teruaki Kitasuka) (time table)

(1-1) A Motion Detection Scheme For Wireless LAN Stations
Michael Wallbaum and Stefan Diepolder

(1-2) Qualitative Positioning for Pervasive Environments
Ian Anderson and Henk Muller

(1-3) Mobile Object Discovery in Unpredictable Environments
Richard J. Glassey, Graeme Stevenson, and Robert I. Ferguson

(1-4) Ad Loc: Location-based Infrastructure-free Annotation
Derek J. Corbett and Daniel Cutting

Session 2: Application-1 (Chair: Stefan Diepolder) (time table)

(2-1) (Invited Talk 1) Emerging standards for mobility management in next-generation all-IP based networks
Hidetoshi Yokota and Akira Idoue

(2-2) Server-Side Web Browser width Use of Videophone
Makoto OKITA, Hideyuki TSUGANE, Norio YAMAGUCHI, Takayuki SHIGEMATSU, Osamu TAKAHASHI, and Eiichi MIYAMOTO

(2-3) Mobile Image Retrieval using Morphological Color Segmentation
David GAVILAN, Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Suguru SAITO, and Masayuki NAKAJIMA

Session 3: QoS, Scheduling, Performance (Chair: Yang Yang) (time table)

(3-1) A Scheduling Method for Bandwidth Reduction in Selective Contents Broadcasting
Tomoki Yoshihisa

(3-2) Addressing Scheduling Issues in Context Information Management
M. Chantzara and M. Anagnostou

(3-3) VLAN-based QoS Control in Mobile Networks
Misato Sasaki, Hidetoshi Yokota, and Akira Idoue

Keynote 2: (Chair: Gen Kitagata) (time table)

RFID: Towards an IP-based Application
Ms. Monique Jeanne Morrow (Cisco Systems, Inc., USA)

Session 4: Security, Privacy (Chair: David Martland) (time table)

(4-1) Secure Route Optimization for Network Mobility Using Secure Address Proxying
Manhee Jo and James Kempf

(4-2) Location Based Services and the Privacy-Security Dichotomy
L. Perusco and K. Michael

(4-3) CMSF: Cooperative Mobile Network Security Information Distribution Framework
Nobutaka Kawaguchi, Yusuke Azuma, Shinya Tahara, Hidekazu Shiozawa, Hiroshi Shigeno, and Ken-ichi Okada

(4-4) A Mobile Agent based Computing Model for Enhancing Privacy in Multi-party Collaborative Problem Solving
Md. Nurul Huda, Eiji Kamioka, and Shigeki Yamada

Panel Discussion: (Chair: Hidetoshi Yokota) (time table)

Future of Cellular Mobile Comms - What lies ahead?
Panelists:
Atsushi Murase (NTT DoCoMo, Japan)
Jindong Hou (France Telecom, UK)
Ashutosh Dutta (Telcordia, US)
David Kennedy (Eurescom, Germany)

Session 5: Adhoc network, Sensor network-1 (Chair: Takashi Watanabe) (time table)

(5-1) (Invited Talk 2) A Survey on Security Challenges in Next Generation Mobile Networks
Thomas Engel, Daniel Fischer, Thomas Scherer and Dagmara Spiewak

(5-2) SSIM: A Multi-Resolution Fluid Traffic Simulator for MANETs
Shaowen Lu and John A. Schormans

(5-3) Innovative Channel Release Schemes for Mobile ad hoc Network
N. Nakamura, D. Chakraborty, A. Chayabejara, G. Kitagata, T. Suganuma, G. Chakraborty, and N. Shiratori

(5-4) Performance Improvement of Ad Hoc Networks by Deployment of Directional Antenna
Kagenari Yamamoto and Miki Yamamoto

Keynote 3: (Chair: Susumu Ishihara) (time table)

Toward Ubiquitous Wireless Networking: the Evolution of Keitai (Cell Phone) Communication
Dr. Atsushi Murase (NTT DoCoMo, Japan)

Session 6: Adhoc network, Sensor network-2 (Chair: Kun Yang) (time table)

(6-1) Evaluation of Pre-Acquisition Methods for Position Estimation System using Wireless LAN
Hiroshi Yoshida, Seigo Ito, and Nobuo Kawaguchi

(6-2) A Data Gathering Mechanism based on Clustering and In-Network Processing Routing Algorithm: CIPRA
Eunhyoung Chu Tsunenori Mine, and Makoto Amamiya

(6-3) Sensor Cubes: A Modular, Ultra-Compact, Power-Aware Platform for Sensor Networks
K. Raja, I. Daskalopoulos, H. Diall, S. Hailes, T. Torfs, C. Van Hoof, and G. Roussos

Session 7: Architecture (Chair: Jindong Hou) (time table)

(7-1) A Heterogeneous Cellular and Ad Hoc Network Architecture for Multipoint Streaming: A detailed performance analysis
Mariann Hauge and Øivind Kure

(7-2) Dynamic Network Topology Configuration and Resource Switching for Real-Time Communication in a Ubiquitous Networking Environment
K. Tasaka, N. Imai, M. Isomura, and H. Horiuchi

(7-3) Evaluation of SONICA Compared with UPnP and Jini
Hiroshi Hayakawa, Takahiro Koita, and Kenya Sato

Session 8: Application-2 (Chair: Katina Michael) (time table)

(8-1) Mobile Computing in Physics Analysis - An Indicator for eScience
Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Tahir Azim, Julian Bunn, Ahsan Ikram, Richard McClatchey, Harvey Newman, Conrad Steenberg, Michael Thomas, and Ian Willers

(8-2) Design and Implementation of Ad-hoc Communication and Application on Mobile Phone Terminals
Y. Noishiki, H. Yokota, and A. Idoue

(8-3) Walkabout: Asynchronous Messaging Support for Mobile Devices
Adam Hudson and Bob Kummerfeld

Poster Session: (time table)

(P-1) INGEO: INdoor GEOgraphic Routing Protocol for MANETs
Hai Lin and Houda Labiod

(P-2) Multiple Terminal Management in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Kimon Karras, Dimitris Yannis, Michael Iordanakis, Georgios Bogdos, and Georgios Dilintas

(P-3) A Neighbourhood Awareness Method for Handoff Assistance in 802.11 Wireless Networks
Gurpal Singh, Ajay Pal Singh Atwal, and Dr. Balwinder Singh Sohi

(P-4) Nearly Lossless Audio Watermark Embedding Techniques to be Extracted Contactlessly by Cell Phone
Toshio Modegi and Makoto Chiba

(P-5) Forbidden City Explorer: A Guide System that Gives Priority to Shared Images
Jun Munemori, Thai Minh Tri, and Junko Itou

(P-6) A Personal Navigation System for Sightseeing across Multiple days
Takamasa Kinoshita, Munenobu Nagata, Yoshihiro Murata, Naoki Shibata, Keiichi Yasumoto, and Minoru Ito

(P-7) Optimized Link State Routing-based Localization for Dense Irregular Sensor Networks
Tomoya Takenaka, Hiroshi Mineno, Yuichi Tokunaga, Naoto Miyauchi, and Tadanori Mizuno

(P-8) Implementation of a Location-Aware Information Delivery Method for a Vehicular Application using Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting
Kenya Sato, Takahiro Koita, and Akira Fukuda

(P-9) A Geocast scheme based on Successful Transmission Records on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Akihiro Momoto, Gen Tsuchida, and Susumu Ishihara

(P-10) Distributed Certificate Authority in Cluster-based Ad hoc networks
Ghassan Chaddoud and Keith Martin

(P-11) The Integration of Ad-hoc (MANET) and Mobile Networking (NEMO): Principles to Support Rescue Team Communication
B. McCarthy, Dr C. Edwards, and Dr M. Dunmore

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

Technically Co-Sponsored by
BCS (British Computer Society),
IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology), and
IEEE Intellignet Transportation Systems Society, Technical Committee on Mobile Communications & Applications

Supported by
ICF (International Communications Foundation) and
SCAT (Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research, Foundation)

Company Sponsor
Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center Europe