Program


February 22

8.30 – 17.30 Registration

8:45   Opening Remarks

9.00 – 10.00 Keynote Speech

Mobile Phone Sensing is the Next Big Thing!
Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth College, USA)

10.00 – 11.00 Session 1: Data Forwarding (Concise papers)
Session Chair: Mooi Choo Chuah (Lehigh University, USA)

Human Mobility in Shopping Mall Environments
Adriano Galati and Chris Greenhalgh (University of Nottingham, UK)

RADON: Reputation-Assisted Data Forwarding in Opportunistic Network
Na Li and Sajal K. Das (The University of Texas at Arlington, USA)

On the Performance Modeling of Opportunistic Routing
Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), Vicent Pla (Universitad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain), and Amir Darehshoorzadeh (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 13.00 Session 2: Moving Data in Opportunistic Networks
Session Chair: Marcelo Dias de Amorim (CNRS and UPMC, France)

Message Ferries as Generalized Dominating Sets in Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks
Bahadir Polat, Pushkar Sachdeva, Mostafa Ammar, and Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Virtual Data Mules for Data Collection in Road-side Sensor Networks
Diego Borsetti, Claudio E. Casetti, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Marco Fiore (INSA Lyon, France), and Jose M. Barcelo-Ordinas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Impact of Source Counter on DTN Routing Control under Resource Constraints
Xiaolan Zhang (Fordham University, USA), Honggang Zhang (Suffolk University, USA), and Yu Gu (NEC Labs America, USA)

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break

14.00 – 15.30 Poster & Demo Session

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.00 Session 3: Opportunistic Network Applications (Concise papers)
Session Chair: Mohan J. Kumar (The University of Texas at Arlington, USA)

Spectral Efficiency of Mobility-Assisted Podcasting in Cellular Networks
Vladimir Vukadinovic and Gunnar Karlsson (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Uttering: Social Micro-blogging without the Internet
Gualtiero Colombo, Roger Whitaker, and Stuart Allen (University of Cardiff, UK)

DTIPN: Delay Tolerant IP Networking for Opportunistic Network Applications
Hideya Ochiai, Kenichi Shimotada, and Hiroshi Esaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

17.00 – 18.30 Panel

Opportunistic Networks: A Real Networking Opportunity or just (nice) Academic Exercises?

Panel Organizer: Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy)
Panelists:
Alhussein A. Abouzeid (NSF, USA)
Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth College, USA)
Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK)
Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

20.00 Social dinner


February 23

9.00 – 10.00 Keynote Speech

Challenges of Opportunities
Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK)

10.00 – 11.00 Session 4: DTN Technologies & Prototypes (Concise papers)
Session Chair: Silvia Giordano (SUPSI, Switzerland)

Evaluation of a DTN Convergence Layer for the AX.25 Network Protocol
John Ronan, Kristian Walsh (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland), and Darren Long (Thales Optronics, UK)

Secure Descriptive Message Dissemination in Disruption Tolerant Networks
Mooi Choo Chuah, Sankardas Roy, and Ivan Stoev (Lehigh University, USA)

Intelligent Autonomous Handover in iMANETs
Ben McCarthy, Panagiotis Georgopoulos, and Christopher Edwards (Lancaster University, UK)

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 13.00 Session 5: Best Paper Award Session
Session Chair:Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens, Greece)

Random Walks in Time-Graphs
Utku G Acer (INRIA, France), Petros Drineas (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) and Alhussein A. Abouzeid (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Efficient and Reliable Dissemination in Wireless Opportunistic Networks by Location Extrapolation
Adnan Agbaria (The Academic Arab College, Israel) and Roy Friedman (Technion, Israel)

Plausible Mobility: Inferring Movement from Contacts
John Whitbeck (Thales Communications, France and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France), Vania Conan (Thales Communications, France), and Marcelo Amorim (CNRS, France and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break

14.00 – 15.30 PhD Forum

15.15 – 15.45 Coffee Break

15.45 – 17.15 Session 6: Data Management in Opportunistic Networks
Session Chair: Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy)

A Study of Information Dissemination Under Multiple Random Walkers and Replication Mechanisms
Konstantinos Oikonomou (Ionian University, Greece), Dimitris Kogias, and Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens, Greece)

Token Based Algorithm for Supporting Mutual Exclusion in Opportunistic Networks
Sagar A Tamhane and Mohan J. Kumar (The University of Texas at Arlington, USA)

Hide-and-Lie: Enhancing Application-level Privacy in Opportunistic Networks
Laszlo Dora and Tamás Holczer (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

17.15 – 17.30 Closing Session with Awards Announcements