Technical Program

Wednesday, November 3

8:45am - 9:00am Welcome and Opening Addresses

9:00am - 10:00am Keynote Talk I (Session Chair: Gyula Sallai)

The Energy and Carbon Footprint of ICT and Media Services and Lessons Learned so far in the EARTH Project for Wireless Access Networks
Jens Malmodin, Senior Research Engineer (Ericsson)

10:00am - 10:30am Coffee Break

10:30am - 12:00am Technical Session I: Next Generation Wireless Networks (Session Chair: Gyula Sallai)

1. Improving TCP-friendliness for mHIP
   (contact) Andrei Gurtov (HIIT), Tatiana Polishchuk (HIIT)
2. Automatic Base Station Deployment Algorithm in Next Generation Cellular Networks
   (contact) Istvan Toros (Budapest University of Technology and Economics), Peter Fazekas (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
3. A Fast and Simple Scheme for Mobile Station-Controlled Handover in Mobile WiMAX
   (contact) Harsha Sirisena (University of Canterbury), Allan McInnes (University of Canterbury), Swapan Ray (Jadavpur University), Krzysztof Pawlikowski (University of Canterbury), Sayan Ray (University of Canterbury)

 12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch

1:30pm - 2:30pm Poster Session (Session Chair: Sandor Imre)

1. Data-Rate and Queuing Method Optimization for Internetworking Medical Applications
   Jiri Hosek (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology), Karol Molnar (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology)
2. Shared Wavelength Assignment Algorithm in Multi-Profile WDM-EPONs to Support Upstream Bandwidth Guarantees
   Noemi Merayo (University of Valladolid), Patricia Fernandez (University of Valladolid), Ramon J. Duran (University of Valladolid), Tamara Jimenez (University of Valladolid), Ignacio de Miguel (University of Valladolid), Juan C. Aguado (University of Valladolid), Ruben M. Lorenzo (University of Valladolid), Evaristo J. Abril (University of Valladolid)
3. Towards Sustainable Broadband Communication in Rural Areas
   Amos Nungu (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)), Bjorn Pehrson (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))
4. Characterization of BitTorrent Traffic in a Broadband Access Network
   Sandor Molnar (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics), Zoltan Moczar (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics)

2:30pm - 3:00pm Coffee Break

3:00pm - 4:30pm Technical Session II: Emerging Applications (Session Chair: Sandor Imre)

1. Modeling the Content Popularity Evolution in Video-on-Demand Systems
   (contact) Miklos Mate (Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics), Balazs Szekely (Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics), Attila Korosi (Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
2. xDR Arrival Distribution
   (contact) Sandor Imre (Budapest University of Technology and Economics), Balint Ary (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
3. Modeling Self-Organized Application Spreading
   (contact) Karoly Farkas (University of West Hungary), Adam Horvath (University of West Hungary)

7:00pm - Conference Dinner at Muzeum Cafe and Restaurant (1088, Muzeum krt. 12)

Thursday, November 4

9:00am - 10:00am Keynote Talk II (Session Chair: Gabor Feher)

Self organizing networks
Peter Szilagyi, Research Engineer (Nokia Siemens Networks)

10:00am - 10:30am Coffee Break

10:30am - 11:00am Invited Talk I (Session Chair: Gabor Feher)

Next generation Optical Access Seamless Evolution
Michael Schel, Product Manager (Deutsche Telekom)

11:00am - 12:00am Technical Session III: Next Generation Wired Broadband Networks (Session Chair: Gabor Feher)

1. Passive Access Capacity Estimation through the Analysis of Packet Bursts
   (contact) Martino Fornasa (CIPI - University of Padova), Massimo Maresca (CIPI - University of Padova)
2. A Minimum BER loading algorithm for OFDM in Access Power Line Communications
   Linyu Wang (KULeuven), Geert Deconinck (KULeuven), Emmanuel Van Lil (KULeuven)

 12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch

1:30pm - 2:00pm Invited Talk II (Sesson Chair: Robert Szabo)

Bit-error Analysis in WiFI Network based on Real Measurements
Gabor Feher, Associate Professor (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

2:00pm - 2:30pm Technical Session IV: Sensor Networks (Sesson Chair: Robert Szabo)

1. Self-Repairing Clusters for Time-Efficient and Scalable Actor-Fault-Tolerance in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks
   (contact) Djamel Djenouri (CERIST research center, Algiers, Algeria), Loucif Amirouche (El-Djazair Information Technology, Algiers, Algeria), Nadjib Badache (CERIST research center, Algiers, Algeria)

2:30pm - 2:40pm Closing Words

2:30pm - 3:00pm Coffee Break

Friday, November 5

Workshop: Autonomic Networking and Self-Management in the Access Networks

9:00am - 3:30pm:

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