IEEE ICCC 2012 Workshop Advanced PROGRAM

WS01: Smart and Green Communications & Networks - fullday

Date: Wednesday, 15 August • Time: 8:30 – 17:30 • Room: 2

Organizing Commitee:

• Tony Q.S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore: qsquek@i2r.a-star.edu.sg)
• Yan Chen (Huawei Technologies, China, bigbird.chenyan@huawei.com)
• Shin‑Ming Cheng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan, smcheng@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw)
• Bian Sen (China Mobile Green Innovation Center, China)

Description

• Energy consumption and electromagnetic pollution are societal and economic challenges of prime importance that developed countries have to tackle. The evolution of future communication infrastructures will have to take into consideration both the aforementioned factors. The increasing demand for bandwidth-hungry multimedia and internet-related wireless devices and services has spurred the need towards maximal exploitation of spectral resources. Since 2006, data traffic on wireless networks has grown by approximately 400% and is expected to continue to increase rapidly in the coming years. The widespread use of complex, spectrum efficient techniques to support such high data volumes, the demand for higher data rates and the ever-increasing number of wireless users translate to rapidly rising power consumption. Currently consuming 3% of the energy and causing 2% of the CO2 emissions globally, the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) industries are facing an increase in associated energy consumption of 16-20% per year. Furthermore, the energy costs for mobile operators can be as high as half of their annual operating budgets. The foregoing considerations highlight the urgent need for designing smart and green communications and networks.

8:30-8:45 Welcoming / Opening address

8:45-9:35 Keynote Talk
Dr. Chih-Lin I (CMCC Green Innovation Center)
“Line Up For the GREEN Land”

9:35 – 10:05 Networking Break

10:05 – 11:45
Technical Session 1: Green Cellular Network

• Overview of Green Radio Research Outcomes
  John Thompson and Chadi Khirallah(The University of Edinburgh)
• Fundamental Tradeoffs and Evaluation Methodology for Future Green Wireless Networks
  Gaoning He, Shunqing Zhang, Yan Chen, and Shugong Xu (Huawei Technologies)
• On the Energy-bandwidth Trade-off in Green Wireless Networks: System Level Results
  Muhammad Majid Butt (University of Luxembourg)
  Benjamin Schubert, Martin Kurras, Kai Börner, Thomas Haustein, and Lars Thiele (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute)
• Integrated Cross-layer Energy Savings in a Smart and Flexible Cellular Network
  Weisi Guo, Siyi Wang (The University of Sheffield)
  Charles Turyagyenda (University of Glamorgan)
  Timothy O’Farrell (The University of Sheffield)
• Network Energy Efficiency for Deployment Architectures with Base Station Site Model
  Chih-Hsuan Tang, Chi-En Wu, Chin-Wei Lin, and Chen-Yin Liao (Chunghwa Telecom)

11:45-12:35 Keynote Talk
Prof. Rod Tucker (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Title: “Towards a Green Internet”

12:35-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-14:50Keynote Talk
Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University)
“A Novel Hyper-cellular Architecture for Globally Resourceoptimized and Energy-efficient Networks (GREEN)”

14:50-15:20 Networking Break

15:20 - 17:00
Technical Session 2: Energy Efficiency in Wireless Systems

• Performance Analysis of Multiuser Uplink Amplify- and-forward Relay Networks with Fixed-gain Relaying
  Guangping Li (Guangdong University of Technology)
  Steven D Blostein (Queen's University)
  Guangchi Zhang (Guangdong University of Technology)
  JiuchaoFeng (South China University of Technology)
• A Resource Configuration Scheme in OFDMA-based Cellular Relay Networks
  Hua Chen, Mugen Peng, and Jiamo Jiang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
• Optimizing Dual-hop Systems under Orthogonal Transmission and Relay Selection Schemes
  Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu (Jacobs University Bremen)
  Jianfeng Wang (Huaxin Consulting Co., Ltd)
  Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University)
  Lisheng Fan (Shantou University)
• Radio Resource Allocation for OSC Downlink Channels
  Michael A. Ruder (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  Raimund Meyer, Hans Kalveram (Com-Research GmbH)
  Wolfgang Gerstacker (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg)
• Spatial-temporal Compressed Sensing Based Traffic Prediction in Cellular Networks
  Qian Wen, Zhifeng Zhao, Rongpeng Li, and Honggang Zhang (Zhejiang University)

17:00 - 18:00 Panel
Theme: 5G, Think It Green, and Make It Real
Chair: Shugong Xu, Huawei Technologies
Panelists: Prof. Zhisheng Niu, Prof. Tim O'Farrel, Dr. Lars Thiele, and Prof. Vincent Lau

 

WS02: Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing - halfday

Date: Wednesday, 15 August • Time: 8:30 – 12:00 • Room: 1B

General Chair:

• Ivan Stojmenovic (University of Ottawa)

TPC Chairs:

• Yong Cui (Tsinghua University)
• Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University)

Publicity Chairs:

• Cheng Wang (University of Ottawa)
• Chengchen Hu (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

Description

• In the past few years, mobile devices and wireless communication technologies have developed rapidly. With the explosion of mobile applications and user demands, some characteristics of mobile devices such as limited resources (e.g., computation and storage capacity, battery power, etc.) significantly impede the improvement of QoS. Mobile Cloud Computing (MobiCC) is born to tackle these limitations by integrating cloud computing into the mobile environment. It enables users to elastically utilize resources in an on-demand fashion, takes full advantages of cloud computing, and brings new types of services and facilities to users by providing ubiquitous service access. Several organizations have predicted that cloud computing will completely transform the way in which mobile applications and services are acquired, developed and used.
• However, there are still many obstacles for MobiCC, including service availability, mobility management, security, privacy, energy efficiency,
  etc. These problems must be carefully addressed before mobile could become the next big thing.

Keynote Speech:

• Speaker #1: Mobile Cloud and Green Computing
  • Ivan Stojmenovic, IEEE Fellow, Professor of University of Ottawa
  • Abstract: Mobile devices (smart phones, tablets, laptops, embedded boards, robots) can serve as ‘dumb’ terminals for cloud computing services over intelligent network. Mobile cloud has emerged as a new cloud computing platform that ‘puts cloud into a pocket’. Important issues include optimizing the scheduling and transport schemes, access management, and application optimization, for mobile devices to achieve energy saving. This talk will first introduce the development of mobile cloud computing and describe some applications involving multimedia, vision/recognition, graphics, gaming, text processing. Next, it will present the transmission, computation, and sensing challenges of green computing in mobile cloud. It will also discuss the possible solutions from various perspectives. Energy savings for task outsourcing and location based services will be discussed in detail. ‘Crowd computing’ combines mobile devices and social interactions to achieve large-scale distributed computation. Examples include task farming, participatory and opportunistic crowd-sourced sensing. One particular emerging concept is the ‘vehicular crowd’. For example, traffic lights in a congested area could be rescheduled by running the rescheduling code (controlled by municipality) on the collective computational platform provided by the cars.
  • Biography: Ivan Stojmenovic received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics. He held regular and visiting positions in Serbia, Japan, USA, Canada, France, Mexico, Spain, UK (as Chair in Applied Computing at the University of Birmingham), Hong Kong, Brazil, Taiwan, and China, and is Full Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada and Adjunct Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He published over 250 different papers, and edited seven books on wireless, ad hoc, sensor and actuator networks and applied algorithms with Wiley. He is editor of over dozen journals, editor-inchief of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (from January 2010), and founder and editor-in-chief of three journals (MVLSC, IJPEDS and AHSWN). Stojmenovic is one of about 500 computer science researchers with h-index at least 40 and has >11000 citations. He received four best paper awards and the Fast Breaking Paper for October 2003, by Thomson ISI ESI. He is recipient of the Royal Society  Research Merit Award, UK. He is elected to IEEE Fellow status (Communications Society, class 2008), and is IEEE CS Distinguished Visitor 2010-12. He received Excellence in Research Award of the University of Ottawa 2009. Stojmenovic chaired and/or organized >60 workshops and conferences, and served in >200 program committees. He was program co-chair at IEEE PIMRC 2008, IEEE AINA-07, IEEE MASS-04&07, EUC-05&08-10, AdHocNow08, IFIP WSAN08, WONS-05, MSN-05&06, ISPA-05&07, founded workshop series at IEEE MASS, ICDCS, DCOSS,  WoWMoM, ACM Mobihoc, IEEE/ACM CPSCom, FCST, MSN, and is/was Workshop Chair at IEEE INFOCOM 2011, IEEE MASS-09, ACM Mobihoc-07&08.
• Speaker #2:
  • Chunming Qiao, IEEE Fellow, Professor of University at Buffalo
  • Biography: Dr. Chunming Qiao is a Professor at SUNY Buffalo where he directs the Lab for Advanced Network Design, Analysis, and Research (LANDER), which conducts cutting-edge research work on optical networks, wireless and mobile networks, survivable networks, and TCP/IP  Technologies. He has published more than 80 and 120 papers in leading technical journals and conference proceedings, respectively. His pioneering research on Optical Internet, in particular, the optical burst switching (OBS) paradigm is internationally acclaimed. In addition, his work on integrated cellular and ad hoc relaying systems (iCAR) is recognized as the harbinger for today's push towards the convergence between heterogeneous wireless technologies, and has been featured in BusinessWeek and Wireless Europe, as well as at the websites of New Scientists and CBC. His Research has been funded by a number of NSF grants including two ITR awards, and by Alcatel, Fujitsu Labs, NEC Labs, Nokia Research, Nortel, Sprint Advanced Technology Lab, Telcordia and ITRI.  
    
    Dr. Qiao have given several keynotes, tutorials and invited talks on the above research topics. He is on the editorial board of several journals including IEEE/ Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), and was on editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN) and area-editor for IEEE Communications. He has guest-edited several IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) and ACM/Baltzer's Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications Journal (MONET) issues. He has chaired and co-chaired a dozen of international conferences and workshops and currently chairs the IEEE Technical Subcommittee on Integrated Fiber and Wireless Technologies (FiWi).

Papers:

• Appification of Web Applications: Architectural Aspects
  Balwinder Sodhi, Ashish Agrawal, Prabhakar TV (IIT Kanpur)
• MOMCC:Market-oriented Architecture for Mobile Cloud Computing Based on Service Oriented Architecture
  Saeid Abolfazli, Zohre Sanaei, Muhammad Shiraz, Abdullah Gani (University of Malaya)>
• SAMI: Service-based Arbitrated Multi-tier Infrastructure for Mobile Cloud Computing
  Zohre Sanaei, Saeid Abolfazli, Abdullah Gani, Muhammad Shiraz (University of Malaya)
• Beyond the Client-server Architectures: A Survey of Mobile Cloud Techniques
  Dejan Kovachev, Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University)

WS03: First IEEE Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications in China - fullday

Date: Wednesday, 15 August • Time: 8:30 – 17:30 • Place: Room 3

Honorary Chairs:

• Hequan Wu, Academician (CAE)
• Bingkun Zhou, Academician (Tsinghua University)

Chair

• Zhengyuan Xu (Tsinghua University)

Co-Chairs

• Hong Guo (Peking University)
• Thomas Little (Boston University)
• Guoqiang Ni (Beijing Institute of Technology)
• Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya University)

Technical Program Committee Members

• Jean Armstrong (Monash University)
• Shlomi Arnon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
• Tarik Borogovac (Boston University)
• Maite Brandt-Pearce (University of Virginia)
• Gang Chen (UC Riverside)
• Anhong Dang (Peking University)
• Zabih Ghassemlooy (Northumbia University)
• Roger Green (Warwick University)
• Hong Guo (Peking University)
• Zhitong Huang (BUPT)
• Thomas Kamalakis (Harokopio University of Athens)
• George Karagiannidis (University of Thessaloniki)
• Kamran Kiasaleh (University of Texas at Dallas)
• Erich Leitgeb (Graz University of Technology)
• Guifang Li (University of Central Florida)
• Jing Li (Lehigh University)
• Xinwan Li (SJTU)
• Sang-Kyu Lim (ETRI)
• Thomas Little (Boston University)
• Guoqiang Ni (Beijing Institute of Technology)
• Dominic O’Brien (Oxford University)
• Sridhar Rajagopal (Samsung)
• Brian Sadler (Army Research Laboratory)
• Murat Uysal (Ozyegin University)
• Joachim Walewski (Siemens AG)
• Junbo Wang (NUAA)
• Yongjin Wang (NJUPT)
• Zhengyuan Xu (Tsinghua University)
• Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya University)
• Song Yu (BUPT)
• Zheng Zheng (BAAU)

8:30 Welcome

8:40-10:30 Session 1
Chair: Daniel Xu

• Optical Wireless Communications – An Emerging Technology
  Zabih Ghassemlooy (Northumbria University) (Invited)
• Subcarrier Intensity Modulated Optical Communications in Strong Atmospheric Turbulence
  Xuegui Song and Julian Cheng (University of British Columbia)

10:00-10:30 Morning Break

10:30-12:00 Session 2
Chair: Daniel Xu

• Experimental Demonstration of Polarisation Shift Keying in the Free Space Optical Turbulence Channel
  Xuan Tang, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Sujan Rajbhandari (Northumbria University)
  Wasiu Popoola (The University of Edinburgh)
  Murat Uysal (Ozyegin University)
  Dehao Wu (Northumbria University)
• The Color Shift Key Modulation with Non-uniform Signaling for Visible Light Communication
  Bo Bai (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
  Qunfeng He (University of California, Riverside)
  Zhengyuan Xu (Tsinghua University)
  Yangyu Fan (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
• Optimisation of Lambertian Order for Indoor Non-directed Optical Wireless Communication
  Dehao Wu, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Hoa Le Minh, Sujan Rajbhandari (Northumbria University)
  Mohammad-Ali Khalighi (Ecole Centrale Marseille)
  Xuan Tang (Northumbria University)

12:00-14:10 Lunch Break

14:10-15:30 Session 3
Chair: Fary Ghassemlooy

• Optical Wireless Communications Using the Visible Spectrum: Research in Lighting Technology for Energy, Health, and Productivity Benefits
  Thomas Little (Boston University) (Invited)
• Simplified Calculation Method of Indoor Optical Impulse Response Based on Recursive Algorithm
  Fang Li, Xinwan Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
  Weiwen Zou (State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks)
  Jianping Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

15:30 Afternoon Break

16:00 – 17:30 Session 4
Chair: Fary Ghassemlooy

• Configuring Indoor Visible Light Communication Networks 
  Jinguo Quan (Harbin Institute of Technology)
  Yiyang Li (University of California, Riverside)
  Yan Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology)
• Fundamental Analysis for Indoor Visible Light Positioning System
  Penghua Lou, Hongming Zhang, Xie Zhang, Minyu Yao, Zhengyuan Xu (Tsinghua University)
• New Time Diversity Structure Used in Free Space Optics Links with a Tracking System
  Peng Liu (WASEDA University)
  Song Liu (North China Electric Power University)
  XueYing Wu (WASEDA University)