Manweek and MMNS Opening

Keynote Address

Coffee Break

Session A - Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks

Lunch Break

Session B - Multimedia Distribution

Coffee Break

Session B - Multimedia Distribution (cont.)

Social Event - Welcome Reception

Keynote Address

Coffee Break

Session C - Quality of Experience

Lunch Break

Session D - QoS Mechanisms and Tools for Multimedia

Coffee Break

Social Event - Conference Dinner

Manweek and MMNS Opening
Room: Sylvilla

George Pavlou, Toufik Ahmed, Tasos Dagiuklas
MMNS 2008 TPC Co-Chairs

Keynote Address
Room: Sylvilla

Coffee Break

Session A - Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks
Room: Sylvilla
Chair Charalambos Skianis

A Knowledge Plane for Autonomic Context-Aware Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Daniel Macedo¹, Aldri dos Santos², José Marcos Nogueira³, Guy Pujolle^1
  1University Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris VI, Paris, France
  ²Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
  ³Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Policy Distribution using the Publish/Subscribe Paradigm for Managing MANETs
Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas, Leandros Tassiulas
  University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

D-sense: An Integrated Environment for Algorithm Design and Protocol Implementation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Kazushi Ikeda, Shunsuke Mori, Yuya Ota, Takaaki Umedu, Akihito Hiromori, Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Teruo Higashino
  Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Lunch Break

Session B - Multimedia Distribution
Room: Sylvilla
Chair Toufik Ahmed

A case for multimedia streaming over the grid infrastructure
Lambros Lambrinos¹, Fotis Georgatos^2
  1Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
  ²National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Resource Management and Signalling Architecture of a Hybrid Multicast Service for Multimedia Distribution
Eugen Borcoci¹, António Pinto², Ahmed Mehaoua³, Li Fang³, Ning Wang^4
  1University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
  ²Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  ³Université Paris Descartes, France
  ⁴University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Coffee Break

Session B - Multimedia Distribution (cont.)
Room: Sylvilla
Chair Toufik Ahmed

Scalable Multimedia Group Communications through the Over-provisioning of Network Resources
Augusto Neto¹, Eduardo Cerqueira², Marilia Curado², Paulo Mendes³, Edmundo Monteiro^2
  1Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal
  ²University of Coimbra, Portugal
  ³INESC Porto, Portugal

Comparative Study of Real-time Multimedia Transmission over Multi-homing Transport Protocols
Changqiao Xu¹, Yuansong Qiao¹, Enda Fallon¹, Gabriel-Miro Muntean², Paul Jacob¹, Austin Hanley^1
  1Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland
  ²Dublin City University, Ireland

L-CAN: Locality aware structured overlay for P2P live streaming
Nikolaos Efthymiopoulos, Athanasios Christakidis, Spyros Denazis, Odysseas Koufopavlou
  University of Patras, Greece

Social Event - Welcome Reception

Keynote Address
Room: Sylvilla

Coffee Break

Session C - Quality of Experience
Room: Damos
Chair Tasos Dagiuklas

ACME: An automated tool for generating and evaluating the quality of VoIP calls
Leandro Lustosa², André Souza¹, Paulo H. de A. Rodrigues¹, Douglas Quinellato^3
  1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  ²Instant, Brazil
  ³Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

Live Video Streaming using P2P and SVC
Tsung-Chieh Lee¹, Pin-Chuan Liu², Woei-Luen Shyu¹, Chen-Yih Wu^1
  1Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
  ²National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Peer-to-peer Overlay Multicast for Scalable Audiovisual Services over Converging Wired and Wireless Networks
Ahmed Mehaoua¹, Li Fang¹, George Kormentzas², Dominique Seret^1
  1Université Paris Descartes, France
  ²University of Aegean, Samos, Greece

Lunch Break

Session D - QoS Mechanisms and Tools for Multimedia
Room: Damos
Chair Thomas Magedanz

Intra-Domain Delay-Based Quality of Service using Differentiated Routing
Ioannis Papanagiotou, Michael Howarth
  University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Multiconstrained Optimization of Networks with Multicast and Unicast Traffic
Pedro Sousa¹, Miguel Rocha¹, Paulo Cortez², Miguel Rio^3
  1Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
  ²University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal
  ³University College London, United Kingdom

Stabilizing Intelligent Route Control: Randomized Path Monitoring, Randomized Path Switching or History-aware Path Switching?
Alexandre Fonte, José Martins, Marilia Curado, Edmundo Monteiro
  University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

A Dimensioning and Deployment Tool for on Demand Policy-based Resource Management System
Kamel Haddadou¹, Samir Ghamri-Doudane¹, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane², Nazim Agoulmine^2
  1University Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris VI, Paris, France
  ²ENSIIE & University of Evry joint research group, France

Coffee Break

Social Event - Conference Dinner