Dr. Lalitha SankarPrinceton University

Abstract 

Cooperation in communication networks results when terminals use their energy and bandwidth resources to mutually enhance their transmissions. Cooperation can be induced in many ways and each approach entails a different tradeoff of power, bandwidth, complexity, and costs to achieve spatial diversity gains characteristic of antenna arrays. In this talk, we present a specific cooperative network - a multiaccess relay channel (MARC) - ...read more

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Susanne Wetzel
Associate Professor
Babbio
Room 634
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swetzel@cs.stevens.edu

Art Pyster, SSE, Stevens

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Arthur Pyster, PhD
Distinguished Research Professor; Deputy Director, Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) *
Altofer
Room 319
Arthur.Pyster@stevens.edu

Dr John ChapinCTO, Vanu Inc.

Abstract

A software radio is a flexible wireless communications device that implements its signal processing entirely in software. Software radios can easily change features such as modulation, bandwidth, and coding that are fixed in more traditional radios. The basic technology of software radio is now being deployed in military and commercial applications.This talk introduces the key technical challenges and design approaches of software radios. Then we f ...read more

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Dr. Cristina Comaniciu
Associate Professor & EE Graduate Program Director (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Wireless networks, cross-layer design, game theoretic methods, multiuser detection)
Burchard Building
Room 207
Phone: 201.216.5606
Fax: 201.216.8246

ccomanic@stevens.edu

Prof. Robi PolikarDept Electrical and Computer EngineeringRowan UniversityGlassboro, NJ

Abstract 

In matters of great importance that has financial, medical, social or other implications, we often seek a second opinion before making a decision, sometimes a third, and sometimes many more. In doing so, we somehow weigh the individual opinions, and combine them through some thought process to reach a final decision in hope of making that decision the most informed one. The process of ...read more

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Susanne Wetzel
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Babbio
Room 634
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Konstantin KleisourisComputer Science Dept.Rutgers University

Abstract 

In this work we present two parallel algorithms and their Unified Parallel C implementations for Bayesian indoor positioning systems. Our approaches are founded on Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations, which explore the probability distributions of the unknown position variables using statistical sampling. We evaluated two basic partitioning strategies: inter-chain partitioning which distributes entire Markov ...read more

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Susanne Wetzel
Associate Professor
Babbio
Room 634
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C. R. RamakrishnanComputer Science Department, Stony Brook University

Abstract 

Rule languages have been used to specify security and management policies, such as access control and authorization policies, and network management policies. While these rule languages aim to simplify the specification and management of complex policies, large rule sets often contain subtle interactions, making them difficult to understand and reason about. Deductive spreadsheets (DSS) offer a ne ...read more

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Susanne Wetzel
Associate Professor
Babbio
Room 634
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Kiran ChallapaliPhilips Research North America

Abstract 

Although most of the spectrum is allocated much of it is unused. The enormous growth in the wireless industry has come from using a small part of the wireless spectrum, nominally less than 10% under 3 GHz. There is growing evidence of scarcity and overcrowding in these bands reflected for example, by price paid for cellular spectrum. However, measurements have shown other parts of the spectrum -- although allocated -- a ...read more

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Susanne Wetzel
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Babbio
Room 634
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Dr. Guosen YueNEC Research Laboratories

Abstract 

We consider the design and analysis of low-rate codes, generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes and the variations, repeat-zigzag-Hadamard (RZH) codes, in AWGN channels. The code ensembles of GLDPC and RZH codes can be optimized using Extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) charts. The simulation results show that a rate-0.003 LDPC-Hadamard code built from designed code ensemble with large block length performs only 0.15 d ...read more

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Susanne Wetzel
Associate Professor
Babbio
Room 634
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Dr. Jim Miller, Microsoft Research

Abstract

Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (CLR) was released to the public in 2000 and +was touted as a multi-language runtime. But for the first five years of its commercial life it has been mostly used for executing statically typed languages (Visual Basic, Java, C#, Eiffel, C++). There has been considerable skepticism about its ability to support more dynamic languages like Python, Perl, Ruby, and Scheme. This talk, by one of the designers ...read more

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Yingying Chen
Associate Professor & NIS Graduate Program Director (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cyber security, mobile computing, mobile healthcare, cognitive radio networks)
Burchard
Room 210
Phone: 201.216.8066
Fax: 201.216.8246

yingying.chen@stevens.edu

AbstractWe propose using the proximity distribution of vector-quantized local feature descriptors for object and category recognition. To this end, we introduce a novel ``proximity distribution kernel'' that naturally combines local geometric as well as photometric information from images. It satisfies Mercer's condition and can therefore be readily combined with a support vector machine to perform visual categorization in a way that is insensitive to photometric and geometric variat ...read more

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Yingying Chen
Associate Professor & NIS Graduate Program Director (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cyber security, mobile computing, mobile healthcare, cognitive radio networks)
Burchard
Room 210
Phone: 201.216.8066
Fax: 201.216.8246

yingying.chen@stevens.edu

Speaker: Dr. Haibin Ling, Siemens

Abstract : We propose using the proximity distribution of vector-quantized local feature descriptors for object and category recognition. To this end, we introduce a novel ``proximity distribution kernel'' that naturally combines local geometric as well as photometric information from images. It satisfies Mercer's condition and can therefore be readily combined with a support vector machine to perform visual categorization in a way that is in ...read more

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Susanne Wetzel
Associate Professor
Babbio
Room 634
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swetzel@cs.stevens.edu

Dr. Yuri Gurevich, Microsoft Research

AbstractDKAL is a new expressive declarative authorization language. It is basedon existential fixed-point logic. Distributed knowledge is the mostconspicuous distinguishing feature of DKAL; in particular it makes DKALappropriate for user-centric access control. Being inspired by the SecPALauthorization language, DKAL is a considerable improvement over SecPAL.The talk does not presume any particular background in logic or accesscontrol.Speaker BioDr ...read more

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Yingying Chen
Associate Professor & NIS Graduate Program Director (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cyber security, mobile computing, mobile healthcare, cognitive radio networks)
Burchard
Room 210
Phone: 201.216.8066
Fax: 201.216.8246

yingying.chen@stevens.edu

Dr. Xiaoyu Hu, ECE Department, Stevens Institute of Technology

AbstractThe common feature of next generation wireless communication systems will be the convergence of multimedia services such as speech, audio, video, image and data. The selection of a generic air interface for next generation wireless systems will be of great importance to meet the needs of high data rates and new services. This talk will present some critical technologies for air interface which would be employed in next gen ...read more

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Yingying Chen
Associate Professor & NIS Graduate Program Director (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cyber security, mobile computing, mobile healthcare, cognitive radio networks)
Burchard
Room 210
Phone: 201.216.8066
Fax: 201.216.8246

yingying.chen@stevens.edu

Dr. Xiaoyu Hu, ECE Department, Stevens Institute of Technology

AbstractThe common feature of next generation wireless communication systems will be the convergence of multimedia services such as speech, audio, video, image and data. The selection of a generic air interface for next generation wireless systems will be of great importance to meet the needs of high data rates and new services. This talk will present some critical technologies for air interface which would be employed in next gen ...read more

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Yingying Chen
Associate Professor & NIS Graduate Program Director (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cyber security, mobile computing, mobile healthcare, cognitive radio networks)
Burchard
Room 210
Phone: 201.216.8066
Fax: 201.216.8246

yingying.chen@stevens.edu

Alex Myasnikov, Dept. Mathematics, Stevens Institute of Technology

AbstractIn this talk we will discuss an alternative definition of one-way function using the concepts of the generic case complexity. This relatively new approach allows one to analyze the behavior of an algorithm on ``most" inputs in a simple and intuitive fashion which has some practical advantages over classical methods based on averaging.We show that the new definition is equivalence to the standard one. In addition ...read more

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Yingying Chen
Associate Professor & NIS Graduate Program Director (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cyber security, mobile computing, mobile healthcare, cognitive radio networks)
Burchard
Room 210
Phone: 201.216.8066
Fax: 201.216.8246

yingying.chen@stevens.edu

Nachiketh Potlapally, Princeton UniversityAbstractPervasive networks have led to widespread use of embedded systems, like, cell phones, PDAs, RFIDs etc, in increasingly diverse applications. Many of these embedded system applications handle sensitive data (e.g., credit Card information on a mobile phone/PDA) or perform critical functions (e.g., medical Devices or automotive electronics), and the use of security protocols is imperative to maintain confidentiality, integrity and authentication o ...read more

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Dr. Cristina Comaniciu
Associate Professor & EE Graduate Program Director (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Wireless networks, cross-layer design, game theoretic methods, multiuser detection)
Burchard Building
Room 207
Phone: 201.216.5606
Fax: 201.216.8246

ccomanic@stevens.edu

Alexander D. GelmanChief Scientist, Panasonic Princeton Laboratory

AbstractConsumer networking presents a technological challenge - it is a tough distributed pervasive computing problem. Typical platforms for networked Consumer Electronics (CE) are resource starved; users tend to be highly mobile; network access, if available, tends to be highly opportunistic. Users desire high degree of connectivity and desire communications with peers and access to content as well as sharing content and ...read more

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Dr. Hady Salloum
Director, Technology Applications - MSL (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Maritime system security)
Babbio - Maritime Security Lab
Room 604
Phone: 201-216-8575
hsalloum@stevens.edu

Yingying (Jennifer) ChenRutgers University and Lucent Bell LaboratoriesAbstractObtaining accurate positions of nodes in wireless and sensor networks is important because the location of wireless devices is a critical input to many high-level services. Such services include healthcare monitoring, wildlife animal habitat tracking, emergency rescue and recovery, location-based access control, and location-aware content delivery. However, the localization infrastructure can be subjected to non-cryptographic ...read more

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Dr. Hong Man
Associate Professor & CPE Undergraduate Program Director (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Multimedia networking, image and data analysis, medical imaging, video coding)
Burchard Buidling
Room 201
Phone: 201.216.5038
Fax: 201.216.8246

hman@stevens.edu

Sherif Abdelwahed, Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University

AbstractDistributed real-time embedded (DRE) systems, including intelligent transportation, automated inventory management, command and control systems, and avionics mission computing, increasingly run in open environments, such as network-centric systems of systems. This emerging operation setting introduces new challenges for DRE system developers, such as managing the system performance under uncertain op ...read more

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Dr. Hong Man
Associate Professor & CPE Undergraduate Program Director (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Multimedia networking, image and data analysis, medical imaging, video coding)
Burchard Buidling
Room 201
Phone: 201.216.5038
Fax: 201.216.8246

hman@stevens.edu

Goce JakimoskiStevens Institute of Technology/MSyNC 

AbstractInformation authentication is one of the basic information security goals, and it addresses the issues of source corroboration and improper or unauthorized modification of data. More specific, data integrity is the property that the data has not been changed in an unauthorized manner since its creation, transmission or storage. Data origin authentication, or message authentication, is the property whereby a party can be co ...read more

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Professor Rajarathnam Chandramouli
Hattrick Chair Professor (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cognitive radio networks, wireless security, steganography, steganalysis, computational biology)
Burchard Building
Room 315
Phone: 201.216.8642
Fax: 201.216.8246

rchandr1@stevens.edu

Senthil Kumar, Lucent Bell Laboratories

AbstractIn this talk, I will present an overview of emerging computer vision applications in the Media industry (broadcast, newspaper, and movie industry). After a broad overview, I will focus on two specific applications. The first, called LogoTraX, involves the tracking of logos in sports broadcasts. Using this application, advertisers (e.g., Nike) can measure the exact on-air exposure received by their logo during a sports broadcast. The second appl ...read more

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Professor Rajarathnam Chandramouli
Hattrick Chair Professor (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cognitive radio networks, wireless security, steganography, steganalysis, computational biology)
Burchard Building
Room 315
Phone: 201.216.8642
Fax: 201.216.8246

rchandr1@stevens.edu

Yingying (Jennifer) Chen, Lucent Bell Laboratories

AbstractObtaining accurate positions of nodes in wireless and sensor networks is important because the location of sensors is a critical input to many high-level services. Such services include location-aware content delivery, health-care monitoring, emergency rescue and recovery, and location-based access control. However, the localization infrastructure can be subjected to non-cryptographic attacks which cannot be addressed by traditional ...read more

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Teun Ott, Lucent Bell Laboratories

AbstractThe talk will give an overview of past, present, and hopefully also future research on Internet Transport Protocols in the so called TCP Paradigm. Protocols in the TCP Paradigm are based on a Congestion Window and have the source of a flow modify the congestion window in reaction to "One Bit Feedback" through acknowledgments. The feedback is through drop or marking (ECN) of packets. A class of mechanisms that translate drop or marking into ...read more

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Professor Rajarathnam Chandramouli
Hattrick Chair Professor (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cognitive radio networks, wireless security, steganography, steganalysis, computational biology)
Burchard Building
Room 315
Phone: 201.216.8642
Fax: 201.216.8246

rchandr1@stevens.edu

Suman Banerjee, Dept Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madision

AbstractManaging networks is a difficult task, whether they be wirelined or wireless. Traditionally, this task has been performed through dedicated infrastructure devices that are carefully controlled and administered. Examples include firewalls, traffic shapers, and special-purpose gateways. In this talk, we focus on wireless networks and contend that many management tasks in this environment are best performed thro ...read more

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Dr. Victor Lawrence
Batchelor Chair Professor, Associate Dean, IEEE Fellow, NAE member (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Signal processing, intelligent communication networks)
Burchard Building
Room 205
Phone: 201.216.5636
Fax: 201.216.8246

vlawrenc@stevens.edu