ICDCN 2008: Kolkata, India

A.K. Choudhury Memorial Lecture

• Sankar K. Pal:
  Rough-Fuzzy Knowledge Encoding and Uncertainty Analysis: Relevance in Data Mining. 1-12
  

Keynote Talks

• Mingming Lu, Jie Wu:
  Utility-Based Data-Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks with Unstable Links. 13-24
  
• Thomas Locher, Pascal von Rickenbach, Roger Wattenhofer:
  Sensor Networks Continue to Puzzle: Selected Open Problems. 25-38
  
• Janaka Balasooriya, Jaimini Joshi, Sushil K. Prasad, Shamkant B. Navathe:
  Distributed Coordination of Workflows over Web Services and Their Handheld-Based Execution. 39-53
  

Distributed Computing Track Papers

Agreement Protocols

• Yee Jiun Song, Robbert van Renesse, Fred B. Schneider, Danny Dolev:
  The Building Blocks of Consensus. 54-72
  
• Tal Mizrahi, Yoram Moses:
  Continuous Consensus with Ambiguous Failures. 73-85
  
• Amjed Shareef, C. Pandu Rangan:
  On Optimal Probabilistic Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement. 86-98
  
• Achour Mostéfaoui, Michel Raynal, Corentin Travers:
  Narrowing Power vs. Efficiency in Synchronous Set Agreement. 99-111
  

Fault Tolerance and Synchronization

• Hagit Attiya, Eshcar Hillel:
  Highly-Concurrent Multi-word Synchronization. 112-123
  
• Bharath Balasubramanian, Vinit A. Ogale, Vijay K. Garg:
  Fault Tolerance in Finite State Machines Using Fusion. 124-134
  
• Scott M. Pike, Yantao Song, Srikanth Sastry:
  Wait-Free Dining Under Eventual Weak Exclusion. 135-146
  
• Nicolas Schiper, Fernando Pedone:
  On the Inherent Cost of Atomic Broadcast and Multicast in Wide Area Networks. 147-157
  
• Hongtao Huang:
  Detection of Disjunctive Normal Form Predicate in Distributed Systems. 158-169
  
• Sandip Dey:
  Solving Classic Problems in Distributed Systems: The Smart-Message Paradigm. 170-175
  
• Pradeep Kumar Nalla, Rajeev Wankar, Arun Agarwal:
  Design of Concurrent Utilities in Jackal: A Software DSM Implementation. 176-181
  

Self-stabilization

• Wayne Goddard, Stephen T. Hedetniemi, David Pokrass Jacobs, Pradip K. Srimani:
  Anonymous Daemon Conversion in Self-stabilizing Algorithms by Randomization in Constant Space. 182-190
  
• Christian Boulinier, Mathieu Levert, Franck Petit:
  Snap-Stabilizing Waves in Anonymous Networks. 191-202
  
• Sushanta Karmakar, Arobinda Gupta:
  Self-stabilizing Distributed Protocol Switching. 203-208
  
• Huang Sun, Brice Effantin, Hamamache Kheddouci:
  A Self-stabilizing Algorithm for the Minimum Color Sum of a Graph. 209-214
  

Scheduling, Clustering, and Data Mining

• Sanjoy K. Baruah, Nathan Fisher:
  Global Fixed-Priority Scheduling of Arbitrary-Deadline Sporadic Task Systems. 215-226
  
• Anirban Chakrabarti, Shubhashis Sengupta:
  Scalable and Distributed Mechanisms for Integrated Scheduling and Replication in Data Grids. 227-238
  
• Sauravjyoti Sarmah, Rosy Das, Dhruba Kumar Bhattacharyya:
  DGDCT: A Distributed Grid-Density Based Algorithm for Intrinsic Cluster Detection over Massive Spatial Data. 239-250
  
• P. Santhi Thilagam, V. S. Ananthanarayana:
  An Abstraction Based Communication Efficient Distributed Association Rule Mining. 251-256
  
• Maruf Ahmed, Sharif M. H. Chowdhury, Masud Hasan:
  List Heuristic Scheduling Algorithms for Distributed Memory Systems with Improved Time Complexity. 257-262
  

Parallel Architectures and Algorithms

• Dong Li, Song Huang, Kirk W. Cameron:
  CG-Cell: An NPB Benchmark Implementation on Cell Broadband Engine. 263-273
  
• Keny T. Lucas, Dheeresh K. Mallick, Prasanta K. Jana:
  Parallel Algorithm for Conflict Graph on OTIS-Triangular Array. 274-279
  
• Mostafa Rezazad, M. Hoseiny Farahabady, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad:
  A Deadlock Free Shortest Path Routing Algorithm for WK-Recursive Meshes. 280-285
  

Mobile Agents and Cryptography

• Med Amine Haddar, Ahmed Hadj Kacem, Yves Métivier, Mohamed Mosbah, Mohamed Jmaiel:
  Proving Distributed Algorithms for Mobile Agents: Examples of Spanning Tree Computation in Anonymous Networks. 286-291
  
• Shantanu Das:
  Mobile Agent Rendezvous in a Ring Using Faulty Tokens. 292-297
  
• Abhijit Das, Bimal K. Roy:
  A New Key-Predistribution Scheme for Highly Mobile Sensor Networks. 298-303
  
• Bhavani Shankar, Kannan Srinathan, C. Pandu Rangan:
  Alternative Protocols for Generalized Oblivious Transfer. 304-309
  

Networking Track Papers

Sensor Networks I

• Robin Doss, Gang Li, Shui Yu, Vicky Mak, Morshed Chowdhury:
  The Crossroads Approach to Information Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks. 310-321
  
• Michal Koziuk, Jaroslaw Domaszewicz:
  Tree-Based Anycast for Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks. 322-331
  
• Punyasha Chatterjee, Nabanita Das:
  A Distributed Algorithm for Load-Balanced Routing in Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks. 332-338
  
• Partha Mukherjee, Sandip Sen:
  Using Learned Data Patterns to Detect Malicious Nodes in Sensor Networks. 339-344
  
• Yong Ho Kim, Kyu Young Choi, Jongin Lim, Dong Hoon Lee:
  An Efficient Key Establishment Scheme for Self-organizing Sensor Networks. 345-349
  

Internet and Security

• Tassos Dimitriou, Ghassan Karame, Ioannis T. Christou:
  SuperTrust - A Secure and Efficient Framework for Handling Trust in Super Peer Networks. 350-362
  
• Debmalya Biswas, Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar:
  A Highly Flexible Data Structure for Multi-level Visibility of P2P Communities. 363-374
  
• Sina Meraji, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad:
  Mathematical Performance Modelling of Stretched Hypercubes. 375-386
  
• Bezawada Bruhadeshwar, Kishore Kothapalli:
  A Family of Collusion Resistant Symmetric Key Protocols for Authentication. 387-392
  
• L. Prema Rajeswari, A. Kannan, R. Baskaran:
  An Escalated Approach to Ant Colony Clustering Algorithm for Intrusion Detection System. 393-400
  

Sensor Networks II

• Niki Trigoni, Alexandre Guitton, Antonios Skordylis:
  Interplay of Processing and Routing in Aggregate Query Optimization for Sensor Networks. 401-415
  
• Kandasamy Selvaradjou, Buchi Goutham, C. Siva Ram Murthy:
  Exploiting Resource-Rich Actors for Bridging Network Partitions in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks. 416-427
  
• M. P. Singh, M. M. Gore:
  A New Top-Down Hierarchical Multi-hop Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. 428-433
  
• Virendra Mohan, R. C. Hansdah:
  PROBESYNC: Platform Based Synchronization for Enhanced Life of Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networks. 434-439
  

Optical Networks

• Malabika Sengupta, Swapan Kumar Mondal, Debashis Saha:
  An Adaptive Split Reservation Protocol (SRP) for Dynamically Reserving Wavelengths in WDM Optical Networks. 440-451
  
• Tanmay De, Ajit Pal, Indranil Sengupta:
  Routing and Wavelength Assignment in All Optical Networks Based on Clique Partitioning. 452-463
  
• A. Pal, A. Paul, Amitava Mukherjee, Mrinal K. Naskar, Mita Nasipuri:
  Fault Detection and Localization Scheme for Multiple Failures in Optical Network. 464-470
  
• Sahadeb Jana, Kajla Basu, Subhabrata Chowdhury:
  A Heuristic Search for Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Distributed WDM Optical Networks with Limited Range Wavelength Conversion. 471-477
  

QoS and Multimedia

• D. N. Sujatha, K. Girish, K. R. Venugopal, Lalit M. Patnaik:
  An Efficient Storage Mechanism to Distribute Disk Load in a VoD Server. 478-483
  
• Vineet Kulkarni, Sanjay Srivastava, R. B. Lenin:
  Multi Level Pricing for Service Differentiation and Congestion Control in Communication Networks. 484-489
  
• Kaliappa Nadar Ravindran, Mohammad Rabby, Xiliang Liu:
  Revenue-Driven Bandwidth Management for End-to-End Connectivity over IP Networks. 490-495
  
• Farshad Safaei, Ahmad Khonsari, Mahmood Fathy, Mohamed Ould-Khaoua:
  Modeling and Predicting Point-to-Point Communication Delay of Circuit Switching in the Mesh-Connected Networks. 496-502
  

Wireless Networks

• A. V. Babu, Lillykutty Jacob:
  Maximizing Aggregate Saturation Throughput in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN with Service Differentiation. 503-514
  
• Preetam Kumar, M. Ramesh, Saswat Chakrabarti:
  Overloading Cellular DS-CDMA: A Bandwidth-Efficient Scheme for Capacity Enhancement. 515-527
  
• Raffaele Bruno, Marco Conti, Antonio Pinizzotto:
  Enhancing DHCP for Address Autoconfiguration in Multi-hop WLANs. 528-539
  
• Goutam K. Audhya, Bhabani P. Sinha:
  Channel Assignment in Multimedia Cellular Networks. 540-545
  

Ad Hoc Networks

• Stephane Durocher, David G. Kirkpatrick, Lata Narayanan:
  On Routing with Guaranteed Delivery in Three-Dimensional Ad Hoc Wireless Networks. 546-557
  
• Ruiyun Yu, Xingwei Wang, Yonghe Liu, Sajal K. Das:
  Energy-Efficient Dominating Tree Construction in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. 558-569
  
• Parama Bhaumik, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay:
  A Location-Aided Content Searching Mechanism for Large Mobile Ad Hoc Network Using Geographic Clusters. 570-580
  
• Abhishek Bhattacharyya, Anand Seetharam, Mrinal K. Naskar:
  A Centralized Algorithm for Topology Management in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks through Multiple Coordinators. 581-586