FIELDS
and
MPRIME
WORKSHOP
Probabilistic Methods in Wireless Networks
Scope:
Foster collaboration across disciplines,
provide an important forum where leading Canadian and international
researchers, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers,
practitioners and students in the field
of wireless networks meet in order to encourage on-going
research, to discuss work-in-progress, and to motivate new initiatives
in state-of-the art themes.
Carleton University
Schools of
Computer Science
and
Mathematics and Statistics
Location: 4351 Macphail Room,
Herzberg Building (HP)
Maps and Instructions
(August 21-24, 2011)
Registration
and
Accomodation at CU
and
Abstract Submission
SCHEDULE
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Sunday, August 21
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9:00-10:30 Invited Tutorial I Part A
Random Geometric Graphs
Luc Devroye (McGill University)
- 10:30-11:00 Break
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11:00-12:30 Talks
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Michel Barbeau, Carleton U
Software Defined Radio and Simultaneous Multi-Radio Operation
(slides)
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Hassan Halabian, Carleton U
On the Stability Region of Multi-Queue Multi-Server Queueing Systems with
Stationary Channel Distribution
-
Hussein Al-Zubaidy, U Toronto
Dynamic Packet Scheduler Optimization in Wireless Relay Networks
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12:30-13:30 Lunch
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13:30-14:30 Plenary Talk
Disjoint Hamilton Cycles in the Random Geometric Graph
(slides)
Nick Wormald
(University of Waterloo)
- 14:30-15:00 Break
- 15:00-16:30 Open Problem Session
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Monday, August 22
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9:00-10:30 Invited Tutorial II Part A
Stochastic Geometry and Wireless Networks
Francois Baccelli (INRIA and ENS)
- 10:30-11:00 Break
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11:00-12:30 Invited Tutorial III Part A
Queueing Theory and Wireless Networks
Doug Down (McMaster University)
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12:30-13:30 Lunch
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13:30-14:30 Plenary Talk
Clustering for Colourings of Random Graphs
Mike Molloy (University of Toronto)
- 14:30-15:00 Break
- 15:00-16:00 Discussion and Open Problems
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Tuesday, August 23
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9:00-10:30 Invited Tutorial I Part B
Random Geometric Graphs
Luc Devroye (McGill University)
- 10:30-11:00 Break
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11:00-12:30 Invited Tutorial III Part B
Queueing Theory and Wireless Networks
Doug Down (McMaster University)
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12:30-13:30 Lunch
-
13:30-14:30 Plenary Talk
The Cover Time of Random Geometric Graphs
(slides)
Alan Frieze (CMU)
- 14:30-15:00 Break
- 15:00-16:00 Discussion and Open Problems
- 18:00 Banquet Tucker's Marketplace
(61 York Street, Byward Market)
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Wednesday, August 24
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9:00-10:30 Invited Tutorial II Part B
Stochastic Geometry and Wireless Networks
Francois Baccelli (INRIA and ENS)
- 10:30-11:00 Break
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11:00-12:00 Plenary Talk
Colouring Random Geometric Graphs
(slides)
Colin McDiarmid
(Oxford University)
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12:00-13:00 Lunch
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13:00-14:00 Final Discussions
Registration
and
Accomodation at CU
and
Abstract Submission
Organizers:
Evangelos Kranakis (Computer Science) and
Yiqiang Zhao (Mathematics & Statistics)
Additional Events: The international focus period on advances in network analysis
and its applications consists of a sequence of workshops
(to be) held in British Columbia and Ontario in 2010-2011 on
important aspects of networks, including
Financial (Toronto), Security (Toronto),
Social (Vancouver), Biological (Vancouver), Wireless (Ottawa), and
Network Economics (Vancouver), as well as
Lectures and Tutorials in the School of Computer Science
at Carleton University.