The Eighth IASTED International
Conferences
on
Wireless and Optical Communications
~WOC 2008~
With 4 Symposia:
Communication Systems and Applications (CSA 2008)
Optical Communication Systems and Networks (OCSN 2008)
Wireless Networks and Emerging Technologies (WNET 2008)
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN 2008)
May 26 – 28, 2008
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
International Program Committee
- M. Abtahi – Laval University, Canada
- A. Agarwal – Concordia University, Canada
- H.W. Agius – Brunel University, UK
- K. Al Agha – University Paris XI, France
- H. Ali – University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
- A. Almeida – Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
- A.I. Almojel – Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia
- S. An – Korea University, Korea
- S. Arnon – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
- G. Bai – Nanjing University of Technology, PRC
- J. Bajcsy – McGill University, Canada
- I. Barbancho – University of Málaga, Spain
- F. Barcelo-Arroyo – Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
- J. Barria – Imperial College London, UK
- R. Bartos – University of New Hampshire, USA
- D. Benhaddou – University of Houston, USA
- N. Berger – Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
- L.N. Binh – Monash University, Australia
- G. Bochmann – University of Ottawa, Canada
- M. Brandt-Pearce – University of Virginia, USA
- J.M. Brito – Inatel, Brazil
- D. Budimir – University of Westminster, UK
- Y. Cai – Iowa State University, USA
- A.V.T. Cartaxo – Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
- J. Casademont – Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
- S. Chandran – MIMOS, Malaysia
- P.-H. Chang – National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
- S.-C. Chau – Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
- Y.-M. Chen – National Central University, Taiwan
- Y. Chen – University of Houston, USA
- Z.N. Chen – Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- N.K. Chilamkurti – La Trobe University, Australia
- H.-A. Choi – George Washington University, USA
- P.-S. Chung – City University of Hong Kong, PRC
- A. Dadej – University of South Australia, Australia
- A.O. Dahmane – University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières, Canada
- J.S. Deogun – University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
- I. Develi – Erciyes University, Turkey
- R. Dobrescu – Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania
- C. Dou – National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- A. Driessen – University of Twente, The Netherlands
- N.K. Dutta – University of Connecticut, USA
- A.M. El Kateeb – University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
- M. El Tarhuni – American University of Sharjah, UAE
- V. Eramo – University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
- L. Esmahi – Athabasca University, Canada
- G. Ferrari – University of Parma, Italy
- L. Ferrario – Center for Scientific and Technological Research, Italy
- M.F.S. Ferreira – University of Aveiro, Portugal
- A. Finger – Dresden University of Technology, Germany
- J.M. Finochietto – Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
- B. Forssell – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- M. Furini – University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
- I. Ganchev – University of Limerick, Ireland
- R. Gangopadhyay – Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
- M. Garcia – Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA
- F.Z. Ghassemlooy – Northumbria University, UK
- M. Ghavami – King's College London, UK
- S.S.-U. Guan – Brunel University, UK
- T.A. Gulliver – University of Victoria, Canada
- A. Hac – University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
- D. Haccoun – École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
- A. Hafid – University of Montreal, Canada
- W.A. Halang – University of Hagen, Germany
- K.V.S. Hari – Indian Institute of Science, India
- H. Helgert – George Washington University, USA
- A.S. Helmy – University of Toronto, Canada
- H. Higaki – Tokyo Denki University, Japan
- M. Hizlan – Cleveland State University, USA
- N.H. Hai – University of the Ryukyus, Japan
- J. Holliday – Santa Clara University, USA
- S. Honkanen – Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- S. Horiguchi – Tohoku University, Japan
- T.-S. Horng – National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
- H.-F. Hsiao – National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
- W.-S. Hsieh – Shu-Te University, Taiwan
- K. Hua – University of Central Florida, USA
- J.-F. Huang – National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
- X. Huang – Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada
- Y.-F. Huang – National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- R. Hui – University of Kansas, USA
- T. Hui – Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, PRC
- M. Ilyas – Florida Atlantic University, USA
- R.-H. Jan – National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
- J. Jang – Dongeui University, Korea
- M. Jaseemuddin – Ryerson University, Canada
- I. Jelínek – Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
- J.F. Jensen – Aalborg University, Denmark
- A. Jhunjhunwala – India Institute of Technology Madras, India
- M. Kampmann – Ericsson Research, Germany
- A.G. Kanatas – University of Piraeus, Greece
- H. Kang – Chung-Ang University, Korea
- S. Kar – Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
- G.K. Karagiannidis – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- M. Kavehrad – Pennsylvania State University, USA
- C. Kim – Information and Communications University, Korea
- B. Kinicki – Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
- I. Kozintsev – Intel Corporation, USA
- C. Lee – National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
- C.-W. Lee – University of Illinois at Springfield, USA
- J.-H. Lee – National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Y.-W. Leung – Hong Kong Baptist University, PRC
- M. Li – California State University, Fresno, USA
- S.-K. Liaw – National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Taiwan
- Y.-C. Lin – National Formosa University, Taiwan
- J.C.-L. Liu – University of Florida, USA
- Z. Liu – Southeast Missouri State University, USA
- H.-P. Ma – National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
- K. Makki – University of Toledo, USA
- S. Mann – University of Toronto, Canada
- P.T. Mathiopoulos – National Observatory of Athens, Greece
- G. Mazzini – University of Ferrara, Italy
- R. Mehmood – University of Wales, Swansea, UK
- M. Merabti – Liverpool John Moores University, UK
- S. Mishra – University of Colorado, USA
- S. Mohammed – Lakehead University, Canada
- E.N. Montoya – EAFIT University, Colombia
- R. Morelos-Zaragoza – San Jose State University, USA
- N. Movahhedinia – University of Isfahan, Iran
- L. Mucchi – University of Florence, Italy
- J.K. Muppala – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, PRC
- M. Murata – Osaka University, Japan
- M. Naraghi-Pour – Louisiana State University, USA
- B. Natarajan – Kansas State University, USA
- H.H. Nguyen – University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- H. Nikookar – Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- R. Noe – University of Paderborn, Germany
- M. O'Droma – University of Limerick, Ireland
- D. O'Shaughnessy – National Institute of Scientific Research, Canada
- E. Pagani – University of Milan, Italy
- C.E. Palau Salvador – Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
- G.-D. Peng – University of New South Wales, Australia
- R. Penty – Cambridge University, UK
- J. Pitts – Queen Mary, University of London, UK
- A. Prodan – Iuliu Hatieganu University, Romania
- E. Pun – City University of Hong Kong, PRC
- V. Rangan – Amrita University, India
- I. Rhee – North Carolina State University, USA
- I.S. Ruddock – University of Strathclyde, UK
- Y. Ryu - Myongji University, Korea
- S. Safavi-Naeini – University of Waterloo, Canada
- L.M. San José – University of Valladolid, Spain
- E. Sano – Hokkaido University, Japan
- N.J. Sarhan – Wayne State University, USA
- E. Schikuta – University of Vienna, Austria
- L. Schwoerer – Nokia Corporation, Germany
- M. Shadaram – University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
- K.S. Shanmugan – University of Kansas, USA
- N. Sharda – Victoria Univeristy, Australia
- R.K. Shevgaonkar – India Institute of Technology Bombay, India
- B. Shi – Tsinghua University, PRC
- T.K. Shih – Tamkang University, Taiwan
- S. Shin – Myongji University, Korea
- Y.P. Singh – Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India
- J. Snyders – Tel Aviv University, Israel
- H. Sotobayashi – National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan
- W. Su – U.S. Army Communication-Electronics RD&E Centre, USA
- S. Subramaniam – George Washington University, USA
- W. Sun – Florida International University, USA
- Y. Sun – University of Hertfordshire, UK
- W.-T. Sung – National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taiwan
- M.R. Syed – Minnesota State University Mankato, USA
- M. Tacca – University of Texas at Dallas, USA
- N. Tansu – Lehigh University, USA
- D.J. Thuente – North Carolina State University, USA
- K. Thyagarajan – Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
- G.Y. Tian – University of Newcastle, UK
- P. Todorova – Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
- I. Tomkos – Athens Information Technology Center, Greece
- L. Trajkovic – Simon Fraser University, Canada
- P. Tran-Gia – University of Würzburg, Germany
- C.-J. Tseng – Northern Taiwan Institute of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- M.U. Uyar – City College of New York, USA
- M. Uysal – University of Waterloo, Canada
- S. Vasana – University of North Florida, USA
- V. Vassiliou – University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- M. Vasilyev – University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- K. Vasudevan – Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
- P. Verma – University of Oklahoma, USA
- R. Vijaya – Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
- A. Vukovic – Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada
- C.-L. Wang – National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
- X. Wang – University of Plymouth, UK
- A. Willner – University of Southern California, USA
- R. Wolff – Montana State University, USA
- B.E. Wolfinger – University of Hamburg, Germany
- W.K. Wong – City University of Hong Kong, PRC
- M.-Y. Wu – Shanghai Jiao Tong University, PRC
- S.-H. Yang – Loughborough University, UK
- T.A. Yang – University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA
- C.-H. Yeh – Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
- R. Yen – Tamkang University, Taiwan
- M. Younis – University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
- G.S. Yovanof – Athens Information Technology Center, Greece
- D.Y.Y. Yun – University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
- A. Zaouche – University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis, France
- C.J. Zarowski – University of Alberta, Canada
- S. Zeadally – University of the District of Columbia, USA
- J. Zhang – Australian National University, Australia
- Y. Zhao – Wayne State University, USA
- W. Zhuang – University of Waterloo, Canada
- J. Zou – North China University of Technology, PRC





