The Ninth IASTED International Conference on
Wireless and Optical Communications
~WOC 2009~
July 6 – 8, 2009
Banff, Alberta, Canada
International Program Committee
- M. Abtahi – Laval University, Canada
- G. Agnew – University of Waterloo, Canada
- R. Akl – University of North Texas, USA
- K. Al Agha – University Paris XI, France
- H. Ali – University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
- A. Almeida – Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
- K. AlSobhi – Intel, USA
- S. An – Korea University, Korea
- S. Arnon – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
- G. Bai – Nanjing University of Technology, PR China
- J. Bajcsy – McGill University, Canada
- E. M. Bakker – Leiden University, Netherlands
- M. Banat – Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
- I. Barbancho – Universidad de Málaga, Spain
- F. Barcelo – Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
- J. A. Barria – Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- E. Bastaki – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, PR China
- N. K. Berger – Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
- U. Biader Ceipidor – University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
- M. Biagi – Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
- L. N. Binh – Monash University , Australia
- D. Budimir – University of Westminster, United Kingdom
- E. Casilari – University of Malaga, Spain
- S. Chandran – MIMOS, Malaysia, Malaysia
- H. H. Chang – I-Shou University, Taiwan
- S. C. Chau – Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
- Y. M. Chen – National Central University, Taiwan
- Y. S. Chen – National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
- Y. Chen – University of Houston, USA
- Z. N. Chen – Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- N. Chilamkurti – La Trobe University, Austria
- P. S. Chung – City University of Hong Kong, PR China
- J. S. Deogun – University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
- R. Dobrescu – Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania
- C. Dou – National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- N. Dutta – University of Connecticut, USA
- A. El Kateeb – University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
- M. El Tarhuni – American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- F. Emami – Shiraz University of Technology, Iran
- L. Esmahi – Athabasca University, Canada
- A. Fathy – University of Tennessee, USA
- G. Ferrari – University of Parma, Italy
- M. Ferreira – University of Aveiro, Portugal
- A. Finger – Dresden University of Technology, Germany
- J. M. Finochietto – National University of Córdoba, Spain
- B. Forssell – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- M. Furini – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- I. Ganchev – University of Limerick, Ireland
- R. Gangopadhyay – Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
- E. Gelenbe – Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- L. A. Gerhardt – Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute, USA
- H. Ghafouri-Shiraz – University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Z. Ghassemlooy – Northumbria University, United Kingdom
- M. Ghavami – University of London, United Kingdom
- S. Guan – Brunel University, United Kingdom
- D. Haccoun – École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
- H. Hemmati – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
- H. Higaki – Tokyo Denki University, Japan
- M. Hizlan – Cleveland State University, USA
- S. Honkanen – Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- T. S. Horng – National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
- H. F. Hsiao – National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
- X. Huang – Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada
- Y. F. Huang – National Yunlin University of Science & Tech., Taiwan
- R. Hui – The University of Kansas, USA
- R. Hunt – University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- M. S. Hwang – National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
- M. Ilyas – Florida Atlantic University, USA
- D. J. Thuente – North Carolina State University, USA
- R. H. Jan – National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
- A. Jayasuriya – University of South Australia, Australia
- I. Jelínek – Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
- J. F. Jensen – Aalborg University, Denmark
- A. Jhunjhunwala – Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
- S. Jimaa – Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
- H. Y. Jung – MSP Lab, Korea
- H. Kang – Chung-Ang Univ., Korea
- G. K. Karagiannidis – Aristotole University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- M. Kavehrad – Pennsylvania State University, USA
- S. Kiaei – Connection One Research Center, USA
- C. Kim – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
- J. Kong – The North Dakota State University, USA
- H. Kosch – University of Passau, Germany
- V. P. Kuz'kov – National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
- V. Kvicera – Czech Metrology Institute, Czech Republic
- C. N. Lee – National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
- C. W. Lee – University of Illinois, Springfield, USA
- J. H. Lee – National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Y. H. Lee – Seoul National University, Korea
- Y. W. Leung – Hong Kong Baptist University, PR China
- M. Li – California State University, Fresno, USA
- Y. C. Lin – National Formosa University, Taiwan
- C. L. Liu – University of Florida, USA
- Z. Liu – Southeast Missouri State University, USA
- H. P. Ma – National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
- K. S. Makki – Lamar University, USA
- T. P. Mathiopoulos – Institute for Space Applications & Remote Sensing, Greece
- G. Mazzini – University of Ferrara, Italy
- R. Mehmood – Swansea University, United Kingdom
- S. Mishra – University of Colorado, USA
- S. M. Mohammed – Lakehead University, Canada
- J. Morgado – Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
- G. Morthier – Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium
- N. Movahhedinia – University of Isfahan, Iran
- J. Muppala – HKUST, PR China
- S. Murshid – Florida Institute of Technology, USA
- M. Nakazawa – Tohoku University, Japan
- M. Naraghi-Pour – Louisiana State University, USA
- H. H. Nguyen – University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- H. Nikookar – Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
- K. Nishikawa – NTT Corp, Japan
- R. Noe – Univ. Paderborn, Germany
- H. Ohsaki – Osaka University, Japan
- N. Osawa – Chiba University, Japan
- D. O'Shaughnessy – University of Quebec, Canada
- K. Pahlavan – Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
- C. E. Palau Salvador – Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
- A. C. Pang – National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- J. H. Park – Electronics & Telecommunications Research Inst., Korea
- K. Pedrotti – University of California Santa Cruz, USA
- G. D. Peng – University of New South Wales, Australia
- D. V. Plant – McGill University, Canada
- B. Prabhakaran – University of Texas at Dallas, USA
- E. Pun – City University of Hong Kong, PR China
- M. Radenkovic – University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- V. Ramarao – IIT Bombay, India
- M. Roccetti – University of Bologna, Italy
- A. Rostami – Tabriz University, Iran
- I. S. Ruddock – University of Strathclyde , United Kingdom
- Y. Ryu – Myongji University, Korea
- S. Safavi-Naeini – University of Waterloo, Canada
- O. K. Sahingoz – Turkish Air Force Academy, Turkey
- 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 – University of Applied Sciences Bochum, Germany
- M. Shadaram – University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
- K. S. Shanmugan – University of Kansas, USA
- R. K. Shevgaonkar – India Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
- B. Shi – Tsinghua University, PR China
- S. SHIN – MYONGJI UNIVERSITY, Korea
- J. Sil – Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, India
- J. Snyders – Tel Aviv University, Israel
- B. H. Soong – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- H. Sotobayashi – Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
- S. L. Su – National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
- W. Su – US Army Communications Electronics RD&E Center, USA
- Y. Sun – University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- W. T. Sung – National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taiwan
- M. R. Syed – Minnesota State University, USA
- A. Tahat – PSUT, Jordan
- Y. Takahashi – Kyoto University, Japan
- H. Y. Tam – Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PR China
- N. Tansu – Lehigh University, USA
- K. Thyagarajan – Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
- S. Tjuatja – University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- I. Tomkos – Athens Information Technology Center (AIT), Greece
- C. J. Tseng – Northern Taiwan Institute of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- M. Vasilyev – University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- V. Vassiliou – University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- K. Vasudevan – Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
- P. Verma – University of Oklahoma, USA
- A. Vukovic – Communications Research Centre, Canada
- C. L. Wang – National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
- X. Wang – University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
- R. Wolff – Montana State University, USA
- B. E. Wolfinger – University of Hamburg, Germany
- Y. Won – Hanyang University, Korea
- W. K. Wong – City Univ of Hong Kong, PR China
- S. Yam – Queen's University, Canada
- T. A. Yang – University of Houston - Clear Lake, USA
- C. H. Yeh – Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
- S. M. Yen – National Central University, Taiwan
- G. Yovanof – Athens Information Technology, Greece
- D. Y. Yun – University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
- C. J. Zarowski – University of Alberta, Canada
- S. Zeadally – University of the District of Columbia, USA
- J. Zhang – Australian National University, Australia
- A. Zomaya – University of Sydney, Australia
- J. Zou – North China University of Technology, PR China
- M. Zukerman – The University of Melbourne, Australia
Additional Paper Reviewers
- A. Economides – University of Macedonia, Greece
- H. J. Gubashi – University of Baghdad, Iraq
- G. H. Majeed – Baghdad University, Iraq









