LCS/NEMS2009

London Communications Symposium

Nanotechnology and Electronic Materials Symposium

London Communications Symposium 2009

Session A - Wireless Networks

Energy-Efficient Geographic Routing in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks
Abubaker K M Sidhik, wei feng and Jaafar M H Elmirghani

Achieving Service Differentiation in 802.11e WLANs using p-Persistent CSMA Throughput/Delay Analysis
Richard MacKenzie and Timothy O'Farrell

Performance analysis of a MAC protocol for vehicular multimedia communication
Bilal Qazi, Wanod Kumar and Jaafar Elmirghani

Novel Clustering Algorithm Based on Minimal Path Loss Ratio for Medium Access Control in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication System
Yaamini Harikrishnan and Tim O' Farrell

Improving QoS of Video Transmitted Over 802.11 WLANs Using Frame Aggregation
Salim Abukharis, Richard MacKenzie and Tim O'Farrell

Analysis of Optimal Multihoming Configuration for Vehicular Mobile Networks
Hamada Alshaer, Iftikhar Afridi and Jaafar M.H Elmirghani

Session B - Networks and Protocols

Job-Scheduling with Resource Availability Prediction for Volunteer-Based Grid Computing
Jun Zhang and Chris Phillips

A New Technique for Full Fast Recovery in Hop-by-Hop Routing
Suksant Sae Lor, Raul Landa and Miguel Rio

Genetic Algorithm Approach to Solve the Shortest Disjoint Path Problem for Optimized Rainbow Network Flow of Multiple Description Codes
Huseyin Kusetogullari, Mark Leeson and Evor L Hines

Receiver Playout Buffer Requirement for TCP Video Streaming in the presence of Burst Packet Drops
Xiaochuan Shen, Adrian Wonfor, Richard Penty and Ian White

On Designing the Overlay Topology of ROMCA(Resilient Overlay for Mission Critical Applications)
Xian Zhang and Chris Phillips

Congestion balancing using re-ECN
Joao Araujo, Miguel Rio and George Pavlou

Session C - Signal Processing

Monostatic Coherent Radar Sea Clutter Doppler Analysis
Matthew Ritchie

Cyclostationary signatures for cognitive radio applications and novel multiple access systems
Ryan Grammenos and Yang Yang

Operational Refinement of Image Processing
Davide Anastasia and Ioannis Andreopoulos

Current-Mode High-Frequency Wavelet Filter for Communications
Wenshan Zhao, Yichuang Sun and Yigang He

Quality Reconfigurable Data Converters Using Inexpensive Digital Components
Mohammad Akhtar

Session D - RF Circuits and Systems

A Terahertz Scanner
Robert Steed, Martyn Fice, Lalitha Ponnampalam, Efthymios Rouvalis, Francesca Pozzi, Cyril Renaud, Chin-Pang Liu and Alwyn Seeds

A Travelling-Wave Uni-Travelling Photodiode for Continuous Wave Terahertz Generation
Efthymios Rouvalis, Francesca Pozzi, Robert Steed, Cyril C Renaud and Alwyn J Seeds

Photonics Integration for THz Generation
Francesca Pozzi, Cyril Renaud, Dave Rogers, Ian Lealman and Alwyn Seeds

Surface Waves:What are they? Why are they interesting?
Janice Hendry

Design of a Microstrip Quadplexer for the RoFnet Project
Wafa Isam A Elboushi and Izzat Darwazeh

Session E - Optical Access Networks

Integrated Wireless Optical Networking
Milos Milosavljevic, Pandelis Kourtessis and John Senior

Tackling Nonlinearity in Cost Effective Radio over Fibre
Adeyinka awoye, Mark Leeson and Roger Green

Passive Optical Networks for Particle Physics Applications
Spyridon Papadopoulos, Izzat Darwazeh, Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Jan Troska and John Mitchell

Dynamic Multi-Wavelength GPON (DMW-GPON) Protocol
Ali Gliwan, Pandelis Kourtessis and John Senior

A Genetic Algorithm Method for Multi-spot Diffuse Infrared Wireless Communications
Mohammad Nikkar Esfahani and Jafaar Elmirghani

Optical Burst Equalisation in Next Generation Access Networks
Bowen Cao and John Mitchell

Session F - Mesh and Sensor Networks

A Batch Based Call Admission Control Algorithm for Wireless Mesh Networks
Nika naghavi and Vasilis Friderikos

Applying Complex Event Processing and Extending Sensor Web Enablement to a Health Care Sensor Network Architecture
Jeff Foley and Gavin Churcher

Biologically Inspired, Cooperative Target Tracking Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks
Yousef E M Hamouda and Chris Phillips

Reducing Antenna Beam Switchings in STDMA Based Wireless Mesh Networks
Sergio Gomez Fernandez, Oriol Gras Gras and Vasilis Friderikos

Outage Probability Analysis for Systems Using Amplify-and-Forward Relays with Direct Link
Caijun Zhong, Kai-Kit Wong and Shi Jin

Quality of Information and Efficient Delivery in Military Sensor Networks
Darminder Ghataoura

Session G - Optical Networks

Investigation of Nonlinear Effects in 100 Gbit/s Optical 16QAM Transmission Systems
Chencheng Chang

Improved PSO-based Static RWA Solver Avoiding Premature Convergence
Ali Hassan and Chris Phillips

Energy Efficient Architectures for Optical Networks
Balagangadhar Bathula, Mohammed Alresheedi and Jaafar Elmirghani

Dynamic Optical Networks Demonstrators: Reviewed and Classified
Jose Manuel Delgado Mendinueta, Polina Bayvel and Benn C Thomsen

Design of quantum logic circuits for a three-qubit refined Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm with optically controlled, solid-state quantum logic gates
Andrea Del Duce and Polina Bayvel

Distributed Transversal Filters for GVD Compensation in Multi-Wavelength Optical CDMA Networks
Miguel Pimenta and Izzat Darwazeh

Session H - Wireless Communications

IDFT Based Transmitters for Spectrally Efficient FDM System
Safa Ahmed and Izzat Darwazeh

On the Performance of Timing-Error Tolerant Programmable FIR Filters
Paul Whatmough and Izzat Darwazeh

An Overview of Optimal and sub-Optimal Detection Techniques for a Non Orthogonal Spectrally Efficient FDM
Ioannis Kanaras, Arsenia Chorti, Miguel Rodrigues and Izzat Darwazeh

Performance Increase in WSN by the Adaptation of Spreading Code Length
Fei Qin, Yang Yang and John Mitchell

Pilot Aided Channel Estimation for MIMO-OFDM Systems
Fabien Delestre and Yichuang Sun

Exposure assessment of Electromagnetic Fields from Wireless Computer Networks (Wi-Fi); Phase 1 Laboratory Measurements
Mohammed Khalid

London Communications Symposium

Nanotechnology and Electronic Materials Symposium

Nanotechnology and Electronic Materials Symposiuma

DNA (Microarrays)
Marie-France Belinga

Development of Calibration Target for Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy
Adam Orchard

Fabrication and Characterisation of Nanostructured Organic or Hybrid Cells
Marten Tolk

Mobile Energy
Nicholas Constantino

Mobile Energy
Jacqueline Edge

Plasma Process for Three Dimensional Nanofabrication
Shima Shams

Delta-doped diamond structures for high performance transistor applications
Stephen Russell

Data recovery from damaged electronic memory devices
Daniel Konopinski and Tony Kenyon

Numerical Investigations of Second Harmonic Generation in Metamaterials based on Metallic Nanowires
Claudiu G. Biris and Nicolae C. Panoiu

PANI-Rh Nanocomposites with catalytic properties for electronic devices
Carolina Parada

Optical Metamaterials
Anne Hopkins

Silicon Based Thin Film Solar Cells
Ugochukwu Ezeigwe

Photo-transformation of Amorphous Structures for Silicon Devices
Min Zhang

Probing Individual Atoms in Liquids
Zermina Khan

Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging of Zinc Oxide Crystals
Steven Leake

Initial stages of salt dissolution: Ion or ion pair solvation?
Jiri Klimes and Angelos Michaelides