2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Introduction to HICCS-47 Wireless Networks Minitrack

Edoardo Biagioni
University of Hawaii
esb@hawaii.edu

John McEachen
Naval Postgraduate School
mceachen@nps.edu

Security is challenging for wireless networks, in

part because signals radiate outwards and can be
intercepted easily and unobtrusively. Because of this,
security cannot be provided simply by protecting the
hardware, and must be supported by the
communication protocol and implementation.

The sixth paper is part of a series in this

minitrack, started in prior years' HICSS, on modeling
a large and realistic mobile data service for the
purposes of improving the service itself. The paper
describes the German automatic tolling system,
which uses cellular networks to report data used in
computing tolls.

The first two papers in this minitrack focus on

security for different wireless networks: WiFi,
generally used for high-speed local interconnection,
and GSM and UMTS, used as part of the cellular
protocols. While the first paper considers the socioeconomic aspects of networking, the second focuses
more on technical issues.

The final paper focuses on supporting wireless

communications with the P2P-SIP combined with
PMIPv6. Using South Korea as an example, the
authors show that their proposed two-level
architecture outperforms a more conventional flat
architecture.

The third paper describes an analytical tool that

uses spectral graph theory to analyze the performance
of a wireless ad-hoc network supporting
communication among mobile nodes.

Taken together, these papers survey much of the

landscape of current research in wireless networking,
an area that is becoming increasingly essential as
well as ubiquitous in daily life and many business
and emergency uses.

The next two papers focus on cellular data

communications, with one focusing on location
estimation in 4G networks, and the other on cooperative cell caching for mobile networks.

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DOI 10.1109/HICSS.2015.667

Murali Tummala
Naval Postgraduate School
mtummala@nps.edu

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