Dear WICAT Members and Friends,

Our next semi-annual WICAT Research Review and Industry Advisory Board (IAB) meeting will take place on May 12th and 13th, 2008 at our Polytechnic University site.

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The address for the conference site is:         Polytechnic University Dibner Library/CATT Building 5 MetroTech Center Brooklyn, NY 11201 For directions Click Here

For accomodations see the following links: New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge Comfort Inn Brooklyn Bridge The Holiday Inn Express Brooklyn

WICAT Research Review Agenda

May 12 and 13, 2008

Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York

May 12
12:00 pm	Informal Lunch – LC400
1:00 pm	Welcome to WICAT – Jerry M. Hultin, President of Polytechnic University
1:30 pm	Research Presentations: Auburn University Research Overview at WICAT@Auburn – Prathima Agrawal RFIC Design – Foster Dai Multimedia over Wireless – Shiwen Mao Collaborative Robotics – Charles Wilson and Thad Roppel
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Research Presentations: Virginia Tech Research Overview at WICAT@VT – Tamal Bose Power Reduction Using Cognitive Radios – An He VT-CORNET: Virginia Tech Cognitive Network Testbed – Xuetao Chen and Dinesh Datla Combined Blind Equalization and Automatic Modulation Classification for Cognitive Radios – Barathram Ramkumar
5:00 pm	Posters, Demonstrations
6:30 pm	Dinner – Regna Lounge
	Student gathering
May 13
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast – LC400
9:00 am	Research Presentations: University of Virginia UVa Site Progress Report – Barry Horowitz A Performance Estimation Based Tree Algorithm for Reducing Computation in Automatic Target Recognition – Dave Redard User-Driven Flow Control of Video Imagery for a Mobile Information Processing Architecture – David Czarnecki A Reconfigurable, Predictive Software Agent for End-to-End QoS in MANETs – Fernan Pedraza
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Research Presentations: Polytechnic University Polytechnic Site Progress Report – David Goodman User-Assisted Secure Association of Wireless Devices – Nitesh Saxena Cooperative Communications – Shivendra Panwar Layered Wireless Video Multicast Using Directional Relays – Ozgu Alay
12:30 pm	Lunch, Poster Session – RH 116
1:30 pm	Board Meeting
3:00 pm	Adjourn