Thursday, June 13, 2002, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Room: Auditorium B SESSION 51    SPECIAL SESSION: Energy Efficient Mobile Computing    Chair: Enrico Macii - Politecnico di Torino, Torino, ITA    Organizers: Mani Srivastava    This special session will address issues related to the design of computing systems operating at low-power regimes and supporting wireless communication and network connection. Speakers will provide their perspectives regarding three key components of these kinds of systems. The first talk will face the problem of designing low-energy communication protocols; state-of-the-art solutions will be illustrated, also by way of examples. The second presentation will address design and implementation issues of energy-efficient digital architectures for signal processing. Finally, in the third paper, energy considerations concerning RF and mixed-signal circuits to be used in mobile computing systems will be discussed.      51.1 Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols    Speaker(s): Ramesh R. Rao - Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA    Author(s): Carla F. Chiasserini - Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy Pavan Nuggehalli - Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA Vikram Srinivasan - Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA Ramesh R. Rao - Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA      51.2 Reliable and Energy-Efficient Digital Signal Processing    Speaker(s): Naresh R. Shanbhag - Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL    Author(s): Naresh R. Shanbhag - Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL      51.3 CMOS: A Paradigm for Low-Power Wireless?    Speaker(s): Peter Vancorenland - Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium    Author(s): Michiel Steyaert - Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium Peter Vancorenland - Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium