Full program with presentations


Wednesday, 29 September, 2004

Opening Session
09:00 - 09:15:Welcome from the UPC
Prof. Juan Jesús Pérez (Vice-Rector for Ph. D. Program, Research and Technology Transfer, UPC)
Opening Session
09:15 - 09:30:Welcome from Telefónica
Keynote presentation
09:30 - 10:30:Traffic Engineering Automated Manager Tool for IP QoS Network Management
Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Session I: Internet Applications (P2P and VoIP)
10:50 - 11:15:Performance Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Networks for File Distribution
Ernst Biersack (Insitut Eurecom, France), Pablo Rodriguez (Microsoft Research Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Pascal Felber (Institut Eurecom, France)
Session I: Internet Applications (P2P and VoIP)
11:15 - 11:40:MULTI+: Building Topology-Aware Overlay Multicast Trees
Luis Garces-Erice, Ernst Biersack and Pascal Felber (Institut Eurecom, France)
Session I: Internet Applications (P2P and VoIP)
11:40 - 12:05:Predicting the Perceptual Service Quality Using a Trace of VoIP Packets
Christian Hoene, Sven Wiethölter and Adam Wolisz (Technical University Berlin, Germany)
Session I: Internet Applications (P2P and VoIP)
12:05 - 12:30:Evaluating the utility of media-dependent FEC in VoIP flows
Gerardo Rubino and Martin Varela (Irisa - INRIA/Rennes, France)
Session I: Internet Applications (P2P and VoIP)
12:30 - 12:55:Architecture of End-to-End QoS for VoIP Call Processing in the MPLS Network
Chincheol Kim, Sangcheol Shin, Sangyong Ha (National Computerization Agency, Republic of Korea) and Kyongro Yoon, Sunyoung Han (Konkuk University, Republic of Korea)
Session II: Local Area and Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
15:00 - 15:25:Analysis of the Distribution of the Backoff Delay in 802.11 DCF: A Step Towards End-to-end Delay Guarantees in WLANs
Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Session II: Local Area and Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
15:25 - 15:50:Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 DCF with Service Differentiation Support in Non-Saturation Conditions
Li Bo and Roberto Battiti (University of Trento, Italy)
Session II: Local Area and Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
15:50 - 16:15:An Interaction Model and Routing Scheme for QoS Support in Ad Hoc Networks Connected to Fixed Networks
Mari Carmen Domingo and David Remondo (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
Session II: Local Area and Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
16:15 - 16:40:Load Analysis of Topology-Unaware TDMA MAC Policies for Ad-Hoc Networks
Konstantinos Oikonomou (INTRACOM S.A., Greece) and Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens, Greece)
Session III: Service Differentiation and Congestion Control
17:00 - 17:25:Performance of TCP/IP with MEDF Scheduling
Ruediger Martin, Michael Menth and Vu Phan-Gia (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Session III: Service Differentiation and Congestion Control
17:25 - 17:50:Ping Trunking: a Vegas-like Congestion Control Mechanism for Aggregated Traffic
Sergio Herrería-Alonso, Manuel Fernández-Veiga, Miguel Rodríguez-Pérez, Andrés Suárez-González, and Cándido López-García (Universidade de Vigo, Spain)
Session III: Service Differentiation and Congestion Control
17:50 - 18:15:An Aggregate Flow Marker for Improving TCP Fairness in Multiple Domain DiffServ Networks
Ji-Hoon Park, Kyeong Hur, Sungjun Lee and Choon Geun Cho (Korea University, Republic of Korea), Nhokyung Park (Hoseo University, Republic of Korea) and Doo-seop Eom (Korea University, Republic of Korea)
Session III: Service Differentiation and Congestion Control
18:15 - 18:40:Combined Use of Prioritized AIMD and Flow-Based Traffic Splitting for Robust TCP Load Balancing
Onur Alparslan, Nail Akar and Ezhan Karasan (Bilkent University, Turkey)


Thursday, 30 September, 2004

Keynote presentation
09:30 - 10:30:TitleRisk and Resilience in Emerging Networks
Prof. David Hutchison (University of Lancaster, United Kingdom)
Session IV: Traffic Engineering and Routing
10:50 - 11:15:Online Traffic Engineering: A Hybrid IGP+MPLS Routing Approach
Antoine Bagula (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Session IV: Traffic Engineering and Routing
11:15 - 11:40:A Fast Heuristic for Genetic Algorithms in Link Weight Optimization
Christoph Reichert and Thomas Magedanz (FhG Fokus, Germany)
Session IV: Traffic Engineering and Routing
11:40 - 12:05:A New Prediction-based Routing and Wavelength Assignment Mechanism for Optical Transport Networks
Eva Marín-Tordera, Xavier Masip-Bruin, Sergio Sánchez-López Josep Solé-Pareta and Jordi Domingo-Pascual (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Session IV: Traffic Engineering and Routing
12:05 - 12:30:On the Construction of QoS Enabled Overlay Networks
Bart De Vleeschauwer, Filip De Turck, Bart Dhoedt and Piet Demeester (Ghent University, Belgium)
Session IV: Traffic Engineering and Routing
12:30 - 12:55:MPLS Protection Switching vs. OSPF Rerouting, a Simulative Comparison
Sandrine Pasqualini, Andreas Iselt and Andreas Kirstaedter (Siemens AG, Germany) and Antoine Frot (ENST Bretagne, France)
Session V: Enforcing Mobility
15:00 - 15:25:A Distributed-request-based DiffServ CAC for Seamless Fast-Handoff in Mobile Internet
Kyeong Hur (University of Korea, Republic of Korea), Hyung-Kun Park (Korea University of Technology and Education, Republic of Korea), Yeonwoo Lee (i-Networking Lab., Republic of Korea), Seon Wook Kim and Doo-seop Eom (Korea University, Republic of Korea)
Session V: Enforcing Mobility
15:25 - 15:50:Cross-layer analytical modeling of wireless channels for accurate performance evaluation
Dmitri Moltchanov, Yevgeni Koucheryavy and Jarmo Harju (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Session V: Enforcing Mobility
15:50 - 16:15:Efficiency Issues in MPLS Transport for the UMTS Access Network
Enrique Vazquez, Manuel Alvarez-Campana and Ana Belen Garcia (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
Session V: Enforcing Mobility
16:15 - 16:40:QoS Constraints in Bluetooth-based Wireless Sensor Network
Veselin Rakocevic, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Kerry-Ann McCalla, and Charbel Boumitri (City University, United Kingdom)
Panel session: New face for QoS: Will Novel Communication Paradigms make Internet QoS easy?
17:00 - 18:40:New face for QoS: Will Novel Communication Paradigms make Internet QoS easy?
Michael Smirnov (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)

 

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