Preliminary Technical Program

Monday, February 24th

9:15 - 9:30 am
Opening

10:30 - 11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Session: Analytical Models I

• On Evaluating Loss Performance Deviation: A Simple Tool and Its Practical Implications
  Roch Guérin, Ying Xu
  
• Extending the Network Calculus Pay Bursts Only Once Principle to Aggregate Scheduling
  Markus Fidler
  
• Modelling the Arrival Process for Packet Audio
  Ingemar Kaj, Ian Marsh
  
• On Packet Delays and Segmentation Methods in IP Based UMTS Radio Access Networks
  Csaba Antal, Gabór Tóth
  

12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 pm
Session: QoS Routing

• On Performance Objective Functions for Optimising Routed Networks for Best QoS
  Huan Pham, Bill Lavery
  
• An Adaptive QoS-Routing Algorithm for IP Networks using Genetic Algorithms
  Hicham Juidette, N. Idboufker, A. Berraissoul
  
• A QoS Routing Mechanism for Reducing the Routing Inaccuracy Effects
  Xavier Masip-Bruin, Sergio Sánchez-López, Josep Solé-Pareta, Jordi Domingo-Pascual
  
• Stability and Scalability Issues in Hop-by-Hop Class-Based Routing
  Marilia Curado, Orlando Reis, Joao Brito, Goncalo Quadros, Edmundo Monteiro
  

3.30 - 4.00 pm Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:50 pm
Session: Measurements and Experimental Results

• Network independent available bandwidth sampling and measurement
  Manthos Kazantzidis, Dario Maggiorini, Mario Gerla
  
• Less than Best Effort: Application Scenarios and Experimental Results
  Tim Chown, Tiziana Ferrari, Simon Leinen, Roberto Sabatino, Nicolas Simar, Stig Venaas
  
• TStat: TCP STatistic and Analysis Tool
  Marco Mellia, Andrea Carpani, Renato Lo Cigno
  
• End-to-End QoS supported on a Bandwidth Broker
  Tereza Vazao, Jose Calhariz
  
• Multidomain End to End IP QoS and SLA
  Mauro Campanella, Michal Przybylski, Rudolf Roth, Afrodite Sevasti, Nicolas Simar
  

Tuesday, February 25th

9:00 - 10:30 am -- Track A
Session: QoS Below IP

• Dimensioning models of shared resources in optical packet switching architectures
  Vincenzo Eramo, Marco Listanti
  
• Efficient Usage of Capacity Resources in Survivable MPλS Networks
  Lan Tran, Kris Steenhaut, Ann Nowe
  
• Performance Evaluation of a Distributed Scheme for Protection against Single and Double Faults for MPLS
  Fabio Ricciato, Marco Listanti, Angelo Belmonte, Daniele Perla
  
• Edge Distributed Admission Control for Performance Improvement in Traffic Engineered Networks
  Roberto Mameli, Alessandro Bosco, Eleonora Manconi, Fabio Ubaldi
  

• Bandwidth Estimation for TCP Sources and its Application
  Rosario Garroppo, Stefano Giordano, Michele Pagano, Gregorio Procissi, Raffaello Secchi
  
• Best-Effort and Guaranteed Performance Services in Telecommunications Networks: Pricing and Call Admission Control Techniques
  Marco Baglietto, Raffaele Bolla, Franco Davoli, Marco Marchese, Maurizio Mongelli
  
• TCP Smart Framing: a Segmentation Algorithm to Improve TCP Performance
  Marco Mellia, Michela Meo, Claudio Casetti
  
• Live Admission Control for Video Streaming
  Pietro Camarda, Domenico Striccoli
  

10:30 - 11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm -- Track A
Session: QoS Multicast

• DQM: An Overlay Scheme for Quality of Service Differentiation in Source Specific Multicast
  Ning Wang, George Pavlou
  
• Directed Trees in Multicast Routing
  Maria João Nicolau, Antonio Costa, Alexandre Santos, Vasco Freitas
  
• A Proposal for a Multicast Protocol for Live Media
  Yuthapong Somchit, Aki Kobayashi, Katsunori Yamaoka, Yoshinori Sakai
  
• On the Use of Sender Adaptation to Improve Stability and Fairness for Layered Multicast Video
  Ping Wu, Ji Xu, Feng Chen, Jihuichuan Liu, Jihui Zhang, Bo Li
  

• A New Fluid-Based Methodology to Model AQM Techniques
  Mario Barbera, Alfio Lombardo, Giovanni Schembra, Antonio Laudani
  
• Stochastic Petri Nets models for the performance analysis of TCP connections
  Rossano Gaeta, Matteo Sereno, Daniele Manini
  
• A Queueing Network Model of Short-Lived TCP Flows with Mixed Wired and Wireless Access Links
  Roberta Fracchia, Renato Lo Cigno, Michele Garetto
  
• TCP SACK Analysis and Improvement through OMQN Models
  Marco Bagnus, Renato Lo Cigno
  

12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 pm -- Track A
Session: Optical Networks

• QoS provision in optical networks by shared protection: an exact approach
  Massimo Tornatore, Achille Pattavina, Guido Maier, Andrea Concaro, Mario Martinelli
  
• Design of WDM Network Exploiting OTDM and Light Splitters
  Paolo Petracca, Marco Mellia, Emilio Leonardi, Fabio Neri
  
• DWDM for QoS management in optical packet switches
  Franco Callegati, Walter Cerroni, Carla Raffaelli, Paolo Zaffoni
  
• Space division architectures for crosstalk reduction in optical interconnection networks
  Andrea Borella, Giovanni Cancellieri, Dante Mantini
  

• The RAMON module: architecture framework and performance results
  Aldo Roveri, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Mauro Femminella, Tommaso Melodia, Giacomo Morabito, Michele Rossi, Ilenia Tinnirello
  
• Reconfigurable Packet Scheduling Jointly Adaptive to Traffic and Channel
  Andrea Baiocchi, Francesca Cuomo, Francesco Vacirca, Alfredo Todini, Tommaso Melodia
  
• Mobility Management in a Reconfigurable Environment: the RAMON Approach
  Mauro Femminella, Leonardo Piacentini
  
• Improving End-To-End Performance in Reconfigurable Networks through Dynamic Setting of TCP Parameters
  Giacomo Morabito, Sergio Palazzo, Michele Rossi, Michele Zorzi
  

3:30 - 4:00 am Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30 pm -- Track A
Session: Provision of Multimedia Services

• Adaptive MPEG-4 Video Streaming with Bandwidth Estimation
  Alex Balk, Dario Maggiorini, Mario Gerla, M.Y. Sanadidi
  
• Dynamic Quality Adaptation Mechanisms for TCP-friendly MPEG-4 Video Transfer
  Naoki Wakamiya, Masaki Miyabayashi, Masayuki Murata, Hideo Miyahara
  
• Traffic Sensitive Active Queue Management for Improved Multimedia Streaming
  Vishal Phirke, Mark Claypool, Robert Kinicki
  
• Multimedia Ad Hoc Wireless LANs with Distributed Channel
  Hyunho Yang, Kiseon Kim
  

• SIP originated dynamic resource configuration in DiffServ networks: SIP / COPS / Traffic Control mechanisms
  Stefano Giordano, Marco Listanti, Fabio Mustacchio, Saverio Niccolini, Stefano Salsano, Luca Veltri
  
• Virtual Flow Deviation: Dynamic Routing of Bandwidth Guaranteed Connections
  Antonio Capone, Luigi Fratta, Fabio Martignon
  
• Design and Implementation of a test bed for qos trials
  Carla Raffaelli, Giorgio Calarco, Roberto Maccaferri, Giovanni Pau
  
• A Linux-based Testbed for Multicast Sessions Set-up in Diff-Serv Networks
  Elena Pagani, Matteo Pelati, Gian Paolo Rossi
  

Wednesday, February 26th

9:00 - 9:30 am
Invited Talk

• Light-Trails: A solution to IP Centric Communication in the Optical Domain
  Imrich Chlamtac, Ashwin Gumaste
  

• End-to-End Bandwidth Estimation for Congestion Control in Packet Networks
  Alfredo Grieco, Saverio Mascolo
  
• Priority-Based Internet Access Control for Fairness Improvement and Abuse Reduction
  Tsung-Ching Lin, Yeali Sunny Sun, Shi-Chung Chang, Shao-I Chu, Yi-Ting Chou, Mei-Wen Li
  
• A Probing Approach for Effective Distributed Resource Reservation
  Lihua Yuan, Chen-Khong Tham, Akkihebbal L. Ananda
  
• Dynamic Adaptation of Virtual Network Capacity for Deterministic Service Guarantees
  Stephan Recker, Heinz Lüdiger, Walter Geisselhardt
  

11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Session: Architectures and Protocols for QoS Provision

• Towards RSVP Version 2
  Rosella Greco, Luca Delgrossi, Marcus Brunner
  
• Analysis of SIP, RSVP and COPS Interoperability
  Csaba Kiraly, Zsolt Pándi, Tien Van Do
  
• Simulation Study of Aggregate Flow Control to Improve QoS in A Differentiated Services Network
  S. Herrería-Alonso, A. Suarez-Gonzalez, M. Fernandez-Veiga, R.F. Rodriguez-Rubio, C. Lopez-Garcia
  
• Quality of Service Multicasting over Differentiated Services Networks
  Giuseppe Bianchi, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi. G. Bonafede, E. Tintinelli