QoS-IP 2008 - Venezia, Italy - February 13-15, 2008

IT-NEWS 2008 - 4th International Workshop on QoS in Multiservice IP Networks (QoS-IP)

Technical Program

Wednesday,
February 13th
Thursday,
February 14th
Friday,
February 15th
8:30 - 9:00 am
Opening
8:30 - 9:30 am
Keynote Speech - Christophe Diot
8:30 - 9:30 am
Keynote Speech - Jim Kurose
9:00 - 10:00 am
Invited Talk - Remy Bayou
9:30 am - 10:45 am
Session 5:
Performance Evaluation
9:30 am - 10:45 am
Session 10:
Routing
10:00 - 11:00 am
Keynote Speech - Anthony Acampora
 
10:45 - 11:15 am
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15 am
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:15 am - Coffee Break
11:15 am - 1:00 pm
Session 1:
Peer to Peer Networks
11:15 am - 1:00 pm
Session 6:
Traffic Measurements: Architectures and Hardware Issues
11:15 am - 1:00 pm
Session 11:
Traffic Measurements: Characterization and Classification
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 - 3:45 pm
Session 2:
Network Planning and Optimization
2:00 - 3:45 pm
Session 3:
Wireless Networks
2:00 - 3:45 pm
Session 7:
Traffic Engineering for End-to-End QoS
2:00 - 3:45 pm
Session 8:
QoS in Special Environments
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Italian PRIN Project Meetings - CARTOON and RECIPE
3:45 - 4:00 pm
Coffee Break
3:45 - 4:00 pm
Coffee Break
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Session 4:
Optical Networks
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Session 9:
Software Routers/Switching


8:30 - 9:00 am
Opening
9:00 - 10:00 am
Invited Talk - Remy Bayou (European Commission)
European research towards a Future Internet

10:00 - 11:00 am
Keynote Speech - Anthony Acampora (University of California, San Diego)
QoS Considerations for Cellular and Ad-hoc Wireless Networks

11:00 - 11:15 am Coffee Break

11:15 am - 1:00 pm
Session 1: Peer to Peer Networks
Chair: Dario Rossi (ENST)
  • A Push-based Scheduling Algorithm for Large Scale P2P Live Streaming
    Lorenzo Bracciale, Francesca Lo Piccolo, Dario Luzzi, Stefano Salsano, Giuseppe Bianchi, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi
  • On the Effect of Free-riders in P2P Streaming Systems
    Viktoria Fodor, Ilias Chatzidrossos
  • Characterizing the Network Behavior of P2P Traffic
    Marco Canini, Riccardo Rapuzzi, Raffaele Bolla, Michele Sciuto
  • Performance of Search Strategies in Two-tier Peer-to-peer Networks
    Rossano Gaeta, Matteo Sereno

1:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 3:45 pm
Session 2: Network Planning and Optimization
Chair: Giuseppe Bianchi (Università di Roma, Tor Vergata
  • Definition and Performance Evaluation of a Request Routing Algorithm to Distribute Digital Cinema Contents
    Dario Di Sorte, Mauro Femminella, Gianluca Reali, Laura Rosati
  • Quality of provisioning as an OPEX-related Issue in Research Networks
    Guido Maier, Lorenzo Colombo, Dario Costantino, Achille Pattavina, Peter Szegedi
  • Implementation of QoS Control Capabilities in SINET3
    Shigeo Urushidani, Yusheng Ji, Jun Matsukata, Kensuke Fukuda, Shunji Abe, Michihiro Koibuchi, Shigeki Yamada
  • Optimal Design of Service Overlay Networks
    Antonio Capone, Jocelyne Elias, Fabio Martignon
2:00 - 3:45 pm
Session 3: Wireless Networks
Chair: Giovanni Schembra (Università di Catania)
  • On the Unfairness Among TCP Flows in IEEE 802.11 Multi-hop Ad-hoc Networks
    Alfredo Todini, Andrea Baiocchi, Andrea Valletta
  • Admission Control of VoIP calls in EDCA WLANs: Analysis and Experimentation
    Filippo Cacace, Giulio Iannello, Luca Vollero, Massimo Vellucci
  • MAC PDU Size Evaluation in IEEE 802.16
    Henrik Martikainen, Alexander Sayenko, Olli Alanen, Vitaliy Tykhomyrov
  • OpenCAPWAP: an Open-source CAPWAP Implementation for Management and QoS Support
    Massimo Bernaschi, Giulio Iannello, Filippo Cacace, Massimo Vellucci, Luca Vollero

3:45 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break

4:00 - 6:00 pm
Session 4: Optical Networks
Chair: Renato Lo CIgno (Università di Trento)
  • Performance Analysis of Multi-Fiber All-Optical Switches Employing Fixed-Input/Tunable-Output Wavelength Converters
    Vincenzo Eramo, Angelo Germoni, Carla Raffaelli, Michele Savi
  • A Control and Management Plane for Large Packet Switches
    Andrea Bianco, Guido Gavilanes Castillo, Jorge Finochietto, Fabio Neri
  • QoS Multi-Spanning Tree for Optical Burst Switching
    Joan Triay, Cristina Cervelló-Pastor
  • Cost and Performance Trade-offs in Reconfiguration Strategies for WDM Networks
    Andrea Bianco, Jorge Finochietto, Chiara Piglione
  • Extension of the Flow-Aware Networking (FAN) Architecture to the IP over WDM Environment
    Victor Lopez, César Cárdenas, José Alberto Hernández, Javier Aracil, Maurice Gagnaire
Thursday, February 14th

8:30 - 9:30 am
Keynote Speech - Christophe Diot (Thomson)
Nano data centers
9:30 am - 10:45 am
Session 5: Performance Evaluation
Chair: Raffaele Bolla (Università di Genova)
  • Resource Allocation and Admission Control in Static Priority Schedulers with Statistical Guarantees
    Paolo Giacomazzi, Gabriella Saddemi
  • Slice-based VBR Video Traffic Estimation of Link Loss by Exceedance
    Natalia Markovich, Astrid Undheim, Peder Emstad
  • A Quasipolynomial-time and Deterministic Source-based Heuristic for Multicasting Multimedia Information
    Hakim Badis

10:45 - 11:15 am Coffee Break

11:15 am - 13:00 am
Session 6: Traffic Measurements: Architectures and Hardware Issues
Chair: Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino)
  • A Cooperative PC/Network-Processor Architecture for Multi Gigabit Traffic Analysis
    Domenico Ficara, Stefano Giordano, Francesco Oppedisano, Gregorio Procissi, Fabio Vitucci
  • Robust Resource Allocation for Online Network Monitoring
    Pere Barlet-Ros, Josep Sanjuàs-Cuxart, Josep Sole Pareta, Gianluca Iannaccone
  • Revealing Transmit Diversity Mechanisms in Commercial IEEE 802.11 Cards
    Domenico Giustiniano, Ilenia Tinnirello, Luca Scalia, Annarita Levanti
  • Coping with Distributed Monitoring of QoS-enabled Heterogeneous Networks
    René Serral-Gracià, Pere Barlet-Ros, Jordi Domingo-Pascual

1:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 3:45 pm
Session 7: Traffic Engineering for End-to-End QoS
Chair: Michele Savi (Università di Bologna)
  • Performance Comparisons of Transport Protocols for Session Initiation Protocol Signaling
    Masataka Ohta
  • Dynamic Path-based End-to-End Delay Management Scheme in Multi-domain Network
    Hyung-Woo Choi, Young Min Kim, Hong-Shik Park
  • A Large Scale Data Transfer Method to Reduce Reservation Bandwidth over DiffServ AF Networks
    Masaaki Noro, Ken-ichi Baba, Shimojo Shinji
  • Novel Traffic Engineering Scheme Based upon Application Flows for QoS Enhancement
    Masashi Hashimoto, Yukimatu Ken-ichi, Aki Fukuda
2:00 - 3:45 pm
Session 8: QoS in Special Environments
Chair: Ilenia Tinnirello (Università di Palermo)
  • Analysis of a Quality of Service Framework for Home Area Networks
    Marco Baldi, Stefano Morichetti, Ennio Gambi
  • Performance Analysis of Different Network Topologies for In-Vehicle Audio and Video Communication
    Mehrnoush Rahmani, Rainer Steffen
  • Explicit Application-Network Cross-layer Optimisation
    Dimitrios Pezaros, Laurent Mathy
  • A Scheduling Method Considering Playing Time in Selective Contents Broadcasting
    Yusuke Gotoh, Tomoki Yoshihisa, Masanori Kanazawa

3:45 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break

4:00 - 6:00 pm
Session 9: Software Routers/Switching
Chair: Paolo Giaccone (Politecnico di Torino)
  • Multi-path OSPF Performance of a Software Router in a Link Failure Scenario
    Vincenzo Eramo, Antonio Cianfrani, Marco Listanti
  • HERO: High-speed Enhanced Routing Operation in Software Routers NICs
    Michele Petracca, Robert Birke, Andrea Bianco
  • An Effective Forwarding Architecture for SMP Linux Routers
    Roberto Bruschi, Raffaele Bolla
  • Low-cost SBC cards to Provide Multipoint to Multimedia Communications Sessions
    Giovanni Schembra, Dario Marchese, Francesco Licandro, Marina Masi, Alessandra Russo
  • Multi-chip Multicast Schedulers in Input Queued Switches
    Andrea Bianco, Alessandra Scicchitano
Friday, February 15th

8:30 - 9:30 am
Keynote Speech - Jim Kurose (UMass)
QoS granularity: resource sharing, virtualization, and application perspective
9:30 am - 10:45 am
Session 10: Routing
Chair: Stefano Secci (Politecnico di Milano)
  • To Update Network State or Not?
    Bingjie Fu, Fernando Kuipers, Piet Van Mieghem
  • On the Selection of Optimal Diverse AS-Paths for Inter-Domain IP/(G)MPLS Tunnel Provisioning
    Stefano Secci, Jean-Louis Rougier, Achille Pattavina
  • A QoS-aware Multicast Overlay Spanning Tree Protocol for Multimedia Applications in Mobile Ad hoc Networks
    Hakim Badis

10:45 - 11:15 am Coffee Break

11:15 am - 1:00 pm
Session 11: Traffic Measurements: Characterization and Classification
Chair: Stefano Giordano (Università di Pisa)
  • Following Skype Signaling Footsteps
    Dario Rossi, Marco Mellia, Michela Meo
  • Fitting Heavy-Tailed HTTP Traces with the New Stratified EM-algorithm
    Ramin Sadre, Boudewijn Haverkort
  • Traditional IP Measurements: What Changes in a Today Multimedia IP Network
    Delia Ciullo, Marco Mellia, Michela Meo
  • Support Vector Regression for Link Load Prediction
    Paola Bermolen, Dario Rossi
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Italian PRIN Project Meetings - CARTOON and RECIPE


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