Letter from the General Chair |
Letter from the Technical Program Chairs |
Symposium Committees |
Reviewers |
Internet I - WWW / Session 1: |
Detecting Timed-Out Client Requests for Avoiding Livelock and Improving Web Server Performance / R. Carter ; L. Cherkasova |
Flex: Load Balancing and Management Strategy for Scalable Web Hosting Service |
Bandwidth Sensitive Content Transformation in Pervasive Computing / C. Hung ; L. Hong |
Design of a Media Service Provider Architecture for the Internet / A. Calvagna ; A. Puliafito ; O. Tomarchio |
Virtual Network Ports: Design, Implementation and Applications / V. Vuppala ; L. Ni |
Access Networks / Session 2: |
Solutions for Service Deployment in The Edge of the Network / D. Chantrain |
Performance Evaluation of a Time Division Multiplexing Method Applicable for Dynamic Transfer Mode Networks / C. Antal ; J. Biro ; T. Henk ; G. Matefi |
Multilevel Reed-Solomon Coding in Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines / L. Zhang ; A. Yongacoglu |
Performance Optimisation of AAL2 Signalling for Supporting Soft Handoffs in UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Networks / I. Szabo ; S. Szekely ; I. Moldovan |
Multiaccess Strategies in an Integrated UTRA System / M. Ruiz-Garcia ; J. Burgos-Lati ; J. Romero-Jerez ; A. Diaz-Estrella |
Network Management / Session 3: |
Generic QoS-Support for CORBA / C. Becker ; K. Geihs |
The Study and Implementation of the VPN Service Management System / Q. Xuesong ; X. Ao ; M. Luoming |
Evolution of Operation Support Systems in Public Data Networks / M. Sherif ; S. Ho |
Classification and Computation of Dependencies for Distributed Management / A. Keller U. Blumenthal ; G. Kar |
A CORBA-Based Distributed Multimedia Database Management Layer: Design and Implementation Aspects / A. Coelho ; I. Ricarte |
Internet II - TCP and Performance Aspects / Session 4: |
Quantifying TCP Performance Improvements in Noisy Environments Using Protocol Boosters / D. Bakin ; M. Joa-Ng ; A. McAuley |
A Simple Refinement of Slow-Start of TCP Congestion Control / H. Wang ; H Xin ; D. Reeves ; K. Shin |
Energy/Throughput Tradeoffs of TCP Error Control Strategies / V. Tsaoussidis ; H. Badr ; X. Ge ; K. Pentikousis |
Extending Mobile IP with Adaptive Individual Paging: A Performance Analysis / C. Castelluccia |
Design and Performance of a Scalable Real Time Control Protocol: Simulations and Evaluations / R. El-Marakby |
Some Observations on Fairness of Bandwidth Sharing / D. Chiu |
Optical Networks / Session 5: |
Distributed Algorithms and Architectures for Optical Flow Switching in WDM Networks / B. Ganguly ; E. Modiano |
Wavelength Converters for Deflection Routing Networks / T. Chich ; F. Clerot |
Dynamic Routing and Wavelength Assignment Using First Policy Iteration / E. Hyytia ; J. Virtamo |
Comparative Study of Parallel vs. Distributed Genetic Algorithm Implementation for ATM Networking Environment / A. Sleem ; M. Ahmed ; A. Kumar ; K. Kamel |
Network Security / Session 6: |
Security Requirements for Management Systems Using Mobile Agents / H. Reiser ; G. Vogt |
A Simple XOR-Based Technique for Distributing Group Key in Secure Multicasting / S. Ghanem ; H. Abdel-Wahab |
FATIMA: A Firewall-Aware Transparent Internet Mobility Architecture / S. Mink ; F. Pahlke ; G. Schafer ; J. Schiller |
Light Weight Security for Parallel Access to Multiple Mirror Sites / B. Yener |
ATM Security with Firewalls / C. Simon ; A. Torok |
Internet III--MPLS and Traffic Issues / Session 7: |
Differentiated Services and Integrated Services Use of MPLS / N. Rouhana ; E. Horlait |
Fractal Traffic Models for Internet Simulation / B. Ryu ; S. Lowen |
An Empirical Study of Today's Internet Traffic for Differentiated Services IP QoS / F. Li ; N. Seddigh ; B. Nandy ; D. Matute |
Formulation of the Traffic Engineering Problems in MPLS Based IP Networks / M. Girish ; B. Zhou ; J-Q. Hu |
A Performance System Based on the Balanced Scorecard Approach for Measuring Performance in a Business Environment / G. Vardangalos ; A. Pantelis |
Study of a Transport Protocol Employing Bottleneck Probing and Token Bucket Flow Control / R. Wade ; M. Kara ; P. Dew |
Satellite Communication / Session 8: |
Location Registration and Paging in Mobile Satellite Systems / J. McNair |
Bulk Data Multicast Rate Scheduling for Hybrid Heterogeneous Satellite-Terrestrial Networks / A. Tunpan ; M. Corson |
Acceleration of TCP Throughput over Satellite-Based Internet Access Using TCP Gateway / Y. Miyake ; T. Hasegawa ; T. Kato |
Bit Error Rate Evaluation of a Spectrally Efficient CDMA Scheme for Geostationary Satellite Communications / E. Geraniotis ; D. Gerakoulis |
DRS Compression Applied to MPEG-2 Video Data Transmitted over a Satellite Channel / N. Celandroni ; E. Ferro ; F. Potorti ; A. Chimienti ; M. Lucenteforte |
Standardization and E-Commerce / Session 9: |
Producing Standards for Communication Systems--The Impact of the Individual / K. Jakobs |
Standards and Intellectual Property Rights--The International Standardization of Third-Generation Mobile System / B. Hjelm |
Single-Term Divisible Electronic Cash Based on Bit Commitment / M. Zhong ; Y. Feng ; Y. Yang |
Business-to-Consumer Electronic Commerce: A Longitudinal Study / M. Limayem ; M. Khalifa |
Network and Service Anomaly Detection in Multi-Service Transaction-Based Electronic Commerce Wide Area Networks / L. Ho ; S. Papavassiliou |
Multimedia I / Session 10: |
Estimation of Multiplexer-Introduced Loss for MPEG-4 Data Streams Connected to (R)CBR Channels / U. Mayer ; J. Deicke ; M. Glesner |
A Standalone Video Communication System for Wireless Applications / H. Ng ; H. Toh ; S. Rahardja ; H. Huang ; X. Chen ; H. Lan ; X. Lin |
Analyses of MPEG-4 Video Streams Processing in Computer Clusters Based on Multihop ATM Networks / Z. Zografski ; T. Janevski |
Bandwidth Adaptation of Audio Streams for Mobile Hosts / K. Brown ; L. Christianson |
An End to End QoS Discovery Architecture Embedded in a TINA Based Multimedia Platform / F. Vandermeulen ; B. Vermeulen ; P. Demeester ; F. Steegmans ; S. Vermeulen |
Quality of Service I / Session 11: |
Differentiated Service Performance Analysis / L. Nguyen ; T. Eyers ; J. Chicharo |
Performance Evaluation of Per-Hop Forwarding Behaviors in the Diffserv Internet / Z. Di ; H. Mouftah |
Achieving Per-Flow Fair Rate Allocation within Diffserv / N. Li ; M. Borrego ; S-q. Li |
A Novel Buffer Management Scheme for CBQ-Based IP Routers in a Combined IntServ and DiffServ Architecture / M. Markaki ; I. Venieris |
Dynamic Management for End-to-End IP QoS: From Requirements to Offers / F. Bennani ; N. Simoni |
Performance Analysis of QoS Mechanisms in IP Networks / D. Jia ; E. Dutkiewicz |
Broadband Networks I - ATM / Session 12: |
Design and Implementation of an ABR Server in a Shared-Bus ATM Switch / E. Zervanos ; G. Stassinopoulos |
Using Dynamic Weights for Improving Fairness in the ATM ABR Service / J. Chew ; A. Gupta |
Improvement of Traffic Load Measurement Mechanism of ATM Switches in Presence of VBR Traffic / S. Kamolphiwong |
Scalable Memory Management for ATM Systems / D. Serpanos ; P. Karakonstantis |
Inverse Multiplexing for ATM. Technical Operation, Applications and Performance Evaluation Study / M. Postigo-Boix ; J. Garcia-Haro ; M. Aguilar-Igartua |
Multimedia II / Session 13: |
Light-Weight Stream Synchronization Framework for Multimedia Collaborative Applications / A. Gonzalez ; H. Adbel-Wahab |
An Efficient and Flexible Late Join Algorithm for Interactive Shared Whiteboards / W. Geyer ; J. Vogel ; M. Mauve |
Implementing a User Level Multimedia Transport Protocol in Java / L. Apvrille ; L. Dairaine ; L. Rojas ; P. Senac ; M. Diaz |
Phase Locked Loop Using Delay Compensation Techniques / F. Spagna |
Diagnostic Tests for Communicating Nondeterministic Finite State Machines / R. Belhassine-Cherif ; A. Ghedamsi |
Quality of Service II / Session 14: |
Non-Exhaustive Channel Access Strategy in Multi-Resource Communication Systems with Non-Homogeneous Traffic / A. Melikov ; D. Deniz |
Introducing Service Differentiation into IEEE 802.11 / I. Aad |
An Analysis of the Backoff Mechanism Used in IEEE 802.11 Networks / M. Natkaniec ; A. Pach |
Improving QoS for Real-Time Traffic in a Shared Link / P. Gong ; M. Lee ; T. Saadawi |
An Admission Control Algorithm for Providing Quality-of-Service Guarantee for Individual Connection in a Video-on-Demand System / J. Lui ; X. Wang |
Measurement-Based Admission Control: A Large Deviations Approach for Bufferless Multiplexers / M. Reisslein |
Broadband Networks II / Session 15: |
Experiences in Programming a Traffic Shaper / D-M. Chiu ; M. Kadansky ; J. Provino ; J. Wesley |
System Stability with the PD ABR Flow Control Algorithm / I. Lengliz ; F. Kamoun |
The Adaptive Load Service (ALS): An ABR-Like Service for the Internet / D. Sisalem ; H. Schulzrinne |
Continuous Bandwidth, Non-Blocking, Multirate Switching in 3-Stage Clos Networks / W. Kabacinski ; F. Liotopoulos |
A Fair and Efficient Multicast ATM Switch Based on Deflection Routing / R. Kannan ; S. Ray |
Panel: Network Management / Veli Sahin ; Salah Aidorous ; Omar Mansour |
Wireless Communications I / Session 16: |
Energy-Efficient Adaptive Wireless Network Design / P. Havinga ; G. Smit ; M. Bos |
Designing a Minimal Cost Wireless Network: A Case Study / R. Stanley |
A Fully Distributed Location Management Scheme for Large PCS / K. Ratnam ; I. Matta ; S. Rangarajan |
Striping Scheme for Wireless Communication Systems / F. Jacquet ; P. Kauffmann ; M. Misson |
Study of a Home Automation Network Radio Variant: The Case of Teledomotis |
Network Architecture / Session 17: |
Iso WAN: A NASA Science and Engineering Information and Services Framework / D. Korsmeyer ; E. Chow ; M. Conroy |
The Internet Is Challenging the Intelligent Network / B. El Ouahidi ; M. Bouhdadi ; D. Bourget |
Application Level Error Recovery Using Active Network Nodes / J. Meggers ; M. Wallbaum |
The Use of Software Agents as Proxies / B. Thai ; A. Seneviratne |
Extending the MASIF Location Service in the MAP Agent System / E. Di Pietro ; A. La Corte |
Routing / Session 18: |
On-Demand QoS-Based Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks / Y-K. Ho ; R-S. Liu |
Load-Balanced Anycast Routing in Computer Networks / W. Zauemen ; S. Vutukury ; J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves |
On the Performance of a Scalable Single-Tier Position Based Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-hoc Wireless Networks / S. Xu ; K. Amouris |
Optimal Multi-Path End-to-End Data Transmission in Networks / G. Xue |
Connection-Oriented Routing in Ad Hoc Networks Based on Dynamic Group Infrastructure / Y-L. Chang ; C-C. Hsu |
Wireless Communications II - Traffic Issues / Session 19: |
Call Admission Control for Multimedia Services in Mobile Cellular Networks: A Markov Decision Approach / J. Choi ; T. Kwon ; Y. Choi ; M. Naghshineh |
Connection Admission Control in Micro-Cellular Multi-Service Mobile Networks / R. Raad |
An Adaptive Redundancy Technique for Wireless Indoor Multicasting / Y. Xu ; T. Zhang |
An Adaptive, Location-Aware Hoarding Mechanism / U. Kubach ; K. Rothermel |
On Multiple Traffic Type Integration over Wireless TDMA Channels / P. Koutsakis ; M. Paterakis |
Distributed Systems / Session 20: |
Implementing a Distributed Server Using Mobile Agent Technology / V. Carchiolo ; M. Malgeri ; G. Mangioni |
The Partition Method for the Order - Insensitivity in a Synchronous Distributed Systems / M. Yeddes ; H. Alla ; R. David |
Managing Services in Distributed Systems by Integrating Trading and Load Balancing / D. Thissen ; H. Neukirchen |
Resource Balancing Using Trader Federation / C. Daval-Frerot ; M. Lacroix ; H. Guyennet |
A UML Based Methodology for the Creation of TINA Compatible Telecommunications Services / D. Adamopoulos ; G. Pavlou ; C. Papandreou |
Hierarchical Performance Modeling for Distributed System Architectures / D. Smarkusky ; R. Ammar ; I. Antonios ; H. Sholl |
Multicast / Session 21: |
Contractual Group Membership CGM: A New Mechanism for Multicast Group Management / T. Asfour ; S. Block ; A. Serhrouchni ; S. Tohme |
A Tree Switching Protocol for Multicast State Reduction / F. Cheng ; R. Chang |
A Rate-Based End-to-End Multicast Congestion Control Protocol / S. Shi ; M. Waldvogel |
Router-Assistance for Receiver Access Control in PIM-SM / T. Hardjono |
DISEC: A Distributed Framework for Scalable Secure Many-to-Many Communication / L. Dondeti ; S. Mukherjee ; A. Samal |
Wireless Communications IIII - CDMA / Session 22: |
Decentralized Power Control Algorithms for Multi-Service CDMA-Based Cellular Systems / G. Kotsakis ; P. Demestichas |
Association of Uplink Power Control and Base Station Assignment in Cellular CDMA Systems / L. Nuaymi ; P. Godlewski |
Throughput and Efficiency Capacities of Optical OOK-CDMA Communication Systems / H. Shalaby |
Transmit Diversity Combining for Wideband DS/CDMA in Wireless Communications Systems / R. Choi ; K. Lataief ; R. Murch |
Resource Allocation and Capacity in Wireless CDMA Networks Using Adaptive Power Control and Antenna Array Multiuser Receiver / Y. Guo ; B. Aazhang |
Coding and Signal Processing / Session 23: |
Iterative Decoding of Product Codes Composed of Extended Hamming Codes / N. Yu ; Y. Kim ; P. Lee |
General Construction of Periodic Complete Complementary Codes Composed of Expanded Modulatable Orthgonal Sequences / H. Torii ; N. Suehiro ; M. Nakamura |
An Adaptive Method of IFS Image Compression Based on Creditability / D. Yun-Zhao ; C. He-Xin |
A Secure Data Hiding Scheme for Two-Color Images / H-K. Pan ; Y-Y. Chen ; Y-C. Tseng |
Performance Improvement of Nonuniform Polarity-DPLL Symbol Synchronizers by Using Novel Adaptive Statistical Loop Filtering Technique / I. Panayiotopoulos ; P. Constantinou |
Scheduling / Session 24: |
An Effective Scheduler for IP Routers / G. Quadros ; A. Alves ; E. Monteiro ; F. Boavida |
Packet Scheduling Based on Learning in the Next Generation Internet Architectures / A. Melo, Jr. ; J. Coello |
How Unfair Can Weighted Fair Queuing Be? |
Managing Performance Using Weighted Round-Robin / J. Wang ; Y. Levy |
RED Behavior with Different Packet Sizes / S. De Cnodder ; O. Elloumi ; K. Pauwels |
Author Index |