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Organizer: Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
ComSoc Technical Committee Sponsor: Communications Systems Integration and Modeling

 

IPS-1A. Opening Session.

26 November, 9:00 am

Chairman: Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Keynote speech: Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA.
Title: Network modeling: choosing the next generation of challenges

IPS-1B. Multicast Performance.

26 November, 11:00 am

Chairman: Amitabh Mishra, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA.
  • IPS01B-1 Analytical Study of Reliable Multicast for Host Mobility in IP Networks, Wanjiun Liao, Jiunn-Ru Lai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • IPS01B-2 Evaluating Graph Theoretic Clustering Algorithms for Reliable Multicasting, Esther Hsini Jennings, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA; Lenka Motyckova, David Carr, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
  • IPS01B-3 An Area-Based Feedback Implosion Control Mechanism With Deterministic Timeouts, Sujata Banerjee, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and University of Pittsburgh, USA; Shuju Wu, University of Pittsburgh, USA

IPS-2. TCP: Enhancements and Performance.

26 November, 02:00 pm

Chairman: Giuseppe Bianchi, Palermo University, Italy
  • IPS02-1 TCP Westwood: Window Control Using Bandwidth Estimation, Mario Gerla, M. Y. Sanadidi, Ren Wang, Andrea Zanella, UCLA, USA; Claudio Casetti, Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
  • IPS02-2 TCP Westwood: Analytic Model and Performance Evaluation, Andrea Zanella, Gregorio Procissi, Mario Gerla, M. Y. "Medy" Sanadidi, UCLA, USA
  • IPS02-3 TCP Smart Framing: Using Smart Segments to Enhance the Performance of TCP, Marco Mellia, Michela Meo, Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • IPS02-4 TCP k-SACK: A Simple Protocol to Improve Performance over Lossy Links, Abhay Chrungoo, Vishu Gupta, Huzur Saran, Indian Institute of Technology, India; Rajeev Shorey, IBM India Research Laboratory, India
  • IPS02-5 On the Proportional Fairness of TCP Vegas Dung Luong, Jozsef Biro, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
  • IPS02-6 Impact of Flow Control Window in TCP on Fractal Scaling of Internet Traffic Heung-No Lee, HRL Laboratories, L.L.C., USA
  • IPS02-7 Efficient Simulation of TCP/IP Networks Characterized by Non-Rare Events Using DPR-based Simulation, Keith Townsend, Ozdemir Akin, North Carolina State University, USA

IPS-3. Wireless Packet Networks Performance.

27 November, 09:00 am

Chairman: Oliver Yang, University of Ottawa, Canada.
  • IPS03-1 Traffic Modeling and Characterization for UMTS Networks, Alexander Klemm, Christoph Lindemann, Marco Lohmann, University of Dortmund, Germany
  • IPS03-2 A Fast Handoff Scheme for Packet Data Service in the CDMA 2000 System, Hoon Choi, Chungnam National University, Korea; Nader Moayeri, National Institute of Standards, USA
  • IPS03-3 Tradeoff Analysis for Location Update and Paging in Wireless Networks, Yuguang Fang, University of Florida, USA
  • IPS03-4 Wireless Internet over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, Gang Wu, Communications Research Laboratory, Japan; Paul J.M. Havinga, University of Twente, Netherlands; Mitsuhiko Mizuno, Communications Research Laboratory, Japan
  • IPS03-5 Improving TCP over Wireless through Adaptive Link Layer Setting, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • IPS03-6 TCP Performance in the G PRS System Adopting the Channel Quality Aware Scheduler, Rosario Giuseppe Garroppo, Stefano Giordano, Stefano Lucetti, University of Pisa, Italy
  • IPS03-7 A Model for TCP Behaviour over Cellular Radio Channels With Link Layer Error Recovery, Rami Mukhtar, Hanly Vaughn Hanly, University of Melbourne, Australia

IPS-4. TCP: Performance Models.

27 November, 02:00 pm

Chairman: Renato Lo Cigno, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
  • IPS04-1 Analytic Models and Comparative Study of the Latency and Steady-State Throughput of TCP Tahoe, Reno and SACK, Biplab Sikdar, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Kenneth S Vastola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
  • IPS04-2 Analytical Estimation of Completion Times of Mixed NewReno and Tahoe TCP Connections over Single and Multiple Bottleneck Networks, Elisa Alessio, Michele Garetto, Renato LoCigno, Michela Meo, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • IPS04-3 Performance Analysis of TCP Connections With RED Control and Exogenous Traffic, Vinod Sharma, Punyaslok Purkayastha, Indian Institute of Science, India
  • IPS04-4 Using TCP Models To Understand Bandwidth Assurance in a Differentiated Services Network, M. Devetsikiotis, NC State University, USA; B. Nandy, Tropic Networks, Canada; N. Seddigh, Tropic Networks, Canada; Mandeep Singh Baines, Carleton University, USA
  • IPS04-5 Limit Results for Markovian Models of TCP, Vincent Dumas, INRIA, France; Fabrice Guillemin, France Telecom R&D, France; Philippe Robert, INRIA, France
  • IPS04-6 Analysis of Dynamic Behaviors of Many TCP Connections Sharing Tail--Drop/RED Routers, Go Hasegawa, Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan
  • IPS04-6 Analysis of TCP Performance over Hybrid "fast Fixed - to - Slow Wireless" Buffered Links, Rami Gabriel Mukhtar, The University of Melbourne, Australia; Stephen Vaughn Hanly, The University of Melbourne, Australia; Hai Le Vu CUBIN, The University of Melbourne, Australia; Milosh Ivanovich, Telstra Research Laboratories, Australia; Paul Fitzpatrick, Telstra Research Laboratories, Australia;

IPS-5. Router Behavior and Performance.

28 November, 9:00 am

Chairman: Hussein Mouftah, Queens University, Kingston, Canada.
  • IPS05-1 A Weighted Fair Queueing Scheduler With Decoupled Bandwidth and Delay Guarantees for the Support of Voice Traffic , Andrea Francini, Fabio Massimo Chiussi, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA
  • IPS05-2 Packet Marking for Web traffic in Networks With RIO Routers , Marco Mellia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Ion Stoica, University of California at Berkeley, USA; Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • IPS05-3 Measurement Based Analysis of Delay in Priority Queuing , Tiziana Ferrari, CNAF-INFN, Italy; Giovanni Pau, Carla Raffaelli, University of Bologna, Italy
  • IPS05-4 ItswTCM: A New Aggregate Marker to Improve Fairness in DiffServ , Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA; Hongjun Su, University of Dayton, USA
  • IPS05-5 Queue Dynamics of R ED Gateways Under Large Number of TCP Flows, Armand M.Makowski, Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, University of Maryland, USA
  • IPS05-6 Optimal Buffer Partitioning for Multiclass Markovian Traffic Sources , Weihua Zhuang, Yu Cheng, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • IPS05-7 Bounds for Independent Regulated Inputs Multiplexed in a Service Curve Network Element , Milan Vojnovic, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

IPS-6. Traffic Models and Routing Performance.

28 November, 2:00 pm

Chairman: Rajeev Shorey, IBM India Research Laboratory
  • IPS06-1 Characterisation of Web Traffic , Eduardo Casilari, Arcadio Reyes, Francisco Javier Gonzalez, Antonio Diaz Estrella, Francisco Sandoval, University of Malaga, Spain
  • IPS06-2 Self-Similarity in Bottleneck Buffers, Attila Fekete, Gabor Vattay, Eötvös University, Hungary
  • IPS06-3 Bit-Map Trie: A Data Structure for Fast Forwarding Lookups, Seung Oh, Jong Ahn, Dongguk University, Korea
  • IPS06-4 Design of Multi-Field IPv6 Packet Classifiers Using Ternary CAMs, Nen-Fu Huang, Whai-En Chen, Jiau-Yu Luo, Jun-Ming Chen, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan
  • IPS06-5 A Realistic Model to Evaluate Routing Algorithms in the Internet , Claudio Casetti, Renato Lo Cigno, Marco Mellia, Maurizio Munafo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Zoltan Zsoka, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
  • IPS06-6 Performance Evaluation of a Measurement-Based Algorithm for Distributed Admission Control in a DiffServ Framework , Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Palermo, Italy; Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, University of Perugia, Italy; Mauro Femminella, University of Perugia, Italy; Fabio Pugini, University of Rome, Italy
  • IPS06-7 An Approximate Calculation of Max-Min Fair Throughputs for Non-Persistent Elastic Sessions, Pinaki Shankar Chanda, Anurag Kumar, Arzad Alam Kherani, Indian Institute of Science, India