18th International TELETRAFFIC CONGRESS

Providing QoS in Heterogeneous Environments

Haus am Köllnischen Park, Berlin, Germany
31 August - 5 September 2003

Tuesday, 2 September 2003 09:00-10:30 h Plenary Session 2 Traffic Characterization & Web Performance Invited talk NN What Does the Mean Mean? M. Roughan, O. Spatscheck, USA Profile-Based Traffic Characterization of Commercial Web Sites Z. Liu, M.S. Squillante, C. Xia, S.Z. Yu, L. Zhang, USA 10:30-11:00 h Coffee break 11:00-12:30 h Plenary Session 3 Network Planning and Dimensioning Dimensioning High Speed IP Access Networks T. Bonald, P. Olivier, J. Roberts, France Service Availability in Distributed Network Architectures: Evaluation and Planning Issues M. Schopp, J. Viallon, Germany Network Tomography: an Iterative Bayesian Analysis S. Vaton, A. Gravey, France A Scalable and Efficient Methodology for Flow Monitoring in the Internet M. Molina, Germany 12:30-14:00 h Lunch break 14:00-15:30 h Parallel Session 5 Routing A Routing and Resource Preservation Strategy for Traffic Engineering in Communication Networks M. Heusse, A. Gravey, France Interdomain Traffic Engineering with Minimal BGP Configurations S. Uhlig, O. Bonaventure, B. Quoitin, Belgium An Adaptive Load Balancing Method for Multiple Paths Using Flow Statistics R. Kawahara, Japan Traffic Engineering in Hierarchical Multi-Provider Networks G. Apostolopoulos, Canada IGP Link Weight Assignment for Transient Link Failures A. Nucci, B. Schroeder, S. Bhattacharyya, N. Taft, USA, C. Diot, UK 14:00-15:30 h Parallel Session 6 Resource Allocation Radio Resource Management in WCDMA-Based Networks in Emergency Situations K. Kordybach, S. Nousiainen, Finland Converting QoS Policy Specification into Fuzzy Logic Parameters M.P. Fernandez, A. de C.P. Pedroza, J.F. Rezende,Brazil Analysis on Conformance Deterioration for QoS Provisioning: A Stochastic Approach F.Y. Li, Norway Bandwidth-Sharing Schemes for Multiple Multi-Party Sessions Z. Liu, USA, N. Malouch, France, V. Misra, D. Rubenstein, S. Sahu, USA Telecommunications Network Equilibrium with Price and Quality-of-Service Characteristics R. El Azouzi, E. Altman, France, L. Wynter, USA 14:00-15:30 h Parallel Session 7 Measurements Experience in Measuring Internet Backbone Traffic Variability: Models, Metrics, Measurements and Meaning M. Roughan, A Greenberg, C. Kalmanek, M. Rumsewicz, J. Yates, Y. Zhang, USA A Portrait of a GPRS/GSM Session  J. Kilpi, Finland Identification of Performance Degradation in IP Networks Using Throughput Statistics M. Fiedler, P. Carlsson, A.A. Nilsson, Sweden, K. Tutschku, Germany Analysis of Performance Impact of Drill-Down Techniques for Web Traffic Models C.H. Xia, Z. Liu, M.S. Squillante, L. Zhang, USA, N. Malouch, France Radon Spectroscopy of Packet Delay A. Broido, R. King, E. Nemeth, K. Claffy, USA 14:00-15:30 h Developing Countries Workshop 15:30-16:00 h Coffee break 16:00-17: 30 h Parallel Session 8 MPLS Path Optimization Online Traffic Engineering in GMPLS Networks: From Shortest-Path to Design-Based Routing A. Elwalid, D. Mitra, I. Saniee, I. Widjaja, USA Link Dimensioning and LSP Optimization for MPLS Networks Supporting DiffServ EF and BE Traffic Classes K. Wu, D.S. Reeves, USA An Efficient Decentralized On-Line Traffic Engineering Algorithm for MPLS Networks F. Blanchy, L. Mélon, G. Leduc, Belgium Traffic Engineering in the Presence of Tunneling and Diversity Constraints: Formulation and Lagrangean Decomposition Approach S. Srivastava, B. Krithikaivasan, D. Medhi, USA, M. Pioro, Poland A Multiobjective Off-Line Routing Model for MPLS Networks S.C. Erbas, Germany, C. Erbas, The Netherlands 16:00-17:30 h Parallel Session 9 Statistical Multiplexing A Performance Analysis of a Multiplexer with Priority Queues and Correlated Arrivals M.M. Ali, X. Song, Canada Buffer Overflow Bounds for Multiplexed Regulated Traffic Streams F. Guillemin, France, N. Likhanov, Russia, R.R. Mazumdar, C. Rosenberg, Y. Ying, USA Bandwidth Sharing with Heterogeneous Service Requirements S. Borst, R. Núñes-Queija, B. Zwart, The Netherlands Correlations Induced in a Packet Stream by Background Traffic in a Multiplexed Environment S. Srivastava, K. Mitchell, A. van de Liefvoort, USA Sample-Path Large Deviations for Tandem Queues with Gaussian Inputs M. Mandjes, M. van Uitert, The Netherlands 16:00-17:30 h Parallel Session 10 Traffic Modelling Modelling and Evaluation of Internet Applications A.K. Jena, India, A. Popescu, A.A. Nilsson, Sweden Traffic Parameter Estimation and Area Classification for Local Exchanges with Application M.T. El-Hadidi, M.S. Soliman, M.S. El-Soudani, Egypt Traffic Behavior of Scalable Multicast: Self-Similarity and Protocol Dependence Ö. Özkasap, M. Çag`´ lar, Turkey Joint Characterization of the Packet Arrival and Packet Size Processes of Multifractal Traffic Based on Stochastic L-Systems P. Salvador, A. Nogueira, R. Valadas, Portugal On-Line Estimation of Heavy-Tailed Traffic Characteristics in Web Data Mining N.M. Markovitch, Russia, U.R. Krieger, Germany 16:00-17:30 h Developing Countries Workshop back to program