NETWORKING 2004: Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communications

Network Security.- A New Digital Signature and Certificate Architecture with Shortest Certification Path.- Inter/Intra Core Network Security with PKI for 3G-and-Beyond Systems.- Improving Distributed Firewalls Performance through Vertical Load Balancing.- Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Firewall Architectures for Multimedia Applications.- TCP Performance I.- A Multi-level TCP Model with Heterogeneous RTTs.- Improving the Performance of TCP in the Presence of Interacting UDP Flows in Ad Hoc Networks.- The Sensitivity of TCP to Sudden Delay Variations in Mobile Networks.- Lost Retransmission Detection for TCP Part 2: TCP Using SACK Option.- Ad Hoc Networks.- High Coverage Broadcasting for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Combining Source- and Localized Recovery to Achieve Reliable Multicast in Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks.- A Lightweight Content Replication Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Environments.- Scalable Service Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Wavelength Management.- Fiber Cost Reduction and Wavelength Minimization in Multifiber WDM Networks.- Static WDM Network Planning with TDM Channel Partitioning.- Traffic Grooming in WDM Ring Networks with the Min-Max Objective.- Multicast I.- A Case for Mesh-Tree-Interaction in End System Multicasting.- On Core Selection Algorithm for Reducing Delay Variation of Many-to-Many Multicasts with Delay-Bounds.- Overlay Multicast Tree Minimizing Average Time Delay.- Wireless Network Performance I.- Maximum Throughput Analysis in Ad Hoc Networks.- Performance of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks under Balanced Fairness.- Cell Throughput Analysis of the Proportional Fair Scheduling Policy.- Inter-domain Routing.- On Detection of Anomalous Routing Dynamics in BGP.- Multi-objective Egress Router Selection Policies for Inter-domain Traffic with Bandwidth Guarantees.- On Properties of Internet Exchange Points and Their Impact on AS Topology and Relationship.- Packet Classification and Scheduling.- Scalable Packet Classification through Maximum Entropy Hashing.- Diagonal Tuple Space Search in Two Dimensions.- Services and Monitoring.- An Evaluation of Delay-Aware Receiver Playout Strategies for VoIP Applications.- A Secure Web Services for Location Based Services in Wireless Networks.- Distributed Channel Monitoring for Wireless Bandwidth Aggregation.- Admission Control.- Benefit of Admission Control in Aggregation Network Dimensioning for Video Services.- Call Admission Control for Voice/Data Integration in Broadband Wireless Networks.- Self-Admission Control for IP Telephony Using Early Quality Estimation.- Fair and Performance Guaranteed Methods for Flat-Rate Unlimited Access Service Plan.- Competition in Networks.- Bounds on Benefits and Harms of Adding Connections to Noncooperative Networks.- Fair Packet Forwarding in MANETs with Anonymous Stations: A Game-Theoretic Approach.- Pricing Differentiated Services: A Game-Theoretic Approach.- Performance Planning, Quality-of-Service, and Pricing under Competition.- 3G/4G Wireless Systems.- Delay Sensitivity Based Assignment of OVSF Codes for the Downlink DCH in WCDMA.- Interoperability Criteria and Mechanisms for Seamless Inter-working between UMTS-HSDPA and HIPERLAN/2 Networks Enhanced with MIMO Techniques.- Efficient Location-Based Hard Handoff Algorithms for Cellular Systems.- Priority Queuing for IP-Based Service Differentiation in the UMTS Radio Access Network.- MPLS and Related Technologies.- Multi-hour Design of Dynamically Reconfigurable MPLS Networks.- A Tabu Search Heuristic for the Offline MPLS Reduced Complexity Layout Design Problem.- Self-Protecting Multipaths – A Simple and Resource-Efficient Protection Switching Mechanism for MPLS Networks.- Integrated Dynamic Routing of LSPs in IP over WDM Networks: Full Protection and Partial Spatial-Protection.- Flow and Congestion Control.- A Receiver Based Single-Layer Multicast Congestion Control Protocol for Multimedia Streaming.- The Role of Information Update in Flow Control.- Stabilized Edge-to-Edge Aggregate Flow Control.- MaxNet: Faster Flow Control Convergence.- Performance of IEEE 802.11.- Improving MAC Performance in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks Using Enhanced Carrier Sensing (ECS).- Modeling the Short-Term Unfairness of IEEE 802.11 in Presence of Hidden Terminals.- Analytical Modeling of TCP Clients in Wi-Fi Hot Spot Networks.- On the Feasibility of Integrated MPEG Teleconference and Data Transmission, over IEEE 802.11 WLANs.- Optical Networks.- Differentiated Quality-of-Protection Provisioning in Optical/MPLS Networks.- Hierarchical Routing with QoS Constraints in Optical Transport Networks.- Analysis of a Finite Number of Deflections in Fully and Uniformly Loaded Regular Networks.- TCP and Congestion.- Improving Perceived Web Performance by Size Based Congestion Control.- An Adaptive AIMD Congestion Control Protocol for Communication Networks.- TCP-DCR: Making TCP Robust to Non-congestion Events.- Key Management.- An Enhanced Hybrid Key Management Protocol for Secure Multicast in Ad Hoc Networks.- On Dynamic Subset Difference Revocation Scheme.- Efficient, Authenticated, and Fault-Tolerant Key Agreement for Dynamic Peer Groups.- Authentication and DOS Prevention.- Proactively Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Using Source IP Address Monitoring.- Secure Name Service: A Framework for Protecting Critical Internet Resources.- Detecting and Blocking Unauthorized Access in Wi-Fi Networks.- Multicast II.- Secure Reverse Communication in a Multicast Tree.- Stealth Multicast: A Novel Catalyst for Network-Level Multicast Deployment.- AMBTS: A Scheme of Aggregated Multicast Based on Tree Splitting.- Energy Aspects of Wireless Networks.- Cooperative Caching with Optimal Radius in Hybrid Wireless Networks.- Power Adaptation Based Optimization for Energy Efficient Reliable Wireless Paths.- Adaptive Broadcast Consumption (ABC), a New Heuristic and New Bounds for the Minimum Energy Broadcast Routing Problem.- Optical Network Access.- Access Protocols to Support Different Service Classes in an Optical Burst Switching Ring.- Prioritized Multiplexing of Traffic Accessing an FSAN-Compliant GPON.- Traffic Regulation and Control in the Manhattan Street Network.- Fairness Issues in Bus-Based Optical Access Networks.- TCP Performance II.- Loss Strategies for Competing TCP/IP Connections.- Modelling TCP Throughput and Fairness.- The Undismissible Rats: How Do Short Connections Affect Long-Lived TCP Flows under Moderate Traffic Load?.- Theoretical Analysis of Performances of TCP/IP Congestion Control Algorithm with Different Distances.- Routing in Ad Hoc Networks.- Last Encounter Routing under Random Waypoint Mobility.- A-STAR: A Mobile Ad Hoc Routing Strategy for Metropolis Vehicular Communications.- Enhancing the Route Discovery Process of On-Demand Routing in Networks with Directional Antennas.- Hash-Based Dynamic Source Routing.- Fault Detection, Restoration, and Tolerance.- A New Method of Primary Routes Selection for Local Restoration.- Multi-domain Diagnosis of End-to-End Service Failures in Hierarchically Routed Networks.- Detecting Traffic Anomalies through Aggregate Analysis of Packet Header Data.- Lazy Agent Replication and Asynchronous Consensus for the Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agent System.- QoS Metrics, Algorithms, Architectures.- LMPS: Localized Multi-path Selection for QoS Routing in VoIP Networks.- Link-Based Fair Aggregation: A Simple Approach to Scalable Support of Per-Flow Service Guarantees.- Reducing Packet-Loss by Taking Long-Range Dependences into Account.- A Family of Performance Bounds for QoS Measures in Packet-Based Networks.- Content Distribution, Caching, and Replication.- Impact of Frequency-Based Cache Management Policies on the Performance of Segment Based Video Caching Proxies.- Traffic Conscious Distribution of Service Components.- Network-Embedded Programmable Storage and Its Applications.- Distributed Algorithm for Service Replication in Service Overlay Network.- Routing Theory and Path Computation.- Routing in Turn-Prohibition Based Feed-Forward Networks.- On the Representability of Arbitrary Path Sets as Shortest Paths: Theory, Algorithms, and Complexity.- Precomputation of Constrained Widest Paths in Communication Networks.- A Traffic Engineering-Aware Shortest-Path Routing Algorithm in IP Networks.- Wireless Network Performance II.- Performance of Directional Collision Avoidance in Ad Hoc Networks.- On the Performance of the European LMDS System.- Computing Call Dropping and Waiting Probabilities in LEO Satellite Systems for Voice Communications.- Performance Modelling of a Wireless GSM/GPRS Cell under Partial Sharing Scheme.- Short Papers (Poster Presentations).- An Efficient Probabilistic Packet Marking Scheme for IP Traceback.- A Geomulticast Architecture and Analysis Model for Ad-Hoc Networks.- An Architecture to Support QoS Multicast Routing for Ad-Hoc Networks.- Linkcast: Fast and Scalable Multicast Routing Protocol.- Towards an Erlang-Like Formula for the Performance Evaluation of GPRS/EDGE Networks with Finite-Length Sessions.- Multicast Transport Protocol Analysis: Self-Similar Sources.- SPEED: Scalable Protocols for Efficient Event Delivery in Sensor Networks.- Improved Position Estimation in Wireless Heterogeneous Networks.- A Geometric Derivation of the Probability of Finding a Relay in Multi-rate Networks.- Metadata Design for Introspection-Capable Reconfigurable Systems.- Security Clustering: A Network-Wide Secure Computing Mechanism in Pervasive Computing.- A Game Theoretic Approach to Web Caching.- Transient Analysis of the D-BMAP/G/1 Queue with an Application to the Dimensioning of a Playout Buffer for VBR Video.- A Kerberos-Based Authentication Architecture for Wireless LANs.- A Preliminary Study of Scalability of TCP/IP Based Clusters under Database Workloads.- Evaluation of Smart Antenna Algorithms for cdma2000 Reverse Link.- Control Theoretic Modelling and Design of Admission Control Mechanisms for Server Systems.- A Fair Service Work Scheduling Approach for Differentiated Services in Optical Access Networks.- Integrating (m,k)–Firm Real-Time Guarantees into the Internet QoS Model.- Adaptive Channel Allocation in OFDM/SDMA Wireless LANs with Limited Transceiver Resources.- Fast End-to-End Mobility Support Using SIP for Vertical Handoffs in 4G Wireless Communication Networks.- Optimal Monitoring Equipment Placement for Fault and Attack Location in Transparent Optical Networks.- Introducing Service Differentiation in a Bluetooth Piconet.- Call-Burst Blocking Probabilities of ON-OFF Traffic Sources under the Bandwidth Reservation Policy.- The Connection Dependent Threshold Model for Finite Sources – A Generalization of the Engset Multirate Loss Model.- Analysis of Protocol Operations and Scalability of COPS-SLS Negotiation System.- Outage Analysis for Multi-connection Multiclass Services in the Uplink of Wideband CDMA Cellular Mobile Networks.- Experimental Analysis of the SABUL Congestion Control Algorithm.- Rational Server Selection for Mobile Agents: Problem Solution and Performance Analysis.- Collaborative Trust-Based Secure Routing in Multihop Ad Hoc Networks.- Comparative Evaluation of Two Scalable QoS Architectures.- An Efficient ID-Based Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol from Pairings.- Fast Flooding in Power Save Mode of IEEE 802.11 DCF Based Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Seamless Congestion Control over Wired and Wireless IEEE 802.11 Networks.- Shared Protection by Concatenated Rings in Optical WDM Networks.- Distributed Scheduling of Recording Tasks with Interconnected Servers.- Impairment Constrained Based Routing for Managed Reach WDM Optical Networks.- Performance Analysis of Variable Bit Rate Multiclass Services in the Uplink of a Dynamic Complete Partitioning Round-Robin Carrier-Hopping Multirate Multi-carrier DS-CDMA System.- ORBIS: A Reconfigurable Hybrid Optical Metropolitan Area Network Architecture.- A Layer Assignment and Resource Reservation Scheme for Hierarchical Cell Structures.