GENERAL CONFERNCE

 

Symposium Chair: Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA
Vice-chair: Gang Wu, NTT DoCoMo, USA

Tuesday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Session GC-1 Room Salon 13


"Performance and Optimization"

Session Chair: Sofiene Affes, University of Quebec, Canada
GC1-1
Shadowing and Blockage in Indoor Optical Wireless Communications

Svetla Jivkova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria, Mohsen Kavehrad, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
GC1-2
Multiple-Subcarrier Optical Communication Systems with Peak Reduction Carriers

Shota Teramoto, Tomoaki Ohtsuk, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
GC1-3
A Novel Approach for Optimizing Packet Access Schemes in Non-Geostationary Satellite Systems

Giovanni Giambene, Carlo Ortolani, Enrico Zoli, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
GC1-4
Design of the Satellite Reliable Distribution Protocol (SRDP)

Franco Tommasi, Simone Molendini, Andrea Tricco, University of Lecce, Italy
GC1-5
Downlink MIMO Multiuser Detection with Interference Subspace Rejection

Henrik Hansen, Sofiène Affes, Paul Mermelstein, Université du Québec, Canada
GC1-6
A Comparison of MIMO-OFDM and MIMO-SCFDE in WLAN Environments

J. Coon, J. Siew, M. Beach, A. Nix, S. Armour, J. McGeehan, University of Bristol, UK
GC1-7
Conceptual Design of Active Phased Array Antenna of Ka Band System for Stratoshperic Platforms

Yang-Su Kim, Dae-Sub Oh, Jong-Min Park, Bon-Jun Ku, ETRI, Korea
GC1-8
A Fast and Accurate Rayleigh Fading Simulator

Christos Komninakis, Applied Wave Research, Inc., USA



Tuesday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Session GC-2 Room Salon 14

"Modulation and Coding"

Session Chair: Hamid Jafarkhani, University of California at Irvine, USA
GC2-1
Adaptive Coding and Modulation for the Forward Link of Broadband Satellite Networks

Stefano Cioni, University of Bologna, Italy, Riccardo De Gaudenzi, Rita Rinaldo, ESTEC TOS-ETC, The Netherlands
GC2-2
Optimized Symbol Mappings for Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation with Iterative Decoding

F. Schreckenbach, N. Görtz, J. Hagenauer, Munich University of Technology, G. Bauch, DoCoMo Communications, Germany
GC2-3
Orthogonal-like Space-Time Coded CPM with Fast Demodulation for Three and Four Transmit

Genyuan Wang, Weifeng Su,Xiang-Gen Xia, University of Delaware, USA
GC2-4
Atmospheric Optical Subcarrier Modulation Systems using Space-Time Block Code
Hiroshi Yamamoto, Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
GC2-5
Space-Time Constellations Matched to the Receiver

Mohamed Oussama Damen, University of Alberta, Canada ,Hesham El Gamal, The Ohio State University, USA, Norman C. Beaulieu, University of Alberta, Canada
GC2-6
A Class of Full Diversity Space-Time Codes

Navid Hassanpour, Stanford University, USA, Hamid Jafarkhani, University of California, Irvine, USA
GC2-7
A Bandwidth-Efficient Scheme for Non-Coherent Transmit Diversity

Gerhard Bauch, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany
GC2-8
A New Adaptive Linear Multiuser Detector Based on Approximate Negentropy Minimization

Sooyong Choi, Te-Won Lee, University of California, San Diego, USA


Tuesday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Session GC-3 Room Salon 15

"Channel Processing"

Session Chair: Ghassen Ben Brahim, Western Michigan University, USA
GC3-1
Error Distribution in Turbo-Decoding with Max-Log-Map Algorithm

M. Planells-Rodriguez, CNES, France, M. L. Boucheret, ENST-TeSA, France, D. Roviras, IRIT-TeSA, France, A. Duverdier, CNES, France, G. Mesnager, Alcatel Space, France
GC3-2
Exact Statistics of ARQ Packet Delivery Delay over Markov Channels with Finite Round-Trip Delay

Michele Rossi, Leonardo Badia, Michele Zorzi, Università di Ferrara, Italy
GC3-3
Rate-Sensitive ARQ for Real-Time Video Streaming

Chia-Hui Wang, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan, Ray-I Chang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Jan-Ming Ho, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Shun-Chin Hsu, Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan
GC3-4
A Semi-Blind Detection Algorithm for V-BLAST System

Jianming Wang, Chunming Zhao, Southeast University, USA
GC3-5
Equalizer with Data Recycling Algorithm for Fast Convergence in 8-VSB DTV Systems

Hae-Sock Oh, Dong-Seog Han, Kyungpook National University, Korea, Hyunbae Jeon,ng , DoJun Rhee, Samsung Electronics Co., LTD, Korea
GC3-6
Adaptive Blind Sequence Detection for Time Varying Channel

Mohammad N. Patwary, Predrag Rapajic, Xun Shao, University of New South Wales, Australia, Ian Oppermann, University of Oulu, Finland
GC3-7
Implementation of a Wideband Directional Channel Model for a UMTS Link Level Simulator

Simone Morosi, Michele Tosi, Enrico Del Re, Romano Fantacci, University of Florence, Italy, Paolo Riva, Marconi Mobile, Italy
GC3-8
Optimal Code Rates for Lorentzian Channel Models

William E. Ryan, University of Arizona, USA


Tuesday, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Session GC-4 Room Salon 13


"CDMA"
Session Chair: Mustafa Matalgah, University of Mississippi, USA
GC4-1
Performance Evaluation of Signal Processing Schemes for Reducing the Envelope Fluctuations of CDMA Signals

A. Palhau, R. Dinis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
GC4-2
Space-Path Spreading for High Rate MIMO MC-CDMA Systems with Transmit Diversity

Juinn-Horng Deng, Jwo-Yuh Wu, Ta-Sung Lee, National Chiao Tung University, ROC
GC4-3
Performance Comparison of Single-User Pre-Equalization Techniques for Uplink MC-CDMA Systems

Paola Bisaglia, Nevio Benvenuto, Simonluca Quitadamo, University of Padova, Italy
GC4-4
Performance of Frequency-Hopping Multicarrier CDMA on an Uplink with Correlated Rayleigh Fading

Maged Elkashlan, Cyril Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada
GC4-5
Performance of Convolutionally Coded Multicode Spread Spectrum CDMA System

Okechukwu C. Ugweje, Sami Khorbotly, Christian Madubata, Tuskegee University, USA
GC4-6
Causal and Anticipative Models for the Dimensioning of 3G Multiservice Networks

Brigitte Jaumard, Christophe Meyer, Raha Pooyania, Université de Montréal, Canada, Yannick Solari, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, Catherine Voisin, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
GC4-7
Throughput and Spectral Efficiency Analysis in 3G FDD WCDMA Cellular Systems

M. M. Matalgah, University of Mississippi, USA, J. Qaddour, Illinois State University, USA, A. Sharma, University of Missouri–Kansas City, USA, K. Sheikh, Sprint, USA


Tuesday, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Session GC-5 Room Salon 14

"Access Control and Scheduling"

Session Chair: Stefano Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
GC5-1
A Transmission Rate Scheduling Scheme for Multimedia Services in Wireless CDMA Networks

Hossam Fattah, Cyril Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada
GC5-2
On the Performance of Graph-based Scheduling Algorithms for Packet Radio Networks

Arash Behzad, Izhak Rubin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
GC5-3
Probing Available Bandwidth in Radio Access Networks

Sven Krasser, Henry L. Owen, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jochen Grimminger, Hans-Peter Huth, Joachim Sokol, Siemens AG, Germany
GC5-4
Distributed MAC Adaptation for WLAN QoS Differentiation

Jun Zhao, Zihua Guo, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu, Microsoft Research, Asia, PR China
GC5-5
Wide-Sense Stable Hexanary-Feedback Contention Access for Wireless Networks

Maria C. Yuang, Bird C. Lo, Ju-Ya Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
GC5-6
Does Mixed Lognormal Channel Holding Time Affect the Handover Performance of Guard Channel Scheme?

Ariton E. Xhafa, Ozan K. Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
GC5-7
Experimental Evaluation of the Impact of Network Frequency Synchronization on GSM Quality of Service during Handover

Stefano Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Lucia Barbieri, Omnitel Vodafone, Italy
GC5-8
A Lossless Algorithm for BSSGP Flow Control in GPRS and EDGE

Anand S. Bedekar, Rajeev Agrawal, Rajeev Ranjan, Motorola, USA


Tuesday, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Session GC-6 Room Salon 15

"Handover and Mobility"

Session Chair: Dr. Wei Li
GC6-1
A Low Latency Handoff Scheme Using Positional Information for Mobile IP Based Networks

Masaki Bandai, Iwao Sasase, Keio University, Japan
GC6-2
Mobile IP Fast Data Transfer Method using Cooperation between Mobility Agents

Takeshi Kubo, Hidetoshi Yokota, Akira Idoue, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan,
Toru Hasegawa, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan
GC6-3
Improving the Delivery of Multimedia Services using an Adaptive Filtering Strategy

Flavio De Angelis, Ibrahim Habib, The City University of New York, USA, Fabrizio Davide, Telecom Italia Learning Services, Italy, Mahmoud Naghshineh, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
GC6-4
History-based Adaptive QoS Provisioning in Mobile IP Networks

J. M. Moon, M. Y. Yun, Y. J. Kim, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea, S. H. Kim, Chungnam National University, Korea
C06-5
An Investigation into the Design of Energy-Efficient Session Negotiation Protocols for Wireless Networks

Ramesh Karri, Piyush Mishra, Polytechnic University, USA
GC6-6
Improving Restorability in Radio Access Network

Wee-Seng Soh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA,Zoe Antoniou, Nokia Research Centre, USA
Hyong S. Kim, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
GC6-7
Adaptive QoS Control by Toggling Voice Traffic between Circuit and Packet Cellular Networks

JaeWon Kang, Badri Nath, Rutgers University, USA
GC6-8
Voice Performance in WLAN Networks—An Experimental Study

Farooq Anjum, Moncef Elaoud, David Famolari, Abhrajit Ghosh, Ravichander Vaidyanathan,
Ashutosh Dutta, Prathima Agrawal, Telcordia Technologies, USA


Wednesday, 9:00 am -12:00 pm
Session GC-7 Room Salon 13

"Ad hoc Networks"

Session Chair: Ahmed Safwat, Queens University, Canada
GC7-1
On Channel-Adaptive Routing in an IEEE 802.11b Based Ad Hoc Wireless Network

Xiao-Hui Lin, Yu-Kwong Kwok, Vincent K. N. Lau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
GC7-2
Admission Control for VoIP Traffic in IEEE 802.11 Networks

Sachin Garg, Martin Kappes, Avaya Labs, USA
GC7-3
S-REMiT: A Distributed Algorithm for Source-based Energy Efficient Multicasting in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Bin Wang, Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Arizona State University, USA
GC7-4
A Low-Latency and Energy-Efficient Algorithm for Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Networks

S. Upadhyayula, V. Annamalai, S. K. S. Gupta, Arizona State University, USA
GC7-5
Distributed Computing Paradigms for Collaborative Processing in Sensor Networks

Yingyue Xu, Hairong Qi, Phani Teja Kuruganti, The University of Tennessee, USA
GC7-6
A Reliable Broadcast Algorithm with Selected Acknowledgements in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Wei Lou, Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA
GC7-7
Delay-Sensitive Application Support in 802.11 based Multi-Hop Network

Xiaoning He, Daichi Funato, Toshiro Kawahara, DoCoMo USA Communication Labs, USA
GC7-8
ECPS and E2LA: New Paradigms for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Ahmed Safwat, Hossam Hassanein, Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada


Wednesday, 9:00 am -12:00 pm
Session GC-8 Room Salon 14

"Multimedia Communications"

Session Chair: Dilip Sarkar, University of Miami, USA
GC8-1
Distributed Video Streaming Using Unbalanced Multiple Description Coding and Forward Error Correction

Joohee Kim, Russell M. Mersereau, Yucel Altunbasak, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
GC8-2
Buffer Control at Video-Streaming Proxy Servers

Gang Wu, Purdue University, USA, Edwin K. P. Chong, Colorado State, University, USA
Robert Givan, Purdue University, USA
GC8-3
Bandwidth Estimation for Multiplexed Videos Using MMG-based Single Video Traffic Model

Wei Zhou, S. Ramakrishnan, Dilip Sarkar, Uttam K. Sarkar, University of Miami, USA
GC8-4
Optimal Packet Scheduling for Multiple Description Coded Video Transmissions over Lossy Networks

Yen-Chi Lee, Yucel Altunbasak, Russell M. Mersereau, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
GC8-5
Using Multicast for Streaming Videos across Wide Area Networks

Bing Wang, University of Massachusetts, USA, Subhabrata Sen, AT&T Labs-Research, USA
Micah Adler, Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts, USA
GC8-6
Equation-based Layered Video Multicast with Explicit Congestion Notification

Kitae Nahm, Qing Li, C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California, USA
GC8-7
Video Delivery over CDMA Cellular Networks Using Rate-compatible Punctured Turbo (RCPT) Codes Combined with Joint Source Coding-Power Control

Yee Sin Chan, University of California, San Diego, USA, James W. Modestino, University of Miami, USA
GC8-8
Application-level QoS of Web Access and Streaming Services with AF Service on DiffServ

Jun Takeo, Shuji Tasaka, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan


Wednesday, 9:00 am -12:00 pm
Session GC-9 Room Salon 15

"QoS"

Session Chair: Sajal Das, University of Texas-Arlington, USA
GC9-1
QoS Multicast Routing with Heterogeneous Receivers

King-Shan Lui, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jun Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Li Xiao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
GC9-2
An Application-level QoS Comparison of Inter-Destination Synchronization Schemes for Continuous Media Multicasting

Toshiro Nunome, Shuji Tasaka, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
GC9-3
QoS Mechanism for Prioritized Flow-Control for Network Elements Handling High-Speed Traffic

Prasad Golla, Gerard Damm, Timucin Ozugur, Alcatel, USA
GC9-4
Scalable QoS Provisioning for Intra-Domain Mobility

Wei Wu, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA, Archan Misra, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA, Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Subir Das, Telcordia Technologies Inc., USA
GC9-5
Efficient Building Method of Multiple Spanning Tree for QoS and Load Balancing

Heeyeol Yu, Shirshanka Das, Yujin Lim, Mario Gerla, University of California Los Angeles, USA
GC9-6
On the Theory of Dynamic Load Balancing

Ozan K. Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Evsen Yanmaz,
GC9-7
Primal-Dual Algorithms for QoS Multimedia Multicast

G. Calinescu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA, C. G. Fernandes, University of São Paulo, Brazil, I. I. Mandoiu, University of Connecticut, USA, A. Olshevsky, K. Yang, . Zelikovsky, Georgia State University, USA
GC9-8
Optimal Filtering in Traffic Estimation for Bandwidth Brokers

T. Anjali, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, C. Bruni, D. Iacoviello, G. Koch,C. Scoglio, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, S. Vergari, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy


Wednesday, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Session GC-10 Room Salon 13

"TCP"

Session Chair: Michael Fang, University of Florida, USA
GC10-1
A Self-Tuning Structure for Adaptation in TCP/AQM Networks

Honggang Zhang, C. V. Hollot, Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, Vishal Misra, Columbia University, USA
GC10-2
AdaVegas: Adaptive Control for TCP Vegas

Amir Maor, Yishay Mansour, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
GC10-3
Performance Evaluation of a New Adaptive Packet Marking Scheme for TCP over DiffServ Networks

Giovanni Neglia, Giuseppe Bianchi, Marilena Sottile, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
GC10-4
Influences of TCP Congestion Control Mechanisms to Multi-Fractal Nature of Generated Traffic

Hiroki Doi, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan, Takahiro Matsuda,
Miki Yamamoto, Osaka University, Japan
GC10-5
Direct Web Switch Routing with State Migration, TCP Masquerade, and Cookie Name Rewriting

Ying-Dar Lin, Ping-Tsai Tsai, Po-Ching Lin, Ching-Ming Tien, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
GC10-6
Modeling Multiple TCP Connections Established between a Busy Server and Many Receivers

Yu Lin, Haitao Wu, Rui Fan, Shiduan Cheng, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, PR China
GC10-7
Considering Spurious Timeout in Proxy for Improving TCP Performance in Wireless Networks

YuChul Kim, Samsung Electronics,Co., Ltd., DongHo Cho, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
GC10-8
SCTP with an Improved Cookie Mechanism for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Inwhee Joe, Hanyang University, Korea


Wednesday, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Session GC-11 Room Salon 14

"Switching and Routing"

Session Chair: Mounir Hamdi, HKUST, Hong Kong
GC11-1
Reducing Memory Size in Buffered Crossbars with Large Internal Flow Control Latency

Ronald Luijten, Cyriel Minkenberg, Mitchell Gusat, IBM Research, Switzerland
GC11-2
Output Queued Switch Emulation by a One-Cell-Internally Buffered Crossbar Switch

Lotfi Mhamdi, Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
GC11-3
Application Layer Switching: A Deployable Technique for Providing Quality of Service

Raheem Beyah, Raghupathy Sivakumar, John Copeland, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
GC11-4
Non-Cooperative Edge-Assisted Route Adaptation of Aggregated Traffic

Samrat Ganguly, Rauf Izmailov, NEC Laboratories America, USA
GC11-5
Equivalent Capacity Estimators for Bufferless Fluid Flow Multiplexing

József Bíró, Zalán Heszberger, Mátyás Martinecz, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
GC11-6
A New Heuristics for Finding the Delay Constrained Least Cost Path

Gang Cheng, Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
GC11-7
Bandwidth Aggregation with SCTP

Antonios Argyriou, Vijay Madisetti, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
GC11-8
On the Use of QoS Requirements as Base of Multicast Charging

Antonio Bueno Delgado, Ramon Fabregat Gesa, Pere Vila, Jose Marzo, Universitat de Girona, Spain


Wednesday, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Session GC-12 Room Salon 15

"High-Speed Networks"

Session Chair: Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada
GC12-1
Network-Wide Blocking Probability in Sparse Limited Wavelength Convertible WDM Networks

Xiangdong Qin, Yuanyuan Yang, State University of New York, USA
GC12-2
Traffic Grooming in Mesh WDM Optical Networks—Performance Analysis

Chunsheng Xin, Norfolk State University, USA, Chunming Qiao, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, Sudhir Dixit, Nokia Research Center, USA
GC12-3
Support of QoS in IP-based Ethernet-PON Networks

Chadi Assi, Concordia University, USA, Yinghua Ye, Sudhir Dixit, Nokia Research Center
GC12-4
Analysis of ADSL Traffic on an IP Backbone Link

Nadia Ben Azzouna, Fabrice Guillemin, France Telecom R&D, France
GC12-5
Transition-Limiting Codes for 4-PAM Signaling in High Speed Serial Links

Anthony G. Bessios, William F. Stonecypher, Amita Agarwal, Jared L. Zerbe, Rambus Inc., USA
GC12-6
2.488 Gbps Optical-connected Realtime VLBI Observation Testbed—A Multi-gigabit-rate Distributed Application in Astronomy

Teruyuki Hasegawa, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan, Toru Hasegawa, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan, and National Institute of Informatics, Japan, Noriyuki Kawaguchi, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Japan, Kenta Fujisawa, Yamaguchi University, Japan, Kazuhiro Takashima, Geographical Survey Institute, Japan, Hisao Uose, NTT Service Integration Laboratories, Japan, Shoichiro Asano, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
GC12-7
Reconfiguration of `data connectivity trees' in Large Dynamic Networks

K. Ravindran, X. Liu, M. R. Kumar, City University of New York, USA
GC12-8
A Feedback Implosion Suppression Algorithm for Satellite Reliable Multicast

Gun Akkor, John S. Baras, Michael Hadjitheodosiou, University of Maryland, USA


Thursday, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Session GC-13 Room Salon 13


"Resource Allocation & GMPLS"

Session Chair: Jihad Qaddour, Illinois State University, USA
GC13-1
Virtual Organization: A Service-level Resource Management Framework for Distributed Network Infrastructures

K. Ravindran, A. Mowshowitz, Affiliation not provided
GC13-2
Dynamic Resource Allocation of GPS Queues with Leaky Buckets

Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Sarut Vanichpun, Richard J. La, University of Maryland, USA
GC13-3
Efficient Optimization of Constrained Nonlinear Resource Allocation

Mung Chiang, Princeton University, USA, Arak Sutivong, Qualcomm
GC13-4
On Terminal-based Resource Reservation Coordination

Xia Gao, Gang Wu, DoCoMo Communications Lab, USA
GC13-5
Scalable Multi-Layer GMPLS Networks Based on Hierarchical Cloud-Routers

Daisaku Shimazaki, Eiji Oki, Kohei Shiomoto, Naoaki Yamanaka, NTT Corp., Japan
GC13-6
On the Efficacy of GMPLS Auto-Reprovisioning as a Network Restoration Mechanism

Govindkrishna Kaigala, Wayne D. Grover, University of Alberta, Canada
GC13-7
A QoS-enabled MAC Architecture for Prioritized Service in IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Wei Liu, University of Florida, USA, Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA,
Xiang Chen, Yuguang Fang, University of Florida, USA
GC13-8
A Hybrid Optical Switching Approach

Chunsheng Xin, Norfolk State University, USA, Chunming Qiao, State University,of New York at Buffalo, USA, Yinghua Ye, Sudhir Dixit, Nokia Research Center, USA


Thursday, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Session GC-14 Room Salon 14

"Internet"

Session Chair: Jianping Pan, University of Waterloo, Canada
GC14-1
Demographic Placement for Internet Host Location

Artur Ziviani, Serge Fdida, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France, José F. Rezende, Otto Carlos M. B. Duarte, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
GC14-2
Reducing the Complexity of Realistic Large Scale Internet Simulations

Kai Below, Airbus Germany GmbH, Germany
GC14-3
An Evolutionary Framework for AS-Level Internet Topology Modeling

Ruomei Gao, Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech, USA
GC14-4
Modeling and Analysis of Aggregate and Single Stream Internet Traffic

Eugenio Costamagna, Lorenzo Favalli, Francesco Tarantola, University of Pavia, Italy
GC14-5
On Randomized Request Redirection in Hierarchical Caching Systems

Y. Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech, USA, Jianping Pan, Sherman X. Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada
GC14-6
A Peer-to-Peer Network Based on Multi-Mesh Architecture

Sudheendra Murthy, Arunabha Sen, Arizona State University, USA
GC14-7
An IP Address Based Caching Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Networks

Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Ananth Grama, Suresh Jagannathan, Purdue University, USA
GC14-8
On Resilience of Structured Peer-to-Peer Systems

Shengquan Wang, Dong Xuan, Wei Wei, Texas A&M University, USA


Thursday, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Session GC-15 Room Salon 15

"Traffic Engineering"

Session Chair: Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada
GC15-1
Application-Driven Internet Traffic Analysis—A Simulation Approach

Su, Hung-ying Tyan, Ching-Fong Su, Fujitsu Labs. of America, Inc., USA, Guanghui He, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA, Xun University of Texas at Austin, USA
GC15-2
A Traffic Scaling Approach to Speed up Network Simulations

Luigi Atzori, Mauro Isola, University of Cagliari, Italy
GC15-3
Traffic Management Mechanism for Fast Arbitrations with Qos Parameters

Prasad Golla, Gerard Damm, Timucin Ozugur, Alcatel, USA
GC15-4
Advanced Traffic Modeling: Fitting Third Order Moments

J. Potemans, J. Theunis, B. Van den Broeck, P. Leys, E. Van Lil, A. Van de Capelle, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
GC15-5
Estimating Packet Loss-Rate by Using Delay Information and Combinated with Change-of-Measure Framework

Keisuke Ishibashi, Masaki Aida, Shin-ichi Kuribayashi, NTT Corporation, Japan
GC15-6
A New Traffic Rate Estimation and Monitoring Algorithm for the QoS-enabled Internet

Farshid Agharebparast, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Victor C. M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada
GC15-7
Counting Network Flows in Real Time

Hyang-Ah Kim, David R. O’Hallaron, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
GC15-8
Dynamic Collision Resolution and Traffic Scheduling for DOCSIS Systems with QoS Support

Wen-Kuang Kuo, Sunil Kumar, C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California, USA


Thursday, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Session GC-16 Room Salon 13

"Storage Technologies"

Session Chair: Steven McLaughlin, Georgia Tech, USA
GC16a-1
SNR Mismatch Effects in LDPC Coded Magnetic Recording Channels

Weijun Tan, The University of Oklahoma, USA
J. R. Cruz, The University of Oklahoma, USA
GC16a-2
Signal Processing and Coding for Two-Dimensional Optical Storage

A. H. J. Immink, W. M. J. Coene, A. M. van der Lee, C. Busch, A. P. Hekstra, Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands, J. W. M. Bergmans, J. Riani, S. J. L. V. Beneden, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands, T. Conway, University of Limerick, Ireland
GC16a-3
Asynchronous Equalization in Magnetic Linear Tape Systems with the Data Set Separator Sequence (DSS)

David Berman, C. Michael Melas, Mario Blaum, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA, Glen Jaquette, IBM Tucson, USA
GC16a-4
Soft-Output Post-Processing Detection for PRML Channels in the Presence of Data-dependent Media Noise

Hideki Sawaguchi, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan, Morishi Izumita, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Japan, Seiichi Mita, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan
GC16a-5
M-ary Optical Data Storage: Fixed Versus Variable Length Modulation

Estuardo Licona, Steven W. McLaughlin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Session GC-16b
"Embedded Technologies"

Session Chair: S. Q. Zheng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
GC16b-1
‘Timed atomic write': a Programming Primitive for Distributed Embedded Systems

K. Ravindran, A. Sabbir, City University of New York, USA, K. A. Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
GC16b-2
System-on-Chip Packet Processor for an Experimental Network Services Platform

David Taylor, Alex Chandra, Yuhua Chen, Sarang Dharmapurikar, John Lockwood, Wenjing Tang, Jonathan Turner, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
GC16b-3
Design and Implementation of an Acyclic Stable Matching Scheduler

Enyue Lu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, Mei Mei, Columbus State University, USA
Yi Zhang, S. Q. Zheng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
GC16b-4
A Memory-Efficient Scheme for Address Lookup Using Compact Prefix Tries

Anand Sarda, Arunabha Sen, Arizona State University, USA


Thursday, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Session GC-17 Room Salon 14

"Performance and Modeling"

Session Chair: Mohamed Ali, City University of New York, USA
GC17-1
Multihop Performance of Geographic Random Forwarding for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Michele Zorzi, CNIT and Università di Ferrara, Italy, Ramesh R. Rao, University of California at San Diego, USA
GC17-2
Performance Evaluation of Interrupt-Driven Kernels in Gigabit Networks

K. Salah, K. El-Badawi, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
GC17-3
Performance of Quasi-Constant Envelope Phase Modulation through Nonlinear Radio Channels

Qi Lu, Qingchong Liu, Jia Li, Oakland University, USA
GC17-4
Performance of a Distributed Location Management Scheme for Wireless Networks

Kuo-Hsing Chiang, RMIT University, Australia
Nirmala Shenoy, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
GC17-5
Modelling Performance of HTTP/1.1

Péter Vaderna, Emma Strömberg, Tamás Élteto, Ericsson Hungary Ltd.
GC17-6
Speech Quality Prediction in VoIP Using the Extended E-Model

Lijing Ding, Rafik A. Goubran, Carleton University, Canada
GC17-7
Transient Fairness of Optimized End-to-End Window Control

Harsha Sirisena, Aun Haider, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Mahbub Hassan, University of New South Wales, Australia, Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
GC17-8
A Novel IP-over-Optical Network Interconnection Model for the Next-Generation Optical Internet

Ahmad Khalil, Antonis Hadjiantonis, Georgios Ellinas, Mohammed Ali, City College of the City University of New York, USA


Thursday, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
GC-18 Room Salon 15

"Control and Coding"

Session Chair: Mohsen Kevehrad, Pennsylvania State University, USA
GC18-1
Low-Complexity Signal Processing for ISI Channels

Stefan Schmermbeck, University of Dortmund, Germany, Guido Stromberg, Infineon Technologies, Germany, Martin Hassner, Hitachi Global Storage Technology, USA, Uwe Schwiegelshohn, University of Dortmund, Germany
GC18-2
Efficient Encoding for a Family of Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes

Dale E. Hocevar, Texas Instruments, USA
GC18-3
A Distributed Admission Control Model for Large-Scale Continuous Media Services

Zhonghang Xia, I-Ling Yen, Peng Li, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
GC18-4
On Merits of Spatial Coding in Multilevel Optical Wireless Links

Y. A. Alqudah, M. Kavehrad, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
GC18-5
A Turbo Coded Multiple Description System for Multiple Antennas

Israfil Bahceci, Yucel Altunbasak, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA ,Tolga M. Duman, Arizona State University, USA
GC18-6
SRC: Stable Rate Control for Streaming Media

Cheng Huang, Lihao Xu, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
GC18-7
The Design of Structured Regular LDPC Codes with Large Girth

Haotian Zhang, Jos M. F. Moura, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
GC18-8
A Receiver-initiated Load Balancing Method in Computer Networks Using Fuzzy Logic Control

Ming-Chang Huang, S. Hossein Hosseini, K. Vairavan, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA


Thursday, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Session GC-19 Room Salon 3

"Quality and Traffic Control"

Session Chair: Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
GC19-1
WDRLS: A Wavelet-based On-Line Predictor for Network Traffic

Xin Wang, Yong Ren, Xiuming Shan, Tsinghua University, China
GC19-2
Statistical Guarantee of QoS in Communication Networks with Temporally Correlated Loss

Homayoun Yousefi’zadeh, Hamid Jafarkhani, University of California, Irvine, USA
GC19-3
Single-Fiber Optical Protection Ring Architecture Suitable for Asymmetric Traffic

Toshinori Tsuboi, Miwa Natori, Seikou Mitachi, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
GC19-4
QoS Requirements in DSL Networks

Steven Wright, Tom Anschutz, BellSouth Telecommunications, USA
GC19-5
A Steady State Bound for Resilient Packet Rings

Changcheng Huang, Carleton University, Canada, Harry Peng, Nortel Networks, Fengjie Yuan, Carleton University, Canada, John Hawkins, Nortel Networks
GC19-6
A Method of IP Traffic Management Using TCP Flow Statistics

Ryoichi Kawahara, Keisuke Ishibashi, NTT Corporation, Japan, Takuya Asaka, Kyoto University Katsunori Ori, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation
GC19-7
Fluid-flow Analysis of TCP Westwood with RED

Jiwei Chen, Fernando Paganini, Ren Wang, M. Y. Sanadidi, Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
GC19-8
Dynamics of Temporal Correlation in Daily Internet Traffic

Kensuke Fukuda, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan, Luís A. Nunes Amaral, Northwestern University, USA, H. Eugene Stanley, Boston University, USA


Thursday, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Session GC-20 Room Salon 2

"Billing and Misc"

Session Chair: Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan
GC20-1
A New Charging Scheme for Multi-Domain DiffServ Networks

Liang Ji, Theodoros N. Arvanitis, Sandra I. Woolley, The University of Birmingham, UK
GC20-2
On Relation among Time Delay and Signal Strength based Geolocation Methods

Yihong Qi, Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University, USA
GC20-3
Dual Segmented Kalman Filters Based Symbol Timing Recovery for Low-SNR Partial Response Data Storage Channels

Jingfeng Liu, Hongwei Song, B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
GC20-4
Analysis of Output Queued Cell Switches with Random Arbitration and Generic Arrival Processes

Itamar Elhanany, The University of Tennessee, USA
GC20-5
HDRA: Hierarchical Distributed Routing Algorithm

Mohamed El-Darieby, Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada, Jerry Rolia, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
GC20-6
Movement-based Location Management for 3G Cellular Networks

Yang Xiao, The University of Memphis, USA, Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA, Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan
GC20-7
10Gbps Transmission over Standard Category-5 Copper Cable

Mohsen Kavehrad, John F. Doherty, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
GC20-8
A Proposal on Open DRM System Coping with Both Benefits of Rights-Holders and Users

Akiko Seki, Wataru Kameyama, Waseda University, Japan



Thursday, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Session GC-21 Room Salon 12

"Wireless Systems Performance"

Session Chair: Jihad Qaddour, Illinois State University, USA
GC21-1
Demand and Pricing Effects on the Radio Resource Allocation of Multimedia Communication Systems

Leonardo Badia, University of Ferrara, Italy, Magnus Lindström, Jens Zander, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, Italy
GC21-2
A Precision Predictive Call Admission Control in Packet Switched Multi-Service Wireless Cellular Networks

Robert G. Fry, Abbas Jamalipour, The University of Sydney, Australia
GC21-3
A Dynamic Slot Assignment Scheme for Slave-to-Slave and Multicast-like Communication in Bluetooth Personal Area Networks

Carlos Cordeiro, Sachin Abhyankar, Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA
GC21-4
Performance of a 3rd Generation Radio Link Control Protocol on a Multicarrier DS-CDMA System

U. Manzoli, M. L. Merani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
GC21-5
Beyond 3G: Uplink Capacity Estimation for Wireless Spread-Spectrum Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (SS-OFDM)

Jihad Qaddour, Daniel Leonard, Illinois State University, USA, Mustafa M. Matalgah, University of Mississippi, USA, Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA
GC21-6
CLAMP: A System to Enhance the Performance of Wireless Access Networks

Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Stephen V. Hanly, Rami G. Mukhtar, University of Melbourne, Australia
GC21-7
An Auction Pricing Strategy for Differentiated Service Networks

Weilai Yang, Henry Owen, Douglas M. Blough, Yongpei Guan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA


Thursday, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Session GC-22 Room Salon 10

"Systems"

Session Chair: Abbas Jamalipour, University fo Sydney, Australia
GC22-1
An Adaptive Prediction based Approach for Congestion Estimation in Active Queue Management (APACE)

Abhishek Jain, Abhay Karandikar, Rahul Verma, Indian Institute of Technology, India
GC22-2
A Conflict-free Memory Banking Architecture for Fast VOQ Packet Buffers

Jorge García, Llorenç Cerdà, Jesús Corbal, Mateo Valero, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
GC22-3
User Patience and the Web: A Hands-on Investigation

DD. Rossi, M. Mellia, C. Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
GC22-4
Per-flow Guarantees under Class-based Priority Queuing

Jens Schmitt, Paul Hurley, Matthias Hollick, Ralf Steinmetz, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
GC22-5
Bootstrap Frequency Equalisation for MIMO Wireless Systems

Robert J. Piechocki, Christos Kasparis, Andrew R. Nix, Paul N. Fletcher, Joe P. McGeehan, University of Bristol, UK
GC22-6
Closed-Loop Congestion Control for Mixed Responsive and Non-Responsive Traffic

Roman Pletka, Andreas Kind, Marcel Waldvogel, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland, Soenke Mannal, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
GC22-7
AOTO: Adaptive Overlay Topology Optimization in Unstructured P2P Systems

Yunhao Liu, Zhenyun Zhuang, Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA,Lionel M. Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
GC22-8
Forwarding State Reduction for Delay-Constrained Multicasting in IP Networks

Baoxian Zhang, Hussein T. Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada