Report on the WG 6.3 Workshop in Crete, Greece

The workshop took place in:
Rithymna Beach Hotel, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece

Sunday August 29 - Wednesday September 1, 1999

The organizer was our very own Yannis Stavrakakis, now
in the University of Athens.

This is the bi-annual workshop of the IFIP WG6.3 on
Performance of Communication Systems.

The purpose of the workhop is to give the opportunity to members
of this group, as well as other interested researchers, to present
their current or very recent research in the area of Communication
Networks. The quality of the presentations, the friendly and
relaxed environment, the single-track program structure, the emphasis on
current or very recent research and the diversity of the topics
presented resulted in a fruitful and memorable meeting.

Photo opportunity during a break.. some participants are missing!
Big prizes to the first person who can correctly identify all the famous people in the photo...

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Preliminary Program / Participants
(Sunday August 29 - Wednesday September 1, 1999)

Sunday, August 29, 1999

8:00pm : Reception an the Rithymna Beach Hotel

Monday, August 30, 1999

9:20-9:30 : Opening Remarks

Harry Perros, Chair of IFIP WG6.3
Ioannis Stavrakakis, 1999 IFIP WG6.3 Workshop Organizer

9:30-10:45: Session 1 (Chair: TBA)

  • Long Range Dependence and Traffic Control in Multiservice Networks
    T. Daniels and C. Blondia, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  • Long Range Dependence Properties of Single on-off ATM Sources - Sebastian Galmes, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
  • Scaling Concepts in Teletraffic from Self-Similarity to Multifractal - Sandor Molnar, Tamas Henk, Technical University of Budapest,
    Hungary
10:45-11:15: Coffee Break


11:15-12:30: Session 2 (Chair: TBA)

  • QoS in the Internet Diffserv, Intserv, or a Scalable
    Migration from the First to the Second?
    Nikolas Mitrou, NTUA, Greece
  • Current Issues in Performance Management of the Next Generation Networks (NGN)
    George Lapiotis, Telcordia Technologies Applied Research, USA
  • Performance of Different TCP Implementations over the GFR Service Category
    Olga Casals, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

12:30-4:00: Lunch Break


4:00-4:30: Coffee Break


4:30-6:10: Session 3 (Chair: TBA)

  • Non Rate Proportional Generalized Processor Sharing
    Schedulers     - J.Biro, T.Henk, R.Szabo, P.Barta, Technical University of
    Budapest, Hungary
  • TBA
  • Design of a High-Speed Cell Manager for ATM Systems
    Thanasis Oikonomou, Polyxeni Mountrouidou, Dimitrios
    Serpanos, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH, Greece
  • On the Problem of Selecting a Partial Spanning Tree for Multicasting - Marie Raymond, IRISA/INRIA, France
6:15-7:00: WG6.3 committee meeting


9:00: Workshop Dinner at the Rithymna Beach Hotel


Tuesday, August 31, 1999

9:30-10:45: Session 4 (Chair: TBA)

  • Energy-Efficiency in Wireless Networking
    Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA
  • Packet Error Correction in Mobile Cellular Systems - Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Communication Issues in Wireless Sensor Monitoring Systems
    Leandros Tassiulas, University of Maryland, USA

10:45-11:15: Coffee Break

11:15-12:30: Session 5 (Chair: TBA)

  • Diverse Traffic Type Integration in High Capacity Wireless Channels Polychronis Koutsakis, Michael Paterakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
  • IEEE Enhanced Distributed Contention Control (EDCC) a Simple Mechanism for Improving the 802.11 WLAN Performance - L. Bononi, University of Bologna, Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, CNR Istituto CNUCE, Italy
  • Wireless Ad-hoc Networking - Performance and Properties- Ulf Koerner and Niklas Johansson, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
12:30-4:00: Lunch Break


4:00-4:30: Coffee Break

4:30-6:10: Session 6 (Chair: TBA)

  • Analysis of the RED Algorithm by a Decomposition Approach V. Sharma and J. Virtamo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
  • A Multi-layer Client-Server Queueing Network Model with Synchronounous and Asynchrononous Messages.
    S. Ramesh and H. Perros, North Carolina State University, USA
  • On the Approximation of Arbitrary Queueing Networks with Correlated Arrivals and Blocking
    Demetri Kouvatsos, University of Bradford, UK
  • Finite versus Infinite Capacity Multiserver ATM Buffers with Correlated Arrivals Analytic Derivation of the CLR
    Bart Steyaert, Herwig Bruneel, University of Ghent, Belgium
9:00: Workshop Dinner in an Old Port Tavern


Wednesday September 1, 1999

9:30-10:45: Session 7 (Chair: TBA)

  • Analytic Performance Study of Statistical Multiplexers with Heterogeneous Traffic
    Sabine Wittevrongel, Herwig Bruneel, University of Ghent,Belgium
  • Economies of Scale and Resource Tradeoffs in Very Large Multiplexers Handling Many Traffic Streams
    Kimon Kontovasilis, National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos", Greece
  • On the Tradeoff between Effectiveness and Scalability of Measurement-based Admission Control Andras Veres, Zoltan Turanyi, TrafficLab ETH/LT, Ericsson
    Kft., Hungary

10:45-11:15: Coffee Break

11:15-12:30: Session 8 (Chair: TBA)

  • Managing and Pricing Service Level Agreements forDifferentiated Services
    Costas Courcoubetis, Vasilios Siris, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH, Greece
  • Quality of Service in Networks Cannot be Separated from Economic Considerations
    Peter Key, Microsoft Research Limited, UK
12:05-12:15: Closing Session


List of Participants


Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Bart Steyaert, University of Ghent, Belgium

Sabine Wittevrongel, University of Ghent, Belgium

Herwig Bruneel, University of Ghent, Belgium

Sebastian Galmes, University of Balearic Islands, Spain

Olga Casals, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

Sandor Molnar, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary

Tamas Henk, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary

Jozsef Biro, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary

Andras Veres, TrafficLab ETH/LT, Ericsson Kft., Hungary

Zoltan Turanyi, TrafficLab ETH/LT, Ericsson Kft., Hungary

Miklos Boda, TrafficLab ETH/LT, Ericsson Kft., Hungary

Guenter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria

Nikolas Mitrou, NTUA, Greece

Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece

Michael Paterakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Kimon Kontovasilis, National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos", Greece

Vasilios Siris, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH, Greece

Thanasis Oikonomou, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH, Greece

Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Marco Conti, CNR Istituto CNUCE, Italy

Marie Raymond, IRISA/INRIA, France

Guy Pujolle, University of Versailles, France

Ulf Koerner, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Demetri Kouvatsos, University of Bradford, UK

Peter Key, Microsoft Research Limited, UK

George Lapiotis, Telcordia Technologies Applied Research, USA

Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA

Leandros Tassiulas, University of Maryland, USA

Harry Perros, North Carolina State University, USA

Lambadaris, Carleton University, Canada

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