PERFORMANCE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
May 25-28, 1998
Lund, Sweden

PROGRAM


Tuesday May 26


08:00 - 10:00 Conference Registration

09:00 - 10:15 Opening Session

Chair: A. A. Nilsson
Lars-Erik Eriksson General Conference Chair
Ulf Koerner Program Chair
Harry Perros TC6 WG6.3 Chairman
Thomas Johannesson Dean of Engineering at Lund University
Keynote: The changing customer interface
L-E. Eriksson

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee
10:45 - 12:45 Session 1 -- ATM SWITCH PERFORMANCE

Paradigm Shift in Reliability Monitoring
M. Perry, P. Schroeder, D. Vuncannon,
R. Dipper, T. Bull, A. Nilsson and B. Peters

Performance Analysis of Multipath ATM Switches under Correlated
and Uncorrelated IBP Traffic Patterns
A.-L. Beylot and M. Becker

Performance of the Neural Network Controlled ATM Switch
V. M. Skulic and Z. R. Petrovic

A New Method for Assessing the Performances in ATM Networks
H. Lee

12:45 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 16:15 Session 2 -- ADMISSION AND TRAFFIC CONTROL

A Family of Measurement-Based Admission Control Algorithms
Z. Turanyi, A. Veres and A. Olah

Resource Reservation in a Connectionless Network
A. Eriksson

Buffer Analysis of the Explicit Rate Congestion Control Mechanism
for the ABR Service Category in ATM Networks
C. Blondia, O. Casals and B. Van Houdt

A New Traffic Control Algorithm for ABR Service
A. Bak and W. Burakowski

16:15 - 16:45 Coffee
16:45 - 17:45 Session 3 -- MULTICAST

An Analysis of Retransmission Strategies for Reliable Multicast Protocols
M. Schuba and P. Reichl

Scheduling Combined Unicast and Multicast Traffic in WDM Networks
Z. Ortiz, G. N. Rouskas and H. G. Perros
19:30 Reception
Wednesday May 27
08:30 - 10:00 Session 4 -- MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS

Authoring and E-LOTOS Conception of Interactive Networked Multimedia
Applications in MUSE Environment
L. P. Gaspary and M. J. Almeida

Simple Integrated Media Access -- A Comprehensive Service for
Future Internet
J. Ruutu and K. Kilkki

Performance Evaluation of an Inter-Stream Adaptation Algorithm for
Multimedia Communications
A. Youssef, H. Abdel-Wahab and K. Maly

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 12:00 Session 5 -- ATM NETWORK PERFORMANCE

Overload Generated by Signalling Message Flows in ATM Networks
S. Szikely, I. Moldovan and C. Simon

Quantitative Evaluation of Scalability in Broadband Intelligent Networks
G. Karagiannis, V. F. Nicola and I.G.M.M. Niemegeers

Hop-by-Hop Option Based Flow-Handling Compared to other IP over
ATM Protocols
M. V. Loukola and J. O. Skytta

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Invited paper

Flexibility in the Design of Network and Transport Protocols: NP++,
IP header compression and UDP-lite
S. Pink

14.15 - 14.45 Coffee
14:45 - 15:45 Session 6 -- TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS

Peakedness Characterization in Teletraffic
S. Molnar and G. Miklss

On the Combined Effect of Self-Similarity and Flow Control in Quality
of Service for Transactional Internet Services
J. Aracil, D. Morats and M. Izal


15:45 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Session 7 -- APPLIED QUEUEING THEORY

Approximate Analysis of a Dynamic Priority Queueing Method for
ATM Networks
A. Ghanwani and E. Gelenbe

Using Gibbs Sampler in Simulating Multiservice Loss Systems
P. Lassila and J. Virtamo

18:00 Busses for the conference dinner
Thursday May 28
09:00 - 09:45 Invited paper

QoS in Broadband Networks: Problems, Methods, Results and Future needs P. Kuehn

09:45 - 10:15 Coffee
10:15 - 11.45 Session 8 -- VIDEO OVER ATM

On the Efficiency of Statistical-Bitrate Service for Video
G. Karlsson and G. Djuknic

Predictive Shaping for VBR MPEG Video Traffic Transmission over ATM Networks
L. de la Cruz, J. J. Alins and J. Mata

Circulant Matching Method for Multiplexing ATM Traffic Applied to Video Sources
K. Spaey and C. Blondia

 

11.45 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:45 Session 9 -- MOBILITY AND WIRELESS NETWORKS

Effects of User Mobility on a TCP Transmission
A. Fladenmuller and R. De Silva

Achievable QoS in an Interference/Resource-Limited Shared Wireless Channel
J. M. Capone and I. Stavrakakis

Call Connection Control in CDMA-Based Mobile Networks with Multiple
Frequency Assignments
S.-H. Lee, S.-H. Kim and S.-W. Park

14:45 - 15:00 Closing Session

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