VENUE PLACE: Neptun Business Centre, 93-a, Obvodny kanal emb.,  St.-Petersburg, 191119, Russia

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

10:00 - 10:10 Welcome

10:10 - 11:10 Invited talk (NOKIA, Finland)

11:10 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 Teletraffic I

• Effects of Spatial Aggregation on the Characteristics of Origin-Destination Pair Traffic in Funet. Ilmari Juva (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Riikka Susitaival (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Markus Peuhkuri (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Samuli Aalto (TKK Helsinki University of Technology, FI)
• Users Dimensioning and Traffic Modelling in Rural e-Health Services. Ignacio Martinez-Ruiz (University of Zaragoza, ES); Jose Garcia (University of Zaragoza, ES); Eduardo Viruete Navarro (University of Zaragoza, ES)
• Empirical Observations of Traffic Patterns in Mobile and IP Telephony. Poul Heegaard (NTNU, Dept. of Telematics, NO)

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Teletraffic II

• On the Number of Losses in an MMPP Queue. Andrzej Chydzinski (Silesian University of Technology, PL); Robert Wojcicki (Silesian University of Technology, PL); Grzegorz Hryn (Silesian University of Technology, PL)
• On-line state detection in time-varying traffic patterns. Dmitri Moltchanov (Tampere University of Technology, FI)
• The Drop-From-Front Strategy in AQM. Joanna Domanska (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of Polish Academy of Sciences, PL), Adam Domanski (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of Polish Academy of Sciences, PL), Tadeusz Czachorski (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of Polish Academy of Sciences, PL)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 TCP protocol in wireless systems

• TCP Congestion Control over 3G Communication Systems: an Experimental Evaluation of New Reno, BIC and Westwood+. Luca De Cicco (Politecnico di Bari, IT); Saverio Mascolo (Politecnico di Bari, IT)
• Cross-layer Enhancement to TCP Slow-start over Geostationary Bandwidth on Demand Satellite Networks. Wei Koong Chai (University of Surrey, UK); George Pavlou (University of Surrey, UK)
• TCP Performance over Cluster-Label-based Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Vitaly Li and Hong Seong Park (Kangwon National University, KR)

18:00 - 20:00 Conference Opening, Hotel Neptun

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

09:30 – 10:30 Panel Session organized by NOKIA

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00 WiMAX

• An analytic model of IEEE 802.16e sleep mode operation with correlated traffic. Koen De Turck (Ghent University, BE); Stijn De Vuyst (Ghent University, BE); Dieter Fiems (Ghent University, BE); Sabine Wittevrongel (Ghent University, BE)
• Real Life Field Trial over a pre-mobile WiMAX System with 4th Order Diversity. Pal Gronsund (University of Oslo, NO)
• On Evaluating a WiMAX Access Network for Isolated Research and Data Networks using NS-2. Thomas Bohnert (University of Coimbra, PT); Yevgeni Koucheryavy (Tampere University of Technology, FI); Marcos Katz (VTT Technical Research, FI); Jakub Jakubiak (Tampere University of Technology, FI); Eugen Borcoci (University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (CCSRST), RO); Edmundo Monteiro (University of Coimbra, PT)
• Performance evaluation of the WiMAX ARQ mechanism. Alexander Sayenko (Nokia, FI); Vitaliy Tykhomyrov (University of Jyvaskyla, FI); Henrik Martikainen (University of Jyvaskyla, FI); Olli Alanen (University of Jyvaskyla, FI); Timo Hamalainen (University of Jyvaskyla, FI)

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 QoS topics in fixed networks

• Evaluating Differentiated Quality of Service Parameters in Optical Packet Switching. Poul Heegaard (NTNU, Dept. of Telematics, NO); Werner Sandmann (University of Bamberg, Germany, DE)
• GESEQ: a Generic Security and QoS Model for Traffic Priorization over IPSec Site to Site Virtual Private Networks. Jesus Perez Diaz (ITESM - Campus Cuernavaca, MX); Victor H. Zarate (ITESM Campus Cuernavaca, MX); Angel Montes (ITESM, MX)
• Routes Building Approach for Multicast applications in Metro Ethernet Networks. Anatoly Galkin (State University of Telecommunications, RU); Olga Simonina (State University of Telecommunications, RU); Gennady Yanovsky (State University of Telecommunications, RU)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:00 Wireless networking I

• Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Wireless Multi-Access Networks. Remco Litjens (TNO Information and Communication Technology, NL); Ljupco Jorguseski Remco Litjens (TNO Information and Communication Technology, NL); Mariya Popova Remco Litjens (TNO Information and Communication Technology, NL)
• Analysis of a cellular network with user redials and automatic network retrials. Jose Manuel Gimenez-Guzman (Politechnic University of Valencia, ES); Maria-Jose Domenech-Benlloch (Universidad Politecnica Valencia, ES); Vicent Pla (UPV Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, ES); Vicente Casares-Giner (ETSI Telecomunicacion. Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, ES); Jorge Martinez-Bauset (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, ES)
• Stochastic Optimization Algorithm Based Dynamic Resource Assignment for 3G Systems. Mustafa Karakoc (Kocaeli University, Electronics-Computer Ed. Dept., TR)
• Adaptive Resource Reservation for Effcient Resource Utilization in the Wireless Multimedia Network. Seung-woo Jeon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KR); Hanjin Lee (KAIST, KR); Hyunsoo Yoon (KAIST, KR)

18:00 – 18:30 EU projects experience

• Communications Challenges in the Celtic-BOSS Project. Jeney Gabor (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU); Catherine Lamy-Bergot (Thales Communications France, FR)

19:00

• St.Petersburg Bus Excursion

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

Full day trip to Pushkin and Pavlovsk (St.Petersburg suburb). Lunch included.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

09:30 – 11:00 Teletraffic III

• A Discrete-Time Queueing Model with a Batch Server Operating under the Minimum Batch Size Rule. Dieter Claeys (Ghent University, BE)
• Derivatives of Blocking Probabilities for Muti-Serbvice Loss systems and their Applications. Villy Baek Iversen (Technical University of Denmark, DK); Sergey Stepanov (Sistema Telecom, RU)
• Rare events of Gaussian processes: a performance comparison between Bridge Monte-Carlo and Importance Sampling. Stefano Giordano (University of Pisa, IT); Massimiliano Gubinelli (Universite de Paris-Sud, FR); Michele Pagano (University of Pisa, IT)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:30 AdHoc networks I

• A Forwarding Spurring Protocol for Multihop Ad Hoc Networks (FURIES). Helena Rifa-Pous (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, ES); Jordi Herrera (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, ES)
• Direct Conversion Transceivers as a Promising Solution for Building Future Ad-hoc Networks. Oleg Panfilov (TechnoConcepts, Inc., US); Lloyd Linder (Consultant, US); Ron Hickling (TechnoConcepts, Inc., US); Tony Turgeon (Technoconcepts, Inc, US)
• Analysis of Route Stability in MultiHop Ad Hoc Networks. Alicia Trivino-Cabrera (University of Malaga, ES)
• An Incentive-Based Forwarding Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Anonymous Packets. Jerzy Konorski (Gdansk University of Technology, PL)

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:00 Wireless networking II

• Providing Seamless Mobility Using the FOCALE Autonomic Architecture. John Strassner (Motorola Labs, US); David Raymer (Motorola Labs, US); Srini Samudrala (Motorola Labs, US)
• Evaluation of Joint Admission Control and VoIP Codec Selection Policies in Generic Multirate Wireless Networks. Boris Bellalta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES); Carlos Macian (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES); Anna Sfairopoulou (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES); Cano Cristina (Pompeu Fabra University, ES)
• A Novel Inter-LMD Handoff mechanism for Network-based Localized Mobility Management. Joong-Hee Lee (Internet Management Technology Lab, Sungkyunkwan University, KR); Jong-Hyouk Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, KR); Tai-Myoung Chung (Sungkyunkwan University, KR)

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30 AdHoc networks II

• Improvement of Link Cache Performance in Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Dimitri Marandin (Dresden University of Technology, DE)
• tinyLUNAR: One-byte Multihop Communications Through Hybrid Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. Evgeny Osipov (Lulea Technical University, SE)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

10:00 - 11:00 Invited Talk. Prof. Saverio Mascolo (Italy) "QoS control in IEEE 802.11e"

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 Wireless topics

• On the optimality and the stability of backoff protocols. Andrey Lukyanenko (University of Kuopio, FI)
• Maximum Frame Size in Large Layer 2 Networks. Karel Slavicek (CESNET, CZ)
• Analysis of Medium Access Delay and Packet Overflow Probability in IEEE 802.11 Networks. G.U. Hwang (KAIST, KR)

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 NGN topics

• Performance Analysis of the REAchability Protocol for IPv6 Multihoming. Antonio De La Oliva (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES); Marcelo Bagnulo (University Carlos III of Madrid, ES); Ignacio Soto (University Carlos III of Madrid, ES); Alberto Garcia-Martinez (University Carlos III of Madrid, ES)
• Controlling Incoming Connections Using Certificates and Distributed Hash Tables. Dmitrij Lagutin (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Hannu Kari (Helsinki University of Technology, FI)
• Design and implementation of an open source IMS enabled conferencing architecture. Simon Pietro Romano (University of Napoli Federico II, IT); Tobia Castaldi (University of Napoli Federico II, IT); Lorenzo Miniero (University of Napoli Federico II, IT); Alfonso Buono (CRIAI, IT)

15:30 Closing remarks