Monday, Sep. 10

10:00 Invited talk (NOKIA, Finland)

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)


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         Tadeusz Czachorski (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of Polish Academy of Sciences, PL)

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 (Kangwon National University, KR)

Tuesday, Sep. 11

09:30 – 10:30 Panel Session

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)

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)

16:00 – 18:00 Wireless networking I 

Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Wireless Multi-Access Networks         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)


Wednesday, Sep. 12

Full day trip to St.Petersburg suburb 

Thursday, Sep. 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 B?k 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)

11:30 – 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)

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)

16:30 – 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, Sep. 14

09:30 Invited Talk

11:00 – 12:30 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)

12:30 – 13:00 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)

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