Technical Sessions



Session A.I.1: Network Security (Tuesday, May 11, 11:00–12:40)

Chair: Otto Spaniol, Aachen Univ. of Technology

A New Digital Signature and Certificate Architecture with Shortest Certification Path
Sung Keun Song, Hee Yong Youn, Kang Shin Lee

Inter/Intra Core Network Security with PKI for 3G-and-Beyond Systems
Georgios Kambourakis, Angelos Rouskas, Stefanos Gritzalis

Improving Distributed Firewalls Performance through Vertical Load Balancing
Olivier Paul

Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Firewall Architectures for Multimedia Applications
Utz Roedig, Jens Schmitt


Session A.I.2: TCP Performance I (Tuesday, May 11, 11:00–12:40)

Chair: Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki Univ. of Technology

A Multi-level TCP Model with Heterogeneous RTTs
Pasi Lassila, Michel Mandjes

Improving the Performance of TCP in the Presence of Interacting UDP Flows in Ad Hoc Networks
Vikram Gupta, Srikanth Krishnamurthy, Michalis Faloutsos

The Sensitivity of TCP to Sudden Delay Variations in Mobile Networks
Michael Scharf, Marc Necker, Bernd Gloss

Lost Retransmission Detection for TCP Part 2: TCP using SACK option
Beomjoon Kim, Yong-Hoon Choi, Jaiyong Lee, Min-Seok Oh, Jin-Sung Choi


Session A.I.3: Ad-hoc Networks (Tuesday, May 11, 11:00–12:40)

Chair: Anthony Ephremides, Univ. of Maryland

High Coverage Broadcasting for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
Dave Cooper, Paul Ezhilchelvan, Isi Mitrani

Combining Source- and Localized Recovery to Achieve Reliable Multicast in Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks
Venkatesh Rajendran, Katia Obraczka, Yunjung Yi, Sung-Ju Lee, Ken Tang, Mario Gerla

A Lightweight Content Replication Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Environments
Vineet Thanedar, Kevin Almeroth, Elizabeth Belding-Royer

Scalable Service Discovery in Mobile Ad hoc Networks
Uday Mohan, Kevin Almeroth, Elizabeth Belding-Royer


Session A.II.1: Wavelength Management (Tuesday, May 11, 14:10–15:25)

Chair: Harry Perros, North Carolina State Univ.

Fiber Cost Reduction and Wavelength Minimization in Multifiber WDM Networks
Christos Nomikos, Aris Pagourtzis, Katerina Potika, Stathis Zachos

Static WDM Network Planning with TDM Channel Partitioning
Achille Pattavina, Massimo Tornatore, Alessandro de Fazio, Guido Maier, Mario Martinelli

Traffic Grooming in WDM Ring Networks with the Min-Max Objective
Bensong Chen, George Rouskas, Rudra Dutta


Session A.II.2: Multicast I (Tuesday, May 11, 14:10–15:25)

Chair: Kevin Almeroth, Univ. California, Santa Barbara

A Case for Mesh-Tree Interaction in End System Multicasting
Anirban Chakrabarti, Govindarasu Manimaran

On Core Selection Algorithm for Reducing Delay Variation of Many-to-Many Multicasts with Delay-Bounds
Moonseong Kim, Young-Cheol Bang, Hyunseung Choo

Overlay Multicast Tree Minimizing Average Time Delay
Hwangjun Song, Dong Sup Lee


Session A.II.3: Wireless Network Performance I (Tuesday, May 11, 14:10–15:25)

Chair: Enrico Gregori, National Research Council

Maximum Throughput Analysis in Ad Hoc Networks
Bernardo Villela, Otto Carlos Duarte

Performance of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks under Balanced Fairness
Aleksi Penttinen, Jorma Virtamo

Cell Throughput Analysis of the Proportional Fair Scheduling Policy
Jin-Ghoo Choi, Saewoong Bahk


Session A.III.1: Inter-domain Routing (Tuesday, May 11, 17:00–18:15)

Chair: Christophe Diot, Intel Research

On Detection of Anomalous Routing Dynamics in BGP
Ke Zhang, Amy Yen, Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Massey, S. Felix Wu, Lixia Zhang

Multi-objective Egress Router Selection Policies for Inter-domain Traffic with Bandwidth Guarantees
Kin-Hon Ho, Ning Wang, Panos Trimintzios, George Pavlou

On Properties of Internet Exchange Points and their Impact on AS Topology and Relationship
Kuai Xu, Zhenhai Duan, Zhi-Li Zhang, Jaideep Chandrashekar


Session A.III.2: Packet Classification and Scheduling (Tuesday, May 11, 17:00–18:15)

Chair: Christos Douligeris, Univ. of Piraeus

Scalable Packet Classification through Maximum Entropy Hashing
Lynn Choi, Jaesung Heo, Hyogon Kim, Jinoo Joung, Sunil Kim

Diagonal Tuple Space Search in Two Dimensions
Mikko Alutoin, Pertti Raatikainen


Session A.III.3: Services and Monitoring (Tuesday, May 11, 17:00–18:15)

Chair: Gunnar Karlsson, KTH-IMIT

An Evaluation of Delay-Aware Receiver Playout Strategies for VoIP Applications
Hugh Melvin, Liam Murphy

Secure Web Services for Location Based Services in Wireless Networks
Minsoo Lee, Jintaek Kim, Sehyun Park, Jaeil Lee, Seoklae Lee

Distributed Channel Monitoring for Wireless Bandwidth Aggregation
Puneet Sharma, Sung-Ju Lee, Jack Brassil, Kang Shin


Session B.I.1: Admission Control (Wednesday, May 12, 09:00–10:40)

Chair: Khaled Elsayed, Cairo Univ.

Benefit of Admission Control in Aggregation Network Dimensioning for Video Services
Gert van Hoey, Danny de Vleeschauwer, Bart Steyaert, Véronique Ingelbrecht, Herwig Bruneel

Call Admission Control for Voice/Data Integration in Broadband Wireless Networks
Majid Ghaderi, Raouf Boutaba

Self-Admission Control for IP Telephony using Early Quality Estimation
Olof Hagsand, Ignacio Más, Ian Marsh, Gunnar Karlsson

Fair and Performance Guaranteed Methods for Flat-Rate Unlimited Access Service Plan
Yeali Sun, Pei-Wen Chen, Meng Chang Chen


Session B.I.2: Competition in Networks (Wednesday, May 12, 09:00–10:40)

Chair: George Stamoulis, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business

Bounds on Benefits and Harms of Adding Connections to Non Cooperative Networks
Hisao Kameda

Fair Packet Forwarding in MANETs with Anonymous Stations: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Jerzy Konorski

Pricing Differentiated Services: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Eitan Altman, Dhiman Barman, Rachid El-Azouzi, David Ros, Bruno Tuffin

Performance Planning, Quality-of-Service and Pricing under Competition
Corinne Touati, Parijat Dube, Laura Wynter


Session B.I.3: 3G/4G Wireless Systems (Wednesday, May 12, 09:00–10:40)

Chair: Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion Univ.

Delay Sensitivity Based Assignment of OVSF Codes for the Downlink DCH in WCDMA
Dimitrios Skoutas, Angelos Rouskas

Interoperability Criteria and Mechanisms for Seamless Inter-working between UMTS-HSDPA and HIPERLAN/2 Networks Enhanced with MIMO Techniques
Tareq Al-Gizawi, Kostas Peppas, Fotis Lazarakis, Remy Pnitenet, Geremy Gosteau

Efficient Location-based Hard Handoff Algorithms for Cellular Systems
Antonis Markopoulos, Panagiotis Pissaris, Sofoklis Kyriazakos, Efstathios Sykas

Priority Queueing for IP-based Service Differentiation in the UMTS Radio Access Network
Abedellatif Samhat, Tijani Chahed, Gerard Hébuterne


Session B.II.1: MPLS and Related Technologies (Wednesday, May 12, 11:10–12:50)

Chair: Guy Leduc, Univ. of Liege - RUN

Multi-Hour Design of Dynamically Reconfigurable MPLS Networks
Balázs-Gábor Józsa, Dániel Orincsay, Levente Tamási

A Tabu Search Heuristic for the Off-Line MPLS Reduced Complexity Layout Design Problem
Sergio Beker, Nicolas Puech, Vasilis Friderikos

Self-Protecting Multipaths - A Simple and Resource-Efficient Protection Switching Mechanism for MPLS Networks
Michael Menth, Andreas Reifert, Jens Milbrandt

Integrated Dynamic Routing of LSPs in IP over WDM Networks: Full Protection and Partial Spatial-Protection
Qin Zheng, Gurusamy Mohan


Session B.II.2: Flow and Congestion Control (Wednesday, May 12, 11:10–12:50)

Chair: Miltiades Anagnostou, National Technical Univ. of Athens

A Receiver Based Single-Layer Multicast Congestion Control Protocol for Multimedia Streaming
Miguel Rodríguez-Pérez, Manuel Fernández-Veiga, Sergio Herrería-Alonso, Andrés Suárez-González, Cándido López-García

The Role of Information Update in Flow Control
Eitan Altman, Tamer Basar, Naceur Malouch

Stabilized Edge-to-Edge Aggregate Flow Control
Hyung-Keun Ryu, Jeong-Woo Cho, Song Chong

MaxNet: Faster Flow Control Convergence
Bartek Wydrowski, Lachlan Andrew, Iven Mareels


Session B.II.3: Performance of IEEE 802.11 (Wednesday, May 12, 11:10–12:50)

Chair: Lazaros Merakos, Univ. of Athens

Improving MAC Performance in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks using Enhanced Carrier Sensing (ECS)
Zhifei Li, Sukumar Nandi, Anil Gupta

Modeling the Short-term Unfairness of IEEE 802.11 in Presence of Hidden Terminals
Zhifei Li, Sukumar Nandi, Anil Gupta

Analytical Modeling of TCP Clients in Wi-Fi Hot Spot Networks
Raffaele Bruno, Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori

On the Feasibility of Integrated MPEG Teleconference and Data Transmission over IEEE 802.11 WLANs
Ioannis Broustis, Michael Paterakis


Session B.III.1: Optical Networks (Wednesday, May 12, 15:25–16:40)

Chair: George Rouskas, North Carolina State Univ.

Differentiated Quality-of-Protection Provisioning in Optical/MPLS Networks
Canhui (Sam) Ou, Biswanath Mukherjee

Hierarchical Routing with QoS Constraints in Optical Transport Networks
Xavier Masip-Bruin, Sergio Sánchez-López, Josep Solé-Pareta, Jordi Domingo-Pascual, Eva Marín-Tordera

Analysis of a Finite Number of Deflections in Fully and Uniformly Loaded Regular Networks
Ireneusz Szczesniak


Session B.III.2: TCP and Congestion (Wednesday, May 12, 15:25–16:40)

Chair: Rong Pan, Stanford Univ.

Improving Perceived Web Performance by Size Based Congestion Control
Thomas Ziegler, Hung Tuan Tran, Eduard Hasenleithner

An Adaptive AIMD Congestion Control Protocol for Communication Networks
Robert Shorten, Douglas Leith, Peter Wellstead

TCP-DCR: Making TCP Robust to Non-Congestion Events
Sumitha Bhandarkar, A.L.Narasimha Reddy


Session B.III.3: Key Management (Wednesday, May 12, 15:25–16:40)

Chair: Augusto Casaca, IST-INESC

An Enhanced Hybrid Key Management Protocol for Secure Multicast in Ad-hoc Networks
Mohamed Salah Bouassida, Isabelle Chrisment, Olivier Festor

On Dynamic Subset Difference Revocation Scheme
Weifeng Chen, Zihui Ge, Chun Zhang, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley

Effcient, Authenticated, and Fault-Tolerant Key Agreement for Dynamic Peer Groups
Li Zhou, Chinya Ravishankar


Session B.IV.1: Authentication and DOS Prevention (Wednesday, May 12, 17:00–18:15)

Chair: Erwin Rathgeb, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen

Proactively Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Using Source IP Address Monitoring
Tao Peng, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

Secure Name Service: A Framework for Protecting Critical Internet Resources
Yingfei Dong, Changho Choi, Zhi-Li Zhang

Detecting and Blocking Unauthorized Access in Wi-Fi Networks
Haidong Xia, José Brustoloni


Session B.IV.2: Multicast II (Wednesday, May 12, 17:00–18:15)

Chair: Prasant Mohapatra, Univ. California, Davis

Secure Reverse Communication in a Multicast Tree
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Antoni Martínez-Ballesté, Francesc Sebé

Stealth Multicast: A Novel Catalyst for Network-Level Multicast Deployment
Aaron Striegel

AMBTS: A Scheme of Aggregated Multicast based on Tree Splitting
Zhi-feng Liu, Wen-Hua Dou, Ya-jie Liu


Session B.IV.3: Energy Aspects of Wireless Networks (Wednesday, May 12, 17:00–18:15)

Chair: Laura Marie Feeney, SICS

Cooperative Caching with Optimal Radius in Hybrid Wireless Networks
Huaping Shen, Sajal Das, Mohan Kumar, Zhijun Wang

Power Adaptation based Optimization for Energy Efficient Reliable Wireless Paths
Suman Banerjee, Archan Misra

Adaptive Broadcast Consumption (ABC), a New Heuristic and New Bounds for the Minimum Energy Broadcast Routing Problem
Ralf Klasing, Alfredo Navarra, Aris Papadopoulos, Stéphane Pérennes


Session C.I.1: Optical Network Access (Thursday, May 13,09:00–10:40)

Chair: Biswanath Mukherjee, Univ. California, Davis

Access Protocols to Support Different Service Classes in an Optical Burst Switching Ring
Vishwas Puttasubbappa, Harry Perros

Prioritized Multiplexing of Traffic Accessing an FSAN-compliant GPON
John Angelopoulos, Helen-C. Leligou, Theodore Argyriou, Stelios Zontos

Traffic Regulation and Control in the Manhattan Street Network
Omar Tayan, David Harle

Fairness Issue in Bus-Based Optical Access Networks
Nizar Bouabdallah, Andre-Luc Beylot, Guy Pujolle


Session C.I.2: TCP Performance II (Thursday, May 13,09:00–10:40)

Chair: W. Mark, Univ. of Waterloo

Loss Strategies for Competing TCP/IP Connections
Eitan Altman, Rachid El-Azouzi, David Ros, Bruno Tuffin

Modelling TCP Throughput and Fairness
Douglas Leith, Robert Shorten

The Undismissible Rats: How Do Short Connections Affect Long-lived TCP Flows Under Moderate Traffic Load?
Rong Pan

Theoretical Analysis of Performances of TCP/IP Congestion Control Algorithm with Different Distances
Tsuyoshi Ito, Mary Inaba


Session C.I.3: Routing in Ad-hoc Networks (Thursday, May 13,09:00–10:40)

Chair: Guy Pujolle, Univ. Paris 6

Last Encounter Routing under Random Waypoint Mobility
Natasa Sarafijanovic-Djukic, Matthias Grossglauser

A-STAR: A Mobile Ad-hoc Routing Strategy for Metropolis Vehicular Communications
Boon-Chong Seet, Genping Liu, Bu-Sung Lee, Chuan-Heng Foh, Kai-Juan Wong, Keok-Kee Lee

Enhancing the Route Discovery Process of On-Demand Routing in Networks with Directional Antennas
Marco Aurélio Spohn, Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves

Hash-Based Dynamic Source Routing
Claude Castellucia, Pars Mutaf


Session C.II.1: Fault Detection, Restoration and Tolerance (Thursday, May 13,13:30–15:10)

Chair: Raouf Boutaba, Univ. of Waterloo

A New Method of Primary Routes Selection for Local Restoration
Krzysztof Walkowiak

Multi-domain Diagnosis of End-to-end Service Failures in Hierarchically Routed Networks
Malgorzata Steinder, Adarshpal Sethi

Detecting Traffic Anomalies through Aggregate Analysis of Packet Header Data
Seong Soo Kim, A.L.Narasimha Reddy, Marina Vannucci

Lazy Agent Replication and Asynchronous Consensus for the Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agent System
Taesoon Park, Ilsoo Byun, Heon Y. Yeom


Session C.II.2: QoS Metrics, Algorithms, Architectures (Thursday, May 13,13:30–15:10)

Chair: Ramon Puigjaner, Univ. Illes Balears

LMPS: Localized Multi-Path Selection of QoS Routing in VoIP Networks
Khaled Elsayed, Hassan Fadel, Amin Nassar

Link-Based Fair Aggregation: A Simple Approach to Scalable Support of Per-Flow Service Guarantees
Yuming Jiang

Reducing Packet-Loss by Taking Long-Range Dependences into Account
Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin, Pierre Fraigniaud

A Family of Performance Bounds for QoS Measures in Packet-Based Networks
József Bíró, Zalán Heszberger, Mátyás Martinecz


Session C.II.3: Content Distribution, Caching and Replication (Thursday, May 13,13:30–15:10)

Chair: Krishna Kant, Intel Corporation

Impact of Frequency-Based Cache Management Policies on the Performance of Segment Based Video Caching Proxies
Anna Satsiou, Michael Paterakis

Traffic Conscious Distribution of Service Components
Miltiades Anagnostou, Maria Lambrou

Network-Embedded Programmable Storage and Its Applications
Sumeet Sobti, Junwen Lai, Yilei Shao, Nitin Garg, Chi Zhang, Ming Zhang, Fengzhou Zheng, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Wang

Distributed Algorithm for Service Replication in Service Overlay Network
Kevin Y.K. Liu, John C.S. Lui, Zhi-Li Zhang


Session C.III.1: Routing Theory and Path Computation (Thursday, May 13,15:40–17:20)

Chair: Edmundo Monteiro, Univ. of Coimbra

Routing in Turn-Prohibition Based Feed-Forward Networks
Markus Fidler, Gerrit Einhoff

On the Representability of Arbitrary Path Sets as Shortest Paths: Theory, Algorithms and Complexity
Gábor Rétvári, Róbert Szabó, József Bíró

Precomputation of Constrained Widest Paths in Communication Networks
Stavroula Siachalou, Leonidas Georgiadis

A Traffic Engineering-Aware Shortest-Path Routing Algorithm in IP Networks
Youngseok Lee, Biswanath Mukherjee


Session C.III.2: Wireless Network Performance II (Thursday, May 13,15:40–17:20)

Chair: Guenter Haring, University of Vienna

Performance of Directional Collision Avoidance in Ad-hoc Networks
Yu Wang, Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves

On the Performance of the European LMDS System
Michel Marot, Monique Becker, Paul-Vincent Marboua

Computing Call Dropping and Waiting Probabilities in LEO Satellite Systems for Voice Communications
Sebastiá Galmés, Ramon Puigjaner

Performance Modelling of a Wireless GSM/GPRS Cell under Partial Sharing Scheme
Demetres Kouvatsos, Yue Li, Irfan Awan


Poster Session (Tuesday, May 11,15:25–16:35)

An Efficient Probabilistic Packet Marking Scheme for IP Traceback
Basheer Duwairi, Anirban Chakrabarti, Govindarasu Manimaran

A Geomulticast Architecture and Analysis Model for Ad-hoc Networks
Beongku An, DoHyeon Kim

An Architecture to Support QoS Multicast Routing for Ad-hoc Networks
Beongku An, Do-Hyeon Kim, Nam-Soo Kim

Linkcast: Fast and Scalable Multicast Routing Protocol
Mozafar Bag-Mohammadi, Siavash Samadian-Barzoki, Nasser Yazdani

Towards an Erlang-like Formula for the Performance Evaluation of GPRS/EDGE Networks with Finite-Length Sessions
Bruno Baynat, Khaled Boussetta, Pierre Eisenmann, Nidham Ben Rached

Multicast Transport Protocol Analysis: Self-Similar Sources
Mine Çaglar, Öznur Özkasap

SPEED: Scalable Protocols for Efficient Event Delivery in Sensor Networks
Tassos Dimitriou, Ioannis Krontiris, Fotios Nikakis, Paul Spirakis

Improved Position Estimation in Wireless Heterogeneous Networks
Erwan Ermel, Anne Fladenmuller, Guy Pujolle, André Cotton

A Geometric Derivation of the Probability of Finding a Relay in Multi-Rate Networks
Laura Marie Feeney, Daniel Hollos, Martin Kubisch, Seble Mengesha, Holger Karl

Metadata Design for Introspection-Capable Reconfigurable Systems
Vangelis Gazis, Nancy Alonistioti, Lazaros Merakos

Security Clustering: A Network-wide Secure Computing Mechanism in Pervasive Computing
Jabeom Gu, Sehyun Park, Jaehoon Nah, Sungwon Sohn, Ohyoung Song

A Game Theoretic Approach to Web Caching
Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, Yiannis Georgiadis, Lazaros Merakos

Transient Analysis of the D-BMAP/G/1 Queue with an Application to the Dimensioning of a Playout Buffer for VBR Video
Tom Hofkens, Kathleen Spaey, Chris Blondia

A Kerberos-based Authentication Architecture for Wireless LANs
Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Lamia Benazzouz, Farouk Kamoun, Davor Males

A Preliminary Study of Scalability of TCP/IP based Clusters under Database Workloads
Krishna Kant

Evaluation of Smart Antenna Algorithms for cdma2000 Reverse Link
Mustafa Karakoc, Adnan Kavak

Control Theoretic Modeling and Design of Admission Control Mechanisms for Server Systems
Maria Kihl, Anders Robertsson, Björn Wittenmark

A Fair Service Work Scheduling Approach for Differentiated Services in Optical Access Networks
NamUk Kim, HyunHo Yun, Minho Kang

Integrating (m,k)-Firm Real-Time Guarantees in the Internet QoS Model
Anis Koubaa, Ye-Qiong Song, Jean-Pierre Thomesse

Adaptive Channel Allocation in OFDM/SDMA Wireless LANs with Limited Transceiver Resources
Iordanis Koutsopoulos, Leandros Tassiulas

Fast End-to-End Mobility Support Using SIP for Vertical Handoffs in 4G Wireless Communication Networks
Jung-Ho Lee, Sang-Hee Lee, Ki-Nam Seo, Jae-Sung Lim

Optimal Monitoring Equipment Placement for Fault and Attack Location in Transparent Optical Networks
Carmen Mas Machuca, Ioannis Tomkos

Introducing Service Differentiation in a Bluetooth Piconet
Antoine Mercier, Pascale Minet

Call-burst Blocking Probabilities of ON-OFF Traffic Sources under the Bandwidth Reservation Policy
Ioannis Moscholios, Michael Logothetis

The Connection Dependent Threshold Model for Finite Sources — A Generalization of the Engset Multirate Loss Model
Ioannis Moscholios, Michael Logothetis

Analysis of Protocol Operations and Scalability of COPS-SLS Negotiation System
Thi Mai Trang Nguyen, Nadia Boukhatem, Guy Pujolle

Outage Analysis for Multi-Connection Multiclass Services in the Uplink of Wideband CDMA Cellular Mobile Networks
Chun Nie, Tung Chong Wong, Yong Huat Chew

Experimental Analysis of the SABUL Congestion Control Algorithm
Phoemphun Oothongsap, Yannis Viniotis, Mladen Vouk

Rational Server Selection for Mobile Agents: Problem Solution and Performance Analysis
Carsten Pils, Jan Kritzen, Stefan Diepolder

Collaborative Trust-based Secure Routing in Multihop Ad-hoc Networks
Niki Pissinou, Tirthankar Ghosh, Kia Makki

Comparative Evaluation of Two Scalable QoS Architectures
Rui Prior, Susana Sargento, Pedro Brandão, Sérgio Crisóstomo

An Efficient ID-based Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol from Pairings
Eun-Kyung Ryu, Eun-Jun Yoon, Kee-Young Yoo

Fast Flooding in Power Save Mode of IEEE 802.11 DCF based Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
Myung-Hwan Seo, Hyeon-Ju Yoon, Joong-Soo Ma

Seamless Congestion Control over Wired and Wireless IEEE 802.11 Networks
Vasilios Siris, Despina Triantafyllidou

Shared Protection by Concatenated Rings in Optical WDM Networks
Hyunseung Choo, Minhan Son, Min Young Chung, Tae-Jin Lee

Distributed Scheduling of Recording Tasks with Interconnected Servers
Sergios Soursos, George Stamoulis, Theodoros Bozios

Impairment Constrained Based Routing for Managed Reach WDM Optical Networks
Dimitrios Vogiatzis, Carmen Mas Machuca, Ioannis Tomkos

Performance Analysis of Variable Bit Rate Multiclass Services in the Uplink of a Dynamic Complete Partitioning Round Robin Carrier-Hopping Multirate Multi-Carrier DS-CDMA System
Tung Chong Wong, Jon W. Mark, Kee Chaing Chua

ORBIS: A Reconfigurable Hybrid Optical Metropolitan Area Network Architecture
Yufeng Xin, Ilia Baldine, Mark Cassada, Daniel Stevenson, Laura Jackson, Harry Perros

A Layer Assignment and Resource Reservation Scheme for Hierarchical Cell Structures
Roland Zander, Johan Karlsson