Programme

Overlay Networks with Linear Capacity Constraints
Ying Zhu, Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada

A High-Throughput Overlay Multicast Infrastructure with Network Coding
Mea Wang, Zongpeng Li, Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada

On Topological Design of Service Overlay Networks
Arunabha Sen, Ling Zhou, Bin Hao, Bao Hong Shen, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA, Samrat Ganguly, NEC Laboratories, USA

QoS Guarantees in Multimedia CDMA Wireless Systems with Non-precise Network Parameter Estimates
H. Cahit Akin, Ozdemir Akin, University of California,  San Diego, USA, Kimberly M. Wasserman, Cisco Systems, Research Triangle Park, USA

LT-TCP: End-to-End Framework to Improve TCP Performance over Networks with Lossy Channels
Omesh Tickoo, Vijaynarayanan Subramanian, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, RPI, Troy, USA, K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA

On Transport Layer Adaptation in Heterogeneous Wireless Data Networks
Aravind Velayutham, Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, Hung-Yun Hsieh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Rep. of China

Analyzing Object Detection Quality under Probabilistic Coverage in Sensor Networks
Shansi Ren, Qun Li, Haining Wang, Xin Chen, Xiaodong Zhang, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA

Quality of Service Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
Tseno Tsenov, Hannes Tschofenig, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

Preliminary Results Towards Building a Highly Granular QoS Controller
Cristian Koliver, University of Caxias do Sul, Brazil, Jean-Marie Farines, University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Concept of Admission Control in Packet Switching Networks Based on Tentative Accommodation of Incoming Flows
Kenta Yasukawa, Katsunori Yamaoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Ken-ichi Baba, Osaka University, Japan

Improving uplink QoS of Wifi hotspots
Benjamin Bappu, June Tay, British Telecommunications, Ipswich, UK

Resilient State Management in Large Scale Networks
Yangcheng Huang, Saleem N. Bhatti, University College London, UK

Performance Analysis of Wireless Scheduling with ARQ in Fast Fading Channels
Hwee Pink Tan, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Privacy and Reliability by Dispersive Routing
Haim Zlatokrilov, Hanoch Levy, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Distributed Online LSP Merging Algorithms for MPLS-TE
Li Lei, Srinivas Sampalli, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Implicit Flow QoS Signaling Using Semantic-Rich Context Tags
Roel Ocampo, University of the Philippines, Philippines, Alex Galis, Chris Todd, University College London, UK, Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany

eQoS: Provisioning Client-Perceived End-to-End QoS guarantees in Web servers
Jianbin Wei, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

Calculation of Speech Quality by Aggregating the Impacts of Individual Frame Losses
Christian Hoene, Sven Wiethölter, Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Best-Effort versus Reservations Revisited
Oliver Heckmann, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, Jens B. Schmitt, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

An advanced QoS protocol for real-time content over the Internet
John Adams, British Telecom, Suffolk, UK, Avril IJsselmuiden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Lawrence Roberts, Anagran, USA

Using IP as transport technology in third generation and beyond Radio Access Networks
Attila Báder, Ericsson Research, Budapest, Hungary, Lars Westberg, Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden, Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Closing the Gap Between Industry, Academia and Users: Is There a Need for QoS in Wireless Systems?
Gábor Fodor, Karim El-Malki, David Partain, Ericsson AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Why QoS will be needed in Metro Ethernets
Rainer Baumann, Ulrich Fiedler, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Research Issues in QoS Provisioning for Personal Networks
Weidong Lu, Anthony Lo, Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

RSVP Standards Today and the Path Towards a Generic Messenger
Xiaoming Fu, University of Göttingen, Germany, Jukka Manner, University of Helsinki, Finland

QoS in Hybrid Networks an Operator's Perspective
Aiko Pras, Remco van de Meent, University of Twente, The Netherlands, Michel Mandjes, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, The Netherlands

QoS for Aggregated Flows in VPNs
Pratik Bose, Dan Voce, Dilip Gokhale, Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions, Clarksburg, USA

Supporting Mission-Critical Applications over Multi-Service Networks
Chris Christou,  Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, USA, Michael Davenport, Booz Allen Hamilton, Los Angeles, USA

Designing a Predictable Internet Backbone with Valiant Load-Balancing
Rui Zhang-Shen, Nick McKeown, Stanford University, USA

Preserving the Independence of Flows in General Topologies using Turn-Prohibition
Markus Fidler, NTNU Trondheim, Norway, Oliver Heckmann, Ralf Steinmetz, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Supporting Differentiated QoS in MPLS Networks
Roberto A. Dias, Federal Technology Center of Santa Catarina, Brazil, Eduardo Camponogara, Jean-Marie Farines, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Avoiding Transient Loops through Interface-Specific Forwarding
Zifei Zhong, Srihari Nelakuditi, Junling Wang, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA, Ram Keralapura, Chen-Nee Chuah, University of California, Davis, USA, Yinzhe Yu,  Sanghwan Lee, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

Would Self-Organized or Self-Managed Networks Lead to Improved QoS?
Panel Convener: David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK

Panellists
Gísli Hjálmtýsson, Reykjavík University, Iceland, Mikhail Smirnov, FhG Fokus, Berlin, Germany, James P.G. Sterbenz, University of Massachussets, Amherst, USA, Giorgio Ventre, University of Napoli, Italy, John Vicente, Intel Corporation, USA

Analysis of Stochastic Service Guarantees in Communication Networks: A Server Model
Yuming Jiang, Peder J. Emstad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Preemptive Packet-Mode Scheduling to Improve TCP Performance
Wenjie Li, Bin Liu, Lei Shi, Yang Xu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Rep. of China, Dapeng Wu, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Edge-based Differentiated Services
Henrik Lundqvist, Ignacio Más Ivars, Gunnar Karlsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden

Processor Sharing Flows in the Internet
Nandita Dukkipati, Rui Zhang-Shen, Nick McKeown, Stanford University, USA, Masayoshi Kobayashi, NEC Corporation, Japan

A Practical Method for the Efficient Resolution of Congestion in an On-Path Reduced-State Signalling Environment
András Császár, Attila Takács, Attila Báder, Ericsson Telecommunication, Budapest, Hungary

Case Study in Assessing Subjective QoS of a Mobile Multimedia Web Service in a Real Multi-access Network
Tiia Sutinen, VTT Electronics, Oulu, Finland, Timo Ojala, University of Oulu, Finland

WXCP: Explicit Congestion Control for Wireless Multi-Hop Networks
Yang Su, Thomas Gross, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

A non-homogeneous QBD approach for the admission and GoS control in a multiservice WCDMA system
Ioannis Koukoutsidis, Eitan Altman, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, Jean Marc Kelif, France Telecom R&D, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France