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SESSION 1A. QUALITY OF SERVICE ROUTING
Session Chair: MARTHA STEENSTRUP, BBN/GTE

Location: Nikko III

QoS Routing in Networks with Uncertain Parameters
Dean Lorenz and Ariel Orda, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

QoS Routing via Multiple Paths Using Bandwidth Reservation
Nageswara S. V. Rao and Stephen G. Batsell
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Multipath Bounds on End to End Performance via Greedy Routing in Integrated Services Networks
Sanjay Mithal, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Routing with End to End QoS Guarantees in Broadband Networks.
Ariel Orda, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Location: Nikko II

Effective Bandwidths in Wireless Networks with Multiuser Receivers
David Tse, University of California - Berkeley
Stephen Hanly, University of Melbourne, Australia

Teletraffic Issues Related to Channel Allocation in Digital Mobile Cellular Networks Pang Leang Hiew, Monash University, Australia
Moshe Zukerman, University of Melbourne, Australia

Performance Bounds for Dynamic Channel Assignment Schemes Operating Under Varying Re-Use Constraints
Phil Whiting and Sem Borst, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Channel Assignment Algorithms Satisfying Co-Channel and Adjacent Channel Reuse Constraints in Cellular Mobile Networks
Saswati Sarkar, University of Maryland, College Park
Kumar N. Sivarajan, Indian Institute of Science, India

Location: Nikko I

Cost Effective Traffic Grooming in WDM Rings
Galen Sasaki, University of Hawaii
Ori Gerstel and Rajiv Ramaswami, Tellabs Operations Inc.

Dynamic Load Balancing in Broadcast WDM Networks withTuning Latencies
IIia Balldine and George N. Rouskas, North Carolina State University

Unscheduled Multicasts in WDM Broadcast-and-Select Networks
Eytan Modiano, MIT

A New Angle on Wavelength Assignment in WDM Rings: Minimize System Cost, Not Number of Wavelengths
Ori Gerstel and Philip Lin, Tellabs Operation Inc.
Galen Sasaki, University of Hawaii

Location: Grey Pearl

Minimum Distance Routing in the Bidirectional Shufflenet
Mario Gerla, Prasasth Palnati, University of California - LA
Emilio Leonardi, Fabio Neri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

The Multi-Dimensional Shuffle-exchange Network: A Novel Topology for Regular Network Architectures
Philip P. To and Tony T. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Strictly and Wide-Sense Nonblocking Photonic Switching Under Crosstalk Constraint
Mehdi Vaez, AT&T, Chin-Tau Lea, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Strict-Sense Non-Blocking Conditions for Shuffle/Exchange Networks with Vertical Replication
Italo Busi, Achille Pat tavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Tuesday, 31 March 1998 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm

SESSION 2A. WIRELESS LANs
Session Chair: VADUVUR BHARGHAVAN, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne

Location: Nikko III

Stability and Performance Analysis of HIPERLANG.
Anastasi, L. Lenzini, and E. Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy

IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN: Capacity Analysis and Protocol Enhancement
F. Cali, M. Conti, and Enrico Gregori
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy

A Comparison of MAC Protocols for Wireless Local Networks Based on Battery Power Consumption
Jyh-Cheng Chen, Krishna M. Sivalingam, Prathima Agrawal, and Shalinee Kishore
State University of New York at Buffalo, Washington State University, AT&T Laboratories

A Near-Optimum Channel Access Protocol Based on Incremental Collision Resolution and Distributed Transmission Queues
Rodrigo Garces and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, University of California - Santa Cruz

Location: Nikko II

Robust Rate Control for ABR Sources
Eitan Altman, Tamer Basar, and R. Srikant,
INRIA, France, University of Illinois at UC

LAPLUS: An Efficient, Effective and Stable Switch Algorithm for Flow Control of the Available Bit Rate ATM Service
Sharat C. Prasad, Kamran Kiasaleh, and Poras Balsara
Samsung Telecommunications America, University of Texas - Dallas

A Control-Theoretic ABR Explicit Rate Algorithm for ATM Switches with Per-VC Queueing
Lotfi Benmohamed and Y.T. Wang, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Zero Queueing Flow Control and Applications
H.T. Kung and S.Y. Wang, Harvard University

Location: Nikko I

Modeling Video Traffic in The Wavelet Domain
Sheng Ma and Chuanyi Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Threshold Autoregressive Models for VBR MPEG Video Traces
Bongseong Jang and Charles Thomson, University of Massachusetts -Lowell

An Accurate and Treatable Markov Model of MPEG-Video Traffic
Alfio Lombardo, G Morabito, G. Schembra, University of Catania, Italy

Robust H.263 Video Coding for Transmission over the Internet
Marc Willebeek-LeMair, Zon-Yin Shae, IBM T.J. Watson
Yuan-Chi Chang, University of California - Berkeley

Location: Grey Pearl

Timer Reconsideration for Enhanced RTP Scalability
Jonathan Rosenberg, Henning Schulzrinne
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Columbia University

Explicit Window Adaptation: A Method to Enhance TCP Performance
Lampros Kalampoukas and Anujan Varma, University of California - Santa Cruz
K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs - Research

TCP Behavior of a Busy Internet Server: Analysis and Improvements
Hari Balakrishnan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Srinivasan Seshan, Mark Stemm and Randy H. Katz
University of California - Berkeley and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

TCP Fast Recovery Strategies: Analysis and Improvements
Dong Lin and H.T. Kung, Harvard University

Location: Nikko III

Implementing Fair Queueing in ATM Switches: The Discrete Rate Approach
Fabio Chiussi and Andrea Francini, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Implementing Distributed Packet Fair Queueing in a Scalable Switch Architecture
Donpaul C. Stephens and Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University

Decoupled Generalized Processor Sharing: A Fair Queueing Principle for Adaptive Multimedia Applications
Francois Toutain, Telecom Bretagne, France

Design Considerations for Supporting TCP with Per-Flow Queueing
Bernhard Suter, T.V. Lakshman, Dimitrios Stiliadis, Abhijit Choudhury
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Location: Nikko II

Remote-Queueing Multiple Access (RQMA): Providing Quality of Service for Wireless Communication
Norival R. Figueira and Joseph Pasquale, University of California - San Diego

D2MA: A Distributed Access Protocol for Wireless ATM Networks
Marco Listanti, Fabrizio Mascitelli, and Andrea Mobilia University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy

A Five-Phase Reservation Protocol (FPRP) for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Chenxi Zhu and M. Scott Corson, University of Maryland

Judicious Use of Redundant Transmissions for Improved Performance in Single- and Multi-Channel ALOHA Networks with Deadlines
Yitzhak Birk and Yaron Keren, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Location: Nikko I

Cell Loss Asymptotics in Buffers Fed with a Large Number of Independent Stationary Sources
Nikolay Likhanov and Ravi R. Mazumdar, University of Essex, UK

Packet Multiplexers with Adversarial Regulated Traffic
Srini Rajagopal, Martin Reisslein, and Keith W. Ross University of Pennsylvania

Computing Queue-Length Distributions for Power-Law Queues
Matthew Roughan, Darryl Veitch, and Michael Rumsewicz
Software Engineering Research Centre, Australia

New Bounds and Approximations using Extreme Value Theory for the Queue Length Distribution in High-Speed Networks
Jinwoo Choe and Ness B. Shroff, Purdue University

Location: Grey Pearl

Performance Issues in VC-Merge Capable Switches for IP overATM Networks
Indra Widjaja, University of Arizona, Anwar I. Elwalid, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

An Adaptive Resource Management for Flow-Based IP/ATM Hybrid Switching Systems
Hao Che, San-Qi Li and Arthur Lin, University of Texas - Austin and Cisco Systems Inc.

Flow-Aware Gateway Support for IP-over-ATM
Kam Lee and Allan Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University

A Simulation Study of Packet Forwarding Methods over ATM:SBR Evaluation
Fahad Hoymany and Daniel Mosse, University of Pittsburgh

Location: Nikko II, III

Panelists from ISP, telco, and Internet development communities discuss the evolution and growth of the communications fabric:

Location: Nikko III

Compact and Unforgeable Key Establishment over an ATM Network
Yuliang Zheng and Hideaki Imai, University of Tokyo, Japan

Designing a Distributed Authorization Service
Thomas Woo, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Simon S. Lam, University of Texas - Austin

CMIS/P++: Extensions to CMIS/P for Increased Expressiveness and Efficiency in the Manipulation of Management Information
George Pavlov, Antonio Liotta, Paolo Abbi and Stefano Ceri
University College, London, UK, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Incentive-Compatible Pricing Strategies in Noncooperative Networks
Yannis A. Korilis, Theodora A. Varvarigou, and Sudhir R. Ahuja
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, University of Crete, Greece

Location: Nikko II

An Extension to Concurrent TTCN
Mingwei Xu and Jianping Wu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China

Promela++: A Language for Constructing Correct and Efficient Protocols
Anindya Basu, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Greg Morrisett and Thorsten von Eicken, Cornell University

User-Level Protocol Servers with Kernel-Level Performance
Jose Carlos Brustoloni and Peter Steenkiste
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and Carnegie Mellon University

Towards Formal Semantics for QoS Support
Jan-Peter Richter and Hermann de Meer, University of Hamburg, Germany

Location: Nikko I

Adding Voice to a Distributed Game on the Internet
Jean Bolot and Sacha Fosse Parisis, INRIA, France

Internet Telephony Gateway Location
Jonathan Rosenberg and Henning Schulzrinne
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and Columbia University

Measurement and Analysis of Long-Range Dependent Behavior of Internet Packet Delay
Michael S. Borella and Gregory B. Brewster, DePaul University

Simulation of FEC-Based Error Control for Packet Audio on the Internet
Matthew Podolsky, Cynthia Romer and Steven McCanne, University of California - Berkeley

Location: Grey Pearl

Performance Analysis of Feedback Controlled Data Packet Transmission over High-Speed Networks
Yonghwan Kim, Cisco Systems, Inc. CA USA
San-qi Li, University of Texas - Austin

The Cost of Quality in Networks of Aggregate Traffic
N. G. Duffield, AT&T Research
S. Low, University of Melbourne, Australia

Linear Complexity Algorithms for Maximum Throughput in Radio Networks
and Input Queued Switches
Leandros Tassiulas, University of Maryland, College Park

Transport Layer Adaptable Rate Control (TARC)
Rei Brockett and Izhak Rubin, University of California - LA

Location: Nikko III

Adaptive Use of Error-correcting Codes for Real-time Communication in Wireless Networks
Moncef Elaoud and Parameswaran Ramanathan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Adaptive Resource Management for DS-CDMA Networks Subject to Energy Constraints
Kimberly M. Wasserman and Seong-Jun Oh, University of Michigan

Adaptive Frame Length Control for Improving Wireless Link Range and Energy Efficiency
Paul Lettieri and Mani Srivastava, University of California - LA

Controlled Multimedia Wireless Link Sharing via Enhanced Class-Based Queueing with Channel-State-Dependent Packet Scheduling
Mani Srivastava, Christine Fragouli, and Vijay Sivaraman, University of California - Los Angeles

Location: Nikko II

Active Reliable Multicast
Li-Wei Lehman, Stephen Garland, and David Tennenhouse, MIT

Improving the Performance of Distributed Applications Using Active Networks
Ulana Legedza, David J. Wetherall, and John Guttag, MIT

Self-Organizing Wide-Area Network Caches
Samrat Bhattacharjee, Kenneth Calvert, and Ellen W. Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology

DAN: Distributed Code Caching for Active Networks
Dan Decasper, Washington University,
Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Location: Nikko I

Bandwidth Allocation for Guaranteed versus Best Effort Service Categories
Eitan Altman, INRIA, France, Ariel Orda and Nahum Shimkin
Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, Haifa, Isreal

SCED +: Efficient Management of Quality of Service Guarantees
Rene L. Cruz, University of California - San Diego

Enforceable Quality of Service Guarantees for Bursty Traffic Streams
Edward W. Knightly, Rice University

On Statistical Multiplexing, Traffic Mixes, and VP Management
Ching-fong Su and Gustavo de Veciana, University of Texas - Austin

Location: Grey Pearl

Scheduling for Large-Scale On-Demand Data Broadcasting
Demet Aksoy, Michael Franklin, University of Maryland, College Park

A Network-Conscious Approach to End-to-End Video Delivery over Wide Area Networks Using Proxy Servers
Yuewei Wang, Zhi-Li Zhang, David H.C.Du and Dongli Su, University of Minnesota

Some Proposals to Improve Error Resilience in the MPEG-2 Video Transmission Over ATM Networks
Pedro Cuenca, Antonio Garrido, Francisco Quiles and L. Orozco-Barbosa
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain University. of Ottawa, Canada

A General Optimal Video Smoothing Algorithm
Zhimei Jiang and Leonard Kleinrock, University of California - LA

SESSION 6A. SCALABLE ROUTING AND MULTICASTING
Session Chair: BULENT YENER, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Location: Nikko III

Hierarchical Source Routing Through Clouds
Michael Montgomery and Gustavo de Veciana, University of Texas at Austin

Distributed Top-Down Hierarchy Construction
David G. Thaler and Chinya V. Ravishanka, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Hierarchical Routing Using Link Vectors
Jochen Behrens and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, University of California - Santa Cruz

Forwarding State Reduction for Sparse Mode Multicast Communication
Jining Tian and Gerald Neufeld, University of British Columbia, Canada

Location: Nikko II

Minimizing the Wireless Cost of Tracking Mobile Users:An Adaptive Threshold Scheme
Zohar Naor and H. Levy, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Efficient PCS Call Setup Protocols
Yingwei Cui, Derek Lam, Jennifer Widom, Donald C. Cox, Stanford University

Update and Search Algorithms for Wireless Two-Way Messaging: Design and Performance
Thomas Woo, Tom La Porta, Jamal Golestani ,and Naveen Agarwal
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Architectures and Handoff Schemes for CATV-Based Personal Communications Network
Nen-Fu Huang and Chi-An Su, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Location: Nikko I

The END: A Network Adapter Design Tool
Kang G. Shin, Ashish Mehra, and Atri Indiresan, Univ ersity of Michigan

Implementing Protocols in Java: The Price of Portability
Mostafa Ammar, Ken Calvert and Bobby Krupczak
Georgia Institute of Technology

A Comparative Study of High Speed Networks
James Hall, Roberto Sabatino, Simon Crosby, Ian Leslie, and Richard Black
University of Cambridge, UK

A Novel Server Selection Technique for Improving the Response Time of a Replicated Service
Zongming Fei, Samrat Bhattacharjee, Ellen W. Zegura, and Mostafa Ammar
Georgia Institute of Technology

Location: Grey Pearl

Discuss services to be provided, possible architectures and support for Mobility and QoS in broadband wireless networks. Additional issues include: extending connectivity to users who roam between heterogenous wireless networks (wireless ATM to cellular to satellite); ca n QoS guarantees be translated (adapted) to changing environments.

Location: Nikko III

A Practical Scheduling Algorithm to Achieve 100% Throughput in Input-Queued Switches
Adisak Mekkittikul and Nick McKeown, Stanford University

A multicast Single-Queue Switch with a Novel Copy Mechanism
Massoud Hashemi, A. Leon-Garcia, University. of Toronto, Canada

Doubling Memory Bandwidth for Network Buffers
Youngmi Joo and Nick McKeown, Stanford University

Multi-configuration Multihop Protocols (MMPs): A New Class of Protocols for Packet-Switched WDM Optical Networks
Jason P. Jue and Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California - Davis

Location: Nikko II

OPENET: An Open and Efficient Control Platform for ATM Networks
Israel Cidon, Tony Hsiao, Asad Khamisy, Abhay Parekh Raphael Rom and Moshe Sidi
Sun Microsystems Labs and Technion, Haifa, Israel

UNITE - An Architecture for Lightweight Signalling in ATM Networks
Gisli Hjalmtysson and K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Research

Intelligent Voice Smoother for VBR Voice Over ATM Networks
Po L. Tien and Maria C. Yuang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

An Adaptive Connection Admission Control Policy for VBR+ Service Class
Sarit Mukherjee, D. Reininger and B. Sengupta, University of Nebraska and NEC America

Location: Nikko I

Equilibrium Allocation of Variable Resources for Elastic Traffics
Steven Low, University of Melbourne, Australia

Schemes for Scheduling of Control Messages by Hierarchical Protocols
Eduard Bortnikov and Reuven Cohen Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Adm ission Control for Booking Ahead Shared Resources
Albert Greenberg, AT&T Research
Damon Wischik, University. Cambridge, UK

Exploring the Performance Impact of QoS Support in TCP/IP Protocol Stacks
Robert Engel, Dilip Kandlur, Ashish Mehra, Debanjan Saha, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Location: Grey Pearl

Limited Wavelength Translation in All-Optical WDM Mesh Networks
Emmanouel A. Varvarigos and Vishal Sharma, University of California - Santa Barbara

On the Optimal Placement of Wavelength Converters in Wavelength-Routed Networks
Suresh Subramaniam, Murat Azizoglu, and Arun K. Somani, University of Washington

Provisioning Algorithms for WDM Optical Networks
Murat Alanyali and Ender Ayanoglu, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Design of Logical Topologies: a Linear Formulation for Wavelength Routed All-Optical Networks with No Wavelength Changers
Kumar N. Sivarajan and Rajesh M. Krishnaswamy, Indian Institute of Science, India

SESSION 8A. ATM SWITCHING
Session Chair: CHIN-TAU LEA, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Location: Nikko III

Performance of ATM Switches with Age Priority Packet Discarding under the ON-OFF Source Model
Hong-Bin Chiou and Zsehong Tsai, Chunghwa Telecommunication Co., Ltd., Taiwan, R.O.C., National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C

A Delay and Loss Versatile Scheduling Discipline in ATM Switches
Jen M. Hah and Maria C. Yuang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Impact Analysis of Packet-Level Scheduling on an ATM Shared-Memory Switch
Cathy Fulton, Schlumberger, Austin, San-qi Li, University. of Texas, Austin
Arthur Lin, Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA

Dynamic Flow Switching, A New Communication Service forATM Networks
Qiyong Bian, Kohel Shimoto, Jonathan Turner, Washington University

Location: Nikko II

Optimal Multicast Feedback
Jorg Nonnenmacher and Ernst Biersack, Institut Eurecom, France

How Bad is Reliable Multicast without Local Recovery?
Jorg Nonnenmacher, Martin Lacher, Matthias Jung, Georg Carle and Ernst Biersack
Institut Eurecom, France

Optimal Packing of Group Multicasting
Shiwen Chen, Oktay Gunluk, and Bulent Yener
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Cornell University

A Comparison of Server-Based and Receiver-Based Local Recovery Approaches for Scalable Reliable Multicast
Sneha K. Kasera, Jim Kurose, and Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts

Location: Nikko I

TCP-like Congestion Control for Layered Multicast Data Transfer
Lorenzo Vicisano, University College, London, UK
Luigi Rizzo, Universita di Pisa, Italy
Jon Crowcroft, University College, London, UK

Feedback Consolidation Algorithms for ABR Point-to-Multipoint Connections in ATM Networks
Sonia Fahmy, Raj Jain, Rohit Goyal, Bobby Vandalore, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman,
Sastri Kota, Pradeep Samudra, Ohio State University, Lockheed Martin Telecommunications

A Load Profiling Approach to Routing Guaranteed Bandwidth Flows
Ibrahim Matta, Northeastern University, Azer Bestavros, Boston University

Multi-Service Connection Admission Control using Modular Neural Networks
Chen-Khong Tham and Wee-Seng Soh, National University of Singapore

Location: Grey Pearl

Software Radios for Wireless Networking
Vanu Bose and Mike Ismert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alock B. Shah, Motorola, Inc.

MSOCKS: An Architecture for Transport Layer Mobility
David Maltz and Pravin Bhagwat, Carnegie Mellon University and
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Mobile-End Transport Protocol: An Alternative to TCP/IP Over Wireless Links
Kuang-Yeh Wang and Satish K. Tripathi, University of Maryland and UC Riverside

Demand-based Radio Network Planning of Cellular Mobile Communication Systems
Kurt Tutschku, University of Wurzburg, Germany

Location: Nikko III

Layered Video Multicast with Retransmissions (LVMR): Evaluation of Hierarchical Rate Control
Xue Li, Sanjoy Paul and Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech and Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Adaptive multicast of Multi-Layered Video: Rate-Based and Credit-Based Approaches
Brett Vickers, Celio Albuquerque, Tatsuya Suda
University of California - Irvine

End-to-End Delay of V ideoconferencing over Packet Switched Networks
Mario Baldi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Yoram Ofek, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

SAVE: An Algorithm for Smoothed Adaptive Video over ExplicitRate Networks
N.G. Duffield, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Amy R. Reibman
AT&T Research

Location: Nikko II

Packet Fair Queueing Algorithms For Wireless Networks with Location-Dependent Errors
T.S. Eugene Ng, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University

Minimum Delay Self-Clocked Fair Queueing for Packet-Switched Networks
Fabio Chiussi and Andrea Francini, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

On Adaptive Bandwidth Sharing with Rate Guarantees
N. Duffield, T.V. Lakshman, D. Stiliadis, AT&T Research and Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Optimal Bandwidth/Delay Tradeoff for Feasible- Region-Based Scalable Multimedia Scheduling
Wei Zhao, Taruni Seth, Michelle Kim and Mark Willebeek-LeMair
University of Maryland College Park, Columbia University, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Location: Nikko I

Handover Re-routing Schemes for Connection Oriented Services in Mobile ATM Networks
Bui Banh, G. Anido, and E. Dutkiewicz, University of Wollongong, Australia

User Agent Migration Policies in Multimedia Wireless Networks
Ramachandran Ramjee, Thomas La Porta, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and University of Massachusetts

Data Transfer Scheme for Wireless Real-Time Communications
Chiung-Shien Wu, Gin-Kou Ma, Computer and Communication Research Labs, Taiwan

A Generalized Processor Sharing Approach to Time Scheduling in Hybrid CDMA/TDMA
Mohammad Ali Arad and Alberto Leon-Garcia University of Toronto

Location: Grey Pearl

Efficient Rate-Controlled Bulk Data Transfer using Multiple multicast Groups
Supratik Bhattacharyya, James F. Kurose, Don Towsley, and Ramesh Nagarajan
University of Massachusetts, and Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

An End-to-End Reliable Multicast Protocol using Polling for Scaleability
Marinho P. Barcellos and Paul D. Ezhilchelvan, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

An Error Control Scheme for Large-Scale multicast Applications
Christos Papadopoulos, Guru Parulkar, and George Varghese, Washington University

A Scalable Control Topology for multicast Communications
Jorg Liebeherr, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
Bhupinder S. Sethi, University of Virginia

Scalable Delivery of Web Pages Using Cyclic Best-Effort(UDP) Multicast
Kevin C. Almeroth, Mostafa Ammar and Zongming Fei, Georgia Institute of Technology

Techniques for Devel oping and Measuring High- Performance Web Servers over High Speed Networks
James Hu, Sumedh Mungee, and Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University

The Network Effects of Prefetching
Mark Crovella and Paul Barford, Boston University

Location: Nikko II

Routing Lookups in Hardware at Memory Access Speeds
Pankaj Gupta, Steven Lin, and Nick McKeown Stanford University

IP Lookups using Multi-way and Multi-column Search
B. Lampson, V. Srinivasan and G. Varghese
Microsoft Corporation, Inc and Washington University

Informed-Source Coding-on-Demand (ISCOD) over Broadcast Channels
Yitzhak Birk and Tomer Kol, Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, Haifa, Israel

A CSMA/CD Compatible MAC for Real-Time Transmissions based on Varying Collision Intervals
Oran Sharon, University of Haifa, Israel

Location: Nikko I

On Wireless Spectrum Estimation and Generalized Graph Coloring
Krishnan Kumaran and Sanjeev Khanna, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Upper and Lower Bounds of a Class of Channel Assignment Problems in Cellular Networks
Arunabha Sen, Tom Roxborough, Sirisha Medidi, Arizona State University

Modeling Fast Fading Channel Dynamics for Packet Data Performance Analysis
Young Yong Kim and San-qi Li, UT Austin

Stability of a Type-II Hybrid ARQ Protocol for DS-SSMA Packet Radio Systems
James S. Lehnert, Qian Zhang, and Tan F. Wong
Purdue University

Location: Grey Pearl

Sizing Exit Buffers in ATM Networks under CBR Traffic: An Intriguing Coexistence of Instability and Tiny Cell Loss Rates
Hanoch Levy, Tzippi Mendelson, Moshe Sidi, a nd Joseph Keren-Zvi
Tadiran Telecommunications Ltd. Tel-Aviv University,
Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, Haifa, Israel

On the Impact of Long-Range-Dependent Traffic in Dimensioning ATM Network Buffer
George C. Lin and Tatsuya Suda, University of California - Irvine

Per-Stream Jitter Analysis in CBR ATM Multiplexors
Aleksandr Privalov and Khosrow Sohraby, University of Missouri, Kansas City

On the Capabilities of On-Off Models to Capture ArbitraryATM Sources
Sebastian Galmes and Ramon Puigjaner, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

Location: Nikko III

Performance of ERICA and QFC for Transporting Bursty TCP Sources with Bursty Interfering Traffic
Duke P.Hong and Tatsuya Suda, University of California - Irvine

Converging to Approximated Max-Min Flow Fairness in Logarithmic Time
Baruch Awerbuch, Johns Hopkins University, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

A Stochastic Approximation Approach for Max-Min Fair Adaptive Rate Control of ABR Sessions with MCRs
Santosh P. Abraham and Anurag Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, India

Generalized Max-Min Rate Allocation Policy and Its Distributed Implementation Using ABR Flow Control Mechanism
Yiwei Thomas Hou, Henry H.-Y. Tzeng, and Shivendra S. Panwar Polytechnic University and Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Location: Nikko II

Deterministic Service Guarantees in 802.12 Networks, Part II:the Cascaded Network Case
Peter Kim, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, UK

Evaluation of Priority and Scheduling Schemes for an IEEE 802.14 MAC Protocol Loaded by Real traffic
Milosh V. Ivanovich, Monash University, Australia
Moshe Zukerman, University of Melbourne, Australia

Adaptive Control Mechanism for Cable Modem MAC protocols
Dolors Sala, John O. Limb, and Sunil Khaunte, Georgia Institute of Technology

A Priority Scheme for the IEEE 802.14 MAC Protocol for Hybrid Fiber-Coax Networks
Mark D. Corner, Nada Golmie, Jorg Liebeherr, and David H. Su
National Institute of Standards and Technology Polytechnic University

Location: Nikko I

Loop-Free Multipath Routing using Generalized Diffusing Computations
William T. Zaumen and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, University of California - Santa Cruz

An Efficient Multipath Forwarding Method
Johnny Chen, Peter Druschel, and Devika Subramanian, Rice University

VTDM - A Dynamic multicast Routing Algorithm
Hwa-Chun Lin and Shou-Chuan Lai, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

An Efficient Multicast Routing Algorithm for Delay-Sensitive Applications with Dynamic Membership
Sung-Pil Hong, Heesang Lee, and Bum Hwan Park
Chung-Ang University, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies,
Seoul National University, Korea

Location: Grey Pearl

A Source Model for VBR Video Traffic Based on M/G/infinity Input Processes
Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona
Armand Makowski, University of Maryland, College Park

Performance and Fluid Simulations of a Novel Shared Buffer Management System
Krishnan Kumaran and Debasis Mitra, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Long-Tailed Loss Rates in A Single Server Queue
Predrag R. Jelenkovic, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Performance Analysis of a Hybrid Priority Control Scheme for Input and Output Queueing ATM Switches
Jae Yong Lee and Young Han Kim, Chungnam National University, Soongsil University, Korea