Message from the General Chairs

Message from the Program Chairs

Committees

List of Additional Reviewers

Keynote Speech

Encryption, Electronic Signatures and Security in Computer Communications

T. R. N. Rao

Session 1: ATM Networks

K.V. Bhat

Multi-Frame Isochronous Service for ATM Networks: Stop-and-Go Revisited

T. Ibaraki

T. Kameda

A Burst-Level Priority Scheme for Bursty Traffic in ATM Networks

J.R. Fernandez

M.W. Mutka

TCP Selective Acknowledgments and UBR Drop Policies to Improve ATM-UBR Performance over Terrestrial and Satellite Networks

R. Goyal

R. Jain

S. Kalyanaraman

S. Fahmy

B. Vandalore

S. Kota

Session 2: Wireless Networks I

Chunming Qiao

Shared Tree Wireless Network Multicast

C.-C. Chiang

M. Gerla

L. Zhang

Fault Tolerance of PCS Mobility Databases

S.-C. Chen

M.-F. Chang

Y.-B. Lin

Routing in Ad Hoc Networks Using a Spine

B. Das

R. Sivakumar

V. Bharghavan

Session 3: Multicasting

Melody Moh

Analyzing the Latency of the Totem Multicast Protocols

E. Thomopoulos

L.E. Moser

P.M. Melliar-Smith

The Performance of Multicast Banyan Networks

Y. Yang

An API for Scalable Reliable Multicast

J. Gemmell

J. Liebeherr

D. Bassett

GMNF-DVMRP: A Modified Version of Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol

Y.-C. Lai

Y.-D. Lin

W.-C. Yu

Y.-T. Lin

Session 4: Congestion Control

Louise Moser

Performance Analysis of Rate-based Congestion Control Scheme and Choice of High and Low Thresholds

Y-C. Lai

Y.-D. Lin

Explicit Rate ABR Schemes Using Traffic Load as Congestion Indicator

F.M. Chiussi

A. Arulambalam

Y. Xia

X. Chen

Overload Control of SCP in Advanced Intelligent Network with Fairness and Priority

Y. Lee

J.S. Song

Session 5: Routing Protocols

George Thomas

An Extended Comparison of Slotted and Unslotted Deflection Routing

T. Chich

P. Fraigniaud

An Improved Topology Discovery Algorithm for Networks with Wormhole Routing and Directed Links

Y.-Y. Huang

M.L. Molle

DRS: A Fault Tolerant Network Routing System for Mission Critical Distributed Applications

A. Chowdhury

O. Frieder

D. Grossman

E. Burger

K. Makki

Session 6: Wireless Networks II

Imrich Chlamtac

Performability Analysis of Handoff Calls in Personal Communication Networks

C.W. Ro

K.S. Trivedi

Transport State Handoff in Mobile Cellular Networks

K. Brown

R. Gopalakrishnan

S. Singh

A Novel Mobile Agent Search Algorithm

W.-S.E. Chen

C.-W.R. Leng

Y.-N. Lien

Mobile Extensions to RSVP

D.O. Awduche

E. Agu

Session 7: Optical Networks

Wuxu Peng

Teletraffic/Transmission Performance of Multi-Hop Networks using Hybrid-Store-and-Forward

G.A. Castanon

O.K. Tonguz

A. Bononi

Pipelined Transmission Scheduling in All-Optical TDM/WDM Rings

X. Zhang

C. Qiao

Efficient Distributed Control Protocols for WDM All-Optical Networks

Y. Mei

C. Qiao

TWDM Multihop Lightwave Networks Based on Rotator Digraphs

P.-J. Wan

Session 8: Protocol Synthesis and Verification

Eyton Modiano

STEPS: a Software Tool-set for automatEd Protocol Synthesis

H. Kahlouche

Constructing Automated Protocol Testing Oracles to Accommodate Specification Nondeterminism

J.J. Li

H. Liu

R.E. Seviora

Automated Formal Verification of Protocols

D.R. Avresky

S. Vassilaras

Flexible Multicast Protocol

A. Siafa

Session 9: Multicasting II

Matt Mutka

Scheduling Support for Multicasting Sessions in Broadband Communication Networks

K. Sheta

M. Singhal

Resource Allocation Control Protocols for Multicast Data Transport

K. Ravindran

T.J. Gong

New Error Recovery Structures for Reliable Multicasting

L. Gu

J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

Keynote Address

Tatsuya Suda

Session 10: Distributed Multimedia Systems I

Forouzan Golshani

Improving Video-on-Demand Server Efficiency through Stream Tapping

S.W. Carter

D.D.E. Long

A Distributed Algorithm of Delay Bounded Multicast Routing for Multimedia Applications

X. Jia

N. Pissinou

K. Makki

New Algorithms and Techniques for Well-Synchronized Audio and Video Streams Communications

H. Kitamura

Session 11: ATM Networks Modeling

Hamid R. Arabnia

A Performance Model for ATM Switches with Multiple Input Queues

G. Nong

J.K. Muppala

M. Hamdi

Tight Upper Bounds for Cell Loss Probabilities in ATM Multiplexers and Required Bandwidth Estimation

X. Liu

B. Bensaou

D.H.K. Tsang

L. Liu

Modeling ATM Traffic Using Stochastic Petri Net

C. Lin

B. Li

J. Wu

Session 12: QoS Guarantees I

H. Satio

Time Dependent Priority Scheduling for Guaranteed QOS Systems

S. Chaudhry

A. Choudhary

Efficient Admission Control for EDF Scheduler with Statistical QoS Guarantee

Y. Xie

T. Yang

QoS Routing Algorithms for Pre-Computed Paths

C. Pornavalai

G. Chakraborty

N. Shiratori

Government Panel (Funding)

Frank Halloran

Tony Pressley

L. Goldber

Session 13: Wireless Networks III

Achilles G. Kongiantis

Distributed and Persistent Mobile Agents for Heterogeneous Personal Communications Systems

P. Stanski

A. Zaslavsky

Admission Control for Wireless Networks with Heterogeneous Traffic using Event Based Resource Estimation

J. Misic

S.T. Chanson

F.S. Lai

Network Connectivity of Layered Self-Organizing Wireless Networks

C. Zhao

T. Katsura

M. Kisimoto

T. Ueda

T. Matukawa

H. Okada

Session 14: QoS Guarantees II

Hamid Sharif

Design and Implementation of a QoS Capable Switch-Router

E. Basturk

A. Birman

G. Delp

R. Guerin

R. Haas

S, Kamat

D. Kandlur

P. Pan

D. Pendarakis

V. Peris

R. Rajan

D. Saha

D. Williams

Boosting the Network Performance via Traffic Reshaping

S. Gorinsky

S. Baruah

A. Stoyen

Supporting Distributed Applications on Advanced Communication Networks

A. Schill

T. Hutschenreuther

Session 15: Invited Talks

Air Force Global Communication Networks Research

Robert L. Kaminski

The Use of ATM in a Tactical Environment

Frank Halloran

Session 16: Traffic Control in ATM Networks

A.K. Somani

Performance of ATM Available Bit Rate for Bursty TCP Sources and Interfering Traffic

D.P. Hong

T. Suda

Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for Real-time VBR Video Traffic in ATM Networks

H.-W. Chu

D.H.K. Tsang

QOS Based Performance of Selective Repeat Transport User in Hybrid ATM/TDMA Networks

M. Talla

A.K. Elhakeem

M. Kadoch

Session 17: Networks for Real-Time Applications

X. Jia

A Solution for the Priority Queue Problem of Deadline-Ordered Service Disciplines

N.R. Figueira

Testing the Feasibility of Synchronous Bandwidth Allocation for Time-Critical Communication in FDDI Networks

S. Zhang

T.-H. Cheng

K.R. Subramanian

L. Zhang

C.H. Tan

High-Performance Scalable Computing for Real-Time Applications

T. Boggess

F. Shirley

Dynamic Scheduling of Real-Time Messages over an Optical Network

C.-C. Yu

S. Bhattacharya

Session 18: Networks Design I

Robert R. Henry

Evaluation of the Number of Destination Hosts for Data Networking and Its Application to Address Cache Design

M. Aida

N. Takahashi

Scheduling Packet Transmissions in a Multi-hop Packet Switched Network Based on Message Length

E. Modiano

@Ingate: A Distributed Intelligent Network Approach to Bridge Switching and Packet Networks

P.L. Simeonov

P. Hofmann

M. Rebensburg

D. Ruffler

Multispace Search for Minimizing the Maximum Nodal Degree

B. Du

J. Gu

W. Wang

D.H.K. Tsang

Keynote Address

Optical Networks --- Status Report and the Road Ahead

Biswanath Mukherjee

Session 19: ATM Networks II

Nada Golmie

Heuristic Algorithms for Path Selection in Private ATM Networks

X. Jiang

T. Yang

IP Routing on Logical Address Group

C. Park

J.H. Lee

J.O. Kim

H.J. Kim

SPAM: A Data Forwarding Model for Multipoint-to-Multipoint Connection Support in ATM Networks

S. Komandur

D. Mosse

Session 20: Multimedia Systems II

Niki Pissinou

An Imprecise Algorithm for Real-Time Compressed Image and Video Transmission

X. Chen

A.M.K. Cheng

An Efficient Traffic Control Scheme for Integrated Voice, Video and Data over ATM Networks: Explicit Allowed Rate Algorithm (EARA)

A. Dinesh

M. Moh

A Performance System for High Quality Desktop Video Conference

S. Catrava

F. Golshani

Session 21: Internet and World Wide Web

Kia Makki

Static Caching in Web Servers

I. Tatarinov

A. Rousskov

V. Soloviev

Reliability of Internet Hosts: A Case Study from the End User's Perspective

M. Kalyanakrishnan

R.K. Iyer

J. Patel

Archiving Agents for the World Wide Web

C. Brandli

H. Rudin

Gis2web and Its Inter-Application Communications Issues

X. Meng

R.H. Fowler

E.R. Rieken

Panel (Industrial)

Kabekode Bhat

Sudhir Dixit

Session 22: TCP/IP

Joe Wigglesworth

NetRAP - A Network Resource Allocation Protocol for IP over Ethernet

M. Gitsels

H. Eberle

C. Kleitsch

Statistical Characterization of Wide-Area IP Traffic

M.T. Lucas

D.E. Wrege

B.J. Dempsey

A.C. Weaver

Session 23: Network Performance Modeling

Abdur Chowdhury

Performance Testing of Communication Protocols for Three-Tier Computing: Results for ICA and X Window Protocols

D.C. Roberts

D.A. Grossman

O. Frieder

R. Bernstein

E. Bishop

Performance Analysis of Parallel Frame Synchronization Scheme in SDH Systems

M.S. Obaidat

J. Teng

Protocol Filtering: A Microscopic Approach to Windows NT and Novell NetWare Network Modeling

R.S. Pimplaskar

S-C. Yoon

E.K. Park

Session 24: Networks Design II

M.S. Obaidat

Effective Search Strategies for Application-Independent Speedup in UDP Demultiplexing

J.T. Dixon

K.L. Calvert

Design Issues in Data Networks

E. Drakopoulos

Timing Properties of the Timed Token MAC Protocol

S. Zhang

A. Burns

Session 25: ATM Switch/Interface

Senad Busovaca

A Low Cost Searching Device for an ATM Adapter

R.J. Glaise

J.M. Munier

ATM Network Interface Architectures for Low Latency

P. Sundstrom

P. Andersson

A Multicast ATM Switch with Slotted Ring Fabric

R.R. Henry

ATM Switches with Bifurcated Input Queueing

G. Thomas

V. Veludandi

Session 26: Network Security and Tools

David Grossman

A New Framework for Secure Network Management

F.G. Hatefi

F. Golshani

An Architecture for Inter-Domain Troubleshooting

D.G. Thaler

C.V. Ravishankar

An Innovative Routing Protocol Evaluation Tool

J. Holt

W. Peng

Invited Talks

Battle of the Bandwidths: Managed Versus Unmanaged Bandwidth in Multimedia Communication

Sudhir Dixit

The Impact of the Network on Both Department of Defense and Industry

Tony Pressley

Addendum

Author Index