Registration and Reception

 

Sunday, 19th July, 1998

 

5:00-7:30 Registration - in Dales Suite

 

6:00-7:30 Get Together over Sherry - in Dales Suite

 

List of Tutorials

 

  1. IP Switching over ATM Networks
  2. Andreas Skliros (ECI Telematics Int. Ltd., UK)

  3. Network Reliability: Models, Measures and Analysis
  4. Laszlo Jereb (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary)

  5. Discrete-Time ATM Queues with Independent and Correlated Arrival Streams
  6. Sabine Wittevrongel, Herwig Bruneel (University of Ghent, Belgium)

  7. Next Generation of Broadband Network Architectures - Traffic Flow Control and End-to-End Performance
  8. Riaz Ahmad (Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd., UK)

  9. ATM Multicast Routing
  10. John Crawford, Gill Waters (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK)

  11. Response Time Distributions in Queueing Network Models
  12. P.G. Harrison (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK)

  13. Development of ATM and IP Networks for Future Mobile Multimedia Systems
Brian Marchent (Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd., UK)

 

 
Technical Programme

 

Monday, 20th July, 1998

 

Joint Session - in Ball Room
 
8:40
Welcome and Introductory Remarks Demetres Kouvatsos (Bradford University, UK)
8:50
(T01)
Tutorial - IP Switching over ATM Networks Andreas Skliros (ECI Telematics Int. Ltd., UK)
Parallel Sessions A and B

Session 1-A: TCP/IP over ATM Networks (I) Chairman:
 
9:40
(88)
A Comparison of IP and Tag Switching Martin J. Tunnicliffe, Ron Malyan, (Kingston University, UK)
10:05
(83)
TCP/IP User Level Modeling for ATM P?r Karlsson, ?ke Arvidsson(University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden)
10:30
(86)
TCP/IP over ATM Networks: Challenges and Improvement Sufian Yousef, Caroline Strange (Anglia Polytechnic University, UK)
Session 1-B: Queueing Modelling and Analysis (I) Chairman:
 
9:40
(T03)
Tutorial - Discrete-Time ATM Queues with Independent and Correlated Arrival Streams Sabine Wittevrongel, Herwig Bruneel (University of Ghent, Belgium)
10:30
(63)
Approximation to the CLR in ATM Switches with Multiserver Output Discrete Queues and Priority M?nica Aguilar, Francisco Barcel?, Pau Iserte (Universidad Polit?cnica de Catalu?a, Spain)
10:55
-- Coffee in Ball Room
Session 2-A: Switch Models and Architectures (I) Chairman:
 
11:20
(25) 
Distributed ATM Ring Architecture For High Speed Multimedia LAN X.Krasniqi, P.L. Panteli, T.G. Clarkson (King's College London, UK)
11:45
(26)
Non-Blocking Three-Stage Multirate Switching Networks Wojciech Kabacinski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
12:10
(27)
Wide-Sense Nonblocking Multicast ATM Switching Networks Wojciech Kabacinski, Grzegorz Danilewicz (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
12:35
(28)
A Systolic Approach to ATM Commutation in the Gigabit Networks Yannick Saouter, Daniel Litaize, (IRIT, France) Jacques H. Collet (LAAS-CNRS, France)
Session 2-B1: TCP/IP over ATM Networks (II) Chairman:
 
11:20
(87)
Efficient Transport of Connectionless Traffic on ATM Dinesh C. Verma (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, US)
11:45
(82)
Impact of Cell Discard Strategies on TCP/IP in ATM UBR Networks Vincent Rosolen (Institut d'Electricite Montefiore, Belgium), Olivier Bonaventure (Alcatel Alsthom Corporate Research Center, Belgium), Guy Leduc (Institut d'Electricite Montefiore, Belgium)
 

 

Session 2-B2: Protocols Chairman:
 
12:10
(94)
Data Transmission in ATM Networks: Applications, Interfaces, Protocols, and Performance Carmelita G?rg, Ralf Popp, Michael Schmitt, Dirk Trossen, Boudewijn Haverkort, Ramin Sadre (Aachen University of Technology, Germany)
12:35
(95)
Security Mechanisms for ATM PONS S. Velentzas, H. Cruickshank, Z. Sun, G. Pavlou (University of Surrey, UK)
1:00 
-- Lunch in Dining Hall
Session 3-A: Traffic Modelling and Characterisation (I) Chairman:
 
2:00
(10)
On the Statistical Implications of Certain Random Permutations of Inter-arrival Times or Counts in a Point Process Allan T. Andersen, Bo Friis Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
2:25
(11)
A Methodology for an Efficient Characterization of Superposed Markovian Sources M. Conti, S. Ghezzi, E. Gregori (CNR - Istituto CNUCE, Italy)
2:50
(13)
Hierarchical Traffic Modeling of Audio and Video ATM Traffic Christian Hapke (GMD FOKUS, Germany)
3:15 
(14)
The Impact of Self-Similarity on the Statistical Multiplexing of MPEG Video Traffic T. Chiotis, C. Stathis, B. Maglaris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
3:40
(15)
Generation of Asymmetric Traffic Patterns Based on Arrival Rate Distribution Variance Rubem Pereira, (John Moores University, UK) Andrew Wiseman, (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Madjid Merabti (John Moores University, UK)
Session 3-B: Queueing Modelling and Analysis (II) Chairman:
 
2:00
(64)
Buffer Behavior of a Rate Adapter with Correlated Arrivals Veronique Inghelbrecht, Bart Steyeart, Herwig Bruneel, Sabine Wittevrongel (University of Ghent, Belgium)
2:25
(65)
Deadlock-Free Population Constraints for Product Form, Closed, Multiclass Discrete-Time Queueing Networks with Finite Capacity Nodes Michael E Woodward (Bradford University, UK)
2:50
(68)
Analysis of Queues with Batch Arrivals G. Wolfner (PKI Telecommunications Development Institute, Hungary) , M. Telek (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary)
3:15 
(69)
Impact of the Inactive Period Distribution on Queueing Behaviour R.G. Garroppo, S. Giordano, M. Pagano (University of Pisa, Italy)
3:40
(109)
Arbitrary Discrete-Time Queueing Networks with Correlated Arrivals and Blocking Demetres D. Kouvatsos, Irfan Ullah-Awan (University of Bradford, UK)
4:05 
-- Tea in Ball Room
Session 4-A: Mobile, Radio and Satellite Systems Chairman:
 
4:30
(T07)
Tutorial - Development of ATM and IP Networks for Future Mobile Multimedia Systems Brian Marchent (Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd., UK)
5:20
(79)
Evaluation of Scalability in a Third Generation Mobile Communication System G. Karagiannis, V.F. Nicola, I.G.M.M. Niemegeers (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
5:45
(80)
An Algorithmic Component of an Intelligent Earth Terminal for ATM Satellite Networks H.O. Awadalla, L.C. Cuthbert, J.A. Schormans (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK)
 

 
 
6:10 
(81)
Performance Analysis of a Class of Randomly Addressed Polling Schemes for Wireless ATM MAC Protocols B. Van Houdt, C. Blondia (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Session 4-B: Call Admission Control (I) Chairman:
 
4:30
(36) 
Connection Admission Control Based on Traffic Measurements Xinping Guo, Colin Pattinson, Tony Dacre, Rebecca Strachan (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
4:55
(37)
Nonparametric Decision Algorithms for CAC in ATM Networks J. Levendovszky, Cs. Vegso, (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary) E.C. van der Meulen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
5:20
(38)
ATM Connection Admission Control Using pRAM-Based Artificial Neural Networks F. Balestrieri, P. L. Panteli, V. Dionissopoulos, T. G. Clarkson (King's College London, UK)
5:45 
(39)
CAC Procedures for Delay-constrained VBR Sources Guillaume Urvoy, Yves Dallery, Gerard Hebuterne (Institut National des Telecommunications, France)
6:10 
(40)
CAC and Traffic Shaping for end-to-end Performance Control in ATM: the Two-Class Paradigm J. Soldatos, E. Vayias, N. Mitrou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
6:35
-- Close 
8:00
-- Workshop Dinner at the Dining Hall of Craiglands Hotel
 

 

Tuesday, 21st July, 1998

 

Session 5-A: Tools and Techniques (I) Chairman:
 
9:15
(51)
(52)
A Burst-Level Traffic Analyzer A. Evangelatos, Th. Rapsomanikis, N. Mitrou, G. Stassinopoulos (National and Technical University of Athens, Greece)
9:40 
(53)
A Simple Approximation of the Basic Link Model with Reservation by a One-Dimensional Markov Chain Maciej Stasiak (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications, Poland)
10:05
(54)
Parallel Simulation of ATM Switches using Relaxation A.S. McGough, I. Mitrani (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK )
10:30
(55)
Estimation of Long Range Dependence Using Wavelets David Boulliant, Parag Pruthi, Adrian Popescu (University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden)
Session 5-B: Flow and Congestion Control (I) Chairman:
 
8:50
(T04)
Tutorial - Next Generation of Broadband Network Architectures- Traffic Flow Control and End-to-End Performance Riaz Ahmad (Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd., UK)
9:40 
(1) 
Analysis of the Rate-based Control Scheme for ABR Traffic Madhu D.K. Bhabuta, Peter G. Harrison (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK)
10:05
(2) 
A Rate-based Flow Control Method for ABR Service in ATM Networks Ilhem Lengliz, Farouk Kamoun (Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique, Tunisie)
10:30
(3) 
Control Theoretic Approach to ABR Traffic Control Problem Bo-Kyoung Kim, Charles Thompson (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA)
10:55
-- Coffee in Ball Room
Session 6-A: Traffic Modelling and Characterisation (II) Chairman:
 
11:20
(16) 
Dimensioning GCRA Parameters to Fairly Police a CBR Stream Passing an ATM Multiplexer Equipped with a Traffic Shaper L.Battaglia, Z.Bazanowski, U.Killat (TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany)
11:45
(17)
Effect of Burstiness of the Background Traffic of the Cell Delay Variation of CBR and VBR Video in ATM Networks J. Garcia Hernandez, M.Ghanbari (Essex University, UK)
12:10
(20)
The Output Process of a Discrete-time GIG/D/1 Queue Koenraad Laevens (University of Ghent, Belgium)
12:35
(24)
Impact of Temporal/Spatial Correlations on per Session Performance Measures: Multiple Node Case Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, (Instituto CNUCE, Italy) Ioannis Stavrakakis (Northeastern University, USA)
 

 

Session 6-B: Performance Modelling Studies (I) Chairman:
 
11:20
(98)
Comparative Performance Modelling of Turbo, Block and Convolutional Coding over Very Noisy Channels Luke Hebbes, Ron Malyan (Kingston University, UK)
11:45
(99)
PVC/SVC ATM Network Designs for Voice Traffic Zheng Chen (Bell Labs, Lucent Technology, USA)
12:10
(100)
ATM Network Designs and Performance Analysis for Integrated Voice ? Data Traffics Zheng Chen, Enrique Hernandez-Valencia (Bell Labs, Lucent Technology, USA)
12:35
(101)
Scene Change Scale: An Indicator of Multiplexing MPEG Streams for the Assessment of QoS Guarantees Over ATM Networks Abdulfattah Mashat, Mourad Kara (University of Leeds, UK)
1:00 
-- Lunch in Dining Hall
Session 7-A: Switch Models and Architectures (II) Chairman:
 
2:00
(29)
ATM Local Area Network with Fast Reconfiguration in the Event of Line-Breaks or Node Failures Christoph Herrmann, Y. Du, P. May (Philips GmbH Forschungslaboratorien, Germany)
2:25
(30)
Performance Comparison Criteria for ATM Switch Models M. Becker, (Institut National des Telecommunications, France) A.-L. Beylot (Univerity of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France)
2:50
(32)
Simulating Rare Event Details of Delay Time Distributions with RESTART/LRE for ATM Reference Connections Carmelita G?rg, Oliver Fu? (Aachen University of Technology, Germany)
3:15 
(34)
Buffering Architectures most suitable for ATM Switches Andreas Skliros, (ECI Telematics International Ltd, UK) John Mellor (University of Durham, UK)
3:40
(35)
ATM and IP Switches Architecture in Telecommunication Systems Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace, France)
Session 7-B: Flow and Congestion Control (II) Chairman:
 
2:00
(4)
An Evaluation of the ABR Explicit-rate Allocation Interfering with the Guaranteed Services Traffic Milan Vojnovic, Nikola Rozic (University of Split, Croatia)
2:25
(5)
Towards Real-Time Measurement of Traffic Control Parameters Jan Naudts (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)
2:50
(7)
Efficient Use of ABR Bandwith in Highly Variant VBR/CBR Background Traffic Manzoor Hashmani, (Nara Institute of Science ? Technology, Japan) Kenji Kawahara, (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Hideki Sunahara, (Nara Institute of Science ? Technology, Japan) Yuji Oie (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
3:15 
(8)
A Neural Network Time based Congestion Controller in a Prioritised ATM Switch Arif Al-Hammadi, John Schormans (Queen Mary and Westfield College, UK)
3:40
(9)
Transient Analysis of the Behaviour of an ATM Multiplexer during Congestion Periods Marta Barria, (INRIA, France) Reinaldo Vallejos, (Federico Santa Maria University, Chili) L.F.G. Soares (PUC-RJ, Brazil)
4:05 
-- Tea in Ball Room
 

 

Session 8-A: Routing (I) Chairman:
 
4:30
(T05)
Tutorial - ATM Multicast Routing John Crawford, Gill Waters (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK)
5:20
(42)
Alternative Core ATM Transport Architectures Paul Veitch, Peter Richards, Pam McCartney, Dave Johnson (BT Labs, UK)
5:45
(43)
Optimization of Hierarchical Routing Protocols J.L.Rougier, D.Kofman (ENST, France)
6:10 
(44)
Optimization of Hierarchical Multicast Trees in ATM Networks Sh. Barakat , J.L. Rougier (ENST, France)
Session 8-B: Resource Allocation and Scheduling Chairman:
 
4:30
(71)
A Flexible Buffer Acceptance Algorithm to Support the GFR Service Category in ATM Switches Olivier Bonaventure (Alcatel Alsthom Corporate Research Center, Belgium)
4:55
(72)
Using Neural Networks for Predicting Transient Leaky Bucket Characterisations of Data Traffic. Application to Dynamic Resource Allocation in ATM Networks F. Clerot, P. Gouzien, R. Feraud, A. Gravey, D. Collobert (France Telecom, CNET, France)
5:20
(73) 
Scheduling Variable Bit Rate Sources in ATM Networks: a GCRA based Discipline Stefano Giordano, Simone Miduri (University of Pisa, Italy)
5:45 
(74) 
A Multiplexing Scheme using a Prediction Based Scheduling Strategy for Self-Similar Traffic Rosario G. Garroppo, Stefano Giordano, Simone Miduri (University of Pisa, Italy)
6:10 
(75) 
Intelligent Credit Managenent for a Credit Based Congestion Control Procedure W. Monin, A. Gravey (France Telecom CNET/DAC/ARP, France)
6:35
-- Close 
6:50
-- Buses Leave Craiglands Hotel for Dales Falconry ? Conservation Centre
 

 

Wednesday, 22nd July, 1998

 

Session 9-A: Routing (II) Chairman:
 
8:50
(45) 
Virtual Path Connection Management in ATM Networks A. Arvidsson, (University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden) S.A. Berezner, (University of Melbourne, Australia) A.E. Krzesinski (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
9:15
(46)
Load-balancing Solutions for Static Routing Schemes in ATM Networks C. Casetti, G. Favalessa, R. Lo Cigno, L. Medico, M. Mellia (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
9:40 
(47)
Copy Node Allocation Algorithms for Multicast Routing in Large-scale ATM Networks Hideki Tode, Hiroki Yamauchi, Hiromasa Ikeda (Osaka University, Japan)
10:05
(48)
The Domainserver Hierarchy for Multicast Routing in ATM Networks Sridhar Komandur, ( IP Switching Division, Ascend Communications, USA) 

Matthew B. Doar, (Vitria Technology, Inc., USA)

Daniel Mosse (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

10:30
(49)
An Optimization Model for the SDH-Based ATM Network Planning M?rcia M?nica N. Mendes, Geraldo Robson Mateus (DCC, Brazil)
Session 9-B: Performance Modelling Studies (II) Chairman:
 
8:50
(102) 
Performance Analysis of Switched Virtual Connections in ATM Networks Sandor Szekely, Csaba Simon, Gabor Szucs (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary)
9:15 
(103)
Improving Multimedia Server Efficiency in an ATM Network Infrastructure M. Maierhofer, C. Bailey, R. Sotudeh (University of Teesside, UK)
9:40
(104)
Motion-Compensated Error Concealment for MPEG-2 Coded Video Transported over ATM Networks Enmin Song, Chris Bailey, Reza Sotudeh (University of Teesside, UK)
10:05
(105)
Multiple Access 2 Mb/s Voice ? Data ATM Network Walter Grote (UTFSM, Chile)
10:30
(106)
A New Structure for an ADSL Modem for ATM Applications Vassilis Stylianakis, Simeon Toptchiyski (University of Patras, Greece)
10:55
-- Coffee in Ball Room
Session 10-A1: Performance Modelling Studies (III) Chairman:
 
11:20
(107)
An Economical Optimization Model for the Time and Type of Introduction of ATM Equipment Vassilis Stylianakis, Dimitris Sofos (University of Patras, Greece)
11:45
(108)
A Survey of Frame Forwarding GFR Mechanisms for TCP Traffic over ATM A. Liakopoulos, I. Andrikopoulos, Z. Sun, G. Pavlou (University of Surrey, UK)
Session 10-A2: Tariffs Chairman:
 
12:10
(92)
Charging and Billing in ATM Networks Babul Miah, Laurie G. Cuthbert (Queen Mary and Westfield College, UK)
12:35
(93)
Real Time Renegotiation of ATM Bandwidth J. M. Griffiths, L. G. Cuthbert (Queen Mary and Westfield College, UK)
Session 10-B: Traffic Modelling and Characterisation (III) Chairman:
 
11:20
(18) 
Modelling the Self-similar behaviour of Network Traffic Christos Stathis, Basil Maglaris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
11:45
(21) 
Smoothed Video Traffic Modelling for Statistical Multiplexing Analysis Rosangela Coelho, Laurent Decreusefond, Samir Tohme (PUC-Rio Univesity, Brazil)
12:10
(22) 
ATM Modelling: Capturing the Serial Correlations in a Superposition Characterisation Algorithm Sufian Yousef, Caroline Strange (Anglia Polytechnic University, UK)
12:35
(23)
A Cost-Effective Approximation for ATM Traffic Modelling G.Dimakopoulos, R.Fretwell, D.Kouvatsos (University of Bradford, UK)
1:00 
-- Lunch in Dining Hall
Session 11-A1: Queueing Modelling and Analysis (III) Chairman:
 
2:00
(T06)
Tutorial - Response Time Distributions in Queueing Network Models P.G. Harrison (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK)
2:50
(62)
Performance Analysis of ATM Queues with Constant Service Times and Nonindependent Arrivals Sabine Wittevrongel, Herwig Bruneel (University of Ghent, Belgium)
3:15 
(66)
Product-Form Discrete-Time Queueing Networks with State-Dependent Batch Releases Paul McAtackney, (Plymouth University, UK) Michael E. Woodward (Bradford University, UK)
Session 11-A2: Switch Models and Architectures (III) Chairman:
 
3:40
(31)
Queueing Analysis of Partial Buffer Sharing with Different ATM Traffic Inputs Margarita Ushakova (LONIIS, Russia)
Session 11-B1: Routing (III) Chairman:
 
2:00
(50)
Analysis of Link Cost Functions for PNNI Routing Adam Magi, (Ericsson Traffic Lab, Hungary) Gabor Nagy, (Technical University of Boudapest, Hungary) Aron Szentesi, Balazs Szviatovszki (Ericsson Traffic Lab, Hungary)
2:25
(70)
Virtual Path Layouts in Simple ATM Networks Jean-Claude Bermond, Nausica Marlin, (INRIA, France) David Peleg, (The Weizmann Institute, Israel) Stephane Perennes (INRIA, France)
Session 11-B2: Network Topology and Dimensioning Chairman:
 
2:50
(89)
Topology Optimization of an Overlay ATM Network in an SDH Infrastructure T. V. Do, T. T. Nguyen, H. T. Tran, G. I. Rozsa, (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary) G. Kalvach, B. Varga (Hungarian Telecommunications Company Ltd., Hungary)
3:15 
(90)
ATM Broadband Access Network Topology Dimensioning Algorithm Nikolai Kosminin, Valeri Naoumov (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland)
3:40
(91)
Dynamic Dimensioning for Guaranteed Services in Packet Switched Network Frank Ball, Phyllis Callinan, (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Demetres Kouvatsos, Harry Skianis (Bradford University, UK)
4:05 
-- Tea in Ball Room
Session 12-A1: Call Admission Control (II) Chairman:
 
4:30
(41)
Simulation Analysis with a Measurement Based Connection Admission Control on an European ATM Network Insung Jun, Pantelis L. Panteli, Trevor G. Clarkson (King's College London, UK)
Session 12-A2: Reliability Modelling and Analysis Chairman:
 
4:55
(T02)
Tutorial - Network Reliability: Models, Measures and Analysis Laszlo Jereb (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary)
5:45
(96)
Superiority of Survivability Functions over Reliability Polynoms for Modelling ? Analysis of ATM Transport Networks Capacity-Related Reliability (CRR) Kyamakya Kyandoghere (University of Hagen, Germany)
6:10 
(97)
Optimization of the Hold-Off Time for Sequential Escalation in Multilayer Networks Victor A. Netes (STC KOMSET, Russia)
Session 12-B: Tools and Techniques (II) Chairman:
 
4:30
(56)
Cell Rate Monitoring of MPEG Video Sources under FEC Environment in ATM Networks A. Alheraish, D.G. Smith (Strathclyde University, UK)
4:55
(58)
Application of the Central Limit Theorem to Communication Networks R. G. Addie (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
5:20
(59)
Ultra Fast Simulation of High Bandwidth Networks S. Cusack, R. Pooley (University of Edinburgh, UK)
5:45
(60) 
Martingale Model of ATM Appolo Tankeh, (University of Cambridge, UK) E. H. Mamdani (Imperial College, UK)
6:35
-- Closing Remarks in Ball Room
6:50
-- Buses Leave for Historic Coniston Hall Estate