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Infocom 2003 will be held at the 
Hyatt Regency
San Francisco

5 Embarcadero Centre
San Francisco
California, USA
(Tel)+1- 415-988-1234

Technical Program

Program At-a-Glance

Date Time

Track 1

(Ballroom B)

Track 2

(Ballroom C)

Track 3 

(Seacliff AB)

Track 4

(Seacliff CD)

Track 5

(Bayview AB)

Track 6

(Garden AB)

Monday, March 31, 2003 3:00PM - 5:00PM Discover Roundtable: How Can We Make Wireless Work? (Bayview A)
Tuesday, April 1, 2003 8:30AM - 10:00AM

Plenary Session - Ballroom A
 
Keynote Address: Software in the Network: What Happened and Where to Go

Prof. Eric A. Brewer
UC Berkeley

Founder of Inktomi Corporation

10:30AM - 12:00PM
Panel: Betting on the Future: Wireless LAN or 3G Technologies (Ballroom BC) Design of Optical Networks High Performance Router Design   Active Queue Management
1:30PM - 3:00PM Traffic Monitoring and Topology Inference Queueing Analysis Content Distribution Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Panel : Future of Research: Industry or Academia?

Scheduling in Wireless Systems I

3:30PM - 5:00PM Topology Inference Network Provisioning Caching and Web performance Power Control in Ad Hoc Networks Panel: Open Web Services: How Open Are They Really? Topics in Wireless Networks

6:30PM -

9:00PM

Infocom reception

Wednesday, April 2, 2003 8:30AM - 10:00AM MPLS Routing Performance Analysis I Media Streaming and IP Telephony Route Optimization in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Power Control and CDMA Scheduling and Switching
10:30AM - 12:00PM Panel: Optical Networking: What is Its Future? (Ballroom BC) Resource Allocation in Ad Hoc Networks   Wireless LAN   Analysis of TCP Performance
1:30PM - 3:00PM Internet Routing Performance Analysis II Multicast Protocols and Services Sensor Networks Scheduling in Wireless Systems II Flow Control and Bandwidth Sharing
3:30PM - 5:00PM Traffic Engineering and Performance Monitoring Network Control by Pricing Peer to Peer Services Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Routing in Optical Networks Scheduling in Input Queued Switches
Thursday, April 3, 2003 8:30AM - 10:00AM QoS Routing Network Management Overlay Routing and Multicast Capacity of Ad Hoc Networks Wireless Resource Allocation Switch and Router Design
10:30AM - 12:00PM Panel: Network security: How good does it have to be? (Ballroom BC) QoS Differentiation Topology Control in Ad Hoc Networks TCP/IP over Wireless Wavelength Assignment in Optical Networks
1:30PM - 3:00PM Multi-scale Traffic Analysis Network Security Efficient Network Simulation and Analysis Security and Services in Ad Hoc Networks Optical Burst Switching Optimal Flow Control
3:30PM - 5:00PM Network Measurements Network Architecture and Design Peer to Peer Systems Multicast in Ad Hoc Networks Performance Analysis of Optical Networks TCP Enhancements

Paper Sessions

Monday, March 31, 2003

3:00PM - 5:00PM
 
Tracks 1 - 3

Discover Roundtable: How Can We Make Wireless Work?

Moderator: Eric Haseltine, Former Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Walt Disney Imagineering


Panelists:
- Cindy Christy, Vice President/COO of Mobility Solutions at Lucent
- Donna Dubinsky, Co-Founder and CEO at Handspring
- Greg Joswiak, Vice President of Hardware Product Marketing, Apple
- James Kardach, Principal Engineer, Mobile Products Group at Intel and Co-Founder of the 
Bluetooth Special Interest Group
- Robert Lucky, Former Corporate Vice President of Applied Research at Telcordia
- Pete Shinyeda, Vice President and General Manager of Wireless and Broadband Systems
Group at Motorola
- Marisa Viveros, Director of Worldwide Wireless e-business services for IBM

 

Abstract: Bluetooth has been around since 1998, but most of us are still dealing with enough cables to tie ourselves in knots. Cell phones, arguably the biggest wireless success story, still don't work very well and uses different standards on most continents.  Wireless technology has such vast potential, and so much money is being pumped into the industry, there has to be a pool of bright individuals who can show us a map home. Discover Magazine has assembled a panel of experts to jumpstart the process. Bring your own ideas, but don't miss our panelists secrets.

Tuesday, April 1, 2003

8:30AM - 10:00AM
 

Plenary Session

Keynote Address: Software in the Network: What Happened and Where to Go

Prof. Eric A. Brewer
UC Berkeley
Founder of Inktomi Corporation

Abstract: Starting in 1998, there were several major efforts to put flexible software in the middle of the network; examples include web caching, content delivery networks, overlay networks, and multimedia support. These systems are in stark contrast to the "simple core" view that has been a cornerstone of the traditional Internet design, but their advantages are real -- as are their disadvantages.

In this talk I start by looking back at what worked (e.g. scalable web caches) and what didn't (inter-AS protocols), and then look forward to the need for software in the network and how it might get deployed. Many challenges remain, only some of which are technical. Finally, we look at the basic tradeoff between features and flexibility for new services versus reliability for the existing services.

10:30AM - 12:00PM
 
Tracks 1 - 3

Panel: Betting on the Future: Wireless LAN or 3G Technologies

Moderator: Kin K. Leung, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

 

Organizers:

- Zhimei Jiang, Stanford University
- Sayandev Muhkerjee, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies


Panelists: 

- Phil Belanger, Vice President of Marketing, ViVato
- Markku Hollstrom, Head of Network Solutions, Nokia Networks System
- David Lindert, Director of Engineering, Mobile Wireless Group, Cisco Systems
- Arogyaswami Paulraj, Professor of Stanford University and co-founder of IOSpan Wireless
- Gee Rittenhouse, Director of Wireless Technology Research, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

 

Abstract: The success of wireless local-area networks (WLANs) is increasingly evident, and contrasts sharply with the continuing delays in deployment of 3G networks worldwide. One may even start to question if cellular architectures using 3G technologies are the most effective way to deliver high-speed wireless services that will be desired by subscribers accustomed to ubiquitous wired broadband networks. On the other hand, WLANs are limited to serve hot-spot areas and service providers continue to struggle with significant roaming and security issues, which might hinder their future prospects. This panel will address a broad set of issues and tradeoffs pertinent to using WLAN and 3G technologies for providing future wireless services.

10:30AM - 12:00PM
 
Track 4

Design of Optical Networks  

Session chair: Byrav Ramamurthy

Increasing the Robustness of IP Backbones in the Absence of Optical Level Protection
Frederic Giroire (ENS Paris), Antonio Nucci, Nina Taft, Christophe Diot (Sprint ATL)

Protection Mechanisms for Optical WDM Networks based on Wavelength Converter Multiplexing and Backup Path Relocation Techniques
Sunil Gowda (Expedia.com), Krishna Sivalingam (University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC))

A Bandwidth Guaranteed Polling MAC Protocol for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
Maode Ma (Nanyang Technological University)

Design of Light-Tree Based Logical Topologies for Multicast Streams in Wavelength Routed Optical Networks
Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University)

10:30AM - 12:00PM
 
Track 5

High Performance Router Design  

Session chair: Victor Firoiu

CoolCAMs: Power-Efficient TCAMs for Forwarding Engines
Girija Narlikar, Anindya Basu, Francis Zane (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)
Packet Classification for Core Routers: Is there an alternative to CAMs?
Florin Baboescu, Sumeet Singh, George Varghese (University of California at San Diego)
Fast Incremental Updates for Pipelined Forwarding Engines
Anindya Basu, Girija Narlikar (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)
Adaptive Data Structures for IP Lookups
Ioannis Ioannidis, Ananth Grama, Mikhail Atallah (Purdue University)

10:30AM - 12:00PM
 
Track 6

Active Queue Management  

Session chair: Srisankar Kunniyur

Unresponsive Flows and AQM Performance

C. V. Hollot, Yong Liu (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Vishal Misra (Columbia University), Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

A new TCP/AQM for Stable Operation in Fast Networks

Fernando Paganini, Zhikui Wang (UCLA), Steven Low, John Doyle (California Institute of Technology)

Oblivious AQM and Nash Equilibria

Debojyoti Dutta (University of Southern California), Ashish Goel (Stanford University), John Heidemann (University of Southern California)

Understanding CHOKe

Ao Tang, Jiantao Wang, Steven Low (California Institute of Technology)

1:30PM - 3:00PM
 
Track 1

Traffic Monitoring and Topology Inference

Session chair: Azer Bestavros

A scalable and lightweight QoS monitoring technique combining passive and active approaches: On the mathematical formulation of CoMPACT Monitor

Masaki Aida (NTT Corporation), Naoto Miyoshi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Keisuke Ishibashi (NTT Corporation)

Robust Monitoring of Link Delays and Faults in IP Networks

Yigal Bejerano, Rajeev Rastogi (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

Server-based Inference of Internet Link Lossiness

Venkata Padmanabhan, Lili Qiu, Helen Wang (Microsoft Research)

Computing the Types of the Relationships between Autonomous Systems

Giuseppe Di Battista, Maurizio Patrignani, Maurizio Pizzonia (University of Rome III)

1:30PM - 3:00PM
 
Track 2

Queueing Analysis

Session chair: Michael Devetsikiotis

Goodput Analysis of a Fluid Queue with Selective Discarding and a Responsive Bursty Source

Parijat Dube (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY), Eitan Altman (INRIA)

The Waiting Time Distribution for a TDMA Model with a Finite Buffer

Marcel F. Neuts (University of Arizona), Jun Guo, Moshe Zukerman, Hai Le Vu (University of Melbourne)

Heavy tailed M/G/1-PS queues with impatience and admission control in packet networks

Jacqueline Boyer, Fabrice Guillemin (France Telecom R&D), Philippe Robert, Bert Zwart (INRIA)

Target-Pursuing Policies for Open Multiclass Queueing Networks

Ioannis Paschalidis, Chang Su, Michael Caramanis (Boston University)

1:30PM - 3:00PM
 
Track 3

Content Distribution

Session chair: Keith W. Ross

Multipoint-to-Point Session Fairness in the Internet

Pradnya Karbhari, Ellen Zegura, Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Large-scale Data Collection: a Coordinated Approach

William Cheng (University of Southern California), Cheng-Fu Chou (National Taiwan University), Leana Golubchik (USC), Samir Khuller, Yung-Chun Wan (University of Maryland at College Park)

Improving Web Performance in Broadcast-Unicast Networks

Mukesh Agrawal, Amit Manjhi, Nikhil Bansal, Srinivasan Seshan (Carnegie Mellon University)

Cache Satellite Distribution Systems: Modeling and Analysis

Aner Armon, Hanoch Levy (Tel Aviv University)

1:30PM - 3:00PM
 
Track 4

Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Session chair: Luigi Fratta

Performance Analysis of Reactive Shortest Single-path and Multi-path Routing Mechanism With Load Balance

Peter Pham (University of South Australia)

Cooperative Packet Caching and Shortest Multipath Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Alvin Valera (National University of Singapore), Winston Seah, S.V. Rao (Institute for Infocomm Research)

A Framework for Reliable Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Zhenqiang Ye, Srikanth Krishnamurthy, Satish Tripathi (University of California, Riverside)

Optimizing Route-Cache Lifetime in Ad Hoc Networks

Ben Liang (University of Toronto), Zygmunt Haas (Cornell University)

1:30PM - 3:00PM
 
Track 5

Panel: Future of Research: Industry or Academia? 

Moderator: Kazem Sohraby, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies


Panelists: 

- Christophe Diot, Sprint Advanced Technology Laboratory

- Mario Gerla, UCLA 

- Douglas Leland, Microsoft

- Taieb Znati, NSF

 

Abstract: The issues to be discussed in this panel include research directions in industry and academia, and role of government with respect to directions and funding. Topics may include (but are not restricted to) the impact of VC investment during the boom years, impact of economic downturn, and possible actions by industries, academia, and government agencies. Relevant factors include outsourcing of research, short- and long-term implications of research investment by the industry, federal government, and other institutions, and issues of collaborative research. The panelists will express their views and elaborate them with examples, and case studies.

1:30PM - 3:00PM
 
Track 6

Scheduling in Wireless Systems I

Session chair: Songwu Lu

Uplink Scheduling in CDMA Packet-Data Systems

Krishnan Kumaran, Lijun Qian (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

Exploiting Wireless Channel State Information for Throughput Maximization

Vagelis Tsibonis, Leonidas Georgiadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Leandros Tassiulas (University of Maryland at College Park)

Power Constrained and Delay Optimal Policies for Scheduling Transmission over a Fading Channel

Munish Goyal, Anurag Kumar, Vinod Sharma (Indian Institute of Science)

User-Level Performance of Channel-Aware Scheduling Algorithms in Wireless Data Networks

Sem Borst (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

3:30PM - 5:00PM
 
Track 1

Topology Inference

Session chair: Michalis Faloutsos

Sampling Biases in IP Topology Measurements

Anukool Lakhina, John Byers, Mark Crovella, Peng Xie (Boston University)

Physical Topology Discovery for Large Multi-Subnet Networks

Yigal Bejerano (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), Yuri Breitbart (Kent State University), Minos Garofalakis, Rajeev Rastogi (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

Topology Inference in the Presence of Anonymous Routers

Bin Yao (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), Ramesh Viswanathan (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies), Fangzhe Chang, Daniel Waddington (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

Spectral Analysis of Internet Topologies

Christos Gkantsidis, Milena Mihail, Ellen Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology)

3:30PM - 5:00PM
 
Track 2

Network Provisioning

Session chair: Tilman Wolf

Provisioning IP Backbone Networks to Support Latency Sensitive Traffic

Chuck Fraleigh, Fouad Tobagi (Stanford University), Christophe Diot (Sprint ATL)

On Bandwidth Efficiency of the Hose Resource Management Model in Virtual Private Networks

Alpár Jüttner, István Szabó, Áron Szentesi (Ericsson Research)

Stochastic Traffic Engineering, with Applications to Network Revenue Management

Debasis Mitra, Qiong Wang (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

An approach to alleviate link overload as observed on an IP backbone

Sundar Iyer (Stanford University), Supratik Bhattacharyya, Nina Taft, Christophe Diot (Sprint ATL)

3:30PM - 5:00PM
 
Track 3

Caching and Web performance

Session chair: David Starobinski

Modelling TTL-based Internet Caches

Jaeyeon Jung, Arthur Berger, Hari Balakrishnan (MIT)

Optimal replacement policies for non-uniform cache objects with optional eviction

Omri Bahat, Armand Makowski (University of Maryland)

Asymptotic Insensitivity of Least-Recently-Used Caching to Statistical Dependency

Predrag Jelenkovic, Ana Radovanovic (Columbia University)

On the Intrinsic Locality Properties of Web Reference Streams

Rodrigo Fonseca (University of California, Berkeley), Virgilio Almeida (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Mark Crovella (Boston University), Bruno Abrahao (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

3:30PM - 5:00PM
 
Track 4

Power Control in Ad Hoc Networks

Session chair: Harish Viswanathan

Power Control and Clustering in Ad Hoc Networks

Vikas Kawadia, Panganamala Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Power Controlled Dual Channel (PCDC) Medium Access Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Alaa Muqattash, Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona)

On-demand Power Management for Ad Hoc Networks

Rong Zheng, Robin Kravets (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Energy-Efficient Collision Resolution in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks

Yalin Sagduyu (University of Maryland, College Park), Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland at College Park)

3:30PM - 5:00PM
 
Track 5

Panel: Open Web Service: How Open Are They Really?

Moderator: Daniel Pitt


Panelists: 

- Michel Burger, Embrace Networks
- Sailesh Chutani, Microsoft
- Simon Crosby, CPlane
- Drew Engstrom, Sun Microsystems
- David Orchard, BEA Systems

 

Abstract: Application, network, middleware, and device providers are all counting on the creation of lucrative new services to kickstart their businesses. Many pay at least lip service to openness and open standards for these services, but their definition of openness often means "if you adopt my protocols at only slightly exorbitant licensing rates." In this panel we examine some different and often contradictory approaches to enabling open services and we challenge the panelists to justify their claims or definitions of openness.

3:30PM - 5:00PM Track 6

Topics in Wireless Networks

Session chair: Nicholas Bambos

Integration of 802.11 and Third-Generation Wireless Data Networks

Milind Buddhikot, Girish Chandranmenon, Seung-Jae Han, Yui-Wah Lee, Scott Miller, Luca Salgarelli (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies) 

Chaotic Maps as Parsimonious Bit Error Models of Wireless Channels 

Andreas Köpke, Andreas Willig, Holger Karl (Technical University Berlin) 

Paging and Registration in Cellular Networks: Jointly Optimal Policies an d an Iterative Algorithm 

Bruce Hajek (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kevin Mitzel (Sirius Satellite Radio), Sichao Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 

The Impact of Space Division Multiplexing on Resource Allocation: A Unified Approach

Iordanis Koutsopoulos, Tianmin Ren, Leandros Tassiulas (University of Maryland at College Park)