Evolutionary Trends of the Internet: 2001 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications, IWDC 2001 Taormina, Italy, September 17–20, 2001 Proceedings

Progressive Introduction of Optical Packet Switching Techniques in WDM Networks....Pages 1-9
Optical Packet Switching for IP-over-WDM Transport Networks....Pages 10-25
MPLS over Optical Packet Switching....Pages 26-37
Access Control Protocols for Interconnected WDM Rings in the DAVID Metro Network....Pages 38-55
Reactive Search for Traffic Grooming in WDM Networks....Pages 56-66
Micromobility Strategies for IP Based Cellular Networks....Pages 67-75
Satellite Systems Performance with TCP-IP Applications....Pages 76-90
Performance of TCP on a Wideband CDMA Air Interface....Pages 91-107
Differentiated Services in the GPRS Wireless Access Environment....Pages 108-119
Wireless Access to Internet via IEEE 802.11: An Optimal Control Strategy for Minimizing the Energy Consumption....Pages 120-138
A Study on QoS Provison for IP-Based Radio Access Networks....Pages 139-157
Measurement Based Modeling of Quality of Service in the Internet: A Methodological Approach....Pages 158-174
Performance Evaluation of a Measurement-Based Algorithm for Distributed Admission Control in a DiffServ Framework....Pages 175-194
Resource Stealing in Endpoint Controlled Multi-class Networks....Pages 195-211
Pricing-Based Control of Large Networks....Pages 212-231
Endpoint Admission Control over Assured Forwarding PHBs and Its Performance over RED Implementations....Pages 232-250
A Bandwidth Broker Assignment Scheme in DiffServ Networks....Pages 251-265
A Protection-Based Approach to QoS in Packet over Fiber Networks....Pages 266-278
IP Routing and Mobility....Pages 279-294
Aggregated Multicast for Scalable QoS Multicast Provisioning....Pages 295-308
Fairness of a Single-Rate Multicast Congestion Control Scheme....Pages 309-325
Decentralized Computation of Weighted Max-Min Fair Bandwidth Allocation in Networks with Multicast Flows....Pages 326-342
Challenges of Integrating ASM and SSM IP Multicast Protocol Architectures....Pages 343-360
Integrated Provision of QoS Guarantees to Unicast and Multicast Traffic in Packet Switches....Pages 361-380
Service Differentiation in the Internet to Support Multimedia Traffic....Pages 381-400
A Transport Infrastructure Supporting Real Time Interactive MPEG-4 Client-Server Applications over IP Networks....Pages 401-412
An Analytical Framework to Evaluate the Effects of a TCP-Friendly Congestion Control over Adaptive-Rate MPEG Video Sources....Pages 413-432
Design Issues for Layered Quality-Adaptive Internet Video Playback....Pages 433-451
A Multi-state Congestion Control Scheme for Rate Adaptable Unicast Continuous Media Flows....Pages 452-469
PCP-DV: An End-to-End Admission Control Mechanism for IP Telephony....Pages 470-480
DiffServ Aggregation Strategies of Real Time Services in a W F2Q+ Schedulers Network....Pages 481-491
Towards a New Generation of Generic Transport Protocols....Pages 492-506
Activating and Deactivating Repair Servers in Active Multicast Trees....Pages 507-523
Looking for Science in the Art of Network Measurement....Pages 524-535
On the Use of Queueing Network Models to Predict the Performance of TCP Connections....Pages 536-555
Design and Deployment of a Passive Monitoring Infrastructure....Pages 556-575
Network Delay Tomography from End-to-End Unicast Measurements....Pages 576-595
On the Contribution of TCP to the Self-Similarity of Network Traffic....Pages 596-613
Bandwidth Estimates in the TCP Congestion Control Scheme....Pages 614-626
Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a Differentiated Services Test-Bed for Voice over IP Support....Pages 627-641
Dynamic SLA-Based Management of Virtual Private Networks....Pages 642-659
Distributed Service Platform for Managing Stream Services....Pages 660-673
IP QoS at Work: Definition and Implementation of the AQUILA Architecture....Pages 674-690
An Adaptive Periodic FEC Scheme for Internet Video Applications....Pages 691-702
Efficient Interaction with Virtual Worlds over IP....Pages 703-712
MPEG-4 Video Data Protection for Internet Distribution....Pages 713-720