Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking: 6th International Conference, NEW2AN 2006, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 29 - June 2, 2006. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Towards Distributed Communications Systems: Relay-Based Wireless Networks....Pages 1-1
Grand Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 2-2
Dimensioning of Multiservice Links Taking Account of Soft Blocking....Pages 3-10
On the Packet Loss Process at a Network Node....Pages 11-20
Transient Analysis of a Queuing System with Matrix-Geometric Methods....Pages 21-33
HEAF: A Novel Estimator for Long-Range Dependent Self-similar Network Traffic....Pages 34-45
On Modeling Video Traffic from Multiplexed MPEG-4 Videoconference Streams....Pages 46-57
A New MAC Protocol Based on Multimedia Traffic Prediction in Satellite Systems....Pages 58-69
Measurement-Based Optimization of a 3G Core Network: A Case Study....Pages 70-82
A Middleware Approach for Reducing the Network Cost of Location Traffic in Cellular Networks....Pages 83-95
Location Conveyance in the IP Multimedia Subsystem....Pages 96-107
A Random Backoff Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 108-117
Prolonging the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Network Via Multihop Clustering....Pages 118-129
A BEB-Based Admission Control for VoIP Calls in WLAN with Coexisting Elastic TCP Flows....Pages 130-141
Energy Efficient Sleep Interval Decision Method Considering Delay Constraint for VoIP Traffic....Pages 142-151
Enhanced Fast Handovers Using a Multihomed Mobile IPv6 Node....Pages 152-163
The Structure of the Reactive Performance Control System for Wireless Channels....Pages 164-176
Erlang Capacity of a CDMA Link with Transmission Rate Control....Pages 177-188
Dynamic Time-Threshold Based Scheme for Voice Calls in Cellular Networks....Pages 189-199
Queue Size in a BMAP Queue with Finite Buffer....Pages 200-210
A Scaling Analysis of UMTS Traffic....Pages 211-222
Burst Assembly with Real IPv4 Data – Performance Assessement of Three Assembly Algorithms....Pages 223-234
Multiservice IP Network QoS Parameters Estimation in Presence of Self-similar Traffic....Pages 235-245
Achieving Relative Service Differentiation for TCP Traffic in Satellite IP Networks Using Congestion Pricing....Pages 246-258
Signalling Concepts in Heterogeneous IP Multi-domains Networks....Pages 259-270
Operator’s QoS Policy in WiBro Implementation....Pages 271-277
An Energy Efficient Tracking Method in Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 278-286
On Incoming Call Connection Service in a Ubiquitous Consumer Wireless World....Pages 287-297
Evaluating the Effect of Ad Hoc Routing on TCP Performance in IEEE 802.11 Based MANETs....Pages 298-312
Multi-path Routing Protocols in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Quantitative Comparison....Pages 313-326
Effect of Realistic Physical Layer on Energy Efficient Broadcast Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks....Pages 327-339
Localized Broadcast Oriented Protocols with Mobility Prediction for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks....Pages 340-352
Delay Sensitive and Energy Efficient Distributed Slot Assignment Algorithm for Sensor Networks Under Convergecast Data Traffic....Pages 353-364
Real-Time Coordination and Routing in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks....Pages 365-383
Reliable Data Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks: An Energy-Efficient, Cluster-Based Approach....Pages 384-395
Experimental Analysis and Characterization of Packet Delay in UMTS Networks....Pages 396-407
End-to-End QoS Signaling for Future Multimedia Services in the NGN....Pages 408-419
Optimization of Charging Control in 3G Mobile Networks....Pages 420-432
Asymptotic Performance Analysis of a TCM System over Fading Multiple-Access Channel....Pages 433-440
A MIMO Architecture for IEEE 802.16d (WiMAX) Heterogeneous Wireless Access Using Optical Wireless Technology....Pages 441-451
Cooperative Transmission Through Incremental Redundancy....Pages 452-460
Comparison of Effective SINR Mapping with Traditional AVI Approach for Modeling Packet Error Rate in Multi–state Channel....Pages 461-473
Privacy Homomorphism for Delegation of the Computations....Pages 474-480
Enhanced MIMO Transmission Scheme for MB-OFDM System with Spatial Mode Selection....Pages 481-488
Improving Energy Efficiency and Responsiveness in Bluetooth Networks: A Performance Assessment....Pages 489-500
Adaptive Backoff Exponent Algorithm for Zigbee (IEEE 802.15.4)....Pages 501-516
Analysis of TCP-AQM Interaction Via Periodic Optimization and Linear Programming: The Case of Sigmoidal Utility Function....Pages 517-529
TCP Versus TFRC over Wired and Wireless Internet Scenarios: An Experimental Evaluation....Pages 530-541
Dynamic Configuration of MAC QoS Mechanisms in 802.11 Access Networks....Pages 542-553
SMPCS: Sub-optimal Model Predictive Control Scheduler....Pages 554-565
Analysis and Simulation of the Signaling Protocols for the DiffServ Framework....Pages 566-579
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