NETWORKING 2006. Networking Technologies, Services, Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems

Here are the refereed proceedings of the 5th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, NETWORKING 2006. The 88 revised full papers and 31 poster papers are organized in topical sections on caching and content management, mobile ad-hoc networks, mobility/handoff, monitoring/measurements, multicast, multimedia, optical networks, peer-to-peer, resource management and QoS, routing, topology and location awareness, traffic engineering, transport protocols, wireless networks, and wireless sensor networks.

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Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks I.- A Scheme to Provide Proportionally Differentiated End-to-End Packet Delay in Wireless Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks.- Service Differentiation Via Adaptive Gateway Discovery in Ad Hoc Networks Connected to Wired Networks.- Stability-Throughput Tradeoff and Routing in Multi-hop Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks.- EASR: An Energy Aware Source Routing with Disjoint Multipath Selection for Energy-Efficient Multihop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Traffic Engineering I.- On Improving the Accuracy of OSPF Traffic Engineering.- Achieving Bursty Traffic Guarantees by Integrating Traffic Engineering and Buffer Management Tools.- How Well Do Traffic Engineering Objective Functions Meet TE Requirements?.- Variable Step Fluid Simulation for Communication Network.- Monitoring/Measurements I.- Estimating Link Capacity in High Speed Networks.- Internet Traffic Mid-term Forecasting: A Pragmatic Approach Using Statistical Analysis Tools.- Semantic Compression of TCP Traces.- Traffic Anomaly Detection and Characterization in the Tunisian National University Network.- Wireless Networks I.- B-EDCA: A New IEEE 802.11e-Based QoS Protocol for Multimedia Wireless Communications.- A Lagrangian Approach for the Optimal Placement of Wireless Relay Nodes in Wireless Local Area Networks.- Correlated Equilibrium in Access Control for Wireless Communications.- Design and Analysis of an Adaptive Backoff Algorithm for IEEE 802.11 DCF Mechanism.- Routing I.- A Comparison of Exact and ? -Approximation Algorithms for Constrained Routing.- Path Selection Techniques to Establish Constrained Interdomain MPLS LSPs.- Reliable Routings in Networks with Generalized Link Failure Events.- Making Outbound Route Selection Robust to Egress Point Failure.- Resource Management and QoS I.- An Approach to Off-Line Inter-domain QoS-Aware Resource Optimization.- A Distributed QoS Scheduler for Smoothing Output Traffic of Input Buffered Switches.- VoD QAM Resource Allocation Algorithms.- Performance of Experience-Based Admission Control in the Presence of Traffic Changes.- Topology and Location Awareness.- Topologically-Aware AAA Overlay Network in Mobile IPv6 Environment.- QoS-Aware Multi-tier Location Managements for Integrated WLAN/UMTS Networks.- Leveraging Buffering Delay Estimation for Geolocation of Internet Hosts.- Caching and Content Management.- A Feedback Control Approach to Mitigating Mistreatment in Distributed Caching Groups.- Locality of Reference in an Hierarchy of Web Caches.- DMTP: Controlling Spam Through Message Delivery Differentiation.- Optical Networks I.- Delay Performance Analysis for an Agile All-Photonic Star Network.- Designing Scalable WDM Optical Interconnects Using Predefined Wavelength Conversion.- Designing Fast and Bandwidth Efficient Protection Scheme for WDM Optical Networks.- Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks II.- Increasing Fairness and Efficiency Using the MadMac Protocol in Ad Hoc Networks.- Duplicate Address Detection in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using Wireless Nature.- Fault Monitoring in Ad-Hoc Networks Based on Information Theory.- Performance Analysis of Exposed Terminal Effect in IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks in Finite Load Conditions.- Transport Protocols.- Modeling and Performance Evaluation of SCTP as Transport Protocol for Firewall Control.- Transport Layer Issues in Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks.- Performance of Competing High-Speed TCP Flows.- On the Accuracy of Analytical Models of TCP Throughput.- Monitoring/Measurements II.- High Speed Packet Logging on a Budget.- An Efficient Overlay Link Performance Monitoring Technique.- Measurement of Radio Propagation Path Loss over the Sea for Wireless Multimedia.- Workload Loss Examinations with a Novel Probabilistic Extension of Network Calculus.- Mobility/Handoff.- Optimized Handoff Decision Mechanisms for Scalable Network Mobility Support.- Fast Re-authentication for Handovers in Wireless Communication Networks.- Handover Operation in Mobile IP-over-MPLS Networks.- The Design and Implementation of a Quality-Based Handover Trigger.- Peer-to-Peer.- An Efficient Algorithm for Resource Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Networks.- On the Identification and Analysis of P2P Traffic Aggregation.- A Decentralized Recommendation System Based on Self-organizing Partnerships.- Enhancing the P2P Protocols to Support Advanced Multi-keyword Queries.- Multimedia.- Chasing: An Efficient Streaming Mechanism for Scalable and Resilient Video-on-Demand Service over Peer-to-Peer Networks.- A Practical Approach to SIP, QoS and AAA Integration.- Efficient Overlay Audio Conferencing.- On the Stability of End-Point-Based Multimedia Streaming.- Multicast.- Multicast Tree Aggregation in Large Domains.- Analysis and Performance Evaluation of a Multicast File Transfer Solution for Congested Asymmetric Networks.- Traffic Engineering II.- Multi-Layer Traffic Engineering Through Adaptive ?-Path Fragmentation and De-fragmentation.- Managing Traffic Demand Uncertainty in Replica Server Placement with Robust Optimization.- An Information Theoretic Approach for Systems with Parallel Distributions: Case Studying Internet Traffic.- Optical Networks II.- Characterization of the Burst Aggregation Process in Optical Burst Switching.- Improving Bandwidth Efficiency in a Multi-service Slotted Dual Bus Optical Ring Network.- Issues on Performance Assessment of Optical Burst Switched Networks: Burst Loss Versus Packet Loss Metrics.- Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks III.- A Multi-hop MAC Forwarding Protocol for Inter-vehicular Communication.- Route Lifetime Based Optimal Hop Selection in VANETs on Highway: An Analytical Viewpoint.- On the Performances of the Routing Protocols in MANET: Classical Versus Self-organized Approaches.- Performance Modeling of Epidemic Routing.- Wireless Sensor Networks.- Maximum Lifetime Routing and Data Aggregation for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Managing Random Sensor Networks by means of Grid Emulation.- Distributed Data Gathering in Multi-sink Sensor Networks with Correlated Sources.- Abstract Frames for Reducing Overhearing in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Resource Management and QoS II.- Dynamic Resource Allocation in Communication Networks.- Fair Assured Services Without Any Special Support at the Core.- Max-Min Fair Distribution of Modular Network Flows on Fixed Paths.- Anticipatory Distributed Packet Filter Configuration for Carrier-Grade IP-Networks.- Wireless Networks II.- Fast Handoff Scheme for Seamless Multimedia Service in Wireless LAN.- On the Tradeoff Between Blocking and Dropping Probabilities in CDMA Networks Supporting Elastic Services.- A Point-to-Point Protocol Improvement to Reduce Data Call Setup Latency in Cdma2000 System.- Performance and Analysis of CDM-FH-OFDMA for Broadband Wireless Systems.- Routing II.- Multi-service Routing: A Routing Proposal for the Next Generation Internet.- Quantifying the BGP Routes Diversity Inside a Tier-1 Network.- Distributed QoS Routing for Backbone Overlay Networks.- Distributed Linear Time Construction of Colored Trees for Disjoint Multipath Routing.- Optical Networks III.- Cross-Virtual Concatenation for Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH Networks.- Optimal Wavelength Converter Placement with Guaranteed Wavelength Usage.- Estimating Network Offered Load for Optical Burst Switching Networks.- Poster Session.- An Adaptive Parameter Deflection Routing to Resolve Contentions in OBS Networks.- Bandwidth Utilization in Sorted-Priority Schedulers.- A Multicast Approach for UMTS: A Perf…