Evolutionary trends of the Internet : 2001 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications, IWDC 2001, Taormina, Italy, September 17-20, 2001 : proceedings

This Book Constitutes The Refereed Proceedings Of The Thyrrhenian International Workshop On Digital Communication, Iwdc 2001, Held In Taormina, Italy In September 2001. The 46 Revised Full Papers Presented Are A Mix Of Invited Papers And Selected Submitted Papers And Reflect The State Of The Art In Multiservice Ip Network Research And Development. The Book Offers Topical Sections On Wdm Technologies For The Next Generation Internet, Mobile And Wireless Internet Access, Qos In The Next Generation Internet, Multicast And Routing In Ip Networks, Mulitmedia Services Over The Internet, Performance Of Internet Protocols, Dynamic Service Management, And Source Encoding And Internet Applications. Progressive Introduction Of Optical Packet Switching Techniques In Wdm Networks / M. Vandenhoute, F. Masetti And A. Jourdan / [and Others] -- Optical Packet Switching For Ip-over-wdm Transport Networks / S. Bregni, G. Guerra And A. Pattavina -- Mpls Over Optical Packet Switching / F. Callegati, W. Cerroni And G. Corazza / [et Al.] -- Access Control Protocols For Interconnected Wdm Rings In The David Metro Network / A. Bianco, G. Galante And E. Leonardi / [et Al.] -- Reactive Search For Traffic Grooming In Wdm Networks / R. Battiti And M. Brunato -- Micromobility Strategies For Ip Based Cellular Networks / J. Soma-reddy And A. Acampora -- Satellite Systems Performance With Tcp-ip Applications / P. Loreti, M. Luglio And F. Vatalaro / [et Al.]. Sergio Palazzo (ed.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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 The transport network is currently experiencing a doubling of the demand every 8-15 months.