Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, III: IFIP TC6 / WG6.2, 6.6, 6.7 and 6.8 Third International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, NetCon 2004 on November 2–5, 2004, Palma de Mallorca,

The rapid evolution of the networking industry introduces new exciting challenges that need to be explored by the research community. This book contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, Net-Con'2004, organized by the International Federation of Information processing and held at the Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain in November 2004. Key areas covered include: Network Policy; Network Security; Quality of Service; Wireless Networks; Intelligent Networks; Performance Evaluation This valuable new book will be essential reading for all those working in computer science and engineering departments, especially researchers, engineers and students in university and industry research laboratories. Content: Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Configuration Model for Network Management....Pages 3-14 On-Line Control of Service Level Agreements....Pages 15-26 Revenue-Aware Resource Allocation in the Future Multi-Service IP Networks....Pages 27-39 Front Matter....Pages 41-41 A Kerberos-Based Authentication Architecture for WLANS....Pages 43-55 An Efficient Mechanism to Ensure Location Privacy in Telecom Service Applications....Pages 57-68 Network Security Management: A Formal Evaluation Tool Based on RBAC Policies....Pages 69-80 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 A Dynamic Cross Layer Control Strategy for Resource Partitioning in a Rain Faded Satellite Channel with Long-Lived TCP Connections....Pages 83-96 Content Location and Distribution in Converged Overlay Networks....Pages 97-110 A Communication Architecture for Real-Time Auctions....Pages 111-124 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 An Interference-Based Prevention Mechanism Against WEP Attack for 802.11B Network....Pages 127-138 Restricted Dynamic Programming for Broadcast Scheduling....Pages 139-150 Performance Comparison of Distributed Frequency Assignment Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 151-162 Fast Handoff Support in an IP-Evolved UMTS Architecture....Pages 163-176 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 Storage Capacity Allocation Algorithms for Hierarchical Content Distribution....Pages 179-191 An Inference Algorithm for Probabilistic Fault Management in Distributed Systems....Pages 193-204 New Protocol for Grouping Data Using Active Network....Pages 205-217 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 An Algebraic Model of an Adaptive Extension of DiffServ for MANETs....Pages 221-234 Cross-Layer Performance Evaluation of IP-Based Applications Running over the Air Interface....Pages 235-247 Collision Avoidance in Metropolitan Optical Access Networks....Pages 249-261 Front Matter....Pages 263-263 Toward an Intelligent Bandwidth Broker Model for Resources Management in DiffServ Networks....Pages 265-276 Front Matter....Pages 263-263 A Learning and Intentional Local Policy Decision Point for Dynamic QoS Provisioning....Pages 277-288 Generic IP Signaling Service Protocol....Pages 289-302 On Distributed System Supervision - A Modern Approach: GeneSys....Pages 303-314 Multigroup Communication....Pages 315-326 Policy Usage in GMPLS Optical Networks....Pages 327-336 Beyond TCP/IP: A Context-Aware Architecture....Pages 337-346 Back Matter....Pages 347-348 This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for Quality of Service, Security and Mobility (Net-Con'2004), celebrated in Palma de Mallorca (Illes Balears, Spain) during November 2-5, 2004. This IFIP TC6 Conference was organized by the Universitat de les Illes Balears and sponsored by the following Working Groups: WG6.2 (Network and Internetwork Architectures), WG6.6 (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems), WG6.7 (Smart Networks) and WG6.8 (Mobile and Wireless Communications). The rapid evolution of the networking industry introduces new exciting challenges that need to be explored by the research community. The adoption of Internet as the global network infrastructure places the issue of quality of service among one of the hot topics nowadays: a huge diversity of applications with quite different service requirements must be supported over a basic core of protocols. Also, the open and uncontrolled nature of Internet enforces the need to guarantee secure transactions among users, thus placing security as another hot topic. Finally, the explosion of mobility and its integration as part of the global infrastructure are probably now the most challenging issues in the networking field. "Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, III addresses the problem of network control and engineering with a focus on control of quality of service, management of security, and supervision of mobility. New trends in these different fields are also investigated."--Jacket The constant growth of the Internet implies the creation and deployment of an ever increasing number of network services, each of which is becoming more complex in its turn.