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

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking, NEW2AN 2006, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in May/June 2006. The book includes 49 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote talks. The papers are organized in topical sections on teletraffic, traffic characterization and modeling, 3G/UMTS, sensor networks, WLAN, QoS, MANETs, lower layer techniques, PAN technologies, and TCP. 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 Back Matter....Pages -