Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking: 6th International Conference, NEW2AN 2006, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 29-June 2, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4003)

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. Frontmatter Keynote Talks Towards Distributed Communications Systems: Relay-Based Wireless Networks Grand Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks Teletraffic I Dimensioning of Multiservice Links Taking Account of Soft Blocking On the Packet Loss Process at a Network Node Transient Analysis of a Queuing System with Matrix-Geometric Methods Traffic Characterization and Modeling I HEAF: A Novel Estimator for Long-Range Dependent Self-similar Network Traffic On Modeling Video Traffic from Multiplexed MPEG-4 Videoconference Streams A New MAC Protocol Based on Multimedia Traffic Prediction in Satellite Systems 3G/UMTS I Measurement-Based Optimization of a 3G Core Network: A Case Study A Middleware Approach for Reducing the Network Cost of Location Traffic in Cellular Networks Location Conveyance in the IP Multimedia Subsystem Sensor Networks I A Random Backoff Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks Prolonging the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Network Via Multihop Clustering WLAN A BEB-Based Admission Control for VoIP Calls in WLAN with Coexisting Elastic TCP Flows Energy Efficient Sleep Interval Decision Method Considering Delay Constraint for VoIP Traffic Enhanced Fast Handovers Using a Multihomed Mobile IPv6 Node The Structure of the Reactive Performance Control System for Wireless Channels Teletraffic II Erlang Capacity of a CDMA Link with Transmission Rate Control Dynamic Time-Threshold Based Scheme for Voice Calls in Cellular Networks Queue Size in a BMAP Queue with Finite Buffer Traffic Characterization and Modeling II A Scaling Analysis of UMTS Traffic Burst Assembly with Real IPv4 Data -- Performance Assessement of Three Assembly Algorithms Multiservice IP Network QoS Parameters Estimation in Presence of Self-similar Traffic QoS I Achieving Relative Service Differentiation for TCP Traffic in Satellite IP Networks Using Congestion Pricing Signalling Concepts in Heterogeneous IP Multi-domains Networks Operator's QoS Policy in WiBro Implementation Sensor Networks II An Energy Efficient Tracking Method in Wireless Sensor Networks On Incoming Call Connection Service in a Ubiquitous Consumer Wireless World MANETs Evaluating the Effect of Ad Hoc Routing on TCP Performance in IEEE 802.11 Based MANETs Multi-path Routing Protocols in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Quantitative Comparison Effect of Realistic Physical Layer on Energy Efficient Broadcast Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Localized Broadcast Oriented Protocols with Mobility Prediction for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Sensor Networks III Delay Sensitive and Energy Efficient Distributed Slot Assignment Algorithm for Sensor Networks Under Convergecast Data Traffic Real-Time Coordination and Routing in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks Reliable Data Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks: An Energy-Efficient, Cluster-Based Approach 3G/UMTS II Experimental Analysis and Characterization of Packet Delay in UMTS Networks End-to-End QoS Signaling for Future Multimedia Services in the NGN Optimization of Charging Control in 3G Mobile Networks Lower Layer Techniques I Asymptotic Performance Analysis of a TCM System over Fading Multiple-Access Channel A MIMO Architecture for IEEE 802.16d (WiMAX) Heterogeneous Wireless Access Using Optical Wireless Technology Cooperative Transmission Through Incremental Redundancy Lower Layer Techniques II Comparison of Effective SINR Mapping with Traditional AVI Approach for Modeling Packet Error Rate in Multi--state Channel Privacy Homomorphism for Delegation of the Computations Enhanced MIMO Transmission Scheme for MB-OFDM System with Spatial Mode Selection PAN Technologies Improving Energy Efficiency and Responsiveness in Bluetooth Networks: A Performance Assessment Adaptive Backoff Exponent Algorithm for Zigbee (IEEE 802.15.4) TCP Analysis of TCP-AQM Interaction Via Periodic Optimization and Linear Programming: The Case of Sigmoidal Utility Function TCP Versus TFRC over Wired and Wireless Internet Scenarios: An Experimental Evaluation QoS II Dynamic Configuration of MAC QoS Mechanisms in 802.11 Access Networks SMPCS: Sub-optimal Model Predictive Control Scheduler Analysis and Simulation of the Signaling Protocols for the DiffServ Framework Backmatter