IWQoS '98
Napa, California

May 18-20, 1998



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Technical Session 1, Monday Morning, May 18th
QoS, Scaling, and Large-Scale Networks
Session Chair: Jorg Liebeherr, University of Virginia

Full papers:
Measuring and Analyzing Service Levels: A Scalable Passive Approach
Manjari Asawa (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)

On Flow Aggregation for Multicast Video Transport
Kentarou Fukuda, Naoki Wakamiya, Masayuki Murata, Hideo Miyahara (Osaka University)

Position papers:

Reservations for Aggregate Traffic: Experiences from an RSVP Tunnels Implementation
Andreas Terzis, Lixia Zhang (UCLA), Ellen Hahne (Bell Labs)

Aggregation of Internet Service States
Steven Berson and Subramaniam Vincent (University of Southern California)

Aggregating Resource Reservations over Multiple Routing Domains
Olov Schelen and Stephen Pink (Lulea University of Technology)

A Case for Proportional Fair Sharing
Zheng Wang (Bell Labs)

Session Panel Discussion


Technical Session 2, Monday Afternoon, May 18th
Internet Resource Reservation
Session Chair: Kang Shin, University of Michigan

Full papers:
On-line Measurement of QoS for Call Admission Control
Matthew Siler and Jean Walrand (University of California at Berkeley)

A General Framework for Deterministic Service Guarantees in Telecommunication Networks with Variable Length Packets
C.S. Chang and Y. Lin (National Tsing Hua University)

Position papers:
QoS Enhancement and its Implementation in the vBNS
Laura Cunningham, Chuck Song, and Rick Wilder (MCI)

QoS Control via Robust Envelope-Based MBAC
Jingyu Qiu and Edward W. Knightly (Rice University)

High Quality and High Utilization - Incompatible Objectives for the Internet?
Kalevi Kilkki, Jussi Ruutu, and Ove Strandberg (Nokia Research Center)

Conservative Gaussian Models Applied to Measurement-Based Admission Control
Francois Brichet and Alain Simonian (France Telecom)

Session Panel Discussion


Technical Session 3, Monday Afternoon, May 18th
Economics, Pricing, and QoS
Session Chair: Cormac Sreenan, AT&T Labs Research

Full papers:
Paying for QoS: An Optimal Distributed Algorithm for Pricing Network Resources
Errin Fulp (NEC and North Carolina State University), Max Ott and Daniel Reininger (NEC), and Douglas Reeves (North Carolina State University)

INDEX: A Platform for Determining how People Value the Quality of their Internet Access
Bjorn Rupp, Richard Edell, and Pravin Varaiya (University of California at Berkeley)

An Embedded Charging Approach for RSVP
Martin Karsten, Jens Schmitt, Lars Wolf, and Ralf Steinmetz (Darmstadt University of Technology)

Position paper:

INDEX Project: User Support for Buying QoS with Regard to User's Preferences
Jorn Altmann and Pravin Varaiya (University of California at Berkeley)

Session Panel Discussion


Technical Session 4, Tuesday Morning, May 19th
QoS Architecture, Protocols, and Middleware
Session Chair: Hermann de Meer, University of Hamburg

Full papers:
SRP: a Scalable Resource Reservation Protocol for the Internet
Werner Almesberger (EPFL ICA), Tiziana Ferrari (University of Bologna), and Jean-Yves Le Boudec (EPFL ICA)

SAAM: Integrated Network Architecture for Integrated Services
Geoffrey Xie, Debra Hensgen, Taylor Kidd, and John Yarger (Naval Postgraduate School)

Dynamic Authentication for High-Performance Networked Applications
Phyllis Schneck and Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Position papers:

The Quality of Service (QoS) Binding Model
Jan de Meer (GMD Fokus), Abdelhakim Hafid (University of Western Ontario), and Arno Puder (ICSI)

Qualis: the QoS Component for the Globus Metacomputing System
Craig Lee (The Aerospace Corporation), Carl Kesselman, Robert Lindell, Soonwook Hwang, Joseph Bannister (University of Southern California), Ian Foster, Alain Roy (Argonne National Laboratory)

Session Panel Discussion


Technical Session 5, Tuesday Afternoon, May 19th
Adaptive QoS 1
Session Chair: Andrew Campbell, Columbia University

Full papers:
A Control Theoretical Model for Quality of Service Adaptations
Baochun Li and Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Soft Real-Time Application Execution with Dynamic QoS Assurance
Scott Brandt, Gary Nutt, Toby Berk, and Marty Humphrey (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Position papers:

A Study of Dynamic QoS Negotiation for Multimedia Applications in RSVP
Antonio Loureiro, Vladimir de L. Santos, Carlos de C. Goulart and Jose Marcos S. Nogueira (Federal University of Minas Gerais)

Robust and Secure Light-weight Resource Reservation for Unicast IP Traffic
Anders Eriksson (Ericsson Telecom) and Christian Gehrmann (Ericsson Radio Systems)

Satisfying QoS with a Learning Based Scheduling Algorithm
Jason Hall and Philip Mars (University of Durham)

Session Panel Discussion


Technical Session 6, Tuesday Afternoon, May 19th
Application QoS
Session Chair: Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Full papers:
User Services Assistant: An End-to-End Reactive QoS Architecture
Bjorn Landfeldt, Aruna Seneviratne (UTS), and Christophe Diot (Inria)

Network Support for Application-Oriented QoS
Prashant Chandra, Allan Fisher, Corey Kosak, and Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon University)

Development of Opinion-Based Audiovisual Quality Models for Desktop Video Teleconferencing
Coleen Jones and D. Atkinson (U.S. Department of Commerce)

Position paper:

Content-based VBR Resource Allocation Model and its Application to Dynamic Network Resource Allocation
Paul Bocheck and Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia University)

Session Panel Discussion


Technical Session 7, Wednesday Morning, May 20th
QoS Scheduling and Switching
Session Chair: Rene Cruz, University of California at San Diego

Full papers:
Achieving High Utilization in Guaranteed Services Networks using Early-Deadline-First Scheduling
Fabio Chiussi and Vijay Sivaraman (Bell Laboratories)

Exact Emulation of an Output Queueing Switch by a Combined Input Output Queueing Switch
Ion Stoica and Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)

On the Speedup Required for Work-Conserving Crossbar Switches
P. Krishna (DEC), N. Patel (Sycamore), A. Charney (Cabletron and MIT), and R. Simcoe (Nexabit)

Algorithms for Providing Bandwidth and Delay Guarantees in Input-Buffered Crossbars with Speed Up
A. Charny (Cabletron and MIT), P. Krishna (DEC), N. Patel (Sycamore), and R. Simcoe (Nexabit)

Session Panel Discussion


Technical Session 8, Wednesday Afternoon, May 20th
Adaptive QoS 2
Session Chair: Nina Bhatti, Hewlett Packard Laboratories

Full papers:
Decision Support in Cooperative QoS Management
Stefan Fischer (University of Mannheim) and Hermann De Meer (University of Hamburg)

Supporting Utility Fair Adaptive Services in Wireless Networks
Giuseppe Bianchi, Andrew Campbell, and Raymond Liao (Columbia University)

Position paper:

UNITE: A Framework for Flexible QoS in Networks
Gisli Hjalmtysson and K. K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs)

A Summary of QoS Support in SWAN
T. Chen (Bell Labs), P. Krzyanowski (VenGen Inc.), C. Sreenan, (AT&T Labs Research), and J. Trotter, (Bell Labs)

A General Model for QoS Adaptation
D.G. Waddington and D. Hutchison (Lancaster University)

Session Panel Discussion


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