Tuesday 24th April
19:00 - 20:00 Registration at the Hotel Melia Confort -
Girona
20:00 - 21:00 Welcome drink at the Hotel Melia Confort -
Girona
Wednesday 25th April
08:00 - 10:00 Registration at the Hotel Melia Confort -
Girona
08:45 - 09:15 Opening session
09:15 - 10:30 Session 1: Users demand characterization
Chair: G. Choudhury
The Auckland data sets: an access link observed
J. Micheel, I. Graham, University of Waikato, New
Zeland
N. Brownlee, University of Auckland, New Zeland
Characterization of multimedia traffic for access networks in NGN
B. Farias Craignou, M.
L de la Rupelle, C. Lasorne
France Telecom, France
Teletraffic and its Self-Similarities in Cellular Communication Networks Based on Vehicle Motion Measurements
H. Hidaka, K. Saitoh, N.
Shinagawa, T. Kobayashi,
YRP Mobile Telecommunications Key Technology Research Labs, Japan
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45 Invited talk:
New user
video applications and broadband access – challenges for the network
Bahman Mobasser
Director for Data Technology Strategy Group Alcatel
11:45 - 13:00 Session 2: Access architectures and
capacities (I)
Chair:
J. Enriquez
DOCSIS-based Cable Networks: Impact of Large Data Packets on Upstream Capacity
Wai Sum Lai
AT&T Labs, USA
A Heuristic Method for Discrete Capacity Tree Access Network Design
A. Girard, B. Sanso, L. Dadjo
Ecole Polytechnique de
Montreal, Canada
Load Balancing Techniques and Quality Improvement in CDMA Radio Cellular Systems
K. Takeo and
T. Kobayashi
YRP Mobile Telecommunications Key Technology Research Labs, Japan
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:45 Session 3: Access architectures and
capacities (II)
Chair:
V. Casares
Cable Infrastructure to Carry Voice and Data - Performance Analysis, Traffic Engineering and Cable Head-end Node Design
Gagan L.
Choudhury and Moshe Segal
AT&T
Labs, USA
On the number of contenders in a contention tree
D. Denteneer
and V. Pronk
Philips
Research, The Netherlands
An alternative to transport differentiated TCP traffic over ATM using SBR3 and xDSL access
A. J.
Elizondo-Armengol, C. Gavilanes-Plasencia, M. F. Sánchez-Cañabate
Telefonica I+D, Spain
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee
break
16:15 - 17:30 Session 4: Cost assessments for access
networks
Chair:
M. Bonatti
Methodology for techno-economical evaluation of broadband access networks scenarios
J. L. Lobo-Poyo
Telefonica I+D, Spain
Feasibility of Dynamic Tariffs in Internet Access over the PSTN
M. Collier, B. O'Donohoe
Dublin City University, Ireland
Content Caching and Multicasting in DSL Access Networks
J. Williams and G. Cope
Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd, United Kingdom
18:15 – 20:15 Guided tour to the old town of Girona
Thursday
26th April
09:15 - 10:30 Session 5: Bandwidth allocation in access
networks
Chair:
M. Schneps-Schneppe
Neuro-Fuzzy Dynamic Bandwidth Reservation In Micro-Cellular Mobile Networks
R. Raad, E. Dutkiewicz and J. Chicharo
University of Wollongong, Australia
A-priori flow bandwidth estimates for dynamic bandwidth allocation in ISP access Links
J. Aracil and D. Morato
Navarra Public University, Spain
Performance of Loss Estimation Methods for CACs using Virtual Subsystems
I. Herrero, E.
Casilari, F. Sandoval
Malaga University, Spain
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45 Invited talk
Multiaccess
Mobile Service Platform – offering application integrity
Veli-Matti Soini
Nokia Networks, Wireless Application Development Center
11:45 - 13:00 Session 6: Traffic engineering for Next
Generation Networks
Chair:
U. Yechiali
Framework for Access Network Traffic Modelling for Next Generation Networks
H.E. Hanrahan, I.G. Kennedy and G.D. Agnew
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Traffic engineering for High-speed Residential Internet Access
Siavash
Khorsandi and James Yan
Nortel
Networks, Canada
Determining the number of packet-based phones that can be supported by one access node
D. De Vleeschauwer, A. Van Moffaert, J. Janssen, M.
Büchli, G. H. Petit,
Alcatel Bell, Belgium
B. Steyaert, H. Bruneel, Ghent University, Belgium
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:45 Session 7: Performance analysis of Next
Generation Networks
Chair:
C. Blondia
Performance Analysis of Traffic System with Access Control Mixing Preemptive Wideband and Queueable Narrowband Calls
S.N.Stepanov, Institute for Problems of Information
Transmission, Russia
V.S.Lagutin,
Moscow City Telephone Company, Russia
V.B.Iversen,
Technical University of Denmark
Analysis of feedback fluid queues
Werner R.W. Scheinhardt
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Delay-loss Analysis of Channel assignment schemes in Mobile Cellular systems with Handoff Priority and Hysteresis Control
V. Pla, V. Casares
Polytechnic
University of Valencia, Spain
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee
break
16:15 - 17:30 Session 8: TCP performance analysis
Chair:
V. B. Iversen
Fixed Point
Methods for the Simulation of the Sharing of a Local Loop by a Large Number of Interacting TCP Connections
F. Baccelli, D. Hong, INRIA&ENS, France
Z. Liu, INRIA, France
High Performance TCP Communication over Wireless Access Link using SSCOP with Segmenting/Reassembling Functions
T. Kato, A. Idoue, K. Suzuki, KDD R&D Laboratories, Inc, Japan
A. Hara, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Evaluation of the Throughput of TCP in a Network with Wireless Access
S. Peeters and C. Blondia
University of Antwerp, Belgium
18:00 Social event outside
Girona: visit to the middle age village of Pals and dinner in the castle of
Peretallada (built in 1065)
Friday
27th April
09:15 - 10:00 Invited
talk
UMTS towards
4G
José Jimenez-Delgado
Director de
Innovación de Telefónica I+D
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
break
10:30 - 12:15 Session
9: Quality of Service
Chair:
A. Girard
Internet Access Service Level Agreement – a Challenge to Teletraffic Engineering
M.
Schneps-Schneppe, I. Enyukov
Moscow State
University, and Svetets Ltd, Rusia
StatPoint
Ltd, Rusia
A Scalable Scheduling Mechanism with Specific Application to AAL2/ATM Multiplexing
M. Menth,
University of Würzburg, Germany
S. Schneeberger, Siemens AG, Germany
Performance Issues for Voice over ADSL
A. Van Moffaert, J. Janssen, D. De Vleeschauwer, M.
Büchli, G. H. Petit, M. Verhoeyen
Alcatel Bell, Belgium
Modeling and experimental characterization of a PC based IP router
O. I. Lepe-Aldama, J.
Garcia-Vidal
Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
12:15 Closing session: P. Kuehn