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

by Yevgeni Koucheryavy (Editor), Jarmo Harju (Editor), Villy B. Iversen (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540344292
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	07/06/2006
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #4003
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	584
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

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 Prool 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-similarTraffic.- 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 Prools in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Quantitative Comparison.- Effect of Realistic Physical Layer on Energy Efficient Broadcast Prools for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Localized Broadcast Oriented Prools 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 forDelegation 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 Prools for the DiffServ Framework.