Apologies for multiple copies. Dear Research and Industry Fellows, you are invited to participate in the NGC/ICQT'03 workshops in Munich, September 16-19, 2003 - in co-operation with ACM SIGCOMM and in the follow-up of COST 264. Please find attached the program for those events. Your registration option holds in-advance rates until August 1, 2003 at the workshops' web pages http://www.ngc2003.org/ Regards, Burkhard Stiller NGC/ICQT'03 General Chair ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NGC/ICQT'03 Advance Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A PDF version of this program is available at http://www.ngc2003.org Tuesday, September 16, 2003 (NGC’03 Tutorial Day and MMAPPS Project Day) ======================================================================== 9.00 - 12.30 Tutorial A "Advanced QoS Accounting Techniques used for Billing Service Levels" by Petre Dini, Cisco Systems. 14.00 - 17.30 Tutorial B "Content Distribution and Beyond - Architectures, Protocols, and Practice" by Markus Hofmann, Bell Labs Research. The MMAPPS Project Day on Peer-to-peer Systems starts at 9.00 in parallel to the two NGC Tutorials. A detailed program for this project day is available at http://www.mmapps.org/events/main.html. Wednesday, September 17, 2003 (NGC’03 Day 1) ============================================ 9.00 - 10.30 Welcome and Keynote * General and Program Co-chair's Welcome Message Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Welcome from UniBw Munich, Germany Merith Niehuss, Vice President UniBw Munich, Germany * Program Co-chair's Program Information Georg Carle, Universität Tübingen, Germany * Keynote: Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University: Multicast TCP - They said it shouldn't be done, so ... 11.00 - 12.30 Session 1: Application and Multicast Support * User-interest Driven Video Adaptation for Collaborative Workspace Applications Jeremiah Scholl, Stefan Elf, Peter Parnes, Sweden * Improving Efficiency of Application-level Multicast with Network Support Takeshi Sano, Taku Noguchi, Miki Yamamoto, Japan * An Adaptive Method for Dynamic Audience Size Estimation in Multicast Maziar Nekovee, Andrea Soppera, Trevor Burbridge, United Kingdom 14.00 - 15.30 Session 2: Anycast and Search in P2P * Anycast in Locality-aware Peer-to- peer Systems Rongmei Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, U.S.A. * Scalable Application-level Anycast for Highly Dynamic Groups Miguel Castro, Peter Druschel, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Antony Rowstron, U.S.A. * Topology-Centric Look-Up Service Luis Garces-Erice, Keith W. Ross, Ernst W. Biersack, Pascal A. Felber, Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, France 16.00 - 17.30 Session 3: Peer-to-peer Systems * Service Differentiation in Peer-to-Peer Networks Utilizing Reputations Minaxi Gupta, Mostafa Ammar, U.S.A. * Adding Structure to Unstructured Peer-to-peer Networks: The Role of Overlay Topology Shashidhar Merugu, Sridhar Srinivasan, Ellen Zegura, U.S.A. * Building Semantic Peer-to-peer Networks Upon CAN Jiantao Song, Yong Zhang, Chaofeng Sha, Peoples Republic of China 17.45 Welcome Reception Thursday, September 18, 2003 (NGC’03 Day 2) =========================================== 9.00 - 10.30 Session 4: Security and Multicasting * Adding Reliable and Self-Healing Key Distribution to the Subset Difference Group Rekeying Method for Secure Multicast Sencun Zhu, Sanjeev Setia, Sushil Jajodia, Mario Maggiorini, U.S.A. * Key Bundles and Parcels: Secure Communication in Many Groups Eunjin Jung, Mohamed G. Gouda, Xiang-Yang Alex Liu, U.S.A. * EBM: Edge-based Multicasting in DiffServ Networks A. Striegel, A. Bouabdallah, H. Bettahar, G. Manimaran, U.S.A. 11.00 - 12.30 Session 5: Multicast Mechanisms * Team-oriented Multicast: A Scalable Routing Protocol for Large Mobile Networks Yunjung Yi, Mario Gerla, Joon-Sang Park, U.S.A. * Generalized Multicast Congestion Control: An Efficient Multi-rate Scheme Using Single Rate Control Jiang Li, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, U.S.A. * IP Multicast Over Cable TV Networks A. Selcuk Uluagac, Jon M. Peha, Turkey 14.00 - 15.00 Session 6: Control Algorithms * Extremum Feedback with Partial Knowledge Thomas Fuhrmann, Jörg Widmer, Germany * Design and Evaluation of a Low Density Generator Matrix (LDGM) Large Block FEC Codec Vincent Roca, Zainab Khallouf, Julien Laboure, France 15.30 - 17.30 Session 7: Short Paper Session * Overcoming Last- hop/First-hop Problems in IP Multicast Gísli Hjálmtýsson, Björn Brynjúlfsson, Ólafur Ragnar Helgason, Iceland * Multicast Infrastructure for Massive Multi-Player Online Games Daniel Bauer, Sean Rooney, Switzerland * Performance Evaluation of Multicast for Small Conferences Stefan Egger, Torsten Braun, Switzerland * Scalable Support for Source Specific Multicast in Differentiated Services Domains Ning Wang, George Pavlou, United Kindgom * Overlay Socket: Programming Overlay Networks J. Liebeherr, J. Wang, G. Zhang, U.S.A. * Enhancing Peer-to-peer Parallel Data Access with PeerFecT L. Dairaine, L. Lancerica, J. Lacan, France 18.45 Social Event Friday, September 19, 2003 (ICQT’03 Day 1) ========================================== 9.00 - 10.15 Welcome and Keynote * Program Co-chair's Program Information Peter Reichl, FTW, Austria and Martin Karsten, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada * Keynote: to be announced 10.45 - 12.45 Session 8: Multicast Pricing and Traffic * An Approach to the Charging of Secure IP Multicast Services Sylvie Laniepce, Mohammed Achemlal, France * Accounting Mechanism for Membership Size-Dependent Pricing of Multicast Traffic David Breitgand, Danny Dolev, Danny Raz, U.S.A. * A Low-Cost Packet Originator Verification for Metering at Access-Routers Bernd Lamparter, Dirk Westhoff, Germany * Problem Statement: Metering and Accounting in full-IP 4G Networks Jürgen Jähnert, Germany 14.00 - 15.00 Session 9: Routing and Economics * Incentive-based Inter-domain Routeing Richard Mortier, Ian Pratt, United Kingdom * The Economics of Smart Routing and QoS Rui Dai, Dale O. Stahl, Andrew B. Whinston, U.S.A. 15.30 - 16.30 Session 10: Pricing and Resource Management * A Progressive Second Price Mechanism with a Sanction Bid from Excluded Players Patrick Maillé, Bruno Tuffin, France * Capacitated Network Management through Pricing Mustapha Bouhtou, Madiagne Diallo, Laura Wynter, France 16.30 Closing