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re:[ifip-tc6] TC6 meeting attendance
by Ramon Puigjaner 04 May '03

04 May '03

Dear Augusto, I will attend the ,eeting and following the suggestion of Sarolta I will be hosted at the hotel Mercure Korona. Best regards Ramon > Dear colleagues, > > I attach a document with the present situation of the TC6 meeting > attendance. > > Please inform Sarolta and myself of your availability for the meeting asap. > > Best regards > > Augusto > [attachment][attachment] ========================================================================= Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica 07122 PALMA (Spain) Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003 e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es ========================================================================= -- This message was sent using Sake Mail, a web-based email tool from Endymion Corporation. http://www.endymion.com/products/sake

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More about HET-NETs 03
by Otto Spaniol 02 May '03

02 May '03

Dear colleagues, meanwhile I found out a little more about the new Kouvatsos event. There are two other IFIP delegates within the 151 committee members. - Villy Baek Iversen (who was not contacted by Kouvatsos and had never heard of the event before; probably he is in the list since they included a lot of people from the Euro3GI proposal which has just been submitted to the EU - and Villy Baek is like me a member of the enormous list of partners). - Ioannis Stavrakakis (the new 6.3 chairman) who is said to have accepted to act as a co-chair for one of the tracks - maybe without telling him anything about side effects which this might have for TC6. Indeed, if you make a Google search for "Ilkley Kouvatsos" you will find interesting information such as the following (see below) which was sent to SIGMETRICS and which says that HET-NETs "follows the earlier series of IFIP events on the performance modelling and evaluation of ATM & IP networks". I'm quite suprised that apparently IFIP TC6 was not at all informed about this successorship. This is another example of "how to make (much!) money by using the name of IFIP TC6". As a certain consolation: It is good that it is still possible to make money out of our institution even if we by ourselves are not really the most clever people to make profit out of it. Best regards Otto Spaniol ---------------------------------------------------------- Subject: HET-NETs '03 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:25:07 -0500 (EST) From: ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Bulletin Board <sigmetrics(a)haven.csm.ornl.gov> Reply-To: d.d.kouvatsos(a)scm.brad.ac.uk To: sigmetrics-bb(a)haven.csm.ornl.gov Dear Colleagues, FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKING CONFERENCE ON PERFORMANCE MODELLING AND EVALUATION OF HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS (HET-NETs '03) ILKLEY, U.K., 21-23 JULY, 2003. The HET-NETs '03 Working Conference follows the earlier series of IFIP events on the performance modelling and evaluation of ATM & IP networks. The event has useful links with the major EU funded project "IASON" dealing with the design and development of a generic performance evaluation platform for services interoperability and networks. "IASON" involves strong industrial participation and the co-ordinator of the project, Dr. Michael Dopfer, Head of Information and Communication Mobile Networks/Mobile Core, Munich (Siemens AG), Germany, has kindly accepted to act the Co-Chair on the special track on 'Performance Measurement Platforms'. Moreover, the conference is organised in collaboration with the proposed EU Network of Excellence (NoE) Consortium "Euro-3Gi" which involves over 50 of the very best EU research groups focusing on the design and dimensioning of the 3rd generation Internet. Professor Daniel Kofman, ENST-INFRES Institute, Paris, France, the co-ordinator of "Euro-3Gi", has kindly agreed to act as the Co-Chair for the special track on 'Performance Modelling Studies' concerning the convergence of multiservice heterogeneous networks. Finally, Professor Ioannis Stavrakakis, Head of Communication Networks Lab (CNL), Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, has kindly accepted to act as the Co-Chair for the special track on Methodologies and Analytic Tools. It is envisaged that the latter track may also attract a few contributions from other application areas of discrete flow systems, where new analytical advances might be of relevance to the performance modelling of telecommunication systems of diverse technologies. There is already a lot of enthusiasm and support from colleagues for the staging of HET-NETs '03 at international level. Your research group is cordially invited to participate and make a technical input. It is envisaged that the event will make an effective contribution to both structuring research in the performance modelling field and spreading the excellence worldwide. All the very best, Demetres Kouvatsos

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FW: [ifip-tc6] Another Kouvatsos Event
by Augusto Casaca 02 May '03

02 May '03

Dear Guy, Have you agreed in supporting this event? Best regards Augusto -----Original Message----- From: ifip-tc6-bounces(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE [mailto:ifip-tc6-bounces@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE]On Behalf Of Samir Tohme Sent: sexta-feira, 2 de Maio de 2003 09:34 To: Otto Spaniol Cc: ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: [ifip-tc6] Another Kouvatsos Event Dear Otto I agree with your analysis of the situation of this event. I was not aware of the sponsorship of the WG6.2 ... May be Guy knows more about it. In any case, the event seems to be very big and we should be aware of that if we want to support it... Samir Samir TOHME Professeur Departement Informatique et Reseaux Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications 46 Rue Barrault. 75634 Paris Cedex 13. France. Tel : 33 1 45 81 78 61 Fax : 33 1 45 81 31 19 Email : tohme(a)inf.enst.fr On Fri, 2 May 2003, Otto Spaniol wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I got the Call for Papers of another "Kouvatsos event" > (HET-NET 03, July 21-23, Ilkley, UK); see below. > > It is claimed that the event is "supported by IFIP WG6.2" > but this is a little doubtful. At least the event is not > in our calendar. > > There is a really enormous list of committee members > (151 without the organizing committee!) but apart from > Guy Pujolle (who may not even know about that) there seems > to be no single TC6 member in the list! As far as I remember > we have always had problems with the way of how these > conferences are organized - and we have at least asked > that the series should be international, i.e. that it should be held > sometimes also outside of Ilkley, UK. > > Augusto: Do we get sponsorship fee and/or royalties from > this event? Did we get such contributions from the Kouvatsos > events in the past? I believe that we should discuss that in Budapest. > > Best regards > Otto > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Second Announcement and call for papers > > FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKING CONFERENCE > ON > PERFORMANCE MODELLING AND EVALUATION OF HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS > > > > (HET-NETs '03) > > > Supported by > > . IFIP WG6.2 on Network and Inter-network Architectures; > . British Computer Society (BCS) Performance Engineering Specialist Group; > . Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEE, U.K.); > . EUROPEAN COMMISSION - IST and NoE Programmes; > . ACATS FORUM, ATS Network Consortium Proprietary, EU; > . SIEMENS AG (Germany); > . MOTOROLA (U.K.); > . SOLINET GmbH (Germany); > . ERICSSON (Hungary); > . ALCATEL SEL AG (Germany); > . VODAFONE (Germany); > . 4PLUS Technologies SA (Greece); > . TELETEL Telecoms & IT (Greece); > . INFORMS Applied Probability Society (U.S.A); > . Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, U.K.); > . Telecoms Dept., National Technical University of Athens (Greece); > . Wire Communications Laboratory, University of Patras (Greece); > . Inst. Informatics & Telecoms, NCSR "Demokritos" (Greece); > . School of Informatics, University of Bradford (U.K.); > > Monday 21st - Wednesday 23rd July, 2003 > Craiglands Hotel*, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, U.K. > > (* The Craiglands is a delightful Victorian country hotel on the edge of the > beautiful Yorkshire Dales and near the famed Ilkley Moor.) > > Over recent years a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in > industry and academia, towards the performance modelling, evaluation and > convergence of multi-service networks of diverse technology, such as IP, ATM, > MPLS, D-WDM, IPO, WLL, xDSL, Metro-WDM, Gigabit Ethernet, WLAN, Ad-hoc as > well > as GSM, GPRS, 3G UMTS mobile systems and all-optical networks. However, many > interesting and important traffic engineering, technological and performance > issues need to be addressed and resolved before a global and wide-scale > integrated broadband network infrastructure can be established for the > efficient support of multimedia applications. Of crucial importance is the > design and dimensioning of the next generation Internet with quality of > service > (QoS) guarantees including the creation of generic evaluation platforms > capable > of measuring the performance of heterogeneous networks, services inter- > operability and applications. Moreover, robust quantitative methodologies are > needed, such as those based on novel queueing network models, neural networks > and stochastic Petri nets, leading to both credible and cost-effective > approximations and algorithms for the performance prediction of heterogeneous > networks. These powerful and realistic tools applied to the analysis of other > types of discrete flow systems, such as computer systems, transportation > networks and flexible manufacturing systems, may also be, by analogy, of > relevance. > > The aim of the First International Working Conference on Heterogeneous > Networks > (HET-NET '03) is to contribute to fundamental research in networks of diverse > technology and internetworking issues and focus on their > performance/reliability modelling and analysis. The event is staged under the > auspices of the proposed EU Network of Excellence (NoE) Euro-NGi for the > design > and dimensioning of the 3G Internet and beyond in collaboration with two > major > industrial on the main EU consortiums related to two current IST projects in > the field, namely, IASON focusing on the design and development of > performance > measurement platforms for heterogeneous networks and EVOLUTE dealing with > seamless multimedia services over all IP-based infrastructures. As in earlier > performance modelling and evaluation ATM & IP events in Bradford and Ilkley, > U.K., the Working Conference provides the friendly and informal > atmosphere in > which participants from all over the world introduce new concepts, exchange > novel ideas and establish new operational solutions and research > initiatives. > In particular, delegates are encouraged to address > > . Traffic Engineering and performance modelling aspects of existing and > emerging Internet technologies towards the convergence of > telecommunications, > multi-service networking and broadcasting; > > . Design and development of performance evaluation platforms for multi- > services inter-operability and heterogeneous networks; > > . Methods and solutions for seamless mobility and heterogeneous mobile > network optimization, capacity utilization and resource management, > based on > enhanced performance against traditional and current state of the art > mechanisms; > > . Analytic and simulation methodologies for QNMs and SPNs with self- > similar and multi-fractal traffic models of long-range (LRD) versus > short-range > (SRD) dependence and their approximation, with tolerable accuracy, by > simpler > traffic processes. > > It is envisaged that HET-NETs '03 will make an effective contribution to > both > structuring research in the performance modelling field and spreading the > excellence worldwide. > > General Chair > . Professor Demetres Kouvatsos, Bradford, U.K. > > Co-Chairs > . Special Track for Performance Modelling Studies: Professor Daniel > Kofman (Co-ordinator of NoE Euro-3Gi), Paris, France. > > . Special Track for Performance Measurement Platforms: Dr. Michael Dopfer > (Co-ordinator of EU IST Project IASON), Siemens AG, Germany. > > . Special Track for Applied Innovation in Mobile Networks: Dr. Tim > Charity (Co-ordinator of EVOLUTE), Motorola, Swindon, U.K. > > . Special Track for Methodologies and Analytic Tools: Professor Ioannis > Stavrakakis, Athens, Greece. > > Provisional Scientific Committees > > Special Track for Performance Modelling Studies > Ake Arvidsson, Ericsson, Sweden > Tulin Atmaca, Paris, France > Monique Becker, Evry, France > Andre-Luc Beylot, Toulouse, France > Mark Bromirski, Zegrze, Poland > Herwig Bruneel, Ghent, Belgium > Olga Casals, Catalunya, Spain > Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy > Laurie Cuthbert, London, U.K. > Error Gelenbe, central florida, U.S.A. > Tamas Henk, Budapest, Hungary > Helmut Hlavacs, Vienna, Austria > Ilias Iliadis, IBM Zurich, Switzerland > Villy Baek Iversen, Lyngby, Denmark > Andrzej Jajszczyk, Cracow, Poland > Laszlo Jereb, Budapest, Hungary > Peter Key, Microsoft Research, U.K . > Stefan Köhler, Wuerzburg, Germany > Kimon Kontovassilis, Athens, Greece > Ulf Korner, Lund, Sweden > Paul Kuehn, Stuttgart, Germany > Yoni Levy, AT&T Labs, U.S.A. > Renato Lo Cigno, Trento, Italy > Michael Logothetis, Patras, Greece > Michela Meo, Torino, Italy > Nicholas Mitrou, Athens, Greece > Sándor Molnár, Budapest, Hungary > Victor Netes, Komset, Moscow, Russia > Michal Pioro, Warsaw, Poland > Jonathan Pitts, London, U.K. > Guy Pujolle, Paris, France > Roberto Sabella, Ericson, Sweden > Phuoc Tran-Gia, Wuerzburg, Germany > Kurt Tutschku, Wuerzburg, Germany > Michel Riguidel, Paris, France > Maria Simon, Montevideo, Uruguay > Geoff Smith, Strathclyde, U.K. > Rob van der Mei, Telecom, Netherlands > Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki, Finland > Hideaki Yamashita, Tokyo, Japan > > Special Track for Performance Measurement Platforms > Frank Ball, Oxford, UK > Miklos Boda, Ericsson, Hungary > Arnold Eppler, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany > Franz Erhart, Siemens AG, Germany > Michael Esser, Vodafone, Germany > Boris Grabner, Telekom Austria AG, Austria > John Griffiths, London, U.K. > Gerard Hebuterne, Evry, France > David Hutchison, Lancaster, U.K > Vangelis Kollias, Teletel SA, Greece > Hanoch Levy, Tel-Avid, Israel > Madjid Merabti, Liverpool, U.K. > Lewis McKenzie, Glasgow, U.K. > Raif Onvural, Allied Telelesyn Int., U.S.A. > Roger Peplow, Natal, South Africa > Guido Petit, Alcatel SEL AG, Belgium > Andreas Pollok, Siemens AG, Germany > Lisa Ritchie, Solinet GmbH, Germany > Christian Schmitt, Solinet GmbH, Germany > William Skelton, Solinet GmbH, Germany > Patrick Thiran, Lausanne, Switzerland > Spyros Tombros, 4Plus SA, Greece > Speros Velentzas, Motorola, U.K. > Norbert Vicari, Wuerzburg, Germany > Helmut Weiser, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany > Gerrd-Jouchin Wintterle, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany > > Special Track for Applied Innovation in Mobile Networks > Erik Aarnaes, Teleplan, Norway > Angeliki Alexiou, Bell Laboratories, U.K. > Ana Garcia Armada, Madrid, Spain > Nigel Baker, West England, U.K. > Alejandro Beccera, Telefonica, Spain > Rolf Birkenstedt, Telia, Sweden > Fernando Casadevall, Catalunya, Spain > Luc Deneire, Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France > Jason Devaney, Roke Manor, U.K. > Manuel Dinis, Portugal Telecom, Portugal > Willie Donnelly, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland > Stanislav Dzuban, Siemens, Austria > Jorge Gato, Vodafone, Spain > Felicita Di Giandomenico, Pisa, Italy > John Farserotu, Csem, Switzerland > Flavio Giovanelli, Cefriel, Italy > Louagie Filip, Imec, Belgium > Ayadi Jaouhar, Csem, Switzerland > Nigel Jefferies, Vodafone, U.K. > Jaakko Lahteenmaki, Vtt, Finland > Joao Macas, Siemens, Portugal > Thomas Magedanz, Focus, Germany > Marcelo Manta, Nortel, Spain > Anthony Marinidis, Telia, Sweden > John Mertzanis, Space Hellas, Greece > Raffaele Menolascino, Motorola, Italy > Scott Moseley, ETSI, France > Seppo Parkkila, Elisa, Finland > Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland > Viktor Owall, Lund, Sweden > Nikos Pronios, Intracom, Greece > Prasad Ramjee, Aalborg, Denmark > Stephan Rupp, Alcatel, Germany > Luis Munoz, Cantabria, Spain > George Stassinopoulos, Ntua, Greece > Dorgham Sisalem, Focus, Germany > Zhili Sun, Surrey, U.K. > Kostas, Vlahodimitropoulos, Cosmote, Greece > Xie Yi, TMC of Ministry of Information Industry, China > > Special Track for Methodologies and Analytic Tools > Eitan Altman, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France > > Vladimir Anisimov, Kiev, Ukraine > & GlaxoSmithKline, U.K. > Simonetta Balsamo, Venice, Italy > Chris Blondia, Antwerp, Belgium > Sem Borst, Amsterdam, Netherlands > Pavel Bocharov, Moscow, Russia > Richard Boucherie, Amsterdam, Netherlands > Onno Boxma, Eindhoven, Netherlands > Alexander Brandwajn, Santa Cruz, U.S.A. > Vicente Casares-Giner, Valencia, Spain > Ram Chakka, Norfolk, U.S.A. > Tadeusz Czachorski, Gliwice, Poland > Lorenzo Donatiello, Bologna, Italy > Peder Emstad, Trondheim, Norway > Error Gelenbe, Duke, U.S.A. > Nicolas Georganas, Ottawa, Canada > Klaus Hackbarth, Santander, Spain > Guenter Haring, Vienna, Austria > Peter Harrison, London, U.K. > Boudewijn Haverkort, Twente, Netherlands > Frank Kelly, Cambridge, U.K. > Peter King, Edinburgh, U.K. > Ernest Koenigsberg, Berkeley, U.S.A. > Udo Krieger, T-Systems Nova GmbH Germany > Isi Mitrani, Newcastle, U.K. > Jogesh Muppala, Kowloon, Hong Kong > Mohamed Oul-Khaoua, Glasgow, U.K. > John Schormans, London, U.K. > Karl Sigman, Columbia, U.S.A. > Haris Skianis, Athens, Greece > Maciej Stasiak, Poznan, Poland > Janos Sztrik, Debrecen, Hungary > Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto, Japan > Nigel Thomas, Durham University, U.K. > Tulio Tolio, Milano, Italy > Manolo Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica I+D, Spain > Sabine Wittevrongel, Ghent, Belgium > Michael Woodward, Bradford, U.K. > David Yao, Columbia, U.S.A. > > Local Organising Committee > Salam Assi, Bradford, U.K. > Irfan Awan, Bradford, U.K > Rod Fretwell, Bradford, U.K. > Wie Li, Bradford, U.K. > Geyong Min, Bradford, U.K. > Is-Haka Mkwawa, Bradford, U.K. > Kevin Smith, Bradford, U.K. > Sotiris Tantos, Bradford, U.K. > Athanasios Tsokanos, Bradford, U.K. > > Contributions are encouraged on, but are not limited to, the performance > modelling and evaluation, including reliability and pricing, of > > . QoS Protocols and Provisioning for Heterogeneous Networks; > . Modelling and Analysis of Heterogeneous Internet Access; > . Next Generation Internet Protocols over Heterogeneous Networks; > . Switch Architectures for Heterogeneous Networks; > . Inter-operability of Wireless, Terrestrial and Satellite Networks; > . Multi-service Mobile and Optical Networks; > . Multimedia Traffic Measurement, Management, Modelling and Characterisation; > . Congestion, Flow and Call Admission Control Schemes; > . Cell/Packet Level Scheduling and Resource Allocation Strategies; > . Flow and Congestion Control Functions and Procedures; > . QoS Routing, Load Balancing Techniques and Network Resilience; > . Multimedia over Packet-based Networks; > . Analysis of Queueing Network Models with Blocking, Neural Networks and > Stochastic Petri Nets; > . Parallel and Distributed Simulation; > . Real-time Voice/Video Transport over Heterogeneous Networks; > . Efficiency of Adaptation Layer and Transport Protocols; > . QoS Performance Testing and Measurements; > . Security Mechanisms effect on Heterogeneous Networks Performance; > . Internetworking Issues and Experiments; > . Other Performance Modelling Applications to Computer and Parallel > Systems, Distributed Systems, Transportation Networks and Production > Systems. > > Based on the pattern established at the IFIP ATM & IP Working Conferences in > Bradford (1994), Ilkley (1995-1998, 2000), Antwerp (1999) and Budapest > (2001), > the Technical Programme of the International Working Conference HET-NETs '03 > will combine research and tutorial papers from industry and academia on > current > developments in the theory and practice of performance modelling and > evaluation > issues of heterogeneous networks worldwide. In addition, poster research > papers > will be solicited, industrial demonstrations will be organised and special > sessions of practical industrial papers and research works in progress will > also be included, as appropriate. > > Prospective authors of HET-NETs '03 are invited to submit by > > Monday the 26th of May 2003 > > . Research papers (for peer review) up to a maximum of 10 A4 size page > (single spaced text); > > . Technical abstracts of approximately 300 words for poster > contributions, industrial papers of a practical nature or academic research > works in progress; > > . Proposals for tutorial papers on 1-2 A4 size pages (single spaced text); > > for PC and peer selection review - to Mr Kevin Smith (Performance > Modelling and > Engineering Research Group, Tel: +44-1274-233919, Fax: +44-1274-233920) by > using E-mail address of HET-NETs 03: > > <hetnets(a)scm.brad.ac.uk>. > > Please note all proposed submissions should be in English and be sent as > E-mail > attachments using postscript, msword or pdf file format and include, as key > words, a list of topics under which the authors prefer their work to be > classified and presented in a related session. > > Following acceptance, authors will be notified via E-mail to prepare in > camera > ready form (single spaced text) the final versions of their papers for the > > . HET-NETs '03 Technical Proceedings (ISBN to be announced) of full > revised research papers up to a maximum of 10 A4 size pages which > should be > finalised according to the referees' remarks; > > . Participants Volume of industrial papers and research works in progress > of not more than 6 A4 size pages or shorter poster papers of not more > than 3 A4 > size pages; > > . Participants Volume of tutorial papers of not more than 35 A4 size > pages. > > After the event, authors of mature work will also be invited to submit > extended > versions of their papers up to a maximum of 25 A4 pages (single spaced > text) by > > Friday the 1st September 2003, > > for consideration, subject to a subsequent peer review, for publication in > special journal issues on the performance modelling and evaluation of > heterogeneous networks. > > For further information prospective participants are welcome to contact > Professor Demetres Kouvatsos, General Chair (e-mail: > D.D.Kouvatsos(a)scm.brad.ac.uk, Tel.: +44-1274-233941) or, any of the co- > chairs, > namely Professor Daniel Kofman (e-mail: Daniel.Kofman(a)enst.fr), Dr. Michael > Dopfer (Michael.Dopfer(a)siemens.com), Dr. Tim Charity (T.Charity(a)motorola.com) > and Professor Ioannis Stavrakakis (istavrak(a)di.uoa.gr). > ======================================================================= > Note > > There are two new special editions of the Journal of Performance Evaluation > related to the theme of the IFIP HET-NETs '03 Working Conference, namely > > . ATM & IP Networks: Performance Modelling and Analysis, Special Issue of > the Journal of Performance Evaluation, Demetres Kouvatsos (Guest Ed.), > North- > Holland, Elsevier, 2002. > > . Queueing Networks with Blocking, Special Issue of the Journal of > Performance Evaluation, Demetres Kouvatsos and Simonetta Balsamo (Guest > Eds.), > North-Holland, Elsevier 2003. > > The table of contents, abstracts and full-text PDF files of these special > issues are available from the Journal's listing on > > <ScienceDirect,http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01665316>. > ======================================================================== > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ifip-tc6 mailing list > ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE > http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6 > _______________________________________________ ifip-tc6 mailing list ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6

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FW: IWQoS'2003 Call for Participation
by Augusto Casaca 02 May '03

02 May '03

-----Original Message----- From: owner-itc(a)www.i-teletraffic.org [mailto:owner-itc@www.i-teletraffic.org]On Behalf Of Klaus Wehrle Sent: quarta-feira, 30 de Abril de 2003 21:40 To: Ion Stoica; Kevin Jeffay; Klaus Wehrle Subject: IWQoS'2003 Call for Participation *********************************************************************** * ************************** * * * * * Call for Participation * * * * * ************************** * * * *********************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *IWQoS 2003* Eleventh International Workshop on Quality of Service Monterey, California, June 2-4, 2003 http://iwqos03.cs.berkeley.edu/ Sponsored by National Science Foundation, IEEE Communications Society and IFIP WG6.1 in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGMOBILE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please find programm and registration information below... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Quality of Service continues to be an active research field, especially in the networking community. IWQoS is a successful series of workshops that aims to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of new research and ideas on QoS. Traditionally, IWQoS workshops are cross-disciplinary and well focused, with the emphasis on innovation. As a result, a considerable amount of time is devoted to informal discussion. In addition to the traditional QoS topics such as service guarantees and admission control, this year we aimed to expand the scope of the workshop by encouraging submissions offering research contributions related to robustness, resilience, security, and predictability in networking and distributed systems. As a result, the program included two sessions on availability, fault tolerance, and dependability. The other sessions covered routing, resource allocation, storage, Web services, incentives, and rate based QoS. Please find a preliminary version of the detailed programm below... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration ============ Please find registration, hotel and local information at http://iwqos03.cs.berkeley.edu/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ###################################### ## IWQoS 2003 Preliminary Program ## ###################################### ===================== Monday, June 2, 2003 ===================== 8:30 Breakfast 9:00 Welcome by Kevin Jeffay, Ion Stoica 9:10 Invited talk (t.b.a.) 10:00 Break 10:30 Session 1: Analysis and Modeling Network characteristics: modelling, measurements and admission control, Dinan Gunawardena, Peter Key, Laurent Massoulie (Microsoft Research) Statistical Characterization for Per-Hop QoS, Mohamed El Gendy, Abhijit Bose, Haining Wang, Kang Shin (University of Michigan) Performance Analysis of Server Sharing Collectives for Content Distribution, Daniel Villela, Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University) An approximation of the end-to-end delay distribution, Han Kim, Ness Shroff (Purdue University) 12:30 Lunch 2:00 Session 2: Resource Allocation and Admission Control Price-based Resource Allocation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Yuan Xue, Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at U.Ch.), Baochun Li (University of Toronto) On Achieving Fairness in the Joint Allocation of Processing and Bandwidth Resources, Yunkai Zhou, Harish Sethu (Drexel University) Distributed Admission Control for Heterogeneous Multicast with Bandwidth Guarantees, Sudeept Bhatnagar, Badri Nath (Rutgers University), Arup Acharya (IBM T.J. Watson) 3:30 Break 4:00 Session 3: Multimedia and Incentives Subjective Impression of Variations in Layer Encoded Video, Michael Zink, Oliver Kuenzel, Jens Schmitt, Ralf Steinmetz (Darmstadt University of Technology) A Moving Average Predictor for Playout Delay Control in VoIP, Victor Ramos (University of Nice), Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman (INRIA) To Play or to Control: A Game-based Control-theoretic Approach to Peer-to-Peer Incentive Engineering, Weihong Wang, Baochun Li (University of Toronto) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================== Tuesday, June 3, 2003 ====================== 8:00 Breakfast 8:30 Session 4: Routing Routing and Grooming in Two-tier Survivable Optical Mesh Networks, Somdip Datta (Princeton), Subir Biswas, Sudipta Sengupta (Bell Labs), Debanjan Saha (IBM T.J. Watson) Fast Network Re-optimization Schemes for MPLS and Optical Networks, Randeep Bhatia, Murali Kodialam, T.V. Lakshman (Bell Labs) Mitigating Hotspots in Mobile Ad hoc Networks, Seoungbum Lee, Andrew Campbell (Columbia University) 10:00 Break 10:30 Session 5: Dependability and Fault Tolerance Improving Dependability of Real-Time Communication with Preplanned Backup Routes and Spare Resource Pool, Songkuk Kim, Kang Shin (University of Michigan) Fault Tolerance in Networks with an Advance Reservation Service, Lars Burchard, Marc Dorste-Franke (TU Berlin) 11:30 Panel: "QoS in Demand: Who Needs it Anyway?" Chair: Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 12:30 Lunch 2:00 Session 6: Availability and Dependability Failure Insensitive Routing for Ensuring Service Availability, Srihari Nelakuditi (University of South Carolina), Sanghwan Lee, Yinzhe Yu, Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota) Network Availability based Service Differentiation, Mathilde Durvy, Patrick Thiran (EPFL), Christophe Diot, Nina Taft (Sprint Labs) Quality of Availability: Replica Placement for Widely Distributed Systems, Giwon On, Jens Schmitt, Ralf Steinmetz (Darmstadt University of Technology) 3:30 Break 4:00 Session 7: Web Services Using Latency Quantiles to Engineer QoS Guarantees for Web Services, Ulrich Fiedler, Bernhard Plattner (ETH Zurich) DotQoS - A QoS Extension for .NET Remoting, Andreas Ulbrich, Torben Weis, Kurt Geihs (TU Berlin), Christian Becker (University of Stuttgart) Dynamic Resource Allocation for Shared Data Centers Using Online Measurements, Abhishek Chandra, Weibo Gong, Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================== Wednesday, June 4, 2003 ======================== 8:30 Breakfast 9:00 Session 8: Rate-based QoS Providing Deterministic End-to-end Fairness Guarantees in Core-stateless Networks, Jasleen Kaur (University of North Carolina), Harrick Vin (University of Texas) Per-Domain Packet Scale Rate Guarantee for Expedited Forwarding, Yuming Jiang (Institute for Incocomm Research) Achieving Weighted Service Differentiation from an End-to-End Perspective, Hung-Yun Hsieh, Kyu-Han Kim, Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Institute of Technology) 10:30 Break 11:00 Session 9: Storage Online Response Time Optimization of Apache Web Server, Xue Liu, Lui Sha (UIUC), Yixin Diao, Joesph L. Hellerstein, Sujay Parekh (IBM T.J. Watson) A Practical Learning-based Approach for Dynamic Storage Bandwidth Allocation, Vijay Sundaram, Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) CacheCOW: QoS for Storage System Caches, Pawan Goyal, Divyesh Jadav, Dharmendra Modha, Renu Tewari (IBM Almaden Research Center) 12:30 Summary & Workshop ends ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** -- Klaus Wehrle International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) 1947 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, 94704, USA http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~wehrle

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Another Kouvatsos Event
by Otto Spaniol 02 May '03

02 May '03

Dear colleagues, I got the Call for Papers of another "Kouvatsos event" (HET-NET 03, July 21-23, Ilkley, UK); see below. It is claimed that the event is "supported by IFIP WG6.2" but this is a little doubtful. At least the event is not in our calendar. There is a really enormous list of committee members (151 without the organizing committee!) but apart from Guy Pujolle (who may not even know about that) there seems to be no single TC6 member in the list! As far as I remember we have always had problems with the way of how these conferences are organized - and we have at least asked that the series should be international, i.e. that it should be held sometimes also outside of Ilkley, UK. Augusto: Do we get sponsorship fee and/or royalties from this event? Did we get such contributions from the Kouvatsos events in the past? I believe that we should discuss that in Budapest. Best regards Otto ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Second Announcement and call for papers FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKING CONFERENCE ON PERFORMANCE MODELLING AND EVALUATION OF HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS (HET-NETs '03) Supported by . IFIP WG6.2 on Network and Inter-network Architectures; . British Computer Society (BCS) Performance Engineering Specialist Group; . Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEE, U.K.); . EUROPEAN COMMISSION - IST and NoE Programmes; . ACATS FORUM, ATS Network Consortium Proprietary, EU; . SIEMENS AG (Germany); . MOTOROLA (U.K.); . SOLINET GmbH (Germany); . ERICSSON (Hungary); . ALCATEL SEL AG (Germany); . VODAFONE (Germany); . 4PLUS Technologies SA (Greece); . TELETEL Telecoms & IT (Greece); . INFORMS Applied Probability Society (U.S.A); . Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, U.K.); . Telecoms Dept., National Technical University of Athens (Greece); . Wire Communications Laboratory, University of Patras (Greece); . Inst. Informatics & Telecoms, NCSR "Demokritos" (Greece); . School of Informatics, University of Bradford (U.K.); Monday 21st - Wednesday 23rd July, 2003 Craiglands Hotel*, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, U.K. (* The Craiglands is a delightful Victorian country hotel on the edge of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales and near the famed Ilkley Moor.) Over recent years a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the performance modelling, evaluation and convergence of multi-service networks of diverse technology, such as IP, ATM, MPLS, D-WDM, IPO, WLL, xDSL, Metro-WDM, Gigabit Ethernet, WLAN, Ad-hoc as well as GSM, GPRS, 3G UMTS mobile systems and all-optical networks. However, many interesting and important traffic engineering, technological and performance issues need to be addressed and resolved before a global and wide-scale integrated broadband network infrastructure can be established for the efficient support of multimedia applications. Of crucial importance is the design and dimensioning of the next generation Internet with quality of service (QoS) guarantees including the creation of generic evaluation platforms capable of measuring the performance of heterogeneous networks, services inter- operability and applications. Moreover, robust quantitative methodologies are needed, such as those based on novel queueing network models, neural networks and stochastic Petri nets, leading to both credible and cost-effective approximations and algorithms for the performance prediction of heterogeneous networks. These powerful and realistic tools applied to the analysis of other types of discrete flow systems, such as computer systems, transportation networks and flexible manufacturing systems, may also be, by analogy, of relevance. The aim of the First International Working Conference on Heterogeneous Networks (HET-NET '03) is to contribute to fundamental research in networks of diverse technology and internetworking issues and focus on their performance/reliability modelling and analysis. The event is staged under the auspices of the proposed EU Network of Excellence (NoE) Euro-NGi for the design and dimensioning of the 3G Internet and beyond in collaboration with two major industrial on the main EU consortiums related to two current IST projects in the field, namely, IASON focusing on the design and development of performance measurement platforms for heterogeneous networks and EVOLUTE dealing with seamless multimedia services over all IP-based infrastructures. As in earlier performance modelling and evaluation ATM & IP events in Bradford and Ilkley, U.K., the Working Conference provides the friendly and informal atmosphere in which participants from all over the world introduce new concepts, exchange novel ideas and establish new operational solutions and research initiatives. In particular, delegates are encouraged to address . Traffic Engineering and performance modelling aspects of existing and emerging Internet technologies towards the convergence of telecommunications, multi-service networking and broadcasting; . Design and development of performance evaluation platforms for multi- services inter-operability and heterogeneous networks; . Methods and solutions for seamless mobility and heterogeneous mobile network optimization, capacity utilization and resource management, based on enhanced performance against traditional and current state of the art mechanisms; . Analytic and simulation methodologies for QNMs and SPNs with self- similar and multi-fractal traffic models of long-range (LRD) versus short-range (SRD) dependence and their approximation, with tolerable accuracy, by simpler traffic processes. It is envisaged that HET-NETs '03 will make an effective contribution to both structuring research in the performance modelling field and spreading the excellence worldwide. General Chair . Professor Demetres Kouvatsos, Bradford, U.K. Co-Chairs . Special Track for Performance Modelling Studies: Professor Daniel Kofman (Co-ordinator of NoE Euro-3Gi), Paris, France. . Special Track for Performance Measurement Platforms: Dr. Michael Dopfer (Co-ordinator of EU IST Project IASON), Siemens AG, Germany. . Special Track for Applied Innovation in Mobile Networks: Dr. Tim Charity (Co-ordinator of EVOLUTE), Motorola, Swindon, U.K. . Special Track for Methodologies and Analytic Tools: Professor Ioannis Stavrakakis, Athens, Greece. Provisional Scientific Committees Special Track for Performance Modelling Studies Ake Arvidsson, Ericsson, Sweden Tulin Atmaca, Paris, France Monique Becker, Evry, France Andre-Luc Beylot, Toulouse, France Mark Bromirski, Zegrze, Poland Herwig Bruneel, Ghent, Belgium Olga Casals, Catalunya, Spain Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Laurie Cuthbert, London, U.K. Error Gelenbe, central florida, U.S.A. Tamas Henk, Budapest, Hungary Helmut Hlavacs, Vienna, Austria Ilias Iliadis, IBM Zurich, Switzerland Villy Baek Iversen, Lyngby, Denmark Andrzej Jajszczyk, Cracow, Poland Laszlo Jereb, Budapest, Hungary Peter Key, Microsoft Research, U.K . Stefan Köhler, Wuerzburg, Germany Kimon Kontovassilis, Athens, Greece Ulf Korner, Lund, Sweden Paul Kuehn, Stuttgart, Germany Yoni Levy, AT&T Labs, U.S.A. Renato Lo Cigno, Trento, Italy Michael Logothetis, Patras, Greece Michela Meo, Torino, Italy Nicholas Mitrou, Athens, Greece Sándor Molnár, Budapest, Hungary Victor Netes, Komset, Moscow, Russia Michal Pioro, Warsaw, Poland Jonathan Pitts, London, U.K. Guy Pujolle, Paris, France Roberto Sabella, Ericson, Sweden Phuoc Tran-Gia, Wuerzburg, Germany Kurt Tutschku, Wuerzburg, Germany Michel Riguidel, Paris, France Maria Simon, Montevideo, Uruguay Geoff Smith, Strathclyde, U.K. Rob van der Mei, Telecom, Netherlands Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki, Finland Hideaki Yamashita, Tokyo, Japan Special Track for Performance Measurement Platforms Frank Ball, Oxford, UK Miklos Boda, Ericsson, Hungary Arnold Eppler, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany Franz Erhart, Siemens AG, Germany Michael Esser, Vodafone, Germany Boris Grabner, Telekom Austria AG, Austria John Griffiths, London, U.K. Gerard Hebuterne, Evry, France David Hutchison, Lancaster, U.K Vangelis Kollias, Teletel SA, Greece Hanoch Levy, Tel-Avid, Israel Madjid Merabti, Liverpool, U.K. Lewis McKenzie, Glasgow, U.K. Raif Onvural, Allied Telelesyn Int., U.S.A. Roger Peplow, Natal, South Africa Guido Petit, Alcatel SEL AG, Belgium Andreas Pollok, Siemens AG, Germany Lisa Ritchie, Solinet GmbH, Germany Christian Schmitt, Solinet GmbH, Germany William Skelton, Solinet GmbH, Germany Patrick Thiran, Lausanne, Switzerland Spyros Tombros, 4Plus SA, Greece Speros Velentzas, Motorola, U.K. Norbert Vicari, Wuerzburg, Germany Helmut Weiser, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany Gerrd-Jouchin Wintterle, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany Special Track for Applied Innovation in Mobile Networks Erik Aarnaes, Teleplan, Norway Angeliki Alexiou, Bell Laboratories, U.K. Ana Garcia Armada, Madrid, Spain Nigel Baker, West England, U.K. Alejandro Beccera, Telefonica, Spain Rolf Birkenstedt, Telia, Sweden Fernando Casadevall, Catalunya, Spain Luc Deneire, Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France Jason Devaney, Roke Manor, U.K. Manuel Dinis, Portugal Telecom, Portugal Willie Donnelly, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Stanislav Dzuban, Siemens, Austria Jorge Gato, Vodafone, Spain Felicita Di Giandomenico, Pisa, Italy John Farserotu, Csem, Switzerland Flavio Giovanelli, Cefriel, Italy Louagie Filip, Imec, Belgium Ayadi Jaouhar, Csem, Switzerland Nigel Jefferies, Vodafone, U.K. Jaakko Lahteenmaki, Vtt, Finland Joao Macas, Siemens, Portugal Thomas Magedanz, Focus, Germany Marcelo Manta, Nortel, Spain Anthony Marinidis, Telia, Sweden John Mertzanis, Space Hellas, Greece Raffaele Menolascino, Motorola, Italy Scott Moseley, ETSI, France Seppo Parkkila, Elisa, Finland Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Viktor Owall, Lund, Sweden Nikos Pronios, Intracom, Greece Prasad Ramjee, Aalborg, Denmark Stephan Rupp, Alcatel, Germany Luis Munoz, Cantabria, Spain George Stassinopoulos, Ntua, Greece Dorgham Sisalem, Focus, Germany Zhili Sun, Surrey, U.K. Kostas, Vlahodimitropoulos, Cosmote, Greece Xie Yi, TMC of Ministry of Information Industry, China Special Track for Methodologies and Analytic Tools Eitan Altman, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France Vladimir Anisimov, Kiev, Ukraine & GlaxoSmithKline, U.K. Simonetta Balsamo, Venice, Italy Chris Blondia, Antwerp, Belgium Sem Borst, Amsterdam, Netherlands Pavel Bocharov, Moscow, Russia Richard Boucherie, Amsterdam, Netherlands Onno Boxma, Eindhoven, Netherlands Alexander Brandwajn, Santa Cruz, U.S.A. Vicente Casares-Giner, Valencia, Spain Ram Chakka, Norfolk, U.S.A. Tadeusz Czachorski, Gliwice, Poland Lorenzo Donatiello, Bologna, Italy Peder Emstad, Trondheim, Norway Error Gelenbe, Duke, U.S.A. Nicolas Georganas, Ottawa, Canada Klaus Hackbarth, Santander, Spain Guenter Haring, Vienna, Austria Peter Harrison, London, U.K. Boudewijn Haverkort, Twente, Netherlands Frank Kelly, Cambridge, U.K. Peter King, Edinburgh, U.K. Ernest Koenigsberg, Berkeley, U.S.A. Udo Krieger, T-Systems Nova GmbH Germany Isi Mitrani, Newcastle, U.K. Jogesh Muppala, Kowloon, Hong Kong Mohamed Oul-Khaoua, Glasgow, U.K. John Schormans, London, U.K. Karl Sigman, Columbia, U.S.A. Haris Skianis, Athens, Greece Maciej Stasiak, Poznan, Poland Janos Sztrik, Debrecen, Hungary Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto, Japan Nigel Thomas, Durham University, U.K. Tulio Tolio, Milano, Italy Manolo Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica I+D, Spain Sabine Wittevrongel, Ghent, Belgium Michael Woodward, Bradford, U.K. David Yao, Columbia, U.S.A. Local Organising Committee Salam Assi, Bradford, U.K. Irfan Awan, Bradford, U.K Rod Fretwell, Bradford, U.K. Wie Li, Bradford, U.K. Geyong Min, Bradford, U.K. Is-Haka Mkwawa, Bradford, U.K. Kevin Smith, Bradford, U.K. Sotiris Tantos, Bradford, U.K. Athanasios Tsokanos, Bradford, U.K. Contributions are encouraged on, but are not limited to, the performance modelling and evaluation, including reliability and pricing, of . QoS Protocols and Provisioning for Heterogeneous Networks; . Modelling and Analysis of Heterogeneous Internet Access; . Next Generation Internet Protocols over Heterogeneous Networks; . Switch Architectures for Heterogeneous Networks; . Inter-operability of Wireless, Terrestrial and Satellite Networks; . Multi-service Mobile and Optical Networks; . Multimedia Traffic Measurement, Management, Modelling and Characterisation; . Congestion, Flow and Call Admission Control Schemes; . Cell/Packet Level Scheduling and Resource Allocation Strategies; . Flow and Congestion Control Functions and Procedures; . QoS Routing, Load Balancing Techniques and Network Resilience; . Multimedia over Packet-based Networks; . Analysis of Queueing Network Models with Blocking, Neural Networks and Stochastic Petri Nets; . Parallel and Distributed Simulation; . Real-time Voice/Video Transport over Heterogeneous Networks; . Efficiency of Adaptation Layer and Transport Protocols; . QoS Performance Testing and Measurements; . Security Mechanisms effect on Heterogeneous Networks Performance; . Internetworking Issues and Experiments; . Other Performance Modelling Applications to Computer and Parallel Systems, Distributed Systems, Transportation Networks and Production Systems. Based on the pattern established at the IFIP ATM & IP Working Conferences in Bradford (1994), Ilkley (1995-1998, 2000), Antwerp (1999) and Budapest (2001), the Technical Programme of the International Working Conference HET-NETs '03 will combine research and tutorial papers from industry and academia on current developments in the theory and practice of performance modelling and evaluation issues of heterogeneous networks worldwide. In addition, poster research papers will be solicited, industrial demonstrations will be organised and special sessions of practical industrial papers and research works in progress will also be included, as appropriate. Prospective authors of HET-NETs '03 are invited to submit by Monday the 26th of May 2003 . Research papers (for peer review) up to a maximum of 10 A4 size page (single spaced text); . Technical abstracts of approximately 300 words for poster contributions, industrial papers of a practical nature or academic research works in progress; . Proposals for tutorial papers on 1-2 A4 size pages (single spaced text); for PC and peer selection review - to Mr Kevin Smith (Performance Modelling and Engineering Research Group, Tel: +44-1274-233919, Fax: +44-1274-233920) by using E-mail address of HET-NETs 03: <hetnets(a)scm.brad.ac.uk>. Please note all proposed submissions should be in English and be sent as E-mail attachments using postscript, msword or pdf file format and include, as key words, a list of topics under which the authors prefer their work to be classified and presented in a related session. Following acceptance, authors will be notified via E-mail to prepare in camera ready form (single spaced text) the final versions of their papers for the . HET-NETs '03 Technical Proceedings (ISBN to be announced) of full revised research papers up to a maximum of 10 A4 size pages which should be finalised according to the referees' remarks; . Participants Volume of industrial papers and research works in progress of not more than 6 A4 size pages or shorter poster papers of not more than 3 A4 size pages; . Participants Volume of tutorial papers of not more than 35 A4 size pages. After the event, authors of mature work will also be invited to submit extended versions of their papers up to a maximum of 25 A4 pages (single spaced text) by Friday the 1st September 2003, for consideration, subject to a subsequent peer review, for publication in special journal issues on the performance modelling and evaluation of heterogeneous networks. For further information prospective participants are welcome to contact Professor Demetres Kouvatsos, General Chair (e-mail: D.D.Kouvatsos(a)scm.brad.ac.uk, Tel.: +44-1274-233941) or, any of the co- chairs, namely Professor Daniel Kofman (e-mail: Daniel.Kofman(a)enst.fr), Dr. Michael Dopfer (Michael.Dopfer(a)siemens.com), Dr. Tim Charity (T.Charity(a)motorola.com) and Professor Ioannis Stavrakakis (istavrak(a)di.uoa.gr). ======================================================================= Note There are two new special editions of the Journal of Performance Evaluation related to the theme of the IFIP HET-NETs '03 Working Conference, namely . ATM & IP Networks: Performance Modelling and Analysis, Special Issue of the Journal of Performance Evaluation, Demetres Kouvatsos (Guest Ed.), North- Holland, Elsevier, 2002. . Queueing Networks with Blocking, Special Issue of the Journal of Performance Evaluation, Demetres Kouvatsos and Simonetta Balsamo (Guest Eds.), North-Holland, Elsevier 2003. The table of contents, abstracts and full-text PDF files of these special issues are available from the Journal's listing on <ScienceDirect,http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01665316>. ========================================================================

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Forte 2003: Call for Tutorial Proposals / Deadline approaching
by Hartmut König 01 May '03

01 May '03

CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Forte 2003 IFIP TC 6 / WG 6.1 The 23rd IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems The 23rd IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems (Forte 2003) will be held in Berlin,Germany, September 29th - October 2nd, 2003. We are currently seeking out individuals to present tutorials on topics of interest to this community. FORTE denotes a series of international working conferences on formal description techniques (FDTs) applied to computer networks and distributed systems. FORTE 2003 is especially dedicated to the application of formal description techniques to practice, especially in communication and Internet domain. For possible tutorial topics which may be of interest, please see the conference website at http://www.forte2003.de.vu/ for more information. Proposals for related topics not included in the conference CfP are also welcome. Proposals should be no more than four (4) pages and include the following: * Abstract describing the tutorial (including whether the tutorial will be 1/2 day or a full day). * A description of the target audience including prerequisite knowledge and experience. * A high-level table of contents and/or syllabus. * Speaker bio. * A/V equipment requirements. Please send proposals via email directly to the conference co-chairs: forte-org(a)informatik.tu-cottbus.de Important dates: * May 5th: Deadline for tutorial proposals * May 15th: Notification of acceptance ________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Hartmut K–nig Tel: +49 355 69 22 36 koenig(a)informatik.tu-cottbus.de Fax: +49 355 69 21 27 BTU Cottbus LS Rechnernetze und Kommunikationssysteme PF 10 13 44, D-03013 Cottbus, Germany http://www-rnks.informatik.tu-cottbus.de ________________________________________________________________________

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IWQoS'2003 Call for Participation
by Klaus Wehrle 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

*********************************************************************** * ************************** * * * * * Call for Participation * * * * * ************************** * * * *********************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *IWQoS 2003* Eleventh International Workshop on Quality of Service Monterey, California, June 2-4, 2003 http://iwqos03.cs.berkeley.edu/ Sponsored by National Science Foundation, IEEE Communications Society and IFIP WG6.1 in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGMOBILE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please find programm and registration information below... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Quality of Service continues to be an active research field, especially in the networking community. IWQoS is a successful series of workshops that aims to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of new research and ideas on QoS. Traditionally, IWQoS workshops are cross-disciplinary and well focused, with the emphasis on innovation. As a result, a considerable amount of time is devoted to informal discussion. In addition to the traditional QoS topics such as service guarantees and admission control, this year we aimed to expand the scope of the workshop by encouraging submissions offering research contributions related to robustness, resilience, security, and predictability in networking and distributed systems. As a result, the program included two sessions on availability, fault tolerance, and dependability. The other sessions covered routing, resource allocation, storage, Web services, incentives, and rate based QoS. Please find a preliminary version of the detailed programm below... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration ============ Please find registration, hotel and local information at http://iwqos03.cs.berkeley.edu/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ###################################### ## IWQoS 2003 Preliminary Program ## ###################################### ===================== Monday, June 2, 2003 ===================== 8:30 Breakfast 9:00 Welcome by Kevin Jeffay, Ion Stoica 9:10 Invited talk (t.b.a.) 10:00 Break 10:30 Session 1: Analysis and Modeling Network characteristics: modelling, measurements and admission control, Dinan Gunawardena, Peter Key, Laurent Massoulie (Microsoft Research) Statistical Characterization for Per-Hop QoS, Mohamed El Gendy, Abhijit Bose, Haining Wang, Kang Shin (University of Michigan) Performance Analysis of Server Sharing Collectives for Content Distribution, Daniel Villela, Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University) An approximation of the end-to-end delay distribution, Han Kim, Ness Shroff (Purdue University) 12:30 Lunch 2:00 Session 2: Resource Allocation and Admission Control Price-based Resource Allocation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Yuan Xue, Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at U.Ch.), Baochun Li (University of Toronto) On Achieving Fairness in the Joint Allocation of Processing and Bandwidth Resources, Yunkai Zhou, Harish Sethu (Drexel University) Distributed Admission Control for Heterogeneous Multicast with Bandwidth Guarantees, Sudeept Bhatnagar, Badri Nath (Rutgers University), Arup Acharya (IBM T.J. Watson) 3:30 Break 4:00 Session 3: Multimedia and Incentives Subjective Impression of Variations in Layer Encoded Video, Michael Zink, Oliver Kuenzel, Jens Schmitt, Ralf Steinmetz (Darmstadt University of Technology) A Moving Average Predictor for Playout Delay Control in VoIP, Victor Ramos (University of Nice), Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman (INRIA) To Play or to Control: A Game-based Control-theoretic Approach to Peer-to-Peer Incentive Engineering, Weihong Wang, Baochun Li (University of Toronto) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================== Tuesday, June 3, 2003 ====================== 8:00 Breakfast 8:30 Session 4: Routing Routing and Grooming in Two-tier Survivable Optical Mesh Networks, Somdip Datta (Princeton), Subir Biswas, Sudipta Sengupta (Bell Labs), Debanjan Saha (IBM T.J. Watson) Fast Network Re-optimization Schemes for MPLS and Optical Networks, Randeep Bhatia, Murali Kodialam, T.V. Lakshman (Bell Labs) Mitigating Hotspots in Mobile Ad hoc Networks, Seoungbum Lee, Andrew Campbell (Columbia University) 10:00 Break 10:30 Session 5: Dependability and Fault Tolerance Improving Dependability of Real-Time Communication with Preplanned Backup Routes and Spare Resource Pool, Songkuk Kim, Kang Shin (University of Michigan) Fault Tolerance in Networks with an Advance Reservation Service, Lars Burchard, Marc Dorste-Franke (TU Berlin) 11:30 Panel: "QoS in Demand: Who Needs it Anyway?" Chair: Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 12:30 Lunch 2:00 Session 6: Availability and Dependability Failure Insensitive Routing for Ensuring Service Availability, Srihari Nelakuditi (University of South Carolina), Sanghwan Lee, Yinzhe Yu, Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota) Network Availability based Service Differentiation, Mathilde Durvy, Patrick Thiran (EPFL), Christophe Diot, Nina Taft (Sprint Labs) Quality of Availability: Replica Placement for Widely Distributed Systems, Giwon On, Jens Schmitt, Ralf Steinmetz (Darmstadt University of Technology) 3:30 Break 4:00 Session 7: Web Services Using Latency Quantiles to Engineer QoS Guarantees for Web Services, Ulrich Fiedler, Bernhard Plattner (ETH Zurich) DotQoS - A QoS Extension for .NET Remoting, Andreas Ulbrich, Torben Weis, Kurt Geihs (TU Berlin), Christian Becker (University of Stuttgart) Dynamic Resource Allocation for Shared Data Centers Using Online Measurements, Abhishek Chandra, Weibo Gong, Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================== Wednesday, June 4, 2003 ======================== 8:30 Breakfast 9:00 Session 8: Rate-based QoS Providing Deterministic End-to-end Fairness Guarantees in Core-stateless Networks, Jasleen Kaur (University of North Carolina), Harrick Vin (University of Texas) Per-Domain Packet Scale Rate Guarantee for Expedited Forwarding, Yuming Jiang (Institute for Incocomm Research) Achieving Weighted Service Differentiation from an End-to-End Perspective, Hung-Yun Hsieh, Kyu-Han Kim, Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Institute of Technology) 10:30 Break 11:00 Session 9: Storage Online Response Time Optimization of Apache Web Server, Xue Liu, Lui Sha (UIUC), Yixin Diao, Joesph L. Hellerstein, Sujay Parekh (IBM T.J. Watson) A Practical Learning-based Approach for Dynamic Storage Bandwidth Allocation, Vijay Sundaram, Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) CacheCOW: QoS for Storage System Caches, Pawan Goyal, Divyesh Jadav, Dharmendra Modha, Renu Tewari (IBM Almaden Research Center) 12:30 Summary & Workshop ends ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** -- Klaus Wehrle International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) 1947 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, 94704, USA http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~wehrle

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INFOCOM 2004 Call for Papers
by Thomas Hou 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

Call For Papers - Infocom 2004 -------------------------------------------- IEEE INFOCOM 2004 The Conference on Computer Communications March 7 - 11, 2004, Hong Kong The Twenty-third Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004 Topics of Interest: -------------------------- Original papers are invited on recent advances in computer communications and networking. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Ad hoc & sensor networks - Performance evaluation - Addressing & location management - Power control - Capacity planning - Pricing & billing - Cellular networks - Quality of service - Congestion control - Resource allocation - Content distribution - Routing - Multicast - Scheduling & buffer management - Multimedia protocols - Security & privacy - Network applications & services - Service overlay networks - Network architectures - Switches and switching - Network control by pricing - Topology inference - Network design & planning - Traffic analysis & control - Network management - Traffic engineering - Optical networks - Web performance - Peer-to-peer communications - Wireless LANs Executive Committee ------------------------------- General Chair: Victor O.K. Li, The University of Hong Kong Technical Program Co-Chairs: Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona Bo Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology International Vice Chairs: Jin-Fu Chang, National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts Amherst Lemin Li , University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Hiromi Okada , Kansai University, Japan Harry Rudin , IBM Research, Switzerland Izhak Rubin, UCLA Tutorial Co-Chairs: Wanjiun Liao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Krishna M. Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County. Panel Co-Chairs: Kin Leung, Lucent Bell Labs Nicholas F. Maxemchuk, Columbia University. Keynote Speaker Chair: David Lee, Lucent Bell Labs, USA. Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Paul Kwok, Open University of Hong Kong Jian-Liang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University Finance Co-Chairs: Bruce Worthman, IEEE Comm Society Lawrence Yeung, The University of Hong Kong Publicity Co-Chairs: Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University Y. Thomas Hou , Virginia Tech Publication Co-Chairs: Steven Low, Caltech, USA. Zhengzhen Zhang, Waterridge Networks Internet Chair: Hui Zhang, Turin Networks Information Systems Co-Chairs: Jack Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Jiangchuan Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Corporate Patrons Chair: Hailson Yu, Versitech Ltd., Hong Kong Standing Committee Officers: Harvey A. Freeman, HeatSeekers Technology Partners Mark Karol, Avaya, Inc. Kazem Sohraby, Lucent Technolgies Important Dates: ------------------------ Full paper due: July 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2003 Final version due: December 19, 2003 For information on paper submission instructions, please check http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004

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FW: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS2003)
by Augusto Casaca 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

-----Original Message----- From: owner-itc(a)www.i-teletraffic.org [mailto:owner-itc@www.i-teletraffic.org]On Behalf Of dncr Sent: segunda-feira, 28 de Abril de 2003 14:23 To: itc(a)i-teletraffic.org Subject: CfP: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS2003) Apologies if you receive this more than once. Please redistribute this Call for Papers among interested colleagues. Thank you! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Call for paper Fourth International IFIP Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems DAIS 2003 19-21 November 2003, Paris, France to be held in conjunction with FMOODS'03 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Applications Systems http://fedconf.enst.fr/ A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops will be issued separately. The ubiquitous explosion of the Internet and the fast proliferation of distributed computing involving all kinds of computing devices create a unique challenge. Innovative solutions are required for the development, implementation and operation of distributed applications in complex IT environments full of diversity and heterogeneity. Following the evolution of the field, DAIS'03 will focus on models, technologies and platforms for reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications. DAIS'03 will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform service vendors and users, to review, discuss and learn about new approaches, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed computing. DAIS'03 will include talks by invited speakers, full technical paper sessions, and work-in-progress presentations. Tutorial proposals are also encouraged. Conference themes: In keeping with the focus on models, technologies and platforms for reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications, and in addition to its traditional themes, DAIS especially encourages original unpublished papers addressing the following topics: - new/extended software architectures and frameworks for reconfiguration and adaptation including component-based approaches (e.g. CORBA Components, EJB, .NET), - modelling, specifying, monitoring and management of context-aware and adaptive applications, - support for reconfiguration, self-organisation and autonomic behaviour in new/existing distributed platforms (e.g. CORBA, J2EE, .NET, WebServices), - integration of multi-agent distributed decision-making, - application environments that exploit characteristics of specific technologies (e.g. grid computing, mobile and wireless), - issues in enterprise-wide and large-scale application reconfiguration, - semantic interoperability and semantic web services. Submissions: DAIS'2003 seeks submissions for: - Full technical papers in no more than 12 pages (approximately 6000 words); - Work-in-progress papers, describing on-going work and interim results, in no more than 5 pages. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. They will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted full papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops will be issued separately. Submission method: Electronic submission in PDF format using the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submission dates: - Deadline for full paper submissions: June 2, 2003 - Deadline for work-in-progress papers: June 15, 2003 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2003 - Final versions: September 1st, 2003 - Conference dates : 17th to 21st November 2003 General chair: Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA) Publicity Chair: Kurt Geihs (TU Berlin) Tutorial chair: Sylvie Vignes (ENST) PC Chairs: Isabelle Demeure (ENST), Daniel Hagimont (INRIA) Program Committee: M.Ahamed, Georgia Tech, USA N.Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece S.Baker, IONA, Ireland Y.Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium A. Beugnard, ENST Brittany, France V.Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland R.Campbell, UIUC, USA N. Davies Lancaster University UK and University of Arizona, USA F.Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway K.Geihs, TU Berlin, Germany P.Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan, USA. J.Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia E.Jul, DIKU, Denmark H.Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany F.Kordon, LIP6, France S.Krakowiak, University of Grenoble, France H.Krumm, University of Dortmund, Germany L.Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland W.Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany D.Lea, SUNY Oswego, USA P.Linington, University of Kent, UK C.Linnhoff-Popien, University of Munich, Germany P.Merle, INRIA, France G.Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France E.Najm, ENST, France L.Pautet, ENST, France K.Raymond, DSTC, Australia A.Schill, TU Dresden, Germany D.Schmidt, University of California, Irvine, USA S.Shrivastava, University of Newcastle, UK J-J.Vandewalle, GemPlus, France

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CfP: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS2003)
by dncr 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

Apologies if you receive this more than once. Please redistribute this Call for Papers among interested colleagues. Thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for paper Fourth International IFIP Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems DAIS 2003 19-21 November 2003, Paris, France to be held in conjunction with FMOODS'03 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Applications Systems http://fedconf.enst.fr/ A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops will be issued separately. The ubiquitous explosion of the Internet and the fast proliferation of distributed computing involving all kinds of computing devices create a unique challenge. Innovative solutions are required for the development, implementation and operation of distributed applications in complex IT environments full of diversity and heterogeneity. Following the evolution of the field, DAIS'03 will focus on models, technologies and platforms for reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications. DAIS'03 will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform service vendors and users, to review, discuss and learn about new approaches, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed computing. DAIS'03 will include talks by invited speakers, full technical paper sessions, and work-in-progress presentations. Tutorial proposals are also encouraged. Conference themes: In keeping with the focus on models, technologies and platforms for reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications, and in addition to its traditional themes, DAIS especially encourages original unpublished papers addressing the following topics: - new/extended software architectures and frameworks for reconfiguration and adaptation including component-based approaches (e.g. CORBA Components, EJB, .NET), - modelling, specifying, monitoring and management of context-aware and adaptive applications, - support for reconfiguration, self-organisation and autonomic behaviour in new/existing distributed platforms (e.g. CORBA, J2EE, .NET, WebServices), - integration of multi-agent distributed decision-making, - application environments that exploit characteristics of specific technologies (e.g. grid computing, mobile and wireless), - issues in enterprise-wide and large-scale application reconfiguration, - semantic interoperability and semantic web services. Submissions: DAIS'2003 seeks submissions for: - Full technical papers in no more than 12 pages (approximately 6000 words); - Work-in-progress papers, describing on-going work and interim results, in no more than 5 pages. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. They will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted full papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops will be issued separately. Submission method: Electronic submission in PDF format using the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submission dates: - Deadline for full paper submissions: June 2, 2003 - Deadline for work-in-progress papers: June 15, 2003 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2003 - Final versions: September 1st, 2003 - Conference dates : 17th to 21st November 2003 General chair: Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA) Publicity Chair: Kurt Geihs (TU Berlin) Tutorial chair: Sylvie Vignes (ENST) PC Chairs: Isabelle Demeure (ENST), Daniel Hagimont (INRIA) Program Committee: M.Ahamed, Georgia Tech, USA N.Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece S.Baker, IONA, Ireland Y.Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium A. Beugnard, ENST Brittany, France V.Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland R.Campbell, UIUC, USA N. Davies Lancaster University UK and University of Arizona, USA F.Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway K.Geihs, TU Berlin, Germany P.Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan, USA. J.Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia E.Jul, DIKU, Denmark H.Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany F.Kordon, LIP6, France S.Krakowiak, University of Grenoble, France H.Krumm, University of Dortmund, Germany L.Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland W.Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany D.Lea, SUNY Oswego, USA P.Linington, University of Kent, UK C.Linnhoff-Popien, University of Munich, Germany P.Merle, INRIA, France G.Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France E.Najm, ENST, France L.Pautet, ENST, France K.Raymond, DSTC, Australia A.Schill, TU Dresden, Germany D.Schmidt, University of California, Irvine, USA S.Shrivastava, University of Newcastle, UK J-J.Vandewalle, GemPlus, France

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