9th International Conference on Network Protocols ICNP 2001 Mission Inn, Riverside CA November 11-14, 2001

http://www.cis.udel.edu/icnp2001/

It is our great pleasure to invite you to Riverside for the Ninth International Conference on Network Protocols. This message includes the conference's advance program. Please visit the URL http://www.cis.udel.edu/icnp2001/ for information regarding registration, tutorials, hotel accommodations, etc.

------------------- - Advance Program - -------------------

Sunday, November 11 ------------------- 8:30-5:00 Full-day tutorial: `MPLS and the New Internet', by Andre Danthine (University of Liege, Belgium)

8:30-12:00 Half-day tutorial A: `Peer-to-peer computing: the hype, the real problems, and the quest for solutions', by Krishna Kant, Ravi Iyer, and Vijay Tewari (Intel Corporation)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-5:00 Half-day tutorial B: `Web servers: implementation and performance', by Erich Nahum (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

Monday, November 12 ------------------- 8:30-9:00 Welcome Satish Tripathi (conference chair), Magda El Zarki, Klara Nahrstedt (TPC chairs)

9:00-10:00 Keynote `Future of the Internet', Randy Katz (UC-Berkeley)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Session 1: Wireless Distributed Token Circulation in mobile ad-hoc Networks, Navneet Malpani, Nitin Vaidya, Jennifer Welch (Texas A&M University, USA)

On-demand Multi-path Distance Vector Routing in ad-hoc Networks, Mahes Marina, Samir R. Das (University of Cincinnati, USA)

A Power Aware Optimization Scheme for Routing in Multi-hop Wireless Packet Networks, Javier Gormez, Andrew Campbell (Columbia University, USA)

Recursive Position Estimation in Sensory Networks, Joe Albowicz, Alvin Chen, Lixia Zhang (UCLA, USA)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Session 2: Routing Adapting to Route-demand and Mobility (ARM) in Ad-hoc Network Routing, Sungjoon Ahn, A. Udaya Snakar (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)

An Experimental Analysis of BGP Convergence Time, Timothy G. Griffin (AT&T Research Labs, USA), Brian J. Premore (Dartmouth College, USA)

QoS Routing Algorithms for Bandwidth-Delay Constrained Applications, Yi Yang, Jogesh K. Muppala, Samuel T. Chanson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Routing Bandwidth Guaranteed Paths with Restoration in Label Switched Networks, Samphel Norden (Washington University in St. Luis, USA), Milind M. Buddhikot (Lucent Bell Labs, USA), Marcel Waldvogel (Washington University in St. Luis, USA), Subhash Sure (University of California, Sata Barbara, USA)

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 Session 3: Multicast Source Filtering in IP Multicast Routing, De-Nian Yang, Chang-Jung Kao, Wanjiun Liao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Making QoS Aware Multicast Scalable in Terms of Link State Advertisement, Toshihiko Kato (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan), Seiji Ueno, Shigeki Mukaiyama (University of Electro-Communication, Japan), Kenji Suzuki (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan)

Channelization Problem in Large Scale Data Dissemination, Micah Adler, Zihui Ge, James F. Kurose, Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts, USA), Stephen Zabele (Litton-TASC Inc., USA)

An Efficient QoS Routing for Quorum-cast Communication, Bin Wang (Wright State University, USA), Jennifer C. Jou (Ohio State University, USA)

Tuesday, November 13 -------------------- 8:30-10:00 Session 4: DiffServ Dynamic Class Selection: From Relative Differentiation to Absolute QoS, Constantinos Dovrolis (University of Delaware, USA), Parameswaran Ramanathan (University of Wisconsin, USA)

Fundamental Tradeoff in Aggregate Packet Scheduling, Zhi-Li Zhang, Zhenhai Duan (University of Minnesota, USA), Yiwei Thomas Hou (Fujitsu Labs, USA)

A Memory based Approach for a TCP friendly Traffic Conditioner in DiffServ Networks, K.R. Renjish Kumar, A. L. Ananda, Lillykutty Jacob (National University of Singapure, Singapure)

Drop Strategies and Loss Rate Differentiation, Ulf Bodin, Olov Schelen (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Session 5: TCP TCP friendly SIMD Congestion Control and Its Convergence Behavior, Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta (Boston University, USA)

Transport Level Mechanisms for Bandwidth Aggregation on Mobile Hosts, Luiz Magalhaes, Robin Kravets (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

TCP over Load Reactive Links, Rajesh Krishnan, James P.G. Sterbenz (BBN Technologies, USA)

The War between Mice and Elephants, Shudong Jin, Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros (Boston University, USA)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Panel 1: End of the end-to-end argument?

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 Session 6: QoS Controlling Hihg-Bandwidth Flows at the Congested Routers, Ratul Mahajan (ICSI and University of Washington, USA), Sally Floyd (ICSI, USA), David Wetherall (University of Washington, USA)

Optimal Admission Control for Scheduling High-Data Rate Burst in a Wideband CDMA, Yu-Kwong Kwok, Vincent K.N. Lau (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Providing Quality of Service without Per-Flow State, Jorge A. Cobb (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Comparative Evaluation of Software Implementation of Layer-4 Packet Class Schemes, Vivek Sahasranaman (Fast Forward Networks, Inc., USA), Milind M. Buddhikot (Lucent Bell Labs, USA)

Wednesday, November 14 ---------------------- 8:30-10:00 Session 7: Security Dynamic Buffer Limiting (DBL): QoS Protection in High-Speed Networks, Fusun Ertemalp, David R. Cheriton, Andreas Bechtolsheim (Cisco Systems, Inc.)

Fast Firewall Implementations for Software and Hardware based Routers, Lili Qiu (Microsoft Research), George Varghese (University of California, San Diego), Subhash Suri (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Providing Robust and Ubiquitous Security Support for MANET, Jiejun Kong, Petros Zerfos, Haiyun Luo, Songwu Lu, Lixia Zhang (UCLA, USA)

Scalable Secure Group Communication over IP Multicast, Suman Banerjee, Bobby Bhattacharjee (University of Maryland, College Park)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Session 8: Servers Responder Anonymity and Anonymous Peer-to-Peer File Sharing, Vincent R. Scarlata, Brian Neil Levine (University of Massachusetts, USA)

Scalable Socket Buffer Tuning for High-Performance Web Server, Go Hasegawa, Go Hasegawa, Tasuhiko Terai, Takuya Okamoto, Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, USA)

Evaluation of a Novel Two-Step Server Selection Metric, Katrina M. Hanna, Nandini Natarajan, Brian Neil Levine (University of Massachusetts, USA)

Finding Close Friends on the Internet, Christopher Kommareddy, Narendar Shankar, Bobby Bhattacharjee (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Panel 2: Peer-to-Peer computing

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 Session 9: Traffic Management Internet User Access via Dial-up-Networks - Traffic Characterization and Statistics, Ron Hutchins, Ellen W. Zegura, Andrew Liashenko, Philip H. Enslow Jr. (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Fast and Robust Signaling Overload Control, Sneha Kumar Kasera, C. Loader, M. Karaul, A. Hari, T. LaPorta (Lucent Bell Labs, USA)

Robust Congestion Control, David Ely, Neil Spring, David Wetherall, Stefan Savage, Tom Andreson (University of Washington, USA)

Second Order Rate Control Based Transport, Xi Zhang, Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan, USA)

General info ------------ In just eight years, ICNP has established itself as one of the premier conferences in the computer networking field. ICNP deals with all aspects of communication protocols, from design and specification, to verification, testing, performance analysis, and implementation. Protocol functions of interest include network access, switching, routing, flow and congestion control, multimedia transport, wireless and mobile networks, network security, web protocols and applications, electronic commerce, network management, interoperability, internetworking, home computing and networks and digital broadcasting.

ICNP 2001 will be held in Riverside, California, at the Mission Inn, a place filled with history. Riverside is located in the Sunny Southern California, 60 miles from Los Angeles, 45 miles from Palm Springs and 40 miles from Disney Land. The city is served by three nearby airports: Los Angeles, Ontario (California) and Orange County Airport.

Registration ------------ The registration form is available at the ICNP 2001 web site: http://www.cis.udel.edu/icnp2001/

Committees ---------- General Chair Satish K. Tripathi, University of California - Riverside

Technical Program Co-Chairs Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine Klara Narhstedt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tutorial Co-Chairs Pravin Bhagwat, ReefEdge, Inc Ed Knightly, Rice University

Local Arrangement and Registration Co-Chairs Michalis Faloutsos, University of California - Riverside Srikant Krishnamurthy, University of California - Riverside

Publicity Co-Chairs Constantinos Dovrolis, University of Delaware Samar Singh, La Trobe University, Australia

Technical Program Committee Alex Petrenko (CRIM, Computer Research Institute of Montreal) Ana Rosa CAVALLI (Institut National des Telecommunications, France) Mart, Molle (University of California, Riverside) Andrew T. Campbell (Columbia University) Bobby Bhattacharjee (University of Maryland) Christophe Diot (Sprint) Cormac J. Sreenan (University College, Cork, Ireland) David Hutchison (Lancaster University) David Su (National Institute of Standards and Technology) David, Yau (Computer Science, Purdue University) Edward Knightly (Rice University ) Ellen L. Hahne (AT&T Labs - Research) Geert Heijenk (Ericsson) Gene Tsudik (UC, Irvine) Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School) Ernst W. Biersack (Institut EURECOM) Gunnar Karlsson (KTH Dpt. of Microelectronics and Info.Technology, Sweden) Hartmut Koenig (BTU Cottbus, Germany Hasan Ural (University of Ottawa, Canada) Ibrahim Matta (Boston University) Jennifer Hou (Ohio State University) Jorg Lieberherr (University of Virginia) Jorge Cobb (The University of Texas at Dallas) Ken Calvert (University of Kentucky) Kevin Almeroth (UC-Santa Barbara) Kirshna Sivalingam (Washington State University / Jasmine Networks) Lars Wolf (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Lixia Zhang (UCLA) Ljiljana Trajkovic (Simon Fraser University) Luigi RIZZO (Dip. Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Univ. di Pisa (ITALY)) Marco Schneider (SBC Technology Resources Inc.) Martha Steenstrup (Stow Research L.L.C.) Martina Zittterbart (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan) Melody Moh (Dept. of Math. and Computer Science, San Jose State Univ.) Mohamed G. Gouda (University of Texas at Austin) Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine) Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan (University of Texas) Ness B. Shroff (Purdue University) Nina Bhatti (Nokia) Robin Kravets (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Shigang Chen (Cisco Systems) Songwu Lu (UCLA) Stanislaw Budkowski (Institut National des Telecommunications (INT), France) Terry Todd (McMaster University, Canada) Teruo Higashino (Osaka University, Japan) Timothy Roscoe (Sprint Advanced Technology Labs) William Tezlaff (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Yoshiaki Kakuda (Hiroshima City University, Japan) Yow-Jian Lin (Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies) Yuval Shavitt (Bell Labs and Tel-Aviv University , Israel) Sonia Fahmy (Purdue University) Constantinos Dovrolis (University of Delaware)

ICNP Steering Committee Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Insitute of Technology Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin Simon Lam, University of Texas at Austin David Lee, Bell Labs Ming T. (Mike) Liu, Ohio State University Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, College Park Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs