IFIP TC6 Open Digital Library

Networking 2007: Atlanta, GA, USA

NETWORKING 2007. Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks, Next Generation Internet, 6th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 14-18, 2007, Proceedings

Ian F. Akyildiz, Raghupathy Sivakumar, Eylem Ekici, Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira, Janise McNair

Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4479, ISBN: 978-3-540-72605-0



Contents

Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

AHS - Connectivity and Coverage

On the Resilient Overlay Topology Formation in Multi-hop Wireless Networks.

Fei Xing, Wenye Wang

 1-12

Placing and Maintaining a Core Node in Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks.

Amit Dvir, Michael Segal

 13-24

Flooding Speed in Wireless Multihop Networks with Randomized Beamforming.

Vasil Mizorov, Jörg Widmer, Robert Vilzmann, Petri Mähönen

 25-36

AHS - Scheduling and Resource Allocation

Power Amplifier Characteristic-Aware Energy-Efficient Transmission Strategy.

Kwanghun Han, Youngkyu Choi, Sunghyun Choi, Youngwoo Kwon

 37-48

Energy Efficient Throughput Optimization in Multi-hop Wireless Networks.

Dan Xu, Xin Liu

 49-60

Election Based Hybrid Channel Access.

Xin Wang 0005, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

 61-72

Asynchronous Data Aggregation for Real-Time Monitoring in Sensor Networks.

Jie Feng, Derek L. Eager, Dwight J. Makaroff

 73-84

AHS - Mobility and Location Awareness

A Novel Agent-Based User-Network Communication Model in Wireless Sensor Networks.

Sang-Sik Kim, Aesoon Park

 85-96

Realistic Mobility and Propagation Framework for MANET Simulations.

Mesut Günes, Martin Wenig, Alexander Zimmermann

 97-107

Localization for Large-Scale Underwater Sensor Networks.

Robert Zhong Zhou, Jun-Hong Cui, Shengli Zhou

 108-119

Location-Unaware Sensing Range Assignment in Sensor Networks.

Ossama Younis, Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, Marwan Krunz

 120-131

AHS - Routing I

A Distributed Energy-Efficient Topology Control Routing for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks.

Yan Ren, Bo Wang 0009, Sidong Zhang, Hongke Zhang

 132-142

Integrated Clustering and Routing Strategies for Large Scale Sensor Networks.

Ataul Bari, Arunita Jaekel, Subir Bandyopadhyay

 143-154

On-Demand Routing in Disrupted Environments.

Jay Boice, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Katia Obraczka

 155-166

Delivery Guarantees in Predictable Disruption Tolerant Networks.

Jean-Marc François, Guy Leduc

 167-178

AHS - Routing II

PWave: A Multi-source Multi-sink Anycast Routing Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks.

Haiyang Liu, Zhi-Li Zhang, Jaideep Srivastava, Victor Firoiu

 179-190

Simple Models for the Performance Evaluation of a Class of Two-Hop Relay Protocols.

Ahmad Al Hanbali, Arzad Alam Kherani, Philippe Nain

 191-202

Maximum Energy Welfare Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks.

Changsoo Ok, Prasenjit Mitra, Seokcheon Lee, Soundar R. T. Kumara

 203-214

Analysis of Location Privacy/Energy Efficiency Tradeoffs in Wireless Sensor Networks.

Sergio Armenia, Giacomo Morabito, Sergio Palazzo

 215-226

Efficient Error Recovery Using Network Coding in Underwater Sensor Networks.

Zheng Guo, Bing Wang, Jun-Hong Cui

 227-238

AHS - Key Management

Key Predistribution Schemes for Sensor Networks for Continuous Deployment Scenario.

Abdülhakim Ünlü, Önsel Armagan, Albert Levi, Erkay Savas, Özgür Erçetin

 239-250

Using Auxiliary Sensors for Pairwise Key Establishment in WSN.

Qi Dong, Donggang Liu

 251-262

Privacy-Aware Multi-Context RFID Infrastructure Using Public Key Cryptography.

Selim Volkan Kaya, Erkay Savas, Albert Levi, Özgür Erçetin

 263-274

Wireless Networks

WiNet - Mesh Networks

Minimum Cost Configuration of Relay and Channel Infrastructure in Heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks.

Aaron So, Ben Liang

 275-286

Optimization Models for the Radio Planning of Wireless Mesh Networks.

Edoardo Amaldi, Antonio Capone, Matteo Cesana, Federico Malucelli

 287-298

Interference-Aware Multicasting in Wireless Mesh Networks.

Sudheendra Murthy, Abhishek Goswami, Arunabha Sen

 299-310

Characterizing the Capacity Gain of Stream Control Scheduling in MIMO Wireless Mesh Networks.

Yue Wang 0003, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C. S. Lui

 311-321

WiNet - Mobility

AP and MN-Centric Mobility Prediction: A Comparative Study Based on Wireless Traces.

Jean-Marc François, Guy Leduc

 322-332

A Flexible and Distributed Home Agent Architecture for Mobile IPv6-Based Networks.

Albert Cabellos-Aparicio, Jordi Domingo-Pascual

 333-344

Using PANA for Mobile IPv6 Bootstrapping.

Julien Bournelle, Jean Michel Combes, Maryline Laurent-Maknavicius, Sondes Larafa

 345-355

Detecting 802.11 Wireless Hosts from Remote Passive Observations.

Valeria Baiamonte, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Gianluca Iannaccone

 356-367

WiNet - TCP

A Scheme for Enhancing TCP Fairness and Throughput in IEEE 802.11 WLANs.

Eun-Jong Lee, Hyung-Taig Lim, Seung-Joon Seok, Chul-Hee Kang

 368-379

TCP NJ+: Packet Loss Differentiated Transmission Mechanism Robust to High BER Environments.

Jungrae Kim, Jahwan Koo, Hyunseung Choo

 380-390

TCP WestwoodVT: A Novel Technique for Discriminating the Cause of Packet Loss in Wireless Networks.

Jahwan Koo, Sung-Gon Mun, Hyunseung Choo

 391-402

Modeling TCP in a Multi-rate Multi-user CDMA System.

Majid Ghaderi, Ashwin Sridharan, Hui Zang, Donald F. Towsley, Rene L. Cruz

 403-414

WiNet - MAC Performance

IEEE 802.11b Cooperative Protocols: A Performance Study.

Niraj Agarwal, Divya ChanneGowda, Lakshmi Narasimhan Kannan, Marco Tacca, Andrea Fumagalli

 415-426

It Is Better to Give Than to Receive - Implications of Cooperation in a Real Environment.

Thanasis Korakis, Zhifeng Tao, Salik Makda, Boris Gitelman, Shivendra S. Panwar

 427-438

Modeling Approximations for an IEEE 802.11 WLAN Under Poisson MAC-Level Arrivals.

Ioannis Z. Koukoutsidis, Vasilios A. Siris

 439-449

Performance and Equilibrium Analysis of Heterogeneous IEEE 802.11 Based WLANs.

Hao Zhu

 450-461

Exploring a New Approach to Collision Avoidance in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.

Jun Peng, Liang Cheng

 462-474

WiNet - Scheduling and Resource Allocation

Video Rate Adaptation and Scheduling in Multi-rate Wireless Networks.

Sourav Pal, Sumantra R. Kundu, Amin R. Mazloom, Sajal K. Das

 475-487

On Scheduling and Interference Coordination Policies for Multicell OFDMA Networks.

Gábor Fodor

 488-499

Distributed Uplink Scheduling in CDMA Networks.

Ashwin Sridharan, Ramesh Subbaraman, Roch Guérin

 500-510

Resource Allocation in DVB-RCS Satellite Systems.

André-Luc Beylot, Riadh Dhaou, Cédric Baudoin

 511-521

WiNet - Miscellaneous

Enhanced Downlink Capacity in UMTS Supported by Direct Mobile-to-Mobile Data Transfer.

Larissa Popova, Thomas Herpel, Wolfgang Koch

 522-534

Impact of Technology Overlap in Next-Generation Wireless Heterogeneous Systems.

Ahmed H. Zahran, Ben Liang, Aladdin Saleh

 535-545

An On-Line Measurement-Based Admission Control for VBR Video Traffic in Wireless Multimedia Home Networks.

Yi-Hsien Tseng, Eric Hsiao-Kuang Wu, Gen-Huey Chen

 546-557

On Event Signal Reconstruction in Wireless Sensor Networks.

Baris Atakan, Özgür B. Akan

 558-569

Next Generation Internet

NGI -Content Distribution

Peer-Assisted On-Demand Streaming of Stored Media Using BitTorrent-Like Protocols.

Niklas Carlsson, Derek L. Eager

 570-581

Multiple Identities in BitTorrent Networks.

Jin Sun, Anirban Banerjee, Michalis Faloutsos

 582-593

Graph Based Modeling of P2P Streaming Systems.

Damiano Carra, Renato Lo Cigno, Ernst W. Biersack

 594-605

Modeling Seed Scheduling Strategies in BitTorrent.

Pietro Michiardi, Krishna K. Ramachandran, Biplab Sikdar

 606-616

NGI - QoS I

Streaming Performance in Multiple-Tree-Based Overlays.

György Dán, Viktória Fodor, Ilias Chatzidrossos

 617-627

Path Selection Using Available Bandwidth Estimation in Overlay-Based Video Streaming.

Manish Jain, Constantine Dovrolis

 628-639

Fundamental Tradeoffs in Distributed Algorithms for Rate Adaptive Multimedia Streams.

Vilas Veeraraghavan, Steven Weber

 640-651

Optimal Policies for Playing Buffered Media Streams.

Steven Weber

 652-663

NGI - QoS II

Non-parametric and Self-tuning Measurement-Based Admission Control.

Thomas Michael Bohnert, Edmundo Monteiro, Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Dmitri Moltchanov

 664-677

Optimal Rate Allocation in Overlay Content Distribution.

Chuan Wu, Baochun Li

 678-690

SLA Adaptation for Service Overlay Networks.

Con Tran, Zbigniew Dziong, Michal Pióro

 691-702

NGI - Topology Design

Virtual Private Network to Spanning Tree Mapping.

Yannick Brehon, Daniel Kofman, Augusto Casaca

 703-713

Optimal Topology Design for Overlay Networks.

Mina Kamel, Caterina M. Scoglio, Todd Easton

 714-725

Construction of a Proxy-Based Overlay Skeleton Tree for Large-Scale Real-Time Group Communications.

Jun Guo, Sanjay Jha

 726-737

Increasing the Coverage of a Cooperative Internet Topology Discovery Algorithm.

Benoit Donnet, Bradley Huffaker, Timur Friedman, Kimberly C. Claffy

 738-748

NGI - Routing I

Robust IP Link Costs for Multilayer Resilience.

Michael Menth, Matthias Hartmann, Rüdiger Martin

 749-761

Integer SPM: Intelligent Path Selection for Resilient Networks.

Rüdiger Martin, Michael Menth, Ulrich Spörlein

 762-773

Beyond Centrality - Classifying Topological Significance Using Backup Efficiency and Alternative Paths.

Yuval Shavitt, Yaron Singer

 774-785

Incorporating Protection Mechanisms in the Dynamic Multi-layer Routing Schemes.

Anna Urra, Eusebi Calle, José-Luis Marzo, Pere Vilà

 786-796

NGI - Routing II

Accelerated Packet Placement Architecture for Parallel Shared Memory Routers.

Brad Matthews, Itamar Elhanany, Vahid Tabatabaee

 797-807

RSVP-TE Extensions to Provide Guarantee of Service to MPLS.

Francisco J. Rodríguez-Pérez, José-Luis González-Sánchez, Alfonso Gazo-Cervero

 808-819

An Adaptive Management Approach to Resolving Policy Conflicts.

Selma Yilmaz, Ibrahim Matta

 820-831

Reinforcement Learning-Based Load Shared Sequential Routing.

Fariba Heidari, Shie Mannor, Lorne Mason

 832-843

NGI - Buffer Management

An Adaptive Neuron AQM for a Stable Internet.

Jinsheng Sun, Moshe Zukerman

 844-854

Light-Weight Control of Non-responsive Traffic with Low Buffer Requirements.

Venkatesh Ramaswamy, Leticia Cuellar, Stephan Eidenbenz, Nicolas W. Hengartner, Christoph Ambühl, Birgitta Weber

 855-866

The Effects of Fairness in Buffer Sizing.

Mei Wang, Yashar Ganjali

 867-878

Time to Buffer Overflow in an MMPP Queue.

Andrzej Chydzinski

 879-889

NGI - Miscellaneous

Fundamental Effects of Clustering on the Euclidean Embedding of Internet Hosts.

Sanghwan Lee, Zhi-Li Zhang, Sambit Sahu, Debanjan Saha, Mukund Srinivasan

 890-901

A Multihoming Based IPv4/IPv6 Transition Approach.

Lizhong Xie, Jun Bi, Jianping Wu

 902-911

Offline and Online Network Traffic Characterization.

Su Zhang, Mary K. Vernon

 912-923

Catching IP Traffic Burstiness with a Lightweight Generator.

Chloé Rolland, Julien Ridoux, Bruno Baynat

 924-934

NGI - Optical Networks

Importance of the Maturity of Photonic Component Industry on the Business Prospects of Optical Access Networks: A Techno-Economic Analysis.

Dimitris Varoutas, Thomas Kamalakis, Dimitris Katsianis, Thomas Sphicopoulos, Thomas Monath

 935-944

The Token Based Switch: Per-Packet Access Authorisation to Optical Shortcuts.

Mihai-Lucian Cristea, Leon Gommans, Li Xu, Herbert Bos

 945-957

Online Multicasting in WDM Networks with Shared Light Splitter Bank.

Yuzhen Liu, Weifa Liang

 958-969

Evaluation of Optical Burst-Switching as a Multiservice Environment.

Pablo Jesús Argibay-Losada, Andrés Suárez-González, Manuel Fernández-Veiga, Raúl Fernando Rodríguez Rubio, Cándido López-García

 970-980

NGI -TCP

The TCP Minimum RTO Revisited.

Ioannis Psaras, Vassilis Tsaoussidis

 981-991

Improving XCP to Achieve Max-Min Fair Bandwidth Allocation.

Lei Zan, Xiaowei Yang

 992-1004

TCP Libra : Exploring RTT-Fairness for TCP.

Gustavo Marfia, Claudio E. Palazzi, Giovanni Pau, Mario Gerla, M. Y. Sanadidi, Marco Roccetti

 1005-1013

Interactions of Intelligent Route Control with TCP Congestion Control.

Ruomei Gao, Dana Blair, Constantine Dovrolis, Monique Morrow, Ellen W. Zegura

 1014-1025

NGI - Security

Fast and Scalable Classification of Structured Data in the Network.

Sumantra R. Kundu, Sourav Pal, Christoph L. Schuba, Sajal K. Das

 1026-1036

An Efficient and Secure Event Signature (EASES) Protocol for Peer-to-Peer Massively Multiplayer Online Games.

Mo-Che Chan, Shun-Yun Hu, Jehn-Ruey Jiang

 1037-1046

Unified Defense Against DDoS Attacks.

Muthusrinivasan Muthuprasanna, G. Manimaran, Zhengdao Wang

 1047-1059

Integrity-Aware Bandwidth Guarding Approach in P2P Networks.

Wen-Hui Chiang, Ling-Jyh Chen, Cheng-Fu Chou

 1060-1071

NGI - Network Measurement

Measuring Bandwidth Signatures of Network Paths.

Mradula Neginhal, Khaled Harfoush, Harry G. Perros

 1072-1083

A Non-cooperative Active Measurement Technique for Estimating the Average and Variance of the One-Way Delay.

Antonio Augusto de Aragão Rocha, Rosa Maria Meri Leão, Edmundo de Souza e Silva

 1084-1095

The P2P War: Someone Is Monitoring Your Activities!

Anirban Banerjee, Michalis Faloutsos, Laxmi N. Bhuyan

 1096-1107

On-Line Predictive Load Shedding for Network Monitoring.

Pere Barlet-Ros, Diego Amores-López, Gianluca Iannaccone, Josep Sanjuàs-Cuxart, Josep Solé-Pareta

 1108-1119

On the Schedulability of Measurement Conflict in Overlay Networks.

Mohammad Fraiwan, G. Manimaran

 1120-1131

Poster Session

SEA-LABS: A Wireless Sensor Network for Sustained Monitoring of Coral Reefs.

Matt Bromage, Katia Obraczka, Donald Potts

 1132-1135

Capacity-Fairness Performance of an Ad Hoc IEEE 802.11 WLAN with Noncooperative Stations.

Jerzy Konorski

 1136-1139

Multi-rate Support for Network-Wide Broadcasting in MANETs.

Tolga Numanoglu, Wendi Rabiner Heinzelman, Bulent Tavli

 1140-1144

BRD: Bilateral Route Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.

Rendong Bai, Mukesh Singhal

 1145-1148

Correction, Generalisation and Validation of the "Max-Min d-Cluster Formation Heuristic".

Alexandre Delye de Clauzade de Mazieux, Michel Marot, Monique Becker

 1149-1152

Analytical Performance Evaluation of Distributed Multicast Algorithms for Directional Communications in WANETs.

Song Guo, Oliver W. W. Yang, Victor C. M. Leung

 1153-1156

Beyond Proportional Fair: Designing Robust Wireless Schedulers.

Soshant Bali, Sridhar Machiraju, Hui Zang

 1157-1160

A Voluntary Relaying MAC Protocol for Multi-rate Wireless Local Area Networks.

Jaeeun Na, Yeonkwon Jeong, Joongsoo Ma

 1161-1164

Throughput Analysis Considering Capture Effect in IEEE 802.11 Networks.

Xiaohu Ge, Dong Yan, Yaoting Zhu

 1165-1168

Performance Improvement of IEEE 802.15.4 Beacon-Enabled WPAN with Superframe Adaptation Via Traffic Indication.

Zeeshan Hameed Mir, Changsu Suh, Young-Bae Ko

 1169-1172

Analysis of WLAN Traffic in the Wild.

Caleb T. Phillips, Suresh Singh

 1173-1178

Enhanced Rate Adaptation Schemes with Collision Awareness.

Seongkwan Kim, Sunghyun Choi, Daji Qiao, Jongseok Kim

 1179-1182

A Study of Performance Improvement in EAP.

Eun-Chul Cha, Hyoung-Kee Choi

 1183-1186

Characterization of Ultra Wideband Channel in Data Centers.

Neha Udar, Krishna Kant, R. Viswanathan, D. Cheung

 1187-1191

Evaluating Internal BGP Networks from the Data Plane.

Feng Zhao, Xicheng Lu, Baosheng Wang, Peidong Zhu

 1192-1195

Performance of a Partially Shared Buffer with Correlated Arrivals.

Dieter Fiems, Bart Steyaert, Herwig Bruneel

 1196-1199

Filter-Based RFD: Can We Stabilize Network Without Sacrificing Reachability Too Much?

Ke Zhang, Shyhtsun Felix Wu

 1200-1203

Network Access in a Diversified Internet.

Michael Wilson, Fred Kuhns, Jonathan S. Turner

 1204-1207

Outburst: Efficient Overlay Content Distribution with Rateless Codes.

Chuan Wu, Baochun Li

 1208-1216

Adaptive Window-Tuning Algorithm for Efficient Bandwidth Allocation on EPON.

Sangho Lee, Tae-Jin Lee, Min Young Chung, Hyunseung Choo

 1217-1220

Optical Burst Control Algorithm for Reducing the Effect of Congestion Reaction Delay.

Myungsik Yoo, Junho Hwang

 1221-1224

Incremental Provision of QoS Discarding Non-feasible End-to-End Paths.

Alfonso Gazo-Cervero, José-Luis González-Sánchez, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Pérez

 1225-1228

Enhancing Guaranteed Delays with Network Coding.

Ali Mahmino, Jérôme Lacan, Christian Fraboul

 1229-1232

LPD Based Route Optimization in Nested Mobile Network.

Jungwook Song, Heemin Kim, Sunyoung Han, Bok-Gyu Joo

 1233-1236

PIBUS: A Network Memory-Based Peer-to-Peer IO Buffering Service.

Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Rui Chu, Nong Xiao, Xicheng Lu

 1237-1240

A Subgradient Optimization Approach to Inter-domain Routing in IP/MPLS Networks.

Artur Tomaszewski, Michal Pióro, Mateusz Dzida, Mariusz Mycek, Michal Zagozdzon

 1241-1244

Cost-Based Approach to Access Selection and Vertical Handover Decision in Multi-access Networks.

Fanchun Jin, Hyeong-Ah Choi, Jae-Hoon Kim 0004, SeHyun Oh, JongTae Ihm, JungKyo Sohn, Hyeong In Choi

 1245-1248