Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking : 6th International Conference, NEW1AN 2006, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 29-June 2, 2006, Proceedings

by Koucheryavy, Yevgeni; Harju, Jarmo; Iversen, Villy B.

• ISBN13: 9783540344292
• ISBN10: 3540344292
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking, NEW2AN 2006, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in May/June 2006. The 49 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 137 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on teletraffic, traffic characterization and modeling, 3G/UMTS, sensor networks, WLAN, QoS, MANETs, lower layer techniques, PAN technologies, and TCP.

Table of Contents

Towards distributed communications systems : relay-based wireless networks	p. 1
Grand challenges for wireless sensor networks	p. 2
Dimensioning of multiservice links taking account of soft blocking	p. 3
On the packet loss process at a network node	p. 11
Transient analysis of a queuing system with matrix-geometric methods	p. 21
HEAF : a novel estimator for long-range dependent self-similar network traffic	p. 34
On modeling video traffic from multiplexed MPEG-4 videoconference streams	p. 46
A new MAC protocol based on multimedia traffic prediction in satellite systems	p. 58
Measurement-based optimization of a 3G core network : a case study	p. 70
A middleware approach for reducing the network cost of location traffic in cellular networks	p. 83
Location conveyance in the IP multimedia subsystem	p. 96
A random backoff algorithm for wireless sensor networks	p. 108
Prolonging the lifetime of wireless sensor network via multihop clustering	p. 118
A BEB-based admission control for VoIP calls in WLAN with coexisting elastic TCP flows	p. 130
Energy efficient sleep interval decision method considering delay constraint for VoIP traffic	p. 142
Enhanced fast handovers using a multihomed mobile IPv6 node	p. 152
The structure of the reactive performance control system for wireless channels	p. 164
Erlang capacity of a CDMA link with transmission rate control	p. 177
Dynamic time-threshold based scheme for voice calls in cellular networks	p. 189
Queue size in a BMAP queue with finite buffer	p. 200
A scaling analysis of UMTS traffic	p. 211
Burst assembly with real IPv4 data - performance assessement of three assembly algorithms	p. 223
Multiservice IP network QoS parameters estimation in presence of self-similar traffic	p. 235
Achieving relative service differentiation for TCP traffic in satellite IP networks using congestion pricing	p. 246
Signalling concepts in heterogeneous IP multi-domains networks	p. 259
Operator's QoS policy in WiBro implementation	p. 271
An energy efficient tracking method in wireless sensor networks	p. 278
On incoming call connection service in a ubiquitous consumer wireless world	p. 287
Evaluating the effect of ad hoc routing on TCP performance in IEEE 802.11 based MANETs	p. 298
Multi-path routing protocols in wireless mobile ad hoc networks : a quantitative comparison	p. 313
Effect of realistic physical layer on energy efficient broadcast protocols for wireless ad hoc networks	p. 327
Localized broadcast oriented protocols with mobility prediction for mobile ad hoc networks	p. 340
Delay sensitive and energy efficient distributed slot assignment algorithm for sensor networks under convergecast data traffic	p. 353
Real-time coordination and routing in wireless sensor and actor networks	p. 365
Reliable data delivery in wireless sensor networks : an energy-efficient, cluster-based approach	p. 384
Experimental analysis and characterization of packet delay in UMTS networks	p. 396
End-to-end QoS signaling for future multimedia services in the NGN	p. 408
Optimization of charging control in 3G mobile networks	p. 420
Asymptotic performance analysis of a TCM system over fading multiple-access channel	p. 433
A MIMO architecture for IEEE 802.16d (WiMAX) heterogeneous wireless access using optical wireless technology	p. 441
Cooperative transmission through incremental redundancy	p. 452
Comparison of effective SINR mapping with traditional AVI approach for modeling packet error rate in multi-state channel	p. 461
Privacy homomorphism for delegation of the computations	p. 474
Enhanced MIMO transmission scheme for MB-OFDM system with spatial mode selection	p. 481
Improving energy efficiency and responsiveness in bluetooth networks : a performance assessment	p. 489
Adaptive backoff exponent algorithm for zigbee (IEEE 802.15.4)	p. 501
Analysis of TCP-AQM interaction via periodic optimization and linear programming : the case of sigmoidal utility function	p. 517
TCP versus TFRC over wired and wireless Internet scenarios : an experimental evaluation	p. 530
Dynamic configuration of MAC QoS mechanisms in 802.11 access networks	p. 542
SMPCS : sub-optimal model predictive control scheduler	p. 554
Analysis and simulation of the signaling protocols for the DiffServ framework	p. 566
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