PRELIMINARY PROGRAM The Third IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ISCC'98 Athens, Greece June 29 - July 2, 1998 Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Computer Society* * Technical Committee on Simulation Monday, June 29 Tutorials -- To be announced Tuesday, June 30 8:30 - 10:30 Plenary Session (speakers to be announced) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee 11:00 - 12:20 Parallel Sessions (Tuesday Morning) 12:20 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 3:20 Parallel Sessions (Tuesday Mid-Day) 3:20 - 3:50 Coffee 3:50 - 5:30 Parallel Sessions (Tuesday Afternoon) 7:00 - 10:00 Tutorials Wednesday, July 1 9:00 - 10:30 Plenary Session (speakers to be announced) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee 11:00 - 12:00 Parallel Sessions (Wednesday Morning) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 Parallel Sessions (Wednesday Mid-Day) 2:30 - 3:00 Coffee 3:00 - 4:00 Parallel Sessions (Wednesday Afternoon) 4:10 - 5:30 Panel Session Thursday, July 2 9:00 - 10:30 Plenary Session (speakers to be announced) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee 11:00 - 12:20 Parallel Sessions (Thursday Morning) 12:20 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 3:20 Parallel Sessions (Thursday Mid-Day) 3:20 - 3:50 Coffee 3:50 - 5:30 Parallel Sessions (Thursday Afternoon) Tuesday Morning Traffic Management in ATM Networks An Adaptive Scheme for Better Utilization with QoS Constraints for VBR Video Traffic in ATM Networks Girish Chiruvolu, Ravi Sankar and N. Ranganathan The Limitations of Artificial Neural Networks for Traffic Prediction Jason Hall and Philip Mars A Simulation Study on the Performance of Integrated Switching Strategy for Traffic Management in ATM Networks Y. Ahmet Sekercioglu, Andreas Pitsillides and Petros Ioannou An Adaptive Shaper with Effective-Rate Enforcement for ATM Traffic Anthony Catsoulis, Y. Kamaras, K. Kavidopoulos and N. Mitrou Communication Theory I Effects of Timing and Jitter Errors on Pulse Amplitude Modulated Time Division Multiplexed Signals Alfred S. Andrawis and Ira Jacobs Narrowband Interference Suppression via Nonlinear Estimation K. N. Plataniotis and A. N. Venetsanopoulos Code Tracking Loop Performance for an Orthogonal CDMA Uplink SATCOM System Hsuan-Jung Su, Pen Li, Evaggelos Geraniotis and Diakoumis P. Gerakoulis Analysis and Simulation of Multipath Interference of FM Subcarrier Digital Signals Linda Zeger, Pei Chen and Hisashi Kobayashi Routing I On the Effectiveness of Path Pre-Computation in Reducing the Processing Cost of On-Demand QoS Path Computation George Apostolopoulos and Satish K. Tripathi Topology Aggregation for Directed Graph Baruch Awerbuch and Yuval Shavitt Design Considerations for Link-state Routing Protocols M. Sivabalan and H. T. Mouftah Distributed Routing based on an Estimated Input Traffic Matrix Fazlollah Adibniya Wireless Networks Performance of Floor Acquisition Multiple Access in Ad-Hoc Networks J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves and Chane L. Fullmer Dynamic Transmission Scheduling for Packet Radio Networks Christos G. Panayiotou and Christos G. Cassandras WTCP: An Efficient Mechanism for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links Karunaharan Ratnam and Ibrahim Matta Store & Forward Data Communications Using Small Terminals and Microsatellites Michael Hadjitheodosiou Tuesday Mid-Day Resource Management in ATM Networks The Use of the Fast Resource Management Protocol in ATM Networks -- Performance and Applicability Antonios F. Atlasis, Georgios I. Stassinopoulos and Evangelos D. Baltatzis Bandwidth Allocation for Interactive Video-on-Demand Philip Branch Performance Evaluation of Scheduling and Resource Reservation Algorithms in an Integrated Packet Services Network Environment Sungwon Ha, Kang-Won Lee and Vaduvur Bharghavan VPN Design Scheme and Service Control in Public ATM Networks Hye-Kyung Min and Ho-Jin Park Communication Theory II Iterative Decoding with Erasures in a Concatenated System Jan Bajcsy and Hisashi Kobayashi BER Evaluation of Symbol-Aided Coherent Demodulation for Rician and Raleigh Fading Channels Mohamed M. Khairy and Evaggelos Geraniotis Quadriphase M-ary CDMA Signal Design without Co-Channel Interference for Approximately Synchronized Mobile Systems Naoki Suehiro and Hideyuki Torii Spectrum Efficiency of a FFH/BFSK Mobile System Carl Zhou, Mokhar Boukli-Hacene and Mohammed Kouar Network Management I Distributed Management of Exclusive Resources in Collaborative Multimedia Systems H. Abdel-Wahab, A. Youssef and K. Maly The modularity of SNMPv3 Omar Cherkaoui, Ylian Saint Hillaire, Abdelatif Obaid and Ahmed Serhouchni Scalability Improvement of the Real-time Control Protocol (RTCP) Leading to Management Facilities in the Internet Randa El-Marakby and David Hutchison Application Oriented Management in Distributed Environments Vassilios Tsaoussidis and Kevin Liu Multicasting On the Importance of FEC in Bulk Transmission Multicast Yair Bartal, John W. Byers, Michael Luby and Danny Raz A Multicast Congestion Control Mechanism for Reliable Multicast Dante DeLucia and Katia Obraczka Impact of Network Dynamics on End-to-End Protocols: Case Studies in Reliable Multicast Kannan Varadhan, Deborah Estrin and Sally Floyd Adaptive Rate-Based Feedback Flow Control Algorithms -- Extensions to Multicast Connections Huayan Wang, Rauf Izmailov and Mischa Schwartz Tuesday Afternoon ATM Network Monitoring and Performance Testing ATM Traffic Generator Card: An Integrated Solution St. Hontas, G. Tselikis, S. Tompros, J. Giamniadakis, S. Andritsos, D. Loukatos and N. Mitrou Interoperability of EFCI and ER Switches for ABR Services in ATM Networks Yuan-Cheng Lai and Ying-Dar Lin A Low-Pass Filter Design for ATM Traffic Measurement and its Application to Bandwidth Management Kohei Shiomoto, Naoaki Yamanaka and Haruhisa Hasegawa User-Programmable Flexible ATM Network Architecture, Active-ATM - Experimental Results Naoaki Yamanaka, Eiji Oki, Haruhisa Hasegawa and Thomas M. Chen In-Service Methods for Performance Management in Switched Broadband Networks Thomas Lindh Algorithms for Network Design I A Dynamic Delayed Acknowledgment Mechanism to Improve TCP Performance for Asymmetric Links Hossam Afifi, Omar Elloumi and Gerardo Rubino An Algorithmic Approach for the Planning of Partial Access ETSI SDH SNCP-ring Subnetworks Andreas Antonopoulos, J. J. O'Reilly and P. Lane Comparison of Congestion Control Mechanisms for IN Signalling Systems F. Bernabei, G. Chierchia and L. Gratta Equivalence of Behaviour Process Specifications: Problem, Notions, Generalizations, and Comparative Analysis Hazem El-Gendy, Hani El-Sayed and Abdel-Wahab Fayez A Formal TTCN-based Protocol Testing for Intelligent Network Sangki Kim, Hyunjoo Bae and Kyungpyo Jun Distributed and Parallel Processing I Performance Modeling and Analysis of a Distributed Computing Environment Elias Drakopoulos Scheduling the Access of Shared Variables for the Two Communication Nodes Parallel Structures Tahany Fergany Adanced Service Creation in Distributed Heterogeneous Environments N. I. Liossis, N. D. Polydorou, E. C. Tzifa, P. P. Demestichas and M. E. Anagnostou A Caching Model for Efficient Distributed Network and Systems Management Fotis Stamatelopoulos and Basil Maglaris Wireless DECT Networks Performance Analysis of a Channel Selection Scheme for DECT Indoor Environment Paliatsos Athanasios, Tzouflas Georgios and Constantinou Philip DECT Mobility Support in a Hybrid DECT -- Broadband ISDN Environment A. D. Liveris, N. V. Georgantas and M. E. Theologou Indoor Mobile Radio Channel Measurements and Characterization for DECT Picocells N. Papadakis, A. G. Kanatas, E. Angelou, N. Moraitis and P. Constantinou A Low Complexity Baseband Receiver for Direct Conversion Burst-Type Radio Systems A. E. Tzimas, E. G. Metaxakis and G. A. Kalivas Telephony Solution for Local Multi-point Distribution Service Derek Lam, Aly F. Elrefaie, Lynn Plouse and Yee-Hsiang Chang Wednesday Morning Congestion Control in ATM Networks Burst Level Congestion Control in ATM Networks Alexander Gersht, Girish Pathak and Alexander Shulman Study of a Rate-Based ABR Scheme Supporting Bursty Data Applications M. Lopez Guerrero, J. R. Gallardo, S. Rosenberg, L. Orozco Barbosa and D. Makrakis Analytical and Simulation Analysis of the Explicit-Rate ABR Flow Control Algorithms: Transient Behavior Milan Vojnovic and Nikola Rozic Software Techniques Object-Oriented Development of Telematic Services Dionisis X. Adamopoulos and Constantine A. Papandreou An Approach for Engineering CORBA-based Multi-Agent Applications F. Bellas, R. Juanes, N. Rodriguez and A. Vina A Generic Legality Checker and Attribute Evaluator for a Distributed Enterprise Environment C. Goumopoulos, P. Alefragis, K. Thrampoulidis and E. Housos Multimedia Applications Design Methodology of an Educational Computer-Aided Telematics Service S. S. Mitropoulos and A. S. Andreatos Collaborative Distance Training: Architecture of a Demonstrator Francoise Sandoz, Lucia Gradinariu and Gerard Beuchot Performance Evaluation of a Small-Scale VOD Server based on the UNIX Jong Moon Sohn, Gil Yong Kim and Tae Geun Kim Network Mobility A Hierarchical Mobility Management Scheme for the Internet Claude Castelluccia PI and PIF Based Mobilizer B. Mizrachi, I. Cidon and M. Sidi FBM Mobility Modeling for Nomadic Subscribers E. Aleman-Llanes, D. Munoz-Rodriguez and C. Molina Wednesday Mid-Day ATM Interworking Performance Evaluation of IP Controlled-Load Service over ATM CBR and VBR Services Paolo Giacomazzi, Luigi Musumeci and Luigi Fratta Dual-Mode Routeing: a Generic Framework for IP over ATM Integrated Routeing Bernard Sales and Piet Van Mieghem The Study and Implementation of Interworking Between B-ISDN and N-ISDN Meng Shusen, Li Wenhai and Hu Jiandong Integrated Switch Architectures I ATM Input-Buffered Switches with the Guaranteed-Rate Property A. Hung, G. Kesidis and N. McKeown Quasi-Optimal Algorithms for Input Buffered ATM Switches M. Ajmone Marsan, A. Bianco, E. Leonardi and L. Milia Stand-by Loading Scheme: An Effective Software Retrofit Method for Switching System S. I. Jun, H. K. Chang, W. Choi and Y. M. Kim Electronic Commerce Symmetric Adaptive Customer Modeling in an Electronic Store Maria Barra, Giuseppe Cattaneo, Alberto Negro and Vittorio Scarano SET and SSL: Electronic Payments on the Inernet M. H. Sherif, A. Serhrouchni, A. Y. Gaid and F. Farazmandnia Mobile Agent for Electronic Commerce in Virtual Mall Sooho Sohn Wireless CDMA Networks Call Admission Control Schemes for DS-CDMA Cellular System Supporting an Integrated Voice/Data Traffic Um Hwa-Young A Virtual Token Dual Bus Protocol for the Interconnection Network in CDMA Mobile Communication System Youn-Kwae Jeong The Impact of Repeaters on CDMA System Performance Charles Xu, David J. Y. Lee, Milind Mohile and Unmesh Mayekar Wednesday Afternoon Optical Networks Optimal Node Assignment in Reconfigurable WDM Lightwave Networks with Regular Virtual Topologies Fai Siu and Rocky K. C. Chang On the Performance Bounds of Optical LANs based on WDM Bo Li, Yang Qin and Xi-Ren Cao Improving the Performance of Reconfigurable WDM Lightwave Networks with Deflection Routing via Node Reassignment Fai Siu and Rocky K. C. Chang Integrated Switch Architectures II A Generic ISDN Terminal Architecture for BRI and PRI Applications N. V. Stefanopoulos, S. L. Tombros, A. D. Liveris and G. I. Stassinopoulos Buffer Space Management Using Thresholds Pierre U. Tagle and Neeraj K. Sharma Adaptive Buffer Threshold Updating for an ATM Switch Ece Yaprak, Anthony T. Chronopoulos and Yi Xiao Routing II Routing Through Teranode Networks with Topology Aggregation Baruch Awerbuch, Yi Du, Bilal Khan and Yuval Shavitt Vicinity Routing in Large Scale Networks Israel Cidon and Atai Levi An Efficient Route Generation Algorithm for a Distributed Multilayered Network Masakazu Sato and Mitsuhiro Nakamura Wireless ATM Networks Mobility Management and Control Protocol for Wireless ATM Networks Alexandros Kaloxylos, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades and Lazaros Merakos Improving Traffic Scheduling in a Wireless ATM Network Nikos Passas, Thanasis Korakis, Evangelos Zervas and Lazaros Merakos Design and Performance Evaluation of Wireless ATM Connection Management Schemes Upkar Varshney Wednesday Late Afternoon Panel Session Military versus Commercial Communications: Similarities and Differences Organized by Tarek Saadawi and Jeffrey E. Wieselthier Panelists: A. Brinton Cooper, US Army Research Laboratory Allen Levesque, GTE Barth Root, US Naval Research Laboratory Paul Sass, US Army CECOM Ken Young, Bellcore Thursday Morning Scheduling and Flow Control in ATM Networks Analysis of the Transient Behaviour of ABR Networks James Kershaw Empirical Evaluation of ATM CBR Traffic Transported under Diverse Operating Conditions K. Shuaib, H. Elsayed, S. Nawrot, M. Lee, Tarek Saadawi and Thomas K. Mills A Cell Burst Scheduling for ATM Networking - Part I: Theory Caimu Tang, Anthony T. Chronopoulos and Ece Yaprak A Cell Burst Scheduling for ATM Networking - Part II: Implementation Caimu Tang, Anthony T. Chronopoulos and Ece Yaprak Methods and Tools for Networks Design and Implementation of a TCP/IP Protocol Analyser Dionisis X. Adamopoulos and Constantine A. Papandreou Hierarchical Simulation Model for MPEG Video Jian Feng and Kwok-Tung Lo Average Information Staleness (AIS) as a System Measure of Performance Constantine N. Manikopoulos and Jose L. Ucles An Overview of Off-The-Shelf Tools and their Applications to Telecom and Enterprise Networking Humayun Akhtar Internet Networking Tunnel Agents for Enhanced QoS in the Internet Hermann DeMeer, Antonio Puliafito, Jan-Peter Richter and Orazio Tomarchio DHCP for IPv6 Charles E. Perkins and Jim Bound An Integrated Model for Intranet Security Using Prevention and Detection Techniques H. Baraka, H. A. El-Manawy and A. Sourial QoS Control using Adaptive Layered Data Transmission Dorgham Sisalem and Frank Emanuel Broadband Transport Systems On Congestion Problems in Digital Cross-Connect (DCS) Transport Networks Ramesh Bhandari Functional Considerations for Development of SDH Technology-based Broadband Digital Cross-connect System Si-Won Kim and Ki-Shick Park Layered Bandwidth Management in the Integrated ATM, SDH, and Optical Transport Networks Tai Noh Support and Evaluation Performance of B-ISDN Services over Distributed Networks G. Stassinopoulos, T. Kotaras and G. Tselikis Thursday Mid-Day Buffer Management in ATM Networks Evaluation of Required Queue Size to Support ABR Service A. Bak, W. Burakowski and A. Beben An ATM Buffer Manager with Priorities for Traffic Shaping and ABR Service Support J. G. Kamaras, A. C. Catsoulis and N. M. Mitrou A Stochastic Model for a hysteresis Based Priority Queueing Strategy for ATM Networks with Batch Arrivals -- Theory Sashisekaran Thiagarajan and Srinivas R. Chakravarthy Digital Signal Processing Simulation of a FFT Based Discrete Multi-Tone System for ADSL and VDSL Transmission M. Hawryluck, A. Yongacoglu and M. Kavehrad Evaluation of the Casner-Van Jacobson Algorithm for Compressing the RTP/UDP/IP Headers G. Mamais, M. Markaki, M. H. Sherif and G. Stassinopoulos Linear PCM Signal Processing for Audio Processing Unit in Multipoint Video Conferencing System Kyeong-Yeol Yu, Jong-Hoon Park and Jong-Hyeong Lee Using Feed Forward Multilayer Neural Network and Vector Quantization as an Image Data Compression Technique Ahmed A. Abdelwahab, Elsayed M. Saad, Mahmoud A. Deyab and Ibrahim I. Ibrahim Distributed and Parallel Processing II Using Pre-emptive Access to the Critical Section in Shared Memory Environment to minimize the Execution Time of the Fork-Join Construct Mi-Sook Kim and Reda A. Ammar An Embedded Distributed Architecture for the Efficient Execution of Computationally Intensive Jobs Apostolos N. Meliones and Theodora A. Varvarigou Genetic Application in the Design of Dynamic Interconnection Networks A. Sayed, H. Baraka and A. Sorial On Thorough Garbage Collection in Distributed Systems Yunlong Liu and Junliang Chen Wireless Routing QoS Routing in Multihop Packet Radio Environment Yu-Ching Hsu, Tzu-Chieh Tsai and Ying-Dar Lin A Distributed Routing Algorithm for Supporting Connection-Oriented Service in Wireless Networks with Time-Varying Connectivity Anastassios Michail and Anthony Ephremides A Performance Comparison of the Temporally-Ordered Routing Algorithm and Ideal Link-State Routing Vincent D. Park and M. Scott Corson The Clade Vertebrata: Spines and Routing in Ad Hoc Networks Raghupathy Sivakumar, Bevan Das and Vaduvur Bharghavan Thursday Afternoon Fault Tolerance and Network Reliability An Enhanced Algorithm of Spare Capacity Assignment for Self-Healing Networks Lijun Chen, Yuehui Jin and Shiduan Cheng Performance Based Reliability Enhancement of Distributed Computing Systems Anup Kumar, Adel S. Elmaghraby and Sanjay P. Ahuja A Two-Level Strategy for the Software Fault Tolerance of the Service Control Point Yunlong Liu, Fangchun Yang and Junliang Chen Recirculation in a Fault-Tolerant MIN Neeraj K. Sharma and Julian D. Ho An Optimal End-to-End Bypass Configuration Algorithm for Self-Healing VP-based ATM Networks Simon C. Wong and Rocky K. C Chang Algorithms for Network Design II A Hill-Climbing Approach to the Queue Depth Assignment Problem to Insure Customer QoS Subscriptions Marc Donis, Lundy Lewis and Utpal Datta Network Resources Location Ran Giladi, Ephraim Korach and Roni Ohaion Stability and Throughput Improvement for Multichannel CSMA and CSMA/CD Protocols with Optimal Bandwidth Allocation Ioannis E. Pountourakis Behavior of Task Scheduling Algorithms with Probabilistic Module Execution Times M. Kholief, I. Awad, M. El-Derini, M. Nagi and H. Ali Non-Preemptive Real-Time Scheduling of Multimedia Tasks Shlomi Dolev and Alexander Keizelman Network Management II A Videoconference System for Network Operations and Maintenance Christoph Kroll Pricing Techniques for Distributed Resource Managemet in an Intranet Theodora A. Varvarigou, Yannis A. Korilis, Giorgos A. Efthivoulidis and Sudhir R. Ahuja A TNET Database Server for Production Flow Control Eman Kamel and Khalid Kamel Network Management Structuring in an Object Oriented System Environment Christoph Kroll and Maria Dolores Saiz Broadband Access Technologies and Operations Manu Malek Cellular Wireless Networks Design and Performance Assessment Methods for Third Generation Cellular Systems V. P. Demesticha, D. Karagiannis, E. C. Tzifa, P. P. Demestichas and M. E. Theologou Adaptive Channel Allocation for Cellular Communication Systems P. P. Demestichas, E. C. Tzifa and M. E. Anagnostou An Enhanced Distributed Call Admission Control for Wireless Systems Shengming Jiang, Danny H. K. Tsang and Bo Li A Channel Sharing Scheme to Improve System Capacity and Quality of Service in Wireless Cellular Networks Junyi Li, Ness B. Shroff and Edwin K. P. Chong Overlapping Coverage and Channel Rearrangement for the Improvement of the Performance of a Hierarchical Cellular System S. Marano, C Mastroianni and R. Riccardi