ICNP'98 Program

Tuesday, 13 October 1998 : Tutorials
Wednesday, 14 October 1998 : Keynote and Paper Sessions, Reception
Thursday, 15 October 1998 : Paper and Panel Sessions
Friday, 16 October 1998 : Paper and Panel Sessions

Tuesday, 13 October 1998

Full-Day Tutorials

9:00am - 5:00pm Lunch provided

Traffic Control and QoS Management in the Internet

Hui Zhang,

Distribution of Stored Information in the Internet: Network Web Caching and Pushing

Keith W. Ross,

Wednesday, 14 October 1998

8:30am - 9:00am Continental Breakfast9:00am - 9:30am Welcome Session

9:30am - 10:30am Keynote Address:

Watching the Waist of the Protocol Hour-Glass
Dr. Steve Deering,
Cisco Systems, Inc.
( Powerpoint slides)

10:30am - 11:00am Break

11:00am - 12:30am Paper Session 1: Switching

Session Chair: K. Suzuki , Kokusai Denshin Denwa, Japan

1. Linear Complexity Algorithms for Bandwidth Reservations and Delay Guarantees in Input-Queued Switches with No Speedup
A. Kam, K. Siu, MIT
2. EtheReal: A Host-Transparent Real-Time Fast Ethernet Switch
S. Varadarajan, T. Chiueh, SUNY Stony Brook
3. A Definition of General Weighted Fairness and its Support in Explicit Rate Switch Algorithms
B. Vandalore, S. Fahmy, R. Jain, R. Goyal, M. Goyal, The Ohio State University
4. Reasoning About Active Network Protocols
S. Bhattacharjee, K. Calvert, E. Zegura, Georgia Tech

12:30am - 2:00pm Lunch Break2:00pm - 3:30pm Paper Session 2: Routing

Session Chair: S. Aggarwal , SUNY Binghamton

5. Evaluating the Overheads of Source-Directed Quality-of-Service Routing
A. Shaikh, J. Rexford, K. Shin, University of Michigan
6. Scalable Link-State Internet Routing
J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, M. Spohn, UC Santa Cruz
7. Statistical-Based Intrusion Detection for Link-State Routing Protocols
D. Qu, B. Vetter, F. Wang, R. Narayan, S. Wu, NCSU
Y. Jou, F. Gong, C. Sargor, MCNC
8. Maximizable Routing Metrics
M. Gouda, UT Austin
M. Schneider, SBC Technology Resources

3:30pm - 4:00pm Break4:00pm - 5:30pm Paper Session 3: QoS

Session Chair: M. Ammar , Georgia Tech

9. On Reducing the Processing Cost of On-Demand QoS Path Computation
G. Apostolopoulos, S. Tripathi, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
10. Preserving Quality of Service in Spite of Flow Aggregation
J. Cobb, UT Dallas
11. A Distributed Protocol for Multi-Class QoS Provision in Noncooperative Many-Switch Systems
S. Chen, K. Park, Purdue University
12. Adaptive Packet Marking for Providing Differentiated Services in the Internet
W. Feng, D. Kandlur, D. Saha, K. Shin, University of Michigan

5:30pm - 7:30pm Reception (Sponsored by SBC-TRI)

Thursday, 15 October 1998

8:30am - 9:00am Continental Breakfast9:00am - 10:30am Paper Session 4: Congestion Control

Session Chair: G. Xie, Naval Postgraduate School

13. Distributed Network Flow Control Based on Dynamic Competitive Markets
E. Fulp, D. Reeves, NCSU
14. Flow Theory: An Enhancement
A. Lombardo, G. Morabito, S. Palazzo, G. Schembra, Universita di Catania, Italy
15. A Class of End-to-End Congestion Control Algorithms for the Internet
J. Golestani, S. Bhattacharyya, Bell Labs
16. A Lossless, Minimal Latency Protocol for Gigabit ATM Networks
M. Santos, P. Melliar-Smith, L. Moser, UC Santa Barbara

10:30am - 11:00am Break

11:00am - 12:30am Paper Session 5: Resource Management

Session Chair: J. Cobb, UT Dallas

17. Controlling Quality of Session in Adaptive Multimedia Multicast Systems
A. Youssef, H. Abdel-Wahab, K. Maly, Old Dominion University
18. Congestion Control Performance of a Reliable Multicast Protocol
D. De Lucia, K. Obraczka, HRL
19. Darwin: Customizable Resource Management for Value-Added Network Services
P. Chandra, A. Fisher, C. Kosak, T. Ng, P. Steenkiste, E. Takahashi, H. Zhang, CMU
20. Resource Management for Quality of Service Guarantees in Multi-party Multimedia Application
H. Sakate, H. Yamaguchi, K. Yasumoto, T. Higashino, K. Taniguchi, Osaka University, Japan

12:30am - 2:00pm Lunch (Provided)
Speaker: Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs

2:00pm - 3:30pm Panel 1: The Future of Transport Protocols: Evolution or Revolution?
Moderator: Joseph Bannister, ISI, USA ( overview slides. All slides are in Powerpoint format)
Panelists: Hari Balakrishnan (MIT) [slides], Steve Deering (Cisco) [slides], Allison Mankin (USC/ISI) [slides], Keith Ross (Eurecom) [slides]

3:30pm - 4:00pm Break

4:00pm - 5:30pm Paper Session 6: Security & Verification

Session Chair: K. Calvert, University of Kentucky

21. Digital Signatures for Flows and Multicasts
C. Wong, S. Lam, UT Austin
22. Composition of Service Specifications
G. Singh, I. Buricea, Z. Mao, Kansas State University
23. A Proof Technique for Liveness Properties of Multifunction Composite Protocols
J. Park, R. Miller, University of Maryland
24. Formal Verification of Safety and Performance Properties of TCP Selective Acknowledgment
M. Smith, K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research

Friday, 16 October 1998

8:30am - 9:00am Continental Breakfast9:00am - 10:30am Paper Session 7: Multicast

Session Chair: S. Paul, Bell Labs

25. OTERS (on-tree efficient recovery using subcasting): a reliable multicast protocol
D. Li, D. Cheriton, Stanford University
26. Multicasting at the Host Interface Level in Wormhole Networks
C. Casetti, E. Leonardi, F. Neri, C. Anglano, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
27. Receiver-Based Multicast Scoping: A New Cost-Conscious Join/Leave Paradigm
G. Riley, M. Ammar, L. Clay, Georgia Tech
28. On-Demand Multicast in Mobile Wireless Networks
C. Chiang, M. Gerla, UCLA

10:30am - 11:00am Break

11:00am - 12:30am Panel 2: Internet Telephony---The Next Killer App?
Moderator: Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
Panelists: Cormac Sreenan (AT&T) [slides], Henry Sinnreich (MCI) [slides], Murali Aravamudan (Lucent) [slides], Eugenio Guarene (CSELT) [slides]

12:30am - 2:00pm Lunch (Provided)

2:00pm - 3:30pm Paper Session 8: Signaling and Services

Session Chair: D. Yau, Purdue University

29. A State Management Protocol for IntServ, DiffServ and Label Switching
H. Adiseshu, G. Parulkar, R. Yavatkar, Washington Univ. in St. Louis
30. A Certificate Path Generation Protocol (CPGP) for Authenticated Signaling in ATM Networks
J. Xu, M. Singhal, The Ohio State University
31. Distributed Packet Rewriting and its Application to Scalable Server Architectures
A. Bestavros, M. Crovella, J. Liu, D. Martin, Boston University
32. Signaling for Internet Telephony
J. Rosenberg, Bell Labs
H. Schulzrinne, Columbia University

3:30pm - 4:00pm Break

4:00pm - 5:30pm Paper Session 9: Wireless Networks

Session Chair: M. Moh, San Jose State University

33. Applying MSTDM to Cellular Networks
N. Maxemchuk, AT&T Labs Research
34. Performance of Voice/Data Integration for Two MAC Protocols in DSCDMA Wireless Networks
J. He, M. Liu, M. Muller, The Ohio State University
35. Improving Wireless LAN Performance via Adaptive Local Error Control
D. Eckhardt, P. Steenkiste, CMU
36. QGMA: A New MAC Protocol for Supporting QoS in Wireless Local Area Networks
Y. Ye, C. Han, J. Hou, The Ohio State University