Technical Sessions

Tuesday, 4 April 2006

Technical Session 1: Charging and Accounting  (Session Chair: Alexander Clemm)
  • Peter Racz and Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, SWITZERLAND
A Service Model and Architecture in Support of IP Service Accounting
  • Brendan Jennings and Paul Malone, Waterford Institute of Technology, IRELAND
Flexible Charging for Multi-provider Composed Services using Federated Two-phase Rating Process
  • Steven Shelford, Eric G. Manning, Gholamali C. Shoja, University of Victoria, CANADA
A Framework for Quality of Service Control Through Pricing Mechanisms
Technical Session 2: Business Integrated Management  (Session Chair: Aiko Pras)
  • Aaron B Brown and Alexander Keller, IBM Research, USA
A Best Practice Approach for Automating IT Management Processes
  • Claudio Bartolini, Mathias Salle, and David Trastour, HP Corporation, USA
IT Service Management Driven by Business Objectives
  • John Keeney, David Lewis, Declan O'Sullivan, Antoine Roelens, Vincent Wade, Aidan Boran, and Ray Richardson, Trinity College Dublin, IRELAND
Runtime Semantic Interoperability for Gathering Ontology-based Network Context
Technical Session 3: Measurements and QoS  (Session Chair: Burkhard Stiller)
  • Jonathan Paisley and Joseph Sventek, University of Glasgow, UK
Real-time Detection of Grid Bulk Transfer Traffic
  • Svante Ekelin, Jan-Erik Mangs and Bob Melander, Ericsson Research, SWEDEN
  • Martin Nilsson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SWEDEN
  • Erik Hartikainen , Linkoping University, SWEDEN
  • Andreas Johnsson, Mats Bjorkman, Malardalen University, SWEDEN
Real-Time Measurement of End-to-End Available Bandwidth Using Kalman Filtering
  • R. Les Cottrell, Connie Logg, and Mahesh Chhaparia, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA
  • Maxim Grigoriev, Fermilab, USA
  • Felipe Haro, Universidad Catolica de Chile, CHILE
  • Fawad Nazir, NUST Institute of Information Technology, PAKISTAN
  • Mark Sandford, Loughborough University, UK
Evaluation of Techniques to Detect Significant Network Performance Problems using End-to-End Active Network Measurements
  • Sandra Tartarelli and Giorgio Nunzi, NEC Europe, GERMANY
QoS Management and Congestion Control in Wireless Hotspots
Technical Session 4: Server Provisionig  (Session Chair: Rolf Stadler)
  • Xue Liu, Jin Heo, and Lui Sha, University of Illinois, USA
  • Xiaoyun Zhu, Hewlett-Packard, USA
Adaptive Control of Multi-Tiered Web Applications Using Queueing Predictor
  • Wei Xu, University of California at Berkeley, USA
  • Xiaoyun Zhu, Sharad Singhal, Zhikui Wang, Hewlett-Packard, USA
Predictive Control for Dynamic Resource Allocation in Enterprise Data Centers
  • Jerome Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Clifford McCarthy, Hewlett-Packard, USA
Configuring Workload Manager Control Parameters for Resource Pools
  • Yonghe Yan, Adel El-Atawy, and Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA
Fair Bandwidth Allocation Under User Capacity Constraints
Technical Session 5: Information Extraction and Visualization  (Session Chair: Marcus Brunner)
  • Jon Oberheide, Michael Goff, and Manish Karir, Merit Network Inc., USA
Flamingo: Visualizing Internet Traffic
  • Arun Kumar and Vikas Agarwal, IBM India Research Laboratory, INDIA
A Customizable Mediation Engine for Metrics Collection Aggregation and Composition
  • Dionysus Blazakis and John S. Baras, University of Maryland, USA
  • Manish Karir, Merit Network Inc., USA
BGP::Inspect - Extracting Information from Raw BGP Data
Technical Session 6: Overlay Management  (Session Chair: Bert Wijnen)
  • Vasilios Darlagiannis, Oliver Heckmann, Nicholas Liebau, and Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitat, GERMANY
  • Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK
On Routing in a Two-Tier Overlay Network based on de Bruijn Digraphs
  • Reaz Ahmed and Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, CANADA
Distributed Pattern Matching for P2P Systems
  • Andre Detsch, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Marinho Pilla Barcellos, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, BRAZIL
Flexible Security Configuration & Deployment in Peer-to-Peer Applications
  • Mohamed El-Darieby, University of Regina, CANADA
  • Jerry Rolia, Hewlett-Packard, USA
Hierarchical Creation of Virtual Networks

Wednesday, 5 April 2006

Technical Session 7: Traffic Engineering and Optimization  (Session Chair: Prosper Chemouil)
  • Antoine B. Bagula and Hong F. Wang, University of Stellenbosch, SOUTH AFRICA
Traffic Engineering Next Generation IP Networks Using Gene Expression Programming
  • Mohammed H. Sqalli, Sadiq M. Sait, and Mohammed Aijaz Mohiuddin, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, SAUDI ARABIA
An Enhanced Estimator to Multi-objective OSPF Weight Setting Problem
  • Kin-Hon Ho, Michael Howarth, Ning Wang, George Pavlou, and Stelios Georgoulas, University of Surey, UK
Joint Optimization of Intra- and Inter-Autonomous System Traffic Engineering
  • Maoke Chen, Xing Li, Yong Cui, and Ang Li, Tsinghua University, CHINA
Forwarding IPv4 Traffics in PURE IPv6 Backbone with Stateless Address Mapping
Technical Session 8: Policy Management  (Session Chair: Seraphin Calo)
  • Yacine M. Ghamri-Doudane, LRSM / IIE, FRANCE
  • Nazim Agoulmine, LRSM / University of Evry, FRANCE
  • Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, France Telecom R&D, FRANCE
P-SEAN: A Framework for Policy-Based Server Election in Ad hoc Networks
  • Nigel Sheridan-Smith, Tim O'Neill, and John Leaney, University of Technology, AUSTRALIA
  • Mark Hunter, Alcatel, AUSTRALIA
A Policy-Based Service Definition Language for Service Management
  • Marinos Charalambides, Paris Flegkas, George Pavlou, and Javier Rubio-Loyola, University of Surrey, UK
  • Arosha K Bandara, Emil Lupu, Alessandra Russo, Morris Sloman, Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London, UK
Dynamic Policy Analysis and Conflict Resolution for DiffServ Quality of Service Management
  • Korosh Golnabi, Richard K. Min, and Latifur Khan, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
  • Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA
Analysis of Firewall Policy Rules Using Data Mining Techniques
Technical Session 9: Wireless and Mobility Management  (Session Chair: Joe Hellerstein)
  • Rami Langar, GET-Telecom, FRANCE
  • Samir Tohme, PriSM Laboratory, FRANCE
  • Nizar Bouabdallah, INRIA, France
An Approach for Mobility Modeling – Towards an Efficient Mobility Management Support in Future Wireless Networks
  • Karoly Farkas, Florian Maurer, Lukas Ruf and Bernhard Plattner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Dominating Set Based Support For Distributed Services in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Remi Badonnel, Radu State, and Olivier Festor, LORIA-INRIA, FRANCE
Probabilistic Management of Ad-Hoc Networks
  • Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, and Luca Foschini, Universita di Bologna, ITALY
Proactive Management of Distributed Buffers for Streaming Continuity in Wired-Wireless Integrated Networks
Technical Session 10: Application Management and Self-management  (Session Chair: Xiaoyun Zhu)
  • Galen S. Swint, Gueyoung Jung, and Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  • Akhil Sahai, Hewlett-Packard, USA
Automated Staging for Built-to-Order Application Systems
  • Gunjan Khana, Purdue University, USA
  • Kirk Beaty, Gautam Kar and Andrzej Kochut, IBM, USA
Application Performance Management in Virtualized Server Environments
  • Panos Trimintzios, Michalis Polychronakis, Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Foukarakis, and Evangelos P. Markatos, Foundation for Research & Technology, GREECE
  • Arne Øslebø, UNINETT, NORWAY
DiMAPI: An Application Programming Interface for Distributed Network Monitoring
  • Emmanuel Lavinal, Thierry Desprats, and Yves Raynaud, Paul Sabatier University, FRANCE
A generic multi-agent conceptual framework towards self-management
Technical Session 11: Reliability and Robust Management  (Session Chair: Alexander Keller)
  • A.E. Conway and B. Khasnabish, Verizon, USA
End-to-End Network Reliability Modeling of Enterprise VoIP Services
  • He Huang, Nortel, USA
  • Shyhtsun Felix Wu, University of California at Davis, USA
An Integrated Solution to Protect Link State Routing Against Faulty Intermediate Routers
  • Yan Hu, D. M. Chiu, and John C. S. Lui, Chinese University of Hong Kong, CHINA
Adaptive Flow Aggregation - A New Solution for Robust Flow Monitoring Under Security Attacks
  • Jai-Jin Lim and Kang G. Shin, The University of Michigan, USA
System Support for Management of Networked Low-Power Sensors
Technical Session 12: Middleware Management  (Session Chair: Joan Serrat)
  • K. Ravindran and Jun Wu, City University of New York, USA
'dynamic protocol plug-in': a Middleware Provision for Enhancing Network Service Performance
  • Barbara Martini and Fabio Baroncelli, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario, ITALY
  • Piero Castoldi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, ITALY
On Information Modeling for the Management of Control Plane Functionality in Transport Networks
  • Manoj K Agarwal, Manish Gupta, Vijay Mann, and Narendran Sachindran, IBM, INDIA
  • Nikos Anerousis and Lily Mummert, IBM, USA
Problem Determination in Enterprise Middleware Systems Using Change Point Correlation of Time Series Data
  • Helcio Wagner da Silva and Luis Geraldo P. Meloni, State University of Campinas, BRAZIL
Utilization of the JINI Technology on Building of NMSs: From General Concepts to Prototypes Implemented

Thursday, 6 April 2006

Technical Session 13: Security Management  (Session Chair: Ryutaro Kawamura)
  • Rajarajan Sampath, International University in Germany, GERMANY
  • Jorn Altmann, Seoul National University, SOUTH KOREA and International University in Germany, GERMANY
UNIQuE: A User-Centric Framework for Network Identity Management
  • Xiapu Luo, Edmond W. W. Chan and Rocky K. C. Chang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, CHINA
Vanguard: A New Detection Scheme for a Class of TCP-Targeted Denial-of-Service Attacks
  • Matus Harvan and Jurgen Schonwalder, International University Bremen, GERMANY
Prefix- and Lexicographical-order-preserving IP Address Anonymization
  • Xiaoxin Shao, Shijin Kong, and Xing Li, Tsinghua University, CHINA
SANTT: Sharing Anonymized Network Traffic Traces Among Researchers
Technical Session 14: Performance Management  (Session Chair: Carlos Westphall)
  • Jan Coppens, Tim Wauters, Filip De Turck, Bart Dhoedt, and Piet Demeester, Ghent University, BELGIUM
Design and Performance of a Self-Organizing Adaptive Content Distribution Network
  • Weldson Queiroz de Lima, Rodrigo Sanger Alves, Ricardo Lemos Vianna, Maria Janilce Bosquiroli Almeida, Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, BRAZIL
Evaluating the Performance of SNMP and Web Services Notifications
  • Bruno Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, and Jussara Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, BRAZIL
  • Alex Zhang, Dirk Beyer, and Fereydoon Safai, Hewlett-Packard, USA
Self-Adaptive SLA-Driven Capacity Management for Internet Services
  • Yoshihiro Otsuka, Tatsuyuki Kimura, Hideki Yaginuma, and Souhei Majima, NTT Corporation, JAPAN
Implementation and Evaluation of a Multi-Layered Network Management System for GMPLS Networks