NGI 2008: Next Generation Internet Networks

8⁰⁰-8¹⁵	Opening of the Conference
8¹⁵-9⁰⁰	Keynote Speech Optical Networks: The Road Ahead Prof. Biswanath Mukherjee, UCDavis, Davis, USA
9⁰⁰-9³⁰	Coffee Break
9³⁰-11⁰⁰	Session I: Optimized Network Design Session Chair: Roberto Sabella, CoRiTel, Italy
9³⁰-9⁴⁵	Paper I.1 Designing Two-Level IP Networks Including the Points of Presence Steven Chamberland, Ecole Polytechnique, Canada
9⁴⁵-10⁰⁰	Paper I.2 Dynamic Grooming Policy in Groomable WDM Mesh Networks Huaxiong Yao, Yang Yan, Tan XiansiHuazhong University of Science and technology of China, P.R. China
10⁰⁰-10¹⁵	Paper I.3 Minimizing Installation Costs of Survivable DWDM-Mesh Networks: A Heuristic Approach Michael Duelli, Christopher Pluntke, Michael Menth, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
10¹⁵-10³⁰	Paper I.4 Transit Price Negotiation: Decentralized Learning of Optimal Strategies with Incomplete Information Dominique Barth, Loubna Echabbi, Chahinez Hamlaoui, University of Versailles-St Quentin, France
10³⁰-10⁴⁵	Paper I.5 Path Generation for a Class of Survivable Network Design Problems Mateusz Dzida, Michal Zagozdzon, Michal Pióro, Tomasz Sliwinski, Wlodzimierz Ogryczak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
10⁴⁵-11⁰⁰	Paper I.6 A Loop-Free Interface-Based Fast Reroute Technique Gábor Enyedi, Gábor Rétvári, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
11⁰⁰-11³⁰	Coffee Break
11³⁰-13⁰⁰	Session II: Quality of Service and Resource Control Session Chair: Paul J. Kuehn, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
11³⁰-11⁴⁵	Paper II.1 Designing Low Cost Access Networks with IPTV Performance Constraints Steven Chamberland, Ecole Polytechnique, Canada
11⁴⁵-12⁰⁰	Paper II.2 Trend Based Bandwidth Provisioning: An Online Approach for Traffic Engineered Tunnels Sukrit Dasgupta, Jaudelice de Oliveira, Drexel University, USA; Jean-Phillippe Vasseur, Cisco Systems, USA
12⁰⁰-12¹⁵	Paper II.3 Three Methods for Optimizing Single-Shortest Path Routing Mateusz Dzida, Michal Zagozdzon, Mateusz Zotkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; Mats Petter Petterson, Lund University, Sweden; Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; Michael Duelli, Michael Menth, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
12¹⁵-12³⁰	Paper II.4 Robust and Reactive Traffic Engineering for Dynamic Traffic Demands Pedro Casas, TELECOM Bretagne, France; Lionel Fillatre, UTT, France; Sandrine Vaton, ENST Bretagne, France
12³⁰-12⁴⁵	Paper II.5 The Flushing Mechanism for MBAC in Flow-Aware Networks Jerzy Domzal, Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
12⁴⁵-13⁰⁰	Paper II.6 Design and Analysis of Flow Aware Load Balancing Mechanisms for Multi-service Networks Andres Ferragut, Universidad ORT, Uruguay; Daniel Kofman, Federico Larroca, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France; Sara Oueslati, France Telecom R&D, France
13⁰⁰-14⁰⁰	Lunch
14⁰⁰-15³⁰	Session III: Future Internet Session Chair: Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
14⁰⁰-14¹⁵	Paper III.1 Hierarchical Routing Architecture (HRA) Xiaohu Xu, Dayong Guo, Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd., Germany
14¹⁵-14³⁰	Paper III.2 OSN-IX: A Novel Internet eXchange (IX) Architecture based on Overlaid-Star Networks Peng He, Gregor Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada
14³⁰-14⁴⁵	Paper III.3 An IPv6 Test-bed Implementation for a Future Source Address Validation Architecture Jun Bi, Jianping Wu, Xing Li, Xiangbin Cheng, Tsinghua University, P.R. China
14⁴⁵-15⁰⁰	Paper III.4 The Underlay Abstraction in the Spontaneous Virtual Networks (SpoVNet) Architecture Roland Bless, Christian Hübsch, Sebastian Mies, Oliver Waldhorst, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
15⁰⁰-15¹⁵	Paper III.5 A Protocol for Event Distribution in Next-Generation Dynamic Networks Carlos Pinho, José Ruela, INESC Porto, Portugal; Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland; Cornelia Kappler, deZem GmbH, Germany
15¹⁵-15³⁰	Paper III.6 Resource Adaptation for Continuous Profit Optimization in Overlay and Virtual Networks Con Tran, Zbigniew Dziong, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada
15³⁰-16⁰⁰	Coffee Break
16⁰⁰-17¹⁵	Session IV: Quality of Experience and Applications Session Chair: Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
16⁰⁰-16¹⁵	Paper IV.1 TCP Limit: A Streaming Friendly Transport Protocol Felicián Németh, Sándor Molnár, Péter Tarján, Robert Szabo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
16¹⁵-16³⁰	Paper IV.2 An Economical Cost Model for Fair Resource Sharing in Virtual Home Environments Alberto García, University of Cantabria, Spain; Andreas Berl, University of Passau, Germany; Karin Hummel, Roman Weidlich, University of Vienna, Austria; Amine Houyou, University of Passau, Germany; Klaus Hackbarth, University of Cantabria, Spain; Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany; Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna, Austria
16³⁰-16⁴⁵	Paper IV.3 Optimized Content Distribution in a Push-VoD Scenario Sandford Bessler, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria
16⁴⁵-17⁰⁰	Paper IV.4 Quality Evaluation of Compressed Panoramic Images Constructed using MPEG-7-Based Image Registration Andrzej Glowacz, Michał Grega, Piotr Romaniak, Mikolaj Leszczuk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
17⁰⁰-17¹⁵	Paper IV.5 Large Scale Distributed Storage and Search for a Video on Demand Streaming System Xonia Ivonne Olavarrieta, Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto, Canada
17³⁰-19⁰⁰	Euro-FGI General Assembly
19³⁰-21³⁰	Welcome Reception Collegium Maius of Jagiellonian University 15 Jagiellonska Street Standing party & guide visit to the museum of the oldest Polish University (founded at XIV century)

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

8⁰⁰-8⁴⁵	Keynote Speech Wireless Sensor Networks: Recent Trends and Research Issues Prof. Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
8⁴⁵-10⁰⁰	Session V: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Session Chair: Vicente Casares-Giner, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
8⁴⁵-9⁰⁰	Paper V.1 Near-Optimal Load Balancing in Dense Wireless Multi-Hop Networks Esa Hyytiä, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria; Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
9⁰⁰-9¹⁵	Paper V.2 A Wireless Sensor Network Reliable Architecture for Intrusion Detection Peter Langendorfer, IHP, Germany; António Grilo, INESC, Portugal; Krzysztof Piotrowski, IHP, Germany; Augusto Casaca, INESC, Portugal
9¹⁵-9³⁰	Paper V.3 Power Aware Smart Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks Laurence Hey, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
9³⁰-9⁴⁵	Paper V.4 Optimal p-persistent MAC Algorithm for Event-driven Wireless Sensor Networks Javier Vales-Alonso, Esteban Egea-Lopez, Maria Victoria Bueno-Delgado, Jose Luis Sieiro-Lomba, Joan Garcia-Haro, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain
9⁴⁵-10⁰⁰	Paper V.5 6GLAD: IPv6 Global to Link-layer Address Translation for 6LoWPAN Overhead Reducing Andre Zimmermann, Jorge Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Joao Bosco Sobral, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil; Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal
10⁰⁰-10³⁰	Coffee Break
10³⁰-12⁰⁰	Session VI: Wireless Networks Session Chair: Terje Jensen, Telenor, Norway
10³⁰-10⁴⁵	Paper VI.1 Space Versus Time Separation For Wireless Virtualization On An Indoor Grid Rajesh Mahindra, Gautam Bhanage, George Hadjichristofi, Ivan Seskar, Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Yanyong Zhang, Rutgers University, USA
10⁴⁵-11⁰⁰	Paper VI.2 Evaluation of UML Based Wireless Network Virtualization Shruti Singhal, George Hadjichristofi, Ivan Seskar, Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University, USA
11⁰⁰-11¹⁵	Paper VI.3 An Index Policy for Dynamic Fading-Channel Allocation to Heterogeneous Mobile Users with Partial Observations José Nino-Mora, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
11¹⁵-11³⁰	Paper VI.4 WiRA: An Approach to Resource Control in WiMAX Systems Eduardo Cerqueira, Augusto Neto, Marilia Curado, Paulo Mendes, Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Paulo Mendes, INESC, Portugal
11³⁰-11⁴⁵	Paper VI.5 Improved CSMA/CA protocol for IEEE 802.11 André Zúquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal
11⁴⁵-12⁰⁰	Paper VI.6 A Reactive Approach to QoS Provisioning in IEEE 802.11e WLANs Filippo Cacace, Giulio Iannello, Massimo Vellucci, Luca Vollero, Universita Campus Bio-Medico, Italy
12⁰⁰-13⁰⁰	Lunch
13⁰⁰-14¹⁵	Session VII: Measurement and Modeling Session Chair: James Roberts, France Telecom, France
13⁰⁰-13¹⁵	Paper VII.1 Measurements on the Feasibility of TCP NAT Traversal in Cellular Networks Lauri Mäkinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Jukka Nurminen, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
13¹⁵-13³⁰	Paper VII.2 Jitter Analysis of Multimedia Streaming Traffic Assuming Batch Arrivals Péter Zalán, Sándor Molnár, Tamás Eltetö, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
13³⁰-13⁴⁵	Paper VII.3 CoV(t)-based Traffic and Queuing Modeling Ludovic Noirie, Georg Post, Alcatel-Lucent France, France
13⁴⁵-14⁰⁰	Paper VII.4 An Open Architecture for Monitoring and Measuring QoS Indicators in Wireless Community Networks George Parissis, Stamatis Arkoulis, Theodore Apostolopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
14⁰⁰-14¹⁵	Paper VII.5 Identification of Peer-to-peer Applications' Flow Patterns Andre Couto, António Nogueira, Paulo Salvador, Rui Valadas, University of Aveiro, Portugal
14¹⁵-14⁴⁵	Coffee Break
14⁴⁵-15⁴⁵	Session VIII: Overlay Networks Session Chair: Raphael Rom, Technion, Israel
14⁴⁵-15⁰⁰	Paper VIII.1 BitTorrent Based Solution for Efficient Content Sharing on Next Generation Networks Peter Ekler, Istvan Dévai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary; Balazs Bakos, Attila Kiss, Nokia Siemens Networks, Hungary
15⁰⁰-15¹⁵	Paper VIII.2 Network Layer Performance in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Michele Sciuto, University of Genoa, Italy; Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
15³⁰-15⁴⁵	Paper VIII.4 Reputation Management for DHT-based Collaborative Environments Natalya Fedotova, Luca Veltri, University of Parma, Italy
15⁴⁵-16⁰⁰	Paper VIII.5 Dynamic Cooperation Enforcement through Trust-based Allocation Policies in P2P Systems Anna Satsiou, Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly, Greece
18⁰⁰-19³⁰	Trip in Krakow Start at The Barbican
19³⁰-22³⁰	Conference Banquet Aquarius Restaurant Barge at the foot of the Wawel Castle NGI 2008 Conference Best Paper Award

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

8³⁰-17³⁰	Workshop: Benchmarking Carrier Ethernet Technologies
9⁰⁰-9⁴⁵	Euro-NGI/Euro-FGI/Euro-NF Public Presentation
9⁴⁵-10⁰⁰	Closing of the conference Statistics & farewell
10⁰⁰-10³⁰	Coffee Break
14⁰⁰-15⁰⁰	Lunch