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TSM 1996
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems
Modeling and Analysis
March 21-24, 1996
The fourth International Conference on Telecommunication Systems was held March 21-24, 1996, in Nashville, TN. Close to 150 participants from 27 countries gave over 85 presentations on a variety of topics. Proceedings containing the papers presented during the conference have been produced and their table of contents is given below. The proceedings are available for sale.
Ordering Information for the Proceedings
The charge per copy of the proceedings is: 1. US, Canada, and surface delivery to other countries US$ 110
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Table of Contents
SESSION 1: The Internet and Intelligent Services Access Traffic Model Inferred from WWW Servers 1 Alan R. Bugos and Shuang Deng An Analysis of World-Wide Web Proxy Cache Performance and its 6 Application to the Modelling and Simulation of Network Traffic David Barnes and Neil G. Smith A Comparison of the Telephone Network and Internet Architectural 11 Paradigms Haruo Akimaru and Marion R. Finley, Jr. A Simple and Effective Algorithm for the Protection of Services 18 During SCP Overload Michael P. Rumsewicz SESSION 2: Performance Evaluation -- 1 An Approach for Network Diagnosis Based on Performance Analysis 24 Katsunori Ori, Hiroyuki Kawano, Yutaka Takahashi and Toshiharu Hasegawa Product-Form in Closed Discrete-Time Queueing Networks with 33 Size-Limited Batch Movement and Independent Routing Michael E. Woodward Models of Call Queueing in Multi-Slot Circuit-Switched Networks 48 Les T.M. Berry, Sergei A. Berezner and Anthony E. Krzesinski Simulations of Large Telecommunication Networks Based on 54 Probabilistic Modeling Sergei Zuyev, Pascal Desnogues and Hery Rakotoarisoa SESSION 3: Network Design and Analysis The Network/Server Design Problem 67 Robert S. Cahn Investigation of Failure Forecasting Algorithms 79 Richard A. Butler and G. C. McPherson Topological Transformations in Application to Computer Networks 87 Protocols Mark Korenblit, Yury Zlotnikov and Vadim E. Levit Low-Bandwidth Access: An Evaluation of Application Level Protocol 97 Compressibility Stephen Perkins and Matt W. Mutka OPENING SESSION Keynote Address Telecommunications Evolution: Vision and Challenge 109 David Kettler SESSION 4: Performance Evaluation -- 2 Analysis of Waiting Time of Gated M/G/1/K with/without Vacations 110 under Random Order of Service and LCFS Masayoshi Kobayashi, Yutaka Takahashi and Toshiharu Hasegawa A Model for the Evaluation of Blocking with Delayed, Correlated 121 Reattempts and Called Customer Behavior Carlo Di Brigida, Alberto Tonietti and Milena Butto Blocking and Preempting Probabilities of Calls in a Priority Network 129 Veronique Veque Zeros of Successive Derivatives and Closed Queueing Networks 137 Arie Harel, Su Hyeon Namn and Jacob Sturm SESSION 5: Multimedia Communication Issues Joint Multimedia Communication Experiments and Traffic Management 138 Konosuke Kawashima Application of Virtual-Path-Based Error Control Coding in ATM 145 Networks Carrying MPEG Video George Thomas A Dependency-Based Strategy for Handling ATM Cell Loss in MPEG-2 152 Transport Streams Mark J. Clement and Dean L. Scoville New Self-Healing Algorithms for ATM Multicasting Networks 162 Youngmi Kwon, Jaime B. Kim, Tatsuya Suda and Chongsang Kim SESSION 6: Distributed Systems Reproducible Testing for Distributed Programs 172 Hwan Wook Sohn, David C. Kung, Pei Hsia, Yasufumi Toyoshima and Chris Chen A Distributed Management Information Tree 179 Seamus O'Shea and Aidan Quinn Simultaneous Resource Possession in Distributed Systems 184 Peder J. Emstad and Arne Folkestad A Distributed Query and Retrieval System 189 Balaji Gopalakrishman, Anil Kumar, Antonio Monteiro and David Rubin SESSION 7: Nomadicity On Nomadicity 196 Leonard Kleinrock The Impact of Mobility on Cellular Network Configuration 197 Bezalel Gavish and Suresh Sridhar Performance Modeling of a Wireless Channel Access Protocol 212 Kurt Podlogar, David T. Chen and Chung-Chieh Lee The Capacitated Hierarchical p-median Problem for Facility Locations 223 of PCS Networks Min-Jeong Kim, Sang-Baeg Kim and Kwan-Hong Ryu SESSION 8: Wireless Communication A New Dynamic Channel Assignment Algorithm for Cellular Mobile 229 Communication Systems Seong-Lyun Kim, Geon Cho and Sehun Kim Performance Analysis of Stochastic Algorithms for Topological Design 232 of Cellular Mobile Communication Networks Mohammad Shahbaz SS/TDMA Scheduling of Real-Time Periodic Messages 244 Ian R. Philp and Jane W.S. Liu A New Model of Protocol Stack for Wireless-ATM 252 Lu Wei SESSION 9 ATM Network Design Design and Control of ATM/SDH Networks 259 Michael A.H. Dempster, Elena A. Medova, H. Azmoodeh, P. B. Key and Stephen K. Sargood Stochastic Programming Approach to Dynamic Virtual Path Capacity 270 Allocation in ATM Networks Mario Bonatti, Francesco Fantauzzi and Alexei A. Gaivoronski ATM Network Topological Design: Heuristic and Lower Bound 275 Shuzhi Zhang, Griff L. Bilbro and Salah E. Elmaghraby Augmented Lagrangean Method for Routing in Frame and Cell Relay 285 Networks with Time Restrictions Kemal Altinkemer and Bezalel Gavish SESSION 10: Internet and Electronic Commerce Anonymity Servers on the Internet 295 John Gerdes The Impact of the World Wide Web on Competition and Distribution 296 Channels in Consumer Markets Sunil Gupta Performance Analysis and Modeling of a WWW Internet Server 297 J. M. de Almeida, Cristina D. Murta, Adriana A. Oliveira, M. A. de Souza Mendes and V.A.F. Almeida DINNER SESSION Keynote Address Commerce and Society in Cyberspace 301 Douglas E. Crockford SESSION 11: Economic Issues in Telecommunications The Internet, its Brazilian Model and an Approach to a Pricing 302 Policy for its Operation in Brazil Jose' Carlos Cavalcanti and Jose' Ricardo Nogueira Priority Pricing on the Internet 311 Miguel A. Perez and Claudio Aldana An Economic Model of Group Decision Support Systems 319 Bezalel Gavish and Joakim Kalvenes SESSION 12: Performance Analysis Simulation and Analysis of the Performance of EPRCA in a Wide Area 330 ATM Network Consisting of Both ER and EFCI Switch Mechanisms Robert Walthall and Mark J. Clement A Controller for the Stabilization of End-to-End Congestion: Single 340 Source Case Hongyi Zhang, Oliver W. Yang and H. Mouftah Performance Optimization of an ACD System Using Discrete Event 347 Simulation Carlos Islas and Javier Esparza SESSION 13: Security and Privacy Firewall Strategies for Telecommunication Network Security 356 Christoph Kroell and Manfred Bertelsmeier Analysis of Security and Privacy in Mobile-IP 363 Andreas Fasbender, Dogan Kesdogan and Olaf Kubitz Linear Complexity Stability in Stream Ciphering for High Speed 371 Networks Miguel Soriano, Jordi Forne and Jose Luis Melus Network Staffing Decisions Based Upon Network Fault Data 379 Andrew P. Snow and Martin B.H. Weiss SESSION 14: Design of Reliable Networks Survivable Transmission Layer Network Planning for the International 385 Telecommunication Network Daegyoo Jang, Kwan-Hong Ryu and Kwang-Suk Kim An Integrated Approach to a Capacitated Survivable Network Design 391 Problem Fabrice Poppe and Piet Demeester Designing Reliable Networks and Using Distributed Rerouting 398 Dritan Nace, Jacques Carlier and Jean-Luc Lutton Integrated Model for Designing Reliable Networks 405 Ahmad Sultan and André Girard SESSION 16: Satellite Based Communication Systems Low Earth Orbit Satellite Based Communication Systems -- Research 412 Issues Bezalel Gavish Leonart: A Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communication Systems Analysis 420 Framework Jean-Jacques De Ridder A Decision Support Model for Economic Evaluation of 428 Telecommunication Services Based on New Satellite Systems Alex Bordetsky, David Wierschem and Raymond Lutz Optimizing Data Transmission Capacity on Satellite Links with 436 Non-Zero Bit Error Rates Hans Kruse SESSION 17: Centralized Network Design Centralized Computer Network Topology Design 440 Hasan Pirkul and Rakesh Gupta A Tightest Formulation for a Local Access Network Design Problem 452 Felipe Chamas, Henrique Pacca and Ernesto Santibanez-Gonzalez Model and Heuristic for a Generalized Access Network Design Problem 457 Geraldo R. Mateus and Raphael Valery L. Franqueira Network Design Issues and Performance Analysis of ATM-based Local 464 Area Network Viktoria Elek, H. L. Phan and Csaba Szabo SESSION 18: Fiber and SONET Efficient Ring Creation Procedure for Design of SDH/SONET 473 Transmission Networks Alexandre Nitchiporenko, Ana Mata-Rodriguez and Javier Yanez SONET Ring Design with Cutset Inequalities and Other Speedups: Some 477 Computational Experience Jerry Harder SONET Planning Using Optimization Tools in Large Networks: A 493 Practical Case Study Saulo Bortolon, Hermano Tavares and Raul Vinhas Ribeiro The Impact of Fiber Nonlinearities on the Architecture of Optical 500 Data Networks Richard A. Thompson SESSION 19: Panel Discussion The Universal Access Dilemma 503 Martin B.H. Weiss, Link Hoewing, Mark Jamison, Christopher C. Klein and Judith Molka-Danielsen SESSION 20: Modelling of Traffic Control in ATM Policing and Traffic Shaping at the UNI (A Sticky Buffer in Tandem 504 with a Spacer) Alan G. Konheim and Gisli Hjalmtysson Leaky Bucket with Gate Algorithm for Connection-Setup Congestion 508 Control in Multimedia Networks Takumi Kimura and Takuya Asaka New Approaches for the Congestion Control in ATM Networks 517 Dominique Gaiti and Nadia Boukhatem Analysis of Delayed Task Processing in Multiplexing Spacer Outputs 527 on Cell Emissions Guven Mercankosk, Wesley Soet and M. Gopalan Nair SESSION 21: High Speed Networks Blocking in Multiwavelength TDM Networks 535 Jennifer Yates, Jonathon Lacey and David Everitt Study and Dimensioning of a 2-Threshold Adaptive Playout Mechanism 542 Catherine Rosenberg, Charles Levert and Annie Gravey Backbone Dimensioning of a Data Packet Switched Network with High 553 Speed Links Milena Butto, Domenico Marocco and Marco Quagliotti A Distributed Operation Support System for Multicast Communications 560 in High Speed Networks Yeali S. Sun SESSION 22: Charging for Services Some Aspects of Charging in ATM Networks 567 Johan M. Karlsson Local Telephony Access Costs: Empirical Cost Functions for Rural 574 and Urban Areas Judith Molka-Danielsen and Martin B.H. Weiss Pricing and Design of a Corporate B-ISDN Network in a Competitive 585 Environment Ahmed Ben Cheikh, Andre Girard and Bernard Liau Corporate E-mail in Europe - Requirements, Usage and Ways Ahead 600 Kai Jakobs, Rob Proctor, Robin Williams and Martina Fichtner SESSION 23: LAN Interconnection Interconnecting LANs and a FDDI Backbone Using Transparent Bridges 606 Fred Kaefer and June S. Park Interconnecting Remote LANs using SMDS: A Model and Solution 612 Algorithms Larry J. LeBlanc, June S. Park, Russell Reddoch and Byungha Lim The Simplified Multipoint Communications Service over Multicast 613 Transport Protocol Su-Yeon Kim SESSION 24: SDH Networks A Heuristic Approach for SDH Transmission Network Evolution 620 Anilton Salles Garcia and Gustavo Balestrero Zanandrea Simulation of the Error Monitoring in the Transmission of ATM Cells 627 Over the SDH Richard A. Butler and K. J. Moore Integrating Learning and Collaboration into Distributed 638 Knowledge-Based Management of SONET/SDH Telecommunication Networks Alex Bordetsky, Paul B. Westerfield SESSION 25: Routing Utility-Theoretic Heuristics for Intelligent Adaptive Routing in 660 Large Communication Networks Armin R. Mikler, Vasant Honavar and Johnny S.K. Wong Routing Design of Tree-Shaped Local Public Communication Networks with High Reliability and Low Cost Takako Yamada and Yukio Takahashi An Optimal Demand Routing for Bidirectional Self-Healing Rings 677 Dae-Geun Kim, Sang-Baeg Kim and Tae-Kon Yang
