Subject: Call for Participation for IC3N'98

From: yuguang fang fac/staff <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 12:48:00 -0400 (EDT)

Dear colleagues 

We have put up a very nice program for IC3N this year, you could find more 
information about the conference at http://www.cacs.usl.edu/~ic3n. Please 
join us for a wonderful conference. Appended is the technical program for 
your quick reference. 

Thank you for your attention. 

Best Regards, 

Yuguang "Michael" Fang 
Program Vice-Chair for IC3N'98 

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               IEEE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
                 COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
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                 TENTATIVE TECHNICAL ADVANCE PROGRAM
                 ***********************************

                        October 12 - 15, 1998
                     Lafayette Hilton and Towers 
                         Lafayette, Louisiana

            Co-Sponsored by Army Research Laboratory and BellSouth
        Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and NASA
                     In Cooperation with, NIST, NSF, USL                 

Registration: (7:30 PM - 8:30 PM, Oct. 11, Sun)
              (7:30 AM - 8:45 AM, Oct. 12, Mon)
              (7:30 AM - 8:30 AM, Oct. 13, Tue)
              (7:30 AM - 8:30 AM, Oct. 14, Wed)
              (7:30 AM - 8:30 AM, Oct. 15, Thu)
        
TECHNICAL PROGRAM (October 12 - 15, 1998)

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                      Sunday, October 11
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7:30 - 8:30 PM Registration and Welcome Refreshments 

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                      Monday, October 12
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7:30-8:30 AM       Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:00 AM       Openning Session and Welcoming Messages

                   KIA MAKKI, IC3N'98 Program Chair
                   (University of Southwestern Louisiana)
                   NIKI PISSINOU, IC3N'98 General Chair
                   (University of Southwestern Louisiana)
                   USL Officials
                   IMRICH CHLAMTAC, IC3N'98 Program Chair
                   (University of Texas at Dallas)
                   BISWANATH MUKHERJEE, IC3N'98 General Chair
                   (University of California, Davis)

9:00-10:00 AM      Keynote Address
                   "The Impact of the Network on Both DoD and Industry"
                    Anthony Pressley, Director, Major Share Resource
                    Center, Army Research Lab

10:00-10:30 AM     Coffee Break

Monday, 10:30-12:00 Noon, Three Parallel Sessions (1,2,3)
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Session 1: ATM NETWORKS I

           Chair: K. V. Bhat, Lucent Technologies

1. Improved VC-Merging for Multiway Communications in ATM networks
R.Venkateswaran ( Lucent Technologies )
Shizhao Li, Nirwan Ansari
New Jersey Institute of Technology
X.Chen ( Lucent Tech. Bell Laboratories )
C.S. Raghavendra ( Aerospace Organization )

2. Jitter Reduction in CBR HDTV Transport Packet Stream Communications on AAL5 Loss
y ATM Network
Jong Moo Sohn, JongIck Lee, Moon Key Lee ( Yonsei University)
ByungRyul Lee, InHwa Hong ( Korea Electronics Technology Institute )

3. Bandwidth Allocation in ATM Networks: Heuristic Approach (S)
Piya Tanthawichian, Akihiro Fujii, Yoshiaki Nemoto
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan   

4. Cell Loss and Call Blocking at an ATM Multiplexor (S)
B Kraimeche
Washington State University

Session 2: MOBILE Communications NETWORKS
  
           Chair: Tong Liu, Ascend Communications, Inc.

1. Fast Recovery Protocol for Database and Link Failures in Mobile Networks
Govind Krishnamurti, Stefano Chessa, Arun K Somani
(Iowa State University)

2. A Distributed Rerouting Algorithm for Mobile Mobile Connections in 
Connection Oriented Networks (S)
Gopal Racherla, Sridhar Radhakrishnan ( University of Oklahoma )
Chandra N Sekharan ( Loyola University at Chicago )

3. Team Awareness with Mobile agents in Mobile Environments (S)
C.Burger
University of Stuttgart

4. Efficient  Distributed Channel Allocation for Mobile Cellular Networks
Guohong Cao, Mukesh Singhal
(Ohio State University)

Session 3: NETWORK PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS I

           Chair: Ernest L. Walker, Southern University, Baton Rouge

1. Performance Comparison of CRAM, SEAM and SPAM Multipoint VC Schemes 
for ATM Networks
Sridhar Komandur ( Ascend Communications )
Daniel Mosse ( University of Pittsburg )
Jon Crowcroft ( University College London )
				      
2. Performance Analysis and Simulation of the SOME-BUS architecture using 
Message Passing (S)
Constantine Katsinis
(University of Alabama in Huntsville)

3. The Effect of Network Hierarchy Structure on Performance of ATM PNNI
   Hierarchical Routing
Baruch Awerbuch, Yi Du  (Johns Hopkins University)
Yuval Shavitt ( Bell Laboratories )

4. Performance Modeling of High Probability Call Competition Features (S)
Patrick V McGregor
(Nyquetek, Inc)

12:00-1:15 PM    LUNCH 

1:15-2:15 PM     KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

2:15-2:30 PM     Coffee Break

Monday, 2:30-4:00 PM, Three Parallel Sessions (4,5,6)
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Session 4: ATM SWITCHING I

           Chair: Arun K. Somani, Iowa State University

1. Design Considerations in an ATM Switch Design
Parimal Patel, Saad Zahid
(University of Texas at San Antonio)

2. A Novel Performance Analysis for the Copy Network in a Multicast ATM Switch
Ali N.Akansu, Feihong Chen, Bulent Yener, Sirin Tekinay
(New Jersey Institute of Technology)

3. Scheduling Input Queued ATM Switches with QOS Features
Shizhao Li, Nirwan Ansari
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Session 5: ATM NETWORKS II

           Chair: Caroline Fayet, INT, France

1. Multimedia over ATM : Progress, Status and Future
Bing Zheng, Mohammed Atiquzzaman
(University of Dayton)

2. Adaptive Acknowledgement Scheme for Efficient Error Control in ATM 
Clustering System
Tag Gon Kim, Jong-Kwon Lee, Yong-Jae Kim, Jae Woong Chung
(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
 
3. Providing ATM Multipoint Survivability Via Disjoint VC Mesh Backup Groups 
Willam Yurcik
(University of Pittsburgh)

Session 6: INDUSTRIAL PANEL 

           Chair: Sudhir Dixit, Nokia Research Center

4:00-4:30 PM COFFEE BREAK

Monday, 4:30-6:30 PM, Three Parallel Sessions (7,8,9)
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Session 7: ROUTING I

           Chair: Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia
  
1. Optimal Routing Scheme for Maximizing Bottleneck Residual BW under 
Multiple Constraints   
Hiroto MASAKI, Toshikane ODA
(KDD R&D Laboratories) 

2. On the Vulnerability and Protection of OSPF Routing Protocol(s)
Feiyi Wang
(North Carolina State University)

3. Comparative Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols for Mobile 
Ad Hoc Networks
Samir Das ( University of Texas at San Antonio )
Rimli Sengupta ( Rose Hulman Institute of Technology )

4. On Routing Algorithms With End to End Delay Guarantees (S)
Nageswara S V Rao, Stephen G Batsell
(Oak Ridge NationalLaboratories)

Session 8: TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

           Chair: Mukesh Singhal, Ohio State University

1. A Rate-Controller for the ATM Network
Tong Shan, Oliver Yang
University of Ottawa
 
2. Phase Assignment Algorithm Based on Traffic Measurement for Periodic 
VBR Sourcesin ATM Networks (S)
Shinya Tojo, Fumio Ishizaki, Chikara Ohta
University of Tokushima

3. Traffic Control in High-Speed ATM Networks
Oliver W.W.Yang, Peifang Zhou
University of Ottawa

4. Traffic Load Balancing in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks (S)
Yun Sik Kim, Young-Ho Bae, YoungJae Kim, Chul Hye Park
Wireless Communications Research Laboratory, Korea

5. AFEC: An Adaptive Forward Error Correction Protocol for End-to-End 
Transport of Real-Time Traffic
Kihong Park, Wei Wang
(Purdue University)

Session 9: MULTIMEDIA NETWORKS

           Chair: Niki Pissinou, University of Southwestern Louisiana

1. The Multicast Multimedia Conference Recorder
Lambros Lambrinos, Peter Kirstein, Vicky Hardman
(University College London)

2. The Impact of Active Queue Management on Multimedia Congestion Control
Wu-chang Feng ( University of Michigan )
Wu-chi Feng ( Ohio State University )

3. A Multi Level Buffering and Feedback Schemes for Distributed Multimedia 
Presentation Systems
Markus Mielke, Thomas Vinod, Aidong Zhang
(State University of New York at Buffalo)

4. An Adaptive Hybrid Technique for Video Multicast
JungHwan Oh, Kien A Hua
(University of Central Florida)

7:00-9:00 PM CONFERENCE RECEPTION

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                      Tuesday, October 13
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7:30-8:30 AM       Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:30 AM       Keynote Address
                   "High End Computer Networking Testbeding at NASA"
                    Pat Gary, Network Projects leader, GSFC/NASA

9:30-10:00 AM      Coffee Break

Tuesday, 10:00-12:00 Noon, Three Parallel Sessions (10,11,12)
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Session 10: CONGESTION CONTROL

            Chair: Hamid Sharif, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

1. A Dynamic Congestion Avoidance Algorithm Scheme for ATM Networks
N Boukhatem, L Boukhatem
Prism Laboratory, (University of Versailles), France

2. Flow Control in the High Speed Thunder and Lightning ATM Network
Michael D Santos ,P M Melliar Smith, L E Moser
(University of California, Santa Barbara)

3. ABR Service in ATM Networks: Performance Comparison between Adaptive, 
Stochastic, ERICA, BECN and BP Congestion Control Schemes with guaranteed 
Minimum Cell Rate
Slobodan S.Petrovic
(University Of Sydney), Australia

4. Enhancing Accuracy of Probe Packet-based Congestion Detection in High 
Speed Networks
Yi Du, Gerald M Masson 
(The Johns Hopkins University)

5. Window-Time-Space Flow Control
Julije Ozegovic
(University of Split)

Session 11: NETWORK SECURITY

            Chair: James D. McCabe, NAS Systems Division

1. Enhance Network Security with Dynamic Packet Filter
Heikki Julkunen, Edward Chow
(University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)

2. An Evolutionary Approach to Multilaterally Secure Services in ISDN/IN
Reiner Sailer
(University of Stuttgart)

3. System Survey : Building an Authenicity Profile (S)
Jean Jacques BASCOU, Laurence REDON
(Universite TOULOUSE II)

4. Analysis Of A Non Repudiation Authentication Protocol For Personal
Communication Systems (S)
Jerrold Stach
(University Of Missouri-Kansas City)

Session 12: MULTICASTING I
 
            Chair: Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong

1. On the Performance and Feasibility of Multicast Core Selection of Heuristics
Eric Fleury, Yih Huang, Philip K MckKinley
(Michigan State University) 

2. Low Cost Bounded Delay Multicast Routing for QoS Based Networks
Tawfig Alrabiah, Taeib Znati
(University of Pittsburgh)

3. Incorporation of Flow and QoS Control in Multicast Routing Architectures 
K Ravindran, Dmitri Loguinov
(The City University of New York)

4. Multicast Communication in a Class of Wide-Sense Nonblocking Optical WDM 
Networks
Chunling Zhou, Yuanyuan Yang
(University of Vermont)

5. Clustering Algorithms for Multilevel  Address Hierarchies
Mary E. Chamlee, Ellen W. Zegura
(Georgia Institute of Technology)

12:00-1:15 PM    LUNCH 

1:15-2:15 PM     KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

2:15-2:30 PM     Coffee Break

Tuesday, 2:30-4:00 PM, Three Parallel Sessions (13,14,15)
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Session 13: ROUTING II

            Chair: Ming-Yang Kao, Yale University

1. Asynchronous Deflection with Transient Buffers
Wladek Olesinski, Pawel G
(University of Alberta)

2. An Approach to Optimal Peering Between Autonomous Systems
in the Internet
Daniel O Awduche, Johnson Agogbua, Jim McManus
(UUNET Technologies)

3. Distributed Algorithms for the Constrained Routing Problem in Computer Networks
Yung Chen Hung
(Soochow University), Taiwan

Session 14: NETWORK PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS II

            Chair: Mike West, DSC Communications

1. Hierarchical Approach to Performance Analysis of Self Healing SONET Networks
Hakki C Cankaya,  V S S Nair
(Southern Methodist University)

2. Performance of Linux Implementation of Class Based Queueing
KJ loh, Irwin Gui, KC Chua
(National University of Singapore)

3. On the Fly Test Generation for Real Time Protocols
R. Castanet, P. Laurencot, O. Kone
(Universite Bordeaux)

Session 15: WIRELESS MULTIPLE ACCESS

            Chair: Melody Moh, San Jose State University

1. Hop Reservation Multiple Access(HRMA) for Multichannel Packet Radio Networks
Zhenyu Tang, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
(University of California, Santa Cruz)

2. An access etiquette for Very Wide Wireless Bands
R. Garces, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves ( University of California, Santa Cruz )
Raphael Rom ( Sun Microsystems Laboratories )

3. HAMAC : AN Adaptive Channel Access Protocol for Multimedia Wireless Networks
Lixin Wang, Mounir Hamdi
(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

4:00-4:30 PM COFFEE BREAK

Tuesday, 4:30-6:30 PM, Three Parallel Sessions (16,17,18)
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Session 16: WIRELESS LANs

            Chair: Marc Williams, Northern Telecom

1. Experimental Evaluation of Channel State Dependent Scheduling in an In-building 
Wireless LAN
Saman Desilva, Samir R.Das
University of Texas at San Antonio 

2. Wireless LAN : Study of Hidden Terminal Effect and the Multimedia Support
Melody Moh, Don Ming Yao ( San Jose State University )
Kia Makki ( University of Southwestern Louisiana )

3. Peer to Peer Communication in Wireless LAN
Mort Naraghi Pour ( Louisiana State University )
Manju Hegde ( Washington University )
Ramesh Pallapotu ( COMSEARCH )

Session 17: VIDEO COMMUNICATION

            Chair: Jeremy Thompson, Computer Communications, UK

1. A New Model for Multilayer Real Time Video Transmission for ATM Networks
Gamze Seckin, Forouzan Golshani
(Arizona State University)

2. New Statistical Model for VBR Video Traffic in ATM Networks
Gajendra Sisodia ,Subrata De, Mark Hedley, Ling Guan
(University of Sydney), Australia 

3. Optimal video Placement for Hierarchical Video-on-Demand Systems
Ren-Hung Hwang, Youn-Chen Sun
(National Chung Cheng University), Taiwan

4. Simulation and Analysis of an ATM Video-on-Demand Network Using 
Available Bit Rate Service  
Elvin L. Taylor and Scott F. Midkiff
Virginia Tech

Session 18: OPTICAL NETWORKS 

            Chair: Chunming Qiao, SUNY Buffalo 

1. A Flexible Architecture for Multi-Hop Optical Networks
A.Jaekal S.Bandyopadhyay ( University of Windsor )
A.Sengupta ( University of South Carolina )

2. Wavelength Assignment for Dynamic Traffic Multifiber WDM Networks
Xijun Zhang, Chunming Qiao
(State University of New York at Buffalo)

3. Efficient Scheduling Algorithms for Real-Time Service on WDM Optical Networks
M.Hamdi, B.Hamidzadeh, M.Maode
Hongkong University of Science and Technology

4. Performance of Multihop Communications Using Logical Topologies on 
Optical Torus Networks
X.Yuan, R.Melhem, R.Gupta
(University of Pittsburgh)

5. All-Optical Multi-layer switching Architectures: (I) M X N-gon Switches
Josef Giglmayr
(SNAFU), Germany

7:00-10:00 PM, CONFERENCE BANQUET With CAJUN'S ENTERTAINMENTS

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                      Wednesday, October 14
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7:30-8:30 AM       Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:30 AM       Keynote Address
                   "Advanced Development of Networks"
                    Phil Dykstra, Army Research Lab

9:30-10:00 AM      Coffee Break

Wednesday, 10:00 AM - 12 Noon, Three Parallel Sessions (19,20,21)
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Session 19: NETWORK MANAGEMENT

            Chair: H. K. Pung, National University of Singapore

1. The Design and Implementation of a Network Management Platform for TMN
Dongjin Han, Wen Zhe Cui, Youngeun Park, Sunshin An
(Korea University)

2. Web Based Management Framework of Advanced Telecommunications Network
Naoto Makinae, Hamuro Daisuke, Hikaru suzuki
(Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corporation)  

3. Enhanced Network Management for Online Services
V S Savant, S Papavassiliou, J J Tupino, A G Zawadzki
(AT&T Laboratories)

4. A Study on a Management Interface for VP Protection Switching
Tatsuyuki Kimura, Tatsuhiko YOSHIDA
(NTT Network Service System Laboratories)

Session 20: IPv6 over ATM NETWORKS

            Chair: Nada Golmie, NIST 

1. New Possibilities Offered by IPv6 (S)
Loukola M.V, Skytta J.O
(Helsinki University of Technology)

2. Incorporating Priority Scheme in IPv6 over ATM Networks
Kee Way Ng and Liren Zhang
(Nanyang Technological University), Singapore

3. Label Switching and IP Version 6 (S)
Paul Boustead, Scott Barnett, Joe Chicaro, Gary Anido
(University of Wollongong)

4. RTMC: An Error Control Protocol for IP-based Audio-Visual Multicast 
Applications
George Carle, Jorg Ottensmeyer
(Seimens AG, Munich)

5. HYDRANET : Network Support for Scaling of Large Scale Services
Hamesh Chawla, Geoff Dillon, Ricardo Bettati
(Texas A&M University at College Station)

Session 21: QUALITY OF SERVICE 

            Chair: Yuguang "Michael" Fang, New Jersey Institute of Technology

1. Complete Sharinf Vs Partitioning : Quality of Service Mgmt FOR 
Wireless Multimedia Networks  
Frederick S Lai, Jelena Misic, Samuel T Chanson
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

2. GCSVA A Multiparty Video Conferencing System with Distributed Group 
and QoS Management (S) 
Ines Beier, Hartmut Koenig
(Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus)

3. A QoS Engineering Architecture for the Next-Generation-Internet
Latha Kant, Gopal Meempat (Bellcore)

4. A Multipoint-to-multipoint Multicast over ATM Supporting Heterogeneous 
and Flexible QoS (S)
A S Leow, H K Pung
(National University of Singapore)

4. Distributed QoS Routing with Imprecise State Information
Shigang Chen, Klara Nahrstedt
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

12:00-1:15 PM    LUNCH 

1:15-2:15 PM     KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

2:15-2:30 PM     Coffee Break

Wednesday, 2:30-4:00 PM, Three Parallel Sessions (22,23,24)
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Session 22: INTERNET AND WORLD WIDE WEB

            Chair: Joe Wigglesworth, IBM Toronto

1. Design and Implementation of an Extranet based Web System Dedicated 
to Online Standards Development Process(S)
Hyoungjun kim, Kyoungcheol koo, Gipyeung song, Kishik Park 
(Protocol Engineering Center, ETRI)

2. Wireless Internet Access with DECT
Cartsen Pils, Olaf Kubitz, Jens Meggers
(Aachen University of Technology)

3. Maximal Network for Best Effort Services  with Fair Availability
Takashi Kurimoto, Takashi Shimizhu, Ryutaro Kawamura
(NTT Optical Network Systems Laboratories)

4. A Proxy Server experiment : An Indication of the Changing Nature 
of the Web (S)
MAJ Richard Howard, MAJ Bernard J.Jansen
(United States Military Academy)

Session 23: GOVERNMENT PANEL (FUNDING)

            Chair: Anthony Pressley, Director, Major Share Resource
                   Center, Army Research Lab

Session 24: ATM SWITCHING II

            Chair: Bharathi Devi, MCI Telecommunications

1. A Parallel-Tree Switch Architecture for ATM Networks (S)
Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Habib Youssef, Wasif Hasan
(King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals)

2. Computing Call Blocking in a 3-stage ATM Switch with Sequential Routing
(S)
Ahmed Ziram, Monique.Becker( Universite Paris )
Andre-Luc Beylot ( Universite de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelinesi)

3. Design and Simulation of a Slotted Ring ATM Switch
Robert R. Henry and Dale Wooley
(University of Southwestern Louisiana)

4. Analysis of Nonuniform Traffic in a Switching Network (S)
Nader Mir
(University Of Kentucky)

4:00-4:30 PM COFFEE BREAK

Wednesday, 4:30-6:30 PM, Three Parallel Sessions (25,26,27)
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Session 25: VIDEO COMMUNICATION

            Chair: Symeon Papavassiliou, AT&T Laboratories

1. Characterize the Minimum Required Resources for Admission Control of 
Pre Recorded VBR Video Transmission by an O(nlogn) Algorithm
Ming Tat Ko, Jan Ming Ho, Meng Chang Cheng, Ray I Chang
(Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica Taiwan)

2. Comparative Study of Scalable Batching Policies in Disk Array Based 
Deterministic Video on Demand Servers
Emmanuel L Abram-Profeta, Kang G Shin
(University of Michigan)

3. A Low Bandwidth Broadcasting Protocol for Video on Demand
Jehan-Francois Paris ( University of Houston )
Steven W.Carter, Darrell D.E.Long ( University of California, Santa Cruz )

4. SCCS Scalable Conferencing Control Service
Dirk Trossen, Karl-Heinz Scharer
(Technical University of Aachen), Germany

Session 26: WIRELESS NETWORKS

            Chair: Danny Wilson, BellSouth 

1. A Two-Phase Inter-Switch Handoff Scheme for Wireless ATM Networks (S)
Khaled Salah ( Tellabs Operations Inc )
Elias Drakapoulos ( Lucent Technologies )

2. Broadcast Scheduling in Packet Radio Networks
Thai H P Vuong, Dung T Huynh
(University of Texas at Dallas)

3. Distinguishing Congestion Losses from Wireless Transmission Losses
Saad Biaz, Nitin H.Vaidya
(Texas A&M University)

4. Simulating Cellular System Behaviour with Boundary Effects by Embedding
the Network Model on a Torus (S)
Mihaela Iridon, David Matula
(Southern Methodist University)

5. Providing Seamless Handoff In Wireless ATM Networks (S)
Dong-Ho Kim, Hyung-Jun Kim, Sun-Shin An
(Korea University)

6. Adapting Wireless Links to Support Standard Network Protocols 
G Michael Butler, Kevin H Grace
(Miter Corporation)

Session 27: ROUTING III

            Chair: Senad Busovaca, California State University, Sacramento

1. Service-Specific ABR Routing Algorithms
Youngsu Chae, Ellen W.Zegura
(Georgia Institute Of Technology)

2. A Concurrent TTCN Based Approach to Conformance Testing of Distributed 
Routing Protocol OSPF V2
Jun Bi, Jianping Wu
(Tsinghua University)

3. Improving the PIM Routing Protocol
James Holt ( Motorola )
Wuxu Peng ( Southwest Texas State university )

4. Enhancing ABR Through an Improved Control Infrastructure (S)
Frans van de Bergh, John Botha, Jan Roos
(University of Pretoria)

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                      Thursday, October 15
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7:30-8:30 AM       Registration and Continental Breakfast
(There will be coffee break half way through the sessions)

Thursday, 8:30-12 Noon, Session (28,29,30)
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Session 28: POTPOURRI I

            Chair: Robert Henry, University of Southwestern Louisiana

1. Design and Analysis of Queue Control Functions for Explicit Rate Switch 
Schemes 
Bobby Vandalore, Raj Jain, Rohit Goyal, Sonia Fahmy
(Ohio State University)

2. Bessie: Portable Generation of Network Topologies for Simulation (S)
Frank Adelstein ( Cornell University )
Frederick Hosch, Golden G. Richard III ( University of New Orleans )
Loren Schweibert  ( Wayne State University )

3. Optimum Design of Telecommunication Systems
C. Ben Ahmed, N. Boudriga, M. S. Obaidat
(Monmouth University)

4. A Realization Of Arbitrary BPC Permutations In Bidirectional Hypercube
and Chordal Ring Networks
Hiroshi Masuyama ( Tottori University )
Yuchiro Morita ( Hitachi Research Laboratory )
Etsuko Masuyama ( Hiroshima Women's University )

5. Comparison of Two Swap Heuristics with a Genetic Algorithm for the Design
of an ATM Network (GS)
Dale R. Thompson ( USAE Waterways Experiment Station )
Griff L. Bilbro ( North Carolina State University)

6. A Dynamic Approach for Efficient TCP Buffer Allocation
Amit Cohen and Reuven Cohen (Technion), Israel

Session 29: MULTICASTING II

            Chair: Dimitri Kazakos, University of Southwestern Louisiana

1. Scalable Atomic Multicast
Luis Rodrigues ( DI-FCUL )
Rachid Guerraoui ( DI-EPFL )
Andre Schiper ( DI-EPFL )

2. Exploiting Client Bandwidth for more Efficient Video Broadcast
Kien Hua, Ying Cai, Simon Sheu
(University of Central Florida)

3. A Parallel-Tree Switch Architecture for ATM Networks (S)
Mayez Al-Mouhamed, Habib Youssef, Wasif Hasan
(King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals)

4. Multicast Routing Infrastructure in ATM Networks
Sohail Sheik, Suk Chung Yoo ( Widener University )
Ahmed Saeed, Timothy Monahan ( General Electric Medical Systems )
E K Park ( University of Missouri )

5. An Efficient Admission Control Method of Real Time Multicast 
Connections in Wide Area Networks                                      
X Jia (City University of Hong Kong)
K Makki and N. Pissinou (The University of Southwestern Louisiana)

Session 30: POTPOURRI II

            Chair: M. Madani, University of Southwestern Louisiana

1. Portable Information Filtering System: Network Information Servers
Richard H. James (Rollins College)
Ophir Frieder (Illinois Institute of Technology)

2. Actual holding times for calls in a PCS network (S)
Wei Li, Attahiru Sue Alfa
(University of Manitoba) 

3. Autonomous Garbage Collection: Resolving Memory Leaks in Long Running
Network Applications
Brian Willard (Northrop Grumman)
Ophir Frieder (Illinois Institute of Technology)

4. Design issues of an efficient distributed database scheduler for telecom
M P Boedlander, P D V v.d. Stok
(TUE Netherlands)

5. Some Results on Estimation and Modeling of Switch Transit Traffic in 
a Backbone 
Network (S)
Bharathi Devi
(MCI)

6. Design Considerations for GIGA Speed Laser Data Link Control Protocol
Cheong Hyeon Choi ( Kwangwoon University )
Christopher Ward ( New York City University )

7. A Group Communication Model for Distributed Real-time Causal Delivery
A. Abouaissa and A. Benslimane (Institut Polytechnique de Sevenans), France

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                   IEEE Comm Soc
(each half day)____Member($250.00) ____Non-Member($280.00) ___Student($150.00)

(each one day) ____Member($350.00) ____Non-Member($380.00) ___Student($250.00)

 *Circle your choice of Tutorial #:  T1   T2   T3   T4   T5 (not finalized yet)

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ICCCN98 Reg. Fee : from above               $_______________
Tutorial Fee for each: from above           $_______________
Extra Page Charge:(US$150.00 per extra page)$_______________
Extra Conf. Reception Tickets: ($30/each)   $_______________
Extra Conf. Banquet Tickets: ($40/each)     $_______________
Extra copy of conf. proceedings: ($60/each) $_______________

                     Total Fees Enclosed: US$_____________________ 
                               ** Make check/money order payable to ICCCN98 **

Check method of payment: ___Check/money order (payable to ICCCN98)

                         ___Company Purchase Order number:____________________
                            (we accept P.O only from companies in USA
                             and "ONSITE RATE" is applied to each P.O)

Signature:________________________________________ Date:______________________

IEEE Communication Society membership 
     number (required for member rate):_______________________________________

* Please let us know if you are or not planning to attend any of the following
  events (please put check marks): (these are tentative schedules and to be 
  finalized later and visit website for upt to date function info) 
      ___________________________________________________________
     |                          | WILL ATTEND | WILL NOT ATTEND |
     |__________________________|_____________|_________________|
     |Oct. 12  Reception        |             |                 |
     |--------------------------|-------------|-----------------|
     |Oct. 13  Banquet          |             |                 |
     |--------------------------|-------------|-----------------|

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* Send this registration form with payment (in US Dollars ONLY and make checks
  or money order payable to "ICCCN98") to:         

              ICCCN98 Treasurer
              C/O Dr. EK Park
              Computer Science Telecommunications
              University of Missouri
              4747 Troost Ave., Room 207
              Kansas City, MO 64110 USA
              (816)235-1497; (816)235-5159(fax); [email-masked] 

* The conference registration fee covers a copy of proceedings, conference
  reception, refreshments during the conference, and the dinner banquet. 
  Additional reception and banquet tickets can be purchased for your guests.

  All payments must be in U.S. dollars. All checks or international money orders 
  from banks outside the United States should be cashable at a branch of that bank
  in the United States or at any U.S. bank. If you send us check or international
  money order, it should have complete "micro encoding line" at the bottom of it 
  (ask your bank about this). You can also send Traveler's check of American 
  Express or Visa or MasterCard (be sure that you SIGN each check and make it 
  payable to "ICCCN98" AND mail it via EXPRESS Carrier service company such as 
  Federal Express, DHL, etc for insured delivery). We accept purchase orders from 
  U.S. organizations only and ONSITE RATE (higher rate !!) is applied to each
  purchase order. We DO NOT accept any other form of payments (NO credit cards). 
  You are responsible for paying fees to get the check or money order from your 
  bank AND any fees imposed on us from your bank to issue/deliver your check to 
  ICCCN98. Student rate attendees must have proper ID.
  
  (Or, you can use "Western Union" money transfer service company and you have to 
   pay all service charges imposed on us. For example, when we pick up the fund at
   the Western Union here in USA, they will charge us extra service fee about 
   US$20.00 to $30.00 at destination for picking up US$350.00 reg. fee you send 
   through Western Union. So if you are going to use Western Union then please 
   include extra US$30.00 to the reg. fee payment and then send it via Western 
   Union and let the ICCCN98 Treasurer know right away by fax AFTER you sent the 
   reg. fee through Western Union.)

* ICCCN98 will be held at:  Lafayette Hilton and Towers
                            1521 W. Pinhook Road
                            Lafayette, Louisiana 70503 USA. 
                             
  Room Rate: $78.00. All room rates are net per room, per night, single/double/
  triple/quad occupancy plus taxes for Oct. 11, 1998 through Oct. 15, 1998. 

  Individuals to make their own reservations by calling 1-800-33CAJUN (332-2586) 
  or call (318)235-6111 and give the conferecen code "ICN" or "ICCCN" to receive 
  ICCCN98 rate. Individuals are on their own for payment of room, tax and any 
  incidental charges. All reservations must be made prior to the Cut-off date of 
  September 28, 1998. After the cut-off date, reservations will be accommodated 
  based on rate(s) and rooms available. All reservations must be guaranteed for 
  late arrival by a valid credit card or an advance deposit of one night's room 
  and tax. Check-in time is 4:00PM.
         
* Acknowledgement of receiving the registration form with payment will be 
  sent out by e-mail only if you provide your e-mail address. Conference 
  registration materials including receipts and proceedings can be picked up
  ONLY at the registration desk ON SITE.

* Refund Policy: Paid registrants who cannot attend, and do not send a 
  substitute, are entitled to a refund of paid fees (less a US$200.00 
  processing fee) if a request is received in writing on or before Sept. 10, 
  1998. Registrants are liable for their full fees after that date (i.e., 
  NO Refund will be made !!). All no-show registrations will be billed in full
  (see above for "Note for Authors" for legal resposibility of the primary
  author who submitted the camera-ready verion of the accepted paper).
  There will be extra handling/shipping/mailing charges of $250.00 if it needs 
  to be mailed to any paid registrants with "no show". 

* If you have any questions contact appropriate person: on registrations (Dr. 
  Park: [email-masked]); on technical programs (Program Chairs: Dr. Makki
  at [email-masked]; or Dr. Chlamtac at [email-masked]); on other 
  conference related matters (General Chair Dr. Pissinou at [email-masked].
  edu or for general info or help, send email to [email-masked]).  

* Please visit our WWW site for up-to-date IC3N98 program information and 
  related activities: <http://www.cacs.usl.edu/~ic3n>
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