Final Program

16th Nordic Teletraffic Seminar

August 21-23, 2002 - Espoo, Finland

Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering / HUT, hall S4

The final program at-a-glance PDF.



Wednesday, August 21

8:00-13:30

Registration

9:00-9:10

Opening

9:10-10:30

Session 1: Cellular Networks

Chair: Villy Bæk Iversen, Denmark

 

 

Layer Selection and Handover Prioritization in Hierarchical Cellular Networks

Zander R., Karlsson J.M.

Lund Institute of Technology

 

 

QoS Management by Call Admission Control in 3/4G Networks

Wallenius E.¹, Hämäläinen T.², Wikström M.²

¹Nokia Networks, ²University of Jyväskylä

 

 

Real-Time Bursty IP Traffic Flow over the General Packet Radio Service

Sarker J.H., Halme S.J.

Helsinki University of Technology

 

 

10:30-10:50

Coffee

 

 

10:50-12:30

Session 2: Traffic Handling in IP Networks

Chair: Poul Heegaard, Norway

 

 

Using Bottleneck Load for IP Load Balancing

Karlsson P-O., Lindberg P.

Telia Research

 

 

Policy Enforcing for Probe--Based Admission Control (PBAC)

Conte M., Más I., Fodor V., Karlsson G.

Royal Institute of Technology

 

 

Fair Bandwidth Allocation and Links' Dimensioning in Elastic Traffic Networks

Nilsson P., Pióro M.

Lund Institute of Technology

 

 

12:30-13:30

Lunch

 

 

13:30-15:20

Session 3: Queueing Models

Chair: Ilkka Norros, Finland

 

 

Modelling and Performance Measures Estimation for Networks with Differentiated Services

Stepanov S.N.¹, Iversen V.B.², Kostrov V.O.³

¹Russian Academy of Sciences, ²Technical University of Denmark, ³Moscow City Telephone Company

 

 

Comparison of Shaping and Buffering for Video Transmission

Dán G., Fodor V.

Royal Institute of Technology

 

 

Analytical Results on the Stochastic Behaviour of an Averaged Queue Length

Kuumola E.¹, Resing J.², Virtamo J.¹

¹Helsinki University of Technology, ²Eindhoven University of Technology

 

 

An Approximative Method to Calculate the Distribution of End-to-End Delay in Packet Networks

Østerbø O.

Telenor FoU

 

 

15:20-15:40

Coffee

 

 

15:40-17:00

Session 4: Traffic Measurements

Chair: Gunnar Karlsson, Sweden

 

 

Accuracy in Active Measurements of Packet Loss: A Study Based on an M/G/1-queue Approximation

Viken B.Å.¹², Emstad P.J.¹

¹Norwegian University of Science and Technology, ²Telenor R&D

 

 

An Analysis of WAP Packet Traffic Measurements

Nieminen T., Halme S.J.

Helsinki University of Technology

 

 

On the Statistical Behaviour of Competing TCP Connections in a Bottleneck Router

Kjønsberg H., Østerbø O., Heegaard P., Aarstad E.

Telenor R&D

 

 

19:30

Welcome reception by City of Espoo at Karhusaari (transportation provided)

 

 

Thursday, August 22

 

 

9:00-9:45

Session 5: Invited Speaker

Chair: Jorma Virtamo, Finland

 

 

Mobile Networks: From Subscriber Penetration Growth to Customer Traffic Growth

Melamies L.

Nokia

 

 

9:55-10:50

Session 6: Overload Control

Chair: Olav Østerbø, Norway

 

 

An Investigation of Overload Control Schemes for Distributed E-commerce Sites

Kihl M., Widell N., Nyberg C.

Lund Institute of Technology

 

 

On Overload Control through Queue Length for Web Servers

Cao J., Nyberg C.

Lund Institute of Technology

 

 

10:50-11:10

Coffee

 

 

11:10-12:30

Session 7: QoS and DiffServ I

Chair: Karl Lindberger, Sweden

 

 

A Fair and Scalable Approach for Differentiated Services Networks

Dumitrescu A., Harju J.

Tampere University of Technology

 

 

Dynamic Partitioning: A Mechanism for Supporting Differentiated Services in Cluster-based Network Servers

Zhang J., Hämäläinen T., Joutsensalo J.

University of Jyväskylä

 

 

Flow Level Models of DiffServ Packet Level Mechanisms

Aalto S., Nyberg E.

Helsinki University of Technology

 

 

12:30-13:30

Lunch

 

 

13:30-15:20

Session 8: Networks

Chair: Jens Rasmussen, Denmark

 

 

Capacity Planning for Integrated TDMA Systems

Jorgensen S. B., Iversen V.B.

COM-Center, Tehnical University of Denmark

 

 

Modelling Telecommunication Networks by Random Graphs

Norros I., Reittu H.

VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland

 

 

Convergence-Analysis of the Internet and the Telecommunication Architectures

Andersson J., Aprin S., Kihl M.

Lund Institute of Technology

 

 

Delay Line Configurations in Optical Burst Switching with JET Protocol

Nieminen L., Hyytiä E.

Helsinki University of Technology

 

 

15:20-15:40

Coffee

 

 

15:40-17:00

Session 9: Wireless Networks

Chair: Jarmo Harju, Finland

 

 

Handover Problems in Wireless Networks

Persson H., Karlsson J.M.

Lund Institute of Technology

 

 

Wireless LAN Access Points Uplink and Downlink Delays: Packet Service-Time Comparison

Khatib I.A., Ayani R., Maguire G.Q.Jr.

Royal Institute of Technology

 

 

Predicting Terminal Resource Requests in Hiper Access

Holmberg T., Karlsson J.M.

Lund Institute of Technology

 

 

19:00

Dinner at restaurant Sipuli, Katajanokka/Skatudden, Helsinki

 

 

Friday, August 23

 

 

9:00-10:50

Session 10: QoS and DiffServ II

Chair: Ulf Körner, Sweden

 

 

An Analytical Estimation of EF PHB Service Parameters for Aggregated MPEG Traffic

Koucheravy Y., Moltchanov D., Harju J.

Tampere University of Technology

 

 

Resource Allocation for Differentiated QoS by Adaptive Weighted Fair Queue Technique

Joutsensalo J., Hämäläinen T., Zhang J.

University of Jyväskylä

 

 

Overload, Impatience and QoS. IP flow level models

Lindberger K., Tidblom S-E.

Telia Research

 

 

Selection of QoS Mechanisms Based on Operator's Business Objective

Kilkki K., Ruutu J.

Nokia Research Center

 

 

10:50-11:10

Coffee

 

 

11:10-12:30

Session 11: Performance Measurements

Chair: Kalevi Kilkki, Finland

 

 

Application Layer Tracing for Performance Evaluation

Jena A.K¹, Popescu A.², Nilsson A.A.²

¹Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, ²Blekinge Institute of Technology

 

 

A VoIP Measurement Infrastructure

Marsh I.¹, Li F.²

¹Swedish Institute of Computer Science, ²Royal Institute of Technology

 

 

Adaptive Active Measurements of the Performance at Bottlenecks in IP Based Networks

Heegaard P.E., Viken B.Å .

Telenor R&D

 

 

12:30-13:30

Lunch