Call for Participation: NGC/ICQT'03

Apologies for multiple copies.

Dear Research and Industry Fellows,

you are invited to participate in the NGC/ICQT'03 workshops in Munich,
September 16-19, 2003 - in co-operation with ACM SIGCOMM and in the
follow-up of COST 264. Please find attached the program for those
events.

Your registration option holds in-advance rates until August 1, 2003 at
the
workshops' web pages http://www.ngc2003.org/

Regards,
Burkhard Stiller
NGC/ICQT'03 General Chair

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                        NGC/ICQT'03 Advance Program

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A PDF version of this program is available at http://www.ngc2003.org


Tuesday, September 16, 2003 (NGCí03 Tutorial Day and MMAPPS Project Day)

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9.00 - 12.30 Tutorial A
"Advanced QoS Accounting Techniques used for Billing Service Levels" by
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems.

14.00 - 17.30 Tutorial B
"Content Distribution and Beyond - Architectures, Protocols, and
Practice"
by Markus Hofmann, Bell Labs Research.

The MMAPPS Project Day on Peer-to-peer Systems starts at 9.00 in
parallel
to the two NGC Tutorials. A detailed program for this project day is
available at http://www.mmapps.org/events/main.html.


Wednesday, September 17, 2003 (NGCí03 Day 1)
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9.00 - 10.30 Welcome and Keynote

   * General and Program Co-chair's Welcome Message
     Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany, and ETH Zurich,
Switzerland
   * Welcome from UniBw Munich, Germany
     Merith Niehuss, Vice President UniBw Munich, Germany
   * Program Co-chair's Program Information
     Georg Carle, Universit”t T¸bingen, Germany
   * Keynote: Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University:
     Multicast TCP - They said it shouldn't be done, so ...

11.00 - 12.30 Session 1: Application and Multicast Support

   * User-interest Driven Video Adaptation for Collaborative Workspace
     Applications
     Jeremiah Scholl, Stefan Elf, Peter Parnes, Sweden
   * Improving Efficiency of Application-level Multicast with Network
     Support
     Takeshi Sano, Taku Noguchi, Miki Yamamoto, Japan
   * An Adaptive Method for Dynamic Audience Size Estimation in
Multicast
     Maziar Nekovee, Andrea Soppera, Trevor Burbridge, United Kingdom

14.00 - 15.30 Session 2: Anycast and Search in P2P

   * Anycast in Locality-aware Peer-to- peer Systems
     Rongmei Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, U.S.A.
   * Scalable Application-level Anycast for Highly Dynamic Groups
     Miguel Castro, Peter Druschel, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Antony
Rowstron,
     U.S.A.
   * Topology-Centric Look-Up Service
     Luis Garces-Erice, Keith W. Ross, Ernst W. Biersack, Pascal A.
Felber,
     Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, France

16.00 - 17.30 Session 3: Peer-to-peer Systems

   * Service Differentiation in Peer-to-Peer Networks Utilizing
Reputations
     Minaxi Gupta, Mostafa Ammar, U.S.A.
   * Adding Structure to Unstructured Peer-to-peer Networks: The Role of

     Overlay Topology
     Shashidhar Merugu, Sridhar Srinivasan, Ellen Zegura, U.S.A.
   * Building Semantic Peer-to-peer Networks Upon CAN
     Jiantao Song, Yong Zhang, Chaofeng Sha, Peoples Republic of China

17.45 Welcome Reception


Thursday, September 18, 2003 (NGCí03 Day 2)
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9.00 - 10.30 Session 4: Security and Multicasting

   * Adding Reliable and Self-Healing Key Distribution to the Subset
     Difference Group Rekeying Method for Secure Multicast
     Sencun Zhu, Sanjeev Setia, Sushil Jajodia, Mario Maggiorini, U.S.A.

   * Key Bundles and Parcels: Secure Communication in Many Groups
     Eunjin Jung, Mohamed G. Gouda, Xiang-Yang Alex Liu, U.S.A.
   * EBM: Edge-based Multicasting in DiffServ Networks
     A. Striegel, A. Bouabdallah, H. Bettahar, G. Manimaran, U.S.A.

11.00 - 12.30 Session 5: Multicast Mechanisms

   * Team-oriented Multicast: A Scalable Routing Protocol for Large
Mobile
     Networks
     Yunjung Yi, Mario Gerla, Joon-Sang Park, U.S.A.
   * Generalized Multicast Congestion Control: An Efficient Multi-rate
     Scheme Using Single Rate Control
     Jiang Li, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, U.S.A.
   * IP Multicast Over Cable TV Networks
     A. Selcuk Uluagac, Jon M. Peha, Turkey

14.00 - 15.00 Session 6: Control Algorithms

   * Extremum Feedback with Partial Knowledge
     Thomas Fuhrmann, J–rg Widmer, Germany
   * Design and Evaluation of a Low Density Generator Matrix (LDGM)
Large
     Block FEC Codec
     Vincent Roca, Zainab Khallouf, Julien Laboure, France

15.30 - 17.30 Session 7: Short Paper Session

   * Overcoming Last- hop/First-hop Problems in IP Multicast
     GÌsli Hj·lmt›sson, Bj–rn Brynj™lfsson, "lafur Ragnar Helgason,
Iceland
   * Multicast Infrastructure for Massive Multi-Player Online Games
     Daniel Bauer, Sean Rooney, Switzerland
   * Performance Evaluation of Multicast for Small Conferences
     Stefan Egger, Torsten Braun, Switzerland
   * Scalable Support for Source Specific Multicast in Differentiated
     Services Domains
     Ning Wang, George Pavlou, United Kindgom
   * Overlay Socket: Programming Overlay Networks
     J. Liebeherr, J. Wang, G. Zhang, U.S.A.
   * Enhancing Peer-to-peer Parallel Data Access with PeerFecT
     L. Dairaine, L. Lancerica, J. Lacan, France

18.45 Social Event


Friday, September 19, 2003 (ICQTí03 Day 1)
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9.00 - 10.15 Welcome and Keynote

   * Program Co-chair's Program Information
     Peter Reichl, FTW, Austria and Martin Karsten, Univ. of Waterloo,
     Canada
   * Keynote:
     to be announced

10.45 - 12.45 Session 8: Multicast Pricing and Traffic

   * An Approach to the Charging of Secure IP Multicast Services
     Sylvie Laniepce, Mohammed Achemlal, France
   * Accounting Mechanism for Membership Size-Dependent Pricing of
     Multicast Traffic
     David Breitgand, Danny Dolev, Danny Raz, U.S.A.
   * A Low-Cost Packet Originator Verification for Metering at
     Access-Routers
     Bernd Lamparter, Dirk Westhoff, Germany
   * Problem Statement: Metering and Accounting in full-IP 4G Networks
     J¸rgen J”hnert, Germany

14.00 - 15.00 Session 9: Routing and Economics

   * Incentive-based Inter-domain Routeing
     Richard Mortier, Ian Pratt, United Kingdom
   * The Economics of Smart Routing and QoS
     Rui Dai, Dale O. Stahl, Andrew B. Whinston, U.S.A.

15.30 - 16.30 Session 10: Pricing and Resource Management

   * A Progressive Second Price Mechanism with a Sanction Bid from
Excluded
     Players
     Patrick MaillÈ, Bruno Tuffin, France
   * Capacitated Network Management through Pricing
     Mustapha Bouhtou, Madiagne Diallo, Laura Wynter, France

16.30 Closing