My apologies if you receive multiple copies. 
Regards,
ibrahim


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>                         CALL FOR REGISTRATION
> 
>           7th International Conference on Network Protocols
> 
>                     October 31 - November 3, 1999
> 
>                 The Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada
> 
>                  www.computer.org/conferen/home/icnp/
> 
> ICNP is one of the premier conferences in the computer networking
> field. This year ICNP'99 will be held in Toronto, whose name is a
> Huron Indian word meaning "place of meeting".  Toronto is Canada's
> largest city, the capital of the province of Ontario, and one of the
> most exciting and progressive cities in the world. Its attractions are
> far too numerous to list.
> 
> The conference will be held at the famous Royal York Hotel. The Royal
> York has been in operation since 1929 and is one of the grand hotels
> of Canada. It is located in the centre of downtown Toronto, a focal
> point for shopping, culture and nightlife.
> 
> --------------------
> ICNP'99 REGISTRATION
> --------------------
> 
> Conference and hotel registration information is available at the
> ICNP'99 web site: www.computer.org/conferen/home/icnp/
> 
>    * The hotel room cutoff date is OCTOBER 8, 1999.
> 
>    * The conference advance registration deadline is OCTOBER 11, 1999.
> 
> To avoid disappointment, please register as soon as possible.
> 
> ---------------
> ICNP'99 PROGRAM
> ---------------
> 
> Sunday, 31 October 1999
> -----------------------
> 
> Full-Day Tutorials
> 
> 9:00am - 5:00pm Lunch provided
> 
>    * Internet Telephony
>      Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
> 
>    * Mobile Networking with Mobile IP
>      Charles E. Perkins, Sun Microsystems
> 
> (Further details of the tutorials are given at the end of this
> program.)
> 
> Monday, 1 November 1999
> -----------------------
> 
> 9:00am - 9:30am Welcome Session
> 
> 9:30am - 10:30am Keynote Address:
> 
>    * Dr. Jon Turner, Washington University
> 
>      "Technology Changes and Networking Research -- Speculations on
>       the Future"
> 
> 10:30am - 11:00am Break
> 
> 11:00am - 12:30am Paper Session 1: Protocols and Routing
> 
> Automated Protocol Implementations based on Activity Threads
> P. Langendoerfer, H. Koenig (Brandenburg University of Cottbus)
> 
> Dynamic Memory Model-based Optimization and Code Synthesis for IP
> Address Lookup
> G. Cheung, S. McCanne (U.C. Berkeley)
> 
> Policy Disputes in Path-Vector Protocols
> T. Griffin, F. Shepherd, G. Wilfong (Bell Laboratories)
> 
> Fault Detection in Routing Protocols
> D. Massey (UCLA), B. Fenner (AT&T Research)
> 
> 12:30am - 2:00pm Lunch Break
> 
> 2:00pm - 3:30pm Paper Session 2: Multicast I
> 
> Receiver-Cooperative Bandwidth Management for Layered Multicast
> H. Yamaguchi, T. Higashino, K. Taniguchi (Osaka University), K.
> Yasumoto (Shiga University)
> 
> Receiver-initiated Group Membership Protocol (RGMP): A New Group
> Management Protocol for IP Multicasting
> W. Liao, D. Yang (National Taiwan university)
> 
> Centralized Multicast
> S. Keshav (Cornell University), S. Paul (Bell Laboratories)
> 
> Optimal Allocation of Clients to Replicated Multicast Servers
> Z. Fei, M. Ammar, E. Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology)
> 
> 3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
> 
> 4:00pm - 5:30pm Paper Session 3: Multicast II
> 
> Scaling End-to-end Multicast Transports with a Topologically-sensitive
> Group Formation Protocol
> S. Ratnasamy, S. McCanne (U.C. Berkeley)
> 
> WDM Multicasting in IP over WDM Networks
> C. Qiao, M. Jeong, (SUNY at Buffalo), A. Guha (AT&T Labs), X.  Zhang
> (Lucent Technologies), J. Wei (Telcordia Technologies, Inc)
> 
> Evaluating the Utility of FEC with Reliable Multicast
> D. Li, D. Cheriton (Stanford University)
> 
> A Logical Ring Reliable Multicast Protocol for Mobile Nodes
> I. Nikolaidis, J. Harms (University of Alberta)
> 
> 5:30pm - 7:30pm Reception
> 
> Tuesday, 2 November 1999
> ------------------------
> 
> 9:00am - 10:30am Paper Session 4: Quality of Service I
> 
> ERUF: Early Regulation of Unresponsive Best-Effort Traffic
> A. Rangarajan, A. Acharya (U.C. Santa Barbara)
> 
> An In-Depth Look at Flow Aggregation for Quality of Service
> Jorge Cobb (University of Texas at Dallas)
> 
> NBQ: Neighbor-state Based Queuing for Adaptive Bandwidth Sharing
> Y. Tamura, Y. Tobe, H. Tokuda (Keio University)
> 
> Evaluation of Bandwidth Broker Signaling
> M. Gunter, T. Braun (University of Berne)
> 
> 10:30am - 11:00am Break
> 
> 11:00am - 12:30am Paper Session 5: Quality of Service II
> 
> Minimum Rate Guarantee without Per-Flow Information
> Y. Kim, W. Tsai, M. Iyer, J. Ros (U.C. Irvine)
> 
> A New Proposal of RSVP Refreshes
> L. Wang, A. Terzis, L. Zhang (UCLA)
> 
> Effect of Unreliable Nodes on QoS Routing
> S. Gokhale, S. Tripathi (U.C. Riverside)
> 
> How to make assured services more assured
> W. Lin, R. Zheng, J. Hou (Ohio State University)
> 
> 12:30am - 2:00pm Lunch Break
> 
> 2:00pm - 3:30pm Panel 1: Embedded Wireless Networks
> 
> 3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
> 
> 4:00pm - 5:30pm Paper Session 6: Transport Protocols
> 
> Empirical TCP Profiles and Application
> C. Popescu, A.U. Shankar (University of Maryland)
> 
> On Individual and Aggregate TCP Performance
> L. Qiu, Y. Zhang, S. Keshav (Cornell University)
> 
> Improving TCP Congestion Control Over Internets with Heterogenous
> Transmission Media
> C. Parsa, J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (U.C. Santa Cruz)
> 
> TCP Trunking: Design, Implementation and Performance
> H.T. Kung, S.Y. Wang (Harvard University)
> 
> Wednesday, 3 November 1999
> --------------------------
> 
> 9:00am - 10:30am Paper Session 7: Wireless Networks I
> 
> The Havana Framework for Supporting Application and Channel
> Dependent QOS in Wireless Networks
> J. Gomez, A. Campbell (Columbia University), H. Morikawa (University
> of Toyko)
> 
> A Distributed Scheduling Algorithm for Quality of Service Support in
> Multiaccess Networks
> C. Barrack, K. Siu (MIT)
> 
> Fluid Analysis of Delay Performance for QoS Support in Wireless Networks
> J. Kim, M. Krunz (University of Arizona)
> 
> Scheduling in Wireless Networks with Multiple Transmission Channels
> S. Damodaran, K. Sivalingam (Washington State University)
> 
> 10:30am - 11:00am Break
> 
> 11:00am - 12:30am Panel 2: Active Networks: Where Do We Stand Today?
> 
> 12:30am - 2:00pm Lunch Break
> 
> 2:00pm - 3:30pm Paper Session 8: Wireless Networks II
> 
> Source-Tree Routing in Wireless Networks
> J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (U.C. Santa Cruz), M. Spohn (Nokia Wireless Routers)
> 
> HAWAII: A Domain-based Approach for Supporting Mobility in Wide-area
> Wireless Networks
> R. Ramjee, T. La Porta, S. Thuel, K. Varadhan (Bell Labs, Lucent
> Technologies) and S. Wang (Harvard University)
> 
> Analysis of Caching-based Location Management in Personal Communication
> Networks
> K. Ratnam (Northeastern University), I. Matta (Boston University),
> S. Rangarajan (Bell Laboratories)
> 
> Wave and Wait Protocol (WWP): An Energy Saving Protocol for Mobile
> IP-Devices
> V. Tsaoussidis, H. Badr, R. Verma (SUNY at Stony Brook)
> 
> 3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
> 
> 4:00pm - 5:30pm Paper Session 9: Internet Services
> 
> Smoothing and Prefetching Video from Distributed Servers
> S. Bakiras, V. Li (University of Hong Kong)
> 
> Analysis of Receiver Adaptation for Layered Video Transmission over
> Heterogeneous Networks: A Microscopic Perspective
> P. Hu, Z. Zhang, M. Kaveh (University of Minnesota)
> 
> A Behavioral Model of Web Traffic
> H. Choi, J. Limb (Georgia Institute of Technology)
> 
> Concast: Design and Implementation of a New Network Service
> K. Calvert, J. Griffioen, A. Sehgal, S. Wen (University of Kentucky)
> 
> ----------------
> TUTORIAL PROGRAM
> ----------------
> 
> Internet Telephony
> 
> Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
> 
> Internet telephony or voice-over-IP (VoIP), the use of the Internet to
> replace parts of the existing circuit-switched telephone network, holds
> the promise of fundamentally changing how telephone calls are made.
> Beyond replacing the circuit-switched network, VoIP has the potential of
> making phone service as flexible and programmable as email and web
> service, speed the availability of multimedia communications, as well as
> integrating phone service with existing common Internet services.
> 
> This tutorial introduces the major components needed to support
> telephony in the Internet:  signaling, quality-of-service support and
> media transport.  It covers the basic signaling protocols, such as
> H.323, MGCP/Megaco and SIP, as well as how to use them to provide common
> and advanced services.  VoIP will likely be a major user of resource
> reservation and differentiated services, possibly with charging and
> policy extensions. Finally, voice and video data has to be carried
> efficiently across the network.
> 
> For the foreseeable future, Internet telephony has to interwork with the
> existing phone system. We discuss how this can be done, either by
> viewing the Internet telephone as a switch or as an end system. A basic
> introduction to the existing telephone architecture will be provided.
> 
> Internet Telephony
> 
> motivation for Internet telephony
>   transmission efficiency
>   OAM integration
>   services
> 
> short summary of the existing PSTN (SS7)
>   digital transmission and switching
>   SS7 architecture: SSP, SCP, ...
>   SS7 protocol stack: MTP, ISUP, TCAP
> 
> signaling: H.323, SIP
>   role of signaling
>   SIP architecture: user agents, proxies and redirect servers
>   SIP forking
>   SIP security
>   H.323 architecture
>   interaction of signaling and resource reservation
> 
> Internet telephony services
>   SIP services
>   cgi-bin
>   Call Processing Language
> 
> Internet telephony device control
>   motivation and architecture
>   MGCP
> 
> Interoperation with the PSTN
>   architectures: bridging or tunneling
>   SIP-to-ISUP translation
>   E.164 address mapping
> 
> Gateway location
>   motivation and architecture
>   BGP and synchronization approaches
> 
> Billing and operational issues
>   Billing for what and where?
>   Emergency services
>   Operator services
>   Intercepts
> 
> audio/video codings
>   audio coding techniques: sample vs. frame
>   impairments for packet audio
>   uncompress digital video formats: YUV, CIF, ...
>   JPEG
>   MPEG
> 
> quality of service constraints and impairments
>   packet loss
>   packet delay: causes and requirements
>   delay jitter
>   QOS compensation mechanisms
> 
> packet scheduling and resource reservation
>   traffic policing: GCRA and token buckets
>   packet scheduling: priority and WFQ
>   receiver-oriented resource reservation: RSVP
>   sender-oriented resource reservation: YESSIR
>   Diff-Serv
> 
> RTP
>   motivation
>   packet formats for data
>   RTCP for QOS feedback and audience size estimation
>   media synchronization
> 
> BIOGRAPHY
> ---------
> 
> Henning Schulzrinne received his undergraduate degree in economics and
> electrical engineering from the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt,
> Germany, in 1984, his MSEE degree as a Fulbright scholar from the
> University of Cincinnati, Ohio and his Ph.D.  degree from the
> University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1987 and
> 1992, respectively.  From 1992 to 1994, he was a member of technical
> staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill.  From 1994-1996, he was
> associate department head at GMD-Fokus (Berlin), before joining the
> Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments at Columbia
> University, New York.  His research interests encompass real-time,
> multimedia network services in the Internet and modeling and performance
> evaluation.
> 
> He is an editor of the Journal of Communications and Networks and IEEE
> Communications Society editor of the IEEE Internet Computing Magazine.
> He co-chairs the IEEE Communications Society Internet Technical
> Committee and is vice chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical
> Committee on Computer Communications. He has been vice general chair of
> IEEE Infocom and will be co-technical chair of that conference in 2000.
> 
> Protocols co-developed by him are now Internet standards, used by almost
> all Internet telephony and multimedia applications.
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Mobile Networking with Mobile IP
> 
> Charles E. Perkins, Sun Microsystems
> 
> When mobile computers move, and attach themselves to new networks
> within the Internet, they can use mobile-IP as a means to achieve
> seamless roaming transparently to application software.  In this
> situation, transparent means that the applications work just as
> before, and don't need to be recompiled or reconfigured.  Seamless
> means that roaming from one place to another occurs without
> inconvenience to the user.  As long as a physical path exists for
> communication, the user might not even be aware when a cell boundary
> has been crossed.  The objective of the seminar is to lay out the
> necessary protocol technology to allow mobile computers to use
> mobile-IP, and to describe the relevant operation of other protocols
> which can be used to aid mobility.
> 
> In this tutorial, I will explore in detail all aspects of
> mobile-IP and other standard protocols that further simplify
> the operation of mobile computers in the Internet, including:
>         - Mobile Agent advertisements
>         - Registration procedures
>         - Tunneling mechanisms
>         - The role of Security
>         - Home Agents
>         - Foreign Agents
>         - How to set up a home network
>         - Getting Care-of Addresses via DHCP
>         - Route Optimization
>         - Smooth handoffs
>         - Reverse tunnels and filtering by border routers
>         - IPv6 mobility support
>         - AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting)
> 
> The seminar is intended for anyone who is interested in learning
> about how to use mobile-IP, create a home network for mobile
> users within their organization, or explore new Internet protocols
> and mobile computing.  This includes programmers, administrators,
> network managers, and mobile computer users who are already familiar
> with using the Internet.
> 
> The following is a rough outline of the tutorial, which will be adapted
> to fit the interests of the audience and the time available.
> 
> Introduction - Why Mobile Networking?
>         o Wireless Technologies
>         o Laptop Computing
>         o Information Superhighway
>         o Mobility vs. Portability
>         o The Need for two-level addressing
> 
> Mobile IP
>         o What is Mobile IP?
>         o Terminology
>         o Protocol  Oveview
>         o Mobile Agent Discovery
>           o   Solicitation Packet Format
>           o   Advertisement Packet Format
>         o  Registration
>           o   Registration Packet Format
>           o   Registration Reply and Status Codes
>         o  Tunneling
>           o   IP-Within-IP
>           o   Minimal Encapsulation Format
>           o   Generic Record Encapsulation (GRE)
>         o  Security
>         o  Home Networks
>           o   Virtual Home Networks
>           o   Discovering Home Agent Addresses
>           o   Gratuitous ARP
>           o   ARP handling by the mobile node
>         o  TCP Congestion control vs Error-prone Media
>         o  Private Addresses
>         o  Route Optimization
>         o  Role of the Internet Engineering Task Force
> 
> Mobility Considerations in IP version 6
>         o  An Overview of IPv6
>           o   IPv6 Options
>           o   IP version 4 vs IP version 6
>         o  Mobility Considerations in IPv6
>         o  Binding Update Option
>         o  Binding Acknowledgment ICMP Message
>         o  Binding Request option
>         o  Home Address option
>         o  Home Agent Discovery
>         o  Node and Router requirements for Mobility Support
> 
> Mobile IP and AAA
>         o  AAA functionality
>         o  Simple Mobile IP protocol extensions
>         o  Local Handoff
>         o  Dynamic home-address allocation
>         o  Surrogate Registration
>         o  Localized Registration/multi-level foreign agents
> 
> BIOGRAPHY
> ---------
> 
> Charles E. Perkins is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Laboratories,
> investigating mobile wireless networking and dynamic configuration
> protocols.  He is the editor for several ACM and IEEE journals
> for areas related to wireless networking.  He is serving as document
> editor for the mobile-IP working group of the Internet Engineering Task
> Force (IETF), and is author or co-author of standards-track documents
> in the mobileip, svrloc, dhc (Dynamic Host Configuration) and IPng working
> groups.  Charles is also associate editor for Mobile Communications and
> Computing Review, the official publication of ACM SIGMOBILE, and is
> on the editorial staff for IEEE Internet Computing magazine.  He has
> served on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) of the IETF.  Charles
> has authored a book on Mobile IP, and has published a number of papers
> and award winning articles in the areas of mobile networking, ad-hoc
> networking, route optimization for mobile networking, resource discovery,
> and automatic configuration for mobile computers.  Charles has served
> on various committees for the National Research Council, and is currently
> the chairperson of the Nomadicity Working Team of the Cross-Industry
> Working Team (XIWT).
> 
> Charles holds a B.A. in mathematics and a M.E.E. degree from Rice
> University, and a M.A. in mathematics from Columbia University.
> He is a member of ISOC, ACM, IEEE, and the IETF.

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Ibrahim Matta         Dept of Comp Sci, 111 Cummington St, MCS-271
Assistant Professor   Boston University, Boston, MA 02215
matta@cs.bu.edu       http://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/matta/