12. MMB 2004: Dresden, Germany

Traffic Engineering I

• Mary K. Vernon: Quantitative System Design. 11-13
• Rikka Sustiatival, Samuli Aalto, Jorma T. Virtamo: Adaptive Load Balancing Using MPLS. 15-24
• Peter Reichl, Stefan Wrzaczek: Equilibrium Market Prices for Multi-Period Auctions of Internet Resources. 25-34

Traffic Engineering II

• Gerhard Haßlinger, Stefan Schnitter, Martin Franzke: TE-Scout: An Offline Traffic Engineering Tool for Optimised Path Design in IP Service Provider Networks. 35-44
• Mateusz Dzida, Michal Pióro, Michal Zagozdzon: The Application of Max-Min Fairness Rule to Bandwidth Allocation in Telecommuniction Networks. 45-54
• Michael D. Logothetis, Ioannis D. Moscholios, George K. Kokkinakis: Improvement of the Connection Dependent Threshold Model with the Aid of Reverse Transition Rates. 55-64
• Maciej Stasiak, Arkadiusz Wisniewski, Piotr Zwierzykowski: Blocking Probability Calculation in the Uplink Direction for Cellular Systems with WCDMA Radio Interface. 65-74

Short Papers I

• René Böringer, Markus Bauer, Andreas Mitschele-Thiel, Michael Söllner: MPLS/RSVP-TE-Based Future UMTS Radio Access Network. 75-80
• Jörg Schüler, Rico Radeke, Ralf Lehnert: On TCP Spurious Retransmission Timeout Probabilities for Independent Round Trip Times. 81-86
• Maciek Gebala, Miroslaw Kutylowski, Bartlomiej Rózanski, Marcin Zawada, J. Vossnacker, T. Winter: Optimized UTRAN Topology Planning Including Point-to-Multipoint Equipment. 87-92
• Carsten Burmeister, Ulrich Killat, Jens Bachmann: Location-based Services via IEEE 802.11b Hot Spots. 93-98
• Tomasz Gierszewski, Jacek Rak: On Reducing the Value of Aggregate Restoration Time when Assuring Survivability in Scale-free Networks. 99-104

Measurement & Simulation

• Guoqiang Hu: Impact of Access Bandwidth on Aggregated Traffic Behaviour and Queueing Performance. 105-114
• Pawel Matusz, Józef Wozniak: Optimization and Improvement of the ARQ Mechanism in RLC Layer in UMTS. 115-124
• Corinna Flüs: Reduced Rescheduling Technique for Efficient Simulation of Round Robin Servers. 125-134
• Freimut Brenner, Norbert Th. Müller: RESTAMP for the Estimation of Rare Event Probabilities in Systems with Multidimensional Parameter Spaces. 135-144
• Rüdiger Martin, Michael Menth: Improving the Timeliness of Rate Measurements. 145-154

Short Papers II

• Aad P. A. van Moorsel, Katinka Wolter: Meeting Deadlines through Restart. 155-160
• Marcin Markowski, Andrzej Kasprzak: An Approximate Algorithm for the Replica Allocation Problem in Wide Area Networks. 161-166
• Tobias Kiesling: Achieving Linear Speedup in Parallel LRU Cache Simulation. 167-172

MMB Award Session

• Alexander Bell: Distributed Evaluation of Stochastic Petri nets. 172-178
• Edith Werner: Performance Evaluation Using Multi-terminal Binary Decision Diagrams. 179-184

Delay & Loss Systems

• Cornelia Sauer, Hans Daduna: Degradable Networks with General up and down Time Distributions. 185-194
• Mariusz Glabowski, Maciej Stasiak: An Approximate Model of the Full-Availability Group with Multi-Rate Traffic and Finite Source Population. 195-204
• Wolfgang Bziuk: Robust Throughput Optimization of Multirate Loss Systems with Virtual Partitioning. 205-214
• Ioannis D. Moscholios, Michael D. Logothetis: An On-Off Multirate Loss Model of Poisson Traffic under the Bandwidth Reservation Policy. 215-224

Queueing Systems

• Robert Janowski, Krzysztof Rzepakowski: Estimation of the Admissible Load in a Two Priority System. 225-234
• Armin Heindl: Sensitivity Analysis for MAP/MAP/1 Queues. 235-244
• Daniela Traczinski, Wolfram Luther, Gerhard Haßlinger: Computing the Workload of Discrete Time Semi-Markov Servers with Result Verification. 245-254
• Peter Bazan, Reinhard German: An Iterative Approximate Analysis Method for Non-Markovian Models Based on Supplementary Variables. 255-264

Routing

• Yewen Cao, Khalid Al-Begain: SREM: A Novel Multicast Routing Algorithm - Comprehensive Cost Analysis. 265-274
• Eueung Mulyana, Ulrich Killat: Impact of Partial Demand Increase on the Performance of IP Networks and Re-optimization Approaches. 275-284
• Karol Kowalik, Martin Collier: Coexistence of Various Topology Aggregation Methods in a Hierarchical Network. 285-294
• Eueung Mulyana, Ulrich Killat: Optimization of IP Networks in Various Hybrid IGP/MPLS Routing Schemes. 295-304

Traffic Characterization

• Alexander Klemm, Christoph Lindemann, Oliver P. Waldhorst: Relating Query Popularity and File Replication in the Gnutella Peer-to-Peer Network. 305-314
• Raimir Holanda, Jorge García, Virgilio Almeida: Flow Clustering: A New Approach to Semantic Traffic Characterization. 315-324
• Michael Menth, Jens Milbrandt, Florian Zeiger: Elastic Token Bucket - A Traffic Characterization for Time-Limited Bursty Traffic. 325-334
• Ralf Boden: Simulating ADSL Transmission Performance under the Impact of Impulsive Noise. 335-344

MAC Protocols

• Robert D. van der Mei, Bart Gijsen: Trends and Developments in ICT Industry: New Challenges for Performance Analysts. 345-348
• Jerzy Konorski: CSMA/CA Performance under Backoff Attacks: A Game-Theoretic Context. 349-358
• Anna Baranowska, Wojciech Kabacinski: MMRS and MMRRS Packet Scheduling Algorithms for VOQ Switches. 359-368

Network Optimization

• Yun Liu, Kishor S. Trivedi: A General Framework for Network Survivability Quantification. 369-378
• Christoph Reichert, Thomas Magedanz: Topology Requirements for Resilient IP Networks. 379-388
• Piotr Cholda, Andrzej Jajszczyk: Availability Assessment of Resilient Networks. 389-398
• Nghia Le Hoang: A Method for Optical Network Reconfiguration. 399-408