Wednesday Day 1 : 21 May 1997

    8:50-9:00 am Workshop Welcome

    Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University
    Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    9:00-10:00 am Keynote Address

    "Programming Telecommunications Networks", Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University, USA
    10:30-12:30pm Technical Session 1 - Mobile Communications

    Session Chair: Mahmound Nagshineh, IBM, USA

    Long Paper Presentations

      Adaptive Service in Mobile Computing Environments
      S. Lu, K.-W. Lee and V. Bharghavan (University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign, USA)

      Quality of Service Support in a Mobile Environment: An Approach Based on Tuple Spaces
      G. S. Blair, N. Davies, A. Friday and S. P. Wade (Lancaster University, UK)

    Short Paper Presentations

      IPv6 + Mobile-IP + MRSVP = Internet Cellular Phone ?
      B. R. Badrinath and A. K. Talukdar (Rutgers University, USA)

      QoS Challenges for Next Generation Mobile Middleware
      A. T. Campbell (Columbia University, USA)

      Link Error Impact on MPEG Video over Wireless Broadband Networks
      J. G.- Castellanos (Columbia University, USA) and M. Naghshineh (IBM, USA)

      QoS Support for Mobile Computing
      S. Pope and P. Webster (Olivetti & Oracle Research Lab, UK)

    Session Panel Discussion
    12:30-1:30pm

    L u n c h
    1:30-3:00pm Technical Session 2 - Traffic Management

    Session Chair: Ed Knightly, Rice University, USA

    Long Paper Presentations

      Worst Case Arrivals of Leaky Bucket Constrained Sources: The Myth of the On-Off source
      P. Oechslin (University College of London, UK)

      Guaranteeing Multiple Cell Loss Classes in Shared ATM Output Buffer
      H. Lee (Korea Telecom, Korea)

      Comprehensive Queueing Analysis for a Partial Buffer System with Discrete Markovian Arrival Processes
      D. Becker (Aachen University of Technology, Germany)

    Short Paper Presentation

      Real-Time Estimation of the Link Capacity in Multimedia Networks
      P. Maryni (University of Genoa, Italy) and G. Pacifici (IBM,USA)

    Session Panel Discussion
    3:15-4:15pm Technical Session 3 - QOS Routing

    Session Chair: Mischa Schwartz, Columbia University, USA
    Panelist: M. S. Corson (University of Maryland, USA)

    Long Paper Presentation

      Quality of Service Routing for Traffic with Performance Guarantees
      Q. Ma and P. Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

    Short Paper Presentation

      QoS Based Multicast Routing for Multimedia Communications
      S. Verma, R. K. Pankaj and A. Leon-Garcia (University of Toronto, Canada)

    Session Panel Discussion

    4:30-6:00pm Technical Session 4 - QoS and Video Systems

    Session Chair: Alexandros Eleftheriadis, Columbia University, USA

    Long Paper Presentations

      Supporting Multiple-tier QoS in a Video Bridging Application
      R. Koodli, and C. M. Krishna (University of Massachusetts, USA)

      Playout Management of Interactive Video - an Adaptive Approach
      S. K. Jha, P. A. Wright and M. Fry (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

    Short Paper Presentations

      A Temporal QoS based CPU Scheduling Model for Multimedia Applications in General Purpose Operating Systems
      D. B. Waldegg (Telecom Bretagne, France)

      Adaptive Video Applications for Non-QoS Networks
      S. Jacobs and A. Eleftheriadis (Columbia University, USA)

    Session Panel Discussion
    6:00-8:00 Reception and Demos

Thursday Day 2: 22 May 1997

8:30-10:15am Technical Session 5 - QoS Management

Session Chair: Andreas Vogel, Visgenic Corp., USA

Long Paper Presentations

    Integrated CPU and Network I/O QoS Management in an Endsystem
    K. Lakshman, R. Yavatkar and R. Finkel (Intel, USA)

    Service-Tailored QoS Management in High Performance Networks
    R. Bless, M. Jacob and C. Schmidt (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)

Short Paper Presentations

    Application Design for Cooperative QoS Management
    S. Fischer, M.-V. O. M. Salem and G. v. Bochmann (University of Montreal, Canada)

    On the Specification of End-to-End QoS Control
    J. B. de Meer (GMD FOKUS, Germany)

    Using attribute-managed storage to achieve QoS
    E. Borowsky, R. Golding, A. Merchant, L. Schreier, E. Shriver, M. Spasojevic and J. Wilkes (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA)

Session Panel Discussion
10:30-12:00m Panel I - QOS for Distributed Object Computing Middleware - Fact or Fiction ?

Chair: Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University, USA

Panelists:
Max Ott, NEC, USA
Guru Parulkar, Washington U., USA
Rolf Stadler, Columbia U., USA
Andreas Vogel, Visigenic, USA (slides)
12:00-1:00pm

L u n c h

1:00-2:00pm Invited Speaker
Quality of Service: Where are we ?
R. Steinmetz and L. C. Wolf (Darmstadt University, Germany)
2:15-4:00pm Technical Session 6 - Distributed Object Computing

Session Chair: Douglas Schmidt, Washington University at St. Louis, USA

Long Paper Presentations

    Integrating QoS Restrictions into the Process of Service Selection
    C. Linnhoff-Popien and D. Thissen (Aachen University of Technology, Germany)

    Quality of Service (QoS) in Communication APIs
    W. Almesberger (EPFL DI-LRC, Switzerland), S. Sasyan (Hewlett Packard, France) and S. Wright ( Fujitsu Network Communications, USA)

Short Paper Presentations

    Managing Systemic Meta-Data for Creating QoS-Adaptive CORBA Applications
    J. A. Zinky and D. E. Bakken (BBN Systems and Technologies, USA)

    Support Components for Quality of Service in Distributed Environments: Monitoring Service
    D. A. Reed and K. J. Turner (University of Stirling, UK)

    A QoS Configuration System for Distributed Applications
    A. Smith and A. Grace (Distributed Systems Group, BT Laboratories, UK)

Session Panel Discussion
4:15-5:15pm Technical Session 7 - Advanced Reservation

Session Chair: Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University, Japan

Long Paper Presentations

    Sharing Resources through Advance Reservation Agents
    O. Schelen and S. Pink (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)

    Providing a Scalable Video-on-Demand System using Future Reservation of Resources and Multicast Communications
    A. Hafid (Computer Research Institute of Montreal, Canada)

Session Panel Discussion
7:30-10:30pm Workshop Banquet and Cruise around the Big Apple

    Friday Day 3: 23 May 1997

    9:00-10:30am Technical Session 8 - QOS-based Transport Protocols

    Session Chair: Steven Pink, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden

    Long Paper Presentations

      QoS Mapping between User's Preference and Bandwidth Control for Video Transport
      K. Fukuda, N. Wakamiya, M. Murata and H. Miyahara (Osaka University, Japan)

      On End-to-End QoS Mapping
      J.-F. Huard and A. A. Lazar (Columbia University, USA)

    Short Paper Presentations

      Transport QoS over Unreliable Networks: No Guarantees, No Free Lunch!
      P. Conrad, P. Amer, E. Golden, S. Iren, R. Marasli and A. Caro (University of Delaware, USA)

      QoS-Based Transport
      G. Mapp and S. Hodges (Olivetti & Oracle Research Lab, UK)

    Session Panel Discussion
    10:45-12:00pm Panel II - Reservations about Reservations

    Chair: Henning G. Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA

    Panelists:
    Fred Baker, CISCO, USA
    Jon Crowcroft, UCL, UK
    Roch Guerin, IBM, USA
    Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA
    12:00-1:00pm

    L u n c h
    1:00-2:30pm Technical Session 9 - QoS Mapping

    Session Chair: Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL, Switzerland

    Long Paper Presentations

      Simplified Method for Session Coordination Using Multi-level QOS Specification and Translation
      N. Nishio and H. Tokuda (Keio University, Japan)

      Quantitative QoS-Mapping: A Unifying Approach
      H. Knoche and H. de Meer (University of Hamburg, Germany)

    Short Paper Presentations

      QoS Translation and Admission Control for MPEG Video
      K. Kim and K. Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

      Towards Specifying QoS-Enabling Software Architectures
      V. Issarny, C. Bidan, F. Leleu and T. Saridakis (IRISA/INRIA, France)

    Session Panel Discussion
    2:45-4:15pm Technical Session 10 - QoS Adaptation

    Session Chair: Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign, USA

    Long Paper Presentations

      Terminal QoS of Adaptive Applications and its Analytical Computation
      P. Moghe and A. Kalavade (Bell-Labs, USA)

      End-to-End Quality of Service Control Using Adaptive Applications
      D. Sisalem (GMD FOKUS, Germany)

    Short Paper Presentations

      Adaptive QoS and in Multimedia Systems
      M. Ott, G. Michelitsch, D. Reininger and G. Welling (NEC, USA)

      A Dynamic QoS Adaptation for Networked Virtual Reality
      S. Oh, H. Sugano, S. Shimojo, H. Miyahara (Osaka University, Japan), K. Fujikawa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), T. Matsuura (Osaka City University, Japan), M.Arikawa(Hiroshima City University, Japan)

      Predictable File Access Latency for Multimedia
      D. Revel, C. Cowan, D. McNamee, C. Pu and J. Walpole (Oregon Graduate Institute, USA)

    Session Panel Discussion

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