Dagstuhl Seminar Nº 02441
Quality of Service in Networks and Distributed Systems

Monday 28/10/02

07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast

09:00 Welcome & Introduction (Lars Wolf, Stefan Fischer, Klara Nahrstedt & all other participants)

09:30 - 10:30 Session 1: 2 talks (SC: Klara Nahrstedt)

Rita H. Wouhaybi, Columbia University
Incentive Engineering in Wireless LAN-based Access Networks

John Cushnie, Lancaster University
Provision of QoS for Wireless Access Networks

11:00 - 12:00 Session 2: 2 talks (SC: Michael Smirnow)

Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University
A Middleware-based Approach to Programmable Networking

Kurt Geihs, TU Berlin
Middleware - Quo(S) Vadis?

12:15 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Session 3: 3 talks (SC: Yuval Shavitt)

Roland Bless, Universität Karlsruhe
Dynamic Aggregation of Reservations for Internet Services

Jens Schmitt, TU Darmstadt
Decoupling of Different Timescales in Heterogeous Network QoS Systems

Ulf Bodin, Luleå University of Technology
Enhansing the Internet Network Layer with Hints and Notifications

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:00 Free (Hiking, Biking, Meeting people etc.)

18:00 Dinner

Tuesday 29. October 2002

07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast

09:00 - 10:00 Session 4: 2 talks (SC: Torsten Braun)

Stefano Basagni, Northeastern Univ. - Boston
Scatternet Formation for Networks of Bluetooth Devices

Stefan Fischer, TU Braunschweig
Increasing the Connectivity in Ad-Hoc Networks

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 Session 5: 3 talks (SC: Henning Schulzrinne)

Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC
QoS-aware Service Composition

Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt
Towards Semitransparency & Towards the Use of Media Semantics for the QoS of Continuous Media Streams

Jörg Liebeherr, University of Virginia
Recent Progress on a Statistical Network Calculus

12:15 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Session 6: 3 talks (SC: Jens Schmitt)

Jürgen Quittek, NEC Europe - Heidelberg
Next Steps in QoS Signalling: Do we need RSVP version 2?

Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
Light-Weight QoS Signaling

Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer Institut - Berlin
Policy Group Control Issues

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00 Session 7: 3 talks (SC: Kurt Geihs)

Burkhard Stiller, Uni. Bundeswehr-München
Auditing and Charging in the Ax Architecture

Mark Doll, Uni Karlsruhe
Web-based initiation of reservations for QoS-based communication

Yuval Shavitt
QoS Support in Switches

18:00 Dinner

20:00 - Future of QoS: Where are we going? (SC: Ralf Steinmetz)
(Vine Cellar; panel discussion)

Wednesday 30. October 2002

07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast

09:00 - 10:30 Session 9: 3 talks (SC: Stefan Fischer)

Torsten Braun, Universität Bern
IP Telephony over Differentiated Services

Dimitrios Pezaros, Lancaster University
Measurement, Monitoring and Control of Internet Traffic for Improved QoS

Georg Carle, Fraunhofer Institut - Berlin
Mechanisms for Value-added IP Services

11:00 - 12:00 Session 10: 2 talks (SC: Jörg Liebeherr)

Anthony Joseph, Univ. California - Berkeley
Griffin: Towards an Agile, Predictive Infrastructure

Ulrich Fiedler, ETH Zürich
QoS and Transient Simulations of Web Traffic

Jörg Diederich, TU Braunschweig
Simple and Scalable Handoff Prioritization in Mobile Networks

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch