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9:00 Welcoming remarks
SESSION 1: Traffic Models, Chair: Ward Whitt
9:15 - 10:00 The Changing Nature of Network Traffic: Scaling Phenomena
Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs-Research
10:00 - 10:30 The Relationship between Heavy-Tailed File Sizes and
Self-Similar Network Traffic
Mark Crovella, Boston University
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 Patterns of buffer overflow in fluid models with long
range dependent inputs caused by heavy tails
Sid Resnik, Cornell University
11:30 - 12:00 Multiplicative Cascades
Ed Waymire, Oregon State
12:00 - 12:30 On-Line Operational Measurements to Support Traffic
Engineering of Broadband ATM Networks
Ashok Erramilli, Qmetrix
12:30 - 1:30 LUNCH
SESSION 2: Simulations, Chair: Yechiam Yemini
1:30 - 2:15 Federated Simulation Systems
Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Tech
2:15 - 2:45 Internet Simulations: Issues in Defining the Model
Sally Floyd, LBNL
2:45 - 3:15 Project VINT: Virtual InterNet Testbed
Deborah Estrin, USC
3:15 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:15 Simulation of multihop, adhoc wireless networks
Mario Gerla, UCLA
4:15 - 4:45 Project S3: Scalable Simulations
Andy Ogielski, DIMACS
4:45 - 5:15 ANCORS: Adaptable Network Control and Reporting System
Livio Ricciulli, SRI International
5:15 - 5:45 Method for Optimal Span Selection in Fiber Cut Simulation
Lev Sofman, MCI
6:30 RECEPTION, FACULTY CLUB
Friday, October 24, 1997
SESSION 3: Wireless Models, Chair: Mario Gerla
8:45 - 9:30 Modeling and Simulation Problems in Mobile Wireless
Communications
David Goodman, WINLAB
9:30 - 10:00 The Wireless System Engineering design tool
Steve Fortune, Bell Labs, Lucent
10:00 - 10:30 Simulation Methods for Resource Allocation In Wireless
Systems
Roy Yates, WINLAB
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Application of Modeling in Network Management and Control
Karen Sage, Cisco
11:45 - 12:15 Model-based Self-Healing and Self-Configuring Networks
Y. Yemini, Columbia
12:15 - 12:45 Fast Cellular Internet Access: Where is the Problem?
F. Reichert, Ericsson
12:45 - 1:45 LUNCH
SESSION 4: Network Algorithms, Chair: Walter Willinger
1:45 - 2:30 Network Design and Control Using On-Off and
Multi-Level Source Traffic Models with Long-Tailed
Distributions
Ward Whitt, AT&T Labs-Research
2:30 - 3:00 Spatial Point Patterns of Phase Type
V. Ramaswami, AT&T Labs-Research
3:00 - 3:30 A Framework for Evaluating the Performance of Reliable
Multicast Protocols or How to Complicate Simple Analyses
Don Towsley, U.Mass Amherst
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:30 A Performance Comparison of Competitive On-line
Routing and State-Dependent Routing
M. Andrews, Bell Labs, Lucent
4:30 - 5:00 Detection of Hurst Parameter Changes using Data
Compression
S. Rajagopalan, Bellcore
5:00 - 5:45 Modeling Call Degradation and Admission Policies
for Multimedia traffic in Wireless Networks
S. Das, U. North Texas
6:30 BANQUET, PRINCETON FACULTY CLUB
"DOES MODELING WORK?" A CAREER PERSPECTIVE
DR. LEONARD J. FORYS
PRESIDENT, FORYS CONSULTING GROUP
Dr Forys is an internationally recognized expert on the application of
mathematical models to performance management of telecommunication
networks. He has a lifetime of anecdotes to answer the question which
is the title of his talk.
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