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DAY 1     Monday 18th June

Registration & Conference Venue: Peter Jost Enterprise Centre, LJMU, Byrom Street
Welcome Speeches

Professor Michael Brown – Vice Chancellor

Mr Alistair McDermott – Associate Manager, EPSRC

Keynote Speech

"Network Management", Dr Frankie Garcia, Agilent Laboratories

 

Session 1A – Application I
Session Chair – Tim Trew, Philips Laboratories
Virgin Lifestyle: The Future Of Super Brands In The Network Economy
R McLean, N Blackie, Salford

Studio System for Creation, Visualisation, & transmission of Integrated Broadcast and Internet content using DVB
K Krishnapillai, J Cosmas, Brunel

Performance Evaluation of Desktop Videoconferencing
L Mued, S Furnell, Plymouth

Policy Based Management of Differentiated Services Networks
L Lymberopoulos, M Sloman, Imperial College

Network Constrained Smoothing: A technique for Enhanced Network Support of Video Traffic
C Bewick, R Pereira, M Merabti, LJMU

 

Session 1B – QoS
Session Chair – Chris Edwards, Lancaster University
Quality of Service Assurance for the Next Generation Internet
D Pezaros, D Hutchison, Lancaster

QOS Routing with Multiple Prioritised Constraints
A Alkahtani, M Woodward, Bradford

Mapping Ponder into the IETF Policy Information Model for Specifying QoS Policy Management
O Alcantara, M Sloman, Imperial College

Control System For Real Time Multimedia Communication over IP Network
L He, B Cheetham, Manchester

A Generic Architecture for Multiservice Routing
X Li, Oxford Brooks

 

Session 2A – Modelling & Performance Evaluation
Session Chair – Frank Ball, Oxford Brookes University
One to one Broadcasting Scheme for Arbitrary Interconnection Networks
I Mkwawa, D Kouvatsos, Bradford

Modelling the Bounds on LRD Behaviour for IP Traffic
G Aklilu, J Pitts, QMW

Determining the Sources of Delay in a Distributed Learning Environment
A Ruddle, C Allison, St Andrews

Entropy Maximisation and QNM with Blocking after Service
K Smith, D Kouvatsos, Bradford

Neighbourhood Broadcasting Scheme for Star Interconnection Networks
I Mkwawa, D Kouvatsos, Bradford

 

Session 2B – Protocols
Session Chair – Colin Allison, University of St Andrews
Reconfigurable Networks for Maintaining Quality Delivery of Electronic Services
M Puddephatt, S Hill, Salford

Transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 - A Technical Overview
M Mackay, C Edwards, Lancaster

Robust Synchronisation for a Geo-Satellite Link
J Tay, G Fairhurst, Aberdeen

RTSP+FOHM: Applying Open Hypermedia and Temporal Linking to Audio Streams
M Ridgeway, D De Roure, Southampton

Performance comparison of the IEEE 802.11 and AIr infrared wireless MAC protocols
P Barker, A Boucouvalas, Bournemouth

Conference Dinner : Liverpool Maritime Museum

 

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DAY 2     Tuesday 19 June

 

Session 3A - Security
Defending Against Denial of Service Attacks: A Network Filtering Based Approach
J Haggerty, LJMU

An Exposition of Authentication Services in Mobile Networks
L He, N Zhang, Manchester

A Proposed Architecture for Efficient Searching of Certificate Revocation Lists
D Gresty, T Berry, LJMU

Security As A QoS Routing Issue
A Alghannam, J Mellor, Bradford

 

Session 3B – Active Networks
Session Chair – Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University
Towards Constraint-Based Configuration (CBC) of proxylets for Policy Implementation
K Krishnakumar, M Sloman, Imperial College

Active Networking Applied to Network Security
F al-Moussa, N Linge, Salford

An Application Layer Active Networking Infrastructure for Distributed Virtual Reality
S Cogden, I Wakeman, Sussex

Intelligent Routing with Active Networks
A Tasir, N Linge, Salford

 

Session 4A – High Speed Session
Chair – Nigel Linge, University of Salford
Free Space Point to Point Laser and Optical Communications
M Liu, S Hill, Salford

Intelligent Discipline Management Strategy (IDMS) of high-speed network services processes
K Wang, LJMU/Taiwan

Simulated Error Performance of an All Optical Time Division Multiplexing System
R Gao, Z Ghassemlooy, Sheffield Hallam

A Variable Resource Allocation Scheme for Deterministic Services of VBR Traffic
H Mokhtar, R Pereira, M Merabti, LJMU

Psychoacoustic Properties of Multi-Channel Audio Signals
Dylan Carline, Reuben Edwards, Paul Coulton, Lancaster

 

Session 4B – Wireless I
Session Chair – John Mellor, University of Bradford
Using Mobile Agent Techniques for Distributed Manufacturing Network Management
C Huang, C Pattinsion, Leeds Metropolitan

A performance evaluation measures of Geo[x]/Geo/M/Mmax/T queuing model of cellular mobile communication system
S Al-hakeem, Bradford

Resource Management in Mobile Networks
A Zreikat, K Al-Begain, Bradford

Performance of GPRS over GSM for Mobile Computing
M Collins, J Mellor, Bradford

Reconfigurable Technologies Providing a Platform for Future Mobile Communication Systems
S Colsell, R Edwards, B Honary, Lancaster

 

Session 5A – Wireless II
Session Chair – Andy Scott, Lancaster University
Use of Wireless Application Protocol service configuration provision over the Short Messaging System for nomadic device adaptation
C Ladas, R Edwards, Sheffield

Investigation of partitioning strategies for GPRS over GSM Networks
A Kennedy, J Mellor, Bradford

Integrated Personal Mobility Services Architecture: A need beyond WWW
A Mingkhwan, LJMU

Interoperability in the Wireless Networked Appliances Technologies Arena
O Abuelma’atti, LJMU

Using PUM turbo Codes to Improve Link Performance in a Hostile Mobile Radio Environment
L Fagoonee, B Honary, Lancaster

 

Session 5B Applications II
Storage Manager System For DVB Terminals
K Krishnapillai, J Cosmas, Brunel

Real Time H.263 Video Encoder Using Mercury Multiprocessor Workstation
L Zheng, J Cosmas, Brunel

Communication Technologies for Building’s Control Network System
S San, H Takruri-Rizk, Salford

Using the Java Media Framework to build Adaptive Groupware Applications
M Bateman, C Allison, St. Andrews

Continuous Metadata
K Page, D De Roure, Southampton

 

Keynote Speech

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