21st LCN Technical Program

The Sheraton Minneapolis Metrodome Hotel
Minneapolis, Minnesota U.S.A.
October 13-16, 1996

Last update: 12 September 1996

Conference schedule:

Sunday, 10/13, 1-5 p.m. (Half-day tutorials)

Monday, 10/14, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (Full-day tutorials)

Tuesday, 10/15 (Keynote address and panel sessions)

Wednesday, 10/16 (Papers)


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Keynote Address

IP Switching: Well Who Cares About the LAN Anymore?"
Dr. Peter Newman, Ipsilon Networks


Synopsis: Remember LANs? Like city states of the middle ages, LANs created small communities of interest where resources were shared. We still have communities of interest -- but after hundreds of years of progress in government and transportation we are no longer restricted to those living in the same town. So it is with networking. I now take it for granted I can get around the local area at high speed -- but how do we open up everywhere else to high-speed, low-latency communication. "On the Information Superhighway the LAN is just your driveway."

We will consider the Great ATM Marketing Machine and look at problems with the current proposals for ATM as the high performance universal network. The difficulties with conventional approaches to IP over ATM will be discussed. IP switching will be proposed as an alternative. Also, we will contrast the gigabit router and the IP switch and discuss scaling IP switching to serve the expanding Internet.

Dr. Newman is a member of technical staff at Ipsilon Networks Inc., Palo Alto, California. He was a staff scientist responsible for ATM systems architecture at Adaptive/NET and is a survivor of the Traffic Management Group of the ATM Forum. In a previous life, he was a research fellow at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge where he received a Ph.D. for research in ATM switch design in 1989.


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Tutorials


Introduction to Network Security

Presenter: Tom Haig, Secure Computing

(Tutorial description to be supplied)


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Work-at/from-Home: Getting Started to Running Advanced Applications

Presenter: Frank K. Benedett, BellSouth

(Tutorial description to be supplied)


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Introduction to Distributed Object Programming with CORBA

Presenter: Dr. Doug Schmidt, Washington University

Developing robust, extensible, reusable, and efficient distributed systems and applications is hard. This tutorial presents an overview of distributed object computing based on CORBA 2.0. CORBA is an emerging open standard for distributed object computing that automates many common application development tasks such as service registration, location, and activation, demultiplexing, framing and error-handling, parameter (de)marshalling, and operation dispatching. The tutorial is intended for researchers and developers who plan to use CORBA to design and implement systems such as telecommunication switch management systems, video-on-demand services, network management applications, and personal communication systems.

About the Speaker: Douglas C. Schmidt, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. His research focuses on design patterns, implementation, and experimental analysis of object-oriented techniques for developing high-performance distributed communication systems on parallel processing platforms that run over high-speed networks. Dr. Schmidt is coeditor with Jim Coplien of AT&T Bell Labs for a recent book on Pattern Languages of Program Design and is editor-in-chief of the C++ Report magazine, where he co-authors a column on CORBA with Steve Vinoski, lead architect of HP ORB Plus. In addition, Dr. Schmidt has consulted with Ericsson/GE Mobile Communications, the Motorola IRIDIUM Project, Kodak, and Siemens, developing distributed telecommunications switch monitoring systems and concurrent networking software for distributed medical imaging systems on Windows NT and UNIX multi-processor platforms using CORBA and C++.


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Advanced Network Security Concepts: Advanced Intrusion Reponse in a Unix and TCP/IP Environment

Presenter: Mike Newman, En Garde Systems

While much time and research have been devoted to making systems more secure by erecting firewalls, installing patches, using smartcards, encryption, or running a variety of security tools, extremely little effort has been put into the field of intrusion response. While securing systems helps eliminate the most helpless of hackers, it only buys a site a little time until the next vulnerability is found, or the more determined hacker decides he wants to explore a system. When that time is up, how can you tell your site has been had, and what do you do about it? Common wisdom seems to be to shut off the system, reinstall the operating system, call CERT, and wait. This class will teach why an intruder hopes this is what will happen, and give the student a firm grasp on how to perform an investigation, gather evidence for prosecutorial purposes, find and eliminate backdoors left behind by the intruder, determine what information has been compromised, coordinate with other sites, deal with law enforcement, and, hopefully in the end, take a byte out of crime.

This will be an advanced tutorial. Fundamentals of security policy and knowledge of tools and techniques is assumed. Also, a good understanding of Unix, TCP/IP, and their associated services and protocols is required.


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Advanced Network Design Using Measurements, Simulation, and Analytical Techniques

Presenter: Dr. Moshe Zukerman, Monash University

This tutorial will provide the network designer with understanding of the principles of state-of-the-art network design methods. It will provide answers to common questions such as: What should I measure in my network? How accurate are various commercial tools? How can tools and measurements be used for efficient dimensioning? What are the critical issues and the fundamental principles in the design of high-speed networks?


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High-Speed Networking Technologies For the Enterprise and For Access from Home

Presenter: Dr. Raj Jain, Ohio State University

This tutorial will cover recent high-speed networking technologies. Both high-speed access from home and high-speed communications in the enterprise will be covered. For enterprise networking, we will discuss ATM, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 100Base-VG, FDDI, and Fiber Channel. The concepts of switched LANs, virtual LANs, and IP switching will be explained. For high-speed access from home, ADSL, HDSL, Cable Modems, and Hybrid Fiber-Coax will be presented.

About the Speaker: Raj Jain is a Professor of Computer Information Sciences at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Since 1978, he has been an active participant in many networking standards and industry forums. Currently he is very active in the Traffic Management working group of ATM Forum and has influenced its direction considerably.

He is the author of Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis, published by Wiley and FDDI Handbook: High-Speed Networking with Fiber and Other Media published by Addison Wesley. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, an ACM Lecturer, and an IEEE Distinguished Visitor. For further information, please see http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~jain/.


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Panel Sessions




High-Speed Networking in the Enterprise: Which Way?

Panel Chair: Dr. Raj Jain, Ohio State University
Panelists: Joseph Skorupa, Fore Systems; Dr. Peter Newman, Ipsilon Networks

Over the past few years, a number of new technologies have been developed for high-speed networking, including ATM, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 100Base-VG, FDDI, Fiber Channel, and so on. Many of these are for the desktop, while others are for the campus backbone and beyond. The panelists will debate the future of these technologies. Are the technolgies living up to their initial promise? Are we converging towards one technology end-to-end? If so, which one? If not, what should the users be planning for their enterprise?


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Why and How to Employ Measurements, Simulation, and Analytical Techniques to Improve Your Network Performance

Panel Chair: Dr. Frank Huebner, Bellcore
Panelists: Dr. Len Forys, Forys Inc.; Dr. Moshe Zukerman, Telstra; Dr. Elias Drakopoulos, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies; Dr. Frederick Scholl, Monarch Information Networks Inc.

The purpose of the panel is to inform the audience about why performance evaluation using measurements, simulations, and analytical techniques can save anyone who operates networks money by enabling him to manage the network more efficient, effective, and deliver a higher user-perceived quality of service. We will also discuss how to use the above mentioned techniques and how to combine them, and where the limitations are.


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Self-Defense on the Information Superhighway

Panel Chair: Barbara Fraser, CERT Coordination Center

Organizations are actively connecting their LANS to each other and to the Internet. Many parts of this information superhighway are nothing more than frontier trails where the protection of your "electronic life and property" depends largely on the defensive actions taken by you and the administrators of your networks and systems. This panel session will present the current threats and vulnerabilities of this environment, and discuss corresponding technologies and practices that can be applied to minimize the threat. The panel will also explore emerging technologies that promise a better tomorrow.


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Work at/from Home: Access Technologies

Panel Chair: Ron Rutledge, Oakridge National Laboratory

(Panel description and panelists names to be supplied)


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Paper Sessions


Session I: High Speed Networks

Session Chair: Gary Kessler (Hill Associates, USA)

  • "Security Services for Emerging High Speed Networks," Vija Varadharajan, University of Western Sydney, Australia
  • "The Effects of Data Locality on FDDI-Based Schemes at Gigabit Speeds," Bernhard Albert and Anura P. Jayasumana, Colorado State University, USA
  • "Characterization and Control of Highly Correlated Traffic in High Speed Networks," Ying-Dar Lin, Tian-Ren Huang and Yuan-Cheng Lai, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
  • "Efficient Buffering Techniques for Deflection Routing in High Speed Networks," Jack Tan and Chungti Liang, University of Wisconsin, USA

Session II: Multimedia Communications I

Session Chair: Dr. Burkhard Stiller (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)

  • "A Fuzzy Policing Mechanism for Still Picture in ATM Networks," Leonard Barolli and Kuninobu Tanno, Yamagata University, Japan
  • "Design and Analysis of a New Fast Packet Switching Fabric Supporting Multimedia Traffic," Byoung Seob Park and Sung Chun Kim, Sogang University, Korea
  • "The Multimedia Gateway: An Evolution Towards Switched Video Services," Chatschik C. Bisdikian and Frank A. Schaffa, IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
  • "An Experimental ATM-Based Video-on-demand System on a Macintosh Platform," Mengjou Lin and David Singer, Apple Computer, Inc., USA
  • "A Novel Intra-Media Synchronization Mechanism for Multimedia Communications," Maria C. Yuang and Po L. Tien, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Session III: ATM Networks I

Session Chair: Dr. K.K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T, USA)

  • "Performance Analysis of a Banyan Based ATM Switching Fabric with Packet Priority," Zhaohui Yan and Yih-Chyun Jenq, Portland State University, USA
  • "Multiaccess ATM Network for Residential and Small Business Subscribers," Young-Wook Cha, Jong-Oh Kim and Ki-Jun Han, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea
  • "Performance Analysis of ATM Switches with Multistage Packet Switching Interconnection Networks," Aristotel Tentov, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Macedonia
  • "Policing Function in ATM Network Using Multi-Layer Neural Network," Kuang Klark Fan, Colorado State University, USA

Session IV: Communication Protocols

Session Chair: Dr. Peter Martini (Univ. of Paderborn, Germany)

  • "A Class-Chest for Deriving Transport Protocols," W. Timothy Strayer, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
  • "Designing a Virtual Access Control Configuration Protocol for Implementation over ISDN and Shared-Media Networks," Chooi-Tian (Alex) Lee, UNI-Net, Inc., USA
  • "Timer Based Burst Mode Protocol for High Speed Local Area Networks," Sundeep Singatwaria, Fred Halsall and Riaz Ahmad, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Session V: Real-Time Networks

Session Chair: Dr. Chao-Ju Jennifer Hou (Univ. of Wisconsin, USA)

  • "The Design and Implementation of a Multicast Real-Time Multimedia Protocol," Nen-Fu Huang, Chi-An Su, Chieh-Wen Cheng, Chuan-Pwu Wang, Jer-Han Feng, and Yi-Jang Wu, National Tsing Hua University, Republic of China
  • "Scheduling and Buffer Management for Soft Real-Time VBR Traffic in Packet Switched Networks," Ian R. Philp, Klara Nahrstedt, and Jane W.S. Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • "Performance Studies of Transmitting Real-Time MPEG-1 Video in ATM Networks,"Victor C.S. Lee, Joseph K.Y. Ng, Kam-yiu Lam and Sheung-lun Hung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • "Interval Based Real-Time Transmission Control," Christian Dunkel and Dietrich Reschke, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany

Session VI: Multicast Communications

Session Chair: Dr. Frank Huebner (Bellcore, USA)

  • "A Multicast Tree Algorithm Considering Maximum Delay Bound for Real-Time Applications," Sanghyun Ahn and David H.C. Du, Sejong University, Korea
  • "A Proposal of Flow Control Mechanism for Multicast ABR and Its Performance," Tetsuya Yokotani and Tatsuki Ichihashi, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Japan
  • "A Performance Study of Multicast Routing Algorithm for ATM Networks," Tim Harrison and Carey Williamson, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  • "Reliable Multicasting in the Xpress Transport Protocol," J. William Atwood, Octavian Catrina, John Fenton, and W. Timothy Strayer, Concordia University, Canada
  • "An Error-Control Scheme for a Multicast Protocol Based on Round-Trip Time Calculations," Daniel Bauer and Burkhard Stiller, Institut fur Technische Informatik und Kommunikationsnetze, Switzerland
  • "A Protocol Architecture for Software Distribution by Reliable Multicast Using Application Level Framing," Marc Gumbold, University of Paderborn, Germany

Session VII: ATM Networks II

Session Chair: Patrick Gonia (Honeywell, USA)

  • "An Analysis of Impacts of Long-Term Traffic Correlations on Congestion Control in ATM-Based Local Computer Nteworks," Guang-Liang Li and Fang-Ming Li, Institute of Computer Technology, Academia Sinica, P.R. of China
  • "Back-pressure Buffering Scheme to Improve the Cell Loss Property on the Output Buffered ATM Switch," Keun-Bae Kim and Hyup-Jong Kim, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea
  • "An Enhanced Timed-Round-Robin Traffic Control Scheme for ATM Networks," Qin Zheng, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge Research Center, USA
  • "Neural-Network-Based Call Admission Control in ATM Networks with Heterogeneous Arrival," Po L. Tien, Jen M. Hah and Maria C. Yuang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Session VIII: Network Analysis I

Session Chair: Ellis S. Nolley (Digi International, USA)

  • "Analysis and Optimization of A Banyan Based ATM Switch by Simulations," Syed Sohel Hussain and Yih-Chyun Jenq, Portland State University, USA
  • "A Simulation Study of Usage-Based Pricing Strategies for Packet-Switched Networks," Leanne P. Breker and Carey L. Williamson, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  • "A Comparative Study of Numerical and Heuristic Approaches to Calculation of Sustainable Cell Rate," Mehran Dowlatshahi and S.K. De, University of Sydney, Australia
  • "Performance Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant B-Tree ATM Switch," Chris Plate and Jack Tan, University of Wisconsin, USA
  • "Adaptive Resource Scheduling Strategies and Performance Analysis of Broadband Networks," Elsa Salcedo Valeroso and Mansoor Alam, The University of Toledo, USA

Session IX: Multimedia Communications II

Session Chair: Dr. Kanti Prasad (Univ. of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA)

  • "A Strategy for Construction of a 40 Mbps Bundle of MPEG VBR Bit Streams," S.G. Chang, D.Y. Suh, M.H. Kyung, S.H. Park and J.I. Jung, Kyunghee University, Korea
  • "Multimedia Service Networking Architecture and Its Applications in TINA-like Model," Choong Seon Hong, Dai Kashiwa, Yuzo Koga and Yutaka Matsushita, Keio University, Japan
  • "A Systematic Approach to Design the Network-based Learning Environment for Home and Office," Yen-Jen Lee, Horng-Juing Lee, Wei-hsiu Ma and David H.C. Du, University of Minnesota, USA
  • "Destination Buffering for Low-Bandwidth Audio Transmissions using Redundancy-Based Error Control," Bert J. Dempsey and Yangkun Zhang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  • "A Hierarchical Network Storage Architecture for Video-on-Demand Services," Ying-Dar Lin and Horng-Zhu Lai, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

Session X: Network Controls

Session Chair: Maria C. Yuang (National Chung-Tung University, Taiwan)

  • "An EDS Switch Design with Congestion Avoidance," T. Fu, H. Mehrpour and A. E. Karbowiak, School of Electrical Engineering, Australia
  • "A Reactive Access Control Scheme at B-ISDN UNI for B-ISDN Congestion Control," Soong Hee Lee, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea
  • "A General Framework for Continuous Media Transmission Control," Terry Talley and Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina st Chapel Hill, USA
  • "Principle and Technique for Encapsulation of User Control and Data Information in Separate Frames," Chooi-Tian (Alex) Lee, UNI-Net, Inc., USA

Session XI: Network Analysis II

Session Chair: Joe Bumblis (MCC, USA)

  • "Performance Evaluation of the Binary Logarithmic Arbitration Method (BLAM) for Ethernet," Kenneth J. Christensen, University of South Florida, USA
  • "Probabilistic Logic Modeling of Network Reliability for Hybrid Network Architecture," Gregory D. Wyss, Heather K. Schriner and Timothy R. Gaylor, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
  • "Design and Performance Evaluation of Network Interconnection Architecture," Dedy-Dewanto Tjhie and Helmut Rzehak, Federal Armed Forces, University of Munich, Germany
  • "Evaluating Performance of High-Speed and Long Distance Communications on HIPPI-ATM Networks," Kazuhiro Sato and Shuhei Takimoto, NTT Telecommunication Networks Laboratories, Japan
  • "Performance Analysis of Application-Level Traffic Shaping in a Real-Time Multimedia Conferencing System on Ethernets," Yeali S. Sun, Chin-Fu Ku, Yu-Chun Pan, Chia-Hui Wang and Jan-Ming Ho, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Session XII: ATM III

Session Chair: Dr. Parameswaran Ramanathan (Univ. of Wisconsin, USA)

  • "The Operation of IP and Address Resolution over the ATM LAN Interworking Unit," Chan Park, Sang Man Lee, and Hyup Jong Kim, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea
  • "A Study on the Point-to-Multipoint Connection Control in ATM Switching System," Moon-Kyun Oh, Dae-Young Kim, Sung-Woong Ra, Chi-Moon Han and Han-Kyung Kim, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea
  • "Modeling and Regulation of Host Traffic in ATM Networks for Hard Real-Time Applications," Fang Feng, Ceh Li, Amitava Raha, Shiqian Yu and Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University, USA
  • "Universal Packet Time Slot - A New Paradigm of Designing an ATM Switch," Muh-rong Yang and GinKou Ma, Computer & Communication Research Lab. ITRI, Republic of China
  • "A Gracious Cell Discard Scheme in ATM Multiplexer," Hoon Lee, Korea Telecom, Korea

Session XIII: Optical Networks

Session Chair: Dr. Bert J. Dempsey (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

  • "TWDM Single-hop Lightwave Networks Using Multiple Fixed Transceivers at Each Station," P.J. Wan and A. Pavan, Honeywell Technology Center, USA
  • "GSN: A New Multihop Architecture for Optical Networks," A. Abbinante and P. Camarda, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
  • "A New Multihop Lightwave Network Based on a Generalized De-Bruijn Graph," Allalaghatta Pavan, Sheau-Ru Tong, Peng-Jun Wan and David H.C. Du, Honeywell Technology Center, USA
  • "Performance of a Robust WDM network with Token-Passing and A Limited Number of Lasers per Station," Samir A. Abd-Elmalak, Chintan Vaishnav and Anura P. Jayasumana, Colorado State University, USA

Session XIV: Mobil Communications

Session Chair: Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish (GTE Lab., USA)

  • "Mobility Model in Cellular Communication Networks," P. Camarda, G. Schiraldi and F. Talucci, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
  • "Providing Video Conferencing for the Mobil User," Jens Meggers, Gregor Bautz and Anthony Sang-Bum Park, RWTH-Aachen (U. of Technology Aachen), Germany
  • "Providing Seamless Communication in Mobil Wireless Networks," Bikram S. Bakshi, P. Krishna, DK Pradhan and NH Vaidya, Texas A&M University, USA

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