Technical Program

 



Wednesday 23 February



08:30 Registration


09:00 Welcome (R. Battiti, M. Gerla)

09:30 Keynote Speech Research and Development Test-Beds for Future Networks
Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College London, UK)

10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 session 1:
Multimedia Services

Chair:
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
The IMS Playground @ FOKUS - An Open Testbed for Next Generation Network Multimedia Services Karsten Knuettel (FHG FOKUS, Germany)
11:20 Performance evaluation of recovery techniques in a Grid-oriented Metrocore/VESPER field trial Piero Castoldi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy)
11:50 VDE: Virtual Distributed Ethernet Renzo Davoli (University of Bologna, Italy)
12:20 An Experience in IPv6 Networking supporting Ecumene Web Information System for Cultural Heritage Stefano Lucetti (Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy)
12:50 Lunch break
14:20 session 2:
Ubiquitous Services

Chair:
Kenichi Mase  (Niigata University, Japan)
Demos presentation

14:50 Design Considerations on the Create-Net Test-bed Roberto Grasso (Create-Net, Italy)
15:20 Ubiquitous Home: Real-life Testbed for Home Context-Aware Service Tatsuya Yamazaki (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
15:50 A Testbed for Evaluating Human Interaction with Ubiquitous Computing Environments Dave Lewis (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
16:20 Coffee Break
16:40  

Panel on Autonomic computing and communication testbeds
Chair:
Spyros Denazis (Hitachi Sophia Antipolis Laboratory, France)

Panelists and topics:
- Spyros Denazis (Hitachi Sophia Antipolis Laboratory, France)

  
Modular router architectures as enablers of autonomicity

- David Lewis (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
   User-centred evaluation of autonomic pervasive services

- Guido Maier (CoreCom, Italy)
  Autonomic communications: The MUPBED Project

- Saverio Niccolini (NEC Europe Ltd., Network Laboratories, Germany)
  Measurements as building block for autonomic communication testbeds

- Xiaoyuan Gu (Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks, Germany)
  Self-optimizing protocol stack for NetEcology


18:00 - 19:00  
Demo session, organised by David Walker (University of Cardiff, UK)

   Demos:
-  INLAB - Stefano Annese, Andrea Ghittino (CSP, Italy)
-  GILDA - Roberto Barbera (INFN and University of Catania, Italy)
-  MIPSD - Stefano Lucetti (University of Pisa, Italy)
-  FOKUS - Thomas Magedanz (Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany)
-  ETOMIC - Daniel Morato (Public University of Navarra, Spain)
-  ORBIT - Max Ott (Rutgers University, USA)
-  UnWiReD - Weijun Zhu, Michael Fitz (UCLA, USA)
-  Cognitive Packet Network - 
Michael Gellman, Erol Gelenbe, Ricardo Lent (Imperial College London, UK)
-  CoRiTeL -  Anton Luca Robustelli, Francesco Toro, Domenico Celentano (Co.Ri.TeL., Italy)
-  WILMA -  G. Lazzari (ITC-IRST, Italy), R. Battiti (Università di Trento, Italy), R. Loro (Alpikom SpA, Italy)


















Thursday 24 February
09:00 session 3:
Wireless Testbeds and New Capabilities

Chair:
Michael Stanton (RNP, Brazil)
An open access wideband multi-antenna wireless testbed with remote control capability David Browne, Michael Fitz (UCLA, USA)
09:30 A Geography-Aware Scalable Community Wireless Network Test Bed Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
10:00 A Low-Cost and Simple-to-Deploy Peer-to-Peer Wireless Network based on Open Source Linux Routers Nikolaos Tsarmpopoulos (University of Thessaly, Greece)
10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 session 4:
ORBIT Testbeds

Chair:
Hisao Uose (NTT, Japan)
Wireless Link SNR Mapping Onto An Indoor Testbed Roy Yates (Rutgers University, USA)
11:20 ORBIT Testbed Software Architecture: Supporting Experiments as a Service Max Ott (Rutgers University, USA)
11:50 ORBIT Measurements Framework and Library (OML): Motivations, Design, Implementation, and Features Max Ott (Rutgers University, USA)
12:20 Addressing Repeatability in Wireless Experiments using ORBIT Testbed Ivan Seskar (Rutgers University, USA)
12:50 Lunch break
14:20 session 5:
Wireless Testbeds and Emerging Technologies

Chair:
Marco Ronchetti (University of Trento, Italy)
A Testbed and Methodology for Experimental Evaluation of Wireless Mobile Ad hoc Networks Erik Nordström (Uppsala University, Sweden)
14:50 A testbed for experimentation of innovative services in the B3G framework Anton Luca Robustelli (Co.Ri.TeL., Italy)
15:20 Running Variance Metric for evaluating performance of Wireless IP Networks in the MobileCity Testbed Robert Brännström (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden)
15:50 Coffee Break
16:10 - 18:10

Demo session, organised by David Walker (University of Cardiff, UK)

   Demos:
-  INLAB - Stefano Annese, Andrea Ghittino (CSP, Italy)
-  GILDA - Roberto Barbera (INFN and University of Catania, Italy)
-  MIPSD - Stefano Lucetti (University of Pisa, Italy)
-  FOKUS - Thomas Magedanz (Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany)
-  ETOMIC - Daniel Morato (Public University of Navarra, Spain)
-  ORBIT - Max Ott (Rutgers University, USA)
-  UnWiReD - Weijun Zhu, Michael Fitz (UCLA, USA)
-  Cognitive Packet Network -  Michael Gellman, Erol Gelenbe, Ricardo Lent (Imperial College London, UK
-  CoRiTeL -  Anton Luca Robustelli, Francesco Toro, Domenico Celentano (Co.Ri.TeL., Italy)
-  WILMA -  G. Lazzari (ITC-IRST, Italy), R. Battiti (Università di Trento, Italy), R. Loro (Alpikom SpA, Italy)














18:20 Trip to Social dinner venue (Cantine Rotari, Mezzocorona)

19:00 Guided tour of Cantine Rotari

20:00 Social dinner



Friday 25 February
09:00 session 6: Next Generation Wireless Networks

Chair:
Javier Aracil (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Scalable Testbed for Next-Generation Wireless Networking Technologies Mario Gerla (UCLA, USA)
09:30 A Practical Approach for 4G Systems: Deployment of Overlay Networks Pablo Vidales (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
10:00 Analysis and Experimentation over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Stefano Za (Università Campus Bio-Medico, Italy)
10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 session 7: Protocol Testbeds

Chair:
Mikel Izal (Public University of Navarra, Spain)
A Global X-Bone for Network Experiments Joe Touch (USC/ISI, USA)
11:20 Integrated Network Experimentation Using Simulation with Emulation
Shashi Guruprasad (University of Utah, USA)
11:50 A Testbed and Research Network for Next Generation Services over Next generation Networks Bogdan Ionescu (University of Ottawa, Canada)
12:20 Inter-VLAN VPNs over A High Performance Optical Testbed Tarek Saad (University of Ottawa, Canada)
12:50 Lunch break
14:20 session 8:
Optical and High Speed Networks

Chair:
Daniel Morato (Public University of Navarra, Spain)
GEMnet2: NTT's New Network Testbed for Global R&D Hisao Uose (NTT, Japan)
14:50 Project GIGA - High speed experimental network Michael Stanton (RNP, Brazil)
15:20 ADRENALINE testbed: User management of lighpaths over intelligent optical WDM networks through GMPLS and XML Raul Muñoz (CTTC, Spain)
15:50 Divide and Conquer: PC-based Packet Trace Replay at OC-48 Speeds Gianluca Iannaccone (Intel Research Cambridge, UK)
16:20 Coffee Break
16:40 session 9: Testbeds and Measurement

Chair:
Saverio Niccolini (Network Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd.)
Automatic Configuration and Execution of Internet Experiments on an Actual Node-based Testbed Toshiyuki Miyachi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
17:10 The European Traffic Observatory Measurement Infrastructure (ETOMIC): A testbed for universal active and passive measurements Daniel Morato (Public University of Navarra, Spain)
17:40 TBI: End-to-end network performance measurement testbed for empirical bottleneck detection Prasad Calyam (OARnet, USA)
18:10 Concluding remarks (R. Battiti, M. Gerla)