Service assurance with partial and intermittent resources : First International Workshop, SAPIR 2004, Fortaleza, Brazil, August 1-6, 2004 : proceedings / Petre Dini, Pascal Lorenz, José Neuman de Souza (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Service Assurance with Partial and Intermittent Resources, SAPIR 2004, held in Fortaleza, Brazil in August 2004. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on bandwidth allocation, policy-based operations, service monitoring, intelligent architectural systems, mobility and wireless, protocol mechanisms, and performance across domains.

Bandwidth Allocation -- Fair Bandwidth Allocation for the Integration of Adaptive and Non-adaptive Applications -- A Managed Bandwidth Reservation Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks -- Predictive Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Based on Multifractal Traffic Characteristic -- Bandwidth Allocation Management Based on Neural Networks Prediction for VoD System Providers -- Policy-Based Operations -- Policy-Based Management of Grids and Networks Through an Hierarchical Architecture -- Policy-Based Service Provisioning for Mobile Users -- Dynamic IP-Grouping Scheme with Reduced Wireless Signaling Cost in the Mobile Internet -- 3G Wireless Networks Provisioning and Monitoring Via Policy Based Management -- Service Monitoring -- Combined Performance Analysis of Signal Level-Based Dynamic Channel Allocation and Adaptive Antennas -- Exploring Service Reliability for Content Distribution to Partial or Intermittent DVB-S Satellite Receivers -- Priority-Based Recovery Assurance for Double-Link Failure in Optical Mesh Networks with Insufficient Spare Resources -- Service Model and Its Application to Impact Analysis -- Intelligent Architectural Systems -- Active Networks and Computational Intelligence -- Distributed Artificial Intelligence for Network Management Systems -- New Approaches -- Network Traffic Sensor for Multiprocessor Architectures: Design Improvement Proposals -- Software Modeling for Open Distributed Network Monitoring Systems -- Mobility and Wireless -- Analysis and Contrast Between STC and Spatial Diversity Techniques for OFDM WLAN with Channel Estimation -- Cumulative Caching for Reduced User-Perceived Latency for WWW Transfers on Networks with Satellite Links -- Mobility Agent Advertisement Mechanism for Supporting Mobile IP in Ad Hoc Networks -- Agent Selection Strategies in Wireless Networks with Multihomed Mobile IP -- Protocol Mechanisms -- An On-Demand QoS Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks -- Point-to-Group Blocking in 3-Stage Switching Networks with Multicast Traffic Streams -- Considerations on Inter-domain QoS and Traffic Engineering Issues Through a Utopian Approach -- Probabilistic Routing in Intermittently Connected Networks -- Performance Across Domains -- Communication Protocol for Interdomain Resource Reservation -- Performance Evaluation of Shortest Path Computation for IP and MPLS Multi-service Networks over Open Source Implementation -- Design and Evaluation of Redundant IPC Network Adequate for an Edge Router -- Leaky Bucket Based Buffer Management Scheme to Support Differentiated Service in Packet-Switched Networks -- An Improved Service Differentiation Scheme for VBR VoIP in Ad-Hoc Networks Connected to Wired Networks.