Network Control and Engineering for QOS, Security and Mobility, III

The rapid evolution of the networking industry introduces new exciting challenges that need to be explored by the research community. This book contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, Net-Con'2004, organized by the International Federation of Information processing and held at the Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain in November 2004. Key areas covered include: Network Policy; Network Security; Quality of Service; Wireless Networks; Intelligent Networks; Performance Evaluation This valuable new book will be essential reading for all those working in computer science and engineering departments, especially researchers, engineers and students in university and industry research laboratories. TOC:A Scalable Multicast Protocol With Qos Guaranties.- Scheduling Requests on Multi-Stage Multi-Server to Increase Quality Of Service.- Analysis of Policy Management Models and Specification Languages.- Diffserv Network Control Using a Behavioral Multi-Agent System.- Policy Based Handover in Wireless and Mobile Networks.- Adaptive AIFS in Wireless LAN.- Teletraffic Engineering of Multi-Band W-CDMA Systems.- Mobility Support Framework in Adaptable Service Architecture.- Ant-Routing-Algorithm for Mobile Multi-Hop Ad-Hoc Networks.- Enabling Distributed Qos Management Utilizing Active Network Technology.- Resource Management in ASMA Platform.- A New Hardware Algorithm for Fast IP Routing Targeting Programmable Routers.- Fuzzy-Logic-Based TCP Congestion Control System.- Multi-Object Video Rate Control.- Buffer Occupancy Analysis for a Broadband Polling-Based WLAN.- A Policy Management Framework for GMPLS Optical Networks.- Service Level Agreement in Optical Networks.- Conceptual Foundations of User Preference Modeling.- New Key Management Protocol for SSL/TLS.- Management of Security in TCP/IP Hosts Using Dedicated Monitoring Applications.