Evolutionary Trends of the Internet [electronic resource] : 2001 Thyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications, IWDC 2001, Taormina, Italy, September 17-20, 2001. Proceedings /

WDM Technologies for the Next Generation Internet -- Progressive Introduction of Optical Packet Switching Techniques in WDM Networks -- Optical Packet Switching for IP-over-WDM Transport Networks -- MPLS over Optical Packet Switching -- Access Control Protocols for Interconnected WDM Rings in the DAVID Metro Network -- Reactive Search for Traffic Grooming in WDM Networks -- Mobile and Wireless Internet Access -- Micromobility Strategies for IP Based Cellular Networks -- Satellite Systems Performance with TCP-IP Applications -- Performance of TCP on a Wideband CDMA Air Interface -- Differentiated Services in the GPRS Wireless Access Environment -- Wireless Access to Internet via IEEE 802.11: An Optimal Control Strategy for Minimizing the Energy Consumption -- A Study on QoS Provison for IP-Based Radio Access Networks -- QoS in the Next Generation Internet -- Measurement Based Modeling of Quality of Service in the Internet: A Methodological Approach -- Performance Evaluation of a Measurement-Based Algorithm for Distributed Admission Control in a DiffServ Framework -- Resource Stealing in Endpoint Controlled Multi-class Networks -- Pricing-Based Control of Large Networks -- Endpoint Admission Control over Assured Forwarding PHBs and Its Performance over RED Implementations -- A Bandwidth Broker Assignment Scheme in DiffServ Networks -- A Protection-Based Approach to QoS in Packet over Fiber Networks -- Multicast and Routing in IP Networks -- IP Routing and Mobility -- Aggregated Multicast for Scalable QoS Multicast Provisioning -- Fairness of a Single-Rate Multicast Congestion Control Scheme -- Decentralized Computation of Weighted Max-Min Fair Bandwidth Allocation in Networks with Multicast Flows -- Challenges of Integrating ASM and SSM IP Multicast Protocol Architectures -- Integrated Provision ofQoS Guarantees to Unicast and Multicast Traffic in Packet Switches -- Multimedia Services over the Internet -- Service Differentiation in the Internet to Support Multimedia Traffic -- A Transport Infrastructure Supporting Real Time Interactive MPEG-4 Client-Server Applications over IP Networks -- An Analytical Framework to Evaluate the Effects of a TCP-Friendly Congestion Control over Adaptive-Rate MPEG Video Sources -- Design Issues for Layered Quality-Adaptive Internet Video Playback -- A Multi-state Congestion Control Scheme for Rate Adaptable Unicast Continuous Media Flows -- PCP-DV: An End-to-End Admission Control Mechanism for IP Telephony -- DiffServ Aggregation Strategies of Real Time Services in a W F2Q+ Schedulers Network -- Towards a New Generation of Generic Transport Protocols -- Performance Modeling and Measurement of Internet Protocols -- Activating and Deactivating Repair Servers in Active Multicast Trees -- Looking for Science in the Art of Network Measurement -- On the Use of Queueing Network Models to Predict the Performance of TCP Connections -- Design and Deployment of a Passive Monitoring Infrastructure -- Network Delay Tomography from End-to-End Unicast Measurements -- On the Contribution of TCP to the Self-Similarity of Network Traffic -- Bandwidth Estimates in the TCP Congestion Control Scheme -- Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a Differentiated Services Test-Bed for Voice over IP Support -- Dynamic Service Management -- Dynamic SLA-Based Management of Virtual Private Networks -- Distributed Service Platform for Managing Stream Services -- IP QoS at Work: Definition and Implementation of the AQUILA Architecture -- Source Encoding and Internet Applications -- An Adaptive Periodic FEC Scheme for Internet Video Applications -- Efficient Interaction with Virtual Worlds over IP -- MPEG-4 Video Data Protection for Internet Distribution.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Thyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communication, IWDC 2001, held in Taormina, Italy in September 2001. The 46 revised full papers presented are a mix of invited papers and selected submitted papers and reflect the state of the art in multiservice IP network research and development. The book offers topical sections on WDM technologies for the next generation Internet, mobile and wireless Internet access, QoS in the next generation Internet, multicast and routing in IP networks, mulitmedia services over the Internet, performance of Internet protocols, dynamic service management, and source encoding and Internet applications.