Proceedings of the 18th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-18), Berlin, Germany, 31 August - 5 September 2003
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The ITC submissions reflect the current developments in telecommunications: a paradigm shift to IP related issues, heterogeneous network structures, search for new services, uncertainty toward quality of service, and service level monitoring. A clear trend is crystallised by a close look at the proceedings: In the emerging telecommunication environment, the role of teletraffic is increasingly important but has to be redefined. The topics of 6 plenary and 23 parallel sessions give an idea of the broad range of issues covered by ITC18: Next Generation Networks & MPLS; UMTS; Topology Models & Ad Hoc Networks; Traffic Characterisation & Web Performance; Network Planning & Dimensioning; Routing; Resource Allocation; Measurements; Statistical Multiplexing; Traffic Modelling; Queueing Systems; TCP Modelling; Network Planning Methods; Cellular Networks; TCP Enhancements; Optical Networks; Wireless LAN; Wireless Networks; QoS & Economics; QoS Provisioning; Admission Control & Policing; Voice over IP; Adaptive Queue Manage-ment; Application Servers.
Optimal Granularity of MPLS Tunnels
(G.N. Rouskas, L.E. Jackson).
Optimal LSP Placement with QoS Constraints in DiffServ/MPLS Networks
(J.M. Garcia, A. Rachdi, O. Brun).
MPLS Traffic Engineering
MPLS Traffic Engineering in OSPF Networks - A Combined Approach
(S. Köhler, A. Binzenhöfer).
Service Level Agreement as an Issue of Teletraffic
(M. Schneps-Schneppe, V.B. Iversen).
An MPLS Networking Concept for Satellite Constellations
(A. Donner, M. Berioli, M. Werner).
Residual Network and Link Capacity Weighting for Efficient Traffic Engineering
in MPLS Networks
(K. Hendling, G. Franzl, B. Statovci-Halimi, A. Halimi).
Thrifty Traffic Engineering through CSLLS
(A. Takács, A. Császár, R. Szabó, T. Cinkler).
UMTS
Macro Diversity Gain in UMTS Networks with Clustered User Distributions
(K. Heck, D. Staehle, K. Leibnitz).
An Analytic Approximation of the Uplink Capacity in a UMTS Network with
Heterogeneous Traffic
(D. Staehle, A. Mäder).
An Advanced Approach for QoS Analysis in UMTS Radio Network Planning
(U. Türke, R. Perera, E. Lamers, T. Winter, C. Görg).
Short Term Dynamic System Level Simulation Concepts for UMTS Network
Planning
(E. Lamers, R. Perera, U. Türke, C. Görg).
Performance Evaluation of IP in the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
(A.
