Distributed Computing and Networking : 8th International Conference, ICDCN 2006, Guwahati, India, December 27-30, 2006, Proceedings

Keynote Talk I.- Distributed Security Algorithms by Mobile Agents.- Session I A: Ad Hoc Networks I.- A Real-Time Guarantee Scheme Based on the Runtime Message Scheduling and Error Control for the Dual Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Network.- ADIAN: A Distributed Intelligent Ad-Hoc Network.- A Mobility Tolerant Cluster Management Protocol with Dynamic Surrogate Cluster-Heads for a Large Ad Hoc Network.- Prediction Based QoS Routing in MANETs.- MCDS Based Multicasting in Mobile Adhoc Networks.- Session I B: Distributed Computing and Algorithms I.- Programmer-Centric Conditions for Itanium Memory Consistency.- A Group Quorum System of Degree .- An Efficient Non-intrusive Checkpointing Algorithm for Distributed Database Systems.- Adaptive Connected Dominating Set – An Exercise in Distributed Output Switching.- An Efficient and Scalable Checkpointing and Recovery Algorithm for Distributed Systems.- Keynote Talk II.- On Distributed Verification.- Session II A: Security.- The Price of Defense and Fractional Matchings.- Construction of Adaptive IDS Through IREP++ and ARM.- Proving Optimality of DWS(Distance-Weighted Sampling) Probability Function for FMS IP Trace-Back Technique.- A Mechanism for Detection and Prevention of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks.- Session II B: Grid and P2P Computing.- Auction Based Resource Allocation in Grids.- MLBLM: A Multi-level Load Balancing Mechanism in Agent-Based Grid.- Data Management for a Distributed Hash Table.- DRWT: An Efficient Random Walk Algorithm for Unstructured P2P Networks.- A.K. Choudhury Memorial Lecture.- Stochastic Models of IEEE 802.11e Wireless Networks with Multimedia Applications.- Keynote Talk III.- Maintaining Information About Nearby Processors in a Mobile Environment.- Session III A: Ad Hoc Networks II.- Energy Aware Topology Management in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks.- On Maximizing Network Lifetime of Broadcast in WANETs Under an Overhearing Cost Model.- On Maximizing Residual Energy of Actors in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks.- Locant: A Nature Inspired Location Service for Ad Hoc Networks.- Session III B: Performance Evaluation I.- An Analytical Model for Capacity Evaluation of VoIP on HCCA and TCP File Transfers over EDCA in an IEEE 802.11e WLAN.- Developing Analytical Framework to Measure Robustness of Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Design and Implementation of a Network Processor Based 10Gbps Network Traffic Generator.- Stochastic Spectral Density Analysis on Network Traffic Characterization.- Negotiating Monitoring Task Allocation for Orbiters.- Keynote Talk IV.- Primality Tests Based on Fermat’s Little Theorem.- Session IV: Distributed Computing and Algorithms II.- Efficient Distributed Handshake Using Mobile Agents.- Improved Distributed Exploration of Anonymous Networks.- The Complexity of Updating Multi-writer Snapshot Objects.- Simultaneous Consensus Tasks: A Tighter Characterization of Set-Consensus.- Database Summarization and Publishing in Wireless Environments.- Keynote Talk V.- Read-Write Reductions.- Session V A: Internetworking Protocols and Applications.- Large Scale Voice over IP Experiences on High Performance Intranets.- Z!Stream: An Application Streaming System by Copy-on-Reference Block of Executable Files.- Supervised Grid-of-Tries: A Novel Framework for Classifier Management.- BGPSep_S: An Algorithm for Constructing IBGP Configurations with Complete Visibility.- Performance Enhancement in REM Using Adaptive Drop Policy for Protective and Best-Effort Traffic.- A New Precomputation Scheme for MPLS Traffic Engineering Routing.- Session V B: Ad Hoc Networks III.- A Mobility Aware Technique for Clustering on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.- Design and Analysis of Rate Aware Ad Hoc 802.11 Networks.- Tightly Packed IP Address Configuration (TPIA) Protocol in Small-Scale MANET.- TransMAN: A Group Communication System for MANETs.- Session VI A: Performance Evaluation II.- On Fault Tolerance of Two-Dimensional Mesh Networks.- Feedback Control with Prediction for Thread Allocation in Pipeline Architecture Web Server.- Variants of Priority Scheduling Algorithms for Reducing Context-Switches in Real-Time Systems.- Session VI B: Optical Networks and Multimedia.- Dynamic Path Shared Protection for Survivable Differentiated Reliable WDM Optical Networks.- A Time Model for Distributed Multimedia Applications.- Destination Initiated Multi-wavelength Reservation Protocol (DIMRP) in WDM Optical Networks: Finding the Optimal Selectivity for Wavelength Assignment.- A Hybrid Transformation Technique for Video Coding.- Session VII A: Sensor Networks.- Location Verification Based Defense Against Sybil Attack in Sensor Networks.- A New Scheme for Establishing Pairwise Keys for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Distributed Location and Lifetime Biased Clustering for Large Scale Wireless Sensor Network.- Power Aware Duty Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Data Forwarding Protocol for Reliable Delivery Service in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Session VII B: Wireless Networks.- Synchronous and Asynchronous Auction Models for Dynamic Spectrum Access.- A One-Pass Method of MIP Registration by WLAN Host Through GPRS Network.- An Idea Bag Strategy to Discourage Selfish Behavior Under Random Token MAC Protocols for Wireless LANs.- A Signalling Technique for Disseminating Neighbouring AP Channel Information to Mobile Stations.- A Predictive Location Management Scheme by Extracting the Unique Sub-patterns from the Mobility Logs.