1. QSHINE 2004: Dallas, Texas, USA

Session 1: Admission Control and Resource Allocation

• Novella Bartolini, Emiliano Casalicchio, Imrich Chlamtac:
  Session Based Access Control in Content Delivery Networks in Presence of Congestion. 2-9
  
• Hossam S. Hassanein, Alex Oliver, Nidal Nasser, Ehab S. Elmallah:
  Uplink QoS-Aware Admission Control in WCDMA Networks with Class-Based Power Sharing. 10-17
  
• Ian D. Chakeres, Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer:
  PAC: Perceptive Admission Control for Mobile Wireless Networks. 18-26
  
• Xi Zhang, Jia Tang:
  QoS-Driven Asynchronous Uplink Subchannel Allocation Algorithms for Space-Time OFDM-CDMA Systems in Wireless Networks. 27-34
  

Session 2: Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks

• Enzo Baccarelli, Mauro Biagi, Cristian Pelizzoni, Giuseppe Razzano:
  Contracted QoS policies for Distributed Space Division Multiple Access for "ad-hoc" Networks. 36-43
  
• Ning Li, Jennifer C. Hou:
  BLMST: A Scalable, Power-Efficient Broadcast Algorithm for Wireless Networks. 44-51
  
• Yuan-Ying Hsu, Yu-Chee Tseng, Chien-Chao Tseng, Chi-Fu Huang, Jung-Hsuan Fan, Hsiao-Lu Wu:
  Design and Implementation of Two-Tier Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Seamless Roaming and Load-Balancing Routing Capability. 52-58
  
• Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang, Wenjing Lou, Yuguang Fang:
  Managing Wireless Sensor Networks with Supply Chain Strategy. 59-66
  

Session 3: QoS and Multimedia Support

• Qingwen Liu, Shengli Zhou, Georgios B. Giannakis:
  Cross-Layer Modeling of Adaptive Wireless Links for QoS Support in Multimedia Networks. 68-75
  
• Hongqiang Zhai, Xiang Chen, Yuguang Fang:
  A Call Admission and Rate Control Scheme for Multimedia Support over IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs. 76-83
  
• Haining Liu, Magda El Zarki:
  Adaptive Delay and Synchronization Control for Wi-Fi Based AV Conferencing. 84-91
  
• Isabel Victoria Martín Faus, Juan J. Alins-Delgado, Mónica Aguilar-Igartua, Jorge Mata-Díaz:
  Modelling an Adaptive-Rate Video-Streaming Service Using Markov-Rewards Models. 92-99
  

Session 4: QoS Routing

• Avadora Dumitrescu:
  Dynamic Widest Path Selection for Connection Admission Control in Core-Stateless Networks. 102-111
  
• Erez Biton, Ariel Orda:
  QoS Provision and Routing with Stochastic Guarantees. 112-119
  
• Ying Xiao, Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman, Guoliang Xue:
  The Primal Simplex Approach to the QoS Routing Problem. 120-129
  
• Ying Xiao, Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman, Guoliang Xue:
  Approximation and Heuristic Algorithms for Delay Constrained Path Selection under Inaccurate State Information. 130-137
  

Session 5: Wired-Wireless Networks and Hybrid Networks

• Ming Li, Hua Zhu, Sathish Sathyamurthy, Imrich Chlamtac, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran:
  End-to-End Framework for QoS Guarantee in Heterogeneous Wired-cum-Wireless Networks. 140-147
  
• Habib M. Ammari, Hesham El-Rewini:
  Using Hybrid Selection Schemes to Support QoS when Providing Multihop Wireless Internet Access to Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. 148-155
  
• Danyu Zhu, Matt W. Mutka, Zhiwei Cen:
  QoS Aware Wireless Bandwidth Aggregation (QAWBA) by Integrating Cellular and Ad-Hoc Networks. 156-163
  
• Pejman Khadivi, Terence D. Todd, Dongmei Zhao:
  Handoff Trigger Nodes for Hybrid IEEE 802.11 WLAN/Cellular Networks. 164-170
  

Session 6: Voice and Multi-Media Protocols

• Paolo Bellavista, Cesare Stefanelli, Mauro Tortonesi:
  Middleware-Level QoS Differentiation in the Wireless Internet: The UbiQoS Solution for Audio Streaming over Bluetooth. 172-180
  
• Shensheng Tang, Wei Li:
  A Channel Allocation Model with Preemptive Priority for Integrated Voice/Data Mobile Networks. 181-188
  
• David Soldani, Renaud Cuny:
  On the Deployment of Multimedia Services in Wireless Networks: Radio Dimensioning Aspects for UTRAN FDD. 189-196
  

Session 7: Reliability and Resource Management

• Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Hossam S. Hassanein, Hussein T. Mouftah:
  On Robust Allocation Policies in Wireless Heterogeneous Networks. 198-205
  
• Eric van den Berg, Sunil Madhani, Tao Zhang:
  Real-Time Comparison of Quality of Interfaces (QoI) by Mobile Devices over Heterogeneous Radio Networks. 206-215
  
• Ramon Agusti-Gomes, Oriol Sallent, Jordi Pérez-Romero, Lorenza Giupponi:
  A Fuzzy-Neural Based Approach for Joint Radio Resource Management in a Beyond 3G Framework. 216-224
  
• Zoe Antoniou, Wee-Seng Soh:
  Restorability Enhancement and Service-Oriented Protection in Radio Access Networks. 225-232
  

Session 8: Advanced Routing Techniques

• Bin Lu II, Udo W. Pooch:
  A Game Theoretic Framework for Bandwidth Reservation in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. 234-241
  
• Bradley R. Smith, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves:
  Efficient Policy-Based Routing without Virtual Circuits. 242-251
  
• Baoxian Zhang, Hussein T. Mouftah:
  Adaptive Energy-Aware Routing Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. 252-259
  

Session 9: Miscellaneous

• Sudhir Aggarwal, Madhura Limaye, Arun N. Netravali, Krishan K. Sabnani:
  Constrained Diameter Steiner Trees for Multicast Conferences in Overlay Networks. 262-271
  
• Thanh Tra Luu, Nadia Boukhatem:
  Generic Signaling Service Protocol: State-Management and Transport Mechanisms. 272-281
  
• Jelena V. Misic, Vojislav B. Misic:
  Performance of Bluetooth Piconets with Finite Buffers. 282-289
  

Session 10: Short Papers

• Manoel Camillo Penna, Rafael Romualdo Wandresen:
  On-Line Techniques for Service Quality Management. 292-295
  
• Jens Myrup Pedersen, Tahir M. Riaz, Thomas Phillip Knudsen, Ole Brun Madsen:
  Combining Wired and Wireless Networks for a QoS-Aware Broadband Infrastructure. 296-299
  
• Javier Rubio-Loyola, Joan Serrat, Jorge Mata-Díaz, Isabel Victoria Martín Faus, Fidel Casals:
  A Policy-Based Management Solution towards QoS-Aware Video Streaming Services in Heterogeneous Environments. 300-303
  
• Khalil El-Khatib, Gregor von Bochmann, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik:
  A QoS-Based Framework for Distributed Content Adaptation. 308-312
  

Posters

• Martin Hash, Noel Pickering, Daniel Tiedy, Niels Farragher:
  Preloading and Precedence Lists for Smooth Playback of 3D Character Animation on the Internet. 314-318
  
• Andrew S. Patrick, Janice Singer, Brian Corrie II, Sylvie Noël, Khalil El-Khatib, Bruno Emond, Todd Zimmerman, Stephen Marsh:
  A QoE Sensitive Architecture for Advanced Collaborative Environments. 319-322
  
• A. Y. Elbatji, Tajj-Eddine Rachidi, Hicham Bouzekri:
  A Testbed for the Evaluation of QoS Provisioning in WCDMA Based 3G Wireless Networks. 323-324
  
• Azzedine Boukerche, Trivikram Dash:
  QoS and Scheduling Based Schemes for a Generalized Hybrid Request TDMA/CDMA Protocol for Wireless Multimedia. 325-328