Quality of Service - IWQoS 2005: 13th International Workshop, IWQoS 2005, Passau, Germany, June 21-23, 2005, Proceedings

Invited Program.- COPS: Quality of Service vs. Any Service at All.- Beyond Middleware and QoS - Service-Oriented Architectures - Cult or Culture?.- Would Self-organized or Self-managed Networks Lead to Improved QoS?.- Full Papers.- Overlay Networks with Linear Capacity Constraints.- A High-Throughput Overlay Multicast Infrastructure with Network Coding.- On Topological Design of Service Overlay Networks.- On Transport Layer Adaptation in Heterogeneous Wireless Data Networks.- LT-TCP: End-to-End Framework to Improve TCP Performance over Networks with Lossy Channels.- QoS Guarantees in Multimedia CDMA Wireless Systems with Non-precise Network Parameter Estimates.- Analyzing Object Detection Quality Under Probabilistic Coverage in Sensor Networks.- A Self-tuning Fuzzy Control Approach for End-to-End QoS Guarantees in Web Servers.- Calculation of Speech Quality by Aggregating the Impacts of Individual Frame Losses.- Best-Effort Versus Reservations Revisited.- An Advanced QoS Protocol for Real-Time Content over the Internet.- Designing a Predictable Internet Backbone with Valiant Load-Balancing.- Preserving the Independence of Flows in General Topologies Using Turn-Prohibition.- Supporting Differentiated QoS in MPLS Networks.- Avoiding Transient Loops Through Interface-Specific Forwarding.- Analysis of Stochastic Service Guarantees in Communication Networks: A Server Model.- Preemptive Packet-Mode Scheduling to Improve TCP Performance.- Edge-Based Differentiated Services.- Processor Sharing Flows in the Internet.- A Practical Method for the Efficient Resolution of Congestion in an On-path Reduced-State Signalling Environment.- Case Study in Assessing Subjective QoS of a Mobile Multimedia Web Service in a Real Multi-access Network.- WXCP: Explicit Congestion Control for Wireless Multi-hop Networks.- A Non-homogeneous QBD Approach for the Admission and GoS Control in a Multiservice WCDMA System.- Short Papers.- Quality of Service Authentication, Authorization and Accounting.- Preliminary Results Towards Building a Highly Granular QoS Controller.- Concept of Admission Control in Packet Switching Networks Based on Tentative Accommodation of Incoming Flows.- Improving Uplink QoS of Wifi Hotspots.- Resilient State Management in Large Scale Networks.- Performance Analysis of Wireless Scheduling with ARQ in Fast Fading Channels.- Privacy and Reliability by Dispersive Routing.- Distributed Online LSP Merging Algorithms for MPLS-TE.- Implicit Flow QoS Signaling Using Semantic-Rich Context Tags.- The Impact of QoS - Where Industry Meets Academia.- Using IP as Transport Technology in Third Generation and Beyond Radio Access Networks.- Closing the Gap Between Industry, Academia and Users: Is There a Need for QoS in Wireless Systems ?.- Why QoS Will Be Needed in Metro Ethernets.- Research Issues in QoS Provisioning for Personal Networks.- RSVP Standards Today and the Path Towards a Generic Messenger.- QoS in Hybrid Networks - An Operator's Perspective.- QoS for Aggregated Flows in VPNs.- Supporting Mission-Critical Applications over Multi-service Networks.