LCN 2001

The 26th Annual IEEE Conference on
Local Computer Networks (LCN)

Preliminary Technical Program


Keynote Presentations | Tutorials | Expert Panel Session | Technical Paper Sessions

Last update: 4 November 2001

Tutorials

Wednesday, Nov. 14 Title Presenter(s)
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Gigabit Ethernet Rich Seifert, Networks and Communications Consulting
1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Mobile IPv6 Charles Perkins, Nokia Research Center

Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN)

Wednesday, Nov. 14  
8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. WLN Keynote Address
"Open Problems in Mobile Ad Hoc Networking"

Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
10:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. Special Paper Session on Bluetooth
Chair: Terry Todd, McMaster University
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Invited Talk: Traffic Management in Wireless Networks
Speaker: Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Paper Session #2
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Coffee Break
3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Paper Session #3
NOTE: WLN Paper Session #4 will be held on November 15
as part of the general LCN Paper Session #1, Track A.

Preliminary LCN Technical Program

(Subject to change without notice)

Thursday, Nov. 15  
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Welcome to LCN 2001
Dr. Frank Huebner, General Conference Chair
Prof. Dr. Peter Martini, Program Chair
8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Welcome from USF
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Keynote Address
"Rich Seifert's Top Ten List of Stupid Networking Ideas"

Rich Seifert, Networks and Communications Consulting
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Best Paper Presentation
"A Range Based SLA and Edge Driven Virtual Core Provisioning in Diffserv-VPNs"
Ibrahim Khalil, Torsten Braun
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Expert Panel Session
Mobility in a Future Internet

Chair: Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zürich
12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. Lunch (Sponsored by USF College of Engineering)
1:50 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. Paper Session #1
Track A
Special WLN Workshop Session
QoS Protocols in Wireless
Track B
Network Management
Track C
Signaling and Call Setup
3:10 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. Cookie Break
3:40 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Paper Session #2
Track A
Ad Hoc Networks
Track B
Reliability and Stability
Track C
Differentiated Services
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Social Hour
7:00 p.m. Banquet
Friday, Nov. 16  
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Keynote Address
"Mobile IPv6: Underpinning the Future Mobile Internet"

Charles Perkins, Nokia Research Center
9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. Short Break
9:40 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. Paper Session #3
Track A
Wireless Networks
Track B
Web Service Optimization
Track C
Multiprotocol Label Switching
10:40 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Coffee Break
11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Paper Session #4
Track A
Mobility Support
Track B
Network Security
Track C
Quality of Service
12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. Lunch
1:50 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. Paper Session #5
Track A
Network Performance
Track B
Multicast
Track C
Resource Allocation
3:10 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. Cookie Break
3:40 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. Paper Session #6
Track A
Medium Access Control
Track B
Optical Networks
Track C
Traffic Characterization
4:40 p.m. Adjournment


Conference Venue Information

Embassy Suites Tampa USF
705 Spectrum Blvd
Tampa, Florida
33612-9412 U.S.A.

Phone: +1 813-977-7066
Fax: +1 813-977-7933


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