Volume 11, Number 1, 2006

Special Issue: General Papers

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  Kristin F. Kocan, Tippure S. Sundresh: Networks of the future become reality. 1-4

Research Articles

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  Kristin F. Kocan, William D. Roome, Vinod Anupam: A novel software approach for service brokering in advanced service architectures. 5-20
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  Harold J. Batteram, Erik Meeuwissen, Jeroen van Bemmel: SIP message prioritization and its applications. 21-36
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  Erik E. Anderlind, David W. Faucher, Eric H. Grosse, Daniel N. Heer, Andrew R. McGee, David P. Strand, Robert J. Thornberry Jr.: IMS security. 37-58
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  Avneesh Balyan, Karthic Loganathan, Sridhar Sripathi: Security architecture for IP-based multi-service networks. 59-78
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  Doru Calin, Andrew R. McGee, Uma Chandrashekhar, Ramjee Prasad: MAGNET: An approach for secure personal networking in beyond 3g wireless networks. 79-98
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  Steven L. Makowski, Anwar Walid, Indra Widjaja: Packet path assurance for IP networks. 99-106
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  James A. Calme, Richard P. Ejzak: A common SIP profile for next-generation networks. 107-122
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  Suman Das, Thierry E. Klein, Ajay Rajkumar, Sampath Rangarajan, Michael D. Turner, Harish Viswanathan: System aspects and handover management for IEEE 802.16e. 123-142
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  Harald Graber, Enrique J. Hernandez-Valencia, Bernd Heinmueller: Optical/packet transport convergence. 143-158
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  Dawei Huang, Fang Liu, Xiangdong Shi, Guangxin Yang, Ludi Zheng, Zhiyu Zhou: MapWeb: A location-based converged communications platform. 159-171
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  Suresh Goyal, James H. Mosher Jr.: An improved test process model for cost reduction. 173-190
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  Jack F. Freund: Catastrophe alerting system: Cellular systems as scale-free networks. 191-196
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  Manish V. Panchmatia: Intelligent integrated insight into wireless networks. 197-202
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  Shivani Arora: Designing communication protocol software for performance. 203-207
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  Chen Wen Yue, Yu Jie, Jiang Wen Yuan: Achieving reliability in OEM/ODM CPE products. 209-213

Volume 11, Number 2, 2006

Special Issue: Optical Networking

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  Steven K. Korotky: Introduction. 1-2

Research Articles

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  Gary P. Austin: Evolving optical layer networking: What's happening on the ground. 3-12
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  James A. Kraeutler, Richard J. Goode, Jeffrey R. Towne: Next-generation transport systems: 4th generation MSPPS. 13-25
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  Daniel A. Fishman, William A. Thompson, Lee Vallone: LambdaXtreme(reg) transport system: R&D of a high capacity system for low cost, ultra long haul DWDM transport. 27-53
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  Daniel A. Fishman, Diego L. Correa, Edward H. Goode, Terry L. Downs, Augustine Y. Ho, Alan Hale, Peter Hofmann, Bert Basch, Steven Gringeri: The rollout of optical networking: LambdaXtreme(reg) national network deployment. 55-63
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  Matthias Berger, Klaus Dechet, Gerhard Meyer, Walter Rothkegel, Wolfram Sturm, Bjoern Wilke: Versatile bandwidth management: The design, development, and deployment of LambdaUnite(reg). 65-81
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  Xiang Liu, Douglas M. Gill, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar: Optical technologies and techniques for high bit rate fiber transmission. 83-104
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  David T. Neilson, Christopher R. Doerr, Dan M. Marom, Roland Ryf, Mark P. Earnshaw: Wavelength selective switching for optical bandwidth management. 105-128
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  Chandra Chekuri, Paul Claisse, René-Jean Essiambre, Steven Fortune, Daniel C. Kilper, Wonsuck Lee, Nachi K. Nithi, Iraj Saniee, F. Bruce Shepherd, Christopher A. White, Gordon T. Wilfong, Lisa Zhang: Design tools for transparent optical networks. 129-143
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  Mohcene Mezhoudi, Mohamed L. El-Sayed, Paul F. Gagen: Network service providers: Practical considerations for optical network planning. 145-155
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  Abdelkader Hajjaoui, Hanno Juechter, Gijs van Ooijen, Govinda Rajan, Walter Rothkegel, Willem van Willigenburg: Network analysis using the ASON/GMPLS emulator eGEM. 157-169
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  Patrice N. Lamy, Hector Menendez, Thomas Müller, Eve L. Varma: Status and perspectives for the optical control plane. 171-189
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  James W. Haworth, John A. Liffrig: Remote network management for optical networks. 191-201
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  Swarup Acharya, Pankaj Risbood, Anurag Srivastava, Vijay P. Kumar, Walter Rothkegel: Beyond rapid provisioning: Driving value-added services on control plane foundations. 203-214
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  Mohamed L. El-Sayed, Ying Hu, Samrat Kulkarni, Newman Wilson: Comparison of transport network technologies for IPTV distribution. 215-240

Volume 11, Number 3, 2006

Special Issue: Reliability

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  Anil Macwan, Robert S. Hanmer, Kailash K. Mutha: Reliability and communications networks. 1-6

Research Articles

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  Douglas A. Kimber, Xuemei Zhang, Paul H. Franklin, Eric J. Bauer: Modeling planned downtime. 7-19
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  Toby Joyce, Edward J. Lisay, David E. Dalton, Jeff M. Punch, Michael S. Shellmer, Shirish N. Kher, Suresh Goyal: Piecewise analysis and modeling of circuit pack temperature cycling data. 21-37
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  Eric J. Bauer, Paul H. Franklin: Framework for availability characterization by analyzing outage durations. 39-46
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  Bernard L. Malone III, Abhaya Asthana: Analyzing network availability of a mobile data network: A case study. 47-56
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  Stephen H. Conrad, Rene J. LeClaire, Gerard P. O'Reilly, Hüseyin Uzunalioglu: Critical national infrastructure reliability modeling and analysis. 57-71
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  Karl F. Rauscher, Richard E. Krock, James P. Runyon: Eight ingredients of communications infrastructure: A systematic and comprehensive framework for enhancing network reliability and security. 73-81
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  Venkatesh S. Rao: Analysis of optimal failure group distribution in a hierarchical aggregated architecture. 83-89
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  Mohcene Mezhoudi, Chi-Hung Kelvin Chu: Integrating optical transport quality, availability, and cost through reliability-based optical network design. 91-104
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  Gustav E. Derkits, John P. Franey, William D. Reents: Biased mixed flowing gas testing for world class reliability. 105-120
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  Pablo E. Acevedo, Donald S. Jackson, Robert W. Kotlowitz: Reliability growth and forecasting for critical hardware through accelerated life testing. 121-135
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  John P. Franey, Dawn-Marie Sutton: Static intercept* technology: A new packaging platform for corrosion and ESD protection. 137-146
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  Hongzhou Wang: Warranty cost models considering imperfect repair and preventive maintenance. 147-159
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  Mukul Golash: Reliability in ethernet networks: A survey of various approaches. 161-171
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  Charles Eugene McPhail: Respond, restore, resolve: Achieving 7-nines availability telecommunications systems in the field. 173-189
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  David Floyd: Mobile application security system (MASS). 191-198
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  Abhaya Asthana, Eric J. Bauer, Meenakshi Sharma, Xuemei Zhang: End-to-end availability considerations for services over IMS. 199-210
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  Himanshu Pant, Andrew R. McGee, Uma Chandrashekhar, Steven H. Richman: Optimal availability and security for IMS-based VoIP networks. 211-223
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  Tippure S. Sundresh: Semantic reliability of multi-agent intelligent systems. 225-236

Volume 11, Number 4, Winter 2007

Research Articles

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  James S. Peterson, Joseph A. Tarallo: Wireless technology issue overview. 1-4
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  Suman Das, Shupeng Li, Pantelis Monogioudis, Shirish Nagaraj, Sudhir Ramakrishna, Ashok N. Rudrapatna, Sivarama Venkatesan, Subramanian Vasudevan, Harish Viswanathan, Jialin Zou: EV-do revision C: Evolution of the cdma2000* data optimized system to higher spectral efficiencies and enhanced services. 5-24
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  Rainer Bachl, Peter Gunreben, Suman Das, Said Tatesh: The long term evolution towards a new 3GPP* air interface standard. 25-51
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  Krishna Balachandran, Doru Calin, Fang-Chen Cheng, Niranjan Joshi, Joseph H. Kang, Achilles G. Kogiantis, Kurt Rausch, Ashok N. Rudrapatna, James P. Seymour, Jonqyin Sun: Design and analysis of an IEEE 802.16e-based OFDMA communication system. 53-73
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  Chris W. Donahue, G. Jay Hruska, James B. Jones, Joseph J. Lichter, Joseph E. Seitz, Ranga P. Tota, A. Larry Wierzbicki: Packet evolution of the CDMA2000*-1x CDMA system. 75-91
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  Markus Bauer, Peter Bosch, Nidal Khrais, Louis G. Samuel, Peter Schefczik: The UMTS base station router. 93-111
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  David Abusch-Magder, Peter Bosch, Thierry E. Klein, Paul A. Polakos, Louis G. Samuel, Harish Viswanathan: 911-NOW: A network on wheels for emergency response and disaster recovery operations. 113-133
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  Luay Ho Tahat, Erik E. Anderlind, Ashok P. Shah, Anthony J. Wycklendt, Edward A. Clark, Dupyo Choi: Dual mode service: Learning from integrating an IP multimedia subsystem service into existing live networks. 135-150
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  Stefan Brueck, Enrico Jugl, Hans-Juergen Kettschau, Michael Link, Jens Mueckenheim, Andrei Zaporozhets: Radio resource management in HSDPA and HSUPA. 151-167
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  Pi-Chun Chen, Ren Da, Chris Mooney, Yang Yang, Qinqing Zhang, Lily H. Zhu, Jialin Zou: Quality of service support in 1x EV-do revision a systems. 169-184
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  Yalou Wang, Tony Putman, Nidal N. Khrais, Ching-Roung Chou, Gopal Kumar, Freddy Goh: QoS control for streaming service in UMTS networks. 185-200
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  Minkyu Lee, James W. McGowan, Michael C. Recchione: Enabling wireless VoIP. 201-215
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  Qi Bi, Pi-Chun Chen, Stan Vitebsky, Yang Yang, Qinqing Zhang: Performance of 1x EV-do revision a systems with best effort data and voice over IP. 217-235
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  Qi Bi, Stan Vitebsky, Yang Yang, Yifei Yuan: Broadcast-multicast in 1x EV-do revision a systems and its application to enhanced mobile services. 237-252
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  Santosh Abraham, Peretz Feder, Michael C. Recchione, Honghai Zhang: The capacity of VoIP over 802.11. 253-271
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  Michael J. Lemke, Albert J. Sawyer: Alternative backhaul transport techniques for VoIP and PTT in 1x Ev-Do. 273-289
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  Semyon Mizikovsky, Zhibi Wang, Hongru Zhu: CDMA 1x Ev-DO security. 291-305
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  Michael J. Flanagan, Lawrence M. Drabeck, Larry A. Cohen, Alvaro H. Diaz, Jayanthi Srinivasan: Wireless network analysis using per call measurement data. 307-313
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  Ramesh Pattabhiraman, Musa R. Unmehopa, Kumar V. Vemuri: Enhanced active phone book services: Blended lifestyle services made real! 315-326