Technical Sessions

Session I: Mobile and Wireless TCP/IP

• Low-loss TCP/IP Header Compression for Wireless Networks, M. Degermark, M. Engan, B. Nordgren, and S. Pink, Lulea University and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden (Student Paper Award)

• TCP Extensions for Space Communications, R.C. Durst, G.J. Miller, The MITRE Corporation, and E.J. Travis, Gemini Industries

• Mobility Support in IPv6, C.E Perkins, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and D.B. Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University

Session II: Mobility Management

• Efficient and Flexible Location Management Techniques for Wireless Communication Systems, J. Jannink, D. Lam, N. Shivakumar, J. Widom, D.C. Cox, Stanford University

• On Resource Discovery in Distributed Systems with Mobile Hosts, D. Awduche, A. Gaylord, and A. Ganz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Fast and Scalable Handoffs for Wireless Internetworks, R. Caceres, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and V.N. Padmanabhan, UC Berkeley

Panel I: "Software Architectures for Mobile Networks,"

 Participants:
        D. Raychaudhuri, NEC C&C Labs
        Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University,
        Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs,
        Arvind Krishna, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
        Louis-Francois Pau, Ericsson,
        Glenford Mapp, Olivetti.

Session IV: Resource Allocation and Sharing

• Spectrum Sharing Under The Asynchronous UPCS Etiquette: The Performance Of Collocated Systems Under Heavy Load, I. Vukovic and J. McKown, Motorola Wireless Data Group

• Dynamic Loadbalancing Strategies for Channel Assignment Using Selective Borrowing in Cellular Mobile Environments S.K. Das, S.K. Sen, and R. Jayaram, University of North Texas

• Lossless handover for wireless ATM H. Mitts, H. Hansen, and J. Immonen, VTT Information Technology, Finland

Session V: Mobile Applications

• Rapid Prototyping of Mobile Context-Aware Applications: The Cyberguide Case Study S. Long, R. Kooper, G. Abowd and C. Atkeson, Georgia Institute of Technology

• WebExpress: A System for Optimizing Web Browsing in a Wireless Environment B.C. Housel and D.B. Lindquist, IBM Corporation

• Building Fault-Tolerant Mobile-Aware Applications using the Rover Toolkit, A.D. Joseph and M.F. Kaashoek, MIT

Session VI: Issues in mobile computing

• A Dynamic Disk Spin-down Technique for Mobile Computing, D. Helmbold, D. Long, and B. Sherrod, UC Santa Cruz

• Reducing Processor Power Consumption by Improving Processor Time Management in a Single-User Operating System J.R. Lorch and A.J. Smith, UC Berkeley

• Security on the Move: Indirect Authentication using Kerberos A. Fox and S. Gribble, UC Berkeley

Session VII: LAN, MAC and ATM

• Wireless ATM MAC performance evaluation: HIPERLAN type 1 versus modified MDR, L. Nenonen, Nokia Research Center / Nokia Telecommunications, Finland, and J. Mikkonen, Nokia Mobile Phones, Finland

• A Scalable Wireless Virtual LAN, Z. Liu, M. Veeraraghavan, and K.Y. Eng, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

• Floor Acquisition Multiple Access with Collision Resolution, R. Garces and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, UC Santa Cruz

Panel II: "Multimedia Mobile Wireless Networks - is Anytime, Anywhere, Anything a Dream or a Reality,"

 organized by Jacob Sharony, Hazeltine.
 Participants:
         Jim Freebersyser - ARO
         Kevin Mills - DARPA 
         Ambatipudi Sastry - SRI
         Martha Steenstrup - BBN
         Bezalel Gavish - Vanderbilt University