Preliminary program

 

7:30 - 16:00 Registration

9:00 - 12:30 Tutorials

Tutorial 2 - Operating System Support for Distributed Multimedia Systems

Thomas Plagemann, UniK - Center of Technology at Kjeller,
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Tutorial 3 - WDM Optical Networking

Roberto Sabella, Ericsson Telecomunicazioni, CoRiTel, Rome, Italy

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

14:30 - 18:00 Tutorials

Tutorial 1 - MPEG - what is it?

Krzysztof Amborski, Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., Warsaw, Poland and University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Tutorial 4 - IP Multicasting: Design Issues and Protocols

Taieb Znati, Dept. of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

7:30 - 16:00 Registration

9:00 - 10:00 Opening ceremony

Address from the Chairman of the Conference
Address from the University of Zagreb
Ivica Mudrinić, Croatian Telecom
Lars Ake Enell, Ericsson Nikola Tesla: "Ericsson and New Telecom World"

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee break

10:15 - 11:00 Invited paper:

As We Progress: Network Innovation and Social Change

Glorianna Davenport, Media Lab, MIT, USA

11:00 - 11:45 Invited paper:

New Generation Network Architecture and Software Design

Kristian Toivo, Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany
Antun Carić, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Zagreb, Croatia

11:45 - 14:00 Lunch (Cassandra)

14:00 - 14:45 Invited paper:

Low-cost, Delay-bounded Multicasting

Tawfig F. Alrabiah, Taieb Znati, Dept. of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

14:45 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 16:30 Sessions B and H

19:30 Dinner in a national restaurant in a beautiful surroundings of Zagreb

9:00 - 9:45 Invited paper:

Croatian Telecom at the Millenniums Intersection

Vladimir Brlić, Vlasta Žurić Hudek, Croatian Telecom, Zagreb, Croatia

9:45 - 10:00 Coffee break

10:00 - 12:00 Sessions A, E and I

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Cassandra)

13:30 - 15:30 Sessions C and F

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30 Sessions D and G

20:00 Dinner in a national restaurant in a beautiful surroundings of Zagreb

2nd International Broadband and Multimedia Workshop

(B&MW '99)

9:00 - 10:30 Session J

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 12:00 Session K

12:00 Closing ceremony