Technical Program

• Biswanath Mukherjee
  Optical Networking: The Evolving Landscape

10:30 - 11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Session 1: MAC Protocols
Chair: Isabella Cerutti

• A QoS-sensitive MAC for slotted WDM metropolitan rings
  J. Angelopoulos, H.C.Leligou, H.Linardakis, A.Stavdas
  
• An Analytical Model for a Slotted WDM Metro Ring with A-Posteriori Access
  K. Bengi
  
• A preemptable slotted access protocol to transport variable size packets in all-optical ring LANs/MANs
  M.R.Salvador, S.Heemstra de Groot, D.Dey
  
• Comparison of Single-Hop and Multihop AWG based WDM networks
  H.Woesner, M.Maier, A.Wolisz
  

12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 pm
Session 2: Burst switching
Chair: Ken-Ichi Kitayama

• Segmented Burst Switching: Enhancement of Optical Burst Switching to decrease loss rate and support quality of service
  A.Maach, G.von Bochmann
  
• Provision of End-to-End Delay Guarantees in Wavelength Routed Optical Burst-Switched Networks
  I.de Miguel, E.Kozlovski, P.Bayvel
  
• QoS Performance of WR-OBS Network Architecture with Request Scheduling
  E.Kozlovski, P.Bayvel
  
• Dimensioning of FDL Buffers for Optical Burst Switching Nodes
  C.Gauger
  

3.30 - 4.00 pm Coffee Break

4:00 - 6:00 pm
Session 3: Italian projects on optical networks
Chair: Franco Callegati

• Optical Packet Switching of IP Traffic
  A.Pattavina, S.Bregni, G.Guerra
  
• Dynamic DWDM Exploitation in Connection Oriented Optical Packet Switches
  F.Callegati, W.Cerroni, C.Raffaelli, P.Zaffoni
  
• Variable-Size Packets in Slotted WDM Ring Networks
  A.Bianco, M.Bonsignori, E.Leonardi, F.Neri
  
• Ringo: a Demonstrator of WDM Optical Packet Network on a Ring Topology
  A.Carena, V.Ferrero, R.Gaudino, V.De Feo, F.Neri, P.Poggiolini
  
• A Wavelength Recognizing Switching Architecture for Omega Interconnection Networks
  A.Borella, G.Cancellieri, P.Prosperi
  

• On the performance of optical flow routers employing wavelength conversion
  J.J.He, D.Simeonidou
  
• Prioritized Buffer Management in Photonic Packet Switches for DiffServ Assured Forwarding
  H.Harai, M.Murata
  
• Assessment of packet loss for an optical packet router with recirculating buffer
  C.Develder, M.Pickavet, P.Demeester
  
• Capability of optical code-based MPLS (OC-MPLS)
  K.Kitayama, K.Onohara, M.Murata
  

10:30 - 11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Session 5: Panel on
Traffic Engineering in next generation networks: market drivers, solutions for intelligent optical networks, control plane architectures
Organizers: Roberto Sabella, Marina Settembre, (Ericsson Lab)
Chair: Marina Settembre, (Ericsson Lab)
Panel Board: B. Mukherjee (University of California, Davis), Sudipta Sengupta (Tellium Optical Networking Systems), Nigel Baker (Nortel Networks), Emanuel Parnis (Lucent), M. Gerla (University of California, Los Angeles)

12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 pm
Session 6: Protection and restoration
Chair: Evi Zouganeli

• Design of static WDM mesh networks with dedicated path-protection
  G.Maier, S.De Patre, M.Martinelli, A.Pattavina
  
• ZRESTORE: A Link Restoration Scheme with High Aggregation and No Reservation
  P.Verma, S.Das, M.Gerla, B.N.Jain
  
• Protection and Restoration Strategies in WDM Mesh Networks
  G.Conte, M.Listanti, R.Sabella, M.Settembre
  
• Dynamic Routing with Partial Information in Mesh-Restorable Optical Networks
  M.Sridharan, R.Srinivasan, A.K.Somani
  

3.30 - 4.00 pm Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:15 pm
Session 7: Virtual topology design
Chair: Maurice Gaignare

• A Study on the Efficacy of Regular Virtual Topology Design Heuristics for Optical Packet Switching
  O.Komolafe, D.Harle, D.Cotter
  
• A Design Method for Logical Topologies with Consideration of Wavebands
  Y.Fukushima, S.Arakawa, M.Murata, H.Miyahara
  
• Dynamic Establishment of All-Optical Connections in Wavelength-Routed Optical Networks Using Genetic Algorithms
  F.Gonzalez, D.Bisbal, I.de Miguel J.Blas, J.C.Aguado, P.Fernandez, R.M.Lorenzo, E.J.Abril, M.Lopez
  

8.00 pm Social Dinner

9:00 am - 10:30 am
Session 8: Wavelength routing networks
Chair: Emilio Leonardi

• Capacity Expansion of Fiber Optic Infrastructure Networks Using Wavelength Division Multiplexing Systems
  A.Dutta, P.Kubat
  
• Performance Analysis of WDM Optical Networks with Wavelength Usage Constraint
  J.Fang, R.Srinivasan, A.K.Somani
  
• A Multistart Randomized Greedy Algorithm for Traffic Grooming on Mesh Logical Topologies
  M.Brunato, R.Battiti
  

10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Session 9: Physical and transmission
Chair: Roberto Gaudino

• Combined ASK/FSK and ASK/DPSK Modulation Formats for Optically Labeled Signals
  Sulur, T.Koonen, I.T.Monroy, H.de Waardt, J.Jennen, G.Morthier
  
• Some new concepts for all-optical 2R regeneration using InP-based Photonic Integrated Circuits
  J.De Merlier, G.Morthier, M.Zhao, R.Baets
  
• On the Impact of Electronic Regeneration on Dynamic Wavelength Routing in Selectively Transparent or Opaque WDM Networks
  G. Franzl, A.Jukan
  
• Impact of Polarization Mode Dispersion in Multi-Hop Multi-Rate WDM Rings
  I.Cerutti, M.R.Xavier De Barros, A.Fumagalli, R.Rajagopalan, S.M. Rossi
  
• Modelling of a deterministic emulator to accurately reproduce the real fiber affected by PMD up to third order
  A.Bogoni, A.Orlandini, L.Potì