IEEE/CreateNet Workshop on Guaranteed Optical Service Provisioning

Technical Program

October 7, 2005 [Friday], Boston , USA

A. Session 1 – Physical Layer Considerations and Passive Optical Networks

Session Chair (Prof. Djafar Mynbaev ) 10.30 AM – 11.30 AM

A[1]. Physical Layer Limitations in High-speed Electro/Optical nodes: The European Approach, S. Sales, P. Beneit (ITEAM Research Institute, Spain ), and C. Politi (NTUA, Greece ).

A[2]. Physical Layer Impairments in WDM Core Networks: a Comparison between a North-American Backbone and a Pan-European Backbone, Sawsan AL ZAHR, Maurice GAGNAIRE, Nicolas PUECH, and Mohamed KOUBA` A (Telecom Paris, France).

A[3].  Analysis of quality of service provisioning in passive optical networks, Djafar K. Mynbaev (New York City College of Technology, USA).

B. Session 2 – Capacity Dimensioning and RWA

Session Chair (Prof. Mohan Gurusamy ) 11.30 AM – 12.50 PM

B[1].  Evaluation of the Dimensioning and Economical Benefits of Intelligent Optical Networks, K. Casier, S. Verbrugge , A. Groebbens, D. Colle, I. Lievens, M. Pickavet, P. Demeester (Ghent University – IBBT – IMEC, Belgium).

B[2]. Evaluation of Routing Algorithms for Distributed Lightpath Establishment in Wavelength–Routed Networks, Shin’ichi Arakawa (Osaka University, Japan), Takahiro Toku and Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan).

B[3]. Graph Theoretic Approaches for Routing and Wavelength Assignment of Scheduled Lightpath Demands in WDM Optical Networks, Chava Vijaya Saradhi (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) and Mohan Gurusamy (National University of Singapore).

B[4]. Analysis of Bandwidth Allocation with Wavelength Preemption Scheme for Supporting Relative Service Guarantees in OBS Networks, Jumpot Phuritatkul and Yusheng Ji (Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan).

Lunch Break 12.50 PM - 1.45 PM

C. Session 3 – Protection and Restoration

Session Chair (Prof. Helio Waldman) 1.45 PM – 2.45 PM

C[1]. Survey and Performance Comparison of Dynamic Provisioning Methods for Optical Shared Backup Path Protection, Gangxiang Shen and Wayne D. Grover ( University of Alberta , Canada ).

C[2]. Dynamic Provisioning of Shared-Backup Path Protected Connections with Guaranteed Availability Requirements, Darli A. A. Mello, Rafael P. Ribeiro, Jefferson U. Pelegrini, Helio Waldman (DECOM, Brazil), and Dominic A. Schupke (Siemens AG, Germany).

C[3]. Quality of Resilience (QoR): NOBEL Approach to the Multi-Service Resilience Characterization, Janos Tapolcai (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Piotr Chołda (AGH Univ. of Science and Technology, Poland), Tibor Cinkler (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Krzysztof Wajda, Andrzej Jajszczyk (AGH Univ. of Science and Technology, Poland), Achim Autenrieth (Siemens AG, Germany), Stefan Bodamer (Marconi, Germany), Didier Colle (Ghent Univ.-IMEC-IBBT, Belgium), Giuseppe Ferraris (Telecom Italia, Italy), Håkon Lønsethagen, Inge-Einar Svinnset (Telenor R&D, Norway), and Dominique Verchere (Alcatel, France)