Workshop Program

Monday, 8th September 2008

08.00-09.00 Tea/Coffee Break

Session 1: Future Optical Technologies and Applications (9.00 - 10.30)

[9.00 - 9.30] QoS Aware Optical Packet Switch with Shared Electronic Buffers
Carla Raffaelli and Michele Savi (University of Bologna, Italy)

[9.30 - 10.00] Optical Network Services for Ultra High Definition Digital Media Distribution
D. Simeonidou, D. K. Hunter, M. Ghandour and R. Nejabati (University of Essex, UK)

[10.00 - 10.30] A CAVALIER Architecture for Metro Data Center Networking
Akhil Lodha, Ashwin Gumaste (IIT, Mumbai), Jianping Wang (City University of Hong Kong) and Nasir Ghani (University of New Mexico)

10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee Break

Session 2: Survivability in Optical Networks (11.00 - 13.00)

[11.00 - 11.30] Survivable Traffic Grooming for Scheduled Demands
Arunita Jaekel, Ying Chen and Ataul Bari (University of Windsor, Canada)

[11.30 - 12.00] On Survivable Traffic Grooming over Logical Topologies in WDM Mesh Networks
Arunita Jaekel, Ying Chen, Ataul Bari and Subir Bandyopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada)

[12.00 - 12.30] Routing and Wavelength Assignment Algorithms in Survivable WDM Networks under Physical Layer Constraints
George Markidis and Anna Tzanakaki (Athens Institute of Technology, Greece)

[12.30 - 13.00] Routing Fault-Tolerant Sliding Scheduled Traffic in WDM Optical Mesh Networks
Chava Vijaya Saradhi (Create-Net, Italy), Mohan Gurusamy (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Radoslaw Piesiewicz (Create-Net, Italy)

13.00 Lunch