| The Second International Workshop on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS) | |
| http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~qiao/wobs | |
| Co-located with Globecom'03 (Dec. 1 to 5, 2003) | |
| http://www.globecom2003.com | |
| Dec. 5, 2003, San Francisco, USA | |
| Technical Program (8:30am - 12:00pm) | |
| Optical Burst Switching (OBS) has been receiving an increasing amount
of attention for the past few years as a promising technology that will
lead to a new era in optical networking. This half-day workshop on Optical
Burst Switching (WOBS) in intended for researchers working for carriers/ISPs,
equipment vendors an subsystem, component and device manufacturers, as well
as government R&D agencies and universities. It provides a forum to
address major design, implementation and application issues related optical
burst switching (OBS). The workshop will include invited talks/panels by
experts from academia, government agencies, R&D organizations all over
the world including North America, Asia Pacific (e.g., China, Japan, Korea)
and Europe. The participants will also be given a plenty of time and opportunities
to network with each other and engage in technical discussion and debate.
The workshop will focus on the following topics: OBS vs. Optical Packet-Switching, OBS vs. Wavelength Routing, OBS vs. Next-generation SONET/SDH, OBS in the LANs/SANs/MANs/WANs, Traffic Engineering with Labeled OBS (or LOBS), Burst Assembly/Disassembly Algorithms and Node Architectures, Assembled Traffic Analysis, Burst Scheduling Algorithms and Node Architectures, Burst Switching Fabrics, Burst Contention Resolution Methods, OBS Signaling Protocols, QoS and Survivability Issues, TCP/IP, Ethernet, or SONET over OBS, Experiment, Prototype, Testbed, Business (Finance, Marketing) Issues. |