Welcome to WOBS 2004 at San José, CA, USA

The Third International Workshop on Optical Burst Switching

October 25, 2004, co-located with BroadNets 2004

Technically co-sponsored by

IEEE Communications Society	Network of Excellence e-Photon/ONe (IST FP6)

In Cooperation with

ACM SIGMOBILE

During the past years, OBS has been receiving an increasing amount of attention from both academic, industrial and government R&D groups around the globe. It has become an active area of research with more than two hundred papers published in several leading journals/magazines and almost all major communication conferences. The work on the different facets of OBS benefits from the strong research background on wavelength routing and optical packet switching networks.

The series of International Workshops on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS) has started in 2003 with events at OptiComm in Dallas in October and at GlobeCom 2003 in San Francisco in December. Both events have been very successful in bringing together leading research groups on OBS and fostering the exchange and discussion of ideas and visions.

Scope

The Workshop on OBS (WOBS) will focus on both research and development issues related to OBS. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Burst Scheduling and Reservation Algorithms
Burst Assembly/Disassembly Algorithms and Assembled Traffic Analysis
Burst Contention Resolution Methods
Core and Edge Node Architectures
Traffic Engineering for OBS, Labeled OBS (LOBS)
Signaling Protocols
Quality of Service and Service Differentiation
Survivability Issues
New applications, services, transport protocols for OBS
SAN and Grid Applications for OBS
Transport Layer Protocols for OBS
TCP/IP, Ethernet, or SONET over OBS
Burst Switching Fabrics
Physical layer issues, components, subsystems in OBS
Comparison of OBS with Optical Packet-Switching, Wavelength Routing, Next-generation SONET/SDH
OBS in the LANs/MANs/WANs
Innovative Extensions to OBS
Experiment, Prototype, Testbeds involving OBS
Business (Finance, Marketing, Deployment) Issues

Format

The workshop will include invited talks, panels, and technical sessions for presentations. The participants will also be given a plenty of time and opportunities to network with each other and engage in technical discussion and debate.