Technical Program

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8:00 Start of Workshop

8:00-9:30 Session 1

• Opening Remarks

Keynote Talks

• Opitcal Labeled Packet Switching and the LASOR Project Dan Blumenthal, UC Santa Barbara

• New network architectures for bursty data traffic (IRIS Project) Martin Zirngibl, Lucent Technologies

10:00-11:30 Session 2

Contention avoidance and resolution

• A Feedback-Based Contention Avoidance Mechanism for Optical Burst Switching Networks, Farid Farahmand, Qiong Zhand, Jason P. Jue, University of Texas at Dallas
• Shortest Path Prioritized Random Deflection Routing in Optical Burst Switched Networks, Craig Cameron, Andrew Zalesky, Moshe Zukerman, University of Melbourne
• Statistics for Residual Lifetime of Intersected Bursts in QoS-Aware WDM Networks, Helio Waldman, DECOM/FEEC/UNICAMP Brazil; Fernando L. Trazzi Jr., Moisés R. N. Ribeiro, LABTEL/DEL/CT/UFES Brazil

Techno-economics and applications for OBS

• A Parametric, First-order Cost Analysis of Optical Burst Switched (OBS) Networks, Arnold Bragg, Ilia Baldine, Dan Stevenson, MCNC Research and Development Institute
• An OBS Architecture for Pervasive Grid Computing, E. van Breusegem, M. de Le enheer, J. Cheyns , P. Demeester, Ghent University; D. Simeonidou, M. J. O'Mahoney, R. Nejabati, Essex University; A. Tzanakaki, I. Tomkos, AIT Athens

Lunch Break

13:15-14:15 Panel on OBS and grid computing

14:15-15:00 Session 3

Burst scheduling and reservation

• End-to-End Burst Loss Probabilities in an OBS Network with Simultaneous Link Possesion, Tzvetelina Battestilli and Harry Perros, North Carolina State University
• CPQ: A Control Packet Queuing Optical Burst Switching Protocol for Supporting QoS, Yong Wang, Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

15:30-17:00 Session 4

Burst assembly and network resilience

• Impact of Assembly Algorithms on End-to-End Performance in Optical Burst Switched Networks with Different QoS Classes, Maurizio Casoni, Enrica Luppi, Maria Luisa Merani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
• An Analystical Study of Optical Burst Switching Aggregation Strategies, M. de Vega Rodrigo, Jürgen Götz, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology
• On Optimal Ingress Treatment of Delay-Sensitive Traffic in Multi-Class OBS Systems, Neil Barakat, Edward H. Sargent, University of Toronto
• A Novel Fast Restoration Mechanism for Optical Burst Switched Networks, Yufeng Xin, Gigi Karmous-Edwards, Daniel Stevenson, MCNC Research and Development Institute; Jing Teng, North Carolina State University

 

• Closing Remarks

17:00:18:00 Poster Session

• Effective Implementation of Void Filling in OBS Networks with Service Differentiation, Giovanni Muretto, Carla Raffaelli, Paolo Zaffoni, University of Bologna
• A Testbed for Control Systems of Optical Burst Switching Core Nodes, Sascha Junghans, University of Stuttgart
• Efficient Scheduling for High-Throughput OBS Networks with Partial Wavelength Conversion, Vivek Mehta, Neil Barakat, Edward H. Sargent, University of Toronto
• The Nework of Excellence "e-Photon ONe" (IST FP6), Slobodanka Tomic, Technical University of Vienna

18:00 End of Workshop

Meeting of the OBS Forum

• Beginning: 18:00h
• Agenda TBA