Workshop on OPS/OBS at the Fourth International Conference on Optical Internet

 

Place: Chongqing, China

Date: May 29, 2005 (Sunday) 

Driven by the world-wide advance in broadband access, and the need to meet the expected increase in high-speed traffic demand in the core, R&D interest in optical packet/burst switching continue to grow over the last few years. This workshop follows the success of the last three International Workshops on Optical Burst Switching held in the US since 2003 (see http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~qiao/wobs/) and  the first Workshop on Optical Packet and Burst Switching held in Japan as a part of last years’ OECC/COIN in 2004 (see http://www.e-photon-one.org/ephotonone/fitxers/OECC%20Workshop%20Report.pdf for a brief report), which was attended by 80-100 people.

This workshop on OPS/OBS will be held on Sunday May 29thth, 2005 in Chongqing, China, as a part of COIN 2005.

Its aim is to unified the  global effort on optical packet/burst switching by bringing together people from all over the world into a single event , where they present and obtain the state-of-he-art  information on government funded programs, industry R&D projects, and academia research activities.  

The workshop will feature invited speakers and panels during the day, and a reception in the evening.

Topics to be covered include but not limited to

  • Why OPS/OBS are being considered as an replacement, or complementary alternative to optical circuit switching? What are the killer applications?

  • How OPS/OBS will be deployed? Is it in the core only? or in the access/metro as well? What is the expected time line?

  • Who are working on OPS/OBS related R&D activities? And what kind of activities they are working on and at what stage are these various activities? What are the opportunities for collaboration?

  • What are the technical (as well as business/economic) challenges, and how are they being addressed? What are the remaining hurdles that have to be cleared? 

Organizer: Chunming Qiao (SUNY Buffalo, USA) 

General Co-Chairs:  D. Blumenthal (UC Santa Barbara, USA),
                                  K. Kitayama (U. Osaka, Japan)
                                  M. OMahony  (U Essex, UK)

International Co-chair:  Jason Jue (U. Texas, USA)
                                        Minho Kang (ICU, Korea)
                                                    Fabio Neri (Politecnico di Torino. Italy)

Local Chair:  Keping Long   

Technical Sponsors:   

ePhoton/ONe ,

IEEE ONTC – Qiao

OPS/OBS Forum - Qiao

Korea ––Korea Optical Internet Forum

Japan – Photonic Internet Forum of Japan

CreatNet with ICST – Imrich Chlamtac

COIWIN (China) – Keping Long

Fiscal Sponsors:

CreatNet with ICST – Imrich Chlamtac

Tentative Schedule:

  • Send out the first batch invitations to speakers/panelists: 2/14/05

  • Confirmation  from invited speakers due Feb 28th, 2005

  • Preliminary Call for Participation sent Feb. 20th, 2005

  • Final Program out April 1st, 2005

Tentative Workshop Program:

8:15 Welcome

8:30-10:30  About Six invited talks (20 minutes each)

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00 to 12:00 Panel 1: Applications

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Buffet (Onsite)

1:30 – 3:00 Panel 2: Challenges and Opportunities

3:00 – 3:30 Break

3:30: - 5:30: About Six Invited talks (20 minutes each)

5:30 – 7:30: Reception Session

7:30 -9:30 Dinner for organizers and Invited Speakers

Panels (tentative):

1. Applications of OPS/OBS – Mike O’Mahony

  • Tomonori Aoyama, “Digital Cinema”

  • Piet Demeester (University of Gent, Belgium),  "Consumer Oriented Grids using Optical Burst Switching"

  • Prof D Simeonidou (U. Essex), "Photonic Grid Networks using OBS"

  • Yuefeng Ji (Prof. of BUPT, China), "on Optical Networking Research"

2. Challenges and Opportunities in OPS/OBS

  • Dan Blumenthal LASOR

  • John Bowers, "optical buffer"

  • Connie Chang, "optical buffer"

  • G. K Chang, OLS

  • Masafumi Koga,”Demonstration of Optical Burst Switching Network Utilizing PLC and MEMS Switches with GMPLS Control” (Joint work of NTT Labs & Fujitsu Lans.)

  • Ben Yoo, OLS

  • Martin Zirgnibal/Rod Alferness, Lucent, ARIS 

Invitations  Speakers (tentative):

1.        Jianping Wu on CERNET2 – local speaker

2.        Jintong Lin (BUPT)

3.        Shizhong Xie (TsingHua)

4.        Lemin Li (UESTC)

5.        Qingji Zeng (SJTU)

6.        Rod Tucker (Melbourne) –

7.        Moshe Zukerman (Melbourne)

8.        Ken-Ichi Kitayama (Osaka)

9.        Naoya Wada (NICT)

10.    Minho Kang (ICU)

11.    Kevin Rhee (Samsung)

12.    Mike O’Mahony (Essex, UK))

13.    Dominique Chiaroni (Alcatel, France)

14.    Christopher Gauger (Struttgart, Germany)

15.    Franco Callegati (Bologna, Italy)

16.    Jason Jue (U. Texas)

17.    Ted Sargent (U Toronto/Nortel)

18.    Arnold Bragg/Dan Stevenson (MCNC)