Technical Program
Registration
Welcome and Keynote Speech (9 - 10 am)
Dr. Chunming Qiao, University of Buffalo (SUNY), NY
Coffee Break (10 - 10:30 am)
Session 1: Architecture and Hardware (10:30 am - 12:30 pm)
- Optical Burst Transport Network - Why we Should Consider Virtual Topologies for OBS
(Invited)
Christoph Gauger (University of Stuttgart, IKR).
- A Multi-Layered Approach to Optical Burst-Switched Based Grids
Farid Farahmand (The University of Texas at Dallas), Marc De Leenheer, Pieter Thysebaert, Bruno Volckaert, Filip De Turck, Bart Dhoedt,
Piet Demeester (Ghent University), and Jason P. Jue (The University of Texas at Dallas).
- Optical Burst Switching for Unbuffered Span-Constrained Networks
(Invited)
Ramesh Rajaduray and Dan Blumenthal (University of California Santa Barbara).
- High-Speed PLZT Optical Switches for Burst and Packet Switching
Keiichi Nashimoto, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Mitchell LaBuda, Dwight Ritums, Jeffrey Dawley, Madhan Raj, David Kudzuma, and Tuan Vo (Nozomi Photonics Co.).
- A Novel Parametric WDM Interconnect Architecture with Reduced Complexity
Haitham S. Hamza and Jitender S. Deogun (University of Nebraska-Lincoln).
Lunch (12:30 - 1:30 pm)
Session 2: Routing and QoS (1:30 - 3:00 pm)
- An Intra- and Inter-Domain Routing Architecture for Optical Burst Switched (OBS) Networks
Ilia Baldine (RTI International), Pronita Mehrotra, George Rouskas (North Carolina State University), Arnold Bragg, and Dan Stevenson (RTI).
- Routing and QoS in an All-Optical Packet Network
D. Barth, J.M. Fourneau, D. Nott (Universit´e de Versailles Saint-Quentin), and D. Chiaroni (Alcatel CIT).
- An Efficient Multiclass Mechanism for Optical Burst-Switching Networks
Igor M. Moraes and Otto Carlos M. B. Duarte (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).
Coffee Break (3:00 - 3:30 pm)
Session 3: Scheduling and Contention Resolution (3:30 - 5:30 pm)
- Achieving Locally Minimal Burst Blocking in OBS Networks with Delayed
Scheduling (Invited)
Neil Barakat and Ted Sargent (University of Toronto).
- Pre-Estimate Burst Scheduling (PEBS): An Efficient Architecture with Low Realization Complexity for Burst Scheduling Disciplines
Sascha Junghans (University of Stuttgart, IKR).
- A New Proposal to Reduce Burst Contention in Optical Burst Switching Networks
Anna Agustí-Torra and Cristina Cervelló-Pastor (Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya).
- A Dynamic Bandwidth Reservation Scheme for a Collision-Free Time-Slotted OBS Network
Yong Liu, Gurusamy Mohan, and Kee Chaing Chua (National University of Singapore).