Technical Program

Day 1: Sept 10th 2007

9:15 Registration

9:45 Welcome

10:00 Keynote

Claude Hamou

CTO Matisse Networks

Matisse Networks - MeshWave Optical Burst Reservation System

10:45 Coffee break

11:00 Session: Contention resolution and scheduling

• Paper: Efficient Optical Burst-Switched Networks using only Fiber Delay Line Buffers for Contention Resolution

  Authors: João MF Pedro;

• Paper: Resource Consumption Based Preemption for Providing Fairness in Optical Burst Switching Networks

Author: Tananun Orawiwattanakul;

• Paper: Optimal Timeslot Size for Synchronous Optical Burst Switching

  Authors: Artprecha Rugsachart;

• Discussion panel with the session authors (12:00-12:20)

12:20 Lunch

14:00 Session: TCP and burst assembly

• Paper: Burstification effect on the TCP Synchronization and Congestion Window mechanism (invited paper)

Authors: Kyriakos G. Vlachos

• Paper: Effect of burst assembly on synchronization of TCP flows

  Authors: Anna Maria Guidotti;

• Paper: Dynamic Service Differentiation in OBS Networks by Modulation of Burst Assembly Parameters and Offset-Time

  Authors: Franco Callegati; Massimo Tornatore; Antonio Pantaleo; Carla Raffaelli;

• Discussion panel with the session authors (15:00-15:20)

15:20 Coffee break

15:45 Session: Routing and performance

• Paper: Weight Functions for Shortest Path Routing of Periodically Scheduled Burst Flows

  Authors: Srinivas Sampalli;

• Paper: Using Closed Loop Feedback Control Theoretic Techniques to Improve OBS Networks Performance

  Authors: Mohamed Faten Zhani; Wael Hosny Fouad Aly; Halima Elbiaze;

• Paper: On the Fairness Issue in OBS Loss-Free Schemes

  Authors: Anna Agusti-Torra; Cristina Cervello-Pastor; Miquel Angel Fiol;

• Discussion panel with the session authors (16:45-17:05)

17:05 Social event (including refreshments)