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Technical Program

Workshop will take place on Monday, 14 September, 2009.



8.00-9.30: Registration

9.30-9.40: Opening session - foreword

9.40-10.10 : Metro Architectures Enabling Sub-wavelengths
Juan Fdez-Palacios,Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (TID), Spain

10.10-10.30: Optical Packet Switch and Transport: A New Metro Platform to Reduce Costs and Power by 50% to 75% While Simultaneously Increasing Deterministic Performance Levels
John Dunne, Intune Networks, Irland

10.30-10.50:Testbed of OBS/GMPLS interworking
Xaiobin Hong, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China

10.50-11.10: Distributed Resources Assignment for Optical Burst Switching without Wavelength Conversion
Cristina Cervello-Pastor,Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
 
11.10-11.40: coffee break

11.40-12.00: Backhauling Wireless Broadband Traffic over an Optical Aggregation Network: WiMAX over OBS
A. Tzanakaki, Athens Information Technology, Greece

12.00-12.20: Hybrid Contention Resolution in Optical Switching Fabric with QoS traffic
Michele Savi, DEIS - University of Bologna, Italy

12.20-12.40: A Translucent OBS Node Architecture to Improve Traffic Emission and Loss Probability
Thomas Coutelen, Concordia University, Canada

12.40-13.00: An Efficient Real-time Service Discipline for the Control Plane to Enhance the Performance of Optical Burst Switching Network
Lalit Pagaria, Indian Institute of Technology Madras,India

13.00-15.30 lunch

15.30-15.50: Why deterministic traffic shows the highest reordering ratio
Sebastian Gunreben, University of Stuttgart - IKR, Germany

15.50-16.10: Deflection Routing in Anycast-based OBS Grids
Marc De Leenheer, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium

16.10-16.30: Improving RWA-OBS Formulation and Solution
Thomas Coutelen, Concordia University, Canada

16.30-17.00: coffee break

17.00-17.20: A combined TCP aware scheduling and assembly scheme for OBS networks
Kostas Ramantas, University of Patras, Greece

17.20 -17.40: TCP Performance in Hybrid Multigranular OBS Networks
Maurizio Casoni, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy