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Technical Program

Optical Networking Symposium
October 26, 2004 [Tuesday] 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Burst and Packet Switching - I
Chair: Dr. George Rouskas, North Carolina State University

Synchronous Optical Burst Switching
Sami Sheeshia and Chunming Qiao [State University of New York at Buffalo, USA]

A High Speed Network Interface Card for Optical Burst Switched Networks
Mrugendra Singhai, Pronita Mehrotra, Patrick Hamilton, Mike Pratt, Mark Cassada, Dan Stevenson [MCNC-RDI, USA]

On Wavelength Assignment in Optical Burst Switched Network
Jing Teng and George Rouskas [North Carolina State University, USA]

Fault Management with Fast Restoration for Optical Burst Switched Networks
Yufeng Xin [MCNC RDI, USA]; Jing Teng [North Carolina State University, USA]; G. Karmous-Edwards, Dan Stevenson [MCNC RDI, USA]

October 26, 2004 [Tuesday] 10:00 - 11:30 AM
IP Over Optical
Chair: Dr. Galen Sasaki, University of Hawaii
Survivable Mapping Algorithm by Ring Trimming (SMART) for Large IP-Over-WDM networks
Maciej Kurant and Patrick Thiran [EPFL, Switzerland]

A New Scalable Algorithm for Survivable Routing in IP over WDM Networks
Frederick Ducatelle and Luca Maria Gambardella
[Instituto Dalle Molle sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Switzerland]

Detail Study of IP/Reconfigurable Optical Network Architectures
Guangzhi Li, Dongmei Wang, Jennifer Yates, Robert Doverspike, and Charles Kalmanek [AT&T Labs Research, USA]

Controlling LSPs in an ORION Network
Jan Cheyns, Erik Van Breusegem, Davy De Winter, Didier Colle, Mario Pickavet, and Piet Demeester [Ghent University, Belgium]

October 26, 2004 [Tuesday] 1:30 - 3:00 PM
Burst and Packet Switching - II
Chair: Dr. Loukas Paraschis, Cisco Systems
Performance of Optical Packet Switching Nodes in IP Transport Networks
Maurizio Aste and Achille Pattavina [Politecnico di Milano, Italy]

Decoupling Packet Loss from Blocking in Proactive Reservation-Based Switching
Mahmoud Elhaddad, Rami Melhem, Taieb Znati [University of Pittsburgh, USA]

Performance Evaluation of a Router with Tunable Recirculating Buffers in an Optical Burst Switching Environment
Kashyap Merchant, John McGeehan, Alan Willner [University of Southern California, USA]; Purushotham Kamath, Joe Bannister and Joe Touch [USC/ISI, USA]

Exact Calculation of Blocking Probabilities for Bufferless Optical Burst Switched Links with Partial Wavelength Conversion
Nail Akar and Ezhan Karasan [Bilkent University, Turkey]

October 27, 2004 [Wednesday] 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Survivability and RWA
Chair: Dr. Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona
Diverse Routing for Shared Risk Resource Groups (SRRG) Failures in WDM Optical Networks
Pallab Datta and Arun Somani [Iowa State University, USA]

Survivable Virtual Topology Routing Under Shared Risk Link Groups in WDM Networks
Ajay Todimala and Byrav Ramamurthy [University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA]

Crosstalk-Aware Wavelength Assignment in Dynamic Wavelength-Routed Optical Networks
Tao Deng, Suresh Subramaniam and Jinghao Xu [The George Washington University, USA]

Provisioning Fault-Tolerant Scheduled Lightpath Demands in WDM Mesh Networks
Chava Vijaya Saradhi [Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore]; Lian Kian Wei, Mohan Gurusamy [National University of Singapore, Singapore]

October 27, 2004 [Wednesday] 1:30 - 3:00 PM
Traffic and Wavelength Grooming
Chair: Dr. Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas
A Call Admission Control for Service Differentiation and Fairness Management in WDM Grooming Networks
Kayvan Mosharaf, Jerome Talim, Ioannis Lambadaris [Carleton University, Canada]

Reconfiguration of Traffic Grooming Optical Networks
Ruhiyyih Mahalati and Rudra Dutta [North Carolina State University, USA]

Efficient Online Traffic Grooming Algorithms in WDM Mesh Networks with Drop-and-Continue Node Architecture
Farid Farahmand, Xiaodong Huang, Jason Jue [University of Texas at Dallas, USA]

Computing Blocking Probability of Dynamic Traffic Grooming in Mesh WDM Optical Networks
Chunsheng Xin [Norfolk State University]

October 27, 2004 [Wednesday] 1:30 - 3:00 PM
Switching and Routing
Chair: Dr. Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland - Balitimore County
Performance Comparison of Guided-Wave Architectures for Space-Division Photonic Switching
Luigi Savastano, Guido Maier [CoreComm, Italy], Achille Pattavina [Politecnico di Milano, Italy]; Mario Martinelli [CoreComm, Italy]

A Performance Evaluation of Time Switching in TDM Wavelength Routing Networks
Mahesh Sivakumar [University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA]; and Suresh Subramaniam [The George Washington University, USA]

Virtual Fully Connected WDM Network: Architecture, Scheduling and Performance Evaluation
Kang Xi, Shin'ichi Arakawa, Masayuki Murata [Osaka University, Japan]

Architecture of a Class of Scalable Optical Cross-Connects
Manoj Panda, Venkatesh Tamarapalli, Sridhar Varadarajan [Satyam Computer Services Ltd., India]; Yatindra Nath Singh [India Institute of Technology Kanpur, India]

October 28, 2004 [Thursday] 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Network Design and Resource Allocation
Chair: Dr. Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano
p-Cycle Network Design with Hop Limits and Circumference Limits
Adil Kodian, Anthony Sack, Wayne Grover [TRLabs, University of Alberta, Canada]

A 10/7+&epsilon Approximation for Minimizing the Number of ADMs in SONET Rings
Mordechai Shalom and Shmuel Zaks [Technion, Israel Institute of Techonology, Israel]

Resource Planning and Bandwidth Allocation in Hybrid Fiber-Coax Residential Networks
David Griffith, Kotikalapudi Sriram, Liliya Krivulina, Nada Golmie [NIST, USA]

A Load-Balancing Spare Capacity Reallocation Approach in Service-Rich
SONET Metro Mesh Networks
Lu Shen, Xi Yang, and Byrav Ramamurthy [University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA]

October 28, 2004 [Thursday] 1:30 - 3:00 PM
Survivability
Chair: Dr. Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University
Threshold Based Selective Survivability for Optical WDM Mesh Networks
Ramakrishna Shenai [University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA]; Muthiah Venkatachalam, Christian Maciocco [Intel Labs, USA]; Krishna Sivalingam [University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA]

Capacity-Efficient Protection with Fast Recovery in Optically Transparent Mesh Networks
Sun-il Kim and Steven Lumetta [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA]

Benefits of Link Protection at Connection Granularity
Karthikeyan Sathyamurthy and Srinivasan Ramasubramanian [University of Arizona, USA]

Survivable Traffic Grooming with Path Protection at the Connection Level in
WDM Mesh Networks
Wang Yao and Byrav Ramamurthy [University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA]

October 28, 2004 [Thursday] 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Optical Poster Session
QoS Control Schemes and Their Characteristics for IP/Optical Multilayer Networks
Takumi Kimura, Keisuke Kabashima, Michihiro Aoki, Shigeo Urushidani [NTT, Japan]

Policy-Based Hybrid Hierarchical Optical Networks
Belkacem Daheb, Wissam Fawaz, [University of Paris, France]; Olivier Audouin [Alcatel, France]; Guy Pujolle, Ken Chen [University of Paris, France]; Bela Berde [Alcaltel, France]

Buffer Efficient Routing Strategies for Optical Circuit Switching Networks
Willis Yuen, An Chen, Albert K. Wong, Chin-Tau Lea [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology]

Meeting Optical QoS Requirements with Reduced Complexity in Dynamic Wavelength Assignment
Iguatemi Fonseca [UNICAMP, Brazil]; Moises Ribeiro [Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil]; Raul Almeida Jr., Helio Waldman [Campinas State University, Brazil]

Performance Analysis of a Low-Complexity and Efficient QoS Differentiation Algorithm for Bufferless Optical Packet Switches with Shared Wavelength Converters in Asynchronous Operation
Martin Nord [Technical University of Denmark, Denmark]

Policy-Based Admission Control in GMPLS Optical Networks
Fabio Verdi, Edmundo Madeira, Mauricio Magalhaes [UNICAMP, Brazil]