Technical Program

MoWAN 2010 Workshop
Technical Program
Monday, October 25, 2010

8:50am: Welcome and Opening Remarks [Workshop chairs]
9:00am: Session 1 [Chair: Djamal-Eddine Meddour, Orange Labs]

09.00-09.30 Invited talk: Dr. David Hayes, Plasma Antennas, U.K.

• 09.30-10.00 Enabling Multimode Wireless Access Networks Using Remote Radio Heads
  Georgios Kadaras (Technical University of Denmark, DTU), Jose Soler and Lars Dittmann

• 10.00-10.30 Network Topology Visualization and Monitoring of Wireless Mesh Networks
  Roberto Riggio (Create-Net, Italy)

• 10.30-11.00 Handover Performance Evaluation in WiMAX Mobility Scenarios
  Mihai Constantinescu and Eugen Borcoci (Polytechnic University of Bucharest)

11:00am : Break

11:30am: Session 2 [Chair: Bruno Selva, Thales Communications]
11.30-12.00 Invited talk: Dr. David Hayes, Plasma Antennas, U.K.

• 12.00-12.30 RAT Selection Optimization in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
  Angelos Rouskas (University of Piraeus), Pavlos Kosmides (National Technical University of Athens), Anastasios Kikilis (Univeristy of the Aegean) and Miltiades Anagnostou (National Technical University of Athens)

• 12.30-13.00 Real-time Inter-domain Handover Re-authentication Protocol
  Radu Lupu, Eugen Borcoci and Dan Galatchi (Polytechnic University of Bucharest)

• 13.00-13.30 Experiences with a Multimode Wireless Mesh Network Testbed
  Djamal-Eddine Meddour (Orange Labs, France) and Bruno Selva (Thales, France)

1:30pm: End of workshop

Cross-Layer Optimization Workshop
Technical Program
Monday, October 25, 2010

8:55am: Welcome and Opening Remarks [Chair: Salvatore Spadaro, UPC]

• 09.00-09.30 The European FP7 CHRON Project: Towards Cognitive Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Optical Networks
  Ignacio de Miguel, UVa, Spain

• 09.30-10.00 A Comparative Study of Impairments Aware Optical Networks Planning Tools Siamak Azodolmolky, AIT and UEssex

• 10.00-10.30 The benefits of an impairment aware dynamic optical network solution: a techno-economic study
  Marianna Angelou, AIT, Greece

• 10.30-11.00 Elastic Bandwidth Allocation in Flexible OFDM-based Optical Networks
  Kostas Christodoulopoulos, AIT, Greece

11:00pm: End of workshop


Green Networking Workshop
Technical Program
Monday, October 25, 2010

11:25am: Welcome and Opening Remarks [Chair: Prof. Manos Varvarigos]

• 11.30-12.00 Efficient use of network and control resources in impairment aware all optical networks
  Paolo Monti, KTH, Sweden

• 12.00-12.30 Evaluation of effect of network energy consumption in load distribution across data centers
  Harumasa Tada, Kyoto University of Education

• 12.30-13.00 Green wireless networks through exploitation of correlations
  Frank Oldewurtel, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

• 13.00-13.30 Energy-oriented models for WDM networks
  Sergio Ricciardi, CCABA, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

1:30pm: End of workshop


NGOA Workshop
Technical Program
Monday, October 25, 2010

13:30am : Lunch
14.20 pm: Welcome and Opening Remarks [Workshop chairs]
14:30pm: Session 1 [Chair: Christoph Lange]

• 14.30-14.50 Next Generation Optical Access: Operator requirements and potential architectures
  Dirk Breuer, Deutsche Telekom (Germany)

• 14.50-15.10 WDM-PON technology for open access
  Gemma Vall-llosera, Ericsson AB (Sweden)

• 15.10-15.30 Business roles and business models in Next Generation Optical Access networks
  Sofie Verbrugge, IBBT (Belgium)

• 15.30-15.50 Performance, cost, and energy consumption in Next-Generation WDM-based access
  Klaus Grobe, ADVA Optical Networking (Germany)

15:50am : Break
16:10am: Session 2 [Chair: Konstantinos Kanonakis]

• 16.10-16.30 OFDMA-PON: A solution for NG optical and converged access networks
  Konstantinos Kanonakis, Athens Information Technology (Greece)
  16.30-16.50 Fixed-mobile convergence aspects in OFDM PON based NG access networks
  Frank Schaich, Alcatel-Lucent (Germany)
  16.50-17.10 Recent developments in optical access networks: Results from the ALPHA project
  Claus Popp Larsen, Acreo (Sweden)
  17.10-17.30 Opportunites in Silicon Integrated Optics
  Christian Koos, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)

17:30pm: End of workshop

09:00 – 09:30

Greetings by Prof. Ioannis Tomkos and Prof. Christos Bouras

09:30 – 10:00

Plenary talk: Prof. Socrates Katsikas, General Secretary of Telecommunications at the Greek Ministry of Infrastructures, Transportation and Networks.

10:30 – 11:00

Plenary talk: Prof. Vasilis Maglaris, Chairman, European NREN Policy Committee - GEANT Consortium: “Internet research and the potential role of advanced networking platforms (like NRENs and GEANT) in Europe.”

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00

Optical Networks Track – Session #1  [Chair: Dr. Konstantinos Kanonakis]

• Multicast Routing in Hierarchical Optical Networks Using Collection-Distribution Networks [Invited], Onur Turkcu, Arun K. Somani, and Suresh Subramaniam

 
• Future proof next generation access networks - the case for FTTH [Invited], Wolfgang Fischer
  
• Throughput-Delay Trade-Offs in Slotted WDM Ring Networks, T. Bonald, R-M. Indre, S. Oueslati and C. Rolland
   
• Profiling TCP traffic in Optical Burst Switching networks, K. Ramantas and K. Vlachos

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30

Optical Networks Track – Session #2 [Chair: Prof. Kyriakos Vlachos]

• Development of an Algorithm to determine a multipoint cycle routing [Invited], David Lastine, Suresh Sankaran, and Arun K. Somani


• Failure Presumed Protection (FPP): Recovery with Approximate Failure Localization, J. Tapolcai


• Multipoint to Multipoint Buses Placement in Transparent Optical Networks, B. El Khattar, N. L. Sauze and A.L. Beylot


• Ambient Intelligence in Network Management Systems [Short Paper], Mary Luz Mouronte López; Pilar Cano Garcinuño; Miguel Ángel Fernández Lastra

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:45

Internet Track – Session #1 [Chair: Prof. Arun Somani]

• Developing Information Networking Further: From PSIRP to PURSUIT [Invited], Nikos Fotiou, George C. Polyzos, Pekka Nikander,Dirk Trossen


• Analysis of Block-ware Peer Adaptations in Substream based P2P, C. Kulatunga, D. Botvich, S. Balasubramaniam, W. Donnelly


• Designing repeatable experiments on an Emulab testbed, A. Perez-Garcia, C. Siaterlis, M. Masera


• Hybrid Content Distribution Network with a P2P based Streaming Protocol [Short paper], S. Pushp


• Traffic Dynamics Online Estimation Based on Measured Autocorrelation [Short paper], C. Tran, Z. Dziong

20:00

Gala Dinner

09:30 – 10:30

Plenary talks

• Dr. Thlemaxos Doukoglou, Head of R&D Division of OTE: "An incumbent operator telecom strategy and technology outlook"


• Dr. George Dalamagas, Managing Director, Alcatel-Lucent Greece: "Challenges for next generation wireline and wireless networks deployments and possible solutions"
   
• Dimitrios Mitsainas, Marketing Dept. of the Services Business Division, INTRACOM Telecom, ”OmniRural: Bridging the Terrestrial Broadband Divide”

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Optical Networks Track – Session #3 [Chair: Prof. George Ellinas]

• Using MPLS-TP for Data-Center Interconnection [Invited], Ashwin Gumaste
  
• G.984 GPON Exhibiting Multi-Wavelength Protocol Functionalities [Short Paper], A. Gliwan, P. Kourtessis, J. M. Senior


• A Novel QoS Provisioning Scheme for OBS Network, S. K. Askar, G. Zervas, D. K. Hunter, and D. Simeonidou

12:30 – 14:00

Internet Track – Session #2 [Chair: Dr. Christoforos Kachris]

• Ethernet Services Transport Protocol with Configurable-QoS Attributes for Carrier Ethernet, C. Estevez, G. Ellinas, G. Chang


• Hybrid Demand Oblivious Routing: Hyper-cubic Partitions and Theoretical Upper Bounds, G. Németh, G. Rétvári


• Optimizing the update packet stream for web applications, M. Muthusrinivasan, M. Govindarasu


• Hi-sap: Secure and Scalable Web Server System for Shared Hosting Services, D. Hara, R. Fukuda, K. Hyoudou, R. Ozaki, Y. Nakayama

14:00 – 15:00

Lunch break

15:00 – 16:30

Wireless Track – Session #1 (Wireless Sensor Networks and Multi-antenna Wireless Systemss)  [Chair: Dr. Konstantinos Tsagkaris]

• Chameleon: On the Energy Efficiency of Exploiting Multiple Frequencies in Wireless Sensor Networks, Jing Li, Wenjie Zeng and Anish Arora [Invited]
  
• Practical Multi-antenna Spatial Reuse in WLANs, S. Lakshmanan, K. Sundaresan, A. Khojestepour, S. Rangarajan
  
• On the Scheduling and Multiplexing Trade-off in MIMO Networks, T. ElBatt


• Efficient Resource Allocation Algorithm for Spatial Multiuser Access in MISO OFDMA Systems, V. Papoutsis, I. Fraimis, S. Kotsopoulos

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee break

17:00 – 18:45

Wireless Track – Session #2 (Wireless Networks and Systems) [Chair: Dr. Spyridon Vassilaras]

• Signaling load evaluations for policy-driven cognitive management architectures [Invited], K. Tsagkaris, M. Akezidou, A. Galani, P. Demestichas


• Image Quality Estimation in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: An Experimental Study, P. Boluk, K. Irgan, S. Baydere, E. Harmanci


• Detecting TCP Traffic Dynamical Changes in UMTS Networks, I. Vasalos, A. Vasalos, H. Ryu


• Binary Symmetric Channel Based Aggregation with Coding for 802.11n WLANs, X. Chen, V. Subramanian, D. Leith


• When either Cooperation or Bargaining or Altruism are Profitable [Short Paper], Garnaev