May 15, 2008

 

8:00 AM Registration

 

9:00-12:00 PM Tutorial 1: Hierarchical Routing in GMPLS Controlled and Interconnected Multi-Domain Optical Transport Networks

Presenter: Dr. Fuming Wu, Texas A&M International University

 

9:00-12:00 PM Tutorial 2: Networking Virtualization

Presenter: Dr. Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec

 

12:00-1:30 PM Lunch

 

1:30-4:30 PM Tutorial 1 continues

 

1:30-4:30 PM Tutorial 3: Photonics in Switching: Switch Architectures and Enabling Technologies

Presenters: Carla Raffaelli, University of Bologna, and Kyriakos Vlachos, University of Patras

 

 

May 16, 2008

 

8:00 AM Registration

 

9:00-10:00 Keynote Speech

 

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

 

10:30-12:00 Session 1: Router Architecture and Design

Session Chair: Qin Xin (Simula Research Laboratory, NO)

 

Routers with Coding and Performance Simulation

Xin Wang (Fudan University, CN); Min Lin (Fudan University, CN); Zheng Huang (Fudan University, CN); Xiangyang Xue (Fudan University, CN)

 

Distributed PC Based Routers: Bottleneck Analysis and Architecture Proposal

Azeem Khan (IIT Bombay, IN); Robert Birke (Politecnico di Torino, IT); D. Manjunath (Indian Institute of Technology,Bombay, IN); Andrea Bianco (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Anirudha Sahoo (IIT Bombay, IN)

 

Distributed and Scalable MPLS Architecture for Next Generation Routers

Kim-Khoa Nguyen (Concordia University, CA); Brigitte Jaumard (Concordia University, CA)

 

Routing Schemes for Network Recovery under Link and Node Failures

Roberto Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)

 

10:30-12:00 Session 2: Flow Control, Congestion Control, and Route Lookup

Session Chair: Jianping Wang (City University of Hong Kong, HK)

 

Flow Control in Output Buffered Switch with Input Groups

Wladek Olesinski (Sun Microsystems, US); Hans Eberle (Sun Microsystems, US); Nils Gura (Sun Microsystems Inc., US); Nikolaos Chrysos (Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), GR)

 

Internal Congestion Control in a Cluster-based Router

Qinghua Ye (University of Alberta, CA); Mike MacGregor (University of Alberta, CA)

 

Towards unified self-congestion probing for bandwidth measurement

Xiaojun Hei (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CN); Shan Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Brahim Bensaou (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Danny Tsang (HKUST, HK)

 

An Improved TCAM-Based IP Lookup Engine

Hui Yu (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Jing Chen (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Jianping Wang (City University of Hong Kong, HK); Si-Qing Zheng (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Mehrdad Nourani (University of Texas at Dallas, US)

 

10:30-12:00 Session 3: Optical Switching Network

Session Chair: Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, CA)

 

Proactive Routing under Conversion Cascading Constraint in Optical Burst Switching Networks

Xingbo Gao (University of Central Florida, US)

 

Preemption Scheme for Providing Rate Fairness in Optical Burst Switching Networks

Tananun Orawiwattanakul (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, JP); Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, JP)

 

Constructions and Analysis of Crosstalk-free Optical Queues

Hao-Wei Lan (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Cheng-Shang Chang (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Jay Cheng (National Tsing Hua University, TW); Duan-Shin Lee (National Tsing Hua University, TW)

 

Parallel Distributed Lightpath Control and Management for Survivable Optical Mesh Networks

Emad Al-Sukhni (University of Ottawa, CA); Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, CA)

 

12:00-1:30 Lunch

 

1:30-3:00 Session 4: Switch Architecture and Design

Session Chair: Kwan Yeung (University of Hong Kong, HK) (TBC)

 

Emulating Output Queueing with the Central-stage Buffered Clos Packet Switching Network

Xiangjie Ma (PLA Information Engineering University, CN); Julong Lan (National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological R&D Center, China, CN); Baisheng Zhang (PLA Information Engineering University, CN)

 

Matching the Speed Gap between SRAM and DRAM

Feng Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

 

Minimization of ACL Storage by Adding Minimal Hardware of Range Matching and Logical Gates to TCAM

Haesung Hwang (Osaka University, JP); Koji Yamamoto (Renesas Technology Corporation, JP); Shingo Ata (Osaka City University, JP); Kazunari Inoue (Renesas Technology Corporation, JP); Murata Masayuki (Osaka University , Japan, JP)

 

On joint sequence design for load-balanced two-stage switch architecture

Bing Hu (University of Hong Kong, HK); Kwan Yeung (University of Hong Kong, HK)

 

1:30-3:00 Session 5: Optical Packet Switch Architecture

Session Chair: Wojciech Kabacinski (Poznan University of Technology, PL)

 

Ultra-fast All-optical Packet-switched Routing with a Hybrid Header Address Correlation Scheme

Ming-Feng Chiang (Northumbria University, UK); Fary Ghassemlooy (Northumbria University, UK); Wai Pang Ng (Northumbria University, UK); Hoa Le Minh (University of Oxford, UK); Chao Lu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK)

 

Availability-aware routing in optical networks with primary-backup sharing

Yonggang Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN); Kun Qiu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN); Longjiang Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN)

 

A Construction of Shared Optical Buffer Queue with Switched Delay Lines

Xiaoliang Wang (University of TOHOKU, JP); Xiaohong Jiang (Tohoku University, JP)

 

New Optical Packet Switch Architectures using Multi - Wavelength selective devices

Kyriakos Vlachos (University of Patras, GR); Wojciech Kabacinski (Poznan University of Technology, PL); Slawomir Weclewski (Poznan University of Technology, PL)

 

1:30-3:00 Session 6: Traffic Engineering Control

Session Chair: Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts, US)

 

Revealing the Optimality Gap for Traffic Engineering Algorithms

Huan Liu (Accenture Technology Labs, US)

 

A prototype of a dynamically reconfigurable processor based off-loading engine for accelerating the shortest path calculation with GNU Zebra

Sho Shimizu (Keio University, JP); Taku Kihara (Keio University, JP); Yutaka Arakawa (Keio University, JP); Naoaki Yamanaka (Keio University, JP); Kosuke Shiba (IPFlex, JP)

 

Resource-efficient care-of address provisioning for seamless IPv6 mobility support

Longjiang Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN); Yuming Mao (SCIE, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN); Yonggang Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN)

 

Dynamic Workload Profiling and Task Allocation in Packet Processing Systems

Qiang Wu (University of Massachusetts, US); Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts, US)

 

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

 

3:30-4:30 Session 7: Multicasting and Broadcasting

Session Chair: Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN) (TBC)

 

Asynchronous SAN Switching under Multicast Traffic

Andrea Bianco (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Luca Giraudo (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Alessandra Scicchitano (IBM Zurich, IT)

 

Optimal Fault-tolerant Broadcasting in Wireless Mesh Networks

Qin Xin (Simula Research Laboratory, NO); Yan Zhang (Simula Research Laboratory, NO)

 

Efficient Broadcasting in Interface Switching Wireless Networks

Yunxia Feng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN); Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN)

 

                3:30-4:30 Session 8: Packet Scheduling Algorithm

Session Chair: Joseph Hui (Arizona State University, US)

 

A Low Complexity Scheduling Algorithm for Crosspoint Buffered Switches with 100% Throughput

Yanming Shen (Polytechnic University, US); Shivendra Panwar (Polytechnic University, US); H. Jonathan Chao (Polytechnic University Brooklyn, US)

 

Achieving 100% Throughput in Two-stage Switch with Feedback

Bing Hu (University of Hong Kong, HK); Kwan Yeung (University of Hong Kong, HK)

 

First-Fit Scheduling for Multi-Stage Packet Switching Networks

Joseph Hui (Arizona State University, US); Lingjie Li (Arizona State University, US)

 

                3:30-4:30 Session 9: Network Security

Session Chair: Susumu Horiguchi (TOHOKU University, JP)

 

Protection mechanism for the N2R Topological Routing Algorithm

Jose Gutierrez Lopez (Aalborg University, DK)

 

Multistep Attacks Extraction Using Compiler Techniques

Safaa Al-Mamory (Harbin Institute of Technology, CN); Hongli ZHANG (Harbin Institute of Technology, CN)

 

Router Based Detection for Low-Rate Agents of DDoS Attack

Susumu Horiguchi (TOHOKU University, JP)

 

5:00-10:00 PM    Social Event

 

 

May 17, 2008

 

8:00 AM Registration

 

9:00-12:00 Session 10: Advanced Interconnection Network

Session Chair: Stefano Secci (TELECOM ParisTech & Politecnico di Milano, IT)

 

Mapping Packet Processing Applications on a Systolic Array Network Processor

Olivier Morandi (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Fulvio Risso (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Pierluigi Rolando (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Olof Hagsand (KTH, SE); Peter Ekdahl (Xelerated AB, SE)

 

A Map-and-Route Approach for Segment Shared Protection in Multi-domain Networks

Dieu Linh Truong (Université de Montréal, CA); Brigitte Jaumard (Concordia University, CA)

 

Performance Benchmark for Target Module in Fiber Channel RAID Systems

Zhihu Tan (Huazhong University of Sci.&Tech., CN)

 

Control and Management Plane in a Multistage Software Router Architecture

Andrea Bianco (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Robert Birke (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Jorge Finochietto (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, AR); Luca Giraudo (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Fabio Marenco (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Azeem Khan (IIT Bombay, IN); D. Manjunath (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, IN)

 

Comparison of Quasi-Regular Composite-Star and Multi-Hop Structures for Core Networks

Stefano Secci (TELECOM ParisTech & Politecnico di Milano, IT); Jean-Louis Rougier (TELECOM, FR); Achille Pattavina (Politecnico di Milano, IT)

 

9:00-12:00 Session 11: Optical Switch Design and Performance Evaluation

Session Chair: Xiaohong Jiang (Tohoku University, JP)

 

An Approach to Users-Oriented On Demand Optical Grid Network Construction in Large Scale Open Optical Networks

Sugang Xu (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, JP); Hiroaki Harai (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, JP)

 

Trading Network Management Complexity for Blocking Probability when Placing Optical Regenerators

Marcio Savasini (State University of Campinas, BR); Paolo Monti (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Marco Tacca (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Andrea Fumagalli (UTD, US); Helio Waldman (Federal University of the ABC, BR)

 

Performance Evaluation of AWG-based Optical Switches with Shared Wavelength Conversion

Riccardo Zanzottera (Politecnico di Milano, IT); Achille Pattavina (Politecnico di Milano, IT)

 

Fast-ReRoute Extensions for Multi-Point to Multi-Point MPLS tunnels

Mohamad Chaitou (France Telecom, FR); Jean-Louis Le Roux (FRance Telecom R&D, FR)

Self-Routing Design of Nonblocking WDM Switches Based on Arrayed Waveguide Grating

Yusuke Fukushima (University of Tohoku, JP); Xiaohong Jiang (Tohoku University, JP); Achille Pattavina (Politecnico di Milano, IT); Susumu Horiguchi (TOHOKU University, JP)

 

9:00-12:00 Session 12: Network, Architecture Protocol, and Implementation

Session Chair: Jinfeng Dou (Ocean University of China, CN) (TBC)

 

Distributed Storage on Networks of Linux PCs using the iSCSI Protocol

Andrea Bianco (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Marco Modesti (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Fabio Neri (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Jorge Finochietto (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, AR)

 

Quick-Start and XCP on a Network Processor: Implementation Issues and Performance Evaluation

Simon Hauger (University of Stuttgart, DE); Michael Scharf (University of Stuttgart, DE); Jochen Kögel (University of Stuttgart, DE); Chawapong Suriyajan (University of Stuttgart, DE)

 

A new Quorum Based Location Management for MANETs

Karim Khazaei (University fo qazvin, IR); Akbar Momeni (Takestan AZAD Univercity, IR); Sadegh Mohammadi (Previous classmate, IR)

 

Energy-efficient Uniform Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks

Zhongwen Guo (Ocean University of China, CN); Jinfeng Dou (Ocean University of China, CN)