Final Program

 

 

Thursday, April 27, 2006 / jeudi 28 avril 2006

 8:15 am - 8:45 am Registration / Inscriptions
 8:45 am - 9 am Opening Session / Séance d'ouverture

 

Terry Fancott

Associate Dean, Special Projects

ENCS - Engineering and Computer Science Faculty, Concordia University

   
 9 am - 10 am

 

Route Optimization Techniques for Multi-layer Planning Tools

Qinglin Wang and Scott Parker

Nortel

 

10 am - 10:30 am

 

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Optimized traffic grooming as a way to mitigate the effect of chromatic dispersion in metro/regional WDM networks

A. Houle, GEGI, Université de Sherbrooke

B. Jaumard, CIISE, Concordia University

Y. Solari, DIRO, Université de Montréal

 

10:30 - 11am Coffee Break
11 am - 12 pm  

The Role of Engineering and Optimization Techniques in Creating New Services and Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) in Telecom Networks

Biswanath Mukherjee, Department of Computer Science, University of California

 

   
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch / Déjeuner
   
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

 

QoS Management for Restorable OBS Networks

Hussein Mouftah, Canada Research Chair in Optical Networks, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa

 

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

 

2:30 pm  - 3 pm

Minimum Color Problems and Shared Risk Resource Group in Multilayer Networks

David Coudert, Pallab Datta, Hervé Rivano and Marie-Emilie Voge

INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France

 

3 pm -  3:30 pm

Reliable Topological Design of Agile All Photonic Networks

Ning Zhao, Anton Vinokurov and  Lorne Mason

McGill University

 

3:30 pm - 4 pm Coffee Break
4 pm - 5:30pm

 

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Burst Mode Receivers for Agile All-Photonic Networks

Wei Tang, Julien Faucher, Alan Li and David Plant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University

 

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Segmentation-based Random Dropping Scheme in OBS networks

Hongbo Lui and Hussein T. Mouftah, School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa

 

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm

A Simple and Efficient MAC Protocol for All-Optical Packet Ring

Gérard Hébuterne, Institut National des Télécommunications - INT, Paris, France

 

Friday, April 28, 2006 / vendredi 28 avril 2006

 8:30 -  9:30

 

Network Connectivity Loss, Impacts on Customers Applications

Claude Poulin and Julie Roberge, Bell

 

 9:30 - 11:00

 

9h30 - 10h00

Routing of MPLS flows over an agile all-photonic star network 

Gregor Bochmann and Peng He, University of Ottawa

 

10h00 - 10h30 Coffee Break

 

10h30 - 11h00

Optimization of All-photonic Star Networks

Richard Vickers

McGill University

 

11h00 - 12h00

 

Toward a Reliable Data Transport Architecture for Optical Burst-Switched Networks

Vinod Vokkarane, Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusets, Dartmouth

 

   
12:00pm - 1:30 am Lunch / Déjeuner
   
1:30pm - 2:30pm

 

FTTH Technologies and Testing & Monotoring Issues

Nicholas Gagnon,  EXFO, Electro-Optical Engineering Inc., Québec, Canada

 

2:30pm - 5:30pm

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Towards the practical deployment of optical code-division multiple-access

Lawrence R. Chen, Photonic Systems Group, McGill University

 

3:00pm - 3:30 pm

QoS Management for Restorable Optical Burst Switched Networks

Salim Y. Said and Hussein T. Mouftah

School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa

Halima Elbiaze

Department of Computer Science, University of Quebec in Montreal

 

3:30pm - 4:00pm   Coffee Break

 

4:00pm - 4:30pm

A Simulated Annealing Heuristic for Advanced Lightpath Reservation in WDM Networks

Abdallah Shami  and T. Dan Wallace, The University of Western Ontario

 

4:30pm - 5:00pm

An Optimization Framework using Lagrangean Relaxation and Subgradient Method

Oliver Yang and Yiming Zhang, School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa

 

5:00pm - 5:30pm

Decomposition Formulations for the RWA and GRWA Problems

Brigitte Jaumard, CIISE, Concordia University

Christophe Meyer, GERAD, Université de Montréal

François Vanderbeck, Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées, Université de Bordeaux

Benoit Vignac, DIRO, Université de Montréal