Scope

The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers from the academic and the industry worlds for an exchange on the future of optical networks. The presentations will focus on the theory and application of optimization and simulation tools to the design and management of optical networks, in particular the linking of optical network resources to data traffic patterns in order to answer efficiently to network growth and service provisioning.

Location

Concordia University

J.W. McConnell Building (Library)

1400 de Maisonneuve West

LB-125 J.A. de Sève Cinema

See the map of the Sir George William Campus of Concordia University for the location of the LB building.

Accommodations

Accommodations are possible at a few minutes walk from the conference site. Below are some suggestions.

Hotel Maritime Plaza: http://www.hotelmaritime.com/

Chateau Versailles: http://www.versailleshotels.com/

Ritz-Carlton Hotel: http://www.ritzcarlton.com/hotels_fr/montreal/default.html

Clarion Hotel and Suites: http://www.clarionmontreal.com/

Main Speakers

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

FTTH Technologies and Testing & Monitoring Issues

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

QoS Management for Restorable OBS Networks

Biswanath Mukherjee, Department of Computer Science, University of California

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

Claude Poulin and Julie Roberge, Bell

Network Connectivity Loss, Impacts on Customers Applications

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

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

Qinglin Wang and Scott Parker, Nortel

Route Optimization Techniques for Multi-layer Planning Tools

Topics

Network management, network design, survivability and reliability, protection and restoration, routing and scheduling, revenue management, IP over WDM, quality of service.

Call for Papers

In addition of the tutorial conferences, we welcome submissions on the research topics of the workshop. Authors interested by presenting their research results should contact one of the workshop organizers and send an abstract.

Program [Final Program]

The goal of the OON scientific program is to encourage discussions of the latest information and results in the field of the optimization of fiber optic networks and related technologies. We seek presentations from industry as well as from academia.

Student Poster Session [Final Poster_List]

As it is not possible to offer to all interested students to give a talk, we plan to have a student poster session that will be held during the two day workshop. All interested students are therefore invited to submit a title and an abstract for the student poster session through email to one of the organizers. All submitted titles and abstracts will be included in the workshop program, and space will be provided to all registered students. We strongly encourage all students that plan to attend the workshop to participate in this poster session as it is a mean to discuss their work with other students and with all the other researchers that will attend the workshop. See the following link for some poster tips [poster_tips].

Registration Fees

The registration fees are 50$ (20$ for the graduate students, free for undergraduate students). To register, please complete the following form [Registration_OON_2006.pdf] and return it by fax at 514 - 848-3171.