Welcome Address by Associate Dean (Special Projects) Terry Fancott, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Faculty, Concordia University

Designing Robust Telecom Networks [slides.pdf]

Biswanath Mukherjee, Department of Computer Science, University of California

Delay Analysis of Ethernet Passive Optical Networks

Abdallah Shami, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario

Evolutionary Upgrades of Optical Access and Metro Networks [slides.pdf]

Martin Maier, INRS, Montreal

Planning GMPLS Transport Networks

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

Nabil Naas, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

A Column Generation Approach for Design of Networks using Path-Protecting $p$-Cycles [slides.pdf]

Brigitte Jaumard, GERAD and CRT, CIISE, Concordia University

Caroline Rocha, Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal

Dimitri Baloukov, TRLabs and Department of ECE, University of Alberta

Wayne Grover, TRLabs and Department of ECE, University of Alberta

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Some research results for Agile All-Photonic Networks (AAPN)

Gregor Bochmann, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa

Optical Networks Optimization, An Enterprise Perspective [slides.pdf]

Denis Fluet, Director of VoIP and Video Business Solutions for Optical Networks, Nortel.

4:45 pm - 5:15 pm

Dynamic Multicast Traffic Grooming [slides.pdf]

Ahmad Khalil, Electrical Engineering Department, The City University of New York

Fill Me Up!  With or Without Quality of Service? [slides.pdf]

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

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Photonic techniques of millimeter wave over fiber systems for sensing and communication networks
J.X. Zhang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University

J. Yao,  University of Ottawa,

K. Wu and  R. Kashyap,  Département de Génie Electrique, Ecole  Polytechnique de Montreal

10:30 am - 11:00 am

SAIMD: A Novel False Congestion Detection Scheme in TCP over OBS Networks [slides.pdf]

Pin-Han Ho, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo

Low Loss Reconfigurable Optical Add / Drop Modules [slides.pdf]

Alex Vukovic

CRC, Broadband and Optical Networks

Past and Present Optimization Problems in Optical Networks:  (NP, IP, LP and many other "P"s) [slides.pdf]

Chunming Qiao,  Computer Science & Engineering University at Buffalo

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Cost effective All-optical Network QoS-monitoring [slides.pdf]

Mark Coates, Yvan Pointurier and Michael Rabbat

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University

3:00 pm - 3:30pm

Resource Reservations in the Physical Layer [slides.pdf]

Vassilis Prevelakis, Computer Science Department, Drexel University.

Admela Jukan, INRS, Montreal

A Bandwidth Estimation Method for Adaptive Capacity Allocation in Optical Networks

Jorg Liebeherr, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

Markus Fidler, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Shahrokh Valaee, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

4:45 pm - 5:15 pm

Evaluation of Quality of Service Mechanisms in Optical Burst Switched Networks

Miroslaw Klinkowski, National Institute of Telecommunications, Department of Transmission and Optical Technologies, Poland & Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Spain

Marian Marciniak, Department of Transmission and Optical Technologies, National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland

Davide Careglio, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Josep Solé-Pareta, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spai