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Technical Program of Opticomm 2001: Optical Networking and Communications Conference, August 19-24, 2001, Denver, Colorado


		Opticomm 2001 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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      Optical Networking and Communications Conference
		Date:	  August 19-24, 2001
		Location: Denver, Colorado
		http://www.opticomm.org/
Sponsored by:
    SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
    SPIE Technical Group on Optical Networks
    IEEE Communications Society
    ACM SIGCOMM

		Opticomm 2001 ADVANCE PROGRAM
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TUTORIALS: August 19-20
Tutorials Chair: Krishna Sivalingam

Sunday, August 19

Half-Day

8:30 - 12:00

Wavelength Routed Optical WDM Networks

Prof. Byrav Ramamurthy, Univ. of Nebraska; byrav@cse.unl.edu

1:30 - 5:00

WDM-based Access Network Architectures

Prof. Eytan Modiano, MIT; modiano@mit.edu

Optical Network Performance Modeling and Evaluation

Prof. Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington Univ.; suresh@seas.gwu.edu


Monday, August 20

Full-Day

IP-Centric Architecture for Control and Management of Optical Networks

Mr. Sudipta Sengupta and Dr. Debanjan Saha, Tellium;
ssengupta@tellium.com


Half-Day

Morning (8:30 - 12:00)

Traffic Grooming and Survivability in WDM Networks

Prof. Arun Somani, Iowa State Univ; arun@iastate.edu

Afternoon (1:30 - 5:00)

Free-Space Optics: The Last Mile

Dr. Heinz Willebrand, Lightpointe; heinzw@lightpointe.com

Optical Transport Networks Standards: Developments and Impact

Dr. Khurram Kazi, Lucent Tech. Bell Labs; kkazi@lucent.com


TECHNICAL AND PANEL SESSIONS: August 21-22
Technical Program Cochairs: Peng-Jun Wan and Francesco Masetti
Panels Chair: Byrav Ramamurthy

Tuesday, August 21

7:30 - 8:30
Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 10:00 [Single Track]

Opening Remarks
Keynote Speech

Prof. Nick McKeown, Stanford Univ.

10:00 - 10:30
Break

10:30 - 12:00 [Double Track]
Technical Session 1
Protection 1

1. Chadi Assi, Yinghua Ye, Abdallah Shami, M. A. Ali, Sudhir Dixit, On
the Design of Survivable IP over WDM Networks.
2. Ori Gerstel and Galen Sasaki, Quality of protection (QoP): a
quantitative unifying paradigm to protection service grades.
3. Chava Vijaya Saradhi and C. Siva Ram Murthy, Routing Differentiated
Reliable Connections in Single and Multi-Fiber WDM Optical Networks.

Technical Session 2
Traffic Management

1. Kayi Lee and Kai-Yeung Siu, On the Reconfigurability of Single-Hub
WDM
Ring.
2. Sashisekaran Thiagarajan and Arun K. Somani, Traffic Grooming for
Survivable WDM Mesh Networks.
3. Seung-Joon Seok, Dong-Wook Suh, Chul-Hee Kang, Gwan-jung kim and
Jae-sup Lee, A Lightpath Merging Mechanism for Improving Connectivity in
MP\lambdaS networks.

12:00 - 2:00
Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 [Single Track]
Panel Session 1
Free Space Optics - Extending the reach of Metro Optical Networks

Baksheesh Ghuman (Moderator), Vice President of Marketing, Lightpointe
Dr. Prasanna Adhikari, Director of Advanced Research, OpticalAccess
Dr. Pierre Barbier, Director of Advanced Research and Developement,
Terabeam
Jerry Clark, Vice President of Engineering, LightPointe
Betina Tratz Ryan, Sr. Optical Analyst, The Garter Group

3:30 - 4:00
Break

4:00 - 5:30 [Single Track]
Technical Session 3
Architecture and Applications

1. Jeff Fitchett, John Gruber, Hussein T. Mouftah, Billy Wu, Network
Applications of Packet-Optical Layer Interworking.
2. M. Izal, and J. Aracil, IP over WDM dynamic link layer:
challenges, open issues and comparison of
files-over-lightpaths versus photonic packet switching.
3. E.S Shivaleela, A .Selvarajan and T. Srinivas, Design of
Codes for Incoherent Fiber-Optic CDMA Networks.


Wednesday, August 22

7:30 - 8:30
Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 10:00 [Single Track]
Technical Session 4
Network Control

1. Chunsheng Xin, Yinghua Ye, Sudhir Dixit, Chunming Qiao, On an
Enhanced
Route Assignment Mechanism in Optical Control Plane.
2. Abdallah Shami, Yinghua Ye, Chadi Assi, M. A. Ali, Sudir Dixit, A New
Distributed Control Scheme for Real-Time Wavelength-Routed Optical
Networks.
3. Mark Francisco, Stephen Simpson, Changcheng Huang, Ioannis
Lambadaris,
and Bill St-Arnaud, Inter-Domain Routing in Optical Networks.

10:00 - 10:30
Break

10:30 - 12:00 [Double Track]
Technical Session 5
Protection 2

1. Guangzhi Li, Bob Doverspike and Chuck Kalmanek, Fiber Span Failure
Protection in Mesh Optical Networks.
2. Shengli Yuan,and Jason Jue, A Heuristic Routing Algorithm for Shared
Protection in Connection-Oriented Networks.
3. Shin'ichi Arakawa, and Masayuki Murata, On Incremental Capacity
Dimensioning for Reliable IP over WDM Networks.

Technical Session 6
Routing and Scheduling

1. E. Bampis and G. Rouskas, On Scheduling Problems with Applications to
Packet-Switched Optical WDM Networks.
2. R. Srinivasan and Arun K. Somani, On the Blocking Performance of Tree
Establishment in Time-Space Switched Optical Networks.
3. M. MacGregor, Optimal Multicast in DWDM Networks: Minimizing
Wavelength Conversion.

12:00 - 2:00
Lunch
Keynote Speech

Dr. Larry Roberts, Chairman, Founder and CTO, Caspian Networks

2:00 - 3:30 [Single Track]
Panel Session 2
Quality of Service and Routing Issues in Optical
Switching and Networking

Robert Miles (Moderator), Vortex Ventures
Panelists TBD

3:30 - 4:00
Break

4:00 - 5:30 [Single Track]
Wavelength Assignment

1. Qin Yang, Chee Kheong Siew and Bo Li, Effective Wavelength Assignment
Algorithm in a Wide-area WDM based Networks.
2. Ding Zhemin and Mounir Hamdi, A Simple and Intelligent Routing and
Wavelength Assignment Algorithm for All-Optical Networks.
3. Anwar Haque, Yash Aneja, Subir Bandyopadhyay, Arunita Jaekel and
Abhijit Sengupta, Some studies on the logical topology design of
large multi-hop optical networks.


EXHIBITS: August 21-22
Exhibits Chair: Hemant Thakker

Colorado Photonics Industry Association
Northglenn, CO

Colorado State Univ. - Engineering
Booth Number: 109
Fort Collins, CO

EXFO, Electro-Optical Engineering Inc.
Booth Number: 105
Vanier, QC Canada

Indigo Systems Corp.
Santa Barbara, CA

Kluwer Academic Publishers
Norwell, MA

Laser Focus World
Nashua, NH

Nallatech Ltd.
Cumbernauld, Glasgow United Kingdom

Optiwave Corp.
Ottawa, ON Canada

Pacific Rundum USA Inc.
Santa Clara, CA

Photonics Spectra - Laurin Publishing Co Inc
Pittsfield, MA

Rocky Mountain Instrument Co.
Lafayette, CO


INDUSTRY WATCH: August 23-24
Industry Program Cochairs: Nasir Ghani and Raj Jain

Thursday, August 23

7:00 - 8:00
Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 8:30 [Single Track]
Industry Watch Program Overview by Co-Chairs

Nasir Ghani, Chief Architect, Sorrento Networks
Raj Jain, Co-Founder and CTO, Nayna Networks Inc.

8:30 - 10:00 [Single Track]
Photonic Components

Abhay Joshi, President and CEO, Discovery Semiconductors Inc.
J. J. Pan, Chairman and CEO, Lightwave2020 Inc.
Ron Nelson, President and CEO, Agility Communications Inc.
Sri Sriram, President, Srico Inc.
Sanjay Subhedar, General Partner, Storm Ventures

10:00 - 10:30
Break

10:30 - 12:00 [Single Track]
Optical Access Networks

Ron Fang, CTO, Ocular Networks
Anand Gowda, Principal, Carlyle Venture Partners
Clark C. Guest, VP Research and Technology, Alloptical Networks Inc.
Debasish "Ron" Nag, Sr. Product Manager, Metera Networks
Per Thorkildsen, Director of Business Development, Ericsson

12:00 - 1:30
Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 [Single Track]
Optical Core Networks

Mark Allen, Co-Founder, VP Optical Networking Technologies,
Valiant Networks Inc.
Pawan Jaggi, Founder and CEO, Celion Networks
Alberto Leon-Garcia, Co-Founder and CTO, AcceLight Networks
Mathew Oommen, VP of Networking Architecture, Williams Communications
Armando Pauker, General Partner, APEX Venture Partners

3:00 - 3:30
Break

3:30 - 5:30 [Single Track]
Metro Optical Networks

Steve Daigle, Director of Network Engineering, Looking Glass Networks
Rosleyne Genin, Sr. VP Marketing, Centerpoint
Steve Georgis , President and CEO, Network Photonics
Nasir Ghani, Senior Architect, Sorrento Networks Inc
Ulrich Mohrs, Director of Strategy, ADVA


Friday, August 24

8:30 - 10:00 [Single Track]
High-Speed Routing and Switching

Pete Chadwick, VP Marketing, Avici Systems Inc
Charles Chi, General Partner, Greylock
Amar Gupta, Exec VP/Engineering,  CTO and Co-Founder
Om Malik, Sr. News Writer, Red Herring Communications

10:00 - 10:30
Break

10:30-12:00 [Single Track]
Operational Support Systems (OSS) for Optical Service Provisioning

Joe Andrulis, VP Marketing, TelOptica Inc.
Joan Garrett, VP Marketing, Dorado Software