TECHNICAL PROGRAM

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

ANTS 2007 (December 17-18, 2007)

Venue: F. C. Kohli Auditorium, IIT Bombay

DAY 1 (MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2007):


Opening Ceremony, Biswanath Mukherjee, Nasir Ghani, Abhiram Ranade and Bernard Menezes,

Keynote 1: Transforming Telecom Networks for Tomorrow’s Needs
Dr. Krish Prabhu, Tellabs, Inc.
Technical Session 1: Metro and Access Services
Session Chair: Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland at Baltimore County

Packet-Aware Metro Transport
Jin-Yi Pan, CTO, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) Transport Systems, China (Invited)

Capacity and Delay Aware Routing in Hybrid Wireless-Optical Broadband Access Network
Abu (Sayeem) Reaz, Vishwanath Ramamurthi, and Suman Sarkar, University of California, Davis, USA

Admission Control for Grid Services in IP Networks
C. Cardenas, Maurice Gagnaire, (ENST France), V. Lopez and Javier Aracil (University of Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)

ROADM-Based Restoration with Bounded End Hops
Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany

Carrier Ethernet – State of the Art and Challenges Ahead
Kishor Kulkarni and G. Kalimani Venkatesan, Wipro Ltd., India

Improving Reverse Channel Efficiency in Passive Optical Networks
George Thomas, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA


Technical Session 2: Next Generation Networks
Session Chair: Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico, USA

How to Build and Buy a Network
Admela Jukan, Professor, TU Braunschweig, Germany (Invited)

Service-Oriented Communications in Optical Networks Using Virtual Switching
S. Q. Zheng (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) and Jianping Wang (City University of Hong Kong, PRC)

Selective Survivability with Disjoint Nodes and Disjoint Lightpaths for Layer 1 VPN
Ayesegul Genata Yayimli, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Characterization of a New Copper Cable for Next Generation DSL Systems
Kalpesh Patel, Maurice Gagnaire (ENST France) and Sandrine Francois (Nexans Research Center, France)

Fault and Attack Management in Optical Networks
Asish Pal (Jadavpur University, India), Amitava Mukherjee (IBM India), and M. Naskar (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)

Directionality As Needed – Achieving Wireless Connectivity in a Hybrid Wireless Optical Broadband Access Network (WOBAN)
Vishwanath Ramamurthi and Abu (Sayeem) Reaz, University of California, Davis, USA

Lunch at F.C. Kohli Foyer


Technical Session 3: Network Design
Session Chair: Dominic Schupke Nokia Siemens Networks

An Iterative Greedy Algorithm for Scheduled Traffic Grooming in WDM Optical Networks
Maurice Gagnaire, Professor, ENST, France

Integrated Economic Model for Design and Adaptation of Overlay Networks
Zbigniew Dziong, Con Tran, and Jahangir Sarker, University of Quebec, Canada

Design Methodology for WDM Backbone Networks using FWM-Aware Heuristic Algorithm
Jarmo Harno, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland

Min-Cost Tree for Multi-Resource Manycast in Mesh Networks
Qingya She and Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, USA


On Accurate Task Scheduling in Optical Grid
Zhengyu Wang, Wei Guo, Zhengyu Sun, Yaohui Jin, Weiquang Sun (Shanghai Jiaotong University, PRC China) and Chunming Qiao (State University of New York, Buffalo, USA)


Service Provider Networks
Sameer Padhye, VP, Cisco Systems, India (Invited)

Technical Session 4: Leaders in Networks
Session chair: S. Q. Zheng, UT-Dallas

Triple-play
Jonathan Casey, Director JDSU (Invited)

Leveraging Network Convergence for deploying scalable solutions
Deepak Kataria LSI Inc (Invited)


Panel 1: Telecomm Business – Opportunities in India


Organizer/Moderator: Lakshman Tamil, Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas

1. Shahul Hameed, Global Head of OSS/BSS, Tata Consultancy Services

2. Raghuveer K , Head, Solutions Group, Product Engineering, Infosys

3. Ravishankar Golliapinny VP , Telecom Engineering Solutions, Wipro Technologies

4. Shashidhar Krishnamurthy , Operations Director, Head of Wireless and Unified Communications segment of the Telecom Business unit at HCL Technologies Ltd.


DAY 2: TUESDAY DECEMEBER 18, 2007

Keynote 2: G. Ravishankar, Wipro Inc.

Technical Session 5: Service Provider Optical Networks.
Session Chair: Prof. Jason Jue, UT-Dallas


Transparent Optical Networks Become Mature – Emerging Research Areas
Dominique Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany (Invited)


100 Gb/s Ethernet Demonstration
Arvinderpal Wander, Anujan Varma, (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA), Drew Perkins, and Vijay Vusirikala (Infinera Corporation, USA)

Topology Abstraction Schemes in Multi-Domain Full Wavelength Conversion DWDM Networks
Q. Liu and Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

A Composition Algorithm for the SILO Cross-Layer Optimization Service Architecture
Manoj Vellala, Anjing Wang, George Rouskas, Rudra Dutta, (North Carolina State University, USA), Ilia Baldine (RENCI, Chappel Hill, USA) and Daniel Stevenson (RTI RTP, USA)

Design Methodology for WDM Backbone Networks using FWM-Aware Heuristic Algorithm
Aneek Adhya and Debasish Dutta, IIT Kharagpur, India

Architecture of a Hierarchical Time-Sliced Optical Burst Switching System
Vijay Sivaraman and Arun Vishwanath University of New South Wales, Australia



Technical Session 6: Evolving Telecommunications – The Path Ahead


Reconfigurability Issues in Metro DWDM Networks
Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington Univ., USA (Invited)

Invited talk, K. C. Chua, NRF, Singapore

Data Center Technologies
Sanjeev Jorapur, VP of Technology, NetXen Inc. USA (Invited)

Invited talk, Samson David, VP, Infosys LTD, India (Invited)



Keynote 3: Dr. Steve Vandris, LSI Inc
Technical Session 7: Future Advances in Networks
Session Chair: Deepak Kataria, Director, LSI Inc. USA

Hierarchical Grooming in Multi-Granular Networks
George Rouskas, Professor, North Carolina State University, USA (Invited)

Wireless Access using WiMax
Sanjay Malpani, Cisco Systems (Invited)

Verizon’s Access and Home Strategy
Tushar Saxena, Director, Verizon, USA (Invited)

Next Generation Packetized Metro Networks
Abdul Kasim, VP, Adva optical, USA (Invited)

Poster Session and Tea/Snacks Break (combined)
Session Chair: Prof. Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico


Performance Limitation of M-ary Pulse Position Modulation and On-Off Keying in a Direct Detection Optical Wireless Communication System Through Multiscattering Channel
T. M. Fahim Amin (Grameen Phone Ltd, Bangladesh) and S. P. Majumder (BUET, Bangladesh)

Performance of High-Speed TCP Applications in Networks with Very Small Buffers
Ben Zhao, Arun Vishwanath, and Vijay Sivaraman (University of New South Wales, Australia)

A General Architecture of Wireless Overlay Networks (WONs) for Global Mobility
Asish K. Mukhopadhyay (Narula Inst. of Tech., Kolkata, India) and D. Saha (IIM Calcutta, India)

Performance Improvement Using Linecoding in a Subcarrier Multiplexed Optical Fiber Link Impaired by Optical Beat Interference
M. Alam (United International University Bangladesh) and S. P. Majumder (BUET Bangladesh)

A Novel Mechanism Considering the Retransmission Cost to Improve the Performance of OBS Networks
Shuping Peng, Zhengbin Li, and Anshi Xu (Peking University, China)

Path Computation Algorithms for Dynamic Service Provisioning in SDH Networks under SRLG Constraints
O. Manikumar Reddy, R. Madangopal (IIT Madras, India), N. Usha Rani (NMSWorsk Software, India), and Timothy Gonzalves (IIT Madras, India)

A Comparative Evaluation of Loss Recovery Mechanisms in SCTP and obTCP for On-Board IP Networks
Pankag Chand (Hewlett Packard, India), Bhaskar Sardar (Jadavpur University, India), and Debasis Saha (IIM Calcutta)

Robust Solutions for Optimal Routing
Himanshu Agarwal and Andrew Jennings, RMIT University, Australia

End-to-End QoS over Internet
R. Joshi and Girish Saraph, IIT Bombay, India

An Analysis of IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS)
Lava N. Saleem and Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, USA

Packet Loss Reduction by Max-Heap Overlay Construction Based on the FTTH-Equivalent Bandwidth-Latency Products
Omar F. Hammad, M. Yang, J. Jeon, K. Kim, and J. Nam, Chonnam National University, Korea

Broadband Over Power Lines in India: Are We Ready For It?
Aditi Mittal and Akshit Proothi (G.G.S. Indraprastha University, India)


Service Provider Panel
Organizer/Moderator: Girish Saraph (IIT Bombay and Vegayan Ltd.)

1. Vijay Jain, Director, Broadband Operations, Ericsson
2. Tushar Saxena, Director, Verizon Communications, USA
3. Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Professor, Oklahoma University
4. Chris Buchanan, Solutions Leader, Small and Medium Business, Nortel, Canada
5. Arvind Mathur, Chief Architect, Satyam Infoway (SIFY)
6. Neeraj Sonker, VP Engineering, Tata VSNL Ltd.