Day1 (Dec 15) Day2 (Dec 16) Day3 (Dec 17)


Day 1:Monday, December 15, 2008
Venue:F.C. Kohli Auditorium, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
9:00am - 9:30am Inauguration
    Director, Deputy Director, Dean Faculty, IIT Bombay.
9:30am - 10:10am Keynote
10:10am - 10:50am Keynote
10:50am - 11:05am Tea Break
11:05am - 1:05pm Session 1
1:05pm - 2:15pm Luncheon
2:15pm - 3:35pm Session 2
3:35pm - 3:55pm Tea Break
3:55pm - 4:55pm Invited Talk
5:00pm - 6:30pm Panel 1       Service Provider Panel
  • Moderator:
    • Girish Saraph, CEO, Vegayan Systems and IIT Bombay
  • Participants
    • Arvind Mathur, Chief Architect, Sify, India.
    J. Gopal, Executive Director, MTNL.
    Shekhar Gupta, Director, Embarq, USA.
    T. V. Sriram, Vice President, Airtel.
    Sumit Chowdhury, CIO, Reliance Communications.
7:00pm - 9:00pm Reception and Dinner
(all attendees are invited)
    Venue: Gulmohur Lawns.


Day 2:Tuesday, December 16, 2008
9:00am - 10:15am Session 3       Service Networks, Chair: Ashwin Gumaste
  • RI1: Resilience Enhancement of Home Gateways using Failure Analysis
    Sakkaravarthi Ramanathan (France Telecom - Orange Labs, FR) Chidung Lac (France Telecom - Orange Labs, FR)
  • RI2: Pseudowire VCCV - BFD Vs Ethernet OAM
    Narayana Raju Indukuri (Wipro Technologies, IN)
  • RI3: Automatic Channel Power Control Loops in ROADM Network
    Anuj Malik (Ciena Coporation, IN) Sanjay Choudhary (Ciena Corporation, US)
  • RI4: Utility Computing for the SMB Industry
    Vikram Mohan (Tata Consultancy Services, IN)
  • RI5: Lawful Interception on SBC using SIP
    Dhanunjai Nagabhyru (Wipro Technologies, IN) Sudhakar Dhanagopal (Wipro Technologies, IN) Lavanya Venkatesan (Wipro Technologies, IN)
10:15am - 10:55am Keynote
10:55am - 11:15am Tea Break
11:15am - 1:05pm Session 4       Chair: Biswanath Mukherjee
  • IT12: Kevin Rhee, VP, Actus Networks.
  • RPT1: Broadband Millimeter Wave Networks: Architectures and Applications
    Upamanyu Madhow (University of California, Santa Barbara, US)
  • RPT2: Transparent Optical Network Design with Mixed Line Rates
    Avishek Nag (University of California Davis, US) Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano, IT)
  • RPT3: An Overlay Architecture for Fault Diagnosis in Video Delivery Networks
    Mukundan Venkataraman (University of Central Florida, US) Mainak Chatterjee (University of Central Florida, US)
  • RPT4: Service Cloaking and Authentication at Data Link Layer
    Arun Kumar S P (CAIR, IN)
  • RPT5: A Concurrent Multi-Layer Restoration Scheme for GMPLS-based WDM Networks
    Rabindra Ghimire (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, US) Seshadri Mohan (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, US) Michael Leary (Space Photonics, Inc., US) Terry Tidwell (Space Photonics, Inc., US)
  • RPT6: Multi-Point Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH Services
    Chongyang Xie (University of New Mexico, US) Nasir Ghani (University of New Mexico, US) Qing Liu (University of New Mexico, US) Rolande Kouatang (University of New Mexico, US) Wei Shu (The University of New Mexico, US) Yan Qiao (Shanghai Jiaotong University, CN) Min-You Wu (Shanghai JiaoTong University, CN)
1:05pm - 2:15pm Luncheon
2:15pm - 4:05pm Session 5
  • IT13: Vinay Ribero, Faculty, IIT Delhi.
  • IT14: Raj Jain, Faculty, Professor, Ohio State University, USA.
  • RPT7 Fast Updated Markov Based Split Reservation Protocol in WDM Optical Networks
    Malabika Sengupta (Kalyani Govt. Engineering College, IN) Swapan Mondal (Kalyani Government Engineering College, IN) Chayanika Bose (Reader, IN) Debashis Saha (Indian Institute of Management (IIM)- Calcutta, IN)
  • RPT8: Dynamic Bandwidth Provisioning and Survivability in IP over WDM Network
    Amitava Mukherjee (IBM India Pvt Ltd, Calcutta, India, IN) Amitangshu Pal (Jadavpur University, IN) Mrinal Naskar (Jadavpur University, IN) Palash Dey (Jadavpur University, IN) Arkadeep Kundu (Jadavpur University, IN)
  • RPT9: Peer-to-Peer Streaming: Lowering barrier to entry in IPTV
    Saurabh Tewari (Yahoo! Inc., US) Satish Menon (Yahoo! Inc., US)
  • RPT10: Performance Evaluation of the WiMedia MAC Protocol in High Density Wireless Environments
    Frank Leipold (EADS Innovation Works, DE) Sergio Bovelli (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, DE) Bernd M?ºller-Rathgeber (Technische Universit?§t M?ºnchen, DE) Simon Brandner (University of Technology Munich, DE)
  • RPT11: Shared versus Dedicated Buffers for Real-Time Traffic in Optical Routers with Very Small Buffers
    Arun Vishwanath (University of New South Wales, AU) Vijay Sivaraman (University of New South Wales, AU)
  • RPT12: Impact of Bounded Jitter on Resource Consumption in Multi-hop Networks
    Ling Wang (The University of Oklahoma, US) Pramode Verma (The University of Oklahoma, US)
4:05pm - 4:20pm Tea Break
4:20pm - 5:30pm Panel 2       Telecommunications Research in India: An       Academic Perspective.
  • Moderator:
    • Krishna Sivalingam, Professor IIT Madras
  • Participants
    • B. N. Jain, Deputy Director, IIT Delhi
    Debasis Datta, Professor, IIT Kharagpur
    Debasis Saha, Professor, IIM Calcutta
    R.K. Shevgaonkar, Deputy Director, IIT Bombay
    T. Gonsalves, Professor, IIT Madras
    Anupam Joshi, IBM India.
    Vikram Srinivasan, Bell Laboratories, India
5:30pm - 6:40pm Panel 3       Unified Communications and Business       Methods.
  • Moderator:
    • Venky Krishnaswamy, Director, Avaya, USA
  • Participants
    • NandKumar Sarvale, CIO, ICICI Bank
    Mr. Nath, CIO, State Bank of India (SBI)
    Deepak Kataria, Director, LSI Inc.
    Ashit Talukdar, Sr. Scientist, JPL, USA
7:00pm - 9:00pm Author's dinner       Gulmohur Terrace
      (All authors are invited. Others by invitation only.)


Day 3:Wednesday, December 17, 2008
9:00am - 10:20am Session 6
  • RPT13: Implementation Scheme for End-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) Sessions over Internet
    Rajesh Joshi (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IN) Girish Saraph (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, IN)
  • RPT:14 Proactive Loss Recovery using Forward Segment Redundancy in Optical Burst-Switched (OBS) Networks
    Deepak Chandran (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US) Neal Charbonneau (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US) Vinod Vokkarane (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US)
  • RPN1:Fast Dual-Radio Cross-Layer Handoffs in Multi-Hop Infrastructure-mode 802.11 Wireless Networks for In-Vehicle Multimedia Infotainment
    Jayaraj Poroor (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University), IN)
  • RPN2: An Efficient and Optimized Bluetooth Scheduling Algorithm for Scatternets
    G. Ramana Reddy (Indian Institute of Science, IN) Shalabh Bhatnagar (Indian Institute of Science, IN)
  • RPN3: Benefits of Inter-Flow Bandwidth Sharing in Broadband Wireless Infrastructure Networks
    Sandeep Ahuja (ECE Department university of Arizona, US) Abishek Gopalan (University of Arizona, US) Srinivasan Ramasubramanian (The University of Arizona, US)
  • RPN4: Steganography in 802.15.4 Wireless Communication
    Ankur Mehta (University of California Berkeley, US) Steven Lanzisera (University of California - Berkeley, US) Kristofer Pister (UC Berkeley, US
  • RPN5: A Scalable and Computationally Efficient Localization Algorithm for WSNs
    Gopakumar A (National Institute of Technology-Calicut, India, IN) Lillykutty Jacob (National Institute of Technology Calicut, India, IN)
10:20am - 11:00am Keynote
11:00am - 11:15am Tea Break
11:15am - 1:05pm Session 7       Chair: Ashwin Gumaste
  • IT15: Arun Somani, Marston Distinguished Professor, Iowa State University, USA.
  • IT16: Weisheng Hu, Professor, Shanghai Jiao tong University, China.
  • IT17: Ashit Talukdar, Senior Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (JPL), USA.
  • RPN6: Greedy Scheduling in Multihop Wireless Networks
    Nachiket Sahasrabudhe (Indian Institute of Science, IN) Joy Kuri (Indian Institute of Science, IN)
  • RPN7: Loner Links Aware Routing and Scheduling in WMNs
    Parth Pathak (North Carolina State University, US) Divya Gupta (Microsoft Corporation, US) Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State University, US)
  • RPN8: Layer Manager Controlled Mobility Management on Wireless Overlay Networks
    Asish Mukhopadhyay (Dr.B.C.Roy Engineering College, IN) Debashis Saha (Indian Institute of Management (IIM)- Calcutta, IN)
  • RPN9: Experimental Investigation of IEEE 802.11e EDCA
    Saty Mukherjee (Aston University, UK) Xiaohong Peng (Aston University, UK)
  • RPN10: Wireless Backhaul for LTE - Requirements, Challenges and Options
    Kalimani Venkatesan Govindarajan (Wipro Technologies, IN) Kishor Kulkarni (Wipro, IN)
1:05pm - 2:15pm Luncheon
2:15pm - 4:15pm Session 8       Chair: Suresh Subramaniam
  • KN6: Vijay Yadav, Managing Director, UT-Starcom, India.
  • IT18: Venky Krishnaswamy, Director, Avaya Laboratories, NJ, USA.
  • IT19: Atul Srivastava, CEO, One Terabit Inc., USA.
  • IT20: Krishnaiyan Thulisaraman, Hitachi Chair Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA.
  • IT21: H. S. Jamadagni, Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISC) Bangalore .
  • RPT15: Evaluation of a Buffered Time-Wavelength Crossconnect with Sparse Wavelength Converters
    Arush Gadkar (The George Washington University, US)
  • RPT16: Resource Provisioning Through Traffic-Aware Code Allocation in a Hybrid PON Employing WDM and OCDMA
    Ratnam Jayashree (Ex-Research Scholar, IN) Saswat Chakrabarti (Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur, IN) Debasish Datta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, IN)
  • RPT17: Mathematical Model and Analysis of Peer-to-peer IPTV
    Hao Liu (Georgia Tech, US)
  • RPN11: A Bandwidth-Efficient Scheme for Distributed Storage Systems
    Najmeh Alsadat Bathaee (Sharif University of Technology, IR) Mohammad Reza Pakravan (Sharif University of Technology, IR)
4:15pm - 5:00pm Extended Tea Break and Poster Session       Chair: Rudra Datta
  • P1:An Improved Frequency Offset Estimation Algorithm by Multi-Band Averaging Method for MB-OFDM based UWB Communication for WPAN Applications
    Debarati Sen (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, IN) Saswat Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) R. V. Rajakumar (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
  • P2:Evaluation of the Hybrid Bootstrap Mechanism for Multicast Routing
    Toshinori Takabatake (Shonan Institute of Technology, JP)
  • P3: Improving Uploading Performance of TCP in Network Mobility
    Bhaskar Sardar (Jadavpur University, IN) Mita Nasipuri (Jadavpur University, IN) Debashis Saha (Indian Institute of Management (IIM)- Calcutta, IN) Mahbub Hassan (University of New South Wales, AU)
  • P4: Energy-Efficient Area Covering by Sensors with Two Adjustable Sensing and Communication Ranges
    Sergey Astrakov (Russian State University of Trade and Economics, RU) Adil Erzin (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, SB RAS, RU) Soumyendu Raha (Indian Institute of Science, IN) Vyacheslav Zalyubovsky (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, SB RAS, RU)
  • P5: A Dynamic Bandwidth Guaranteed Routing Using Heuristic Search for Clustered
    Gajaruban Kandavanam (TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, IE) Dimitri Botvich (Waterford Institute of Technology, IE) Sasitharan Balasubramaniam (TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, IE)
  • P6: Review of Standard ITU-T K-60 Procedures for Unintentional Interference Measurements in Broadband over Power Line Systems
    Claiton Colvero (National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality, BR)
  • P7: A Protocol for Quality of Service Aware Routing in Ad hoc Networks
    Ash Mohammad Abbas (Aligarh Muslim University, IN)
  • P8: Design and Analysis of New Code Families for Three-Dimensional OCDMA
    Ravi Maddila (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, IN) Sant Pathak (I.I.T.Kharagpur, IN) Nirmal Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, IN)
  • P9: Clustering and Prefetching techniques for Network-based Storage Systems
    Dhawal Thakker (Middlesex University, UK)
  • P10: Delay and Throughput Trade-Off in WiMAX Mesh Networks
    Saeed Bastani (Iran Telecommunication Research Center, IR) Saleh Yousefi (Iran university of science and technology, IR) Mojtaba Mazoochi (Iran Telecommunication Research Center, IR) Alireza Ghiamatyoun (University of Tehran, IR)
  • P11: Comparative Cost Study of Broadband Access Technologies
    Pulak Chowdhury (University of California, Davis, US) Suman Sarkar (University of California at Davis, US) Abu Ahmed Reaz (University of California, Davis, US)
  • P12: Performance of MMSPEED routing protocol for H.264 video transmission in WMSN
    Saeed Darabi (University of Tehran, IR) Nasser Yazdani (University of Tehran, IR) Omid Fatemi (University of Tehran, IR)
  • P13: Secure Group Communication for Wireless Sensor Network
    Somanath Tripathy (IIITM Gwalior, IN) Sukumar Nandi (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, IN)
  • P14: Adaptive Advance Reservation Based Inter-Domain Framework
    Mohit Chamania (Technische UniversitäCarolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, DE) Xiaomin Chen (Technische UniversitäCarolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, DE) Admela Jukan (Technische UniversitäCarolo-Wilhelmina zu
  • P15: An efficient data structure for storing network intrusion detection dataset
    Neminath Hubballi (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, IN)
  • P16: Design and Analysis of a Quasi Colourless Multi-wavelength 2-port Edge-ROADM
    Prita Nair (SSN College of Engineering, IN) Renil Kumar (SSN College of Engineering, IN)
  • P17: Flow-Aware Channel Assignment for Multi-Radio Wireless-Optical Broadband Access Network
    Abu Ahmed Reaz (University of California, Davis, US) Vishwanath Ramamurthi (University Of California, Davis, US) Suman Sarkar (University of California at Davis, US)
  • P18: Robust Traffic Engineering
    Himanshu Agrawal (Research Student, AU) Andrew Jennings (RMIT University, AU) Mark Gregory (Senior Lecturer, AU)
5:00pm - 6:10pm Panel 4       Opportunities in Telecommunications.
  • Moderator:
    • Deepak Kataria, Rutgers University.
  • Participants
    • Saragur Srinidhi, Prometheus Consulting.
    Pravin Bhagwat, Airtight Networks USA.
    K. Raghuveer, GM, Infosys India.
    T. S. Balaji, Director, Tech Mahindra
    Dipankar Banerjee, VP, Wipro Technologies.
    Himanshu Sahu, Director, UT Starcom.
    Hitesh Jain, Head Tele System.
    Peter Kwong, CEO, Actus.
6:10pm - 7:30pm Session       Wireless Telecommunication Networks.
7:30pm       Concluding Remarks and IEEE ANTS 2009       information: Biswanath Mukherjee and Ashwin       Gumaste.


KN=Keynote (40 mins)
IT=Invited Talk
RPT=Research Paper Telecom (15 min)
RPN=Research Paper Non-Telecom (10 min)
IPN, P=poster session
RI=Research Industry (15 min)