8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration – Dibner/CATT Building

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Tutorial 1 – LC102

10:30 AM – 11:00 PM

Coffee Break – Dibner Auditorium Foyer

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Tutorial 1 cont.

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch – LC400

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Tutorial 2 – LC102

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Coffee Break – Dibner Auditorium Foyer

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Tutorial 2  cont.

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration – Dibner/CATT Building

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Plenary Session (Keynote Speech I)

10:00 AM – 10:30 PM

Coffee Break – Dibner Auditorium Foyer

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Session 1:
Multistage Packet Switches

Session 2:
Router Design

Session 3:
Network Architecture, Protocol, and Imlementation

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch – Gymnasium/Roger's Hall

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Session 4:
Flow Control, Route Lookup, and Packet Classification

Session 5:
Switch Scheduling

Session 6:
Optical Packet Switches

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Coffee Break – Dibner Auditorium Foyer

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Session 7:
Traffic Engineering and Control

Session 8:
Buffered Crossbar Switches

Session 9:
Advanced Interconnection Networks

6:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Social Event – Dinner Cruise around NYC

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration – Dibner/CATT Building

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Plenary Session (Keynote Speech II)

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Coffee Break – Dibner Auditorium Foyer

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Session 10:
Switches and Routers

Session 11:
Network Security and Quality of Service

Session 12:
Routing and Network Optimization

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch – Gymnasium/Roger's Hall

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Session 13:
Switch Architectures

Session 14:
Network Control and Modeling

Load-Balanced Three-Stage Switch Architecture

Kwan Yeung (University of Hong Kong, HK); Bing Hu (University of Hong Kong, HK)

A Scalable Frame-based Multi-Crosspoint Packet Switching Architecture

Itamar Elhanany (University of Tennessee, US); Xike Li (University of Tennessee, US)

The Modified MSM ClosSwitching Fabric with Efficient Packet Dispatching Scheme

Janusz Kleban (Poznan University of Technology, PL)

Flow Control In A Multi-Plane Multi-Stage Buffered Packet Switch

H. Jonathan Chao (Polytechnic University Brooklyn, US); Jinsoo Park (Polytechnic University, US)

Analysis Of An Evolvable Architecture of Internet Routers

Yi Dai (National University of Defense Technology, CN)

Scalable Router Memory Architecture: Analysis and Numerical Studies

Feng Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Mounir Hamdi (CS Dept., HKUST, KLN, Hong Kong, CN)

Design of the Multicast Controller for the High-Capacity Internet Router

Milos Blagojevic (Belgrade University, YU); Aleksandra Smiljanic (Belgrade University, Stony Brook University, US); Milos Petrovic (Belgrade University, YU)

Randomized Batch Scheduling with Minimum Configurations for Switches and Routers

Zhen Zhou (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, HK); Mounir Hamdi (CS Dept., HKUST, KLN, Hong Kong, CN)

Bringing Traffic Engineering and Resilency to LDP Provisioned MPLS Forwarding Planes

George Apostolopoulos (FORTH research center, GR)

Design and Implementation of GMPLS-based Optical Slot Switching Network with PLZT High-speed Optical Switch

Teruo Kasahara (University of Keio, JP); Masahiro Hayashitani (Keio University, JP); Yutaka Arakawa (Keio University, JP); Satoru Okamoto (Keio University, JP); Naoaki Yamanaka (Keio University, JP)

A Link State Advertisement Protocol for Optical Transparency Islands

Shovan Das (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Reza Roshani Tabrizi (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Paolo Monti (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Marco Tacca (University of Texas at Dallas, US); Andrea Fumagalli (UTD, US)

Novel Layer-3 IP Packet Switching between 10 Gbps Ethernet and 80 Gbps Optical Packet Switched Networks

Hideaki Furukawa (NICT, JP); Naoya Wada (NICT, JP); Hiroaki Harai (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, JP); Makoto Naruse (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, JP); Hideki Otsuki (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, JP); Michiaki Katsumoto (CRL, JP); Tetsuya Miyazaki (NICT, JP); Katsuya Ikezawa (Yokogawa Electric Co., JP); Akira Toyama (Yokogawa Electric Co., JP); Naoki Itou (Yokogawa Electric Co., JP); Hiroshi Shimizu (Yokogawa Electric Co., JP); Hiroshi Fujinuma (NTT Electronics Co., JP); Hatsushi Iiduka (NTT Electronics Co., JP)

A VLAN Ethernet Backplane for Distributed Network Systems

Lei Shi (Royal Institute of technology, SE); Peter Sjφdin (KTH, SE)

Fast Packet Classification Using Multi-Dimensional Encoding

Chi Jia Huang (National Chiao Tung University, TW); Chien Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, TW); Chia-Sheng Chou (National Chiao Tung University, TW); Shou-Ting Kao (National Chiao Tung University, TW)

TRASH - A dynamic LC-trie and hash data structure

Stefan Nilsson (KTH, SE); Robert Olsson (Uppsala University, SE)

The IP Lookup Mechanism in a Linux Software Router: Performance Evaluation and Optimizations

Roberto Bruschi (University of Genoa, IT); Raffaele Bolla (University of Genoa, IT)

Dichotomy Slot Allocation: A Low-Jitter Scheduling Scheme for Input-Queued Switches

Jingjing Zhang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US); Yaohui Jin (Shanghai Jiaotong University, CN); Nirwan Ansari (NJIT, US); Weisheng Hu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN)

An Efficient Policy-based Packets Scheduler with Flow Cache

Lv GaoFeng (National University of Defense Technology, CN)

A Scalable Approach to Building Fast Switches using Slow Schedulers

M. Kodialam (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US); T.v. Lakshman (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, US)

Design of Fair Scalable Scheduling Architecture for Input-Queued Switches

Sun Yuan (Southeast University, CN)

Optimal Combination of Circuit and Packet Switching in Optical Core Networks

Pratibha Menon (University of Pittsburgh, US); Richard Thompson (University of Pittsburgh, US)

An Efficient Approximate Markovian Model for Optical Packet Switches Employing Partial Buffer Sharing Mechanism under Self-Similar Traffic Input

Malla Reddy Perati (National Taiwan University, TW); Shou-Kuo Shao (National Taiwan University, TW); Chih-How Chang (National Taiwan University, TW); Jingshown Wu (National Taiwan University, TW)

Performance Analysis of WDM Optical Packet Switches Employing Wavelength Conversion under Markovian Modeled Self-Similar Traffic Input

Chun-Yang Chen (National Taiwan University, TW); Chih-How Chang (National Taiwan University, TW); Malla Reddy Perati (National Taiwan University, TW); Shou-Kuo Shao (National Taiwan University, TW); Jingshown Wu (National Taiwan University, TW)

Packet Loss Analysis of Synchronous Buffer-less Optical Switch with Shared Limited Range Wavelength Converters

Nail Akar (Bilkent University, TR); Ezhan Karasan (Bilkent University, TR); Carla Raffaelli (Universita` di Bologna, IT); Michele Savi (University of Bologna, IT)

Applying Router-Assisted Congestion Control to Wireless Networks: Challenges and Solutions

Jian Pu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Mounir Hamdi (CS Dept., HKUST, KLN, Hong Kong, CN)

Multi-layer Traffic Engineering Experimental System in IP Optical Network

Daisaku Shimazaki (NTT, JP); Eiji Oki (NTT, JP); Kohei Shiomoto (NTT, JP)

Efficient Localized Topology Control Algorithm

Baoxian Zhang (Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN); Zhuang Zhao (Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN); Jian Ma (Nokia Research Center, PL 422 , 00045 NOKIA GROUP, US); Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, CA)

Max-min Utility Fairness in Link Aggregated Systems

Satya Mohanty (University of California, US); Bin Liu (Tsinghua University, CN); Laxmi Bhuyan (University of California, US); Changbin Liu (Tsinghua University, CN)

Packet Switching and Replication of Multicast Traffic by Crosspoint Buffered Packet Switches

Roberto Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US); Ziqian Dong (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)

Providing 100% Throughput in a Buffered Crossbar Switch

Yanming Shen (Polytechnic University, US); Shivendra Panwar (Polytechnic University, US); H. Jonathan Chao (Polytechnic University Brooklyn, US)

Emulating FCFS OQ with Buffered Crossbar Based Distributed Shared Memory Switch

Nan Hua (Tsinghua University, CN); Yang Xu (Tsinghua University, CN); Bin Liu (Tsinghua University, CN); Depeng Jin (Tsinghua University, CN); lieguang zeng (Tsinghua University, CN)

Crossbars with Minimally-Sized Crosspoint Buffers

Nikolaos Chrysos (ICS FORTH and Univ. of Crete, GR); Manolis Katevenis (FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, GR)

Asynchronous Operation of Bufferless Crossbars

Georgios Passas (FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, GR); Manolis Katevenis (FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, GR)

A Blocking Probability Model in Multigranularity Cross-connect Optical Networks

Xiu-Jia kuo (National Chiao Tung University, TW); Chien Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, TW)

Constructions of Given-Depth and Optimal Multirate Rearrangeably Nonblocking Distributors

Yang Wang (State University of New York at Buffalo, US); Hung Ngo (State University of New York at Buffalo, US); Thanh-Nhan Nguyen (State University of New York at Buffalo, US)

Low-crossover Extended Generalized Shuffle

Luigi Savastano (Pirelli Broadband Solutions, IT); Guido Maier (Politecnico di Milano, IT); Achille Pattavina (Politecnico di Milano, IT)

Decoupling Maximal Size Matching Schedulers for Scalable Electro-Optical Switches

Francisco Castano (Universidad de Vigo, ES); Miguel Rodelgo Lacruz (Universidade de Vigo, ES); Cristina Lopez-Bravo (Universidad de Vigo, ES)

iPIFO: A Network Memory Architecture for QoS Routers

Feng Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

Load Balanced Two-Stage Switches Using Arrayed Waveguide Grating Routers

Xin Wang (The University of Hong Kong, HK); Kwan Yeung (University of Hong Kong, HK)

Optical Switching Nodes: Architectures and Performance

Andrea Bianco (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Fabio Neri (Politecnico di Torino, IT); Chiara Piglione (Cisco systems, US)

Towards Spoofing Prevention Based on Hierarchical Coordination Model

Lv GaoFeng (National University of Defense Technology, CN)

Reinforcing State-Dependent N Best Quality of Service Routes in Communication Networks

Abdelhamid Mellouk (University Paris XII, FR)

Detecting Attacks in Routers Using Sketches

Dhiman Barman (UC, Riverside, US); Piyush Satapathy (University of California Riverside, US); Gianfranco Ciardo (University of California-Riverside, US)

One Algorithm to Match Them All: On a Generic NIPS Pattern Matching Algorithm

Shimrit Tzur-David (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL); Yaron Weinsberg (The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem, IL); Tal Anker (Marvell, IL); Danny Dolev (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL)

Characterizing Traffic Demand Aware Overlay Routing Network Topologies

Benjamin McBride (Kansas State University, US); Caterina Scoglio (Kansas State University, US)

A Distributed Model for Next Generation Router Software

Brigitte Jaumard (Concordia University, CA); Kim-Khoa Nguyen (Concordia University, CA)

Enhanced Optimal and Heuristic Solutions of the Routing Problem in Light Trail Networks

Amr Ayad (Faculty of Computers and Information Technology - Cairo University, EG); Khaled Elsayed (Cairo University, EG); Sanaa Al-Ola (Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo Univeristy, EG)

Stochastic Optimization of Light-trail WDM Ring Networks using Bender’s Decomposition

Akhil Lodha (IIT Bombay, IN); Ashwin Gumaste (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay/University of Texas at Dallas, IN); Paresh Bafna (IIT Bombay, IN); Nasir Ghani (Tennessee Technological University, US)

Explicit Feedback Arbitration Scheme for Crosspoint Buffered Packet Switches

Zhen Guo (Conexant Systems, US); Roberto Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)

PWWFA: The Parallel Wrapped Wave Front Arbiter for Large Switches

Wladek Olesinski (Sun Microsystems, US); Hans Eberle (Sun, ); Nils Gura (Sun Microsystems Inc., US)

Strictly Nonblocking Design of f-cast Photonic Multi-log2N Networks with Crosstalk Constraints

Xiaohong Jiang (University of Tohoku, JP); Achille Pattavina (Politecnico di Milano, IT); Susumu Horiguchi (TOHOKU University, JP)

A Scalable Memory-Efficient Architecture for Parallel Shared Memory Switches

Itamar Elhanany (University of Tennessee, US); Brad Matthews (The University of Tennessee, US)

How to waste 2/3 of the throughput of a switch: a tight characterization of load balancing algorithms that do not split

Saad Mneimneh (Hunter College, CUNY, US)

A Characterization of High-Performance Network Monitoring Systems and Workloads

Siddhartha Bunga (University of Massachusetts, US); Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts, US)

Descending-Order Clique-Based Task Scheduling for Active Measurements

Zhen Qin (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US); Roberto Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US); Nirwan Ansari (NJIT, US)

On the Estimation of Bandwidth Share for TCP Connections in Presence of Reverse Traffic

Shan Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Brahim Bensaou (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK); Junhua Zhu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)

Optical-to-Wireless-Integration Cost Modeling

Peng Lin (State University of New York at Buffalo, US); Ting Wang (NEC Labs America/University of Virginia, US); Junqiang Hu (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., US); Yoshihiko Suemura (NEC Corporation, JP); Shinya Nakamura (NEC Corporation, 1131 Hinode, Abiko, Chiba 270-1198 Japan, JP); Chunming Qiao (State University of New York at Buffalo, US)