[sigcomm] Call for Participation: AccessNets 2006

[Jingxian Wu]

Call for Participation

AccessNets 2006, Athens Greece (Sept 4-6 2006)

September 4

0930-1700 BReATH workshop: "Promoting Broadband in NMS EU countries and Greece"


September 5

0900-0930:
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Prof Ioannis Tomkos AIT Greece and Prof Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University

0930-1000:
Introductory Remarks by conference chairs

1000-1030:
Keynote 1: Mr. Hadjiagapis Intracom


1030-1100 coffee break


1100-1245 Session I- Access Networks 1

1.	Radio distribution over Transparent Optical Networks, D. Beato, A. Amador, N. Martins, R. Nogueira, A. Teixeira, P. André, M. Lima Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro

2.	FAWNA: A High-speed Mobile Communication Network Architecture, Siddharth Ray, Muriel M´edard and Lizhong Zheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA

3.	Radio over Fiber in Multimedia Access Networks Xavier Fernando, Ryerson University, Canada

4.	Long-term Evolution of Passive Optical Networks, P. Chanclou, R. Davey, J.M. Finochietto, G. Franzl, A.M.J. Koonen, J. Lepley, J. Prat, France Telecom, British Telecom,Politecnico di Torino, Technical University Eindhoven, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

5.	Passive Optical Network standardization developments, IEEE 10G EPON, John Kikidis, Intel Inc

1245-1400 Lunch Break

1400-1545 Session II- Access Network II

1.	Design of IEEE 802.16-based Multi-hop Wireless Backhaul Networks, Sudeept Bhatnagar, Samrat Ganguly, and Rauf Izmailov, NEC Laboratories USA

2.	Preparing the legacy networks for broadband services, Morteza Haddadzadeh, Iran Telecommunications Research Center

3.	Broadband for All’ using the Power Grid, Dr. S. Rao, Telscom AG, Bern, Switzerland, Dr. S. Horvath, ACN, Advanced Communication Networks, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

4.	A New Generation Of Multi-Service Access Networks: Results Of MUSE Phase I, P. Vetter, F. Fredricx, Benoit De Vos, E. Gilon, Alcatel, Copernicuslaan 50, B-2018 Antwerpen, K. Gustafsson, Ericsson, J. Wellen, Lucent Technologies, M. Borgne, France Telecom R&D, Les Humphrey, BT,  Alex De Smedt, Thomson, Rob van den Brink, TNO

5.	Multi-PON access/metro network using a coarse-WDM AWG router Y. Shachaf, P. Kourtessis, University of Hertfordshire UK


1545-1615 Coffee Break 

1615-1800 Session III- Wireless Access Networks 

1.	Evolution of WLANs towards VoIP traffic and higher throughputs, Nidhi Hegde, France Telecom

2.	Measurements to assist access network design with fixed WiMAX in urban environment Zoltan Nemeth and Csaba Szabo, Budapest University of Technoogy and Economics 

3.	Opportunistic Wireless Access networks, Kaustubh S. Phanse Johan Nykvist, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden

4.	Multi-Channel MAC for Ad Hoc Networks, Linna He and Wei Yin, Shanghai University of Engineering and Science China

5.	Municipal broadband access networks in the Netherlands -three successful cases, and how New Europe may benefit, Rene Kramer, Eindhoven University of Technology


2000 Conference Dinner



September 6

0900-0930
Welcome note

0930-1000
Keynote 2: Mr. A. Koukouvinos, Hellas on Line

Mr. A. Koukouvinos, BoD Member & Managing Director, Hellas on Line (www.hol.gr). He will present his vision related with the future of a broadband network operator

1000-1030 Coffee Break

1030-1215 Session IV- Optical Access Networks

1.	Security and Self-Organization in Transparent Optical Networks: An Overview, Jae-seung Yeom and Ozan K. Tonguz CMU, USA

2.	Performance Evaluation of the Physical Layer for 10 Gbit/s Ethernet Passive Optical Networks, Sílvia Pato, Paulo Monteiro, and Henrique Silva, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Faculdade de Ciências eTecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

3.	Access networks in the Czech Republic – status and issues, Anton Kuchar, Czech Academy of Sciences Jaroslav Hrstka Czech Technical University 

4.	Protection of Long-Reach PON Traffic, David K. Hunter, Senior Member, IEEE, Timothy H. Gilfedder

5.	Duobinary Modulation Format in 10 Gb/s Ethernet Multi Mode Fibre (MMF) Transmission Systems Stefan Schöllmann and Werner Rosenkranz Chair for Communications, University of Kiel, Germany


1215-1330 Lunch Break

1330-1530 Session V- Access Networks 2

1.	Technoeconomic studies for the evaluation of the viability of access network technologies, Ioannis Tomkos, AIT Greece

2.	A Comparison of MANETs and WMNs: Commercial Feasibility of Community Wireless Networks and MANETs, S. Ali Mahmud, Shahbaz Khan, Shoaib Khan, Dr. Hamed Al-Raweshidy WNCG, Brunel University, West London

3.	Public Infrastructures for Internet Access in Metropolitan Areas, Elias C. Efstathiou, Fotios A. Elianos, Pantelis A. Frangoudis, Vasileios P. Kemerlis Dimitrios C. Paraskevaidis, Eleftherios C. Stefanis and George C. Polyzos Athens University of Economics and Business

4.	Design Aspects of Open Municipal Broadband Networks, Antonios Alexiou, Christos Bouras, Dimitrios Primpas, Univ. of Patras, Greece

5.	Success broadband stories in Europe from the regulatory point of view, A. Mpartzoudi, I. Zacharopoulos, Greek Telecom and Posts Commission EETT


1530-1600 coffee break 

1600-1615
Conference closing session



Organizing Committee:

General Chair: Prof. Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology Email: itom at ait.edu.gr

General Co-Chair: Prof. Ramjee Prasad Aalborg University, Email: prasad at cpk.auc.dk

Program Committee Chair:  Prof. Ashwin Gumaste Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Email: ashwin at it.iitb.ac.in

Program Committee Co-Chair: Prof. Ozan Tonguz Carnegie Mellon University, USA Email: tonguz at ece.cmu.edu

Workshop Chairs: Prof. Gregory Yovanof, Athens Information Technology

Publicity Chair: Anupam Banerjee, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Publicity Co-Chair: Jingxian Wu, California State University, USA

Tutorial Chair: TBA

Business track Chair: Dr. Nikos Pronios, Intracom

Panel Chair: Dr. Panos Dallas, Intracom

Steering Committee:

Prof. Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Research Email: chlamtac at create-net.org

Prof. Ioannis Tomkos Athens Information Technology Email: itom at ait.edu.gr

Prof. Ashwin Gumaste Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Email: ashwin at it.iitb.ac.in

Finance Chair: Karen Decker, ICST Email: Karen at icst.org

Web Chair: Ajay Nalawade Indian Institute of Technology,Bombay Email: ajayn at it.iitb.ac.in 



TPC


# Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa Canada)
# Stuart Walker (Essex University, UK)
# Sridhar Iyer (IIT Bombay, India)
# Aniudha Sahoo (IIT Bombay, India )
# Suresh Subramaniam (George Washington University, USA )
# Mohan Guruswamy (NUS Singapore)
# Nicholas A. Zervos (Ellemedia Technologies, Ltd.)
# Paparao Palacharla (Fujitsu Ltd, USA )
# Mounir Hamdi (UST Hongkong)
# Stephano Galli (Telecordia, USA)
# Tony Boucouvalas (Bournemouth UK)
# Peter van Daele (Univ of Ghent)
# Thyaga Nandgopal (Lucent Technologies, USA )
# Kaustubh Phanse (University of Lulea, Sweden)
# Vinod Vokkarane (UMass Dartmouth, USA)
# Arjan Durressi (Louisiana State University)
# Ioannis Zacharopoulos, (Greek Telecom and Posts Commission)
# Ibrahim Habib (Cuny USA)
# Geof Hill (GTEL, UK)
# Hagen Woesner (Createnet Italy)
# Evsen Yanmaz (CMU, USA)
# Xhafa Ariton (Texas Instruments)
# Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy)
# Costa Courcoubetis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
# Yuanyuan Yang (SUNY Stony Brook, USA)
# Jingxian Wu (California State University, USA)
# Prof. Stamatios Kartalopoulos(University of Oklahoma, USA)
# Dr. Hakki Cankaya(Alcatel, USA)
# Dr. Martin Bouda(Fujitsu, USA)
# Prof. Galen Sasaki(University of Hawaii, USA)
# Hua Zhu(San Diego Research Center, USA)