AccessNets Technical program

September 4

0930-1700:

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

 

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Workshop on September 4th is held outside the conference, but the conference participants can attend for free.

September 5

0830-0930: Registration

0930-1000:  Welcome and Opening Remarks: Prof Ioannis Tomkos AIT Greece and Prof Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University

1000-1030: Keynote 1:. Stefanos Hadjiagapis Intracom, General Manager, R&D Division, and INTRACOM TELECOM.

1030-1100 Coffee break

1100-1245: Session I- Access Networks 1

1.       Radio distribution over Transparent Optical Networks, D. Amador, J. Amador, N. Martins, Antonio Teixeira, M. Lima, R. Nogueira, P. André

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, J. Prat, P. Chanclou, R. Davey, J.M. Finochietto, G. Franzl, A.M.J. Koonen, S. Walker, 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

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: Apostolos Koukouvinos, Hellas on Line

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, TESTCOM and Jiri Vodrazka, Czech Technical University, Prague.

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: Coffee 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

1530-1615 Coffee break

1600-1615: Conference closing session