2009-11-27

[Tccc] Call for Participation: IEEE ANTS 2009, New Delhi, India, Dec. 14-16, 2009

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Call for Participation
IEEE ANTS 2009
Third International IEEE Symposium on Advanced Networks and
Telecommunication Systems (ANTS)
http://www.ieee-ants.org

December 14-16, 2009, New Delhi, India

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Day 1: Monday, December 14, 2009 Seminar Hall, IIT Delhi, India

8:00 am - 6:30 pm Registration
8:00 am - 8:45 am Breakfast

8:45 am - 9:05 am Inauguration Director, IIT Delhi
Bijendra Nath Jain and Suresh Subramaniam
Sudhir Dixit, Ashwin Gumaste, and Biswanath Mukherjee

9:05 am - 10:25 am Session M1 (Keynote Talks) Chair: B. N. Jain
KN1: Ajit Balkrishnan, CEO, Rediff
KN2: Shoichi Hanatoni, Hitachi

10:25 am - 10:45 am Tea/Coffee Break

10:45 am - 12:25 pm Session M2 (Invited Talks) Chair: Sudhir Dixit
IT1: Sushil Prakash, CIO, Tata Teleservices
IT2: Neeraj Gulati, Managing Director, Ciena
IT3: Rajiv Dighe / Jay Teborek, Managing Director, Teknovus,
USA: "Recent Developments in 10G FTTH Standards"
IT4: Chandan Mehndiratta, VP, Cisco Systems, USA

12:25 pm - 1:40 pm Lunch

1:40 pm - 3:45 pm Session M3 (Invited Talks) Chair: Dominic Schupke
Plenary Talk: Sudhir Dixit, HP Labs, India: "Innovating for the
Next Billion: Simplifying and Enriching the User Experience"

IT5: Executive Director, MTNL, India
IT6: Wael William Daeb, Broadcom, USA
IT7: Shriprakash Pandey, CEO, Commtel India: "Utilisation of
Telecommunication Systems for Mission Critical Applications"
IT8: Mallik Tatipamula, Chief Technologist, Juniper Networks, USA

3:45 pm - 4:05 pm Tea/Coffee Break

4:05 pm - 5:25 pm Session M4 (Keynote Talks) Chair: Admela Jukan
KN3: Deepak Lala, LSI, USA
KN4: Benoit Simon, COO, Orange Telecom

5:25 pm - 6:45 pm Panel 1: Service Provider Panel
Moderator: Girish Saraph, CEO, Vegayan Systems and IIT Bombay
Participants:
Sify, India
MTNL
BSNL
Airtel
Reliance Communications
Tata Communications

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Banquet Venue: IIT Delhi Lawns
(All attendees are invited)

Day 2: Tuesday, December 15, 2009

8:00 am - 8:45 am Breakfast

8:45 am - 10:25 am Session T1 (Optical Communications) Chair: Debasish
Datta

T1-1: CAPEX minimization through node degree reduction in a Colorless
and Directionless ROADM architecture for flexible optical networks
Sai Kishore B, Prasanna G, Devarajan A, Sandesha K, Nanda Gopal D,
Venkataramaniah K (Sri Satya Sai University, IN); Pavan Voruganti
(Op-Vista Inc., Milpitas, California, US); Ron Johnson (Cisco Systems
Inc., San Jose, California, US)

T1-2: Auto-detection of misconnected fibers in WSS based multi-degree
ROADM, Nitin Manohar and Arvind Kumar (Ciena India, IN)

T1-3: Free-space Optical Links Using Phase Singularity
Bharat Kumar Yadav and Hem Chandra Kandpal (National Physical
Laboratory, New Delhi, IN)

T1-4: Performance of On-Off Keying Optical Code-Division Multiple
Access Using Feedback-Controlled Spreading Sequences
Mihiro Nojima and Masanori Hamamura (Kochi University of Technology, JP)

Keynote KN5: Ajoy Ghatak, IIT Delhi: "The Amazing Story of the Optical
Fiber"

10:25 am - 10:45 am Tea/Coffee Break

10:45 am - 12:25 pm Session T2 (Access Networks) Chair: Rudra Dutta

T2-1: A new QoS aware predictive scheduling strategy in EPONs,
Rajnish Kumar (IIT Delhi, IN) Swades De and Hari Gupta (Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi, IN); Navrati Saxena (Sungkyunkwan
University, KR); Abhishek Roy (Samsung Electronics, KR)

T2-2: 10G-EPON Efficiency, Rajesh Roy (University of California,
Davis, US); Marek Hajduczenia (ZTE, CN); Glen Kramer (Teknovus, Inc,
US); Henrique Silva (University of Coimbra, PT)

T2-3: Transparent (Fiber to the Premises) Wave Division Multiplexing
Passive Optical Network, Colm Connolly and Michael Schukat (National
University of Ireland Galway, IE)

T2-4: Heuristic Algorithms for Designing Minimum Cost FSO Networks,
Shanshan Chen, Samuel Cheng, Pramode Verma, and Robert Huck
(University of Oklahoma, US)

T2-5: A New Architecture and MAC Protocol for Flexible Radio over
Fiber Home Networks
Goutam Das, Bart Lannoo, Daan Pareit (Ghent University, BE); Chigo
Okonkwo, Ton Koonen (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, NL); Didier Colle,
Ingrid Moerman, Mario Pickavet, Piet Demeester (Ghent University, BE)

IT9: Lena Wosinska, KTH, Sweden: "How Much to Pay for Protection in
Fiber Access Networks: Cost and Reliability Tradeoff"


12:25 pm - 1:40 pm Lunch

1:40 pm - 3:20 pm Session T3 (Energy Issues and Core Telecom Networks)
Chair: Suresh Subramaniam

IT10: Mario Pickavet, Ghent University, Belgium: "Energy in ICT -
Trends and Research Directions"

T3-1: Energy Efficiency and CAPEX Minimization for Backbone Network
Planning: Is there a Tradeoff? Eleni Palkopoulou (Chemnitz University
of Technology, DE); Dominic A. Schupke (Nokia Siemens Networks, DE);
Thomas Bauschert (Chemnitz University of Technology, DE)

T3-2: Optimal Segment Size for Fixed-sized Segment Protection in
Wavelength-routed Optical Networks, Raghunath Tewari and Byrav
Ramamurthy (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US)

T3-3: Logical Topology Augmentation for Guaranteed Survivability under
Multiple Failures in IP-over-WDM Optical Networks
Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman, Muhammad S Javed, and Tachun Lin (University
of Oklahoma, US); Guoliang Larry Xue (Arizona State University, US)

T3-4: Achieving IP Routing Stability with Optical Bypass, Mohit
Chamania, Marcel Caria, and Admela Jukan (Technische Universiti
Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, DE)

T3-5: Static Manycast Routing and Wavelength Assignment over
Wavelength-Routed Optical WDM Networks, Neal Charbonneau and Vinod
Vokkarane (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US)


3:20 pm - 3:40 pm Tea/Coffee Break

3:40 pm - 6:00 pm Session T4 (Keynote/Invited Talks) Chair: Byrav
Ramamurthy

Keynote KN6: Devraj Srinivasan, GM and Head, Wireline Business, Wipro,
India
KN7: N. Ravishankar, Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology, Government of India
IT11: A. K. Seth, Systema Shyam Teleservice Limited, India:
"Need and Implementation of Deep Packet Inspection by Broadband
Operators"
IT12: Praveen Hebbagodi, Akamai
IT13: Sergi Figuerola, I2CAT

Day 3: Wednesday, December 16, 2009

8:00 am - 8:45 am Breakfast

8:45 am - 10:20 am Session W1 (Optical Communications and Networks)
Chair: Mario Pickavet

IT14: Anjali Agarwal, Telcordia, USA: "Highly Dynamic and Scalable
Multi-terabit Optical Networks: Physical-Layer Aspects"

IT15: Lech Wosinski, KTH, Sweden: "Wavelength Selective Devices for
WDM Communication Systems"

W1-1: Some Schemes for Controlling Gain Dynamics of EDFA chains in
Wavelength-Routed Optical Networks, Krishna Chaitanya Puvvada
(Schlumberger LTD, FR); Debasish Datta (Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, IN)

W1-2: Impact of Channel Spacing on the Design of a Mixed-Line-Rate
Optical Network, Avishek Nag and Massimo Tornatore (University of
California, Davis, US)

W1-3: System Design and Evaluation of a Large Photonic Switch based on
Optical Codes for Optical Burst Switched Networks, Maurizio Casoni and
Alessio Sacchi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT)


10:20 am - 10:40 am Tea/Coffee Break

10:40 am - 12:45 pm Session W2 (Buffers and Applications) Chair: Lena
Wosinska

W2-1: Evaluating Buffer-Constrained Routers under Bursty and Shaped
Traffic, Arvinderpal S. Wander (Infinera, US); Anujan Varma (University
of California, Santa Cruz, US)

W2-2: How Poisson is TCP Traffic at Short Time-Scales in a Small
Buffer Core Network? Arun Vishwanath, Vijay Sivaraman (University of
New South Wales, AU); Diethelm Ostry (CSIRO, AU)

W2-3: A Comparison of Optical Time Slotted Networks, Arush G Gadkar
(The George Washington University, US)

W2-4: Analytical System Tools for iSCSI Remote Storage Access and
Performance Improvement by Optimization with the Tools Reika Higa
(University of Ochanomizu, JP); Kosuke Matsubara (SOFTBANK TELECOM
Corp, JP); Takao Okamawari (Softbank Mobile Corp., JP); Saneyasu
Yamaguchi (Kogakuin University, JP); Masato Oguchi (Ochanomizu
University, JP)

W2-5: Secured Media Latching in VoIP Networks Sudhakar Dhanagopal,
Lavanya Venkatesan, and Dhanunjai Nagabhyru (Wipro, IN)

IT16: Vijay Yadav, MD, UT-Starcom: "Futuristic Technologies for
Emerging Economies: Audio-Visual Communications"

IT17: Tulika Pandey, DIT, India


12:45 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm - 3:55 pm Session W3 (Applications and Security) Chair:
Pramode Verma

IT18: Ritu Chadha, Telcordia, USA: "Policy-Driven Mobile Ad Hoc
Network Management"

W3-1: Two Algorithms for Network Size Estimation for Master/Slave Ad
Hoc Networks, Redouane Ali, Suksant Sae Lor, and Miguel Rio (University
College London, UK)

W3-2: Impact of Power Control on Capacity of Large Scale Wireless Mesh
Networks Parth Pathak and Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State
University, US)

W3-3: Wireless Backhaul for LTE - Service OAM Considerations, George
Varghese and Debajit Ghosh (Wipro Technologies, IN)

W3-4: Social Networks as Internet Barometers for Optimizing Content
Delivery Networks Sachin Kumar Agarwal (Deutsche Telekom AG,
Laboratories, DE); Shruti Agarwal (Humboldt University, DE)

W3-5: Recursive Secret Sharing for Distributed Storage and Information
Hiding Abhishek Parakh and Subhash Kak (Oklahoma State University, US)

W3-6: Strong Authentication for Secure Content Access in Converged
Networks Rajarathnam Nallusamy (Infosys Technologies Limited, IN);
Sanjoy Paul (Infosys Technologies Limited, US)


4:15 pm - 5:15 pm Extended Tea Break and Poster Session

Poster Session Chairs: Krishna Sivalingam and Seshadri Mohan

P1: Survivable IP Topology Design with Reuse of Backup Wavelength
Capacity Chaitanya S. K. Vadrevu and Massimo Tornatore (University of
California, Davis, US)

P2: Differential Capacity p-Cycles: A p-Cycle Variant with Increased
Capacity Efficiency Prashant Jaikumar (Cisco Systems, US); Rudra Dutta
(North Carolina State University, US)

P3: Unfairness in TCP Performance over Lossy Optical Burst-Switched
(OBS) Networks Julie Sullivan, Paul Ramos, and Vinod M. Vokkarane
(University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US)

P4: VPN Topology Abstraction Service using Centralized Core Capacity
Sharing Scheme Ravishankar Ravindran, Changcheng Huang (Carleton
University, CA); Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman (University of Oklahoma, US)

P5: Reconsideration of carrier sensing range for wireless ad hoc
networks Mayur M Vegad, Swades De, and Brejesh Lall (Indian Institute
of Technology, Delhi, IN)

P6: Joint Optimization of Power Allocation and Relay Selection in
Cooperative Wireless Sensor Networks Hadi Jamali Rad, Bahman
Abolhassani (Iran University of Science and Technology, IR); Mohammad
Taghi Abdizadeh (Sharif University of Technology, IR)

P7: Channel Aware Routing Metric for IEEE 802.11 Multi-Channel Mesh
Networks Mahmudur Rahman and Anjali Agarwal (Concordia University, CA)

P8: Energy Consumption Analysis in Link Adaptive Cognitive Radio
Network Rajarshi Mahapatra (Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, IN)

P9: Using Reconfigurable Hardware Devices in WSNs for Accelerating and
Reducing the Power Consumption of Header Processing Tasks
Georgios-Grigorios Mplemenos, Panagiotis Christou, and Ioannis
Papaefstathiou (Technical University of Crete, GR)

P10: BER Derivation for UWB Communication with a Relay Node in the
Presence of Inter-Channel Interference Zolfa Zeinalpour-Yazdi,
Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari (Sharif University of Technology, IR); Behnaam
Aazhang (Rice University, US)

P11: Channel Assignment in Cognitive Wireless Mesh Networks Ayoub
Alsarhan and Anjali Agarwal (Concordia University, CA)

P12: Novel User-Based Packet Classification in 802.16e to Provide
Better Performance Amitkeerti Lagare and Debabrata Das (International
Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, IN)

P13: Minimizing Network Cost in All-Optical Networks Shivashis Saha
(University of Nebraksa-Lincoln, US); Eric D. Manley (Drake
University, US); Jitender Singh Deogun (University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, US)

P14: An Efficient Call Admission Control Scheme on Overlay Networks
Using Fuzzy Logic Asish Mukhopadhyay (Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering
College, IN); Sunanda Chatterjee (Institute of Engineering and
Industrial Technology, IN); Sajal Saha (Narula Institute of
Technology, IN); Suranjan Ghose (Jadavpur University, IN); Debashis
Saha (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, IN)

P15: Signaling Performance of UPnP QoS Architecture Lukasz Brewka,
Henrik Wessing, and Lars Dittmann (Technical Univ of Denmark, DK)

P16: QoS Optimized Cross Multi-layer Transmission for SVC Coded Video
Stream over IEEE 802.16e Network Jiun-Yu Tu (National Central
University, TW)

P17: Secure Group Communication Using Binomial Trees R. Aparna
(Siddagang Institute of Technology, IN); B B Amberker, Divya Pola, and
Pranjal Bathia (National Institute of Technology, Warangal, IN)

P18: Evaluation of the P2P File Sharing Technique by Indexed-Priority
Metric Toshinori Takabatake and Yoshikazu Komano (Shonan Institute of
Technology, JP)

P19: Call Arrival Model for GSM Network Including Handover Busra
Yuksel, Merve Cingoz (Istanbul Technical University, TR); Gunes
Karabulut (Turkcell, TR); Sema Oktug (Istanbul Technical University,
TR)

P20: Performance Analysis of Beacon-Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 MAC for
Emergency Response Applications Anil Mehta (Southern Illinois
University Carbondale, US); Ghulam M. Bhatti (MERL, US); Zafer
Sahinoglu (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, US);
Ramanarayanan Viswanathan (Southern Illinois University Carbondale,
US); Jinyun Zhang (MERL, US)


5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Panel2 : Opportunities in Telecommunications
Moderator: Deepak Kataria, IP Junction, USA
Participants:
Wipro
HCL
TCS
Infosys
Mahindra Telecom

6:30 pm Concluding Remarks and IEEE ANTS 2010 information:
Biswanath Mukherjee and Ashwin Gumaste


Organizing Committee:

General Chairs:
Bijendra Nath Jain, IIT Delhi, India
Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA

Technical Program Chairs:
Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University, USA
Krishna Sivalingam, IIT Madras, India

Area Chairs:
Debasish Datta, IIT Kharagpur, India
Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas, USA

Industry Chairs:
Deepak Kataria, IP Junction, USA
Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany

Publicity Chairs:
Vinod Vokkarane, Univ. of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, USA
Chava Saradhi, IIT Hyderabad, India
Anpeng Huang, Peking University, China
Admela Jukan, TUBS, Germany

Panels Chair:
Girish Saraph, IIT Bombay and Vegayan Systems, India

Local Arrangements:
Vinay Ribero (Chair), IIT Delhi
Raviraj Vaishampayan
Ishan Arora
Tamal Das
Prasad Gokhale

Publications:
Ranjan Mallik, IIT Delhi
Srini Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona, USA

Steering Committee:
Sudhir Dixit, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, India
Nasir Ghani, Univ. of New Mexico, USA
Ashwin Gumaste, IIT Bombay, India
Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California, Davis, USA (Chair)

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Dear Colleagues,

The IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS)
conference focusing on Telecommunications will be held at IIT Delhi,
in New Delhi India, this December 14-16, 2009. Please find attached
the Call for Participation document containing details of the
technical program.

Conference URL: www.ieee-ants.org

Program highlights:

** 7 Exciting keynotes

** 18 Invited talks.

** 28 Regular contributed talks.

** 20 Posters

** 2 panels (service provider, telecom opportunities)

** Lunch and refreshment on all three days will be served.

** Venue: IIT Delhi, India

** Late Registration rates start at USD 75 for students and
USD 140 for regular participants.


Best regards,

Byrav Ramamurthy
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Byrav Ramamurthy Associate Professor
Room 108, Schorr Center Dept. of Computer Science and Engg.
Phone: (402) 472-7791 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Fax: (402) 472-7767 Lincoln NE 68588-0115
Email: byrav@cse.unl.edu Web: http://www.cse.unl.edu/~byrav
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