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                                                    | Co-Chairs:Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Co-Chair
 Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Co-Chair
 Stefano Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Co-Chair
 Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Tech University, Vice Chair
 Sponsoring ComSoc Technical Committees:
 Optical Networking
 Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems
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                                                    |   Monday, 12 June 2006   10:30-12:00    OS-01: Traffic Grooming 
                                                        
                                                          
                                                            
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                                                                    | OS01.1. | Bus-Label Switched Paths, an Approach to Reduce the Cost of Multilayer NetworksYannick Brehon (ENST, France); Daniel Kofman (ENST, France)
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                                                                    | OS01.2. | Grooming of Symmetric Traffic in Unidirectional SONET/WDM RingsYong Wang (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Qianping Gu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
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                                                                    | OS01.3. | Proactive Rerouting in Optical WDM Mesh Networks with Dynamic Traffic Grooming CapabilityDzung Ho-Quang (Information and Communications University, Korea)
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                                                                    | OS01.4. | Cost-Effective Single-Hub WDM Ring NetworksNizar Bouabdallah (INRIA, France)
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                                                                    | OS01.5. | Dynamic Traffic Grooming in Large WDM Mesh Networks with Limited-Range Wavelength ConversionDzung Ho-Quang (Information and Communications University, Korea)
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                                                                    | CLOSE  |  |  14:00–15:30    OS-02: Routing and Wavelength Assignment 
                                                        
                                                        
                                                          
                                                          
                                                            
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                                                                    | OS02.1. | Fair QoS-Aware Adaptive Routing and Wavelength Assignment in All-Optical NetworksYvan Pointurier (University of Virginia, USA); Maite Brandt-Pearce (University of Virginia, USA); Tao Deng (The George Washington University, USA); Suresh Subramaniam (The George Washington University, USA)
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                                                                    | OS02.2. | Traffic Intensity Based Fixed-Alternate Routing in All-Optical WDM NetworksHwa-Chun Lin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Sheng-Wei Wang (National Tsing Hua Uiversity, Taiwan); Chung-Peng Tsai (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
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                                                                    | OS02.3. | Genetic Approach for Traffic Grooming, Routing, and Wavelength Assignment in WDM Optical Networks with Sparse Grooming ResourcesAla Al-fuqaha (Western Michigan University, USA)
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                                                                    | OS02.4. | Route Management Strategies for Grade of Service Differentiation in Optical NetworksAndrzej Szymanski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Artur Lason (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Jacek Rzasa (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Andrzej Jajszczyk (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
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                                                                    | OS02.5. | Aggressive Rank Accounting for End-to-End Lightpath Establishment in Multi-Domain WDM NetworksTakuji Tachibana (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Hiroaki Harai (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
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                                                                    |   | CLOSE  |  |  16:00–17:30    OS-03: Reliability and Survivability-I 
                                                        
                                                        
                                                          
                                                          
                                                            
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                                                                    | OS03.1. | Dynamic Provisioning of Survivable Heterogeneous Multicast and Unicast Traffic in WDM NetworksAhmad Khalil (CUNY, USA)
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                                                                    | OS03.2. | Logical Topology Design for WDM Networks Using Survivable RoutingArunita Jaekel (University of Windsor, Canada); Subir Bandyopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada); Yash Aneja (University of Windsor, Canada)
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                                                                    | OS03.3. | Alternate Strategies for Dual Failure Restoration Using p-CycleDev Shankar Mukherjee (Concordia University, Canada); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Anjali Agarwal (Concordia University, Canada)
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                                                                    | OS03.4. | Performance Analysis for Active Restoration-Based Optical Networks Incorporating the Correlation among Backup RoutesMohamed Mostafa (JAIST, Japan); Xiaohong Jiang (University of Tohoku, Japan)
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                                                                    | OS03.5. | Path-Based Protection in WDM Networks with Differentiated Quality-of-ProtectionYu Lin (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Haitham Hamza (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Jitender Deogun (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
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                                                    |   Tuesday, 13 June 2006   8:30–10:00    OS-04: Reliability and Survivability-II 
                                                        
                                                        
                                                          
                                                          
                                                            
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                                                                    | OS04.1. | Multi-Tiered Service Survivability in Next-Generation SONET/SDH NetworksNasir Ghani (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Karthik Atthuru (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Sung-kwon Park (Hanyang University, Korea); Abdallah Shami (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada)
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                                                                    | OS04.2. | The Advantages of Backup Reprovisioning After Failure Repair (and Failure Arrival) in Telecom Mesh NetworksLei Song (University of California, Davis, USA); Jing Zhang (University of California, Davis, USA); Biswanath Mukherjee (University of California, Davis, USA)
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                                                                    | OS04.3. | A New Wavelength Retuning Scheme with No Service Interruption in an All Optical Network with Shared Mesh RestorationRose Qingyang Hu (Mississippi State University, USA); Weiwei Hu (Mississippi State University, USA); Mingzhou Jin (Mississippi State University, USA); Yuke Wang (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Joyce Zhang (Mississippi State University, USA)
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                                                                    | OS04.4. | A Quantitative Comparison of Some Resilience Mechanisms in a Multidomain IP-over-Optical Network EnvironmentDimitri Staessens (Ghent University, Belgium); Leen Depre (Ghent University, Belgium); Didier Colle (Ghent University, Belgium); Ilse Lievens (Ghent University, Belgium); Mario Pickavet (Ghent University, Belgium); Piet Demeester (Ghent University, Belgium)
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                                                                    | OS04.5. | A New Protection Paradigm for Digital Video Distribution NetworksOri Gerstel (Tellabs Operations, USA); Galen Sasaki (University of Hawaii, USA)
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                                                                    |   | CLOSE  |  |  10:30–12:00    OS-05: Optical Burst Switching/Optical Packet Switching-I 
                                                        
                                                        
                                                          
                                                          
                                                            
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                                                                    | OS05.1. | Performance Analysis of Optical Packet Switches Equipped with Multicast Wavelength ConvertersVincenzo Eramo (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Marco Listanti (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
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                                                                    | OS05.2. | Performance Modelling of Synchronous Bufferless Optical Packet Switch with Partial Wavelength ConversionCarla Raffaelli (Universita` di Bologna, Italy); Michele Savi (Universita` di Bologna, Italy)
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                                                                    | OS05.3. | Performance Evaluation of Overspill Routing in Optical NetworksKostas Christodoulopoulos (University of Patras, Greece); Erik Van Breusegem (Ghent University, Belgium); Kyriakos Vlachos (University of Patras, Greece); Mario Pickavet (Ghent University, Belgium); Emmanuel Varvarigos (Communication Networks Laboratory, Greece); Didier Colle (Ghent University/IMEC, Belgium)
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                                                                    | OS05.4. | A Performance Study of Limited Range Partial Wavelength Conversion for Asynchronous Optical Packet/Burst SwitchingKaan Doğan (Bilkent University, Turkey); Nail Akar (Bilkent University, Turkey)
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                                                                    | OS05.5. | BGAIMD: A Responsive Rate Control for Optical Burst Switched (OBS) NetworksBasem Shihada (University of Waterloo, Canada); Pin-Han Ho (University of Waterloo, Canada); Xiaohong Jiang (University of Tohoku, Japan); Minyi Guo (University of Aizu, Japan); Susumu Horiguchi (Tohoku University, Japan); Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada); Fen Hou (University of Waterloo, Canada)
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                                                                    |   | CLOSE  |  |  14:00–15:30    OS-06: Optical Burst Switching / Optical Packet Switching-II 
                                                        
                                                        
                                                          
                                                          
                                                            
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                                                                    | OS06.1. | Slot Synchronization of WDM Packet-Switched Slotted Rings: the WONDER ProjectStefano Bregni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Achille Pattavina (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Roberto Gaudino (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Diego Carzaniga (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
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                                                                    | OS06.2. | Offline Route Optimization Considering Streamline Effect in Optical Burst Switching NetworksQian Chen (University of Singapore, Singapore); Gurusamy Mohan (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Kee Chaing Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
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                                                                    | OS06.3. | Optical Burst Switching with Large Switching OverheadChun-Yin Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Guangming Li (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Ping-Kong, Alex Wai (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Victor Li (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
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                                                                    | OS06.4. | Buffer Management for Shared, Feedback Buffer-Type Optical Packet Switches Hiroaki Harai (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Motoshi Suzuki (Sophia University/NICT, Japan); Takeshi Ozeki (Sophia University, Japan)
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                                                                    | OS06.5. | Adaptive Proportional Flow Routing in Optical Burst Switching NetworksJia Lu (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Mohan Gurusamy (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Kee Chaing Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
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                                                                    |   | CLOSE  |  |  16:00–17:30    OS-07: Switching Systems 
                                                        
                                                        
                                                          
                                                          
                                                            
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                                                                    | OS07.1. | Autonomous Clustering-Based Heterogeneous Waveband Switching in WDM NetworksMengke Li (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Byrav Ramamurthy (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
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                                                                    | OS07.2. | Quick Birkhoff-von Neumann Decomposition Algorithm for Agile All-Photonic Network CoresCheng Peng (University of Ottawa, Canada); Gregor Bochmann (University of Ottawa, Canada); Trevor Hall (University of Ottawa, Canada)
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                                                                    | OS07.3. | Design of Switches with Reconfiguration LatencyValentina Alaria (Cisco Systems, USA); Andrea Bianco (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Paolo Giaccone (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Emilio Leonardi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Fabio Neri (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
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                                                                    | OS07.4. | A Novel Cost Saving Two-Layer Wavelength Conversion Structure in Optical Switching NodeHailong Li (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Li-Jin Thng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
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                                                                    | OS07.5. | A New Scalable WDM Optical Interconnect Design with Reduced ComplexityHaitham Hamza (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Jitender Deogun (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
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                                                    |   Wednesday, 14 June 2006   8:30–10:00    OS-08: OCDMA 
                                                        
                                                          
                                                            
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                                                                    | OS08.1. | Demonstration of Hybrid OCDMA/OPS Networks Based on Optical Code Processing Using Superstructure FBG and PLC Encoder/DecodersXu Wang (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Naoya Wada (NICT, Japan)
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                                                                    | OS08.2. | Code-Grouping of Spectrally Phase Encoded OCDMA Based on Walsh-Decomposition of Hadamard CodesRonald Menendez (Telcordia Technologies, USA); Stefano Galli (Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA); Paul Toliver (Telcordia Technologies, USA); Janet Jackel (Telcordia Technologies, USA); Shahab Etemad (Telcordia Technologies, USA)
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                                                                    | OS08.3. | Optimal Source Matching in Optical Code Division Multiple AccessGil Paryanti (Ben Gurion University, Israel); Dan Sadot (Ben-Gurion University, Israel); Vladymir Lyandres (Ben-Gution University, Israel)
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                                                                    | OS08.4. | Mitigation Techniques of Channel Collisions in the TTFR-based Asynchronous Spectral Phase-Encoded Time-Spreading (SPECTS) Optical CDMA SystemTakaya Miyazawa (University of Keio, Japan); Fei Xue (University of California, Davis, USA); Ben Yoo (University of California, Davis, USA); Iwao Sasase (Keio University, Japan)
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                                                                    | OS08.5. | Systematic Optical Orthogonal Code Design Techniques Using Extended SetsCenk Argon (Seagate Technology, USA)
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                                                                    |   | CLOSE  |  |  8:30–12:00    OS-13(P): Topics in Optical Systems and Networks   
                                                        
                                                          
                                                            
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                                                                    | OS13.1. | Reducing Loss Rate in Slotted Optical NetworksAkbar Ghaffar Pour Rahbar (University of Ottawa, Canada); Oliver Yang (University of Ottawa, Canada)
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                                                                    | OS13.2. | Modeling and Fast Emulation of Burst Traffic in Optical Burst-Switched NetworksAhmad Rostami (Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Adam Wolisz (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
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                                                                    | OS13.3. | Nonlinear Power Control for Asynchronous Fiber-optic CDMA NetworksNaser Tarhuni (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Mohammed Elmusrati (University of Vaasa, Finland); Timo Korhonen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
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                                                                    | OS13.4. | A Wavelength Assignment Scheme for WDM Networks with Limited Range Wavelength ConvertersSho Shimizu (Keio University, Japan); Yutaka Arakawa (Keio University, Japan); Naoaki Yamanaka (Keio University, Japan)
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                                                                    | OS13.5. | Wide-Sense Nonblocking Multiplane Photonic Banyan-Type Switching Fabrics With Zero CrosstalkGrzegorz Danilewicz (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Wojciech Kabacinski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Marek Michalski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Mariusz Zal (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
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                                                                    | OS13.6. | The Ring-Based Optical Resonant Router Andrea Melloni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Francesco Morichetti (Corecom, Italy); Raffaella Costa (Corecom, Italy); Giuseppe Cusmai (Corecom, Italy); Mario Martinelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
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                                                                    | OS13.7. | Influence of Multilayer Traffic Engineering Timing Parameters on Network Performance Bart Puype (Ghent University, Belgium); Didier Colle (Ghent University, Belgium); Mario Pickavet (Ghent University, Belgium); Piet Demeester (Ghent University, Belgium)
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                                                                    | OS13.8. | Multiple-Link Failures Survivability in Optical Networks with Traffic Grooming Capability Wei Huo (Concordia University, Canada); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Abdallah Shami (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)
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                                                                    | OS13.9. | Investigation of the Suitability of IrBurst for High-Speed Exchange of Large Data Blocks Mohammad Shah Alam (Waseda University, Japan); Shamim Ara Shawkat (Waseda University, Japan)
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                                                                    | OS13.10. | Implementation of Burstponder for Ethernet Grooming in Light-trail WDM Networks Paparao Palacharla (Fujitsu Laboratories of America); Ashwin Gumaste (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay); Ermias Biru (Fujitsu Laboratories of America); Takao Naito (Fujitsu Laboratories of America)
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                                                                    | OS13.11. | A Dynamic Spot Diffusing Architecture for Indoor Wireless Optical Communications Farhad Khozeimeh (McMaster University, Canada); Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)
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                                                                    | OS13.12. | A Metro WDM Multi-Ring Network with Variable Packet Size Jaafar Elmirghani (University of Wales, United Kingdom); Bin Chen (University of Wales, United Kingdom); Bernardi Pranggono (University of Wales, United Kingdom)
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                                                                    | OS13.13. | RTA Algorithms on Buffer-Efficient Optical TDM Rings An Chen (Hong Kong Unversity of Science andTechnology, Hong Kong); Albert Wong (Hong Kong Unversity of Science andTechnology, Hong Kong); Chin-Tau Lea (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
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                                                                    | OS13.14. | Finite Shift-Invariant Optical Orthogonal Codes for Quasi-Synchronous Communication Systems Srinivasan Ramasubramanian (University of Arizona, USA); Ivan Djordjevic (University of Arizona, USA); Bane Vasic (University of Arizona, USA)
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                                                                    | OS13.15. | Dynamic Groupcast Traffic Grooming in WDM Networks Oliver Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); Yuan Cao (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
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                                                                    |   | CLOSE  |  |  10:30–12:00    OS-09: Metro and Access Networks 
                                                        
                                                          
                                                            
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                                                                    | OS09.1. | Light-Trains: A Cross-Layer Delivery Mechanism for High Bandwidth Applications in Moving Metro-TrainsAshwin Gumaste (Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay/University of Texas at Dallas, India); Nasir Ghani (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Si-Qing Zheng (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
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                                                                    | OS09.2. | Supporting Private Networking Capability in EPONASM Delowar Hossain (City University of New York, USA); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Abdallah Shami (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Mohamed Ali (City University of New York, USA)
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                                                                    | OS09.3. | Dynamic Intelligent MAC Protocol for Metropolitan Optical Packet Switching Ring NetworksViet Hung Nguyen (Institut National des Télécommunications, France); Tulin Atmaca (Institut National des Telecomunications, France)
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                                                                    | OS09.4. | WDM Metropolitan Sectioned Ring for Storage Area Networks Extension with Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Traffic Jaafar Elmirghani (University of Wales, United Kingdom); Taisir El-Gorashi (University of Wales, United Kingdom); Bernardi Pranggono (University of Wales, United Kingdom)
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                                                                    | OS09.5. | Etherlay: An Overlay Enhancement for Metro Ethernet Networks Minh Huynh (University of California, Davis, USA); Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis, USA)
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                                                                    | OS10.1. | A Fast Class-of-Service Packet Scheduling Scheme for EPON Access NetworksHassan Naser (Lakehead University, Canada)
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                                                                    | OS10.2. | Adaptive Fairness through Intra-ONU Scheduling for Ethernet Passive Optical NetworksAhmad Dhaini (Concordia University, Canada); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Abdallah Shami (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Nasir Ghani (Tennessee Tech University, USA)
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                                                                    | OS10.3. | Analysis of the Gated IPACT Scheme for EPONs Swapnil Bhatia (University of New Hampshire, USA); Dmitri Garbuzov (University of New Hampshire, USA); Radim Bartos (University of New Hampshire, USA)
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                                                                    | OS10.4. | Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation with High Efficiency for EPONsJun Zheng (University of Ottawa, Canada); Shaoren Zheng (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
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                                                                    | OS10.5. | HUHG: High Utilization and Hybrid Granting algorithm for EPONJunSeog Kim (Yonsei University, Korea)
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                                                                    | OS11.1. | Implementation of a GMPLS-based Network with End Host Initiated SignalingXuan Zheng (University of Virginia, USA); Xiangfei Zhu (University of Virginia, USA); Malathi Veeraraghavan (University of Virginia, USA); Zhaoming Li (City University of New York, USA); Qiang Song (City University of New York, USA); Ibrahim Habib (The City University of New York, USA); Nageswara Rao (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
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                                                                    | OS11.2. | Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Unified Control Plane ValidationDimitri Papadimitriou (Alcatel, Belgium); Bela Berde (Alcatel Research & Innovation, France); Remi Theillaud (Atos Origin, France); Ricardo Martinez (CTTC, Spain); Sofie Verbrugge (Ghent University/IMEC, Belgium); Javier González Ordás (Telefónica I+D, Spain)
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                                                                    | OS11.3. | A Service Profile-Aware Control Plane with a Comparison to IETF & ITU Approaches Wesam Alanqar (Sprint, USA); Victor Frost (University of Kansas, USA)
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                                                                    | OS11.4. | Network Design for Layer 1 Virtual Private Network ServicesTomonori Takeda (NTT, Japan); Ryuichi Matsuzaki (NTT, Japan); Ichiro Inoue (NTT, Japan); Shigeo Urushidani (NTT, Japan)
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                                                                    | OS11.5. | Performance of Dynamic Shared Layer 1 VPN Services in Next-Generation SONET/SDH NetworksNasir Ghani (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Driss Benhaddou (University of Houston, USA); Wesam Alanqar (Sprint, USA); Murali Hari (Tennessee Tech University, USA)
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                                                                    |   | CLOSE  |  |     OS-12: Optical Systems Physical Layer 
                                                        
                                                          
                                                            
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                                                                    | OS12.1. | Optical Power Reduction for Multiple-Subcarrier Modulated Indoor Wireless Optical Channels Weiwei Kang (McMaster University, Canada); Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)
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                                                                    | OS12.2. | Analytical Solution of Optimal Electrical Equalization CoefficientsGilad Katz (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
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                                                                    | OS12.3. | Multihop Free-Space Optical Communications Over Strong Turbulence ChannelsTheodoros Tsiftsis (University of Patras, Greece); Harilaos Sandalidis (Greek Ombudsman, Greece); George Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Nikos Sagias (University of Athens, Greece)
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                                                                    | OS12.4. | DQPSK Receiver Tolerance to Transmitter Frequency StabilityLucia Marazzi (CoreCom, Italy); Paola Parolari (CoreCom, Italy); Pierpaolo Boffi (Corecom, Italy); Rocco Siano (CoreCom, Italy); Matteo Feroldi (CoreCom, Italy); Mario Martinelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
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                                                                    | OS12.5. | Performance Optimization of PLC Based ROADM Subsystem in Ring-to-Ring InterconnectionChoudhury Al Sayeed (University of Ottawa, Canada); Alex Vukovic (Communications Research Centre, Canada); Oliver Yang (University of Ottawa, Canada)
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