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Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications AICT 2006 February 19-22, 2006 - Guadeloupe, French Caribbean |
| Tutorials |
T1: Optical WDM Technology and Networks [half day]
by Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos
T2: Next Generation Optical Networks, SDH and Protocols [half day]
by Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos
T3: Semantic Web [half day]
by Do van Thanh
T4: Optical Burst Switching Network Architectures and Protocols [half day]
by Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
Speakers:
Dr. Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos is currently the Williams Professor in Telecommunications Networking at the Telecommunications systems graduate program of the University of Oklahoma. Formerly and for 22 years he was with Bell Laboratories where he defined, led and managed research and development teams in the areas of DWDM optical networks, SONET and ATM, Cross-connect, Switching, Transmission and Access systems and components. For his contributions, he has received the company’s President’s Award and several awards of Excellence.
He holds numerous patents in communications networks, systems and components and he has published widely. He is the author of reference books particularly important in advanced fiber optic communications titled “Optical Bit Error Rate”, “Next Generation SONET/SDH”, “DWDM: Networks, Systems and Components”, “Introduction to DWDM Technology”, “Fault Detectability in DWDM“, “Understanding SONET/SDH and ATM”, “Understanding Neural Networks and Fuzzy logic”, and he has also contributed chapters to other books.
He has been an IEEE and a Lucent Technologies Distinguished Lecturer, has lectured at international conferences, Universities and at NASA, has moderated executive forums and has organized workshops and sessions at major international communications conferences. For the last six years, Stamatios has taught optical networks, SONET/SDH and DWDM technology at a postgraduate level as well as at international conferences, seminars, continuing education.
Dr Kartalopoulos serves his second term as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Press, he is a member of IEEE PSPB, past-chair of ComSoc Emerging Technologies and SPCE Technical Committees, member at large of IEEE NTDC committee, and VP of IEEE NNC (currently, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society).
Dr. Do Van Thanh obtained his MSc in Electronic and Computer Sciences from the NorwegianUniversity of Science and Technology in 1984 and his PhD in Informatics from the University of Oslo in 1997. In 1991 he joined Ericsson R&D Department in Oslo after 7 years of R&D at Norsk Data, a minicomputer manufacturer in Oslo. In 2000 he joined Telenor R&D and is now in charge of PANDA (Personal Area Network & Data Applications) research activities with a focus on SIP, XML and next generation mobile applications. He holds also a professor position at the Department of Telematics at the NorwegianUniversity of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He is author of numerous publications and inventor of several patents. [email protected] - http://www.item.ntnu.no/~thanhvan
Joel Rodrigues received the 5-year B.S. degree (licentiate) in Informatics Engineering in 1995 at University of Coimbra, Portugal, and received his MSc degree at University of Beira Interior, Portugal, in 2002. Currently, he is concluding a PhD thesis in Informatics Engineering to be presented at University of Beira Interior, Portugal. Between 1995 and 2000 he worked in the industry and services, namely on Portugal Telecom and Portugal Telecom Research Center. He is currently an Assistant at the Department of Informatics of University of Beira Interior, Portugal, and a Researcher of Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal. His research interests include optical Internet, optical burst switched networks, high speed networks, and knowledge networks. He is member of the Network of Excellence EuroNGI (Design and Engineering of the Next Generation Internet). He has reviewed papers for several international journals, encyclopedias, and conferences and he has authored or co-authored over 30 papers in refereed international journals and conferences, and given tutorials in several international conferences. He is or was chair of several international committees. He is or was a member of the Technical Program Committee and Organizing Committee of several international conferences, and chaired many technical sessions at international conferences. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and he is a member of IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society, Internet Society, and a member of the ACM SIGCOMM.
Content:
T1 Description:
This is a short-course on WDM optical networks, devices and technology. It consists of five major units:
- Optical and photonic concepts; including are the dual nature of light, refraction, diffraction, interferometry, holography, linear and non-linear optical medium properties, propagation of light in optical medium, loss, scattering, dispersion, polarization, polarization dispersion loss, four wave mixing, and many others.
- Description of key photonic passive and active devices; including are filters, gratings, multi-mode and single-mode fibers, FBGs, polarizers, phase shifters, modulators, optical amplifiers (EDFA, Raman, SOA), optical switches, wavelength conversion, lasers (VCSEL, DBF, FP), and receivers.
- The DWDM and CWDM channel grid and its characteristics according to ITU-T standards, and their applicability.
- Transmission impairments and noise sources that affect the quality of the signal, BER and OSNR, and ramification strategies for dispersion compensation, polarization compensation, equalization and more.
- Optical topologies, optical networks from access (including FTTP, metro (small, medium, large), mesh, and point-to-point with add-drop). In addition, this part includes system design, network protection strategies, survivability, static and dynamic switching and wavelength assignment, routing and wavelength assignment.
- Introduction to next generation optical networks (Next-Generation SONET” and “Optical Transport Network”).
The course is supported by notes and optionally by four books authored by the instructor (published by IEEE/Wiley): “Introduction to DWDM Technology” (2001), “DWDM: Networks, Devices and Technology” (2003), “Next generation SONET/SDH” (2004), and “Optical Bit Error Rate” (2004).
Intended audience: No prerequisite is required. Basic knowledge in communications and optics will be helpful. This course is suitable to those requiring knowledge of advanced optical communications networks such as managers, technologists, optical communications technical support, scientists, and graduate students.
T2 Description:
As communication needs evolve, the current optical network requires both synchronous and asynchronous traffic with enhanced efficiently, scalability, protection strategies, and performance-cost objectives. The next generation optical network is based on DWDM technology and is designed on new standard protocols to efficiently address these requirements. This network may be viewed as an amalgamation of the best concepts from legacy synchronous and asynchronous networks, adding to it new concepts that enhance network attributes including efficiency-cost.
This short course starts with a review of critical optical network topologies, the SONET/SDH standard and DWDM technology. It describes the next generation SONET/SDH, Data-over-SONET/SDH, Packet-over-SONET/SDH, error handling, protection switching, the Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS), the Generalized Framing Procedure (GFP), the Link Access Procedure for SDH (LAPS), Internet and Ethernet over SONET/SDH, Virtual Concatenation (VC), Multi-Service Switching Platform (MSSP), Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP), Next Generation SONET/SDH over DWDM, as well as the Optical Transport Network (OTN).
This course is supported by notes and optionally by four books authored by the instructor (published by IEEE/Wiley): “Next generation SONET/SDH” (2004), “Understanding SONET/SDH and ATM” (1999), “Introduction to DWDM Technology” (2001), and “DWDM: Networks, Devices and Technology” (2003).
Intended audience: This short course is designed for general audience. It provides a synopsis of those protocols that are needed to understand the next generation optical network. Therefore, this short course becomes attractive to those that have a need for an overview of the next generation optical network, including managers, communications engineers, communications management and control, and network modeling.
T3 Description:
This tutorial provides an introduction to the Semantic Web and it technologies. The today World Wide Web is intended for the user to access and consume the contents but it provides little help to identify and locate the contents. To use the wanted contents the user must somehow obtain their URI (Uniform Resource Identifier). This justifies the popularity of Google. The Web is only intended to human being but not computer and it is therefore difficult to build software applications that can interpret, process and use the published content. The Semantic Web is a vision for the future of the Web in which information is given explicit meaning, making it easier for machines to automatically process and integrate information available on the Web. The tutorial will explain clearly the motivation of the Semantic web. The tutorial will provide an overview of the Semantic Web components which are XML, XML schemas, RDF, RDF schemas, DAML, DAML-OIL, and OWL.
Intended audience: Managers, engineers, scientists, and graduate students who want to understand the future Web and its technologies.
T4 Description:
In this half-day tutorial, we will review network architectures for next generation optical Internet networks with special focus on the optical burst switching (OBS) paradigm. Due to the exponential increase of Internet traffic, IP (Internet Protocol) has become the convergence protocol for multi-service networks. On the other hand, WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) point-to-point links are already in use by a multi-layer architecture to transport IP traffic. Although this approach increases the link bandwidth by using WDM, it does not solve the problem of network bottleneck due to the exponential traffic growth, since this solution only shifts the bottleneck problem from the link to the electronic router. A solution to this problem that also leads to lower management costs and lower complexity consists in the use of a two-layer architecture, in which IP traffic is transported directly over optical networks. This tutorial will focus the integration of IP protocol with the optical layer, in order to build the so-called optical Internet. Approaches proposed for the optical Internet, namely the Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching framework conducted by IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) and the OBS paradigm will be discussed. After presenting the most important optical switching paradigms, we will concentrate on OBS networks. Concerning OBS networks, we will consider network architectures, burst assembly process, classes’ reservation, resource reservation protocols, contention resolution, and QoS support. The recent technological developments and future trends are also discussed.
