Networks Lab Weekly Group Meeting

PLANNED SCHEDULE

Tentative schedule for the weekly group meeting for the coming weeks, as well as names of the presenters and presentation topics from the past group meetings. Please note that the planned schedule is subject to change.

Professors: Distinguished Prof. Biswanath Mukherjee, Prof. Charles Martel, Prof. Massimo Tornatore

Schedule for 2023

Day Date Speakers Topic
Friday Dec. 15, 2023 Ignazio Castrignano Federated Learning Literature Review
Friday Dec. 8, 2023 Subhadeep Sahoo Reasearch Update
Ramanuja Kalkunte Discussion on Cross-Layer Monitoring
Friday Dec. 1, 2023 Ramanuja Kalkunte IEEE ANTS Dry Run
Friday Nov. 17, 2023 Subhadeep Sahoo Tracking IP-over-DWDM Momentum as the Industry Turns Toward Convergence
Ignazio Castrignano Introductory Presentation
Friday Nov. 3, 2023 Cicek Cavdar AI assisted Green Mobile Networks
Friday Sep. 29, 2023 Forough Shirin Abkenar Tech Breaking News Sep. 22 – Sep. 28, 2023
Friday Sep. 22, 2023 Forough Shirin Abkenar Tech Breaking News Sep 17 – Sep 21, 2023
Friday Jul. 28, 2023 Forough Shirin Abkenar Preemptive and Early Failure Detection and Management (Part 3)
Friday May 19, 2023 Forough Shirin Abkenar Preemptive and Early Failure Detection and Management (Part 2)
Friday Mar. 3, 2023 Forough Shirin Abkenar Preemptive and Early Failure Detection and Management (Part 1)
Friday Feb. 10, 2023 Forough Shirin Abkenar Introductory Presentation

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Schedule for 2021-2022

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, meetings are online during all Quarters in 2021 and 2022

Schedule for 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, meetings are online during Spring, Summer, and Fall Quarters 2020

Day Date Speakers Topic
Friday Sept. 25, 2020 Tanjila Ahmed Flexible Architectures for Next-Generation Optical Networks
Ramanuja Kalkunte Introductory Presentation
Friday Sept. 18, 2020 Sifat Ferdousi Slice-Aware Service Restoration with Recovery Trucks for Optical Metro-Access Networks
Giap Le Reliable Provisioning of Deadline-driven Content Requests Using Multipath, Multidatacenter Anycasting
Friday Sept. 8, 2020 Netlab and NICT members NSF/JUNO2 Meeting
Friday Aug. 21, 2020 Abhijit Mitra Fulbright Experience in Networks Lab
Friday Mar. 20 - Sept. 11, 2020 All Netlab Members Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our Friday Group Meeting went online in mid-March, and the format also changed with all lab members giving their weekly updates. Occasionally we had talks suitable to put here. We shall return to our original format and upload our talks here when the pandemic subsides and the situation allows. Thank you for visiting our site
Friday Mar. 13, 2020 Netlab Members and Visitors PostOFC Workshop: Canceled
Friday Mar. 6, 2020 Netlab Members and Japanese Visitors Joint meeting between Netlab Members and Japanese Collaborators: Canceled
Friday Feb. 28, 2020 Ying Tang Challenges of Raman Amplification in Ultra-Wideband System
Giap Le Smart Networks In The Context of Next Generation Internet
Friday Feb. 21, 2020 Sabidur Rahman Auto-Scaling Network Service Chains Using Machine Learning and Negotiation Game - update on paper
Tanjila Ahmed Paper Review: The Emerging Landscape of Edge-Computing
Friday Feb. 14, 2020 Sifat Ferdousi New IP: Going beyond the Limits of the Internet
Abhijit Mitra TBD
Friday Feb. 7, 2020 Ying Tang New Architectures for Photonic Firewall
Giap Le Research update
Friday Jan. 31, 2020 Sabidur Rahman Auto-Scaling Network Service Chains Using Machine Learning and Negotiation Game - update on paper
Tanjila Ahmed Migration Strategies from C band to C+L Band in Optical Backbone Network
Friday Jan. 24, 2020 Abhijit Mitra TBD
Friday Jan. 17, 2020 Ying Tang All-Optical Wavelength Conversion Using Four Wave Mixing
Giap Le Algorithmic Aspects of Virtual Optical Network Embedding for Cloud Networks
Friday Jan. 10, 2020 Sabidur Rahman Auto-Scaling Network Service Chains Using Machine Learning and Negotiation Game - update on paper
Tanjila Ahmed Capacity Crunch Solution

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Schedule for 2019

Fridays, 9:30 A.M. to noon, 3083 Kemper Hall

Day Date Speakers Topic
Friday Dec. 20, 2019 Ying Tang A Reconfigurable All-Optical Logic Device Using Blue and Red Shift
Giap Le Logical Topology Mapping With Content Connectivity Against Multiple Link Failures in Optical Metro Networks
Friday Dec. 13, 2019 Sabidur Rahman Hands-on demo: supervised and unsupervised machine learning
Tanjila Ahmed Extended Capacity for Next Generation Long-Haul Networks
Friday Dec. 6, 2019 Sifat Ferdousi Slice-Aware Service Restoration with Recovery Trucks for Optical Metro-Access Networks
Abhijit Mitra TBD
Friday Nov. 22, 2019 Ying Tang Spectral Broadening induced by XPM in HNLF
Giap Le Content Connectivity Resiliency
Friday Nov. 15, 2019 Sabidur Rahman Differential privacy – basics, tools, application scenarios
Tanjila Ahmed Capacity Upgrade Through Multi-band Optical Systems
Friday Nov. 8, 2019 Sifat Ferdousi Globecom dry run
Abhijit Mitra TBD
Friday Nov. 1, 2019 Ying Tang Photonic Logic Gates based on XPM in SOA and HNLF
Giap Le Machine Learning Techniques in Optical Networks
Friday Oct. 25, 2019 Sabidur Rahman Virtualized Controller Placement for Multi-Domain Optical Transport Networks - update on invited journal
Tanjila Ahmed Migration from C to C+L Band
Friday Oct. 18, 2019 Sifat Ferdousi Slice-Aware Service Restoration for NG-MANs
Abhijit Mitra TBD
Friday Oct. 11, 2019 Ying Tang Photonic Firewall Oriented All-Optical Binary Pattern Recognition
Giap Le Algorithm Complexity Considerations of Content Connectivity Problem Formulation
Friday Oct. 4, 2019 Sabidur Rahman Jupyter Notebook as a Service - knowledge sharing from summer internship at AT&T Labs
Tanjila Ahmed Building TOSCA models from network topologies using computer vision
Friday Sept. 27, 2019 Sifat Ferdousi Satellite Communications for 5G
Friday Sept. 20, 2019 Abhijit Mitra TBD
Friday Sept. 13, 2019 Giap Le Advanced Disaster-Resiliency Strategies for NextGeneration Metro Optical Networks in the Context of Smart Cities
Friday Sept. 6, 2019 Giap Le Content Connectivity Optimization Problem from an Implementation Aspect
Friday Aug. 30, 2019 Sifat Ferdousi Discussion on SCC proposal
Friday Aug. 23, 2019 Giap Le Content Connectivity Against Multilink Failures in Optical Metro Networks: Result Comparison
Friday Aug. 16, 2019 Sifat Ferdousi Discussion on SCC proposal
Friday Aug. 9, 2019 Giap Le Content-connected Protection in Optical Networks: Definition, Classification, and Approaches
Friday Aug. 2, 2019 No meeting NA
Friday July 26, 2019 No meeting NA
Friday July 19, 2019 Sifat Ferdousi Beyond 5G? What comes after that: 6G
Friday July 12, 2019 Giap Le Network connectivity and Content connectivity: Result updates
Friday July 5, 2019 Andrea Marotta Reliable Slicing
Friday June 28, 2019 Sifat Ferdousi Cooperative Content Caching in 5G Networks with Mobile Edge Computing
Friday June 21, 2019 Giap Le Problem Formulation of Content Connectivity against a Double-link Failure
Friday June 14, 2019 Tanjila Ahmed Future Research Ideas on Flexible Network Architectures
Friday June 7, 2019 Andrea Marotta Dynamic Crosstalk-Aware Lightpath Provisioning in Spectrally–Spatially Flexible Optical Networks
Friday May 31, 2019 Sabidur Rahman Auto-Scaling service chains - update
Friday May 24, 2019 Sifat Ferdousi Vehicular Edge Computing
Friday May 17, 2019 Giap Le Network Connectivity and Content Connectivity Implementations in IBM Ilog Cplex Opt. Studio
Friday May 10, 2019 Tanjila Ahmed Paper Review: Spectrum Trading between Virtual Optical Networks Embedded in an Elastic Optical Network
Friday May 3, 2019 Andrea Marotta Reliable Slicing
Friday April 26, 2019 Sabidur Rahman Auto-Scaling Service Chains: status update
Friday April 19, 2019 Sifat Ferdousi Paper review: network slicing
Friday April 12, 2019 Giap Le Optimization Problems in Network Design
Friday April 5, 2019 Tanjila Ahmed Paper Review: Evaluation of Elastic Modulation Gains in Microsoft’s Optical Backbone in North America
Friday Mar. 29, 2019 Andrea Marotta Integrated Optical-Wireless Reliable Slicing
Friday Mar. 22, 2019 Sabidur Rahman Auto-Scaling Service Chains
Friday Mar. 15, 2019 Sifat Ferdousi Disaggregated Emergency Optical System for Quick Disaster Recovery
Friday Feb. 22, 2019 Giap Le Survivable content connectivity in metro optical networks
Friday Feb. 15, 2019 Tanjila Ahmed The Concept of Network Slicing
Friday Feb. 8, 2019 Sabidur Rahman Controller Placement for Multi-Domain Optical Transport Networks
Friday Feb. 1, 2019 Sifat Ferdousi Migration, Management, and Orchestration for 5G networks
Friday Jan. 25, 2019 Giap Le Survivable Lightpath Mapping for Content and Network Connectivity against Single-Link and Multi-Link Failures
Friday Jan. 18, 2019 Tanjila Ahmed Dynamic Routing and Spectrum Assignment in Co-Existing Fixed/Flex Grid Optical Networks
Friday Jan. 11, 2019 Sabidur Rahman Evolution of smart citites: concepts, services, applications, infrastructures, and technologies

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Schedule for 2018

Fridays, 9:30 A.M. to noon, 3083 Kemper

Day Date Speakers Topic
Friday Dec. 14, 2018 Group discussion Resilience Techniques in Software Defined Metro Optical Networks within the Scope of Smart Cities
Friday Dec. 7, 2018 Lin Wang Exit Seminar for Dr. Wang
Friday Nov. 30, 2018 Phoenix Catalyzing the Internet of Things and smart cities
Friday Nov. 16, 2018 Giap Le Disaster-Resiliency Strategies for Next-Generation Metro Optical Networks
Friday Nov. 9, 2018 Sabidur Rahman Journal review
Friday Nov. 2, 2018 Lin Wang Internet traffic classification based on flows’statistical properties with machine learning
Friday Oct. 26, 2018 Tanjila Ahmed An Agile Optical Spectrum Management Algorithm For Mixed-grid Network
Friday Oct. 19, 2018 Sabidur Rahman Blockchain technology and its’ usecases in computer networks
Phoenix Disaster resilient networks for smart city
Friday Oct. 12, 2018 Sifat Ferdousi Disaster resiliency for big data networks
Friday Oct. 5, 2018 Lin Wang Hybrid electro-optical intra-data center networks tailored for different traffic classes
Tao Gao 2018 NFV Report: State of the VNF Ecosystem
Friday Sep. 28, 2018 Phoenix Disaster resilient networks for smart city
Friday Sep. 21, 2018 Sabidur Rahman T-SDN: Controllers for transport networks
Tanjila Ahmed An Agile Optical Spectrum Management Algorithm For Mixed-grid Network
Friday Sep. 14, 2018 Lin Wang Leveraging Deep Learning to Achieve Efficient Resource Allocation with Traffic Evaluation in Datacenter Optical Networks
Sifat Ferdousi Piecing together the 5G big picture
Friday Sep. 7, 2018 Tanjila Ahmed Dynamic Routing and Spectrum Assignment in Co-Existing Fixed/Flex-Grid Optical Networks
Tao Gao Demand-adaptive VNF placement and scheduling in optical datacenter networks
Friday Aug. 31, 2018 Sabidur Rahman Qualyfing exam dry run
Friday Aug. 24, 2018 Lin Wang A Novel Bandwidth Allocation Scheme for OTSS-enabled Flex-grid Intra-datacenter Networks
Friday Aug. 17, 2018 Sifat Ferdousi Network Slicing in Smart Cities
Friday Aug. 10, 2018 Sabidur Rahman Dynamic controller deployment for mixed-grid optical network
Tao Gao Demand-adaptive VNF placement and scheduling in optical datacenter networks
Friday Aug. 3, 2018 Lin Wang Machine-Learning-Based Flow scheduling in OTSS-enabled Datacenters
Friday July 27, 2018 Sifat Ferdousi Future research direction
Yu Wu Cost-Efficient Resource Sharing in Ethernet-based 5G Mobile Fronthaul Networks
Friday July 13, 2018 Abhishek Gupta White Paper Review: SGW-LBO solution for MEC Taking services to the Edge
Rafael Lourenco Taking the Edge off with Espresso: Scale, Reliability and Programmability for Global Internet Peering
Friday July 6, 2018 Sabidur Rahman Evolution of control plane for Elastic Optical Networks - GMPLS, SDN and beyond
Friday June 29, 2018 Rafael Lourenco Programming the network forwarding plane (P4 language)
Friday June 22, 2018 Tao Gao Paper Review
Friday June 8, 2018 Sabidur Rehman IEEE ICC 2018 Keynotes Review
Zhizhen Zhong Exploiting Optical-Layer Flexibility for Demand-Responsive Networking
Friday June 1, 2018 Lin Wang Machine-Learning-Based Flow scheduling in OTSS-enabled Datacenters
Rafael Lourenco TBD
Friday May 25, 2018 Youngseok Lee Crawling TOR Hidden Service with Dockers
Abhishek Gupta Exit Seminar: Minimizing Operating Expenditure of Cloud and Communication Networks using Virtualization Technologies
Friday May 18, 2018 Abhishek Gupta Exit Seminar Dry Run
Tao Gao Cost-efficient VNF Placement and Scheduling in Cloud Networks
Friday May 11, 2018 Yu Wu Baseband Function Placement in Ethernet-based 5G Fronthaul Networks
Zizhen Zhong Design and Implementation for Demand-Responsive Cross-Layer Networking (part 2)
Friday May 4, 2018 Tanjila Ahmed Paper Review: An Efficient Spectrum Assignment Algorithm Based On Variable-grouping Mechanism For Flex-grid Optical Networks
Sabidur Rehman ICC Dry Run
Friday April 27, 2018 Zizhen Zhong Rethinking Cross-Layer (IP-over-Optical) Demand-Responsive Networking
Rafael Lourenco Demand-Responsive Optical Networks
Friday April 20, 2018 Tao Gao Paper Review - Performance Considerations of Network Function Virtualization using Containers
Youngseok Lee Paper Review - A Study of User Behavior in Online VoD Services
Friday April 13, 2018 Yu Wu Graph-based Framework for Flexible Baseband Function Splitting and Placement in C-RAN
Abhishek Gupta Paper Review
Friday April 7, 2018 Zhizhen Zhong Recent thoughts on "Demand-Responsive Networking"
Lin Wang Virtual-Pod-Assisted Routing and Resource Assignment in Elastic All-Optical Intra-Datacenter Networks
Friday March 30, 2018 Tanjila Ahmed Data analytics based origin-destination core traffic modeling
Sabidur Rehman Meeting the requirements to deploy cloud RAN over optical networks: elastic optical network resources meet compute resources
Friday March 23, 2018 Tao Gao Service-aware Dynamic NFV Resource Alllocation
Rafael Lourenco Minimizing User Wait Time During Resource Crunch
Friday March 9, 2018 Abhishek Gupta Paper Review
Yu Wu Towards Bandwidth-Efficient Ethernet-Based 5G Mobile Fronthaul Networks
Friday March 2, 2018 Tanjila Ahmed New Distance-Adaptive Modulation Scheme for Elastic Optical Networks
Sabidur Rehman Akamai Edge 2017 Review
Friday February 23, 2018 Zhizhen Zhong Controller Envoys: Enabling Scalable Virtualization in DC and HPC Networks
Youngseok Lee Paper survey related with web/app performance optimization and MEC
Friday February 16, 2018 Tao Gao Paper Review - Specifying and Placing Chains of Virtual Network Functions
Lin Wang Paper Review - Machine-Learning-Based Coflow scheduling in OTSS-enabled Datacenters
Friday February 9, 2018 Rafael Lourenco Detecting, Identifying, and Localizing Soft Failures in Optical Networks
Yu Wu Paper Review - DIANA: A Machine Learnining Mechanism for Adjusting the TDD Uplink-Downlink Configuration in XG-PON-LTE Systems
Friday February 2, 2018 Abhishek Gupta Paper Review
Zhizhen Zhong Exploiting Temporal Domain for a Transparent Fine-Grained Optical Network
Friday January 26, 2018 Tanjila Ahmed Dynamic routing and resource allocation in a elastic optical network using learning algorithms
Sabidur Rehman Understanding mobile service usage and user behavior pattern for MEC Resource Management (assignment, scaling, and migration)
Friday January 19, 2018 Youngseok Lee Paper Survey
Lin Wang Priority-aware coflow placement and scheduling in datacenters
Friday January 12, 2018 Yu Wu Content Fragmentation: A New Inter-Data Center Content Redundancy Scheme to Saving Energy in Optical Cloud Networks
Tao Gao A Shared Segment Protection Approach for Distributed Sub-Tree Based Optical Multicasting Scheme in Elastic Optical Datacenter Networks
Friday January 5, 2018 Abhishek Gupta Virtual Mobile Core Placement in Metro Area
Rafael Lourenco Robust Control Plane for Transport Software Defined Networks

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Schedule for 2017

Fridays, 9:30 A.M. to noon, 3083 Kemper

Day Date Speakers Topic
Friday December 15, 2017 Tanjila Ahmed Internet Traffic Classification using Machine Learning
Sabidur Rehman Understanding mobile service usage for MEC placement, scaling, and migration
Friday December 8, 2017 Yongseok Lee A Look at Mobile Video Streaming Data - Korea
Lin Wang Exploiting Inter-Flow Relationship for Coflow Placemecemnt in Datacenters
Friday December 1, 2017 Tao Gao Performance Analysis of a Data-Driven Quality-of-Transmission Decision Approach on a Dynamic Multicast-Capable Metro Optical Network
Friday November 17, 2017 Yu Wu Content Fragmentation: A New Inter-Data Center Content Redundancy Scheme to Saving Energy in Optical Cloud Networks
Abhishek Gupta Virtual Mobile Core Placement for Metro Area
Friday November 10, 2017 Rafael Lourenco Paper Survey - Capacitated Next Controller Placement in Software Defined Networks
Tanjila Ahmed Internet Traffic Classification Techniques
Friday November 3, 2017 Lin Wang Optical Interconnection Networks in Data Centers - Recent Trends and Future Challenges
Sabidur Rehman Innovations in Edge Computing and MEC
Friday October 27, 2017 Yongseok Lee Mobile App Speed Index - How fast or slow is the mobile app?
Tao Gao Survivability of Elastic Optical Datacenter Networks based on Content Connectivity
Friday October 20, 2017 Sifat Ferdousi Network Slice Recovery with VRP
Abhishek Gupta Virtual Evolved Packet Core Placement in Metro Core
Friday October 13, 2017 Yu Wu Apply Google Cloud Takeaways To Research
Sabidur Rehman Scaling of Virtual Network Functions and Network using machine learning
Friday October 6, 2017 Lin Wang Topics Presentation
Rafael Lourenco Topics Presentation
Friday September 29, 2017 Wei Wang Coordinating Multi-access Edge Computing with TDM-PON based Mobile Fronthaul for 5G
Tanjila Ahmed Dynamic Routing and Spectrum Assignment in Brown-field Fixed/Flex Grid Optical Network
Friday September 22, 2017 Abhishek Gupta Paper Review
Youngseok Lee 6-Year of Broadband Performance in Korea
Friday September 15, 2017 Sedef Savas Exit Seminar
Sifat Ferdousi TBD
Friday September 8, 2017 Sabidur Rehman Joint Scaling of Virtual Network Functions and Network to Minimize Operational and Leasing Cost
Wei Wang What can MEC do for TDM PON based Mobile Fronthaul?
Friday September 1, 2017 Sedef Savas Fast Control-Path Recovery After Failures In SDN
Tanjila Ahmed Fix to Felx Grid Migration Strategies for Next-Gen Optical Network
Friday August 25, 2017 Abhishek Gupta Paper Review
Youngseok Lee Review of Mobile Traffic Monitoring Paper
Friday August 18, 2017 Sifat Ferdousi TBD
Wei Wang Dynamic Virtual Machine Placement and Migration for Multi-access Edge Computing
Friday August 11, 2017 Sedef Savas The Impact of Control Path Survivability on Data Plane Survivability in SDN
Tanjila Ahmed Book Chapter Review - Evolution from Wavelength-Switched to Flex-Grid Optical Networks
Friday August 4, 2017 Abhishek Gupta Paper Review
Youngseok Lee Internet Traffic Measurement Research@DNLAB
Friday July 28, 2017 Sifat Ferdousi TBD
Friday July 21, 2017 Tanjila Ahmed Migration Towards Terascale Flexible-Grid Optical Networks
Sedef Savas Various Studies on SDN
Friday July 14, 2017 Abhishek Gupta Deploying Multiple Service Chain (SC) Instances per Service Chain
Wei Wang Paper Review on Mobile Fronthaul Networks
Friday July 7, 2017 Sifat Ferdousi TBD
Tanjila Ahmed A Machine Learning-based Framework for Building Application Failure Prediction Models
Friday June 30, 2017 Sedef Savas Reliability in SDN Control Plane
Friday June 23, 2017 Abhishek Gupta Deploying Multiple Service Chain (SC) Instances per Service Chain
Wei Wang Multi-access Edge Computing over Fiber Wireless Networks for 5G Era
Thursday June 15, 2017 Sabidur Rehman Joint Scaling Of Virtual Network Functions and Network to Minimize Operational and Leasing Cost
Lin Wang Datacenter Traffic Measurement and Classification
Friday June 9, 2017 Yu Wu Review
Divya Chittimalla TBD
Friday June 2, 2017 Tanjila Ahmed Paper Review - Network Support for Resource Disaggregation in Next-Generation Datacenters
Friday May 26, 2017 Sedef Savas Survivable VNE
Abhishek Gupta Review Report: Powering NFV - Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)
Friday May 19, 2017 Wei Wang Paper Review of Collaborative Mobile Edge Computing
Sabidur Rehman ICC 2017 Dry Run
Friday May 12, 2017 Rafael Lourenco Qualifying Exam Dry Run
Lin Wang Optical Interconnection Networks in Data Centers - Recent Trends and Future Challenges
Friday May 5, 2017 Sifat Ferdousi TBD
Eric Sturzinger Application-Sliced Resource Provisioning for Next-Generation Metro Networks
Friday April 28, 2017 Yu Wu A Study for LTE Uplink Transmission and CPRI Hyper Frame Usefulness Classification
Divya Chittimalla Scalable Algorithms for Jitter Minimized Scheduling in Reconfigurable CoE
Friday April 21, 2017 Tanjila Ahmed Resource Disaggregation for Virtual Data Center Provisioning in Optical Data Centers
Abhishek Gupta Deploying Multiple Service Chain (SC) Instances per Service Chain
Friday April 14, 2017 Sedef Savas Enduring Node Failures through Resilient Conntroller Placement for Software Defined Networks
Sabidur Rehman Scaling Virtual Network Functions to Minimize Operational Cost
Friday April 7, 2017 Wei Wang VM Placement and Workload Assignment for Mobile Edge Computing
Rafael Lourenco Network Adaptability under Resource Crunch
Friday March 31, 2017 Xinbo Wang Exit Seminar Dry Run
Yu Wu TDM E-PON Front-haul Capacity Improvement Through Traffic Classification and Sifting
Friday March 10, 2017 Eric Sturzinger Paper Review: The Deep Learning Vision for Heterogenous Network Traffic Control: Proposals, Challenges, and Future Perspective
Sifat Ferdousi OFC Dry Run
Friday March 3, 2017 Abhishek Gupta Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) as a service
Divya Chittimalla Amazon Web Services
Friday February 24, 2017 Tanjila Ahmed Time Synchronization for an Optically Groomed Data Center Network
Lin Wang Low-latency Photonic Packet Switches with large number of ports
Friday February 17, 2017 Sedef Savas Help from the Sky: Leveraging UAVs for Disaster Management
Sabidur Rehman Migration of groups of virtual machines in distributed data centers to reduce cost
Friday February 10, 2017 Xinbo Wang Distributed System Design -- Advanced View
Wei Wang Latency-Aware Virtual Machine Placement for Mobile Edge Computing
Friday February 3, 2017 Rafael Lourenco Resource Allocation for Space-Division Multiplexing - Optical White Box Versus Optical Black Box Networking
Yu Wu Data Center Cost Models
Friday January 27, 2017 Eric Sturzinger US Military Tactical Networks
Sifat Ferdousi Cost and Performance Comparison of Replication and Erasure Coding
Friday January 20, 2017 Abhishek Gupta Discussion on SDN and NFV
Divya Chittimalla V-RAN & Network Slicing -- IEEE 5G Berlin Summit slides
Friday January 13, 2017 Lin Wang DOS - A Scalable Optical Switch for Datacenters
Yong Li Zhao Optimal Workload Allocation in Fog-Cloud Computing Toward Balanced Delay and Power Consumption

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Schedule for 2016

Fridays, 9:30 A.M. to noon, 1131 Kemper

Day Date Speakers Topic
Friday December 22, 2016 Sabidur Rehman Big data and machine learning for network research problems
Tanjila Ahmed Clock Synchronization over Packet Switched Network
Friday December 16, 2016 Wei Wang Latency Aware Provisioning of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) Servers under MEC Server Congestion
Sedef Savas Disaster-Resilient Control Plane Design
Friday December 9, 2016 Xinbo Wang Distributed System Design -- A Beginner's View
Yu Wu Deadline-Driven Bandwidth Allocation with Flexible Transmission Rates in WDM Networks
Friday December 2, 2016 Sifat Ferdousi Progressive Recovery of Virtual Infrastructure Services after Large Disasters
Rafael Lourenco Consistent SDN Flow Migration aided by Optical Circuit Switching
Wednesday November 23, 2016 Divya Chittimalla Joint resource allocation for combined fronthaul/midhaul/backhaul using Ethernet
Eric Sturzinger MAN Optimization via Clog Computing for a Hetergeneous Internet of Things
Friday November 18, 2016 YongLi Zhao Resource Allocation in Dynamic Optical Networks Secured by Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)
Anliang Cai Scheduling of Control Information Synchronization via Optical Multicasting
Friday November 11, 2016 Lin Wang Priority-aware Scheduling for Packet Switched Optical Networks in Datacenter
Abhishek Gupta Multiple Virtual Network Function Service Chain Placement and Routing using Column Generation
Friday November 4, 2016 Sabidur Rehman Auto-Scaling of Network Resources
Tanjila Ahmed Clock Synchronization within Datacenter
Friday October 28, 2016 Sedef Savas Disaster-Resilient Control Plane Design
Wei Wang Paper Review of Mobile Edge Computing
Friday October 21, 2016 Anliang Cai Multicast Routing Algorithms for Sparse Splitting Optical Networks
Zhanqi Xu RSA and research suggestions in EONs
Friday October 14, 2016 Sifat Ferdousi Joint Progressive Recovery of Optical Network and Datacenters After Large-Scale Disasters
Yongcheng Li Restoration in Optical Cloud Networks with Relocation and Service Differentiation
Friday October 7, 2016 Raphael Lourenco Google Summer Internship
Yu Wu Dynamic Traffic-Adaptive Topology Reconfiguration in 5G Optical Hybrid Fronthaul Networks
Friday September 30, 2016 Divya Chittimalla Deep Learning Review
Eric Sturzinger MAN Optimization via Constraint-Based Routing in a Heterogenous Internet of Things
Friday September 23, 2016 Abhishek Gupta Paper Review - Joint Topology Design and Mapping of Service Function Chains for Efficient, Scalable, and Reliable Network Functions Virtualization
YongLi Zhao Resource Map Construction in Security-hungry Optical Networks with Quantum Key Distribution
Friday September 16, 2016 Xinbo Wang A Quantitative Approach to Design Low-Cost Edge-CRAN
Lin Wang On the Performance of a Large-Scale Optical Packet Switch Under Realistic Data Center Traffic
Friday September 9, 2016 Zhizhen Zhong Network Adaptation for Incremental Traffic Fluctuation and Anomaly
Tanjila Ahmed Packet Switched Optical Network in Data Center
Friday September 2, 2016 Sabidur Rehman SUMMER 2016: INTERNSHIP AT AT&T LABS
Anliang Cai Multicast Routing and Distance-Adaptive Spectrum Allocation in Elastic Optical Networks with Shared Protection
Friday August 26, 2016 Yongcheng Li Risk-Aware Rapid Data Evacuation for Large-Scale Disasters in Optical Cloud Networks
Divya Chittimalla IEEE 1914 Copenhagen Summary
Friday August 19, 2016 Sifat Ferdousi Modeling disruption and dynamic response of water networks
Eric Sturzinger Network Optimization via Path Selection in a Heterogeneous Cloud-Based Internet of Things
Friday August 12, 2016 Zhizhen Zhong On QoS-Assured Degraded Provisioning in Service-Differentiated Multi-Layer Elastic Optical Networks
Tanjila Ahmed Optical Interconnects in Datacenters
Friday August 5, 2016 Yongcheng Li Performance Analysis of Storage-Based Routing for Circuit-Switched Networks
Divya Chittimalla Protocol Independent Forwarding by Nick McKeown
Friday July 29, 2016 Carlos Coleman TBD
Abhishek Gupta On Service Chaining using Virtual Network Functions in Operator Networks (Major Revision)
Friday July 22, 2016 Sifat Ferdousi A Cascade-Based Emergency Model for Water Distribution Network
Eric Sturzinger Basic Architecture & Routing in the Internet of Things
Friday July 15, 2016 Divya Chittimalla Oversubscription Dimensioning of Next-Generation PONs With Different Service Levels
Friday July 8, 2016 Yongcheng Li Graph-model-based dynamic routing and spectrum assignment in elastic optical networks
Yong Li Zhao Fog Computing may help to save energy in Cloud Computing
Friday July 1, 2016 Abhishek Gupta United States Data Center Energy Usage Report
Eric Sturzinger Multi-Area Centralized Control Plane of an EON
Friday June 24, 2016 Sifat Ferdousi Modeling disruption and dynamic reposnse of water/sewage line networks
Divya Chittimalla Programmable Networks - P4 overview
Friday June 17, 2016 Yongcheng Li Leveraging adaptive modulation with multi-hop routing in elastic optical networks
Yong Li Zhao Network Function Virtualization for Software Defined Optical Transport Networks
Friday June 10, 2016 Abhishek Gupta Edge Datacenter Placement
Friday June 3, 2016 Sifat Ferdousi Probabilistic region failure-aware data center network and content placement
Divya Chittimalla TSN for Jitter Minimization in Reconfigurable Fronthaul
Friday May 27, 2016 Abhishek Roy Particle Swarm Optimization
Yong Li Zhao Crosstalk-aware Spectrum Defragmenation in SDM-EON
Friday May 20, 2016 Tanjila Ahmed Traffic Characteristics of Machine to Machine Communication Network
Yongcheng Li Route Partitioning Scheme for Elastic Optical Networks with Hitless Defragmentation
Friday May 13, 2016 Lin Wang Multiple-dimensional Markov Chain Model on Channel Bonding
Carlos Coleman Paper Survey
Friday May 6, 2016 Raphael Lourenco Post-Disaster data evacuation from isolated data centers through LEO Satellite Networks
Sabidur Rehman Dynamic workload-aware algorithhm for VM placement and migration in optical data center to minimize electricity cost
Friday April 29, 2016 Abhishek Gupta Survey : VNF Placement and Routing
Friday April 22, 2016 Sifat Ferdousi Survey for Content Delivery Networks
Divya Chitimalla TSN for jitter minimization in reconfigurable fronthaul
Friday April 15, 2016 Yong Li Zhao Hybrid Computing Resource Collaboration Combining Cloud and Fog with Software Defined Networking
Abhishek Roy Analysis of Traffic for Adaptive Resource Allocation in 5G Networks
Friday April 8, 2016 Yongcheng Li Rapid Data Evacuation
Tanjila Ahmed PON for supporting IOT
Friday April 1, 2016 Lin Wang Critical C-RAN Technologies
Sabidur Rehman Electricity Cost Minimization in Data Centers using Live VM Migration
Friday March 18, 2016 Abhishek Gupta Towards a Service-Oriented Virtual Evolved Packet Core
Carlos Coleman Resilient Cloud-Network Placement and Mapping for Multi-Domain and Multi-tenant Access C-RAN
Friday March 11, 2016 Sifat Ferdousi Paper Review - "A Wireless Link-Up Augmentation Design for Disaster-Resilient Optical networks"
Raphael Laurenco Post-Disaster Data Evacuation through Aerial Platforms
Friday March 4, 2016 Xinbo Wang Virtualization in Mobile Networks
Divya Chitimalla When ICN meets C-RAN for HetNets
Friday February 26, 2016 Abhishek Gupta Survey ETSI NFV papers
Sedef Savas What can be saved with limited recovery resources exploiting service differentiation?
Friday February 19, 2016 Abhishek Roy Mobile Edge Computing
Yu Wu Fog Computing in Radio Access Networks
Friday February 12, 2016 Yong Li Zhao What Applications Can be Deployed with Software Defined Elastic Optical Networks?
Raphael Lourenco Post-HEMP Data Evacuation through Satellite Networks
Friday February 5, 2016 Yongcheng Li Applying Hadoop Cloud Computing Technique to Optimal Design of Optical Networks
Carlos Coleman Resilient Cloud-Network Placement and Mapping for Multi-Domain and Multi-tenant Access C-RAN
Friday January 29, 2016 Sifat Ferdousi Bringing movable and deployable networks into disaster area
Sabidur Rehman VM Migration Survey
Friday January 22, 2016 Xinbo Wang Constraint programming (CP) and IBM CP optimizer
Divya Chitimalla Application aware converged access network
Friday January 15, 2016 Cicek Cavdar Green 5G Mobile Networks
Gustavo Figueiredo Planning and Dimensioning in H-CRAN
Friday January 8, 2015 Abhishek Gupta Mobile Edge Computing

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Schedule for 2015

Fridays, 9:30 A.M. to noon, 1131 Kemper

Day Date Speakers Topic
Friday December 11, 2015 Abhishek Roy TBD
Friday December 4, 2015 Raphael Lourenco Combating WMD Attacks in Multi-Layer Mesh Networks: From Analytical Studies to Prototype
Carlos Coleman Dry run for Globecom
Wednesday November 25, 2015 Lin Wang On the Performance of Hybrid-PON Scheduling Strategies for NG-EPON
Friday November 13, 2015 Yongcheng Li Quasi-CWDM technology
Friday November 6, 2015 Sifat Ferdousi Progressive Datacenter recovery after a large-scale disaster
Abhishek Roy Failure Propagation in Interdependent Networks
Friday October 30, 2015 Abhishek Gupta Linear Programming with emphasis on Column Generation
Divya Chitimalla CPRI and Re-configurable Fronthaul
Friday October 23, 2015 Carlos Coleman Cloud Computing Infrastructure Sustainability : Energy Efficient and Resilient Access Cloud Networks
Friday October 16, 2015 Xinbo Wang Critical C-RAN Technologies
Tanjila Ahmed Past Research
Friday October 9, 2015 Sifat Ferdousi Progressive Network Recovery in Optical Core Networks
Sabidur Rehman Past Research
Friday September 25, 2015 Abhishek Gupta Towards a service-oriented virtual evolved packet core
Gustavo Figueiredo Paper Review: Heterogenous Cloud Radio Access Networks: A new perspective for enhancing spectral and energy efficiencies
Friday September 18, 2015 Lin Wang What 5G will be?
Divya Chitimalla Application-Specific and QoS-Aware Scheduling for Wireless Systems
Friday September 11, 2015 Raphael Laurenco High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) and Satelllite Networks
Carlos Coleman Cloud Computing Infrastructure Sustainability: Resilient Cloud Networks
Friday September 4, 2015 Matteo Fiorani Optical Interconnects for Data Centers
Friday August 28, 2015 Zhizhen Zhong Quality of Service in Optical Telecommunication Networks
Chen Ma Post-Disaster Technologies in Network Virtualization
Thursday August 20, 2015 Yu Wu Risk-and-Renewable-Energy-Aware Sub-content placement
Sedef Savas Application-Aware IP networks with dynamic priority queue selection
Friday August 14, 2015 Abhishek Gupta SDN-NFV joint optimization
Lluis Gifre ABNO-driven Content Distribution in the Telecom Cloud
Friday August 7, 2015 Gustavo Figueiredo Software-Defined (User driven) Optical Switching
Wei Lu Paper Review on Cluster Computing
Friday July 31, 2015 Wei Lu Paper Review on Cluster Computing
Lin Wang Next Generation EPON (NG-EPON)
Friday July 24, 2015 Abhishek Gupta On Service-Chaining Strategies using Virtual Network Functions in Operator Networks
Friday July 17, 2015 Zhizhen Zhong Network Convergence for Traffic Asymmetry
Friday July 10, 2015 Sifat Ferdousi Disaster-Resilient Networking: A New Vision Based on Movable and Deployable Resource Units
Carlos Coleman Many Objective Optimization of Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data-centers.
Friday June 26, 2015 Yu Wu Facebook Data Center
Wei Lu Paper Review on Software-Defined Networking
Friday June 19, 2015 Xinbo Wang Dynamic handover reduction in CRAN
Abhishek Roy QE Dry Run
Friday June 12, 2015 Abhishek Gupta Paper Review - On Orchestrating Virtual Network Functions in NFV
Chen Ma Energy-Efficient Resilient Optical Networks: Challenges and Trade-offs
Friday June 5, 2015 Sedef Savas Integration of High-Altitude Platforms, Satellite Networks, and Terrestrial Networks
Divya Chitimalla OFC 2015 review
Friday May 29, 2015 Gustavo Support to Coordinated Multipoint using Virtual Passive Optical Networks
Friday May 22, 2015 Carlos Coleman Multi-Objective Virtual Machine Placement with Service Level Agreement
Partha Bhaumik Software-Defined Access Networks
Friday May 15, 2015 Wei Lu OFC-Review: Resource Allocation and Migration to EON, Grooming and Traffic Asymmetry
Sifat Ferdousi OFC-Review: Network Resilience, Cloud and Datacenter
Friday May 8, 2015 Chen Ma OFC-Review : Architecture of Multi-Controller in SDN
Xinbo Wang OFC-Review : Next Generation of Mobile Fronthaul
Friday May 1, 2015 Abhishek Roy Deffered Protection
Friday April 24, 2015 Sedef Savas Disaster-Area Communication using Satellite Networks
Wei Lu research progress report on hybrid reservations in optical networks
Friday April 17, 2015 Abhishek Gupta Paper Review - Reducing Electricity Cost Through Virtual Machine Placement in High Performance Computing Clouds
Divya Chitimalla SDN vs. GMPLS in recovery
Friday April 10, 2015 Gustavo Minimum Interference Routing/Batch scheduling of request in OBS Networks
Carlos Coleman Cloud Network Disaster Recovery Against Cascading Failures and Extensions
Friday April 3, 2015 Brigitte Jaumard Resilient Distributed Design of Very Large Multi-Domain Optical Networks
Tuesday March 31, 2015 Brigitte Jaumard Large-Scale Optimization: Meta-heuristics and Decomposition Techniques
Friday March 20, 2015 Chen Ma OFC Dry Run
Massimo Tornatore OFC Dry Run
Divya Chittimala OFC Dry Run
Yu Wu OFC Dry Run
Friday March 13, 2015 Sifat Ferdousi OFC Dry Run
Wei Lu OFC Dry Run
Xinbo Wang OFC Dry Run
Friday March 6, 2015 Chen Ma Adaptive Logical Provisioning for SDON
Sifat Ferdousi Network Design Requirements for Disaster Resilience in IaaS Clouds
Friday February 27, 2015 Yu Wu Intelligent Placement of Datacenter for Internet Services
Abhishek Roy Sparse Matrix Techniques
Friday February 20, 2015 Raphael Lourenco A Markov-Transition Model for Cascading Failures in Power Grids
Wei Lu Paper review on 5G, SDN and optical networks
Friday February 13, 2015 Abhishek Gupta Paper review - Green Cloud Computing and NFV
Sedef Savas Paper review
Friday February 6, 2015 Divya Chitimala SDN vs. GMPLS in recovery
Carlos Coleman A Novel Multiple-Cascading Resilient Cloud-Network Disaster Recovery
Friday January 30, 2015 Chen Ma Traveling repairman problem with multiple trucks in multiple bases
Xinbo Wang Energy-efficient Virtual Base Station Formation in Optical-Accessed-Enabled Software-Defined CRAN (extension)
Friday January 23, 2015 Sifat Ferdousi Mobile Datacenters
Wei Lu Reducing Service Interferences Between Immediate and Advance Reservations in Elastic Optical Networks With Predicted Traffic Profiles
Friday January 16, 2015 Divya Chitimalla ANTS'14 Extension - Application Aware EPON (downstream)
Carlos Coleman Cloud Network mapping and recovery in multi-intensity disaster with capacity dimensioning
Friday January 9, 2015 Chen Ma Traveling repairman problem in all-optical network
Abhishek Roy Development of Models for the Time Evolution of Realistic Multilayered Networks in Response to Large-Scale Damage
Friday January 2, 2015 Xinbo Wang Plans for journal extension of ?Green Virtual Base Station in Optical-Accessed-Enabled Cloud-RAN?

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Schedule for 2014

Day Date Speakers Topic
Friday December 19, 2014 Sifat Ferdousi Minimizing Disaster Backup Window for Geo-Distributed Multi-Datacenter Cloud Systems
Friday November 21, 2014 Chen Ma Traveling Repairman Problem
Abhishek Gupta On service chaining strategies using virtual network functions in operator networks
Friday November 14, 2014 Sedef Savas Virtual Control Plane Mapping Problem in SDN
Abhishek Roy Network Adaptability under Resource Crunch
Friday November 7, 2014 Yu Wu Renewable-Energy-Aware Data Center Placement in Optical Cloud Networks
Sifat Ferdousi Rapid data evacuation for large-scale disasters
Friday October 31, 2014 Farhan Habib Cascading-Failure-Resilient Interconnection for Interdependent Power Grid - Optical Networks
Rakhee Tiwari Disaster-Aware Service Provisioning By Exploiting Software Defined Networking
Friday October 24, 2014 Chen Ma Scheme for Optical Network Recovery Schedule to Restore Virtual Networks after a Disaster
Wei Lu Advance Reservation (AR) and Immediate Reservation (IR)
Friday October 17, 2014 Divya Chitimalla OFC'15 - Application Aware EPON (Upstream)
Abhishek Gupta On placement of virtual netwok function in optical cloud networks
Friday October 10, 2014 Sedef Savas Survivable distributed control plane mapping and design in SDN
Ninghai Bao Fairness-aware Re-provisioning Heuristic Algorithm for Post-disaster Networks
Friday October 3, 2014 Raphael Lourenco An Analytical Method to Calculate the Interval Availability of Connections in WDM Networks
Sifat Ferdousi Rapid data evacuation for large-scale disasters
Friday September 26, 2014 Chen Ma Protection for Multi-Link Failure in Optical Networks
Wei Lu Introduction to Previous work on Elastic Optical Networks
Friday September 19, 2014 Lluis Gifre Renom Experimental Assessment of Disaster Recovery in Large DC Virtual Network Topologies over Optical Networks
Friday September 12, 2014 Abhishek Gupta Qualifying Exam dry run
Divya Chitimalla Qualifying Exam dry run
Friday Sept. 5, 2014 Ninghai Bao TBD
Xinbo Wang Green Virtual Base Station in Cloud Access Radio Networks
Friday August 29, 2014 Divya Chitimalla Appication Aware SDN Enabled EPON Access Network
Xiaosong Yu Migration from Fixed Grid to Flexible Grid in Optical Networks
Friday August 22, 2014 Sedef Savas Towards Unbreakable Networks (Internet of Things)
Abhishek Roy Network Adaptability under Resource Crunch
Friday August 15, 2014 Lluis Gifre Renom 1.Introduction to OMNeT++
2.Experimental Assessment of ABNO-driven Large-scale Disaster Recovery in Optical Networks
Abhishek Gupta Cost-Efficient VM Operation in Optical Cloud Networks based on Live VM Migration and Variation of Electricity Prices
Friday August 8, 2014 Sifat Ferdousi Big Data and Disaster Management
Ninghai Bao Summary of the Research Work on Post-disaster Re-provisioning
Friday August 1, 2014 Xinbo Wang Green Virtual Base Station in C-RAN
Divya Chitimalla Software Enabled - Application Aware Access Network
Friday July 25, 2014 Xiaosong Yu Migration from fixed grid to flexible grid
Sedef Savas GENI - Global Environment for Network Innovations
Friday July 18, 2014 Abhishek Roy Heuristic Approach for Network Adaptablity under Resource Crunch
Friday July 11, 2014 Partha Bhaumik A Network-State Management Service
Lluis Gifre Renom PLAnning Tool for Optical Networks (PLATON)
Friday July 4, 2014 Abhishek Gupta VM Migration over Multi-hour Period for Low-Carbon Data Centers
Friday June 27, 2014 Sifat Ferdousi Content Replication Cost Modeling
Friday June 20, 2014 Ninghai Bao Global VS. Essential Post-disaster Reprovisioning for Survivable Optical Networks
Divya Chitimalla / Abhishek Roy / Xinbo Wang A survey: C-RAN
Friday June 13, 2014 Uttam Mandal Energy-Efficienct Networking for Cloud-Computing and Content-Delivery Systems
Friday June 6, 2014 Rakhee Tivari Software Definded Networking - Implementing Disaster-aware Provisioning Schemes
Divya Chitimalla Content Caching to Improve QoE for Streaming Traffic and Its Role in C-RAN Architecture - SDN as an Enabler
Friday May 30, 2014 Abhishek Roy 1.Network Adaptability under Resource Crunch
2.BBU Consolidation in PON-enabled Cloud Radio Access Networks
Xiaosong Yu Traffic grooming with defragmentation in flexible grid optical networks
Friday May 23, 2014 Xinbo Wang BBU Consolidation in PON-enabled Cloud Radio Access Networks
Abhishek Gupta VM Migration over Multi-hour Period for Low-Carbon Data Centers
Friday May 16, 2014 Sifat Ferdousi Disaster-Aware Dynamic Content Placement in Cloud Networks - Content Replication Cost Modeling
Yu Wu Non-renewable Energy Optimization with Data Centers
Friday May 9, 2014 Sedef Savas OpenVirtex: A Network Hypervisor
Friday May 2, 2014 Ninghai Bao Global V.S. Essential Post-disaster Re-provisioning
Carlos Colman Disaster-Resilient Virtualized Control Networks for Electrical Grids
Friday April 25, 2014 Farhan Habib Interdependent Networks
Uttam Mandal Bandwidth Provisioning for Virtual Machine Migration in Resilient Cloud Systems
Friday April 18, 2014 Xiaosong Yu OFC Review - Core Network (Part III)
Abhishek Gupta Deadline Driven Requests for VM Migration
Friday April 11, 2014 Xiaosong Yu When and How Should We Upgrade the Network to Flexi-Grid?
Sedef Savas OFC Review - Core Network (Part II)
Friday April 4, 2014 Sifat Ferdousi OFC Review - Core Network (Part I)
Partha Bhaumik OFC Review - Access Network (Part I)
Friday March 28, 2014 Shuqiang Zhang Ph.D. Exit Seminar
Saigopal Thota FluidNet: A Flexible Cloud-based Radio Access Network for Small Cells
Friday March 21, 2014 Ninghai Bao Fairness-aware Global Re-provisioning Scheme for Post-disaster Optical Networks
Friday March 14, 2014 Post-OFC Workshops
Saigopal Thota Introduction to eCloud
Marco Ruffini The DISCUS FP7 project: ideas, issues and solutions for designing next-generation cost-effective and future-proof optical broadband network
Avishek Nag Addressing the Digital Divide: LR-PON Planning for Sparsely Populated Areas
Jiawei Zhang Energy Efficiency of IP-over-Elastic Optical Networks with Sliceable Optical Transponder
Yongli Zhao What we hane done in transport networks with SDN
Krzysztof Walkowiak Metaheuristic Algorithms for Optimization of Elastic Optical Networks
Achille Pattavina Energy Efficient Resilient Optical Transport Networks
Lena Wosinska Energy-efficient Data Center Network Architecture
Lech Wosinski Plasmonic Approach for Computer Interconnects
Paolo Monti Leveraging FTTx Infrastructure for Green Mobile Backhauling: Challenges and Opportunities
Massimo Tornatore Fixed/Mobile Convergence for Next-Generation Access and Aggregation Networks
Friday March 7, 2014 Sifat Ferdousi OFC Dry Run - Disaster-Aware Dynamic Content Placement in Optical Cloud Networks
Uttam Mandal OFC Dry Run - Heterogeneous Bandwidth Provisioning for Virtual Machine Migration over SDN-Enabled Optical Networks
Partha Bhaumik OFC Dry Run - Energy Management in NG-PON2
Wed. March 5, 2014 Sedef Savas OFC Dry Run - Exploiting Degraded-Service Tolerance to Improve Performance of Telecom Networks
Xiaosong Yu OFC Dry Run - Static Routing and Spectrum Assignment in Co-existing Fixed/Flex Grid Optical Networks
Friday February 28, 2014 Farhan Habib Content Connectivity in Cloud & Protection for Deadline-Driven Requests
Carlos Colman Disaster-Resilient Cloud-Network Mapping
Friday February 21, 2014 Sedef Savas Some works on SDN
Sifat Ferdousi Disaster-Aware Dynamic Content Placement in Cloud Networks
Friday February 14, 2014 Ananya Nandi Global Adoption of Mobile Phones - Trend and Interfering Factors
Rakhee Tivari Software Defined Networking Virtual test bed setup
Friday February 7, 2014 Shuqiang Zhang Vertical Convergence: Evolving Traffic Grooming in Multi-Layer Flexible-Grid Optical Networks
Uttam Mandal 1. Heterogeneous Bandwidth Provisioning for Virtual Machine Migration
2. Provisioning, Resource Allocation, and DVFS in Green Clouds
Friday January 31, 2014 Xiaosong Yu Spectrum Engineering in Flexible Bandwidth Data Center Networks
Abhishek Gupta VM Migration using Deadline Driven Requests
Friday January 24, 2014 Saigopal Thota Introduction to eCloud
Ninghai Bao Post-disaster Provisioning Scheme for Survivable Optical Networks
Friday January 17, 2014 Rui Wang Future Work in Energy Management in NG-PON2
Carlos Colman Resiliency in Cloud Infrastructure and Software: A Survey
Friday January 10, 2014 Sedef Savas Software-Defined Networking
Jiawei Zhang Auxiliary Graph Model for Dynamic Traffic Grooming in Elastic Optical Networks with Sliceable Optical Transponder
Friday January 3, 2014 Farhan Habib Rapid Control/Response Strategies to Reduce/Stop Cascade of WDM Failures in Multi-Layer Communication Networks
Sifat Ferdousi Network failure monitoring and locating failures

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Schedule for 2013

Day Date Speakers Topic
Friday December 13, 2013 Uttam Mandal
Friday December 6, 2013 Xiaosong Yu
Wed. November 27, 2013 Abhishek Gupta
Xinbo Wang
Friday November 22, 2013 Shuqiang Zhang
Ning-Hai Bao
Friday November 15, 2013 Rui Wang
Carlos Colman
Friday November 8, 2013 Saigopal Thota
Jiawei Zhang
Friday November 1, 2013 Uttam Mandal
Sedef Savas
Friday October 25, 2013 Divya Chitimalla
Prof. Gihan Dias Special Colloquium: Self-Controlled Identity
Friday October 18, 2013 Sifat Ferdousi
Abhishek Roy
Friday October 11, 2013 Xiasong Yu Static Routing and Spectrum Assignment in Co-existing Fixed and Flex Grid Optical Networks
Farhan Habib Deferred Protection - A Novel Protection Paradigm for Deadline Driven Requests
Friday October 4, 2013 Xinbo Wang An Integer Linear Programming Model for Static Traffic Grooming Problem in Flex-grid Optical Networks
Abhishek Gupta Dynamic Route and Bandwidth Allocation for Virtual Machine Migration in Optical Cloud Networks
Friday Sept. 27, 2013 Rui Wang Defragmentation using DAG
Friday Sept. 20, 2013 Rakhee Tiwari
Carlos Colman
Friday Sept. 13, 2013 Uttam Mandal ECOC Dry Run
Jiawei Zhang ECOC Dry Run
Friday Sept. 6, 2013 Abhishek Gupta Dynamic Route and Bandwidth Allocation for Virtual Machine Migration in Optical Cloud Networks - Preliminary results
Ananya Nandi Mobile Penetration : Contributing Factors
Friday August 30, 2013 Sedef Savas PhD Qualifying Exam Dry Run
Sifat Ferdousi PhD Qualifying Exam Dry Run
Friday August 23, 2013 Saigopal Thota
Jiawei Zhang Energy Efficiency of IP over Elastic Optical Networks with Sliceable Optical Transponder
Friday August 16, 2013 Lab clean up
Friday August 9, 2013 No Group Meeting
Friday August 2, 2013 Farhan Habib SDN: An ESnet Perspective
Carlos Colman
Friday July 26, 2013 Sedef Savas Disaster-Aware Service Provisioning by Exploiting Multipath Routing with Manycasting in Telecom Networks
Uttam Mandal Service and VM Migration for Green Cloud Exploiting Renewable Energy
Friday July 19, 2013 Partha Bhaumik Software-Defined Optical Networks (SDONs): An Overview and Possible Research Directions
Sifat Ferdousi Disaster-aware data center and content placement in cloud networks
Friday July 12, 2013 Rakhee Tiwari SDN: Software Defined Networking - The New Norm for Networks
Rui Wang Energy saving vs. load balancing in TWDM-PON
Friday June 28, 2013 Ananya Nandi Review of Cisco VNI: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Index (2012 - 2017)
Abhishek Gupta Bandwidth and Route Allocation for Virtual Machine Migration on Dynamic Request in Photonic Cloud Networks
Friday June 21, 2013 Saigopal Thota Inside Dropbox
Jiawei Zhang On energy efficiency of IP over Elastic optical networks
Friday June 14, 2013 Carlos Colman Disaster Resilient and Post-Disaster survivable Cloud Network Map and Adaptation
Farhan Habib Content Connectivity
Friday June 7, 2013 Uttam Mandal Renewable Energy in Cloud and Data Center Networks
Sedef Savas Risk-aware Multipath Provisioning to Multiple Data Centers
Friday May 31, 2013 Sifat Ferdousi Risk Analysis of Data Center Network under WMD Attack
Ferhat Dikbiyik Looking back at PhD life and goodbye
Friday May 24, 2013 Rui Wang Energy Saving via Dynamic Wavelength Sharing in TWDM-PON
Partha Bhaumik Frenetic: A Programming Language for Software Defined Networks
Friday May 17, 2013 Jiawei Zhang OFC 2013 Review - Elastic Networks
Saigopal Thota OFC 2013 Review - Access Networks
Friday May 10, 2013 Shuqiang Zhang OFC 2013 Review - Virtualization, Cloud, and Energy Efficiency
Farhan Habib OFC 2013 Review - Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Friday May 3, 2013 Carlos Colman Robustness in Virtualized Networks and Data
Uttam Mandal Service and VM Migration for Green Cloud
Friday April 26, 2013 Saigopal Thota Packet and Circuit Convergence with OpenFlow and Applications
Sedef Savas Survivable Degraded Service Provisioning using Multipath Routing to Multiple Data Centers
Friday April 19, 2013 Sifat Ferdousi Traffic Characteristics of Data Centers
Friday April 12, 2013 Partha Bhaumik ONDM Dry Run
Rui Wang
Friday April 5, 2013 Rui Wang ONDM Dry Run
Jiawei Zhang Dynamic Virtual Network Embedding Scheme based on Network Element Slicing
for Elastic Optical Cloud Network
Friday March 29, 2013 Carlos Colman ONDM Dry Run
Friday March 15, 2013 Farhan Habib OFC Dry Run: Fault-Tolerant Virtual Network Mapping to Provide Content Connectivity in Optical Networks
Massimo Tornatore OFC Dry Run: Daily Power Consumption Analysis of On-Off IP-over-WDM Network Design Approaches
Nicola Carapellese ONDM Dry Run: Placement of Base-Band Units (BBUs) over Fixed/Mobile Converged Multi-Stage WDM-PONs
Friday March 8, 2013 Massimo Tornatore Traffic Grooming and Spectrum Assignment for Coherent Transceivers in Metro-Flexible Networks
Shuqiang Zhang Connecting the Clouds with Low Latency and Cost Effectiveness Enabled by Sliceable Optical Layer
Friday March 1, 2013 Sedef Savas Cutting the Electric Bill for Internet-Scale Systems
Friday February 22, 2013 Uttam Mandal Follow the Sun Follow the Wind ? Making the Cloud Green
Partha Bhaumik Network Characteristics of Video Streaming Traffic
Friday February 15, 2013 Sifat Ferdousi A replication scheme for the IP over WDM network with Data Centers
Saigopal Thota Personal Social Cloud with Devices as Sensors, Information Generators, and Windows to Access Content
Friday February 1, 2013 Ferhat Dikbiyik Throwing Ideas
Rui Wang Flexible TDMA/WDMA Passive Optical Network: an Energy Efficient Next-Generation Optical Access Solution
Friday January 25, 2013 Carlos Colman Network Survivability for Multiple Probabilistic Failures
Shuqiang Zhang Energy Challenges in Current and Future Optical Transmission Networks
Friday January 18, 2013 Farhan Habib VMware Distributed Resource Management: Design, Implementation, and Lessons Learned
Jiawei Zhang Sliceable transponder & virtual network embedding problem in elastic optical Networks
Friday January 11, 2013 Uttam Mandal Adopting Hybrid CDN-P2P in IP-over-WDM Networks: An Energy-Efficiency Perspective
Friday January 4, 2013 Rui Wang Provisioning in elastic optical networks with non-disruptive defragmentation
Sifat Ferdousi Energy efficient data center placement in elastic network

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Schedule for 2012

Day Date Speakers Topic
Friday December 14, 2012 Uttam Mandal Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) 2012 - Review
Friday December 7, 2012 Saigopal Thota ANTS Dry Run
Tuesday November 27, 2012 Ferhat Dikbiyik Globecom Dry Run
Friday November 16, 2012 Shuqiang Zhang Virtual packet networks over elastic optical layer
Jiawei Zhang Soft-defined elastic optical networks and spectrum sharing problem
Friday November 9, 2012 Farhan Habib Exploiting Flexible Transmission Rate for Deadline-driven Requests
Partha Bhaumik QoS Control Schemes for Two-Stage Ethernet Passive Optical Access Networks
Friday November 2, 2012 Sifat Ferdousi Quantifying Spectrum, Cost and Energy Efficiency in Fixed-grid and Flex-grid Networks
Rui Wang Spectrum Management in Elastic Optical Networks
Friday October 26, 2012 Uttam Mandal Green Cloud Computing: Balancing Energy in Processing, Storage, and Transport
Carlos Colman Disaster-Resilient Virtual Network Mapping and Adaptation in Optical Networks
Friday October 19, 2012 Saigopal Thota Content Social Network
Shuqiang Zhang Network Design and Control for a Converged Metro and Aggregation Network
Friday October 12, 2012 Farhan Habib Fault-Tolerant Virtual Network Mapping to Provide Content Connectivity
Mohammad Albaijat Optimal Integration of Wind Energy in Large-Scale Electric Grids
Friday October 5, 2012 Partha Bhaumik RTT-Measurement in EPoC
Ferhat Dikbiyik Adaptation to Network Recovery
Wednesday
(3083 Kemper)
Sept. 26, 2012 Rui Wang
Power Management in WDM-PON
Sedef Savas Adaptive Streaming of Multi-view Video over P2P Nerworks
Wednesday Sept. 19, 2012 Uttam Mandal RED-BL: Energy Solution for Loading Data Centers
Massimo Tornatore 1. On the Energy Impact of Transmission Reach for 100G IP-over-WDM Translucent Optical Networks
2. Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation with Void Filling and Multi-thread for Long Reach WDM/TDM PONs
Wednesday Sept. 12, 2012 Carlos Colman
Risk Aware Services Networks Mapping and Adaptation
Ferhat Dikbiyik Adaptation of Survivability to New World
Wednesday August 29, 2012 Rui Wang Power Management in WDM-PONs
Partha Bhaumik Mathematical Modeling for EPON Protocol over coax
Friday August 24, 2012 Saigopal Thota
Access Point Placement for Effective Load-Balancing and Energy-Efficiency
Sifat Ferdousi Elastic Network Upgrade
Friday August 17, 2012 Uttam Mandal Hybrid CDN-P2P: an Energy-efficiency Perspective
CS Distinguished Lecture Videocast Why can't I innovate in my wiring closet? - Nick McKeown, Stanford University
Friday August 10, 2012 Rui Wang
Spectrum Management in Heterogeneous Bandwidth Networks
Carlos Colman Risk-Aware Mapping and Re-Mapping
Friday July 6, 2012 Sifat Ferdousi
Elastic Network Upgrade
Partha Bhaumik FDD vs. TDD
Friday June 29, 2012 Ferhat Dikbiyik
Exit Seminar
Menglin Liu
Friday June 22, 2012 Saigopal Thota In-Network Aggregation in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (related work study)
Friday June 14, 2012 Tishna Sabrina Participatory sensing: Privacy, Incentive and Data Integrity Trade-off
Friday June 8, 2012 Chaitanya Vadrevu
Multi-period Planning with Mixed Line Rate under Traffic Growth
Menglin Liu Protection Strategies in New Optical Networking Paradigms
Friday June 1, 2012 Carlos Colman
Survivability Mapping for Virtual Topology for Disaster Scenario
Uttam Mandal Distributed Caching Algorithms for Content Distribution Networks
Friday May 25, 2012 Farhan Habib
On Progressive Network Recovery After a Major Disruption
Rui Wang Spectrum Management in Heterogeneous Bandwidth Networks
Friday May 18, 2012 Chaitanya Vadrevu
 
Ferhat Dikbiyik Adaptive Time- and Location-Aware Routing in Telecom Mesh Network
Friday May 11, 2012 Saigopal Thota
Source Selection for Distributed Queries
Partha Bhaumik EPoC - System Design
Friday May 4, 2012 Sifat Ferdousi
Dynamic Operation of Flexi-Grid OFDM-based Networks
Menglin Liu Survivable Traffic Grooming in Elastic Optical Networks ? Shared Protection
Friday April 27, 2012 Uttam Mandal
A survey on content-centric technologies for the current Internet: CDN and P2P solutions
Carlos Colman  
Friday April 20, 2012 Rui Wang
Access Networks: OFC Review
Farhan Habib Data Center Networks: OFC Review
Friday April 13, 2012 Chaitanya Vadrevu
Energy Efficiency: OFC Review
Avishek Nag Elastic Networks: OFC Review
Friday April 6, 2012 Massimo Tornatore
ONDM Dry Run
Ferhat Dikbiyik Network Survivability: OFC Review
Friday March 30, 2012 Partha Bhaumik
A Survey of Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithms for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
Menglin Liu Survivable Traffic Grooming in Elastic Optical Networks - Shared Protection
Friday March 23, 2012 Sifat Ferdousi
Bandwidth Distribution Solutions for Performance Enhancement in Long-Reach Passive Optical Networks
Richard Wang Spectrum Management in Heterogeneous Bandwidth Networks
Tuesday March 13, 2012 Farhan Habib
Disaster Survivability in Optical Communication Networks
Saigopal Thota Processing-Aware Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Mesh Networks
Tuesday February 28, 2012 Ferhat Dikbiyik OFC Dry Runs
Avishek Nag
Chaitanya Vadrevu
Tuesday February 21, 2012 Lei Shi
BER-Aware Wavelength Allocation Schemes for Ring-and-Spur Long-Reach PON
Cicek Cavdar Survivable Green Optical Backbone Networks with Shared Path Protection
Tuesday February 14, 2012 Uttam Mandal
Why should ISPs adopt Hybrid CDN-P2P: an energy-efficiency perspective?
Carlos Colman Power Consumption Analysis of IP over WDM Core Network Architecture
Tuesday February 7, 2012 Menglin Liu
Survivable Traffic Grooming in Elastic Optical Networks - The ?Double?Shared Protection
Richard Wang Heterogeneous Bandwidth Networking
Tuesday January 31, 2012 Sifat Ferdousi
Upgrading MLR networks to Elastic networks
Saigopal Thota Mul-T-D : Trust Based Multi-Device Communication and Collaboration Network Architecture
Tuesday January 24, 2012 Chaitanya Vadrevu
Dimensioning Optical WDM Networks Under Multiple Rates
Partha Bhaumik Downstream and Upstream Transmissions in EPoC
Tuesday January 17, 2012 Farhan Habib
A Robust Optimization Approach to Backup Network Design with Random Failures
Ferhat Dikbiyik Exploiting Excess Capacity with Capacity Migration under Limited Capex
Tuesday January 10, 2012 Avishek Nag Robust Design of Spectrum Efficient Green Optical Backbone Networks

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Schedule for 2011

Day Date Speakers Topic
Tuesday December 13, 2011 Ramon Aparicio Pardo Robust Network Upgrade in Optical Networks under Traffic Uncertainty
Marc De Leenheer Scalable Photonic Interconnection Network With Multiple-Layer Configuration for Warehouse-Scale Networks
Haydar Cukurtepe Impairment-aware RWA in MLR Networks
Tuesday December 6, 2011 Chaitanya Vadrevu
Shuqiang Zhang
"Network Engineering in Mixed-Line-Rate Networks"
"Future Transport Network"
Tuesday November 29, 2011 Partha Bhaumik "Dry Run - Qualifier Exam"
Tuesday November 22, 2011 Sifat Ferdousi
Mixed-Line-Rate (MLR) Optical Network Design with Wavebanding
Menglin Liu Traffic Grooming in Elastic Network
Tuesday November 15, 2011 Carlos Colman
Multicasting Routing Optimizacion Implementing a Multi-Objective Approach
Haydar Cukurtepe Impairment-Aware Virtual Topology Reconfiguration in MLR Networks
Tuesday November 8, 2011 Farhan Habib
Connectivity in Content-Centric Network
Ferhat Dikbiyik Exploiting Excess Capacity for Differentiated Services in Telecom Mesh Networks
Tuesday November 1, 2011 Marc De Leenheer Optical Grooming in OFDM-based Elastic Optical Networks
Lei Shi BER-Aware Wavelength Allocation Schemes for Long-Reach PON Employing AWG-Based Remote Node
Tuesday October 25, 2011 Ramon Aparicio Pardo Robust Network Upgrade in Telecom Mesh Networks under Traffic Uncertainty
Partha Bhaumik Logical Topology Emulation for a Hybrid PON-Coax Access Network
Tuesday October 18, 2011 Richard Wang
Towards Seamless Mobility in Optical Transport Network
Shuqiang Zhang Discussion on OFDM & Dynamic Traffic Grooming in Elastic Optical Networks
Tuesday October 11, 2011 Chaitanya Vadrevu
Partial-protection in Mixed-Line-Rate Networks
Uttam Mandal Energy consumption analysis of Hybrid P2P-CDN
Tuesday October 4, 2011 Menglin Liu Routing and Spectrum Assignment (RSA) in Elastic Networks
Haydar Cukurtepe Inverse Multiplexing Gain Considering Impairments in MLR Networks
Tuesday Sept. 27, 2011 Ferhat Dikbiyik Mitigating the Disaster Driven Risk in Telecom Networks
Carlos Colman Optimizing in Multi-Objective way the Cyclical Protection (p-Cycle) for Single Failure of WDM Optical Networks
Tuesday Sept. 20, 2011 Farhan Habib Anycast Routing in WDM Networks
Tuesday Sept. 13, 2011 Marc De Leenheer
Isolation and Resource Efficiency of Virtual Optical Networks
Guoying Zhang Optical Transport Network Control Plane
Tuesday Sept. 6, 2011 Shuqiang Zhang Qualifiers dry run
Tuesday August 30, 2011 Massimo Tornatore Energy Efficient Traffic-Aware Design of On-Off Multi-Layer Translucent Optical Networks
Ramon Aparicio Pardo Some Contributions in Multihour-, and PLIA-VTD
Tuesday August 23, 2011 Partha Bhaumik An Introductory Tutorial on OFDM
Chaitanya Vadrevu Degraded Services in Mixed-Line-Rate Networks
Tuesday August 16, 2011 Guoying Zhang Traffic Grooming in Elastic Optical Network
Carlos Colman Optimizing Cyclical Protection (p-Cycle) in Single Link Failure of WDM Optical Networks
Tuesday August 9, 2011 Shuqiang Zhang Energy-efficient Provisioning for Spectrum Elastic Optical Networks
Haydar Cukurtepe Dynamic RWA at MLR Networks
Tuesday August 2, 2011 Partha Bhaumik Hybrid Architecture and Integrated Routing in a Scalable Optical-Wireless Access Network
Marc De Leenheer Column Generation Tutorial
Tuesday July 19, 2011 Farhan Habib Qualifying Exam Dry Run: Design of Disaster-Resilient Datacenter Networks
Tuesday July 12, 2011 Biswanath Mukherjee General Discussion
Chaitanya Vadrevu Degraded Services in Mixed-Line-Rate Networks
Tuesday June 28, 2011 Ferhat Dikbiyik Qualifying Exam Dry Run: Excess Capacity Management for Robust Telecom Networks
Tuesday June 21, 2011 Marc De Leenheer Survivable Optical Grid Dimensioning: Anycast Routing with Server & Network Failure Protection
Guoying Zhang Discussion of OFDM-based Elastic Optical Network
Tuesday June 14, 2011 Farhan Habib Design of Disaster-Resilient Datacenter Networks
Tuesday June 7, 2011 Uttam Mandal Energy-Efficient Content Distribution over Telecom network Infrastructure
Lei Shi New Architecture Study on Wireline (Optical) and Wireless Integrated Access Network
Tuesday May 31, 2011 Shuqiang Zhang
Network Virtualization over WDM Network
Rui Wang
Tuesday May 24, 2011 Ferhat Dikbiyik (3W)-Availability-Aware Routing
Haydar Cukurtepe Dynamic RWA at MLR Networks
Tuesday May 17, 2011 Saigopal Thota
OFC/ NFOEC 2011 Review (Detailed)
Ferhat Dikbiyik
Tuesday May 10, 2011 Farhan Habib
OFC/ NFOEC 2011 Review (Detailed)
Uttam Mandal
Tuesday May 3, 2011 Ferhat Dikbiyik
OFC/ NFOEC 2011 Review (Detailed)
Chaitanya Vadrevu
Tuesday April 19, 2011 Uttam Mandal OFC/ NFOEC 2011 Review (Summary)
Chaitanya Vadrevu
Tuesday April 12, 2011 Lei Shi OFC/ NFOEC 2011 Review (Summary)
Rui Wang
Tuesday March 29, 2011 Lei Shi
Rui (Richard) Wang
Tuesday March 22, 2011 Uttam Mandal
Adam (Xiuzhong) Chen
Tuesday March 15, 2011 S.K.Chaitanya Vadrevu
Menglin Liu
Tuesday March 1, 2011 SaiGopal Thota
Farhan Habib
Tuesday February 22, 2011 Lei Shi
Menglin Liu
Rui (Richard) Wang
Tuesday February 15, 2011 Shuqiang Zhang
Ferhat Dikbiyik Network Disaster Recovery: A review
Tuesday February 8, 2011 Abu (Sayeem) Reaz Technology and Architecture to Enable the Explosive Growth of the Internet (Link to the paper)
S. K. Chaitanya Vadrevu
Tuesday February 1, 2011 Lei Shi IEEE 802.3az: The Road to Energy Efficient Ethernet: A Review
Guoying Zhang OFDM based Elastic Optical Network
Tuesday January 25, 2011 Uttam Mandal Network Infrastructure for Cloud Computing
Tuesday January 18, 2011 Farhan Habib c-Through: Part-time Optics in Data Centers
Adam (Xiuzhong) Chen High-Performance Routing for Multi-domain hose-L1VPN Provisioning
Tuesday January 11, 2011 Marc De Leenheer Design and Control of Optical Grids and Multi-Granular Optical Networks
Saigopal Thota Traffic-Tracing Gateway

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Schedule for 2010

Date Speakers Topic

December 10

Sifat Ferdousi

Mixed-Line-Rate (MLR) Optical Network Design with Wavebanding

Ferhat Dikbiyik

Excess Capacity Management for Dynamic Survivable Traffic Grooming in Optical WDM Backbone Networks

December 3

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Green Routing in CIW (GRC)

S.K.Chaitanya Vadrevu

A Heuristic for Combined Protection of IP Services and Wavelength Services in Optical WDM Networks

November 24

Sai Gopal Thota

Design and Analysis of Network Architectures for Emerging Economies

November 12

Richard (Rui) Wang

Lightweight Optical Aero-Engine Control Networks

Uttam Mandal

Energy-efficient Networking for Content Hosting and Distribution

November 5

Adam (Xiuzhong) Chen

Layer 1 VPN (L1VPN) provisioning in Multi-domain optical networks

Farhan Habib

Dimensioning Disaster Resilient Multi-Content Optical Data-Center Networks for Anycast Services

October 29

Mohammad Albaijat

Transmission Congestion Analysis in the Western Interconnection Applying Security Constrained Unit Commitment(SCUC)

Guoying Zhang

Visiting Scholar Guoying  Zhang's Introduction

October 15

Ferhat Dikbiyik

Excess Capacity Management for Dynamic Survivable Traffic Grooming in Optical WDM Backbone Networks

S.K.Chaitanya Vadrevu

Reliable Multi-Bit-Rate VPN Provisioning for Multipoint Carrier-Grade Ethernet Services over Mixed-Line-Rate WDM Optical Networks

October 8

Uttam Mandal

Energy-efficient Networking for Content Hosting and Distribution

Sai Gopal Thota

Network design for rural connectivity ? Proposed Architecture and Interesting Problems 

October 1

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

A Wireless Overlay Network to Enhance Current 3G Network Architecture

Menglin Liu

Efficient Shared Mesh Protection in Mixed-Line-Rate WDM Networks

September 24

Massimo Tornatore

Massimo's research topics in Politecnico di Milano

Pulak Chowdhury

Mixed-Line-Rate Network Design for a Fiber Plant with Heterogeneous Dispersion Maps

September 17

Shuqiang Zhang

Multicast Protection and Energy Efficient Traffic Grooming in Optical Wavelength-Routed Networks

Farhan Habib

Efficient Computation of Queuing Delay at a Network Port from Output Link Packet Traces

September 10

Rajesh Roy

Access Network: 101

Adam (Xiuzhong) Chen

How to describe the interference constraints for wireless mesh networks?

September 03

Guest Speaker:

Michael C. Loui

Ethics in Computing Research

August 27

Richard (Rui) Wang

Scheduling in WDM Ring Networks

Mohammad Albaijat

Congestion Management in Electric Grid

August 20

Sifat Ferdousi

Wavebanding in MLR

Ferhat Dikbiyik

Excess Capacity aware Shared Protection

August 13

Jim Thrasher

Book Review - Engineering Optimization: Chapter 11 (Structured Problems and Algorithms)

August 6

Yi Zhang

Energy Efficiency in Optical Grids

July 30

Ferhat Dikbiyik

Book Review - Engineering Optimization: Chapter 9 (Direction Generation Methods Based on Linearization) (Part 2)

Farhan Habib

July 23

Kartik Pandit

Book Review - Engineering Optimization: Chapter 8 (Linearization Methods for Constrained Problems)

July 16

Fabio Emilio Lapiccirella

Book Review - Engineering Optimization: Chapter 7 (Constrained Direct Search) (Part 2)

Huy-Dung Han

July 9

Guanyao Huang

Book Review - Engineering Optimization: Chapter 6 (Transformation Methods) (Part 2)

Adam (Xiuzhong) Chen

July 2

Yi Zhang

Book Review - Engineering Optimization: Chapter 5 (Constrained Optimality Criteria) (Part 2)

Ferhat Dikbiyik

June 25

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Book Review - Engineering Optimization: Chapter 4 (Linear Programming) (Part 2)

Richard (Rui) Wang

June 18

Menglin Liu

Book Review - Engineering Optimization: Chapter 3 (Functions of Several Variables) (Part 2)

Rajesh Roy

June 11

Avishek Nag

Book Review - Engineering Optimization: Chapter 2 (Functions of a Single Variable)

June 4

Pulak Chowdhury

Book Review - Engineering Optimization: Chapter 1 (Introduction to Optimization) and Appendices A (Linear Algebra) & B (Convex and Concave Functions)

S.K.Chaitanya Vadrevu

May 28

Spencer Sevilla

Time-Differentiated Path Protection in Mesh Networks

Menglin Liu

New and Improved Strategies for Optical Protection in Mixed-Line-Rate WDM Networks (heuristic approach)

May 21

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

TCCFA for Wireless Mesh?

Yi Zhang

Performance Evaluation of Energy Efficient Ethernet

May 14

Eiman Alotaibi

Topology, Capacity, and Flow Assignment for WMNs

Rajesh Roy

DBA Performance in a 10G/1G EPON  Deployment

May 7

Shraboni Jana

Radio over Fiber

S.K.Chaitanya Vadrevu

Robust and Survivable Provisioning for Terascale Science Applications using  Hybrid Circuits/Packet Technologies in ESnet

April 30

Lei Shi

OFC Review: Access Networks (Part 2)

April 23

Pulak Chowdhury

OFC Review: Access Networks (Part 1)

Ananya Das

Efficient Algorithms for Heterogeneous Network Services

April 16

Menglin Liu

OFC Review: Core Networks (Part 2)

Avishek Nag

OFC Review: Core Networks (Part 3)

April 9

Ananya Das

Maximizing Profit with SLA-Aware Provisioning

Ferhat Dikbiyik

OFC Review: Core Networks (Part 1)

April 2

Yi Zhang

Energy Efficiency in Optical Grids

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Evaluation of IPTV Service over 10G EPON

March 29

Optical Networking Workshop

March 19

Pulak Chowdhury

On the Energy Efficiency of Mixed Line Rate Networks

Marilet Jardin

PON Evolution through WDM

Ferhat Dikbiyik

Exploiting Excess Capacity for Improved Robustness in Optical WDM Backbone Mesh Networks

March 12

Dr. Massimo Tornatore

Risk-Aware Routing for Optical Transport Networks

Menglin Liu

New and Improved Strategies for Optical Protection in Mixed-Line-Rate WDM Networks

March 5

Prof. Wei Guo

Service Provisioning with  Service Interval Availability (SIA)

Adam (Xiuzhong) Chen

Delay-Differentiate Routing Algorithm for WOBAN

February 26

Rajesh Roy

Next Generation Broadband Technology: EPON or WDM-PON?

Shraboni Jana

Cooperative Wireless Networks

February 19

Shruthi Harve

Optical Multicasting in a MLR Ethernet-over-WDM network

Menglin Liu

DoE Project-- Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)

February 12

Eiman Alotaibi

Overview of Femtocells

Lei Shi

Long-Reach PON Survey and Challenges

February 5

Ananya Das

Efficient Algorithms for Heterogeneous Network Services

Ferhat Dikbiyik

Exploiting Excess Capacity for Improved Robustness in Optical WDM Backbone Mesh Networks

January 28

Avishek Nag

Spectrum-Efficient and Scalable Elastic Optical Path Network: Architecture  Benefits  and Enabling Technologies

Prof. Sebastia Sallent

New trends on Network Calculus: A tool for evaluating networks

January 22

Ananya Das

Maximizing Profit Using SLA-Aware Provisioning

Pulak Chowdhury

Power Consumption in High-Capacity Network Nodes

January 15

Yi Zhang

Opportunities and Challenges of Greening the Optical Grids

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Evaluation of IPTV Services

January 8

Matthew Simien

WOBAN Testbed Management System

Adam (Xiuzhong) Chen

Context-aware cloud storage in Hybrid Wireless-Optical Broadband-Access Network

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Schedule for 2009

Date Speakers Topic

December 18

Shruthi Harve

Time-Differentiated Resilience with Efficient Resource Sharing in WDM Mesh Networks

Shraboni Jana

Radio over Fiber

December 11

Ming Xia

Time-Differentiated Resilience with Efficient Resource Sharing in WDM Mesh Networks

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Optimum Channel Assignment Scheme for Mixed-Capacity Wireless Access (MCWA) of a WOBAN

December 4

S.K.Chaitanya Vadrevu

Protection strategies for Multi-Layer Networks

Lei Shi

Hardware-Accelerated Protection in Long-Reach PON

November 25

Pulak Chowdhury
(Globecom dry run)

Towards Green Broadband Access Networks

Flexible Scheduling of Multicast Sessions with Different Granularities for Large Data Distribution over WDM Networks 

Analysis of Patching Scheme from a Practical Perspective

November 20

Menglin Liu

Service-Centric Provisioning for Hybrid Circuit/Packet Networks

November 13

Eiman Alotaibi

Topology Control in WMN

Iyad Al Khatib

Beautiful Recipes for Engineering and Sciences

November 6

S.K.Chaitanya Vadrevu

Survivable IP Topology Design with Re-usage of Backup Wavelength Capacity - II

Menglin Liu

New and Improved Strategies for Optical Protection in Mixed-Line-Rate WDM Networks

October 30

Pulak Chowdhury

Energy Efficiency in Optical Networks

Lei Shi

Greening the LR-PON

October 23

Dr. Massimo Tornatore

Availability Target Redefinition for Dynamic Connections in WDM Networks with Shared Path Protection

Yi Zhang

Path-Computation-Element-Based Architecture for Interdomain MPLS/GMPLS Traffic Engineering

October 16

Avishek Nag

Optical Transport Networks in 2015

Marilet Jardin

Minimizing the Cost to Upgrade PONs

October 9

Ming Xia

Greening the Optical Backbone Networks: a Traffic Engineering Approach

Rajesh Roy

DBA for 10G/1G mix deployment

October 2

Shruthi Harve

Optical Amplifiers Placement in WDM Mesh Networks for Optical Multicasting Service Support

Ferhat Dikbiyik

A New Excess Capacity Management Approach

Sept. 25

Prof. Sebastia Sallent

i2CAT research activity overview and personal research profile

Prof. Wei Guo

Optical Grid - Distributed Computing over Optical Network

Sept. 18

Eiman Alotaibi

Issues and Solutions in Wireless Routing Algorhms

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Broadband Access Networks: Current and Future Directions

Sept. 11

S.K.Chaitanya Vadrevu

Dynamic Resource Partitioning between IP and Wavelength Services for Optical WDM Networks

Sept. 4

Pulak Chowdhury

Energy Efficiency in Optical Networks

Marilet Jardin

Shortest Propagation Delay (SPD) First Scheduling for EPONs with Heterogeneous Propagation Delays

August 31

Avishek Nag

Impact of channel spacing in the design of mixed line rate optical networks

Ming Xia

Risk-Aware Routing for Optical Transport Networks

August 21

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Overlay in Wireless Mesh Networks

Yi Zhang

Energy Consumption on Application Layer

August 13

Rajesh Roy

Inside 10G EPON

Sheng Huang

A Multistate Multipath Provisioning Scheme for Combating Node Failures in Telecom Mesh Networks

August 7

Shruthi Harve

Emulation of GMPLS controlled Ethernet Label Switching

Ferhat Dikbiyik

How to Get a "Nice" Idea (?)

July 31

S.K.Chaitanya Vadrevu

Preliminary Results on Dynamic Circuit/Packet Capacity Partitioning in IP over WDM Networks

Eiman Alotaibi

A Review on 3-Dimension in Wireless Network

July 24

Pulak Chowdhury

Networks of Innovation

Avishek Nag

Toward Efficient Failure Management for Reliable Transparent Optical Networks

July 17

Lei Shi

A Review of High Radix Routers in Interconnection Networks of a Computer System

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Gigabit Wireless

Iyad Al Khatib

HIT and ICT

July 10

Shruthi Harve

Ethernet in Core Networks: A Technical and Economical Analysis

Yi Zhang

A Review on "GreenCom'09"

Iyad Al Khatib

How to Relate your Research and Work to Real Applications and Needs for a Better Life

June 26

Dr. Massimo Tornatore

Effects of outdated information on routing in control-plane-enabled WDM networks

Eiman Alotaibi

Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Access Network: A survey

June 19

Pulak Chowdhury

Radio Over Fiber (ROF)

Marilet Jardin

Migration Evolution of Passive Optical Networks

June 12

Pulak Chowdhury

OpEx Analysis of Broadband Access Networks

Sheng Huang

A multistate multipath provisioning scheme for combating node failures in telecom mesh networks

June 5

Lei Shi

Energy-aware Networks: Reducing Power Consumption by Switching Off Network Elements

Avishek Nag

A survey of all-optical 3R technologies

May 29

Ananya Das

Service Cluster: A New Framework for SLA-Oriented Provisioning in WDM Mesh Networks

Yi Zhang

Survey on Energy Consumption of Backbone Networks

May 22

Shruthi Harve

Multicast Algorithm for Multi-Line-Rate Ethernet over WDM

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Lessons of Linear Programming

May 15

Eiman Alotaibi

Survey on Channel Assignment in WMN

Ananya Das

A Partial-Protection Approach Using Mulitpath Provisioning

May 8

Joonho Choi

Analysis of Optimum Streaming Speed in Patching Considering VCR Function

Marwan Batayneh

Accelarating Wolrdwide Adoptation of Carrier-Class Ethernet Networks and Services

May 1

Pulak Chowdhury

Converged Optical Network Infrastructure in Support of Future Interest and Grid Services using IaaS to Reduce GHG

Ming Xia

OFC Review: Core Networks (Part 2) (PDF)

April 24

Dr. Massimo Tornatore

Network Design and Architecture for Highly Dynamic Next Generation IP-over-Optical Long Distance Netwiorks (Paper Review) 

Ming Xia

CARRIOCAS Project: Towards Converged Internet Infrastructures Supporting High Performance Distributed Application (Paper Review)

Marwan Batayneh

Challenging Terabit Class LAN over Wide Area Networks (Paper Review)

April 17

Lei Shi

OFC Review: Access Networks (Part 2)  

Avishek Nag

OFC Review: Core Networks (Part 1)

April 10

Sheng Huang

Disaster Recovery Aware Multi-State Multipath Provisioning in Telecom Mesh Networks

Marilet Jardin

OFC Review: Access Networks (Part 1)

April 3

Yi Zhang

Time-Aware Energy Conservation in IP over WDM Networks

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Service-oriented Design of WOBAN

March 20

Avishek Nag

OFC Dry Run

Cicek Cavdar

OFC Dry Run

Lei Shi

OFC Dry Run

March 13

Ming Xia

OFC Dry Run

Dragos Andrei

OFC Dry Run

Joonho Choi

OFC Dry Run

March 8

Dragos Andrei,  Marwan Batayneh,  Ming Xia,  Pulak Chowdhury,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi

Networks Lab Panel Presentations

March 6

Pulak Chowdhury

Green WOBAN

Lei Shi

WDM in Passive Optical Network (US Patent)

Marwan Batayneh

Reliable Multi-Bit-Rate VPN Design for Carrier Ethernet Services

February 27

Marilet Jardin

PON Upgrading using WDM

Martin Nicholes

Path Selection for BGP Routing

February 20

Ananya Das

Online Admission Control & Satisfaction SLA

Avishek Nag

Transparent MLR Network Design

February 13

Eiman Alotaibi

Home Mesh: Low Cost indoor wireless mesh for Home Networking

Vishwanath Ramamurthi

LTE - Long-Term Evolution

February 6

Marwan Batayneh

WDM Network Design under Transmission Range Constraints for Carrier Ethernet

January 30

Dr. Massimo Tornatore

Grooming and Protection with Availability Guarantees in Multilayer Networks

Marilet Jardin

Marilet's Background

January 23

Pulak Chowdhury

"Green" Networks

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Economics of Grid Computing

January 16

Mohammad Al-Baijat

The Smart Grid: An Introduction

Yi Zhang

From Smart Grid to Communication Network

January 9

Joonho Choi

Efficient VoD Request Batching for Practical Service using EWMA

Sheng Huang

Disaster-Recovery Multipath Provisioning in Telecom Networks

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Schedule for 2008

Date Speakers Topic

December 12

Marwan Batayneh

Network Coding (Part II)

December 3

Lei Shi

QE dry-run

Eiman Alotaibi

QE dry-run

November 26

Dragos Andrei

Survey on Grid (Part I)

Ming Xia

Survey on Grid (Part II)

Avishek Nag

Network Coding (Part I)

November 24

Dragos Andrei

Grid Computing: Fundamentals  Applications  Optical Grids

Ming Xia

Optical Grid: Opportunities and Challenges

November 14

Joonho Choi

Network Calculus (Part I)

Pulak Chowdhury

Network Calculus (Part II)

November 7

Yali Liu
Dr. Massimo Tornatore

Wavelet-Based Traffic Analysis for Video Streams over Broadband Networks

October 31

Avishek Nag

Transparent vs. Translucent MLR Network Design

Vishwanath Ramamurthi

A Cross-Layer Approach to Link-Scheduling in Wireless Mesh Networks

October 24

Eiman Alotaibi

Interference-Aware Routing by Modelling Link Capacity in Multi-hop WMNs

Ananya Das

A New Approach for Satisfying SLAs

October 17

Sheng Huang

Survivable Multipath Traffic Grooming In Telecom Mesh Networks

October 10

Ming Xia

Risk assesement in SLA-based WDM Networks

Joonho Choi

VoD Request OLT Batching for PON

October 3

Dragos Andrei

A LR Approach for Provisioning Sliding Scheduled Lightpath Demands

Huan Song

Long-Reach PON Protection

Sept. 26

Lei Shi

User Assignment in Future PON Access Networks-Algorithms

Marwan Batayneh

Reliable Multi-Bit-Rate VPN Design for Carrier Ethernet

Sept. 19

Rajesh Roy

Cost-Efficient Non Blocking Network Upgrade

Shruthi Harve

Provisioning Multicast Traffic over Mixed Line-Rate Optical Networks

Sept. 5

Martin Nicholes

InterDomain Collaborative Routing: Server Selection

Avishek Nag

Design of Mixed Line-Rate Optical Networks

August 29

Vishwanath Ramamurthi

Topology Control with Directional Beams

Pulak Chowdhury

WOBAN: Prototype Development and Cost Analysis

August 22

Dr. Massimo Tornatore

Dynamic Routing of Connections with Known Durations in WDM Networks

August 15

Elli Georgieva

End-to-end Availability in WOBANs

Davide Cuda

Bandwidth allocation in hybrid TDM/WDM-PON

August 8

Avishek Nag 

Heterogeneous Optical Network Design

Lei Shi

User Assignment in Future PON Access Networks

August 1

Pulak Chowdhury 

WOBAN Prototype Development and Research Challenges

Ananya Das

New Approaches to Satisfying SLA

July 25

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Capacity Enhancement in Wireless Access of WOBAN

Rajesh Roy

r-drop Cut Exhaustion Probability

July 18

Dragos Andrei

Provision Deadline-Driven Reqs in WDM Networks using Lagrangian Relaxation

Davide Cuda


Bandwidth Allocation in Hybrid TDM/WDM-PON

July 11

Dr. Massimo Tornatore

PHOTO to RABBIT: Exploiting Connection Holding Time to Improve Routing

Huan Song

Long Reach PON Technologies

July 2

Lei Shi

Static Request Scheduling Scheme of Ethernet Services over Optical Networks 

Eiman Alotaibi

A Location-Aware Routing Metric for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks

June 27

Cicek Cavdar 

Survivable Circuit Provisioning with Delay Tolerance in WDM Mesh Networks 

Yali Liu

An Audio Steganalysis based on High-Order Statistics of a Distortion Measure

June 20

Elli Georgieva 

Resiliency in WOBAN

Avishek Nag

Impact of Laser Phase noise and frequency on BER in Optical Networks

June 13

Ming Xia 

Service Cluster: Strategy for SLA-Oriented Provisioning 

Vishwanath Ramamurthi

Channel  Capacity  and Flow Assignment in Wireless Mesh Networks

June 6

Pulak Chowdhury 

WOBAN Testbed deployment

Ananya Das

Maximizing Profit with SLA-Aware Provisioning

May 30

Rajesh Roy 

Managing Traffic Growth in Telecom Mesh Networks

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

ILP Formulations for Multi-Radio WOBAN

May 23

Marwan Batayneh 

WDM Network Design under Transmission Range Constraint

Davide Cuda

NFOEC Review '08 - Access

May 16

Sheng Huang 

Design and Analysis of Survivable Multipath Provisioning

Dragos Andrei

OFC Review '08 - Core

May 9

Martin Nicholes 

Network Security in the Core Internet

Huan Song

OFC Review '08 - Metro & Access
OFC Review '07

May 2

Joonho Choi 

Efficient VoD Streaming Schemes 

Cicek Cavdar

Availability-Guaranteed Provisioning with Delay Tolerance

April 25

Vishwanath Ramamurthi 

Capacity Assignment in Wireless Mesh Networks 


Eiman Alotaibi

Routing Protocols for Wireless Networks (Contd.)

April 18

Davide Cuda 

Evaluating Upgrade Options in Passive Optical Networks 

Eiman Alotaibi

Routing Protocols for Wireless Networks

April 11

Sheng Huang 

Survivable Multipath Provisioning with Differential Delay Constraint 

Diego Lucerna

Improving Efficiency of Backup Reprovisioning in WDM Networks.

April 4

Moritz Kiese 

Applying Column Generation in Network Planning 

Pulak Chowdhury

RFID: Radio Frequency Identification.

March 28

Ming Xia 

Networks Economics 

Ananya Das

Minimizing Expected Cost for Graph Traversals.

March 7

Rajesh Roy 

Protection 

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Wireless Ring: Wireless Mesh Architecture for High Speed Data.

March 6

D Andrei,  M Batayneh,
M Xia,  S Reaz ,  C Cavdar

Workshop

February 22

Marwan Batayneh 

Carrier Ethernet under Maximum Transmission Range Signal Constraints 

Ming Xia 

Reprovisioning with Resource Preemption in WDM Networks 

Cicek Cavdar

Multi-Layer Resilient Design for L1 VPNs.

February 15

Dragos Andrei 

DDR Provisioning with Flexible Rates in Different Network Architectures 

Dr. Massimo Tornatore 

Dynamic SLA Redefinition for SPP Connections with Known Duration 

Sheng Huang

Grooming.

February 8

Dr. Anpeng Huang 

Two CEOs in a FAN 

Marwan Batayneh 

Efficient Routing in MLR Optical Networks for Carrier-Grade Ethernet 

Rajesh Roy 

Degraded-Service Multipath Provisioning in Telecom Mesh Networks 

Dragos Andrei

Wavelength Assignment.

February 1

Huan Song 

Long-Reach PON Protection 

Cicek Cavdar

Regeneration.

January 25

Ananya Das 

Routing Algorithms 

Abu (Sayeem) Reaz

Self Organization in Wireless Networks.

January 18

Marwan Batayneh 

Switching Elements 

Dr. Anpeng Huang

Bypass-Enabled Optical Core Networks.

January 11

Dragos Andrei 

Provisioning Reverse-Multicast Sessions over Optical Networks 

Vishwanath Ramamurthi

A Review of Topology Control for Wireless Networks.

January 4

Dr. Myungsik Yoo 

Cognitive Radio Technology & Rendezvous Algorithms 

Cicek Cavdar

Availability-Guaranteed Provisioning with Bulk Arrivals in Optical Netw.

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