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All programs - 2008-09-30
2008-09-30
09:00-10:30
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Welcome Gyula Sallai (Chair of International Management and Scientific Committee, BME-TMIT and HTE, Hungary) |
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Opening Péter Kiss (Minister of Prime Minister’s Office, Hungary) |
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Program overview Tibor Cinkler (Chair of Technical Program Committee, BME-TMIT, Hungary) |
Keynote speakers
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Challenges in ICT regulation Chris A. Fonteijn (Boardmember of the Independent Regulators Group, Chairman of the Commission of OPTA, The Netherlands Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority) |
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Vision and objectives of Hungarian telecommunications Christopher Mattheisen (Chairman & CEO, Magyar Telekom, Hungary) |
11:00-12:30
P2: Convergence in Progress, Two Perspectives
Chair and Moderator

Rati C. Thanawala (Vice President of Network Planning, Performance, and Economic Analysis, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
Keynote speakers
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Driving Network Transformation: The Trends and Technologies behind IP Transformation of Fixed and Mobile Networks Abstract: |
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Towards more intelligent and efficient networks Cayetano Carbajo Martín (Director of Technology and Planning, Telefonica S.A., Spain) Abstract: |
14:00-15:30
A1: Broadband Access: Technology and Economics
Chair: Oscar Gonzalez-Soto (ITU Consultant, Spain)
Access network dimensioning with uncertain traffic forecasts
Olivier Klopfenstein (France Télécom R&D, France)
A1/1
A New Penalty Based Algorithm For Multi-User Spectrum Balancing in xDSL Networks
Alastair McKinley (Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom); Alan Marshall (The Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom)
A1/2
A financial and technological model for public regional broadband infrastructure
Davide Pierattoni (University of Udine, Italy); David Licursi (Mercurio FVG S.p.A., Italy); Pier Luca Montessoro (University of Udine, Italy)
A1/3
Access Network Sharing between Core Networks with Different QoS Policies
Akihiro Okada (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan); Akira Murashige (NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan); Daisuke Tazawa (NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan); Shinichiro Chaki (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan)
A1/4
B1: QoS (Quality of Service) Aspects
Chair: Szabolcs Malomsoky (Ericsson Research, Hungary)
QoS as the tool for enabling Broadband commodity within Access Networks
Enrique Areizaga (Robotiker, Spain); Andreas Foglar (Infineon Technologies AG, Germany); Antonio José Elizondo Armengol (Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Spain)
B1/1
Systematic QoS Class Mapping Framework for Application Requirement over Heterogeneous Networks
Mi-Sun Ryu (Information and Communications University, Korea); Young Min Kim (Information and Communications University, Korea); Hong-Shik Park (Information and Communications University, Korea)
B1/2
Cost models for Next Generation Networks with Quality of Service parameters
Laura Rodriguez de Lope (University of Cantabria, Spain); Klaus Hackbarth (University of Cantabria, Spain); Alberto García (University of Cantabria, Spain); Thomas Plueckebaum (WIK, Germany); Dragan Ilic (WIK, Germany)
B1/3
Service quality improvement based on Network Attachment Subsystem extensions and Service Enhancement Function – Mesh Networks as an example
Andreas Roos (T-Systems, Germany)
Chair: Csaba Szabó (BME-HIT, Hungary)
Novel Conflicting Link Exclusion Algorithms for SRLG-Disjoint Routing
Golnaz Vakili (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Azadeh Khodaei (University of applied science and technology, Iran); Siavash Khorsandi (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)
SRLG-Disjoint Multi-Path Protection: When LP meets ILP
László Gyarmati (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
C1/2
Novel Availability Metrics for Network Topologies
András Zahemszky (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); János Tapolcai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); András Császár (Ericsson Research, Hungary); Attila Mihály (Ericsson Research, Hungary)
C1/3
Dedicated Protection Scheme with Availability Guarantee
János Tapolcai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Péter Babarczi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Pin-Han Ho (University of Waterloo, Canada)
C1/4
Dependability Analysis of Data Center Tier III
Montri Wiboonrat (Assumption University, Thailand)
16:00-17:30
A2: Optical Access: Techno-Economic Aspects
Chair: Bartolits István (NHH, Hungary)
Optical Broadband Access Networks: A European Perspective
George Heliotis (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A., Greece); Ioannis Chochliouros (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A., Greece)
FTTH Network Economics: Key Parameters Impacting Technology Decisions
Samrat Kulkarni (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Mohamed El-Sayed (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Beth Polonsky (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Paul Gagen (Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
A2/2
Impact of Bandwidth Demand Growth on HFC Networks
Pradeep Limaye (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Marty Glapa (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Mohamed El-Sayed (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Paul Gagen (Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
A2/3
Broadband demand and the role of new technologies
Kjell Stordahl (Telenor, Norway)
A2/4
B2: Scalable Routing & Admission
Chair: Sang-Baeg Kim (Korea Telecom, Korea)
Root Controlled Bridging: a Scalable Control Protocol for Shortest Path Bridging
Janos Farkas (Ericsson, Hungary); Richard Pallos (Ericsson, Hungary)
B2/1
Carrier Ethernet ”label” scalability
Luis Caro (University of Girona, Spain); Dimitri Papadimitriou (Alcatel Bell, Belgium); Jose Marzo (Universitat de Girona, Spain)
B2/2
Hierarchical Routing on Unstructured Identifiers
Gábor Németh (Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Hungary); János Tapolcai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); András Császár (Ericsson Research, Hungary)
B2/3
End-to-End Delay Constrained Routing and Admission Control for MPLS Networks
Steven Chamberland (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)
B2/4
Reducing total call-blocking rates by flow admission control based on equality of heterogeneous traffic
Sumiko Shirata (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Katsunori Yamaoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Yoshinori Sakai (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
B2/5
C2: Resilience Schemes,Re-Routing, Recovery, Protection
Chair: Michal Pióro (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
Addressing robust Next-Generation Networks
Gianmarco Panza (CEFRIEL, Italy); Glauco Bigini (CEFRIEL, Italy); Michele Prudente (CEFRIEL, Italy); Pietro Belotti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
C2/1
Method for Rapid Recovery Path Computation on Mesh IP Network
Masayuki Tsujino (NTT, Japan); Ryutaro Matsumura (NTT, Japan); Masayuki Inoue (NTT, Japan); Motoi Iwashita (NTT, Japan)
C2/2
Flow optimization in IP networks with fast proactive recovery
Mateusz Dzida (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Michal Zagozdzon (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Mateusz Zotkiewicz (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Michal Pioro (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
C2/3
Fast Service Recovery under Shared Protection in Survivable WDM Networks with Limited Wavelength Conversion Capability
Jacek Rak (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
C2/4







