Technical Program

October 6, 2005 [Thursday] 7:30 . 8:30 AM

REGISTRATION

October 6, 2005 [Thursday] 8:30 AM . 6:15 PM

8:30 AM-8:45 AM

Session 1: Welcome, Opening Remarks, Workshop Objectives, Special Presentation

8:45 AM-9:15 AM

Maintaining the Research Edge
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Abdella Battou, Chief Technical Officer and Founder Lambda OpticalSystems.

9:15 AM-11:10 AM

Session 2: Application Mapping to Grids and Nets:

On Parameter Tuning of Data Transfer Protocol GridFTP for Wide-Area Grid Computing (9:15 am-9:40 am)
Takeshi Itou, Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Makoto Imase [Osaka University, JP]

Transactional Filer for a Grid Storage Server (9:40 am-10:05 am)
H. Shrikumar [Ipsil Inc, US]

Break (10:05 am-10:20 am)

Enhancements to CAN for the Application as Distributed Data Storage System in Grids(10:20 am-10:45 am)
Henry Ristau, Daniel Versick, D. Tavangarian [University of Rostock, DE].

Grid Node Monitoring Architecture for Autonomous Resource Management (10:45 am-11:10 am)
Mobeena Jamshed, Sana Khalique, Arshad Ali, Farooq Ahamed, [NUST, Pakistan]

11:10 AM-12:25 PM

Session 3: Signaling and Authorization:

Agreement Signalling and Network Service Provisioning for Grids(11:10 AM-11:35 PM)
Tiziana Ferrari, Elisabetta Ronchieri [INFN, IT], Kostas Kavoussanakis, Charaka Palansuriya [University of Edinburgh, UK], Anand Patil [Dante, UK]

Token Based path authorization at Interconnection Points between Hybrid Networks and a Lambda Grid(11:35 AM-12:00 PM)
Leon Gommans, Cees de Laat, Robert Meijer [University of Amsterdam, NL]

Using the Semantic Web to Automate the Operation of a Hybrid Internetwork(12:00 AM-12:25 PM)
Franco Travostino [Nortel, US]

12:30 PM-1:15 PM

Lunch (Provided)

1:15 PM-2:30 PM

Session 4: Infrastructure and Architecture Related:

SymbioticSphere: A Biologically-inspired Network Architecture for Autonomic Grid Systems(1:15 PM-1:40 PM)
Paskorn Champrasert, Junichi Suzuki [University of Massachusetts, US], Tomoko Itao [NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, JP]

Distributed Optical Testbed [DOT]: A Grid Applications and Optical Communications Testbed(1:40 PM-2:05 PM)
Joel Mambretti [Northwestern University, US]

Establishing Lightpaths of an Optical Ring for Distributed Computing Environment (2:05 PM-2:30 PM)
Hiroaki Harai [National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, JP], Murata Masayuki [Osaka University, JP]

2:30 PM-4:25 PM

Session 5: Optical Burst Switching:

Adaptive Robust Optical Burst Switching(2:30 PM-2:50 PM)
Oliver Yu, Huan Xu, Leping Yin [University of Illinois at Chicago, US]

Synchronous Stream Optical Burst Switching (2:50 PM-3:15 PM)
Oliver Yu, Ming Liao, Yuan Cao [University of Illinois at Chicago, US]

Break (3:15 PM-3:35 PM)

Reliable Optical Burst Switching for Next-Generation Grid Networks(3:35 PM-4:00 PM)
Vinod Vokkarane [University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US], Qiong Zhang [University of Texas at Dallas, US]

Performance Evaluation of an Optical Burst Switching Scheme for Grid Networks(4:00 PM-4:25 PM)
Xenia Mountrouidou, Harry Perros [North Carolina State University, US], Maged Beshai [Nortel Networks, CA]

4:25 PM-6:15 PM

Session 6: Lambda scheduling and allocation

Opportunistic Bandwidth Scheduling in LambdaGrids Using Explicit Control(4:25 pm-5:00 pm)
Sumit Naiksatam, Silvia Figueira [Santa Clara University, US]

Dynamic Scheduling of Lightpaths in Lambda Grids(5:00 pm-5:25 pm)
Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric Parsons [Carleton University, CA]

Stream Assignment for Grid Network with Joint Communication and Computation Constraints(5:25 pm-5:50 pm)
Javed I. Khan [KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, US]

An Adaptive High Performance Architecture for Processable Bulk Data Transfers on a Grid(5:50 pm-6:15 pm)
Imran Ahmad [Carleton University, CA]

October 7, 2005 [Friday], 8:30 AM-3:30 PM
8:45 AM-9:15 AM Overview of Friday Agenda/Comments on Papers
8:30 AM-8:45 AM Keynote Speaker:
Hank Dardy, Chief Scientist
Naval Research Laboratory, US

9:15 AM-10:15 AM Panel 1: Global Grid Research Directions
Panelists:
Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University, US
Robert Cohen, GGF
Wolfgang Ziegler, Inst. for Scientific Computing and Algorithms SCAI, Germany

10:15 AM-10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM-11:30 AM Panel 2: Optical Middleware and Grid Integration Panelists:
Jon MacLaren, Louisiana State University, US
Richard Hughes-Jones, University of Manchester, UK

11:30 AM-12:30 PM Panel 3: Network Research Infrastructures - NLR, GLIF, HOPI
Panelists:
Cees Delaat, NetherLight
Tom West, National LambdaRail
Licia Florio, TERENA

12:30 PM-1:30 PM LUNCH (Provided)
1:30 PM-2:45 PM Panel 4: Vendors Respond to the Grid Research Community
Panelists:
Franco Travostino, Nortel
Russ Gyurek, Cisco
John Bowers, Calient
Bela Berde, Alcatel
Abdella Battou, Lambda OpticalSystems
Lou Berger, Movaz Networks

2:45 PM-3:30 PM Wrap-up; Next Steps