Some Research Results for Agile All-Photonic Networks

Friday, July 6th 2007, 11:30-12:30, A205

Professor Gregor von Bochmann School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) University of Ottawa Canada

It is a great pleasure for us to announce a talk from Prof. Gregor von Bochmann from the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Abstract of the Talk

Agile All-Photonic Networks (AAPN) is a Canadian research network (funded by NSERC and 6 industrial partners) exploring the use of very fast photonic switching for building optical networks that allow the sharing (multiplexing) of a wavelength between different information flows. The aim is to bring photonic technology close to the end-user in the residential or office environment. The talk gives an overview of the proposed overlaid star network architecture and describes new results on (a) bandwidth allocation algorithms, (b) the routing and protection of MPLS flows over an AAPN using the concept of OSPF areas, and (c) our evolving plans for building demonstration prototypes.

Background

Gregor v. Bochmann is a professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa since January 1998. Previously, he was professor at the University of Montreal for 25 years. He is a fellow of the IEEE and ACM and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

He has worked in the areas of programming languages, compiler design, communication protocols, and software engineering and has published many papers in these areas. He has also been actively involved in the standardization of formal description techniques for communications protocols and services. His present work is aimed at methodologies for the design, implementation and testing of communication protocols and distributed systems. Ongoing projects include distributed systems management and quality of service negotiation for distributed multimedia applications.

More information is available at http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~bochmann.