IEEE BSS '97
2nd IEEE International Workshop on Broadband Switching Systems
The Ritz Taipei Hotel, Taipei, R.O.C., 2-4 December 1997
Workshop Theme:
"Switching Systems for the Broadband Internet and for QoS on Demand"
Technical Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society.
Sponsored by National Science Council of ROC.
Co-sponsored by The Ministry of Education of ROC
Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., ROC
ITRI, ROC (pending)
Ericsson Taiwan Ltd.
National Central University, ROC.
OBJECTIVE
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The goal of this workshop is to provide an effective forum for discussing
new directions, new challenges, new opportunities, and new advances on
Broadband Switching Systems, and to foster communications among researchers
and engineers from both academia and industry with a common interest in
improving Broadband Switching Systems.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Honorary General Co-Chairs:
C. H. Liu, National Central University, Taiwan, ROC.
Maurizio Decina, Politecnico di Milano/CEFRIEL, Italy
General Chair:
Jin-Fu Chang, National Science Council, ROC.
Vice General Co-Chairs:
Wen-Tsuen Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, ROC.
Jean-Lien C. Wu, National Taiwan Institute of Technology, ROC.
Keynote Speaker:
Steve Weinstein, NEC America, USA
Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs:
G.S. Kuo, National Central University, Taiwan, ROC.
Kai Eng, Bell Labs., USA
Technical Program Committee:
Chung-Ju Chang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, ROC.
Jurgen Haag, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Bijan Jabbari, George Mason University, USA
Andrzej Jajszczyk, Institute of Communication and Information Technologies
Ltd., Poland
Dennis Kong, Bellcore, USA
Lung-Sing Liang, Telecommunication Laboratories, Chunghwa Telecom Co.,
Ltd., Taiwan, ROC.
Steve Liu, GTE Labs., USA
Richard Vickers, NORTEL, Canada
Naoaki Yamanaka, NTT, Japan
Chu Hwan Yim, ETRI, Korea
ADVANCED TECHNICAL PROGRAM
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Day One - Tuesday, December 2, 1997.
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9:00 - 12:00 Tutorial 1: Nonblocking Multirate Switching Networks
Frank K. Hwang, Bell Labs.
ABSTRACT
To combine audio, data and video networks all into
one, an ATM network must be able to connect requests
requiring a broad range of bandwidths, or rates.
The classical theory on nonblocking networks needs
a complete overhaul for this new multirate
environment. I will present the up-to-date story
on the recent development of this new theory, taken
from a chapter from my upcoming book "Mathematical
Theory of Nonblocking Switching Networks."
9:00 - 12:00 Tutorial 2: Management Platforms: Operability, Portability,
Interoperability
Joseph Ghetie, Bellcore
ABSTRACT
The tutorial provides a basis for analysis of
technical capabilities of distributed management
platforms in offering operability services as
required by the users/operators, portability of
management applications running on top of these
management platforms, and interoperability between
similar/dissimilar management platforms. The
objective of this analysis is to determine the
extent to which management platforms provide
flexible, scalable, integrated, enterprise-wide
management, including management of broadband
networks.
The purpose of this tutorial is to provide useful
and timely analysis information to technical and
managerial staff (planners, designers, developers,
procurers, and users) seeking selection of
management platforms and selection of management
applications associated with management platforms.
14:00 - 17:00 Tutorial 3: Agent Platforms Analysis and Evaluation
Joseph Ghetie, Bellcore
ABSTRACT
This tutorial presentation is focused on agent
platforms design, functions, interfaces, development,
and implementations in order to manage enterprise-
wide networks, including broadband networks. Six
major conceptual and implementation agent paradigms
are analyzed: SNMP/RMON Agent, OSI CMIP/TMN Agent,
DMTF DMI Agent, RPC-based Agents, CORBA distributed
object environment, and WEB-based management. Agent
development environments and toolkits used in agent
applications development are also presented.
Evaluation criteria for agent platforms are presented
along with the analysis of several available agent
development tools.
The purpose of this tutorial is to provide useful
and timely analysis information to technical and
managerial staff (planners, designers, developers,
procurers, and users) seeking selection of management
and agent platforms and selection of agent
applications development tools.
18:30 - 20:00 Welcome Reception
Day Two - Wednesday, December 3, 1997.
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8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:10 Workshop Opening
9:10 - 9:20 Guest Speech
9:20 - 9:50 Keynote Speech - "A Future of Diversity: Multimedia
Communications and Applications in the Broadband Internet"
Dr. Stephen B. Weinstein, NEC C&C Laboratories, USA.
President of IEEE Communications Society.
ABSTRACT
The 1980s' dream of universal B-ISDN service for
residential subscribers, delivered through optical
fibers at rates of 155Mbps and above, has given
way to a more diverse and less expensive universe
of wideband and broadband access systems. These
systems, oriented more toward Internet access than
traditional network services, come in a variety of
physical architectures and communication protocols.
The task of edge switches and multiplexers will be
to support this diversity, including utilizing
overlay networks within the same communication
session. A particular objective is to invoke high
quality of service connections from within best-
effort Internet applications.
Beginning from consideration of the B-ISDN model, I
introduce the more diverse broadband vision that has
been inspired by the innovations of the Internet. I
describe how overlay switching and distributed object
system middleware supports future multimedia
applications, illustrated with applications that I
believe will become popular with a large public in
the not-too-distant future.
9:50 - 10:30 Invited Presentation - "Research Perspectives in High-Speed
Networks: Gigabit ATM, Wireless ATM and Gigabit Ethernet"
Dr. Kai Eng, Bell Labs., USA
10:30 - 10:45 Tea & Coffee
10:45 - 12:15 Technical Session 1: ATM and IP (4 papers)
[1] ATM Switching and IP Routing Integration: The Next Stage in
Internet Evolution
Paul Patrick White
University College London, UK.
[2] Improving the Fairness of TCP over ATM WAN with the Age
Priority Packet Discarding Scheme
Hong-Bin Chiou* and Zsehong Tsai**
* Chunghwa Telecommunication Co., Ltd., Taiwan, ROC.
** National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC.
[3] Interworking between IFMP Switching and B-ISDN Access
Protocols
L. Cipriani*, D. Di Giorgio**, M. Pugliese**, and S.
Salsano***
* Ericsson Telecomunicazioni S.p.A., Italy.
** CoRiTel, Italy.
*** Universita "La Sapienza" di Roma, Italy.
[4] Early Packet Discard with Diverse Management Policies for
EOM Cells
Maurizio Casoni
University of Bologna, Italy.
12:30 - 13:45 Luncheon
Invited Speech - "R&D Status on Broadband ATM Switching
Systems in Taiwan"
Dr. Jin Tuu Wang, Telecommunication Laboratories,
Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., ROC.
14:00 - 15:30 Technical Session 2: ATM Switch Architecture (4 papers)
[1] Tandem-crosspoint ATM Switch Architecture and Its Cost-
effective Expansion
Eiji Oki, Naoaki Yamanaka, and Seisho Yasukawa
NTT, Japan.
[2] A Bus-based Modular Approach to Designing A Large Scale
ATM Switch
Young-Keun Lee and Young-Keun Park
Yonsei University, Korea.
[3] Flexible ATM Switching Architecture for Multimedia
Communications
Zenichi Yashiro, Toshiro Tanaka, and Yukihiro Doi
NTT, Japan.
[4] ATM Switching System Architecture for ATM Trunking Using
AAL1
Sung-Jae Lee, Tae-Joon Park, and Jung-Sik Kim
ETRI, Korea.
15:30 - 15:45 Tea & Coffee
15:45 - 17:15 Technical Session 3: Switch Performance (4 papers)
[1] Technical Issues and Standardization on ATM Network
Performance and Quality of Services
Terufumi Shinomiya*, Hideyo Murakami*, and Kouichi
Asatani**
* NTT, Japan.
** Kogakuin University, Japan.
[2] Performance Modelling of Multistage ATM Switches with
Backpressure Control Schemes
Simon Fong and Samar Singh
La Trobe University, Australia.
[3] Performance Simulation of A Multicast Input-Indexed Switch
Felixberto S. Cruz and Peter A. Ivey
University of Sheffield, UK.
[4] A Hybrid ATM VBR/ABR Service for Scalable MPEG2 Video
Networking: A Simulation -based Analysis
Ahmed Mehaoua
Computer Science Research Institute of Montreal, Canada.
18:30 - 20:30 Banquet
Banquet Speech - "The Internet Revolution: Reshaping
Business for the 21st Century"
Prof. Maurizio Decina, Politecnico di Milano/CEFRIEL, Italy
Past President of IEEE Communications Society
ABSTRACT
The age of digital convergence cannot be ignored by
technology, service, and content provision companies,
given the phenomenal growth of the Internet and its
enormous potential in delivering services. While the
interactive television and video on demand early pilot
trials have not succeeded on the market, the unpredicted
explosive development of the Internet and the World Wide
Web have clearly demonstrated that Internet is the
medium where the commercial and end users interests'
converge. The fundamental limitation in the existing
Internet model is the lack of network bandwidth for
delivering synchronous media such as video and audio
with the needed Quality of Service performance, which
is fundamental for applications in the consumer and
the business markets. The next generation of Internet
will offer a new network architecture suitable for the
provision of broadband multimedia services and
applications, thus expanding the end users' WWW
experience from the technological, content, and service
provision point of view. The purpose of the speech is
to offer an entertaining overview of the latest
development in building an Integrated Services Internet
Architecture, as well as of the current efforts of the
Telecommunications community to develop broadband
networks based on ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)
standards.
Day Three - Thursday, December 4, 1997.
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9:00 - 10:30 Technical Session 4A: Photonic Switching-Related Topic
(2 papers)
[1] 640Gb/s Ultra-High-Speed Optical Interconnection System
Using Wide-Channel-Spacing Wavelength Division
Multiplexing
Seisho Yasukawa and Naoaki Yamanaka
NTT, Japan.
[2] Architecture of 2-to-1 COD Multiplexers for Asynchronous
Packet Arrivals
Jung-Tsung Tsai
ITRI, Taiwan, ROC.
Technical Session 4B: Wireless ATM (2 papers)
[1] Mobile ATM: Architecture, Protocols and Implementation
Arup Acharya, Jun Li, and D. Raychaudhuri
NEC C&C Research Laboratories, USA.
[2] Wireless ATM LAN with and without Infrastructure
Y. Du, C. Herrmann, and P. May
Philips Research Laboratories, Germany.
10:30 - 10:45 Tea & Coffee
10:45 - 12:15 Technical Session 5: Flow Control and Scheduling (4 papers)
[1] A Prediction Algorithm for Feedback Control Models with Long
Delays
B. Jang, B.G. Kim and G. Pecelli
University of Mass. Lowell, USA.
[2] Flow Control in A High-Speed Bus-Based ATM Switching Hub
Song Chong*, Ramesh Nagarajan**, and Y.T. Wang**
* Sogang University, Korea.
** Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA.
[3] An Efficient Scheduling Algorithm to Input-queueing ATM
Switch
Bin Li, Mounir Hamdi, and Xi-Ren Cao
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong
Kong, China.
[4] A RAM-Based Generic Packet Switch with Scheduling Capability
Massoud R. Hashemi and Alberto Leon-Garcia
University of Toronto, Canada.
12:30 - 13:45 Luncheon
Invited Speech - "Switching Bits in the Years Ahead"
Prof. Hussein Mouftah, Queen's University, Canada
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Magazine
14:00 - 15:30 Technical Session 6: Switching Service and Operation-
Related Topic (4 papers)
[1] Efficient Multicast Copy Network
M. Alimuddin, H. M. Alnuweiri, and R. W. Donaldson
University of British Columbia, Canada.
[2] Priority Control Mechanism by Cell Service Ratio in ATM
Switch
Won Gi Park and Yoon Yu Lee
ETRI, Korea.
[3] Minimal Overhead Fault Masking Scheme for Broadband Multi-
Channel Switching
Peter Y. Yan and Paul S. Min
Washington University, USA.
[4] Implementation of ATM OAM Functions for the Integrated
Service Access Network
Sang-Ho Lee
ETRI, Korea.
15:30 - 15:45 Tea & Coffee
15:45 - 17:15 Panel Discussion - "The Future of Broadband Switching
Systems"
17:15 - 17:25 Workshop Closing
WORKSHOP LOCATION
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The workshop location is The Ritz Taipei Hotel, a member of The Leading
Hotels of the World. As you might know, The Ritz is the best business
hotel in Taipei. We have negotiated with them and obtained an excellent
package for our BSS'97 participants. Its address is 41, Min Chuan East
Road, Section 2, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. For more information about our
BSS'97 hotel reservation, please contact Ms. Stephanie Wang,
tel: +886 2 5985588, fax: +886 2 5863557, and
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.theritz-taipei.com
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