COMNETS'05 PROGRAM                                   

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:00 Keynote presentation

Marvin K. Sirbu [Carnegie-Mellon University]

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-12:30 Session 1 CASE STUDIES

· Broadband Projects - European View (invited presentation)

· Francisco Fuentes [Cisco Europe]

· Deployment of Broadband Community Infrastructure in the Region of Western Greece Antonios Alexiou, Christos Bouras, Vaggelis Igglesis Vaggelis Kapoulas [Univ. of Patras, Greece], Michael Paraskeuas [ Research Acad. Comp Tech. Inst., Patras, Greece], Ioannis Scopoulis [Univ. of Ioannina, Greece], John Papagiannopoulos [Univ. of Aegean, Greece]

· Alternatives for Community Metropolitan Networks for the major cities of the Amazon region in Brazil: the case of Belem

· Antonio Abelem, Monica da Silva, Jeferson Camara [Universidade Federal do Para, Brasil], Michael Stanton [RNP, Brasil] 

· Building Optical Networks for the Higher Education and Research Community in Brazil Michael Stanton - Jose Luiz Ribeiro Filho – Nelson Simoes da Silva [RNP, Brasil]

· Datacasting as a Public Network Service  Scott Valcourt  [Univ. of New Hampshire, USA]

12:30-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-15:00 Session 2 OPTICAL ACCESS

· Ethernet in the Last Mile (lunch keynote) Wael William Diab [IEEE 802.3ah and Cisco]

· Fiber to the Premise (FTTP) Industry Structure: Implications of a Wholesale-Retail Split Anupam Banerjee, Marvin Sirbu [Carnegie-Mellon Univ., USA]

· Dimensioning the last mile towards service differentiation M. P. Drakos, A. Nikolaidis [Nat’l Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece] and A. Foglar [Infineon Technologies, Germany]

· A Novel Alternative to EPON Architectures ASM Delowar Hossain, Hasan Erkan [CUNY, USA], Abdallah Shami [Univ. Western Ontario, Canada], M. A. Ali [CUNY, USA]

· Protection Scheme for a Ring-Based EPON Architecture ASM Delowar Hossain, Hasan Erkan [CUNY, USA], Abdallah Shami [Univ. Western Ontario, Canada], M. A. Ali [CUNY, USA]

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:00 Session 3 WIRELESS ACCESS

· On The Use of Bandwidth Aggregation Over Heterogeneous Last Miles Manoj Balakrishnan [Univ. California San Diego, USA], Rajesh Mishra [Calif. Inst. Of Telecommunications and Informaiton Technology, USA],  Ramesh R. Rao [Univ. California San Diego, USA]

· Standard-Based Public Wireless LAN Access and Roaming Ranjit Narjala, Asha Keddy, Jeremy Rover, Allen Sampson [Intel, USA]

· IROISE: A New QoS Architecture for IEEE 802.16 and IEEE 802.11e Interworking Kamal Gakhar -  Annie Gravey – Alain Leroy [ENST, France]