WCNC 2012 Workshop on Hybrid Optical Wireless Access Networks Program

Sunday, April 1

09:00 - 10:30

S1: Transport Technologies

Room: 328

Chairs: Ken'ichi Kitayama (Osaka University, Japan), Carmo Medeiros (University of Algarve, Portugal)

This session of the "Hybrid Optical Wireless Access Networks" workshop will focus on the transport issues. It will consist of three talks: one invited talk and two contributed talks.

Invited Paper: Coherent IFDMA for Elastic and Power-Efficient Next Generation Passive Optical Networks: Yuki Yoshida (Osaka University, Japan); Kenji Ishii (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan); Ken'ichi Kitayama (Osaka University, Japan); Akihiro Maruta (Osaka University, Japan); Yuji Akiyama (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan); Tsuyoshi Yoshida (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan); Naoki Suzuki (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan); Kazuumi Koguchi (Mitsubishi Electric, Japan); Junichi Nakagawa (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan); Takashi Mizuochi (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)
Transmission Performance of Multiplexed OFDM Signals Over Optical Access Network Architectures Employing RSOAs: Carmo Medeiros (University of Algarve, Portugal); Ricardo Avó (Center of Electronics Optoelectronics and Telecommunications, Portugal); Tashi Ravach (University of Algarve, Portugal)
Experimental Demonstration of the Impact of MZM Non-Linearity on Direct-Detection Optical OFDM: Oluyemi Omomukuyo (University College London, United Kingdom); Manoj Thakur (University College London, United Kingdom); John Mitchell (University College London, United Kingdom)

11:00 - 12:30

S2: Networking

Room: 328

Chairs: Maurice Gagnaire (Telecom ParisTech (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications) & Institut Telecom, France), Leonid Kazovsky (Stanford University, USA)

This session of the "Hybrid Optical Wireless Access Networks" workshop will focus on networking issues. It will consist of three talks: one invited talk and two contributed talks.

GROWNet: Coherent Signal Processing for Distributed Antennas with Analog RF Transport (Invited Paper): Shing-Wa Wong (Stanford University, USA); Leonid Kazovsky (Stanford University, USA); Moises R. N. Ribeiro (Federal Universty of Espirito Santo, Brazil); Tolga Ayhan (Stanford University, USA)
Estimating the Mobile Backhaul Traffic in Distributed Coordinated Multi-point Systems: Volker Jungnickel (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany); Stephan Jaeckel (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Kai Börner (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany); Michael Schlosser (Fraunhofer-Institute for Telecommunications Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany); Lars Thiele (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany)
Throughput and Delay Fairness through an agile Medium-Transparent MAC protocol for 60GHz Fiber-Wireless LAN networks: Pavlos Maniotis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); George Kalfas (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain); Luis Alonso (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Christos Verikoukis (Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia, Spain); Nikos Pleros (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)