Day1 (Dec 14) Day2 (Dec 15) Day3 (Dec 16)


Day 1:Monday, December 14, 2009
Venue:Seminar Hall, IIT Delhi, India

8:00am - 6:30pm Registration


8:00am - 8:45am Breakfast


8:45am - 9:05am Inauguration
  • Director, IIT Delhi.
  • Bijendra Nath Jain and Suresh Subramaniam
  • Sudhir Dixit, Ashwin Gumaste, and Biswanath Mukherjee

9:05am - 10:35am Session M1 (Keynote Talks)      Chair: B. N. Jain

10:35am - 10:55am Tea/Coffee Break


10:55am - 12:25am Session M2 (Invited Talks)      Chair: Sudhir Dixit
  • IT1: Sushil Prakash, Country Head-Emerging Technology, Business Innovation Group, TataTeleservices : "Networks and Telecommunication Systems - A Tool for Competitive Advantage"
  • IT2: Neeraj Gulati, Managing Director, Ciena.
  • IT3: Rajiv Dighe, Managing Director, Teknovus, USA : "10 G PON- Technology and Market Update"
  • KN3: Ajit Balakrishnan, CEO, Rediff.


12:25am - 1:40pm Lunch

1:40am - 3:50pm Session M3 (Invited Talks)      Chair: Dominic Schupke
  • Plenary Talk: Sudhir Dixit, HP Labs, India: "Innovating for the Next Billion: Simplifying and Enriching the User Experience".

  • IT4: Executive Director, MTNL, India.

  • Session on "National Knowledge Network" by Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India.
  • IT5: Shriprakash Pandey, CEO, Commtel India: "Utilisation of Telecommunication Systems for Mission Critical Applications".

  • IT6: Prasad Babu Annapareddi,Director of Marketing, Service Provider, Juniper Networks, USA : "Cloud Network for successful Cloud Service"


3:50pm - 4:10pm Tea/Coffee Break

4:10pm - 5:40pm Session M4 (Keynote Talks)      Chair: Admela Jukan

5:40pm - 7:00pm Panel 1       Service Provider Panel
  • Moderator:
  • Girish Saraph, CEO, Vegayan Systems and IIT Bombay
  • Participants
  • Sify, India
    MTNL
    BSNL
    Airtel
    Reliance Communications
    Tata Communications

7:00pm - 9:00pm Banquet
(all attendees are invited)
    Venue: IIT Delhi Lawns.



Day 2:Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Venue:Seminar Hall, IIT Delhi, India

8:00am - 8:45am Breakfast


8:45am - 10:30am Session T1       Optical Communications,
      Chair: Debasish Datta
  • T1-1: CAPEX minimization through node degree reduction in a Colorless and Directionless ROADM architecture for flexible optical networks
    Sai Kishore B, Prasanna G, Devarajan A, Sandesha K, Nanda Gopal D, Venkataramaniah K (Sri Satya Sai University, IN); Pavan Voruganti (Op-Vista Inc., Milpitas, California, US); Ron Johnson (Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, California, US)

  • T1-2: Auto-detection of misconnected fibers in WSS based multi-degree ROADM
    Nitin Manohar and Arvind Kumar (Ciena India, IN)

  • T1-3: Free-space Optical Links Using Phase Singularity
    Bharat Kumar Yadav and Hem Chandra Kandpal (National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, IN)

  • T1-4: Performance of On-Off Keying Optical Code-Division Multiple Access Using Feedback-Controlled Spreading Sequences
    Mihiro Nojima and Masanori Hamamura (Kochi University of Technology, JP)

  • KN6: Ajoy Ghatak, IIT Delhi: "The Amazing Story of the Optical Fiber"

10:30am - 10:50am Tea/Coffee Break


10:50am - 12:30pm Session T2       Access Networks,
      Chair: Rudra Dutta
  • T2-1: A new QoS aware predictive scheduling strategy in EPONs, Rajnish Kumar (IIT Delhi, IN)
    Swades De and Hari Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, IN); Navrati Saxena (Sungkyunkwan University, KR); Abhishek Roy (Samsung Electronics, KR)

  • T2-2: 10G-EPON Efficiency
    Rajesh Roy (University of California, Davis, US); Marek Hajduczenia (ZTE, CN); Glen Kramer (Teknovus, Inc, US); Henrique Silva (University of Coimbra, PT)

  • T2-3: Transparent (Fiber to the Premises) Wave Division Multiplexing Passive Optical Network
    Colm Connolly and Michael Schukat (National University of Ireland Galway, IE)

  • T2-4: Heuristic Algorithms for Designing Minimum Cost FSO Networks
    Shanshan Chen, Samuel Cheng, Pramode Verma, and Robert Huck (University of Oklahoma, US)

  • T2-5: A New Architecture and MAC Protocol for Flexible Radio over Fiber Home Networks
    Goutam Das, Bart Lannoo, Daan Pareit (Ghent University, BE); Chigo Okonkwo, Ton Koonen (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, NL); Didier Colle, Ingrid Moerman, Mario Pickavet, Piet Demeester (Ghent University, BE)

  • IT7: Lena Wosinska, KTH, Sweden: "How Much to Pay for Protection in Fiber Access Networks: Cost and Reliability Tradeoff"

12:30pm - 1:45pm Lunch


1:45pm - 3:25pm Session T3       Energy Issues and Core Telecom Networks,
      Chair: Suresh Subramaniam
  • IT8: Mario Pickavet, Ghent University, Belgium: "Energy in ICT - Trends and Research Directions"

  • T3-1: Energy Efficiency and CAPEX Minimization for Backbone Network Planning: Is there a Tradeoff?
    Eleni Palkopoulou (Chemnitz University of Technology, DE); Dominic A. Schupke (Nokia Siemens Networks, DE); Thomas Bauschert (Chemnitz University of Technology, DE)

  • T3-2: Optimal Segment Size for Fixed-sized Segment Protection in Wavelength-routed Optical Networks
    Raghunath Tewari and Byrav Ramamurthy (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US)

  • T3-3: Logical Topology Augmentation for Guaranteed Survivability under Multiple Failures in IP-over-WDM Optical Networks
    Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman, Muhammad S Javed, and Tachun Lin (University of Oklahoma, US); Guoliang Larry Xue (Arizona State University, US)

  • T3-4: Achieving IP Routing Stability with Optical Bypass
    Mohit Chamania, Marcel Caria, and Admela Jukan (Technische Universiti Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, DE)

  • W3-5: A Comparison of Optical Time Slotted Networks
    Arush G Gadkar (The George Washington University, US)


3:25pm - 3:45pm Tea/Coffee Break

3:45pm - 6:15pm Session T4 (Keynote/Invited Talks)      Chair: Byrav Ramamurthy
  • KN7: Devraj Srinivasan, GM and Head, Wireline Business, Wipro, India.
  • KN8: Wael William Diab, Technical Director, Office of the CTO Broadcom / Vice-Chair, IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group: "Ethernet as the Ubiquitous Wired Networking Technology: A Look at IEEE 802.3's Technologies, Past, Present and Future"
  • IT9: A. K. Seth, Systema Shyam Teleservice Limited, India: "Need and Implementation of Deep Packet Inspection by Broadband Operators".
  • IT10: Praveen Hebbagodi, Akamai.
  • IT11: Sergi Figuerola, I2CAT.



Day 3:Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Venue:Seminar Hall, IIT Delhi, India

8:00am - 8:45am Breakfast


8:45am - 10:20am Session W1       Optical Communications and Networks,
      Chair: Mario Pickavet
  • IT12: Anjali Agarwal, Telcordia, USA: "Highly Dynamic and Scalable Multi-terabit Optical Networks: Physical-Layer Aspects"

  • IT13: Wosinski, KTH, Sweden: "Wavelength Selective Devices for WDM Communication Systems"

  • W1-1: Some Schemes for Controlling Gain Dynamics of EDFA chains in Wavelength-Routed Optical Networks
    Krishna Chaitanya Puvvada (Schlumberger LTD, FR); Debasish Datta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, IN)

  • W1-2: Impact of Channel Spacing on the Design of a Mixed-Line-Rate Optical Network
    Avishek Nag and Massimo Tornatore (University of California, Davis, US)

  • W1-3: System Design and Evaluation of a Large Photonic Switch based on Optical Codes for Optical Burst Switched Networks
    Maurizio Casoni and Alessio Sacchi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT)

10:20am - 10:40am Tea/Coffee Break


10:40am - 12:45pm Session W2       Buffers and Applications,
      Chair: : Lena Wosinska
  • W2-1: Evaluating Buffer-Constrained Routers under Bursty and Shaped Traffic
    Arvinderpal S. Wander (Infinera, US); Anujan Varma (University of California, Santa Cruz, US)

  • W2-2: How Poisson is TCP Traffic at Short Time-Scales in a Small Buffer Core Network?
    Arun Vishwanath, Vijay Sivaraman (University of New South Wales, AU); Diethelm Ostry (CSIRO, AU)

  • T2-3: Static Manycast Routing and Wavelength Assignment over Wavelength-Routed Optical WDM Networks
    Neal Charbonneau and Vinod Vokkarane (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US)

  • W2-4: Analytical System Tools for iSCSI Remote Storage Access and Performance Improvement by Optimization with the Tools
    Reika Higa (University of Ochanomizu, JP); Kosuke Matsubara (SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp, JP); Takao Okamawari (Softbank Mobile Corp., JP); Saneyasu Yamaguchi (Kogakuin University, JP); Masato Oguchi (Ochanomizu University, JP)

  • W2-5: Secured Media Latching in VoIP Networks
    Sudhakar Dhanagopal, Lavanya Venkatesan, and Dhanunjai Nagabhyru (Wipro, IN)

  • IT14: Vijay Yadav, MD, UT-Starcom: "Futuristic Technologies for Emerging Economies: Audio-Visual Communications"

  • IT15: Tulika Pandey, DIT, India

12:45pm - 2:00pm Lunch


2:00pm - 4:15pm Session W3       Applications and Security,
      Chair: Pramode Verma
  • IT16: Ritu Chadha, Telcordia, USA: "Policy-Driven Mobile Ad Hoc Network Management"

  • IT17: Chandan Mehndiratta, VP, Cisco Systems, USA.

  • W3-1: Two Algorithms for Network Size Estimation for Master/Slave Ad Hoc Networks
    Redouane Ali, Suksant Sae Lor, and Miguel Rio (University College London, UK)

  • W3-2: Impact of Power Control on Capacity of Large Scale Wireless Mesh Networks
    Parth Pathak and Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State University, US)

  • W3-3: Wireless Backhaul for LTE, Service OAM Considerations
    George Varghese and Debajit Ghosh (Wipro Technologies, IN)

  • W3-4: Social Networks as Internet Barometers for Optimizing Content Delivery Networks
    Sachin Kumar Agarwal (Deutsche Telekom AG, Laboratories, DE); Shruti Agarwal (Humboldt University, DE)

  • W3-5: Recursive Secret Sharing for Distributed Storage and Information Hiding
    Abhishek Parakh and Subhash Kak (Oklahoma State University, US)

  • W3-6: Strong Authentication for Secure Content Access in Converged Networks
    Rajarathnam Nallusamy (Infosys Technologies Limited, IN); Sanjoy Paul (Infosys Technologies Limited, US)

4:15pm - 5:45pm Extended Tea Break and Poster Session       Chairs: Krishna Sivalingam and Seshadri Mohan
  • P1: Survivable IP Topology Design with Reuse of Backup Wavelength Capacity
    Chaitanya S. K. Vadrevu and Massimo Tornatore (University of California, Davis, US)
  • P2: Differential Capacity p-Cycles: A p-Cycle Variant with Increased Capacity Efficiency
    Prashant Jaikumar (Cisco Systems, US); Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State University, US)
  • P3: Unfairness in TCP Performance over Lossy Optical Burst-Switched (OBS) Networks
    Julie Sullivan, Paul Ramos, and Vinod M. Vokkarane (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US)
  • P4: VPN Topology Abstraction Service using Centralized Core Capacity Sharing Scheme
    Ravishankar Ravindran, Changcheng Huang (Carleton University, CA); Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman (University of Oklahoma, US)
  • P5: Reconsideration of carrier sensing range for wireless ad hoc networks
    Mayur M Vegad, Swades De, and Brejesh Lall (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, IN)
  • P6: Joint Optimization of Power Allocation and Relay Selection in Cooperative Wireless Sensor Networks
    Hadi Jamali Rad, Bahman Abolhassani (Iran University of Science and Technology, IR); Mohammad Taghi Abdizadeh (Sharif University of Technology, IR)
  • P7: Channel Aware Routing Metric for IEEE 802.11 Multi-Channel Mesh Networks
    Mahmudur Rahman and Anjali Agarwal (Concordia University, CA)
  • P8: Energy Consumption Analysis in Link Adaptive Cognitive Radio Network
    Rajarshi Mahapatra (Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, IN)
  • P9: Using Reconfigurable Hardware Devices in WSNs for Accelerating and Reducing the Power Consumption of Header Processing Tasks
    Georgios-Grigorios Mplemenos, Panagiotis Christou, and Ioannis Papaefstathiou (Technical University of Crete, GR)
  • P10: BER Derivation for UWB Communication with a Relay Node in the Presence of Inter-Channel Interference
    Zolfa Zeinalpour-Yazdi, Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari (Sharif University of Technology, IR); Behnaam Aazhang (Rice University, US)
  • P11: Channel Assignment in Cognitive Wireless Mesh Networks
    Ayoub Alsarhan and Anjali Agarwal (Concordia University, CA)
  • P12: Novel User-Based Packet Classification in 802.16e to Provide Better Performance
    Amitkeerti Lagare and Debabrata Das (International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, IN)
  • P13: Minimizing Network Cost in All-Optical Networks
    Shivashis Saha (University of Nebraksa-Lincoln, US); Eric D. Manley (Drake University, US); Jitender Singh Deogun (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US)
  • P14: An Efficient Call Admission Control Scheme on Overlay Networks Using Fuzzy Logic
    Asish Mukhopadhyay (Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, IN); Sunanda Chatterjee (Institute of Engineering and Industrial Technology, IN); Sajal Saha (Narula Institute of Technology, IN); Suranjan Ghose (Jadavpur University, IN); Debashis Saha (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, IN)
  • P15: Signaling Performance of UPnP QoS Architecture
    Lukasz Brewka, Henrik Wessing, and Lars Dittmann (Technical Univ of Denmark, DK)
  • P16: QoS Optimized Cross Multi-layer Transmission for SVC Coded Video Stream over IEEE 802.16e Network
    Jiun-Yu Tu (National Central University, TW)
  • P17: Secure Group Communication Using Binomial Trees
    R. Aparna (Siddagang Institute of Technology, IN); B B Amberker, Divya Pola, and Pranjal Bathia (National Institute of Technology, Warangal, IN)
  • P18: Evaluation of the P2P File Sharing Technique by Indexed-Priority Metric
    Toshinori Takabatake and Yoshikazu Komano (Shonan Institute of Technology, JP)
  • P19: Call Arrival Model for GSM Network Including Handover
    Busra Yuksel, Merve Cingoz (Istanbul Technical University, TR); Gunes Karabulut (Turkcell, TR); Sema Oktug (Istanbul Technical University, TR)
  • P20: Performance Analysis of Beacon-Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 MAC for Emergency Response Applications
    Anil Mehta (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, US); Ghulam M. Bhatti (MERL, US); Zafer Sahinoglu (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, US); Ramanarayanan Viswanathan (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, US); Jinyun Zhang (MERL, US)

5:45pm       Concluding Remarks and IEEE ANTS 2010       information: Biswanath Mukherjee and Ashwin       Gumaste.



KN=Keynote (45 mins)
IT=Invited Talk (15 mins)
Regular Paper (15 mins)
P=poster session