October, 7th 2005, Radisson Hotel, Boston, MA, USA

Traffic grooming in WDM networks is defined as the allocation of sub-wavelength traffic tributaries onto full wavelengths channels in order to achieve efficient utilization of network resources. such that some cost function be minimized. This is usually implemented according to a strategy that optimizes a certain objective function, such as minimizing cost or blocking probability, or maximizing revenue. Realization that most of the applications’ bandwidth requirements is are sub-wavelength has put the traffic grooming under the spotlight, and increased its importance. In the beginning, the motivation for traffic grooming was merely reducing the total number of required wavelengths, such that, given limited number of wavelengths, maximum amount of traffic can be accommodated. However, the understanding that traffic grooming can significantly reduce the number of higher layer components, and thus network cost, has created an enormous interest in this area.

 

Starting with the consideration of regular topologies and specific static traffic patterns, this area has seen many advances in just the last few years.

 

The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum where new results in traffic grooming can be presented. Moreover, the workshop will be a vehicle for identifying future research directions of this fast emerging field.  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Call For Papers

Important Dates:

Workshop Co-Chairs:

° Ahmed E. Kamal, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Iowa State University, Ames, USA; E-mail: kamal@iastate.edu

° Rudra Dutta, Department of  Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA; E-mail: dutta@csc.ncsu.edu