EE 693F Final Project Page

Welcome to the web site for the EE 693F Optical Networks final project.

Final Presentations

Date: May 10, 2003 Saturday

Time: 1pm - 3pm

100: Jodie Bell
130: Quanyi Yang
200: Jin Wenyi
230: Wei Chen

Room: Holmes 389

Instructions

Write one of the following
- Report on Research Paper: Write a report on a research paper (or a set of research papers). The next section has possible papers. Your report should include the following items though you could organize it differently.
  - Introduction Section. This explains the problem, background, and models.
  - Results Section. State the results here. Include any new results of your own. Sometimes you can get new results by trying different parameters and then working through their techniques. You may look at special cases (maybe extreme cases) where getting results are simpler.
  - Discussion Section. Write your opinions about the results. Include any ideas about future research.
  - Conclusions (or Summary) Section. This should have your final thoughts, wrapping up the report.
- Survey Article. Write a survey article. The next section has possible topics. Your report should include the following items though you could organize it differently
  - Introduction Section. This should give an overview of what your topic is about. For example, if its about storage area networks, it should explain what such a network is. Why are they important?
  - Survey of Results On This Topic You should do a literature (and web) survey.
  - Current State of The Art in Industry Survey some companies and explain what they're doing.
  - Discussion Section. Write your opinons about the topic. Include any ideas for future research and or give your opinions about the direction of industry (healthy future? Not so heathly?).
  - Conclusions (or Summary) Section This should have your final thoughts, wrapping up the report.
Your final written report should be between 12 and 20 pages.
April 16 (wed): Email the following to me under the subject heading "EE 693F Preliminary Report"
- A two page extended abstract about your findings so far.
- An outline (no more than two pages) of your final report.
Everything should be either Microsoft Word document, PDF file, or ghostscript file.
April 30 (wed): Turn in your first draft, or whatever draft you may have. I'll give you comments on the following monday. It should be either Microsoft Word document, PDF file, or ghostscript file.
May 3 (sat): You will give a 30 minute oral report on the saturday before the last week of class (time to be determined later). Your report should be in powerpoint. About week before the presentation, I would like to meet with each of you individually about your talk for around 30 minutes. You should have a draft of your presentation for review. I will arrange the meeting times at the beginning of April.
May 9 (fri): By 4pm email the following to me under the subject heading "EE 693F Final"
- Your written final report. Again it should be a word doc, pdf file or ps file.
- Your oral presentation slides. It should be in powerpoint.
I do not want hard copies of anything.

Research Papers and Survey Topics

Research Papers.
- Giroirie, et al. "Increasing the robustness of IP backbones in the absence of optical level protection," Infocom 2003. This is an article from Sprint Labs.
- Ma et al, "A bandwidth guaranteed polling MAC protocol for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks," Infocom 2003. This is a recent article on EPONs.
- Izmailov et al, "A nonuniform waveband hierarchy in hybrid optical networks," Infocom 2003. This discusses how wavebanding can improve efficiency.
- Ramamirtham and Turner, "Time sliced optical burst switching," Infocom 2003. A recent paper on optical burst switching.
- Cao et al, "Performance evaluation of wavelength band switching in multi-fiber all-optical networks," Infocom 2003. Another paper on wavebands but focused on switching architectures.
- I'll get more papers from past OFC conference. But unfortunately, these are not online so I need a couple more days.
Topics for Survey Papers.
- Storage Area Networks
- Gigabit Ethernet. You could also specialize in Passive Optical Network Gigabit Ethernet (EPON)
- Wavelength Tunable Devices. And how they can help networking.
- Network Modeling and Design.

Links and References

Lightreading. A web trade webzine on optical technology. They have tutorials, white papers, technology news, message boards, and links to related technology, e.g., storate area networks.
fibers.org. Another trade webzine. Got news galore. Yet another trade webzine is optics.org.
oemagazine.com. This has a bunch of tutorials.
IETF. Standards body for the Internet. You can find Requests For Comments (RFCs) which are the standards of the Internet.
www.google.com. Search engine.
International Telecommunication Union. Another standards body but more focused on the telecommunication industry (telephone companies). They have been standardizing optical stuff. I believe much of the optical components have standards starting with "G". Unfortunately, the standards are not free to the public. You can access them but you need to pay per document. So this site isn't as useful as the others.
Infocom 2003. A premier networking conference sponsored by the IEEE. You can find later conferences (and their papers which fortunately are all online under Technical Program) by using the google search for "Infocom 2002" and "Infocom 2001", etc.
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) Conference. The premier conference on optical communications.
Hardcopy references: These are references that you can find in the library that have articles on optical technology

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. The main journal on networking by the IEEE society.
IEEE Journal Selected Areas on Communications (JSAC). This journal has a monthly issue with special topics per month. There is usually one issue dedicated to optical networks per year.
Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT). Monthly journal specializing on optical technology. I believe it's sponsored by Optical Society of America (OSA), and maybe partly by IEEE, but not sure.
IEEE Networks Magazine. This is a magazine as opposed to a journal. It has survey articles on different topics, many of which are on optical technology.
IEEE Communications Magazine. This is like the networks magazine but broader.
Optical Networks Magazine. Yet another magazine but maybe slightly better quality. However, I don't know if UH subscribes to this one. It's kind of new.