List of publications

2000-2010 - Books, Invited talks, Journal papers, Tutorials, Conferences

[Optical mesh networking, switch blocking]

Books, Book Reviews, & Book Chapters

• E. Bouillet, G. Ellinas, J.-F. Labourdette, R. Ramamurthy, Path Routing in Mesh Optical Networks (Wiley, 2007) [see review, from IEEE Communications Magazine, October 2008]

• J.-F. Labourdette, Eric Bouillet, and Chris Olszewski, "Emerging Optical Network Technologies: architectures, Protocols and Performance" (Book Chapter titled "Operational Aspects of Mesh Networking in WDM Optical Networks", Kluwer Academic Publishers, September 2004)

Invited talks

• J.-F. Labourdette, Shared Mesh Restoration In Optical Networks (Invited Talk Presentation OFC 2004)

Journal papers

• V. Pehlivanov, J.-F. Labourdette, and G. Ellinas, Framework for Protecting Multicast Sessions in Optical Mesh Networks: A Survey (submitted for publication)

• Eric Bouillet, Jean Francois Labourdette, Ramu Ramamurthy, Sid Chaudhuri, Lightpath Re-optimization in Mesh Optical Networks (IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, April 2005)

• J.-F. Labourdette, Eric Bouillet, Ramu Ramamurthy, Ahmet Akyamac, Fast Approximate Dimensioning and performance Analysis of Mesh Optical Networks (IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, July/August 2005).

• Hang Liu, Eric Bouillet, Dimitrios Pendarakis, Nooshin Komaee, Jean-Francois Labourdette, Sid Chaudhuri, Distributed Route Computation Algorithms and Dynamic Provisioning in Intelligent Optical Mesh Networks (IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, November 2004)

• Eric Bouillet, Jean-Francois Labourdette, Distributed Computation of Shared Backup Path in Mesh Optical Networks Using Probabilistic Methods (Transactions on Networking, October 2004)

• G. Ellinas, J.-F. Labourdette, J. A. Walker, S. Chaudhuri, L. Lin, E. Goldstein, K. Bala, Network Control and Management Challenges in Opaque Networks Utilizing Transparent Optical Switches (IEEE Communications Magazine, February 2004)

• G. Ellinas, E. Bouillet, R. Ramamurthy, J.-F. Labourdette, S. Chaudhuri, K. Bala, Routing and Restoration Architectures in Mesh Optical Networks (Optical Networks Magazine, January/February, 2003)

• G. Ellinas, J.-F. Labourdette, J. A. Walker, S. Chaudhuri, L. Lin, E. Goldstein, K. Bala, Transparent Optical Switches: Technology Issues and Challenges (IEC Annual Communications Review, 2003)

• J.-F. Labourdette, E. Bouillet, R. Ramamurthy, G. Ellinas, S. Chaudhuri, K. Bala, Routing Strategies for Capacity-Efficient and Fast-Restorable Mesh Optical Networks (Photonic Network Communications, 4:3/4, 219-235, 2002)

• G. Ellinas, J.-F. Labourdette, J. Walker, S. Chaudhuri, L. Lin, E. Goldstein, K. Bala, Restoration in Layered Architectures with a WDM Mesh Optical Layer (IEC Annual Communications Review, 2002)

Tutorial corner

• J.-F. Labourdette, The Interconnect Penalty of Small Size Switches (Optical Networks Magazine, Tutorial Corner, September/October 2002)

• J.-F. Labourdette, Layered Architecture for Scalability in Core Mesh Optical Networks (Optical Networks Magazine, Tutorial Corner January/February 2003)

• J.-F. Labourdette, Opaque and Transparent Networking (Optical Networks Magazine, Tutorial Corner, May/June 2003)

• J.-F. Labourdette, Role of Optical Network in Resilient IP Backbone Architecture (Optical Networks Magazine, Tutorial Corner, September/October 2003)

• Admela Jukan, J.-F. Labourdette, Editorial on oVPN (Photonic Network Communications, 7:3, 2004)

Conferences

• Eric Bouillet, J.-F. Labourdette, Subir Biswas, Impact of multi-port card diversity constraints in mesh optical networks (NFOEC 2006)

• Ramu Ramamurthy, J.-F. Labourdette, Eric Bouillet, Limitations of scaling switching capacity by interconnecting multiple switches (NFOEC 2006)

• Hang Liu, Eric Bouillet, Dimitrios Pendarakis, Nooshin Komaee, Jean-Francois Labourdette, and Sid Chaudhuri, On the Tradeoffs between Path Computation Efficiency and Information Abstraction in Optical Mesh Networks (ICC 2004)

• Hang Liu, Eric Bouillet, Dimitrios Pendarakis, Nooshin Komaee, Jean-Francois Labourdette, and Sid Chaudhuri, Extending OSPF Routing Protocol for Shared Mesh Restoration (LANMAN 2004)

• J.-F. Labourdette, Eric Bouillet, Sid Chaudhuri, Role of Optical Network and Spare Router Strategy in Resilient IP Backbone Architecture (Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) 2003, Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 19-22, 2003)

• J.-F. Labourdette, Eric Bouillet, Ramu Ramamurthy, Ahmet Akyamac, Fast Approximate Dimensioning and Performance Analysis of Mesh Optical Networks (Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) 2003, Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 19-22, 2003)

• Ramu Ramamurthy, J.-F. Labourdette, Ahmet Akyamac, Sid Chaudhuri, Limiting Sharing on Protection Channels in Mesh Optical Networks (OFC 2003)

• Ramu Ramamurthy, Ahmet Akyamac, J.-F. Labourdette, Sid Chaudhuri, Pre-Emptive Reprovisioning in Mesh Optical Networks (OFC 2003)

  • Eric Bouillet, J.-F. Labourdette, George Ellinas, Sid Chaudhuri, Local Optimization of Shared Backup Channels in Optical Mesh Networks (OFC 2003)

• Pambos Charalambous, Georgios Ellinas, Chad Dennis, Eric Bouillet, Jean-François Labourdette, Ahmet Akyamaç, Sid Chaudhuri, Mikhail Morokhovich, David Shales, A National Mesh Network Using Optical Cross-Connect Switches (OFC 2003)

• J.-F. Labourdette, Chris Olszewski, Eric Bouillet, Sid Chaudhuri, Layered Architecture for Scalability in Core Mesh Optical Networks (NFOEC 2003)

• Chris Olszewski, J.-F. Labourdette, Frank Huang, Daryl Chaires, Dimitrios Penderakis, Network Migration: Evolution from Ring to Mesh (NFOEC 2003)

• S. Datta, J.-F. Labourdette, H. Kobayashi, Blocking in a Clos Switch in the Presence of Bicast Connections with End Stage Splitting (Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 2003)

• S. Datta, J.-F. Labourdette, H. Kobayashi, Blocking Probability of Bicast Connections in a Clos Network (Globecom 2003)

• Eric Bouillet, J-F Labourdette, George Ellinas, Ramu Ramamurthy, Sid Chaudhuri, Stochastic Approaches to Compute Shared Mesh Restored Lightpaths in Optical Network Architectures (Infocom 2002)

• Eric Bouillet, J.-F. Labourdette, Lightpath Re-optimization in Mesh Optical Networks (Proc. 7th European Conference on Networks & Optical Communications (NOC), Darmstadt, Germany, June 2002)

• Ahmet Akyamaç, Subir Biswas, J.-F. Labourdette, Sid Chaudhuri, Krishna Bala, Ring Speed Restoration and Optical Core Mesh Networks (Proc. 7th European Conference on Networks & Optical Communications (NOC), Darmstadt, Germany, June 2002)

• Ahmet Akyamaç, Jean-François Labourdette, Kuolin Hua, Ziggy Bogdanowicz, Sid Chaudhuri, Stephen French, Optical Mesh Network Modeling: Simulation and Analysis of Restoration Performance (NFOEC 2002)

• Christopher Olszewski, Eric Bouillet, Jean-François Labourdette, Sid Chaudhuri, Don Smith, and Yiwen Tan, Two-Tier Network Economics (NFOEC 2002)

• Stephen French, Jean-Francois Labourdette, Krishna Bala and Patricia Miller-Pittman, Efficient Network switching Hierarchy (NFOEC 2002)

• Ahmet Akyamaç, Sudipta Sengupta, Jean-François Labourdette, Sid Chaudhuri, Stephen French, Reliability in Single Domain Vs Multi-domain Optical Mesh Networks (NFOEC 2002)

• Ramu Ramamurthy, Jean-François Labourdette, Sid Chaudhuri, Raphael Levy, Pambos Charalambous, Chad Dennis, Routing Lightpaths in Optical Mesh Networks with Express Links (OFC 2002)

• Eric Bouillet, Jean-François Labourdette, Ramu Ramamurthy, and Sid Chaudhuri, Enhanced Algorithm Cost Model to Control tradeoffs in Provisioning Shared Mesh Restored Lightpaths (OFC 2002)

  • Pambos Charalambous, Chad Dennis, Georgios Ellinas, Eric Bouillet, Jean-François Labourdette, Sid Chaudhuri, Mikhail Morokhovich, David Shales, Dynegy's National Long-Haul Optical Mesh Network Utilizing Intelligent Optical Switches (LEOS 2002 Annual Meeting)

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1990-1999 - Journal papers and conferences

[Multihop optical networking, ATM switch architecture, Performance analysis of circuit-switched networks, Dynamic T1/T3 networking]

• J.-F. Labourdette and A. Acampora, “Logically Rearrangeable Multihop Lightwave Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, August 1991 (& IEEE Infocom 1990).

• J.-F. Labourdette and A. Acampora, “Partially Reconfigurable Multihop Lightwave Networks”, IEEE Globecom 1990.

• J.-F. Labourdette, G. Hart, and A. Acampora, “Branch-Exchange Sequences for Reconfiguration of Lightwave Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, October 1994 (& IEEE Infocom 1992).

• J. Skorin-Skapov and J.-F. Labourdette, “On Minimum Congestion Routing in Rearrangeable Multihop Lightwave Networks”, Journal of Heuristics, Fall 1995 (& INFORMS 1995).

• J.-F. Labourdette, “Performance Impact of Partial Reconfiguration in Lightwave Networks”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, June 1997 (& IEEE Infocom 1995).

• J. Skorin-Kapov and J.-F. Labourdette, “Rearrangeable Multihop Lightwave Networks: Congestion Minimization on Regular Topologies”, Telecommunications Systems, May 1998 (& INFORMS 1996).

• J. Skorin-Kapov and J.-F. Labourdette, “On Throughput Optimization in Optical Networks with Regular and Arbitrary Topologies”, Journal of Computing and Information Technologies, December 1997.

• J.-F. Labourdette, “Traffic Optimization and Reconfiguration Management of Multiwavelength Multihop Broadcast Lightwave Networks”, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, May 1998.

• A. Acampora and J.-F. Labourdette, “A Traffic Handling Comparison of Distributed and Centralized ATM Switching Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, June 1995 (& IEEE Globecom 1991).

• J.-F. Labourdette and A. Acampora, “Logical Clustering for the Analysis and Optimization of Large Distributed ATM Switching Systems”, IEEE Infocom 93.

• J.-F. Labourdette and G. Hart, “Blocking Probabilities in Multitraffic Loss Systems: Insensitivity, Asymptotic Behavior, and Approximations”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, September 1992 (& ACM Sigcom 1990).

• G. Ash, K. Chen, and J.-F. Labourdette, “Analysis and Design of Fully Shared Networks”, International Teletraffic Congress, June 1994.