Nina Skorin-Kapov


Nina Skorin-Kapov was born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1981. She received her Dipl-Ing and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. She has been working at the same university since 2003, first as a Research Assistant (2003-8) and now as Assistant Professor (2008-present). She was on leave completing a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Télécom Paris - École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France from 9/2006-9/2007.

Her research interests include heuristic algorithms, optimization in telecommunications (particularly in WDM wide-area optical networks), network routing algorithms and network topology design. More recently, she has been investigating self-organization concepts and protection schemes for optical networks security.

 

Dept. of Telecommunications
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
University of Zagreb
Tel: (+385) 1 6129-731; Fax: (+385) 1 6129-832
e-mail: nina.skorin-kapov@fer.hr

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

PAPERS IN JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES:

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, J. Chen, L. Wosinska, “A New Approach to Optical Networks Security: Attack Aware Routing and Wavelength Assignment“, to be published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

 

·        P. Pavon-Marino, R. Aparicio-Pardo,B. Garcia-Manrubia and N. Skorin-Kapov, "Virtual topology design and flow routing in optical networks under multi-hour traffic demand", Photonic Network Communications, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp.42-54, February 2010.

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, O.Tonguz, N. Puech, “Towards efficient failure management for reliable transparent optical networks“, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 72-79, May 2009.

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, “A New Objective Criterion and Rounding Techniques for Determining Virtual Topologies in Optical Networks”, IEEE Communication Letters, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp.540-542, June 2007.pdf

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, “Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Optical Networks Using Bin Packing Based algorithms,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 177, Issue 2, pp. 1167-1179, March 2007. pdf

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, “Heuristic Algorithms for the Routing and Wavelength Assignment of Scheduled Lightpath Demands in Optical Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 2-15, August 2006. pdf

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, M. Kos, “A GRASP Heuristic for the Delay-Constrained Multicast Routing Problem,” Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 55-69, May 2006. pdf

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, “Multicast Routing and Wavelength Assignment in WDM Networks: A Bin Packing Approach,” Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 266-279, April 2006. pdf

 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS (and LNCS publications):

 

·        L. Wosinska (edt.), D. Colle, P. Demeester, K. Katrinis, M. Lackovic, O. Lapcevic, I. Lievens, G. Markidis, B. Mikac, M. Pickavet, B. Puype, N. Skorin-Kapov, D. Staessens, and A. Tzanakaki, “Chapter 9: Network Resilience in Future Optical Networks”, I. Tomkos, M. Spyropoulou, K. Ennser, M. Kohn, B. Mikac (eds.), Towards Digital Optical Networks (Cost Action 291 Final Report), Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS 5412), pp.253-284, Springer 2009.

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, “WDM Optical Networks Planning using Greedy Algorithms”, a chapter in Greedy Algorithms, W. Bednorz (Ed.). pp. 569-586, ISBN 978-953-7619-27-5, 2008 InTech Publishers

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, N. Puech, “A Self-Organizing Control Plane for Failure Management in Transparent Optical Networks”, in Self-Organizing Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 4725), (also in Proc of IWSOS2007 Sept 11-13, 2007), pp 131-145, Springer 2007.


PAPERS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, P. Pavon-Marino, B. Garcia-Manrubia, R. Aparicio-Pardo, “Scheduled Virtual Topology Design Under Periodic Traffic in Transparent Optical Networks|, In Proc. of the Sixth International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems (BROADNETS 2009), Madrid, Spain, September 14-16, 2009.

 

·        B. Garcia-Manrubia, R. Aparicio-Pardo, P. Pavon-Marino, N. Skorin-Kapov, J. Garcia-Haro, “MILP Formulations for Scheduling Lightpaths under Periodic Traffic”, In Proc of 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (Icton 2009), invited paper, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal, June 2009.  

 

·        M. Furdek, N. Skorin-Kapov, “ A Scalable Wavelength Assignment Approach for Preventive Crosstalk Attack Localization in Optical Networks”, in Proc. of  the 10th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL 2009), Zagreb, Croatia, June 8-10, 2009.

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, M. Furdek, “Limiting the Propagation of Intra-Channel Crosstalk Attacks in Optical Networks through Wavelength Assignment”, in Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 2009), JWA65, March 2009.

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, “MILP formulation for routing lightpaths for Attack-Protection in TONs”, Proceedings of NAEC'08, Riva del Garda, Italy, Sept. 2008, pp. 55-62.

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, J. Chen, L.Wosinska, “A tabu search algorithm for attack-aware lightpath routing”, The Proc. of the10th  International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2008), Athens, Greece, June 22-26, 2008, pp.42-45.

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, O.Tonguz, N. Puech, ”A novel optical supervisory plane model: The application of self-organizing structures”, The Proc. of the10th  International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2008), invited paper, Athens, Greece, June 22-26, 2008, pp.10-13.

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, O. Tonguz, N. Puech, “Self-Organization in Transparent Optical Networks: A New Approach to Security”, The 9th International Conference on Telecommunications (Contel 2007),    Zagreb, Croatia,  June 13-15, 2007, invited paper, pp. 7-14.

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, M. Kos, “Static Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Wavelength Routed WDM Networks”, The Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (Melecon2006), Benalmadena (Malaga), Spain, May 16-19, 2006, pp 692-695.

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, M. Kos, “Heuristic Algorithms Considering Various Objectives for Virtual Topology Design in WDM Optical Networks”, The Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Telecommunication Systems: Modeling and Analysis ICTSMA2005, Dallas, Texas Nov 17th-20th, 2005, pp195-209.

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, M. Kos, “A GRASP Heuristic for the Delay-Constrained Multicast Routing Problem”, The Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems Management, ICTSM12, Monterey, USA 2004.

 

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, M. Kos “The Application of Steiner Trees to Delay Constrained Multicast Routing: a Tabu Search Approach”, The Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Telecommunications, ConTEL, Zagreb 2003, pp. 443-448.

 

 ABSTRACTS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

·        N. Skorin-Kapov, P. Pavon-Mariño, "Scheduling, Routing and Assigning Wavelengths to Lightpaths in Optical Networks", European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization, ECCO-XXI, Dubrovnik (Croatia), May 2008.


PhD Thesis

"Heuristic Algorithms for Vrtual Topology Design and Routing and Wavelength Assignment in WDM Networks" pdf