Program

Thursday 17, July 2025

iPOP Plenary
Thursday 17, 10:00-12:30
Presider: Hiroaki Harai, NICT, Japan
Opening Address
Naoaki Yamanaka, General Co-Chair, Keio University, Japan
Bijan Jabbari, General Co-Chair, ISOCORE, USA

Keynote
K-1 "IOWN Technology promotes Paradigm shift of Communication and Computing"
Dr. Jhih-Heng Yan, Chunghwa Telecom Labs, Taiwan (R.O.C.)(Online)

K-2 "Optical Space Communication Networks: a resilient and secure space backbone"
Dr. Guray Acar, European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands
iPOP Exhibition introduction
- iPOP Exhibition Co-Chair: Akihiro Nakamura, Spirent Communications, Japan
iPOP Showcase introduction
- iPOP Showcase Co-Chair
Local Arrangement
- iPOP Local Arrangement Co-Chair
Technical Session
Tech. Session (1):
Thursday 17, 14:00-15:30
Chair: Wataru Imajuku, Meijo University, Japan
T1-1 "Overview of SDN control of multiband over SDM optical networks with physical layer impairments"
(Invited) Dr. Ramon Casellas, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain

T1-2 "Overview of Optical Network Design based on Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) model"
(Invited) Dr. Toru Mano, Hideki Nishizawa, Yoshiaki Sone, and Koichi Takasugi, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan

T1-3 "Vision Transformers for Traffic Sensing via Distributed Fiber Optics"
(Invited) Mr. Robson Assis Colares, University of Campinas, Brazil

Showcase Presentation
Thursday 17, 15:30-16:00
Showcase co-chair
Technical Session
Tech. Session (2):
Thursday 17, 16:30-17:50
Chair: Masaki Tanaka, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
T2-1 "Network operation automation through user intent handling with LLM and GenAI"
(Invited) Mr. Takuya Miyasaka, KDDI Research, Inc., Japan

T2-2 "Radio-over-fiber technologies for millimeter-wave and terahertz-wave communications in 6G and beyond"
(Invited) Dr. Pham Tien Dat, NICT, Japan

T2-3 "Analog-RoF mobile fronthaul networking testbed in Keio future photonic network open lab."
Kojiro Nishimura, Yoshihiko Uematsu, Satoru Okamoto, and Naoaki Yamanaka, Keio University, Japan



Friday 18, July 2025

Technical Session
Tech. Session (3):
Friday 18, 9:20-10:40
Chair: Hideaki Furukawa, NICT, Japan
T3-1 "All-Photonics Network Common Infrastructure Technology towards Multi-Operator Collaboration"
(Invited) Mr. Toshihiko Tamura, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan

T3-2 "Distributed ROADM node architecture for wide deployment of all-photonics network"
(Invited) Dr. Yasuhiko Aoki, Yuuya Ishida, Yuki Ban, Yoshito Kachita, Atsushi Kanai, Yuichi Suzuki, and Hiroaki Tomofuji, 1FINITY Inc., Japan

T3-3 "Two Tier Path Design for Federation of Optical Networks Across Different Administrative Domains"
Kotaro Inoue, Takayuki Kuroda, Nozomu Takama, and Toshimasa Yamazaki, NEC Corporation, Japan
Special Session
Friday 18, 11:00-12:00

Theme: Key breakthrough technology toward All photonic Network/ IOWN

Organizer & Chair: Naoaki Yamanaka, Keio University, Japan

S-1 "Recent progress of RoF and PWoF using Hollow core fiber"
Hiroyuki Tsuda, Keio University, Japan, and Motoharu Matsuura, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

S-2 "Hollow Core fiber RoF application for 5G/6G network"
Satoru Okamoto, Keio University, Japan

S-3 "The state-of the art Hollow core fiber research"
Kazunori Mukasa, Lightera Corporation, Japan

S-4 "Key Technologies for Multiband Massive Wavelength-Multiplexing Metro Networks"
Takashi Miyamura, Sensyu University/Keio University, Japan

Video: Keio future photonic network open research center, Japan
Sponsor Session
Friday 18, 13:30-14:10
Chair: Yoichi Sato, Open Systems Laboratory, Japan
B-1 "Photonic Exchange – A Novel Transport System Utilizing Wavelength Converter for End-to-End Direct Optical Connections in APN"
Junnosuke Hiyama, NTT, Japan

B-2 "Keio Future Photonic Network Open Lab and its Related Activities"
Satsuki Jimura, Keio University, Japan
Poster Session / Exhibition
Friday 18, 14:10-15:00

P-1 "Improvement of Method to Conceal Formula of Network Reliability Computation"
Kanata Miki, and Masahiro Hayashi, Tokyo City University, Japan

P-2 "Improvement of Computing Security Strength of Allocation of Shares in Secret Sharing Schemes"
Syuuma Suzuki, and Masahiro Hayashi, Tokyo City University, Japan
Special Panel Session
Friday 18, 15:00-16:30
Special Panel Session

Theme: Toward interconnection and collaboration of optical networks

Moderator:

   Sugang Xu, NICT, Japan


Panelists:

   Takuya Miyasaka, KDDI Research, Inc., Japan
   Katsuhiro Horiba, AWS, Japan
   Satoshi Uda, JAIST, Japan
Closing Session
Friday 18, 16:30-16:50

Closing by iPOP Organization Committee Co-Chair
Satoru Okamoto, Keio University, Japan