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Monday, October 30

09:30-10:00 COFFEE and REGISTRATION
10:00-10:15 10:00 - 10:15 Opening/welcome speachs
10:15-12:00 ICUMT/FOAN Plenary session
12:00-13:00 12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH BREAK
13:00-15:00 D1.2: Sensors and Sensor Networks
15:00-15:30 15:00 - 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30-17:00 D1.3: Sensors and Sensor Networks
17:00-17:40 D1.4: On - line
19:00-20:30 WELCOME RECEPTION

Tuesday, October 31

09:30-10:00 9:00:9:30 COFFEE BREAK,
D2.1: OPTICAL AND ACCESS NETWORKS
10:00-12:00
12:00-13:00 LUNCH
13:00-15:40 D2.2: Optical and Access Networks
15:40-16:30
19:00-21:30 19:00 - GALA DINNER

Monday, October 30

Monday, October 30 9:30 - 10:00

COFFEE and REGISTRATION

Monday, October 30 10:00 - 10:15

10:00 - 10:15 Opening/welcome speachs

Jiri Hosek (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
Edvin Skaljo (BH Telecom&University of Saraejvo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Prof. Geert Morthier (UGent-imec), Belgium

Monday, October 30 10:15 - 12:00

ICUMT/FOAN Plenary session

Keynote n. 1: 10:15 - 11:45
Ondrej Kral (Advisory Data Scientist, Quantum Ambassador, IBM Client Engineering, Northern, Central and Eastern Europe):
"Problems of today's AI and how could quantum computers help"?

Keynote n. 2: 11:00 - 11:45
Prof. Heidi Steendam (University of Ghent):
"Visible light positioning"

Monday, October 30 12:00 - 13:00

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH BREAK

Monday, October 30 13:00 - 15:00

D1.2: Sensors and Sensor Networks

Chairs: Petr Munster (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic), Kimio Oguchi (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
13:00 Specialty Optical Fibers for Advanced Sensing Applications
Gerd Keiser (Boston University, USA)
13:30 Fiber Bragg Grating Based Optical Sensor: From Its Sensing Principle Towards Industrial Applications
Ji-Ying Huang (FBGS International, Belgium)
13:55 Hybrid-Mode Distributed Fiber Sensing With Multiple Parameters Monitoring Ability
Shien-Kuei Peter Liaw (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan); Zi Wang (National Taiwan University of Sciecne and Technology, Taiwan); Yang-En Zou and Chen-Yin Guo (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
14:25 A Self-Contained IoT Sensor Module for Realizing Drastic Cost Reduction
Hideaki Kimura, Tomoya Sugiyama and Momona Kikuzawa (Chubu University, Japan)

Monday, October 30 15:00 - 15:30

15:00 - 15:30 COFFEE BREAK

Monday, October 30 15:30 - 17:00

D1.3: Sensors and Sensor Networks

Chair: Kimio Oguchi (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
15:30 Use of Fiber Optic Link for Phase-Noise Measurement
Andrej Lavrič and Bostjan Batagelj (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
15:45 Negative Curvature Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers Sensitivity to Acoustic Vibration in the Audible Spectrum
Petr Dejdar, Ondřej Mokrý, Petr Munster, Vladimir Spurny, Tomas Horvath and Adrian Tomasov (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Ali A. Jasim, Ondřej Podrazký and Andrei Borodkin (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic); Pavel Honzatko (Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Republic)
16:00 Theoretical and Practical Bounds on the Initial Value of Clock Skew Compensation Algorithm Immune to Floating-Point Precision Loss for Resource-Constrained Wireless Sensor Nodes
Seungyeop Kang (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kyeong Soo Kim (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)
16:20 A Remote Reflecting Fiber Optic Method for Detecting Liquid Occurrences Over a Distance of 3 Kilometres
Edvin Skaljo (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina); Aljo Mujčić (University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina); Anis Maslo (University of Sarajevo ETF & BH Telecom, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
16:40 Spatial Hole Burning in Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier: Numerical Analysis From the Standpoint of Classical Electromagnetism
Hovik Baghdasaryan, Tamara M. Knyazyan and Tamara Hovhannisyan (National Polytechnic University of Armenia, Armenia); Gurgen Mardoyan (State Engineering University of Armenia, Armenia); Marian Marciniak (National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland); Tigran Baghdasaryan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Monday, October 30 17:00 - 17:40

D1.4: On - line

Chair: Edvin Skaljo (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
17:00 Free Space Optical Channel Estimation Based on Deep Learning Algorithms
Papis Ndiaye (ORANGE, France); Amath Sow (Linkoping University, USA); Moussa Diop (Science Faculty, Senegal); Diop Idy (UCAD, Senegal)

Monday, October 30 19:00 - 20:30

WELCOME RECEPTION

All FOAN/ICUMT attendees

Tuesday, October 31

Tuesday, October 31 9:30 - 10:00

9:00:9:30 COFFEE BREAK

Tuesday, October 31 9:30 - 12:00

D2.1: OPTICAL AND ACCESS NETWORKS

Keynote: Sarah Cwalina (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute)
Chair: Bostjan Batagelj (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
9:30 Demonstration of a Real-Time 100G Ethernet Space Division Multiplexing PON Using a Weakly Coupled Multicore Fiber
Sarah Cwalina (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Sepideh Mohammadi Kouhini (Fraunhofer Henrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Kai Habel (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Volker Jungnickel (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute & Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Ronald Freund (HHI Fraunhofer, Germany)
10:00 ONU Interconnection for Reducing Latency in TWDM-PON Based Mobile Front- and Middle-Hauls by Using Wavelength Mobility
San-Liang Lee (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
10:25 Access Network Optimization: Impacts of Rising Energy Prices and Volume of Data Traffic
Gorazd Penko (T-2 doo, Slovenia)
Gorazd Penko
10:50 Where HFC Stands in Today's Access World: A Comparison With PON, With Systems Engineering Approach
Jakup Ratkoceri (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
11:15 The Impact of the New EU Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) on Electronic Communications Network Providers
Cristina Contero Almagro (Aphaia, Spain)
11:40 3D Printing of Fiber and Waveguide Coupling Components in Polymer
Tigran Baghdasaryan, Koen Vanmol and Francis Berghmans (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium); Hugo Thienpont (Free University of Brussels, Belgium); Jurgen Van Erps (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Tuesday, October 31 12:00 - 13:00

LUNCH

Tuesday, October 31 13:00 - 16:30

D2.2: Optical and Access Networks

Keynote: Janez Krc (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Slovenia)
Chair: Bojan Pajcin (University of Belgrade & IRITEL ad, Serbia)
13:00 Heterogenous Photonic Integration for Quantum Optical Communication
Janez Krc (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Slovenia); Andraž Debevc, Miloš Ljubotina and Marko Topic (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia); ISaac K Luntadila Lufungula (Ghent University, Belgium); Jasper De WItte (Ghent University-Imec, Belgium); Leonardo Midolo (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Claus F Pedersen (Sparrow Quantum, Denmark); Amir Hossein Ghadimi (Lightium AG, Switzerland); Hamed Sattari (CSEM, Switzerland); Michel Despont (IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland); Simone Ferrari (University of Heidelberg, Germany); Wolfram Perniceon (University Heidelberg, Germany); Dries Van Thourhout (INTEC Department, Photonics Research Group, Ghent University, Belgium)
13:30 Multiplexing Multi-Gbps Analog Radio-Over-Fiber Links Over a Converged Fiber/FSO Intra-Campus Infrastructure
Konstantina Kanta, Nikolaos Lyras and Argiris Ntanos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Aristeidis Stathis (National Technical University of Athens & Institute of Communications & Computer Systems, Greece); Panagiotis Toumasis, Efstathios Andrianopoulos, Christos Tsokos and Giannis Giannoulis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Dimitrios Apostolopoulos (National Technical University of Athens & Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece); Hercules Avramopoulos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
13:55 Passive Center-To-Clustered Edge Nodes Networks Using Thin-Film-Filter Based Wavelength Routers
Kimio Oguchi, Bo-Shen Yang and Chi-Chia Chung (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
14:20 Eavesdropping Vulnerabilities in Optical Fiber Networks: Investigating Macro-Bending-Based Attacks Using Clip-On Couplers
Vladimir Spurny, Petr Dejdar, Adrian Tomasov, Petr Munster and Tomas Horvath (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
14:50 Stabilized Dispersion-Robust Millimeter-Wave Anything-Over-Fiber Transmitter in Access Networks Featuring a Double Sideband Suppressed Carrier Modulation
Kristjan Vuk Baliz and Bostjan Batagelj (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
15:10 Effect of Macrobends on the Transmission Parameters of a High-Speed Coherent System
Vladimir Spurny, Adrian Tomasov, Pavel Záviška, Petr Dejdar, Petr Munster and Tomas Horvath (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
15:30 Mechanical Reliability and Lifetime of Optical Fibers After 20 Years of Use
Anis Maslo (University of Sarajevo ETF & BH Telecom, Bosnia and Herzegovina); Edvin Skaljo (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina); Mujo Hodzic (BH Telecom, Bosnia and Herzegovina); Aljo Mujčić (University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Tuesday, October 31 15:40 - 16:30

FOAN2023 Clossing session

with coffee
Chair: Edvin Skaljo (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Tuesday, October 31 19:00 - 21:30

19:00 - GALA DINNER