izv. prof. dr. sc. Nina Skorin-Kapov

External associate, Department of Telecommunications

Planning of Optical Networks Based on Programmable ROADMs

Furdek, Marija ; Džanko, Matija ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Wosinska, Lena.
2015.
Asia Communications and Photonics Conference

Shared Path Protection Under the Risk of High-Power Jamming

Furdek, Marija ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Wosinska, Lena
2014.
19th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications

Vulnerabilities and Security Issues in Optical Networks

Furdek, Marija ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Zsigmond, Szilard ; Wosinska, Lena
2014.
16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2014)

Attack-Survivable Routing and Wavelength Assignment for high-power jamming

Furdek, Marija ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2013.
17th Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling

Balancing CapEx Reduction and Network Stability with Stable Routing-Virtual Topology Capacity Adjustment (SR-VTCA)

Aparicio-Pardo, Ramon ; Garcia-Manrubia, Belen ; Pavon-Marino, Pablo ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Furdek, Marija
2013.
Optical switching and networking

(Non)-Reconfigurable Virtual Topology Design under Multi-hour Traffic in Optical Networks

Aparicio-Pardo, Ramon ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Pavon-Marino, Pablo ; Garcia-Manrubia, Belen
2012.
IEEE-ACN transactions on networking

Heuristic Approaches for Periodic Reconfiguration of Lightpath-based Networks under Multi-hour Traffic

Aparicio-Pardo, Ramon ; Garcia-Manrubia, Belen ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Pavon-Marino, Pablo
2012.
Journal of Networks

Wavelength Assignment for Reducing In-band Crosstalk Attack Propagation in Optical Networks: ILP Formulations and Heuristic Algorithms

Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Furdek, Marija ; Aparicio-Pardo, Ramon ; Pavon-Marino, Pablo
2012.
European journal of operational research

A Two-Phase Vehicle based Decomposition Algorithm for Large-Scale Capacitated Vehicle Routing with Time Windows

Gulić, Matija ; Lučanin, Dražen ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2012.
Mipro 2012

Physical-Layer Attacks in Transparent Optical Networks

Furdek, Marija ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2012.

A Branch and Bound Algorithm for the Sequential Ordering Problem

Karan, Mladen ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2011.
MIPRO 2011

Stable Routing with Virtual Topology Capacity Adjustment : A novel paradigm for operating optical networks

Pavon-Marino, Pablo ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2011.
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Sparse Power Equalization Placement for Limiting Jamming Attack Propagation in Transparent Optical Networks

Jirattigalachote, Amornrat ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Furdek, Marija ; Chen, Jiajia ; Monti, Paolo ; Wosinska, Lena
2011.
Optical Switching and Networking

Physical-Layer Attacks in All-Optical WDM Networks

Furdek, Marija ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2011.
MIPRO 2011

Attack-Aware Optical Networks Planning: A Cost Analysis

Furdek, Marija ; Jirattigalachote, Amornrat ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Wosinska, Lena
2011.
13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) 2011

Compound attack-aware routing and wavelength assignment against power jamming

Furdek, Marija ; Chen, Jiajia ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Wosinska, Lena
2011.
Asia Communication and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP 2011)

Survivable Routing and Wavelength Assignment considering high-powered jamming attacks

Furdek, Marija ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Tzanakaki, Anna
2011.
Asia Communication and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP 2011)

A New Approach to Optical Networks Security: Attack Aware Routing and Wavelength Assignment

Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Chen, Jiajia ; Wosinska, Lena
2010.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Algorithms for virtual topology reconfiguration under multi-hour traffic using Lagrangian relaxation and tabu search approaches

Aparicio‑Pardo, Ramon ; Pavon‑Marino, Pablo ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Garcia‑Manrubia, Belen ; Garcia‑Haro, Joan
2010.
12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (Icton 2010)

Attack-Aware Planning and Optimization in Transparent Optical Networks

Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2010.
Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP2010)

Limiting physical-layer attack propagation with power equalization placement in transparent WDM networks

Jirattigalachote, Amornrat ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Furdek, Marija ; Chen, Jiajia ; Monti, Paolo ; Wosinska, Lena
2010.
Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP2010)

Analysis of Crosstalk in Optical Couplers and Associated Vulnerabilities

Furdek, Marija ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Bosiljevac, Marko ; Šipuš, Zvonimir
2010.
33rd International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics MIPRO, CTI - Telecommunications and Information

Gain Competition in Optical Amplifiers: A Case Study

Furdek, Marija ; Bosiljevac, Marko ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Šipuš, Zvonimir
2010.
33rd International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics MIPRO, CTI - Telecommunications and Information

Towards efficient failure management for reliable transparent optical networks

Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Tonguz, Ozan K. ; Puech, Nicolas
2009.
IEEE communications magazine

Network Resilience in Future Optical Networks

Wosinska, Lena ; Colle, Didier ; Demeester, Piet ; Katrinis, Kostas ; Lacković, Marko ; Lapčević, Ozren ; Lievens, Ilse ; Markidis, George ; Mikac, Branko ; Pickavet, Mario ; Puype, Bart ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Staessens, Dimitri ; Tzanakaki, Anna
2009.

MILP Formulations for Scheduling Lightpaths under Periodic Traffic

Garcia-Manrubia, Belen ; Aparicio-Pardo, Ramon ; Pavon-Marino, Pablo ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Garcia-Haro, Joan
2009.
The 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (Icton 2009)

Virtual topology design and flow routing in optical networks under multihour traffic demand

Pavon-Marino, Pablo ; Aparicio-Pardo, Ramon ; Garcia-Manrubia, Belen ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2009.
Photonic network communications

Scheduled Virtual Topology Design Under Periodic Traffic in Transparent Optical Networks

Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Pavon-Marino, Pablo ; Garcia-Manrubia, Belen ; Aparicio-Pardo, Ramon
2009.
The Sixth International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems (BROADNETS 2009)

Limiting the Propagation of Intra-Channel Crosstalk Attacks in Optical Networks through Wavelength Assignment

Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Furdek, Marija
2009.
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC)

A Scalable Wavelength Assignment Approach for Preventive Crosstalk Attack Localization in Optical Networks

Furdek, Marija ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2009.
The 10th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL 2009)

A tabu search algorithm for attack-aware lightpath routing

Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Chen, Jiajia ; Wosinska, Lena
2008.
The 10th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

A Novel Optical Supervisory Plane Model: The Application of Self-Organizing Structures

Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Tonguz, Ozan ; Puech, Nicolas
2008.
The 10th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

Scheduling, Routing and Assigning Wavelengths to Lightpaths in Optical Networks

Skorin-Kapov, Nina, Pavon Marino, Pablo
2008.
ECCO XXI

A MILP formulation for routing lightpaths for attack protection in TONs

Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2008.
2008 Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC2008)

WDM Optical Networks Planning using Greedy Algorithms

Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2008.

A New Objective Criterion and Rounding Techniques for Determining Virtual Topologies in Optical Networks

Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2007.
IEEE Communications Letters

Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Optical Networks Using Bin Packing Based algorithms

Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2007.
European Journal of Operational Research

A Self-Organizing Control Plane for Failure Management in Transparent Optical Networks

Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Puech, Nicolas
2007.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Self-Organizing Systems, IWSOS2007

Self-Organization in Transparent Optical Networks: A New Approach to Security

Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Tonguz, Ozan ; Puech, Nicolas
2007.
The 9th International Conference on Telecommunications (Contel 2007)

Multicast Routing and Wavelength Assignment in WDM Networks: A Bin Packing Approach

Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2006.
Journal of Optical Networking

Heuristic Algorithms for Virtual Topology Design and Routing and Wavelength Assignment in WDM Networks

Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2006.

Heuristic Algorithms for the Routing and Wavelength Assignment of Scheduled Lightpath Demands in Optical Networks

Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2006.
IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications

A GRASP heuristic for the delay-constrained multicast routing problem

Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Kos, Mladen
2006.
Telecommunication Systems

Objectives for Virtual Topology Design in WDM Optical Networks

Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Kos, Mladen
2005.
International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis

A GRASP Heuristic for the Delay-Constrained Multicast Routing Problem

Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Kos, Mladen
2004.
12th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems

The Application of Steiner Trees to Delay Constrained Multicast Routing

Skorin-Kapov, Nina
2003.

The Application of Steiner Trees to Delay Constrained Multicast Routing: a Tabu Search Approach

Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Kos, Mladen
2003.
7th International Conference on Telecommunications : ConTEL 2003

PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES:

 

 

  • Francisco-Javier Moreno Muro, Nina Skorin-Kapov, Pablo Pavon-Marino, "Revisiting Core Traffic Growth in the Presence of Expanding CDNs"  Computer Networks, Vol. 154, pp. 1-11, May 2019 .
  • J.L. Marzo, S.G. Cosgaya, N. Skorin-Kapov, C. Scoglio, H. Shakeri, "A study of the robustness of optical networks under massive failures", Optical Switching and Networking, Vol. 31, pp. 1-7, January 2019
  • A. Muhammad, N. Skorin-Kapov, M. Furdek, "Manycast, Anycast and Replica Placement (MARP) in Optical Inter-Datacenter Networks", IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 9, No. 12, pp. 1161-1171, 2017
  • N. Skorin-Kapov, M. Furdek, Z. Szilard, L. Wosinska, “Physical-Layer Security in Evolving Optical Networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 54, No. 8, pp. 110-117, Aug. 2016
  • M. Furdek, N. Skorin-Kapov, and L. Wosinska, "Attack-Aware Dedicated Path Protection in Optical Networks",  IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp 1050-1061, Feb 2016
  • N. Skorin-Kapov, Amornrat Jirattigalachote, Lena Wosinska, "An ILP Formulation for Power Equalization Placement to Limit Jamming Attack Propagation in Transparent Optical Networks", Security and Communication Networks, Volume 7, pp. 2463–2468, 2014
  •  R. Aparicio-Pardo, B. Garcia-Manrubia, P. Pavon-Marino, N. Skorin-Kapov, M. Furdek, "Balancing CapEx Reduction and Network Stability with Stable Routing-Virtual Topology Capacity Adjustment (SR-VTCA)",  Optical Switching and Networking, Vol 10, Issue 4, November 2013, Pages 343–353. (Winner of the Fabio Neri Best Paper Award for 2013)

 

  •  R. Aparicio-Pardo, N. Skorin-Kapov, P. Pavon-Marino and B. Garcia-Manrubia, “(Non)-Reconfigurable Virtual Topology Design under Multi-hour Traffic in Optical Networks”,  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 20, Issue 5, pp. 1567-1580, Oct. 2012
  • N. Skorin-Kapov, M.Furdek, R. Aparicio Pardo and P. Pavón Mariño, "Wavelength Assignment for In-band Crosstalk Attacks in Optical Networks: ILP Formulations and Heuristic Algorithms", European Journal of Operations Research, Vol 222, No.3, pp.418-429, Nov. 2012.
  • R. Aparicio-Pardo, B. Garcia-Manrubia, N. Skorin-Kapov, P. Pavon-Marino, "Heuristic Approaches for Periodic Reconfiguration of Lightpath-based Networks under Multi-hour Traffic”, Journal of Networks, Special Issue on "Transparent Optical Networking”, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 800-811, May 2012.
  • Pablo Pavon Marino, Nina Skorin-Kapov, „Stable Routing with Virtual Topology Capacity Adjustment: A novel paradigm for operating optical networks“, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 3, Issue 12, pp. 902-911, 2011.
  • Amornrat Jirattigalachote, Nina Skorin-Kapov, Marija Furdek, Jiajia Chen, Paolo Monti), and Lena Wosinska, "Sparse Power Equalization Placement for Limiting Jamming Attack Propagation in Transparent Optical Networks", Optical Switching and Networking,  Vol. 8, Issue 4, pp 249-258, December 2011.
  • M. Furdek, N. Skorin-Kapov, M. Grbac, "Attack-Aware Wavelength Assignment for Localization of In-band Crosstalk Attack Propagation", IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 2, Issue 11, pp. 1000-1009, November 2010.
  • N. Skorin-Kapov, J. Chen, L. Wosinska, “A New Approach to Optical Networks Security: Attack Aware Routing and Wavelength Assignment“, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp 750-760, June 2010.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • N. Skorin-Kapov, “Multicast Routing and Wavelength Assignment in WDM Networks: A Bin Packing Approach,” OSA Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 266-279, April 2006.


OTHER JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS :

  • M. Tornatore, N. Skorin-Kapov and P. Pavon-Marino, "Introduction to the Special Issue on Optical Network Design and Modeling", IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 3, no. 1, 2017

BOOK CHAPTERS (and LNCS publications):

 

  • M. Furdek, N. Skorin-Kapov, "Physical-Layer Attacks in Transparent Optical Networks", in Optical Communications Systems, N. K. Das (Ed.), InTech, Rijeka, Croatia, ISBN 979-953-307-230-1, pp. 123-146, February 2012
  • 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 REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

 

 

  • Marija Furdek, Ajmal Muhammad, Nina Skorin-Kapov,"Survivable Manycast, Anycast and Replica Placement in Optical Inter-Datacenter Networks", 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (Icton 2017), invited paper, Girona, Spain, July 2-6 2017
  • Pablo Pavon-Marino, Francisco-Javier Moreno-Muro, Nina Skorin-Kapov, "Evolution of Core Traffic for Growing CDNs: Is the growth rate of core network traffic overestimated?", 2017 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), Los Angeles, California, USA, March 19 – 23, 2017.
  • Marija FurdekMatija Džanko, Nina Skorin-Kapov and Lena Wosinska, "Planning of optical networks based on programmable ROADMs," in Proc. Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) 2015, invited paper, pp. 1-3, Hong Kong, November 19-23, 2015
  • Ajmal Muhammad, Nina Skorin-Kapov, Lena Wosinska, "Manycast and Anycast Routing for Replica Placement in DataCenter Networks", in Proceedings of the 41st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2015), September-October 2015
  • M. Furdek, N. Skorin-Kapov, S. Zsigmond y L. Wosinska. "Vulnerabilities and Security Issues in Optical Networks". 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (Icton 2014), invited paper,  Graz, Austria, 6-10.7.2014
  • M. Furdek, N. Skorin-Kapov y L. Wosinska. "Shared Path Protection Under the Risk of High-Power Jamming". 19th European Conference on Network and Optical Communications (NOC 2014), invited paper,  Milano, Italy, 4-6.6.2014
  • S. Drakulić, N. Skorin-Kapov, “Green routing and wavelength assignment in optical networks”, in Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (Icton 2013), , invited paper, Cartagena, Spain, June 23-27, 2013
  • M. Furdek, N. Skorin-Kapov, “Attack-Survivable Routing and Wavelength Assignment for high-power jamming”, in Proc. of the 17th Conference on Optical Network Design & Modeling (ONDM 2013), Brest, France,  April 16-19, 2013, pp. 70-75
  • M. Gulić, D. Lučanin, N. Skorin-Kapov, "A Two-Phase Vehicle based Decomposition Algorithm for Large-Scale Capacitated Vehicle Routing with Time Windows", in Proc. of MIPRO 2012, Opatija, Croatia, May 21-25, 2012, pp. 1285-9
  • M. Furdek, N. Skorin-Kapov, A. Tzanakaki: "Survivable Routing and Wavelength Assignment considering high-powered jamming attacks", post-deadline paper accepted to the Asia Communication and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP 2011), Shanghai, China, November 13-16, 2011.
  • M. Furdek, J. Chen, N. Skorin-Kapov, L. Wosinska, "Compound attack-aware routing and wavelength assignment against power jamming", accepted for the Asia Communication and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP 2011), Shanghai, China, November 13-16, 2011. (3rd place for Best student paper award)
  • M. Furdek, N. Skorin-Kapov, "Physical-Layer Attacks in All-Optical WDM Networks", In Proc. of 34rd International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics MIPRO, CTI - Telecommunications and Information MIPRO 2011, Opatija, Croatia, May 23-27, 2011. (Winner of "Exceptional outstanding paper" award).
  • M. Karan, N. Skorin-Kapov, "A Branch and Bound Algorithm for the Sequential Ordering Problem", in Proc. of 34rd International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics MIPRO, CTI - Telecommunications and Information MIPRO 2011, Opatija, Croatia, May 23-27, 2011.
  • N. Skorin-Kapov, "Attack-Aware Planning and Optimization in Transparent Optical Networks," Asia Communication and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP 2010), invited talk, Shanghai, China, December 2010.
  • A. Jirattigalachote, N. Skorin-KapovM. Furdek, J. Chen, P. Monti and L. Wosinska, "Limiting Physical-Layer Attack Propagation with Power Equalization Placement in Transparent WDM Networks, " Asia Communication and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP 2010), Shanghai, China, December 2010. (Winner of the Best Student Presentation Award)
  • R. Aparicio‑Pardo, P. Pavon‑Marino, N. Skorin‑Kapov, B. Garcia‑Manrubia, J. Garcia‑Haro, “Algorithms for virtual topology reconfiguration under multi-hour traffic using Lagrangian relaxation and tabu search approaches”, In Proc of 12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (Icton 2010), invited paper, Munich, Germany, June 27-July 1, 2010
  • M. Furdek, M. Bosiljevac, N. Skorin-Kapov, Z. Šipuš, “Gain Competition in Optical Amplifiers: A Case Study” In Proc. of 33rd International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics MIPRO, CTI - Telecommunications and Information MIPRO 2010, Opatija, Croatia. pp. 229-234.
  • M. Furdek, N. Skorin-Kapov, M. Bosiljevac, Z. Šipuš. “Analysis of Crosstalk in Optical Couplers and Associated Vulnerabilities”, In Proc. of 33rd International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics MIPRO, CTI - Telecommunications and Information MIPRO 2010, Opatija, Croatia. pp. 223-228
  • 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, Săo 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. (Runner up for Best Student Paper)

 

ABSTRACTS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

  • M. Furdek, A. Jirattigalachote, N. Skorin-Kapov, L. Wosinska, ” Attack-Aware Optical Networks Planning: A Cost Analysis”, Icton 2011, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2011 (invited)
  • 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.

Biography

Nina Skorin-Kapov is an Associate Professor at the University Center of Defence, CUD, (adscribed to the Technical University of Cartagena), San Javier Air Force Base, Spain. She is also affiliated with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb as external Associate Professor. Her general research interests include optimization and planning in telecommunications, in particular in wide-area optical networks.

Nina received the Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. From 2003-2013, she worked at the Department of Telecommunications at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb, as a Research Assistant (2003-8), as Assistant Professor (2008-2012), and as Associate Professor (2012-2013). She was on leave completing a one year Research Fellowship at Télécom ParisTech - École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France in academic year 2006/7, and various short-term research stays at The Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT), Spain, in April-May 2009, May 2010, February-May 2011 and March-June 2012.

Professor Skorin-Kapov has participated in several international (H2020 METRO-HAUL, Erasmus+ IN4WOOD-Industry 4.0, FP7 BONE, FP7 ePhotone/One+, COST Actions 291 and IC0806) and national (ONOFRE-2, ONOFRE, Analysis of the performance and design of broadband networks) research projects. She is a Spanish Management Committee Member in the COST Action RECODIS  and previously led projects SAFE (A Security Planning Framework for Optical Networks) funded by Unity through Knowledge Fund (UKF), Croatia,  and French-Croatian Cogito project HONeDT.

She has authored more than 50 scientific publications in international journals and conferences, three of which received best paper awards, including the Fabio Neri Best Paper Award for 2013 of the Journal Optical Switching and Networking. In 2008, she received the Croatian Annual National Award for Science (for junior researchers) in the field of technical sciences. She also received the Annual Award for Young Scientists and Artists awarded by The Society of University Teachers, Scholars and Other Scientists – Zagreb in 2006 and the Vera Johanides award from the Croatian Academy of Engineering (HATZ) for year 2011. In 2011, she was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine (Croatian Edition) with portrait article themed “The New, Better Generation has Arrived”.

Nina is an associate editor of the OSA/IEEE Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, and previously served on the editorial board of CIT Journal of Computing and Information Technology from 2011-2015. She has served on Technical Program Comittees of numerous international conferences, including ONDM, Networks, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, ACP and IEEE HPSR,  and was TCP co-chair of international conference ONDM 2016. She has reviewed project proposals for the Croatian science Foundation and the Engineering Research Council of Canada, and served on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Telemedicine of the Republic of Croatia from 2009-2012.

 

Teaching

University graduate

Personal data

Graduation year:
2003.
PhD graduation year:
2006.

List of select projects

INVOLVMENT IN PROJECTS

2018-2020

ONOFRE-2: Optical Networks Convergence in the Future Internet-2, Spanish national project TEC2017-84423-C3-2-P

-            Researcher

2017-2020

METRO-HAUL: METRO High bandwidth, 5G Application-aware optical network, with edge storage, compUte and low Latency. H2020-ICT-2016-2 (ID 761727), topic: ICT-7-2016)

-            Researcher

2016-2020

COST Action CA15127: Resilient communication services protecting end-user applications from disaster-based failures (RECODIS)

-          Management Committee Substitute member and researcher

2016-2019

IN4WOOD-Industry 4.0 for wood and furniture manufacturers (ref. 575853-EPP-1-2016-1-ES-EPPKA2-SSA), EC Grant, Erasmus+

-          Researcher

2015-2018

Optical Networks Convergence in the Future Internet (ONOFRE), Spanish national project TEC2014-53071-C3-1-P

-          Researcher

2015-2018

Toward Flexible  and energy efficient datacentre networks (Frame Project funded by the Swedish Research Council)

-          External collaborator and researcher

2011-2013

Cost Action IC0806: Intelligent Monitoring, Control And Security Of Critical Infrastructure Systems (Intellicis)

-          Management Committee member and researcher

2010-2013

Security in All-Optical Networks (Swedish Vinnova funded project)

-          External collaborator and researcher

2009-2011

 

A Security Planning Framework for Optical Networks (SAFE), in collaboration with The Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain; The Royal Institute of Technology KTH/ICT, Sweden; and Athens Information Technology, Greece, finance by the Unity Through Knowledge Fund (UKF) in Croatia

-          Principal investigator

2008-2011

 

FP7-ICT-216863 Building the Future Optical Network in Europe (BONE)

-          Researcher and Joint Activity JA5 leader in Work Package 11

2007-2011

 

Analiza performansi i oblikovanje sirokopojasnih mreza (Analysis of the performance and design of broadband networks), National / Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports

-          Researcher

2007-2008

Cost Action 291: Towards Digital Optical Networks

-          Researcher

2007-2008

 

FP6 Network of Excellence (NoE) e-Photon/ONe+

-          Researcher

2006-2008

 

Hybrid Optical Networks under Dynamic Traffic (HONeDT), French-Croatian bilateral Cogito Project

-          Researcher (1.1.2006-31.12.2007)

-          Principal Investigator (1.1.2007-1.3.2008)

2003-2006

 

Nove arhitekture telekomunikacijskih mreža (New architectures for telecommunication networks), National / Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports

-          Researcher

2003-2004

New telecom world oriented network designing:  data traffic sizing, Industrial / Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d., Croatia

-          Researcher