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                         Call For Papers 
                  IEEE Network Magazine

       Special Issue on Optical Communication
                              Networks

Guest Editors:

Arun K. Somani 
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Iowa State University
3227 Coover Hall
Ames, IA, 50011-3060 
Phone: (515) 294-0442 
Fax: (515) 294-8432 
Email: arun@iastate.edu 
Web: www.ee.iastate.edu/~arun/ 
                                      Byrav Ramamurthy
                                      Department of Computer Science and
                                      Engineering
                                      University of Nebraska-Lincoln
                                      115 Ferguson Hall
                                      Lincoln, NE 68588-0115
                                      Phone: (402) 472-7791
                                      Fax: (402) 472-7767
                                      Email: byrav@cse.unl.edu
                                      Web: www.cse.unl.edu/~byrav/


Scope: 

Advances in fiber-optic devices and technologies have fueled the deployment of national
and international optical communication networks. Novel techniques such as wavelength
division multiplexing (WDM) allow for rapid expansion of fiber (and network) capacity, thus
enabling support for an increasing number of users and new bandwidth-intensive
applications. Optical networks already provide the infrastructure for broadband services in
the core and are becoming increasingly attractive for deployment within the access and the
local/metro areas. 

Research in optical networks has resulted in the design of novel architectures and protocols
for high-speed network connectivity. Novel network control and management (NC&M)
frameworks have been proposed for failure-detection, network-recovery, bandwidth
provisioning and dynamic network reconfiguration. Experimental optical network test-beds,
using WDM, have been deployed in the U.S., Europe and other parts of the world. Such
optical networks will provide the infrastructure for the Next Generation Internet (NGI). An
interesting challenge which confronts network designers and operators is how to support
existing applications and protocols on the new infrastructure. Is IP over WDM going to be
the dominant paradigm for backbone networks? What role does optical packet switching
play in future broadband networks? What is the upgrade path for integrating diverse local,
metro-area and wide-area network technologies using this new infrastructure?

This special issue of IEEE Network will seek to highlight active areas of current research in,
and the future of, optical communication networks. The aim of this special issue is to gather
tutorial and survey papers on work related to:

      Optical network architectures and protocols 
      IP over WDM 
      Optical network control and management (NC&M) 
      Design of survivable optical networks 
      Optical network test-beds and experimental activities 
      Performance analysis of optical networks 
      Optical network simulation tools 
      Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) 
      Optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) 
      Optical code division multiple access (CDMA) 
      Optical amplifier placement 
      Wavelength conversion 
      Optical multicasting 
      Optical packet switching 
      Optical network standardization activities 

Submission:

We plan to use electronic submission as a postscript or pdf file. To submit a paper for
consideration, authors should send the following information to the guest editors via email
(arun@iastate.edu and byrav@cse.unl.edu)

   1.Title, Abstract of the paper and list of authors. 
   2.Indicate which author is to serve as the primary correspondence contact. 
   3.Please list affiliation, mailing address, phone/fax numbers, 
   4.and email address of the correspondence author. 

The correspondence author will then be provided with instructions to upload the paper at a
website.

In order to ensure that the PostScript versions of the papers can be printed, use PostScript
version 2 or later. Also ensure that the paper fits on "US Letter" size paper (8.5X11 inches).
Reference only Computer Modern or standard Adobe printer fonts (i.e., Courier, Times,
Roman, or Helvetica); other fonts may be used but must be included in the PostScript file.
Additional information including "Guidelines for authors" is available at the IEEE Network
website: http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/techcom/ntwrk/authors.html

Schedule: 

      Paper Submission Deadline: January 1, 2000 
      Feedback to Authors: April 1, 2000 
      Final Manuscripts to Publisher: August 1, 2000 
      Publication of Special Issue: November/December 2000