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   ONDM 2001 - The Fifth Working Conference on Optical Network Design and
                                 Modelling
                                      
Call for Papers

   This is the age of networked information, where, more than ever in the
   history of a technological progress, society's reliance on
   communication networks for health care, education, scientific data
   transfer, commerce and many other endeavours dominates the humans
   everyday life. We are facing the quotidianly progressing developments
   in communication techniques, the rapid implementation of new
   technologies, a standardisation process, emerging markets and carriers
   in permanent motion.
   
   Optical networks are certainly the first of the networking
   technologies to be revealed in this context. Since their commercial
   arrival in the nineties, they have fundamentally changed the way of
   dealing with traffic engineering by removing bandwidth bottlenecks and
   eliminating delays. Today, after the revolutionary bandwidth
   expansion, the networking functionality migrated more and more to the
   optical layer, and the need to establish fast wavelength circuits and
   capacity-on-demand for the higher-layer networks, in particular data
   networks based on IP, has become one of the central networking issues
   for the new century.
   
   The Fifth Working Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling,
   aims at presenting the most recent progress in optical network
   architectures, design, operation and management. In the tradition of
   the previous conferences (Athens´00, Paris´99, Rome´98 and Vienna´97),
   which brought together university researchers, technology leaders and
   network operators, this conference will also take on the ambitious
   task to address the new optical network engineering aspects to be
   pursued, implemented, and, nonetheless, discovered.
   
   Main Topics
     * Optical data networking and optical packet switching
     * Optical Time Division Multiplexing (OTDM) systems
     * Novel architectures for wavelength routers (optical nodes)
     * Optical network performance modelling
     * Call admission control and QoS-awareness in optical networks
     * Routing and wavelength assignment algorithms
     * Network reconfiguration and restoration techniques
     * MAC protocols for optical LANs and MANs
     * Inter-working between optical and wireless networks
     * Soliton-based networks
     * High speed optical LANs and gigabit Ethernet
     * All-optical access networks
     * Multi-layer design of optical networks
     * Optical network planning and design
     * Physical and logical network topologies
     * Optical interfaces and optical terminals
     * Self-healing SDH loops
     * Optical integrated circuits
     * Optical network management
     * WDM inter-working with IP networks
     * Signalling for all-optical networks
     * Measurement, monitoring, and supervision techniques
     * Photonic-based end-to-end communication protocols
     * Field-trials and experiments
     * Applications for all-optical network infrastructures
     * Standardisation and economic comparisons
       
   Important Deadlines
   
     * November 10, 2000: Original full-length unpublished paper due.
       Electronic submission preferred.
     * November 30, 2000: Notification of acceptance of paper.
     * December 20, 2000: Final camera-ready manuscript due.
       
   Author guidelines
   
   High-quality original papers are solicited. All papers will be
   reviewed by the Technical Program Committee members and other experts
   active in the field to ensure quality and relevance. Authors of
   accepted papers will be expected to attend the conference and present
   their work.
   The conference proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic
   Publishers. Please refer to Kluwer guidelines for paper style.
   Submitted papers have to be in Kluwer format (see format sample). For
   any information concerning paper layout, please contact:
   
   Johanna Pfeifer, Publicity Chair
   Institute of Communication Networks
   Vienna University of Technology
   Favoritenstrasse 9/388
   A - 1040 Vienna, Austria
   Tel. +43-1-58801-38820
   Fax +43-1-58801-38898
   email: Johanna.Pfeifer@tuwien.ac.at