OptiComm 2001

CALL FOR PAPERS

Optical Networking and Communications
Conference

Date: August 19-24, 2001

Location: Denver, Colorado

Sponsored by:

     SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
     IEEE Communications Society (pending)
     ACM SIGCOMM (pending)

SCOPE

Fueled by the ever-increasing demand for Internet bandwidth and the
recent
phenomenal advances in optical technologies, optical networking has
received
unprecedented interest from academic researchers, major network service
providers,
telecommunications equipment vendors, and standards organizations.
Optical
networking has successfully paved its way into the long-haul backbone
networks, and
is now gradually penetrating into the metro and access networking
market.  Many
exciting progresses have been made on the development of new algorithms,
protocols
and architectures for cost-effective network deployment, scalable and
fast network
management, rapid and efficient fault recovery, and resource-efficient
and
quality-aware service provisioning. This conference provides a forum for
researchers
and developers from universities and industry to openly exchange
information and to
discuss the technical and commercial development of optical network
technologies,
architectures, protocols, and applications.

TOPICS

Papers are solicited in all research and applied areas related to
optical networking
including, but not limited to:

     Architectures and protocols for IP/ATM/SONET over WDM
     Optical switching technologies
     Optical buffer with fiber-delay lines/loops and its control
     Optimal placement of OADM, converter, splitter, amplifier
     Resource (wavelength/terminating equipment) provisioning
     Quality of service (QoS) support for networking applications
     Traffic grooming
     Multicasting
     Lightpath Routing
     Network modeling and performance
     Network management and control
     Constraint-based lightpath selection
     Signaling for connection request and establishment
     Fault detection, protection and restoration
     Optical networking standards
     Test-bed implementations and network trials
     Deployment and migration strategies for carriers
     Market drivers, network economics, and end-user decision factors

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 20 pages. Extended
abstracts of up
to 5 pages are solicited for presentation in poster sessions.
Submissions should be
submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF format to
submissions@opticomm.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

     Submission deadline: April 6, 2001
     Acceptance notification: June 1, 2001
     Final manuscript due: June 29, 2001

PANEL AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

Additional proposals are solicited for panel and tutorial sessions.
Panel proposals
should be directed to panels@opticomm.org, and tutorial proposals should
be
directed to tutorials@opticomm.org. Proposals should be limited to 3
pages.

EXHIBIT SPACE AND DEMONSTRATION
PROPOSALS

Exhibit and demo space will be available at OptiComm. Proposals for
demonstrations
are welcome. For exhibits information, please contact Roy Overstreet
(royo@spie.org). For demonstrations, please contact
exhibits@opticomm.org .

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

For information on how to become a corporate supporter please contact
sponsorship@opticomm.org.

HOTEL AND REGISTRATION

Hotel and registration information may be found on the conference
website.  To
guarantee corporate hotel rates, it is recommended that attendees
reserve their rooms
by the early registration deadline of TBA.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:


 Steering Committee Chair:
                      Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas at Dallas,
                      chlamtac@utdallas.edu
 General Chairs:
                      Joe Bannister, University of Southern California
ISI,
                      joseph@isi.edu
                      John M. Senior, University of Hertfordshire,
                      j.m.senior@herts.ac.uk
 Vice General Chair:
                      Joe Touch, University of Southern California ISI,
                      touch@isi.edu
 Technical Program Chairs:
                      Francesco Masetti, Alcatel,
                      masetti-placci@usa.alcatel.com
                      Peng-Jun Wan, Illinois Institute of Technology,
                      wan@delat.csam.iit.edu
 Panels Chair:
                      Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska at
                      Lincoln, byrav@cse.unl.edu
 Publicity Chairs:
                      Hyeong-Ah Choi, George Washington University,
                      choi@seas.gwu.edu
                      Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University,
                      suresh@seas.gwu.edu
 Tutorials Chair:
                      Krishna Sivalingam, Washington State University,
                      krishna@eecs.wsu.edu
 Exhibits Chair:
                      Sanjay Pol, Cisco Systems, spol@cisco.com
 Industry Program Chairs:
                      Nasir Ghani, Sorrento Networks,
                      nghani@sorrentonet.com
                      Raj Jain, Nayna Networks & Ohio State University,
                      jain@cis.ohio-state.edu
 Industry Liaison:
                      Arun Somani, Iowa State University,
                      arun@iastate.edu
 Internet Chair:
                      Yu-Shun Wang, University of Southern California
ISI,
                      yushunwa@isi.edu
 Treasurer:
                      Lars Eggert, University of Southern California
ISI,
                      larse@isi.edu
 SPIE Contact:
                      Marshall Weathersby, SPIE, marshall@spie.org