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Special Issue: Call for Papers 

Routing and Control in Optical Networks

Optical networks with wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) are perhaps a
viable solution (if not the only solution) to cope with the ever-increasing demand
of bandwidth on the Internet. With today's technological developments in optical
systems, WDM scheme allows terabit data rates to be supported on a single fiber.
Exploitation of WDM in wavelength routing has motivated researchers in recent
years to investigate all-optical networks as a high-speed infrastructure. With the
availability of high-speed terabit electronic routers, multihop optical networks are
also expected to provide a similar high-speed architecture.

To reflect and archive the recent developments for this class of network
architecture, this special issue aims to consolidate and disseminate leading research
results in the area of routing and control of optical networks. 

Original research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:

     Static and dynamic routing in optical network 
     Channel assignment and routing in context of IP and/or MPLS protocols 
     Fault management issues 
     Routing with wavelength conversion 
     Traffic modeling and efficient routing schemes 
     Multihop routing protocols 
     Fault management for multihop routing 

Original, unpublished contributions and invited articles will be considered for this
special issue. We plan to use electronic submission of papers (Postscript). To
submit a paper for consideration, authors should send the following information to
the guest editors via email: 

   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, and email
     address of the correspondence author. The correspondence author will
     then be provided with instructions to upload the paper at a website. The
     article should be formatted to print on either Letter (8.5"x11") or A4
     format paper. The article should be no longer than 20 double-spaced
     pages, excluding illustrations and graphs. 

Guest Editors:

Abhijit Sengupta
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Phone: (818)393-6697
e-mail asengupt@mail1.jpl.nasa.gov 

Subir Bandyopadhyay
School of Computer Science
University of Windsor
Phone: (519)253-4232 ext. 2999
e-mail subir@cs.uwindsor.ca 



Submission deadline:
31 August 2001 

Acceptance notification:
31 October 2001 

Final manuscript due:
15 December 2001 

Publication:
2002