OPTICAL NETWORKS MAGAZINE

          CALL FOR PAPERS

         A Special Issue on

    Dynamic Optical Networking
Around the Corner or Light Years Away?


http://www.optical-networks.com/cfp_baldi.html


Optical transmission and wavelength division
multiplexing have dramatically increased bandwidth
availability in metropolitan and long haul networks.
Static wavelength cross connection, with its
simplicity and scalability, brings to switching the
abundance typical of optical technologies.
However, there is limited benefit in deploying
optical components in a static fashion: only
provision, and possibly protection, of fixed size
optical data paths can be obtained. Dynamic optical
networking has instead the capability to enable the
same level of flexibility and efficiency achieved
within the electronic domain, while retaining the
scalability typical of the optical domain.
Nevertheless, dynamic optical networking is faced
with many challenges, differently addressed by the
various approaches currently pursued by researchers
and developers.

The topics for this special issue will include, but
are not limited to:
  Optical packet switching
  Optical burst switching
  Optical grooming
  Design and evaluation of architectures for dynamic
    optical switches
  Dynamic wavelength assignment
  Engineering and planning of dynamic optical
    networks

Original, unpublished contributions and invited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.

Instructions are available on line at:
http://www.optical-networks.com/submit.html#guidelines

Submission deadline:     Dec. 31, 2001
Acceptance notification: April 1, 2002
Final manuscript due:    June 3,  2002
Publication:             2002

Guest Editors:

Mario Baldi                      Andrea Bianco
Synchrodyne Networks, Inc.       Dept of Electrical Engineering
                                 Politecnico di Torino
75 Maiden Lane, Suite 317        Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24
New York, NY 10038, USA          10129 Torino - Italy
baldi@synchrodyne.com            andrea.bianco@polito.it