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Optical Networks Magazine 
Special Issue: Call for Papers 

Optical Virtual Private Networks (oVPNs)

The recent advances and convergence of IP and optical networking, combined
with the successful offerings of IP and MPLS-based VPN services by carriers,
motivate the consideration of Optical Virtual Private Networks (oVPNs).

The two unifying trends, i.e. emergence of intelligent IP-optical network
infrastructure and IP and MPLS VPN solutions, will drive new oVPN service
offerings and will open up a wide range of new network engineering and design
choices dealing with networks' interoperability and common platforms for control
and management. As recognized by numerous standardization bodies (e.g. IETF,
ITU-T, OIF), this is particularly important in order to achieve seamless
internetworking. To fulfill these requirements, appropriate IP/MPLS-optical
transport network architectures are needed, driven by fundamental advances in
WDM optical technologies and the expectations of several market forces pointing
to 2005 as a year of major VPN growth where ISPs and carriers are moving
toward the core business serving their VPN customers. 

This special Issue of Optical Networks Magazine will be dedicated to the first
attempts to define the optical virtual infrastructure for VPN services, an
infrastructure provisioned to the single or multi-client customers on-demand,
which also may be service providers themselves. In particular, we would like to
pursue the following questions: What is the network model supporting optical
VPN? Which interfaces, resources, signaling, and routing protocols are of
interest? What will be the oVPN service definition and which are the main aspects
of its invocation, configuration and restoration? 

The main topics to this Special Issue will both cover and discover the following
issues, but are not limited to the following: 

Optical Network Architecture supporting optical VPN service 

    Topology, Resilience and QoS Issues 
    Components of Lightpath Routing Protocol 
    Signaling Protocols 
    Lightpath Restoration Framework 
    Multi-service Optical Networks 
    Transition to All-Optical Networking 
    Advances in Optical Network Technology

oVPN Service and Optical Network Interfaces 

    Provisioning of the UNI and NNI 
    SLA Negotiation, Invocation, Configuration for oVPN

Models, Simulation Environments and Product Features Supporting oVPN 

    Applications

Additional length and formatting instructions for authors 

Guest Editors:

Admela Jukan 
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Georgia Institute of Technology 
GCATT, Room 547 
250 14th Street, NW 
Atlanta, GA 30318 USA
Phone: 404.385.2731; Fax: 404.894.5692 
mailto:admela@ece.gatech.edu 

Jean-Francois Labourdette 
Tellium
185 Route 36
P.O. Box 158
West Long Branch, NJ 07764 USA
Phone: 732.483.3009; Fax: 732.483.3357
jlabourdette@tellium.com