CALL FOR PAPERS
2003 International Workshop on Optical Networks Control and Management (ONCM’0)
In conjunction with 32nd International Conference on Parallel Processing
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC,
October 6~9, 2003
The optical Internet and optical metropolitan¡Varea networks have been made
possible by the advance of photonic technologies, most notably wavelength
division multiplexing (WDM) and photonic ultra-high-capacity switching
devices, such as the optical cross-connects (OXCs) with all-optical
transmission of data flows. Under such a situation, the operation of carrier
networks has encountered unprecedented challenges in the development of a
scalable, survivable and multi-service network environment. The issue of
scalability concerns whether the networks can scale with the traffic growth
and be expandable at reasonable costs. The survivability is the ability for
the networks to deal with any unexpected failure that may cause service
interruption and unsatisfactory performance to the end-users. The issue of
class of service, on the other hand, concerns the possibility of creating a
multi-service and multi-customer environment, which is a key approach to
revenue-generating in the carrier networks. These requirements for service
providers have been among the most important issues in the design of the
next-generation optical networks.
The 2003 International Workshop on Optical Networks Control and Management
(ONCM¡¦03) is a single-day forum for researchers to present their
contributions in the control and management for the network optical domain.
Original papers are solicited in all areas of optical networking,
generalized MPLS control plane, and photonic communication systems. Topics
of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Design and planning of WDM network architectures
Optical circuit/packet/burst-switched network infrastructures
Performance evaluation and models
Dimensioning of switching and transport capacity
Optical virtual private networks
Gigabit/10Gigabit Ethernet and beyond
MPLS and aggregate traffic scheduling
Congestion management and admission control
Generalized MPLS standards and protocols
Network survivability
Optical access networks design
Design and evaluation of multi-granularity OXCs
Applications on mobile/wireless sensor network with photonic infrastructures
QoS routing with multi-wavelength provisioning
Traffic grooming and engineering
Policies, accounting and pricing for the optical carrier networks
Prospective authors should submit the PDF or PostScript files of their
manuscripts (maximum 5,000 words) to the Program Co-chair Dr. Pin-Han Ho at
pinhan@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca . All submitted papers will be peer reviewed.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and extended
versions of the selected papers will be published in SPIE Optical Networks
Magazine (ONM).
IMPORTANT DATES:
Manuscript Due: May 1, 2003
Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2003
Final Manuscript Due: August 1, 2003
Workshop Date: Oct. 6, 2003
SPONSORS
Optical Network Technical Committee (ONTC) of the IEEE Communication Society
Nortel Networks (to be applied)
General Chair
Hussein T. Mouftah
School of Information
Technology Engineering
University of Ottawa, CA
Program Co-chairs
Pin-Han Ho
Dept. of Electrical and
Computer Engineering,
University of Waterloo, CA
Chi-Hsiang Yeh
Dept. of Electrical and
Computer Engineering,
Queen’s University, CA
Program Committee
Hakki Canden Cankaya, Southern Methodist Univ., USA
Tom Chen, Southern Methodist Univ., USA
Fow-Shen Choa, UMBC, USA
Nasir Ghani, Sorrento Networks
Mounir Hamdi, UST, HK
Changcheng Huang, Carleton Univ., CA
Jason P. Jue, UT Dallas, USA
Sy-Yen Kao, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
Muriel Medard, MIT, USA
George N. Rouskas, North Carolina State Univ., USA
Byrav Ramamurthy, Univ. of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA
Xuemin Shen, Univ. of Waterloo, CA
Zsehong Tsai, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
Larry Xue, Arizona State Univ., USA
S.Q. Zheng, UT Dallas, USA
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