CFP : Optical Networks Magazine Special Issue on Scalability, Survivability, and Class of Service in the Design of Revenue Generating IP centric WDM Backbone Networks

CFP : Optical Networks Magazine Special Issue on Scalability, Survivability, and Class of Service in the Design of Revenue Generating IP centric WDM Backbone Networks
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Optical Networks Magazine (ONM) Special Issue on Scalability, Survivability, and Class of Service in the Design of Revenue-Generating IP-centric WDM Backbone Networks Abstract The optical Internet and optical metropolitan?area 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. This special issue of Optical Networks Magazine seeks survey on the state-of-the-art in the approaches achieving scalability, survivability and class of service in carrier networks with WDM as the core technology for the infrastructure. In particular, focus contributions are solicited on (but not restricted 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 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 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. Additional length and formatting instructions for authors are available at: http://www.optical-networks.com/formatguide.html Guest Editors: Hussein T. Mouftah School of Information Technology Engineering University of Ottawa, Canada Pin-Han Ho Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada Chi-Hsiang Yeh Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Canada Submission deadline: 15 May 2003 Acceptance notification: 15 August 2003 Final manuscript due: 15 September 2003 Publication: TBD.

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Optical Networks Magazine (ONM)

Special Issue on

Scalability, Survivability, and Class of Service in the Design of
Revenue-Generating IP-centric WDM Backbone Networks

Abstract

The optical Internet and optical metropolitan?area 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.

This special issue of Optical Networks Magazine seeks survey on the
state-of-the-art in the approaches achieving scalability, survivability and
class of service in carrier networks with WDM as the core technology for the
infrastructure. In particular, focus contributions are solicited on (but not
restricted 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

 

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 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.

Additional length and formatting instructions for authors are available at:
http://www.optical-networks.com/formatguide.html


Guest Editors:
Hussein T. Mouftah
School of Information 
Technology Engineering
University of  Ottawa,  Canada

 

Pin-Han Ho
Dept. of Electrical and 
Computer Engineering, 
University of Waterloo, Canada

 

Chi-Hsiang Yeh
Dept. of Electrical and 
Computer Engineering, 
Queen's University, Canada

 

Submission deadline:
15 May 2003

Acceptance notification:
15 August 2003

Final manuscript due:
15 September 2003

Publication:
TBD.