[Tccc] CFP: IEEE Globecom 2010 Optical Networks and Systems Symposium (deadline 2 weeks away)

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Call for Papers
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IEEE Globecom 2010, December 6-10, 2010, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
(http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2010)

Optical Networks and Systems Symposium
(http://gc10-ons.ece.iastate.edu)

Sponsored by the IEEE Comsoc Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC)
(http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/techcom/optical.html)

Rapid advances in optical communications, systems, and networks have
been the driver behind their deployment beyond the network core to
grid, storage, and access systems. The emergence of a new generation of
photonic devices that are intelligent, self-aware, and programmable
under software control opens up new possibilities in optical network
design. Hence, new optical networks architectures are conceivable that
go beyond simply providing raw transmission capacity to higher
transport layers, to capturing the full potential of an optical
substrate populated with a multitude of elements performing a variety
of monitoring, sensing, impairment compensation, reconfiguration,
switching, signal splitting and multiplexing functions natively in the
optical domain. To realize these novel network architectures, new
challenges arise in designing and engineering multiple layers in an
integrated manner, in facilitating explicitly cross-layer interactions,
in integrating control plane policy and strategy, and in coordinating
standardization efforts.

The Symposium will continue its established practice of focusing on
cutting-edge, state-of-the-art research in optical networks and systems
and newly emerging areas. Submissions of papers that relate the topics
of optical networks and systems to other research areas and disciplines,
including the integration of optical and wireless networks, emergent
service paradigms for new applications, and the role of optics in the
future Internet design, are highly encouraged.

This Symposium aims to bring together researchers from academia and
industry to address recent advances n the design, modeling, prototyping,
implementation, standardization, and deployment of optical networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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* Optical technologies and devices for telecommunication applications
* Optical modulation and signal processing
* Optical wavelength-division, time-division, and code-division
multiplexing (WDM, OTDM, OCDM)
* Optical integrated circuits and novel transmission methods
* Measurement, monitoring and supervision techniques
* Optical switching technologies, devices, and architectures
* Optical cross-connects (OXCs)
* Optical add/drop multiplexers (OADMs)
* Optical packet switching (OPS)
* Optical burst switching (OBS)
* Multi-granularity switching
* Optical access networks (PONs, AONs, and other FTTx architectures)
* Optical Ethernet and new service paradigms
* Free space optical networks
* Optical metropolitan and regional networks
* Optical networking for storage, Grid, and research & education (R&E) networks
* Optical virtual private networks
* Multi-domain optical communications
* Optical network demonstrations, test-beds and field trials
* Impact of physical-layer impairments on optical network design and
engineering
* Cross-layer design and software defined optics
* Routing and wavelength assignment (RWA)
* Traffic grooming and engineering for optical networks
* Optical network performance modeling
* Optical network control and management
* Multipoint communication in optical networks
* Single-layer and multi-layer protection and restoration
* Security and privacy in optical networks
* Traffic engineering for next-generation SONET/SDH
* Standardization issues
* Inter-working between optical and wireless networks
* Energy efficiency in optical networks
* Economic and regulatory issues and migration studies
* Optical networks for future Internet design

Important Dates:
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* Paper submission deadline: 15 March 2010, 11:59pm EST
* Author notification: 1 July 2010
* Camera-ready Paper due: 1 August 2010

Symposium Co-chairs:
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* Filippo Cugini, CNIT, Italy (filippo.cugini@cnit.it)
* Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, U.S.A. (kamal@iastate.edu)
* George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, U.S.A. (rouskas@ncsu.edu)
* Jun Zheng, Southeast University, China (jzheng@ieee.org)

For more information about the symposium:
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http://gc10-ons.ece.iastate.edu

For more information about IEEE Globecom 2010:
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http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2010
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