Call for Papers --------------- IEEE Globecom 2007, Novemer 26-30, 2007, Washington, DC, U.S.A. (http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2007) Optical Networks and Systems Symposium (http://gc07-ons.ece.iastate.edu) Rapid advances in optical technologies have been an impetus for deploying photonics in access, storage, backbone and grid networks, hence realizing the long standing quest for transporting data at multi-terabit rates. In particular, long-haul domains have seen significant induction of advanced dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) technology, while coarse WDM (CWDM) technologies have steadily permeated into the more focused metro/regional and edge domains. A complementary advance has been the development of next generation SONET/SDH grooming technologies. Standardization bodies, in particular IETF and ITU, are actively developing unified provisioning frameworks as well as flexible and intelligent control-plane architectures for optical and electronic layers. Challenges are today placed in understanding how to engineer both the backbone and the access section of the optical network. In the backbone time has come to provide efficient and reliable network design and operation that jointly exploits the latest optical transmission and electronic switching technologies. A multilayer network design has been realized as a viable approach to optimize the available resources. Hence, traffic grooming will depart from a traditional implementation at the SONET/SDH level to a multilayer approach. In addition, the IETF and ITU-T have started efforts to standardize virtual private networking (VPN) provisioning at layer 1 in backbone networks. In the access area a great interest resides in innovative solutions well beyond the upgrade of existing infrastructures. Significant interest is devoted to reliable and secure passive optical network (PON) access architectures, pushing genuine fiber access all the way to the ultimate end-users, whether they at home or at office. This symposium seeks to showcase the latest developments in key open areas of optical communication networks and emergent service paradigms. Some of the key focus areas include (but are not necessarily limited to) the following: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: --------------------------------------------------- * Future optical network architecture and protocols * New methods for routing and wavelength * Traffic grooming and traffic engineering * Free space optical networks * Multipoint services in optical networks * Optical Packet Switching (OPS) * Optical Burst Switching (OBS) * Single layer and multi-layer protection and restoration * Optical switch architectures and performance * Optical access network architectures * Metropolitan and regional networks * Grid networks * Storage networks * Optical network security * Optical control plane * Optical network experiments: demonstrations, test beds and field trials * Signaling and monitoring in optical networks * Impact of the physical-layer impairments on optical network design and traffic engineering * Multi-domain optical communications and networks * Multi-granularity switching * Next-generation SONET/SDH * Optical Ethernet and new service paradigms * Optical virtual private networks * Standardization issues Important Dates: ---------------- * Paper submission deadline: 15 March, 2007, 12 noon EST * Author notification: 1 July, 2007 12 noon EST * Camera-ready paper due: 1 September, 2007, 12 noon EST Symposium Co-chairs: -------------------- * Admela Jukan, INRS University of Quebec, Canada (jukan@emt.inrs.ca) * Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, U.S.A. (kamal@iastate.edu) * Achille Pattavina, Politecnico Milano, Italy, (pattavina@elet.polimi.it) Symposium Vice-Chair: --------------------- * George Ellinas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (gellinas@ucy.ac.cy) For more information about the symposium: ----------------------------------------- http://gc07-ons.ece.iastate.edu For more information about IEEE Globecom 2007: ---------------------------------------------- http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2007