CFP: Optical networks magazine: Special Issue on Wavelength Conversion

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

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                  Optical Networks Magazine

            Special Issue on Wavelength Conversion

Guest Editors:

 Prof. Byrav Ramamurthy              Prof. Arun K. Somani 
 Dept. of Computer Sci. and Eng.,    Dept. of Electrical and Computer
Engg.,
 University of Nebraska-Lincoln      Iowa State University
 Lincoln, NE  68588-0115 U.S.A.      Ames, IA, 50011-3060 U.S.A.
 Phone: (402) 472-7791               Phone: (515) 294-0442
 Fax: (402) 472-7767                 Fax: (515) 294-8432
 Email: byrav@cse.unl.edu            Email: arun@iastate.edu

 Prof. Suresh Subramaniam            Dr. Dominique
Marcenac               
 Dept. of ECE			     Network Structures                   
 The George Washington University    B61-2 pp.7, BT
laboratories,         
 Washington, DC 20052  U.S.A.        Martlesham Heath, Ipswich IP5 3RE,
UK
 Phone: (202) 994-4743 		     Phone: +44 1473 640978                 
 Fax: (202) 994-0227		     Fax: +44 1473 649421                 
 Email: suresh@seas.gwu.edu	     Email: dominique.marcenac@bt.com     

WAVELENGTH CONVERSION

      Optical communication networks employing wavelength division
multiplexing (WDM) allow for rapid expansion of fiber (and network)
capacity, thus enabling support for an increasing number of users and
new bandwidth-intensive applications. Novel techniques such as 
wavelength conversion provide improved utilization of the available
fiber bandwidth in a WDM network.

	Significant advances in optical and electronic device
technologies have made wavelength conversion feasible. While
understanding of the technology has improved during the past few
years, several issues still remain unresolved regarding its
deployment.

      This special issue of Optical Networks Magazine will seek to
highlight active areas of current research in, and the future of,
wavelength conversion in optical networks.

      The aim of this special issue is to gather tutorial and survey
papers on work related to:

         * Wavelength conversion technologies
         * Wavelength converting node architectures
         * Benefits of wavelength conversion
         * Network test-beds and experimental activities
         * Performance analysis of wavelength-convertible networks
         * Wavelength converter modeling
         * Wavelength converter placement
	 * Routing and Wavelength Assignment 
		in wavelength-convertible networks
	 * Wavelength conversion for fault restoration 
		and survivability
	 * Wavelength conversion and optical packet switching
	 * Wavelength conversion and network management

Manuscript Submission

Original, unpublished contributions and invited articles will be
considered for this special issue. 
 
We plan to use electronic submission of papers (Postscript or PDF
files). 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 correspondence author will then be provided with instructions to
upload the paper at a website.

The article should be formatted to print on either Letter (8.5"x11")
or A4 format paper.  The article should be no longer than 15
double-spaced pages, excluding illustrations and graphs.  If
electronic submission is not possible, please submit six hardcopies of
the paper to the surface mail address of the lead editor.

Schedule:

                     Submission deadline:
                     15 March 2001  (Extended!)
 
                     Acceptance notification:
                     15 June 2001 
 
                     Final manuscript due:
                     1 August 2001 
 
                     Publication date:
                     First half 2002 
 
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		Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
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