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CFP: OptiComm 2001, Optical Networking and Communications Conference, August 19-24, 2001, Denver, Colorado USA


			OptiComm 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS

	      Optical Networking and Communications Conference
			Date:	  August 19-24, 2001
			Location: Denver, Colorado
			http://www.opticomm.org/			
Sponsored by:
    SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 
    SPIE Technical Group on Optical Networks 
    IEEE Communications Society 
    ACM SIGCOMM 

SCOPE 
Fueled by the ever-increasing demand for Internet bandwidth and the
recent
phenomenal advances in optical technologies, optical networking has
received unprecedented interest from academic researchers, major network
service providers, telecommunications equipment vendors, and standards
organizations. Optical networking has successfully paved its way into
the
long-haul backbone networks, and is now gradually penetrating into the
metro and access networking market.  Many exciting progresses have been
made on the development of new algorithms, protocols and architectures
for
cost-effective network deployment, scalable and fast network management,
rapid and efficient fault recovery, and resource-efficient and 
quality-aware service provisioning. This conference provides a forum for
researchers and developers from universities and industry to openly
exchange information and to discuss the technical and commercial
development of optical network technologies, architectures, protocols,
and
applications. Selected papers will appear in the SPIE/Kluwer Optical
Networks Magazine. 
 
TOPICS 
Papers are solicited in all research and applied areas related to
optical 
networking including, but not limited to: 
   * Architectures and protocols for IP/ATM/SONET over WDM 
   * Optical switching designs and technologies 
   * Optical and hybrid buffers, including fiber-delay lines/loops and
its 
     control
   * Optimal placement of optical nodes (OADMs/OXCs) and functionalities
     (converters/splitters/amplifiers)
   * Resource (wavelength/terminating equipment) provisioning 
   * Quality of service (QoS) support for optical networking
applications 
   * Traffic grooming and partitioning 
   * Multicasting with sparse or none light-splitting
   * Network modeling and performance 
   * Network operation, management and control 
   * Constraint-based lightpath selection, routing, and rearrangement 
   * Signaling, scheduling and control for connection/bandwidth request
and
     establishment 
   * Fault monitoring, detection, protection and restoration 
   * Optical networking standards 
   * Test-bed implementations and network trials 
   * Deployment and migration strategies for carriers 
   * Market drivers, network economics, and end-user decision factors
 
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 20 pages. Extended 
abstracts of up to 5 pages are solicited for presentation in poster 
sessions.  Submissions should be submitted electronically in Postscript 
or PDF format to submissions@opticomm.org. 

IMPORTANT DATES
   Submission deadline:      April 6, 2001 
   Acceptance notification:  June 1,  2001 
   Final manuscript due:     June 29, 2001 

PANEL AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
Additional proposals are solicited for panel and tutorial sessions.
Panel 
proposals should be directed to panels@opticomm.org, and tutorial 
proposals should be directed to tutorials@opticomm.org, both by May 15,
2001. 
Proposals should be limited to 3 pages.

EXHIBIT SPACE AND DEMONSTRATION PROPOSALS
Exhibit and demo space will be available at OptiComm. Proposals for 
demonstrations are welcome. For exhibits information, please contact Roy 
Overstreet (royo@spie.org). For demonstrations, please contact 
exhibits@opticomm.org, both by May 15, 2001.

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
For information on how to become a corporate supporter please contact 
sponsorship@opticomm.org. 

HOTEL AND REGISTRATION
Hotel and registration information may be found on the conference 
website.  To guarantee corporate hotel rates, it is recommended that 
attendees reserve their rooms by the early registration deadline (TBA).
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
   Steering Committee Chair: 
   Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas at Dallas, chlamtac@utdallas.edu 
   
   General Chairs: 
   Joe Bannister, University of Southern California ISI, joseph@isi.edu 
   John M. Senior, University of Hertfordshire, j.m.senior@herts.ac.uk 

   Vice General Chair: 
   Joe Touch, University of Southern California ISI, touch@isi.edu 

   Technical Program Chairs: 
   Francesco Masetti, Alcatel, masetti-placci@usa.alcatel.com 
   Peng-Jun Wan, Illinois Institute of Technology, wan@cs.iit.edu 

   Panels Chair: 
   Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska at Lincoln,
byrav@cse.unl.edu 

   Publicity Chairs: 
   Hyeong-Ah Choi, George Washington University, choi@seas.gwu.edu 
   Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, suresh@seas.gwu.edu 

   Tutorials Chair: 
   Krishna Sivalingam, Washington State University, krishna@eecs.wsu.edu 

   Exhibits Chair: 
   Sanjay Pol, Cisco Systems, spol@cisco.com 

   Industry Program Chairs: 
   Nasir Ghani, Sorrento Networks, nghani@sorrentonet.com 
   Raj Jain, Nayna Networks & Ohio State University,
jain@cis.ohio-state.edu

   Industry Liaison:  
   Arun Somani, Iowa State University, arun@iastate.edu 

   Internet Chair:  
   Yu-Shun Wang, University of Southern California ISI, yushunwa@isi.edu 

   Treasurer:  
   Lars Eggert, University of Southern California ISI, larse@isi.edu 

   SPIE Contact: 
   Marshall Weathersby, SPIE, marshall@spie.org
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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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 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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