CFP: Optical Networks Magazine - Special Issue on Dynamic Optical Networking

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

       OPTICAL NETWORKS MAGAZINE

          CALL FOR PAPERS

         A Special Issue on

    Dynamic Optical Networking
Around the Corner or Light Years Away?


http://www.optical-networks.com/cfp_baldi.html


Optical transmission and wavelength division 
multiplexing have dramatically increased bandwidth 
availability in metropolitan and long haul networks. 
Static wavelength cross connection, with its 
simplicity and scalability, brings to switching the 
abundance typical of optical technologies.
However, there is limited benefit in deploying 
optical components in a static fashion: only 
provision, and possibly protection, of fixed size 
optical data paths can be obtained. Dynamic optical 
networking has instead the capability to enable the 
same level of flexibility and efficiency achieved 
within the electronic domain, while retaining the 
scalability typical of the optical domain. 
Nevertheless, dynamic optical networking is faced 
with many challenges, differently addressed by the 
various approaches currently pursued by researchers 
and developers.

The topics for this special issue will include, but 
are not limited to:
  Optical packet switching 
  Optical burst switching 
  Optical grooming
  Design and evaluation of architectures for dynamic 
    optical switches 
  Dynamic wavelength assignment
  Engineering and planning of dynamic optical 
    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Original, unpublished contributions and invited 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 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 20 double-spaced 
pages, excluding illustrations and graphs.

Instructions are available on line at:
http://www.optical-networks.com/submit.html#guidelines

Submission deadline:     Dec. 31, 2001
Acceptance notification: April 1, 2002
Final manuscript due:    June 3,  2002
Publication:             2002   

Guest Editors:

Mario Baldi                      Andrea Bianco
Synchrodyne Networks, Inc.       Dept of Electrical Engineering
                                 Politecnico di Torino
75 Maiden Lane, Suite 317        Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24 
New York, NY 10038, USA          10129 Torino - Italy
baldi@synchrodyne.com            andrea.bianco@polito.it
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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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