CFP: Optical Communications Symposiums, June 28, Chengdu, China

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

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  Symposium on Optical Communications

    June 28, Chengdu, China

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Technically sponsored by IEEE Communication Society, and in
conjunction with International Conference of Communications,
Circuits and Systems & West Sino Exposition 2002, to be held
in Chengdu, China. June 26-28.

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Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province, is the center of
Southwest China, known as the "Land of Abundance". It is famous
as the home-town of the Giant Panda, and origin of the famous hot
and spicy Sichuan food.

Chengdu and its surroundings offer a great deal of tourist attractions
including spectacular sceneries, rich historic relics and a variety of
local customs. Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong, Leshan-Emei Mountain and Wolong 
Nature Reserve were enlisted the "World's Natural and Cultural
Heritages",
with additional 40 national cultural sites. Details (tours, pictures,
and maps) can be found at http://icccas02.uestc.edu.cn

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There has been significant developments in optical technologies,
in particular technologies based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing 
(WDM), which have led to to a tremendous amount of commercial   
and research interest in optical networks. Optical WDM  
networking, offering potential capacity in the multi-terabits
per second range, is poised to be the critical components of the
next-generation Internet backbone. There is much to be done in order 
to make this a reality. This symposium provides a  forum for researchers
and developers from both academia and industry to exchange information,
and to discusses technical challenges, and commercial development
and deployment of optical technologies. Papers are solicited in all
research and applied areas related to optical technologies including,
but not limited to

- Optical Networks Architecture 
- Optical Switch Routers 
- WDM Networks 
- IP Over WDM 
- Photonic Switching 
- Optical Network Protection/Restoration 
- Optical Network Control Architecture 
- Generalized Multi Protocol Label Switching 
- Optical Networking Standards 
- Optical Storage Area Networks 
- Planning and Design Tools for Optical Networks 
- Optical Network Management
- Routing Algorithms and Protocols 
- CDMA in Optical Networks 
- Optical Network Access 
- Optical Metropolitan Area Networks 
- Optical cross-connects 
- Optical Virtual Private Networks 
- Traffic engineering
- Quality-of-service provisioning
- Protection and restoration
- Experimental test-beds



The paper should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages, excluding 
figures and tables. Please refer to the instruction at 

http://icccas02.uestc.edu.cn

for on-line submission.

Or please send an electronic version (postscript or PDF files ONLY) to 
Dr. Kazem Sohraby at sohraby@lucent.com, or Prof. Bo Li at
BLI@cs.ust.hk.

If electronic submission of the paper is not possible, please submit six
hard copies of the paper to:

Professor Bo Li

Department of Computer Science
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
Hong Kong, China
Fax: +852 2358 1477

Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: 	 February 25, 2002
Acceptance Notification: March 28, 2002
Final Manuscript Due:    April 30, 2002

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Technical Program Committee Members

Ishfaq Ahmad, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 
Chunming Qiao, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Mounir hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 
Krishna Sivalingam, Washington State University, USA 
Yang Qin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
Maode Ma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
Alan Macquire, BTexact Technologies, England 
George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA 
Eytan Modiano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 
Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas, USA 
Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, USA 
Gaoxi Xiao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
Nenfu Huang, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan 
Yao-Tzung  Wang, Acute Communications Corp., Taiwan 
Arun K. Somani, Iowa State University, USA 
Guangzhi Li, AT&T Research, USA 
Mohan Gurusamy, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
C. Siva Ram Murthy, Indian Insitute of Technology, Madras, India 
Seung-Woo Seo, Seoul National University, Korea 
Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA 
Anan Phonphoem, Kasetsart University, Thailand 
Minho Kang, Information and Communication University, Korea 
Zhensheng Zhang, Sorrento Networks, USA 
Se Hyun Park, Chung-Ang University, Korea 
Kazem Sohraby, Bell Labs, Lucent Technology, USA  (co-Chair)
Bo Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, USA (co-Chair)

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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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