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CFP: Optical Networking and Communications Conference - OptiComm 2002, Boston, Massachusetts , July 29 - August 2, 2002

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   Optical Networking and Communications Conference - OptiComm 2002
                        http://www.opticomm.org

          Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts
                        July 29 - August 2, 2002


Sponsored by:
   SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, and
   the SPIE Technical Group on Optical Networks (TGON)

In Co-operation with:
   IEEE Technical Committee on Gigabit Networks (TCGN),
   IEEE TC on Transmission, Access and Optical Systems (TCTAOS), and
   ACM SIGCOMM (approval pending on all)

URL for pdf version of this document:
   http://www.opticomm.org/OptiComm2002_cfp.pdf

For sponsorship and exhibit opportunities contact Anant K. Jain  or
visit the conference website.


Scope:
   Ever since the extremely successful inaugural OptiComm 2000, the
   organizers of the annual OptiComm conference series aim to provide
   optical professionals a cutting-edge forum to exchange and publish
   their work and ideas. This is especially important now, when optical
   networking continues to be the focus of much interest and activity.
   Today, despite the fall-back of the industry and economy, bandwidth
   demand growth has accelerated and is reaching record heights,
   reminding service providers of the need to deploy more scalable and
   flexible optical networking technologies. Although, earlier, optical
   technologies were used mainly in long-haul capacity expansion
   applications, the same technology has evolved to fulfill a more
   advanced networking role. Optics continues to move closer to the
   users' edge, gaining much favor in the metropolitan and regional
   networking arenas, lately even penetrating the access networks.
   Undoubtedly this significant evolution is driven mainly by many
   years of relentless research, design, and deployment efforts.
   Significant advances and recent solutions to key problems enabled
   the emergence of the full range of the optical area, including
   underlying optical technologies, network architectures,
   protocols/algorithms, and network management. Collectively, these
   achievements have helped to dramatically improve the cost-value
   proposition of optical technology.

   To be able to keep up with the pace dictated by the bandwidth
   demand, much work is - and needs to be done in these exciting
   areas. Hence there is a crucial need to develop and maintain strong
   forums for allowing all interested parties, including academic and
   industry researchers, equipment vendors, network operators, and
   standards engineers, to interact and share their findings. In this
   very tradition, the third OptiComm conference provides a very
   high-profile, leading-edge venue for researchers and engineers alike
   to present their latest advances in the field of optical networking
   and communications.


Important Dates:
   Submission Deadline:      March 1, 2002
   Acceptance Notification:  May 10, 2002
   Final Manuscript Due:     May 30, 2002
   Conference Date:          July 29 - August 2, 2002


Submission Instructions:
   Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 20 pages in
   length.  Extended abstracts of up to 5 pages are also solicited for
   presentation in the poster sessions. All submissions should be
   submitted electronically in Postscript or Adobe PDF format:
   Electronic submission instructions will be available shortly on the
   official OptiComm 2002 website: http://www.opticomm.org.

   Selected papers will appear in the SPIE/Kluwer Optical Networks
   Magazine.


Proposals for Tutorials/ Workshops/ Panels/ Industry Watch:
   Proposals for tutorials, panels, and workshops on optical
   networking and related topics are solicited.

   Tutorial/workshop proposals should consist of: 1) title and outline
   of materials to be presented, 2) description of potential audience,
   3) justification of why the proposed topic is interesting and timely
   and, 4) biographical sketch of the presenter(s).

   Proposals are also solicited for panels that examine innovative,
   controversial, or otherwise provocative issues of interest related
   to optical networking and communications.

   Proposals from vendors, carriers, and investors analyzing the state
   of the industry are solicited for the Industry Watch forum. Fields
   of particular interest are: 1) carrier migration strategies,
   2) optical network management & planning, 3) latest advances in
   optical systems, 4) optical network deployment & evolution, and
   5) optical components.

   Please submit your proposals to the appropriate Chairs by
   March 31, 2002.


Topics and Focus Areas:
   Contributions are solicited in all optical networking research and
   applied areas.  These include, but are not limited to, the following
   feature topics:

   * Optical add-drop technologies and dynamic optical rings
   * Optical cross-connect technologies (MEMS, bubble-jet, etc.)
   * Traffic grooming onto optical networks (SONET over DWDM)
   * Optical packet switching (technologies, architectures,
     performance)
   * Optical multicasting (technologies, applications)
   * Wavelength routing algorithms and optimization
   * Wavelength conversion issues (technologies, placement,
     performance)
   * Virtual network topology design and optimization
   * Network management architectures, protocols, and solutions for
     multi-service optical networks
   * Optical network survivability (protection, restoration
     algorithms)
   * Fault detection and localization schemes
   * Performance and error monitoring
   * Optical transport/networking standards, architectures, and
     protocols
   * IP over DWDM, IP over SONET, Optical Ethernet, Fiber Channel and
     other storage networking
   * Management solutions for multi-service optical networks
   * Long-haul/ultra long-haul optical transport networks/transmission
   * Metropolitan and regional optical network architectures
   * Access optical networking architectures (PON, E-PON, O-FDM)
   * Trial implementations and test-bed results
   * Network operator migration strategies and economics
   * End-user applications, service provisioning models, traffic demand
     analysis and modeling

Organizing Committee:
   General Chairs
      Chunming Qiao, University at Buffalo (SUNY), qiao@computer.org
      Sudhir Dixit, Nokia Research Center, sudhir.dixit@nokia.com

   Technical Program Committee Chairs
      Nasir Ghani, Sorrento Networks Inc., nghani@sorrentonet.com
      Krishna Sivalingam, Washington State University,
                          krishna@eecs.wsu.edu

   Steering Committee Chair
      Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas at Dallas,
                       chlamtac@utdallas.edu

   Industrial Liaison and Exhibits Chair
      Anant Kumar Jain, Lucent Technologies, akjain@lucent.com

   Publicity Chairs
      Gergely V. Záruba, University of Texas at Arlington,
                         zaruba@uta.edu
      Hakki Candan Cankaya, Alcatel USA, hakki.cankaya@alcatel.com

   Panel Chair
      Philip Lin, Tellabs Research, Phil.Lin@tellabs.com

   Tutorial Chair
      Hussein Mouftah, Queens University,
                       hussein.mouftah@ece.queensu.ca

   Workshop Chair
      George Rouskas, North Carolina State University,
                      rouskas@eos.ncsu.edu

   Industry Watch Chairs
      Vishal Sharma, Metanoia, Inc., v.sharma@ieee.org
      Arman Maghbouleh, Cariden Technologies, Inc., arman@cariden.com

   Technical Program Committee
      Nilesh Bhide, Intel
      Franco Callegati, DEIS Universita' di Bologna
      Jacek Chrostowski, Cisco Systems
      Debasis Datta, IIT Kharagpur
      Piet Demeester, Ghent University
      Wayne Grover, TR Labs
      Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science And Technology
      Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas
      Mark Karol, Avaya
      Guang-Zhi Li, AT&T Labs
      Xiangyang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology
      Manav Mishra, Intel
      Alan McGuire, BTexact Technologies
      Eytan Modiano, MIT
      Masayuki Murata, Osaka University
      Jigesh Patel, RSoft Inc.
      Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
      George N. Rouskas, North Carolina State University
      Yang Qin, Nanyang Technologies University of Singapore
      Galen Sasaki, University of Hawaii
      Abhijit Sengupta, NASA/JPL
      C. Siva Ram Murthy, IIT Madras
      Arun Somani, Iowa State University
      Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University
      Danny Tsang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
      Alan Willner, University of Southern California
      Yinghua Ye, Nokia Research Center
      Zhensheng Zhang, Sorrento Networks

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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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	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
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