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In the last few years, various innovations in optical devices and material technology have brought down the cost of optics to an acceptable level and made data multiplexing and switching solutions - based on dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) – technically and commercially viable in the transport network. Rapidly, with the ever growing demand for bandwidth, optical network solutions have secured their key role in the core of the Internet. Other network areas, e.g., MAN’s and LAN’s, are expected to greatly benefit from these innovations, shortly. The Symposium on Optical Communications, Networks and Systems is going to focus on major recent advancements in optical networking which include switching and routing, QoS requirements of optical switch architectures and networks, optical network management, LAMBDA-MPLS, signaling, traffic modeling and control, traffic and capacity management functions, etc. The Symposium intends to provide a timely forum for sharing and discussing exploratory research and practical contributions from all around the world in the growing field of optical networking. The objective of this event is to foster the exchange of information among researchers in this fast-advancing field. The program will include presentations by distinguished researchers on recent advances from both theoretical and practical viewpoints. The Symposium also intends to bring together various optical network system developers to discuss the current status, technical challenges, emerging standards, fundamental unresolved issues, and future services and applications that are anticipated to become viable. Interaction among participants will take place in the form of Workshops, Panels, Technical Sessions and Tutorials.
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Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following 5 key areas:
| • Optical Components and Devices • Optical Communication Systems • Cost-Effective Optical Network Solutions • Optical Network Survivability and Fault Management • Quality of Service and Scheduling in Optical Networks |
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
| • Routing and Wavelength Assignment • Optical Switching • Optical Access Networks • Lambda-MPLS • IP over WDM • Optical Ethernet • Wavelength Conversion • Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers • SONET/SDH Networks • Metropolitan & Local Area Optical Networks • Packet/Circuit/Burst Switching • MAC Protocols for WDM Networks • Traffic Grooming • CDMA in Optical Networks • Optical Virtual Private Networks • Network Control and Management • Network Design and Reconfiguration • Broadcasting and Multicasting • Performance Models and Evaluation • Applications Requiring Optical Networks • Test-beds and Experimental Results |
Technical papers, proposals for Panels, Workshops and Tutorials in the above areas are encouraged, and must be submitted to Globecom2004, following the general submission procedures and instructions that are available at www.globecom2004.org.
For additional information, you may contact the Symposium Co-chairs.
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| Andrea Fumagalli, Symposium Co-chair (andreaf@utdallas.edu) Naoaki Yamanaka, Symposium Co-chair (yamanaka.naoaki@ieee.org) |
| TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE |
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Javier Aracil, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain
Javid Atai, University of Sydney, Australia
Sergio Benedetto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Hakki Cankaya, Alcatel, USA
Vincent Chan, MIT, USA
Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Belgium
Jeff Fitchett, Nortel Networks, Canada
Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Nada Golmie, NIST, USA
Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA
Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Sc & Tech, P.R. China
Rongging Hui, Kansas University, USA
Andrzei Jajszczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Laszlo Jereb, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Jason Jue, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Wojciech Kabacinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Minho Kang, Information and Communication University, South Korea
Stamatios Kartalopoulos, University of Oklahoma, USA
Kyeongsoo(Joseph) Kim, STMicroelectronics / Stanford Networking Research Center, USA
San-Liang Lee, National Taiwan University Sc & Tech, Taiwan
Emilio Leonardi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Bo Li, The Hong Kong University of Sc & Tech, P.R. China
Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada
Satoru Okamoto, NTT, Japan
Eiji Oki, NTT, Japan
Namkyoo Park, Seoul National University, South Korea
Mario Pickavet, Ghent University, Belgium
Giancarlo Prati, CNIT, Italy
Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA
Srinivasan Ramasubramaniam, The University of Ariziona Tucson USA
Martin Reisslein, Arizona State University, USA
George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA
Marcos Rogerio Salvador, cNIT, Brazil
Dominic A. Schupke, Siemens, Germany
Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Aleksandra Smiljanic, AT&T, USA
Arun Somani, Iowa State University, USA
Suresh Subramaniam, The George Washington University, USA
Marco Tacca, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Po-Lung Tien, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Franco Travostino, Nortel Networks, USA
Rod Tucker, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Helio Waldman, UNICAMP Brazil
Lena Wosinska, KTH, Sweden
Guoliang Xue, Arizona StateU, USA
Naoaki Yamanaka, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
Maria Yuang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
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