Symposium on Optical Systems and Networks

Sponsored by :

Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC)

Technical Committee on Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS)

Technical Committee on Communications Switching and Routing (TC CSR)

Symposium Chairs

Scope

Optical communication systems and networks will continue to play a significant role in the development and deployment of emerging network infrastructures.  Such systems and  networks are expected to support the diverse requirements of a broad range of applications including services for residential users, business communications, grid computing, storage area networks (SANs), multimedia content distribution networks, etc. Optical networks are evolving dramatically in terms of technology and architecture towards a more flexible, intelligent and reliable optical network layer utilizing new optical switching architectures and technologies as well as advanced control and management protocols. Optical component technology is rapidly maturing offering cost-effective solutions to a point where optical networks are currently being deployed in core backbone networks, and are gaining increased interest for deployment in metro and access environments. The widespread deployment of optical communication networks provides many significant challenges. 

The purpose of this symposium is to provide a forum for researchers in academia and industry to present and discuss issues and possible solutions as well as emerging standards for the development, deployment, and application of optical networks. The symposium will focus on optical systems and networking for traditional telecommunications applications with emphasis on network and system design, traffic modeling and routing, network management, control and signaling etc.  The symposium will also address topics related to optical network solutions suitable to support new applications and services such as storage networks, global grid computing, disaster recovery etc. The symposium will consist of peer-reviewed research papers covering a broad range of issues related to optical communication systems and networks.

Topics of interest include  

• Optical access, metro and core networks

• Optical transmission and systems

• Multilayer network architectures (IP/MPLS/GMPLS/optical)

• IP-WDM integration

• Optical circuit, burst and packet switching

• Multigranular and waveband-switching optical networks

• Broadcast, multicast and anycast

• Multiple access

• Hybrid wireless-optical networks

• Wireless optical systems

• Optical access (PON/EPON bandwidth allocation, scheduling)

• Layer 1 virtual private networks (VPNs)

• Network modeling and design (routing, wavelength assignment, grooming, ...)

• Network performance evaluation

• Network element architectures and their performance (OXC, OADM, packet switches, …)

• Recovery strategies : efficiency, cost, performance, single and multilayer

• Network control and management

• Next generation SONET/SDH

• Data over SONET/SDH and OTN

• Support of advanced applications: grid computing, content storage and distribution, multimedia streaming, etc.

• Techno-economical comparison between different network architectures

• Optical network experiments (interoperability demonstrations, test beds and field trials)

• Standardization

 

Technical Program Committee

Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada
Andrea Bianco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Pierpaolo Boffi, Corecom, Italy
Franco Callegati, Università di Bologna, Italy
Hakki Candan Cankaya, Alcatel, USA

Xiaojun Cao, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Tibor Cinkler, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Tarek El-Bawab, Alcatel, USA
George Ellinas, City University of New York, USA
Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Wales Swansea, UK
Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Christoph Gauger, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Aysegul Gencata, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Ashwin Gumaste, Fujitsu Labs, USA
Mohan Gurusamy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York, USA
Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Wojciech Kabacinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Youngseok Lee, Chungnam National University, Korea
Soung-Chang Liew, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Guido Maier, Corecom, Italy
Marco Mellia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada
Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California, Davis, USA
Michael O'Mahony, University of Essex, UK
Mario Pickavet, Ghent University, Belgium
Chunming Qiao, State University of New York, USA
Srini Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona, USA
Martin Reisslein, Arizona State University, USA
George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA
Roberto Sabella, Ericsson, Italy
Chava Vijaya Saradhi, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ken-Ichi Sato, Nagoya University, Japan
Dominic A. Schupke, Siemens AG, Germany
Abdullah Shami, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Arun Somani, Iowa State University, USA
Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA
Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology Center, Greece
Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Malathi Veeraraghavan, University of Virginia, USA
Vinod Vokkarane, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
Bin Wang, Wright State University, USA
Alan Willner, University of Southern California, USA
Jing Wu, Communications Research Center, Canada
Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Guoliang Xue, Arizona State University, USA
Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada
Wende Zhong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore