Call for Papers

6. Optical Networks and Systems

Research on optical systems has been gathering pace and researchers have been working to produce faster and faster transmission and switching technologies. With rapid advances in optical enabling devices and systems over the past decade, multi-terabit transport networks have now become a reality. In particular, long-haul domains have seen significant induction of advanced dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) technology. More lately, DWDM and coarse WDM (CWDM) technologies have steadily permeated into the more focused metro/regional and edge domains. A complementary development has also been the rapid maturation of next-generation electronic SONET/SDH grooming technologies. As these paradigm shifts take hold, related standards activities to develop unified provisioning and control-plane architectures for optical and electronic layers have seen much impetus as well. This symposium seeks to showcase the latest developments in key open areas of optical networks and systems, emergent network infrastructures and new optical service paradigms. One of the major themes will be on vertical and horizontal integration. For example, the former entails issues such as Ethernet-optical internetworking, SONET/SDH-WDM multi-granularity grooming, traffic engineering, physical-layer aware networking, as well as the routing, grooming, wavelength assignment and protection/restoration of unicast, multicast or anycast optical connections.

Topics of Particular Interest

• Architectures and technologies for metropolitan, core and local networks
• Optical (WDM/OCDM/OTDM) network and switch architectures
• Optical access networks (PON, EPON, WDM-PON, …)
• Optical packet, burst and label switching
• Hybrid wireless-optical network architectures
• Routing, wavelength assignment and traffic grooming (multicast, broadcast, anycast, etc.)
• Constraint-based routing
• Horizontal integration: multi-domain optical communications and path computing
• Planning and optimization of optical networks
• Carrier Ethernet
• Next-generation SONET/SDH
• Application-aware optical networking for grid, storage and multimedia services
• Optical and multi-layer network protection and restoration
• Optical virtual private networks
• Control and management for optical networks
• Optical network test beds and field trials
• Optical transmission and system experiments
• System modeling and performance evaluation