-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Deadline Extended to Sep. 25: ICC 2006 Optical Systems and Networks Symposium Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:28:44 -0500 From: Byrav Ramamurthy byrav@cse.unl.edu To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu, ontc@comsoc.org

Dear Colleagues,

The deadline for the ICC 2006 paper submissions has been extended to 25 September 2005; 11:59 PM (EST)

Conference website: http://www.icc2006.org/index/paper.html

Please also note the expanded scope of the OSN symposium and the possibility of POSTER presentations.

Attached is the CFP with the latest changes.

Thanks Byrav -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Byrav Ramamurthy Associate Professor Room 363, Avery Hall Dept. of Computer Science and Engg. Phone: (402) 472-7791 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Fax: (402) 472-7767 Lincoln NE 68588-0115 Email: byrav@cse.unl.edu Web: http://www.cse.unl.edu/~byrav ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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SYMPOSIUM ON OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS (part of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006) to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 11-15 June 2006)

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 Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Co-Chair Email: piet.demeester@intec.ugent.be

Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Co-Chair Email: byrav@cse.unl.edu

Stefano Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Co-Chair Email: bregni@elet.polimi.it

Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Tech University, Vice Chair Email: nghani@tntech.edu

IMPORTANT DATES Complete Paper Manuscripts Due: 25 September 2005; 11:59 PM (EST) Acceptance Notification: 31 December 2005 Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due: 15 February 2006 Conference Dates: 11 - 15 June 2006

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 Franco Callegati, Università di Bologna, Italy Hakki Candan Cankaya, Alcatel, 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 Young-chon Kim, Chonbuk National University, Korea 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 Tim Ozugur, Alcatel, USA 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

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors MUST submit their papers electronically using EDAS. A link is provided to the EDAS web site at the end of this page.

The submission process involves the following three steps: 1. Creation of a personal account on EDAS (if the author does not already have one) 2. Registration of the paper (requiring a title and short abstract of up to 150 words) 3. Upload of the paper. Only in pdf format

Papers must be written in English. Preferred maximum paper length is 6 printed pages including figures. Accepted papers that are longer than 6 pages will be charged with an over-length fee of $100 per page for the 7th and 8th pages. Under no circumstances may any submission exceed 8 pages. Papers in excess of 8 pages shall not be considered for review or publication.

IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Authors will be notified of acceptance and given a chair's summary of reviewer comments to ensure the high quality of the accepted papers. Accepted manuscripts should be revised per the comments and final camera-ready papers be submitted by the deadline. The accepted papers, depending on their number versus conference rooms' availability, may be split among orally presented and poster presented papers without any relation to the paper evaluation process and without any distinction as far as printing in the proceedings is concerned. The authors must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference and that one presenter must register at the FULL or LIMITED rate per IEEE ComSoc policy. For authors presenting multiple papers, one FULL or LIMITED registration is valid for up to three papers. Copyright forms will be required for accepted papers.

The Symposium on Optical Systems and Networks website is http://www.icc2006.org/index/OpticalSystemsandNetworks.html

The EDAS web site for the Symposium is http://edas.info/Paper.cgi?c=4590

For additional paper submission details, please visit http://www.icc2006.org/index/paper.html

Please contact us if you need additional information.

Best regards,

Piet Demeester Byrav Ramamurthy Stefano Bregni Nasir Ghani

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