| Important Dates |
| Last Date for Submission of Abstracts |
August 31, 2007 |
| Call for Paper Details |
| Scope |
| Optical burst switching (OBS) and optical packet switching (OPS) are promising technologies that that efficiently utilise bandwidth of WDN optical fiber networks, avoiding the optical electronic optical conversion bottlenecks. Advances in optical component technologies, growing popularity of Fiber To The Home (FTTH) and corresponding predicted growth in demand for bandwidth, make optical burst/packet switching an increasingly attractive and practical architecture for the next-generation of optical networks. |
| Topics |
OBS/OPS node architectures
Hybrid OBS/TDM or OBS/wavelength routing
Signaling and control in OBS/OPS networks
OBS/OPS government and industrial initiatives
Burst/Packet scheduling algorithms
Quality of service guarantees in OBS/OPS
Contention resolution/avoidance strategies
Novel OBS/OPS network architectures
Routing algorithms and traffic engineering
TCP/IP, Ethernet, or SONET over OBS/OPS
Grid applications for OBS/OPS
OBS/OPS network survivability
OBS/OPS performance evaluation & modeling
Quality of service in OBS/OPS networks
OBS/OPS experiments and testbeds
Traffic engineering and grooming in OBS/OPS networks
OBS/OPS commercial and regulatory issues
Performance evaluation of OBS/OPS networks
Burst assembly and ingress traffic shaping
OBS/OPS experiments and testbeds
Comparisons with other optical networks
Components and devices for OBS/OPS networks
Strategies for OBS/OPS evolution
Commercial and regulatory issues related to OBS/OPS |
| Submission Guidelines |
Manuscripts should not exceed 4000 words (excluding references, tables and figures). All manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/com More information for authors can be found at: http://www.iee.org/Publish/Support/Auth/authproc.cfm
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| Contact Address |
Contact Address |
Dr John Murphy (Guest Co-Editor)
Computer Science
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
Ireland
Email: j.murphy@ucd.ie |
Dr Harry Perros (Guest Co-Editor)
Computer Science Department
NC State University
Raleigh
NC 27695-7534
USA
Email: perros@csc.ncsu.edu |
