Call for Papers COST 291 Workshop

“Optical networking perspectives vs. optical technologies reality”

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ENDED ON JANUARY 15th

May 29, 2007

Co-located with the 11th Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM 2007) http://www.ondm2007.gr

To address the emerging requirements for real-time bandwidth management an automated and intelligent optical transport platform is needed to pull out much of the operational complexity residing on the upper layers. Such an optical reconfigurable network would dynamically modify itself in real time to respond to changing network conditions and service needs. An efficient dimensioning and design of this network infrastructure can not be achieved without a sound knowledge of the device capabilities and the limitations of the physical layer. It is very important to develop network layer solutions that are mindful of the limited operational margins of the optical components and subsystems and also provide ways to combat their non-ideal performance. Therefore, networking studies that attempt to incorporate physical-layer device characteristics while solving network layer problems have recently attract much of the research interest.

This Cost291 workshop is co-located with ONDM 2007 and its purpose is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing the perspectives of optical networking as well as the ability of the existing technologies to meet the projected challenges. Included are views on network applications and optical layer architectures, optical network element and optical network system design, network management and control, new service opportunities and optical network standards.

ONDM 2007 is sponsored by the International Federation of Information Processing IFIP (http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/).

Important Dates

• December 22, 2006   January 15, 2006: Original full-length unpublished paper due (electronic submission preferred).

• February 23, 2007    March 9, 2007: Notification of acceptance of the paper.

• March 23, 2007: Final camera-ready manuscript due and registration.

• Workshop date: May 29, 2007.

Submission Instructions and Guidelines

High-quality original papers are solicited in full length of 6 to 10 single-spaced pages (in English). (Please note that due to the specific format used in this paper, a 3-page paper in standard 2-column format is almost equivalent to 6-pages).

Information and author guidelines regarding the paper layout can be found in:

http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html

A Microsoft word draft version with guidelines can be downloaded from here:

http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/word.zip?SGWID=0-0-45-72919-0

Also information about users using LaTeX can be found in the first URL above.

Submissions must include: title, authors, affiliations, abstract, and a list of maximum five keywords. The author responsible for correspondence should be identified, including mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address.

All papers will be subject to a full review process carried out by the Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure quality and relevance. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper will be expected to attend the conference and present the work.

The conference proceedings will be published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series, which will be available during the event.

Authors are requested to submit their paper electronically through EDAS: