CALL FOR PAPERS
Optical and Grid Computing Symposium, ICNC 2014
Honolulu, HI, USA, Feb. 3-6, 2014
http://www.conf-icnc.org/2014
-Scope
The Optical and Grid Computing Symposium will focus on state-of-the-art
research topics related to all aspects of optical communications,
networking, experiments, demonstrations, field trials, and applications in
support of grid/cloud computing. To ensure a complete coverage of the
advances in optical communication and networking related technologies, the
Optical and Grid Computing Symposium aims at presenting original
contributions in, but not limited to the following topical areas:
– Optical network architectures
– Transparent and Translucent optical networks
– Elastic/flexible-grid optical networks
– Multi-layer and Multi-domain optical networks
– Optical access networks
– Convergence of optical and wireless access networks
– Optical networks to support cloud and grid computing
– Storage networks
– Optical network design and reconfiguration
– Optical network control and management
– Routing and spectrum assignment
– Protection and restoration
– Traffic grooming and traffic engineering in optical networks
– Impact of the physical-layer impairments on optical network design and
traffic engineering
– Optical network virtualization
– IP-WDM integration
– Multicasting in optical networks
– Optical network security
– Optical switching technologies, devices, and architectures
– Multi-granularity switching
– Optical packet and burst switching
– Field trials, new applications and experiments
– Energy-efficient/green optical networks and systems
– Techno-economic analysis
– SLA and QoS assurance in optical/grid networks
– Software-defined optical networks for grid computing
-Submission Guidelines
Please follow the author instructions at
http://www.conf-icnc.org/2014/author.htm
Direct paper submission weblink of this symposium can be found at
http://www.conf-icnc.org/2014/cfp.htm
-Confirmed Invited Speakers
Prof. Emmanouel Varvarigos
University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Galem Sasaki
University of Hawaii, USA
Prof. Jason Jue
University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Dr. Lynn Lu
Ericsson Inc., China
Prof. Xiaojun (Matt) Cao
Georgia State University, USA
-Important Dates
Submission Deadline: July 5, 2013
Author Notification: September 20, 2013
Camera-ready Paper Due: October 20, 2013
-Symposium Co-chairs
Zuqing Zhu
School of Information Science and Technology
University of Science and Technology of China
China
Email: zqzhu@ieee.org
Paolo Monti
School of Information and Communication Technology
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Sweden
Email: pmonti@kth.se
Ming Xia
Ericsson Research
USA
Email: ming.m.xia@ericsson.com