OPTICAL NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS

Symposium Co-Chairs
Alberto Bononi, Università di Parma (bononi@tlc.unipr.it)
Arunita Jaekel, University of Windsor (arunita@uwindsor.ca)
Galen Sasaki, University of Hawaii (galens@hawaii.edu)
Naoaki Yamanaka, Keio University (yamanaka.naoaki@ieee.org)

Sponsoring Technical Committees
Optical Networking Technical Committee
Communications Switching & Routing
Transmission, Access & Optical Systems 

Scope
Rapid advances in optical technologies have been an impetus for deploying photonics in access, storage, backbone and grid networks, hence realizing the long standing quest for transporting data at multi-terabit rates.    In particular, long-haul domains have seen significant induction of advanced dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) technology, while coarse WDM (CWDM) technologies have steadily permeated into the more focused metro/regional and edge domains. Challenges today placed in understanding how to engineer both the backbone and the access sections of the optical network.  In the backbone time has come to provide efficient and reliable network design and operation that jointly exploit the latest optical transmission and electronic switching technologies. In the access area a great interest resides in innovative solutions well beyond the upgrade of existing infrastructures. Significant interest is devoted to reliable and secure passive optical network (PON) access architectures, pushing genuine fiber access all the way to the ultimate end-users,  whether they at home or at office.  Advances are directed towards meeting current and future applications such as the Internet, video, enterprise, and peer-to-peer services. 

This symposium seeks to showcase the latest developments in key open areas of optical communication networks and emergent service paradigms. Some of the key focus areas include (but are not necessarily limited to) the following:

Topics of Interest

• Wavelength division multiplexing
• Optical time-division and code-division multiplexing
• Optical modulation and signal processing
• Modulation and coding for optical transmission
• Optical transmission systems and performance monitoring
• System modeling and performance evaluation
• Optical switching technologies, devices, and architectures
• Optical crossconnects and add drop multiplexers
• Dispersion and nonlinearity management in optical networks
• IP-WDM integration
• Optical network architectures
• All optical networks
• Network design and reconfiguration
• Network control and management
• Performance evaluation
• Routing and wavelength assignment
• Traffic grooming and traffic engineering
• Dynamic traffic management
• Multi-granularity switching
• Multicasting in optical networks
• Optical Packet Switching
• Optical Burst Switching
• Protection and restoration
• Optical access networks
• Local area, metropolitan and regional networks
• Grid networks
• Storage networks
• Free space optical networks
• Terrestrial and submarine optical networks
• Optical network security
• Optical virtual private networks
• Optical network experiments: demonstrations, test beds and field trials
• Signaling and monitoring in optical networks
• Impact of the physical-layer impairments on optical network design and traffic engineering
• Multi-domain optical communications
• Ethernet and L2 networks
• MAC protocols in optical networks
• Standardization issues
• Efficient simulation techniques for optical networks
• Applications requiring optical networks
• Testbed and field trials

Technical Program Committee
 

Nail Akar, Bilkent University, Turkey, Turkey
Abdullah Al-Ghamdi, National Information Centre, Saudi Arabia
Polina Bayvel, University College London, UK
Andrea Bianco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Sebastian Bigo, Alcatel-Lucent, France
Paul Bonenfant, Morgan Keegan & Co., USA
Alberto Bononi, Universita di Parma, Italy
Maite Brandt-Pearce, University of Virginia, USA
Franco Callegati, Universita` di Bologna, Italy
Hakki Cankaya, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Davide Careglio, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Vincent Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Filippo Cugini, CNIT, Italy
Grzegorz Danilewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Jitender Deogun, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University
Georgios Ellinas, University of Cyprus, Greece
Vincenzo Eramo, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Enrico Forrestieri, CNIT, Italy
Maurice Gagnaire, ENST Paris, France
Joan Garcia-Haro, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain
Roberto Gaudino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Andrew Ge, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Aysegul Gencata, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico, USA
Ivan Glesk, University of Strathclyde, UK
Mohan Gurusamy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York, USA
Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Hiroaki Harai, NICT, Japan
Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada
Shu Huang, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), USA
David Hunter, University of Essex, UK
Arunita Jaekel, University of Windwor, Canada
Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Admela Jukan, IDA
Wojciech Kabacinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, USA
Volkan Kaman, Calient Networks, USA
Ken'ichi Kitayama, Osaka University, Japan
Hoa Le Minh, University of Oxford, UK
Steven Lumetta, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, USA
Hongbin Luo, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Martin Maier, Institut National de la Recherche, Canada
Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada
Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California - Davis, USA
Raul Muñoz, CTTC, Spain
Satoru Okamoto, Keio University, Japan
Eiji Oki, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Josep Sole Pareta, UPC
Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Mario Pickavet, Ghent University, Belgium
Josep Prat, UPC, Spain
Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Martin Reisslein, Arizona State University, USA
June-Koo Kevin Rhee, Information and Communications University, Korea
Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA
Roberto Sabella, Ericsson, Italy
Galen Sasaki, University of Hawaii, USA
Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Kohei  Shiomoto, NTT, Japan
Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Essex, UK
Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Arun Somani, Iowa State University, USA
Suresh Subramaniam, The George Washington University, USA
Marco Tacca, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Antonio Teixeira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Anna Tzanakaki, AIT, Greece
Raza Ul-Mustafa, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Kyriakos Vlachos, University of Patras, Greece
Vinod Vokkarane, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, USA
Bin Wang, Wright State University, USA
Alan Willner, USC, USA
Lena Wosinska, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden
Chunsheng Xin, Norfolk State University, USA
Yufeng Xin, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), USA
Naoaki Yamanaka, Keio University, Japan
Tetsuya Yokotani, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan
Ben Yoo, University of California - Davis, USA
Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada

Presentation Style
The Globecom 2009 Technical Program Committee will go through a rigorous process to review all the papers submitted and select the best ones among them. The accepted papers will be presented in the conference either in a lecture style or in a poster style format. This distinction has no relationship with the quality of the accepted papers whatsoever. It is purely due to the limitations of the conference rooms available for lecture style presentations. Papers will be selected for lecture-style or poster-style presentation, solely based on the need to ensure topic homogeneity in lecture-style sessions.   All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and IEEExplore without any indication of the presentation mode.