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