OGCS 2016 - Optical and Grid Computing Symposium

Optical and Grid Computing Symposium
Kauai, Hawaii, USA, Feb. 15-18, 2016
http://www.conf-icnc.org/2016
Scope
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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 networks
-) Optical networks to support cloud and grid computing
-) Optical network design and reconfiguration
-) Optical network control and management
-) Software defined optical networks
-) Optical network virtualization
-) 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
-) IP-WDM integration
-) Multicasting in optical networks
-) Optical network security
-) Optical switching technologies, devices, and architectures
-) Multi-granularity switching
-) Field trials, new applications and experiments
-) Energy-efficient/green optical networks and systems
-) Techno-economic analysis
Authors of a number of selected papers will be invited to submitSpecial Issue of the Springer Photonic Network Communications journal.
Important Dates:
-) Paper submission: July 5, 2015
-) Paper Acceptance: Sept. 20, 2015
-) Camera-ready paper: Oct. 20, 2015
Submission Guidelines
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Please follow the author instructions at http://www.conf-icnc.org/2016/
Direct paper submission weblink can be found at http://edas.info/N19647
Confirmed Invited Speakers
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Prof. Vincent Chan
MIT, USA
Prof. Ahmed Kamal
Iowa State University, USA
Symposium Co-chairs
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Paolo Monti
School of Information and Communication Technology
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden
Email: pmonti-AT-kth.se
Zuqing Zhu
School of Information Science and Technology
University of Science and Technology of China
China
Email: zqzhu-AT-ieee.org.