NOC 2014 - 19th European Conference on Network and Optical Communications ? NOC 2014

The 19th European Conference on Network and Optical Communications ? NOC 2014 will be held in Milan, Italy, from June 4 to 6, 2014.
Through its technical program, the conference will provide an opportunity for the academic and industrial communities to address new research challenges, share solutions and discuss issues in information and communication technology (ICT) referring to modern telecommunications. The 19th NOC provides a forum for the promotion of new opportunities from industry, institutes of technology and academia. We therefore invite you to contribute to the event through involvement as patron, session organiser, presenter, delegate or contributor.
The goal of the conference is to present high-quality results in the field, and to provide a framework for research collaboration through focused discussions that will shape future research efforts and directions. In this context, the program committee will accept only a limited number of papers that meet the criteria of originality, presentation quality and topic relevance. NOC has reached the highest level of quality, which is reflected both in the level of participation as well as the acceptance ratio and the amount and quality of submitted papers.
Topics of interest
Specific topics addressed include (but are not limited to) the following ones:
Optical network performance modelling
Optical network planning and design
Multi-layer design of optical networks
Optical network management
Signalling for all-optical networks
Measurement, monitoring and supervision techniques
Optical multicasting
All-optical access networks
Field trials and experiments
Optical network virtualization
Standardization and economic comparisons
Energy efficiency as well as energy saving in telecommunications networks
Reliability and Maintenance
FTTX economics
Standards
Optical Wireless Communications
Combined optical and wireless networks
100 Gbit/s and beyond: high-speed coherent fiber transmission
Optical Software Defined Networks
Reconfigurable OADM
Mobile optical backhauling and wireless to fiber convergence in the metro and access networks
Next-generation Passive Optical Networks
Multicore and multimode fiber systems
Silicon photonics switching architecutres and systems
Openflow-based optical control plane
SDN and GMPLS
Optical cloud computing
Photonic network architectures for datacenter interconnections
OFDM applications in optical network
Elastic optical networking
Routing and spectrum allocation algorithms
Path computation element (PCE) for optical networking
Important dates
Full paper due : January 27, 2014
Notification of acceptance: March 22, 2014
Final version due: May 15, 2014
How to submit
Online submission thorough EDAS system is required for all types of submissions. Detailed information on all types of submissions will be soon provided in section ”HOW TO SUBMIT”