IEICE 2011 - IEICE Trans. on Comm. Special Section on Photonic Network Technologies in Terabit Network Era

The IEICE Transactions on Communications announces that it will publish a special section entitled "Special Section on Photonic Network Technologies in Terabit Network Era" in April 2011.
Since large-capacity stream transmissions for 4-K digital cinemas and high-definition video applications, and large-size file transmissions for P2P applications are widely used. Photonic networking technologies are required to support high-speed, cost-effective, flexible, scalable, reliable, and robust communication network infrastructures. To offer a terabit communication environment, a new scenario to crossly interact with upper layers is also required. To achieve these requirements, research and development on photonic networking technologies including their standardizations are extensively performed. Because of such reasons, a special section is being planned (scheduled to appear in the April 2011 issue) to further promote research and development of future photonic network technologies, which covers areas such as network devices, transport networking, and applications.
1. Scope
This special section aims at timely dissemination of research in these areas. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
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Photonic network architecture