NOC 2016 - 21st European Conference on Network and Optical Communications, NOC 2016

21st European Conference on Network and Optical Communications, NOC 2016 will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 1st to 3rd, 2016.
NOC 2016 will bring together leading experts from both academia and industry interested in the optical networks area, optical communications (both fiber and free-space) and photonic devices. Hot topics such as optical mobile backhauling, optical interconnects, intra-datacenter networking, and software-defined optical networks will be addressed.
The technical program will include internationally recognized keynote speakers, technical sessions with oral presentations, as well as industry sessions that will bring together players from both suppliers and operators world. Also, an engaging conference social program will be offered to all the attendees. And, in your free time, you can enjoy Lisbon and its emblematic historical sites or just have a relaxing walk by the Tagus river side.
We therefore invite you to contribute to the event through involvement as patron, session organizer, presenter, delegate or contributor.
See you in Lisbon, at NOC 2016!
NOC 2016 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Photonics Society (http://www.photonicssociety.org/ ). Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases (including Scopus). Top-ranking papers will be considered for extended-version fast-track publication in a mini-feature issue in a top rank journal (indexed in ISI and Scopus).
Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Luís Cancela, ISCTE/IUL-IT, Portugal
João Rebola, ISCTE/IUL-IT, Portugal
Continuity Managers
David Faulkner, Climate Associates Ltd., UK
Alan Harmer, Harmer Associates, Switzerland
Technical Program Chairs
Adolfo Cartaxo, IST-IT, Portugal
João Pedro, Coriant, Portugal
António Teixeira, UA-IT, Portugal
Local Organizing Team
Tomás Brandão, ISCTE/IUL-IT, Portugal
Rui Marinheiro, ISCTE/IUL-IT, Portugal
Pedro Sebastião, ISCTE/IUL-IT, Portugal
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Optical network performance modelling, planning, design and management
* Signalling for all-optical networks
* Measurement, monitoring and supervision techniques
* All-optical access networks
* Next-generation Passive Optical Networks
* Energy efficiency / Green Networking
* Reliability and Maintenance
* Optical Wireless Communications
* Radio over fiber
* 100 Gbit/s and beyond
* Optical Software Defined Networking
* ROADMs
* Multicore and multimode fiber systems
* Optical cloud computing
* Photonic network architectures for datacenters
* Elastic optical networking
* Routing and spectrum allocation algorithms
Important Dates:
-> Full paper due: February 29th, 2016 (extended deadline)
paper submission on EDAS: http://edas.info/N21715
-> Notification of acceptance: April 1st, 2016
Co-located free events to be confirmed (a link for registration will be available soon):
* Industry session #1: 17h30m ? 19h00m (June 1st): Optical Packet Switching for Datacenter Application
* Industry session #2: 14h00m ? 15h30m (June 2nd): Next Generation PONs
* Industry session #3: 15h30m ? 17h00m (June 2nd): Transport SDN
* Industry session #4: 17h30m ? 19h00m (June 2nd): Front-Haul Challenges towards 5G.