ICNC 2017 - 2017 Optical and Grid Computing Symposium

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 inter and intra-datacenter 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
? Network functions virtualization on optical networks
? 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
Important Dates:
? Paper submission: July 5, 2016
? Paper Acceptance: Sept. 20, 2016
? Camera-ready paper: Oct. 20, 2016
Submission Guidelines
Please follow the author instructions at http://www.conf-icnc.org/2017/
Direct paper submission web link can be found at https://edas.info/N22339
Confirmed Invited Speakers (provisional list)
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Prof. Jean Armstrong (Fellow, IEEE), Monash University, Australia
Prof. E. Oki (Fellow, IEEE) , The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Dr. Jane M. Simmons (Fellow, IEEE), Monarch Network Architects, USA
Prof. Suresh Subramaniam (Fellow, IEEE), George Washington University, USA
Symposium Co-chairs
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Paolo Monti
School of Information and Communication Technology
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Hiroshi Hasegawa
School of Engineering, Electronics, Information and Communication
Nagoya University, Japan