JSAC 2012 - IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Next-Generation Spectrum-Efficient and Elastic Optical Transport Networks

IEEE JSAC Special Issue on "Next-Generation Spectrum-Efficient and
Elastic Optical Transport Networks?
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Improving capacity utilization of the optical transport network has been an
important research challenge for many years. Extensive research efforts
have been devoted to developing the approaches of grooming subwavelength
traffic demand onto large wavelength capacity pipes. These efforts,
however, only focus on efficiently utilizing the capacity pipes, without
addressing the issue of fixed ITU-T grid and frequency spacing in the DWDM
layer. Under the fixed frequency spacing, optical spectrum is often
over-provisioned for a low-rate optical channel, and this inefficiency
becomes even worse when more advanced modulation formats are employed.
Advanced optical transmission and networking techniques are desired to
provide flexibilities for optical channel spectrum allocation and to
develop the related network control system so as to cater to the bandwidth
elasticity of Internet traffic and improve fiber optical spectral usage.
Significant attention has been given to develop spectrum-efficient and
flexible optical transport networks in both academia and industry in the
past few years, and currently there are many research efforts underway
targeting at the development of appropriate solutions for future dynamic
elastic and scalable photonic infrastructures and network architectures,
efficient new algorithms that determine how the traffic demands can be
matched to resources in an optimized way, and a more flexible control and
management plane. The purpose of this special issue is to gather articles
that present recent advances in the field. We solicit original
contributions in (but not limited to) the following categories:
1) Spectrum-efficient elastic optical transport network architecture
2) Bit-rate flexible and spectrum-efficient optical transmission
techniques, and their impact on networking
3) New-generation elastic and spectrum-flexible reconfigurable optical
add/drop multiplexer (ROADM)
4) Spectrum-efficient optical transport network control planes, such as
extension to the Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS) protocols
5) Lightpath routing, optical spectrum, modulation format and bit-rate
allocation algorithms
6) Time-dependent traffic demand support by applying the bandwidth
elasticity of the optical OFDM transmission technique
7) New protocol development and performance analysis for
spectrum-efficient optical transport networks
8) Cost-efficiency issues for spectrum and/or bit-rate flexible optical
transport networks
9) Spectrum de-fragmentation issues in spectrum flexible optical
transport networks
10) Energy-consumption issues of elastic and spectrum-efficient optical
transport networks
11) Performance monitoring of spectrum-efficient optical transport networks
12) Subwavelength traffic grooming approaches in spectrum-efficient optical
transport networks
13) Testbeds and applications of spectrum-efficient optical transport
networks
Prospective authors should follow the IEEE JSAC manuscript format described
in the Information for Authors at
http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html. Prior to submitting their
papers for review, authors should make sure that they understand and agree
to adhere to the over-length page charge policy presented in the JSAC
guidelines. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete
manuscript to http://edas.info according to the following timetable:
Submissions due: December 1, 2011 , extended to *December 25, 2011*
First review complete: April 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2012
Final manuscript due: August 1, 2012
Publication date: 4th Quarter 2012
GUEST EDITORS
Prof. Gangxiang Shen (lead), Soochow University, shengx-AT-suda.edu.cn
Prof. Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya University, sato-AT-nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Prof. William Shieh, Melbourne University, shiehw-AT-unimelb.edu.au
Prof. Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology Center, itom-AT-ait.edu.gr
Dr. Jennifer Yates, AT&T, jyates-AT-research.att.com
Prof. Eric W. M. Wong, City University of Hong Kong,
EricWong-AT-ee.cityu.edu.hk