Subject: [Sdn] fyi Call for papers ICNC 2016 Optical and Grid Computing Symposium, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, Feb. 15-18, 2016 [submission: July 5, 2015]

From: Meral Shirazipour <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:14:16 +0000

Hi,

  FYI CFP below.

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Meral

Call for papers ICNC 2016 Optical and Grid Computing Symposium, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, Feb. 15-18, 2016

http://www.conf-icnc.org/2016

Scope

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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 networks to support cloud and grid computing

-) Optical network design and reconfiguration

-) Optical network control and management

-) Software defined optical networks

-) Optical network virtualization

-) 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

Authors of a number of selected papers will be invited to submit Special Issue of the Springer Photonic Network Communications journal.

Important Dates:

-) Paper submission: July 5, 2015

-) Paper Acceptance: Sept. 20, 2015

-) Camera-ready paper: Oct. 20, 2015

Submission Guidelines

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Please follow the author instructions at http://www.conf-icnc.org/2016/

Direct paper submission weblink can be found at http://edas.info/N19647

Confirmed Invited Speakers

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Prof. Vincent Chan, MIT, USA

Prof. Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, USA

Prof. Rod Tucker, The University of Melbourne

Symposium Co-chairs

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Paolo Monti

School of Information and Communication Technology

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

Email: [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

Zuqing Zhu

School of Information Science and Technology

University of Science and Technology of China

China

Email: [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>