[Tccc] Call for Papers: IEEE JSAC Special Issue on "Next-Generation Spectrum-Efficient and Elastic Optical Transport Networks"

Gangxiang shen egxshen
Thu Sep 8 04:14:08 EDT 2011


CFP: IEEE JSAC Special Issue on "Next-Generation Spectrum-Efficient
and Elastic Optical Transport Networks"

(Please accept our apology if you receive multiple copies of this CFP)

http://jsac.ucsd.edu/Calls/elasticopticaltransport.pdf

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
First review complete: April 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2012
Final manuscript due: September 1, 2012
Publication date: 1st Quarter 2013

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


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Gangxiang (Steven) Shen (???)
PhD, Professor (????????
Director of Optical Network Technology Research Center (ONTRC) (????????????
School of Electronic and Information Engineering (???????
Soochow University (?????, P. R. China
Homepage (?????: www.gangxiang-shen.com




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