CFP Broadnets 2005 Broadband Optical Networking Symposium

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Second Annual International Conference on Broadband Networks 
(BROADNETS 2005)
Broadband Optical Networking Symposium  
October 3 - 7, 2005
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
http://www.broadnets.org

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2005
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SCOPE
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BROADNETS 2005 is an international conference focusing on broadband
networking and covers the entire gamut of next generation networks
with high bandwidth available for both wireless and wireline networks.  
The conference will consist of the following three symposia:

** Broadband Optical Networking Symposium: covers WDM technologies,
   Ethernet and MPLS integration into the optical layer,
   Next-Generation SONET/SDH, as well as SAN extensions over
   DWDM/SONET/SDH.

** Broadband Wireless Networking Symposium: covers mobility,
   routing for multihop, multimedia QoS and traffic management,
   cross-layer optimization, MAC and emerging physical layer
   technologies (UWB, MIMO) for high-speed wireless networking.

** Broadband Applications/Services Symposium: covers middleware and
   service architectures for broadband applications, pervasive
   computing and ubiquitous communications, and universal broadband
   access for information services.

BROADNETS 2005 will thus offer a unique forum for researchers from
academia, government and industry to share ideas and disseminate new
results in these important areas.  

This Call for Papers describes the details for the Broadband Optical 
Networking Symposium ONLY. (Refer to the www.broadnets.org/2005 website 
for the details of Broadband Wireless Symposium and Broadband 
Applications/Services Symposium.)  We are soliciting full papers in all 
research, development, and deployment areas on broadband optical 
networking. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:
 
- Wavelength-routed WDM networks
- Integration of Ethernet and RPR into the optical layer
- IP and MPLS over DWDM: integration and interworking
- Next-generation SONET/SDH and MSPP
- SAN over SONET/SDH and DWDM
- Network control and management, GMPLS
- Survivability in the data, TDM or optical layers
- Optical packet switching and burst switching
- High-speed switch and router architectures
- Optical multicasting
- Standards for multi-service networks
- Long-haul optical transport networks
- Metropolitan and regional optical networks
- Access optical networks, PONs
- Optical networking for video-on-demand
- Trial implementations and test-beds
- Multi-layer network design and optimization
- Grid computing over optical networks
- Optical technologies: switching, transmission and multiplexing

Conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society.
A set of selected papers from the symposium will be published in 
a special issue of Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking Journal.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline:            February 1, 2005 
Acceptance Notification:        May 1, 2005
Final Manuscript Due:           June 1, 2005 

PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages in IEEE
conference proceedings format.  Papers should be submitted in PDF 
format to the respective symposium through the EDAS system at 
http://edas.info/Conference.cgi.  


CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair:   
 Dr. Arun Somani, Iowa State University, [email protected]

General Vice Chair: 
 Dr. Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech, [email protected]

Technical Program Chairs - Optical Networking Symposium
 Dr. David Griffith, NIST, [email protected] 
 Dr. Srini Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona, [email protected] 

Technical Program Chair- Wireless Networking Symposium:
 Dr. Sherman Shen, Univ. of Waterloo, [email protected]

Technical Program Chairs - Services and Applications Symposium
 Dr. Malathi Veeraraghavan, Univ. of Virginia, [email protected]  
 Dr. Admela Jukan, NSF, [email protected] 

Workshops Chairs: 
 Dr. Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, [email protected]
 Dr. Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected]
 Dr. Behcet Sarikaya, University of Northern British Columbia, 
              [email protected]

Tutorials Chair:
 Dr. Steven Low, CalTech., [email protected]

Panels Chairs:
 Dr. Surendar Chandra, Univ. of Notre Dame, [email protected] 
 Dr. Rudra Dutta, NCSU, [email protected]

Publicity Chairs:
 Dr. Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, [email protected] 
 Dr. Takeo Hamada, Fujitsu Labs of America, [email protected] 

Website/Information Systems Chair: 
 Dr. Shiwen Mao, Virginia Tech, [email protected]
  
Publications Chairs: 
 Dr. Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, [email protected] 
 Dr. Hui Zang, Sprint Adv. Tech. Labs, [email protected]

Exhibits and Sponsorships Chair: 
 Dr. Sai Shankar N, Philips Research USA, [email protected]

Steering Committee Co-Chairs:
 Dr. Imrich Chlamtac, UT Dallas, [email protected] 
 Dr. Krishna Sivalingam, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County,
                [email protected]
 
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