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["Ghani, Nasir" <nghani@sorrentonet.com>]

Title: Call For Papers: IEEE Network Magazine special issue on IP over Fiber

http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/techcom/ntwrk/special/ip-over-fiber.html

Call For Papers
IEEE Network Magazine

Special Issue on IP Over Fiber

Guest Editors:
Dr. Debanjan Saha, Tellium Optical Networks Systems, 2 Crescent Place, Oceanport NJ 07757-0901
      Phone: (732) 923-4264, Fax: (732) 923-9804, Email: dsaha@tellium.com
Dr. Nasir Ghani, Sorrento Networks Inc., 9990 Mesa Rim Road, San Diego, CA 92121
     Phone: (858) 646-7192, Fax: (858) 558-3980, Email: nghani@sorrentonet.com
Scope:
Recent advances in optical technologies have opened up a world of new opportunities. Optical networks offer virtually unlimited bandwidth, a very important ingredient for sustaining the organic and explosive growth of the Internet. Massive deployment of optical networking gear is already underway in long-haul networks. Falling component costs have also made metro and access arena deployment prospects increasingly viable. In light of this new technological trend "IP over Fiber" has become a topic of unprecedented interest in academia and industry alike.

It is widely expected that the convergence of IP and Optical layers will be the defining theme in the next phase of expansion of the Internet. The emergence of the IP multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) framework as a common control plane for data and optical layers is an early, but definitive indication of that trend. This is clearly going to influence how future network elements are designed, and how the networks are architected, engineered and managed. A number of vendors are developing "hybrid" devices that integrate IP and optical networking technologies in very innovative ways. Various service providers are architecting their networks around these new "convergent" network elements and planning for cost-effective migration strategies from the current TDM-based infrastructures to the network of the future.

In order to gain a better understanding of this exciting new field of telecommunications, this special issue of IEEE Network Magazine seeks to survey, consolidate, and present the leading-edge research and engineering work in the IP-over-fiber space. In particular, focused tutorial and survey contributions are solicited on (but not restricted to) the following subject categories:

• Multi-protocol Lambda Switching
• Traffic engineering across optical and data planes
• Constraint based lightpath routing
• IP routing protocol enhancements for lightpath routing
• Signaling protocols for lightpath provisioning
• IP centric restoration schemes for lightpaths
• Convergent network architectures, hybrid network elements
• IP centric service and network management solutions
• Migration and deployment scenarios/solutions
• Test-bed implementations, network trials, and related experimental projects.

Submission:
We plan to use electronic submission in either PostScript (.ps) or PDF file formats. In order to submit a paper for consideration, authors should send the following information to the guest editors via email (dsaha@tellium.com <mailto:dsaha@tellium.com> and nghani@sorrentonet.com <mailto:nghani@sorrentonet.com>)

Title, Abstract of the paper and list of authors.
Indicate which author is to serve as the primary correspondence contact.
Please list affiliation, mailing address, phone/fax numbers, and email address of the correspondence author.

The correspondence author will then be provided with instructions to upload the paper at a Website.
In order to ensure that the PostScript versions of the papers can be printed, please use PostScript Version 2 or later. Also ensure that the paper fits on "US Letter" size paper (8.5x11 inches). Reference only Computer Modern or standard Adobe printer fonts (i.e., Courier, Times, Roman, or Helvetica); other fonts may be used but must be included in the PostScript file.
Additional information including "Guidelines for authors" is available at the IEEE Network Website: <http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/techcom/ntwrk/authors.html>

Schedule:

• Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2000
• Feedback to Authors: February 15, 2001
• Final Manuscripts to Publisher: April 15, 2001
• Publication of Special Issue: July/August 2001