Call for Papers

Fifth IEEE/CreateNet Workshop on OBS/OPS (WOBS) at IEEE/CreateNet BROADNETS 2005
Boston, MA
Monday, October 3, 2005
 
Optical burst switching (OBS) and optical packet switching (OPS) are promising switching technologies which have the potential to efficiently utilize the bandwidth of optical transmission systems to support a diverse range of emerging high-bandwidth applications. The promise of OBS and OPS has recently lead to significant research and development efforts around the world to develop OBS and OPS technologies. This growing interest in OBS and OPS has resulted in the organization of a series of successful international workshops on OBS and OPS, starting in 2003 with the First International Workshop on Optical Burst Switching at OptiComm 2003 in Dallas, and continuing to the Workshop on OPS/OBS at COIN 2005 in ChongQing, China.
 
This workshop on OBS/OPS at BroadNets 2005 provides a forum for researchers and developers from universities, industry, and government agencies to openly exchange information and to discuss the technical and commercial challenges associated with the development and deployment of optical burst-switched and optical packet-switched networks.
 
Topics covered by the workshop include, but are not limited to the following:
 
- OBS/OPS node architecture
- Signaling and control in OBS/OPS networks
- Contention resolution in OBS/OPS networks
- Routing in OBS/OPS networks
- Grid applications for OBS/OPS 
- TCP/IP, Ethernet, or SONET over OBS/OPS
- OBS/OPS network survivability
- Quality of service in OBS/OPS networks
- Traffic engineering and grooming in OBS/OPS networks
- Performance evaluation of OBS/OPS networks
- OBS/OPS experiments and testbeds
- Components and devices for OBS/OPS networks
- Commercial and regulatory issues related to OBS/OPS

Important dates:

Submission Guidelines:

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages in IEEE conference proceedings format.  Also, 3-page extended abstracts on new topics or containing recent or preliminary results are welcome.  All submissions should be submitted electronically in Adobe PDF format though http://cocus.info website.  Please be informed that the workshop proceedings will be published on a CD along with main conference papers and they will appear on IEEE Xplore after the conference.
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Organizing Committee:
 
Co-Chairs:
Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, jjue@utdallas.edu
Arnold Bragg, RTI International, abragg@rti.org
Vinod Vokkarane, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, vvokkarane@umassd.edu

Steering Committee Chair: 
Chunming Qiao, SUNY Buffalo, qiao@cse.buffalo.edu
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, imrich.chlamtac@create-net.it

Technical Program Committee:
Hakki Cankaya, Alcatel, USA 
Xiaojun Cao, RIT, USA 
Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Belgium 
Christoph Gauger, University of Stuttgart, Germany 
Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka University, Japan 
Jikai Li, The College of New Jersey, USA 
Marco Listanti, University of Rome, Italy 
Shlomo Ovadia, Intel, USA 
Harry Perros, North Carolina State Univ., USA 
Chunming Qiao, SUNY Buffalo, USA 
Kevin Rhee, Information and Communications University, Korea 
George N. Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA
Marcos Rogerio Salvador, CPqD Telecom & IT Solutions, Brazil
Ted Sargent, University of Toronto, Canada
Dan Stevenson, RTI International, USA
Yufeng Xin, Univ. of Maryland College Park, USA
Myungsik Yoo, Songsil University, Korea 
S. J. Ben Yoo, University of California Davis, USA 
Martin Zirngibl, Lucent Technologies, USA 
Moshe Zukerman, University of Melbourne, Australia