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Call For Papers

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Scope

Optical burst/packet switching (OBS/OPS) has been introduced to combine the advantages of both packet and circuit switching and is considered a promising technology for the next generation optical Internet. The success of OBS technology relies on its small control overhead for a large amount of payload data. Within this context, this workshop seeks to showcase the latest developments in OBS as for example in multi-cost burst scheduling, QoS burst routing, hybrid OBS switch architecture, application-aware OBS architecture, service oriented OBS architecture and OBS experimental test-beds.

Since first being held in 2003, the Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching (WOBS) has served as a premier forum for researchers from academia, industry and government to meet, exchange ideas, and discuss the technical and commercial challenges associated with burst-switched and packet-switched optical networks. Note that the OBS workshop is the specific OBS/OPS track in the BROADNETS 2009 conference and OBS/OPS papers should be submitted to the workshop.

This workshop solicits original papers related to all aspects of optical burst switching and optical packet switching including but not limited to the following topics:

      

  • OBS/OPS network architectures and technologies suitable for access, metro and core networks
  • OBS/OPS and hybrid OCS/OBS/OPS/OTDM sub-systems architectures and technologies
  • Application-aware, service-oriented and programmable OBS/OPS networking
  • Signaling and control issues in networks supporting OBS technologies
  • Burst/Packet scheduling algorithms
  • Contention resolution, avoidance and bandwidth scheduling strategies
  • QoS and traffic engineering in OBS/OPS networks
  • OBS/OPS performance evaluation & modeling
  • OBS/OPS experimental test-beds and demonstrators
  • Cross Layer optimization in networks supporting OBS/OPS technologies
  • Multicast / anycast routing in OBS/OPS

Important Dates:

  • On-line submission due: May 15, 2009 (Extended May 31)
  • Acceptance notification: July 10, 2009
  • Camera-ready manuscript due: July 24, 2009

Submission:

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Publication of Proceedings

  • Workshop papers will be published in the Broadnets proceedings (available through IEEE Xplore).