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

Co-Sponsored by: IEEE Communications Society / CreateNet / ICST
In Technical Cooperation with: ACM SIGMOBILE (pending)
In Technical Cooperation with: IEEE Computer Society (pending)

Submission Deadline: March 24, 2005 (extended)

SCOPE

IEEE/CreateNet 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.

IEEE/CreateNet 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 http://www.broadnets.org/ 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 Communications 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

EDAS Paper Registration:	March 24, 2005 (extended)
Final Paper Upload:	April 1, 2005 (extended)
Acceptance Notification:	June 1, 2005
Final Manuscript Due:	July 1, 2005

PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

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 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair: 
Dr. Arun Somani, Iowa State University


General Vice Chair: 
Dr. Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech


Technical Program Chairs - Optical Networking Symposium
Dr. David Griffith, NIST

Dr. Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona


Technical Program Chair- Wireless Networking Symposium:
Dr. Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo


Technical Program Chairs - Services and Applications Symposium
Dr. Malathi Veeraraghavan, University of Virginia

Dr. Admela Jukan, Georgia Tech
 

Workshops Chairs: 
Dr. Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester

Dr. Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Behcet Sarikaya, University of Northern British Columbia


Tutorials Chair:
Dr. Steve Lumetta, Univ. of Illinois, Urgana-Champaign


Panels Chairs:
Dr. Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame
 
Dr. Rudra Dutta, NCSU


Publicity Chairs:
Dr. Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC
 
Dr. Takeo Hamada, Fujitsu Labs of America
 

Local Arrangement Chairs: 
Dr. Aura Ganz, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amhurst

Dr. Ling Li, CIENA

Website/Information Systems Chair: 
Dr. Shiwen Mao, Virginia Tech


Publications Chairs: 
Dr. Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University
 
Dr. Hui Zang, Sprint Adv. Tech. Labs


Exhibits and Sponsorships Chair: 
Dr. Sai Shankar N, Philips Research USA


Finance Chair:
Karen Decker, ICST


Steering Committee Co-Chairs:
Brian J. Bigalke (Staff Liaison), IEEE Communications Society
Dr. Imrich Chlamtac, UT Dallas
 
Dr. Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County