We apologize if you receive this announcement multiple times ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Extended: February 25, 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE ----- 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 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 --------------- Submission Deadline (Extended): February 25, 2005 Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2005 Final Manuscript Due: June 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.cgi. CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------- General Chair: Dr. Arun Somani, Iowa State University, arun@iastate.edu General Vice Chair: Dr. Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech, thou@vt.edu Technical Program Chairs - Optical Networking Symposium Dr. David Griffith, NIST, david.griffith@nist.gov Dr. Srini Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona, srini@ece.arizona.edu Technical Program Chair- Wireless Networking Symposium: Dr. Sherman Shen, Univ. of Waterloo, xshen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Technical Program Chairs - Services and Applications Symposium Dr. Malathi Veeraraghavan, Univ. of Virginia, mv@cs.virginia.edu Dr. Admela Jukan, Georgia Tech, admela.jukan@ece.gatech.edu Workshops Chairs: Dr. Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, wheinzel@ece.rochester.edu Dr. Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, byrav@cse.unl.edu Dr. Behcet Sarikaya, University of Northern British Columbia, sarikaya@unbc.ca Tutorials Chair: Dr. Steven Low, CalTech., slow@caltech.edu Panels Chairs: Dr. Surendar Chandra, Univ. of Notre Dame, surendar@cse.nd.edu Dr. Rudra Dutta, NCSU, dutta@csc.ncsu.edu Publicity Chairs: Dr. Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, bkrishna@usc.edu Dr. Takeo Hamada, Fujitsu Labs of America, thamada@fla.fujitsu.com Website/Information Systems Chair: Dr. Shiwen Mao, Virginia Tech, smao@vt.edu Local Arrangements Chairs: Dr. Aura Ganz, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, ganz@ecs.umass.edu Dr. Ling Li, CIENA, linlisu@hotmail.com Publications Chairs: Dr. Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, kamal@iastate.edu Dr. Hui Zang, Sprint Adv. Tech. Labs, hzang@sprintlabs.com Exhibits and Sponsorships Chair: Dr. Sai Shankar N, Philips Research USA, sai.shankar@philips.com Finance Chair: Karen Decker, ICST, karen@icst.org Steering Committee Co-Chairs: Dr. Imrich Chlamtac, UT Dallas, chlamtac@utdallas.edu Dr. Krishna Sivalingam, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, krishna@umbc.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------