Photonic Technologies for Communications Symposium Chair and Vice-Chair • Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology Center, itom@ait.edu.gr • Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, jjue@utdallas.edu Scope Optical communication systems and networks will continue to play a significant role in the development and deployment of emerging network infrastructures. These networks will be expected to support the diverse requirements of a broad range of applications as they are evolving dramatically in terms of technology and architecture towards a more flexible and intelligent optical network layer based on Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) utilizing new optical switching architectures and technologies as well as advanced control and management protocols. Optical component technology is rapidly maturing offering cost effective solutions to a point where optical networks are currently being deployed in core backbone networks, and are gaining increased interest for deployment in metro and access environments. The widespread deployment of optical communication systems and networks provides many significant challenges. The purpose of this symposium is to provide a forum for researchers in academia and industry to present and discuss issues and possible solutions as well as emerging standards for the development, deployment, and application of optical networks. The areas of interest are focusing on optical networking for traditional telecommunications applications with emphasis on network and node design, traffic modeling and routing, network management, control and signaling etc. It is also important to address topics related to optical network solutions suitable to support new applications and services such as storage networks, global grid computing, disaster recovery etc. The symposium will consist of peer-reviewed research papers as well as tutorials and workshops covering a broad range of issues related to optical communication systems and networks. Topics of interest:

• Network architecture, modeling, planning, and design • Routing and wavelength assignment • Traffic grooming • Multicasting in optical networks • Optical packet switching • Optical burst switching • Protection and restoration • Network control and management • Impact of switching technology on performance • Architectures for optical cross-connects, add-drop multiplexers • Optical access network architectures • Multiple access techniques for passive optical networks • Integration of Ethernet and RPR into the optical layer

• Optical network experiments (demonstrations, test beds and field trials) • WDM transmission systems • Network elements and their performance • IP and MPLS over DWDM: integration and interworking • Hybrid wireless-optical networks • Value analysis of different network architectures and business cases • Next-generation SONET/SDH and MSPP • Security aspects • Network reliability and availability • Optical nets for grid computing • Storage Area Networking • Optical networking for VoD • Standardization issues • Multigranular and waveband-switching optical networks • Quality of service (QoS) in optical networks

Technical Program Committee Stefano Baroni, NuPhoenix Inc., USA Andrea Bianco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Paul Bonenfant, Movaz Networks, USA Hakki Candan Cankaya, Alcatel, USA Xiaojun Cao, Rochester Institute of Technology Vincent Chan, MIT Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Belgium Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, USA Schupke Dominic, Siemens AG, Germany Tarek S. El-Bawab, Alcatel, USA George Ellinas, City College of New York Chien Su Fong, Multimedia University, Malaysia Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas Maurice Gagnaire, Telecom Paris, France Christoph Gauger, University of Stuttgart, Germany Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Tech. Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University Maode Ma, Nanyang Technological Univeristy, Singapore Martin Maier, CTTC, Spain Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

J. Kevin Rhee, Samsung George Rouskas, North Carolina State University Ted Sargent, University of Toronto Arunabha Sen, Arizona State University Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Essex, UK Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Arun Somani, Iowa State University Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University Marco Tacca, University of Texas at Dallas Anna Tzanakaki, AIT, Greece Kyriakos Vlachos, University of Patras, Greece Vinod Vokkarane, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Hai Le Vu, University of Melbourne, Australia Alan Willner, University of Southern California Guoliang Xue, Arizona State University Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook Hui Zang, Sprint ATL Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa