• Conference Chair:
  • Weisheng Hu, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (China)
    
• Cochairs:
  • Shoa-Kai Liu, Rustic Canyon Partners;
  • Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya Univ. (Japan);
  • Lena Wosinska, The Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
    
• Program Committee:
  • Achim Autenrieth, Nokia Siemens Networks (Germany);
  • Lian-Kuan Chen, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong China);
  • Nan Chi, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology (China);
  • Tibor Cinkler, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics (Hungary);
  • Gert Grammel, Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG (Germany);
  • Wei Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (China);
  • Philip N. Ji, NEC Labs. America, Inc.;
  • Yuefeng Ji, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications (China);
  • Masahiko Jinno, NTT Optical Network Systems Labs. (Japan);
  • Young-wuk Lee, Korea Telecom (South Korea);
    
  • Zhengbin Li, Peking Univ. (China);
  • Keping Long, Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China (China);
  • Chunming Qiao, Univ. at Buffalo; Carla Raffaelli, Univ. di Bologna (Italy);
  • Sridhar Sapparapu, Bharat Sanchar Nigam, Ltd. (India);
  • Hideaki Tsushima, Hitachi, Ltd. (Japan);
  • Anna Tzanakaki, Athens Information Technology (Greece);
  • Krzysztof Wajda, Univ. of Science and Technology AGH (Poland);
  • Tiejun Xia, Verizon Communications;
  • Chenliang Zhang, China Telecom (China);
  • Xiaoping Zheng, Tsinghua Univ. (China);
  • Wen-De Zhong, Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore)
• Subjects:
  • Network design, planning and modeling
  • Network evolution
  • Interlayer and inter-domain interoperability and standard issues
  • Automatic Switched Optical/Transport Network (ASON/ASTN)
  • Optical Transport Network (OTN)
  • Networks based on reconfigurable optical add and drop multiplexer (ROADM)
  • Packet Transport Network (Transport MPLS, PBB-TE, etc.)
  • Packet over optical transport network and IP/WDM
  • Carrier Ethernet and Metro Optical Network (MON)
  • Next generation submarine network architecture
  • Broadband access/enterprise network
  • Fiber-to-the-Home, etc (FTTx)
  • Passive optical networks (EPONs, GPON, WDMPONs, and CDMAPONs)
  • HFC network evolution
  • Video transport network
  • Home networking and home gateways
  • Optical switching and routing (packet, burst, and label)
  • Broadband network convergence
  • Hybrid wireless/optical networks
  • Convergence of wired and wireless backbone network
  • IP broadband network for 3G and NGN
  • Network signaling, control and routing
  • Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Generalized MPLS (GMPLS)
  • Network performance monitoring
  • Protection, restoration and survivability
  • Multilayer and cross-layer recovery
  • Network security
  • QoS and Service-Level Agreements (SLAs)
  • Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
  • Network cost analysis and economics
  • Multi-service provisioning
  • IT infrastructure consolidation (BSS/OSS Issues)
  • IPTV and the triple play
  • Broadband enterprise services
  • Large-capacity storage network
  • Optical network based distributed computing
  • Carrier Ethernet Service
  • Wavelength services
  • Video transport/distribution services
  • Optical encryption and security services
  • Optical high defi nition multimedia interface (HDMI)
  • Novel optical network applications
  • Network hosted applications
• Confirmed invited papers:
  • Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California-Davis (USA), “Reliable Architectures for Net-Generation Broadband Access Networks (RANGBAN)”
  • Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya University (Japan), “Advances in Photonic Networking Technology and its Impact on Future Networks”
  • Hiromishi Shinohara, NTT (Japan), “Recent advancement of FTTH in Japan”
  • Masatoshi Suzuki, KDDI R&D Laboratories (Japan), “Optical IP networks for broadband services”
  • Bo Wang, China Telecom Corp. (China), “FTTx: Technology, Strategy and Application”