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Extended Paper Submission Deadline - July 10
The accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings along with the Broadnets conference proceedings and they will appear on IEEE Xplore.
Recent technological advances in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) component technologies have led to profound transformations at the networking layer, ushering in revamped, highly-scalable “on-demand” bandwidth provisioning paradigms. As a result, DWDM has found a very strong favor in long-haul core networks where increased demands and large client bases have yielded very amenable amortization rates. The lightpath based circuit switching technology is quite mature and other technologies such as optical burst switching, optical packet switching and other variants are evolving. With the advent of generalized multi-protocol label switching framework, effective routing and signaling mechanisms for providing guaranteed services in optical networks can be developed. The continuing maturation and declining costs of optical technologies have led to many further paradigms that are taking shape within the optical networking arena. These advances are also being targeted for more entrenched metro, edge, and access domains for various reasons.
Guaranteed
service provisioning is an important and a challenging problem in core, metro,
and also access networks. There exist several kinds of applications that may
span different network segments from access networks to metro to long-haul
networks. The types of applications being deployed across the public Internet
today are increasingly mission-critical, whereby business success can be
jeopardized by poor performance of the network. It does not matter how
attractive and potentially lucrative these applications are if the network does
not function reliably and consistently. Satisfying customer demands is of utmost
importance for the service providers. Different applications/customers may need
different levels of service guarantees in terms
quality of service
(QoS) parameters such as
bandwidth, fault tolerance, recovery time, reliability, availability, response
time, packet/burst loss, BER, etc. In such scenarios optical networks will not
be much promising unless they can guarantee a predictable performance as
specified by the QoS parameters. Thus guaranteed optical services become a vital
tool to ensure that several kinds of applications can coexist and function at
acceptable levels of performance.
The
workshop aims to figure out the QoS parameters that are of
importance for end users in optical networking scenario and mechanisms to meet
the requirements specified by these parameters. Some of the QoS parameters
include bandwidth, fault-tolerance, availability, reliability, recovery time,
packet/burst loss, and response time. The workshop solicits high-quality
articles related to guaranteed services in a wide range of optical networking
technologies ― optical circuit switching, optical burst switching, optical
packet switching, access networks, etc. Papers must be original and neither
previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. The key
topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages in IEEE conference proceedings format, including references, figures and tables. All submissions must be submitted electronically in Adobe PDF format through the COCUS web site. Electronic submission instructions are available at submission instructions.
Important Dates
| Full Papers due | July 10, 2005 |
| Notification of Acceptance | August 15, 2005 |
| Camera-ready Manuscripts due | August 30, 2005 |
| Workshop Date | October 7, 2005 |
The GOSP 2005 workshop will thus offer a unique forum for researchers from academia, government and industry to share ideas and disseminate new results in this important area.
Please join us in Boston for GOSP 2005 !