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. 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.
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