Call for Papers

NOC addresses research topics in the optical networks area, such as core, metro and access network planning design and modeling, optical communications (both fiber and free-space), and photonic devices. New topics such as optical mobile backhauling, optical interconnects, intra-datacenter networking, and software-defined optical networks will also be included.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Optical network performance modeling, planning, design and management

• Signaling for all-optical networks

• Measurement, monitoring and supervision techniques

• All-optical access networks

• Next-generation Passive Optical Networks

• Energy efficiency / Green Networking

• Reliability and Maintenance

• Optical Wireless Communications

• Radio over fiber

• 100 Gbit/s and beyond

• Optical Software Defined Networking

• ROADMs

• Multicore and multimode fiber systems

• Optical cloud computing

• Photonic network architectures for datacenters

• Elastic optical networking

• Routing and spectrum allocation algorithms

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