Information for Contributors

Contributions are invited on all topics concerning Information technologies, Telecommunications, wireless and optical communications networks and components, modeling, simulation and performance evaluation. We are soliciting original papers describing the state-of-the-art research and development in the areas of information technologies, wireless and Optical Communication and Telecommunications Networks, including, but not limited to the following topics:

Optical Communications and Networks topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Optical Networking Technologies
• Optical network planning, design and modeling
• Optical access/metro networks
• IP over optical networks
• Network protection/restoration
• Generalized multi-protocol label switching (GMPLS)
• Planning and design tools for optical networks
• QoS issues in optical networks
• Routing and wavelength assignment
• Multiple access technique and fairness control in optical LANs and MANs

Optical Switching and Network Elements
• Photonic switching system architectures
• Optical cross-connects and add-drop multiplexers
• Optical IP routers
• Photonic packet switching
• Network signaling and monitoring techniques
• Optical signal processing
• Wavelength conversion techniques

Optical Transmission Technologies
• WDM Ultra-long haul transmission systems
• OTDM transmission systems
• Soliton transmission systems
• Transmission system experiments
• Radio over fibre-optics
• Optical interconnections
• Optical interfaces and terminals

Optical Passive Components
• Fiber-Bragg-grating-based devices
• Fiber-grating dispersion compensators
• Optical circulators and isolators
• Optical waveguide-based devices
• Fiber and waveguide filters
• Micro-structured waveguides and devices
• Arrayed waveguide devices
• Optical splitting and directional couplers

Optical Active Components and Modules
• Optical modulators and switches
• Semiconductor optical amplifiers
• Semiconductor lasers and detectors
• Fibre amplifiers and lasers
• Raman and Brillouin amplifiers
• Automatic gain control of optical amplifiers
• Optical MEMS
• Photonic integrated circuits/modules
• Optical tunable filters
• Optical logics and memories

Mobile and Wireless Communications topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Management Resource and Information Management
  Pricing and Billing Issues
• Architecture
  Convergence of Fixed and Mobile
  Hybrid Communications System
• Devices
  Low-Power End-Devices and Wireless Communications
• Security
  Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks
• QoS
  Adaptive Quality of Service Provisioning
  End-to-end Quality of Service
• Mobility Support
  Handoff Algorithms
  IP and Mobility
  Mobility and Connection Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
  Policy-based Mobility Management
• Applications
  Personal Communications
  Location and Context Management
  Smart Media
  Mobile Code
  Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Applications
• Access
  Wireless IP
  Wireless Multimedia Services
  Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
  Multiple Access Technology
  Broadband Wireless Access
• Networking
  Wireless Personal Area Networks
  Wireless Local Area Networks
  Mobility and Nomadic Computing
  Analysis and Simulation of Mobile Network Protocols
  Home Networking
  Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and the Internet
  Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking Routing
  Satellite Networks
  IP telephony and IP V6
  Satellite communications systems for mobile planet
  Security and privacy
  Multimedia applications, QOS and traffic management
  Sensor Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks
  WLAN, mobile WIMAX, 3G and 4G systems
  Multiple antenna Systems- MIMO and Beam forming and OFDM
  Performance Analysis of Wireless Networks
  Ultra-wideband (UWB) communications Systems and RFID
  Modeling and analysis and performance evaluation of networks
  Control theory and practical implementation of communications networks
  Design of algorithms and decision making of large distributed communications networks
  Power line communications applications and development
• INTERNET and Information Technologies
  State of the art and practice of M- and E-commerce and Web-based information systems
  Emerging research topics and the future of M- and E-Commerce Technology
  Peer-to-Peer systems, Grids and large-scale distributed systems
  Applications of wearable systems in consumers, industrial, medical, educational, military environment
  Use of wearable computers as components to support collaborative works
  Access and broadband technologies
  Agent technologies, Distributed games
  Hypertext and hypermedia
  Multimedia on the Web
  Audio/video/voice coding for Internet service
  Internet security , Multicast
  Virtual private networks
  Web navigation strategies, Quality of service
  Scalability aspects , Traffic characterization

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