Co-chairs:
Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo, qiao@computer.org
Mounir Hamdi, UST, Hong Kong, hamdi@cs.ust.hk

Symposium Technical Chair:
Mohsen Guizani, University of West Florida, mguizani@cs.uwf.edu

Technical Program Committee:

Franco Callegati, DEIS Universita' di Bologna, fcallegati@deis.unibo.it
Hyeong-Ah Choi, George Washington University, choi@seas.gwu.edu
Piet Demeester, University of Ghent, Belgium, piet.demeester@intec.rug.ac.be
Mark Karol, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, mk@dnrc.bell-labs.com
Guang-Zhi Li, AT&T Labs, gli@research.att.com
Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, byrav@cse.unl.edu
Lu Ruan, University of Minnesota, ruan@cs.umn.edu
George N. Rouskas, North Carolina State University, rouskas@eos.ncsu.edu
Abhijit Sengupta, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, asengupt@mail1.jpl.nasa.gov
Krishna Sivalingam, Washington State University, krishna@eecs.wsu.edu
Arun Somani, Iowa State University, arun@iastate.edu
Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, suresh@seas.gwu.edu
Allan Willner, University of Southern California, willner@milly.usc.edu
Jason Jue, UT Dallas, jjue@utdallas.edu
Zhensheng Zhang, Sorrento Networks, zzhang@sorrentonet.com
Raj Jain, Nayna Networks, raj@nayna.com
Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas-Dallas, chlamtac@utdallas.edu
Rami Melhem, University of Pittsburgh, melhem@cs.pitt.edu
Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh, znati@cs.pitt.edu
Joe Bannister, University of Southern California ISI, joseph@isi.edu
Hemant Thakkar, Kinar, Inc., hemant29@pacbell.net
Biswanath Mukherjee, UC-Davis, mukherje@cs.ucdavis.edu
Nasir Ghani, Sorrento Networks, nghani@sorrentonet.com
S. Ramesh, California State University-Sacramento, rameshs@ecs.csus.edu
Gary Chan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, gchan@cs.ust.hk
Robert Tench, AGERE, tench@agere.com
Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH-Poland, jajszcz@kt.agh.edu.pl
Hussein Mouftah, Queen’s University, mouftah@eleceng.ee.queensu.ca
Ibrahim Habib, City University of NY, eeiwh@ee-mail.engr.ccny.cuny.edu
Ted Sargent, University of Toronto, ted.sargent@utoronto.ca
Bo Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, bli@cs.ust.hk
Mohamed Ali, City College of NY, eeali@ees1s0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu
Guoqiang Li, University of California, San Diego, gqli@ece.ucsd.edu
Bilal Khan, NRL, Maryland, bilal@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Miguel Labrador, University of South Florida, labrador@csee.usf.edu
Fotis Liotopoulos, Computer Technology Institute-Greece, f.liotopoulos@ieee.org
Shakil Akhtar, Lucent, akhtars@lucent.com
Azzedine Boukerche, Univ. of North Texas, ukerche@cs.unt.edu
Tim Ozugur, Alcatel, tim.ozugur@alcatel.com

Sponsored by the following IEEE Communications Society Technical Committees:
Communications Switching and Routing
Transmissions, Access, and Optical Systems
Computer Communications
Optical Networking

With the growing demands for bandwidth, optical network deployment has secured its place in the core of the Internet. It is expected that the use of optics will continue to increase in order to meet the additional bandwidth requirements. This Symposium stresses major advancements in optical networking in the area of switching and routing, IP/WDM integration, QoS support, network control and management, and traffic engineering.

This Symposium is intended to provide a timely forum for exploratory research and practical contributions from all around the world in the area of optical networking. The objective of this event is to foster the exchange of information among researchers in this fast-moving field. The program will include presentations by distinguished researchers, speaking on recent advances in theory and practice of optical networking. This symposium also intends to bring together various optical network system developers to discuss the current status, technical challenges, standards, fundamental issues, and future services and applications in the form of workshops, business application sessions and tutorials.

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

• IP over WDM
• Generalized-MPLS for Optical Networks
• Routing and Wavelength Assignment Algorithms
• Optical Cross-connects and Switches
• Optical Access Networks
• Medium Access Control Protocols for WDM Networks
• Optical Ethernet
• Metropolitan and Local Area Optical Networks
• Optical Packet/ Burst Switching
• Wavelength Conversion
• Traffic Grooming
• Multicasting in Optical Networks
• CDMA in Optical Networks
• Optical Network Control and Management
• Network Survivability
• Network Design and Reconfiguration
• Performance Models and Evaluation
• Optical Virtual Private Networks
• Quality of Service Support
• User Applications for Optical Networks
• Testbeds and Experimental Networks

Instructions for Authors: Technical papers should be submitted to ICC 2003 by following the general ICC2003 submission procedure and instructions

Proposals for Panels, Workshops, and Tutorials
Proposals for Tutorials on topics related to optical networking are solicited. Proposals for Panels and Workshops are also welcome.

For information on submitting papers and proposals for workshops, panels, and tutorials to this symposium, please contact any of the Symposium Chairs.