[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Network Special issue on "Optical Networks in Cloud Computing" Recent advances in cloud computing suggest that convenient and prompt access to distributed and powerful computing and networking resources has been critical for e-Science and data-intensive business-oriented applications. Therefore, we have to facilitate efficient interworking of computing, networking and storage resources for next-generation clouds. Scope of Contributions This special issue invites manuscript submissions to explore recent advances and disseminate the state-of-the-art research on optical networks in cloud computing, including all levels of designing and developing, from the device to system and network levels. It will also identify potential research directions that will lead to innovations within this area. We expect the papers of this special issue to serve as valuable references for a large audience from both academia and industry. Original, unpublished contributions and survey/tutorial types of articles will be considered. The topics of interest for the special issue include, but are not limited to: - Elastic optical networking technologies to support grid or cloud computing - Optical infrastructures for grid or cloud computing - Multi-layer, multi-domain designs and optimizations for optical infrastructures of grid or cloud computing - Routing and path computation algorithms for grid or cloud computing environments - Resource allocation algorithms in optical grid or cloud computing environments - Optical network virtualization for grid or cloud computing - Network reconfiguration and traffic engineering for optical clouds - Optical network control and management for grid or cloud computing - Protection and restoration in optical clouds. - Optical storage networks - Impact of physical-layer impairments on optical cloud design - Security in optical clouds - Optical switching technologies, devices, and architectures for grid or cloud computing - Digital signal processing technologies for short-reach optical interconnects within data-centers - Optical interconnects for high-performance computing systems - Performance analysis of short-reach optical interconnects within data-centers - Photonic integration for short-reach optical interconnects - Transceiver technologies for short-reach optical interconnects - Chip-scale optical data communications - Field trials, new applications and experiments on convergence of grid and cloud computing and optical networks - Energy-efficient/green optical clouds Manuscript Submission Authors should send an electronic version (PDF files ONLY) ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/network-ieee. During preparation of the article for submission, prospective authors may wish to consult the guidelines for manuscripts and the Author Guidelines applicable to authors whose papers have been accepted. Time may be saved by paying careful attention to those instructions at an early stage. Articles should have no more than 4500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and the abstract should have no more than 250 words. For each manuscript, the authors are also requested to submit a separate cover letter that contains the paper title and the affiliations of authors. With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors, which can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/netmag/author-guidelines Schedule Submission Deadline: Apr. 1 2013 Acceptance Notification: Aug. 1 2013 Final Manuscript Due: Sept. 1 2013 Publication: Nov. 2013 Guest Editors S. J. Ben Yoo Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Davis Davis, CA 95616, USA Email: [email protected] Zuqing Zhu School of Information Science and Technology University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui 230027, China Email: [email protected] Zhaohui Li Institute of Photonics Technology Ji’nan University Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, China Email: [email protected] Nicolas Fontaine Bell Laboratories Alcatel-Lucent Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA Email: [email protected]
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