Call for Papers
  The First International Workshop on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS)
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~qiao/wobs
 
Co-located with Opticomm'03 (Oct. 13 to 18, 2003)
http://www.opticomm.org
 
Oct. 16, 2003, Dallas, Texas, USA.
 
Motivation/Background
Since its inception in 1997, OBS has been receiving an increasing amount of attention from both academic and industrial and government R&D groups around the world for the past few years. It has become an active area of research with about two hundred papers published in several leading journals/magazines and almost all major communication conferences. Researchers all over the world are working on OBS, some residing in North America (at least half a dozen groups), and the others in Europe (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, UK just to name a few), and Far East (Australia, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore).
Scope
  The Workshop on OBS (WOBS) will focus on both research and development issues related to OBS. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
 
  • OBS vs. Optical Packet-Switching
  • OBS vs. Wavelength Routing
  • OBS vs. Next-generation SONET/SDH
  • OBS in the LANs/MANs/WANs
  • Traffic Engineering with Labeled OBS (or LOBS)
  • Burst Assembly/Disassembly Algorithms and Edge Node Architectures
  • Assembled Traffic Analysis
  • Burst Scheduling Algorithms and Core Node Architectures
  • Burst Switching Fabrics
  • Burst Contention Resolution Methods
  • OBS Signaling Protocols
  • QoS and Survivability Issues in OBS
  • TCP/IP, Ethernet, or SONET over OBS
  • New applications, services, transport protocols for OBS
  • New physical layer issues, components and subsystems in OBS
  • Experiment, Prototype, Testbed involving OBS
  • Business (Finance, Marketing, Deployment) Issues
Format
The workshop will include invited talks, panels, and technical sessions for presentations. The participants will also be given a plenty of time and opportunities to network with each other and engage in technical discussion and debate.
Call For Submissions
Both paper submissions and panel proposals addressing the above topics (as well as other related topics to OBS) are sought. Paper submissions should conform to the same format as that required for Opticomm submission (20 double-space pages, containing original and unpublished results). Accepted papers will be published in a SPIE Proceedings.

Each panel proposal will be one page long including tentative panelists and a list of questions to be addressed by the panelists. All submissions must be in English and sent electronically to wobs@cse.buffalo.edu, and will be reviewed by the TPC members and/or peers.

Important Dates
Paper submission due date: May 31, 2003
Panel Proposal due date: June 20, 2003
Acceptance notification: June 30, 2003
Camera-ready version due: July 20, 2003