The 7th International Conference on Optical Communication Systems – OPTICS 2016
Venue:
Lisbon, Portugal

Event Date
26 - 28 July, 2016


Regular Papers
Paper Submission: March 1, 2016
Authors Notification: May 18, 2016
Camera Ready and Registration: June 2, 2016

Position Papers
Paper Submission: April 13, 2016
Authors Notification: May 18, 2016
Camera Ready and Registration: June 2, 2016

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: April 14, 2016

Doctoral Consortium
Paper Submission: May 20, 2016
Authors Notification: May 30, 2016
Camera Ready and Registration: June 9, 2016

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: May 3, 2016

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: June 30, 2016

Demos
Demo Proposal: June 30, 2016

Panels
Panel Proposal: June 30, 2016


Scope:
The purpose of OPTICS 2016, the International Conference on Optical Communication Systems, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on any of the optical communication components of an optical communication system, or the system itself. An optical communication system consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a receiver, which reproduces the message from the received optical signal.
Optical fiber is currently the main means for high-rate transmission in communication networks. In the last years, there is a great deal of ongoing research efforts that span the entire protocol stack of optical networks, with representative areas being architecture of optical components, optoelectronics, wavelength routing, energy efficiency, Quality of Service, hybrid optical-wireless networks etc.


CONFERENCE TOPICS
• Design, Control and Management of Optical Networks
• Optical Switching
• New Architectures for Optical Routers and Switches
• Optical Networks Performance Modelling
• QoS. Optical Networks for Future Networks
• Energy Efficiency in Optical Networks
• Passive Optical Networks
• Integration of Optical and Wireless Networking
• Lasers and Photonic Components
• Optical Access Networks
• Optical Amplification and Sensing
• Optical Modulation and Signal Processing
• New Optical Fiber Technologies
• Enabling the Cloud Through SDN and NFV
• Hybrid Optical-Wireless Networks
• Intelligent Optical Control Plane
• Packet Optical Networking Technology
• WDM Optical Networks
• FiWi Networks
• High Speed optical LANs and Gigabit Ethernet
• Opto-Electronics for Terabit Networking
• Next Generation Optical Networking
• Elastic Optical Networks
• Silicon Photonics
• Quantum Photonic Networks
• Optical Sensors

OPTICS is part of ICETE, the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications.

ICETE 2016 will be held in conjunction with PECCS 2016 and PhyCS 2016.

ICETE KEYNOTE LECTURES
Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, United Kingdom
Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Anastasios Economides, University of Macedonia, Greece
Erina Ferro, CNR-ISTI, Italy
Mateo Valero, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

ICETE CONFERENCE CHAIR
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Fordham University, United States

PROGRAM CHAIR
Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
http://www.optics.icete.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

OPTICS Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: optics.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.optics.icete.org/