GOSP

Recent technological advances in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) component technologies have led to profound transformations at the networking layer, ushering in revamped, highly-scalable "on-demand" bandwidth provisioning paradigms. Guaranteed service provisioning is an important and a challenging problem in core, metro, and access networks. The types of applications being deployed across the public Internet today are increasingly mission-critical, whereby business success can be jeopardized by poor performance of the network. It does not matter how attractive and potentially lucrative these applications are if the network does not function reliably and consistently. Satisfying customer demands is of utmost importance for the service providers. Different applications/customers may need different levels of service guarantees in terms quality of service (QoS) parameters such as bandwidth, fault tolerance, recovery time, reliability, availability, response time, packet/burst loss, BER, etc. In such scenarios optical networks will not be much promising unless they can guarantee a predictable performance as specified by the QoS parameters. Thus guaranteed optical services become a vital tool to ensure that several kinds of applications can coexist and function at acceptable levels of performance.

The workshop aims to figure out the QoS parameters that are of importance in optical networking scenario and mechanisms to meet the requirements specified by these parameters. The important QoS parameters include bandwidth, fault-tolerance, availability, reliability, recovery time, packet/burst loss, and response time. The workshop solicits high-quality papers related to guaranteed services in a wide range of optical networking technologies: optical circuit switching, optical burst switching, optical packet switching, access networks, etc. Papers must be original and neither previously published nor under review by another conference or journal.