Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN) Special Issue on Optical Network Design and Modeling 2023

Submissions Open: 1 September 2023

Submission Deadline: 1 November 2023

The scope of this special issue of the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking is concentrated on cutting-edge research in established areas of optical networking, such as 5G and beyond, data-center networking, Internet of Things, cloud/edge computing, open and disaggregated optical networks, data analytics, network telemetry real-time monitoring, autonomic networking, artificial intelligence/machine learning-assisted optical networks, and quantum secured networks.

Submissions will comprise expanded contributions from selected invited and oral talks at the Optical Network Design and Modeling 2023 conference. Manuscripts must include the conference paper among the references. See guidelines for submitting expanded conference papers here.

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual standards for submission to the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking and uploaded through the electronic submission system, (https://opg.optica.org/jocn/journal/jocn/author.cfm), specifying from the drop-down menu that the manuscript is for the Feature Issue on Optical Network Design and Modeling.

Special Issue Editors

Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra, Portugual
David Larrabeitti-Lopez, University Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain
Carmen Mas-Machuca, University of the Bundeswehr Munich (UniBW), Germany
Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy