[FOAN-PON 2010] Workshop of Fiber Optics at Access Network – Passive Optical Network

Workshop of Fiber Optics at Access Network – Passive Optical Network

Moscow (Russia) - October 18 – 20 2010

www.icumt.org or www.skaljo.com.ba

- Economic feasibility originally was the main obstacle for the fast implementation of FTTH networks. But nowadays, with more than 30 million FTTH connections in the world, it is clear that these obstacles have been overcome.

One of the main drivers for the growing number of FTTH connections was appearing PON network. Evolution of those networks first from APON to GEPON and then from GPON to NGPON makes these technologies attractive for researchers and engineers. Also, PON networks previously were designed for triple play services but today new services offerings are expected. PON networks also are expanding in terms of the number of users per one PON tree and in expanding the transmission distance.

- This workshop has a goal to collect the last research and engineering experience from all aspect PON network. There are four main parties: how it is connected to the rest of network, what is strategy for solving problem of bandwidth over PON, the research at the elements of PON network, and the new services on a user side.

- This is the First International Workshop at ICUMT 2010on the topic of Fiber Optics in Access Network. The ICUMT 2010 is supported by IEEE and the Popov Society and regarded as very important part of scientific life of Russia. The conference proceedings (including workshops) will be published in IEEE Xplore (approved) and indexed in relevant databases (such as EI-index). Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue.

- The goal of this workshop is to gather large specter paper topics on this subject, so like: new architectures, new services in PON, types of fiber for PONs, photonic fiber uses, measurements in PONs, the burst laser diode, multi-wavelength optical sender/receiver, wireless extensions in PON networks, the DSL extension in PON networks, improvement in the DBA Algorithm, impact of fiber impairments in long reach PONs, migration schemes, convergence of PONs, WDM-PON, Colored PON, QoS in PON, TDM over PONs, TDM services in NG PONs, Metro and Long Reach PONs, Optical Network Switching Architectures, Optical Network Protection and Restoration

- Important dates:

Paper (abstract) submission: July 5, 2010; EXTENDED

Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2010;

Camera ready version: August 30, 2010;

Conference (Workshop) dates: October 18-20, 2010.

- More details:

www.skaljo.com.ba

www.icumt.org

TPC members:

Gerd Keiser, academia Taiwan

Cevdet Akyel academia Canada

Aljo Mujcic, academia Bosnia and Herzegovina

Slobodan Babic, Academia Canada

Frank Effenberger, industry United Kingdom

Shien-Kuei Liaw,.academia Taiwan

Jiajia Chen, academia, Sweden

Mirko Skrbic, academia Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sudheer Sreedhara Krishna, academia India

Nermin Suljanovic academia Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mohamed M. A. Azim Zayed, academia Saudi Arabia

Mohamed Mostafa A. Azim, academia, Jordan

Nauman Israr,Teesside University

Nasuf Hadziahmetovic, academia Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kyeong Soo (Joseph) Kim, Swansea University

Bjorn Skubic, Ericsson, Sweden

Seema Verma, University Banasthali Vidyapith, India

-FOAN Chairs:

Edvin Skaljo

Aljo Mujcic

-Technical supported by

Faruk Selmanovic