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1st International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems, Dec 17,18 Bombay (Mumbai) India


Scope: Broadband access networks are witnessing a convergence in terms of both technologies and services. Next-generation services demand unified technologies spread across the physical, data-link, and network layers. Integrated platforms have benefits in terms of deployment cost as well as the ability to provision new services. To investigate into these problems at the optical (physical), data link (SONET/SDH/Ethernet/RPR), and the network (MPLS, IP) layers, the First Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) 2007 is being organized. A special focus of the symposium in this inaugural year will be on emerging economies - India, China, Brazil, Russia, etc. The symposium will be held in the commercial and entertainment capital of India - Bombay - on December 17-18, 2007. The symposium proposes to be a mix of academia, industry, and service providers, enabling a common meeting point for the confluence and exchange of ideas in the following and related areas:


  • Convergence in Broadband Access Technologies
  • Broadband networks for metro enterprises
  • Storage and grid computing
  • First mile access networks (Passive Optical Networks (PON), Power line Communications  (PLC), and Long reach     Ethernet)
  • Long Reach Broadband Access (PON - WiMax - WiFi convergence)
  • Optical networks
  • Network architectures and protocols
  • Routing, traffic, services over optical networks
  • Metro, access, and core networks
  • Data center and virtualization technologies
  • Protocol layering
  • Protection and restoration - service level agreements (SLA)
  • Futuristic and technologies for emerging economies
  • Equipment provider experiences, Service provider experience planning and future designs
  • Metro Ethernet, PBB, PBT, PBB-TE, MPLS, VPLS, VPNs
  • ITU, OIF, IETF activities


    • Submissions: Authors are encouraged to submit a two-page extended abstract to submissions@antsconference.org. Papers will be reviewed for technical content and scope by an expert international advisory committee. The symposium would be a single-track event and authors are encouraged to present their work to a highly-motivated, business and academic savvy audience in India's industrial capital - Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in the pleasant month of December. All accepted papers would be digitally archived and made available to participants through proceedings (on a CD). To achieve wide participation, no author may submit more than 2 papers to the conference.


    Student Posters: Students enrolled in full time degree programs are encouraged to submit poster papers to ANTS 2007. The papers should follow the same format as regular papers. Poster papers will be evaluated for technical content. A best-student poster prize will be awarded based on the judgment by the International Advisory Committee (IAC). The IAC members will evaluate posters and interact with students on the evening of Dec 17th. Students poster papers should be submitted by email as a pdf to: student-posters@antsconference.org.


    Special Issue in Elseviers Optical Switching and Networking Journal: Authors of top papers presented in ANTS would be invited to submit longer versions of the paper for a special issue in Elseviers Optical Switching and Networking Journal.


    Important Dates


    Submission of papers: August 31, 2007
    Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2007
    Registration for authors: October 25, 2007
    Camera ready papers to the publisher: October 30, 2007
    Symposium dates: December 17-18, 2007