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<h1>Call for Papers: Radio-over-Optical-Fiber Networks</h1>
<h2>Feature Editors</h2>
<h3>Jianjun Yu, <i>Associate Editor</i><br/>
Gee-Kung Chang, Ton Koonen,
Georgios Ellinas, <i>Guest Editor</i>
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<p style="color:darkred">Submission Deadline: 1 September 2008</p>
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<p>Over the past few years, traffic patterns in access networks have been propelled to the
broadband evolution from voice- and text-based services to video-based interactive and
multimedia services due to the continuing remarkable growth of the Internet. By the estimations,
50% of the revenues of large telephone companies will be based on video services
in 2010. In addition to the high-speed, symmetric, and guaranteed bandwidth demands for
future video services, the next-generation access networks are driving the needs for the convergence
of wired and wireless services to offer end users greater choice, convenience, and
variety in an efficient way. This scenario will require the delivery of voice, data, and video
services with mobility features to serve both fixed and mobile users in a unified networking
platform. To offer integrated broadband services, these systems will need to offer higher data
transmission capacities well beyond the present-day standards of wireless systems. Wireless
LAN (IEEE802.11a/b/g), offering up to 54 Mbits/s and operating at 2.4 and 5 GHz, and 3G
mobile networks (IMT2000/UMTS), offering up to 2 Mbits/s and operating around 2 GHz,
are some of today's main wireless standards. IEEE802.16 or WiMAX is another recent standard
aiming to bridge the last mile through mobile and fixed wireless access to the end user
at frequencies between 2 and 66 GHz. The need for increased capacity per unit area leads to
higher operating frequencies (greater than 6 GHz) and smaller radio cells, especially in indoor
applications where the high operating frequencies encounter tremendously high losses
through the building walls. To reduce the system installation and maintenance costs of such
systems, it is imperative to make the radio antenna units as simple as possible. This may
be achieved by consolidating signal processing functions at a centralized head end through
radio-over-fiber technology.</p>
<p>To make full use of the huge bandwidth and connectivity offered by fiber and the mobile
features presented via wireless links, the integration of wireless and optical networks is a potential
solution for increasing the capacity and mobility, as well as decreasing the costs, in an
access network. Thus, future broadband access networks based on radio-over-fiber technologies
come into play and have emerged as an affordable alternative solution in environments
such as conference centers, airports, hotels, shopping malls, and ultimately homes and small
offices. It has been expected that the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) bands would be utilized to
meet the requirement for higher signal bandwidth and to overcome the frequency congestion
in the future optical–wireless access networks. In this situation, it is necessary to minimize
the cost of the base station (BS) and to shift the system complexity and expensive devices to
the central office (CO) because the BS picocell has small coverage due to high atmospheric
attenuation in the mm-wave band. At the CO, the optical mm-wave signals are generated
and mixed by use of cost-efficient all-optical approaches. Optical networking technologies
are leveraged to reach the longer transmission distance over a single-mode fiber (SMF) and
to integrate with the WDM passive optical network (PON) between the BS and CO.</p>
<p>The Journal of Optical Networking (JON) is soliciting papers for a Feature Issue addressing
all aspects of enabling technologies, architectures, and system design for radio-over-fiber
networks. The topics of this feature issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
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<li>Enabling techniques for radio-over-fiber networks</li>
<li>Novel architecture for radio-over-fiber networks</li>
<li>Quality of service in radio-over-fiber networks</li>
<li>Ultrawideband home networking via radio-over-fiber networks</li>
<li>Enabling techniques for microwave photonics</li>
<li>Optical wireless system integration techniques</li>
<li>Wireless services delivery through broadband optical access networks including
WDM PON and time-division multiplexing (TDM) PON techniques</li>
<li>Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) techniques for radio-over-fiber
networks</li>
<li>Radio-over-free-space-optics architectures</li>
<li>Hand-off and mobility issues for wireless over fiber services</li>
<li>Emerging applications and solutions for IPTV and HDTV over optical wireless networks</li>
<li>Wired–wireless system interface, system integration, and operational requirements</li>
<li>Network protocol and admission control algorithms for radio-over-fiber networks</li>
<li>Network control and management for radio-over-fiber networks</li>
<li>Protection and restoration in radio-over-fiber networks</li>
<li>WiFi, WiMAX, and WiMedia for optical wireless access networks</li>
<li>High-performance and low-cost optical and rf components for radio-over-fiber networks</li>
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To submit to this special issue, follow the normal procedure for submission to JON, indicating
"Feature Issue: ROF" in the "Comments" field of the online submission form. For all
other questions relating to this feature issue, please send an e-mail to jon@osa.org, subject
line "Feature Issue: ROF."</p>
<p>Additional information can be found on the JON website: <a href="http://www.osa-jon.org/journal/jon/author.cfm">http://www.osa-jon.org/journal/jon/author.cfm</a>.
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<i>Submission Deadline: 1 September 2008</i></p>
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