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The primary goal of this journal is to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed papers focussing on research activities, major achievements, and trends involving optical communication networks.
Photonic Network Communications: Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
NETWORK AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES
Transport, access, and customer premises networks;
Local, regional, and global networks;
100G/400G Networks;
Elastic Optical Networks;
Optical Wireless Networks;
Visible light communications;
Free space optics;
Transoceanic and undersea networks;
Optical transparent networks;
WDM and OTDM networks;
Subcarrier and code-division-multiplexed networks;
Space division multiplexing (SDM) technologies;
Direct-detection and coherent-detection optical systems;
Soliton-based networks;
Wavelength routed networks;
Optical packet-switched networks;
Passive optical networks (PON) including FTTx networks;;
Digital and optical signal processing;
Optical Devices for Switching and Interconnects;
Energy- and Power-Efficient Component and System Design;
Photonic networks in space
NETWORK AND SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES
Network architectures and topologies
Cloud and Data-Center Networking based on Optical Networks
Architecture and design of network nodes
High-performance optical LANs
Optical crossconnects and add/drop multiplexers
Design and architecture of interconnection networks
Waveguide and free-space interconnection networks
Network-on-Chip (NoC) based on Optical Networks
Optical interfaces and optical terminals
Storage Area Networks based on Optical Communications and Networking
Security and Privacy in Optical Communications and Networking
Silicon Photonics and Integrated Photonics
Universal photonic infrastructures
NETWORK CONTROL
Software Defined Networks
Network Virtualization
Network Function Virtualization
Network access protocols
Optical quality-of-service admission control
Signaling and connection set-up protocols
Routing and wavelength assignment algorithms, including impairment-aware
Network reconfiguration and restoration techniques
Photonic-based end-to-end communication protocols
Network and traffic control
NETWORK DESIGN, PLANNING, AND OPERATION
System and network performance modeling
Scalability, cascadability, upgradeability
Network operation, maintenance, and management
Measurement, monitoring, and supervision techniques
Network planning and design
Field trials and experiments
Standardization
INTERWORKING WITH OTHER NETWORKS
Cascaded heterogeneous photonic networks
Interoperability and interworking with other networks
Integration with mobile communication networks

Editors-in-Chief:
Byrav Ramamurthy
University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA
Advisory Board:

Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas, Dallas, USA; Piet Demeester, University of Gent, Belgium; Leonid Kazovsky, Stanford University, USA; Eytan H. Modiano,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California, Davis, USA; C. Sivaram Murthy, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India; Paul Prucnal, Princeton University, USA; Krishna Sivalingam, IIT Madras, India; Kumar N Sivarajan, Tejas networks, India; Fouad Tobagi, Stanford University, USA; Godehard Walf, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany

Editorial Board:

Pierpaolo Boffi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Maite Brandt-Pearce, University of Virginia, USA; Xiaojun (Matt) Cao, Georgia State University, USA; Davide Careglio, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain; Xiaoliang Chen, University of California, Davis, USA; Gautam Das, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India; Chris Develder, Ghent University, Belgium; Ahmad Dhaini, American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Sudhir Dixit, HP Labs, India; Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University, USA; Vincenzo Eramo, Sapienza-Università di Roma, Italy; Marija Furdek, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India; Lei Guo, Northeastern University, P. R. China; Mohan Gurusamy, National University of Singapore; Changcheng Huang, Carleton University, Canada;Arunita Jaekel, University of Windsor, Canada; Brigitte Jaumard, Concordia University, Canada; Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, USA; Yuanqiu Luo, Huawei Technologies, USA; Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Technical University of Denmark; Sergei Popov, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden; Carla Raffaelli, University of Bologna, Italy; Ravi Ravindran, Huawei Technologies, USA; Marco Ruffini, The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland; Gangxiang (Steven) Shen, Soochow University, P.R. China; Basem Shihada, KAUST, Saudi Arabia; Vijay Sivaraman, University of New South Wales, Australia; Arun Somani, Iowa State, USA; Salvatore Spadaro, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA; Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology, Greece; János Tapolcai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary; Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Deepa Venkitesh, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India; Vinod Vokkarane, University of Massachussetts Lowell, USA; Lena Wosinska, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden; Ming Xia, Ericsson, USA; Myungsik Yoo, Soongsil University, South Korea; Changyuan Yu, National University of Singapore; Zuqing Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, China