IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper Submission: March 1, 2014
- Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2014
- Camera-Ready Submission: April 4, 2014

The 2nd International Workshop on Survivable and Robust Optical Networks 2014 offers an opportunity for researchers and industrial to present their novel and innovative work concerning survivability, reliability, and robustness in optical networks.

IWSRON-2014 is intended to present recent research developments in optical network architectures and design. The workshop solicits papers on both completed work and work-in-progress. Papers that bring out new and interesting approaches at an early stage of their development are welcome.

IWSRON-2014 will be held in Hasselt, Belgium (June 2-5 2014) in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT-2014) which draws many leading researchers in the field of networking.

PUBLICATION
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All IWSRON-2014 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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QoS and QoE provisioning
Energy efficient architectures
Architectures to support SLA-based routing mechanisms
Priority-aware mechanisms
Dynamic and adaptive provisioning
Survivability and robustness
Architectures to support GMPLS networks
Optimization in resource allocation and wavelength assignment
Dynamic SLA negotiation infrastructure
Protection and restoration techniques
Architectures to support traffic engineering strategies
Architectures over cloud environment
Passive optical networks
Green communications and networks
Software defined networking

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Ali Nafarieh, Dalhousie University, Canada (chair)
Muhammad Raza, Dalhousie University, Canada (co-chair)
Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium
Bill Robertson, Dalhousie University, Canada
Bill Phillips, Dalhousie University, Canada
Jacek Ilow, Dalhousie University, Canada
Nauman Aslam, Northumbira University, UK
Frank Comeau, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Vasilis Friderikos, Kings College London, UK
Dominic O'Brien, University of Oxford, UK
Salah Obayya, University of Glamorgan, UK
Asad Hussain, COMSATS IIT, Pakistan
Maen Artimy, Internetworking Atlantic Inc., Canada
Saqib Rasool, COMSATS IIT, Pakistan
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, UK
Sajjad Hussian, NIHMR, France
Shyamala Sivakumar, Saint Mary's University, Canada
Srinivas Sampalli, Dalhousie University, Canada
Ali Al-Sheikhi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Imran Raza, COMSATS IIT, Pakistan

CONTACT
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Chair: Dr. Ali Nafarieh
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Email: ali.nafarieh@dal.ca
Web: http://myweb.dal.ca/al554404
Tel: +1 902-494-2057