The scope of the Conference is concentrated on cutting-edge research in established areas such as optical networking, optical systems, as well as emerging topics like novel Internet architectures, new optical network architectures for the Cloud/DataCenter, wireless optical networks, photonic integrated networks and SDN-NFV developments in optical networks. Some of the addressed topics will be the following:

• Advances in optical network theory and modeling
• Routing and spectrum assignment and flex-grid optical networks
• Optical networks for future Internet design
• Optical network control and management
• Energy efficiency in optical networks
• Optical network survivability
• Novel architectures for optical routers and switches
• Optical networks to support cloud computing
• Software defined optical networking and network function virtualization (NFV)
• Optical access network architectures and protocols
• Techno-economic analysis of optical networks
• High speed optical LANs including optical wireless networks
• Field trials, new applications and experiments in optical networking
• Convergence of optical and wireless networks
• Security and privacy in optical networks
• Protection and resiliency in optical networks
• Inter- and intra- datacenter optical networks
• Optical networks exploiting photonic integrated circuits
• Interoperation between power (smart) grid and optical networks
• Optical infrastructure for 5G mobile/wireless