Performance Comparison of Multi-wavelength Conversion Using SOA-MZI and DSF for Optical Wavelength Multicast -- 80Gb/s Multi-wavelength Optical Packet Switching Using PLZT Switch -- 2x2 Bismuth-Oxide-Fiber Based Crossbar Switch for All-Optical Switching Architectures -- Impact of Transient Response of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier for OPS/WDM and Its Mitigation -- Mutual Impact of Physical Impairments and Grooming in Multilayer Networks -- Impairment Aware Based Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Transparent Long Haul Networks -- MatPlanWDM: An Educational Tool for Network Planning in Wavelength-Routing Networks -- Centralized vs. Distributed Approaches for Encompassing Physical Impairments in Transparent Optical Networks -- All-Optical Signal Processing Subsystems Based on Highly Non-linear Fibers and Their Limitations for Networking Applications -- A Low Cost Migration Path Towards Next Generation Fiber-To-The-Home Networks -- Securing Passive Optical Networks Against Signal Injection Attacks -- Novel Passive Optical Switching Using Shared Electrical Buffer and Wavelength Converter -- 160 Gbps Simulation of a Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Based Optical Buffer -- SIP Based OBS networks for Grid Computing -- Job Demand Models for Optical Grid Research -- Experimental Implementation of Grid Enabled ASON/GMPLS Networks -- Reservation Techniques in an OpMiGua Node -- R & Ds for 21st Century Photonic Network in Japan -- Optical Burst Switching Network Testbed -- TCP Traffic Analysis for Timer-Based Burstifiers in OBS Networks -- TCP Performance Experiment on LOBS Network Testbed -- Improvement of TCP Performance over Optical Burst Switching Networks -- Routing Optimization in Optical Burst Switching Networks -- Performance Analysis of Routing Algorithms for Optical Burst Switching -- Transport Plane Resource Discovery Mechanisms for ASON/GMPLS Meshed Transport Networks -- A Study of Connection Management Approaches for an Impairment-Aware Optical Control Plane -- An Automatic Model-Based Reconfiguration and Monitoring Mechanism for Flexible GMPLS-Based Optical Networking Testbeds -- Clustering for Hierarchical Traffic Grooming in Large Scale Mesh WDM Networks -- Grooming-Enhanced Multicast in Multilayer Networks -- MUPBED - Interworking Challenges in a Multi-Domain and Multi-Technology Network Environment -- Rule-Based Advertisement and Maintenance of Network State Information in Optical-Beared Heterogeneous Networks -- Enhanced Parallel Iterative Schedulers for IBWR Optical Packet Switches -- A New Algorithm for the Distributed RWA Problem in WDM Networks Using Ant Colony Optimization -- Optical IP Switching for Dynamic Traffic Engineering in Next-Generation Optical Networks -- An Efficient Virtual Topology Design and Traffic Engineering Scheme for IP/WDM Networks -- Optical Packet Buffers with Active Queue Management -- Segmentation-Based Path Switching Mechanism for Reduced Data Losses in OBS Networks -- Towards Efficient Optical Burst-Switched Networks without All-Optical Wavelength Converters -- New Assembly Techniques for Optical Burst Switched Networks Based on Traffic Prediction -- A Novel Burst Assembly Algorithm for Optical Burst Switched Networks Based on Learning Automata -- Fast and Effective Dimensioning Algorithm for End-to-End Optical Burst Switching Networks with ON-OFF Traffic Model -- Prudent Creditization Polling (PCP): A Novel Adaptive Polling Service for an EPON -- Adaptive Moblile Spot Diffusing Transmiter for an Indoor Optical Wireless System -- Extra Window Scheme for Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation in EPON -- Cost Versus Flexibility of Different Capacity Leasing Approaches on the Optical Network Layer -- A Bayesian Decision Theory Approach for the Techno-Economic Analysis of an All-Optical Router -- Regenerator Placement with Guaranteed Connectivity in Optical Networks -- Optimal Routing for Minimum Wavelength Requirements in End-to-End Optical Burst Switching Rings.