The final program of the conference is available for downloading now. 

The venue of ICOCN2014 is Suzhou Marriott Hotel (万豪酒店）.

A guide on how to get to the conference hotel from the Pudong airport through an airport shuttle bus.

Final Version of Submission
According to the regulations of IEEE, all papers to be included in the proceedings of ICOCN'2014 have to be IEEE Xplore-compatible. IEEE PDF eXpress is a free service to IEEE conferences, allowing their authors to make IEEE Xplore-compatible PDFs or to check the PDFs. To access the service, please use this link: http://www.pdf-express.org/ (Conference ID of PDF eXpress: 33799X).

The compatible PDF version for each paper should be submitted through the EDAS system, https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18241.

Copyright of Submission
For all the accepted papers, the authorized copyright should be submitted to the organization committee. Otherwise, the papers without authorized copyrights cannot be included in the proceedings of ICOCN'2014. There is an ecopyright function in EDAS when you submit your final accepted manuscript.

Plenary talks 

	Prof. Rodney S. Tucker (IEEE/OSA Fellow) University of Melbourne, Australia Title: Towards a Green Internet
	Dr. Ori Gerstel (IEEE/OSA Fellow, EiC of JOCN) CTO, Sedona Systems, Israel Title: Likely and unlikely directions for the evolution of the optical layer
	Dr. Peter J. Winzer (IEEE/OSA Fellow, EiC of JLT) Optical Transmission Systems and Networks Research Department, Bell Labs Title: Spatial Multiplexing: The Final Frontier in Optical Network Capacity Scaling

News: The authors of a number of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to Special Issues of the Springer journal of Photonic Network Communications (a formal review process will be carried out; however, the first decision on each submitted paper will be out within 2 months).

Paper submission: Prospective authors must submit original papers of not more than four (4) pages in standard IEEE format (or using the ICOCN2014 template) using the EDA submission system, https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18241. Note that there are three tracks in the paper submission main webpage, and for each track, there are two entrances respective for regular paper submission and invited paper submission. Please choose the links according to the categories.

Welcome to Suzhou! (Call for papers)

The 13th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN) will be held during November 9-10, 2014 at Suzhou, one of the most beautiful cities in China (see Wikipedia introduction). The conference and symposium aim to provide a premier opportunity for professionals, experts, engineers, scientists and industrial people worldwide in the field of research, development and applications of photonics to share and exchange their experience. Three will be three tracks including (1) Optical networks, (2) Optical transmission subsystems and techniques, (3) Photonic devices and integration.

History of ICOCN