The purpose of OPTICS 2016, the International Conference on Optical Communication Systems, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on any of the optical communication components of an optical communication system, or the system itself.

An optical communication system consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a receiver, which reproduces the message from the received optical signal.

Optical fiber is currently the main means for high-rate transmission in communication networks.

In the last years, there is a great deal of ongoing research efforts that span the entire protocol stack of optical networks, with representative areas being architecture of optical components, optoelectronics, wavelength routing, energy efficiency, Quality of Service, hybrid optical-wireless networks etc.

  CONFERENCE TOPICSDesign, Control and Management of Optical NetworksOptical SwitchingNew Architectures for Optical Routers and SwitchesOptical Networks Performance ModellingQoS.

Optical Networks for Future NetworksEnergy Efficiency in Optical NetworksPassive Optical NetworksIntegration of Optical and Wireless NetworkingLasers and Photonic ComponentsOptical Access NetworksOptical Amplification and SensingOptical Modulation and Signal ProcessingNew Optical Fiber TechnologiesEnabling the Cloud Through SDN and NFVHybrid Optical-Wireless NetworksIntelligent Optical Control PlanePacket Optical Networking TechnologyWDM Optical NetworksFiWi NetworksHigh Speed optical LANs and Gigabit EthernetOpto-Electronics for Terabit NetworkingNext Generation Optical NetworkingElastic Optical NetworksSilicon PhotonicsQuantum Photonic NetworksOptical SensorsOPTICS is part of ICETE, the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications.

 ICETE 2016 will be held in conjunction with PECCS 2016 and PhyCS 2016.

 ICETE KEYNOTE LECTURESHamid Aghvami, King's College London, United Kingdom Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Anastasios Economides, University of Macedonia, Greece Erina Ferro, CNR-ISTI, Italy Mateo Valero, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain ICETE CONFERENCE CHAIRMohammad S.

Obaidat, Fordham University, United States PROGRAM CHAIRPanagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece