Important Dates
Demo Submission
Authors can submit their demo papers via EDAS.
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Overview
The ONDM Demo Session provides a unique, interactive forum for showcasing innovative prototypes, proof-of-concept implementations, and experimental results that go beyond static presentations. We encourage demos that highlight open-source platforms, interoperability, and real-time network control.
Accepted demo papers will be published at IEEE Xplore and the IFIP Open Digital Library.
Topics of Interest
Consistent with the ONDM technical tracks, the scope of the demo session includes, but is not limited to:
- Multi-mode/few-mode/multi-core optical spatial division multiplexed (SDM) networks
- Multi-band optical switching and grooming
- Evaluation and impact of Hollow Core Fibers
- Benchmarking the scalability of network designs
- Advanced routing and spectrum assignment in flex-grid optical networks
- Novel and multidimensional optical network architectures
- Novel optical node designs including disaggregation and open optical line systems
- Application of AI/ML in optical networks
- Zero-touch network and service management at scale
- Digital twin-based management and design
- Advances in optical network modelling and optimization
- Optical network availability, resilience, survivability, security and privacy
- Designing and optimizing QKD networks
- Quantum Networks on the road to the Quantum Internet
- Fiber sensing use cases
- Optical networks exploiting photonic integrated circuits
- Visible light communications and networks
- Photonics-based non-terrestrial networks
- Free-space optical communication
- Optical and wireless network convergence
- Intra-/inter-data centre connectivity for cloud/edge computing
- Optical-packet transport
- Optical networking in support of vertical industries
- Optical network control, management and orchestration
- Slicing, service chaining, virtualization, and multi-tenancy techniques
- Novel network telemetry and real-time monitoring technologies for optical networks
- Energy-efficient and sustainable networks
- Network function acceleration on Smart NICs
- In-network computing
- Field trials and interoperability demonstrations
Submission Instructions
Proposals should be submitted as a short paper (max. 3 pages), following the IEEE conference template. The submission must include:
- Technical content: A description of the research problem, the proposed solution, and its novelty compared to existing work.
- Demo implementation: A clear explanation of what will be shown. Will there be hardware on-site? A remote connection to a testbed?
- Interactivity: Describe how the audience will interact with the demo (e.g., "users can change traffic parameters via a GUI and observe real-time rerouting").
- Equipment needs: A brief list of logistical requirements.
Evaluation Criteria
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the Demo Program Committee based on:
Logistics & Provided Facilities
Each accepted demo will typically be provided with:
Demo Track Co-Chairs
