Industry Forum & Exhibition (IF&E) Program
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
09:55 – 11:25
IF1: Smart Grid Standardization
IF2: What is TV White Space and how can it be used?
IF28: New Trends in Math and Signal Processing for Communications
11:30 – 13:00
IF3: Smart Metering: Enabling Communications and associated Security and Privacy Challenges
14:30 – 16:00
IF5: Hands-on Education and Training with Software-Defined Radio I
IF6: Engineering the Multi-service Architecture Evolution
16:30 – 18:00
IF7: Hands-on Education and Training with Software-Defined Radio II
IF8: Network Function Virtualization
IF9: Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications: The Ultrawideband Frontier
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
11:00 – 1300
IF10: Communications Policy in 2014 and Beyond: How will Federal Policy Impact the US Telecom Sector’s Place as a Technology Leader
IF11: Patents, Patent Trolls and Trade Secrets
IF12: Next Generation 4G/5G Cellular Networking
11:30 – 13:00
IF14: Mobile Communication Beyond 2020: What is 5G? I
14:30 – 16:00
IF15: LTE-A Radio Network Planning Challenges & Opportunities
IF16: 5G Vision: Driving the Need for Ubiquitous Gbps I
IF17: Mobile Communication Beyond 2020: What Is 5G? II
16:30 – 18:00
IF18:Spectrum Management and Policy
IF19: 5G Vision: Driving the Need for Ubiquitous Gbps II
IF20: IPv6 goes Mobile
Thursday, 12 December 2013
09:55 – 11:25
IF21: Internet of Humans and Machines
IF22: Impact of Deploying IPv6 based SDN on Enterprise Networking
11:30 – 13:00
IF23: Internet Governance – Why should the technical community care and where do they fit in?
IF24: Emerging Standards in Autonomic Management, SDN & NFV, and Unified Management of Converged Networks I
14:30 – 16:00
IF25: Big Data Cloud Networking
IF26: Emerging Standards in Autonomic Management, SDN & NFV, and Unified Management of Converged Networks II
16:30 – 18:00
IF27: Programmable Cloud Networking
IF29: Next Generation Wi-Fi
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013
09:55 – 11:25
IF1: Smart Grid Standardization
Moderator: Ward Camp, VP Regulatory and Environmental Policy, Landis+Gyr
This panel will discuss with the applications of Communications Technology and the role of Standards to Energy Infrastructure (“the Smart Grid”).
Panelists:
Patrick Gannon, Executive Director, SGIP
Tobin Richardson, Chairman and CEO, ZigBee Alliance
Rob Ranck, President, HomePlug Alliance
Greg Ennis, Technical Director, WiFi Alliance
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013
09:55 – 11:25
IF2: What is TV White Space and how can it be used?
Moderator: Mahesh Sooriyabandara, Associate Managing Director, Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.
The area of dynamic spectrum access and TV white space has been a promising research area for over a decade. The wealth of knowledge created by both academia and industry in this area has finally feeding into developing specific use case scenarios; such as rural broadband, machine-to-machine communications and even cellular (LTE) services. There are many recent reported pilots happening around the world giving an indication that white space systems are getting closer to commercial wider scale deployment.
The panel will discuss the outlook for TV white space in various parts of the world aiming to answer the question on "how (or even whether) white space can be used." A range of panelists from different geographic regions and industry market segments will analyze how recent regulatory decisions (e.g. FCC in US and OFCOM in the UK) and new market opportunities will impact the commercial realization of white space systems.
Panelists:
John P. Malyar, Chief Architect, iconectiv
Gary Clemo, Principal Technology Advisor, OFCOM
Peter Stanforth, CTO, Spectrum Bridge Inc.
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013
09:55 – 11:25
IF28: New Trends in Math and Signal Processing for Communications
Moderator: Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Professor, Texas A&M University
Mathematical algorithms and signal processing routines have been widely used in modern communications system design. In the era of big data and large communication systems, new mathematical tools and signal processing techniques are needed. This panel will address the new trends in math and signal processing for communications, with a focus on multi-user and network setups.
Panelists:
Martin Haenggi, Professor, University of Notre Dame
Wei Yu, Professor, University of Toronto
Rui Zhang, Professor, National University of Singapore
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013
11:30 – 13:00
IF3: Smart Metering: Enabling Communications and associated Security and Privacy Challenges
Moderators: Parag Kulkarni, Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.
Georgios Kalogridis, Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.
A key constituent of the Smart Grid is the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) which is expected to facilitate the transport of meter readings from the consumer premises to the utility provider’s data management system, and potentially control information in the other direction. A range of communication technologies are being debated for realizing AMI networks with no clear consensus so far resulting in market fragmentation. This naturally begs for an answer to the question of whether there exists a “best” (both optimal and harmonious?) solution or whether fragmentation is more likely to prevail.
The first half of this session will attempt to answer this question by looking at technology, regulatory and economic aspects. In particular, we will provide an overview of the challenges in realizing AMI, survey the different candidate solutions and highlight their pros and cons. A case study, detailing the application of self‐organizing wireless mesh networking, a promising candidate technology for facilitating AMI, will also be presented.
Subsequently, the second half of this session will focus on the data management aspects specifically looking at the security and privacy issues. The problem of AMI data handling will be reviewed holistically and a range of available technical solutions will be evaluated. In particular, the case study of managing energy in a way that helps protect the privacy of appliance load data and improve utility efficiency will be discussed, and key results will be presented. The content in these talks will aim to be broad enough so as to engage audience from diverse backgrounds and there will be provision for time for Q&A at the end of the session.
Panelists:
Parag Kulkarni, Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd
Georgios Kalogridis, Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd
Steve Chasko, Security + Software Manager, Landis+Gyr
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013
14:30 – 16:00
IF5: Hands-on Education and Training with Software-Defined Radio I
Moderators: David G. Michelson, Professor, University Of British Columbia
David W. Matolak, Professor, University of South Carolina
Software-defined radio is emerging as a valuable tool for communications education and training that overcomes many of the limitations associated with simulation-based approaches. In this session, we will help university educators and industry trainers prepare to use software-defined radio (SDR) as an instructional tool in their respective domains.
We start with a practical discussion of SDR hardware, architectures and what to expect when moving from simulation to a real-world implementation. Next, we give examples of some open source and commercial tools available for SDR education and training. We then present a first-hand account of using SDR for teaching undergraduate courses, graduate courses, and capstone design projects. We conclude the session with three presentations concerning communications training materials or assignments that selected educator/trainers have developed based upon SDR and, finally, an open discussion involving all participants.
Panelists:
Matt Ettus, President and Founder, Ettus Research
Erik Luther, Wireless Communications Product Manager, National Instruments
Predrag Spasojevic, Professor, Rutgers University
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013
14:30 – 16:00
IF6: Engineering the Multi-service Architecture Evolution
Moderator: Robin Mersh, CEO, Broadband Forum
Network access has evolved over the past twenty years from just a simple internet offering to today’s explosion of services and applications, varying speed and performance requirements, and a variety of core and local access methods. Fixed Mobile Convergence, Cloud and Virtualization are the new catch phrases and bring a host of new requirements and opportunities. These exciting and revolutionary applications open up a range of experiences for the consumer and require a much more dynamic and robust network.
With such a vast array of broadband technologies in existence it is increasingly important to develop methods to ensure harmonious operations. The motivations for the introduction of a Multi-Service architecture derive from the need to allow all of these different access technologies the capability to operate over common simplified network architecture.
The Broadband Forum, a global consortium dedicated to the development of broadband network, architecture, management and testing specifications, has been developing the tools and techniques to facilitate the evolution of Broadband Network Architecture for close to 20 years. It has identified the increased need for bandwidth together with Quality of Service (QoS) based on service policies. From this it has created reference architectures for multi-service broadband networks. The Forum’s work defines high level network requirements, and specifies functional modules to meet those network requirements.
The purpose of this Broadband Forum tutorial is to shed light on the latest multi-service architecture options for wireline operators and to highlight the areas of convergence work that bridging the gap between wireline and mobile networks.
Focused on real world deployment issues and opportunities, this tutorial provides a well-rounded review of the broadband architecture evolution, and will provide a roadmap for service providers and vendors alike to take the steps necessary to achieve the flexible, responsive networks that is capable of handling the demands of the plethora of new applications, virtualization as well as the millions of new and diverse devices coming online worldwide.
Panelists:
George Dobrowski, Ambassador, Broadband Forum
Mike Fargano, Ambassador, Broadband Forum
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013
16:30 – 18:00
IF7: Hands-on Education and Training with Software-Defined Radio II
Moderators: David G. Michelson, Professor, University Of British Columbia
David W. Matolak, Professor, University of South Carolina
Software-defined radio is emerging as a valuable tool for communications education and training that overcomes many of the limitations associated with simulation-based approaches. In this session, we will help university educators and industry trainers prepare to use software-defined radio (SDR) as an instructional tool in their respective domains.
We start with a practical discussion of SDR hardware, architectures and what to expect when moving from simulation to a real-world implementation. Next, we give examples of some open source and commercial tools available for SDR education and training. We then present a first-hand account of using SDR for teaching undergraduate courses, graduate courses, and capstone design projects. We conclude the session with three presentations concerning communications training materials or assignments that selected educator/trainers have developed based upon SDR and, finally, an open discussion involving all participants.
Panelists:
Matt Ettus, President and Founder, Ettus Research
Erik Luther, Wireless Communications Product Manager, National Instruments
Predrag Spasojevic, Professor, Rutgers University
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013
16:30 – 18:00
IF8: Network Function Virtualization
Moderator: Steven Wright, Lead Member, Technical Staff, AT&T
Since original, 13 operators launched their white paper on Network Function Virtualization last year; the idea has captured significant interest and momentum. The ETSI NFV ISG has been established to develop the concept further and it has since grown to over 100 participating organizations from around the globe. This session will provide an update of some of the key developments in the NFV area.
Panelists:
YunChao Hu, Huawei Technologies
Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna
Selcuk Uluagac, Professor, Georgia Tech
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013
16:30 – 18:00
IF9: Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications: The Ultrawideband Frontier
Moderators: Theodore S. Rappaport, Director, NYU WIRELESS, New York University
Robert W. Heath, Jr., Director, WNCG, University of Texas, Austin
This panel session explores the use of millimeter wave spectrum bands for the delivery of fixed and mobile data in both cellular and indoor/personal area networks of the future. The panel will present the latest breakthroughs for ultrawideband millimeter wave communications, as well as some of the exciting opportunities and challenges for this new frequency regime. Experts from leading wireless communication companies provide their vision, and will highlight early product tests and prototype demonstrations, as well as standardization activities that are the harbinger of an entirely new generation of wireless networks that will use the millimeter wave spectrum for mobility as well as backhaul, providing network capabilities that are far beyond anything that exists today.
Panelists
Wonil Roh, Director & Head, Advanced Communications Lab, Samsung Electronics
Amitava Ghosh, Head, NAM Radio Research, Nokia Solutions and Networks
Ali Sadri, Director, WiGig & mmWave Standards, Intel Corporation
James Kimery, Director, RF/Communications Lead User Programs, National Instruments
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
09:55 – 11:25
IF10: Communications Policy in 2014 and Beyond: How will Federal Policy Impact the US Telecom Sector’s Place as a Technology Leader
Moderator: Lawrence Movshin, Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP
As the United States seeks to retain its world leadership in technology and innovation, federal policies affecting the communications sector could have a significant impact on our nation’s success. The panel will discuss how various policy initiatives adopted by Congress, the White House and the Federal Communications Commission in the past few years have shaped the nation’s role as a technology leader and discuss and analyze the impact that various initiatives being considered by the current Administration may have on future innovation as well.
Panelists:
Julius Knapp, Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, Federal Communications Commission
Mary Brown, Director, Government Affairs, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Carl Povelitas, AVP, Public Policy, AT&T Mobility
Joi Philpott, VP, Regulatory Affairs, Cox Communications, Inc.
Bryan Tramont, Managing Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
09:55 – 11:25
IF11: Patents, Patent Trolls and Trade Secrets
Moderator: Heather McNay, Sr. IP Counsel, Landis+Gyr
Engineers, as scientists and business people, need to understand how Intellectual Property Laws can assist them in protecting their inventions and their companies’ assets. In particular, patent law and trade secret law are the tools for protecting innovations. In the United States, we now have new patent laws that have changed the way businesses file patents. And Confidentiality Agreements are increasingly important and often forgotten. We are also facing more “Patent Troll” litigation than ever before. This panel discussion will cover these aspects of IP law that are essential for today’s engineers.
Panelists:
Scott Petty, Partner, Intellectual Property Division, King & Spalding
William Heinze, Patent Procurement Counsel, GE Energy
Brenda Holmes, Partner, Intellectual Property, Kilpatrick Townsend
Gerald “Jerre” Boss, Partner, Tillman Wright
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
11:00 – 13:00
IF12: Next Generation 4G/5G Cellular Networking
Moderators: Chirag Warty, Chief Technologist, Ahilya Technologies
Jie Zhang, Professor, University of Sheffield
This forum will explore the key technological developments defining the current practices and near-term future of wireless technologies. Wireless industry is developing and changing at a rapid rate, it is important to have these advances in review and implementation as soon as possible. The proliferation of mobile broadband devices will continue to drive growth of data traffic in an exponential fashion, forcing technical community to dramatically increase the capacity of the networks. To do this cost-effectively a paradigm shift in cellular network infrastructure deployment is necessary, away from traditional high-power tower-mounted base stations, towards heterogeneous elements supported by a dynamic satellite envelope. Multiple cellular network technologies such as 3G/4G/5G co-exist and it is expected that some mobile operators will deploy multiple technologies to meet the exponential traffic demand.
The forum will act as a world platform that brings together industry professionals, academics, and individuals from government agencies and other institutions to exchange information and ideas on the advancement of wireless communications and networking technology. Focused on the current generation as well as evolution of future generations, the forum will enable a wireless ecosystem, from service providers seeking answers on delivering services and meeting demand, to device manufacturers and developers seeking to understand the killer applications in LTE, LTE-A, 4G/5G, etc.
The forum would offer government agencies, public safety professionals, enterprise users, wireless service providers, IT professionals the ability to learn about industry’s perspective towards global connectivity. The driving force behind mobile telephony and wireless access is the need for anywhere, anytime communications. These demands have given rise to wireless networks that significantly rely on satellite communication to enable rural and remote wireless connectivity via satellite backhaul. This trend presents many opportunities and challenges for capacity improvement and coexistence of various technological elements.
Panelists:
Rony Ohayon, CTO, LiveU
Anass Benjebbour, NTT DOCOMO R&D
Susanna Spinsante, Assistant Professor, Marche Polytechnic University
David Lopez Perez, Member, Technical Staff, Alcatel-Lucent
Hui Song, R&D Manager, Ranplan Technology
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
11:30 – 13:00
IF14: Mobile Communication Beyond 2020: What Is 5G? I
Moderators: Zhisheng Niu, Professor, Tsinghua University
Frank Li, Professor, University of Agder
While the standardization activities on 4G cellular systems are ongoing intensively within 3GPP, many researchers are envisaging the paradigm for beyond 4G mobile communication. Instead of focusing on higher spectrum efficiency and network capacity, the 5G systems may face challenges like energy efficiency, diverse network topologies, multi-mode and multi-node communication, ubiquitous computing, and integrated Internet and mobile communication services. The supported services and applications by 5G mobile and wireless communications may cover various areas from e-health, smart grids to Internet-of-Things. This panel assembles five leading experts to share their opinions on this topic, from the perspectives of academia, manufacturers, operators, and research funding agencies.
Panelists:
Fumiyuki Adachi, Professor, Tohoku University, Japan
Erik Dahlman, Senior Expert in Radio Access Technologies, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, China Mobile Research Institute, China
Torleiv Maseng, Research Director, Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, Adjunct Professor, University of Oslo, Norway
Jorge Pereira, Principal Scientific Officer, European Commission, Belgium
S.-G. Xu, Principal Investigator, ICRI-MNC, Intel Labs
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
14:30 – 16:00
IF15: LTE-A Radio Network Planning Challenges & Opportunities
Moderator: Tomas Novosad, Senior RF Consultant, Nokia Solutions and Networks
Long Term Evolution (LTE) is evolving into its Advance stage (LTE-A). The evolution introduces substantial network complexity which has impact on network care and implementation and provides a new avenue for innovation. Increased network complexity means that mobile broadband vendor should provide not only telecom equipment, but also network design, planning, integration and optimization expert services. Network design of LTE and LTE-A is challenged by both new and legacy issues. Some of those new items are beam forming, multicarrier, HetNet as well as new architecture and implementation concepts.
LTE-A brings network architecture evolution and is expected to interoperate seamlessly with other new and legacy technologies. Consequently, the questions around the role of Wi-Fi offloading and mobility approaches, carriers balancing, network backhaul, role of network liquid applications, and core network mobility versus routing are very exciting. The vision of 1000 times increase in traffic by 2020 requires adequate network solutions towards increased cell density and better spectral efficiency. Traffic distribution is uneven and always connected users require small cell solutions which have its own planning and deployment challenges. The key to resolving main deployment challenges of such technologies lies in inventive and innovative solutions, tools and processes both in products and services─ mainly in network planning and optimization. This forum is to discuss and summarize LTE-A network planning and implementation challenges, the methods, tools, and current practice in industry to overcome those.
Panelists:
Chris Ebert, Marketing Communication Manager, Nokia Solutions and Networks
Nabeel Siddiqui, Program Head, NPO Innovation, Nokia Solutions and Networks
Amit Mehrotra, Engagement Manager, Nokia Solutions and Networks, Nokia Solutions and Networks
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
14:30 – 16:00
IF16: 5G Vision: Driving the Need for Ubiquitous Gbps I
Moderator: Kyungwhoon Cheun, SVP and Head, CRT, Samsung Electronics Corp.
This session aims to provide various industrial viewpoints on vision and enabling technologies for providing ubiquitous Giga-bps data rate support in next generation (5G) cellular networks. The audience will be exposed to diverse technical insights from industry power houses on 5G vision and technologies, ranging from components, algorithms, modem, and network design to services.
Panelists:
Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, Wireless Technologies, China Mobile Research Institute
Takehiro Nakamura, Director, Radio Access Network Development Department, NTT DoCoMo
Boyd Bangerter, Director, Wireless Communications Lab, Intel Lab, Intel Corporation
Erik Dahlman, Senior Expert, Radio Access, Technologies, Ericsson Research
Peiying Zhu, Senior Director, Huawei Technologies
Wonil Roh, Director & Head, Advanced Communications Lab, Samsung Electronics
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
14:30 – 16:00
IF17: Mobile Communication Beyond 2020: What Is 5G? II
Moderators: Zhisheng Niu, Professor, Tsinghua University
Frank Li, Professor, University of Agder
While the standardization activities on 4G cellular systems are ongoing intensively within 3GPP, many researchers are envisaging the paradigm for beyond 4G mobile communication. Instead of focusing on higher spectrum efficiency and network capacity, the 5G systems may face challenges like energy efficiency, diverse network topologies, multi-mode and multi-node communication, ubiquitous computing, and integrated Internet and mobile communication services. The supported services and applications by 5G mobile and wireless communications may cover various areas from e-health, smart grids to Internet-of-Things. This panel assembles five leading experts to share their opinions on this topic, from the perspectives of academia, manufacturers, operators, and research funding agencies.
Panelists:
Fumiyuki Adachi, Professor, Tohoku University, Japan
Erik Dahlman, Senior Expert in Radio Access Technologies, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, China Mobile Research Institute, China
Torleiv Maseng, Research Director, Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, Adjunct Professor, University of Oslo, Norway
Jorge Pereira, Principal Scientific Officer, European Commission, Belgium
S.-G. Xu, Principal Investigator, ICRI-MNC, Intel Labs
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
16:30 – 1:00
IF18: Spectrum Management and Policy
Moderator: Michael Honig, Professor, Northwestern University
The demand for additional spectrum to supply mobile broadband data services has motivated the development of techniques for more efficient spectrum sharing along with policies for more efficient spectrum management. Spectrum sharing techniques include exploitation of spectrum opportunities, or white spaces, and policy options include the allocation of unlicensed versus licensed spectrum along with usage rules for secondary users. This panel will discuss current issues with spectrum sharing and management, including the possibility of sharing spectrum allocated to government agencies. The panelists represent a range of views on this topic from industry and government.
Panelists:
Michel Marcus, Marcus Spectrum Solutions
Alan Norman, Principal, Google
Dean Brenner, Senior VP, Government Affairs, Qualcomm
Steve Sharkey, Chief Engineering and Technology Policy, T-Mobile
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
16:30 – 18:00
IF19: 5G Vision: Driving the Need for Ubiquitous Gbps II
Moderator: Kyungwhoon Cheun, SVP and Head, CRT, Samsung Electronics Corp.
This session aims to provide various industrial viewpoints on vision and enabling technologies for providing ubiquitous Giga-bps data rate support in next generation (5G) cellular networks. The audience will be exposed to diverse technical insights from industry power houses on 5G vision and technologies, ranging from components, algorithms, modem, and network design to services.
Panelists:
Boyd Bangerter, Director, Wireless Communications Lab, Intel Corporation
Erik Dahlman, Senior Expert, Ericsson Research
Takehiro Nakamura, Director of Radio Access Network Development Department, NTT DoCoMo
Wonil Roh, Director and Head, Advanced Communications Lab, Samsung Electronics
Peiying Zhu, Senior Director, Huawei Technologies
Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, China Mobile Research Institute
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
16:30 – 18:00
IF20: IPv6 goes Mobile
Moderator: Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum
With the exception of very few Mobile Operators like Verizon and T-Mobile both in the US, none of the European or Asian mobile operators have deployed IPv6. This is an irony in itself since the US still have some IPv4 addresses while the rest of the world is dry.
This panel wishes to restore some sanity in this area inviting exactly these two Mobile Operators (Verizon & T-Mobile) to reveal their deployment models and the real reasons and anticipated benefits to the end-user and to the service operators.
Panelists:
Charles Sellers, Director, Verizon Wireless; Chair, Rocky Mountain v6 Task Force Board of Directors.
Alain Fiocco, Sr. Director, IPv6 High Impact Project, Cisco Systems.
Fredrik Garneij, Senior System Manager, IPv6, Ericsson
Yanick Pouffary, IPv6 Forum Fellow
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Thursday, 12 December 2013
09:55 – 11:25
IF21: Internet of Humans and Machines
Moderators: Neeli Prasad, Director, CTIF-USA, Princeton, Aalborg University
Charalampos Z. Patrikakis, Assistant Professor, TEI, Piraeus
With the rapidly increasing number of machines connected to the internet and the exchange of information increasing proportionally to their ability for advanced sensing and processing of environmental information, the concepts of Machine-to-Machine (M2M), Internet of Things (IoT) and Ambient Intelligence converge into a single idea: That of a world of connected smart devices that can comprehend, translate and understand content and context, and reach decisions that can improve our safety, comfort and Quality of Life in general.
Taking into account our “Networked Life” as this is expressed through our daily interaction with Social media, personal information and profiles can offer the basis, upon which devices can improve their services, and become even more effective and useful, in a collaborative decision making environment. The missing link in this picture is the easy communication between humans and devices/sensors, in a Machine to Human to Machine context that combines the latest research, commercial and standardization results in Social Networking, M2M communications and the future IoT.
Based on the successful organization of previous industry Forum sessions on Quality of Life and social networks (GC2011, GC2012), and through the participation of keynote speakers from the Industry and the Academia on the areas of M2M communication, IoT, Ambient Intelligence and Social networks, this session comes to address the issue of future evolution of agents, devices and sensors towards the creation of an ecosystem of collaborative knowledge, in which humans will be able to interact with things in a human readable, easy to master manner, inspired by human social interaction.
Speakers from Industry and Academia will be invited to have discussion on the topics:
- Social Interaction and Quality of Life (QoL)
- M2M Communications and IoT
- Middleware for ambient intelligence
Panelists:
Rasmus Nielsen, Principal Architect, IoT Platform, Cisco Systems
Ratul Mahajan, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Charalampos Z. Patrikakis, Assistant Professor, TEI of Piraeus
Periklis Chatzimisios, Associate Professor, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki
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Thursday, 12 December 2013
09:55 – 11:25
IF22: Impact of Deploying IPv6 based SDN on Enterprise Networking
Moderator: Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Chair, TCIIN, Professor, University of La Rochelle
The press is full of SDN start-ups that praise themselves to solve the networking issues of ISPs and Enterprise in optimizing their networks but none of them is deploying IPv6 especially that the IPv4 address space has melted. Even if SDN makes abstraction of the IP layer, it still depends on stable and routable IP addressing which is no more possible with IPv4.
Panelists:
Ciprian Popoviciu, Founder & CEO, Nephos6, Inc.
Doug Junkins, CTO, NTT America
Mike McBride, Director, Technology & Customer Advocacy, Ericsson
Pascal Thubert, Tech Lead, IPv6 Engineering, Cisco Systems
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Thursday, 12 December 2013
11:30 – 13:00
IF23: Internet Governance – Why should the technical community care and where do they fit in?
Moderator: Sally Wentworth, Senior Director, Strategic Public Policy, Internet Society
The topic of Internet governance has been on the international policy agenda for over a decade in an ebb and flow of debate, negotiation, and policy development that impacts the global Internet architecture and all of us who depend on it. Last year, the debate hit a high pitch as governments, in a highly contentious treaty negotiation in Dubai, reopened a 1988 UN treaty called the International Telecommunications Regulations. Fortunately, the outcome of the negotiation in Dubai was not as bad as many had feared, but it did reveal an underlying desire by some governments for a more explicit role in the global Internet ecosystem. The technical community has largely stood as observers in this debate – often wondering whether any of this really matters for the technical operations of the Internet and, if it does, what impact could the technical community even have on the outcome.
This panel will outline the contours of the international debate over Internet governance and explore these two questions:
1) Why does this matter for the technical community;
2) What can the technical community do to impact the global discussion?
Panelists:
Russ Housley, Chairman, Internet Architecture Board
Chuck Romine, Director, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Eric Loeb, Vice President, International External Affairs, AT&T
Karen Bartleson, President, IEEE Standards Association
Carlos Guiterrez, Chairman, SUTEL
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Thursday, 12 December 2013
11:30 – 13:00
IF24: Emerging Standards in Autonomic Management, SDN & NFV, and Unified Management of Converged Networks I
Moderator: Ranganai Chaparadza, ETSI AFI Chair, IPv6 Forum Research Fellow
As capabilities required of Future Networks (e.g. Future Carrier Networks) are emerging, including architectural principles, self-management (autonomic networking) capabilities, virtualization, programmability, manageability, elastic and dynamically self-adaptable and cost-effective networks and services, all the diverse stakeholders to engage in shaping Future Networks Standards need to be brought together. Research communities now need to adopt the frameworks being standardized, and use them as commonly shared frameworks with industry, in order to continue their research agendas using the standardized frameworks, and use research results, experimental and implementation experiences, to provide useful feedback to the standardization groups that maintain and evolve the frameworks. Not a single standardization group can address all these emerging complex topics, hence operator-driven processes being promoted by NGMN through the capturing of operator requirements by NGMN-NGCOR(Next-Generation-Converged-Management) Project, are calling for coordinated/joint approaches to addressing operator requirements by bringing together various standardization groups under the umbrella of what is called Multi-SDO initiative. The Software-Driven Networking (SDN) paradigm goes beyond OpenFlow-based SDN and now requires vendor-neutral global standards. Autonomic Management & Control and SDN share the same objective of enabling programmable, manageable, elastic and dynamically self-adaptable and cost-effective networks and services. Programmability must be supported at various network abstraction layers. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Virtualization as enabler to SDN and Customizable Autonomic Functions must be considered. Relationships between Autonomic Management & Control & SDN are being established, and gaps need to be closed through unifying the associated Reference Models. The session covers emerging standards, e.g. ETSI Autonomic Management & Control standard: ETSI-AFI GANA Reference Model for Autonomic Networking/Self-Management. The various groups: NGMN, ETSI AFI (Autonomic Future Internet), ETSI NFV, OMG SDN WG, ITU-T SG13&2, TMF, IPv6 Forum, will give reports on activities and roadmaps, how to join activities, building synergies among standardization groups, and closing standardization gaps between these emerging technologies.
Panelists:
Ranganai Chaparadza, ETSI AFI Chair, IPv6 Forum Research Fellow
Tayeb Ben Meriem, France Telecom/Orange
Klaus Martiny, Deutsche Telekom
Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum
Manish Patil, Dell, OMG SDN WG
Kenneth Dilbeck, TeleManagement Forum
Takashi Egawa, NEC, ITU-T SG13
Francisco-Javier Ramon Salguero, Head, Network Virtualisation, Telefónica
Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College: IEEE NGSON
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Thursday, 12 December 2013
14:30 – 16:00
IF25: Big Data Cloud Networking
Moderator: Masum Hasan, Cisco
Cloud Computing already has widespread impact across how we access today’s applications, resources, and data. The IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI) intends to help accelerate the development and use of cloud computing technologies and help advance the understanding and use of the cloud computing paradigm by coordinating IEEE cloud computing conferences, publications, standards, educational, and regional activities. The IEEE Cloud Computing Web Portal provides members of the technical community as well as the general public a convenient, centralized gateway to news and information about cloud computing and the many activities organized and led by the IEEE CCI.
One such activity is this week’s Second IEEE North America Cloud Computing Congress. Two cloud-related industry forums are planned for today. This forum will feature key industry panelists presenting their views on “big data cloud networking.” In recent years there have been great improvements in processing capabilities and storage capacity along with the ability to create networks that interconnect billions of smart terminals and trillions of devices. The panelists will discuss the issues and challenges associated with cloud network architectures and the support of big data services and applications.
Panelists:
Mahmoud Daneshmand, Professor, Stevens Institite of Technology
Jeffrey Voas, Computer Scientist, US National Institute of Standards and Technology
Jon Rokne, Professor, University of Calgary
Geng Lin, CTO Corporate Networks, Google
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Thursday, 12 December 2013
14:30 – 16:00
IF26: Emerging Standards in Autonomic Management, SDN & NFV, and Unified Management of Converged Networks II
Moderator: Ranganai Chaparadza, ETSI AFI Chair, IPv6 Forum Research Fellow
As capabilities required of Future Networks (e.g. Future Carrier Networks) are emerging, including architectural principles, self-management (autonomic networking) capabilities, virtualization, programmability, manageability, elastic and dynamically self-adaptable and cost-effective networks and services, all the diverse stakeholders to engage in shaping Future Networks Standards need to be brought together. Research communities now need to adopt the frameworks being standardized, and use them as commonly shared frameworks with industry, in order to continue their research agendas using the standardized frameworks, and use research results, experimental and implementation experiences, to provide useful feedback to the standardization groups that maintain and evolve the frameworks. Not a single standardization group can address all these emerging complex topics, hence operator-driven processes being promoted by NGMN through the capturing of operator requirements by NGMN-NGCOR(Next-Generation-Converged-Management) Project, are calling for coordinated/joint approaches to addressing operator requirements by bringing together various standardization groups under the umbrella of what is called Multi-SDO initiative. The Software-Driven Networking (SDN) paradigm goes beyond OpenFlow-based SDN and now requires vendor-neutral global standards. Autonomic Management & Control and SDN share the same objective of enabling programmable, manageable, elastic and dynamically self-adaptable and cost-effective networks and services. Programmability must be supported at various network abstraction layers. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Virtualization as enabler to SDN and Customizable Autonomic Functions must be considered. Relationships between Autonomic Management & Control & SDN are being established, and gaps need to be closed through unifying the associated Reference Models. The session covers emerging standards, e.g. ETSI Autonomic Management & Control standard: ETSI-AFI GANA Reference Model for Autonomic Networking/Self-Management. The various groups: NGMN, ETSI AFI (Autonomic Future Internet), ETSI NFV, OMG SDN WG, ITU-T SG13&2, TMF, IPv6 Forum, will give reports on activities and roadmaps, how to join activities, building synergies among standardization groups, and closing standardization gaps between these emerging technologies.
Panelists:
Ranganai Chaparadza, ETSI AFI Chair, IPv6 Forum Research Fellow
Tayeb Ben Meriem, France Telecom/Orange
Klaus Martiny, Deutsche Telekom
Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum
Manish Patil, Dell, OMG SDN WG
Kenneth Dilbeck, TeleManagement Forum
Takashi Egawa, NEC, ITU-T SG13
Francisco-Javier Ramon Salguero, Head, Network Virtualisation, Telefónica
Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College: IEEE NGSON
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Thursday, 12 December 2013
16:30 – 18:00
IF27: Programmable Cloud Networking
Moderator: Mark Karol, IEEE Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing already has widespread impact across how we access today’s applications, resources, and data. The IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI) intends to help accelerate the development and use of cloud computing technologies and help advance the understanding and use of the cloud computing paradigm by coordinating IEEE cloud computing conferences, publications, standards, educational, and regional activities. The IEEE Cloud Computing Web Portal provides members of the technical community as well as the general public a convenient, centralized gateway to news and information about cloud computing and the many activities organized and led by the IEEE CCI.
One such activity is this week’s Second IEEE North America Cloud Computing Congress. Two cloud-related industry forums are planned for today. In this forum, expert panelists will present their views on “Programmable Cloud Networking.” There are many challenges in designing a cloud computing system that can meet various requirements and support a diverse set of cloud applications and services.
Many issues need to be addressed, including, but not limited to, security, reliability, architecture, standardization, and economics. The panelists will discuss the issues and challenges and present some potential solutions based on programmable and software-defined solutions.
Panelists:
Geng Lin, CTO Corporate Networks, Google
Chung-Sheng Li, Director, IBM
Masum Hasan, Technology Director, Cisco
Evelyne Roch, Huawei
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Thursday, 12 December 2013
16:30 – 18:00
IF29: Next Generation Wi-Fi
Moderator: Monisha Ghosh, Principal Engineer, Interdigital
In recent years IEEE 802.11 has completed a number of major standardization efforts that have significantly improved the throughput in new and existing frequency bands. For example, 802.11ad is a completed specification for operation in 60 GHz, 802.11ac is in sponsor ballot for extending throughput in the 5 GHz band and 802.11af for operation in the TV White Spaces. However, there are emerging new use cases and frequency bands that are under active consideration within 802.11 with ongoing standardization efforts. This panel will focus on recent developments in 802.11 standards, specifically the developments in 802.11ac (5 GHz Very High Throughput), 802.11af (TV White Spaces), 802.11ah (Sub -1 GHz, non TV White Spaces), 802.11aj/ad (45 and 60 GHz) and the newly formed study group High Efficiency WiFi (HEW). These different groups have different objectives and scopes and hence different requirements of the PHY and MAC layers. The panelists are all experts in the above areas and will share their views on these emerging standards.
Panelists:
Daewon Lee, Senior Staff System Engineer, Broadcom
Hemanth Sampath, Principal Engineer/Manager, Qualcomm
Ali Sadri, Director of mmWave, Mobile and Communications Group, Intel
Yasuhiko Inoue, Senior Engineer, NTT
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