IEEE ICC 2012 Industry Forums Program

Chair:

Craig Farrell, CTO, Global Telecom Industry, IBM

Presentations:

The Cloud Changes Everything: Enhanced Revenue Opportunities for Service Providers

Ken Cheng, VP & GM, IP Products Division, Brocade

Enable your Cloud: How to Plan, Design and Manage Cloud Networks and Applications for the Future

Mannix O’Connor, Director of Technical Marketing, Optical Communications Systems Division, MRV Communications

Service Personalization in Telecom Networks - A Large Scale Cloud based Distributed Recommender Approach

Jobin Wilson, R&D, Flytxt Mobile Solutions Pvt. Ltd, India

Cloud Billing: The Missing Link for Cloud Providers

Rene Sotola, Vice President, CGI Global Telecommunications Sector

Chair:

Chris Bachalo, CTO Juniper Networks Canada Inc.

Presentations:

Future of In-home Networking

Matt Christensen, Technology Strategy, TELUS Communications

Future Home Gateway Services for Next Generation Home Networks

Lorenzo Di Gregorio, Lantiq Deutschland GmbH

Developing innovative embedded applications on programmable networks

Chris Bachalo, CTO Juniper Networks Canada Inc.

Basic resources service for the Internet of Things

Ye Tian, CNNIC (China iNternet Network Information Center), Beijing, China

Increasing Transport Capacity in Edge Optical Networks

Sheldon Walklin, Chief Technology Officer, Optelian

Chair:

Stan McClellan, Texas State University

Panel on Cyber Security and Threat Management for the Smart Grid

This panel will explore issues related to cyber security, threat management, and system stability in emerging Smart Grid deployments. The deployment of Smart Grid networks which offer reliable, secure operations must handle competing standards, non-interoperable technologies, and complex security paradigms. The panelists will present viewpoints on threat detection, end-to-end data security, and provisioning of situational awareness which have a potentially critical impact on grid security and stability.

The panelists represent major aspects of Smart Grid implementation including practitioners, system integrators, and subsystem/technology vendors. Each of these perspectives has an important bearing on the effective implementation of cyber security in the Smart Grid space.

Sample Key Questions/Issues to be explored:

• Is situational awareness a critical factor in detection of cyber threats to the Smart Grid?
• What Smart Grid technologies are important in the establishment of situational awareness?
• What types of unique threats are envisioned for Smart Grid deployments?
• What approaches to threat management and detection are applicable in the Smart Grid?
• How should service providers prepare for cyber-security threats in Smart Grid subsystems?
• What are the requirements of end-to-end, integrated management for the provision of secure Smart Grid systems?
• Do conventional network security paradigms fall short in the unique case of Smart Grid systems?
• How do Smart Grid technologies affect or impact power quality?
• What role does power quality management play in the detection and response to Smart Grid threats?

Presentations:

Standards & interoperability in the Smart Grid

George Arnold, Director, Smart Grid and Cyberphysical Systems Program Office & National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability, NIST (US Dept. Commerce)

Situational awareness, stability, and cyber-security in the Smart Grid

William Lawrence, Chief Technologist – Energy & Cyber Security Organization, Lockheed Martin

Four layers of Smart Grid security

Ernest Hayden, Managing Principal – Energy Security, Verizon Business

Penetration testing for embedded systems in the Smart Grid

Nakul Jeirath, Group Leader – Embedded Systems Security, Southwest Research Institute

Chair:

Jinsong Wu, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, China

Co-chairs:

Daniel Kilper, Bell Laboratories, USA

As the positive responses to global climate warming, the research and development of Green Communications and Computing have attracted extensive involvements from both industry and academia. The Technical Subcommittee on Green Communications and Computing (TSCGCC), the IEEE Communications Society, has been newly established as the dedicated Technical Subcommittee in this specific emerging research area (http://www.comsoc.org/about/committees/emerging#gcc). The urgent needs and challenges of energy-sustainable, resource-saving, and environment-friendly green communications and computing technologies are introduced by simultaneously increasing trends of energy costs and communications bandwidths impacting ecological and economic activities around the world. Significant energy consumption reduction in the information & communications applications may be achieved through the innovative use of new architectures, protocols, and algorithms, which may fundamentally change concepts, structure, and designs of conventional communication and computing systems. Research in energy-efficient green communications and computing is inter-disciplinary in nature, since the motivation is to obtain energy efficiency from various areas and  levels of communication infrastructures and systems.

This panel will discuss various aspects of above mentioned issues. The panel speakers are several leading experts in the promising, important, and exciting topics on green communications and computing, who will present and discuss a number of paradigm-shifting technical approaches can be expected. This panel may bring the broad and in-depth vision of the emerging areas to the audiences in both industrial and academic perspectives.

As one of the leading enthusiastic efforts in promoting the research and development of green communications and computing, we definitely feel that this panel will be both informative and entertaining the ICC 2012 audiences.

Presentations:

Energy Trade-Offs for Next Generation Services

Daniel Kilper, Bell Laboratories, USA

Green Wireless Access Employing Fiber-connected Massively Distributed Antenna Systems

Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada

Recent Progresses in Green Radio Communications

Shugong Xu, Huawei Technologies, China

Cognitive Green Communications: When Energy Meets Intelligence

Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China

Fundamental limits of energy efficiency in the presence of QoS constraints and physical-layer security considerations

Mustafa Cenk Gursoy, Syracuse University, USA

A High Level View of Green Communications and Computing

Jinsong Wu, Bell Laboratories, China

Chair:

Brian Lakey, VP Service Enablement and Systems, TELUS

IPTV operators’ ‘walled garden’ digital TV systems have delivered unprecedented interactive TV experience to consumers on their first screens. Recently, advanced digital video compression and distribution technology, as well as high throughput wireless and wired Internet access capability are allowing video to be enjoyed on a wide range of consumer electronic devices from traditional TV and PC to innovative smart phones, tablets, smart TVs, gaming consoles, and on-vehicle media devices. With the target to extend “walled garden” IPTV to these screens, multi-screen IPTV will eventually allows subscribers to consume any purchased content anytime, anywhere, and on any device.

However, to create a compelling, consistent, and efficient multi-screen TV experience imposes significant challenges to traditional IPTV platform. Flexible and efficient content, workflow and entitlement management system, media encoding, transcoding, adaptive streaming and delivery, as well as authentication all play important roles in the successful deployment of a multi-screen service. In this session, the following major topics will be addressed by panelists from service providers, teleco vendors, and academia

• An overview of enabling technologies and challenges for multi-screen IPTV: digital rights management (DRM), entitlement management, content and workflow management system, video transcoding and streaming architecture, authentication, authorization, accounting, and content delivery network
• Mutli-Screen IPTV technology evolution and standardization
• Adaptive streaming and QA monitoring in multi-screen services
• Authentication in a JPEG 2000 image transmission case study

Presentations:

OTT Adaptive Streaming Media and the IPTV QA Monitoring Mission

Jim Welch, Sr. Consulting Engineer, IneoQuest Technologies

Multi-screen IPTV: Enabling Technologies and Challenges

Peng Tan, Sr.Engineer, Technology Strategy, TELUS

JPEG 2000 Image Transmission using Encryption Domain Authentication by Paillier Cryptosystem

Muneaki Matsuo, Masayuki Kurosaki, Akio Miyazaki and Hiroshi Ochi, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (to be presented by Hiroshi Ochi)

Chair:

Scott Bonnell, Sr. Director of Product Management, Oracle

This panel will also focus on the impact on the enterprise and ISPs introduced by the adoption of IPv6:

• The Internet community has mistakenly focused on the IPv4 address depletion as the problem to be resolved by IPv6 for the ISPs for connectivity to web sites and forgotten to address the many issues that will affect the adoption of IPv6 by the enterprise and the critical infrastructure that are brought in by a transition from an established protocol (IPv4) to a new protocol (IPv6).
• The transition in the enterprise should be focused on a “secure transition” and a “secure integration” of IPv6. The only viable secure transition is the “secure Dual-stack” transition. All other transition mechanisms are not secure and will even drill in new vulnerabilities in the critical infrastructure networks to name the important one.
• The transition to IPv6 has to be done in the first phase to sustain not only technology parity between IPv4 features but also business models parity.
• The current deployment of IPv6 is done with IPv4 network management tools. This is a fallacy as IPv6 is a new protocol with totally different functions and features. It should be deployed with new management tools designed to cater for IPv6 features not just mimicking IPv4 and NAT. In the second phase, IPv6 should be deployed with its built-in functionalities (multicast, mobility, end to end…)
• The security in IPv6 is again not deployed, similarly to IPv4. Security is mandated in IPv6 but still no security house or solutions start with secure functionality.
• IPv6 Privacy Address is deployed only by Microsoft. All other vendors have not yet realised the randomizing features of the MAC address.
• The cost of deploying IPv6 is from now on a costly fork-lift upgrade for those that have not taken the early step of deployment. The cost of not doing anything is even higher.
• What is at stake is the “modernisation of the networks” to cater and be securely ready for all new emerging Internet based solutions like Internet of Things, Smart Grids, Cloud Computing, Smart homes and Buildings, Smart Cities, Mobile networks such LTE and Safety networks to replace aging TETRA, Mobile social networks beyond Facebook and Twitter, Mobile Internet cars, Mobile Military networks, Smart Agriculture and Food chains, Smart manufacturing, Mobile Smart Banking, … a Smarter world.

Presentations:

IPv6 – The Impact on Cloud Computing: From Closed Cloud to Open Inter-cloud

Latif Ladid, President IPv6 Forum, Senior Researcher, SnT – University of Luxembourg

The Impact of IPv6 on the Large ISPs – Explained by the Pioneer Deployer of IPv6 in the World

Yves Poppe, Director, Business Development IP Strategy, Tata Communications, Canada

The Impact of IPv6 on the Enterprise

Jacques Latour, Director of Information Technology at CIRA

IPv6 Deployment Recommendations for ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada (ISACC)

Serge Caron, Senior Director, Information Services and Technology, ITD, CIOB, Treasury Board Secretariat at Government of Canada