IEEE ICC 2012 Industry Forums Program

Chair:

David Lively, Director, Sales – Americas Service Provider Cloud and Video Architectures, Cisco

Presentations:

Simplifying the Path to a Profitable Next-Generation Network

Robert Keys, Chief Architect, Optical, BTI Systems

Split Radio Stacks and Cloud Wireless

Jordan Melzer, Senior Engineer, TELUS

The Interconnect Standard for the Data Center: 10GBase-T

Frank McCarthy, Principal Engineer PLX Technology, Inc.

Chair:

Jie Zhang, University of Sheffield

Co-chairs:

Anand Srinivasan, Vice President - Technology & Product Management, EION Wireless, Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Panel on Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) Deployment: Challenges and Strategies

In the next decade, multiple cellular network technologies such as GSM/UMTS/HSPA/LTE/LTE-Advanced will co-exist. It is also expected that Wi-Fi and fixed networks will be used to offload 30%-50% of traffic from mobile networks, and is likely that some mobile operators will deploy both FDD and TDD technologies to meet the exponential traffic demand. Moreover, in LTE-Advanced networks, macrocells, remote radio heads (RRHs), microcells, picocells, femtocells, as well as relay stations will be used to cost-effectively provide seamless coverage and capacity in indoor and outdoor scenarios. In the near future, device-to-device communications may also become essential to improve energy efficiency and save resources at base stations. Furthermore, apart from traditional human-to-human communications, machine-to-machine communications will become more and more important to deal with smart infrastructure requirements. Hence, future networks will be heterogeneous in terms of radio access technologies (RATs), fixed or mobile, access node types, and long or short range.

Network heterogeneity will impose an enormous challenge for network operators to make the best use of their existing network infrastructures, and cost effectively deploy LTE/LTE-Advanced networks that comprise of different types of access nodes. Some of these challenges are:

• Seamless indoor and outdoor coverage
• Use just enough resources to meet users’ Quality of Experience requirement
• Integration of fixed, Wi-Fi and cellular networks
• Interference control and management
• Self-organising networks (SONs)
• Trade-off between energy and spectrum efficiency
• Mobility management and handover control
• Flexible backhauling

In this session, experts from network operators, telecom vendors and academia will discuss the challenging issues of HetNet deployments and the strategies to address them. In addition, possible industry and academia collaborations and research topics will be highlighted.

The session will encourage industry and academia interactions, and will be very attractive for network operators, telecom vendors and research organisations.

Presentations:

Small Cells in Heterogeneous Networks

Jie Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK

Enhanced Local Area (eLA) for Future Radio Access

Anass Benjebbour

David López-Pérez, King’s College London, UK

Wireless HetNet – Impact on Mobility and Backhaul

Dejan Beznec, Director - Engineering, EION Wireless, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Chair:

Rodney G. Wilson, Senior Director External Research, Ciena

Presentations:

Advanced DSL Technologies-potentials and Challenges

Guozhu Long, Principal Scientist, Advanced Access Technologies, Huawei Technologies

Amir Fazlollahi, Principal Engineer, Huawei Technologies

Wired Broadband and Maximizing Optical Fiber Plant Advancements

Rodney G. Wilson, Senior Director External Research, Ciena

End-to-end Ethernet Service Management

Vikas Arora, CTO, EXFO

Core Network Technologies for On-demand Services

Tim Pearson, Ciena

Creating Innovative Network Services in IMS/LTE Field

Naoki Uchida, Director, Service Innovation Project, NTT Cyber Space Labs

Chair:

Mohamed Hamdi, School of Communication Engineering, Tunisia

Co-chairs:

Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich, Switzerland

Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway

Panel on Security of Cloud Communications and Networking

Convergence and ubiquity are the key characteristics of tomorrow’s service provision infrastructures. Cloud architectures will constitute cost-efficient backbones that will support the transmission, storage, and computing of the applications contents. These architectures can be used for business, scientific, pervasive computing purposes. The diversity of the services delivered through cloud infrastructures increases their vulnerability to security incidents and attacks. The cost and complexity reduction requirements render the design and development of protection mechanisms even more challenging. In addition, key design features such as confidentiality, privacy, authentication, anonymity, survivability, dependability, and fault-tolerance are, in some extent, conflicting. The objective of this forum is to explore research directions and technology trends to address the protection of cloud communications and networking infrastructures.

The major topics that will be discussed by the participants include the following:

• Survivability and fault-tolerance in networked data-centers
• Cyber-security laws and their impact on cloud-based services
• Security economics analysis of pervasive/mobile services
• Security standards, guidelines, and baselines for cloud infrastructures
• Case studies of attacks and security incidents

Reputed experts and leaders from the industry will depict a futuristic view of cloud security technology, industry/ market solutions, and business systems and application to solve business, society, or governmental needs.

Presentations:

Delivering assured services with the Cloud

John Weigelt, National Technology Officer, Microsoft Canada

Security for the cloud infrastructure: Trusted virtual data center implementation

Rosyula Rao, Director of Research, IBM

Secured Embedded Element and Data protection in the cloud

Bertrand Marquet, Research Department Head, Alcatel-Lucent

OAuth and ABE based Authorization in Semi-Trusted Cloud Computing

Guang Gong, Professor, University of Waterloo

Chair:

David Keegstra, CTO, Ericsson Canada

Presentations:

Packet-based Mobile Backhaul Network with Synchronization – Myths versus reality

Zeev Draer, Vice President of Marketing, Optical Communications Systems Division, MRV Communications

The All-packet Network for Mobile Backhaul

Peter Green, General Product Manager, Ethernet Solutions, BTI Systems

Challenges with Enabling Dynamic LTE in 4G Infrastructure

Stephen F. Fiore, Principal Consultant & Sr. Principal RF Engineer, PrioriTech, Inc

The Proliferation of Ethernet in the Mobile Backhaul

Eric Hayes, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Network Switch, Broadcom Corporation

LTE Network Coverage

Tomas Novosad, Nokia Siemens Networks

Chair:

Steve Vogelsang, VP Mobility Applications, Alcatel-Lucent USA

Presentations:

The Value of the True Green Data Center

Wael Diab, Senior Technical Director, Office of the CTO, Broadcom Corporation

Title to be announced

Tom Linder, Manager TELUS TV & FFH Services