IEEE ICC 2012 Industry Forums Program

Chair:

Neeli Prasad, Head of Research, Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg University, Denmark

Driven by rapidly changing requirements and business needs, ICT and applications are undergoing a paradigm shift: components are replaced by services, distributed over the network, and composed and reconfigured dynamically in a demand driven way into service oriented architectures.

It is quite impressive to see how asynchronous communication forms have reached wide success, yet by offering support only to traditional, text-based information exchange. These services are today at the basis of what has been defined as Social Networking, i.e. the possibility for individuals to interact, share, cooperate with others via the communications technology. The impact of such services can be measured not only in terms of the specific and direct service provided to their user constituency and their Quality of Life (QoL), but also in terms of their contribution to the emergence of new communication styles, network architecture, frameworks and language patterns.

The ability of the user to interact in a focused and personalized manner, as this is offered through the social networks, can transform the traditional one broadcast for all, to one broadcast, transformed to the needs of everyone.

New issues are raised related to actions of users/viewers and how this is influenced and influences viewing experience, how it affects the QoL and ways it can improve it, techniques for fusing user generated content in a non intrusive and annoying or destructing way with the broadcasted content and also how can user generated content modify the transmission.

Speakers from Industry and Academia will be invited to have discussion on the topics:

• Social Interaction and Quality of Life (QoL)
• Trusted Network Architecture and Infrastructure
• Business Models

Presentations:

Social Networks: Impact on Quality of Life

Neeli Prasad, Head of Research, Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg University, Denmark

Everything Connected: Benefits and Challenges to Your Quality of Life

Philip Jacobs, Technical Lead, Cisco Systems

Multimedia is turning social: how Social Networks can affect our multimedia access

Ing Charalampos Z. Patrikakis, Professor TEI of Piraeus, Senior Research Associate of Institute of Communications and Computer Systems

Security and Business Model

Yuan Xiang Gu, Cloakware Co-Founder & Chief Architect; Senior Director, Irdeto Research, Ottawa

Social Networks Impact on Wireless Operators

Warren Cope, Senior Manager, Core Technology Strategy and Architecture, Sprint, USA

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:

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:

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:

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:

David Wendling, Vice President, Space System & Network Engineering, Telesat

Presentations:

Quality Improvement of Telecommunications Industry in Pakistan

Ashfaq Naqvi, Executive Engineer, WorldCall Telecom Limited, Pakistan

Bandwidth management dynamics in India’s eGovernance

V. M. Mathur, Professor in Management and IT, Information Systems and Technology Panel

Lifetime and Throughput Maximization - Self Optimization Techniques in Wireless Networks

Hemant Kumar Rath, TCS Networks Lab, Bangalore, India

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:

Alan Solheim, Vice President, Corporate Development, DragonWave

Presentations:

M2M Communications and Evolution to IoT (Internet-of-Things)

Paul Russell, Jr., InterDigital Communications

Facing the Bandwidth Demand Onslaught: How the industry will have to address this and where the research community can help?

Alex Reznik, Sr. Principal Engineer, Systems InterDigital Communications, LLC

Wireless Sensor Network for Urban Environment Monitoring

Mario LaManna, SELEX Sistemi Integrati, Rome

SOC Architecture Evolution as a key driver of wireless network transformation

Fawzi Behmann, Director of Marketing & Strategic Advisor, Power.org, Chair COMSOC/SP Chapter in Austin

Cognitive Radio over fibre for Next-Generation Mesh Networks

Anwer Al-Dulaimi, Brunel University, UK

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:

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:

Curtis B. Behmann, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Ottawa

Panel on Enhancing Technology Development & Market Success Using Patent & Licensing Strategies

From Nortel's patent auction and Google's patent-based acquisitions, to Apple and Samsung's patent battles, patents are becoming a key part of technology development and deployment. Last year's introduction of the America Invents Act also introduced some changes to U.S. patent law that may affect development approaches at some companies. This session will include practical industry perspectives from technology companies and a patent licensing company, as well as Canadian and U.S. patent experts.

Outline and Content of the presentation (Draft)

• Setting the Stage
  • why are patents mentioned more frequently in business and technology news?
  • what is their practical importance to companies and to individual engineers?
  • is skepticism about software patents justified?
  • what are some basic approaches for using patents in engineering & business?
• Technology Company Perspective- Research In Motion
  • patents as an asset for developing and exploiting technology
  • patents and standards
• America Invents Act
  • what has changed in U.S. patent law?
  • how does this affect technology development and roll-out?
• Practicing Engineer’s Perspective- PMC-Sierra
  • integrating patents into technology and development processes
  • engineer/inventor engagement and education
• Patent Licensing Company Perspective- MOSAID
  • case study
  • changes in semiconductor and telecommunications licensing strategy and practice
• Q & A Discussion

Presentations:

IP Strategy: Why It Matters to Engineers – from One-Click to Slide-to-Unlock

Curtis B. Behmann, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

The America Invents Act: What do I Need to Know?

Steve Chang, Banner & Witcoff Ltd

Patent & Licensing Strategy: Technology Company Perspective

Robert Guay, Research In Motion

Patent & Licensing Strategy: Practising Engineer's Perspective

Steve Gorshe, PMC-Sierra

Patent & Licensing Strategy: Patent Licensing Company Perspective

Michael Vladescu, Chief Operating Officer, WiLAN

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:

Malcolm Vant, Former Director General, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) - Ottawa

Panel on Information Service Provision Challenges in the Defence and Security Environment

Along with much of the rest of the world, the Defence and Security sectors of government have firmly embraced information technology and management as a way to do business more efficiently, to gain a business advantage, and in the case of defence to have a warfare edge. This session will examine the challenges faced in providing services supporting defence and security.

The main sub-theme will be Cyber Defence. With greater dependence on information technology, and in particular web-enabled systems and devices, governments and defence forces find themselves increasingly vulnerable to attacks from various quarters. In combat situations, cyber attacks have the potential to cripple both Command and Control Systems and Weapon Systems containing embedded information systems. In day-to-day operations, cyber attacks, both at the nuisance and more lethal levels must be dealt with rapidly and effectively to allow operations to continue with an acceptable degree of risk.

The second sub-theme will examine the provision of knowledge management services in a defence R&D organization – an environment which requires the creation of structured support services for what is inherently unstructured work.

Presentations:

NATO Cyber Defence Policy and Cyber Security Roundtable Summary

Guy Vezina, Director General, Defence R&D Canada – Valcartier & Chair of NATO Research & Technology Organization, Information Systems and Technology Panel

Malcolm Vant, Former Director General, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) - Ottawa

Tools promoting collaborative cyber security innovation

Reginald Sawilla, Cyber Operations Section of Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)

Cyber Security Challenges and State of the Art

Ashutosh Dutta, CTO Wireless, NIKSUN

A Knowledge Services Architecture: Structured Support for Unstructured Work

Albert J. Simard, Knowledge Manager, Defence Research & Development Canada

Improving the Cyber Resiliency of Critical Infrastructure

Sébastien Labelle, Director of Engagement and Partnerships, National Cyber Security Directorate, Public Safety Canada

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

Chair:

Amit Jasuja, VP, Development Identity Management and Security Products, Oracle, USA

Presentations:

Title to be announced

Shane Logan, Director SDF & Collaboration Services, Telus

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