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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
8:30 - 12:00
T1: Evolution of Service Control Mechanisms in Next-Generation-Networks towards Future Internet (NGN2FI)
Presenter: Thomas Magedanz and Julius Müller, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Abstract:
This tutorial will provide an overview about Next Generation Mobile Broadband Network Evolution towards the Future Internet (FI) starting from Intelligent Networks (IN) passing IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) over Evolved Packet Core (EPC) on to the FI. The tutorial will emphasize on the potential and capabilities of EPC as well as current research trends and challenges within FI. The tutorial terminates with an introduction into toolkits and laboratories from Fraunhofer FOKUS and Technical University Berlin enabling rapid Next Generation Mobile Network prototyping for academic and industry research, namely the OpenEPC (www.openepc.net), G-Lab DEEP (www.g-lab-deep.de) and NGN2FI Playground (www.ngn2fi.org).

Biography:
Thomas Magedanz (PhD) is professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences faculty at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, leading the chair for next generation networks (Architektur der Vermittlungsknoten – AV) supervising Master and PhD Students. In addition, he is director of the “NGNI” division at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, which provides toolkits and open experimental platforms for fixed and mobile Next Generation Networks, service oriented architecture based Service Delivery Platforms, and the Future Internet for international operators and vendors. Prof. Magedanz is one of the founding members of FOKUS (1988) and member of the management team. Prof. Magedanz is senior member of the IEEE, editorial board member of several journals, and the author of more than 250 technical papers/articles. He is the author of two books on IN standards and IN evolution.

Julius Mueller (Dipl. Inform.) studied computer science at the Freie Universität Berlin and obtained his diploma in 2009. In his university studies he concentrated on computer networks, distributed systems and mobile communications. He worked as student researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS in the competence center Next Generation Network Infrastructures (NGNI) in the field of optimized service provision in Next Generation Networks (NGNs) and particularly the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Here he also worked in some European projects, such as the EU project Vital++. In 2009 he joined the chair "Architektur der Vermittlungsknoten (AV)" at the electrical engineering and computer sciences faculty within the Technische Universität Berlin as PhD researcher, where he is working within the German BMBF project G-Lab DEEP-G. His scientific work and PhD supervised by Prof. Thomas Magedanz focuses on the evolution of NGNs towards the Future Internet (FI). Particularly he is investigating Evolved Packet Core (EPC) optimization and Cross-Layer Composition within NGNs and the FI.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
8:30 - 12:00
T2: File Sharing to Resource Sharing – Evolution of P2P Networking
Presenter: Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State University, CO

Abstract:
Moving beyond traditional file sharing applications, collaborative Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are emerging capable of pooling multi-attribute resources on demand, and using those resources collaboratively. They rely on discovery and utilization of diverse, multi-attribute, distributed, and dynamic groups of resources to achieve greater tasks beyond conventional file and processor cycle sharing. Collaborations involving application specific resources and dynamic quality of service goals are stressing current P2P architectures. Salient features and desirable characteristics of collaborative P2P systems are highlighted. Resource advertising, selecting, matching, and binding, the critical phases in these systems, and their associated challenges are reviewed using examples from distributed collaborative adaptive sensing systems, cloud computing, and mobile social networks. State-of-the-art resource discovery/aggregation solutions will be addressed with respect to their architecture, lookup overhead, load balancing, etc. to determine their ability meet the goals and challenges of each critical phase. Open issues and research opportunities will be discussed that are essential in achieving the true potential of collaborative P2P systems. Emerging collaborative P2P systems look for diverse peers that could bring in unique capabilities to a community, thereby empowering it to engage in greater tasks beyond that can be accomplished by individual peers, yet are beneficial to all the peers.

Biography:
Anura Jayasumana is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University. He also holds a joint appointment in Computer Science. His areas of expertise include Computer and Communication Networks, Protocols and Applications for Next Generation Internet, Optical Networks, and Sensor Networks. He has served as the PI of several DARPA, NSF, and industry funded projects on networking. He has served extensively as a consultant to industry, ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. He has supervised over 70 M.S. and Ph.D. theses, holds two patents, and is the co-author of a book and over 200 papers. At present, he is a member of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative and Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA). CASA involves an array of networked radars, computational models, decision makers, etc. in a closed-loop system to significantly increase the accuracy of tornado predictions. Professor Jayasumana is currently developing a P2P based resource collaboration system for emerging distributed collaborative adaptive systems, of which CASA is a prime example.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
8:30 - 12:00
T3: High‐speed at high‐speed
Presenter: Weidong Xiang, University of Michigan, USA

Abstract:
In this tutorial, we will share our leading‐edge and unique experience on the research and prototyping of LTE and WAVE systems applied to both vehicular networks and high‐speed train applications. The contents will cover latest progress in related areas ranging from channel modeling, baseband algorithms, prototyping and vehicular network simulator, system level channel emulator and field testing, all upon our recent research projects funded by NSF and industry and an ongoing project of TD‐LTE prototyping for high‐speed trains supported by the China Government.

Biography:
Weidong Xiang received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively. From 1999 to 2004, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and then a Research Scientist in the Software Radio Laboratory (SRL) at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. In 2004, he joined the ECE Department, University of Michigan, Dearborn (UMD) where he currently is as an Associated Professor. His research interest includes wireless vehicular networks, smart grid, software radio/cognitive radio, ultrawideband (UWB), and wireless networked control systems. He established and leads the Center for Vehicular Communications and Network Laboratory at UMD focusing on wireless access for vehicular environments (WAVE), smart grid communications, LTE advance for high mobility applications and UWB. He serves as an Associate Editor/Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking and others. He has successfully held several tutorials in IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC, IEEE Tutorial Now and many others. He has published 30+ technical papers in relevant international journals and conferences. He has served as the leading guest editor for a special issue on WAVE technology on EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking and the General Chair/CoChair for WAVE conference 2008/2009. His current research is widely supported by NSF, DoE, DoD, industry companies and the University of Michigan.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
8:30 - 12:00
T4: Smart Grid Communications: Research Challenges and Opportunities
Presenters: Asst. Prof. Çağrı Güngör, Bahcesehir University, Turkey

Abstract:
Today’s electric power systems suffer from the lack of effective communications, monitoring, and automation. To address these problems, recently the next generation electric power system, i.e., smart grid, has emerged. In the smart grid, reliable and real-time information becomes a critical issue for reliable delivery of power from the generating sites to the end-users. The impact of equipment failures, capacity limitations, and natural accidents and catastrophes, which cause power disturbances and outages, can be largely avoided by online power system condition monitoring, diagnostics and protection. To this end, the intelligent monitoring and control enabled by modern information and communication technologies have become essential to realize the envisioned smart grid.

In this tutorial, first a comprehensive review about smart grid characteristics, system architecture, and key players will be presented. Then, smart grid research challenges and design principles are introduced along with the emerging and already employed smart grid applications and their communication requirements. Specifically, smart grid communication technologies, field tests, and pilot projects are discussed. In addition, smart grid standards and regulations will be presented for the system owners, who plan to deploy new smart grid communication and infromation technologies. Finally, the tutorial is concluded with smart grid technology road map and open research issues.

Biography:
Vehbi Çağrı Güngör received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. Currently, he is the Co-Director of the Computer Networks and Mobile Communications Lab and the Graduate Programs (Ph.D. and M.S.) Coordinator at the Department of Computer Engineering, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey. Before joining to Bahcesehir University, he was working at Eaton Corporation, Innovation Center, WI, USA as a Project Leader of the Smart Grid and PHEV Advanced Connnectivity Program. His current research interests are in smart grid communications, next-generation wireless networks, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, cognitive radio networks, IP networks, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Dr. Güngör has authored several papers in refereed journals and international conference proceedings, and has been serving as a reviewer and program committee member to numerous journals and conferences in these areas. He is also the recipient of the IEEE ISCN 2006 Best Paper Award, the European Union FP7 Marie Curie IRG Award in 2009, and the San-Tez Project Awards issued by Alcatel-Lucent and the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Trade in 2010. He is also the Principal Investigator of the Smart Grid Communications R&D project funded by the European Union and Turk Telekom.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
13:00 - 16:30
T5: Inter-Vehicular Communication: Standards, Protocol Design, and Integrated Security Metrics
Presenters: Falko Dressler, University of Innsbruck, Austriar and Claudio Casetti,
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Abstract:
Much progress can be observed in the domain of Inter-Vehicular Communication, looking back at the last decade. In this growing community, many ongoing activities focus on the design on communication protocols to support safety application, intelligent navigation, multi-player gaming and other. Very large projects have been initiated to validate the theoretic work in field tests and protocols are being standardized. With the increasing interest from industry, security and privacy become key aspects in the stage of protocol design in order to support a smooth and carefully planned roll-out. Researchers from academia and industry recently met at an international Dagstuhl seminar to discuss open research challenges as well as open issues related to market-oriented design.

Biography:
Falko Dressler is a Full Professor of Computer Science heading the Computer and Communication Systems Group at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck. He teaches on self-organizing sensor and actor networks, network security, and communication systems. Dr. Dressler received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree from the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Erlangen in 1998 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Dressler is an Editor for journals such as Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), and Elsevier Nano Communication Networks. He was guest editor of special issues on self-organization, autonomic networking, and bio-inspired computing and communication for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, and others. Besides acting as TPC chair for a number of high-profile conferences and workshops, he regularly acts in the TPC of leading networking conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, and IEEE WCNC. Among other, Dr. Dressler wrote the textbooks Self-Organization in Sensor and Actor Networks, published by Wiley in 2007. Dr. Dressler is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in the fields of inter-vehicular communication, self-organization, and bio-inspired networking. Dr. Dressler is a Senior Member of the IEEE (COMSOC, CS, VTS) as well as a Senior Member of ACM (SIGMOBILE), and member of GI (KuVS). He is actively participating in the IETF standardization. His research activities are focused on adaptive wireless networking and self-organization methods addressing issues in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, inter-vehicular communication systems, bio-inspired networking, and adaptive network security techniques.

Claudio Casetti got his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He got his PhD in Telecommunication Engineering from the same institution and he is currently an Assistant Professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino. He has published more than 130 papers in peer-refereed international journals and conferences on the following topics: Transport and network protocols in wired networks, IEEE 802.11 WLANs, Vehicular networks, Ad hoc and sensor networks. He holds one patent from the U.S. Patent Office and two from the E.U. Patent Office. He serves in the Technical Program Committees of the main international conferences in the networking field (such as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM or IEEE ICC). He was co-chair of the Autonomic Networks Symposium at IEEE Globecom 2005. He was the Workshop Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2009, the Technical Program Co-Chair of IEEE WONS 2009 and the General Co-Chair of IEEE WONS 2010. He was Principal Investigator in the Alcatel France - Politecnico di Torino research contract on "End-to-end QoS Solutions in wireless networks" (2003-2004). He was principal investigator in the VICSUM project on vehicular networks funded by Regione Piemonte (2007-2009). He has acted as Team Leader for Politecnico di Torino in the FP6 Network of Excellence - NoE "Euro-NGI" (2003-2006), the FP6 NoE "Euro-FGI" (2006-2008) and the FP7 NoE "Euro-NF" (2008-2011). He is a member of IEEE. He has been a visiting scholar at Umass Amherst, UCLA and UCSD.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
13:00 - 16:30
T6: Towards holistic green communications and networking
Presenters: Konstantinos Samdanis and Dominique Dudkowski (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany)

Abstract:
In our tutorial, we analyze the main technical principles and most significant technical proposals in green communications and networking and discuss how they impact various communications and networking system models used for providing services efficiently to the consumer. The tutorial considers both generic concepts as well as detailed studies of energy-efficient techniques in wireless and wired networks. Two specific use cases, one wireless and one wired, are presented to illustrate the application of green communication concepts more concretely. An outlook on more holistic applications of energy management in communication networks concludes the tutorial.

Biography:
Konstantinos Samdanis is currently working as a Research Scientist at NEC Europe Ltd, Germany conducting research in the area of network management and Self-Organized Networks for eUTRAN and LTE-A, while he is also active in the field of energy efficient networking and green communication. Konstantinos is involved in 3GPP System Architecture Group 5 and in the Broadband Forum. He obtained a PhD in Mobile Communications and an MSc in Electronic Research from King's College London at 2009 and 2003 respectively. Priory he studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Brunel University UK, with major in Telecommunication Systems. In the past he conducted market research at eGov Monitor UK and worked as a teaching assistant at King's College London.

Dominique Dudkowski received his diploma in computer science in 2002 and his doctoral degree in mobile communications in 2009 from Stuttgart University, Germany. He worked as a research assistant in the Distributed Systems Group at University Stuttgart until he joined the Network Management Group of NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg, Germany, in 2008. At the labs, he has been working on management principles and architectures for the future Internet and cloud networks within the large-scale EU projects 4WARD and SAIL. He is also developing energy-efficient solutions for large fixed networks, focusing on innovative data center energy management approaches based on OpenFlow technology. Dominique is a member of several technical program committees of key conferences and workshops that have emerged in green communications and networking in the past few years. He has also been a panelist on energy measurement in communication networks and involved in standardization of Internet-related energy consumption monitoring.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
13:00 - 16:30
T7: Cognitive radio, Software defined radio, and Adaptation of wireless mobile radio systems
Presenter: Huseyin Arslan, University of South Florida, USA

Abstract:
Today's wireless services and systems have come a long way since the rollout of the conventional voicecentric cellular systems. The demand for wireless access in voice and multi-media applications has been increasing. As a result of the convergence of computing, content, and entertainment with communication, the radio equipments have become part of our daily lives. It came to a point where we cannot live without them anymore. We cannot interact, chat, find our direction, have fun or sometimes even think without them. We can leave everything behind, but, cannot go anywhere without them. The fun is actually just starting. Wait until when you see the intelligence is added to these radios. Equipped with the capability and flexibility of software defined radios and combined with the machine learning a new concept which is referred as Cognitive Radio has emerged in the wireless world. Cognitive radios can sense and be aware of its radio, user, and network environments, and react to these by adapting the operation parameters in order to maximize user satisfaction. With such a capability and intelligence, these radios can do amazing things such as learning from the past experiences of its user and about themselves to better adapt to various conditions in the future. They make our homes much smarter; make our cars and driving experience more enjoyable; reduce the health concerns by allowing more controlled electromagnetic radiation; solve interoperability problems between various networks, and eventually be our best friends. Considering the importance of radios in all aspects of life, Cognitive Radios can even save lives in disasters. In the light of all these remarkable benefits, the social, economical, and environmental impact of cognitive radios are expected to be significant.

Biography:
Dr. Arslan has received his PhD. degree in 1998 from Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, Tx. From January 1998 to August 2002, he was with the research group of Ericsson Inc., NC, USA, where he was involved with several project related to 2G and 3G wireless cellular communication systems. Since August 2002, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Dept. of University of South Florida. In addition, he has worked as part time consultant for various companies and institutions including Anritsu Company, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey- TUBITAK, Lecroy, and XG technologies.

Dr. Arslan’s research interests are related to advanced signal processing techniques at the physical layer, with cross-layer design for networking adaptivity and Quality of Service (QoS) control. He is interested in many forms of wireless technologies including cellular, wireless PAN/LAN/MANs, fixed wireless access, and specialized wireless data networks like wireless sensors networks and wireless telemetry. The current research interests are on UWB, OFDM based wireless technologies with emphasis on WIMAX and IMT-Advanced, and cognitive and software defined radio. He has served as technical program committee chair, technical program committee member, session and symposium organizer, and workshop chair in several IEEE conferences. He is a member of the editorial board for “IEEE Transactions on Communications “, “Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Journal”, and “Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering” by Hindawi Publishing Corporation. Dr. Arslan is a senior member of IEEE