The IEEE Communications Society invited the world's leading researchers and engineers from academia, industry, and government
to exchange their ideas at the IEEE ICC 2009 conference in Dresden, Germany in June 2009. In order to complement the high-quality
technical symposia, ICC 2009 hosted a panel track with overall eight panels where leading representatives of academia, industry, and
government discussed hot topics and answered attendees' questions.
Overview
Organizer
- Mahmoud Daneshmand (AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ)
Panelists
- Fiona Williams (Research Director, Ericson, Germany)
- Marek Rusinkiewicz (Applied Research Laboratories at Telcordia Technologies)
- Hendrik Berndt (Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President Docomo Communications Laboratories Europe, Munich, Germany)
- Hans-Joachim Grallert (Managing Director, Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin, Germany)
- Flavio Bonomi (CISCO Distinguished Engineer, US)
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Date
Monday, 15 June 2009, 10:50am - 12:20pm
Description
The objective of this panel is to present the current practices in Industry-Academia Joint Research Collaborations and to
discuss new approaches in promoting joint research collaborations leading to faster industrial innovations and enhanced academic
education. Researchers from academia and industry will share their current experience and suggest future directions to ensure
maximum benefit for both academia and industry. The challenges related to the administrative issues of collaboration including the legal
process & procedures as well as protection of the Intellectual Property Rights of academia and industry will be discussed. Practical
steps to simplify and facilitate the industry-academia collaborations will be covered. Target fields of discussion include computing
(hardware and software), telecommunications, mathematics, statistics, and electrical engineering.
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Organizer
- Henrik Granau (CEO, RFIDsec)
Panelists
- Peter Preuss (Nokia)
- Morten Harning, (European project "HYDRA")
- Remi Ronchaud, (RFIDinEurope, ERCIM)
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Date
Monday, 15 June 2009, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Description
RFID have been researched and deployed for decades; the mandates from Wallmart and DoD in the EPCglobal framework, however, has hyped
the RFID technology to tremendous heights in recent years. This is mainly as the potential replacement of barcodes at item level will
mean significant volumes and growth for the RFID Industry. But it is hard to justify the cost in pure barcode replacement. The RFID tags
are too expensive. Now the focus is shifting from Supply Chain to Full Product Life Cycle and RFID is seen as a key technology in making
the “Internet of Things” a reality. RFID tags are not just electronic barcodes, they are small computers which will hold critical data at
the very edge of the network. The aim of the panel is to discuss how we can protect data on the RFID tags in a secure, and at the same time,
dynamic way. And once the Privacy issues are also solved, what kind of RFID based applications can we expect to see?
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Organizers
- Prof. Jie Zhang (CWiND, University of Bedfordshire)
Panelists
- Simon Saunders (The Femto Forum)
- Andy Tiller (Ip.access)
- Guillaume de la Roche (CWiND, University of Bedfordshire)
- Holger Claussen (Alcatel-Lucent)
- John Raw (Huawei)
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Date
Tuesday, 16 June 2009, 09:00am - 10:30am
Description
Femtocells, also known as “home base station”, are cellular network access points that connect standard mobile devices to a mobile operator’s
network using residential DSL, cable broadband connections or wireless last-mile access technologies. The concept of “home base station” was probably
first studied in 1999. However, it was not until 2005 that the “home base station” concept started to gain a wider acceptance. In 2006, Femtocell as
a term was coined. In February 2007, a number of companies demonstrated femtocells at the 3GSM World Congress (Barcelona), with operators announcing
trials. In July 2007, the Femto Forum (www.femtoforum.org) was founded by Prof. Simon Saunders etc to promote
femtocell standardization and deployment worldwide. Now, the forum includes over 100 telecom hardware and software vendors, mobile operators, content
providers and start-ups. Femtocell became a mainstream technology in 2007-2008. According to a recent market research carried out by ABI Research, there
could be 32 million femtocells deployed worldwide by 2011. 2G/3G based femtocells have been developed by various vendors. The development of WiMAX and
LTE based femtocells are also under way. It is likely that the roll-out of LTE networks will start from indoor femtocells rather than from outdoor
macrocells. Femtocells are also very promising for enterprise applications.
The deployment of an indoor femtocell layer in an outdoor macrocell network faces many issues and challenges that need to be addressed, for example,
the study of macro- and femto-cell capacity in a femto/macrocell scenario, femtocell coverage, femto/macrocell interference analysis and mitigation,
mobility management between femto and macrocells, and automatic configuration of femtocells. Femtocells will also facilitate many innovative applications,
e.g., location based services, home network integration and so on. All of these will be discussed in this panel.
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Organizers
- Andreas Gladisch (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany)
- Hanggang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)
Panelists
- Mario Pickavet (Professor, University of Ghent IBBT, Belgium)
- Steven Gray (CTO & VP of Corporate Research, Huawei Technologies Co., USA)
- Jeffrey Z. Tao (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)
- Werner Mohr (Head of Research Alliances, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany)
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Date
Tuesday, 16 June 2009, 10:50am - 12:20pm
Description
Nowadays, the whole world of telecommunications and information communities is facing a more and more serious challenge,
namely on one side the transmitted multimedia-rich data are exploding at an astonishing speed and on the other side the total
energy consumption by the communication and networking devices and the relevant global CO2 emission are increasing terribly. Recently
it has been pointed out that energy costs account for as much as half of a mobile telecommunication operator’s operating expenses. In
general the traffic of Internet is constantly growing by 60 percent per year and it is definitely a nightmare scenery if the power
consumption of Internet would increase by the same amount per year. Therefore, telecommunications applications can have a direct, tangible
impact on lowering greenhouse gas emissions, power consumption, and achieve efficient recycling of equipment waste. Moreover, to find multimedia,
broadband and intelligent radio networking solutions that can greatly improve energy-efficiency and resource-efficiency (Green Communications)
is not only benefit for the global environment but also makes commercial sense for telecommunication operators supporting sustainable and profitable business.
Within the framework of “Green Communications”, a number of paradigm-shifting technical approaches can be expected, including but
not limited to energy-efficient network architecture & protocols, energy-efficient home networking, energy-efficient broadband access,
energy-efficient wireless transmission techniques, cross-layer optimization methods, and opportunistic spectrum sharing without causing
harmful interference pollution (i.e. Green Spectrum).
This panel is aimed to bring together the key-players coming from the industry, academy, and government bodies with various backgrounds
and expertise, while targeting for deeply exploring various significant aspects of “Green Communications” and their potentially enabling technologies.
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Organizer
- Ralf G. Herrtwich (Daimler AG, Böblingen, Germany)
Panelists
- Ulrich Dietz (Vodafone, Munich, Germany)
- Knut Evensen (Q-Free, Trondheim, Norway)
- Søren Hess (ETSI TC ITS, Holte, Denmark)
- Heinrich Stüttgen (NEC, Heidelberg, Germany)
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Date
Tuesday, 16 June 2009, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Description
Drivers and passengers of motor vehicles can benefit greatly from communication to and from their car: communication connects them
to the outside world, can improve safety by providing advance warnings about hazards on the road ahead, allows them to arrive at their
destination more quickly avoiding traffic jams about which they get informed, provides means to comfortably access roadside functions such as
electronic tolling, or becomes a utility to monitor vehicle health.
Various initiatives around the world develop and test communication systems for the automotive domain. The fundamental question remains
which communication system to use and how to deploy it – both on the infrastructure and vehicle side. This panel will discuss the following topics:
- Automotive communication applications and their respective importance
- The technology choices for communication to and from the vehicle
- The technical status of experiments on automotive communications so far
- The most pressing problems in the area and research initiatives to address them
- The rollout and funding scenarios for network deployment
The panel aims at providing the audience with an up-to-date perspective on recent work in automotive communications focussing
on identifying open issues which require further investigation.
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Organizer
- Bhaskar Ramamurthi (IIT-Madras, India)
Panelists
- Josef Lorenz (Nokia Siemens Networks, Munich)
- Angus Hay (Neotel, Johannesburg)
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Date
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 09:00am - 10:30am
Description
Broadband penetration by wireline/cable is too costly or cumbersome
to deploy in several very populous parts of the world. By comparison,
wireless cellular service makes telephony affordable and available to all.
Affordable standards-driven wireless broadband holds the key to
explosive growth in broadband access throughout the world. This panel
addresses needs of in-building users, as opposed to outdoor mobile
users, who require sustained high capacity. It will discuss
technology requirements for Broadband Wireless Access in different
parts of the world, past attempts to find solutions, and the new
promise of standards-based fixed and mobile broadband technologies.
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Organizers
- Maurizio Decina (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Panelists
- Jean-Pierre Bienaime (Chairman UMTS Forum, Orange)
- Luis M. Correia (Technical University Lisbon)
- Nigel Jefferies (Vodafone, Chairman WWR Forum)
- Peter Meissner (Operating Officer, NGMN Alliance)
- Adam Wolisz (Technical University Berlin)
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Date
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 10:50am - 12:20pm
Description
Broadband mobile access to the Internet stands for the fastest growing communication service in the next years.
Projections for year 2012 show that mobile broadband connections will overcome fixed broadband worldwide, reaching almost a billion users.
High speed data rates can be offered in mobile networks using a variety of technologies suitable for in-door/out-door, and metro/rural environments.
Two families of technologies are employed for broadband mobile browsing. Those evolving from cellular radio, such as 3G/HSPA and the future 4G/LTE,
and those evolving from wireless computer communications like WiFi and WiMAX. There is a convergence both on the “technology engines” of such
broadband wireless networks (OFDMA, MIMO and smart antennas), and on the need to provide IP based services aiming at “full mobility”. “Full” means:
all IP services, seamless roaming and handovers, and mobility at more than 100 miles per hour. These technical challenges should be met in the
forthcoming years by taking into account: the need for interconnection of heterogeneous wireless networks, the limited addressing and naming
capabilities of the current IP stack, the need for more radio spectrum together with methods for its efficient usage to allow the deployment of
systems suitable for data rates up to 1 Gbit/s.
The panelists give an outline of the evolution from 3G to 4G mobile radio systems by offering the point of view and perspectives
of wireless systems research and the industry consortia.
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Organizers
- Robert E. Kahn (Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA)
Panelists
- Phuoc Tran-Gia (University of Würzburg, Germany)
- Rainer Zimmermann (European Commission, Brussels, Belgium)
- Alexander Ntoko (International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Geneva, Switzerland)
- Bob Briscoe (British Telecom, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK)
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Date
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
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