"Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade"    Download Speech in PDF format

Abstract:
Key technologies such as Wireless Sensor Networks, Sensor and Actor networks, WiMAX, Wireless Mesh Networks, Hybrid Networks, will be presented and several research challenges will be highlighted. Predictions about the wireless technology development for the next decade will be listed.

IAN F. AKYILDIZ is Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor and Director of Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology since 20 years. Professor Akyildiz is Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, and Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) journal. Professor Akyildiz is an IEEE Fellow (1995), an ACM Fellow (1996). He received several IEEE and ACM Awards including IEEE Leonard Abraham Best paper award from IEEE JSAC in 1997, IEEE Best Tutorial paper award in 2003, IEEE Harry Goode Memorial Award (IEEE Computer Society), 2003 ACM SIGMOBILE award for his pioneering contributions in mobility and resource management in wireless networks, ACM Best Distinguished Lecturer Award in 1994, Georgia Tech Faculty Research Author Award in 2004 and School of ECE/Georgia Tech Distinguished Faculty Award in 2005. Dr. Akyildiz guest edited several special issues and organized many leading conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM 1998, IEEE ICC 2003, ACM MOBICOM 1996 and 2002 and many others. His current research interests are Wireless Sensor Networks, Next Generation Wireless Networks and Interplanetary Internet.

 

IAN F. AKYILDIZ
Broadband and Wireless Networking Lab
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
http://www.ece.gatech.edu/research/labs/bwn

 

"Inter-Provider QoS-based Service Offering"

Abstract:
Quality of Service (QoS) is a key factor for future multi-service networks. Providing QoS across the multi-provider global Internet is very challenging. Providers must interact more closely with each other for offering end-to-end QoS-based services in the global Internet. These closer interactions should create an environment, where guarantees on reachability, availability and network performance that are needed for inter-domain QoS delivery can be made. This talk emphasises on all the functions in a way that meets these challenges. The presentation encompasses the following aspects:

• Introduction of a business model depicting the stakeholders including content, service and network providers involved in the chain of end-to-end QoS-based service delivery.
• Interconnection technologies and new techniques for providing service level interactions between providers
• Service and resource management capabilities of network provider domains
• Intra/inter-domain QoS-based monitoring for supporting service assurance and resource management
• Bi-directionality of services, signalling, inter-operability, QoS-based routing, etc.

Hamid Asgari is a Technical Project Manger and Assistant Chief Engineer at Thales Research & Technology (TRT) UK. He has been with TRT (UK) specialising in data communication networks/systems since 1996. Currently, he is leading TRT (UK)’s participation in ENTHRONE EC FP6 project (2003-2005) contributing to the design and development of an integrated management system which covers an entire audio-visual service distribution chain. Dr. Asgari participated in MESCAL EC FP5 project (2002-2005) for providing end-to-end QoS across the Internet, based on the use of SLS and QoS-inferred BGP. He also participated in the TEQUILA EC FP5 project (2000-2002) in devising solutions for intra-domain QoS, using DiffServ QoS architecture and traffic-engineering techniques. He devised a QoS-based monitoring system and conducted the experimentation and evaluation of the entire TEQUILA system. Dr. Asgari provided consultancy to Global Crossing Ltd (1998-2001), on IP QoS issues, particularly in designing a new service monitoring system as well as a QoS architecture for an IP-centric service supported VoIP, VPN and Internet Access. Additionally, he worked on a number of new communication products and development programmes and in modelling and performance evaluation of these products for RACAL Data Com. Ltd (1996-1998). He was with ITRC in Tehran (1986-1990) as a Project Manager conducting research in telecommunication and data communication subjects. His current research interests are in network QoS management, QoS-aware monitoring, network and system level performance evaluation, traffic engineering, and service management.

Hamid Asgari
Internet Technology Centre
Thales Research & Technology (TRT) UK Ltd.
Worton Drive, Worton Grange
Berkshire, Reading RG2 0SB
United Kingdom
Email: Hamid.Asgari@thalesgroup.com
http://www.thalesresearch.com/