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| Keynote lectures are plenary sessions which are scheduled for taking about 45 minutes + 10 minutes for questions. | ||||
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- David A. Marca, University of Phoenix, United States - Yaakov Kogan, AT&T Labs, United States - Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan - Nuno Borges Carvalho, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes / Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal - Ueli Maurer, ISwiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland - Bart Preneel, University of Leuven, Belgium - Ingemar Cox, University College London, United Kingdom |
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| Keynote Lecturer 1 | ||||
| e-Business Innovation: Surviving the Coming Decade | ||||
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Brief Bio: David A. Marca is on the Adjunct Faculty at the University of Phoenix. His six books and 24 papers cover e-Business, e-Commerce, business process reengineering, and software engineering. He holds a patent in workflow technology. His last book, entitled “Open Process Frameworks: Patterns for the Adaptive e-Enterprise,” was published by the IEEE in 2006. David is also President of OpenProcess, Inc. – an e-Business consulting firm since 1997 – that helps firms implement workforce management and e-Business solutions. He has consulted in Italy, Norway, Mexico and the United States. David is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Project Management Institute (PMI). |
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Abstract: Innovation is often associated with an invention or an application of technologies or theories that radically alters business and the economy. Innovation is a major economic driver, and vice versa. The last 230 years has seen innovation and the economy locked in 80-year cycles. Starting in 2010, innovation and the economy will decrease sharply due to four major, world-wide forces:
Business will need to alter its offerings, operations and organization to survive, and so e-Business must become an immediate priority. Business must combine internet, wireless, broadband, video, and speech recognition technologies to create an extremely flexible front office while simultaneously creating an extremely efficient back office. The resulting e-Business architecture must have:
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| Keynote Lecturer 2 | ||||
| Improving Reliability in Commercial IP Networks | ||||
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Brief Bio: Yaakov Kogan received the Ph.D. and Doctor of Sciences degrees from the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1969 and 1987, respectively. He joined the Network Design and Performance Analysis Department at AT&T in 1993 where he is currently a Lead Member of Technical Staff. During 1989 – 1993 he was a professor at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management of the Technion University. After receiving the Ph.D. he worked on performance analysis and measurements of computer and communication systems and developed nonparametric and asymptotic methods for solving stochastic models of large dimension. He published 5 books and more than 100 papers. Dr. Kogan is a member of IFIP Working Group 7.3 on Computer Systems Modeling since 1979 and IEEE Fellow since 2001. His recent activities include performance and reliability analysis of large IP and Frame Relay networks. |
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Abstract: As the Internet becomes an increasingly critical communication infrastructure for business, education and civil society in general, the need to understand and systematically analyze its reliability becomes progressively more important. An Internet Service Provider (ISP) faces a challenge of providing service that meets customer expectations in terms of price and reliability while continuously reducing its cost. This implies increasing the low speed port concentration at the edge and using the highest available speed in the core. In fact, changes in Internet technology (particularly software) are significantly more frequent and less rigorously tested than used to be in circuit-switching telephone networks. Naturally, the next generation of switches, routers, line-cards and transmission links is initially less reliable than the previous generation at the end of its life cycle. An ISP can wait until the technology will mature but then it faces the risk of losing customers and revenues in a situation where many customers care more about low prices than claims of better quality or advanced services [1]. A large ISP has to meet high reliability requirements for critical applications like financial transactions, Voice over IP and Internet gaming. This results in variety of redundancy solutions at the edge and resilient core which is shared by traffic from all applications. In this paper, we review redundancy solutions for eliminating or reducing the customer impact in typical failure modes in IP networks and present constructive metrics for evaluating and improving the reliability of commercial IP networks. |
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| Keynote Lecturer 3 | ||||
| Next Generation CDMA Technologies for Futuristic Wireless Communications | ||||
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Brief Bio: Hsiao-Hwa Chen is currently a full Professor and was the founding Director of the Institute of Communications Engineering of the National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan. He received BSc and MSc degrees from Zhejiang University, China, and PhD degree from University of Oulu, Finland, in 1982, 1985 and 1990, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He has authored or co-authored over 200 technical papers in major international journals and conferences, five books and several book chapters in the areas of communications, including the books titled "Next Generation Wireless Systems and Networks" (512 pages) and “The Next Generation CDMA Technologies” (468 pages), both published by John Wiley and Sons in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He has been an active volunteer for IEEE various technical activities for over 20 years. Currently, he is serving as the Chair of IEEE Communications Society Radio Communications Committee. He served or is serving as symposium chair/co-chair of many major IEEE conferences, including VTC, ICC, Globecom and WCNC, etc. He served or is serving as Associate Editor or/and Guest Editor of numerous important technical journals in communications. He is serving as the Editor (Asia and Pacific) for Wiley's Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) Journal and Wiley's International Journal of Communication Systems, etc. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wiley’ Security and Communication Networks journal (www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/security). He is also an adjunct Professor of Zhejiang University, China, and Shanghai Jiao Tung University, China.. |
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Abstract: Future wireless communication systems should be operating mainly, if not completely, for burst data services carrying multimedia traffics. The need to support high-speed burst traffic has already posed a great challenge to all currently available air-link technologies based on either TDMA or CDMA. The current CDMA technology has been widely used in both 2G and 3G mobile cellular standards and it has been suggested that it is not suitable for high-speed burst-type traffic. There are many problems with current CDMA technology, such as its low spreading efficiency, interference-limited capacity and the need for precision power control, etc. This talk will address various important issues about the next generation CDMA technologies as a major air-link technology for futuristic wireless applications. In particular, it will cover two major topics: why we need the next generation CDMA technologies, and what is the next generation CDMA technology. |
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| Keynote Lecturer 4 | ||||
| The importance of Metrology in Wireless Communication Systems – From AM/FM to SDR Systems | ||||
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Brief Bio: Nuno Borges Carvalho, was born in Luanda in 1972. He received the diploma and doctoral degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal in 1995 and 2000 respectively. From 1997 to 2000 he was an Assistant Lecturer at the same University and a Professor since 2000. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the same University, and the scientific area coordinator of the wireless communications at Instituto de Telecomunicações. He has worked as a scientist researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, and was engaged to different projects on nonlinear CAD, circuits and systems design and RF system integration. His main research interests include CAD for nonlinear circuits/systems, nonlinear distortion analysis in microwave/wireless circuits and systems and measurement of nonlinear phenomena, recently he has also been involved in design of dedicated radios and systems for newly emerging wireless technologies. In 2007 he was a visitor researcher at the North Carolina State University, and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology , NIST. Prof. Borges Carvalho is a member of the Portuguese Engineering Association and an IEEE Senior Member. He was the recipient of the 1995 University of Aveiro and the Portuguese Engineering Association Prize for the best 1995 student at the Universidade de Aveiro, the 1998 Student Paper Competition (third place) presented at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium, the 2000 IEE Measurement Prize. He is also the co-inventor of three registered national patents. He is a reviewer for several magazines including the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Cicuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportion Systems, as some International journals from the Institute of Physics. He is the webmaster and an active member of the IEEE MTT-11 Technical Committee, and the chair of the URSI-Portugal metrology committee. Dr. Borges Carvalho is co-author of the book “Intermodulation in Microwave and Wireless Circuits” from Artech House, 2003. |
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Abstract: Metrology is a key point in the design and optimization of wireless communication networks, in this talk we will make a brief presentation of the metrology chain necessities from base-band to RF wireless communication scenarios. In this path we will address linear and nonlinear measurements strategies, from RF figures of merit to base band figures. Finally some recent developments referred to software radio activities will also be presented, explaining the new paradigms and envisioning the future of wireless metrology. |
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| Keynote Lecturer 5 | ||||
| Rethinking Digital Signatures | ||||
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Brief Bio: Ueli Maurer is professor of computer science and head of the Information Security and Cryptography Research Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich. His research interests include information security, theory of cryptography (new paradigms, security proofs), applications of cryptography (e.g. digital signatures, public-key infrastructures, digital payment systems, e-voting), theoretical computer science, discrete mathematics, and information theory. He is also interested in the impact of IT on the society and economy at large. Maurer graduated in electrical engineering (1985) and received his Ph.D. degree in Technical Sciences (1990) from ETH Zurich. From 1990 to 1991 he was DIMACS research fellow at the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University, and in 1992 he joined the CS Department at ETH Zurich where he is a full professor. He has served extensively as an editor and a member of program committees. Currently he is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology, Editor-in-Chief of Springer Verlag's book series in Information Security and Cryptography, and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IACR, and was the 2000 Rademacher Lecturer of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. Maurer has served as a consultant for many companies and government organisations, both at the management and the technical level. He serves on a few boards, including the board of directors of Tamedia, a Swiss media company, and the scientific advisory board of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is a co-founder of the Zurich-based security software company Seclutions and holds several patents for cryptographic systems. |
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Abstract: Digital evidence, such as digital signatures, is of crucial importance in the emerging digitally operating economy because it is easy to transmit, archive, search, and verify. Nevertheless the initial promises of the usefulness of digital signatures were too optimistic. This calls for a systematic treatment of digital evidence. The goal of this talk is to provide a foundation for reasoning about digital evidence systems and legislation, thereby identifying the roles and limitations of digital evidence, in the apparently simple scenario where it should prove that an entity A agreed to a digital contract d. Our approach is in sharp contrast to the current general views documented in the technical literature and in digital signature legislation. We propose an entirely new view of the concepts of certification, time-stamping, revocation, and other trusted services, potentially leading to new and more sound business models for trusted services. Some of the perhaps provocative implications of our view are that certificates are generally irrelevant as evidence in a dispute, that it is generally irrelevant *when* a signature was generated, that a commitment to be liable for digital evidence cannot meaningfully be revoked, and that there is no need for *mutually* trusted authorities like certification authorities. We also propose a new type of digital evidence called digital declarations, based on a digital recording of a willful act indicating agreement to a document or contract. |
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Brief Bio: Bart Preneel received the Doctorate in Applied Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) where he is currently a full professor. He was visiting professor at several universities in Europe. His main research interests are cryptography and information security. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 scientific publications. He is president of the IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cryptology and of the IEEE Transactions on Forensics and Information Security. He has participated to 25 research projects sponsored by the European Commission, for five of these as project manager. He has been program chair of ten international conferences and he has been invited speaker at more than 30 conferences. In 2003, he has received the European Information Security Award in the area of academic research. He has been a member of the TCPA Advisory Board. He is president of L-SEC vzw. (Leuven Security Excellence Consortium), an association of 60 companies and research institutions in the area of e-security. He is cofounder and conductor of the jazz ensemble of the K.U.Leuven. |
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Abstract: The exponential progress of hardware during the past decades and the explosion of wired and wireless networks has resulted in a large scale deployment of cryptography in financial applications and e-commerce, in mobile phones and in electronic identity cards. In parallel with his deployment the insight has grown that building secure information systems is a very hard problem: cryptography is an essential building block that may have helped us to win some battles, but one still has the impression that we are losing the information security “war.” The development of more secure information systems will require expertise from many areas of computer science but also from economics, law and psychology. In this talk we will first attempt to clarify the role of cryptology. Subsequently we will discuss the challenges that are faced by this discipline. In the last thirty years, the scientific foundations of the cryptology have been established by using tools from complexity theory and information theory. Nevertheless, there are still major issues and shortcomings, as witnessed by the recent hash function crisis. This talk will discuss the status of cryptographic algorithms using four examples: block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions and public-key encryption algorithms. In the development of future algorithms, we need to develop algorithms that offer better trade-offs between performance, cost and security. In addition we face challenges related to secure implementations in software and hardware and in the area of algorithm agility. We will conclude with a brief discussion of opportunities offered by the progress made in the area of cryptographic protocols and with a discussion of some research challenges. |
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Brief Bio: Ingemar J. Cox is currently Professor and BT Chair of Communications in the Departments of Computer Science, and Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London and Director of UCL's Adastral Park Postgraduate Campus. He is currently a holder of a Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship. He received his B.Sc. from University College London and Ph.D. from Oxford University. He was a member of the Technical Staff at AT\&T Bell Labs at Murray Hill from 1984 until 1989 where his research interests were focused on mobile robots. In 1989 he joined NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ as a senior research scientist in the computer science division. At NEC, his research shifted to problems in computer vision and he was responsible for creating the computer vision group at NECI. He has worked on problems to do with stereo and motion correspondence and multimedia issues of image database retrieval and watermarking. In 1999, he was awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Area) for a paper he co-authored on watermarking. From 1997-1999, he served as Chief Technical Officer of Signafy, Inc, a subsidiary of NEC responsible for the commercialization of watermarking. Between 1996 and 1999, he led the design of NEC's watermarking proposal for DVD video disks and later colloborated with IBM in developing the technology behind the joint "Galaxy" proposal supported by Hitachi, IBM, NEC, Pioneer and Sony. In 1999, he returned to NEC Research Institute as a Research Fellow. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the IET (formerly IEE), and the British Computer Society. He is a member of the UK Computing Research Committee. He was founding co-editor in chief of the IEE Proc. on Information Security and is an associate editor of the IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security. He is co-author of a book entitled "Digital Watermarking" and its second edition "Digital Watermarking and Steganography", and the co-editor of two books, `Autonomous Robots Vehicles' and `Partitioning Data Sets: With Applications to Psychology, Computer Vision and Target Tracking'. |
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