Course Description

Broadband Convergence Network

IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecture

June 21, 2007 (10.30-12.30), TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
June 22, 2007 (10.30-12.30), The University of Namur, Belgium.

Speaker

Prof. Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia.

Abstract

The advent of mobile multimedia applications with high bandwidth and quality of service requirements has initiated a new era in telecommunications technology. At the same time, transportation of multimedia traffic has been diverted the telecommunications R&D to the advancement of existing and emerging technologies including 3G cellular networks (UMTS and cdma2000) and their next generation 4G, IEEE 802.16e (known as mobile WiMax), and IEEE 802.20 (known as Mobile -Fi). All these activities merge within the original concept of the realization of broadband wireless IP in a wide area of coverage. Toward such goal, the convergence of mobile and fixed networks becomes an important issue as it will provide new business models for the communications systems and generate new applications. Broadband convergence Network (BcN), therefore, becomes a vital term toward the implementation of next generation mobile networks and the broadband wireless IP. In BcN, interconnection among heterogeneous networks both on horizontal and vertical structures, interaction among network-dependent elements of those networks, as well as security, billing, and quality of service policies (including scheduling and admission control) must be carefully designed. The seamless movement of a subscribed user from the home network to a visiting network using a unique multimode handheld device will therefore create new problems to be solved by the telecommunications researchers.

In this talk, fundamental concepts and specifications of the above technologies will be reviewed. It will be discussed whether these technologies can fulfill the requirements of the mobile Internet service in achieving seamless mobility and QoS guarantee for a variety of multimedia applications including both real-time and non-real-time traffic. Providing backward compatibility with the existing (and advanced) technologies and the use of already available telecommunications infrastructure will be considered as the main factors in feasibility and sustainability study of any new technology for being a real player in the future broadband wireless Internet.

Speaker biography

Abbas Jamalipour holds a PhD from Nagoya University, Japan. He is the author of the first book on wireless IP and two other books, and has co-authored five books and over 180 technical papers, all in the field of mobile communications network. He is a Fellow of IEEE (for contributions to next generation networks for traffic control), a Fellow of Institute of Engineers Australia; an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer; the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Wireless Communications; and a Technical Editor of several scholarly journals including IEEE Communications, Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, Journal of Communication Network, etc. His areas of research are wireless data communication networks, wireless IP networks, next generation mobile networks, traffic control, network security and management, and satellite systems. He was one of the first researchers to disseminate the fundamental concepts of the next generation mobile networks and broadband convergence networks as well as the integration of WLAN and cellular networks; some of which are being gradually deployed by industry and included in the ITU-T standards. Professor Jamalipour has authored several invited papers and been a keynote speaker in many prestigious conferences. He served as the Chair of the Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee (2004-06); and currently is the Vice Chair of Communications Switching and Routing TC; and Chair of Chapters Coordinating Committee, Asia-Pacific Board, all from the IEEE Communications Society. He is a voting member of the IEEE GITC and IEEE WCNC Steering Committee. He has been a Vice Chair of IEEE WCNC2003 to 2006, Program Chair of SPECTS2004, Chair of symposiums at IEEE GLOBECOM2005 to 2007 and IEEE ICC2005 to 2008, and many other conferences. He has received several prestigious awards, such as 2006 IEEE Distinguished Contribution to Satellite Communications Award, 2006 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award, and 2005 Telstra Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Schedule

• June 21, 2007
  10.30-12.30, TU Eindhoven (access), The Netherlands
  Auditorium, Lecture Room 4, Den Dolech 2
• June 22, 2007
  10.30-12.30, The University of Namur (access), Belgium
  Auditorium I2, 21 rue Grandgagnage

Organization

This lecture is organized jointly by :

• the IEEE Benelux Communication and Vehicular Technology Chapter ;
• the GRASCOMP and MUSICS Graduate Schools of the Communauté Française de Belgique ;
• the Board of FUNDP - the University of Namur, Belgium ;
• the Radiocommunication Group of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands.

Registration

Participation is free-of-charge. However, to help with organization, please register now by sending a notification e-mail to Miss Susan de Leeuw at TU/e or Miss Isabelle Daelman at FUNDP.