NGNM 2008 Programme

[ Overview ]
Wednesday, September 24th
08:30 - 09:00

NGNM Opening

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:40

Session A - Service Middleware

12:40 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:40

Session B - Content Distribution and Handling in NGN

15:40 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:00

Session C - NGN Networking and Security



[ Wednesday Sessions ]
08:30 - 09:00

NGNM Opening
Room: Sylvilla

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:40

Session A - Service Middleware
Room: Damo
Chair Edmundo Madeira, UniCamp


A Web Service-based Network Composition Architecture for the Next Generation Internet
Luciano B. de Paula1, Rodolfo Villaca1, Fábio L. Verdi1, Mauricio F. Magalhaes1, Annikki Welin2
  1State University of Campinas, Brazil
  2Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden


Enabling the Saturday Night Swarming Scenario using the CoSIMS IMS-based Community Infrastructure
Zuzana Krifka Dobes1, Simon Dutkowski2, Roland Schwaiger3
  1T-Systems Enterprise Service, Germany
  2Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
  3Telekom Laboratories, Germany


Ontology-Based Context-Level Agreements and Negotiation Protocol
Yousif Al Ridhawi1, Ahmed Karmouch1, Roch H. Glitho2
  1University Of Ottawa, Canada
  2Ericsson Research Canada


An eXtensible middleware for Multichannel, Multimodal, and Multipattern services (X3M)
Stefano Monti, Samuele Pasini, Antonio Corradi, Enrico Lodolo, Maurelio Boari
  University of Bologna, Italy

12:40 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:40

Session B - Content Distribution and Handling in NGN
Room: Damo
Chair Evaggelos Pallis, CTRC


Juno: Reconfigurable Middleware for Heterogeneous Content Networking
Gareth Tyson1, Andreas Mauthe1, Thomas Plagemann2, Yehia El-khatib1
  1Lancaster University, United Kingdom
  2University of Oslo, Norway


Policy based Service Authorization Framework for IMS based IPTV services
Andreas Bachmann, Thomas Magedanz, Christian Riede
  Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany


Interworking SIP and RTSP to achieve studio-controlled uploading of live streaming user-generated content
M. Oskar van Deventer, Fabian Walraven, Hans Stokking, Omar A. Niamut
  TNO Information & Communication Technology, Netherlands


Opportunities and Challenges of Application Middleware for Mobile Devices
Marius Corici1, Alin F. Murarasu2, Alberto Diez2, Thomas Magedanz2
  1Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
  2Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

15:40 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:00

Session C - NGN Networking and Security
Room: Damo
Chair Anastasius Gavras, EURESCOM


A Distributed Testbed for Performance Evaluation of Inter-system Optimization Schemes in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Dimitris Vassis1, Lambros Sarakis2, George Kormentzas2, Verikoukis Christos3
  1University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece
  2National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece
  3Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia, Castelldefels, Spain


Cross-Layer Design for Resource Allocation under QoS requirements for Multiuser SS-MC-MA Systems
Ismael Gutiérrez1, Faouzi Bader2, Joan Lluís Pijoan1
  1GRECO, Barcelona, Spain
  2CTTC, Castelldefels, Spain


Dynamic Spectrum Access for NGN
Christos Politis
  Kingston University, London, United Kingdom


Adaptation Middleware to enable Presence and call control for corporate fixed lines: evolution to convergent network over IMS
José María González Calabozo, Alejandro Cadenas Gonzalez, Oscar Miguel Sola Reija
  Telefónica I+D, Madrid, Spain


A conceptual architecture for Spit Mitigation
Yacine Rebahi1, Stelios Dritsas2, Tudor Golubenco3, Andreas Bergmann4, Johan Fredrik Juell5
  1Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
  2AUEB, Athens, Greece
  3Iptego, Berlin, Germany
  4Eleven, Berlin, Germany
  5Telio Telecom, Oslo, Norway