ICCCN 2011 Tutorials
Six high quality tutorials will be presented on Sunday, July 31st, 2011. Tutorials will be FREE and open to all attendees of ICCCN 2011.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, ICCCN 2011 is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of Computer Communications and Networks. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving communications and networking related techniques.
Tutorial TRACK 1
- Morning, Half Day Tutorial: Packet Core Network Evolution in regard to Future Internet Research Trends, Thomas Magedanz and Julius Mueller - Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Thomas Magedanz (PhD) is full professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences faculty at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, leading the chair for next generation networks (www.av.tu-berlin.de <www.av.tu-berlin.de> ). In addition, he is director of the ³next generation network infrastructure² division of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS (www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/ngni <http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/ngni> ). Since more than 22 years Prof. Magedanz is working in the convergence field of fixed and mobile telecommunications, the internet and information technologies, which resulted in many international R&D projects centered around prototyping of new innovative multimedia applications and related Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs) above mobile and fixed Next Generation Networks and the emerging Future Internet. In this context Prof. Magedanz established the Open IMS Playground (www.open-ims.org) in 2005, the Open SOA Telco Playground (www.opensoaplayground.org) in 2008, and the Future Seamless Communications Playground (www.fuseco-playground.org) in 2010.
Julius Mueller studied computer science at the Freie Universität Berlin and obtained his diploma in 2009. In his university studies he concentrated on computer networks, distributed systems and mobile communications. He worked as student researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS in the competence center Next Generation Network Infrastructures (NGNI) in the field of optimized service provision in Next Generation Networks (NGNs) and particularly the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Here he also worked in some European projects, such as the EU project Vital++. In this context he also wrote his diploma thesis about NGN/IMS and Peer to Peer (P2P) system integration. In 2009 he joined the chair "Architektur der Vermittlungsknoten (AV)" at the electrical engineering and computer sciences faculty within the Technische Universität Berlin as PhD researcher, where he is working within the German BMBF project G-Lab DEEP-G. His scientific work and PhD supervised by Prof. Thomas Magedanz focuses on the evolution of NGNs towards the Future Internet (FI). Particularly he is investigating Evolved Packet Core (EPC) optimization and Cross-Layer Composition within NGNs and the FI. Mr. Mueller has experiences in workshops and conferences. Examples include: ICIN, Marcus Evans, MobilWare.Tutorial Abstract:
This half day workshop will provide an overview of the Packet Core Network evolution starting with the introduction of global fixed and mobile next generation network standards and outlining its evolution in regard to the emerging Future Internet, which is driven by international research programmes, such as GENI in the US, FIRE in Europe and Akari in Japan. The main focus will be on the network and service control options and optimization within the 3GPP Evolved Packet Core (EPC) forming today the common packet core architecture for various broadband access networks, including LTE and WIMAX. The tutorial will address potential EPC application domains, including IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) based VoIP as well as internet over the top service architectures with their own service layer control capabilities. Starting from here the tutorial looks at the emerging Future Internet, comprising different research views, such as the internet of things, the internet of services, and the network of the future. Here we introduce the current visions and research topics related to cross-layer functional composition and network virtualisation. The tutorial terminates with outlining how FI concepts could be exploited in NGN/EPC evolution and introducing related software toolkits and experimental platforms, namely the OpenEPC (www.openepc.net) and the FUSECO-Playground (www.fuseco-playground.org) enabling comprehensive prototyping in the context of academic and industry research. -
Afternoon, Lecture One: Extensible IP Signaling: Architecture, Protocols and Practice, Xiaoming Fu - University of Göttingen, Germany
Prof. Xiaoming Fu received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China in 2000. After that he was a member of scientific staff, Technical University Berlin, Germany. In 2002, he joined the University of Göttingen as an assistant professor (C1), then a professor since 2007, heading the Computer Networks Group. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, Columbia University (DAAD) and UCLA (Fulbright), and is a ChangJiang Scholar Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, China. Since October 2010 he has been Vice Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC). He is the recipient of the University Foundation Council Award for Exceptional Publications by Young Scholars, University of Göttingen (2005). He has served on the organization or program committees for ACM MOBICOM, MOBIHOC, MobiArch, IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP, ICDCS, IWQoS, Networking, ICCCN, Globecom, ICC, etc. He serves on the editorial board of Computer Communications (Elsevier) and was/is as a guest editor for IEEE Network Special Issues on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet (Sept/Oct 2008) and the forthcoming Computer Networks (Elsevier) Special Issue on Measurement-based Optimization of P2P Networking and Applications. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of ACM and GI. His research areas include architecture, protocols and applications of Internet-based communication systems, besides over 80 scientific publications in referred journals and conference proceedings, he has also first-hand standardization experience in the IETF and the ETSI.
Tutorial Abstract:
In the past decade, a number of applications have emerged that can benefit from network-layer signaling, i.e., the installation, maintenance and removal of control state in network elements. These applications include path-coupled and path-decoupled quality of service (QoS) management and resource allocation, as well as network diagnostics, NAT and firewall control, and media-independent handovers. These applications call for an extensible and secure signaling protocol. In this tutorial I will share with the audience our IETF standardization experiences through the example of the next-generation extensible IP signaling protocol suite (RFCs 4080-4081, 4094, 5971-5977, 6084 etc) developed by its Next Steps in Signaling (NSIS) working group. The tutorial will elaborate the architecture, protocol design and implementation of the NSIS protocol suite, and compare them with RSVP, the current Internet QoS signaling protocol. Specifically, this tutorial will cover the following topics: IETF standardization process and NSIS example, Path-(de)coupled signaling and RSVP signaling model, A review of existing Internet signaling protocols, NSIS: an extensible IP signaling architecture, GIST: General Internet Signaling Transport protocol, QoS signaling application protocol in NSIS, NAT/firewall signaling application protocol in NSIS, Security considerations in NSIS, A comparison between NSIS and RSVP, Implementation experiences and deployment perspectives, Open issues and related work.
- Afternoon, Lecture Two: Information and Networking Infrastructure of the Smart Grid, Suleyman Uludag - University of Michigan, Flint, USA
Suleyman Uludag received the PhD degree from DePaul University in 2007. He is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan—Flint. His research interests include smart grid networking, guaranteed and stochastic routing in wired, wireless mesh and sensor networks, topology aggregation, and channel assignment in wireless mesh networks. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.
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The energy sector, and especially the grid infrastructure, has traditionally focused on the reliable provisioning. Until recently, communications and information flows have been considered only with extraneous significance. With the recent ambitious initiatives for the Smart Grid, more active and explicit integration of the networking and information infrastructures into the current power grid has become imperative. However, the contribution of the networking community to this important initiative has been quite limited so far. The main goal of this tutorial is to bring a concise summary and survey of the networking needs of the Future Smart Grid to the ICCCN attendees and the networking community at large. The main themes of the tutorial are: (1) To explain the relatively obscure set of the currently used communications standards and protocols in the power industry; (2) To elaborate on the set of networking technologies and protocols from the dominant TCP/IP protocol suite and the Internet for potential adoption by the Smart Grid ; (3) To identify the open areas and issues that need to be addressed as a result of the inevitable adoption of the TCP/IP protocols to make the vision of the Smart Grid a reality; and (4) To explore the security and privacy issues of the emerging Smart Grid.
Tutorial TRACK 2
- Morning, Half Day Tutorial: Cloud Data Center Networks: Scalability and Commoditization, Sudipta Sengupta - Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
Sudipta Sengupta is currently at Microsoft Research, where he is working on technologies that enable the next-generation Internet, including data center systems and networking, peer-to-peer applications, wireless networking, non-volatile memory for data center/cloud applications, and data deduplication. Previously, he spent five years at Bell Laboratories, the R&D Division of Lucent Technologies, where he worked on Internet routing, optical switching, network security, wireless networks, and network coding. Before that, he was with Tellium, an optical networking pioneer, that grew from an early-stage startup to a public company during his tenure there.
Dr. Sengupta received a Ph.D. and an M.S. in EECS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, and a B.Tech. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India. He was awarded the President of India Gold Medal at IIT-Kanpur for graduating at the top of his class. Dr. Sengupta has published 65+ research papers in some of the top conferences, journals, and technical magazines. He has authored 40+ patents (granted or pending) in the area of computer systems and networking.
Dr. Sengupta won the IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize for 2008 for his work on oblivious routing of Internet traffic. At Bell Labs, he received the President's Teamwork Achievement Award for technology transfer of research into Lucent products. His work on peer-to-peer based distribution of real-time layered video received the IEEE ICME 2009 Best Paper Award. At Microsoft, he received the Gold Star Award which recognizes "important career milestones of people leaders, thought leaders, and customer leaders as they take on roles to increase their contribution to Microsoft's long term success".Tutorial Abstract:
What the Tutorial will cover: We will begin with an introduction to data centers for Internet/cloud services. We will survey several next-generation data center network designs that meet the criteria of allowing any service to run on any server in a flat unfragmented pool of servers and providing bandwidth guarantees for arbitrary communication patterns among servers (limited only by server line card rates). These span efforts from academia and industry research labs, including VL2, Portland, SEATTLE, Hedera, and BCube, and ongoing standardization activities in IEEE. We will also cover other emerging aspects of data center networking like energy proportionality for greener data center networks.
Large scale data centers are enabling the new era of Internet cloud computing. The computing platform in such data centers consists of low-cost commodity servers that, in large numbers and with software support, match the performance and reliability of expensive enterprise-class servers of yesterday, at a fraction of the cost. The network interconnect within the data center, however, has not seen the same scale of commoditization or dropping price points. Today's data centers use expensive enterprise-class networking equipment and associated best-practices that were not designed for the requirements of Internet-scale data center services -- they severely limit server-to-server network capacity, create fragmented pools of servers that do not allow any service to run on any server, and have poor reliability and utilization. The commoditization and redesign of data center networks to meet cloud computing requirements is the next frontier of innovation in the data center.
Recent research in data center networks addresses many of these aspects involving both scale and commoditization. By creating large flat Layer 2 networks, data centers can provide the view of a flat unfragmented pool of servers to hosted services. By using traffic engineering methods (based on both oblivious and adaptive routing techniques) on specialized network topologies, the data center network can handle arbitrary and rapidly changing communication patterns between servers. By making data centers modular for incremental growth, the up-front investment in infrastructure can be reduced, thus increasing their economic feasibility. This is an exciting time to work in the data center networking area, as the industry is on the cusp of big changes, driven by the need to run Internet-scale services, enabled by the availability of low-cost commodity switches/routers, and fostered by creative and novel architectural innovations. - Afternoon, Lecture One: User-Centric Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia
Communications, Prof Song Ci, Univ of Nebraska, Lincoln
Song Ci [S¹98, M¹02, SM¹06] is an associate professor at the Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering in the College of Engineering of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received his B.S. from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 1992, M.S. from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 1998, and Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2002, all in Electrical Engineering. He also worked with China Telecom as a telecommunication engineer from 1992 to 1995, and with Wireless Connectivity Division of 3COM Cooperation, Santa Clara, CA, as a R&D co-op in 2001. From 2002 to 2005, he was an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Michigan-Flint. From 2005 to 2006, he was an assistant professor of computer science at UMass Boston. His research interests include: cross-layer design for QoS provisioning in wireless data networks, resource allocation in heterogeneous wireless networks and energy-aware embedded real-time sensor system design. He has published more than 100 research papers in referred journals and international conferences in those areas. He currently serves as an Associate Editor in the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) as well as a Guest Editor of IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols. He serves as the symposium co-chair of IEEE Globecom wireless network symposium, the TPC co-chair of IEEE ICCCN 2007, the track co-chair of Wireless Applications track at IEEE VTC 2007 Fall. He has served as reviewers for many referred journals and technical committee members for several international conferences. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of ACM.
Tutorial Abstract:
The aim of this tutorial is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions that address the various aspects of user-centric cross-layer designs for multimedia communications.
Multimedia traffic is delay-sensitive loss-insensitive, which is much different from the traditional Internet data traffic. This fact indicates the need of a whole new system and network design. Recently, cross-layer design has become a popular design methodology for enhancing Quality-of-Service over various communication networks. However, most existing cross-layer designs are mainly focusing on improving network QoS in terms of throughput, delay, and jitter; user perceived quality has long been ignored in current multimedia networking. Furthermore, most existing cross-layer designs take the piecemeal approach and lack of a systematic framework of modeling and optimization, leading to suboptimal solutions and/or proprietary designs. Since for most multimedia communications, user perceived quality is the ultimate goal of communications. Thus, user-centric cross-layer design is one of the enable technologies to the next-generation quality-aware service-oriented multimedia networks.
Contents of interest include:
• User-centric cross-layer control and optimization framework
• Behavior characterization of multimedia communication systems
• Service-oriented user-centric cross-layer design architecture
• Analytical modeling and simulation of user-centric cross-layer design
• Resource management, scheduling, and admission control of multimedia networking
• User-centric cross-layer networking over wireless mesh networks
• Content-sensitive quality-aware cross-layer design
• Quality-driven cross-layer design for routing and TCP rate control
• User-centric cross-layer design for P2P multimedia streaming
• User-centric cross-layer design cooperative multimedia communications
• User-centric cross-layer design for multimedia cognitive radio network
• Energy-aware multimedia communications
• Design, implementation, and test-bed/experimental results of quality-driven cross-layer design
• Standardization issues and status reports from various standards organizations - Afternoon, Lecture Two: Recent Advances in Wireless Mesh Networking, B. S. Manoj - University of California San Diego, USA
B. S. Manoj received the Ph.D degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in July 2004. He is a recipient of the Indian Science Congress Association Young Scientist Award for the Year 2003 and the IBM Outstanding PhD Thesis Award for the year 2004. He co-authored the widely taught text book titled Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols (Prentice Hall PTR, New Jersey, May 2004). From February 2005-February 2006, he had worked as Post Doctoral Researcher at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2), University of California at San Diego. From 2008-2011, he continued as a Research Scientist and Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, CA where he led the team that developed Extreme Networking System, a wireless mesh network for emergency response applications and CogNet testbed, one of the earliest large scale cognitive wireless network testbed. He taught many courses at UCSD including Data Networks II, Principles of Wireless Mesh Networks, and Networked Services. He published extensively in the areas ad hoc wireless networks and wireless mesh networks with more than 100 publications. He co-authored papers that were chosen for best paper awards in IRISS 2002, IEEE/ACM HiPC 2004, and IEEE CCNC 2008. One of his publications is adjudged as the Top Cited Article during the period 2005-2010 by Elsevier.
This tutorial brings to light the past pit falls spanning the many generations of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) and presents the most recent directions in WMNs. Community broadband wireless networking, including WMNs, is rapidly emerging with the significant support from the US government as part of its broadband initiatives. From the technological evolution of WMNs, it appears that this networking is expected to be an integral part of next generation wireless networking such as 4G and beyond. The objective of this tutorial is to impart researchers, practitioners, and managers an in depth information of the challenges faced by WMNs, historical attempts at solving them, pitfalls faced and lessons learned, and approaches to be kept in mind while attempting to solve some of the analytical, experimental, and deployment challenges. Most importantly, this tutorial will focus on the recent advances and emerging directions including, but not limited to, the use of WMNs in 4G networks, MIMO wireless mesh networks, and cognitive wireless mesh networks. The presentation will equally share analytical and experimental content.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, and a Founding Member of the ISCRAM Association. He co-chaired the ISCRAM Workshop on Future communications Requirements for Emergency Response at ISCRAM 2006. He co-chaired the first and second IEEE International Conference on Next Generation Wireless Networks (WoNGeN), held in 2005 and 2006, respectively. The IEEE WoNGeN’06, co-chaired by him, focused on the important topic of viability of Wireless Mesh Networks as a Next Generation Wireless Networking Infrastructure. He also serves as a member of the review committees in several top IEEE/ACM conferences including ACM MobiHoc 2009, IEEE Infocom 2008, and IEEE ICC 2008. He also serves in the reviewer panel of Elsevier Computer Communications, Elsevier Computer Networks, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions of Networking, and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
He currently is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology with a research focus on the Systems and Networks research area.
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