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Meetings and Events for 2004-2005 Season (beginning Sept. 2004)
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21 SEPTEMBER 2004 (TUESDAY), 6:30PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: QoS Challenges of Voice in Packet Networks
Speaker: Chris Stegh, Avaya Inc.
Abstract:
With carriers and enterprises moving quickly from TDM towards packet-based telephony, engineering the IP
network for adequate voice quality provides new challenges.
The speaker will overview the differences between
packet and TDM networks, outline the major impairments of voice in a packet network, provide audio examples of
poor voice quality, explain some engineering tradeoffs to minimize impairments, talk about the IETF's Quality
of Service options (DiffServ, RSVP), and close with specific challenges of QoS in intranets and Internet before
beginning an open discussion.
About the Speaker:
Chris Stegh is a Senior Systems Engineer with Avaya, who has spent 8 years focused on designs and implementations
of IP networks.
His EE degree is from Northern Illinois University and his MBA from the University of Iowa.
His background with many customer networks and multiple vendors' gear will make this talk more general to the
technology, not to a specific hardware implementation.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:30pm: Social (Free snack and beverages)
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE Communication Society Chicago Chapter,
IEEE Computer Society Chicago Chapter and
IEEE Fox Valley Subsection.
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
However, registering your intent to attend at
ieeechi@yahoo.com is very appreciated.
For More Information, including contacts,
see https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r4/chicago/calendar.html
27 OCTOBER 2004 (WEDNESDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: From Sandbox to Playground: Virtual Environments and Quality of Service in the Grids
Speaker: Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory
Abstract:
Grid computing, defined as flexible, secure, coordinated resource
sharing within virtual organizations (VOs), is becoming increasingly more
widespread.
This mode of computing seeks to create a model in which VOs
authorize the sharing of software and hardware resources in well-defined
ways (for example by determining the quality of service (QoS) with which
a service will be delivered) and according to potentially dynamic
policies.
To fulfill its promise such a model requires abstractions and
protocols expressing the negotiation for the QoS associated with a
service as well as support for the creation and management of
environments satisfying the clients as well as the providers protection
and enforcement needs.
In this talk, I will first describe an agreement-based model of resource
management in the Grid as outlined by the WS-Agreement specification of
the Global Grid Forum.
I will then describe how it can be applied to the
creation and management of dynamic virtual environments in the Grid, and
finally how such environments can be combined to form virtual
playgrounds.
I will discuss the issues and challenges related to
implementing those abstractions in the Globus Toolkit 3 and show a
quantitative and qualitative comparison across different currently
existing technologies that can be used to implement such abstractions:
Unix accounts, sandboxes and virtual machines.
The talk will conclude
with a discussion of how the use of these new protocols and technologies
can influence the development of computational Grids.
About the Speaker:
Kate Keahey is an Assistant Computer Scientist in the Distributed Systems Laboratory
in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory.
She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University where she was
working on extensions to the CORBA system, adapting this infrastructure to work with
parallel applications.
After graduating, Dr Keahey worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory on component
architectures for high-performance applications.
At that time, she became a founding member of the Common Component Architecture (CCA) Forum
seeking to define a standard for high-performance component frameworks.
After moving to Argonne National Laboratory in 2001, her work focused on issues
related to Grid computing, in particular enforcement, resource management,
and quality of service in the Grids.
She is an active member of the Global Grid Forum, chairing the Grid Economic Services
Architecture working group, and actively participating in the work of other working groups,
primarily in the area of resource management.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:00pm: Networking time
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection,
IEEE Communication Society,
and Illinois
Institute of Technology's Center for Professional Development (Rice Campus).
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours
17 NOVEMBER 2004 (WEDNESDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: Role of Green Power and Distributed Generation in Electricity Restructuring
Speaker: Professor Mohammad Shahidehpour, Electric Power and Power Electronics Center, IIT
Abstract:
With further developments in green power technologies and lower manufacturing costs
of distributed generation (DG), it is envisioned that DG will account for a higher
percentage of electric power generation in the near future.
DG technologies include wind, microturbines, fuel cells, photovoltaic, tidal, geothermal,
biomass, and storage, while the green power encompasses a subset of these
technologies which are pollution free with abundant resources for power generation
and minute operating costs.
This talk will review the green power phenomenon and its applications to DG for
locational pricing, peak load shaving, and transmission congestion management.
A software application for managing DG in a utility company will be demonstrated.
About the Speaker:
Mohammad Shahidehpour is a full professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department and Director of the Electric Power and Power Electronics Center at Illinois
Institute of Technology (IIT).
He is the author of 300 technical papers and four books on electric power systems
planning, operation, and control.
He is the recipient of the Edison Electric Institutes Outstanding Faculty Award,
HKNs Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Award, Sigma Xis Outstanding Researcher Award,
IITs Outstanding Faculty Award, and University of Michigans Outstanding Teaching Award.
He is the past president of the National Electrical Engineering Honor Society,
and serves as the Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Dr. Shahidehpour has lectured across the globe on electricity restructuring issues
and has been a visiting professor at several universities.
He is a Fellow of IEEE.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:00pm: Networking time
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE Fox Valley Subsection.
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours
24 MARCH 2005 (THURSDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: The Technology of I-PASS
Speaker: Bruce Whiteside, Senior Systems Engineer at TranCore's Technical Center in Lisle, Illinois
Abstract:
I-PASS - Some folks love it, others hate it.
Regardless of your opinion about whether Interstate Highways should be Freeways
or Tollways, there is a lot of interesting technology that makes the
Illinois Tollway I-PASS system work.
Mr. Whiteside will provide an overview of the technology used at the lane,
at the plaza and on the networks that permit the I-PASS system to handle well
over one million transactions per day.
As a Senior Systems Engineer with TransCore, the Illinois Tollway's contractor
supplying its I-PASS technology, Mr. Whiteside will also preview
Open Road Tolling, and other technologies available from TransCore.
About the Speaker:
Mr. Whiteside is a Senior Systems Engineer at TranCore's Technical Center
in Lisle, Illinois.
He is an award-winning engineer, manager and inventor with over thirty years
of experience in product development in high technology, networked,
microprocessor systems.
As Senior Systems Engineer, Mr. Whiteside provides technical leadership for
the development staff of TransCore's toll collection technology used by
Illinois Toll Authority's I-PASS system.
He is responsible for contributions
to process, technology, architecture, and feature feasibility analysis.
Prior to TransCore, from 1997 to 2001, Mr. Whiteside was one of six
Staff Engineers in a 100+ strong development staff of
Tellabs's flagship digital cross-connect product line.
Before Tellabs, Mr. Whiteside was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs
in Naperville, Illinois, where he developed synchronized data base operations
in support of CDMA wireless telephony.
He also designed and developed PC based performance analysis systems for wireless systems.
Mr. Whiteside has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering and a Masters
in Business Administration.
He has a U.S. Patent in wireless telephony and is a Senior
Member of IEEE's Computer and Communications Societies.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:00pm: Networking time
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE Fox Valley Subsection.
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours
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