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Abstract:  With today’s fragmented market and multiple platforms used in offering various kinds of mobile services, the key opportunity for future growth would be an implementation of open and global specifications and standards for unified service platform that enables seamless interoperability among different devices, networks and backend systems.

Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) was formed to address the growing market of an interoperable mobile service across global markets, operators, and mobile devices. In this January 14 presentation, Dr. Wen-Pai Lu will present a brief introduction of OMA, its mission, objectives, and goals for achieving such vision.

Among all working groups in OMA, the talk will particularly focus on the specification development in the Mobile Web Service (MWS) working group. He will also touch upon the architecture considerations and development in OMA. Other working groups within OMA will be briefly mentioned and references materials will be provided for reader future research and exploration.

Biography:  Wen-Pai Lu is a senior network architect at Cisco. He had been a principle consultant, project leader, customer solutions manager, and researcher. His interests include wireless, security, and Internet. He received his PhD in computer and electrical engineering from University of Arizona.

Dr. Wen-Pai Lu is very active in the standard communities, particulary in the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). In the Mobile Web Service group developing mobile web specifications, and in Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF), he served as a co-chairman for the Proof of Concept (POC) and architecture working groups in MWIF and developing security solution for IP Radio Access Network (RAN) in all-IP mobile wireless network.

He was one of the founding members of the LAN Security Working Group (IEEE 802.10) developing security standard for IEEE 802 LANs and MANs. He was also active in ATM Forum, Frame Relay Forum as well as FDDI (ANSI X3T5) standard groups. In ATM Forum, he was involved in the development of LANE, and also served as an ATM Forum Ambassador for Asia Pacific. He has published over 18 technical papers and is a patent holder..

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Abstract:  This talk will cover basic DSL network architectures and services,
discussing the pros and cons of various DSLAM features to implement
various network services. In particular, the talk will cover both
wholesale and retail models of DSL services and how DSLAM features can
be used to support these services. The DSLAM feature sets discussed
will be (1) pure ATM switching, (2) Ethernet-based multiplexing, (3)
IP-enabled multiplexing.

Biography:  Greg Wetzel is Chief Architect and VP of Network Engineering at Covad Communications which he joined in June 1998.  He is responsible for overall network and service architectures, new network service development, and the design of both the broadband access network and the IP services infrastructure.  His goal is to ensure Covad's network sets the industry standard for Broadband Access Networks.  Greg represents Covad at the DSL Forum, where he has been chair of the Voice over DSL Working Group and at the ATM Forum, where he has been chair of the Architecture Working Group.

For the 10 years prior to Covad, he was at AT&T.  For the last half of that period, he was a Technology Consultant with AT&T's ATM Service Development organization where he was responsible for the service architecture and switch requirements and selection.  He was also an AT&T representative at the ATM Forum.

His degrees include a BA in Chemistry and Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science.

Greg is active in ACM SIGCOMM. He has been ACM's representative on the steering committee of the jointly published journal.

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Abstract:  Security provisioning and protection in the increasingly complex global business arena has been placed at the apex of a CxO's agenda. Due to the value of an organization's intellectual property and the need to protect the assets of not only your company's property, the Department of Homeland Security is requesting that we in our respective Industry
segments protect all assets critical to the operation of the USA in addition to those of our partners. Security is no longer seen as an expense, rather it is viewed as providing a positive ROI for any company.

This presentation will address the new challenges placed before an organization and its safe conduct of business locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally in an increasingly hostile environment: the Internet. It will also show how security must be viewed as not simply a perimeter or edge technology but include core security functions in total.

Examples and a case study will be provided to illustrate how security can be included as a benefit to business rather than a hindrance to it.

Biography:  Arthur B. Edmonds, Jr. is Chief Security Officer of HITACHI Data Systems. Art has over 21 years experience in network security, systems performance, higher-speed networking, telecommunications, the Internet, and network management as well as distributed and client/server computing technologies. Previously, he served as Chief Technology Officer of a rate-based, eCommerce applications-serving dot-com, which he co-founded, and an I.T. infrastructure solutions provider.

He has served in senior positions in Sales, Marketing, Engineering and Engineering Management roles for such companies as Xerox Corporation, Wang Labs, GE Aerospace and Sun Microsystems.

Mr. Edmonds’ current focus is investigating emerging storage technologies, including switching, virtualization, and extending data storage and acquisition over networks using Fibre Channel technology and the Internet. He is also involved in storage networks security with INCITS/T11.

For the past 12 years, his primary areas of interest have been in Internet Security, Network Management, and Data Center design. Mr. Edmonds also has extensive experience in client/server systems performance of heterogeneous enterprise-wide UNIX based-systems.

Mr. Edmonds is co-founder and current Chairman of the Board of the Silicon Valley Information Business Alliance (www.sviba.net). SVIBA is focused on exchanging both business and technology resources between the United States of America and Asia, especially the greater China regions and Technology Centers.

In addition to his position as member of the Technology Office, Mr. Edmonds has published a number of white papers on client/server performance methods, networking, and reusable software modules. He has conducted numerous training sessions, briefings and keynote speeches on higher speed networking including members of the Office of Science & Technology at The White House.

Mr. Edmonds is a published author with the International Thomson Computer Press. His book, “ATM Network Planning and Implementation” (ISBN 1-85032-894-3), is for network professionals and CIOs who demand details on the practical implementation and integration of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technol­ogy in their enterprise networking environments.

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Abstract:  We discuss research directions toward the next generation mobile networks.  As for the wireless access technologies, (1)in Japan, the focus is on pushing the envelope and trying to get extremely broadband wireless, broader than even most wired broadband in the US. Hence the DoCoMo works on a very complex physical layer that gets 100 Mbps. (2) In the US, the focus is on getting a physical layer and  media access that is a much better fit with IP than the current 3G protocols, but can deliver over a wide area and to faster moving vehicles, which 802.11 can't. (3) In Europe, the focus is on getting value out of the existing 3G wireless access protocols, by working on seamless intertechnology handover between GPRS and 802.11. They are uninterested in any new wireless protocol work.   To summarize the three directions, it is a commonly stated proposition  that the next generation mobile network  will operate on Internet technology combined with various access technologies such as wireless LAN, and run at speeds ranging from 100 Mbps in cell-phone networks to 1 Gbits in hot-spot  networks(i.e., the definition in ITU-R Vision).   The point of this presentation, however,  is that the wireless technologies implied by this rather limited, technical definition are absolutely necessary but not sufficient to provide the required leap into a new generation. In order to produce the significant functional leap required for the next generation, full and seamless convergence of mobile networks with the Internet is essential. Moreover the efficacy (and therefore value) of the new network must exceed that of the current Internet. This will be achieved with enhanced capabilities such as mobility support, realtime service provision, reliable security and so on.  We also touch upon  media  delivery technologies, which are necessary to fill the gap between wired and wireless networks, through the examination of existing mobile networks, commercialized or standardized transport and coding technologies.

Biography:  Minoru “Mick” Etoh started his career as a research engineer at the the Central Research Laboratories of Matsushita Electric in 1985.  In 90's, he was leading an image communication research team and  participated in MPEG-4 standardization.  He joined the Multimedia Laboratories of NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Yokosuka  in May 2000. He was Director of Signal Processing at NTT DoCoMo Laboratory, at which  he was involved in multimedia communication research and development.  He was simultaneously serving as Adjunct Lecturer of Osaka University.

In 2002, Dr. Etoh was promoted to President & CEO of DoCoMo Communications Laboratories USA, Inc., where he is now conducting several research groups in charge of mobile network architecture design, cryptography, terminal software, audio, speech and video coding technologies, and media delivery over mobile networks. He is also Visiting Professor of Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

Dr. Minoru Etoh received his B.E. and M.S.E.E. from Hiroshima University Ph.D. degree from Osaka University, in 1983, 1985 and 1993 respectively.  He  also received the 1995 Best Paper Award of IEICE Japan, the 14th Telecom System Technology Prize of the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation(1998), the 7th Sakai Commemorative Prize of IPSJ(1998), and the 39th Achievement Award of IEICE (2002). He is a member of IEEE, IEICE, and IPSJ.

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Abstract:  A main obstacle to the migration of voice communications from the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to voice-over-IP technology on the Internet has been a well-founded concern about the resulting degradation in call quality and reliability.

VoIP has been demonstrated to work effectively on private IP networks where link quality is consistently high and where other IP traffic is tightly regulated. The public Internet, however, was originally architected for “best effort” data communications, and is comprised of many different regional networks with varying link quality and completely unpredictable traffic flow.

With the current move toward data/voice convergence, the expectations for IP infrastructure in terms of network reliability, as well as application quality and availability, have increased drastically.  Despite constant progress in these areas, the observed overall
availability of typical Internet infrastructure rarely exceeds 99.9 percent, or “three nines”. This is significantly short of the 99.999 percent “five nines” expectation that is customary in traditional circuit switched voice communications.  Recent technological advances can close this availability gap through an intelligent use of infrastructure monitoring, real-time call quality assessment and adaptive control that leverages the inherent redundancy in most networks. This article will first present an overview of these technological advances, and will then go over case studies which demonstrate that toll quality voice communications is possible over the Internet, given the appropriate amount of network redundancy and
adaptive control technology that is capable of taking advantage of this redundancy.

Biography:  Mansour Karam (M ’98)received the B. Engineering degree in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, in 1995 and the M.S. and Ph.D.degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1997 and 2001, respectively.  He is currently a Technical Lead at RouteScience Technologies. His research interests include the support of multimedia applications in wired and wireless networks and routing control over the Internet.

Mansour Karam is a member of the IEEE, and has co-authored the paper "Assessment of Voice over IP in Internet backbones", which was selected among the best 10 papers of Infocom 2002.

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Abstract:  Cyberspace is used extensively for commerce. Businesses that accept transactions via the Internet can gain a competitive edge by reaching a worldwide customer base at a relatively low cost. But the Internet poses a unique set of security issues due to its openness and ubiquity. Customers will submit information via the Web/Internet only if they are confident that their private information, such as their credit card numbers, is secure. Therefore, today’s Web/Internet-based services must include solutions that provide security as a primary component in their design and deployment.

This talk will provide an overview of cyberspace security vulnerabilities, attacks, and safeguards. Some attack techniques and the corresponding defenses against them will be described. The anatomy of a specific attack will be presented. Also some techniques based on data mining will be provided to detect and even predict attacks.

Biography:  Manu Malek is Industry Professor of Computer Science and Director, Certificate in CyberSecurity Program, at Stevens Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Stevens, he was Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, practicing, and research in communication networks design, optimization, operations, and management. He has held various academic positions in the US and overseas, as well as technical management positions with Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies) and AT&T Bell Laboratories.

He is the author, co-author, or editor of seven books, co-holder of two patents, and the author or co-author of over fifty published technical papers and numerous technical reports in the areas of network design, computer communications, and network operations and management.

Dr. Malek is a fellow of the IEEE, an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer, and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Network and Systems Management.  He earned his Ph.D. in EE/CS from University of California, Berkeley.  

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Abstract:  Packet sniffers have been well established as standard tools for network troubleshooting.  Unfortunately, they have also been used to intercept unsecure network traffic, sniff passwords and (with some slight added functionality), alter the contents of traffic as it flows through the network. In this session, Ms. Chappell examines how attackers can use packet sniffers to compromise network security (even on switched networks) using actual network traffic traces and demonstrations.  In addition, she will list some of the tasks that can be performed to check network security and integrity using these same tools.

Biography:  As the Sr. Protocol Analyst and founder of the Protocol Analysis Institute, Laura writes, lectures and advises on network troubleshooting, optimization, and security. She is an active member of HTCIA (High Technology Crime Investigation Association) and an IEEE Associate since 1990.

Ms. Chappell’s books include several best-sellers for IDG Books (Novell’s Guide to IPX/SPX Analysis) and Macmillan Technical Publishing (Introduction to Cisco Router Configurations). She also writes regularly for Novell Connection magazine and Network World magazine.  Ms. Chappell’s clients include many Fortune 100 companies as well as local, national and international law enforcement and government institutions.

Additionally, Ms. Chappell is the founder of and Technical Advisor for podbooks.com, an Internet-based publishing company focused on packet-level communications and security. You can learn more on her company website at www.packet-level.com.  

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Abstract:  Forrester Research predicts that digital content owners will be losing $4.6 billion per year by 2005 due to piracy. This has created an impetus in the market to find solutions that will protect the rights of content owners in the digital world. However, to date, most rights management solutions have been hard to use, easy to circumvent, or place unnecessary restrictions on consumers. Successful digital content services such as Apple’s iTunes have proven that a significant segment of consumers will pay for protected digital content if the process is as frictionless as possible. Consumers believe that the digital content they pay for should be usable on any device they own, from their personal computer to their portable music player to their home or car stereo. The only way to provide this content portability is by enabling rights portability through a trusted value chain that binds the identity of consumers to their devices and licensed content and the identity of devices to the network. Creating this network of trusted devices will give consumers the content portability they want by ensuring that content providers can trust the devices they own. Enabling these trusted devices requires strong security capabilities to be built into the devices to protect the rights of content owners. Content providers also want to tap into the popularity of “peer-to-peer” services by offering legal versions of these services that offer the advantages of viral marketing with the confidence that their content is suitably protected. All of this helps create a frictionless commerce experience that provides significant value to consumers over “free” services. The industry is already working on putting the infrastructure in place to build this trusted network. Standards bodies like the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) are working to develop rights management standards that are widely supported by content owners, service providers, and device manufacturers. The standards utilize existing, proven security technologies in the areas of encryption and public key infrastructure combined with new protocols and techniques to enable rights portability. Participants in this session will learn about these standards efforts underway, the security hurdles that must be overcome to deliver a digital rights management system as ubiquitous and transparent as SSL is to e-commerce, and the technologies and principles currently being used that will facilitate faster creation of this network of trusted devices.

Biography:  Chris Parkerson is the DRM Evangelist at RSA Security. In his role, Chris is responsible for market strategy and messaging for all RSA developer solutions. Chris has a long history of working with developers and has worked with several pioneering companies in XML and Web Services technology prior to joining RSA. He has worked as a product manager for two Valley start-ups including Vianeta Communications which provides XML-based solutions for health information management and Ipedo which provides XML-based solutions for enterprise information integration. Prior to the move to the West, Chris was a product manager for eXcelon Corp. where he was responsible for the first XML database, XIS, and first XML application development environment, Stylus Studio, on the market. Chris graduated from Boston University with a BS in Computer Systems Engineering.

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Abstract:  As we advance into the 21st century, consumers and the enterprise are confused with the alphabet soup of wireless technologies in the market place. Do we really care what version of UMTS or CDMA we're using, what is IPv4 versus IPv6, ZigBee, UWB versus Bluetooth ? This discussion addresses where technology, features and advances are positioned with wireless carriers for the next several years and how performance is measured.

Biography:  Robert J. Sanchez is currently with inCode Wireless, a San Diego-based consulting firm of over 300 people, he co-founded in 1998.  He serves as VP & Chief Architect responsible for developing technical and strategic points of view on telecommunications advances such as SDR, MIMO, IPv6, mesh topologies, telematics and others as well as wireless over-the-air technologies such as 802.11, 802.16, 802.20, 802.21, CDMA (UMTS-FDD, UMTS-TDD, 1xRTT, 1xEV DV, 1xEV DO, TD-SCDMA), OFDM, GSM/GPRS/EDGE and others.  Robert oversees the operation and integration of inCode’s Wireless Technology Lab licensed to operate in the PCS and MMDS bands consisting of over $30 million worth of wireless infrastructure, core network systems and OSS/BSS platforms.

Prior to inCode, Robert was with Qualcomm from 1990 where he led Globalstar’s worldwide system integration and test program.  He also was the general manager for the Ancillary Test Products and Optimization Group as well as led the initial CDMA research and development program through concept validation and test.  While on the CDMA program, Robert jointly with others defined and developed industry standards for CDMA handsets and base stations.  Robert also worked on the OmniTRACS program designing airborne applications of Ku-band satellite systems.

Prior to Qualcomm, Robert was a staff systems engineer and section head at TRW/Military Electronics and Avionics Division starting in 1984 managing several defense surveillance systems for SIGINT, COMINT and ELINT networks.  He oversaw the design, development and test and served as Test Director of the avionics portion of a high altitude UAV used in the Persian Gulf.

Prior to TRW/MEAD, Robert was a systems analyst at General Dynamics/Electronics Division starting in 1982 designing simulations and coding software for avionics systems such as the Tomahawk digital imaging system prior to GPS.  He also developed satellite navigation software for Mobile Sea Range operations.

Robert holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego.  He is also a wireless engineering professor at the University of California at San Diego for the Engineering Extended Studies Program.  Robert is also a member of IEEE.

Robert sits on several company boards as a director and as an advisor providing technical direction and guidance for commercial product development and introduction.  Robert has published many papers and is an invited speaker at telecommunications conferences worldwide.

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Abstract:  This talk will describe a network architecture that combines the best features of cellular and Wi-Fi technologies with mesh networking protocols to create high capacity, uniform coverage networks for metro-scale applications. The resulting network delivers a high throughput to the end-user along with deployment flexibility, scalability, and the ability to react and respond to failures. We will also present a few real-world examples of Cellular Wi-Fi mesh networks in action.

Biography:  Narasimha Chari is Founder and Chief Architect of Tropos Networks. Along with Mr. Devabhaktuni, Mr. Chari was responsible for developing Tropos Networks' core intellectual property, including the design and development of the company’s wireless networking and routing protocols. Currently, he focuses on system and product architecture, product planning and advanced development. Prior to founding Tropos, Mr. Chari was a research scientist at Harvard University where he was recognized as a top lecturer and received the White Prize for excellence in teaching. He has performed research, published papers and disclosed patents in a variety of areas of mathematics, physics and wireless networking. Chari holds a BS in Mathematics and Economics from the California Institute of Technology and an AM in Physics from Harvard University. He is a member of the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Standards Association and the Association for Computing Machinery.