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Innovations in NGN – Future Network and Services
 An ITU-T Kaleidoscope Event, Geneva, 12-13 May 2008
 
 Poster Session
P01: Photo: Larry Ma, ZTE, US

Larry Ma is a Senior Director of Carrier Solutions with ZTE USA, a subsidiary of ZTE Corporation. He is responsible for global technical marketing of ZTE's core network products and solutions including Fixed Mobile Convergence, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), and Next-Generation Networks (NGN) evolution. Prior to joining ZTE in 2006, he spent nearly twelve years with Nortel (USA) in a number of management and technical positions.

Larry holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington and an MBA degree from University of Texas at Dallas.

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Photo: Weiyong Zhu, ZTE, US

Weiyong Zhu has been working on research and development of telecommunication core network and its evolution for many years. Currently, he is a Senior Network Architect with ZTE USA, a subsidiary of ZTE Corporation. He was in charge of GSM/UMTS network design and end-to-end IMS network solution in ZTE Corporation before joining ZTE USA. Mr. Zhu holds a master degree of engineering in telecommunication from University of Toronto and a master degree of sciences from Nanjing University.

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P02: Photo: Abdelmoula Bekkali,  (Waseda University, Japan)

Abdelmoula Bekkali received M.Sc degree in satellite communication from Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingenieurs, Rabat, Morocco in 2001. He then worked as R&D Engineer in Radar Communication and Air Traffic Control in Casablanca, Morocco. He later joined Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication of Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, where he received his M.Sc degree in 2007. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree at the same graduate school. His research interests include short range communication, RFID, Wireless Sensor Network, RF localization and Free Space Optical communication.

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P03: Photo: Rong Fu, (DTU Fotonik)

Rong Fu received her M.Sc degree in the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2007. She is now doing her PhD study in the department of DTU Fotonik. She began to research in the area of the Next Generation Network (NGN) in her master thesis. In her PhD research, she is involved in the HIPT (High quality IP network for IPTV and VOIP) project. She is concentrating on achieving the Carrier Ethernet based on the NGN frame work from the network resource control and management point of view.

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P04: Photo: Ved P. Kafle, (NICT, Japan)

After receiving a Ph.D. in Informatics in 2006, Ved P. Kafle has been working as a researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan. He is involved in designing the new generation network architecture and protocols, considering the newly emerged (as well as future) network environment and application requirements. More specifically, he is currently investigating the research challenges of node identifying and locating in the future Internet. He is a member of the IEEE, and actively participating in the IETF and ITU-T standardization activities.

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P05: Photo: Takahiko Yamada, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Takahiko Yamada received the B.E and the M.E. degrees in electronics engineering in 1967 and 1969, respectively and the D.E. degree in 1989 from Kyoto University. Since 1969, he had been engaged in the research and development of electronic and digital switching systems in NTT communication laboratories for 25 years. He has been a professor of Department of Computer Science and VLSI System Design at Ritsumeikan University since 1994. He has been studying VLSI-based communication systems and networks both for fixed networks and mobile networks to popularize multimedia communications over the general public, and the network to integrate the public network and the Internet.

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P06: Photo: Kenji Rikitake, (NICT, Japan)

Kenji Rikitake is an Expert Researcher at Network Security Incident Response Group of National Institute of Communications and Information Technology (NICT), Japan. He has more than 18 years of IT industry experience, including operating system internationalization, corporate TCP/IP network system design and management, and secure teleworking technology development. Since 2005 he is with NICT and has been working on the system design of wide-area network incident systems. He has also worked on DNS transport security and the UDP fragmentation issues. He is an associate editor of IEICE Transactions on ommunications since May 2007. He received B.Eng. in instrumentation physics in 1988, M.Eng. in information engineering in 1990 from University of Tokyo, and Ph.D in information science and technology in 2005 from Osaka University. He is also a Japanese government-certified Professional Engineer of Information Technologies since 2001.

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P07: Photo: Mojtaba Yaghoubi Waskasi, (Telecom Infrastructure Company of Iran)

Mr. Yaghoubi received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree both in electrical engineering, control branch, in 2003 and 2006 from K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran respectively. He worked in Iran Telecom Research Center (ITRC) for more than 4 years as senior member of various projects like Iran NGN pilot project and data lab project. Now he is wo rking in Telecom Infrastructure Company of Iran as consultant of director board. His fields of research interests includes: Queuing Theory, Congestion Control, Next Generation Networks, Quality of Service, Network Design and Implementation.

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P08: Photo: Jean Philippe Aumasson, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Switzerland

Jean-Philippe Aumasson is a PhD candidate at EPFL in Lausanne, and is researcher at the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz in Windisch, Switzerland. His research focuses on stream ciphers and hash functions. He holds a Master of Computer Science from Paris VII University.

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P09: Photo: Huaxin Zeng, Southwest Jiaotong University, PR of China

Prof. Huaxin ZENG is the Head of Sichuan Network Communication Key Laboratory, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. He got his PhD degree in computer science from University of London in 1985 specialized in computer networks. His research interests include network testing, Next Generation Network architecture, and high-speed switching techniques. The Transverse Test Method has been accepted by ISO 9646 as one of two test methods for OSI relay systems. He has published 4 books in computer networks in Chinese and more 100 academic papers internationally or in China. Prof. Zeng has been the Chairman of Special Committee of Computer Networks and Information Systems, Southwest China and a member of Standing Committee of Sichuan Computer Federation. He is also a member of Technical Committee of High Performance Switching and Routing, IEEE ComSoc and was nominated by International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England as the professional of the year in 2007.

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P10: Photo: Juan Miguel Espinosa Carlin, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Juan Miguel Espinosa Carlin received his B. Sc. in Electronic Systems Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology in 1999, and his M. Sc. in Media Informatics from the RWTH Aachen University in 2006. He currently PhD candidate at the Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems of the RWTH Aachen University. His research interests include NGN architecture evolution, customization of multimedia services, conformance evaluation of converged services delivery platforms, and service composition in the IMS.

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P11: Photo: Gyu Myoung Lee, NIST, USA

Gyu Myoung Lee is currently with National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA as guest researcher, specializing in IPv6 networking and standards development. Since 2007 he is also working as research professor in Information Communications University (ICU), Korea and as invited researcher in Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea. He worked as visiting researcher in the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2002. He has actively participated in standardization meetings including ITU-T SG13, and IETF. Currently, he is the Editor for the ITU-T Recommendation specifying IPv6 in SG13. His research interests include ubiquitous networking and services for NGN, IPv6 protocols, and traffic engineering including optical switching technologies. Gyu Myoung Lee received B.S. degree in electronic and electrical engineering form Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea, in 1999 and M.S., and Ph.D. degree in school of engineering from ICU, Daejeon, Korea, in 2000 and 2007, respectively.

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P12: Photo: Masataka Ohta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Masataka Ohta, presently, is a Lecturer of the Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology and a visiting researcher at New Generation Network Reseach Center of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc in 1982 and 1984, respectively, from University of Tokyo, and Ph. D. for "High Quality Computer Graphics" in 1994 from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He engages in research on various areas of the Internet (character encoding, DNS, parallel routers, QoS assurance, multicast, internet telephony, internet broadcast, optical routers, IPv6, mobile IP, wireless LAN etc.) and is an author of RFCs 1554, 1815 and 1995.

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P14: Photo: Stephan Kubisch, University of Rostock, Germany

Mr. Stephan Kubisch received his Diploma degree in 2004 from the University of Rostock in Information Technology. From then on, he started as PhD-student and scientific co-worker at the Institut of Applied Microelectronics and Computer Engineering of the University of Rostock. Mr. Kubisch is involved in a deep cooperation between his Institute and the Broadband Access Division of Nokia Siemens Networks, Greifswald, Germany. His research covers two main areas: (1) new mechanisms and protocols for Internet access networks and NGN as well as (2) Networks-on-Chip as a new paradigm for on-chip interconnection and communication. Currently, he is in his 4th PhD-year and will finish in 2008.

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P15: Photo: Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta)

Somprakash Bandyopadhyay is a Professor in Management Information Systems Group of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He is a PhD in Computer Science from Jadavpur University, Calcutta and B.Tech in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has around 25 years of experience in teaching, research and software development in several organizations of international repute. He has more than 70 research publications and has co-authored three books. He has initiated Ad Hoc Network Research Group in 1998 to provide an environment for research and application development to support next generation wireless and mobile communication systems. His current research interests include developing of devices and system solutions for remote tracking, monitoring and management of objects, human beings and environment using active RF devices with sensors and actuators with wireless mesh networking technologies.

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P16: Photo: M. Rubaiyat Kibria, University of Sydney, Australia

M. Rubaiyat Kibria graduated with a B.Sc. Engineering in Electrical & Electronics from the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Bangladesh, and with a Master of Engineering (Research) and PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1997, 2002 and 2007 respectively. He is currently working as a Research Fellow at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, and is actively pursuing research in various areas of next generation network, wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, and mobile ad hoc networks. He is an IEEE member, and has served as a TPC member and a reviewer for many IEEE conferences and journals

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P18: Photo: Peter Excell, University of Wales, United Kingdom

Peter Excell is Professor of Communications and Head of the School of Computing & Communications Technology at North East Wales Institute of Higher Education in Wrexham, UK. He has a BSc in Engineering Science from Reading University and a PhD from Bradford University. His long-standing research interests have been in the applications and computation of high-frequency electromagnetic fields, in which he has published around 300 papers. However, he has also developed a strand in consideration of usage scenarios for future mobile communications devices, in conjunction with colleagues from wider discipline areas, analysing human communications in a 'holistic' way and developing new visions of usage of mobile multimedia devices, including design of content for mobile screens and integration of mobile devices with garments. He is a Fellow of the IET, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of the BCS and ACM.

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P18: Photo: Hiroshi Mineno, Shizuoka University, Japan

Hiroshi Mineno received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Shizuoka University, Japan in 1997 and 1999, respectively. In 2006, he received a Ph.D. degree in Information Science and Electrical Engineering from Kyushu University, Japan. Between 1999 and 2002 he was a researcher in the NTT Service Integration Laboratories. In 2002, he joined the Department of Computer Science of Shizuoka University as an Assistant Professor. His research interests include heterogeneous network convergence as well as mobile computing. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, IEICE, and IPSJ.

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P19: Photo: Brikena Statovci-Halimi, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Brikena Statovci-Halimi received her Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Prishtina, Kosova, in July 1997. Since 2000 she joined the Institute of Broadband Communications, Vienna University of Technology, were she is now employed as a university assistant. Beside the work toward her Ph.D. degree, she was also involved in several projects from the institute with network operators and industrial partners, as well a European project. Her research interests include quality of service control in multiservice IP networks, service level agreements (SLAs), traffic engineering and particularly admission control.

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P20: Photo: Jolien Ubacht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Mrs. Jolien Ubacht has a degree in Communications Studies from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1995). She joined Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management to study policy related aspects of ICT, especially issues relating to the Internet and the Information society. Her PhD-research is on the regulatory practice of National Regulatory Authorities in the electronic communications sector in the European Community. As an assistant professor her focus is on the innovative power and regulatory & societal consequences of innovations in ICT-infrastructures as well as e-services.

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P21: Photo: Li Lin, University of Cambridge, UK

Li Lin is a third-year PhD candidate in the University of Cambridge. He received the Bachelor of Engineering in Photoelectricity Technology at Southeast University, China in 1997. After that, he joined China Telecom Guangzhou R&D centre and had worked for eight years in network support and network planning. In 2003, he was selected by China Telecom, Cable & Wireless and British Government to study his MSc in UK as a Chevening Scholar in Operation Communication. His PhD research is about how convergence is changing the relationship among different elements in the new telecom value chain and what the implications to the whole value chain are. He was a BT Short Term Research Fellow (2007) and worked as an intern in Cooperation Strategy Division (CSD), ITU in 2007 and 2008.

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P22: Photo: Endre Grøtnes, University of Oslo, Norway

Endre Grøtnes is a researcher at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is interested in standards, standardization processes and open sourch. He has participated in standardization organizations like ETSI, CEN, IETF, W3C, the Open Group and the Open Mobile Alliance for more than 10 years.

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