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ICTs for a Sustainable World
ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 14-16 November 2016

Venue: IMPACT Exhibition Management Co., Ltd.
Room: Jupiter 12-13
Contact: kaleidoscope@itu.int

Day 1 - Monday 14 November 2016

08:30 - 10:30	Welcome and registration
10:30 - 11:15	Opening plenary Welcome remarks: Virasak Kittivat, Principal Advisor for Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, Thailand Welcome remarks on behalf of Bundhit Eua-arporn, President of Chulalongkorn University (CU), Thailand, and ITU Kaleidoscope 2016 General Chairman: Supot Tiarawut, Advisor to the President Opening address: Chaesub Lee (Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU)
11:15 - 11:45	Keynote speech The convergence on communication and machine learning. [Presentation] Thomas Wiegand (Executive Director, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute; Chair, Image Communication, TU Berlin) Session chair: Reinhard Scholl, Deputy to the Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
11:45 - 13:00	Session 1 – Role of ICT in environmental sustainability Session chair: Frederic Surre (City University of London, and IEEE Standards Education) S1.1 How organisations can assess and improve their green ICT activities in a standard and efficient way. [Presentation] Albert Hankel; Patricia Lago (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) S1.2 Mobile signal extension in deep sea - towards a safe and sustainable fisheries. [Presentation] Dineshkumar Singh; Sanjay Kimbahune (Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India); Veerendra Veer Singh (Mumbai Research Center of CMFRI, India) S1.3 Human safety considerations in the emerging ICT environment. [Presentation] Shailendra K. Hajela (ITU-APT Foundation of India, India)
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30	Keynote speech Decoupling economic growth from carbon emission growth. Hossein Moiin (CTO, Nokia) Session chair: Mostafa Hashem Sherif (AT&T, USA; Kaleidoscope Steering Committee member)
14:30 - 16:15	Session 2 – Service and quality standards Session chair: Mostafa Hashem Sherif (AT&T, USA; Kaleidoscope Steering Committee member) S2.1 Invited paper: Ageing, well-being and technology: from quality of life improvement to digital rights management. A French perspective. [Presentation] Nathalie Devillier (Grenoble Ecole de Management, France) S2.2 Universal Service, quality caps and net neutrality.* [Presentation] Emilio Carrera Félix (Université Paris II - Panthéon Assas, France) S2.3 Quality and standardization in technology-enhanced learning. [Presentation] Irina Tal; Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland); Eva Ibarrola (University of the Basque Country-UPV/EHU, Spain)
16:15 - 16:45	Coffee break
16:45 - 18:00	Joint session - Making money from meeting the SDGs? An overarching approach to sustainable development (Room Jupiter 10) This session will be held in collaboration with ITU Telecom World 2016. Session chair: Tim Unwin (Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom) Opening address: Chaesub Lee (Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU) Panelists: Tomas Lamanauskas, Group Director Public Policy, VimpelCom Group, Netherlands Luis Neves, Chairman, Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), Belgium Ola Jo Tandre, Director and Head of Social Responsibility, Telenor ASA, Norway Astrid Tuminez, Regional Director, Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (Southeast Asia), Microsoft, Singapore Lawrence Yanovitch, President of the GSMA Foundation, GSMA, United Kingdom

Day 2 - Tuesday 15 November 2016

09:00 - 09:30	Registration
09:30 - 10:00	Keynote speech Important considerations for environmentally sustainable broadcasting: the British broadcasting corporation experience. Simon Tuff (BBC and chair of EBU group on “Sustainable Technology in Broadcasting”) Session chair: Mostafa Hashem Sherif (AT&T, USA; Kaleidoscope Steering Committee member)
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 - 12:30	Session 3 - Spectral efficiency in wireless networks Session chair: Mario Maniewicz (Deputy Director, Radiocommunication Bureau, ITU) S3.1 Space division multiplexing technology: next generation optical communication strategy.* [Presentation] Kazuhide Nakajima; Takashi Matsui; Kotaro Saito; Taiji Sakamoto; Noriyuki Araki (NTT Corporation, Japan) S3.2 Resource allocation for device-to-device communications in multi-cell LTE-advanced wireless networks with C-RAN architecture.* [Presentation] Sajjad Mehri Alamouti; Ahmad R. Sharafat (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran) S3.3 PAPR reduction in SC-FDMA via a novel combined pulse-shaping scheme. [Presentation] Naser Ahmadi Moghaddam; Ahmad R. Sharafat (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran) S3.4 Accelerating the introduction of spectrum sharing using market-based mechanisms. [Presentation] Fernando Beltrán (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
12:30 - 13:00	Fast-forward poster session [Presentation] Session chair: Martin Adolph (Engineer, ITU)
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30	Poster session Session chair: Martin Adolph (Engineer, ITU) P.1 Adaptive video streaming over HTTP using stochastic bitrate prediction in 4G wireless networks. [Presentation ] Dhananjay Kumar; S. Aishwarya; L. Arun Raj; A. Srinivasan (Anna University, India) P.2 Assessing Internet performance over mobile networks: from theory to practice. [Presentation] Eneko Atxutegi; Jose Oscar Fajardo; Eva Ibarrola; Fidel Liberal (University of the Basque Country-UPV/EHU, Spain) P.3 Systematic analysis of geo-location and spectrum sensing as access methods to TV white space. [Presentation] Hope Mauwa; Antoine Bagula (University of The Western Cape, South Africa); Marco Zennaro; Ermanno Pietrosemoli (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy); Albert A. Lysko (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa); Timothy X Brown (Carnegie Mellon University, Rwanda) P.4 Task-based process modeling for policy making in smart cities. [Presentation] Leonidas Anthopoulos (University of Applied Science (TEI) of Thessaly, Greece); George Giannakidis (Center for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving, Greece) P.5 CleanWiFi: the wireless network for air quality monitoring, community Internet access and environmental education in smart cities. [Presentation] Carlos Andrés Gómez Ruíz (Universitaria Agustiniana, Colombia) P.6 Cloud based patient prioritization as service in public health care. [Presentation ] Antoine Bagula; Claude Lubamba; Munyaradzi Mandava (University of The Western Cape, South Africa); Marco Zennaro; Ermanno Pietrosemoli (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy); Herman Bagula (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00	Session 4 – Network evolution Session chair: Martin Adolph (Engineer, ITU) S4.1 Invited paper: 5G in rural and low-income areas: are we ready? [Presentation] Luca Chiaraviglio; Nicola Blefari-Melazzi (CNIT / University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); William Liu; Jairo A. Gutierrez (AUT, New Zealand); Jaap Van De Beek (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden); Robert Birke; Lydia Chen (IBM Research, Switzerland); Filip Idzikowski (Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Daniel Kilper (The University of Arizona, USA); Paolo Monti (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Jinsong Wu (University of Chile, Chile) S4.2 Design of scalable directory service for future IoT applications. [Presentation] Ved P. Kafle; Yusuke Fukushima; Pedro Martinez-Julia; Hiroaki Harai (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) S4.3 A stack4things-based platform for mobile CrowdSensing services. [Presentation] Salvatore Distefano (Kazan Federal University, Russia); Antonio Puliafito; Giovanni Merlino; Francesco Longo; Dario Bruneo (Università di Messina, Italy) S4.4 A popularity-based caching strategy for the future Internet. [Presentation] Suhaidi Hassan; Ikram Ud Din; Adib Habbal; Nur Haryani Zakaria (Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia) S4.5 Multi-path chunked video exchanges over OF@TEIN SDN cloud playground. [Presentation] Phyo May Thet; Chaodit Aswakul (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand); JongWon Kim (Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, Korea)

Day 3 - Wednesday 16 November 2016

09:00 - 09:30	Registration
09:30 - 11:30	Session 5 – Services and implementation-related issues Session chair: Ved P. Kafle (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) S5.1 Implementation of tele-rehabilitation system combined with video call center.* [Presentation] Kotaro Suzuki; Yoshitoshi Murata (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan) S5.2 Intricacies of implementing an ITU-T X.1303 cross-agency situational-awareness platform in Maldives, Myanmar, and the Philippines.* [Presentation] Biplov Bhandari; Angga Bayu Marthafifsa; Manzul Kumar Hazarika (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand); Francis Boon; Nuwan Waidyanatha; Lutz Frommberger (Sahana Software Foundation, USA) S5.3 A community-driven information system to develop next generation collaborative and responsive rural community (NCoRe). [Presentation] Jayanta Basak; Rishikesan Parthiban; Somprakash Bandyopadhyay (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India); Siuli Roy (Heritage Institute of Technology, India) S5.4 Toward authenticated caller ID transmission: the need for a standardized authentication scheme in Q.731.3 calling line identification presentation.* [Presentation] Huahong Tu; Adam Doupé; Ziming Zhao; Gail-Joon Ahn (Arizona State University, USA)
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee break
12:00 - 13:00	Session 6 – Sustainability and smartness Session chair: Keping Yu (Waseda University, Japan) S6.1 Certified security systems for sustainable cities of the 21st century. [Presentation] Simone Wurster (Berlin University of Technology, Germany); Irene Kamara (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium); Thordis Sveinsdottir (Trilateral Research & Consulting, United Kingdom) S6.2 WiFi networks on drones. [Presentation] Antonio Guillen-Perez, Maria-Dolores Cano; Juan Carlos Sanchez-Aarnoutse; Joan Garcia-Haro (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain); Ramon Sanchez-Iborra (Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain / Federico Santa María Technical University, Chile)
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00	Special session – Jules Verne's corner Artificial Intelligence for a sustainable future: friendly companion or threatening conqueror? Moderator: Stephen Ibaraki (Founding Chair Global Industry Council, Vice-chair IP3 Board, International Federation for Information Processing, Canada) Panelists: Malavika Jayaram, Executive Director of Digital Asia Hub, Hong Kong, China Sauvik Banerjjee , Global CTA & Innovation Lead, SAP Global Prabhas Chongstitvatana , Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00	Wrap-up session [Presentation] Session chair: Mostafa Hashem Sherif (AT&T, USA; Kaleidoscope Steering Committee member) Summary of the eighth Kaleidoscope academic conference (panel with Session Chairs)
16:00 - 16:45	Closing plenary Best paper awards and young author recognition ceremony [Presentation] Chaesub Lee (Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU) Pomthong Malakul Na Ayudhaya, Vice President for Academic Affairs, on behalf of Bundhit Eua-arporn, President of Chulalongkorn University (CU), Thailand, and ITU Kaleidoscope 2016 General Chairman Alessia Magliarditi (Kaleidoscope Coordinator, ITU) [Presentation]

An * denotes papers nominated for best paper award.