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 The fully networked human? − Innovations for future networks and services
  ITU Kaleidoscope event, 12 − 14 December 2011, Cape Town, South Africa

Programme

Day 1 - 12 December 2011 (Monday)
09:00 - 10:30 Opening Plenary

Plenary chairman: Mostafa Hashem Sherif (General Chair, Kaleidoscope; AT&T, USA)

Welcome Host: Francis William Petersen (Dean, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
[ ABSTRACT ]

Welcome Waseda University: Mitsuji Matsumoto (Professor, Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Graduate School of Waseda University, Japan)

Welcome Telkom SA: Graeme Allan (Executive- Network Infrastructure Provisioning, South Zone, Telkom SA Ltd)

Opening address: Malcolm Johnson (Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU)
[ SPEECH ]

Inaugural Speech: Gift Buthelezi (Deputy Director General, Department of Communications, South Africa) representing H.E. Ms Dina Pule (Minister of Communications, South Africa)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break supported by the Department of Communications, South Africa
11:00 - 11:30 Keynote speech: 2020: The Ubiquitous Heterogeneous Network - Beyond 4G. Rufus Andrew (Managing Director, Nokia Siemens Networks, South Africa)
[ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]

Connecting the Unconnected - Unleashing the potential of Telecom Networks. Ajay Ranjan Mishra (NSN – India)
[ PRESENTATION ]
11:30 - 13:00 Session 1 - ICTs helping Africa
Session chairman: Alfredo Terzoli (Rhodes University, South Africa)
  • S1.1 The Role Of ICTs In Quantifying The Severity and Duration Of Climatic Variations - Kenya's Case*.
    Muthoni Masinde, Antoine Bagula (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S1.2 ICT use in South African Microenterprises: An assessment of Livelihood outcomes.
    Frank Makoza, Wallace Chigona (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S1.3 SM2: Solar Monitoring System in Malawi.
    Mayamiko Nkoloma1, Marco Zennaro2, Antoine Bagula3 (Malawi Polytechnic, Malawi1; ICTP - The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy2; University of Cape Town, South Africa3)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch supported by the Department of Communications, South Africa
14:00 - 15:30 Session 2 - Connecting rural regions
Session chairman: Ajay Ranjan Mishra (NSN – India)
  • S2.1 Proposal of a Wired Rural Area Network with Optical Submarine Cables.
    Yoshitoshi Murata1, Hiroshi Mano2, Hitoshi Morioka2 (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan1; Root Inc., Japan2)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S2.2 Development of an ICT road map for eServices in rural areas.
    Nobert Jere1, Mamello Thinyane1, Alfredo Terzoli2 (Telkom Centre of Excellence in ICTD, South Africa1; Rhodes University, South Africa2)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S2.3 Investigating implementation of communication networks for advanced metering infrastructure in South Africa.
    Monontši Paul Nthontho, Simon Winberg, S P Chowdhury (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break supported by the Department of Communications, South Africa
16:00 - 18:00 Session 3 - Reflections on a fully networked society
Session chairman: Yoshikazu Ikeda (Otani University, Japan)
  • S3.1 Invited Paper: Cooperative Wi-Fi-Sharing: Encouraging Fair Play.
    Hanno Wirtz, René Hummen, Nicolai Viol, Tobias Heer, Mónica Alejandra Lora Girón, Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S3.2 Making things socialize in the Internet -- Does it help our lives? *
    Luigi Atzori1, Antonio Iera2, Giacomo Morabito3 (University of Cagliari, Italy1; University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Italy2; University of Catania, Italy3)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S3.3 Net-Centric World: Lifestyle of the 21st Century.
    Daniel Kharitonov (Juniper Networks Inc, USA)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S3.4 Reflexive Standardization of Network Technology.
    Ian Graham (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
An * denotes papers nominated for best paper award.
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Day 2 - 13 December 2011 (Tuesday)
09:00 - 09:30 Keynote speech: Recovery from the Communication Disturbance by the Tohoku Earthquake and Actions toward the Future.
Hirofumi Horikoshi (Technology Planning Department, NTT Corporation, Japan)
[ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
09:30 - 09:45 Fast-Forward Poster Preview
Session chairman: Martin Adolph (Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU)
[ PRESENTATION ]
09:45 - 11:15 Session 4 - Frequency and Spectrum Management
Session chairman: Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, Japan)
  • S4.1 Radio Resource Management in OFDMA-CRN Considering Primary User Activity and Detection Scenario.
    Dhananjay Kumar1, Kanagaraj Nachimuthu Nallasamy2 (Anna University, India1; Alcatel-Lucent India Limited, India2)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S4.2 Optimal Pilot Patterns Considering Optimal Power Loading for Cognitive Radios in the Two Dimensional Scenario.
    Boyan Soubachov, Neco Ventura (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S4.3 Optimal Spectrum Hole Selection and Exploitation in Cognitive Radio Networks.
    Mahdi Pirmoradian, Christos Politis (Kingston University London, United Kingdom)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break supported by the Department of Communications, South Africa
11:45 - 13:15 Poster Session - Showcasing innovations for future networks and services
  • P.1 A Trust Computing Mechanism for Cloud Computing.
    Mohamed Firdhous, Osman Ghazali, Suhaidi Hassan (Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • P.2 The Energy Label A Need To Networks And Devices.
    Virgilio Puglia (Italtel, Italy)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • P.3 A distributed mobility management scheme for future networks.
    Ved P. Kafle, Yasunaga Kobari, Masugi Inoue (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • P.4 Toward Global Cybersecurity Collaboration: Cybersecurity Operation Activity Model.
    Takeshi Takahashi1, Youki Kadobayashi2, Koji Nakao3 (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan1; Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan2; KDDI Corporation, Japan3)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • P.5 Context Representation Formalism and Its Integration into Context as a Service in Clouds.
    Boris Moltchanov (Telecom Italia, Italy)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • P.6 Supporting technically the Continuity of Medical Care: Status report and perspectives.
    Vasileios P. Spyropoulos, Maria Botsivaly, Aris Tzavaras (Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • P.7 Coexistence of a TETRA System with a Terrestrial DTV System in White Spaces.
    Heejoong Kim, Hideki Sunahara, Akira Kato (Keio University, Japan)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • P.8 Mobile cloud computing based on service oriented Architecture: embracing network as a service for 3rd party application service providers.
    Michael Andres Feliu Gutierrez, Neco Ventura (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch supported by the Department of Communications, South Africa
14:15 - 15:45 Session 5 - Optimisation of Layers 1 – 3
Session chairman: Tohru Asami (University of Tokyo, Japan)
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break supported by the Department of Communications, South Africa
16:15 - 18:15 Session 6 - Architectures to support a fully networked society
Session chairman: Ved P. Kafle (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
  • S6.1 Invited Paper: Effective Collaborative Monitoring In Smart Cities: Converging Manet And Wsn For Fast Data Collection.
    Giuseppe Cardone, Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S6.2 SOA Driven Architectures for Service Creation through Enablers in an IMS Testbed.*
    Mosiuoa Tsietsi, Alfredo Terzoli, George Wells (Rhodes University, South Africa)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S6.3 A Virtualized Infrastructure for IVR Applications as Services.*
    Fatna Belqasmi1, Christian Azar1, Mbarka Soualhia2, Nadjia Kara3, Roch Glitho1 (Concordia University, Canada1; ETS, University of Quebec, Canada2; École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada3)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S6.4 Seamless Cloud Abstraction, Model and Interfaces.
    Masum Z. Hasan1, Sree Lakshmi D. Gudreddi2, Monique Morrow1, Lew Tucker1, Silvia Figueira2 (Cisco Systems, USA1; Santa Clara University, USA2)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
18:15 - 19:15 Special session: Jules Verne’s corner

Session chairman: Paolo Rosa (Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU)

Panelists:
  • The disappearance of Telecommunications and the fading of boundaries among atoms and bits.
    Roberto Saracco (Telecom Italia, Italy)
    [ ABSTRACT ]
  • Dreaming of future CNS implantable medical micro-devices: Following the innovation patent-trail and appraising relevant ethical issues.
    Vasileios P. Spyropoulos (Medical Instrumentation Technology Department, Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • Atlas of Technology Advance.
    Rias J van Wyk (Technoscan Centre, USA)
    [ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION ]
An * denotes papers nominated for best paper award.
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Day 3 - 14 December 2011 (Wednesday)
09:00 - 09:30 Keynote speech: The fully networked human-ity? - Innovations for the un-networked human.
Alfredo Terzoli (Rhodes University, South Africa)
[ ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION]
09:30 - 11:00 Session 7: Service Quality for a fully networked society
Session chairman: Mostafa Hashem Sherif (General Chair, Kaleidoscope; AT&T, USA)
  • S7.1 Regulation of Bearer / Service Flow Selection between Network Domains for Voice over Packet Switched Wireless Networks.
    Nikesh Nageshar, Rex Van Olst (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S7.2 Accessibility support for persons with disabilities by Total Conversation Service Mobility Management in Next Generation Networks.*
    Leo Lehmann (OFCOM, Switzerland)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
  • S7.3 LabQoS: A platform for network test environments.
    Luis Zabala, Armando Ferro, Cristina Perfecto, Eva Ibarrola, Jose Luis Jodra (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
    [ PRESENTATION ]
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break supported by the Department of Communications, South Africa
11:30 - 12:30 Special session: ITU and academia

Part I: Strengthening Collaboration between ITU and Academia – Interactive panel

Panelists:
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch supported by the Department of Communications, South Africa
13:30 - 14:30 Special session: ITU and academia

Part II: ITU Standards and academia - Breakout session
  • The importance of standards and standards education
    Kai Jakobs (Professor, RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
    Paolo Rosa (Head of Workshops and Promotion Division, ITU-T)
  • ITU standards and ICT innovation
    Robert Shaw (Head of Innovation, ITU-D)
    Alfredo Terzoli (Rhodes University, South Africa)
    Martin Adolph (Project Officer, Standardization Policy Division, ITU-T)
  • ITU academia members and ITU standardization
    Chris Clark (Head of Sector membership, ITU)
    Sabrina Camp (Membership officer, ITU-T)
    Norifumi Yamaguchi (Engineer, ITU-R)
    Mitsuji Matsumoto (Professor, Waseda University, Japan)
Report back

Moderator:
Paolo Rosa (Head of Workshops and Promotion Division, ITU-T)
14:30 - 17:30 Special session: Future Internet Impacts on the Evolution of Next Generation Network Infrastructures and Services
Thomas Magedanz (TU Berlin / Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany)
[ PRESENTATION ]

[including coffee break]
17:30 - 18:00 Best Paper Awards and Young Author Recognition Ceremony
[ PRESENTATION ]
18:00 - 18:30 Wrap Up Session
Session chairman: Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Summary of the fourth Kaleidoscope conference (panel with session chairs)
[ PRESENTATION ]
18:30 Closing

Alessia Magliarditi (Kaleidoscope Coordinator, ITU)
[ PRESENTATION ]
Mostafa Hashem Sherif (General Chair, Kaleidoscope; AT&T, USA)
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