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Workshop on Multimedia Convergence (IP Cablecom / Mediacom 2004/ Interactivity in Multimedia)
ITU Headquarters, Geneva, 12-15 March 2002


Workshop Programme

1. Schedule:

  Date Time
Opening session
    Tuesday, 12 March 2002
09h30 - 12h30
Session 1
    Tuesday, 12 March 2002
14h00 - 17h30
Session 2
    Wednesday, 13 March 2002
09h00 - 12h30
Session 3
    Wednesday, 13 March 2002
14h00 - 17h30
Session 4
    Thursday, 14 March 2002
09h00 - 12h30
Session 5
    Thursday, 14 March 2002
14h00 - 17h30
Session 6
    Friday, 15 March 2002
09h00 - 12h30
Closing Session
    Friday, 15 March 2002
14h00 - 17h30



2. Programme


Day 1 (Tuesday, 12 March 2002) - Starting at 09h30
AM Opening Session
Session Coordinators:
    Mr. P.A. Probst, Chairman ITU-T SG 16
    Mr. D. Green, Chairman ITU-T SG 9
    Mr. A. Magenta, Chairman ITU-R SG 6
09h30 – 09h45Opening speech: Mr. H. Zhao, Director of TSB
Opening speech: Mr. M. Giroux, Deputy Director of BR
09h45 – 10h00Workshop objectives: Mr. F. Bigi, Workshop Coordinator
10h00 – 10h20IP Cablecom project overview: Mr. R. Catchpole, Nortel Networks, UK
10h20 – 10h40Mediacom-2004: Mr. P.A. Probst, Chairman ITU-T SG 16
10h40 – 11h00Interactivity in Multimedia: Mr. A. Magenta, Chairman ITU-R SG 6
11h00 – 11h30Coffee Break
11h30 – 12h00Benefits by convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications: Dr. C. Weck, IRT, Germany
12h00 – 12h30ETSI's Approach to IP Cablecom Standardization: Mr. J. Price, C, Eng, M.I.E.E. Chairman, ETSI OCG ad hoc group on IP Cablecom
12h30 - 14h00Lunch
PM 1 Session 1 – Service and Network Architecture
    Session Coordinator: Mr. B. Moore, Chairman, ITU-T SG 13
    Associate Session Coordinator: Mr. C.-S. Lee, Vice-Chairman, ITU-T SG 13
14h00 - 14h20IPCablecom - Network and Service Architecture: Mr. V. Leisse, Technical University in Braunschweig, ITU-T SG 9
14h20 - 14h40Trends in Network Evolution: Ms. Hui-Lan Lu, Lucent, ITU-T SG 13
14h40 - 15h00Interoperability among broadcasting systems: Mr. Hirakawa, Toshiba, ITU-R 6M
15h00 - 15h20Coffee Break
15h20 - 15h40Media Networking: Mr. P. Lindgren, VP Business Development, Net Insight, Sweden
15h40 - 16h00Multi Services over MPLS: Mr. G. Koleyni, Nortel Networks, ITU-T SG 13
16h00 – 16h15Coffee Break
PM 2Panel Discussion: Multimedia Multicasting services and forward Harmonization
    Convener: Mr. C.-S. Lee, KT, ITU-T SG 13
    Panel List: All Speakers + SG 16 Expert
16h15 - 16h25Brief introduction of panel subject: Convener
16h25 - 17h00Brief view from Panel Lists: 5 minutes for each panel
17h00 - 17h30Open discussion



DAY 2 (Wednesday, 13 March 2002) - Starting at 09h00
AM Session 2 – Security and Privacy
    Session Coordinator: Mr. J. Magill, Vice-Chairman ITU-T SG 16
    Associate Session Coordinator: Mr. M. Euchner, Rapporteur, ITU-T SG 16
09h00 - 09h10Introduction: Mr. John Magill, Vice-Chairman ITU-T SG 16
09h10 - 09h55"Multimedia Security within SG16, Past, Present and Future": Mr. M. Euchner, Rapporteur, ITU-T SG 16
09h55 - 10h30"IP Cablecom Security": Mr. E. Rosenfeld (Cablelabs) / Mr. S. Medvinsky, Mr. S. Kang (Motorola)
10h30 - 10h50Coffee Break
10h50 - 11h10"SG17 activities on Security": Dr. Ohno, Rapporteur, ITU-T SG 17
11h10 - 11h30Security & Trust for E-Transactions: Mr. A. Ntoko, Head, E-Strategy Unit, BDT
11h30 - 12h00Discussion:
  • How to ensure inter-working and interoperability (different platforms)
  • Coordination of work
  • Future work
12h00 - 14h00Lunch
PM 1 Session 3 – Multimedia Quality of Service
    Session Coordinator: Mr. J. Y. Monfort, Chairman, ITU-T SG 12
    Associate Session Coordinator:
      Mr. C. Dvorak, Vice Chairman, ITU-T SG 12. Introduction
      Mr. N. Seitz, Vice-Chairman, ITU-T SG 13
14h00 - 14h20QoS framework and application to multimedia: Mr. C. Dvorak, Vice-Chairman, ITU-T SG 12
14h20 - 14h40Recommendation Y.1541 QoS classes: A Basis for IP Network QoS Control: Mr. N. Seitz, Vice Chairman, ITU-T SG 13
14h40 - 15h00Transmission QoS in IP Cablecom: Mr. V. Leisse, Technical University in Braunschweig, ITU-T SG 9
15h00 - 15h20Prediction and monitoring for VoIP quality: Mr. V. Barriac, Rapporteur, ITU-T SG 12
15h20 - 15h40Audio and audiovisual quality for mobile services: Mr. H. Klaus, Rapporteur, ITU-T SG 12
15h40 - 16h00Objective and Subjective Evaluation for Video Quality: Mr. A. Webster, Rapporteur, ITU-T SG 9
16h00 - 16h20ITU-T SG16 Work on End to End Quality of Service in IP Multimedia systems: Mr. M. Buckley, Rapporteur, ITU-T SG 16
16h20 - 16h40Coffee Break
PM 2Session 3 – Multimedia Quality of Service (Continuation)

16h40 - 17h30Roundtable discussion *.
Future work


* After this Roundtable discussion, the speakers, and the officials of each SG involved in the field of session 3 will be invited to a short working meeting to identify the lacks of Recommendations in the domain and to contribute to the different work programmes.



DAY 3 (Thursday, 14 March 2002) - Starting at 09h00
AM Session 4 – Broadband delivery and in-home distribution
    Session Coordinator: Mr. C. Sandbank, Vice-Chairman ITU-T SG 9
    Associate Session Coordinator: Mr. A. Nunn, Chairman WP 1/15, ITU-T SG 15
09h00 - 09h10Introduction: Mr. A. Nunn, Chairman WP 1/15, ITU-T SG 15
09h10 - 09h35Cable broadband delivery: Mr. R. Catchpole, Nortel Networks, UK
09h35 - 10h00Broadband Delivery and In-home Distribution: Mr. D. Jones, CableLabs, Rapporteur, ITU-T SG 9
10h00 - 10h25SG 15 ITU-T activity on Broadband Delivery and In-Home Networking: Mr. A. Nunn, Chairman WP 1/15, ITU-T SG 15
10h25 - 10h50Broadband Passive Optical Networks: Mr. T. Gyselings, Alcatel, Belgium
10h50 - 11h10Coffee Break
11h10 - 11h35Digital Subscriber Loop (xDSL): Mr. Matthias Kindler, Infineon Technologies, Germany
11h35 - 12h00End-to-End Multicast for Delivery of Broadband Multimedia: Mr. Seok Joo Koh, ETRI, Korea, ITU-T SG 17
Future work
12h00 - 12h30Discussion:
  • Inter-working and inoperability of the various solutions?
  • Coordination of work
  • Future work
12h30 - 14h00Lunch
PM 1 Session 5 – Interactivity in broadcasting
    Session Coordinator: Mr. F. Kozamernick, EBU
    Associate Session Coordinators:
      Mr. B. Aldous, Head of Broadcast Technology R&D, Communications & Information Industries Directorate, UK Department of Trade & Industry, Chairman ITU-R WP 6M
      Mr. A. Magenta, Chairman, ITU-R SG 6
14h00 - 14h30Interactive Multimedia: Mr. B. Aldous, Head of Broadcast Technology R&D, Communications & Information Industries Directorate, UK Department of Trade & Industry, Chairman ITU-R WP 6M
14h30 - 15h00EBU strategies: Mr. D. Wood, EBU
15h00 - 15h30DVB - UMTS convergence: Mr. G. Martinez, Motorola
15h30 - 16h00North American Progress in Multimedia Broadcasting: Mr. M. Akgun, CRC
16h00 - 16h10Coffee Break
PM 2Session 5 – Interactivity in broadcasting (Continuation)

16h10 - 16h40Consumer manufacturers: MPEG4 & MHP opportunities: Mr. P. Bristow, Philips
16h40 - 17h10Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting: Mr. S. Hirakawa, Toshiba, Vice-Chairman, ITU-R WP6
17h10 - 17h40SAMBITS Project: Interactive Digital TV and Rich Media Streaming, based on DVB-MHP, Mr. G. Stoll, IRT, München, Germany
17h40 - 18h00Questions & Answers



Day 4 (Friday, 15 March 2002) - Starting at 09h00
AM Session 6 – Voice and Video Coding and Speech Processing
    Session Coordinator: Mr. J. Y. Monfort, Chairman ITU-T SG 12
    Associate Session Coordinators:
      Mr. S. Campos-Neto, Vice-Chairman, ITU-T SG 16
      Mr. T. Wiegand, Editor, ITU-T SG 16
09h00 - 09h30Instrumental speech quality measures: market needs and standardization within the ITU: Mr. H. Klaus, T-Systems, Rapporteur, ITU-T SG 12
09h30 - 10h00Distributed Speech Recognition: Mr. B. Noe
10h00 - 10h30JVT Coding: Mr. T. Wiegand, Editor, ITU-T SG 16
10h30 - 11h00Coffee Break
11h00 - 11h30"Speech coders - A VoIP Perspective": Dr. R. Hagen
11h30 - 12h00Audio-Visual Coding in SG 16 and Future Directions: Mr. Y. Naito, Mitsubishi Electric, Rapporteur, ITU-T SG 16
12h00 - 12h30Discussion and conclusions
12h30 - 14h00Lunch
PM 1 Closing Session
Session Coordinators:
    Mr. P.A. Probst, Chairman ITU-T SG 16
    Mr. A. Magenta, Chairman ITU-R SG 6
14h00 - 15h30Report on the different sessions: Conclusions
15h30 - 16h00Coffee Break
PM 2Closing Session (Continuation)
16h00 - 17h30Future work, action plan



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