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ITU-PITA Workshop on Mobile network planning and mobile security

23-25 October 2019, Hilton, Nadi, Fiji

The ITU PITA Workshop on “Mobile network planning and security for the Pacific Islands Countries" held in Nadi, Fiji from 23 to 25 October 2019. The workshop organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association (PITA), and held from 15-18 August 2017 in Suva, Fiji. The workshop supported by the [Department of Communications, Government of Fiji] and the Department of Communications and the Arts (DoCA), Government of Australia. It delivered in English and held back to back with the PITA Strategy Forum 2019.

The workshop designed to enhance the understanding of participants on mobile network planning and mobile security in the context of Pacific Islands. It bring together stakeholders from government, industry, development organizations and other organizations to share the developments and raise awareness on technology, standards, network planning and security related to advanced mobile technologies.

23 October

Opening Session

- ITU
- PITA
- Department of Communications, Fiji

1030-1115 Session 1: Where are we now: 4G, 5G and IoT Ecosystem and ITU

Objective: To provide an overview of wireless broadband ecosystem including drivers, policy, regulations, business, technology others.

- Mr. Ashish Narayan

[Presentation]

1115-1145 Coffee Break

1145-1230 Session 2: 4G networks and standard releases

Objective: To provide an overview of various technologies and standards of 4G

- Prof. Sami Tabbane

[Presentation]

1230-1400 Lunch Break

1400-1500 Session 3: 4G networks and standard releases (continued)

Objective: To provide an overview of various technologies and standards of 4G

- Prof. Sami Tabbane

[Presentation]

1500-1530 Coffee Break

1530-1700 Session 4: Air Asia, protecting ticket booking engine against bot attack and bad traffic via Cloud. Also, cloud Anti-DDOS, Web Attack Firewall

- Mr. Simon Wu; Chief Architect Alibaba Cloud Core

[Presentation]

25 October

0900-1030 Session 9: 4G and 5G network security techniques and algorithms

Objective: Present the parameters, techniques and algorithms to address security issues in 4G and 5G networks.

- Prof. Sami Tabbane

[Presentation]

1030-1100 Coffee Break

1100-1145 Session 10: Case Study presentation

Objective: Share experience on 5G planning from China,

- Mr. Liu Dingpu, Engineer, China Academy of ICT

[Presentation]

1145-1230 Case study from Fiji

Objective: To present practical case from Fiji on cybercrime and mSAFE initiatives.

- Ms Ambalika Devi, Mr Bari and Mr Robert Ram

[Presentation 1] [Presentation 2]

1230-1400 Lunch Break

1400-1500 Session 12: Mobile application security

Objective: Discuss the security issues in mobile applications and how to protect the users

- Prof. Sami Tabbane

[Presentation]

1500-1530 Coffee Break

1530-1700 Session 8: Working Group exercise

Objective: Which technology and which regulatory framework for IoT and 5G transition. Elaborate a proposal for developing an digital ecosystem in the country based on these networks and services.

24 October

0900-1030 Session 5: LTE-A networks dimensioning and planning

Objective: To present the process, techniques and tools for 4G network planning.

- Sami Tabbane

[Presentation]

1030-1100 Coffee Break

1100-1230 Session 6: 5G networks and 3GPP Release 15

Objective: Present 5G networks architecture and main technologies (radio interface, cloud and virtualization etc.) and experiences.

[Presentation]

1230-1400 Lunch Break

1400-1530 Session 7: The Impact of Cybersecurity on the Telecommunications Industry

Objective: Case study presentation,

- Mr. Shaneel Kumar, Manager IT, Cloud & Security, Vodafone, Fiji.

[Presentation]

1530-1600 Coffee Break

1600-1700 Session 8: Working Group exercise

Objective: Based on the framework and assumptions defined in Session 4, dimension and plan the corresponding 4G network. The objective being to estimate the number of sites to be implemented according to radio propagation and traffic profiles.

20-21 October

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ITU-PITA Workshop on Mobile network planning and mobile security

23 October

25 October

24 October

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