Special Session 1: Future Network Architecture and Management Issues
                                                                                               (Thur. Sept. 24, 13:30 ~ 15:20, Island II)

Session Chair : Byungdeok Chung, KT Network R&D Laboratory, Korea

1-1 NICT New-Generation Network Vision and Five Network Targets

Nozomu Nishinaga (NIICT, Japan)
 

 Nozomu Nishinaga received his B.S. and M.S. in Electronics Engineering and his Ph.D. in Information Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan in 1994, 1996, and 1998, respectively. From November 1998 to March 1999, he was a research assistant at the Information Media Education Center, Nagoya University. From 1999 to the present, he has been a researcher of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (formerly, Communications Research Laboratory). His current research interests include broadband satellite networking and its applications.

1-2 Business Oriented Network Architecture (BONA) Framework for Future Network

Sung Won Lee (Kyung Hee Univ., Korea)
 

 Sungwon Lee received the Ph.D degree from Kyung Hee University, Korea. He is a professor of the Computer Engineering Departments at Kyung Hee University, Korea. Dr. Lee was a senior engineer of Telecommunications and Networks Division at Samsung Electronics Inc. from 1999 to 2008. He is a editor of the Journal of Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers : Computing Practices and Letters.

1-4 Service oriented infrastructure for next generation IPTV

Tai-Won Um (ETRI, Korea)
 

 Tai-Won Um is a senior member of engineering staff in IPTV Technology Research Department at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. He received the BS degree in electronic and electrical engineering from Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea, in 1999, and the MS and PhD degrees from the School of Engineering, Information and Communications University, Daejeon, Korea, in 2000 and 2006, respectively. Currently, his research focuses on next-generation IPTV technologies, MPLS-based mobility in NGN, and optical burst switching networks.

Special Session 2: Management of Future Network and Services

 (Fri. Sept. 25, 10:30 ~ 12:20, Island II)

Session Chair : Kazunori Ueda, Kochi University of Technology

2-1 Radio Resource Management for Evolving Wireless Access in Heterogeneous Environment

Shin-ichi Nomoto (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan)
 

 Shinichi NOMOTO received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D degrees, all in electrical engineering, from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1980, 1982, and 1993, respectively. He joined Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co., Ltd. (now KDDI Corp.), in 1982. Since 1983, he has been engaged in R&D of radio transmission systems. As a professional assignee at Inmarsat HQ's from 1992 to 1995, he has contributed to the "Inmarsat-P (ICO)" project, which includes development of a global personal communications system using a number of non-geostationary satellites. His current research interests include antennas and propagation, broadband wireless access systems, cognitive radio, cooperative radio and QoE management in communication networks. He received the Shinohara Memorial Young Researchers' Award from IEICE in 1988, the Piero Fanti International Prize from INTELSAT/Telespazio in 1988, and the Radio Distinguished Award from RCR (now ARIB) in 1991. In 2004, two of his published papers received the Best Paper Awards from IEICE, one of which was the recipient of the 10th Inose Award (the very best paper of the year) too.
 He is an Executive Director of KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., a R&D fellow of KDDI, a senior member of IEEE, and a vice chair of Radio Interface Technology Study Group of Advanced Wireless Communications Study Committee (ADWICS), ARIB.

2-2 Leveraging NGOSS Frameworks for Next Generation BSS/OSS Transformation

Rong-Syh Lin (Chunghwa Telecommunication Labs., Taiwan)
 

 Rong-Syh Lin is the head of Network Operations Technology Department of Telecommunication Laboratories, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. He received the Ph.D. and master degree of Computer Science from Chiao Tung University in 1998 and Tsing Hua University in 1989, respectively. In 1989, he joined Telecommunication Labs. as a Researcher. He has focused upon efficient service/network operations and QoS/QoE innovation, and leaded the development of several Integrated Management Systems for broadband services in CHT, such as xDSL/FTTx, VPN, IPTV, VoIP, and new ICT services. Since 2006, he was appointed as the program manager of CHT/TL NGOSS Evolution, which successfully transformed and consolidated dozens of BSS/OSSs based on the TMF NGOSS frameworks. His current interest is on BSS/OSS flexibility and agility to accelerate new service growth.

2-3 Content Delivery Technology for IPTV

Young-il Seo (KT Network R&D Laboratory, Korea)
 

 Yeong-il Seo has more than 13 year extensive experiences as IP Network Engineer at KT Network R&D Laboratory. As key accomplishment, he successfully deployed KT NGN, and he implemented KT TPS including IPTV over KT NGN. He is responsible for design, deployment, and engineering of KT’s IP network. He was the editor of ITU-T IPTV FG and now he has an activity in IETF P2P related WG. He is focusing on Next generation Content delivery technology, P2P issue and IETF Application-Layer Traffic Optimization technology.

2-4 Issues on QoS-enabled IP network planning

Yong Min Choi (KT Network R&D Laboratory, Korea)
 

 Yongmin Choi is a senior researcher at Network R&D Laboratory, KT Corporation (Daejeon, Korea), where he works on IP traffic engineering and network optimization. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from the Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea). He is pursuing Ph.D. degree at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA). Since 1993 he has worked in areas of standardization of multimedia services, development of convergence services, and consulting of strategic planning. He also worked on statistical analysis and modeling of Internet traffic and satellite Internet at Hughes Ratheon Laboratories LLC (Malibu, USA) in 2000. His current research interests include statistical analysis and modeling of multi-service IP network, traffic anomaly detection and control, and future Internet. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu (the national honor society for electrical engineering in USA).