Tutorials

Name	Affiliation	Title
Dr. Bernhard Collini-Nocker	University of Salzburg AUSTRIA	Community TV – a new dimension for immersive social networking
Malcolm Beattie	IBM	To be announced
Prof. Pascal Lorenz	University of Haute-Alsace FRANCE	QoS in the Next Generation Networks and Wireless Networks
J. Wenny Rahayu, Eric Pardede and David Taniar	La Trobe University and Monash University AUSTRALIA	XML Data Warehousing

Community TV – a new dimension for immersive social networking

Univ.-Ass. Mag. Dr. Bernhard Collini-Nocker Department of Scientific Computing University of Salzburg Austria bnocker_AT_cosy.sbg.ac.at

Abstract

The TV sector is facing many drastic changes and is witnessing a rapid transformation. New technologies such as interactive TV, High Definition TV, very high capacity Personal Video Recorder (HD-DVB, Blu-Ray mobile storage), Home Theatre Systems, Video On Demand, Personal TV, etc. are entering the market. Television is moving from analogue TV to digital TV, from multi-channel TV to personal TV, from fixed TV to TV any-time any-where, from "provider centric" to "viewer centric", from TV watching to TV blogging and community TV. In the near future we can expect the viewer taking a more active control of the TV content, taking part in virtual TV communities and exchanging experiences, becoming creative and more participative. We will also see the TV content industry adding new interactivity dimensions to their content productions, offering the viewers the possibility to personalise their viewing of a TV production. We will see the TV channels and media providers mutating from TV content global push business models to users TV content individual pull models. This technological and TV business evolution is already taking place and will accelerate strongly in the coming years.

Short Biography

Bernhard Collini-Nocker received his masters degree in Computing Sciences and Systems Analysis in 1993 and his doctor degree in Applied Informatics 1998. Since the early nineties he is university assistant and research associate responsible for technical activities in numerous EU and ESA funded projects. His research interests include multimedia networking, IP based multimedia protocols and applications over digital video broadcasting media and multimedia home platform applications.

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To be announced

Malcolm Beattie IBM beattiem_AT_uk.ibm.com Phone: 44-208-818-6155

Abstract

To be announced.

Short Biography

Malcolm Beattie works in IBM's System z (mainframe) pan-European organisation as Linux Technical Consultant and as program manager for the System z University Program for Europe. He has over 15 years experience with Linux, half of which has been spent with Linux on mainframes.
As part of the university program, he engages with educational institutions across Europe on the subject of "Large Systems Thinking" and enterprise computing with the System z platform. This includes curriculum discussions, lecturing, events for faculty and students and running "Zeus", the mainframe hub that provides online System z access to universities across Europe.
Before joining IBM in 2001, Malcolm spent 9 years as Systems Programmer for Oxford University Computing Services where he worked on a number of open source projects (foremost of which was Perl) and designed and ran a number of the university's central systems (such as web, email and general Unix services). He holds an MA and DPhil in Mathematics from Oxford University.

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QoS in the Next Generation Networks and Wireless Networks

Prof. Pascal Lorenz Network and Telecommunication Research Group University of Haute-Alsace France lorenz_AT_ieee.org

Abstract

Emerging Internet Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms are expected to enable wide spread use of real time services such as VoIP and videoconferencing. The "best effort" Internet delivery cannot be used for the new multimedia applications. New technologies and new standards are necessary to offer Quality of Service (QoS) for these multimedia applications. Therefore new communication architectures integrate mechanisms allowing guaranteed QoS services as well as high rate communications. The emerging Internet QoS architectures, differentiated services and integrated services, do not consider user mobility. QoS mechanisms enforce a differentiated sharing of bandwidth among services and users. Thus, there must be mechanisms available to identify traffic flows with different QoS parameters, and to make it possible to charge the users based on requested quality. The integration of fixed and mobile wireless access into IP networks presents a cost effective and efficient way to provide seamless end-to-end connectivity and ubiquitous access in a market where the demand for mobile Internet services has grown rapidly and predicted to generate billions of dollars in revenue.
This tutorial covers to the issues of QoS provisioning in heterogeneous networks and Internet access over future wireless networks as well as ATM, MPLS, DiffServ, IntServ frameworks. It discusses the characteristics of the Internet, mobility and QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile IP networks. This tutorial also covers routing, security, baseline architecture of the inter-networking protocols and end to end traffic management issues.

Tutorial Outline

⇒ Concepts of the QoS
    traffic mechanims, congestion
    generations of Internet
⇒ Mechanisms and architectures for QoS
⇒ ATM networks (IP over ATM, WATM)
⇒ New communication architectures
⇒ Mechanisms allowing QoS
    MPLS
    DiffServ
    IntServ
⇒ QoS in Wireless Networks
    Mobile Internet applications
    Mobile, satellites and personal communications
    Mobile and wireless standardization IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.20
    WLL, WPAN, WLL

Short Biography

Pascal Lorenz received a PhD degree from the University of Nancy, France. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a research engineer at WorldFIP Europe and at Alcatel-Alsthom. He is a professor at the University of Haute-Alsace and responsible of the Network and Telecommunication Research Group. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks. He was the Program and Organizing Chair of the IEEE ICATM'98, ICATM'99, ECUMN'00, ICN'01, ECUMN'02 and ICT'03, ICN'04, PWC'05 conferences, symposium co-chair of ICC'06, Globecom'07, ICC'08, Globecom'08 and co-program chair of ICC'04. Between 2000 and 2006, he was Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board. He is the vice-chair of the IEEE ComSoc Communications Software Technical Committee and chair of the IEEE ComSoc Communications Systems Integration and Modelling Technical Committee. He is senior member of the IEEE, member of many international program committees and he has served as a guest editor for a number of journals including Telecommunications Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine and LNCS. He has organized and chaired several technical sessions and gave tutorials at major international conferences. He is the author of 3 books, 2 patents and 190 international publications in journals and conferences.

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XML Data Warehousing

J. Wenny Rahayu and Eric Pardede Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering La Trobe University Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia W.Rahayu_AT_latrobe.edu.au E.Pardede_AT_latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61 3 9479 1282 Fax: +61 3 9479 3060
David Taniar Clayton School of Information Technology Monash University Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia David.Taniar_AT_infotech.monash.edu.au Phone: +61 3 9905 9693 Fax: +61 3 9905 5159

Abstract

Coming soon!

Short Biography

J. Wenny Rahayu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering LaTrobe University. Her PhD thesis in the area of Object-Relational Databases has been awarded the Best PhD Thesis 2001 by the Computer Science Association Australia. She has been lecturing at the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering La Trobe University since 1995. In 2003, she was awarded the Dean's Award for excellence in teaching. Her research areas cover a wide range of advanced databases topics including Object-Relational Databases, Distributed and Parallel Databases, Web Databases, Bioinformatics Databases, Semantic Web and Ontology, Semantic Grid in Grid Computing, XML Databases and Data Warehousing. She is currently the Head of Data Engineering and Knowledge Management Laboratory at La Trobe University. To date, she has successfully supervised to completion 5 PhD and more than 10 Masters/Honours level students. She publishes extensively every year, including four books (one authored and three edited), and more than 80 research papers in international journals and proceedings. She has been invited for numerous talks in her research areas, and has been appointed as member of journal editorial board and invited to serve as publicity chair, program-co-chair, and program committee member in several international journals and conferences in the area of databases and web applications.

Eric Pardede is an Associate Lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at La Trobe University under the supervision of Dr. Wenny Rahayu and Dr. David Taniar. From the same university he received his Master of Information Technology in 2002. He also holds a Master of Quality Management degrees from University of Wollongong and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Bandung Institute of Technology. He has published a book and several research papers appeared in international journals and conference proceedings. He is an active scholar that has chairing several international conferences and workshops. His current research area is in XML Database, Data Modeling and Query Optimization.

David Taniar holds Bachelors (Honours), Masters, and PhD degrees – all in Computer Science/Information Technology, with a particular speciality in Databases. He publishes extensively every year. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. He first joined Monash University in 1997 as a lecturer in the Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology. After a short stay at the Department of Computer Science, RMIT University in 1999-2000, he joined the School of Business Systems at Clayton in the beginning of 2001 as a Senior Lecturer. He is a founding editor-in-chief of a number of international journals, including Intl J of Data Warehousing and Mining, Intl J of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, Mobile Information Systems, Journal of Mobile Multimedia, Intl J of Web Information Systems, and Intl J of Web and Grid Services. He is also an editorial board member of numerous international journals.

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