Tutorials – ICN'04

 

 

Sunday February 29, 2003

 

09:00 - 17:30 Tutorial Session 1

The State of Broadband Network Management: Technologies, Products, Services

Joseph Gheti, Telcordia Technologies (Bell Communications Research)

 

Abstract: This tutorial provides a comprehensive analysis of broadband networking technologies with focus on network, service, and policy management. The broadband coverage includes access, metropolitan, and high-speed multimedia backbone networks. Current and emerging underlying optical transport and networking technologies that compose broadband networks are evaluated for their functionality and performance: WDM/DWDM, POS, Resilient Packet Rings, 10 Gigabit Ethernet are analyzed along Gigabit Ethernet, xDSL, Cable modem, Wirelesss access, and Wireless metro. The tutorial also includes analysis and evaluation of management platforms/systems and associated management applications used in commercial off-the-shelf products that provide broadband network and service management.

Biography: Joseph Ghetie is a network and systems engineer consultant and instructor for Telcordia Technologies (Bell Communications Research). In his position, J. Ghetie was responsible for developing architectures, requirements, and solutions for network management integration, providing consulting, and supporting management standards development. Joseph Ghetie has also developed and taught numerous advanced technical courses in the areas of Internet, telecommunications, and data communications network management. Joseph Ghetie is the author of a published book on "Network and Systems Management Platforms Analysis", Kluwer Academics Publishers.  Since 1993, he has taught over 25 tutorials at major network management international conferences and symposia, INMS (IN), NOMS, SICOM, EMS, APNOMS, LANOMS, SBRC, ITC, etc. Joseph Ghetie is originally from Romania and has a MSEE in "Electronics and Telecommunications" from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. He started in 1967 as an electronics and network engineer with the " Institute for Railroad Research and Design", involved in the design and implementation of data communications networks and complex process-oriented computer systems for centralized traffic control of mass transit. Since 1985 he worked as a technical specialist at J.C. Penney Company, Inc. as part of the corporate headquarters "Corporate Communications Systems Development" group, where he was responsible, as project manager, for developing strategic plans, evaluation, selection, and implementation of new networking technologies.

 

09:00 - 17:30 Tutorial Session 2

Quality of Service for multimedia applications in UMTS/WLAN networks

Peter Altenbernd, Siemens Business Services, Simon Schneider, Nokia Research Center, Michael Ditze, Paderborn University/C-LAB

 

Abstract: The goal of this full day tutorial is to give a broad overview of QoS aspects for multimedia applications in modern wireless networks, focusing on UMTS and WLAN (IEEE 802.11) technologies as well as heterogeneous combined approaches. Hence, it will introduce video streaming compression techniques as a core component for multimedia premium services and identify respective QoS parameters. The term QoS will be defined and Mobile IP along with respective QoS models for network traffic control (Differantiated Services, Integrated Services) and real-time information processing (real-time systems, real-time scheduling) will be introduced. The main part of the tutorial will examine how these models are currently adapted to 3G and WLAN networks. The QoS concepts and architectures that will enable reliable premium multimedia services, are covered. Therefore, it will also give a broad overview of the relevant principles and architectures of UMTS and WLAN from both, the industrial and research point of view. It will also try to answer some basic questions of why and where UMTS and wireless local area networks can be used and whether UMTS and WLAN are competing or complementary technologies. By featuring two presenters with industrial background from leading-edge companies Nokia and Siemens and one presenter with academic background from Paderborn University, this tutorial addresses industrial practical topics complemented by scientific research background. The target audience for this tutorial includes both interested academics as well as technology decision makers from the Telecommunications and Service Provider business, who want to gain deeper understanding about QoS aspects of future wireless services.

Biography: Michael Ditze (Paderborn University/C-LAB) has studied Computer Science and Economics at the University of Paderborn, Germany and the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia (1997). Since he joined C-LAB in 1998, a joint collaboration between the university and Siemens Business Services, he has been doing practical industrial research in the field of real-time networking systems and media processing (QoS) within EU funded projects (Roxy, East). Michael has published 5 papers on this topic during the last two years with one filed patent. He is currently preparing his PhD that addresses adaptive scalability of video content in heterogeneous wireless networks. He is further responsible for EU project acquisition and hence familiar with the state of the art in the addressed technologies. Having taken courses on English technical writing and presenting at Oklahoma State University, he also offers commercial 2-day media processing tutorials on behalf of Siemens in English and German.

 

09:00 - 12:30 Tutorial Session 3

Design and Analysis of Real-Time and Multimedia Networking Systems

Albert M. K. Cheng, University of Houston, USA

 

Abstract: Multimedia and real-time systems are becoming increasingly popular in a variety of applications. These applications include group collaboration, remote medical diagnosis/treatment, conferencing systems, on-demand video services, and distance/remote sensing, learning, and monitoring. One major requirement for the implementation of such systems is the efficient transmission of multimedia information (video, image, audio, text) over a communication or computer network. Another major requirement is the bounded-time access and storage of multimedia information. Current image (JPEG) and video (MPEG) transmission techniques using precise or progressive algorithms work well if sufficient processing power, network bandwidth, and transmission time are available, but do not adapt properly to a reduction in one or more of these resources. A precise algorithm must be executed in its entirety before an output can be produced whereas the execution of an imprecise algorithm can be ended at any time prior to normal completion and a usable output can still be produced. Furthermore, the correctness of an imprecise algorithm is monotone increasing. The more resources such as time are spent in the imprecise algorithm's execution, the more accurate is the obtained output. However, current transmission algorithms are not in the proper imprecise form and must be significantly modified to implement the imprecise approach.  This tutorial presents an application of imprecise computation techniques to yield a balanced tradeoff between the quality of the multimedia information transmitted and the available resources for transmission in a networked environment. It also describes real-time scheduling and routing techniques for networks with multimedia applications. Proxy caching for web servers are also discussed. Then the tutorial evaluates and assesses the practicality of the available techniques and tools for building the next generation of real-time and multimedia networking systems. Topics covered include the real-time aspects of multimedia systems; and the analysis and verification techniques/tools based on schedulability analysis, model checking, Statechart/Statemate, Modechart, timed automata, timed Petri nets, process algebra, real-time temporal logic, and semantic rule-based analysis.

Biography: Albert M. K. Cheng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston, where he is the founding Director of the Real-Time Systems Laboratory. He has served as a technical consultant for several organizations, including IBM, and was also a visiting faculty in the Departments of Computer Science at Rice University and at the City University of Hong Kong. He is the author/co-author of over sixty refereed publications in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), and other leading conferences. He is serving and has served on the program committees of many conferences in his areas of research. He is a frequent reviewer for the IEEE-CS Publications Office as well as for many international journals and conferences, One of his recent work presents a timing analysis of the X-38 Space Station Crew Return Vehicle Avionics, which contains a fault-tolerant distributed system. Dr. Cheng has received numerous awards, including the National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award (now known as the NSF CAREER award). He has been invited to present seminars and tutorials at over 25 conferences, including IEEE CAIA, IEEE COMPASS, IEEE PDIS, IEEE SAST, IEA/AIE, SEKE, SEA, DAIS, IEEE CBMS, IEEE IC3N, ICCIMA, EIS, ICPDCS, IEEE ICECCS, IEEE IPCCC, IEEE MASCOT, ACM SAC, ICEIS, IEEE ICMCS, IEEE ISSRE, ACM CIKM, IEEE ICME, and IEEE IECON; and has given invited seminars/keynotes at many universities and organizations, most recently at ICEIS, Ecole Superieure de l' Ouest (ESEO), Angers, France, April 2003. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, a Guest Co-Editor of two IEEE TSE Special Issues on Software and Performance (Nov. and Dec. 2000), an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computer and Information Science, the work-in-progress program chair of the 2001 IEEE-CS Real-Time Technology and Applications (RTAS), the invited special panel chair for the software engineering for multimedia session at the 1999 IEEE-CS International Conference on Multimedia Computing Systems (ICMCS), a (senior) committee member in numerous conferences (including the current Real-Time Systems Symposium, Local Computer Networks, Enterprise Information Systems, COMPSAC, and Computer Communications and Networks) and a Senior Member of the IEEE. Dr. Cheng received the B.A. with Highest Honors in Computer Science, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, the M.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Electrical Engineering, and the Ph.D. in Computer Science, all from The University of Texas at Austin, where he held a GTE Foundation Doctoral Fellowship. He is the author of the new senior/graduate-level textbook entitled Real-Time Systems: Scheduling, Analysis, and Verification (John Wiley & Sons) ISBN # 0471-184063, 2002.

 

09:00 - 12:30 Tutorial Session 4

Developing Enterprise Web Services and Applications

Sandeep Chatterjee, FoundationalNet, Inc.

 

Abstract: The next stage in the evolution of enterprise applications will be based on Web services. Web services are pieces of application functionality that are exported through a set of standard application programming interfaces (APIs), and allow applications to be constructed by locating and binding to the exported functionality. More interestingly, multiple Web services can be coordinated together in unique combinations in an Internet application to implement value-added services for users. In this tutorial, we describe the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of Internet applications based on Web services. We also describe the emerging mobile Internet environment, the unique issues inherent to these environments, and the challenges in developing mobile applications based on loosely coupled Web services. In addition to a broad coverage of the fundamental topics, industry standards, and technologies (e.g., Java, J2EE, application servers, XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI) underlying the development of Web services and applications based on Web services, the tutorial will provide practical, step-by-step instruction for the development and deployment of enterprise-class Web services and applications based on standard Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers and SOAP servers. We also touch on .Net technologies in support of enterprise Web services.

Biography: Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee is Chief Technology Officer at FoundationalNet, Inc., where he is responsible for the development and strategic positioning of the company’s flagship enterprise Web services integration platform. He is also the author of “Developing Enterprise Web Services: An Architect's Guide", a book to be published in 2003 by Prentice Hall. Dr. Chatterjee has served on the Expert Group that specified the worldwide standard for mobile Web services, and is also on the Board of leading companies developing mobile and Web services technologies. Dr. Chatterjee was the inventor and chief architect of Hewlett-Packard’s Web Services Mediation platform, and was responsible for architecting and developing HP’s next-generation mobile Web services environment. Chatterjee was also the Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Satora Networks, which developed tools and technologies for developing appliances and services for the mobile and pervasive Internet. Previously, he was the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at FidelityCAPITAL, the venture capital arm of Fidelity Investments. Chatterjee holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research in networked client architectures and systems was selected as one of the top thirty-five inventions in the thirty-five year history of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, and his invention is showcased in a time capsule at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

Lunch on our own

 

14:00 - 17:30 Tutorial Session 5

Towards Self-Manageability through Dynamic Policy-driven Control in Distributed Systems

Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc.

 

Abstract: Enterprises and small businesses are increasingly evaluating their outsourcing options, and looking for a range of converged voice, video and data services. As the converge occurs, the challenges of operating and managing an integrated network intensifies. A resilient, flexible operational infrastructure becomes the critical success factor in offering a granular and subscriber self-managed portfolio. The tutorial will focus on several of the operational challenges of a "policy-driven self-management", and offer a strategy, vision, and concrete policy-enabled solutions toward adaptive and self healing networks of the future. Emphasis will be given to the increasing function of the "programmable layers, a policy-enabled management and service paradigm for enabling network and service convergence, feature interaction free, and robust through failure-avoidance. The tutorial will gradually introduce the topics in four steps.

Biography: Petre Dini is a Senior Technical Leader with Cisco Systems, Inc., being responsible for policy-based strategic architectures and protocols for network management, QoS, SLA, and Performance, Programmable Networks and Services, Provisioning under QoS constraints, and Consistent Service Manageability. He's industrial research interests include mobile systems, performance, scalability, and policy-related issues in GRID networks. He's also working on particular issues in multimedia systems concerning traffic patterns and security. He worked on various industrial applications including CAD/CAM, nuclear plant monitoring, and real-time embedded software. In early 90's he worked on various Pan-Canadian projects related to object-oriented management applications for distributed systems, and to broadband services in multimedia applications. As a Researcher at the Computer Science Research Institute of Montreal he coordinated many projects on distributed software and management architectures. In this period he was an Adjunct Professor with McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and a Canadian representative in the European projects. Since 1998 he was with AT&T Labs, as a senior technical manager, focusing on distributed QoS, SLA, and Performance in content delivery services. He is the IEEE ComSoc Committee Chair of Dynamic Policy-Based control in Distributed Systems, and actively involved in the innovative NGOSS industrial initiative in TeleManagement Forum. Petre is also a Rapporteur in Study Group 4 at ITU-T. He has been an invited speaker to many international conferences, a tutorial lecturer, chaired several international conferences, and published many technical papers. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, a Senior IEEE member, and an ACM member.