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IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 Highlights - 7 December

IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 Highlights - 7 December 2012

Featured sections:

Conference Addresses

Stephen B. Alexander, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Ciena, spoke about “The Performance-on-Demand Application Ecosystem: The Next Phase of Telecom Infrastructure.” According to Alexander, “networks matter more today than over the past 20 years due to the overwhelming demand for capacity by providers.” As a result, the very nature of connectivity has changed requiring its reconfiguration into a “performance-on-demand application ecosystem” that connects people operating through 500,000 locations and 50 billion machines. See newsletter for full article.

Hossein Eslambolchi, Chairman & CEO of 2020 Venture Partners, addressed “The Power of Technology to Transform the Future” through the evolution of the network, cloud and future services. In his presentation, Eslambolchi spoke at length about the technology trends that are driving the network’s massive transformation as well as the opportunities for next-decade services that “will impact every person and business in one seamless, virtual world.” Eslambolchi approached this list by noting the necessity for fully-integrated architectures since the “network of today” and the “Internet was not designed to support the latest requirements” and that there is a “massively critical” need for security, which has previously been administered through band-aid solutions. See newsletter for full article.

Yesterday’s News

Wednesday Industry Forums Highlighted New Educational Learning Methods & Utility Pricing Schemes
The IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 Industry Forum schedule continued on Wednesday afternoon with two sessions dedicated to enhanced wireless learning methods and smarter pricing modeling for providers who are confronted with the ongoing challenges of rapidly rising traffic rates that are growing faster than revenues streams. See newsletter for full article.

Annual Banquet Provided Night of Fine Dining & Entertainment to Hundred of Participants
The IEEE GLOBECOM Annual Banquet Dinner held Wednesday evening in the Grand Ballroom of the Fantasy Tower at the Disneyland Hotel included the attendance of hundreds of conference participants, organizers and honored guests, who wined, dined and mingled as a steady stream of entertainment performed on-stage. See newsletter for full article.

Thursday Executive Forum on IT Transformation Discussed New World Network Infrastructures
The Executive Forum agenda at IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 continued on Thursday morning with the session on “IT Transformation: Clouds, Security, Mobility and Computing” exploring the challenges and opportunities confronting the transformation of today’s IT and network infrastructures, which are currently being driven by the introduction and development of the latest cloud computing, virtualization, security, mobility and business social networking applications and services. See newsletter for full article.

First-ever Lightning Talks Session Generated Nearly 20 Technical Presentations in Rapid-Fire Succession
The IEEE GLOBECOM Industry and Executive Forum schedule ended on Thursday afternoon with nearly 20 individuals participating in the conference’s “Lightning Talks” session that provided each individual the ability to address their choice of technical topics. Moderating the “new experimental” event was Leonard Reder of JPL, who introduced the succession of speakers throughout the forum and kept the activities moving with tight five-minute time limitations. See newsletter for full article.

Conference Best Papers:

include papers from the Symposium on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking
• FCM: Frequency Domain Cooperative Sensing and Multi-channel Contention for CRAHNs by Lu Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), Kaishun Wu (HKUST / Sun Yat-sen University, Hong Kong), Jiang Xiao, Mounir Hamdi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

• A Distributed Infrastructure-Based Congestion Avoidance Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks by Maram Bani Younes (University of Ottawa, Canada), Graciela Roman Alonso (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Izt, Mexico), Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)

For details, check out the 7 December 2012 edition of the IEEE GLOBECOM Daily, conference newsletter

(From the Event Floor)

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Happenings at IEEE GLOBECOM 2012

IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 Highlights - 6 December 2012

Featured sections:

• Conference Addresses
IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 began Wednesday’s comprehensive agenda with the eagerly awaited keynote addresses of Vinton Cerf, the current Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist of Google and celebrated computer scientist most commonly known as one of "fathers of the Internet” as well as Krish Prabhu, President of AT&T Labs and Chief Technology Officer.

• Program Spotlight of the Day

Keynote Session
• The Performance-on-Demand Application Ecosystem: The Next Phase of Telecom Infrastructure by Stephen B. Alexander, Ciena
• The Power of Technology to Transform the Future by Hossein Eslambolchi, 2020 Venture Partners

IF24: Executive Forum: IT Transformation: Clouds, Security, Mobility and Computing
According to the latest market research report, over one third of the world’s 7 billion population are now active Internet users. New business drivers such as cloud computing, virtualization, security, mobility and business social networking are driving the increased consumerization of IT services in much faster and cheaper manner. Clouds, big data and analytics, workforce mobility are among the key priorities for many large corporates. In this panel, the executives will explore the opportunities and challenges of IT and network transformation and provide insight on how communication will change the way we work, live, play and learn.

IF23: Lightning Talks: Only 5 slots left. Sign up by noon today!
The lightning talk session will be held today. It is concluding the Industry Forums portion of the conference. Lightning talks are short five minute talks on technical topics. Any conference related subject can be presented (thoughts triggered by a presentation, a nifty algorithm trick, a thesis project, open source software project, company product, etc.). As of Wednesday noon we have 15 short talks signed up for out of 20 slots. Five slots are still available. If you would like to present a talk sign-up before noon today. Everyone is encouraged to come and listen to this fun, dynamic and interesting session.

• Events of the Day • Program Updates • Exhibit Hall

Yesterday’s News

“Dialog with Industry Leaders” Provides Lively Give-and-take with Audience Members
Tuesday’s IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 activities ended with the highly-anticipated “Dialog with Industry Leaders” featuring a lively question-and-answer exchange between leading communications executives and conference attendees. See newsletter for full article.
Wednesday Morning Executive Forum Offered New Paradigms for Network Architectures
On Wednesday following the morning’s keynote sessions, Joe Berthold, Network Architecture of CIENA Corporation began the Executive Forum on Data Infrastructure and Services with his presentation on “Content-centric Network Architecture.” While bandwidth keeps growing and operators continue their efforts to connect people, places and machines through the use of tens of thousands of servers, they are also increasingly facing the dilemma of “traffics that are growing faster than revenues.” See newsletter for full article.

Conference Best Papers:

include papers from Symposia on Wireless Communications, Wireless Networking

For details, ceck out the Thursday, 6 December 2012 edition of the IEEE GLOBECOM Daily, conference newsletter

(From the Event Floor)

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IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 Kicks Off in Anaheim, California

Highlights of the day - 3 December 2012

• Welcome from Conference Chairs 
• Program Spotlight 

• SARACEN Contest – Win a tablet Open to all attendees. Simply use your camera or mobile phone to produce and upload a video to the SARACEN platform on “What is IEEE GLOBECOM.” Upload content and complete a questionnaire on by Wednesday, 5 December 2012 to enter with a chance of winning. The goal is to tell everyone what IEEE GLOBECOM is all about. The winner of the contest will be awarded with a tablet at the Lightning Talks session in North Ballroom A on Thursday, 6 December 2012, which is the last session of the Industry Forums. Additional information can be found on the SARACEN website.

• IEEE Cloud Computing Congress at IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 --  The IEEE Cloud Computing Congress being held in North America is part of an overall presence of the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative at IEEE GLOBECOM 2012. The congress consists of a tutorial, executive forum, several Industry Forum and Exhibition (IF&E) sessions and a technical workshop. See the final program for more information.   

The IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI), launched in April 2011 and significantly funded in 2012, intends to help accelerate the development and use of cloud computing technologies and help advance the understanding and use of the cloud computing paradigm by coordinating IEEE cloud computing conferences, publications, standards, educational, and regional activities. The IEEE Cloud Computing Web Portal provides members of the technical community as well as the general public a convenient, centralized gateway to news and information about cloud computing and the many activities organized and led by the IEEE CCI. 

• Events of the Day 
• Program Updates 
• Dinning & Entertainment 
• Conference Best Papers: include papers from Symposia on  
• Selected Areas of Communications 
• Communication Theory  
• Cognitive Radio and Networks

Check out the Monday, 3 December 2012 edition of the IEEE GLOBECOM Daily, conference newsletter.

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National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) Now Partner of IEEE WCET Program

On Thursday, 29 November 2012, IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) signed a partnership agreement to run the IEEE Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies (WCET) certification and training programs in Taiwan.

Taiwan's NTUST now becomes one of the two partners of IEEE WCET program. The first partnership was established with The Mobile Computing Promotion Consortium (MCPC) of Japan in November 2010..

With the agreement, NTUST has exclusive rights and benefits for candidates, applicants and others originating from Taiwan. A co-branded dynamic NTUST - WCET Chinese language web site and application is now available. A co-branded version of the current WCET Candidate's Handbook will also be developed for use in Taiwan in near future.

The IEEE WCET® Certification Program was specifically designed by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) to address the worldwide wireless industry's growing and ever-evolving need for qualified communications professionals who can demonstrate practical problem-solving skills in real-world situations.

(Photos of Agreement Signing Ceremony)

WCET Signing Ceremony