CSPRENI 2009 - International Workshop on Connectivity and Service Provisioning in the Regions with Emerging Network Infrastructure (CSPRENI)

The International Workshop on Connectivity and Service Provisioning in the Regions with Emerging Network Infrastructure - CSPRENI
Dates: tba
Contacts: Eugene Golovins, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Call for papers: [ pdf ]

As the deployment of internet and mobile data services in developed economies reach a saturation point, the emerging economies are offering tremendous growth opportunities for global operators and hardware manufacturers. Most of the emerging regions are characterized by the markedly scarcer levels of data and voice communication network infrastructure in comparison with the developed regions. At the same time the growth rates of telecommunication service users (e.g., mobile telephony) are often enormously higher. In the future, introduction of the new value-added multimedia services over the ubiquitous IP-based network architecture is envisaged to sharply boost the demand for the low-cost connectivity with assured quality of service (QoS) and quality of end- user experience (QoE). The deployment of these services is facing a number of technological, marketing and regulatory challenges inherent to the developing regions.

The network side calls for the minimization of capex, opex, connectivity and management cost through introduction of the broadband wireless access systems and inexpensive network interworking solutions, network element design to operate in the conditions of power supply interruptions, deployment of the scalable and robust mesh topologies in challenging terrain, development of the intelligent QoS-aware routing algorithms, delay-tolerant and intermittent networking protocols, traffic aggregation and sharing, etc.

Defining and enabling new services and applications should also be regarded of crucial importance from the network operatorâ?™s and service providerâ?™s standpoint as these are the major market-driving factors. Viable business models need to be proposed to attract new subscribers and to increase revenue from the existing users by offering new services to them. In the substantially heterogeneous network conditions inherent to the developing regions, quality of service delivery and flexible customer billing come to the forefront. The emerging IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) technology could appear as a potentially powerful service delivery platform over the existing IP networking infrastructure for a broad range of the multimedia services with strict QoS requirements (e.g., VoIP/IPTV and online gaming).

The aim of the CSPRENI workshop is to bring together a group of experts from Academia and Industry, who are involved in the research and implementation of telecommunication system solutions for the developing regions and would be interested to share their ideas, results and experiences with other participants, encouraging possible collaboration.

Topics of interest

Original contributions addressing networking architectures and service provisioning in the developing regions are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- deployment and operation of inexpensive broadband wireless access systems
- fixed and wireless mesh networks
- interworking heterogeneous wireless/wireline networks
- admission control and resource management in heterogeneous networks
- delay-tolerant and intermittent networking protocols
- QoS-aware routing - capacity, throughput and outage optimization
- aggregation and sharing of internet traffic
- content-based networking: caching, distribution, load balancing, resiliency
- self-protecting network architectures and protocol design
- IMS deployments over heterogeneous network infrastructures
- QoS interfaces to the transport network in IMS
- QoS provisioning for multimedia services
- development of killer applications and services for emerging regions
- innovative user interfaces
- AAA, pricing and billing
- innovative business models for data communications and services
- network operations and management
- test-bed and prototype implementation