UP-TO-US 2012 - International Workshop on UP-TO-US: User-Centric Personalized TV ubiquitOus and secUre Services

Up-to-us: user-centric personalized tv, ubiquitous and secure services
HASSNAAA MOUSTAFA, ORANGE, FRANCE, HASSNAA.MOUSTAFA-AT-ORANGE.COM
MARIA CALDERON, UNIVERSITY OF CARLOS III IN MADRID (UC3M), SPAIN
MAREK DABROWSKI, TELECOM, POLAND
HOSSAM AFIFI, TELECOM SUD PARIS, FRANCE
This workshop aims at bringing together academia and industry to present and discuss the recent advances and novel aspects of technology including network architectures, services platforms, and user equipments to help creating pathways for the development of solutions for TV services personalization over different TV systems (having different architectures and belonging to different network operators and service providers).
The solicited topics for presentation and exchange in the workshop include:
Architectures and protocols for personalized TV services management and delivery.
Advanced technologies for TV personalization including context-awareness, content recommendation and content adaptation.
Quality of Experience (QoE) management.
Use-cases and business models for actors in the digital TV delivery chain
Monetization of content.
Traffic optimization techniques including Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
Content-centric networking: caching, distribution, load balancing.
Enhanced nomadic services access as well as services continuity.
User profile management.
Privacy management.
Technical program committee
Professor Hossam Afifi, Telecom Sud Paris, France (Technical Program Chair)
Sherali Zeadally, University of District of Columbia, Washington DC, USA
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute-Alsace, France
Ken Chen, Paris 13 University, France
Oscar Martinez Bonastre, University of Miguel Hernandez (UMH), Spain
Ali Begen, Cisco, USA
Xavier Anguera, Telefonica, Spain
Makram Bouzid, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
Noelia de la Pena, Full On Net (FON), Spain
Raúl Varela Izquierdo, Ericsson Network Services, Spain
Hervé Brutin, Marben Products, France
Peter Stadlmann, IP-Austria, Austria
Daniel Molina, Paradigma Tecnológico, Spain
Ignacio Soto, UC3M, Spain
Wassim Haddad, Ericsson, USA
Eugen Mikoczy, Slovak Telecom, Slovakia
Marie-Jose Montpetit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Yiting Liao, Intel Labs, Oregon, USA
Enrique de Miguel Illari, Vmodal, Spain
Federico Alvarez, University of Madrid (UPM), Spain
Petros Daras, Informatics and Telematics Institute (IT), Greece
Silvia Bastos Molares, Vmodal, Spain (Publications Chair)
Rodrigo Illera Camargo, Gesfor, Spain (Publications Chair)
Jacky Forestier, Orange Labs (Brainstorming Session Chair)
Carles Fernandez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (OUC), Spain (Brainstorming Session Chair)