FUSECO 2011 - Workshop on Future Seamless Communications and Packet Core Evolution (FUSECO)

Workshop on Future Seamless Communications and Packet Core Evolution (FUSECO)
Motivation

The trend towards All-IP networks in fixed and mobile domains, also referred to as Next Generation Network (NGN) and Next Generation Mobile Network, and the increasing demand for the efficient support of multimedia services across various wireless and wireline access networks is accelerating globally. For example, with the intended role out of new wireless broadband access networks, such as the Long Term Evolution (LTE) or WiMax, the interworking with existing 3G, 2G and WLAN access networks becomes crucial. Along with the evolution of the wireline core network and emergence of new overlay control networks, such as the IP Multimedia System (IMS), the wireless domain intelligence is moving out of the different access networks into a common Evolved Packet Core (EPC).

This KiVS workshop is intended to become a series to bring together academia and industry and to provide a forum to debate on the research challenges related to integration and interworking of various access network technologies into an evolved packet core as well as the provision of various IP data and multimedia services, such as voice, rich media, as well as emerging mobile cloud services.

Topics of interest

EPC access network integration
Dynamic Access Network Discovery and Selection
3GPP and non-3GPP access network integration challenges
Cross access network mobility management
QoS provision across multiple access network domains
Charging and accounting issues in EPC
Cross access network security issues and solutions
Evolved Packet Core OA&M options
Self organizing networks (SON) in EPC
Future Internet research impacts on evolved packet core evolution
EPC rollout and EPC evolution
Next Generation Mobile Networks standardisation
Next Generation Mobile Networks and NGN integration options
Next Generation Mobile Networks prototyping and testbeds
EPC benchmarking and testing
Application Function options above EPC and integration into EPC
Application provision optimization above EPC
Applications driving Next Generation Mobile Networks adoption
EPC and IMS interworking / substitution
Voice service implementation in Next Generation Mobile Networks
Communications Delivery Platforms
Mobile Cloud Computing
Submission

Workshop papers are planned to be published in the open access journal ECEASST and will also be distributed to the participants of the conference in electronic form. All papers should be formatted according to the style of the Electronic Communications of the EASST (European Association of Software Science and Technology) journal. The maximum page limit is 12 pages. Templates can be obtained from: http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/template/
Please submit your paper via the KiVS submission system https://www.conftool.com/kivs11/..

Important Dates

31. Oct 2010 ? Submission Deadline
28. Nov 2010 ? Notification
19. Dec 2010 ? Camera-ready papers
10.-11. Mar 2011 ? Workshop
Committee

Denis Alexeitsev, Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany
Klaus David, University of Kassel, Germany
Hans Einsiedler, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom, Germany
Carmelita Görg, Universität Bremen
Wolfgang Hahn, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Thomas Haustein, HHI, Germany
Nguyen Huu Thanh, Hanoi University for Technology, Vietnam
Ralf Irmer, Vodafone Group R&D, UK
Wolfgang Kellerer, DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany
Norbert Niebert, Ericsson, Germany
Cornel Pampu, Huawei, Germany
Erwin P. Rathgeb, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Karsten Schröder, Telefonica/O2, Germany
Dirk Staehle, University of Wuerzburg
Kurt Tutschku, Universität Wien, Austria
Karl Jonas, FOKUS, Germany
Ingo Willimowski, Vodafone D2, Germany
Krishna Pandit, Qualcomm, Germany
Christian Wietfeld, TU Dortmund

For further information on WASA-NGI 2011 please visit: http://www.fuseco-workshop.org/kivs/