• Yoram Ofek,
  University of Trento, ITALY

The Future Internet: Challenges and Solutions

18 June 2008, 9:00-9:45, AM

During the next ten to fifteen years it is envisioned that the Internet will undergo several major transitions with respect to technologies, services and most importantly its size. Bandwidth demands are expected to grow up to 50-100 times. How will the Internet be able to support this demand growth? These transitions are led by the evolution of the Internet into, what we call, a global triple-any network. Namely, a global network – from anywhere to anywhere – that supports any service for anyone at anytime. Specifically, anyone implies that users of all ages, financial statuses, and technical skills, will be able to access the network; any service implies that every content, with whatever encoding format and bit rate, will be accessible to home users; while anytime implies “on-demand” services that will replace scheduled broadcasting services to home users. Thus, most of the Internet growth (perhaps more than 90%) will be driven and “consumed” by home users who do not pay very much. This leads to the following major question: “who will pay for the construction, maintenance, etc. of the huge Internet of the future”?
Clearly, the Internet of the future should be constructed using cost-effective optical and wireless technologies. We will, therefore, focus this presentation on scalable technologies for data packet delivery featuring: (i) low packet handling cost in the infrastructure (e.g., routing, switching, transmission), and (ii) predictable quality of delivery to users, with maximum efficiency (to maximize network resource utilization, thus minimizing the service cost). Specifically, we will discuss how global/universal time has the potential for overcoming many of the Internet scalability and performance challenges in both optical (wired) and wireless Internet, while increasing revenue from guaranteed premium services with major reduction of equipment cost.

Biography

• Professor Yoram Ofek is a full professor at the University of Trento, Italy and prior to this he was awarded the Marie Curie Chair in Trento (Italy) by the European Commission for a project called IP-FLOW [http://dit.unitn.it/ip-flow/]. He also coordinated and won a 2nd EU funded project RE-TRUST [http://re-trust.dit.unitn.it/]. Prof. Ofek received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana. He expanded his research while at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, and for his invention of the MetaRing and his contributions to the SSA storage products, he was awarded the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award. He has written 42 US patents and more than 110 journal and conference papers. Dr. Ofek has initiated and invented six novel network architectures: (1) ring with a family of fairness algorithms, (2) optical hypergraph for combining multiple passive optical networks (PONs), (3) embedding of virtual rings in arbitrary topology networks, (4) global packet networks for real-time and multimedia, (5) optical fractional lambda switching, and (6) method for remote authentication of software during execution that can be used for entrusting and protecting the Internet infrastructure, trust in distributed computing, and protecting (audio/video) content. Dr. Ofek is a fellow of the IEEE.
  

• Günes Kurt,
  Turkcell, Istanbul, TURKEY

Challenges in the Deployment and Management of Next Generation Networks

19 June 2008, 9:00-10:00, AM

• Bora Eliaçık,
  Argela, Istanbul, TURKEY

IMS and Service Delivery Platforms

19 June 2008, 9:00-10:00, AM