Dr. Roberto Saracco

Roberto Saracco is Director of the Future Centre in Venice and responsible for long-term research and scientific communications reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer of Telecom Italia. In 2001 he became director of the Future Centre, a research centre focusing on the economic impact of innovations in the telecommunications area. During 1999 and 2000, Roberto proposed and delivered a World Bank project in the InfoDev framework to speed entrepreneurship in Latin American countries, and prior, 1999 and 2000, he proposed and carried out a World Bank project in the InfoDev framework to foster entrepreneurship in Latin America countries. He is a senior member of IEEE where he has held several leading roles. Currently he is the Director of the Sister and Related Societies of COMSOC, a member of the Strategic Board of IEEE, and VP of the Italian Telecommunication Association (AICT).

Talk Theme: Evolution of Telecommunications in the World of Ecosystems  

Description: The talk will present the current trend of a business shift from value chains to ecosystems. This shift is the result of technology evolution that provides cheaper infrastructure and several architectural alternatives opening the market to many companies allowing them to play on a local and global market.
The evolution in some technology areas like storage, processing, data capture and transmission are considered and a view of new user paradigms of telecommunications will be presented.

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Dr. Pascal Lorenz

Pascal Lorenz ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) received his M.Sc. (1990) and Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Nancy, France. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a research engineer at WorldFIP Europe and at Alcatel-Alsthom. He is a professor at the University of Haute-Alsace, France, since 1995. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks .He is the author/co-author of 3 books, 2 patents and 190 international publications in journals and conferences. He was Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board (2000-2006), current Chair of Vertical Issues in Communication Systems Technical Committee Cluster, Chair of the Communications Systems Integration and Modelling Technical Committee and Vice Chair of the Communications Software Technical Committee. He has been Co-Program Chair of ICC'04 and symposium Co-Chair at Globecom 2009-2007 and ICC 2009-2008. He has served as Co-Guest Editor for special issues of IEEE Communications Magazine, Networks Magazine, Wireless Communications Magazine, Telecommunications Systems and LNCS. He is senior member of the IEEE, IARIA Fellow, member of many international program committees. He has organized many conferences, chaired several technical sessions and gave tutorials at major international conferences.

Talk Theme: IP-Oriented QoS in the Next Generation Networks  

Description: Emerging Internet Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms are expected to enable wide spread use of real time services such as VoIP and videoconferencing. The "best effort" Internet delivery cannot be used for the new multimedia applications. New technologies and new standards are necessary to offer Quality of Service (QoS) for these multimedia applications. Therefore new communication architectures integrate mechanisms allowing guaranteed QoS services as well as high rate communications. The service level agreement with a mobile Internet user is hard to satisfy, since there may not be enough resources available in some parts of the network the mobile user is moving into. The emerging Internet QoS architectures, differentiated services and integrated services, do not consider user mobility. QoS mechanisms enforce a differentiated sharing of bandwidth among services and users. Thus, there must be mechanisms available to identify traffic flows with different QoS parameters, and to make it possible to charge the users based on requested quality. The integration of fixed and mobile wireless access into IP networks presents a cost effective and efficient way to provide seamless end-to-end connectivity and ubiquitous access in a market where the demand for mobile Internet services has grown rapidly and predicted to generate billions of dollars in revenue. The presentation covers to the issues of QoS provisioning in heterogeneous networks and Internet access over future wireless networks as well as ATM, MPLS, DiffServ, IntServ frameworks. It discusses the characteristics of the Internet, mobility and QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile IP networks. It also covers routing, security, baseline architecture of the inter-networking protocols and end to end traffic management issues.

Dr. Otto Strobel

Otto Strobel was born in Ostfildern, Germany, in 1950. He obtained his Diploma in Physics from Techn. University of Berlin, in 1980. In 1986, he obtained his Dr.-Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering also from Techn. University Berlin. In 2001, he obtained his Dr. h.c. Degree from Techn. University Moscow Aviation Institute. Also in 2001, he was appointed as a Member of the Construction Consultative Committee of Wuhan Optics Valley of China. His main professional experience are teaching and research in Physics, Optoelectronics, Optical Communications, Optical Buses in Automotive Applications and Optical Sensors
Professor at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences (FHTE), Director of Physics Institute and Physics Laboratory, Author of the textbook (in German) "Technology of Lightwave-Guides in Transmission and Sensing" (VDE  2002, 2nd  edition). He has more than 10 years experience in R&D as member and consultant of Daimler, Alcatel-Lucent, HP, Agilent and Siemens. He has more than 40 publications in the field of fiber-optic technologies and optoelectronics and about 30 visiting professor stays worldwide. He is chair member of the International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks - Mediterranean Winter (ICTON-MW).

Talk Theme: Optical Polymer and Polymer-Clad Silica Fiber Data Buses for Vehicles and Airplanes  

Description: The talk will present the state of the art and next-decade technologies for optical data buses in automotive applications. Nowadays, optical data buses in vehicles are almost exclusively used in the infotainment domain, MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport). In airplanes lightning strike protection raises new problems due to the future replacement of the metal fuselage by a carbon fiber one. Current data rates are in the order of 150 MBit/s. Therefore, the use of LEDs and polymer-optical fibers (POF) has reached the uttermost limit of operation. For higher data rates, alternative solutions have to be found: The LED as transmitter has to be replaced by a vertical surface emitting laser (VCSEL), and the plastic fiber (POF) will have to be substituted by a polymer-cladded-silica (PCS) one. The detector area of the well-known Silicon photo diodes can be reduced greatly due to smaller fiber size. As a consequence, data rates will be extended into the Gbit/s-region. This situation then enables us to use the system for sensor applications as well, including safety-relevant operations like drive by wire, break by wire and engine management, and may at last lead in the coming decades to autonomous driving.

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