Congress Presentations

Wednesday 1 September

Round table: "Discussion on the present and future of telecommunications services in Spain"

Antoni Elias

Alberto Moreno

Didier Clavero

Jose Pose

Session 1: "A New World for Services"

"Potential and challenges in the converging ICT and media industry". Jarmo Harno

"Converging Telecom Clouds". Huib Ekkelenkamp

"App Ecosystems and their Relevance to Communication Service Providers (CSPS)". Bernd Wunderlich

"Business innovation for a sustainable internet". Michel Defloor

"European R&D shaping the future Internet-enabled world"

Luís Rodríguez Roselló

Session 2: "Should the Access to NGN be open?"

"Industrialized Services Access and Onboarding Enabling Applications While Managing Cost and Risk". Larcher Christophe

"Holistic approach for improving the FTTH business case". Koen Casier

"Prospects on FTTH EP2P open access models". Adrian Gonzalez

Session 3: "New advanced Applications"

"Rebeca: a 3D programming language enviroment for arising ICT vocations in young students". Susana Mata

"GNU Radio: A New Paradigm for Software Defined Radio". José A. García

"A Multi Camera System for Automatic Warning Delivery in ambient assisted living applications". Luca Polidori

"RFID integration in packaging systems". Luis Miguel Marias

"Monitoring accessibility in digital television". Mercedes de Castro

Session 4: "Intelligent road infrastructures"

"Smart cities: Going towards the future". Josep Paradells

"Realistic cost estimation of an inteligent transportation system roll-out on the highways of belgium". Erik Vanhauwaert

"Best practice for the GSM/UMTS network implementation inside high speed railway tunnels. Case study: Section Lleida to Barcelona-Sants.". Joaquín Fernández de Arcaya Martínez

"A proposal for traffic guidance and signalling system based on radiofrequency beacons". Luis Fernández Navarro

"Training platform on fieldbus networks for automotive applications". Santiago Otero

Friday 3 September

Session 5: "Living in the ICT age"

"The jump: What is next". Antonio Luis Flores-Galea

"Smarter Business Models For Smart Living, Smart Companies and Smarter Societies". Mauro Ugolini

"Communications Ancient and Modern: How does Modern ICT into the Tradition of Pilgrimages, an ancient form of communication". Peter Leonhardt

Session 6: "Access networks for tomorrow"

"SARDANA: an all-optical access-metro WDM/TDM-PON". Josep Segarra

"Structured Cabling: An Alternative to traditional solution in residential buildings". Fernando Martín-Rodríguez

"Wavelength Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Networks (WDM-PONs) combined with wireless nodes for delivering the bandwidth for next generation access services". George Agapiou

"Added-Value Services Provisioning over inter-technology radio access networks". Ilias Politis

Round table: "European manufacturers: ICT trends and implications"

Justo Rodal

Xerardo García

Juan Carlos García

Session 7: "Challenges for the regulator"

"Identity, liberty and accountability in the information society an assessment of the impact of European ICT policies". Graux Hans

"The Dilemma of Dividing the Digital Dividend". Manuel José Fernández Iglesias

"Consent, an instrument for patient empowerment?". Griet Verhenneman

"Universal Service: Up to date content development debate and Broadband services in Italy: Development and NGAN regulation". Francesca de Gennaro

Session 8: "The road to next generation networks"

"Challenges for the European next generation broadband". Arturo Vergara

"Self-Manageability in the Context of the Next Generation Networks". Konstantina Katsampani

"Efficient echo and parameters estimation of OFDM signals without demodulation". Miguel Ángel Ucha Cuevas

Session 9: "QoS Solutions"

"A brief history of QoS". Edward Smith

"A Model for QoS optimization at IMS Media Proxy Elements, in VoIP next generation netwoks". Konstantina Katsampani

"RUBENS: Delivery of On-Demand Content with Improved Customer Experience: Experimental and Techno-Economic Validation". Rob Smets