Annual Review of Communications, Vol. 57

Available November 2004
Format: Hardcover, 1,442 pages
ISBN:1-931695-28-8
Price: $495.00

Overview ·  Table of Contents ·  Features ·  Organizations

Table of Contents

Section I: Executive Perspectives

Accelerating Cash Velocity in the Telecom Industry
Pascal Aguirre, Senior Vice President and Solution Providers Practice Leader, ADVENTIS

Outsourcing Communications Management: An Adaptive Technology Strategy
Dan Allison, U.S. Vice President of Global Sales and Client Solutions, EDS

Next-Generation Broadband Networks: IP Video Delivery over FTTP
Naveen S. Bisht, Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Nayna Networks, Inc. James Connor, Director of Marketing, Nayna Networks, Inc.

The Untold Telecom Story: How the Industry Lost its Grip on ROCE (and How to Get It Back)
Didier Bonnet, Vice President, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

Avoid the Best-of-Breed OSS Dilemma for Broadband Applications
Max Bornschlegl, Vice President, Systems Engineering Management Systems, Siemens AG, ICN

Voice over IP (VoIP) Enhanced Services
Peter Briscoe, President, Founder, and Chief Executive Officer, Convedia

Auto-Identification and the New World of Logistics
The Impact of Enabling Technology on the Diffusion of Auto-ID Technologies
George Brody, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Globe Ranger Corporation
Hanns-Christian L. Hanebeck, Director, Enterprise Applications, Globe Ranger Corporation

Software-Driven Product Design Architectures
A Path to Design Flexibility
David A. Carnevale, Vice President of Marketing, Path 1 Network Technologies Inc.

Wireless Carrier Reform Is Essential for Data Services Success
Andrew J. Cole, Senior Vice President and Wireless Practice Leader, ADVENTIS

TV over DSL: xDSL Switches versus DSLAM Upgrade
Christian Crickx, Chairman, Chief Technology Officer, and Co-Founder, Avilinks

Home Networks: Opportunity or Challenge?
Stewart Davies, Chief Executive Officer, BT Exact

ICT: The Driving Force behind the Digital Networked Economy
Sally Davis, President, BT Global Products and Customer Service, BT Global Services

A New Business Imperative: Toward Automatic, Transparent, and Continuous Sensitive Data Protection
David Duncan, President, encryptx Corporation

Ethernet in the First Mile
Making Universal Broadband Access a Reality
Craig Easley, Chief Technology Officer, Extreme Networks

Video: By Broadcast or IP?
James O. Farmer, Chief Technology Officer, Wave7 Optics, Inc.

Wi-Fi for All
A Proposed Business Model for Home Wi-Fi Adoption Offers Operators New Sources of Revenue
Greg French, President, Octave Brand Communications, Inc.

Are You Ready for a Recovery?
Thomas Ganswindt, President, Siemens ICN

Next-Generation Trading Networks
An Internet-Based B2B Community Model for Today and Tomorrow
Gary Hoyer, Chief Technology Officer, ANXeBusiness Asia Pacific

Telecommunications Applications
Michael S. Irizarry, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, US Cellular Corporation

Intelligent Revolution for Metro SANs
Elke Jahn, Chief Executive Officer, Lightmaze AG

Toward Intelligent Real-Time Web Services
Gabriel Jakobson, Chief Scientist, Altusys Corp.

Triple Play Networks Ready for Delivery Vladimir Kaminsky, President, Practel, Inc.
Kamal Raychaudhuri, Director of Technology, EMW, Inc.

U.S. Local-Exchange Carrier Strategic Directions
Michael Kennedy, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Network Strategy Partners, LLC

Can Broadband Wireless Save the CLECs?
Anthony J. Klinkert, General Manager, Klinkert and Associates, Inc.
Morris W. Westerhold, President, TPC Consulting, Inc.

Digital Leakage
What Is It? Why Is It a Problem? And What Can Be Done to Address It?
Martin Lambert, Chief Technology Officer, Sealed Media

Beyond Broadband Access
Sanghoon Lee, Executive Vice President, Network Group, KT

The Roadmap to E-Communications
Mark Lieberman, Chief Executive Officer, Interactive Video Technologies, Inc.
Janet Raupp, Director of Marketing, Interactive Video Technologies, Inc.

Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
The Impact of File Sharing on Service-Provider Networks
Marc Morin, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Sandvine Incorporated

Service-Provider Physical Infrastructure Security and Surveillance
Tom Niewulis, President, NCDCS, Inc.

The Telecom Downturn: Could It Have Been Predicted?
John H. Nugent, Chief Economic Officer, Hilliard Consulting Group, Inc., and Assistant Professor, Telecommunications and Strategy, Graduate School of Management, University of Dallas, and Founder and Director, Center of Information, University of Dallas

The Telecommunication Needs of Manufacturing and Construction
Joel Orr, Vice President and Chief Visionary, Cyon Research Corporation

BSS/OSS Legacy Systems
A Transition Strategy and Tools
Stephen Parker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Eftia OSS Solutions, Inc.

Technology-Enabled Convergence for Communications, Information, and Entertainment Services
Girish Pathak, Chief Customer Strategist, TELUS Communications Inc.

Internal Computer Investigations as a Critical Control Activity under Sarbanes-Oxley
John Patzakis, President and Chief Executive Officer, Guidance Software, Inc.
Victor Limongelli, General Counsel, Guidance Software, Inc.

Uniting Videoconferencing and Video Streaming
Tom Pinckney, Chief Technology Officer, STARBAK Communications

A Change in Philosophy Required
Successful Telcos Will Evolve from a Closed-Network Model to an Open-Service Model
Krish Prabhu, President and Chief Executive Officer, Tellabs, and Former Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, ECI Telecom

Operator-ENUM Architecture
System Overview
Douglas Ranalli, Founder, NetNumber, Inc.

The Future of the Internet-Revisited
Terence W. Rogers, President, Advanced Network and Services

The Gating System Event to Broadband Utilization
David S. Roland, President, Advanced Intelligent Networks Corporation

Ethernet over Copper Generates New Revenue Streams to Service Providers
Yossi Saad, Vice President, Product Marketing, Actelis Networks, Inc.

Can WLANs Have a Ubiquitous Future?
A Technology Perspective on Emerging Trends and Requirements
Dr. Sriprakash Sarathy, President, synOvia Inc.
Dr. Khalil Shujaee, Chairman, synOvia Inc.
Dr. Sanjay Moghe, Chief Executive Officer, synOvia Inc.

Optical Wireless: Technology, Applications, and the Economics of Last-Mile Connectivity
Vidya Sharma, Director, Strategic Marketing, LightPointe Communications
Heinz Willebrand, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Technology Officer, LightPointe Communications

VoIP Deployment Considerations
Manickam Sridhar, Chief Technology Officer, Sitara Networks, Inc.

State of the DSL Industry
Tom Starr, Chairperson and President, The DSL Forum
Michael Brusca, Vice President of Strategy, The DSL Forum Board of Directors

Software Dependability and Customer Trust on New Technology
Ari Takanen, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Codenomicon Ltd.

Distributed Real-Time Event Mining
Angus Telfer, Chief Technology Officer, INETCO Systems Limited

Learning from History
Identifying, Packaging, and Pricing Next-Generation Telecom Services
R. Brough Turner, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, NMS Communications

Wireless Cyber Attacks
The Battle Begins
Clifford P. Wagner, Jr., Executive Vice President, Marconi Wireless

The Lean Operator
Strategy and Survival Guide for Service Providers
Keith Willetts, Chairman, The TeleManagement Forum

Solving the Server I/O Bottleneck: An Evaluation of the Alternatives
Laurie Yoler, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Precision I/O, Inc.
Bob Felderman, Chief Technology Officer, Precision I/O, Inc.

Section II: Business, Marketing, and Regulatory Issues

Shifting to Wireless Broadband Infrastructure: Why OPEX Functions Rule the Last-Mile Dilemma
Frank J. Bernhard, Technology Economist and Managing Principal, Supply Chain and Telecommunications Practice, OMNI Consulting Group LLP

The Holy Telco Grail: Service Bundling Success with an Improved Back Office
Greg Bolino, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Telution, Inc.

Prospects for M-Commerce in Developing Countries
Amitava Dutta, Professor and Le Roy Eakin Chair in E-Commerce, School of Management, George Mason University
Varadharajan Sridhar, Professor, Information Management Area, Management Development Institute

A Review of the Impact of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 on ILECs
Ali Eskandarian, Associate Dean, College of Professional Studies, The George Washington University
Ayman Nasser, Independent Consultant
Mohamed Eltoweissy, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech

Corporate Expectations of the IT Department in an Age of Terrorism
Ensuring "Battle Readiness"
Robert S. Fleming, Professor, Management and MIS, Rowan University

Next-Generation Networks
A European View
Howard Green, Network Strategy Director, Office of Chief Strategy Officer, Marconi

Strategies for Insuring Universal Service in an Era of Rapid Industry Change
Mike Heller, Senior Manager, Service-Provider Marketing, Service-Provider Line of Business, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Economics of Broadband Access Network Upgrade Strategies
The Developing Countries Perspective
Milan Jankovic, Assistant Professor, Community of Yugoslav PTT
Zoran Petrovic, Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade
Miroslav Dukic, Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade

How Do You Spell Return on Investment? Realizing, Optimizing, and Maximizing ROI Is Simply a Matter of Selecting the Right Technology and the Right Box for the Right Applications
Lior Kahan, Marketing Manager, Optical Networks Division, ECI Telecom

Making Broadband a Mass-Market Reality in Germany
Roland Kittel, Member of the Board, T-Com

Deregulation of Retail Local Services Is Both Appropriate and Inevitable
Joseph S. Kraemer, Director, Law and Economics Consulting Group (LECG)
Richard O. Levine, Director, Washington, D.C. Office, Law and Economics Consulting Group (LECG)
Randolph J. May, Senior Fellow and Director, Communications Policy Studies, The Progress and Freedom Foundation

Industry (Still) on the Brink
Issues, Implications, and Timing of the Telecom Industry Turnaround
Mitch Mitchell, Vice President, A.T. Kearney
Ken Tan, Principal, A.T. Kearney

Data Warehousing and Mobile Telephony
Developing a Strategic Vision for Voice, Data, and Content Analysis from 2.5G and 3G Services
Martin Morgan, Director, Global Industry Consulting, Global Mobile Communications, Teradata

Collaborative Networking
Unified Communication Solutions That Work for Your Business
Jimmy Ng, Business Development Manager, Network Services, Hewlett-Packard Services

State of the CLEC Union: The New Competitive Reality
Tim Nugent, Director of Business Development, Telution, Inc.

Broadband
The Power for the Fixed Telecom Business Transformation
Manuel Echánove Pasquín, General Director, Strategy and Business Development, Telefónica de Espańa, S.A.U., Spain

A Road Map to Performance-Based E-Government
Lana Phair-Sutherland, President, Phair-Sutherland Consulting
Douglas Matatall, President, iPhoenix Corporation

Expanding Globally
A Strategic Framework for Telecommunications Service Providers
Steven R. Powell, Professor, CIS Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

The Ten Mortal Sins of Outsourcing
Mark J. Power, President, ROS, Incorporated
Carlo Bonifazi, Vice President and Partner, ROS, Incorporated
Kevin C. Desouza, Associate Professor, Department of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

The Importance of Global Management of Laboratories for Telecommunications Carriers
Normand Primeau, Associate Director, Bell Labs Process, Broadband and Optical Network Technology Development, Bell Canada, and Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Effect of Revenue Sharing Fraction and Market Size on Outputs and Profits for the Advanced Intelligent Network
Vinh Quan, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University
Scott Rogers, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

Enterprise CRA
An Integrated Approach to Revitalize Carrier Performance
Gary Ross, Principal, Connexⁿ Technologies

Venture Capital Investing in Today's Market
Signs of Recovery Breed Optimism, Caution
Subhash Roy, Principal, Kodiak Venture Partners

Using Accessible Data Sources to Determine Telecom Diffusion Capabilities of Developing Nations: A MENA Perspective
Stephen R. Ruth, Ph.D., Professor of Public Policy and Technology Management, The School of Public Policy, and Director, International Center for Applied Studies in Information Technology (ICASIT), George Mason University
Sarasin Booppanon, Ph.D. Candidate, The School of Public Policy, George Mason University
Ting Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, The School of Public Policy, George Mason University

Telecommunications Policy and Regulation in the United States: A Perspective for Information Technology Managers
Satya Prakash Saraswat, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Information Systems, Bentley College

Section III: Network Technology and Electronic Design

DWDM: Changing the Landscape of the Photonics World
Dr. Mohammad S. Alam, Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of South Alabama
Pavani Polu, Graduate Student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of South Alabama
Praveen Panati, Graduate Student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of South Alabama
Dr. Aed El-saba, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of South Alabama
Dr. Salim Al-sharif, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of South Alabama

Modeling Multimedia Content Semantics in MPEG-7 Using COSMOS-7
Marios C. Angelides, Professor of Computing, Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University
Athanasios Gkoritsas, Research Student, Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University

The Public Ethernet Network: The Next-Generation Broadband Access Network
Michael Begley, Systems Engineer, Ericsson AB

Measurement and Characterization of Clock and Data Recovery Circuits for Gigabit Backplane Applications
Uwe Brand, Research and Design Engineer, Information and Communication Networks Group, Siemens AG
Wilhelm König, Research and Design Engineer, ASIC Design Center of the Information and Communication Networks Group, Siemens AG

New Demands Call for a New Approach to Chip Design
Data Plane Processing with Configurable Architectures to Deliver High-Performance Embedded Signal Processing
Matthew Byatt, DSP Marketing Manager, ARM Ltd.

Explosion of Communications' Processors
Jeff Cartwright, Vice President, Business Development, Obsidian Software

Bringing Carrier-Class Features to Ethernet-Based MANs
Nan Chen, Vice President, Marketing, Atrica Inc., and Founding President and Board Member, Metro Ethernet Forum

Fiber-Optic Infrastructure for Current and Next-Generation Data Communications
Casimer DeCusatis, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Server Division
Larry Jacobowitz, Development Manager, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Intelligent Networks: Security Issues and Performance Evaluation
Christos Douligeris, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus
Rosa Mavropodi, Research Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus

A CPL to Java Compiler for Dynamic Service Personalization in JAIN-SIP Servers
Paolo Falcarin, Ingegnere (Engineer), Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino

Broadband Communications Based on Code Division Parallel Access (CDPA)
Saleh Faruque, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Dakota

Providing Inclusive Video-Mediated Communication
Deborah Fels, Ph.D., P.Eng., Associate Professor, Information Technology Management
Director, Centre for Learning Technologies, Ryerson University
Bertha Konstantinidis, B.Sc., Centre for Learning Technologies, Ryerson University
Jim Hardman, B.SW., Canadian Hearing Society
Cindy Carey, Staff Interpreter, Canadian Hearing Society
Wendy Porch, M.Ed., Project Coordinator, Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto

Radical Photonics: Smart Investments in Winning Technologies
Steve Ferguson, Strategy Director, Office of Chief Strategy Officer, Marconi Communications

Increasing DSP Performance Breeds Unexpected Applications
Gene A. Frantz, Principal Fellow and Business-Development Manager, Digital Signal Processing, Semiconductor Group, Texas Instruments, Inc.

Intelligent Networking and the Information Economy
A Systems Theory Interpretation
Richard A. Gershon, Ph.D., Professor of Telecommunications, Department of Communication, Western Michigan University

Passive Optical Networks: Next-Generation Ultra-Broadband Access
Nasir Ghani, Assistant Professor, Tennessee Tech University
Zhensheng Zhang, Senior Scientist, San Diego Research Center
M. Yasin Akhtar Raja, Professor, Physics and Optical Science Department, Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, University of North Carolina - Charlotte

High-Capacity All-Optical Networks
John Medrano, Senior Computer Engineer, The Proteus Corporation
Ahmed Musa, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso
Virgilio Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso
Mehdi Shadaram, Briscoe Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio

Ethernet Transport Services: The Current State of the Art
Steve Gorshe, Principal Engineer, PMC-Sierra, Inc.

Grid Computing: Evolving Definitions and Implementations
John W. Hassell, Graduate Student, Telecommunications Systems, College of Engineering, The University of Oklahoma - Tulsa
James J. Sluss, Jr., Professor, Telecommunications Systems, College of Engineering, The University of Oklahoma - Tulsa
Hazem H. Refai, Assistant Professor, Telecommunications Systems, College of Engineering, The University of Oklahoma - Tulsa

Hybrid Transport Solutions for TDM/Data Networking Services
Enrique Hernandez-Valencia, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies

FTTP: Salvation or Smoke?
Clifford R. Holliday, President, B & C Consulting Services, and Analyst, Information Gatekeepers Inc.

Synthesis and Control of Soft Embedded Real-Time Systems
Pao-Ann Hsiung, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

The Dimensions of Pervasive Broadband
Nikil Jayant, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Chief Scientist, EGT

A Key Challenge for the Development of Future Intelligent Optical Networks: Polarization Mode Dispersion and Its Compensation
Yue-Feng Ji, Professor and Vice Dean, School of Telecommunication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Hong-Xiang Wang, School of Telecommunication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Impact of Ultra Low-Loss Connectors on FTTH System Design
David Kozischek, Manager Strategic Technology, Corning Cable Systems

New Service Opportunities Arising from Emerging Broadband Access Options: Analysis of RFI Responses
David Ludlam, Principal Member, Discovery Consultancy Association
John O'Connell, Architect, OpenCall Business Unit, Hewlett-Packard
Warren Montgomery, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Personeta
Mona Johnson, Executive Director, VASA

Intelligent Lightpaths: Data Intensive Applications and Dynamic Waveswitching Networks
Joel Mambretti, Director, International Center for Advanced Internet Research, Northwestern University, and Director, Metropolitan Research and Education Network

Broadband Multimedia for the Mass Market
Scott McMahon, Marketing Communications Manager, Broadband Systems, Networks, Nokia Corporation

A Hybrid Measurement and Electromagnetic Field-Solver Approach for the Design of High-Performance Interconnects
An Investigation of Traces and SMA Transitions
Scott McMorrow, President, Teraspeed Consulting Group LLC
Alfred Neves, Applications Engineer, TDA Systems

Virtual Private LAN Services: The Evolution of Layer-2 VPNs
Lindsay Newell, Director, Product Marketing, IP Division, Alcatel

Optimum Next-Generation Transport Network Architecture
Stephan Rettenberger, Customer Engineering, Marconi
Dr. Joerg-Peter Elbers, Technology Evolution, Marconi
Dr. Christoph Glingener, Product Technology and Strategy, Marconi
Dr. Ken Guild, Network Architecture, Marconi
Ulrich Kohn, Business Development, Marconi
Glenn Wellbrock, Product Architecture, Marconi

Intravehicle Computer Networks: Emerging Trends, Protocols, and Obstacles
Paul Richardson, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan - Dearborn
Ali Elkateeb, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan - Dearborn
Larry Seih, Research Associate, Vetronics Technology Area, U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center

NetDist: A Network Distributed Processing Environment Based on Load Sharing
Dr. Mohammed Samaka, Associate Professor/Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Qatar University

Service Delivery Technologies for Ethernet Networks
Ralph Santitoro, Director of Network Architecture, Nortel Networks
Don Ellis, Senior Adviser of Optical and OE, Nortel Networks

FTTx
Bridging the Last 100 Meters
Dave Seddon, Senior Scientist, Corning Cable Systems
Chris Quinn, Development Engineer, Corning Cable Systems
Ken Dunn, Product Specialist, Corning Cable Systems

Testing a Network Device Prototype in a Live Network
Bob Zeidman, Founder and President, Zeidman Consulting

Promotion of Physical Frame Timeslot Switching (PFTS) over DWDM
Huaxin Zeng, Professor in Computer Science, School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Sichuan, China
Dengyuan Xu, Ph.D. Student, Southwest Jiaotong University, Sichuan, China
Jun Dou, Associate Professor in Computer Science, School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Sichuan, China

Optical Virtual Private Network (OVPN): An Overview
Zhensheng Zhang, Senior Scientist, San Diego Research Center
Xiaowen Chu, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University
Bo Li, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Ya-Qin Zhang, Managing Director, Microsoft Research - Asia (MSRA)
Dr. Nasir Ghani, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tennessee Tech University

Section IV: Packet Networking, Internet Protocol, Multimedia, and the Internet

Convergence at the Network Edge
Five Prerequisites of the New Multiservice Edge Platform Christopher Chartrand, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Nortel Networks

IPv6
An Internet Evolution
Tim Chown, Lecturer, Researcher, and Systems Manager, Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Jeff Doyle, Professional Services Engineer, Juniper Networks
Gary Hemminger, Vice President of Product Management, IP Infusion Inc.
Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum
L-F Pau, General Manager, Network Products Division, Ericsson
Yurie Rich, Founder and President, Native6, Inc.
Renice A. Stewart-Pérez, Marketing Communications Manager

Premium IP
On the Road to Ambient Networking
Paulo de Sousa, Head of Sector, European Commission
Martin Potts, Director, Martel GmbH

Redefining Service Deployment through Web Services
Brian Demers, Vice President and General Manager, Network Solutions, NMS Communications

Breaking the Video Barrier
Adrian Exton, Director, Vidante Limited

The Fifth Dimension: The Role of Policy Servers in Broadband Networks
Stephen Gleave, Vice President of Marketing, net.com

Playing for Keeps
Joshua C. Hong, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, k2 Network
Christopher M. Koch, Director of Marketing Strategy, SBC
Derek Kuhn, P.Eng., Director of Marketing and Business Development, Information, Communication and Entertainment Group, Alcatel
Jerry Passione, Director of New Market Development, Juniper Networks
Wil Walkoe, Principal Engineer, Industry Standards Group, Sprint, and Vice Chair, BCD Forum

Design of a Secured Autonomous Bootstrap System for Control Networks
Atsushi Inoue, Senior Research Scientist, R&D Center, Communication Platform Laboratory, Toshiba Corporation
Masahiro Ishiyama, Research Scientist, R&D Center, Communication Platform Laboratory, Toshiba Corporation
Kenichi Kamada, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Shoichi Sakane, Engineer, Ubiquitous Laboratory, Field Security Group, Yokogawa Electric Corporation
Nobuo Okabe, Manager, Ubiquitous Laboratory, Field Security Group, Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Ad Hoc Queries for XML Documents
Kenneth Messa, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Loyola University, New Orleans
Bogdan Denny Czejdo, Provost III Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Loyola University, New Orleans

A Report on Media Streaming for Large Numbers of Users
Charalampos Z. Patrikakis, Electrical Engineer, Senior Research Associate, Telecommunications Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens
George Koukouvakis, Electrical Engineer, Research Associate, Telecommunications Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens
Alex Lambiris, Mathematician, Research Associate, Telecommunications Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens
Nikolaos Minogiannis, Computer Engineer, Research Associate, Telecommunications Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens

VoIP over Wireless
Glenn Pollock, Product Manager, Wi-LAN

What about P2P?
Interfacing and Planning for P2P
Oren Raboy, Director, Product Marketing, P-Cube Inc.

IP Route Analytics
A New Foundation for Modern Network Operations
Jeff Raice, Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing, Packet Design

Embedded or Standalone?
Implementation Options for the PacketCable Multimedia Terminal Adapter
Mariano Schain, Chief Software Architect, Cable Broadband Communications Business Unit, Texas Instruments
Manoj Sindhwani, Director of CPE Applications, Voice over Packet Broadband Communications Business Unit, Texas Instruments

Synchronization for Improving VoIP Quality
Kishan Shenoi, Chief Technologist, R&D, Symmetricom
Jim Olsen, Director, Business Development, Symmetricom

IP/MPLS Broadband Service Aggregation Networks
The Choice for the Next Generation
Risto Soila, Senior Staff Engineer, Tellabs International

Softswitch
The Core of Multimedia Enabled Architectures
Michelle Specktor, Co-Founder, Gallery IP Telephony, Inc.

The Move to a Public IP Multimedia Network (PIMN)
Michael Tadault, Mobile Internet Product Manager, Core Network Product Management, Alcatel Mobile Solutions
Sajid Soormally, Mobile Solutions Innovation Manager, Core Network Product Management, Alcatel Mobile Solutions

SIP in Carrier Networks Update
Members of the VASA Technical Committee

Will Technology Issues Spoil the VoIP Party?
Juan Villamil, VoIP Subject Matter Expert, Communications and High Tech Group, Accenture

Dynamic Network Topologies and Secure Multimedia Routing
Subbarao V. Wunnava, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University
Anil Saka, Research Associate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University

The Structures of JSP-Based Web Applications
Chong-wei Xu, Computer Science and Information Systems, Kennesaw State University

Automated Multiresolution Video Partitioning in Raw and Compressed Video Databases
Dr. Haifeng Xu, Senior Staff Engineer, Advanced Technology, Broadband Communications Sector, Motorola
Dr. Essam El-Kwae, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Dr. Akmal Younis, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami
Dr. Mansur Kabuka, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami

Section V: Wireless

Signaling Protocols for Wireless ATM Networks
Anthony Burrell, Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science Department, Oklahoma State University
Titsa Papantoni, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Colorado at Denver

WLAN Security and Wi-Fi Protected Access
Derek Cheung, Director and Principle Consultant, CLC Technology Group

Standards for the Wireless Internet
Todor Cooklev, Professor, Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, San Francisco State University

Wideband Coplanar Waveguide-Fed Printed Monopole with Parasitic Elements for Wireless Communications
Yacouba Coulibaly, Ph.D. Student, INRS - E.M.T, Quebec, Canada
Tayeb A. Denidni, Professor, INRS - E.M.T, Quebec, Canada
Larbi Talbi, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Quebec - Outaouais

Wireless Network Security
Partha Dasgupta, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University
Tom Boyd, Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University

Novel Methods: Improvements in Wideband Wireless Communications
István Frigyes, Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Case Studies
NLOS Broadband Wireless Deployments in Large Urban Markets and Low-Density Business and Residential Rural Markets
Stuart Froelich, Founder and Director, RF Services, NextNet Wireless

An Architecture for a Mobile Ad Hoc Network
Irvin R. Jones, Jr., Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Denver
Samir Nanavati, Graduate Student, Department of Engineering, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Denver

Fundamentals of Wireless Security
Stephan Jones, Professor, Institute for Wireless Innovation, Center for Information and Communication Sciences, Ball State University
Nicholas Chandler, Research Associate, Institute for Wireless Innovation, Center for Information and Communication Sciences, Ball State University
Cecelia Currin, Research Associate, Institute for Wireless Innovation, Center for Information and Communication Sciences, Ball State University
John King, Research Associate, Institute for Wireless Innovation, Center for Information and Communication Sciences, Ball State University
Anisha Yadlapalli, Research Associate, Institute for Wireless Innovation, Center for Information and Communication Sciences, Ball State University

On Optimum Order of Angle Diversity with Maximal Ratio Combining Receivers for Broadband Indoor Optical Wireless Communications
Mohsen Kavehrad, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Center for Information and Communications
Technology Research (CICTR), The Pennsylvania State University
Yazan Alqudah, Department of Electrical Engineering, Center for Information and Communications Technology Research (CICTR), The Pennsylvania State University

Mobile Network Access Solutions
Edward Minyard, Partner, Unisys

Piecing Together a Mishmash of Wireless Technologies
Brian Modoff, Research Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Michael Thelander, Research Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Universal Communicator
Next-Generation Wireless Handset
Vijay Nair, Principal Engineer, Corporate Technology Group, Intel Corporation
Brian Peebler, Senior Business Development Engineer, Corporate Technology Group, Intel Corporation
Jerzy Kolinski, Senior Engineering Manager, Corporate Technology Group, Intel Corporation
Roger Hurwitz, Senior Engineering Manager, Corporate Technology Group, Intel Corporation
Vittal Kini, Director, Research Platform Lab, Corporate Technology Group, Intel Corporation
Shane Wall, Director and Vice President, System Technology Lab, Corporate Technology Group, Intel Corporation

Enabling an Always Best-Connected Defined 4G Wireless World
Máirtín S. O'Droma, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, ECE Department, University of Limerick, Ireland
Ivan Ganchev, Ph.D., Lecturer, ECE Department, University of Limerick, Ireland

LMDS Overview and Applications
Vijay Patel, Senior Marketing Director, Hughes Network Systems, Inc.

An Innovative RF CMOS IP Using a 10 GHz VCO for Direct Conversion WLAN
Laurent Perraud, RF System Engineer, NewLogic Technologies
Marc Recouly, RF System Engineer, NewLogic Technologies
Christophe Pinatel, RF IC Manager, NewLogic Technologies
Jean-Louis Bonnot, RF Design Engineer, NewLogic Technologies
Nicolas Sornin, RF Design Engineer, NewLogic Technologies
Frederic Benoist, Analog Design Engineer, NewLogic Technologies
Olivier Gibrat, RF Design Engineer, NewLogic Technologies
Myriam Massei, Analog Design Engineer, NewLogic Technologies

Wireless Communication
Status and Future Perspectives
G.V.S. Raju, Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Peter T. Flawn, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio
J. Charoensakwiroj, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio

Network Interface Switching in Integrated Wireless LAN Hotspot and Cellular Network
Minghui Shi, Research Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Jon W. Mark, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Director, Centre for Wireless Communications, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo

Wireless Local-Area Networks and Application
Narasimhan Srinivasan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Connecticut

RF/Fiber Extension for Wireless Base Stations
Cedric P. Taylor, Product Marketing Director, Celerica

Handsets: Meeting the Challenges of Design and Interoperability
Danny Topper, Product Marketing Director, Emblaze Semiconductor

Optimal and Suboptimal Serial Code Acquisition Schemes for Chip-Asynchronous Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Communications
Seokho Yoon, Full-Time Lecturer, School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University
Sun Yong Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering, Konkuk University

Section VI: Operations, Quality Control, and Security

Operational Convergence for Mobile Operators
Reducing OPEX through OSS Integration: Standards and Best Practices
Richard Arthur, Senior Manager, OSS Strategy and Marketing, Operational Support Systems, Hewlett-Packard

Intrusion Detection for Viruses and Worms
Thomas M. Chen, Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern Methodist University

Interarrival Packet Jitter Analysis of Constant Bit-Rate Traffic in Wireless Differentiated Services Networks
Dr. Jong-Moon Chung, Director, ACSEL and OCLNB Laboratories, Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University
Dr. Wun-Cheol Jeong, Research Assistant Professor, ACSEL and OCLNB Laboratories, Oklahoma State University
Ms. Hooi Miin Soo, Research Assistant, ACSEL and OCLNB Laboratories, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University

Performance of Communication Networks Fielding Bursty Data Traffic
G. R. Dattatreya, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas
Sarvesh S. Kulkarni, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University

Biometric Authentication Systems: Are You Really Who You Claim to Be?
Sandeep Dhameja, CISSP

Delivering Telecommunication Services with Customer-Focused Service Assurance
Patrick J. Donnelly, Head of Solutions Engineering, EMEA, Telcordia Technologies

Network Resilience Audit
Arthur Foster, Transmission Systems Consultant and Principle Member, Discovery Consultancy Association
Richard Proctor, Telecoms and Internet Consultant and Principle Member, Discovery Consultancy Association
Paul Smith, Telecoms Management Consultant and Principle Member, Discovery Consultancy Association

Better Knowledge and Accelerated Development: Knowledge Structures, Tools, and Techniques to Build Collaborative Community
Jay Edwin Gillette, Ph.D., Professor of Information and Communication Sciences, Center for Information and Communication Sciences, Ball State University

Broadband OSS Service Management Systems
Enabling Revenue Generation, Operational Automation, and Cost Reduction
Preston Gilmer, Director of Product Management, OSS Operations, Liberate Technologies

No-Reference Digital Video Quality Analysis
H. R. Myler, Ph.D., P.E., Professor and Chair, Lamar University
Jing Guo, D.E., Visiting Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University
Michele VanDyke-Lewis, Ph.D., Senior Imaging Scientist, TeraNex, Inc.

Designing and Implementing Security in Wireless LANS
Dick Hibbard, Vice President of Engineering, Fortress Technologies, Inc.

Strategic Use of Multiple OSS Data Sources
How to Get More from Your Network
Matt Izzo, Strategic Planning, New Generation Operations, Agilent Technologies

A Practical Approach for OSS Development
B. Brahma Reddy, Chief Technology Officer, DishnetDSL Limited
M.D. Jagdeesh Kumar, Assistant Manager, DishnetDSL Limited
S. Vijaya Sekar, Project Manager, DishnetDSL Limited
C. Shenbagam, Senior Manager, DishnetDSL Limited
Moin Uddin, HOD EE Department, Jamia Milia Islamia University

OSS through Java APIs Leap from Designs and Downloads to Implementations
Demand for Flow-Through Automation, Integration, and Scalability Creates Demand for Component Software
Peter Lambert, Independent Consultant and Journalist
Bill Wilbert, Communications Manager, The OSS through Java Initiative

Aggressive Model-Driven Development for the Management of Service Evolution
Dr. Ing. Tiziana Margaria, Associate Professor and Head of the Service Engineering for Distributed Systems Group, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Göttingen, and Managing Director, METAFrame Technologies
Dr. Bernhard Steffen, Full Professor and Chair of Programming Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Dortmund, and Scientific Director, METAFrame Technologies

Putting the 'D' Back into Design for Test
Dr. Ralph Marlett, Product Director, Atrenta Inc.

Assuring QoE on Next-Generation Networks
Phil Odence, Director of Business Development, Empirix

An Integration Framework for Next-Generation Service Providers
John Reilly, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Metasolv Software

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