Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications

August 1 and 2, 2011
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

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Program

Here is the prelminary verison of the conference program. Other highlights of the program are the keynote speakers, the invited speakers, and the social events.

Day 1

09:00-10:40Opening Session
9:00-9:10Opening Remarks
9:10-10:10Keynote Speaker: Scott Bradner (Harvard University): Witness to the Evolution: IP from has-been to is-all to ??
10:10-10:40Invited talk: Brian Rosen (Neustar): Next Generation 9-1-1: Ready to deploy
10:40-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:40Technical Session 1: Service Architectures
11:00-11:30Invited talk: Mohammad Shahidehpour (IIT): Smart Grid
11:30-12:00An Evaluation Framework for Highly Available and Scalable SIP Server Clusters
Jong Yul Kim (Columbia University, USA); Gregory Bond (AT&T Research, USA); Eric Cheung (AT&T Labs - Research, USA); Thomas M Smith (AT&T Labs - Research, USA); Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)
12:00-12:20Short Paper: SIP APIs for Voice and Video Communications on the Web
Carol Davids (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA); Alan Johnston (Avaya, USA); Kundan Singh (Intencity Cloud Technologies, LLC, USA); Henry Sinnreich (Unaffiliated, USA); Wilhelm Wimmreuter (SCCT, Germany)
12:20-12:40Demo/Poster Teasers: 3 minute teaser for each poster/demo (except demos with industry talk)
12:40-14:00Lunch
14:00-16:00Demo and Poster Session
Demo: StratoSIP: SIP at a Very High Level
Eric Cheung (AT&T Labs - Research, USA); Gregory Bond (AT&T Research, USA); Thomas M Smith (AT&T Labs - Research, USA); Pamela Zave (AT&T Laboratories, USA)
Demo: Geo-Supported P2P VANET for ITS Applications
Heiko Perkuhn (Ericsson Research, Germany); Ibtissam El-Khayat (Ericsson GmbH, Germany)
Demo: Experiments with SIP over TLS in an NG-9-1-1 Testbed
Mahima Suresh (Texas A&M University, USA); Unnati Desai (Texas A&M, USA); Ana E Goulart (Texas A&M University, USA); Walt Magnussen (Texas A&M University, USA)
Demo: Developing Interactive Multi-User VoIP Applications Using Synchronization Contracts with ECharts
Yi Huang (Michigan State University, USA); Laura Dillon (Michigan State University, USA)
Demo: A.L.U., the Amazing Learning Unit at IPTComm 2011
Jose de Francisco (Alcatel Lucent)
Poster: Websocket Enabler: Achieving IMS and Web services end-to-end convergence
Gerard Nicolas (Telecom ParisTech, France); Karim Sbata (Orange Labs, France); Elie Najm (ENST, France)
Poster: Architecture for Asymmetric P2P Group Communication
Ralf Globisch (Fraunhofer HHI, South Africa); Varun Ranjit Singh (Aalto University, Finland); Thomas Schierl (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany)
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-17:50Technical Session 2: Virtualization and the Cloud
16:30-17:00Invited talk: Roch Glitho: Cloud - based Multimedia Conferencing: Business Model, Research Agenda, State-of-the-Art
17:00-17:30Online Strategies for Intra and Inter Provider Service Migration in Virtual Networks
Dushyant Arora (Birla Institute Of Technology & Science, Pilani, India); Marcin Bienkowski (University of Wroclaw, Poland); Anja Feldmann (TU-Berlin, Germany); Gregor Schaffrath (T-Labs (Deutsche Telekom) / TU Berlin, Germany); Stefan Schmid (T-Labs & TU Berlin, Germany)
17:30-17:50Short Paper: SipCloud: Dynamically Scalable SIP Proxies in the Cloud
Jong Yul Kim (Columbia University, USA); Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)
Evening Social Event

Day 2

09:00-10:30Opening Session
09:00-10:00Keynote Speaker: Harald Alvestrand (Google): Real-time Web: Multimedia from specialty item to commonplace component
10:00-10:30Invited talk: Bruce Lowekamp (Skype): Centrally Distributed: P2P, the Cloud, and the Web
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:30Industry Talks
11:00-11:30Invited talk: Vijay Gurbani (Alcatel-Lucent): SIP Common Log Format
11:30-11:50What Went Wrong? Negative Results From VoIP Service Providers
Mark Lindsey (ECG, USA)
11:50-12:10Geo-Supported P2P VANET for ITS Applications
Heiko Perkuhn (Ericsson Research, Germany); Ibtissam El-Khayat (Ericsson GmbH, Germany)
12:10-12:30Experiments with SIP over TLS in an NG-9-1-1 Testbed
Mahima Suresh (Texas A&M University, USA); Unnati Desai (Texas A&M, USA); Ana E Goulart (Texas A&M University, USA); Walt Magnussen (Texas A&M University, USA)
12:30-14:00Lunch
14:00-16:00Technical Session 3: Telecommunication Services
14:00-14:30Bridging communications and the physical world: Sense Everything, Control Everything
Omer Boyaci (Columbia University, USA); Victoria Beltran (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain); Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)
14:30-15:00Pressentials: A Flexible Middleware for Presence-enabled Applications
Arup Acharya (IBM Research, USA); Nilanjan Banerjee (IBM Research, India); Shachi Sharma (IBM Research, India); Dipanjan Chakraborty (IBM Research, India)
15:00-15:30Using Cross-Media Relations to Identify Important Communication Requests: Implementation and Evaluation
Kumiko Ono (Columbia University, USA); Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-17:00Technical Session 4: Service Interaction
16:00-16:30Mid-Call, Multi-Party, and Multi-Device Telecommunication Features and Their Interactions
Pamela Zave (AT&T Laboratories, USA)
16:30-16:50Short Paper: Getting SIP Endpoints and Network Call Control to Work Well Together
Eric Cheung (AT&T Labs - Research, USA); Thomas M Smith (AT&T Labs - Research, USA)
16:50-17:00Concluding Remarks
Evening Social Event