About The Workshop

This workshop is being organized by the Moby Dick project with the aim of providing a special opportunity to present globally relevant results and discuss them in a European and Asia-Pacific dialogue. In the spirit of the previous two ACTS workshops, this IST workshop in Singapore will present a forum on Advanced Terrestrial Wireless Systems and Networks.

The workshop will be held on December 16th and 17th. The schedule features keynote speeches, panel-presentations, and workshop sessions by leading experts on wireless technology and telecommunications services. The Moby Dick project invites experts from research and industry to submit contributions to the panel-presentations and to share in the discussions.

The workshop will also feature an exhibition of current advances in the area. For this purpose we invite proposals for demonstrations of recently concluded or on-going research projects.

An attractive social programme is being prepared, focusing on the cultural diversity and scenic location of Singapore, a fascinating gateway to the Asia-Pacific area.

For up-to-date information about the Moby Dick project, and other events organized by the Moby Dick project, please visit the Moby Dick Project webpage.

This workshop has been kindly sponsored by Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Registration

Social event and lunch is provided to speakers and specially invited guests.

Important dates:

• December 08, 2003 - Registration deadline
• December 16, 2003 - Workshop begins 09:00
• December 17, 2003 - Workshop ends 13:00

Highlights

The workshop brings together researchers from a broad array of industry, academic, and institutional research organisations and projects. A flavor of the variety can be seen in the list below:

• Keynote Speech by Mr. Bartolome Arroyo-Fernandez, Project Officer, Information Society Technologies Programme, European Commission; and Dr. Tan Gek leong, Director for Enabler and Network Technologies, IDA, Singapore;
• European Union's IST projects. Representatives of the Moby Dick, 6WINIT, OverDrive, MIND, among others, will present research work done within the IST programme of the EU. Non-IST national researh projects will also be represented through PLATON and FleetNet.
• Communications Research Laboratory, Independent Administrative Agency, Japan. Mayasuki Fujise, from CRL, will present research on Radio on Fiber transmission technology for Intelligent Transportation Systems.
• Kyoto University, Japan. Susumu Yoshida will speak on ad hoc networks and space-time transmission techniques.
• TWNIC, Taiwan. Han-Chieh Chao from National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, will speak about IPv6 R&D and achievements in TWNIC
• Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea. Jin Hyeock Choi will present on communications and networking research in SAIT.
• Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. Work on Advanced Mobile Applications Support Environment, Ultra-Wide-Band Radio, and Software Defined Radio will be presented by researchers from I²R.

The general focus of the workshop is around the following topics:

• Advanced telecommunications services, multimedia applications in telecommunications networks;
• Mobile Middleware, Seamless Mobility;
• Heterogeneous Wireless Systems, Ad hoc networks, Fixed and mobile networks convergence;
• Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting and Charging (AAAC), Quality of Service;
• Security in future telecommunications networks.

Organizers

The workshop is being organized by the Institute for Infocomm Research, a partner in the Moby Dick consortium. The program committee consists of:

Sponsors

About Agilent

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