ONIT 2012

April 1st, 2012

Call for Paper Publication

June 1st, 2012

Paper Submission Deadline

August 15th, 2012

Paper Acceptance Notification

September 1st, 2012

Demonstration Proposal Submission Deadline

September 15th, 2012

Camera-ready Paper Submission Deadline

September 15th, 2012

Demonstration Acceptance Notification

December TBD, 2012

Workshop date

 

GLOBECOM 2012

3rd ONIT 2011

2nd ONIT 2010

1st ONIT 2009

Paper Submission

Call for Papers

Call for Participation

Thomas Magedanz

TU Berlin, Germany

Dragos Vingarzan

Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

Vijay K. Varma

Applied Communication Sciences (formerly Telcordia ATS), USA

Nguyen Huu Thanh

Hanoi University for Technology, Vietnam

Neco Ventura

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Carlos Becker Westphall

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil

Alfonso Ehijo

CALA Reference Center for Technology and Innovation / University of Chile

Mohamed Abid

Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco

Martin Adolph

ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, USA

Rui Aguiar

University of Aveiro, Portugal

Adel Al-Hezmi

QUWIK, Qatar

Nirwan Ansari

New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Supavadee Aramvith

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Farooq Bari

AT&T, USA

Thomas Michael Bohnert

Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Wolfgang Brandstätter

A1 Telekom Austria, Austria

Yanghee Choi

Seoul National University, Korea

Noël Crespi

Telecom SudParis, France

Maria A. Cuevas

BT, UK

Spyros Denazis

University of Patras, Greece

Thomas Derham

France Telecom Orange Labs, Japan

Yezid Donoso

Bogotá, Colombia, South America

Kevin Doolin

Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

Hans Einsiedler

Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany

Igor Faynberg

Alcatel-Lucent, USA

Stefan Fischer

University of Lübeck, Germany

Anastasius Gavras

Eurescom GmbH, Germany

Roch H. Glitho

Concordia University, Canada

Alla Goldner

Allot Communications, Israel

Mesut Günes

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Syed Husain

DoCoMo Labs, USA

Yeong Min Jang

Kookmin University, South Korea

Jose Jimenez

Telefonica I+D, Spain

Karl Jonas

Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

Julius Müller

Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

Georgios Karagiannis

University of Twente, Netherlands

Wolfgang Kellerer

DOCOMO Labs Europe, Munich, Germany

Thanasis Korakis

Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Germany

Alex Kuepper

Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany

Nicholas Linnenkamp

Applied Communication Sciences, USA

Giulio Maggiore

Telecom Italia, Italy

Stephan Massner

University of Applied Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Eugen Mikoczy

Slovak Telekom, Slovakia

Raquel Morera

Verizon, USA

Toon Norp

TNO, Netherlands

Guy Pujolle

Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France

Erwin Rathgeb

University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Hans Schotten

Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany

Karsten Schröder

Telefonica O2, Germany

Henning Schulzrinne

Columbia University, New York, USA

Muhammad Sher

Islamabad International Islamic University, Pakistan

Dorgham Sisalem

Tekelec/iptelorg, Berlin, Germany

Mirko Skrbic

University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Alfredo Terzoli

Rhodes University, South Africa

Kurt Tutschku

University Vienna, Austria

Naoki Uchida

NTT Laboratories, Japan

Ramanarayanan Viswanathan

Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA

Daniel Wong

IEEE, USA

Johan Zuidweg

Universitat Pompeu Fabra,Spain

Dragos Vingarzan

Fraunhofer FOKUS

Fixed and mobile broadband networks are constantly under transition. The Internet influence, namely the all-IP transition has led to major changes in the control and service protocols and platforms. The resulting fixed and mobile NGNs are being rolled out globally today and their current evolution is inspired by Over-The-Top (OTT) multimedia services and emerging M2M services. The convergence of different networking domains demands for standardized solutions in order to enable an open “plug&play” multivendor environment.

The Future Internet is globally considered a hot research topic leading to even more drastic changes in these network architectures and technologies. In order to stimulate research and development in these complex environments and the prototyping and validation of new concepts, algorithms, protocols, services open testbeds and experimentation platforms, as well as open source software tools are of key importance.

ONIT is an established and vivid international community, which has been sparked by the Open IMS project in the context of NGN in 2009 and has evolved with the related developments, such as OpenEPC for mobile broadband networks and the upcoming OpenMTC toolkit for emerging M2M platforms. As these pioneering testbed toolkits are just examples, there is much more available around the globe, which should be captured by the ONIT workshop.

The 4th Workshop on Open NGN and IMS Testbed workshop 2012 (ONIT@Globecom 2012) will give insights into the state-of-the-art technologies concerning open Next Generation Fixed and Mobile Broadband Packet Core Networks and testbeds at an international scale. The objective is to evaluate and share the experience on the quality and impact of such testbeds in order to improve current offerings and position them for future challenges. Therefore methodologies, mechanisms, concepts and research results, which address the design, deployment, prototyping and evaluation of Next Generation Fixed and Mobile Broadband Packet Core Networks, their evolution towards Future Internet and related application domains are target.

Especially, the role of and requirements from open source software for Next Generation Fixed and Mobile Broadband Networks testbeds, as well as how such software and infrastructures can provide the required middleware between radio technologies like GSM, UMTS, HSPA, LTE, WiMAX or Wireless LAN and Future Internet as well as Machine-to-Machine communication networks, shall be discussed in depth. Also in scope will be the latest developments into standardization and research on topics related to Next Generation Broadband Networks, like the integration between IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and new all-IP converged network technologies as Evolved Packet Core (EPC) based networks, with special insight on how cost-effective and accelerated R&D on Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) can happen on traditionally difficult fields with the help of open testbeds. The workshop will feature invited keynotes presenting international NGN/Mobile Broadband, namely IMS, EPC, MTC and FI test-bed initiatives. Scientific papers will concentrate on academic and operational aspects of such testbeds as well as deployment, access, management and governance issues.

Authors are invited to submit original technical papers covering but not limited to the topics of interest listed below:

• Fixed and Radio Access Networks
  • Long-Term-Evolution (LTE)
  • Sensor, GSM, UMTS, HSPA and WiMAX, Wireless LAN technologies
  • Core Network Evolution
  • Fixed Broadband Access Networks
  • Future Access Networks
  • Low cost testbed radio access points
• Evolved Packet Core Architectures
  • 3GPP and IP Mobility
  • Flow Mobility and Multi-Path Solutions
  • Heterogeneous Access
  • Always Best Connected and ANDSF evolution
  • QoS and Traffic Monitoring
  • Synergies Between Policy Control and Mobility
  • Efficient Routing of User-Plane Data
  • Scalability and Performance Issues
  • Convergence between 3GPP and non-3GPP Access Networks
  • Interactions with Application Functions
• Open Source IMS/NGN/Mobile Broadband Network Components and Core Development
  • Open Source software as a driver for cost efficient testbeds
  • Using and enhancing Open Source software in a telecom environment
  • Solving Common-IMS convergence issues with open source components and testbeds
  • Interoperability and Standardization
  • Security and Management Aspects
• Machine-to-Machine Communication
  • Impact of M2M on the (mobile) system infrastructure
  • M2M Service Platforms
  • Integrating M2M with 3GPP IMS and EPC
  • Cloud support for M2M systems and applications
  • Mobility management for M2M
  • Protocols and Specific Extensions
• Over-the-top (OTT) applications
  • Voice over LTE (Volte)
  • Telco Web services and Service Delivery Platforms (SDP)
  • Web TV versus Internet TV and P2P video streaming
  • Mobile Applications
  • Future Applications
  • Service Control Mechanisms
• NGN to Future Internet
  • Cross Layer Composition and Future Internet Core Networks
  • Future Fixed and Mobile Core Networks Concepts
  • Next generation transport
  • New architectures (evolutionary vs. clean slate)
  • Virtual and overlay networks

Accepted paper authors will be invited to optionally perform short on-site or remote demonstrations (5-10 minutes)

The presentations held at ONIT 2012 will be available for download after the workshop here. Please follow the links below. You need credentials to access the presentations! To obtain valid credentails, please contact Dragos Vingarzan (email is given below, right hand side).

Papers must be submitted electronically via the ONIT 2012 Submission Page. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers as well as industrial practice papers. Simultaneous submissions to other publication venues are not permitted. Detailed instructions for electronic paper submission, panel and workshop proposals, fast abstracts, doctoral symposium and review process can be found here.

Papers should be written in English with a maximum paper length of five (5) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page). You may use the standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found here. Alternatively you can follow the sample instructions in this template.pdf. Only PDF files are accepted for paper review and must be submitted through EDAS to the Globecom Symposium most appropriate to the topic.

All papers will be reviewed by the program committee according to its originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance. We also encourage authors to present position papers on practical studies and experiments, critique of existing work, emerging issues, and novel ideas under development. Papers can be submitted as either regular papers, short papers, or fast abstracts. Acceptance and final category depends on reviewer feedback.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore®. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper or fast abstract must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper or fast abstract published in the proceedings.

ONIT 2011 is a workshop held in conjunction with GLOBECOM 2012. For detailed venue, registration, accomodation and visa information, please refer to the GLOBECOM 2012 website.