Dear friends, partners and colleagues.
We would like to inform you that ngnlab.eu International Workshop will after success in Bratislava, Leipzig and Delft take place again in Bratislava. It is organized together with 5th joined IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2012) which will take place on 19th-21st September 2012 in Bratislava, Slovakia. More about the conference can be found at wmnc.fiit.stuba.sk

Back to the workshop - its focus is the exchange of NGN related experts knowlegde, in presentation and discussion only form, continuing the successful previous ngnlab.eu International Workshops. Your experiences and new ideas concerning NGN related topics are welcome! The workshop will take place on 20th-21st September 2012.

Topics of the workshop are proposed but not limited to:
•    NGN and Future Internet
•    NGN and Cloud Computing
•    NGN and Multimedia Content Delivery Standards and the evolution of NGN application
•    Real experiences and deployments of NGN
•    Converged services: IPTV , RCS, Internet Converged networks: NGMN, LTE, IMS, FTTx
•    NGN service development in lab environments
•    NGN testbed collaborations, virtual labs and interconnections
•    NGN research and educational activities
•    Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
•    HBB and HBB-Next
•    Over The Top players and Telco operators
•    AppStore for telco services ?

We will be happy if you could share this Call for Papers also with your colleagues and partners which might be interested in experience exchange in mentioned areas.

We will be happy to see you either on one of the events or at both of them.

ngnlab.eu team,
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 3rd international NGNLAB.EU workshop is taking place this year in Delft, Netherlands on 2nd and 3rd of November 2011

Main topics include:
• NGN and Future Internet
• NGN and Cloud Computing
• NGN and Multimedia Content Delivery
• Standards and the evolution of NGN application
• Real experiences and deployments of NGN
• Converged services: IPTV, RCS, Internet
• Converged networks: NGMN, LTE, IMS, FTTx
• NGN service development in lab environments
• NGN testbed collaborations, virtual labs and interconnections
• NGN research and educational activities

More information can be found at tno.nl/ngnworkshop2011 and in call for papers.

The 3rd ngnlab.eu workshop took place at TNO - Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research in Delft, Nederlands. Two days of interesting ideas and demos presentations brought together researchers from different companies and academia from Nederlands, Germany, Slovakia and others.

Presentations and results of final discussions can be found at TNO. Some pictures from the workshop are availble here.

Final Panel discussion points are:

- Future of the NGN
- How to improve cooperation between industry and academia
- Standardization
- Over The Top players (OTT) <-> Telco
- Focus of future NGN Workshops (HBB?)
- Where is the money - Money from networks or services
- Operators should realize that they play OTT over their own network, and should be organised as such
- Conservative role of telco, how to break that
- Communication shifts to messaging, away from voice
- Telco problem: the user experience, works out-of-the-shop
- Companies, but also users require service guarantees, e.g. 112
- Global versus local, telco subscribers are local
- Should telco’s create a “joint app store”? Could that fly?
- Telco’s and OTT’s are not enemies. OTT more user oriented, telco’s should facilitate that, help/support OTT’s
- Telco’s have call centers, closer user contact, also useful for OTTs
- Compete or collaborate? Risk of “trojan horse”, OTT servers in telco network?
- Who “owns” the customer?
- QoS, would OTT invest in QoS, or better in adaptive streaming?
- Why should OTT pay telco? Telco is paid by end user for fixed and mobile access
- Telco business won’t change as fast as many think
- Telco’s won’t just have their mobile revenues fade away, RCS could be a revenue retention model
- Mixture of many things happening, cloud, OTT, telco’s adopting OTT technologies
- Network neutrality? Pay for bandwidth or for specific movie?
- Cautious/delicate topic, see what happened in NL a few months ago
- Telco can always do special things for special customers
- Network neutrality does not exclude network optimization and traffic management

• Collaboration academia — industry: win-win
- New topics for university
- New input, out-of-the-box, for industry
- Preparing your own employees, industry needs specific expertise
• How to give form to that collaboration?
- Infra from industry made available to university, facilitate
- Operators typically do have test beds
- Special free-of-charge license
- Industry should share real-life problems

4th NGN Workshop, Bratislava, 2012
- Pioneering basis research, demonstrate new solutions
- IPTV-CDN-HBB
- Cloud
- IMS—NGN
- RCS, review state of affairs
- User interface, user experience, user-friendliness
- New ideas, inspiring demo’s
- Invite industry to bring topics to workshop, “challenge”

Our colleague Sebastian Schumann prepared presentation for Science Days 2010 which deals with history of our ngnlab and virtualisation used in it.

You can find it below:

ngnlab.eu – A virtualized laboratory infrastructure 1

ngnlab.eu – A virtualized laboratory infrastructure 2