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Monday, 12 June,
9:30–10:00 |
The Future of ICT Services
Prof. Dècina’s talk will focus on the future
of information and communication technology (ICT)
services delivered through distributed
computing and networking platforms at
multiple communication layers. He will
describe the evolution of interoperable
applications among such distributed systems
towards the Semantic Web Services, and
illustrate the rise of distributed networking
at various layers. At the Internet Protocol
(IP) layer the consensus on a full IP wired
and wireless network architecture is enabled
by the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP),
which allows distributed session control for
multimedia services and the integration of
heterogeneous access networks. Above IP
connectivity, overlay networks are rapidly
becoming attractive to provide real-time
services, such as telephony, in addition to a
variety of applications: content-based
delivery, peer-to-peer multimedia, XML
routing and grid computing. On the other
hand, distributed networking takes also place
under the IP routing layer, with the
spreading of wireless ad-hoc and wireless
sensor networks. Peer-to-peer discovery and
routing, security, reputation and anonymity
are hot research issues common to underlay
and overlay networking with respect to IP
routing. The talk will also address some
critical medium term issues in the
competition for convergent services, such as
fixed and mobile telephony, information,
Internet and television services.
Maurizio Dècina is Professor at the
Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He equally
shared his 40-year career in
telecommunications between industry, Telecom
Italia, Italtel, and AT&T-Bell Laboratories,
and university, University of Rome,
Politecnico di Milano and CEFRIEL. Prof.
Dècina was the President of the IEEE
Communications Society for the years
1994-1995. In 1986 he was appointed Fellow of
IEEE, in 1997 he received the IEEE Award in
International Communications, and in year
2000 the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
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