Keynote Speaker: Mr. Nan Chen
Vice President Marketing, Atrica
Mr. Chen is the founding President and a board member of the Metro Ethernet
Forum, a worldwide industry consortium created to accelerate the adoption of
optical Ethernet in Metro networks. Prior to joining Atrica, Mr. Chen served
as the Director of Product Management and Product Marketing at Force10 Networks.
Mr. Chen was a founding Director of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (10 GEA)
and served on the Board of Directors of 10 GEA. Mr. Chen also spent four years
at Nortel Networks. While serving as a Director of Technology at Nortel
Technology Center, Mr. Chen drove Nortel's 10 Gigabit Ethernet strategy, and
its founding of IEEE 802.3ae as well as the formation of its standards for 10
Gigabit Ethernet. Mr. Chen is a frequent invited speaker, panelist and
chairperson at various conferences. Mr. Chen holds two MS degrees from the
University of Arizona, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Beijing
University, Beijing China. He was a record holder in pole vaulting for Beijing
University.
Scope
In many countries, broadband connections to the home are now commonly
available. However, the current so-called broadband connections are often
limited to a few megabits per second downstream and even less capacity upstream.
Hence, a number of communities are installing the next generation "last mile"
(or sometimes called "first mile") connection technology, such as
fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). Utah's UTOPIA and Alberta, Canada's SuperNet are
examples. These emerging networks allow 10 or 100 Mb/s home and business
connectivity at prices not much above current broadband levels. Research in the
multimedia community so far has not fully addressed the issues that will arise
out of this new communications paradigm. For example, we may envision future
home gateways that will interconnect digital media devices within a residence,
allowing shared media access within the home and from outside. Often, these
home networks will be operated by unsophisticated users. Topics such as
security, ease-of-use, network topologies and configuration, quality of service,
access control, wireless connectivity, etc., will either require novel designs
or need to be revisited for this environment. Additionally, high-speed
connectivity will allow new, innovative types of applications. The NRBC 2004
workshop seeks contributions that cover a variety of topics, challenges,
designs, and implementations related to the next generation of residential
broadband networks and their applications.
This workshop will bring together researchers, developers and practitioners
from academia and industry to discuss various issues involved in developing and
deploying systems related to the next generation of residential broadband
networks.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Residential Broadband Applications
- Broadband Networks
- Broadband Wireless Networks
- Security
- Quality of Service for Streaming Media
- Configuration of Large Scale Servers
- Case Studies in Residential Broadband Services
- Distributed Multimedia Systems
- Web Technologies for Broadband Networks
(The submission deadline has passed.)
Prospective authors are invited to submit a full paper (up to 16 pages,
double-spaced, font size 11 or 12) written in English via the workshop web site
by the due date. Papers should be submitted in PDF format via the EDAS system. At this time, the
submission deadline has passed. The length of the camera-ready papers (if
accepted) will be limited to 12 pages. Papers must not have been previously
published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The camera-ready
format must follow ACM publication guidelines. The details are available
here.
Roger Zimmermann, University of Southern
California
Seon Ho Kim, University of
Denver
Program Committee Members
Riccardo Bettati, Texas A&M University
Hojung Cha, Yonsei University, S. Korea
Hao-hua Chu, National Taiwan University
Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway
Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University
Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine
Jongwook Woo, Cal State LA
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University
Heather Yu, Panasonic Research
Michael Zink, Technical University of Darmstadt
Information about the NRBC 2004 workshop registration can be found at the ACM
Multimedia 2004 website here.
The online registration form is here.
Call for papers
The call for papers is available in Word,
Postscript or PDF format.
|
