WORKSHOP 5

Mobile Cloud Infrastructures and Services (MCIS)

  • Monday, 23 June 2014, 09:00-12:50, Room Italia
  • Organizers:
    • Thomas Michael Bohnert (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
    • Anna Tzanakaki (University of Bristol, UK)
    • Peter Rost (NEC Laboratories  Europe, Germany)
    • Filip De Turck (University of Ghent, Belgium)
    • Edmundo Monteiro (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
    • Torsten Braun (Universität Bern, Switzerland)
    • Tarik Taleb (NEC Laboratories  Europe, Germany)
    • Georgios Karagiannis (University of Twente, Netherlands)

 

Workshop Description

This workshop addresses the three main topics that are significant for the realization of the Future Internet Architecture, which are the Mobile Networking, Network Function Virtualization and Service Virtualization.

While mobile communication networks have been established decades ago and are still continuously evolving, cloud computing and cloud services became a hot topic in recent years and is expected to have significant impact on novel applications as well as on ICT infrastructures. Cloud computing and mobile communication networks have been considered separate from each other in the past. However, there are various possible synergies between them. This trend supports the use of cloud computing infrastructures as processing platforms for signal and protocol processing of mobile communication networks, in particular for current (4G) and future (5G) generation networks. This enables several opportunities to optimize performance of cloud applications and services observed by mobile users, whose devices are connected to the cloud via wireless access networks. This trend is also in line with the emerging ETSI activities in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The “Mobile Cloud Infrastructures and Services” workshop focuses on the thematic area that the EU project MCN is concentrating on and is addressing emerging technologies in cloud services and mobile communication infrastructures. Emphasis will be put on possible integration scenarios and synergies between them.

 

 

Structure

09:00 – 10:40

Welcome speech: EU FP7 Mobile Cloud Networking (MCN), Thomas Michael Bohnert, (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
EU FP7 CONTENT: Virtualizing converged network infrastructures in support of mobile cloud services, Anna Tzanakaki (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
EU FP7 iJOIN: Benefits and challenges of cloud technologies for ‘5G’, Peter Rost (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany)
EU FP7 iJOIN "Decoder Implementation for Cloud Based Architectures", Dirk Wübben (University of Bremen, Germany)
EU FP7 FLAMINGO: Network Resource Management for Virtualised Infrastructures, Marinos Charalambides (University College London, UK) 
Cloud computing and SDN networking for end to end virtualization in cloud-based LTE systems, João Soares (Portugal Telecom Inovação, Portugal), Andy Edmonds (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)), Giada Landi, Giacomo Bernini (Nextworks, Italy), Luigi Grossi (Telecom Italia, Italy), Julius Mueller (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Frank Zdarsky (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany) 

11:10-12:50

Challenges ahead of RAN virtualization in LTE, Desislava Dimitrova, Islam Alyafawi (University of Bern, Switzerland), Lucio S. Ferreira (INOV-INESC | IST, Portugal), André Gomes (University of Bern, Switzerland | One Source, Consultoria Informática Lda., Portugal), Navid Nikaein (EURECOM, France), Alexander Georgiev (CloudSigma, Bulgary), Anna Pizzinat (Orange, France), Thomas M. Bohnert and Andy Edmonds (ZHAW, Switzerland)
Virtualizing the LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC), Tarik Taleb (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany), Marius Iulian Corici (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Carlos Parada (Portugal Telecom Inovacao, Portugal), Almerima Jamakovic (University of Bern, Switzerland), Simone Ruffino (Telecom Italia, Italy), Georgios Karagiannis (University of Twente, the Netherlands), Morteza Karimzadeh (University of Twente, the Netherlands), Thomas Magedanz (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany) 
Cloud-based Orchestration of Multimedia Services and Applications, André Gomes (University of Bern, Switzerland | One Source, Consultoria Informática Lda., Portugal), Santiago Ruiz (Soft Telecom, Spain), Giuseppe Carella (TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Paolo Comi (Italtel, Italy), Paolo Secondo Crosta (Italtel, Italy)

Panel discussions