Title : "Machine-to-Machine technology and market trend in US"

Se-Yong Park is a founder of Intelibs, Inc, a start-up company based in New York developing and servicing Intelligent In-Building wireless network solutions with 3G/4G Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) and Pico/Femtocell products. Intelibs is a turnkey solution vendor serving Tier 1 US wireless carriers focused on the enterprise vertical market. As the turnkey solution provider, Intelibs provide Machine-to-Machine(M2M) device as part of 4G WLAN solution. M2M becomes a emergying application over 4G network as the M2M network traffic increases and expects to surpass the 3G network capacity. Intelibs recently signed the co-marketing agreement with Tier 1 US wireless carrier. Intelibs has been hosting industry M2M workshops since 2010.

Before he founded Intelibs, Inc, he was a Member of Technical Staff in AMPS/PCS Systems engineering department, Wireless Networks Group in Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies till 2008. He has contributed the evolution of IP based Radio Access Network. He received Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Abstract

Machine-to-Machine becomes an emerging market in the wireless communications. Started from the Utility vertical market based on narrowband applications such as RMI, remote alarm, M2M has been expanded to other consumer markets such as retails (e.g. vending machine).
M2M is not a device only market, but an ecosystem driven from infrastructure to the applications. It is also different from traditional OEM business since the wireless carrier creates variety of the business models such as retail with their own sales and wholesale depending upon the device partner's direct marketing.
M2M device technologies are evolving from 2G to 3G and now entering 4G market as the bandwidth demands grows. Our presentation would cover where the new technology demands are being created and how the R&D community overrides the opportunity with the right development strategy.
Selection of the technologies also requires the acumen of the market understanding. Several examples of the M2M solutions would be presented in order to help the R&D community understand how the market and technology are suited and offered as part of the turnkey solutions.

Title : "QoS Provisioning and Routing in Cognitive Radio Mesh Networks"

Dr. Maode Ma received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999. Now, Dr. Ma is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has extensive research interests including wireless networking and wireless network security. He has led and/or participated in around 20 research projects funded by government, industry, military and universities in various countries. He has been a member of the technical program committees for more than 100 international conferences. He has been a general chair, technical symposium chair, tutorial chair, publication chair, publicity chair and session chair for more than 50 international conferences. Dr. Ma has more than 200 international academic publications. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Electronic Transport and Topic Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of the Advancements in Computing Technology. He also serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters, a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and an Associate Editor for International Journal of Network and Computer Applications, International Journal of Security and Communication Networks, and International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. Dr. Ma is a senior member of IEEE Communication Society and a member of a few technical committees in the IEEE Communication Society.

Abstract

Cognitive Radio (CR) is a new paradigm that enables communication partners to exploit unoccupied frequency spectrum for communications. Cognitive radio based wireless mesh networks (CRNs) enable wireless mesh networks to communicate via dynamic channels. In this talk, the operation of the cognitive radio based wireless mesh networks will be introduced. The open research issues on the QoS provisioning and routing in cognitive radio networks will be explored. As example, a cross-layer cognitive MAC protocol, the Cognitive Power-Controlled Rate-Adaptive MAC Protocol (CPCRA) and a cross-layer cognitive routing protocol, the Opportunistic Service Differentiation Routing Protocol (OSDRP), for the dynamic CRNs will be described to demonstrate that the proposed solutions can support QoS provisioning by employing the power and transmission rate control in the CRNs and discover the minimum delay-maximum stability route in dynamic CRNs by considering the availability of spectrum opportunity in addition to switching delay and queuing delay across primary user networks. Service differentiation can also be achieved through the combination of transmit power control and opportunistic routing.