Objectives

This workshop will provide an international forum for industrial, academic, and government researchers to present and discuss the present as well as future status of NGN (Next Generation Networks) and their impact on E-Commerce and Enterprise Computing and other applications. It aims to bring together researchers from the network and applications & services communities to share their experiences and to foster collaboration for new and innovative NGN architectures and services.

Program (PDF version is here.) Click the underlined portion (the presentation titles in Sessions 1 and 3, the names of the Panelists in Session 5) to download the presentation material.

8:50-9:30	Registration
9:30-9:40	Workshop Opening: Koichi Asatani, Kogakuin University
	Yuichi Matsushima, Planning & Promotion Committee Chair of Next Generation IP Network Promotion Forum, Vice President, Member of board of Directors, NICT
9:40-10:40	Session 1:Workshop Keynote (I), Chair: Koichi Asatani, Kogakuin University, R&D & Standardization Committee Chair of Next Generation IP Network Promotion Forum
	Japan's Policy Initiatives on R&D and standardization for NGN
	Hiroshi Tanaka, Director of Standardization Division, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications(MIC), Japan
	Overview and Status of NGN Standardization Activities
	Naotaka Morita, Vice Chairman of SG13, ITU-T, NTT Service Integration Laboratories, Japan
10:40-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:00	Session 2:NGN Key Technologies, Chair: Hidenori Nakazato, Waseda University
	Functionally-distributed Transport Networking on Next Generation Network
	Michihiro Aoki, Kentaro Ogawa, Takafumi Hamano and Shinichiro Chaki, NTT, Japan
	NGN Performance Monitoring and Management: Standard Perspective and its Applications
	Taesang Choi, Sangsik Yoon and Joonkyung Lee, ETRI, Korea
12:00-13:00	Lunch Break
13:00-14:00	Session 3:Workshop Keynote (II), Chair: Toshio Morioka, NICT
	Next Generation Factory: Deutsche Telekom's Program to Innovate Its Entire Production Environment
	Horst Melcher, President, Deutsche Telekom K.K.
	Vision and Outcomes of BcN
	Kyung Pyo Jun, Vice President, Broadband Convergence Network Research Division, ETRI, Korea
14:00-15:00	Session 4:NGN and Services, Chair: Hideaki Tani, NEC
	A QoE Based Service Control Scheme for RACF in IP-Based FMC Networks
	Hideaki Yamada, Norihiro Fukumoto, Manabu Isomura, Satoshi Uemura and Michiaki Hayashi, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan
	An Effective QoS Control Scheme for Ubiquitous Services Based on Context Information Management
	Yoshikazu Tokairin, Kazuhiro Yamanaka, Hideyuki Takahashi, Takuo Suganuma and Norio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-17:30	Session 5:Executive Panel Session "Challenges and Chances in NGN Environments", Moderator: Koichi Asatani, Professor, Kogakuin University
	Panelists:
	Kyung Pyo Jun, Vice President, Broadband Convergence Network Research Division, ETRI, Korea
	Yung Kim, Vice President, Technology & Innovations, Group CTO Office, BT Group, UK
	Koh Miyake, Director, NTT Service Integration Laboratories, Japan
	Norio Murakami, President, Google Japan, Japan, Vice President, Google, USA
	Helmut Schink, Director, Nokia-Siemens Networks, ETSI TIPHON Chairman, ITU-T SG 13 Vice Chairman, Germany
	Tetsuo Takemura, Corporate Officer, Network Systems Business, Information & Telecommunication Systems, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
17:30-17:40	Workshop Closing: Toshio Morioka, NICT