Past Seminars/Workshops

The Centre frequently holds research seminars/Workshops on a variety of topics, usually held in rooms U13/U15 on the 1st floor of the Centre (building BA).

In addition to members of the university, visitors are also welcome to attend by prior arrangement.

Past Seminars/Workshops

• IEEE Distinguished Lecture Tour of Europe by Professor Abbas Jamilipour
  
  • Venue: U13/U15 BA 01 (CCSR)
  • Time: Friday 29th June 2007 at 2:00pm
  • Title: Broadband Convergence Network
  • Abstract: The advent of mobile multimedia applications with high bandwidth and quality of service requirements has initiated a new era in telecommunications technology. At the same time, transportation of multimedia traffic has been diverted the telecommunications R&D to the advancement of existing and emerging technologies including 3G cellular networks (UMTS and cdma2000) and their next generation 4G, IEEE 802.16e (known as mobile WiMax), and IEEE 802.20 (known as Mobile-Fi). All these activities merge within the original concept of the realization of broadband wireless IP in a wide area of coverage. Toward such goal, the convergence of mobile and fixed networks becomes an important issue as it will provide new business models for the communications systems and generate new applications. Broadband convergence Network (BcN), therefore, becomes a vital term toward the implementation of next generation mobile networks and the broadband wireless IP. In BcN, interconnection among heterogeneous networks both on horizontal and vertical structures, interaction among network-dependent elements of those networks, as well as security, billing, and quality of service policies (including scheduling and admission control) must be carefully designed. The seamless movement of a subscribed user from the home network to a visiting network using a unique multimode handheld device will therefore create new problems to be solved by the telecommunications researchers. In this talk, fundamental concepts and specifications of the above technologies will be reviewed. It will be discussed whether these technologies can fulfill the requirements of the mobile Internet service in achieving seamless mobility and QoS guarantee for a variety of multimedia applications including both real-time and non-real-time traffic. Providing backward compatibility with the existing (and advanced) technologies and the use of already available telecommunications infrastructure will be considered as the main factors in feasibility and sustainability study of any new technology for being a real player in the future broadband wireless Internet.
    
• Following CAPS 2005 and 2006, the third Workshop on Context Awareness for Proactive Systems was held in June 2007 at the University of Surrey, UK.
  The workshop provided a unique platform to discuss and exchange findings of research into proactive computing and communication systems. Their connection to the physical world is increasingly driven by sensors and actuators which are used to both measure and manipulate the physical environment. The environmental data gathered is one of the major influencing factors for proactive systems, the data acts as stimuli to which these systems respond. Such responses are mainly in terms of providing users with appropriate resources, information, and services.
• Dr Joseph Mitola III Consulting Scientist from the MITRE Corporation Tampa, Florida
  • Location and Time: U13/U15 on Friday 13th April 2007 at 2pm
  • Title: "The Future of Cognitive Radio"
  • Abstract:
    "Cognitive radio (CR) includes the integration of computational intelligence into software-defined radio (SDR) to enhance wireless services. Radio agility and user sensory-perception (speech, vision, and other signal processing) for mobile CR devices must meet severe size, weight, and power constraints. This paper examines opportunities and technology challenges in the proliferation of CR technologies. Cognition sensors may share System on Chip (SoC) subsystems with security, location-, user- and RF- awareness hardware. This paper offers a far-term use case and new challenges for the academic and industrial research and development communities."
    "Dr. Mitola is recognized globally for his formulation and pioneering work in software-defined radio (SDR) and computationally-intelligent SDR or cognitive radio. As a consulting scientist with The MITRE Corporation, Dr. Mitola applies his expertise to address challenges and opportunities in bringing the cutting edge commercial technology to MITRE´s government clients."
• Semantically Enabled Service-Oriented Architectures: A Paradigm Shift in Computer Science
  presented on November 27th 2006 by Professor Dieter Fensel from DERI/Innsbruck
  After four decades of rapid advances in computing, we are embarking on the greatest leap forward in computing that includes revolutionary changes at all levels of computing from the hardware through the middleware and infrastructure to applications and more importantly in intelligence. This talk outlines a comprehensive framework that integrates two complimentary and revolutionary technical advances, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Semantic Web, into a single computing architecture, that we call Semantically Enabled Service Oriented Architecture (SESA). While SOA is widely acknowledged for its potential to revolutionize the world of computing, that success depends on resolving two fundamental challenges that SOA does not address, integration, and search or mediation. In a services oriented world, billions of services must be discovered and selected based on requirements, then orchestrated and adapted or integrated. SOA depends on but does not address either search or integration. The talk provides a vision of the future enabled by our framework that places computing and programming at the services layer and places the real goal of computing, problem solving, in the hands of end users.
• SatNEx, Satellite communications NEtwork of eXcellence II
  The SatNEx Steering Board, Advisory Board, General Assembly and JA meetings hosted by the University of Surrey, Centre for Communication Systems Research in Guildford, UK.