Future Internet: Research Funding and Service Design Evolution

Prof. Phuoc Tran-Gia

University of Wuerzburg, Germany

Fri Mar 02 15:10:00 NZDT 2007 in Room 031, MSCS

Abstract

Service creation process is rapidly moving to the edge of the network. Unlike classical services, which are designed and deployed by network providers, edge-based services are created by the users, where numbers of users rapidly increase, force the network to react (Skype, Youtube, Myspace,...) and emerge to business-cases. Contents of such content delivery platforms are rather created by the user than offered by the network provider. These issues have to be properly considered in the design of Next Generation Internet. The talk will address the issues of interaction between network design and service evolution, which emerge to the concept of Quality of Experience, opening a fast-growing research field. The talk will highlight research initiative in the US, in Europe as well as in Asia towards Future Internet.

Biography

Phuoc Tran-Gia is professor and director of the Institute of Computer Science, the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of Infosim. Previously he was at academia in Stuttgart, Siegen (Germany) as well as industries at Alcatel (software development System 12), IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (Zurich, Switzerland, architecture and performance evaluation of communication networks).

Professor Tran-Gia was chairperson of the management committee of the COST 257 action of the European Union entitled "Impact of new services on the performance and architecture of broadband networks". He is also founding director of the multi-university Nortel's "Center of Network Optimization". He is consultant and cooperation project leader with Siemens (ICN Board, Munich, ICM Berlin), Nortel (Texas), T-Mobile International (Bonn), France Telecom (Belfort), European Union (European Science Foundation, Brussels).

His current research areas include architecture and performance analysis of communication systems, and planning and optimization of communication networks.

Phuoc Tran-Gia is also founder Infosim (Wurzburg, Germany) and Codirector of Infosim Asia Pacific (Singapore), which is specialized in IP network management products and services.

He currently works with the European Union authorities and the German Ministry of Research and Education on funding strategies and initiatives towards Next Generation Internet.