Updated June 2, 2009.
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Multi-Network
Operation
Hosted
by iPass
San Francisco, CA
Wednesday,
June 24, 2009.
Chair: Peter Rysavy, Rysavy Research
CONTENTS
Background
Meeting Agenda
Meeting Location
Hotel and Travel Information
Registration
Information for Presenters
Users have an
increasing number of communications networks available to them as
devices support more networks. Many smartphones today are Wi-Fi
enabled. New laptops will support Wi-Fi, 3G and WiMAX. Some
applications are well suited for one connection type but not others.
For example, downloading a 3 GByte movie may make more sense over Wi-Fi
than 3G. How can users, operators and other service providers best
manage these powerful yet complex networking environments?
The meeting will
address the following types of questions:
- What are the different
emerging architectures for best managing multiplicity of network types?
- What new interfaces and
methods are becoming available in new operating systems such as Windows
7 for managing connectivity?
- How can connectivity be kept simple to not alienate users?
- How can network types be combined in single sessions for higher throughput?
- What are policy management approaches to control what applications have access to what networks?
- What are the emerging business models
for supporting multi-network operation?
- What are the most important standards to assist with multi-network operation? What is the status and relevance of IEEE standards IEEE 802.21 and IEEE 1900.4?
- How will Generic Access Network (GAN)
and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) address multi-network operation?
Note
that meeting presenters, and many of the attendees, are world leading
technologists on the subject material. We allocate sufficient time for
discussion that attendees can ask questions of greatest interest.
Moreover, the meetings allow informal networking during breaks where
attendees can exchange important information.
Meeting. (Demonstrations Invited). Wednesday, June 24, 2009. 8:00 AM to
4:00 PM.
Continental
breakfast and
lunch provided.
Meeting attendees obtain access to content presented at the meeting
and detailed minutes.
The preliminary proposed agenda is as follows:
- 8:00 to 8:30 Registration.
- 8:30 to 8:45 Peter Rysavy, Executive Director, PCCA. Introductions. PCCA meeting schedule and association update.
- 8:45
to 9:15 iPass. Host company introduction.
- 9:15
to 10:00 Presentation. Richard Martin, Services Director,
MobileAware.
"Connection Management Architectures." Network availability detection, establishing network connections, priority-based network connection switching, concurrent network connections, re-establishing lost connections, virtual network connections, application filtering.
- 10:00 to 10:15 Break
- 10:15
to 11:15 Presentation. Vivek Gupta, Necati Canpolat, Intel. IEEE
standard 1900.4 (architecture and information model for
policy-based management of optimized radio resource usage in
heterogeneous wireless networks); IEEE 802.21 (abstraction layer
between access technologies and mobility management solutions); IEEE
802.11u (interworking with external networks).
- 11:15
to 12:00 Presentation. Barbara Nelson, CTO, iPass. Challenges in
aggregating diverse networks including credentials management, billing
models etc.
- 12:00
to 1:00 Lunch
- 1:00 to 1:45 Presentation. Gary Greenbaum, Director Business Development, Microsoft. "Windows 7 Mobile Broadband Platform." State of mobile broadband today, Windows 7 value proposition, Windows 7 mobile broadband platform, architecture, features.
- 1:45
to 2:30 Presentation. Joe Savarese, CTO and General Manager,
NetMotion Wireless. "Policy Enforcement
for Heterogeneous Network Environments."
- 2:30
to 2:45 Break
- 2:45 to 3:30 Presentation. Martin Kendrick. Brand Communications. Multicomm, allowing aggregation of multiple network types for higher throughput and redundancy. Market trends and roadmap.
- 3:30
to 4:00 General Q&A, group discussion, conclusions.
Note:
agenda is subject to change.
The
meeting will be held at:
Hilton Garden Inn San Mateo
2000 Bridgepointe Circle, San Mateo, California, USA 94404
Tel: +1-650-522-9000 Fax: +1-650-522-9099
http://www.hiltongardeninn.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=SFOSMGI
We do not have a room block. Please book early.
HOTEL AND TRAVEL INFORMATION
See above.
For assistance with travel, the PCCA recommends Tom Smith Travel, 503-477-5341 or 877-604-3107.
The registration deadline is one week before the meeting.
Meetings
are intended primarily for PCCA members. However, non-member
organizations may attend for a fee of $375 per person. This fee can be
applied towards future membership. Executive-level members may send
five people, associate-level members may send two people and
affiliate-level members may send one person to the meeting without
incurring meeting charges.
There
is no attendance charge for members of the press.
If you intend to come, please register soon.
Click
here to register for the meeting using
our secure Web page.
Click here
to see a current list of members.
The following information is for people presenting at this PCCA meeting:
- Presentations are typically 30 minutes to 45 minutes long unless arranged otherwise.
- There is usually a 5 to 15 minute discussion following the presentation.
- Presenters
must provide their presentations (PDF or PPT) at least one week prior
to the meeting to allow for copying to the members area of the PCCA Web
site, as well as to allow detailed questions for discussion.
- This is a technical audience (e.g., engineering and program managers), so please make the presentations technical. Emphasis should be on industry and technology at large, versus selling your product (limit of 3 slides). Consider items such as compatibility, technical alternatives, standardization, deployment considerations, interoperability, certification and adoption.
- Generally, a dynamic and attentive audience of key industry stakeholders attend each meeting, representing a broad spectrum of the mobile computing industry, including operators, infrastructure vendors, device vendors, middleware providers and application developers.
- We will provide an LCD projector. Presenters
should plan on presenting from their own
computers. Presenters should use their own presentation templates.
- Since PCCA meetings are considered public meetings, please do not include any confidential or proprietary information.