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IEEE Distinguish Lecture ProgramCo-Organized by:, IEEE Comsoc & VT Malaysia Chapter,

Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, UKM, and School of Computer Sciences, USM

Talk #1 : Service and Network Convergence in Next Generation NetworksDate : 9th November 2011 (Wednesday)Time : 10.00 12.00PM

Venue : Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, Universiti KebangsaanMalaysia (UKM), 43600 Bandar Bangi Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan,MALAYSIA

Talk #2 : Networ king of Automo biles Applications, Challenges andSome Recent Results

Date : 10th

November 2011 (Thursday)Time : 3pm - 5pmVenue : School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM),

11800, Penang, Malaysia

BiographyVictor C. M. Leun g received the B.A.Sc. (Hons.) degree in electricalengineering from the University of British Columbia (U.B.C.) in 1977, and wasawarded the APEBC Gold Medal as the head of the graduating class in theFaculty of Applied Science. He attended graduate school at U.B.C. on aNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate

Scholarship and completed the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1981.

From 1981 to 1987, Dr. Leung was a Senior Member of Technical Staff atMPR Teltech Ltd., specializing in the planning, design and analysis of satellitecommunication systems. In 1988, he was a Lecturer in the Department ofElectronics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He returned to U.B.C. asa faculty member in 1989, where he is currently a Professor and holder of theTELUS Mobility Research Chair in Advanced TelecommunicationsEngineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He isa member of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systemsat U.B.C. He also holds adjunct/guest appointments at Jilin University,

Beijing Jiaotong University, South China University of Technology, the Hong Kong Polytechnic Universityand Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Dr. Leung has co-authored more than 500

technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings, and several of these papers had beenselected for best paper awards. His research interests are in the areas of architectural and protocol design,management algorithms and performance analysis for computer and telecommunication networks, with acurrent focus on wireless networks and mobile systems.

Dr. Leung is a registered professional engineer in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. He is a Fellow ofIEEE, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has served on the editorial boards ofthe IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Wireless Communications Series, the IEEETransactions on Wireless Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and isserving on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the Journal of Communications andNetworks, Computer Communications, as well as several other journals. He has guest-edited several journalspecial issues, and served on the technical program committee of numerous international conferences. He is

a General Co-chair of CSA 2011, Chinacom 2011, and MobiWorld and GCN Workshops at IEEE Infocom 2011.He chaired the TPC of the wireless networking and cognitive radio track in IEEE VTC-fall 2008. He was theGeneral Chair of AdhocNets 2010, WC 2010, QShine 2007, and Symposium Chair for Next GenerationMobile Networks in IWCMC 2006-2008. He was a General Co-chair of BodyNets 2010, CWCN Workshop atInfocom 2010, ASIT Workshop at IEEE Globecom 2010, MobiWorld Workshop at IEEE CCNC 2010, IEEEEUC 2009 and ACM MSWiM 2006, and a TPC Vice-chair of IEEE WCNC 2005.

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Talk#1:ServiceandNetworkConvergence inNextGenerationNetworks

Abstract: A common feature of contemporary wireless and wireline networks is that theyprovide access to or operate over IP-based networks. It is commonly agreed that nextgeneration networks will consist of a conglomerate of access network technologiesintegrated by broadband IP-based core networks. Telecommunication service providersare taking advantage of the capabilities of next generation networks to offer a wide rangeof services to subscribers over a converged IP network regardless of the access technology.Research and development efforts over the last few years have been focused on how tointegrate and manage heterogeneous wireless/wireline access networks for a good serviceexperience by subscribers. The presentation will review features and characteristics ofconverged access networks, describe the network and service architectures enabling accessnetwork convergence on the one hand and service convergence on the other, and discusssome of the technical issues that need to be addressed to provide a good service experienceto subscribers. Novel solutions for selection of the best access network before connectionestablishment, and maintaining a connection across different access networks by verticalhandoffs will be presented. Future research directions will be discussed.

Talk#2:NetworkingofAutomobilesApplications,ChallengesandSomeRecentResults

Abstract: Recent advances in wireless communication technologies are making it possible forautomobiles to be integrated into the global network. Intelligent Transportation Systems with

vehicles in the loop are expected to significantly improve road safety, reduce traffic congestion andcut greenhouse gas emissions. This is made possible in the USA by Dedicated Short Range

Communications (DSRC), which employs the IEEE 802.11p standard over the 75MHz of spectrum

in the 5.9 GHz band allocated by the FCC for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-

infrastructure (V2I) communications. DSRC is expected to revolutionize road transportation by

making possible many real-time safety applications. However, global deployment of DSRC is not

expected to materialize in the near term due to regulatory and financial challenges. In the

meantime, vehicles and their passengers are increasingly equipped with different forms of wireless

networking capabilities, e.g., cellular, WiFi and WiMAX. Thus there is also a growing interest in

supporting applications like infotainment, travel advisory, route planning, etc., using heterogeneous

wireless networks. In this presentation, I shall describe several applications that leverage the

wireless communications to put vehicles in the loop. Different applicants impose differentrequirements on the wireless network for data routing, transfer latency, etc. I shall review the

technical challenges that need to be overcome to meet some of these requirements, and describe

solutions developed in our recent research to meet these challenges. I shall conclude the

presentation by discussing some future research directions.

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