ICIN 2010

Monday 11 October 09:00 – 12:30

• Tutorial: How Smart will Future Bit Pipes be?
• Tutorial: Identity Management in Web 2.0 and Telecom

Thursday 14 October 09:00 – 17:30

• Workshop: Business Models for Mobile Platforms (BMMP 10)
• Workshop: Telecom Transformation: Are You Ready?

How Smart will Future Bit Pipes be?

Service Enablement Options in NGNs and the Emerging Future Internet: Comparing EPC, IMS, and Open APIs
Thomas Magedanz and Julius Müller,(Fraunhofer FOKUS / TU Berlin, Germany)

This half day tutorial will address the current notion of service enablement in fixed and mobile Next Generation Networks (NGNs) and the emerging future internet. In this regard we will look at the key question of what services will be demanded by users in the future and what will be the role of network operators in these service offerings. Particularly we will address the question of "How Smart will Future Bit Pipes be?" by looking at the current layers of enablement, namely the Evolved Packet Core (EPC), IP Multimedia System (IMS), and Service Delivery Platforms based on Open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). We will show that IMS capabilities are limited in regard to the omnipresent Over the Top (OTT) / HTTP-based service world and that the EPC could provide more general control capabilities for both SIP/IMS-based operator services and internet OTT services.

In addition we will relate these considerations with higher layer service enablement strategies in NGNs and the future internet, as currently addressed by open Service Delivery Platforms and, for example, the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) and emerging future internet core platforms.

Finally we will introduce related FOKUS/TU Berlin toolkits and testbeds allowing practical R&D in the above mentioned topics.

1. Introduction
   All-IP network convergence pushing for smart bit pipes and seamless services
   The data highways: fixed and mobile Next Generation Networks (NGNs) for what?
   Future operator telco services vs. domain specific over the top applications vs. service enablement
   Back to the future: IN vs. service enablement in NGNs and the emerging Future Internet (FI)
   How smart will the smart bit pipe be? Best effort vs. connectivity plus PCC vs. IMS vs. Open APIs
   Implementing Open APIs (BONDI, GSM ONE, WAC) on top of which platforms?
   NGN2FI evolution: The role of open toolkits and testbeds for open innovation
   
2. IP Multimedia System (IMS) as Uniform All-IP Operator Service Platform
   IMS standards review
   IMS key capabilities and services (VoIP, RCS, IPTV, and ?)
   IMS challenges: IMS vs. SDPs vs. Web 2.0
   IMS limits: SIP vs. HTTP services and enablement
   Lessons learned from the FOKUS IMS and Open SOA Telco Playgrounds
   
3. Evolved Packet Core (EPC) Overview
   Mobile broadband drivers and challenges
   3GPP Evolved Packet System (EPS)
   Long Term Evolution (LTE) vs. Evolved Packet Core (EPC)
   EPC standards and capabilities
   Services above EPC: Operator services (VoIP, RCS, IPTV, WAC) vs. ABC OTT
   EPC challenge: Voice options (CSFB, VoLGA, VoLTE)
   Relating EPC and IMS and SDPs/Open APIs
   Towards EPC as universal all-IP service control platform
   Lessons learned from the Future Seamless Communications (FUSECO) Playground
   
4. Future Internet (FI)
   FI principles and global status quo
   Service provision principles in FI: Cross layer functional composition
   Towards FI enablement: Emerging FI core platforms for FI Enabler
   Comparing telco and FI enablement principles
   Positioning EPC within the FI context
   Introduction of the FOKUS NGN2FI Evolution Lab
5. Summary: Relating EPC, IMS, SDPs and FI
   Why IMS will be for seamless VoIP only and why EPC will become the universal all-IP service control platform
   Research challenges ahead

Q&A

Identity Management in Web 2.0 and Telecom

Developing New Services from the Building Blocks
Dr Igor Faynberg and Dr Hui-Lan Lu, (Alcatel-Lucent, USA)

Identity Management is becoming the centerpiece of Web 2.0 development. Single sign-on achieved through identity federation is recognized as a must for service providers. Meanwhile, the financial opportunity for data federation creates a need for powerful application enablers. This tutorial provides a detailed, hands-on introduction to the technological foundation of Identity Management, addressing all major existing – as well as developing – authentication and authorization mechanisms in the web and telecommunications networks.

Then the tutorial moves on to demonstrate how to mix and match these blocks creatively to produce new services that span web and telecom technologies, specifically addressing OpenID and OAuth.

1. Scope and purpose
2. Identity Management (IdM) drivers and use cases
3. IdM standardization landscape
4. Basic network security issues
5. Key security building blocks

i Cryptography, digests, digital signatures, certificates
ii Authentication protocols
iii Identity Based Encryption (IBE)
iv IP and transport-layer security protocols

6. Social issues
7. Case studies

   i UMTS security
   ii IMS access security
   iii Generic bootstrapping architecture
   iv OpenID
   v Interworking of OpenID and AKA
   vi Open Authentication Protocol (OAuth)

Second International Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Platforms

The workshop focuses on the causes and effects of the current explosion of platforms in the mobile ICT industry. Mobile platforms may refer to various system levels including mobile devices’ operating systems, mobile network protocols, mobile services and applications, and so on. Through platform ownership, companies position themselves as central gatekeepers in the mobile industry.

Thursday, October 14

Telecom Transformation: Are You Ready?

Eileen Healy, CEO, Healy & Co, USA

End your conference experience with a bang that will enable you to go back home and develop strategies to transform! Come to this interactive workshop and explore key challenges and opportunities that face all telecom professionals. Innovation cycles, subversive technologies, unexpected competitors, and new business models will be explored. Transformation in the context of the never-ending imperative to deliver more is essential as you navigate the waters of this new decade. How will you adapt to this highly innovative era? This workshop will explore the converging telecom space that promises cooperation and turbulence. Struggle and even stagnation can await those that don’t change. This workshop will allow you to roll up your sleeves and brainstorm new ways to partner and new ways to manage risk. You will refocus your efforts to position your company and yourself for whatever tomorrow brings.

Some of the concepts presented are based on strategic studies completed by Healy & Co under the moniker “Telecompetition”. Looking out to 2020, telecom scenarios are explored along with the market, technology, regulatory and economic conditions under which each arises. This provides a forum where a robust discussion about leveraging these conditions for positive transformation can occur. Additional concepts referenced in the workshop include the innovation cycle concept articulated by Charles Fine in his book Clockspeed.

This workshop will include:

• Transformation in other industries
• Changing market expectations
• Impact of technology
• Managing in a time of risk and uncertainty
• Understanding your organizational DNA