Accessnets 2009

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November 1-3, 2009, Hong Kong, China – http://www.accessnets.org/2009

With the rapid growth of the Internet as well as the increasing demand for broadband services, access networks have been receiving growing investments in recent years. This has led to a massive network deployment with the goal of eliminating the bandwidth bottleneck between end-users and the network core.

Today many diverse technologies are being used to provide broadband access to end users. The architecture and performance of the access segment (local loop, wired and wireless access networks, and even home networks) are getting increasing attention for ensuring quality of service of diverse broadband applications. Moreover, most access lines will no longer terminate on a single device, thus leading to the necessity of having a home network designed for applications that transcend simple Internet access sharing among multiple personal computers and enable multimedia support. Therefore, the access network and its home portion have become a hot investment pool from both a financial as well as a research perspective.
The aim of the annual International Conference on Access Networks (AccessNets) is to provide a forum that brings together scientists and researchers from academia as well as managers and engineers from the industry and government organizations to meet and exchange ideas and recent work on all aspects of access networks and how they integrate with their in-home counterparts. AccessNets’09 is the fourth edition of this exciting event, which will be held in Hong Kong, China, on November 1-3, 2009. The conference will consist of technical sessions, industry track, workshops, and panels. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the industry track, workshops and panels will focus on development, application, and related business issues in this hot and exciting area.

Conference Structure
The conference program started with the IWATA Workshop consisting of two technical sessions on Sunday afternoon followed by seven technical sessions distributed over the next two days in a single-track format. The first talk of each day was delivered by an invited keynote speaker from either industry or academia.

Conference Attendance
There were around 30-40 participants for the conference.

Technical Quality
The conference received approximately 22 submissions from different countries. After a thorough review process, 11 papers were accepted from open call for presentation. The overall paper acceptance rate is 50%. In addition, several distinguished researchers were invited to contribute to the conference program. The IWATA workshop started by the first talk from Dr. Yiqing Zhou of the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Institute on the topic of recent standardization development on IMT-A. The keynote speaker of the first day conference was Dr. Jeffrey Yuen from PCCW and the title of his talk was “From Quad Play to Connected Living”. The keynote speaker of the second day conference was Prof. Joseph Hui from Arizona State University and his topic was on “Beyond Access for Virtualization and Cloud Computing”. The conference participants came from different countries including Norway, Spain, Belgium, Canada, USA, Korea, Japan, China, and Hong Kong.

Conference Organization
The ICST staffs were very helpful in the final preparation of the conference (e.g., registration, proceeding CD production, venue and catering arrangement, etc.). The conference venue was very nice and the hotel staffs were very supportive. In addition to the coffee breaks, the conference also provided two buffet lunches and one gala dinner at the hotel. The participants were very much satisfied with the arrangement.

Social Program
The General Chair of the conference also provided on the last day an additional social program that included a scenic tour to the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology followed by a seafood dinner at Lei Yue Mun.

For more information on the upcoming Accessnets event, please visit the conference’s website!