A Preview of MONAMI 2011

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The 3rd ICST Conference on Mobile Networks and Management (MONAMI 2011, www.mon-ami.org) will be held in Aveiro, Portugal on 21-23 September 2011. The conference offers the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals and academics to meet and discuss the latest advances on mobility management, multiaccess and resource management, and network management.

This year’s program (see www.mon-ami.org/program.shtml) features papers on Mobility and Wireless Networks; Mobile Network Services; Network Virtualization, Routing and Self-Management; Security, Services and Context; and Wireless Mesh Networks. We note the increased interest this year in virtualization, management of smart objects and mobile services, alongside the traditional MONAMI topics in mobile and multiaccess networks, self organizing network management, architectures, and service provisioning. In addition to the 20 papers in the regular technical sessions, which were selected after a thorough peer-review process and will all be orally presented, the MONAMI 2011 program includes five papers in the Future Research Directions (FRD) session. FRD papers present research directions from five prominent FP7-funded European projects related to management and control of mobile networks, namely SAIL, MEDIEVAL, OneFIT, GEYSERS, and UNIVERSELF. Finally, this year we introduce the MONAMI SmaRT Workshop, which focuses on novel, early-stage work in mobile network smart services and applications. In total, more than 120 authors from 15 countries contributed to this year’s proceedings.

In addition to the oral presentations of the selected papers, the conference program features an exceptional keynote by Dr. John Strassner, CTO Software R&D Laboratory, Huawei, USA, who will present his vision on the management of future mobile networks in a talk entitled “Autonomic Mobile Network and Service Management for the Future Internet”. In addition, Dr. Luís Miguel Campos of PDM Group will give a motivating talk, targeting in particular aspiring high-tech oriented entrepreneurs, entitled “The Random Walk Down Venture Capital Land”. Of course, in line with the established MONAMI tradition, the conference will open with a world-class tutorial on “Cooperative Wireless Networks”, a key topic in modern mobile communications, presented by Dr. Stefan Valentin (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG) and Dr. Hermann S. Lichte (net mobile AG).

The city of Aveiro will provide the right backdrop for this year’s event where the attendees will breathe telecommunications at every step. Aveiro is in the centre of a major region where the sun, the sea and the river please the visitors’ sight. It is no wonder that the ria and salinas have been the traditional visiting card of the town of Aveiro. Today, the area is the center of a range of thriving high-tech industries, such as telecommunications, biochemical, ceramics, and the environment. MONAMI attendees will get a first-hand experience of the Aveiro Telecommunications environment through an organized visit at the Portugal Telecom Inovação Labs, which will host the MONAMI welcome cocktail. Moreover, this year’s social event will take place at the Aliança Underground Museum, where the special multi-disciplinary character of the region is displayed at its best.

Finally we would like to welcome you to the conference. By attending MONAMI 2011 you will have the opportunity to learn about the latest results and developments around the world and from top EU projects while networking with top experts in the field. We expect that this year's program will trigger fruitful discussions making the conference once again a very active forum, which fosters future cooperation between the participants.

We close this overview of MONAMI 2011 by expressing our appreciation to the institutions that have sponsored this year’s event: ICST, the European Alliance for Innovation, Universidade de Aveiro, Instituto de Telecomunicações and PT Inovação!

We look forward to seeing you in Aveiro!

About the Authors

Kostas Pentikousis

Senior Research Scientist

Kostas Pentikousis, PhD, is a tenured Senior Research Scientist at VTT, in Oulu, Finland. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the foremost multidisciplinary applied research organization in Northern Europe, is an impartial multidisciplinary expert organization with a 2007 annual turnover of 232 million euros. Kostas has been working in research and development positions since 1996 in both industry and academia. He joined VTT in 2005 and has since been involved in several joint and contract research projects.

Rui L. Aguiar

Susana Sargento

Assistant Professor

Since February 2004, I am an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics at the University of Aveiro. I am also a researcher in the Institute of Telecommunications, where I coordinate the Network Architectures and Protocols (NAP) Group.

        Between September 2002 and February 2004, I was an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science in the University of Porto. I was also the Coordinator of the Computer Networks Group in the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science.

Ramón Agüero