In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), data is collected from sensors to be transmitted using wireless technology. Important aspects for wireless communications are large and small scale propagation characterization, such as signal fading, channel coherence time and bandwidth, the Rician K factor and power delay profile. Many WSN applications are in open field environments, like in agriculture, on roads, on vehicles, etc. In these cases, propagation models for free space, line of sight, reflection, diffraction and scattering, shadowing and Doppler effects may apply. Home or office environments are also feasible, where the before mentioned effects are effective, but also propagation through wall or window panels may take place. Mining is another field of interest, either if it is underground or in open pits. Modern mining procedures aim to replace human resources directly involved in the mineral extraction process by automatic or remote control systems. Also, human health security issues in mines call for the use of wireless telecommunication systems. A new and exciting application field is the use of Underwater WSN (UWSN) where signal propagation becomes a major issue due to increased attenuations and delays.

WSN designers attending this tutorial will deepen their understanding of the design tradeoffs that will make it feasible to extend the networks lifetime. Since the propagation environment is also used by other technologies using wireless communications, people working in this area may also benefit from this tutorial. In this tutorial, emphasis will be on deriving boundary conditions for propagation conditions based on fundamentals, so that non-specialists in electromagnetic wave propagation issues may get a good grasp of the problems involved and their solutions.

Biography

Walter Grote obtained an Electronic Engineering degree (6 year program) from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM) in 1975, a M. Sc.in E.E. degree from Polytechnic Institute of NY, USA in 1984 an a Ph.D. in E.E. degree from Polytechnic University of NY, USA. He is currently a Professor at the Electronic Engineering Department at UTFSM and a member of the Advisory Board of the Applied Research Committee of the Chilean National Science Foundation, CONICYT. Actually he is the team leader of the Telecommunications group of the Electronic Engineering Department at UTFSM. Walter Grote has been involved in a large number of scientific and applied telecommunication projects funded by CONICYT and by the UTFSM, generating peer reviewed publicatios as can be seen in (www.elo.utfsm.cl/~wireless). His current research interests are in Wireless Network protocol and transmission issues, with special interest on solving applied problems in mining, rural and underwater communications.

Abstract: this presentation deals with important paradigms for the future post-IP generation: Knowledge and piloting planes, network virtualization and strong closed authentication. In this talk, we describe these four paradigms and finally we can deduce what could be the future post-IP generation.
So, first, we describe a complete environment based on Autonomic Networking, associated with a knowledge plane and a piloting plane, to control the Quality of Service (QoS) in IP networks and consequently responds to users’ requirements. Then we will describe network virtualization that can provide a powerful way to run multiple networks, each customized to a specific purpose, at the same time over a shared substrate. Finally, we introduce a high security scheme that can be deduced from a strong closed authentication where the customers can get a perfect privacy. We will compare the current TPM (Trusted Platform Module) solution with the future TEAPM (Trusted EAP Module) solution.

Biography

Guy Pujolle received the Ph.D. and "Thèse d'Etat" degrees in Computer Science from the University of Paris IX and Paris XI on 1975 and 1978 respectively. He is currently a Professor at the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris 6) and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Orange/France Telecom. He spent the period 1994-2000 as Professor and Head of the computer science department of Versailles University. He was also Professor and Head of the MASI Laboratory (Pierre et Marie Curie University), 1981-1993, Professor at ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications), 1979-1981, and member of the scientific staff of INRIA, 1974-1979.
Dr. Pujolle is the French representative at the Technical Committee on Networking at IFIP. He is an editor for International Journal of Network Management, WINET, Telecommunication Systems and Editor in Chief of the indexed Journal “Annals of Telecommunications”. He was an editor for Computer Networks (until 2000), Operations Research (until 2000), Editor-In-Chief of Networking and Information Systems Journal (until 2000), Ad Hoc Journal and several other journals. Guy Pujolle is a pioneer in high-speed networking having led the development of the first Gbit/s network to be tested in 1980.
Guy Pujolle is co-founder of QoSMOS (www.qosmos.fr), Ucopia Communications (www.ucopia.com), Ginkgo-Networks (www.ginkgo-networks.com), EtherTrust (www.ethertrust.com), and Virtuor (www.VirtuOR.com).

From its origin as on-demand exploitation of resources over the Web, Cloud Computing has been emerging as an encompassing model of interactions over a dynamic virtual network overlaid on the global communication architecture of the Internet. Colliding with the simultaneous development of the Semantic Web, a new organizational order is being established that disrupts the geography of mobility, urging a global model of trust governing new aspects of information exchange. From that trust derive policies mapping computer needs to human societies. This talk presents new cloud computing developments, their meshing with the semantic web, and novel definitions of trust that provide a formal model of evaluation.

Bertrand du Castel is Schlumberger Fellow. In the governing body of several computer organizations, Bertrand has published in artificial intelligence, linguistics, logic, and security. In 2005, he received the Card Technology Visionary Award for his work in pioneering the Java Card, the most sold computer in the world, past 5 billion units in 2007. Based in Austin, Texas, Bertrand is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and has a PhD in theoretical computer science for the University of Paris. In 2008, Bertrand du Castel and Timothy M. Jurgensen published Computer Theology: Intelligent Design of the Worldwide Web (Midori Press), a vast comparative description of religious developments in human and computer congregations.