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The Third Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'97)

September 26-30, 1997
The Main Building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, Hungary

MobiCom'97 Panel Sessions




PANEL 1

Building and Managing Large Wireless LANs: Real World Experiences

Monday, September 29
10:30am - 12:00pm
(Session 3B)

Moderator: Victor Bahl (Microsoft, USA)
 
Panel Members:
Bernard J. Bennington (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
David R. Hughes (Old Colorado City Communications, USA)
Barry Forde (University of Lancaster, UK)
Nigel Davies (University of Lancaster, UK)

Wireless LAN products have been commercially available for many years, and much has been written in the popular press about the promise of this technology. Numerous research papers, tutorials, panels, and technical sessions have been devoted to proposing, discussing, and analyzing protocols and applications for wireless networks including wireless LANs, but actual deployment and usage of large wireless LAN systems today is still uncommon. Use of wireless LAN products is beginning to grow, but sales of these products have failed to meet many market predictions. The focus of this panel will be on providing an open forum for presentation of real-world experiences by engineers and scientists who have built and managed large scale wireless LAN systems. Panel members from leading Institutes will share insights acquired from their experience building large wireless LANs for real (demanding) users.


PANEL 2

Commercial Applications of Mobile Ad Hoc Networking: Are We Kidding Ourselves?

Monday, September 29
2:00pm - 3:30pm
(Session 4B)

Moderator: M. Scott Corson (University of Maryland, USA)
 
Panel Members:
M. Scott Corson (University of Maryland, USA)
Phillipe Jacquet (INRIA, France)
David B. Johnson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Charles E. Perkins (Sun Microsystems, USA)
C.-K. Toh (Hughes Research Laboratories, USA)

The vision of mobile ad hoc networking is to support host mobility in wireless networks consisting of mobile, potentially power-constrained nodes - where a node is both a host and a router - which communicate via wireless technology. These "infrastructureless" networks are envisioned to have dynamic, sometimes rapidly-changing, ad hoc topologies consisting of relatively bandwidth-constrained wireless links. There is widespread agreement as to the usefulness of this technology in mobile military systems. In contrast, this panel discussion will focus on the commercial viability of this nascent networking technology, touching on topics such as industrial applications, community-based networking, and wearable computing.


PANEL 3

Integration of Wireless and Wired Networks: Visions and Reality

Tuesday, September 30
10:30am - 12:00pm
(Session 7B)

Moderator: Mooi Choo Chuah (Lucent, USA)
 
Panel Members:
Randy H. Katz (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Bo Li (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
George Liu (Ericsson, Sweden)
C.-K. Toh (Hughes Research Laboratories, USA)

In this panel, we will discuss the current activities carried out by different standards bodies, such as GSM, CDMA, TDMA, UMTS, and FPLMTS, in defining Third and Fourth Generation wireless architectures. We will discuss the meaning of integration of mobile and fixed services from the end user and the network operator perspectives, including the roles played by ATM and IP in linking local, metropolitan, and regional coverage, spanning LANs, cellular phones, and satellites. The debate in this panel session will cover issues such as whether one networking technology can work across all layers and whether Mobile IP is the right mobility management model to use for real-time and non-real-time traffic in all wireless networks. We will also discuss the implication of gigabit wired LANs on wireless links, and the charging model for wireless access that can make users happy and at the same time provide incentives for service providers to improve their access networks.


PANEL 4

QoS in the Next Generation Mobile Internet: What is Feasible?

Tuesday, September 30
1:30pm - 3:00pm
(Session 8B)

Moderator: Andrew T. Campbell (Columbia University, USA)
 
Panel Members:
B.R. Badrinath (Rutgers University, USA)
Ramón Cáceres (AT&T Labs, USA)
Bala Rajagopalan (NEC, USA)
Julio Escobar (SENACYT, Panama)

The next generation IPv6 Internet will be required to extend existing integrated services to mobile hosts with suitable quality of service (QoS) guarantees. Time-varying characteristics of wireless channels and mobility requirements of users present a serious challenge to this vision, however. This panel will discuss to what extent existing IETF transports (e.g., RTP), integrated services (e.g., controlled load) and signaling protocols (e.g., RSVP) are capable of delivering voice, video and data to mobile hosts with high quality. Topics will include assessing the role of Mobile IP, broadband wireless technologies (e.g., wireless ATM), and QoS adaptation strategies in a future mobile/QoS-capable Internet.


 


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