Special Sessions

 

Special Session 1 (Chair: Joong-Goo Song, KT, Korea)

Thursday, 2 October 2003  16:30 - 18:35

Overview of DoCoMo's Present Network Operations and Introduction of Developing Network Operation System

Satoshi OYAMADA (NTT DoCoMo, Japan) 

Satoshi OYAMADA received B.E. in information science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1987. He joined NTT in 1987and he researched and developed trouble-shooting expert system for D70 digital switching systems and network operation system for Advanced IN. In 1999 he joined NTT DoCoMo and developed Advanced IN node systems (SCP and SMS) for IMT-2000. Now he is developing network operation knowledge system, which is a kind of total network management system.

 

Development and Introduction of OSSs, Dreams, Realities and Expectations

Makoto Takano (NTT West, Japan)

Dr. Makoto Takano is a senior manager at R&D Center, NTT West Corporation in Japan. From April 1986, when he joined NTT Electrical Communication Laboratories, he had been mainly engaged in research and development of PABX, ATM-LAN, and network management systems, especially in research of the application of the control theory to the control of communication networks. Currently, he is responsible for OSS strategy planning and development of various operation support systems mainly for IP related telecommunication services. He received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in system engineering from Kobe University, Hyogo Japan, in 1984, 1986, and 1994, respectively.

 

Back Office Support System (BOSS) of High Speed Internet Services

Myeong Hwan Park (DACOM, Korea)

Dr. Myeong Hwan Park has been working as a senior engineer in NMS development department in DACOM, South Korea since 1997. He received his MS and Ph.D degrees in electronic engineering from SungKyunKwan university, Korea, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. In 1997, he joined DACOM, where he has worked for developing various kinds of NMSs, including SPCC (Service Provider Control Center) system for DACOM networks from 1997 to 1998. His current responsibilities include NMS planning for BORA-Home Net (High Speed Internet Services) and NCC(Network Control Center) planning/developing for military satellite communications networks from 1999 to 2003.

 

KT NGN and Its management Plan

Mun Jo Jung (KT, Korea)

Mun Jo Jung received B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Kyungpook National University in 1986 and 1988 respectively. Mr. Jung began his career at KT in Seoul, Korea in 1988 where he became Technical Staff. As a Technical Staff he dealt with System development and Network Architecture Design. During the time between 1990 and 2000 he was involved in several projects to develop an ATM Switching System and ATM network management systems and deployed them in the public ATM network in Korea. Mr. Jung currently is a Director at KT Technology Laboratory in Daejon, Korea where he manages the development of SoftSwitch. He is also a member of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea (IEEK) and Korean Network Operations and Management (KNOM). Mr. Jung is interested specifically in NGN architecture and its Management System.

 

 

 Special Session 2 (Chair: Satoshi Hasegawa, CTCSP, Japan)

 Friday, 3 October 2003 13:30 - 15:35

Standardization of OSS-IF for B-PON --Report of FSAN OAM-WG activities—

Kenji Nakanishi (NTT, Japan)

Kenji Nakanishi received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in physical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan in 1983 and 1985, respectively. Since joining NTT in 1985, he has been engaged in research and development on optical coherent systems and optical subscriber systems. Since 1995, He works for developing PON systems in optical layer specifications and operation and management systems. He was a chairman of FSAN OAM-WG from 1998 to 2000 and contributed to ITU-T Recommendations for PON OSS-IF. He participates in ITU-T meetings from 1999 at SG4 and SG15, and worked for an editor of some Recommendations. He is now a senior research engineer of NTT Access Network Service System Laboratories. He is a member of the IEICE of Japan.

 

Supporting CQM/SLA on Leased Line and IP/VPN Services

Shih-Chiang Tsao(Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan)

Shih-Chiang Tsao was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1975. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer and Information Science from National Chiao Tung University in 1997 and 1999, respectively. Since 1999, he worked in the Telecommunication Laboratories at Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd, mainly to capture and analyze network performance. His research interests include scheduling algorithms, quality of services, TCP bandwidth control, and TCP-friendly congestion control. He has implemented QoS scheduling mechanisms in a remote access server, and is currently involved with a project on the customer quality management

 

Service Brokering: an efficient infrastructure to achieve consistent service integration, delivery, and management for converged IP Network

Stephane Moriceau (Leapstone Systems Inc., France)

Stephane Moriceau is Vice President Sales – Asia Pacific at Leapstone Systems where he is responsible for the definition of customer requirements for the Leapstone Communications Convergence Engine (CCE) and ensuring the CCE product plan meets those requirements. In his current position, Stephane has been actively working through technology convergence issues associated with the integration of voice, data, and content services for wireline and wireless networks. Stephane is also active in various industry activities targeted at accelerating the commercial availability of next generation technologies. Immediately prior to joining Leapstone, Stephane was Managing Director at TCSI Corporation where he contributed to the successful deployment of numerous OSS in Asia/Pacific Tier 1 Service Providers. Stephane started his career with Sycomore on an accelerated engineering development program upon completing his Master of Science in Computer Sciences and Business Administration from the University of Paris in 1991.

 

Modeling Internet Application Traffic for Network Planning and Provisioning

Takafumi Chujo (Fujitsu, Japan)

Takafumi Chujo is Vice President of Advanced Internet Research at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA. He is leading teams to research and develop IP/Photonic networking infrastructure and the next-generation Internet architecture. Mr. Chujo received his B.E. degree from Kanazawa University, Japan, in 1976 and M.E. degree from Nagoya University, Japan, in 1978. He served as a TPC co-chair for APNOMS'99. He is a member of IEEE, ACM and IEICE.