THEME
The theme of the second International Conference on Communication & Broadband Networking was on communications and networking technologies that facilitate Seamless Global Connectivity and Services Anywhere, Anytime. To achieve this goal the conference presented a technical program of previously unpublished papers, tutorials on relevant topics, and an Industry Watch program with invited talks from industry leaders and academia.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Day 1 • Wednesday, April 7, 2004
GENERAL SESSION
Keynote	Toward a Human-Centered Broadband Network Society Hiromi Wasai, Senior Executive Vice President, NTT
Invited Talk	Enabling Personal Broadband Through Affordable Quality of Service David Sonnier, VP & CTO, Agere Systems
Invited Talk	Converging Broadband and Mobile Lauri Okasanen, Director, Network Systems Research Nokia
Keynote	Toward BcN (Broadband convergence Network) Kyung Pyo Jun, VP, ETRI
Invited Talk	NG Mobile and Wireless KiHo Kim, VP, Samsung AIT
Invited Talk	Future Mobile Technology and Terminal Jin-Sung Choi, VP, LG Electronics, Inc.
	Closing Remarks Hee-dong Kim, Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, ITFE
Day 2 • Thursday, April 8, 2004
TECHNICAL SESSION
Opening Plenary Multiservice Switching Forum Mark Carrol, Cisco Systems, Board of Directors, Multiservice Switching Forum
Track 1 Broadband Access Invited Papers Broadband Acces Using Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) Raj Jain, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder, Nayna Networks, Inc., USA 3G Mobile Core-network Evolution for IP based Environment Makoto Furukawa, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan Wireless Access Networks: Technology & Research Challenges Rajeev Shorey, National University of Singapore Towards a Seamless Broadband Access - Issues and Considerations Towards a Seamless Broadband Access - Issues and Considerations (supplement) Boon Sain Yeo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Wireless World Research Forum Sudhir Dixit, Fellow, Nokia Research Center (Boston), USA Adopted Papers Adaptive bit-loading scheme for BICM-OFDM system Dong Chan Park, School of Electrial and Computing Engingeering Pusan National University, Korea Discrete Rate Scheduling for Power Efficient Transmission over Wireless Link Premal Shah, Information Networks Lab, IIT, India An Efficient Multi-User Power Control Algorithm for DMT-based DSL Systems Jian Xu, Department of Electronics Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Korea Track 2 Core Networking Invited Papers Fairness Control in WDM Slotted-Ring Networks Hui-Tang Lin, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Adopted Papers Multi-layer Protection in IP over WDM Networks With and With No Backup Lightpath Qin Zheng, Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore Invited Papers First Large Schale MPLS Deployment for Packet Voice - A Case Study Aleem Rizvan, Manager, Cisco Systems, USA Next Generation IP network control based on traffic engineering Masafumi Katoh, Fujitsu Limited, Japan Adopted Papers An Inter-area SRLG-disjoint routing Algorithm for Multi-segment Protection in GMPLS Networks Takashi Miyamura, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan Hash-Based Wavelength Path Selection Algorithm for Statistical Lambda Multiplexing Network (SLAMNet) (paper) Hash-Based Wavelength Path Selection Algorithm for Statistical Lambda Multiplexing Network (SLAMNet) (presentation) Hiroyuki Yokoyama, KDDI R&D; Laboratories, Inc., Japan SCP-TCAM: A Power-Efficient Search Engine for Fast IP Lookup LI Xudong, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, P.R. China Track 3 Overlay & Services Invited Papers A Data Hiding Scheme Based Upon Block Truncation Coding Chin-Cheng Chang, Professor, National Chung Chen University, Taiwan Beyond Broadband Services Dongmyun Lee, Assistant Vice President, Technology Group, KT, Korea Next-Generation Communication Networks: Services and Challenges Sastri Kota, Harris Corporation, USA Adopted Papers ABdis: Approach to Estimate Available Bandwidth Distribution Using a Multi-rate Probe" Hiroki Nishikawa, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan Invited Papers Security for Seamless Global Connectivity and Services Anywhere, Anytime Madjid Merabti, Professor, School of Computing & Maths, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Bandwidth Allocation with Processing Constraints Song Chong, Professor, kaist, Korea VLAN Tag Path Networking Hiroshi Shimizu, Executive Expert, NEC, Japan Adopted Papers Peer to Peer (P2P) Trust Modeling Using Trust Case Diagrams Farookh Khadeer Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Special Evening Session - MPLS Panel / Birds-of-a-Feather Discussion Chair: Ananda Sen Gupta, ICBN '04 Interoperability Demo Chair, VP, MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance Topic: "Advances in MPLS Technology, Standards and Deployments" The MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance: April 2004 Update Andy Malis, Chairman and President, MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance, Research Fellow, Tellabs Interoperability Testing of Broadband Network Technologies Ben Schultz, Managing Engineer, UNH InterOperability Lab, University of New Hampshire
Day 3 • Friday, April 9, 2004
INDUSTRY WATCH PROGRAM
Panel Session 1 Topic: "E-Governance, Security and Digital Rights" Organizer: Jacek Chrostowski, EMCORE Co. e-Governance Yonosuke Harada, Executive Research, InfoCom Research, Inc. Internet Governance Adam Peake, Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan Panel Session 2 Topic: "Visions and Strategies of Telecom Operators in Asia (fixed, wirelss, ISPs)" Organizer: Makoto Imase, Professor, Osaka University The Future of Wireless Hyae Kyeung Lee, Manager, SK Telecom Braodband: The Next Step Dongmyun Lee, Assistant Vice President, Technology Group, KT Panel Session 3 Topic: "Advances in Broadband Access" Organizer: Andy Malis, Tellabs NTT's Development of FTTH Systems Yasuyuki Okumura, NTT Access Service System Laboratories The Role of Traffic Management in Broadband Access Systems John Rolfe, Director of System Marketing, Agere Systems Future of radio systems- evolution or revolution Kari Pehkonen, Nokia Next Generation Services on Broadband Access John David Howard, President, Lucent Technologies Japan Ltd. Video delivery over the FTTH network David Piehler, VP, R&D;, Broadband Access Networks, Harmonic, Inc. Panel Session 4 Topic: "Content Networking" Organizer: Tomonori Aovama, Professor, The University of Tokyo Contents Business in the Broadband Era - Broadband Theater Izumi Takuichi, Broadband Theater Producer, Sony Communication Network Co. Research Activities on Intelligent Transport System at KDDI R&D; Labs Mitsuo Nohara, Director, KDDI R&D; Laboratories, Inc.

Sponsors: Gold — Agere Systems • KDDI • Nokia • NTT
and Silver — MACNICA, Inc.

In cooperation with:

• Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB)
  
• BCD Forum
  
• IEEE ComSoc Japan Chapter
  
• Interoperability Technology Association for Information Processing, Japan (INTAP)
  
• Kansai Institute of Information Systems & Industrial Renovation (KIIS)
  
• Korea Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering (ITFE), Korea
  
• The Telecommunications Technology Committee
  
• Ubiquitous Networking Forum