FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2012

“Convergence of Human-to-Human and Machine-to-Machine Communications within Emerging Open Smart City ICT Infrastructures – Using Open APIs, RCS, IMS, MTC, EPC, and LTE as Enablers for Emerging Future Internet Application Domains”

Around 200 people from more than 30 nations attended the FUSECO Forum.

The international FOKUS FUSECO FORUM (FFF) series represents a follow-up to the famous international FOKUS IMS Workshop series held from 2004 to 2009. However, within the FFF series IMS technology represents just a small part of the overall converging telecommunication and Internet infrastructure, and thus we consider increasingly more the impacts of alternative control and service delivery platform technologies and new emerging application domains, which will be delivered seamlessly via different wireless broadband networks onto smartphones, tablet PCs, and other emerging mobile integrated devices. In the last years we have looked at the rising notion of the Future Internet (FI) as a container for advances in the fields of Internet of Services (IoS), Internet of Things (IoT) and Network of the Future (NoF).

Today it becomes clear, that “Smart Cities” represent the major application domain and show case for these Future Internet technologies, however taking into account the evolution from mobile and fixed Next Generation Networks (NGNs). In this context we can also witness the rise of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications in addition to the traditional Human-to-Human communication across various different but increasingly interconnected network technologies. In this third edition of the FUSECO Forum we want to provide a snapshot of emerging applications and the availability of the underlying technology platforms, such as EPC, IMS, MTC, and SDPs in the context of Smart Cities. 

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Read about the 2. FUSECO Forum in the April issue of IEEE Global Communications Newsletter!