FOKUS Competence Center

Meet the NGNI Experts 2012

Announcement of upcoming promoted events attended by NGNI staff members with tutorials, presentations or papers, or as technical program committee members.

FOKUS Hosted Event:

FFF 2012

3rd FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2012 on Future Seamless Communication on November 15 & 16, 2012 themed: “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”

Hosted and organized by Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Berlin, Germany, Prof. Dr. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS is general chair


December 2012

CloudCom 2012 – 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science IEEE CloudCom, Taipei, Taiwan, December 03-06, 2012, Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC member, Call for Papers


Globecom 2012 ─ Global Communications Conference. Exhibition & Industry Forum. Disneyland Hotel Anaheim, California, USA, December 3-7, 2012, Prof. T. Magedanz is TPC member, Call for Papers


IEEE MENS@Globecom 2012 ─ 4th International IEEE Workshop Management of Emerging Networks and Services (IEEE MENS 2012) in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, Marc Emmelmann, Bernd Bochow (Fraunhofer FOKUS): “The Self-Growing Concept as a Design Principle of Cognitive Self-Organization”.


ONIT@Globecom 2012 ─ 4th International IEEE Workshop on Open NGN and IMS Testbeds (ONIT 2012). Open Source Tools and Testbeds for Fixed and Mobile Next Generation Network Evolution toward the Future, Anaheim, California, USA, December 7, 2012, Fraunhofer FOKUS is Steering Committee Member.


Qosmos ─ Quality Of Service and MObility driven cognitive radio Systems. London, GB, December 12, 2012, Bernd Bochow (Fraunhofer FOKUS): "Dynamic Spectrum Managment".


November 2012

CloudAM 2012 – Intl. Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Applications Management, in conjunction with the IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing Conference (UCC), Chicago, USA, November 5-8, 2012, Prof. T. Magedanz is TPC member. Call for Papers


5th Annual Rich Communication 2012 – Realising the potential of RCS & Non-RCS Products to enrich the end-user experience, Berlin, Germany, November 6-7, 2012, Dr. N. Blum, Prof. Dr. T. Magedanz (Fraunhofer FOKUS/ TU Berlin): "Communication Services beyond RCS".


802.11 WLAN Working Group Sessions ─San Antonio, TX, USA, November 11-16, 2012, M. Emmelmann, Fraunhofer FOKUS is Vice-Chair 802.11 TGai.


MOBILWARE 2012 – 5th International ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, OSs, and Applications, Berlin, Germany, November 13-14, 2012, F. Schreiner, Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC member, Call for Papers


LTE North America 2012 – VoLTE: Voice of the Future, Dallas, TX, USA, November 14-15, 2012, M. Emmelmann (Fraunhofer FOKUS) is Panelist.


3rd FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2012 on Future Seamless Communication – 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”, Berlin Germany, November 15-16.

Hosted and organized by Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Berlin, Germany, Prof. Dr. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS is general chair.


MACOM 2012 –  5th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications,  November 19-20, 2012, Dublin, Ireland, M. Emmelmann, Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC member, Call for Papers


7th KuVS Expert Talk NGSDP ─ Cloud-based Service Platforms for the Future Internet, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Winterthur, Switzerland, November 29, Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Technische Universität Berlin is steering board member. Call for Participation.


First International Conference on Cloud Networking – 2012 International Conference on Cloud Networking, Paris, France, November 28-30, 2012,  Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC member


October 2012

ISCIT 2012 ─ 12th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, 2-5 October 2012, Outrigger, Cold Coast, Australia, Prof. T. Magedanz, J. Müller (Fraunhofer FOKUS/TU Berlin): "Towards a Generic Application Aware Network Resource Control Function for Next-Generation-Networks and Beyond", B. Bochow, Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC Member. Call for Papers


ISSSE 2012 ─ International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics 2012, ISSE 2012, Potsdam, Germany, October 3-5, 2012


ICIN 2012 ─ “Realising the Power of the Network - Enabling Internet of Everything”, 16th Int. Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks (ICIN), Berlin, Germany, October 8-11, 2012, Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC member, Call for Papers

Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS, Dr. S. Wahle, Fraunhofer FOKUS: "Towards a Converged M2M Service Platform: Motivation, Standards and Applications", Tutorial, October 8, 2012,

A. Blotny, N. Blum, A. Elmangoush, T. Magedanz, S. Wahle (all Fraunhofer FOKUS):  "Design of RESTful APIs for M2M Services", October 9, 2012.

N. Bayer, M. Corici, H. Einsiedler, Prof. T. Magedanz, D. Vingarzan: "Connectivity Support Harmonization in Future Internet Architecture", October 9, 2012.


ITU Telecom World 2012 ─ “Committed to connecting the world”  Dubai, UAE, 14-18 October 2012, Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC member, Call for Papers


IEEE CIT 2012 ─ Workshop on Cognititve Radio and Networks (CRNs 2012), B. Bochow (Fraunhofer FOKUS) is Workshop Chair, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 20-22 October, 2012, Call for Papers


37th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks ─ T. Magedanz: "NGN2 FI Evolution - Smart City Communication needs and the Role of Open Control and Service Platforms", Keynote at the 5th Workshop on Architectures, Services and Applications for the Next Generation Internet (WASA-NGI) being part of the the 37th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2012), Sheraton Sand Key Resort, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 22 October 2012.


CNSM 2012 – 8th IEEE International Conference on Network and Service Management, Las Vegas, USA, October 22-26, 2012,  Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC member, call for Papers, Prof. T. Magedanz, (TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS): "Evolution of Service Control Platforms for Converging Communication Networks for Humans and Machines", Tutorial.


go SMART ─ First Workshop on Global Trends in Smart Cities 2012, Clearwater, Florida USA, October 22-25, 2012,  M. Emmelmann, Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC member, call for Papers


Layer123 ─ SDN & OPENFLOW WORLD CONGRESS, Darmstadt, Germany, October 22-24, 2012, Prof. T. Magedanz, J. Mueller (TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS): "Flexible Quality-of-Service control in Next-Generation mobile broadband networks using OpenFlow".


3rd ETSI TC M2M Workshop ─ Standardized framework for interoperable M2M Services, Sophia Antipolis, France, October 24-25, Dr. S. Wahle,Fraunhofer FOKUS: "Feedback from Implementing the ETSI TC M2M Functional Architecture – Challenges and Opportunities", talk, "OpenMTC - M2M Solutions for Smart Cities and the Internet of Things", demo.


September 2012

SATNAC ─ "The Internet of Things ─ Smart Homes & Cities”... Evolution or Tsunami?, Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, Fancourt in George, Western Cape, South Africa, September 4, 2012, Prof. Dr. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS, keynote: “From Fixed-Mobile Convergence towards total ICT Convergence in the Future Internet ─ on the Role of Unified Smart City Control and Communication Platforms and related R&D Testbeds.”


M2M summit 2012 ─ Düsseldorf, Germany, September 5, Prof. T. Magedanz, S. Wahle (both Fraunhofer FOKUS): "Machine Type Communication and M2M Platform Evolution: Horizontal Service Capabilities or Vertical Silo Mindset?”


M2M-Challenge 2012 ─ International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communication: Applications, Requirements, and Challenges for Future Networks. Krakow, Poland, September 7, 2012. Prof. T. Magedanz is TPC member.


IEEE ─ International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2012, September 9-12, 2012


SDP Global Summit ─ Rome, Italy, September 11-13, 2012, Cloud Based Platforms for Converged Multimedia Services, Presentation by Dr. N. Blum, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Prof. Dr. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin.


802.11 WLAN Working Group Sessions ─ Indian Wells, CA, USA, September 16-21, 2012, M. Emmelmann, Fraunhofer FOKUS is Vice-Chair.


Bitkom Akadmie Workshop ─ Ein neues Internet? Es gibt keinen Grund zu glauben, alles bleibt so, wie es ist?, bitkom Tageszentrum, Berlin, Germany, September 18, Prof. T. Magedanz (TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS): "Von der Future Internet-Forschung zu konkreten Projekten am Beispiel von "Smart Cities"".

WMNC 2012 ─ 4th ngnlab.eu International Workshop co-located with the 5th joined IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2012), Bratislava, Slovakia, September 19-21, 2012, “Generic Application Aware Network Resource Control Function for Next-Generation-Networks and Beyond”, Julius Mueller, TU Berlin.


4th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management (MONAMI) ─ Analyzing Service Control Mechanisms in Fixed and Mobile Next Generation Networks Evolution, Hamburg, Germany, September 24-26, 2012.  Prof. T. Magedanz, J. Mueller: Tutorial


Smart Cities Industry Summit Co-located with Telco Cloud Congress 2012 ─ M2M Standards for Smart Cities, London, UK, September 25-26, 2012, Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Technische Universität Berlin and Stephan Steglich, Fraunhofer FOKUS take part in the panel session


TELCO Cloud Enablers Summit 2012, Co-located with Smart Cities Industry Summit  , London, UK, September 25 - 26, 2012, Prof. Dr. T. Magedanz, Dipl.-Ing. Florian Schreiner (Fraunhofer FOKUS): "Cloud Brokerage for Telecoms."


August 2012

ICCE 2012 ─ The 4th International Conference on Communications and Electronics, Royal city of Hue, Vietnam, August 1-3, 2012, Prof. T. Magedanz is Co-Chair in International Steering Committee. Call for Papers


July 2012

Future Network & Mobile Summit - Berlin, Germany, July 6, 2012, „From Open IMS and OpenEPC to OpenMTC: An extensible Control Platform for the efficient Enablement of M2M Applications in the Future Internet and emerging Smart Cities“, Keynote in Workshop 10c: Machine to Machine Communications: Maintaining User Capacity and Pursuing Energy Efficiency in the Internet of Things II, Prof. Dr. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS is keynote speaker 


M2M special session at Future Networks and Mobile Summit 2012 – Germany, Berlin, 6th July 2012, Prof. Dr. T. Magedanz, Marius Corici, TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS: "From Open IMS and OpenEPC to OpenMTC: An extensible Control Platform for the efficient Enablement of M2M Applications in the Future Internet and emerging Smart Cities."


802.11 WLAN Working Group Sessions ─ San Diego, CA, USA, July 15-20, 2012, M. Emmelmann, Fraunhofer FOKUS is Vice-Chair 802.11 TGai.

June 2012

TridentCom 2012 ─ Thessaloniki, Greece, 11 - 13 June, Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC member, call for Papers


INFINITY Project Workshop @ TridentCom ─ Thessaloniki, Greece, 11 - 13 June, Florian Schreiner, Fraunhofer FOKUS is Workshop Chair


IEEE ICC 2012 ─ First IEEE ICC 2012 Workshop on Telecommunications: from Research to Standards, Ottawa, Canada, June 10-11, 2012, M. Corici, Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC member.

4th NGMN Industry Conference & Exhibition ─ San Francisco, USA, 13 - 15 June, T. Haustein, Head of Department Wireless Communication and Networks, Fraunhofer HHI


WoWMoM 2012 ─ Demonstration at 13th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2012, San Francisco, California, USA, June 25-28, 2012, S. Wahle, T. Magedanz, F. Schulze: "The OpenMTC Framework - M2M Solutions for Smart Cities and the Internet of Things"


ConLife 2012 ─ Köln, Germany, June 26-28, 2012, Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS: "Machine-to-machine (M2M) Solutions for the internet of things".


May 2012

International Conference The Future Network – Network Optimization ─ Berlin-Potsdam, Germany, May 7-8, 2012, Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS: "Future Internet Impacts on NGN Evolution – Communication Infrastructures for emerging Smart City Applications".


802.11 WLAN Working Group Sessions ─ Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 13-18, 2012, M. Emmelmann, Fraunhofer FOKUS is Vice-Chair 802.11 TGai.


LTE World Summit Focus Day – Handling the surge in signalling traffic, 8th LTE WORLD SUMMIT 2012, Barcelona, Spain, May 22, 2012, T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS, J. Mueller, Fraunhofer FOKUS: "The Evolution of Service Control Mechanisms in Next generation Networks towards Future Internet".


IEEE Technology Time Machine ─ Symposium on Technologies Beyond 2020, Dresden, Germany, May 23-25, 2012, Prof. Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS takes part in the panel discussion.


IEEE Conference on Technology Time Machine (TTM) ─ Dresden, Germany, May 24, 2012, M2M Control Platform Convergence - A déja vù of NGN control platform convergence? Panel Session on Future Applications, Prof. Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS


April 2012

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012) ─ Paris, France, 1 - 4 April, Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC member, call for Papers


KuVS - 6th Workshop (Fachgespräch) on NGSDP: "M2M Impacts on SDP Evolution" on April 4, 2012 at Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany, call for Papers


First IEEE Workshop on Algorithms and Operating Procedures for Federated Virtualized Networks - FEDNET 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA, April 16, 2012, F. Schreiner, Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC member, call for Papers


InnoVisions-Days: »LTE: Zwischen Euphorie und Skepsis? - Status, Technik, Rollout, Anwendungen und Perspektiven«, April 18, 2012 at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin, Germany


14th Annual Transport Networks for Mobile Operators – April 23-26, 2012 in Berlin, Germany.

"Future Internet Impacts on Mobile Network Evolution – Understanding the role of IMS, MTC and EPC for emerging Smart City Applications " held by Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS and Dr. Sebastian Wahle, Fraunhofer FOKUS.

"Beyond IMS - Understanding the Role of EPC and MTC within emerging Smart City Infrastructures" FUSECO Playground excursion to Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute


Policy Control & Realtime Charging ─ Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 24-25, 2012, T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS, J. Mueller, Fraunhofer FOKUS: "The Evolution of Service Control Mechanisms in Next generation Networks towards Future Internet".


IMS World Forum 2012 - Madrid, Spain, April 24-26, 2012, Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS, N. Blum, Fraunhofer FOKUS: "The Role of IMS in Face of global M2M Services".


March 2012

BITKOM Akademie Workshop: Future Internet. Future Internet – Clean Slate auf grünen Wiesen oder Renovierung an denkmalgeschützten Gebäuden? Projektberichte von den offenen Flanken, March 2, 2012,  in Köln, Germany, T. Magedanz: G-Lab Deep - 'Future Internet-Projekte im Rahmen von G-Lab'.


IEEE 802 Plenary Session, Big Island Hawaii, USA, March 11-16, 2012. M. Emmelmann, Fraunhofer FOKUS is Vice-Chair 802.11 TGai.


The Eighth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2012) ─ March 25-30, 2012 in St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, Cristián F. Varas Schuda, Fraunhofer FOKUS is TPC member


6th Annual SDP Asia/ 3rd Mobile VAS Asia/ Smartphone Apps OS Asia/ OSS/BSS & Convergent Billing Asia, Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore, March 27-30, 2012

Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS: “Towards Smart City Service Delivery and Control Platforms – Putting SDP, IMS, MTC, EPC into context” (Pre Conference Full Day Master Course), March 27, 2012.

Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS: "Future Internet Impacts on SDP Evolution – Towards Open APIs for emerging Smart City Applications",  28 March 2012.


February 2012

Press conference on the recent study by Initiative D21. Topic: Mobile Internet use and its influence on the development of the digital society. February 23, 2012, Bundespressekonferenz, Raum 1+2, Schiffbauerdamm 40, 10117 Berlin. Panel discussion  with Prof. T. Magedanz.


January 2012

IEEE CCNC 2012, 9th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2012, January 17, 2012,  in Las Vegas, USA, T. Magedanz, J. Müller: "Evolution of Service Control Mechanisms in Next-Generation-Networks towards Future Internet (NGN2FI)", half day tutorial, Tutorial 1: 8.30 - 11.00


13th Annual NGN Signalling Evolution Forum 2012 – Advancing SIP and IMS Networks Interconnection and Integration, January 30 – February 1, 2012 in Berlin, Germany.

"How Can Operators Handle the Signaling Crunch? Unleashing Innovative Interoperability by the Right Toolkits and Open Testbeds", pre-conference workshop held by Marius Corici, Hakan Coskun, Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz

"Telecom signaling evolution for OTT and M2M Services – Introducing Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and Machine Type Communication (MTC)", tutorial held by Marius Corici (Fraunhofer FOKUS)


The Department of Electrical Engineering (http://www.ebe.uct.ac.za) and the Centre for Broadband Networks (http://coe.uct.ac.za) cordially invite you to attend a three day course from January 30 - February 1, 2012 entitled:

Next Generation Network (NGN) to Future Internet (FI) Evolution - About the role of SDPs, EPC, IMS, MTC for Smart City Communication Needs



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