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The 36th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2015
Newark, NJ, September 20-22, 2015
http://www.sarnoffsymposium.org

Sponsor: IEEE Princeton/Central Jersey Section

***CONFERENCE SCHEDULE***
Tutorials: September 20, 2015
Keynotes, Invited Talks, Paper Sessions and Panels: September 21-22, 2015


Since 1978 the IEEE Sarnoff Symposium has been bringing together a
rich diversity of telecom experts from industry, universities, and
government. The Sarnoff Symposium continues to grow as the premier
forum for researchers, engineers, and business executives in the North
East drawing an attendance from all over the world. Through a series
of keynote talks, invited talks, technical paper presentations, panel
sessions, tutorial sessions, industry exhibits and poster sessions,
IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2015 will bring together leading researchers
and practitioners in academia and industry to deliberate, discuss and
share findings on leading edge research, implementation experiences
and challenges.


KEYNOTES AND INVITED TALKS
http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/sarnoff/2015/KeynoteSpeakers.html

* Marcus Weldon, President, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
* Martin Korling, President, Ericsson Labs
* Venky Krishnaswamy, President, Avaya Labs
* Steven Wright, ETSI NFV ISG Chairman, AT&T
* Bill Bayne, CEO, Transit Wireless
* Sanjay Macwan, SVP and CTO of NBC Universal Media Labs
* Rita Marty, Executive Director, AT&T CSO
* Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Director of WINLAB
* Sudhir Dixit, Vice Chair, Wireless World Research Forum
* Narayan Menon, VP at Xcellair
* Donald H. Sebastian, President & CEO, NJ Innovation Institute
* Nirwan Answari, Professor, NJIT
* Biswanath Mukherjee, Professor, University of California Davis
* Anupam Joshi, Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore
County (UMBC)
* Yuanqiu Luo, Principal Architect, Huawei


TUTORIALS:

* Distributed Computing on GENI: Hadoop in a Slice(Network
virtualization and cloud - HANDS-ON)
Paul Ruth, Anirban Mandal, Rennaissance Computing Institute,
UNC Chapel Hill

* Juniper Networks OpenContrail “Hands-on” Technical Overview
(SDN - HANDS-ON)
Mike Langdon, Juniper

* Integrating Packet and Circuit into Optical Switching Domain
Hiroaki Harai, National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan

* Spectrum for 5G Cellular Systems
Reza Arefi, Director of Spectrum Strategy, Intel Corporation


PANELS:

* 5G: Challenges and Opportunities,September 21, 2015
Sudhir Dixit - HP (Moderator)
Robert Fish - VP IEEE Communication Society Standards
Ivan Seskar - WINLAB, Rutgers University
Seshadri Mohan - University of Arkansas
Xiao Feng Qi , Huawei

* SDN and NFV Based Carrier Network Transformation Strategies
and Deployment Considerations, September 22, 2015
Steven Nurenberg - AT&T
Mark Clougherty - Alcatel Lucent
Martin Körling - Ericsson Labs
Alec Brusilovs- Interdigital
Subir Das - Applied Communication Sciences (Moderator)
Douglas M. Freimuth - IBM


CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

* Tutorials: September 20, 2015
* Keynotes, Invited Talks, Paper Sessions & Panels: September 21-22, 2015


TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/sarnoff/2015/conference_program.htm


REGISTRATION:

For registration information, please visit
http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/sarnoff/2015/registration.html


Sponsor:

* IEEE Princeton/Central Jersey Section

Co-sponsors:

* IEEE Communications Society
* IEEE Region 1
* IEEE Photonics Society
* IEEE Computer Society
* IEEE PCJS AP/ED/MTT joint Chapter
* IEEE North Jersey Section
* IEEE New Jersey Coast Section


Media Sponsor:

* Light Reading

Conference Chair:

* Deepak Kataria (IPJunction Inc.)

Technical Program Co-Chairs:

* Walid Ahmed (Verizon Wireless)
* Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong (New York Institute of Technology)
* Geoffrey Garner (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Consultant))

Industry Chair:

* Bahman Barazesh (Intel)

Panels Chair:

* Ashutosh Dutta (AT&T)

Tutorials Co-Chairs:

* Alexandar Kolarov (Applied Communication Sciences)
* Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State University)

Local Arrangement Chair:

* Khondaker M. Salehin (NJIT)

Sponsorships Chair:

* Deepak Kataria (IPJunction Inc.)

Demos/Exhibits Co-Chairs:

* Wenjia Li (New York Institute of Technology)
* Feng Gu (The College of Staten Island)

Student Poster Forum Co-Chairs:

* Shewta Jain (York College, CUNY)
* Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&M University, Texas A&M Univ.)

Publications Chair:

* Shweta Jain (York College, CUNY)

Publicity Co-Chairs:

* Ichen Mei (Healthcare Consultant)
* Ming Xia (Ericsson)

Website Co-Chairs:

* Francis O’Connell (Skylink Technology Inc.)
* Komlan Egoh (NJIT)

Finance Chair:

* Francis O’Connell (Skylink Technology Inc.)

Steering Committee:

* Habib Ahson (TechniQuest), Ashutosh Dutta (AT&T), Elias B.
Kpodzo (L-3 Communications TE), Roberto Rojas-Cessa (NJIT)


For more information visit http://www.sarnoffsymposium.org or email to
sarnoff2015@ieee.org