[Choose-news] Colloquium Annoucement, Speaker: Fernando Boavida (FCTUC – University of Coimbra, Portugal)

[Ruth Bestgen]

Fernando Boavida (FCTUC – University of Coimbra, Portugal):
Content Networks – Research Vision and Roadmap

University of Bern, Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, 
Neubrückstrasse 10, 3012 Bern, Room 302

November 14, 2008, 11.15 am

Abstract:
Due to the technological development, production of multimedia content is 
no longer restricted to first tier producers. Furthermore, many citizens 
are nowadays connected to some kind of communication networks and want to 
use them for sharing content they produce. It is the goal of the CONTENT 
Network of Excellence to enable end-user communities to efficiently share, 
distribute, manage, and use audio-visual content via these networks. At the 
network level, CONTENT addresses issues in the delivery path and develops 
on top of P2P-based overlay solutions for content services. While these 
concerns are reflected in a three layer architecture comprising community 
networks, overlay networks, and content service networks, it is of 
importance to integrate those different concerns and consider at the same 
time cross-cutting issues, like monitoring, adaptation, and routing. It is 
the aim of this talk to present the CONTENT research vision by identifying 
and discussing the research challenges that are being addressed in the 
project. Furthermore, this talk presents the project road map for these 
future research challenges. The presentation ends with a brief description 
of the research work currently being carried out by the University of 
Coimbra in this project.

Bio:
Fernando Boavida received his PhD in Informatics Engineering in 1990, and 
he currently is Full Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering 
(DEI) of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of 
Coimbra. He is the leader of the Laboratory of Communications and 
Telematics (LCT) of DEI and the Strategic Director for Communications and 
Information Technology of the University of Coimbra.
His main research interests are Mobile and Ambient Networking, and Scalable 
Networking (quality of service issues, mobility and nomadicity, wireless 
sensor networks). His publications include six books, five book chapters, 
35 papers in national conferences and journals, and 104 papers in 
international refereed journals and conference proceedings. He was the 
chairman of the Program Committee of QofIS’2001, IDMS-PROMS’2002, 
NETWORKING 2006, WWIC 2007 and FMN 2008 international 
conferences/workshops. He has been involved in numerous program committees 
of major international conferences, including INFOCOM 2006 and 2007. He 
participated in European initiatives/projects such as RARE (Réseaux IP 
Européenes), EWOS (European Workshop for Open Systems), COST263 (Quality of 
Future Internet Services), E-NET (Emerging Networking Technologies, 
IST-2001-37814), E-NEXT (FP6 Network of Excellence on Emerging Networking 
Experiments and Technologies) EuQoS (End-to-end Quality of Service support 
over heterogeneous networks, IST-FP6-2004-004503), WEIRD (WiMAX Extension 
to Isolated Research Data networks, IST FP6 Integrated Project 034622), 
OpenNet (Open Interconnect for the Internet Community, IST-FP6 Specific 
Support Action 035185) and CONTENT (Content Networks and Services for Home 
Users, IST-FP6-0384239).
He is a licensed Professional Engineer. He is a member of the Editorial 
Advisory Board of the Computer Communications journal. His homepage is at 
http://staff.uc.pt/boavida .
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