Sprekers abstracts

Photonic In-Home Networks, Prof. Ton Koonen
With the increasing penetration of Fibre-to-the-Home in access networks, ever more households are
enjoying true broadband connectivity. But this connectivity reaches up to the doorstep only, and is not
yet extended up to the users' devices inside the home. The intense communication between indoor
devices may even cause the traffic load on the indoor network to exceed the traffic load on the access
line. Like in the access network, optical fibre can also provide true broadband connectivity inside the
home. The presentation will address cost-effective and energy-efficient indoor networks deploying
plastic optical fibre techniques and radio-over-fibre techniques in order to provide a range of
broadband services to wired and wireless devices. In order to surmount radio spectrum congestion
issues, also optical wireless techniques will be discussed.
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Ton (A.M.J.) Koonen is a full professor at Eindhoven Univ. of Technology since 2001. He is since 2004
chairman of the Electro-Optical Communication Systems (ECO) group, part of the COBRA institute,
and since Sep. 2012 also vice-dean of the department Electrical Engineering. From 1979 to 2000, he
worked in industrial research (in Philips’ Telecommunicatie Industrie, AT&T Network Systems, and
Lucent Bell Laboratories). He is a Bell Labs Fellow, IEEE Fellow, OSA Fellow, and 2011 ERC Advanced
Investigator Grant winner. His current research interests are in fibre-optic access and in-home
networks, including radio-over-fibre and optical wireless techniques, and mode multiplexing systems.
De toekomst van power line communicatie en de rol van de
home gateway, Frank den Hartog
Samenvatting
Het idee dat het laagspanningsnet in huis ook voor communicatie gebruikt kan worden bestaat al
lang. Maar het medium is nogal uitdagend en het heeft dan ook lang geduurd voordat dataoverdracht
met enige snelheid mogelijk werd. En nu het zover is lijkt het moeilijk om met draadloos te
concurreren. De toekomst van deze netwerktechnologie ligt dan ook niet zozeer in concurrentie, maar
in co-existentie en zelfs collaboratie. De home gateway kan daar een cruciale rol in spelen. In deze
lezing bespreek ik de nieuwste ontwikkelingen in power line communicatie en home gateways in het
kader van TNO’s visie op in-huisnetwerken.
Biografie
Frank den Hartog is sinds 2003 senior onderzoeker bij TNO op het gebied van netwerktechnologie.
Daarvoor werkte hij als onderzoeker bij KPN. In 1998 promoveerde hij aan de Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
als experimenteel fysicus. Bij TNO is hij uitgegroeid tot een van ’s werelds toonaangevende
onderzoekers op het gebied van home gateways en in-huisnetwerken. In 2012 benoemd tot voorzitter
van de technische werkgroep van het wereldwijde Home Gateway Initiative industrieel consortium.
Het jaar daarvoor won hij de Connected Home Global Summit Industry Award voor “Best Innovation
in Software Modularity and Applications for Home Gateways”.
Integratie van embedded devices in de internet technologie,
protocollen en standaardisatie, Prof. Ingrid Moerman:
Smart embedded objects will become an important part of what is called the Internet of Things.
However, the integration of embedded devices into the Internet introduces several challenges, since
many of the existing Internet technologies and protocols were not designed for this class of devices.
In the past few years, there have been many efforts to enable the extension of Internet technologies
to constrained devices. Initially, this resulted in proprietary protocols and architectures. Later, the
integration of constrained devices into the Internet was embraced by IETF, moving towards
standardized IP-based protocols. This presentation will briefly review the history of integrating
constrained devices into the Internet, followed by an overview of IETF standardization work in the
6LoWPAN, ROLL and CoRE working groups. Next, some research results will be presented that
illustrate how this work can be extended or used to tackle other problems. The presentation will be
concluded with a discussion on open issues and challenges.
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Ingrid Moerman received her degree in Electrical Engineering (1987) and the Ph.D degree (1992)
from the Ghent University, where she became a part-time professor in 2000. She is a staff member of
the research group on Internet-Based Communication Networks and Services, IBCN
(www.ibcn.intec.ugent.be), where she is leading the research on mobile and wireless communication
networks. Since 2006 she joined iMinds, where she is coordinating several interdisciplinary research
projects. Her main research interests include: Sensor Networks, Cooperative and Cognitive Networks,
Wireless Access, Self-Organizing Distributed Networks (Internet of Things) and Experimentallysupported research. Ingrid Moerman has a longstanding experience in running national and EU
research funded projects. At the European level, Ingrid Moerman is in particular very active in the FP7
FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) research area, where she is coordinating the
CREW project and further participating in IP OpenLab, IP Fed4FIRE, STREP SPITFIRE, STREP
EVARILOS, STREP FORGE and IP FLEX. In the FP7 research area on Future Networks, she is involved
in IP LEXNET and STREP SEMAFOUR.
Ingrid Moerman is author or co-author of more than 500 publications in international journals or
conference proceedings. She is associate editor of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications
and Networking and vice-president of the expert panel on Informatics and Knowledge Technology of
the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).

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