IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 recently held its most successful meeting in the conference's 53-year history with more than 2,500 scientists, researchers and academia attending nearly 2,000 presentations dedicated to the advancement of global communications designed to increase the quality of life worldwide. Held from December 6 - 10, 2010 in Miami, Florida, this annual flagship event of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) focused on 'The Age of Mobile Interactivity' and the latest methods for lowering network costs, reducing carbon footprints, increasing efficiencies, expanding services and producing anytime/anywhere usage for users everywhere.
After introductions from Executive General Chair Dr. Kia Makki and IEEE ComSoc President Dr. Byeong Gi Lee, the conference officially commenced on the morning of December 7 with a three-day schedule of high-level keynotes, plenary speaker presentations, technical symposia, business & technology forums, awards and exhibits designed to explore the entire range of communications technologies.
Among the highlights were also several high-level forums and presentations detailing the latest research and application advancements in areas such as 'Faster, Greener and More Frugal Network Transport', 'The Channel Access Conundrum', 'Dynamic Spectrum Access', 'An Executive's Perspective of Tomorrow's Technology' and 'Next Generation Internet'. The event's Cloud Computing Forum reviewed the latest services for not only enhancing the consistency of healthcare delivery throughout the world, but also the implementation of technologies that turn capital expenditures to operational expenses, greatly increase competencies and simplify the manageability of internal infrastructures.
In addition, the well-attended IPv6 Forum began with the very real fact that the entire spate of global IPv4 Internet addresses will be exhausted within the next two years and the transition to IPv6 has 'already taken five years too long'. Subsequently, the effort to integrate IPv6 into existing and new infrastructures has seen 'more activity in the past year than the previous 10 years combined'. Although in the early stages, this includes providing consumers with IPv6 connectivity options in the very near future.
Other sessions such as the 'Wireless Communications Forum' dealt with the challenges of servicing the world's mobile device users, which already includes 4.1 billion subscriptions and the 'Smart Grid and Green Technology Forum'.
Participants were also feted to another full schedule of technical symposia, plenary speeches and informational forums highlighting the areas of design & development, multimedia communications, wireless networking, intelligent transportation and 4G architectural advancements. The Multimedia Communications Plenary then offered attendees a glimpse of next steps, which are in progress and starting to digitally teleport individuals and groups of people to virtual meeting arenas, while reconnecting families, delivering healthcare to remote regions and saving energy and commuting costs.
Several other popular forums featured the latest techniques for furthering the latency, spectral efficiency, antenna support and ultimately the performance of next generation mobile broadband wireless networks as well as the initial thrusts to develop Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) that shorten driving times, deliver quicker medical aid and reduce road-related injuries.
IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 then completed the most successful conference in its history with another full agenda of workshops on December 10. Notable technology experts representing nearly every phase of voice, data, image, and multimedia communications supervised learning sessions in numerous areas that included separation and overlay networks, P2P live streaming systems, self-managed future Internets, virtual machine migration, multimedia computing and real-time Internet trafficking.
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