Shaping the Wireless Future through User Oriented Services

Nigel Jefferies is Head of Academic Relationships within Vodafone Group Research & Development and Chairman of the Wireless World Research Forum. In the past he led the European-funded IST project SHAMAN, which is studying the security of future mobile systems, and runs the Secure Applications Steering Group for Mobile VCE. Other collaborative research projects led include 3GS3 in the LINK programme, and ASPeCT and USECA in the European ACTS programme. His research interests include cryptography, security of systems and applications of mathematics to telecommunications. He received a PhD in functional analysis from Goldsmith's College, London, and an MA in mathematics from the Queen's College, Oxford.

The talk will address aspects of the work of WG2 of the last two years. Especially we will address the topics of innovative services, service architecture, context awareness and personalisation. Additionally Service Creation and new usage scenarios including Car2Car, m-Health, m-Energy will be presented.

Klaus David is full University Professor since 1998 and since 2000 head of the chair for communication technology at the University of Kassel. His research focus is on the Mobile Wireless Internet covering aspects of mobile middleware, context awareness and networking. He has 12 years of industrial experience in major companies like HP, Bell Northern Research, IMEC, T-Mobile (as Head of Group and UMTS project leader) and IHP (as Head of Department), with five years of international experience in the UK, Belgium, USA and Japan. He has more than 120 scientific publications in the field of the Mobile Wireless Internet, including one book and seven patents. He has extensive experiences in EC funded projects since 1987. Since 2006 Klaus David is the chair of the Working Group2 (on Service Architecture) of WWRF.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Kraemer received his diploma and PhD from RWTH Achen in electrical engineering and computer-science in 1979 and 1985. He joined the Philips research laboratories in 1985 where he work on distributed operating systems, communication systems, wireless high speed communication and embedded control- and management-software in different positions and responsibilities since 1998 in Hamburg and Aachen. In 1998 he became professor at the technical university of Cottbus with the joined appointment of the department head of wireless systems at the IHP in Frankfurt/Oder. His teaching obligations address the area of distributed operating systems, mobile communication and sensor networks. In the IHP he leads a research department with approximately 40 researchers in topics of high speed wireless communication, context aware middleware, sensor networks as well as embedded processors for encryption, protocol acceleration.
In 1999 Prof. Kraemer founded the start-up company lesswire and is still in the CEO position of this company.
Prof. Kraemer published more than 150 papers on conferences, and journals. He holds 16 international patents.

Service access in a ubiquitous computing and pervasive Internet environment has reached a new dimension. It is not longer a question of enabling services for customers, but to design a convenient and trusted service usage. While semantic services open for a description of user preferences, profiles and social groups, privacy handling is not addressed so far. Social communities based on friend of a friend principles, LinkedIn, or Facebook are open for all registered users, thus data about yourself are spread all-around. The contribution to the panel will address privacy issues in social networks, based on the identity of the user. Focus is on the semantic description of user's role in social networks and on securing the access through appropriate authentication mechanisms. Depending on the security requirements of the user, Internet trust mechanisms or mobile-based key exchange mechanisms can be applied. The user-centric approach will enable the user to select an identity provider for the trusted management. A prototype using semantically defined social relationships demonstrates the capabilities of the suggested approach.

Prof. stip. Dr. Josef Noll holds a professor stipend from the University of Oslo in the area of Mobile Services. Working areas include Mobile Authentication, Wireless Broadband Access, Personalised Services, Mobile-Fixed Integration and the Evolution to 4G systems. He is also Senior Advisor in Movation, Norway's leading innovation company for mobile services. Previously he was Senior Advisor at Telenor R&I in the Products and Markets group, and prior to that staff member at the European Space Agency (ESA).