International Conference on Networking and Digital Society 2010

the second International Conference on Networking and Digital Society (ICNDS 2010), held in the city of Wenzhou, China on May 30-31, 2010. The conference proceeding is published by IEEE Press.
Networking and digital society are becoming increasingly interesting to both the academic researchers and management
practitioners. It is essential to explore enterprise network system and digital issue related from the theoretical viewpoint.
The objective of ICNDS 2010 serves as a forum for telecommunications researchers, industry professionals, and
academics interested in the latest development and design of networking and digital society. This year, ICNDS 2010 has received an overwhelming response of 900 papers submitted to the Program Committee, from 3 countries and regions. All the submitted papers in these proceedings have been peer reviewed by at least 2 reviewers drawn from the chairs of committees depending on the subject matter of the paper. Reviewing and initial selection were undertaken electronically. A joint committee meeting was held to resolve the final paper selection and a draft programe for the conference. After the rigorous reviewing process, about 320 papers were accepted for presentation and included in the proceedings. The conference provides two day’s focus on the science and technology that are the basis for the network and digital society topics including network communications and technologies, network control and management, multi technology service deployment and assurance, network control and service architectures, E-Government strategies, business continuity, availability and personalization for search and for social interaction, etc. It is featuring a range of contributions by distinguished invited speakers drawn from both industry and academia. The invited speakers address significant recent industrial applications of formal methods, as well as important academic advances serving to enhance their potency and widen their applicability. Besides its formal sessions the conference included tool demonstrations, exhibitions and tutorials. Online information concerning the conference is available under the following Uniform Resource Locator (URL): http://www.icnds.org

Keynote Speakers:

Title: IEEE & Sections in China
Y W Liu
Professional Activities, IEEE Region 10
IEEE Hong Kong Section

IEEE is the world largest learned society on electrical, electronic and computer engineering with total global membership 400,000 as on 31 December 2009. IEEE produces about one third of world technical literatures in the related field and the IEEE Standards is now serving the global needs of industry, government and the public.
The IEEE membership development in mainland China is enormous in last 5 years, with about 2,000 plus membership in 2005 increasing to current 7,000 plus. At the moment, there are total seven IEEE Sections and 2 Subsections in Mainland. IEEE Links and connections are rapidly building up between mainland academia and IEEE worldwide experts. These are going to benefit mainland related fields tertiary education and advance research in the coming years.

BIOGRAPHY
Mr. Y W Liu studied Electrical Engineering in the Hong Kong Polytechnic from 1972 to 1976. He joined the Hong Kong Police as a Telecommunications Inspector in 1976, and Telecommunications Engineer in 1988. Mr. Liu has held diverse positions and was involved in the design, project management and maintenance of the Hong Kong Police Communication Systems. He designed and set up the Thermal Imager Laboratory in the Hong Kong Police in 1996. He then set up an accredited Calibration Laboratory in Hong Kong Police and served as the Laboratory Manger from 1998 to 2002. He was one of the design engineers of the 3rrd Generation Hong Kong Police Command and Control Radio System and the Project Manager of the Emergency Telephone System of the Hong Kong Police. After he retied in 2005, he worked closely the R10 Director to conduct Promotion visits in Mainland China to promote the formation of more Sections.

Title: An Introduction to Cooperative Communication, its Present State and Potential Future
Professor Aria Nosratinia
IEEE Fellow
University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Abstract
Cooperative communication goes back at least to the early 1970's, but it has been in the last decade that an explosive growth of interest in this subject has materialized. This talk presents a broad outline of cooperative communication, mostly in the context of wireless communication, and presents some thoughts on its present state and potential future. We begin by highlighting some of the key features of cooperative communication and motivate the study of this subject. Some of the basic terminology and ideas of the area will be introduced. The practical implementation of this technology and the 802.16j amendment to the WiMAX standard will be briefly visited. Finally, some of the outstanding challenges and open problems will be outlined.

BIOGRAPHY
Aria Nosratinia is professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he is also the director of the
Multimedia Communications Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He held visiting appointments at Princeton University, Rice University, and UCLA.

His interests lie in the broad area of information theory and signal processing, with applications in wireless networks. His recent work has been on relays and cooperative communication and cross-layer issues in communications. He currently serves as editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and serves as an officer and member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He has also been an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Wireless Communications (Magazine), and Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers. He has been the recipient of the National Science Foundation career award. Dr. Nosratinia was elected Fellow of IEEE for contributions to multimedia and wireless communication.

Title: How good is the mobile phone network coverage in Hong Kong?
Dr William S W Cheung
Chairman of IEEE Hong Kong Joint Chapter on CAS/COM
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Abstract
Since the first cellular mobile phone network deployed commercially in 1980s, many improvements have been made in the mobile phone technologies. The developments of the cellular mobile technology have gone through and, in fact, are still going through tremendous changes. In the old day, it was only the businessmen who had a real need to be kept in touch would afford the operating and ownership costs of mobile phones. Now, mobile phones have become so cheap that many people are able to own. Basically, in many countries, mobile phones have become essential personal belonging for most people. In Hong Kong, the population is slightly less than 8 millions, but there are more than 12 million SIM cards, so the total number of SIM cards is even more than that of the whole population.
Currently, in Hong Kong, there are five operators operating more than 10 mobile networks, with different standards such as the GSM and PCS (2G) and WCDMA (3G). The competition among them is huge and so the subscription costs are very competitive. However, the question is how good the coverage for these cellular mobile networks is? In the urban areas, there is not much of a problem because their coverage would directly affect most of their subscribers, but this is not the case in the other areas. In Hong Kong, many people like hiking in the country parks and hiking trails during weekends and holidays. Severe accidents have had occurred to hikers who could not use their mobile phones to call for help due to the lack of coverage. Thus to avoid such unexpected accident, it will be very useful to provide the public (hikers) with information on network coverage so that they know if they can use their mobiles phones in the country parks and hiking trails.
Mobile phone network coverage can be measured by using existing tools which are very expensive for most companies and too expensive for small companies. In this talk, we will discuss ways to measure the network coverage cheaply and a low-cost system developed in the University of Hong Kong for measuring the GSM network coverage of different mobile operators. We will also demonstrate the system which provides the public with mobile network coverage in Hong Kong.

BIOGRAPHY
Dr Cheung received the BSc degree with First Class Honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Middlesex University, U.K. in 1982 and the PhD degree from Loughborough University, U.K. in 1986.

From 1982 to 1986, he was a research assistant in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Loughborough University, where he collaborated with Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and many UK universities to work a project for new generations of satellite systems. During the period from 1986 and 1988, he was a post-doctorate research assistant with the Communications Research Group of King's College, London University, working on research for future generations of satellite systems. In 1988, he joined the Radio and Satellite Communications Division in British Telecom Research Laboratories (now British Telecom Laboratories), as an assistant executive engineer.

Dr Cheung is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His current research interests include antenna design, CRLH TL materials, 2G, 3G and 4G mobile communications systems, MIMO systems and satellite communications systems, predistortion of high power amplifiers for satellite and mobile communications and e-learning. He is in charge of the Radio Frequency Laboratory and the Microwave/RF frequency Laboratory in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering. These two laboratories are equipped with the most advance antenna measurement equipment, Stargate and StarLab, for TIS and TRP of mobile handsets measurements, BTS antenna measurements for different mobile systems, other antennas measurements and also EMC measurements.

He has been consultants to hospitals and served as expert witness for the Courts of the HKSAR. He also has served as reviewer for different international journals and conferences in the areas of mobile communications. He is a Chartered Electrical Engineer, Member of the HKIE and IET, and senior member of the IEEE. Currently, he is the Chairman of the IEEE Hong Kong Joint Chapter on Circuits and Systems and Communications (CAS/COM) and has helped organizing different international conferences e.g. the IEEE International Conference on Anti-counterfeiting, Security, and Identification in Communications (ICASID 2009).

Mr. Y. W. Liu Professional Activities, IEEE Region 10	IEEE & Sections in Chia	[.PPT]
Professor Aria Nosratinia, Fellow of IEEE Universities of Texas at Dallas, USA	Cooperative Communication, A Perspective on Fundamentals, Practice, and Challenges	[.PDF]
Dr. William S. W. Cheung Chair of IEEE CAS/COM Joint Chapter (Hong Kong)	How good is the mobile phone network coverage in Hong Kong?	[.PDF]
Session chair, Professor George Yang Missouri Western State University, USA	Author: Lin He Design and implementation of Network Virtual Display System in Digital Products	Author:Linqing Li Analysis of BT network based on active measurement
Author: Guo-Ming Sung, A New Architecture of Broadband Network System Suitable For Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Application