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IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2010) |
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(IEEE ICC 2010)
with the theme
"Communications: Accelerating growth and development"
DATES: Sunday 23 May to Thursday 27 May 2010
VENUE: Cape Town International Conference Centre, South Africa
TIMES: Daily from 08h00
WEBSITE: Click here for full details at the conference website
Africa is developing rapidly and the conference theme "Communications: Accelerating Growth and Development" aims to focus on the role that Communications is playing in this development.
IEEE ICC 2010 is dedicated to furthering the understanding of communications areas currently under research and to fostering next-generation theories and practices.
This is the first time this major IEEE international conference is being held in South Africa.
KEYNOTE PRESENTERS
Opening and keynote session presenters at IEEE ICC 2010 include:
- Naledi Pandor, minister of science and technology, South Africa
- Steven D. Gray, head & vice president, corporate research, Huawei Technologies, USA
- Reuben September, group CEO, Telkom, South Africa
- Ajay Pandey, managing director & CEO, Neotel, South Africa
- Andile Ngcaba, executive chairman, Dimension Data - Africa & Middle East, South Africa
- Reinaldo Valenzuela, director - wireless research, Bell Labs, Alcatal-Lucent, USA
- Raymond W. Yeung, chairprofessor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
BUSINESS PROGRAMME
The IEEE ICC 2010 business programme will include:
- Mobile broadband as an enabler of accelerated broadband development
- IMT-Advanced - the technical and the strategic landscape for 4G and beyond
- Alternatives to providing affordable and sustainable mobile broadband in a fast and cost effective manner
- Regulatory environment and spectrum reform - the key to growth and development
- Policy and funding models for accelerating the rollout of broadband access and networks in developing countries
- Spectrum management - technologies, economics, regulatory environment
- Challenges in commercialisation of cognitive radio technologies
Ultra broadband technologies
- 100 Gbps Networking - trends, deployment and challenges
TECHNICAL PROGRAMME
The IEEE ICC 2010 technical programme will offer eleven different symposia, workshops, tutorials, a business forum, a design and developers' forum and top international speakers in the plenary sessions. Technical papers will be presented in the following major topics:
- General Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications
- Communication Theory Symposium
- Signal Processing for Communications Symposium
- Wireless Communications Symposium
- Wireless & Mobile Networking Symposium
- Optical Networks and Systems Symposium
- Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium
- Communication QoS, Reliability and Modelling Symposium
- Ad-hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium
- Multimedia Services, Communication Software and Services Symposium
- Communication and Information System Security
SOCIAL PROGRAMME
Conference participants will have a wide range of options to add to their conference tour including: hikes up the famous Table Mountain; whale watching; tours of the Cape Winelands, Robben Island and Cape Point where the two oceans meet.
FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
For further detailed information, visit the conference website.
Register online by 23 April to receive the reduced registration rate.
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