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Day 1: Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Day 1

Day 1

		Networking (N)
		Bridging the Digital Divide in BC: Leveraging Strengths, Creating Innovative Partnerships — Lecture Dave Nikolejsin, Chief Information Officer for the Province of British Columbia in partnership with Tim Draper, Director of Sales, TELUS will provide an update on the provincial initiative to solve the Digital Divide in BC.  Topics will include an overview of the partnership agreement between the Province of BC and TELUS, progress to date, network topography and next steps.   In 2004, The BC Government, in partnership with TELUS, embarked upon a two-year project (Network BC) to provide 366 rural and remote communities with access to high- speed Internet service.  The project leverages the existing government network and works in partnership with community representatives who are developing the ‘last mile’ solution. Introductions by John Webb Dave Nikolejsin, CIO Province of BC Tim Draper, Director of Sales, TELUS (Labatt)
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		Wireless Access to Advanced Networks Silicon Perspective on Emerging Short Reach Wireless Technologies: From 802.11n to 60+ GHz MM-Wave Radios The paper presents an overview survey of emerging wireless technologies suitable for short reach (<100m) RF communication starting from existing high bit-rate systems (802.11n, Multi Band OFDM) ending with 60 GHz MM-wave radio. Basic principles, power dissipation levels and hardware realization challenges in silicon are discussed. Prospects of building technologies that achieve Gigabit per second data rates are investigated from silicon point of view. Kris Iniewski’s Presentation is entitled “Silicon Perspective on Emerging Short Reach Wireless Technologies: From 802.11n to 60+ GHz MM-Wave Radios.” His presentation is an overview survey of emerging wireless technologies suitable for short reach (<100m) RF communication starting from existing high bit-rate systems (802.11n, Multi Band OFDM) ending with 60 GHz MM-wave radio. Basic principles, power dissipation levels and hardware realization challenges in silicon are discussed. Prospects of building technologies that achieve Gigabit per second data rates are investigated from silicon point of view. Claudia Ng’s Presentation is entitled “A Practical Approach for Delivering Converging Technologies.” Her presentation examines the following: End User Experience/Expectations remains relatively the same in the face of changing technologies and medium of communication - people just want to communicate! What needs to be figured out is the business model for deploying these technologies for regional ISPs and municipalities. Chair: Dave Michelson, Chair, IEEE, Joint Communications Chapter Angela Ikemoto, Agilent A Practical Approach for Delivering Converging Technologies End User Experience/Expectations remains relatively the same in the face of changing technologies and medium of communication - people just want to communicate! What needs to be figured out is the business model for deploying these technologies for regional ISPs and municipalities. Claudia Ng, Co-founder & CEO, Fatport Jorge Delrio, TELUS Fellow, Chief Technology Office (Labatt)
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		Research Challenge: Graduate Student Forum Graduate students from BC institutions are invited to put forth their research as it relates to networking and network technology. This session will cover research across all disciplines and will involve students posing their unresolved research challenges before a panel of academics and to the wider session audience. Students will shed some light on their projects while seeking some useful advice on problem solving and getting help to flush out new ideas for next steps. Graduate students involved in this session will also be presenting project posters the day before. Chair:Alan Wagner, Associate Professor Department of Computer Science, UBC Steven Shelford, PhD, UVic.-- QoS Transit Services Mike Blackstock , UBC-CS, PhD Ubiquitous Computing Middleware Juan Li, UBC-CS, PhD Resource Distance Vector Protocol Savio Lau, SFU-CS, MSc TCP Analysis and Modeling of Hybrid Satellite-terrestial Traffic. MD. Maruf Monwar, Graduate Student, Computer Science, UNBC. Performance Comparison of MPI based Parallel Multiple Sequence Alignment (Labatt)

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		The Future of Regional Networks — Panel Join representatives from North America’s major regional networks for a panel discussion on the future of regional networks. Each panel member will outline advancements and innovations in their respective networks and how these networks are critical in keeping their researchers globally competitive. Chair:Michael Hrybyk, President, CEO, BCNET Cathy King, Director, Member Relations, Netera Graham Mowbray, Executive Director, ACEnet Scott Mah, Director of Communications Technology, University of Washington (Fletcher)
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		Next Generation Network Architecture Technological progress and business imperatives drive the evolution of network architecture from one generation to the next, and so "next generation" can mean different things to different people. During this session we will hear three perspectives on what the "next generation" network architecture will look like. Rene Hatem, Chief Engineer, CANARIE Harminder Gill Sr. Director Technology Development & Product Management, Bell West Alberto Leon-Garcia, Professor, University of Toronto Nortel Institute Chair for Network Architecture and Services (Terasen)
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		An Overview of BCNET's Advanced Applications Community -- Panel In 2001, BCNET recommended the formation of an Applications Advisory Committee (APAC) that would advise the BCNET Board and President on the conceptualization, functionality, technical design and development of applications for research and education that utilize advanced networks. With this mandate, APAC has formed working groups encompassing member interest such as Collaboration Technologies, Identity Management, Security, Disaster Recovery, Learning Technologies and High-Performance Computing. This session will serve to introduce the wider community to current initiatives and challenges that the working groups are developing and exploring as well as highlight working group presentations occurring throughout the BCNET Advanced Networks Conference. APAC Working Group Chairs Panel: Michelle Lamberson, Director, Office of Learning Technology, UBC Richard Smith, Associate Professor, School of Communications, SFU Lionel Tolan, Director, Academic Computing Services, SFU Jens Haeusser, Manager, IT Security Office, UBC Randy Sobie, Research Scientist, Institute of Particle Physics Canada, Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UVic (Canadian Pacific)
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		Researcher Tools & Learning Technology (RTLT)
		Traveling the BCNET & Netera Super Highway: Research Development, Innovation & Productivity through Connections - Panel This panel will highlight the research initiatives at UBC, SFU, Uvic, BCIT, U of C, and UNBC and demonstrate how the universities and institutes are using the BCNET, Netera and CANARIE highway to support innovation and  enhance research productivity. The panel will describe a variety of ways and different models for tapping the capacity enabled by regional and national networks to make connections across geographical distances. The panel will demonstrate how these connections are providing new opportunities for research.   Chair: Don Avison, President, The University President's Council of British Columbia Dr. Dennis Salahub, Vice President Research, University of Calgary Dr. Mario Pinto, Vice President Research, SFU Dr. Richard Keeler, Associate Vice President Research, UVic Dr. Michael Blades, CFI Coordinator, UBC Paul Thiel, Director of Advanced Information Technology, BCIT (Fletcher)
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		Leading-edge Technology Initiatives on BC Campuses - Panel A panel of  CIO’s from BC’s universities and institutes will share their leading-edge technology initiatives, how these align with the institute’s strategic goals and vision and how these technology initiatives will enhance learning, research and community across campuses today. CIO Panel Chair: Michael Hrybyk, President & CEO, BCNET Ted Dodds, Associate VP Information Technology and CIO, UBC Jim Cranston, CIO, SFU Mark Roman, Executive Director, Uvic Brian Mackay, CIO, TRU Ian McLeod, Director, Computing Resources, BCIT (Fletcher)
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		Network Research Tools — Lecture This session will seek to acquaint participants with different tools that are used to conduct network research and explore researchers’ experience with them.  Two researchers – one from UBC and SFU – will present current tools they are using and experimenting with. At UBC, EmuLab is an experimental network environment that allows researchers access to simulated, emulated and wide-area network testbeds.  This session will seek to build awareness and interest for EmuLab in the research community, exploring what EmuLab is and how it can be used. At SFU, research network simulation tools are being used to simulate and analyze protocols in high-performance networks.  This session will provide an overview of network simulation tools and how they are being used in simulations projects at SFU. Introductions by: Dr. Alan Wagner, Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Science, UBC Dr. Charles Krasik, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UBC Dr. Ljiljana Trajkovic, Professor, School of Engineering Science, SFU (Canfor)
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		Can We Realize The Promise of Learning Technologies — Panel E-science technologies are rapidly transforming science as computation becomes the third component of scientific discovery, complementing theory and experiment. Other new technologies -- wikis, blogs, instant messaging, podcasting, text messaging -- have become an integral part of students' social lives. Still other innovations in open source learning resources -- collaboration tools, e-portfolios, various unbundled and modular web tools -- are a departure from the courseware that higher education has been accustomed to. How will these developments impact teaching and learning? What's hype and what's substance? This panel will discuss these innovations and their implications for the future of learning technologies. Chair:Louis Fox, Vice Provost, University of Washington Michelle Lamberson, Director, Office of Learning Technology, UBC Shannon Kelly, Program Head and Research Co-Chair, School of Computing and Academic Studies, BCIT (Terasen)
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		CANARIE Collaborative Research in Advanced Applications : The Practice and The Results (Part 1) 5 presentations: This session will include a demonstration of a new research platform that allows access to documentation and control of remote instrumentation; of how User Controlled Lightpath and High Performance Grid Computing technology dynamically allocates network resources to capture and share data; the development of tools to control the transportation, sharing and management of a large scale database; the use of advanced networks to collect data from synchrotron experiments and distribute it to researchers across Canada with future applications in environmental, agricultural and health sciences; and how to address and solve complex problems through the application of grid technology.   BEST: Giving PhD Students Better Tools  Providing PhD candidates with the necessary tools and infrastructure they need to access highly specialized information and data is the goal of researchers at the Telé-université du Québec (Téluq). Working with colleagues from across Canada and around the globe, the research team will provide PhD students with a new platform that allows them to access documentation, control remote instrumentation, and interact with members of the worldwide scientific community. This environment combines E-learning with E-science and will allow Canada's best and brightest students to be able to learn from and collaborate with each other and their peers around the world. Lead Applicant: Teluq   Jacqueline Bourdeau, BEST: Giving PhD Students Better Tools Canadian DataGrid - Giving Scientists Access to Data Scientific data are the quantitative information used to communicate the results of science. Researchers go to great and often costly lengths to conduct experiments and collect the data generated from them. A global research team led by the University of Calgary is using the User-Controlled Lightpath architecture of CA*net 4 in combination with High-Performance Grid Computing technology to make it easier for scientists to dynamically allocate network resources to capture and share data. This innovative application will create a compatible data collection and distribution system and help avoid costly duplication of effort by giving scientists access to data from multiple, disparate large scale global projects such as the ATLAS and NEPTUNE projects. Lead Applicant: University of Calgary Rob Simmonds, Canadian DataGrid: Giving Scientists Access to Data Deploying a Bio-Grid applications over Ligthpath Infrastructure - Keeping Canada at the Forefront of Genomics Research The Bio-Grid project examines the possibilities of using grid computing and end-to-end LightPaths for bioinformatics research requiring high performance computing, large storage and high bandwidth. The research is focused on microarray, biological sequence, and phenotypic analysis, in an effort to understand the evolutionary and developmental mechanisms that influence gene expression. The project aims to develop tools to control the transport, sharing and management of the large-scale database generated by bio-informatics applications. The end-to-end LightPath can be implemented by developing an extension of the User Controlled LightPath (UCLP) software. Access problems can be eliminated by creating a dynamic Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) over the campus equipment. To facilitate the deployment of the access services, the UCLP extension will use Web Services, featuring an XML interface. This solution will be deployed at the University of Guelph, University of Concordia and Université du Québec à Montreal later this year. Lead Applicant: Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Omar Cherkaoui, Deploying Bio-Grid Applications over Light Infrastructure End-to-end Lightpaths to Synchrotrons - Thinking big means thinking small Researchers at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) are using beams of synchrotron light to examine the structure of molecules and the relationships between atoms. Their colleagues at the University of Alberta are leading a project to investigate how advanced networks like CA*net 4 can be used to collect the data generated from the synchrotron experiments and distribute it to researchers across Canada so they can use the data to understand important biological processes at the molecular level. The experiments will lead to innovations in environmental, agricultural, and health sciences. Lead Applicant: University of Alberta   Stuart Lomas, End-to-end Lightpaths to Synchrotrons High Bandwidth Real-time Remote Processing Systems and Grids for the ATLAS High Level Trigger - The meaning of life, the universe, and everything Everything in the universe is made up of tiny building blocks called elementary particles. Scientists believe that by studying these particles they can learn how everything came into existence. Physicists at the University of Alberta are collaborating with several European members of the ATLAS experiment based at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. Canadian researchers are using advanced networks, grid applications and real-time distributed computing to capture, store and process enormous amounts of data generated by advanced instrumentation in order to determine how the universe came to be. Participation in this project secures Canada's position at the forefront of research into advanced Internet and grid applications and will give researchers a better understanding of how to address and solve complex problems through the application of grid technology. Lead Applicant: TRIUMF/University of Alberta Website: http://csr.phys.ualberta.ca/real-time/ Bryan Caron, High Bandwidth Real-time Remote Processing Systems & Grid for the ATLAS High Level Trigger Moderator – Susan Baldwin, Senior Director, Operations, CANARIE (Fletcher)

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