Chairs Messages

Message from General Chair

Welcome to Budapest!

It’s a great pleasure for me and a great honour and proud for the Hungarian telecommunications community to cordially welcome all the kind participants of the 5th International ICST Conference on Access Networks, the AccessNets 2010 in our capital, Budapest.

The aim of the annual international conferences on access networks is to provide a forum that brings together scientists and researchers from academia as well as managers and engineers from the industry and government organizations to meet and exchange ideas and recent work on all aspects of access networks and how they integrate with their in-home counterparts. The AccesNets conferences have a 5-year history of dealing with the more and more complex planning and strategic issues in access networks, attracting participants from all over the world. AccessNets conferences was first hosted in Athens, Greece in 2006, then at Ottawa (Ontario, Canada, 2007), Las Vegas (Nevada, USA, 2008), Hong Kong (China, 2009), and now return to Europe.

With the rapid growth of the Internet as well as the increasing demand for broadband services, access networks have been receiving growing attention in recent years. This has led to a massive network deployment with the goal of eliminating the bandwidth bottleneck between end-users and the network core. Today many diverse technologies are being used to provide broadband access to end users. The architecture and performance of the access segment (local loop, wired and wireless access networks, home networks) are getting increasing attention for ensuring quality of service of diverse broadband applications. Moreover, most access lines will no longer terminate on a single device, thus leading to the necessity of having a home network designed for applications that transcend simple Internet access sharing among multiple personal computers and enable multimedia support. Therefore, the access network and its home portion have become a hot investment pool from both a financial as well as a research perspective. AccessNets 2010 will focus on research, development, application and related business issues in this exciting area.

On the behalf of the Hungarian organizers, the Scientific Association for Infocommunications and the Dept. of Telecommunications and Media Informatics of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics I would like to express my grateful thanks to all persons having actively participated in the organization of AccessNets 2010, in particularly the chairs and members of the Technical Program Committee. We are grateful to ICST and Create-Net, our patrons and sponsors for their professional support in the organization. We are equally grateful to all of the authors having prepared good presentations, to the reviewers making possible to choose the best contributions.

Dear Colleagues: participants, speakers, session chairs, organizers, accompanying persons: thanks for your participation, make a good use of the scientific sessions and the social discussions and enjoy the Accessnets 2010 and your stay in Budapest!

Gyula Sallai, DSc
General Chair, AccessNets 2010,
President, Scientific Association for Infocommunications (HTE),
Professor of the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME-TMIT)

 

Message from Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs

Welcome to AccessNets 2010, the Fifth Annual International Conference on Access Networks, sponsored by ICST and technically sponsored by Create-Net. AccessNets 2010 provides a forum that brings together scientists and researchers from academia as well as managers and engineers from the industry and government organizations to meet and exchange ideas and recent work on all aspects of access networks and how they integrate with their in-home counterparts. We are pleased to present an outstanding technical program over three days. Among contributions from over fifteen countries, 12 papers from 7 countries were selected through a rigorous review process, with three or more reviews for each submission. These papers are organized into four technical sessions, addressing:

AccessNets 2010 is also the site of one workshop, International Workshop on Autonomic Networking and Self-Management in the Access Networks, which complements the main conference program with focused coverage on theories and technologies of autonomic networking and self-management.

The technical program team did an excellent job in soliciting participation, coordinating the review process, and promoting the technical program. We are grateful to all of the Technical Program Committee members and external reviewers for providing valuable and timely reviews for the papers. We also thank Dr. Gyula Sallai and Róbert Szabó, the General Chair and Vice General Chair of the conference, for taking care of the many issues related to the conference organization. We are very thankful to Dr. Andrei Gurtov, our Publication Chair, Gabriella Magyar and Edit Marosi, the Conference Coordination Chairs for their hard work attending to the final paper submissions and publishing details. Finally and most importantly, we thank all the authors for selecting AccessNets 2010 to disseminate their latest research results.

We wish all participants the best and hope that everyone has a great time in Budapest, Hungary. Please enjoy fruitful technical discussions and make new contacts and friends in this converging world.

We conclude with a warm and hearty welcome to Budapest. We look forward to your continued participation in future AccessNets conferences

Hua Zhu and Sándor Imre
AccessNets 2010 Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs