VLDB 2001 Workshop
on
DATABASES IN
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Rome, September 10, 2001

room 'Michelangelo'
ground floor of the Universita' Urbaniana (the conference site)

! Programme now available here ! ! Registration for workshop via VLDB registration pages !

Motivation

Developments in network and switching technologies have made telecommunications systems and services far more data intensive. This can be observed in many telecommunications areas, such as network management, service management, and service provisioning. For example, in the area of network management the complexity of modern networks lead to large amounts of data on network topology, configuration, equipment settings, etc. In addition, switches generate large amounts of data on network traffic, faults, etc. In the area of service management there is the registration of customers, customer contacts, service usage (e.g. call detail records) that leads to large databases. For mobile services there is the additional tracking and tracing of mobile equipment. In the area of service provisioning there is the enhanced services like for example UMTS, the next generation of mobile network, but also the deployment of data intensive services on broadband network such as video-on-demand, high quality video conferencing, and e-commerce infrastructures. This results in very large databases growing at high rates especially in new service areas. The integration of network control, network management, and network administration also lead to a situation where database technology gets into the core of the network (e.g. in architectures like TMN, IN, and TINA). The combination of vast amounts of data, real-time constraints, and need for robust operation puts a lot of challenges on database technology such as distributed databases, database transaction processing, storage and query optimization, etc. Finally, there is the growing interest for Telecom operators in IP. Both IP based telecom services as well as the integration of IP and traditional networks (like PSTN) require additional database functionality. The Internet is becoming the computing platform of the future. That is, companies are building systems using the Web and Internet as a computing infrastructure. This applies to all Telecom customers - large and small business as well as residential. Already click-stream databases are the largest in the world and the clear growth area in Telecom is data transmission. Telecoms are at the center of this massive business change and data is at the center of this massive technical change. So there is the issue of handling the growth and volumes of new data (transactions and databases) let alone access to databases and legacy systems.
To date, the database research community has focused little in telecom data management and has contributed little beyond core database technology. The challenges facing telecom data management are now at a point that the database research community can and should become deeply involved.

Objective

The purpose of this workshop is to promote telecom data management as one of the core research areas in database research and to establish a strong connection between the Telecom and database research communities. A previous, very successful, workshop was held at VLDB99 (proceedings: Willem Jonker (ed.) Databases in Telecommunications - Int. workshop co-located with VLDB-99 Proceedings, LNCS 1819, Springer Verlag 2000. ISBN 3-540-67667-8)

Topics

Topics to be addressed are those that focus on the application of database technology in telecommunication systems and services. Examples are:

Replicated and distributed databases in telecom networks: requirements and cases
Telecom database requirements
Data management in Telecom
Network management (TMN)
Data services
Internet/WWW/Multimedia
Telecom database standards
Database support for ISP and ASP
Directory Services
Database support in Mobile networks (e.g. UMTS)
Real-time databases for traffic management
Efficient storage techniques for call detail records and/or click streams
Database support for billing systems
ERP and Telecommunication
Database technology in service architectures

Form of the workshop

The workshop aims at a good mix between industrial experience and technical papers, as well as at a lot of interaction between participants. There will be an invited talk, the presentation of accepted papers (with room for discussion) and a moderated panel session.

Programme committee

Name	First name	E-mail	Affiliation
Bruggeman	Heinz	brueggemann@eurescom.de	EURESCOM GmbH
Perez Crespo	Salvador	sperez@tid.es	Telefonica
Dalal	Siddhartha	sid@research.telcordia.com	Telcordia Technologies
Derks	Wijnand	w.l.a.derks@cs.utwente.nl	Twente University
Georgakopoulos	Dimitrios	dimitris@research.telcordia.com	Telcordia Technologies
Hvasshovd	Svein-Olaf	svein-olaf.hvasshovd@clustra.com	ClustRa AS
Jarke	Matthias	jarke@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de	Technical University Aachen
Kersten	Martin	Martin.kersten@cwi.nl	CWI, The Netherlands
Laufmann	Steve	slaufma@uswest.com	US West Advanced Technologies
Lieuwen	Daniel	lieuwen@lucent.com	Lucent Bell-Labs
Lorenza	Maria de	Lorenza.Demarie@CSELT.IT	CSELT Telecom Italy
Nektarios	Georgalas	nektarios.georgalas@bt.com	Brittisch Telecom
Rissnes	Oddvar	oddvar.risnes@telenor.com	Norwegian Telecom
Ronstom	Michael	Mikael.Ronstrom@inn.ericsson.se	Ericsson
Schiefer	Berni	schiefer@ca.ibm.com	IBM
Skold	Martin	Martin.Skold@uab.ericsson.se	Ericsson
Zoric	Josip	josip.zoric@telenor.com	Norwegian Telecom

Paper Submission

People that want to participate to the workshop are invited to submit papers on work in progress, papers on applications, as well as position papers. Papers should be at most 5000 words. Papers should be submitted electronically to willem.jonker@kpn.com in MsWord format. Accepted papers will be published in a workshop proceedings by Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. For authors instruction see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Note to take the MSWord version!

Extended deadline for submission: June 15, 2001
Notification of acceptance: June 22, 2001
Deadline camera ready copy: July 13, 2001

Organizers

Willem Jonker	KPN Research	willem.jonker@kpn.com
Peter Apers	University of Twente	apers@cs.utwente.nl
Tore Saeter	ClustRa AS	tore.sater@clustra.com
Michael Brodie	Verizon	michael.brodie@verizon.com

More Info

For more info please contact willem.jonker@kpn.com

Last modified on August 30, 2001 by Erik Boertjes <e.m.boertjes@kpn.com>

VLDB 2001 Workshop on DATABASES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS Rome, September 10, 2001