Plenary Lecture
Ubiquitous Consumer Wireless World
Professor Ivan Ganchev
University of Limerick
Ireland
&
University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”
Bulgaria
E-mail: Ivan.Ganchev@ul.ie
Abstract: The theme of this plenary talk will be the emerging global wireless communications environment — the Ubiquitous Consumer Wireless World (UCWW) — depicted on Figure 1. The UCWW is a new, directed, evolutionary step in, and a significant change to, the global wireless techno-business environment encompassing the present and future rapid growth of wireless communications technologies and networks. The UCWW is founded on a novel consumer-centric techno-business model (CBM) for future mobile communications, which is an attractive alternative to the existing subscriber-based model (SBM). Besides a range of new benefits for the user, the UCWW has the potential to stimulate the creation of a number of new interesting business opportunities and to create a more liberal, more open, and fairer wireless marketplace for existing and new access network providers (ANPs). Resulting from an infrastructural re-think on the way Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) service is supplied, this new environment allows the users to act more like consumers rather than subscribers in finding and using the ‘best’ mobile services on offer, by selecting the ‘best’ access network available for each and every service instance requested by them. To achieve this, an intelligent service recommendation approach is employed by mobile users (consumers) in order to discover the ‘best’ service instances and associate with them, following the user-driven ‘always best connected and best served’ (ABC&S) paradigm. At any moment, when a mobile user (consumer) uses a particular instance of a mobile service, the UCWW cloud is able to detect/discover the existence of a better service instance/provider (if any) and recommend it (in real time) to the user, so as to avail of this better service offer instead. Determining the new/best option is based on a set of context parameter values, categorized in three groups – user-, service-, and (access) network-related. A cloud-based service recommendation system (SRS), supplemented by a data management platform (DMP), allows mobile users (consumers) to receive timely recommendations about the ‘best’ instances of mobile services, they are interested in, at any location, at any moment, and via the ‘best’ available access network, thus realizing a truly ABC&S functionality anywhere-anytime-anyhow. Other UCWW specifics include new consumer identity module (CIM) cards, new network-independent and location-independent personal IPv6 (PIP) addresses, new protocol and interface infrastructures underpinning trusted third party authentication, authorization, and accounting (3P-AAA) services, and new consumer-oriented incoming call connection (ICC) services. Details of these distinct technological and infrastructural developments will be presented in the talk as well.
Main references:
H. Zhang, I. Ganchev, N.S. Nikolov, Z. Ji, M. O'Droma. 2019. “Matrix Factorization Enriched with Item Features for Collaborative Filtering Recommendations”. (under revision for publication in) IEEE Access, Pp. x1-x11. IF2018= 4,098
I. Ganchev, Z. Ji, M. O'Droma, L. Zhao. 2017. “Smart Recommendation of Mobile Services to Consumers”. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, November, Pp. 499-508. IF=1,802
H. Zhang, I. Ganchev, N.S. Nikolov, Z. Ji, M. O’Droma. “A Hybrid Service Recommendation Prototype Adapted for the UCWW: A Smart City Orientation”. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Wiley/Hindawi. Vol. 2017, October 2017, Pp. x1-x11. Article ID: 6783240. IF=0,869
Z. Ji, I. Ganchev, M. O’Droma, X. Zhang. “A Realization of Broadcast Cognitive Pilot Channels Piggybacked on T-DMB”. Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Vol. 24, Issue 7-8, Pp. 709-723. Nov.-Dec. 2013. IF=0,783
Z. Ji, I. Ganchev, M. O'Droma. “An iWBC Consumer Application for 'Always Best Connected and Best Served': Design and Implementation”. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 57, No. 2, Pp. 462-470. May 2011. IF=0,941
M. O’Droma, I. Ganchev, “The Creation of a Ubiquitous Consumer Wireless World through Strategic ITU-T Standardization,” IEEE Communications Magazine. Vol. 48, No. 10, Pp. 158-165, 2010. IF=2,837
Z. Ji, I. Ganchev, M. O’Droma. “`WBC over DVB-H` Testbed Design, Development and Results”. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol. 2010, Article ID 769683, 18 pp., 2010. IF=0,815
I. Ganchev, M. O'Droma, N. Wang. “Consumer-Oriented Incoming Call Connection Service for UCWW”. Springer Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 50, No. 1, Pp. 115-131. 2009. IF=0,418
Z. Ji, I. Ganchev, M. O’Droma. 2009. “Performance Evaluation of 'WBC over DVB-H' System”. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 55, No. 2, May, Pp. 754-762. IF=0,942
M. O’Droma, I. Ganchev, “Toward a Ubiquitous Consumer Wireless World,” IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 14, No. 1, Pp. 52-63, 2007. IF=2,000
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Prof. Ivan Ganchev is a Senior Member of the IEEE1; the IEEE Communications Society; the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committees on: (i) Internet of Everything, (ii) Internet, (iii) Computer Communications, and (iv) Cloud Computing; the IEEE Communities on: (i) Future Networks, (ii) IEEE Internet of Things, and (iii) IEEE Smart Cities; and the IEEE Consultants Network. He received his doctoral and engineering (summa cum laude) degrees from the Saint-Petersburg University of Telecommunications in 1995 and 1989, respectively. He is a Deputy Director of the Telecommunications Research Centre (TRC), University of Limerick (Ireland), an ITU-T2 Invited Expert, and an IET3 Invited Lecturer. He also holds a Full Professorship at the University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”. Prof. Ganchev was involved in 40+ international and national research projects. Previously he served as a member of the EU FP5 Academic Network for Wireless Internet Research in Europe (ANWIRE) and six European ‘COoperation in Science and Technology’ (COST) Actions: COST 285 “Modelling and Simulation Tools for Research in Emerging Multi-service Telecommunications”, COST 290 “Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks”, IC0906 “Wireless Networking for Moving Objects (WiNeMO)”, IC0905 “Techno-Economic Regulatory Framework for Radio Spectrum Access for Cognitive Radio/Software Defined Radio (TERRA)”, IC1304 “Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)”, IC1303 “Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE)”. Currently he is a Management Committee Member (MCM) of two COST Actions: CA15127 “Resilient Communication Services Protecting End-User Applications from Disaster-based Failures (RECODIS)” and CA16226 “Indoor living space improvement: Smart Habitat for the Elderly (SHELD-ON)”. Prof. Ganchev’s research interests include: novel telecommunication and information paradigms; modelling, simulation, and emulation of complex information systems, networks, and services; informational modelling; future telecommunication networks and services; smart ubiquitous networking; context-aware networking; Internet of Things (IoT); Internet of Services (IoS); Ambient Assisted Living (AAL); Enhanced Living Environments (ELE); Internet tomography; mHealth and mLearning ICT. Prof. Ganchev has served on the Technical Program Committee of 275+ prestigious international conferences, symposia, and workshops. He has authored/co-authored 1 monography, 3 textbooks, 4 edited books, and 260+ research papers in refereed international journals, books chapters, and conference proceedings. Prof. Ganchev is on the editorial board of and has served as a Guest Editor for multiple international journals.