Many organizations are evaluating and migrating towards cloud computing solutions.  In 2013, the challenges are less technological, and more cultural and policy, related. The emerging cloud computing solution model is disruptive for traditional IT, however, the benefits can be substantial.  Often the carrier connectivity is frequently a forgotten consideration! Steven shares key carrier cloud considerations, while using real-life examples to clarify prominent cloud models. In Canada, Steven leads and advises several of the cloud computing initiatives in both the private and public sectors.
Steven describes key cloud ecosystems models, with communication, policy, security, privacy, and cultural considerations in the context of cloud solution engineering.  When considering cloud computing service models, old habits need to be reassessed and refined.  Steven relates real-life practical scenarios to emphasize cultural and business perspectives for cloud computing opportunities and the benefits already quantified.

Biography
Steven Woodward is CEO founder of Cloud Perspectives and is the leader of the NIST Cloud Carrier Sub-Group.  He is a leading contributor to the National Institute of Standards for Technology (NIST), TM Forum, Object Management Group Cloud Standards Customer Council, Canadian Cloud Council, IEEE and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Joint Collaboration Activity working groups.  Steven represents the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance at the Shared Services Canada Architecture Advisory Committee and is defining the Canadian Federal Government Cloud Computing Strategy.  Steven is also one of the founding executives at the Canadian Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).  In addition to cloud standards and best practices guides, he authored the “Cloud Computing Solution Measurement” chapter in the 2012 CRC Press published book, “The IFPUG Guide to IT and Software Measurement.”  A frequent international instructor, keynote presenter and leader, he continues to help establish realistic roadmaps, plans, contracts, SLAs and governance practices for cloud computing.    

Analysis of the end-to-end delay in an IP network

In this tutorial, we will examine various queueing-based solutions for obtaining the end-to-end delay of packets in an IP network. We will start with simple closed-form solutions obtained assuming that the arrival process of the packets is Poisson distributed. Then, we will consider the case where the arrival process is bursty and also when it is depicted by a packet trace. We will conclude this tutorial discussing the issue of bandwidth allocation for a real-time application, such as interactive video, under QoS constraints of statistically bounded end-to-end delay, jitter and packet loss.

Elementary knowledge of queuing theory is assumed!

Semiconductor technology is entering a new phase of development, with limits to miniaturization fast approaching and Moore’s law about to witness its ultimate limit. Three new paradigms that seem to be emerging for further development are
1- Scaling – continuing march to shrinking of device dimensions to 10nm and below, finally yielding to   3D (three-dimensional) Integration
2- Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Lithography
3- Transition to 450mm dia silicon wafer
These new paradigms are being focused on to go beyond the current volume – near $310 billion – of revenues of the semiconductor industry, whence the industry is being perceived to have “matured”. All of these new paradigm shifts are proving to be harbingers of new technologies representing milestones of new phases of progress in semiconductor research and development. This talk will address the details of these turning points in semiconductor R&D.

Biography:

Dr. M. Zafar Iqbal is currently Professor and Advisor in Physics at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. Prior to his current portion, he spent over 3 decades at the Quid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, Pakistan at various faculty positions from assistant to full professorship and two terms as Chairman of the Department of Physics. Dr. Zafar Iqbal after completing his M.Phil at the University of Islamabad (now QAU) proceeded to University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1970; where he conducted his dissertation research on ‘Deep Level Studies in GaP’—then an emergent III-V semiconductor for red LEDs. Dr. Iqbal continued his studied as post-doctoral fellow until 1974 and then he returned to QAU.

Having returned to Islamabad University, he established a research laboratory in semiconductor physics where he continued and expanded his research on defect studies to include a variety of other semiconductor materials, with the assistance of research students at the M.Phil and Ph.D. levels. He has more than 120 research publications in leading international journals and conferences in the field, covering diverse areas of defect physics, including native defects, radiation-induced defects and defect complexes in semiconductor materials ranging from the elemental semiconductor, Si to compound semiconductors of III-V and II-VI classes. He has used a variety of experimental techniques, including deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS), low temperature photoluminescence spectroscopy, photocapacitance spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. In addition to defect studies on semiconductors, he has also carried out research on high temperature oxide superconductors. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK (FInstP), Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences (FPAS), Senior Member of IEEE, Member of the American Physical Society (APS), Member of the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAC) and has been a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He founded the Pakistan Society for Semiconductor Science and Technology (PS³T) and has been its Chairman. He is currently involved in research on defect characterization semiconductors as well as on nanostructures, nanoparticles and their applications.