2009 International IEEE Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control and Communication

October 12-16, 2009, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Plugfest 12th-13th, Symposium 14th-16th

PLUGFEST

Day 1

Monday, 12th of October

8:00

Registration and Plugfest Setup

9:00

Plugfest

Plugfest Co-Chairs: Doug Arnold, Martin Curran-Gray, Ken Harris

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Plugfest

12:30

Lunch

13:15

Plugfest

15:00

Coffee Break

15:30

Plugfest

Day 2

Tuesday, 13th of October

8:00

Registration

8:30

Plugfest

Plugfest Co-Chairs: Doug Arnold, Martin Curran-Gray, Ken Harris

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Plugfest

12:30

Lunch

13:15

Plugfest

15:00

Coffee Break and plug fest viewing

Plugfest open for visitors

17:15

Plugfest dismount

SYMPOSIUM

Day 1

Wednesday, 14th of October

8:00

Registration/Plugfest dismount

9:00

Opening Session

Dean of the Engineering Faculty , University of Brescia

General Co-Chairs: Alessandra Flammini, Kang Lee

Program Co-Chairs: Paolo Ferrari, Georg Gaderer

9:15

Keynote

Chair: John Eidson

Does the Telecommunications Industry Need Synchronization and Precision Timing?

Andy Reid, Chief Network Services Strategist, BT Innovate

10:15

Coffee Break

10:45

Session 1: Analytic, modeling, and simulation studies I

Chair: Julien Ridoux

Convergence of Frequency, Time and Data over Ethernet networks

Amin Abdul; Petru Lupas

Performance analysis of Kalman filter-based clock synchronization in IEEE 1588 networks

Giada Giorgi; Claudio Narduzzi

Improvement of Synchronization Accuracy in IEEE 1588 Using a Queuing Estimation Method

Takahide Murakami; Yukio Horiuchi

11:45

Industry Speech

Chair: Hans Weibel

Meinberg

IXXAT

Hirschmann

RuggedCom

13:00

Lunch - Industry Reception and Exibition

14:15

Industry Speech

Chair: John Eidson

Symmetricom

Agilent Technologies

AVNET-Memec

15:15

Session 2: Analytic, modelling, and simulation studies II

Chair: Thilo Sauter

An Exhaustive Model for Enhanced Servo Clock Design

David Macii; Daniele Fontanelli; Dario Petri

PariSync: Clock Synchronization in P2P Networks

Paolo Bertasi; Michele Bonazza; Nicola Moretti

16:00

Coffee Break

16:30

Visit to Brescia (bus departure time)

18:30

Concert

19:00

Aperitive

20:00

Return bus for conference participants

Day 2

Thursday, 15th of October

08:30

Session 3: Implementation Designs and Performance Issues

Chair: Albert Treytl

Counter Availability and Characteristics for Feed-forward Based Synchronization

Timothy Broomhead ; Julien Ridoux; Darryl Veitch

On Packet Selection Critera for Clock Recovery

Ilija Hadzic; Dennis Morgan

Collision avoidance for Delay_Req messages in broadcast media

Augusto Ciuffoletti

Safe Estimation of Time Uncertainty of Local Clocks

Andrea Bondavalli; Francesco Brancati; Andrea Ceccarelli

10:00

Coffee Break

10:30

Session 4: Gigabit and fiber support, wireless networks

Chair: Emiliano Sisinni

Enhancement for a Clock Synchronization Protocol in Heterogeneous Networks

Sebastian Schriegel; Henning Trsek; Juergen Jasperneite

White Rabbit: Sub-Nanosecond Timing Distribution over Ethernet

Pedro Moreira; Javier Serrano; Tomasz Wlostowski ; Patrick Loschmidt; Georg Gaderer

Timestamping for IEEE 1588 based Clock Synchronization in Wireless LAN

Aneeq Mahmood; Georg Gaderer

Evaluation of Synchronization Methods by Means of Software Defined Radio Architectures

Chiara Maria De Dominicis; Paolo Ferrari; Alessandra Flammini; Emiliano Sisinni

Packet Delay Variation Management

Dinh Thai Bui; Michel Le Pallec; Arnaud Dupas

12:15

Poster Presentation

12:30

Lunch and Poster Exibition

13:45

Session 5: Design environments and tools for applications

Chair: Patrick Loschmidt

Timing Performance and Time Synchronization Over a Wireless Network: Analysis, Experimentation and Application to Semiconductor Manufacturing

Dhananjay Anand; Deepak Sharma; Ya-Shian Li-Baboud; James Moyne

SNMP to PTP Management Interface

Kujtim Hyseni;Ilir Limani; Lavdim Kurtaj; Genc Hyseni

Design and Performance Evaluation of a Distributed WirelessHART Sniffer IEEE1588 Based

Alessandro Depari; Paolo Ferrari; Alessandra Flammini; Michele Lancellotti; Daniele Marioli; Stefano Rinaldi; Emiliano Sisinni

14:45

Session 6: System Security

Chair: Ya-Shian Li

Delay Attacks - Implication on PTP Time Synchronization

Markus Ullmann

Security Flaws and Workarounds for IEEE 1588 (Transparent) Clocks

Albert Treytl; Bernd Hirschler

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00

Plugfest Report

Plugfest Co-Chairs: Doug Arnold, Martin Curran-Gray, Ken Harris

16:15

Birds of a Feather Session

18:30

Conference Dinner

Day 3

Friday, 16th of October

08:30

Session 7: Performance test and evaluation tools

Chair: Nikolaus Kerö

New Simulation and Test Results for IEEE 802.1AS Timing Performance

Geoffrey Garner; Michael Johas Teener; Aaron Gelter

Packet Network Timing Measurement and Analysis Using an IEEE 1588 Probe and New Metrics

Lee Cosart

System Tests For Devices Implementing IEEE 1588-2008

Michael Schultheis; Lynn Wheelwright

High Accurate Timestamping by Phase and Frequency Estimation

Reinhard Exel; Patrick Loschmidt

10:45

Coffee Break

11:15

Session 8: Design, usage and research concerning IEEE 1588

Chair: John MacKay

Clock Synchronization Based On Distributed Hidden State Estimation

Chongning Na; Ruxandra Lupas-Scheiterer; Dragan Obradovic

Precise Time Synchronization on a High Available Redundant Ring Protocol

Jean-Charles Tournier; Karl Weber; Clemens Hoga

Application of IEEE 1588 to the Measurement of Synchrophasors in Electric Power Systems

Sara Sulis

Verifying the Performance of PTP Systems

Jeff Burch; Kenneth Green; John Nakulski; Dieter Vook

12:45

Closing Session

General Co-Chairs: Alessandra Flammini, Kang Lee

Program Co-Chairs: Paolo Ferrari, Georg Gaderer

13:00

Lunch