2010 International IEEE Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control and Communication

Plug-fest: September 27-28, 2010 - Hosted at UNH InterOperability Laboratory

Registration/Badge-pickup will be open for plugfest participants at the UNH-IOL on Sunday from 13:00 to 17:00 and on Monday from 8:00 to 12:00.

Symposium: September 29 - October 1, 2010 - Hosted at Portsmouth Sheraton Harborside Hotel

Registration/Badge-pickup will be open for conference participants on Tuesday from 13:00 to 17:00 and Wednesday from 8:00 to 15:00.
 

Plugfest - Hosted at UNH InterOperability Laboratory

Day 0 - Sunday, September 27, 2010

Start TimeEnd TimeTopicLocation
13:0017:00Plugfest Registration, Setup, Open TestingUNH-IOL

 
 

Day 1 - Monday, September 27, 2010

Start TimeEnd TimeTopicLocation
8:009:00Plugfest Registration, Setup, Open Testing, Onsite BreakfastUNH-IOL
9:009:30Startup MeetingUNH-IOL
9:3012:00Open TestingUNH-IOL
12:0013:00LunchUNH-IOL
13:0017:00Default Profile TestingUNH-IOL
17:0020:00Open TestingUNH-IOL

 
 

Day 2 - Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Start TimeEnd TimeTopicLocation
8:0012:00Profile Specific Testing, Onsite BreakfastUNH-IOL
12:0013:00LunchUNH-IOL
13:0013:30UNH-IOL Tour and OverviewUNH-IOL
13:3014:30Open TestingUNH-IOL
14:3015:00Plugfest Wrap-up MeetingUNH-IOL
15:0017:00Open Testing, Plugfest Viewing (Note)UNH-IOL
17:0019:00Plugfest TeardownUNH-IOL
Note: For the Plugfest Viewing, a shuttle will depart the Sheraton Harborside Hotel at 14:45 for the UNH-IOL and will depart the UNH-IOL for the Sheraton Harborside Hotel at 17:15

 
 

Symposium - Hosted at Portsmouth Sheraton Harborside Hotel

Day 1 - Wednesday, September 29, 2010

8:00Breakfast
9:00Opening SessionChair: Kang Lee and Lincoln Lavoie
 Conference Co-Chairs RemarksKang Lee and Lincoln Lavoie
 Welcome Address of UNH IOLErica Johnson
 Program Co-Chairs remarksRadim Bartos and Georg Gaderer
 Birds of a Feather Session AnnouncementJohn Eidson
9:25Synchronized Clocks for Power Distribution IChair: Albert Treytl
 IEEE 1588 for Time Synchronization of Devices in the Electric Power IndustryFred Steinhauser (OMICRON electronics, AT)
 Using clock accuracy to guide model synthesis in distributed systems: An application in power grid controlDhananjay Anand (University of Michigan, US); Ya-Shian Li-Baboud (NIST, US); Jeffrey Fletcher (University of Michigan, US); James Moyne (University of Michigan, US)
 An IEEE 1588 Time Synchronization Testbed for Assessing Power Distribution RequirementsJulien Amelot (NIST, US); Clément Vasseur (NIST, FR); Jeffrey Fletcher (University of Michigan, US); Dhananjay Anand (University of Michigan, US); James Moyne (University of Michigan, US); Ya-Shian Li-Baboud (NIST, US)
10:40Morning Coffee Break
11:25Synchronized Clocks for Power Distribution II Chair: Kang Lee
 Differences and Similarities between the Audio Video Bridges and the Power System Profiles for IEEE 1588Jean-Charles Tournier (ABB Inc., US); Karl Weber (Zurich University of Applied Science)
 Keeping Clock Accuracy on a Master Clock Failure in Substation Network Yasuyuki Kozakai (TOSHIBA Corporation, JP); Mitsuru Kanda (TOSHIBA Corporation, JP)
12:15Lunch Break
13:15Sponsor TalksChair: Hans Weibel, John Eidson
 MeinbergHeiko Gerstung
 BroadcomMichael Johas Teener
 ConemtechOla Andersson
 Crystal InstrumentsJames Zhuge
 HIRSCHMANN
 IXXATBill Seitz
 BrilliantLloyd Green
 The IEEE-ISTO Conformity Assessment ProgramAlpesh Shah
15:00Poster PresentationsChair: Radim Bartos
15:15Afternoon Coffee Break
16:15Fault Tolerance and Error RecoveryChair: Paolo Ferrari
 A Master Redundancy Technique in IEEE 1588 Synchronization with a Link Congestion EstimationTakahide Murakami (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., JP); Yukio Horiuchi (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., JP)
 Improving Robustness of the Synchronization Quality of IEEE1588 Nodes Andrea Bondavalli (University of Florence, IT); Francesco Brancati (University di Firenze, IT); Paolo Ferrari (University of Brescia, IT); Alessandra Flammini (University of Brescia, IT); Stefano Rinaldi (University of Brescia, IT)
 Adaptive Packet Selection for Clock RecoveryIlija Hadzic (Bell Labs, US); Dennis R. Morgan (Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, US)
17:30Welcome Reception (drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served)

 
 

Day 2 - Thursday, September 30, 2010

8:00Breakfast
9:00Keynote SessionChair: Georg Gaderer
 Information Technologies for Smart GridsChristoph Brunner, Information Technologies for Smart Grids
10:00Morning Coffee Break
10:30Wireless Clock SynchronizationChair: Doug Arnold
 Wireless Sensors Exploiting IEEE802.15.4a for Precise TimestampingChiara Maria De Dominicis (University of Brescia, IT); Paolo Ferrari (University of Brescia, IT); Alessandra Flammini (University of Brescia, IT); Emiliano Sisinni (University of Brescia, IT)
 System Integration of an IEEE 802.11 based TDoA Localization SystemStefan Schwalowsky (Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, DE); Reinhard Exel (Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT); Henning Trsek (inIT - Institute Industrial IT, DE)
 Software Support for Clock Synchronization over IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN with Open Source Drivers Aneeq Mahmood (Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT); Georg Gaderer (Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT); Patrick Loschmidt (Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT)
 Synchronization of Wireless Sensor Networks Using a Modified IEEE 1588 ProtocolDarold Wobschall (Esensors Inc., US)
12:10Lunch Break
13:00Architecture and Implementation AspectsChair: George Shaton
 IEEE 1588 Clock Synchronization over IEEE 802.3/10 GBit Ethernet Christof Kutschera (University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna, AT); Andreas Gröblinger (University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, AT); Roland Höller (University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, AT); Christian Gemeiner (Oregano Systems, AT); Nikolaus Kerö (Oregano Systems, AT); Gerhard Cadek (Oregano Systems, AT)
 Integration of HSR and IEEE1588 over Ethernet networksAmin Abdul (RuggedCom Inc, CA)
 Securing IEEE 1588 by IPsec Tunnels - An AnalysisAlbert N. Treytl (Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT); Bernd Hirschler (Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT)
 Leap Second Support in ComputersMichel Hack (IBM Research, US); Xiaoqiao Meng (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US); Steven Froehlich (IBM Research, US); Li Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US)
14:40Afternoon Coffee Break
15:05Industrial Clock SynchronizationChair: Alois Knoll
 Accurate Time Synchronization in PTP-based Industrial Networks with Long Linear PathsDaniele Fontanelli (University of Trento, IT); David Macii (University of Trento, IT)
 Distributed Clock Synchronization in Discrete Event Simulators for Wireless Factory Automation Aneta Nað (Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT); Georg Gaderer (Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT); Patrick Loschmidt (Austrian Academy of Sciences, AT)
 Using an IEEE 802.1AS Network as a Distributed IEEE 1588 Boundary ClockMichael D Johas Teener (Broadcom, US) Geoffrey M. Garner (Consultant, US) Michel Ouellette (Huawei Technologies, CA)
16:20Plugfest reportChair: Doug Arnold, Jon Beckwith, Ken Harris
16:40Birds of a Feather SessionChair: John Eidson
17:40Evening Dinner aboard the Isles of Shoals Steamship, the Thomas Laighton

 
 

Day 3 - Friday, October 1, 2010

8:00Breakfast
9:00Implementation and Control AspectsChair: Doug Arnold
 Design and Implementation of a PTP Clock Infrastructure for the Linux KernelRichard Cochran (OMICRON electronics GmbH, AT)
 An Optimal Control Approach to Clock SynchronizationPhilipp Wolfrum (Siemens Corporate Technology, DE); Ruxandra Lupas Scheiterer (Siemens AG, DE); Dragan Obradovic (Siemens, DE)
 Protocol Agnostic On-Path SupportsDinh Thai Bui (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, FR); Michel Le Pallec (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, FR); Nicolas Le Sauze (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, FR)
10:15Morning Coffee Break
10:45Metrics and Performance MeasurementChair: John MacKay
 The Impact of Network Latency on the Synchronization of Real-World IEEE 1588-2008 DevicesRyan Zarick (University of New Hampshire, US); Radim Bartos (University of New Hampshire, US); Mikkel Hagen (University of New Hampshire, US)
 Cluster TDEV A New Performance Metric for Timing over Packet Networks Tariq Haddad (Zarlink Semiconductor, CA)
 Reproducible IEEE 1588-Performance Tests with Emulated Environmental InfluencesSebastian Schriegel (Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, DE); Daniel Kirschberger (inIT - Institute Industrial IT, DE); Henning Trsek (inIT - Institute Industrial IT, DE)
12:00Closing Session Chair: Kang Lee and Lincoln Lavoie
 Conference Chair RemarksKang Lee and Lincoln Lavoie
 Program Co-Chair RemarksRadim Bartos and Georg Gaderer
12:20Lunch Break