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UUsilehto (Nokia) NATO talk


Lecture Series on Next Generation Communications
http://www.rto.nato.int/page.asp?ID=742&t=Lecture%20Series%20on%20Next%20Generation%20Communications

Military operations have become less predictable and much more mobile. The decreasing size of military forces has been countered by much improved military capabilities. However these changes have made effective military communications more important than ever before.
The long term trends in society and in the development of networking and communication technologies that have existed for years probably still continue for long, and many of them affect in all segments of technology. In addition, the cycle that produces new technologies from the first proposals to everyday use can be about ten years. The long development delay is mostly due to the difficulty of standardization. The probable technological development of the wireless and wired network systems is thus rather predictable while it is always difficult to estimate the commercial success of new technologies.
On the other hand, time, new short term changes are almost unpredictable, while they may quickly and radically change the operational environment and scenarios. Typically the hit technologies are not really new or ingenious, but they become hot after their price level changes or a new business innovation opens new opportunities for them. Crucial technological breakthroughs also happen; these are easier to predict as often they result from a long-term work in basic research.
The objective of this lecture series is to address future trends in selected segments of technologies starting from their current state and extending several years ahead, describing the expected development of these technologies. Particular attention is given to what opportunities and/or threats these trends pose to military communication. At best, new technologies may enable more efficient operations and enhance interoperability with increased cost effectiveness. At worst, hasty deployment of newest and hottest technology may lead to expensive and eventually non-functioning solutions.
Effective and efficient use of radio spectrum (by Dr. Tricia WILLINK)
Access to the RF spectrum underpins almost every activity within the military sphere. Advances in application technologies continue to increase the demand for the limited amount of spectrum that is available to national defence forces. In coalition actions, many nations have to share this resource and recent experience has shown that many nations are unable to exploit their full capability of spectrum-dependent systems. Two possible approaches to addressing this problem will be addressed in these lectures. One is to use the available spectrum more efficiently, achieving greater throughput per unit of frequency bandwidth. This may be through better waveform design and digital signal processing or newer concepts such as multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. A second, complementary, approach is to change the policies regarding access to spectrum. In place of the current system of fixed allocations, a more dynamic strategy would be to exploit opportunities where spectrum may be unused. Radio networks, and other spectrum-dependent devices, might make their own, local decisions about frequency and bandwidth parameters, or these decisions might be made in real-time by a central authority. These lectures on "Efficient and Effective Spectrum Access" will look at these two areas, and will discuss the potential advantages and challenges of implementing new concepts for future military systems.
Biography of Tricia Willink
Tricia Willink received her MA from Cambridge University, UK and her PhD from Queen's University at Kingston, Canada. Tricia has been a Research Scientist at the Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada since 1994. She started working in HF communications, and later developed R&D programs in MIMO and spectrum access. Her research interests include channel measurement, analysis and modeling and signal processing techniques for efficient and effective spectrum use.

Nature of product security in consumer business and Industry in action, standards, forums and
challenges in global product security (by Mr. Janne UUSILEHTO)
This presentation discusses the basic nature of security, concentrating not only on what product security is but also on what it appears to be, depending on its use and users expectations. What makes product security eternal failure and more often than not a continuous investment for many other things than just implementation of security features? This presentation also addresses the different approaches for the implementation of the assets protection. Second part of the presentation gives some examples how consumer services and devices industry is responding to the increasing need of better product security, what are the challenges in global market place and what kind of industry forums there are out there. This presentation shares some views of how the future security standards may look like. Presentation is technical in nature, but will focus higher level issues, use cases and concepts.
Biography of Janne Uusilehto
Mr. Janne Uusilehto has a long experience in ICT industry, having begun his career already during his studies in 1982 as an independent SW developer and consultant for small businesses.
He began working with security related tasks as an IT Support and Electronic Banking Specialist in several Finnish banks. The latest bank position was in Nordea (then Merita-Nordbanken) as a global Cash Management Specialist and product responsible for the telecommunication aspects of cash management software. Amongst other duties, Mr. Uusilehto was a member of the Merita-Nordbanken Cash Management Services team who initiated Internet sales portals in Finland in the mid 1990’s.
Nokia recruited Mr.Uusilehto in 1998. His current position is as Director and Head of Nokia Product Security, globally responsible for Nokia product security development. His team is the overall owner of Product Security and product security-related education, awareness, process improvement tasks, and related industry collaboration globally.
Janne Uusilehto is also a member of several Nokia internal security related management boards, Nokia’s main representative and board member to Trusted Computing Group, Chairman of TCG Mobile Phone Working Group, Strategic Director for Global Platform and Nokia’s main representative and board member in the SAFECode forum.