Background: In the 1980s I created local area networking technology which was used in both industrial and commercial environments. After that I created products for carrying video and audio over ATM networks, including switching equipment; this has given me an insight into the requirements of audio and other live media, which are very different from those for data traffic. More recently I have been researching how packet networking can meet these requirements as well as avoiding the various problems that have been identified with IP. I am a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society and chair their standards subcommittee SC-02 (digital audio). I am also editor of several international standards documents including ISO TR 29181-3 (Future Network switching and routing). At the beginning of this year I was appointed to chair ETSI ISG NGP (Next Generation Protocols for core and RAN, targeted at 3GPP Release 17).

Topic: ETSI ISG NGP, and its proposals for networking protocols that are better able to meet the requirements for 5G (particularly latency and efficiency) than IP, and are architected to be appropriate to the 21st century (e.g. separating control and data planes).

Links: http://www.etsi.org/technologies-clusters/technologies/next-generation-protocols including "blog" tab; http://www.ninetiles.com/