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14/04/2010

Belgian Young ICT Personality 2010 elected. 

Paschalis Tsiaflakis (KUL) wins the biyearly FITCE.be competition with the topic "Green DSL technology” 

The theme of this year’s contest was “Internet: past and future”. 

The jury, Pol Vanbiervliet (CISCO), Stijn Van Der Plaetse (Belgacom) and Herman Hendrickx (VRT) selected Paschalis Tsiaflakis for its highly innovative, well presented idea with lots of business potential. 

Mr. Tsiaflakis realized that energy efficiency should also be considered as an essential design objective for future broadband access technologies. The ICT industry accounts for approximately 2 percent of global CO2 emissions, a figure equivalent to aviation. 

In his exposé, Paschalis Tsiaflakis highlighted Digital subscriber line (DSL) technology as an important for the following decades enabling data rates up to 52 Mbps. The performance of DSL technology is boosted by the application of Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM), which refers to a set of powerful techniques that can further improve the data rates up to 200-400 Mbps. 
The presented Green DSL technology extends the traditional data rate maximization approach towards a more general energy-efficient approach. Green DSL simulation results have shown that for certain VDSL2 scenarios transmit energy savings of up to 50% can be achieved with only 5% degradation in data rate performance. 
The proposed Green DSL technology is the result of an international research collaboration between Dr. Paschalis Tsiaflakis and Prof. Marc Moonen from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Prof. Mung Chiang from Princeton University, NJ, USA, and Prof. Yung Yi from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea. 

Runners up for the title were 
- Olivier Rits (Alcatel-Lucent) with the topic “It’s all about the WWW, stupid!”
- Laure Emmanuelle Nonnenmacher (Belgacom) with the topic “Challenge of the Content & the In-Between” 

As an expert ICT organization at the heart of Europe FITCE.be (Belgian Federation of Telecom Engineers of the EU) promotes the development of and know-how in R&D, technology and trends in the Belgian and pan-European ICT market. The goal of the biyearly “FITCE.be Young ICT Personality” contest is to allow young professionals to share their ideas and views on a specific ICT topic with a larger audience of professionals and leaders from the ICT industry.

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