The IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2005)will take place in January before CES. Participants will present, examine, and discuss networked consumer systems and devices at work, home, and within mobile platforms with a focus on enabling pervasive consumer communications.

In his keynote address, Dr. Teruaki Aoki of Sony will present the trends of consumer electronics products, applications, and technologies that converge with broadband networking and communication functions and evolve toward pervasive consumer communications. Keynoter Jan Rabaey UC Berkeley will address the impacts of a wide range of ubiquitous wireless applications on both information dissemination and access. Leonardo Chiariglione of MPEG will portray the impact of digital rights management on both the business of media and users.

The CCNC 2005 will feature tutorials on embedded Internet and ADSL, ADSL2, VDSL, and beyond. To be presented by industry experts, other tutorials will address UPnP, online entertainment, home networking standardization, wearable systems, wireless sensor networks, networked appliances, and Internet consumer-oriented communications.

Interactive venues will be provided by panels on the future of gaming, the automobile as a network interface, end-user needs in communications and networking, home networks - implementation and standards, mesh and peer to peer networking technologies, the future of content distribution, and the emerging markets based on MBOA UWB including development in wireless USB and wireless 1394.

The technical papers will start with a session on mobile ad hoc networks, followed by sessions on service discovery and peer-to-peer networks and security in consumer communications systems.

CCNC 2005 will include a workshop on digital rights management impact on consumer communications. The workshop will address rights holders' issues as they seek to protect their intellectual property rights and by end-consumers who seek privacy protection and to preserve the access they currently enjoy in traditional media.

The communications and consumer electronics industries are embracing this conference. Its key research and development topics represent what entrepreneurs, corporations, and universities are aggressively pursuing.

CCNC is an annual conference sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc).