ABSTRACT : The delivery of private or secret messages has been an issue of concern regardless of method of transport. Since antiquity, it was risky to send a message with a messenger without compromise. As a result, certain methods were developed to assure unintelligibility of a message if in enemy hands or to indicate to the rightful recipient that the message has been compromised or not. In our modern era, most messages and private data are transported over the communications network, which unfortunately is not immune to eavesdroppers, malicious attackers, impersonators and in general to bad actors who, with sophisticated methods access the network and harvest or destroy electronic data. In recent years, government and private industry worldwide are witnessing with concern an alarming increase in such malicious acts. This short course covers the topics:

• Overview of encryption methods and data privacy.
• Modern network security issues, network security levels, and security layers in communication networks (Information, MAC, Link layers).
• A mathematical foundation for security; Prime numbers, mod arithmetic, GCD, and Random numbers.
• Ciphers (symmetric, asymmetric, RSC, DES, AES, RC4, elliptic curve, RSA).
• Key distribution algorithms (Merkle, Shamir, Diffie-Hellman, ECC, Digital Signature, Key Escrow)
• Quantum Cryptography and QKD (Polarization, Entangled-States, Teleportation).
• Vulnerabilities and countermeasures in QC
• Biometrics in communication networks, and
• Security in the Next Generation Optical Networks

Biography of Dr. Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos,
Dr. Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos, IEEE Fellow and ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, is currently the Williams Professor in Telecommunications Networking at the Telecommunications systems graduate program of the University of Oklahoma. Prior to this he was with Bell Laboratories where he defined, led and managed research and development teams in the areas of DWDM optical networks, SONET and ATM, Cross-connect, Switching, Transmission and Access systems and components. For his contributions, he has received the company’s President’s Award and several awards of Excellence.

He holds nineteen patents, he is the author of seven reference books: “Next Generation Intelligent Optical Networks”, “Optical Bit Error Rate”, “Next Generation SONET/SDH”, “DWDM: Networks, Systems and Components”, “Introduction to DWDM Technology”, “Fault Detectability in DWDM“, “Understanding SONET/SDH and ATM”, “Understanding Neural Networks and Fuzzy logic”; he has also contributed several chapters to other books.

He has been a Bell Labs Distinguished Lecturer, has lectured at international conferences, Universities and at NASA, has moderated executive forums and has organized Symposia, workshops and sessions at major international communications conferences. For the last seven years, Stamatios has taught optical networks, SONET/SDH and DWDM technology at a postgraduate level as well as at international conferences, seminars, continuing education.

Dr Kartalopoulos is an IEEE Fellow, founder and chair of the ComSoc Communications and Information Security Technical Committee, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, member-at-large of IEEE NTDC committee, and past Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Press, member of IEEE PSP Board, chair of ComSoc Emerging Technologies SPCE Technical Committees, and VP of IEEE NNC (now IEEE Computational Intelligence Society).

ABSTRACT Currently, IP networks have a huge and important position. This tutorial will describe the architectures devoted for the future Internet. First of all, autonomic networking will be described with a knowledge plane and a piloting system able to control the different algorithms available in IP networks and consequently responds to users’ requirements.

Network virtualization will also be studied in details. This is a process allowing to combine hardware and software network resources and functionalities into several virtual networks working in isolation. In this presentation, we will first describe this process with the pros and cons. Then, we will depict some realizations and a performance evaluation of a virtual router available on the market.

Strong directions of research for securing the future IP generations will also be introduced. We will compare the different today’solutions with TPM (Trusted Platform Module), and with the future TEAPM (Trusted EAP Module) solution.

Some new paradigms that will be available for Post-IP architectures will also be described like cognitive radio, virtual antenna (this should lead to a new generation of wireless networks as for example the IEEE 802.11aa with a 1Gbps throughput). The Wi-xx and 4G architecture will be explained and compared.

Finally, we will show how to go to a Post-IP solution and what could be the future protocols for Post-IP networks.

Guy Pujolle is currently a Professor at the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris 6) and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Orange/France Telecom Group. He was appointed by the Education Ministry to found the Department of Computer Science at the University of Versailles, where he spent the period 1994-2000 as Professor and Head. He was Head of the MASI Laboratory (University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6), 1981-1993, Professor at ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications), 1979-1981, and member of the scientific staff of INRIA (Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique), 1974-1979. Dr. Pujolle is the French representative at the Technical Committee on Networking at IFIP. He is an editor for International Journal of Network Management, WINET, Telecommunication Systems and Editor in Chief of the indexed Journal “Annals of Telecommunications”. He was an editor for Computer Networks (until 2000), Operations Research (until 2000), Editor-In-Chief of Networking and Information Systems Journal (until 2000), Ad Hoc Journal and several other journals. Guy Pujolle is a pioneer in high-speed networking having led the development of the first Gbit/s network to be tested in 1980.

He was also a European expert involved in the development of IP over ATM for European high-speed networks. He was chairman of the French Research Network REUNIR from 1987 to 1991, one out of the three members of the Wisdom Committee (Lars Backstrom, Brian Carpenter, Guy Pujolle) to decide on the future of TCP/IP in the European research network (decision January 22, 1990 to choose TCP/IP as the technology to be used for Europe instead of ATM). Chairman of the expert committee of the Ministry of Telecommunications for Telecommunication regulation (1992-1998). Guy Pujolle was Technical Chairman of the WLANSmartCard consortium for normalizing security and mobility in wireless LANs using a smartcard (2002-2006). He has published widely in the area of computer systems modeling and performance, queueing theory, high-speed networks, intelligence in networking, wireless networks, and Post-IP networks.

He has published 19 influential texts and monographs in these areas. He is a Professor Honoris Causa of Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications since 1988, and Invited Professor of several Universities: Stanford, UFRJ, Rutgers, UQAM. He was awarded the Special Seymour Cray Award in 1991 for his research, and Silver Core from IFIP in 1995. Also in 1995 his book « les Réseaux » was awarded the Roberval Prize in France for the best scientific book of the year.

Guy Pujolle is co-founder and member of the scientific board of QoSMOS (www.qosmos.fr), Ucopia Communications (www.ucopia.com), Ginkgo-Networks (www.ginkgo-networks.com), EtherTrust (www.ethertrust.com), and Virtuor (www.VirtuOR.com).

ABSTRACT :High-Performance Computing, or supercomputing, is the field of exploiting massive parallelism in large scale applications through advanced hardware technology and parallel architectures. High-Performance Computing has traditionally been a niche area aimed at national security and critical scientific applications that can justify the cost of such systems. As we approached the physical limitations of the Moore’s law and doubling processor clocking rates became no longer an option, the desire to for higher performance and more FLOPS per watt has resulted in massive parallelism on the chip. From multi-core and many-core processor chips to Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Graphical Processor Units (GPUs), and CELL BE chips massive parallelism is becoming ubiquitous. This talk will survey the history of supercomputing and demonstrate how it all got miniaturized to fit into modern chips making parallel computing move from a niche area to become the backbone of mainstream computing. In the light of this hardware revolution, we will highlight new research directions that can leverage the tremendous power of new and future processing hardware and the changes needed for our computing curricula.

Biography of Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi
Tarek El-Ghazawi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The George Washington University. He has received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from New Mexico State University in 1988. Dr. El-Ghazawi has been elected to the director of GWU Institute for Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technologies (IMPACT) in 2007. He has also co-founded the NSF Industry/University Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC) for which he is a Co-Director. CHREC is a U.S. national research center with sites at University of Florida, GWU, VaTech and BYU.

Dr. El-Ghazawi’s research interests include high-performance computing, computer architectures, reconfigurable and embedded computing, and applications to remote sensing and image processing. Tarek El-Ghazawi is one of the principal co-authors of the UPC parallel programming language. He was the first author of the first formal specifications of the language and the author of the UPC book that interprets the language, from John Wiley and Sons. In 2005, IBM has won the HPCC Challenge Award by using UPC on its Blue Gene L, the fastest computer in the world. UPC runs ubiquitously on nearly all clusters and parallel computers. El-Ghazawi has published over a 150 refereed research publications in these areas.

Dr. El-Ghazawi is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers and has been a guest editor for IEEE Computer and the IEEE Concurrency magazines. Dr. El- Ghazawi’s research has been supported by government and industry including NSF, NASA, DARPA/DoD, ARSC, IBM, SGI, and Microsoft.

Dr. El-Ghazawi has received the IBM faculty award in 2004. El-Ghazawi served as a visiting scientist at NASA GSFC and NASA ARC. He has also served as the Prinicpal Investigator for over 30 research grant/contract. He has served on the Science Advisory Board of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, the Technical Advisory Board of DSPLogic, and on the Advisory Board for the IEEE Task force for Cluster Computing. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the ACM, IFIP WG 10.3, and Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society.

ABSTRACT : The future of operating systems is not as clear as it used to be. With technology shifts like massively parallel processors, large memory systems and (what was once considered insanely fast) networking, along with a plethora of virtualization technologies all of which are piled upon existing complexity, something has to give.

This talk will discuss the requirements of an operating system that is intended to support new applications implemented on these new hardware architectures while relieving the application developer of much of the mechanical drudgery that keeps them from focusing on their purpose. OpenSolaris, as a starting point is farther along than most. The intent of this discussion will be to provide an indication what large OS and systems vendors are struggling with as well as inspiration to solutions that are needed in the open source (OpenSolaris) world

James currently is a Sun Fellow and vice president in the Solaris Operating System organization at Sun Microsystems. He has 35 years in the computer industry in the areas of Networking, Storage and Security. In his current role, he is responsible for guiding the future direction for the Solaris operating system. Prior to this position, he was a Fellow at Network Systems Corporation, a fellow at Storage Technology Corporation now Sun, each through acquisition. James' technical focus includes High Performance Computing, Storage, Networking, Security and Cryptography. James has been a member of several IEEE and ANSI standards organization in the areas of communication, security and storage, and is currently the chair of the IEEE P1619 working group to standardize encrypted storage.

Abstract: Many routing protocols have been proposed by researchers for possible practical implementation of a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) in military, government and commercial environments. Examples of such protocols include: Ad Hoc on demand Distance Vector routing (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) and Temporally Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA), and many others. Also, there are reactive and proactive routing protocols. In most of these routing protocols, security is built on top of the protocol. In many cases, this turn out not to be the best approach in terms of being fully secured. Therefore, we propose a new security feature that will be designed from the ground up considering the routing concepts with the security and trust integrated. We call this new protocol model “Trust-Aware Routing Protocol (TARP).” TARP focuses more on the trusted availability and quality of trust as important factors in building secure protocols to be used in Ad Hoc networks.

In this talk, we review the current Ad-Hoc routing protocols and investigate their security features. Then, we discuss the details of a new proposed protocol, TARP, and show how we believe that it will resolve some the current security problems that Ad-Hoc networks are facing today.

Presenter’s Bio: Mohsen Guizani is currently a Professor and the Chair of the Computer Science Department at Western Michigan University. He received his B.S. (with distinction) and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering; M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering in 1984, 1986, 1987, and 1990, respectively, from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. His research interests include Computer Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and Optical Networking.

He currently serves on the editorial boards of six technical Journals and the Founder and EIC of “Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing” Journal published by John Wiley and the Journal of Computer Systems, Networks and Communications, (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1530-8669/), (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/). He is also the Founder and General Chair of the IEEE International Conference of Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009). He is the author of six books and more than 200 publications in refereed journals and conferences. He guest edited a number of special issues in IEEE Journals and Magazines. He also served as member, Chair, and General Chair of a number of conferences. Dr. Guizani received both the Best Teaching Award and the Excellence in Research Award from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1999 (a college wide competition). He won the best Research Award from KFUPM in 1995 (a university wide competition). He was selected as the Best Teaching Assistant for two consecutive years at Syracuse University, 1988 and 1989. He is the past Chair of TAOS and Vice-Chair of WTC IEEE ComSoc Technical Committees.

Dr. Guizani is an active senior member of IEEE, member of IEEE Communication Society, IEEE Computer Society, ASEE, and ACM.