Tutorial 1:
"Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks for Vehicular Applications"
Prof. Mario Gerla – UCLA – California - USA.

Abstract:
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have met enormous success in the Internet because of the many advantages they offer with respect to traditional client/server systems, namely: scalability, dependability and robustness. Peer to Peer systems are now emerging also in wireless, mobile networks. For example: vehicle and people based content distribution, file sharing and network games; urban environment sensing with vehicles or personal cellular phones; collaborative group-work in people networks, etc. Mobility and radio propagation pose formidable challenges to mobile P2P architectures, requiring a fundamental redesign with respect to traditional P2P strategies.  

In this tutorial we address the vehicular scenario, a scenario that has attracted growing interest for the range of applications it enables, from safe driving to content distribution, advertising, commerce and games. We first introduce basic P2P models for fixed and mobile networks. Then, we review popular Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) applications supported by the P2P dissemination paradigm (Car/CodeTorrent, Mobeyes and Last Encounter Routing). Finally, we discuss the design challenges including information harvesting  and privacy 

Outline: 

Part I : Basic P2P models

1. Internet Overlays: Multicast
2. DHT Indexing: Chord, Pastry
3. A Mobile DHT: VRR

Part II: Vehicular Applications

1. Mobility models
2. Content Distribution: CarTorrent; CodeTorrent; Network Coding
3. Dissemination: Urban Sensing, Mobeyes
4. Last Encounter routing – a routing scheme supported by P2P dissemination
5. Secure dissemination: Situation Aware Trust (SAT)

 

Biography of Prof. Mario Gerla
Dr. Mario Gerla, Professor, UCLA, Computer Science Dept. Dr. Gerla received his Engineering degree from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1966 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA in 1970 and 1973. He became IEEE Fellow in 2002. At UCLA, he was part of a small team that developed the early ARPANET protocols under the guidance of Prof. Leonard Kleinrock. He worked at Network Analysis Corporation, New York, from 1973 to 1976, transferring the ARPANET technology to several Government and Commercial Networks. He joined the Faculty of the Computer Science Department at UCLA in 1976, where he is now Professor. At UCLA he has designed and implemented some of the most popular and cited network protocols for ad hoc wireless networks including distributed clustering, multicast (ODMRP and CODECast) and transport (TCP Westwood) under DARPA and NSF grants. He has lead the $12M, 6 year ONR MINUTEMAN project, designing the next generation scalable airborne Internet for tactical and homeland defense scenarios. He is now leading two advanced wireless network projects under ARMY and IBM funding. In the commercial network scenario, with NSF and Industry sponsorship, he has led the development of vehicular communications for safe navigation, urban sensing and location awareness. A parallel research activity covers personal P2P communications including cooperative, networked medical monitoring (see www.cs.ucla.edu/NRL for recent publications).

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Tutorial 2:
"A Novel Approach in the Design of Secure Wireless Systems Using ChaoticSignals and   Iinterference Mitigation Techniques"

Prof. Peter Stavroulakis
Technical  University of Crete
Chania , Crete , Greece

Abstract:
One can say that the subject of security is as old as the subject of communications. The field of wireless communications has become one of the primary media for transmitting information from point to point and from a point to a given area. The advent of Satellite communications technology and its application to satellite mobile systems has made the subject of security of universal concern in the design of  wireless systems.
 In this tutorial we shall present a review of the areas that require further study regarding the  factors  that affect the security  of  wireless systems and we will show for the first time why the existing security mechanisms including  cryptography  do not  necessarily solve the security problems in various wireless  systems. We shall propose ways to move forward using as an example a new methodology based on Chaotic techniques. This methodology is based on two recent books and an International Patent by  the author by which what was thought as an impossible task i.e to make  chaotic signal based secure communications robust is  now proved possible.

Scope and Objective
The scope of this tutorial is to show how a novel approach in designing  secure wireless systems based on the reevaluation of older techniques could be implemented in realistic applications. It is expected that this tutorial will generate  some renewed interest in the application of chaotic signals in the design of modern secure wireless systems. 

 

Intended Audience
This tutorial will be valuable to all researchers interested in the general field of  security  and young scientists who are looking for new  research  topics in the field of security. As a matter of fact this tutorial is also proposing  a new open research areas.
Attending  this Tutorial, the participants will be able to get an overall  outline of how the security field  has been developed and where we still need to do some more work and how we can move forward  covering the  remaining gaps which basically relate interference  mitigation techniques  with  chaotic signal based secure communications. Some specific real world applications will be presented which have direct implementability.
 In summary, this Tutorial will benefit  young researchers, designers of  large scale Secure Telecom  Systems  such as those  used in World class events  as are the Olympic Games  and University Instructors who  are seeking to put together  instruction  material for new courses  and /or choose research topics for their Ph.D students.

 

Outline:
This Tutorial will cover the following topics:

1. What is Security/Security Mechanisms
2. Security aspects of OSI  Model
3. Mapping of the seven layer  ISO Model to a

      Seven level security Model

1. Present Status of Secure Wireless Systems
2. Use of  Chaotic Signals to enhance security

           in conjunction with Interference Mitigation

1. Application to TETRA Systems.
2. Proposals for TETRA based Secure Systems
3. Applications in space security

 

Biography of Prof Peter Stavroulakis

Peter Stavroulakis received his BS and Ph.D. degrees from New York University in 1969 and 1973 respectively and his MS degree from California Institute of Technology in 1970.He joined Bell Laboratories in 1973 and worked until 1979 when he joined Oakland University in Rochester Michigan as an associate Professor of Engineering. He worked at Oakland University until 1981 when he joined ATT International and subsequently NYNEX International until 1990. From1990 to present he has been at Technical University of Crete. as a full Professor of Electrical Engineering  in may 1990. His related work includes more than 100 research papers. He is the author/editor in total of  14 Books in the general Area of Telecommunication Systems.
His Distinct Qualifications related to security are the following:

1) Participated in the  design of the Security Network for the Winter  Olympic Games in 1986 at Albertville France  and was responsible for the evaluation of the  security  Network for the Athens Olympic/2004
2) He is a Holder of a unique International  Patent on the security of wireless Communications  based of Chaotic  Techniques.
3) Author of two related  books published by ARTECHOUSE and  Taylor and Francis  and  two other books by SPRINGER  one of which is  just  being  published.
4) He had been invited by China to participate in similar activities regarding the Olympic Games of Beijing/2008 and he  is  a Member of Editorial Board  of the China Communications Journal. He  co-organized a Conference in Beijing in October  2006 to present how these concepts can be used for the Beijing Olympics/2008. He was also  invited  by  the  governing board of CHINACOM to present an All Day Tutorial in October 2006 in Beijing on the subject of   Network and Information  Security. He has  also served as a Guest  Editor for the  CHINA  COMMUNICATIONS  JOURNAL  for two  special issues on Communications and Information security.
 5 )He  is a founding member of the  IEEE  Technical committee on  Communication and information security and has received the sponsorship of  this committee  for proposing  the  establishment  a new IEEE Transaction Journal on  Communication and Information security. 
Professor Peter  Stavroulakis has presented a number of successful tutorials in related  subjects in the last five years in IEEE conferences  such  as  ICC, Globecom,  and VTC conferences

 

 

 

 

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