Panel SessionPanel title: Security Issues - The Next Generation of All IP Networks AIPN
Security is a broad topic that needs to be addressed at all levels, including application, network and physical layers, the legal and social levels. As IP proliferates, with the next generation wireless and optical technologies, security is and will be a major concern. Attack patterns are changing starting from cyber-terrorism to social engineering. The convergence of Voice and Video over IP thereby provides hackers and spammers with new avenues to attack digital assets. What kinds of information about users and media contents are too dangerous to be exposed? Who should decide what method of security is to be deployed? How should the security architecture be evaluated to ensure that AAA and Confidentiality is maximized while potential misuses are minimized? What kind of security policy is required for this converged scenario? How to protect intellectual properties in a ubiquitous environment? How to look at security form a holistic perspective rather than a compartmental view? WOCN 2006 panel intends to set out guidelines for protecting wireless IP from security attacks and facilitate availability with minimal DoS. Panel discussions will address the issues of security in the wireless IP world.
Panel title: Switching Implementation in Optical Network
With the advent of optical technologies, most notably optical networks with wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) transmission having several wavelengths per fiber as channels, produce much interest in solving the huge demand on the internet with ever increasing traffic. Transmission rate of a channel is currently limited to 40 Gbps. Now-a-day the implementation of IP (Internet Protocol) over DWDM are growing and there is a gradual migration from the existing IP over ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) and over SONET (Synchronous Optical Network). With the techniques of GMPLS (generalized version of Multi Protocol Label Switching) and OXC (optical cross connect) IP packets are directly connected to each other into wavelength channels. The signal with O-E-O (optical to electrical and electrical to optical) conversion produces a delay where as the signal without O-E-O reduces delay time and thus produces additional network robustness. Theoretically, the data rates could be pushed somewhere between 25-75 terabits per second. In some networks, IP routers are connected through SONET interfaces and DWDM links. The router and routing techniques with OXC require switches and their implementation. Other than Opto-electronic switches, the optical switches are used directly for routing without converting the optical signal to Electrical signal. The panel discussions will be focused for different implementation methods of optical switches, such as MEMS, Liquid Crystals, Bubble, waveguide type TO (Thermooptic) and EO (Electrooptic), etc, and suggestions will be proposed for the technologies according to the specific need of the switches considering their size, capacity, speed, cost and reliability in different WDM systems.
Panel Chair: Professor Dr. Alok Kumar Das, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Panel Members
Prof Asoke K Talukder, DaimlerChrysler Chair, IIIT-B asoke.talukder@iiitb.ac.in
Mr. Mohan Rao, Senior Manager – Samsung, India mohanrao@samsung.com
Prof B. B. Amberker, Professor & Head, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, India bba@sit.ac.in
Professor Dr. Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos, Williams Professor in Telecommunications Networking, University of Oklahoma
Mr. Suprio Dasgupta, Legal Counsel – Intellectual Property, Honeywell Asia pacific
Dr. Madan Pande, System Architect & Technical Consultant, HP madan.pande@hp.com
Mr. Ashish Kole, Director of Engineering, Network management, Cisco System
Mr. Subramanium P., Wipro Technologies subbu.pochinapeddi@wipro.com
Mr. Vinod C Joseph, Technical Lead - Samsung, India vinod.joseph@ieee.org
Last updated: 12 Feb 06