Tutorials
Tutorial 1 – T1
Half a day
Title: Introduction to smart cards
Speaker: Dr. Vincent Guyot, Associate Professor, ESIEA/LIP6,
avincent.guyot@lip6.fr
The smart card has initially been created to secure exchanges between banks. It also secures the
mobile telecommunication networks within each GSM terminal. Although the smart card technology has
been extensively used for 30 years and is now standardized, only few people know what a smart card is
and which benefits its usage could bring. This presentation will give an introduction to the world of
smart cards. It will introduce the architecture of a smart card, present the recent APIs facilitating
the usage of smart cards within software, and highlight the performance of new smart cards through
examples. The objective of the session is to provide the presentation attendees with an in-depth
understanding of smart cards and of what can be expected from their usage today.
Speaker Biography: Dr Vincent Guyot received his PhD in CS from the University of Paris 6 -
Pierre & Marie Curie, France. He has been an assistant professor at the University of Paris 12 - Val
de Marne, from 2001 to 2006. He is currently an associate professor at ESIEA, a French school of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science based in Paris, where he is involved with the launch of
an international specialized master degree in Networks and Information Security. He collaborates
closely with LIP6 (University of Paris 6 - Pierre & Marie Curie) and INFRES (ENST/Telecom Paris)
research labs. Dr Guyot teaches programming, computer networks and security, and conducts research
in the area of security and mobility in wired and wireless networks. He is the co-author of two
books, and two additional books are in writing. He is member of IEEE and IEEE Communications
Society.
Tutorial 2 – T2
Half a day
Title: Optical Communications Networks and Devices
Professor Dr. Alok Kumar Das
Electronics & Communication Engineering Deptt.
Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700 032, India
Phone +91 33 2436 3733®, +91 33 2414 6010(O)
Email: alok_kumar_das@yahoo.com
Abstract: To study the characteristics of any network, handling skyrocketing amount of traffic
on the internet, it is always required to understand the different types of network as well as the
related components and devices for optimization of the network system with better efficiency. To
accommodate this skyrocketing amount of traffic, optical network with wavelength division
multiplexing (WDM) having several wavelengths per fiber as channels, is the most feasible solution.
Transmission rate of a channel is currently 2.4, 10 or 40 Gbps. With the advent of WDM technology,
IP (Internet Protocol) backbone carriers are now connecting core routers directly over point-to-point
WDM links (IP over WDM). This layer structure with a help of GMPLS (Generalized Multi Protocol Level
Switching) and OXC (Optical Cross Connect) with IP packets are directly mapped into wavelength
channels. The signal without O-E-O (optical to electrical and electrical to optical) conversion
reduces the deployment time and thus produces additional network robustness. It has the advantage of
eliminating the intermediate layer such as ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) and SONET/SDH
(Synchronous Optical Network/ Synchronous Digital Hierarchy). In a larger networks having more number
of nodes, more wavelengths are needed and to avoid the large number of wavelengths the
wavelength-routed networks overcome these limitations through wavelength reuse, wavelength
conversion, and optical switching. Now-a-day there is a need to develop efficient optical components
and devices relevant to the different optical networks.
The objective of the tutorial is to provide the attendees first in understanding different basic
topologies of the network and to show the better performance of the mesh one to obtain the maximum
throughput and bandwidth of the network and also cost effective. The analysis for throughput and
bandwidth maximization of some mesh networks like NSFNET (USA), JGN (Japan) and BSNL (India) will be
discussed. The Markov model is used to solve the optimum condition of an efficient network system
where the queue of the packets can be kept in a minimum. The different conditions of server idleness
and packet queue in a network for different node numbers (N) are considered and the optimum condition
depending on the arrival rate Pa and the retransmission rate P will be discussed. We shall discuss
the router and routing techniques and different switches and their implementations. Other than the
Opto-electronic switching system, the switching can be made directly for routing without converting
the optical signal to electrical signal. The different implementation methods of the switches are
mechanical, MEMS, Liquid Crystals, Bubble, waveguide type TO (Thermo-optic) and EO (Electro-optic)
switches, etc. These optical switches are very efficient and depending on size, capacity, speed, and
cost one technology may prove superior to another, at least for specific needs. The advantages and
disadvantages of electrical, Opto-electronics and optical switches and in-depth understanding for
their requirements considering the limitation of the bandwidth between the links in different network
systems will be discussed. The other waveguide type devices like modulators, attenuators, add/drop
filters, couplers, power dividers and combiners, TE and TM mode splitters etc., required for optical
networks, will be discussed considering their low losses and compact sizes. Now-a-day polymeric
optical waveguide devices have attracted great interest in the field of integrated optics as it
offers many advantages compared with other available waveguide materials because of their potential
for easy, low-temperature and low-cost processing, highly tunable material index with large
Thermo-optic coefficient. It also offers EO property with large Electro-optic coefficient simply by
mixing the dye in a polymer. It possesses high nonlinear optical property for high speed and
wide-band signal processing. The demand for low priced polymeric optical fibers (POF) is increasing
due to their many short distance applications (10Gbps transmission over 100 meters) including fibers
in home. Lastly, we shall discuss the networking of 21st century. To fulfill this we are lucky for
the invention of low loss optical fiber for the use of communication network and further it continues
to drive photonics technology in developing the relevant components and flexible optical networking.
Speaker Biography: Professor Dr. Alok Kumar Das graduated in 1965 from Jadavpur University,
Kolkata, India in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. He completed his Master and PhD
degrees in Engineering from the same University in 1967 and 1972, respectively. He is a senior
Professor in the Department. Dr. Das is a senior member of IEEE and is the winner of the prestigious
IEEE 2000 Millennium award. His research interest is in the field of Optical fiber communication
systems including integrated optics and optical networks. He has directed several sponsored projects
in the area of optical fiber components, optical networks, and optical instruments. Dr. Das is
directly involved in the development of optical wave-guiding devices like interconnects, modulators,
switches, and attenuators. He was Visiting Professor in the City University of Hong Kong almost every
year from 1999 to 2004 for the development of optical devices, to be required in optical network
applications. Currently he is involved to develop both Thermo-optic and Electro-optic Polymeric
materials for the fabrication of optical devices. Dr. Das has given several invited talks in US,
Canada, Japan, Germany, China, S. Korea, and others and editor of several journals including IEEE.
Dr. Das published about 140 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings including IEEE,
Applied Optics, Optics Lett. Electronics Lett.
Tutorial 3 – T3
Half a day
Title: MAC FUNDAMENTALS OF SATELLITE-BASED MULTIFUNCTIONAL MOBILE
AND WIRELESS GRID-LIKE COMMUNICATIONS 4G FOR EMERGING ECONOMIES AND REMOTE, RURAL, AND
DIFFICULT-FOR-ACCESS TERRITORIES
Speaker: Professor Dr. Alexander Markhasin, Siberian State University of Telecommunications
and Information Sciences Kirov Street, 86, Novosibirsk 630102, Russia,
almar@rinet.su
Abstract: The future generation of the satellite based wireless & mobile communications 4G
is particularly important for global and ubiquitous providing of the mobile broadband
multi-services and m-Applications for geographically dispersed mass users in support of anytime,
anywhere, and any required quality of service (QoS) capabilities in a low-cost way. The recent
broadband satellite systems are based mainly on centralized low-meshed architecture. It predetermines
very high traffics concentration. Such structure is not adequate in context of the traffic topology
for rural, remote, and difficult-for-access (RRD) regions. Therefore the cost of these systems
is unacceptably large for deployment of future mass broadband communications in RRD regions, which
are characterized by poor terrestrial core infrastructures, just as they cover about 90% of the
territory of land and include, in fact, all emerging economies. It was known, that the improvement
of medium access control (MAC) protocols have a dominant effect on the ensuring the dynamical control
of QoS, radically distributed architecture, and other breakthrough features of the mobile and
wireless technologies 4G for RRD areas. This tutorial presents a novel concept of the space-based
cost-effective networking technology of future communications 4G with radically distributed
(grid-like), mesh, and scalable all-IP/ATM integrated satellite/mobile/wireless architecture for RRD
areas and emerging economies. The proposed architecture based on advanced QoS-oriented
multifunctional medium access control technology to long-delay space medium (MFMAC). The main
breakthrough drivers for RRD oriented 4G communications include also push MFMAC-based next
generations of wireless asynchronous transfer mode (ATM/MFMAC), multi-protocol label switching
(MPLS/MFMAC), and also IP over digital video broadcasting (DVD-S/MFMAC) integrated networking
technologies. The tutorial presents also these technologies. The MFMAC networking technology will
allow an effective support and integration of Satellites and terrestrial cellular, personal, WLAN,
WiFi, WiMax, and other wireless system of future generations 4G for such RRD territories, as BRIC
(Brasilia, Russia, India, and China), Sea and Ocean’s Archipelago, North Canada, Alaska, Central and
South-East Asia, South America, Africa, Australia, etc.
Speaker Biography: Alexander B. Markhasin received the degree in electrical & mechanic
engineering and a Ph.D. from the Technical (Mining) University of St.- Petersburg, Russia in 1958
and 1966, respectively, and the D. Sc.(T) from Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences in
1990. His research interest includes multiple access and QoS dynamic control methods, mobile and
wireless communications, long-delay wireless / radio / satellite /optical distributed grid-like
architecture and next generations’ technology. From 1964 he develops multi-access theory. In 1969 he
investigated and published the multi-access schemes named later widely as Aloha and CSMA, and he at
the same time determined the positive effect of slotting of the packet transmission too. He was a
leader of working out the first (1975-1980) packet radio network in Russia called INFRA. During last
20 years his research interests focus on the fully distributed multi-access control to long-delay
medium, dynamic control of the bandwidth resources, traffic parameters and service quality (QoS), and
also on radically distributed (grid-like) architecture for wireless, mobile and satellite
communications 3G/4G.
Currently he is Professor, Head of Telecommunication Networks Departments of the Siberian State
Telecommunications University, Member of the International Information Academy and Russian Academy of
Engineering Sciences, IEEE Member.
Tutorial4 – T4
To be Provided