Tutorial 1: Cyber Security of Smart Grid
Tutorial 2: Science of on-line advertising
Tutorial 3: Cognitive Radio Network Security
Tutorial 4: OpenFlow and its Applications
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Tutorial 1
Topic: Cyber Security of Smart Grid
Date and time: 12th December 9 AM - 11:15 AM
Tutors: Manimaran Govindarasu Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
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Abstract Electric power systems have historically used supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA) to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient management. These systems are connected via a highly automated network. A variety of communication networks and information systems are interconnected to the electric grid for the purpose of sensing, monitoring, and control. The trend has been on using open standards and protocols for communication and automation, which enables richer functionality and interoperability; however, it also exposes the system to various kinds of cyber threats that are growing everyday in numbers and sophistication. Therefore, the cyber security of modern power grid is a challenging issue of societal importance that has economic and national security implications. Smart grid: Power grid modernization will leverage information technology to provide more intelligent control and management of energy generation, transmission, and distribution. Smart grid technology provides customers with improved grid reliability and greater support for renewable energy, and real-time cost information. Unfortunately, the smart grid will also present additional risk from cyber attack as potentially unknown vulnerabilities could produce catastrophic effects. Ensuring the security of smart grid implementations will require security control enhancements beyond our current capabilities. This tutorial will address the cyber security concerns that accompany smart grid deployments and detail current needs to help mitigate those risks. Specific topics will include security of SCADA, smart metering infrastructures, and initiatives with the NASPInet architecture. Specific attention will address network protocols, trust requirements, and resulting vulnerabilities. Risk management frameworks will also be discussed with a specific characterization of smart grid technologies, including the identification of critical assets, security compliance responsibilities, and risk mitigation techniques.
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Tutorial 2
Topic: Science of on-line advertising
Date and time: 13th December 9 AM - 11:15 AM
Tutors: Rushi Bhat and Sachin Garg, Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore
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Abstract In this tutorial, we introduce the core concepts of Computational/On-line Advertising to the audience. Online Advertising is a multi-billion dollar business and still undergoing fast growth. The field of Computational Advertising research derives its methods from machine learning, statistics, computer science, and microeconomics to optimize revenue for the advertiser, publisher, the intermediaries facilitating online ad transactions, and of course, the audience experience. Our goal for this tutorial is to convey the current understanding of how online advertising works and the key scientific challenges in the field. Using specific experiences at Yahoo!, we will describe the online ad landscape and the underlying technical problems that need to be solved. At the end of this tutorial, we expect the audience to have a good overall understanding of how online ads get selected, served, and optimized for revenue and user experience at web-scale. The audience will also get a flavor of some of the state of the art models and algorithms that drive online ads today. In the first part of the tutorial, we will cover the workings of ad exchanges (e.g., RightMedia, Yahoo! Apt), describe ad selection and optimization models that determine ad ranking and pricing, and attempt to improve overall user experience of advertisement. Response prediction algorithms (that estimate the probability that a user will interact with an ad or eventually purchase the advertised product) will be covered in detail. In the second part of the tutorial, we will cover recent developments in online ads that are in radically departure from the traditional per-impression optimizations. Specifically, we will describe two problems: (a) Propagation and targeting of ads relative to a user's social network and (b) ad optimization in the group-buy model popularized by the likes of Groupon and Living Social.
Speaker Bio:
Speaker 1: Rushi Bhatt
Rushi Bhatt is a Research Manager Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore. He has worked on sponsored search and display advertisement response prediction models, and ad targeting models. He is currently working on cutting edge topics in online ads including social ads and group-buy models for advertising. Rushi obtained his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University, working with Stephen Grossberg and Gail Carpenter and his Master's in Computer Science at Iowa State University, working with VasantHonavar.
Sachin serves as Director of advertising Sciences in Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore. He holds a Ph.D. in ECE from Duke University; has held IBM fellowship for 2 years and is a senior member of IEEE. During his continuing stint as a researcher, Sachin has authored / co-authored more than 30 publications and has 7 granted patents. Sachin was also co-guest editor of the Performance Evaluations journal published by Elsevier. Before moving to India, in the years he lived in the US, he worked as a research scientist at Bell Labs and Avaya Labs on research problems in wireless networks and distributed systems along with performance and dependability evaluation.
Tutorial 3
Topic: Cognitive Radio Network Security
Date and time: 12th December 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Tutor: Prof. K.P. (Suba)Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Technology
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Abstract Several experimental studies have indicated that dynamic spectrum access (DSA) policy has the capability to result in better utilization of available radio spectrum, compared to the static spectrum allocation policy. This has led to significant research and development in DSA networks powered by cognitive radios (CRs). Since CR networks are still in the formative stages, it would be best to consider security issues at this stage. In this tutorial we will explore the basic building blocks of security. Security and vulnerability issues unique to CR networks will be introduced. This will be followed by several mechanisms to mitigate these threats as well as principles that will help in the design of secure CR networks. Implementations of some of the attacks on a test-bed will be presented. Implications for emerging CR network standards will also be considered.
Speaker Bio:
Prof. K.P. (Suba) Subbalakshmi
Prof. K.P. (Suba) Subbalakshmi is the Vice-Chair, North America, of the IEEE COMSOC Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and an Associate Professor in the Dept. of E.C.E at Stevens Institute of Technology. Prof. Suba is also the Co-founder of two start-up companies that commercialize her research in cognitive networks as well as psycho-linguistic text mining. Prof.Suba was also a visiting researcher at the INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatiqueet en Automatique), IRISA (Institut de recherche en informatique et systèmesaléatoires), Rennes, France in 2007. Her research areas are cognitive radio network security as well as information security and forensics. She is one of the first researchers to have identified security vulnerabilities in dynamic spectrum access networks. Her research is funded by the US National Science Foundation, US Air Force Research Laboratory, US National Institute of Justice, as well as other Department of Defense agencies.
She served as the Chair of the Security Special Interest Group in the Multimedia Technical Committee, IEEE COMSOC from 2005 to 2010. She was a co-guest editor of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Dynamic Spectrum Access for Wireless Networking in 2009-2010. She was the Co-Chair of the Symposium on Selected Areas of Communications, IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2009. She was a keynote speaker at the SMi International Software Defined Radio, June 2011. She has given tutorials on security issues in dynamic spectrum access networks, at the IEEE Conference on Communications, South Africa, 2010 the IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, 2009. She was an invited panelist in IEEE ICC 2008, for the panel on: Cognitive Radio Wireless Networking: An Emerging Frontier, where she presented the research challenges in cognitive radio security. A paper on cognitive radio networks that she co-authored was awarded the IEEE CCNC 2006, Best Student Paper Award. She has authored several book chapters and papers in the area of cognitive radio networks and security. More information about her can be found at at: http://www.stevens.edu/suba
Tutorial 4
Topic: OpenFlow and its Applications
Date and time: 13th December 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Tutors: Srikanth Krishnamohan, Kingston Smiler S, Rajasri V. Kanthavar– IPInfusion, Bangalore
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Abstract The networking industry has evolved with new technologies in its ability to meet the dynamic requirements of the ever evolving internet and its innumerable applications. One such initiative has been in the area of Software Defined Networking (SDN) by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). One of the primary objectives of SDN has been to enable innovation through software thereby facilitating better network control and tuning to the network operators. Today’s networks have evolved into complex proprietary systems with little chance of offering any possibility to carry out experiments on new ideas or protocols. Creating scalable test-beds is a costly option at best and not accessible to all. OpenFlow was initiated as a means to try experimental ideas/protocols on large scale networks by providing a standard flow based table defined by OpenFlow.A hybrid model was proposed where a proprietary forwarding plane co-exists with an OpenFlow based forwarding plane.This offers a possibility to program the forwarding decision of those switches supporting OpenFlow specification in a flexible manner. Also with the evolution of GMPLS architecture and networks with traffic-engineering capabilitiesthere isa clear separation of control and data plane functionality. We compare how OpenFlow fits nicely into this model.
In this tutorial we describe about the components of an OpenFlow switch, how an OpenFlow switch implements forwarding of packets and describe the forwarding with examples from the reference implementation. Next, we describe some of the applications of OpenFlow in real world scenarios. We conclude by providing pointers on the evolving standards and forum of OpenFlow.
Keywords: SDN, ONF, OpenFlow, controller, control plane, forwarding plane
Outline of the proposed Tutorial
I.
OpenFlow Switch and Controller
specifications
II. Architectural comparison with
GMPLS
III. Applications of OpenFlow
a. Data centre application
b. Route flow model
IV. Pros and Cons of OpenFlow
Speaker Bio
Speaker 1: Srikanth Krishnamohan
Srikanth is currently working with IPInfusion as Technical Architect. He has over 11 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He started his career with Bell labs, NJ in the area of optical networking and developed mesh restorations algorithms. He also worked in Lightmaze Solutions, an optical networking start-up and helped in writing patents on redundant network architecture. He has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University, wherehe co-authored two papers on multimedia network architectures for his thesis with Prof. WallaPak Tavanapong.
Speaker 2: Kingston Smiler S
Kingston is currently working as
Senior Technical Lead in IPInfusion.
He has been working in the Data-com
networking industry for past 7
years. Prior to IPInfusion he had
spent 4 years in Cisco systems where
he worked predominantly on MPLS &
VPN technologies, convergence
techniques like BGP PIC Core, BGP
PIC Edge, LFA FRR etc. Currently he
is working in MPLS Transport Profile
framework and MPLS TP OAM. Kingston
obtained his Bachelor of Engineering
degree from Madras University.
Speaker 3: Rajasri
V. Kanthavar
Rajasri is employed with IPInfusion as Principal Engineer and is currently working in the areas of network virtualization and software defined networking. She has an overall experience of 13 years in the telecommunication industry with prior experience in areas of VoIP communication and development of products in the VoIP and wireless domains. She holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communications.
