18th IEEE IPCCC'99 Tutorials Program
Friday, February 12, 1999
 
 
MORNING SESSION (8am-12pm)
AFTERNOON SESSION (1pm-5pm)
Tutorial 3:  Digital Signatures - Whom do you trust?   The technology and the standard  Tutorial 4:  Digital Signatures - Whom do you trust?  Infrastructure, deployment, and the law 
Tutorial 5:  Mobility Management in Mobile IP Tutorial 6:   Mobile ATM: Goals, Challenges, and Emerging Solutions 
Tutorial 7:   ATM Networking 

Tutorial 3:  MORNING

Title: Digital Signatures - Whom do you trust?   The technology and the standard

Instructor:

Hoyt Kesterson is a Fellow at Bull Worldwide Information Systems in Phoenix, Arizona
Hoyt.Kesterson@bull.com

ABSTRACT

The use of public key encryption for digital signature provides a high level of confidence that when a digitally signed document is verified with a public key, that document could have only been signed by the holder of the corresponding private key. Can this identify the originator of the document with enough assurance that one can accept a digital signature replacement for a binding hand-written signature? A reasonable level of trust must exist before electronic commerce becomes feasible.

This talk introduces cryptography with a focus on public key cryptography and its use in digital signature. The talk examines the X.509 public key certificate and the trust relationships that can be constructed using it. The concept of public key infrastructure (PKI) is introduced including certification authority (CA), revocation technologies, and repository. The  X.509 attribute certificate and its use in authorization is also described.

Topics Covered :

This tutorial covers It describes the public key infrastructure (PKI) that must be put in place to support that trust, e.g. certification authorities.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The tutorial does not assume any understanding of cryptography. It covers the basics as well as the more elaborate uses of the technology but will not cover the mathematics nor go into detailed, e.g. ASN.1, descriptions of the protocol or implemetation. Its intended audience is technical and managerial individuals who wish to understand the concepts, issues, and uses of digital signatures, particularily in its application to electronic commerce.

BIOGRAPHY

Hoyt Kesterson is a Fellow at Bull Worldwide Information Systems in Phoenix, Arizona. He has chaired the international committee responsible for defining the OSI Directory standard, X.500, and its associated part, X.509, on digital signature since 1986. He participates in the American Bar Association's work on the legal aspects of digital signatures in electronic commerce and is also participating in the efforts on key recovery. He has published in several journals; the most recent is an article on EDI and Digital Signatures in the ABA's Jurimetrics: Journal of Law, Science, and Technology.

Tutorial 4: AFTERNOON

Title:  Digital Signatures - Whom do you trust?  Infrastructure, deployment, and the law

Instructor:

Hoyt Kesterson is a Fellow at Bull Worldwide Information Systems in Phoenix, Arizona
Hoyt.Kesterson@bull.com

ABSTRACT

This talk examines digital signature activity in three areas- The IETF's Public Key Infrastructure (PKIX) standard is described as well as the specific approaches of the credit card and EDI domains. Some of the uses of this technology are described, e.g. Netscape and Microsoft browsers, VPNs, applet integrity, watermarks, secure email, smartcards, EDI, and the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) standard defined by the VISA/Mastercard consortium. The legal issues of accepting documents and transactions signed with a digital signature are discussed along with a review of international, national, and state activity. The American Bar Association's Digital Signature Guidelines and ongoing work on the certification of CAs is also described.

Topics Covered :

Important ancillary subjects are also described, e.g. authentication, confidentiality, key recovery, integrity, non-repudiation, smartcards, import and export regulations, system security, and general security issues such as vulnerabilities, threats, countermeasures, and policy.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The tutorial assume some level of understanding of the material covered in tutorial 3, "DIGITAL SIGNATURES - WHOM DO YOU TRUST :The Technology and The Standard". Its intended audience is technical and managerial individuals who wish to understand the concepts, issues, and uses of digital signatures, particularily in its application to electronic commerce.

BIOGRAPHY

Hoyt Kesterson is a Fellow at Bull Worldwide Information Systems in Phoenix, Arizona. He has chaired the international committee responsible for defining the OSI Directory standard, X.500, and its associated part, X.509, on digital signature since 1986. He participates in the American Bar Association's work on the legal aspects of digital signatures in electronic commerce and is also participating in the efforts on key recovery. He has published in several journals; the most recent is an article on EDI and Digital Signatures in the ABA's Jurimetrics: Journal of Law, Science, and Technology.

Tutorial 5: MORNING

 Title: Mobility Management in Mobile IP

Instructors:

Sandeep K. S. Gupta

Pradip K. Srimani
Colorado State University
srimani@CS.ColoState.Edu

 ABSTRACT

 In the past decade there has been an exponential growth in the use of  the Internet, portable computers, and wireless telephony.  It is  expected that this growth will continue in the coming years.  Currently, to access Internet, we need to connect our computer to some  fixed point (home, office, library, school etc.). Increasing variety  of wireless devices like PDAs, digital cellular phones, or handhelds  calls for IP connectivity on the fly. Possibilities and potentials of  such mobile computing are enormous.

 The most important obstacle in realizing mobile internetworking is the  way Internet Protocol (IP) operates - it essentially depends on the IP  addresses, that are assigned to fixed stationary physical locations.  Any solution for supporting mobility in the Internet is constrained by  the requirement of inter-operability with existing Internet  infrastructure and networking applications. Further, the solution  should be scalable to support increasing population of mobile users and independent of the wireless hardware technology to enable  widespread use.  Mobile IP is a standard that allows the user to have a mobile IP address much like a cellular phone  number. The purpose of this tutorial is to provide an overview of the  problems caused by mobility and to describe in detail how these  problems are overcome by Mobile IP.

Topics Covered :

The tutorial will begin with general problem of mobility management  and packet routing to mobile hosts in a large internetwork. We will  then describe in detail the  IETF Mobile IP protocol. This will  include basic protocol architecture, agent discovery protocol,  registration with foreign agent, registration authentication, and  packet tunneling. This will be followed by presentation on packet  delivery optimization techniques such as location caching.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Engineers, scientists, software developers, system analysts, network  users and designers, project managers, faculty members, graduate and  undergraduate students, who are interested in knowing how seamless  Internet connectivity can be provided to their mobile wireless devices.

 BIOGRAPHY

Sandeep K. S. Gupta received his Ph.D degree in computer  and information science from Ohio State University, Colum-  bus, Ohio, USA in 1995. He has been an assitant professor in  department of computer science at Colorado State University  since 1996.  His research interests are in mobile computing,  parallel and distributed computing, and compilers. Dr. Gupta  has published over 25 articles in refreed journals and interna-  tional conferences on preceding topics. He is a member of IEEE  and ACM.

Pradip K Srimani received his Ph.  D. degree in computer  science from University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India in 1978.  He has served the faculty of Indian Statistical Institute,  Calcutta, Gesselschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung,  Bonn, West Germany, Indian Institute of Management,  Calcutta,India and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,  Illinois. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at the  Colorado State University in Ft.  Collins, Colorado since 1989.  His research interests include reliable systems, parallel  algorithms, fault-tolerant computing, networks and graph theory  applications. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member  of ACM. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE  Computer Society Press and is a member of the Editorial Boards  of IEEE Software Magazine and International Journal of  Simulation.  He is Vice-Chair for Education Activities Board of  IEEE CS and a member of the Conference & Tutorial Board  and the Press Activities Board of IEEE Computer Society. He  has guest edited special issues for IEEE Computer, Software,  Journal of Computer & Software Engineering, Journal of  Systems Software, VLSI Design, International Journal of Systems  Science etc.; he has also served many conferences in various  capacities. He has published more than 80 papers in archival  journals and an almost equal number in major conference  proceedings.

Tutorial 6 :  AFTERNOON

 Title: Mobile ATM: Goals, Challenges, and Emerging Solutions

Instructors:

Sandeep K. S. Gupta

Pradip K. Srimani
Colorado State University
srimani@CS.ColoState.Edu

 ABSTRACT

In the past several years we have experienced phenomenal growth in  mobile voice communications (cellular telephony) and the expectation  for the coming years are to provide customers capability to access,  process, visualize and distribute multimedia information anywhere  anytime on demand. In order to deliver audio and video data seamlessly  to mobile stations world-wide (with high quality), it is essential to  extend existing B-ISDN and Internet technologies to accommodate  wireless communication. There are currently several Wireless and  Mobile ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) proposals on how to extend the  ATM standard to support wireless links and to provide seamless  widearea mobility of end-points.

There are many technical challenges to be solved before we can realize  the dream.  Problems associated with implementing Mobile ATM consist of  standardization of radio frequency spectrum, design of new efficient  access methods, suitable location management schemes to track mobile  terminals, appropriate hand-off mechanisms and the likes. The purpose  of the present tutorial is to provide an overview of the user  expectations, associated problems and the proposed solutions. The  participant would be able to appreciate what has been done so far  towards achieving the goals and what still needs be done.

Topics Covered :

The tutorial will deal with mobile and wireless ATM. First we will  briefly present the wireless ATM specification which deals with the  medium access control, data-link c control and radio resource  control. We will then describe in detail the support for mobility  management in ATM. Extensions to existing specifications for location  management, hand-off, routing, and traffic management will be  presented. This would include topics such as baseline architecture  specification, integrated architecture model, hand-off signaling,  integrated location management scheme, external location management,  connection rerouting, and route optimization.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Engineers, scientists, software developers, system analysts, network  users and designers, project managers, faculty members, graduate and  undergraduate students, who are interested in knowing how seamless  Internet connectivity can be provided to their mobile wireless devices  running multimedia applications.

 BIOGRAPHY

Sandeep K. S. Gupta received his Ph.D degree in computer  and information science from Ohio State University, Colum-  bus, Ohio, USA in 1995. He has been an assitant professor in  department of computer science at Colorado State University  since 1996.  His research interests are in mobile computing,  parallel and distributed computing, and compilers. Dr. Gupta  has published over 25 articles in refreed journals and interna-  tional conferences on preceding topics. He is a member of IEEE  and ACM.

Pradip K Srimani received his Ph.  D. degree in computer  science from University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India in 1978.  He has served the faculty of Indian Statistical Institute,  Calcutta, Gesselschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung,  Bonn, West Germany, Indian Institute of Management,  Calcutta,India and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,  Illinois. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at the  Colorado State University in Ft.  Collins, Colorado since 1989.  His research interests include reliable systems, parallel  algorithms, fault-tolerant computing, networks and graph theory  applications. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member  of ACM. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE  Computer Society Press and is a member of the Editorial Boards  of IEEE Software Magazine and International Journal of  Simulation.  He is Vice-Chair for Education Activities Board of  IEEE CS and a member of the Conference & Tutorial Board  and the Press Activities Board of IEEE Computer Society. He  has guest edited special issues for IEEE Computer, Software,  Journal of Computer & Software Engineering, Journal of  Systems Software, VLSI Design, International Journal of Systems  Science etc.; he has also served many conferences in various  capacities. He has published more than 80 papers in archival  journals and an almost equal number in major conference  proceedings.

Tutorial 7 :   MORNING

Title: ATM Networking

Instructor:

Dr. Jagan P. Agrawal
University of Missouri-Kansas City
agrawal@cstp.umkc.edu

ABSTRACT

This tutorial will first review the basic concepts of ATM and its synergy with TDM transmission and switching. It will then address the nature of multimedia traffic, quality of service, ATM signaling, multicasting, and, look into various aspects of the ATM networking such as user interface, call set up, admission control, etc.  In the end, the course will address various approaches to ATM LAN, LAN emulation and future directions.

AREAS:

Basic concepts of ATM, TDM transmission and switching, Multimedia traffic characterization, ATM details, and future directions.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Scientists, practicing engineers, educators and students interested in learning the principles and operation of ATM networking, ATM LANs and LAN emulation.

BIOGRAPHY

Jagan Agrawal is a Professor of Computer Science and Telecommunications at the university of Missouri-Kansas City since 1985.  Prior to that Jagan held faculty positions at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (India), North Carolina State University and University of Southwestern Louisiana.  He is teaching and doing research in the areas of ATM and wireless networking, high speed ATM switching architectures, local area networks,  and other related areas.  He has designed a highly modular ATM switch fabric architecture which is being prototyped by Center for Development of Telematics in India.

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