Arab Spring and Social Networks: An Egyptian Case Study
Mohamed Chawki
International Association of Cybercrime Prevention - Paris, France 

 [Abstract] In light of the Arab Spring revolutions of early 2011, Egyptians have managed, to topple a dictatorship that ruled the country for 30 years. One of the most interesting aspects of the revolution is that ICTs played a very important role. During the first week of the revolution, social networks became the primary arm for the protesters to spread the world about what was happening in Egypt. This presentation will look closely at the extent to which Egyptians used social media networks as tools for organizing and generating awareness of political mobilization in the revolution that took place in Egypt in January and February 2011.

 [Biography] Mohamed Chawki holds a (Ph.D.) in law from the University of Lyon III in France for a dissertation on French; British and American cybercrime legal systems. He is a senior judge at the Council of State; former advisor to the Chairman of Capital Market Authority (CMA) and the Chairman of the Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority (EFSA). Dr. Chawki is also the Founder Chairman of the International Association of Cybercrime Prevention (AILCC) in Paris. An association of international IT experts and legal scholars specializing in cyber law, privacy and security and the founder and co – director of the African Center for Cyberlaw, in Kampala (ACCP), founded in collaboration with the United Nations (UN).

Dr. Chawki has extensive knowledge of High Tec criminality, cybercrime, cyber terrorism and IT, including countermeasures and prevention. As a part of his research, he carried out an internship at Interpol’s Financial and High Tec Crime Unit. He has also conducted legal analysis for the Organisation of CyberAngels in NYC and advice cybercrime victims on various issues related to countermeasures and prevention. Doctor Chawki is the co-reviewer of the African Union Convention on Cybersecurity. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the United Kingdom (FRSA), a member of the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program (ISPAC), a member of the European Society of Criminal Law, and a board member of Computer Crime Research Center (CCRC) in Ukraine. He teaches law at private and public universities in Egypt and holds a number of visiting posts abroad. His research interest covers national security, cybercrime and data protection.

Dr. Chawki holds over 25 prizes for this academic achievement and was awarded by the Medal of Excellence by the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt in 1998 , the international prize Claire l’Heureux Dubé from Canada in 2007 and the distinguished services medal from the government of Brazil in 2009.

Online Game Systems - A Networking Perspective
Magda El Zarki
University of California, Irvine, USA 

 [Abstract] This talk covers the concepts underlying networked games (NGs) and
networked virtual environments (NVEs), from their definition, to
distributed systems, to networking fundamentals, quality of experience
and game design needs.

Topics include:
- the challenges of networked games
- the origins of networked games technology
- communications architectures
- managing dynamic shared state and game playability
- systems design – client server vs peer to peer
- resource management for scalability and performance.

 [Biography] Magda El Zarki received the B.E.E. from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt in 1979 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York City, NY in 1981 and 1987 respectively with a two year break from 1981 -1983 when she worked as a network planner in the international telecommunications department at Citibank, N.N., NYC, NY.

Magda El Zarki currently holds the position of Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, where she is involved in various research activities related to telecommunication networks and networked computer games. She is the Director of the Computer Games and Virtual Worlds Center and heads the Computer Game Science Degree program. Prior to joining UC, Irvine, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where she also held the position of Director of the Telecommunications Program. She was director of the Networked Systems Graduate Program at UC, Irvine from 2005 – 2007. From 1992 – 1996 she held the position of Professor of Telecommunications at the Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands. She was the recipient of the Cor Wit Chair in Telecommunications at TU Delft from 2004 – 2006.

Ms. El Zarki is an editor for several journals in the telecommunications area, and is actively involved in many international conferences. She was on the board of governors of the IEEE Communications society and was the vice chair of the IEEE Tech. Committee for Computer Communications. She is co-author of the textbook: Mastering Networks – An Internet Lab Manual.

 IPv6 – Why do we need it?
Sivaramakrishnan Senthatty
Tata Consultancy Services, India

 [Abstract] Introduction

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the next-generation Internet Protocol designated to be the successor to IPv4.

Though IPv4 has proven to be robust, easily implemented, interoperable, and has stood the test of scaling an internetwork to a global utility the size of today’s Internet, it has its own limitations.

This current version of the Internet Protocol, IPv4, has been in use for almost 30 years (started from 1981 with RFC 791) and exhibits significant challenges in supporting emerging demands for address space cardinality, high-density mobility, multimedia, and stronger security.

IPv6 – Why do we need it?
This section describes the impact of the imminent IPv4 address exhaustion on enterprises, why they should be concerned, and how they need to tackle it, using measures such as deploying IPv6.

The need for IPv6 has been building for a while now and basically arises due to the inherent limitations of IPv4. It is only due to the evolution of new technologies such as NATing and subnetting that has prolonged the inevitable. We assume that IPv6 will be deployed together with current IPv4 networks, so that the network engineering team will have to consider both the protocols.

Though IPv4 has proven to be robust, easily implemented and interoperable, the following are some of the limitations:

• IPv4 Addresses Exhaustion - IPv4 addresses have become relatively scarce due to ever increasing numbers of Internet-connected devices and appliances. The public IPv4 address space will eventually be depleted and new addresses will be available only when they have been recovered from previous use. While Network Address Translation (NAT) promotes the reuse of the private address space, they do not support standards-based network layer security or undertake mapping of all higher layer protocols. Thus creating problems when connecting two organizations, which use the private address space.
• Routing Scalability – There are routinely over 200,000 routes in the routing tables of Internet backbone routers, which are growing at alarming rates. The backbone routers’ routing tables must reflect information for every connected network in the world, and some experts have suggested that more than the issue of address shortage, the size of the non default routing tables will ultimately drive the acceptance of IPv6.
• IP Address translation – The nature of IPv4 raises challenges as the end-to-end nature of IP computing is broken when a system starts changing material as it passes between the nodes. There are reasonable workarounds for most applications, but security poses a problem because the Internet Security Protocol (IPSec) relies on the global uniqueness of the nodes’ IP addresses to ensure that packets are not spoofed. Additionally, not all applications can work around NATs.
• Simpler Configuration - Most current IPv4 implementations must be either manually configured or use an address configuration protocol such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). With more computers and devices using IP, there is a need for an easier and automatic configuration of addresses and other settings that do not rely on the administration of a DHCP infrastructure.
• Support for real-time delivery of data (QoS) - While standards for QoS exist for IPv4, real-time traffic support relies on the IPv4 Type of Service (TOS) field and the identification of the payload, typically using a UDP or TCP port. Unfortunately, the IPv4 TOS field has limited functionality. In addition, payload identification using a TCP and UDP port is not possible when the IPv4 packet payload is encrypted.

Other than these design issues there are following technical limitations in IPv4 as well,
• Operates on a best effort delivery model
• Does not guarantee delivery
• Does not assure proper sequencing
• Does not validate data integrity

These limitations have stimulated the development of IPv6, which is currently in the early stages of deployment, and is the only long-term solution.IPv6 is a solution for IP addressing space issue as it has 128-bit (16-byte) source and destination IP addresses.

IPv6 is getting more attention within the networking industry. Where only a few years ago there was widespread doubt as to whether IPv6 would ever be adopted, the meetings of network operators forums such as the North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG), the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) and Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE) now devote substantial portions of their agendas to discussions of how to best implement the new protocol.

Where a few years ago resistance to IPv6 centered on the lack of a business case, organizations worldwide are now devoting significant financial and engineering resources to IPv6 planning.

✥ 2725 The session begins by examining the current key drivers for IPv6, which includes
1. An explosion of Internet Applications, Games, Information Sources and Business transaction
2. Movement of traditional services such as voice and video from legacy circuit-based infrastructures to IP networks
3. Expanding economies in populous countries

✥ 2725 An overview of IPv6 deployment status around the world
✥ 2725 How to create a successful IPv6 Implementation Plan and Design
✥ 2725 Understanding the Inventory details of the Enterprise network
✥ 2725 The three different approaches to IPv6 Implementation
1. Core to Edge
2. Edge to Core
3. IPv6 Islands

✥ 2725 Design and Interoperability testing
✥ 2725 Different type of Implementation Mechanisms which includes
1. Dual Stack
2. Manually Configured Tunnels
3. Automatic Tunnels
4. Translators

✥ 2725 Cost and Risk Analysis

 [Biography] Siva Sen (Sivaramakrishnan Senthatty) Graduate Engineer specialized in Electronics & communication with MS in Quality Management. He has over 20+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure specializing in Project Management, transformation & technical support of complex heterogeneous environments. Current Role in TCS is Global Practice Director – IT IS Converged Network Practice Managing all Cisco – CoE, ALE- CoE, Avaya – CoE, Juniper CoE, in addition to the Practice role managing the Strategic outsourcing solution for Japan Market. Responsible for Go to Market strategy with all OEM’s. Prior to TCS worked with Banking Captives and leading Outsourcing companies managed multiple service delivery centers.

Image Texture Classification: From Spatial Domain to Special-Frequency Domain
Dr.S.Ramakrishnan
Dr.Mahalingam College of Engineering & Technology, India

 [Abstract] Over a past few decades research on "image texture classification" is gaining momentum and found application in many fields such as industrial and biomedical surface inspection, ground classification and segmentation of satellite or aerial imagery, segmentation of textured regions in document analysis, and content-based access to image databases, crop image analysis, food processing, etc. Over the years, numerous methods have been proposed for the classification of image textures. These methods are broadly divided into two categories, namely feature-based methods and model based methods. These two methods can be employed either in spatial domain or in frequency domain or in spatial-frequency domain. This plenary talk will include the following issues:

• What, why and where are Image Textures?
• Overview of Image Texture Classification
• Spatial Domain Methods
• Frequency Domain Methods
• Journey from Spatial to Spatial-Frequency Methods
• Spatial-Frequency Methods
• Summary

 [Biography]Dr.S.Ramakrishnan received the B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bharathidasan University, Trichy, and M.E. degree in Communication Systems from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai. He received his PhD degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Anna University-Chennai.

He has 12 years of teaching experience, 4 years of research and 1 year industry experience. He is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Information Technology, Dr.Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, Pollachi, India.

Dr.Ramakrishnan is a Reviewer of 14 International Journals such as IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IET Journals(Formally IEE), ACM Computing Reviews, Elsevier Science, International Journal of Vibration and Control, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, etc. He is in the editorial board of 6 International Journals. He is a Guest Editor of special issues in 3 International Journals including Telecommunication Systems Journal of Springer. He has published 77 papers in international, national journals and conference proceedings. Dr.S.Ramakrishnan has published a book for LAP, Germany. He has also reviewed 3 books for McGraw Hill International Edition and 2 books for ACM Computing Reviews. He was the convenor of IT board in Anna University of Technology- Coimbatore Board of Studies (BoS). He is guiding 10 PhD research scholars. His biography has been included in Marquis Whos's who in the World 2011 edition. His areas of research include digital image processing, soft computing, human-computer interaction, wireless sensor network and cognitive radio.

Creating a sustainable smart city through internet of Things and CI tools
The University of Melbourne, Australia

 [Abstract] By 2050, 70% of the world's population - over 6 billion people - is expected to live in cities and suburbia. To survive as platforms that enable economic, social and environmental well-being, a city needs to be smart. A smart city is aware, interactive and efficient with respect to its services. It is built on ubiquitous sensing capabilities that reach across numerous areas of modern living, offering the ability to measure and understand the condition of the urban environment. This is technologically predicated on the emergent Internet of Things (IoT) - a radical evolution of the current Internet into a network of interconnected 'objects' that not only harvests information from the environment (sensing) and interacts with the physical world (actuation/command/control), but also uses existing Internet standards to provide services for information transfer, analytics, applications and communications. The evolution of the next generation mobile system depends on the creativity of the users in designing new applications. IoT is an ideal emerging technology to influence this domain by providing new evolving data and the required computational resources for creating revolutionary apps. This emerging area will deliver smart new ways of urban monitoring using ubiquitous sensing and data analysis for city management and sustainability by developing a common operating picture for city management. Gartner Inc., in its 2011 report on emerging technologies, has projected IoT to peak in the next 10 years making the world smarter in terms of maximizing wisdom from the information available through ubiquitous (anytime, anywhere, anything) sensing. IoT cuts across many faculties including engineering (sensing, networking, web services, transportation, critical infrastructure, visualization), land and environment (urban monitoring), architecture, building and planning (urban landscapes and design), law (legal aspects), social and political science (privacy and ethics), and economics (cost issues). As a result, large multinational consultancy firms have played a major role in the development of this area considering the market potential for this interdisciplinary field. The new solutions are bound to create more space for innovation and revenue that will in turn influence the growth of this niche area. The project focuses on creating a cyber ecosystem for creating a common operating picture used in city management. It involves monitoring various emergency services, infrastructure, traffic and any other citizen centric parameters. Design of low-power, high-accuracy sensor network poses significant challenges in terms of sampling sensor data and data communication. The project envisions solutions for city-wide distribution of sensors and data collection applications to model in real time and in the real world, the necessary functioning urban sensing elements of a smart city, translating vast amounts of sensor data into meaningful information and ultimately action.

 [Biography]Prof. Marimuthu Palaniswami received his BE from the Indian Institute of science, India, MEngSc from the University of Melbourne and Ph.D from the University of Newcastle, Australia before rejoining the University of Melbourne. He has been serving the University of Melbourne for over 21 years. He is currently the convener of the ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing. He has been the Co- Director of Center for Networked Decision Systems funded by DSTO, Australia. He has published over 320 refereed research papers, a majority of which has appeared in prestigious IEEE Journals and Conferences.His work is cited in 5 US patents. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He is also the director of CBIT System group of companies and has been a director for two other companies (in India and Singapore) in the past. He has mentored three spin-off companies and has been actively involved in nurturing ICT small businesses. Apart from this, he has undertaken consultancy projects at the University of Melbourne for companies including: Analog Devices, Integrated Control Systems Pty. Ltd., DSTO, NAB, ANZ, Compumedics and ResMed. He has the distinction of receiving a UoM Knowledge Transfer Excellence Award for 2008 and UoM Knowledge Transfer Award - Commendation for 2007 and 2009. Sustained knowledge transfer has been achieved through a large number of Industrial Linkages, International Linkages, several large Scale Test beds (NCRIS GBROOS, SEMAT, ARC-LIEF BigNet, ARC LIEF Smart City IoT) with competitive funding over $20 million along with other national and international investigators in the last five years. The specific industries and institutions that he has worked as partners for doing joint work include BHP Research Laboratories, Tenix Ltd, Melb IT, ANZ Bank, National Australia Bank, Signal Processing Associates, Integrated Control Systems, Compumedics, Cardiac Dynamics and Intellirad solutions, Iomniscient, Raytheon, SenSen Networks, VPAC, AIMS, InterSystems, RTA-NSW, ResMed Ltd., ARUP, Melbourne Cricket Club, and City of Melbourne. He has been a consultant for the following local companies: CMPG consultants for ESSO; KRAFT, Australia; MelbIT.