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(June 4-16, 2007)

About the programme

This program facilitated the participants to get thorough knowledge in Information Assurance and Network Security. Participants were exposed to the recent developments and research in Information Assurance and Network Security through guest lectures from industry experts. This program was beneficial to the staff members involved in teaching and research in Network Security.

Following were the major topics covered in the training program:

• Information System Security

• Applied Cryptography

• Enterprise Security Engineering

• Secure Database Systems

• Data Warehousing and Mining

• Distributed System Security

• Application Security

• Wireless Network Security

• Risk Assessment and Disaster Recovery

• Computer Systems Performance & Reliability Analysis

• Computer Crime and Forensic

Adequate lab exercises were planned for hands-on training. Expert Lectures from leading industries were organized.

(March 16-17, 2006)

The Third National Conference on Network Engineering (NCON2006) was conducted on 16^th & 17^th March 2006 at TIFAC-CORE in Network Engineering. Total of 33 papers were short-listed and published in the proceedings of NCON2006.

The conference was organised in 4 sessions, namely:

                   1. Network Technology,

2. Network Security,

3. Wireless & Adhoc Networks and

4. Grid Computing & Web Technologies.

During the conference, expert talk was organised as follows:

                   1. Trends in Network Security by Dr. D. Bhanumurthy, Ramco Systems, Chennai.
                   2. Emerging Trends in Network Technologies by Mr. Ansar Ahamed, Cisco Systems, Bangalore.

During the conference the following persons chaired the technical sessions:

                   1. Dr. Aravindan, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai.
                   2. Dr. Sethu Madhavan, Amiritha Institute of Technology, Coimbatore.
                   3. Dr. R. Rajesh, MS University, Tirunelveli.
                   4. Dr. P. K. Mishra, Principal Technical Consultant, Sun Microsystems, Bangalore

Conference was inaugurated by Shri. Pattabiraman, Executive Director, HCL Peripherals, Chennai. The valedictory function was conducted in the presence of Dr. P. K. Mishra, Principal Technical Consultant, Sun Microsystems, Bangalore.

A total of 118 papers were received for the conference. It was observed that research activities were more towards Wireless & Adhoc Networks in addition to Network Security, Grid Computing and Network Routing Algorithms. Conference gave an opportunity to bring together people working in the area of network engineering.  Expert talks from the industry were very well appreciated by the participants.

We propose to continue organising the conference on Network Engineering annually. We also propose to conduct an International Conference in October / November 2007.

Pre-Conference tutorials were organised on 15^th March 2006 on the following topics that were well appreciated by the participants:

                   1. Network System Design using Network Processors
                   2. Wireless Networks

In the last session of the conference, we had Panel Discussion. Members of the panel gave useful advice to the participants & motivated the participants to pursue further research in Network Engineering. Based on the feedback from the participants, we propose to conduct pre-conference tutorials in emerging areas of Network Engineering during the subsequent conferences. There were requests from participants to conduct the workshop on Network Processors and on Network Monitoring & Analysis.

(March 4-5, 2005)

About the Conference

NCON 2005 is a major national conference to bring together academics, industry professionals, scientists, policy makers, and students to discuss the progress made in the area of Network Engineering and facilitate the dissemination of leading edge information on computer communication and Network engineering. NCON 2005 will have sessions with contributed papers, invited talks, tutorials and panel discussions.

The conference topics included the following areas:

National Conference on Network Engineering

(19, 20 December 2003)

(Co-sponsored by TIFAC-CORE in Network Engineering and Department of Science and Technology)

About the Conference

NCON 2003 was a major national conference to bring together academics, industry professionals, scientists, policy makers and students to discuss the progress made in the area of Network Engineering and to facilitate the dissemination of leading edge information on computer communication and network engineering. NCON 2003 had sessions with contributed papers, invited talks, tutorials, and panel discussions

The conference topics included the following areas:

• Ad hoc and sensor Networks

• Optical and photonic networks

• Routing  and scheduling algorithms

• Wireless, mobile and pervasive networking

• Converged networks

• Network security, Security Protocols

• Embedded Networking

• Networking for Power system Automation and integration

• Industrial Networking

• Agent Technology for Networking

• Enterprise security engineering and architecture

Workshop on Networking Solutions for Small and Medium Enterprises

(10 July 2004) 

(Jointly organized by TIFAC-CORE in Network Engineering and Nexus Computers Pvt Ltd)

About  the Workshop:

The workshop comprised of presentations by industrial experts in the forenoon session.  In the post lunch session there was a demonstration of networking products in our centre, followed by panel discussion

The theme of the workshop involved improving productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of the operations in the industries. This workshop provided a roadmap for an integrated approach to help meet these demands.  The focus was more on how to maintain secured, reliable, and convenient access to the information for the users, whether they are located in the main office, at a remote office, at home, or on the road

The workshop presentations included the following areas

• Leveraging IT to Small Business opportunities for Small Industries in India

• Servers for SME Segment

• CISCO – Networking Products

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