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11th IEEE International Conference on
Wireless and Optical Communication Networks (WOCN-2014) |
K L UNIVERSITY was selected to host the 11th International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communication Networks (WOCN-2014) by IEEE. Thanks for the efforts of Dr.P.Thrimurthy, Dr.Durgesh Kumar Mishra, Dr.Guy Omidiyar that KLU was given the chance to host WOCN-2014. Dr.V.Srikanth, the Director-FED was selected as the Organizing Chair. Dr.K.Thirupathi Rao, HOD-CSE and Dr.V.Krishna Reddy Alternate HOD-CSE are appointed as Conveners of WOCN-2014. Prof.A.V.Praveen Krishna together with Prof.K.Rajasekhar and Prof.E.Suresh Babu were appointed as organizing secretaries.
Inaugural Session
A galaxy of stalwarts graced the inaugural session ably directed by the one and only magician in this part of the country Prof.P. Thrimurthy , who presided the inaugural session. Dr.V.Srikanth, organizing chair explained the guidance obtained from several luminances, Er.K.Satyanarayana, President, KLEF, Er.K.Havish, Er.K.Raja Harin, Prof.P.Thrimurthy, Dr.L.S.S. Reddy. He briefed the audience on the various components of the conference. Dr.Durgesh Kumar Mishra elaborated the concept behind the conference and advised the researchers to concentrate and carryout research through a thorough literature survey. Our Vice Chancellor Dr.L.S.S.Reddy congratulated the CSE Dept for conducting the international conference very well. He narrated that KLU is a research university built on the solid foundation of KLCE. Our chancellor Dr.R.Sreehari Rao emphasized the need of active and vibrant research.
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Er.Raja Harin, Vice president KLEF has greeted the conference and congratulated CSE for getting Dr.K.R.Murali Mohan,DST as chief guest. Adviced the faculty to do active research and good projects. Dr.Horacio Professor of NationalCollege of Ireland, said that he is happy to be in KLUniversity and in Vijayawada to share knowledge on Cloud Computing and parallelism. Dr.Miroslov Skoric Professor fromSerbia said that he is delighted to be part of the conference and wished the best of luck. Dr.K.R.Murali Mohan,chief guest inspired the audience asking them to participate in collaborative technologies and use them to produce products that are useful to people around and society-at-large. Dr.Anand Kumar, Principal congratulated CSE Dept. and wished them best of luck. Dr.K.Thirupathi Rao proposed the vote of thanks.
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Keynote Addresses
Dr. Horacio González-Vélez, Head – Cloud Competency Centre ,National College of Ireland in his first Key Note Address detailed parallelism achievable through multi core technology and mechanism of separating tasks from data. He also explained skeleton programming in contrast to function programming to achieve parallelism. He also explained the project being carried out at National College of Ireland on parallelism.
Dr.Durgesh Kumar Mishra dwelt on privacy and security issuesin multiparty computations and Dr.J.K.Mandal explainedin detail the advantages of using ANN based Cryptographic Techniques in Wireless Communication.
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Preconference Workshops
10th and 11th September will go into the records of history of CSE Department as the dates for conducting three state-of-art Pre-conference workshops on the following topics.
1)'Cloud Computing' by Mr.P.Sridhar Ex.Microsoft Developer --- windows 7 and windows mobile phone and Mr.K.Phani, Ex.County Manager for academics of Microsoft. About 240 participants participated and they could develop applications and post them on cloud using Azure platform.
2)'Digital Forensics' conducted by Dr. D.K. Durgesh Kumar Mishra, Visiting Professor IIT,Indore and Ex Secretary IEEE Indore, About 230 students participated. The student could practice security tools to incorporate security in data transfer.
3)'Network Simulator' was conducted by Mr.E.Suresh Babu, KLUniversity and B.Ramesh Babu, MNIT Jaipur. About 100 students attended the Workshop. The students practiced NS2 simulator to simulate networks of their choice.
Preconference Tutorials
Three tutorials were conducted on the first day.
The first one was on 'Amatuer Radio' delivered by Dr.Miroslov Skoric from Serbia and IEEE member Austria section. The tutorial was a roaring success on topic "Amateur Radio Communication, Software and Computer Networks in Education". In the days world becoming global village through internet the concept of low cost radio being built at home and office to connect universities and local school to share information is a real tribute. About 100 participants attended.
The second tutorial on Big Data Analytics and Cloud Computing delivered by Dr.G.Santosh Babu, Banglore was astonishing manifestation of complex concepts of Big Data delivered to audience in a simple manner on topic "Cloud Computing and Big-Data Analytics". Through illustration of an application in Biology and Genomes to identify diseases like Cancer. Big Data Applications like Facebook and Twitterwere also explained.
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The third tutorial was an 'Quality of Service and Design Challenges in Wireless Sensor Communications Networks' by Dr.Vivek.S.DeshPande, MIT,Pune. He has presented the problemof congestion, reliability delay etc. The parameters of QOS were explained very candidly and lucidly detailing how QOS can be achieved through proper caring of these parameters. The tutorial was a great success and was attended by about 50 students, researchers, faculty.
Research Paper Presentation Sessions:-
Around 9 sessions were conducted on 12-9-2014. Total 23 hig quality papers were presented. They were presented in a, systematic and quantifiable way in meticulous style.
Keynote Address-IV
Dr.M.M.Tripathi delivered Key Note Address-IV on Smart Grid-Communications and Security Challenges. He explained how power generation and distribution can be improved through the use of ICT.
Research Paper Presentation Sessions:-
On the second day, 17 papers were presented in three sessions. They were again quality papers and were presented very well.
Panel Discussion
A unique panel discussion on the topic "Internet of Things" was the highlight of the day. This was ably moderated by Prof .P.Thrimurthy. Eleven high profile researchers in their respective fields coming from different Universities, NIT's, IIIT's and Industry were the members of the panel They are:-
1) Dr.Siva Kumar Udgata, University of Hyderabad
2) Dr.DVLN Somayajulu, NIT-Warangal
3) Dr.G.Ramamurthy, IIIT Hyderabad
4) Dr.P.S.Avadhani, Andhra University
5) Dr.Sudheer Reddy, Infosys
6) Dr.Vivek.S.Deshpande, MIT
7) Dr.M.M.Tripathi, DTU
8) Dr.M.H.M Krishna Prasad,JNTUK
9) Dr.V.Srikanth
10 )Dr.K.Thirupathi Rao
Valedictory Function
At the valedictory function of WOCN 14 the whole hearted contributions for the success of conference by the Organizing Chair, Conveners and Organizing Secretaries was highlighted. The participants like delegates and paper presenters were awarded with the certificates. The conference concluded with the felicitation to Prof.P.Thrimurthy and closing remarks by Dr.G.Rama Krishna hoping to carry forward the aspirations of each one through due intrinsic research.
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