SS1: Methods of Biomolecular Computing
Monday, 29 December, 12:00 – 14:00, Room E
Chair: Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati, USA.

• "Biomolecular Computing Paradigms",
  C. Purdy, H. Abdel Aty Zohdy, and R. Ewing, University of Cincinnati
• "Biologically Based Signal Processing",
  R. Ewing, H. Abdel Aty Zohdy, Oakland University
• "Exploring  the Biocomputing Frontier",
  H. Abdel Aty Zohdy, R. Ewing, Lem Liou, J. P. Moncrief, F. Schuemeyer
• "Mircoarrays for Biocomputing",
  R. Krishnan, and C. Purdy
• "System Architecture Towards Protein Logic",
  H. Abdel Aty Zohdy, R. Ewing, Lem Liou, J. P. Moncrief, F. Schuemeyer, and P. Wierzibicki
  

SS2: Advanced Networking Hardware Design
Sunday, 28 December, 11:15 – 13:15, Room F  
Chair: Taskin Kocak, University of Central Florida, USA.

• "On Networking Multithreaded Processor Design: Hardware Thread Prioritization"
  Andreas Doering and Maria Gabrani, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

• "Design and Implementation of IMA, ML/MC PPP and other 3G Radio Access
   Network protocol processing on a multi-threaded multi-processor architecture"
  Muthu Venkatachalam, Raj Yavatkar, Robert Roden, T.J. O'Dwyer,  Intel Corporation, USA

• "Control Path in a Data-Flow Protocol Processor",
  Ulf Nordqvist and Dake Liu, Linkoping University, Sweden
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• "An architecture for chip-to-chip communications on network line cards" ,
  Jacob Engel and Taskin Kocak, University of Central Florida, USA

SS3: Security and Cryptographic Hardware Implementations
Monday, 29 December
Chair: Nicolas Sklavos

Part A:   09:45 – 11:45, Room F  

·       “Security and Cryptographic Hardware Implementations”, N. Sklavos, Introduction to Special Session.

·       “Fast DDP-Based Ciphers: From Hardware to Software”, N.D. Goots, N.A. Moldovyan, P.A. Moldovyanu and D.H. Summerville.

·      “A Formal Analysis of Symmetric Encryption and Keyed Hash Function”, A. Bhery, S. Hagihara, N. Yonezaki, .

·     “Montgomery Modular Multiplier Architectures and Hardware Implementations or RSA Cryptosystem”,  A.P. Fournaris and O. Koufopavlou, .

·   “A Parallel Algorithm for Computing Simultaneous Inversions with Application to Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication”, P. Sarkar, P. K. Mishra, and R. Barua,.

·     “Embedded End-to-End Wireless Security with ECDH Key Exchange”,   S. Kumar, M. Girimondo, A. Weimerskirch, C. Paar, A. Patel, and A. S. Wander, .

 

Part B:  12:00 – 14:00, Room F 

·      “Performance Evaluation of Three Encryption/ Decryption Algorithms”,  N.A. Kofahi, T.A. Somani and K.A. Zamil.

·       “A Time and area efficient Hardware implementation of  the MISTY1 Block Cipher”, P. Kitsos and O. Koufopavlou.

·       “Hardware Implementation of a Novel Inversion Algorithm”, M. Naseer, and E. Savas

·        “Parallel Architectures for Elliptic Curve Crypto-Processors over Binary Extension Fields”, A. Antola, G. Bertoni, L. Breveglieri and P. Maistri.

·        “Parallel FPGA Implementation of RSA with Residue Number Systems – Can side-channels threats be avoided?”, M. Ciet, M. Neve, E. Peeters and J.-J. Quisquater

 

SS4: "Advances in mobile communication Health and safety aspects"
Tuesday 30 December, 9:00 - 9:45, Room A.