Networking 2004: Tutorials
Tutorial Title: IPv6: The New Internet Protocol - All you Must Know! Instructor: Ibrahim Haddad
Description of the tutorial: IPv6: The New Internet Protocol - All you Must Know! The tutorial covers the following topics: 1. Present the problems with IPv4 that triggered IETF to design IPv6 as the next generation IP protocol. 2. IPv6: The new Internet protocol and its design philosophies 3. IPv6 features: Present all the feature of IPv6 and how they solve the problems with IPv4 4. Transition and co-existence mechanisms: Dual stack, Tunnelling, and Translation. 5. Challenges ahead: Implementations, Co-existence issues, Deployment issues, Performance issues, etc. 6. Status with IPv6: standards, implementations, and deployment. 7. Ongoing research and deployment experience at the Open System Lab 8. Questions and Answers session Biography: Ibrahim Haddad is a Researcher in "Research and Innovation" Unit, at Ericsson Research, located in Montreal , Canada . He is involved with the system architecture of third generation wireless IP networks and guiding Ericsson Open Source contributions that promote and advance the use of Linux in telecommunications. Ibrahim serve as Contributing Editor to the Linux Journal and LinuxWorld magazine; He also writes for the O'Reilly Network, Sys Admin Magazine, and the UK-based Linux User & Developer magazine. He has delivered a number of presentations and tutorials at local universities, IEEE and ACM conferences, Open Source forums, and international conferences. Ibrahim contributed to two of Richard Petersen books, "Red Hat Linux Pocket Administrator" and "Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora Edition: The Complete Reference (DVD Edition)", both published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees in Computer Science from the Lebanese American University , charted by the University of the State of New York . He is currently a Dr. Sc. Candidate at Concordia University in Montreal researching "Scalable Architectures for High Availability Web Server Clusters". Academic awards include the "J. W. McConnell Memorial Graduate Fellowship" and the " Concordia University 25th Anniversary Fellowship", both received in 2000.