ISNCC'25 - TUTORIALS

Tutorials

Tutorials will be presentetd during ISNCC 2025:

Tutorial 1:

Title: Preparing 6G for the Quantum Era: Challenges and Architectural Insights

Abstract: The tutorial focuses on the convergence of quantum threats in the domain of 6G networks. It aims to provide an in-depth study of the convergence of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum key distribution (QKD) in the 6G domain. The first part will provide background information on PQC, QKD, and B5G, and the second part will discuss the integration of these technologies into the 6G network architecture. In the second part, there will be a step-by-step demonstration of PQC integration within the user equipment communications and registration processes. There will also be a QKD demonstration in which the secure key exchange will be implemented and run within the quantum simulation environment. The participants do not need to have any prerequisite components. Application of PQC and QKD concepts in the security of telecommunication networks is an emerging topic and will be very important in the coming years as well for the development of secure 6G networks. The attendees of this tutorial will have the chance to learn more about security threats and potential techniques to provide defense against them from the perspective of 6G network infrastructures.

Speakers:

Dr. Engin Zeydan (Senior Researcher, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain) received a PhD degree in February 2011 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA. Since November 2018, he has been with the Services as Networks (SaS) Research Unit of the CTTC working as a Senior Researcher. He was a part-time instructor at Electrical and Electronics Engineering department of Ozyegin University Istanbul, Turkey between January 2015 and June 2018. His research areas include data engineering/science for telecommunication networks and network security.

Dr. Abdullah Aydeger (Florida Institute of Technology, USA) is currently an assistant professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at FIT. Prior to joining FIT in August 2022, he was an assistant professor at the School of Computing at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, since 2020. Dr. Aydeger obtained a Ph.D. Degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Florida International University in 2020. His research interests are post-quantum cryptography, network security, and virtualization.