Center for Advanced Technologies and Applications for the Next Generation Information and Communication Networking

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Center for Advanced Technologies and Applications
for the Next Generation Information and
Communication Networking Sub-Project 1 Advanced
Technologies and Applications for Wireless
Networks
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Important Research Issues

• Wireless sensor networks
• Mobile communication networks
• Telematics and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs)
• Cloud Computing

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Organization of Sub-project 2
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Wireless Sensor Networks

• Virtual-Coordinate-Based Routing
• Virtual Coordinate Assignment Protocol
• Routing Protocol
• GPS-Free Information Brokerage
• Information Brokerage (e.g. Location Sever)
• GPS-Free (Connection-Based)

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Wireless Sensor Networks

• Data Aggregation
• Data Dependency
• Data Transmission Path
• Wireless Sensor and Actor Network
• Actor Movable and with Strong-Functionality
  (e.g. Fire Fighting helicopter, Battery
  Recharging Vehicle)
• Data Transmission to Multiple Actors

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Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks
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Wireless Sensor Networks

• Underwater Sensor Network
• Low Delivery Rate, Long Latency, and Low Moving
  Speed
• Routing Protocol, Information Brokerage
• Network Maintenance
• Node Active-Sleep Scheduling
• Battery Recharging Scheduling

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Under-Water Sensor Networks
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Telematics VANETTechnology and Applications

• Reliable information delivery technology
• Broadcast, multicast, and multi-hopping are
  crucial for vehicular ad-hoc networks.
• Important research issues include
• Broadcast optimization, multicast tree
  construction, cluster planning
• Cooperative communication
• Routing algorithm tailored to network with
• Highly dynamic topology
• Highly non-uniform node distribution

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Telematics VANETTechnology and Applications
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Telematics VANETTechnology and Applications

• Design and analysis of high performance MAC
  mechanism
• Diverse telematics applications require various
  QoS
• Important research issues include
• Opportunistic relaying
• Network coding
• Topology control
• Multi-Channel allocation
• Scheduling algorithm

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Telematics VANETTechnology and Applications

• Applications of driving safety/efficiency and
  multimedia streaming
• Safety, efficiency and recreation are crucial for
  Telematics applications
• Important research issues include
• Scheduling algorithm with QoS guarantee,
  scheduling over heterogeneous networks
• P2P multimedia streaming, P2P file searching and
  sharing, P2P application-layer multicast
• Route planning and navigation
• Fleet tracking and management
• Detection and dissemination of emergency
  information

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Mobile Communication Networks
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Mobile Communication Networks

• Design of Cooperative Networks with High
  Performance and Quality-of-Service
• QoS Support in Cooperative Networks
• Bandwidth Management in Cooperative Networks
• Cross-layer Design of Cooperative Networks based
  on MIMO techniques
• Channel-Aware Transmission Control for
  Cooperative Networks

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Mobile Communication Networks

• Design of Femtocell Networks with
  Quality-of-Service
• Interference Management/Resource Allocation
• Access Control
• Handoff Management
• Local IP Access
• Selected IP Traffic Offload
• Self-Organizing Networks
• Emergency Call
• Time Synchronizing/Spectrum Accuracy
• Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO)

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Mobile Communication Networks

• WiMAX/LTE Multicasting with Quality-of-Service
• Layer-encoded Multimedia Server Design
• Opportunistic Multicast Scheduling and Resource
  Allocation
• Multi-BS Synchronization and Handoff
• Sleep-mode Power Saving

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Cloud Computing
Cyber-Physical Systems
Internet of Things
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Distributed Cloud Platforms
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Distributed Cloud Platforms

• Deliver fundamental service models and provide
  essential properties

• Service Models

• Essential Properties

• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Scalability
• Availability
• Manageability
• Accessibility
• Performance

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Issues - SaaS

• Web Service
• Leveraging interconnectivity and mobility of
  client devices
• Enhanced effectiveness with greater human
  participation
• Web-based Application
• Running interactive applications through a web
  browser
• Conventional applications should be able to
  translate their access interface onto web-based
  platform

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Issues - PaaS

• Runtime Environment
• Dynamic provisioning
• On-demand resource provisioning
• Load balancing
• Distribute workload evenly among resources
• Fault tolerance
• Continuously operating in the presence of
  failures
• Automatic Control
• Police-Based Control
• Make the decision according to some principles
  and requirements
• Workflow Control
• Workflow processing daemon delivers speedy and
  efficient construction and management of cloud
  resources

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Issues - IaaS

• Virtual Resource Management
• Provide an abstraction of logical resources based
  on virtualization technique
• Manage virtualized resources for the deployment
  of virtual machine, virtual storage and virtual
  network
• System Monitoring
• Monitor system status of virtual and physical
  resources
• Provide accurate information and lookup service
  through the web-based display

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Internet of Things

• Internet of Things communication systems and
  network infrastructures
• Location and tracking of objects
• Connection of everyday objects to the Internet
• Standards for an Internet of Things
• Perhaps involved with the traditional issue about
  WSNs

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Internet of Things
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The Challenges of Cyber-Physical System Research

• Robustness, Safety, and Security of CPS
• Uncertainty in the environment, security attacks,
  and errors in physical devices make ensuring
  overall system robustness, security, and safety a
  critical challenge
• Control and Hybrid Systems
• A new calculus must merge time-based systems with
  event-based systems for feedback control
• Architecture
• New network protocols must be designed for
  large-scale CPS. An innovative paradigm can be
  built around the notion of being globally
  virtual, locally physical

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The Challenges of Cyber-Physical System Research

• Verification, Validation, and Certification of
  CPS
• Real-Time Embedded Systems Abstractions
• New distributed real-time computing and realtime
  group communication methods are needed
• Sensor and Mobile Networks
• Knowledge creation from the vast amount of raw
  data being collected will be essential
• Education and Training
• Scientists and engineers who are properly trained
  in the fundamentals of computation, control,
  networking, and software engineering are
  critically needed

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Potential Applications for CPS

• integrated medical systems
• distributed micro power generation
• safe/efficient transportation
• military dominance
• economic dominance
• disaster recovery
• energy efficient buildings
• alternative energy
• pervasive adaptive communications
• more efficient financial networks
• distributed service delivery
• social networking and games

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Sensors Everywhere