Adventures in TomorrowLand

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Adventures in TomorrowLand

• Randy H. Katz
• United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished
  Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering and
  Computer Science Department
• University of California, Berkeley
• Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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Berkeley Tradition of Experimental Computing
Systems Research
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Large-Scale Experiment

• Deploy/use pervasive computing infrastructure in
  Soda Hall
• Evaluate impact on 200 person CS Division
  community
• Information Broadcast Channels
• Seminar announcements
• Lecture content
• News/sports/weather/stock ticker
• Shared Information
• Calendars
• Room reservations
• Collaborative note-taking brainstorming
• Smart spaces and device control
• Controlling your environment as a new app

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Large-Scale Experiment

• Extensive trace collection to drive future
  designs
• User mobility
• Logging of PDA usage
• Comprehensive user studies
• (PDA-based) questionnaires
• Research interests of key faculty members
• User interface and other systems courses
• Strong tradition of project-oriented courses
• Student projects yielding innovative applications
  and services, extending the infrastructure
• Large user community motivates students

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New Application Service Discovery

• Adapt device functionality to services in new
  environment
• Beacon augmentation
• Adaptive user interfaces
• Composed behaviors
• Deployment within Soda classrooms and MASH CoLab
• Light, video, slide projector, VCR, audio
  receiver, camera, monitor, A/V switcher control
• Local DNS/NTP/SMTP servers, HTTP proxies,
  RTP/multicast gateways
• Audited printer access
• Interactive floor maps, protocols for advertising
  object locations
• Coarse-grained user tracking

Universal Interaction?
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Experimental Testbed
Fax
IBM WorkPad
Image/OCR
Text
Speech
MC-16
Ericsson
CF788
Motorola Pagewriter 2000
WLAN
Pager
306 Soda
405 Soda
326 Soda Colab
GSM BTS
Millennium Cluster
Smart Spaces Personal Information Management
Millennium Cluster
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TomorrowLand

• Cooperative buildings flexible/dynamic
  environment providing cooperative workspaces
  supporting/augmenting human communications and
  collaboration
• 5000 sq. ft. in prototype pod space next door
  to Soda Hall
• To house Internet systems researchers faculty,
  students, support staff, industrial visitors
• Flexible floor plan to enhance collaboration
• Reconfigurable architectural spaces/roll around
  furniture
• Wireless connectivity for computers and phones
• Minimal physical building infrastructure enables
  experimentation with new building-scale services
• Smart spaces and computer-integrated
  environmental controls
• Prototype for new on-campus buildings

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Project Synergies
TranSend TACC Model Wireless Access
NINJA Scalable, Secure Services Computation in
the Network Smart Spaces as an
app Event-Response Programmable Access
BARWAN Wireless Overlay Networks Scalable Proxies
RTPGateway Service Discovery
vic, vat, wb
MASH Collaboration Applications Active Services
NOW/Millennium Computing Platform
MASH Toolkit Active Services Model
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Mission Statement Internet-Scale Systems
Research Group

• Lead the evolution of the Internet through
  fundamental protocol and network-centric systems
  research
• Ground research in real-world prototypes that are
  deployed across diverse user communities
• Unify on-going and future research projects
• Facilitate technology transfer and
  standardization
• Work closely with industrial partners in an open
  laboratory environment

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Strategy

• Leverage interdisciplinary systems expertise in
  network-based applications, scalable services,
  network-connected computing platforms
• Work collaboratively across applications, OS,
  networks, architecture
• Interact closely with industry, to obtain early
  access to leading edge technologies and
  facilitate tech transfer
• Cultivate ties with Bay Area network and systems
  research community

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Internet-Scale Systems

• Extremely large, complex, distributed,
  heterogeneous, with continuous and rapid
  introduction of new technologies
• Feasible architectures
• Decentralized, scalable algorithms
• Dynamically deployed agents where they are needed
• Incremental processing/communications growth
• Cross-layer protocol design and optimization
• Prototyping, deployment, evaluation,
  experimentation

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Benefits of Sponsorship

• Involvement with outstanding Berkeley graduate
  students
• Participation in a portfolio of large-scale,
  inter-disciplinary, pre-competitive research
  efforts with only modest investment, leveraging
  investment of other industrial partners
• Access to all ISRG-developed software,
  prototypes, simulation tools, and testbeds
• Early access to groups research results through
  on-campus participation and retreats
• Support the expansion of cadre of researchers
  with expertise in Internet-scale systems

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Intellectual Property Issues

• All ISRG results are placed in the public domain
• Widely disseminated and distributed for
  educational and research purposes
• Research reports, Web site
• Sponsors can receive non-exclusive, no-fee
  licenses for commercialization
• Only sponsors participate in twice yearly
  retreats
• To encourage an open research environment, ISRG
  researchers would prefer not to sign
  non-disclosure agreements

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Other Possible Participants

• ATT
• Bay Networks
• Cisco
• Ericsson
• HP
• IBM
• Intel

• Lucent
• Microsoft
• Motorola
• Philips
• Sprint
• Sun Microsystems
• Xerox