The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Networking Systems (CPNS 2012)
In conjunction with ICDCS 2012 http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~hammari/CPNS_Workshop2012.html Macau, China, June 20 - 21, 2012 Keynote Speech Speaker: Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Venue: CPNS'12 Workshop - In conjunction with ICDCS'12, Macau, China Date: June 20, 2012 Title: Cyber-physical Information-centric Networking: The Research Frontier Abstract: Today's networks are designed to carry bits. In contrast, the emerging information-centric networking paradigm envisions networks whose main responsibility is to deliver actionable information. This paradigm shift from raw bits to information delivery entails significant changes to protocol interfaces, goals, and abstractions. If implemented, such changes promise to simultaneously and dramatically improve network utility, reduce latency, and decrease resource demand. The talk demonstrates that information-centric networking is particularly well-suited to the needs of distributed cyber-physical applications, where the network carries content from people and sensors that pertains to the state of the physical world. Several new research challenges are identified in realizing information-centric networking for cyber-physical applications. Initial evaluation and application deployment results are presented that range from green transportation to disaster recovery and the military domain. These results provide anecdotal evidence that elevating the fundamental network abstractions to revolve directly around information delivery significantly improves application performance. Biosketch: Tarek Abdelzaher received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1990 and 1994 respectively. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1999 on Quality of Service Adaptation in Real-Time Systems. He has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, where he founded the Software Predictability Group until 2005. He is currently a Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar at the Department of Computer Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has authored/coauthored more than 150 refereed publications in real-time computing, distributed systems, sensor networks, and control. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Real-Time Systems, and has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, the ACM Transaction on Sensor Networks, and the Ad Hoc Networks Journal. He was Program Chair of RTAS 2004, RTSS 2006, IPSN 2010, ICDCS 2010 and ICAC 2011, as well as General Chair of RTAS 2005, IPSN 2007, RTSS 2007, DCoSS 2008, and Sensys 2008. Abdelzaher's research interests lie broadly in understanding and controlling performance and temporal properties of networked embedded and software systems in the face of increasing complexity, distribution, and degree of embedding in an external physical environment. Tarek Abdelzaher is a member of IEEE and ACM. _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
