Overview of Rutgers Pervasive Computing Research Thrust Computing Coordination Council CCC

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Overview of Rutgers Pervasive Computing Research
Thrust Computing Coordination Council (CCC)

• Manish Parashar
• ECE/CAIP, Rutgers University
• parashar_at_caip.rutgers.edu

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The Rutgers Computing Coordination Council (CCC)

• Created in Fall 2005 with the following key goals
• Develop a shared vision across CISE disciplines
  at Rutgers
• Enhancing coordination of research and teaching
  across CISE departments and centers
• Catalyze collaborations across traditional
  organizational boundaries
• Seed and foster new, ambitions and
  multidisciplinary research/education/outreach
  initiatives
• Increase opportunities for students
• Increase industrial collaborations within NJ and
  nationally
• CCC representation
• CS, CE, LIS, DIMACS, WINLAB, CAIP, CBIM
• Two university-wide research initiatives
• Pervasive computing
• Biosciences

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Core Computing Disciplines and Centers

• Strong ties with mathematics, statistics,
  cognitive science, biomedical engineering,
  biosciences, environmental and social science,
  and business school, as well as and Robert Wood
  Johnson, UMDNJ and the Cancer Institute

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CCC Pervasive Computing Initiative

• Vision A seamless integration of the physical
  and computational worlds
• New generations of applications
• Environment, location, user aware,
• Able to collect, understand and react to ambient
  and personal information
• Inherently multidimensional and multidisciplinary
  
• demands a concerted collaboration between
  computer science, computer and communications
  engineering, other engineering fields, cognitive
  sciences, life and environmental sciences,
  economics, linguistics, psychology, sociology and
  other social sciences
• Objective Nucleate a university-wide
  multi-disciplinary research and education program
  that will establish Rutgers as a national and
  international leader

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Pervasive Systems with Human in the Loop
Ambient interfaces
Application Management Control Software
Control Module
Human in the Loop
Autonomous software agents
Cognitive Intelligence Module
Control Module
Global Pervasive Network (Future Internet)
Computation Storage
To Actuators
Protocol module
Content Location Aware Routers
Network Connectivity Computation
Hospital with Embedded Monitoring
Smart Public Space
Vehicles with Sensors Wireless
Virtualized physical world object
From Sensors
Autonomous Wireless Clusters (ecosystems)
Multiple radio standards, ? Cognitive radios
Robot Teams
Physical World with Embedded Wireless
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Wireless Ecosystems

• Integrating the physical world with the Internet
• Ability to view, search and interact with the
  physical world
• Pervasively deployed mobile and embedded
  computing devices
• A set of evolving wireless ecosystems emerge
• Weaving information into the fabric of human
  lives
• Characteristics of pervasive ecosystems
• 10s of billions of wireless devices connected to
  the global network
• Scale is 2 orders of magnitude greater than
  todays internet
• New challenges in enabling technologies, system
  architecture and human-centric design

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Computation Ecosystems/CyberPhysical Science

• Pervasive Computational Ecosystems
• Seamless, secure, on-demand access to and
  aggregation of, geographically distributed
  computing, communication and information
  resources
• Computers, networks, data archives, instruments,
  observatories, experiments, sensors/actuators,
  ambient information, etc.
• Context, content, capability, capacity awareness
• Knowledge-based, information/data-driven,
  context/content-aware computationally intensive,
  pervasive applications
• Symbiotically and opportunistically combine
  services/computations, real-time information,
  experiments, observations, and to manage,
  control, predict, adapt, optimize,
• Crisis management, monitor and predict natural
  phenomenon, monitor and manage engineered
  systems, optimize business processes

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Many Application Areas .

• Hazard prevention, mitigation and response
• Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, wild fires,
  floods, landslides, tsunamis, terrorist attacks
• Critical infrastructure systems
• Condition monitoring and prediction of future
  capability
• Transportation of humans and goods
• Safe, speedy, and cost effective transportation
  networks and vehicles (air, ground, space)
• Energy and environment
• Safe and efficient power grids, safe and
  efficient operation of regional collections of
  buildings
• Health
• Reliable and cost effective health care systems
  with improved outcomes
• Enterprise-wide decision making
• Coordination of dynamic distributed decisions for
  supply chains under uncertainty
• Next generation communication systems
• Reliable wireless networks for homes and
  businesses
• Report of the Workshop on Dynamic Data Driven
  Applications Systems, F. Darema et al., March
  2006, www.dddas.org

Source M. Rotea, NSF
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Research Challenges

• Communications/Networking Challenge
• Hierarchical, distributed, decentralized,
  adaptive protocols
• Dense wireless networks
• Efficient integration with the future internet
• Computational Challenge
• Programming systems/models for data integration,
  adaptation and runtime self-management
• Data management mechanisms for data acquisition
  and transport with real time, space and data
  quality constraints
• Robust and secure interactions with the physical
  world
• Humanistic Challenge
• Personal and ubiquitous use of technologies
• Security and privacy
• Human-centric design
• Study of applications

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CCC Pervasive Computing Initiative Key Activities

• Investigative Workshop on Pervasive Computing
  Research
• Seed-funding for Multi-disciplinary Research
  Initiatives in Pervasive Computing
• Distinguished Seminar Series on Pervasive
  Computing
• Internal (and more informal) biweekly meeting
  among interested researchers at Rutgers to
  facilitate interactions and collaborations.

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Workshop on Pervasive Computing Research

• Identify opportunities and for cross disciplinary
  research synergies and collaborations related to
  pervasive computing at Rutgers.
• Help define the roadmap for the Rutgers Pervasive
  Computing Initiative
• Workshop highlights
• Keynote on Software Engineering for Pervasive
  Computing by Prof. Roy Campbell, UIUC (100
  215)
• 4 technical sessions covering a broad range of
  research areas
• Panel session on the future of pervasive
  computing research at Rutgers (400 500)
• Poster session during lunch (1145 100)
• We have full program please help us keep on
  schedule!