Cross-Domain Research

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Cross-Domain Research

• Nitin Vaidya
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sept. 18. 2008
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Electric Motors
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Mobile Computing

• Application Domains
• eHealth
• Energy
• Environment
• Homeland Security
• Critical Infrastructures
• Transportation Mobility
• Future Internet

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Cross-Domain Trade-Off

• Limited capacity
• Sufficient incentive to be domain-specific ????

Simplicity, Versatility
Performance
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• With higher raw capacity, the balance tilts
  the other way

Performance
Simplicity, versatility
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Cross-Layer
Applications
Transport
Network
Link
Cross-layer To Utilize Spectrum Efficiently
Most to lose
Phy
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Cross-Domain ??
Applications
Better interfaces
Transport
Network
Link
Cross-layer To Utilize Spectrum Efficiently
Phy
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What Not To Do

• Fine to do cross-domain research where deemed
  desirable
• But

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What Not To Do

• DO NOT promote narrow research programs
• Narrowly targeted programs
• create false demand unnecessarily fragment
  research community
• Not healthy for basic research

Mobile Computing eHealth/HomelandSecurity/Energy