Keynote Speakers at ICCCN 2022
Prof. Keren Bergman
Columbia University
USA
Abstract: High performance data centers are increasingly bottlenecked by the energy and communications costs of interconnection networks. Our recent work has shown how integrated silicon photonics with comb-driven dense wavelength-division multiplexing can scale to realize Pb/s chip escape bandwidths with sub-picojoule/bit energy consumption. We use this emerging interconnect technology to introduce the concept of embedded photonics for deeply disaggregated architectures. Beyond alleviating the bandwidth/energy bottlenecks, the new architectural approach enables flexible connectivity tailored for specific applications.
Biography:
Prof. Keren Bergman received a Ph.D. at M.I.T. and currently is the Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University where she leads research programs at the intersection of computing and photonics. Bergman is the recipient of the IEEE Photonics Engineering Award and is a Fellow of Optica and IEEE.
Blockchain Technology and its applications to the Internet of Things
Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari
University of Southern California
USA
Abstract: Blockchain technology is bringing fundamental new capabilities pertaining to decentralized trust and enabling micropayments for data. I will present results from research at USC touching on both the core technology and its application to the internet of things. These include a new mobile-oriented blockchain protocol, a middleware to decentralize publish-subscribe brokers, smart contracts to enable cheat-proof peer-to-peer trading of digital goods, a streaming data payment protocol, and a decentralized review mechanism suitable for data marketplaces.
Biography:
Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director of the Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. His research spans the design and evaluation of algorithms and protocols for wireless networks, distributed systems and the internet of things. He is the co-author of more than 300 technical papers, and 3 books, that have been collectively cited more than 30,000 times. He has received best paper awards at IPSN (2004, 2010), Mobicom (2010), and VNC (2021). He is the recipient of the NSF Career award, the ASEE Terman award, and has been listed in MIT Technology Review's TR-35 and Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10".
AI-based Control and Orchestration in the Open RAN: Architectures, Algorithms, Testbeds
Prof. Tommaso Melodia
Northeastern University
USA
Abstract: This talk will present an overview of our work on laying the basic principles to design open, programmable, AI-driven, and virtualized next-generation wireless networks. We will cover in detail challenges and opportunities associated with the evolution of cellular systems into cloud-native softwarized architectures enabling fine grained control of end-to-end functionalities.
Biography:
Prof. Tommaso Melodia is the William Lincoln Smith Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. He is also the Founding Director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things and the Director of Research for the PAWR Project Office. He received his Laurea (integrated BS and MS) from the University of Rome - La Sapienza and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. He is an IEEE Fellow and recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. Prof. Melodia is serving as Editor in Chief for Computer Networks, and has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, among others. He was the Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE Infocom 2018, and General Chair for ACM MobiHoc 2020, IEEE SECON 2019, ACM Nanocom 2019, and ACM WUWNet 2014. Prof. Melodia’s research on modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of Internet-of-Things and wireless networked systems has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, several industrial partners, the Air Force Research Laboratory the Office of Naval Research, DARPA, and the Army Research Laboratory.