Transcript COCONETS - University of Hawaii

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University of Hawaii at Mānoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
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University of Hawaii - Location
• Ala Moana Beach
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University of Hawaii - Location
Holmes Hall
POST Building
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University of Hawaii - Location
• View from Holmes Hall – Diamondhead
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What is COCONETS?
Well…
Get the idea?
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COCONETS Lab
COding, COmmunications, NETworks and Security Lab
• Mission
– Conduct basic and applied research in coding,
communications, networks, signal processing, and
security for the benefit of society.
– Educate students to prepare them for jobs in
academia and high technology industry.
– Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate
with researchers both at UH and externally.
– Interface to industry in Hawaii, US mainland, and
internationally.
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COCONETS FACULTY
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COCONETS Faculty
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Gurdal Arslan - EE
Edo Biagioni - ICS
Yingfei Dong – EE
N. Tom Gaarder - EE
Anders Host Madsen EE
• Alek Kavcic - EE
• Anthony Kuh – EE
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Yingbin Liang – EE
J. B. Nation – Math
Wes Petersen – ICS
Prasad Santhanam – EE
Galen Sasaki - EE
Susanna Still – ICS
Jim Yee - EE
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COCONETS Faculty Honors and Awards
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Shannon Award / Shannon Lecturer
Japan Prize
2 IEEE Fellows
4 NSF CAREER Awards
Regents Award for Excellence in Research
Regents Award for Excellence in Teaching
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COCONETS Faculty Best Paper Awards
• IEEE Comm Society
– 2005 Best paper in Singal Proc. for Data Storage
• IEEE Information Theory Society
– 2006 Outstanding Paper
• Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications
– 200? best paper
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Faculty Research Iterests
COding, COmmunications, NETworks and Security Lab
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Wireless Communications
Magnetic Recording
Optical Communications
Information Theory
Distributed signal processing and communications
Network security
Network optimization
Machine learning
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PROUD HISTORY
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A Piece of History:
Decoding Reed-Solomon codes
• Wes Peterson 1960
– Solving a system of linear
equations to hard-decode
Reed-Solomon codes
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Gorestein-Zeiler 1961
Chien 1964
Forney 1965
Berleykamp-Massey 1967
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A Piece of History: ALOHA net
• Norm Abramson 1970
– Protocol for managing packet collisions in wireless
networks
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A Piece of History:
Network Information theory
• Slepian – Wolf, 1971
• Gaarder – Wolf, 1975
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CURRENT RESEARCH
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Professor Gürdal Arslan
Cooperative Systems of Autonomous Agents
Challenges
• Local information/decision making
Deployment of Large Scale
Networks of (semi) Autonomous
• Constrained communications
Agents
• Large scale of operations
• Uncertain dynamic environment
• Hostile adversarial presence
Approach
• Game Theory
Expected Outcomes
• Theory, algorithms, software
Complex Collective Behavior
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• Simulations, experimentation
Simple Individual Behavior
• Education
Goal
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Applications in Diverse Areas
Autonomous vehicles
for military operations
Traffic Routing
Cooperative Signaling
in Ad-hoc Networks
Dynamic Sensor Management
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Modern storage devices
Alek Kavcic
Assoc. Prof. of Electrical Engineering
University of Hawaii
How much data can we
theoretically pack on a disk
drive (CD or DVD) and retrieve it
error-free?
Once we figure out how much
data we can pack on, how do we
design codes that achieve this?
Believe it or not:
this is not known
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Turning magnets into signals and back
magnetization pattern on a track
magnify
Readback waveform
track
media noise
media noise
magnetic surface
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Computer Network and Security (1/2)
Associate Professor, Yingfei Dong
• Computer Network Security Projects
Focus on secure Internet architectures and protocols
– Securing critical information infrastructure such as CyberPhysical Systems (CPS)
• Infrastructure-Level Protection to Ensure Critical Communications
(NSF 0649950)
• develop novel secure mechanisms to protect critical comm. from
DOS attacks and fast-spreading worms
– Fighting Unwanted Traffic
• Distributed Overlay Filtering Mechanism
• exploring dynamic inter-domain collaboration to improve the
availability of important services
– Control Spam-Like Unwanted Internet Traffic
• Holding spammer accountable
• Identify spamming bots
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Computer Network and Security (2/2)
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Computer Network Security Projects (cont’)
– Internet Voting: develop practical voter-verifiable remote voting
systems
Computer Network Projects
– develop advanced network architectures and algorithms for
Emerging Internet Applications
– Novel Architecture for Soft Real-Time Delivery on the Future
Internet
• support strict high-assurance real-time delivery for critical
infrastructure systems
Distributed and Parallel Systems
– Develop distributed systems and algorithms with better reliability
and scalability
– Distributed information systems
• large-scale data sharing across computer networks
• peer-to-peer systems and other
– Distributed File/Storage systems
– Advanced distributed computer architecture
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Signal Processing and Machine Learning
Professor Anthony Kuh
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Adaptive online recursive filters
Kernel methods
Pattern recognition and classification
Unsupervised learning: PCA and KPCA
Reinforcement Learning
Distributed learning and signal processing
Network modeling and analysis
• Education: graduate and undergraduate
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Applications Areas
Sensor network localization
and estimation
Text Classification
Renewable Energy
Wind Prediction
Anomaly Detection
Network security
Health monitoring
Data fusion
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Wireless Communication Technologies
Yingbin Liang-University of Hawaii at Manoa
• Accurately Modeling Wireless Channels
• Analyzing Practical Wireless Channels
• Incorporating Practical Channel Parameters
• MIMO Wireless Communication
• Utilizing Spatial Dimensions
• Analyzing Correlated MIMO Channels
• Developing Optimal MIMO Schemes
• Relaying and User Cooperative Networks
• Higher Data Rate and Reliability
• Developing Relay Strategies
• Applying Network Information
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Information Theoretic Security
• Confidentiality via Information
Theoretic Approaches
• Confidentiality without Encryption
• Guarantee both Reliability and Security
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Professor Anders Høst-Madsen:
Cooperative Communications
• Old network paradigm: communications along
paths
• New network paradigm: communications on
waves
– Radically increased network capacity
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Ad-hoc networks
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Ad-hoc networks
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Ad-hoc networks
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A PLACE FOR
GRADUATE STUDENTS
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COCONETS Students
• It would be great to have some pictures
of students here
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COCONETS Alumni
• This slide on alumni success stories
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COCONETS Goals
• Establishing a multidisciplinary research and
education center in basic and applied research
• Take advantage of location in Pacific and
multicultural environment in Hawaii to
establish joint relationships with Asian
institutions and US mainland institutions
• Use communication and information
technology to impact economic and societal
problems
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COCONETS Programs and Financial Aid
• Programs
– MS
– PhD
– Post-doc
• Financial Aid
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COCONETS post-doctoral fellowships
COCONETS graduate fellowships
Research assistantships
Teaching assistantships
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COCONETS Contact Information
• Names
• Addresses
• Email, Phone, Web site
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