IoT Symposium Keynote

Prof. Mani Srivastava of UCLA will deliver the keynote at the IoT Symposium.  His talk will be titled "Towards a Trustworthy Pervasive Sensing Substrate for the Internet of Things."

IoT Symposium at Embedded Systems Week

Jason Xue and I are organizing the IoT Symposium at Embedded Systems Week.  ESWeek is October 4-9 in Amsterdam; the IoT Symposium is on October 8-9.  The submission deadline for the symposium is June 29.  We hope you attend!  Even better, we hope you submit!   Here is the call for papers:

The ESWeek IoT Symposium is organized as a part of the Embedded Systems Week 2015. The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to revolutionize fields ranging from health care to manufacturing to personal living by connecting the Internet to physical things. Embedded computing and VLSI are central to the achievement of the IoT vision - advanced computation and communication must be delivered at extremely low energy levels and manufacturing costs. The IoT Symposium is devoted to research on advanced IoT systems.The IoT symposium will be a part of Embedded System week, and will provide a forum for researchers, from academia and industry, to present and discuss innovative ideas and solutions related to all facets of internet-of-things.
Topics of interest at IoT Symposium include but not limited to:
- VLSI Systems Track: ultra low energy systems, integrated sensors, 3D, platform architectures.
- Networking and Communications Track: Physical layer, protocols, network management.
- Algorithms and Infrastructures Track: Distributed and cloud computing, big data methods, heterogeneous sensors, sensor fusion, standards, design methodologies.
- Security and Privacy Track: Low-energy encryption, authentication, hardware security, privacy management.
- Applications Track: Industrial control, logistics, smart homes, smart cities, office management, smart vehicles and fleets.
- Ultra-low Energy System Track: Energy harvesting, hybrid energy systems, storage-less energy systems

DAC special session on cyber-physical systems

The Design Automation Conference is coming to the Moscone Center in San Francisco during the week of June 7.  Mohammed Al Faruque and I have organized a special session on cyber-physical systems architectures and methodologies; it will take place Wednesday, JUne 10, from 1:30 to 3 PM.  The session will feature three talks: I will give the introductory talk; Janos Sztipanovits from Vanderbilt will talk about their experience with CPS tool chains; and Rajesh Gupta will discuss models, abstractions, and architectures.  You can find the program here.

Embedded Systems Week: Systems Engineering and Run-Time Adaptation

Monday's keynote at Embedded Systems Week came from Clas Jacobson, Chief Scientist at United Technologies Systems and Controls Engineering.  UTC designs a lot of complex cyber-physical systems, including elevators, car subsystems, and jet engines.  Dr. Jacobson identified three As as important in CPS design: architecture, abstractions, and automation.  He stressed the importance of good modeling as the foundation of robust system design.

I also attended a session on run-time adaptation with presentations by Joerg Henkel, Vijay Narayanan, Sri Parameswaran, and Juergen Teich.  Determining all aspects of system operation at design time simply doesn't work for today's complex systems.  The computation required depends on the input data---image/video compression is a classic example of a complex relationship between image/video data and compression time.  The complexities of thermal management are also best handled in many cases with run-time systems.  The talks gave a multi-level view of the problem.  Joerg's talk concentrated on thermal, including  a cool infrared video of chip temperature over time.  Vijay's talk looked at the opportunities presented by tunneling transistors, which provide good off characteristics but are slower than traditional MOSFETs.  Sri's talk looked at video compression and how to manage the complex pipeline required to perform all the steps required for compression.  Juergen's talk described a new model of computaiton for run-time management known as invasive computing.