EE 392I: Seminar on Trends in Computing and Communications

http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee392i

Jatinder Pal Singh March 29th 2010

Introduction

Lectures and invited talks Industry, academia, venture capital sectors

Current trends in computing/communications /services This quarter: Open mobile and networking

platforms, service centric architectures, wireless networks, cloud computing, etc.

Initiatives for research and open innovation in industry/academia

Seminar Motivation and Significance

Rise of innovation in services in the past decade

Research and development landscape beyond just hardware and software

Recent drive towards open source platformschanging operational trends for industries in the

fixed and mobile telecommunication ecosystem First hand exposure to such trends in an

interactive environment Opportunity to learn from and share

perspectivesspeakers from diverse technology settings

Logistics 1 unit class Grading: Credit/No Credit based on

class attendance Students can miss up to 1 seminar

and still get credit for the class Sign in sheet will be circulated at the

beginning of every class

Agenda March 30th, 2010, Lecture, Course Introduction and

Overview April 6th, 2010 Guru Parulkar,

Reinventing Internet with Platform for Innovations April 13th, 2010, Lecture, Introduction to Cellular Networks

and Rethinking Mobile Architectures April 20th, 2010, Jean Bolot,

Mining Large Scale Cell Phone Data April 27th, 2010, Gordon Brebner,

Field Programming Technology for Mainstream Processing May 4th, 2010, Lecture, Open Source Mobile Operating

Systems May 11th, 2010, James Kempf, Introduction to LTE from a

Networking Perspective May 18th, 2010, Nicholas Bambos, Risk Management in

Large Scale Computing Infrastructures May 25th, 2010, Timothy Chang, Trends in Venture Capital

and Mobile Industry June 1st, 2010, Lecture, Wrap-up and Outlook

Networking and Computing - Changing Paradigms

Clean Slate Internet Design Program at Stanfordhttp://cleanslate.stanford.edu/

Intent to create a platform for innovation and make it available to research communities

Drive towards open platforms has implications for service providers, networking equipment vendors, end-users, etc.

Networking, Computing and Storage Applications underway

OpenFlow as one of the enabling technologieshttp://www.openflowswitch.org/

Open Source Mobile Platforms

Emergence of Open Mobile Platforms in recent past Desirable for carriers, research communities, and

(some) vendors Better innovation, agility, and reduction in fragmentation

in the handset market Third party application development has taken off

on multiple platforms Openness together with increase in data rates, and

processing power fosters novel applications Access to OS helps efficient phone design (battery,

performance, applications) Open Handset Alliance

http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/

Trends in wireless networks

Cellular networks, WLANs, WMANs have been constantly evolving towards higher data rates

Growth in wireless data consumption by end-users Staggering stats for cellular scenario Data offloading solutions desirable owing to cellular

spectrum and infrastructure costs Mobile is the future

Promising growth opportunity for service providers, developers, and vendors in mobile space

Growth of fixed line businesses generally stagnating

Service Centric Networking Designing infrastructure allowing

service providers to roll out new services easily and efficiently

Enabling easy service creation by third party developers and end users

Reducing network management and cost of operating the networks

Equipping the research community to harness the consequent innovation models

Cloud Computing Paradigms Handheld devices limited in battery

and processing Application execution in the cloud

But which apps, when, and how? Access to handheld OS facilitates

efficient design of apps running locally and remotely

Increased processing availability in the cloud allows for novel apps

Agenda for rest of the quarter

Talks/lectures to follow encompassing the areas mentioned

Background review of the topics will help learn better during the subsequent classes

Collaborative research initiatives by the students welcome