EE 392I: Seminar on Trends in Computing and Communications Jatinder Pal Singh March 29 th 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 platforms  changing 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 perspectives  speakers 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 InnovationsGuru ParulkarReinventing 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 DataJean BolotMining Large Scale Cell Phone Data  April 27th, 2010, Gordon Brebner, Field Programming Technology for Mainstream ProcessingGordon BrebnerField 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 PerspectiveJames KempfIntroduction 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 IndustryTimothy ChangTrends 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 Stanford   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 technologies 

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 

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