IE - ITCSC Joint Seminar

Date: April 16, 2009 (Thursday)

Time: 10:30a.m. - 12:30 noon

Venue:Rm. 1009 William MW Mong Engineering Building, CUHK

Speaker: Prof. Shuo-Yen Robert Li, Professor of Information Engineering, CUHK

Abstract : This is an expository talk on the theory of (linear) network coding with a wide variety of applications to multicast, peer-to-peer communications, wireless networks, sensor networks, personal communications, etc. Network coding is a paradigm shift in the mode of data transport from the traditional store-and-forward. The Network Coding Theorem guarantees the best possible throughput. Linearity makes the hardware/software implementation feasibly fast for practical applications. The wide applicability of network coding has generated interest in multi-disciplinary research among computer science, information/coding theory, matrix theory, networking, operations research, and switching. The closing part of the talk extends linear network coding to convolutional coding.

Speaker: Prof. Akihiro Nakao, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo

Abstract : This talk introduces our research activities on network virtualization which recently catches attention in the research community as a viable core technology for a test bed as well as a meta architecture to accommodate various different network architectures side by side. Especially, this talk discusses the research activities in our Network Virtualization Lab that is a joint research of The University of Tokyo and NICT, focusing on two major fields of research, infrastructure (CoreLab construction and GENI Test- bed Federation, etc.) research and application research (One-hop Indirection Routing, P2P Traffic Reduction Mechanism, Path Brokering, etc. (Topics may be subject to change according to the time constraint).

Biography : Prof. Akihiro Nakao received B.S.(1991) in Physics, M.E.(1994) in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo. He was at IBM Yamato Laboratory/at Tokyo Research Laboratory/at IBM Texas Austin from 1994 till 2005. He received M.S.(2001) and Ph.D.(2005) in Computer Science from Princeton University. He has been teaching as an Associate Professor in Applied Computer Science, at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo since 2005. (He has also been an expert visiting scholar/a project leader at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) since 2007.