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1st International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems

March 2–4, 2015 | Tokyo, Japan

Prof. Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo

Green Multi-Homing Video Transmission in Wireless Heterogeneous Networks

The wireless communication medium has become a heterogeneous environment with various wireless access options and overlapped coverage from different networks. Mobile terminals (MTs), equipped with multi-homing capabilities, can explore network cooperation to simultaneously aggregate the offered resources from different networks to support the same application and thus increase the data rate. On the other hand, as the gap between the MT energy demand and battery capacity continues to increase, the MT operational time in between battery charging has become a significant factor in service quality. In this presentation, we introduce an energy management system for MTs to support a sustainable multi-homing video transmission, over the call duration, in a heterogeneous wireless access medium. Through statistical video quality guarantee, the MT can determine a target video quality lower bound for a target call duration. The target video quality lower bound captures the MT available energy at the beginning of the call, the time varying bandwidth availability and channel conditions at different radio interfaces, the target call duration, and the video packet characteristics in terms of distortion impact, delay deadlines, and video packet encoding statistics. The MT then adapts its energy consumption to support at least the target video quality lower bound during the call. Simulation results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed framework over two benchmarks, and some performance trade-offs.

Weihua Zhuang (M’93-SM’01-F’08) has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, since 1993, where she is a Professor and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communication Networks. Her current research focuses on resource allocation and QoS provisioning in wireless networks, and on smart grid. She is a co-recipient of several best paper awards from IEEE conferences. Dr. Zhuang was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2007-2013), and the Technical Program Symposia Chair of the IEEE Globecom 2011. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and an elected member in the Board of Governors and VP Mobile Radio of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. She was an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2008-2011).



Prof. Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

Resource Optimization in Cloud Computing Systems

The cloud is well known for its elasticity by leveraging abundant resources. Cloud data centres easily host thousands or even millions of multicore servers. Further, these servers are increasingly virtualized for the sake of data centre efficiency. However, the reality is that these resources are often relentlessly exploited particularly to improve applications performance. Although the elasticity facilitates achieving cost efficiency (or the performance to cost ratio), the ultimate efficiency in resource usage (or more broadly data centres) lies in scheduling and resource allocation strategies that explicitly take into account actual resource consumption. The optimization of resource efficiency in clouds is of great practical importance considering its numerous benefits in the economic and environmental sustainability. In this talk, we will discuss resource efficiency in cloud data centres with an example of large-scale distributed processing applications including scientific workflows and MapReduce jobs.

Prof. Albert Zomaya, is the Chair Professor of High Performance Computing & Networking and Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow in the School of Information Technologies, Sydney University. He is also the Director of the Centre for Distributed and High Performance Computing which was established in late 2009. Dr. Zomaya published more than 500 scientific papers and articles and is author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He served as the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers (2011-2014) and currently serves as Editor in Chief of Springer’s Scalable Computing. He also serves as an associate editor for 22 leading journals and is the Founding Editor of the Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing. Dr. Zomaya was the Chair the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (1999–2003) and currently serves on its executive committee. He is the Vice–Chair, IEEE Task Force on Computational Intelligence for Cloud Computing and serves on the advisory board of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and the steering committee of the IEEE Technical Area in Green Computing. Dr. Zomaya has delivered more than 150 keynote addresses, invited seminars, and media briefings and has been actively involved, in a variety of capacities, in the organization of more than 600 conferences.

Professor Zomaya is the recipient of the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing Outstanding Service Award (2011), the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing (2011), and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2014). He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of AAAS, IEEE, IET (UK). Professor Zomaya’s research interests are in the areas of parallel and distributed computing and complex systems.