Fog Computing & Networking

Date: Oct. 18th

Time: 16:30-17:30

Venue: Room 110, Zhi Xin Building

Speaker Introduction:

Prof. T. Russell Hsing is Chair Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, Guest Professor of Peking University in China, Adjunct Professors with the Arizona State University in US, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been teaching a course of “Technology Entrepreneurship: Curiosity, Opportunity, Risk, and Money” at POSTECH (Korea) in 2012, National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) since 2013, and Peking University (China) since 2014. Currently he is Board Member for the Open Fog Consortium, Advisory Board Member for four high-tech start-ups in US (DataMi, Inc.; Smartiply Inc.; and IoT Eye, Inc.) and Taiwan (ePass2UInc.). 

He has been Academic Advisor for the Next Generation MobileNetworks (NGMN) Alliance since March 2014. His current research efforts are concentrating on Wireless 5G, Internet of Things, Network Economics & Neutrality, Fog Network & Computing, and Technology Entrepreneurship. He has been a member for the IEE Fellow Committee since 2012, the Strategic Planning Committee in 2013, and Chair for the IEEE Technical Field of Award (TFA) Council & Member for the IEEE Award Board since 2015.

Abstract:

Pushing processing and storage into the “cloud” has been a key trend in networking and distributed systems in the past decade. In the next wave of network architecture and technology advance, the cloud is now descending to be diffused among the client devices, often with mobility too: the cloud is becoming “fog.” For example, more than just faster speed, 5G wireless networks need to be cognitive of end-user application needs. Questions on fairness, robustness, privacy, and efficiency need to be revisited. Furthermore, empowered by chips such as Atom and emergent communication protocols, each client device today is powerful in computation, in storage, and in communication. Yet client devices are still limited in battery power, global view of the network, and mobility support. Recognizing the gap between “Cloud” and “Things,” IEEE has stepped up its efforts on filling the “Cloud-to-Thing” continuum through growing its activities in fog computing, communications, storage and control, i.e., “Fog.” Most interestingly, the collection of many Fog-based Networks in a crowd presents a highly distributed, under-organized and dense network.

Goal：

The goal of starting the Fog Computing & Networking research is toinvestigate the optimization of resources that are virtualized, pooled, and shared unpredictably. Fog Networking revisits the role of clients in network architectures, more than just an end-user device, but also as an integral part of the control plane that monitors, measures, and manages the network. This is rewriting the traditional practice of using heavy-duty and dedicated network elements for network measurement and management Fog Computing & Networking combine the study of mobile communications, fog-based radio access network (F-RAN) in 5G, distributed systems, and big data analytics into an exciting new area. Based on our preliminary research, it shows that new emerging services (such as V2V inVehicular Networks and Telematics Applications, Industry 4.0 and e-Healthcare Services) could be realized and implemented easily and economically. It could be also served as core engine to enable many Services in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Both of Future Research Directions and the ICT Convergence for Entrepreneurs inthe area of Fog Computing and Networking will be discussed in this talk.