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COCONETSUniversity of Hawaii at Mānoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
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University of Hawaii - Location
• Ala Moana Beach
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University of Hawaii - Location
Holmes Hall POST Building
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University of Hawaii - Location
• View from Holmes Hall – Diamondhead
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What is COCONETS?
Well…
Get the idea?
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COCONETS Lab
COding, COmmunications, NETworks and Security Lab
• Mission– Conduct basic and applied research in coding, communications, networks, signal processing, and security for the benefit of society.– Educate students to prepare them for jobs in academia and high technology industry.– Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with researchers both at UH and externally.– Interface to industry in Hawaii, US mainland, and internationally.
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COCONETS FACULTY
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COCONETS Faculty
• Gurdal Arslan - EE• Edo Biagioni - ICS• Yingfei Dong – EE• N. Tom Gaarder - EE• Anders Host Madsen -
EE• Alek Kavcic - EE• Anthony Kuh – EE
• Yingbin Liang – EE• J. B. Nation – Math• Wes Petersen – ICS• Prasad Santhanam – EE• Galen Sasaki - EE• Susanna Still – ICS• Jim Yee - EE
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COCONETS Faculty Honors and Awards
• Shannon Award / Shannon Lecturer• Japan Prize• 2 IEEE Fellows• 4 NSF CAREER Awards• Regents Award for Excellence in Research• Regents Award for Excellence in Teaching
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COCONETS Faculty Best Paper Awards
• IEEE Comm Society– 2005 Best paper in Singal Proc. for Data Storage
• IEEE Information Theory Society– 2006 Outstanding Paper
• Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications– 200? best paper
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Faculty Research Iterests
COding, COmmunications, NETworks and Security Lab
• Faculty interests– Wireless Communications– Magnetic Recording– Optical Communications– Information Theory– Distributed signal processing and communications– Network security– Network optimization– Machine learning
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PROUD HISTORY
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A Piece of History:Decoding Reed-Solomon codes
• Wes Peterson 1960– Solving a system of linear
equations to hard-decode
Reed-Solomon codes
• Gorestein-Zeiler 1961• Chien 1964• Forney 1965• Berleykamp-Massey 1967
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A Piece of History: ALOHA net
• Norm Abramson 1970– Protocol for managing packet collisions in wireless networks
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A Piece of History:Network Information theory
• Slepian – Wolf, 1971• Gaarder – Wolf, 1975
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CURRENT RESEARCH
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Cooperative Systems of Autonomous AgentsCooperative Systems of Autonomous Agents
GoalGoal
Deployment of Large Scale Networks of (semi) Autonomous
Agents
Complex Collective Behavior from
Simple Individual Behavior
ChallengesChallenges• Local information/decision making• Constrained communications• Large scale of operations• Uncertain dynamic environment• Hostile adversarial presence
ApproachApproach• Game Theory
Expected OutcomesExpected Outcomes • Theory, algorithms, software• Simulations, experimentation• Education
Professor Gürdal Arslan
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Autonomous vehicles for military operations
Cooperative Signalingin Ad-hoc Networks
Traffic RoutingDynamic Sensor Management
Applications in Diverse AreasApplications in Diverse Areas
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Modern storage devices
How much data can we theoretically pack on a disk drive (CD or DVD) and retrieve it error-free?
Once we figure out how much data we can pack on, how do we design codes that achieve this?
Believe it or not: this is not known
Alek KavcicAssoc. Prof. of Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Hawaii
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Turning magnets into signals and back
magnetic surface
track
magnify
magnetization pattern on a track
media noise
media noise
Readback waveform
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Computer Network and Security (1/2)
Associate Professor, Yingfei Dong• Computer Network Security Projects
Focus on secure Internet architectures and protocols– Securing critical information infrastructure such as Cyber-
Physical Systems (CPS) • Infrastructure-Level Protection to Ensure Critical Communications
(NSF 0649950)• develop novel secure mechanisms to protect critical comm. from
DOS attacks and fast-spreading worms – Fighting Unwanted Traffic
• Distributed Overlay Filtering Mechanism• exploring dynamic inter-domain collaboration to improve the
availability of important services – Control Spam-Like Unwanted Internet Traffic
• Holding spammer accountable• Identify spamming bots
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Computer Network and Security (2/2)
• Computer Network Security Projects (cont’)– Internet Voting: develop practical voter-verifiable remote voting
systems• Computer Network Projects
– develop advanced network architectures and algorithms for Emerging Internet Applications
– Novel Architecture for Soft Real-Time Delivery on the Future Internet • support strict high-assurance real-time delivery for critical
infrastructure systems• Distributed and Parallel Systems
– Develop distributed systems and algorithms with better reliability and scalability
– Distributed information systems• large-scale data sharing across computer networks• peer-to-peer systems and other
– Distributed File/Storage systems– Advanced distributed computer architecture
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Signal Processing and Machine LearningSignal Processing and Machine Learning
Professor Anthony KuhProfessor Anthony Kuh
• Research– Adaptive online recursive filters– Kernel methods– Pattern recognition and classification– Unsupervised learning: PCA and KPCA– Reinforcement Learning– Distributed learning and signal processing– Network modeling and analysis
• Education: graduate and undergraduate
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Sensor network localization
and estimation
Renewable EnergyWind Prediction
Text ClassificationAnomaly Detection
Applications Areas Applications Areas
Network securityHealth monitoringData fusion
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Wireless Communication TechnologiesWireless Communication TechnologiesYingbin Liang-University of Hawaii at ManoaYingbin Liang-University of Hawaii at Manoa
• Accurately Modeling Wireless Channels• Analyzing Practical Wireless Channels• Incorporating Practical Channel Parameters
• MIMO Wireless Communication• Utilizing Spatial Dimensions• Analyzing Correlated MIMO Channels• Developing Optimal MIMO Schemes
• Relaying and User Cooperative Networks• Higher Data Rate and Reliability• Developing Relay Strategies• Applying Network Information Theory
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Information Theoretic SecurityInformation Theoretic Security
• Confidentiality via Information Theoretic Approaches• Confidentiality without Encryption• Guarantee both Reliability and Security
DecodingSecure
Encoding
Encoding DecodingEncyptwith Key
Decryptwith KeyChannel
Security Reliability
Channel
Security andReliability
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Bob
Alice Bob
Alice
Eve
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Professor Anders Høst-Madsen: Cooperative Communications
• Old network paradigm: communications along paths
• New network paradigm: communications on waves
– Radically increased network capacity
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Ad-hoc networks
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Ad-hoc networks
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Ad-hoc networks
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A PLACE FORGRADUATE STUDENTS
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COCONETS Students
• It would be great to have some pictures of students here
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COCONETS Alumni
• This slide on alumni success stories
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COCONETS Goals
• Establishing a multidisciplinary research and education center in basic and applied research
• Take advantage of location in Pacific and multicultural environment in Hawaii to establish joint relationships with Asian institutions and US mainland institutions
• Use communication and information technology to impact economic and societal problems
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COCONETS Programs and Financial Aid
• Programs– MS– PhD– Post-doc
• Financial Aid– COCONETS post-doctoral fellowships– COCONETS graduate fellowships– Research assistantships– Teaching assistantships
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COCONETS Contact Information
• Names
• Addresses
• Email, Phone, Web site
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