Director's Overview

Program Overview

Nikil JayantOctober 2007

Georgia Tech Broadband Institute

Technologies, Test-beds and Services Commercialization and Policy Strategic Partnerships

ECE CoC GTRIGVU GEDC LCC TI

Industry Sponsors (1999-2007)

• AirDefense• Alcatel-Lucent• Arris• AT&T• BellSouth• Broadcom• Cisco Systems• Comcast• Conexant Systems• Cox Communications• Eastman Kodak• EGT

• Home Wireless Networks• HP Labs• Intel• Korea Telecom• Motorola• NCR• Nortel Networks• NTT DoCoMo• Panasonic• Spirent• Sprint• Telecom Network Optimizer• Tellabs

Examples of Major Contributions

• Multi-gigabit broadband, science to systems: wireless, per-user optical, per-wavelength optical

• Wireless co-existence, and the smart use of ether: indoors, outdoors, pedestrian, PHY-based, MAC-based ultra wideband, cognitive radio, network MIMO

• Agile networks: granular network statistics, video packets as network probes, message ferries, smart home routers

• Defining the applications of pervasive broadband: Co-design of networking and signal processing Characterizing, computing and communication of context Applications in Entertainment, Healthcare and Education

Examples of Major Contributions - II

• Definitive Publications on Broadband

• Active Role in National Policy

• Startup companies Asankya EGT SmartRouter VQLink

• Leadership in the Open Innovations Initiative

NG-OpticalPacket switching

Industry-AcademicResearch Collaborations

AT&T-Hosted Panel: ICC2007, Glasgow

Prof. Nikil JayantGeorgia Research Alliance Eminent ScholarStrategic Partnership Director, Georgia Tech

Examples of Research Testbeds

• Planet Lab• Sensor-Net Lab• Smart Antenna Lab• Cable Last Mile Lab• Optical-Wireless Convergence Lab• Telepresence Lab

• GT-Mobile Sphere

• Residential Laboratory

Proactive Health Aging in Place

IPTV

Optical-Wireless Convergence

Examples of Federally Sponsored Research

• Gigabit Wireless• Cognitive Radio• Optical-Wireless Convergence• High-Resolution Video Processing• Healthcare: Aging in Place

2007 Proposal for NSF-ERC– Immersive and Intelligent Telepresence

Examples of Performance Metrics

• Sponsored Research• Invention Disclosures • Patents • License Agreements • Startups

• Collaborations with Companies

Leveraging Investments by the Georgia Research Alliance

What keeps us awake during the day

• Can video be used as a proxy to assess network readiness for serious interactive gaming?

• How do we use a zero-reference quality meter to enhance pervasive multimedia distribution?

• How do we model user psychology and semantics in recommending TV programs and Ads?

• How do we evolve from QoS to QoI to QoE?

• How do we re-use core competencies in different verticals?

• How do we promote Open Collaborations with Industry in multiple engagement models: 1-1, 1-N, M-1, M-N ?

Summary of Recent Research Highlights

• Advanced Video Coding• Software-based VoIP enhancements• 100 Gigabit Ethernet• Flexible Last Mile : FTTH + In-Residence Radio • Predictive algorithm for DOCSIS3.0 Traffic• Identity Assertion

• Prototyping of no-reference Video Quality Meter• Wireless SensorNet Research and IPTV-Demo• Mobile Broadband Gaming:

– Challenges to the NG-network and the user interface

Examples ofConsortium Research

Wireless Sensornets

• $6B Market, 100M Sensors

• Standardization www.infoshop.com

• Research goals– Higher capacity – Lower Energy Consumption – Reliable data gathering– Information Prioritization

Applications of AwareNets - User-Friendly, Efficient IPTV - Distributed Surveillance

In the Home In Closed Spaces

Mobile Broadband Gaming

Pushing the technology envelope:

Rich Media, Augmented Reality, Massively Multi-Player Games

Service Trends Research Convergence of Real and Virtual Spaces Convergence of Television and Gaming

Screen shot of Broadband Institute PrototypeAsymmetric Platforms, Context-Awareness

Zero-Reference Video Quality Meter

MTBF =20 minLikely source of artifact:Compression [ C ]

MTBF=30 sec Likely source of artifact: Network [ N ]

20 s Average

The use of AVQ as a ubiquitous resource Monitoring and enhancing video quality

AVQ

AVQ

AVQ

AVQ

Sourcereceiver

router

•Measures and monitors quality in any part of the video communication chain •Provides actionable real-time cues in closed-loop coding and networking•Value added by AVQ needs to be measured in market-specific experiments

Network Architecture for End-to-End Service DeliveryConvergences: Optical + Wireless Telecom + Datacom WDM and TDM

BroadbandAccess

First MetersFirst Miles

Metro WAN

Long HaulMetro WAN

BroadbandAccessLast Miles

Last Meters

Services HDTV, I-MMOG

Users Stationary, Mobile

Optical Wireless TDM-PON Ethernet WDM-PON Optical Wireless 1 Gbps 10 Gbps 100 Gbps 10 Gbps 1 Gbps

Examples of Bilateral Research

Alcatel-Lucent -Arris- BellSouth -Cisco- Cox -EGT- HP Labs -Korea Telecom- Nortel -NTT DoCoMo- Tellabs

Future Directions

Industry Feedback

Extras

Partnership with Industry

Annual Membership Options • $40K

– Guiding of consortium research– Access to members-only website– Early exposure to student recruiting– Access to faculty from ECE, CoC and GTRI– Access to consortium IP

Directed-Research Options

• $70K - above benefits plus one research assistant • $100K - above benefits plus two research assistants• $125K - above benefits plus three research assistants• $150K+ negotiated multi-faculty research program

– The last four categories include opportunity for exclusive IP rights– The negotiated research program is a large, company-focused initiative

involving more than three students and, potentially, multiple faculty– Consortium memberships are matched with state funding;– In-Kind Gifts to maximum of 50% of membership fee

Intellectual Property at Georgia Tech, including software licensing

Consortia $$

Bilateral$$

Partnership Model

• GTRC “owns” but sponsors get:• Results shared at IAB meetings • Equal access to consortium research• Equal opportunity to license research

• GTRC “owns” IP,but sponsor gets: • First visibility• Non-exclusive royalty-free license for internal use• Right of first refusal to an exclusive license•Value of that license is negotiated

Wireless Trends

Indoor-Outdoor Convergence

Pervasive Wireless:Entertainment, education,

healthcare

Smarter Use of Airwaves

Broadband Wireless 10 bps/Hz

MIMO-MAC-MOBILITY- MESHNETS

Cognitive RadioSensor Networks

Optical Evolution

WDM Provisioning, Access

IP OverOptical Convergence

Optical Burst-Label-Packet Switching

Point-to-Point Transport 100 Mbps Symmetrical 10 Gbps On Demand

GMPLS Circuit Switching

Network scalability Lower cost Bandwidth utilization

Provisioning timeInteroperability

Convergence of 100 Gbps Services Datacom and Telecom

Next Generation Video

Video on Demand

New User Experiences

The Long Tail

Advanced Video Coding 0.05 bits per pixel

HDTV, PVR

Perfect videoOver imperfect nets

Among top ten public universitiesMost Top5 rankings in US include GT17000 Students, 2400 degrees annually1900 faculty25 Members of the NAENational Medal of Technology 129 NSF Career Awards$400M in annual research funding

$500 million in new facilities (2004)One million sq-ft of new space (2000-)

Industry Guided Research Centers GCATT, Broadband InstituteCommercialization Initiatives ATDC, VentureLab