on 06-07-2016
Distinguished Speech by Dr. Tarik Taleb
Organization – IEEE ComSoC Portugal Chapter
http://portugal.chapters.comsoc.org/
6th July, 2016, 17h
Local: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro
The telecom industry keeps reinventing itself. Soon, the world will be experiencing the 5th generation mobile networks (5G), also referred to as beyond 2020 mobile communication systems. Major obstacles to overcome in 5G systems are principally the highly centralized architecture of mobile networks along with the static provisioning and configuration of network nodes built on dedicated hardware components. This has resulted in lack of elasticity and flexibility in deployment of mobile networks; rendering their run-time management costly, cumbersome and time-consuming. Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and Cloud Computing, along with the principles of the latter in terms of service elasticity, on-demand features, and pay-per-use, could be important enablers for various mobile network enhancements, to specifically virtualize and decentralize mobile networks using general-purpose COTS (commercial of the shelf) hardware. For this purpose, different requirements have to be met and numerous associated challenges have to be subsequently tackled. This talk will touch upon the recent trends the mobile telecommunications market is experiencing and discuss the challenges these trends are representing to mobile network operators. To cope with these trends, the talk will then showcase the feasibility of on-demand creation of cloud-based elastic mobile networks, along with their lifecycle management. The talk will introduce a set of technologies and key architectural elements to realize such vision, turning end-to-end mobile networking into software engineering.
BIOGRAPHY
Prof. Tarik Taleb is an IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer and a senior member of IEEE. He is currently a Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland. He is the EU project coordinator of the EU/JP 5G!Pagoda project, aiming to create an optimal network slice for every service vertical. Prior to his current academic position, he was working as Senior Researcher and 3GPP Standards Expert at NEC Europe Ltd, Heidelberg, Germany. He was then leading the NEC Europe Labs Team working on R&D projects on carrier cloud platforms, an important vision of 5G systems. Before joining NEC and till Mar. 2009, he worked as assistant professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan, in a lab fully funded by KDDI. From Oct. 2005 till Mar. 2006, he worked as research fellow at the Intelligent Cosmos Research Institute, Sendai, Japan. He received his B. E degree in Information Engineering with distinction, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Information Sciences from GSIS, Tohoku Univ., in 2001, 2003, and 2005, respectively.
Prof. Taleb’s research interests lie in the field of architectural enhancements to mobile core networks (particularly 3GPP’s), mobile cloud networking, network function virtualization, software defined networking, mobile multimedia streaming, social media networking, and UAV-based communications. Prof. Taleb has been also directly engaged in the development and standardization of the Evolved Packet System as a member of 3GPP’s System Architecture working group. Prof. Taleb is a member of the IEEE Communications Society Standardization Program Development Board. As an attempt to bridge the gap between academia and industry, Prof. Taleb founded the “IEEE Workshop on Telecommunications Standards: from Research to Standards”, a successful event that got awarded “best workshop award” by IEEE Communication Society (ComSoC). Based on the success of this workshop, Prof. Taleb has also founded and has been the steering committee chair of the IEEE Conf. on Standards for Communications and Networking.
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on 23-06-2016
VideoConf:
Title: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Software Engineering, followed by Q&A session
By Frossie Economou (LSST),
Date: Thursday 23 June, from 11:00 -13h00 (SKAO, Jodrell Bank)
Local: Amphitheater, Instituto de Telecomunicações - Aveiro
Following the ENGAGE SKA participation in SKA Pre-Construction Design Consortia, we would like to invite you to assist to a live SKA Videoconf and discussion on a Large Scale Infrastructure Software Development. The LSST will create and manage about 200 Petabyte of data, requiring high availability, QoS, sourcing on the DevOps ideas from the telco/IT sector, from an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to automatic information processing and object detection.
This videoconf is made available by the ENGAGE SKA Research Infrastructure, with support from the ATNOG and Integrated Circuits Groups @ IT and the TICE.PT sponsorship.
Abstract:
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project will conduct a 10-year survey of the sky that will deliver a 200 petabyte set of images and data products that will address some of the most pressing questions about the structure and evolution of the universe and the objects in it. The LSST software is being developed in an iterative, agile, fashion. Primarily written in Python and C++, open source, and comprised of modular software ranging from science pipelines to web user interfaces, the LSST software stack will power the LSST and form a basis that other projects can reuse in the future. The LSST Data Management team is distributed across a number of partner institutions: the LSST Project Office, the Caltech Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Princeton University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and the University of Washington, but is also helped by contributors from the community, the LSST science collaborations, and other project subsystems.
Though engineering first light is still three years away, prototype versions of a number of the LSST software is already being tested on simulations and being applied to existing data. This talk will describe:
- The LSST software development process
- The tooling and infrastructure used to support it
- How the software and data quality requirements are managed and verified.
Biography:
Frossie Economou has spent her career developing astronomical software, first at the Joint Astronomy Centre in Hawaii, and then at the LSST. In Hawaii she worked on the software suite that spanned both the Infrared (UKIRT) telescope and the sub-millimetre (JCMT). It included an automated data reduction system, an observatory control system and an end-to end Observation management system. She joined LSST in August 2014, as Technical Manager for Data Management (DM) and Education & Public Outreach (EPO). She splits her time between building a team to support the development and science quality activities of the far-flung DM group and planning for the software development effort of the EPO team. She is passionate about software quality, and currently evangelizes the idea of bringing DevOps ideas to the astronomical observatory
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