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To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (28080)	9/20/2008 8:38:29 AM
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(more) A Brand New Wireless Day Prof. Jan Rabaey — Sep 18th, 2008 TechViz cs.waseda.ac.jp Questions 1. If we take the assumption that wireless connectivity will be ubiquitous and always on, how do you think this changes the way we design our applications and interact with the IT infrastructure in the coming decades? 2. What applications do you think will push semiconductor technology to its extent in the following decade? 3. Energy dissipation has become the constraining factor on every information technology component? Will it be the limiting factor or are there some possible ways out? 4. Reliability has long been one of the largest concerns for wireless networks. Is there any prospect of making wireless absolutely reliable? Or is this an oxymoron? 5. Pervasive connectivity offers many potential pitfalls and challenges. A key one is definitely privacy. It may be one of the biggest stumbling blocks hindering ubiquitous wireless. Any obvious solutions? Abstract: The wireless communications field has experienced a truly amazing growth since the early 1990’s. Wireless connectivity slowly but surely has become pervasive. One would expect that by now this revolution must be losing some steam, but the truth is far from that. If anything, it is gathering even more speed. In the coming decades, introduction of innovative wireless technologies will enable a broad range of exciting applications to come to fruition, and reshape the way we interact with our daily living environment. Underlying it all is a three-tiered environment consisting of a large number of huge data and compute centers, billions of mobile compute and computation devices, and potentially trillions of tiny sensors and actuators. Making this happen will require some important wireless roadblocks to be either overcome or circumvented. A short list of those includes spectrum scarcity, reliability, complexity, security and obviously power. In this presentation, a number of innovative and even revolutionary solutions to address these will be discussed. Examples are collaborative cognitive networks, wireless in the mm-wave region of the spectrum, and miniature wireless. Each of these approaches pushes some part of the design technology to its limits, and may even require a totally novel approach towards design, all this while semiconductor technology is trying to cope with the uncertainty of design in the nanometer regime. While covering this global space, this presentation will touch on the agendas of both the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) as the FCRP Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC). One thing is for sure – the wireless designer of the next decade is bound for some very exciting times. System level metrics (energy, latency) Addressing Reliability – the system does the right thing – redundancy and resiliency – the components do not need to be error free John Shen Nokia Research Center Palo Alto metric: perceived user experience/unit energy consumed cs.waseda.ac.jp Cognitive, Collaborative Wireless