PhD Admission Pitching

Internet Of Things – A Bio-inspired approach in managing large scale, heterogeneous sensor networks
Alexandru IOVANOVICI, M.Eng.
Ph.D Studies Interview at POLITEHNICA University of TimisoaraSeptember 2011

About myself … studies
Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, in 2011
Thesis: “Power analysis of H.264/AVC for mobile platforms”
Bachelor’s Degree in Computers from POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, in 2009
Thesis: “Wikitrafic: sistemcolaborativ de achizitie a parametrilor de traficrutier”

About myself … publications
Indexed articles
Iovanovici A, Visan C, Marcu M – Performance and Power Consumption Investigation for Execution of Integer Operations on CPU and GPU Processors for Multimedia Applications [IEEEXplore];
Iovanovici A, Golcea S - Analizacorelaţieiimpuritate-dimensiunefractală cu aplicaţiipetopograme de raze-X ale unuicristal de KCl [ISSN 2066–3250, CNCCIS]
Iovanovici A - Metrici de evaluare a software-ului educational - Oradea 2008 [ISSN CNCSIS]
Non-indexed
- 4 articles
In magazines
- 5 articles
Books
Boar R, Iovanovici A, Toma A – TehnologiaInformatieisi a Comunicatiilor. Culegere de aplicatiipentruliceusiBacalaureat,Ed. Printpress, 2011, ISBN: 978-606-92458-1-1

About myself … work
2007-present – teacher at “C.D. Loga” High School Timisoara
Teaching classes of Computer Programming (C/C++), Web Development, Databases, Object Oriented Programming (Java);
Coaching high school students for various competitions in the area of programming, IT&C, robotics with excellent results;
2006-2011 – Systems Administrator, Programmer at Timis County Library
Full Member of the National Committee for Digitization and Library Automation
2005-2006 – web developer at Artvis Media Design;
Various personal and part-time projects;
Active in the area of embedded systems (Arduino Romania founder) and robotics;
Speaker at local IT events (GeekMeet, CoWorkTM, MoBiDev)

A few projects …
All are embedded systems with Arduino
Arduino is an Open Source embedded platfrom built around an Atmega MCU and with a nice IDE and dedicated language, based on AVRGCC with a set of macros built on top for low-level operations

… and more projects
In the area of software development
I’m proficient in various programming languages and platforms such as C, Java, C#, PHP, Arduino, MySQL, db4o. I’m an avid user of Linux and MacOS.

Internet of Things
what’s this all about ?
In 2008 the number of thingsconnected to the Internet exceeded the number of peopleon Earth.
And this things are not smartphones.
They are everything…
The third Age of the Internet
In the beginning there were the machines (Web 1.0), and then there were the humans (Web 2.0 – Social Web). Now we have “anything” connected to the Internet. And here is Web 3.0

IoT … trends

Internet of Things
A Dutch start-up, Sparked, started using wireless sensors on … cows
When one cow is sick or pregnant, it sends a message to the farmer.
Each cow transmits200MBper year.

Internet of Things
“The next logical step in the technological revolution connecting people anytime, anywhere is to connect inanimate objects. This is the vision underlying in Internet Of Things: anytime, anywhere, by everyone and anything” – ITU, November 2005

Internet of Things
issues
Unique addressability
RFID tags
Semantic Web
URI;
Powerful centralized “brains” acting as the human counterpart;
IPv6 -> identify any kind of object in the world;
There are too many things in the world
The shear amount of data that the IoT is going to generate is more than any conventional computing architecture can process.

Bio-inspired computing
What’s so cool about that ?
It is the use of computers to model nature …
and, more important, …
The study of nature to improve de design and implementation of computers, systems and algorithms
Nature is our best engineer
Most of the problems we face in the design and development of computer systems can be found in various systems from the nature, with solutions that work, too.

IoT and Bio-computing
Emergent systems – modeling IoT specific networks as natural systems (ants, termites, bees, wasps);
Neural networks – simple computations across a large number of nodes;
Reliability and fault-tolerance – living things tend to get sick and heal almost by themselves. Large heterogeneous networks need similar mechanisms
Our body is the biggest network of things
The human body is composed of trillions of cells which work together quit well … most of the time

IoT and Bio-computing
Artificial immune system – finding “strange” nodes in a deployment and fighting against intrusion in the network;
Endocrine system – signaling across large networks
Our body is the biggest network of things
The human body is composed of trillions of cells which work together quit well … most of the time

What I want to do ?
Investigate the applicability of bio-inspiration to the organization and management of IoT networks
Design and propose a high-level standardization for the meta-data needed in my proposition;
Validate the proposition -> custom software simulator ->millions of nodes
points of extension for future development
Use living systems to model IoT
A worldwide IoT network at it’s peak can be a great challenge to design, deploy and maintain and the only tractable approach is that we seek inspiration in the natural world

A few references
Kastanov et. al. - Smart semantic middleware for the internet of things
Yinghui Huang; GuanyuLi - Descriptive models for the Internet Of Things, International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP), 2010
Yinghui Huang; Guanyu Li- A Semantic Analysis for the Internet of Things, International Conference on Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation (ICICTA), 2010
Miao Wu et. al. - Research on the architecture of Internet of Things, 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering (ICACTE), 2010
Zihua H et. al. - The Research of Several Key Question of Internet of Things, International Conference on Intelligence Science and Information Engineering (ISIE), 2011
Li Li et. al. - The applications of WiFi-based Wireless Sensor Network in Internet of Things and Smart Grid, 2011 6th IEEE Conference onIndustrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA);
Gan Gang et. al. - Internet of Things Security Analysis, International Conference onInternet Technology and Applications (iTAP), 2011
Uckelmann D et. al. - "An Architectural Approach Towards the Future Internet of Things”, Springer. p. 8, 2011
Miles, Stephen B. - RFID Technology and Applications. London: Cambridge University Press, 2011
Kevin Ashton - That 'Internet of Things' Thing, RFID Journal, July 2009

Rob van Kraneburg at the first IoT conference, 2009
IoT holds danges, but it also hold promises
When billions of thingsare connected, talking and learning, the only limitation left will be our own imagination [CISCO on IoT]

IoT “hot” topics
Intelligence
non-deterministic and open network in which auto-organized or intelligent entities will be interoperable and able to act independently (pursuing their own objectives or shared ones) depending on the context, circumstances or environments
Architecture
common standards would not be able to address every context or use;
predicting everything would be no more than defining a "global finality" for everything that is just not possible with any of the current top-down approaches and standardizations [Gautier 2010]
Complex system
the huge number of different links and interactions between autonomous actors, and its capacity to integrate new actors. At the overall stage it will likely be seen as a chaotic environment;
Size
50 to 100 trillion objects, and be able to follow the movement of those objects. Every human being is surrounded by 1000 to 5000 objects [Wadner 2007]

IoT “hot” topics
Time constraints
There will be billions of parallel and simultaneous events, time will no more be used as a common and linear dimension; it will be based on massive parallel systems;
Space constraints
the precise geographic location of a thing—and also the precise geographic dimensions of a thing—will be critical;
IoT-centric geospatial standards will play a key role in the Internet of Things.

IoT implementations
Frameworks
Interaction between things and facilitate the emergent behavior;
Current implementations: real-time data logging
Pachube
Software development environments: develop custom software for IoT hardware devices

IoT: state of the industry
Alcatel-Lucent:
touchTag -> RFID+QR
ConnectedHome:
AlertMe -> ZigBee;
Pachube:
largest OpenSource data management infrastructure for sensors;
Nimbits:
open source data historian server in the cloud;

IoT: alliances
IEEE-IOT – iThings
Annual IEEE conference
International indexing
The Council
Founded by RvK
Council is a think-tank, consultancy, accelerator and forecasting group
European Union
Action Plan For Europe
Industry
Alcatel, Qualcom, IBM,

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