INTEL-NTU CCC Project CIFI
November 15, 2011
INTEL-NTU Connected Context Center October 2011 Monthly Report
Project: Cooperative Information Fusion and Inference (CIFI) in SIGARC
PI: Professor Kwang-Cheng Chen
INTEL Champion: Dr. Kerstin Johnsson and Dr. Yen-Kuang Chen
1. Team Members
Post-Doc Researcher: Dr. Ray Lam and Dr. Lei Gu
Research Assistants1: Wen Chon Ao, Shih-Chun Lin2
PhD Students: Tzu-Yu Chuang,
MS Students: Howard Peng, David Liao, CY Kao, CH Lin, Norah Yeh
2. Discussion with Champion
In this month, discussions focus on time dynamics and its significance with
potential to practical system design.
3. Progress
Current research of project CIFI focuses on grounding technology development
and explorations. A few key issues are actively explored:
 Spectrum map: We are submitting the paper.
 Techniques to assist routing: Continuing from last month, project CIFI can
be viewed as networking technology in the swarm part of cyber physical
systems. As the first step, we are working on a meaningful experiment to
demonstrate our idea through evolutionary game theory, which suffer
from tremendous simulation time and thus we are procuring a server for
this purpose. A new effort regarding delay bounds for routing in spectrum
sharing ad hoc networks has started.
 System dynamics: Continuing efforts to leverage modeling from
mathematical biology, population dynamics from nature resource sharing,
we conduct more investigations regarding the dynamics of spectrum
sharing (i.e. cognitive radio), particularly with medium access mechanism
that is the fundamental part to implement the systems.
 Policy to reduce traffic: We are looking from two ways to initially explore
this thinking: (1) as the extension of an estimation problem, and thus to
implement as statistical learning (i.e. minimal description length and
model selection); (2) as a network information theory, which might be
considered as a generalization of well-known CEO problem. This
approach is mathematically beautiful, however, appears to be an
intellectual challenge.
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Full-time research assistants with MS degree
Mr. Lin is hired as part-time working at this moment.
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INTEL-NTU CCC Project CIFI
November 15, 2011
4. Brief Plan for Next Month
In the following month, we shall continue to this month’s working items, which
require long-term efforts.
5. Research Byproducts
One of our papers as follows is ranked 36th most popular paper in IEEE Xplore
(with more than 3M papers) in September 2011, and 82nd in October 2011.
Y.C. Liang, K.C. Chen, J. Y. Li, P. Mahonen, “Cognitive Radio Networking and
Communications: An Overview”, IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, vol.
60, no. 7, pp. 3386-3407, Sep 2011.
In this year, we have 3 IEEE papers into IEEE Xplore Most Popular in 5 different
months. Also, in October, we have 3 IEEE papers into top accessed articles.
In the mean time, we are organizing a conference in September 24-27, 2012
(next year), Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, and I will be the
General Chair. We are currently preparing one-day workshop on M2M
technology. With expected 400+ attendees (85-90% from overseas), this shall be
a good demonstration case for the Center.
October-November Publications:
[1] C.H. Huang, K.C. Chen, “Dual-Observation Time Division Spectrum Sensing
for Cognitive Radios”, IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, vol. 60, no.
7, pp. 3712-3725, October 2011. 21st top accessed article in October 2011
Regarding award, I will receive 2011 IEEE ComSoc Wireless Communications
Recognition Award, while the ceremony will take place at the IEEE GLOBECOM
2011, Dec. 7. This is the major technical achievement award dedicated to
wireless communications in IEEE Communications Society, while wireless
communications accounts for more than half technical activities in IEEE
Communications Society (2nd largest Society in IEEE). Past winners include Prof.
Vincent Poor (Dean, Princeton University, a member of NAE and NAS, former
President of IEEE Information Theory Society) in 2010, and Prof. Andrea
Goldsmith (Stanford University, former President of IEEE Information Theory
Society) in 2009. This is the first time for people in Taiwan to receive major
technical achievement award from IEEE Communications Society.
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