Nano-Net 2008
3rd International Conference on Nano-Networks
Final Program
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Welcome to Nano-Net 2008!
Message from the Conference General Chair:
Stephen F Bush
Welcome to the Third International Conference on Nano-Networks (Nano-Net 2008). It gives me great
pleasure to welcome you to this innovative conference and to the city of Boston on this the 3rd year
since the vision of nano-scale networking was conceived. I was at the founding conference in EPFL,
Switzerland and followed the second conference in Catania, Italy, with great interest.
While we have extended the Nano-Net conference this year to include a Workshop and a Tutorial, the
highlight is, of course, the Technical Program. Alexandre Schmid has done an outstanding job presiding
over the review process used to select the papers to be presented at this conference. I am deeply grateful
to the members of the TPC for their tremendous effort in evaluating (along with many anonymous
reviewers) the submissions and for organizing the papers into sessions, all on a tight schedule. I extend
my deepest thanks to the organizing committee, in particular, Alex Schmid and Karen Decker, as well as
the active organizing members, namely, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Alexander Sergienko, Nikolaus
Correll, Kaustav Banerjee, Radu Marculescu, and Tatsuya Suda.
The Nano-Net organizing committee has selected three outstanding plenary speakers in Tatsuya Suda,
Sylvain Martel, and Neil Gershenfeld, who will be speaking on a variety of truly fascinating topics
regarding networking at the nano-scale.
A panel discussion on “Using Advanced Micro/Nano-electronic Technology to Establish Neuromorphic
Systems” is planned for Monday afternoon. Panelists Prof. Garrett Rose, Dr. Vladimir Gorelik, Prof.
Eugenio Culurciello, Shih-Chii Liu, and Dr. Matthew Hynd will share their perspectives on this growing
technology related to the formation of the ultimate nanoscale network, a brain-like system.
Recent advances nano-networks, in the form of a Poster Session, is planned to take place Tuesday
afternoon. This is a great opportunity for informal discussion with presenters regarding their latest
developments.
The Conference Banquet takes place on Monday evening and will serve as another chance for an
enjoyable gathering.
Karen Decker very ably served as Finance Chair and therefore was intimately involved in virtually all
aspects of the planning and organization of the conference.
Neil Gershenfeld graciously handled local arrangements for the conference, including video recording of
the presentations.
Yun Li organized an excellent tutorial. I would like to extend my warm thanks to Wei Lu for stepping
up to share his ideas and expertise with the community in the form of this first Nano-Network tutorial.
As you will see from the proceedings, Maggie Chen has done an excellent job as Publications chair.
Last, but far from least, I owe a special debt of gratitude to Sanjay Goel and Damira Pon of SUNY for
an outstanding and highly professional job in organizing the Nano-Net Workshop and hosting the
symposium web site and responding to literally hundreds of requests for changes and updates to the
website-- all done in a timely and efficient manner.
Again, welcome to the conference. I hope that you find these few days technically stimulating and
professionally rewarding.
Stephen F Bush
General Chair
Nano-Net 2008, Boston
General Conference Program
Nano-Net 2008 - Technical Program at a Glance
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Workshop
Location: City Room A
Workshop on Nanosensors: Self-Organization and Swarm Robotics
Third International Conference on Nano-Networks (Nano-Net 2008)
Radisson Hotel Boston (Boston, Massachusetts)
September 14, 2008
Sanjay Goel University at Albany, SUNY
8:00 – 9:00: BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
9:00 – 10:30: Session 1: Overview
Title: Harnessing the Swarm – From Ants to Robots (Welcome)
Speaker: Sanjay Goel
Affiliation: University at Albany, SUNY (UAlbany)
Title: Self-Organization and Nanoscale Networking (Theme)
Speaker: Stephen F. Bush
Affiliation: GE Global Research
Title: Nano Robotics: From Science Fiction to Reality (Keynote)
Speaker: Constantinos Mavroidis
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston MA
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK (Location: City Room)
11:00 – 12:15: Session 2: Swarm Robotics I
Title: Swarm Robotics for Construction Tasks
Speaker: Aristides A. G. Requicha
Affiliation: Laboratory for Molecular Robotics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Title: Towards Inspection of Industrial Machinery with Miniature Robotic Swarms
Speaker: Nikolaus Correll
Affiliation: Distributed Robotics Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
12:15 – 1:45 LUNCH (ROUND TABLE, Location: Carver Three)
1:45 – 3:00: Session 3: Swarm Robotics II
Topic: Miniature Mobile Robots Down to Micron Scale
Authors: Metin Sitti
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Paper: Role of Wireless Communications in Networking and Motion Control of Micro Robot Swarm
Authors: Shinsuke Hara, Tatsuya Ishimoto, Masaya Kitano and Tetsuo Tsujioka
Affiliation: Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka City University, Osaka Japan
3:00 – 3:30 BREAK (Location: City Room A)
3:30 – 5:30 Session 4: Sensor Self-Organization
Paper: Self-Organizing smart dust sensors for planetary exploration
Authors: John R Barker and Fernando Rodriguez-Salazar
Affiliation: Nanoelectronics Research Centre, Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow,
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Topic: Protoswarm: a Programming Language for Programming Swarm Robotics
Authors: Jonathan Bachrach
Affiliation: Makani Power, Alameda, California 94501
Topic: Optically Active Nanomaterials for use as Chemical Sensors
Author: Michael Carpenter
Affiliation: University at Albany, SUNY (UAlbany)
6:00 – 7:30 WORKSHOP DINNER
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Location: City Room B
12:30
Tutorial
Registration
Properties and Applications of Carbon Nanotubes and Other
1D Nanostructures
Wei Lu University of Michigan
Tutorial Chair
Yun Li General Electric, USA
One-dimensional nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes and
nanowires have attracted considerable interest recently due to their
unique electrical and structural properties. In this course, we will discuss
some of the most important aspects of CNT based electronics, from the
bandstructure to fundamental transport characterizations to high
performance transistors. In addition, the one-dimensional systems are
attractive to novel architectures such as crossbar memories and logic that
offer large connectivity and reconfigurability and are suitable for
neuromorphic computing. Several nanotube and nanowire-based
crossbar systems will be discussed.
13:00 – 15:00
Part I: Carbon nanotubes:
- Brief history
- Growth techniques
- Band structure and electrical properties
- Ballistic waveguides and cables
- Field-effect transistors
- Noise in CNT devices
- Thin-film devices
15:00
Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30
Part II: CNT and nanowire-based crossbar networks
- CNT crossbar memory
- Nanowires – brief introduction
- Nanowire two-terminal resistive switches (memristors)
- CMOS compatible nano-crossbar systems
Location: City Room A
Monday, September 15, 2008
Location: Lobby
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:10
Location: Exeter
Welcome address, and conference information
Stephen F. Bush General Chair Nano-Net 2008 General Electric, USA
Keynote 1
09:10 – 10:10
Molecular Communication: A New Paradigm for
Communication Among Biological Nanomachines
Tatsuya Suda University of California, Irvine
10:10
Coffee break
Session 1
Nano-Biological Systems
Session Chairs
Tatsuya Suda University of California, Irvine
Sasitharan Balasubramaniam Waterford Institute of Technology,
Ireland
10:30
A Biochemically-Engineered Molecular Communication System
(Invited Paper)
Satoshi Hiyama, Yuki Moritan Research Labs. NTT DoCoMo
Tatsuya Suda Research Labs. NTT DoCoMo, University of California
Irvine
11:00
Hybrid DNA and Enzymatic based Computation for Address Encoding,
Link Switching and Error Correction in Molecular Communication
Frank Walsh, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dimitri Botvich, Micheal O
Foghlu Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Tatsuya Suda University of California, Irvine
Stephen F. Bush GE Global Research, NY
11:30
Digital Microfluidic Logic Gates
Yang Zhao, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Tao Xu Duke University
12:00
A SWNT-based sensor for detecting human blood alcohol concentration
H. Leng, Yingzi Lin Northeastern University
Lunch break
12:30 – 14:00
Location: Dartmouth Room
Session 2
Location: Exeter
Novel Information and Graph Theory Aspects of NanoNetworks, and Applications for Nano-Networks
Session Chairs
Radu Marculescu Carnegie Mellon University
Sumit Roy U. Washington
14:00
Random Walks on Random Graphs (Invited Paper)
Colin Cooper King’s College, University of London
Alan Frieze Carnegie Mellon University
14:30
Using Randomly Assembled Networks for Computation
Andrey Zykov, Gustavo de Veciana University of Texas at Austin
15:00
Hitting Time Analysis for Stochastic Communication
Paul Bogdan, Radu Marculescu Carnegie Mellon University
15:30
NEMS Capacitive Sensors for Highly Sensitive Label -Free Nucleic-acid
Analysis
Manu Sebastian Mannoor, Teena james New Jersey Institute of
Technology
16:00
Coffee break
Panel Session
16:30 – 18:30
Location: Exeter
Using Advanced Micro/Nano-electronic Technology to
Establish Neuromorphic Systems
Session Chair Wei Wang, UAlbany
Pannel Participants
Garrett Rose ECE Department of Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Vladimir Gorelik Founder of Neuronix
Shih-Chii Liu Institute of Neuroinformatics, Zurich
Matthew Hynd Wadsworth, Albany, NY
Location: Dartmouth
Social Event
19:00 – 21:00
Banquet
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Location: Exeter
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:05
Conference information
Keynote 2
09:05 – 10:05
Towards Intelligent Bacterial Nanorobots Capable of
Communicating with the Macro-World
Sylvain Martel Computer Engineering & Software Engineering
École Polytechnique Montréal
10:05
Coffee break
Session 3
Nano-Robotics, Device Physics and Interconnects
Session Chairs
Nikolaus Correll MIT
Alexander Sergienko Boston University
10:30
Optical Networking in a Swarm of Microrobots (Invited Paper)
Paolo Corradi, Arianna Menciassi, Paolo Dario Scuola Superiore
Sant'Anna, Italy
Thomas Schmickl Karl-Franzens-University, Austria
Oliver Scholz Fruuenhofer Institute for Biomedical Eng., Sankt Ingbert,
Germany
11:00
Counting photons using a nanonetwork of superconducting wires
(Invited Paper)
Andrea Fiore TU Eindhoven
11:30
Exploring Multi-layer Graphene Nanoribbon Interconnects
Sansiri Tanachutiwat, Wei Wang University at Albany, Albany, NY
12:00
Normal and Reverse Temperature Dependence in Variation-Tolerant
Nanoscale Systems with High-k Dielectrics and Metal Gates
David Wolpert University of Rochester
Location: Dartmouth
Lunch break
12:30 – 14:00
Location: Exeter
Keynote 3
14:00 – 15:00
Programming Bits and Atoms
Neil Gershenfeld Center for Atoms and Bits, MIT
Location: Exeter
Poster Session
15:00 – 15:30
Session Chair
Radu Marculescu Carnegie Mellon University
Proposal for Memristors in Signal Processing
Blaise Mouttet George Mason University
Self Assembly of Nanosphere to Fabricate Devices for Logic
Applications
Vivian Ng, Lalit Kumar Verma National University of Singapore
Voltage Controlled Carbon Nanotube Addressing Circuit
Bao Liu University of California San Diego
Impact of Process Variation in Fault-Resilient Streaming
Nanoprocessors
Michael Leuchtenburg, Pritish Narayanan, Teng Wang, Csaba Andreas
Moritz UMass, Amherst
Structural Fault Modelling in Nano Devices
Raghavendra N. V., M. S. Gaur, V. Laxmi, Ujjwal Kumar Malaviya
National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
15:30 – 16:00
Session 4
Coffee break
Modeling, Simulation, Standards and Architectural Aspects
of Nano-Networks
Session Chairs
Alexander Sergienko Boston University
Kaustav Banerjee UCSB
16:00
Communicating Mobile Nano-Machines and Their Computational
Power (Invited Paper)
Jiri Wiedermann Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Lukas Petru Charles University, Prague
16:30
Application of Molecular Electronics Devices in Digital Circuit Design
Ci Lei Lancaster University
17:00
FPAA Based on Integration of CMOS and Nanojunction Devices for
Neuromorphic Applications
Hua Yu, Wei Wang University at Albany, NY
17:30
3D CMOL Crossnet for Neuromorphic Network Applications
Kevin Ryan, James Ryan, Sansiri Tanachutiwat, Wei Wang University
at Albany, NY
18:00
A Dual-Mode Hybrid ARQ Scheme for Energy Efficient On-Chip
Interconnects
Bo Fu University of Rochester
Conference
Closing
18:30 – 18:40
Closing address
Stephen F. Bush General Chair Nano-Net 2008 General Electric, USA
Nano-Net 2008 Local Arrangements Information
Conference Locations
All Sessions of Nano-Net 2008 will be held within the Radisson Hotel.
Lunch and dinners will be served in Dartmouth. Coffee breaks will be served in Exeter.
The conference banquet will be held in Dartmouth.
Maps of the Radisson Hotel Boston Conference Center
Conference Center
Carver Ballroom
City Ballroom
Access to internet
Conference room WiFi access and Nanonets Blog experiment: participants are encouraged to
update the online conference blog during the conference. See nanonets.org.
Internet access instructions will be provided at the registration desk.