The Interaction of UCSD Industrial Partners, the Jacobs School of Engineering, and Cal-(IT) 2
Dr. Larry Smarr
Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD

Cal-(IT) 2
An Integrated Approach to the Future Internet
220 UCSD & UCI Faculty
Working in Multidisciplinary Teams
With Students, Industry, and the Community
Partnered With Over 50 Companies www.calit2.net

Industrial Partners Are Essential to the
Success of Cal-(IT) 2
• Student Support
• Equipment Donations
• Sponsored Research
• Start Ups Join Living Laboratories
• Joint Proposals
• Research Proposals
• Chaired Professorships

Cal-(IT) 2 Industrial Fellows
UC San Diego
By Department/Program
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Cognitive Science
Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ethnic Studies
Graduate Studies
Instructional Technology Center (ITC)
Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts (ICAM)
International Relations & Pacific Studies
Materials Science
Music
Natural Sciences
Physics
Physiology and Neuroscience
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Structural Engineering
Visual arts
Graduates Undergrads
3
10
15
1
2
2
1
1
3
2
1
1
2
44
60% are in the Jacobs School
2
5
7
1
3
2
1
1
22

• UCSD Has Been First Beta Test Site
– Qualcomm’s 1xEV Cellular Internet
• Optimized for Packet Data Services
– Uses a 1.25 MHz channel
– 2.4 Mbps Peak Forward Rate
– Part of the CDMA2000 Tech Family
– Can Be Used as Stand-Alone
• Chipsets in Development Support
– PacketVideo’s PVPlayer™ MPEG-4
– gpsOne™ Global Positioning System
– Bluetooth
– MP3
– MIDI
– BREW
Rooftop HDR
Access Point

Using Students to Invent the Future of Widespread Use of Wireless PDAs
• Makes Campus “Transparent”
– See Into Departments, Labs, and Libraries
• YearLong “Living Laboratory” Experiment 2001-02
– 500+ Wireless-Enabled HP Pocket PC PDAs
– Wireless Cards from Symbol, Chips from Intersil
– Incoming Freshmen in Computer Science and
Engineering
• Software Developed
– ActiveClass: Student-Teacher Interactions
– ActiveCampus: Geolocation and Resource Discovery
– Extensible Software Infrastructure for Others to Build On
• Deploy to New UCSD Undergrad College Fall 2002
– Sixth College Will be “Born Wireless”
– Theme: Art, Culture, and Technology
– Study Adoption and Discover New Services
Cal-(IT) 2 Team: Bill Griswold, Gabrielle Wienhausen

Source: Graviton, a Cal-(IT) 2 Partner

Building Metro Optical Laboratories to
Evaluate Emergency Preparedness Systems
• High Resolution
Visualization Facilities
– Data Analysis
– Crisis Management
• Distributed Collaboration
– Optically Linked
– Integrate Access Grid
• Data and Compute
– PC Clusters
– AI Data Mining
• Driven by Data-Intensive
Applications
– Civil Infrastructure
– Environmental Systems
– Medical Facilities
SDSC UCSD
SIO
Linking Control Rooms
Cox, Panoram,
SAIC, SBC, SGI, IBM,
TeraBurst Networks
UCSD Healthcare
SD Telecom Council

Cal-(IT)2 is Writing Join Proposals with SAIC
On Improving Emergency Preparedness
INFORMATION
SOURCES
Federal
State
Local
CRIMINAL
JUSTICE
EMERGENCY
RESPONSE
PUBLIC
HEALTH
INTEGRATED
INTELLIGENCE
SYSTEM
SECURITY

Industrial Sponsored Research on
Future Telecommunications Technologies
• SiGe Devices and Circuits for next generation communication systems (IBM)
– PI: Lawrence Larson
• Advanced Radio Architecture and Circuit Development (Intersil)
– PI: Lawrence Larson
• Advanced Data Acquisition (Intersil)
– PI: Bang-Sup Song
• Advanced Power Amplifier Structures (Intersil)
– PI: Peter Asbeck
• Optical Components for Next Generation Optical Switching (AMCC)
– PI: Shaya Fainman, Sadik Esener
• Channel Characterization of Optical Links (AMCC)
– PI: Sadik Esener, Shaya Fainman
• Transmit Diversity and Beamforming Methods for Wireless Communication (Intersil)
– PI: Bhaskar Rao/Paul Siegel
• Multiple Antenna Systems for Wireless Communications (Ericsson)
– PI: Bhaskar Rao, James Zeidler, Robert Bitmead
• Coding and Detection Methods for High Speed Data Transmission (AMCC)
– PI: Paul Siegel, Alexander Vardy