Program Overview

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Georgia Tech Broadband Institute
ECE CoC GTRI GVU GEDC LCC TI
Program Overview
Nikil Jayant October 2007
Technologies, Test-beds and Services
Commercialization and Policy Strategic
Partnerships
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Industry Sponsors (1999-2007)

• AirDefense
• Alcatel-Lucent
• Arris
• ATT
• BellSouth
• Broadcom
• Cisco Systems
• Comcast
• Conexant Systems
• Cox Communications
• Eastman Kodak
• EGT

• Home Wireless Networks
• HP Labs
• Intel
• Korea Telecom
• Motorola
• NCR
• Nortel Networks
• NTT DoCoMo
• Panasonic
• Spirent
• Sprint
• Telecom Network Optimizer
• Tellabs

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Examples of Major Contributions

• Multi-gigabit broadband, science to systems
• wireless, per-user optical, per-wavelength
  optical
• Wireless co-existence, and the smart use of
  ether
• indoors, outdoors, pedestrian,
  PHY-based, MAC-based
• ultra wideband, cognitive radio, network
  MIMO
• Agile networks
• granular network statistics, video
  packets as network probes,
• message ferries, smart home routers
• Defining the applications of pervasive broadband
• Co-design of networking and signal processing
• Characterizing, computing and communication of
  context
• Applications in Entertainment, Healthcare and
  Education

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Examples of Major Contributions - II

• Definitive Publications on Broadband
• Active Role in National Policy

NG-Optical Packet switching
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Industry-AcademicResearch Collaborations

• ATT-Hosted Panel ICC2007, Glasgow
• Prof. Nikil Jayant
• Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
• Strategic Partnership Director, Georgia Tech

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Examples of Research Testbeds

• Planet Lab
• Sensor-Net Lab
• Smart Antenna Lab
• Cable Last Mile Lab
• Optical-Wireless Convergence Lab
• Telepresence Lab
• GT-Mobile Sphere
• Residential Laboratory

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Proactive Health Aging in Place
IPTV Optical-Wireless Convergence
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Examples of Federally Sponsored Research

• Gigabit Wireless
• Cognitive Radio
• Optical-Wireless Convergence
• High-Resolution Video Processing
• Healthcare Aging in Place
• 2007 Proposal for NSF-ERC
• Immersive and Intelligent Telepresence

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Examples of Performance Metrics

• Sponsored Research
• Invention Disclosures
• Patents
• License Agreements
• Startups
• Collaborations with Companies

Leveraging Investments by the Georgia Research
Alliance
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What keeps us awake during the day

• Can video be used as a proxy to assess network
  readiness for serious interactive gaming?
• How do we use a zero-reference quality meter to
  enhance pervasive multimedia distribution?
• How do we model user psychology and semantics in
  recommending TV programs and Ads?
• How do we evolve from QoS to QoI to QoE?
• How do we re-use core competencies in different
  verticals?
• How do we promote Open Collaborations with
  Industry in multiple engagement models 1-1, 1-N,
  M-1, M-N ?

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Summary of Recent Research Highlights

• Advanced Video Coding
• Software-based VoIP enhancements
• 100 Gigabit Ethernet
• Flexible Last Mile FTTH In-Residence Radio
• Predictive algorithm for DOCSIS3.0 Traffic
• Identity Assertion
• Prototyping of no-reference Video Quality Meter
• Wireless SensorNet Research and IPTV-Demo
• Mobile Broadband Gaming
• Challenges to the NG-network and the user
  interface

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Examples ofConsortium Research
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Wireless Sensornets

• 6B Market, 100M Sensors
• Standardization www.infoshop.com
• Research goals
• Higher capacity
• Lower Energy Consumption
• Reliable data gathering
• Information Prioritization
• Applications of AwareNets
• - User-Friendly, Efficient IPTV
• - Distributed Surveillance
• In the Home
• In Closed Spaces

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Mobile Broadband Gaming Pushing the technology
envelope Rich Media, Augmented Reality,
Massively Multi-Player Games
Screen shot of Broadband Institute
Prototype Asymmetric Platforms, Context-Awareness
Service Trends Research Convergence of Real
and Virtual Spaces Convergence of Television
and Gaming
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Zero-Reference Video Quality Meter
MTBF 20 min Likely source of artifact Compressio
n C
MTBF30 sec Likely source of artifact
Network N
20 s Average
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The use of AVQ as a ubiquitous resource
Monitoring and enhancing video quality
AVQ
router
AVQ
AVQ
Source
receiver
AVQ

• Measures and monitors quality in any part of the
  video communication chain
• Provides actionable real-time cues in closed-loop
  coding and networking
• Value added by AVQ needs to be measured in
  market-specific experiments

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Network Architecture for End-to-End Service
DeliveryConvergences Optical Wireless
Telecom Datacom WDM and TDM
Services HDTV, I-MMOG
Broadband Access First Meters First Miles
Metro WAN Long Haul Metro WAN
Broadband Access Last Miles Last Meters
Users Stationary, Mobile
Optical Wireless TDM-PON Ethernet
WDM-PON Optical Wireless 1
Gbps 10 Gbps 100 Gbps
10 Gbps 1 Gbps
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Examples of Bilateral Research

• Alcatel-Lucent -Arris- BellSouth -Cisco- Cox
  -EGT- HP Labs
• -Korea Telecom- Nortel -NTT DoCoMo- Tellabs

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Future Directions

• Industry Feedback

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Extras
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Partnership with Industry
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Annual Membership Options

• 40K
• Guiding of consortium research
• Access to members-only website
• Early exposure to student recruiting
• Access to faculty from ECE, CoC and GTRI
• Access to consortium IP
• Directed-Research Options
• 70K - above benefits plus one research
  assistant
• 100K - above benefits plus two research
  assistants
• 125K - above benefits plus three research
  assistants
• 150K negotiated multi-faculty research
  program
• The last four categories include opportunity for
  exclusive IP rights
• The negotiated research program is a large,
  company-focused initiative involving more than
  three students and, potentially, multiple faculty
• Consortium memberships are matched with state
  funding
• In-Kind Gifts to maximum of 50 of membership fee

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Intellectual Property at Georgia Tech, including
software licensing
Partnership Model

• GTRC owns IP,but sponsor gets
• First visibility
• Non-exclusive royalty-free license for internal
  use
• Right of first refusal to an exclusive license
• Value of that license is negotiated

Consortia
Bilateral

• GTRC owns but sponsors get
• Results shared at IAB meetings
• Equal access to consortium research
• Equal opportunity to license research

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Wireless Trends
Pervasive Wireless Entertainment, education,
healthcare
Smarter Use of Airwaves
Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks
Indoor-Outdoor Convergence
MIMO-MAC-MOBILITY- MESHNETS
Broadband Wireless
10 bps/Hz
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Optical Evolution
IP Over Optical Convergence
Network scalability Lower cost
Bandwidth utilization Provisioning
time Interoperability
Optical Burst-Label-Packet Switching
GMPLS Circuit Switching
Convergence of 100 Gbps Services Datacom
and Telecom
WDM Provisioning, Access
100 Mbps Symmetrical 10 Gbps On Demand
Point-to-Point Transport
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Next Generation Video
New User Experiences
The Long Tail
Perfect video Over imperfect nets
Video on Demand
HDTV, PVR
Advanced Video Coding
0.05 bits per pixel
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Among top ten public universities Most Top5
rankings in US include GT 17000 Students, 2400
degrees annually 1900 faculty 25 Members of the
NAE National Medal of Technology 129 NSF
Career Awards 400M in annual research funding
500 million in new facilities (2004) One
million sq-ft of new space (2000-)
Industry Guided Research Centers GCATT,
Broadband Institute Commercialization
Initiatives ATDC, VentureLab