Communication Networks

Understanding Social Dynamics Through Coevolving Latent Space Networks With Attractors

This research project will develop a general class of coevolving network models. In social systems, interactions frequently influence individual behavior and beliefs which can, in turn, impact interactions. Specific variants of this type of coevolutionary phenomenon include opinion dynamics, voter behavior, observational learning, herding or flocking, and polarization. Network-based models are natural for representing such […]

SII Planning: Escaping Gravity: The End of Gs

This award is a planning grant for the Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Center for Wireless Spectrum Research (SII-Center). The focus of a spectrum research SII-Center goes beyond 5G, IoT, and other existing or forthcoming systems and technologies to chart out a trajectory to ensure United States leadership in future wireless technologies, systems, and applications in […]

InTrans: Modular Security on an Open Cloud

This project explores the intriguing possibilities that result from the combination of two tools: cryptographic software that distributes any computing task over several machines with strong security guarantees as long as the machines are isolated, and a multi-provider cloud datacenter that offers to any tenant the ability to rent multiple isolated machines that are administered […]

CNS Core: Small: Collaborative Research: HEECMA: A Hybrid Elastic Edge-Cloud Application Management Architecture

Application software is becoming increasingly abundant in functionality and increasingly demanding of resources, e.g., memory and compute power. This project examines how application software, e.g., a Virtual Reality (VR) based drone control application, can be partitioned and deployed over different parts of a distributed computing infrastructure, i.e., resources are managed by a hybrid of service […]

Decentralized Optimal Control of Cooperating Networked Multi-agent Systems

Multi-agent systems encompass a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from connected autonomous vehicles and the emerging internet of cars, where the spatial domain may be hundreds of miles with time horizons over hours of days, to micro-air vehicles which operate over meter length and minute time scales, and down to nano-manipulation with nanometer spatial microsecond […]

BIGDATA: IA: Multiplatform, Multilingual, and Multimodal Tools for Analyzing Public Communication in over 100 Languages

In today’s information age, understanding public communication flows around the world is important to United States policy and diplomacy. The challenge for research is to collect, analyze, and interpret information as it is presented worldwide, creating big data that is flowing at high velocity, in large volumes, with much variety in perspective, language, and platforms. […]

NSF, CISE Look to the Future of Smart Healthcare at Campus Workshop

in Research Story

By Sara Cody As the National Science Foundation looks to the future of science in smart and connected health, the agency partnered with the Center for Information and Systems Engineering to convene a gathering of principal investigators and other research leaders on the BU campus this month. The interdisciplinary researchers discussed their progress and identified […]

Collaborative Research: Broadening Participation in GENI Workshop

The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a nationwide suite of infrastructure supporting experimentation in networking, distributed systems, security, and novel applications. This project supports hosting a set of 5 GENI Regional Workshops (GRW), as well as hosting the GENI Network Innovators Community Event (NICE) workshop. The intent of both GENI NICE and the […]