Networks
Networks make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Social networks, computer networks, and transportation networks are all examples of networks that are deeply enmeshed into our lives. CISE investigates fundamental research questions in networks, such as network formation and evolution, and interaction between network agents (which may be selfish or malicious). The questions are addressed through advances in the fields of optimization, control, distributed algorithms, and game theory. The theoretical methods are complemented by experimental work, which include testing of IoT and 5G network systems, deployment of networks of autonomous agents (e.g., robots, drones, and connected vehicles), design of neural networks for deep learning, federation of cloud computing systems, and data-driven methods to detect and thwart malicious behavior on the Internet.
CNS:CSR Collaborative Research: Leveraging Intra-chip/Inter-chip Silicon-Photonic Networks for Designing Next-Generation Accelerators
A little over a decade ago, GPUs were fixed-function processors built around a pipeline, dedicated to rendering 3-D graphics. In the past decade, as the potential for GPUs to provide massive compute parallelism became apparent, the software community developed new programming environments (CUDA and OpenCL) to leverage these massively parallel devices. Today, the leading graphics […]
CRCNS: Dynamic network analysis of human seizures for therapeutic intervention
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological syndromes, affecting an estimated 3 million people in the United States. In one-third of these patients, seizures cannot be controlled despite maximal medication management. The complexity of the neuronal network dynamics that define the epileptogenic cortex and drive seizure initiation and spread makes understanding and treating epilepsy […]
CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Efficient Traffic Management: A Formal Methods Approach
The objective of this project is to develop a formal methods approach to traffic management. Formal methods is an area of computer science that develops efficient techniques for proving the correct operation of systems, such as computer programs and digital circuits, and for designing systems that are correct by construction. This project extends this formalism […]
PFI:BIC A Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform and Ecosystem (SCOPE)
This NSF Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) project from Boston University will research, prototype, and evaluate novel “smart-city” services for the city of Boston and for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The centerpiece of the project is a Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform and Ecosystem (SCOPE), which creates a multisided marketplace for smart-city services based […]
TWC: Medium: Collaborative: Strengthening Wi-Fi Network Wide
Wi-Fi has emerged as the technology of choice for Internet access. Thus, virtually every smartphone or tablet is now equipped with a Wi-Fi card. Concurrently, and as a means to maximize spectral efficiency, Wi-Fi radios are becoming increasingly complex and sensitive to wireless channel conditions. The prevalence of Wi-Fi networks, along with their adaptive behaviors, […]
TWC: TTP Option: Frontier: Collaborative: MACS: A Modular Approach to Cloud Security
The goal of the Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project is to develop methods for building information systems with meaningful multi-layered security guarantees. The modular approach of MACS focuses on systems that are built from smaller and separable functional components, where the security of each component is asserted individually, and where the security of […]
CIF: Small: Quantization for Acquisition and Computation Networks
Networks of sensors are increasingly important in a variety of applications including national security, environmental monitoring, and health care. These systems should serve their purposes with minimal communication between sensors and minimal computation overhead from coding. In particular, these efficiencies can dramatically improve battery life, and in systems such as those implanted in a body, […]
Nazer Wins IEEE Joint Paper Award
When it comes to wireless communications, the school of thought is that interference between users is an obstacle to avoid. That is to say, when multiple users transmit on the same frequency band, nearby receivers only see the superposition of their signals, which makes it hard to discern the individual packets of data. Work by […]
CAREER: Harnessing Interference Structure in Networks
Wireless networks are the fabric of the mobile Internet. High-speed, ubiquitous wireless access is increasingly an enabling technology for important applications ranging from communication to commerce, medicine, and education. It is thus critical to create a pathway for sustainable wireless network growth in terms of the number of users and their data rates. A major […]
CAREER: System-level Run-time Management Techniques for Energy-efficient Silicon-Photonic Manycore Systems
The general purpose computing capacity of the world has been increasing at an annual rate of more than 50% over the past few decades, and this trend is expected to continue in the future. However, this increasing compute capacity directly translates to increasing power dissipation. In fact, the server farms and data centers in US […]