Keynote
Dr. Pan Hui
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/TU Berlin,
Germany
Presentation: EDTN-Hui09.pdf
Title of talk:
The Quest for a Killer App for Opportunistic and Delay Tolerant Networks
Abstract:
Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) has attracted a lot of attention from the research community in recent years. Much work have been done regarding network architectures and algorithms for routing and forwarding in such networks. At the same time as many show enthusiasm for this exciting new research area there are also many sceptics, who question the usefulness of research in this area. In the past, we have seen other research areas become over-hyped and later die out as there was no killer app for them that made them useful in real scenarios. Real deployments of DTN systems have so far mostly been limited to a few niche scenarios, where they have been done as proof-of-concept field tests in research projects. In this talk, we embark upon a quest to find out what characterizes a potential killer application for DTNs. Are there applications and situations where DTNs provide services that could not be achieved otherwise, or have potential to do it in a better way than other techniques? Further, we highlight some of the main challenges that needs to be solved to realize these applications and make DTNs a part of the mainstream network landscape. A special discussion on planet-scale mobility measurement will also be highlighted in the talk.
Short CV:
Dr. Pan Hui is a senior research scientist in Deutsche Telekom Laboratories based in Berlin. He holds a PhD in computer science from Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. During his PhD, he also affiliated with Intel Research Cambridge and Thomson Research Laboratory in Paris. Before that he was with University of Hong Kong for his Mphil and bachelor degree. His research interests include delay tolerant networking, mobile networking and systems, planet-scale mobility measurement, social networks, and the application of complex network science in communication system design. He has published many papers about DTN including some very well cited works in the area of mobility measurement. Pan has co-founded three workshops on areas related to DTN, including ACM HotPlanet, SIMPLEX and Extremcom. Extremecom provides an unique experience for researchers to go to the real rurual environment, deploy and test real DTN systems. He also have served on the program committee of several conferences and workshops, including Infocom, and Globecom.
