University of Hawaii at Mānoa Honolulu, Hawaii

1. COCONETS University of Hawaii at Mānoa Honolulu, Hawaii

2. University of Hawaii - Location • Ala Moana Beach

3. University of Hawaii - Location Holmes Hall POST Building

4. University of Hawaii - Location • View from Holmes Hall – Diamondhead

5. What is COCONETS? Well… Get the idea?

6. COCONETS Lab COding, COmmunications, NETworks and Security Lab • Mission • Conduct basic and applied research in coding, communications, networks, signal processing, and security for the benefit of society. • Educate students to prepare them for jobs in academia and high technology industry. • Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with researchers both at UH and externally. • Interface to industry in Hawaii, US mainland, and internationally.

7. COCONETS FACULTY

8. COCONETS Faculty Yingbin Liang – EE J. B. Nation – Math Wes Petersen – ICS Prasad Santhanam – EE Galen Sasaki - EE Susanna Still – ICS Jim Yee - EE • Gurdal Arslan - EE • Edo Biagioni - ICS • Yingfei Dong – EE • N. Tom Gaarder - EE • Anders Host Madsen - EE • Alek Kavcic - EE • Anthony Kuh – EE

9. COCONETS Faculty Honors and Awards • Shannon Award / Shannon Lecturer • Japan Prize • 2 IEEE Fellows • 4 NSF CAREER Awards • Regents Award for Excellence in Research • Regents Award for Excellence in Teaching

10. COCONETS Faculty Best Paper Awards • IEEE Comm Society • 2005 Best paper in Singal Proc. for Data Storage • IEEE Information Theory Society • 2006 Outstanding Paper • Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications • 200? best paper

11. Faculty Research Iterests COding, COmmunications, NETworks and Security Lab • Faculty interests • Wireless Communications • Magnetic Recording • Optical Communications • Information Theory • Distributed signal processing and communications • Network security • Network optimization • Machine learning

12. PROUD HISTORY

13. A Piece of History:Decoding Reed-Solomon codes • Wes Peterson 1960 • Solving a system of linear equations to hard-decode Reed-Solomon codes • Gorestein-Zeiler 1961 • Chien 1964 • Forney 1965 • Berleykamp-Massey 1967

14. A Piece of History: ALOHA net • Norm Abramson 1970 • Protocol for managing packet collisions in wireless networks

15. A Piece of History:Network Information theory • Slepian – Wolf, 1971 • Gaarder – Wolf, 1975

16. CURRENT RESEARCH

17. Professor Gürdal Arslan Cooperative Systems of Autonomous Agents

18. Applications in Diverse Areas Cooperative Signaling in Ad-hoc Networks Autonomous vehicles for military operations Dynamic Sensor Management Traffic Routing

19. Modern storage devices Alek Kavcic Assoc. Prof. of Electrical Engineering University of Hawaii How much data can we theoretically pack on a disk drive (CD or DVD) and retrieve it error-free? Once we figure out how much data we can pack on, how do we design codes that achieve this? Believe it or not: this is not known

20. track Turning magnets into signals and back magnetization pattern on a track magnify Readback waveform media noise media noise magnetic surface

21. Computer Network and Security (1/2) • Associate Professor, Yingfei Dong • Computer Network Security Projects • Focus on secure Internet architectures and protocols • Securing critical information infrastructure such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) • Infrastructure-Level Protection to Ensure Critical Communications (NSF 0649950) • develop novel secure mechanisms to protect critical comm. from DOS attacks and fast-spreading worms • Fighting Unwanted Traffic • Distributed Overlay Filtering Mechanism • exploring dynamic inter-domain collaboration to improve the availability of important services • Control Spam-Like Unwanted Internet Traffic • Holding spammer accountable • Identify spamming bots

22. Computer Network and Security (2/2) • Computer Network Security Projects (cont’) • Internet Voting: develop practical voter-verifiable remote voting systems • Computer Network Projects • develop advanced network architectures and algorithms for Emerging Internet Applications • Novel Architecture for Soft Real-Time Delivery on the Future Internet • support strict high-assurance real-time delivery for critical infrastructure systems • Distributed and Parallel Systems • Develop distributed systems and algorithms with better reliability and scalability • Distributed information systems • large-scale data sharing across computer networks • peer-to-peer systems and other • Distributed File/Storage systems • Advanced distributed computer architecture

23. Professor Anthony Kuh Signal Processing and Machine Learning • Research • Adaptive online recursive filters • Kernel methods • Pattern recognition and classification • Unsupervised learning: PCA and KPCA • Reinforcement Learning • Distributed learning and signal processing • Network modeling and analysis • Education: graduate and undergraduate

24. Applications Areas Sensor network localization and estimation Renewable Energy Wind Prediction Text Classification Anomaly Detection Network security Health monitoring Data fusion

25. Wireless Communication Technologies Yingbin Liang-University of Hawaii at Manoa • Accurately Modeling Wireless Channels • Analyzing Practical Wireless Channels • Incorporating Practical Channel Parameters • MIMO Wireless Communication • Utilizing Spatial Dimensions • Analyzing Correlated MIMO Channels • Developing Optimal MIMO Schemes • Relaying and User Cooperative Networks • Higher Data Rate and Reliability • Developing Relay Strategies • Applying Network Information • Theory

26. Information Theoretic Security • Confidentiality via Information • Theoretic Approaches • Confidentiality without Encryption • Guarantee both Reliability and Security

27. Professor Anders Høst-Madsen: Cooperative Communications • Old network paradigm: communications along paths • New network paradigm: communications on waves • Radically increased network capacity 27

28. Ad-hoc networks University of Hawai‘i atMānoa 28

29. Ad-hoc networks 29

30. Ad-hoc networks 30

31. A PLACE FORGRADUATE STUDENTS

32. COCONETS Students • It would be great to have some pictures of students here

33. COCONETS Alumni • This slide on alumni success stories

34. COCONETS Goals • Establishing a multidisciplinary research and education center in basic and applied research • Take advantage of location in Pacific and multicultural environment in Hawaii to establish joint relationships with Asian institutions and US mainland institutions • Use communication and information technology to impact economic and societal problems

35. COCONETS Programs and Financial Aid • Programs • MS • PhD • Post-doc • Financial Aid • COCONETS post-doctoral fellowships • COCONETS graduate fellowships • Research assistantships • Teaching assistantships

36. COCONETS Contact Information • Names • Addresses • Email, Phone, Web site