Seminar Talk

Title: Energy Harvesting and How It Changes Networking Protocol Design

Speaker: Professor Winston Seah, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Host: Professor Ying-Dar Lin

Time: 10:30-11:50AM 11/25 (Wed)

Place: 345 ENG III

Abstract:

The use of energy harvesting in ICT has received significant interest with the push for green communications and the need to be environmentally friendly. Coupled with this is the increasing number of devices that are connected to the Internet, transforming it into the Internet of Things(IoT), and more recently, the Internet of Everything (IoE). Amidst the hype, much research remains to be done to make IoE a reality. First and foremost is how to power the interconnected devices, many of which are small and embedded.

Many will be powered by environmental energy harvesting but small (often

embedded) devices are unable to harvest sufficient energy for continuous operation. This new constraint presents new challenges to the way networking and communications protocols need to be designed. This talk will first provide a quick overview of the salient features of energy harvesting that are relevant to communications and networking, and then discuss the challenges to be addressed.

Biography:

Winston K.G. Seah received the Dr.Eng. degree from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1997. Since Oct 2009, he has been the Professor of Network Engineering in the School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Prior to this, he has worked for more than 16 years in mission-oriented research, taking ideas from theory to prototypes, most recently, as a Senior Scientist (Networking Protocols) in the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore. He is actively involved in research in the areas of mobile ad hoc and sensor networks, and co-developed one of the first Quality of Service (QoS) models for mobile ad hoc networks. His latest research interests include wireless sensor networks powered by ambient energy harvesting (WSN-HEAP), wireless multi-hop networks, software defined networking, and nano-scale networks. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Homepage: http://www.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~winston/.