Optimization in Software-Defined Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Title：Optimization in Software-Defined Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Speaker：Associate Prof. Kaoru Ota

Host：Prof. Licheng Wang

Time：March 2nd,2017 (Thursday) 3:30-5:30 PM

Location：New Research Building Room 1209

Abstract：

The vehicle ad hoc network (VANET) is an emerging network technology that is expected to be cost-effective and adaptable, making it ideal to provide network connection service to drivers and passengers on today’s roads. In the next generation of VANETs with fifth-generation (5G) networks, software-defined networking (SDN) technology will play a very important role in network management. However, high vehicle mobility and unstable communication links in VANETs imposes a great challenge for network management. In this talk, I will first give an overview of VANETs and SDN technologies. Then I introduce our recent works which propose optimizing strategies to balance several requirements such as latency, cost, and privacy in SDN-enabled VANETs.

Prof. Kaoru Ota Bio：

Kaoru Ota was born in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan. She received M.S. degree in Computer Science from Oklahoma State University, USA in 2008, B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Aizu, Japan in 2006, 2012, respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor with Department of Information and Electronic Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. From March 2010 to March 2011, she was a visiting scholar at University of Waterloo, Canada. Also she was a Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (JSPS) research fellow with Kato-Nishiyama Lab at Graduate School of Information Sciences at Tohoku University, Japan from April 2012 to April 2013. Her research interests include Wireless Networks, Cloud Computing, and Cyber-physical Systems. Dr. Ota’s research results have been published in 110 research papers in international journals, conferences and books. She has received best paper awards from ICA3PP 2014, GPC 2015, IEEE DASC 2015, and VTC-Fall 2016. She is (was) as an editor for IEEE Communications Letters, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer), Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, International Journal of Embedded Systems (Inderscience), as well as a guest editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (leading guest editor), IEEE Wireless Communications, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. She was a research scientist with A3 Foresight Program (2011-2016) funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS), NSFC of China, and NRF of Korea.

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February 25th,2017