Title: Edge Computing for Disaster Incident Data Management: New Paradigm Challenges and Emerging Solutions
Abstract: In the event of
natural or man-made disaster incidents, providing rapid situational
awareness through video/image data processing at salient incident
scenes is often critical to first responders. Scalable processing of
media-rich visual data and the subsequent visualization with high user
Quality of Experience (QoE) demands new cloud computing and smart
device management approaches. In this talk, we describe the challenges
in decision making involving disaster incident-supporting visual cloud
computing. Following this, we will present our solution approaches for
visual data processing applications such as tracking objects in
wide-area motion imagery, and large-scale facial recognition. Our
solution approaches feature algorithms for intelligent fog computing at
the network-edge coupled with cloud offloading to a public cloud,
utilizing software-defined networking (SDN). In addition, results from
our solution approaches to deal with issues of end-to-end cloud-fog
communications security and energy/latency tradeoffs in cloud
offloading will be discussed. We will conclude with a discussion of our
experimental results collected from simulations and a GENI cloud-fog
testbed to demonstrate how our solution approaches can: (a) enhance
remote user QoE, (b) reduce latency, congestion, and (c) increase
throughput, security -- in realistic disaster response use cases.
Bio: Prasad Calyam is an
assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department at the University of Missouri and a Core Faculty in the
University of Missouri Informatics Institute (MUII). Before coming to
the university in 2013, he was a research director at the Ohio
Supercomputer Center/Ohio Academic Resources Network at Ohio State
University. His research and development areas of interest include
distributed and cloud computing, computer networking,
networked-multimedia applications and cyber security. He has published
more than 85 papers in various conference and journal venues. As the
principal investigator, he has successfully led teams of graduate,
undergraduate and postdoctoral fellows in numerous federal-, state- and
industry-sponsored research and development projects. His research
sponsors include the National Science Foundation, the Department of
Energy, VMware, Dell, IBM, Verizon, Cisco, Raytheon-BBN, the MU Coulter
Translational Partnership (TP) Program, Huawei Technologies, Internet2
and others. His basic research and software on multi-domain network
measurement and monitoring has been commercialized as ‘Narada Metrics’.
He served as an editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, panelist on
numerous NSF and DOE Proposal Review Panels and as Chair of two
NSF-sponsored workshops. He currently serves as the Director of the NSF
REU Site on Consumer Networking. He received the Cisco and VMware
Research Awards in 2013, the Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award
in 2016, and the Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award in 2017. He
is a Senior IEEE Member.
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