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Welcome to NESEA 2010

Danny Hughes

Xi`an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU) daniel.hughes@xjtlu.edu.cn

Structure of this Talk

• 1. The NESEA Conference:
• Goals, schedule, organization and statistics.
• 2. Visiting Suzhou:
• Background, tourist information and tips.
• 3. Introduction to the Keynote

The Goals of NESEA 2010 (1/3)

• To trigger and guide research that will

make Networked Embedded Systems more usable in Enterprise Applications.

• Networked Embedded Systems include:

wireless sensor networks, mobile devices, in-car computers and wearable computers.

The Goals of NESEA 2010 (2/3)

• The research community has made great strides

in recent years in providing fundamental support such as operating systems, routing algorithms and programming abstractions.

• Key questions for the research community:

– How can we leverage these technologies to make existing business applications more efficient or realize new business models? – What is needed to bridge the gap between the requirements of large scale applications and the fundamental technologies we already have?

The Goals of NESEA 2010 (3/3)

• To initiate a new series of high quality,

tightly focused conferences in this area.

• To generate discussion between

attendees and form new collaborations.

• To provide an enjoyable as well as

educational conference experience for the attendees here in Suzhou.

The Themes of NESEA 2010 (1/2)

• System Composition:

– We have three papers on how to compose networked embedded applications. – Move away from monolithic, per-platform application design. – Move towards more flexible, reusable and reliable methods for building networked embedded software.

• The Tangible Cloud:

– An exciting new idea about how we should create and interact with networked embedded systems. – Extensible embedded services that are openly available on the Internet. – Use of existing Cloud resources by embedded systems.

The Themes of NESEA 2010 (2/2)

• Secure Routing:

– Due to resource constraints, current systems don’t offer much support for secure routing. This is required by many critical applications. – We have two papers that look at we can achieve secure routing in the face of extreme resource constraints.

• Efficient Hardware Design:

– Complementing the software sessions, we have three hardware papers, presenting new approaches for designing efficient hardware platforms. – Making embedded systems faster, smaller and cheaper is of course key to their adoption in new scenarios.

Conference Schedule (Thursday)

09:30-10:30: Keynote Speech 10:30-11:00: Tea Break 11:00-12:30: Session 1: System Composition 12:30-14:00: Lunch 14:00-15:30: Session 2: The Tangible Cloud 15:30-16:00: Tea Break 16:00-17:00: Session 3: Secure Routing !. 18:40-19:00: Taxi to Banquet from Lobby

Conference Schedule (Friday)

10:00-11:30: Session 4: Hardware Design 11:30-12:00: Conference Closing 12:30-14:00: Lunch 14:00-16:00: XJTLU Student Workshop

The XJTLU Student Workshop

• This is not a part of the main conference,

but you are encouraged to attend.

• It offers our PhD students to gain valuable

exposure to international researchers.

• I am sure the topics will be interesting to a

number of our attendees.

Organization

• Chairs: Dr. Kevin Lee, Prof. Christophe Huygens

and Dr. Ka Lok Man.

• Program Committee: industrial and academic

members from 10 different countries.

• Special thanks are also due to:

– Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China – Murdoch University, Australia – K.U. Leuven, Belgium

Sponsorship

• Distributed Thought:

– A UK-based not for profit organization dedicated to supporting teaching and research in CS and EEE.

• The IEEE:

– NESEA’10 is fully IEEE co-sponsored and subject to rigorous checking of its budget, acceptance rates and organization.

Conference Statistics

• We had 25 papers submitted from 8

different countries.

• We selected 10 papers for publication in
• ur proceedings.
• An acceptance rate of 40% overall and

35% for the main track.

The Program

• This has been a bad year for conferences

with low submission numbers due to current funding restrictions!

• !but I believe we have put together a

very interesting program.

• We would like to thank all of the

presenters for their hard work on this.

NESEA 2011

• Would you like to:

– Join the Program Committee? – Chair a workshop or – Volunteer in some other capacity!

• If so, please give your information to one of the chairs.

Visiting Suzhou (1/3)

• We are located in Suzhou-Singapore Industrial Park,

shown in green:

Visiting Suzhou (2/3)

• In Suzhou ancient district you will find some historic sites

including:

– The Humble Administrators Garden, a very famous Chinese garden and UNESCO site. – Guanqian Street, a historic Chinese shopping street where you will also find the Rumania Taoist temple.

• A short taxi ride away you will find:

– Lake Tai, where you can watch the sun set, or ride in a traditional fishing boat. – The Leaning Pagoda of Tiger Hill, which offers great scenery and views. – Tong Li water town, an ancient and well preserved village with canals instead of streets.

Humble Administrators Garden

Guanqian Street and Xuanmiao Guan

Lake Tai

Tiger Hill

Tong Li Water Town

Visiting Suzhou (3/3)

• In SIP itself you will also find great bars

restaurants and shops. I recommend:

– Shindu Plaza, Li Gong Di, Times Square and Moon Harbour for shopping, bars and restaurants.

• If you need any help finding your way in Suzhou
• r beyond, please ask one of the chairs.
• Remember, do not go anywhere without (1) your

hotel address and (2) your destination address written in Chinese.

Journal Special Edition

• The journal special edition will be in the

International Journal of Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems (IJDATICS).

• Papers should be extended with 50% new

material.

• Submission of extended papers is scheduled

for February 1st.

• Further instructions will be distributed by email

within the next month.

Concluding Remarks

• Thanks to all of you for submitting your

work and coming to Suzhou.

• We hope that this year will lay the

foundation for a successful conference series.

• Enjoy the conference!

Keynote Presentation (1/2)

• We now have a keynote from Dr. Yue Yang.
• Yue is co-founder and vice-president of Ejitec

Co., Suzhou, which specializes in embedded network storage and the Internet of Things.

• Before Ejitec, Yue received a BSc, MSc, PhD

from Tsinghua University and an MESEE from Stanford University (US).

Keynote Presentation (2/2)

• Yue is going to give us his business perspective
• n the Internet of Things.
• He will talk about their work in connecting the

Internet of Things over wide area networks.

• The talk will focus on an interesting application

area: wireless surveillance devices.