Dagstuhl Seminar 23222
Novel Scenarios for the Wireless Internet of Things
( May 29 – Jun 01, 2023 )
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Organizers
- Haitham Hassanieh (EPFL - Lausanne, CH)
- Kyle Jamieson (Princeton University, US)
- Luca Mottola (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT)
- Longfei Shangguan (University of Pittsburgh, US)
- Xia Zhou (Columbia University - New York, US)
- Marco Zimmerling (TU Darmstadt, DE)
Contact
- Marsha Kleinbauer (for scientific matters)
- Simone Schilke (for administrative matters)
Schedule
The past few years have witnessed progressive deployments of IoT devices in both personal and public space to facilitate smarter living. For instance, home gateways such as Amazon Echo can now pick up human speech, understand the semantics, and further loop in machines, appliances, and many others to react. Likewise, mobile IoT devices such as drones and robots are deployed for urban modeling, express delivery, and industrial inspection. Although the functional innovations builds upon existing IoT architecture are going full steam ahead, the newly emerging scenarios such as Internet of ocean and implantable things often come with limited power budget, form factor, and computation resources, which fundamentally challenge the conventional IoT architecture, communication primitives, and sensing capabilities.
The goal of this Dagstuhl Seminar was to bring together researchers from both academia and industry from around the world to i) review the existing IoT research directions from radical perspectives; ii) figure out fundamental challenges in modern IoT application scenarios that may then be investigated in joint research projects; and iii) discuss new types of hardware architecture, network stack, and communication primitives for these emerging IoT scenarios. An essential part of this seminar was to bridge the gap between the research momentum from academia and the practical needs from the industry and to actively engage a dialog between different communities. As IoT by nature is a multidisciplinary area involving innovations in hardware and architecture, algorithm and protocol, as well as applications, we sought researchers from different domains that are open to different research perspectives and welcome research of a different nature.
Table 1 Agenda
Seminar Schedule
The seminar commenced with a keynote speech by Dr. Victor Bahl, a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. This was followed by a pair of speak-and-spark sessions, during which each attendee delivered a brief presentation on their research, facilitating mutual familiarization of everyone's areas of interest. The inaugural day culminated with an invited talk given by Dr. Olga Saukh. Moving to the subsequent day, the program featured four invited talks along with two break-out sessions. During these break-out sessions, attendees were organized into smaller groups, each focusing on a specific IoT research theme. The final day was dedicated to wrapping up the event and engaging in discussions. Leaders of each break-out group presented summary reports of their respective discussions, effectively concluding the seminar. The detailed agenda is listed in Table 1.
Figure 1 Speak and spark session I.
Figure 2 Speak and spark session II.
Outcomes
The seminar centered around six comprehensive research topics within the realm of the Internet of Things (IoT). These topics encompassed a diverse spectrum, including underwater communication, implantable IoT devices, airborne communication systems, integrated communication and sensing technologies, the intersection of artificial intelligence and IoT, and the optimization of energy efficiency in IoT applications. Through in-depth presentations and break-out discussions on these subjects, participants gained valuable insights into the cutting-edge advancements, challenges, and opportunities shaping the future landscape of IoT technology. The seminar fostered a collaborative environment where participants exchanged ideas and discussed potential research collaborations. Overall, the seminar was considered a success, building the next cornerstone for the wireless Internet of Things.
Furthermore, the extensive research discussions held during the break-out sessions have ignited a multitude of captivating concepts for the upcoming wave of IoT applications. This enthusiasm culminated in the creation of four technical reports, each focusing on distinct research realms.
These reports delve into the challenges faced and chart potential trajectories for future progress in these specified areas.
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Longfei Shangguan, Xia Zhou, and Marco Zimmerling
The past few years have witnessed progressive deployments of IoT devices in both personal and public space to facilitate smarter living. For instance, home gateways such as Amazon Echo can now pick up human speech, understand the semantics, and further loop in machines, appliances, and many other entities to react. Likewise, mobile IoT devices such as drones and robots are deployed for urban modeling, express delivery, and industrial inspection. Although the functional innovations builds upon existing IoT architecture are going full steam ahead, the newly emerging scenarios such as Internet of ocean, space, and implantable things often come with limited power budget, form factor, and computation resources, which fundamentally challenge the conventional IoT architecture, communication primitives, and sensing capabilities.
The goal of this Dagstuhl Seminar is to bring together researchers from both academia and industry around the world to
- review the existing IoT research directions from radical perspectives;
- figure out fundamental challenges in modern IoT application scenarios that may then be investigated in joint research projects; and
- discuss new types of hardware architecture, network stack, and communication primitives for these emerging IoT scenarios.
An essential part of this seminar is to bridge the gap between the research momentum from academia and the practical needs from industry, and to actively engage a dialog between different communities. As IoT by nature is a multidisciplinary research area involving innovations in hardware and architecture, algorithm and protocol, as well as applications, we seek researchers from different domains that are open to different research perspectives and welcome research of a different nature.
We plan to organize this seminar via theme days, with each day chaired by two organizers. Taking a step further, the seminar will start with background talks from nominated individuals, followed by track-based presentation and discussion. The volunteered junior community members are responsible for merging the slides from presenters and summarizing the panel discussions. These materials will become an essential part of our final output. Junior community members are also encouraged to prepare a poster and an elevator pitch about their own research. We anticipate two major outcomes from this seminar.
- An authored article that takes a forward-looking view of IoT research. This article will not only summarize the current progress of IoT research, but also shed light on the future research direction by outlining the opportunities and challenges drawn from this seminar.
- Forming a batch of research projects that can be jointly investigated by researchers from different domains.
Kyle Jamieson, Xia Zhou, and Marco Zimmerling
- Arash Asadi (TU Darmstadt, DE)
- Emmanuel Baccelli (FU Berlin, DE)
- Victor Bahl (Microsoft Corporation - Redmond, US) [dblp]
- Bastian Bloessl (TU Darmstadt, DE) [dblp]
- Justin Chan (University of Washington - Seattle, US)
- Akshay Gadre (University of Washington - Seattle, US)
- Junfeng Guan (EPFL Lausanne, CH)
- Oliver Hahm (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, DE) [dblp]
- Richard Han (Macquarie University - Sydney, AU) [dblp]
- Karin Anna Hummel (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, AT) [dblp]
- Tianxing Li (Michigan State University - East Lansing, US)
- Andra Lutu (Telefónica - Madrid, ES) [dblp]
- Andrea Maioli (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT)
- RangaRao Venkatesha Prasad (TU Delft, NL)
- Alberto Quattrini Li (Dartmouth College - Hanover, US)
- Olga Saukh (TU Graz, AT) [dblp]
- Longfei Shangguan (University of Pittsburgh, US)
- Deepak Vasisht (University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, US)
- Chenren Xu (Peking University, CN) [dblp]
- Rong Zheng (McMaster University - Hamilton, CA)
- Xia Zhou (Columbia University - New York, US) [dblp]
- Marco Zimmerling (TU Darmstadt, DE) [dblp]
- Marco Antonio Zúñiga Zamalloa (TU Delft, NL) [dblp]
Classification
- Emerging Technologies
- Other Computer Science
Keywords
- Internet of X Things
- Backscatter Communication
