报告题目：Cognition-based networks: applying cognitive science to wireless networking

演讲人: Prof. Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy

时间：2015年10月29日（周四）上午10：30 – 12:00am

地点：电院1号楼4楼中厅会议室

联系人：陶梅霞

报告摘要：Several techniques for wireless networking, such as opportunistic spectrum access, or self-healing networks, may be seen as using a form of cognition, meaning that they mimic reasoning processes of intelligent beings. We propose to expand this cognition-based process by exploiting the parallel processing power of the infrastructure, so as to go beyond cognition as is meant by these approaches. We leverage novel approaches, taken from cognitive science and artificial intelligence, involving not only supervised but also unsupervised learning (including deep learning), and we envision their application to wireless systems. For a wireless scenario, we propose and evaluate a video classifier based on a Restricted Boltzmann Machine that tries to extract abstract features of videos from the analysis of the sizes of a few coded frames, that can then be exploited by the communication network to optimize video transmission based on its content. We will also describe a testbed that we recently developed at the University of Padova for cognition-based research, which employs cheap commercial devices and can be easily replicated.

演讲人简介：Michele Zorzi is a Professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova. Prior to his current appointment, he was employed at the Politecnico di Milano, the University of Ferrara and the University of California at San Diego, with which he still has an active collaboration. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova in 1994. Michele was the EiC of the IEEE Wireless Communications magazine in 2003-2005, the EiC of the IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2008-2011, and is currently the founding EiC of the new IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He has also served on the Editorial Boards of the top journals in his area of research and on the Organizing and Technical Program Committee for many international conferenced. He is an IEEE Fellow and an influential researcher, with 15000+ citations and an h-index of 59. His main research interests are in the area of wireless communications and networking, sensor networks and IoT, underwater communications and networks, cognitive networking, and energy-efficient protocol design. His profile can be found at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Z7d93ZYAAAAJ&hl=en