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Multiterminal Source Coding for Self-Organizing Networks (FWOAL765)

The Internet consists of an increasing number of small devices, connected in most cases via a wireless network to the Internet backbone. Important use cases in this respect are smart cities, inter-vehicle communication and smart transport systems, smart surveillance and remote participation applications. The networks for these use cases are distributed real-time systems consisting of (i) nodes that run on a very limited power budget, perform local processing and need to auto-configure, self-diagnose and self-adapt and (ii) wired networks interconnecting the clusters of wireless nodes. An important enabling paradigm for the mentioned futuristic scenarios is Multiterminal (MT) Source-Channel Coding, which addresses the compression of distributed sources of information. The goal of our research is to design novel MT coding schemes, which offer lightweight encoding, better compression performance, and improved error resilience over state-of-the-art systems. Since the networks are self-organizing, an intelligent cooperation is required between the distributed encoders, and the network management mechanisms both in the wireless networks and the wired networks. Algorithms will be designed for managing software-defined networks and fast allocation of virtualized resources for realizing the above described scenarios. Finally, we will investigate the application of the proposed approaches in cooperative distributed systems for networks employing fixed and mobile visual sensors.
Date:1 Jan 2015 →  31 Dec 2018
Keywords:Low Power Cmos, Digital Image Processing, Numerical Linear Algebra, Embedded System Design, Image Reconstruction, Displays, Audio Processing, Light Detectors, Micro-Electronics Technology, Sige Bicmos Design, Satellite Image Analysis, Telemedicine, Medical Image Analysis, Inverse Problems, Video Compression, JPEGx, Neural Networks, Mine Detection, Vision, Digital Signal Processing, Electronic System Design, Machine Vision, Micro Electronics, Cmos Design, Chip Interconnects (Inter / Intra), Humanitarian Demining, Speech Processing, Mpegx, Light Emitters, Pattern Recognition, Mm-Wave Technology, Robot Vision, Impedance Tomography, Image Compression, Light Modulators, Computer Aided Electronic Design, Medical Image Visualization, Motion Estimation And Tracking, Opto-Electronics, Multispectral Image Analysis, Electronics, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Industrial Visual Inspection, Image Analysis
Disciplines:Coding and information theory