Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 ǀ 11:00 a.m.
Location: Zentralgelände Arcisstr. 21, Gebäude 0509 Neubau Innenhof, 3. Stock, Raum 3999
Speaker: Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Professor Sebastian Steinhorst
Abstract:
This talk will deal with the design challenges for resource-constrained embedded and cyber-physical system architectures, which are entering further areas of our everyday life with the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT). For such connected devices, conventional centralized system architectures are reaching their limits regarding manageability, scalability and efficiency. Hence, design approaches are required where centrally coordinated networks of these devices are developed towards self-organizing architectures. Here, smart distributed algorithms will provide system-level functionality and achievement of common goals in a distributed fashion without central coordination. When properly designed, such fully decentralized architectures will provide scalability, modularity, efficiency and robustness beyond what centralized architectures can provide. However, especially when considering resource-constrained applications from the automotive, energy storage or IoT domain, several challenges arise when attempting to design such decentralized architectures. Strong resource limitations regarding computation, communication and energy require advanced design methodologies for hardware/software architecture co-design, distributed algorithms and secure communication such that the goals of safety, security, efficiency and scalability can be achieved. Consequently, this talk will discuss which challenges lie ahead for the design of decentralized embedded system architectures for the IoT, using an example from the energy storage domain. For this purpose, design automation approaches with results from the modeling, simulation, verification and optimization domains will be presented and an outlook on future research directions will be given.
There will be a reception after the lecture.