[sigcomm] ECCI International PhD Course on Wireless Sensors and Actuator Networks

[Carlo Fischione]

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International PhD Course on Wireless Sensors and Actuator Networks
https://people.kth.se/~carlofi/WSAN2017.pdf<https://people.kth.se/~carlofi/teaching/EECI2017/Flier%20EECI%20Course%20M14%20WSAN%202017.pdf>

European Embedded Control Institute
University of L’Aquila, Italy
April 18-21, 2017

Advance registration before December 28, 2016:
http://eeciinstitute.web-events.net/registration/

Grants for PhD students:
http://www.eeci-igsc.eu/grant-igsc-2017/

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Abstract:

The massive deployment of smart and wirelessly interconnected devices in cyber-physical systems such as smart grids, networks, and intelligent transport systems, is providing extensive information from the physical world through distributed sensing mechanisms. With the emergence of low-cost controllers/actuators that can be potentially embedded in everything (e.g., vehicles, robots, buildings, human body), sensed information can be utilized for control, estimation and monitoring at an unprecedented scale. This is demanding the development of fundamental design principles for Wireless Sensor and Actuators Networks (WSANs) so to reliably and certifiably observe the physical world, analyzing data, making decisions and performing appropriate control actions. In addition, due to the vulnerability of wireless networks to cyber-physical malicious attacks, security is a primary concern for WSANs.

This course is devoted to the study of WSANs: we present a co-design approach of Control Systems and Networks supporting control applications over WSAN. In particular, we will discuss the following scenarios:
Control-aware network design, when the network parameters can be adapted by an optimization problem whose objective is a network utility, and the constraints are the reliability and latency of the messages as requested by a control application;
Network-aware controller design, when the controller can be adapted to guarantee some control specifications robustly with respect to networking non-idealities and malicious attacks;
Cross-layer optimization, where desirable signaling between network layers enable simultaneous computation of control actions and networking configuration to improve the overall system performance;
Distributed optimization, where the nodes of WSANs cooperate to solve network global optimization problems that may possibly include privacy constraints.

Topics:
•Mathematical modeling of networks for WSANs
•Mathematical modeling of closed-loop systems over WSANs
•Robust, resilient and secure control co-design over WSANs
•Distributed optimization over WSANs
•Discussion of open problems and opportunities for research

Advance registration before 28 December, 2016:
http://eeciinstitute.web-events.net/registration/

Grants for PhD students:
http://www.eeci-igsc.eu/grant-igsc-2017/
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