NSF grant for research on Distributed Opportunistic Computing
awarded ($159,998 for 2 years)
Aug. 26, 2008
Dr. Yonghe Liu Dr. Mohan Kumar
Congratulations to Professors Dr. Mohan Kumar (PI) and Dr. Yonghe Liu (co-PI) whose NSF proposal is
being recommended for an award by the CISE, CNS Division of NSF for research in "DOC - Distributed Opportunistic Computing".
The amount is $159,998 for 2 years.
Proposal Abstract
The objective of this project is to carry out preliminary, fundamental research work in the area of opportunistic computing. When pairs of devices come within each others’ communication range, opportunistically, short-lived links (or opportunistic links) are created. Opportunistic computing exploits the opportunistic links created by pair-wise contacts, to share information content, resources and services, leading to a wide variety of applications. Groups of computing nodes and their associated pair-wise contacts in an opportunistic network give rise to a distributed opportunistic computing system. Essentially, opportunistic computing can be described as distributed computing with the caveats of intermittent connectivity and delay tolerance.
Congratulations Dr. Kumar and Dr. Liu!