US - Korea Joint Workshop on Collaboration in Software Defined Networking/Network Function Virtualization (SDN/NFV) for Smart Cities

该项目资助了一个研讨会，汇集了来自美国和韩国的研究人员，目的是描述和评估先进网络对智慧城市工程的影响。专门研究可编程网络（包括SDN（软件定义网络）和NFV（网络功能虚拟化））的研究人员将与对智慧城市广泛领域感兴趣的领先研究人员合作，包括使能技术，如大规模传感器和执行器部署（无线和有线）以及应用于智慧城市应用领域的物联网（IoT）。智慧城市的研究对社会有明显的好处，可以通过使用技术改善人们的生活，包括在能源效率和保健服务领域。然而，如何构建安全、可靠和灵活的网络通信以支持智慧城市的技术却知之甚少。研讨会将探讨和记录下一代网络和智慧城市共同考虑时出现的关键技术挑战和机遇。研讨会将于2014年8月16日至17日在伊利诺伊州芝加哥市举行。潜在的美国参与者将被邀请提交一页纸的摘要，说明他们对研讨会领域的兴趣和想法。这些摘要将由美国研讨会组织者审查，并将选出大约20名与会者。此提案仅支持美国参与者的差旅费；韩国的参与者是由他们的国家机构挑选和资助的。

This project funds a workshop that brings together researchers from the US and Korea, for the purpose of describing and assessing the impact of advanced networking on the engineering of smart cities. Researchers who specialize in programmable networking, including SDN (software defined networking) and NFV (network function virtualization) will work with leading researchers interested in the broad areas of smart cities, including enabling technologies such as large-scale sensor and actuator deployment (wireless and wired) and the Internet of Things (IoT) as applied to the smart city application domain. Research in smart cities has a clear benefit to society, in improving the lives of people through the use of technology, including in the domains of energy efficiency and health-care delivery. However, techniques for how to structure secure, reliable, and flexible networked communications in support of smart cities is poorly understood. The workshop will explore and document key technology challenges and opportunities that arise when next generation networking and smart cities are considered together.The workshop will be held August 16-17, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois. Potential US participants will be invited to submit one-page abstracts of their interest and ideas in the workshop areas. These abstracts will be reviewed by the US workshop organizers, and approximately 20 participants will be selected. This proposal supports travel expenses for the US participants only; Korean participants are being selected and funded by their national agencies.