Software-Defined Fabrics for IoT at Scale

Abstract: By 2050, over 70% of the world's population will live in cities that occupy only 2% of the world's land mass and consume 75% of its resources, leading to challenges on how to maintain economic advancement, environmental sustainability, and social resiliency. Smart city technologies (cloud computing, software-defined networking (SDN), Internet of Things (IoT)) can help address these challenges by enabling software application platforms that allow cities to tackle challenges such as traffic congestion, air and noise pollution, safety and crime, climate change, economic growth, and delivery of city services. In this talk we discuss our approach to integrate IoT, SDN, and cloud computing technologies into a platform that can support smart city applications for private and public service providers and individual citizens.

Bio: Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia is Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics an Electrical Engineering "For contributions to multiplexing and switching of integrated services traffic". He is also a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received the 2006 Thomas Eadie Medal from the Royal Society of Canada and the 2010 IEEE Canada A. G. L. McNaughton Gold Medal for his contributions to the area of communications. Professor Leon-Garcia is author of the leading textbooks: Probability and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering, and Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architecture. He is Scientific Director of the NSERC Strategic Network for Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructures.