Research Themes

1. Cloud and Fogs

Cloud computing is one of the most significant shifts in modern ICT and service for enterprise applications and has become a powerful architecture to perform large-scale and complex computing. The advantages of cloud computing include virtualized resources, agility, cost reduction and data service integration with scalable data storage. As a result, a number of applications …

2. Data collection, storage and processing

The life cycle of big data consists of multiple stages ranging from generation, collection, aggregation, processing, and application delivery. While big data aggregation and processing occur mostly in data centers, the data are generated by and collected from geographically distributed devices, and the data knowledge/service are then distributed to interested users. All the stages of big data cycle …

3. Networking

Networks play a critical role in bridging the different stages, and there is a strong demand to create a fast and reliable interconnected network for the big data to flow freely on this digital highway. This network highway concerns not only just one segment of data delivery, but rather the whole series of segments for …