CS Forum: "Future Networking Challenges: The case of Mobile Augmented Reality" Tristan Braud, HKUST

CS department's public guest lectures are open to everyone free-of-charge.

Dr Tristan BRAUD
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Host: Matti SIekkinen
Time: 14:15 (coffee at 14:00)
Venue: T4, CS building

Future Networking Challenges: The case of Mobile Augmented Reality

Abstract:

Mobile augmented reality (MAR) applications are gaining  popularity due to the wide adoption of mobile and especially wearable devices. Such devices often present limited hardware capabilities while  MAR applications often rely on computationally intensive computer vision algorithms with extreme latency requirements. To compensate for the lack of computing power, offloading data processing to a distant machine is often desired. However, if this process introduces new constrains in the application, especially in terms of latency and bandwidth. If current network infrastructures are not ready for such traffic, we envision that future wireless networks such as 5G will rapidly be saturated by resource hungry MAR applications. Moreover, due to the high variance of wireless networks, MAR applications should not rely only on the evolution of infrastructures. New transport-level protocols are therefore required for optimizing the usage of resources on the network.