WINLAB Seminar - Josep Miguel Jornet “The Internet of Nano-Things“

Title: “The Internet of Nano-Things“ Date: August 30, 2011 1:30 PM Speaker: Josep Miguel Jornet Abstract: Nanotechnology promises new solutions for many applications in the biomedical, industrial and military fields as well as in consumer and industrial goods. The interconnection of nanoscale devices with existing communication networks and ultimately the Internet defines a new networking paradigm that is further referred to as the Internet of Nano-Things. Within this context, this talk captures the state of the art in electromagnetic communication among nanoscale devices. First, the latest achievements in nano-device design are described, by giving details on the internal architecture and components of nano-devices. Then, novel graphene-based nano-antennas are presented and analyzed in light of quantum mechanics, showing that they can efficiently radiate in the Terahertz Band. In addition, the characteristics of the Terahertz channel in the nanoscale are reviewed, emphasizing the need for new solutions for communication in nanoscale networks. Moreover, a new communication scheme based on the asynchronous exchange of femtosecond-long pulses is presented, and the capacity of nano-networks operating under such scheme is analyzed. Finally, the open research challenges in terms of network architectures and protocols are highlighted, defining a roadmap for the development of this new networking paradigm. Bio: Josep Miquel Jornet received the Engineering Degree in Telecommunication Engineering and the Master of Science in Information and Communication Technologies from the School of Electrical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2008. From September 2007 to December 2008, he was a visiting researcher at the MIT Sea Grant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, under the supervision of Dr. Ian F. Akyildiz. He is a student member of the IEEE and the ACM. His current research interests are in nanonetworks, nanosensor networks and graphene-enabled wireless communication.