Distributed cyber-physical systems (DCPS), emerging from close interactions between physical, computational and control sub-components, are increasingly being used to address emerging complex problem in several domains including healthcare, precision agriculture, and infrastructure monitoring. Inadvertent energy (e.g. thermal) interactions between subcomponents of a DCPS may result in un-safe (e.g. excessive tissue heating in an in-vivo body sensor network) and un-economical (e.g. excessive need for cooling energy in a data center) system behavior and in some cases can even result in a system failure (e.g. when a wireless sensor network monitoring a wild fire is unable to collect data or localize nodes due to link failures resulting from loss of wireless range under hot conditions). Additionally, there is a potential to exploit cyber-physical interactions for developing novel solutions to traditional problems in the cyber domain (e.g. securing inter-node communication in a body sensor network using crypto keys derived from sensed physiological signals). This talk will motivate a design methodology for DCPS based on our experience in developing safe, secure and sustainable solutions for body sensor networks and datacenters.

Host: Lin Zhong

Biography of Sandeep Gupta:
Sandeep Kumar S. Gupta is a professor in the School of Computing and Informatics and is affiliated with Electrical, Bioengineering and Biomedical Informatics departments at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. He heads the IMPACT (http://impact.asu.edu) Lab at Arizona State University. His current research is focused on use-inspired research in cyber-physical systems. He has also worked in the areas of mobile and pervasive computing, high-performance computing, collective communication, compliers, and automatic program synthesis. His research has been funded by several federal (NSF, NIH), state (SFAz) and industrial (Intel, Mediserve and Consortium of embedded systems) grants and has resulted in over 100 peer-reviewed publications and a best paper award. He is a co-author of the book “Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing,” McGraw Hill. Gupta served as a TPC Chair for the Third International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets 2008 – http://impact.asu.edu/bodynets) and a program co-chair for the First Int’l Workshop on Green Computing (GreenCom’07). He has been special issue co-editor for IEEE JSAC, IEEE TKDE, ACM MONET and WINET and currently, he is an area editor for IEEE Communication Letters.