Grant: Industrial Research Chairs
Concordia University
$150,000.00
NSERC/Ericsson Industrial Research Chair: Model Based Software Management
FY 2016-17
Summary
Cloud computing is a computing paradigm that enables pervasive access to computing resources through the internet. Cloud providers deliver computing infrastructure as service or software as a service to tenants who pay as per use and do not need heavy upfront investments on hardware and software. Cloud computing is enabling novel internet of things based applications that take advantage of cloud computation power and communication bandwidth. Cloud computing is at the brink of massive scale deployment or ubiquity. The main obstacles are availability, security and management.Cloud systems must be scalable, adapt to the workload and make efficient use of resources, efficient, i.e. exhibit the required level of performance, and available as we will be more and more dependent on cloud services. On the other hand, cloud systems undergo very frequent upgrades, to remain available these upgrades must be performed live, i.e. while the system is providing services.The proposed research program, led by the Industrial Research Chair, will provide a distinct advantage to the Canadian computing and telecommunications industries. Through investigations on modeling, requirement engineering, configuration techniques, Service Level Agreement management, monitoring architectures, dynamic reconfiguration, live upgrade and live testing and diagnosis, the quality, dependability and management of cloud systems will be considerably improved.Continued collaboration with Ericsson, a major player in telecommunications Research and Development in Canada, will ensure that the developed architectures and techniques, and the derived tools will be transferred to a highly productive user. Graduate students will be involved at each stage of this program of research; it is our goal to provide these students with an exceptional level of experience at both Concordia and Ericsson's facilities so that they may enter the workforce with the skills required to strengthen the position of Canadian industry in the global market.
Program
Industrial Research Chairs
Recipient
Location
Quebec, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
425135-2016
Name nom
Khendek, Ferhat
Department département
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Organization id
70
Institution établissement
Concordia University
Province en
Québec
Province fr
Québec
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2016
Competition year année de concours
2016
Award amount
150000
Program id
IRCPJ
Program name en
Industrial Research Chairs
Program name fr
Professeurs-chercheurs industriels
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
141
Committee name en
University/Industry
Committee name fr
Universités/industrie
Area of application code
1207
Area of application group en
Advancement of knowledge
Area of application group fr
Avancement des connaissances
Area of application en
Information, computer and communication technologies
Area of application fr
Technologie de l'information, des ordinateurs et des réseaux de communications
Research subject code
2700
Research subject group en
Information technology
Research subject group fr
Technologie de l'information
Research subject en
Information technology
Research subject fr
Technologie de l'information
Partie
6
Nb partie
10
Application title
NSERC/Ericsson Industrial Research Chair: Model Based Software Management
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
Cloud computing is a computing paradigm that enables pervasive access to computing resources through the internet. Cloud providers deliver computing infrastructure as service or software as a service to tenants who pay as per use and do not need heavy upfront investments on hardware and software. Cloud computing is enabling novel internet of things based applications that take advantage of cloud computation power and communication bandwidth. Cloud computing is at the brink of massive scale deployment or ubiquity. The main obstacles are availability, security and management.Cloud systems must be scalable, adapt to the workload and make efficient use of resources, efficient, i.e. exhibit the required level of performance, and available as we will be more and more dependent on cloud services. On the other hand, cloud systems undergo very frequent upgrades, to remain available these upgrades must be performed live, i.e. while the system is providing services.The proposed research program, led by the Industrial Research Chair, will provide a distinct advantage to the Canadian computing and telecommunications industries. Through investigations on modeling, requirement engineering, configuration techniques, Service Level Agreement management, monitoring architectures, dynamic reconfiguration, live upgrade and live testing and diagnosis, the quality, dependability and management of cloud systems will be considerably improved.Continued collaboration with Ericsson, a major player in telecommunications Research and Development in Canada, will ensure that the developed architectures and techniques, and the derived tools will be transferred to a highly productive user. Graduate students will be involved at each stage of this program of research; it is our goal to provide these students with an exceptional level of experience at both Concordia and Ericsson's facilities so that they may enter the workforce with the skills required to strengthen the position of Canadian industry in the global market.
