Grant: Idea to Innovation

Random and excessive communication latency has become a major constraint for performance improvement of applications over complex ICT (information and communication technology) systems, which usually involve a large number of interconnected computing and communication facilities and end-to-end communications. Such ICT systems and related end-to-end communication enabled applications include data center facilities using networked computing servers, Internet of Things (IoT), networked controllers/actuators (such as those used in manufacturing facilities), interactive applications over the Internet, and machine to machine (M2M) communications. These related applications encompass a number of important emerging markets with enormous sizes.To explore the related market opportunities, the Principal Investigator has recently developed a patent entitled ""End-to-end Synchronization, Adaptive Link Resource Reservation and Data Tunnelling"" in reducing the end-to-end communication latency in these new applications. The current NSERC Idea to Innovation (I2I) Market Assessment application will help the Principal Investigator and WORLDiscoveries (the Industry Liaison Office at Western University) in developing appropriate technology transfer plan and commercialization strategy for this particular Intellectual Property (IP).