Consumers understand the revolution that the convergence of broadband entertainment, Internet, and wireless technologies affords them. They no longer have to go into a record store, bookstore, video store, or movie theater to purchase a product. They can do it from the convenience of wherever they happen to be at that particular moment. And if consumers can access content and products that they want at a fair price they will buy them without hesitation. The benefits presented by having little to no inventory and worldwide access to new markets results in a potentially huge cost savings and increase in sales and profitability for industry. PriceWaterhouseCoopers supports the notion that subscription and on-demand services will revolutionize the way content and product is delivered to consumers.
CATT has specific and on-going research opportunities in this exciting area that include projects in storage networks/technology, web search tools, network management, and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications.
Ongoing Projects
Title:
Effect of Voltage Reduction on Electrical Equipment Using Electronic Control
Sponsor Name:
Con Edison Co.
Priniciple Investigator:
Zivan Zabar
Details : This project will concentrate on the load-equipment itself. It aims to study manufacturer's specifications for low voltage constraints on a variety of customers' equipment; to examine the technical literature that directly addresses low voltage effects on electronic equipment; and to understand and interpret relevant standards (such as thos of the IEEE, NEMA and IEC).
Title:
Network Transformer Failure Analysis and Root Cause Determination
Sponsor Name:
Con Edison Co.
Priniciple Investigator:
Zivan Zabar and Dariusz Czarkowski
Details : The purpose of the project would be to provide Con Edison with ways to mitigate transformer failures (if possible), and to offer tools to predict possible failure of transformers ahead of time.
Title:
Fault Analysis on Distribution Networks Having Static Converter Systems
Sponsor Name:
Con Edison Co.
Priniciple Investigator:
Zivan Zabar and Dariusz Czarkowski
Details : This project addresses the effect of distributed generators utilizing interposed static converter systems (such as DC/AC or AC/AC units) on short-circuit fault currents.
Actual tests will be conducted on a full-scale unit at the manufacturer's site, and/or on a scaled-down unit at the Polytechnic laboratory.
Title:
Solutions for Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming and Video-on-Demand
Sponsor Name:
Thomson, Inc.
Priniciple Investigator:
Yong Liu
Details : The scope of work for this project is to study algorithms and architectures for P2P video streaming and Video-on-Demand systems.
Title:
Information Technology for Financial Supply Chains
Sponsor Name:
Premium Technology Inc.
Priniciple Investigator:
Edward K. Wong
Details : This project involves the development of turnkey system solutions for financial supply chain operations. The developed system will support the unique requirements of global business banking such as letter of credit creation, management, and collections.
CATT will help in the design and implementation of the turnkey system solutions using software tool such as Java, J2EE, Websphere, Oracle and Struts.
Title:
CE Peer-to-Peer Services
Sponsor Name:
Panasonic Digital Networking Laboratory
Priniciple Investigator:
Keith Ross, Phyllis Frankl
Details : Today in the consumer electronics and digital entertainment industries, there is significant interest in digital rights management (DRM) systems, which are used to protect digital media content by enforcing pre-defined access and distribution rules. In general DRM refers to the protection, distribution, modification and enforcement of the rights associated with the use of digital content. There are a number of proprietary proposals for DRM architectures (e.g., Microsoft Media Player), but in essence all DRM mechanisms rely on cryptography (e.g., symmetric key ciphers and PKI) to achieve secure delivery of content, usage rights and authentication. Contemporary DRM architectures follow a client-server paradigm, wherein the content issuer's media servers control access to the digital. The key distribution servers independently distribute access rules and decryption keys to an authenticated client after appropriate payment mechanisms. The authenticated client then accesses digital media according to access rules after decrypting it with the keys supplied by the key distribution servers.
Title:
Software Evaluation for Prototype Development
Sponsor Name:
JPM Global, Inc.
Priniciple Investigator:
Torsten Suel
Details : Identify basic requirements for interfaces and searching/matching operations. Engineering services and research in the areas of search engines, data and information extraction, and natural language processing.
