Live Webinar – December 10th, 2014 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
By:  Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute

Soldiers and front-line personnel operating in tactical environments increasingly make use of handheld devices to help with tasks such as face recognition, language translation, decision making, and mission planning.

These resource-constrained edge environments are characterized by dynamic context, limited computing resources, high levels of stress, and intermittent network connectivity.

Cyber-foraging leverages external resource-rich surrogates to augment the capabilities of resource-limited devices. In cloudlet-based cyber-foraging, resource-intensive computation and data are offloaded to cloudlets.

Forward-deployed, discoverable, virtual-machine-based tactical cloudlets can be hosted on vehicles or other platforms to provide infrastructure to offload computation, provide forward data staging for a mission, perform data filtering to remove unnecessary data from streams intended for dismounted users, and serve as collection points for data heading for enterprise repositories.

This webinar presents the tactical cloudlet concept and experimentation results for five different cloudlet provisioning mechanisms.

The goal is to demonstrate that cyber-foraging in tactical environments is possible by moving cloud computing concepts and technologies closer to the edge so that tactical cloudlets, even if disconnected from the enterprise, can provide capabilities that enable enhanced situational awareness and decision making at the edge.

Presenter: Grace Lewis (LinkedIn profile) is a Principal Researcher at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and coauthor of Modernizing Legacy Systems: Software Technologies, Engineering Processes and Business Practices (SEI Series in Software Engineering) She is the deputy lead for the Advanced Mobile Systems (AMS) initiative and the principal investigator for the Edge-Enabled Tactical Systems research project. Her current interests and projects are in mobile computing, cloud computing, and service-oriented architecture (SOA).

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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