National Center in Big Data and Cloud Computing (NCBC)

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING LAB

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

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The fourth industrial revolution will be marked by the fusion of digital, physical, and biological worlds, ranging from wearables for health monitoring, AR/VR based virtual classrooms, remote surgery over 5G cellular networks, massive sensing for mission-critical applications with IoTs, and the use of custom deep learning models across a wide range of applications. This fusion will be enabled by technologies such as AR/VR, IoTs, 5G, and robotics and AI, all of which require a highly available distributed cloud infrastructure for delivering ultra-low latency and high bandwidth to users.

The goal of our lab is to realize this vision to help Pakistan gain a competitive edge in the world. To this end, we will design and develop a massively distributed cloud infrastructure comprising tens of thousands of mini-datacentres, possibly located at cellular base stations and or POPs. We posit that such a cloud infrastructure, available in the form of a ‘pay-as-you-go’ model, will offer a unique opportunity for Pakistan to build the next-generation of products and start-ups. We will focus on four key application areas that will be directly enabled by having an edge computing based cloud model.

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ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (2021)
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