We have seen a huge number of IoT devices deployed in various industry scenarios, such as warehouse, smart retail, etc. However, we can only run a small set of applications on these IoT devices because they suffer from a small battery, poor wireless connection, limited computation, etc. In this talk, we will discuss how we build wired and wireless infrastructure in Alibaba to support IoT devices interacting with the physical world. We will introduce the way we define and solve research problems in Alibaba. I will use one of the papers accepted to Sigcomm 2019 as an example.

Pengyu Zhang is a Staff Engineer in the Network Research Group in Alibaba. He was a postdoc researcher at Stanford working with Sachin Katti. He received his Ph.D. from UMass Amherst working with Deepak Ganesan. He has received ACM SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016 and several best paper awards nomination, including MobiSys 2017, SenSys 2016, UbiComp 2016, and Mobicom 2014. He has served on the TPC of MobiCom 2020/2019, CoNext 2018, MobiSys 2019/2017, and SenSys 2019/2017.