Statement Alon Kipnis

This restricted digital representation is the result of constrained internal memory or communication bandwidth between different components or machines, which may be due to limited power or limited capacity compared to the size or amount of data. For example, emerging sensor network technologies in medicine and “smart cities” use many low-cost sensors to collect large amounts of data and transmit it to remote locations. These sensors must operate under severe power restrictions, hence they are limited by their memory and communication bandwidth. In another example, the data is carried by a wideband signal as in mm-waves communication, and the digital representation is obtained through an analog-to-digital conversion system. Another application of my work is in distributed cloud computing, where the size of datasets is disproportionately large compared to the bandwidth available to process information and communicate it across different machines and users. As a result, performance of such systems are dictated by communication, data compression and quantization constraints.