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2010/11/01

Envisioning the "Ubiquitous Network Society" of next decade

Professor Tohru Asami
(Department of Information and Communication Engineering)

In ten years from now, there will a society where human and machines are connected through an intelligent space with information exchanged in every life scene. Professor Asami holds this view and foresees “intelligent networks” as a pillar to open the door for the ubiquitous network society having flexible networks between humans and humans, humans and objects, and objects and objects.

A quarter-century has passed since the emergence of the Internet. While it has brought various transformations in the society as a social infrastructure, new challenges have surfaced. In particular, security issues arose because human behavior is outside the framework of systems. It is necessary to make human as network nodes in order to solve such issues. By transforming the Internet from social infrastructure to human-centered social system, it will be possible to provide services to meet human needs instead of off-the-shelf services. This is what “intelligent systems” should be. Professor Asami says “if networks can predict human behaviors and preemptively assist them, it could control actions of malicious people.”

This new generation network will form the core of communication systems in 2020 and later, and Professor Asami aims to realize concretely network management using Augmented Reality technology, source monitoring for cloud computing, and Normadic Vlan technology using wide-area Ethernet services.

“I would rather pave the way where no one has stepped into than following the path someone has already gone through” - he says with frontier spirits. His motto is “Abilities for 'discovery' and 'expression' are what you need for research. As long as you have passion, expertise and skills will come along.” Professor Asami respects students' individuality and willingly provides opportunities for those who are proactively engaged.


Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
the University of Tokyo