Outreach

V School of Distributed Systems and Next Generation Networks

Santa María Tonantzintla, Puebla, October 24, 2023.- Internet of Things, quantum computing and blockchain are some of the topics that are addressed in the V School of Distributed Systems and Next Generation Networks that is being held these days in the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), center of the National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (Conahcyt).
The goal is to attract undergraduate and graduate students, and give them an overview of the latest advances in distributed systems, next-generation networks.

The School's program, which was born as an initiative of the Thematic Network of Distributed Systems and Next Generation Networks, is made up of keynote conferences, workshops and exhibitions of research posters. The event format is hybrid. In total, there is a record of 170 participants from various states of the country.

Dr. Saúl Pomares Hernández, researcher at the INAOE Computational Sciences Coordination and one of the organizers of the School, explains what distributed systems are.
When computing was born, he comments, the first model was centralized: “As there was not great demand nor many users, it could be achieved. With the passage of time and the explosion in the use of systems, for example the Internet, and connected devices, the need arose to want to distribute the load and data that are being generated, that is, distribute the service. This is where the idea of distributed systems comes from. These systems are not new, they were born in 1978, but they have gained strength recently.”

Regarding next generation networks, he highlights that thanks to them we live in an interconnected world: “If it were not for networks we would not have social networks, we would not be able to consult pages on the Internet. Networks have evolved and the latest is 5G technology and work is already underway on 6G. We are also talking about the Internet of Things, it is about connecting devices, from the simplest sensor to the most complex to, for example, monitor the operation of an engine through a sensor.”
And if previously networks sought to connect users and servers, now the challenge is to connect devices, emphasizes Dr. Pomares. An example of a next-generation network are applications for moving around in urban areas: “Here are the vehicular networks and the idea is to interconnect cars so that they can give us information on the state of the traffic.”
Finally, Dr. Pomares reports that there was great demand to attend the School. “It has been so successful that the option of opening two schools a year, one in spring and one in fall, will be considered.”
Among the lecturers invited to the V School of Distributed Systems and Next Generation Networks are doctors Noureddine Lakouari, Saúl Pomares, Lil María Rodríguez Herníquez and Julio César Pérez Sansalvador, from the INAOE; Dr. Mario Ángel Siller González Pico, from CINVESTAV Guadalajara; Dr. Eduardo López Domínguez, from CINVESTAV-IPN; Dr. Anabel Pineda Briseño, from TecNM Matamoros; Juan Alejandro Rodríguez Parra, from OCC Mundial.
The activities will conclude tomorrow. For more information visit ccc.inaoep.mx/~rsyrpg/