Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Actions

ANR VERSO ARESA2 - “Avancées en Réseaux de capteurs Efficaces, Sécurisés et Auto-Adaptatifs” (2009-2012, 160 keuros)

Participants : Fabrice Valois, Marine Minier.

Aresa2 is a national initiative (ANR) started in december 09 and focusing on IP and Security issues in wireless sensor networks. It follows the first ANR/RNRT - Aresa. Fabrice Valois is the leader of the workpackage about self-organisation and Marine Minier is involved in the workpackage on security. The leader of Aresa2 is Orange Labs and the others partners are: Coronis Systems, VERIMAG, LIG, Télécom Bretagne and INRIA.

ANR - Banet - Body Area Networks and Technologies (2007-2010, 129 keuros)

Participants : Paul Ferrand, Jean-Marie Gorce, Claire Goursaud, Nikolaï Lebedev, Guillaume Villemaud.

Banet is a national initiative (ANR) started in January 2008 and focusing on Body Area Network (BAN) systems. Jean-Marie Gorce is the leader of the workpackage 'Standard air interface, network and protocol system design'. The budget for Swing is 120 keuros. Providing a framework for Body Area Networks (BAN), defining a reliable communica- tion protocol, optimizing BAN technologies and enhancing energy efficiency of network components are the major stakes of then National Project BANET, led by CEA-Leti. It aims at defining precise frameworks to design optimized and miniaturized wireless com- munication systems. These body area networks target a wide applications range, such as consumer electronics, medical care and sports.

ANR - ECOSCELLS - Efficient Cooperating Small Cells (2009-2012, 260 keuros)

Participants : Virgile Garcia, Jean-Marie Gorce, Nikolaï Lebedev, Anis Ouni, Cengis Hasan, Hervé Rivano, Fabrice Valois.

ECOSCELLS is a national initiative (ANR) which aims at developing algorithms and solutions to ease Small Cells Network (SCN) deployment. Theoretical studies will provide models for understanding the impact of radio channels, and to permit the definition of new algorithms exploiting a full diversity (user, spatial, interferences, etc.) of such networks. The novelty of the project is not to consider the interference as a drawback anymore, but to exploit it in order to offer an optimal resource utilization. The algorithms will be based on most recent developments in distributed algorithms, game theory, reinforcement learning. Architecture and algorithms for the backhauling network will also be proposed.

ANR - Rapide - Design and analysis of stream ciphers for constrained environments (2006-2011, 47 keuros)

Participants : Cédric Lauradoux, Marine Minier.

Rapide is a national initiative (ANR). Marine Minier is responsible of the work package “MACs construction”. Stream ciphers are less popular than their block ciphers counterparts, due to the lack of real standards. However, they become essential as soon as we want to reach important flows for limited costs in software or hardware. The aim of this national project is to study, construct and evaluate new stream ciphers built upon a non-linear transition function and to better evaluate the properties of the filtering function to discard known attacks, especially the algebraic ones.

ANR INS BLOC - “block ciphers dedicated to constrained environments” (2011-2015, 80 keuros)

Participants : Marine Minier, Cédric Lauradoux.

BLOC is a research project partially funded by the French National Research Agency. It has been proposed to INS 2011 call. It aims at studying the design and analysis of block ciphers dedicated to constrained environments.

ANR - Cormoran - “Cooperative and Mobile Wireless Body Area Networks for Group Navigation” (2011-2014, 140 keuros)

Participants : Paul Ferrand, Jean-Marie Gorce, Claire Goursaud, Isabelle Augé-Blum.

Cormoran project targets to figure out innovative communication functionalities and radiolocation algorithms that could benefit from inter/intra-WBAN cooperation. More precisely, the idea is to enable accurate nodes/body location, as well as Quality of Service management and communications reliability (from the protocol point of view), while coping with inter-WBAN coexistence, low power constraints and complying with the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. The proposed solutions will be evaluated in realistic applicative scenarios, hence necessitating the development of adapted simulation tools and real-life experiments based on hardware platforms. For this sake, CORMORAN will follow an original approach, mixing theoretical work (e.g. modelling activities, algorithms and cross-layer PHY/MAC/NWK design) with more practical aspects (e.g. channel and antennas measurement campaigns, algorithms interfacing with real platforms, demonstrations).

FUI ECONHOME - “Energy efficient home networking” (2010-2014, 330 keuros)

Participants : Nikolaï Lebedev, Florin Hutu, Jean-Marie Gorce, Guillaume Villemaud.

The project aims at reducing the energy consumption of the home (multimedia) data networks, while maintaining the quality requirements for heterogeneous services and flows, and preserving, or even enhancing the overall system performance. the equipments under concern are residential gateways, set-top-boxes (STB), PLC modules, Wifi extenders, NAS. The user equipment, such as smartphones, tablets or PCs are not concerned. The approach relies on combining both individual equipments IC and system level protocols that have to be eco-designed.

ADR Selfnet - “Self Optimization Networking” (2008-2011, 350 keuros)

Participants : Virgile garcia, Sandesh Uppoor, Nikolaï Lebedev, Jean-Marie Gorce, Hervé Rivano, Fabrice Valois, Marco Fiore.

This action is a part of the common lab of Inria and Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs. This action groups several team of Inria with Alcatel teams and adresses different aspects of Self Networking: distributed algorithms, energy efficiency, mobility. Virgile Garcia is finihsing is PhD on distributed power management in cellular networks and Sandesh Uppoor is in his 2nd year on mobility models.