Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

IT-SG-WN

• Title: Information Theory, Stochastic Geometry, Wireless Networks

• Inria principal investigator: Paul Muhlethaler

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • Stanford University (United States) - Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering - Abbas El Gamal

• Duration: 2011 - 2013

• See also: http://www.di.ens.fr/~baccelli/IT_SG_WN_web_site.htm

• The activity of this proposal is centered on the inter-play between stochastic geometry and network information theory, whith a particular emphasis on wireless networks. In terms of research, three main lines of thought will be pursued:1. Error exponents and stochastic geometry2. Stochastic geometry and network Information Theory3. Cognitive radio and stochastic geometry

Participation In International Programs

AWSN2012

• Program: Euromediterranean 3+3

• Title: Auto-adaptivity in Wireless Sensor Networks

• Inria principal investigator: Pascale Minet

• International Partners (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • University of Catania (Italy) - DIEEI - Lucia Lo Bello

  • Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et d'Analyse des Systèmes (Morocco) - NDSRG - Mohamed Erradi

  • Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique (Tunisia) - CRISTAL - Leila Azouz Saidane

• Duration: Jan 2012 - Dec 2015

• See also: euromed

• Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) allow the development of numerous applications in various domains, such as security and surveillance, environment protection, precision agriculture, intelligent transportation, homecare of elderly and disabled people...

  Communication in such WSNs has to cope with limited capacity resources, energy depletion of sensor nodes, important fluctuations of traffic in the network, changes in the network topology (radio link breakage, interferences ...) or new application requirements.

  In the AWSN project, we focus on the different techniques to be introduced in the WSNs to make them auto-adaptive with regard to these various changes while meeting the application requirements. Thus, we will address:

  • network deployment and redeployment in order to fulfill the application requirements,

  • QoS (Quality of Service) optimization taking into account real-time traffic and dynamic bandwidth allocation,

  • energy efficiency and replacement of failed sensor node,

  • component generation and dynamic adaptation of the application.

  After a kick-off meeting in Paris in February, we organized three workshops where each team presented its works:

  • a workshop in Rabat in October 2012, where each team presented its works,

  • a workshop in Tunis in November 2012. This workshop was open to non-members and was preceded by a call for paper. It was held in conjunction with the IEEE NoF 2012 conference (Network of the Future).

  • a workshop in Catania in December 2012, where new results have been presented.