Section: Overall Objectives

Introduction

Team UrbaNet's overall objectives are to study and characterize the architectures of urban capillary wireless networks and to propose mechanisms and protocols that are designed for the specific settings of the urban environment. It requires to take into account constraints on the nodes deployment, heterogeneous and dynamic wireless connectivity, and requirements yielded by the usage of the city and the societal trends. Our methodology consists in combining formal verification and combinatorial optimization methods with simulation based and analytical performance assessments to guide the development of relevant mechanisms.

Year 2012 has been the year during which the team has been created, henceforth the scientific project of the team discussed and detailed. It has also been the time for starting projects addressing explicitly capillary network issues in the settings of urban applications. There are detailed in what follows.