Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Partners

Declared Inria International Partners

Currently, the FUN team has two possible International Partners awaiting for approval: Universita mediterranea di Reggio Calabria (UNIC) in Italy and Southern University in China. See next section for details.

Informal International Partners

Universita mediterranea di Reggio Calabria (UNIC), Italy

Objective of this collaboration is the design of an innovative architecture that enables autonomic and decentralized fruition of the services offered by the network of smart objects in many heterogeneous and dynamic environments, in a way that is independent of the network topology, reliable and flexible. The result is an 'ecosystem' of objects, self-organized and self-sustained, capable of making data and services available to the users wherever and whenever required, thus supporting the fruition of an 'augmented' reality thanks to a new environmental and social awareness. This collaboration gave birth to the PALMARES project (see section International programs), students and researchers exchanges (see section international visits) and joint publications, among them for 2013: [16] .

Southern University, China

The purpose of this collaboration is to study the green (or energy-efficient) communication problem in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) and the application of vehicular network communication in green transportation. It gave birth to joint project submission, joint conference organization and several publications, among them for 2013: [34] , [36] , [38] , [13] , [26] .

PhD co-supervision with Sfax University

Since January 2013, Nathalie Mitton co-supervises Mouna Rekik as a PhD student with Pr Zied Chtourou from Université de Sfax, Tunisia. Her topic is about swarm intelligence based multi-path geographic routing for wireless sensor and actuator networks.

Inria International Labs

PREDNET

Participants : Nathalie Mitton [correspondant] , Milan Erdelj, Julien Vandaele, Cesar Marchal, Isabelle Simplot-Ryl.

• Title: Predator network

• Type: LIRIMA

• Duration: January 2013 - December 2016

• See also: https://iww.inria.fr/prednet/en/

• Abstract: PREDNET (PREDator adhoc NETwork) proposes to do research on the most suitable topology and subsequent deployment of a wireless sensor network for sparsely populated outlying rural and wilderness areas, for effective monitoring and protection of resources and ecosystems.

• This collaboration gave birth to joint project submission, joint conference organization and several publications, among them for 2013: [31]

CIRIC Chile

Participant : Tahiry Razafindralambo.

Tahiry Razafindralambo is in leave at Inria Chile since August 2013. Tahiry's project within Inria Chile is linked to a project developed by NIC research Labs - Chile (Dr. Javier Bustos, Ms. Carolina Sandoval, Mr. Felipe Lema and Ms. Karina Ventura) regarding Quality of Experience, the Universidad de Chile (Pr. Nelson Baloian and Pr. Gustavo Zurita Alarcon) regarding data display, Psicomedica regarding the clinical aspect regarding the wireless sensor networks aspect. The proposed project tries to evaluate the user perception regarding a wearable monitoring system. The Wearable monitoring system will be installed on patients with mental diseases to monitor their body temperatures, heart rate, ...