Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Labs

REALMS Associate Team

• Type: Associate Team

• Inria International Lab: Inria@SiliconValley

• Title: Real-Time Real-World Monitoring Systems

• Associate teams: Inria-EVA, Prof. Glaser's team (UC Berkeley), Prof. Kerkez's team (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

• Duration: 2015-2017

• Objective: Prof. Glaser's and Prof. Kerkez's teams are revolutionizing environmental monitoring by using low power wireless TSCH networks to produce continuous environmental data accessible in real time. They are successfully deploying these networks to study mountain hydrology, observe water quality in urban watersheds, and build intelligent urban stormwater grids. The REALMS associate team conducts research across the environmental engineering and networking research domains. Its 3-year goal is to develop easy-to-use real-world network monitoring solutions to provide real-time data for environmental and urban applications. This goal leads to the following objectives: building a long-term large-scale public connectivity dataset of the networks deployed; using that dataset to model TSCH networks; and building an ecosystem of tools around this technology.

• website: http://www.snowhow.io/

• Inria contact: Thomas Watteyne

DIVERSITY Associate Team

• Type: Associate Team

• Inria International Lab: Inria@SiliconValley

• Title: Measuring and Exploiting Diversity in Low-Power Wireless Networks

• Associate teams: Inria-EVA, Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari's team, USC, CA, USA

• Duration: 2016-2018

• Objective: The Grand Challenge of the DIVERSITY associate team is to develop the networking technology for tomorrow's Smart Factory. The two teams come with a perfectly complementary background on standardization and experimentation (Inria-EVA) and scheduling techniques (USC-ANRG). The key topic addressed by the joint team will be networking solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), with a particular focus on reliability and determinism.

• Inria contact: Thomas Watteyne

Inria Associate Teams Not Involved in an Inria International Labs

Tassili

The Tassili project (N° MDU 17MDU988 - Campus France N° 37459VF) “Gestion des caches et orchestration intelligentes dans un environnement réseau virtulaisé” is a project in collaboration with Algeria and France. On the French side, the project is leaded by Samia Bouzefrane (associated professor at CNAM) and Paul Muhlethaler (EVA team Inria). On the Algerian side is leaded by the University Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou (UMMTO) représented by Mehammed Daoui (associated professor).

This project will start in January 2017 and will last three years. Three PhD theses will be conducted in co-tutelle between CNAM and UMMTO. This project will support the stay of the tree PhD candidates for a four months visit in France. These two PhD theses will be co-directed by Paul Muhlethaler. The first subject is “New intelligent caching and mobility strategies for MEC/ICN based architectures” and the second subject concern the design of a safe architecture for Name Data Networking.

Inria International Partners

Declared Inria International Partners

• University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA (Glaser)

  • Collaboration with Prof. Steven Glaser, Ziran Zhang, Carlos Oroza, Sami Malek and Zeshi Zheng through the REALMS associate team, see Section 9.3.1.1.

  • Joint publication in 2016:

    • Long-term Monitoring of the Sierra Nevada Snowpack Using Wireless Sensor Networks. Ziran Zhang, Steven Glaser, Thomas Watteyne, Sami Malek. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, special issue on Large-scale Internet of Things: Theory and Practice, to appear in 2016.

    • Demo: SierraNet: Monitoring the Snow Pack in the Sierra Nevada. Keoma Brun-Laguna, Carlos Oroza, Ziran Zhang, Sami Malek, Thomas Watteyne, Steven Glaser. ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), 7 October 2016, New York, NY, USA.

    • (Not so) Intuitive Results from a Smart Agriculture Low-Power Wireless Mesh Deployment. Keoma Brun-Laguna, Ana Laura Diedrichs, Diego Dujovne, Rémy Léone, Xavier Vilajosana, Thomas Watteyne. ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), 7 October 2016, New York, NY, USA.

    • SOL: An End-to-end Solution for Real-World Remote Monitoring Systems. Keoma Brun-Laguna, Thomas Watteyne, Sami Malek, Ziran Zhang, Carlos Oroza, Steven Glaser, Branko Kerkez. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Valencia, Spain, 4-7 September 2016.

• University of Southern California, CA, USA

  • Collaboration with Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari through the DIVERSITY associate team, see Section 9.3.1.2.

  • Joint publication in 2016:

    • Insights into Frequency Diversity from Measurements on an Indoor Low Power Wireless Network Testbed. Pedro Henrique Gomes, Ying Chen, Thomas Watteyne, Bhaskar Krishnamachari. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Workshop on Low-Layer Implementation and Protocol Design for IoT Applications (IoT-LINK), Washington, DC, USA, 4-8 December 2016.

    • Reliability through Time-Slotted Channel Hopping and Flooding-based Routing. Pedro Henrique Gomes, Thomas Watteyne, Pradipta Gosh, Bhaskar Krishnamachari. International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Dependability Competition, ACM, Graz, Austria, 14-15 February 2016.

• Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, Mendoza, Argentina

  • Collaboration with Ana Laura Diedrichs, Juan Carlos Taffernaberry, Gustavo Mercado through the SticAmSud PEACH project.

  • Joint publication(s) in 2016:

    • PEACH: Predicting Frost Events in Peach Orchards Using IoT Technology. Thomas Watteyne, Ana Laura Diedrichs, Keoma Brun-Laguna, Javier Emilio Chaar, Diego Dujovne, Juan Carlos Taffernaberry, Gustavo Mercado. EAI Endorsed Transactions on the Internet of Things, to appear in 2016.

    • A Demo of the PEACH IoT-based Frost Event Prediction System for Precision Agriculture. Keoma Brun-Laguna, Ana Laura Diedrichs, Javier Emilio Chaar, Diego Dujovne, Juan Carlos Taffernaberry, Gustavo Mercado, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), poster and demo session, London, UK, 27-30 June 2016

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  • Collaboration with Prof. Branko Kerkez through the REALMS associate team, see Section 9.3.1.1.

• Linear Technology/Dust Networks, Silicon Valley, USA

  • Collaboration with Prof. Kris Pister, Dr. Brett Warneke, Dr. Lance Doherty, Dr. Jonathan Simon and Joy Weiss on SmartMesh IP and 6TiSCH standardization.

Informal International Partners

• University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA (Pister)

  • Collaboration with Prof. Kris Pister through the IETF 6TiSCH working group.

  • Joint publication in 2016:

    • Simple Distributed Scheduling with Collision Detection in TSCH Networks. Kazushi Muraoka, Thomas Watteyne, Nicola Accettura, Xavi Vilajosana, Kris Pister. IEEE Sensors Letters, to appear in 2016.

• Open University of Catalunya, Spain

  • Collaboration with Xavi Vilajosana and Pere Tuset through IETF 6TiSCH working group and the OpenWSN project.

  • Joint publication(s) in 2016:

    • Distributed PID-based Scheduling for 6TiSCH Networks. Marc Domingo-Prieto, Tengfei Chang, Xavier Vilajosana, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE Communications Letters, vol PP, Issue 99, March 2016.

    • Poster Abstract: A Benchmark for Low-power Wireless Networking. Simon Duquennoy, Olaf Landsiedel, Carlo Alberto Boano, Marco Zimmerling, Jan Beutel, Mun Choon Chan, Omprakash Gnawali, Mobashir Mohammad, Luca Mottola, Lothar Thiele, Xavier Vilajosana, Thiemo Voigt, Thomas Watteyne. ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM Sensys), Stanford, CA, USA, 14-16 November 2016.

    • Rover: Poor (but Elegant) Man's Testbed. Zacharie Brodard, Hao Jiang, Tengfei Chang, Thomas Watteyne, Xavier Vilajosana, Pascal Thubert, Geraldine Texier. ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN), Valletta, Malta, 13-17 November 2016.

    • Determinism Through Path Diversity: Why Packet Replication Makes Sense. Jesica de Armas, Pere Tuset, Tengfei Chang, Ferran Adelantado, Thomas Watteyne, Xavier Vilajosana. International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), Ostrava, Czech Republic, 7-9 September 2016.

    • OpenWSN & OpenMote: Demo'ing A Complete Ecosystem for the Industrial Internet of Things. Tengfei Chang, Pere Tuset-Peiro, Jonathan Munoz, Xavier Vilajosana, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), poster and demo session, London, UK, 27-30 June 2016.

    • OpenMote+: a Range-Agile Multi-Radio Mote. Pere Tuset, Xavier Vilajosana, Thomas Watteyne. International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), NexMote Workshop, ACM, Graz, Austria, 14-15 February 2016.

    • Numerous IETF Internet-Drafts.

• University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China

  • Collaboration with Qin Wang through IETF 6TiSCH working group. Tengfei Chang, engineer at Inria-EVA, comes from her team

  • Joint publication(s) in 2016:

    • On-the-Fly Bandwidth Reservation for 6TiSCH Wireless Industrial Networks. Maria-Rita Palattella, Thomas Watteyne, Qin Wang, Kazuki Muraoka, Nicola Accettura, Diego Dujovne, Alfredo Grieco, Thomas Engel. IEEE Sensors Journal, 15 January 2016.

    • LLSF: Low Latency Scheduling Function for 6TiSCH Networks. Tengfei Chang, Thomas Watteyne, Qin Wang, Xavier Vilajosana. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Washington, DC, USA, 26-28 May 2016.

• University of Bari, Italy

  • Collaboration with Savio Sciancalepore, Giuseppe Piro and Gennaro Boggia through IETF 6TiSCH and OpenWSN.

  • Joint publication in 2016:

    • Link-layer Security in TSCH Networks: Effect on Slot Duration. Savio Sciancalepore, Malisa Vucinic, Giuseppe Piro, Gennaro Boggia, Thomas Watteyne. Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), to appear in 2016.

• University of Trento, Italy

  • Collaboration with Oana Iova through IETF 6TiSCH working group.

  • Joint publication(s) in 2016:

    • The Love-Hate Relationship between IEEE802.15.4 and RPL. Oana Iova, Fabrice Theoleyre, Thomas Watteyne, Thomas Noel. IEEE Communications Magazine, to appear in 2016.

• TU Berlin, Germany

  • Collaboration with Vlado Handziski, Adam Wolisz through IETF 6TiSCH working group.

  • Joint publication(s) in 2016:

    • Industrial Wireless IP-based Cyber Physical Systems. Thomas Watteyne, Vlado Handziski, Xavier Vilajosana, Simon Duquennoy, Oliver Hahm, Emmanuel Baccelli, Adam Wolisz. Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. PP, Issue 99, pp. 1-14, March 2016.

• Mandat International, Switzerland

  • Collaboration with Sebastien Ziegler through the H2020 F-Interop project

  • Joint publication(s) in 2016:

    • F-Interop – Online Platform of Interoperability and Performance Tests for the Internet of Things. Sébastien Ziegler, Serge Fdida, Cesar Viho, Thomas Watteyne. Conference on Interoperability in IoT (InterIoT), Paris, France, 26-28 October 2016.

• KU Leuven, Belgium

  • Collaboration with Prof. Danny Hughes, Prof. Wouter Joosen, Dr. Nelson Matthys, Fan Yang, Wilfried Daniels on MicroPnP.

• Inria-EVA has a strong relationship with ENSI (Tunisia) and ENSIAS (Morocco). A significant part of our PhD students come from these engineering schools.

Participation in Other International Programs

PEACH

• Program: STIC-AmSud 2015

• Title: PEACH - PrEcision Agriculture through Climate researcH

• Inria principal investigator: Thomas Watteyne

• International Partners (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • Escuela de Informática y Telecomunicaciones, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile. Coordinator: Prof. Diego Dujovne

  • Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional Mendoza, Grupo de I&D en Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones (GridTICS). Coordinator: Prof. Gustavo Mercado

  • DHARMa Lab, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Mendoza, Argentina.

  • Cátedra de Fisiología Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina.

• Duration: 2016-2017

• Goal: Propose a design methodology for a low­power wireless IoT sensing network, given the requirements and restrictions of a Machine Learning model to predict frost events in peach orchards and vineyards.