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International Initiatives
Inria International Labs
PREDNET
Participants : Simon Duquennoy, Nathalie Mitton [correspondant] , Viktor Toldov, Julien Vandaele.
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See also: https://iww.inria.fr/prednet/en/
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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 2016 [47], [48], [48], [49].
Inria Associate Teams Not Involved in an Inria International Labs
DepIoT
Participants : Simon Duquennoy [correspondant] , Nathalie Mitton.
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Title: DepIoT: Coexistence and Security for Dependable Internet of Things
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Abstract: In order to foster the adoption of IoT technologies, dependability must be guaranteed. We will tackle this challenge by ensuring operation even in the presence of other networks sharing the same frequency band (coexistence) and by enabling a secure communication.
Inria International Partners
Declared Inria International Partners
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Université 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 has allowed students and researchers exchanges and joint publications, among them for 2016: [20], [19].
Informal International Partners
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. In this framework, Nathalie Mitton visited the Nanjing University. It gave birth to joint project submission, joint conference organization (UIC 2016) and joint publications, one in 2016 [27].
Arun Sen from Arizona State University, USA
The purpose of this collaboration is to study the joint scheduling and trajectory of RFID readers in a mobile environment. In this framework, Arun Sen visited the FUN team for 6 months in 2015 and in July 2016. It gave birth to joint project submission, joint conference submission and joint publications, among them in 2016 [30], [29].
Anna-Maria Vegni from Roma Tre University, Italy
The purpose of this collaboration is to study alternative communication paradigms and investigate their limitations and different effects on performances. In this framework, joint publications have been obtained, among them in 2016 [51], [26], [53], [50], [46], [40], [16], [55], [15], [45], [25].
PhD co-supervision
Participants : Nathalie Mitton [correspondant] , Mouna Masmoudi.
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.
This work has led to the following publications in 2016: [23]. Mouna defended her PhD on July 26th 2016.
Since 2014, Simon Duquennoy co-supervised Anwar Hithnawi as a PhD student with Pr Friedemann Mattern from ETH Zurich, Sweden. Her research is on low-power wireless systems coexistence, and mitigation of cross-technology inteference. This work has led to the following publications in 2016: [39]. Anwar defended her PhD on November 8, 2016.
Participation in Other International Programs
CROMO
Participants : Valeria Loscri, Nathalie Mitton [correspondant] , Riccardo Petrolo, Abdoul Aziz Mbacke.
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CroMo (Crowd Data In the mobile cloud) is a submission to the CAPES-COFECUB project call lead by Inria from the French side and University of Rio de Janeiro from Brazilian Side. Other partner institutions are Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Université de la Rochelle.
Mobile cloud computing is an emerging paradigm to improve the quality of mobile applications by transferring part of the computational tasks to the resource-rich cloud. The multitude data sources combined with the known difficulties of wireless communications represent an important issue for mobile cloud computing. Therefore, the additional computational power added by the cloud has to deal with the constraints of the wireless medium. One could imagine a situation where different sensors collect data and require intensive computation. This data must be transmitted at high rates before becoming stale. In this case, the network becomes the main bottleneck, not the processing power or storage size. To circumvent this issue, different strategies can be envisioned. As usual alternatives, wireless data rates must be increased or the amount of data sent to the cloud must be reduced. CROMO tackles challenges from all these three components of the mobile clouds (data generation, collect and processing) to then integrate them as a whole enhanced mobile cloud with improved network performances in terms of delay, energy consumption, availability, and reliability.
In this context, joint exchanges and crossed visits have been done (Aziz went to Rio, Dianne went to Lille). The project yield to several publications such as [35], [36], [37].