Consortium
From Senslab
SensLAB Consortium is made of several members across France:
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Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)
INRIA, the national institute for research in computer science and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). The Institute also plays a major role in technology transfer by fostering training through research, diffusion of scientific and technical information, development, as well as providing expert advice and participating in international programs. By playing a leading role in the scientific community in the field and being in close contact with industry, INRIA is a major participant in the development of ICST in France.
Throughout its six research units in Rocquencourt, Rennes, Sophia Antipolis, Grenoble, Nancy and Bordeaux-Lille-Saclay, INRIA has a workforce of 3,500, 2,700 of whom are scientists from INRIA’s partner organizations such as CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research), universities and leading engineering schools. They work in 120 joint research projects. Many INRIA researchers are also professors whose approximately 950 doctoral students work on theses as part of INRIA research projects.
Research groups involved in SensLAB are ARES in Lyon (INRIA Rhônes-Alpes), ASAP in Rennes (INRIA Rennes) and POPS in Lille (INRIA Futurs). All these research groups are common projects with CNRS (ASAP and POPS), Universities (Université de Haute-Bretagne for ASAP and Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille for POPS) and INSA Lyon (ARES).
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Architectures of Networks of Services (ARES)
The ARES (Architectures of Networks of Services) team deals with problems related to deployment of services on radio networks architectures, in ad hoc or wireless LAN mode, organized around fixed infrastructure, or using both combinations. The different issues to address concern the interoperability of different systems and protocols, as well as the optimization of radio, networks and systems resources while deploying and using any service. The goal of the ARES project is to model and to develop architectures and software support for hybrid wireless networks. Such networks rely on heterogeneous technologies including Personal Area Networks (PAN) andWireless Area Networks (WAN) in infrastructure mode and/or in ad hoc mode (i.e. an infrastructure less mode); they connect people, but also an increasing number of devices. The main relevant issues concern the interoperability of different systems and protocols, and the optimization of radio, network and system resources for services deployment and provision. Considering the diversity and variability of the technical and environmental constraints, adaptation is a key to the success of hybrid networks. ARES is focused on four main challenges: integrating different types of mobility, controlling cross-layer interaction, providing self-configurability, and supporting quality of service (QoS). ARES contains 30 members including 16 permanent members (Professors, Associate Professors, Full researchers).
The INRIA ARES project is also involved in several related and complimentary national and European projects, like in the RECAP platform Project. ARES is involved in the IST IP Project “Wirelessly Accessible Sensor Populations” (WASP), in the HEALTHCARE IP MOSAR project and in several related national projects: RNRT SVP (SuperVise and Prevent) and Malisse (MALIcious Sensors). All these projects have several complementarities and will benefit from SensLAB. All the protocols designed and studied in SVP for example will be stressed on a real large scale sensor testbed.
Key persons
- Colin Chaballier
- Guillaume Chelius
- Eric Fleury (coordinator)
- Antoine Fraboulet
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As Scalable As Possibe (ASAP)
The ASAP (As Scalable As Possible) team is newly created is located both in IRISA and INRIA Futurs (Orsay), lead by Anne-Marie Kermarrec. Its research activities range from theoretical bounds to practical protocols and implementations for large-scale distributed dynamic systems to cope with the recent and tremendous evolution of distributed systems. Effectively we observed huge evolutions:
- Scale shift in terms of system size, geographical spread, volume of data.
- Dynamic behavior due to versatility, mobility, connectivity patterns.
These characteristics lead to a large amount of uncertainty. Mastering such uncertainty is actually our goal. We aim at providing a wide range of applications (from content delivery networks to sensors networks, from backup systems to voice over IP, from publish-subscribe systems to genomic databases). We focus our research on two main areas: information management and dissemination. We believe such services are basic building blocks of many distributed applications in two networking contexts: Internet and wireless sensors. These two classes of applications, although exhibiting very different behaviours and constraints, clearly require scalable solutions. ASAP team regroups 14 researchers (including 1 professor, 1 senior researcher, 2 associate professors and 2 researchers). The ASAP team is involved in several related national projects: RNRT SVP (SuperVise and Prevent) and Malisse (MALIcious Sensors). Our objective in the SVP project is to design solution to aggregate data in a dynamic network. The Malisse project aims to investigate algorithm to aggregate data in a sensor network despite of the presence of Malicious (or Byzantine) sensors. These two projects will significantly improve by the use of the large scale platform provided by SensLab. The feedbacks from experiments over a real platform will allow us to evaluate our solution and to improve our sensor and network model by taking into account their characteristics and so to design more realistic and optimized algorithms. These algorithms can also be evaluated in a real environment which is an improvement regarding simulation.
Key persons
- Anne-Marie Kermarrec
- Marin Bertier
- Antoine Boutet
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Portable Objects Proved to be Safe (POPS)
The POPS research group investigates solutions to enhance programmability, adaptability and reachability of small objects designated by POPS (Portable Objects Proved to be Safe). The POPS set contains small devices like smart cards, RFID tags or personal digital assistant which are characterized by limited resources, high mobility and high security level in spite of untrusted environment. The development of applications integrating POPS suffers from lack of “reachability” of such platform. Indeed, most of POPS are not easy to program and high level of expertise is needed to produce software in such limited operating systems and devices. Moreover, POPS mobility induces sudden and frequent disconnection, long round trip times, high bit error rates and small bandwidth. Hence, POPS system has to adapt itself to application requirements or modification of its environment. In that context, we are conducting research in the connected areas of embedded systems and mobile networking. POPS research team regroups 20 researchers (including 1 Professor, 4 Associate Professors and 1 full researcher).
The POPS research group is a common research project between CNRS, INRIA and University of Lille 1. Inside the IRCICA1 Research Federation, the POPS research group contributes to the “Sensor Network Hard-Soft Project” in partnership with CSAM research group from IEMN. The main topics in this project are to study hard-soft interface and optimizations for large-scale networks. High-speed communication in indoor environment is also studied in the context of smart home.
The POPS project is also involved in several related and complimentary national and European projects, like in the RECAP platform Project. First, POPS is involved in the IST IP Project “Wirelessly Accessible Sensor Populations” (WASP). The general goal of the WASP project is the provision of a complete system view for building large populations of collaborating objects. Thus, WASP project would be able to provide SensLAB with advices adaptive to applications and platform and, the other way round, SensLAB would give an experiment feedback to WASP. POPS is also involved in the RNRT SVP (SuperVise and Prevent) Project which proposes the study, the realization and the experiment of an integrated ubiquitous architecture to make easier the conception, deployment and optimal exploitation of supervising and preventing services over several kinds of dynamic networks. The SVP project aims to implement large scale in vivo applications. It might need feedbacks from experiments over SensLAB platforms to decide such technological choice.
Key persons
- Nathalie Mitton
- David Simplot-Ryl
- Julien Vandaële
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Thales Communications France (TCF) - Coordinator
Thales Communications France (TCF) is one major branch of Thales Group. Thales Group revenues totalled 11.1 billion Euros in 2002, half from the Civilian businesses and half in the Professional and Defence domains. Thales Communication France (TCF) revenues reached 1.5 Billion Euro with 9000 people in 14 countries. TCF addresses every activity related to telecommunications: radiocommunications, IP networks, satellite communication, network administration and security.
TCF has a long experience in very large Information Systems and secure infrastructures for systems and networks, including Internet and Intranets. TCF also develops a full range of telecommunication platforms and components, a range of high performance security products and has a deep skill insecure telecommunications for public and governmental organisations, emergency services and armies.
The laboratory of TCF involved in ANEMONE is the Advanced Information Technologies (TAI) department. It is the French laboratory of the Internet Technology Centre of Thales Corporate Research & Technologies. This centre is in charge of technological innovation for Thales telecommunications equipment and information systems. This team is involved in leading edge IT
projects aiming in specification, design and integration of security and telecommunication infrastructures. TAI has participated and participates to a large number of research project,
including the IST projects SEINIT, WIDENS, MULTINET, the ITEA projects Mobilizing the Internet and MAGELLAN, and the French RNRT project INFRADIO. TAI personnel belongs to the following set of expert profiles:
- Network experts, especially for fixed and mobile IP network design.
- Security experts, able to evaluate the security levels of a system during the system design phase or afterwards, for a security audit.
TCF will thus bring to ANEMONE expertise on complex network architectures and also on security protocols and security architectures.
The ANEMONE project naturally fits with Thales Communication France exploitation plans since the mobile users and the nomadic behaviours are challenging the design of its current systems. TCF anticipates the use of the ANEMONE testbed to evaluate and to validate mobile products, new
mobility services and applications that can be of great interest for its customers.
TCF implication in the research effort within the project clearly means that the targeted enhancements in IPv6 mobility technologies are of great interest for it and for the design of new range of innovative systems.
Key persons
- Vania Conan
- Jérémy Leguay
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Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6)
The LIP6 laboratory of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6 is one of the largest computer science laboratories in France (>350 researchers) covering a wide spectrum of topics ranging from theoretical computer science to VLSI, among them, the The Network and Performance Analysis group covers issues related to networking and aims at developing a vision for the future Internet as well as design solutions to shape and manage it. The target of the group is the control of ubiquitous, mobile and versatile networks that expand everywhere in our private and professional environments. Part of the core of our work concerns problems related to mobile networks, resourcemanagement, scalability, ambient networks, self-organization, and peer-to-peer communications. The group develops a modern approach of research in networking, through basic research and transfer activities, in strong cooperationwith worldwide academic partners and industrial leaders. It is also the core of Euronetlab, a joint laboratory between industrial and academic partners. Transfer is measurable though our contributions to standardization bodies (e.g. IETF: MLDv2 or RTP XR), the creation of start-ups (like Qosmos) as well as numerous research contracts (Thales, Alcatel, France Telecom, Nortel, Cegetel, EADS, and Sprint). The group activity is supported by permanent researchers, Post-Doc, international visitors, engineers and about 40 PhD students. Therefore, the group has established a critical mass of about 60 faculties/engineers/PhDs. Besides recurrent financial support, a large part of the budget comes from contracts at the national, European, and International levels. The LIP6 Network and Performance group is an international centre of excellence in networking and one leader in this area in France. In the area related to this proposal, the LIP6 is currently leading the European ISTWIP project on the self-organization of spontaneous community networks, and participating in two National projects: RNRT SVP, whose objective is to investigate and deploy an integrated ambient architecture for the conception of dynamic networks; and RNRT Airnet, whose objective is to conceive an interconnection infrastructure for mobile networks relying on local wireless networks operating in public frequency band.
Key Persons
- Marcelo Dias de Amorim
- Mathieu Latapy
- Clémence Magnien
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Louis Pasteur University – Computer Science Laboratory (LSIIT)
The Image Sciences, Computer Sciences and Remote Sensing Laboratory (LSIIT) is a mixed research unit (UMR 7005) of the CNRS and of the Louis Pasteur University ( >150 researchers).The major research topics are Computer Sciences, Signal Processing, Automatics and Remote Sensing. It depends on the Department of Science and Technology of Information and Engineering (ST2I).The Networks and Protocols Research team (i.e. RP) of the LSIIT works mainly on the design and analysis of protocols and networking architectures, particularly in using the new IPv6 internet protocol. We are interested in problems with multipoint communications, such as multicast routing, reliable multicast. We are also interested by various aspects of mobility (terminal mobility, communication mobility, service location, sensors networks). We also work on network topology generation and simulation. The LSIIT-RP team regroups 14 researchers (including 2 Professors and 3 Associate Professors).
The LSIIT-RP team is involved in the RNRT AIRNET project where we are working on a new framework for wireless mesh networks. This work is complementary with the Senslab testbed where we plan to deploy new algorithms to optimize routing information based on geolocation information.
Key Persons
- Thomas Noel
- Jean-Marc Muller
- Julien Montavont
