Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Participation In International Programs

Demdyn: INRIA/CNPq Collaboration

Participants : Achour Mostefaoui, Marin Bertier, Michel Raynal.

The aim of this project is to exploit dependable aspects of dynamic distributed systems such as VANETs, WiMax, Airborn Networks, DoD Global Information Grid, P2P, etc. Applications that run on these kind of networks have a common point: they are extremely dynamic both in terms of the nodes that take part of them and available resources at a given time. Such dynamics results in instability and uncertainty of the environment which provide great challenges for the implementation of dependable mechanisms that ensure the correct work of the system.

This requires applications to be adaptive, for instance, to less network bandwidth or degraded Quality-of-Service (QoS). Ideally, in these highly dynamic scenarios, adaptiveness characteristics of applications should be self-managing or autonomic. Therefore, being able to detect the occurrence of partitions and automatically adapting the applications for such scenarios is an important dependable requirement for such new dynamic environments.

Visits of International Scientists

Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, May and November 2011 (Rennes). Darek Kovwalski, University of Liverpool, UK, March 2011. Florian Huc, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2011. Eric Ruppert, York University, Canada, April 2010. George Giakkoupis, University of Calgary, April 2011. Rida Bazzi, Arizona State University, June 2011. Vincent Leroy, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, June 2011. Pascal Felber, Université de Neuchâtel, February and November 2011. Hagit Attiya, Technion, Haifa, Israel, February 2011 Petr Kuznetsov, TU Berlin, Germany, February 2011. Srivastan Ravi, TU Berlin, Germany, February 2011. Panagiota Fatourou, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas ICS FORTH Greece, February, 2011. Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs Research, November 2011. Zhu Weiping, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China, November, December 2011. Juan Manuel Turado, University Juan Carlos 3 Madrid, Spain, September - December 2011. François Taiani, Lancaster University, UK, January - December, 2011.

Internship

A. Moin was an intern at ETHZ from September 2011 to November 2011.

K. Kloudas was an intern at Imperial College of London from June to September 2011.

A. Boutet was an intern at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge from July 2011 to September 2011.