Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

Complex Networks Metrology (RNSC)

Participant : Christophe Crespelle.

D-NET is a member of the project Complex Networks Metrology involving LIP6 (Université Paris 6), LSIIT (Université de Strasbourg) and LIP (ENS de Lyon, Université Lyon 1). The project, funded by RNSC (Réseau National des Systèmes Complexes), started in January 2011 and ended in December 2011. Its goal is to design rigorous methods for measuring complex networks. The originality of our appraoch is to lead measurements dedicated to a specific property instead of trying to get a complete view of the network, which has been showed to lead to significant biases in the obtained view. Its major domain of application is Internet measurements.

SensLAB (ANR)

Participants : Eric Fleury [Prime Investigator] , Guillaume Chelius.

The purpose of the SensLAB project is to deploy a very large scale open wireless sensor network platform. SensLAB's main and most important goal is to offer an accurate and efficient scientific tool to help in the design, development, tuning, and experimentation of real large-scale sensor network applications. The sensLAB platform is distributed among 4 sites and is composed of 1,024 nodes. Each location hosts 256 sensor nodes with specific characteristics in order to offer a wide spectrum of possibilities and heterogeneity. The four test beds are however part of a common global testbed as several nodes will have global connectivity such that it will be possible to experiment a given application on all 1K sensors at the same time.

FLab (ANR)

Participants : Eric Fleury, Sandrine Avakian.

As proposed by initiatives in Europe and worldwide, enabling an open, general-purpose, and sustainable large-scale shared experimental facility will foster the emergence of the Future Internet. There is an increasing demand among researchers and production system architects to federate testbed resources from multiple autonomous organizations into a seamless/ubiquitous resource pool, thereby giving users standard interfaces for accessing the widely distributed and diverse collection of resources they need to conduct their experiments. The F-Lab project builds on a leading prototype for such a facility: the OneLab federation of testbeds. OneLab pioneered the concept of testbed federation, providing a federation model that has been proven through a durable interconnection between its flagship testbed PlanetLab Europe (PLE) and the global PlanetLab infrastructure, mutualizing over five hundred sites around the world. One key objective of F-Lab is to further develop an understanding of what it means for autonomous organizations operating heterogeneous testbeds to federate their computation, storage and network resources, including defining terminology, establishing universal design principles, and identifying candidate federation strategies. On the operational side, F-Lab will enhance OneLab with the contribution of the unique sensor network testbeds from SensLAB, and LTE based cellular systems. In doing so, F-Lab continues the expansion of OneLab?s capabilities through federation with an established set of heterogeneous testbeds with high international visibility and value for users, developing the federation concept in the process, and playing a major role in the federation of national and international testbeds. F-Lab will also develop tools to conduct end-to-end experiments using the OneLab facility enriched with SensLAB and LTE.

F-Lab is a unique opportunity for the French community to play a stronger role in the design of federation systems, a topic of growing interest; for the SensLAB testbed to reach an international visibility and use; and for pioneering testbeds on LTE technology.

SensAS (INRIA ADT)

Participants : Eric Fleury [Prime Investigator] , Guillaume Chelius [scientific correspondant of the SENSBIO work package] .

The ambition of SensAS is to deploy wireless sensor and actuator applications. From the strong expertise gather in MOSAR, SensLAb and SensTOOLS, the goal is to transfer and help other INRIA research team to deploy their own application, not in the restricted networking area: flying drones, robots fleet, biologging, health, management?

DyVi (INRIA ARC)

Participants : Eric Fleury [Prime Investigator] , Qinna Wang, Adrien Friggeri.

The goal of the ARC DyVi is to build a foundation for dynamic graph theory in order to be able to describe properties and design efficient and specific algorithmic for dynamic graph and overlapping communities The goal is to be able to tackle multi time scale visualization tools based on TULIP, to implement data structure / handling / time scale aggregation / browsing within the TULIP software developed by the INRIA GRAVITE team. We also target epidemic process visualization in order to be able to run and "see" dynamic processes on dynamic networks