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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

INRIA Associate Teams

COMMUNITY Associated team

(2009-2011): Planète is an associated team with the UC Santa Cruz's Jack Baskin School of Engineering. The collaborative project is about communication in heterogeneous networks prone to episodic connectivity, see URL http://inrg.cse.ucsc.edu/community/ . Our initial scientific objective throughout the project was to design efficient message delivery mechanisms for challenged and heterogeneous networks, and targeted:

  • The design of a unifying solution to enable message delivery over heterogeneous networks with varying degrees of connectivity.

  • The design of error- and congestion control techniques in episodically connected networks.

  • The exploration of different mechanisms for quality-of-service (QoS) support in such environments.

We have re-oriented some of the initial proposed research. In particular, rather than investigating error and congestion control techniques for DTNs, we focused on the development of efficient routing strategies that take into account the utility of nodes to relay messages. Furthermore, we developed a naming scheme that supports message delivery over heterogeneous networks prone to connectivity disruptions, see further details in Section 1 .

Visits of International Scientists

  • Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Visiting Professor (one week in December 2011)

    • Subject: On Evaluating Fairness in Content Centric Networks

    • Institution: University of Bari (Italy)

  • Katia Braczka, Visiting Professor (one week in January 2011 and one week in November 2011)

    • Subject: Communication in Heterogeneous Networks Prone to Episodic Connectivity

    • Institution: University of California at Santa Cruz (United States)

  • Marc Mendonca, Visiting PhD student (from Sep 2011 until Dec 2011)

    • Subject: Efficient Communication Mechanisms for Episodically Connected and Heterogeneous Networks

    • Institution: University of California at Santa Cruz (United States)

Visits to International teams

  • Thierry Turletti, Visiting researcher to University of California at Santa Cruz (one week in June 2011)

    • Subject: Efficient Communication Mechanisms for Episodically Connected and Heterogeneous Networks

Participation In International Programs

  • WELCOME (STIC AmSud): This project (2010-2011) aims to design realistic models of the physical layer in order to be used in both simulations and experimentation of wireless protocols. In addition to the Planète Project-Team, the partners are Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile, Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina and Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.

  • CIRIC: Our project-team was involved in the definition of the topics for the Network and Telecom R&D line of the (the Communication and Information Research and Innovation Center - CIRIC), the Inria research and innovation centre in Chili. In this context, we will extend our collaboration with Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.