Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

National Actions

Equipex FIT- Future Internet of Things (2011-..., 1.064 k€)

The FIT projet is a national equipex (equipement d'excellence), headed by the Lip6 laboratory. As a member of Inria, Socrate is in charge of the development of an Experimental Cognitive Radio platform that should be used as test-bed for sdr terminals and cognitive radio experiments. This should be operational in 2013 for a duration of 7 years. To give a quick view, the user will have a way to configure and program through Internet several sdr platforms (mimo , siso , and baseband processing nodes).

ANR - ECOSCELLS - Efficient Cooperating Small Cells (2009-2012, 242 keuros)

Ecoscells is a national initiative (anr ) which aims at developing algorithms and solutions to ease Small Cells Network deployment. Theoretical studies will provide models for understanding the impact of radio channels, and permit the definition of new algorithms exploiting a full diversity (user, spatial, interferences, etc.) of such networks. The novelty of the project is not to consider the interference as a drawback anymore, but to exploit it in order to offer an optimal resource utilization. The algorithms will be based on most recent developments in distributed algorithms, game theory, reinforcement learning. Architecture and algorithms for the back-hauling network will also be proposed.

ANR - Cormoran - “Cooperative and Mobile Wireless Body Area Networks for Group Navigation” (2012-2015, 150 keuros)

Cormoran project targets to figure out innovative communication functionalities and radiolocation algorithms that could benefit from inter/intra-ban cooperation. More precisely, the idea is to enable accurate nodes/body location, as well as Quality of Service management and communications reliability (from the protocol point of view), while coping with inter-ban coexistence, low power constraints and complying with the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. The proposed solutions will be evaluated in realistic applicative scenarios, hence necessitating the development of adapted simulation tools and real-life experiments based on hardware platforms. For this sake, Cormoran will follow an original approach, mixing theoretical work (e.g. modelling activities, algorithms and cross-layer phy /mac /nwk design) with more practical aspects (e.g. channel and antennas measurement campaigns, algorithms interfacing with real platforms, demonstrations).

FUI ECONHOME - “Energy efficient home networking” (2010-2014, 309 keuros)

The project aims at reducing the energy consumption of the home (multimedia) data networks, while maintaining the quality requirements for heterogeneous services and flows, and preserving, or even enhancing the overall system performance. the equipments under concern are residential gateways, set-top-boxes , plc modules, Wifi extenders, nas . The user equipment, such as smartphones, tablets or PCs are not concerned. The approach relies on combining both individual equipments IC and system level protocols that have to be eco-designed.

ADR Selfnet - “Self Optimization Networking” (2008-2012, 258 keuros)

This action is a part of the common lab of Inria and Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs. This action groups several team of Inria with Alcatel teams and adresses different aspects of Self Networking: distributed algorithms, energy efficiency, mobility. Virgile Garcia has finished is PhD on distributed power management in cellular networks and