Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR

ANR BottleNet

Participants : Romain Rouvoy [correspondant] , Walter Rudametkin Ivey, Lionel Seinturier.

BottleNet is a 48-month project funded by ANR that started on October 2015. The objective of BottleNet is to deliver methods, algorithms, and software systems to measure Internet Quality of Experience (QoE) and diagnose the root cause of poor Internet QoE. Our goal calls for tools that run directly at users’ devices. We plan to collect network and application performance metrics directly at users’ devices and correlate it with user perception to model Internet QoE, and to correlate measurements across users and devices to diagnose poor Internet QoE. This data-driven approach is essential to address the challenging problem of modeling user perception and of diagnosing sources of bottlenecks in complex Internet services. BottleNet will lead to new solutions to assist users, network and service operators as well as regulators in understanding Internet QoE and the sources of performance bottleneck.

ANR SATAS

Participants : Philippe Merle [correspondant] , Romain Rouvoy, Lionel Seinturier.

SATAS is a 48-month project funded by ANR that started on October 2015. SATAS aims to advance the state of the art in massively parallel SAT solving with a particular eye to the applications driving progress in the field. The final goal of the project is to be able to provide a “pay as you go” interface to SAT solving services, with a particular focus on its power consumption. This project will extend the reach of SAT solving technologies, daily used in many critical and industrial applications, to new application areas, which were previously considered too hard, and lower the cost of deploying massively parallel SAT solvers on the cloud.

Competitivity Clusters

FUI Hermes

Participants : Laurence Duchien, Romain Rouvoy, Lionel Seinturier [correspondant] .

Hermes is a 41-month project funded by FUI and labelized by the PICOM (Pôle des Industries du COMmerce ) competitivity cluster which has started in August 2012. The partners are Norsys (leader), Keynosoft, Numsight, Cylande, Auchan, Brand Alley, Kiabi, Leroy Merlin, Univ. Lille 1, LIPN, LITIS. The goal of the project is to define a modular and context-aware marketing platform for the retail industry. The focus is put on the interactions with customers in order to extract and mine relevant informations related to shopping habits, and on a multi-device, cross-canal, approach to better match customer usages.

Programme Investissement d'Avenir (PIA)

PIA Datalyse

Participants : Filip Krikava, Romain Rouvoy, Lionel Seinturier [correspondant] , Bo Zhang.

Datalyse is a 42-month project of the Programme Investissement d'Avenir Cloud Computing 3rd call for projects. The project started in May 2013. The partners are Eolas (leader), Business & Decision, Groupement des Mousquetaires, Université Grenoble 1, Université Lille 1, Inria, Université Montpellier 2. The project aims at defining an elastic cloud computing infrastructure for processing big volumes of data. The originality of the project is to consider jointly data generated by users and by the infrastructure, and to correlate data at these two levels.

PIA OCCIware

Participants : Romain Rouvoy, Philippe Merle [correspondant] , Lionel Seinturier.

OCCIware is a 36-month project of the Programme Investissement d'Avenir Cloud Computing and Big Data 4th call for projects. The project started in December 2014. The partners are Open Wide (leader), ActiveEon SA, CSRT, Institut Mines-Télécom/Télécom SudParis, Inria, Linagora GSO, Obeo, OW2 Consortium, Pôle Numérique, and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble. The project aims at defining a formal framework for managing every digital resources in the clouds, based on Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) recommendations from Open Grid Forum (OGF).

Inria National Initiatives

Inria ADT Focus CrowdLab

Participants : Clive Ferret-Canape, Julien Duribreux, Maria Gomez Lacruz, Christophe Ribeiro, Romain Rouvoy [correspondant] , Antoine Veuiller.

The purpose of the ADT Focus CrowdLab (2014–2016) is to strengthen the technological part of the Metroscope consortium and to promote the APISENSE ^® crowd-sensing platform (see Section  6.1 ) as a reference platform fo gathering mobile data within the scientific community. The CrowdLab project focuses on three stringent goals: (1) consolidating the current technological solutions, (2) technical and logistical support of the research activities initiated in different scientific domains, and (3) the improvement of security and anonymity of collected data. In addition to the Metroscope consortium, the Inria research teams participating of the ADT Focus CrowdLab project are: Spirals (coordinator), Madynes, Diana, Muse.

Other National Initiatives

ADEME Web Energy Archive 2

Participants : Maxime Colmant, Loïc Huertas, Filip Krikava, Romain Rouvoy [correspondant] , Lionel Seinturier.

Web Energy Archive 2 (WEA2) is a 12-month project funded in 2015 by ADEME. The purpose of the project is to define innovative solutions for measuring the energy consumption of web sites as experienced by users. The output of the project can be consulted on http://webenergyarchive.com where web sites are ranked based on their energy profile (from A to G, where A denotes web sites that are the more energy friendly). This project contributes to the development of our PowerAPI library (see Section  6.2 ).