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Euro-NF Joint Research Projects, WP Leader: Markus Fiedler
Specific Joint Research Projects aim at improving knowledge in targeted topics considered of main importance, with a significant innovation potential and not sufficiently covered at present. They should be sharply focused, preferably on disruptive ideas on the networks of the future, and designed to gain new knowledge and explore the need for more research effort, anticipating scientific and technological needs.Specific Joint Research Projects furthermore aim at shaping collaboration between participants (institutions), where new constellations of participants that have not collaborated so far are especially encouraged. In particular, joint publications should be targeted. The minimum of Euro-NF participants is three. Per project, at most one external participant (institution) can be invited to participate, which has to be justified by a specific well-identified expertise that is missing in the Euro-NF consortium. The allocated budget can be used to invite the partner to the meetings of the project. SJRPs funded through the Fifth Call: | SJRP number | SJRP short name | SJRP title | Description | SJRP Leader | Partner Leader | | 51 | PRUNO | Prospects for Realizing User-centric Network Orchestration | see the home page of the project | Tobias Hoßfeld | 10 | | 52 | INNIS | Impacts of Network Neutrality on the Internet Stakeholders | see the home page of the project | Bruno Tuffin | 07 | | 53 | MWMSN | Multi-tier Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network | This project aims to enable support for enhanced monitoring and
tracking applications through multimedia visual/audio wireless sensor
nodes. Namely, a multi-tier WMSN architecture is proposed and investigated where WMSN islands are connected to the Internet by means
of self-organized and self-configured Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). | António Grilo | 30 | | 54 | E-Key-Nets | Energy-Aware Key Management in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks | | Hermann de Meer | 12 | | 55 | e-VENETs | Electric Vehicule Networks - Future Networking for Low-Emission Human Mobility | see the home page of the project | Claudio Casetti | 16 | SJRPs funded through the Fourth Call: | SJRP number | SJRP short name | SJRP title | Description | SJRP Leader | Partner Leader | | 41 | PADU | Performance and Durability of Future Wireless Sensor Networks | The PADU project tackles the question how wireless sensor networks (WSNs) should be integrated into the Future Internet and what special challenges they present to designers and implementers, taking into account that all aspects of the design of WSN architecture, communication protocols, and mechanisms must be considered under the viewpoint of the limited energy resources available to sensor nodes. For this, we aim at developing a unified method for joint performance and durability evaluation of WSNs to be able to compare different proposed solutions with respect to the requirements of users and operators. | Patrick Wuechner | 12 | | 42 | CAVE-NET | Context-Aware Information Dissemination in Vehicular Networks | Many public and private enterprises are now experimenting with disseminating information whilst on the move. They include taxi fleets, public bus services and even groups of individual users. The individual vehicles are usually aware of a variety of context information, such as their locations, their velocities, their distances to some other vehicles, as well as information such as the time, or the traffic density. The goal of the CAVE-NET project is to investigate how information about the context can be leveraged to improve the performance of the information dissemination process. The contributions of the project will focus on two key problems. First, the project will investigate how vehicular mobility, an important part of the context, affects the performance of information dissemination. Second, the project will develop and evaluate opportunistic routing algorithms that leverage from the context information. | György Dan | 21 | | 43 | MOPP-NET | Realistic Mobility Modeling for Opportunistic Networking | Disruptive, spontaneous, and opportunistic networking is likely to appear at the edge of the “Internet of the Future” (IoF). Mobility, that is moving in physical space and time, is a key challenge, but also an opportunity for exploitation by wireless networking. Although mobility is widely accepted as a driving force for new protocols and protocol adaptations, it is not fully clear at which level and where to include information about mobility in networks and how to utilize this movement information to improve connectivity and the quality of services. Within this scope, the project focuses on modelling realistic mobility behaviour on micro/meso/macro scale for opportunistic networks. It extends basic mobility models by leveraging social interaction models, e.g., of pedestrian groups, as well as information and data flow models for information sensed and generated by mobile entities, such as vehicles in city traffic. Finally, the project will provide answers to the recent discussions in the field of opportunistic and ad-hoc networking on the relevance and feasibility of opportunistic networks. We contribute to these discussions by proposing use cases for opportunistic network scenarios with high potential in terms of applicability and performance benefits. | Karin Anna Hummel | 04 | | 44 | SPEC | Security and Privacy Concerns in Energy Efficient Computing | To design highly energy efficient systems is one of the most important design goals which are under investigation currently. The underlying motifs to design such systems are economical as well as environmental in nature. However, it has been identified that while focusing solely on energy efficiency mechanisms, the other design parameters must also be considered to achieve a well balanced system. Security and privacy aspects are among those very important parameters. This SJRP focuses on the security and privacy aspects involved in the application of modern energy efficiency mechanisms. We focus on two of the key technologies including virtualization for energy efficiency and smart metering. In first part of the project, we investigate the security issues within virtualized environments for energy efficiency while the second part focus on the end user privacy concerns when deploying smart meters. | Hermann Demeer | 12 | | 45 | FedNet | Algorithms and Operating Procedures for Federated Virtualized Networks | The Future Internet (FI) will be viewed as an efficient network of applications (e.g. from Smart Energy Grid, Utilities and Environment, eHealth, ITS & Logistics and Content), functions and contents. Moreover, the FI is also expected to be a convergence platform for today’s telecommunications services and tomorrow’s applications. In order to fulfill these requirements, the converged system has to reveal a polymorphic architecture. Such architecture might be enabled by two major concepts: a) Network Virtualization (NV) and b) Network Federation (NF). The research on the management and in particular on performance management in NV/NF-based networks, however, is limited. Therefore, the FedNet project aims at the investigations of network management and performance management mechanisms in NV/NF-based networks. In detail, the FedNet project will address the architecture options and their performance for stitching network resources, the mechanisms for in-network management with focus on bootstrapping of network management services, and the transparency of NV/NF-based networks. | Kurt Tutschku | 04 | SJRPs funded through the Third Call: | SJRP number | SJRP short name | SJRP title | Description | SJRP Leader | Partner Leader | | 31 | EEWMI | Energy-Efficient Wireless Mesh Infrastructure | The focus of this project is towards the advancement of the current state-of-the-art in energy-efficient communication in wireless mesh infrastructure. The overall goal can be achieved by realizing individual goals, each one of which addresses a particular challenge towards optimizing energy. The individual goals are summarized below: The first goal is to find analytical models that describe the correlation between transmission power and positioning of access points w.r.t. energy consumption. In current setting it is not clear, whether putting access points in sleep mode while, e.g., increasing the transmission power of the remaining nodes will result in energy saving. The second goal is to optimize the energy consumption in wireless mesh networks by managing the number of active powered-on resources. Another objective is to construct energy-efficient communication protocols (routing and protocols). The main goal is to redesign the protocols in a way that the availability of certain network services does not assume the permanent accessibility of all virtual or physical entities. This enables devices to change into an energy-efficient mode for certain time periods. Protocols have to support the synchronization of communication, the delegation of services, on-demand mechanisms, and an energy-efficient signalling. Finally, w.r.t. the Future Internet we discuss whether the methods developed for improving energy efficiency of WMIs might also be applied in principle in the Internet’s core network. Due to the limited time and budget only first ideas and steps can be discussed which can open the door for future projects. | Gergoe Lövasz | 12 | | 32 | HAPQNET | Haptic enablers for improved QoE, bandwidth and energy consumption | The “merge of the physical and the digital worlds” is one important vision on Future Communications of Euro-NF. It is stated that “communication and information system will be aware of the user’s environment and preferences at any time and will adapt dynamically”. One major aim of this project is to utilize obtained knowledge on the current state of the user to yield a reduction of bandwidth and energy consumption as well as to a noticeable improvement in terms of Quality of Experience (QoE). These objectives are realized in the following way: When on-demand service users change from the active to the passive mode, e.g., when crossing the road, a pause mode is activated. If measured network capacities are currently low, e.g. in case of high packet loss, then data transfer to the mobile device is stopped until network capacities increase or until the user returns into active mode after some short buffering. | Shelley Buchinger | 04 | | 33 | VDTN | Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks | It is a major objective of the Euro-NF project to study and propose solutions for new network paradigms. Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) is one such new networking paradigm that deals with the establishment of new communication protocols to improve the network communication in case the connectivity is intermittent and/or subject to disruptions. In addition, this project intends to propose a novel architecture for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks (VTDN). It will propose a layered architecture for VDTN using out-of-band signalling based on the separation of the control plane and data plane and evaluation of its performance. A prototype will be created to demonstrate this approach. The prototype will allow validating the VDTN architecture, to determine the relationships between the network parameters and their influence on the performance of the protocols proposed for these networks. New routing protocols for the VDTN architecture based on biological behaviour algorithms will also be investigated. | Joel Rodrigues | 20 | | 34 | NETCO | NETworking over COgnitive radio networks | The general objective is to contribute to the understanding and design of spectrum management mechanism in cognitive radio networks. In order to do so we will approach the problem from several different but complementary perspectives. We will start off by developing accurate models of the specific Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) scenario, and then we will use these models to design effective and practical solutions for spectrum management for CRN. Numerical analysis and/or simulations will be used to complement the analytical performance evaluation part. | Vicent Pla | 33 | SJRPs funded through the Second Call: | SJRP number | SJRP short name | SJRP title | Description | SJRP Leader | Partner Leader | | 21 | GOVPIMIT | Governance and Privacy Implications of the “Internet of Things” | GOVPIMIT aims at clarifying the relationship between Internet of Things and Networks of the Future by creating mutual interest for corresponding research challenges and approaches in both communities. In particular, GOVPIMIT will analyze the governance, privacy and security implications of the “Internet of Things”. Governance implications emerge in particular with policies that cover the registration of objects in various configurations of the ONS. Privacy implications emerge with the deployment of governance policies and of the ONS service in EPC global network. Governance, security and privacy issues are raised when an ONS registered “object” with a RFID chip meets “the subject”, i.e., the individual Internet user, registered as registrant in the DNS with an IP address. The proposed research project will give special emphasis to this “rendezvous” point. It will address how the various governance scenarios will have impact on privacy and security issues of end users when they interact with the IoT infrastructure, and particularly with the ONS information system services. | Wolfgang Kleinwächter | 34 | | 22 | MOMO | Multi-Overlays for Multi-hOming –
A Wireless Mesh Network Use Case | As mobile devices are more and more equipped with different wireless radio interfaces, multi-homing becomes feasible for the sake of better quality of experience and robustness. From a networking perspective, multi-homing is challenging due to the heterogeneity of the accessed wireless networks. MOMO proposes the use of multi-overlays as a network virtualization technique to integrate and control different QoS, mobility management, pricing, privacy and security techniques of the involved wireless networks. Hereby, MOMO will provide a set of models and methods: (i) a context model relevant for wireless networking togehter with a mapping function to assign overlays to particular multivariate context data, (ii) analytical models for creating an appropriate number of multi-overlays considering the trade-off between perfect fit and overhead for overlay creation and management, (iv) an appropriate search algorithm for finding the best fitting overlay either based on centralized or based on decentralized approaches (or hybrid forms), and (iv) efficient adaptation and maintenance routines of multi-overlays. The models provided by MOMO will be targeted to the use case of wireless mesh networks. | Karin A. Hummel | 04 | | 23 | AMESA | Analysis of MEchanisms for Sponsored search Auctions | Search engine advertising is an increasingly important online advertising medium, which attracts a large number of both advertisers and Internet users and is one of the main sources of revenue for search engines. AMESA will study the design of mechanisms as well as bidding strategies for the advertisers in order to attain certain desirable properties. Our main goal is to understand better what constitutes an optimal mechanism (with respect to given criteria) either from the search engine’s or from the advertisers’ point of view and also to apply our study to more realistic settings than the ones that have been considered in the literature (e.g. studying the effect of budget constraints is one such direction). | George D. Stamoulis | 13 | | 24 | RISKASIP | Risk assessment methods for IP networking | The project aims at: (i) Modelling and estimation of failures, with particular focus on dependence relations. (ii) Modelling and estimation of losses, both in terms of lost traffic and in economic terms. (iii) A theory of risks related to communication networks, e.g. estimation of risks in SLAs, and risk protection means like insurance. | Ilkka Norros | 05 | | 25 | EnergyOPAL | Energy OPtimal ALgorithms for mobile internet: stochastic modeling, performance analysis and optimal control | EnergyOPAL aims to develop algorithms enabling an energy friendly future mobile Internet. The responsiveness of a wireless network to different applications is central to our work. On the one hand, a node is trying to adapt its power consumption profile to the traffic running through it, on the other hand the network is seen as an entity and cooperation of the nodes is needed. Scheduling and power control plays a big role in this scope. This generalization is specifically important in cases where the network infrastructure is wireless (e.g., mesh networks, wireless sensor networks and general self-organizing networks). | Georgios Paschos | 14 | SJRPs funded through the 1st Call: | SJRP number | SJRP short name | SJRP title | Description | SJRP Leader | Partner Leader | | 1 | PRECO | Pricing and Regulation in Competitive Telecommunication Networks | The PRECO project aims at studying the competition issues in telecommunications. While competition among providers leads in general to desirable outcomes when the number of providers is large, telecommunication providers are in general not numerous, leading to so-called oligopolies. Oligopolistic competition can have some unwanted outcomes, where providers retain customers who want to go to a competitor, or where providers reach a tacit agreement to charge high prices. In the PRECO project, we investigate the regulation tools that can be applied to prevent those situations. | Patrick Maillé | 01 | | 2 | CAMYM (MESH-MOB.) | Context-Aware Mobility in Wireless Mesh networks | The aim of this project is to research on how routing overlays can be extended to wireless mesh networks in order to solve the inter-domain and scalability problems and to incorporate hybrid architectures, context awareness, and dynamic choice of the best placements of users in the network. Brief performance evaluation considerations will accompany the investigation. | Hermann De Meer | 12 | | 3 | ISPeer | ISP-friendly Peer-assisted Content Distribution | The ISPeer project studies how the interaction between Internet service providers and peer-to-peer content distribution systems could lead to mutual benefits. The project will study the possible interaction patterns in general, and will show on the example of an ISP managed peer-to-peer video on demand system how the interaction can be implemented. | György Dán | 21 | | 4 | SpotNet | Spatial Stochastic Networks for the Future Internet | The SpotNet project studies fundamental performance issues of spatial stochastic networks arising in scenarios relevant to the Future Internet. In particular, it aims at a) deriving tight upper and lower bounds for the forwarding capacity of an infinite network on a plane, b) investigating control policies whereby optimisation by individual network users leads to both stable and (near) global optimal performance of entire networks, and c) analysing new stochastic multi-access models with decentralised transmission protocols. | Jorma Virtamo / Samuli Aalto | 06 | | 5 | METRO –ETHERNET | Traffic Engineering of Metro Ethernet Networks | METRO-ETHERNET aims to: (i) develop efficient optimization techniques suitable for traffic engineering of Metro Ethernet etworks and (ii) deploy a lab infrastructure where the traffic engineering techniques can be integrated for performance validation and evaluation purposes. This integration enables to assess the performance of different traffic engineering strategies applied to Metro Ethernet networks. | Amaro de Sousa | 20 | | 6 | QUEXIME | Quality of User Experience Evaluation for Interactive Media Communications and Dynamic Control of Network Mechanisms and Codecs | QUEXIME focuses on objective methods for estimating the quality of user experience for interactive media (telephony voice, audio, and video) carried over packet networks. These objective methods can be comparative or single-ended, and can be based on signal-processing or psycho-acoustic modeling or correlation of network degradation parameters. Based on real-time quality monitoring networks can be controlled (resource allocation, topology change, admission control) and codecs can be dynamically adapted. | Yaakov Stein | 35 | | 7 | INCAS | INter-Carrier Alliance Strategies | In the scope of EuroNF philosophy (“Anticipating the Network of the Future – From Theory to Design”), we aim at exploring collaboration/alliance strategies between ASs with a theoretical point of view, more precisely using game theory and optimization decomposition. The goal of the project is twofold: (1) to shed light on the potential incentives of AS to collaborate, and (2) to identify how such collaboration could take place and highlight the required impact of collaboration on the overall architecture (what information should be exchanged, how routing policies may be affected, etc.). | Jean-Louis Rougier | 01 | | 8 | InfoMob | Information Mobility in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks | The aim of the project is to devise algorithms and protocols to support targeted information mobility in wireless ad hoc networks. By the term “targeted information mobility” we refer to circulating information copies around the ad hoc network so that they eventually achieve a desired distribution in a specific geographical area, for desired amount of time. The nodes storing an information copy will act as providers for this content. Clearly, the information spatial distribution will depend on the information popularity, usefulness, timeliness, as well as on the expected user density in the network area. | Jose M. Barcelo-Ordinas | 31 | | 9 | FI-WI | Future Integrated Access Architecture Based on Optical and Broadband Wireless Technologies | The main objective of Fi-Wi is to build an access and metropolitan network architecture that integrates upcoming optical and broadband wireless technologies, thereby enjoying the complementary characteristics of these technologies, so that the user will be able to access diverse communication services in a transparent manner and with a high degree of ubiquity, being able to move among different networks, while maintaining a high resource utilization efficiency. Key issues in this context are future end user needs, integrated QoS aspects, mobility support and optimized service provisioning. | David Remondo | 31 | | 10 | QoEWeb | Quality of Experience and User Behaviour Modelling for Web Traffic | The aim of the QoEWeb project is to model user perceived quality and user behaviour for web traffic based on passive measurements within an operator’s network and active measurements in a test laboratory. The behaviour of web user satisfaction / impatience builds upon feedback of QoE. The derived model will be applied exemplary (a) to identify impact of QoE on system performance in shared and (b) for quantification of reputation management. Details can be found at http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/research/projects/qoeweb/ | Tobias Hossfeld | 11 | | 11 | ASPECTS | Agile SPECTrum Security | The ASPECTS project considers an underlying dynamic spectrum access radio network and spectrum sensing and sharing policies and rules and intends to identify vulnerabilities, particularly in the quality of the reported information and its use. Then, it will design a security and trust framework to address these vulnerabilities, enabling the detection and reporting of misbehaving nodes or the discounting of the erroneous information provided by them. Finally, it will test and evaluate aspects of this architecture through simulation. | George Polyzos | 13 | To post a message to all the JRAS Leaders, send email to euro-nf-jras-leaders@listes.enst.fr
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