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Integrated Projects in the area Situated and Autonomic Communications (SAC)
- BIONETS - BIOlogically-inspired autonomic NETworks and Services
- Biologically-inspired approach (from nature and society) to localised autonomic communication services without central control
- Allowing high-level services to evolve spontaneously
- Coordinator: Davide Mandato (davide.mandato (at) create-net.it)
- Presentation (PDF,417kb)
- ANA - Autonomic Network Architectures
- Novel network architecture (beyond IP) enabling flexible and autonomic formation of network nodes according to working, economic and social needs
- Focused on adaptation and reorganization of the network
- Coordinator: Martin May (martin.may (at) ethz.ch)
- Presentation (PDF,203kb)
- HAGGLE - An innovative Paradigm for Autonomic Opportunistic Communication
- Cross-layer network architecture exploiting intermittent connectivity
- Supporting opportunistic networking paradigm (delivery of messages based on store and forward exploiting situated information)
- Coordinator: Christophe Diot (christophe.diot(at)thomson.net)
- Presentation (Zipped PDF, 1583kb)
- Poster presentation (PDF, 52kb)
- CASCADAS - Componentware for Autonomic, Situation-aware Communications and Dynamically Adaptable Services
- Defining a new generation of highly distributed, pervasive, situation-aware, semantically self-organising communication-intensive services
- Focus on self-similarity, autonomic component-ware
- Coordinator: Fabio Bellifemine (Fabio.Bellifemine(at)tilab.com)
- Presentation (Zipped PDF, 2381kb)
Partner List (provisional)
Common research issues:
- Security, resilience,
- Self-* (organisation, evolution, management, healing, ...)
- Interaction of new paradigms with society