Research areas - iit.cnr.it EN 20111231 low.pdf · Chiara Boldrini Eleonora Borgia Raffaele Bruno...
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Ubiquitous networks are a key element of the Future Internet since they guarantee users access to Internet services anytime, anywhere, without any pre-existing network infrastructure. Users’ devices (cell phones, palm computers, mp3 readers, etc.) will not only connect to the Internet to access information, but will actually become part of the network itself, providing content and services by means of the emerging peer-to-peer paradigm (e.g. eMule and BitTorrent). Research in this field focuses on advanced solutions for networking and data management in ubiquitous networks composed of fixed and mobile portions of a heterogeneous nature: from networks consisting of user devices alone, to sensor networks scattered throughout the surrounding physical environment. Future Internet The objective of this research is the study and evaluation of highly innovative paradigms for the future Internet. This is a long-term research activity aligned with the “high- risk high-impact” research programs of the European Community (e.g., Future and Emerging Technologies initiative). Specifically, the research focuses on highly scalable ubiquitous networks, where nodes are self-organizing and should exhibit an “intelligent” behavior. The nodes of the network, without centralized solutions, must decide what action to take to optimize resource utilization and, at the same time, provide the highest quality of experience for users. This research is highly interdisciplinary, by exploiting results coming from the study of human social networks, the physics of complex systems and cognitive psychology. The purpose is to identify patterns that can be exploited to achieve the ambient intelligence in the Internet of the future. Research areas Greening the Internet: Internet- related energy consumption is a increasingly significant portion of total energy consumption in the major industrialized countries. Internet was designed without considering its impact on energy, resulting in high economic and social costs; thus future Internet design must also take into consideration any constraints and costs related to energy consumption. This research applies knowledge and skills acquired in the design and development of energy-efficient solutions for mobile networks, extending and modifying them for heterogeneous and integrated networks with wired and wireless network components. People Public-Satefy Communications: Self-organizing network technologies (MANET, mesh, vehicular, sensor and opportunistic networks ) enable networks that can extend Internet services on-demand, building communication systems that could substitute/ support traditional communication systems in case of emergencies due to natural disasters (e.g. Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans), breakdowns (Italian national blackout in September 2003), and/ or attacks (9/11), providing indispensable support for communication between rescue teams and between them and citizens. Self-organizing networks can also play a key role in prevention. These networks are a valuable tool for monitoring the environment (land control to anticipate emergency situations, ranging from detection of toxic/noxious substances, control of volcanic/fault/ waterway activity, etc.) and society (control of goods and people in public places such as airports and train stations). Internet of Things: The “Internet of Things” surpasses traditional network limits and extends the virtual world by linking to real-world objects. Sensors and tags can identify a specific object and gather real-time information about its surrounding environment, such as temperature, location, pressure, noise, light, or humidity. This new technological scenario, fueled by great leaps in wireless and satellite technology, fosters the development of innovative context-dependent applications, which have already begun to pervade our society. Especially relevant are applications in the fields of safety and accident prevention. Social Networking: Social networking is the evolution of pervasive networking, and attempts to exploit existing interpersonal social networks to make future communications more similar to natural human interaction. This research area studies solutions for communication and data management in ubiquitous networks, which enable Social Networking applications (e.g., Facebook) in pervasive environments, and exploit user behavior models and social relations to optimize network functions. This will facilitate the design of communication networks that follow people’s social connections in a natural way, facilitating human interaction, and enabling users to share data and services within social communities based on common interests. http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/ UBIQUITOUS INTERNET Opportunistic Networking and Computing: Opportunistic Networks are self-organizing wireless networks that utilize in an “opportunistic” way all communication possibilities offered by wired or wireless devices, distributed pervasively throughout our living environment or carried around by users. Opportunistic Networks offer the transition from a network of devices to which users must adapt, to a network that adapts itself to user needs and behaviors. The opportunistic computing paradigm exploits opportunistic network potential to build complex pervasive services that utilize, and when necessary compose, the services and processing capacities in the surrounding environment. Researchers Marco Conti (Team Leader) Emilio Ancillotti Chiara Boldrini Eleonora Borgia Raffaele Bruno Franca Delmastro Enrico Gregori Giovanni Mainetto Andrea Passarella Antonio Pinizzotto Ph.D. Students Valerio Arnaboldi Barbara Guidi Alessandro Improta Dmytro Karamshuk Massimilano La Gala Simone Mainardi Maddalena Nurchis Chiara Orsini Luca Pappalardo Fabio Pezzoni Associate Researchers Giuseppe Anastasi Silvia Giordano Andrea Guazzini Elena Pagani Liudmila Rozanova Technical and Administrative Staff Riccardo Bettarini Maria Bucci Centro Ricerche Fiat (Italy) Telecom Italia (Italy) Intecs (Italy) Thomson Research (France) Thales Communications (France) University of Cambridge (UK) University of Oxford (UK) University of Cardiff (UK) Institut Eurecom (France) Collaborations ETH Zurich (Switzerland) SUPSI (Switzerland) Aalto University (Finland) University of Athens (Greece) Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece) University of Uppsala (Sweden) University of Pisa (Italy) University of Florence (Italy) University of Milan (Italy)
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Ubiquitous networks are a key element of the Future Internet since they guarantee users access to Internet services anytime, anywhere, without any pre-existing network infrastructure. Users’ devices (cell phones, palm computers, mp3 readers, etc.) will not only connect to the Internet to access information, but will actually become part of the network itself, providing content and services by means of the emerging peer-to-peer paradigm (e.g. eMule and BitTorrent). Research in this field focuses on advanced solutions for networking and data management in ubiquitous networks composed of fixed and mobile portions of a heterogeneous nature: from networks consisting of user devices alone, to sensor networks scattered throughout the surrounding physical environment.
Future Internet The objective of this research is the study and evaluation of highly innovative paradigms for the future Internet. This is a long-term research activity aligned with the “high-risk high-impact” research programs of the European Community (e.g., Future and Emerging Technologies initiative). Specifically, the research focuses on highly scalable ubiquitous networks, where nodes are self-organizing and should exhibit an “intelligent” behavior. The nodes of the network, without centralized solutions, must decide what action to take to optimize resource utilization and, at the same time, provide the highest quality of experience for users. This research is highly interdisciplinary, by exploiting results coming from the study of human social networks, the physics of complex systems and cognitive psychology. The purpose is to identify patterns that can be exploited to achieve the ambient intelligence in the Internet of the future.
Research areas
Greening the Internet: Internet-related energy consumption is a increasingly significant portion of total energy consumption in the major industrialized countries. Internet was designed without considering its impact on energy, resulting in high economic and social costs; thus future Internet design must also take into consideration any constraints and costs related to energy consumption. This research applies knowledge and skills acquired in the design and development of energy-efficient solutions for mobile networks, extending and modifying them for heterogeneous and integrated networks with wired and wireless network components.
People
Public-Satefy Communications: Self-organizing network technologies (MANET, mesh, vehicular, sensor and opportunistic networks ) enable networks that can extend Internet services on-demand, building communication systems that could substitute/support traditional communication systems in case of emergencies due to natural disasters (e.g. Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans), breakdowns (Italian national blackout in September 2003), and/or attacks (9/11), providing indispensable support for communication between rescue teams and between them and citizens. Self-organizing networks can also play a key role in prevention. These networks are a valuable tool for monitoring the environment (land control to anticipate emergency situations, ranging from detection of toxic/noxious substances, control of volcanic/fault/ waterway activity, etc.) and society (control of goods and people in public places such as airports and train stations).
Internet of Things: The “Internet of Things” surpasses traditional network limits and extends the virtual world by linking to real-world objects. Sensors and tags can identify a specific object and gather real-time information about its surrounding environment, such as temperature, location, pressure, noise, light, or humidity. This new technological scenario, fueled by great leaps in wireless and satellite technology, fosters the development of innovative context-dependent applications, which have already begun to pervade our society. Especially relevant are applications in the fields of safety and accident prevention.
Social Networking: Social networking is the evolution of pervasive networking, and attempts to exploit existing interpersonal social networks to make future communications more similar to natural human interaction. This research area studies solutions for communication and data management in ubiquitous networks, which enable Social Networking applications (e.g., Facebook) in pervasive environments, and exploit user behavior models and social relations to optimize network functions. This will facilitate the design of communication networks that follow people’s social connections in a natural way, facilitating human interaction, and enabling users to share data and services within social communities based on common interests.
http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/
UBIQUITOUS INTERNET
Opportunistic Networking and Computing: Opportunistic Networks are self-organizing wireless networks that utilize in an “opportunistic” way all communication possibilities offered by wired or wireless devices, distributed pervasively throughout our living environment or carried around by users. Opportunistic Networks offer the transition from a network of devices to which users must adapt, to a network that adapts itself to user needs and behaviors. The opportunistic computing paradigm exploits opportunistic network potential to build complex pervasive services that utilize, and when necessary compose, the services and processing capacities in the surrounding environment.
ResearchersMarco Conti (Team Leader)Emilio AncillottiChiara BoldriniEleonora BorgiaRaffaele BrunoFranca Delmastro Enrico GregoriGiovanni Mainetto Andrea PassarellaAntonio Pinizzotto Ph.D. StudentsValerio Arnaboldi Barbara GuidiAlessandro ImprotaDmytro KaramshukMassimilano La GalaSimone MainardiMaddalena Nurchis Chiara OrsiniLuca PappalardoFabio PezzoniAssociate Researchers Giuseppe AnastasiSilvia Giordano Andrea GuazziniElena Pagani Liudmila RozanovaTechnical and Administrative StaffRiccardo BettariniMaria Bucci
Centro Ricerche Fiat (Italy)Telecom Italia (Italy)Intecs (Italy)Thomson Research (France)Thales Communications (France)University of Cambridge (UK)University of Oxford (UK)University of Cardiff (UK) Institut Eurecom (France)
Collaborations ETH Zurich (Switzerland) SUPSI (Switzerland)Aalto University (Finland)University of Athens (Greece)Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece)University of Uppsala (Sweden)University of Pisa (Italy) University of Florence (Italy)University of Milan (Italy)
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Mesh Networks’ Applications
Ubiquitous Internet research projects: Self-organizing Networks & Future Internet
Mesh routers
Clients
InternetInternet
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Mobile Ad Hoc NetworksMobile Metropolitan Ad hoc Networks (MobileMAN)EU-IST- FET (2002-2005)
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Secure & Resilient Networks
Opportunistic Networks
Mesh Networks
BIOlogically-inspired autonomic NETworksand Services (BIONETS)EU-FET-IP (2006-2009)
MEasuring and MOdelling Relativistic-likeeffects in brain and NCSs (MEMORY)EU-NEST-STREP (2007-2010)
Enhanced, Ubiquitous, and Dependable Broadband Access using MESH Networks (EU-MESH) EU-ICT-STREP (2008-2010)
An Innovative Paradigm for Autonomic Opportunistic Communications (HAGGLE)EU-FET-IP (2006-2010)
Opportunistic Computing
Service platform for social Aware Mobile and Pervasive computIng (SCAMPI) FP7-FIRE-STREP (2010-2013)
Self* Networking
Relevance and cognition for self-awareness in a content-centric Internet (RECOGNITION) FP7-FET-STREP (2010-2013)
Vehicular Networks
Mesh Network
Sink
Sensor Networks
Social Networking for Pervasive Adaptation (Socialnets)EU-FET-STREP (2008-2010)
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