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The
Planète project-team, located both at INRIA
Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée and INRIA
Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes research centers, conducts research in the domain
of networking, with an emphasis on designing, implementing, and evaluating
Internet protocols and applications. The main objective of the project-team
is to propose and study new architectures, services and protocols that will
enable efficient and secure communication through the Internet. The
Internet architecture is expected to evolve and the next-generation network
must overcome the limitations of existing networks and add new capabilities
and services. Future networks should be available anytime and anywhere, be
accessible from any communication device, require little or no management
overhead, be resilient to failures, malicious attacks and natural disasters,
and be trustworthy for all types of communication traffic. It is therefore
important to perform a balance of theoretical and experimental research that
expand the understanding of large, complex, heterogeneous networks, design of
access and core networks based on emerging wireless and optical technologies,
and continue the evolution of Internet. In our project-team, we have chosen
to address a small number of research directions focusing on the following
domains which constitute essential building blocks for the future Internet
architecture: ·
Security in infrastructure-less and constrained networks; ·
New modes of information dissemination; ·
Seamless integration of wireless devices with the rest of network
infrastructure; ·
Understanding the Internet behavior; ·
Experimental environments for future Internet architecture; Based
on a practical view, our approach to address the above research topics is to
design new communication protocols or mechanisms, to implement and to
evaluate them either by simulation or by experimentation on real network
platforms (such as VTHD and PlanetLab). Our work includes a substantial
technological component since we implement our mechanisms in pre-operational
systems and we also develop applications that integrate the designed
mechanisms as experimentation and demonstration tools. We work in close
collaboration with research and development industrial teams. In
addition to our experimentation and deployment specificities, we closely work
with researchers from various domains to broaden the range of techniques we
can apply to networks. In particular, we apply techniques of the information
and queuing theories to evaluate the performance of protocols and systems.
The collaboration with physicists and mathematicians is, from our point of
view, a promising approach to find solutions that will build the future of
the Internet. In
order to carry out our approach as well as possible, it is important to
attend and contribute the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) and other
standardization bodies meetings on a regular basis, in order to propose and
discuss our ideas in the working groups related to our topics of interests. Our
research activities are conducted in the context of national and
European projects among them DIVINE (Video transmission over heterogeneous
receivers and links), OSCAR (Overlay networks Security: Characterization,
Analysis and Recovery), CAPRI-FEC (Design and analysis of Application Level FEC codes and application to
mobile communications),
ONELAB (An Open Networking Laboratory Supporting Communication Network based
on PlanetLab), UBISec&Sens (Ubiquitous Sensing and Security in the
European Homeland) and Expeshare (Enable Virtual Communities to Share Media
Experiences). To
complete the golden chain, we collaborate with industrials such as Ericsson, Nokia, SUN, Docomo,
Expway, UDcast, Hitachi, Alcatel, FT R&D, LGE, STM, Motorola, Intel,
Netcelo, NEC, Boeing and others, to transfer the results of our research and/or to address together
hard research problems. |
