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POPS: System and Networking for Portable Objects Proved to be Safe

Research themes

POPS examples

The POPS research group investigates solutions to enhance programmability, adaptability and reachability of small objects designated by POPS (Portable Objects Proved to be Safe). The POPS set contains small devices like smart cards, RFID tags or personal digital assistant which are characterized by limited resources, high mobility and high security level in spite of untrusted environment. The development of applications integrating POPS suffers from lack of "reachability" of such platform. Indeed, most of POPS are not easy to program and high level of expertise is needed to produce software in such limited operating systems and devices. Moreover, POPS mobility induces sudden and frequent disconnection, long roundtrip times, high bit error rates and small bandwidth. Hence, POPS system has to adapt itself to application requirements or modification of its environment. In that context, we are conducting research in the connected areas of embedded systems and mobile networking.

The POPS project-team is a common research project of CNRS, INRIA and Université Lille1. POPS gathers researchers from LIFL laboratory (Université Lille1-CNRS UMR 8022, RD2P research group) and from INRIA Lille - Nord Europe research centre.

News

Kick-off of the RESCUE project Feb 12th, 2011 The collaborative project ANR VERSO RESCUE had its kick-off in Paris on January 28th, 2011. The partners of this project are INRIA Lille, UPMC, LAAS, ENS-Lyon and FT R&D Lannion. RESCUE studies the concept of substitution networks - which consists in a fleet set of dirigible wireless mobile routers - that is deployed to help a base network in case of temporary failure. Troubles may come from an increase of unplanned traffic, a failure of an equipment, or a power outage. read more...	Job offer: two subjects for postdoctal fellow and one PhD student position in POPS project-team March 1st, 2011 INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control, proposes fifty-five postdoctoral positions in 2011. Two subjects from the POPS project-team in Lille are focused on mobility in wireless sensor networks (WSN): "Geographical anycasting in WSN with mobile sinks" and "Mobility and QoS in mobile WSN". Recruitment campaign open from January 17th, 2011 to June 30th, 2011. Two selection periods: late March and early July. read more...	Job offer: two positions for young graduated engineers in POPS project-team April 27th, 2011 INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control, proposes several young graduated engineers positions in 2011. Two subjects from the POPS project-team in Lille focused on deployment, development and maintenance of large scale experimental wireless sensor network platform. Recruitment campaign open from April, 2011 to August 31st, 2011. read more...	> David Simplot-Ryl is appointed Head of the INRIA Lille Nord – Europe centre May 30th, 2011 A research-lecturer, project team-leader and Head of Science at the Lille centre, David Simplot-Ryl has been contributing to research activities in Information and Communication Science and Technologies for several years, in close relation with businesses, in particular through the competitiveness clusters. read more...

Recent publications

•  Thierry Delot, Nathalie Mitton, Sergio Ilarri and Thomas Hien. GeoVanet: A Routing Protocol for Query Processing in Vehicular Networks. Mobile Information System (MIS), 2011. (to appear). (BIB)
•  Tahiry Razafindralambo and David Simplot-Ryl. Connectivity Preservation and Coverage Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks. Transaction on Automatic Control (TAC), Dec 2011. (to appear). (URL) (BIB)
•  Lei Zhang and Nathalie Mitton. Advanced Internet of Things. In Proc. of IEEE iThings-2011, Dalian, China, October 2011. (to appear). (BIB)
•  Xu Li, Xiaohui Liang, Rongxing Lu, Shibo He, Jiming Chen and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen. Toward Reliable Actor Services in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2011. (To appear). (BIB)
•  Xu Li, Nathalie Mitton, Isabelle Simplot-Ryl and David Simplot-Ryl . Mobile-Beacon Assisted Sensor Localization with Dynamic Beacon Mobility Scheduling.. In 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2011), Valencia, Spain, 2011. (to appear). (BIB)

National and international research projects and research actions

• European FP7 ICT IP Project Advanced Sensors and lightweight Programmable middleware for Innovative Rfid Enterprise applications (ASPIRE) (2008-2011). Contact: Nathalie Mitton
• RNRT Project Very large scale open wireless sensor network testbed (SensLab) (2008-2011). Contact: Nathalie Mitton
• FUI DEveloppement de CARTon Electronique (DECARTE) (2008-2011). Contact: Nathalie Mitton
• European FP7 Project Security Engineering for lifelong Evolvable Systems (SecureChange) (2009-2011). Contact: Isabelle Simplot-Ryl
• ANR VERSO Widening Interoperability for Networking Global Supply Chains (WINGS) (2009-2012). Contact: Nathalie Mitton
• INRIA ARC MobIle SubStItution Networks (MISSION) (2010-2011). Contact: Tahiry Razafindralambo
• IPER Intelligent Data Center (2010-2011). Contact: Michaël Hauspie
• INRIA ADT SENSor network ApplicationS (SENSAS) (2010-2013). Contact: Nathalie Mitton
• ANR VERSO Federating Computing Resources (F-Lab) (2010-2013). Contact: Nathalie Mitton
• ANR ECOTECH Bin That Thinks (2010-2013). Contact: Nathalie Mitton
• ANR VERSO RESeau Coordonné de sUbstitution mobilE (RESCUE) (2010-2013). Contact: Tahiry Razafindralambo
• European CATRENE Project eGo (2010-2013). Contact: Gilles Grimaud
• EquipEX Future Internet of Things (FIT) (2011-2019). Contact: Nathalie Mitton

Address

POPS project-team Parc scientifique Haute Borne - Bât. IRCICA 50, avenue Halley - BP 70478 59658 Villeneuve d'Ascq, FRANCE