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David Simplot-Ryl is appointed Head of the INRIA Lille Nord – Europe centre 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...

Job offer: two positions for young graduated engineers in POPS project-team 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...

Job offer: two subjects for postdoctal fellow and one PhD student position in POPS project-team 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...

Kick-off of the RESCUE project. 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...

Best demo award at IEEE MASS 2010 for SensLab platform. Tony Ducrocq, Julien Vandaele, Nathalie Mitton and David Simplot-Ryl received the best demo award during the conference IEEE MASS 2010 in San Francisco for their demo entitled "Large scale geolocalization and routing experimentation with the SensLab testbed". This demonstration illustrates the usage of the SensLab platform with a case study: an animal tracking application with routing and mobile node geolocalization. Tools for developing, tuning and monitoring large-scale applications are shown. read more...

Kick-off of the Bin That Thinks project. The collaborative project ANR ECOTECH Bin That Thinks had its kick-off in Rennes on November 18th, 2010. The partners of this project are Veolia Environment, the SME Etineo and INRIA (ACES project-team in Rennes and POPS project-team in Lille). Bin That Thinks proposes a new sorting for wastes which will allow the decrease of sort centers refusals and associated costs by the use of ambient technologies like active or passive RFID. read more...

EquipEx: Future Internet (of Things). The French Ministry of Research has selected the FIT project in the EquipEx program (part of the "Programme Investissements d’Avenir" dedicated to equipments). The work program of the FIT project will consist in establishing the different sites - in Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Nice, Paris and Strasbourg - with a set of competitive testbeds including wireless and wired with a strong emphasis on sensors, networked and embedded objects, multihop and cognitive radio, mobility and overlays. read more...

Job offer: a development engineer position is open for the SensLab platform. The engineer will be in charge of the maintenance and extension of the SensLab platform both at software and hardware levels. Maintenance will consist in the regular check in of the proper working of services and hardware nodes. Extension will consist in adding new functionalities for users and in integrating new hardware nodes. The main goal of the SensLab platform is to offer an accurate and efficient scientific tool for experimentation of real large-scale sensor network applications. read more...

Special issue on "Internet of Things" of IEEE Communications Magazine. David Simplot-Ryl is co-guest editor of a special issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine on "Internet of Things". This feature topic issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art development in technology, application, and standardization in the field of the Internet of Things, and present an insight of future research opportunities and challenges in this field. The feature issue will consider original survey and research articles written in a tutorial style. read more...

New book: "RFID Systems: Research Trends and Challenges". Covering a wide range of problems in RFID networks, and striking a balance between theoretical and practical coverage, the book - co-edited by David Simplot-Ryl et al. - is unique in addressing RFID in a comprehensive manner. It describes in detail deployment strategies for large-scale RFID systems, interference issues, tag and reader anti-collision protocols, and much more. Authored by experts and researchers in the field, this one-stop guide offers complete coverage to solve the most complex RFID network problems. read more...

Kick-off of the F-Lab project. The collaborative project ANR VERSO F-Lab had its kick-off in Paris on November 25th, 2010 with a consortium composed of UPMC (Paris), Thales Communications and INRIA (D-NET team in Lyon, PLANET project-team in Sophia-Antipolis and POPS project-team in Lille). F-Lab is a unique opportunity for the French community to play a stronger role in the design of federation systems by improving OneLab federation; for the SensLab testbed to reach an international visibility and use; and for pioneering testbeds on LTE technology. read more...

Job offer: a development engineer position is open for the F-Lab platform. The engineer will be in charge to implement the operational federation of SensLab and OneLab which are gathered in the F-Lab platform. His role will be to develop the software in charge of providing transparency for the user in such a way that he/she will not notice a difference between a traditional host and a constraint sensor node. In particular, TCP-friendly approaches, which will allow users to open traditional TCP connections, will be investigated. read more...

Three new ANR funded projects starting in Fall 2010. Three new collaborative projects funded by ANR will be launched soon. In alphabetical order: BinThatThinks (EcoTech call) which considers the use of RFID or ZigBee technologies for garbage management, F-LAB (VERSO call) which is a "platform" type of project in the areas of Future Internet, sensor networks, federation of networks and testbeds, RESCUE (VERSO call) which considers substitution networks composed of mobile routers and which aim to enhance performances of an existing network. read more...

Job offer: PhD position on Self-deployment algorithms. A PhD position is opened in the POPS INRIA project-team in Lille (France) on Self-deployment algorithms for substitution network. The objectives of this PhD subject in to study algorithms and protocols to manage the deployment of a substitution network which is composed of mobile routers and has to enhance performances of an existing network. More specifically, the wireless mobile routers must be deployed so that the performances of the networks are maximized. read more...

The invaders. The experimentations of self-deployment algorithms in wireless sensor and actuator networks have started. Seventeen mobile robots with Wifi communication capabilities are used to validate our proposals. In this work, each node is considered as a particle and its movements are governed by the interaction with a part of its neighboring nodes. The interacting neighbors and the node's direction are chosen based on the local relative neighborhood graph. read more...

2009 activity report is available. The 2009 annual report of INRIA's research groups (RAWeb) is now available on-line. This activity report gives an overview of research activities of the institute in term of scientific production, technological development (e.g. software) and industrial transfer. Concerning POPS project-team, discover new results on embedded web servers, RFID, energy-aware geographical routing in wireless networks, wireless sensor networks with mobile nodes, performance evaluation in wireless networks, etc. read more...

Kick-off of the MISSION project. The collaborative project on 'MobIle SubStItution Networks' (MISSION) had its kick-off in Lille. The partners of this project are INRIA POPS (Tahiry Razafindralambo) in Lille, INRIA RESO (Isabelle Guérin-Lassous) in Lyon and LIP6 NPA (Marcello Dias de Amorim) in Paris. The goal of this project is to study substitution networks using mobile wireless routers which are self-deployed in the area while trying to maintain quality of services in regards to network needs. read more...

SensLab tutorial in Lille. After the first tutorial in november 2009 in Grenoble, the startup of the Lille node - installed in the EuraTechnologies site - is the occasion of a second tutorial. The purpose of the SensLAB project is to deploy a very large scale open wireless sensor network platform. SensLAB's main and most important goal is to offer an accurate and efficient scientific tool to help in the design, development, tuning, and experimentation of real large-scale sensor network applications. read more...